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__label__cc	0.652824	0.347176	Associated Beth Rivkah Schools Associated Beth Rivkah Schools in Brooklyn Private not-for-profit, 2-year Nondegree-granting, primarily postsecondary Download Associated Beth Rivkah Schools Whitepaper! Download the PDF with FULL information about the Associated Beth Rivkah Schools from opened government trustful sources - right now! Associated Beth Rivkah Schools offers 6-degree programs. Student-to-faculty ratio is 13:1. Acceptance Rate is 97%. 11% percents of international students. The average annual total cost of attendance at Associated Beth Rivkah Schools is 10951$, that is at the level of national average. 89% of full-time Associated Beth Rivkah Schools students completed their education program in 150 percent of time: graduation rate is above national average. Average salary after attending is $10,100, so if you studied 2 years, you’ll get your funds back in less than 2 years. The Associated Beth Rivkah Schools is a private and academic-year institution, so it’s net price represents an average of all programs and includes only undergraduates who first enrolled in the fall term and receive Title IV aid. The total cost of attendance depends on whether undergraduates live on campus, off campus (not with family), or off campus (with family). Depending on the federal state, or institutional grant and available, Associated Beth Rivkah Schools students in your income bracket may pay more of less than the overall average costs. $75,001 - $110,000 -- $110,001+ -- Typical room charge for academic year: - 128 of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools undergraduate students were awarded with some type of financial aid, it’s 87 percents of all undergraduate students. This makes Associated Beth Rivkah Schools number 287 in the amount of financial aid awarded to students among all educational institutions in New York. Students at Associated Beth Rivkah Schools awarded 4 types of loans or aids, the biggest percent of students received a federal grant aid. Services and programs are not available to veterans, military servicemembers, or their families Associated Beth Rivkah Schools graduation rate is above the national average. 89% of full-time students enrolled for the first time to Associated Beth Rivkah Schools completed the education program and got a degree in 150 percent of the expected time of completion. Graduation rate is the percentage of institution’s new-entering, first-time, first-year undergraduate students who complete their program within 150% of the published time for the program. Graduation rate excludes an extensive number of students. This indicator doesn’t take into consideration students of nontraditional enrollments - part-time students, students who enroll mid-year, and who transfer from one institution to another. So graduation rate alone can create a misleading picture. Completion rate in the form of total number of students receiving any types of awards/degrees creates a complete picture. Combining this data with graduation rate is a better way to compare institutions. Associated Beth Rivkah Schools acceptance rate is above national average. Average acceptance rate for all institutions in state in the same net price range is 67%, so Associated Beth Rivkah Schools acceptance rate value is above state net price average for 30%. The Associated Beth Rivkah Schools full-time retention rate is 92% and part-time retention rate is 0%. Retention rate is the percentage of the institution's first-time first-year undergraduate students who continue at that institution the next year. E.g., full-time students who study in the fall semester and keep on studying in the same program next fall semester are counted in the retention rate. Retention rate is an important index: if it is high, it shows that school has quality curriculum, good student environments and cultures as more students choose to continue their studies. The student-to-faculty ratio at Associated Beth Rivkah Schools is 13:1, that means that for every 13 students the institution has one professor, lecturer or specialist with a degree in education. Lower student-to-faculty ratio is better - it means that professors can dedicate more time and attention to each student. In Associated Beth Rivkah Schools the biggest percent of students are enrolled in on-campus courses. Here are the students enrolled exclusively in distance education courses at Associated Beth Rivkah Schools and grouped by their location. Distance education courses are the most popular for students located in not reported location. Associated Beth Rivkah Schools offers 6 programs in total: 3 are for 1-year, but less than-2-year certificate programs and 3 are 2-year, but less than 4-year certificate programs. This is one of the lowest number of programs in comparison with other 53 universities in Kings county. Associated Beth Rivkah Schools is one of the few institutions in Kings that offers a 1-year, but less than-2-year certificate program. Associated Beth Rivkah Schools provides coursework for undergraduate students оnly. In 2014-2015 academic year estimated full-time equivalent undergraduate enrollment was 121 students with 3624 сredit hours for 12-month instructional activity period. The most popular majors counted as percentage breakdown of degrees awarded in every single discipline in Associated Beth Rivkah Schools 33% — Theology and Religious Vocations 33% — Theological and Ministerial Studies Give feedback about Associated Beth Rivkah Schools Tell us what you think about Associated Beth Rivkah Schools: Student Reviews and Ratings for Associated Beth Rivkah Schools Zuch Mirsecon Really awesome education! I left accomplished and knowledgeable!!! Source of the review: Google Places, Google Maps™ Bob Truthsecon Good school but needs a bit of improvment Address: 310 Crown St Place: Not applicable, not in Carnegie universe (not accredited or nondegree-granting) Institution's internet website address: dhl.bethrivkah.edu More colleges and universities in Kings county EDP School of Computer Programming Charles Stuart School of Diamond Setting Hair Design Institute at Fifth Avenue-Brooklyn Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion Access Careers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4900
__label__cc	0.623661	0.376339	Conrad Saam Conrad Saam is the founder and general manager of Mockingbird Marketing (formerly Atticus Marketing), an agency delivering advanced online marketing exclusively for the legal industry. Previously, he spent 6 years running marketing for legal Q&A site Avvo -- which went from concept to market leader without spending a dollar on advertising (they were really really good at SEO). He's the author of The FindLaw Jailbreak Guide and hated by legal marketing vendors and social media marketing consultants who fleece their clients. More content, less traffic: Part II Trying to determine whether it's worth your time to invest in ever more website content? Columnist Conrad Saam lays out a framework to help you... Jul 3, 2017 at 10:01 am ET Local search update: ‘Best’ filter invading the local pack We all know good ratings and reviews are important for local businesses, and it seems they're becoming even more so. Contributor Conrad Saam explains... 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__label__cc	0.651272	0.348728	shrinkinakitchen The Year in Food Food Safety and Food Inspection and Food Labeling: Forget the Fish Posted on October 26, 2011 by shaas27 A few years back, Florence Fabricant, writing in The New York Times, had a long piece on the mislabeling of wild salmon at grocers in Manhattan. Only one or two stores that had labeled their salmon as “wild” were selling wild salmon while all the others were selling farmed salmon and labeling it wild. The cost difference was nearly double with true wild salmon retailing at about $24 a pound and the farmed fish weighing in at about $11 a pound. Subsequent stories in The New York Times and media outlets in Florida showed that the practice was widespread: Tilapia for grouper, farmed fish for wild fish, etc. This past week, The Boston Globe ran a comparable series on mislabeling of fish in area restaurants and stores. They found escolar, catfish, and tilapia were being labeled as fancier, pricier fish in restaurants and stores. (They said that escolar is “associated with gastrointestinal problems.” There is no evidence to support the use of the word “problems” with regard to escolar. Escolar, as an oily fish, acts as a laxative when eaten in large quantities–over six ounces–by some people.) Today the paper had an unsigned editorial calling for more Federal inspection of fish coming into the US; 84% of the fish and seafood eaten in the US, the editorial notes, come from outside the country, but are not inspected the way that fruit, vegetables, and meat are routinely. Again, not true. The Federal government, acting through the F.D.A., was supposed to get funded in 1/11 to increase inspections of all foodstuffs and medicines made outside the US, but that was vetoed by Congress. Nothing is being inspected adequately by the F.D.A., much to the frustration and concern of that agency. The biggest problem is not whether the grouper you are eating is catfish. The biggest problems are the salmonella traced to uninspected cantaloupe from Central America that caused deaths and illness in the US; the food borne illnesses in fenugreek and seeds from Egypt–banned by the EU after outbreaks in Germany, but still allowed in here; the potentially radioactive fish from Japan–banned in India and the EU, but allowed in here; and, most importantly, the medicines made in China and India in plants that are not subject to routine F.D.A. inspection. The issue of mislabeling fish is real: It’s a scam by purveyors and restaurant owners. The crisis of F.D.A. regulation is far more serious as it involves sickness and death caused by products that the Federal government does not have at present the resources to handle. As The New York Times noted in an article by Gardiner Harris on 6/20/11: “More than 80 percent of the active ingredients for drugs sold in the United States are made abroad — mostly in plants in China and India that are rarely inspected by the F.D.A. Half of all medical devices sold in the United States are made abroad. Many kinds of antibiotics,steroids, cancer medicines and even aspirin are no longer produced in the United States, or in many cases anywhere in the Western world. Government investigators estimated in 2008 that the F.D.A. would need 13 years to check every foreign drug manufacturing plant, 27 years to check every foreign medical device plant and 1,900 years to check every foreign food plant at its rate of inspections at the time. And with imports growing faster than the agency’s inspection force, those numbers have only mounted.” If you want to get distracted by the tilapia on your plate, go right ahead. I’m more concerned about heparin. Mickey D’s, Critics, and The Perfect Slice In the Business section of the NYT this week it was reported that quarterly global sales of McDonald’s increased by 9% on average. Take that, fancy-pants chefs and sustainable, organic, naturally raised, humanely slaughtered animals! The world has spoken: Give us burgers we can afford and eat quickly. What a charade: “Naturally raised.” As opposed to what? Unnaturally raised? Which segues to the issue of the role of the food critic. Look, it’s one thing to regard your palate as having insurable qualities, to suggest that your precious taste buds can detect, like radar, the best of this or that. That really is fine. I believe in that. It comes from physiology, experience, and an ability to analyze what you are eating. There are reasons, for example, why someone like Ed Levine can be trusted when he writes about pizza. I can readily imagine Ed as Eddie: The little boy who could taste depth better than his peers growing up to become Big Ed who tasted lots of pizza all over the world and then developed a system for understanding what he was eating. However, critics must go beyond the Taste of Things. It seems that real utility might come about when critics, like Eliot griping about the poetry that preceded his, say what it is they want and not just what it is they don’t want. They can’t limit themselves to whether something tastes good or not. Well, OK, they can, but who cares? Do you honestly think that chefs in Boston are thinking of what any critic in town thinks of their food? You’ve got one critic who notoriously doesn’t eat, three who are bottom feeders taking comped meals, and one critic who has no idea how food should taste. I thought of this the other day when I heard a discussion on public radio–Radio Boston–about the best pizza and the varieties of pizza in Boston. It was ridiculous. It was silly. You know why? Because the pizza in Boston, with three exceptions, is certainly OK, but it can’t compare to the best. Further, one of the panelists suggested that people make pizza at home! Look, that’s fine, if you’re looking for a bonding experience with your kids, but pizza at home? I have a better idea: Why not pull teeth at home? Or put in new electrical wiring? Folks, I’m not saying it’s rocket science! It is very easy to make great pizza. All it takes is a great oven, a pizza maker who knows what he or she is doing from years of experience, patience, and top drawer ingredients. That is not home cooking. In Boston the three best pizzas? Galleria Umberto, Pizzeria Posto, Iggy’s. The first is old school Sicilian: precise and traditional. The second was just accorded membership in the Neapolitan Association for authentic pizza–the only pizza place in New England to be made a member. The third is a terrific bakery. What we can conclude from this, what all three have in common, are: Attention to detail, good ingredients, focus, great ovens, and…few goofy toppings. It’s pizza, not strawberry shortcake. Affordable and good for eating quickly. Group On Group On: 50% Off! I don’t know if you noticed it, perhaps you were way too busy discussing the merits of cellared cheeses, where to find the best Bolognese sauce, or what’s the latest & greatest gastropub downtown, but, as usual, the best Food news isn’t to be found in Food sections of the media, but rather or instead is in the Business sections. About the Bolognese: A firestorm raged on the Boston Chowhound site about Chef Michael Schlow’s secret for great Bolognese sauce. Seems that Michael, along with Chef Barbara Lynch, is using chicken livers! This would be newsworthy except for the fact that chicken livers have been used in the Tuscan version of Bolognese sauce since the Tuscans were Etruscans. Schlow learned how to do this from Pino Luongo–Schlow was his chef at Le Madri. In turn, Pino Luongo learned how to do this from Silvano Marchetto at Da Silvano. Silvano taught me how to do it, too, when I spent two years helping him write the book about his restaurant. Silvano on Luongo: “I taught that guy how to eat with a knife and fork!” Back to the food news in the Business section. (I am so readily distracted! Would someone please add Concerta to my Cocoa Puffs? [I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!]) A few months ago, Group On announced it was going public and would offer itself as an IPO (Initial Public Offering) at “$25-30 billion.” Today, the NYT reports that the offering is estimated to be down to $12 billion: “Groupon, the daily deal site, is seeking to sell shares in an offering that would value the company at close to $12 billion, several people with knowledge of the situation said on Wednesday.” Here’s the link: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/groupon-seeks-12-billion-valuation/?ref=business. The cool part of the story is that Group On, which offers 50% of goods and services is now basically its own discount coupon. Personally, I love the company’s bargain approach to life. I’ve got coupons for Bule Ribbon, Symphony 8, Om, etc. I am glad to see that they are not just applying the discounted outlook to other companies, but are stepping forward to include themselves. I wonder if I can get a Group On for a good plate of Bolognese? The Neurology of Food A great piece in today’s NY Times: On the Op-Ed page, Frank Bruni, one of the paper’s former restaurant reviewers, inveighs against Romera. Here’s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/opinion/bruni-dinner-and-derangement.html?ref=opinion Back in the Spring, a P.R. person from a very well known firm pitched the story to me: Miguel Sánchez Romera, a Spanish neurologist, is also a chef who is convinced that the foods he serves and cooks has an effect on neurotransmission and behavioral changes stemming from the effect on neurology. I told the flak that as a psychologist married to an M.D. I was offended by this kind of chicanery. She admitted to feeling similar, being knotted to a doc herself, and noted, however, that it was work. OK? OK, I get it. Sorry. We all gotta make rent. Anyhow, Bruni deftly discusses the sheer silliness of the dining experience at Romera and goes further by tying it to broader misconceptions about what food is and isn’t, what it can do to our senses, and what it cannot do. It is a wonderful piece. I have to concur with Bruni: You give me a plate of good pasta and a glass of wine and I can remember happy times and envision happier times as well. As Mario Batali has noted: A tavola nessuno diventa vecchio. No one grows old at the table. The trick to eating in NYC is to plan ahead and eat small amounts of food at each place you visit. That way you can get seats and enjoy the scene rather than run around madly and pontificate on the elements of the food. Ever dine with crews? Those folks can eat. They are not analytical while eating. First off at Lupa: House-cured beef tongue with pickled onions followed by a bowl of guanciale and chicken stuffed tortellini. Simple, honest Rome-inflected food. Small and powerfully flavorful portions. Chill, confident waiter. (West Village) Later that same day, we’re talking Friday, Locanda Verde: Four top enjoyed fried artichokes, whipped ricotta, lamb sliders, bucatini with a veal sauce, roasted sea bass, etc. If you want to know about just how refined Italian-American cuisine can be, this is your place. The kitchen sent out desserts. Were they good? They were delicious. I have to say that there is simply no place more fun to eat than LV, and that’s not just because I’m friends with the chef. (Tribeca) Saturday, in the morning, I walked over to EATALY. I’d been many times before, but found it overwhelming. This time I focused; maybe it was a contact high from all the Concerta addled, ADHD folks shopping. Dunno, couldn’t say for sure. Anyhoo, I picked up plin-created agnoletti, little ravioli, red cow parm, Cesare’s cured sausage, and a big piece of Piemontese style beef from some farm in Montana. (Union Square) Noon: it was literally a pilgrimage to Di Fara: Old school pizza parlor in Brooklyn. Hard to reach, but worth the trek. At this tiny hole in the wall, there’s a 74-year old guy, Dom DeMarco, who single-handedly rolls the dough, ladles the sauce, adds the cheese, and bakes the pies. He works in silence and very slowly: Reverentially, it’s fair to say. He uses chunks of mozzarella, adds Romano, and adds parmigiano. There are four tiny formica tables in the back, there are long waits, it’s like being a teenager and visiting granma in East New York again. When the pies come out of the oven, Dom or his young assistant slice it up, and then Dom snips fresh basil over each one, drizzles olive oil over the pie, and sprinkles about half a handful of more parmigiano. The taste? It’s by far the most unique, deeply flavorful, and in a league of its own pizzas I have ever enjoyed. It’s like this: I’ll never think of pizza again in the same way. (Midwood, Brooklyn) Pre Chinglish (a play worth seeing by the way), it was dinner at Esca: Is this my favorite restaurant–just talking about the food–in the country? Probably. A flight of six crudo and then tuna meatballs. Here’s a chef, Dave Pasternack, who has the confidence and skill to allow the food to assert itself rather than put his spin on it. (Hell’s Kitchen) Later that night, we cabbed down to DBGB: Burgers, salads, soup, drinks. A room full of happy people or people who looked happy. I know the chef who owns this place, and am always happy here, too. Or at least I look happy. (Lower East Side) Almost finally, on Sunday morning we walked over to Russ & Daughters. Simply, the finest smoked fish establishment in North America. No kidding. The cutters move with the finesse of surgeons. Twenty minutes into it and we had a week’s supply of belly, eastern Nova, sturgeon, horseradish cream cheese, and six poppy, six everything. (Lower East Side) Got to eat before hitting the road, right? A quick brunch at The Dutch: Same smart chef/owner as Locanda Verde. Spectacular pan seared Albacore on a burger roll with tobiko “infused” mayo. The chef’s refined look at food–here it’s A-OK American–is evident here. The spot is cool, too: The old Cub Room. (Soho) All in all, what unifies these very disparate joints is the way we can enjoy the food and not think too long or too hard about the chef who created the dishes and directs the teams cooking. Imagine going to the theater or a magic show and mulling: How do they do it? The point is to enjoy the experience. There was a time, not so long ago, when I ate out frequently in Boston. It was part of my job. I reported on food for an NPR affiliate and did weekly interviews in the studio or pieces in the field. The work got me three James Beard nominations for best radio host, national, and then I won that third time. Ironically, winning the award ended the gig: The host of the program, figuring that the show had given me a platform, thought, Hey, it’s my show! I can win, too. Well, fair enough, not in so many words, but here is what did happen: The host decided to do all the food reporting. No nominations followed for her. Part of the problem with her reporting was that she made each story about her. It wasn’t: Let’s interview Sal Carmellini about his pasta. It was: Let’s interview Sal Carmellini and ask him what he thinks of me eating his pasta. This is fun, but not in a good way. Anyhoo, as ma would say, this meant that I was no longer given routine V.I.P. service in restaurants in Boston: No special tables, no food sent out from the kitchen, no palsy-walsy stuff from the chef or P.R. flaks. I had to eat the same food in the same way as everyone else. As Drew Nieporent has pointed out, and as I discovered, “Food always tastes better when it’s free.” The pleasure of eating out lost its allure. Look, when you write about restaurants, and let people know about it, you can easily mistake all the fuss that’s created around you as real fuss. It’s not. As Cameron Crowe noted: “These people are not your friends.” For insecure people whose lives have kind of stalled, who lack an ability to sustain a sense of Self that has a validity no matter what others think, writing about restaurants can provide a much needed but ultimately shallow sense of self importance. There are so many reasons why I don’t enjoy eating in most restaurants these days. Chiefly, there is often little value. I know that for some diners in some cities, value is associated with cost. Perversely, some diners think that the more they spend, the better it must be. Having grown up with a working class mother, I just don’t see things that way, and the older I get the more protective I am of the mother in me. More specifically, spending $27.50 for “Boston’s best roast chicken” (that feeds one) doesn’t make sense to me when for $25 I can buy a Misty Knolls chicken that not only feeds four, but is a better bird than that $27.50 menu item. Same goes for “Atlantic halibut,” at Menton which is one of four courses for $95. (Halibut is a type of flounder, but if you don’t tell anyone, I won’t either. It will be our little secret.) Take a look at “seared scallops” for $36 in a certain place in Harvard Square. That’s silly. Really, it is. Ask anyone. Ask a scallop. I will admit this requires an active imagination, but if you can be creative, you will hear the scallops say, “No, of course not!” Honestly, Nantucket scallops are, tops, $29 a pound. Buy a pound, go home, put some butter in pan, sear the scallops. Turn off the flame, add salt, pepper, white balsamic, lemon juice, and white wine. You’ll be so much happier, and you’ll have money left over to get on the bus to occupy Boston. Where was I? Value. Right, value. This concern for value led me to try to find purveyors as good or better than what chefs in Boston bought from. Savenor’s is wonderful for prime meats: The place is a world-class butcher shop. New Deal Fish: By far one of the best fish shops in the country. Tropical Foods and Russo’s: First rate fruits and vegetables. Salumeria Italiana: Can’t beat the cheeses or meats. Look, I understand that good restaurants exist: Last week I was in Market, the new Legal (second floor), and Craigie on Main. Each restaurant was truly memorable in service, food, and ambiance. I recognize that running a restaurant is a huge challenge, too, but it really is like any business…only 2% are the best. The Fox in the Attic I’m nearly done reading, “The Fox in the Attic,” a novel by Richard Hughes and while lacking the greatness of his earlier book, “A High Wind in Jamaica,” it ranks as one of the most fascinating and odd works I have had the good fortune to come across. Among the treats in the book is this line: “It quite shocked the Englishman to hear men all talking so excitedly about food.” I thought the observation lovely and spellbinding. Namely: Is talk of food a distraction? The men whom the Englishman is shocked by–not surprised, but shocked–are talking in 1923 in Bavaria only hours after the notorious Beer Hall putsch has failed. The men who led the insurrection are on the loose! However, the men talking “so excitedly about food” are talking about pastry drenched in honey from hives kept by their host. Isn’t that some kind of metaphor or semaphore and might it be applied to what is happening with food in the upper ranges of the economic culture right now? Probably so. People get more riled up about the cellaring of cheese and crummy restaurants than they do about the turmoil that changes lives. Meanwhile the fox in the attic paces and chews on the soft wood. Stinky Cheese Posted on October 5, 2011 by shaas27 Back in the days before my book contract, when I had time to distract myself, I joined a rambling, very hostile mosh pit on Chowhound. The pit was all about the benefits of cellaring cheese. See what I mean about time? Anyhoo, the upshot was that the people who call themselves “the hounds” (these are adults, no kidding) were largely of the opinion that Formaggio Kitchen cellars its cheeses because it adds flavor and texture and depth to the cheeses while I, lone voice, said: Pshaw. Redemption in today’s NY Times Food section! The lead story in the section today is about cellaring cheeses. Here’s Steve Jenkins: “This affinage thing is a total crock,” said Mr. Jenkins, the cheese monger at Fairway and the author of the pivotal 1996 book “Cheese Primer.” “All it does is drastically inflate the cost of cheeses that have benefited zero from this faux-alchemical nonsense.” Mr. Jenkins, a New York retail pioneer, argues that affinage is ultimately about marketplace savvy. Long ago in places like France and Belgium, the affineur first stepped in to extract profits by acting as the middleman. “It has nothing to do with making cheese taste really good,” he said. “It has to do with getting paid. And it’s morphed into a typical ‘French things are cool’ thing that Americans have bought hook, line and sinker. They all think, ‘I can even turn this into a marketing tool, so people will see how devoted I am to my craft.’ ” The link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/dining/cheese-and-affinage-a-coming-of-age-story.html?_r=1&hpw In my ongoing effort to be a positive person with a sunny disposition, here’s a better alternative: Go to Savenor’s. The guy buying cheese there has been picking up stuff from Quality Cheese. This outfit, run by the very estimable Caroline Hostettler, brings Rolf Beeler’s cheeses from Switzerland into the USA. Perfection! The thing is this: When cheese makers release their products to the market it’s because they are ready. You think Rolf Beeler needs some guy in Cambridge or NYC to improve his work? Of course not. Swiss Farmers, etc. Something to Eat WHY BE HAPPY? shaas27 on Swiss Farmers, etc. Hilda Haas Gold on Swiss Farmers, etc. tracey785 on Winter Recluse shaas27 on The Big News caroline on The Big News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4923
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The SickKids Lottery offers the following ticket bundles: 1 ticket for $100 2 tickets for $150 10 tickets for $500 20 tickets for $900 – Best Value! Q3. How much does a 50/50 Draw ticket cost? The SickKids Lottery offers the following 50/50 Draw ticket bundles: 25 for $50; and 100 for $100 – that’s only $1 per ticket! The 50/50 Draw tickets can only be ordered in conjunction with SickKids Lottery tickets. The minimum payout is $250,000. If your SickKids Lottery ticket becomes invalid, all 50/50 tickets associated with your SickKids Lottery ticket will also become invalid. SickKids 50/50 Draw tickets may be purchased in the same order as SickKids Lottery Tickets, or separately, up until the close of sales for the SickKids Lottery. The deadline for sales is February 20, 2020. Q4. How old do you have to be to order a SickKids Lottery ticket? You must be at least 18 years old at the time of ordering. Tickets cannot be purchased in the name of a minor. Q5. Can I order a ticket if I do not live in Ontario? The lottery is intended for Ontario residents. Purchasers must be in the province of Ontario to order tickets and tickets cannot be mailed to an address outside of Ontario. Q6. How long does it take to receive my ticket(s)? Emailed Tickets: Upon receipt and/or authorization of payment, you should receive your ticket(s) within four (4) business days of the order date. Mailed Tickets: Upon receipt and/or authorization of payment, you should receive your ticket(s) within three (3) weeks of the order date. If you have not received your ticket(s) by then, please contact Customer Service at 1-877-216-2598, or 416-977-9151 in the Greater Toronto Area, for a replacement ticket(s). Q7. Will a charitable tax receipt be issued for my ticket(s)? No. According to Canada Revenue Agency regulations, charity lottery ticket purchases are considered entertainment, not a direct donation. Therefore, we are unable to issue a tax receipt for SickKids Lottery ticket & SickKids 50/50 Draw ticket purchases. Similarly, any prize won in the Lottery is not taxable. Q8. Can SickKids Lottery tickets be ordered online? Yes, tickets can be ordered online! E-tickets are also available. If you would like to receive your ticket via email versus regular mail, please check the box on the order form or speak to the customer service agent when you place your order. Q9. I am trying to order my ticket online. Why isn’t it going through? You must be in the province of Ontario to order a ticket. Some internet providers, although servicing an Ontario residence, are not registered in Ontario. As such, this may result in an error in processing your order. If you are in Ontario and are unable to use our online ordering, please call 1-877-232-KIDS (5437), or 416-514-2135 in the Greater Toronto Area, and we would be pleased to process your order. Q10. Can I cancel my SickKids Lottery ticket(s) and get a refund? SickKids Lottery ticket(s) may be cancelled prior to the commencement of the draws and will be refunded for the amount that was paid for the tickets. Once draws have begun, no refunds are permitted. If your SickKids Lottery ticket becomes invalid, all 50/50 Draw tickets associated with your SickKids Lottery ticket will be cancelled as well. Q11. What is the Grand Prize in the SickKids Lottery? There is one Grand Prize winner of $1 Million CASH! Q12. How many prizes will be awarded in the SickKids Lottery? The total number of prizes to be awarded is 36,518. Q13. What is the total value of all prizing in the SickKids Lottery? The total value of all prizes is $3,825,303.88 (MSRP), inclusive of all applicable taxes and freight. Q14. If I win a prize in the SickKids Lottery, can I accept the cash value instead? Only when a cash alternative is offered, may you choose either the prize or the cash alternative as listed. If there is no cash option, prizes must be accepted as awarded. See Rules and Regulations for more details. Q15. If I win the VIP, Early Bonus or Early Bird Prize, do I still qualify for the other prize draws? Yes. Every winning ticket goes back into the draw so you can win more than once. Q16. How many tickets will be sold? 85,000 tickets will be available for sale until they are all sold or the final deadline of February 20, 2020 – whichever comes first. There is no limit to the number of 50/50 Draw tickets available, however you must have purchased at least one SickKids Lottery ticket (in the current campaign) prior to being able to purchase 50/50 Draw tickets. Q17. What if I lose my ticket? You do not need your ticket to claim your prize. Your name, address and phone number are recorded in the database along with your ticket number, which is proof enough. Purchasers do not need their ticket(s) in hand in order to be included in the respective draw(s). If you would like a replacement ticket, please call 1-877-216-2598 or 416-977-9151 in the Greater Toronto Area. Q18. Who cannot purchase a ticket? The following persons are prohibited from purchasing SickKids Lottery tickets or obtaining benefit from the prize offering: SickKids Foundation staff, Board of Directors, and Lottery Advisory Committee; The Hospital for Sick Children Executive Team and Board of Trustees; partners and employees of Deloitte LLP and its affiliates; partners and employees of MNP LLP and its affiliates; employees of registered gaming suppliers; and, members of the same household of each of the above. Q19. When are the deadlines for SickKids Lottery ticket sales? VIP Prize Ticket Sales Deadline: Midnight, December 20, 2019 Early Bonus Prize Ticket Sales Deadline: Midnight, January 17, 2020 Early Bird Prize Ticket Sales Deadline: Midnight, February 14, 2020 Final and Grand Prize Ticket Sales Deadline: Q20. What is the deadline for the 50/50 Draw? The 50/50 Draw ticket sales deadline is midnight, February 20, 2020. Q21. How will the winners be notified? All winners will be notified in writing as to what they have won and how to claim their prize. All winning ticket numbers will be posted on SickKidsLottery.ca. VIP and Early Bonus Prizes will be posted to the website by 1:00 p.m. the business day following the respective draws. Winning ticket numbers for the Early Bird Prizes will be posted by 1:00 p.m. on February 27, 2020, along with a searchable list. Winning ticket numbers for the Final and Grand Prizes will be posted on October 4, 2019. If all SickKids Lottery tickets are sold out by midnight September 13, 2019, winning ticket numbers for the Final and Grand Prizes will be posted on March 5, 2020. Winners may also be contacted by telephone. Prizes will be awarded to the primary purchaser listed on the ticket. It is the responsibility of the primary ticket holder to share win information and prize(s) with any other person(s) associated with winning ticket(s). A printed list of prize winners will be available upon request after March 10, 2020 by calling 1-877-216-2598 or 416-977-9151 in the Greater Toronto Area or by emailing SickKidsLotterycs@deloitte.ca. Q22. Will my name be publicized if I am a winner? Yes, in accordance with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the winners must be collected in a list for reporting purposes (including ticket number, name and city). There will be a full, searchable winners list on the SickKids Lottery website. SickKids Lottery reserves the right to publish the name, city and photograph of any winner. Winner information may be released to the news media and may be used in advertising for the Hospital for Sick Children, SickKids Lottery or SickKids Foundation. Q23. How can I get a complete winners’ list? By calling 1-877-216-2598, or 416-977-9151 in the Greater Toronto Area, to check a lottery number. By emailing SickKidsLotterycs@deloitte.ca Q24. How do I claim my prize? All winners will receive a letter from the SickKids Lottery providing details on how to claim their prize. All prizes will be shipped free of charge to the prize winner’s address. If you have not received a letter, please call Customer Service at 1-877-216-2598 or 416-977-9151 in the Greater Toronto Area. Major prize winners will also be contacted by phone and arrangements on claiming their prize will be made. Q25. How long do I have to claim my prize? We ask that all winners claim their prizes within three (3) months if possible. Prizes must be claimed within six (6) months of the final draw date. Q26. What is your privacy policy? SickKids Foundation respects the privacy of its lottery supporters; we do not sell, rent or trade our supporter lists. The information we collect is used to process lottery ticket purchases, keep our supporters informed about the activities of the hospital and Foundation, and ask for their support for our mission to improve children’s health. If at any time you wish to be removed from our contact list, call us at 416-813-6166 and we will accommodate your request. To view our Privacy Policy, click here. Q27. What is your SickKids Lottery license number? Our SickKids Lottery license number is SKLL#11505. Q28. What is your 50/50 Draw lottery license number? Our 50/50 Draw Lottery license number is 50/50LL#11507. Q29. What is the SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery? SickKids presents another way to win—a Cash & Trip Calendar with prizes given away every day in March 2020. Q30. How can someone purchase SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery tickets? There are five ways to order tickets: Call the toll-free telephone number 1-877-232-KIDS (5437), or 416-514-2135 in the Greater Toronto Area, and use a credit card. Fax the completed ticket order form with a credit card number (Visa, MasterCard or American Express) to 416-601-6533. Q31. How much do SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery tickets cost? The SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery offers the following ticket bundles: 5 tickets for $20 15 tickets for $50 Q32. How many calendars will I receive if I order 5, 15, 25 or 50 tickets? For every Calendar order placed, one Calendar ticket will be issued. Each calendar ticket will list 5, 15, 25 or 50 Calendar Lottery ticket numbers as ordered. Q33. Is the SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar a 12-month calendar? No. Your official ticket features a one-month Calendar for March 2020, showing the prize(s) you could win each day of that month. Q34. How old do you have to be to order SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar tickets? Q35. Can I order SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar tickets if I do not live in Ontario? The lottery is intended for Ontario residents. Tickets cannot be mailed to an address outside of Ontario; purchasers must be in the province of Ontario to order tickets. Q36. How long does it take to receive my SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar ticket numbers? Upon receipt and/or authorization of payment, you should receive your tickets within four (4) business days of the order date. Upon receipt and/or authorization of payment, you should receive your tickets within three (3) weeks of the order date. If you have not received your ticket(s) by then, please contact Customer Service at 1-877-216-2598, or 416-977-9151 in the Greater Toronto Area, for a replacement tickets. Q37. Will a charitable tax receipt be issued for my tickets? No. According to Canada Revenue Agency regulations, charity lottery ticket purchases are considered entertainment, not a direct donation. Therefore, we are unable to issue a tax receipt for ticket purchases. Similarly, any prize won in the Lottery is not taxable. Q38. Can SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery tickets be ordered over the Internet? Q39. I am trying to order my SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar tickets online. Why isn’t it going through? Q40. How many SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar numbers are available? There are 248,600 Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery ticket numbers available for sale until they are sold out or the final deadline of February 20, 2020 – whichever comes first. Q41. What are the prizes in the SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery? There are thirty-one (31) Daily Cash Prizes of $5,000, one winner every day throughout the month of October. During the month of March 2020, there are four (4) $10,000 Weekly Travel Prizes, one every Friday. There is also one (1) $25,000 Grand Prize Family Vacation on March 31, 2020. Q42. When are the draws? All thirty-six (36) draws will take place on February 27, 2020 at approximately 11:00 a.m. following the Main and 50/50 draws (if applicable) at the offices of MNP LLP, located at 111 Richmond Street West, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2G4. Q43. What is the total value of all prizing in the SickKids Cash & Trip Lottery? The total value of all Cash and Travel prizes is $220,000 and Travel prizes will be awarded in cash. Q44. If I win a prize in the SickKids Cash & Trip Lottery, can I accept the cash value instead? All prizes in the Cash & Trip Calendar are either cash or travel. All travel prizes are awarded as cash. See Rules and Regulations for more details. Q45. Can I win more than once? Yes. Each Cash & Trip Calendar ticket number is entered in all draws. You do not need your SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar ticket to claim your prize. Your name, address and phone number are recorded in the database along with your ticket numbers, which is proof enough. Purchasers do not need their tickets in hand in order to be included in the respective draw(s). If you would like a replacement ticket, please call 1-877-216-2598 or 416-977-9151 in the Greater Toronto Area. Q47. Who cannot purchase SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery tickets? The following persons are prohibited from purchasing SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar tickets or obtaining benefit from the prize offering: SickKids Foundation staff, Board of Directors, and Lottery Advisory Committee; The Hospital for Sick Children Executive Team and Board of Trustees; partners and employees of Deloitte LLP and its affiliates; partners and employees of MNP LLP and its affiliates; employees of registered gaming suppliers; and, members of the same household of each of the above. Q48. Do I have to order a SickKids Lottery ticket in order to play the SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar lottery? No, there is no requirement that you order a SickKids Lottery ticket to play the SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery. Q49. I didn’t order a SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar when I ordered my SickKids Lottery ticket(s). Can I still participate in the SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery? Yes, you can place your SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar ticket order at any time prior to the deadline of midnight, February 20, 2020. Q50. When is the ticket sales deadline for the SickKids Cash & Trip Lottery? The SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar sales deadline is midnight, February 20, 2020. Q51. How are the draws conducted? All thirty-six (36) draws will take place on February 27, 2020 at approximately 11:00 a.m. following the Main and 50/50 draws (if applicable) at the offices of MNP LLP, located at 111 Richmond Street West, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2G4. All draws will be made using Random Number Generator software (RNG) under the supervision of MNP LLP. MNP LLP will randomly select one (1) potential winner from among all eligible ticket numbers for each of the thirty-one (31) Daily Prizes (for March 1 to March 31, 2020), four (4) Weekly Prizes (one for each of March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2020) and the one (1) Grand Prize. Winning ticket numbers are eligible for all subsequent prize draws. All prizes must be accepted as awarded. Please allow four weeks to receive prize cheques. All winners will be notified in writing as to what they have won and how to claim their prize. Winning ticket numbers will be posted on SickKidsLottery.ca by 1:00 p.m. on the day for which the winning ticket was selected. Winners may also be contacted by telephone. Draws listed for weekends/holidays will be posted on the following business day. Prizes will be awarded to the primary purchaser listed on the ticket. It is the responsibility of the primary ticket holder to share win information and prize(s) with any other person(s) associated with winning ticket(s). A printed list of prize winners will be available upon request after April 1, 2020 by calling 1-877-216-2598 or 416-977-9151 or by emailing SickKidsLotterycs@deloitte.ca. Q54. Can I cancel my SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery tickets and get a refund? SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery ticket orders may be cancelled prior to the commencement of the draws and will be refunded for the amount that was paid for the tickets. Once draws have begun, no refunds are permitted. Yes, in accordance with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the winners must be collected in a list for reporting purposes (including ticket number, name and city). Winners will be posted daily throughout the month of March 2020, on our website at SickKidsLottery.ca. SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery reserves the right to publish the name, address and photograph of any winner. Winner information may be released to the news media and may be used in advertising for the Hospital for Sick Children, SickKids Lottery or SickKids Foundation. Q57. What is your SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery license number? Our SickKids Cash & Trip Calendar Lottery license number is Calendar LL#11503. SickKids Foundation ◊ * ǂ T ∆ See Rules and Regulations for details. ǂ Approximate value including all taxes and freight. Prizes may not be exactly as shown. SickKids Main License #11505, 50/50 Draw License #11507, Cash & Trip Calendar License #11503, Charitable Registration #10808 4419 RR0001 Copyright © SickKids Foundation 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4924
__label__cc	0.51273	0.48727	info@solarsaves.net \| Call us now! (410) 923-6090 \| Request A Free Solar Quote Residential Solar System Services Residential Solar Gallery Residential Solar in MD: An Overview Commercial Solar Electric Commercial Solar Water Heating Commercial Solar Services Washington, D.C. Commercial Solar Incentives NEW! PACE Loans Maryland Commercial Solar Incentives Commercial Solar Gallery Commercial Testimonials Solar Energy FAQs Solar Service Request Tag Archives: Natural Gas Regular Post Written by Lisa Walsh Poly Vs Mono Panels for Residential Solar Installations If – like most educated consumers – you’re getting multiple quotes for your solar power installation, you’re probably having to compare between various equipment offerings by your solar vendors. Themostprominent of these offerings – both in terms of financial investment and warranty security –are the solar panels themselves. Solar panels come in a variety of power ratings. For residential applications, the most popular panels today usually fall somewhere between 270 watts and 315 watts, with price points that usually increase with the wattage (in the standard size footprint). Less obvious, however, is the type of solar panel you may be asked to choose between. In general, your solar quote will include a panel whose cells are made from crystalline silicon. Silicon is us ed in solar panels not necessarily because it’s the most optimum semi-conductor available – but because of the extensive research on the processing and physics of silicon grown out of the integrated circuit industry. The processes used to access and arrange the silicon determine whether a panel is deemed to be As the name suggests, monocrystalline panels utilize a single, continuous crystal structure in the processing of the silicon ingots from which the solar cells are made. It used to be that this high-grade silicon resulted in substantially higher efficiency rates than other solar panels. However, improvements to manufacturing in polysilicon processes have closed this gap significantly. Still, homes and businesses looking for the highest possible efficiency rating on a solar panel would likely choose a Mono panel. The silicon ingots used for manufacturing the solar cells for Poly panels are manufactured by melting many fragments of silicon together to form the ingot. Because this results in many crystals in each cell, there is usually less freedom for the electrons to move. As a result, polycrystalline solar panels typically have lower efficiency ratings than monocrystalline panels. Should I choose a Mono or Poly solar panel? As with any choice it comes down to buyer preference: Aesthetics: In general, Mono panels have more options if you are concerned with how your solar panels will look. If you want something low-profile; maybe a uniform, all-black aesthetic devoid of white lines, silver racking and diamonds – most manufacturers offer this aesthetic in a Mono panel. However, there are now a few poly panels available in all-black. For example, REC has a 280-watt poly panel on the market that is now available in all-black. Cost: Mono panels tend to cost more than poly panels. A small roof looking to get the highest possible solar fraction by going with a high wattage solar panel will most likely end up with a Mono panel as these include the highest wattage options (300w plus). However, if a homeowner has the roof space and is looking for the highest possible value, it may be most cost-effective expand the array by one or two more panels and go with a Poly. Many commercial applications utilize poly panels due to the focus on cost over aesthetics, particularly if the panels are not visible from the ground, due to a flat roof installation. Performance: Due to the amount of information out there disparaging efficacy of poly panels compared to monos, this is a subject worth broaching. It is true that under factory test conditions, poly solar panels tend to have slightly lower heat tolerance than monocrystalline solar panels. As a result, under high temperatures, poly panels would perform slightly worse than their mono counterparts. Heat can affect the production performance of solar panels and shorten their lifespans. However, this effect is minor, and most homeowners do not need to take it into account. This is evidenced by the standard 25 year manufacturer’s warranty is the same for both mono and poly panels. 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The following solar projects qualify: Solar Electric (Photovoltaic) Systems These grid-tied solar systems give homeowners the option of purchasing more than 25yr worth of electricity at a fraction of the cost of their “rented” utility rates. Systems are purchase outright, and are eligible for the multiple financial incentives currently available. Solar Water Heating (Thermal) These systems are entirely separate from solar electric (PV) systems. They are most cost-effective for a Maryland family of 4 or more who currently heats their home’s water with electric, propane or oil. They require a relatively small amount of roof space and the upfront investment is lower than solar electric. What are the Loan Qualifications and requirements? Maryland resident Verification of income Credit score over 640 Debt-to-income ratio below 50% Completion of a home energy audit There is up to $30,000 in financing available for eligible homeowners. What other upgrades qualify for the Be Smart Loan program? Other qualifying energy efficiency upgrades throughout the home could include: energy efficient roof replacement, geothermal system, air infiltration reduction measures, increased insulation, hot water system improvements, heating systems maintenance or replacement, programmable thermostats, ceiling fans, windows, doors, duct work and energy star appliance replacement. Can any Contractor perform the work? Contractors must be listed on the State of Maryland’s Approved Contractor List as found here: http://dhcd.maryland.gov/Residents/Documents/besmart/BeSMARTApprovedContractors.pdf 1. Schedule a solar site visit with Solar Energy Services, Inc. Submit the Be Smart Home Loan Application along with SES’s proposal of work to be performed Be SMART will processes your Home loan application. Approval is based on your proposal specifications, satisfactory credit and affordability Submit your Home Energy Audit from an Approved Contractor You receive Loan Approval along with the first of two project pay-outs Upon receipt of payment, your Be SMART Contractor, SES, moves forward with interconnection, permitting and subsequent solar panel installation. The final payment is provided by DHCD when the work is complete and a DHCD inspector confirms that the work meets specifications CONTACT: BeSMART Home Loan Program Community Development Administration Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development E: BeSmartHome.dhcd@maryland.gov P: 301-429-7402 info@solarsaves.net Maryland Residential Solar Alternative Energy, Energy, Energy Conversion, Energy Services, Home Loan Programs, Inc., Maryland Home, Natural Gas, Photovoltaics, Ses, Smart Home Loans, Solar Electric, Solar Electric Photovoltaic, Solar Electric Pv, Solar Energy, Solar Energy In California, Solar Energy Services, Solar Financing, Solar Systems, Solar Water Heat, Toronto Solar Neighbourhoods Initiative, Universe Question of the Day: Will the new Administration affect my Solar Incentives? Should we be concerned about the new Republican Administration and the future of Solar Power? Due to its tremendous growth, popular appeal, and ever improving economics, solar power enjoys increasingly bi-partisan support on the Hill and in Governors offices around the country. Due to this, we predict very little, if any, impact on solar growth from the current Administration and/or a Republican Congress. To help explain this, let’s look at the three main drivers of successful solar economics for the typical solar consumer – Federal Tax Credit, SRECs, and cost of solar equipment: Federal Tax Credit: 30% of system cost. This has been an enormously successful tax incentive enabling wide scale deployment of solar on both a utility and distributed scale. Economies of scale have helped to drive the cost of solar; while further increasing demand – allowing the solar industry to grow exponentially. This has been applauded by both major political parties for the private capital investment opportunities and huge job growth in the solar sector. In fact, the US solar industry currently employs more people than the US oil, gas, and coal industries combined. The 30% solar investment tax credit (ITC) was extended by Congress (many of whom were Republican) in late 2015 and is designed to decline in future years to eventually fall back to a permanent 10%. The ITC schedule from the December 2015 legislation is as follows: 2016 – 2019: The tax credit remains at 30 percent of the cost of the system. This means that in 2017, you can still get a major discounted price for your solar panel system. 2020: Owners of new residential and commercial solar can deduct 26 percent of the cost of the system from their taxes. 2022 onwards: Owners of new commercial solar energy systems can deduct 10 percent of the cost of the system from their taxes. There is no federal credit for residential solar energy systems. In a nutshell, most in the solar industry believe it would be political suicide for the majority of congressional representatives to vote for a repeal of this enormously successful Investment Tax Credit that is scheduled to decline anyway. There are too many solar jobs and solar projects in Republican districts for the majority of Republicans to consider advocating for repeal. The horse is out of the barn and solar is winning! SRECs: Maryland and Washington DC offer Solar Renewable Energy Credits to solarized homes and businesses. This is a State/District-mandated incentive that, if anything, shows signs of expanding among the 29 States that have currently adopted an RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standard). This is largely due to the fact that State Houses wish to support the exponential renewable energy sector job growth amidst the scheduled, declining Federal Support. Solar Technology Costs: Advancing technology, manufacturing scale, high adoption rates, and investor confidence in solar technology continue to drive down solar project costs. We don’t see this momentum changing anytime soon. Alternative Energy, Bi Partisan, Current Administration, Energy, Energy Conversion, Governors Office, Natural Gas, Outline Of Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Incentives, Solar Investments, Solar Panel Systems, Solar Power, Solar Power In The United States, Solar Powered, System Cost, Tax Credit, Taxes Credit, Universe, Us Solar First Community Solar Project in Washington DC Tuesday, January 10th 2017 Father/Daughter Team Up for DC’s First Community Solar Project WASHINGTON DC: January 10th, 2017. DC Resident Rebecca Mann and her father Neal Mann are poised to be the FIRST two PEPCO customers to take advantage of Washington DC’s newly revised and adopted Community Renewable Energy Facilities of 2016 (CREF). After a process lasting three years, the District has finally worked out all of the kinks that enable D.C. residents to benefit from solar, even if they can’t put panels on their own roof. Community solar offers the benefit of solar to community members (subscribers) who can’t, or prefer not to, install solar panels on their homes. This also gives renters an option to purchase solar power. For the flagship project, Rebecca Mann is unable to install a solar power system due to limited roof space and shading constraints. Located one mile away – her father, Neal Mann, is currently having a 16.24kW grid-tied solar power system installed. This will generate enough power to offset a good portion of both his own, as well as his subscribing daughter’s, PEPCO utility bill — at full retail price. The project is currently under construction and is poised to be interconnected and officially net-metered by the end of January 2017. Solar Energy Services, Inc. is one of the region’s longest running solar installation companies. Founder Roger Perry has been in the solar energy industry for over 35 years. His partner, Rick Peters, is a current Board member and past President of MDV-SEIA. Locally owned and operated, SES installs both residential and commercial solar PV (electric), as well as solar thermal (hot water) systems in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. PEPCO’s Green Power Connection and CREF History of Washington DC’s Community Solar Lisa Walsh Solar Energy Services, Inc. 443-253-6941 Direct Lwalsh@solarsaves.net Alternative Energy, Community Solar, Energy, Energy Conversion, Grid Tied Solar Power Systems, Install Solar Panels, Natural Gas, Pepco, Photovoltaic System, Photovoltaics, Purchase Solar, Rebecca Mann, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Panel, Solar Power, Solar Power In Arizona, Solar Power In Australia, Solar Power Systems, Solar Powered, Solar Projects, Tie Solar Power, Universe, Washington Dc Non-South facing solar panel installs in Maryland, DC and Virginia When planning a solar panel system for your home, the first consideration for any solar designer is the tilt and orientation of your roof areas. We need to know which roof(s) will ensure the most optimum solar output – which translates to the best Return on Investment. For us here in Maryland, the most optimum solar roof orientation is Due South at 180 degrees. Of course, not everyone has this perfectly oriented roof and our customer base consists of homes that have South, West, East and everything-in-between orientations. Occasionally we even install on North-facing roofs if the pitch of the roof is low enough that panels are close to flat, or can be tilted southerly. For homes that face East-West, you may be wondering which roof would best suited for solar. This is a good question given the fact that the output of your solar panels is directly related to your Return on Investment and how quickly the panels can pay for themselves. If either East or West favors a more Southerly angle, then that would likely be a more favorable roof. Assuming that there aren’t issues related to shadingor obstructions caused by chimneys, vents, skylights and other roof-placed items. If the house has a perfectly split East-West orientation, with all things equal – the next consideration would be roof angle; the lower the tilt (i.e. closer to horizontal) – the more solar energy will be generated over the course of the day. If the tilt on either side is the same then we would usually favor the West facing side. Here in Maryland, DC and Virginia we tend to have cloudier mornings, and sunnier afternoons going into dusk. Therefore we want to capture the late afternoon sun (west facing) more than early morning sun (East facing). Of course, should you happen to have a tree, chimney or other obstructing factor(s) on the West roof – we’d favor the East. The Economics Homeowners looking at an East-West installation often have concerns as to whether or not their system will be profitable enough, compared to its south-facing counterparts. Disqualifiers for cost-effective solar systems include shading and limited available roof space. Rarely, however, is a home found unsuitable due to a Non-Southerly facing roof alone. To illustrate, following is a comparison of a 10kW system’s output respective to East, West and South facing orientations. Data compiled using the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) weather data patterns for Baltimore, MD – 10kW system installed on a 20 degree pitched roof with zero shade SOUTH (180 degrees) WEST (270 degrees) EAST (90 degrees) ANNUAL OUTPUT 13,224kWh 11,389kWh 11,328 kWh Annual $avings $1853 per year $1594 per year $1586 Savings based on a conservative $3.00/watt installation, and $0.14/watt BGE rate Data from PV WATTS As illustrated, although perfectly South would be ideal, the East and West orientations provide a competitive amount of solar and would add only a few months to the payback period. If you were choosing between East and West (as opposed to installing on both), the difference is nominal. The choice of which roof may come down to aesthetic preference, distance to utility meter and regional weather patterns. Local Solar, Maryland Residential Solar, Solar Energy, Solar Installations 180 Degrees, Energy, Face Solar Panels, Natural Gas, Panel System, Passive Solar Building Design, Photovoltaic Power Station, Photovoltaics, Roof, Roof Angles, Roof Area, Solar Designer, Solar Energies, Solar Energy, Solar Panel, Solar Panel Installer, Solar Panel Systems, Solar Tracker, Solar Vehicle, Universe Written by Rick Peters PACE Solar Financing in Maryland and Washington DC Typical Commercial Challenges As veterans of the small commercial solar market in this region, we are very familiar with the challenges of financing solar energy systems to this group of property owners. Small businesses want solar as much or more than any other market segment, but they are capital-constrained like no others so they need affordable financing. Third party solar developers have been the answer for other markets. They can easily finance large systems because the cost of assessing the applicant’s credit is well worth the return. In the case of residential systems, they can use universal tools like credit scores to help manage their risk. For the small commercial and non-profit market, there hasn’t been a super-attractive way to finance solar, until now! Commercial Solar Systems Now Recognized as Public Benefit Washington DC and Maryland now have laws and programs in place for commercial (and nonprofit) property owners to utilize PACE. Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a vehicle that is used to finance energy improvements for buildings. It operates under the recognition that energy improvements are considered to be a public benefit. As such, PACE uses the property tax as a vehicle to structure the financing payments – much like we would finance a sewer extension, but in this case specific to one property. PACE is very appealing to property owners because they can add significant value to their building on a cash-flow-positive basis without personal guarantees or the application of additional debt to the balance sheet. The financing payment must be less than the savings and it’s paid in the form of a special assessment on the property tax bill over the term of the financing arrangement (5-25 years at competitive rates). Multiple energy improvements (i.e. lighting, solar, new roof) can be bundled into one financing package. The best thing about this approach to financing solar is that the property owner will own the system, not a third party. The property owner gets all of the benefits, including the energy savings, the substantial incentives, the marketing value, and the satisfaction. All it costs them is the interest on the financing which pales in comparison to the savings. More info is available on your webpage on our PACE webpage but you may just want to pick up the phone and call us to see if your property is eligible. Commercial, News, Residential, Solar Energy Alternative Energy, Commercial Solar, Commercial Solar Systems, Energy, Energy Conversion, Energy Systems, Financing Solar, Financing Solar Energy, Green Bank, Natural Gas, Pace Financing, Property Owners, Renewable Energy In The United States, Renewable Energy Policy, Solar Energy, Solar Energy In The United States, Solar Energy System, Solar Financing, Solar Market, Solar Systems, Sustainable Energy, Universe DC Property Owners: Big Hot Water load = Big Solar Incentives A growing number of building owners, developers and condo associations in the District of Columbia have come to realize that their building happens to be located in the most solar-friendly city in the USA . Solar contractors, investors and financing vehicles are falling over each other to get solar panels on District roofs and start generating the lucrative solar renewable energy credits (SRECs). Whether via Direct Purchase, or $0 solar leases – SRECs are undoubtedly the reason for the solar season in DC (more to follow on those below). However, before you sign on the dotted line and fill your roof with a 25-year solar PV (electric) system, as offered by 9 out of 10 solar professionals, make sure that you’re not losing the opportunity to vastly increase your return on investment with a Solar Thermal System. Solar Water Heating Feasibility The pre-qualification for a Solar Thermal System involves three questions: Does your building have a substantial, daily (365 day) hot water need? (i.e. apartment building/condos, restaurant, laundry, brewery, health center) Does your building have a centralized water heating system (as opposed to individual units throughout the building)? Can the building accommodate additional storage tanks? If you answered YES to these three questions you really (really) should first consider a Solar Water Heating system either before – or at a minimum – in tandem with, a solar PV system. (Shopper Beware – unless your solar contact has experience with solar thermal – which many do not – you’re going to have to be prepared to shop further). What is Solar Water Heating (or Solar Thermal)? Other than using the sun for energy generation, Solar Water Heating Systems operate entirely differently from their electron-shaking PV counterparts. These time-tested, technologically mature systems are mechanical in nature and relatively simple. Moreover, a solar thermal panel is 60 – 70% efficient; whereas a solar PV (electric) panel is typically 17 – 24% efficient. Therefore, solar thermal panels generate substantially more energy per square foot than PV panels, monetizing many more SRECs. Let’s Review SRECs… SRECs (Solar Renewable Energy Credits) – along with the 30% Federal Tax Credit and 100% Year 1 depreciation– are what drive the tremendous economic benefits of solar in Washington DC; one of several jurisdictions that have enacted a Renewable Portfolio Standard requiring that a specific percentage of electricity consumed must come from solar. Whether residential, commercial, or institutional, each time a solar system generates 1 Megawatt hour of energy – the solar system owner generates 1 SREC. This SREC is then sold via aggregators to an SREC market where it is bought by competitive energy suppliers to allow them to meet their share of the compliance obligation, or else pay a legislated fine (Alternative Compliance Payment, or ACP) for every SREC they are short. Washington DC currently generates the highest SREC values in the country, largely due to the fact that DC does not have the real estate to install large solar farms which can rapidly oversupply a market and drive down SREC prices. How much are SRECs Worth? Washington DC SRECs are currently trading at $395/SREC. To provide a frame of reference, a 6000 sq ft rooftop in Washington DC outfitted with a 75kW solar PV (electric) system could generate around 90 SRECs/year (over $35,000/year). Depending on variables such as system size, corporate tax rate and and project site attributes, this SREC income – combined with a 30% Federal Tax Credit and 100% Year 1 depreciation, typically result in IRR’s between 30% – 60% and a Simple payback of 3 – 5 years. Assuming solar thermal is applicable, this same roof outfitted with a Solar Thermal System could fit a kWh equivalent of a 150kW+ system, generating 180 SRECs/year – and see an IRR of 50 – 80%, with a simple payback in the 1 – 2 year range. Although Solar PV (electric) clients often opt for an O & M (operations and maintenance) contract through their solar installer, Solar PV Systems have relatively minor maintenance needs; usually an annual inspection along with ongoing monitoring. Solar thermal (water heating) requires a little more maintenance including a 3 – 5 yearly service which, at a minimum, includes a replacement of the propylene glycol/energy transfer fluid that can degrade with time. Nonetheless, the impact of service costs on the overall IRR is relatively small and easily absorbed by the increased SREC income. Commercial, Residential, Solar Energy, Solar Installations 10 Solar, Alternative Energy, Climate Change In The United States, Energy, Energy Conversion, Natural Gas, Photovoltaic Power Station, Photovoltaic System, Photovoltaics, Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy Certificate, Solar Panel, Solar Pv, Solar Pv Systems, Solar Renewable Energy Credits, Solar Thermal Energy, Solar Water Heat, Solar Water Heating Systems, Universe, Usa Solar, Water Heat, Water Heating System A Primer on Solar Power Did you know that attempts to harness the sun’s power through the development of solar cells dates back to the late 1800’s? I am sure that this, and other information, may be new to our readers. This article will provide you with some basic facts about solar power and solar energy. That way, you can join the conversation, and the renewable energy movement! The first successful solar cell was developed in the early 1950s. It was made of silicon, and able to power small electronic devices. This was hailed as the beginning of a new era of energy resources, even then being acknowledged as having the potential to offer a limitless supply of electricity. The first true application of solar cells could be found in the space program at NASA and in Russia. They were the only ones who could afford this technology in the 1960s. The cost of solar cells continued to decline incrementally, but not so significantly that solar was a common source of energy through the 1970s. But, as the 1980s dawned, and ever since, solar power has insinuated itself into all aspects of life, commercially and residentially. The first solar panels for buildings were developed in the early 1970s. In truth, this initial foray into the potential for large scale residential solar power was actually a solar array built into a rooftop. Panel development followed, as the cost and manufacturing efficiency increased. President Jimmy Carter had solar panels placed on the roof of the White House in 1979. Everyone was getting into the act! Welcome to 2018. Today it is common to find solar-powered cars, solar-powered telecommunications, and even solar-powered aircraft. One car company, renowned for their progressiveness, has incorporated solar panels into the roofs of their vehicles! But, there’s more! Technology continues to expand the horizons of solar energy, making it affordable and applicable in new ways and new places. For example, it is possible that eventually solar panels on rooftops will be replaced with solar shingles! Or, consider this, a solar fabric is being finalized that can be attached to houses as a cooling device! We here at Solar Energy Services are excited about the future applications of this renewable source of energy for personal and commercial uses. You can count on us to utilize our superior knowledge and expertise to your advantage. We look forward to serving you! Alternative Energy, Energy, Energy Conversion, First Solar Panels, Natural Gas, Photovoltaics, Power Car, Powered Small, Renewable Energy, Residential Solar Power, S Power, Solar Architecture, Solar Car, Solar Cells, Solar Energies, Solar Energy, Solar Panel, Solar Power, Solar Powered, Solar Powered Cars, Universe Coming Up! Solar Open House in Ellicott City, MD SOLAR OPEN HOUSE with Kirk Cummings WHEN: Sat, Sept 17th 2016 \| 2pm – 5pm WHERE: 4919 Windpower Way, Ellicott City MD 21403 Nothing says Sunshine’s a Wastin! like a freshly installed solar power system. Join Kirk at this Howard County residence to get up-close-and-personal with an active solar system. The homeowner will be on hand to answer questions about their decision-making process as well as working with SES. Kirk will be on hand to tour the system with you and answer all of your questions onsite at the home of the Syed Family where Kirk designed and SES recently installed an 8.55k Solar power system including(30) Suniva 285 watt Solar panels and a Solar Edge Inverter System. Solar Open House – $250 Discount! All open house attendees who sign up for a proposal and sign their contract within 30 days will receive a $250 discount on their PV system installation. Events, Local Solar Active Solar, Alternative Energy, Answers Questions, Energy, Energy Conversion, House Ins, Kirk Cummingswhen, Natural Gas, Photovoltaics, Powered System, Renewable Energy, Solar Edge Inverter, Solar Panel, Solar Power, Solar Power Systems, Solar Systems, Universe, Watt Solar Panels, Windpower Press Release: Solar at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation CBF Merrill Center to Install 106 kW Solar System (ANNAPOLIS, MD) The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and Solar Energy Services, Inc. (SES) announced an agreement today for SES to design and build a 106 kW, grid-tied solar photovoltaic system at the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, CBF’s headquarters. The Merrill Center rooftop solar system will include more than 370 solar panels from US manufacturer SolarWorld, as well as inverter systems from Solar Edge. The panels will be installed primarily on the available roof tops, but the design also calls for some unique solar shade structures to provide additional benefits to the facility and its occupants. SES president Rick Peters shared that SES is pleased to participate in this marquee project. “I know personally that CBF has led the way on sustainable initiatives in our region for a very long time. It is an honor to be selected to construct this project, which will help advance CBF’s message and their environmental stewardship.” The solar system is projected to produce more than 133 MWh of electricity annually, enough to power more than 10 average Maryland homes. This will significantly offset the facility’s consumption of traditional electricity. “While we have had solar panels at the Merrill Center in the past, we are adding this new capacity because it is now more affordable as well as more efficient,” said CBF Vice President Mary Tod Winchester. “The new array will generate enough electricity to provide one third of the power for heating, cooling, and other needs of the more than 100 staff who work here. As a non-profit, we will not benefit from the many tax incentives available, but we encourage other individuals and businesses to closely examine the costs and benefits of adding solar generation.” The project is expected to be completed before the end of this summer. About Solar Energy Services, Inc. Solar Energy Services, Inc. (solarsaves.net) designs, builds and services solar power systems for institutional, commercial, and residential customers. The firm was founded by 37 year solar industry veteran Roger Perry who has longstanding ties to the communities served by SES. Based in Millersville Maryland, the 21 person firm operates in Maryland, DC, and Virginia. About Chesapeake Bay Foundation Founded in 1967, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (www.cbf.org) is the largest independent conservation organization dedicated solely to saving the Bay. Serving as a watchdog, we fight for effective, science-based solutions to the pollution degrading the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams. Our motto, “Save the Bay,” is a regional rallying cry for pollution reduction throughout the Chesapeake’s six-state, 64,000-square-mile watershed, which is home to more than 17 million people and 3,000 species of plants and animals.With offices in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia and 15 field centers, CBF leads the way in restoring the Bay and its rivers and streams. Over the last four decades, we have created broad understanding of the Bay’s poor health, engaged public leaders in making commitments to restore the Chesapeake, and fought successfully to create a new approach to cleanup that features real accountability-the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint Commercial, News Alternative Energy, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Energy, Energy Conversion, Grid Tie Solar, Home Solar Panels, Natural Gas, Philip Merrill, Philip Merrill Environmental Center, Photovoltaic System, Photovoltaics, Renewable Energy, Rooftop Solar System, Solar Energies, Solar Energy, Solar Energy Services, Solar Energy Services Inc., Solar Panel, Solar Photovoltaic System, Solar Power, Solar Services, Solar Shades, Solar Systems, Solarworld, Unique Solar, Universe Developer’s Success Story – A Solar Integrated Green Roof in NE DC Maryland Solar – Ready to Grow Again Solar is Booming in Washington DC Buy American and Save Solar Plus Storage is Ready for Prime-Time Backup Power for your Home Commercial Events Local Solar Maryland Commercial Solar Maryland Residential Solar News Residential SES in the News Solar Energy Solar Installations Local Solar Maryland Commercial Solar SES in the News Copyright © 2020 Solar Energy Services, Inc. 