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__label__cc	0.659924	0.340076	Tag Archives: Brexit Unprecedented & Unpresidented: Welcome To The New U.S. “Brexident” by global know-mad / November 15, 2016 “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch”.” Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut (1930-2016) There’s only one thing worse than a cataclysmic occurrence; not seeing it coming. There’s only one thing worse than not seeing it coming; knowing it one day could, yet ignoring it. Hi Planet Person, here’s the blog ‘n white … 9/11 … 11/9. Tumble those numbers and it still isn’t fine. One added up to the dawn of Catastrophe in real time media. The other an outgrowth of its globally angst-ridden undertow. The former was the foreboding of Global Division. The latter a harbinger of New Global Vision. The comet has cometh, and it leaves its inextinguishable taillight of the Unprecedented and the Unpresidented alike. Welcome to the next U.S. “Brexident”. Welcome to the new abnormal. Right now Mother Country is about to remarry for the 45th time and walk down that aisle on January 20th with our next new Daddy. For many family members it feels like there was no say in the matter, even though he’s been romancing her these last years and we’ve met him periodically. He farts through his nose. He insults All That Is. His hair looks like a whipped weather system. And apparently he’s now going to parent us. Weird – because our kid brother kinda likes him. Seems giddy in his presence. Like discovering a new bouncey-shiney play toy (but remember; our kid brother still poos in his jammies and believes in the tooth fairy, largely because we’ve ignored him into ignorance). Good luck with Mom; she can only see hope eternal in his fiery, contradictory eyes (even though a tiny part of her wishes he weren’t so … fiery, contradictory). He seduces her weaknesses. He charms her disillusionment. Many of her past suitors left her with their trail of unfulfilled presidential promises. They ignored her needs (not that she always expressed them beyond that of the initial courtship – after all, she assumed they’d protect her because tradition and the Declaration of Independence dictates so). But now she’s exhausted and ready to break from the “mold”. Mold has been his mojo, and she believes this time will be different because this mould-breaker is. Not all of her ex’s were bad, mind you. Some were even great. But alas, they all come with a limited 8 year warranty. Even this bombastic one. Oh mama … if only you could get a quickie Mexican divorce – but then there’s that wall to climb. So out with the old and in with the – WHO??? Good riddens, Good Judgement. She’s just brought home You! The ring’s on her finger, With yours on the Codes, I hope someone’s watching, Before it explodes. This is what Helplessness resembles. This is how impacted and betrayed the kid in many of us feels … or has been feeling based on past presidents with different leanings who seemed to all but dismiss that other voice of Us. Either way, you can’t please all of the people all of the time. But you can try harder. This time the chasm grew too wide. Odd as it seems, many people worldwide now wince at this noblest of “democratic decisions”. Our new Daddy du Jour has pronounced his declarations of love to not just our Mother Country but to our other Mother (Earth) … with his vows that she should love and obey him till legislation doth he pass. It feels like we’re powerless because we’re the kid and they’re the adults and adults always hold sway. Powerful Father Figure. Dutiful Mother Figure. Obedient Child Figure. ArcheTypical Trouble. This is the model of dysfunctional family embedded for much of the world. But there’s a grand flaw in the scenario and lucky us if we catch it. The desperate Mother who just got married … is in fact us. The domineering Father Figure whose dark side we shudder … is also us. The Parent Figure and The Child are one and the same. Family makes such strange bedfellows … The parable gets richer still. “Love Our Self And Our Brothers As One”. We’ve praised this concept for so long it’s now like a marketing tool we use to flavour other sellable sound bites. But as conceptuality edges toward actuality, we’re brought to our very knees for a rarified and collective taste of what that truly means. Here comes a new fairy tale; of rocks and a hard place. Of halves and have nots. Of alien nation, and breakdown in communication (both vertically and laterally, because it’s easy to criticise governments at the top for being out of touch with the people yet We the People are out of touch with each other – and Self). Responsibility is embedded in Democracy. But we take it for granted. Freedom of Press, Freedom of Choice, Freedom of Expression and Freedom to Vote are those priceless, sought after and fought after privileges that should be our inalienable right the world over. But fighting for Democracy is only half the battle. Its intelligent use is the other. Democracy relies on the wisdom of its user. And it has no User Manual (though perhaps it now should). What happens when Democracy is in the hands of Insanity? When these cherished rights are available to All but All are temporarily asleep at the wheel? When we’re of age to drive a car we still need to pass a driver’s test to get our license for this powerful vehicle. But that doesn’t guarantee safe passage. When we’re of age to vote, however, we don’t require anything other than a finger and a lever. Talk about gun control? This lever is just as potentially hazardous and explosive. It simply takes longer to exact its damage. So many questions to pose – from the philosophical to the practical to the deeply personal. But pose we MUST, as in US, if we’re going to get to the bottom of the Fear that drives the troubled human spirit to the wall. 1. why are we hypocritically endorsing Democracy in its current naive form? Naive Democracy relies on that cherished freedom to choose and presumes that those choosing it know how to use it … that they’re of sound mind. Mature Democracy recognises the disturbing possibility that perhaps they don’t, that they’re misguided / misinformed / both. What, then, does Democracy look like when unleashed in an insane asylum? Or a society that’s unaware? 2. what if Democracy works only as well as those sane enough to comprehend how demanding Freedom is (because it’s full of constant choices and decisions). How then to measure the sanity of an entire society as opposed to a single individual? 3. what if Democracy comes at a very high price not only because of the constant vigilance to keep it from controlling hands, but because it assumes the user (the majority) will choose it wisely – what is the standard bearer for “wise” when each side thinks they’re the wiser? 4. what if, in the name of Democracy, a level-headed minority sees the ship about to hit the iceberg? Do they owe it to themselves and unaware others to avert collision by veering Democracy temporarily off course … or do they abide by and honour its principles at all cost while observing the oncoming danger, and hope for the best? 5. what if we were indeed upended by false social news media sources that influenced the vote of an understandably gullible public? This politically incorrect President-elect has flip-flopped his rhetoric numerous times. He’ll be coached and strategically spruced up like a Christmas Tree proudly blinking his lights for the extended season. And perhaps he’ll flip still further, miraculously to our favour and proving so many Doubting Thomas’ wrong. Could we even accept that – or does some unspoken darkness within us actually relish having a scapegoat upon which to vent our emotional lather? What better outlet to let off steam than a steamroller seemingly absent of insight and abundant with incite. A political tsunami has emotionally washed ashore with its closet-vote as true revolt (which revolts us all the more because we estranged ourselves from this glaring oversight while he was cleverly exploiting it). Yet something’s afoot. As the wave slowly recedes and reveals its devastating aftermath, it also reveals an unexpected glimmer of opportunity. There’s a diamond amidst the debris. It glistens with hints of hope on a dim horizon. A New Paradigm wants to emerge. Now that we’ve broken the spell and witnessed that the Improbable is in fact Possible, will we use this to conscientiously empower … or wield more power? From the ancient ashes of 9/11 was there birthed a Refugee Crisis … which jettisoned a Brexit … which reinforced the raging riptide that now winds up ripping us apart and tipping the scales of Western Democracy with a radically different political voice. But this is not the Stockholm Syndrome. We have not been taken hostage and forced to love our captor. We’re in foreign terrain right now. The compass is facing Inward – with an all-encompassing new direction we’re being urged to explore in the demanding name of Awareness. We have incredulously voted for our Shadow Side. This unprecedented event is no more an accident than Females Roaming Earth. Conscious Birth takes courage. So does change. But change has negative connotation – and yet it’s our essential Life Force; from cells in our bodies which constantly regenerate … to Earth’s magma which constantly shifts … to the air in our atmosphere which constantly circulates (many of these experiences occurring unbeknownst to our conscious self). Change is not the bad guy, but how we perceive it is how we’ll receive it. And though we’re not receiving it well right now, this moment is a game-changer. From hereon we must move beyond blame to brain – as in using ours to wriggle out of this riddle with a determined heart-centered intelligence. The PET Bulls may come and go (Putin, Erdogan, Trump) but the notion of WE is eternal. The burgeoning New Paradigm is ironically based upon the very rebuilding principles espoused by this President-elect. But its implications far transcend Mexican Walls or Berlin Walls or Great China Walls or any walls erected in the name of anything legislated on “the people’s behalf by the powers that be”. We need to rebuild internally. And the looming question is “how?”. On the shorelines of hurricanes and the fault lines of earthquakes and the embers of volcanoes and the footpath of tornados do we repeatedly rebuild the same structures upon the same vulnerable soil. It’s what we know, it’s where we live, it’s what we love. But now something “else” stirs … like a warm sleep where your partner / kid / pet – or even your bodily reflex – suddenly shifts positions drawing alllll the snuggly blanket away from you and onto another. You awaken. You’re exposed. And maybe even annoyed. You want to resume your comfy position but it’s changed – through no fault of theirs because they were sleeping through it. We’ve been sharing that same global blanket since time immemorial. But we forget this until our bedfellow stirs sufficiently to shake us awake. So too with the vote, which wasn’t political so much as glaringly, distortedly personal. Everyone wants a better life. Even those with better lives. We’re all worried there won’t be enough to go around. So if nothing else we share this vulnerability in common. But we see its acquisition through different eyes. Such was the morning of November 9th when “votus extremus” reared its nasty head because of unaddressed self-reflection that became a reflection of our Unaddressed Self. So let’s go diving into the Great Barrier Relief and offset our worries about Climate Change with an even more pressing concern (because whether you’re a champion of Global Warming or not, it’s just gone to boiling precipitated by Le Vote). There’s a far more imperative newcomer now on the ballot than Climate Change … one which poses an immediate threat like no other and speaks to the underlying root of even that mega issue: Changing The Emotional Climate. This Is The Issue Of Our Times. You may not believe in Climate Change but there’s no denying the existence of its probable birth parent, whose immediate-visceral effects affect us all. The Emotional Climate Change being played out on the global arena is one of the most vivid recent expressions of “We Are Connected”. A slim majority’s reaction has sparked reactivity amongst us all. And in this collision of division is remarkably reflected our unity. But it’s “dark unity”. Unity through catastrophe has been the measure of our knee jerk reflex for too long. Punch. Counter punch. That’s the habitual worldwide rhythm. Bonding in “dark unity” is strengthened by individually housing an unconscious breeding ground of fermented, uncomfortable thoughts. Delving into this realm is like a diver searching the murky depths for buried treasure. There lies the chest, peering from a cavity that teeters on the abyss of a great continental shelf – beyond which lies an unfathomable unknown. And the chest is weighted down by barnacles. So the diver treads carefully, maybe dislodging only one little nugget to resurface into the light of day. If each of us decides to dive just a little, thus is unburdened the outmoded legacy of “dark unity” we’ve learned to suffer with. The political animal’s growing appetite now causes us to freeze in confusion at the blazing, multicultural-coloured headlights that threaten to make us all eventual refugees escaping each other’s bias. Yet within this lies a golden moment no matter who’s brought it to light; alchemically transforming emotional insanity into renewable energy. So get angry if you like (in non-violent protest) – but also get educated by learning more about Democracy and its healthy breeding ground by impartially engaging with others to understand their viewpoint and what makes them tick – and by honestly examining the dreaded “enemy within” (our conflicted nature, which ultimately just wants to feel worthy, though sometimes at the great expense of others). We can humbly bow to our political beast with inquiry, thereby diffusing its power by learning to understand it, and in so doing others’. The blemish of our times is Anesthetized Being. Consciously birthing a New Paradigm is tricky. Plato was the Modern World’s Spiritual forefather. Aristotle was the Scientific. Mixing Spirits with Science is a powerful elixir that Governments would do well to imbibe on the barstools and banquettes of their cushy world enclaves. If only Governance would draw upon this kind of power-source to light our world. So, ladies and gentlemen of The Divided States of America … while it appears that we’re reeling backward in time as Neanderthal edges out his Cro-Magnon rival in the race for The White House, take heart. The Democratic system hasn’t failed us. We’ve temporarily failed it – by forgetting that Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon are part of the same Homo-sapien … and we now get to bridge that neglected gap with The Missing Link; Us. Some Neanderthals drive a rolls and defy the polls. But not every Cro-Magnon with a fancy degree is necessarily without greed. The moment we become a Human Brand is the moment we stop branding each other as opponents on opposite sides. No matter how logical or reasonable our “right” side seems to be, the other side also claims likewise. What better side to advocate than the Inside. Perhaps the greatest yet most unlikely of legacies from this Cro (for some) and Nean (for others) is not his ideology so much as his symbology; of having jumpstarted the end of “dark unity” by bringing it to light. Dark Unity is indeed a kind of unity but with endless internal and external torment. Next time let’s exercise our body AND our mind so that when we exercise our right to vote it includes the political body as a whole, not a hole. Cro-Nean anyone? In the West, Autumn leaves are falling like confetti (for some) or lost ballots (for others) as the spectre of Emotional Climate Change sheds its vote upon the political landscape. Fear not. Nature is no more dead than Democracy is. Nature seasonally recalibrates. And we are Human Nature. So too shall we. Wishing us all presence of mind … and presidents of mind. Here is a simple and savvy tool toward that end goal: www.SIMPOL.org Sync Big! Planet Person global know-mad Filed Under: The Odd-yssey Tags: Brexit, climate change, democracy, elections, freedom, President, U.S., Vote	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line418
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With some heightened attention of late regarding Wonder Woman, I’ve recently had some letters and Forum posts seeking my counsel on where to begin reading her adventures, how to get acquainted with the various eras of her history (“her-story”?), how she has been portrayed through the years, and also a question regarding one of the more controversial and debated topics from her early years. (Might I remind you Robert, that you also received a few calling for your resignation; don’t forget those, darling! @udrey) (Well, that is true Audrey, but I’m not here to talk about letters from my family, friends, and co-hosts, so let’s move on, shall we?) The flood started with a lovely letter from Michelle, who expressed interest in helping a friend get started reading the comic book tales of Wonder Woman (and whose only exposure to the Amazon Princess had been the Lynda Carter TV show); with Michelle’s own readings on the character limited she didn’t want to steer her friend wrong. This “reading list” request was followed almost immediately by this note from David, that covered similar ground…but added a kicker: I’m a recent comic book reading convert and I’ve been a listener to the Talking Comics podcast for over a year now. One of the things that has fascinated me is your strong opinion of Wonder Woman and how she’s been portrayed. I heard the episode with Gail Simone and Greg Rucka and your view sounded very informed, but I never got a feel for how it was created. What stories and/or authors built the essence of what Wonder Woman represents to you and what is that essence? I ask because I’m really interested in reading the title but I don’t know what to seek out and what to avoid, also I was chatting with an employee at my comic store and she had said that she enjoyed the Azzarello WW and that the earlier stories weren’t all that people say it is due to the creator’s use of bondage imagery and themes. As the answers to both these missives might be of interest to some of you out there as well, and as they ran together… (…and to some length, dear; have you considered hiring an editor? @udrey) …what follows is an only-slightly-altered version of my responses to these listeners; I’ll be back after about fifteen hundred well-chosen words! (Phil Jimenez’s wrap-around cover for the new Sensation Comics #1) As you’ve all heard, I’m quite passionate about Wonder Woman, and rightly so, as she is, without question in my mind, the most important super-heroine ever created. So, when I feel that Diana is being “miss-treated” by her corporate handlers, or ill-served by creative teams, I take umbrage. When Wonder Woman is presented to best advantage, she represents something far beyond the usual super-heroics as an aspirational figure, striving to see good in all people, and herself emblematic of the strength that compassion can generate. The Amazon Princess came to “Man’s World” on a mission to help keep the world safe from fascism, but despite her physical prowess, she was also an ambassador for peace, with violence her last resort, a philosophy codified by Gail Simone with this quote from Diana in her story from issue #25 “A Star in the Heavens: Personal Effects” : “We have a saying, my people. ‘Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it'” As many long-time fans of Wonder Woman do, I have some problems with the current depiction of the character as the “God of War” by Brian Azzarello (not Cliff Chiang though, the art is quite nice!), when her message was historically one of peace. A greater affront may be the changing of her origin from a mother’s longing to have a child, a heart-wrenching desire that results in a goddess-driven miracle birth, where now Diana is the product of a one-night-stand which wholly removes the emotional depth from what might be comics’ most poignant origin sequence. Beyond that, Mr. Azzarello’s characterization of the Amazons as harpies willing to hijack and murder sailors in order to have children might be more accurate to the Greek Myths in some ways, but is certainly not what her creator had in mind! Wonder Woman was created in 1941 by a psychologist, Dr. William Moulton Marston, who decried comics’ “blood-curdling masculinity” in a magazine article which led to a conversation with All-American Comics publisher Max Gaines about creating a super-powered female character. Dr. Marston believed that women had un-tapped potential for leadership, in that they were as strong and capable as men, but that their strength was tempered with compassion, and in a New York Times article, predicted a coming matriarchy! With artist Harry G. Peter on board, he set out to create a character that would be someone for young girls to emulate, and for young boys to see as an example of the true power of the modern woman. (Original Wonder Woman Concept art by Harry G. Peter) Wonder Woman was certainly capable in the super-heroic sense, but in her triumphs over villainy, she more-often-than-not brought the captured evil-doers to Paradise Island to be rehabilitated, displaying a compassionate wisdom far beyond the norm in comics at the time. The Amazons themselves were not the blood-thirsty warriors of Greek myth (nor Mr. Azzarello’s stories!), but a race of women who retreated to a place safe from the distrust, hatred, and violence in “Man’s World”, and in doing so, created a technologically-advanced haven where their culture flourished. Even so, when apprised of a threat to the freedom of people everywhere, Queen Hippolyta sent her only daughter out into the larger world to help spread their philosophies; an act of true altruism, and one that set the tone for Dr. Marston’s Amazons throughout his years at the helm. To address David’s friend’s concerns about some of the imagery in these early stories, she is correct in saying that there are many panels depicting Wonder Woman in various states of…”distress”, shall we say, but as in virtually every instance she escapes or triumphs solely through her own intelligence, courage, or gifts, I think it clear that Dr. Marston was using those images to instruct readers in his ideas of women not needing to be “rescued”, but that given fair opportunity were quite able to forge their own way through adversity. This is especially cogent considering that many of the themes in these images were influenced by artwork from the Women’s Suffrage Era, a period where Mr. Peter worked at Judge Magazine alongside pioneering cartoonist Annie Lucasta “Lou” Rogers. Art by Lou Rogers Art by Harry G. Peter In the comics and his other writings, Dr. Marston makes mention of the idea of “loving submission”; that is, the act of giving one’s self willingly to a greater good, a compromise well taken, I tend to think. It is also likely that Dr. Marston had an accepting view of dominant/submissive role-playing, and so that found its way into the manner that the stories were constructed, but never in any fashion that I would consider offensive nor salacious. There are many instances of that imagery in early Wonder Woman books…just as there were in Captain Marvel, Batman, Superman, Captain America, Hawkman, etc., but where in those titles the female characters were “damsels in distress” awaiting rescue, the Amazon Princess did that for herself, solidifying Dr. Marston’s intended messages. As Tim Hanley, author of the recently-released book “Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine”, said “Wonder Woman was both feminist and fetishist”. Mr. Hanley’s book is fascinating (and recommended), but whilst there is quite a bit of new information there, as well as some interesting mathematical studies of the early stories and art, the post-Crisis Modern Era is torn through in less words than is contained in one of our Talking Comics essays on the subject, and I’ve yet to come across an in-text reference to the controversial New 52 re-boot, so it falls a little short of being a complete history, but is a great read nonetheless. There is much about Robert Kanigher and his “domestication” of Wonder Woman in the post-Marston Fifties and Sixties, and a bit about Denny O’Neil’s de-powered “Emma Peel” era, but the author does spend the first section on the early years, particularly Dr. Marston and his philosophies, with a focus on (hence the title?) his apparent fascination for B&D imagery as a means to show submission. Mr. Hanley, in a later section, takes the feminists of the Seventies to task for ignoring the seemingly conflicting nature of Dr. Marston’s messages caused by their inclusion in those stories, asserting that they “glossed over the more problematic bits of the character and focused on the areas that reflected their own modern feminist beliefs. Their version of Wonder Woman restored parts of the original, but ultimately they re-created Wonder Woman in their own image for a new generation.” I don’t wholly disagree, but as Mr. Hanley goes on, there is a certain clucking “Tsk, tsk, ladies” quality to his discussion of that era that troubles me, and despite goodly amounts of verbiage on radical and liberal feminism, and references to the important Second Wave Feminist books “The Second Sex” by Simone Beauvoir and “The First Sex” by Elizabeth Gould Davis, I’m not certain that on this issue he stands completely with these women who dared so much in a very different world than our own. He makes a case that in compiling the stories for the “Ms. Collection” hardcover in 1972 that they picked ones that reflected their own feminist values, and not in the same balance as Dr. Marston’s original intent. Maybe it’s me, but as I read this section I can’t help but feel that Mr. Hanley, in trying to “catch the ladies out”, has actually missed a different point about how readers might perceive what seems the glaring contradiction in the Golden Age stories of Marston & Peter. I certainly don’t pretend to speak for everyone, but as long as we’re not discussing true sadism or brutality, if two consenting adults wish to practice role-play in their relationship, that’s up to them. If Dr. Marston was a “bondage connoisseur” (as Mr. Hanley states it), and therefore utilized specific terms or had Mr. Peter illustrate panels in a particular way (almost always to show Wonder Woman triumphing over adversity!), was this much different than the war comics of the period being accurate about military hardware, a fashionista artist being specific about the cut of a dress, or more recently, Steve Ditko espousing Ayn Rand, often verbatim? Couldn’t it be more likely that the women and men who embraced Wonder Woman as a feminist icon in the Seventies simply had a more accepting view of the good Doctor’s peccadillos and instead focused on the broader message, as opposed to what Mr. Hanley seems to feel was a conscious decision to white-wash them? One could argue that as literature for children, these images could create confusion, sexual tension, or perhaps the chance moment from which a fetish begins, but I would counter that their usage went over the heads of young readers (as has been pointed out by our frequent guest, comics “her-storian” Trina Robbins, who read them in their original release!), as would their inclusion in the movie serials and adventure films of the time that were also aimed at them, but that the larger themes did impact positively on those to whom those messages were intended. Did the message get mis-read by some? Absolutely, but do we then homogenize everything that might be layered in order to make it safe for every audience, at every second, particularly considering the overwhelmingly positive response this character has generated among women, men, and children over three-quarters of a century? As to recommending Wonder Woman stories–a much simpler task than the previous discussion–a great way to sample the early years is through the TPB “Wonder Woman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told”, which begins with her origins and some stories from the 40s, and then touches on a few other runs right up through Phil Jimenez’s work: Of more recent vintage, my list would include the one-shots Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth by Paul Dini and Alex Ross, The Hiketeia by Greg Rucka and J.G. Jones, and the charming Wonder Woman Adventures Special. As to reading longer swaths in the modern era, both Greg Rucka in 2003 through 2006 (#195–#226) and Gail Simone in 2008 through 2010 (#14–#44) did fine work throughout their runs and are excellent reads, but the gold standard is the George Perez Post-Crisis re-boot, and the two trades “Gods and Mortals” and “Challenge of the Gods” will give you a great reading experience! Not far behind is Phil Jimenez’s work, and highly recommended would be the issues collected in “Paradise Lost” (#164–#170) and “Paradise Found” (#171–#177). I would also recommend the “Wonder Woman” animated film, which was very well done, excepting a bad line-or-two of dialogue! ADDENDA: Here’s an interesting conundrum; despite many critics opining that Wonder Woman is “difficult to get right”, there have been far more good or great runs over the last 25 years than bad ones! (This article was originally published on July 28, 2014) gail simonegeorge perezgreg ruckaHarry G. Peterphil jimenezTim Hanleytrina robbinsWilliam Moulton Marstonwonder woman Comics and Human rights Week: Wonder Woman and The Trickiness of Superheroines Paklis #1 Review Associate Editor and Podcast Co-Host Bob was rocketed to Earth as an infant after his parents were scared by a huge bat! Landing on an island of Amazons, he was injected with the super-soldier serum and sent into space where he was bombarded with cosmic rays! This might explain his love for comics, but probably not. 'Nuff said? What To Do With Ben Affleck’s Batman? C. J. Thomson Fairest #6 Review Alexander Añé DC’s Rebirth: The Good, The Bad, and the WTF? Justin Carter Secret Six #1 Review Pretty Deadly: The Rat #5 Thor #1 Review Killadelphia #2 Doomsday Clock #12 Review Suicide Squad #1 Review King Thor #4 Review THE 8TH ANNUAL TALKING COMICS AWARDS VOTING POLLS Issue #422: BEST OF 2019 – Nominations Round 3!!!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line421
__label__cc	0.61303	0.38697	Malicious Websites were used to Hack into iPhones for Years, says Google When it comes to security, Apple always makes enormous claims about privacy and user security. Apple shows a deep interest in protecting its users from data breaching and viruses, but over a past few years, a lot of loopholes and bugs that were discovered in Apple’s operating system and stock applications stunned everybody. The FaceTime bug that could listen to conversations of the other person even before picking up the call and the most recent bug that Apple has apologized for is Siri listening to private conversations of people. A group of security researchers who works at Google’s Project Zero have details about the most significant attack against iPhone users. The security researchers at Project Zero listed down a series of websites that have been hacked and are continuously attacking iPhones for years without any prior knowledge of the users. According to Ian Beer, a member of Project Zero, the hacked websites, if visited by an iPhone user, would install the malware on their device. The attackers have targeted a lot of sites. There was no target discrimination; simply visiting the hacked site was enough for the exploit server to attack your device, and if it was successful, install a monitoring implant. We estimate that these sites receive thousands of visitors per week,” Beer wrote in a blog post. Ian beer wrote in a blog post that is simply visiting the website was more than enough for the attackers to gain access over the users’ iPhones, successful control over the device would allow them to install malware. The main issue of concern is that these sites have thousands of visitors per week, and this is a severe issue. This also allows the hackers to retrieve users personal data, which consists of their passwords, personal contacts, and messages that were sent via iMessage, Whatsapp, Gmail. Apple users who are on version iOS 10, 11, and 12 can be exposed to this vulnerability if they visit an infected website. However, there is no exact information about the users who have been exploited. Ian also said that it is not a work of an average or rookie hackers. The exploiters must be a group of professionals who can also target a specific interest group or a demographic. Profile & Clan Names 2019 How To Enable Slow Motion Video in Any Android Device	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line422
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__label__cc	0.555647	0.444353	WALL ST. HELP / TESTING RE: He was consistently good from 1970 - 1995 Posted on: August 5, 2019 at 10:45:01 CT Ace SEC 6.8 months M.O.B. Votes: but he was the last Missouri coach who was consistently good? Please explain why this message is being reported. MESSAGE THREAD While losing Fletcher to UK is disheartening - Ace MU - 8/5 08:11:40 I don't think Fletcher is going to decommit from UK - jlbomega MU - 8/5 10:14:56 Booker would have been a pro regardless - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 10:20:03 Tyler Herro? - Nookam UK - 8/5 10:56:09 Pat Riley wanted Herro. He also threw shade at the Duke - Nookam UK - 8/5 13:00:42 high 4-star, nearly 5-star (nm) - zounami MU - 8/5 12:20:20 Rated well below Grimes from kU - Nookam UK - 8/5 12:52:46 Your problem is that you're comparing Kentucky players - tgr MU - 8/5 13:49:58 I think any coach would look good at developing talent - kmawv8 MU - 8/5 13:19:53 him being a lottery pick was very surprising. (nm) - TigerA MU - 8/5 12:22:44 Shai Gilgious-Alexander - Nookam UK - 8/5 12:44:21 kentucky has a good program(nm) - TigerA MU - 8/5 12:46:54 The guy was ranked #36 according to Rivals. - tgr MU - 8/5 11:51:55 RE: The guy was ranked #36 according to Rivals. - Nookam UK - 8/5 12:36:58 The point is he slightly outplayed his rankings. - tgr MU - 8/5 13:47:39 ranked 36th in one class but picked 13th overall over - TigerA MU - 8/5 14:58:28 But it happens almost every year. Hell, it happened with - tgr MU - 8/5 15:14:18 yes it happens almost everyone year. that is pretty - TigerA MU - 8/5 15:51:35 I agree, but my point is UK is a feeder to the NBA lottery - jlbomega MU - 8/5 10:26:41 RE: Booker would have been a pro regardless - MUKdC MU - 8/5 10:23:09 Booker the question was athleticism - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 10:29:19 I said this before Mark Smith puts in the mind of - ASecondChance MU - 8/5 12:00:13 wasn’t KAT like the 9th ranked recruit that season - Nookam UK - 8/5 11:03:23 lol at cliff alexander(nm) - TigerA MU - 8/5 11:07:07 Self developed him into a fine German league player(nm) - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 11:10:20 RE: Booker the question was athleticism - MUKdC MU - 8/5 10:35:52 No doubt(nm) - Uncle John MU - 8/5 12:31:39 Torrence Watson was an Ohio St commit too... - K - Vegas - 8/5 10:14:11 I would venture to say, Fletcher, Love & Christopher will - MU-TULSA MU - 8/5 09:32:20 Good post. (nm) - corpustiger MU - 8/5 09:04:15 We have to become a mid-level SEC team before - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 08:56:54 We have to get other players Top 50 guys want to play with - jlbomega MU - 8/5 13:50:57 RE: We have to become a mid-level SEC team before - Nookam UK - 8/5 11:06:21 What really hurt was that team actually rallied and reformed - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 11:08:35 RE: What really hurt was that team actually rallied and reformed - Nookam UK - 8/5 12:40:06 RE: We have to become a mid-level SEC team before - MUKdC MU - 8/5 09:13:13 That would make recruiting a lot easier - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 09:22:05 RE: That would make recruiting a lot easier - MUKdC MU - 8/5 09:46:07 The last few years of Mike Anderson and first 2 of - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 09:50:43 RE: The last few years of Mike Anderson and first 2 of - Ace MU - 8/5 10:05:08 That was a 1 year blip - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 10:17:28 RE: That was a 1 year blip - Ace MU - 8/5 10:28:53 Was Mizzou good the year before and the year after? - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 10:32:54 If you go back that year you mentioned was the outlier - longtimereader MU - 8/5 13:21:38 From 1985-86 to 1994-95 MU earned an NCAA tourney - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 13:26:49 You're correct in part of how you chose your language - longtimereader MU - 8/5 13:47:57 MU was a top 20 team most of 1994-95 (nm) - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 10:36:09 We were a top 25 team basically every week during that era - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 09:59:08 RE: That would make recruiting a lot easier - Ace MU - 8/5 09:42:44 The program began to fall apart in 1995. - alwaysright MU - 8/5 23:19:19 Technically we were a 9 seed that lost in the 1st round his - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 09:56:26 RE: Technically we were a 9 seed that lost in the 1st round his - Ace MU - 8/5 10:03:29 He was consistently good from 1970 - 1995 - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 10:33:38 This will be unpopular but that when he should have retired - longtimereader MU - 8/5 13:53:43 Yes, but look at the next season - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 14:45:21 RE: He was consistently good from 1970 - 1995 - Ace MU - 8/5 10:45:01 Mike Anderson was consistently good in my opinion - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 10:51:50 RE: Mike Anderson was consistently good in my opinion - Ace MU - 8/5 11:13:46 RE: Mike Anderson was consistently good in my opinion - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 11:22:20 before Norm retired - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 09:45:33 Again not technically true - longtimereader MU - 8/5 14:07:59 RE: before Norm retired - Ace MU - 8/5 10:03:58 Not disheartening to me at all. The roster now compared - Diamond Dave MU - 8/5 08:39:40 100% agree(nm) - TigerA MU - 8/5 10:04:51 Let's hope so. Otherwise, Martin seems to be... - Deputy Dawg MU - 8/5 08:15:43 bust? What were the expectations with regard - SuperTone MU - 8/5 10:11:26 Just curious - have you ever been to Rupp Arena? - El Zorro MU - 8/5 08:55:24 Show that Mizzou can win and he will get some of the top - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 08:35:15 3 top 75 players is not good talent - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 09:30:03 The 11-12 team only had one top 75 player - jlbomega MU - 8/5 10:24:55 Agree, but Ratliffe didn't get a rating coming from JUCO(nm) - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 10:34:32 Even if you rate him top 75 it's still 2, that said... - jlbomega MU - 8/5 11:52:19 That’s assuming you put 100% faith in the rankings - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 09:44:22 I don't, probably less than 40% faith - FIJItiger MU - 8/5 09:55:04 I would take the current roster over that team - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 10:03:04 RE: That’s assuming you put 100% faith in the rankings - MUKdC MU - 8/5 09:52:04 I think our team will be solid this year - kcmizzou99 MU - 8/5 08:26:24 RE: I think our team will be solid this year - Ace MU - 8/5 08:29:14 I don’t think Dru is a go to scorer - wu-tangtiger MU - 8/5 08:36:13 RE: I don’t think Dru is a go to scorer - Ace MU - 8/5 08:36:56 ©2020 Fanboards L.L.C. — Our Privacy Policy About Tigerboard	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line430
__label__cc	0.736998	0.263002	The Amazing Pinball Race 5: August 1-2 2020 (Signups 5/2/2020 at noon eastern) PinballNarcissist December 19, 2019, 11:30pm #1 2020 info: The Amazing Pinball Race 5 Target Matchplay Qualifying with Amazing Race playoffs. 84 spots, $50 at the door, limited to 4 tickets per order. Results: https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=30802 Video: https://youtu.be/HUH3zbdUDg4?t=697 Event in Columbus, OH by Evan Bingham on Saturday, June 29 2019 with 138 people interested and 52 people going. 41 posts in the discussion. Playoffs Bracket: docs.google.com TAPR4 Playoffs A Playoffs 2019 Game,1 The Addams Family,2 Deadpool Pro ,3 Banzai Run,4 Sinbad,5 Star Trek Pro,6 Attack From Mars,7 Iron Maiden,Medieval Madness,9 The Addams Family,10 Deadpool Pro,11 Banzai Run,12 Star Trek,13 Attack From Mars,14 Iron Maiden ,15... Qualifying: Www.neverdrains.com/tapr2019 www.twitch.tv/levelonebar https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=30802 Bracket: Event in Columbus, OH by Evan Bingham on Saturday, July 7 2018 with 102 people interested and 42 people going. 41 posts in the discussion. The Amazing Race Preshow: Girls ONLY Event in Columbus, OH by Brianna Reynolds and 4 others on Friday, July 6 20186 posts in the discussion. Next weekend (July 7/8) I’m running a tournament here in Columbus, OH. We’re trying something different with the format than what we did the past two races. Traditionally the race goes as such: everyone plays the same game and lowest score is knocked out…move onto the next game and repeat. We have done the tournament this way successfully and in a reasonable amount of time with 43 players in 2014 and 48 players in 2015. Since the Columbus scene has been growing we wanted to figure out a way to include more players while still including some aspects of the original format. What we decided on was a matchplay qualifying portion with a modified amazing race finals. 64 player cap this time around. Feedback I had received from players was that they are apprehensive of paying an entry fee to enter a tournament only to get knocked out in the first round. The qualifying portion, which for this tournament happens to be 10 rounds, decides the players who have earned the right to play in this unique finals format. Finals is separated into three rounds. Seeds 9-24 play the first 8 games with the lowest score getting knocked out on each game. In the second round we bring in the top 8 qualifiers, reorder by initial seeding and play out the next 8 games. In the finals rounds we reorder by initial seeding and play out the final 7 games. EDIT: To keep things running quicker, we will not reorder by initial seeding for the final 7 games. What’s unique here? Large pump and dump tournament play is essentially turned upside-down. Multiplayer games are featured in qualifying while the finals feature single player games. Since matchplay and best score qualifying games are often played with differing strategies, viewers get a chance to see a player’s ball to ball decisions without having to wait three other players’ turns in the interim. Another benefit is the ability to use games that otherwise would be frowned upon due to lock stealing, odd score stealing rules, multiplayer bugs, etc. It’s also fun and a refreshing change of pace. After a few test runs, I’m convinced that a modified amazing race could be a viable finals format for almost any tournament. I invite anyone to watch the stream Sunday July 8th at 1:30pm. Like most tournaments, you won’t see every game played. The viewer, however, should still have a good understanding about how the tournament works, who is still in the tournament, who is currently playing on the stream, the order of games played, and most importantly, the current lowest ‘score to beat’ on any machine. Would love to hear any feedback and constructive criticism about the tournament and stream. If you can’t tell, I’m super stoked about this tournament PinballNarcissist July 7, 2018, 3:50am #2 Currently there are four spots open for the tournament. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/281653943 Here’s the footage of the women’s amazing race. We’re going to make some tweaks as to what games we will be recording so that it’ll follow more full 3-ball games. We’ll also have the broadcast show the standings bracket on Sunday. Megan Brown ended up winning the tournament of 16 players. Congrats Megan! TAPR Finals A Finals Game, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, WINNER Last Score B Finals Game, 1 Guardians of the Galaxy Pro, 2 Motordome, 3 TWD Pro, 4 Mousin' Around, 5 Tales of the Arabian Nights, 6... LOTR_breath July 7, 2018, 2:07pm #4 I’m guessing that in this format each round counts as one game towards TGP, since at least one player plays a full game? ChubbyGoomba July 8, 2018, 12:32am #5 TGP guide on the IFPA website says 21-64 players is 10 games towards TGP. EDIT: Wait, I was thinking of that as a straight up ladder match, but that’s not the case. How is that sorted out, then? jdelz July 8, 2018, 2:02am #6 Qualifying alone is 80% TGP. I don’t know the math for the race portion, but I’d imagine it satisfies the remaining 20%. As far as I know they all count as meaningful games. It’s the race portion I was wondering about. I’m thinking of running a tourney with this format. The number of players would probably be less than 30 so no qualifying, just he race format throughout. stevevt July 8, 2018, 2:06pm #9 LOTR_breath: just he race format throughout. That seems really rough for the players who get knocked out in the first few games, unless I’m missing something. jdelz July 8, 2018, 2:09pm #10 It’s definitely rough for the early losers. I like it much better as a finals format than the entire event for that reason. Players get some guaranteed play before the brutality ensues. ScoutPilgrim July 8, 2018, 3:36pm #11 Even if you only count 1 ball it’s 8 games, surpassing max TGP. nudgey July 8, 2018, 4:07pm #12 Thanks for the stream yesterday. It had great commentary. And yes, now I’m also thinking about incorporating a ladder/race format into a tournament here. LOTR_breath July 8, 2018, 6:36pm #13 Well, I noticed yesterday in the women’s they gave an awesome prize to the first player eliminated. There could be incentives to sign up and play, even if there was the chance of going out early. PinballNarcissist July 8, 2018, 7:23pm #14 Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers. Final 16 on right now chuckwurt July 8, 2018, 11:20pm #15 Great tournament Evan! Thanks to all that helped. Great great event. Can’t wait for next year! Congrats to all the winnners. Some crazy high level play in that finals. Glad I got to play with everyone. ScoutPilgrim July 8, 2018, 11:31pm #16 chuckwurt: Some crazy high level play in that finals. cries in Mousin Around chuckwurt July 9, 2018, 12:29am #17 I feel ya. My AC/DC and Los’s GOTG we’re not very high level, but that’s the format. Cannot have a single stinker or you’re done. No coming back from it. ScoutPilgrim July 9, 2018, 2:09am #18 Yep! I didn’t do much wrong on that game, I just got treated poorly. That’s pinball jdelz July 9, 2018, 2:54am #19 The tilt on Mousin was a mystery to me throughout the tournament. I saw it go straight to tilt on minor cabinet slaps and strong flips, but also this could happen I think I saw Darren get one of the flipping tilts. Would it act weird right after someone else tilted? Maybe it’s one of those ones that swings for days.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line431
__label__cc	0.696458	0.303542	New York Jets 2014 Draft Pick Profile – Calvin Pryor Cole Patterson breaks down New York Jets 2014 draft pick, safety Calvin Pryor Cole Patterson breaks down the New York Jets first round pick, safety Calvin Pryor. Click here for a look at our breakdown of third round pick Dexter McDougle and stay tuned for breakdowns of the rest of the Jets draft picks… Was a three-star prospect coming out of Port St. Joe High School. Played in all thirteen games as a true freshman at Louisville and started the final seven. Started every game for the reminder of his career, save a one game suspension for breaking an unspecified team rule. He finished his career at Louisville with 218 tackles, eleven tackles for a loss, two sacks, nine forced fumbles (five coming in 2012 alone), and seven interceptions. Named second-team All-BIG EAST in 2012 after finishing second on the team with 100 tackles. Named first-team All-ACC in 2013. Measurables 40 Yard Dash: 4.58 sec Bench Press: 18 reps (highest of the 2014 safeties) Vertical: 34.5 in Broad Jump: 116 in Versatility is Pryor’s best trait. At Louisville he excelled both in the box and playing center field. Contrary to his perceived limitations, Pryor spent the majority of his time as a freshman and sophomore playing as the deep defensive back. Only after he established himself as a playmaker in 2012 (with five forced fumbles) did the Louisville coaching staff start moving him around. He responded well to the shift and proved to be dominant anywhere on the field. When playing close to the line of scrimmage Pryor easily navigates traffic and has a nose for the ball. He uses his short area quickness and physicality to blow by would-be blockers and annihilate the ball carrier. Here Pryor creeps up into the box from playing deep. He then tracks the running back and threads through traffic to make the tackle. To say “annihilate” is not hyperbole. Pryor is a virtual wrecking ball; a tempo setter in the secondary. Consider this GIF-Montage as proof: Pryor has excellent range and explosive closing speed. This allows him to be a very effective center-fielder. He is consistently in a position to make a play on the ball because of his extraordinary pre-snap recognition and awareness. Here Pryor starts centerfield in the end zone and zips across half the field to make an amazing one-handed play on the ball. Pryor is very intelligent and has an outstanding football acumen. He directed the secondary at Louisville. Rex Ryan has praised Pryor’s ability to absorb not only the playbook but the greater defensive philosophy of the team: “[Pryor is] Smart, instinctive and is on top of it. It’s rare that it comes easy, and you can see it in there. The way he communicates, just everything. He has really been everything that we’ve wanted and then some.” The main knock on Pryor is whether or not he can play the slot. Truthfully, he took so few snaps in man coverage that it is hard to evaluate his ability. This lack of experience, in and of itself, may explain his weakness in the area. He has the quickness and awareness to cover in the slot but it may take time to develop. Pryor tends to be over aggressive. This could result in two issues at the next level: bad angles and penalties. He has such outstanding speed and hit power that he will over or under shoot his target on occasion. Here Pryor comes downfield with a full head of steam and over pursues the running-back. He is able to recover and chase down the ball carrier, however. Pryor uses his shoulder to make a lot of tackles. This technique is often penalized in the NFL as leading with the crown of the helmet. Fit with the New York Jets One thing that sticks out when scouring Pryor’s college tape is opposing quarterbacks’ hesitancy to put the ball in his area code. His playmaking ability and intimidating presence locked down entire sections of the field, which is a much needed addition to the Jets back end. Author Administrator ZPosted on May 23, 2014 May 26, 2014 Categories calvin pryor, Cole Patterson, Featured Posts, New York Jets, NFL, NFL Draft, Off-SeasonTags calvin pryor, Cole Patterson, New York Jets, NFL, NFL Draft, Off-Season Previous Previous post: New York Jets Playbook – Redzone Bunches Next Next post: New York Jets – Ranking The Picks – Part Two	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line434
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__label__wiki	0.881927	0.881927	HomeNewsSNOWDON ROCKS 2017 – Report and Photos SNOWDON ROCKS 2017 – Report and Photos The eleventh annual climb to the summit of Mount Snowdon began with a morning registration at the Electric Mountain in Llanberis. This year, the By Your Side Walk across Wales that was led by Mike and Jules Peters, was a fantastic success, engaging with the entire community of North Wales and resulting in over 650+ people signing up (plus volunteers) for the final day’s hike to the summit. It was a magnificent sight to see so many people from all over the UK and Europe assembled for the speeches and announcements. Music was provided by the community group Ghostbuskers who helped to create a carnival atmosphere with sing and strum versions of James’ alternative music anthem Sit Down and the Nancy Sinatra classic ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. A rousing cheer greeted Mike Peters’ appearance on the bandstand and flanked by Jules, Mike delivered an emotional speech thanking the NHS staff for saving the life of his wife and playing a version of ‘Forever By Your Side’ that brought tears to many eyes. Pemba Sherpa from Kathmandu, came on stage to present Mike and Jules with Nepalese ceremonial scarves in recognition of the work Love Hope Strength has done in support of cancer and relief services in the kingdom of Nepal. Namaste – I bow to the divine in you, seemed a perfect way to pay respects to the spirits of the mountain that is Snowdon and to the familiar sounds of a brass band hundreds and hundreds of trekkers set off for the mountain. The weather was holding up. Comfortably dry and cool… perfect hiking conditions. The first stop was at 570 metres at the Halfway House Cafe where a mobile PA system was set up for the band of guitarists and mandolin players (who had all carried their instruments so as to perform alongside Mike). Once everyone had made it to this rendezvous point the familiar chord pattern of ‘One Guitar’ sounded in the Cwm and voices were raised in celebration. The familiar refrain of ‘Wonderwall’ followed along with stirring versions of ‘In A Big Country’ and a campfire singalong to ‘Sixty Eight Guns’. This impromptu festival of remembrance was made even more reverential when Mike Peters asked for those who had come in honour of someone to raise their hand. It was an emotional sight as the silence that followed was impeccably observed and powerfully felt by all. ‘Knocking On Heaven’s’ door broke the silence with grace and after the second chorus, Mike Peters encouraged everyone to shout out the name of the person they had come to remember. It was time for the final push to the summit, and soon the enormous line of Love Hope and Strength people that stretched across the mountain paths, could be seen to disappear into the cloud base that had gathered upon the highest reaches of Yr Wyddfa. The summit was crowded like never before, as Mike and the band of brothers launched into song. ‘Rocking In The Freeworld’ was literally rocking the mountain and even more people from other hikes and other paths to the summit joined the swelling crowd that had engulfed the trig point. Laughter greeted the now traditional Christmas singalong as Mike led the way with ‘Happy Xmas [War Is Over]. The arrival of passengers from the special trains carrying cancer patients and families prompted an outbreak of ‘This Train Is Bound For Glory’. Mike was joined by his Alarm band mate – James Stevenson and off they went into the classic ‘Get Down and Get With It’ which had every clapping hands and stamping feet along with Slade fanatic and well known TV Presenter Gareth ‘Gaz Top’ Jones who could be seen singing at the top of his voice at the top of the mountain. The ever popular South Wales artist and Snowdon Rocks’ favourite – Chris Summerill was encouraged to perform the Oasis song ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ – made poignant by recent events, and the melody and words were sung by everyone stood at the highest point in all of Wales and England. The reverend Wynne Roberts a.k.a. the singing chaplain and Elvis Presley lookalike, joined in after escorting the patients on the train and a rocking version of ‘Hound Dog’ was followed by ‘Blood Brothers’ actor Sean Jones encouraging the crowd to sing the ‘Ooh Ooh’ backing vocals of ‘The Wonder Of You’. The concert finished on the words of ‘Love Hope and Strength’ and the descent back into the valley below. It had been a long day and at sea level (well almost), every returning hiker was greeted with a welcome bowl of hot soup and fresh bread at the Pen Y Ceunant, generously provided and served by the gracious and always smiling Steffan. It was soon time to peel off the climbing boots and put on the dancing shoes as the Gwyl Snowdon Rocks Festival (set in the grounds of the Heights Hotel), kicked off with a high energy set from Welsh Rebel Outpost who were joined by Mike Peters for their final song – the Rich Kids classic ‘Ghosts of Princes in Towers’. Mike & Jules Peters’ youngest son Evan (aged 10), then made his live debut as a singing drummer in his new Welsh group ‘The Bandanas’, bringing the house down with a dual version of Feeder’s ‘Buck Rodgers’. Next up was OCD, which featured the couple’s oldest son ‘Dylan (aged 13), on lead guitar. OCD performed a cover and two originals before kicking out the jams with a rollicking version of The Cult’s ‘She Sells Sanctuary’. The stage was set and Gareth ‘Gaz Top’ Jones introduced Mike Peters who entered from stage left to a hero’s welcome. A thunderous set was blasted out, beginning with Alarm classics ‘Marching On’ and ‘Where Were You Hiding?’ complete with mass playing-card throwing. ‘Strength’ came next and the acoustic /electric and coupled with stomping bass drum amplified power in Mike’s voice as the atmosphere was ramped up even higher. As if on cue, ‘Rain In The Summerime’ even featured a 2 minute light shower of rain drops which was the only time the heavens had opened throughout the day. A rousing finale speech from Mike was followed by a hymn-like reading of ‘Forever By Your Side’. The words and melody of ‘Spirit Of ’76’ filled the air and Mike was joined by James Stevenson and Chris Summerill on second guitar and Mandolin. From here on in, it was anthems all the way. As the sun went down into the West, ‘Sixty Eight Guns Will Never Die’ was massive and the sixty minute set was closed with ‘One Guitar’ and over 1500 voices taking up the chorus including a guest appearance by Gary Christian of ‘The Christians’. The atmosphere was special in the way that only festivals like this can create. A unifying experience on the mountain-side, coupled with the joy of music is unique to Snowdon Rocks, making it a festival unlike any other in the UK. ‘The Christians’ brought their own brand of vocally driven acoustic music into this atmosphere and were greeted warmly by all. The band tapped into the zeitgeist and engaged with everyone in a smooth and intimate manner that was perfect under the moonlight. ‘Forgotten Town’ and a superb ‘Harvest For The World’ were just two of the song performances that helped to make this year’s Snowdon Rocks an unforgettable experience for all who attended. Snowdon Rocks 2018 will take place next year on Midsummer’s Day June 23rd. A comprehensive set of photos from the whole walk and Snowdon Rocks will be published in the next few days. BY YOUR SIDE WALK – DAY Nine Report and Photos Man In The Camo Jacket – US Release Date this July 4th	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line439