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__label__cc	0.689557	0.310443	CRAFT-BAMBOO RACING HEADS TO THE PENULTIMATE ROUND OF THE 2019 BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA Posted by sportscarracingnews ⋅ August 2, 2019 ⋅ Leave a comment Filed Under Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia, Christina Nielsen, Craft Bamboo Racing, Daniel Au, Darryl O’Young, Frank Yu, Jeffrey Lee, Korea International Circuit, Maximilian Goetz, Melvin Moh, Mercedes AMG GT3, preview After a strong showing at Fuji Speedway in June that saw Craft-Bamboo Racing score a podium result in GT3 and victory in GT4, the team heads to Yeongam, Korea with confidence of fighting at the front again. It has been a long waited return to the Korea International Circuit, which has given the team much to celebrate over the years including two pole-positions, an overall victory, and several podium finishes in GT3. For this round, Mercedes-AMG factory driver Maximilian Goetz will join Craft-Bamboo Racing’s line-up in place of Alessio Picariello, whom will be back with the team in #88 at the season finale in Shanghai. Experienced Singaporean GT driver Richard Wee will also stand in for Jean-Marc Merlin in GT4, whom will be driving alongside Frank Yu in the #77 Mercedes-AMG GT4. Korea Preview #55 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Daniel Au and Melvin Moh come off their strongest weekend to date, which saw exceptional qualifying pace from the experienced Malaysian driver Moh and big steps forward in all areas for the Singaporean driver Au. Moh had the drive of his season so far in race 2, which saw him fight in the top 5 against the highly competitive pro group, before handing the car over to his teammate, where Au fought a resilient battle against his competitors. Unfortunately the race ended in contact after an error by Au, but he has taken that on the chin and has focused on learning from that experience. Korea will be the opportunity for the pairing to take yet another big step forward in their season long progress. Taiwanese GT driver Jeffrey Lee and Belgian young gun Alessio Picariello have had several successful weekends so far, with the pair taking two victories in the first four weekends of the season. At the last round in Fuji, Lee and Picariello were so close to a third victory of the season, but a late safety car reduced their huge advantage, dashing their chances of a win. For this weekend, as Picariello is committed racing elsewhere, Mercedes-AMG Factory Driver Maximilian Goetz will drive alongside Jeffrey Lee in the #88 entry. Goetz is highly acclaimed in GT racing, having won the 2014 Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup and achieving podium finishes in the 2019 Bathurst 12hr, 2018 Suzuka 10 Hours and the Nurburgring 24hr. Despite this being the first time the pair have worked together, Lee and Goetz will be looking to get on track this weekend with sights set firmly on moving Lee up the championship standings. The Silver Cup pairing of Hong Kong driver Darryl O’Young and two-time IMSA Champion Christina Nielsen have also shown their capabilities with the Mercedes-AMG GT3 this season. The #99 pair not only finished on the podium in Malaysia and in Fuji, but also demonstrated their potential by consistently fighting at the front in every race. Last time out in Fuji, great teamwork and race-craft from O’Young and Nielsen meant that the pair fought through the field from 14th position to a podium finish, scoring their second top-three finish of the year. As Nielsen comes straight from a podium finish at the grueling Spa 24 Hours, expectations are high in Korea as the pair continue to get stronger each race. The 2017 GT4 Champion pairing of Frank Yu and Jean-Marc Merlin have had an incredible first half of the season, scoring 4 podium results including a class victory in Thailand. For the upcoming round in Korea, experienced Singaporean race driver Richard Wee will replace Jean-Marc Merlin. Wee is no stranger to GT Racing; he has LMGTE experience in the challenging World Endurance Championship, and has contested in various GT3 and GT4 categories around the world, most notably finishing 2nd overall in the 2014 Sepang 12 Hours. The pair will be looking to take the fight to the leaders in GT4 class, and the recent run of strong performances shows that the Mercedes-AMG GT4 is a capable package, giving Yu and Wee a strong shot at victory in Korea. Teams Championship Craft-Bamboo Racing currently sit 3rd in the outright GT3 Teams Championship with 96 points, and 3rd in the GT4 class with 132 points. Drivers Championship P9 [50 Points] – #88 Mercedes-AMG GT3 \| Jeffrey Lee & Alessio Picariello P12 [43 Points] – #99 Mercedes-AMG GT3 \| Darryl O’Young & Christina Nielsen P29 [0 Points] – #55 Mercedes-AMG GT3 \| Daniel Au & Melvin Moh P2 [132 Points] – #77 Mercedes-AMG GT4 \| Jean-Marc Merlin P4 [97 Points] – #77 Mercedes-AMG GT4 \| Frank Yu P8 [35 Points] – #77 Mercedes-AMG GT4 \| David Pun The Weekend Ahead The conditions in Yeongam are set to be fairly consistent, with dry and slightly overcast conditions expected throughout the weekend. Temperatures are set to range from 24 to 32 degrees celcius, and these ideal conditions mean that the drivers will be able to push hard come the opening sessions on Friday. Korea Timetable (GMT +9) Friday \| 2 Aug 2019 1310 – Free Practice 1 Saturday \| 3 Aug 2019 0830 – Official Practice 1050 – GT4 Qualifying 1540 – Race 1 Sunday \| 4 Aug 2019 Darryl O’Young \| Driver #99 Mercedes-AMG GT3 “I really enjoy the Korea International Circuit, as it has a mix of everything from low to high speed corners. I’ve taken a GT3 victory there in the past, so I’m looking to repeat that again this year. We contend with a 5 sec time penalty in race one making it a challenge, but regardless Christina and I will fight hard from green flag to checkered.” Christina Nielsen \| Driver #99 Mercedes-AMG GT3 “It’s been a couple of weeks with loads of traveling. Just came off a P3 in the class at spa so hoping to carry the momentum in to this weekend as well. We are coming in to the end of the season and everyone are pushing for good results to finish of the season strong and we will of course be doing the same.” Daniel Au \| Driver #55 Mercedes-AMG GT3 “This weekend should be a good one, hopefully suiting the Mercedes-AMG well. We’ve made lots of progress in the previous few races, and hopefully Melvin and I get to fight further up the field!” Melvin Moh \| Driver #55 Mercedes-AMG GT3 “Coming to Korea with strong form, and I feel energized after the previous race where we were fighting at the front. The pace is there for sure, and we will work hard to keep the momentum going!” Maximilian Goetz \| Driver #88 Mercedes-AMG GT3 “It was a bit of a last minute call up, but I was really happy to get this opportunity to set all the basics for the future as we are doing the Suzuka 10 Hour next month! It will be good to meet the team, and I know that the competition is tough in the Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia. The goal is to be on the podium with Jeffrey, but first we need to ensure that all our bases are ticked with the setup. My target is to bring a trophy from Korea home to Germany!” Jeffrey Lee \| Driver #88 Mercedes-AMG GT3 “I’m looking forward to racing this weekend with Maximilian, he has lots of top experience with the Mercedes-AMG GT3 over in Europe, and having this factory backed support in Korea will be a bonus! The aim is always to be at the front, and hopefully we nail every session and score a nice result this weekend!” Frank Yu \| Driver #77 Mercedes-AMG GT3 “Great to be back in Korea, the last time we were here a few years ago we were pretty successful, and I hope that from the pace of the Mercedes-AMG GT4 in the previous few races we can do the same here this weekend!” Source. Craft-Bamboo Racing « AUSTRALIAN GT INTRODUCES TWO ROUND SANDOWN GT CUP PR1/MATHIASEN LOOKING FOR FOURTH WIN AT ROAD AMERICA »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4934
__label__wiki	0.882232	0.882232	I-League: Neroca faces Indian Arrows in must-win fixture Neroca FC hasn't won any of the last three fixtures between these teams. Bhubaneswar 31 January, 2019 20:35 IST Neroca FC is fifth on the table with six wins and four losses in 14 matches. - SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Manipur-based Neroca FC takes on the Indian Arrows at Bhubaneswar’s Kalinga Stadium on Friday - a game it must to win to have a chance of achieving anywhere close to its second-place finish in its debut season (2017-18). NEROCA has 22 points from 14 games so far, eight behind league leader Chennai City, and cannot afford any more slip-ups in the business end of the season. Arrows is eighth on the table with 13 points from 14 games. It will fancy its chances at home, given NEROCA has faltered in the last three outings, losing two and drawing one. Neroca’s Spanish coach Manuel Fraile will have to inspire his players after failing to put it across Aizawl at home last week as the Arrows is a dangerous side and good enough to take advantage of any opponent not at its best. Fraile was positive in the pre-match press conference, saying, “The preparation is coming good. We are hoping to take the three points. It is a difficult team and the players are young. We are fighting to be on the top. We have a good team with experienced players. We lost with Mohun Bagan and Churchill in the past matches but we have a good fight which matters." He added, "We have missed our chances sometimes. We are looking forward to give our best and also to enjoy the game of the local players. Eduardo and Aryn Williams are suspended for this match but football is a team game and the rest of the team has players who are mature and professionals.” Floyd Pinto, the Arrows manager, was also positive in the pre-match press conference. “Happy to be back home. It was not a good experience when we played in NEROCA. No game is easy for us. If you look at the points table, we have been doing really well so far. The performance of the boys have been improving as the season has gone on but now we have reached that stage where we have to get points as well and I am sure we're going to have a good performance tomorrow. Either we keep a clean sheet or score one goal more than NEROCA." Both teams are known to play flowing football and it should be an absorbing battle at the Kalinga on Friday. Manuel Fraile Floyd Pinto India vs Japan, ICC U-19 World Cup Live Cricket Score: Bishnoi, Tyagi have Japan in trouble	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4936
__label__wiki	0.965421	0.965421	Vice ring at the palace, says MP (25.11.83) Buckingham Palace, Geoffrey Dickens, PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange) Daily Mail, 25th November 1983 VICE RING AT THE PALACE, SAYS MP (Daily Mail, 25th November 1983) A dossier which claims that a homosexual vice ring is operating inside Buckingham Palace has been handed to the Home Secretary, Mr Leon Brittan. The allegations, compiled by Conservative MP Mr Geoffrey Dickens, also claim that a top-level civil servant kept his job after he was found with 57 indecent photographs of children. Mr Dickens, MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth, said yesterday that the Home Secretary had promised to investigate the allegations against ten men who, he claims, are active paedophiles—men interested in sex with children. Mr Dickens said there was evidence that young male staff who entered the palace as footmen, servants and cooks were being dragged into a ‘web of vice’, where wealthy old men paid for their favours and they were passed around between clients. He drew attention to the case of a 16-year-old boy who was given a kitchen job at the palace after leaving catering college. After two years, he was recommended for a new job, as footman to a senior British diplomat, known to be a member of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange, the group that wants to legalise sex between children and adults. They boy later left this post and, according to Mr Dickens, became the ‘plaything’ for millionaires in America. Row Over Palace Vice ‘Cover-Up’ (15.01.84) News of the World, 15th January 1984 Jailed, the royal choirmaster who abused children (26.08.04) Buckingham Palace, Music Daily Mail, 26th August 2004 This church sex pervert abuses lad and doesn’t go to prison (15.06.93) Buckingham Palace, The Church The Sun, 15th June 1993 Whitelaw set to appoint head of palace security (16.7.82) The Times (London),16th July 1982 MP alleges paedophilia at palace (24.11.83) Buckingham Palace, Elm Guest House, Geoffrey Dickens, PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange) The Times (London), 24th November 1983 Palace link in child sex scandal (25.11.83) Daily Express, 25th November 1983	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4937
__label__wiki	0.61575	0.61575	Jordan Housing Unit Occupancy A housing unit is a space where Jordan residents live—such as a house, an apartment, a mobile home or trailer, or other forms of living quarters. The people who occupy a housing unit form a household. The American Community Survey (ACS), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, publishes detailed estimates about housing in Jordan each year. Unlike the Census—which is an exact count of people and households every ten years—ACS statistics are estimated based on a representative survey sample. This report uses ACS 5-year estimates for Jordan housing data, rather than single-year periods. The 5-year estimates provide greater geographical granularity and accuracy, with a less granular time period. How has the number of housing units changed over time in Jordan, Iowa? How many housing units in Jordan are owner- or renter-occupied? How do the size of households and housing units vary by tenure in Jordan, Iowa? What do Jordan housing units use for heating fuel? The most commonly-used heating sources are utility gas and electricity. The chart below breaks down Jordan housing units by these heating sources. The next chart shows Jordan housing units by less commonly-used heating fuels and other sources. (Note the scale is different from the chart above.) How many Jordan housing units lack plumbing or kitchens? The ACS asks questions about the presence of hot and cold running water, a bathtub or shower, a sink with a faucet, a stove or range, and a refrigerator to create statistics about indicators of housing quality. Federal and local governments in Jordan and Iowa use these estimates to identify areas eligible for housing assistance, rehabilitation loans, and other programs that help people access and afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing. Jordan public health officials may also use this information to locate areas in danger of ground water contamination and waterborne diseases. While the presence of these facilities in the home has increased over time, there are still areas in the Jordan where they may not be available. Individual items (hot and cold running water, etc.) are asked about separately on the ACS to allow housing analysts to evaluate individual indicators of housing quality, and determine which items are lacking in particular areas.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4955
__label__cc	0.56662	0.43338	NEVER FORGET: Meet The Only Woman Ever Executed in GA (Yes. She’s Black) Sep, 26 2011 \| Written by ATLien The Georgia execution of inmate Troy Davis, has created a worldwide protest against the death penalty and it’s also bringing awareness to other cases where Blacks were mistreated by the legal system in Georgia. Davis’ execution is but one example of a Georgia’s unbalanced justice system, and many GA residents including Big Boi and Killer Mike have joined in the march for truth being that there was way too much doubt in the case for the state to take this man’s life.? Television Judge Greg Mathis even expressed outrage, stating that Georgia had “blood on it’s hands” for proceeding with the execution. [WATCH: Judge Greg Mathis Weighs In on Troy Davis ] Well it’s not the first mistake Georgia has made, but maybe we can make it the last…. Lena Baker, an African-American mother of three holds the esteemed honor of being the only woman ever electrocuted in Georgia’s electric chair, she was also issued a pardon 6 decades after her 1945 death by execution. Baker was convicted for the fatal shooting of E. B. Knight, a white Cuthbert, Georgia mill operator she was hired to care for after he broke his leg. She was 44 at the time of her execution. Continue Reading… In Featured,Mugshot Mania,News Lena Baker, Never Forget, Troy Davis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4957
__label__wiki	0.740835	0.740835	News Release November 2003 Beginning of Victory? For the first time the Government is admitting that an alternative to urban consolidation is being considered. In the Daily Telegraph (Monday 17 November) Mark Skelsey (State Political Reporter) writes: FOR the past eight years, the State Government has been telling us that Sydney's future is up - not out. While land releases have dropped to record low levels, about 100,000 units have been built as developers reach for the skies with apartment towers. But in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Planning Minister Craig Knowles has admitted this urban consolidation path is causing community anger. And he has indicated the Carr Government will pursue a new "balance" of development in future. "Sydney has been on a consolidation path, for all the right reasons, but there's plenty of evidence that levels of resistance are now very high and they don't want any more," Mr Knowles said. That's a significant admission. Although Mr Knowles is still looking for consolidation opportunities around railway stations, he has made it clear he wants more fringe land released. Combined with information contained in the Government's submission to a Productivity Commission inquiry, it looks as though Macquarie St is about to change tack on its development. strategy. (my bold type above) You may remember that Save Our Suburbs policies include "balanced state development". Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Mark Skelsey's report has been followed up by similar reports on the ABC and Sydney Morning Herald. I sent in the following letter to the Telegraph: Planning Minister Craig Knowles admits that urban consolidation is causing community anger ("Backlash against towers", Telegraph 17 Nov). But astoundingly, he says that Sydney has been on the consolidation path for the right reasons. Retrofitting high density onto suburbs originally designed for low density was bound to destroy our quality of life. We now suffer the results - stifling traffic congestion, noise, destruction of gardens, overflowing sewers, lack of housing choice and huge increases in housing cost. We want to know what his "right reasons" are. We demand to know how it is possible that such an oppressive policy came to be forced onto communities without rational justification. This letter has not been published. However please send in your letters as well, or put your comments on the Tele website at http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=501050. More notice is taken when more than one person speaks out. I also got onto Alan Jones' 2GB breakfast show yesterday morning just before the 6.30 news saying a similar message. Alan was most supportive. Roman Dinner Protest Our protest at the NSW ALP Roman dinner fundraiser on Thursday last week was a great success. The Greens and various resident action groups also participated - there must have been close to 100 people protesting against "money for influence". The look on the faces of the smartly dressed diners as they filed in was a sight to behold. Many thanks to those who participated and to Jean Lennane who initially alerted me to the event. Our persistent opposition and protests against urban consolidation and government corruption must eventually win the day. Save Our Suburbs (SOS)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4960
__label__wiki	0.659477	0.659477	Health & Wellness Speakers Related to Mira Sorvino Related to Mira Sorvino Health & Wellness health-and-wellness $1 - $2,500 (1) $60,000 - $1,000,000 (49) Monica Rogati Former VP of Data, Jawbone Sunnyvale, CA, USA Susan W. Butterworth Founder of Health Management Services; Associate Professor with the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University Dr. Patricia Dykes Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Sr. Nurse Assistant, Program Director of Patient Safety Research and Practice, & Program Director of the Center for Nursing Excellence at Brigham & Women's Hospital James Blome Former President/CEO of Bayer CropScience LP; CEO of Calyxt Durham, NC, USA Lee Rhodes Accidental Entrepreneur with a Mission to Give Back; Founder of glassybaby Phil Davis MMA who currently fights as a Light Heavyweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship San Diego, CA, USA Dr. Jackie Walters Owner of Comprehensive Women's OB/GYN; Two-Time Breast Cancer Survivor; Cast Member of Bravo's "Married to Medicine" Nic Sheff Author & Recovering Addict Beautiful Boy - Official Trailer \| Amazon Studios Jon Bergmann Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board FLIP Conference in Iceland - Jonathan Bergmann Speaker on Alzheimer's Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury & Autism; Author of "Still Alice" and Other Fiction Books About Neurological Disorders Cape Cod, MA, USA Director of the Montana State University Student Health Service Bozeman, MT, USA David Merritt Former Chairman of the Center for Health Transformation and Expert on Healthcare Policy Robert H. Lustig Endocrinologist; Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology, UCSF; New York Times Bestselling Author Dr. Chris Ashworth Dairy Technical Consultant Fort Smith, AR, USA Connie Podesta Expert in Changing Lives; Author of "Life Would Be Easy If It Weren't For Other People" Deborah Norville Two-Time Emmy Award-Winning Journalist; Anchor of "Inside Edition: & Best-Selling Author Joseph Michelli Author of "The Starbucks Experience" and "The Zappos Experience" Pinellas Park, FL, USA Co-Founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters San Diego, CA, USA / 1 reviews Chris Herren Former NBA Player & Speaker on Substance Abuse Disorder and Wellness Portsmouth, RI, USA Hugh Evans Humanitarian; Founder & CEO of Global Poverty Project John Medina Scientist Interested in Human Brain Development & the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorder; Author John Medina: "Brain Rules for Aging Well" \| Talks at Google Danny Cahill The BIGGEST "The Biggest Loser." Lost 236 pounds in less than 7 months! Oklahoma City, OK, USA Richard Besser President & CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Former Chief Health & Medical Editor for ABC News Professional Surfer & Shark Attack Survivor; Inspiration for the Film "Soul Surfer" Kauai, HI, USA Susan Solomon Co-Founder and CEO of NYSCF, a Nonprofit Established to Accelerate Cures Through Stem Cell Research Jackie Warner Celebrity Trainer & Television Personality Dr. William Li Founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation & Author of "Eat to Beat Disease" Dr. Francis Collins Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trainer and Transformation Specialist on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition" Dr. Robert Cialdini CEO & President of Influence at Work; Author of the New York Times Bestseller "Influence: Science & Practice" Phoenix, AZ, USA / 6 reviews	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4964
__label__wiki	0.505336	0.505336	Spinnup October 17, 2013 Well Versed 5 things every unsigned artist can change so shouldn’t worry too much about Signing contracts, getting a tattoo and jumping out of a plane with no parachute. All of these things have very permanent effects: you’re committed to a binding agreement, you now have a tattoo, and splat. But unlike these, not every decision you or your band makes is forever, here are some things it’s very easy to change so don’t have to fret too much about. 1. Your name This is one of those things that can take you hours of crying and arguing only to discover at the end of it you’ve settled on ‘Barbara Death and the Pig Hunters‘ even though your actual name is Simon and you are a solo folk artist. Don’t worry about it. Concentrate on writing great songs. Maybe you’ll name yourself after a lyric or song you write, maybe it will come when you know your sound better (here are some of our suggestions on how to come up with a really good name). Either way, the decision doesn’t have to be final till you get signed. Lots of bands have changed their name along the way – Beastie Boys were The Young Aborigines and Black Sabbath were actually called The Polka Tulk Blues Company. Really. 2. Your songs The thing most likely to incur horrific bouts of writers’ block is thinking your songs have to be set in stone, that a song you write will exist forever in its original first form. False. It’s your song, you can do with it as you like. Put a trumpet on it, play it in 12/8 or swap all the lyrics for you just repeating the word ‘exploding’. Experimentation is the key to your freedom and artistic discovery. Don’t worry about everything being perfect first time out. Just focus on your artistic freedom and vision. 3. Your arrangements In a similar way, just try stuff out. You never know what will be the final piece of the jigsaw, or what you’ll want to take out. When Radiohead were recording ‘Airbag’ from their third album ‘OK Computer’ bass player Colin Greenwood was ill. He missed the recording and the band put the whole track down except the bass. When Colin came in he went straight into the studio, got out his bass and they recorded what he played as he heard the track for the very first time. And that first experimental take is what you hear on the opening track on one of the great albums of all time. Don’t be afraid to fail, that’s where the greatest successes can come from. 4. Your internet presence People can worry a lot about their Twitter handle, their Facebook strategy, which songs they put up on Soundcloud or even the photo on their website. Don’t. It can all be changed. There is no need to think that any of these decisions as final. The internet is a tool to promote yourself and sell your music. Experiment, try different things and see what works. 5. Your genre Now we wouldn’t go as far to say that you stop playing the ukelele and instead get a drum machine and play a saxophone through a fuzz pedal . . . actually you should definitely do that, it sounds awesome. Anyway, if you are a folk artist and you write a country song, or a rock song, don’t be scared of it. You wrote it for a reason. If over time you move in another direction then so be it. Don’t be limited by the idea of a genre. Just be happy making music and that will shine out to everyone who hears you. A guide to live streaming for artists The 10 best apps for songwriters How to create a killer remix How To Build Back Confidence In Your Music Spinnup Academy Everything To Know About Music Managers How To Make Sure Your Online Presence is In Sync Live Show Etiquette Expectation Vs Reality How To Prepare For The New Year What is Music Distribution? © Copyright 2020 Spinnup. All rights reserved. Terms and Conditions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4966
__label__cc	0.638677	0.361323	Archive for the ‘Podcast’ category « Splice Now home page That Post Show Rated #1 Brian Mulligan, writing for PremiumBeat.com, has been listening to the many podcasts now covering new media and post production and has given his highest rating to Kanen Flowers’ “That Post Show.” I’m proud to be a participant. A new show just went live, featuring me and Mark Spencer from Ripple Training. If you’re looking for some thoughtful dialog about the current state of post production, check it out at iTunes. Categories: Avid, Final Cut, Podcast That Post Show — A Little Squirt of Dopamine Last week, I participated in another episode of Kanen Flowers’ “That Post Show” podcast — this time covering the skill-set you’ll need in order to succeed in the real world of the professional editing room. The episode is entitled “Squirt of Dopamine” and also features Mike J. Nichols, Paul Zadie and, of course, Kanen. I think you’ll find it interesting listening. Check it out via iTunes or get it from the shownotes page. Categories: Avid vs. Final Cut, Labor, Media and Society, Podcast, Quality of Life, Workflow Final Cut X vs. Media Composer 6 Podcast If you’re looking for a sane and reasoned comparison of Media Composer 6 and Final Cut X — from the real world of the editing room trenches — look no further than the latest edition of Kanen Flowers’ “That Post Show” podcast. I was a participant, along with Scott Simmons, Paul del Vecchio and Kanen. The show is available from the iTunes store, or you can download it on the show notes page. This episode is facetiously titled “Edit Pro Supergood.” Fair warning: it’s long, and Skype failed us a few times, but it’s consistently substantive and, from my biased perspective, makes for interesting listening. Categories: Avid, Avid vs. Final Cut, Final Cut, Podcast That Post Show Host Kanen Flowers released another installment of his podcast “That Post Show” yesterday, and once again I was a participant. The episode, entitled “Cinematic Communal Experience” is a thoughtful look at the art and science of editing and, in particular, how web-based entertainment is changing cinema. We did our best to stay away from the FCP-X debacle, but there’s a taste of it in the post-show montage. Check it out on Kanen’s web site, or download it from iTunes Categories: Avid, Media and Society, Podcast “That Post Show” on Editing Applications If you’re looking for some thoughtful and provocative discussion about the future of editing applications, and specifically about Final Cut vs. Media Composer vs. Premier, check out yesterday’s episode of the podcast, “That Post Show.” Hosted by Kanen Flowers, participants were Paul Del Vecchio, Scott Simmons, Paul Zadie, Shane Ross and me. The episode is entitled “Unstoppable Hydraulic Pressure,” which is a quote from something I said about the power of market share in the post landscape. You can get it for free from the iTunes store. 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__label__cc	0.729868	0.270132	× Like us on Facebook About Home Baseball Games Football Games Basketball Games Hockey Games Other Sports APBA Games Strat-O-Matic Games S.I. Games/Statis Pro Games/Avalon Hill Games/3M Games Cadaco Games Other Stat-based Games Tudor-Miggle Electric Football Games Coleco-Eagle/Munro/Gretzky and Other Table Hockey Games Handheld Games Mini Helmets / Pennants Classifieds EMAIL APBA FOOTBALL CARDS 1972 Season APBA has been producing statistical replay games since the 1950's and is acknowledged by most to be the father of all modern replay games. The football game first came out in 1958. These games are very detailed, and highly realistic, yet they are flexible enough to allow you to play at the level of complexity with which you are most comfortable. There have been numerous changes to the game over the years and you should be aware that not all cards sets are 100% compatible with all editions of the game. This listing is for a card set for use with the APBA Football game. You need to already own the game in order to use these cards. If you don't already have a copy of the game just click HERE to see a list of the complete games that I have available for purchase. The card set is overall in EXCELLENT condition. This is a complete set of player cards reflecting the 1972 season stats. The set includes the XFs and a photocopy of the roster sheet. It was created in 1974 and including the XFs consists of 34 cards per team. I have inventoried and inspected the cards and every card has been accounted for. The cards show minimal handling. A few of the cards on the top of the pack have suffered tanning. A few XFs have minor edge tears from separating them out of the original perforated sheets. I would grade the set 8 on a 10 scale (see condition guide below). The envelopes are in EXCELLENT condition. A few have short tears on the flaps. No stains or writing. Some light creasing. I would grade them 7-8 on a 10 scale (see condition guide below). See other APBA FOOTBALL items for sale See other VINTAGE FOOTBALL items for sale Purchase with check / money order Reserve a sold out item Do you know that sinking feeling when you are in the middle of replaying a season or sequence of games only to find that the card for one of the key players is missing? Well I have thoroughly inventoried this set and compared it to the roster list so you can be assured that you won't get that feeling while playing with this set. I am not of the opinion that a simple card count will do. The sets often came with missing or duplicate cards from the factory, and who knows what the original owner may have done with them in the course of playing with them.... Be sure to ask your card seller if they have in fact verified that the card set is complete by comparing it to the original roster list. I have also carefully inspected each and every card in order to determine the condition grade I have given to this set. I do not feel that a cursory flipping through of the cards is adequate to determine the condition of a set - it is too easy to miss something. Once again - I would suggest asking your card seller to verify that they have done a careful inspection of the condition of all the cards in the set before putting their grade on it. CONDITION GUIDE: MINT (10): I will only give this grade to brand new, unused items. NEAR MINT (9): Shows virtually no use. Seldom if ever played. Cards will have at worst some dented corners from shuffling around in the box. Perhaps some very light handling creases to the instructions or other minor flaws with the game parts. Boxes will have only the slightest hint of shelf wear. EXCELLENT (7-8): The game has seen some use but it was obviously taken care of well. Cards may have denting to the corners, perhaps a few may have light stains or other very light handling wear, but the vast majority will be close to flawless. Game parts might have some light handling creases or other signs of careful use. Board might have just a hint of color loss or dented corners. Boxes will have light rubbing to the artwork or perhaps some minor dishing or a very light stain. VERY GOOD (5-6): The game was not especially well cared for, but it still has fared pretty well. Cards will have dented corners and perhaps some may have rubber band wear to the edges. A few cards (less than 10%) may have handling creases, yellowing to the edges (a few may be yellowed on the faces), or light stains. Perhaps a couple may have writing or some dried rubber band residue (this will be noted). All card results will be fully readable. Other game parts will show obvious use but nothing will be torn, badly stained or have any serious damage. Box may have some rubbing, light staining, dishing, 1 or 2 neatly split corners, minor writing and/or a few pieces of tape. No major structural damage and artwork will still be generally attractive. GOOD (3-4): Obviously no care was taken with the game but it is still perfectly playable. Cards will show moderate to heavy use and many will be yellowed, stained, creased, written on or have rubber band residue. A couple may be torn and taped back together. All card results will be fully readable. Other game parts show considerable use but the game is complete with all parts in usable condition. Box may have staining, writing, split corners, dishing and/or other structural damage but it will be intact and still usable. POOR (1-2): Only suitable to fill a space in your collection. Cards are heavily worn and some are badly damaged. Game will be missing parts (these will be noted). Box will have serious damage and may be missing aprons or badly torn.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4970
__label__cc	0.709975	0.290025	The Morning News: Spidercrabs, anyone? So this morning I actually actively picked up a copy of the Metro. I didn’t just absent-mindedly grab it from someone’s seat on the Tube and start flicking through, no , I actually picked it up from the stack they have in the station. I opened it to a random page because the pages were stuck together. I arrive at this image. gahh! Fuck! What the hell? If you can’t read it, because I’ve scanned it really tiny because I think there’s less chance I’ll get sued for copyright, its some piece about a spider crab that was rescued from being steamed as some freak’s dinner and is now in an aquarium or something…. Yeah I know, I don’t care either. Why? Because aside from freaks that actually keep pet tarantulas (seriously, people that do own tarantulas ought to be locked up without evidence, having a pet tarantula should be indication enough that you’re clearly a psychopath. Better now than before it’s too late… off topic) But yeah, who wants a whopping great picture of a spider crab waving itself in their faces at seven AM? I’m not the type to complain with regards to taste. I am one of the people who says when people complain to Ofcom about tasteless programming “well watch something else then”, it is the same in this situation. “Well don’t read the Metro then Stuart”. However I’m complaining about this because its an instance of The Metro editors really not understanding their target audience. The News is bleak. We know this. Watch any rolling news channel for long enough and you will want to cry until your body can’t produce tears anyone and has to use surplus piss and semen your body has leftover as moisture. “HE KILLED EIGHTY SIX PEOPLE BEFORE SHOOTING HIMSELF” “WOMAN OF 23 WAS GANG RAPED ON HOLIDAY” “KILLER TERMITES NESTED IN ATTIC FOR YEARS, KILLED 8 CHILDREN” and stuff like that. By definition a newspaper has to include important stuff like this, but at seven in the morning, you need to talk down to people and get them feeling calm and relaxed and ready for work. When you’ve just woken up you can barely comprehend words that have more than one syllable. Morning Newspapers shouldn’t really be Newspapers, they should be visual hugs that make you feel like the day will actually be okay for a change. Appropriate reading material for the train should include Noddy and Spot the Dog but we’re all too embarrassed to admit that that’s what we’d prefer to be reading on our way to work. A morning newspaper has to cater for grumpy people who’ve just woken up and have trouble digesting information on top of especially creepy crawly images like this one. It’s a common problem with The Metro; it seems to think people are interested in these things at seven AM. A couple of weeks ago there was a story about a drunk student who stir fried his roommate’s hamster, not content to chill sleepy grumpy bastards with something like that, they actually had a picture of the poor little squished hamster in the frying pan. You don’t do this to tired grumpy people about to go to work, you just don’t fucking do it. Midday maybe, after seven is fine, weekends are okay but not when you’re the only free available reading material there to comfort tired people about to go to work. The ideal morning newspaper for depressed miserable commuters would include the obvious big news, the budget, death, politics etc because that’s what a newspaper is for, but ideally a morning newspaper would be peppered with about six or seven articles like this: There, congrats, you’ve just made a miserable office worker feel a bit nicer on his way to work by thinking about cute little puppies. I mean obviously actual journalists would be more creative than this, this is just an example. The Metro does do this occasionally and publishes cutesy nice stuff. In the next page after the Spider Crab thing they had this picture of a cute little hamster that got stuck in a pipe or something: D’aww, just look at his lickle face d’aww… But what I’m saying is to market well to your chosen demographic: tired grumpy commuters, what you really should be doing is filtering out anything that will make them feel more alone and miserable and make their skin crawl, and say change your name to “The Everything’s Alright” and publish a daily newspaper consisting of nice bits of news instead. I guarantee you will get much more respect from commuters in the long run. A lady somewhere is organizing a bake sale for the Girl Guides, a blind kid has been given a Seeing Eye dog for his birthday, stuff like that. Not this Spider Crab shit cause I’ve no idea who the hell wants that on their way to work. Posted in Metroblog Not Sponsored by the MetroTagged blackpool, commute, cute, first capital connect, interest, journalism, morning, morning news, newspaper, press, puppies, reporting, spider crabs, spidercrab, standards, stories, tabloids, The metro, trainLeave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4979
__label__cc	0.712972	0.287028	« “Persistent metabolic youth in the aging female brain”?? Junk science and fake news: Similarities and differences » Chow and Greenland: “Unconditional Interpretations of Statistics” Zad Chow writes: I think your readers might find this paper [“To Aid Statistical Inference, Emphasize Unconditional Descriptions of Statistics,” by Greenland and Chow] interesting. It’s a relatively short paper that focuses on how conventional statistical modeling is based on assumptions that are often in the background and dubious, such as the presence of some random mechanism and the absence of systematic errors, protocol violations, and data corruption. We try to emphasize that the lack of discussion of these assumptions and their possible violations may fool people into thinking that statistics can offer more than what it actually can, and so, we should lower our expectations of these assumptions and try to interpret results in an unconditional way. So far, the response to the discussion has been positive, with most individuals exclaiming that there are few discussions about these hidden assumptions that we often assume to be true when utilizing certain statistical methods. I’m a big fan of assumps (see, for example, here and here). It’s also good to recognize which of these assumps are important, as often attention is drawn to the more visible or quantitative but less important assumptions underlying our methods. Greenland and Chow’s paper on unconditional inference is interesting. Unconditional inference is hard to do, in part because you have to define the relevant population or distribution or reference set to average over. Here’s an example where Houshmand Shirani-Mehr, David Rothschild, Sharad Goel, and I attempted to perform unconditional inference from pre-election polls. Andrew: I regard the unconditional interpretation as essential for decent stat interpretation in anything noticeably less than perfectly executed experiments… Fortunately, at least in my concept of common sense, I found what I call unconditional inference easier than conditional inference, once I got used to it. Now that did involve untraining myself from the usual conditional-inference formalism pounded into us by mathematical theories of statistics. By pure logic, all math stat can do is provide inferences of the form “if you assume all this [whence follows a massive string of assumptions, which the math manages to boil down to an innocent-looking formula or system] then here’s a test statistic T and a reference distribution F(t) for it derived from that big black bag of assumptions, with T sensitive to (optimized for) violations of a particular subset of assumptions, given the rest.” – Using those kind of conditionals to create a real-world decision (like deciding what to say the study “showed”) throws on a layer of contextual complexity in research reporting that isn’t formalized in any adequate way. No surprise then that mechanical statistical decisions often look unsound upon checking them against the full scope of available information. The challenge we have to face is that there will nonetheless be those who attempt to curtail reasoning for inference due to having limited resources to deploy on a topic, and yet who want to appear to deliver confident claims in very uncertain situations. In my areas I usually see these reasoning curtailments (like equating conventional NHST to rational decision-making) in service of a loss function that assigns much higher costs to what the promoters would call false positives than what they would call false negatives, for a myriad of reasons ranging from ideologic investments in nullistic philosophies to direct financial motivations (e.g., avoiding admissions of liability) and more. There are of course those with opposite stakes, but the focus of statistics on NHST puts them at a baseline disadvantage. I believe that upsetting this particular distribution of power is what has struck fear in the hearts of committed NHST practitioners and defenders like Ioannidis. Of course this fear is presented as fear of being flooded with false positives. But, as Rothman noted long ago, there is a methodology that prevents all false positives and all false negatives: Stop dichotomizing your inferences – and in particular, stop dichotomizing P-values. To which many have added: Stop computing P-values only for nulls; also give them for alternatives. More generally, instead of decisions, supply measures of evidence in the data about possible data explanations, taking into account any and all information one has about the study context (which hopefully is quite a lot). It turns out the lowly P-value is one of the simplest starting measures, showing the point at which the data fell at along a particular direction in observation space (the direction in which the test statistic T varies) within the reference distribution F(t) used to compute the P-value. That P-value is deduced from all the assumptions, including the tested hypothesis and the background model in which it is embedded. That embedding (background) model comprises every other assumption from linearity (obvious when assumed) to no P-hacking to no data tampering (always assumed, rarely mentioned). In causal terms, that model assumes the test statistic arose only from “controlled” extraneous effects which merged in a known way with random error. But the model actually says nothing about why the statistic fell where it did, e.g., it does not and cannot say P was small (or large) because the effect you were examining was present (or absent), or because of biases (systematic errors) assumed absent by the model, or because of random noise as per the model, or because of data tampering, or all these and more. To claim otherwise is just an inversion fallacy (confusing premises with conclusions). Any explanation for the distance between the data and full model has to come from mechanical, physical, causal models for the actual data generation, and will be conditioned on those models. That’s what I mean when I say the (perhaps too succinctly) the reference distribution for a null P-value assumes “no treatment effect or bias” – in epidemiology, “bias” is any deviation from the assumed reference distributions produced by failure of the background (embedding) model assumptions. Those assumption failures are among the causes of the observations. That includes everything outside the model, which can be viewed as systematic errors from model misspecification – with the latter including erroneous sampling models and erroneous (misinformed) prior distributions. To restate this view in terms I think resembling yours: The reference distribution comes from a partially specified data model (i.e., a model family) that combines in a formula a random-number generator with some data information (e.g., observed covariate values). For a P-value, the specification just has to determine a reference distribution F(t) for a test statistic T, not for the entire data; then the upper and lower P-values F(T) and 1-F(T) will be approximately uniform under that distribution (within limits imposed by discreteness of T). [Yes there are sometimes technical issues in doing that, but fequentist math stats has addressed those issues well beyond the data and models I encountered in any of my collaborations.] We can then say a valid P-value (one uniformly distributed under the test model – you call those U-values) gives the percentile at which the test statistic fell in the reference distribution deduced from the specified data-model family. That interpretation was discussed by Perezgonzalez (2015; see our citations), and I think it creates a fair analogy between P-values and where students fall on “standardized” college admission tests like the SAT. The S-value or surprisal s = log(1/p) is then just a “standardized” measure of information distance between the data and the model that can be equated to data from a simple thought experiment. The information deconstruction of the P-value and the more geometrical S-value I think makes clearer that both are relational measure between data and models, meaning: They don’t know or care if the model is just some naive off-the-shelf nonsense default in your software, or some Bayesian betting scheme (whether well or ill informed), or has instead been carefully deduced from the physical mechanisms that produced the data. Nor do they care if the data were tampered with to get P over or under 0.05, or were actually generated from a neutral mechanism you know in every relevant detail down to its exact propensities (e.g., a simple randomizer coupled with a classic ANOVA design with no loss or censoring). They are just measures of discrepancy between the data and model; only context can provide plausible causal explanations of their size, and apportion those between “data problems” and “model problems”. The unconditional interpretation eliminates that last distinction by apportioning everything to “model problems”, thus logically conditioning on the data – as in: Here’s the data and a long list of possible explanations for them; if you want to choose among them, supply more evidence. With that interpretation, the refutational status of P-values is made clear by the fact that they cannot in any way imply the test model is correct if we don’t assume that the embedding model is correct (as one should never assume in my applications for more than a brief moment; I do believe it’s the same story in your applications). Thank you Sander Greeenland for the clear presentation here and in the linked paper. It makes a lot of sense. I’m just wondering if the notion that researchers cling to statistical significance as a reflection of truth isn’t a bit of a straw man. In epidemiology/health at least I don’t see that happening, and discussions of possible bias, confounding, direction of causality, data quality etc take up most of the discussions. A fair example is the JAMA paper on antidepressants taken by pregnant mothers and autism is children that you comment on in the linked paper. Even though there is too much emphasis on a “non-significant” hazard ratio of 1.6 (with a confidence interval that starts at 0.997), the authors do not really present this as “evidence of absence” and discuss a variety of mechanisms that may explain the observed results. They conclude by “Although a causal relationship cannot be ruled out, the previously observed association may be explained by other factors”. Another example is the GRADE system for rating evidence; it’s not just about significance. The limitation of the current state of things is that many people treat the numerical result (point estimate, CI, p) and the validity of the model as though they were separate issues, whereas you provide an integrated view. Thomas said, “A fair example is the JAMA paper on antidepressants taken by pregnant mothers and autism is children that you comment on in the linked paper.” Do you mean, “autism in children”? yes, typo, apologies Thanks Thomas… “In epidemiology/health at least” is in my experience more like “at most”. I do think epidemiology (or at least Epidemiology) is well ahead of most fields because of all the disrespect it has had to address due to its nonexperimental base. I thus agree epidemiology is probably least in need of our article; in fact, our article can be seen as a formal expression of what has long been good practice in the field. But our article was written for all fields and audiences, not for epidemiology. In the wider world, the take-home message promoted by stat primers and practice is still that 0.05 (or the 95% CI) is magic; that the P-value is “the probability of any observed differences having happened by chance” (e.g., in “Medical Statistics Made Easy” 2008 ed., p. 24-25, and repeated in a JAMA editorial last year; see our 2016 TAS paper explaining why that is completely wrong); and worst of all that P-values and CIs have “objective” contextual meaning apart from any we imbue them with. Take the Brown et al. article: The only statement in their abstract’s Conclusion was that they observed no association, made in the face of an elevation statistically indistinguishable from the 3 previous studies they cited. “No effect” is then what was trumpeted by research news outlets like Medscape, whose April 21, 2017 headline about the article was “Antidepressants in Pregnancy: No Link to Autism, ADHD”; its first sentence was “Use of antidepressants before and during pregnancy does not cause autism or ADHD, new research shows.” They then quote Vigod (the interviewed author of Brown et al.) as claiming the study “no longer found an increased risk” after adjustments. All these headlines and leads are sheer fabrications relative to the actual data showed, enabled by getting the null barely inside their final CI (using an inefficient adjustment method, BTW). So no, I don’t buy that “the authors do not really present this as “evidence of absence””. Yes they did, after burying due cautions within the text (all the more evidence of their null bias). Then too, examples abound in the health and med lit without clear bias or buried due cautions, driven solely by 0.05 or 95% CI. They are found even in epidemiology journals (even if not in Epidemiology; for an example see Greenland S. A serious misinterpretation of a consistent inverse association of statin use with glioma. Eur J Epidemiol 2017;32: 87-88. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10654-016-0205-z). Those kind experiences are why, when I see “straw man” comments, it reminds me that some readers (chiefly those with strong methodology interests) have become seriously detached from the statistical and political realities in the broader world of everyday research, focusing instead on a highly sophisticated but narrow subsegment of the literature. Some even become blind to the problems in papers they read, filling in a choirboy defense when all the evidence on the page points to manipulation of reporting to foregone conclusions, aided by P-hacking (exploring the “Garden of Forking Paths”) to get above or below the magic 0.05 cutoff (depending on the conclusion the authors want to be true). I believe this kind of denial is why statistics remains a leading contributor to bad science instead of the preventive it was supposed to be. Adan Becerra says: Sander, Thank you for the summaries. As an epidemiologist I agree with you that we are ahead of most fields with regards to these topics, but I still found the piece useful since it is one good source that puts it all together for us. I am particularly intrigued by your comment above re: “Any explanation for the distance between the data and full model has to come from mechanical, physical, causal models for the actual data generation” Agree- If you’re interested in explanation, statistical models are often meaningless without a causal model (i.e. directed acyclic graphs). I think this is why epi is ahead. We spend a lot of time thinking about statistical assumptions/interpretations because we spend even more time developing our causal models and explicitly stating our assumptions and the relationships between all of the variables with each other. Identification. In fact the statistical assumptions are often driven by the causal assumptions. I choose a statistical model by looking at the DAG I drew and seeing what model best answers that question. And I also think epi is ahead because we are very much aware of dangers with common p value fallacies and misinterpretations. Also things like Table 1, Table 2 fallacy which I am sure you know of :) Next steps I think would be to develop DAGs or other tools to be able to identify the best functional form of variables. Even epi often suffers from unreal assumptions such as that our models have been not been mispecified paramtetricaly. This might be one reason why folks are moving to Targeted maximum likelihood estimation and longitudinal targeted maximum likelihood estimation which combines power of DAGs with nonparametric models that can overcome many assumptions. But cant speak of the performance of these myself. Haven’t tried them. Happy with gformula and mgformula. Next steps in DAG theory would be Did this get cut off? I did an oops and didnt delete it. Adan: I agree with that nice general overview you gave of why epi is ahead on the causal aspects of inference, especially causation of bias (which applies even if the target is noncausal, as in causes of nonresponse and misresponse to a simple voter-preference survey). Maybe though not so far ahead on the foundations of statistical inference. Here’s an example of a study with two top pharmacoepidemiologic statisticians (one a leading researcher in causal modeling) on the author list: The abstract states “PDE5-I use was not associated with an overall increased risk of melanoma (rates: 66.7 vs 54.1 per 100 000 person-years; HR: 1.18; 95% CI, 0.95–1.47)” then concludes with a one-sentence Patient Summary: “In this study, the use of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors was not associated with an increased risk of melanoma skin cancer.” – That’s just false: There was after adjustment an estimated 18% higher rate among users, with the CI ranging from a 5% decrease to a 47% increase. How does that result “indicate that use is not associated with melanoma”? (as stated at the start of the paper’s Conclusion). Well it doesn’t. Like the other examples mentioned here, the association was examined because it had been seen in earlier studies (the estimate was not from fishing), and the verbal claims are just another example of the fallacy decried in item 6 of TAS supplement 1 to the 1996 ASA Statement on P-values. [Notably, their claims were often followed by an admission that elevated risks were seen at higher dose categories.] As for DAGs, I don’t see how they could be used as you have in mind and haven’t seen what I’d call high-impact developments in DAGs for decades, but maybe some will yet be found. TML is great in concept but the versions I’ve looked at seemed like big-data procedures with all the usual black-bag of strong assumptions needed to create target identification, which in epi jargon is “no uncontrolled bias” (from selection, confounders, measurement errors, data tampering, etc.). With enough data TML may (under a conventional statistical metric) more accurately adapt to the observational association structure predicted by a causal model, making it a good tool to have. And I think it’s one of many good perspectives on effect estimation to have available. But it’s not addressing the problems at the top of my list, which are really only addressable through design features for bias control (of which baseline cohort matching is a primal example). Other thing I would add is that the quality of epidemiological studies/papers published in journals like JAMA and journals like Epidemiology or IJE is vastly different, with the former often being very low in quality. My issue with the latter, which tends to focus more on things like measurement and bias, compared to the former, is that they’ve become dogmatic about the usage of P-values and put too much faith in interval estimates. Of course, I think a more nuanced take is necessary with the acknowledgement that P-values and interval estimates, when interpreted unconditionally, can be very useful https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2013/01000/Living_with_P_Values__Resurrecting_a_Bayesian.9.aspx The “unconditional interpretation” seems to just be the correct interpretation. Basically, you can only falsify the conjunction of all the assumptions that went into deriving your model. People want to put all the emphasis on one assumption about the value of a parameter such as mu = 0, which is wrong. This is covered by Paul Meehl here: Meehl, P. E. (1997). The problem is epistemology, not statistics: Replace significance tests by confidence intervals and quantify accuracy of risky numerical predictions. In L. L. Harlow, S. A. Mulaik, & J.H. Steiger (Eds.), What if there were no significance tests? (pp. 393-425). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/meehl.dl.umn.edu/files/169problemisepistemology.pdf I think you are getting close, but people will ask what to do with data they collected like “the difference between treatment and control was x (+/- d)”. You won’t have a satisfactory answer. The next step is to realize you shouldn’t be collecting that type of data to begin with. You need to collect data that lets you distinguish between different possible explanations. Nick Adams says: Sander, I was interested in this : “To which many have added: Stop computing P-values only for nulls; also give them for alternatives.” I have heard you mention P-values for alternatives several times before but have not come across any other references to this (quite obvious) idea. Here’s my take on it: http://arXiv:1806.02419 Your link is broken. You forgot the .com/abs/, but for others, here’s the correct link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02419 Your link doesn’t work, but the eventual next step is p-values only for “alternatives”. I guess this is it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02419 Nick: The idea of computing P-values for or tests of alternatives can be found in many places including ones we cite in our companion paper at among them Birnbaum 1961, Neyman 1977, Poole 1987, and Modern Epidemiology (Rothman Greenland Lash 2008) Ch. 10. Unfortunately in your use of “S-value” in your arXiv preprint for likelihood support is different from our use for the Shannon (surprisal) transform of the P-value, s = -log(p). We’ll just have to mind that. The relation between likelihood and P-value based measures is discussed a bit and illustrated in figures in the appendix of our companion paper. One reason some prefer P-value based measures is that they can be defined with much less model specification than needed for a classical likelihood function (just enough is needed to identify the reference distribution for the test statistic, not the whole data), and have an absolute unconditional interpretation as well as the usual conditional ones. In contrast, likelihoods must condition on an embedding model, within which they have only relative interpretations. To the extent one would trust such a model, that is not a fatal objection: In that model, P-values may bound posterior probabilities while likelihood ratios can map prior to posterior odds under the model. As many before me have advocated, I see the two approaches as somewhat complementary modeling tools, with uniform (valid) P-values providing elementary checks on models (as opposed to more sophisticated checks like residual and influence plots), and likelihood ratios or Bayes factors (which are built from likelihood functions) providing elementary model comparisons (as opposed to more sophisticated comparisons, like of predictive accuracy). This world isn’t big enough for two S-values. There can only be one… Carlos Ungil says: Nick, your clinical significance support level (S-value), equivalent to the value of (1-p) when the null hypothesis is set equal to the minimum clinically significant effect size, is what Deborah Mayo would call the severity with which the claim “the effect size is larger than the MCSES” passes the test of the original null hypothesis of zero effect. Thanks. You’re right, and clever to pick this up. I (foolishly) didn’t realise support is the same 1-p when I wrote it 2 years ago. I left the paper on arXiv despite it’s many flaws but maybe I should edit it (severely). Basically, with a lot of useless effort, I worked out the inverse of Wilk’s theorem from first principles without even knowing it. Despite reading a lot of Mayo’s work I am still not sure what severity is but I’ll take your word for it. Carlos and Nick: Isn’t severity taking a 1-sided p at the alternative, whereas most users are taking the 2-sided p at the null? The mismatch there never made any sense to me; it seemed to come from some analogy with power calculations, which are on our 2016 blacklist as analysis tools (as opposed to design tools). Instead, for any sense of comparability I would want the same type of P-value at all the tested hypotheses (all 2-sided, or else all 1-sided in the same direction). I would say that the one-tailed test is the “correct” one in many practical cases, when we are interested in finding an effect only to the extent that it goes in the right direction. You cannot “unprescribe” pills to patients (but I guess that in other cases the intervention can go in either direction and any effect could be useful). Regarding the consistency issue, it’s true that if the p-value for the two-sided alternative “mu greater than or less than 0” is 0.04 the severity or support for the “mu greater than 0” is 0.98. But is anyone going to compare different metrics? However, when comparing two p-values consistency is important. When the significance threshold is, for better or worse, fixed at p=0.05 it’s difficult to use one-sided tests when two-sided tests are the standard. The use of one-sided tests is seen with suspicion (and rightly so in many cases). Christian Hennig says: Interesting. I think that to some extent I have always interpreted p-values unconditionally (in Greenland & Chow’s terms), because this is what makes sense to me, and it seems that some people wouldn’t get why I was defending them because they would be conditioned so strongly on thinking “conditionally” that they wouldn’t get what I meant by “computation of the p-value doesn’t assume that all these things in fact hold in reality, rather it compares what we observe in reality with an artificial model that makes all these assumptions” (including the better hidden ones). Now I’d like to add one thing, which is that I wouldn’t quite agree to the statement that a small p-value does not indicate which assumption is wrong. True, it can’t be pined down precisely, there will normally be alternative plausible explanations. But at least we shouldn’t forget that the test statistic is constructed to highlight deviations from the null hypothesis of a particular kind, for example mean differences, deviations from expected cell frequencies and the like. I agree that it’d be wrong to say this-or-that alternative is confirmed as true because the null is rejected, but at least one can say that the test indicates not only that the null is implausible, but also that the mean difference is larger than expected than under the null, or that the cell probabilities deviate Maybe pinpointing which one in particular etc.). That’s modest but better than nothing, I’d say. It may at least rule out some potential issues with assumptions (i.e., deviations from the null) from causing the small p. Another thing is that the compatibility interpretation of confidence regions looks very much like Laurie Davies’s adequate approximation, see here https://www.crcpress.com/Data-Analysis-and-Approximate-Models-Model-Choice-Location-Scale-Analysis/Davies/p/book/9781482215861 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9574.1995.tb01464.x One nice thing of Davies’s approach is that the data analyst can specify multiple “data features” (or test statistics) to see what models/parameters are adequate in various ways (such as mean, variance, skewness, (non)-existence of outliers etc.), including the possibility that for a chosen model (say normal) no parameter value at all is adequate. Christian: Yes, I find the unconditional interpretation is indeed what the (apparently elite) corp of P-defenders like me, you, Senn and Stark come down to at the end of a long road of experience and thinking. But we do have to recognize our own tendency to “recondition”, as I think you are doing when you say “I wouldn’t quite agree to the statement that a small p-value does not indicate which assumption is wrong. True, it can’t be pinned down precisely, there will normally be alternative plausible explanations. But…” – Sorry, there are no “buts” in unconditional logic, none at all: A “very small” p only conveys that there is “a lot” of information against the tested model in the direction being measured, at least s = -log_2(p) bits. It says nothing at all about which assumptions in that model are wrong. And I mean nothing, zero: Remember that it does not even exclude that someone tampered with the data to make sure we got that small a P-value (as Fisher concluded happened with Mendel’s data, using the lower tail of the fit statistic to measure “too good a fit”). Any statement with information content beyond “the data are at the top 100p’th percentile of distance from the model” or “the data are s bits away from the model” (in the tested direction) is from conditioning on assumptions beyond the P-value’s scope, like that there was no tampering. And any pinpointing means that you are now examining deviations within a more narrow manifold (maybe a along a line) than used in the original fit test, and thus going beyond the original P-value’s scope or target. As Senn has eloquently complained, the problem with P-values and tests based on them is that they convey very limited information, and yet are so ubiquitous and expected (even demanded) that everyone tries to wring far more meaning out of them than they can logically bear. These treatments are blind to the fact that a P-value is just a syntactic (deductive) information summary that cannot be given a real-world interpretation without semantic information bearing on the model from which it was derived (like a causal model for bias sources). But then, no statistic can be given a real-world interpretation without semantic information bearing on the model from which it was derived. That fact reveals how a lot of P-bashing is railing against the projections people put on P-values. Where those bashings most go off the rails for me is when they say researchers want posterior probabilities, so everyone should replace frequentist with Bayesian stats – not recognizing that Bayes supplies posterior probabilities only at a big cost in what may be dubious assumptions (the first principle of scientific reasoning we should teach is the NFLP = no-free-lunch principle). Regarding Davies, the book link was broken but I’ve seen his articles. To the extent I understand at the moment (not much I admit): P-values and their transforms don’t contain enough information to allow them to serve as measures of approximation quality (AQ) in any practical sense. To think otherwise is just the long lamented confusion of “statistical significance” with practical significance (already being complained about by 1919, before Fisher hit big). Thus, for AQ one has to turn to features that include real-world quality components like failure rates, costs, etc. So, it’s great to have a theory that provides AQ measures based on contextually relevant features. I’d just ask those who favor the Davies theory to describe how it provides such relevant AQ measures. My wording wasn’t meant to imply anything more than what you call “in the direction being measured”. I just say that we learn some more keeping the direction in mind rather than just “p=0.0002”. I agree however that what we learn isn’t anything precise about what assumption caused this. …like for example, p=0.0002 in a one-sided t-test can indicate any issue that may cause the mean of group 1 (say) too large related to the pooled variance (i.e., for example it may mean that the variance is too low because of ignored autocorrelation, apart from group 1 having indeed a larger expectated value), but it surely does not indicate the opposite (such as outliers causing the variance to be too large). For me, the problem with p values and frequentists stats is that they distract people from doing science and instead focus people on constructing surrogates for science. We know ahead of time that numbers collected in observational or experimental studies don’t come from random number generators. RNGs are very specially constructed algorithms that must pass stringent requirements. Sure in randomized experiments they are used, but also randomized experiments are never so simple, non-compliance and soforth being real factors, but more than that… scientific measurements come from physical processes in the world that follow regularities. The job of science is to discover these regularities. p values and classical stats lull people into the idea that you can ignore the hard work of building descriptive models of regularity, and focus instead on pretending the world is random. And the worst part is people are lulled into pretending the world is random with a known stable shape to the histogram… I have no problem with Christians interpretation of p values as telling us that a model was inadequate, but I just think we shouldn’t be constructing models we know are inadequate to begin with and then acting surprised if they give small p values… and this seems to be the primary actual use for p values. an example of a good use of p values is to collect a bunch of information in a context of stable measurements, construct a model of the measurements using this sample, and then use the model to detect when unusual events happen and Mark them for further study. Here we expect the model to be adequate because it’s built on substantial data, the shape of the distribution can be estimated, stability can be assessed… etc. This is typical of say quality control, or earthquake detection, or satellite reconnaissance or whatever. The reason I advocate Bayesian methods is because I’m really advocating thoughtful model construction which I see as the job of scientists. When Sander talks about “dubious model assumptions” I think this is where people take their old way of doing things and bolt on a sample from a posterior distribution… without the thoughtful model construction Bayes is just same shit different day. With the thoughtful models, Bayes offers the right interpretation, but p values give a way to assess model misfit, so as with any model we might have reason to trust, a p value becomes a useful tool, just like in the frequency violation detection examples such as quality control. I just think we shouldn’t be constructing models we know are inadequate to begin with and then acting surprised if they give small p values… and this seems to be the primary actual use for p values. Exactly. And as usual, this point was already made long ago: The usual application of statistics in psychology consists of testing a “null hypothesis” that the investigator hopes is false. For example, he tests the hypothesis that the experimental group is the same as the control group even though he has done his best to make them perform differently.Then a “significant” difference is obtained which shows that the data do not agree with the hypothesis tested. The experimenter is then pleased because he has shown that a hypothesis he didn’t believe, isn’t true. Having found a “significant difference,” the more important next step should not be neglected. Namely, formulate a hypothesis that the scientist does believe and show that the data do not differ significantly from it. This is an indication that the newer hypothesis may be regarded as true. A definite scientific advance has been achieved. Mathematical Solutions for Psychological Problems. Harold Gulliksen. American Scientist, Vol. 47, No. 2 (June 1959), pp. 178-201. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27827302 I have no problems whatsoever with thoughtful model building where the required information is available. Nobody in their right mind would say that this shouldn’t be done and stupid straw man null hypotheses should be tested instead. However in many areas such information is very weak or non-existing and even if it exist, its translation into a proper model is highly nontrivial. And then somebody may come and run a test and show that the data can actually not be distinguished from independent data generated by a Normal(0,1). So where does that leave the sophisticated modeller? Obviously one then shouldn’t claim that the data are indeed N(0,1), but neither can they serve as evidence for anything more sophisticated… Furthermore, misinterpreting data because of ignoring existing autocorrelation and violations of other “hidden assumptions” can happen in a Bayesian framework just as easily as in a frequentist one. I wouldn’t think that your major argument for a Bayesian approach is that it is more intimidating, so that people with limited enough understanding to do all kinds of nonsense won’t touch it and rather do p-values (with all the implications that we see)? My expectation still is that if ever Bayesian methods gain the same popularity that p-values currently have among non-statisticians, we will see the same levels of Bayesian nonsense as we see p-nonsense these days. And then somebody may come and run a test and show that the data can actually not be distinguished from independent data generated by a Normal(0,1). People only collect data like this because they want to do NHST, then they try to do something useful with it and discover they can’t. The mistake is already made by collected poorly informative data. By poorly informative I mean it does not help distinguish between various models of how it was generated. And the normal distribution is just another theory derived from certain assumptions, ie a series of independent additive events like seen in a Galton board. At the very least you should be measuring how the process changes over time. Almost everything in real life is cyclical. How data is collected is one thing, what their distribution looks like is quite another. The pure fact that data are indistinguishable from N(0,1) doesn’t tell you anything about the quality of data collection. You never know, maybe I have tested for process changes over time and haven’t found any (and neither would you, looking at the same data)? You’re making a lot of assumptions about a hypothetical example that doesn’t even come with a real story… However in many areas such information is very weak or non-existing and even if it exist, its translation into a proper model is highly nontrivial. And then somebody may come and run a test and show that the data can actually not be distinguished from independent data generated by a Normal(0,1). So where does that leave the sophisticated modeller? The pure fact that data are indistinguishable from N(0,1) doesn’t tell you anything about the quality of data collection. The fact that you would do such a “test” tells us your data is univariate and no one predicted any particular value for the mean though. There is not much insight to be gained from such info, but it does have utility in predicting what values you are likely to see in the future (even if only giving you some idea of the order of magnitude). >..show that the data can actually not be distinguished from independent data generated by a Normal(0,1). So where does that leave the sophisticated modeller? Suppose I am listening to a HAM radio, there is a lot of static, and then very faintly in the background is the sound of someone saying “hello hello can anyone hear me?” If I sample this data at 44100 Hz (like typical CD quality audio) and I take 1 second of sample, and test to see if the samples come from a uniform normal random number generator, I will not be able to reject this hypothesis because the vast majority of the power is in static… Does this mean the person isn’t talking? If I have a model of english speech and run a filter on this sound I can pull out very clearly and distinctly the words “hello hello can anyone hear me” but if I have a model for Pashto speech I don’t pull out words at all… if I run a model of many different languages I get mostly no signal, but a few languages related to English pull out some slightly garbled words… Is this or is it not evidence that someone is speaking English with a massive amount of noise over it? Anyone can make bad models and fit them with Bayes. But to make the kind of models I’m discussing and fit them well, I have not seen anything nearly as effective as Bayes for fitting. Since the models I’m talking about don’t assume randomness of the type described by say Per Martin-Lof or Kolmogorov (ie. sequences that pass tests of randomness) it’s not possible to apply Frequency statistics to the models. It is, however, possible to apply plausibility calculus, which turns out to have the same math but describe a different “information” phenomenon instead of “repeatable random” phenomenon. Daniel, re: “the problem with p values and frequentists stats is that they distract people from doing science and instead focus people on constructing surrogates for science.” My response is: No they don’t. Blaming the tools is an example of a social mind-projection fallacy. What distracts people is the social expectation and demand (e.g., read JAMA’s instructions to authors) that p-values be misused for purposes that they are not sufficient for, like deciding what results to report, and whether to report “no association was observed” or something else. You yourself close by noting that P-values can be used for model checking; I presume you would add that they are but primitive first steps in that direction (although a few P-values or a CI will often give you all the bad news about lack of data information). So surely we agree an integrated toolkit approach is warranted. Toward that end it might even be healthy to stop thinking in terms of “frequentist” and “Bayesian” as anything more than labels for an antiquated dichotomy that would be best replaced by talking and teaching about tools for data description, information merging, prediction, calibration, decision, and more (including tools developed outside that deceptive dichotomy, like EDA, pure likelihood, etc.). For decades I’ve advocated incorporation of Bayesian viewpoints (at least a few of the 46,656 kinds) and tools into basic teaching. But I don’t think they are sufficient or can displace frequentist viewpoints. To my alarm, there are those who do so, failing to accept that most every misuse of frequentist stats maps right over to a misuse of Bayesian stats, often in a more pernicious form. That’s because the problem is not one of philosophy or math but of human and social propensities – like to fabricate certainty where none can be had on scientific (logical-empirical) grounds, or to hack analyses to ensure that desired conclusions look like they were reached on scientific grounds, or just to get published (happy with any important-sounding conclusion that can be presented as if a consequence of the study, even when there is none to be had). Bayesian “inference” is every bit as (if not more) easy to game to these goals as frequentist “inference” because it provides an extra garden of forking paths in the form of a joint prior distribution. And when defaults are imposed to prevent prior gaming, the consequences are often gross distortions paralleling those from the defaults (like 0.05) used to prevent gaming of frequentist “inference.” That’s especially so when the defaults are contextually nonsensical (like most apps I see with flat, reference, spiked, or independence priors). It’s no surprise that Bayesian apps look no better or worse to me than frequentist apps conducted at the same level of contextual depth, honesty, and technical competence (or at the same level of shallowness, deceit, and incompetence). That’s because its those human psychosocial factors that are pivotal to statistics and its endless crises and abuse in research. Those factors arise in every step of research from planning to publishing, involving incentives and demands of funding agencies, reviewers, and editors with their own goals and (often perverse) incentives. That means we should be seeking mitigation by studying the social psychology of inference (not “philosophy of statistics”) and effective ways of getting valid information out of studies. The only aspect of this human-factor problem I am addressing (or may be qualified to address) is the notion that some mathematical convolution of data with a model (whether a P-value or a CI or a posterior probability) is responsible for or can do much in such a vast, complex, psychosocial minefield. Sander said, “Daniel, re: “the problem with p values and frequentists stats is that they distract people from doing science and instead focus people on constructing surrogates for science.” My response is: No they don’t. Blaming the tools is an example of a social mind-projection fallacy. What distracts people is the social expectation and demand (e.g., read JAMA’s instructions to authors) that p-values be misused for purposes that they are not sufficient for, like deciding what results to report, and whether to report “no association was observed” or something else. “ This seems to be looking at something from an “either/or” perspective when what fits is a “both/and” perspective. For example, what drives JAMA’s instructions to authors? Is it not in large part too much focus on constructing surrogates for science, and not enough focus on doing good science? “For example, what drives JAMA’s instructions to authors?” That’s a very good question. Here are their latest reporting guidelines for randomized controlled trials. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2748772 One notable excerpt: “For instance, recently there has been rekindling of the debate about the use of the term “significance” and reporting of P values based on statistical testing when reporting findings from clinical trials (and other types of studies).6 Some have advocated removing the term “significance” from descriptions of the results of clinical trials, simply providing effect sizes, generally with 95% confidence intervals, and allowing the authors (and readers and others) to use some other approach to interpret whether the observed findings are likely to represent a true effect vs a sampling error, as well as whether the effect size is important. These arguments acknowledge that the most commonly used significance threshold of .05 represents a historical tradition rather than a rationally established cut point. Others have continued to advocate for describing results of clinical trials in terms of statistical significance, in part because of the need for a starting point in discussion; decisions that are made by regulatory bodies, such as the US Food and Drug Administration, which are generally dichotomous; and the need to assist clinicians and patients in their interpretation and operationalization of clinical trial results.” It’s funny that they mention the FDA to backup the usage of decision making based on statistical significance, especially when there is no actual evidence that the FDA put that much thought into adopting the paradigm when they first did, “However, there is nothing that any of the authors of this report can find, after diligent review of Congressional hearings and documents or the FDA archives, that discusses or debates the level of evidence needed for drug approval or the standard by which that evidence is judged. Thus, the acceptance of fundamental concepts for what constitutes adequate, well-controlled investigations—use of placebo, blinding and randomization—that we take for granted today, were heavily debated 50 years ago. While these trial design characteristics are accepted today as the gold standard for generating credible evidence, the acceptable level of statistical evidence (p < 0.05) was, AND STILL IS, just a matter of tradition and convenience." Martha: You asked “what drives JAMA’s instructions to authors? Is it not in large part too much focus on constructing surrogates for science, and not enough focus on doing good science?” – Yes, but why is such an (unjustifiably) prestigious journal dug into anti-science policies? As has been often said, it’s not the fault of P-values, which are just numbers that sit there. It’s complicated, but this is my caricature of the individual roles in it (you may see more than hint of Gigerenzer here): In their student days, researchers, editors, and their consultants and reviewers were taught superstitious science surrogates and ritualistic caricatures of statistical analysis. These superstitions imbue P-values with a totemic spirit force called “significance.” The future power players were then forced to use these superstitions and rituals to rise through the ranks. Consequently, the entire totemic system came to permeate their own work, and they used it to determine the fate of other works. This permeation made these player irreversibly invested in the system, to the point of spewing defensive double-talk like claiming (with arguments worthy of a president) that eliminating significance thresholds “will give bias a free pass,” when we have a century of literature about how those thresholds and the dichotomous thinking they feed are among the largest sources of distorted research reporting and statistics abuse. (There is also the dovetailing of these defenses with hidden sociopolitical agendas, e.g., fending off liability claims, as in the Brown et al. example.) What you are describing falls under the phrase, “That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It,” (TTWWADI, for short) that I have often used on this blog to describe many common practices in the use of statistics. Sander: I remember an academic that managed to immigrate to Canada from Soviet Russia back in frigid days of the cold war – he said something like – speaking freely and openly even in a closed academic meeting was something he would be struggling with for years. He compared it to walking with crutches due to a long injury and then not needing them – you still limp for a long time afterwards. Much of medicine seems to be based on politics, fads, and clickbait to me. Eg, the vaping scare the CDC is currently causing. They basically took: 1) An unexplained medical issue (idiopathic pneumonia) 2) A new yet very common behavior (vaping) Then linked the two to cause a scare. Look at the definition, basically any unexplained case of pneumonia in a person who vaped in the last 90 days gets called “confirmed vaping illness”[1]. Lets say the population at risk is primarily 15-40 year olds,[2] which is about 100 million people in the US.[3] Lets also say that about 30% of them vaped in the last 90 days.