__label__cc	0.663416	0.336584	Politics, Religion & Science The Sideline Trump Regime thread. By blotsfan, January 20, 2017 in Politics, Religion & Science If you kick your kid out for being gay or trans, you're a piece of shit. No offense, but this generation is the worst groups of parents in human history. It is astonishing how bad they are, and the dumb ones like to fuck....A LOT. BwareDWare94 725 I don't wanna rock and roll no more NCAA Team(s): North Dakota State Bison NFL Team: Vikings 21 hours ago, Thanatos said: "Until we cure literally 100% of people affected by a disease, we haven't figured out how to treat it." I am not saying that literally everyone who uses hormone therapy lives happily ever after. But acting like transitioning itself is the issue that causes trans people to commit suicide, rather than the frankly disgusting way the political right and their base treats trans people, is just mind-bogglingly head-in-the-sand stupid. When you are bullied day in and day out for something that- regardless of what you think of trans people- is simply a facet of your own identity, and you already have issues with your mental state, given that it doesn't match your physical one, this can drive plenty of young people to suicide. These are the exact same arguments that people used against homosexuality, and in 50 years it will be seen in the same light and for what it really is. A dying set of "traditional" values disguising hatred towards a group of people that has zero effect on your life. I notice you didn't answer my questions about how you're gonna know what pronoun they should use. Because all you actually care about is how they look, not who they were at birth. You think its weird for a masculine looking man to dress in women's clothes. But when a dude walks into the bathroom and looks like a dude, even if he was born female, you don't care because it doesn't make you uncomfortable. It would in fact make the women uncomfortable if he did use the women's bathroom. You do realize that the majority of this "bullying and hatred" from the right wing is a constructed perception used as a political device by the left wing, right? It's their go-to line when right wingers don't get in line immediately on every ridiculous idea Democrats have to address social issues. You look at what most right wingers are actually doing and saying on trans issues, and you find it comes from logical questions that come to mind. Even the hated guys like Ben Shapiro aren't saying things worth getting riled up over. Also, define bullying, because we've all known people who took the slightest thing and claimed it was bullying. Trans people are already insecure and susceptible to suicidality. Is it not possible that they perceive a lot of bullying that isn't actually there, or isn't intent to be bullying? Let's actually look at trans interaction with non-trans people and try to find out how much bullying actually occurs, what kinds of bullying occurs, and then let's address the actual problem instead of just taking their word 100% and creating legislation with a vast, overreaching umbrella that sets dangerous precedents and will never make it into law. I mean, would you not agree that bullying in general is ridiculously overstated? Look in our workplaces--most reported bullying comes from lazy and/or incompetent people. You can call that a blanket statement that can't be proven if you want to, but if you've worked with a crew of more than 10 people, you've seen it firsthand. I'm not using wrong or made-up pronouns. I'll just address the individual by name. 2 hours ago, BwareDWare94 said: If you really don't think that trans people don't face discrimination and bullying at work and school, I really do not know what to tell you. We've done studies on this. An overwhelming majority of trans people (between 80-90%) reported mistreatment and harassment at the workplace. We had someone transitioning at the previous store I worked at in Louisville and everyone would talk shit about her in the breakroom whenever she wasn't around. The key part is getting them past the schooling years. 40% of trans people have attempted suicide at least once. If they can get to around age 25, those attempts drop off drastically. Right-wingers have a stated political ideology that is anti-trans. They are trying to keep them out of bathrooms like they're some sort of perverts that just go in there to peep at women. They ban them from the military. They say that businesses should be allowed to discriminate against them. "Logical questions" my ass. The right is pandering to their evangelical base which sees the entire trans population as being sinful and wrong. You'll only address the individual by name if they look the "wrong" gender to you. This is my point. You don't actually care what is between their legs, but their physical outward appearance. You really gonna refuse to call someone he or him if they look like a man? Edited November 10, 2019 by Thanatos DalaiLama4Ever+ 4,441 DalaiLama4Ever 4,441 Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me. NCAA Team(s): Iowa State NFL Team: Packers Hillary no longer saying she won’t run. Most recently the answer is “never say never”. Seems typical for this cycle . Lots of late entrants ... possibly Bloomberg , Deval Patrick who talked with Obama before announcing is also now running. The power players in the DNC want a more (relatively) moderate candidate. Let’s see if they get their wish. Democrats always find a way. Let your empire burn and the politicians form the kindling. seanbrock 1,666 NCAA Team(s): Trump University Scammers NFL Team: Eagles 18 hours ago, DalaiLama4Ever said: Moderate? They want somebody who will play ball so they can keep getting billionaire donations while the rest of us fucktards argue about how many genders there are lol Ya, that's what I said. Haha Obama has himself now come out and said that the Dem candidates shouldn't move too far left as we head into 2020. I hadn't seen this previously but Warren has introduced a transition period for her medicare for all plan.. one that would allow private insurance to stick around -- an obvious gesture to be more (relatively) moderate. Edited November 17, 2019 by DalaiLama4Ever I really disagree. I think the Dems are playing scared. Sure you'll lose independents, but you will energize your base. Trump showed that was a semi-decent strategy for the GOP. I don't think a moderate wins the election versus Trump, tbh. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/19/handing-trump-terrifying-authoritarian-surveillance-powers-house-democrats-include%3famp Why would you give a guy who is supposedly beholden to Putin surveillance powers like this and all that military money? Lol There's only one party folks. Let's argue about gender and abortion more This is so dumb. Dems are banking on getting the WH back, but even if you do, no one should have these powers. The "squad" seems to be solidly against it, at least. The DNC and the media keep trying to protect their hand picked candidates as if Trump is going to take it easy on them. Even if they get soft ball questions by the moderators, Trump will say whatever he wants. Democrats want to lose. I'm convinced at this point that they're playing for 2024 where they will hope running against Trump will still work and Sanders won't be a threat. I'm not so sure I disagree anymore. I think they were Biden or bust and Biden has fallen off so hard he's not really an option. So they latched onto Buttigieg as a moderate- which to be fair, was Pete's plan exactly, if Joe fell off they'd come to him- but Warren has too much steam right now. The DNC is just as scared of Sanders as they are of Trump, IMO. And frankly, I don't think the powers that be like Warren too much either. They're too progressive, and the DNC thinks they won't beat Trump and they'll move the party to the left. The Democrats need to figure out who is their nominee and it needs to be fast. The more time they spend backstabbing each other, the easier it becomes for Trump to win. He's not getting removed from office, the GOP has clearly shown they don't care that he committed a crime and they haven't the balls to vote to remove him. You need a candidate for people to rally behind and get up in arms about, and right now there are only really three that inspire that level of excitement: Yang, Sanders, and Gabbard. Gabbard is too far back, she won't catch up. At this point, she needs to drop out for the good of the country. Go for a VP spot and come back next time for President. Yang has gained a lot of steam but its hard to catch up entirely when the media refuses to even ask him anything. Their first question to him was for him to justify why he should be on the stage. Cory Booker is polling well below Yang and no one asks him that. Sanders is the best shot to take the nomination, but his age is a factor. He needs a solid VP pick. I still think itll be Warren in the end. And I really don't understand why the Dems would shoot themselves in the foot, again. Warren is literally the only front running candidate that loses to Trump in battleground states right now. I think they need to attack each other. The cream will rise to the top that way and they'll get the strongest candidate. Primaries are still an election. The HOP has a ton of money unlike the DNC which is broke. They will leave no stone unturned going after the nominee. If they actually wanted to win the election they would back Sanders because he raises money and would help like minded Democrats raise money all over the country because he's a movement candidate. He's been talking about a political revolution for 5 years now. Sanders is the only chance they have at gaining Congress back and some of the state legislatures and governorships. Nobody comes out to vote to keep the status quo or to vote against Trump. Only party loyalists. Democrats need more than that. Their constituency knows they don't represent them and election turn out will continue to get lower and lower but the people running the show are getting massively wealthy off of destroying the party. It's insane to me. The only way Trump wins is if the DNC puts up another dumb candidate. Your slogan can't be "At least I'm not Trump." We need someone to get excited about. The only reason Im saying they need to figure it out is because we're less than a year out now and there is really no clear frontrunner. What they need to do is stop trying to put their finger on the scale and let US figure it out because at the end of the day We're the ones who will decide to come out to vote to put that person in office. I know when you say they you include us into the equation but just the way you worded it got to the heart of the issue to me. Media and party elites need to stop trying to tell us who the favorite is and pushing one candidate over the other. They need to sell their plan for the future to the American people and let them decide. Being anti-Trump, as you said is decidedly not a plan for the future. People are struggling. Yang said this in an interview I watched with him and he is 100% correct. I'm paraphrasimg but he said nobody is voting to keep the status quo or go back to Obama. People see the real problems ahead and right in front of them and how far business as usual in Washington has gotten us to addressing those problems and whether anyone on the Den side wants to admit it or not, that's a big reason why we have Trump. This man is just plain scum. How about it, Melania? Less than a week ago you had a meltdown when someone used an analogy and invoked your kid's name to make a point. Got anything to say about your husband going after a teen kid with ausberger's on twitter? Again? Greta is probably triggering him even harder. She changed her status after this tweet. It now says: "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend. Edited December 12, 2019 by Thanatos I’d rather not hear about either of them. Talk about a waste of time and energy. DJT20 9 NCAA Team(s): LSU NFL Team: Patriots On 12/12/2019 at 3:53 PM, Thanatos said: Lol Thanatos, a tube of Vagisil sounds like the perfect Christmas gift for you. Greta is a pawn just for the left to push the climate change bullshit narrative even further. Of course the sheep eat it all up as well. Greta is also peak white privilege. There's children starving all over the world yet Greta, claims her childhood and her dreams have been robbed of her because politicians haven't done enough to help the environment? Lol. @DJT20 Climate change bullshit? Lol Even if i grant you climate change is bullshit, why not invest into renewable energy? It's better technology with much more potential. The obvious reason is because of the massive amounts of money oil people will lose. They're the ones who pay "experts" to convince dummies like you climate change doesn't exist. I find it hilarious that so many people believe that there's all this money in faking climate change? More money than what Big oil already has? Lol Don't you want clean water? Do you want to end up walking around with masks like they do in China? Why would we let society as a whole suffer for a handful to profit? As there are more and more people people polluting, both of those problems will get worse. Or does that basic logic escape you too. Climate change deniers are so fucking dumb. Who cares if some white priveleded girl is the mascott? It's not like they don't have similar figures on the other side. That's just political theatre and honestly irrelevant. What ever happened to Teddy Roosevelt conservatives who wanna...you know...conserve the environment? Then again you probably don't know shit about history or anything outside of the retarded propaganda you consume without any question or critical thought because it's pro white. Democrats aren't the only ones who feed off of identity politics. Edited December 17, 2019 by seanbrock @seanbrock Lol Jesus Christ bro, you read way too much into my post. The post was about Greta, bro. I'm not a "climate change denier", by "bullshit" I meant all of the mass hysteria the left is trying to create with climate change by acting like the world is going to end in a decade. We've actually heard this before. In 1989, the U.N. warned that "entire nations could be wiped off the map by 2000". Welp. Still here. Also, what the fuck does your dumbass know about history? In HS, you probably spent more time abusing drugs/alcohol than cracking open a history book. But now you're a historical savant? Lol, get off your fucking high horse. It's also cute that you mention propaganda, since that's what the left loves to spew. But you're sheep so you don't even realize it. One, i didn't stop learning after i graduated high school. Two, who says you can't abuse drugs and alcohol and still educate yourself? Lol. Also, i don't believe the propaganda of the left either. I've been saying for years now that all the Russia stuff was bullshit and i've never bought into the pc/cancel culture bullshit. 15 hours ago, DJT20 said: Another classic taking quotes out of context, which is all the climate deniers know how to do. The world won't end in 12 years, it will just start the feedback loop from the gases trapped under the polar ice where it won't matter what we do, we'll have 8-12 degrees warming in about a century and it won't be stoppable. This isn't a left/right thing. Climate change is real, that's a fact, and there's nothing political about it. But because the right wing is full of big oil lobbyists and proponents, they have tried to make it a political thing. Is NASA a leftist organization? Like come on, man. Your side doesn't have any facts or science. https://www.wired.com/story/fox-news-is-now-a-threat-to-national-security/ Really? It's just NOW a threat? 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__label__wiki	0.727072	0.727072	AKA: モブサイコ100 ; Mobu Saiko Hyaku Genre: Supernatural Comedy/Action Length: Television series, 12 episodes, 23 minutes each Distributor: Currently licensed by FUNimation. Content Rating: PG (Light violence.) Related Series: N/A Also Recommended: Spirited Away Notes: Based on webcomic by ONE, published in Ura Sunday. Despite its title, this show is NOT about a demented yakuza; it is, instead, about a middle school student nicknamed Mob (real name Shigeo Kageyama) with incredibly powerful esper abilities who wants to lead a normal school life, despite exploitation by his "senpai" ( a fake exorcist named Reigen Arataka); despite the issues his "perfect" brother Ritsu has with him; despite the weirdos, human and not, that want to hang out with him (and ALSO use his abilities for their own benefit, like Reigen does); and despite some bona fide villains. He's remarkably laid back and calm, but when his stress level finally does build to 100% (this is where the "100" in the title comes from, and it's actually tracked during the show), he can lose complete control of his powers. Crunchyroll was actually running ads for this show in movie theaters when they first started streaming it; perhaps they thought they had a major hit on their hands. It's interesting, to say the least: its character art is simplistic, stark, and frequently grotesque (one minor character is drawn as a literal blockhead); it also has some very good gags, particularly in the first part of the series. (The twist ending of the second episode is hilariously brilliant, though since the show took the whole episode to set up that gag, there might be some issues with economy-of-storytelling.) The show can roughly be broken up into three sequential plotlines. In the first, we concentrate on Mob and his relationship with Reigen. Reigen is, of course, a complete charlatan, but he tries to hide this from everyone (particularly Mob) with the powers of persuasion that only a gifted con man can muster. The weird thing is that he actually can give good advice to Mob (even while only paying him 300 yen an hour, and claiming the lion's share of the credit, and of course the cash, for himself.) Because the art of the con involves knowing what the "mark" wants to hear, and Mob, being an idealistic young man, expects his "master" to also endorse such sentiments, then Reigen does so, and so help me, he's either one of the best in the business, or on some level he really DOES care for Mob beyond just protecting his "cash cow", because he almost sounds sincere at times. By the same token, the show does imply (especially toward the end) that Mob IS aware that Reigen is a bit lacking in actual psychic talent, but Mob goes along with it- maybe because he needs to have someone who at least pretends to be a good role model for someone with psychic abilities. Like several other characters here, Mob has a distinctly weird appearance, with a bowl haircut and irisless eyes, though he DOES get irises when he's nearing 100% on that running stress meter. We'll actually see him hit 100% several times during the series, even though he's extremely placid by nature. He lives in "Seasoning City", and attends "Salt Middle School" (ALL the schools in the city are named after condiments, of course.) My personal favorite character was Teruki Hanazawa. Also an esper, he originally appears as the toughest fighter of "Black Vinegar High School", using his psychic ability mainly to augment his fists. Mob ends up (reluctantly) taking Teruki down a peg and teaching him humility, and thereafter he becomes a friend to Mob and a reliable ally, albeit with some tendency to overcompensate (you'll see what I mean; pretty good sight gag too.) This brings us roughly to the show's first switch of story. We begin focusing on Ritsu, Mob's brother, who's been quietly jealous of Mob's psychic abilities for some time, and these feelings, along with two individuals (one human, one not) trying to steer Ritsu toward the Dark Side, make a fascinating middle act for the show, and I was eager to see where they went with it... ...and THEN the show LOST ITS NERVE, and gave us a final Third Act that revived the old chestnut of the "evil organization that wants to exploit our gifted youngsters". It's a MUCH too well-trodden path (by shows like Himawari Too! and their ilk) to really engage me, and while there are plenty of battles (action fans won't be disappointed), I just couldn't really get "into" this final story arc, especially since it ends in what I consider a muddled and (even for a show like this!) implausible fashion. So my own take on it: some of the jokes were great; the character art is a matter of taste (it's not really MINE, but might be someone else's; being an old geezer, I'm pretty old-school there); the show's flirtation with some really dark stuff for Ritsu MIGHT have been developed into something truly impressive....but we surrender to cliché, in the end. A pity really, and there was a penalty in stars... If only it had kept its story as "edgy" as its art... — Allen Moody Recommended Audience: Fantasy violence, though no blood. There's absolutely no female exploitation (fan service) in the show; in fact, the only female character that gets a fair amount of time at all in the show is the long-suffering president of the Telepathy Club. Version(s) Viewed: Streaming on Crunchyroll. Mob Psycho 100 © 2016 BONES	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line444
__label__wiki	0.596688	0.596688	High Rollers Just Discovered MMA Betting Events, News, Sports Betting Author David Massey David Massey David Massey studied Humanities and Art History at the University of Central Oklahoma. He first found interest in MMA from the first TUF show and has been hooked ever since. He began posting on mmajunkie then submitting Sunday Junkie entries and that began his interest in writing about MMA. Through twitter David found other MMA enthusiasts and began contributing articles to marqueemma.com. He looks forward to growing as a writer and being a part of the sport he loves. Mike Afromowitz: ‘Combate Americas’ Is More Than Another MMA Reality Show Spotlight, UFC The MMA Corner recently spoke with television executive Mike Afromowitz about his show, Combate Americas, a title which translates to “The Fighting America” for English speakers. The show is currently... UFC 170’s Cody Gibson: Blue-Collar Expectations The new year has seen a new UFC in many ways. The most notable changes are the promotion's busier schedule and its steps towards worldwide domination. When fans look at these changes, they see an effect of a... Freedom of Speech: Learning Lessons, Not Hate I was standing around with a few casual acquaintances one day. One of the people in the group happened to be of Eastern Indian descent. A fly landed on that person’s arm and someone asked, “What is that on... Allan Luebke and Glena Avila: Making a Documentary That Transcends MMA It was mid-January in Park City, Utah, and filmmaker Allan Luebke was only minutes away from eating his last meal before facing the Slamdance Film Festival audience in attendance for the debut of his... UFC’s Colton Smith: Soldier Benefiting from Army’s WCAP Program Colton Smith, UFC lightweight and the only full-time, active-duty U.S. soldier on the promotion’s roster, is bringing in the new year with some of the best training in the world. Smith is a selected... Joe Warren: ‘Baddest Man on the Planet’ Understands Adversity Is Part of the Job Autohypnosis. The practice of controlling and unlocking the potential of the human mind. Our brains are so complex that we might get in our own way when trying to perform even the simplest of tasks. We... In the Cage – Palmer Replaces Glenn, Kedzie’s New Opponent, ONE FC 13 Update Each day, The MMA Corner will provide a recap of results, event announcements, fight match-ups, and injuries/cancellations from throughout the world of MMA. Glenn out, Palmer in for WSOF 7 title... Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney: Not Satisfied With Being No. 2 It was the post-fight Bellator 107 media scrum on Friday, and Bellator boss Bjorn Rebney was ready to field questions. The CEO and founder of the Bellator MMA promotion, who often appears emotionally... UFC Fight Night 31: The Good, the Bad and the Bizarre I tuned into Wednesday's UFC Fight for the Troops 3 event at the end of the Lorenz Larkin vs. Chris Camozzi fight as highlights from the bout were being shown on the UFC's high-speed phantom camera.... In the Cage – Bellator’s High Ratings, Bollinger to WSOF, CWFC 63, ONE FC 13 Each day, The MMA Corner will provide a recap of results, event announcements, fight match-ups, and injuries/cancellations from throughout the world of MMA. Bellator earns highest-ever ratings Last...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line445
__label__wiki	0.939963	0.939963	Edwinsford Edwinsford Hmlt M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 191. Edwinsford Hmlt, Carmarthenshire RHYDODYN Preferred Welsh M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 191. EDWINSFORD Preferred English M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 191. RHANDIR RHYDODYN Alternate English M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 191. CARMARTHENSHIRE Ancient County M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 191. LLANSAWEL AP/CP Parish-level Unit M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 191. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Edwinsford Hmlt through time \| Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit, A Vision of Britain through Time.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line452
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__label__wiki	0.502732	0.502732	PETE ROSE SIGNED BASEBALL "SORRY I BET ON BASEBALL" All > Equipment This is a Rawlings Official Major League baseball with Allan Selig Commissioner (1992-2015). Inscribed "Sorry I bet on baseball". This same baseball on Pete Rose's website sells for $299! JSA Cert Cincinnati Reds (1963–1978) Philadelphia Phillies (1979–1983) As manager 17× All-Star (1965, 1967–1971, 1973–1982, 1985) 3× World Series champion (1975, 1976, 1980) NL MVP (1973) World Series MVP (1975) NL Rookie of the Year (1963) 2× Gold Glove Award (1969, 1970) Silver Slugger Award (1981) Roberto Clemente Award (1976) 3× NL batting champion (1968, 1969, 1973) Cincinnati Reds #14 retired Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Major League Baseball All-Century Team MLB records 4,256 career hits 3,215 career singles 3,562 career games played 14,053 career at-bats 15,890 career plate appearances Condition: NRMT Minimum Bid: $85	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line463
__label__wiki	0.696455	0.696455	John peter russell belle ile hotels And are you still working a lot? At the age of eighteen he went to Paris to study law and after he had achieved his qualifications returned to his home town to work as a court administrator. Matisse played with the perspective of the picture to give more excitement. Although the Australian artist believed in the Impressionist philosophy that the painting should be about light, Russell thought that form should not be disregarded. External links [ edit ] John Peter Russell Belle Ile en mer Public domain Public domain false false This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. Privately owned sincethe Vauban citadel has been converted into a 4 star hotel, while retaining many of the original historic features. In and again inMatisse visited the painter John Peter Russell, an Australian Impressionist painter who had studied art in London and Paris, where one of his fellow students was Toulouse-Lautrec, and who had also become friends with both Monet and Vincent van Gogh. Thanks Stacia. Matisee and his bride honeymooned in London on the recommendation of the French Impressionist, Camille Pissaro and whilst there he combined his honeymoon with the chance to study the paintings of Turner. He wrote:. 65 Best John Peter Russell images John peter, Impressionism, Vincent van gogh BELLEÎLEENMER – THE IMPRESSIONISTS’ FAVOURITE ISLAND Paris Plus Plus John Peter Russell – my daily art display John peter russell belle ile map John Russell, like his contemporaries Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, Matisse also received lessons in colour on Belle-Île from John Peter Russell, Many of the larger buildings in Le Palais contain hotels, and the easy. An image of recto: Belle-Ile verso: (Landscape study) by John Peter Russell The Needles Belle-Ile (Les Aiguilles Belle-ile Brittany) John Peter Russell. John Russell was friends with art giants Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Rodin and Claude Like the other works it was painted on Belle Ile, the Breton island where, at the turn of John Peter Russell. The "château" is long gone and now on the site there's a spa hotel, popular with well-heeled Parisiennes. He then went to England and was apprenticed at a Lincoln engineering company, qualified as an engineer but on the death of his father and the inheritance he subsequently received, gave up his engineering career to become an artist. In one such work, The Pyramides at Port-Coton, which Monet completed inhe has magnificently captured the dark craggy rock formations which have been formed by the slow but persistent erosion by the sea and which now stand out like ancient pyramids. External links [ edit ] John Peter Russell Belle Ile en mer Public domain Public domain false false This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. Hidden categories: PD-Australia Media missing infobox template Files with no machine-readable author Files with no machine-readable source. Afterwards, what are we beginning to glimpse timidly at the moment that is original and lasting — the portrait. The north coast of Belle Ile. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. SHARED POWERS OF US GOVERNMENT In and again inMatisse visited the painter John Peter Russell, an Australian Impressionist painter who had studied art in London and Paris, where one of his fellow students was Toulouse-Lautrec, and who had also become friends with both Monet and Vincent van Gogh. He accentuated this with the window curtain coming from the very top of the canvas down to below the middle. Posted in Beyond Paris. The question is who or what is Dadone? Hidden categories: PD-Australia Media missing infobox template Files with no machine-readable author Files with no machine-readable source. Paris Beyond Paris Italy Store. Last week I watched a documentary on television about the death of Vincent van Gogh. The artists were paying homage to John Peter Russell, the Australian artist who will be the Darlinghurst-born artist John Peter Russell lived on Belle-Ile for 20 years from the late s, and A hotel now occupies the site. A note at the back of HM's Belle-Ile notebook identifies the house's owner as at the Hotel de Ville, Bangor, Belle-Ile, great-granddaughter of Stanislas (Tanis) Le Jeanne Guenegou, "John Peter Russell: Souvenirs de son cocher racontes. So the world came to know of art by “John Peter Russell”, a name Some years earlier Russell had seen Monet painting Belle-Île, and had. John Peter Russell. It is in landscape format, unlike the other four, and in it Monet has depicted the never-ending clash between the forces of nature, the sea, and the rocks which try valiantly to withstand its ferocity. The difficulty was due to my present location, a hotel in Nice, where I am using their Wifi. Are things going well with you? The resulting work was the beautiful crafted portrait of the Dutchman which I spoke about at the beginning of the blog. He loved the churning seas, spectacular storms and changing qualities of the light. Posted in Beyond Paris. GUAGUAS ESCOLARES RACING FORM There is also an interesting short video on Y ouTube about the Van Gogh portrait and the inscriptions that were originally on it:. The painting I have chosen was not at the Matisse Museum in Nice which I visited today but hangs in the Art Institute in Chicago and is entitled Interior at Nicewhich he painted in and which I thought would be an appropriate choice as he, like me, loved the town. He was survived by his second wife Caroline, their son and six children from his first marriage to Marianna. Structured data Items portrayed in this file depicts. Video: John peter russell belle ile hotels Livecast w/Reekay - Lesbians, Earthquakes & Dating - 11/5/2019 In the first part of my blog about the Australian painter, John Peter Russell, I told you about his early life in Australia and how his father and brothers had started a foundry and engineering works in Sydney. Although the Australian artist believed in the Impressionist philosophy that the painting should be about light, Russell thought that form should not be disregarded. As its name suggests, Belle Île is certainly one of France's most beautiful islands. such as Matisse, the Australian John Peter Russell, as well as Claude Monet. Most of the island's accommodation is the vicinity of this town, including the. Belle Île en mer (, oil on canvas, 65 x cm) by John Peter Russell (–). The painting is in a private collection. Video: John peter russell belle ile hotels Weddings at the historic Hotel Kurrajong Canberra a TFE Hotel John Peter Russell's mansion stood half a mile that's the site of two swanky hotels In summer,though,Belle-Île is said to be astonishingly beautiful, with wildflowers blanketing the meadows and cobalt waves spinning cotton froth. He loved the town and said of it:. To do this Russell realised that making quick preliminary sketches, later to be finished in his studio, would lose the purity of the colour and so he decided that the work had to be completed en plein air if he was to capture the true colour that the light had offered him. There is also an interesting short video on Y ouTube about the Van Gogh portrait and the inscriptions that were originally on it:. WW2 German bunker. This page was last edited on 7 Februaryat Matisse was influenced greatly by the French Masters, like Chardin, who was his favourite and the Rococo painters Poussin and Watteau as well as some of the new modern artists like Manet. Wigner 3j symbol c&o Matisse played with the perspective of the picture to give more excitement. It was also around this time that he began to take an interest in sketching and painting. New discoveries are a great excuse for lots of return visits! Rugged coast of Point des Poulains. Posted in Beyond Paris. Pointe de Taillefer WW2 German bunker. He also introduced Matisse to the work of his friend from Atelier CormonVincent Van Gogh, who at this time was still to be recognised as a great artist. Why was the gun never found? Tojarr It was also around this time that he began to take an interest in sketching and painting. Vukus Sauzon, a fishing port located on an inlet on the north coast, and probably the most picturesque village on the island—listed as one of the most beautiful villages in France les Plus Beaux Villages de France —is not to be missed. He then went to England and was apprenticed at a Lincoln engineering company, qualified as an engineer but on the death of his father and the inheritance he subsequently received, gave up his engineering career to become an artist. Zologul The year before he had written to his friend and fellow Australian artist, Tom Roberts and told him of his dream:. Ch allonnes ifsi lyon Pou level 100 baby names Bonnie and clyde film poster credits Sql select reference another table Advan tablet harga murah samsung Busongeval zwitserland datum software Ngf glaucoma 2012 honda Winstar casino oklahoma casinos Whats up front movie Harga canon 10d specs © 2018 John peter russell belle ile hotels \| WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line464
__label__wiki	0.682	0.682	NRC Begins Scoping Effort for Environmental Review of Proposed WCS Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility NRC News Release Contact: Maureen Conley 301-415-8200 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking comments from the public on the issues to be covered in the environmental review of an application from Waste Control Specialists to construct and operate a facility to store spent nuclear fuel in Andrews County, Texas. The NRC will prepare an environmental impact statement to document its evaluation of those impacts and is now taking public comments on the scope. WCS filed its application in April seeking a 40-year license for a facility that would receive spent fuel from nuclear reactors for storage, pending final disposal. The NRC will be conducting two separate reviews – an environmental review to identify potential impacts, and a safety review to determine whether the WCS application meets the NRC’s regulatory requirements. The environmental review will fulfill the National Environmental Policy Act’s requirement to do an analysis of environmental impacts for major federal actions. The agency has not yet accepted and docketed the WCS application. WCS has been providing supplemental information in phases in response to a June 22 NRC request. The NRC will evaluate the supplemental responses before deciding whether to docket the application and proceed with the safety review. If the NRC dockets the application, it will announce in the Federal Register an opportunity to ask for a public hearing and an end date for comments on the scope of the environmental review. WCS had asked for the environmental review to begin as soon as possible. The NRC has agreed because doing so will allow the agency to engage interested members of the public early in the process. It will also provide additional time to consult with federal, tribal, state and local government agencies, facilitating compliance with the Endangered Species Act and the National Historic Preservation Act. “We cannot proceed with the technical safety review until WCS adequately addresses our request for supplemental information, but we do have the information we need to begin the environmental scoping process now,” said NRC’s Mark Lombard, director of the division of spent fuel management. “WCS will bear the cost of staff time devoted to the environmental review, even if we are unable to docket the application in its current form.” Written comments on the scope may be submitted over the federal government’s rulemaking website,www.regulations.gov, using Docket ID NRC-2011-0148; by email to WCS_CISF_EIS@nrc.gov; or by mail to Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: OWFN- 12 H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. More information can be found in today’s Federal Register notice. PreviousPrevious post:NRC Accepts WCS License Application for Formal ReviewNextNext post:Decades of toxic waste stranded as nuclear plants close	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line469
__label__cc	0.629494	0.370506	WCS Remains on Schedule for NRC License Submittal ANDREWS, Texas (April 15, 2016) — A little over a year ago Waste Control Specialists (WCS) filed a Notice of Intent with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and announced it would submit an application to the NRC for a license to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for used nuclear fuel in 2016. Today, WCS President Rod Baltzer announced that he expects WCS to meet that timetable. MovinForward_Vol1_No_1 PreviousPrevious post:WCS Files License Application with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to Operate a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for Used Nuclear FuelNextNext post:Secretary Moniz expresses support for our proposal in both House and Senate hearings	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line470
__label__cc	0.552126	0.447874	sofimun.org - the official website of Sofia International Model United Nations 2-nd Sofia International Model United Nations (SOFIMUN) Search Of Future Ideas, Models Us Now Destination Bulgaria - meet you there Sofia city SEE THE: 14 GALLERIES SEE IT! Also you can join us on FACEBOOK SOFIMUN announces the dates for 2010 The SOFIMUN Foundation has decided to have the 3rd edition of the SOFIMUN conference in the year 2010 in the period 24-31 July. SOFIMUN News Network The official media body of SOFIMUN - the SNN - SOFIMUN News Network has been launched! SOFIMUN has now an official news body formed - the SNN - SOFIMUN News Network. It will try to combine the work of representatives of different news agencies, TV stations, websites, radios and press. The SNN has a very intriguing goal to accomplish... go to the SNN special website... SOFIMUN's previous 1-st edition - 2008! The SOFIMUN Foundation has decided to keep a full archive of the website of SOFIMUN 2008 event. You can go directly to it through the link bellow. There you can find the aftermath reports of SOFIMUN 2008; galleries with over 500 photos; 3 videos and wallpapers. go to the 2008 site... Welcome letter on behalf of the Secretary-General of the 2nd edition of Sofia International Model United Nations - 18-25 July 2009 - Mr. Jun-Hwan Park After a very successful first edition of the Sofia International Model United nations, it is my pleasure and privilege to invite you to the second edition of SOFIMUN. MUNs all over the world aim to raise the youth’s awareness of global issues that affect all of us. By preparing the young generations to face the complexities of the issues, SOFIMUN is proud to be one of the tools that help the young brightest minds to prepare for their future. It is with honor and great pride we invite you the Second Edition of the Sofia International Model United Nations. During one week, students from all backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures will gather together in the beautiful city of Sofia and assume the role of a foreign diplomat or NGO representative. They will engage in debating, lobbying, and drafting resolutions in order to tackle the issues in their committees. Ultimately, the participants will also make friends from all around the globe which share goals and career paths, making this event a memorable opportunity for everyone. It is with great pleasure that I invite you to take part in this journey that can inspire you to achieve greatness. I invite all interested in International Politics, Human Rights, Environmentalism, Security, Business, Globalization, or any subject matter related to join us in Sofia. The Sofia International Model United Nations will be held July 18-25 2009. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi Looking forward on meeting you as a proficient leader at SOFIMUN this year, Mr. Jun-Hwan Park Secretary-General of SOFIMUN 2009 UN Parliamentary Assembly - international campaign United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) The SOFIMUN Foundation is proud to inform you that it is working forward on supporting and helping the international campaign for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA). The SOFIMUN is the 1st MUN event in the world and the 1st organization in Bulgaria contributing to the idea. The campaign will be presented also to the participants during the SOFIMUN 2009 conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The SOFIMUN Foundation is organizing initiatives in Bulgaria in order to find support for the idea to establish the first direct public representation in the United Nations Organization. The Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is a global network of parliamentarians and non-governmental organizations advocating citizen's representation at the United Nations. The Campaign's participants are united in their support of the Appeal for the Establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations. The list of initial signatories to the appeal has been made public in April and May 2007 during the launch of the campaign at more than one dozen events on five continents. The call for a UNPA now is supported by 642 members of parliament, further 2136 individuals from 132 countries and 173 NGOs on all continents. The first international conference was convened in November 2007 in the Palais des Nations in Geneva under the patronage of former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The Campaign's Secretariat is led by the Committee for a Democratic United Nations. 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__label__cc	0.748328	0.251672	What do you think about this comment re self harm? Post subject: What do you think about this comment re self harm? orange is a state of mind I was interested to read this short article about a joke being voted the funniest in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival near me. It relates to self-harm and it kinda made me cringe a little for Amy Winehouse I have to say. What do you think? Is this humourous? Or do you think a lot of self harmers will take it the wrong way? (ie when they're annoying they "deserve it") "Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez admin goddess from hell I just don't find jokes about inflicting harm on oneself or anyone else amusing at all. Back in the 1980's much of the House of Parliament burst into fits of laughter and catcalls and shouted "wife-beating" jokes to one another on being advised that 1 in 10 women were the victims of violence in relationships. That really served to bring to the forefront how humour is used to normalise events and behaviours that are not only harmful, but also reinforce socio-economic orders or expectations. I never want to live through that kind of shit again. Sorry for the rant... Whispered words of wisdom, Let it be. ~~ John Lennon Don't apologise, rant away! I didn't find the joke at all funny either and that's why I posted it here to see what other's thought. Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:45 pm I find dark humor funny. I don't know if it's because I think it's funny or because it's my way of 'dealing' with the world. I think in this case people might fond this particular joke funny, not because it has self harm, but because it makes fun of the singer. exploring my potential! I did not find this funny. I didn't get offended by it, as I didn't see it as making fun of SI as much as Amy Winehouse, but I found it tastless. Funny how we think that God made a mistake in creating us, and we forget that God doesn't make mistakes; he makes miracles. We are his miracles. Sarah wrote: That was kinda how I saw it, but much as I might not be her biggest fan, I did rather cringe for her, cos it can't be nice for anyone with those sorta issues to hear something like that said about them and then know a whole bunch of thousands of people agreed it was funny as hell to the point it made the news. I mean...ouch. So yeah, I think tasteless does kinda sum it up, it's a mean joke to make. [ 6 posts ] Moderator: post-mods	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line478
__label__cc	0.68308	0.31692	Intergenerational hit in SY! Stornoway News Residents of Trust Housing on Matheson Road are still grinning from ear to ear this afternoon (Friday November 8th) after their first experience of an intergenerational project facilitated by the Volunteer Centre Western Isles. Pupils from Primary 2 at Stornoway Primary School came to visit the residents at Trust Housing as part of a project designed to create new experiences and relationships between old and young. This morning the pupils and residents had their first encounter, getting introduced and learning each other’s names. Trust Housing manager Carol Ferguson told welovestornoway.com: “The children were a bit nervous when they first arrived but within two minutes they were chattering away. “It was great to see the resident’s faces all lit up. They are still smiling from ear to ear. The class has three sets of identical twins, so that was a real talking point and with many of them having grandchildren who are away on the mainland it was great for them to spend time with young children.” The project, led by Bellann O’Brien, is due to continue fortnightly until Christmas, but there’s a special visit next Friday when the children will be dressed up for Children in Need. And they’ve also been given Trust Housing’s teddy, Isla Lewis to take back to school for a week, so that she can tell her own tales of life at Stornoway Primary. One resident said: "It is so lovely to see the children, they have so much energy." Carol said: “In future weeks we’ll be talking about holidays, where the residents used to work, favourite foods and what Stornoway used to be like in the old days. We have five visits planned up to Christmas and we hope to continue the project after that.” The pictures show P2 children meeting Trust Housing residents today (Trust Housing and Volunteer Centre Western Isles). Other articles from your area New scheme to find missing people Police training against wildlife crime Stricken vessel tied up in SY Appeal to dog-owners after sheep attack WI babies get talking (updated) Muddy days for Isles sports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line482
__label__wiki	0.549368	0.549368	From Balfour to Banksy:Divisions and Visions in Palestine This film cover a wide range of views from occupied Palestine and asks “What Change Must Come?” Producer Miranda Pinch, daughter of a Jewish holocaust survivor, will join us for the screening and answer questions. Please join us on Saturday, 30th November at 2pm Shere Village Hall, Guildford Lane, Shere GU5 9HE Tickets cost £7.50 to include Palestinian Nibbles and Refreshments Also samples of Palestinian food to taste and buy. All profits and donations will go to the Hebron International Resource Network (HIRN), a grassroots organisation that helps Palestinians receive basic human rights such as healthcare, education, water and electricity. There will be a short introduction to its work before the film starts at 3pm. Tickets can be booked online at www.villagecinema.org/from-balfour-to-banksy or purchased from Caroline Evans (01483 202938), or on the door. Supported by West Surrey PSC – Peace, Justice and Dignity for Palestians Water, Fossil Fuels, Habitat and Sustainability in Palestine Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh will talk on "Water, Fossil Fuels, Habitat and Sustainability in Palestine". Prof. Qumsiyeh will explore how the crucial diversity found in the landscape of Palestine is being damaged as a result of the current situation. Restoring both social and natural ecosystems to balance requires challenging the Israeli occupation and dominance of the West Bank. As a Palestinian Christian, a biologist and a human rights activist, Prof. Qumsiyeh is uniquely positioned to explore these inter-linked questions. Prof. Qumsiyeh teaches and conducts research at Bethlehem University in Palestine. He is founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History,and the Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability. St Nicolas Church, Bury Street, Guildford GU2 4AW Monday August 12th, 7.30pm Next Event - The Palestine-Israel question and its Effects on UK Free Speech The Palestine-Israel question and its Effects on UK Free Speech with Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi. Naomi will explore how Israel and its ‘friends’ are promoting confusion about anti- Semitism to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour in Palestine. This strategy is dangerous as it threatens free speech here in the UK, and undermines the United Nations Declaration on human rights, with serious potential consequences for Naomi is media officer for Jewish Voice for Labour and executive producer of the film Witchhunt. She was a journalist with Reuters for many years before re- training as a teacher, working as a primary school literary specialist until retirement in 2017. A lifelong campaigner for social justice and human rights, she has played an active role in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to hold Israel to account for the injustices perpetrated against Palestinians. Friday June 7th, 2019 - 7.30pm This event was originally advertised with Glyn Secker. Sorry for any confusion. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi Event Cancelled We are sorry to inform you that Friday's planned talk on "The Palestine-Israel Question and its Effects on UK Free Speech" is cancelled due to bereavement in the speaker's family. We hope to re-arrange the event at a later date. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you. Woman in Hebron Event We heard a deeply moving account of life for ordinary Palestinian families in Hebron from our speaker Laila Hasan from the Women in Hebron cooperative at our public meeting in Frensham on Saturday afternoon, Women in Hebron HAPPY, HEALTHY, AT HOME? “Resisting occupation, creating a future” Short Notice Event Wednesday 27 June in Frensham	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line484
__label__cc	0.61513	0.38487	"I'm not the bad man." Mom, He's Doing It Again... Reading! Rallying! Writing! THE PURPLE PROSE OF CAIRO Two very different experiences today that I�d like to share with y�all. Last one first: Entertainment Weekly joins the New York Times in fair and balanced writer-bashing. Their cover story on the strike kind of stunned me. They�ve always been really sweet about my shows and I�ve read a lot of interesting stuff in there but holy boy are they missing the point. Their reporter has fallen into every cliched journalistic trap the congloms have ever set. I realize his magazine is owned by one of them, but I expected better. Let�s go in for a closer look. (By the way, I�m fully aware that I have turned into Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce at the end of the movie when he�s all strung out and not funny and just reading legal briefs during his stand-up, but further down I make this really awesome joke you�re gonna wanna tell all your friends, just wait.) �Labor disputes in Hollywood may not inspire the sort of tingly feelings of fraternal solidarity with the common man associated with, say, an uprising of mill workers. Some of the writer�s demands � keeping their names on movie posters, for instance � wouldn�t lure Norma Rae to a picket line. But make no mistake: when the Writers Guild of America announced that its members would be folding up their laptops until further notice, they picked a fight with producers, studios, and TV networks that could turn this town inside out over the next several months. And perhaps even alter the balance of power of the entire entertainment industry. �As always, the argument is over money. The writers want more.� You�re probably way ahead of me. We don�t do real work. We demand frivolous things. We picked a fight. We�re greedy. The article goes on to present both sides but that�s like letting a fight go four more rounds while one of the fighters is lying on the canvas. The damage is done. Does anyone believe we picked a fight? That the AMPTP didn�t have months (or, truthfully, 19 years) to make an equitable deal with us? And does anyone believe it has anything to do with poster credits? (Which, by the way, is a serious issue in a town where name recognition is directly related to job offers and salaries. But we didn�t walk out on our jobs over it.) As for more money, has anyone not done the math on the massive downloading of �The Office�, wherein there is NO money? Hey, that reminds of a fun thing: theft! (Editor�s note: theft is not a fun thing, unless Catwoman or Cary Grant is doing it. Then it is legally sexy.) At this point I uttered �Grrr�. �Arrgh� came on the next page. Let�s go to the videotype: ��so far nobody in Hollywood has figured out how to get really rich on the internet. If the writers and producers agree on one thing, however, it�s that someday somebody WILL � and they both want to be there with their wallets open.� Putting writers on a par with multibillion dollar companies is certainly an odd perspective. Their wallets are, shall we say, bigger. Than your house. (�Producers� is a misnomer in this case; most producers in television are writers. All television production is run through the studios now.) The sum total of the residuals being asked for in a year wouldn�t equal one of these moguls� salaries � it wouldn�t even scratch the actual yearly profit of their company. The paragraph continues with the famous argument Nick Counter presents against giving us a decent fixed percentage: There�s no �business model� for the internet, so we don�t know how much money there is. Okay, class, all together: two and a half percent is two and half percent NO MATTER WHAT. It is never more. However much money there is, or isn�t, it still almost all goes to them. Bored? I�d be, if I wasn�t so amazed. But I�ll move on the first event of the day � the rally at Fox plaza. Yeah, I schlepped out of bed to share my cold with some 4,000 writerly types and God I�m glad I did. I saw so many friends and comrades (plus two brothers and a sister-in-law), and got such a rush of genuine purpose and solidarity. How many events are gonna feature Rage Against the Machine, the Reverend Jesse Jackson AND Norman Lear? Twelve, tops. Much inspirational speechifying. (And a mom holding her little girl, who had sign that just said "Share.") Felt like hell going in, felt like hell-on-somewhat-wobbly-wheels coming out. (The only downside was that the rally was at the base of the Fox building, more commonly known as Nakatomi Plaza, and the overload of �Die Hard� jokes may have blown the grid for a few blocks. I�m as much at fault as anyone.) I guess being at the heart of something and then seeing an outsider�s gross misapprehensions about it was too much of a rollercoaster for this sick boy (not to be confused with Sick Boy from �Trainspotting�, who is less phlegmy and more confusingly hot). So I rant, and you have to suffer for it. And I totally lied about that great joke. I got nothin�. But I can�t let this shoddy journalism go unanswered. They have turned me into a blogger. And that I do not forgive. Let�s end with a list. Here are the films I WAS gonna write but now I�m on strike so America (and foreign territories) will never get to see them: 1) The Man With The Golden Thing 2) Seven Brides For Seven Draculas 3) Avenging Benji 4) Don�t Pick At It � Oh God, What�d I Just Say? 5) The Cars That Could Turn Into Robots But No, It�s Different 6) Wonder Woman 7) Cheese For Frieda That�s right. I had �em all outlined. It was gonna be my mature period. Damn shame. Thanks for logging on. I�ll behave from now on, I swear. All the bestiness, your own Mr Sexy Brain of 2007. [ edited by joss on 2007-11-10 05:32 ] [ edited by zeitgeist on 2007-11-10 07:17 ] joss \| Purple prose \| 23:31 CET \| 223 comments total \| tags: nakatomi plaza, die hard, confusingly hot, sick boy, lenny bruce, cairo, sock monkeys, beagles, missing joke, joss post, when, will, he, shut, up, avenging benji, cheese for frieda If you can vent anywhere, please, please vent here. Dunno how I missed you at the rally, but I'm glad you made it! But maybe take a break this weekend, rest man, rest! I did see some of your Mutant Enemy Alumns, all of whom were very pleasant, picts to come soon. And crap, the luck. I was looking forward to Avenging Benji! That's been too long delayed! bobw1o \| November 09, 23:40 CET Joss, please don't behave. anniem \| November 09, 23:41 CET Blast! Now Benji will never be avenged... You had me until you said 'Wonder Woman.' Studios are plenty foolish but even they know that such an idea would never work. Chin up, sir. pollaxt \| November 09, 23:44 CET Please, never shut up. I waved from the 8th floor. I wish I could have come down and brought you all cookies. IrrationaliTV \| November 09, 23:46 CET Please, never shut up. Too bad that magazine writer wasn't feeling the camaraderie. He's obviously bitter no one's picked up his manuscript yet. "6) Wonder Woman" See, now you're just breaking my heart. Get better, O Phlegmy one, [ edited by kazzmere on 2007-11-10 06:06 ] kazzmere \| November 09, 23:46 CET No! You DID have a joke! That 'Grrr' 'Arrgh' one was perfect! It's great to get to hear your perspective on this whole thing. I'm thoroughly enjoying reading your posts, and I hope you will continue to post in the future! kevingann \| November 09, 23:47 CET Joss, I know I'm not the first or last, but I do lurve you. (And lobe, always lobe.) I actually brought up the strike in class with my students yesterday. Which, you know, wasn't really RELEVANT to class, but sometimes current events are more important. And I just want to share with the world that I was so impressed at how very well informed some of them were about the whole thing. Better than I was, some of them. Others, of course, knew nothing about it, but were eager to learn (or at least eager to avoid learning what I had planned for them). And there was one girl who rather than playing Devil's Advocate actually WAS Devil's Advocate and felt the need to express the plight of writers who perhaps wanted to break the strike but are scared to. Which, you know, it's always good to have different perspectives. Anyway: you writers are out there where it counts, in the minds and hearts of the teenagers. And at least where I work, those people make the purchasing decisions. Kiba \| November 09, 23:48 CET Don't even think about shutting up on us, now. If we have no chance of getting any of the magic seven movies (all of which I would actually pay to watch or download) OR the fabled wonder of 'Dollhouse', 'Goners' or 'Ripper', the silver lining is that at least we are getting some infinite wisdom from yourself here on whedonesque. Any idiot who can see the figures can tell the writers are being ripped off. I only hope that the so-called media (that's YOU, NYT) who are frantically licking the bums of the networks get their comeuppance when might, and sense, prevails. And have their right to wear scarves taken away. missb \| November 09, 23:48 CET And to be fair, though it's certainly no cover story, ew.com does have a balanced article that comes down in the writers' favor. In fact, it's called "Why the Writers Are Right". One thing that I've heard that confuses me is people's tendency to say things like, "Why are the writers being so greedy? There are children starving in Africa!" Well, that would only be a valid point if the AMPTP were giving their share of the profits to starving children in Africa. It wouldn't matter if the writers were all millionaires; fair is fair. Edit: links confuse me [ edited by sorethumb on 2007-11-10 05:51 ] sorethumb \| November 09, 23:48 CET I had an interesting conversation with a co-worker today. She was on her lunchbreak and was about to watch "The Office" online. I asked her please not to do it because of the Writer's strike. She said that she heard something about it and that the writers wanted more money. I told her that well, yes that's true, but did she know how much money "The Office" writers and actors were getting for the episode she was about to watch online. "How much" she asked trying not to bored at yet another of my bleeding heart diatribes. (I gass on about two things- Joss Whedon related media and politics...God help the people who have to listen to me during the strike) "Nothing" "Nothing?" "Yes, so they are asking for more money than that, more than nothing" "Well that actually seems reasonable- I would want more than nothing too." So I promised to bring her my tape of the episode to watch at home and she agreed to join me in not watching online until the writers get paid for online "promotions" lauratd \| November 09, 23:48 CET Keep it up! I wish I could be there, but unfortunately, I am stuck in Boston listening to drunken versions of the backstreet boys. Sigh, and mom always says that College Students don't party... Anyways, we are all behind you! Keep stickin' it to the man! Sania D. Ps. Cheese For Frieda??? If you wrote ANYTHING on the topic I would be more than estatic. Cheese=my favorite food EVER. Frieda=Favorite female artist EVER!!! Sania Delian \| November 09, 23:52 CET um, i think it went more like "i aim to MISbehave" didn't it? cymerin \| November 09, 23:53 CET My hastily uploaded Rally picts That'll have to do for now, tried to include a decent variety of specific peoples, awe-inspiring wide shots filled with a thousand writers, and fun signs. I'd have put more but silly me shot at full rez, I'm almost at my account limit as it is! that's okay, All the best ones are here. Oh, and that's Jeff Garlin in the red shirt talking to the Reno 911 actors, apparently I didn't take a picture of him from the front. (side note: Mr. Garlin was on a local morning show that I listened to on my way to the rally. They gave him a large box full of porn DVDs that he left for the writers to take, which they did.) There's been a train of thought running through my head the past couple of days (my head has no actual rails, so it's a bit of a problematic thing), and not to come back once again to Buffy, but it involves that earlier discussion of power. What I realized was this: The studios don't have the power, they only have control. The power, of course, starts with whoever puts words to paper, and ends with whoever reads, watches, or listens to what becomes of those words. Or, rather, the power in creation is in that space between those two sides. In the age of the Internet (that thing the studios claim is so new they don't know how to give writers money from it), more than ever before that shared space between writers on the one hand and readers/viewers/listeners on the other is shrinking from a canyon to a room. So easy (relatively speaking) is it now for writers and readers to hear from each other that it's more and more clear to both sides that all the power lies in that space between them. The studios, meanwhile, are suddenly being revealed as having only control, but no real power. In fact, their control relied upon the assumption that they had the power, and depended upon the writers and the readers never actually being able to get together and notice this was BS. I don't mean the above to mean the usual "Internet kills off studios!" crap-hype. What I mean by the above is that even when some things still require the studios as a distribution channel, we're still at a moment when it's becoming increasingly obvious that it isn't the writers and viewers who depends on the power of the studios, it's the studios who depend upon the power of the writers and viewers. @theonetruebix \| November 09, 23:55 CET That was the most amazing moment of my day. I love you Joss. I aspire to be you some day. not in a stalker way. FaithsTruCalling \| November 09, 23:57 CET Add them to the pool! But the Internet is such an unknown! What if the studios make nothing on the Internet? If ALL the writers get 2 1/2 percent of nothing, that's going be really a lot, right? Math isn't my strong point, but I think the studios might go broke with percentages like that. btw: No late-term Lenny Bruce vibe yet. Still funny. jcs \| November 09, 23:57 CET No worries Joss, I hear keeping that stuff inside is unhealthy. Hm. But I also hear it makes you all mysterious and damaged and sexy. Catch-fucking-22. Ah, but you have the sexy brains all the zombies slobber for. Letting it out it is. Damn healthy, sexy people. And after reading bix's post, I have Video Killed the Radio Star stuck in my head. Banter \| November 10, 00:02 CET Never shut up Joss. You can rant you're sexy little brain off and we'll keep reading about it :) MySerenity \| November 10, 00:06 CET Damn, now I'm torn. Do I work to add more pressure from the fans and maybe help end the strike sooner, but lose Joss' more-frequent postings, or do I sit back and risk losing more Joss TV shows and movies? This is gonna be a three-pipe one, I can tell... C. A. Bridges \| November 10, 00:06 CET Power to the people!! Instead of criticizing the writers workers of America should look to them as an example and demand their own fair share. goingmad \| November 10, 00:08 CET P. S. Carry over comment from Joss's last post: RAGS! RAGS! You mentioned RAGS, Joss! I was in RAGS once. (I played Rosa.) And I stage managed it this summer. (I played the stage manager, that time.) Ooh. I just had an idea. But it requires I find my RAGS shirt. I'll have to do that later. I will post a picture! Never shut up! Never surrender! Hehe, I liked Wonder Woman being on the list the most. And brings back the memory of seeing playdough Joss playing with his little Grr-Argh monster on Robot Chicken. "Ah, come on, Joss. That's what got you kicked off of Wonder Woman." I also want to slip in a new term my friend Beth made, not even realizing someone as crazy as me would like it so much. Joss isn't God, because some people have no religious beliefs. He's the Jod. I'm with FaithsTruCalling. Love ya Jo(ss/d). And if they say its in a stalker way then they're just covering up their own petty crimes. No, seriously, no stalking from seven states over. WhedonTrivia \| November 10, 00:13 CET Dang it, wrong coast. I was at the NYC sites Thursday and Friday. No Joss, no Rage, no "yippie kay yay, motherfrakker". Just lots of love for the cause. And I think I saw Danny Strong! [ edited by evolutiongirl on 2007-11-10 06:19 ] evolutiongirl \| November 10, 00:18 CET keep on keepin on mr sexy brain 2007 ;) buffyfanatic18 \| November 10, 00:20 CET Grr argh! Stupid connection failed as I was trying to post! Take two: Joss, our one true master - You best aim to misbehave, bubba. And keep on misbehavin' 'til y'all get what you want. To quote a lovely young woman named Helen Slater in a movie some years ago: "Fair is fair! We didn't start this! We didn't mean for this to happen! But we're not giving up until you pay! FAIR IS FAIR!" (Thank you Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal) As our beloved Jayne Cobb said, "10% of nuthin' is...lemme do the math..." We're keeping the Bronze:Beta updated, and one poster has already said she won't buy any new DVDs until this is over, and she'll figure how much she would have spent on them & donate it to the WGA. Hmm...I just had a thought. I'll sell my Serenity merchandise (Flyers, postcards, keychains) and donate that money. Hey, mods? Is there a site for folks to list stuff for sale to raise funds? 