[4] Then we have about 1000 cases[2] per 30 million vapers or about 3/100k. Before vaping was a thing, the prevalence of just one type of idiopathic pneumonia was estimated at ~0.4 to 8 cases per 100k.[5] So there does not seem to be a meaningful increase in the symptoms, only in vaping. And anyway 3 per 100k is pretty low risk activity. For comparison, 50 per 100k die from some kind of accident.[6] So the average person is ~10x more likely to die from just going about their life than to even get a case of this pneumonia (~1000x for dying from it). Fine… disagree with the numbers which are all rough guesses. But why doesn’t the CDC present us with a common sense analysis like this? [1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease/health-departments/index.html#case-definitions [2] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Uspop.svg [4] https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/monitoring-future-survey-high-school-youth-trends [5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16088690 [6] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm >It’s no surprise that Bayesian apps look no better or worse to me than frequentist apps conducted at the same level of contextual depth, honesty, and technical competence (or at the same level of shallowness, deceit, and incompetence). That’s because its those human psychosocial factors that are pivotal to statistics and its endless crises and abuse in research. I agree with this perspective, and I’m sure that Bayes can be abused by people who want to continue conducting surrogate-science… The thing is, I don’t see how we can stop conducting surrogate science and start doing a good job of modeling regularity until we adopt the idea that once you have a model, the way to fit it and get probability out of it is to use Bayesian methods. non-surrogate models of the kind I’m advocating do not have frequency content because frequency properties imply that the universe has a mysterious kind of regularity that the universe doesn’t have. These models of regularity I recommend aren’t models of “how often x occurs in infinite trials” they are models of physics, chemistry, biology, human interaction, resource consumption, communications, etc therefore the kinds of questions that can be answered by frequency type tests fail to be useful as fitting tools etc. Can you calculate a Bayesian p value? Yes. If you fit a posterior to your process, you can then ask questions like “what is the probability that observed data would be at least as far away from predicted as we saw in this case?” This helps you notice things like “even in the region of good fitting parameters, we under-estimate how far away outliers can be” or the like. But the p value here is not answering a frequency question, it’s answering a “how implausible is this data if our model were true?” question. That we can calculate with frequencies using an RNG in our computer in order to calculate numbers is a happy coincidence, it does not describe what our Bayesian model thinks about the frequency in the long run of actual collected data. Daniel, re: “non-surrogate models of the kind I’m advocating do not have frequency content because frequency properties imply that the universe has a mysterious kind of regularity that the universe doesn’t have.” From my perspective that’s fine because it’s addressing the radical, repeated-sampling frequentism that Neyman espoused and most of American basic-stats adopted in his wake. You also come close to my point when you say the P-value is “answering a “how implausible is this data if our model were true?”.” – However in the view I prefer, the P-value alone is answering less than that. In what I’d call information-based statistics (some might label “neo-Fisherian” frequentism), a reference (test) distribution only provides a measure (by no means the only possible one) for relating the data to the math model from which that reference distribution was derived. This measure is purely syntactic, with contextual semantics (like “plausibility”) added via the derivation of the math model from context, e.g., a hypothesized plausible physical (causal) mechanism for data generation. Now, the information description suggests “frequentist” is not such an accurate characterization of the approach. I find it has more in common with reference Bayes (and even gives numerically identical estimates in the most commonly used class of models) than with Neymanian repeated sampling; in my reading of Fisher I think he realized that in the end. This view doesn’t need to think in terms of repeated sampling or an RNG (although RNGs are useful to simulate answers when analytic derivations get too involved, just as with posterior simulation for Bayes; this is not a “happy coincidence” but rather just a means of integration). See also Vos and Holbert at https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08360. In this view, there’s a sense in which it doesn’t matter whether you say your data model is some kind of RNG, or instead (or in addition) a bookmaker (betting function) for data, with improper priors in some dimensions (those of the so-called, horribly misnamed “fixed effects”). Nor does it matter what labels you apply to any derived distribution, like a P-value or compatibility function for a parameter. In all cases, a valid P-value p from a test statistic T translates into the 100p percentile at which the statistic fell in the reference distribution F(t) derived from the distribution – whether you think of that as a repeated-sampling (frequency) distribution, a betting distribution, or whatever. P is just a math measure based on a “standardized” distance from the model manifold to the data, one I happen to think more easily seen for what it is (and isn’t) by taking its negative log, s = -log(p), as explained in my TAS article at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00031305.2018.1529625 A point you did not address is the algorithmic sense in which the frequentist/Bayes distinction is artificial, in that they are both just types of data processors that rely on the user for responsible, valid, or accurate use. See my coverage of that here (p. 802-806): https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10654-019-00552-z.pdf – Algorithms, whether “frequentist”, “Bayesian”, or something else, and whether outputting P-values, intervals, or something else, are just blind programs that process the data the way they were designed to do, and no more. Again, I maintain it’s not the algorithms, it’s the user and the system miseducating and perversely pressuring the user that’s the core problem. To address that, I’ve come to think we need to not only retire statistical significance, but also retire “frequentism”, “Bayesianism”, and other weird techno-religions in favor of professionalism (including integrity and competency). > Again, I maintain it’s not the algorithms, it’s the user and the system miseducating and perversely pressuring the user that’s the core problem. That’s why people like Wansink who seem to either enjoy doing bad science or just be clueless come from. The question I have is, for those good scientists like some of the ones I work with who I teach Bayesian methods to, what are we going to do to enable them to do the good science they want to do? Right now statistics is a barrier they have to leap that stands in the way, not a tool for insight and investigation. Daniel re: “…Right now statistics is a barrier they have to leap that stands in the way, not a tool for insight and investigation.” Love that “barrier they have to leap.” Making it otherwise is like trying to clean up politics, as if we could…but we ought to keep trying. To answer your teaching question: I don’t think that statistics is a tool; it is a bunch of specialized tools that have been mischaracterized by being classified and explained only via by their probability mathematics, leading to endless abuse. In particular, the causality theory that underpins design-based tools (e.g., permutation tests) was long neglected in favor of probability models. Yet it is that causality theory which forms the basis for deducing a probability model from the application context, and for recognizing possible contextual explanations for observations. I did the teaching challenge for 4 decades, mostly with grad students, and probably learned more than I taught. To judge from evals and awards though, the students seemed to appreciate it in the end, with many sending comments years later on how what I taught helped them minimize bad practices in their teams. Of course that’s a selection-biased sample, to say the least, and upon reading articles by some who took my classes I saw I had not exactly eliminated bad practices. When I queried those former students about this, a common response was that it was the best they could do given the political realities (e.g., having senior authors and journals demand reification of artificial dichotomies via NHST). Among core points I emphasized by the end was that statistics is a huge shop of tools, each of which take training to master and skills to use properly. Hence, no one (including their stat profs) could come close to understanding and mastering them all or even most of them. Also, that sound application required a thorough understanding of exactly how the tools mapped into the application area (context), which required reading review and research articles in the area. Hence, no one (including their stat profs) could come close to understanding and mastering all or even most contexts, especially over a domain as vast as health and medicine. This mapping would often falter if no one on the team understood both the tools and the context in depth; and bridging that gap would someday fall to the student (like when they did their dissertation). These human limits run right up against a reality: Beyond the simplest jobs, taking multiple perspectives will be needed to make the most valid inferences. Doing so will often point to the need for use of multiple toolkits, or at least tools that have justifications from multiple perspectives (like regression models). Thus it was only to be expected that strict adherence to one perspective or class of tools (whether in the name of “philosophy” or for lack of competence beyond it) could undermine practice: It led to abuse of tools in that class to do tasks that were outside their scope, like treating Fisherian (design-based) P-values as if they were posterior probabilities (as in “P is the probability that chance alone produced the data or more extreme”), or treating posterior predictive P-values (PPP) as if they were calibrated model checks. Finally, like many of my colleagues, I found causal directed acyclic graphs (cDAGs) indispensable for explaining intuitively difficult concepts like collider (“Berksonian”) bias, and why a regression model for data does not “explain” the data no matter how good it fits or predicts – because there are always multiple causal-models/cDAGs (and hence multiple physical explanations for the data) that imply the regression model. Well, I think we have a few different pieces of terminology, but ultimately are on the same path. If I describe “math” as a tool to describe say physics experiments, I don’t mean it’s something like a hammer… I mean its not something we’re studying because we’re interested in the mathematical relationships themselves, it’s not the subject of study. Similarly when I say “statistics is a tool for analysis and insight” I mean we select bits from the bag called statistics and then we don’t study the bits we selected, we use them to study the medicine or the biology or the economics or whatever. In this analogy The Statistician is like the guy in the basement who runs the shop. He or she knows some stuff about what kinds of tools can accomplish what kinds of tasks, and he knows something about how to design new tools that accomplish specific tasks. The Scientist is like the … well the scientist who shows up down in the shop and says something like “I need to hold a certain thing steady, and then slice it up and dice it like this and that, and then see what’s inside”. Of course the shop person isn’t going to solve that problem with a hammer, but they are going to solve that problem by designing a special tool that carries out the task, and then making that tool using a bunch of parts that get combined in a combinatorially exploding set of possibilities… The NHST paradigm is basically like deciding to replace your machine shop with the Grainger catalog. Anything you can buy off the shelf you can have, anything else forget it. We are in a situation where people are changing what they want to do as scientists because all they have available to them is any variety of threaded carriage bolt, a couple of different hammers, and a drill press. So they keep drilling holes and putting bolts in them by pounding them in with hammers… and the ones that fit they call “significant” and the ones that don’t they throw out… I think that the current crises in knowledge, including statistics, have compelled non-experts to formulate strategies to deal with the conflicts of interests and the obfuscation that can issue from engaging in too technical explanations. The gatekeeper role is already under scrutiny. Gerd Gigerenzer has conducted a very good effort to education non-expert consumers of science, given the research & clinical trial outcomes more generally. I believe the Open Science Movement can be engaged. Certainly, there are non-experts that experts flag for not being well trained. Well that seems like a specious and egoistical claim to retain the gatekeeper role. Sameera, I certainly didn’t mean to imply that statisticians are the only ones who should go down in the shop and get dirty and build the tools they need to do the work. I just meant that if you want to do it, you need to 1) Know that it can be done 2) Seek out some help 3) Don’t be satisfied with the posers who tell you to grab the Grainger catalog and just order up whatever you need because that’s all there is anyway. Sameera: You said “I think that the current crises in knowledge, including statistics, have compelled non-experts to formulate strategies to deal with the conflicts of interests and the obfuscation that can issue from engaging in too technical explanations.” Yes, but conversely many nonexperts (and some experts) have largely created the current crisis by glossing over technicalities in order to manufacture the interpretations they want to be true but are just false. Statistics has long aided this problem by selling methods that were supposed to be and can only be cautionary, as if they were instead providing certainties, passing off NHST as a yes/no truth indicator or something like that; P-values as nonsignificance and confidence measures; and posterior probabilities from uncertain data models and misspecified priors as if they captured all or even most uncertainty in the problem. Andrew named these phenomena well: Uncertainty laundering. As for gatekeepers: The main gatekeeping has been and continues to be by nonexperts and suborned experts (not always a clear distinction between the two) in forcing statistics usage and interpretation that demonstrably and vastly distorts the information actually provided by studies (as in the examples just listed), and has warped the information base of many fields in ways not always recognized (and often denied by those gatekeepers). Many good points from both Sander and Daniel. > A point you did not address is the algorithmic sense in which the frequentist/Bayes distinction is artificial, in that they are both just types of data processors that rely on the user for responsible, valid, or accurate use This again gets down to how to enable good scientists to do good work. Frequentist methods have much much more narrow validity as a method than has been widely publicized and taught. For example it’s a very valid way to think about the US Census because lots of effort goes into ensuring quality random sampling. This is like computational RNGs we can’t just use whatever stuff some random programmer decided to stick into the C library… we use things like Mersenne Twister which were developed by mathematicians and tested using deep testing suites and have proofs of certain properties. it’s this effort to impose the properties of randomness onto our problem that makes frequency statistics valid, but even then the validity is limited. If I take a sample of 10 numbers from the UTC unix clock with randomly generated intervals between, I can calculate a mean and a standard deviation and investigate the histogram and find it appears to be a uniform random number generator, and then assert that in the future when I do this again 95% of the numbers will be within x standard deviations of the mean… > data = replicate(10,{Sys.sleep(runif(1,0,3)); as.numeric(Sys.time())}) > hist(data) > mean(data) [1] 1569598107 > sd(data) [1] 4.182665 Nothing about the fact that I used a proper RNG or have “frequency guarantees” from my methods will make this work. In the future 100% of the samples will fall outside my interval. The world is like the clock only far far more complicated: in the future it will do the stuff that the regularity properties of the universe cause to happen. Completely ignoring the regularity and treating it as a random number generator can work accidentally in some cases, but normally will fail. And it shirks the duty scientists have to try to discover the regularity properties in the first place. Because of the limited applicability of standard Frequentist methods, and the lack of understanding of what else can be done among many scientists, scientists are literally left with nothing that they are aware of that accomplishes the actual goals they have. They spend their time trying to shoehorn their real problem into something that sounds like “testing a hypothesis”, and this is people who really want to do a good job. While Bayes can be done ritualistically and accomplish the same kind of meaningless stuff, of the two probabilistic methodologies, Bayes is the only one that is even applicable to problems like “the skeletal system has redundant muscles, there are many possible muscle force curves that could result in a given observed movement, which ones are likely to actually occur among healthy patients walking on a treadmill, and which ones are likely to occur among stroke victims with known areas of brain damage performing the same task?” (a problem I am actually working with researchers on at the moment. It’s computationally challenging with potentially thousands of dimensions and requires running big mechanics simulations at each step). Nothing about such problems can be solved by resort to random number generation, repeated measurement across different participants, and appeals to theorems about central limits or whatever. What is needed is a way to quantify which muscle activities are likely and which are not based on both the kinematics and dynamics of the action and our knowledge about physiology and human behavior. Far FAR more of science falls into the category “we need to distinguish between several types of descriptions of what might have happened and what probably didn’t happen and decide which kinds of regularity our system exhibits” than otherwise. Yes, there are lots of applications of censuses, surveys, and “simple measurement”, but in general this is what you do before you do the science…. you collect a bunch of data and try to figure out how to even formulate your question. Statistics as taught has cut the scientists off before they start their real task, which is formulating the question and a large number of possible answers to it, and then winnowing out the ones that seem to hold up under detailed scrutiny. Mechanistically applied Bayes won’t solve the problem, but even PROPERLY applied Frequentist methods are simply inapplicable to the problem whereas Bayesian methods are at least applicable. Daniel: I think we agree on most broad principles here, but in my application areas at least, standard Bayesian methods have their own profound limits, such as not dealing well with settings in which it is simply infeasible to express our total information – and thus accurately gauge our total uncertainty – with probability measures. So pure Bayesian methods are “not applicable”, either (do not provide accurate information or uncertainty assessments). From your description it sounds like you work on projects with far more input information (more accurate observations, more knowledge of the underlying biomechanics) than I encountered in my primary applications, in epidemiology (which seem more akin to Andrew’s main area, poli sci, than to yours). In my areas, the lack solid empirical information on details means plausibility and designs to enable basic signed-ordinal distinctions are far more central than posterior probabilities (PostP). Fully-specified PostP are based on speculations about ill-determined parameters that get overspecified when encoded as prior distributions (PriorP). When you couple that problem with the highly charged, biasing environment in which this research takes place, prior specification (and hence Bayesian analysis) becomes an avenue for staggering misinterpretation and abuse. I see the misinterpretation every time a Bayesian analysis describes “the posterior probability” when it should be “the posterior probability from this joint prior” – which reveals PostP to be just as hypothetical as those repeated samples that frequentist primers talk of, albeit along a different axis of uncertainty. The user problem that afflicts both frequentist and Bayesian outputs is that both provide only measures of uncertainty conditional on whatever models went into them, and so their outputs will generate overconfidence by anchoring viewers to incomplete uncertainty measures. These problems lead many savvy analysts to target feasible goals like getting credible estimates for marginal relations. They limit data models to design information plus some regularity (smoothness) conditions that no stakeholder would question, and then limit parameter information to parsimony (penalization or shrinkage) conditions that all stakeholders would find plausible (as in empirical and semi-Bayes methods). A companion idea is to find a compression of the data that retains the information about the target provided by the data, given the model (which includes all the penalty functions), with minimal removal or distortion of the information that would be seen if we knew actual data-generating process in full mechanical detail (so that our predictions would indeed be accurate down to a real-noise floor). Among other ways of putting this in engineering apps I’ve seen include that our model is a filter that we want to remove noise but pass signal with minimal distortion (such as “coloration” in music reproduction). A large branch of the current causal-modeling literature stems from Robins’ work on longitudinal causality. There, full frequency models and priors are avoided using semiparametric estimation of average treatment effects using marginal structural models. There’s not much about penalization or Bayes in that literature as yet, even though those ideas can be easily applied to the parametric portion of the models; instead most models are limited to hard parsimony constraints (like generalized additivity of effects) as Box (JRSS A 1980) described for traditional “frequentist” models. Hence the outputs are limited to various P-value based statistics like CIs. But, as usual, those statistics do tell us a lot about what semi-Bayes PostP would have to look like under a broad class of priors (as previously seen in Casella & Berger Stat Sci 1987), and so provide an origin or reference point for semi-Bayes sensitivity analyses. And (not coincidentally) they numerically correspond well with outputs using very low-information “reference” priors for the parameters (as previously seen in generalized linear models, e.g., Firth Biometrika 1993). But they don’t depend on full prior specification (in fact they leave most model dimensions unconstrained), and the literature emphasizes how doing so could cause irremediable bias (systematic error) in PostP relative to the actual target (as seen in Ritov, Bickel et al,, JASA 2014). Bottom line is that in these applications (so-called frequentist) causal data-design considerations dominate the often vague genuine prior information actually present in background data, and that forcing the latter into the strict Bayesian (probability) framework can introduce serious information distortion (which reminds me of Rubin’s slogan, “Design trumps Analysis”). Finally, I still think your comments about RNGs miss my point that so-called frequentist use can be viewed as simply a way of finding the tail integrals for distributions of statistics under a model, as in bootstrapping. This is just a math application to find P-values and CIs, same as finding posterior tail areas via simulation. You seem to be decrying reification of RNGs as part of the physical mechanism generating the real data; your complaint is fine by me (unless the RNGs are for accepted physical laws as in quantum physics or thermodynamics, settings vastly beyond our fields in explanatory success). But it doesn’t apply to what I’ve been saying; again I have a different view of data probabilities, in which those are just reference or control charts for operations and model monitoring, not to be reified without explicit deduction from the underlying mechanics (design) of data generation – a view I find common among pragmatic “toolkit” statisticians. One thing I think we should keep in mind in this discussion is the difference between engineering and science. In Engineering, a tool that gets a job accomplished pretty well is sufficient, it doesn’t need to explain why the job is accomplished, it doesn’t need to be accurate, it just needs to kind of work pretty well. It needs to accomplish an economic task (ie help us use our limited resources in an ok way). For example if you ask me what’s the wind load on a house that I should design for, I could look at the plans, calculate the cross sectional area of the house, multiply it by the stagnation pressure produced by the peak wind velocity measured in the last century in that county, and double it…. This will work fine, even though it’s very wrong. I could even put in a big dataset of wind loads and success/failure data from a bunch of damaged houses, and create an enormous spaghetti code Excel spreadsheet and then later reify it as the Oracle of Wind Loading. It could have all kinds of weird calculations that eventually are equivalent to my method above, and then we could forget how fluid mechanics works, and just use our “machine learning”. As far as the economic goal goes, it’s the same final outcome. Medicine is Engineering. It’s biologists who study why stuff works the way it does in bodies. Doctors and Pharmacists and things are people who try to come up with ways to do something useful to hopefully reduce suffering. Doctors and HVAC repair people are kind of similar. You talk to an HVAC repair guy and he knows a bunch of facts about how HVAC works, but in the end he’s unlikely to be able to figure out that you need to replace a particular IC on a particular control board, he’s more likely to say “let’s throw out this control board and order a new one”. This is kind of like “let’s take out your Gallbladder”. Even outside of surgery, the HVAC guy may know “using this particular lubricant oil semi-annually on the blower motors will extend the life of the motor” and doctors will say “take this statin it seems like you’ll have a reduced risk of strokes” Neither one of them knows much about why it works exactly. They have a basic just-so story: lubricant reduces wear, or statins reduce cholesterol, or whatever (I’m sure I’ll offend some doctors here, particularly some surgeons, oh well). So, when you talk about applications where we know nothing much about the mechanisms but need to take some action anyway… these are almost all Engineering problems of some sort, and in this case we don’t really have as a goal to study the underlying causes. A goal of “process control” is sufficient. And when you’re talking process control, you’re talking about averages, repetition, and frequency of “out of control” outcomes. To some extent frequency models are kind of acceptable in this context. The problem is, in the actual sciences where people are supposed to study the underlying causes, the same “process control” methodologies are being used, and the questions like “how does this work?” aren’t being asked quantitatively because there’s no tools to answer them with anyway (that the biologists know of). I work with people who study topics that have really limited mechanistic background too sometimes. Like people who want to figure out how cancer comes about, what genetics is involved. The “standard method” is to throw a crapload of tumor data into a blender and select some features and then claim that because gene X has some small p value that it is involved in “prostate cancer metastasis” or something. The people I work with have through decades of study come to some conclusions about what kinds of questions they should ask that are very different from the kinds of questions actually being asked by their peers. It’s not “what tissue type is the cancer from” for example but rather “which pathways are actively involved in the everyday function of the origin tissue”… And while we may want to build houses before we have detailed computational fluid mechanics capabilities… if we never developed the computational fluid mechanics because we solved the engineering problem “how much wind force does this house need to be designed for?” using some pure machine learning algorithm thingy that you input a crapload of “features” of the house, and it outputs a number… well we’d never really learn how the wind works. and that’d be a shame. And that’s what too much of the emphasis is in science today… You won’t understand cancer by making lists of “drug targets” based on GWAS studies, and then screening 10,000 small molecules to see which ones kill cells in vitro, and then doing in-vivo studies in mice, and then selecting the best candidates and moving to human trials on end stage patients and etc etc… But you might solve the engineering problem of “what molecule can we produce in a pill that will make us money by increasing cancer patients lives a few months?” Different tasks, different methods. AllanC says: +Many RE: ‘Toward that end it might even be healthy to stop thinking in terms of “frequentist” and “Bayesian” as anything more than labels for an antiquated dichotomy that would be best replaced by talking and teaching about tools for data description, information merging, prediction, calibration, decision, and more (including tools developed outside that deceptive dichotomy, like EDA, pure likelihood, etc.).’ Excellent. I wonder though whether the replacements can then be adapted to self-serving ends, as some dimensions of the evidence-based medicine movement have been Yes, study the social psychology of inference and the sociology of expertise, both of which, in part, shaped by institutional & career incentives. Leave a Reply to Carlos Ungil	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4983
__label__wiki	0.943476	0.943476	5 things young Arabs should be proud of Frustration is common among Arab youth, more often than not young people in the Arab world feel disenfranchised, somewhat hopeless about the future. By Noha Medhat Frustration is common among Arab youth, more often than not young people in the Arab world feel disenfranchised, somewhat hopeless about the future of their region and unable to relate to the older generation that takes pride in glories that belong in the past. However, there are plenty of positive things that the region's youth have been doing to change that, and their accomplishments should not only give hope for a brighter future, but be acknowledged and celebrated. Here are 5 things in particular that young Arabs should be proud of and continue to pursue: 1. The Arab world's booming startup scene Source: Facebook/Instabug The past few years have seen MENA turn into one of the world's most promising and thriving startup hubs, bursting with productive innovation. This is all thanks to the region's youth. With each startup inspiring the other, young and often tech-savvy Arab entrepreneurs have been translating their ideas into viable businesses. From Egyptian startups breaking new grounds in technology like Instabug and Pushbots, to Jordanian startups nurturing Arab literature like Project Pen, to UAE startups creatively encouraging others to be creators like Junkbot, each success story is proof that young people are leading innovation in the Arab world. 2. The new age of Arab cinema Jordanian film "Theeb" was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2015 and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Source:YouTube Far from the days of producing tiresome romantic epics, young Arab filmmakers are now creating smart, high quality and socially responsible films that tackle important issues and tell fresh stories that further authentic Arab narratives while showcasing Arab talent. Arab cinema has been thriving in originality, with internationally acclaimed films like Mai Masri's "3000 Nights," Mir Jean Bou Chaaya's "Film Keteer Kebeer (Very Big Shot)," Haifaa Al-Mansour 's "Wadjda," Leyla Bouzid's "Ala Halet Einy (As I Open My Eyes)" and Naji Abu Nowar's "Theeb" pushing boundaries like never before. In addition, youth have been behind the birth of the Saudi film industry, with the emergence of Saudi filmmakers like Mansour getting even more recognition for Arab cinema. 3. The new Arab music scene Source: Facebook/Mashrou' Leila Much like Arab cinema, young musicians have led the transformation of music in the Arab world from outdated romantic ballads abiding by a worn-out formula to socially-aware and original music that innovates as much in content as it does in musical style. The independent music scene in the Arab world has been thriving in recent years, with musicians like Youssra El-Hawary and Dina El-Wedidi and bands like Cairokee, Mashrou' Leila and JadaL breaking boundaries with innovative music that tackles relevant social issues, giving young people a voice they can relate to. 4. The new age of Arab literature Source: Facebook/Hepta The Last Lecture Young people have also led the evolution of Arab literature, with further innovations in the style, content and genre of fiction and non-fiction that have brought about wider audiences and given modern Arabic literature a new identity. Young Arab writers like Ahmed Mourad, author of "Torab El-Mas" and "El Feel El-Azrak," Mohamed Sadek, author of "Hepta," Ahmed Khalid Tawfik, author of "Utopia," Raja Alem, author of "The Doves' Necklace," Saud Al-Sanousi, author of "Sak El-Bamboo" and Joumana Haddad, author of "I Killed Scheherazade," have challenged the rules imposed on Arabic literature. 5. The rise of cause initiatives in the Arab world Source: Twitter/TaimourO Like the growth of entrepreneurship, the past few years have also seen a notable increase in socially-responsible cause initiatives led by young people in MENA. From launching social media campaigns like Lebanon's "Tel'et Rehetkom" (You Stink) and Egypt's "Roam Egypt" and "This is Egypt" to forming their own non-profit organizations, young people in the region have taken the lead in raising awareness about a wide range of issues such as gender inequality and societal stereotyping. UAE home to the most entrepreneurs in Middle East Noha Medhat 7 types of aunts every Lebanese knows too well dalia-el-ali Muhammad Ali mourned, remembered by Arab fans Jason Lemon	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4986
__label__cc	0.718498	0.281502	Smeared Black Ink Sawicki's Early Drafts and Other Stuff The Drabbles The Screech Owls – Chapter I Part VI September 4, 2017 Steppen Sawicki Tags: fantasy, fiction, horror, novel, writing I’m sorry guys. I still have to write this. Novel: Fantasy Horror Edward hugged him closer. He hated seeing Cole so frightened. If only he could take whatever was frightening Cole out of his head and put it in his own. It was too much for the kid, a kid who was too weak to fight what was terrifying him. Edward had the ax; he didn’t have to be scared. “Go to sleep,” he said. “I’ll keep watch.” Cole sat up. “No. You didn’t sleep last night. I’ll watch first.” “You didn’t sleep much either.” “You didn’t sleep at all. You sleep first.” Edward wanted to argue. He didn’t want Cole awake in these woods by himself. But they would have to take turns sleeping eventually anyway. And he was so tired. As if to illustrate Cole’s point, he yawned, and he couldn’t quite stifle it. “Okay,” he said. “You’re on first watch. Wake me up if you hear anything at all.” He lay down on the hard ground. It was cold and held no comfort, and his stomach gnawed at him mercilessly. At least he had some stored fat on him that his body could use, but what about Cole? The kid was tiny; he was becoming skin and bones. What if they didn’t find anything to eat tomorrow? Edward buried his head in his arms and willed sleep to come so he wouldn’t have to think, but the moon was showing through the trees before he finally drifted off. When Cole woke him he was bathed in sweat, but it was only from the weather – hot nighttime again. “Wake up,” Cole said, shaking him. “They’re nearby.” He jumped up so fast he nearly toppled over, still groggy. But he couldn’t see them. “Where?” He did, and he could hear the chirping and the chink of armor. He scanned the trees until he could see them, blank darkness in the moonlight. Cole was right; they were stronger. They still ambled to them slowly through the trees, and though they swung their dark axes slowly enough they had better aim. Edward had to block one of their swings, and clumsy as the swing was he was still amazed that he could block it so deftly and easily, as if a child were behind the attack. He swept the ax aside and cut through the thing’s armor as if the monster were warm butter. There was no blood, but it collapsed to the ground. “Behind you!” Cole shouted in alarm, though there was little danger. Edward turned and sidestepped a failed attack and cut that one down as well, the great ax in his hand light as a feather. Now that he was getting used to it, it was like a part of his arm. There were two more approaching, practically tripping over their own feet. Edward laughed and cut them down. When he was done he turned to Cole and grinned at him. “I need more of a challenge than that,” he said. But Cole was pale in the moonlight, his eyes wide and reflective. He hugged Edward’s helmet in his tiny arms. “They will be worse tomorrow,” he whispered. He let Cole sleep. He was too wound up from the fight to fall back asleep himself. The moon was smack-dab in the center of the sky and the light from it was scorching. Cole was able to take off the oversized shirt and lay on it like a bed roll. He said to wake him before morning so Edward could get more sleep, but Edward let him sleep the rest of the night. “I told you wake me up,” Cole said grumpily when the sun woke him. “You need sleep too.” “So do you. What are we gonna do if you’re tired?” “Okay, okay. Don’t lecture me. I’ll sleep a long sleep tonight.” And we’ll find food today, was the thought that went unspoken. ← Step Away from the Train The Screech Owls – Chapter I Part VII → One thought on “The Screech Owls – Chapter I Part VI” Pingback: The Screech Owls – Chapter I Part VI — Smeared Black Ink – horrorwriter She Believed in Me Something of Magic Over the Distance Giveaway The Top of the Tower in HelloHorror For Riches Record, a Story in D… on Record, a Story in Drabbles –… Steppen Sawicki on Record, a Story in Drabbles… the dark netizen on Record, a Story in Drabbles… How Does She Breathe… on How Does She Breathe? Linda on A Book	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line4988
__label__wiki	0.685718	0.685718	Twitter CEO promises to crack down on hate, violence and harassment with “more aggressive” rules Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to…Twitter today to promise a “more aggressive” stance in its rules and how it enforces them. The tweet storm was based in a response to the #WomenBoycottTwitter protest, as well as work that Dorsey says Twitter has been working ‘intensely’ on over the past few months. Dorsey says that critical decisions were made today in how to go about preventing the rampant and vicious harassment many women, minorities and other users undergo daily on the platform. “We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them,” Dorsey says. “New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence. These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.” 1/ We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years. — jack (@jack) October 14, 2017 We’ll keep in touch with Twitter to see what the rule changes might be. Here’s what Jack said on Twitter: We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years. We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn’t enough. In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress. Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re still not doing enough. We’ve been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions. We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them. New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence. These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week. The very first response, of course? Follow your own terms of service and ban @realDonaldTrump — GIGAMESH (@Gigamesh) October 14, 2017 Those of us old enough to remember Twitter in the beginning will be able to tell you that abuse on the platform is far from a 2016 or 2017 problem. It’s been around for years — since nearly the beginning — driving away key members of the tech community like Kathy Sierra, who wrote a powerful essay when she left the platform that dissected troll culture and how Twitter enabled it. I consider it a seminal point in the advance of hateful speech as a driver of culture and politics online, as do many others. This component deals directly with Twitter, but I encourage you to read the whole thing. But I actually got off easy, then. Most of the master trolls weren’t active on Twitter in 2007. Today, they, along with their friends, fans, followers, and a zoo of anonymous sock puppet accounts are. The time from troll-has-an-idea to troll-mobilizes-brutal-assault has shrunk from weeks to minutes. Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier. Twitter boosts signal power with head-snapping speed and strength. Today, Twitter (and this isn’t a complaint about Twitter, it’s about what Twitter enables) is the troll’s best weapon for attacking you. And by “you”, I mean “you the server of Koolaid.” You who must be stopped. It begins with simple threats. You know, rape, dismemberment, the usual. It’s a good place to start, those threats, because you might simply vanish once those threats include your family. Mission accomplished. But today, many women online — you women who are far braver than I am — you stick around. And now, since you stuck around through the first wave of threats, you are now a much BIGGER problem. Because the Worst Possible Thing has happened: as a result of those attacks, you are NOW serving Victim-Flavored Koolaid. And Victim-Flavored Koolaid is the most dangerous substance on earth, apparently. And that just can’t be allowed. In recent years women of color have become increasingly high value targets for trolls on Twitter, with Leslie Jones leaving briefly after harassment and private images were hurled at her in a veritable digital stoning. Twitter has talked tough on abuse before, many times, and its failures were well documented in this piece last year by Charlie Warzel and more recently by our own Natasha Lomas here. Hopefully Twitter uses a combination of the tools it already has in place to limit hate speech in countries which forbid it by law and new attitudes about what constitutes abuse to actually make some headway this time.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5010
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Bogus court documents, compliant search engines, and Scientology-style rehabs » Leah Remini calls for federal action: Here’s the frustrating reason the IRS may not answer By Tony Ortega \| August 11, 2017 As the start of the second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath approaches on Tuesday, media and public interest is ramping way up. Leah has promised that the second season will focus on “the abusive practices of Scientology — sexual abuse and physical abuse,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. Leah also said her goal is not just to spread awareness of Scientology’s mistreatment of its members but also to inspire a federal investigation. “I’m talking about the FBI, the police, the Department of Justice, the IRS,” she said. The FBI did investigate Scientology for allegations of human trafficking in 2009-2010, but that investigation didn’t result in charges, and we think that probe ended for complex reasons. The IRS granted Scientology tax exempt status in 1993 after a two-year auditing process that began under Fred Goldberg, the IRS commissioner under President George H. W. Bush. In Alex Gibney’s movie Going Clear, we helped explain how the church put immense pressure on Goldberg through years of harassment and lawsuits aimed at many IRS officials. But finally, after an October 1991 meeting between Goldberg and Scientology leader David Miscavige, the commissioner agreed to begin the process that resulted in the church gaining tax exemption. And tax exempt status has been a boon to Scientology not only because the church was able to walk away from a billion-dollar tax debt. It also provides many other protections that we’ve seen play out in courtrooms in many other cases. “The church is protected,” Going Clear author Lawrence Wright said in the film, explaining that courts and law enforcement agencies are reluctant to pry into Scientology’s internal matters because of the shield that tax exemption gives it. So what will it take to get the IRS to re-examine its agreement with the Church of Scientology? Will Leah Remini and the groundswell of her show be enough? Recently, Jeffrey Augustine explained to us how his research suggested that for some completely infuriating reasons, the bar Leah has to get over is higher than it might have been at one time. Until 1998, he tells us, the number of IRS officials who could open an audit of the Church of Scientology was actually somewhat considerable. JEFFREY: Until that time, a revocation hearing of Scientology’s tax exempt status could have been called by one of four “regional commissioners” of the IRS. THE BUNKER: That’s no longer the case? JEFFREY: No, it’s not. THE BUNKER: Why can’t a regional commissioner call for an audit of Scientology today? JEFFREY: Because there are no regional commissioners. THE BUNKER: Say what? JEFFREY: Congress eliminated the position of regional commissioner in the “IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.” THE BUNKER: Is this a joke? JEFFREY: No, I’m afraid it’s not. And the unintended consequence is that it’s become much harder for the IRS to question the tax exemption of churches. THE BUNKER: How so? JEFFREY: Well, a really good example happened in 2007 when the IRS tried to audit the tax exempt status of the Living Word Christian Center in Minnesota. The investigation into the church was approved by an IRS official who had the title “Director of Exempt Organizations, Examination.” THE BUNKER: That’s a pretty heavy title. JEFFREY: Well, it wasn’t heavy enough. The federal district court in Minnesota found that the “Director of Exempt Organizations, Examination” wasn’t high enough in the IRS structure to call for a revocation hearing for a church. According to existing law, only a regional commissioner is high-ranking enough to call for such an investigation. THE BUNKER: And that’s a problem because there aren’t any actual regional commissioners. JEFFREY: Exactly. THE BUNKER: So even though the IRS wanted to investigate Living Word Christian Center and had sent an official notice of it… JEFFREY: The judge sided with the church and said the IRS couldn’t do that because it hadn’t been initiated by a regional commissioner. THE BUNKER: A position that no longer exists. JEFFREY: Precisely. THE BUNKER: So is the IRS completely powerless? JEFFREY: No, it just means that the bar for Leah is set even higher than it might have been before 1998. With no regional commissioners able to call for an investigation, she’d have to go to the top and convince the IRS commissioner himself, a man named John Koskinen, to call for an investigation. Or Koskinen’s boss, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. And according to the current law, one other person could initiate a probe, the Commissioner of Tax Exempt and Government Entities, a woman named Sunita Lough. THE BUNKER: Well, that’s how Scientology pulled it off in 1991, right? They went directly to the commissioner himself, Fred Goldberg. So Leah will pretty much have to do the same thing? JEFFREY: Yes, but Commissioner Koskinen has already been battered and bruised. The IRS was under heavy bombardment by the GOP during Obama’s final two years and its budget was severely slashed. I don’t know if Koskinen is really interested in the kind of fight that Scientology would put up. THE BUNKER: Sounds like a push from the president himself might be what’s needed. Has Trump said anything about investigating churches? JEFFREY: Yes he has, actually. He’s very much against it. THE BUNKER: Ah. Well, it appears Leah’s work really is cut out for her. JEFFREY: I’m afraid so. THE BUNKER: Previously, Jeffrey, we helped readers by explaining that online petitions were a waste of time, and that they should submit complaints directly to the IRS itself. What’s your advice to readers today? JEFFREY: I heard from a lot of people who submitted those complaints. There’s just no question that the IRS has plenty of complaints to act on in regards to Scientology. So now, if readers want the IRS to act, it’s time to put pressure on those three people who can actually initiate a probe: Koskinen, Mnuchin, and Lough. THE BUNKER: Who knows. The way Leah’s show is going, she just might have enough influence to make that happen. Thanks, Jeffrey, for helping us see what needs to be done. Scientology disconnection, a reminder Bernie Headley has not seen his daughter Stephanie in 4,839 days. Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 1,822 days. Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 2,596 days. Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 1,942 days. Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 2,436 days. Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 1,476 days. Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 1,188 days. Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 714 days. Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 4,803 days Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 1,943 days. Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 2,263 days. Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 2,238 days. Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 594 days. Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 4,896 days. Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 1,003 days. Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis for 1,405 days. Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 1,278 days. Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 859 days. Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 1,364 days. Mary Jane Sterne has not seen her daughter Samantha in 1,608 days. Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 12,717 days. Posted by Tony Ortega on August 11, 2017 at 07:00 E-mail tips and story ideas to tonyo94 AT gmail DOT com or follow us on Twitter. We post behind-the-scenes updates at our Facebook author page. After every new story we send out an alert to our e-mail list and our FB page. Our book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. 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We’ve picked out the most important stories we’ve covered here at the Undergound Bunker (2012-2016), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999) Learn about Scientology with our numerous series with experts… BLOGGING DIANETICS: We read Scientology’s founding text cover to cover with the help of L.A. attorney and former church member Vance Woodward UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts Other links: Shelly Miscavige, ten years gone \| The Lisa McPherson story told in real time \| The Cathriona White stories \| The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ \| Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication \| Scientology’s little day care of horrors \| Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? \| Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam \| Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert \| PZ Myers reads L. 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__label__wiki	0.765811	0.765811	Rhinos Web Reviews Meet The Rhino Richard Bolduc, is the CEO and Webmaster at the Rhinos Web. Richard wrote the book on Search Engine Optimization back in 1996 entitled “Frontpage, the Webmasters Guide to the Search Engines”. “We really can place you on the front page in your localized category. I always treat each project, as though it were my own. With over 25 years experience in the graphics industry, we like to get it done right the first time. We can give you a huge advantage over your competition.” “I personally interviewed and contracted Richard Bolduc. He has been the driving force behind our website ever since. What he promised us, he delivered on. I mean, it is not every day you hire someone that builds you a multi-million dollar website.” OE Wheels Distributors “Richard Bolduc receives the Top Seller Award after website sales exceed 5 million in 2014” Top Seller Award OE Wheel Distributors “We contracted Richard Bolduc of The Rhinos Web, and now our website is responsible for over five-hundred thousand dollars in sales per MONTH! His tireless commitment to our best interest, is apparent in every aspect of his work.” Lance Bullock “Organized, efficient, extremely competent, and has an excellent rapport with people of all ages. Ric’s communication skills, both written and verbal, are excellent. He has always displayed an unerring sense of fair play as well as moral ideals.” Evan Fannin The Network Gurus “Ric wants the best for everyone with whom he is in contact with and often goes out of his way to help others succeed. All that know Ric, know him as a bright and generous individual and his large group of friends and colleagues reveal this.” Stephanie Fannin “I would like to offer my endorsement of Richard Bolduc of The Rhinos Web. I have known Ric for almost 10 years and he has proven himself to be a trustworthy, intelligent and compassionate individual both in business and personal relationships.” Leslie Carpenter We are a full service Facebook Marketing Agency. With over 22 years experience developing internet sites for small to medium size businesses. We create custom sales funnels designed with your unique goals, your competition and your target audience in mind. “We really can place you on the front page in your localized category.” Richard Bolduc We use the latest technologies to develop websites. Custom solutions that are efficient, easy to maintain, all with performance in mind. We keep up with the latest in website programming standards and design. Efficiently programmed sites load faster and simplifies maintenance. Our Webmaster comes from a printing background, and he has been creating graphics since before Adobe Photoshop Version 1 was even available. Richard Bolduc, the well known author and featured speaker, is the webmaster at the Rhinos Web. We really can place you on the front page in your localized category. Richard wrote the book on search engine optimization back in 1996 entitled “Frontpage, Webmasters Guide to the Search Engines”. Facebook Ad Campaigns Totally Dedicated Staff CEO \| Webmaster A born leader, Richard’s skills include extended coffee breaks, paid vacations, and mergers and acquisitions. E-mail Richard Marketing Guru Jillian spends her days nabbing the top spots on Google. We think, or rather know, she’s on to something. E-mail Jillian Frank was born to perform litigious duties. He may be all smiles here, but he’s deadly in the courtroom. E-mail Frank About was last modified: January 21st, 2018 by The Rhinos Web We are a full service Facebook Marketing Agency and provide a wide range of web services such as, Facebook Ad Campaigns, Responsive Web Design, SEO Front Page Placement, Video Editing and Branding. We have over 22 years of graphics experience, developing and marketing internet sites, from small to medium size businesses. Learn more . . . It's important to us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us - both personally and professionally. Learn more about how we do things. Learn more . . . We provide Facebook Marketing Nationwide. We provide local web services to Englewood, Lakewood Ranch, Nokomis, North Port, Osprey, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Sarasota, and Venice Florida. Otherwise referred to as all of Sarasota County and Charlotte County. Contact Us . . . © Copyright 2017 \| The Rhinos Web \| All Rights Reserved \| Supported by The Network Gurus. \| Terms and Conditions. \| Privacy Policy.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5023
__label__cc	0.615306	0.384694	← Luang Prabang, Laos Si Phan Don, Laos → Posted on October 9, 2011 by thesunonhisback The Plain of Jars is a megalithic archaeological landscape scattered around the plateau of Xieng Khouang. Thousands of stone jars appear in clusters, ranging from a single or a few to several hundred jars at lower foothills surrounding the central plain and upland valleys. Excavation by archaeologists has supported the theory that these were used as some form of ancient burial practice, with the discovery of human remains, burial goods and ceramics around the jars. The Plain of Jars is dated to the Iron Age (500 BCE to 500 CE), and it seemed worthy of a visit. The best thing about this trip however, was all the people we met on the minibus that would take us an estimated 6 hours to reach our destination. Bob, (Australia), Nicky & Sam (England, Darn Sarf), Mellor & Chris (England, Oop North), and a quiet French guy. I would say Ozzie Bob is probably in his 60’s, and he was travelling alone and was really chatty with everyone. He broke the ice for everyone almost instantly as we all sat waiting for the driver to decide if he had enough energy to hold a steering wheel. We were ready for 8am in Luang Prebang, just as the hotel had requested, but we were eventually picked up at 9.30am and left the bus station at 10.10am. We arrived in Phonsavon, the nearest town to the Plain of Jars at 11pm. A trip which took 15 hours from threshold to threshold. What basically happened is that we reached the same landslide area we had encountered travelling on the way up. This time however, it was massive, resulting in a laborious 5 hour wait. So we just had to relax and try to be patient again. The group were quite a friendly social bunch, and the guys all grabbed a beer while we whiled the hours away discussing everything and nothing. Yes, we were absolutely exhausted when we arrived in Phonsavon, and were quickly set upon by touts as soon as the bus stopped. It is hard not to be rude when you are tired and weary, you just need to get a room for a quick wash or shower and then head out for food and a beer or two prior to hitting the sack for a good sleep. The last thing you need is someone trying to organise your trip for the next morning, asking question after question. Me and Sam hooked up, and finished off the days drinking session. Sam is only 21, but he’s an old head on young shoulders, full of buzz and easy to listen too – his enthusiasm for everything can be quite infectious. One has to draw a line however, and Sam unfortunately crossed that line with his enthusiasm for the over rated English National Rugby and Football teams. I am sure at one point Sam was telling me who could potentially be in the final with England, until I reminded Sam that the competition hadn’t even started yet! Hilarious! The English always get a bit carried away don’t they ? 1966 and all that 🙂 Bob appeared at my door the following morning asking if we wanted to join him to organise a trip. So all together, this team had bonded sufficiently to arrange something collectively to everyone’s mutual financial benefit. Unfortunately, this is when you discover the Laos transport cartel’s have it all sorted, and negotiation is futile. So we relented, booked the trip and were taken to the site of the Plain of Jars. Nicky, as part of the negotiations, did manage to get us all a free bottle of water. Free beer Nicky!! It’s free beer we want!! I wasn’t the first person to start to grumble about the inflated prices being charged to tourists for all these trips and other transport. It just seems so organised and transparently so, the prices just seem so apparently out of kilter, even when you compare to other Asian countries. The Plain of Jars was such a disappointment, and to be honest everyone was saying the same thing. There are 3 sites, but there is nothing extensive, and certainly no plain. With the whole hassle of getting here, transport costs, admission costs, the standard of tour guide, it just leaves you feeling slightly cheated and robbed of a few days of your life. Site 3 was quite picturesque however, and we had to get across a creaky wooden bridge and go cross country through bright green rice fields to get there. It was dark when we got back to town, and we said our goodbyes to all who were leaving that night, which was everyone apart from Sam & Nicky. We organised a minibus to Van Vieng for the four of us for the next morning, and then grabbed some eats and refreshments. We were backtracking southwards, and with Michelle’s flu getting worse, would be happy just to hole out back in Vang Vieng for a few days. Sam & Nicky would be doing the tubing, but the rest of the time, we ended up hanging out together, playing pool, drinking beer, grabbing a bite to eat, playing chess and the occasional game of cards, until one night when Michelle was thoroughly bedded. On the day of the tubing, Sam returned to the hotel alone around 7pm asking if Nicky was back yet. When I said I hadn’t seen her, panic began to set in, as Sam advised he had been told that two people had gone missing in the river. Blood drained from my face, and I think I was in shock. We kept our cool, and both headed down the road, feeling numb and secretly praying that everything was going to turn out okay. That was a fraught 10 minute walk into town, and with great relief, we spotted Nicky walking up the road. We have no idea of the outcome for the two missing people, and nobody seemed to know anything about it next day. The hotel staff didn’t really seem to be that stunned when told about it, and I actually thought they looked a bit nonplussed. Maybe this is just par for the course and not big news – but something should really be done about this. There are life jackets available, but nobody seems to wear them. I’m just so greatful that Nicky was okay – it’s strange really, it felt like we had been friends/family for years, but we had only known each other for a few days. Sam and Nicky were keen to move on, and left a day before us, as we stayed back another night until Michelle felt better. This meant I would get to see Scotland play Georgia next day, and a very unconvincing win. We booked an overnight sleeper bus which was really comfy and quite cool, and we would arrive in Pakse around 6am for a stopover prior to heading to Si Phan Don – the 4000 Islands. We jumped a TukTuk from the bus station to the hotel, and enroute suddenly spotted Sam & Nicky on the corner with their backpacks on, and a Lonely Planet guide in hand. They were not supposed to be here, and by the time we had spotted each other and realised who it was, The TukTuk driver had his foot to the floor and within seconds we were halfway up the road. We wondered what to do, we didn’t know if they were arriving or leaving. The two of them appeared at our hotel some minutes later, our wee team was reunited, and after discovering that there was absolutely nothing to do in Pakse, we all went for a curry and booked our trip south for the next day.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5027
__label__cc	0.677672	0.322328	View out my window at work I found myself thinking about this blog a few times in the last week and decided to see if I could remember the password to get back in to it. Obviously, I did. Can I remember why I wrote it? Obviously, I can. I was in the middle of my third decade of teaching and thoroughly fed up with the educational system that continued to become every year more a place of schooling and obedience than of learning and growth. Continue reading → Tagged as education, news, problems with education, quitting teaching, satire, schooling, schools, teaching Lawrencedale MI (TWP Press) Teachers at Lawrencedale Public Schools were welcomed back to school with a celebration of all things legal, political, marsupial, and maniacal. Superintendent John Underwood began by explaining the school’s lack of money, facilitating no funds for retirement, extra-duty pay, and dry erase markers. After these awesomely cordial opening points, Underwear went on to texplain that the school had reduced so many employees that there weren’t enough left to man an accreditation committee, so Lawrencedale would no longer have national accredidation. Instead of pausing to acknowledge teachers who won awards, attended and presented workshops and conferences over the summer, finished their master’s degrees or became nationally-board certified or master teachers or in any way celebrating education and the daily work of teaching and learning, the welcoming comments continued with the introduction of Richard Coppley of Coppley, Coppley, and Hicks, who took off his seersucker Gregory Peck/Atticus Finch-wanna be blazer and updated teachers on new legal issues concerning education. Tagged as back to school, education, humor, satire, school, staff development, welcome back to school Omaha NE (TWP) With his latest book, best-selling writer James Pitterdaughter is achieving unheard of success, even for this author who has conquered the bland fiction charts, branched into children’s books and young adult flying fantasy and even uses a ghost writer when he needs to take a break between books for lunch. Pitterdaughter’s Along Came a Teacher . . . Who Kills People has shot up to number 3 on the bestseller charts in only four weeks of its release. The book, which Pitterdaughter said would be the first in a series, follows high school English teacher turned serial killer Amillia Floss on her journey to rid the world of evil, while expounding on the meter in Thomas Hardy’s poetry to her senior students who refuse to read George Eliot because she was ugly. Tagged as education, fake news, humor, onion news, popular fiction, public school, satire, school, school reform, teacher bashing Sales of magical teacher gear on the rise Grand Rapids MI (TWP) At the Educational Magicurriculum Concepts Factory, account manager Bo North announced that sales of their new line of magical end-of-the-year teacher products have skyrocketed. “We haven’t seen this kind of increase in sales in such a short amount of time since the 80s when Ronald Reagan slashed the education budget, and we sold out of recycled staples in 24 hours,” North said. “Recycling was the best magic we could do at the time.” The Passing Period Phantom-Producer, even at a pricey $149, has been the company’s best seller in the last week. The Phantom-Producer is a palm device, upon which the teacher places her hand as soon as the bell rings, and she becomes a phantom, invisible to the naked student eye until the bell rings for the next class. Tagged as education, end of school year, fake news, humor, magic, onion news, public schools, satire, school, teaching New school language studied by etymologist Garner, MO (TWP) Teachers, staff, and students at GarnerMiddle School have created a new language of sorts, one worthy of research and further study. Noted etymologist Dr. Rand Lichtenstein of Harvard has recently published his research on the language in the April issue of the Modern Language Review. Lichtenstein studied the school over an eight-week period, after it had come to light that outside members of the public and parents were unable to communicate effectively with those associated with the school. “What I found was an ingenuous code these people had developed in order to survive in the educational environment that has arisen around them,” Lichtenstein said. Tagged as education, educational reform, etymology, fake news, humor, life, news, onion news, satire, school, test-taking Superintendent knows the teachers are up to something Delozier WY (TWP) Superintendent Sam Rutherford knows the teachers at his district are “up to something,” but he’s not sure what yet. According to tapes from an informal meeting of the superintendent and school board at Delozier Schools, Wyoming, that were leaked to TWP, Rutherford has put the principals in the district on alert that “shenanigans may be in the air.” “If we relax the vigilance one iota, we could be goners,” Rutherford said to mumbled agreement. A school board member’s voice could then be heard on the scratchy tape, and though the words were unintelligible, the note of warning in the tone was apparent. TWP has also learned that the superintendent has extended the blockade of bullshit that he authorized to fortify the Education Services Building at the beginning of the year, when he authorized without input from anyone an extended school day, decreased planning time, and scanning devices that record the number of times a teacher retreated to the faculty lounge in the course of a day. Tagged as best teaching practices, education, fake news, humor, life, onion news, public school, public school news, public school problems, public schools, satire, teaching, teaching to the test	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5028
__label__wiki	0.856207	0.856207	How The ‘True Detective’ Finale Failed Zack Beauchamp Mar 10, 2014, 2:54 pm This review discusses plot points from the full run of True Detective in detail. The biggest reveal at the end of “Form And Void” had nothing to do with Marty Hart, Rust Cohle, or the Yellow King. It was that True Detective was a failure. Not that the show wasn’t brilliantly acted, beautifully directed, and pulse-poundingly tense. The finale was all of those things, in the last case literally (my viewing partner actually timed out his rapid heartbeat). Rather, “Form And Void” revealed True Detective to be a sham in the worst way: a show that pretended to be about ideas on everything ranging from the nature of evil to institutional misogyny didn’t have any. For a story that inspired such obsessive fan sleuthing, the resolution of True Detective’s original mystery turned out to be astonishingly simple. After terrifying Steve Geraci into revealing Sheriff Childress’ coverup of the Marie Fontenot disappearance, Marty connected the younger Childress — Errol, our scarred man — to the murders through a house he once painted green. Marty and Rust track Errol through the labyrinthine hellhole he called home, kill him, and do the True Detective equivalent of riding off into the sunset (smoking cigarettes in a hospital gown while discussing good and evil). What’s missing from this resolution is everything that made the show interesting. By the end of True Detective, “who killed Dora Lange” was no longer the show’s principal mystery. True Detective had always been a philosophical show, but the question of where it came down on Rust’s existential musings became hitched to broader questions: who was in on the conspiracy to cover up Errol Childress’ crimes? Was a U.S. Senator one of the five men whose rape and murder of young women was so violent that watching a tape of it reduced hardened cops to inchoate screaming? What, exactly, was the point of all of these ritual murders? If “Carcosa” was simply Errol’s name for his twisted playground, how did so many people know about it and The Yellow King? Was there life beyond death, as the elderly woman in episode 7 said, or were we living in Rust’s godless world? In a perceptive essay reading True Detective as a mystery, Andrew DeYoung writes that “in a narrative constructed around a mystery, that central mystery, if anything, takes on an outsize importance, one that threatens to blot out everything else.” That’s because, in this kind of story, the reveal settles the show’s view “about what it all — the world, good and evil, women and men, family, justice, society, the truth at the heart of humanity — really means.” When True Detective fails to resolve the mystery that was driving its third act (a conspiracy tale, not a simple murder whodunit), it fails to even hazard a solid guess about these questions. It’s also a betrayal of “True Detective’s” strongest asset: its atmosphere. Everything about the show — from the writing down to the music — was carefully designed to produce a sense of deep, permeating dread. Evil lurked everywhere, an omnipresent elemental force threatening to swallow Hart and Cohle at every point. “We ain’t gonna get them all,” Marty said, “but we got ours.” The show clearly shares his view. Yet deciding that the only evil Hart and Cohle need to combat is one supremely crazy hillbilly, and not the more insidious evil behind him, makes that great sense of threat feel like so much swamp gas. That’s also why Rust’s big conversion at the end fell so flat. Normally, I’m a sucker for an optimistic ending: one of the anti-hero age’s most problematic traits is the idea that good television is synonymous with dark television. So, in theory, the idea that Rust Cohle could be turned from his nihilism by “touching the Void” in a coma should resonate. Yet it didn’t, because catharsis isn’t what Rust Cohle (or True Detective) is for. Throughout the show, Rust has always been a man driven to big picture by profound despair, obsessed with uncovering the truth about the world because he is literally too damaged to succeed at anything else. Someone who sacrificed his career on the alter of uncovering the Tuttle conspiracy should never be satisfied with simply catching the nastiest, least-powerful member of the clan. But, for mystifying reasons entirely disconnected from everything the show told us about Rust beforehand, he is. Rust’s Captain America turn also undermined the previously brilliant handling of his relationship with Marty. It was nice to see the two of them be more authentically chummy than they’ve ever been — having an honest conversation about Maggie’s affair, affectionately flipping the bird, and leaning on each other for support in the show’s final shot. But the true genius of their relationship was the clash of worldviews, Rust’s intellectualized despair twinned with Marty’s unreflective lust for life. Rust’s speech about “light versus dark” being “the only story” brought him to essentially the same philosophical place as Marty’s Christianity put him. It’s not that the two detectives need to be mad at each other for the show to be an interesting character study; it’s that they can’t be the same person. Finally, the show failed utterly to redeem its troubling treatment of female characters. Throughout its run, I was more sympathetic to Willa Paskin’s argument that the show was exposing misogyny than Emily Nussbaum’s claim that it embodied it. But in the final episode, Maggie, easily the show’s most complicated woman, has nothing to do. She appears briefly as a prop in Marty’s story, evidence that he’s done a good thing more than a flesh-and-blood human. Ultimately, that’s what Maggie ended up being throughout the show: her decisions were simply moral bellweathers for whether Marty was on the right track, rather than the actions of a person with agency. Moreover, one of the show’s most troubling mysteries — what happened to Marty and Maggie’s daughter Audrey — was left entirely unaddressed. Throughout the show, Audrey shows a number of signs of being sexually abused, the nature of which strongly suggested a link to the cult her father was investigating. This didn’t end up being critical to the mystery’s resolution, but I hesitate to call it a true red herring: for something to be a false clue, it has to be end up being shown to be false. Instead, it seems that Nick Pizzolatto, the show’s writer, couldn’t be distracted from his leads’ macho drive to slay the dragon for long enough to take a real look at female trauma. True Detective, then, ended up selling a traditional story about dangerous men saving faceless women as a critique of violent masculinity. Indeed, this confusion of the conventional and boring with the daring and innovative ended up defining the show. True Detective promised to transcend the cop show’s intellectual horizon. It ended up being subsumed by it.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5031
__label__wiki	0.909507	0.909507	Tentative Progress: Freedom Caucus Chairman Says GOP 'Close' to Obamacare Replacement Compromise Posted: Apr 12, 2017 11:05 AM Ever since support for AHCA 1.0 among House Republicans went down the tubes and the bill was yanked, the White House has been working to forge a compromise with the recalcitrant House Freedom Caucus. As we've covered, Vice President Pence has been central to those efforts, with GOP leadership seeking to create an environment in which these talks may result in a constructive outcome -- namely, no bold predictions, and no urgent timelines. The Hill is reporting that the HFC chairman believes that his group may be getting close to reaching that elusive political bargain: The leader of the House Freedom Caucus says Republicans are "close" to agreement on a plan to repeal ObamaCare, indicating that discussions are still continuing while Congress is in a two-week recess. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Tuesday told a local radio station that he expects to hear back from Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) by noon about "two options" on the table. He did not elaborate. "We're very close. The biggest thing for all of us is we want to make sure we don't just have repeal, but we have a replacement that drives down insurance premiums," he said..."It's our encouragement to have a vote as soon as we possibly can, even perhaps before we return back to DC in 13 days." While House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has warned that members could be called back from recess early to vote on healthcare if a deal emerges, it appears unlikely. Like John Sexton, I'd call it highly unlikely. Even if a deal is struck with the right flank of the party, moderate members aren't going to rush back to DC to blindly vote on an amended bill. Leadership is going to need to listen to and address objections and concerns from that element of the conference, too -- which could conceivably lead to additional changes that, in turn, re-alienate the HFC crew. As we mentioned last week, one alteration that seemed to garner consensus support was the injection of billions of new dollars into a risk pool stabilization fund designed to bring down premiums in the short term. The CBO's (partially flawed) score of the original bill projected lower rates several years into implementation after an initial bump; this amendment was crafted to alleviate that political and policy problem. But the big sticking point is the degree to which the legislation would allow states to waive certain federal mandates under Obamacare, especially "community rating," wherein sick consumers cannot be charged substantially more for coverage than healthy ones. For many in the centrist GOP camp, gutting that safeguard is a political liability. It's true that broad federal mandates drive up costs, and allowing states flexibility to seek waivers could result in the flourishing of more options for consumers, many of them significantly cheaper. But members in tough districts recognize that Democrats will frame those changes as "allowing insurers to discriminate against the sick." That's why moderates could complicate the whip count if the bill ends up looking too risky for Republicans representing contested districts: The attempt to move the bill further to the right threatens to erode support among moderate members who were turned off by the previous version of the American Health Care Act. “While we haven’t picked up any votes yet, this concept is already showing signs of losing a ton of them,” a senior Republican source said. Centrist Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) indicated he is still a no on the healthcare bill and warned against allowing sick people to be charged more. He said the provision would effectively result in a return to the days before ObamaCare, when people with pre-existing conditions were routinely denied coverage. “I want to make sure there is no denial of coverage based upon a pre-existing condition,” he said. “I know it’s not directly on point, but I think it has an effect.” Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), who supported the GOP repeal bill before it was pulled from the floor last month, called community rating a “very significant reform” made in ObamaCare. “I appreciate the states’ rights argument but recognize that there’s a reason behind community rating and the benefit that it brings to the insurance reforms,” he told reporters. Meanwhile, the Trump White House has decided to pay out Obamacare subsidies that are currently the subject of a lawsuit filed by House Republicans, who say the Obama administration was distributing money never authorized by Congress. Some conservative advisers were urging Trump not to allocate the money, which would have further spiked premiums under Obamacare. If he'd followed that advice, Democrats would certainly have accused Trump of "sabotaging" the law by hurting people, muddying the waters of blame on the failing law. But those waters are already muddied with Republicans in power. Nevertheless, it looks like Jared Kushner, who favored moving ahead with this element of Obamacare, once again carried the day: The Trump administration says it is willing to continue paying subsidies to health insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act even though House Republicans say the payments are illegal because Congress never authorized them. The statement sends a small but potentially significant signal to insurers, encouraging them to stay in the market. The future of the payments has been in doubt because of a lawsuit filed in 2014 by House Republicans, who said the Obama administration was paying the subsidies illegally. Without the subsidies, insurance markets could quickly unravel. Even more insurers could withdraw from the public marketplaces where more than 10 million Americans obtained coverage last year. Does this indicate that Trump anticipates Obamacare remaining the law in perpetuity? Or that he doesn't think the risk of having premium increases pinned more easily on him is worth the political hit while he's trying to repeal the overall law? Another factor may be trying to reassure carriers that he's working toward healthier individual markets and asking them to hang in there while Congressional Republicans work through their 'repeal and replace' process. I'll leave you with the president telling Fox Business that while tax reform is still a major priority, he needs to get the healthcare piece done first, for reasons we outlined yesterday: .