'cause...I'm of the broke variety but I still want to help. ShadowQuest \| November 10, 00:24 CET If this strike lasts longer than a couple weeks, I foresee a book deal: Strike Essays by Joss Whedon. Even after reading them here, I would buy that book. :) Preferably after I went and saw Seven Brides for Seven Draculas, and especially if you got the Tamblyns for it. (But not for each other, of course! shudders delicately) cabri \| November 10, 00:25 CET Joss has lost his mind...Hannah like. Oh and for those pesky phlegm and post-nasal drip problems try Sinucleanse. Trust me, it's AMAZING. You just have to get over the whole "I put this where,and it does what?!" thing. ShadyLane \| November 10, 00:32 CET Take care of yourself, Joss. When you all get your contracts, we'll need you in tip-top shape to continue saving the world with your writing. Your blogs really have been the highlight of my life as of late, so please please don't stop sharing your thoughts with the Whedonesque-folk :) Keep on keeping on and I'll keep cheering for you from Ohio! minuet \| November 10, 00:47 CET I wonder if the producers have thought this through. When all is said and done, they'll have to deal with newly empowered writers who are now buff and trim. A super race of creative geniuses! I welcome our new athletic writer overlords, and look forward to the forced breeding program. "Does anyone believe we picked a fight?" The writers haven't picked a fight. The studios picked a fight the day they started disrespecting writers. Adamwankenobi \| November 10, 00:50 CET The way the strike is being portrayed is so messed up. I had to set two people straight about the facts today. and one of them is in a union. I think if people hear 'hollywood' they assume everyone is a millionaire. and I really do want to know more about this 'The Cars That Could Turn Into Robots' movie. that is an idea that intrigues me. would they be able to talk? ssick \| November 10, 00:53 CET There's absolutely no reason you should behave here. If anything we support your right to misbehave. ;) BrownCoat_Tabz \| November 10, 00:59 CET Sorethumb -- Just read the Mark Harris link. Ah, the warm glow of reason. Thanks. Kiba -- never saw RAGS, just love the score. Bix -- you pretty much nailed it. Reminds me how gratified I was that someone added "Checkpoint" to the Strike Flick list. That scene at the end was totally personal (thanks, pain!), but it absolutely applies politcally as well. Which is as it should be. People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. joss \| November 10, 01:02 CET The disinformation about this situation is rising to the level of out and out lies, it reminds me of the Administration feeding stories about the WMDs to the conservative press, who would believe anything without question. It is infuriating, and worse: frustrating. But b!x is right, not only don't the studios have all the power, they also don't have the only voice (no matter how much EW and Variety and LA Times try to 'spin' the strike). The fans support the writers and we are not going to get tired of repeating the truth. embers \| November 10, 01:03 CET You�re probably way ahead of me. We don�t do real work. We demand frivolous things. Let me get this straight...the guy whose whole career revolves around writing about entertainment for a magazine is criticizing as frivolous the very people who create that entertainment? Wow, I know somebody who had better not show his face at a Serenity screening anytime soon. ;) Shiai \| November 10, 01:07 CET It's hard not to love that you are coming here to hang out with us so much, Joss. Here's a pretty picture of you and your "Dollhouse (not coming soon)" sign from the Disney picket line the other day on the Variety website. You should also check out the MySpace profile pics of lots of us, all supporting the strike and the writers and all. It's just so gorram rockin', yo! :-D Also, I think your films 3 through 5 prove you're a dad. Esp. the picking at it thing. Now you are staying in bed for a few days until you get better, young man. No staying up past midnight reading comics under the covers with a flashlight, either. And I mean it! ;-) billz \| November 10, 01:14 CET I love that the Reno 911 guys have been showing up, in costume (and I presume in character). It's also so heartwarming to see Aly, Morena, Summer, David and other actors. In other news, the WGA East is not happy with Ellen DeGeneres. jam2 \| November 10, 01:21 CET I haven't read all the comments, I really have to run, but I NEED to chime in. Joss, the media seems not to be behind you. Well... everybody else is. You guys have the support of the fans, and we may not have the easy access to the masses that media does, but we'll make ourselves heard. The reporting is exactly what you called it: shoddy journalism. Also, a HUGE thank you from this wannabe writer. I'm in film school right now, learning how to structure everything, right down to this sentence (which I'm sure I screwed up... there's no act two at all.) I wish I could be out there on the picket line with you, but I can't right now. Every time I hear that this strike is about the "future generations" of writers, I just want to hug everybody out there. I may not make it. I know it's tough. But if (big if) I do, I'll be reaping the benefits of this strike, and words cannot explain how deeply I appreciate that. jfhlbuffy \| November 10, 01:22 CET "People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else." See? See why it's a bad idea to enrage brilliant writers? They'll go and write words that cut to the heart of the matter, and shine a big spotlight on what the bullies are doing. People who create are the rare and valuable, an irreplaceable resource. Distribution is a mechanism which can be accomplished in more than one way, and the methods are changing. The time is coming when the studios will need the writers more than the other way around. These conglomerates would be wise to recognize that this is the juncture to make things better, not worse, for the people who create their media. Joss... please keep posting. We're all kinda fans of that thing you do with the words... 11thHour \| November 10, 01:27 CET Jayne: Can�t get paid if ya crawl away like a bitty little bug, neither. I got a share of this job. Ten percent of nothing is, let me do the math here, nothing into nothing�carry the nothing� Joss, were you waxing prescient about internet profits? I'll take the percentage; knowing it's being figured out. Mal will find a way. I want to jump up and down, scream until I�m horse, then kick the shit out of something with my powerful hind legs. I just�don�t�get�it. When I am this fully flummoxed I want to turn green, grow big, and go all Hulk smashy. It�s not my usual approach. Usually I can come up with a simpler way of explaining a complex idea. But how much damn simpler does it get? Writers are the idea people. They think up the frick�n-frack�n stories. Pluck the story from the ether, like a magician pulling a bunny from a top hat. Only, when this bunny is slaughtered to provide nourishment the bunny handlers feel compelled to diminish the magician�s input into the enterprise? Bizarre. Totally and completely bizarre. Lets try it this way. Writers are grape farmers. They till their fertile (or desolate) imaginations and bring forth crops. The crops get processed (studios). The wine makers (directors, DPs, and all the others) do their thing. The masses get drunk. The concept is so startling simple. The creation of this art begins with the writers. How are they not some of the most celebrated individuals in the pipeline? Is it because anybody can try their hand at growing a grape vine (writing) but only those with expensive machinery are able to turn the grapes into wine? The wine makers know they need the best grapes to make the best wine. And the grape growers know that making a great wine takes skill, nobody�s arguing that. �is it because the label on the bottle promotes the wine makers and not the grape growers? The label on the bottle is important. It ought to have the writer�s on it. Prominent like. So when I get drunk on a good story I can look for other labels featuring the same writer. Oh, sour frack�n grapes and holy water! This analogy blows. Jesus created wine, and I guess he did it without grapes. Well, the studios ain�t Jesus. They need the grapes. Done. It�s too damned simple to argue. How do the studios do it? I guess when they have a lot of people banging on their door at all hours trying to get them to buy grapes to make the next bottle of wine, they can be pretty selective. Frick�n friars! Frick�n gluttonous friars! Got the fancy machinery and are playing god. We need the studio equivalent of a farmers CO-OP. ..and that�s enough of the obvious for me. I�m more of a Rogue Mocha Porter man, myself. RhaegarTargaryen \| November 10, 01:28 CET I wish I could have made it down to the rally to show some support and revel in the solidarity. Unfortunately, it wouldn't have been fair to my non-industry related boss and clients. I don't understand why anyone would even buy the "untested technology" argument. Why would the AMPTP fight so hard and dirty to prevent the writers from getting a percentage of nothing? I know Studio Math is a strange and mysterious creature, but there's absolutely no way to make that make sense on this or any other planet that I know of. MindEclipse \| November 10, 01:35 CET I've edited this post -- not for typos this time, but because I finally found the link I was looking for -- an essential piece in the L.A. times by the esteemed Marshall Herskovitz. Sheds more light and historical perspective on this whole thing. Check it out, yo. Time for sleeping. In my sleeping cap, clutching my teddy Spike, I drift into the nether world, where unicorns drink from a river of happy songs, and my eigth grade science teacher is naked AGAIN. Yeesh. ZZZZZZ, -j. Damn, I really wanted to see Seven Brides for Seven Draculas. One of the brides is a Love Bot, I'm sure of it. But now the world will never know. BTW, Joss: If Mutant Enemy Day happens, give us enough notice so the PDX Browncoats can send down our representatives and you won't have to beat up any more False b!X's. Thanks. [ edited by ElectricSpaceGirl on 2007-11-10 07:42 ] electricspacegirl \| November 10, 01:41 CET noooooo, i need a subscription to read the linky! Hmmm, Joss. I was at the Fox rally today... and I don�t remember seeing you anywhere. Ahhh, satire. There were 4000 people there. It was awesome. Pliny \| November 10, 01:43 CET Xander: "To read makes our speaking English good." Buffy: "Fire bad. Tree pretty." Giles: "Oh...bloody hell." Joss - my muse just went on strike. I was right in the middle of a life-or-death fight between Giles &...the Big Bad of my current fic and...poof! No more thoughts. Hate when that happens. So, if you happen to stumble across a small, kind of shy, brown-haired, visually-challenged muse holding a picket sign, please be gentle to her. Actually, cymerin, try this one. For whatever reason, if I take the cruft off the end of the link, it works for me. Silver lining of this strike: more Joss posts. I was at the rally today. What a sight, what sounds, what a feeling (Flashdance!). The CAA agents bearing pastries on platters was just surreal. And jam2, the Reno 911 guys were giving interviews to all the peeps with cameras, and they were definitely in character. Just... so completely awesome. My heart swelled with love when I saw the whedonesque table. This fandom rocks. orphea \| November 10, 01:53 CET headdesk i keep getting redirected/intercepted. i think, perhaps, ancient-laptop and i both need to go to bed (but not together, cuz i'm not a cylon). really, bed....i will read as the purple one wishes tommorrow. I dreamed someone was futzing with my tags and I woke up screaming! Thnaks god it was only a dream. I wish I could be at the strike to support you guys, but I'm in Australia. All I can really say is that I am behind you guys 110% in this - it is not fair that writers only get like 5c per DVD, which I heard is less than what the companies who make the DVD packaging get. That's absurd. These corporations are multi-billion dollar organisations, yet they can't afford to give the writers what they are rightfully entitled to? Watching the videos of the various showrunners and writers - and then of course the actors, et al out in support of these guys - picketing made me wanna be there because it's such a vital issue. And like some have already said, if it's not dealt with now, then writers won't get a chance to get what they deserve if they don't speak up. I'm also loving the fact that the entire Grey's Anatomy cast is behind this strike. Hee. :) But picket as long as you must, Joss and fellow writers, you have a lot of support behind you - and some of that support comes from halfway around the globe! :) Thomas \| November 10, 02:08 CET Big, big, big broad smile after reading the LA Times article. I felt a tiny joule of energy flip on its pole. That's either physics humor or something I got from the last bachelor party I went to. Nevertheless, all smiles here. 'Cause that's what I'm talk'n 'bout! Wow. I knew many of the production companies were partly owned by the networks but I didn't realize it had gone so far. I have to assume that the best new shows on TV this season would be even better if they didn't have to worry about their corporate owners jerking the leash every so once in a while. All season I have seen the results of this on Bionic Woman with its revolving door on the writers room. But then I see a show like Life which for me is the best new show of the season. How do they do it? Does someone or some entity run interference for them so they can get the job well done? Or is it perhaps a nefarious plot to get us addicted? and then BAM! like Heroes the second season turns to poo. Boring poo at that. Although I don't know of any interesting poo except maybe... O.O Time to go back to work. Beagles! Oh happy day! lexigeek \| November 10, 02:48 CET Thanks for the link and the thoughtful thoughts (see why we need writers?!) Joss. I am very excited about Marshall Herskovitz's upcoming series on the Internet. I'd taken notice of "Quarterlife" when he produced it back in 2005, and was devastated when the networks refused to pick up the pilot. He and Ed Zwick are amazing creative minds, much like Joss. I hope that it will be as much a success and a "fuck you" to the MPAA as Radiohead's release of "In Rainbows" was to the RIAA. I always knew intuitively that there was something wrong with the television industry, but this article makes things very clear. It is very demoralising and I can't help but wonder if the writers/show runners/actors could band together to move away from the obsolete business models that tv studios currently use. non sequitur \| November 10, 02:50 CET When are these namby-pamby writer types gonna loosen their scarves, let oxygen to their brains and realise that there's simply no money to be made from the internet ? Just ask the porn guys, they know how impossible it is. Or Ebay. Or Amazon. Jeff Bezos actually said he'd make more money digging ditches. Fact. Those poor schlebbs, toiling away for e.g. $78 million in profits a year, it'd bring tears to a glass eye. So please, just be quiet and above all, be grateful. You could be digging ditches for peanuts. Cancer curing ditches ! Filled with terrorists ! ... Won't somebody think about the children ? (personally I really feel for the multi-billion dollar studios which, though obligated to their shareholders to make money, are willing to just throw it all away by promoting YOUR shows on the money pit internet. It's virtually a public service. And how does the writers section of the public repay them ? Well, with multiple billions of dollars. But where's the love, hmm ?) Saje \| November 10, 02:55 CET I don't get it. What tags? Um...huggle? Sorry I couldn't make it down, I had this "school" thing that couldn't be helped. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE my first arrest to be connected to this strike, but truancy just seems like a lame offense...not nearly as cool as, say, chaining myself to a producer. I, did, however, try to explain the impacts of the rally to my second period English class. They snored as if they understood. Surrender to the blog side! Before ya know it, you'll have an LJ with a personalized Hello Kitty layout! BrightShiner \| November 10, 03:08 CET Look at the bottom of Joss' post. The ones at the end of Big J's post Buffysmglover. Tickled that folk looking for "Avenging Benji" will end up here ;). And just what was the "missing joke" ? Let the speculation begin. That's the most frustrating part, the average Joe American doesn't even know the facts behind the strike. And, judging from several news articles I've read on the event, neither does several media outlets which I find rather strange. You would think accurate reporting on a subject so close at hand? Here's a statement I recently read in an article from a major publication covering the strike: "The average annual salary of a Hollywood writer is well in the six figures, often to exceed $200,000." Yes, that statement was placed in general terms. I nearly fell out of my chair. That kinda' of salary only covers a tiny fraction of the writers, most are struggling just to make ends meet. Ironically, the same article included an interview from a writer who was worried about the length of the strike. A pilot she had wrote was accepted, but was now on hold due to the strike and she only had $6000 to live on until the end. Hmmm, what's wrong with that picture? And here's the hogwash that really cracks me up. The studios need time to study the market value of the internet. Pleeasse! They pulled this same trick back in '88 with the marketing of home videos and the writers finally gave in to reach a group agreement. Result? Writers only receive $0.03 per sale per copy. I want to say that again. That $19.95 dvd you're buying, the writers get 3 cents. The studio makes 50%-to-60% profit on the typical dvd sale. Back to the current internet issue, here's some points to ponder. Any of you recall when Ron Moore (of Battlestar Galactica) got hissy with Universal-NBC studios about his websoids about a year ago? Case in point. Viewership of the SCIFI site increased by five times when Moore offered these. Now, do they really expect us to believe this had no effect on their advertising rates? Need time to explore this new market my ass! Madhatter \| November 10, 03:23 CET Avenging Benji? Would've just been a cheap knock off of Slightly Irked Lassie anyway. kerfuffle \| November 10, 03:23 CET Oh, wow! Everyone pick your favorite tag, and maybe more can appear later to give us a larger variety. I choose SOCK MONKEYS. Both sides are making decisions. This strike is putting a lot of people in the industry out of work - taking rent checks and health insurance with it. This strike is taking scripted TV off the air and replacing it with shudder reality TV. This strike will kill the stride of certain shows and put entire staffs out of work - ending careers and murdering beloved characters. I like to be amongst the first on the bandwagon, so let me say that I'm already tired of the strike and I want it to go away. Others will, of course, jump on as well - although I'm betting that sentiments won't really start to swing until people start to miss their scripted shows. Regardless, as long as both sides make decisions that prolong this thing, I'm not going to be thinking that either side deserves to wear white hats. jgsugden \| November 10, 03:25 CET hehe... the tags, the tags! Joss' brain is doin' the wacky thang and it's stream of consciousness hi-larity... snarf Hey don't Bogart that cold medicine dude, pass it over... and keep on keepin' on... postin'. The Man can't keep you down!!! I am seriously on my own sleep deprivation inspired wackiness myownself. No one's gonna read this, right? [ edited by 11thHour on 2007-11-10 09:27 ] From the "Why the Writers Are Right" article sorethumb mentions above: "Studio chiefs who are smart enough to know better even hauled out a tired old maxim attributed to the late MCA titan Lew Wasserman � 'My plumber doesn't charge me every time I flush the toilet' � and repeated it in perfect Karl Rove everybody-stay-on-message lockstep. Ugh. Lines like that give you a taste of what the entertainment world will be like if management ends up doing its own writing. Not to belabor an already disgusting analogy, but writers � and directors and actors, who have their own renegotiations coming up � aren't the plumber: They're the water. Without them, nothing goes anywhere, and you end up with a toilet full of...well, let's just say 'reruns.'" To belabor the analogy even more, the water company does charge you every time you flush the toilet. Sure it may be a minuscule amount but it adds up over time, and if the water company supplies 20,000 toilets with water, it makes a pretty decent profit. So if a writer gets half a penny every time a show he's written is streamed online, over time that may just pay his water bill. Regardless, as long as both sides make decisions that prolong this thing... For the sake of context here, everyone remember that the studios were crowing about the DVD residuals being the sticking point to getting anything done. So when the two sides were pulled back for a meeting last Sunday, the WGA took the DVD issue off the table. The studios continued to say screw you. So before we go and get self-righteous and pretend that the two sides are somehow both making decisions to prolong this strike, please keep in mind that given the studios BS in the above situation, why should the WGA believe for a moment that the studios would negotiate in good faith without first having to endure the growing pressure of a strike? The studios said the DVD issue was preventing a deal. The writers took it off the table. The studios still wouldn't deal. For me, that places the WGA squarely on the side of right. [ edited by theonetruebix on 2007-11-10 09:32 ] And not only that, the studios then spun events so that it was the writers that were to blame for negotiations breaking down, just about as far from the truth as can be. Hard not to be cynical when the studios' owners also own large chunks of the media reporting on the strike (and probably play golf with the rest). Rupert Murdoch for one is known to take an interest in the slant of stories that are run in his papers. At the end of the day the writers aren't striking for world peace, they're striking for a fair piece, in that sense they're not saving the world but then, who is ? Nobody's hat's white in this life, you just try to keep your grey one sparkly ;). Dunno MadHatter, that may not be complete bollocks. That's the problem with averages, they can be skewed very badly by very high (or low) outliers (in this case the 25% of screenwriters that earn 6 figures in a given year). S'why the median, as mentioned on fans4writers is a much better measure. [ edited by Saje on 2007-11-10 09:42 ] So, I took a look at my book contract. If Salon.com liked one of my essays enough to want to print it, they�d have to pay a bit of money to my publisher. I�d get a bit of money, as would my agent for so fabulously representing me. The same goes for things like anthologies as well. Just because I sold my book to my publisher doesn�t mean that they can then sell pieces of my work off to anthologies, newspapers, or magazines, whether it�s a web publication or paper and ink, without giving me a cut of the profit. Internet was boilerplate in my contract. Which is as it should be. Resale is part of the business model of publishing. If an excerpt from To Kill A Mockingbird shows up in an eighth grade textbook, Harper Lee makes a bit of money. Annie Proulx�s Brokeback Mountain is an example of the Holy Grail of publishing. A short story, sold in anthologies, reprinted again and again, film rights�it�s been repackaged and resold again and again and again. Who should profit? Annie Proulx, most definitely. She created something where there was nothing but a blank sheet of paper, and that creation made a lot of people a lot of money, from the typesetter of the first printing, to Ang Lee. Okay, the typesetter made a lot less than Ang Lee. But you get the point. And it's the same when Joss sells a show to a studio, isn't it? a flurry of jobs are created: Carpenters, wardrobe, casting agents, actors, painters, editors, caterers, drivers...it's like its own small business, generating millions in paychecks going to people, because a writer created something where there was once nothing. So it's a puzzling thing to me that other writers don't feel a sense of brotherhood, of understanding. The NYT writer who sneered about "so-called new media"...I mean, I read that hit piece on NYT online - which is the new media. Did the journalist get paid for his article appearing in two different mediums, with two different sets of advertising? Or just once? If my publisher decided to toss my book up on the net, with an assload of advertising, without giving me a percentage, my agent would go berserk. If the Times writer just got the same paycheck he would have gotten before the Times was available online, does he not wonder why, if the Times is now getting revenue in bth print and electronic versions, he isn't being paid for more, since his work is being repackaged and resold? Or is he okay with giving away his work on the net for free? Maybe the Times online is only a promo of the paper version. Maybe the Sudafed I took just kicked in. Allyson \| November 10, 03:50 CET Thank you for the update, Joss. Blogging is a perfectly natural and normal outlet for a mature gentleman such as yourself. The risks of blindness have been exaggerated and the rash only lasts a few days if you keep it dry and let the air circulate. Regarding EW and the NYT, is it simply print media bosses setting the tone or is there some sort of long-standing rivalry/resentment between writers and journalists which comes to the fore at times like these? Whichever, some allies would be handy. Keep strong. Get healthy. Remember. Air. Circulate. malcolm \| November 10, 03:50 CET That's what proves it for me, too. :-) BTW, do we have a Cheese for Frieda fansite yet? Or a postcard campaign to Save Avenging Benji? It saves time, is all I'm sayin'. Also, didn't Metallica prove the point like, TEN YEARS AGO with Napster? Sudafed. It's Sudafed. Madness. Something I've been wondering... about the 4 cents per DVD residual. Now I understand that, for example, if I buy a DVD copy of Tim Burton's "Big Fish", screenwriter John August receives 4 cents. When I buy, for example, the fifth season of Buffy on DVD... how does the residual payment work? Is the four cents split between all the writers who worked on that season? Or does each writer get four cents? Or (less likely) do they get four cents for each episode they penned? I'd like to think they each got four cents per set, but it wouldn't surprise me if the studios wanted the writers to split four cents into eight (or ten or however many people wrote for season five Buffy). Joss? crossoverman \| November 10, 04:05 CET Saje, you're speed reading again, please read the post in full;) 11thHour, we haven't forgotten. I did read it in full 'Hatter, my point being what you say afterwards about it only covering a fraction of writers doesn't preclude it also being the average earnings for the reasons I mentioned relating to average and median figures. I.e. the journalists assertion may be true (albeit not the "whole truth" so to speak). Again, sorry I'm late. I had to talk a newbie through saving post-game interviews from last night's Kings game. Anywho, it's too bad we'll never see Seven Brides for Seven Draculas, although that sounds like a remake of a Hammer Studios vampire flick. I'm not surprised Entertainment Weekly is not taking the side of labor in this dispute, because it's part of the Warner Brothers empire. Would management own a magazine that tells them they've been jerks in this dispute? I think not. It's better to have a magazine that makes them look good. Meanwhile, news outlets think the general public care more about Paris or Britney and what they are or aren't wearing than what is a fair wage. Strikes against "real "industries like cars or mining just mean more to people. People are responding to the writers strike as they did when baseball or hockey players went on strike, mostly with apathy. The public may not care until they wake up one morning, and see ultimate fighting on CBS (this is actually being discussed), American Idol seven days a week, and sitcoms taken from MySpace and YouTube. This is a poor substitute for Ugly Betty, Gregory House and Jack Bauer. But maybe that feeling may come sooner if NBC really dares to bring back the Tonight Show without Jay Leno. Who would want to guest host, and what A-list star would want to appear? Anyway, just keep the faith, and hold those pickets high. [ edited by impalergeneral on 2007-11-10 10:16 ] impalergeneral \| November 10, 04:15 CET Ahh, sorry, bad wording on my part. Thanks for the catch! Reading your thoughts about the strike really refreshes me for going back out into that scary interweb fandom and agitating for support. Thank you for posting. Now, rest and warm fluids. And keep posting occasionally. But don't let it interfere with getting well. Is this original Joss? If not, whose is it? I plan on using it, I really hope it's Joss. sadimac \| November 10, 04:36 CET I understand that in 1988 the networks dragged out the writers' strike for five long months, and in the end the writers won, and the networks had lost 10% of their viewers. Personally I wasn't paying close attention to that strike back then, but it was during the time I finally got cable and my viewing habits changed dramatically. I don't see how the networks seriously expect a different result, do they think they will be better off in losing even more of their audience share (because from my understanding they never got that 10% back)? It seems mystifying to me that they seriously expect a better result. crossoverman, I'm pretty sure the residuals are set and would get split among the writers (on a feature too). That part seems fair to me. If I build a car, I wanna pay a set price for the engine, regardless of how many people put it together (it's still 1 engine). BTW, I believe the DVD residual formula is actually based on percentage of revenue, and the "4 cents" is just a typical value for a $30 DVD. (i.e. A $60 DVD set would produce 8 cents for the writers, and so on.) It seems mystifying to me that they seriously expect a better result. To go back to power and control: Those with control frequently overestimate the power they possess, most especially when they have less than they want other parties to believe. When the parties got called back in last Sunday, no doubt the studios saw this as power in their favor. "Hah, see? They talk a good strike game, but here they come crawling into talks again. We've got them now!" Unfortunately for them, the writers knew that the strike threat was real, and then also proceeded to call the studios' bluff re: DVDs. (Blow number one to the studios' sense of power, and their overconfidence.) Then, once the strike began, most of the showrunners stopped working. (Blow number two to the studios' sense of power, and their overconfidence.) Point being: They expect a better result because they're still acting as if the writers (and their allies) haven't noticed who actually has the power. Joss! You and (and your phlegm, which acccompanies you everywhere) have to keep stopping by this often! Even though it comes at not the best of times, it helps. And I enjoy it. I didn't read any of the above posts, but I'm sure there's an interesting discussion happening. For now: sleep. Arabchick \| November 10, 04:58 CET RAGS has the loveliest of strike music. "Sisters we stand, brothers hand in hand, all for bread and freedom, one union we stand..." Come be one of my students, BrightShiner! They care! This is from the show runner of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES (yeah, it's okay to post): I was asssigned to Gate 4A at Warner's--a very small gate only frequented by executives. I thought this was sort of the generic toothpaste of gates until a few fat white dudes rolled past us into the executive lot driving eighty thousand dollar cars and giving us the finger. And while I have had many suits in many forms over the years tell me to figuratively fuck off as they mangled my screenplays, it is not til you see that actual finger from an actual person do you realize how few times in your adult life someone has actually told you, to quote the great Arnold Schwartzenegger in Terminator: FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE. [ edited by gossi on 2007-11-10 11:32 ] gossi \| November 10, 05:32 CET So tired I almost didn't log on tonight, so glad I did. "They have turned me into a blogger. And that I do not forgive." Joss, that is the only goodness they have done so far. Please blog on. Here (and elsewhere as well if you so desire, but .... here, really. Please. But lots of rest and lots of fluids. Your mantra for the duration should be "hydrate, hydrate, hydrate". "CAA agents bearing pastries on platters". Please, someone tell me there are photos. P.S. I want a teddy Spike ;) Shey \| November 10, 06:07 CET The Man really has to keep writing in some form, don't you, Joss? Thank goodness this is a place where you can do that and we can enjoy your purple prose, so to speak. ;-) Don't forget about us completely when you do go back to work, but in the meantime, keep posting (we'd love you to visit Goners!) - and get better soon. We look forward to phlegm-free scripts for Dollhouse - and Goners (pretty please) - when the strike is over. samatwitch \| November 10, 06:11 CET Yeah, we remain true to ourselves. I must ask, Shey, a teddy Spike? Madhatter, thanks for the thoughts upthread. On the subject of the perception of this issue to the general public, I really hope the average peep on the street finally does the math and sees: � If new media is really only "promotion" and doesn't generate any money, then why deny writers their percentage of zero? � If new media is actually a money generating source, then it's only logical that the creative folks who made it possilbe should be paid a fair percentage. The result still will be that the studios will still make a much greater profit than the creative folk are paid. This is certainly not a precedent, it's called residuals, or perhaps a better term is profit sharing. So when the studios refuse to agree to pay a percentage of the money made from new media, they are as good as admitting that it will be a significant source of revenue... otherwise, they wouldn't care. This is a pivotal time in how much say creative people have over the content they create. For too long the keys to the kingdom have been held by those who would be happy to keep the creative community virutally powerless and beholden. The Internet is a sea change in how content is distributed, and that means the keys to the kingdom are becoming irrelevant... the doors of distribution won't have locks on them anymore. I believe 'Seven Brides for Seven Draculas' is on Tarantino's slate at the moment. Joss would make it better, but it is promised to be 'the most disgusting film since... Tarantino's last film... but with singing!' so that's a plus... insistondoubt \| November 10, 06:49 CET Don't you dare behave, Joss. You're rants here help keep our spirits up as much as fan support encourages the writers! Love's Bitch \| November 10, 06:59 CET 11thHour, I fear your second option is true. "The Cat: You mean, why did I take up stealing? Oh, to live better, to own things I couldn't afford. To acquire this good taste which you now enjoy, and which I should be very reluctant to give up. Mr Hughson: Oh, you mean you were frankly dishonest? The Cat: I tried to be." Jademaliburoad \| November 10, 07:25 CET 11thHour, I've been following the perceptions of the average peep at various forums around the internet and I hate to say it but the general public has a very hard time seeing beyond the fact they they aren't being spoonfed all the episodes of their favorite television series this season. 90% of the opinions that I'm reading don't venture much further than complaining that 24 has been delayed or that Lost will not have a full run this next coming year. For every informed opinion about why this is really happening I'm seeing five comments that still think this is just about US writers wanting more money. The problem lies in that to many people television really is just a way to kill a little time. They don't follow the behind the scenes stuff and so when something like this happens they just don't get it. Most people probably wouldn't be able to name a single writer of their favourite series. Desperate Housewives is absolutely massive but how many of those people watching could care less about reading the names of the people that created it, other than the faces they see on screen? We are definitely in the minority here at Whedonesque and the various other online fandoms of television series like Supernatural, Lost and Battlestar Galactica. How we follow a show goes way beyond just the story we watch or the actors involved. We actually take notice of the people that created that story and gave those actors words to speak. Because of that we know that the writers are doing the right thing by striking. We know they have no choice and are trying to make certain that their pay in the future is secured and fair as the medium in which they are working is changing. I'm just really hoping that the general public's ignorance in these matters doesn't create a backlash against the writers that will only favour the suits. Maybe the most important thing we can be doing to aid the writers is to get the truth out to those that may not be hearing it. RokkRage \| November 10, 07:45 CET RokkRage just said everything I wanted to, but better, and saved me the time. So, thanks for that. Ultimately, yeah, as soon as these shows start dropping off the air -- and they will, very shortly -- people will piss and moan online. I saw a post online yesterday on one of my sites, which read "Fuck the writers". Because BSG wasn't getting it's full 20 episodes. I was like, yeah, I think you've missed a thing about who actually makes a show happen. Dear Mr. Whedon: You am awesomes. That are all. Official! Craig Oxbrow \| November 10, 08:06 CET Madhatter, Joss said, somewhere way up, "Time for sleeping. In my sleeping cap, clutching my teddy Spike." Now that's an image I wont be forgetting anytime soon. ;) Yeah, guess we're rattling our jaws a bit too much. Joss, your voice will always be welcomed here, no matter what. PS: Shey, you still didn't explain the teddy Spike. Wait! Just caught the last. Nevermind. It was me, Joss; I messed with your tags. Really! I write, in part, as well. It is never easy, no matter how easy it is. It gets taken for granted. But as I look around at some of the writers on strike, like Joss and others, there are NO shows without them- these are the people who bring people alive. Keep ranting, oh royal purpely one. Dana5140 \| November 10, 08:46 CET In regards to the Networks losing 10% of their viewing audience last time and not learning from the past, may my cynical side intrude and point out that they may very well have learned from the past? Let's suppose for a moment that the networks have already accepted the eventual demise of television in favor of the internet. Wouldn't it make sense for them to throw away part of the TV audience in favor of protecting their profits from the media they anticipate will be making them their money in the future? It makes their intractability that much more logical. Feel better Joss. Oh, and you don't have to bring the funny for us to be interested in what you have to say. We are not like those guys we women encounter who are only interested in pretending to listen to what a woman has to say if there might be sex involved afterward. Right folks? Anybody there? It's OK, they'll all rally around in a minute. newcj \| November 10, 09:03 CET Keep on blogging, Joss. Man's gotta write. The hocus-pocus of the studios, "We may have nothing, so we must deny you a percentage of nothing or we will not survive," is such a perfect miniature model of the nonsense we are fed, and most of us buy, every day. It's right there with the smoke and mirrors approach of-"We can't pay our employees more, and we have to lay people off, so we can afford to pay some CEO, with some mystical nonspecific CEO qualification, gazillions of dollars to run this company into the ground (and then pay him extra to get rid of him.)" For some reason, much of the public is not only willing, but eager, to buy this kind crazed illogic. Is it, like, identifying with the bullies in the hope that maybe they won't beat you up? That's how the bullies keep control, when they fool us into thinking they have the power. Interesting how pro-business types are so eager to "trust the market" when it's all about acting cutthroat in their favor, and then think it's unfair when essential workers use their economic power. It's the old Emperor's New Clothes story. Except I think folks really manage to convince themselves that the guy's wearing a great new outfit. Mystifies me. [ edited by toast on 2007-11-10 15:15 ] toast \| November 10, 09:06 CET I'm coming late to this party, but I wanted to respond partly to Allyson's post above. Allyson is very fortunate in her contract with her publisher. But, such contracts are not extended to all writers. Academic writers in my field are now being asked to surrender any claims to copyright, or their work won't get published. The reason? So the publishers don't have to go to the authors if an article might be included in an anthology or reader, and so they don't have to go to the authors for internet publications. Most academic authors in my field get no payment at all for published articles, and the sum total of the royalties on my first book was well under $100 (despite reasonably healthy sales, compared with other academic books, and my having arranged for payment for all illustrations, thus cutting the publisher's costs). The publishers know that the academic authors must publish to keep their jobs, so they can get away with such tactics. I gave copies of Joss's long post earlier this week to students in one of my classes, along with copies of listserv messages concerning this woeful state of academic publishing today, and I spelled out the similarities for the students. There may be ways in which the writers' strike--particularly with respect to internet returns--might have an effect on other writers' lives, and I wanted my students to understand this. I also wanted my students to understand that, even though they write non-fiction, they contribute to our culture in analogous ways to creative writers, for their work is the product of their own brains and creativity. By the end of this discussion, I think my students saw how this strike might have an impact on their lives apart from interrupting their TV viewing habits. palehorse \| November 10, 09:11 CET Oh, you know it wasn't a dream, and waking up screaming is so therapeutic :) Someday I will be recognized as the tag futzing graffito genius that I am! Alternately, "Please don't hurt me! It was very late and I was very silly.". zeitgeist \| November 10, 09:40 CET This quote has been bothering me -- "Studio chiefs who are smart enough to know better even hauled out a tired old maxim attributed to the late MCA titan Lew Wasserman � 'My plumber doesn't charge me every time I flush the toilet'...Not to belabor an already disgusting analogy, but writers � and directors and actors, who have their own renegotiations coming up � aren't the plumber: They're the water." Not only was cabri right by saying "To belabor the analogy even more, the water company does charge you every time you flush the toilet. Sure it may be a minuscule amount but it adds up over time...", but it goes one step further (more analogy stretching) -- Your plumber charges you a one-time fee for that toilet because you own it and are not making a profit from it. If you charged people who used your bathroom, maybe the plumber would want a share of your fees (and also you would be really weird and lose all your friends, but that's another story altogether). So there was no way in which the analogy applied, ever, except for the studios wanting you to hear it and not think about it and accept it. (Yes, this does smell of Karl Roveitude.) The studios/networks are claiming they don't know how much they can earn from the interwebs and need time to study it before they can think about residuals. Then why did Fox and Universal team up to start Hulu? They even pulled eps of The Office from iTunes to put them on Hulu b/c they claimed they weren't getting high enough payments from Apple, IIRC. And if they don't know how to make money from new media, why did they shut down Buffy Sing-Alongs, which I think is some kind of new media, too (I mean, playing a DVD of a cancelled TV show in a movie theatre has to be new, right?), for not having the right license (meaning, not paying for the correct form of rights)? And, as many people have pointed out, if they agree to a percentage instead of a flat fee, then they don't have to know the exact amount, they will just pay out a, you know, percentage, which is something even the esteemed Mr. J. Cobb is able to figure out. Untruthful lies told by lying liars. It's the search for WMDs all over again. ;-) er, I mean :-( no, I really mean >-( <- angry eyes emoticon Speaking of percentages, IIRC from one of the 10 billion articles I've read online this week, the $.04 per DVD now is a percentage, not a flat fee. I think the percentage is something unbelievably low, like .3%, which the writers want to increase to .6%. Those decimal points are for real; they aren't even talking about an entire percent here, but 2/3 of one. Un-frakkin'-believable that the studios are having such a hissy fit over such small figures, no matter how much that adds up over the course of 200,000 flushes, er, I mean, copies of a DVD sold. ;-) Joss--it might be time to command your troops. We're aware and we're everywhere. Now, two things: First, is it possible that the studios are being run by a dark lord of the sith? I haven't seen one Star Wars actor or related person in the fray. Second, what this strike needs is a good old fashioned hoax. What kind of hoax? I'm torn, I really dont know the best option with the most positive outcome. I was thinking maybe float a story about how WGA will be opening the doors of their television studio in the next 6 months and they are bringing all the on-screen talent with them. If this gets ugly, a viral story about how the studios are distributing blankets infected with real viruses to get the writers sick. (Nah, who would ever believe someone could be so blood thirsty and heartless to do that to another human being.) alexreager \| November 10, 10:19 CET I am certain that all sensible citizens of the US recognize the truthiness of the studios' position as promoted via their partially or wholly-owned news organs... um, wait a minute... where did I see that WMD (an american expat in Toronto) baxter \| November 10, 10:23 CET Joss- Really we love it when you post. I can't imagine how disheartening it is to read all the negative media, but if it helps we are all trying to get the word out (the real word, not the negative conglomerate stuff) and we're all 100% behind you. kballgetlost \| November 10, 10:31 CET Thanks for the update, It's really a goram shame that you have to strike in respect to that it's had to go this far. You would think that people would understand without writers like yourself there is no media and no media causes no advertising for people that like to advertise stuff :P Yes i realise that is a major look on things but hey no advertising no business? Also it sounds like a line of of firefly regarding the 2.5% as i'm sure you would be aware being the produce/writer/genius of it all "7% of nothing is, carry the zero, nothing!" or something along those lines please correct me if i'm wrong. But keep up the good fight! behind you 110% even if i am on the otherside of the globe :P xtallx \| November 10, 10:32 CET I'm deeoly disappointed that "The Man with the Golden Thing" will never see the light of day. Seriously, I'm behind you and all the writers 100%. Reddygirl \| November 10, 11:07 CET I've been too away to even read, much less post, but am back temporarily to express pride in (1) Big Purple Dudes and (2) their multi-hued, multi-sized, multi-gendered (yes, you too) but equally supportive supporters. [ edited by Pointy on 2007-11-11 01:54 ] Pointy \| November 10, 11:39 CET The residual deal for reruns and such was for 2.5% of the profit. The deal for videos (and later DVDs) was for writers to take an 80% cut in their residual rate, since videos were a new experiment and this would, according to the companies, help keep prices down. Also according to the companies, that rate could be adjusted later. So the writers allowed their residual rate for videos and DVDs to be .3% 22 years later and that rate has never changed, even though DVDs are cheaper to produce, ship and store. Writers are asking for that rate to be increased to .6%, which is still nowhere near the original residual rate they got for reruns. The companies flatly refused, originally saying this was the dealbreaker. When the WGA pulled that demand at the last minute, the companies still refused to negotiate and walked away, telling the writers to keep the results quiet and then going out and blasting their skewed version on all the news media. What the companies are really holding fast on is new media, i,e, the Internet and phone streaming and whatever. If they can hold out and not pay the writers anything for those, when the audience moves towards online entertainment as their main source the writers will be completely shut out. Writers are already feeling the pinch as networks show fewer reruns, opting instead to just put the episodes online. The part to remember is that residuals are not bonuses or extra money. Residuals are the second half of the money originally promised. The companies are trying to weasel out of them, and doing everything they can to keep the viewing public confused about it. There's one here, and I know I saw another one but I can't find it right now. I did not see Mr. Whedon yesterday at the Fox rally, but encountered Mike Boretz (Mr. Whedon's assistant), Morena Baccarin and Dennis Christopher (Cyvus Vail from "Angel"), plus Whedonverse-by-association Emily Deschanel. SAG members are being very supportive. Also saw the Whedonesque table with mini-muffins. I heard writers further down in the crowd talking about how it was so great that there was a support table of "Fans 4 Writers," so even writers who have no idea what Whedonesque is were appreciative and touched -- yay, dreamlogic, et al! It should be noted that, besides the CAA churros, the William Morris Agency had a table staffed by assistants offering coffee and bagels. There were also donuts of unknown (to me) provenance. I saw a chocolate-covered buttermilk, got all Homer Simpson and went, "Mmm, donut!," ate it and then wondered if someone anti-strike had spiked the donuts with something nasty. Haven't become any more mutated than I already am, so I guess not. Several people were sporting picket signs with the image of Montgomery Burns and the simple acronym AMPTP. Shapenew \| November 10, 11:47 CET The rhetoric level on these issues is getting ridiculous. While I have a great deal of sympathy for the writers I am very unclear as to the justness of their cause. To this point I haven't seen anything that adequately explains their position on how the internet impacts them. I have seen one person saying that internet downloading will replace residuals from reruns. That certainly is not the situation at present and if there is a case for making it so, it has yet to be made. That doesn't mean that a case can't be made. The producers have been saying that at present the internet usage currently in dispute is promotional in nature and there are no revenues associated with it. Some of the writers claim that there ARE revenues, the general ad revenues of the site. That is a lame argument so there must be something more at play. My internet usage of TV shows has been to catch up with missed episodes of certain shows. When a show is highly scripted anything that helps you catch up is a godsend and that is imho promotional in nature. Also watching a show on a computer monitor will never relplace watching on the average TV. So would someone puhlease explain the internet impact a little better? Thx. The most damaging thing I have read was the article by Marshall Herskovitz. Quite frankly I was appalled. I thought that the 1995 FCC rule change had only allowed a severely limited amount of network ownership. If the article is correct this needs to be changed immediately. JDL \| November 10, 11:49 CET When you "catch up" on a show -- ie watching the work the writers and exec producers have done -- they get paid nothing, as the networks currently refer to it as promotional. You might think that is fine. The writers do not. "The producers have been saying that at present the internet usage currently in dispute is promotional in nature and there are no revenues associated with it. Some of the writers claim that there ARE revenues, the general ad revenues of the site. That is a lame argument so there must be something more at play." Streaming episodes online have ads in them. Presumably the companies are being paid for that advertising. Why shouldn't the writers get a cut of that revenue? And while watching on a TV is now the norm, more and more people are hooking their computers up to flatscreen TVs to watch downloaded material, and there is every sign this will become more common. As stated in my previous post, the last time the WGA and the companies made a contract the writers were lied to and stiffed. I don't see why they ahve any reason to expect anything different now. And those are not the "general ad revenues" of the site. They are spcifically placed on the streaming episodes, right where the the commercials would go if the show were broadcast on television. By your own admission, your usage of streaming videos has been to catch up on missed shows. Why don't you just wait until they get rerun on TV? That's when the writers get the residuals -- agreed-upon deferred payment for the script, money they were promised. But instead it is more convenient for you to go online the next day and catch it there, and this is fine. Except the writers get nothing for that, and it's a trend that is clearly growing. They want to settle this now, before it becomes the norm. [ edited by C. A. Bridges on 2007-11-10 18:03 ] Chris, advertising in stream is actually premium advertising space, as people can't skip the adverts. They have to watch them. For anyone who still can't get into the LATimes article, it may be because you are out of the country. Using something like hidemyass.com should help. Lioness \| November 10, 12:05 CET Well, gossi, they don't HAVE to watch them, they can turn the sound off on their computer and wait until they are done... like I do. But the whole point, JDL, is that broadband and internet are merging technologies and before long it will ALL be the same thing. If the writers allow themselves to be shut out of the new technologies then they will be shut out of all residuals for the future. Historically and traditionally it has been seen as good for society to protect the rights of the creative talents, and to control the greed of the corporations. This is a righteous fight. Exactly gossi which means it'll only grow in the future since the networks are currently crapping themselves about DVRs and skippable advertising. The inclusion of ads is key as far as i'm concerned. Frankly, there's no way to tell how many people view online that have already viewed by broadcast, to those people the streaming shows basically are promotional tools BUT as long as the network is being paid for the advertising i.e. is making money from the streamed shows then why shouldn't the writers get their share ? It's been said ad nauseam but a mere percentage costs the studios nothing if the shows make no money so why not just accept it ? The only reason that suggests itself is the studios know that streamed shows will be huge and want to keep as much (or all) of the pie for themselves. That's not on. C.A.Bridges, I don't even own a television. True. Everything I watch passes through my computer, to the flatscreen, and pumped to surroundsound. One very comfy office chair later and I have the best "television" viewing experience I've ever had. I'd expect many more to figure this out in the coming months. (I typed "years" but then felt foolish, feels like months). "Time for sleeping. In my sleeping cap, clutching my teddy Spike" Haha, I love that! Probably the least important thing Joss said, but still classic Joss. Out of Objects \| November 10, 12:29 CET Pertinent quote of the day: "You call this a script? Give me a couple of $5,000-a-week writers and I'll write it myself." --Joe Pasternak, producer Kinda captures the true hubris of the Hollywood machine, and the way it has always dismissed its writers as instantly replaceable, doesn't it? What I find most interesting is the way the average TV viewer seems to be supporting the writers in all of this. Sure, there are a few grouses in the pack, but for the most part everything I've heard has been positive feedback for the strike. What must be freaking out the corporations at the moment, however, is the unexpected realization that in the years since 1988 (and with the advent of the internet) that the WRITERS THEMSELVES HAVE BECOME CELEBRITIES. Joss is a perfect example. This website, Whedonesque, is proof of it. While they don't court celebrity status, the plain truth is that the general public has become aware of the quality of work being done by specific names in the business. Whereas in 1988, a bunch of relatively unknown people (unknown outside the industry, that is) walked picket lines in an anonymous gathering known simply as "the writers," today, in 2007, there are some very big and very well known names out there. Names that matter, and are well known to the public fan-base. The IMDB was part of that. So was Ain't it Cool News. So was the popularization of DVDs with their much-maligned commentary tracks among the special features. "Ha, ha... how many geeks actually LISTEN to these?" say the participants, cracking wise. Apparently: a LOT. The name Joss Whedon is almost a household name these days. So is J.J. Abrams and Jhonen Vasquez and Bryan Singer and Seth MacFarlane and Robert Rodriguez and Jane Espensen and Marti Noxon and Drew Goddard and Kevin Smith and countless others. Apparently, when a large enough portion of the consumer public falls into the "geek" category, that category loses it's "geek" stigma and suddenly (almost magically!) gains serious pop culture cred. So for the first time ever "the writers" are more than nameless faces behind typewriters and word processors and computer keyboards. They are CELEBRITIES, because they are publicly celebrated-- and that makes them powerful. Pretty darn cool, I must say. Meanwhile, I hope the unfortunatel timing of the new Broadway stagehands strike doesn't cause backlash against the striking WGA in the eyes of the public... ala, "Now EVERYONE'S doing it!" I have friends and colleagues in both strikes now. So I cannot help but be concerned. We also serve, who only stand and watch. As to Joss's dreams about unicorns and rainbows-- if a pair of unicorns try to lure you to accompany them to a place they call magic mountain... don't go. It's a corporate trick. -XS Xander_Starcat \| November 10, 12:32 CET "I drift into the nether world, where unicorns drink from a river of happy songs, and my eigth grade science teacher is naked AGAIN" Do you see what the strike is doing to this man???? My god, think of the children! The strike must end and this man must go back to do(ing) do(ing) that thing that he does... ya'know, the one all us academics write tomes about... that thing with the words that doesn't involve unicorns or happy songs... just damn good lyrics if singing is involved... Ah, strike song: "Every single night the same arrangement I go out and fight the fight (against networks). Still I always feel this strange estrangement: [everything] here is real nothing here is right." Oooh, I can hear the Joss musical now.... (And yeah for the Joss posts here! And yeah for the writers!) [ edited by whedongeek on 2007-11-10 18:43 ] whedongeek \| November 10, 12:38 CET in addition to the one Bix mentioned: In regards to the comments about this affecting other peoples lives, such as camera and grip departments who will start losing their jobs... The film and television industry business model blows. It always has. Among other reasons every position in it is dependent on there being something to do, which there may not be. If you go in to drive the trucks, you go in knowing you are only driving a truck for as long as that job lasts. If you're on a commercial, you're lucky to be employed for more than three days. If you're a producer, you produce only so long as there is something to produce (and not all producers work at the conglomerates and don't always have something to produce). Thems the risks. Even as a writer, you may have something written, but you know there may not be someone willing to do anything with it. But yes, there is generally a consistent availability of work for the majority of the industry. Then there's unions, because so much of the industry is freelance, there has to be someone to protect them. Now everyone's unionized, but still dependent on availability of work. You may not work for weeks easily sometimes. It's an unstable industry, you know that when you get into it. So when one union reasonably requests to protect their members (which is what they're for) and is completely shut down, what other choice do they have? And then everyone says, screw them, I'm losing money because of them! No, you're losing money because you work for an unstable industry. AND you knew the strike was coming months ahead of time. Sure it wasn't a garaunteed to happen, but with that knowledge and the insane amount of work that was available beforehand (as studios buffeted their available scripts and shot as much as possible before the strike) wouldn't it have been a good idea to prepare ahead of time? Does it suck? Yes! No one ever argued differently. In fact, that's the whole point. But it's an unstable industry. If it wasn't, the writers wouldn't be forced into something like this. So be prepared for unstable income when you join. I work for a company that supports the industry. I have a steady job. But that job depends on gear being rented by an unstable industry. The amount of gear being rented is about to dimish drastically and eventually I could lose my job. Them's the breaks. Sucks. Go Writers! (BTW, those unionized truck drivers make a whole lot for driving. Though most teamsters I've met have been very friendly, despite stereotypes, they still won't usually lift anything) [ edited by bobw1o on 2007-11-10 18:49 ] "Also watching a show on a computer monitor will never relplace watching on the average TV." - JDL Eventually the computer monitor and the average TV will be the exact same thing, so ya...it will replace it. The writers are very smart. While the studios are all "What is this internet thing?" and "We need to research the internet" the writers know exactly where we're heading. That's why this strike is so important! Harmalicious \| November 10, 12:58 CET JDL, there are those ads put right into the programs where you can't skip over them (no fast forward, only averting your eyes as embers does), and there is also a big graphic at the top of the page (at least on ABC.com shows) that says "Sponsored by {product logo}" the whole time you're watching. Plus, Jenna Fischer blogged and it IS true, some series are not rerun on television at all -- Lost and 24 are the two that I watch that don't get rerun, so if you want to catch an ep you missed or that you liked and you didn't tape it, you HAVE to watch the streaming version on the network's website, or buy it from iTunes or Amazon Unbox or somewhere -- and writers don't get any payment from either of these sources. Or you can buy the DVD, and the writer will get a whopping $.04 of your money (well, the $.04 will be split among the group of writers for a series, it looks like). So there are already shows where Internet downloading has replaced reruns. BTW, I saw a picture of a guy serving churros on a silver tray at the Variety strike blog (same blog that had two big posts of Jossy goodness). That must have been one of the agents you're talking about, Shapenew and others. :-) C. A., what a great history of how that .3% came to be, and why it is such a gorram travesty! I still go even further, that it's not just that it's the second-half of the payment, but that it is a new payment for a new way to sell the product. The studio is selling your product over and over again, and profiting each time (even though they say they don't -- I just read that they claim that My Big Fat Greek Wedding never made a profit -- er, wtf???). You as a writer get paid your initial (large) payment for writing a script for television (which the studio gets an initial large payment for), and then you get paid (a little) for the DVD version (which the studio also gets a large, probably even much, much larger payment for), and then you get paid for the iPhone version (and the studio gets paid too), and so on. The studio gets new income each time, why not the people who made it possible, esp. since they are not asking for 50% or a flat fee, they are asking for less than 1%, which I kind of can't stop thinking about since it is such a little percentage and that makes me so mad. And in new media, they are asking for an amount greater than zero, which is what they currently make. Not even any payment at all there, zero. In the words of the Purple One, grrr arrgh! >-( And I will make the same argument when the directors and actors have to negotiate their contracts. We don't want to see Dollhouse starring sock puppets (although, at this rate, that version will probably come out before the Joss-Eliza version), we want to see Dollhouse starring Eliza Dushku. Mmmmmm, Eliza. Sorry, drifted off for a second there. I think the fact that actors also are entitled to (and depend upon) residuals is one of the reasons why the actors are being so supportive of the writers; Jenna Fischer stated that in her latest blog. Excuse me, I'm going to go make an Eliza sock puppet now. It won't be as rockin' as that incredibly scary/cool doll poster on the Dollverse website, but, I'll do my best. ;-) Just finished listening to an NPR story on the writers' strike and the soap opera writers. Since the soaps don't rerun, they are in a very tight spot. However, many of the writers are picketing, since their product is also being seen online. That was a too brief synopsis of the story, which may be found at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16182643 Will someone fix my tag to link? I can't tell you how many times I've tried to figure it out. I keep following the directions and I'm not a stupid person, but I just can't seem to get it to work. Znachki \| November 10, 13:19 CET Blog away, Purple One, blog away. If you can't write for work purposes you can always write here. Your posts make every day brighter. People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. -- Joss Whedon thinking like crazy where I can use this quotation I keep talking with friends, some of whom passionately love their favorite weekly dramas yet know nothing of the strike except it's happening. Doing my damnedest to explain the situation as it comes up. Currently am hating the thought of upcoming holidays with family members and hearing moans and groans and whines about how this silly strike is futzing with their viewing habits. If my mother, herelf a former journalist, is aware of the purpose behind the strike and supportive, I'll be, well, dumbstruck. She's a great representative of the general public and their collective viewing habits. She won't know what's really going on because all her input comes from mainstream media news only. And she tends to believe it. Even if explained, she still might not get it, because she's part of a generation that still overwhelmingly finds the Internet both mysterious and not so important. sigh I don't care if the strike lasts a year. Like everyone in the industry, I've watched it develop and knew it was coming. If it's going on a year from now, I'll still be donating to the pizza 'n donuts fund. Hold the line! HOOOOOOOOLD!!! ETA: I feel almost giddy. I just made my first donation to fans4writers.com, and vow to continue them on a regular basis. [ edited by April on 2007-11-10 19:57 ] WhoIsOmega? \| November 10, 13:19 CET joss ; I thought you were only not allowed to write on thinsg you'd already sold..dummy me :-(. Everyone; percentages and wholes don't always tell the complete story. Someone with $100.00 can usually spare $2.50, but someone with $10.00 has to be careful of a quarter, even if they're using it to call someone who cares. That having been said we know this stuff is going to make Something so let's be realistic here. A(s if large corporations are capable of realism.) Sorry if this is already posted but Eva Longoria is in on the act now http://tv.msn.com/tv/gallery.aspx?gallery=16300&photo=859882&GT1=7703 . DaddyCatALSO \| November 10, 13:22 CET I hope you get better soon, Joss. Stay strong! We are all behind you- even if our behinds are in the Midwest. anjee \| November 10, 13:24 CET Cheese for Frieda FTW! (This post brought to you by my dog, whose name is Frieda and would insist that I write it, if she could read and had the good sense to be a fan of Joss.) Septimus \| November 10, 13:43 CET Also watching a show on a computer monitor will never replace watching on the average TV.-JDL I know Harmalicious already quoted that, but I have to chime in. Never say never. My mother hates the idea of using a computer to watch a show, but I dropped my TV cable service because I do most of my viewing on DVDs and the rest on the Internet or with itunes downloads. (Sometimes connected to my TV.) And my daughter thinks the ipod is just dandy for watching TV. Maybe no one knows where this is going, but it's clearly going somewhere. Of course writers should get a cut of new media profits. And the streaming shows seem to get more ads every day. ETA: But I'm not watching them now. :-) [ edited by jcs on 2007-11-10 20:01 ] I believe Joss was referring to JOHN Frieda, the anti-frizzy hair guru. Joss clearly recognized his need for cheese. I think this because my favorite female artist is named Frida, and from what I know, she always had plenty of cheese. I think she favored cheddar jack. Willowy \| November 10, 14:03 CET Here's my favorite picture of the CAA agents bearing churros. Mostly because it looks like the coming of an apocalypse. They did a really nice thing, though, I'm definitely not cutting on them. I'm just giggling... it was surreal to see them there at the picket lines with those winsome smiles and expensive suits. Ack! They look like the Gentlemen! Or that freaky Matrix multiple guy! Still, that was a nice thing they did. General cheer of support. Also, the computer monitor is the TV in this household. thatweirdgirl \| November 10, 14:13 CET Joss, Joss, come in to our virtual arms. You are safe here and you are loved. Think of it as virtual chicken soup,and believe me if I could I would bring you a big bowl. Your so called rants are intelligent and lucid coming from someone who has a head full of phlegm. As far as the strike goes, the studios are nothing without you. It is as if the writers are the scorned lovers, and the studio cannot see their broken heart through their pride just yet. Get well my friend. Much love to you. Livewire \| November 10, 14:14 CET And I totally lied about that great joke. I got nothin� I dunno, Joss. The 27 lines of "edited by" seemed pretty funny to me. Fluids, dear. Lots and lots of healthful, non-dehydrating fluids (no caffein or alcohol). And keep warm. Have some nice chicken soup. tehabwa \| November 10, 14:41 CET "Also watching a show on a computer monitor will never relplace watching on the average TV." I watch my shows on my PC, my laptop and my tiny Archos pvp. This morning I watched MTV on my mobile phone while I was on the tram into town. Welcome to this century. :-) Caroline \| November 10, 14:43 CET Caroline's a nerd! Caroline's a nerd! "Also watching a show on a computer monitor will never replace watching on the average TV." Of course it won't, sweetie -- because those derned computers will never catch on. rolls eyes so much they almost popped out Fantastic picture! Thanks, orphea! CAA? Civil Aviation Authority? Contemporary Applied Arts? Comprehensive Area Assessment? Computer Applications in Archaeology? Canolfan Astudiaethau Addysg? Canadian Automobile Association? Nah. I give up. Nice gesture though, guys. Gill \| November 10, 15:46 CET Also watching a show on a computer monitor will never relplace watching on the average TV. Don't use your actual computer to watch computer-derived TV. Use your TV! There are many DVD players that make this a breeze -- the kind like this DVD player that come with a USB interface. Every file format I've thrown at this DVD player, it will play. It's a little miracle. And it's nearly instantaneous. You don't have to wait hours for a DVD burn, you only have a wait a minute or two for your file to copy from your HD to the external USB drive. chickenbird \| November 10, 15:49 CET Is purple our offical protest color? So going to clash with my eyes....I'll be the walking eggplant, thank you. Oh well, anything for our writers:) Streaming episodes online have ads in them. Presumably the companies are being paid for that advertising. Why shouldn't the writers get a cut of that revenue? Aha. None of the streaming I had seen had ANY ads. This clears up that up. I wonder what the percentage is of shows that have ads versus those that don't. So name me a few shows that have ads in them so I can see what being done. By your own admission, your usage of streaming videos has been to catch up on missed shows. Why don't you just wait until they get rerun on TV? That's when the writers get the residuals- agreed- -upon deferred payment for the script, money they were promised. But instead it is more convenient for you to go online the next day and catch it there, and this is fine. Except the writers get nothing for that, and it's a trend that is clearly growing. They want to settle this now, before it becomes the norm. You missed my point. A highly scripted show with lots of backstory, story arcs, etc. simply can not afford to wait for the reruns. If I can't understand this weeks show without seeing last weeks then waiting is not an option. And as I said above there were NO ads in what little I've seen. I am glad that some of you enjoy watching shows on your computers but I don't and nobody I know does either. Must be a generation thing. :) The traditional formula for residuals has a decreasing payment until 12 or 13 repeats. The idea being that the more a show is repeated there will be fewer viewers and therefore the ad rate must be lowered. That won't work with streaming video. Every viewing will have to be treated as a first viewing. Yet the ad rate will decline over time so any flat fee is not going to work (imo). A percentage of the revenue is the only thing that makes sense to me. If the guild is demanding a flat fee or a minimum that is too high that might be a sticking point. And of course there are 2 more guilds whose contracts are ending soon and who get residuals. If I were negotiating for the studio's I would like to have something that I could be sure the other 2 would sign on to. SAG especially could try and hold the producers up for ransom. Oh man, Lovers of Stinky Cheese mourn the world over. sob Jossman, you vent righteously and in the perfect place. Stress not. And lemme know where to send the homemade chicken soup. (I'm an excellent cook and Big Damned Chef.) jam2: In other news, the WGA East is not happy with Ellen DeGeneres. http://www.wgaeast.org/index.php/articles/1050?wgra=1#wga1050 Hmmph. And now I'm unhappy with her, too. Since I'm a big fan of hers, that's... well, I'm unhappy. :( Sounds like we need to start sending her some comments. Click here to send Ellen some email. Julesong \| November 10, 16:05 CET I think that the way we're heading is that you'll be able to line up all of your television viewing On Demand through your cable box via internet. Shows get uploaded, you set up your schedule, and watch when its convenient for you. Networks would upload on say, Sunday at 2am, all their stuff for the next two weeks. You can either watch free according to their schedules, or make your own schedule for premium. We sort of do that with DVRs, already. That's new media. Embedded commericals, product placement, ads running at the bottom of your screen, as a cheaper tier, no ads at a more expensive one. So you come home from work on Monday night to settle in and relax, choose Pushing Daisies, Dollhouse, and the latest installment of Shark Week, regardless of what days the lineup airs on regular television. Am I mental? If not, spoilerphobes are gonna have to avoid the entire internet. As for watching television on your computer, have you SEEN the mac cinema screens? I'd toss my television out for one of those. This occured to me one night on a red eye back to Boston, a dad was curled up with his two kids watching Moulan (sp?) on a laptop, all giggly and content, in their own little family world, despite the crappy movie playing on the crappy televisions on the plane. I, too, have a cold, Joss. I feel somehow that this has caused me to become empathetic towards (toward?) you. Which is probably an illusion. I am, at least, sympathetic. And that must count for something. That said, thank you for writing. On the ol' blog, yes, but mostly just for writing in general. bytheshoreline \| November 10, 16:28 CET "Must be a generation thing". I'm 44. It's called early adopter. Or, as theonetruebix said, a nerd. Not quite as nerdy as some, but. And there's plenty of us around. LOL, it's Creative Artists Agency, the biggest talent agency. I like most of yours better, Gil. dreamlogic \| November 10, 16:40 CET JDL, one of the primary reasons the WGA is so up in arms about new media was that, at the dawn of rented/for sale DVDs, the studios said, "Who knows if this will catch on, you can't expect us to agree to pay residual money for this." The WGA is still underwhelmed about the residuals deal that resulted after the fact on DVDs. So there's a precedent not only for the model of which way Internet viewing is likely to go (see DVDs), but of what will happen if the writers don't negotiate for Internet percentage-based residuals now. And why right now? It's because this is when the previous contract expired. The choices were to come up with a new contract -- which the two sides could not agree on -- work without a contract, or stop work. JDL -- Watch any show on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox's website and you'll find ads that you have to watch before and during the show. Or any other show you pick on those sites. WilliamTheBloody \| November 10, 16:52 CET Where to find shows with ads -- Let's see abc.com, cw.com, nbc.com, cbs.com, (not sure about fox.com because they wouldn't run last time I tried)... Pretty much all the major networks online. "The following episode is brought to you, with limited commercial inturruptions, by [insert monopolizing advertiser who will run the same commercial at every break]" Where are you getting your online shows? Must be a generation thing. :) My mother (56) and grandmother (81), both of whom use iTunes and stream shows online, would probably disagree with you there... =) kishi \| November 10, 17:21 CET A lot of people were getting their streaming TV from tv-links.co.uk, which was a debatably illegal site (they didn't own the content they were listing). It got shut down and the owner was arrested. FOX.com also has embedded ads. 5 per show, placed in the same places as on TV airing, albeit with one before the shows start. All the major networks place adverts during streaming content, with most having advert banners appearing during programs also. The cross network website - hulu.com - also features streaming adverts. That site streams all the latest shows, and has just been established. Again, the writers get nothing. "I am glad that some of you enjoy watching shows on your be a generation thing. :)" Might be. But this is the generation the advertisers most want to reach. This is the generation that will grow up expecting to watch TV shows on the web; as stated, mostly likely on a TV but fed by the Internet. So, like it or not, this is when the writers have to make their stand or lose out on income for the next 22 years. Personally, I think they've been ripped off for the last two decades and damn well deserve to get something back. It is infuriating how the same executives will say they don't want to pay the writers because they don't know how this internet bisiness model will work and then turn around and boast to their stockholders about the millions of dollars and the bright future that the Internet will bring. Every time I see another announcement that Disney or Viacom had record Internet incomes I want the writers to jack up their demands another percentage point. The WGA is asking for a percentage. They want 2.5% - what they should have been getting for DVDs. As online viewership goes up, actual network reruns go down. So writers are losing their traditional residual revnue stream - and not getting anything from the technology that is slowly replacing that. A show like LOST, well, I'm under the impression episodes of that are never - or rarely - repeated on network television. Already a writer is losing half of what they would normally make on a prime time hour of scripted drama. Streaming of television from the internet is free, but the networks are putting ads in the streams - making money for themselves that way. The writers get nothing. Some day in the not too distant future - as many people here have said - your television will be hooked into the internet and you'll be able to watch everything on demand. What's to stop the networks classifying that as streaming (which it likely will be) and paying the writer nothing for the exact same televisual experience? And at some point, networks will begin charging people for on demand streaming downloads and that market will increase - and if people can watching these streaming shows on their televisions whenever they want, there will be no complaints from the market. But the writers will continue to get screwed if they don't make a stand now. Hey, I'm still discovering these internet trites of the moment, patience please. I remember when paper and pen ruled the world, now this. Okay, the 'enter' button does what? I'm part of the computer monitor generation as well, since May 21, 2003 (yes, I actually remember the date b/c it was the day after the Buffy series finale, where I decided to honor the show by never sitting in front of TV at a predetermined time every week again). It's actually much more convenient than TV because I can watch the episode on MY time rather than the network's time... and, I can also multitask (check email, play WoW, look up pop culture references in Wikipedia, etc) while watching. It's sad because I was willing to go back to setting time aside weekly to sit in front of the tube again for Dollhouse, but apparently, the networks don't want my eyeballs... IcedPhoenix \| November 10, 18:13 CET My mom is with Allyson on this. She bought one of those big ole Dell XPS monitors "for graphic design work" and I think she prefers to watch her teevee with that. Okay, the 'enter' button does what? Well, did you ever see Tron? Ekk! Thinking 2001. "Open the pod bay doors, Hal." Great line, bix. (i.e. I was gonna say that! =) I'd be interested in knowing how much online advertising on a show like Heroes (Which I watch at around 4 AM every tuesday morning on my computer before bed, since I am at work while it's on TV) goes towards maintaining the website and the assumedly massive amounts of bandwidth that the website must take up. Superrodan \| November 10, 19:08 CET Superrodan, you make a good point - but this is another point about Hollywood Studios, they aren't transparent about these kinds of things. They don't want anyone to know where the money goes. Accounting practices in Hollywood are devious - ie. Warner Bros continues to tell Babylon 5 creator J Michael Straczynski that his show never made any money, even though the DVD sales alone have paid for the production cost of the series - probably twice over. New Line paid a fine rather than show Peter Jackson how much money Lord of the Rings made in profit, when he sued them for not paying him properly. The sticking point probably isn't the fact the studio would have to pay writers a percentage, it's that they would have to be more honest about the amount of money they are earning online - which they are currently being circumspect about. Maybe those costs mean they aren't making a lot from streaming television shows, but that's irrelevant - the writers are all saying they want a percentage, if the studios make nothing then the writers will be entitled to a percentage of nothing. But if they are making money, the creators deserve that. The same is true for Directors and Actors and they will face the same thing come June 08 - or earlier when they begin negotiations themselves. This isn't the writers crying poor or being dealt with badly because that seems to be their traditional role in Hollywood, The Companies are trying to get away without paying residuals to anyone from these new revenue streams. So if the fans and writers are Serenity, the studios are the alliance, and the media are the Reavers - how do we transform this ship to infiltrate the media and get them going after the studios for the real truth of the negotiation conflict? Thank you, Joss. Keep posting. hee - sock monkeys Zannadoo \| November 10, 20:26 CET I think strikers are the reavers, the media is Serenity, and the corporations are the alliance. The media/Serenity needs to discover that the strikers/Reavers are acting the way they are due to the alliance/corporations attempt at controlling them in shady ways. The media is going to be key in making sure that others know the truth. Now, just let me begin by saying, how can some people be so blind. And the general media, as expected, isn't helping at all, by being mostly mis-informative and very much manipulative to the level, that's not hard to understand that they still need to benefit the big conglomerates which owns them. Only if demanding something that shoulda've been given to you guys way before-hand and voluntarily can be considered "picked a fight", because as far as I'm concerned the studios picked the fight by not making action by the before-hand and voluntary thing. I'm glad Joss the boss posted again, and once again I'd like to express my support for the cause of the writers (loved the sign badge, on whedonesque front page, whoever made it, congrats - great work). I wish I could be there picketing with you guys, but living in Brazil, and actually being out of he country now, does make it quite difficult. I'm not able to follow this as closely as I'd like, but just before I saw this new posting from Joss, I got an email from one of my main email accounts, that just made me so kind of worried. It does show that we're not alone on the support of the writers. What does make me worried, is how they are approaching this said campaign thing they are rising, using words like destructive to define the WGA strike. I expected something more, for a website connected to the fans4writers. From: "The Fan Union" To: myemail Subject: Fans - You Can Help STOP the WGA Strike! Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:27:07 -0500 The WGA strike has already proven destructive. 24 will not air until 2009 (how the hell did they bring Tony back?), Lost is scheduled to have an anti-climatic 8 episode run leaving fans to wait another 10 months, Heroes has been scheduled to end early and it's spinoff series Heroes: Origins has been cancelled. Can this be reversed? The good news is, it can. Not long ago, Jericho fans brought CBS to their knees with a campaign designed to impose their collective will on CBS. Lost fans have been able to convince ABC to do away with reruns, and Heroes creator Tim Kring recently apologized for what the fans have identified as short comings in the second See something in common with this issues? When fans unite their voices, the studios and creators pay attention. For that reason, it is now time for TV fans to unite behind a single message and bring the strike to an end while there is still hope to salvage the TV season. For more information on what we can do to bring this strike to an end, visit: http://www.thefanunion.com And learn about our fan protests aimed at forming a loud, powerful, and irrestible voice. The Fan Union it's slightly less worrisome, by visiting their website, you do see some informative people in there, who actually understand and support the writers stand at this strike. They are trying to build an unified stand for fans in this matter, but I'm afraid that they might actually mix their legs and arms, for approaching their efforts towards the desire to have complete seasons, rather than actually really supporting the writers cause. Maybe my thought logic, works differently, but I think the approach should be quite different. Especially because we might be dealing with fans who are still having trouble by all the anti-strike frenzy from general media, and how frustrated they are with the fact they won't get new episodes from their favorite shows. Numfar PTB \| November 10, 20:37 CET I watch shows on my PC all of the time. The one hooked up to my TV and the ones not hooked up to my TV and the the ones who get things streamed from my DVR over the 'net and... etc. Just to clarify I confess to futzing with Joss' tags - the original tags were: "when, will, he, shut, up". All of the tags except beagles and sock monkeys were actually in the post though :) It was late and I am silly. I have no problem with waiting it out and going back to shows or watching new shows when they eventually air. I went nearly 20 years with little to no television, and I can do it again. Of course, I would prefer not to, but as long as the strike goes on and beyond (or to infinity and beyond!) I'll support the writers in this struggle. Nebula1400 \| November 10, 21:08 CET Well I don't like that Fan Union email one bit. I can understand their being upset that some of their favourite shows aren't coming back in the forseeable future, but that's beside the point. The effort shouldn't be focused on getting shows back on the air - it should be getting a fair deal for writers... and the shows will follow. Their examples of getting shows renewed bares no resemblance to this work stoppage at all. Getting reruns dispensed with is kind of anti-WGA anyway. And having Tim Kring apologise for the crappiness of Heroes... that's like a year to late, IMHO. I am already bracing for the worst - that the TV season is basically over and things won't be back to normal until the 2008-09 season. Only in a couple of instances does this fill me with despair - shows that are ending that might not be able to end properly (Scrubs), shows that are new that don't have a chance for renewal now (Journeyman). All the big stuff will be back eventually. This issue is too important for it not to be resolved properly now. A campaign to salvage this season merely for the sake of viewer's pleasure - not exactly conducive to writers getting what they deserve. I expected something more, for a website connected to the fans4writers. They aren't connected to us. For a time we were in discussions both with them and another forum site that had been set up. But we weren't finding what we were looking for in either case, and so are in the process of putting up our own forums. There was never any official "okay let's work together" agreement between F4W and The Fan Union. If you don't see something expressly promoted as an activity on fans4writers.com, you can't assume it's endorsed by us. with the exception of 'scrubs' (which is in its last season)all of the other shows can continue from where they left off whenever they start back up. so I'm not worried about myself so much as the people who won't be getting paychecks. but thats how a strike goes. I don't channel surf or watch reality shows. so without new episodes of my shows I just don't watch cable. the strike actually stopped me from upgrading to HD cable this week, so its the studios loss i guess. Great note to know that b!x, It took another 10 minutes until I realized that the fans4writers were the one you guys were starting, because, the starting thread has already disappeared from the front page, and it wasn't until about half hour ago, that I got to check the great work you guys accomplished in only a few hour ago. Maybe stating that not every-fan campaign incentive is connected or supported by fans4writers, should be pointed somewhere in the site, so people won't be confused, if some other independent fan campaigns start to pop in, linking it to fans4writers with a link or banner. As I said before, i'd like to help wherever I can, just let me know. Just had a weird idea just now, right before finishing this post, will post it on .org. Ssick I hope you told your cable company, because I think they have a vested interested in putting pressure on the AMPTP to agree to a fair contract sooner rather than later. I have already informed Comcast cable that I will be canceling cable if this drags on, and actually I'm starting to think I should down-grade from expanded to basic cable immediately since I can't watch Jon Stewart any more anyway. Oh, good idea! I'm canceling my ComCrap internet this Wednesday because of high prices and crappy connections, but now I'll just tell them it's because of the strike. Might as well get some good out of it. Thats a great idea. I bet they haven't spent too much time thinking about what damage is being done to the advancement of HD technology. I think as soon as the new shows run dry all I'll need is the cooking channel and a few other specialty channels. I cold totally do without the lower tier channels. I would gladly watch most of my tv on my computer if not for the fact that many sites (cbs, nbc) will not allow us Canadians to do so (jerks). It would so uncomplicate my life if I could chose when I wanted to watch shows (since I can't afford a PVR, and my DVD recorder does not mesh with my digital cable - what a gynormous waste of money that purchase was). Of course, I will not do so, even on those sites on which I can, until the issue of proper and just payment has been solved!!! Yay writers!!! And for Pete's sake Joss! Chicken soup and SLEEP!!!! Sherrie \| November 10, 22:22 CET How about just turning OFF the tv until the writers get their just due? I'll miss Life, and I'm pissed as hell about Dollhouse, but really, what else is there? And I for one do not care one whit if there's no good tv for a while. It IS important, and I would MUCH rather have it, but not at the expense of what's happening to the writers, our Joss being one. What they are shouting for is just too important. Speaking of, Big Purple, as others have decried (decreed?), get some sleep! Just as long as it doesn't interfere with your posting here. I mean, we ARE talking about what's important, right? ;) It occurs to me, semi-randomly, that as much as many of us were amused by the pictures of CAA people bearing food, I'm really not sure the public image the writers need is one of being served by good-looking men and women in suits and dresses serving from giant platters a type of pastry that most of America has never heard of before. It's the sort of thing that might lead to, say, yet another dismissive article by the NY Times. TNT has no ads afaik. Just checked out an episode of Heroes. No real ads other than a "Stayfree" logo. It was all promo's. So little if any revenue there. ABC on the other hand had a Charles Scwab ad after every break of the Pushing Daisies episode I am watching. They definitely need to pay residuals for that. Jericho also has a LOT of ads -- or did when I was watching it two months ago. It was more annoying than on tv, as someone suggested -- although one can multitask at a computer and, as someone said, turn off the volume. (I've been absent from this fascinatingly-purple thread, but not from lack of interest - I've been writing and InterWebbing for the fans4writers thingy...) Oh, Fanlings all, I need your help. I'm re-writing the Strike FAQ, and I have a Big Old Question of Fact. I'll just re-post the question I put up on the Org., hoping that someone with Actual Knowledge can help me - I can't find it, with all my Researchyness. Sorry this is so long... Does anyone know if WGA writers currently get anything from 1) their existing content being sold online as digital temporary or permanent downloads? 2) Do writers get any residuals at all from the online streaming of existing content (not new) - like shows? I - maybe wrongly - thought not, but the Producers are saying at their AMPTP site: "As the WGA knows and its own records will attest, writers are paid residuals on permanent digital downloads. As the WGA knows and its own records will attest, writers are paid residuals on pay-per-view digital downloads. This additional compensation was part of the more than $260,000,000 in record-breaking residuals paid to WGAW members in 2006. When the WGA went on strike, an offer to pay writers for Internet streaming was on the table." WGA, West says in a Q & A on their site about new media: "Residuals in this area will be groundbreaking. Not so. In 2001, the Companies negotiated the first new technology residual, agreeing to pay 1.2% of the distributor's gross receipts for Internet rentals. Now that other forms of distribution have arrived, such as the sale of downloads or advertising-supported streaming, it is time to negotiate fair residuals to cover these new uses." I know there was a section of the new contract proposed by the AMPTP that would have, in future, given them the right to declare that showing content on the internet was "promotional" even if they showed a whole movie or TV season, and even if revenue was generated, but 1) I'm confused about if writers are currently getting 1.2% for perm or temp downloads, and 2) I want to make certain sure they weren't getting any residuals at all for streaming old (created for films or TV) content. (I do know that writers are asking that NEW content they create for new media - web, phone, video games - be subject to WGA protections, including residuals, while they currently are not, so I know this means they are not now getting residuals for new content - such as wepisodes, etc.) I've been all over whichaways looking, and I just can't find information either that contradicts or supports the AMPTP's assertion about the writers' current residual formula for downloads - dunno if they are WGA's afore-mentioned "Internet rentals." (And Znachki, if you wanna see how to code a link, go to "View Source" on your browser and scroll down to somebody's else's successful link and snag the code...) ET: fix that demned italic thingamabob. [ edited by QuoterGal on 2007-11-11 06:54 ] QuoterGal \| November 11, 00:52 CET I have a question. Many shows have used product placement before, where companies pay to have their brand of products in a character's refrigerator or garage or whatever. But lately the advertisers, desperate at the public's embrace of TiVo and its commercial-skipping abilitis, have been demanding that their products not only appear in an episode but must become a plot point in the show. On "Heroes" a Ford vehicle has been prominently displayed in several episodes of both the last season and this one, for example. On "Smallville" they've gotten sloppy and blatant about it: one episode that included a promo to win a new car also just happened to feature Lois using her nifty new car to distract a guard. Guess which model it was? Wow, what a coincidence. The Batgirl-kind-of character made a point of showing off her AcuView contact lenses box and mentioning how they helped her disguise her identity. In one really pathetic move Cloe and Jimmy Olsen were in a car as bait for an attack and they were actually listening to commercials as they waited... How does this work on streaming videos? If Hiro jumps into a Ford Fiesta and that episode is streamed, does the studio make a few more bucks? I'm guessing yes. QuoterGal quoted the following: "As the WGA knows and its own records will attest, writers are paid residuals on pay-per-view (and permanent) digital downloads" QG: I'm remembering -- but don't have source, sorry -- that they don't get paid for the shows people watch on 'net: but these shows aren't necessarily pay per view or permanent digital downloads, i.e. people aren't purchasing them and can't save them to their computers. You also mentioned "Internet rentals." Look at the wording of what they're claiming carefully. When I've watched -- on a network site -- an episode of a show, it has functioned like youtube -- can watch it, but can't save it and haven't paid for it. So, my sense of this is be precise about what version you're discussing. QG, this document might help. (I'm gonna read it and see if I can find your answer, but I'm a slow reader so I'm posting so you or someone else can find it first. =) jam2, that document is awesome. Check page 16 (I can't seem to cut and paste from the thing) for an undermining of the idea that streaming TV episodes online is "promotional". QuoterGal, I've been reading both the Schedule of Minimums (PDF download) and the Minimum Basic Agreement (PDF download) at the WGA.org site to get this clear in my head also. Being a legal document, the wording isn't so straightforward, but here is my best translation: - the Schedule of Minimums, which covers the minimum payment required for all services a member of the WGA might perform, does not cover writing for the internet at all, nor residuals for transmitting content over the internet, whether it is original for the internet or produced for television or theatrical distribution and later broadcast on the internet - the Minimum Basic Agreement does cover the internet, briefly, in two sideletters/appendices to the MBA. WRITING FOR THE INTERNET 1) Material Written for the Internet: The Company must make contributions to the Pension Plan and Health Fund. No minimum payment for the writer themselves is required, though an agreement can be made between writer, Guild and Company about payment. 2) Material Written for Television/Film Based on Material Written for the Internet: the Writer would get paid the same under the Agreement. ie. the writer is not penalised for writing a TV series based on something created for the internet, they are paid according to the Basic Minimum Schedule TRANSMISSION ON THE INTERNET 1) License for Limited Period or Fixed Number of Exhibitions: The Company must pay the writer 1.2% of the license fee paid for the rights to distribute on the internet - if the subscriber (viewer) is paying for the download. I'm not sure of a good example of this. But if viewers were paying NBC.com for the right to stream The Office, then this would apply. There were some downloading services that allowed viewers to watch a program once or for a limited period (either streamed or downloaded), but I'm not sure if those services really exist anymore. NBC doesn't require payment for streaming shows, makes money from advertisers, but doesn't need to pay writers because no one is actually paying to watch the streaming video 2) Other exhibitions. (ie. streaming from websites, downloads from iTunes, etc - basically every legit form of downloading TV on the internet) Direct quote: "The parties acknowledge that the markets for such exhibitions are evolving and that the basis for payment of residuals shall be determined at a later time." It goes on to talk about SAG or the DGA reaching an agreement over these issues with the AMPTP and allows for the WGA to appropriate an equivalent adjustment for writers. So the AMPTP is being disingenuous on its site because the model they are discussing is clearly outdated and no one is really getting paid for A) writing for the internet and B) transmission on the internet. Hence, The Strike :-) (Also, that document that jam2 linked to is very good at clarifying things also.) QG, did you see this page? It says: Current Provision/Practice: The WGA position is that the MBA residual formulas for pay TV and basic cable apply to content streamed or downloaded via the Internet and cellular technology. These formulas are 1.2% for features whether streamed or downloaded, 1.2% for TV product when the viewer pays, and 2.0% for post-1984 TV product or 2.5% for pre-1984 TV product when it is free to the viewer. The studios are refusing to pay anything for streaming that is free to the viewer (and ad-supported), and they are paying the 0.3% home video residual when the viewer pays. This dispute is the subject of claims filed against the studios by the WGA (and by SAG and DGA as well). As far as I can tell, the other link (while less specific) is consistent with this. Yeah, kudos and credit to Zev Foreman of Loyola Law School for seeing this coming back in April. bix, use the Download PDF link on the left, then you should be able to copy/paste from there. [ edited by jam2 on 2007-11-11 08:16 ] "Just checked out an episode of Heroes. No real ads other than a "Stayfree" logo. It was all promo's." - JDL Every time I watched 'Heroes' on NBC.com, I saw 4 or 5 commercial breaks that I couldn't fast-forward through and banner ads around the screen. Where are you watching It? Also, I think promos for other shows are paid ads, but someone can correct me if I am wrong. JohannaHunnie \| November 11, 02:06 CET The studios are refusing to pay anything for streaming that is free to the viewer (and ad-supported), and they are paying the 0.3% home video residual when the viewer pays. If they are paying 0.3% for iTunes download, that is out of the "goodness of their hearts" (heh) because that isn't actually covered in the agreement. The agreement only covers limited-use downloads that a subscriber pays for. iTunes isn't limited-use, but it is the equivalent of purchasing on DVD. So yeah, they should be paying the 0.3% but they aren't actually required to - as far as I can tell. The bit I love from page 16: ... the WGA Agreement allows for promotional use of WGA material. Unlike the AFTRA Agreement, the WGA Agreement defines promotional use as, "for the purpose of advertising or publicizing the specific program or serial or series from which the excerpt is taken." In this definition ... the exhibition of an entire show cannot be used for promotion. It is inherently not an excerpt and not used for publicity. Emphasis added. Yep, crossoverman, the Foreman Paper confirms that: Without consulting the guilds, the producers of ABC�s Lost began to make payments to the guilds based on the home video residual rate (based on the 20% gross) for shows that were sold over the internet. I don't know the whole history, but I imagine the producers did that preemptively to establish a precedent for the residuals at the lower home video rate, rather than the higher Pay TV rate which the writers want. And bix, I also noticed that point about the "excerpt". Foreman wrote a very good paper, sticking to the facts and not editorializing, but at that point you can almost hear him saying "gimme a break!". In one really pathetic move Cloe and Jimmy Olsen were in a car as bait for an attack and they were actually listening to commercials as they waited... This made me laugh out loud. Of course, by the way, internet streaming costs money. However, I'm willing to bet a very, very large sum that networks make money from it. Why? If they were loosing money from internet streaming, they wouldn't do it. They're a business. So purple's okay. So love these straight forward questions. Willowy, enough with those BIG letters. We hear you quite well and your messages are wonderful. Did I mention Joss today? If not, sporting purple! Argh. I can't cancel ComCrap just yet. College hoops just began. However, depending on the status of BSG come April, I'll be able to cancel it and tell them it's due to the strike. Well, Joss. Let me tell you something. The Thursday before last, I got canned from my job. I was in commissioned sales, and my sales were too low, so I was jettisoned like so much waste. That's depressing as hell. So, after once again slogging onto the "would you hire me" quest that seems to have taken up so much time in the last 3 years, I would come home and have suddenly tons of time with nothing to fill it. So, I had a choice of either finding something to kill that time, or someway to spend it fruitfully. I chose to pull my Buffy DVDs (I have seasons 1-6... haven't been able to afford 7 since it was released... which annoys me) and watch them all in a row. I consider this to be the latter of the two categories. And you know what, I've got copies of the shooting scripts for the series, and I've been periodically comparing what happened on the screen to what was written on the page. And while I think your excellent team of actors certainly made these scenes so wonderful to see, I could tell that this all began on the page. It's all there, right there in print. Reading the scripts has been educational to me... in contrasting them to what is seen in the production, it really does show how much of what becomes permanent starts with you and your team of writers. If your work starts getting distributed in new ways that make these production companies cash, then it is only right that you make a slice of that. They wouldn't have the product to make their money without you. I get it. It's not about you getting rich off the internet. It's about equity. It's about you getting attribution for the work you did. And anybody who's ever tried to write fiction will know that it is indeed work. I salute you, sir. Have some OJ. IMForeman \| November 11, 13:02 CET whedongeek, jam2, b!Xy, crossoverman (and C.A.B. over at the .org) - my heartfelt thanks to you for the resources, and especially the extraction of pertinent bits and the analysis. jam2, that document was truly the bee's knees. I think I'm good to go. Just wanted to say that your generosity is wonderful, but not surprising in this incredibly generous fandom. IMForeman, sorry to here about the layoff. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you to find the right job soon. Sorry you're wrong, people lose money in businesses all the time, nothing new there. But in this case I think when there are no ads the shows are seen really as promotions. They are trying to boost viewage of the advertised versions. It appears the guild does not want a level of usage where the whole show is streamed as a promotion, i.e. little or no ad revenue. I don't feel that their position is warranted in this case. When there are ads I feel residuals are warranted. Not sure what rate is fair. But in this case I think when there are no ads the shows are seen really as promotions. Except, as per the current WGA Agreement, they can't be seen as such because they aren't merely "excerpts", a term used in said Agreement when discussing what can be considered "promotional". In other words, the studios are BREAKING their agreement with the Guild when they do this. JDL, you don't have to hit return in your posts. When an entire episode is streamed online, that doesn't really sound like a promotion. A promotion is a excerpt or teaser that entices a viewer to see the entire episode. If an entire episode is available online, then viewers do not need to watch the ep on TV... and this leads to viewers subsituting online viewing to TV viewing. As this substituion viewing increases with better technology, and more joining of online and broadcast TV, writers residual payments will drizzle down to nothing because the technology changed. Online distribution is still broadcasting, and should be treated that way. Studios may be taking the position that online eps are only "promotional" in order to establish a precedent that this type of "broadcasting" doesn't owe any residuals to the writer. Then as the technology improves and viewers switch more and more to online, and they will, writers will be shut out. I hit the return so much without thinking about it that I have to edit for conformity or it looks sloppy. Not necessarily. They could shave off 5 seconds and lo ! its less than your 100% and it now meets your criteria to be an excerpt. Of course no one who watches it is likely to catch the difference but so what! The legal meaning of the term "excerpt" may well be quite different from what we think it is. Further the contractual meaning may be different again. I don't know myself, do any of you with a law degree have a notion ? Also remember that the writers as a general rule don't own the intellectual property rights to their scripts, its "work for hire". Residuals are simply added "work for hire" compensation not royalties. If as you say the producers broke the old agreement then the WGA should have filed suit years ago when this practice first started. If that ever happened its news to me. Finally the nets and/or studio's have been giving away DVD's of new shows for a couple of years. Does anyone know if the writers, actors, or producers receive any residual compensation for that ? It would be a telling fact. "Excerpt", I'm quite sure, would be considered having its plain meaning, were it ever put to a test. I'm just as sure that some studio lawyer somewhere decided that if they broke up an entire episode with ads every 15 minutes, that would mean they aren't showing the entire episode, but four sequential "excerpts" of it. Bet me on it. That will come out somewhere, at some point. Actually, streaming a show in its entirety for free doesn't incur a residual payment as the current Basic Agreement stands. Doesn't mean the writers aren't getting screwed. Also, when the Agreement was reached in 2004, there wasn't a lot of streaming full episodes of television - a lot can change in three years. Thus, the strike. I was responding to Bix and he was certainly saying that the studios WERE breaking the old contract. OTOH you seen to saying otherwise. In many contractual cases there are what I will call "other rights", These are the rights for things that the contract did not cover in specific or in principle. If you are right (and Bix is wrong) the old contract did not apply to streaming video, ergo the studios online episode promo's are legit at least at present. If you believe that the writers are being screwed I would think that you don't believe that the usage of streaming video (the non-commercial version at least)is promotional in nature. I think it is. YMMV. Look something has to be done to save the scripted show. I don't want to have to choose between Survivor: Nebraska and Singing with the Stars (new product). Or perhaps we can have lots of imported shows. Oooh that will be loads of fun. the more proper would be residual rights but using that term would just confuse things. There may also need to be a clarification of terms too. Under the old contract, have residuals always been calculated on a percentage, or have some of them been paid based on fixed amounts? The structure where residuals are slowly phased out after multiple showings of an episode is still unfair to the creative side. After all, even if a rerun being shown on its 80th time is still bringing in profits, then the creative side should still receive some percentage. The writer's contribution hasn't diminished over repeated reruns, if anything, the value of the work is evident when the show is still popular after so many showings. Seems that what things might be moving toward is a little more of a partnership, although it will be the case that the studios will receive the lion's share. But residuals based on percentages might also be termed "profit sharing". This acknowledges that the business side and creative side each take part in the profits realized from their partnership. JDL, the Agreement actually says very little about broadcasting on the internet. It doesn't cover excerpts broadcast online, but it does cover excerpts shown through traditional media - television or broadcast theatrically. The Companies are only getting away with broadcasting more than an "excerpt" because the Agreement doesn't cover online broadcasting with regard to streaming. How you can consider broadcasting an entire episode or film as merely promotional is beyond me. b!x is right to the extent they are breaking the spirit of the contract - there's good reason why they can't and shouldn't broadcast an entire episode or film without paying residuals. But they are getting away with it because the Basic Agreement only covers limited-use downloads that have been paid for. Streaming isn't paid for and iTunes isn't limited use. The Agreement made in 2004 gave the Companies more time to see what the market could bear. We now see that the market can bear streaming, selling episodes on iTunes and limited-use subscriber downloads. Writers should be paid for all of these. ETA: a reader at JohnAugust.com made a great point about "promotional" product on the internet - It just occurred to me that if the studios really believed that internet viewing was promotion for the aired/theatrical/DVD showings, then they wouldn�t pull such things off of YouTube with such prejudice. I mean, if it�s promotional, then TV shows put on YouTube would be even better than studios and networks putting them on their own websites, since they don�t have to pay to host and stream it if it�s on YouTube. Because, of course, these streaming episodes aren't merely promotional - they are a revenue stream and the networks must be making money from them. [ edited by crossoverman on 2007-11-12 06:40 ] QG: Aw, shucks. ;-P IMF: A lovely post -- I'm sorry about the layoff. I agree with you -- spending time watching all these episodes is time well spent. Really makes you appreciate the Master. Good luck with the hunt. Do we really care about the opinion of a journalist who doesn't even know how to use an apostrophe? Or have I missed the point? Joss, are you the only guy actually on strike? Cos if there's only one writer he's correct and I withdraw my earlier contention. [ edited by ZodKneelsFirst on 2007-11-12 14:13 ] ZodKneelsFirst \| November 12, 08:12 CET JDL -- I still don't get your point. The writers aren't asking for a set $ amount, they're asking for a % of the revenue, so, if as you claim, the Networks are making nothing on the internet episodes, than they'd be getting 2% of nothing which is, let me do the math --- nothing into nothing, carry the 0, hmm....... You know what I realized through reading all this? The writers didn't get anything from DVD sales? So taking comfort in my dvd collection will not help them either. Dang it! I wish I was in LA - I would go out and walk with them. ruthless1 \| November 12, 15:17 CET Writers did and do get a percentage of DVD sales, ruthless1 - it's just that it remains at the rate the WGA negotiated over 20 years ago when they accepted a cut from 2.5% of the receipts they got from re-runs to .03-ish % for the "new & risky & expensive" technology of "home video." Now home video has shifted into DVD sales - which are ginormously profitable - and DVD production costs are greatly reduced and the AMPTP has basically refused to raise the writers' residual to the 1985 repeat use rate of 2.5% on a product that is replacing re-runs. And that's not even going into the still-crappy percentage writers get when their product is sold as a download (1.2%) or the no-percentage-at-all they get when their product is streamed online, or when they write a webisode for the Internet. It's patently unfair - but to set the record straight, it's not "nothing" on DVD sales - it's just damn little. Avenging Benji just made my list of favorite movies on Facebook. Here�s to wishing Joss et al. a successful resolution of the contract situation so he�s to busy writing Avenging Benji &c. to blog about it. Horovits \| November 13, 17:07 CET « Older (SPOILER) Trailer for Marc Blucas' upcoming ... \| (SPOILER) Behind the Repo! scenes. Newer »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line485
__label__cc	0.662639	0.337361	Population trends, extinction risk, and conservation guidelines for Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls in the Sonoran Desert Climatic flux together with anthropogenic changes in land use and land cover pose major threats to wildlife, but our understanding of their combined impacts is limited. In arid southwestern North America, ferruginous pygmy-owls (Glaucidium brasilianum) are of major conservation concern due to marked declines in abundance linked to changes in land use and land cover during the past century. We reassessed abundance trends of pygmy-owls in northern Mexico across 17 years (2000-2016), which included data gathered over four additional years since inferences were last reported. We also assessed spatiotemporal trends in territory occupancy (n = 151 territories) across a much larger area that spanned 14 watershed regions in northern Mexico and adjacent Arizona over 16 years (2001-2016). Finally, we evaluated the influence of temperature, precipitation, land-use and land-cover change, spatial variation in local habitat quality, and interactions among these factors on occupancy dynamics. Large increases in abundance in 2015 and 2016 eliminated evidence of population declines that was described recently (e.g., Flesch 2014a) based on two modeling approaches. Moreover, there was little evidence of systematic temporal declines in territory occupancy across the broader bi-national study area, or for population units in Mexico and the adjacent U.S. Instead, occupancy dynamics varied at smaller spatial scales among watershed regions. We found that subpopulations in six regions declined or marginally declined across time, including two in the U.S. that declined to extinction; subpopulations in six other regions were stable; and those in two regions increased or marginally increased. Although variation in territory occupancy was associated with changes in temperature, precipitation, anthropogenic disturbance, and local differences in habitat quality, evidence for interactions among these factors was much greater than that for additive relationships. Territory occupancy declined with rising minimum air temperatures during winter at a much greater rate in disturbed landscapes compared to those with little to no anthropogenic disturbance. Moreover, occupancy increased with annual precipitation at increasingly positive rates as local territory quality increased. Such results suggest a complex set of processes simultaneously drove changes in territory occupancy, likely by influencing food abundance and the quantity, connectivity, and quality of habitat. Management focused on 1) protecting high-quality habitat, 2) enhancing and creating habitat (e.g., nest-cavity augmentation, riparian restoration), 3) reducing deleterious changes in land use and land cover, and 4) increasing landscape connectivity through both passive (e.g., landscape planning and restoration) and active (e.g., facilitated dispersal, translocations) techniques will enhance recovery prospects for pygmy-owls. Population trends, extinction risk, and conservation guidelines for Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls in the Sonoran Desert 1.81 MB Aaron Flesch Biology Tags Genus and Species Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl Vegetation Community	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line489
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__label__wiki	0.620628	0.620628	AIRSHOW NEWS: Exhilarating entertainment at the Duxford... AIRSHOW NEWS: Italians to whip up a storm at RAF Cosfor... AIRSHOW NEWS: Swiss Display Team to wow crowds at RAF C... UK Airshow Calendar 2017 European Airshow Calendar 2017 2016 Airshow Season Aerobatic and Team Displays Historic Aircraft Operators Military Display Teams Official Airshow Websites F-111 will not make it to the UK Posted by Flightline UK \| Mar 3, 2010 \| Display Team News and Dates, Military Airshows, Royal Air Force \| 0 \| The Waddington Airshow website has confirmed that there will not be a UK tour by Royal Austrailian Air Force F-111s this summer. The airshow has approached the RAAF about the possibility of organising a “farewell tour” of UK airshows which had met with a favourable response. Sadly, it was not to be but you cannot fault Waddington for trying to secure a final appearance by this iconic aircraft! PreviousShoreham Airshow Official Website Launched NextD-Day veteran returns to Oxfordshire Latest Airshow Dates Tweets by @flightlineuk British Air Display Association REVIEW: Abingdon Air & Country Show May 17, 2017 AIRSHOW NEWS: Italians to whip up a storm at RAF Cosford Air Show May 12, 2017 REVIEW: Shuttleworth Collection Season Premiere Airshow, Old Warden May 10, 2017 FEATURE: Blackbushe Festival of Flight Press Launch May 6, 2017 AIRSHOW NEWS: P-51D ‘The Shark’, Rod Dean and Saffron Ales join Old Buckenham Airshow line-up May 6, 2017 AIRSHOW NEWS: French Navy’s show of Force at RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day May 5, 2017 AIRSHOW NEWS: Independent review of the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Display Enhanced Measures May 3, 2017 Upcoming Aviation Events: No events currently listed Go to UK Airshow Calendar Archives Select Month May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 Aviation Top 100 Display Team News and Dates > > F-111 will not make it to the UK	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line498