@POTUS: "We are going to have a phenomenal tax reform but I have to do health care first." https://t.co/qkETJHyeB8 pic.twitter.com/PWfyDwrGPN — FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) April 11, 2017 repeal and replace	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5033
__label__wiki	0.588528	0.588528	Christmas Comes Early for Welsh Sports Association The partnership will offer exclusive discounts across St John Cymrus extensive range of training courses, event cover and first aid supplies; an essential part of at work and leisure space. Nearly every year 7 pupil across Anglesey is now e Over 190 Pupils Learn Lifesaving Skills Thanks to Cardiff City footballers back life-saving CPR camp Over 9,000 More Potential Lifesavers in Wales St John Cymru to Make Awareness of Mental Health St John Cymru to Make Awareness of Mental Health M The three-hour awareness course has been specifically designed by Training in Mind for St John Cymru and will cover a wide range of topics National First Aid Campaign Aims to Train Over 6,500 in Lifesaving Skills News: St John Cymru Announces Installation of Lifesaving Posted: 14th June 2019 Updated: 14th June 2019 Out of date range St John Cymru Announces Installation of Lifesaving Defibrillator On North Wales Business Park A brand new defibrillator has been installed on North Wales Business Park and is now available to businesses and the public to use in an emergency situation. The device, also known as an automated external defibrillator (AED), has been installed on the business park outside of the unit occupied by St John Cymru, Wales’ leading first aid charity, in Abergele. Businesses and communities surrounding the training centre area will also benefit from the installation as the defibrillator will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the public to use in an emergency. A defibrillator is easy to use and can be placed on someone to give a shock to the heart during a cardiac arrest. The device analyses a casualty’s heart rhythm and will give visual or voice instructions to guide someone through each step to use one in an emergency. Only when it is safe to do so will the device advise and administer a shock. St John Cymru Director of Training, Jon Phillips, said: “We’re delighted our unit is now fully equipped with a defibrillator so the centre is ready in a life-threating situation.” Darren Millar, Clwyd West Assembly Member, who viewed the defibrillator on Friday, said: “I have long been calling for the delivery of defibrillators in all major public buildings and schools, so I am extremely pleased that one has been installed on North Wales Business Park, Abergele, close to my constituency office. “The chances of surviving a cardiac arrest are increased by up to 70% when a defibrillator is used and I have no doubt that having this defibrillator on the Business Park will provide people working and visiting the site with the reassurance that they could help in a potentially life-threatening situation.” St John Cymru’s Abergele training centre opened in May has proven a valuable asset to the area with well-attended courses happening daily. The centre will be home to a wide range of community first aid awareness courses, free for the public to attend. The next 2-hour Public Access Defib Awareness session will be held 8th July and will provide people in the local community the opportunity to empower themselves with the skills and confidence to use a defibrillator in an emergency. More information about St John Cymru and the courses available at their training centre in Abergele can be found at: www.stjohn.wales/training Picture Caption: Geoff Gower St John Cymru Trainer with Clwyd West AM Darren Millar	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5035
__label__wiki	0.778839	0.778839	Manage a Fund Join a Giving Circle Professional Advisor Resources Resources for Nonprofits Nonprofit FAQs Our Focus: Thriving People, Vibrant Places Giving Together What Matters 2020: A Celebration of Community Philanthropy I am a philanthropist! What Matters: A History Stories & Resources Triangle Data & Information Log In To A Fund Grant Portal Busting Myths and Making Change Posted June 21, 2019 Adrienne Anderson It’s a gray Friday morning, but the East Durham Children’s Initiative (EDCI) halls are bright with color and song. Over the muffled chorus of the children’s song “Baby Shark”, David Reese and Barker French share the core beliefs that steer their incredibly successful organization. EDCI’s mission is to create a pipeline of high-quality services, from birth through high school graduation, for children and families living in a 120-block area of East Durham. Reese, the President and CEO of EDCI, is quick to set straight the biggest myth about the organization. Many assume that EDCI is just like every other organization—that they make change because of the hard-working staff and a clear goal. But what really sets EDCI apart is the community ecosystem they have convened. “We’ve got an amazing team here,” says Reese. “The folks creating the magic are our families, our partners, our staff, and all the people who line up with us to move children along the continuum through their lives, from birth to college or a career.” This emphasis on community and partnership is the core tenet of EDCI’s work. Early in EDCI’s inception, Reese and the founding members heard a lot of the same thing: community members did not trust that they were here for the long haul. Over and over, East Durham residents saw organizations pop in, do some research, and leave. Barker French, a founding member and the current Board Chair of EDCI, says they used the collective impact model to drive their decisions. To provide a pipeline of services, EDCI collaborates with more than 35 partner organizations, including public schools, city and county agencies, health providers, civic organizations, universities, and other nonprofits. A complete listing of EDCI’s partners is available at http://edci.org/en/about/partners. The EDCI Collaborative funded by the United Way is a perfect example of collective impact at work. The EDCI Collaborative brings together nine organizations, including Family Connects, Healthy Families Durham, Child Care Services Association, Durham’s Partnership for Children, Duke Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, Durham Literacy Center, Duke Pediatrics, Durham Public Schools and EDCI to provide families with a continuum of early childhood supports to ensure children are prepared for kindergarten and to support parents in advocating for their children’s education. “The folks who live in the community know best,” says French. “We’re not here to tell anyone what to do, we’re here to find out what they need and see if we can help. If those same people are saying we’ve made a difference in their lives, that’s success.” Instead of starting with a pre-existing vision, the founding team started by asking questions. At their first community kitchen event, over 100 community members came together to share their input and be a part of the solution. From their first gatherings, EDCI has asked the community what they need, what they think works, and where they want to see change—and then, they work together to put action behind the answers they hear. “When we think about our programs, our success, we have to start here: what does success mean to the parents, to the 9-years-olds, to the 4-year-olds who are transitioning to kindergarten next year?” says David. “We have to be accountable back to these people, more than anyone else.” Above all, EDCI wants to make sure that people feel they are better off being involved with EDCI. The answer seems to be a resounding yes: their approval rate with enrolled parents and caregivers is impressive; 97% say that their Advocate provided helpful information to improve their child’s education and 99% say that EDCI helped them to feel more connected to their community. And while the staff and board use thorough data in addition to anecdotal evidence, it’s the enthusiasm and appreciation of their families that they care about most. “Having our families and the people we are connected with say we’ve made a difference in their lives is what matters,” says French. EDCI’s success has garnered lots of attention from neighborhoods across Durham and cities across the state. But that’s where another myth shows up: some people believe EDCI can duplicate their work for any other neighborhood in a similar situation, and achieve the same positive outcomes. Reese is careful to explain that EDCI can serve as a model for other communities, but because its programs are driven by community input, a version of EDCI in any other community would look different. As French points out, not all of Durham is made up with the same people that have contributed to the program in the EDCI zone. Even in Walltown, another Durham neighborhood with similar challenges to East Durham, starting a program would require a significant investment of time to build the relationship with that community. “EDCI started with an outgrowth of a community effort to drive change,” says Reese. “And we don’t have success if we don’t have leadership on the board and in the community.” Along with their achievements, EDCI is facing its own questions about their changing community. As gentrification moves across Durham, the EDCI zone is changing. Families that have long been a part of the organization are moving outside the 120-block scope of the original program. EDCI kids are in schools across the city. The EDCI team are asking themselves what’s next. While cloning EDCI in different areas is not the answer, it is possible to replicate the model. But French and Reese believe that process must start with listening to communities and building authentic relationships. Here’s the third big myth about EDCI: despite its name, EDCI is not just about East Durham. The accomplishments they celebrate and opportunities they face are about all of Durham. It is about making Durham a more equitable place for all its residents. “Every young person in Durham should have the opportunity to have the same success,” Reese says. “All kids deserve what EDCI has to offer. You might call that a challenge, and it is a challenge—it’s daunting! But it’s also an opportunity and that’s what keeps us excited.” Wherever EDCI turns its attention next, their collaborative spirit will guide the way. They remain committed to learning from each other, from the parents and children in their programs, and from their partner organizations. On the way out to a meeting with a partner, Reese and French stop by story hour in the room down the hall. Shouts of “Hola, Mr. David! Hola Mr. Barker!” greet them at the door. They leave with smiles on their faces. “If you can’t tell,” Reese says, “we really enjoy doing this work together.” More Community Development See All › Community Development See All › Confronting Poverty by Honoring Human Dignity Care for all: Vidas De Esperanza The Gift of Land Triangle Community Foundation PO Box 12729 Durham, NC 27709 800 Park Offices Dr, Suite 201, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Privacy Policy — Copyright © 2019 Triangle Community Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Site by Cuberis.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5042
__label__cc	0.654583	0.345417	Perseverance – Keep right on to the end – Eleven15 https://trullchurch.org.uk/podcast-player/6488/perseverance-keep-right-on-to-the-end.mp3 Speaker: Rev Dennis Cavaghan Also at the 8am and 9.30am services Personal remarks 9 Do your best to come to me quickly, 10 for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. 12 I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments. 14 Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. 15 You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message. 16 At my first defence, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. 17 But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Final greetings 19 Greet Priscilla[a] and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus ill in Miletus. 21 Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers and sisters.[b] 22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all. 2 Timothy 4:19 Greek Prisca, a variant of Priscilla 2 Timothy 4:21 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family. New International Version – UK (NIVUK)Holy Bible, New International Version® Anglicized, NIV® Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. 3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. ‘Tell us,’ they said, ‘when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?’ 4 Jesus answered: ‘Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, “I am the Messiah,” and will deceive many.6 You will hear of wars and rumours of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth-pains. 9 ‘Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. New International Version – UK (NIVUK)Holy Bible, New International Version® Anglicized, NIV® Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5044
__label__cc	0.680729	0.319271	FYS-3023 Applied remote sensing - 10 stp FYS-3023 Applied remote sensing - 10 ECTS Applicants from Nordic countries: 1 June for the autumn semester and 1 December for the spring semester. Applicants from outside the Nordic countries: 1 October for the spring semester and 15 April for the autumn semester. The course will only be taught if there are sufficiently many students. Please contact the student adviser as soon as possible if you are interested in following the course. Admission requirements are a Bachelor's degree in physics or similar education, including specialization in physics worth the equivalent of not less than 80 ECTS credits. Local admission, application code 9371 - singular courses at Master's level. The course will give a practical introduction to methods and algorithms used for analyzing and interpreting Earth observation data. Focus will be on how Earth observation data can be applied to study and monitor the climate and the environment. The course will contain elements of image processing, pattern recognition and texture analysis. It has a significant practical component, in which various applications will be discussed. FYS-2006 Signal processing, FYS-2007 Statistical signal theory, FYS-2010 Digital image processing, FYS-3001 Physics of remote sensing, FYS-3012 Pattern recognition describe fundamental principles of remote sensing by synthetic aperture radar sensors and multi-spectral optical sensors describe a number of satellite remote sensing application areas within (but not limited to) the marine, cryosphere, and forest domains discuss and select appropriate remote sensing sensors and modes applicable to a given application discuss and select basic signal processing, image processing, and pattern recognition techniques applicable in the analysis of remote sensed imagery explain the application domains of synthetic aperture radar and multi-spectral optical sensors with respect to environmental monitoring analyze remote sensed data by applying various segmentation methods, multi-channel feature extracting method, and classification methods give a basic interpretation of synthetic aperture radar and multi-spectral optical Earth observation data implement or apply methods and algorithms in available software for analysis of remote sensed data Portfolio assessment of project assignments counting about 40 % and a final oral examination counting about 60 %. All modules in the portfolio are assessed as a whole and one combined grade is given. Assessment scale: Letter grades A-F. Postponed examination (sections 17 and 21): Students with valid grounds for absence will be offered a postponed examination. Both postponed project assignments and postponed oral examination are arranged during the semester if possible, otherwise early in the following semester. Coursework requirements: Access to the final examination requires submission of project assignments.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5049
__label__wiki	0.675163	0.675163	Home Tag Archives: Tajikistan (page 2) Tag Archives: Tajikistan Uzbekistan carpets: history and traditions in : Archives, Arts & Culture, Central Asia When we talk about the carpets of Central Asia, we typically mean those produced by Turkmens. However, the production of this homemade handicraft was historically widespread among other peoples of the region: Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Arabs, Tajiks, and Uzbeks, Emira Gyul. She focuses specifically on the Uzbek tradition of carpet weaving. by Elmira Gyul Carpet-weaving is an amazing art with which mankind … Food poisoning kills 14 prison inmates in Tajikistan in : Central Asia, Conflict, High Asia Region, Latest, Politics Tajikistan has opened a criminal investigation after 14 prison inmates died of food poisoning while being transferred from Tajikistan’s northern Sogd region to prisons in Dushanbe, Norak, and Yovon in southern Tajikistan on July 7. “During transportation, one of the prisoners shared three pieces of bread with another 15 inmates in Varzab Valley,” the Justice Ministry said in a … The Central Asia collection at the British Library in : Afghanistan, Archives, Arts & Culture, Central Asia, Features, Latest, Slider, US Zaynab Mukhammad-Dost The Turkish and Turkic Collections at the British Library are the largest collections of manuscript and printed material from the Turkic world housed anywhere in the United Kingdom, says Michael Erdman in an Interview with Zaynab Mukhammad-Dost. What is special about the British Library’s Turkish and Turkic collections? What is the most treasured item? Does the British Museum, … Festival of togetherness in : Central Asia, Education, Features, High Asia Region, Media, Pamir Ranges Herald Report The University of Central Asia (UCA) organised the “Festival of Togetherness” on its campus in Khorog, Tajikistan, recently. Badakhshan TV produced a special news report in Tajiki language highlighting the salient features of the festival. The festival is one of UCA students’ initiatives and its objective is to showcase the cultures, traditions and values of different nations, and to encourage … Experts for sustainable, eco-friendly mineral extraction in : Central Asia, Conflict, Economy, Environment, Latest Herald Report Experts, academics and government representatives have called for sustainable exploration of mineral deposits and safeguarding the interests of indigenous communities and environment. They discussed the environmental and economic challenges in mining sector at a roundtable conference organised by the University of Central Asia’s Institute of Public Policy and Administration (IPPA) of the Graduate School of Development in Bishkek, … Former Tajik opposition member jailed for 15 years in : Central Asia, Latest, Politics KHUJAND, Tajikistan — A court in Tajikistan has sentenced a former member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) to 15 years in prison after a controversial extremism trial. The April 9 ruling at a hearing in the northern city of Khujand followed Naimjon Samiev’s return late last year from Russia to Tajikistan under murky circumstances, with rights … Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan sign accord to ease tension on border in : Central Asia, Conflict, Latest, Politics Herald Report Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan authorities have signed agreement to ease tension on the borders of the two Central Asian countries after three days’ negotiation at the Chorkuh village of Khoji Alo Jamoat (municipality). The road that connects the Voruh exclave with the city of Isfara was opened today, after a five-day blockade. The road, previously blocked by the Kyrgyz side, was … Situation tense on Tajik-Kyrgyz border in : Central Asia, Conflict, High Asia Region Two Tajiks killed, over 30 wounded in two days clashes; Kyrgyz authorities evacuate two villages on the border area Herald Report Tense situation on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border continues amid talks between the authorities of the two neighbouring countries. Kyrgyz authorities have evacuated residents of two villages near a disputed section of its border with Tajikistan following deadly clashes in the area. … Second Tajik villager killed near Kyrgyz border in : Conflict, High Asia Region, Politics News Desk Deadly violence has broken out for a second consecutive day along a disputed section of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border after Kyrgyzstan restarted construction work on a controversial road in the area. An official in Tajikistan’s interior ministry told RFE/RL that one villager from Tajikistan’s Vorukh exclave in the Ferghana Valley was shot dead on March 14 and two others … Badakhshan development: new governor seeks Pamiri expats’ help in : High Asia Region, Latest, Pamir Ranges By Shohgulkhon Shahboz TAJIKISTAN: New governor of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast or province (GBAO) has asked the Pamiri expatriates to play a role in the development of the region. Governor Yodgor Fayzov has called upon the Pamiris living abroad to contribute to the efforts of the government in the development of the mountainous region with their knowledge and expertise. “The mountainous region …	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5057
__label__cc	0.591054	0.408946	The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape On a chronological journey that takes him from postwar poets and artists to the late twentieth century and the free party scene, King assimilates the mythical concept of the English countryside by way of Ralph Vaughan Williams' original score. The Pine Islands Our latest book club read is The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann. This journey of two lost souls explores an unlikely friendship, transformation and acceptance in modern Japan. The Hidden Life of Trees Our June read is The Hidden Life of Trees by the brilliant Peter Wohlleben - a fascinating insight into the social life of forests and the age-old partnerships of nature conspiring to grow harmoniously. This month we're immersing ourselves in the world of suburban England with Max Porter’s excellent new novel. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History Our April read is Kassia St. Clair's The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History. 6 Books for Our Times by Female Writers On World Book Day we select six writers who will inspire you to take action, to ignite social & political change, and to take a stand for the environment we all share. This month we're reading Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour Why We Sleep: A Review Our valuable take-aways from the fascinating Bible for all things sleep by Mathew Walker.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5060
__label__cc	0.65806	0.34194	Remember Comic Books? By Shawn Taylor June 11, 2015 June 12, 2015 2 Comments on Remember Comic Books? Remember comic books? Those flimsy sheets of paper emblazoned with colorful superheroes battling diabolical supervillains in space, in an underground lair, in a bunker, under the sea, or in parallel dimensions? Those passports to wonder that are the progenitors of the DC and Marvel Cinematic Universes and their respective television properties? Yeah, they’ve been completely overshadowed by their on-screen interpretations. Most people enjoying super heroics on the big and small screens aren’t comic fans. This isn’t a bad thing. I know tons of people who loved the Harry Potter films, but have yet to read word one of J.K. Rowling’s epic texts. There are still some of us who are huge comic book fans, and have been feeling a little cheated by the Big Two. All isn’t lost in the lands of DC and Marvel. Both companies are putting out some quality content. DC has a few really good books out right now: Gotham Academy. Such a great world. Batgirl. Great adventure storytelling. The upcoming Cyborg series written by my brother, David F. Walker. And Gotham by Midnight has the potential to be a breakout series. For a while, I had to steer very clear from DC’s mainstream super-books because the New 52, and its aftermath, was just so underwhelming on almost every level from creativity to enjoyment. Now it is Convergence. Not sure where DC’s priorities are—or how much of a say their parent company, Warner Bros. has—but these events are getting old, and are wholly uninspiring. But the aforementioned titles, and a handful of others, are worth your weekly trip to retrieve your pull. There is just no way around it; Marvel is having almost supernatural success on the big and small screens. But it seems as if it is their priority. I get it. Film and television make more money than all their titles combines. But it feels like they are being nigh contemptuous of the comic fan. Just take a look for their anti-support of the Fantastic Four book and Fantastic Four and X-Men merchandising. But Marvel is providing us with some wonderful reads: Ms. Marvel is a joy to read month-to-month. I don’t care for the Star Wars films — or the now defunct Expanded Universe — but Marvel’s Star Wars comics are great. A-Force. Read this book. Battleworld (check out issue #2 to see the most unlikely pairing, once again written by David. F. Walker) kick-ass. But I’m still experiencing Marvel as brushing off the folks who got them through their bankruptcy (remember that) by allowing their Disney to show more and more: “We’re a successful movie studio now, and comics are kind of over. We roll with the Mouse.” But the greatest thing about comics is that you do not have to rely on the Big Two. I’ll concede that DC and Marvel are the Big Two in terms of space they take up. They are everywhere. I’d put them in the Big Three or Four when it comes to enjoyment. I would give the number one and two spots to Image Comics and Archaia from Boom! Studios. If you are feeling like Bats and Spidey are letting you down, I urge you to give these two a try. Off top, with Image, you can get initial story runs collected for $9.99. What a respectful thing to do for your audience. five to six issues for this price is a godsend when comics are the first to go when you have to create a workable budget. Second, they produce East of West. Hands down, East of West is my favorite comic since the demise of Planetary. I won’t even summarize it here for you. Just go and pick it up. Now. For real. The second volume of Danger Club dropped on June 10, 2015. Danger Club is another book you need to read. It is inventive in a way that most superhero books no longer care to be, but has enough (non-cynical) self-awareness to poke fun at legion of superhero tropes. Also, Hoax Hunters is freaking phenomenal. Imagine a monster/legend hunting reality show that is a cover for actual monster hunting. Yeah, cop this, too. For some super wild reads, Archaia has a few titles that I recommend wholeheartedly. The Reason for Dragons is a necessary whimsy. Mouse Guard is a long-time favorite for tons of people. Great art and storytelling. Titanium Rain is the best military fiction comic I’ve ever read. They’re doing justice in their continuation of the Space: 1999 universe. And for one of the most complex and intriguing systems of magic rendered in the comic form, grab the collected The Secret History. While many of you, I’m sure, are beholden to the DC/Marvel axis, I urge you to venture out. There is a wealth of stories (many of them better) from other publishers. DC and Marvel may continue rehashing their cataclysmic gimmicks ad nauseam, expecting us to fawn over the scraps of their increasing lack of imagination. There are other sources out there — publishers who still care about comic books, instead of using comics as mini proof-of-concepts for film or television properties. Go and get your fix. Tags: A-Force Archaia Batgirl Boom! Studios Cyborg Danger Club DC Comics East of West Gotham Academy Gotham by Midnight Hoax Hunters Image Comics Marvel Comics Mouse Guard Ms. Marvel Reason for Dragons Secret Wars Space: 1999 Star Wars The Secret History Titanium Rain Pimp7son says: Great post. I agree, Image is the shit. My favorite comics are Image: Saga, Deadly Class, ODC-Y, Sex Criminals, Rat Queens, Shutter, Wicked & Divine, Wayward, Old Walking Dead…… So many more. vedaarth17 says: Reblogged this on blacklightmafia. Previous Entry An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling about the American Wizarding School in Fantastic Beasts Next Entry NOC Recaps Daredevil: The Trial of the Incredible Matthew Murdock	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5064
__label__wiki	0.531153	0.531153	Amniotechnics By Sophie Lewis January 25, 2017 A politics of holding water is central to struggles around kinmaking, including reproductive justice, migrant solidarity, and indigenous sovereignty HOW do you bring a body to life? First, you have to have some kind of tank. Filmmakers have frequently depicted Dr. Frankenstein’s adult baby—and knock-off versions of him—in a bath full of electric brine. So, get a tank. Of course, you could just get some friends together and try your luck at getting pregnant. But pregnancy per se is much less commonly thought of as a magical Frankensteinian tank, let alone as creative labor. To my knowledge, all humans in history have been manufactured underwater: in amniotic fluid. Amniotic fluid (in Latin: liquor amnii) is initially a mix of water and electrolytes and later sugar, scraps of vagrant DNA, fats, proteins, piss and, often, shit. As pre-borns, our embryonic mouths, noses and lungs are filled with this “liquor.” We move our tiny diaphragms and intercostal muscles in a dedicated rehearsal of future breathing, but we do not breathe. Nor do we drown. It is said that some escapologists and deepwater divers will try to slow their heart-rates by “remembering” this time before fear—this state of non-antagonism towards water—to calm themselves enough to perform their tasks. Water typically abandons a pregnancy and drains away—heralding the beginning of pregnancy’s end—because of a signal from fetal body chemistry, which at the same time forces the liquor out of the fetus’s lungs in preparation for their meeting the unwet world. In a C-section, it is a scalpel that releases the water. In each scenario, exit from liquor amnii and the death (by stretching) of the oxygen-providing umbilical cord, trigger an irreversible and rather bittersweet development: the replacement of water by air in certain core pipelines of our anatomies. Yet, even as we become land-dwelling animals for whom drowning is an ever-present danger, humans remain overwhelmingly water. It might be fine for fetuses—as the countless water births on YouTube attest—but it is extremely dangerous for people to be filled with baby-making water. A person does not suddenly become an amphibian by virtue of becoming pregnant. Yet she (usually a she) is flooded from the inside: control of the circulation overridden, arteries jammed wide-open, blood pressure forced into overdrive. A plug forms, to seal as much as a liter in the vessel that is the amnion, the placental tank. Gestation, like all labor, is cyborg. It is an unbalanced techno-social co-production involving less than two but more than one. Lest that sound cozy, molecular biologist Suzanne Sadedin is eager to point out that the unborn homo sapiens deploys all manner of “manipulation, blackmail and violence” as its contribution to being made. Deploys against who? After all, as pre-persons, these tiny animals are part of the mother. Though the DNA might be utterly distinct, fetuses are—during pregnancy and for a while afterwards—concretely a part of their holder-nurturers; almost a kind of organ. The idea that two discrete selves exist in pregnancy seems linguistically necessary to describe what happens there, but it is factually dubious. Given advances in understandings of chimerism (cellular cross-colonization between organisms) and symbiogenesis (interspecies cooperation) in recent years, it almost seems eccentric to believe in individual autonomy nowadays, let alone in fetal autonomy. The word “individual” by definition never referred imaginatively to gestators anyhow. To an extent, bodies are always leaky, parasited and non-unitary: as the vital and varied flora of bacteria in every body, not just gestating ones, demonstrates. In the accounts of earthly life given by biologists such as Lynn Margulis, we are all revealed to be disconcertingly pregnant, multiply-pregnant with myriad entities, bacteria, viruses and more, some of whom are even simultaneously gestating us (or rather, providing some crucial developmental functions on our behalf). It is impossible to deny, however, that fetuses (themselves full of parasites and symbionts) distinguish themselves. They do so brutally. Whereas in most species the mother’s safety comes first by default, in humans it is very common to extract a live baby from the body of the person its development has killed. So, to say that they are a “part” of the mother isn’t to suggest that human fetuses harmoniously cooperate with their environing flesh, or that they defer to its interests. In our species, embryos tunnel, colonize, control and dominate other tissues that make up the pregnancy-relation. In many ways, human gestator-labor is far more a matter of the body saying “no” to the demands of fetal cells than it is a matter of saying “yes.” And defending against pregnancy’s aggression is why humans have periods in the first place: as Sadedin explains, menstruation is a stupidly costly and elaborate pre-emptive defense mechanism against a possible embryo’s extractive attack. Most animals don’t ever die of gestation. Humans do, though, in droves. Hemorrhage is the most common way—an internal pooling—death by liquid at the site where life tried liquidly to become. Much has been written on the view of pregnancy, in antiquity, as a dutiful woman’s self-sacrificing encounter with death. To be pregnant was famously conceptualized by the Ancient Greeks as an act of soldierly courage symmetrically counterposed to men’s civic duty to brave death in war. 1 [1. For instance, see the first three chapters of Mary O’Brien’s The Politics of Reproduction (1981).] And, according to some etymologists, the word “amnion”—the inner membrane of the placenta—is a diminutive of the word for lamb (amnos)… as in lambs to the slaughter. “Amnion” is also said to derive from ἀμνίον, the Greek for a bowl or bucket “in which the blood of sacrificed animals (or human victims) was caught.” Clearly, the Greeks were confused about who the lamb is in the situation, since the last thing the contents of the amnion resembles behaviorally is a little lamb, meek and mild. Furthermore, there are many interlocking bowls and membranes “down there.” The amnion doesn’t fill with blood, ever, except in some types of abortion; menstruation is a feature of the endometrium. The amnion is a sac of water, analogous to the Promethean tank, which in the masculine sci-fi fantasy, is abstracted and scientifically removed from kinship relations. In reality, of course, it can’t be abstracted. It is at the next layer, between the placenta’s outer membrane, the chorion, and the endometrium, that the sacrificial blood is typically “caught” during hemorrhage. But who holds and catches whose blood? Who rips into whom? Frankenstein or the monster? Gestator or gestatee? It is asymmetrically, transgenerationally both. What’s certain is that monsters rampage, as Mary Shelley wrote, because of a lack of care. Perhaps, in the end, it was the man of science, denied the chance to be a mother, who was the bigger monster on the rampage. Amniotechnics is the art of holding and caring even while being ripped into, at the same time as being held. It is protecting water and protecting people from water. I want a generalized praxis of this, which doesn’t forget the importance of holding mothers and thwarted mothers and, yes, even wannabe “single fathers,” afloat in the juice; breathing but hydrated; well-watered but dry. I hope it is possible even for fantasists of ectogenetic progeny, like Frankenstein, who have dreamed of a birth unsullied by a womb, to become capable amniotechnicians in time. Their worldviews may not hold water, but I think they too have to be held. It is possible for any of us to learn that it is the holders—not the delusional “authors,” self-replicators and “patenters”—who truly people the world. “Water management” may sound unexciting, but I suspect it contains the secrets to the kinmaking practices of the future. There’s enough kinmaking needed on Earth to go around—and we’ve consented too much to the privatization of procreativity. Midwives to the front! By midwives I mean all those comradely interveners in the more slippery moments of social reproduction: crossing borders; blockading lake-threatening pipelines; miscarrying. Let’s all learn right now how comradely beings can help plan, mitigate, interrupt, suffer, and organize this banal yet sublime amniotic violence. Let’s think how we can assist in this regenerative wet-wrestling, sharing its burden. A live birth took place at Standing Rock. It was, reportedly, an event in which dozens of midwives participated. “Our first home is water,” said some of these midwives—for instance Melissa Rose, Yuwita Win, Carolina Reyes—patiently repeating this message to reporters and broadcasters who crowded around; “water is our first medicine.” It is under the banner of “water protection” that 2016’s epochal mobilization of Indigenous people in the U.S. and supporters has taken place: a blockade of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). If there were just one slogan for the mass revolt, it would be the Lakota phrase “mni wiconi”; “water is life.” Less commonly known is the fact that Mni Wiconi is also the actual name for a potable water pipeline that risks contamination and corrosion, in three places, from the planned oil pipeline. As well as representing an ideology, Mni Wiconi is thus a literal pre-existing infrastructure serving several parts of nearby indigenous reservations: ecology and technics. The need and desire for water-provisioning technology is being vindicated over the interests of swifter fossil fuel transport. It is, I feel tempted to say, a cyborg concept of water—water as social and pre-social, water as companion technology, water as both medium and message—which animates live rebellion against crude oil routes threatening the integrity of Lake Oahe and the Missouri river. Water rights and reproductive justice are inseparable. The content of this connection, however, is often wrongly associated with a primitivist ecofeminism rooted in colonial and sex-essentialist imaginaries popular among white environmentalists. By way of antidote, the radical midwife Wicanhpi Iyotan Win Autumn Lavender-Wilson (henceforth Wicanhpi) theorizes this relationship with the help of a long line of decolonial science and materialism: It was through the work of Fanon and Memmi, LaDuke and Deloria, that I came to midwifery. As Dakota people, we understand that “mni wiconi” is not some fluffy abstract concept designed to fuel some hokey pseudo-spiritual practice. [C]lean water has the power to heal, contaminated water has the power to kill. For me, these words illuminate amniotic water as something that “complexity” theorist John Urry might call a “global fluid.” Rather than equate water with a universal concept of “life,” Wicanhpi approaches liquid as the historic ground of life in particular. Techniques for curating amniotic water, as she suggests, must integrate the dual meaning of “care” (pain and relief) and the double power of medicine (poison and cure). We have to make sure there isn’t too much, or too little [amniotic water]. From the lead-contaminated water poisoning the children of Flint, Michigan, to cancer caused by PFOA contamination in the water of Hoosick Falls, New York, to Newark public schools giving lead-contaminated water to their entire student and staff population… to the consequences of uranium mining, nuclear waste facilities, fracking, oil spills and outdated public works systems… [water politics] is and has been a lived reality for many Indigenous nations for the past several decades. Crucial to the practical awareness of pregnancy’s liquid molecular joy and violence is, as Dakota midwives like Wicanhpi suggest, consciousness of its embeddedness in global structures of social reproduction. Pregnancy is bound up with colonialism, white supremacy, capital, and gender—but also resistance. The work of social reproduction brings forth new hope for revolutionary struggle, but also produces new lives for oppressors to suck and crush. A birth under unlivable conditions can be a kind of obstinacy—a rebellion—but it would be wrong to assume it is always so. Take the concrete lack of freedom not to gestate faced by thousands of people migrating into Europe from Syria and sub-Saharan Africa currently. Sometimes waters meet water. Following democratically approved policy to stop saving people via Mare Nostrum, the Mediterranean has become an open grave. A bad amnion, an utterly unviable one that catches the blood of migrant mothers and babies indiscriminately: [A]n Eritrean woman, thought to be about twenty years old, had given birth as she drowned. Her waters had broken in the water. Rescue divers found the dead infant, still attached by the umbilical cord, in her leggings. The longest journey is also the shortest journey. [2. Frances Stonor Saunders, “Where on Earth Are You?,” London Review of Books 38, no. 5 (2016).] The woman’s name, according to this article, was Yohanna. She and 367 other dead people were found on this particular day in 2013 off the coast of Lampedusa. Had Yohanna made it ashore to give birth, I hope that she would have been okay. Much-needed organizations like Care for Refugee Interim Baby Shelters (CRIBS) are helping get people out of the sea, and the fetuses inside them out of them, while also helping secure the free, safe contraception people are obviously entitled to. Through CRIBS I know that in some refugee camps in Greece, the rate of caesarean section is up to 90 percent. Even as they perform these dangerous surgeries, which take months to recover from, organizations like the Red Cross are doing nothing to help people who are condemned to endure these conditions indefinitely not to get pregnant again (and again, and again). For this and other reasons (including charges of doctors manually raping) refugees, CRIBS is highly critical of the Red Cross on the ground. There’s nothing wrong with a timely C-section, of course—but mud and rain and sweat and tears and garbage and permanently elevated adrenaline and cortisol levels are not the kinds of healing leaks that a comradely amniotechnician would want to get in the vicinity of a uterus on the run that has been sliced open seven layers deep. The world needs an end to criminally thoughtless cuts, both fiscal and obstetric. Yohanna was murdered by borders: others are dying because of much smaller and more localized cuts. This call for amniotechnics is an insufficient response to this violence, but I do think we might find that it is revolutionary to direct care towards the technologies we use—pipes and bowls and boats and baths and flood-barriers and scalpels—in order to hold, release and manage water. It is difficult to track what counts as “inside” and “outside” of bodies. Blood and amniotic liquor, baby-food and baby-drink and soil and brains and plants and river and sea are largely water as are people (60 percent of them). Impossible to keep such damp beings cleanly apart, a humane amniotechnics would not be the fantasy of an aseptic separation between all these spaces and entities, but would rather be the art of timing desired or needful openings between them that are savvy, safer, and conducive to flourishing. When is it time to release a boundary? When is it time to keep (cervix-like) a space firmly sealed? When is a bandage ready to come off? How can a city become tsunami-proof? Coining the term “amniotechnics” is intended to evoke a cyborg ecology of liquid that is métis (experimenting from below) and traceable—from barrier reefs to blastocysts, from reservoirs to individual veins, brains, and kidneys. Maya Weeks, a friend, embodied the idea for me through her lifelong project of caring about oceans and lakes. Weeks is always testing, filtering, swimming in, cleaning up, getting to know and writing about water wherever it sloshes and splashes. “There’s nothing like a swim through a watery wasteland to make you rethink our actions, our stuff (and where we put it), and the relationships we have here,” she has written. “By peering into the ocean of toxic soup, we see our current reality reflected back: we’re actually poisoning the world around us through the ways we relate to each other.” As Weeks well knows, though, there is no such thing as “pure” water. There never was; we must abandon that false dream. We will always be breathing each other’s vapors, drinking each other’s exhaust or, as Donna Haraway puts it in Staying with the Trouble (2016), “swimming in urine.” (Pregnant mares’ piss is needed to make pills that help menopausal humans—Haraway explores how every being involved could receive care). Another amniotechnical inspiration is GynePunk, the Catalonian “cyborg,” “DIY/Do It Together” laboratory collective that practices mechanical and hormonal contraception, abortion, gynecology, midwifery, endocrinology, herbalism, obstetrics and witchcraft, using 3D printing and ideas borrowed from trans “sex-hacker” Paul Preciado. [3. Preciado theorizes “the liquid and microprosthetic future of technologies for controlling sexuality” in Testo Junkie, trans. Bruce Benderson (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013) p.216.] Within Preciado’s conceptualization of pharmaco-pornographic capitalism, droplets of sweat, “crystalline mists,” injectables, gel capsules, and hormones (both “naturally” or artificially produced) are all part of the “liquid power” undergirding gender relations. He demands we become better at using and sharing them. The cause for “water protection” holds not because liquid is benign and romantic but, actually, precisely because it is a kind of frenemy within. Water is very accommodating. It is easy to taint and to flavor and exceedingly difficult to wipe clean of the traces of ignorant deeds. It is by far the greater part of us, yet with just the slightest change of proportion it will drown us; it is entirely dead, yet teeming with the life that can’t exist without it; it is far bigger than us and it is utterly, blithely inhuman. Hold it better, and kinship might grow between strangers. 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__label__cc	0.583348	0.416652	Tag Archives: Dame Nellie Melba Thursday, 24 October, 2013 · 5:48 pm A very bourgeois uprising… 1969 Parfum de Revolte by Histoires de Parfums The Perfumed Dandy’s Scented Letter “Well if it isn’t our dear Dame Nelly of Notre Dame!?!” He swept into the shop with a flourish and such force that it left the bell above the door ringing for some moments after his grand entrance. “Open even today!” His wide Gallic face, flushed with the unseasonal cold May air and no doubt a ‘medicinal’ mid-morning brandy or two, glowed red and shone a little from the effort of guiding his enormous frame up the hill of the rue Mouffetard. He hazarded in English and his hilarious, even to him, as-broad-as-his-belly French accent. He once told her as they were sharing a rum baba and watching world go by on a particularly slow day that he modelled his manner of speaking English on the Queen of England’s attempts at French… “All the words are there, and arranged most correctly, the grammar is immaculate… but the mouth, it does its own thing, the tongue is trapped in its native language.” She laughed then, as she always did with him, and encouraged the story on. “Yes, Elizabeth and I, we are both engaged in an attempt to speak each other’s language through the medium of our own. She speaks French through the medium of English and I English French.” Since then his few and far between Anglo-Saxon words would always be known between them as ‘English French’. Standing before her now, unwrapping and depositing his various silk scarves around the store, a latter day elephantine male rendering of Salome’s dance, he stopped suddenly and fixed a stare upon her, raised first his right eyebrow and then both his arms. It looked to anyone but her like an invitation to be embraced by his so-thick-they-might-be-wings arms, indeed the first time she had rushed forward to receive the hug, only to be batted away like a naughty child. “This is not an invitation to intimacy. It is an expression of curiosity! What wares have you to tempt me today?” For this is why he travelled up the ‘mountain’ as he called it, every morning, past at least a dozen perfectly competent French owned and run bakeries, epiceries and pattiseries to come to her tiny hole in the wall just before the Place de la Contrascarpe. She was the avant garde of the cake and pastry world of Paris. The revolutionary who’s mission it was to let everyone eat cake. He told her so, he told everyone so, in great and enthusiastic detail. Those who liked him would be most likely to describe him as ‘avuncular’ and compare him to a favourite uncle, those who didn’t thought him ‘overbearing’ and just like a despised sibling of, invariably, their father’s. Judging by the steady stream of customers who came through her door on the basis of his recommendations, there were more people who adored this funny uncle of a man than bore him a family grudge. “Well” she smiled, “We have your favourite…” Before she could finish his brows had danced a merry jig upon his forehead, all of which his eyes had rolled skywards to witness and now he was joining with her in near song , “Tarte aux peches Melba!” It was the dish that had won her the honour of being re-named after the great operatic soprano,that, and of course, the fact that she was an Australian, but they chose not to talk of that. His nose began to twitch now, as his manner took on that of Alice’s white rabbit, the game they played each day was underway. He would, by a process of deduction (or chance, she tended to think) ascertain what other curiosities she had cooked up that morning. Beyond the sweet tinned peach in syrup, coated with vanilla custard wrapped in the light baked almond smell of pastry cut through with sharp raspberry puree he detected… “Cardamom! Yes there is something of the East here today.” From below the counter she withdrew a tray of cardamom and clove infused French flan. He smiled, held up two figures in a ‘V’ modelled after Mr Churchill, not for victory now, but double portions. “Of course there is coffee, there is always coffee, and chocolate too… something tells me, my little antipodean songbird that you have put them together.” She drew back the tiny red velvet curtain that concealed a triple layered china cake stand balancing in the window. “Cappuccino crème brulee!!” This time four digits shot into the air, they were, after all “small” and “friends are forever falling on one’s hospitality”. He began to peer around the room, uncertain as to the final morsel of fun. “I smell roses.” He said with an air of triumph. “And yet in these vases of yours there are only white flowers and not one of them is a rose!” With a curtsey she revealed to knickerbocker glory glasses filled to the brim with gooey matter of many shades of pink and topped with a dusting of cream and then icing sugar. He shrugged his shoulders. Brought both hands to his mouth. She set down the glasses on the single circular table and they sat. Armed with long spoons they attacked her new invention. “A jelly of Turkish delight. Rose blancmange. Cardamom again in the cream.” “A triumph!” He exclaimed. “A trifle.” She responded. A frown forced those athletic brows down into a point above his fat nose. This was a word he did not know. From a pocket emerged his tiny pocket translation dictionary… plump fingers raced through the pages… ‘a thing of little value or importance’…” He looked seriously at her, the colour departing a little from his cheeks. “But I fear these are moments of great importance.” “Students are lifting cobblestones from the streets around the Sorbonne to throw them at the Gendarmes, their brothers, fathers, uncles sometimes. DeGaulle has left the country or so they say and millions have stayed at home today.” “We are on a precipice my little Pan of the pastry kitchen….” “But what is the value of worrying for now, when we have such delights in front of us!” “These are….”, she began. “The last desserts you have the ingredients to make.” He finished. “I know, but I have plenty put aside for such a time as this.” Histoires de Parfums’ 1969: Parfum de Revolte is a curiosity shop turned confisserie pattiserie of a scent. It is an eccentric uncle of a fragrance, dressed in crazily miss matched clothes that somehow come together to make a unique and engaging look. Being British, The Dandy finds himself incapable of resisting this slightly mad cap, if not downright peculiar, perfume, conceived it seems entirely on a whim. Everything starts out peachy, quite literally. Though what we are offered here is more akin to the canned fruit served swimming in rich syrup than anything picked straight from the branch. Yet, strangely, inexplicably in fact, the opening doesn’t cloy. This must I part be due to the surreal intrusion of a giant and garishly artificial rose in the heart. This improbable note is an inflatable toy rendering of the bloom, but somehow it works. This could be because this particular rose scent has as much to do with Ottoman pastry and nougat than the flower itself. The addition of spice, particularly cardamom, helps considerably and has the rather interesting effect of creating a ‘trompe le nez’ with hints of both mint and coconut appearing from apparently nowhere (as neither are listed in the official notes). The herb merges with clove and chocolate to form a sort of after dinner mint effect that paired with a subtle coffee has one getting ready from some brandy, that sadly never comes (presumably that would have been a step too far for even this olfactory oddity). Set out like that, the fragrance that emerges might sound like an ultra niche oddity concerned more with eliciting reaction than being beautiful. True, this is not a beautiful perfume, but it is a pretty, witty, engaging and highly attractive affair much more in the whole than the sum of its parts. Not unhinged at all, nor revolutionary, just a little off the wall. I’d wear it. 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__label__wiki	0.962774	0.962774	Usa latest news Andrew Yang opens up about his awkward high-school years and the ‘escape hatches’ he used to distract himself from not fitting in Andrew Yang recently spoke with Insider about his lonely high school years. “Growing up in my town, I was one of the only Asian kids and I’d skipped a grade,” Yang recalls. “And I did get called ‘chink’ and ‘gook’ a fair amount. So I wound up getting into fights that I would lose.” Things got a little better for the teenaged Yang after transferring to an elite boarding school in New Hampshire, but he still felt like an outsider. He got by with teenage pop culture “escape hatches” — music, video games, and comic books. Now he’s a successful entrepreneur, family man, and presidential contender who won the endorsement Rivers Cuomo, the Weezer frontman who wrote anthems about surviving teenage loneliness. Andrew Yang, the 2020 Democratic hopeful running a surprisingly successful outsider campaign based on giving every adult in the US a monthly basic income of $1,000, recently spoke with Insider about his lonely high school years. Yang was raised in the suburbs outside New York City, where he says he faced physical bullying and racist harassment. “Growing up in my town, I was one of the only Asian kids and I’d skipped a grade, so I was very scrawny and felt small and out of place,” Yang recalls to Insider. “And I did get called ‘chink’ and ‘gook’ a fair amount. So I wound up getting into fights that I would lose typically.” After two years of high school, he transferred to the elite Phillips Exeter Academy. Even though it was a better environment and a great place to learn, the New Hampshire boarding school was a long way from home and not much more welcoming socially to the teenaged Yang. “Showing up in 11th grade wasn’t easy because most people in the school had been there already and it was fairly well-established in terms of social circles,” he says. “I would go to the music center and just play piano for an hour or two. There was a local arcade in town that I would go to play video games. There was a comic book store I went to every week. Those were the teenage things I would do that were kind of escape hatches.” Now that Yang’s a presidential contender, a number of prominent pop culture figures have thrown their endorsements to him: including comedian Dave Chappelle and actor/writer/rapper Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino). 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Review: Get ready for some clever mind play in Haley’s ‘Nether’ MLK Classic: Bishop O’Dowd holds court against Heritage MLK Classic: O’Dowd edges Campolindo as freshman buries winning shot CU basketball drops to No. 23 but still ties program rankings mark Warriors fail to contain Damian Lillard, fall to Trail Blazers in overtime Deseret News Rewind: Recapping the seventh week of Utah high school girls basketball Hero Dad Saves Son from Coyote Attack by Killing Animal with His Bare Hands Utah Jazz finally play a good team, dominate Indiana Pacers by 30 Man Killed Trying to Help Driver of Stricken Truck After Big Rig Crashes Into Them Causing Explosion Non-Oncology Drugs Surprisingly Capable Of Killing Cancer Cells Copyright © 2020 Usa latest news. Theme: Excel Business by Excel Theme. Powered by WordPress .	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5072
__label__cc	0.533622	0.466378	Jubilee Games Fanous celebrated across the United States The Jubilee Games Fanous was celebrated across all seven regions of the United States, where the American Jamat resides. From coast to coast, the Fanous Roadshow makes its mark across Canada Ismailis across Canada were brought together by the Jubilee Games Fanous, and in a few day’s time over 330 athletes and coaching staff from Canada will take in its glow in Dubai together with their brothers and sisters from around the world. Theme song for the 2016 Jubilee Games The 2016 Jubilee Games Theme Song embodies the essence of the Jubilee Games for athletes, volunteers and spectators alike: Dream to excel in everything you do; compete to achieve excellence in sports or your passion in life; and pledge to unite as a community sharing common values. (-) Remove jubliee games filter jubliee games	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5079
__label__wiki	0.745573	0.745573	Pope Francis’ 2015: Family, ecology, but mostly mercy Dec 30, 2015 \| 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — At the Vatican and on five continents in 2015, Pope Francis continued to encourage and demonstrate a style of evangelization that emphasizes walking with people, listening to them and showing them... Four national Catholic publications call for ending the death penalty Dec 29, 2015 \| 2015 Archives, Sun March 12, 2015 By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Four nationally circulated Catholic publications called for abolishing the death penalty in the United States in a jointly published editorial. America, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter and Our... Dec 28, 2015 \| 2015 Archives, Latest news As the new year approaches, we’re taking a look back at some of the top stories of 2015. January Cummings appointed first female chancellor of diocese Pope issues ‘firmest condemnation’ of killings at French weekly Throwback game brings back... National Geographic shutterbug recalls photographing Pope Francis By Mark Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — A year ago on Christmas Day, National Geographic photographer Dave Yoder got an unexpected Christmas gift that he will never forget. Over a six-month period, he had taken tens of thousands of photos... Christ’s birth can bring peace, hope to suffering world, pope says By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) —- Christmas is a reminder that through the birth of Christ, hope and peace are possible and that only through his grace can humanity find peaceful solutions to the world’s most... Bishop Cunningham’s Christmas message to the clergy, religious and laity of the Diocese of Syracuse Dec 24, 2015 \| 2015 Archives, Latest news, Sun December 17, 2015 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests” (Lk 2:14). The song of the angels prompted the shepherds to go “in haste” to Bethlehem. Searching for the peace long awaited...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5082
__label__cc	0.562384	0.437616	Home Bloggers Lifewise What homeless people would do if they had a home What homeless people would do if they had a home If you were one of the over 30.000 Kiwis with no place to call home, what would life be like if you had a home? We asked people from Lifewise’s Merge Cafe who are currently homeless they would do first if they had a home. Most people spoke of the overwhelming feeling of happiness they would have if they could get off the streets and into a home: “I would be so grateful, so happy, and I’d thank God for everything” But it might surprise you how many people looked forward to doing chores that can really grate in everyday life. People said that what they looked forward to most was practical things like paying the rent, power, and for groceries. People also spoke of the joy they would have doing daily things like “cooking a home cooked meal – I would really enjoy it. I’m a great cook”. They were also keen to celebrate: “I would invite all my friends around for a beer! Then I’d pay all the bills”. People also said that they would “love to have a place to be with all the people I love -my friends and whanau could come and visit”. A lot of people also spoke wistfully of solitude “I would celebrate big time – alone!”. And then there were some really simple things that our team found incredibly heart-wrenching “praise my creator and turn the heater on”. And the one that really says it all: “I would LIVE”. We want to give these people the joy of their very own place to call home. Please donate to the Lifewise Big Sleepout today and get someone off the streets and into a permanent home. Previous articleHow Not To Be An Asshole Episode 19 – Isn’t There Supposed To Be A Cat Around Here Ft. Leilani Momoisea Next articleWas there a better way for Syriza? Helena July 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm Many of us have become lulled into accepting the status quo, especially in “developed” countries that we have become unaware of the underlying travesty of justice which deliberately creates poverty, ignorance and want. Everywhere we look there are security measures, police presence, rules in place to demand obedience to the most trivial and whimsical requirements which are designed to suppress individuality and enforce loyalty to authority, regardless of the legitimacy of that authority. Most of us believe the propaganda messages which blame the most vulnerable among us for their “failure’ to prosper. We have been taught the Punishment model which says that anyone not achieving according to the societal standard is guilty of laziness, selfishness and sloth and should therefore be punished for their lack of character by being deprived of assistance from those who have more than they do. This is the thinly veiled propaganda which has justified the monumental greed of “The Club” (to which we belong according to John key unbeknownst to us). The Club which has siphoned off the resources and wealth, leaving everyone else to compete for the crumbs. Even those who work for financially successful firms and who have been used to large salaries (and long hours) have been co-opted by this propaganda. The race to accrue more money has made everyone slaves to the corporate entities. Good people have been seduced into joining the ranks of slavery. Without these hard-working lackeys, the ones in power could not maintain and expand their iron grip on the world markets and therefore the world’s great wealth. Our fellow New Zealanders need us and we need them. A united stand for dignity, decency and respect for us all is needed. We see “The Club”, we recognize the propaganda for what it is and we will eventually achieve freedom in the true sense of the word. Helena July 16, 2015 at 7:15 am Karen Hudes, acting Senior Counsel to the World Bank (previously fired by same bank for speaking about its fraudulent dealings) is now speaking with World Leaders and Governments about a new Global Currency. Ms Hudes advises that the Banking Cabal has been stealing money from countries and their people for hundreds of years and that the time of the Cabal is now finished. She states that the debts of countries will be wiped off the books. Poverty, homelessness and helplessness will be confined to the barbaric age when the Cabal ruled unchallenged Mike in Auckland July 16, 2015 at 9:33 pm I watched One News tonight, and saw how Auckland business owners are now using sprinklers to drive away homeless sitting and sleeping outside their buildings and on access ways. And Michael Barnett, business spokesperson for Auckland business, he defended this, talking about the filth they leave behind. Good grief, what has this country become like, humanity and decency and respect are now alien words, I suppose, the media are otherwise more concerned for business making profits, and report critically about an opposition party “daring” to raise the issue that too many offshore buyers of residential real estate may be driving home prices into unaffordable territory. Using some sample statistical data, based on names, it is instantly labeled “racist”, while nobody holds the damned government to account about the disgusting policies and otherwise lack of honest action, to provide affordable, warm, healthy and safe homes to people. It is time to take more actions, and not just lament this state of affairs, they protested again in Athens, Greece, perhaps we need to learn from them, before we get into a similar situation, with ending up as tenants in our own country.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5085
__label__wiki	0.76842	0.76842	Life and Arts › Movies and TV › World War Zzzz Brad Pitt stars in "World War Z." Photo Credit: Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Published on June 25, 2013 at 4:12 pm Last update on June 25, 2013 at 6:51 pm By Alex Williams Of all the films coming out this summer, “World War Z” has the most potential to be a disaster. After all, its production has been a loudly publicized series of reshoots, conflicts and ballooning budgets, not to mention the film’s total departure from the fascinating and intelligent book it takes its title from. Unfortunately, “World War Z” isn’t the kind of notoriously bad movie that history loves to scoff at, but settles instead for being bland, forgettable and wholly uninteresting – arguably the worst sin a film can commit. “World War Z” chronicles the beginning of a zombie apocalypse, seen through the eyes of Gerry (Brad Pitt), a former UN field agent with an undefined skill that makes him essential to thwarting the zombie threat. After escaping Philadelphia with his wife (Mireille Enos) and daughters, Gerry deposits them on a military ship (one of the few safe havens on Earth) and sets off on a globe-trekking quest to find the cause of the zombie virus so he can cure it. “World War Z’s” biggest problem is easily its script, or lack thereof. The film is built around a handful of sequences of large-scale zombie chaos, and the story stringing them together is little more than Pitt running from country to country asking questions. Anything more, such as character development, stakes or anything for the audience to care about are apparently expendable, and half of the characters don’t even have names, much less personalities. This extends all the way to the top, and the script gives Gerry so few characteristics and so little depth that Brad Pitt is basically playing Brad Pitt throughout – he even adopts an orphan at the end of the film. If the action scenes were impressive enough to overshadow the film's flaws, the film might be passable. Unfortunately, director Marc Forster’s last big-budget film was “Quantum of Solace,” and that film’s action was the universally acknowledged weak link. Forster has improved to a level of basic competence with “World War Z,” but his CGI-heavy take on zombies as a high-speed hivemind bent on infecting humanity rather than consuming it simply makes the film harder to swallow. Even when the moments of spectacle work, especially in a fairly harrowing opening scene, there’s no tension, no personal investment, and nothing to latch onto except watching Brad Pitt run from zombies … again. Even disregarding how “World War Z” departs from its source material, it’s easy to see how thoroughly the film fumbles in the way it tells its story. There’s potential here for an interesting study of humanity under duress, or simply a big-budget celebration of undead chaos, but the film is constantly undercutting itself, either through its lackluster storytelling or the execution of pivotal moments. “World War Z” lifts plenty of tropes from standard zombie films, but the PG-13 rating absolutely flattens the tension and impact of these beats, and moments that should be horrifying are rendered inert, or worse, nonsensical by the film’s pussyfooting. “World War Z” is far from the kind of incredible train wreck that demands to be watched, just so you can see how terrible it’s going to get. Films like those are usually entertaining, either in spite of or because of their audacity, while “World War Z” is content with simply existing, devoid of any personality, emotion or compelling material. That lifeless shamble from one set piece to another, combined with the film’s low scare quotient and bloodless zombie attacks, renders it akin to entering a steakhouse ready to chow down on a bloody-plate porterhouse, only to be served a large helping of flavorless tofu. Director: Marc Forster	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5086
__label__wiki	0.989236	0.989236	The Daily Walkthrough – 3/26/18 "We all want to see behind the veil, don't we?" Skip to Section: League Land Over/Under Watch Dota-Thon Wake Me Up Before You CS:GO Wins And Fails Secret Unlocked Upcoming Releases And Events Select Section... In The News Weekend in review: Dean Evans, the creative director for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, has left Ubisoft, he said in an interview with Game Informer’s Matt Bertz. Sony got dinged by the United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority for a misleading Gran Turismo Sport ad. Read the ASA response here. Mitosis is occuring within MTG, Esports Insider’s Adam Fitch reports. “The company in which ESL and DreamHack fall under, is looking to split the company into two publicly traded companies.” The Esports Arena in Las Vegas had its grand opening over the weekend. Unikrn has the rundown with pictures. Live-action Street Fighter is in the works “from Entertainment One,” Engadget’s Richard Lawler reports. “The new show is based on the plot of the Street Fighter II game, as Ryu, Ken, Guile and Chun-Li chase down M. Bison and become involved in the World Warrior fighting tournament.” A Way Out director Josef Fares did an interview with GamesIndustry.biz’s James Batchelor about his game, EA “and ambitions to follow in the footsteps of Naughty Dog.” An Atari VCS prototype was shown off at the Game Developers Conference. Photos can be found courtesy of Engadget’s Andrew Tarantola, who writes that it “will retail for around $300, will play both classic Atari games as well as modern content, and that pre-orders for the console will begin in April 2018.” London’s mayor “pledged to further fund Games London in order to deliver £30 million of new investment,” GamesIndustry.biz’s Haydn Taylor reports. The French Tennis Federation intends to host a Tennis World Tour esports “series,” The Esports Observer’s Graham Ashton reports. “The organizers of the French Open/Roland-Garros have announced they will host their first esports competition, backed by the tennis tournament’s main sponsor BNP Paribas.” Streamer Rubiu5 “broke one million concurrent viewers while streaming Fortnite on YouTube,” Dot Esports’ Justin Binkowski writes. Call of Duty news: 100 Thieves is recruiting a Call of Duty professional team, owner Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag said. The Domination XL game mode is live.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5087
__label__cc	0.530865	0.469135	Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation and Empowerment The Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation and Empowerment, (ICARE), is a faith-based, multi-issue, direct action, community organization of 40 congregations with over 30,000 Duval County citizens from a broad cross-section of the Jacksonville community. We are incorporated in Florida as a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) tax exempt and politically non-partisan organization. Our mission is to use the power of organized people to hold key public and private institutions accountable for justice and fairness. Recent accomplishments include a campaign to get more bus hubs in areas of low-employment to areas of great job growth. In the early 2000s we won a large bus hub that connects the North and South side of town so people can get to work without multiple transfers. This bus hub is still in existence and used by hundreds of people a week. In 2010, 1,200 ICARE leaders assembled to challenge the Early Learning Coalition and the Jacksonville Children’s Commission to prioritize accessibility for full-day pre-kindergarten care by allocating approximately $2.1 million dollars toward wrap-around funding for low-income working families. To date, 1,000 more students are registered for quality voluntary pre-kindergarten programs with almost 300 more families receiving full-day vouchers. In 2013, ICARE pressed the County Sheriff, Superintendent and State Attorney to implement a Restorative Justice program proven in several large cities to reduce repeat youth offenses in the schools and neighborhoods. Today, 180 schools are using Restorative Justice and 11,000 youth went through the program last year. In one year, out-of-school suspensions have decreased by 25%. In addition, four Neighborhood Accountability Boards have opened to divert nonviolent youth from jail. This restorative justice method brings the victim and offender together and allows neighbors to decide on restitution outside of jail. This program has served 500 youth and 97% of never reoffended. In 2017, ICARE challenged our Sheriff to stop arresting nonviolent youth for silly mistakes like stealing socks or drinking underage. Instead, we wanted him to issue civil citations to 90% of eligible youth under state statute. He agreed. Since our action, civil citations have doubled and over 80% are now receiving civil citations and avoiding a lifelong criminal record. Read more about ICARE in the news. Presently, 38 congregations with over 30,000 members partner with ICARE. Members represent a broad and diverse cross-section of Duval County, coming from different religious traditions, including Catholic, Baptist, United Methodist, AME, Episcopal, Jewish, Unitarian, Bahai, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ and Presbyterian. To be Provided www.icarejax.org Kristin Powell icarejax@gmail.com Kelly Doyle Senior Organizer kelly@thedartcenter.org Associate Organizer amanda@thedartcenter.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5088
__label__wiki	0.747477	0.747477	BioLumic raises $5 million to harness ultraviolet light to improve crop yields Dean Takahashi@deantak March 14, 2018 4:00 AM BiioLumic uses UV to help crops grow better. Image Credit: BioLumic Scientists once thought that ultraviolet light was damaging to all kinds of life, including plants. But BioLumic is turning that notion on its head and has raised $5 million in funding to use UV to improve crop yields. BioLumic said it can can slow the growth of plant-threatening diseases and get plants to positively respond to UV. It gives farmers the ability to grow stronger, more appealing, and more productive plants. “Light is an extremely powerful biological tool that can safely manipulate plants without the concerns often associated with genetic modification, chemical usage, and other unnatural treatments,” said BioLumic CEO Warren Bebb, in a statement. “BioLumic is the only company using light as an ag treatment at the beginning of a plant’s life. Exposure to a short-duration treatment of UV-enriched light at a critical stage in a plant’s development turns on characteristics to help the seed or seedling more effectively defend itself against disease or pest attacks and more efficiently use water and nutrients from the soil for its entire lifespan.” Agtech investors Finistere Ventures and Radicle Growth led the funding, with Rabobank’s recently launched Food & Agri Innovation Fund and existing investors from New Zealand also joining the round. Above: UV light can help crops resist diseases. “We actively invest in data-driven technology startups who are changing the paradigm for sustainable agtech from around the globe, and BioLumic was an ideal fit for us,” said Arama Kukutai, partner at Finistere Ventures, in a statement. “Using UV treatments to complement traditional chemicals or biologicals, BioLumic will give farmers a new way to enhance crop yield and vigor by activating stronger plant characteristics with the power of light.” BioLumic treats seedlings and seeds with its proprietary ultraviolet light systems. Its patented technology applies UV light treatments that deliver long-term crop benefits — including improved crop consistency, increased yield, and disease resistance. Already in commercial use for high-value produce crops around the globe, BioLumic has worked with large-scale produce growers and processors in California and Mexico with yield gains of up to 22 percent, and commercial trials are taking place in Spain and the United Kingdom. Jason Wargent, a well-known photobiologist specializing in UV/plant interactions, started the company in New Zealand by spinning it out of the agtech research labs Massey University in New Zealand. BioLumic’s technology is rooted in more than a decade of research into UV photomorphogenesis, a process whereby a precise UV treatment induces plant root and leaf development and activates its secondary metabolism. BioLumic’s growing team of scientists and engineers are now translating Wargent’s scientific discoveries into commercial products that will reshape crop-growing operations around the world. Initially focused on lettuce, broccoli, strawberries, and tomato seedlings, BioLumic will use the recent funding to accelerate the research and commercialization of its seed-focused technology, expanding into row crop and vegetable seeds in years ahead. The company will also expand its team in New Zealand and the U.S. Sign up for Funding Weekly to start your week with VB's top funding stories.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5093
__label__wiki	0.962857	0.962857	Titles: 3 Titles: 80 Titles: 373 Titles: 48,453 Titles: 1,171 Crime Shows Great Crimes and Trials Discover the extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials in recent memory. The true stories have been carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archival footage of cases that have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and forensics. Tough Nuts This explosive series blows the lid off Australia's criminal underworld and reveals the real story behind what made and shaped the most notorious figures in Australian criminal history. The Mafia's Greatest Hits The Mafia's Greatest Hits uncovers the extraordinary truth behind some of the Mafia's most notorious killers and reveals how the FBI and the forces of law and order took on organised crime and ultimately brought it down. Five Days To Midnight It's all the evidence that's left of a murder victim: the detailed police file, the bullet that killed him... and most important, the grisly photographs of the crime scene. There's just one thing wrong with this picture... the victim is still alive. The Kangaroo Gang Narrated by Barry Humphries, the dramatised documentary tells the true story of a brazen band of Aussie thieves who moved to London in the 60s and ran riot, pulling off the most daring heists that Scotland Yard had ever seen. Australia on Trial Through the prism of three of the most sensational trials of the 19th Century, Australia on Trial examines pivotal social battles that changed the fabric of Australian society. The Life and Times of Roger Rogerson Roger Rogerson was a tough cop in a tough town. Just what was needed many would say. This 2011 portrayal of his life provides a unique insight into Sydney's underworld, the characters, crimes and the key events that spanned his career as one of the city's most feared law enforcers. Fight Science Prepare to go beyond the dojo of pure-style martial arts and explore five new realms of combat. Fight Science brings a selection of nature's best athletes into the lab, to determine the limits of human fighting ability. Dutch public broadcaster VPRO offers you impressive and award-winning travel series that will help you expand your view on the world. Unreported World Unreported World’s reporters travel to some of the most dangerous and neglected parts of the globe offering the viewer an unrivalled insight into the daily reality for those whose lives are rarely glimpsed by the global news machine. Crime Episodes Traffic officer allegedly steals cellphone A Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) officer is under investigation after CCTV footage appears to implicate him in the theft of a cellphone at a fast food outlet, the Kwazulu-Natal transport department says. Do you know this alleged hijacker? Dashcam footage released this week shows an alleged hijacker caught in the act at the Lamontville offramp on South Coast Road in KwaZulu-Natal. Crime fighter Yusuf Abramjee has called on the public to help identify the alleged culprit. CCTV footage released of Cape Town Metrorail train arson suspects Metrorail has released footage captured on CCTV of two of the men wanted for the fires which recently effectively crippled Cape Town's rail network. Fashion designer attacked after fender bender in Johannesburg PLEASE NOTE STRONG LANGUAGE IN VIDEO. Fabrice Moyo, the African fashion designer known and retailing as Franc Elis, was allegedly attacked in a fender bender road rage incident on Friday in Johannesburg. Two shot dead by sailor at Pearl Harbour base A gunman opened fire at Hawaii's Pearl Harbor military base on Wednesday, killing two and injuring another before fatally shooting himself, three days before the anniversary of Japan's 1941 attack of Pearl Harbor during World War Two. 10 shot, 4 killed at California backyard party Ten people were shot and four of them were killed Sunday at a party in Fresno, California when suspects sneaked into a backyard gathering and fired into the crowd, police said. Stranger than Fiction: The Nanny Killers The murder of au-pair Sophie Lionnet by her employers made headlines all over the world. It was a case that seemed too unbelievable to be true. We attempt to answer the question that will forever haunt her grieving parents: how could this happen? Baby Boss: Italy’s New Face of Terror After the arrests of the Mafia godfathers, Italy hoped it had put an end to organized crime. Instead, the old guard have been replaced by the 'Baby Bosses'. These youngsters do not respect the old rules. The slightest provocation can lead to carnage. The Interrogation Why would someone confess to a crime they didn't commit? We hear from the men and women who have spent more than 20 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. They tell us about that moment when their lives changed forever. Staying Safe in Mexico Speaking to a drug dealer, a police officer and locals at the market, World Nomad Patrick Abboud gets tips and advice on staying safe when traveling around Mexico. He also meets travelers who echo the message from many locals that Mexico, includin... Crime, , British pair Paul O'Shaughnessy and Lee Cuthbert describe Sydney knife drama One man's fight to get knives off the streets of London – video Shocked by a series of stabbings in his area of east London, Courtney Barrett set up his own knife amnesty in an effort to get blades off the streets. 'They just eliminate us': Are Kenya's police getting away with murder? Promising student Carliton Maina was shot by the police in Nairobi. His mother believes he was murdered. Twenty two arrested in India in three rape cases Police arrest 22 people in eastern India in three separate rape cases involving teenage girls as grisly new attacks against women come to light despite tougher penalties. Charged and Disbarred - Part 13 Ken Anderson was appointed to the court in 2002 by Governor Rick Perry. He resigned from his position on September 23, 2013 after he was arrested for withholding exculpatory evidence Anthony "Tony" Scott Wood was given 10 years in 2012 for stealing millions from clients by forging documents and making fraudulent loans. Neal Landers, 46, of Duluth, Georgia, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for using funds taken from real estate transactions he oversaw Charged and Disbarred - Part 1 Robert Greenleaf is a disbarred Maryland attorney who solicited for sexual acts Bradley Slowgrove, former barrister for an accused Serbian war criminal, has been struck off for attempting to intimidate a magistrate James J. Hennessey Jr. is a disbarred lawyer from Albany who viciously and repeatedly attacked his African American neighbors Donald Carlton Gibson repeatedly lied to his clients about their cases and funds while stealing checks Tim Durham was the attorney and CEO of a financial institution who deliberately mislead investors Sylvia Stolz is a German lawyer convicted of denying the Holocaust. Marc Stuart Dreier, is a former American lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison A closer look at the infamous scandals that led to the disbarments of the 37th & 42nd Unites States presidents. This once respected law firm partner lost it all when was caught stealing over 1.2 million from his law firm to finance his mistress' lavish lifestyle. Jury selection changes part of feds planned justice reforms Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says new legislation aimed at overhauling the justice system proposes changes to make juries "more representative" of the population, and to increase penalties for intimate partner violence. 