__label__wiki	0.981165	0.981165	BBC America’s ‘Killing Eve’ Season 2 Premieres April 7 By BBC America \| 1 year ago BBC AMERICA’s Killing Eve will return for its highly-anticipated second season on Sunday, April 7 at 8 p.m. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer reprise their critically-acclaimed performances as Eve (Oh), an MI6 operative, and psychopath assassin Villanelle (Comer) in this story of two women, bound by a mutual obsession and one brutal act. Beginning just after the end of the final episode of Season 1, Villanelle has disappeared, and Eve is left reeling, having no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead. With both of them in deep trouble, Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does… but unfortunately, she’s not the only person looking for her. “Killing Eve is picking up exactly 36 heart-thumping seconds after the events of the season finale,” said Sarah Barnett, President of AMC Entertainment Networks. “This new season is packed with superlative performances and is as twisty, subversive, darkly funny, nerve-wracking and pleasurable as our fans could desire.” Along with returning stars Oh, Comer and Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter), new additions to the cast include Nina Sosanya (Good Omens) and Edward Bluemel (A Discovery of Witches) in series regular roles, with Julian Barratt (Mindhorn), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Indian Summers) and Shannon Tarbet (Genius) set to guest star. Killing Eve finished out 2018 as the top drama on Metacritic’s “TV Shows Mentioned On Most Critic Top 10 Lists – 2018.” Killing Eve has been nominated for a Golden Globe® and a Critics’ Choice Award, with Sandra Oh nominated for Emmy®, Golden Globe®, Critics’ Choice and SAG® awards for her performance as Eve, and Jodie Comer nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award for her work as Villanelle. The series finished its first season with an unbroken record of weekly ratings growth in the key adults 25-54 and 18-49 demos – something no other show on television has accomplished in the history of Nielsen live+3 ratings. The finale delivered series highs with 1.25 million viewers in live+3, up 86 percent from premiere, with 545,000 adults 25-54 and 378,000 adults 18-49, up 127 percent and 100 percent from premiere, respectively. The season finale in May was also the #1 most social drama of the day. The series is produced by Sid Gentle Films Ltd and based on the Codename Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings and is executive produced by Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gina Mingacci and lead writer Emerald Fennell. Sandra Oh and Francesca Gardiner are co-executive producers. Elinor Day serves as series producer. Damon Thomas returns to direct and is also executive producer, with Lisa Brühlmann and Francesca Gregorini also directing. The series is distributed by Endeavor Content. Filed Under: Jodie Comer, Killing Eve, Sandra Oh, The Scoop ‘Killing Eve’ Season 3 Adds Seven New Cast Members Jodie Comer Before She was Villanelle: 12 Early Roles to Check Out	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line501
__label__cc	0.521843	0.478157	183 – The situation of the sects Nan Hua had a faint smile on her face as she listened to her senior and junior brothers debating. Seeing her senior brother Tianming, the man with the sideburns, spouting and discussing loftily, there was a shred of disdain in Nan Hua’s heart. Every disciple of the sect thought of themselves as exceptional. Their traditions were age old, profound cultivation techniques, they were the chosen children of heaven. But Nan Hua knew extremely well in her heart, that since the Snow Empire was founded, the greatest power within Heaven Wasteland domain was the Imperial Family of Snow Empire. Under the rule of the Empire, all the glory of the sects had long been blown away by the wind and rain. The age that belonged to the sects, had already gradually ended. There were many disciples of the sects that normally had been affected by the philosophy that the sects were the greatest. They felt that they towered above others, sleeping out in the open, not influenced by worldly affairs, and had distanced themselves away from the mortal world. They thought of themselves as immortal like beings; they looked down upon the worldly soldiers, calling the soldiers military brutes. But Nan Hua was clear, that in the Empire today, there were countless experts. Not mentioning others, just solely from the Youyan Pass army, the overall commander [War God of Youyan Pass] Lu Zhaoge’s power was so strong that the patriarch’s of many sects were not his opponent. The free and unrestricted sects was a helpless radiance that had slowly elapsed. For the top sect like the Crepe Myrtle sect, even they could not help but open their sect deep within the mountains. They said that they had already left mortal affairs, tranquil as immortals, but who would not yearn for the flourishing world in their hearts. Especially those disciples who were inexperienced and unaware, they were immeasurably self satisfied. The higher-up elders of the sects, who would not reminiscence over the glorious era where they received enormous tribute and the admiration and respect of the flourishing cities? Senior brother Wei Tianming and the others brought the attitude that they were above the others of Youyan Pass. They felt that they were immortals descending from the heavens; here to rescue the pain and suffering of the common people. But Nan Hua was different. The strength of this charming girl could not be counted as the greatest within the Crepe Myrtle sect, only above average. But when comparing her appearance, she could be rated as stunning, her beautiful aura causing countless fellow disciples to fall for her. As a result, there were always disciples of the Crepe Myrtle sect surrounding and pleasing her. If it was previously, within the sect, and she chose a core disciple with a great future and exceptional talent and married him, it would definitely be a choice that would make countless people envious. Perhaps in the future she would become the wife of an elder, or perhaps the future wife of the leader of the sect….. But right now, ever since leaving the Crepe Myrtle sect and experiencing the flourishing human society, Nan Hua’s heart was no longer concerned with the sect. If she was able to select a talented young man with both status and strength, and marry him, then she could enjoy the high position and wealth endlessly. This was a god like living style that was far more perfect than staying in the old mountains and forests and living a tranquil life composing poems to the moon. Therefore, Nan Hua felt that Wei Tianming and the others were childish. But her mind was nimble, and her subtleness was far deeper than her peers. She naturally would not express her true thoughts, only a faint proud smile to represent her own attitude. Of course, Nan Hua also looked down upon useless and idle young masters. Such as the young man that was wearing a white robe with an elegant long sword at his waist. Just a glance was enough for one to determine that he was an idle trash. There were no experts that would have such a useless sword that looked good but could not be used. He also brought a servant wearing a little green hat next to him……. If she had to choose such a spoiled rich young master, she would rather choose her fellow disciples of her sect. Nan Hua once again thought of the various rumours that she had heard on the way. There was a person called Ye Qingyu, that sounded not too bad. Young age, with decent strength he had also been given a title of Marquis. Holding two roles simultaneously in Youyan Pass army, it was said that he had not yet married. He was the youngest Marquis in the history of the Empire……. “This Ye Qingyu, could barely count as a candidate. After seeing him and observing for a while, just to see what he is like. If he was really as the rumours say, then it was not a bad choice to make some investment……” Nan Hua silently planned in her heart. She had extreme confidence in her beauty and quality. As long as she made some moves, and displayed a fake countenance, then that person called Ye Qingyu, could easily be captured. Ye Qingyu walked leisurely through the large streets and small alleys. His meeting with Wen Wan and Liu Zongyuan was in the afternoon. The time was still early so he was not in a rush. Ever since coming to Youyan Pass, Ye Qingyu had never really taken a good stroll throughout the streets of Youyan Pass and experienced the culture of Youyan Pass. Today was mostly a good chance, so he came out to have a look. Compared to the free, flourishing, laid back, and mercantile aura of Deer city, Youyan Pass was evidently more disciplined. On the two sides of the streets one was able to see some little stands, but the number was far less compared to Deer city. The large majority of the shops on the two sides of the streets were square and straight. Normally all architecture was constructed with defence as its number one priority; so these buildings were extremely stable. The goods within these shops had many weapons and armour, materials for formation, rice, flour, and noodles. There were all sorts of essential living materials. As for silks and fabrics, paintings of flowers and the such, these were extremely rare. But what made Ye Qingyu somewhat surprised was that on the way he encountered many martial artists rushing about who seemed to come from Jianghu. One look was enough to see that they had different temperaments to the people of Youyan Pass. Evidently, they were people who had come from the sects. Why were there suddenly so many disciples of the sects within Youyan Pass? As for the situation regarding the large sects within Snow Empire, Ye Qingyu only knew approximately from a book. As for the details, he was not too clear. For White Deer academy students after graduating from their fourth year, they would have choices. Some would choose to enroll in the army; while others would choose to enter into their families. There would also be some outstanding graduates that would be chosen by some great sects in Snow Empire and choose to enter these sects to cultivate the martial way, devoting themselves to martial arts. As far as the top ten class experts within Snow Empire, it was said that six of them came from the sects. But experts and disciples of the sects liked to act alone. They tend to appear and disappear without any signs whatsoever, so they rarely had any interactions with the army of the Empire. This time, for there to be so many people of the sect to appear in Youyan Pass greatly surprised Ye Qingyu. “I’ve heard that the Imperial family of the Empire has called an Imperial summons. Using the name of the Emperor, they are recruiting experts of the sects for a short term service in Youyan Pass to aid the military. This time, the top six sects within the Empire will send people to help in the Spring attack…..” Bai Yuanxing gave an explanation. Ye Qingyu remained confined in his room training and did not pay attention to outside matters. But Bai Yuanxing, apart from training, would also pay serious attention to the small and big activities within the Pass. Very consciously, he became the eyes and ears of Ye Qingyu. After sorting through all of the large and small information, he could provide useful information to Ye Qingyu at any moment. “Oh, so they came to help.” Ye Qingyu nodded his head. There were good and bad people intermingled within the sects, but one could not help but admit that the foundations of the sects were extremely deep, and the cultivation techniques that were passed on had a long history. The requirements for becoming a disciple were also extremely strict, therefore many experts came from the sects. If the Empire really wanted to form a large scale invasion, then the aid that came from the experts of the sects could be used to fight against the demon warriors and commanders of the demon race. This would have an extremely good effect. The experts of the sect could supplement the weak points of the army, not having enough battle power from top class experts. But there were definitely misgivings. The discipline of the people of the sect were far too unruly. A huge problem facing the higher ups of the Youyan Pass army was how they were going to harmonise the two parties. After all, the army was an entity that placed great importance to discipline. As he thought, Ye Qingyu shook his head with a smile. Since the army of the Empire had already issued such an enlistment, then they should have already formed their own strategy and plans. There was no need for him to worry. As long as he performed his own duty, it was fine. With this thought in mind, Ye Qingyu did not think about such miscellaneous matters anymore. Since it was difficult for him to come out normally, clearing his mood and walking about the streets was the right thing to do. Leisurely strolling along the way, he really seemed like a wealthy person with nothing to do. Adding to this, the white robes of Ye Qingyu as well as the ornamental [Cutting Wind Sword] that the sixth master of the White Horse tower had left behind made Ye Qingyu look even more like an idle young master in the city. Bai Yuanxing was a local of the city and hence was comparatively familiar with it. On the way he explained different aspects of the city to Ye Qingyu, acting like a tour guide. Ye Qingyu’s understanding of Youyan Pass increased little by little. The two then arrived at the Northern district of Youyan Pass at around noon. There were gradually more and more military installations. This was the area controlled by the Vanguard of the Youyan army. “If we head forward for another five or six miles, we will be at the great camp of the Vanguard. Master, the meeting point that you have arranged with Officer Wen and Officer Liu is there…….” Bai Yuanxing pointed at an octagonal black stone building with nine stories to the left. “Eh? That’s the [Breeze and Drizzle building]? There’s still an hour of time left from the arranged time, let’s just first go in and have a seat.” Ye Qingyu smiled as he headed towards the octagonal black stone building. This [Breeze and Drizzle building] had a considerable history. It was said that this was a temporary imperial residence constructed during the first time the Emperor of the Snow Empire led troops into battle to fight against the Snow ground demon race. There was the founding Emperor’s personal inscription, and that was where the name of the building came from. This was the only octagonal building tens of miles away and it was also the tallest architecture. Compared to the square and straight buildings around, it was rather beautiful, and could be counted as a scenic spot within Youyan Pass. In the battle following after, both parties struggled, but this eventually fizzled out to nothing, without a victor being decided. His Imperial majesty returned to the court and this building was at first managed by the military. However, as time passed on, a higher up of the army received the right to manage it, opening it to the public and creating a restaurant that was famous throughout the Pass. The meeting point with Wen Wan and Liu Zongyuan was namely this restaurant with a long history. Very quickly, they came to the restaurant. There were eight soldiers on duty wearing bright armour at the door. One could tell that the owner behind this restaurant was indeed, not normal. “Two masters, please……..” There was a young server wearing short cotton clothes that quickly rushed to welcome them, drawing his sound out and receiving the two. The server of the Breeze and Drizzle building was a person with great eyesight, and extreme observation ability. Seeing Ye Qingyu’s appearance, he knew that he was someone with money so he welcomed them passionately, leading Ye Qingyu and Bai Yuanxing into the hall. The moment they entered into the hall it was as if they had entered into a whole different world. Outside there was a spring chill, but there was a warm breeze hitting one in the face in the hall. The green vegetation refreshed the mind; Also, there was a fresh and clear smell of plants that met them, as if it was a flourishing garden. In an instant, it filled one with energy. The arrangement of the tables in the hall was also extremely intricate. Go away girl! You don’t belong in this story!!! lugobaro thanks for this new chapter Nice… thanks for the chapter.. waiting for the action to start….. tendriltoucher I feel like the military and sects are going to disappoint him until he makes his own major power The_Faggot_One “At a glance was enough for one to determine that he was an idle trash. Yeah sure … Baleful Ye Qingyu has the patience to sit in front of a grave for 4 years long. Do you honestly think he will get swayed and captured just becouse you ”make some moves”. Ohhh! That’s so true, aha. Plus, he’said seen prettier girls at White Deer! alexorario These type of girls are among the worst. Useless gold diggers Gross!! Shallow and vile woman, begone!! Thanks for the chapter Aran, Suijin, Bobby Earl, Ravimon, and LtBeefy! CrlFx68 like it ark hope he give few lessons this sects^^ thks for chap Dear Friends, many thanks to the Author, Translator(s), (Editors), (Donors) for the awesome chapter! With lots of love, Jack Leave a Reply to SRK Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line504
__label__cc	0.627439	0.372561	ARCP Securities Litigation Home Case Documents Contact Us File A Claim If you are a Class Member and wish to be potentially eligible for a payment from the proceeds of the Settlement, you must complete and submit a Proof of Claim and Release form. To obtain a copy of the Proof of Claim and Release form, please click here. The deadline to submit a timely Proof of Claim and Release form is January 23, 2020. You may submit your Proof of Claim and Release form using one of two methods. Each method is described below, with links to the requirements for each submission. Your submitted Proof of Claim and Release form will include a release of your legal claims against any of the Defendants or any other Released Person (as defined in the Stipulation of Settlement), as well as a certification under penalty of perjury that your Proof of Claim and Release form is accurate and complete. Whichever submission method you choose, please note that supporting documentation of the transactions and holdings listed on your Proof of Claim and Release form is required. Include all required and necessary documentation with your submission. In the event that you submit your Proof of Claim and Release form online, you must retain confirmation of such filing, which is provided at the end of the filing process. If you fail to execute and submit a timely, properly completed and addressed Proof of Claim and Release form, your claim may be rejected and you may be precluded from any recovery from the Net Settlement Fund. Submit Your Proof of Claim and Release Online To submit a Claim Form online, you must complete the online Proof of Claim and Release submission form found here. It is estimated that this process will take approximately 30 minutes, though it may take longer if you have a large number of transactions. Once you begin the online Proof of Claim and Release submission process, you will not be able to save and return to your session. Your session will time-out after one (1) hour and you will not be able to return to the claims filing process. Please have all necessary information available and be prepared to complete the process at one time. Required documentation may be uploaded in pdf format only, and each file cannot be larger than 1MB in size. In order to be timely, Proofs of Claim and Release must be submitted online by January 23, 2020.. Submit Your Proof of Claim and Release by Mail To submit a Proof of Claim and Release form by mail, complete and sign the Proof of Claim and Release form in its entirety with all required supporting documentation and mail it, postmarked no later than January 23, 2020, to the Claims Administrator at: c/o Gilardi & Co. LLC Providence, RI 02940-3434 Gilardi & Co. LLC. Copyright © 2020 Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line505
__label__wiki	0.520134	0.520134	USC IGM Art Gallery hosts Global Development Forum, Spiritual Matrices/Free Will: Uniting the People to Divide and Conquer the Challenges of Rapid Change USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery, 2250 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA On Sunday, February 14 over 50 public, private, nonprofit, faith-based, academic and media leaders joined in an art-framed forum to confront challenges, share and leverage resources and begin determining next steps. Inspirational presentations and discussions highlighted important policy changes as well as innovations in Information Technology, Molecular Biology and Complementary and Alternative Health Care. Partner organizations included ENCOUNTER, SelfMaydStudios, United Voices of Literacy (UVOL), The Yes Salon, Earthrights, SPOTBALL USA and Weingarten Communications, Speakers included Artist Mike Becker who explained the IGM Art Gallery's mission to serve as an incubator for social Capital. Its art-framed forums provide deliberative discussions on complex social issues that interface with the creative process and findings of research in molecular biology, health and social systems. Mike shared his book, Free Will/Positive Moment and the process of its images and inspirational mottos serving both as an exhibition as well as a book, to be used in classrooms, faith-based and NGO organizations around the globe. With partners he found through the exhibition, Mike has translated the book into five languages and aims for many more. Artist Susan Sims-Hillbrand screened her Spiritual Matrices: Penlight Performances and Poetic Prayers and engaged the audience in group recitation in one of the prayers, followed by a discussion of numerous dichotomies, i.e. joy/despair, trust/fear, birth/loss of people, ideas and things we hold dear, then conducted a discussion on how to find balance in the midst of rapid change. Christopher Toussaint - Editor of The Science of Miracles: The Quantum Language of Healing, Peace, Feeling and Belief, An Illustrated Interview with Gregg Braden, discussed this film that explores paradigm-shattering revelations demonstrating why we are not limited by the laws of physics and biology as we know them today, and why our DNA is a code that we can change and upgrade by choice. The IGM Art Gallery serves as an incubator to inspire, develop and sustain social capital. Through art-framed, open-minded forums with leaders from the 6 sectors, a network of networks is emerging to facilitate collaboration and economic self-sufficiency in an environment of social justice. With annual exhibitions on four themes: Global Health, Global Environment, Global Development and Global Peace & Security, these discussions include businesses development, homelessness, housing, healthcare, and an evolving criminal justice system. The IGM Art Gallery's exhibitions, forums and events have the capacity to wield substantive influence across the LA County and beyond. The traveling exhibitions are organized to take the process of self-organized stewardship and mindful choice making to global leaders and their communities as well. The Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery and our partners organize exhibitions and programs for local, self-organized events that bring leaders together to share and leverage existing resources. Incubating economic self-sufficiency, social justice and innovative institutional transformation is our mission. Gallery projects combine video examples and live speakers that spark deep discussion and connection within small groups that then share discussion conclusions in plenary sessions. These projects are designed to provide general guidance for Public, Private, Nonprofit, Faith-Based, Academic and Media leaders who then stimulate activism among their constituents after mindful discussion on: • How to develop partnerships with leaders from 6 sectors • How to generate cross organizational and cross department sharing and leveraging of resources and manpower • How to attract underwriting for events • How organization leaders can serve to develop capital philanthropy, creating new jobs and evolutionary institutional transformation • How to use information technology to produce leveraged return on social and capital investment To view a short version of the Forum CLICK HERE To view the whole documentary of the Forum CLICK HERE For more information contact lynn.crandall@gmail.com or 213-705-7489 Educators in VR Paths Unseen Exhibition by Karena Massengill - Opening Reception, Saturday, February 8 SoCalATA and Institute for Arts in Medicine (IAM) Present Prescribing Art: A Path to Healing How and when will we move to 100% clean, renewable energy? Summer 2018 Global Citizenship Roundtable: Master of Science in Global Medicine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line506
__label__cc	0.659625	0.340375	Tvrecaps.com: The Future Of Television Home Arts & Entertainment Television / Movies By: Mike Rehan Email Article There was a time when people would get upset that they missed their favorite TV show, or had to rush home from work to catch the new episodes of Jersey Shore, but like cable television, that is yesterday’s news since with the online television trend moving into the future. Tvrecaps.com is an online video search engine site that allows users to watch their favorite episodes on reliable sources on their tablets or PCs. When you hear the name TVRecaps, it simply means, catching up on your TV shows. That however is true, but we also deliver current and popular TV shows like, Modern Family, Tera Nova, Jersey Shore and much more. In fact, we have all the popular show on our main page, along with a complete list of other shows on the left side of the page. In addition, we also have classic shows that date far back to the 1970’s. This is especially enjoyed by our older users who enjoy still enjoy classic television. We have been getting positive feedback from users complimenting our service and functionality since inception. In addition, we are implementing a lot of new content that allows users to fully interact with TVRecaps. However, TVRecaps is not just limited to watching TV. Users can read reviews and keep up to date with the news and also watch live streaming TV from around the globe. With the future of television on the rise, TVRecaps is emerging with the trend. Big name actors such as Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey and Steven Van Zandt are already starting the web TV trend. In fact, Yahoo is partnering with ABC news for web video, and licensing original comedy which too will be featured on our site. YouTube is spending $100 million on original programming. In addition to TV shows, a movie category is added where users can search for their favorite movies and watch them the same way as they would with TV shows. The movie collection dates far back to the early 1970's to the current popular ones today. This is a great way for everyone to enjoy watching movies. The rise of TV online is here, with more and more people watching premium content online now than ever (22% of US population watches TV online) and TVRecaps hopes to be the first stop for all media consumption online. For more information about http://www.tvrecaps.com, or would like to schedule an interview, please call Mike Rehan at (905) 604 4451 or through email at mike@altek.ca http://www.articlebiz.com/article/1051538303-1-tvrecapscom-the-future-of-television/ This article has been viewed 1345 times. What is six + seven? [tell us you're human] Big Miracle (2012) Movie - Best Drama Romance Movie Watch Albert Nobbs Online Free in Bluray Print What are the various types of horror movies? Charlie Brooker gives political and social satire a lease of life in Black Mirror The Epic That Is Hans Zimmer You Cannot Leave the World of Demons Comedy web series –Easy and convenient Movie Downloads on the Internet Imagine a world without movies! Puppet Master Box Set - The Best Horror Films and Where to Buy Them The Essence of Spiderman Angelina Jolie Tells A Story That Has The Bitterness Of A Carnage And Sweetness Of Love The Tale of the Plasma TV When Babysitting Turns Into A Bizarre Experience! Discover Telomerase Activation Telomeres and Aging: The Long and Short of It Who is The Best Satellite TV Provider With All The Top Deals Acquiring The Right Chiropractor Pearland For Optimum Chiropractic Care An Automaton And Those Adventures Fad for Movies and Et Al! Movie Websites Showcase Specific Genres The Dawn Will Emerge With A New Hope Of Twilight! Outrage Is Vengeance… Pure Unadulterated Version Of Brutality! Beware! The Muppet Theatre Is In Danger! The Rise And Fall Of A Silent Movie Superstar Obtaining The Best Cable Tv Deals Near You Comcast Illinois High Speed Internet Deals Cable TV Deals Family Ready Dribble in style under the Coca Rocha eyes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line507
__label__wiki	0.749064	0.749064	All New Event Fashion Blog Review Posted on September 19, 2017 May 19, 2018 by Jackson Watkins Where Did This Love Of Reggae Originate From? You are heavily involved in the roots scene, where did this love of reggae originate from? I had early influences like going to St Paul’s Carnival and seeing friends from primary school on the floats and hearing soundsystems playing reggae during the 80s. I seriously homed in on Reggae around 1990 through listening to the local pirate radio stations of the time; all of them were playing reggae. These stations would advertise shops where you could buy the music, and promote dances where you could hear it, so once in tune to the radio it was fairly easy but still took a bit of searching out. How long have you lived in Bristol for and what influence has it had on your music? I am a Bristolian, born and bred. I have generations on both sides going back here in the city. My family could have never envisaged that I’d put on huge soundsystem events at the Trinity Centre where my grandparents got married or that I’d have pirate radio meetings at the Jolly Roger pub where my parents met in the 1960s. I am pleased to have witnessed how Bristol has developed into a multi cultural city and feel blessed to have been a teenager in a time when Massive Attack released Blue Lines and Bristol became, for a time, the musical capital of the UK. I remember friends of my cousins in London being very impressed that I was from Bristol. Many producers and DJs in Bristol have been inspired by reggae. As Dubkasm, Digistep and I didn’t incorporate influences from reggae into various other electronic genres of music; we went to the source and have done our part in keeping orthodox Rasta focused roots and dub music alive. Much is made of the influence of reggae on Bristol’s musical output; what would you say the reggae scene in Bristol is actually like? That depends how far you go back and what circles you move in. When I was growing up I went to numerous reggae nights at the Malcolm X Centre. Back then most top Jamaican artists passed through Bristol. There were soundsystem nights and blues parties every weekend in St Pauls. Even though I had some great experiences I only caught the tail-end of the best times. These days the scene has dwindled to some extent. Not so many of the live acts pass through the city due to poor crowd attendance. Today’s younger generation are more into grime or other genres of music, reggae or dancehall isn’t necessarily the ‘in’ thing in the way it was when I was a teenager. There are events that are labelled ‘reggae’ nights in town with no set order to them at all, it seems to be more of a mash up affair with DJs dropping a Shabba Ranks tune followed by A King Tubby dub with very little knowledge of where the music’s coming from. Not my vibe at all. I have loved being a part of the real inner-city reggae scene and using my reggae t shirts from Bonestudio. Playing at and attending dances that mainstream magazines would never even hear about, dances that would sometimes be advertised just by word of mouth but would get rammed! Proper local vibes with the crowd knowing the tunes, understanding the lyrics, and feeling the vibes. There is nothing like playing reggae to a real reggae crowd. My first ever DJ appearance was at Ajax Blues in St Paul’s. How long have you been doing Dubkasm for? Our first release was in 1996 on Dub Out West Vol II, released on Nubian Records & Armagideon Sounds. We spelt our name Dubchasm back then. After that we spent time establishing friendships within the roots scene whilst Digistep developed his musical talent at University level. Although we had no further releases until 2003 we had extensive dubplate exposure from Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti-I and Iration Steppas. Shaka was running ’20th Century Dub’ in 1997, Aba was running ‘Jah Bible’ in 1998 and so it continued. Our most well known dubplate since then has to be ‘Warrior’ run exclusively by Jah Shaka, the dub version to Every Lion featuring Lidj Xylon, Shaka closed many of his dances with this tune which was a real honour. A previously unreleased mix of ‘Warrior’ features on our forthcoming LP. What roles do you and Digistep play in the music making process? Digistep is the musical talent behind Dubkasm. He plays many instruments and has a degree in Music Technology. My role has always been based around my contacts within the roots scene, getting singers to record with us, writing some of the lyrics, and of course I run the label. That said, the sound and vibe of every release is discussed between Digistep and I. We both have an equal share in the final outcome of the music. How did Digistep moving to Brazil influence the music that you make? There are similar connections with Africa in Brazil as there are in the Carribean. Some of the instruments, musical styles, fashion and traditions were brought to Brazil by Africans who were enslaved and transported there. These similarities struck a chord with us and we decided that our LP would have some subtle elements of Brazilian instrumentation as well as the traditional reggae sound and the heavy UK dub vibe people already associate with Dubkasm. Of course, Digistep’s move to Brazil also had a huge impact on how we operated as a duo. Dubkasm became a transatlantic operation. Digistep would send me a riddim track and I would record singers in various studios around the UK and send the files back to him where he would then finish the track. When the final track was returned to me I would then set about releasing the vinyl here in the UK. Eventually we started work on tracks for the debut LP. We performed in Rio early 2008 and spent hours in Digital Dubs Studio recording percussion and local singers in the Brazilian tropical heat. When I was back in the UK things continued as normal with me recording singers here and sending the files out to Brazil. Once we’d complied all the tracks for the LP Digistep came home to Bristol for a holiday and we mixed the whole thing at Daddy Roots’s studio in Montpelier. Slightly afterwards the Sao Paulo council paid for Afrikan Simba and I to fly out and join Digistep to host two Dubkasm shows. We took full advantage of this and mastered the LP at El Rocha Studio in Sao Paulo. So the link between Bristol and Brazil is really strong, I think Digistep and I have spent the best part of the past five years on Skype! How long has it taken to put the LP together and what was the vision behind it? We’ve planned on releasing an album for many years. Digistep moving to Brazil in 2004 meant the volume of music we released wasn’t quite the amount we initially planned as things took longer to complete. The LP has been an idea in our minds that’s developed and changed as our own situations have. I suppose it’s years in the making really but it’s been the last two years that we’ve really knuckled down to it. The mixture of influences that shaped the LP is what gave rise to the title, Transform I. It’s really an adaptation of Brazilian singer Ras Bernardo’s song title, ‘Transformai’. In Portuguese, the word is used to urge someone to transform their mentality, their way of thinking – effecting a spiritual transformation and in a Rasta context, ‘I and I’ is an expression to totalize the concept of oneness. These two messages, along with others such as building whatever you do ‘From the Foundation’ sum up the progressive, forward-thinking vibe we try to project – to transform I and I using the music as a vehicle to promote the message. The decision to use a Portuguese word stemmed from Digistep’s Brazilian roots, which are a key influence. You can hear that in the instrumentation too – cuica, berimbau, cavaquinho, zabumba. Many of these instruments were brought to Brazil from Angola and the Congo by Bantu slaves. So when you mix nyahbinghi rhythms with samba, you can feel the same African roots, the heartbeat. You have gone to a lot of effort with the presentation of the album, both with the artwork and the heavyweight pressing. Why is this so important to you? After an event I promoted years ago at the Black Swan I was in London in someone’s flat and noticed framed on their wall the flyer for that same night. This person liked the look of the flyer so much they had taken the time to frame it and given it pride of place in their home! Making an effort with presentation does get noticed. Collecting records as a teenager, the album artwork was often just as exciting as the actual music. I remember sitting with Digistep at his mum’s house listening to newly bought LPs while marveling at the sleeve. So much of this has been lost in the digital age we now live. We want to release music that will last and package it in such a way that it feels like a special item to have. In keeping with the tradition of the music we commissioned a Rasta painter from Gloucester to paint a picture to be displayed in the inner section of the gatefold sleeve of the vinyl and a pullout section of the CD. This artist used to paint rasta imagery on soundsystem speaker boxes in the 1980s. I gave him just one of the vocals from the album along with all the track titles. After a couple of weeks had passed I returned to Gloucester to view the final painting. I was overwhelmed when the artist showed me how every track title was incorporated into the painting and listened in awe as he gave a reasoning on what each aspect of the painting represented. We wanted the LP to reflect the message and vibe both visually and musically. In the trailer video you say that Dubkasm has a very strong Rasta message. Is this something which you feel strongly about? Not every music has a culture and faith attached to it. Roots and dub reggae does. This is something that we have always been keen to respect and maintain in our work as Dubkasm. As a youth, listening to the lyrics of the music led me to reasoning with elder Rasta people who in turn explained the importance and significance of the message. In 1997 I had the opportunity to go to Jamaica. I visited numerous recording studios, Rasta centres and record shops in Kingston. The way in which reggae music was used daily confirmed to me that it really is the cry of the poor and the voice of the sufferer. Through very difficult times both Rasta and reggae music have literally kept some people sane. I have called my radio show the ‘Sufferah’s Choice’ to this day and of course we named our record label after the show. Rasta people and reggae music don’t try to preach or convert but aim to give a voice to people and offer an alternative outlook on life. Rastafari has had a huge impact on my life for which I give thanks. Would you say that the roots scene is welcoming to newcomers, or is there a need to prove oneself before being fully accepted? It’s important to remember that this music was a major unifying force for black people here in Britain during the 1970s and 80s. Racism is still sadly a part of life these days but during the 80s it was rife and often a daily pressure for black people, the Friday night dancehall was a place of refuge. Over the years many reggae artists have been exploited. This considered, it’s not surprising that some newcomers are met with a certain level of suspicion and sometimes hostility. I faced some of this at first but if you’re coming from the heart, in time people see this and guards are dropped. This music and its message is a whole way of life for many people, it’s not a fad or phase for people to go through; it’s all about longevity and those dealing with it respectfully and who are in it for the duration will get the respect they deserve. You have worked with a large number of different vocalists; how do these link ups come about and who is your favourite singer that you have worked with? By interviewing soundsystem owners, reggae artists, and producers for my radio show during the late 90s, Digistep and I formed many great friendships within the roots scene. Often due to the homework I did not just on the music but also the message meant that established main players in the scene took us seriously and in turn worked with us as bredrins. I often write letters to singers explaining the vibe behind the track they’ve agreed to voice before the recording takes place. This helps set a theme for the song before it’s actually written. This is followed up by phone calls, and then of course linking up in person to record them. Before recording vocalists we like to reason with the artist and even have our own input on the lyrics being written. These reasonings, both in the UK and Brazil, have lasted for hours and have in turn shaped the final song. We feel strongly about the lyrics and the emphasis is on the original Rasta teaching that ‘word sound is power’. Highlights for me have been listening to Digistep reason with Ras Bernardo and Jeru Banto at the Digital Dubs Studio in the tropical heat of Rio. When Ras Bernado explained the message of the LP’s opening track, ‘Introdução’ he had tears in his eyes. His lyrics are all in Portuguese and they carry some serious weight; here they are about ‘historias esqueçidas, verdades escondidas’ forgotten stories and hidden truths. He talks about oppression and how mental slavery must be abolished through self-transformation. I think his vibe reflects other militant aspects of the LP such as ‘Babylon Ambush’ and keys in with the general ethos of the album. I will never forget recording Dub Judah in his Dub Tech Studio, he’s an artist Digistep and I have always admired and been inspired by. Most recordings with Judah take place during the night, From The Foundation was no different and was completed as the sun came up. You have been doing your show on Passion for over ten years now; what are your views on the importance of pirate radio? Well, pirate radio got me into reggae and was the direct link to the scene I’ve since become a part of so it’s a very important thing in my life. Even after all these years of reggae music in Britain there’s still not a weekly national roots and dub reggae show. If people want their music promoted they have to get it to pirate radio DJs and soundsystems. The power of local radio is truly incredible. Many years ago a very well respected figure of St Paul’s, known as Bangy, was killed when he intervened in a mugging that took place on new years eve. There was quite rightly outrage in the local community and the radio stations of the time were the medium for people to update the community. It was the same situation in the mid-nineties when Marlon Thomas was racially attacked at a fairground on the Downs. In later years this incident was told in the Smith & Mighty release ‘No Justice’, sung by Rudey Lee. At the time of the tragedy it was pirate radio that informed the people of these events and gave the voice for people to express their feelings about it. It’s about much more than just music. Your dance, ‘Teachings In Dub’, has become very popular. Although the initial interest may have been because of the link up with Subloaded, you have since proved that you can still ram dances on your own, a very hard thing to do with roots and dub. What do you think is behind this? Do you think that the popularity of dubstep has led to more people discovering roots music? Well even before we teamed up with Subloaded there were many sound system nights I promoted that were successful going back to the late nineties. In 2007 the Bristol Reggae Society were looking to get involved in some local promotions and came to me to discuss options and we decided to start some joint projects. At the same time I was in discussion with a friend of mine, DJ Pinch, about he and I combining forces. It all seemed to come together at the right time and it wasn’t long before Subloaded moved to the upstairs of Clockwork and Teachings In Dub was launched in the downstairs arena. I think these nights were as popular as they were because of the joint effort of parties involved. A lot of younger people who had come for the Dubstep upstairs would pop down to our room and be literally blown away by powerful soundsystems such as Aba Shanti, Jah Tubbys and Iration Steppas. For many, this was the first time they’d heard a reggae soundsystem. The feedback we got was good. We’ve now had to split from Subloaded due to not having a club with two large floors available but Teachings In Dub continues to be really popular. Perhaps some of those younger people enjoyed the vibes so much they followed the reggae sounds to the new venue? I recently played a set at Dubloaded and someone approached me afterwards saying he really enjoyed the set and asked me, ‘what was that music you were playing?’ He looked surprised when I told him it was digital UK dub, most of which had been released in the early and mid nineties. I hope people into dubstep do get around to listening to more of our dub sound. It’s important to keep the music accessible to each generation. Do you see the two genres as linked in any way or are they very separate in your mind? I see them as two separate genres. Just because someone decided to label the music ‘dubstep’ doesn’t mean it’s connected with dub reggae. I’m no dubstep expert but am told that its influences are wide and they range from Garage to Techno. I do, however, think there are some strong links. Reggae soundsystem culture and dub music has shaped all modern electronic music whether it be directly or indirectly, so it’s all connected regardless of genre. I really admire how dubstep producers and labels still use vinyl as the preferred format for released and am pleased that acetate dubplates are still used for DJs to promote exclusive music which is obviously in keeping with reggae soundsystem culture. I like the attention to detail and the obsession with sound quality, and the fact that instrumental, dubbed music is given the room to breathe. The track ‘One Blood, One Source’, on Pinch’s ‘Underwater Dancehall’ LP, uses samples originally recorded by Dubkasm. How did this link up come about and do you have any plans to explore further dubstep related projects? The files for one of the tracks from Transform I, entitled ‘Sangue Brasileiro (Brazilian Blood)’, was given to Pinch in 2006. He used many of the sounds to create the track ‘One Blood, One Source’ which features on his debut LP, ‘Underwater Dancehall’. I introduced Pinch to a great friend of mine, Rudey Lee, and they recorded the vocal. I’m really pleased with the Bristol connection on this. Other dubstep producers are working on Dubkasm remixes and there’s even talk of a dubstep remix album to Transform I. Let’s see what the future brings. What does the future hold for Dubkasm and Sufferah’s Choice? ‘Transform I’ features a mixture of vocal, instrumental, and dub tracks. For all the dub-ites we have compiled a second LP entitled ‘Transformed In Dub’ which features dub mixes of a selection of tracks from ‘Transform I’. This will be released much later in the year. Digistep joins me in the UK for the launch party of ‘Transform I’ on 25th April at Teachings In Dub in Bristol. From then on we tour as Dubkasm with guest artist Afrikan Simba. You’ll be able to catch us playing the dubplate mixes from the second LP at our Dubkasm shows. CategoriesBlog TagsLove Of Reggae Previous PostPrevious Graphic tees target for all ages style Next PostNext Custom T Shirts Kansas City, Get Perfect Customized Look Freight Forwarder to Australia with the Most Rated Tee Shirt Mockup With Rolled Up Sleeves Is Ideal For Males And Also Is Available In White. 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__label__cc	0.652122	0.347878	My Top 10 Screenplays of All Time Few things fascinate and inspire me more than the written word, specifically as they relate to film. Whether it’s the seamless structure of scenarios, or that one perfect line that cuts right to the heart of things – I’m utterly engrossed with every aspect of a screenplay. Some of my choices below are known primary for their dialogue, others for the way in which they evolve their stories. All have planted themselves in my mind and never dared to go away. They’ve encouraged, amused, and captivated me many times over. And I realized something funny while drafting this post: sometimes writing about words is the hardest kind of writing; for someone has already said it better themselves. (Note: This post was hacked and deleted earlier this week. It initially ran on April 12.) Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, based on the play “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison Widely considered by many to be the finest screenplay ever conceived, the script for Casablanca is perfect for reasons I have trouble articulating. It’s expertly crafted, tersely worded, and equipped with as much venom as it is bliss. It never feels forced or rushed, instead moving at the exact proper pace, with characters who say all the right things at all the right times. For whatever reason – blame it on closeness of their releases, popularity, whatever – Casablanca is frequently matched against Citizen Kane as the best film of all time. The late, great Roger Ebert said it best when he compared the admiration for the two films: “Citizen Kane is general considered to be the ‘greater’ film. But Casablanca is more loved.” Yes. Exactly. Screenplay by Reginald Rose, based on his teleplay of the same name One of the best things about Rose’s script for 12 Angry Men is that it’s always two steps ahead of its audience. For example, while the 12 jurors in question debate the fate of a young boy accused of murdering his father, you may wonder why the son stabbed his father in the chest, wiped it clean of finger prints, left the scene, and returned three hours later to retrieve the knife (which was still lodged in his father’s chest). Why? Why would someone wipe a blade clean and NOT take it with them? Once the 11th Juror asks that very question, we’re releaved that someone thought to ask what we were already thinking. This is a script that leaves nothing out. Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by Mario Puzo It just flows so well, you know? The extended set pieces, the glorious inter-cutting of multiple actions, the understated dialogue – everything about The Godfather simply works. It doesn’t really interest me to compare a film to the material it’s based on, but this may indeed be my favorite cinematic book adaptation. The proper cuts were made to enhance the film’s pace, and the alterations (typically to make the film more grim) were all tonally perfect. I never grow tired of it. Network (1976) Screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky There are a few scripts on this list that are here for their dialogue, and not really much else. Every single exchange of words in Chayefsky’s Network moves like a freight train and ignites like a brush fire. It’s a deeply cruel, oddly humorous, and wildly intelligent work of contemporary poetry. Every time I watch this film, I marvel at the words being spoken and I ask myself, Jesus, how the hell did someone even think of that? Screenplay by Paul Schrader Taxi Driver is my favorite personal screenplay of all time. After an ugly divorce and an equally gut wrenching break-up with his live-in girlfriend, Paul Schrader spent the next several months wandering the seedy streets of New York City. Sleeping in his car, ducking into porno theaters, drinking too much, snorting too much. And it was from his personal anguish that Taxi Driver was born. Schrader was able to morph the isolation he gained from his depression into a masterful work of alienated art. Taxi Driver is my favorite flick of all time, and it all started with a screenplay; a complex, secluded, infuriated screenplay. Fanny and Alexander (1982) Screenplay by Ingmar Bergman There must be a Bergman, and I wrestled extensively with which one to include. And instead of listing all of Bergman’s best scripts, and why they would’ve merited inclusion here, I’ll just say that what finally led me to choose Fanny and Alexander was its massive scope. Most every Bergman film is armed with a type of magnetism. There’s an allure that draws you in almost immediately, often inexplicably. Fanny and Alexander has this mystery, of course, but, on a more elementary level, it’s the impressiveness of its size that I’m most taken with. It’s the way it keeps transforming – how it could end there, but instead keeps going. And going. And going. More characters are introduced, while others are fully realized. There’s humor, horror, dread and compassion. A magnum opus from cinema’s finest master. The Big Chill (1983) Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek Of all the characters in all the screenplays on this list, I honestly think the ones I know best are the seven friends in The Big Chill. After their eighth counterpart unexpectedly kills himself, married couple Harold and Sarah, repressed housewife Karen, People Magazine journalist Michael, hotshit attorney Meg, television star Sam, and emotionally and psychically damaged Nick, reunite for the first time since college at Harold and Sarah’s large summer home. During their impromptu reunion, they fight, they cry, they drink, they do drugs, they have sex – all with a universal understanding of acceptance. Which means two things. One, through Kasdan and Benedek’s script, it’s so obvious how well this group of people knows each other. How close they once were and how their lives have all been fractured in some way since separating. And two, because this script is to well defined, we the audience are able to accept and believe these relationships from scene one. As natural and organic a screenplay that has ever been written. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Screenplay by David Mamet, based on his play of the same name “All train compartments smell vaguely of shit. It gets so you don’t mind it. That’s the worst thing that I can confess. You know how long it took me to get there? A long time.” Real estate shark Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) says this to a whale he’s trying to pitch, early in Glengarry Glen Ross. The two are having drinks in a local dive bar, and Roma, possibly sensing that his mark can be manipulated through subtle flirtation, dives into a seemingly nonsensical monologue that starts with shitty train compartments and ends with volcanic orgasms. On the surface, Roma’s grand, philosophical speech means nothing, but Mamet knows better. He knows exactly what it’s doing, through every word, punctuation mark, beat, and fiery fit of profanity. And this is just one brief, often overlooked passage from the film. The entirety of Glengarry Glen Ross is filled with the best that words have to offer. Screenplay by Quentin Tarnation Pulp Fiction is and remains a cultural phenomenal. For those old, it reminded them of screenwriting as an art form. It paved way for studio execs to seek new, inventive scripts – to crave the original and the bold. For those young, well, it told them that anything on paper is possible. No matter how insane, just write the fuckin’ thing and see what comes out. And I ask: what can possibly be better than that? Traffic (2000) Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, based on the television series “Traffik,” written by Simon Moore Stephen Gaghan’s script for Traffic was the first screenplay that turned me onto the process. I had loved movies long before seeing Traffic, but when the film was released, I thought for the first time that maybe this nagging dream of mine, this desire to create something out of moving images, could start with words. I realized then that I could propel my dream with words of my own. I was well aware that movies came from screenplays, but up until then, I never had the slightest interest in writing one. Traffic changed that. And who knows, maybe one day I’ll get to say the rest was history. Click here for more lists from And So it Begins, including: My Top 10 Films of All Time My Top 10 Directors of All Time My Top 10 Male Performances of All Time My Top 10 Female Performances of All Time You mentioned in another post that you'd like readers to re-comment. I probably can't remember whatever the hell I said, but here goes ... If I made such a list, I don't know what I would include, but Taxi Driver and Pulp Fiction would definitely be on there. You wrote: "I was well aware that movies came from screenplays, but up until then, I never had the slightest interest in writing one. Traffic changed that. And who knows, maybe one day I’ll get to say the rest was history." ... Definitely! There is no doubt in my mind. With your intelligence and gift for words, you're going to be creating great stuff. I look forward to seeing it on the big screen. I am sorry about your losses. I know how devastating that can be. Thanks so much for commenting again, Steph! What you said about my writing is really nice of you :) And thanks for the support... shit was rough but things seem pretty much back on track! thevoid99 April 19, 2013 at 5:27 PM Good to see this post back. I definitely recall mentioning Somewhere as one of my favorite scripts that I mentioned in the comments so I'll just mention it again. Thanks for commenting again man, Somewhere is a brilliant choice. Such a tight, well conceived script there. Nick Prigge April 20, 2013 at 12:36 PM "Chinatown" is my personal #1. And I'd throw Newman & Benton's "Bonnie & Clyde" in there too, though, of course, that one was aided immeasurably by a Towne re-write. I mean, really, when Robert Towne was on his game..... As far as more modern day scripts, I've always though Tony Gilroy's "Michael Clayton" was kind of a masterpiece. Alex Withrow April 21, 2013 at 9:51 AM Chinatown was number 11 here. That is a perfect damn script. So tight. And yeah, when Towne hit... dude hit. Michael Clayton is a great choice. That always felt like a genuine '70s throwback to me, which is a very good thing. With that one, it's really all about what's not said, you know? Mark Woollon June 29, 2015 at 3:31 PM Glad you love the Chinatown script too, my favorite movie. All of these are superb also- need to see The Big Chill- It was you that introduced me to Traffic, and the screenplay is certainly one of the things that make it the best film of the 2000s, at least to me :P Alex Withrow June 29, 2015 at 4:14 PM LOVE hearing that, my friend. Stephen Gaghan's Traffic script is such a thing of wonder. So big, yet still so personal. His best scripts always manage to do that, like the sub plot of Jeffrey Wright and his dad in Syriana. Eric April 20, 2013 at 5:23 PM That Glengarry Glen Ross script is fuckin' perfect. Agree with the others, too. Great choices. Fuckin' A! Glad you dig the picks! Again, this is a wonderful list man. Mine would probably look something like this: All the President's Men, The Apartment, Casablanca, Chinatown, A Fish Called Wanda, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Rear Window, The Seventh Seal (maybe Persona instead), and Sunset Blvd. Oh dude, excellent choices there. I had the damnest time picking my Bergman. I wanted to limit it to one, but that choice did not come easy. Love seeing A Fish Called Wanda on your list. Thanks man. Picking one Bergman is so tough. Glad you dig the Fish mention. It's one of my all-time favorite comedies. I need to watch that movie again. Kline, man... so deserving of that Oscar. Tokaro April 29, 2013 at 11:18 PM It's not a screenplay list without Network. I am in love with the dialogue in that film, everything is so tight. Taxi Driver is a must. Schrader's script is such a magnetic read, I would love to see you dig into Paul Schrader's filmography one of these days. First off man, I want to tell you how much I appreciate your comments. Sincerely, it means a lot! Also, I see you have 4 blogs attached to your handle but none of them have been updated recently... do you blog on any other site? I'd love to read your stuff! Glad you dig the picks here. I really should buckle down and crush out all of Schrader's films. I mostly write for my own personal enjoyment and have yet to start a new film blog. That said, I've written a number of essays and film analysis' over the year, I should suck up my nervousness and make a tumblr already haha. I'm glad I can bounce off of you, your blog serves as quite the inspiration. Yeah get to it already! Schrader is a very interesting character in that his films rarely work but are so very important nonetheless. I always found he's been grasping to capture the magic he had with Taxi Driver but just misses the mark. Hey man, I'm glad I can help encourage you. I'd love to read some of your essays, so I DEFINITELY think you should start your own blog. Most new bloggers are crazy nervous about not getting a lot of hits and/or comments, but I say who cares. If the writing is good, the people will soon follow. I've seen most all of Schrader's directorial efforts, and yeah, I'm more of a fan of his scripts than his own movies. But still, he has some great ones. Affliction...? Jesus. Tokaro April 30, 2013 at 7:47 PM Affliction is a really powerful flick, Nolte's acting is so fucking even at all times, good lord! And Coburn! I stand somewhat corrected but even still, Schrader has had a hard go at being one of the big directors despite being an exceptional writer and having a really solid visual eye, sense of atmosphere etc. Alex Withrow May 3, 2013 at 9:50 AM So happy to hear you're a fan of that film. That one has mad power. Jeff May 6, 2013 at 4:47 AM Let's see, the wordplay in 'Dr. Strangelove' has always been a favorite of mine. The amount of foresight that had to go into the script for 'Momento' is unbelievable. 'The Sweet Smell of Success' dialog does sound ridiculous on paper, but when it's said by Lanchaster and Curtis it just works. 'Rashomon' for it's pioneering narrative technique. Other than that love all the choices here. Especially, Casacblanca Brian Cox said it best in 'Adaptation', "best ever screenplay" Alex Withrow May 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM Great picks, all of which were extremely close to cracking my Top 10. Rashomon was a film that helped change what films were to me. I never knew you could jump around like that. Kurosawa, man. I'd say Network has the greatest screenplay of all time. It's astounding how that film is more relevant to news media and corporations today, than it was in 1976. Loved your list! So glad to see Casablanca and 12 Angry Men get a mention. Alex Withrow September 7, 2013 at 10:29 PM Thanks man! I rewatched Network a few months ago, and I couldn't agree more with you, that movie is shockingly relevant. It's actually kind of frightening. Mark Woollon August 9, 2015 at 5:02 PM Just saw The Big Chill and you were so right. Perhaps I was just looking for ‘knowing’ the characters just because you mentioned it, but damn if you don’t by the end (and hell even from the beginning) of the film. So many little things I love about it… 1-That opening 2-The fact you are just waiting for the condoms to come out of Michael’s bag 3-A whiter shade of pale 4-How “It’s quiet in here, too quiet” would be a bad line in any other film, but works so well to build the character here 5- “Alex and I made love the night before he died it was fantastic” :’D 6-And of course- of course- that shot. That song. That line. Perfection. The Big Chill is a movie that is definitely a film OF the 1980s, but its also one of its very best. Alex Withrow August 11, 2015 at 12:37 PM YES! So happy you watched it. I love love LOVE that movie. Ah, so good. And I love all the things you pointed out about it. Great stuff! Mark Woollon August 12, 2015 at 5:29 AM Its great to be pointed in the direction of some great movies I would never have known about before, so thankyou. Its the non-theatrical Fanny & Alexander yet. Wish me luck finding that one :/ Alex Withrow August 17, 2015 at 1:31 PM Criterion has the television version of Fanny. Do you have access to that? SO worth it. Mark Woollon August 23, 2015 at 6:49 PM Sadly Criterion is region 1 only, as I found out the hard way (-_-). And thus I cannot. Will find it eventually, somewhere though. Almost snapped up the 3 hour cut at BFI Criterion is only Region 1?! That's outrageous, I had no idea. Bummer! Yep. Finding older American films over here in the UK is surprisingly hard too. You have no idea how long it took to get a region 2 Deliverance :/ Man, I really take that for granted. That sucks dude. Top 10 NC-17 Rated Films Top 22 Things I Love About Goodfellas (that no one... 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__label__wiki	0.770026	0.770026	Anne McLeod The Spirited Life of Marie Byles About Marie Byles About Anne McLeod You are here: Home / Archives for Mountaineering Mt Sansato expedition 1938 June 13, 2016 By Anne McLeod Dora de Beer's account of the expedition to Mt Sansato. Dora was an eminent mountaineer who accompanied Marie to Yunnan Province in 1938. Dora de Beer - Yunnan account Filed Under: Mountaineering Expedition to Mahitahi Valley NZ – 1935 May 11, 2016 By Anne McLeod "For six years I have been studying the New Zealand Alpine Journals, and one by one I have seen my chosen virgin peaks falling to this or that enterprising party. But the head of the Mahitahi Valley was, Frank Alack assured me, still uncontaminated by the foot of any climber." Marie's account of her expedition to the Mahitahi Valley and Zora Glacier, and the naming of Crystal Peak. Read as an accompaniment to Martin Unwin's scholarly account of Marie's exploration achievements. Click here to access file: Mahitahi-Valley-NZ-1935 Geographic name proposal – Crystal Peak NZ 1935 May 6, 2016 By Anne McLeod This proposal, written by Martin Unwin, a New Zealand-born astronomer and distant relative of Marie's, gives a detailed account of her exploration achievements in the Southern Alps. "Marie was a capable climber who made a significant contribution to New Zealand mountaineering, leading two expeditions into unexplored territory during which she made accurate and well-informed observations of topographic details." Click here to access file: Geographic Name Proposal “Anne McLeod has crafted a highly readable book about a truly inspiring woman who was ahead of her time. Solicitors will be impressed by the story of Byles’ incredible determination to break down barriers.” Law Society Journal of NSW. A History of Women in the Legal Profession in NSW Lawyers with depression – insights into maintaining mental health Women’s Legal Status Act (NSW) 1918 Quote from Marie Byles "There is something in the contact between the human being and nature which is very hard to explain, but as you lie on Mother Earth and look up at the stars, the life force seems to bring a new health to your tired limbs and worried mind." Marie Byles Copyright © 2016 Anne McLeod \| Web Design by Leaf Digital	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line517
__label__cc	0.724271	0.275729	EasyBanking Local trade exhibitions International trade exhibitions Update my subscription Categories Financial Markets Business Events Trade Missions Business Research Calculation Tools Weekly Indian exhibition to showcase Lebanese products ‘Lebanon Day’ in New Delhi set for February India chose Lebanon as a partner to participate in the Indian exhibition “Surajkund Mela,” a traditional craft festival, which will be held February 1-15, 2015, in New Delhi. Khaled Najjar, Chairman of the Association for Development of Lebanese Indian Relations (ADLIR), said: “The Indian government will be promoting Lebanon as an exclusive partner country.” All event promotions will announce that the focus will be on Lebanon this year and local companies will have the opportunity to earn space in the exhibition. The exhibition will display industrial, fashion, handicraft, agro-food and agricultural products and will include a section for Lebanese cuisine. It will also host cultural events showcasing music, dance, theater and other traditional cultural performances. Najjar said that one day of the exhibition will be designated as Lebanon Day. “This day will be dedicated for wines, olive oil, honey and other herbal and natural agricultural products,” he said. Producers may also meet Indian traders and importers through the assistance of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Najjar said that ALDIR will be organizing business-to-business meetings at the same time in New Delhi. The Indian government will provide Lebanese participants with stands, free of charge, to display their products and space for cultural programs. It will also offer free accommodations in hotels, food and transport for cultural troupes. Visas and customs formalities will be facilitated by the Indian authorities for all business entrepreneurs and their products. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will assign an organizing committee, within a week, to coordinate with the Indian embassy. The committee would include representatives from the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Agriculture, and Ministry of Culture. Surajkund Mela attracts more than one million participants from India and 20 countries, annually. Reported by Rania Ghanem Date Posted: Sep 18, 2014 ABOUT ADVERTISE SUBMIT INFO RSS CONTACT US © 2020 by InfoPro sal. All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line523
__label__cc	0.729979	0.270021	Some advice to the would be Blue Crab steamer Sam Sifton's latest "The Cheat" column discusses steaming some blue crabs (as well as some uses for the crustacean) as a nice thing to do this summer... something to which I can agree fully... but while it is nicely written (as always), and the recipe seems fine enough in most respects... I have visions of Manhattanites standing on chairs screaming as irate crabs chase their pets around the apartment. Now, I'm no expert on steaming crabs... I left Maryland long before I had any desire to be involved in the kitchen, and even now, when I go to the Eastern shore to visit my Dad, he's most definitely in charge of the steamer pot... but I have at least seen a lot of crab steaming in my day, and heard enough apocryphal stories over the years, that it seems to me there was some important advice left out. It's advice that's similar for steaming lobsters... and maybe nobody without that kind of experience would try to steam crabs on their own the first time... but just in case: You only want to cook live crabs. If you try to put a live room temperature crab in a pot full of boiling hot steam... now, this may surprise you... it's not going to want to go in there. Emphatically. So one option is a pair of gloves and tongs and just gladiator them all in (grab them from behind so they can't pinch you). Pretty exciting stuff, but presumably not for everybody. I would suggest as an alternative: chilling them down a bit in the fridge, or directly in an ice bath, for a bit. This will make them extremely lethargic. Now, the easiest way from then on is to have a pot with a steamer insert, since you can put your anesthetized crabs into the insert, season them, and then put them whole hog into your steaming pot... without worrying about layering them and seasoning them onto a rack inside a boiling hot pot... but assuming you don't have one, I saw a recipe or two that called for putting the crabs onto said makeshift rack before bringing it up to steam. It's an alternative, though I'm not sure how well that's going to work. Seems like they're going to wake up while the pot is coming up to steam and be a little pissed... but at least they'll already be in the pot at that point (remember kids, tight fitting lid)... I'd suspect they might lose a few more claws in their "excitement" than the first option, but that's not a huge deal. Good luck to anyone who it going to try it! you are invited to follow my blog Simple Supper Expletive Deleted First Trip to the Farmers' Market The $40 Ham Sammich Japanese Curry fro Scratch World Cup Food Interlude Whew, Still Alive! Win and In Japanese Curry World Cup Group Stage Scenarios Death of the Desktop... Again That's not going to go over well in Pyongyang Stick a fork in them USA-Slovenia Comic Sans Fights Back Spain, Spain, Spain... sigh David Blight Lectures: The Civil War and Reconstru... Mushroom, Shallot, and Gruyère Quiche Eating Sustainably != Eating Healthy Anything Happened USA vs. England The Economics of OpenTable Negotiating the Menu Unfortunate Timing Spelling. Bee. Protester. How hard is cooking? All Eggs Taste The Same Anthony Bourdain Interview on Slate Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line538
__label__cc	0.698063	0.301937	ROGUE CHRISTIANITY - Faith off the Grid Compassion is an eraser that removes labels and classifications. Use it thriftlessly... bonar crump husband - father - reader - runner - picker - grinner - lover - sinner Please, Jesus, protect me from your followers Posted by B Crump at 8:34 AM 0 comments Labels: Compassion, DBAD, Links, Religion, Spirituality Paperback - $6.63 Kindle - $0.99 How Christians should rethink sex GQ Magazine: The Untold Story of the Texas Biker Gang Shoot-Out Marriage is a rubber band--deal with it The Alaskan Funk—Short Term Mission Gone…Meh… Carey Fuller Chronicles Her Experiences As A Homeless Parent In 'Writings From The Driver's Side' Waco Preamble Life Brothers My Take: There’s no such thing as the Bible and never has been Donald Miller's Blog Brian McLaren EMC Jen Hatmaker Jesus Needs New PR Rachel Held Evans - Blog Church of the Lava Lamp Create a Lava Lamp Ian Ebright "The mistake of the anti-gay marriage movement in the Christian church is that it is an attempt at indirect discipleship by way of restricting another’s freedom, and discipleship has never succeeded in that way." Morf Morford "Humility cannot exist in the spiritual vacuum that is self-righteousness." "Nothing will work, but everything might." "Religion, which should foster sisterhood and brotherhood, which should encourage tolerance, respect, compassion, peace, reconciliation, caring and sharing, has far too frequently -- perversely -- done the opposite. Religion has fueled alienation and conflict and has exacerbated intolerance and injustice and oppression. Some of the ghastliest atrocities have happened and are happening in the name of religion. It need not be so if we can learn the obvious: that no religion can hope to have a monopoly on God, on goodness and virtue and truth." “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.” "Compassion a block away looks like condoning, but without compassion we are not imitators of Jesus Christ." "I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night." William Murray "Atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of 18 and 35. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter." “I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness—and that can make me laugh. When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine.” "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." “The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.” "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. it is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." "My true religion, my simple faith is in love and compassion. There is no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are - this is all we need." "I’m learning the fruit of my creative effort often ripens instantly. I’ll sit down and get thousands of words, but then a week later, working with the same discipline, will have nothing. But my job is not to make the words come. Who am I to make the words come? My job is no different than a farmer. I till the land. I fertilize the soil. I plant the seeds. Unlike the farmer, though, I am surprised when the green shoots sprout in the spring. I think perhaps it is magic, and it will never happen for me again. But the farmer knows if he tills the land, and is blessed enough to get rain, the harvest will come." Rev. Peter J. Gomes “Religious fundamentalism is dangerous because it cannot accept ambiguity and diversity and is therefore inherently intolerant,” Gomes declared in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times in 1992. “Such intolerance, in the name of virtue, is ruthless and uses political power to destroy what it cannot convert.” "The ultimate weapon," Gomes wrote, "in the face of evil or sorrow, sadness or death, is not stoic virtue and the stiff upper lip but laughter, for where laughter is, God cannot be far away." "The research shows that when pastors evaluate the success of their church, they measure attendance, dollars raised, number of staff, number of programs and square footage. All of those are logical measures to explore. The only problem is that Jesus did not die a horrible and unjust death on the cross to fill sanctuaries, generate cash, populate programs, hire religious professionals or build out campuses." © 2010 by Bonar Crump. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line542
__label__cc	0.505579	0.494421	科法斯集团网站 Cofanet 关于科法斯联络我们 - 免费报价科法斯大中华区中国、香港特别行政区、台湾简介科法斯中国亚太区简介亚太区合作伙伴科法斯集团我们的目标 : 是什么驱使我们奋力前行全球领导权威财务概要我们的人力资源政策来自客户的心声... 贸易信用保险什么是「贸易信用保险」? 特定合约信用保险特定合同信用保险 CofaServe 信用管理服务企业资信报告商账追收新闻、出版刊物及活动订阅科法斯亚太区电子报 Population 16.8 million GDP 6,217 US$ Country risk assessment Czechia (Czech Republic) You've already selected this country. 0 country 已选择 Add a country Means of payment and collection methods Locate the country 打印 major macro economic indicators 2018 (e) 2019 (f) GDP growth (%) -1.2 2.3 1.0 -0.5 Inflation (yearly average, %) 1.7 0.4 -0.2 0.5 Budget balance (% GDP) -8.2 -4.5 -4.0 -2.8 Current account balance (% GDP) 1.4 -0.3 -0.5 -0.7 Public debt (% GDP) 43.2 45.4 48.6 50.7 (e): Estimate. (f): Forecast. Significant mineral, oil and gas potential Tourist potential (flora, fauna, heritage) Diverse climate allows for a wide range of crops Marine resources: number-one exporter of shrimp Low inflationary risk due to fully dollarised economy Oil-dependent economy Competitiveness subject to dollar movements due to fully dollarised economy Large informal sector and low-skilled workforce Legacy of sovereign default State interventionism Low levels of domestic and foreign private investment Growth remains hobbled by the decline in public support Growth will continue to slow in 2019, held back by continued fiscal consolidation and persistently sluggish domestic demand. As financing conditions for the deficit grew tighter, the government was forced to draw up a fiscal consolidation plan in 2018 to reassure the markets. Under this plan, the government will slash investments and eliminate civil servant positions in 2019. In addition, interventionism and a lack of competitiveness (high cost of public services, rigid labour market), exacerbated in recent years by dollar appreciation, have lessened the draw for private investors. Household consumption is expected to remain constrained by the weak growth in purchasing power linked to the wage freeze and the rise in the unemployment rate, which will nevertheless remain low. Moreover, with the informal sector accounting for 45% of employment, many households do not receive the minimum wage and full social benefits. After a period of deflation due to the appreciation of the US dollar and the wage freeze, prices will rise slightly again in 2019, driven by reduced fuel subsidies and stabilisation of the dollar. In addition, oil sales should benefit from firm prices, even if production is unchanged at Petroamazonas, the national company that accounts for 78% of national production. Conversely, cocoa producers will be hard hit by the entry into force of a European standard imposing a maximum content level for cadmium, a substance which is very present in local cocoa. Other agricultural products, including bananas, shrimp, canned fish and flowers, will be hurt by cooler European and North American markets. Manufacturing sectors will continue to be penalised by their lack of competitiveness outside the dollar zone. However, at the same time, imports will be sluggish, in line with domestic demand, allowing external trade to make a slightly positive contribution to growth. Fiscal consolidation to control soaring debt President Lenín Moreno has launched a fiscal consolidation plan that will generate estimated total savings of USD 1 billion, or 1% of GDP. The aim is to reduce the deficit sufficiently to contain the country’s debt, which has risen sharply since 2012, exceeding the statutory limit of 40% of GDP. Measures include the obligation to use tenders for public contracts (USD 400 million in savings), the phase-out of public jobs through mergers of state-owned entities (USD 350 million) and the removal of subsidies on premium gasoline (USD 150 million). At the same time, the current account is expected to remain slightly in deficit. The trade balance will be impacted by expensive imports of petroleum products, due to insufficient refining capacities to meet growing domestic demand. The balance of services will also continue to show a small deficit, with freight and oil services paid abroad exceeding strong tourism revenues. In addition, growing debt interest and profit repatriation will exceed expatriate remittances from the United States and Spain. With weak FDI (0.6% of GDP in 2017) insufficient to cover the deficit, the government will have to resort to external debt, as in January 2018 (USD 3 billion). The authorities have limited room for manoeuvre, as reserves are very low (less than two months of imports in June 2018). However, the resumption of relations with the IMF since President Moreno came to power offers an additional option for lower-cost financing, at the cost of accelerated fiscal consolidation. The President’s popularity wanes despite a successful referendum President Moreno emerged stronger from the February 2018 referendum in the struggle with his predecessor Rafael Correa for control of their party, Allianza Pais (AP). An average of 68% of voters in the referendum backed a series of measures that set a limit of two presidential terms (a return to the pre-2015 situation that prevents Mr Correa from standing again in 2021), strip those convicted of corruption of their civil rights, reform the Consejo de Participacion Ciudadana y Control Social, the body that decides on judicial appointments and that was controlled by Correa's supporters, and restrict oil drilling in Yasuni Natural Park. Despite this victory, President Moreno's approval rating has declined steadily since peaking at 77% in August 2017, falling to 45% one year later, mainly due to the worsening economic situation. He also holds a slim legislative majority (74 seats out of 137), which is undermined by internal party dissensions. The business environment remains weak, with significant difficulties in investor protection, default resolution and taxation. As a result, Ecuador came 118th out of 190 in the World Bank's Doing Business 2018 ranking. Cheques are still a frequently used means of payment for commercial transactions in Ecuador. Nevertheless, the use of cheques is declining, due to a growing preference for electronic payments for transactions of all values. Credit transfers are used for both high-value and low-value payment transactions. High-value and urgent inter-bank transfers are usually cleared via the Banco Central Ecuatoriano (BCE). Inter-bank transfers can include capital, money and foreign exchange market transactions, as well as public sector and commercial payments. Transfer instructions can be submitted via paper-based instructions or through online systems such as SWIFT. Cash is frequently used, particularly for low- value transactions. Ecuador’s judicial system comprises courts, administrative bodies, autonomous bodies and subsidiary bodies. The jurisdictional bodies responsible for administering justice are the National Court, regional courts, law courts, law tribunals and Justice of the Peace courts. The Judicial Council is the governing body responsible for the administration, supervision and discipline of the judicial function. The judicial system also encompasses subsidiary bodies, such as notaries, auction services, foreclosure services, legal custodians and other bodies, as determined by law. The Código Orgánico General de Procesos (COGEP), a new legal code in force since May 2017, should help to speed up procedures. Amicable phase Amicable negotiations are a crucial step in successful debt collection management. These negotiations are highly detailed and cover aspects including the number of instalments, write-offs, guarantees, collateral, grace periods and interest. Under the new legal code, trials can be in the form of Executive Judgments or Ordinary Judgments. Executive Proceedings Executive proceedings are initiated by filing a written complaint with the Court. Supporting documents (such as the pagaré or letra de cambio) should be attached to the claim. Cases are assigned to a judge who then has 45 working days to decide whether the claim is complete. The judge then hands down precautionary measures within the following 90 days. The judge orders a single audience 120 days later, during which he delivers a sentence. Ordinary Proceedings Ordinary proceedings are initiated by filing a written complaint with the Court. The case is then assigned to a judge who has 60 working days to decide whether the claim is complete. The judge then issues a writ ordering the serving of the written complaint to the debtor. The debtor has 90 days to respond with a written defence. The judge then orders a single audience during which he will deliver a sentence. Enforcement of a Legal Decision A domestic judgment becomes final and enforceable after any appeals have been exhausted. The judge of the court of first instance is responsible for enforcing judgments and issues a writ of execution ordering the relevant party to comply with the judgment within five working days. If the order is not complied with within the five-day period, the judge orders the seizure of the debtor’s assets in order for them to be auctioned off. The Ecuadorian Civil Procedure Code sets out the requirements for the enforcement of foreign judgments, in accordance with the appropriate treaties, international conventions and Ecuadorian law. The approval procedure begins with a phase of knowledge gathering (for ordinary trials) that is performed in the defendant’s domicile court before admitting the execution. Ecuador has signed and ratified a number of international treaties for the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, including the Inter-American Convention on Extraterritorial Validity of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards. Insolvency Proceedings There are two phases in Ecuador’s insolvency proceedings. Conciliatory phase The objective of this phase is to ensure that the debtor company can continue to operate, by putting into place signed agreements with all of its recognised creditors. Bankruptcy proceedings entail the sale of the debtor company and its assets, with profits from the said sales being used to pay its debts to creditors. 保密及安全 - 网站使用条款 - 联络我们企业信用评级 - 国际货款追收 - 贸易信用保险订阅 - 中国大陆在线QQ咨询订阅 - 香港订阅 - 台湾	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line548
__label__wiki	0.882597	0.882597	Captain Michael Perry Zoe Wanamaker £40000.00 Iman Bowie Portfolio for Clare Shenstone - Commissionaportrait Clare Shenstone completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1979. She was told that a ‘distinguished visitor’ had been looking at her degree show and left his telephone number. She phoned: it was Francis Bacon, who said ‘I love your work’. He wanted to by a particular piece titled ‘Janet’, this had been the artist’s first attempt at what she calls ‘cloth heads’. Over the following two years she spent a lot of time with Bacon, making over fifty oil, gouache, pastel and pencil sketches of him. Since then Clare has exhibited widely across London and completed numerous other notable commissions including portraits of Zöe Wanamaker, Ronald Harwood and David Bowie. Education 1972-1973 - Central School of Art and Design 1973-1976 - Chelsea School of Art 1976-1979 - Royal College of Art Awards 2000 - Brian Sinfield Fine Arts Award 2000 2001 - Public Choice Award, Hunting Art Prize Selected Commissions Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury David and Iman Bowie The Francis Bacon Estate Malcolm Hewiott-Weiner Collectors: Marlborough Gallery, London Lady Pauline Rumbolt Sir Harold and Lady Antonia Pinter Mrs Valerie Beeston Group Exhibitions 1980 - Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London 1982 - Nicola Jacobs Gallery, Cork Street, London 1983/84/85 - Whitechapel Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1998 - Robert Fraser Gallery, Cork Street, London 1999 - Artmousky Gallery, London 1999/00 - Browse and Darby, Cork Street, London 2000 - Pastel Society, Mall Galleries 2000 - Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries 2001 - Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries 2001 - Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London Artist's Statement "My subject matter is the human spirit. This is a huge undertaking as, not only does each person contain a whole world of character, experiences and emotions unique to themselves but they reveal these gradually and change and drift from moment to moment. This is why I cannot simply produce one image of a sitter and say that is my portrait. Painting and drawing is a form of research, a desire for knowledge and understanding. I produce many different drawings and find, especially from one meeting to another, that the more I study a person, the more depths there are. I am seeking a combination of physical likeness and feeling or emotion which fuses, not in one moment, but through the experience of that person’s presence over time. Parallel to this activity is my attitude to the means by which I make the image. You cannot communicate without language and I am continually trying to extend my visual vocabulary. I am always experimenting with materials in order to enlarge the possibilities of image making. The great portrait painters for me are those who combine technical brilliance and innovation with the greatest humanity.” Statement “I have an initial sitting and produce a series of sketches. From these I work on preliminary drawings to investigate and establish likeness, composition and emotion. I arrange a second sitting. Prior to the sitting I show and discuss the preliminary work. At this stage, the client may say they want a particular drawing or drawings and are satisfied. If the client wishes to develop the portrait further, we continue with the sitting on the basis I have now discussed which images are to be pursued and in what direction. Obviously it depends on what is required and how things go, as to the number of sittings needed, especially in the case of children where they may be very young and two, three or even four different portraits are involved. With very young children, patience is required and it is vital to make it fun and not over do it especially at the first sitting. However, normally a sitting will last about two hours and two to three sittings should be sufficient.” Head and Shoulders From £ 10000 $ 15000 Half Length From £ 12000 $ 20000 Full Length From £ 25000 $ 40000 “It is a remarkable and rather horrific likeness, but each of her insistent studies catches a mood or angle. If you want the real Francis Bacon… here he is.” — John Mcwen, The Sunday Telegraph, 1998	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line551
__label__wiki	0.717035	0.717035	HK/Macao Cross-Straits Home / China / HK Macao HK Macao Taiwan selects most important archaeological discoveries TAIPEI -- Two relic sites -- one dating back about 5,000 years and the other about 2,000 years -- have been selected as the most important archaeological discoveries in Taiwan. The designation was made by Taiwan's cultural affairs authorities, who chose among excavation projects from the past 10-plus years. One of the sites was found at Taichung City in central Taiwan and was endangered by a private construction project. Archaeologists excavated the site from 2013 to 2014, unearthing the remains of 48 skeletons and a large number of objects dating back 3,980 to 5,600 years. The graveyard found at the site was one of the earliest in Taiwan and is important for researching the island's history, according to the leading archaeologist of the site, Chu Whei-Lee, curator in the division of anthropology at Taiwan's Museum of Natural Science. "The most touching discovery at the site was a mother carrying a baby in her arm. The mother was younger than 25 years old, and the baby was only six months old when they were buried in the grave," Chu said. Radiocarbon 14 dating showed the mother and baby lived more than 4,000 years ago. Nobody knows why they were buried together. Archaeologists guess they probably died at the same time. Another interesting discovery at the site was a male who was 160 cm tall and wearing a light green jade ornament in the shape of a shark's tooth on his neck. Archaeologists believe the shark tooth had special meaning for ancient people on the island. Rice, millet, as well as a large number of bones of fish, dogs, pigs, snakes and birds were also unearthed from the site. "We cherish this site very much since it was discovered in the urban area," said Chu. Archaeologists believe the culture of the site originated from the Pearl River Delta in southern China. The other selected major archaeological discovery is located in Taitung County in the eastern part of Taiwan. The site was found by accident when a farmer dug out a stone coffin from his orchard in 1988, and a typhoon exposed more of the site in 2003. Archaeologist Lee Kun-Sheu, an assistant researcher at Taiwan's Museum of Prehistory, said the discovery was "the will of God." According to Lee, various antiques including metal, pottery and jade ware and glass beads have been unearthed from the site. The patterns on the pottery show the site was influenced by the culture of southern China. According to the cultural affairs authority, there are more than 2,000 archaeological sites in Taiwan, indicating the island was inhabited by humans as early as 30,000 years ago. Many in masks at Beijing station amid outbreak NE China train station keeps water flowing amid bitter cold First snow-themed train rolls out in Heilongjiang Xiongan New Area under construction Giant lantern lights up ancient town in Sichuan Xi inspects ecological wetland of Dianchi Lake One case of novel coronavirus-related pneumonia confirmed in Taiwan Foreigners dance to celebrate Chinese New Year WHO: New cases of virus suggest human transmission Masks sold out in central Beijing due to epidemic Professor given 'serious warnings' over sexual harassment allegations China to curb spread of the new coronavirus-related pneumonia Highlights from foreign investment law implementation Deliverymen recall Xi's Spring Festival visit Video: Impressions of Spring Festival travel rush Father and son ticket inspectors work Spring Festival travel rush Austrian engineer builds deep links with China Ten photos you don't wanna miss + Ten photos from across China: Jan 10 - 16 Special Coverage + Coronavirus pneumonia 2020 Spring Festival travel rush	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line552
__label__cc	0.715202	0.284798	USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文双语Français China Data Home / Business / View Overcapacity obsession By Zhao Xiao and Chen Jinbao \| China Daily \| Updated: 2013-08-19 07:58 The market rather than the government should determine which iron and steel enterprises are to close down The elimination of iron and steel overproduction has been a key part of a campaign the government launched in 2010 to promote its long-overdue industrial structural adjustment. That the government decides which steel enterprises will be retained and which are to be closed down shows that China still uses administrative means to decide the fate of its steel enterprises. But what are the effects of this? According to recent data from the China Iron and Steel Association, from 2006 to 2012, China reduced 76 million tons of crude steel production much less than the additional 440 million tons of crude steel manufactured during the same period. As the construction of some iron and steel enterprises is still under way, China is expected to witness an additional 110 million tons of iron production and 130 million tons of steel production over the next three years. The government should reflect on the use of administrative means to reduce overcapacity in the iron and steel sector, as it simply results in "the more measures, the greater the capacity". Instead, it should let market mechanisms break what has become a vicious circle. From the perspective of market competition, some overcapacity is not inevitably a bad thing, given that moderate overproduction will not only increase the pressure on enterprises to introduce technological innovations, it will also provide the motivation for industrial upgrading. With excessive capacity in the market, all enterprises will have to promote technological innovations and structural upgrading to ensure that they can improve the quality of their products or develop new products to sharpen their competitiveness edge and raise their return ratio. According to data published by the United States Federal Reserve, the rate of industrial capacity utilization in the US was 74.2 percent in 2008 and its industrial capacity increased by 40.7 percent from 2002 to 2008. However, its actual industrial production increased by just 4.4 percent during the same period. In comparison, China's actual steel manufacturing capacity was 976 million tons by the end of 2012, compared with its actual crude steel production of 731 million tons, a 74.9 percent rate of capacity utilization. These indicate that the US' industrial excess capacity during the global financial crisis was even more prominent than it is in China today. A moderate degree of overcapacity is not a cause for concern. But, compared with the government, the market is more sensitive to where the overcapacity line lies. It has become common in China for the government to put a strict ban on the start of new projects and work out a list of enterprises to close down in order to reduce overcapacity. However, the imposition of an indiscriminate ban on new projects will possibly restrict the entry of new technologies. Since 2010, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published several lists of enterprises that are to be eliminated in the power, coal, steel, non-ferrous metals and textile sectors. However, the standards for their elimination are mainly based on whether they are big energy consumers and polluters, or whether they are below a given scale. Eliminating polluting enterprises and those that consume a lot of energy is understandable and desirable, but the elimination of enterprises based on scale is open to discussion, as a small production scale does not inevitably mean low technological and management levels. Some local governments, because they want to expand the local gross domestic product to project their performance, make enterprises bigger in order to prevent them from being closed down because the central government deems them too small. As a result, those enterprises with overcapacity prefer to ponder how to expand their scale rather than working hard for industrial upgrading. These remain the biggest obstacle to the market-based reduction of overcapacity. International practices also indicate that the use of administrative means to deal with overcapacity will not have any substantial effect. To increase or reduce excess capacity, market-based means are desperately needed, such as mergers or reorganization among the enterprises themselves, to let those with a sharp edge thrive and drive out the less competitive ones. What the government should do now is to create a good environment for market competition and give the market a bigger role in the distribution of resources and the national structural adjustments. It should refrain from acting as a judge to decide which enterprises should be eliminated and which ones retained. Zhao Xiao is a professor and Chen Jinbao a researcher at the School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Science and Technology. China may launch its own iron ore futures Imported iron ore stockpiles decline Iron ore miners face lackluster demand Increase in iron ore imports Steel firms face new review in phase-out plan China's H2 steel demand seen weak Overcapacity sends China's steel sector into loss Steel industry eyes plans to resolve oversupply 4th World Internet Conference concludes Starbucks Reserve Roastery set to open in Shanghai Smile to get discounts in Tmall's unmanned supermart Top 10 richest Chinese women in 2017 World leading internet sci-tech achievements released in Wuzhen Top tech CEOs take to the stage as Wuzhen Summit opens Premier Li urges information integration to serve the public Premier: China to deepen cooperation with Maldives Top 10 easiest places in the world to do business McKinsey: Digitalization powers up China's economy and global competitiveness China to build information infrastructure projects China shows the way in openness Q&A With CEO Sights and sounds of the future 3D caught in sharp focus 2017 Summer Davos China's Q1 economic data	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line553
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__label__wiki	0.530266	0.530266	Conservation Burial Alliance Meet Our Members > Our Members' Stories > Carolina Memorial Foxfield Kokosing Ramsey Creek Books, Videos, Articles The Foxfield Preserve Cemetery Story Sara Brink, Foxfield Preserve Manager, Foxfield Preserve, Wilmot, OH The Foxfield Preserve was opened in 2008 by The Wilderness Center (TWC), a nonprofit nature center and land conservancy located near Wilmot, Ohio. The first natural burial ground in Ohio, Foxfield Preserve was also the first in the country to be operated by a conservation organization. TWC’s mission is to connect our community with nature, educate people of all ages, conserve natural resources and practice environmental stewardship. Foxfield Preserve fulfills each facet of that mission. Beyond the conservation of land and preservation of natural resources, conservation burials also serve as a deep reminder of our intimate connection to the earth and our role within the natural life cycle. All proceeds from the sale of burial plots at Foxfield Preserve support the educational programs and conservation efforts of TWC. A Foxfield Family Story: Jayne and Jayson When I shook Jayne’s hand for the first time, it was clear to me that she didn’t want to be here. She looked as though she was completely set adrift, lost in a sea of grief she was still unable to comprehend. But what mother would not be at the loss of one of her children? Jayne and her daughters had awoken the day before to discover that their 28 year-old son and brother, Jayson, had died suddenly of a heart attack in his sleep. Unprepared, they were trying to find arrangements that would suit him and his values and interests. As we walked through the Preserve on that sunny October afternoon, the young women told me stories about their brother. Raised in a family of women, he had a sensitive heart. Although he was a mischievous little brother, any teasing was always done with a twinkle of care in his eye. He had an artistic streak, and loved to be in the outdoors. He was tremendously interested in issues of sustainability. They all openly acknowledged that he was the favorite, doted on by all. In their youth they loved going berry-picking together. Jayson particularly loved blackberries, and Jayne admitted with a small smile that there were more blackberry cobblers and pies made than any other. At that moment we had come upon a patch of wild blackberry. I looked at Jayne and asked if she wanted to bury him among the blackberries. In that moment she wrapped her arms around me and wept. This felt right, amidst everything else that was so wrong. Nearly 100 people came for Jayson’s graveside services two days later. At the end of the prepared words, Jayne stepped forward and took up a shovel. Everyone in attendance watched as she placed the first few shovels of earth on his casket. Two weeks later she would tell me that in that moment she felt like she was tucking him in for the last time; that laying him to rest at Foxfield had brought her a great sense of comfort. Following graveside services, attendees moved to one of the picnic shelters at The Wilderness Center to share light refreshments and fellowship. A group of school children walked past the shelter with dip-nets slung over their shoulders and clunky, borrowed muck boots on their feet, on their way to a field trip class on aquatic insects and water quality. The family proudly announced that the proceeds of Jayson’s burial helped to make the education and conservation programs of our parent organization possible. Everyone could see the meaningful impact first-hand in the smiles of those children. I have met Jayne several times over the years walking through the Preserve, and each time she offers me an embrace, thanking us for helping her to find comfort when she was lost in grief. And for giving her boy a meaningful resting place. —Jayne and Jayson's story told by Sara Brink, Foxfield Preserve Manager She felt that she was tucking him in for the last time. —Jayson's mother Jayne About the CBA Member Stories Making Connections Find assistance conservationburialalliance@gmail.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line558
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__label__cc	0.546397	0.453603	2008-2009 Expectations If nothing else, it was nice to see the passionate reactions to yesterday's post. There were plenty of comments both here and in the MUScoop.com thread. Before we move on, let's be clear about a few things. Again, we recognize what Buzz meant when he said "I don't know how good we'll be." I'm sure he expects the team to win plenty of games. Yet, despite the returning talent and experience, there is limited post depth plus new coaches and a new system to learn. Still, expectations are high among the fan base, and we believe he wants to manage those expectations. In the comments section of yesterday's post, Championships Matter raised a fair point. Times are good. We are a returning top 25 team with three 1,000-point scorers. Marquette is likely bound for its fourth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. We play in the best conference in America. Furthermore, basketball kicks off in 15 days! There is a lot to be excited about and the team should be good. Even with the flaws on last year's team, they were successful. 25 win seasons are rare and ought to be appreciated. Barring injury, I think it's reasonable to expect that the Warriors will end up with 22-24 regular season wins (we were 22-8 in regular season last year), finish somewhere between 2nd and 5th (11-13 wins) in the BIG EAST, and win their first game in the NCAA tournament. It's not a great season, but it's still very good, and Buzz should expect that the team is at least that good. What are your expectations for the 2008-2009 season? Weigh in with your official predictions for the season. edit: revised regular season forecast Written by Rob Lowe at 9:21 AM Labels: 2008 forecast, Preview My expectations are for 22-27 wins; a Sweet 16 spot in the NCAA and an expectation that he recruiting is coming along very well. Perhaps the more interesting question to ask is where do we think we will be three-to-five years from now. It's too early to tell, but I'm feeling good vibes. Buzz may not have been our first choice, but I expect he will surprise more than a few of us -- maybe even Richard! Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:33:00 AM Oliver said... I expect 22-23 wins, 5th or 6th in the Big East, and one win in the NCAAs. That may be lower expectations than some, but I also think this year will be enjoyable. Our obvious lack of an inside game makes our team pretty interesting. Due to our unconventional makeup, teams will have to game-plan for us and will hate playing us. That record makes us a beast of a 6th seed in the NCAAs. Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:39:00 AM I expect 25 wins, 3rd in the Big East (behind UConn and Louisville), a win over the Rodents and 2 NCAA wins. Beating ND would be nice too! HoopsMalone said... I think there is plenty to be excited about this year. First of all, the X's and O's coaching cannot take a hit becasue Crean never really wowed anyone with that. There really was never a game where I thought to myself, 'wow, that was a great coaching move by Crean.' He seemed like a good motivator, but with the experience on the team, they should not need a motivator. Also, Buzz strikes me as a guy who will put in the hours to have his team prepared. Secondly, after Georgetown last year, the team kind of shifter from James' team to McNeal's team. McNeal was the focus of the offense, not James. I think this will work out better for Marquette because McNeal can do more with the ball and his jump shot is really improving. If James does not feel like he has to do too much, he might be better also like when Novak was out there with him. Third, our team is essentially the same if not better. Burke and Hayward have improved every year tremendously. Hopefully they can come back just as strong. Hayward needed more consistency last year, and hopefully he can bring that this year because he is a mis-match. These JUCO guys can hopefully give us some strength and athleticism for when we play Louisville and other teams with size and speed. Ooz, Fitz, and Blackledge were solid contributors, but hopefully these guys will fill it in. I can't wait for the season. I think we have a realistic shot at going into conference undefeated and having a really strong start in the Big East. Those last five games are going to be tough so we better start strong. We will do at least as well as we did last year. Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:44:00 PM Halloween News and Notes Cracked Sidewalks Preseason Roundtable ....and the other shoe drops News and notes... It's Madness! Brett Roseboro, the new Warrior One Day Until Marquette Madness Big East Media Day and More BIG EAST Media Day report Getting Ready for Marquette Madness A weekend full of updates It's Media Day Marquette receives 100% graduation rate in men's h... Jeronne Maymon delivers in the Big Apple Jamil Wilson, UW tickets, Maurice Acker and more..... Katz talking up the Warriors A Faster Pace and the link between Offense and Def... "I don't know how good we'll be"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line564
__label__cc	0.56145	0.43855	The Ashes 2019 » Didn't know if I was ever going to play ... Didn't know if I was ever going to play cricket again: Smith after stupendous 144 Tags: The Ashes 2019, England vs Australia, 1st Test at Birmingham, Aug 01-05, 2019, Australia, England, Steven Peter Devereux Smith, Century, comeback Published on: Aug 02, 2019 Scorecard \| Commentary \| Graphs Former Australia skipper Steve Smith scripted a fairy-tale comeback to Test cricket with a stupendous 144 on the opening day of the 1st Ashes Test at Birmingham. Former Australia skipper Steve Smith scripted a fairy-tale comeback to Test cricket with a stupendous 144 on the opening day of the 1st Ashes Test at Birmingham. Smith's knock enabled the Aussies to recover from a precarious 122 for 8 to post 284. However, post the brilliant knock, Smith admitted that there were times in the past 12 months, during the ban, when he felt like completely walking away from the game. The Australian great revealed that following the elbow injury in January and the rehab for it, he felt like giving up the sport he loved for the first time in his career. "There were times throughout the last 15 months where I didn't know if I was ever going to play cricket again. I lost a bit of love for it at one point, particularly when I had my elbow operation, and it was really bizarre, it was the day when I got my brace off my elbow I found my love for it again. I don't know what it was, it was like a trigger to go again, I want to play, I want to go out and play for Australia and I guess to make people proud and just do what I love doing," Smith was quoted as saying in an ESPNCricinfo report. Reflecting on the great innings, Smith was at loss for words. He gave credit to England bowlers for some superb bowling in the first two sessions on what was a tricky surface to bat on. "I didn't really know what to do, to be honest, it's been a long time coming, but I'm just, I don't know, I'm sort of lost for words at the moment. Just really proud that I was able to help pull the team out of a little bit of trouble. Obviously, England bowled exceptionally well in the first two sessions and it was hard work out there, I'm just proud that I was able to dig in and fight through the difficult periods and get ourselves to a competitive total. "I think it has got to be one of my best hundreds, definitely, first Ashes Test match, the ball was doing a fair bit out in the morning so I had to work really hard. I got beaten a few times but I just had to let that go and concentrated on the next ball and kept digging in, I know that the first Test for an Ashes series is always big. I didn't want to give my wicket up easily, I wanted to keep fighting and fortunately I was able to dig in today and get ourselves to a reasonable total I think," Smith said of his knock. Smith's incredible comeback would have been impossible without support from the lower order. The former captain added 88 with Peter Siddle and 74 with Nathan Lyon as Australia made a dramatic comeback in the match. "I thought Peter Siddle did a magnificent job, that partnership we were able to form and Nathan Lyon as well, he was magnificent. He actually said to me that's the most nervous I've ever been out in the middle batting so to be able to get to my hundred and give him a really big hug and let all my emotions out that was really special," Smith went on to say. Smith was also asked about the constant booing from the crowds but said it did not bother him. "It doesn't bother me to be perfectly honest, I know I've got the support of the guys in the room and for me, that's all that really matters," he said. --By A Cricket Correspondent India vs Australia: Rohit, Kohli sizzle ...India vs Australia: Rohit, Kohli sizzle as India down Aussies ...Jan 20, 2020 Probably best he's played at an ...Probably best he's played at an international level: Kohli showers ...Jan 18, 2020 Rajkot ODI: Rishabh Pant ruled out ...Rajkot ODI: Rishabh Pant ruled out with concussion as India ...Jan 16, 2020 Will have to rethink me batting ...Will have to rethink me batting at four, concedes Kohli ...Jan 15, 2020 Willing to bat lower to accommodate ...Willing to bat lower to accommodate Rohit, Shikhar, and Rahul, ...Jan 14, 2020 Never lost my swing, blaming Greg ...Never lost my swing, blaming Greg Chappell was a cover- ...Jan 06, 2020 South Africa vs England 2nd Test ...South Africa vs England 2nd Test PreviewJan 01, 2020 Virat Kohli finishes 2019 as number ...Virat Kohli finishes 2019 as number one Test batsman, Pat ...Dec 31, 2019 Australia’s pace warhorse Peter Siddle announces ...Australia’s pace warhorse Peter Siddle announces retirement from international cricketDec 29, 2019 Cricket Australia names Dhoni captain of ...Cricket Australia names Dhoni captain of ODI team of the ...Dec 25, 2019 ICC Test Rankings: Labuschagne in top ...ICC Test Rankings: Labuschagne in top 5, Azam breaks into ...Dec 17, 2019 Why Ian Chappell believes playing two ...Why Ian Chappell believes playing two Day-Night Tests against India ...Dec 09, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line566
__label__wiki	0.653805	0.653805	DoubleDeClutch.com The Right Stuff, The Wrong Way Tag Archives: Cadillac Northstar LMP 02 Going Round and Round – Part Four In August 2001 plans were announced to once again take the races to the fans, nothing if not persistent were the ALMS in this direction. The venues were to be a street race round the financial district of Miami and the Washington Grand Prix at the RFK Memorial Stadium Circuit in Washington DC, or rather in the car park of this former home to the Washington Redskins. A long-term contract was drawn up, ten years duration, between the ALMS and the promoter, with the City underwriting the whole affair. The benefits, or so we were told, would be tourism, prestige and anticipated revenues of $350 million, and these noble aims were much trumpeted. One element that encouraged the staging of the race was the potential bid for the 2012 Olympiad from the combined cities of Washington and Baltimore or such was leaked to the media. However this being Washington DC, the downsides soon began to surface. As was reported at the time, in the media “On September 5 neighborhood residents shared serious concerns regarding safety, the environment, cost, and the livability of the neighborhood during the event. No environmental authority — not COG, nor the DC Department of Health’s Office of Environmental Health, not the Mayor’s Special Assistant for Environmental Issues, was consulted prior to the August 9 press conference, although planning for the project began in 1999. July, according to the Council of Governments (COG), is the worst month for air quality in the metropolitan region, with the most code-red health advisories because of high ozone levels. On code-red days, COG discourages all daytime driving and refuelling.” These legitimate concerns were amplified by the apprehensions of local residents about noise and the sheer inconvenience of the event and the proximity to their properties, as little as 100 yards in the worst case. Furthermore there was unease about the financial arrangements which involved public funds and were opaque to say the least. Robert D. Goldwater, the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission’s President and Executive Director, said those details will not be made public because the Commission considers the information proprietary. The only cost he has revealed is that of building the temporary 1.7-mile racecourse: $3 million, which will be split with the Grand Prix organizers. “The policy we had is the policy we are following: We are not releasing financial information. . . . We need to negotiate private agreements,” he said. “The understanding we have with each of our promoters is such that the expectation they have is that we are going to keep financial information private.” That declaration was soon undermined as the Washington Post dug deeper into the affair. “The D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission and the promoter of this month’s Grand Prix auto race are splitting the estimated $3.5 million cost of constructing a track, but the Commission is assuming the risk by putting up all the money — a contrast to Grand Prix deals in other U.S. cities that generally have avoided using public funds to finance the events. The North Carolina-based promoter has the duration of the 10-year race contract, and possibly longer, to repay its share of the cost of the temporary track, receiving what amounts to an interest-free loan with no guarantor, according to interviews and documents obtained under the D.C. Freedom of Information Act. The promoter is supposed to make annual payments, the amounts of which have not been disclosed.” The rows over the event rumbled on with a great deal of band-wagon jumping by local politicians, community leaders and ‘activists’. A sound absorbing wall was promised and other environmental issues were declared as having been addressed. The promoters apparently offered free tickets to the locals and other incentives were suggested, some accepted, some rejected. Cadillac were persuaded to be the title sponsor and the United States Mint got in on the act announcing that the Golden Dollar would be the Official Coin of the Cadillac Grand Prix. Whatever anyone said as 2002 rolled by the tarmac was laid in the stadium car park and the track gradually took shape. So in July 2002 the ALMS circus assembled in the shadow of the RFK Memorial Stadium, along with the Speedvision World Challenge, Trans-Am and a celebrity support race, this felt like a proper motorsport event. The track, sinuous and short – 1.7 miles – was wide with passing opportunities and it would be possible to race even in these confines. July is not the optimal time to enjoy the banks of the Potomac, or the District of Columbia, being both hot and humid, no wonder everyone was so grumpy. Thirty-two cars would line up on the grid and it was clear, that barring unforeseen incidents, victory would be a contest between the two factory Audis and the lead Panoz, the latter now in a revamped EVO 2002 form. Embracing the patriotic spirit in the post 9-11 USA, the livery was composed of Stars and Stripes, and titled ‘Spirit of America’. The Cadillac team were a vast improvement on their 2001 effort but in the background the long-term viability of the project was in doubt as GM management were starting to grasp the realities of engaging in a technological and budgetary war with Audi. Corvette was a happier GM ship, successive GTS wins at Le Mans will do that for a team. This project made more sense in achieving the marketing, brand building and fan satisfaction aims of Corvette than Cadillac’s venture into Prototype Land. In GTS the Vettes had some serious opposition in the shape of the Olive Garden Racing Ferrari 550 Maranello, they could not afford to relax their efforts. The GT class was an almost exclusively Porsche affair, as BMW had packed up their E46 M3 GTR campaign in response to rules on homologation being changed without notice by the ACO. The ALMS were furious, they had not been consulted, and this destroyed competition in the class and also hit revenues substantially. The BMWs ended up at the 24 Hour races at Nürburgring and Spa in the following years. So a solitary Bimmer was on hand to potentially disrupt the Porsche Parade – it did not. One major difference that the DC race had over the other expeditions into Oval Land was spectators, and in numbers. So when the Audis blasted off at the start there were plenty on site to witness the enthralling contest between them and the Panoz. Post race claims of 70,000 attendees over the three days were perhaps true, certainly it was busy. Maybe for a while the ALMS thought it had enjoyed its “Garlic Bread” moment, post event criticisms would cause any such feelings to evaporate. The adjacent Stadium-Armory Washington Metro station no doubt contributed to this popularity, not that I got to experience it personally. The top notch photographer, world class pfaffer and local resident, Regis Lefebure, generously provided a chauffeur service during my stay in his nation’s capital. His technique behind the wheel was certainly different, probably more suited to the roads in the proximity of the Tiber or the Yangtze than the Potomac. The Champion Racing Audi struggled to match the pace of the factory cars, not helped when it was hit by the Capello car while being lapped, Dindo got a stop/go penalty for that indiscretion. Neither Johnny Herbert nor Stefan Johansson were happy with the R8 all weekend, this was not a normal state of affairs, quite puzzling. The Audis and the Panoz traded the lead, rarely more a few seconds gap from first to third, the crowd were certainly getting their money’s worth. Which was than could have been said by me. Looking back into the archive there is a big hole in the race, then it clicked, I remembered a microdrive had failed, as they regularly did, and I had not been bright enough to make a back up. Mind you from what remains on file it was clear that I lacked inspiration at Washington, a rather lacklustre performance all round. All three pit and engineering crews worked flat out to optimise their car’s performance, trading off taking new tyres against shorter pit stops and track position, gambles on Yellow Flag periods and fuel consumption. In the end fresh Michelins on the Panoz versus used ones on the Audis was the critical difference. When the Chequered Flag dropped the gap was .766 of a second, in the favour of Magnussen and Brabham, they had won! For Don Panoz it was his day of days, a car bearing his name winning in Washington, it really does not get any better than that. It was the final triumph for the rumbling mid-front engined car. Audi, as they always are, were gracious in defeat. They have learned that the value of their own victories is, in part, measured by the respect that they show and receive of the opposition. GTS went to the #3 Corvette of Ron Fellows and Johnny O’Connell while Alex Job Racing’s Porsche driven by Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr scooped the prize in GT. And that pretty much is where the fun stopped, though I did get to buy Regis dinner as a thank you after the race and we were joined by the Great Dane, TK. A thoroughly agreeable way to end my only visit to the District of Columbia. Ah yes, the hair pulling and name calling started almost before the engines went silent in the paddock. The media reported the antics: “Cost overruns spilled into the millions, the promoters were fined for noise violations, and allegations of abuse of power were bandied about in the City Council. City Inspectors found the sound wall constructed in the Kingman Park neighborhood measured only 584 feet long with sizeable gaps between some sections, and over the weekend, at least nine large panels were removed, in some cases for photography reasons.(My experience would suggest that this would be for TV rather than us humble snappers, as ever access was a big issue for us.) District tests recorded during the event registered 93 to 105 decibels, far exceeding the city’s 60-decibel limit for residential areas.” In August 2002, Washington Post columnist Colbert King blasted then-D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams for “the noisy, noxious-fume-spewing Cadillac Grand Prix that was insensitively and stealthily imposed on a stable, predominantly black North-east Washington neighbourhood over the residents’ strong objections.” Considering that I recall the Post being a partner to the event this was strong stuff. In the face of all this controversy the race was cancelled in 2003 and there have been no attempts to revive it. How the money situation played out is also not clear, my guess is that the taxpayer got hosed and the lawyers got richer, plus ça change………. The city race experiment has had limited success over the years, for every Long Beach there was a Miami or Baltimore, perhaps motor sport and metropolises do not mix. 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__label__wiki	0.6578	0.6578	Home / Special Reports News Laid-back Papar the next Penang in-the-making? Published on: Sunday, May 26, 2019 By: Lorena Binisol While most people only know about the famous Papar Belacan (shrimp paste) and Papar Kuih Cincin (local delicacy), the district has many other attractions to offer. The town’s building structures has historical value perhaps only environmentalists or history buffs would be able to appreciate. While the city centre continues to erect new shopping and office buildings, Papar would remain as it is. In fact, there are efforts from the creative industry to turn the town into something like Penang’s vibrant past merged with its modern values. Photos of Papar in its early days are displayed at a shop. This writer’s journey started with a hefty breakfast at one of the longest standing coffee shops in Papar town – Liang Yung Hua – located at the corner of an old building. Jeremiah Leong Boon Hou, being the fourth generation in the family to run the business, said he knew all the “secret recipes”. When he was very young, he saw his father prepare the sought-after food and learned by-heart how to make them. “I can make Lapchong (local sausages), Sau Ya (roasted duck), Char Sau (sweet meat) and Sau Nyuk (roasted pork), Khiu Nyuk (yam pork) – everything at my fingertips,” said the 19-year-old After completing his Form Five, he attempted to learn bakery as he thought it was his interest. However, he was thinking of his family and three older sisters who have their own responsibilities, so he decided to stay put and continue helping his father to run the restaurant till today. A train passing through the town. The restaurant was started by Jeremiah’s great-grandfather in 1941, handed down to his grandfather, then his father and today, since he is the only son in the family, it looks like he will take over the helm soon enough. His father, Leong Kong Luh, is a Papar native while his mother is from Labuan. The family had always focussed on their restaurant and served nothing short of fresh meat with noodle everyday. Needless for introduction, the whole district knows where to get the popular Papar noodle. Jeremiah’s sister opened a new branch with the same name, in Papar also, as they want more people to have a taste of their family recipe. Papar is blessed with picturesque river scenery. Evelyn Charlie, the “tour guide” for this writer, explained that a team of artists and creative industry enthusiasts are in the process of working out an approach and paper work to transform Papar town into an exciting and vibrant setting but at the same time also maintaining its heritage. Jeremiah’s restaurant would be one of the icons, among other shops, in the township as it has historical values and authentic appearance. “To reach to fourth generation is not easy. But this family is indeed admirable as they have the perseverance and able to sustain till today,” said Evelyn. The sought-after Papar noodles. Asked how he prepared his freshly-made meat for his noodle everyday, Jeremiah said he and his father would wake up at three in the morning to do all the tedious work, right from A to Z tasks, he said. “All are handmade, no machines. We tried to use machine before but, somehow, the meat turned out different. The texture wasn’t the same, even the taste was different. “So we gave up using it, and back to square one. We’d rather use the original way – our hands – although it can be quite tiring but the satisfaction is there. You get to taste the original Char Sau, Sau Nyuk and so on. “I watched my father make all that when I was young. I need not refer the book to get the recipe, it is all in my head, as I learned from observing and doing it (practising),” he said. Evelyn advised him not to change too much of the interior of his coffee shop and maintain the recipe of the family as it is one of the sought-after noodle shops in Papar. Evelyn shared that in her younger days, she remembered her father used to “tapao” the noodle from the shop whenev=er anyone was warded in hospital or bedridden at home. “The next thing we knew, we recovered from our bed (not sick anymore) after having the hot fried noodle that was being ‘tapao’ for us,” she said, laughing. A few blocks away from Jeremiah’s restaurant, another Papar native, is believed to be the only few who can still produce “Siung”, a type of hat worn during special occasion. Jeremiah is the fourth generation to run the popular noodle shop. Margaret Kiat, 54, of Kg Sebandil said currently only she and an aunt have the know-how on “Siung”. Tinuim Sabiat, 87, Margaret’s aunty is still making the hat to this day. While Margaret takes seven days to complete one, Tinuim may need two weeks to produce one Siung, due to her age. Margaret explained that there are meaning to all the motifs used in the Siung. “There are a few motifs that I can do – the Sinusahati, Ginoluda and Sinalapa. Each carries its own meaning. “Sinusahati motif represents the social culture of Papar inhabitants where it portrays how their hardship made the people determined and persevere. They want to remember their difficult life before as an encouragement for them to move forward,” said Margaret. Evelyn asking Tinuim on Siung-making. Evelyn added that Ginoluda motif means the people’s way of life before, and how they emerged from that hardship. She added Sinalapa motif means a place that becomes their central in life. Sinalapa is actually a container to put all the condiments such as beetle nuts, beetle leave and tobacco. Women, who were mostly housewives then, would gather and the Sinalapa which became the central attraction during a get together. Margaret’s mother, Sehalim Sabiat, who died in 2011 was a very creative person. When she was alive, she could practically do all kinds of motifs with beautiful arrangements for the Siungs, with different sizes and colours. “I got my talents from my mother. It is a skill inherited from the earlier generation. Today, I am still producing Siungs, especially during the harvest festival,” she said. “In fact, I am still keeping my mum’s first set of traditional Papar costumes. It is hard to get the design nowadays. I used to wear it on special occasions, but as I have grown bigger, the dress becomes smaller to me,” she said, breaking into a liaghter. On the price, she said it all depends on what type of motifs and sizes the customers want. She roughly estimates that with a pair of traditional dress and a Siung may cost around RM1,500 for the complete set. She said the Siung is made of bamboo thin skin and it is difficult to process. The first hurdle is getting the right bamboo plants and not just any bamboo that grows anywhere. “I cannot ask anyone to help me to get. I need the right one, not too old and not too young. I can see it with my eye which bamboo is good to make the Siung. “I have started to train my son, Shane, to follow me to the jungle to identify the correct bamboo. He is doing pretty well with the identification work,” she said. Margaret showing some of the Siung products. Shane, 22, had been following his mother to do the tedious job of getting the raw material to prepare it into thin sheet of material and so on. “This is an inheritance from my family, I cannot just simply impart my knowledge to anyone. It has to be someone who has the passion and love for our culture to do this. Otherwise, if it becomes commercialised, I am afraid the cultural side of it would diminish without us realising it. “Therefore, I am now starting to train my children to slowly take over from me, and hopefully they will continue the legacy,” she said. At another shop, the owner made an effort to collect photos of the early days of Papar and by hanging the photos on the wall of the shop. The coffee shop also collects antiques such as manual typewriters and old bicycle, which instantly became an attraction for the shop. On the other side of Papar town, they designed a platform for river cruising, the writer was told. However, the project has not taken off yet. The railway train, another attraction, is used as one of the modes of transportation. Perhaps Papar would soon be known internationally, hence, enticing more visitors to come as compared to other districts in Sabah due to its heritage and uniqueness. 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__label__wiki	0.840256	0.840256	Mary Roberts Rinehart. Love Stories online Online Library → Mary Roberts Rinehart → Love Stories → online text (page 4 of 17) won't see that he's dying. And everybody at home thinks he is right, because - well," she added hastily, "he's been right a good many times." He listened attentively. His record, you remember, was his own way some ninety-seven per cent of the time, and at first he would not believe that this was going to be the three per cent, or a part of "Well," he said at last, "we'll just make the Staff turn in and do it. That's easy." "But they won't. They can't." "We can't let Johnny die, either, can we?" But when at last she was gone, and the room was incredibly empty without her, - when, to confess a fact that he was exceedingly shame-faced about, he had wheeled over to the chair she had sat in and put his cheek against the arm where her hand had rested, when he was somewhat his own man again and had got over the feeling that his arms were empty of something they had never held - then it was that Twenty-two found himself up against the three per cent. The hospital's attitude was firm. It could not interfere. It was an outside patient and an outside doctor. Its responsibility ended with providing for the care of the patient, under his physician's orders. It was regretful - but, of course, unless the case was turned over to the Staff - - He went back to the ward to tell her, after it had all been explained to him. But she was not surprised. He saw that, after all, she had really known he was going to fail her. "It's hopeless," was all she said. "Everybody is right, and everybody is wrong." It was the next day that, going to the courtyard for a breath of air, she saw a woman outside the iron gate waving to her. It was Johnny's mother, a forlorn old soul in what Jane Brown recognised as an old suit of her mother's. "Doctor Willie bought my ticket, Miss Nellie," she said nervously. "It seems like I had to come, even if I couldn't get in. I've been waiting around most all afternoon. How is he?" "He is resting quietly," said Jane Brown, holding herself very tense, because she wanted to scream. "He isn't suffering at all." "Could you tell me which window he's near, Miss Nellie?" She pointed out the window, and Johnny Fraser's mother stood, holding to the bars, peering up at it. Her lips moved, and Jane Brown knew that she was praying. At last she turned her eyes away. "Folks have said a lot about him," she said, "but he was always a good son to me. If only he'd had a chance - I'd be right worried, Miss Nellie, if he didn't have Doctor Willie looking after him." Jane Brown went into the building. There was just one thing clear in her mind. Johnny Fraser must have his chance, somehow. In the meantime things were not doing any too well in the hospital. A second case, although mild, had extended the quarantine. Discontent grew, and threatened to develop into mutiny. Six men from one of the wards marched _en masse_ to the lower hall, and were preparing to rush the guards when they were discovered. The Senior Surgical Interne took two prisoners himself, and became an emergency case for two stitches and arnica compresses. Jane Brown helped to fix him up, and he took advantage of her holding a dressing basin near his cut lip to kiss her hand, very respectfully. She would have resented it under other circumstances, but the Senior Surgical Interne was, even if temporarily, a patient, and must be humoured. She forgot about the kiss immediately, anyhow, although he did not. Her three months of probation were drawing to a close now, and her cap was already made and put away in a box, ready for the day she should don it. But she did not look at it very often. And all the time, fighting his battle with youth and vigour, but with closed eyes, and losing it day by day, was Johnny Fraser. Then, one night on the roof, Jane Brown had to refuse the Senior Surgical Interne. He took it very hard. "We'd have been such pals," he said, rather wistfully, after he saw it was no use. "We can be, anyhow." "I suppose," he said with some bitterness, "that I'd have stood a better chance if I'd done as you wanted me to about that fellow in your ward, gone to the staff and raised hell." "I wouldn't have married you," said Jane Brown, "but I'd have thought you were pretty much of a man." The more he thought about that the less he liked it. It almost kept him awake that night. It was the next day that Twenty-two had his idea. He ran true to form, and carried it back to Jane Brown for her approval. But she was not enthusiastic. "It would help to amuse them, of course, but how can you publish a newspaper without any news?" she asked, rather listlessly, for her. "News! This building is full of news. I have some bits already. Listen!" He took a notebook out of his pocket. "The stork breaks quarantine. New baby in O ward. The chief engineer has developed a boil on his neck. Elevator Man arrested for breaking speed limit. Wanted, four square inches of cuticle for skin grafting in W. How's that? And I'm only beginning." Jane Brown listened. Somehow, behind Twenty-two's lightness of tone, she felt something more earnest. She did not put it into words, even to herself, but she divined something new, a desire to do his bit, there in the hospital. It was, if she had only known it, a milestone in a hitherto unmarked career. Twenty-two, who had always been a man, was by way of becoming a person. He explained about publishing it. He used to run a typewriter in college, and the convalescents could mimeograph it and sell it. There was a mimeographing machine in the office. The Senior Surgical Interne came in just then. Refusing to marry him had had much the effect of smacking a puppy. He came back, a trifle timid, but friendly. So he came in just then, and elected himself to the advertising and circulation department, and gave the Probationer the society end, although it was not his paper or his idea, and sat down at once at the table and started a limerick, commencing: "_We're here in the city, marooned_" However, he never got any further with it, because there are, apparently, no rhymes for "marooned." He refused "tuned" which several people offered him, with extreme scorn. Up to this point Jane Brown had been rather too worried to think about Twenty-two. She had grown accustomed to seeing him coming slowly back toward her ward, his eyes travelling much faster than he did. Not, of course, that she knew that. And to his being, in a way, underfoot a part of every day, after the Head had made rounds and was safely out of the road for a good two hours. But two things happened that day to turn her mind in onto her heart. One was when she heard about the artificial leg. The other was when she passed the door of his room, where a large card now announced "Office of the _Quarantine Sentinel_." She passed the door, and she distinctly heard most un-hospital-like chatter within. Judging from the shadows on the glass door, too, the room was full. It sounded joyous and carefree. Something in Jane Brown - her mind, probably - turned right around and looked into her heart, and made an odd discovery. This was that Jane Brown's heart had sunk about two inches, and was feeling very queer. She went straight on, however, and put on a fresh collar in her little bedroom, and listed her washing and changed her shoes, because her feet still ached a lot of the time. But she was a brave person and liked to look things in the face. So before she went back to the ward, she stood in front of her mirror and said: "You're a nice nurse, Nell Brown. To - to talk about duty and brag about service, and then to act like a fool." She went back to the ward and sat beside Johnny. But that night she went up on the roof again, and sat on the parapet. She could see, across the courtyard, the dim rectangles of her ward, and around a corner in plain view, "room Twenty-two." Its occupant was sitting at the typewriter, and working hard. Or he seemed to be. It was too far away to be sure. Jane Brown slid down onto the roof, which was not very clean, and putting her elbows on the parapet, watched him for a long time. When he got up, at last, and came to the open window, she hardly breathed. However, he only stood there, looking toward her but not seeing her. Jane Brown put her head on the parapet that night and cried. She thought she was crying about Johnny Fraser. She might have felt somewhat comforted had she known that Twenty-two, being tired with his day's work, had at last given way to most horrible jealousy of the Senior Surgical Interne, and that his misery was to hers as five is to one. The first number of the _Quarantine Sentinel_ was a great success. It served in the wards much the same purpose as the magazines published in the trenches. It relieved the monotony, brought the different wards together, furnished laughter and gossip. Twenty-two wrote the editorials, published the paper, with the aid of a couple of convalescents, and in his leisure drew cartoons. He drew very well, but all his girls looked like Jane Brown. It caused a ripple of talk. The children from the children's ward distributed them, and went back from the private rooms bearing tribute of flowers and fruit. Twenty-two himself developed a most reprehensible habit of concealing candy in the _Sentinel_ office and smuggling it to his carriers. Altogether a new and neighbourly feeling seemed to follow in the wake of the little paper. People who had sulked in side-by-side rooms began, in the relaxed discipline of convalescence, to pay little calls about. Crotchety dowagers knitted socks for new babies. A wave of friendliness swept over every one, and engulfed particularly Twenty-two. In the glow of it he changed perceptibly. This was the first popularity he had ever earned, and the first he had ever cared a fi-penny bit about. And, because he valued it, he felt more and more unworthy of it. But it kept him from seeing Jane Brown. He was too busy for many excursions to the ward, and when he went he was immediately the centre of an animated group. He hardly ever saw her alone, and when he did he began to suspect that she pretended duties that might have waited. One day he happened to go back while Doctor Willie was there, and after that he understood her problem better. Through it all Johnny lived. His thin, young body was now hardly an outline under the smooth, white covering of his bed. He swallowed, faintly, such bits of liquid as were placed between his lips, but there were times when Jane Brown's fingers, more expert now, could find no pulse at all. And still she had found no way to give him his chance. She made a last appeal to Doctor Willie that day, but he only shook his head gravely. "Even if there was an operation now, Nellie," said Doctor Willie that day, "he could not stand it." It was the first time that Twenty-two had known her name was Nellie. That was the last day of Jane Brown's probation. On the next day she was to don her cap. The _Sentinel_ came out with a congratulatory editorial, and at nine o'clock that night the First Assistant brought an announcement, in the Head's own writing, for the paper. "The Head of the Training School announces with much pleasure the acceptance of Miss N. Jane Brown as a pupil nurse." Twenty-two sat and stared at it for quite a long time. That night Jane Brown fought her battle and won. She went to her room immediately after chapel, and took the family pictures off her little stand and got out ink and paper. She put the photographs out of sight, because she knew that they were counting on her, and she could not bear her mother's eyes. And then she counted her money, because she had broken another thermometer, and the ticket home was rather expensive. She had enough, but very little more. After that she went to work. It took her rather a long time, because she had a great deal to explain. She had to put her case, in fact. And she was not strong on either ethics or logic. She said so, indeed, at the beginning. She said also that she had talked to a lot of people, but that no one understood how she felt - that there ought to be no professional ethics, or etiquette, or anything else, where it was life or death. That she felt hospitals were to save lives and not to save feelings. It seemed necessary, after that, to defend Doctor Willie - without naming him, of course. How much good he had done, and how he came to rely on himself and his own opinion because in the country there was no one to consult with. However, she was not so gentle with the Staff. She said that it was standing by and letting a patient die, because it was too polite to interfere, although they had all agreed among themselves that an operation was necessary. And that if they felt that way, would they refuse to pull a child from in front of a locomotive because it was its mother's business, and she didn't know how to do it? _Then she signed it._ She turned it in at the _Sentinel_ office the next morning while the editor was shaving. She had to pass it through a crack in the door. Even that, however, was enough for the editor in question to see that she wore no cap. "But - see here," he said, in a rather lathery voice, "you're accepted, you know. Where's the - the visible sign?" Jane Brown was not quite sure she could speak. However, she managed. "After you read that," she said, "you'll understand." He read it immediately, of course, growing more and more grave, and the soap drying on his chin. Its sheer courage made him gasp. "Good girl," he said to himself. "Brave little girl. But it finishes her here, and she knows it." He was pretty well cut up about it, too, because while he was getting it ready he felt as if he was sharpening a knife to stab her with. Her own knife, too. But he had to be as brave as she was. The paper came out at two o'clock. At three the First Assistant, looking extremely white, relieved Jane Brown of the care of H ward and sent her to her room. Jane Brown eyed her wistfully. "I'm not to come back, I suppose?" The First Assistant avoided her eyes. "I'm afraid not," she said. Jane Brown went up the ward and looked down at Johnny Fraser. Then she gathered up her bandage scissors and her little dressing forceps and went out. The First Assistant took a step after her, but stopped. There were tears in her eyes. Things moved very rapidly in the hospital that day, while the guards sat outside on their camp-stools and ate apples or read the newspapers, and while Jane Brown sat alone in her room. First of all the Staff met and summoned Twenty-two. He went down in the elevator - he had lost Elizabeth a few days before, and was using a cane - ready for trouble. He had always met a fight more than halfway. It was the same instinct that had taken him to the fire. But no one wanted to fight. The Staff was waiting, grave and perplexed, but rather anxious to put its case than otherwise. It felt misunderstood, aggrieved, and horribly afraid it was going to get in the newspapers. But it was not angry. On the contrary, it was trying its extremely intelligent best to see things from a new angle. The Senior Surgical Interne was waiting outside. He had smoked eighteen cigarettes since he received his copy of the _Sentinel_, and was as unhappy as an _interne_ can be. "What the devil made you publish it?" he demanded. Twenty-two smiled. "Because," he said, "I have always had a sneaking desire to publish an honest paper, one where public questions can be discussed. If this isn't a public question, I don't know one when I see it." But he was not smiling when he went in. An hour later Doctor Willie came in. He had brought some flowers for the children's ward, and his arms were bulging. To his surprise, accustomed as he was to the somewhat cavalier treatment of the country practitioner in a big city hospital, he was invited to the Staff room. To the eternal credit of the Staff Jane Brown's part in that painful half hour was never known. The Staff was careful, too, of Doctor Willie. They knew they were being irregular, and were most wretchedly uncomfortable. Also, there being six of them against one, it looked rather like force, particularly since, after the first two minutes, every one of them liked Doctor Willie. He took it so awfully well. He sat there, with his elbows on a table beside a withering mass of spring flowers, and faced the white-coated Staff, and said that he hoped he was man enough to acknowledge a mistake, and six opinions against one left him nothing else to do. The Senior Surgical Interne, who had been hating him for weeks, offered him a cigar. He had only one request to make. There was a little girl in the training school who believed in him, and he would like to go to the ward and write the order for the operation himself. Which he did. But Jane Brown was not there. Late that evening the First Assistant, passing along the corridor in the dormitory, was accosted by a quiet figure in a blue uniform, without a cap. "How is he?" The First Assistant was feeling more cheerful than usual. The operating surgeon had congratulated her on the way things had moved that day, and she was feeling, as she often did, that, after all, work was a solace for many troubles. "Of course, it is very soon, but he stood it well." She looked up at Jane Brown, who was taller than she was, but who always, somehow, looked rather little. There are girls like that. "Look here," she said, "you must not sit in that room and worry. Run up to the operating-room and help to clear away." She was very wise, the First Assistant. For Jane Brown went, and washed away some of the ache with the stains of Johnny's operation. Here, all about her, were the tangible evidences of her triumph, which was also a defeat. A little glow of service revived in her. If Johnny lived, it was a small price to pay for a life. If he died, she had given him his chance. The operating-room nurses were very kind. They liked her courage, but they were frightened, too. She, like the others, had been right, but also she was wrong. They paid her tribute of little kindnesses, but they knew she must It was the night nurse who told Twenty-two that Jane Brown was in the operating-room. He was still up and dressed at midnight, but the sheets of to-morrow's editorial lay blank on his table. The night nurse glanced at her watch to see if it was time for the twelve o'clock medicines. "There's a rumour going about," she said, "that the quarantine's to be lifted to-morrow. I'll be rather sorry. It has been a change." "To-morrow," said Twenty-two, in a startled voice. "I suppose you'll be going out at once?" There was a wistful note in her voice. She liked him. He had been an oasis of cheer in the dreary rounds of the night. A very little more, and she might have forgotten her rule, which was never to be sentimentally interested in a patient. "I wonder," said Twenty-two, in a curious tone, "if you will give me my cane?" He was clad, at that time, in a hideous bathrobe, purchased by the orderly, over his night clothing, and he had the expression of a person who intends to take no chances. "Thanks," said Twenty-two. "And - will you send the night watchman here?" The night nurse went out. She had a distinct feeling that something was about to happen. At least she claimed it later. But she found the night watchman making coffee in a back pantry, and gave him her Some time later Jane Brown stood in the doorway of the operating-room and gave it a farewell look. Its white floor and walls were spotless. Shining rows of instruments on clean towels were ready to put away in the cabinets. The sterilisers glowed in warm rectangles of gleaming copper. Over all brooded the peace of order, the quiet of the night. Outside the operating-room door she drew a long breath, and faced the night watchman. She had left something in Twenty-two. Would she go and get it? "It's very late," said Jane Brown. "And it isn't allowed, I'm sure." However, what was one more rule to her who had defied them all? A spirit of recklessness seized her. After all, why not? She would never see him again. Like the operating-room, she would stand in the doorway and say a mute little farewell. Twenty-two's door was wide open, and he was standing in the centre of the room, looking out. He had heard her long before she came in sight, for he, too, had learned the hospital habit of classifying footsteps. He was horribly excited. He had never been so nervous before. He had made up a small speech, a sort of beginning, but he forgot it the moment he heard her, and she surprised him in the midst of trying, agonisingly, to remember it. There was a sort of dreadful calm, however, about Jane Brown. "The watchman says I have left something here." It was clear to him at once that he meant nothing to her. It was in her voice. "You did," he said. And tried to smile. "Then - if I may have it - - " "I wish to heaven you could have it," he said, very rapidly. "I don't want it. It's darned miserable." "It's - what?" "It's an ache," he went on, still rather incoherent. "A pain. A misery." Then, seeing her beginning to put on a professional look: "No, not that. It's a feeling. Look here," he said, rather more slowly, "do you mind coming in and closing the door? There's a man across who's always listening." She went in, but she did not close the door. She went slowly, looking rather pale. "What I sent for you for is this," said Twenty-two, "are you going away? Because I've got to know." "I'm being sent away as soon as the quarantine is over. It's - it's perfectly right. I expected it. Things would soon go to pieces if the nurses took to - took to doing what I did." Suddenly Twenty-two limped across the room and slammed the door shut, a proceeding immediately followed by an irritated ringing of bells at the night nurse's desk. Then he turned, his back against the door. "Because I'm going when you do," he said, in a terrible voice. "I'm going when you go, and wherever you go. I've stood all the waiting around for a glimpse of you that I'm going to stand." He glared at her. "For weeks," he said, "I've sat here in this room and listened for you, and hated to go to sleep for fear you would pass and I wouldn't be looking through that damned door. And now I've reached the limit." A sort of band which had seemed to be fastened around Jane Brown's head for days suddenly removed itself to her heart, which became extremely irregular. "And I want to say this," went on Twenty-two, still in a savage tone. He was horribly frightened, so he blustered. "I don't care whether you want me or not, you've got to have me. I'm so much in love with you that it hurts." Suddenly Jane Brown's heart settled down into a soft rhythmic beating that was like a song. After all, life was made up of love and work, and love came first. She faced Twenty-two with brave eyes. "I love you, too - so much that it hurts." The gentleman across the hall, sitting up in bed, with an angry thumb on the bell, was electrified to see, on the glass door across, the silhouette of a young lady without a cap go into the arms of a very large, masculine silhouette in a dressing-gown. He heard, too, the thump of a falling cane. Late that night Jane Brown, by devious ways, made her way back to H ward. Johnny was there, a strange Johnny with a bandaged head, but At dawn, the dawn of the day when Jane Brown was to leave the little world of the hospital for a little world of two, consisting of a man and a woman, the night nurse found her there, asleep, her fingers still on Johnny's thin wrist. She did not report it. Having retired to a hospital to sulk, Jane remained there. The family came and sat by her bed uncomfortably and smoked, and finally retreated with defeat written large all over it, leaving Jane to the continued possession of Room 33, a pink kimono with slippers to match, a hand-embroidered face pillow with a rose-coloured bow on the corner, and a young nurse with a gift of giving Jane daily the appearance of a strawberry and vanilla ice rising from a meringue of bed linen. Jane's complaint was temper. 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__label__wiki	0.820432	0.820432	Home News Scottish News Firefighters called out to rescue girl who slam dunked herself Firefighters called out to rescue girl who slam dunked herself By Amanda MacMillan - A TEENAGE girl told today how she had to be rescued by firefighters after slam-dunking herself through a basketball hoop. Red-faced Ceilidh Howie found herself stuck fast 10ft above the ground following the bizarre accident. Ceilidh, from Wallyford, East Lothian, was at the local community centre on Wednesday night when she decided to climb on to the basketball hoop. She said: “I was with friends at the time. I was standing up on the basketball hoop and my foot slipped. “I was just hanging from my arms. I was stuck right in it. “I was a bit scared, I thought I was going to fall. I was just shocked. It was sore on my arms. “One of my friends phoned the fire brigade. I thought they were going to have to cut me out but they just pulled me out.” The third year pupil at Musselburgh Grammar School had hoped to keep her slam dunk quiet from dad, James, 40, and mum, Lynn, 43. She said: “It’s just embarrassing. I never told my mum and dad but I think my gran told them this morning.” She added: “I was just sitting up there because there was nowhere else to sit. It was easy to get up. I just climbed up the back fence.” Later in the day, Ceilidh returned to scene, saying she was still feeling some pain from her ordeal. “My arms are still sore,” she said. She added: “The firefighters were very helpful. I’m thankful to Darrell for phoning them.” The teenager was feeling increasingly embarrassed by her brush with fame. When asked about all of the attention she has been getting Ceilidh said: “It’s quite annoying.” The teenager regularly hangs ar ound at the park and was with around six friends when the accident happened. Pal Darrell Hotchkiss, 15, called the fire brigade. He said: “It was the first thing I thought of. They were just like what’s wrong and I was like my mate’s stuck in a basketball net. “There was three firemen that went up. They said ‘just don’t struggle’.” Ceilidh was stuck in the hoop for around 15 minutes, according to Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade. Firefighters confirmed they used ladders to reach the girl and freed her by pulling her clothes through the hoop. The spokeswoman added: “A 14-year-old girl got stuck halfway through a basketball hoop because of her clothes. “A short-extension ladder was used and she was freed by moving her clothes to allow her to pass through the hoop. “She never had any injuries except her pride.” ceilidh howie Previous articlePix: Fire fighters battled blaze above Edinburgh pub Next articleLuke Mitchell makes bid to launch fresh appeal Amanda MacMillan http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2011/02/24/firefighters-called-out-to-rescue-girl-who-slam-dunked-herself/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line584
__label__cc	0.518478	0.481522	1425: Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany 1661: Archibald Campbell 1584: Samuel Zborowski, dangerous precedent May 26th, 2018 Headsman On this date in 1584, Samuel Zborowski was beheaded at Krakow’s Wawel Hill for treason and murder committed ten years before. A monument to the timeless abuse of the prosecutor’s discretion, Zborowski (English Wikipedia entry \| Polish) was a powerful nobleman who got into a snit when nobody of equal stature would enter the lists with him at a tournament. Instead, his challenge was answered by a common trooper in the retinue of the castellan of Wojnice,* one Jan Teczynski. Pissed at the affront, and doubly so when his own retainer was defeated by Teczynski’s, Zborowski went right after Teczynski right there in the presence of the newly elected Polish king, Henry de Valois.** The affront of lese-majeste was compounded when Zborowski’s flailing mace mortally wounded another castellan who attempted to intervene. The outlawed Zborowski fled to the protection of Stephen Bathory,† Voivode of Transylvania. That might have been that, and left Zborowski to join Europe’s forgettable ranks of exiles, adventurers, and pretenders playing out the string under the patronage of some foreign prince. But when the elective throne of mighty Poland came open soon thereafter, Zborowski’s patron decided that he liked the look of it — and he obtained the result, with the help of a dynastic marriage into Poland’s Jagiellon dynasty of illustrious memory. Since the Zborowskis had been big supporters of Stephen Bathory, Samuel returned as well, justifiably anticipating not merely pardon but elevation. To their dismay, they found themselves frozen out … and they responded with a series of insubordinations: plotting with the invading Russians, fomenting an unwanted diplomatic crisis with freelance attacks upon the Ottomans. In the end, our man was undone by the same violent highhandedness that had forced his flight from Poland in the first place. Zborowski’s ill treatment of the young lute composer Wojciech Dlugoraj left the latter so desperate to escape Zborowski’s court that Dlugoraj stole some treasonable correspondence between Zborowski and his brothers and sent it to Zborowski’s enemy, Jan Zamoyski.‡ Those letters indicated that Samuel was contemplating assassinating the king. Zamoyski found, and Bathory agreed, that the most expedient way to remove this troublemaker was simply to execute the 1574 sentence, from that bludgeoned castellan. The new regime had conveniently never bothered to lift it. Although legal, Zborowski’s execution was obviously quite irregular and it outraged many in the nobility who perceived it a potential precedent for absolutism; recrimination over the action tore apart the 1585 meeting of the Polish Sejm. (In later years, this body formally endorsed Zamoyski’s actions but only after enacting a Lex Zborowski to better govern the handling of treason cases.) Jan Matejko‘s 19th century rendering of Samuel Zborowski en route to beheading. * At the time an important fortified city, Wojnice or Wojnicz was ravaged by a Swedish army in the 1650s and never recovered; today, it’s a town — having only re-promoted itself from “village” status in 2007 — of fewer than four thousand souls. ** This youngest son in the French royal house had seemed to the Valois safe to make available on the transfer market for foreign sovereigns. However, his brothers’ uncanny talent for dying young without issue very soon required his return to his homeland to take up the throne of France as Henri III during that country’s Wars of Religion. There Henri proved not to be exempt from the family curse: we have previously explored the circumstances of his own violent death — which was also the end of the House of Valois — during the War of the Three Henrys. † A legendary surname in the annals of horror. This Stephen Bathory was the maternal uncle of the infamous “Countess of Blood”. ‡ The gambit did indeed get the scared lutenist free from Zborowski’s control, but he had to flee to Germany for fear of Zborowski kinsmen’s vengeance. 2009: The brother of an Iraqi rape victim - 2019 1755: Louis Mandrin - 2017 Themed Set: The 2010s - 2016 2011: Mehdi Farahj, photographed by Ebrahim Noroozi - 2016 1868: Michael Barrett, the last public hanging in England - 2015 Themed Set: Terrorism - 2015 1651: Jeane Gardiner, Bermuda witch - 2014 1991: Li Xinming, fecund - 2013 1884: Mary Lefley, exonerated by a deathbed confession - 2012 1647: Alse Young, the first witchcraft execution in New England - 2011 1871: Hostages of the Paris Commune - 2010 1831: Mariana de Pineda Muñoz, Spanish liberal - 2009 1923: Albert Leo Schlageter, Nazi martyr - 2008 1536: Anne Boleyn 1535: Thomas More, the king’s good servant but God’s first 1574: Gabriel de Lorges, accidental regicide 1685: Dame Alice Lisle, first victim of the Bloody Assizes 1554: Thomas Wyatt the Younger, with the Queen’s life in his hands 1635: Hans Ulrich Schaffgotsch, man in the middle 1578: Ivan Pidkova, Cossack hetman Entry Filed under: 16th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,History,Murder,Nobility,Notable Jurisprudence,Poland,Power,Public Executions,Soldiers,Treason,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1580s, 1584, jan zamoyski, krakow, law, may 26, politics, samuel zborowski, stephen bathory	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line588
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__label__cc	0.548568	0.451432	Operating Structure Legitimacy Index international civil servants, union representatives, lawyers, judges, academics and others interested in IAL Centre of Excellence Annual Conference The International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence has been created to assist in the global development and improvement of International Administrative Law. International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence Annual Conference: London, 25th and 26th October 2018 By COE IAL \| Seminars \| No Comments Thursday 25th October and Friday 26th October 2018 Gray’s Inn London Programme and further details to be announced soon. Join the Centre of Excellence today If you have any questions regarding the conference please contact The IAL Centre of Excellence Email: enquiries@ialcoe.org The International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence annual conference will once again bring together international civil servants, union representatives, lawyers, judges, academics and others interested in IAL, from around the world with a view to shaping and improving this area of the law. “Is there a future for international governmental organisations? Where do we stand after 6 years from the establishment of the IAL COE?”. DAY 1 (Thursday, 25th October 2018) 9:15 – Registration and coffee 9:45 – Introduction, welcome and overview of past conferences Lee Marler, Bretton Woods Law 10:15 – Keynote address: Administrative justice within police disciplinary proceedings Sir Hugh Orde, OBE, QPM – Q&A 11:00 – Coffee break 11:15 – Session 1: Internal justice – how internal appeals bodies/committees react to the IATs changes? Alice Lacourt, Legal Counsel, Commonwealth Secretariat, Jazz Omari and Neha Dubey, Bretton Woods Law. Breakout groups/Q&A 12:00 – Session 2: Competence of judges and analysis of the new EBRD grievance process (ARC) Professor Roy Lewis, former judge at the EBRDAT and AsDBAT, and former chair of the EBRD Grievance Committee 14:15 – Session 3: Attack on benefits following the changes to the UNCS, recent UNDT/UNAT judgments and case law Irka Kuleshnyk, President of the United Nations Staff Union at Vienna and Former General Secretary of CCISUA and, Stefan Brezina, Vice-President of the United Nations Staff Union at Vienna and Ludovica Moro, Bretton Woods Law The Duty of Care of international organisations (focus on the UN system)), ILOAT case law Dr. Annalisa Creta, MA, PhD, Research Fellow – DIRPOLIS, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa and Frederick De Cock, Hasselt University 15:30 – Coffee 15:45 – Session 4: Fairness of tribunals, competence (independence) of judges (pro-organisation), UNDT and UNAT. Established general principles of international administrative law. Is there a consistent body of law transversal to all main International Administrative Tribunals? Rishi Gulati, Australian Barrister – Victorian Bar, Academic Expert, Bretton Woods Law Focus on ILOAT changes and adherence to general principles: ILOAT’s roundabout and discarding precedents; havoc in the internal justice systems of several organizations and increase in litigation. Renuka Dhinakaran, International Law Consultant 17:30 – Closing remarks 17:45-19:45 Drinks and optional dinner – Drinks at the Cittie of Yorke historic pub, 22 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6BN followed by an optional dinner of tapas and paella (not included in conference price) at nearby Mas Q Menos, Holborn DAY 2 (Friday, 26th October 2018) 9.15 – Coffee and Conference Photograph 9:45 – Session 5: How to resolve disputes at the informal stage (i.e. best practices) and the benefits of mediation. Timothy Lemay, former Deputy Director, Principal Legal Officer and Head of Legislative Branch, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and qualified International Arbitrator EU administrative law system with focus on the EU Ombudsman Nikos Vogiatzis, Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool 11:00 – Session 6: Access to justice for pensioners Robin Flood, Member of the Governing Board of the Intergovernmental Pensioner’s Organisation AAPOCAD 11:45 – Session 7: “Strategic litigation”, focus on EU cases Antje Kunst and Neil Macaulay, Bretton Woods Law 12:30 – Session 8: The IAL COE Legitimacy Index 2018 Renuka Dhinakaran, International Law Consultant, and Neha Dubey, Bretton Woods Law See how your international organisation performs in the updated and comprehensive assessment of internal justice systems – comments and questions from delegates are highly encouraged DOWNLOAD FULL AGENDA Further details to be announced soon. Bretton Woods Law Register your interest for this, or similar seminars Your Position (required) Involvement with International Administrative Law: Please list three topics you would like to see discussed and debated: By registering your interest, you confirm that you consent to sharing your personal data with us in accordance with our Privacy Policy On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th October 2017, the International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence 5th annual conference will once again bring together international civil servants, union representatives, lawyers, judges, academics and others interested in IAL, from around the world with a view to shaping and improving this area of the law. This year, the conference will take place in Gray’s Inn – one of the four Inns of Court – in London. The 2017 Conference will address the following topics: Rights, Powers and Duties of Staff Associations Judicial Independence of the Decision Maker Applicability of immunities to International Organisations’ outsourced entities Access to Justice for Contractors and Consultants On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th October 2017, the International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence 5th annual conference will once again bring together international civil servants, union representatives, lawyers, judges, academics and others interested in IAL, from around the world with a view to shaping and improving this area of the law. This year, the conference will take place in Gray’s Inn – one of the four legal Inns of Court – in London. International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence. Recent Developments in International Administrative Law The concept of fairness in international administrative law Whistleblower protection at the UN through the lens of the Kompass case Updates on the big issues in IAL including legal insurance and class actions The EU courts, staff law and Art.6 ECHR IO immunities and the violation of Article 6 ECHR Harmonisation of IAL with a view to a Global AT The IAL Legitimacy Index 2015 DOWNLOAD FULL AGENDA BOOK YOUR PLACE 9:45 – Welcome and overview of last year’s conference 10:10 – Keynote address: “Judicial Independence and Accountability” Professor Jeff Dunoff, Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law – Q&A 11:45 – Session 1: Access to justice for the employees of international organisations and alternative dispute resolution – Breakout groups / Q&A 13:45 – Session 2: Judicial Independence of the Decision Maker Professor Roy Lewis, former judge at the EBRDAT and AsDBAT, and former chair of the EBRD Grievance Committee, Jazz Omari, Bretton Woods Law and Matthew Nelson, International Law Consultant 15:30 – Session 3: Rights, Powers and Duties of Staff Associations Alex Haines and Ludovica Moro, Bretton Woods Law, Frank Sheed, representative from the World Bank Staff Association and Nizar Zaher, representative from the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Staff Committee 17:00-19:00 Drinks at the Cittie of Yorke historic pub, 22 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6BN followed by an optional dinner of tapas and paella (not included in conference price) at nearby Mas Q Menos, Holborn 9:45 – Session 4: Access to Justice for Contractors and Consultants Antje Kunst, Bretton Woods Law, Robin Flood, Member of the Governing Board of the Intergovermental Pensioner’s Organisation AAPOCAD and Marianne Fennema, Head of the Human Rights and Legal Office at EULEX Renuka Dhinakaran, International Law Consultant, and Alex Haines, Bretton Woods Law. See how your international organisation performs in the updated and comprehensive assessment of internal justice systems – comments and questions from delegates are highly encouraged. 11:45 – Session 1, part I: Judicial Independence of the Decision Maker Patrick O’Brian, London School of Economics and Matthew Nelson, International Law Consultant (TBC) – Breakout groups 13:45 – Session 1, part II: Judicial Independence of the Decision Maker Professor Roy Lewis, former judge at the EBRDAT and AsDBAT, and former chair of the EBRD Grievance Committee and Jazz Omari, 14:45 – Session 2: Applicability of immunities to International Organisations’ outsourced entities – Access to justice and alternative means of dispute resolution in IAL Alex Haines and Ludovica Moro, Bretton Woods Law, and two Staff Associations of International Organisations (TBC) 17:00-19:00 Drinks at a venue to be confirmed followed by optional dinner Antje Kunst, Bretton Woods Law, with the contribution of Robin Flood, Member of the Governing Board of the Intergovermental Pensioner’s Organisation AAPOCAD and Marianne Fennema, Head of the Human Rights and Legal Office at EULEX. International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence Annual Conference 2016 Monday 31st October and Tuesday 1st November 2016 DAY 1 (Monday, 31st October 2016) 9:15 – Registration Professor Roy Lewis, former judge at the EBRDAT and ADBAT, and former chair of the EBRD Grievance Committee – Q&A DISCIPLINARY CASES: DUE PROCESS, DISCLOSURE AND THE BURDEN OF PROOF 11:15 – Session 1: Oral Hearings Christopher Jeans QC, President of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT) 12:15 – Session 2: The Burden of Proof in Disciplinary Cases Alex Haines, Bretton Woods Law 14:15 – Session 3: Representation of staff during investigations and disclosure Robbie Leighton, Legal Officer, United Nations Office of Staff Legal Assistance (Geneva) 15:30 Session 4: The impact of investigations upon the lawfulness of administrative decisions Jazz Omari and Antje Kunst, Bretton Woods Law DAY 2 (Tuesday, 1st November 2016) FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY 9:45 – Session 5: The Concept of ‘Functionalism’ and Immunities of International Organisations Dr Philippa Webb (King’s College London) Chair The concept of “functionalism” in International Organisations Law Mr Matthew Nelson, Sir John Salmond Scholar (University College London) Haiti, The Haiti Cholera Litigation in US Courts Ms Beatrice Lindstrom, Staff Attorney, Institute for Justice & Democracy in the 21st century The future of “functional immunity” in the 21st century Rishi Gulati, Australian Barrister – Victorian Bar, Academic Expert, BWL, Dickson Poon Scholar (KCL) 11:15 – Session 6: Case Study: Wallace v. 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__label__wiki	0.522929	0.522929	Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico Opens Following Multi-Million-Dollar Transformation Notably situated in Rio Grande, the new Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico has opened to reveal a sophisticated, oceanfront haven that pulses Caribbean confidence on a secluded 72 acres of tropical lush gardens. Framed against the backdrop of the island’s serene northeast coast and the magnificent El Yunque National Forest, the 579-room property completed a multi-million transformation in August 2019 encompassing a full resort redesign. “Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico was designed to deliver high-touch service for a seamless, stress-free experience,” said Dave Johnson, chairman and CEO at Aimbridge Hospitality. “We aim to center on the guest’s experience and look forward to providing them with the ultimate escape.” “We are thrilled to announce the opening of Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico, which promises empathetic service that anticipates the needs of our global guests,” said George Vizer, senior vice president, Americas franchise operations, Hyatt. “With this new addition, Hyatt continues its strong brand growth in the region and introduces the Hyatt Regency brand to Puerto Rico.” Formerly known as the Gran Meliá Hotel, and relaunched as The Resort at Coco Beach, a Hyatt affiliate, Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico was acquired in 2019 by Monarch Alternative Capital in partnership with Royal Palm Companies and an affiliate of Aimbridge Hospitality, LLC. 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We’re looking forward to all that is to come for the future of Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico.” Tucked away in the pristine tropical paradise of the northeast coast of the island, Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico is the closest full-service luxury resort from the San Juan International Airport. The oceanfront oasis also offers convenient access to nearby attractions such as Old San Juan, El Morro Castle, and Bio Bay Fajardo. The new Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico joins four select-service Hyatt hotels open in Puerto Rico: Hyatt House San Juan, Hyatt Place Manati, Hyatt Place San Juan Bayamon and Hyatt Place San Juan City Center. Known for natural-reserve setting with bungalow-style accommodations, Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico boasts 480 deluxe guest rooms, 93 deluxe suites, five club suites and one presidential suite. Each airy, expansive unit is decorated in soothing neutral shades exuding the true essence of the Caribbean “elan” where the earth elements of the El Yunque National Forest and unparalleled Atlantic Ocean views meet. From complimentary Wi-Fi and large flat-screen televisions to premium bath amenities and in-suite coffeemakers, guests enjoy a seamless, intuitive experience. All suites feature private balconies or terraces, and one-bedroom suites include a dining room, kitchenette, two double-beds and a cozy corner with a sleeper. Satisfying every foodie’s distinct cravings, the resort offers five on-site culinary and mixology experiences including: Water’s Edge – Caribbean- and buffet-style restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner made from local ingredients Prime 787 – Upscale, fine-dining environment offering prime steaks and fresh local seafood Nori – Asian fusion experience serving sushi, sashimi, ceviche bar and teppanyaki grill Pasión by Chef Myrta – Gourmet culinary experience offering Puerto Rican cuisine Lobby Bar – Casual bar featuring craft cocktails and live entertainment Boasting lush landscape to create a tranquil Caribbean retreat, the hotel offers guests the opportunity to unwind at four expansive swimming pools including the largest lagoon-style pool in Puerto Rico and enjoy a swim-up bar serving cool drinks and creative cocktails as well as in-pool lounge chairs. Amenities designed to foster an energizing resort experience include the 12,000-square-foot Rainforest Spa which is currently undergoing a $2 million renovation and set to open this winter, 24-hour fitness center, two tennis courts, and a basketball court. Guests can also spend the day on the green on one of two world-class Tom Kite-designed 18-hole championship golf courses – home of the PGA Puerto Rico Open. Additionally, a dedicated concierge service provides lifestyle management, transportation, travel and vacation planning, and personalized service. Beyond redefining the resort experience for leisure guests, the property applies the same high-touch experience for the meetings and events market, with 41,208 square feet of total function space and state-of-the-art meeting facilities all backed by a dedicated team offering planners a seamless, high-touch service for themselves and their attendees. To celebrate the resort’s opening, travelers can take advantage of a special rate offering a third night free valid through April 30, 2020. For information and reservations, visit HyattRegencyGrandReservePuertoRico.com or call 787-657-1234. The term “Hyatt” is used in this release for convenience to refer to Hyatt Hotels Corporation and/or one or more of its affiliates. For further information: About Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico is a 579 room hotel serving as Hyatt’s only full-service property in Puerto Rico. Situated on a 1,000-acre peninsula within a private development on the northeast coast of Puerto Rico, the resort offers 36 holes of championship golf, more than 40,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space, a club lounge and locally inspired dining destinations. About Aimbridge Hospitality LLC Aimbridge Hospitality is North America’s largest independent hotel investment and management firm with a proven track record for delivering superior returns for its strategic partners in a variety of markets and economic cycles. Aimbridge provides management, asset management, development, renovation and consulting services. Based in Dallas, Texas and with development offices in Dallas, Toronto, San Clemente, Chicago and Puerto Rico, Aimbridge currently owns and/or manages over 850 upscale, independent and branded hotels with nearly 150,000 rooms across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, including such affiliations as Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Wyndham and Choice Hotels. For more information on Aimbridge Hospitality, please visit www.aimbridgehospitality.com. About Monarch Alternative Capital LP Monarch Alternative Capital LP is a global investment firm founded in 2002 with approximately $5 billion in assets under management. Monarch focuses primarily on opportunistic credit situations across corporate debt, real estate, special situations, and other asset classes. Monarch has invested over $40 billion in its strategy while maintaining a consistent and repeatable approach. While disciplined in approach, Monarch’s dynamic sourcing enables the firm to capitalize on overlooked and niche areas on a global basis. Monarch draws on the skills and experience of 67 employees, including 24 investment professionals, across its offices in New York and London. Monarch has a long and successful history of investing in opportunistic real estate focused on areas that leverage Monarch’s core tenets. In addition to significant internal resources, Monarch has substantial relationships with operating partners and advisors that it works with to help create value. 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__label__wiki	0.906807	0.906807	I was wrong! But emigrants will get voting rights…eventually Generation Emigration surveys emigrants on voting, politics Sign the #NoHome2Vote petition! IrishCentral.com announces “Digital Influencers Top 40″ OECD weighs in: emigrant vote would benefit Ireland, citizens abroad Calling former emigrants to Australia – complete a ten-minute survey! International Irish Diaspora Congress: Buenos Aires 15-19 June 2011 11th Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School: Omagh, 16 October 2010 Canadian Association for Irish Studies: Halifax, May 2010 Noreen Bowden Email: info@ean.ie *Follow me... Emigration resources Heritage centres Monuments in Ireland Primary document collections Broadcasting to those abroad Emigrant voting How many Irish live abroad? 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The editorial says that the US needs to confront the issue, with a solution that “would clamp down on the border and the workplace, streamline legal immigration and bring 12 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows”. It notes that the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress say they remain committed to comprehensive reform this year, despite “the poisonous stalemate on Capitol Hill”. Remarkably, it mentions the recent declaration by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform that the issue is dead. From the editorial: At least one advocacy group, the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, has declared the dream of comprehensive reform dead. It is urging incremental change, with modest reforms like the Dream Act. Other groups may follow. It is too soon to give up. Some Irish activists have been criticised in the past for being too willing to look for a special solution that would assist the undocumented Irish with a separate solution. Yesterday, Niall O’Dowd, speaking on Pat Kenny’s RTE 1 radio show, said that he believed the only option was a series of piecemeal solutions. One that he mentioned was a visa agreement between Ireland and the US similar to US agreements with Australia and Chile; this would give Irish people access to non-permanent visas, renewable every two years. While this would ensure continuing Irish access to the US, it’s a solution that would presumably be unavailable to the tens of thousands of Irish estimated to be in the US illegally right now. The New York Times adds that legislation in the house is being prepared by Representative Luis Gutierrez, and a similar bill for the Senate by Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham. The Irish Echo seems to agree with the New York Times that there is life in the process yet. In last week’s edition, it said, “One source close to the legislative process admitted to what he called ‘a very challenging (legislative) environment’ but added that reports of reform’s demise were premature.” Here’s hoping it’s too early to give up the fight. Related webpages: NYTimes.com: Reform, on Ice IrishCentral.com: Immigration reform is dead (Feb 20) IrishEcho.com: Reform not dead, but hanging by a thread (Feb 24) Taoiseach discusses US-Irish relations, immigration reform, North, economy with US delegation The Taoiseach held talks yesterday with the visiting US Congressional delegation led by Richie Neal, Chair of the Friends of Ireland. Also on the delegation are: Rep Tim Murphy, from Pennsylvania Rep Donald Payne, from New Jersey Rep Luis Gutierrez, from Illinois Rep Mike Doyle, from Pennsylvania Rep Tim Holden, from Pennsylvania Rep Nydia Velazquez, from NYC The Taoiseach’s press office said in a press release: The Taoiseach reiterated the priority he has placed on Ireland’s relationship with the United States and looked forward to the further development of that relationship with the implementation of the recommendations of Strategic Review of Ireland-US Relations which he launched on his St Patrick’s Day visit to the US. He stressed the importance of human interaction across the Atlantic and the need to develop all opportunities to enable Irish and US citizens to visit, work and study in each others countries. There was also a lengthy discussion of the prospects for immigration reform in the US and its implications for Irish citizens, including the Irish undocumented community (Reps. Gutierrez and Velazquez have been very active in the campaign for immigration reform and recently attended a bipartisan meeting with President Obama on the topic – see http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Working-Together-for-Immigration-Reform/ ). The Taoiseach briefed the delegation on recent progress in Northern Ireland. He particularly welcomed the announcements of loyalist decommissioning. There was a discussion on how the US can continue to make a contribution to the peace process, including by assisting with economic development and as a strong example of how a varied, multicultural society can integrate and work together for the greater good. There was also a discussion on the economic situation. The delegation updated the Taoiseach on the economic reform programme in the US, including tax refrom, while the Taoiseach responded by emphasising the Government’s strong commitment to supporting US businesses in Ireland and the transatlantic trading relationship. See the press release on the Taoiseach’s website. US Congressional delegation visits Ireland A US delegation of seven Democratic and one Republican Congressmen is visiting Ireland this week to hold talks with Irish political leaders on a number of topics. Items on the agenda include immigration reform, the political situation in the North, and the global financial crisis. The group is led by Congressman Richard Neal, chair of the Friends of Ireland Executive Committee in the US Congress, a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives that promotes Irish interests and trade and cultural links. They will meet with the Taoiseach and Tanaiste, opposition politicians, and the President during their week-long visit. An Oireachtas spokesman said: “During their visit the delegation will meet with key political leaders and examine issues such as the International Fund for Ireland, the case of the undocumented Irish in the US, the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement, Ireland-US relations and the World Financial Crisis.�? There are six members of the Friends of Ireland Committee: Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, and Richard Neal of the House of Representatives, and Edward Kennedy, Chris Dodd, and Susan Collins in the Senate. Wikipedia: Friends of Ireland IOL News Headlines: Congressmen to meet Irish leaders White House says immigration reform now “difficult” Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 The White House acknowledged yesterday that immigration reform looks unlikely this year. Press secretary Robert Gibbs said, “I can see the president’s desire for it to happen, but understanding at the current – currently where we sit, the math makes that more difficult than – than the discussion”. Mr Gibbs said that Mr Obama hopes that “later this year that we can have the beginning of formal debate on that”. He added that Mr Obama “hopes that immigration reform will happen soon, but doesn’t have a crystal ball as to when that might happen”. Mr Gibbs’ comments follow Mr Obama’s comments on Thursday that he is “committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform as president of the United States”. He made the remarks at a prayer breakfast attended by Hispanic leaders. He also said: “The American people believe in immigration. But they also believe that we can’t tolerate a situation where people come to the United States in violation of the law – nor can we tolerate employers who exploit undocumented workers in order to drive down wages. And that’s why we’re taking steps to strengthen border security, and we must build on those efforts. “We must also clarify the status of millions who are here illegally, many who have put down roots. For those who wish to become citizens, we should require them to pay a penalty and pay taxes, learn English, go to the back of the line, behind those who played by the rules. That is the fair, practical and promising way forward. And that’s what I’m committed to passing as president of the United States.” Mr Obama will host a bipartisan meeting on the topic on Thursday – a meeting which has been twice postponed. It has been widely reported that the president is prioritising health care reform and the economic crisis over immigration reform. Rollcall.com: White House Says Immigration Reform Unlikely in ’09 Swamppolitics.com: Immigration form: Obama ‘committed’ ILIR renews campaign as Obama gives mixed signals on reform The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform has resumed its campaign on behalf of the undocumented in the United States with a meeting outside Boston this week. More than 350 attended the meeting, which was held in the Irish Cultural Center in Canton. ILIR President Ciaran Staunton said, “ILIR wants to make sure that this is the last generation of Irish in America that has to listen to a family member’s funeral on the telephone. It is our goal that this is the last generation of Irish to be undocumented in America.” Former Congressman Bruce Morrison spoke about the proposal to create a visa similar to the E-3 that was established in a deal between Australia and the US last year. Even if such a deal could be passed for Ireland, however, this visa would probably not assist the undocumented already living in the US. The Obama administration has given mixed signals on immigration reform in recent weeks. In March, President Obama told the Hispanic Immigration Caucus that he remained committed to comprehensive immigation reform; Obama had made a campaign pledge to address the issue in his first year in office. He said in March that he would initiate the process with a White House meeting this spring. However, Vice President Biden told a gathering of Central American leaders this month that the economy was an obstacle to immigration reform. “It’s difficult to tell a constituency while unemployment is rising, they’re losing their jobs and their homes, that what we should do is, in fact, legalize (illegal immigrants) and stop all deportation.” Related web pages: Boston.com:Irish on move again for immigrant rights Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform Arizona Republic: Obama sets new tone, but immigration action far off ILIR to hold series of meetings The New York-based Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform will be holding a series of meetings after a period of reorganisation. They report they will hold the first meeting in Boston at the Irish Cultural Centre in Boston on April 6 at 7:30 pm. Speakers will include Bruce Morison, ILIR chair Bart Murphy, vice-chair Ciaran Staunton and Executive Director Kelly Fincham. Bart Murphy, a San Francisco-based immigration advocate, recently took over the position of chair from Irish Voice publisher Niall O’Dowd. For more information, visit the ILIR blog. info@ean.ie globalirish.ie – about Irish emigration and the diaspora is proudly powered by WordPress using the RockinBlue theme created by Cory Miller design update and integration by doop	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line614