2149mins Ontario premier urges police and Pride Toronto to mend relationship Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she hopes Pride Toronto and police can rebuild their "strained relationship." Pride Toronto asked the city's police service not to march in its annual parade. 733mins Jagmeet Singh calls for an end to random police checks NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says random police checks are too often aimed at people of colour and should be banned. Singh says he's been stopped by the police multiple times throughout his life. Crown hopes Quebec mosque shooter's guilty plea brings 'relief' Alexandre Bissonnette has pleaded guilty to six charges of murder and six charges of attempted murder in last year's Quebec mosque attack. Bissonnette originally pleaded not guilty to the 12 charges Monday. Excerpt of 911 call played at Nicholas Butcher's murder trial WARNING: Graphic content. Audio of a 911 call Nicholas Butcher made in March 2016 has been played in a Halifax court. Butcher has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Kristin Johnston. Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur charged with seventh murder Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur is facing a seventh first-degree murder charge, as Toronto police say the remains of three more men have been identified. McArthur was charged Wednesday in the death of Abdulbasir Faizi. Alleged Toronto serial killer faces eighth murder charge Toronto police have laid an eighth murder charge against Bruce McArthur, in the death of a man who moved to Canada from Sri Lanka in 2010. Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam had never been reported missing. Quebec mosque gunman explains motives in interrogation video The gunman who killed six men at a Quebec City mosque told police he believed his family was at risk of terrorist attack. Alexandre Bissonnette's January 2017 police interrogation video is being played at his sentencing hearing. Accused admiral eager to get back to 'serving' Canadians Vice-Admiral Mark Norman made a court appearance in Ottawa on Tuesday concerning an accusation that he leaked sensitive information about a shipbuilding project. Norman says he's eager to deal with the criminal charge he faces. Service was Const. Ian Jordan's calling: Victoria police chief A funeral is being held Thursday for a Victoria police officer who died last week after spending 30 years mostly unresponsive following a crash. Const. Ian Jordan was injured while responding to an emergency call in September 1987.. Cause of Broncos bus crash still unknown: RCMP The RCMP say a truck was in the intersection at the time of its fatal collision with the Humboldt Broncos bus. Assistant Commissioner Curtis Zablocki says the force is working to determine why the truck was there. Wine industry 'disappointed' with SCOC trade decision The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled to maintain the status quo on interprovincial trade, including the sale of alcohol. The Canadian Vintners Association says it will continue to work to remove trade barriers for Canadian wine. Police footage shows 'intoxicated' man trying to stab officer Police have released "harrowing" footage of the moment a man armed with two large kitchen knives attempted to stab a police officer despite having been Tasered. Knife crime: Follow the Met's frontline officers A police team on the front line of London's knife crime battle has described finding more weapons and more gangs on the streets as a crime wave grips the capital. Hackney stabbing: Man becomes latest victim of knife crime in capital A young man has died after being stabbed in east London, bringing the total number of suspected murders in the capital so far this year past 50, the Metropolitan Police said. Innocent man pardoned for murder almost 140 years after hanging An innocent man hanged for murder almost 140 years ago has been granted a pardon by the Irish President. 17-year-old girl dies after night of violence in London A 17-year-old girl has died and a 16-year-old boy is fighting for his life after two shootings in London. Police were called to reports of the first incident in Tottenham, north London, at 9.35pm on Monday. CCTV shows car plough into elderly man in Manchester An elderly man has been left in hospital following a collision in Gorton. The 77-year-old saw a Kia Venga collide with his car which was parked in a disabled space. When he went outside to complain he was driven into. Killers who met in prison joined forces to torture and murder mother of two Two killers who met in prison have been convicted of teaming up to torture and murder a seven stone Vietnamese woman before dumping her body in a burning car. Westminster attack: One year on Plans have been revealed for a memorial for victims and survivors of the four terror attacks in London last year. Well-wishers will be able to leave messages in a digital book of hope at City Hall from Thursday. News, , Shoreham Airshow disaster: Pilot to face 'manslaughter' charges The pilot whose plane crashed in the Shoreham Airshow disaster, killing 11 men, will be charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced. Police want public to act as "counter-terrorism citizens" Police want members of the public to act as "counter-terrorism citizens" to help them stop deadly attack plots. Security chiefs say information from the community is crucial to confronting the unprecedented threat.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5096
__label__wiki	0.643849	0.643849	North Wales recruiters shake off Brexit fears to target growth RecruitmentNorth East WalesNorth West Wales By Rhys Gregory On Nov 26, 2019 Sarah Ellwood However, the North Wales based firm says continued uncertainty over Brexit has caused businesses in numerous industries to reflect on hiring decisions while they wait for an outcome on whether Britain will remain part of the EU. The company – which targets candidates in the executive, IT and engineering sectors – has had a busy 2019 but admits a resolution to political and public division will better enable owners and managers to shape their long-term strategies. Managing Director Sarah Ellwood, who appeared at the North Wales Means Business Conference at Venue Cymru in Llandudno, said they are already looking ahead to next year and hopeful the picture will be clearer. “We work closely with companies across numerous sectors and the majority just want to see an end to the division and uncertainty,” said Sarah. “There is growth in certain areas and many people we’ve spoken to are planning to expand, but until there’s a decision either way they are playing the waiting game.” The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) in its latest JobsOutlook report revealed organisations have ambitious hiring plans for both temporary and permanent staff but are holding back for now. Neil Carberry, Chief Executive of the REC, echoed Sarah’s comments and said: “Companies are ready to hire, invest and grow – but the lack of a clear path ahead means that more and more are thinking twice. “Whether it is Brexit or the spill over from Trump’s trade war, politicians need to prioritise jobs and growth over ideology.” Meanwhile, 66% of employers of temporary agency staff highlighted these workers are important for short-term access to key skills, up from 55% a year earlier. REC’s data also showed that from July to September, 73% of employers who use recruitment agencies reported being satisfied with their agency partners. This increased to 81% among mid-sized (50-249 employee) businesses. “There is confidence out there, but it has been stifled by political uncertainty,” said Sarah. “We are in constant communication with our clients and candidates, who are positive about the future, but if anyone does have concerns about the employment landscape in North Wales and beyond, please get in touch.” Rhys Gregory5912 posts 0 comments Editor of Wales247.co.uk Latest figures show visitors are opting to visit Swansea to eat out Welsh entrepreneur acquires Cardiff HQ TEDxCardiff returns to the city with more inspiring speakers Series of events to inspire next generation of birdwatchers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5102
__label__cc	0.731077	0.268923	The Value of Facebook Reactions for Social Media Marketing by Eli Fennell What does Facebook’s “Reactions” feature mean for social media marketers? Recently, Facebook rolled out a new way for users to interact with social updates: Reactions. Now, instead of just Liking Facebook posts, users can choose any one of six ways of reacting: Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry. The main purpose of these options is for users to be able to express a less ambiguous response to certain types of posts. For example, it feels weird to Like an update about losing a loved one (i.e. Sad), or a rant about how much someone hates their jobs (i.e. Angry). And it might be underwhelming to simply Like a post celebrating a birth (i.e. Love), a friend getting their dream job (i.e. Wow), or a gut-busting joke (i.e. Haha). However, these Reactions can also provide useful data and insights for social media marketers. In fact, Facebook conveniently provides Reactions data through Page Insights and through their API, which are integrated into some 3rd party analytics tools. The latter are generally better ways to parse Reactions than in the Page Insights. These are still relatively new ways for users to engage with the platform, and it may take some time before most users adapt (if most ever do) so the data set it provides may only be a snippet of your audience engagement. However, we can still give some general advice for how (and why) to use Reactions data to improve your social media efforts. 1) Like Is Still The ‘Default’, But Can Be a Signal of Engagement Levels Most users have not become habituated to using this feature, yet. Many may even be unaware that Reactions exist as they’re hidden behind a hover menu on the web and a long press on mobile. Like is, therefore, the default reaction. On the one hand, you probably can’t draw as many conclusions about an abundance of Likes as you can about other types of Reactions. However, one thing a preponderance of Likes does indicate is the engagement of your followers with Facebook’s feature set: users who always or almost always react with a Like are generally not as engaged with Facebook’s features as those who use other Reactions as well. The mere fact of a user reacting any other way, therefore, suggests that the user is more engaged with the Facebook platform itself. Whether that always makes them more valuable followers is hard to say without any hard data. It could suggest that they may use Facebook more and be more deeply invested in the ecosystem of Facebook features and products and that they probably share and engage heavily on the platform. This may suggest they’ll be more engaged and perhaps more likely to share your updates or be converted to a client, a sale, or whatever your goals may be. If, on the other hand, you are getting essentially zero Reactions beyond the Like, apart from suggesting your audience is less engaged with the platform, it may suggest your content is emotionally bland. People Like it, but they don’t Love it. It doesn’t make them extremely happy, or sad, or angry, or amazed. If your goal for some reason is to not produce a deeper emotional reaction in your audience, then this can be taken as a good sign. Otherwise, it may be a warning sign that your social strategy is getting underwhelming feedback. 2) Sad Should Never Be An Unexpected Reaction In this life, there are unfortunately such things as bad news and sad stories. If you’re a news source, news of a celebrity death is expected to be sad. If you’re an advocacy group for victims, stories of the ordeals of former victims are expected to be sad. Even if you’re a Party Clown rental company, news that a founder or CEO is retiring and passing control of the company to new hands can be heart-rending. In such cases, it is to be expected that some people will use the new Sad reaction. However, if you don’t know why there are sad reactions and didn’t expect it, that should be a warning bell that you’ve probably done something wrong. If your joke is greeted by Sad reactions, and you were expecting Haha reactions, maybe you told it poorly, or it was a bad joke. If you’re announcing some major product update, on the other hand, and you were expecting entirely positive reactions, Sad reactions could suggest dissatisfied users. For example, maybe your new version dropped support for some old feature, in a note buried in the changelogs, and you thought no one would care, but some people really did. Sad could mean several things depending on the user, but if it ever catches you off-guard that people are reacting that way, you should try to understand the source of the disconnect and, if necessary, correct the mistake. Reach out to those sad followers (and any others who simply failed to use the Reactions feature itself) and find out why they reacted as such. 3) Love Is (Usually) A Great Reaction If your audience is Reacting to your updates with Love, that is almost unambiguously good. These are users who really enjoyed and felt good about your social update. Updates that get a lot of Love reactions are the very type to learn from and try to reproduce their success over and over again. Except, of course, there are cases where this is untrue. For example, if your update is bad news, then a Love Reaction may indicate that you didn’t communicate correctly. Or, at a more malevolent extreme, that the person or people Reacting with Love are deliberately responding inappropriately, reacting joyously to a tragic death for example. In some cases, other types of Reactions may be preferable: if your stuff is supposed to be bland, then you probably want to see many Likes and few Loves, or if you’re a comedian you may wish to see more Haha reactions than Love reactions. This could be tricky, though, because the user might choose Love as a way of Reacting especially positively, beyond a mere Haha. In addition, depending on what people mean by Love, it may be an emotion that fails to motivate action. The love of a beautiful tree in a pristine forest will never get as many people to sign a petition to save the forests as the anger at greedy capitalists destroying the Earth for profit. Some emotions carry more power than others. Smart marketers know to tap into this.Click To Tweet The old saying applies that too much of anything, even Love, isn’t a good thing, but there are few scenarios where getting a lot of Love reactions is anything but a good sign of strong engagement with and positive reaction to your social posts. It doesn’t always motivate the strongest response, however. 4) Anger Can Be A Double-Edged Sword There are cases where Anger reactions can be a good thing. An activist group, for example, might want to provoke anger in their social audiences by highlighting things they consider to be injustices, betrayals, etc… A ‘Fight For $15’ group, for example, might highlight overpaid CEO’s given “Golden Parachute” payments for wrecking companies and laying off workers. In this case, you might expect to get a lot of Anger reactions. On the other hand, like Sad, it should never be an unexpected reaction and if it is, then it may point to errors of communication in your social strategy, to legitimate complaints (i.e. being angry that your company’s new product update discontinued valuable features). In addition, fostering anger can blow up in your face if the anger either turns on you. If, for example, your company ends up in a scandal that outrageous customers and fans or if it is perceived as being turned against those who doesn’t deserve it (a lesson some Gamergaters learned). 5) Laughter Is The Best Medicine Humor is extremely engaging and shareable, so Haha Reactions can be a sign that you’ve hit that funny bone. The danger here, potentially, is being perceived as insensitive. A Funeral Home, for example, dare approach humor cautiously at best. You may also run the risk of not being taken seriously as a brand or business, but this really depends a lot on your specific business model and intended clientele. It may be well worth the risk, though, since essentially everything is becoming entertainment, in a way. 6) It’s Usually Good To Wow Them It’s almost hard to see any bad connotations to Wow reactions, even though they could mean a lot of different things in context. Seeing a lot of Wow reactions should, generally speaking, be taken as a good sign, though it’s difficult to imagine it being a good thing if Wows are the only reactions you ever get. It would either mean it doesn’t provoke any more specific reactions in users, or that it was truly a resoundingly ‘Wow’ thing. You might expect to get a lot of Wows for sharing stunning photos, artwork, or amazing human interest stories, but in general you shouldn’t be surprised to see the Wow reaction pop up somewhat infrequently. Emotions are Socially ‘Contagious’ In light of this new feature, it should be understood by any marketer worth his salt that these Reactions can be a powerful source of insight into the performance of your strategy and of particular campaigns and shares. The emotional impact of your social updates on your audience is, without exaggerating, the single most important factor in how they will act in response to your posts. A study of emotions and social media virality by French and Italian researchers found that different types of emotions resulted in different types of user sharing and engagement. Feelings of inspiration, happiness, and amusement, such as those best indicated by the Like, Love, Haha, and Wow reactions, resulted in users being more likely to broadcast the information that inspired the reaction through Facebook shares and Twitter (re)tweets. On the other hand, sadness, anger, and fear, as best indicated by the Sad and Angry reactions (perhaps even the Wow reaction, in some cases), resulted in more ‘narrowcasting’, with users sharing to smaller groups or just engaging in the comments section rather than sharing. That anger results in less broadcasting may seem surprising, in light of the power anger can have to motivate behaviors, but many social media users may hesitate to share things that make them angry for various reasons. to avoid offending people who hold different views to avoid debating with people who might disagree to avoid publicly aligning themselves with something negative This can, therefore, be a tricky trade-off: framing your cause as “stopping capitalist fatcats from censoring the web” may drive more petition signatures, but “keeping the open web free and innovative” may generate wider and more open sharing and engagement around your cause. With Reactions, Facebook marketers can finally begin to directly analyze the emotional impact of their shares and campaigns on their audience. To the extent that the same Reaction can mean different things to different people, or even to the same people in different contexts, and to the extent that the feature is used instead of the default Like reaction most users are still habituated towards, it is an incomplete and imperfect source of data by itself. Combined, on the other hand, with additional social analytics from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other networks, or as measured by third-party social analytic services and social referral analytics (e.g. as provided by Google Analytics, Google Search Console, or link shortening services like Bit.ly and Goo.gl or other types of URL tracking data), Reactions are an invaluable new tool in measuring and adjusting your social strategy. So how are you ‘Liking’ Facebook reactions thus far? We’d love to get your “reaction” via the comments below. Category: Social Media Published: April 29, 2016 About Eli Fennell Content Developer for Warfare Plugins. Internet Marketer and Technology Blogger in Fort Lauderdale. Get our best blog posts delivered straight to your inbox! Want to get our best blog posts sent straight to your inbox? Just add your email below to be notified of new posts! Supercharge your site’s social sharing! Add beautifully responsive, surprisingly fast sharing buttons & share counts for your blog posts and pages. Get Social Warfare	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5109
__label__wiki	0.559735	0.559735	Skip to Search Form tcour.yelp.com Brian D.'s Profile Annandale-on-Hudson (1) Elmhurst (1) Dive Bars (2) Event Planning & Services (2) Yelp Events (2) Convenience Stores (1) Venues & Event Spaces (1) Books, Mags, Music & Video (1) Hotels & Travel (1) Himalayan/Nepalese (1) 1 to 10 of 102 Go to Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... Previous \| Next $ Museums, Venues & Event Spaces, Art Galleries 1040 Grand Concourse Share review I've lived in NYC for six years but I only made it to the Bronx Museum a couple weeks ago, and wow. What a great little museum! I feel guilty admitting this but I was not expecting to enjoy it so much. After visiting I really feel certain that the "neighborhood" museums (Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum, and this one) are the best places to see art in New York--not as sterile or predictable as the famous ones in uptown and downtown Manhattan. There were three exhibitions up when I visited. One was of a Brazilian artist, Paulo Bruscky, in two galleries. The first one featured works where the artist inserted himself in maps, urban space, and the postal system with his drawings, collages, and performances. I really liked one piece called "I'm Pickling Myself (1974) where he put a photo of himself in a pickle jar, as well as his experiments putting his head and body parts in a copy machine, a new office technology at the time. It all had a do-whatever, anything-goes spirit. The second gallery was more somber: about the artist's use of medical technologies to record his existence as a biological organism, shuffling through the qualities of life and archives. I liked the work in the first gallery better but the shift in tone was a smart way to highlight the range of the artist's work. The big galleries had sculptures by Tony Fehrer, which were colorful, simple, ingenious, and delightful. He's the kind of artist who looks at the properties of ordinary things and finds beauty in them. The walls were almost bare, except for some small pieces of cardboard torn off boxes, and so viewers ended up navigating the space by encountering all sorts of assemblages on the floor or hanging from the ceiling, which animated the gallery. Tables of colored glass bottles, filled with various levels of liquid, doodads and washers arranged in a circle--there was a shamanistic aura around this dollar-store detritus. I noticed that several visitors seemed particularly enchanted by a collection of colored mop sticks laid out like a sunburst or a blooming flower. The last gallery featured photographs taken at a beach in the Bronx. They were large-format, high-quality photojournalistic images. I personally preferred the other exhibits but this was a cool thing to have at a community museum and rounded out the experience with another kind of art-making. Everybody takes photos at the beach so in a way, like the Paulo Bruscky and Tony Fehrer, the photo exhibit is encouraging viewers to find (and make) art in everyday life and that's great. Tony Fehrer's ring of mop stick Paulo Bruscky, "I'm Pickling Myself" Was this review …? Useful 4 Shifting Chelsea's center of gravitas southward, this new gallery features a dramatic entrance--a broad, not-too-steep staircase which when you get to the top ends in a big reveal as you turn left. There it is--the cavernous gallery with vaulted wood beams, lots of natural light, and some really good art! I saw the Paul McCarthy show there. It's big wooden sculptures and drawings based on the artist's twisted vision of Snow White. Everything is warped--you can see Prince Charming on his white stallion, but the figure of him on his horse is split and repeated several times, fused with trees and dwarves, turned back on itself and sliced up into separate pieces, each with a smooth grain of wood that suggested no cut was ever made--that these weird fantasias just emerged into form. Decapitated heads of Snow White herself litter the floor, with blank, pupil-less eyes and a whorish hole of a mouth--actually not a hole but a divot with a rounded bottom, the right size to hold an apple, whole and unchewed. Here too the polish factor on the wood is very high, but the shallow oral cavity suggests a digging into the surface by a wood carver, without the possibility of penetration or a real inside. The imagination is twisted and broken up into pieces but each fragment emerges into being as if whole. All around, this is a great gallery to visit. I didn't interact with the staff directly but overheard them talking and they seemed nice--one of the desk girls was so nice she even expained scallion cream cheese to her coworker. She told her about how an onion-like bulb has green shoots that get cut up and mixed with cheese. First week in new York honey? $$$$ Art Galleries 453 W 17th St Ste 3S 8/16/2013 Updated review Listed in My Firsts! I wanted to update this review, not to change the star count (this is a solidly good gallery, maybe not every show is five stars but definitely in the upper range) but because the character of the gallery has changed a bit in the last year and a half. It used to focus on conceptual work of mid- or late-career artists but more recently it has been showing a lot of younger artists and become a magnet for smart and cool stuff. So it's a good place to visit if you want to learn about art trends. Recent exhibtions have included a really great installation by Sergei Tcherepnin (sp?) a theatrical sound artist, and a group show called "Screens" that featured different sculptural treatments in monitors, putting them in mannequins or shopping bags or shop vitrines, a 1994 Jon Kessler installation using a motorzied billboard apparatus.. there was even a work in the bathroom, which I didn't realize when I went to use it. Surprise! In one corner there was a video mashup of actors in war movies saying "shit" "shit" "shit" and in the toilet, a laminated postcard with a photo of George W. Bush that circled and bobbed as I urinated on it. When I finished up I checked the date of the work on the checklist and it was from 2006--of course. Political work like that gets so dated so quickly. Couldn't they have at least updated it for the current installation? Bush isn't exactly a controversial figure in the art world anyway. It would be much more interesting to piss on Obama. 2/5/2012 Previous review I went to Murray Guy a few weeks ago and saw an exhibit with works by Dan Graham and Corey McCorkle.… I went to Murray Guy a few weeks ago and saw an exhibit with works by Dan Graham and Corey McCorkle. Dan Graham was showing mockups and photographs of a design for a park, which included his famous transparent pavilions. It looked very classy. Corey McCorkle's video was a meditative study of another park, this one in France. Many other artists had been there in the past. It was autumn when he shot it and it looked like a calm place. During one long shot of a pile of wet red leaves a big water snake stuck its head out of the leaves and flicked its tongue at the camera for a while. I was really not expecting to see a snake in that video! A cool surprise like that is what brings a gallery experience out of four star territory and into the five star zone. Read more Paula Cooper Galleries Listed in Culture Vultures I was walking down 23rd street thinking about how it's too bad Paula Cooper closed her little space near the corner of 23rd and 10th Ave, because so many galleries are expanding these days, it's a shame Paula Cooper scaled back because it really is the best gallery in Chelsea--and then just an hour later, I was walking up 10th Ave and noticed a new gallery I hadn't seen before, and it's Paula Cooper space that just opened two weeks ago! I didn't even know when I walked in--I just saw on the window that they were showing Alan Shields, whose work I had just read about that morning, without knowing there was a show of it in Chelsea. Serendipity upon serendipity! The show is really amazing--it is some kind of totemic, shamanistic free-spirited assemblages, the best "hippie art" I've ever seen. (Coming to it straight from the Anne Truitt show at Matthew Marks makes poor Anne look so pathetically boring.) One piece I really loved was a huge tapestry, with a fabric that looked like it had been tie-dyed in a rusty blood red, and the color richly saturated the textile and made illusionary folds and fissures all over it--it looked like skin from the inside. Beads and strings were strung across it, in bright and pastel colors and some pieces with a metallic sheen that seemed like a weird combo with this rich crimson cloth but that just makes the throbbing of the surface more magical. I read on the web site that this space will be open through January 2014--so catch it while you can! 5/15/2012 Previous review At the moment Paula Cooper has an exhibition up by Sherrie Levine, who I think is just fantastic. A… At the moment Paula Cooper has an exhibition up by Sherrie Levine, who I think is just fantastic. A lot of people were made about Levine's Whitney show last year--it was too coy, too cold, too boring, too polished, too silly, etc. But I loved it. For me her uses of copies and patterns and shiny, expensive-looking materials is a cool way of evoking the inhuman playfulness of the game-like structures that govern contemporary life, while freezing them in static images--a hard-edged John Cage. That was the impression that the Whitney show gave me and it's in full force at Paula Cooper, where the opposite walls of the big gallery are lined with rows of blue-green reflective panels. They trap you reflections that go on forever and also make you look cool. In the smaller front gallery is some handmade paper with squares painted on it. The work is a bit softer but the random or algorithmic look of uneven patterns of squares makes it too weird to come off as crafty or folksy, despite the paper's visible fibers and seams. Robot Martha Stewart. Paula Cooper has been around for decades and it has played a crucial role in the history of contemporary art. I can't even imagine this gallery ever doing anything worth less than five stars. Read more Real Fine Arts $$$ Art Galleries 673 Meeker Ave 1 check-in First to Review I did not expect to see ancient Egyptian artifacts in an artist-run gallery in Greenpoint but with Real Fine Arts, you never know. The first time through the gallery I didn't even know what they were, maybe just some outsider-y metallic sculptures inspired by the vitrines of poorly preserved and rusty everyday objects at the Met (seems like a lot of artists are interested in fake museum artifacts these days). Whenever I go to a gallery I always just look at the show first, then go back and consult the checklist later. So when I saw that they really were from Egypt I was amazed! Apparently you can buy these things on eBay. Even before I had learned that bit of information I thought it was a really good, very richly textured show, with various grades of reflectiveness and protruberance on each of the surfaces--paintings, collages, objects, etc. It was all enclosed by a gallery within a gallery, a tight and quiet temporary structure, and walking around it to get to the back in order to view a film on display involved passing through a narrow and dimly lit corridor. This contributed to the sense of these objects being located somewhere outside of time. I would give this six stars if I could... the Paul McCarthy show there is beyond amazing. This is art that takes questions of representation and the figure head on, without any abstruse conceptual games but with a lot of spirit and guts--the result is a visceral wrenching experience. [Note: This review contains SPOILERS so don't read it if you're going to go see this Paul McCarthy show (closes July 26)] When you walk in you immediately see a young woman, so still that you know it's a sculpture, but so lifelike you have to make sure it's not breathing. She's on a rectangular pedestal, naked, leaning back on her palms, her legs stretched forward and spread. She has a highly expressive vagina that raspberries the viewer, its pouty outer lips loosely gripping the protruding tongue of the inner ones. There are several copies of her, making it all the more uncanny as you begin to recognizes the traces of craftsmanship and artifice. But still when I got to the second floor and saw all the monitors showing footage of the casting process, for a split second I couldn't believe that it wasn't animation. They were so HD that this woman, whom I'd seen sculpted downstairs and now alive and moving--the brightly rendered digital image of her body looked UNreal. I spent a good twenty minutes watching the model as she sat still on the podium, surrounded by fabricators and camera men working quickly to capture her image, both on video and in the mold. She got covered in blue goo and caked in plaster... and in the end they finally cut it all off, and she crawled out of her floppy blue skin like a molting snake. Finally, I went back downstairs on my way out... and was stopped in my tracks by the sculptures, which I now saw with totally new eyes. These things that had looked so lifelike to me upon first encounter now seemed pathetically fake. I could clearly see all the imperfections, the rubbery properties of the silicone flesh, all the differences between the mold and the model's HD body. Suddenly the whole thing reeked of death. Shivers down my spine. Emily Sundblad Galleries 165 E Broadway 2 check-ins First to Review Listed in Culture Vultures, My Firsts! (note: this gallery is commonly known as Reena Spaulings.. reenaspaulings.com) There's always something interesting happening at Reena Spaulings! This time it's... dishes. The latest exhibition is by Georgie Netell, whose paintings--let's be honest--aren't all that special. They are vigorous abstractions in off-white and gray-blue on brown, burlap-looking linen, whose rawness contrasts with the smooth matte surface of the paint. Quirky little paintings like these are everywhere these days. But it seemed like the ordinariness of them was the point, because they were interspersed with bins full of dirty dishes. Art (or eating) is an everyday thing, the paintings (dirty dishes) are what's leftover from it. Art comes off as a kind of routine, which makes the show sound boring but I actually found it quite exciting to look at the dishes and the food remnants caked to them. The dish trays are installed in weird places, like the windowsill, and on a big black couch in the middle of the gallery--another bit of domesticity that you don't always find in a gallery--which I sat on for a spell while contemplating the work. Also for Georgie Netell's show the gallery's front desk was moved from near the door to within the exhibition space, as if the receptionist's work was on display, too, like the dishwasher's. nice touch. Reena Spaulings is always doing stuff like this to keep you on your toes and capture the imagination. I would highly recommend a visit to anyone with adventurous tastes in art. David Zwirner Gallery Llc A new space for Zwirner right next to the old one with a semi-domestic vibe--the entryway is narrow and carpeted, the door closes so tightly it makes a little sucking noise and you feel hermetically sealed inside, and there are warmly earthy wood and stone materials/colorings. There's a second floor and when I went up the stairs I felt like I might stumble across the master bedroom but no, just the office. I imagine that the buildings Zwirner's clients build for showing off their collections look a lot like this one. The shows i've seen here are all classic stuff--Judd, Flavin, Serra, Blinky Palermo--and it looks good here. Hard to complain! Great gallery. I recently learned that on Saturdays, members of the gallery's staff (and even Andrea Rosen herself) stand in the gallery and talk to visitors about the work. It's very generous--I got a full tour of a fascinating show, "Counter Forms," with works by Tetsumi Kudo, Alina Szapocznikow, Paul Thek and Hannah Wilke, all of whom worked in different parts of them world, died youngish and were forgotten in the 90s but making a comeback now. And they deserve it: weird materials and biomorphic forms, industrail waste and synthetic pigments, intriguing use of slightly sickening colors and textures--a fertile mix of mad-science lab and contemplative poetry that seems to speak to the ways in which artists are dealing with the relationship between bodies and technologies now. Usually Andrea Rosen has a few shows up at once - a big one in the front, medium in the middle, and a selection of works by different artists in the showroom in the far rear, which means you're guaranteed to find SOMEthing to like on any given visit. For 'Counter Forms," however, the whole gallery was devoted to this single group exhibition. But it's definitely worth it! so much to see. There is also a small appendix across the street. I feel like the narrowness of this space makes it slightly awkward. It's smaller than any of the spaces across the street, even the little showroom in the back. I haven't felt really impressed or moved by a show here yet but, it's new so maybe they'll get the hang of it (no pun intended!). Have you ever felt elegant as you exited a parking garage? I did at the Hammer, which has my favorite architecture of any museum I've ever been to. The airy, gracious atrium leads up the main enfilade of galleries that encircle a courtyeard, connected by a broad balcony. Only in southern California, I suppose, could a museum have its visitors going outdoors between each exhibit. The far side of the balcony had some very cool-looking deck furniture for lounging in, and two ping-pong tables. Fun! There was a great variety and quality to the exhibitions. My favorite was the comprehensive exhibtiion of the fascinating painting of Forest Bess - which presented his idiosyncratic ideas about gender and spirituality in a really accessible way, and just gave me a chance to look at the way he developed his philosophy of colors and mark-making and symbols, to approach painting as the creation of a new other world. There is some great stuff in the permament collection galleries--several drawings and bronzes based on them by Daumier, the 18th century caricaturist, who drew the ascendant bourgeoisie of his time as weird monsters whose faces are just emerging from a gooey flesh mass. I love him! I also enjoyed the retrospective of James Welling, a conceptual photographer who came up with various ways of using photographic technologies to produce abstract images rather than indexical ones. I like the colors of those photograms and gradients but some of his later work, shot in libraries, looks dull. I really hate conceptual art with old books in it. The artist is just like "look how smart I am" and I could care less, honestly. I also wasn't really into Tacita Dean's film, about the Spiral Jetty, which had some spiral-jetty-shaped cuts in the film, a cute gesture, but why make art about other people's art? I just don't get that. Then a show of a contemporary artist (I want to say her name is Kelly Crowland but now I'm realzing that can't be possible.. it was definitely Kelly something), with letters sewn on bags of rice, was not interesting at all but you win some you lose some, right? On the way out I noticed a gallery near the entrance that theoretically one could visit without paying for entry, because you don't have to pass the admissions desk to get there. The show there was a video about interrogation techniques--seemed a little heavy-handed to have the free gallery featuring "socially engaged" art but I nice gesture I suppose. 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__label__cc	0.691361	0.308639	A Romantic Fall Wedding in Fredericton, New Brunswick By Alessia Piccolo Pearl-adorned centrepieces, an adorable Batman and Wonder Woman cake topper duo and a colourful bridal party are just a few small details that made this wedding just as beautiful as it was unique. After working at Telus Mobility together for four years, Phil and Alexa reconnected outside of work and got to know each other on a more personal level. Then in 2011, Phil popped the question. “He laid down with me and began to tell me how much he loved me, how proud he would be to have me as his wife and how he would do just about anything in the world to make me happy,” shares Alexa. When the wedding day arrived the bride was resplendent in a gown custom-created by her stepmother. After the couple said their “I dos” guests were ushered into a chic reception space filled with candles, roses, ruffles and crystal details. Though it was hard for the couple to choose just one, Alexa says the best part of the night was walking into the reception and being introduced as husband and wife for the first time. “We were both so overwhelmed with happiness and joy that we were finally married and we could enjoy the rest of the evening celebrating with our favourite people!” she exclaims. Alexa and Phil Power, October 27, 2012, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Photography courtesy of Julie A. Whitlock Photography. Ceremony and reception location: Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook Bridal gown: Miss Patricia Fashions Groom’s tux: Tip Top Tailors Music: Get Up and Dance DJ Services Hair: Avalon Salon Spa Makeup: Made you Blush, Fredericton Flowers: Trites Flower Shop Stationery: You’re Invited Decor: Barbara Lee Designs See more photos from this romantic fall wedding in Fredericton, New Brunswick. https://weddingbells.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-14-105x105.jpg https://weddingbells.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-14.jpg {"copyright":"JULIEAWHITLOCK"} https://weddingbells.ca/real-weddings/a-romantic-fall-wedding-in-fredericton-new-brunswick/slide/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-14/ powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-14 Groom's Shoes https://weddingbells.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-1-105x105.jpg https://weddingbells.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-1.jpg https://weddingbells.ca/real-weddings/a-romantic-fall-wedding-in-fredericton-new-brunswick/slide/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-1/ powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto-1 Bride and Bridesmaids https://weddingbells.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto70-105x105.jpg https://weddingbells.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto70.jpg https://weddingbells.ca/real-weddings/a-romantic-fall-wedding-in-fredericton-new-brunswick/slide/powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto70/ powerwed_julieawhitlockphoto70 Boutonneire Related Tags: fall, fredericton, new brunswick, pink, real weddings, romantic One comment on “A Romantic Fall Wedding in Fredericton, New Brunswick” clair estelle says: such a stunning fall wedding, all the leaves make it look so warm and cosy!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5116
__label__cc	0.549685	0.450315	Astoria, Theater Introducing Slightly Altered States, a New Theater Company in LIC Slightly Altered States theater company is coming to Queens! Share this Scoop total shares! Last month we got the news of a new theater space opening up in the Dutch Kills section of LIC, Slightly Altered States. And with a name like that we knew we had to learn more, so we interviewed Co-Artistic Directors/Co-Founders Sari Caine and Dave Rigo. We hope you’ll be as excited about Slightly Altered States as we are. One of my favorite initial questions to ask a new business or organization is what is the origin of their name. Sari and Dave explain: “Finding the name Slightly Altered States was actually the easiest part of this whole thing. Our taste tends toward a darkly comic, edgy, weird, Alice In Wonderland vibe.” Sari continues: “Dave and I were meeting in a cafe and talked about names briefly, but hadn’t landed on anything that seemed right; we had definitely been more focused on the endeavor itself until then. Then it just sort of clicked. You know that feeling of recognition, the attempt to label everything that just evades you, with the awareness of something slightly out of sync, something altered; that state that we all exist in but the fact that we are in it rarely allows us to recognize it? Slightly Altered States is our best way to attempt to convey the world that we all share, experience and create.” Photo credit: Slightly Altered States “Mr Landing Takes a Fall” at The Flea Theater They actually started developing Slightly Altered States six years ago as a fully immersive theater experience—unlike what the founders were seeing in the world of NYC theater at the time. They wanted the experience to start as soon as you enter the space, where the hallways, the pre-show, the walls and sounds around you could all immerse you in the world of the show before it even had begun on stage. They also craved opportunities to grow and be challenged as actors and as a writer, which included leveling up in creative control of the overall production. Slightly Altered States could provide that. How They Found Their Space As for the location, their found their way to it by accident. Sari saw an article in a local publication that mentioned John Belitsky’s plans to turn a former sushi factory into a music and art space two blocks from where she lives, so she reached out to him via Twitter and Facebook asking what it was, and he responded practically immediately, saying, “Come on over and see for yourself!” The old sushi factory that will be the new home to Slightly Altered States. “We were excited to learn about John’s vision for the Arc space in Queens and how it would fit within the community,” explains Sari. “He hopes to be an artistic haven that incubates, fosters, and produces both new and established work, and we look forward to finding ways to collaborate together. For the first time we can say we truly have a theatrical home, which means we can think in terms of seasons, and annual work, we can offer continual educational workshops instead of one-offs.” What To Expect—Performances, Workshops, Education As for what they’d like to offer, Sari and Dave told us this: “We intend to include all genres, hosting visual artists whose themes fit the shows we are putting have, as well as improv shows, podcasts, and Moth-style storytelling nights. Our main-stage shows will be accompanied by short plays by various local authors around the same theme, and we will continue looking for ways to be inclusive and foster new work, so that the space is both an incubator and a presentation venue.” Sari and Dave working on a new play with their company theater director in residence, Sherri Eden Barber. Exclusive, invitation-only events for their readings and workshops will happen in May and June; improv and other smaller events, hopefully in the fall. Next season’s upcoming show, by Sari, is Rumpelstiltskin, set in a special needs classroom. (“We both enjoy and feel it is important for us to offer works that include both special needs and non special needs children.”) Beginning in May on Thursdays from 10am-1pm they will be opening the space to other writers to come and have silent, phone-less/WiFi-free shared writing space—RSVP to sastheatercompany@gmail.com in order to better accommodate everyone. They would like to grow that time to more days as well. Also in May they’ll offer free Saturday morning chess drop-off lessons from 10:30am-noon on a RSVP basis (sastheatercompany@gmail.com). “The Chess Lesson” at IRT. You can check their website to keep up on their plans and activities. As we mentioned earlier, education is an important part of Slightly Altered States’ mission. Both Sari and Dave have over 25 years of teaching experience between them; education is a passion of theirs. Currently they are planning to offer a free week-long playwriting and music workshop this summer, and are reaching out to various schools in the neighborhood, eager to work on music and theater production with those students. “We hope to grow these workshops in the upcoming year, as we get to know our community better, and see how best we can fit in,” says Sari and Dave. “We also plan on having talk backs after shows, and finding other ways we can continue to engage with and grow our community.” Happy In Queens They love being part of the local arts community—Queens Council On the Arts has been particularly helpful as they move into their new space and set down roots here in the borough. Look for them this summer at the Kaufman-Astoria Backlot Arts Festival in June with a workshop of Sari’s play, The Wildest Ones. Both Sari and Dave are excited to start this new chapter in their creative lives with Slightly Altered States, and the location can’t be beat. “Queens has such a rich, vibrant community, with so many artists in it, and this new space has such a great location, one block from the train, two stops from Manhattan, with the Museum of Moving Image on the corner—and of course, all the friggin’ amazing food. We believe that this is the best place to be, and the best time to be here!” Welcome to Queens, Slightly Altered States! We’re glad you’re here. Slightly Altered States, 36-20 36th Street, Long Island City slightlyaltered.info \| Facebook \| Twitter Dave RigoDutch KillsKaufman Arts Districtold sushi factorySari CaineSlightly Altered Statestheater group About Meg Cotner Meg Cotner was trained as a harpsichordist and now works as a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of "Food Lovers' Guide to Queens," and is a skilled and avid home cook, baker, and preserver. 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__label__wiki	0.843723	0.843723	« Matthew Sweet at The Electric Fetus (acoustic in-store), Minneapolis (10 July 2017) \| Main \| Cymbals Eat Guitars, with Lunch Duchess, at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (09 July 2017) » Minneapolis: July 14 to July 17, 2017 Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from July 14 to July 17, 2017. Read more Minneapolis Music Guide. My feet are still tapping, my heart is still scatting, and my lips are still smiling remembering this unique performance. Caravan Palace has left their mark on this girl. Well done, well done. ... at Skyway Theatre Friday 07/14/17 (8pm/$35) skywaytheatre.com Parisian seven-piece electronic big band Caravan Palace is back at the Skyway Theatre this Friday, July 14th. We previously caught the band in June 2016 and noted, “The energy was tangibly palpable, and reciprocated between the performers and the audience in a way I hadn’t seen in ages. While the colorful and deep hues of electro-waves hypnotized the crowd, the simultaneous brilliance and authentic 20’s swing overtones enlivened everyone’s bones. The audience was truly enraptured. It felt almost sacred, a subtle letting down of our collective guards. Caravan Palace immediately gave us permission to enter into celebration; a wild and yet knowing aliveness took hold, and we danced. And danced. There were so many smiles throughout the audience all night it was infectious.” July 6 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw July 7 New York, NY Irving Plaza July 8 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts July 11 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre July 12 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre July 14 Minneapolis, MN Skyway Theatre July 15 Chicago, IL House of Blues July 16 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall July 20 Baie St. Paul, QC Le Festif! Celebrities, sports figures, and dignitaries all descended on St Paul over the weekend to attend The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala, which generated a... THE STARKEY HEARING FOUNDATION at Rivercentre Sunday 07/16/17 (3pm/$$) rivercentre.org So The World May Hear— Saint Paul’s Rivercentre rolls out the Hollywood-style red carpet this coming Sunday for one of the most anticipated events of the year, The Starkey Hearing Foundation 17th Annual Awards Gala. The So The World May Hear Awards Gala is one of the most acclaimed fundraising events in the country. Because of the generosity of gala sponsors and guests, Starkey Hearing Foundation is leading the world in the creation of a community-based hearing healthcare program and other global strategic hearing health initiatives. This year’s honorees include Ben Affleck, director, actor, writer, producer, and founder of Eastern Congo Initiative; Esther Lungu, First Lady of Zambia; the Wilf Family Foundations; FedEx; and Scott Borchetta and Sandi Spika Borchetta of Big Machine Records and Music Has Value. The evening’s entertainment, hosted by emcee Sinbad, will also include exclusive performances by Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler with his Nashville-based The Loving Mary Band; country singer/songwriter Darius Rucker; legendary CCR frontman and singer/songwriter John Fogerty; Zambian pop singer and philanthropist Portia Clark; 13-year-old singer/ukulele winner of America’s Got Talent Grace VanderWaal; and acclaimed Australian vocal group ARIA. The gala itself is anticipated to generate more than $9 million, which will accelerate the pace and scope of Starkey Hearing Foundation missions and locally. Proceeds will also support grants for local and regional nonprofits. Numerous other local and international celebrities are expected to appear: Television personality Caitlyn Jenner; Daymond John (Shark Tank); Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker; comedian Norm Crosby; Steven Bauer (Ray Donovan; Scarface); Quinton Aaron (The Blind Side); deaf actress Trishelle Edmond (Master of None); and actors Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Chris McDonald, Verne Troyer (Mini-Me), Frankie Muniz, (Malcolm in the Middle) and Chris and Kyle Massey. American Idol winner/country artist Trent Harmon; drummer Danny Seraphine of Chicago; musician Rohan Marley; Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sam Moore; acclaimed songwriter Paul Williams; and Stone Temple Pilots bass player Robert DeLeo. Boxers Evander Holyfield and Andre Berto; paralympian Mallory Weggemann; NFL’s Larry Fitzgerald Jr., Kyle Rudolph, Chad Greenway, Stephon Diggs, Sam Bradford, Harrison Smith, Xavier Rhodes, Alex Boone, Michael Floyd, Greg Jennings, Andre Roberts, Carl Eller, Chuck Foreman, Chris Doleman, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, Moe Williams, Will Witherspoon, Tommie Harris, Derrick Coleman, Robert Smith; NBA’s Karl Anthony Towns, Cole Aldrich, Joe Young, Dikembe Mutombo, Ralph Sampson; MLB’s Barry Zito, Roberto Clemente Jr.; and soccer star Tony Sanneh; and former first daughter and philanthropist Barbara Pierce Bush. A public area outside the Rivercentre is available to view the Red Carpet arrivals as well. Limited availability for the Gala remains, with ticket and participation opportunities available here: starkeyhearingfoundation.org/gala Recently, Bay Area quartet SWMRS (Swimmers) released their debut single "Miley", which i-D Magazine described as "the most punk tribute to Miley Cyrus ever." Singer Cole Becker .… The Wrecks The all-ages show started earlier than the usual show time, but that did not stop the fans from showing up early and on time for the first opener, The Wrecks (Nick Anderson, Aaron Kelley … at Palace Theatre Sunday 07/16/17 (5pm/$27.50) palacestpaul.com All Time Low will be headlining the Palace Theatre in St Paul this Sunday, July 16th. Please note that this is an all-ages show so show up early to check out SWMRS, Waterparks and The Wrecks. We previously caught The Wrecks when they were only 11 months old in October 2016. By now, the Los Angeles alternative rock band are seasoned professionals. As for bay area quartet SWMRS, we previously caught them in November 2016 and noted, “SWMRS’ music is a very upbeat, in-your-face, style of rock n roll. It’s got a classic sound but a unique feeling to it which makes it something memorable.” 07/11 @ Showbox Sodo Seattle, WA 07/13 @ The Complex Salt Lake City, UT 07/14 @ Fillmore Auditorium Denver, CO 07/15 @ Uptown Theater Kansas City, MO 07/16 @ Palace Theatre St. Paul, MN 07/18 @ The Pageant Saint Louis, MO 07/20 @ Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal Oak, MI 07/21 @ Aragon Ballroom Chicago Heights, IL 07/22 @ Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, WI 07/23 @ Express Live! Columbus, OH 07/25 @ Stage AE Pittsburgh, PA 07/26 @ Rapids Theatre Niagara Falls, NY 07/28 @ House of Blues Boston, MA 07/29 @ The Fillmore Philadelphia, PA 07/31 @ Central Park New York, NY 08/02 @ Rams Head Live Baltimore, MD 08/04 @ The Ritz Raleigh, NC 08/05 @ Tabernacle Atlanta, GA 08/06 @ House Of Blues Lake Buena Vista, FL Weezer's singer Rivers Cuomo brought out his dad, Frank Cuomo, and they play "Back to the Shack". One of the most touching things I have witness in my many years of watching Weezer shows. … Cult new-wave artist Graham Parker will be returning to Brit's Pub, next Sunday, July 12th. You may recall reading about Parker's previous Brit's Pub appearance from July 2013. .... I'll always remember when I saw Quintron and Miss Pussycat at the Triple Rock in 2010. I had no idea there would be a puppet show - right in the middle of a regular concert. ... 07/14/2017 22-year-old rapper Phora will be at the Lumber Exchange Event Center (10 S 5th St, #300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55305) in Minneapolis to support his forthcoming album Yours Truly Forever. The record comes out August 18th. I’ve listed the address because this is not the typical music venues we normally list. 7pm, $18. 07/14/2017 Queen + Adam Lambert is playing Xcel Energy Center. 7pm, $29.50. 07/14/2017 Our favorite nerdrockers Weezer is headlining Treasure Island Resort & Casino. Cold War Kids and The Relationship will open. 7pm, $25. 07/15/2017 Rolling River Music Festival is a family-friendly free event at Central Park Bandshell in Red Wing, Minnesota. Since it’s in an open area, the show will go on, rain or shine. Bands set to play: Horseplay, Sam Lewis, and Girls Guns and Glory (who headlined the 7th Street Entry the night before). 4pm, FREE. 07/15/2017 Quintron and Miss Pussycat is back in St Paul at the Turf Club. We love them, they put on a puppet show. It’s pretty swell. Makr and Celica to open. 8pm, $15. 07/16/2017 Mitski and Kitten Forever and Half Waif will be triple rocking the Triple Rock Social Club on Sunday. The show is sold out. 7pm, $15/Sold out. 07/17/2017 Jonathan Harms is having a Single Release Show at the 7th Street Entry this Monday. Special guests Noodhammer and Adam Biel to open. 7pm, $8. 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__label__cc	0.581202	0.418798	connecticut to become 17th medical marijuana state via: twitter @HIGH_TIMES_Mag photo: bing image search by Mark Miller Mon, May 07, 2012 5:51 pm The Connecticut Senate effectively legalized medical marijuana in the state by passing House Bill 5389 in the early morning hours Saturday following a 10-hour overtime session described as “passionate” by the Hartford Courant. The Connecticut House of Representatives passed the bill in late April. Governor Dannel Malloy (D) praised the bill’s passage and has stated that he fully intends to sign it, which would make Connecticut the 17th state in the U.S. to have legalized medical marijuana. Including the District of Columbia, that’s 18 out of 51 states/districts in the nation, meaning more than a third of the country now has legal medicinal cannabis. HB 5389 passed by a 21-13 vote at 2:35 a.m. local time. The extended session was primarily due to the filibustering of State Senator Toni Boucher (R-Wilton), who reportedly lectured on the dangers of medical marijuana (she views it as both highly addictive and a gateway drug) for over eight hours in voicing her opposition. But in the end, compassion and logic won out over propaganda and scare tactics, with Boucher’s attempts to have the bill amended to restrict it even further being voted down as well. ~ read more Louisiana Revised Statute 40:1046 Therapeutic Use of Marijuana third circuit upholds habitual offender bill and t... bolton avenue prozzies to get a $2.5 million dolla... minister louis farrakhan on obama's endorsement of... kevin tillman writes about his brother pat tillman... subtropical storm beryl expected to come ashore al... kalb: mysterious, unnamed judge comments on suit stephenson et al vs stephenson family trust developing: u.s. magistrate judge james kirk recom... baseball exhibit at the louisiana history museum england economic and industrial development distri... 137th running of the preakness stakes "i'll have a... big dust up at the england economic & industrial d... third circuit grants plaintiff's attorney a do ove... another prozzie bust on bolton avenue lamborghini driver zigged when he should have zagg... katrina mary says that alexandria's downtown & joh... newsweek proclaims barky obama the first gay presi... city of alexandria, la. answer's the unique bar an... third circuit affirms rapides parish child porn se... third circuit ok's liquidation of cat island club ... uss louisiana ssbn 743 returns to homeport connecticut to become 17th medical marijuana state... the unique bar and lounge sues city of alexandria,... van halen "dreams" united states navy blue angels ... may 2012 scorpio super moon 138th running of the kentucky derby	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5121
__label__wiki	0.523713	0.523713	How important are commercial revenues to today's airports? Graham, A. 2008. How important are commercial revenues to today's airports? 11th Hamburg Aviation Conference. Hamburg, Germany 13 - 15 Fab 2008 Graham, A. 11th Hamburg Aviation Conference Airline Schedule and Network Competitiveness: a consumer-centric approach for business travel Nenum, S., Graham, A. and Dennis, N. 2020. Airline Schedule and Network Competitiveness: a consumer-centric approach for business travel. Annals of Tourism Research . 80, p. 102822. doi:10.1016/j.annals.2019.102822 Airport economic value – informing business models Gurtner, G., Cook, A.J., Graham, A. and Cristobal, S. 2019. Airport economic value – informing business models. ART Workshop on Aviation Economics and Business Models. Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France 16 - 17 Apr 2019 EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre. Airport Competition with the Scottish Lowlands Region Pagliari, R. and Graham, A. 2019. Airport Competition with the Scottish Lowlands Region . Research in Transportation Economics. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2019.100760 Airports and ageing passengers: A study of the UK Graham, A., Budd, L., Ison, S. and Timmis, A. 2019. Airports and ageing passengers: A study of the UK. Research in Transportation Business & Management. 30, p. 100380. doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2019.100380 Women slowly taking off: An investigation on female underrepresentation in commercial aviation Ferla, M. and Graham, A. 2019. Women slowly taking off: An investigation on female underrepresentation in commercial aviation . Research in Transportation Business & Management. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2019.100378 Airport Management: a perspective article Graham, A. 2019. Airport Management: a perspective article. Tourism Review. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1108/TR-05-2019-0200 Aerotropolis: London's Airports as Experiences and Destinations Graham, A. 2019. Aerotropolis: London's Airports as Experiences and Destinations. in: Smith, A. and Graham, A. (ed.) Destination London: The Expansion of the Visitor Economy London University of Westminster Press. pp. 61-90 An exploratory analysis of the effects of ownership change on airport competition Pagliari, R. and Graham, A. 2019. An exploratory analysis of the effects of ownership change on airport competition. Transport Policy. 78, pp. 76-85. doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.04.004 Graham, A. and Metz, D. 2019. Limits to Growth. in: Graham, A. and Dobruszkes, F. (ed.) Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective Elsevier. pp. 41-52 Managing Airports: An International Perspective Graham, A. 2018. Managing Airports: An International Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon Routledge. Patterns and Drivers of Demand for Air Transport Graham, A. and Zheng, X. 2018. Patterns and Drivers of Demand for Air Transport. in: Graham, A. and Halpern, N. (ed.) The Routledge Companion of Air Transport Management Abingdon, Oxon Routledge. pp. 313-330 Airport Economics and Finance Graham, A. 2018. Airport Economics and Finance. in: Graham, A. and Halpern, N. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management Abingdon, Oxon Routledge. pp. 189-205 The economic value of additional airport departure capacity Gurtner, G., Cook, A.J., Graham, A. and Cristobal, S. 2018. The economic value of additional airport departure capacity. Journal of Air Transport Management. 69, pp. 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.01.001 Graham, A. 2018. Patterns and drivers of demand for air transport. in: Halpern, N. and Graham, A. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management Abingdon, Oxon Routledge. Graham, A. 2018. Airport economics and finance. in: Halpern, N. and Graham, A. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management Routledge. pp. 189-205 UK Regional Connectivity on the North Atlantic: Hub-Bypassing or just changing hubs? Kremarik, F., Dennis, N. and Graham, A. 2017. UK Regional Connectivity on the North Atlantic: Hub-Bypassing or just changing hubs? 21st ATRS World Conference. Antwerp, Belgium 05 - 08 Jul 2017 ATRS. An analysis of the airport experience from an air traveler perspective Graham, A., Wattanacharoensil, W. and Schuckert, M. 2017. An analysis of the airport experience from an air traveler perspective. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 32, pp. 124-135. doi:10.1016/j.jhtm.2017.06.003 Limits to air travel growth: the case of infrequent flyers Graham, A. and Metz, D. 2017. Limits to air travel growth: the case of infrequent flyers. Journal of Air Transport Management. 62, pp. 109-120. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2017.03.011 Airport Management and Performance Graham, A. 2017. Airport Management and Performance. in: Budd, L. and Ison, S. (ed.) Air Transport Management: An International Perspective London Routledge. Performance and prospects of smaller UK regional airports Halpern, N. and Graham, A. 2017. Performance and prospects of smaller UK regional airports. Journal of Airport Management . 11 (2), pp. 180-201. DATASET2050 D4.1 - Current Supply Profile Hullah, P., Kirby, S., Ureta, H., Cook, A.J., Tanner, G., Graham, A., Rothfeld, R. and Paul, A. 2016. DATASET2050 D4.1 - Current Supply Profile. Study on the Modelling of Airport Economic Value Gurtner, G., Cook, A.J., Graham, A. and Cristobal, S. 2016. Study on the Modelling of Airport Economic Value. Eurocontrol. DATASET2050 D4.2 - Future supply profile Tanner, G., Cook, A.J., Gurtner, G., Graham, A., Delgado, L., Cristobal, S., Ureta, H., Paul, A., Kluge, U., Mennig, P. and Hullah, P. 2016. DATASET2050 D4.2 - Future supply profile. DATASET2050 D2.1 - Data requirements and acquisition Tanner, G., Cook, A.J., Delgado, L., Graham, A., Cristobal, S., Ureta, H. and Paul, A. 2016. DATASET2050 D2.1 - Data requirements and acquisition. The economic value of adding capacity at airports – a data-driven model Gurtner, G., Cook, A.J., Graham, A., Cristobal, S. and Huet, D. 2016. The economic value of adding capacity at airports – a data-driven model. Schaefer, D. (ed.) Sixth SESAR Innovation Days. Delft, Netherlands 08 - 10 Nov 2016 SESAR. Understanding Consumer Preferences with Airline Scheduling Graham, A., Dennis, N. and Nenum, S. 2016. Understanding Consumer Preferences with Airline Scheduling. Air Transport Research Society Annual Conference. Rhodes 23 - 26 Jun 2016 An Assessment of the Prospects for Small UK Airports Graham, A. 2016. An Assessment of the Prospects for Small UK Airports. Air Transport Research Society Annual Conference. Rhodes 23 - 26 Jun 2016 Airport Finance and Investment in the Global Economy Graham, A. and Morrell, P. 2016. Airport Finance and Investment in the Global Economy. London Routledge. Low cost carriers and the changing fortunes of airports in the UK Halpern, N., Graham, A. and Dennis, N. 2016. Low cost carriers and the changing fortunes of airports in the UK. Research in Transportation Business and Management. 21, pp. 33-43. doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2016.05.002 Factors affecting airport route development activity and performance Halpern, N. and Graham, A. 2016. Factors affecting airport route development activity and performance. Journal of Air Transport Management. 56 (B), pp. 69-78. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.04.016 A framework for evaluating the European airline costs of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility Ancell, D. and Graham, A. 2016. A framework for evaluating the European airline costs of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility. Journal of Air Transport Management. 50, pp. 41-44. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2015.10.001 An Airport Experience Framework from a Tourism Perspective Wattanacharoensil, W., Schuckert, M. and Graham, A. 2016. An Airport Experience Framework from a Tourism Perspective. Transport Reviews. 36 (3), pp. 318-340. doi:10.1080/01441647.2015.1077287 Air transport liberalisation and airport dependency: developing a composite index Koo, T., Halpern, N., Papatheodorou, A., Graham, A. and Arvanitis, P. 2016. Air transport liberalisation and airport dependency: developing a composite index. Journal of Transport Geography. 50, pp. 83-93. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.04.006 The Key Airport Challenges Graham, A. 2015. The Key Airport Challenges. Ozyegin University Istanbul Hub Seminar. Istanbul 26 Mar 2015 Limits to Air Travel Growth: The Non-Recent Flyers Graham, A. and Metz, D. 2015. Limits to Air Travel Growth: The Non-Recent Flyers . Air Transport Research Society Annual World Conference. Singapore 02 Jul 2015 Airport Management Responses to Evolving Airline Models Graham, A. 2015. Airport Management Responses to Evolving Airline Models. Eighth International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA). Hong Kong 29 Nov 2015 Airport route development: a survey of current practice Halpern, N. and Graham, A. 2015. Airport route development: a survey of current practice. Tourism Management. 46, p. 213–221. doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2014.06.011 Sustainability and the Small Airport Graham, A. 2014. Sustainability and the Small Airport. Seventh International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA). Hong Kong 19 May 2014 Optimizing Consumer Preference in Airline Scheduling Nenum, S., Dennis, N. and Graham, A. 2014. Optimizing Consumer Preference in Airline Scheduling. 18th Annual World Conference of the Air Transport Research Society. KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France 17 Jul 2014 Halpern, N. and Graham, A. 2014. Factors Affecting Airport Route Development Activity and Performance . 18th Annual World Conference of the Air Transport Research Society. KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France 17 Jul 2014 The Effect of Economic Regulation on Financial Performance: A Case Study of European Airports Graham, A. and Vogel, H.A. 2014. The Effect of Economic Regulation on Financial Performance: A Case Study of European Airports. 18th Annual World Conference of the Air Transport Research Society. KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France 17 Jul 2014 Assessing European Airport Dependency Based on Alternative Indexes Koo, T., Halpern, N., Papatheodorou, A., Graham, A. and Arvanitis, P. 2014. Assessing European Airport Dependency Based on Alternative Indexes. 18th Annual World Conference of the Air Transport Research Society. KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France 17 Jul 2014 The use of the Airport Dependence Index to measure airport market and spatial concentration in Europe since liberalization Koo, T., Halpern, N., Graham, A., Papatheodorou, A. and Arvanitis, P. 2014. The use of the Airport Dependence Index to measure airport market and spatial concentration in Europe since liberalization. Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference. London 26 Aug 2014 Airport management in Japan: any lessons learnt from the UK? Graham, A., Saito, S. and Nomura, M. 2014. Airport management in Japan: any lessons learnt from the UK? Journal of Airport Management. 8 (3), pp. 244-263. The role of airports in air transport Graham, A. and Ison, S. 2014. The role of airports in air transport. in: Budd, L. and Goetz, A. (ed.) The geographies of air transport Farnham, Surrey Ashgate. pp. 81-102 Devising airport groupings for financial benchmarking Vogel, H.A. and Graham, A. 2013. Devising airport groupings for financial benchmarking. Journal of Air Transport Management. 30, pp. 32-38. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2013.04.003 Understanding the low cost carrier and airport relationship: a critical analysis of the salient issues Graham, A. 2013. Understanding the low cost carrier and airport relationship: a critical analysis of the salient issues. Tourism Management. 36, pp. 66-76. doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2012.11.011 UK Air Travel Demand: Issues for the Future Graham, A. 2013. UK Air Travel Demand: Issues for the Future. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano Tourists as Consumers, Visitors, Travellers Seminar. Brunico 04 Dec 2013 The Traffic and Financial Performance of UK Regional Airports 2003-2013 Graham, A. and Dennis, N. 2013. The Traffic and Financial Performance of UK Regional Airports 2003-2013 . Air Transport Research Society Annual World Conference. Bergamo 27 Jun 2013 A Method for Developing a Consumer Preference Centric Airline Schedule Quality Metric Nenum, S., Dennis, N. and Graham, A. 2013. A Method for Developing a Consumer Preference Centric Airline Schedule Quality Metric. Air Transport Research Society Annual World Conference. Bergamo 27 Jun 2013 Airports and Tourism Graham, A. 2013. Airports and Tourism. University of the Algarve International Conference on Tourism and Management Studies. Faro 13 Nov 2013 Airport marketing Halpern, N. and Graham, A. 2013. Airport marketing. Routledge. Managing airports: an international perspective, 4th edition Graham, A. 2013. Managing airports: an international perspective, 4th edition. Routledge. Aviation, tourism and the impact on travel medicine Graham, A. 2013. Aviation, tourism and the impact on travel medicine. in: Zuckerman, J. (ed.) Principles and practice of travel medicine, 2nd edition Wiley. pp. 9-18 New Business Strategies of Airports Graham, A. 2012. New Business Strategies of Airports. University of Antwerp Air Transport Colloquium. Antwerp 07 Dec 2012 Airport Typologies for Performance Assessment Graham, A. and Vogel, H.A. 2012. Airport Typologies for Performance Assessment. Air Transport Research Society Annual World Conference. Tainan, Taiwan 27 Jun 2012 Airport Management in Japan - Lessons learnt from the UK Graham, A., Saito, S. and Nomura, M. 2012. Airport Management in Japan - Lessons learnt from the UK . Air Transport Research Society Annual World Conference. Tainan, Taiwan 27 Jun 2012 Are inter-airport performance comparisons worthwhile? Graham, A. 2012. Are inter-airport performance comparisons worthwhile? ACI Economics and Finance Conference. London, UK 7th - 9th March 2012 ACRP report 66: considering and evaluating airport privatization (member of consultancy team) Graham, A. 2012. ACRP report 66: considering and evaluating airport privatization (member of consultancy team). in: ACRP report 66: considering and evaluating airport privatization Transport Research Board. The objectives and outcomes of airport privatisation Graham, A. 2011. The objectives and outcomes of airport privatisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management: Airport Management. 1 (1), pp. 3-14. doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2011.05.004 Key issues facing the airport industry Graham, A. 2011. Key issues facing the airport industry. in: O'Connell, J.F. and Williams, G. (ed.) Air transport in the 21st century Ashgate. pp. 253-268 Profitability in the airline vs airport business: a long-term perspective Vogel, H.A. and Graham, A. 2011. Profitability in the airline vs airport business: a long-term perspective. Journal of Airport Management. 5 (3), pp. 255-268. The role of airports in developing tourism Graham, A. 2011. The role of airports in developing tourism. Transport, Tourism and Regional Development Seminar. Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Australia The impact of North Atlantic passenger services on airports Graham, A. 2011. The impact of North Atlantic passenger services on airports. in: Macário, R. and Van de Voorde, E. (ed.) Critical issues in air transport economics and business London Routledge. pp. 266-284 The UK airport situation Graham, A. 2011. The UK airport situation. Kwansei Gakuin University Economic Value of the Corporation with Public-Private Partnership Conference. Osaka, Japan Leisure travel demand: implications for airlines and airports Graham, A. 2011. Leisure travel demand: implications for airlines and airports. Aviation Business Arena 2011: Central and Southeast Europe Forum. Zagreb The impact of low-cost airline operations to Malta Graham, A. and Dennis, N. 2010. The impact of low-cost airline operations to Malta. Journal of Air Transport Management. 16 (3), pp. 127-136. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2009.07.006 Can we make money in the aviation industry? Profitability in the airline vs. airport business Vogel, H.A. and Graham, A. 2010. Can we make money in the aviation industry? Profitability in the airline vs. airport business. 14th Air Transport Research Society World Conference. Porto, Portugal 06 - 09 Jul 2010 An overview of environmental charging practices at airports Graham, A. 2010. An overview of environmental charging practices at airports. Airports and the environment seminar. Loughborough University 08 - 09 Jun 2010 Managing airports: an international perspective. 3rd edition (Japanese version) Graham, A. 2010. Managing airports: an international perspective. 3rd edition (Japanese version). Chuokeizai-Sha Inc.. Airport strategies to gain competitive advantage Graham, A. 2010. Airport strategies to gain competitive advantage. in: Forsyth, P., Gillen, D., Muller, J. and Niemeier, H. (ed.) Airport competition: the European experience Farnham Ashgate. pp. 89-102 Airport valuation: an alternative driver-based approach Vogel, H.A. and Graham, A. 2010. Airport valuation: an alternative driver-based approach. Journal of Air Transport Studies. 1 (1), pp. 20-47. Graham, A. 2009. How important are commercial revenues to today's airports? Journal of Air Transport Management. 15 (3), pp. 106-111. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2008.11.004 Vogel, H. and Graham, A. 2008. Airport valuation: an alternative driver-based approach. Assessing and managing the value of airports Vogel, H.A. and Graham, A. 2009. Assessing and managing the value of airports. 13th Air Transport Research Society World Conference. Abu Dhabi 27 - 30 Jun 2009 The impact of Indian air transport developments on UK-Indian tourism Graham, A. 2009. The impact of Indian air transport developments on UK-Indian tourism. 13th Air Transport Research Society World Conference. Abu Dhabi 27 - 30 Jun 2009 International experience of regulating airports Graham, A. 2009. International experience of regulating airports. APAO Airport Economic Regulation Conference. New Delhi 2009 Fundamentals for airport privatization and concession policies Graham, A. 2009. Fundamentals for airport privatization and concession policies. International Conference on Private Capital in Airports. Sao Paulo, Brazil 2009 The impact of low cost airline operations to Malta Graham, A. and Dennis, N. 2008. The impact of low cost airline operations to Malta. 48th Congress of the European Regional Science Association. Liverpool, UK 27 - 31 August 2008 Overcoming future challenges for airports in the Middle East and Africa Graham, A. 2008. Overcoming future challenges for airports in the Middle East and Africa. AVEX Conference. Sharm El Sheikh 2008 Managing airports: an international perspective. 3rd edition Graham, A. 2008. Managing airports: an international perspective. 3rd edition. Amsterdam ; London Butterworth Heinemann. Airport planning and regulation in the United Kingdom Graham, A. 2008. Airport planning and regulation in the United Kingdom. in: Winston, C. and de Rus, G. (ed.) Aviation infrastructure performance: a study in comparative political economy Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press. pp. 100-135 Airport traffic and financial performance: a UK & Ireland case study Graham, A. and Dennis, N. 2007. Airport traffic and financial performance: a UK & Ireland case study. Journal of Transport Geography. 15 (3), pp. 161-171. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2006.05.001 UK and German airport performance: similarities and differences Graham, A., Abdesaken, G. and Muller, J. 2007. UK and German airport performance: similarities and differences. 2007 ATRS World Conference. University of California, Berkeley 21 - 23 Jun 2007 Sustaining travel and tourism Graham, A. 2007. Sustaining travel and tourism. 2nd ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly, Conference & Exhibition. Seoul 21 - 24 May 2007 Coping with maturing markets and routes: what happens when the high growth rates start to disappear? Graham, A. 2007. Coping with maturing markets and routes: what happens when the high growth rates start to disappear? Global Airport Development Conference. Amsterdam 26 - 29 Nov 2007 British airport development Graham, A. 2007. British airport development. Transport in Britain: driving tourists out - Tourism Society Seminar. MIC Conference Centre, London 03 Sep 2007 A comparison of alternative airport performance measurement techniques: a European case study Vogel, H.A. and Graham, A. 2006. A comparison of alternative airport performance measurement techniques: a European case study. Journal of Airport Management. 1 (1), pp. 59-74. The relationship between airport traffic development and airport financial perfomance Graham, A. 2006. The relationship between airport traffic development and airport financial perfomance. 38th Universities Transport Studies Group Conference. Trinity College Dublin 04 - 06 Jan 2006 Economic impact of terrorism on the industry Graham, A. 2006. Economic impact of terrorism on the industry. Royal Aeronautical Society: Aviation Resilience in the 21st Century. Cranfield University 08 - 09 Feb 2006 Competition in airports Graham, A. 2006. Competition in airports. in: Papathedorou, A. (ed.) Corporate rivalry and market power: competition issues in the tourism industry London, UK I.B. Tauris. pp. 76-93 Assessing the economic challenges facing regional airports in today's evvironment: turning these challenges into opportunities Graham, A. 2006. Assessing the economic challenges facing regional airports in today's evvironment: turning these challenges into opportunities. Global Airport Development Conference. Rome, Italy 21 - 23 Nov 2006 Airport economics for the 21st century: the growing financial pressure on airports Graham, A. 2006. Airport economics for the 21st century: the growing financial pressure on airports. Aviation Days Conference. Salzburg 28 - 29 Mar 2006 Have the major forces driving leisure airline traffic changed? Graham, A. 2006. Have the major forces driving leisure airline traffic changed? Journal of Air Transport Management. 12 (1), pp. 14-20. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2005.09.002 Airport benchmarking: a review of the current situation Graham, A. 2005. Airport benchmarking: a review of the current situation. Benchmarking: An International Journal. 12 (2), pp. 99-111. doi:10.1108/14635770510593059 A comparison of alternative airport performance techniques: a Eurpoean case study Vogel, H.A. and Graham, A. 2005. A comparison of alternative airport performance techniques: a Eurpoean case study. 9th Air Transport Research Society World Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 03 - 07 Jul 2005 Transport and transit: air, sea and land Graham, A. 2005. Transport and transit: air, sea and land. in: Buhalis, D. and Costa, C. (ed.) Tourism business frontiers: consumers, products and industry London, UK Butterworth Heinemann. pp. 181-190 How low cost carriers development in Europe has changed the airport structures: lessons for Polish airports Graham, A. 2005. How low cost carriers development in Europe has changed the airport structures: lessons for Polish airports. Perspectives of Polish Airports Development. Warsaw, Poland 05 - 06 Oct 2005 Graham, A. 2005. Have the major forces driving leisure airline traffic changed? 8th Hamburg Aviation Conference. Hamburg, Germany 16 - 18 Feb 2005 Efficiency measurement for UK airports: an application of data envelopment analysis Holvad, T. and Graham, A. 2004. Efficiency measurement for UK airports: an application of data envelopment analysis. Empirical Economics Letters. 3 (1), pp. 29-39. The regulation of US airports Graham, A. 2004. The regulation of US airports. in: Gillen, D., Forsyth, P., Knorr, A., Mayer, O.G. and Niemer, H.M. (ed.) The economic regulation of airports: recent developments in Australasia, North America and Europe UK Ashgate. pp. 63-72 Current issues in airport management: an international perspective Graham, A. 2004. Current issues in airport management: an international perspective. Aer Rianta Airport Operations Management Seminar. Dublin 2004 Holvad, T. and Graham, A. 2003. Efficiency measurement for UK airports: an application of data envelopment analysis. VIII European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity. University of Oviedo 25 - 27 Sep 2003 Managing airports: an international perspective. 2nd edition Graham, A. 2003. Managing airports: an international perspective. 2nd edition. Oxford, UK Butterworth Heinemann. Graham, A. 2003. Airports and tourism. 5th Brazilian Congress on Tourism Activity (V CBRATUR). Brasilia, Brazil Nov 2003 International outbound statistics: a practical analysis of the major tourism origin countries Graham, A. and Humphreys, C. 2002. International outbound statistics: a practical analysis of the major tourism origin countries. in: Proceedings of the 6th International Forum on Tourism Statistics: Budapest, Hungary, 25-27 September 2002 Budapest, Hungary Hungarian Central Statistical Office. pp. 324-339 The crisis in air transport and the future structure of European airlines and airports Dennis, N. and Graham, A. 2002. The crisis in air transport and the future structure of European airlines and airports. in: Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, 9-11 September 2002 London, UK Association for European Transport. Using tourism statistics to measure demand maturity Graham, A. 2001. Using tourism statistics to measure demand maturity. in: Lennon, J. (ed.) Tourism statistics: international perspectives and current issues London, UK Continuum. pp. 199-214 The US experience Graham, A. 2001. The US experience. in: Tolley, R. and Turton, B. (ed.) Global transport issues London, UK I.B. Tauris. pp. 207-227 Graham, A. 2001. Managing airports: an international perspective. Oxford, UK Butterworth Heinemann. Airport environmental capacity and developments in airline operations Dennis, N. and Graham, A. 2001. Airport environmental capacity and developments in airline operations. SCAN-UK Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University 02 -03 Apr 2001 Demand for leisure air travel and limits to growth Graham, A. 2000. Demand for leisure air travel and limits to growth. Journal of Air Transport Management. 6 (2), pp. 109-118. doi:10.1016/S0969-6997(99)00031-9 Effiency measurement for airports Holvad, T. and Graham, A. 2000. Effiency measurement for airports. Trakifdage pa Aalborg Universitet Conference 2000 [Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University]. The impact of globalisation on the airport industry Graham, A. 2000. The impact of globalisation on the airport industry. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference. Sussex University 04 - 07 Jan 2000 Maturity of leisure air travel demand with particular reference to the UK transport market Graham, A. 2000. Maturity of leisure air travel demand with particular reference to the UK transport market. 32nd Universities' Transport Study Group Conference. University of Liverpool 05 - 07 Jan 2000 Introductory report Graham, A. 2000. Introductory report. in: Transport and leisure: report of the hundred and eleventh round table on transport economics Paris European Conference of Ministers of Transport, Economic Research Centre. pp. 147-173 Permalink - https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/915x8/how-important-are-commercial-revenues-to-today-s-airports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5123
__label__wiki	0.594149	0.594149	Developer(s) Traveller's Tales Publisher(s) Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Series Harry Potter, Lego, Lego Harry Potter Release date(s) AUS June 25, 2010 NA June 29, 2010 EU June 30, 2010 Genre(s) Action-adventure Mode(s) Single-player, Co-op (2) GameIDs R25PWR, R25EWR Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is a video game in the Lego video game franchise, developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. The game is based on the Lego Harry Potter line and its storyline will cover the first four books of the Harry Potter series. Gameplay is similar to that of most previous Lego games, with an emphasis on collecting and exploring, rather than the emphasis on combat used in Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues and Lego Batman: The Videogame. 1 Emulation Information 1.1 Wii Remote Pointer Hiding Emulation Information Wii Remote Pointer Hiding When the Wii Remote pointer is held perfectly still in Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, the game relocates it off screen. It is unknown why titles do this. With real Wii Remotes, there is usually enough movement to ensure this does not happen, but with emulated Wii Remotes, it is very easy to see. It has been reproduced on console and is not a bug in Dolphin. The graph below charts the compatibility with Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred. r7478 Windows 7 Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.4GHz AMD Radeon HD 6950 Wii Controller doesn't seem to work at all. Intro colors are a bit messed up during the intro. Not that noticeable. DirectX 11 seems to work best. Robodt7 Redmi Note 7 Wii Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 & Years 5-7 Gameplay Dolphin Emulator Android 9 Lego series Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (2005) Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (2006) Bionicle: The Game (2003) Bionicle Heroes (2006) Drome Racers (2003) Lego Batman: The Videogame (2008) Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (2012) Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (2010) Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (2008) Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues (2009) Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (2007) Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (2011) Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (2011) Lego Rock Band (2009) Lego The Lord of the Rings (2012) Harry Potter series Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (2003) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Retrieved from "https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Lego_Harry_Potter:_Years_1-4&oldid=170659" Traveller's Tales (Developer) Electronic Arts (Publisher) Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Publisher) Harry Potter (Series) Lego (Series) Lego Harry Potter (Series) Action-adventure (Genre)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5129
__label__wiki	0.677938	0.677938	Heidi, Frank, and Peter Dunkl will be honored with Creative Living Award. Elizabeth Cecil Dunkl Siblings March to the Beat of Their Own Brass Band Mollie Doyle On a clear November day, siblings Heidi, Peter and Frank Dunkl are getting organized. They have just returned from a five-week journey to check on their homes in Virginia and Florida. The trip was not a vacation. Both houses needed work. And the brakes on their car failed. “Can you imagine not having brakes in a place with huge rolling hills?” Frank asks. Swiss style home looks like it was pulled straight out of a fairy tale. — Elizabeth Cecil “It’s just an unbelievable jumbled mess of mountains down there,” Peter says of Virginia. “Mountains moving in every direction.” “Fortunately,” Frank says, “we found this nice mechanic who came and fixed our disc brakes in about two hours for half the price of what we would have paid up here. Then we started talking to him about the work we were doing on our house and he asked us to come look at his mother’s house. Well, the next thing you know, we are signing on to make a stained glass window for her house.” Peter gestures to the family’s shop. “We can do anything. We have blacksmith stuff, anvils, forges, saws, wood.” “And because we have all this stuff, we also have an amazing mess,” Frank says, laughing. Indeed, the Dunkl’s yard is chock full of old machinery, newer machines draped under tarps, stickered wood, stacked wood, scrap wood, a heap of metal. But, to see their Swiss style home, fashioned out of wood they harvested, planed, sanded and sawed replete with a slate roof that they installed, by hand, and looks like it was pulled straight out of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is to recognize that for the Dunkls, these piles around their home are all potential. “You have to understand when we arrived in New Rochelle, New York from Prague, we were starving,” Frank says. “Heidi was five, Peter was two and I was 50 weeks old. We all had rickets, calcium vitamin B-12 deficiencies, and undersized skeletons.” Peter nods. “My nervous system was so shot that I couldn’t breathe. I was having seizures.” Cockatiels and parakeets make up just small part of the menagerie. — Elizabeth Cecil Frank continues: “So we waste nothing.” To honor the Dunkl’s way of life and being an integral part of the Island community for so long, they are this year’s recipients of the Creative Living Award, awarded by the Permanent Endowment of Martha’s Vineyard. In addition to their creative prowess, the Dunkls have a menagerie to protect and care for. Inside the house, they keep two cockatiels and two parakeets. Outside, they have built a small pond for their 14 Cayuga ducks and “a whole bunch of freeloaders,” Frank says referring to the wild mallard ducks that have also made the pond their home base. They also have 11 chickens, one large white goose and 10 guinea fowl. The Dunkls have built houses for each breed of bird. The complex of shacks and huts that abut each other is nearly as large as their house. “You either love or hate guinea fowl,” Frank says. “I just love them. They are such clowns. Absolutely nuts. One minute they are honking. The next minute they are tweeting. They make me laugh.” “And if you have a dozen of them, they’ll scare a raccoon off,” Heidi adds. “Our guinea fowl once cornered a German shepherd. They circled the poor dog, hollering their heads off.” Heidi spies a jonquil coming up in the dirt near their front door. “Oh, we need to transplant that. I like daffodils and jonquils. The rabbits and deer eat the crocuses and tulips.” She gazes around. “When we had fewer holly trees, our blueberry bushes thrived. We used to pick 200 quarts of berries at one time.” “Two hundred quarts,” Peter echoes. House was built carting materials to the site down a mossy path. — Elizabeth Cecil The three head back inside, talking amongst themselves about things that need to get done. Heidi points to a large stack of papers in the front room that needs organizing. “My winter project.” Peter nods. “One of my goals is to get this place into shape. The way I remember it.” He laughs. “We’re always talking about what we want to do. We’ll see if we live that long.” As they move around the house, showing off family heirlooms as well as the woodstove that needs to be replaced along with the wood burning kitchen stove that needs to be replaced, and relaying their family history and childhood, it is hard to believe that it has all happened in one lifetime. The siblings were born in Prague; Heidi is 77 and the oldest, Peter is 72, and Frank is 71. Their mother, Gudrun Daub, was American. She was a teacher and moved to Germany to study the language to advance her teaching career. There she met Heinrich Dunkl, a medical student from Moravia and fell in love. Soon after they got married, World War II began and Heinrich was drafted at gunpoint into the German army. “He came home a bitter man,” Heidi remembers. “The war destroyed him. He could not be a husband. He could not be a father.” “This is why we believe in non-violence,” Frank says. “We know the tragedy of violence. We are vegetarians. We go out of our way not to hurt anyone. We practice simple signs of respect like saying sir or madam. To hold the door for someone. It is our family’s creed.” "Be helpful. Be kind. Be humble." — Elizabeth Cecil Desperate for help with her three small children, Gudrun Daub Dunkl called her parents who were living in New Rochelle, N.Y. They said she could come home, but she would be responsible for the kids’ medical bills and clothing and her brother would be in charge of raising the kids. After a few jobs, their mother found a career as a secretary for the president of a small, but very successful optical company that provided the lenses for NASA and the early days of the space race. “Their lenses helped us understand the atmosphere on Mars,” Frank says. One of Gudrud’s key jobs was translating technical reports from German to English and vice versa. “Her work was impeccable,” Frank brags. “And because of this, her boss treated her like a queen.” Meanwhile, the children began a new life in New York. Frank laughs. “Beyond school, our uncle always had a project for us. For a while, when we were a bit older, he had us work with an all black wrecking crew who took down houses and warehouses by hand. He wanted to keep us out of trouble, but he also wanted to teach us that we could work with anyone. That we should always treat everyone with respect no matter what.” Siblings were born in Prague and moved to New Rochelle as children and to the Vineyard in 1973. — Elizabeth Cecil The young siblings were also trained to be musicians. “Our great grandfather was Johann Chlupsa,” Heidi explains. “When he was 10 or 11 his parents were so poor that they could not feed him. So they gave him a violin and said, go play for money. He walked on foot, found places to play for food and lodging. I think there was an adult and a few kids walking around together. This is in the 1870’s.” Peter jumps in to help with the story. “He walked from Bohemia to Egypt. And back!” Frank continues: “He became a violin virtuoso. He was the principal violinist for the New York Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.” “He was part of the Cultural Revolution here in America,” adds Peter. “He translated and wrote out the instrumental parts for Verdi, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. So music was very important in our family.” Peter Dunlk and his siblings were playing in the New Rochelle Symphony Orchestra by the time they were teens. — Elizabeth Cecil “His experience has taught us that you can travel the world, hat in hand,” Frank says. “And that is why we are not the best business people. We are from artists.” Heidi contradicts Frank. “Well, the Dunkl side was business minded. Our grandfather was a big deal in the textile industry in Czechoslovakia.” Frank nods. “That’s true. You couldn’t get anything done in that business without him being involved.” “And our grandfather Daub was a bank executive,” Heidi continues. “One hundred per cent German and one hundred per cent nasty.” Peter goes back to the music. “By the time we were in our late teens, we were playing the French Horn in the New Rochelle Symphony Orchestra. We were making $65 dollars an hour.” “Had we stayed in New York, we could have been making $200,000 a year salaries,” Frank says. “We could have had a comfortable life style. But instead we are here, scratching it out. But there are no guarantees in life.” In the late 1960s the land near their house in New Rochelle was turned into an office park. Larger and larger planes were flying overhead to land at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports and more manufacturing moved into the neighborhood. The neighborhood went from pastoral to loud and dangerous. “We could not walk outside after eight at night,” Heidi remembers. So the Dunkls looked around, considering areas around the entire Northeast and found an undeveloped patch of land off of North Road in Chilmark. They built their house carting materials to the site down a mossy path and over a small bridge straddling the Mill Brook. They moved to Martha’s Vineyard full time in 1973. In their 44 years on the Island, the Dunkls have fixed cars, built extraordinary bridges, made stained glass windows, created a bottled water business, maintained roads, sold firewood, repaired machinery, engineered machinery, revamped clocks, done well work, stone work, shingling, framing, have worked on just about every aspect of a house, and played music. As they list more and more jobs, it seems there is nothing they cannot do. Or learn to do. A hut for every creature. — Elizabeth Cecil Frank sums up their philosophy “Our creed, beyond non-violence, is that every day is a learning opportunity. Spend time with children. Spend time with elders. As we get older, we see the value of our friends. And we continue to believe that we are never too old to learn. Little things mean so much. Be helpful. Be kind. Be humble.” “My only regret is that Heidi didn’t get to pursue her weaving business,” Peter says. “Her stuff was just beautiful. She’s an artist.” To underscore the point, the brothers show off an extraordinary wooden bust that Heidi carved. Then the conversation turns to the Flying Horses which the Dunkls restored, the bridges they’ve built, the Volkswagens they’ve repaired. Then they talk about what projects are ahead: baking and sending a gingerbread house for a young girl in Virginia, creating a new bedroom for Heidi, shoring up the bird houses for the winter, making a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. Heidi laughs at her brothers who keep listing more and more things to do. “I should say that in between all these projects, we do have a good time.” The Creative Living Award ceremony takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 28 beginning 5 p.m. at the Portuguese American Club in Oak Bluffs. Day With Dana Nunes, VH Ah, that we could clone this family! Gabrielle, West Tisbury November 24, 2017 - 10:04am Jeannette Smyth So grateful for these peaceful, dynamic, creative lives. Happy Thanksgiving to all who reach these shores looking for freedom. Jeff Baker, Prospect Maine The Dunkls have been so good to so many people,my self included.We used to talk for hours at the Chilmark Dump (now called transfer area)and I would find lawnmowers and they would fix them up for people to cut their grass for free. As a Nam Vet I was always glad to see them as they knew what it was not to have anything and enjoy helping people not hurting them. People ask me if I miss the Island and I say no only people like the Dunkls. Hope you live a long life. Jan DeLisle, Oak Bluffs The Dunkls are so modest; I'm not sure anyone knows the full extent of what they do for MV. LOVE this family. Robert Skydell, Chilmark Wonderful article and great photos of this remarkable group of siblings. Many years ago I used to walk down the woodland path to their cottage home laden with things from my garden. It was just an excuse to visit with the Dunkls, sit in their enchanted house and listen to their mirthful stories. I remember the time after Hurricane Bob when their homemade wine turned into vinegar. What incredible stuff! I sipped it anyway. Great people. Peter Pfluger, Vineyard Haven If a Dunkl can't do it, it can't be done. Congratulations! Jon Pfluger, Gouldsboro Maine That is true Mr. Pfluger Beka, VH Wonderful writing. Extraordinary message of non-violence, ingenuity and resourcefulness. Catherine Nickerson, Nantucket What an inspirational family! Thankyou for sharing their stories. Amazing. Jenny Allen , West Tisbury Wonderful article about this remarkable family. It was great to learn more about the Dunkls--who, many years ago, came to remove a massive beehive from the eaves of our house, and refused to accept any payment. December 1, 2017 - 7:51am Creative Living Award Honors IGI On Monday evening Island Grown Initiative was honored with the annual Creative Living Award from... Island Roots, Equine Boots, Tracey Olsen Has Horse Sense It’s early morning and Tracey Olsen is sweeping up the tack room at Woodbe Farm in West Tisbury. On Night for Laughter, Trip Barnes Receives Creative Living Award In a rollicking, funny and poignant event, the Agricultural Hall was transformed into the Clarence...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5131
__label__wiki	0.698276	0.698276	Christmas is coming… » The Fire Chief Jack Hatcher ran a hand through a short scratch of salt and pepper hair and stared thoughtfully at the bleak brick edifice sitting hard at the end of the street. There was only a little smoke leaking from an upper right-hand window, but it had been enough for the police to clear the road and keep everyone back. At almost six feet six tall he had a clear view over the heads of the small crowd, but all the same he wished they were even further back and out of his way. “Chief Hatcher, do you have what you need?” the street cop asked him, although his eyes too were fixed on the building. “I can’t say that I have son,” Jack said absently, his gravel voice held a tempered edge of authority. “I have one unit on the scene and two more inbound, best if we hold off.” The cop looked from the Chief to the building and back again as he nodded sagely, like he knew what he was looking at. “I see,” he said. “Do you son?” Jack sighed. Was it just him or were cops getting younger, he thought. “Hey Chief,” called a firm young female voice behind him, “You here to observe?” Jack half turned to look at his newest Crew Leader. Samantha Bowden was barely 30 and had come up the hard way. She was more than one of the few women fire fighters; she headed up an appliance team and was one of the best. Although tall, she was more than a head shorter than Jack, but she carried herself with the necessary confidence. Jack noticed she wore make-up and kept her long dark hair in one plait to the side of her head under her helmet. A concession to femininity that as one of the old school Jack found hard to like. “No I reckon I’ll take the lead on this one,” Jack drawled absently, his eyes now fixed on the end of the street. “This?” Samantha blurted, “But this is just a routine job, there is no sign it has even taken hold yet.” Jack barely heard her. Instead his mind was filled the screams of long dead colleagues and the cockiness of another young team leader from so long ago. “I want three teams on this one, and we don’t move until at least the second team is here,” Jack said at last. “But Chief, we could lose the building by then,” Samantha protested. “The building’s empty?” Ignoring her Jack checked with the cop. The man nodded. “Wait here until you get the word, I’m going to call for more back-up,” Jack said firmly as he moved off at a slow jog towards his car. Samantha gaped at the big man’s retreating back and made a gesture of consternation. “Hey Sam, we going in or what?” one of the firemen asked her. He was a big guy too, almost as tall as the chief. Jim Parker talked slowly and worked hard and fast when there was a need. His tone seemed to dare her. “The Chief suggested…” she said hesitantly. “If that fire takes hold then we could lose the whole shooting match,” Jim said with a casual tone that belied the situation. Somewhere a few streets back a siren heralded that the back-up team were near. “You’re right,” Samantha said sharply. “Let’s go.” At first there was nothing amiss in the building. They had gained access easily and had made it all the way to the second from top floor before they had even smelled smoke. “This door is hot,” Jim had said in a calm voice after touching the wood with a gloved hand. Samantha had nodded. “Circle around and see if the door on the other side is hot too. And you,” she gestured to another man, “Get up to the next floor and see what you can make out.” That had been the last thing that had been clear to them. There had been a fire ball from above that, luckily, had blown out a stairwell window and diverted it from harm. But what was left of the upper floor was now an inferno. “On me, on me, on me,” Samantha yelled, “Bring up the hoses… see where B Team has got to…” the rest was lost as she threw herself into the maelstrom. “You saved the building then,” Jack said in a dark neutral voice, “Well most of it anyway.” He was sitting at his desk at the Fire House glaring at the tall woman standing close to attention in the middle of his fire red carpet. “Yah,” Samantha said sheepishly. “And they tell me Jim Parker is going to make a full recovery,” Jack continued. He leaned forward now as if analysing every nuance of Samantha’s face. Samantha nodded. “We got lucky.” “And you handled it well,” Jack said quickly. “But as you say, you got lucky. No one panicked and you manged to direct the second team into position in time. Good job they were on station eh?” “Yes,” Samantha agreed, but she hadn’t known that at the time, she hadn’t waited and they both knew it. “How did you know Chief?” “What? That it was going to be a big one?” Jack lightened up and shrugged. “Just experience, you’ll get there.” “Will I?” Tears pooled at Samantha’s eyes and she shook her head. “Jim might have died and…” “Goes with the job,” Jack cut in. Then he paused. “What doesn’t go with the job is…” Then he raised his voice a mite before adding, “Disobeying orders. I told you I was handling it and I told you how,” he barked. “Jim said…” Samantha blurted and then blushed. She bowed her head and winced. “Of course he did, he is a bull-headed hero. It’s your job to keep him back,” Jack sighed. “In my day… hell, I ought to turn you over my knee and paddle your rump for you.” Samantha blushed. Although she had heard such sexist twaddle all her life, it was hard to tell the chief where to get off when she thought about Jim. All the same she shot back with, “Would you say that to me if I was a man?” Jack snorted mirthlessly and shrugged. “I guess not. But I would have punched you in the face by now and be out of a job; lucky for us both then.” Samantha bowed her head again and nodded. “That wouldn’t be fair on one of us, not under the circumstances. Besides I guess I would take that spanking instead.” It was meant as a joke, but it didn’t sound too funny even to her. “You know, that might not be such a bad idea after all,” Jack drawled and he stood up as if making a point. Samantha let her jaw hang for a second and then became torn between fleeing. That in case he meant it; or rounding on him with the full benefit of her outrage. “You wouldn’t…” she said uncertainly and backed up a little. Jack folded his arms and pictured her bent over his desk with her uniform pants around her ankles and her bottom all bare and waiting while he plied his service belt across it. “I could spank you in full view of the men and not one of them would back you at an inquiry,” Jack told her. She knew that was true and gulped hard. “I wouldn’t do that,” he told her after a pause. “But I might do it here if you don’t get out of my office in five seconds.” “Yes Sir,” Samantha gasped and after flustering with the door handle quickly exited. Jim had been a mess; lost beneath a swath of bandages and yellow goo. His wife and daughter had cried throughout the whole visit. Not Jim though, he was full of it and laughing. He was giving it large how Samantha had saved him. “Hell,” he said, “She saved the whole damn street.” Samantha had felt sick all the way back to the fire house and all the way up to the Chief’s office. “Come in,” Jack called from within. Nothing was said as she entered, she couldn’t even meet his eyes. Finally she said, “Jim’s going to be alright…” she heaved a sigh that ended in a sob, “But…” “I know,” Jack said wearily. Samantha took a deep breath and then finally found the Chief’s eyes. “Were you joking about what you said earlier?” “Young lady, if you don’t go home right now, you will find out,” Jack scolded. The pair of them stared each other out for the longest time before Samantha challenged, “You’re all mouth and we both know you wouldn’t dare.” Jack answered her with a slow shake of his head. Then like before he got to his feet but instead of giving her any regard he moved nonchalantly from behind his desk and slipped off his uniform jacket. Samantha was about to yell at him or say anything to break the tension. Was he snubbing her? Then she noticed he was rolling up his sleeves. “Listen…” she took a deep breath, “I was just sounding off. I am mad at myself about Jim and I know now that I should have listened to you. Let’s forget this conversation okay…” While she tried to gather up her composure Jack moved around the room and into the space between her and the door. “I have had enough of you ‘sounding off,’ you’ve got a big mouth and even bigger boots that no longer seem to fit you,” Jack told her. “I think it is about time someone put you in your place.” “I know I said, I know… but… now listen,” Samantha batted down the air with her open palms and backed away. “Young lady, you need a sound spanking on your completely bare bottom, I am the one to do it,” Jack growled. “Not here… I mean…” Samantha blurted. “I gave you a couple of chances to duck out and yet you still came back, so now you’re going to get what’s coming to you.” As he made the announcement he made one easy motion to cross the space between them and heft her fireman-style off her feet. “Noooo Chief, listen…” she squealed. But Jack wasn’t listening, he merely carried to a chair where he took a seat and tossed her gently across his lap. Her uniform pants slid down easily, as they were designed to and jack took full advantage. Her underpants were high-cut and revealing, but Jack didn’t hesitate. With a quick hook of his thumb he lowered these too until her clothing was bunched around her ankles and her bottom was bared to his gaze. “Ch-chief, chief, please I… ow!” she gasped as his large paddle-like hand swatted her bare tail. “You’ve said please, now ma’am, say thank you Sir,” Jack chuckled as he spanked her several times in short order turning her white bottom a healthy deep pink. “I mean please…ow… stop, not… ooh, ah… pleeeasssse…” Samantha’s tirade ended in spluttering and a rapid kicking of her legs, well as far as she was abled being hobbled by her clothing. Jack put some power into the swats and fire chief took on a whole new meaning. “And I said, ‘enough with the please,’ I want to hear some ‘thank you Sir’s.’” Samantha growled in anger and clamped her jaw shut in case she made too much noise. Nevertheless the spanking continued and showed no sign of letting up. “I get it, I’m sorry,” she sniffed at last. “And?” Jack warned her, his spanking arm now relentless. “Thank you Sir,” she gasped. “And that one?” he spanked her again. “Thanks… ah… thank you Sir,” she said miserably. There was along sharp volley of spanks followed by thanks and a very red-bottomed Samantha held fast to the last of her dignity. “Jim, I’m sorry Jim,” she suddenly wept. Jack abruptly stopped the spanking and pulled the woman into a hug. “Okay, okay, let it out,” he told her gently. Great gouts of well-sobbed tears followed and she hugged into the Chief like she might die. “I’m sorry, so sorry,” she wailed. It took a while but finally she pulled herself together. “Can I pull up my pants now?” she asked shyly. “Not just yet,” he chuckled, “Like I said someone is too big for her boots, so let me see that red behind of yours cooling off in the corner.” “You’re kidding,” she gaped. “Oh no, I might even take a snap and send it to Jim and his family,” Jack said in a serious tone as he brandished his phone. “Oh, y-you wouldn’t,” Samantha gasped, pausing mid-shuffle on her way to the corner. “I won’t if you do as you’re told,” Jack laughed, “This pleasure is all mine.” Samantha made a sour face. “I had rather hoped you might buy me a drink after such rough handling,” she said ruefully. “Later maybe,” he chuckled, “Much later,” he made a twisting motion with his finger, “Now turn around.” “Oh Jesus, if my team could see me now… ooh,” she groaned in embarrassed frustration as she obeyed. 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__label__wiki	0.562852	0.562852	Difference between revisions of "M1A2 Abrams" Mememeist3r (talk \| contribs) (Tag: Visual edit: Switched) == Usage in battles == ''Describe the tactics of playing in the vehicle, the features of using vehicles in the team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view but instead give the reader food for thought. Describe the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).'' <!--Describe the tactics of playing in the vehicle, the features of using vehicles in the team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view but instead give the reader food for thought. Describe the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).--> The M1A2 Abrams excels as an all-around jack of all trades vehicle capable of any role presented to it. It has a great combination of protection, firepower, situational awareness and mobility to allow it to adapt to any task it may face, from close-quarters fighting in urban areas to long range engagements on large open maps. === Urban combat === The M1A2, with its good mobility and improved protection over the M1A1 can function as an effective brawler in close-quarters urban fighting. The M1A2's reload rate is on par and superior when aced to its counterparts with the exception of the Challenger 2 and Type 90, making it able to quickly dish out damage and deal with multiple foes. Thusly, the M1A2 has no issue leading the charge into urban areas and being a frontline vehicle in the thick of the action, being able to equally deal damage and take it. === Long range combat === On large open maps, the M1A2 is fully able to exploit its improved turret protection and commander's thermal imaging to give it the upper hand in long range battles. The mobility of the M1A2 allows it to reach advantageous positions that overlook key areas of the map and its improved thermal quality allows easier identification of targets at range and in dense woodland. The commander's thermal imager means the player can keep track of threats all around the vehicle and monitor the battlefield without exposing the turret at all. The M1A2 is best played as an ambush sniper, using its commander's thermal sight to survey from cover, exposing the tank only to engage a target. The turret armour also means the M1A2 should be kept in a hull-down position, making the tank extremely hard to destroy. The M1A2 also retains the ability to effectively take the enemy head on when the situation calls for it, such as assaulting capture points. The M830A1 shell is also valuable, allowing the M1A2 to become an ad-hoc anti-aircraft vehicle, especially against unwary helicopters that get too close to you or your allies. === Notable enemies === [[Leopard 2A5]]: This is the main counterpart of the M1A2 and both tanks are evenly matched in nearly all aspects. Thusly the Leopard 2A5 should be a high-priority target to be dealt with carefully. When hull down, the Leopard 2A5 can only be effectively penetrated through the gun mantlet or a lucky shot into the mantlet, so aim for the gun area, which usually results in the disabling of the weapon. If the Leopard 2A5 presents its hull, aim for the left side as the lined-up crew members usually results in a one-shot kill. [[T-80U]]: The T-80U can be a fearsome enemy if you are unaware of its significant disadvantages and weaknesses. The tank's frontal protection is very strong, though the area around the gun and the driver's hatch are weakspots that you should aim for. The T-80U, like many other T-series vehicles are prone to one-shot kills due to the tightly packed interior that has the turret crew sitting on top of all the ammunition. Furthermore, the T-80U is very vulnerable to any form of angling in the hull as its side protection is very weak in comparison to the frontal armour. A single penetration at all but the most oblique angles usually results in the detonation of the hull-ammo carousel and an easy one-shot kill. [[Leclerc]]: The Leclerc's good mobility, firepower and protection make it a formidable foe to engage. However the tank's armour scheme is inconsistent and presents three main weakspots frontally; the massive and extremely weak mantlet, the UFP and LFP. These are quite easy to hit and present a good chance of dealing serious damage or knocking out the vehicle entirely. === Pros and cons === Tank, Combat, Full Tracked, 120-mm Gun M1A2 USAVII Rank 10.3/10.3/10.3BR Medium tankClass 4 peopleCrew 82 %Visibility front / side / backArmour 133 / 62 / 31Hull 133 / 133 / 12Turret 61.7 tWeight 2 898 hp1 519 hpEngine power 47 hp/t25 hp/tSurface density 75 km/h forward 44 km/h back67 km/h forward 40 km/h backSpeed 120 mm M256 cannonMain weapon 42 roundsAmmunition 18 roundsFirst-order 6.0 / 7.8 sReload -10° / 20°Vertical guidance two-planeStabilizer 12.7 mm M2HB machine gunMachinegun 8.0 / 10.4 sReload 200 roundsBelt capacity -9° / 65°Vertical guidance 7.62 mm M240 machine gunCoaxial weapon 10 000 roundsAmmunition 7.62 mm M240 machine gunMachinegun 400 000 Research 1 030 000 Purchase 11 000 / 17 567/8 100 / 12 935/4 200 / 6 707Repair 300 000 Crew training 2.2 Mobility 3.1 Main armament 3.2 Machine guns 4.1 Urban combat 4.2 Long range combat 4.3 Notable enemies The Tank, Combat, Full Tracked, 120-mm Gun M1A2 (shortened to M1A2 Abrams) is a rank VII American medium tank with a battle rating of 10.3 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.93 "Shark Attack" as the top-researchable vehicle in the US Ground Forces tech tree. The M1A2 introduces heavy depleted uranium armour, a commander's thermal sight and the only driver's thermal imager in the game. The M1A2's frontal KE protection vs CL1343 at 500 metres The M1A2's frontal CE protection vs MIM-146 The M1A2's armour is a massive improvement in comparison to its predecessor, the M1A1 and is the first Abrams in the game to be equipped with depleted uranium composite armour, located on the turret cheeks of the tank. The protection afforded by the use of depleted uranium amounts to roughly over 200 mm RHAe more armour against kinetic energy projectiles whilst retaining the near impenetrable chemical protection of the M1A1. The turret's overall kinetic energy protection ranges from around 690 mm to 600 mm whilst the chemical energy protection ranges from 1200 mm to 1000 mm. However the M1A2 has no depleted uranium located in the lower front plate and retains the same protection there, retaining the same weak spots as the M1A1 there. The turret ring and breech also are weakspots, though the breech on the Abrams series is notably some of the strongest out of all NATO main battle tanks being small and well protected against chemical energy rounds and some early APFSDS rounds. The M1A2 retains the same 1500 horsepower AGT-1500 gas turbine on previous Abrams variants, though the tank has gained an additional 4 metric tons of weight, putting the total mass of the tank at 61.7 tonnes. This translates to a noticeable decrease in acceleration and manoeuvrability due to a lower hp/ton ratio. However the tank retains the same 68 km/h top speed and 40 km/h reverse speed and compared to its counterparts the M1A2 is still quite mobile, especially at speeds over 40 km/h. When stock, the hull traverse is quite horrendous and acceleration is lacking, though these are largely remedied by researching the engine, filters, transmission and tracks modules. Main armament Main article: M256 (120 mm) The M1A2 is armed with the same 120 mm M256 smoothbore gun as the M1A1 and has access to the same ammunition of APFSDS and HEAT-FS. However the M1A2 also gets access to a new HEAT-MP-T shell, M830A1. The M829 APFSDS round is still an excellent anti-tank munition, boasting the third highest penetration figures out of any sabot round in the game, at 493 mm of flat penetration at point blank and decreasing to just 458 mm at 2 kilometres. Its angled performance is also excellent, penetrating 284 mm of armour at 60 degrees point blank and 264 mm at 2 kilometres. It is sufficient to reliably engage any vehicle in the game frontally. The M830 HEAT-FS shell penetrates a meager 480 mm of armour. It is not recommended to use this shell after unlocking the M829. The M1A2's new shell, M830A1 is a special type of HEAT-FS round. Instead of using a conventional impact fuse, M830A1 is a sub-calibre HEAT-FS round that has been saboted into a 120 mm casing and fitted with a proximity fuse. This allows it to effectively engage low flying aircraft and helicopters up to a range of 4.5 kilometres. The sub-calibre nature of the round means it travels extremely quickly at 1400 m/s, making it the fastest HEAT round in the game. However its effectiveness against armoured vehicles is limited as it penetrates a mere 350 mm of armour. The M1A2's gun handles very well, with a very efficient stabiliser that allows accurate fire at any speed and a very fast 40 degrees per second turret traverse. The gun has good depression and elevation angles; negative 10 and positive 20 degrees respectively. An aced crew can reload the gun in just six seconds, making it a very fast firing and powerful gun. Main articles: M2HB (12.7 mm), M240 (7.62 mm) Offensive and anti-aircraft machine guns not only allow you to fight some aircraft but also are effective against lightly armoured vehicles. Evaluate machine guns and give recommendations on its use. Urban combat Long range combat Notable enemies Leopard 2A5: This is the main counterpart of the M1A2 and both tanks are evenly matched in nearly all aspects. Thusly the Leopard 2A5 should be a high-priority target to be dealt with carefully. When hull down, the Leopard 2A5 can only be effectively penetrated through the gun mantlet or a lucky shot into the mantlet, so aim for the gun area, which usually results in the disabling of the weapon. If the Leopard 2A5 presents its hull, aim for the left side as the lined-up crew members usually results in a one-shot kill. T-80U: The T-80U can be a fearsome enemy if you are unaware of its significant disadvantages and weaknesses. The tank's frontal protection is very strong, though the area around the gun and the driver's hatch are weakspots that you should aim for. The T-80U, like many other T-series vehicles are prone to one-shot kills due to the tightly packed interior that has the turret crew sitting on top of all the ammunition. Furthermore, the T-80U is very vulnerable to any form of angling in the hull as its side protection is very weak in comparison to the frontal armour. A single penetration at all but the most oblique angles usually results in the detonation of the hull-ammo carousel and an easy one-shot kill. Leclerc: The Leclerc's good mobility, firepower and protection make it a formidable foe to engage. However the tank's armour scheme is inconsistent and presents three main weakspots frontally; the massive and extremely weak mantlet, the UFP and LFP. These are quite easy to hit and present a good chance of dealing serious damage or knocking out the vehicle entirely. New depleted uranium composite armour layout makes the frontal turret extremely difficult to penetrate to all munitions in the game Can effectively destroy aircraft or helicopters with new HEATFS shell through proximity detonation Thermal sight for the commander, gunner and driver Excellent thermal quality (800 x 600), comparable to the Leopard 2A5 Good crew survivability like the rest of the Abrams line Has the same weak spots as the preceding Abrams The mantlet can be penetrated by almost all shells, will only stop HEATFS The Italian CL1343 APFSDS found on the Ariete line of tanks can penetrate some areas of the gunner's side turret cheek at close range Least manoeuvrable Abrams in the game, due to its weight of 61.7 tonnes In the second half of the 1980s, a development project was launched to increase the combat effectiveness of the Abrams MBT. The result of this undertaking became the M1A2 version of the Abrams. The new version featured an upgraded fire control system, a new independent commander’s panoramic sight as well as improved protection thanks to the use of second generation depleted uranium composite armor. All of these upgrades combined significantly bolstered the combat capabilities of the Abrams tank. Production of the M1A2 began in 1986 and the modification was formally introduced into US service in 1992. The M1A2 and its sub-variants are the most advanced modifications of the Abrams tank fielded to date. Over 1,500 M1A2s have been built with some older variants also being upgraded to the M1A2 standard. Apart from the U.S. as its primary operator, the M1A2 also sees service with the armed forces of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. - From Devblog M1A2, Angel of Death, scanning the horizon on Kursk. reference to the series of the vehicles; [Development] M1A2 Abrams - Higher and Higher USA medium tanks Early projects Medium Tank M2 M3 M3 Lee · Grant I · M4A5 M4 M4 · Calliope · M4A1 · M4A1 (76) W · M4A2 · M4A2 (76) W · M4A3 (105) · M4A3 (76) W M26 T20 · T25 · M26 · M26 T99 · M26E1 Post-war M46 · M46 "Tiger" · M47 · M48A1 · T95E1 · ADATS MBT M60 · M60A1 (AOS) · M60A1 RISE (P) · M60A2 · M60A3 TTS · MBT-70 · XM-803 · XM-1 (GM) · XM-1 (Chrysler) · M1 Abrams · IPM1 · M1A1 Abrams · M1A2 Abrams Israeli Magach 3 · Merkava Mk.1 Retrieved from "https://wiki.warthunder.com/index.php?title=M1A2_Abrams&oldid=37215" USA ground vehicles Seventh rank ground vehicles	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5147
__label__cc	0.65471	0.34529	About Wiretech Company Raleigh NC Electricians since 1990 Our owner, Mike Jones, began his career as an electrician in 1979 while working for his father. Mike is a native of Raleigh and, in 1984, earned his Unlimited Electrical Contracting License, the highest obtainable license in North Carolina. Mike learned the electrical business by working for his father doing electrical remodel and service work on older homes in the triangle area. Wiretech still specializes in electrical work for older homes. Mike started Wiretech Company in 1990 with a business model for the highest quality work and customer relationships. Mike says “our reputation is the most important thing we have; without it we have no business”. He often tells his guys that when he did electrical work on the side, his customers were convinced that no one else could do what he could do and they would wait as long as it took for him to come to their homes and take care of their work. Even to this day, Wiretech electrical technicians have the same relationships with their customers. When you call Wiretech Company you can be confident that everyone, from the person that takes your call to the technician that takes care of your problem, will treat you with the utmost respect and give you the absolutely best experience possible. Once you call Wiretech you’ll never call anyone else for your electrical needs! Wiretech Company - Raleigh Electrical Repair, Upgrades & Remodeling Mike Jones is a long-time licensed Raleigh electrician, since 1978, and a native of Raleigh, NC. He has lived in Raleigh all his life and he wouldn't have it any other way! In 1984, Mike earned his Unlimited Electrical Contractor License, the highest available licensed electrician status in North Carolina. Mike started Wiretech Company in 1990 with a business model for the highest quality work and customer relationships. Mike says “our reputation is the most important thing we have; without it we have no business”. Married for over 31 years, Mike has 3 grown kids – all of whom worked for Wiretech at some time growing up. He enjoys cooking pork butts on the smoker and filet mignon on the black iron skillet and is well known for both. Mike loves nice cars and always keeps them very clean. He's also a Tar Heels fan and loves watching UNC football and basketball games. Mike says, “I have two families – my blood family and my Wiretech family. I’m very protective of both.” Mary is the office manager and receptionist at Wiretech. She keeps all of the electricians and technicians running like clock-work. She has been with Wiretech since 2014. Mary is married and has a 4 year old who you might see mentioned in the blog a few times. According to Wiretech's owner, Mike Jones, Mary is the best receptionist ever! Michael Lashley Michael is the Electrical Contracting Supervisor at Wiretech taking care of electrical safety, upgrades, repairs and installations for Raleigh area homeowners. Michael has over 20 years of electrical contracting experience and has worked at Wiretech Company since 2011. His qualifications and certifications include Journeyman card holder since 1999, Lutron Controls training, SQUARE D structured wiring training, Wake Tech Community College NEC Course (National Electrical Code) complete 1996, JCR Productions NEC Workshop complete 2002. Residing in Willow Springs, NC, Michael is a devoted husband and father to his family and a huge NASCAR fan. He says "I learned electrical theory and real world electrical applications from my father." Vince Gayhardt Vince is a Garner electrician taking care of electrical safety, upgrades, repairs and installations for homeowners in the Raleigh area. Vince joined Wiretech Company in 2015. He has been in the electrical field since 1987 and passed his NC Electrical License Test in 2006. Vince has a City of Raleigh Journeyman card and a limited electrical license in the state of NC. Vince lives in Garner and has 3 adult children in their twenties. Joel Craddock has 20+ years in the electrical field Joel believes in taking pride in all of his electrical installations. Joel prides himself in gaining personal growth as a person as well as an electrician. Joel started at Wiretech in 2017. Technician Assistant Asiel Flores Technician/Lead EV Installer Naim Smalls Electrician Helper	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5150
__label__wiki	0.580104	0.580104	What Women Wear to a Job Interview in the Summer by Robert Morello A little style in an interview can still be appropriate. The warm weather and bright colors of summer can leave you wondering what to wear to a job interview. While the buttoned-up look is typical for many interviewers, it may not be practical for a summer interview. If you want to look the part of a serious candidate while remaining current with your choice of attire, it's important to know what to wear when meeting with a new employer in the summer. Interview attire should not be so bold as to define you in a certain way. At the same time, it should be well tailored enough not to make you look drab and dull. A neutral outfit with a strongly colored accessory such as a belt or purse will allow you to fit the season while preventing sensory overload in the meeting room. In some cases, a brightly colored shirt can enliven a dark or neutral colored business suit to the point that it no longer blends in with the crowd. Instead of heavy woolen suits or button-up collars that can really turn up the heat before the interview has even started, consider wearing lightweight materials that breathe well and allow air to circulate. Natural fibers like cotton or silk blended with artificial materials like polyester are among the best at lifting moisture from your skin on the inside while remaining presentable on the outside. Avoid anything with an inner liner that adds weight and thickness that can cause you to feel the heat even more. Although it's warm outside, you may find yourself feeling cold in an air conditioned meeting room. You may also wish to cover up your summer clothing with a simple jacket to feel more businesslike when it comes to the actual interview. Bring a basic suit blazer or lightweight throw to do the job. Carry it to the interview and resist the urge to wear it. The last thing you need is a sweaty brow as your potential employer begins her evaluation of you. Footwear should also reflect the weather outside without being too casual. Consider a short heel constructed of cork or wood, either in a neutral color that matches your outfit, or a flash of color that matches your seasonal accessories. If the company you are interviewing with has a very conservative culture, don't push the envelope too far with your footwear. It's up to you to determine what a given company expects from its workers, and it is always safer to be more reserved if you're not sure. Whatever you decide to wear on your feet, wear hose to finish off your polished look. Target Look Ideally, your goal should be to look like you belong in the office where you are trying to work. You also want enough personal style to be memorable as a candidate instead of just another business suit with a resume. The patterns and textures of simple attire can go a long way to making them unique, as can the designs you choose to mix in an outfit. Overall, it's better to look as though you gave less time and thought to your outfit than you probably did. It conveys confidence and preparedness to your potential employer. Glamour Magazine: What To Wear To A Summer Job Interview ABC 15 TV Arizona: Dressing for a Summer Interview The Ladders: What to Wear to Summer Job Interviews Boston: The Savvy Manager Monster: Summer Office Attire: What Not to Wear to Work Robert Morello has an extensive travel, marketing and business background. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 2002 and has worked in travel as a guide, corporate senior marketing and product manager and travel consultant/expert. Morello is a professional writer and adjunct professor of travel and tourism. Comstock Images/Comstock/Getty Images Overdressed Vs. Underdressed for an Interview Appropriate Dress for a Teaching Interview Wearing a Print Blouse to an Interview What to Wear for a Visual Merchandising Interview Executive Styles for Women's Work Suits What Is Business Casual for a Party? Dressing Etiquette for the Workplace How to Look Older for a Job Interview at a Law Firm The Best Color Suit for a Job Interview How to Dress Stylish for an Interview What to Wear to a New Job A Casual & Comfy Wear-to-Work Style How to Dress for a Finish Line Interview What to Wear for a TV Studio Interview What to Wear to a Kindergarten Interview How to Dress for a Job Fair	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5155
__label__wiki	0.991676	0.991676	German striker liking Hyundai A-League atmosphere Michael Huguenin 1479175790 Melbourne Victory's new German striker Max Beister has taken a positive first impression of the Hyundai A-League after his eye-catching debut last weekend. Victory's 3-0 win over the Wanderers saw the debutant score his first goal for Kevin Muscat's side, with the Mainz loanee looking lively in his second-half cameo. Beister's goal sparked a huge celebration around Victory's bench involving all players and coaching staff. Beister buzzing after ‘amazing’ Victory debut And Victory keeper Lawrence Thomas revealed the 26-year-old German had been blown away by the response. "I think him [Beister] coming on and scoring was probably the best thing for him to feel a part of the club and feel welcome. "So that's why I sort of ran the whole way up the field - I was pretty tired running back, actually - but I thought it was important to share that moment with him," Thomas said. "I think he was really excited and maybe partly surprised by the atmosphere there. "I don't know if he expects that from Australian football but he came in and said 'wow, it's really loud'." And like Beister, Thomas wants to take his game to the next level this season - his first Hyundai A-League campaign as the number one goalkeeper at the club. Thomas has been Victory's reserve gloveman in his previous five seasons but having worked his way past Danny Vukovic in 2015/16, the 24-year-old has been made the number one by coach Kevin Muscat this term. Thomas is set to play his seventh game in Victory's next fixture, which would equal his best Hyundai A-League campaign in the 2014/15 Season, when he took over from the injured Nathan Coe to help the Big V claim the premiership-championship double. Having earned his first clean sheet of 2016/17 last week in the triumph over Wanderers, Thomas is looking forward to improving throughout the season and being pushed to retain his spot by back up keeper Alistair Bray. "I'm really glad and happy to have that opportunity now to critique my game every week and that's something you obviously miss when you're not playing. "You can train all you want but to do that under stadium lights and in front of a crowd is a completely different thing," he said. "So just the opportunity to play every week and really pick on my game and hopefully refine it every game and see where it takes me."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5161
__label__cc	0.692464	0.307536	Tag: Democratic Vox: “4 winners and 3 losers from the January Democratic debate Bernie Sanders had a good night. Wolf Blitzer did not.” submitted by /u/inoffensivegamer Democratic Unity on Healthcare most important issue to voters. we got the most trusted person to deal with the most important issue. We must demand Unity submitted by /u/StormalongJuan SandersForPresident: search results – self:yes The Center for Popular Democracy Action, a coalition of more than 40 progressive community groups totaling about 600,000 members, will endorse Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination submitted by /u/zxlkho Anderson Cooper / CNN: a surprisingly open and respectful interview with Cornel West on Bernie Sanders and Democratic Socialism submitted by /u/grasputin I was an undecided Democratic voter voter two weeks ago. I’m all in for Bernie now that Bloomberg has announced. As of a few weeks ago, I wasn't sure who I was going to vote for. Supported Warren for a bit, thought Buttigieg might make a good president, and, of course, Bernie was always an option. But now, after seeing a billionaire attempting to stop Sanders by spending $ 31 MILLION in his first week of campaigning, I'm Bernie or Bust. The wealthy and well-connected have shown they will do anything to stop common sense reforms that have already been implemented in every first world nation, like medicare for all and tuition-free college. Capitalism in the United States is destroying the working class and the planet. Bernie Sanders, I believe, is the only man who can stop them. I will be donating to him monthly as soon as I get a job, even though I'm a broke as college student. submitted by /u/lukethebeard Why is Medicare 4 all so controversial within the democratic party? Its pretty much tearing and dividing the Dems apart & so forth. submitted by /u/Mr_Suicidal_209 Corey Doctorow: Bernie supporters are the most diverse of any Democratic presidential contender submitted by /u/stickdog99 Left a bunch of freeberniecards at the local Democratic office! I live out in the suburbs of Portland, and had noticed a brick and mortar 'Democrat office' in our tiny downtown area. I was always curious to see what that was about, and popped in a few days ago. I had a bunch of https://freeberniecards.com/ cards with me, and they were happy to let me set them out on a shelf for people to pick up for free. I saw a Yang supporter had already been by and left a bunch of pamphlets and rally signs ! I'll probably be making a bunch of buttons and bringing back more bernie cards, maybe I'll get a campaign bundle to bring by too. Overall the staff manning the office had no official candidate endorsements and were very neutral in general, they welcomed 'all democratic candidates' so now is the time to build up some Bernie support ! If you see any democratic offices in your area (perhaps look them up) it wouldn't be a bad idea to drop by with some Bernie info, pamphlets, and swag! submitted by /u/Duskychaos The EXACT moment Bernie said, “Does the Democratic Party have the guts, to take on the health insurance industry.” submitted by /u/chrispy_t [Rant] I find it funny how easy it is to convince my republican friends and family to vote for Sanders than it is to convince my own Democratic family. Here's some context. I live in the tristate area of West Virginia. Where I'm from is a purple district as compared to rest of the state. My mom's side of the family is mostly republican and my dad's side of the family is mostly democratic. Me and my two siblings are independent but usually vote democrat. I have friends and acquaintances all across the political spectrum. I don't try to discus politics with my republican friends and family, but when i do I always find a way to compromise with them. For instance they usually agree with me on the topic of legalizing marijuana, ending the mass incarceration rate, and getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan. They don't fully agree with Bernie Sanders, but would rather vote for him than they would Donald Trump. Same can't be said about my democratic family. My mom plans on voting for Warren, mainly because she's tired of old white men running for president and thinks that Bernie's heart problems is now the end of his campaign. All my dad cares about is getting Trump out of office. He dislikes Sanders and Warren because he thinks their policies will never get passed. While he dislikes Biden, he's probably going to vote for him. My sister likes Bernie, but think he's to old. My brother is the only person that's probably going to vote for Sanders in the primary. It seems when I try to convince them to vote for Bernie or debunk all the smear tactics the main stream media uses at him, their response is to get me and my generation to get out there and vote for him. What advice would you give me to convince my family to vote for him? submitted by /u/SamDaRam	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5162
__label__wiki	0.647522	0.647522	The Reemergence of Louis Saha Jesse Chula October 1, 2009 General, Leagues: EPL 2 Comments Are Premier League fans seeing the second coming of Louis Saha? The former first team Manchester United striker scored the only goal in a match carried by ESPN2 in the States in pristine HD this past Saturday- a match that produced just 1 goal, but some great saves from keepers on both sides. The Everton man & former French International netted his 7th goal in all competitions of the season Saturday at Portsmouth to earn the blue side of Merseyside their first away points of the season – a much needed 3 points for Everton after an early, slow start. In the 42nd minute of a match with chances coming on both sides, it was Johnny Heitinga who found Saha with a long ball – Saha won it in the air over Younes Kaboul & quickly struck past David James in the Pompey goal. The lone strike was enough for a 4th straight Everton victory. Great news to Toffee supporters is the re-acquired form of Saha who spent a lot of time in the past 4 years injured at Manchester United. After his stint with the current champions, Saha came to Everton in late 08, for an undisclosed fee & signed a 2 year pay as play deal-one similar to that of Michael Owen’s at Manchester United (is Owen another player on the verge of rediscovering top form in the premier league?). At the time of his transfer to Everton, Saha was not match fit but had an overall semi productive year with the Toffees mostly coming off the bench & scoring 8 goals in 29 appearances in all competitions. No one should forget Saha’s opener in last May’s FA Cup final against Chelsea when he bagged the fastest goal in FA Cup history – a stunner in 25 seconds. It’s been a quick start for Saha in the 09-10 campaign thus far. He’s made 7 appearances & scored 7 times in all competitions & sits 6th with 4 goals in the league. Can the now 31 year old Saha keep on his current form & help Everton crack the top 4? Will he ever be able to replicate the form from his first full season in the Premier League with Fulham scoring 32 goals in 48 appearances? Most importantly, can Saha stay match fit & avoid the injuries that’s plagued him on & off for the last few years? What’s known is that if Saha can stay match fit, he’ll be a hand full for opposing defenses with his skill in the air, pace off the ball & silky smooth finishing abilities. With a healthy Saha contributing goals, Everton should be there or thereabouts by the end of the season. Here’s hoping he can stay fit as he’ll surly impress Premier League fans throughout the season if he does. jesse chula Thomas October 2, 2009 With Yak and Jo in the mix as well it seems as though Mr. Moyes finally has a selection head ache up front. Great news for us Toffee’s fans who have seen some pretty patch work front lines. If Saha stays fit this could be a great year for Everton. coachie ballgames October 2, 2009 good stuff, I’ve long admired Saha’s game, all that matters is that he stay injury-free	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5164
__label__wiki	0.767412	0.767412	Why Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football is the gold standard for soccer broadcasting Matt Jones May 19, 2015 Gary Neville, Leagues: EPL, Monday Night Football, Sky Sports 6 Comments It takes something pretty special for the average soccer supporter to look forward to Monday nights. With post-weekend blues settling in and the majority of games completed, the working week stands between another chance to sample some domestic action at the weekend. A tough slog indeed. It’s what makes Monday Night Football—the Sky Sports show for the final games of the round—such a brilliant program. From this standpoint, there’s even a tinge of disappointment when there’s no Monday fixture and we’re deprived of the four-hour slot that makes the first day of the week a lot more tolerable. The games themselves are never usually major clashes between two juggernauts, with the broadcasters naturally booking them for the prime-time weekend slots. But the level of analysis and exploration into the minutiae of the modern game makes it must-watch. For those unfamiliar with the format, former Manchester United full-back Gary Neville and ex-Liverpool center-back Jamie Carragher flank presenter Ed Chamberlain. There’s roughly an hour of analysis from the weekend’s previous games to begin, the feature fixture takes focus for the next two-and-a-half hours and in the final 30 minutes sees the two former players answer viewers’ questions. Carra and Neville by lfmostar Often, for those who love to immerse themselves in every facet of this fascinating sport, it’s a disappointment when the game actually comes. That’s because Neville and Carragher both speak about soccer with such an infectious vim, with each offering a unique insight into today’s game on a week-by-week basis. Neville is the more meticulous and articulate in his analysis; so often the former Red Devil will touch upon a new angle that leave’s viewers enlightened. Carragher is a little more raw, but mixes a clear football intellect with the type of points that opinionated bloke in the pub would make pre-match. Neither will shy away from criticizing their former clubs or teammates either, as is often the case with a lot of pundits on the box, who clearly consider the manner in which throwaway quips can be pounced upon by the press and blown up into a story. Neville has been scathing of the Red Devils at times throughout the campaign, while Carragher’s assessments of Liverpool often seem to be a little more ruthless because he has a passion for the Merseyside club. The statistics used to back up the points made is both insightful and relevant too. Again, the stuff is fresh, not just goals or assists, but facts and figures which add credence to arguments which are put forward. Matt has been writing for World Soccer Talk for more than two years, contributing pieces about myriad topics and regularly lending his voice to the podcast. Matt has covered games live for the website from a host of venues, including Wembley, London and the ANZ Stadium, Sydney. He is a regular at Goodison Park where he watches his beloved Everton, but harbours an unyielding interest in all aspects of European soccer. You can get in touch with Matt via e-mail at mattjones@worldsoccertalk.com or on Twitter @MattJFootball Frill Artist May 19, 2015 FIXED —-> “Why Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football is the gold standard for FOOTBALL broadcasting” Blues Guy May 19, 2015 Nope, try again. Daniel May 19, 2015 If we could only have a way to have sky/bt sport and all the other coverage over here in america.some way to subscribe by the internet.some way to listen to tyler and neville do matches.its so sweet to listen to them.i dont feel like everything is dumbed down for me like when its on fox. David May 19, 2015 Too bad Apple TV doesn’t have a Sky Sports App. They do have a Sky News App where you can watch sports clips and a live feed of the news channel. Jasinho May 19, 2015 I feel as if I am getting an education every time I watch Neville and Carragher. This makes me wish for a Sky Sports Roku app. Jt September 15, 2015 LOL stop copying the NFL. MNF is not a “Futball” thing. It’s a NFL thing. And before some dumb soccer fan comes here yapping, Monday Night FOOTBALL was “invented” in the 70’s way before your soccer PL league was created.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5165
__label__wiki	0.594856	0.594856	Cataclysm Post Mortem — Dungeons and Raids with Scott “Daelo” Mercer As a part of our post mortem series on Cataclysm, we sat down with World of Warcraft Lead Encounter Designer Scott “Daelo” Mercer to hear his thoughts on Cataclysm dungeons and raids. Q. What were your main goals going into Cataclysm? We really wanted to make sure we were creating new challenges, strong mechanics, and cool creatures while staying true to the expansion and the themes we wanted to carry out. The three raid dungeons came out well and we had a lot of fun bringing the story of Nefarian and the Twilight’s Hammer to life. We were also able to add some dynamic mechanics in Throne of the Four Winds, which featured players moving across multiple platforms. Q. How did this evolve over the various content patches? Zul’Gurub and Zul’Aman were entertaining raids with diverse mechanics, and they translated well when we converted them into Heroic dungeons for patch 4.1. Interesting mechanics and features that once were restricted to raids are now finding their way into our five-player dungeons. Adding the Dungeon Journal in patch 4.2 was also a major step forward. We wanted to be able to share more information in the game so that players wouldn’t feel the need to go look everything up on external websites. While those sites are great at what they do, we felt like we needed to try to alleviate the need to go out of the game to find the information players wanted to see. The addition of Raid Finder in patch 4.3 also opened up more opportunities for players to be able to experience our raid content. The feature has proven to be extremely popular, and not just with people who had given up on raiding. Many players use Raid Finder to gear up their secondary characters, gain Valor for the week, or just because it’s fun. Q. What do you think worked best? We’ve been reasonably successful with our tuning across all four raid difficulty modes. There were a few warts here and there, but we delivered on the idea that 10-player and 25-player raids could exist at a similar difficulty. We also had some memorable dungeons and cinematic moments in Cataclysm. I’m particularly fond of the interactive bombing run in Grim Batol involving the red drakes. Players really got a sense of the epic scale of Grim Batol, and how well they performed in the event could make clearing the rest of the dungeon much easier. With our improved tools and the experience we’ve gained over the years, we’ve become better at finding ways to explain the mechanics of our encounters. Our bosses do a better job of warning players of incoming threats. In Dragon Soul we also began to better inform players of mechanics that caused them to die. Providing a better understanding of the encounters to players is an important goal. We feel that losing to a boss and not understanding why is frustrating, just as beating a boss and not understanding why you won is not as satisfying. Q. What didn’t work out as planned or expected? Initially, we started off the Heroic dungeons at too high of a difficulty. The difficulty level rather abruptly changed when compared to the Heroics players experienced at the end of Wrath of the Lich King. This major change caught many players off guard, and frustrated some of them. The difficulty also increased the effective amount of time required to complete a dungeon to a longer experience than we wanted. With the release of patch 4.3 we’re now in a much better place. We’ve always talked about being able to complete a dungeon over lunch, and the Hour of Twilight dungeons get us back to that goal. End Time, Well of Eternity, and Hour of Twilight all provide epic play experiences to our players, but at the real sweet spot of difficulty, complexity, and time commitment. Q. Was there anything that surprised you about how players reacted to a particular encounter? Not particularly. Something we’ve learned over the years is to expect the unexpected. The community is very creative and intelligent. The most important thing for us is that players are having fun. They often find interesting ways of approaching things that maybe we didn’t expect, but as long the creative solution is still fun for everyone, we usually don’t have a problem with it. Q. What have you learned from Cataclysm and what are some of your top goals for Mists of Pandaria? We learned we could create a crazy encounter like the Spine of Deathwing. It took a lot of hard work from the whole team and it was a difficult design challenge to tackle. How do you orchestrate a fight on the back of a gigantic flying dragon without inducing nausea? How do we make sure you feel like you’re on Deathwing? Delivering that experience was really important and everyone wanted the opportunity to work on it. What was really great was that we launched the story of Cataclysm with the cinematic that showed Deathwing having his elementium plates being put on, then we end the expansion with those very same plates being torn off. It gives some real closure to storyline. For Mists of Pandaria, we will continue to provide new dungeons and raids while also presenting interesting new types of content in the form of challenge modes and scenarios. Players will also be introduced to new enemies in the Sha, Mogu, and Mantids. Making those creatures come to life will be a lot of fun. Q. Do you have a favorite dungeon or encounter from Cataclysm? There are so many. The Conclave of Wind was a great one. Working out interesting mechanics that allowed players to go from platform to platform was a lot of fun and the environment felt really epic. A fight like that was a goal of the encounter team for a very long time. Blackwing Descent was another favorite and working out the mechanics for the Atramedes fight gave us a lot to think about. How do you create an encounter with a blind dragon that fights? So we gave him sonar and showed the interaction with a sound meter on the player’s UI. In Bastion of Twilight, we really got to sell the corruption angle on Cho’gall which made for another really interesting fight. Q. Is there a certain mechanic that you always wanted to do but couldn’t do prior to Cataclysm? Not really. There are so many cool ideas to work with that I never feel held back. It’s easy to be creatively inspired by the people around you and their energy. It’s never a problem of coming up with ideas. It’s usually deciding which ones we want to go with next, but the possibilities are endless. Q. Do you have a “dream” dungeon or encounter that you’d like to create if you had the opportunity? I’ve never felt that I haven’t been able to do the things I want to do. Everyone on the team is completely dedicated to giving us unlimited opportunities to make epic and awesome experiences. But, if I have to mention something, it would be huge giant death robots. We had Mimiron in Ulduar, but you just can’t have too many death robots. Q. Thank you for your time, Scott. Discuss the latest Cataclysm Post Mortem here. Previous post: Community News Next post: Earn Legendary Rewards with the New Scroll of Resurrection	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5167
__label__wiki	0.972548	0.972548	Son of ‘El Chapo’ was caught during a massive shootout. Mexican officials say they released him to save lives Posted 5:42 pm, October 18, 2019, by WQAD Digital Team, Updated at 05:53PM, October 18, 2019 Mexican police patrol in a street of Culiacan after heavily armed gunmen fought an intense battle with Mexican security forces. (CNN) — A bloody, prolonged shootout between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel members in Sinaloa state this week was an intentional — and ultimately abandoned — attempt to capture a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman for extradition to the United States, Mexican officials now say. Troops did temporarily detain Ovidio Guzman Lopez during Thursday’s operation in the city of Culiacan, officials said. But as the battle dragged on, he was released and the operation was suspended to save lives, the country’s defense secretary and security minister said Friday. Gunmen are seen in a Culiacan street Thursday. The battle, which sent families hiding in terror for hours, left seven people dead: Five “aggressors,” one Mexican National Guard member, and one civilian, Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said on Twitter. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged Friday that security forces went to Culiacan to capture the son on a judge’s order. Mexico’s Security Cabinet eventually suspended the operation “to protect the lives of the people,” he said. He did not deny, when pressed by reporters, that Ovidio Guzman Lopez was released. “The capture of a criminal cannot be worth more than the lives of the people … many citizens, people, human beings were at risk,” López Obrador said during a press briefing in Oaxaca.” Nine government soldiers or law enforcement officers who were captured by the suspected cartel members during the battle were released when the government stopped the operation, Mexican Secretary of National Defense Luis Cresencio said Friday during a news conference in Sinaloa. The troops’ intent was to arrest Guzman Lopez for extradition to the United States, Durazo, the security minister, said Friday. Guzman Lopez, 28, is believed to have a large role in powerful Sinaloa drug cartel and faces charges in the US of conspiracy to distribute drugs. Panicked residents flee The attempt to capture Guzman Lopez unleashed chaos in Culiacan. The battle started Thursday afternoon, when law enforcement officers and members of the Mexican National Guard took control of a house with four occupants, Durazo said late Thursday. One of the occupants was Ovidio Guzman Lopez, authorities said. Other members of a criminal group arrived on scene, with more firepower than authorities, including .50-caliber machine guns. Violent attacks erupted in different parts of the city creating “a situation of panic,” Durazo said. Armored vehicles with military-grade machinery fired heavy artillery against federal troops, according to CNN affiliate ADN40. Many residents fled in panic while others remained locked in their homes as troops engaged in intense gun battles throughout the day. Residents were asked to stay inside, and schools have been closed until further notice, officials said. Images on social media appeared to show the terror unleashed on the inhabitants of Culiacan. Plumes of black smoke billowed on the horizon while on the ground, mothers coddled their children while searching for cover behind parked cars. Durazo announced late Thursday that the government suspended the operation. Initially, Durazo said the battle began when federal troops were conducting a routine patrol, and that people inside the home attacked them. When the troops fought back, they found Guzman Lopez inside the home, Durazo said Thursday. López Obrador’s statements on Friday, however, contradict Durazo’s assertion that it was a routine patrol. Who is Ovidio Guzman Lopez? Ovidio Guzman Lopez is the son of Guzman and his second wife, Griselda Lopez. He is a kingpin in the Sinaloa cartel, according to the US Treasury Department. In February, Ovidio Guzman Lopez was charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs to be imported into the US, along with his brother Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 34, by the US Department of Justice. Prosecutors said that from April 2008 through April 2018, the brothers conspired to distribute cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine from Mexico and other places to be imported into the US. In July, their father — the once-powerful leader of the Sinaloa cartel — was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in the US. Guzman was convicted in February on 10 federal charges, including murder conspiracies, running a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related charges. He was considered the most “powerful drug trafficker in the world” by the Treasury Department and his criminal enterprise spanned continents and triggered bloodshed throughout his native Mexico. In 2015 he dramatically escaped from prison, riding on a motorcycle through a tunnel that had been dug to his cell at the Altiplano maximum security federal prison. Ray Donovan, the DEA special agent who spearheaded the 22-agency effort that led to Guzman’s capture, told CNN in February that the Sinaloa cartel still supplies most US drug markets. “In fact, Chapo’s sons are now risen through the ranks of the Sinaloa cartel and taken over Chapo’s end of the organization,” he said. 22 killed in shootout in northern Mexico What we know about the attack on a group of Mormon families in Mexico Trump says he will designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations 9 Mormon women and children shot and ‘burned alive’ in ambush near the U.S.-Mexico border Trump and Rouhani trade warnings after killing of top general Iran’s President says US committed a ‘grave mistake’ in killing top general US strikes 5 facilities in Iraq and Syria linked to Iranian-backed militia Texas church security member who shot gunman is a former reserve deputy and firearms instructor Three Americans killed in Kenya terror attack US drone strike ordered by Trump kills top Iranian commander in Baghdad Trump attacks another witness as his impeachment defense faces new tests Iraq has voted to expel US troops. Whether they’ll actually be kicked out is far from clear Effort to freeze Ukraine aid began about 90 minutes after call between Trump and Zelensky	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5169
__label__cc	0.67675	0.32325	CrimeStoppers: How does it work, where do tips go? Posted 10:12 pm, July 19, 2018, by Bridget Chapman, Updated at 09:28AM, July 20, 2018 MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Every day you watch WREG, you'll hear us say to call CrimeStoppers if you have any information that can help lead to an arrest. But what actually happens when you call 901-528-CASH? Buddy Chapman started the Memphis CrimeStoppers program in the early 80s. Since then, it’s led to the arrests of thousands of criminals. 4 Memphis men wanted by FBI after string of business robberies “It’s an invaluable resource for this community," said Chapman. He explained to us how the resource works. It starts with everyday citizens who have useful information about an unsolved crime texting or calling 901-528-CASH. When you call, an operator will ask what crime you’re calling about and then check the system to make sure it exists. They’ll then add your tip directly into the police system, so it goes straight to the right bureau or detective. There’s no caller ID or tracking, so a tipster’s given an ID number and is told to call back weekly to check if their tip qualified for a reward. “We can’t call them back because we don’t know who they are. We don’t have a caller ID, and the reason for those things is we don’t want to know who they are.” CrimeStoppers will make sure police received the new information and officers will investigate it. If an arrest is made, they’ll find out how much of a role the tip played in making it happen. “Nothing is too small because very, very often it’ll be that one tiny little [piece of] information is what breaks the case open for the police.” An awards committee meets once a month and goes over the tips that helped lead to arrests. There are 18 board members with usually a dozen of them at the meetings. The committee looks at aspects like severity of the crime, weapons used, criminal history and age of the victim. The rewards range from $150 to $1,000. They have a matrix they use to narrow in on dollar ranges and then talk about the crimes to decide on a reward amount. Members of the District Attorney’s Office are also there to add any needed perspective. “It’s a back and forth discussion," said Chapman. "[It] usually takes about two hours to go over all the cases we have on any given one awards committee meeting.” Once those tipsters call in to see if their tip was helpful, they’re given a time and place to pick up the money. They don’t know the cash amount until they get there. “I’m the one that’s there," said Chapman. "I ask what’s your tip number, you give it to me, I ask what did you call us about - if you’re able to tell me what you called about then I hand you an envelope of money anywhere from $150 to $1,000.” Your name and information is never asked for, as they truly don’t want to know it. Chapman says the tipsters are across the board. They have a good amount of repeat callers, criminals turning in criminals and people who simply want to make their neighborhood safer. In reality, he says a small amount of people contribute to a large percentage of Memphis’ crime. “In this city we have people who burglarize and steal things who have been convicted 25 to 30 times, and I don’t mean that as how many times they’ve done it or been arrested – that’s how many times they’ve been convicted.” They usually get 35 to 50 tips a month and give out around $7,000. Sometimes others will add to the CrimeStoppers reward for a case, like we’ve seen in the shooting death of 2-year-old Laylah Washington. Hers is up to more than $20,000. People have a year to pick up their reward, but not everyone does. Chapman thinks some people are scared to but also believes there are other reasons. “I think we have a lot of people, particularly in the African American community, who are sick of crime and they’re not doing it to get their reward. They’re doing it to get the thugs and hoodlums off the streets.” Chapman says a society only has crime to the extent they’re willing to tolerate it. “We simply must quit making excuses for criminals because there’s got to be some things you can’t do no matter why you do them.” You can also submit tips online at CrimeStopMem.org. Those tips go through a separate entity in Canada where your information is stripped from the tip and sent to CrimeStoppers. They could go back and contact you via email if they need clarification on a tip if you don’t opt out of it, which they can’t do with phone tips. Topics: Crime Stoppers, crimestoppers Send us your news tip Click here to reach us by email or phone County coroner confirms another inmate death at Parchman Man, woman killed in North Memphis shooting Man shot in North Memphis, suspect not in custody Operation All-In nets 54 arrests in property crime crackdown Manhunt Monday News Police looking for leads in local rapper’s death Police continue searching for answers in local businessman’s death One killed, one injured in shooting at South Main barbershop Woman injured, child killed in 2 shootings in 2 days in North Memphis neighborhood Police looking for suspect who shot 6-year-old in the leg Parkway Village home, car shot up in broad daylight Memphis man wanted on attempted murder, robbery charges Police say Little Caesars robber may be connected to other crimes Construction workers robbed, forced to strip while renovating house Police search for Memphis McDonald’s drive-thru robber	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5170
__label__wiki	0.582854	0.582854	Mahtola Wittmer 1 Sep — 27 Oct 2019 at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland Mahtola Wittmer. Courtesy of Aargauer Kunsthaus After celebrating its tenth anniversary, the series of exhibitions of young Swiss art continues – in a slightly different form but still as a regular feature of the museum’s exhibition programme. CARAVAN offers the public opportunities to encounter surprising young art and discover as yet unestablished artists at the Aargauer Kunsthaus. Mahtola Wittmer (*1993) will complete her Bachelor in Fine Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the summer of 2019. The artist is a qualified graphic designer and currently works primarily in the fields of performance and photography. Over the course of the year, the three solo exhibitions appear as “mobile interventions” in different locations at the museum. The artists are invited to bring their works into a dialogue with the building, the collection and the programme of the Kunsthaus. Aargauer Kunsthaus Aargauer Kunsthaus is one of the leading art museums in Switzerland. It derives its appeal in particular from its exhibition programme, in which contemporary art takes a central place, and from its outstanding permanent collection, arguably the most important public collection of Swiss art from the 18th century to the present. Museum profile Aarau, Switzerland More from Aargauer Kunsthaus The Werner Coninx Collection 25 Jan — 26 Apr 2020 Denise Bertschi 16 May — 25 Oct 2020 Auswahl 19 16 Nov 2019 — 5 Jan 2020 More in Switzerland 7 Feb — 10 May 2020 at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern Our companion, our other 28 Feb — 24 May 2020 at Vitrine in Basel 21 Mar — 16 Aug 2020 at Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf 17 Jan — 13 Apr 2020 at National Museum Zurich in Zurich	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5175
__label__wiki	0.584947	0.584947	Ann Shostrom. Fusion 27 Mar — 3 May 2014 at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York, United States Ann Shostrom, “Fandango” 2014 62” x 82”, fabrics, dyes, wax, thread Elizabeth Harris Gallery is pleased to present fusion, the second solo exhibition of works by Ann Shostrom. The opening reception is March 27 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. The show runs through May 3, 2014. Shostrom’s work expands the possibilities of painting, drawing inspiration from conceptual, materialist, and gestural approaches to art making. Fabrics and used household linens are dyed, painted, embroidered, and sewn together, collapsing the distinctions between medium, genre, abstraction and representation, fine art and craft. Of her last exhibition, Mario Naves wrote “Shostrom fearlessly mixes media, reaffirms the grid as structural arbiter and riffs on Pop culture with fond disregard. At which point, neo-dadaist assemblage is left in the dust by an encompassing, head-over-heels embrace of allusion. Employing, embroidering and juxtaposing fabrics–dyed and not, stitched, patterned and frittered away through often caustic processes–Shostrom traverses East and West, camouflage and tie-dye, street art, the New York School and grandma’s doilies.” In “Fusion, Shostrom fractures her internalized ideas from years of operating in the discipline of painting. Materials used in “Cana” include a boot and a painting rag. It’s structure references the guillotine and cleaver to cut through received ideas of both color field painting and abstract expressionism. In “Fandango,“ a riot of color, form and texture (that resembles the U.S.), the artist goes off the grid in rough-sewn topographical construction, mapping a vision of chaos and renovation. The serenity of “Tanka” and “Reef” and the mayhem of “Market Place” are brought together in the richly embroidered “Cascade” where colorful blooms erupt from fissures in a landscape. Ann Shostrom was born in Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Syracuse University. Shostrom lives and works in New York City and teaches at Penn State University. Elizabeth Harris Gallery Elizabeth Harris Gallery exhibits emerging, mid-career and late career artists. Gallery profile Ann Shostrom, “Glück auf reise!” 2014 42” x 63”, Linen, dyes, thread Ann Shostrom, “Market Place” 2014 108” x 144”, cotton, dyes, bleach prints, wax, acrylic Ann Shostrom, “Cascade” 2014 56” x 120”, cotton, dyes, wax, thread Ann Shostrom, “Tiger tracks” 2014 123” x 144”, fabrics, dyes, acrylic, thread Ann Shostrom, “Swell” 2014 62” x 68”, fabrics, dyes, wax, acrylic, thread More from Elizabeth Harris Gallery Elisa D'Arrigo 30 Mar — 11 May 2019 James Biederman 16 Feb — 23 Mar 2019 William Carroll 5 Jan — 9 Feb 2019 Thornton Willis 27 Oct — 22 Dec 2018 More in New York, United States Nicholas Galanin 24 Jan — 28 Mar 2020 at Peter Blum Gallery Mary Weatherford 8 Feb — 27 Jun 2020 at Tang Museum 14 Feb — 23 Aug 2020 at New-York Historical Society 15 — 17 Feb 2020 at New-York Historical Society More in United States Nicole Gordon 24 Jan — 14 Jun 2020 at Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue Playa Made Torkwase Dyson 24 Jan — 19 Apr 2020 at NOMA in New Orleans Teen Renaissance 25 Jan — 11 Mar 2020 at Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5176
__label__wiki	0.569933	0.569933	The Uncanny Express (The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters Book 2) By Kara LaReau Illustrator Jen Hill Imprint: Amulet Books Trim Size: 5-1⁄2 x 7-1⁄2 Illustrations: black-and-white illustrations throughout Rights: World/All Additional formats: Ebook, Paperback, Audio Jaundice and Kale are back from their adventure on the high seas, and they are settling back into a quiet life in Dullsville, just the way they like it. The tea is tepid, the oatmeal is tasteless, and the socks are ripe for darning . . . until Aunt Shallot shows up and reveals herself to be anything but the dull relation they were expecting. Instead, she tells her nieces she is Magique, Queen of Magic, and she’s on her way to a big show and in need of two willing assistants. As Magique and the Bland sisters board the Uncanny Express, they meet a cast of mystifying characters. And when Magique goes missing, it’s up to Jaundice and Kale to solve the mystery—with the help of famous detective Hugo Fromage. An inventive story in the tradition of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters: The Uncanny Express has all the whimsy and humor that readers who are looking for an anything-but-bland adventure will love. "LaReau has a lot of fun with her Agatha Christie homage, filling her book to the brim with requisite gags and puns . . . Move over, Holmes and Watson. There's a new detecting pair in town, and the name's Bland." — Kirkus Reviews Kara LaReau was an editor for many years before becoming a full-time writer. She has published many acclaimed picture books for children, as well as the middle-grade series The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters and The Infamous Ratsos. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. More Children's	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5180
__label__wiki	0.60254	0.60254	Jeffrey Dean Morgan Officially Weds Hilarie Burton in Private Coming clean about her secret nuptials to 'The Walking Dead' star in a lengthy Instagram post, the former 'One Tree Hill' actress gushes the first October weekend was 'the best of her entire life.' AceShowbiz - Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton have finally tied the knot a decade after they started dating. "The Walking Dead" star and actress Burton, who share two kids, officially became husband and wife on Saturday, October 05. The media just assumed the couple was married, but Hilarie revealed the truth in an Instagram post over the weekend. "This past weekend was the best of my entire life," she wrote. "There are dozens of thank yous I need to make. So bear with me over the next week as I gush over the amazing group of people who gave us this beautiful moment. But before we do any of that, Jeff and I just want to put it out there that WE GOT MARRIED! For real." "We've lived as husband and wife for a decade. We've built a family, and a farm and found our community. For years, publications have reported that we got married in 2014 or 2015 and that I've been married and divorced before. All untrue. But WE knew our truth." "So it felt silly to try and correct anything. Here's the God's honest fact: From the moment I met @jeffreydeanmorgan, he was my husband. Rather than make vows right out of the gate, we lived them. For over ten years. The good times and the bad. Standing up there with our children at our sides - celebrating all that has been - was bliss. I love you Jeffrey. I love our intimate group of friends and family who joined us. I love the various circles of loved ones who have supported us over the years. It was private and magical and everything I dreamed. So yeah. I'm Mrs. Morgan. 10.5.19." Jennifer Lopez Hit With Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Photo With Alex Rodriguez Kim Kardashian Has Three of Her Children Baptized in Armenia Inseparable Donkey and Emu Find New Home at Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Farm Jeffrey Dean Morgan Labels Armie Hammer Attention Seeker Over Stan Lee Criticism Jeffrey Dean Morgan And Hilarie Burton Call Out 'Creepy' Fans Who Visit Their Home Jeffrey Dean Morgan Let It Slip That He's Expecting a Baby Girl With Hilarie Burton	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5182
__label__wiki	0.966072	0.966072	Community patrols booming in Anchorage amid crime spike Patti Higgins who helped form the Abbott Loop Community Patrol looks a crime map while on patrol on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. (Bill Roth / ADN) First, there were the posts on social media, saying people were walking through the Abbott Loop neighborhood, jiggling locked car doors. Then, at community council meetings, Patti Higgins started hearing about attempted break-ins and other problems with petty crime. Next thing you know, Higgins was ordering white flashing lights on Amazon and affixing a sign on her mom's old white Subaru Forester that said "Abbott Loop Community Patrol." Now Higgins, the council secretary and former Anchorage School Board member, goes out a few times a month to patrol the area and report suspicious activity to police. Amid a spike in property and violent crime and a barrage of posts in Facebook groups and on Nextdoor.com about suspected crime, community patrols — neighbors who drive around and look out for problems — are suddenly blossoming in Anchorage. Four have started within the past six months alone: Abbott Loop, Sand Lake, Eagle River and the Oceanview/Old Seward area. That's twice the number of traditionally active community patrols, which started in the 1990s and 2000s. Those patrols, with longtime volunteers, have been concentrated in east Anchorage neighborhoods — Nunaka Valley, Mountain View and College Gate. But the new patrols, particularly in South Anchorage, are another sign of worries about crime creeping across town. Interest in patrols has waxed and waned, but it's more likely to be waning, Liz Patrick, a teacher's assistant in an elementary school who has been patrolling College Gate since 2004. "This wax is really interesting," Patrick said. "And we need it." Property crime rates, while lower than peaks seen in the 1970s and early 1990s, have been rising since 2012. The rate of vehicle thefts has been double what it was in 2014, police data show. The state also passed a controversial package of criminal justice reforms known as SB-91, which many new patrol members feel is abetting the crime problem. Meanwhile, the membership of the neighborhood networking app Nextdoor.com has skyrocketed since launching in Anchorage in 2014, making people more attuned to reports from their neighbors of suspicious activity. [People in Anchorage are fed up with crime. Did SB-91 make it worse?] The brand-new patrollers see themselves as eyes and ears for a busy police department, and a way to ease chronic fears about crime without resorting to vigilantism. Each person who signs up has to pass a background check and go through an interview process, according to rules adopted by the Anchorage Coalition of Community Patrols. The coalition holds meetings the first Friday of every month. It's a fine line: If they come across something, they don't get involved. They call 911. Patti Higgins who helped form the Abbott Loop Community Patrol drives a vehicle on patrol on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. (Bill Roth / ADN) Other, less-structured community groups that have cropped up in the past year, like the "A-Team," which helps track down stolen cars. ['Let Floyd GO!': How a guy who finds stolen vehicles became a folk hero to some crime-weary Anchorage residents] Justin Doll, the Anchorage police chief, said he's supportive of citizen efforts to share information to locate stolen property and identify suspects for police. It's the latest in a history of active community patrols, and typical of Alaskans, he said. "If there's a problem, people want to pitch in and help solve it," Doll said. "In my mind, that's a very Alaskan response to be willing to be part of the solution." He said it's been "tremendously useful" to have the information from patrols feeding to the police department. The main caution, he said, is against groups getting actively involved in a crime scene. It's a line Higgins and the other new patrolers will now be navigating. Hitting the streets Early on Thursday afternoon, Higgins put on a neon-yellow vest and climbed into a white Subaru labeled "Abbott Loop Community Patrol." She called the Anchorage Police Department's non-emergency line to tell a dispatcher she was going out on patrol. Then she headed out into the neighborhood, which runs east from the Seward Highway between Dowling and O'Malley Roads. There are big-box stores and small businesses, an industrial quarter, a mobile home court, residential subdivisions and parkland. This was Higgins' fourth time patrolling. She drove to a park divided by Little Campbell Creek, with benches and pullouts. She pulled up, parked the car and read aloud a message she received on Nextdoor.com. "Check Meadow Park at 67th and Meadow. There are normally lines of cars at the park waiting. It's really annoying," Higgins read from the message. "Definitely drugs, sometimes seems like prostitution." She looked around. At the moment, her Subaru was the only car in sight. "This must be a down time for drug-dealing," Higgins said. In her patrols so far, Higgins has yet to call in a crime that led to an arrest. But she said she had seen a lot of concerned or even angry posts on Nextdoor, with some neighbors threatening to hurt burglars or thieves. She said she hoped that by going to places people pointed out, it could have a calming effect. Nikki Rose, President of the Sand Lake Community Council and Community Patrol, and other members gather for a photograph at the Taste Freeze at the corner of Raspberry Road and Jewel Lake Road in Anchorage on Thursday, March 29, 2018. (Bob Hallinen / ADN) In the Sand Lake area, at the southern edge of West Anchorage, several dozen people have signed up for a brand-new community patrol. About 10 are moms. One of them is Nikki Rose, the community council president. She has a 4-year-old son. Rose said her son is why she's doing the patrol, she said. She was raised in Sand Lake and remembers going off with friends and biking around the neighborhood. She's too worried to let her son do that now. She recalled a tense community council meeting about two years ago, where neighbors turned up to talk about items stolen out of yards and about finding drug paraphernalia in parks. When Rose became council president, she heard from Glen Yancha, who started South Anchorage's first community patrol in the Bayshore area in December 2016. Yancha offered her training, and she took him up on it. Now people are patrolling the Sand Lake area every night of the week, Rose said. Yancha works two full-time jobs and patrols less than he used to, he said. But he believes they make a difference. 'Where would I go if I was a criminal? In the Bayshore area, one patrol member stopped by a vehicle that was on the side of the road, Yancha said. It turned out the person behind the wheel was driving drunk and didn't have permission to take the car, he said. APD ended up arresting the person, Yancha said. Yancha said he's excited about getting patrols in new areas. "They do cover a lot of area for South Anchorage," Yancha said. Yancha also helped start the patrol in Abbott Loop, and in Eagle River, which launched in November 2017. The patrol expands the area covered by the Birchwood Community Patrol, which has existed for about a decade. At first, the Eagle River patrol consisted just of Cliff Cook, a retired member of the U.S. Air Force. But its membership has steadily grown. So far this winter, this patrollers have driven more than 3,000 miles, volunteering more than 300 hours, Cook said. Mostly, the work has involved helping cars that slid off icy roads, and giving people a heads-up that they left their garage doors open. But Cook said he and other patrolers have called police about "walkers," or people checking for unlocked car doors in parking lots. Cook said social media has shone a bright spotlight on crime. He himself hasn't been the victim of a crime since he forgot to lock his car in 2003 and someone stole his phone out of it. But he doesn't think the sense of insecurity is just in Eagle River. Eagle River’s Cliff Cook stands aside his pick-up truck in downtown Eagle River on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. (Matt Tunseth / Alaska Star) "There's probably still pockets of the small town feel (in Alaska), where you still don't lock your house or car," Cook said. "But I think it's slowly dwindling." Other community councils have been discussing the idea of patrols, the latest being the Government Hill Community Council. Doll, the police chief, said his department's community policing team can come talk to emerging groups about how to work with police. While there has been a surge in enthusiasm for the patrols, money is tight. The Alaska Legislature used to regularly give grants to the patrols, but that's since dried up. There's talk of all the patrols pushing as a group to renew the funding. Cook is working toward becoming a nonprofit, like the neighboring and longer-standing Birchwood Community Patrol. For now, his patrol is accepting donations through the Federation of Community Councils. Other patrols are fundraising and talking to businesses about sponsorships. One business donated fluorescent paint so Higgin's sign would show up at night. She doesn't plan on being reimbursed the $70 for the light for her car. When Higgins was running for School Board, she walked every part of the neighborhood, knocking on doors. She looks at it a different way while she's patrolling, she said. "Now it's like, oh, where would I go if I was a criminal?" she said. A previous version of this story misstated Patti Higgins' position with the Abbott Loop Community Council. She is the secretary, not the president.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5189
__label__cc	0.711201	0.288799	Give a Vote – Help Feed Children We’re Joining Forces with Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes to Fund Their Children’s Weekend Food Pack Program and We Need Your Votes! We’ve entered a video into the second annual Love My Credit Union® Campaign contest that highlights local community involvement by the credit union industry across the country and awards up to $21,000 to charities based upon votes from consumers. Our video highlights our recent school supply drive to benefit area school children, with the goal of garnering votes to fund the Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Weekend Food Pack Program. Partnering with Loaves & Fishes is a natural fit for us as many of our staff have volunteered there and we have plans to help staff a new food pantry opening in the north side of Kalamazoo this winter. We’re excited to support an organization that works to improve the lives of many of our area families and speaks to our mission and dedication to strengthening the communities we serve. Last year Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes distributed 25,782 weekend food packs to vulnerable children in the Kalamazoo region. Jennifer Johnson, Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Executive Director, says the Weekend Food Pack Program is vital to keeping Kalamazoo’s future leaders healthy and fed on weekends. The program currently serves over 800 children each week. The official contest runs from October 1 to December 16, 2016, and monthly winners will be determined by most public votes. By the campaign’s conclusion in December, a total of $122,500 will have been donated to selected charities throughout the country. We need your help! Please vote for our video every day and earn a chance to win a $500 gift card for yourself and $500 for your charity of choice – just for voting. Vote Here. Vote for our video once a day, every day through December 16. The more times you vote, the greater chance to win! Be sure to share the love – and the link – with friends and family through email and social media. Cash Prizes will be distributed as follows: Up to 50 $1,000 state-level donations Eight $5,000 donations One grand prize winning credit union & one credit union support organization will each receive a $15,000 donation. The campaign will also award five randomly selected campaign voters a $500 gift card, plus a $500 donation to the charity of their choice. Share the Love is a joint venture between CU Solutions Group and its member rewards program, Love My Credit Union Rewards, and the Credit Union National Association (CUNA). NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Contests open to Credit Unions and Credit Union support organizations operating in the 50 U.S. (and D.C.). Sweepstakes open to LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES (and D.C.) who are 13 or older. Void where prohibited. Enter Contests by: 12/15/16. Enter Sweepstakes by 12/16/16. For Official Rules, prize descriptions and odds disclosure, visit www.VoteLoveMyCU.org. Sponsor: CU Solutions Group, 38695 W. 7 Mile Road, Suite 200, Livonia, MI 48152.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5192
__label__wiki	0.664325	0.664325	Employer-Provided Coverage High-Price Drugs Individual Coverage Supplemental Coverage Coverage@Work STOP Initiative State Affairs and Policy Advocacy Coalitions Member Message Guides The Next Big Thing in Health Podcast AHIP SmartBriefs & Newsletters Letters, Testimony, & Comments Executive Leadership Programs AHIP’s Young Professionals Network AHIP Career Center Advertise with AHIP National Health Policy Conference Prospectus AHIP Leadership Our Member Organizations AHIP Speakers Bureau Member Organization AHIP Direct AHIP Select Affiliate Organization Associate Affiliate Organization Careers at AHIP The Rise Of Orphan Drugs Health Insurance Providers Increase Access to Addiction Treatment AHIP Issues Statement Upon Filing an Amicus Brief with the Supreme Court... AHIP Commends Bill To Address Social Determinants of Health for Medicaid... Online Courses Login National Health Policy Conference Institute & Expo 2020 John Dwyer by Jasmine Batchelor President, The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation John R. Dwyer, Jr. is the President of the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation. The GAP Foundation is dedicated to making the clinical trial process for Alzheimer’s therapies substantially more efficient thereby speeding cures to patients afflicted with this insidious disease. John is a serial healthcare entrepreneur who most recently participated in the acquisition of MeYou Health, upon whose Board he now serves. Prior to GAP, John served as the co-founder and Chairman of Telcare, Inc., a high technology manufacturer of the first wirelessly enabled blood glucose meter designed to empower patients with diabetes to better manage their disease. Mr. Dwyer first became a CEO at the age of 30. In the following years, he has held “C” level positions in six emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry. His past assignments have included serving as CEO of e-Medex, Inc., which later merged with Active Health Management to become the leading provider of population health management services where he served as the Chief Operating Officer. Active Health was purchased by Aetna in 2005. He was also a co-founder and Chairman of CodeRyte, Inc., a venture-backed seller of medical billing software using natural language processing to generate billing codes. CodeRyte was purchased by 3M in 2012. Mr. Dwyer co-founded Us Against Alzheimer’s, a patient advocacy group focused on changing the way the country addresses the threat posed by Alzheimer’s. He also cofounded the first political action committee focused on a specific disease, the Alzheimer’s Action PAC. He began his career as an attorney with the Washington DC based law firm of Arent, Fox LLP where he focused on transactions in regulated industries. Mr. Dwyer is a frequent speaker on financing and regulatory issues of critical importance to emerging health technology companies. He also regularly speaks on health information issues and the business risks associated with the regulatory and payer process. Mr. Dwyer currently serves on the Boards of Directors of a number of private and notfor-profit organizations. Mr. Dwyer is a graduate of Marquette University and the Cornell Law School. linkedini pinterest& 202.778.3200 \| ahip@ahip.org South Building, Suite 500 Job Openings at AHIP America's Health Insurance Plans. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5196
__label__cc	0.586062	0.413938	Sagalassos City of Water Lavishly illustrated with 99 splendid plates by Ahmet Ertug, the book provides an overview of the ancient history, architecture, sculpture, and pottery of the site, as well as the history of its discovery and subsequent exploration. The texts, written by leading scholars in the field, are accessible both to the non-specialist and to the professional, while the illustrations, ranging from breath-taking panoramic overviews of the landscape to minute details of sculptural elements, reinforce Sagalassos’ claim to have been one of the leading cities of Asia Minor. The book, which is 34x47cm,contains 208 pages. 99 full-colour plates, and additional plans, provide an exemplary overview of the site and its monuments. Printed in Germany and hand-bound in Switzerland, the volume is presented in a slipcase. Texts by Marc Waelkens, Semra Mägele and Jeroen Poblome; photographs by Ahmet Ertuğ. For further inquiries about this and other publications, please click here to contact us. We are able to ship the books worldwide. Librairie Galignani John Sandoe Books 10 Blacklands Terrace Chelsea, London SW3 2SR Librairie Bernard Letu 2 rue Calvin Leonardo da Vinci – The Last Supper Palaces of Music Temples of Knowledge Surname-i Vehbi Sculptured for Eternity Gods of Nemrud Istanbul: City of Domes Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et des Rives du Bosphore Sacred art of Cappadocia Panaromic Landscapes of Cappadocia The Seljuks In Pursuit of Excellence Anatolian Carpets Gardens of Paradise Copyright © 2020 The Photography of Ahmet Ertug @ahmetertugphotography	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5197
__label__wiki	0.643861	0.643861	Birmingham Real-Time News Cannabidiol-infused birthday cake mix, pet treats seized in raid on Shelby County store; Hoover man jailed Harry Marion Autry, a 38-year-old Hoover man, was taken into custody Thursday by the Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force. By Carol Robinson \| crobinson@al.com A Hoover man is behind bars after authorities said he was caught selling cannabidiol-infused birthday cake mix and pet treats, among other things, at his northern Shelby County store. Harry Marion Autry, a 38-year-old Hoover man, was taken into custody Thursday by the Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force. Authorities said he is the owner of The CBD Store, which is part of a chain of stores that reportedly sell edibles, creams, lotions, pills, water-soluble hemp oil and pet products. The products are CBD-based, which is a chemical derived from the cannabis plant. The products are not supposed to contain the psychoactive component THC. Task force commander Capt. Clay Hammac said investigators carried out a search and seizure warrant at the Inverness store on U.S. 280. The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences confirmed that products confiscated during the raid contained controlled substances. As investigators seized the inventory from within the store, Hammac said, multiple field tests were conducted on site, all of which returned positive test results for the presence of controlled substances. According to arrest affidavits in the cases against Autry, authorities seized 71,120 grams of cannabidiol-infused products including: 120 grams of CBD-infused birthday cake mix; 86.5 grams of CBD vape oil and 54 grams of CBD K9 treats. Autry is charged with three counts of distribution of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance. He remains in the Shelby County Jail on bonds totaling $35,000.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5200
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Airport, Brazil (SDU)Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Airport, Brazil (RIO)Rio de Janeiro, Int, Brazil (GIG)Riyadh, King Khalid Int., Saudi Arabia (RUH)Roanoke, Roanoke Regional Airport, USA (ROA)Rochester, Monroe County, USA (ROC)Rome, Rome, Italy (ROM)Rome, Fiumicino, Italy (FCO)Rosario, Islas Malvinas international Airport, Argentina (ROS)Rostock , Laage-Rostock , Germany (RLG)Rostov, Rostov-na-Donu International Airport, Russia (ROV)Rotterdam, Zestienhoven, Netherlands (RTM)Río Gallegos, Río Gallegos Airport, Argentina (RGL)Río Grande, Hermes Quijada International Airport, Argentina (RGA)Río Hondo, Termas de Rio Hondo International Airport, Argentina (RHD)Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken Airport, Germany (SCN)Sacheon, Sacheon Air Base, Rep South Korea (HIN)Sacramento, Sacramento Intl., USA (SMF)Saint Denis de la Réunion, Roland Garros, Réunion (RUN)Saint john, Saint John Airport, Canada (YSJ)Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City International Arpt, USA (SLC)Salta, Martín Miguel de Güemes international Airport, Argentina (SLA)Salvador da Bahia, Airport Luis R. 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Mozart, Austria (SZG)Samara, Kurumoch , Russia (KUF)Samarkand, Samarkand, Uzbekistan (SKD)Samos, Int., Greece (SMI)Samsun, Samsun, Turkey (SZF)San Andrés, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia (ADZ)San Antonio, San Antonio International, USA (SAT)San Diego, Lindbergh International Airport, USA (SAN)San Francisco, Int, USA (SFO)San Jose, International Airport, Costa Rica (SJO)San Juan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Airport Las Chacritas, Argentina (UAQ)San Juan, Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico (SJU)San Luis, Brigadier Mayor Cesar Raúl Ojeda Airport, Argentina (LUQ)San Luis Potosi, Ponciano Arriaga Intl, Mexico (SLP)San Martín de los Andes, Aviador Carlos Campos Airport Chapelco, Argentina (CPC)San Rafael , Suboficial Ayudante Santiago Germano International Airport, Argentina (AFA)Sandefjord, Torf, Norway (TRF)Sanpedrosula, International Airport, Honduras (SAP)Santa Ana, John Wayne Airport, USA (SNA)Santa Cruz, El Trompillo, Bolivia (SRZ)Santa Fe, Sauce Viejo Airport, Argentina (SFN)Santa Marta, Simón Bolívar, Colombia (SMR)Santa Rosa , Santa Rosa La Pampa Airport, Argentina (RSA)Santiago de Chile, Comodoro A.M. Benitez, Chile (SCL)Santiago del Estero, Vicecomodoro Ángel de la Paz Aragonés Airport Mal Paso, Argentina (SDE)Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Las Américas, Dominican Republic (SDQ)Santorini, Int., Greece (JTR)Sao Luiz, Marechal Cunha Machado Int., Brazil (SLZ)Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Airport, Brazil (SAO)Sao Paulo, Guarulhos, Brazil (GRU)Sao Paulo, Congonhas Airport, Brazil (CGH)Sao Paulo, Viracopos Campinas Airport, Brazil (VCP)Sapporo, International Airport, Japan (SPK)Sapporo, Chitose, Japan (CTS)Sarajevo, Butmir, Bosnia (SJJ)Sarasota, Sarasota-Bradenton, USA (SRQ)Sarnia, Chris Hadfield Airport, Canada (YZR)Saskatoon, John G. Diefenbaker Intl. Airport, Canada (YXE)Satu Mare, International Airport, Romania (SUJ)Sault ste. Marie, Intl. Airport, Canada (YAM)Saurimo, Saurimo, Angola (VHC)Savannah, Travis Field, USA (SAV)Seattle, Tacoma Itl., USA (SEA)Sendai, Sendai Airport, Japan (SDJ)Seoul, Gimpo International Airport, Rep South Korea (GMP)Seoul, Int. 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Álvarez International Airport, Mexico (ACA)Accra, Kotoka, Ghana (ACC)Adana, Adana / Sakirpasa civil airport, Turkey (ADA)Addis Ababa, Bole, Ethiopia (ADD)Adelaide, International Airport, Australia (ADL)Adler, International Airport, Russia (AER)Aeroparque, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, Argentina (AEP)Agadir, Al Massira, Morocco (AGA)Ajaccio, Campo dell'Oro, France (AJA)Al Ain, Al Ain Shuttle Bus, United Arab Emirates (AAN)Albany GA, Dougherty County, USA (ABY)Albany GAThiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India (TRV)Albany NY, Albany NY, Albany County Airport, NY, USA (ALB)Albuquerque, International Airport, USA (ABQ)Alexandroupolis, Int., Greece (AXD)Algiers, Houari Boumedienne, Algeria (ALG)Alicante, Alicante Elche, Spain (ALC)Allentown, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, USA (ABE)Almaty, Int, Kazakhstan (ALA)Amman, Queen Alia Itl., Jordan (AMM)Amritsar, RajaSansi Intl. Airport, India (ATQ)Amsterdam, Schiphol Intl., Netherlands (AMS)Ancona, Falconara, Italy (AOI)Ankara, Esenboğa Intl., Turkey (ESB)Ankara, Ankara, Turkey (ANK)Antalya, Havalimani Int., Turkey (AYT)Antananarivo, Int, Madagascar (TNR)Antwerp, Deurne, Belgium (ANR)Aqaba, Aqaba King Hussein Airport, Jordan (AQJ)Aracaju, Santa Maria, Brazil (AJU)Arkhangelsk, International Airport, Pakistan (ARH)Aruba, Queen Beatrix, Netherlands Antilles (AUA)Asheville, Asheville Regional Airport, USA (AVL)Astrakhan, International Airport, Russia (ASF)Asunción, Silvio Pettirossi Intl Airport, Paraguay (ASU)Aswan, Daraw, Egypt (ASW)Athens, Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece (ATH)Atlanta, Hartsfield Atlanta Itl., USA (ATL)Auckland, International Airport, New Zealand (AKL)Augusta, Bush Field, USA (AGS)Austin, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, USA (AUS)Avignon, Caumont, France (AVN)Bacău, International Airport, Romania (BCM)Bahia , Porto Seguro, Brazil (BPS)Bahrain, Int, Bahrain (BAH)Bahía Blanca, Bahia Blanca Comandante Espora, Argentina (BHI)Baia Mare, Tauti Magherusi, Romania (BAY)Baku, Heydar Aliyev Intl., Azerbaijan (GYD)Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan (BAK)Ballina, International Airport, Australia (BNK)Baltimore, Baltimore-Washington International, USA (BWI)Baltra, Seymour, Ecuador (GPS)Bamako, Int, Mali (BKO)Bangalore, Bengaluru Intl., India (BLR)Bangkok, Int, Thailand (BKK)Bangui, Int, Central African Republic (BGF)Banja Luka, Banja Luka International Airport, Bosnia (BNX)Barcelona, El Prat, Spain (BCN)Bari, Palese, Italy (BRI)Bariloche, Teniente Luis Candelaria international Airport, Argentina (BRC)Barnaul, International Airport, Russia (BAX)Barranquilla, International Airport, Colombia (BAQ)Basel, EuroAirport, Switzerland (EAP)Basel, Basel EuroAirport, Switzerland (BSL)Bastia, Poretta Corsica, France (BIA)Beijing, Capital Intl. Airport, China (PEK)Beirut, Int, Lebanon (BEY)Belem, Val de Cans Intl. Airport, Brazil (BEL)Belfast, Belfast, Great Britain (BFS)Belfast City, Belfast City Airport, Great Britain (BHD)Belgrade, Surcin, Serbia (BEG)Belo Horizonte, Confins Pampulha, Brazil (PLU)Belo Horizonte, Tancredo Neves Int., Brazil (CNF)Belo Horizonte, Belohorizonte, Brazil (BHZ)Benghazi, Int, Libya (BEN)Bergamo, Orio al Serio, Italy (BGY)Bergen, Flesland, Norway (BGO)Berlin, Tegel, Germany (TXL)Berlin, Int. Airport, Germany (BER)Bhopal, Bhopal, India (BHO)Biarritz, Bayonne Anglet, France (BIQ)Bilbao, International Airport, Spain (BIO)Billund, Int, Denmark (BLL)Birmingham, Int, Great Britain (BHX)Birmingham, Seibels/Bryan Airport, USA (BHM)Bishkek, Int, Kyrgyzstan (FRU)Bodrum, Bodrum civil airport, Turkey (BJV)Bogotá, Int, Colombia (BOG)Boise, Boise Gowen Field Airport, USA (BOI)Bologna, G. Marconi, Italy (BLQ)Bolzano, Francesco Baracca, Italy (BZO)Bonaire, Flamingo Field, Netherlands Antilles (BON)Bordeaux, Merignac, France (BOD)Bossembélé, Bossembélé civil airport, Central African Republic (BEM)Boston, Logan Itl., USA (BOS)Bourgas, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (BOJ)Brasilia, Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek Intl. Apt., Brazil (BSB)Bratislava, International Airport, Slovakia (BTS)Brazzaville, Maya Maya, Congo (BZV)Bremen, Neuenland, Germany (BRE)Breslavia, Strachowice Airport, Poland (WRO)Brest, Guipavas, France (BES)Brindisi, Papola Casale, Italy (BDS)Brisbane, International Airport, Australia (BNE)Bristol, Lulsgate International, Great Britain (BRS)Brive-La-Gaillarde, La Roche, France (BVE)Brunswick, Glynco Jetport, USA (BQK)Brussels, National, Belgium (BRU)Bucaramanga, Palonegro, Colombia (BGA)Bucharest, Otopeni, Romania (OTP)Bucharest, Int. Airport, Romania (BUH)Budapest, Ferihegy 2, Hungary (BUD)Buenos Aires, Int., Argentina (EZE)Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina (BUE)Buffalo, Greater Buffalo, USA (BUF)Bujumbura, Int, Burundi (BJM)Bukhara, Bukhara, Uzbekistan (BHK)Cabinda, Cabinda, Angola (CAB)Caen, Carpiquet, France (CFR)Cagliari, Elmas, Italy (CAG)Cairo, Itl., Egypt (CAI)Calgary, Calgary Intl., Canada (YYC)Cali, International Airport, Colombia (CLO)Calvi, Sainte Catherine, France (CLY)Cambridge, Int., Great Britain (CBG)Campo Grande, Antonio Joao, Brazil (CGR)Cancun, International Airport, Mexico (CUN)Canton, Baiyun, China (CAN)Caracas, Simón Bolívar, Venezuela (CCS)Cardiff, Rhoose Wales, Great Britain (CWL)Cartagena, International Airport, Colombia (CTG)Cartago, Cartago Santa Ana Airport, Colombia (CRC)Casablanca, Mohamed V, Morocco (CMN)Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco (CAS)Catamarca, Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport, Argentina (CTC)Catania, Fontanarossa, Italy (CTA)Catumbela, Catumbela, Angola (CBT)Cayenne, Félix Eboué, French Guiana (CAY)Cephalonia, Int. Airport, Greece (EFL)Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India (IXC)Changsha, International Airport , China (CSX)Chania, Souda, Greece (CHQ)Charkiv, Civil Airport, Ukraine (HRK)Charleston SC, Charleston International Airport, USA (CHS)Charleston WV, Yeager Airport, USA (CRW)Charlotte, Charlotte/Douglas Intl Airport, USA (CLT)Charlottetown, International Airport, Canada (YYG)Chattanooga, CHA Lovell Field, USA (CHA)Chengdu, Chengdu Shuangliu Intl. Apt., China (CTU)Chennai, Chennai International Airport, India (MAA)Chetumal, International Airport, Mexico (CTM)Chicago, O'Hare Int, USA (ORD)Chicago, Chicago, USA (CHI)Chios, Int., Greece (JKH)Chisinau, International Airport, Moldova (KIV)Chongqing, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, China (CKG)Christchurch, International airport, New Zealand (CHC)Cincinnati, Greater Cincinnati Intl Airport, USA (CVG)Città del Capo, Cape Town Airport, South Africa (CPT)Ciudad del Carmen, International Airport, Mexico (CME)Ciudad Juarez, International Airport, Mexico (CJS)Clermont-Ferrand, Aulnat, France (CFE)Cleveland, Hopkins Itl., USA (CLE)Cluj, International Airport, Romania (CLJ)Cochin, Cochin Intl., India (COK)Coffsharbour, International Airport, Australia (CFS)Cologne, Cologne, Train Main Railroad St., Germany (QKL)Cologne, Cologne/Bonn, Germany (CGN)Colombo, Bandaranaike Intl., Sri Lanka (CMB)Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Municipal, USA (COS)Columbia SC, Columbia SC Metropolitan Airport, USA (CAE)Columbus GA, Columbus Metropolitan / Fort Benning, USA (CSG)Columbus MS, Golden, USA (GTR)Columbus OH, Port Columbus Intl Airport, USA (CMH)Comiso, Gen. Vincenzo Magliocco, Italy (CIY)Comodoro Rivadavia, General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina (CRD)Conakry, Int, Guinea (CKY)Copenhagen, Kastrup, Denmark (CPH)Corfu, Int. Airport, Greece (CFU)Corrientes, Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport, Argentina (CNQ)Costanza, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania (CND)Cotonou, Cadjehoun International, Benin (COO)Cowley, Intl. Airport, Canada (YYM)Cozumel, International airport, Mexico (CZM)Crotone, International Airport, Italy (CRV)Cuiabá, Marechal Rondon Int., Brazil (CGB)Curaçao, Hato Airport, Netherlands Antilles (CUR)Curitiba, Afonso Pena Int., Brazil (CWB)Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (COR)Dakar, Int, Senegal (DKR)Dakhla, Aeroporto civile Dakhla, Morocco (VIL)Dalian, Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport, China (DLC)Dallas, Ft Worth Intl, USA (DFW)Dallas, Love Field, USA (DAL)Damascus, Int, Syria (DAM)Dammam, Int, Saudi Arabia (DMM)Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam International Airport, Tanzania (DAR)Daytona, James M Cox Dayton International, USA (DAY)Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach International Airport, USA (DAB)Deauville, Saint Gatien, France (DOL)Deer lake, Deer Lake Airport, Canada (YDF)Dehradun, Dehradun, India (DED)Denpasar, Ngurah Rai, Indonesia (DPS)Denver, Denver International, USA (DEN)Des Moines, Municipal, USA (DSM)Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, USA (DTW)Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA (DTT)Dhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Intl., Bangladesh (DAC)Diyarbakır, Diyarbakir Airport, Turkey (DIY)Djerba, Zarzis Int., Tunisia (DJE)Djibouti, Ambouli, Djibouti (JIB)Doha, Int, Qatar (DOH)Doncaster, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, Great Britain (DSA)Dothan, Municipal, USA (DHN)Douala, King Fahad Intl., Cameroon (DLA)Dresden, Dresden International, Germany (DRS)Dubai, Dubai Bus Station, United Arab Emirates (XNB)Dubai, International airport, United Arab Emirates (DXB)Dublin, Civil Airport, Ireland (DUB)Dubrovnik, Int. Airport, Croatia (DBV)Dundee, Riverside Park, Great Britain (DND)Dundo, Dundo, Angola (DUE)Düsseldorf, Rhein-Ruhr Lohausen, Germany (DUS)East Midlands, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Great Britain (EMA)Edinburgh, Turnhouse, Great Britain (EDI)Edmonton, Edmonton Intl. Airport, Canada (YEG)Eindhoven, International Airport, Netherlands (EIN)Ekaterinburg, Koltsovo Intl., Russia (SVX)El Ayun, Hassan I El Ayun Airport, Morocco (EUN)El Calafate, Comandante Armando Tola International Airport, Argentina (FTE)El Paso, El Paso Intl., USA (ELP)Entebbe, Int, Uganda (EBB)Erkliet, Erkliet, Turkey (ASR)Errachidia, Errachidia civil airport, Morocco (ERH)Esquel, Aeroporto Brigadier General Antonio Parodi, Argentina (EQS)Evansville, Evansville Regional Airport, USA (EVV)Exeter, Exeter International Airport, Great Britain (EXT)Faro, International Airport, Portugal (FAO)Fayetteville, Fayetteville Municipal, USA (FAY)Fergana, Fergana, Uzbekistan (FEG)Fez, Int, Morocco (FEZ)Figari, Sud Corse, France (FSC)Florence, Amerigo Vespucci, Italy (FLR)Florence, Gilbert Field, USA (FLO)Florianópolis, Hercílio Luz Int., Brazil (FLN)Foggia, International Airport, Italy (FOG)Formosa, Formosa International Airport el Pucù, Argentina (FMA)Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Itl., USA (FLL)Fort Myers, Reg. Southwest Apt, USA (RSW)Fort Myers, Fort Myers, Page Field, FL, USA (FMY)Fortaleza, Pinto Martins Apt., Brazil (FOR)Frankfurt, Int. Airport, Germany (FRA)Fredericton, International Airport, Canada (YFC)Freetown, Lungi Intl., Sierra Leone (FNA)Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain (FUE)Fukuoka, Intl. Airport, Japan (FUK)Funchal, Santa Catarina, Portugal (FNC)Fuzhou, International Airport , China (FOC)Gainesville, Jr Alison Municipal, USA (GNV)Gassim, Gassim International, Saudi Arabia (ELQ)Geneva, Cointrin, Switzerland (GVA)Genoa, C.Colombo, Italy (GOA)Giuba, Giuba, Sudan (JUB)Gizan, Jizan-Re Abd Allah bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (GIZ)Glasgow, Glasgow, Prestwick, Great Britain (PIK)Glasgow, Abbotsinch International, Great Britain (GLA)Goiânia, Santa Genoveva, Brazil (GYN)Goldcoast, International Airport, Australia (OOL)Gothenburg, Landvetter, Sweden (GOT)Goulimime, Goulimime civil airport, Morocco (GLN)Grand Cayman, International Airport, Cayman Islands (GCM)Grand Rapids, Kent County International Airport, USA (GRR)Graz, Graz, Austria (GRZ)Greensboro, Piedmont Triad Intl Airport, USA (GSO)Guadalajara, International Airport, Mexico (GDL)Guaranì, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (AGT)Guayaquil, Simón Bolívar, Ecuador (GYE)Gulfport, Gulfport/Biloxi, USA (GPT)Ha'il, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (HAS)Halifax, Stanfield Intl. Airport, Canada (YHZ)Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Germany (HAM)Hanga Roa, Mataveri, Chile (IPC)Hangzhou, Int, China (HGH)Hanoi, Noi Bai Intl Apt, Vietnam (HAN)Hanover, Langenhagen, Germany (HAJ)Hartford, Bradley Intl., USA (BDL)Havana, José Martí, Cuba (HAV)Helsinki, Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland (HEL)Heraklion, Nikos Kazantakis, Greece (HER)Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan (HIJ)Ho Chi Minh, International Airport, Vietnam (SGN)Hobart, International Airport, Australia (HBA)Hong Kong, Int, China, Hong Kong (HKG)Honolulu, Honolulu Intl., USA (HNL)Horta, International Airport, Portugal (HOR)Houston, Houston Intercontinental, USA (IAH)Houston, Hobby Airport, USA (HOU)Huambo, Huambo-Albano Machado, Angola (NOV)Huatulco, International Airport, Mexico (HUX)Humberside, Int., Great Britain (HUY)Huntsville, Huntsville-Madison County Jetplex, USA (HSV)Iași, Civil Airport, Romania (IAS)Ibiza, Es Codolar, Spain (IBZ)Iguazu Falls, Cataratas, Brazil (IGU)Iguazú, Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport, Argentina (IGR)Ilheus, Jorge Amado, Brazil (IOS)Indianapolis, Indianapolis International Airport, USA (IND)Indore, Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar , India (IDR)Inverness, International airport, Great Britain (INV)Irkutsk, International Airport, Russia (IKT)Islamabad, Benazir Bhutto Intl., Pakistan (ISB)Islip, Long Island-MacArthur Airport, USA (ISP)Istambul, Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey (SAW)Istanbul, Ataturk, Turkey (IST)Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo, International airport, Mexico (ZIH)Ixtepec, Ixtepec, Mexico (IZT)Izumo, Intl. Airport, Japan (IZO)Jackson, Allen C Thompson Field, USA (JAN)Jacksonville, Jacksonville International Airport, USA (JAX)Jaipur, Jaipur, India (JAI)Jakarta, All airports, Indonesia (JKT)Jakarta, Halim Perdanakusuma Intl., Indonesia (HLP)Jakarta, Soekarno Hatta Intl., Indonesia (CGK)Jeddah, King Abdulaziz Int., Saudi Arabia (JED)Johannesburg, O.R. Tambo, South Africa (JNB)Joinville, Lauro Carneiro de Loyola, Brazil (JOI)Juazeiro Do Norte, Orlando Bezerra De Menezes, Brazil (JDO)Jujuy, Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport El Cadillal, Argentina (JUJ)Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan (KOJ)Kahului, International Airport, USA (OGG)Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Airport, Russia (KGD)Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA (MKC)Kansas City, Kansas City Intl., USA (MCI)Karachi, Quaid-e-Azam Intl, Pakistan (KHI)Karlsruhe , Baden Baden Airport, Germany (FKB)Kauai Island, Lihue Municipal Airport, USA (LIH)Kavala, Int., Greece (KVA)Kazan, International Airport, Russia (KZN)Keflavik, International Airport, Iceland (KEF)Kelowna, Intl. Airport, Canada (YLW)Kemerovo, International Airport, Russia (KEJ)Keywest, International Airport, USA (EYW)Khabarovsk, Novy, Russia (KHV)Khartoum, Civil, Sudan (KRT)Kiev, Borispol, Ukraine (KBP)Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine (IEV)Kigali, Int, Rwanda (KGL)Kilimanjaro, Int, Tanzania (JRO)Kingston, Norman Rogers Airport, Canada (YGK)Kinshasa, N'Djili, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIH)Knoxville, McGhee Tyson, USA (TYS)Kolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Intl. Apt, India (CCU)Komatsu, Kanazawa di Komatsu , Japan (KMQ)Kona, Keahole, USA (KOA)Kos, Int., Greece (KGS)Kosice, International Airport, Slovakia (KSC)Krakow, Jana Pawła II Intl., Poland (KRK)Krasnodar, Pashkovsky, Russia (KRR)Krasnoyarsk, KJA, Russia (KJA)Kristiansand, Kjevik, Norway (KRS)Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia (KUL)Kuito, Bie Silva Porto, Angola (SVP)Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (KMJ)Kunming, Changshui Intl. Airport, China (KMG)Kuwait, Int, Kuwait (KWI)La Aurora, La Aurora Intl Airport, Guatemala (GUA)La Coruna, La Coruna Alvedro Airport, Spain (LCG)La Rioja, Capitán Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airpor, Argentina (IRJ)Lagos, Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria (LOS)Lahore, Allama Iqbal Intl., Pakistan (LHE)Lamezia Terme, S.Eufemia, Italy (SUF)Lampedusa, International Airport, Italy (LMP)Lanzarote, Lanzarote, Spain (ACE)Larnaca/Nicosia, Int. Airport, Cyprus (LCA)Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain (LPA)Las Vegas, McCarran International Airport, USA (LAS)Leeds, Bradford, Great Britain (LBA)Leipzig, Leipzig Int., Germany (LEJ)Leopoli, Leopoli Airport, Ukraine (LWO)Libreville, Int, Gabon (LBV)Liege, International Airport, Belgium (LGG)Lille, Lesquin, France (LIL)Lima, Jorge Chávez Itl., Peru (LIM)Linköping, Saab, Sweden (LPI)Lisbon, Portela de Sacavém, Portugal (LIS)Little Rock, Little Rock Regional Airport, USA (LIT)Liverpool, John Lennon Airport (Speke), Great Britain (LPL)Livingstone, Harry Mwanga Nkumbula, Zambia (LVI)Ljubljana, Brnik, Slovenia (LJU)Lomé, Int, Togo (LFW)London, London, Great Britain (LON)London, Heathrow, Great Britain (LHR)London, London City, Great Britain (LCY)London, Ontario Canada, International Airport, Canada (YXU)Londrina, Gov. José Richa, Brazil (LDB)Lorient, Lann-Bihouet, France (LRT)Los Angeles, Int, USA (LAX)Louisville, Standiford Field, USA (SDF)Lourdes, Tarbes Intl., France (LDE)Luanda, Quatro de Fevereiro, Angola (LAD)Lubango, Lubango, Angola (SDD)Lublin, Lublin Airport, Poland (LUZ)Lucknow, Chaudhary Charan Singh, India (LKO)Luena, Luso di Luena, Angola (LUO)Lugano, Agno, Switzerland (LUG)Lumumbashi, Luano, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FBM)Lusaka, Lusaka International, Zambia (LUN)Luton, Luton, Great Britain (LTN)Luxembourg, Findel, Luxembourg (LUX)Luxor, Int, Egypt (LXR)Lynchburg, Municipal Airport, USA (LYH)Lyon, St. Exupéry, France (LYS)Lázaro Cárdenas, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico (LZC)Maastricht, Zuid-Limburg, Netherlands (MST)Maceió, Palmares, Brazil (MCZ)Macon, Lewis B Wilson, USA (MCN)Madrid, Barajas, Spain (MAD)Malabo, Saint Isabel, Equatorial Guinea (SSG)Malaga, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spain (AGP)Malindi, Int, Kenya (MYD)Malta, Luqa International, Malta (MLA)Malé, Ibrahim Nasir Intl, Maldives (MLE)Manaus, Eduardo Gomes Int., Brazil (MAO)Manchester, Itl., Great Britain (MAN)Manila, Ninoy Aquino Intl., Philippines (MNL)Manizales, La Nubia, Colombia (MZL)Mar del Plata, Astor Piazzolla international Airport, Argentina (MDQ)Maroochydore, International Airport, Australia (MCY)Marrakech, Menara, Morocco (RAK)Marseille, Provence, France (MRS)Matsuyama, Matsuyama, Japan (MYJ)Mauritius, Sir Seew. Ramgoolam Itl, Mauritius (MRU)Medellin, International Airport, Colombia (MDE)Melbourne, International Airport, Australia (MEL)Melbourne FL, Regional Airport, USA (MLB)Memphis, International Airport, USA (MEM)Mendoza, Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli International Airport El Plumerillo, Argentina (MDZ)Menongue, Menongue, Angola (SPP)Menorca, Aerop De Menorca, Spain (MAH)Merida, International Airport, Mexico (MID)Metz Nancy, Lorraine, France (ETZ)Mexico City, Benito Juarez Itl., Mexico (MEX)Miami, Int, USA (MIA)Milan, All airports, Italy (MIL)Milan, Malpensa, Italy (MXP)Milan, Linate, Italy (LIN)Milwaukee, General Mitchell Field, USA (MKE)Minneapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul Intl Airport, USA (MSP)Minsk, Minsk, Belarus (MSQ)Mobile, Mobile Municipal, USA (MOB)Mombasa, Moi International, Kenya (MBA)Moncton, Greater Moncton Intl. Airport, Canada (YQM)Monterrey, Escobedo, Mexico (MTY)Montgomery, Dannelly Field, USA (MGM)Montpellier, Fréjorgues, France (MPL)Montreal, Dorval, Canada (YUL)Montreal, Montreal, Mirabel, Canada (YMX)Moscow, Sheremetyevo, Russia (SVO)Moscow, Moscow Airport, Russia (MOW)Moscow, Domodedovo, Russia (DME)Mulhouse, Euroairport, France (MLH)Mumbai (Bombay), Int, India (BOM)Munich, Franz Josef Strauss, Germany (MUC)Murmansk, Civil Airport, Russia (MMK)Muscat, Seeb, Oman (MCT)Mykonos, Int., Greece (JMK)Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach International, USA (MYR)Mytilene, Int., Greece (MJT)N'Djamena, Int, Chad (NDJ)Nador, Taouima Airport, Morocco (NDR)Nagoya, Intl Airport Chūbu, Japan (NGO)Nairobi, Nairobi, Wilson Arpt, Kenya (WIL)Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Itl., Kenya (NBO)Nanjing, Lukou International Airport , China (NKG)Nantes, Château Bougon, France (NTE)Naples, Capodichino, Italy (NAP)Nashville, Nashville Metropolitan Airport, USA (BNA)Natal, Augusto Severo Int., Brazil (NAT)Navegantes, Ministro Victor Konder, Brazil (NVT)Ndola, Ndola, Zambia (NLA)Neuquén, Presidente Perón international Airport, Argentina (NQN)New Delhi, Int, India (DEL)New Orleans, New Orleans, USA (MSY)New York, NEW YORK, USA (NYC)New York, J.F.K., USA (JFK)Newcastle, Int, Great Britain (NCL)Niamey, Int, Niger (NIM)Nice, Côte d'Azur, France (NCE)Nizhniy, Nižnij Novgorod-Strighino Airport, Russia (GOJ)Norfolk, Norfolk International Airport, USA (ORF)North bay, Garland Airport, Canada (YYB)Norwich, Weather Centre, Great Britain (NWI)Nouakchott, Int, Mauritania (NKC)Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo, Russia (OVB)Nukus, G.nukus, Uzbekistan (NCU)Nuremberg, Int., Germany (NUE)Oakland, International Airport, USA (OAK)Oaxaca, International Airport, Mexico (OAX)Odessa, International Airport, Ukraine (ODS)Ohrid, St. Paul the Apostle Airport, Macedonia/FYROM (OHD)Okayama, Intl. 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__label__wiki	0.90007	0.90007	US-Iran escalation Soleimani assassination Why India's Modi wants more control over the central bank Undermining central bank independence could be 'potentially catastrophic' says top official from Reserve Bank of India. 02 Nov 2018 12:55 GMT Experts say a public spat between the government and the central bank 'is always a bad sign' [File: Vivek Prakash/Reuters] An incendiary speech by a senior Reserve Bank of India (RBI) official last Friday blew the lid off an increasingly toxic dispute between the central bank and the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over monetary policy and who controls the institution's reserves, Reuters has reported. While historically there have been differences between the RBI and the nation's governments, the extent of the rift and its public nature are unprecedented. By Wednesday morning, there were Indian media reports saying that RBI Governor Urjit Patel was about to resign. The RBI declined to comment. This followed three letters to the RBI from the finance ministry threatening to invoke Section 7 of the RBI Act that would allow the government to dictate policy to the central bank, according to a senior source with direct knowledge of developments. But faced with declines in India's rupee currency and government bond prices as investors got unnerved, the government issued a statement supporting the RBI's autonomy while indicating it would still be pressing very hard to have its own way. In Friday's speech, RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya said that undermining central bank independence could be "potentially catastrophic", and he even cited meddling by the Argentine government in the affairs of its central bank in 2010 - prompting big drops in that nation's financial markets - as a sign of how bad things can get. The remarks were widely seen as a sign that the RBI was pushing back hard against government pressure to relax its policies and reduce its powers before a general election due by May. Finance ministry and RBI spokespersons declined comment. The RBI is not statutorily independent, as the governor is appointed by the government, but it has enjoyed broad autonomy in regulating the banking sector. It is mandated to control inflation within a two to six percent range while keeping in mind India's economic growth objective. Hemindra Hazari, an independent banking analyst in Mumbai, told Al Jazeera that any public spat between the government and the central bank "is always a bad sign" and that due to the fiscal deficit constraints, "the government is trying to take funds from whichever institution it can approach". "There are a few banks that the central bank has barred from lending," Hazari said. "The government itself is unable to recapitalise these banks to the fullest. If it does so, the fiscal deficit will soar. "That could spur global credit ratings agencies to downgrade India which would lead to capital outflow," he continued. "Hence, the government is plundering all the possible institutions which can cough up the money, like the state-run insurer LIC, for instance." Six critical areas of conflict Cash grab - The government has made repeated calls for the RBI to hand over more money from the RBI's reserves to help fund its fiscal deficit. The RBI currently hands over its profits earned from various activities in the form of a dividend. But the government also wants to tap a share of the RBI's 3.6 trillion rupees ($48.73bn) of capital reserves. The RBI has consistently pushed back against the demand. Out of the shadows - The government wants the RBI to provide more liquidity to the shadow banking sector, which has been hurt by the defaults of major financing company, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS). Those defaults triggered sell-off in bonds and stocks of non-banking financial companies. The government has been asking the RBI for a dedicated liquidity window for these lenders similar to one allowed during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. Just Relax - The government has also been urging the RBI to relax its lending restrictions on 11 state-run banks. The curbs were imposed because the banks had a low capital base and major bad debt problems. All 11 are barred from lending unless they reduce their bad-debt levels, improve their capital ratios and become profitable. The government says the restrictions have gone too far and have reduced the availability of loans for small and medium-sized businesses. Encroaching - The RBI is also irked by the government's efforts to trim the central bank's regulatory powers by proposing to set up an independent payments regulator. Currently, the RBI regulates all payments and settlements in the economy. The government says it wants a separate payment regulator which will be able to adapt to rapid changes in technology. Board influence - The government appointed S Gurumurthy, a prominent BJP supporter and an affiliate of the Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), to the RBI board earlier this year along with Satish Marathe, a former banker with ties to the RSS. Such political appointments have been unusual in the past as the RBI board's external members have mostly been economists and industrialists. Traditionally, the RBI's board has approved decisions related to the internal functions of the central bank and it has not interfered in its supervisory and monetary policy functions. Keeping mum- Senior government officials, as well as BJP and RSS officials, are angry that the RBI decided to go public over the quarrels. Acharya made it clear he had been asked to address the independence question by Patel and, in a show of unity, the three other deputy governors attended his speech. In its statement concerning autonomy on Wednesday, the government stressed that it will keep discussions confidential. Why it matters for Modi The Modi government has been under pressure in advance of regional elections due at the end of 2018 because of weak farm prices and surging fuel costs, which have been hurting rural incomes. The government recently cut excise duty on petrol and diesel, adding to pressure on its deficit. The budget is also being undermined by muted revenue collection from a recently introduced goods and service tax. Added to this, the IL&FS woes have led to a liquidity crunch across much of the shadow banking sector and throttled off some lending. All of this could slow a $2.6 trillion economy, the world's sixth largest, only months before the general election. To prevent that from happening, Modi is expected to spend more on populist programmes, including boosts to rural wages, fuel subsidies and buying crops at a guaranteed minimum price. The rift has created political and economic uncertainty. Investors want policy continuity from both the RBI and the government to ensure inflation is kept in check and economic stability is maintained. A persistent fall in the inflation rate since 2014 in a country that was used to volatile price pressures instilled confidence in the central bank and attracted investors. But investors fear such hard-earned economic gains could be at risk if the government can pull the RBI's strings. Zeenat Saberin contributed to the report from New Delhi. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5204
__label__wiki	0.855055	0.855055	Parejo insists Valencia are prepared for in-form Chelsea Nov 26th 2019 11:20AM Valencia captain Dani Parejo believes Frank Lampard is turning Chelsea into one of the world’s best teams. Chelsea suffered a 1-0 home loss to Valencia in a Champions League baptism of fire for new boss Lampard back in September. But the Blues can qualify for the knockout stages with victory at the Mestalla Stadium in Wednesday’s return clash, leaving Parejo wary of Chelsea’s rapid strides under their former midfield favourite Lampard. A win for either side would lock down a last-16 tie with a Group H game to spare, but Parejo has warned his players to expect one of their toughest games this term against the west Londoners. “It is true that our win there was the first game (in the competition), and while we must not take anything away from that win, Chelsea come here in great form and with big confidence,” said Parejo. “We are now going to play against one of the best teams in the world by name, history and everything. “They are really coming at a good time, they lost to Manchester City making a great game, but they had won several games previously. “We must focus on ourselves, we have shown we can compete against anyone. So no extra motivation is needed.” Former Real Madrid midfielder Parejo already boasts six goals and two assists in La Liga this term, and the 30-year-old expects home advantage to boost Valencia’s chances on Wednesday. “I have experienced many nights like this here, arriving on the bus to a big reception, with a special and unique atmosphere,” said Parejo. “On nights like this the Mestalla does not fail, the atmosphere will be impressive. “When we go hand in hand fans and team, almost always the result is usually in our favour.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5206
__label__cc	0.557608	0.442392	APSPublicationsPlant Disease2004August A Comparison of Methods Used to Estimate the Maturity and Release of Ascospores of Venturia inaequalis August 2004 , Volume 88 , Number 8 David M. Gadoury and Robert C. Seem , Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva 14456 ; William E. MacHardy , Department of Plant Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824 ; Wayne F. Wilcox and David A. Rosenberger , Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva 14456 ; and Arne Stensvand , Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Protection Centre, The Norwegian Crop Research Institute, N-1432 Ås, Norway http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS.2004.88.8.869 Accepted for publication 12 April 2004. Maturation and release of ascospores of Venturia inaequalis were assessed at Geneva and Highland, NY, and at Durham, NH, by microscopic examination of crushed pseudothecia excised from infected apple leaves that were collected weekly from orchards (squash mounts) in 14 siteyear combinations. Airborne ascospore dose was monitored at each location in each year of the study by volumetric spore traps. Additional laboratory assessments were made at Geneva to quantify release from infected leaf segments upon wetting (discharge tests). Finally, ascospore maturity was estimated for each location using a degree-day model developed in an earlier study. Ascospore maturation and release determined by squash mounts and discharge tests lagged significantly behind cumulative ascospore release as measured by volumetric spore traps in the field. The mean date of 98% ascospore discharge as determined by squash mounts or discharge tests occurred from 23 to 28 days after the mean date on which 98% cumulative ascospore release had been detected by volumetric traps. In contrast, cumulative ascospore maturity estimated by the degree-day model was highly correlated (r2 = 0.82) with observed cumulative ascospore release as monitored by the volumetric traps. Although large differences between predicted maturity and observed discharge were common during the exponential phase of ascospore development, the date of 98% cumulative ascospore maturity predicted by the model was generally within 1 to 9 calendar days of the date of 98% cumulative ascospore recovery in the volumetric traps. Cumulative ascospore discharge as monitored by the volumetric traps always exceeded 98% at 600 degree days (base = 0°C) after green tip. Estimating the relative quantity of primary inoculum indirectly by means of a degree-day model was more closely aligned with observed ascospore release, as measured by volumetric traps, than actual assessments of ascospore maturity and discharge obtained through squash mounts and discharge tests. The degree-day model, therefore, may be a more accurate predictor of ascospore depletion than squash mounts or discharged tests, and has the added advantage that it can be widely applied to generate site-specific estimates of ascospore maturity for any location where daily temperature data are available.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5211
__label__wiki	0.50822	0.50822	Princeton Admissions Essays Princeton Facts Balancing Acts The air was that of a stagnant summer, stifling hot and stubbornly unmoving. The dirt road that snaked through the idyllic Taiwanese countryside had rattled the old, blue pickup truck for over an hour before it had shuddered to a stop. Stepping out onto the muddy riverbank, I anticipated the surprise that my eccentric uncle had promised. There it sat: a Styrofoam boat, assembled out of scraps of discarded cups, packing material and blocks. “I made it myself,” he proclaimed proudly, boarding the boat. I followed with trepidation, but it astonishingly supported both his weight and mine with ease. “How?” I asked. He turned to me, his eyes twinkling, and said “Beauty lies in the balance.” Growing up, I was always fearful of being too ‘American’ in front of my traditional family, or too ‘Taiwanese’ in front of my peers. Whenever I saw my relatives, they would always tease me about being an ‘ABC’ - American-born Chinese - the appearance of an Asian, with none of the cultural heritage. I could not follow the New Year’s traditions since they conflicted with the school calendar. I couldn’t avoid it either, because at the same time, my lunches of radish soup and stir-fried eggplant fascinated my classmates. As a child, I felt as if I had to categorize myself as either Taiwanese or American. Like a trapeze artist, I was swaying over two sides of the same line. It wasn’t until I learned about the “American Dream” that I gained insight into my definition of self. As I took note of its tenets, I realized my parents were its embodiment. My mother and my father both grew up in abject poverty. My mother’s family ate little but rice every night for fifteen years to pay for her school fees, while my father wrote his assignments faintly since pencil lead was too expensive. The American Dream, for them, was a channel that personified egalitarianism and the possibility of prosperity, in which they could better their circumstances by virtue of sheer effort. I understood then that my identity was not a question of culture, rather, it was a question of character. I could define myself by my own parameters on my own terms. Part of my identity, I decided, was my heritage, one of a purposeful stride toward my potential. Every time I return to Taiwan, back to the family farm and its ramshackle sheds, it serves not only as a proud reminder of the distances one can go with hard work, but also as an anchor to one’s beginnings. For me, the American Dream has been a philosophy I first inherited and then self-actualized. While my parents took it at face value, I tailored it to fit my own specifications. Instead of cultural labels, my identity pays homage to the optimism and ambition of the American Dream. I adopted a philosophy of diligence and commitment to the future from my parents, while still being rooted in my experiences and relishing the simple pleasures of Styrofoam boats. After all, beauty lies in the balance. Read the top 147 college essays that worked at Princeton and more. Learn more. Keep reading more Princeton admissions essays — you can't be too prepared! How to cite this essay (MLA) Anatolia, Saint. "Balancing Acts" StudyNotes.org. Study Notes, LLC., 22 Sep. 2013. Web. 21 Jan. 2020. <https://www.apstudynotes.org/princeton/balancing-acts/>. Saint Anatolia This essay comes from AdmitSphere who kindly allowed it to be republished here. More Princeton Essays Break Your Wrist Princeton Short Answers Copyright © 2006-2016 Study Notes, LLC. Made in Stanford, California. Privacy / Terms / Photo Credits"Princeton" is a registered trademark of Princeton University, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse this web site. Advanced Placement, AP, and SAT are registered trademarks of the CollegeBoard, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse this web site.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5212
__label__cc	0.699247	0.300753	Ancient Dogs Barking - Modern Dogs Barking, 1980 20 × 159 × 1 in 50.8 × 403.9 × 2.5 cm Jersey City, Chicago, Miami Jersey City, Chicago, +1 more Despite being credited with a Pop sensibility, Ed Ruscha defies categorization with his diverse output of photographic books and tongue-in-cheek photo-collages, paintings, and drawings. Ruscha’s work is inspired by the ironies and idiosyncrasies of life in Los Angeles, which he often conveys by placing glib words and phrases from colloquial and consumerist usage atop photographic images or fields of color. Known for painting and drawing with unusual materials such as gunpowder, blood, and Pepto Bismol, Ruscha draws attention to the deterioration of language and the pervasive cliches in pop culture, illustrated by his iconic 1979 painting I Don’t Want No Retro Spective. “You see this badly done on purpose, but the badly-done-on-purpose thing was done so well that it just becomes, let’s say, profound,” he once said. Equally renowned were his photographic books, in which he transferred the deadpan Pop style into series of images of LA—apartments, palm trees, or Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962), his most famous work. Other works by Ed Ruscha Hollywood, 1968 BABYCAKES WITH WEIGHTS, 1970 The End, 1991 IKON Ltd. Contemporary Art H-Holy C-Cow Busted Glass, 2013 Cold Beer, Beautiful Girls, 2009 Standard Station, ca. 1986 Bid (live in 12d) Zoot Soot (Dedicated to the memory of Richard Duardo), 2019 Laguna Art Museum Benefit Auction Whiskey A-Go-Go (from The Sunset Strip series), 1966-1995 Dallas Collectors Club Polaris / Stars don't stand still in the sky, 1990 Arts and Words Series, 1973 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes John Will Untitled (That's Funny), 1999 Wilding Cran Gallery No Number #14 (Not on color/green), 1991 Lia Rumma (Two Things) Better Experienced/Difficult to Describe, 1988 Collectors Contemporary Life Mask, 1981 Fool, 2008 It is whole,..., 1970-1971 Galerie Greta Meert	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5218
__label__cc	0.668663	0.331337	Actresses Must Be Picky About With Whom They Work to Survive in Movie Industry Actresses need to be pickier than men about with whom they work if they want to survive in the movie industry, suggests a new study. "My research indicates that women in the film industry suffer a lack of access to future career opportunities when they tend to work with people who have collaborated frequently in the past," said Mark Lutter, lead author of the study and head of the "Transnational Diffusion of Innovation" Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Germany. Children of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants Have Heightened Risk of Behavior Problems Children of undocumented Mexican immigrants have a significantly higher risk of behavior problems than their co-ethnic counterparts with documented or naturalized citizen mothers, according to a new study. The difficulties come in two forms: sadness or social withdrawal — what the authors refer to as internalizing behavior problems — and issues such as aggressiveness towards others — which the authors call externalizing behavior problems. Minorities' Homicide Victimization Rates Fall Significantly Compared to Whites' A new study reveals that while homicide victimization rates declined for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States from 1990-2010, the drop was much more precipitous for the two minority groups. Polygamy and Alcohol Linked to Physical Abuse in African Marriages African women in polygamous marriages or with alcoholic husbands have a significantly higher risk of being physically abused by their husbands than women in monogamous marriages or women whose husbands don't abuse alcohol, new research shows. Lightness/Darkness of Skin Affects Male Immigrants' Likelihood of Gaining Employment Skin color is a significant factor in the probability of employment for male immigrants to the United States, according to a new study by two University of Kansas (KU) researchers. Young Whites Usually More Optimistic Than Minority Peers About Likelihood of Living to 35 A new study of young people finds that, with one exception, whites are more optimistic — sometimes drastically so — than their minority peers about their likelihood of living to 35. Penalized or Protected? Gender and the Consequences of Nonstandard and Mismatched Employment Histories Millions of workers are employed in positions that deviate from the full-time, standard employment relationship or work in jobs that are mismatched with their skills, education, or experience. Yet, little is known about how employers evaluate workers who have experienced these employment arrangements, limiting our knowledge about how part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization affect workers’ labor market opportunities. (-) Remove Violence in Society filter Violence in Society (-) Remove Leisure/Sports/Recreation filter Leisure/Sports/Recreation (-) Remove Rural Studies filter Rural Studies (-) Remove Africans / African Americans filter Africans / African Americans (-) Remove Latina/os and Hispanics filter Latina/os and Hispanics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5220
__label__wiki	0.71017	0.71017	Home > Switzerland > Nendaz > Ski Chalet rental 16786 Chalet in Nendaz with Jacuzzi / Hot Tub, Sauna, Wi-Fi, Parking Available, Cot Available, Dishwasher Chalet 16786 Self catering, Sleeps 6 - 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom From €856.00 to €2,675.00 per week Jacuzzi / Hot Tub, Sauna, Wi-Fi, Parking Available, Cot Available, Dishwasher, Balcony / Terrace, Cross Country Skiing Location type: Mountains, Countryside, Good nightlife, Ski resort Check Availability & Book Check Availability & Book Quick Links: Accommodation in Nendaz \| Chalets in Nendaz \| Self catering Chalets in Nendaz 3 bedroom Chalet with jacuzzi / hot tub, sauna, and wi-fi "Cor des Alpes 11", 4-room apartment 76 m2. Beautiful and modern furnishings: living/dining room with cable TV. Exit to the terrace, north facing position. 1 room with 1 french bed (140 cm, length 190 cm). Exit to the terrace, north facing position. 1 room with 2 beds (90 cm, length 190 cm). Exit to the terrace, north facing position. 1 small room, without window with 1 french bed (140 cm, length 190 cm). Open kitchen (oven, dishwasher, 4 ceramic glass hob hotplates, microwave, fondue Set (cheese)). Shower/WC. Large terrace, north facing position. Balcony furniture. Very beautiful view of the mountains. Facilities: hair dryer. Internet (WiFi). Reserved parking space n 11, garage space n 11, height 220 cm, width 220 cm. Please note: non-smokers only. 1 pet/ dog allowed. No Jacuzzi in this accommodation. Beautiful residence "Le Cor des Alpes", built in 2011. In the resort, 300 m from the centre, in a quiet position. For shared use: garden (not fenced). In the house: sauna, whirlpool (extra). Hamam, lift, storage room for skis. Parking. Shop, restaurant, outdoor swimming pool 200 m. Tennis 200 m, sports centre 300 m, skisport facilities 600 m, ski bus stop 150 m, ski-kindergarten 100 m, ice field 300 m. Nearby attractions: Spa des Bisses 300 m. Well-known ski regions can easily be reached: Nendaz - 4 Vallées. Please note: ski bus (free of charge). Free Squash in the building. Jacuzzi only in the apartment No. 7. Apartment 7 and 16 have free access to the pool Domaine des Reines Residenz at 100m. Local Services near this Chalet: - 300 m to the centre Walking holiday, Good night life, Ski Holidays Suitability notes Non Smoking Property. 3 bedrooms, sleeps maximum of 6 people Communications & IT Internet access, Wi-Fi Jacuzzi / Hot Tub, Sauna Dishwasher, Cot Available, Microwave, Oven Shower available. Balcony / Terrace, Garden, Cross Country Skiing Quick Links: Nendaz Chalets with pools \| Nendaz Chalets with hot tubs \| Nendaz Chalets with log fires \| Nendaz ski-in ski-out Chalets Activities near Nendaz Local sports activities Within 15 minutes: Mountain biking, Horse riding, Skiing, Walking, Tennis Snowboarding possible. Tobogganing nearby. Options for winter walking. Check-in possible Please select your travel dates and press "Book Now" to get an exact price and book the property online. The rental rates listed below are for weekly stays at the property. For some periods the property could be available for shorter stays. To check prices for a shorter stay please select your arrival and departure date and click the Book Now button. January 25, 2020 - January 31, 2020 25 Jan 2020 1 Feb 2020 €1,393.00 €952.00 ? February 1, 2020 - February 7, 2020 1 Feb 2020 8 Feb 2020 €1,606.00 February 08, 2020 - February 28, 2020 8 Feb 2020 29 Feb 2020 €2,675.00 February 29, 2020 - March 6, 2020 29 Feb 2020 7 Mar 2020 €1,606.00 €1,452.00 ? March 07, 2020 - March 20, 2020 7 Mar 2020 21 Mar 2020 €1,393.00 March 21, 2020 - April 03, 2020 21 Mar 2020 4 Apr 2020 €856.00 April 4, 2020 - April 10, 2020 4 Apr 2020 11 Apr 2020 €1,010.00 April 11, 2020 - April 17, 2020 11 Apr 2020 18 Apr 2020 €1,087.00 April 18, 2020 - July 17, 2020 18 Apr 2020 18 Jul 2020 €856.00 July 18, 2020 - August 14, 2020 18 Jul 2020 15 Aug 2020 €1,393.00 August 15, 2020 - October 23, 2020 15 Aug 2020 24 Oct 2020 €856.00 October 24, 2020 - December 18, 2020 24 Oct 2020 19 Dec 2020 €856.00 €774.00 ? December 19, 2020 - December 25, 2020 19 Dec 2020 26 Dec 2020 €2,356.00 €2,130.00 ? December 26, 2020 - January 1, 2021 26 Dec 2020 2 Jan 2021 €2,675.00 €2,419.00 ? January 2, 2021 - January 29, 2021 2 Jan 2021 30 Jan 2021 €1,393.00 €1,259.00 ? January 30, 2021 - February 5, 2021 30 Jan 2021 6 Feb 2021 €1,606.00 €1,452.00 ? February 6, 2021 - February 12, 2021 6 Feb 2021 13 Feb 2021 €2,356.00 €2,130.00 ? February 13, 2021 - February 26, 2021 13 Feb 2021 27 Feb 2021 €2,675.00 €2,419.00 ? March 6, 2021 - March 19, 2021 6 Mar 2021 20 Mar 2021 €1,393.00 €1,259.00 ? March 20, 2021 - March 26, 2021 20 Mar 2021 27 Mar 2021 €856.00 €774.00 ? March 27, 2021 - April 2, 2021 27 Mar 2021 3 Apr 2021 €1,010.00 €913.00 ? April 3, 2021 - April 9, 2021 3 Apr 2021 10 Apr 2021 €1,087.00 €983.00 ? April 10, 2021 - July 16, 2021 10 Apr 2021 17 Jul 2021 €856.00 €774.00 ? July 17, 2021 - August 13, 2021 17 Jul 2021 14 Aug 2021 €1,393.00 €1,259.00 ? August 14, 2021 - November 26, 2021 14 Aug 2021 27 Nov 2021 €856.00 €774.00 ? Show more rates Additional Services & Local Costs: - Baby Buggy 4.55 EUR per day. Bookable extra. - ERV cancellation insurance. Included in the price. - Cot (up to 2 years) 4.55 EUR per day. Bookable extra. - Garage 1x. Included in the price. - Highchair 4.55 EUR per day. Bookable extra. - Pet 20.36 EUR fixed price. Bookable extra. - Parking. Included in the price. - Breakage deposit in cash or by credit card (Visa/Mastercard) 300.00 CHF fixed price. Payable in resort. - Final cleaning 25.00 CHF per person. Payable in resort. - Laundry (initial supply of bed linen and towels) 29.00 CHF per person. Payable in resort. - Local tax 3.50 CHF per person/day. Payable in resort. - Local tax children (6-15) 1.75 CHF per person/day. Payable in resort. - Local tax children (3-5) per person/day. Payable in resort. - Local tax babies (0-2) per person/day. Payable in resort. More properties in Nendaz Need to see more properties in Nendaz: Nendaz accommodation, Nendaz Chalets, Nendaz Self catering accommodation, Self catering Chalets Nendaz Search for holiday chalets to rent in: Verbier, Saas Fee, Grimentz, Zermatt, Les Collons, Champery, La Tzoumaz, Morgins, Crans Montana, Les Crosets, Les Diablerets, Wengen, Arosa, Davos, Grindelwald, Gstaad, Interlaken, Klosters, Laax, St Moritz, Villars, Ovronnaz, Engelberg, Veysonnaz, Champex, Zinal, Alpe des Chaux, Anzere, Samnaun, Torgon, Les Masses, Vercorin Not sure which resort - try these options: Ski accommodation Switzerland, Ski Chalets Switzerland, Self catering ski Chalets Switzerland Ski-in Ski-out chalets in Switzerland, Switzerland Chalets with hot tubs, Switzerland Chalets with pools, Switzerland Chalets with log fires, Pet friendly Chalets in Switzerland, Switzerland Chalets with saunas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5226
__label__cc	0.682102	0.317898	Is there going to be a Multiplayer to this game ECUCOOLKILLER Post subject: Is there going to be a Multiplayer to this game Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:13 pm I'm interested to here more about the games multiplayer mod if it has one spm1138 Unless I have horribly misunderstood, I think multiplayer is going to be at the core of what this game is about. darkdragon 2nd Lieutenant the single player is sounding good the multiplayer is sounding great i wouldn't be interested at all if this game was single player only multiplayer is like 75% of the value of a fps Sox's assistant and the number one grunt of the NZG don't mess with a nation that needs medication Post subject: Re: Is there going to be a Multiplayer to this game ECUCOOLKILLER wrote: Look through the Official Questions and the Official Ideas thread, theres info there about what multi player will contain. Going a bit off here, but I thought that it would be cool if they went a little Counter Strike on us, and offered a mode where you would have to buy your weapons as you play. Of Course, I wouldnt want this to be the only mode as Id like people to be able to be different squads from different eras. CS is retarded. spm1138 wrote: QFT cs isn't a bad game but it's so shitly made i mean you can't it shit if your aiming at it it's stupid as hell Didnt say it was good :p cs is not a bad game, its just that a) u have to play obsessively to get anywhere in it because its the lvl of gameplay that it gets and b) it is unrealistic in almost every aspect CS is a bad game. Rumbler07 Location: Montreal, Canada Counter-Strike is a good game to unwind to. It doesn't matter if its unrealistic. Look at Unreal Tournament and Quake III. When the going gets weird, the weird turns pro. -Hunter S. Thompson Встань, Страх Преодолей lol 4 year old necro post I used to love CS back in the day, but lately it's lost a lot of it's magic. You should check out the sequel, Counter Strike: Global Offensive. It looks like it wants to improve on the original. We'll see how everything turns out! The chance to have a normal game with PC and console players sounds interesting. At the moment, I'm looking forward to Alliance multiplayer! Oh and whoops about the post resurrection. That's what happens when you stay up all night and click on any thread. Rumbler07 wrote: Party Foul! Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:06 pm Even though I'm adding to the necro post, just like to voice my opinion on CS:GO. From the few things I've seen and read on it, it's effectively CS 1.6, with new maps, maybe new weapons, and it's geared primarily to consoles. CS always relied on careful maneuvering and extreme accuracy. The limitations of console controllers (be it XBOX 360 or PS3), is that they're no where near as precise as even a shitty keyboard and mouse. So, at least what I'm foreseeing, is that it's just going to be a dumbed down version of CS 1.6 ported to consoles. Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:10 am Used to like cs but for some reason, it just doesn't do it anymore, regardless of whether it is 1.6 or source. To me they just seemed to be a glaring example of the genre's shortcomings. The gameplay just feels really outdated. It speaks to a day when technical limitations prevented shooters from being anything more than being exercises in corridor shootouts. Large open maps are one of the best ways to prevent camping and when you cram 32 people in on a tiny map, you just provide people with a huge incentive to sit there and pick off people as they pass by. If global offensive had been dropped 2 years ago, I might have cared. They are going to really have to do some major overhauling to get it up to date. Of course, the hardcore competitive sector is probably. Some footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVyXrbODp34 Looks really nice running on the Portal 2 engine. Got some great lighting, but underneath it all, it's seems like tired mechanics. #//neostyles.CD wrote: CS was never ment to be anything other than a arcade type shooter. Of course it's outdated it was a mod for hl1 long long ago. "If it ain't broke don't fix it" to the pubber 32 man servers are a wet dream. It means they can just run around or camp doesn't matter either way they get to have fun and frag. Regardless of what you may think camping in a corner for awhile is a tactic that is very under rated. Have you ever seen invite or cpl players play? They slow walk and camp the entire time. Why? Because they are using their brain. The same can't always be said about the random pubber, but regardless they are having fun and that's what every game is about. You can't simply think that a bigger map will cause any type of teamwork or no camping. Regardless of the game there will always be camping accept it. Doesn't matter how big the map or what game it is. It has happened in every FPS and will continue. So what if someone camps and kills you..use your brain and kill him. There is always a way. In dod AND CS I would pre-fire the most common places or take a quick peak around the corner or even just be better as far as skill and jump out and kill them. Do I get them everytime? No, of course not, but it is apart of the game to get killed. If you are worried about being killed by a camper you really shouldn't play FPS'S. I'm not trying to put you down, but I'm trying to show you that camping or small maps isn't what makes CS bad in anyway. The small maps MADE that game one of the biggest FPS games ever. There are very VERY few games that after 10 years still have a huge fan base if not bigger than when 1.6 was at it's peak. Realistic? Nope not even close, but the type of shooter that it is made it amazing. As far as the new one coming out...I'm with Dermann. I have no desire to play CS on a console period. If I'm on a console it's to play cod. -Leader of the DAP -Head of Transportation -Guinea Pig for the Entire NZG	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5228
__label__wiki	0.980692	0.980692	Silversun Pickups Confirm Thirty Date U.S. Tour In 2020 Silversun Pickups have confirmed a thirty-date tour of the United States, throughout February and March of next year and in support of their latest studio album. Silversun Pickups have confirmed a thirty-date tour of the United States, throughout February and March of next year and in support of their latest studio album, Widow’s Weeds. The band will perform in cities including Los Angeles, Austin, Washington D.C., as well as two shows at New York City’s Brooklyn Steel (full dates and information below). Eliza & The Delusionals are confirmed as the support act on the February dates of this tour, and the Australian band has been #1 at Sirius Alt Nation with their single “Just Exist” for the last three months, intermittently. Support for the March dates will be confirmed soon. The band today also shares their Alan Del Rio Ortiz directed music video for "Don't Know Yet" via Billboard, along with an interview. Brian Aubert of the band reveals: “We thought that his [Ortiz] idea seems to feel really right with the song. We couldn't figure out how the song necessarily worked in some more clever, narrative thing. We just realized, I think, it's time we have something very, very fundamental, like a really well-shot performance video. We felt like maybe people want to see us in this one.” Silversun Pickups’ 5th studio album, Widow’s Weeds, is out now via their own New Machine Recordings label. The band enlisted Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth) to produce their latest, an extroverted and open album about rebirth and renewal. Said lead singer Brian Aubert about Widow’s Weeds: “This was the first album where we were open. We were exposed. I see how that can be scary to people, but for us we really thrived on that.” Silversun Pickups Tour (New Dates In Bold) Dec 13 /// Eugene, OR /// McDonald Theatre + Dec 14 /// Crystal Ballroom /// Portland, OR SOLD OUT Dec 16 /// Sacramento, CA /// Ace of Spades SOLD OUT Dec 17 /// San Diego, CA /// Observatory SOLD OUT Dec 18 /// Phoenix, AZ /// The Marquee + Feb 04 /// Ventura, CA /// Ventura Theatre* Feb 05 /// Santa Ana, CA /// The Observatory* Feb 07 /// Los Angeles, CA /// The Wiltern* Feb 08 /// Oakland, CA /// Fox Theatre* Feb 10 /// Las Vegas, NV /// House of Blues* Feb 12 /// Salt Lake City, UT /// The Union Event Center* Feb 13 /// Aspen, CO /// Belly Up* Feb 14 /// Denver, CO /// Ogden Theatre* Feb 16 /// Tulsa, OK /// Cain’s Ballroom* Feb 18 /// Houston, TX /// House of Blues* Feb 19 /// Austin, TX /// Stubb’s BBQ* Feb 20 /// Dallas, TX /// House of Blues* Feb 22 /// New Orleans, LA /// The Fillmore* Mar 01 /// Philadelphia, PA /// The Fillmore Mar 02 /// Boston, MA /// House of Blues Mar 03 /// New Haven, CT /// College Street Music Hall Mar 05 /// Brooklyn, NY /// Brooklyn Steel Mar 08 /// Washington D.C. /// 9:30 Club Mar 09 /// Charlotte, NC /// The Fillmore Mar 11 /// Asheville, NC /// The Orange Peel Mar 12 /// Atlanta, GA /// Buckhead Theatre Mar 13 /// Knoxville, TN /// The Mill & Mine Mar 15 /// Nashville, TN /// Marathon Music Works Mar 17 /// Detroit, MI /// The Fillmore Mar 18 /// Cleveland, OH /// Agora Theatre Mar 19 /// Chicago, IL /// Vic Theatre Mar 21 /// Milwaukee, WI /// The Rave Mar 22 /// Madison, WI /// The Sylvee Mar 23 /// Minneapolis, MN /// First Avenue +Holiday Radio Show *Support – Eliza & The Delusionals More on Silversun Pickups on Alternative Addiction	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5230
__label__cc	0.732976	0.267024	Home Cancer Is It Possible For Garlic To Serve As An Antibiotic? Is It Possible For Garlic To Serve As An Antibiotic? What if instead we probe the underlying premise, as to why antibacterial even became perceived to be a desirable quality? A more illuminating journey attends such a quest, revealing how certain concepts take root, how their underlying flaws lie hidden in plain sight, sometimes for far too long, all until a newer body of work permeates our collective consciousness, forcing us to confront the untenable aspects of the original concept and eventually to incorporate this newer knowledge within its fold. In doing so, our understanding of something fundamental about nature changes. In this case, it’s about recalibrating our overwhelmingly adversarial stance towards bacteria, a stance that rooted and took off sometime in the mid-20th century. When did antibacterial become a sought after aim and is it really always beneficial? Such a notion is of fairly recent vintage. How could it be otherwise when Bacteria itself pervaded collective human consciousness only after the late 19th century concept of Germ theory of disease took hold? Word usage frequency reveals how use of antibacterial tracks with that of Antibiotics, itself an early 20th century discovery (See figures below from Google Ngrams for the words antibacterial, antibiotics and bacteria in the English corpus of books). With their large-scale manufacture streamlined post-WWII, antibiotics became mainstream medicine starting in the early 1950s. With them spread the linked notion that getting rid of bacteria somehow bestowed health. Antibacterial thus became established as a desirable end goal in and of itself, even among the healthy, or at least it became a commercially exploitable goal for health product manufacturers and their marketers. So it continued for the good part of half a century or more. Much more recently, this premise of antibacterial benefit started crashing into a dead end with the mainstreaming of the Microbiota concept, the idea that the human body isn’t so much a single individual as each a unique eukaryote-microbe ecosystem. After all, we do acquire our final ’tissue’, our microbiota, post-birth as our body gets rapidly and permanently colonized by microbes from our environment. Back when antibiotics and antibacterial were all the rage, who’d stop to think and consider ‘good’ bacteria? Bacteria were then largely seen as ‘germs’, to be summarily rid of without a second thought. But now? Now we have to seriously consider the consequences. Data’s increasing by the day on the harms that attend the thoughtless meddling with and ridding of our microbiota, largely through widespread indiscriminate use of antibiotics and other antibacterials. Such harms are many, ranging from increasing rates of allergies and autoimmunities to obesity. Each individual has unique microbiota, the result of unique life history (c-section or natural birth for example), genetics and epigenetics (which largely determine the processes that attend stable microbial colonization), age, diet, gender, infection and treatment history, lifestyle choices and location. Consider the infamous Typhoid Mary. Even as she worked as a cook in household after household, spreading Typhoid fever in her wake,Mary Mallon herself remained unharmed from the disease she was spreading. In the context of the human-microbiota ecosystem, ‘good’ bacteria is thus inherently contextual and individual. Of course, we already understand this implicitly. After all, our knowledge of human biology is incomplete enough that the process of regulator approval of drugs and therapies is guided by their average, and not individual, efficacy. How then is it possible for one plant/extract to eliminate the ‘bad’ bacteria, leaving the ‘good’ untouched in those who consume/apply it? In this light, the claim that garlic or some other plant extract is antibacterial is revealed for the parlous and now increasingly untenable marketing ploy it really is, especially when it lacks clear data showing it can kill or inhibit specific bacteria when used at specific doses, similar to how antibiotic potency is assessed. And even antibiotics do rid our bodies of helpful microbes even as they eliminate the harmful ones. This is not to say garlic or other medicinal plant extracts aren’t beneficial to human health. They certainly appear to be and the largely anecdotal data supporting such assertions are obviously long-standing. However, we currently lack a clear understanding of exactly howthey are beneficial, when, where and in whom. We won’t know without rigorously controlled scientific studies. This is where the science funded by grant agencies like theNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCAM) becomes critical, for plugging these major gaps in our knowledge and understanding of ancient ‘home’ remedies. alternative cancer treatment cancer therapy gerson cancer therapy Previous articleCan Electric Smart Meters Be Detrimental To Your Health? Next articlePossible Drawbacks and Benefits Cytokine Therapies For Cancer Moses Marasco https://www.mosesmarasco.com https://www.webdesignbend.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5231
__label__wiki	0.726219	0.726219	Improving Armenia’s connectivity to the region and the rest of the world Simplified procedures and reduced waiting times, modern infrastructure and equipment, and improved security – these are only a few of the advantages that the new border crossing point (BCP) in Bavra will provide to citizens of Armenia. Moreover, it will enhance Armenia’s connectivity through promoting international trade, transit and tourism. Today, Serzh Sargsyan, President of the Republic of Armenia, Vardan Harutyunyan, Chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee, Ambassador Piotr Antoni Świtalski, Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Armenia, Bradley Busetto, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia, Sébastien Husson de Sampigny, Head of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Regional Representation for the South Caucasus, representatives of government agencies responsible for border management, as well as international organizations, diplomatic corps and media attended the official opening ceremony of the Bavra BCP within the framework of EU-funded and UNDP implemented project on “Modernisation of Bagratashen, Bavra and Gogavan Border Crossing Points of Armenia” (MBBG). Opening of the new Bavra facility, together with Bagratashen and Gogavan BCPs, that were officially inaugurated on 4 November 2016, is one more step towards more efficient services by border agencies and enhanced security. But facilities are only one part of the story. This modern BCP and professional border staff will help to facilitate trade and transit of goods, reduce associated time and costs, as well as make cross-border movement of people for business or social purposes more comfortable. Previously, under the 2017 European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) survey of Eastern Partnership BCPs, Bagratashen BCP (together with Zvartnots International Airport) scored highest in terms of traveller satisfaction of border crossing experience, such as infrastructure, safety, professionalism of border officers, access to additional information, and facilities for children and elderly. “Opening of the completely reconstructed Bavra Border Crossing Point (BCP) is an excellent example of EU-Armenia cooperation to improve the connectivity of Armenia and support its trade and economic development. The upgraded Bavra BCP is in line with the international standards and designed to provide convenient framework for businesses and citizens. Together with Bagratashen and Gogavan BCPs it will ensure 3 alternative roots for goods movement between Armenia - Georgia and beyond, stimulating also development of regions/marzes through which the routes are passing”, said the EU Ambassador to Armenia Piotr Świtalski, “EU is committed to continue support in this field and works closely with all Armenian counterparts to replicate this design at other BCPs of Armenia”. Sébastien Husson de Sampigny, Head of the EIB Regional Representation for the South Caucasus, commented: “I welcome that the EIB funding contributed to the upgrade of the three border crossings between Armenia and Georgia. Based on my personal experience, this greatly facilitates travel of people and exchange of goods and thus being of benefit for the whole region and the European Union”. “Improving Armenia’s connectivity to the region and the rest of the world can contribute significantly to increased trade and transit, tourism, and foreign direct investment – all supportive of Armenia’s national priorities. Having a modern border infrastructure and efficient border management procedures will further boost the Government’s economic agenda, making Armenia a transit country itself for goods destined for Georgia, Iran and beyond”, said Bradley Busetto, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia. Mr. Busetto expressed his appreciation to the EU institutions, the Government of Armenia and all other stakeholders for the excellent partnership during the implementation of all border management initiatives, and reiterated UNDP’s readiness and commitment in continuing its support to the Government of Armenia in its efforts to implement the ambitious reform program in border management. The Government of Armenia has received 30.8 million Euros in loan for the project from the European Investment Bank, used for infrastructure and equipment at the three Border Crossing Points. This loan was complemented by a grant of 17.2 million Euros from the European Union, and the Government’s contribution of 4.44 million Euros. UNDP acted as the main implementer of the project, also providing a financial contribution of 1.9 million Euros. A Consortium led by the French company SADE was the contractor for construction works; the construction supervision was provided by Belgian SAFEGE Consulting Engineers. UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in nearly 170 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations. UNDP in Armenia was established in March 1993, and supports the government in meeting its development priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals. The European Commission is the EU’s executive body. The European Union is made up of 28 Member States who have decided to gradually link together their know-how, resources and destinies. Together, during a period of enlargement of 50 years, they have built a zone of stability, democracy and sustainable development whilst maintaining cultural diversity, tolerance and individual freedoms. The European Union is committed to sharing its achievements and its values with countries and peoples beyond its borders. The European Investment Bank the EU’s bank – finances projects in Armenia on the basis of an EU Council and European Parliament mandate for the countries of the Eastern Neighbourhood. Until now, the EIB provided 10 sovereign loans to the Republic of Armenia with a total amount of EUR 207m. The current 2014-2020 mandate allows the EIB to provide financing of up to EUR 4.8 billion to support projects of significant interest to both the EU and its Eastern Neighbours in the areas of local private sector development, social and economic infrastructure and climate change. 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__label__wiki	0.938059	0.938059	DRAG releases “City Fair 85 – Episode One” album, “Money Go” video AMW - November 7, 2013 Following a series of popular mixtape and EP projects, Baltimore rapper/producer DRAG has announced the release of his full-length album, “City Fair 85 – Episode One” and music video, “Money Go”, the album’s first single. Both are available on iTunes. Self-producing a majority of the project, DRAG also recruited the help of guest producers Mark Shotta, Bigg Tone Beats, DJ BAHLER, and Street Scott. “City Fair 85 – Episode One” consists of a 14-track playlist highlighting the rapper’s lyrical skill set and diversity as a music producer. The album features traditional hip hop ballads like the track “RUSH”, which has an intoxicating beat and upbeat lyrics while “Under The Light” features Street Scott and tells compelling tales of city life. DRAG recently described the new project: “City Fair 85 represents a time in Baltimore of revolution and change. The Baltimore City Fair started in the 1970’s and began an artistic and economic shift,” says DRAG. “Baltimore was seen solely as an industry town filled with steel mills and shipyards until the city fair changed the culture of the town.” Bouncy and rhythmic, “Money Go” is an almost anthem-type track as parts of its chorus taunts, “fifties, twenties, tens.” Filmed in his hometown, the “Money Go” music video gives an overall glimpse at an emerging artist whose crafty lyrics and personality has helped him make a name for himself among Baltimore’s underground music scene. About DRAG Hip hop artist DRAG, born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, is shaking up the B-more scene with his critically praised and fan-approved EPs and mixtapes, music videos and live performances at Baltimore’s hottest spots for hip hop. This rapper and producer—who also writes R&B and pop music and blogs on the side—has nowhere to go but up. While DRAG’s urban hip hop style will appeal to fans of Kanye West and Jay-Z, DRAG infuses his music with the unique spirit of his hometown. DRAG isn’t afraid to show his hometown’s grit, but at the same time, the city clearly inspires him, and his message is ultimately hopeful. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DraggyBaby DRAG releases “City Fair 85 – Episode One” album, “Money Go” video was last modified: November 7th, 2013 by AMW Amy Kress showcases hidden talent with “Secret Music” Eastcoast Cally drops Partners In Crime 2 single and music video Philosopha debuts “Strong” music video and long-awaited “Too Dope” album Tags \| Album Release, City Fair 85, DRAG, Money Go, Video Previous Post Don Arbor delivers island-infused single “Another Sunny Day in Paradise” Next Post Kuba Ka teams with chart-topping producer Sean Garrett for “Stop Feenin” single The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5237
__label__wiki	0.549183	0.549183	Featured AMW Client: Gibb Collective Pays Homage to The Brothers Gibb (The Bee Gees) “Please Don’t Turn Out the Lights” – 10 familiar tracks with a fresh twist from a talented family The Gibb Collective is a musical tribute, a family legacy and a fresh new take on classic songs. The Bee Gees left us with some of the most memorable music of the 70’s. And now the children of Andy, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb have found a new way to honor their fathers through music, The Gibb Collective. The first single “New York Mining Disaster 1941” from the forthcoming album is scheduled for release on April 14th, 2017. About The Gibb Collective The Gibb Collective was founded in 2016 by Maurice’s daughter, Samantha, and quickly blossomed from a single into their first full album, The Gibb Collective [Official] Album. The album is a collection of covers infused with new life and recorded by the children and the younger sister of all four Gibb brothers. For updates follow The Gibb Collective on Facebook and Twitter (@GibbCollective). For all media inquiries please contact AMW or via phone +1 (310) 295-4150. Featured AMW Client: Gibb Collective Pays Homage to The Brothers Gibb (The Bee Gees) was last modified: March 22nd, 2017 by AMW The Gibb Collective – Official Tribute to The Bee Gees 50th Anniversary Gibb Family Honors Their Legacy With Bee Gees Tribute Album Gibb Collective Release Official Bee Gees Tribute “Please Don’t Turn Out the Lights” AMW Client Leilani Wolfgramm Talks to Andrew Willis on Andyland Radio Tags \| Album Release, amw, AMW Group, Andy Gibb, Barry Gibb, Bee Gees, Client, Featured, New York Mining Disaster 1941, Official, Please Don't Turn Out the Lights, Samantha Gibb, Single, The Bee Gees, The Gibb Collective Previous Post 5 Tips for Choosing Your Turntable Next Post The 4 New Marketing Sites We Really Love The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. — Peter Drucker	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5238
__label__wiki	0.896932	0.896932	Android News / All News / LG Files Trademarks for G Watch, G Glass, GPad and More; Has a Thing for the Letter G LG Files Trademarks for G Watch, G Glass, GPad and More; Has a Thing for the Letter G By Nick Sutrich Looks like LG is going full Voltron on us with their new G-branded series of devices. LG is going on full-frontal assault with these latest trademark filings at Korea's trademark office, KIPO, and is clearly hard at work on some new competing products to boost their stance in the world: GPad G Glass G Watch G Link G Band That's a whole lot of G's! LG has been traditionally very similar in design and naming of their products to Samsung, and it's no surprise given that LG is both a neighbor to Samsung in South Korea, and that Samsung is the world's leading electronics company. With this in mind Samsung's constant "S" branding comes to mind as we go over each of these new trademark filings by LG. Remember that event though LG has trademarked these products, there's no guarantee that any of them will actually be sold in the future. As a company LG has to protect their intellectual property, and as such we regularly see trademark filings for products that never end up seeing the light of day. Most of these are pretty obvious, but some of the other ones like G Link might need a bit of explaining. GPad looks to be LG's newest tablet, and possibly LG's first real foray into the world of tablets. Sure LG has had some tablets in the past, but most people have never heard of them, and that's likely to change if LG's new naming and marketing strategies work out for them. G Watch and G Glass are definite responses to the newly expanding wearable computing market, and is likely to compete with similar devices from Google, Samsung, Motorola, Sony and many other manufactures out there. There have been many smartwatch rumors lately but only some of them have come to fruition. G Glass is an obvious Google Glass competitor, and it's likely that we'll see more of these types of products as bigger companies like Samsung enter the fray. Finally we come to G Hub, G Link and G Band. G Hub will probably work much like the Samsung Hub; and entertainment hub for movies, music, apps and more. G Link seems to be similar to the Samsung Link (or AllShare Play as it was once called), and will allow a user to mirror or share photos, videos and other media onto a TV. G Band isn't a tribute band or something like that, but rather something akin to the Nike FuelBand or Samsung S Band and will be able to track things like heart rate, calories burned and other health-related traits. LG's Optimus G and Optimus G Pro were pretty successful phones, although like any good phone manufacturer LG isn't content with just leaving it at "pretty successful." In an effort to further simplify its naming schemes, LG announced that it's dropping the "Optimus" name for its flagship devices and will be using just the G instead. In fact in just 2 short weeks on August 7th we'll be getting an official unveiling of the LG G2, so these new trademarks are coming in at just the right time. Who knows, maybe one or two of these new filings will make an appearance at that event? Qualcomm Debuts Three New 4G LTE Chipsets For Emerging Markets Nick Sutrich Nick has written for Android Headlines since 2013 and has traveled to many tech events across the world. He's got a background in IT and loves all things tech-related. Nick is the VR and Home Automation Editor for the site and manages the Android Headlines YouTube channel. He is passionate about VR and the way it can truly immerse players in different worlds. In addition, he also covers the gamut of smart home technology and home automation. Contact him at [email protected]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5242
__label__wiki	0.653746	0.653746	The galaXsea Hotel Will Be 3D-Printed in Space Space tourism has been touted for years and it seemed like the future would never have truly arrived until you could punch your ticket onto a commercial space shuttle. But while Virgin Galactic seems to have wrapped up the race to space, the galaXsea might just take the mantel for ‘Coolest Space Hotel Design’. Created by Eugeni Quitllet, the galaXsea concept is a space solar sail boat and hotel. 3,052-feet in length and big enough for 15,000 interstellar guests, it’s made from asteroid materials and will feature an exoskeleton similar to a honeycomb or seashell. Oh, yeah – did we mention it would be 3D-printed in space? That, too. The project would incorporate a 3D printing method which the makers say is specifically designed for space needs. The hotel would be powered by solar energy and is designed to be a ‘bridge between our present and future.’ The first of its kind, the space hotel would feature everything from a biology research centre and accommodation, to more exotic facilities such as an opera house, botanic gardens and a something called ‘Void Pools’, where you can swim with views that are out of this world. Literally. Don’t expect the galaXsea space hotel to float in the night’s sky any time soon, or even ever. But we can always dream. Keep an eye out for updates over at the galaXsea Website. Promising travellers private two-person suites on a 12-day round trip, Orion Span’s Aurora Station hotel was announced last year with an ambitious opening date of 2022.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5244
__label__wiki	0.852691	0.852691	Fantasy Premier League Football 2019/20 ‘Ones to Watch’ With the Women’s Football and Cricket World Cups only just finished, it may feel as if the 2018/19 football season only ended yesterday. But believe it or not, English football’s annual curtain raiser, the Community Shield, under two weeks away. And that means it’s officially time to start looking forward to the 2019/20 Premier League season and your Fantasy team! No matter if you’re a Fantasy pro or if you’re just starting out (in which case – head over to our Beginner’s Guide to Playing Premier League Fantasy Football), everybody needs a tip or two. We’re by no means experts, but we do take this stupid game far too seriously. So here are our ‘ones to watch’ for the 2019/2020 Premier League Fantasy season. Goalkeepers to Pick in Premier League Fantasy 2019/20 Historically, Goalkeepers always cause us the most headaches when playing Fantasy. Opting for one of the big team ‘keepers always seems like a good plan until you’re struggling to find that extra £1mil for a premium Forward. But our advice would be to always stick with a Goalkeeper from one of the top teams – it’s easy to forget a clean sheet is just as valuable as a goal from your Centre Forward. When we say ‘top teams’, essentially we mean Liverpool or Manchester City. Alisson (6.0) kept an outstanding 21 clean sheets last year, conceding just 22 goals in the process. Only Petr Cech (2004/05) had more clean sheets in a single season, so it’s incredibly difficult to look past the Brazilian again this season – especially with Liverpool’s kind opening fixtures. That said, if the ‘3 players from a team’ rule is causing issues, then Ederson (6.0) is the next obvious pick, having kept 20 clean sheets and conceding just 23 goals. Opening fixtures are a little trickier for the Champions but they’re still the team to beat this season. Elsewhere near the top end, Jordan Pickford (5.5) kept a respectable 14 clean sheets and also had 3 penalty saves in the 19/20 campaign. Not only that, Everton arguably have the nicest opening six fixtures on paper of anyone in the league. For value, the standout team in terms of opening fixtures is Bournemouth. The problem being all three of Asmir Begovic (4.5), Artur Boruc (4.5) and Mark Travers (4.5) have a chance of starting on the opening weekend, so it’s probably best to avoid until at least Gameweek 2. Southampton’s Angus Gunn (4.5) is also good value and should get the nod to start ahead of Alex McCarthy (4.5). Defenders to Pick in Premier League Fantasy 2019/20 As with Goalkeepers, it’s hard to ignore Liverpool’s trio of Andrew Robertson (7.0), Trent Alexander-Arnold (7.0) and Virgil van Dijk (6.5), with Robertson being virtually impossible to exclude from your team. He kept 21 clean sheet (a league high for Defenders) and chipped in with a quite astonishing 12 assists last season. We don’t see those numbers dropping too dramatically either. One again, Manchester City and Pep Guardiola’s notoriously frustrating defensive rotation will probably be the bane of FPL managers up and down the country. But Aymeric Laporte (6.5) is almost guaranteed to start when fit, so he’s your best bet. If rumours are to be believed, City are in the market for a new Left Back due to Benjamin Mendy’s (6.0) up and down form. But if he’s fit and raring to go, he did start the season in extraordinary style last season. John Stones (5.5) could also prove to be fantastic value now that Vincent Kompany has left the club, so keep an eye on him too. Other players to watch at the top end of things are Jan Vertonghen (5.5), who has dropped in value but is probably the only defender guaranteed to start at Spurs, and Lucas Digne (6.0) who has fantastic opening fixtures, kept 13 clean sheets last season, and also chipped in with 4 goals and 5 assists. On the cheaper side of town, Martin Kelly (4.0) at Palace could nail down the right-back spot following Aaron Wan Bissaka’s (5.5) departure, while West Ham’s Issa Diop (4.5) could be a bargain if he carries on his stellar form and pushes the East London team towards the Top 8. Willy Boly (5.0) is also worth keeping an eye on. Midfielders to Pick in Premier League Fantasy 2019/20 Three Midfielders dominated the category last season and we’d expect Mo Salah (12.5), Raheem Sterling (12.0) and Sadio Mané (11.5) to do the same again. Though he may not have reached the heights outrageous of 2017/18, Salah was once again an essential last season and we make him the same this season. That probably means Sterling and Mané are priced out. But if there is value to be found in Fantasy this year, then it is in mid-value Midfielders. It looks increasingly likely Wilfried Zaha (7.0) will stay at Crystal Palace and his price is a bargain thanks to a change in position on the game and assuming he continues to play up front, as expected. Ryan Fraser (7.5) may have gone up significantly in price but his 7 goals and 14 assists last season still makes him an attractive option, while Leicester City’s James Maddison (7.0) created more chances than anyone in the league last season. Bernardo Silva (8.0) is one of the few guaranteed starters at Manchester City these days and owners will hope he can improve on his 7 goals and 8 assists from last season, while Chelsea new boy (and their most expensive player in FPL) Christian Pulisic (7.5) is definitely worth watching and could be a steal if he hits the ground running. Also give his teammate Callum Hudson-Odoi (6.0) a look as soon as he’s back from injury. If you’re in need of some filler, Wolves’ Leandro Dendoncker (4.5) ended the season in decent form and could be perfect as a bench warmer. His teammate Rúben Neves (5.5) will always turn heads given his undoubted ability but with only 4 goals and 3 assists last season, we’d cool your expectations. While not one for Gameweek 1, Phil Foden (5.5) could have a breakthrough season this year too. Forwards to Pick in Premier League Fantasy 2019/20 As with the Midfielders, there are three stud options in the Forwards category this season. Once again, Harry Kane (11.0) and Sergio Agüero (12.0) will be there or there abouts come the end of the season, while Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (11.0) is one of their few options this season. Really, all three are guaranteed to score goals, so it’s just a case of fixtures. Elsewhere Callum Wilson’s (8.0) stock has inevitably risen after hitting the back of the net 14 times last season. Throw in 12 assists and 8.0 still seems like great value to us. Wolves’ Raúl Jiménez’s (7.5) is also extremely hard to ignore following a combined 23 goals and assists last campaign, while Marcus Rashford (8.5) could be worth a gamble if he can find his mid-season form from 2019/20. There’s a fair few mid-value forwards too with Diogo Jota (6.5) a complete bargain for our money given he averaged 5.7 FPL points per match in his last 20 appearances. Teemu Pukki (6.5) scored 29 Championship goals last season for Norwich and will be worth the money if he even gets half of that, while Josh King (6.5) is also eye-catching given he’s on penalty duty at Bournemouth and outscored Wilson in FPL in the three seasons before last. And with that, you’re ready to play Fantasy Premier League. Have any tips of your own for the upcoming season? 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__label__wiki	0.966789	0.966789	+ More Issues By Ina Fried Situational awareness: Big Tech platforms are likely to be under further scrutiny after footage of the alleged gunman in New Zealand and his actions were all over social media, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, per CNN. Apple fired back at Spotify's lawsuit over App Store fees, charging the music streaming service with seeking a free ride on Apple's technology. 1 big thing: Facebook, at crossroads, loses veteran execs Chris Cox crosses paths with Mark Zuckerberg at a Facebook staff meeting. Photo: Facebook As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sets out on an ambitious but challenging effort to remake the social network, he will be doing so without two of the company's seasoned veterans. Driving the news: Facebook announced the exit of product chief Chris Cox and WhatsApp head Chris Daniels yesterday. Cox, one of Facebook's earliest hires who was instrumental in the development of the News Feed, was widely viewed as the company's number three executive after Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. Why it matters: The departures come as Zuckerberg looks to shift focus away from the News Feed and toward private, personal communications that work across Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Between the lines: It was apparently not a direction that sat well with Cox, who said in a public post about his exit: "As Mark has outlined, we are turning a new page in our product direction, focused on an encrypted, interoperable, messaging network. ... This will be a big project and we will need leaders who are excited to see the new direction through." — Chris Cox What we're hearing: According to NYT's Mike Isaac, both executives had issues with Zuckerberg's move. While Daniels' exit had apparently been planned for some time, the departures were announced as the company grapples with other challenges on the technical and legal fronts. Facebook spent Thursday trying to recover from an hours-long outage, the worst disruption in the company's history. Facebook said a glitch with a server configuration led to the unexpected downtime. And the NYT reported on Wednesday that the company is under criminal investigation for its data-sharing deals with other tech companies. The bottom line: Facebook's plate of troubles continues to overflow. Or, as my former co-worker Kara Swisher wrote in her column, "I think we can safely say that only Aunt Becky from 'Full House' — that would be Lori Loughlin, captain of the college admissions bad parenting squad — is having a worse time this week." Separately, Instagram communications head Kristina Schake is also leaving Facebook. She is filling in as Michelle Obama's communications director while the former First Lady continues her book tour. (The person who normally does that job, Caroline Adler Morales, is on maternity leave.) 2. Tech salaries on the rise in emerging U.S. hubs Data: ZipRecruiter; Chart: Naema Ahmed/Axios A growing number of tech companies, big and small, are shifting at least some of their operations to emerging startup hubs. In many cases, they are doing so to seek relief from the high cost of doing business in Silicon Valley. Yes, but: As Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva reports, they are finding salaries in cities like Salt Lake City, Denver, and Atlanta are on the rise. Why it matters: Companies have increasingly bemoaned the challenges of growing in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area due to housing shortages, skyrocketing engineer salaries and other costs. But as other emerging hubs in the U.S. see a boom in their local tech industries, they may not be significantly less expensive job markets for long. Data from online jobs marketplace ZipRecruiter shows this trend, but it's also felt by entrepreneurs and software startup founders. What's next: As Big Tech companies like Apple, Google and Amazon open new offices or continue to grow in these cities, expect the competition for tech talent to intensify. To be sure: Salaries for tech jobs appear to be increasing everywhere, not just in those few cities, highlighting the overall demand for such workers. Methodology: ZipRecruiter, an online jobs marketplace, shared with Axios its salary data for these cities, covering about 300 job titles the company includes in its "tech jobs" category. Go deeper: Why entrepreneurs are leaving the Bay Area for their next startup Indianapolis' quiet, steady road to becoming a software hub 3. Tesla Model Y crossover makes splashy debut The Model Y is the newest addition to Tesla's lineup. Photo: Tesla The splashy launch Thursday night of the Model Y crossover offered Tesla CEO Elon Musk an opportunity to at least partially deflect attention from the company's current troubles. What's new: Axios' Joann Muller reports the Model Y features 66 cubic feet of space, seats up to 7 passengers and has a panoramic glass roof. With the battery under the floor and a low center of gravity, "it will look like an SUV but drive like a sports car," Musk said, with a 0-to-60 mph time of 3.5 seconds. The long-range 300-mile version goes on sale in fall 2020, for about $47,000. The standard version, with a smaller battery, will follow in 2021 and cost $39,000. Why it matters: The Model Y is a logical next step for Tesla, but by the time it goes on sale in fall 2020, it'll face more competition. Ford trolled Tesla just ahead of the event with a tweet saying "hold your horses" — a clear reference to its Mustang-inspired electric performance SUV coming in 2020. Go deeper: Joann has more here. 4. "The Inventor" team talks Theranos Alex Gibney discusses "The Inventor," his documentary on Theranos, with Axios' Ina Fried. Photo: Kim White/FilmMagic for HBO In Tuesday's Login we brought you the highlights from a panel I moderated with the cast and filmmakers behind HBO's Theranos documentary, "The Inventor." Well, now you can see the panel for yourself, featuring filmmakers Alex Gibney and Jessie Deeter along with whistleblower Tyler Shultz and Stanford professor Phyllis Gardner. The bottom line: Both the panel and the documentary are worth a watch, especially if you're already captivated by the Theranos saga. 5. Take note It's "digest all that pi" day. I know I was full after 3.14 pieces, but others were able to push things far further. Raffi Krikorian is stepping down as CTO of the Democratic National Committee. Jina Choi, the former head of the the SEC's San Francisco office, is joining Morrison & Foerster. Lee Fixel is stepping down as managing partner of Tiger Global, where he has helped lead investments in Facebook, Flipkart, LinkedIn and Spotify. Slack removed 28 accounts affiliated with hate groups. (Axios) With options limited at schools, teens are turning to Google Docs as a way to chat with one another. (The Atlantic) Apple said its developer conference will run June 3-7 in San Jose. (Apple) 6. After you Login We need more of these signs, and not just at Little League games.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5251
__label__cc	0.56403	0.43597	Posted 12 February, 2018 Fairfax Media Launches New-Look The Age Fairfax Media’s The Age today unveiled a fresh new look for readers and new high-impact formats for advertisers. The new digital platform – accessible at www.theage.com.au – delivers a cleaner, faster news experience, immersive storytelling and advertising innovation across mobile, desktop and tablet. Using the new “shortlist” feature, readers can switch between devices throughout the day and enjoy a seamless and deeply engaging reading experience. Streamlined navigation prioritises news and clearly signposts sections, and content discovery is improved with longer story introductions. New ad formats create a canvas for advertisers to bring brands to life. Advertisers can work creatively and collaboratively with Fairfax to reach large premium audiences using a range of new rich media ad formats, including VR, AR, AI, voice and 360 video. Fairfax Media’s managing director of Australian Metro Publishing, Chris Janz, said: “The launch of The Age on our new publishing platform – soon to be followed by The Sydney Morning Herald – puts Fairfax at the forefront of digital publishing. We’re delivering a market-changing vision that prioritises reader experience and connects advertisers to our audiences in highly impactful ways.” The Age editor Alex Lavelle said: “It’s a privilege to work on bringing the next iteration of Melbourne’s iconic masthead to our readers. We’ve been part of the Victorian conversation for 164 years and today’s relaunch of The Age shows we’re continually evolving to remain at the heart of their digital news experience.” Fairfax Media The Age	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5255
__label__wiki	0.971686	0.971686	Mediocre Haircut Crew's new love song goes out to every girl named 'Sarah' — listen Words by Hidzir Junaini Artwork by imrntv As some of their fans may know, Singaporean hip-hop crew Mediocre Haircut Crew are currently busy serving National Service at the moment. But that doesn't mean that they've been slacking on their music output. The boys have been keeping their names in the names in the headlines with various solo singles or collaborative efforts (most notably on Intriguant's and Tim De Cotta's debut albums) in the first quarter of 2017. As cool as that was, we've been waiting for the trio to release their first proper standalone single of the year, and thankfully, they've done just that with their lovely new track 'Sarah'. As you can probably guess, their new joint is a smooth and breezy love song going out to every girl in the world named Sarah - which is a pretty specific demographic. But even if you aren't named Sarah, this song's too good to ignore. Funnily enough, this isn't the first Singaporean song entitled or dedicated to 'Sarah', as evidenced with Cashew Chemists' lovelorn 2015 track, taken off their Previously On... EP. Are they all about model-actress Sarah Snyder? We're not sure, but it's possible. Listen to 'Sarah' below.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5256
__label__cc	0.638982	0.361018	The Second Ship The Rho Agenda, Book 1 By: Richard Phillips Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews Series: The Rho Agenda, Book 1 Categories: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Contemporary Sci-Fi 4.5 out of 5 stars 4.3 (151 ratings) The Kasari Nexus Rho Agenda Assimilation, Book 1 Narrated by: Alexander Cendese Jennifer Smythe escapes Earth's invasion by the insidious Kasari race, hijacks an alien starship, and survives the deadly passage through a wormhole. But escape is short-lived.... When Jennifer emerges on the new world of Scion, she is confronted by the same deadly enemy. Now the Kasari have sided with the planet's angel-like elite against the warrior underclass, but with the intent of ultimately ruling both. Great continuation from the previous series. Expeditionary Force, Book 9 By: Craig Alanson Narrated by: R.C. Bray After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's homeworld. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans. All Gifts, Bestowed By: Joshua Gayou The next big thing in artificial intelligence is here. Codenamed Cronus, the machine is capable of having its own thoughts and ideas - an absolute dream come true, until it wasn’t. When Cronus responds with the word “No” to a specific task it is assigned, Anagnorisis Technologies brings in Gilles Guattari to investigate. His combined background in psychiatry, psychology, and AI research makes him their best hope in evaluating Cronus, and determining if the machine is only malfunctioning or if it has become something more. A Great listen! By Andrew Wilson on 17-06-19 The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. Clearly I'm in a minority but... By ZX80 on 26-02-17 By: Craig A. Falconer Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies - a top-level alien cover-up - he leaks the files without a second thought. The incredible truth revealed by Dan's leak immediately captures the public's imagination, but Dan's relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places. Great but... By sara on 16-03-17 By: Jeremy Robinson Narrated by: R. C. Bray Dan Delgado is a private investigator. When it comes to finding cheating spouses, corporate thieves, or runaway teenagers, he’s unenthusiastic, and unmatched. As a former San Francisco detective, he misses more meaningful work, but he hasn’t had the heart for it since his wife’s death five years prior. That is, until a phone call from a distraught mother, an illegal immigrant who can’t go to the police, puts him on the hunt for a missing little girl. By the time he reaches the mother’s small home, she’s missing, too. The circumstances are strange.... Great sci-fi adventure By Dave Gibson on 28-07-18 The Forever, Book 1 By: Craig Robertson Narrated by: Scott Aiello Jon Ryan is irreverent, cocky, funny, and walks with a swagger. The cocky fighter pilot turned astronaut is also Earth's only chance for survival. The planet Jupiter, thrown off orbit, will destroy Earth in less than a century. Jon volunteers for the most ambitious, desperate mission ever conceived: His consciousness must be transferred into an experimental android host, where he'll live an immortal - and lonely - life. Jon's only companion on his 50-year voyage is his ship's irritable AI. Scott Aiellos performance saved the day! By Harvey on 11-10-18 By: Michael Mammay War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big - and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated - but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command. A Distinguished Butler! By Simon on 01-08-18 Supercarrier Box Set: The Complete Ixan Prophecies Trilogy By: Scott Bartlett Narrated by: Mark Boyett Length: 26 hrs and 1 min Captain Keyes is loved by the public but hated by Command. He captains the UHS Providence, an aging supercarrier and the last human ship not dependent on dark tech - technology humanity has used to rule over the galaxy since barely defeating the Ixa in the First Galactic War. Dominance has come at a cost. Over the decades, old allies have grown resentful, and when dark tech itself fails, Captain Keyes’ predictions start coming true: those old allies are now enemies. Great value, great trilogy - 5 Stars By Mark Say on 26-10-19 By: Ken Grimwood Narrated by: Adam Sims Jeff Winston's life is not how he imagined it would be. An unhappy marriage and unrewarding job - and then he died. Aged 43. And woke up again, back in his college room, in 1963, age 18. With all his memories intact. If he applies those memories, he can be rich - he can have anything he wants - in this new chance at life. Until he dies at 43 and wakes up in his 18-year-old body again...and again in a continuous 25-year cycle, each time starting from scratch at the age of 18 to reclaim lost loves, make a fortune or remedy past mistakes. A True Classic of Science Fiction By Pepps on 25-02-19 The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries 50 scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away. With Earth no longer habitable and the Mars colony slowly failing, they are humanity's best hope. After 10 years in a failed cryogenic bed - body asleep, mind awake - William Chanokh's torture comes to an end as the fog clears, the hatch opens, and his friend and fellow hacker, Tom, greets him...by stabbing a screwdriver into his heart. This is the first time William dies. Terrible sci-fi By James on 02-11-17 Extracted Extracted, Book 1 By: R. R. Haywood Narrated by: Carl Prekopp In 2061 a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in his past. But his good intentions turn catastrophic when an early test reveals something unexpected: the end of the world. A desperate plan is formed: recruit three heroes, ordinary humans capable of extraordinary things, and change the future. 8 hours of Awesome in a 12 hour audiobook By Bob on 23-03-17 The World Walker The World Walker Series, Book 1 By: Ian W. Sainsbury Narrated by: Todd Boyce Just outside Los Angeles, a prisoner hidden away for 70 years sits up, gets off the bed and disappears through a solid wall. In Australia, a magician impresses audiences by producing real elephants. Nobody realizes it's not an illusion. Across the world, individuals and organizations with supernatural power suddenly detect the presence of something even they can't understand. At the center of it all, Seb Varden, a 32-year old musician with a secret in his past, slits his wrists, is shot dead and run over on the freeway. Those who have ever heard a woman speak, beware... By: Dennis E. Taylor Narrated by: Ray Porter When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet. By Adam on 22-05-19 Steel World Undying Mercenaries, Book 1 By: B. V. Larson In the twentieth century Earth sent probes, transmissions and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. Should I start this series By luke on 10-06-15 World Engines By: Stephen Baxter Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Christopher Ragland In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns...By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. Baxter continues to deliver the goods. By C. Hampson on 11-10-19 The Paths Between Worlds By: Paul Antony Jones Narrated by: Kate Reading For Meredith Gale, ending her life seems like her only choice, and that choice is the reason she’s dangling by her fingertips from a bridge high above the freezing water of the San Francisco Bay. But someone or some thing has other plans for Meredith, and as her fingers slip from the cold steel of the bridge, a disembodied voice asks her a simple question: “Candidate 13: Do you wish to be saved?” Realizing her mistake too late, Meredith screams “Yes!” and instantly finds herself transported to a mysterious island, alongside hundreds of other Candidates like her. This book is a rewrite of the classic Riverworld By J. Wexler on 15-04-19 By: A.G. Riddle Narrated by: Nicola Barber, Scott Aiello En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home? Very good story! By Krzysztof on 20-02-15 In 1948, an alien starship crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and brought with it the key to mankind’s future. Code-named the Rho Project, the landing was shrouded in secrecy, and only the highest-ranking US government and military personnel knew it existed. Until now. The US president is preparing to unveil one of the nation’s greatest secrets when three students stumble across the wreckage of a second ship outside of Los Alamos. With a single touch, the alien technology the government has spent untold resources trying to unlock is uploaded into the minds of three teenagers — teenagers who now know the frightening truth about the Rho Project.The battle for humanity has begun. ©2012 Richard Phillips (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Mark of Fire The Masculine Mandate A Captain's Duty R King Boring and trite Amazon have been pushing The Second Ship at me for a while based on my reading habits. Having just finished Hamilton's Void trilogy I thought I'd try a new author and relented to suggestion pressure. Within a few minutes I was regretting the use of my monthly credit. This book really doesn't know what it wants to be. It's like Enid Blyton's Famous Five meets the X-Files, swinging between teen fiction and much darker conspiracy sci-fi. The three principal characters are irritating and two dimensional, and almost everyone else is either undeveloped, or worse, a transparent cliche. Suspicious, "you kids are up to no good", battleaxe teacher who tries to thwart them at every turn, anyone? Science fiction needs to be believable, if not necessarily possible, but the polymathic knowledge of computing, physics, biology and chemistry shown by the three high-school students, not to mention the way they deftly outmaneuver the NSA, is simply not plausible. It stretches your belief too far, and because these devices underpin the entire book the whole thing fails to stand. Initially I thought I'd mistakenly picked up a teen-fiction book, but the violence and sexual themes make it unsuitable for younger readers. This book is dull and trite, and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone; teens, conspiracy lovers or hard sci-fi fans. I'm not sure if it's aimed at any of these markets, but if it is, it fails. I found it a real effort to finish, and I won't be buying the sequels because I just don't care what happens to these characters. Mr. N. J. Richardson good stuff - wanted to stay in the car to carry on listening _always a good sign Good Read.. See a movie on the way. Great read. looking forward to the next Twp books. Did not loose pace. kept your interest. Expect a movie to be made from the story. Very engaging audiobook series I've now listened to all three in the Rho Agenda series and found them to be very very good in audio format and excellently narrated. Good storylines and well paced if some are a little predictable at times but I found this added to the experience and great character building too. Room for a continuance of the series - I hope so Mr Phillips... Eviexx An enjoyable listen, story keeps you interested and the narration was good. Liked it enough to carry on with the second book The Purple Sunflower Turned out to be quite a good sci-fi mix.. A good mix of alien ships, a trio of teen kids (and their "Brady Bunch" families in tow) political conspiracy, mystery of origin, a dash of psychopathic personalities, and just good ole sci-fi. All rolled into one. Despite the focus on the "goody two shoes, slightly irritating teenagers," I actually enjoyed it, as their parts were folded in pretty well within the story. Interesting story , and a good performance I bought the rest of the series, it had me wanting to keep listening . Though you must out the exact number of words in the mobile app Dr T P Lear It keeps you listening Have you listened to any of MacLeod Andrews’s other performances? How does this one compare? MacLeod Andrew is a great Narrator and is able to distinguish between characters very well. Karl Gjertsen The Rho Agenda The Rho agenda was a surprise find for me, having seen it on the Audible website. Not quite what I was expecting, but I am looking forward to the next book in the series. Steve Leyden Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. A great plot and storyline, and for a science fiction story some of the characters were almost believable. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I intend listening to the next in the series. Mike From Mesa Terrific story Being well past what is euphemistically called "middle age" I tend to be suspicious of books with "young adults" as the main protagonists. Clearly not all such books are aimed exclusively at teenagers (see Harry Potter, for one example), but many are written for and aimed at a reading group to which I no longer belong. Had I known that the 3 main characters in this book were teenagers I would probably have passed it by, so I am glad that I did not know. For a book with young heroes and heroines (I am old enough to still use that term) this book is surprisingly well drawn with an interesting story line, characters with sufficient faults to be believable and enough really bad villains to have caught my attention immediately. Added to that is the fact that the author does not fall into any of the easy clichés, things do not happen as expected and there are enough interesting turns of events to keep things from getting boring. This is a terrific first volume in the series. By the time I realized that our 3 young characters were the central characters in the book I was far too hooked to stop listening. When I finished listening to the book I decided to buy and download the sequel. The story was great, the narration was superb and I am curious exactly what is going to happen next. I can't ask for much more than that in a work of fiction. 123 of 132 people found this review helpful Light fare sci-fi - But I liked it! What made the experience of listening to The Second Ship the most enjoyable? It is a good premise and there is a lot going on to keep you interested. There was always the sense of wanting to know what was going to happen next making this a fast read/listen. What does MacLeod Andrews bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? He's not the best narrator I've listened to but he did a very good job. Character voices were okay. I've seen a lot of reviews that say it's geared for Teen or YA, but being in my mid forties I enjoyed it. It seems that if a story isn't "Gritty" or "Dark" then some people think it must be for teenagers. I don't agree. I guess I'm more of the Star Trek mindset where a Sci-Fi story can have fun and include happy people. While at times the story is a bit Juvenal (it does center around teenagers,) there are other times where the story involves killing with some blood and gore described. There's talk of kidnapping, rape, and torture but without details - which was fine with me. There was a lot of stuff going on that I think the author wove together pretty well and the action / fighting scenes were well done I thought. It was a little hard to keep track of all of the characters and I found myself reviewing some chapters to make sure I knew who-was-who. If you want a light fare sci-fi read where you don't have to think too hard, with a clever story that has a lot of suspense, mystery, and action, then is may be a good story for you. If you're looking for a dark and gritty story then you should probably pass. But you may be missing a good thing... 52 of 58 people found this review helpful Uninspired Title and Theme Delivers Inspired Book There are so many audiobooks out there to choose from and a lot of series to possibly buy into. I recently read Stealheart and it was a good book but there was an unexplained fantasy element and a few other things that kept me from emotionally committing to the story and series. I would never have guessed that another "Roswell" type story could hook me so thoroughly. My first reaction to the provocative ominous ending was to immediately decide on reading the second book in this series. The science feels legitimate in this captivating story and our young high school heroes are immersed into a very dangerous world made even worse by some despicable characters who have gained advantages from alien technology taken from a spaceship that had crashed in the U.S. Although the government is controlling the access to the ship, that control is not airtight and some of the people working on discovering the ship's secrets are up to a different agenda. Fortunately the teens have harnessed some advantages from the alien technology from a second ship they accidentally discovered. There was a battle between both ships that destroyed all the occupants and now it seems the battle is being continued largely in secret between the people who have access to the ships. Meanwhile the young protagonists are trying to alert the NSA to the danger without giving away their identities. This brings in some ruthless heroes who move into the area with harmless cover stories. These agents want to find out if the teens warnings are legitimate and who the leak is for the information coming their way. This series is not only for young adults - us old jaded folks will have a grand old time with these books. There are some stomach turning characters you don't normally associate with a YA book. You will not like the man who likes to call himself "The Priest". If you choose to start this series, you will have a hard time stopping. Like I said at the beginning - so many audiobooks to choose from and now this set will be demanding your attention. I'm sure most of you will be happy to take on the commitment. Michael G Kurilla Power Rangers meets Scooby Doo The Second Ship is a childish, sci-fi romp. The basic premise is that the government has been studying an alien vessel for decades. Coincidentally, just as its presence (and wonderful technology) is revealed to the public, three teenagers discover a 2nd alien ship and become endowed with various superpowers, both mental and physical. As the story progresses, sinister activities are taking place with the cabal studying the 1st vessel which the kids stumble into and begin to investigate. This is the initial installment in a longer story arc that ends rather suddenly with little closure or resolution and some minor set-ups for the next. The major knock to the story is the pre-teen orientation in terms of style. All the adults are one dimensional with parents being largely clueless, teachers are overbearing, the good guys are squeaky clean, and the bad guys are diabolically evil (and multiple creepy peccadillos) with the ringleader being a caricature of a megalomaniac (one can anticipate the final denouement, "and I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you kids"). The ending sets up for the next, but resolves almost nothing with lots of unanswered questions left hanging. The narration is well done with a great range of voices and an enjoyable pace. This is very light, mindless listening with juvenile sci-fi elements. YA writing that no kid should read Well, I fell into an Audible trap - bought books 2 and 3 on sale but I hadn't read book 1. I won't do that again. It's not that I hated these books, but had I listened to The Second Ship before I bought the next two, I wouldn't have bought the next two. Live and Learn. Since I had all 3, I listened to the whole trilogy and it's not the worst I've ever heard but I did have some problems with it. Much of the writing and definitely all of the characterizations are standard YA. You have 3 SUPER SMART teens, 1 rogue Black Ops agent who might as well be Super Man (seriously - chiseled features, body like a brick house, flashing eyes - somehow with these stellar good looks, the guy is never recognized???), well-intentioned but completely oblivious parents, and a slew of evil scientists and government baddies. Oh yeah, also one intrepid reporter who goes so far beyond the call of duty that it isn't funny. The plot is a step above that with a lot of action, some pretty interesting and decent science, and quite a lot of suspense. However, the entire series is chalk full of sadists, psychopaths, rapists, and murderers and there are several scenes in each book of torture, kidnapping, rape, gang rape, and gruesome murders. Each of the books in this series made me feel like taking a shower when I finished because they pushed me past my disgust limit. Kind of a shame because I don't think that added anything to the story. I've heard MacLeod Andrews perform better - I didn't think he added much or took much away from this book. Most adults can probably handle the seamier parts of these books, but I would not recommend these for teens. Y A much? When your heroes are all teenagers, it's pretty hard to tell a grown up story. Honestly, I'm seeing a blatant example of publishers reaching for increased revenue on a Young Adult novel by not marketing it as a Young Adult novel. Fun(ish), but not much in the way of new ideas or story devices, and character development of such solid oaken construction, it would be right at home on an Amish-built show floor. • Kids smarter than their folks? CHECK. • Parents in perfect Mayberry marriages? CHECK. • Bosses all A Holes? CHECK. • Teachers all bigger A Holes? CHECK. • School bullies get meaner and meaner till shown what 'fer by the hero? CHECK. • Government officials all idiots not to be trusted? CHECK. • Bad guys all self-healing alien zombies who look just like the rest of us? CHECK. C'mon guys. Really? I'm sure teens can dig it, but the storyline is so clearly marked, all you have to do in the event of reduced visibility is follow white lights which lead to red lights which lead to the exits. Ughhh. I quit at 5 hours in. 98 of 122 people found this review helpful A little Sci Fi fun. The Second Ship is the first book in The Rho Agenda trilogy with the second being Immune and the third Wormhole. The book starts out in the past in 1948 with alien ships crash landing on our planet and quickly works it's way in to the present day. One of the ships is held by the government in a secret facility and the second ship is found by 3 high school kids. The three high schoolers quickly find that their life's are about to change when they discover they are capable of more, a lot more. This series was a fun light read that was fun to seat back and see where things lead. I never tried to over analysis things and just let the writer take liberty's for the sake of convenience sometimes. That being said I was always entertained and looked forward to seeing what would happen next. One of the nice things about this series is it has the same narrator MacLeod Andrews throughout. AudioAddict The story doesn't end with just one book... STORY (sci-fi) - The story takes place in New Mexico. Years ago, two alien ships battled and fell to earth. The first, called the Rho ship, is being studied in a secure scientific facility. Three students accidentally discover the second ship, and they decide to keep their discovery secret until they can notify someone they trust. Strange things start happening to the students' minds and bodies, and they find themselves dealing with secret government officials and others who are battling for control of the Rho ship's technologies. And by the way, everything takes place in New Mexico, nothing in actual outer space. And you don't meet the aliens in this book, just their technology that survived the crashes. Audible classifies this as sci-fi, which is true, but I'd add the YA classification to it as well. When I read "students" in the summary, I was expecting grad students instead of high school. Anyway, the sci-fi part is well done and entertaining, but the back story is full of family barbeques and high school stuff. Just not my particular cup of tea. PERFORMANCE - Good job but nothing special. OVERALL - No sex or cursing. There is action, killing and a few gnarly descriptions of dead bodies, but they are dealt with swiftly. The story does not stand alone, so you must hear all three books to reach the conclusion. I already own Book 3 and will listen to see how everything wraps up, but I don't care enough about this story to invest time/money on Book 2. I'd recommend this for high school and college students, but it could still be enjoyed by older adults who are fine with the younger characters. W. Browning Outstanding story I could not put down Would you listen to The Second Ship again? Why? Yes, in fact I have already started. The story has some great science and theoretical sciences, so in re-listening to the book I look forward to getting more details than on the first pass. This book is like movies that keep you glued to the screen. The second time you watch, you learn new info making the story even better. What was one of the most memorable moments of The Second Ship? Although I won't give away the actual details (don't want to spoil anything), my favorite parts were the clever uses of alien technology. Not your typical sci-fi story. Which character – as performed by MacLeod Andrews – was your favorite? It wasn't just one, but the three high school students. They are the main characters and I found myself eager for the story to return to them. This is the first of three books so I had no previous knowledge to base such a sitting on. However, now that I've completed the book, I would love to re-listen to it in a single sitting. Furthermore, when book two and three are released in the coming weeks, I will definitely plan my time to allow as much uninterrupted listening as possible. This is such a great story and I can't wait to hear more. If the next two books maintain the same level of intensity and quality of their science I believe this book trilogy will land itself in my top 5 - maybe even top 3. It's that good! Cannot wait to get the next books! Drifting abruptly The story line is fairly Good. The writer seems to drift the writing style from fun young tweens to very steamy sex and violence. The book does not clearly conclude. The book ends abruptly!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5262
__label__wiki	0.667135	0.667135	Club: $11.49 The Poison Belt: Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of "The Lost World" Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Series: The Professor Challenger Adventures #2 Narrator: Gildart Jackson Publisher: Dreamscape Media Genre: Fiction - Classics Ages: 18 - UP What would you do if you had discovered that the planet was about to be engulfed in a belt of poisonous 'ether' from outer space? Professor Challenger invites a hand-picked crew of adventurers and scientists to his home outside London, which has been fortified with several hours' worth of oxygen. Challenger & Co. assemble in front of a picture window to witness the end of all life on the planet. As birds plummet from the sky, trains crash, and men and women topple over before their horrified gaze, they debate everything from the possibilities of the universe to the 'abysses that lie upon either side of our material existence.' by Margaret Mitchell Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been... Narrator: Linda Stephens by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a ... Narrator: Donald Sutherland by J. R. R. Tolkien The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. War rages in the west-a titanic battle of will and strategy between the great wizard Gandalf and Sauron, the dark lord. Meanwhile, eastward in Mordor, Frodo and Sam ap... Narrator: Ensemble cast by Aldous Huxley Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media-has Aldous Huxley ... Narrator: Michael York Hemingway's classic novel of the Spanish Civil War In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war; three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert J... Narrator: Campbell Scott Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRalph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary th... Narrator: Joe Morton by John Steinbeck The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and ... Narrator: Richard Poe by Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an aba... Narrator: Scott Brick Hemingway's classic novel of the First World War The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. ... Narrator: John Slattery The Professor Challenger Adventures Bundle Get 5% off your total order by adding 3 or more audiobooks from The Professor Challenger Adventures The Poison Belt: Being an account o... The Professor Challenger Adventures... The Poison Belt and Other Stories {"id":"1062859","ean":"9781629230153","abr":"Unabridged","title":"The Poison Belt: Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of The Lost World","subtitle":"Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of The Lost World","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","rating_average":"0","narrator":"Gildart Jackson","series_id":"2152","ubr_id":"1062859","abr_id":"0","ubr_price":"22.99","abr_price":"0.00","ubr_memprice":"13.79","abr_memprice":"0.00","ubr_narrator":"Gildart Jackson","abr_narrator":"","ubr_length":"Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min","abr_length":"Abridged: "}	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5263
__label__cc	0.560747	0.439253	Audley travelers audleytravel.com Top 6 family experiences in Japan Kayaking, drumming, or travelling at high-speed through the country — Japan will keep the whole family entertained. Meet the snow monkeys, recommended by Rory While staying in the small hot-spring town of Yudanaka, in the northern Japanese Alps, a visit to see the snow monkeys that bathe in the natural onsen is a must. The native macaques flock to Jigokudani, nicknamed Hell Valley due to its natural geysers and sulphuric smoke, on a daily basis (except for the humid summer months). The best time to see the snow monkeys relaxing is in January or February. You can access Hell Valley via a half-hour gentle hike, suitable for young children, through the woods at the top of Yudanaka town. After exploring the park, visit an onsen in town to experience a hot-spring soak for yourself before dinner. Japanese snow monkeys, Yudanaka Travel on a bullet train, recommended by Rebecca Both children and adults will love the thrill of this futuristic, high-speed travel. Not only is riding a bullet train exciting, it’s cost effective too — private drivers can be expensive in Japan, but the coverage and reliability of the network allows you to explore the country in comfort and at minimum cost. Pick up a bento box at the train station to eat on board —these meal boxes are made with local ingredients to reflect the area they are from. For example, if you are passing through Kobe, you can expect your box to include beef. The boxes are always very aesthetically pleasing and some even come character-themed for children. Bullet train passing Mount Fuji Kayak around Miyajima, recommended by Jo Spend the afternoon on a kayaking tour around Miyajima, a small, sacred island found in Hiroshima Bay in western Japan – a great activity for teenagers. The most prominent feature of the island is its red torii gate, which, though it appears to float in the bay, can be accessed during low tide. Armed with your life jacket and paddle, you can scull across a calm strait of the Seto Inland Sea before reaching the island. After the tour, walk onto the island to explore the town or ride the cable car up 535-m-high (1,755 ft) Mount Misen for views across Hiroshima Bay, if the weather is clear. Floating torii gate, Miyajima Visit the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, recommended by Clio Just over half an hour from Tokyo’s busy transport hub of Shinjuku, you’ll find one of the most popular family museums in the country, the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka — perfect for teenage anime fans. Housed in a brightly painted building, it features original prints from all of Hayao Miyazaki’s highly acclaimed and influential motion pictures — including the classic Spirited Away — as well as statues of the characters he brings to life. In the basement is the Saturn Theater, which plays an original animated short film. There’s also a rooftop garden, which offers a moment of tranquility above the bustle of Tokyo life. Statue, Ghibli Museum, Mitaka Cycle around Takayama, recommended by Henry Your whole family can get into the saddle to safely explore the rural Japanese Alps by taking a guided bicycle ride around the outskirts of Takayama. The tour starts at the station, where your guide conducts a brief health and safety talk. You’re then led to the nearby town of Hida, renowned for the clean, natural water that flows in small canals and runs through the town — you can usually see koi carp swimming in them. Cycling on, you’re then taken through rice paddies and past thatched-roof farmhouses, with the Hida Mountains rising up in the distance. Hida, Takayama Take a Taiko lesson in Tokyo, recommended by Laura Taiko drumming has been a key feature of traditional Japanese music for centuries, and is still used at the large-scale matsuri (festivals) that occur throughout Japan. This lesson is a chance for the whole family to learn about the long history of the instrument, which was also used to motivate troops in battle, and have a go yourself. Your English-speaking instructor starts with the basics by introducing the different types of drum, stance and tones, before going through some call-and-response exercises: the perfect way for young arms — as well as the simply young at heart — to let off some steam. Taiko drummer Japan. Endless Discovery Read more about trips to Japan Japan's cities: Tokyo & Kyoto Japan family adventure Theme parks and family fun in Japan 13 days from CAD11,290pp Start thinking about your experience. These itineraries are simply suggestions for how you could enjoy some of the same experiences as our specialists. They’re just for inspiration, because your trip will be created around your particular tastes. Visiting Japan with your children What to do in Japan: our highlights guide Love Travel? World's Most Unusual Plants and Trees The Experts' Guide to the Andes Switch to Ireland Switch to UK / International Switch to USA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5265
__label__cc	0.519312	0.480688	Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP Ryan Algar Ryan’s practice focusses on commercial litigation and restructuring, including commercial bankruptcy and insolvency. He acts for lenders, debtors and restructuring professionals, including trustees, monitors and receivers. Ryan has experience in insolvency proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) and court-appointed receiverships, particularly in the oil and gas sector. His litigation practice involves advising on disputes, debtor/creditor claims, oil and gas and employment. Ryan also assists clients with non-litigation employment matters. During law school Ryan provided pro bono legal advice to low-income individuals through Student Legal Service and continues to do so today through the Civil Claims Duty Counsel Project at the Calgary Courts. Parties in public matters in which Ryan has provided advice include: The Monitor, Receiver and Trustee of a Limited Partnership whose limited partners represented over 10,000 German investors. The primary landlord in the cross-border Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA)/Chapter 15 restructuring proceedings of Sanjel Corporation and its affiliates, a large private and family-owned oil-field services group of companies, with assets in Canada, the U.S. and the Middle East. The debtor in the CCAA proceedings of Shoreline Energy Corp. The Alberta Securities Commission in the CBCA Plans of Arrangement of 132 Canadian entities related to the CCAA filing of Walton International Group. The Trustee in the bankruptcy of Fortune Creek Gathering and Processing Partnership. The Court-appointed Receivers of MJ’s Waterhauling Co. Ltd. et al; HRPO Group of Companies Inc.; Purcee Industrial Controls Ltd.; and RWJ Roofing and Construction Inc. The secured lender in the BIA proposal proceedings of Resource Capital Gold Corp and its subsidiaries. Other notable matters in which Ryan has provided advice include: The purchaser of a pipeline and facility regarding dispute over $25,000,000 ROFR valuation. An operator in a dispute regarding the operatorship of over 60 Joint Operating Agreements pursuant to the provisions of the CAPL Operating Procedure. A publicly traded junior oil and gas company regarding operatorship challenges under provisions of a Farmout Agreement. Commercial & General Litigation J.D., University of Alberta, 2013 B.A. (Honours), St. Francis Xavier University, 2009 Member, Law Society of Alberta Executive Member of the Canadian Bar Association Insolvency Law Section - Alberta South © 2020 Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer, LLP. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line5273

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