__label__wiki	0.552709	0.552709	Is Consulting Riskier than Corporate IT? By Aaron Erickson The Corporate Bench In Consulting, You Are the Profit Center Got Network? Learning the Novel Continuing his series on technology consulting, Aaron Erickson, author of The Nomadic Developer, considers the relevance of a bit of conventional wisdom: During an economic downturn, is taking a job as a salaried technology consultant too risky? Nomadic Developer, The: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting The Bench. The Beach. "Consultant in transition." Scary terms to consultants who work for technology consulting firms—whether small 10-person shops or large, multinational consultancies with over 100,000 employees. If you take up a career in technology consulting, the period of time when you're drawing a salary but not directly generating revenue can be scary. This is especially true during an economic downturn—as we're experiencing in the U.S. now. Is technology consulting really riskier than "normal" corporate IT jobs during a recession? In this article, I make the case that technology consulting is actually less risky than IT jobs you would typically have in most bricks-and-mortar companies. When thinking about risk, remember that most people in IT—that is, those who work for the technology group of a company that doesn't sell information technology to customers—probably feel insecure about their jobs right now. If you work in IT at a company that's losing lots of money, such as General Motors—or, for that matter, companies that simply aren't making money as fast as Wall Street wants—chances are that you're worried. A CEO can make a stock go up by announcing a layoff to cut a "cost center," and that's enough to cause occasional sleeplessness for all but the calmest people (or those endowed with trust funds). How do you know if you're "on the bench" when you work in corporate IT? An early indicator of layoffs might be that you get moved from projects with a high and obvious return on investment to a "safer" task such as maintenance of older systems. The company will say that it's only making small investments and not big moves as it rides out the storm—often investing only in projects or tasks designed to keep the lights on. Not only are you in a cost center, but your cost center is most likely doing what the company considers to be low-impact work. Being in a cost center doing low-impact work that doesn't add a lot of value relative to its cost is what I call the "Corporate Bench." Cost Centers, Recessions, and IT When Wall Street comes demanding cuts, the company probably isn't going to cut the sales force, the office of the CEO, or (unless times are truly desperate) new product development. When you're on the bench in consulting, you know it. The question about whether you're adding value is crystal clear: Are you billing? In corporate IT, on the other hand, the answer is far less clear. Most companies talk about their IT staff as assets, but (especially in an economic downturn) that's feel-good talk designed to keep up morale. The fact is that your salary falls on the expense side of the ledger, not the asset side. At best, many CFOs see the IT function as a risky discretionary investment with an unreliable rate of return. Others view IT as a profit-sucking black hole where good profits go in and big, high-maintenance messes come out. Can we really blame those CFOs who have watched ill-conceived projects drain the company coffers with no return? I can't really blame them for wanting to at least offshore the whole thing. I have actually heard more than one CFO state that if he's going to get mediocre results, he would rather offshore it and at least get uninspired work for less money. In corporate IT, even the good performers get thrown out with the bad when the CFO comes swinging a giant axe at the IT department. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, 3rd Edition By Garr Reynolds	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line616
__label__cc	0.514543	0.485457	Nick White At Concrete Hermit Tonight sees the the launch of Nick White’s new book 'People I've Never Met & Conversations I've Never Had" at Concrete Hermit. The book has been published by Nobrow Monobrow publications. The hard back monograph features 32 pages of Nick’s work, and is the first in a new series of Nobrow Monobrow publications. The book will be available to purchase both at the launch and from their website. To tie in with the launch an exhibition at the space will feature original artwork used in the book plus new limited edition screen prints. All artwork will be available to buy on a first come first serve basis. Nick will also be available to sign copies of his new book on the launch night. Book Launch Private View: Thursday 17th September, Concrete Hermit 6.30pm - 9pm Concrete Hermit \| 5a Club Row \| London \| E1 6JX	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line622
__label__wiki	0.851827	0.851827	Kansai International Airport Title: Kansai International Airport Subject: List of the busiest airports in Japan, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Taoyuan International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, List of the world's busiest airports by cargo traffic Collection: Airports Established in 1994, Airports in Japan, Artificial Island Airports, Artificial Islands of Japan, Kansai Region, Renzo Piano Buildings, Transport in Osaka Prefecture Kansai Kokusai Kūkō ICAO: RJBB – WMO: 47774 Airport type New Kansai International Airport Co., Ltd. Greater Osaka Area Izumisano, Sennan, & Tajiri Hub for FedEx Express[1] Elevation AMSL 5 m / 17 ft RJBB Location in Japan 06R/24L 3,500 11,483 Asphalt concrete 06L/24R 4,000 13,123 Asphalt concrete Statistics (FY2014) Aircraft movements ( 7%) Passenger movements International passenger movements ( 10%) Freight volume in tonnes Statistics from New Kansai International Airport Company, Ltd.[2] Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) (ICAO: RJBB) is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Ōsaka Station,[3] located within three municipalities, including Izumisano (north),[4] Sennan (south),[5] and Tajiri (central),[6] in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The airport is off the Honshu shore and was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The airport serves as an international hub for All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Nippon Cargo Airlines, and also serves as a hub for Peach, the first international low-cost carrier in Japan. It is colloquially known as Kankū (関空) in Japanese. Kansai opened 4 September 1994 to relieve overcrowding at Osaka International Airport, which is closer to the city of Osaka and now handles only domestic flights. During the 2006 fiscal year, KIX had 116,475 aircraft movements, of which 73,860 were international (31 countries, 71 cities), and 42,615 were domestic (19 cities). The total number of passengers was 16,689,658 of which 11,229,444 were international, and 5,460,214 were domestic, sixth in Japan and second in Osaka area. However, in 2009, airport traffic has fallen by almost 20% in just two years to 13.4 million.[7] In 2010 airport traffic had risen to over 14 million, with international passengers accounting for approximately 10.4 million and domestic passengers accounting for approximately 3.7 million.[8] Freight volume was at 802,162 tonnes total, of which 757,414 t were international (18th in the world), and 44,748 t were domestic.[9] The 4,000 m × 60 m (13,123 ft × 197 ft) second runway was opened on 2 August 2007. As of June 2014, Kansai Airport has become an Asian hub, with 780 weekly flights to Asia and Australasia (including freight 119), 59 weekly flights to Europe and the Middle East (freight 5), and 80 weekly flights to North America (freight 42).[10] Construction 1.1 Operation 1.2 Expansion 1.3 Relationship with Itami Airport 1.4 Terminal 1 2.1 Terminal 3 (planned) 2.3 Airlines and destinations 3 Cargo 3.1 Ground transportation 4 Rail 4.1 Bus 4.2 Ferry service 4.4 Other facilities 5 3rd floor boarding lobby, part of the longest airport concourse in the world In the 1960s, when the Kansai region was rapidly losing trade to Tokyo, planners proposed a new airport near Kobe and Osaka. Osaka International Airport, located in the densely populated suburbs of Itami and Toyonaka, was surrounded by buildings; it could not be expanded, and many of its neighbours had filed complaints because of noise pollution problems. After the protests surrounding New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), which was built with expropriated land in a rural part of Chiba Prefecture, planners decided to build the airport offshore. The new airport was part of a number of new developments to revitalize Osaka, which had been losing economic and cultural ground to Tokyo for most of the century.[11] Initially, the airport was planned to be built near Kobe, but the city of Kobe refused the plan, so the airport was moved to a more southerly location on Osaka Bay. There it could be open 24 hours per day, unlike its predecessor in the city. Satellite photo of Kansai Airport (lower-right island) in Osaka Bay. Kobe Airport is being built on the unfinished island near the middle of the photo. Central Osaka is in the upper-right corner, along with Osaka International. Closeup of the artificial island An artificial island, 4 km (2.5 mi) long and 2.5 km (1.6 mi) wide, was proposed. Engineers needed to overcome the extremely high risks of earthquakes and typhoons (with storm surges of up to 3 m (10 ft)). Construction started in 1987. The sea wall was finished in 1989 (made of rock and 48,000 tetrahedral concrete blocks). Three mountains were excavated for 21,000,000 m3 (27,000,000 cu yd) of landfill. 10 000 workers and 10 million work hours over three years, using eighty ships, were needed to complete the 30-metre (98 ft) layer of earth over the sea floor and inside the sea wall. In 1990, a three kilometer bridge was completed to connect the island to the mainland at Rinku Town, at a cost of $1 billion. Completion of the artificial island increased the area of Osaka Prefecture just enough to move it past Kagawa Prefecture in size (leaving Kagawa as the smallest by area in Japan). The bidding and construction of the airport was a source of international trade friction during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone responded to American concerns, particularly from Senator Frank Murkowski, that bids would be rigged in Japanese companies' favor by providing special offices for prospective international contractors,[12] which ultimately did little to ease the participation of foreign contractors in the bidding process.[13] Later, foreign airlines complained that two-thirds of the departure hall counter space had been allocated to Japanese carriers, disproportionately to the actual carriage of passengers through the airport.[14] The island had been predicted to sink 5.7 m (19 ft) by the most optimistic estimate as the weight of the material used for construction compressed the seabed silts. However, by 1999, the island had sunk 8.2 m (27 ft) – much more than predicted. The project became the most expensive civil works project in modern history after twenty years of planning, three years of construction and fifteen billion (US) dollars of investment. Much of what was learned went into the successful artificial islands in silt deposits for New Kitakyushu Airport, Kobe Airport, and Chūbu Centrair International Airport. The lessons of Kansai Airport were also applied in the construction of Hong Kong International Airport.[15] In 1991, the terminal construction commenced. To compensate for the sinking of the island, adjustable columns were designed to support the terminal building. These are extended by inserting thick metal plates at their bases. Government officials proposed reducing the length of the terminal to cut costs, but architect Renzo Piano insisted on keeping the terminal at its full planned length.[16] The airport opened in 1994. On 17 January 1995, Japan was struck by the Kobe earthquake, whose epicenter was about 20 km (12 mi) away from KIX and killed 6,434 people on Japan's main island of Honshū. Due to its earthquake engineering, the airport emerged unscathed, mostly due to the use of sliding joints. Even the glass in the windows remained intact. In 1998, the airport survived a typhoon with wind speeds of up to 200 km/h (120 mph). On 19 April 2001, the airport was one of ten structures given the "Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium" award by the American Society of Civil Engineers.[17] As of 2008, the total cost of Kansai Airport was $20 billion including land reclamation, two runways, terminals and facilities. Most additional costs were initially due to the island sinking, expected due to the soft soils of Osaka Bay. After construction the rate of sinking was considered so severe that the airport was widely criticized as a geotechnical engineering disaster. The sink rate fell from 50 cm (20 in)per year during 1994 to 7 cm (2.8 in)per year in 2008.[18] A Finnair MD-11 and the terminal building in the background 4th floor ticketing hall, illustrating the terminal's airfoil roof Opened on 4 September 1994, the airport serves as a hub for several airlines such as All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Nippon Cargo Airlines. It is the international gateway for Japan's Kansai region, which contains the major cities of Kyoto, Kobe, and Osaka. Other Kansai domestic flights fly from the older but more conveniently located Osaka International Airport in Itami, or from the newer Kobe Airport. The airport had been deeply in debt, losing $560 million in interest every year. Airlines had been kept away by high landing fees (about $7,500 for a Boeing 747), the second most expensive in the world after Narita's. In the early years of the airport's operation, excessive terminal rent and utility bills for on-site concessions also drove up operating costs: some estimates before opening held that a cup of coffee would have to cost US$10.[19] Osaka business owners pressed the government to take a greater burden of the construction cost to keep the airport attractive to passengers and airlines.[20] On 17 February 2005, Chubu Centrair International Airport opened in Nagoya, just east of Osaka. The opening of the airport was expected to increase competition between Japan's international airports. Despite this, passenger totals were up 11% in 2005 over 2004, and international passengers increased to 3.06 million in 2006, up 10% over 2005. Adding to the competition was the opening of Kobe Airport, less than 25 km (16 mi) away, in 2006 and the lengthening of the runway at Tokushima Airport in Shikoku in 2007. The main rationale behind the expansions was to compete with Incheon International Airport and Hong Kong International Airport as a gateway to Asia, as Tokyo area airports were severely congested. Kansai saw an 5% year-on-year increase in international traffic in summer 2013, largely supported by low-cost carrier traffic to Taiwan and Southeast Asia overcoming a decrease in traffic to China and South Korea.[21] The airport authority was allotted 4 billion yen in government support for fiscal year 2013, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Ministry of Finance have agreed to reduce this amount in stages through fiscal year 2015, although local governments in the Kansai region have pressed for continued subsidies.[22] Kansai has been marketed as an alternative to Narita Airport for international travelers from the Greater Tokyo Area. By flying to Kansai from Haneda Airport and connecting to international flights there, travelers can save the additional time required to get to Narita: up to one and a half hours for many residents of Kanagawa Prefecture and southern Tokyo. Second phase of Kansai International Airport under construction The airport was at its limit during peak times, owing especially to freight flights, so a portion of Phase II expansion—the second runway—was made a priority.[23] Thus, in 2003, believing that the sinking problem was almost over, the airport operators started to construct a 4,000 m (13,000 ft) second runway and terminal. The second runway opened on 2 August 2007, but with the originally planned terminal portion postponed. This lowered the project cost to JPY¥910 billion (approx. US$8 billion), saving ¥650 billion from the first estimate.[24] The additional runway development, which was opened in time for the IAAF world athletics championships in Osaka, has expanded the airport size to 10.5 square kilometres (2,600 acres). The second runway is used for landings and when there are incidents prohibiting take off use of runway A. The new runway allowed the airport to start 24-hour operations in September 2007.[25][26] A new terminal building opened in late 2012.[27] There are additional plans for several new aprons, a third runway (06C/24C) with a length of 3,500 m (11,483 ft), a new cargo terminal and expanding the airport size to 13 km2 (5.0 sq mi). As of 2012, the Japanese government is postponing these plans for economic reasons. Relationship with Itami Airport Since July 2008, Osaka Prefecture governor Toru Hashimoto has been a vocal critic of Itami Airport, arguing that the Chuo Shinkansen maglev line will make much of its domestic role irrelevant, and that its domestic functions should be transferred to Kansai Airport in conjunction with upgraded high-speed access to Kansai from central Osaka.[28] In 2009, Hashimoto also publicly proposed moving the functions of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Kansai Airport as a possible solution for the political crisis surrounding the base.[29] In May 2011, the Diet of Japan passed legislation to form a new Kansai International Airport Corporation using the state's existing equity stake in Kansai Airport and its property holdings at Itami Airport. The move was aimed at offsetting Kansai Airport's debt burden.[30] The merger of the Itami and Kansai airport authorities was completed in July 2012. Shortly following the merger, Kansai Airport announced a 5% reduction in landing fees effective October 2012, with additional reductions during overnight hours when the airport is underutilized, and further discounts planned for the future, including subsidies for new airlines and routes. As of October 2012 these moves were intended to bring Kansai's fees closer to the level of Narita International Airport, where landing fees were around 20% lower than Kansai's, and to improve competitiveness with other Asian hubs such as Incheon International Airport in Korea.[31] Since its formation, the new operating company has also made efforts toward international expansion, bidding for operating concessions at Yangon International Airport and Hanthawaddy International Airport in Myanmar.[32] KIAC conducted a public tender to sell the operating rights for Kansai and Itami Airport in May 2015. Orix and Vinci SA were the sole bidder for the 45-year contract, at a price of around $18 billion.[33] The new operating company will be formed around the end of 2015 and will be 80% owned by Orix and Vinci, with the remaining 20% owned by Kansai-based enterprises such as Hankyu Hanshin Holdings and Panasonic.[34] The main KIX passenger Terminal l is a single four-story building designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Renzo Piano and Noriaki Okabe) and has a gross floor space of 296,043 square metres (3,186,580 sq ft). As of 2008, it is the longest airport terminal in the world, at a total length of 1.7 km (1.1 mi) from end to end. It has a sophisticated people mover system called the Wing Shuttle, which moves passengers from one end of the pier to the other. The terminal's roof is shaped like an airfoil. This shape is used to promote air circulation through the building: giant air conditioning ducts blow air upwards at one side of the terminal, circulate the air across the curvature of the ceiling, and collect the air through intakes at the other side. Mobiles are suspended in the ticketing hall to take advantage of the flowing air. The ticketing hall overlooks the international departures concourse, and the two are separated by a glass partition. During Kansai's early days, visitors were known to throw objects over the partition to friends in the corridor below. The partition was eventually modified to halt this practice. Terminal 2 departures lobby Terminal 2 is a low-cost carrier (LCC) terminal designed to attract more LCCs by providing lower landing fees than terminal 1. It is exclusively occupied by Peach. Other LCCs serving Kansai, such as Jetstar Airways, Jetstar Japan, and Cebu Pacific Air, use the main Terminal 1, but there are plans to build a third terminal to house other LCCs.[35] Peach requested that Terminal 2 have a simplified design in order to minimize operating costs.[36] The terminal is a single-story building, thus eliminating the cost of elevators. Passageways to aircraft have no air conditioning.[37] The terminal also has no jet bridges, having one boarding gate for domestic departures and one boarding gate for international departures. In case of rain, passengers are lent umbrellas to use as they walk to the aircraft.[38] Terminal 2 is not directly connected to Terminal 1 or to Kansai Airport Station. Free shuttle buses run between the two terminals, and between Terminal 2 and the railway and ferry stations. It is also possible to walk between the terminals through the KIX Sora Park, a four-hectare park located adjacent to Terminal 2.[39] Terminal 3 (planned) Kansai Airport plans to build a third terminal for use by low-cost carriers other than Peach, primarily Jetstar Airways, Jetstar Japan and other group companies. NKIAC plans to finalize the terminal plan during fiscal year 2014–15 and commence construction during fiscal year 2015–16.[40] The terminal is scheduled to open by March 2017 on a site adjacent to Terminal 2 and will have gates for both narrowbody and widebody aircraft with an expandable design.[41] The initial plan called for completion in fiscal year 2015, but NKIAC announced in July 2013 that completion would be postponed by one year due to Jetstar Japan canceling plans to establish a second domestic base at KIX, as well as decreased traffic to and from the People's Republic of China due to recent issues in Sino-Japanese relations. However, NKIAC hoped that increased demand on flights to and from Southeast Asia would make up for these problems.[42] Airlines and destinations The second floor of the Passenger Terminal Building is used for domestic departures and arrivals. All ticketing, boarding, and baggage claim are handled on the second floor. International arrivals go to immigration and baggage claim on the first floor. International departures are ticketed on the fourth floor and board from the third floor. Kansai International Airport's roof Kansai Airport in 2006 AirAsia X Kuala Lumpur 1 North Air Busan Busan 1 North Air Canada Rouge Seasonal: Vancouver[43] 1 North Air China Beijing–Capital, Chengdu,[44] Dalian, Hangzhou,[45] Shanghai–Pudong 1 South Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle 1 South Air India Delhi, Hong Kong 1 South Air Macau Macau 1 North Aircalin Nouméa 1 South All Nippon Airways Beijing–Capital, Dalian, Fukuoka, Hakodate, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Ishigaki, Naha, Qingdao, Sapporo–Chitose, Shanghai–Pudong, Tokyo–Haneda Seasonal: Asahikawa, Memanbetsu, Wakkanai 1 North Asiana Airlines Seoul–Gimpo, Seoul–Incheon Seasonal: Saipan 1 North Beijing Capital Airlines Haikou, Nanchang 1 South Cathay Pacific Hong Kong, Taipei–Taoyuan 1 North Cebu Pacific Manila 1 North China Airlines Kaohsiung, Tainan,[46] Taipei–Taoyuan 1 South China Eastern Airlines Beijing–Capital, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shanghai–Pudong, Wenzhou,[47] Yanji,[48] Yantai 1 South China Southern Airlines Dalian, Guangzhou, Guilin,[49] Harbin, Shenyang, Shenzhen[50] 1 South Delta Air Lines Guam, Honolulu, Tokyo–Narita (begins 27 March 2016)[51] 1 North Eastar Jet Busan, Seoul–Incheon 1 South Emirates Dubai–International 1 South EVA Air Taipei–Taoyuan, Kaohsiung 1 North Far Eastern Air Transport Taichung[52] 1 North Finnair Helsinki 1 North Garuda Indonesia Denpasar/Bali, Jakarta–Soekarno–Hatta 1 North Hawaiian Airlines Honolulu 1 North Hong Kong Express Airways Hong Kong 1 North Japan Airlines Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Fukuoka, Honolulu, Jeju, Los Angeles,[53] Naha, Sapporo–Chitose, Seoul–Gimpo, Shanghai–Pudong, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tokyo–Haneda 1 South operated by Japan Air Commuter Toyooka 1 South operated by Japan Transocean Air Ishigaki, Naha, Tokyo–Haneda 1 South Jeju Air Busan, Seoul–Gimpo, Seoul–Incheon 1 North Jetstar Airways Cairns, Melbourne 1 North Jetstar Asia Airways Manila, Singapore, Taipei–Taoyuan 1 North Jetstar Japan Fukuoka, Hong Kong,[54] Kumamoto, Naha, Oita, Sapporo–Chitose, Taipei–Taoyuan (begins 11 December 2015),[55] Tokyo–Narita 1 North Jin Air Busan,[56] Seoul–Incheon 1 South Juneyao Airlines Shanghai–Pudong[57] 1 South KLM Amsterdam 1 North Korean Air Busan, Guam, Jeju, Seoul–Gimpo, Seoul–Incheon 1 North Lufthansa Frankfurt 1 North Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur 1 North Myanmar Airways International Yangon 1 North Peach Busan, Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Ishigaki, Kagoshima, Kaohsiung, Matsuyama, Miyazaki,[58] Nagasaki, Naha, Sapporo–Chitose, Sendai, Seoul–Incheon, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tokyo–Narita 2 Philippine Airlines Cebu, Manila 1 South Qatar Airways Doha 1 North Scoot Bangkok–Don Mueang,[59] Kaohsiung,[59] Singapore[59] 1 North Shandong Airlines Jinan, Qingdao,[60] Urumqi[60] 1 North Shanghai Airlines Shanghai–Pudong 1 North Shenzhen Airlines Beijing–Capital,[61] Fuzhou, Shenzhen,[62] Wuxi 1 South Singapore Airlines Singapore 1 South Spring Airlines Changchun,[63] Chengdu,[64] Chongqing, Qingdao, Quanzhou,[64] Shanghai–Pudong, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi'an,[64] Zhengzhou[64] 1 North StarFlyer Tokyo–Haneda 1 South Thai AirAsia X Bangkok–Don Mueang 1 North Thai Airways Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi 1 North Tianjin Airlines Tianjin,[65] Xi'an[65] 1 South Tigerair Taiwan Kaohsiung,[66] Taipei–Taoyuan[67] 1 South TransAsia Airways Taipei–Taoyuan 1 South Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk 1 North T'way Airlines Daegu, Guam,[68] Seoul–Incheon[69] 1 South United Airlines Guam, San Francisco 1 North Vietnam Airlines Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City 1 South Xiamen Airlines Fuzhou, Hangzhou,[70] Xiamen[71] 1 North ^1 Delta also operates a flight to Tokyo-Narita only as an onward connection to other Delta flights. ^2 This flight makes an intermediate stop in Cairns, en route to their listed final destination; however the airline still have traffic rights to carry passengers solely between Cairns and Melbourne. Air China Cargo Beijing–Capital, Shanghai–Pudong Air Hong Kong Hong Kong Aircompany Yakutia Shanghai–Pudong ANA & JP Express Seoul–Incheon ANA Cargo Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Dalian, Naha, Qingdao, Saga, Shanghai–Pudong, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita, Xiamen Asiana Cargo Seoul–Incheon Cathay Pacific Cargo Hong Kong, Seoul–Incheon China Airlines Cargo Anchorage, Los Angeles, Taipei–Taoyuan China Cargo Airlines Shanghai–Pudong, Xiamen China Postal Airlines Shanghai–Pudong China Southern Cargo Shanghai–Pudong[72] Cathay Pacific Cargo Hong Kong EVA Air Cargo Taipei–Taoyuan FedEx Express Anchorage, Beijing–Capital, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Indianapolis, Memphis, Oakland, Singapore, Shanghai–Pudong, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tokyo–Narita Hong Kong Airlines Cargo Hong Kong Korean Air Cargo Seoul–Incheon Lufthansa Cargo Frankfurt, Krasnoyarsk Nippon Cargo Airlines Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Beijing–Capital, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Singapore, Tokyo–Narita Polar Air Cargo Chicago–O'Hare, Shanghai–Pudong Singapore Airlines Cargo Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Singapore UPS Airlines Anchorage, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen Haruka, JR West's Kansai Airport Limited Express rapi:t, Nankai Railway's limited express train Kansai International Airport is connected only by the Sky Gate Bridge R, a road/railroad bridge to Rinku Town and the mainland. The lower railroad level of the bridge is used by two railroad operators: JR West and Nankai Electric Railway. JR West operates the Haruka limited express train services for Kansai Airport Station from Tennōji, Shin-Ōsaka, and Kyoto Station. JR West also offers "Kansai Airport Rapid" services for Kansai Airport Station from Ōsaka, Kyōbashi Station, and several stations on the way. Various connections, such as buses, subways, trams, and other railroads, are available at each station. Nankai operates the rapi:t, a limited express train service to Namba Station on the southern edge of downtown Osaka. Subway connections are available at Namba and Tengachaya Station. Kansai Airport Transportation Enterprise[73] and other bus operators offer scheduled express bus services, called "Airport Limousines", for Kansai International Airport. Two six story parking structures, called P1 and P2, are located above a railroad terminal station, while the other two level parking facilities, called P3 and P4, are situated next to "Aeroplaza", a hotel complex. The airport is only accessible from the Sky Gate Bridge R, a part of Kansai Airport Expressway. The expressway immediately connects to Hanshin Expressways Route 5, "Wangan Route", and Hanwa Expressway. In July 2007, high-speed ferry service (run by Kaijo Access Co.) began operating between Kobe Airport and KIX. The journey takes about thirty minutes. The ferry to Kobe awaiting departure at the Kansai International Airport Port Terminal Kensetsu-to, the headquarters of Peach Aviation and the Kansai International Airport Land Development Co., Ltd. Sky Gate Bridge to the mainland McDonald's at Kansai International Airport Kansai Airport Agency Company Building (航空会社北ビル, Kūkō Kaisha Kita Biru) – Houses the Kansai Airport Agency Co., Ltd. (株式会社関西エアポートエージェンシー, Kabushiki Kaisha Kansai Eapōto Ējenshī)[74][75] Kensetsu-to (建設棟, Kensetsu-tō) The head office of the Kansai International Airport Land Development Co., Ltd. (KALD, 関西国際空港用地造成株式会社 Kansai Kokusai Kūkō Yōchi Zōsei Kabushiki Kaisha) is on the fourth floor.[76] The Peach Aviation head office is on the fifth floor.[77][78] Aeroplaza (エアロプラザ, Earopuraza) is located on the west side of Kansai Airport Station. It includes a hotel, restaurants, rental car counters, and other businesses[79] Hotel Nikko Kansai Airport (north portion of Kansai Airport)[4] Head office of Peach Aviation was previously located on the third floor (central portion of Kansai Airport)[80][81] Central power station (KEPCO) energy center, 40 MW Central heating and cooling plant Sewage disposal plant (disposing 20,000 m3 (5,300,000 US gal) per day) Incineration plant JAL Cargo import and export facilities (in southern portion)[5] Japan Coast Guard Kansai airport Coast Guard air base Japan Coast Guard Special Security Team Base Osaka international post office (As of 2010 carrying about 19,000 tonnes per year of international postal matter) Oil tanker berths (three berths) and Fuel Supply center Airport access bridge ("The Sky Gate Bridge R") As of 2011, the longest truss bridge in the world at 3,750 m (12,303 ft). 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__label__wiki	0.702916	0.702916	Haywire Magazine Opened World Let’s Place Guide to Freelancing Home of Contemplative Blockheads Browse: Home » Columns » Opened World: Let’s Eat Capitalists Opened World: Let’s Eat Capitalists December 17, 2017 · by Miguel Penabella · in Columns, Opened World Making a burger can be a rallying cry for action. How can videogames effectively critique a wider media culture and broader industrial concerns? As critics steadily adopt a more analytical and politicized lens with which to examine games, how can the games themselves critique real-world phenomena and issues like globalization, corporatism, and the displacement of peoples? Writers and academics like Lana Polansky and Ian Bogost have certainly covered how games can be politically and socially deployed, and what will be crucial in this critical conversation are the deeper industrial issues that undergird all videogame texts. Taking Molleindustria’s 2006 release McDonald’s Videogame as a point of reference, we can breakdown its strategy of critiquing McDonald’s on multiple fronts as a way to identify productive ways that games can critique industry concerns. The game adopts the political values of Molleindustria founder and Carnegie Mellon University professor Paolo Pedercini, conveying a left-wing, activist urgency to tackle themes of labor and exploitation. Players roleplay as the CEO of the company and manage four key sectors: cultivation (of raw materials), production (of beef), transaction (of burgers), and reception (of the McDonald’s brand). By addressing these multiple fronts that comprise the total industry, McDonald’s Videogame targets McDonald’s to makes the broader argument that corporations sustain themselves via processes of systemic oppression and corruption, affecting not only the health and bodies of individual people, but also world economies and the environment. McDonald’s Videogame condemns the titular fast food company from a Marxist perspective, as well as business simulation and tycoon games. These types of games perpetuate corporate ideologies and abstract complex issues like the extraction of material resources, the exploitation of workers, and the destruction of the environment as a source of unquestioning “fun.” There is no end goal to the game, suggesting that this genre of games (and corporatism in general) has always been about the perpetuity of making money. To generate revenue, players will have to make unethical choices such as bribing public officials to quell fast food workers’ strikes, genetically modifying soy products to feed beef cattle, launching misleading advertising campaigns, and displacing indigenous peoples off their land. Pedercini specifically designates the game as a parody meant for educational purposes and—according to the game’s website—as “an anti-advergame for the fast food industry.” Advergames refer to games purposefully and exclusively designed to promote a branded product, political campaign, military body, etc., such as Burger King’s mascot-starring Sneak King or the U.S. military’s recruitment tool America’s Army. McDonald’s Videogame satirizes this genre, offering a broader commentary on videogames’ entanglement with neoliberalism, globalization, and free enterprise. On the level of agrarian cultivation, Pedercini links American corporate development in foreign countries with a longer history of colonial expropriation, facetiously remarking in the tutorial, “Obviously you have to conquer your land as our forefathers did.” Players raise soy crops and cattle ranches near the fictional South American coastal town Sao Josè. Over-development inevitably leads to clashes with the local government, but the governor of Sao Josè can be bribed so that common land originally used to grow food for local residents can be bulldozed to make way for McDonald’s to cultivate. According to the tutorial, this seizure of land will “bring richness to this corner of the world,” cynically taking jabs at trickle-down economics and neocolonialist efforts by Western corporations to expropriate the resources of South American countries like the banana republics of the past. Moreover, players can destroy the rainforests and indigenous homes that border Sao Josè, suggesting not only the displacement of peoples deemed “disposable” by corporate development, but also that the environment itself is negligible and must be conquered under the name of capitalist growth. Soy fields can be genetically modified with more aggressive pesticides, and cattle can overgraze the land, thus severely compromising the fertility of once green pastures after years of heavy development. If crops are not micromanaged and rotated with the seasons, land can become arid and un-farmable, gesturing towards the slow violence of environmental decay over time. All these neocolonialist strategies of wealth extraction—the exportation of pollution, the seizure of local land, the corruption of Latin American governments, and the destruction of rainforests—feed into this oppressive capitalist system. The feedlot sector of the game addresses issues on the level of beef production at McDonald’s slaughterhouses. Ranch cattle are collected from the agricultural sector of the game by giant cranes that comically scoop them up unaware, allegorizing the machinery of industrial factory farming. At the feedlot, players must fatten these cattle by feeding them soy fodder with the option to introduce fillers such as industrial waste and hormones to accelerate growth. As consumer demand for hamburgers increases in the game, food production must also quicken, and thus, the unethical and unappetizing decision to incorporate industrial waste and hormones to beef is eventually necessary to maintain productive economies of scale. Doing so results in low quality and sickly livestock, with cows exhibiting symptoms of illnesses such as mad cow disease (or BSE) that must subsequently be exterminated by players lest this contaminated beef make its way into Big Macs and Happy Meals. Although the game makes these burger patties unsavory given this context, it is more a condemnation of factory farming operations than meat-eating. Pedercini acknowledges a broader history of industrial pollution, collateral damage wrought by the accelerating capitalist machine. Because players never forestall the spread of disease among cows and merely exterminate them after the fact, the game suggests that the corporate imperative of speed and efficiency invalidates social responsibilities to public health and common decency. The regular slaughter of beef cattle allows players to micromanage the fast food sector, in which fry cooks and cashiers turn a profit on cooked meals. At this level, McDonald’s Videogame allows players to directly oversee the employment of individuals at a restaurant. The game equates fast food labor with assembly line production, where fry cooks and cashiers monotonously cycle through the same, repetitive animation of their sole task. These workers begin with a “happy” status, but the tedium of constant, unskilled labor and the overwhelming demand from long lines of customers creates dismal work conditions that lead to a bored and angry workforce. Players have two options to stimulate inefficient workers: give them an award or discipline them. Awarding workers fulfills their happiness temporarily, but because awards can only be given once, players must resort to draconian measures once these workers lose interest in their jobs again. Disciplining employees actually causes little to no effect, and the only viable option afterward is to simply fire the employee and hire a naïve new face. Because all service industry workers will inevitably tire from this assembly line process, players will become complicit in a constant cycle of firing and hiring new workers that perpetuates a system of thankless, exploitative labor. Of course, firing too many workers will cause a labor dispute, in which case players can migrate to the corporate headquarters sector and corrupt a politician to subdue workers’ unions. The game suggests that under a capitalist logic, it’s more cost effective simply to expunge disagreeable workers than to find long-term, constructive solutions to labor issues. The corporate headquarters addresses the reception of McDonald’s as a brand by allowing players to control both the company’s advertising campaigns and the company’s influence on governmental policy by corrupting public officials. The tutorial satirically reminds players that McDonald’s isn’t simply a fast food chain, but also symbolizes an entire “lifestyle” and “western culture’s superiority.” Players can frame the restaurant as an advocate for the third-world with an advertising campaign that claims that McDonald’s fights world hunger. The game reassures players that “collective western guilt can be leveraged to generate profit,” suggesting that what drives this campaign isn’t a charitable spirit, but rather the unending impulse to exploit consumer markets. The advertising campaign portrays poverty as a “monster coming from the outer space,” reflecting how the causes for poverty is obscured by greedy corporations reluctant to admit their complicity in creating wealth inequalities. Rather, this intangible, fictional scapegoat steers attention from the real, material implications of corporations unwilling to provide a livable wage or disinclined to satisfy demands from striking workers. The game also critiques how food industries have lobbied for misleading dietary guidelines to sell product, allowing players to launch an advertising campaign that suggests how McDonald’s fits in the food pyramid as part of a healthy, balanced diet. Yet another campaign promotes brand awareness among suggestible children by cross-promoting the restaurant with Happy Meal toys, thus indoctrinating consumers at younger ages. Upon criticism by detractors like environmentalists and consumers’ associations, players can oversee public relations campaigns to silence activism. Politicians, health officials, and climatologists can be paid off, and McDonald’s can continue to thrive unopposed. These gameplay mechanics all provide critiques of the restaurant, tackling multiple issues along every level of production and consumption. With these strategies in mind, we can turn our attention to thinking about how to critique videogames in similar ways. If writers want to seriously engage in a critique of videogames, one must address these intersecting industrial factors beyond single-issue lines. It’s not enough to argue that a game like Horizon Zero Dawn or Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is acceptable because female protagonists and non-white characters are well represented. We also need to look at the conditions of its production to see if workers are also represented in such a way, or if such corrective measures really just conceal real-world, industrial inequalities. From an interview with Jacobin, Pedercini argues, “We have to counter the incredibly common argument that all our high-tech gadgets and modern amenities are gifts of capitalism, and not the result of organized labor.” All too often, game critics are quick to reward companies for portraying diversity in narratives (I too admit to being guilty of this tendency), but representational politics are just the tip of the iceberg. If we celebrate leading female characters in games, we must also always verify if women are the authors of these characters behind the scenes. Moreover, we must consider if this kind of industrial labor is even fulfilling and equitable to begin with. In a PR move that evokes the awarding of employees in McDonald’s Videogame, Sony PlayStation employees received a retro gift that portrays the company as a kindly entity despite the lingering labor issues that go hand-in-hand with all game corporations. While it projects the image of a progressive, benevolent industry, we must always recognize that the reality of videogame work is one of precarity, where a Naughty Dog employee can be fired for filing a sexual harassment complaint and workers must leverage their own lives for fairer working conditions. These industrial issues raise the stakes of videogame critique, and they must be raised if we want games to contribute to broader cultural and political conversations. Both games and critical writing together must confront the intersecting lines of capitalist production, labor, and consumer reception rather than address isolated fronts, and in doing so, we can reveal the broader mechanisms that uphold industrial dispossession and exploitation. Miguel Penabella is a freelancer and comparative literature academic who worships at the temple of cinema but occasionally bears libations to videogames. His written offerings can be found on PopMatters, First Person Scholar, and Unwinnable, and he blogs on Invalid Memory. Tags: america's army, McDonald's Videogame, Sneak King ← Announcing: Games of 2017 Off the Grid: Let’s Not Stay Friends → Contribute to Haywire About Haywire Magazine Haywire Magazine is a bi-monthly games culture webzine turned blog collective. We aim to offer a shared space for critics outside the traditional publishing system. No entrance requirements, just throw your ideas at us and we'll help you get them written up and out there. 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__label__wiki	0.599116	0.599116	Jovan Divjak and Dragan Vikić: Two Bosnian Heroes http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2697/jovan-divjak-and-dragan-vikic-two-bosnian-heroes The Balkan wars of 1991-99 changed my life. Writers before me, like George Orwell, found their lives and careers transformed permanently by the Spanish revolution and civil war of 1931-39, 60 years before. Orwell is honored in Barcelona. Bosnia-Hercegovina was my Spain. There I met hundreds of extraordinary individuals and communities. Their faces were typically without guile. They were Muslim Bosnians, Christians, Jews, Roma, Albanians. Journalists, local government officials, religious leaders, schoolteachers, railroad workers, cooks, taxi drivers. Soldiers, both male and female. Rape victims who did not act like victims. Partisans. Unlike Orwell I went back repeatedly, immersing myself in the local culture, food, music, literature, and the beautiful languages spoken all around me. These are subjective judgments, but they are my truth. Of all the individuals I met in Bosnia two stand out for their moral example: Jovan Divjak and Dragan Vikić. Bosnian heroes: author Abdulah Sidran, journalist Zijo Mehić, Divjak. General Jovan Divjak of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina is a Serb, but a Bosnian. As a high officer in the former Yugoslav military he armed the Bosnian territorial militia for defense against Serbian aggression, then affirmed his patriotism and sense of duty by joining the reorganized Bosnian Army. I knew of his courage through the terrible siege of Sarajevo, and watched him in Bernard-Henri Levy's outstanding 1994 documentary film, Bosna! I knew he had been subjected to extraordinary threats by Serbian media, directed against his family as well as his own person. The symbolism of a Serbian Bosnian patriot putting himself in harm's way to defend a people under fascist attack affected me deeply. Serb media and politicians asserted a "blood claim" on Divjak, demanding that all Serbs everywhere stand with the Milošević mafia. Divjak repudiated the pseudo-nationalist demand for a factitious loyalty. He put himself on the side of Serbia's alleged enemies. In reality, no Bosnian was an enemy of Serbs or of Serbia. Bosnia had developed a fruitful relationship with Serbia. Bosnian Muslims and Serbs intermarried. The outstanding Bosnian novelist Meša Selimović wrote in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. But the genocidal propaganda campaign to maintain Serb control in the region required enemies. Following the Muscovite playbook, which we see in effect in the U.S. today, Muslims had been selected to die brutally to maintain Russian influence worldwide. This Russian methodology may lead to an attempt to seize eastern Ukraine before the end of this year. Muslim Crimean Tatars have been leading victims in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Day after day and night after night Serbian malefactors and their foreign enablers slandered the Bosnians as supposed Islamic fundamentalists. This crowd of liars and lapdancers included the powerful British political elite, French politicians, Noam Chomsky and other disembrained Western leftists, Saddam Hussein, provider of oil to Belgrade in exchange for nuclear weapons technology, Fidel Castro, the demented Hitler of the Caribbean, Muammar Qhadhafi, the monster of the Maghreb, Yasser Arafat, who invited Milošević to visit Jerusalem for Christmas, the Islamophobic termagant who called herself Bat Ye'or, her prom date Robert Spencer, a politer version of the Charlottesville inciter of murder, Richard Spencer, and David "I'm for sale cheap" Horowitz. Horowitz assisted Serbian criminals in defaming me personally. Gangsta gangsta. There have always been honest Serbs. 19th century Serbian enlightener Svetozar Marković warned against the fantasy of an imperialist "Greater Serbia." Serbian Social Democrats Dimitrije Tucović, Kosta Novaković, and their comrades sided with the Kosovar Albanians against the bogus Serbian leadership. Divjak followed the example of these true Serb patriots by defending Sarajevo. I met him in 1999 and walked the abandoned trenches on the peaks around the city with him. I remarked that the trenches looked shallow and asked if they had collapsed under the weight of winter snow, which may be heavy there. No, he told me, "we dug them by hand, without shovels." That was the measure of Divjak, a real man. Dragan. I also met Dragan Vikić, of mixed Croatian and Serbian origin. Vikić, with whom I joked by suggesting he resembled Robert DeNiro, is a martial arts champion, veteran of the Bosnian police forces, and hero. The youngest recruit ever to the Bosnian law enforcement service, at the beginning of the Serbofascist assault on Sarajevo he roused the citizens to self-defense. He commanded a special police unit in many difficult operations. Divjak and Vikić are loyal to the country they love, Bosnia-Hercegovina. Bosnia remains the heart of the world – it is no wonder men and women (I'll write about them, too) are ready to defend her. There are many lessons for Americans here. Ordinary citizens resent the military and police but can seldom defend themselves adequately, whether in Spain 1936 or Sarajevo 1992. Real patriotism shuns nationalism. Russia is the world's enemy, spreading ethnic polarization, political lawbreaking, and disinformation everywhere. But men and women with real values prevail. Thank you, Bill Clinton, for bombing Serbia! Related Topics: Albanian Muslims, Alevism, American Muslims, Balkan Muslims, Bektashi Sufis, Bosnian Muslims, European Muslims, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim-Christian Relations, Muslim-Jewish Relations, Russia, Sufism, Turkish Islam receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free center for islamic pluralism mailing list	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line634
__label__cc	0.679044	0.320956	Effect of Fluoride and Bentonite on Biochemical Aspects of Oxidative Stress in Pisum sativum L. Martyna Śnioszek 1 Arkadiusz Marcin Telesiński 1 Beata Smolik 1 Helena Zakrzewska 1 Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Słowackiego 17, 71-434 Szczecin, Poland Arkadiusz Marcin Telesiński West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Słowackiego Str. 17, 71-434 Szczecin, Poland J. Ecol. Eng. 2018; 19(2):164–171 Pisum sativum Protection and reclamation of soils Fluoride is regarded as one of the strongest oxidants, which causes oxidative changes in cells of living organisms. It may both increase the content of reactive oxygen species and inhibit the activity of antioxidative enzyme. In recent years, many researchers successfully used the properties of clay minerals in the sorption of fluoride ion from water. This raises the question of the possibility of limiting the effect of fluorine on the negative changes in plants by adding bentonite to soil. A two-year pot experiment was carried out in the Greenhouse of West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, on loamy sand and sandy loam. Each sample of soil was mixed with three different concentrations of bentonite – 1, 5, 10% of dry weight (DW) of the soil and then treated with 30 mmol of F- per 1 kg of dry weight of the soil in a form of NaF solution. A control series was prepared for each soil, to which no additives were added. The medium prepared in such way was transferred to plastic pots (3 kg each) and seeded with 16 pea seeds of Pisum sativum. In three phases of pea development (4 leaves unfolded, flowering and development of fruit), fresh leaf samples were collected and the concentrations of ascorbic acid, reduced glutathione, total flavonoids and total polyphenols were measured. Sodium fluoride introduced to the soil changed the level of antioxidant parameters in the plant, which may suggest that fluoride is involved in the formation of reactive oxygen species, resulting in oxidative stress. Bentonite in a dosage of 10% reduced the toxic effects of fluoride on the oxidative balance and morphological changes in the plant, which was observed especially for loamy sand, naturally poor in clay minerals. The Effect of the Addition of Bentonite Clay to Traditional Sand Mixtures on the Surface Quality of Iron Castings β-glucan-mediated Alleviation of NaCl Stress in Ocimum basilicum L. in Relation to the Response of Antioxidant Enzymes and Assessment DNA Marker CHANGES OF FLUORIDE CONTENT IN SAND FROM SANDBOXES LOCATED ON PLAYGROUNDS IN POLICE (WEST POMERANIA, POLAND) ACIDITY AND SORPTION PROPERTIES OF ZINC-CONTAMINATED SOIL FOLLOWING THE APPLICATION OF NEUTRALISING SUBSTANCES EFFECT OF DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES ON SOME PROPERTIES OF SOIL CONTAMINATED WITH HEATING OIL	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line637
__label__cc	0.685627	0.314373	Ruth was the Moabite wife of Machlon, one of the sons of Elimelech and Naomi, a wealthy couple who had fled Bethlehem during a bitter famine. Elimelech's family had settled in Moab, a neighboring country with which Israel had a history of conflict. When Elimelech and his two sons died, Naomi chose to return to her homeland. Her two daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, decided to go with her. When they reached Israel, however, Naomi urged them to go back to their fathers’ homes. Orpah did leave. Ruth refused, declaring: "Where you [Naomi] go, I shall go, your people will be my people...your land will be my land, and your God will be my God" (1:16). Upon their return to Bethlehem, Ruth and Naomi lived a lonely and impoverished life. People resented that Naomi’s family had fled the famine, and they did not trust her Moabite daughter-in-law. To keep from starving, Ruth gathered excess barley that fell during the harvest in the field of Boaz, a relative of Elimelech. Boaz noticed Ruth’s unique qualities of modesty, loyalty and humility and encouraged her to continue gleaning in his field until the end of the harvest. In the meantime, the elders of Bethlehem debated whether Ruth was a true convert and whether she could marry a Jewish man. Naomi, however, knew that Ruth was devout and sincere. She directed Ruth to go to the ceremony at the close of the threshing and seek out Boaz, who had been so kind to them. She told Ruth to present herself to him as a potential mate and assured Ruth that Boaz would take care of her. That night, Ruth demurely waited at Boaz’s feet, signaling her intentions. Boaz, who was much older, an established landowner and a leader in the community, had not thought of himself as a possible suitor until that night. Boaz and Ruth married and their son, Oved, was the grandfather of King David.The Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot. This Treat was last posted on May 22, 2015. Copyright © 2016 NJOP. All rights reserved Labels: Jewish, Jewish Holidays, Jews, Judaism, ReTreat, Shavuot, ShavuotEssentials, srhewitt The Power of Positive - An Anniversary Treat An Anniversary Present Kiss the Mezuzah Mezuzah Here and There Real Mysteries Protecting the Self Cloud Positioning System Divine Doing Protecting Widows An Extra Thought Joy to the Bride and Groom At A Wedding Three Steps Forward, Three Steps Back In West Virginia Local Place The Importance of Dad Avinu - Our Father Equal Tribes Making it Transfusable Double Wishes Preparing for the Torah A Different Set of Loaves Day of Distinction Whose First Fruits About the Divine Two Pillars of Five Green Cheesecake at Midnight The Littlest Mountain Cakes of Cheese Give Them A Choice If I Forget Thee The Old City Jerusalem Kugel The Language of Unity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line639
__label__wiki	0.706797	0.706797	katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE - select-a-version: katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE Genesis 29:1-14 - Haran - Jacob arrives at Laban's house. Gn.29.1-14 29 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east. 29 2 As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheep lying beside it; for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large, 29 3 and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place upon the mouth of the well. 29 4 Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where do you come from?" They said, "We are from Haran." 29 5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." 29 6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!" 29 7 He said, "Behold, it is still high day, it is not time for the animals to be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, pasture them." 29 8 But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep." 29 9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them. 29 10 Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 29 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and wept aloud. 29 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father. 29 13 When Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things, 29 14 and Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month. Notes: This page displays the Revised Standard Version as flowing text. The katapi New Study Bible reference section has been incorporated into the page as follows: Links to parallel passages show below passage headings. Links to Old Testament quotations in New Testament verses show after the verse number. Quotations of OT passages by NT authors can in most cases be viewed within their context of the OT passage as a whole, with the quoted text displayed in bold font, coloured blue. Any mismatches, truncated verses, other mistakes ? Please e-mail me. © Paul Ingram 2012.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line640
__label__wiki	0.748082	0.748082	North Korea Summit: A Trump-Kim PR stunt or a major step toward denuclearization? http://www.judithmiller.com/21282/north-korea-summit The Singapore summit was quintessentially Trumpian – a made-for-TV spectacular, long on red-carpet pageantry and short on substance. It was also Trumpian in another sense: both President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made vague pledges they can easily ignore should follow-on talks falter. President Trump expressed optimism Wednesday about the outcome of the talks, tweeting: "Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!" And the president added in a follow-up tweet: "Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight!" In the best-case scenario, the summit that took place Tuesday was the beginning of a challenging, more traditional diplomatic process that could yield results America has long sought. These results include a denuclearized North Korea without intercontinental ballistic missiles threatening the American homeland, and a North Korea living in peace with democratic American-allied South Korea. But there is a worst-case scenario as well. If U.S.-North Korean negotiations fail, the Trump-Kim summit will be seen as a glorified PR stunt, hyped by the media and aimed simply at boosting each leader's political standing at home. To President Trump's credit, his "maximum pressure" sanctions on the North and the reversal of his bellicose rhetoric may have helped push Kim to Singapore so that his intentions could be explored. Thanks also to diplomatic support from South Korean President Moon Jae-in, President Trump was able to stage not only an unprecedented meeting, but secured a pledge to recover and repatriate the remains of some 5,000 American soldiers missing in North Korea since the Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953. But was the summit truly historic, meaning changing the course of history? Was it a turning point in North Korea's nuclear aspirations, its provocations, or its brutal repression at home? What this face-to-face meeting appears to have done so far is enable President Trump to put Kim to the test. After this initial round, Kim has emerged the apparent winner. At least in the short run, "Chairman Kim" – as President Trump deferentially called the brutal, 34-year-old dictator – has reason to smile. First, Kim paid little, financially or politically, for the legitimation he so desperately craves. Driven to the meeting in his armored Mercedes, he flew home in his Chinese-supplied jet with Singapore picking up his hotel tab and what the Wall Street Journal called his "place on world stage" cemented. Second, Kim got security guarantees for his odious regime, and by implication, the preservation of his own role as the greatest of his impoverished country's supreme leaders. Third, Kim pocketed the cancellation of the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that President Trump called "provocative," expensive (read waste of money) "war games." What Kim wanted but did not get was an immediate lifting of economic sanctions on his country. What did President Trump get at the meeting? A photo-op seen (and mostly praised) around the world. His main achievement was an even emptier nuclear disarmament pledge than those Kim's father and predecessor Kim Jong Il made in 1994 and 2005 and violated. The communique agreed to by President Trump and Kim Jong Un speaks not of denuclearization, but of a commitment to "work toward" complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. How and when this would be achieved or verified is yet to be determined. Only days before the summit, President Trump and his senior aides insisted that Kim's denuclearization be "complete, verifiable and irreversible." President Trump said at his press conference in Singapore that Kim would allow inspectors to verify that Pyongyang had destroyed, dismantled, or decommissioned the estimated 141 sites devoted to the production or use of unconventional weapons in a mountainous country the size of Pennsylvania. But the absence of any reference to verification in the communique struck Korean experts as ominous. "Chances are we're basically back to the same old rodeo with North Korea," said Michael J. Green, President George W. Bush's senior director for Asia on the National Security Council staff. "North Koreans have declared they're a nuclear weapons state in their constitution. Kim Jong Un declared that they've achieved nuclear weapon status." Despite previous similar pledges, he said, Pyongyang continued testing nuclear weapons. Unless Trump & Co. push hard behind closed doors, we may have to bid farewell to the insistence on CVID – complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization. The summit was unprecedented in another respect. It marked a reversal of traditional diplomacy in which allies are rewarded and enemies held at bay. At the Singapore summit and the disastrous G-7 meeting of allied industrial nations in Canada, President Trump held an American enemy close and dissed longstanding friends. The back-to-back summits were a Kiss Kim, Kick Canada, Alice-in-Wonderland extravaganza that unnerved America's allies, particularly South Korea. President Moon was not informed in advance of President Trump's agreement to suspend joint military exercises with South Korea, according to Sue Mi Terry, a Korea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the South Korean capital of Seoul Wednesday to try to undo the diplomatic damage and assure President Moon that America's alliance and its security guarantees to his country remain intact. It is much too soon to declare the summit a failure, as some commentators have done. Since talks to implement the declaration are expected to begin within a month, we will soon know Kim's true intentions. I, unlike many other Trump critics, hope that the president's radically new approach to handling this untested Korean autocrat will succeed. But skepticism is obviously in order. President Trump did win at least one new fan in Singapore. Retired NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman, who has visited Kim in North Korea, praised President Trump for the summit, noting tearfully that Barack Obama never had time for him. Wearing a red "Make America Great Again" baseball cap, Rodman claimed credit for making the summit happen. "Today is a great day for everybody, Singapore, Tokyo, China, everything," Rodman told a TV anchor. Maybe one day Rodman will be able to buy one of those North Korean beach condos that President Trump showed Kim on his iPad. Given North Korea's record, however, renting may be a safer bet. receive the latest by email: subscribe to judith miller's free mailing list	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line650
__label__wiki	0.665613	0.665613	Hazard pushes to be ready for Villarreal game An injury to the anterior part of Eden Hazard‘s right thigh the day before Real Madrid‘s first LaLiga Santander game of the season means that the Belgian is yet to make his debut for his new club, yet there is a chance that he could do so on Sunday night against Villarreal. The summer signing is pushing to return for that fixture at the Estadio de la Ceramica, just two weeks after suffering the injury. Real Madrid are remaining patient and will see how he evolves over the course of this week. The Belgian national team, meanwhile, are optimistic about having the forward for their upcoming fixtures against San Marino and Scotland on September 6 and September 9. “I feel positive about him because he always wants to play,” Roberto Martinez told Nieuwsblad. “He generally recovers from injuries quickly and well. “If he plays against Villarreal then we could count on him.” Martinez is expected to announce his Belgium squad for their upcoming fixtures on Friday.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line675
__label__wiki	0.912412	0.912412	Demi Lovato feels body confident thanks to Kim Kardashian Joan Rivers still in coma Hannah Murray Photos Hannah Murray info Born: 1 July, 1989 Height: 1.65 (5' 5") Known for: Womb , Chatroom and more. Watch movies with Hannah Murray online Movie Year The Numbers Station 2013 God Help the Girl 2014 Hannah Murray biography This block contains the information about Hannah Murray and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here. The date of birth of Hannah is July 1, 1989. Her place of birth is Bristol, United Kingdom. Hannah’s parents are university teachers. In 2007 Hannah Murray debuted on the screen in the television series, which is called “Milksops”, where the actress played the role of Cassie. Her character is an eccentric and anorexic girl. Hannah Murray studied the acting profession in the local theater. After some years, Murray became one of the best actresses of the theater. The actress debuted on the stage in the performances, which were called “That Face”. Hannah got the major role in the thriller, which is called “Chat” in 2010. This movie was directed by Hideo Nakata. Also Murray played in the drama, which is called “Womb”, directed by Benedict Fligauf. In 2010 Hannah Murray took part in the television series, which is called “Above Suspicion 2: The Red Dahlia”. This series was casted on one of the British channels. Hannah is rather young, but popular actress. Where Hannah Murray born? With the help of the Google satellite map you can find the place where Hannah Murray was born. By zooming in and out you can see the place itself and the area it is situated in and nearby. Find out where Hannah Murray was born. Now you can see the place itself even not traveling. Hannah Murray filmography Here you can learn about the movies Hannah Murray acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know. Movies & Videos Budget Year Opening weekend US box Office Chatroom - Emily 2010 Womb - Monica 2010 To post a message, you need to login. If you don't have a MagWeb login, you can register here. Johnny Depp is not a fan of underwear Johnny Depp has revealed that his ''general approach'' is to not wear underwear. However, he admits that his preference to go commando is problematic sometimes. The actor shared the story about a Zac Efron relieved after talking about substance abuse issues In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter Zac Efron opened up about his struggles with drugs and alcohol and rehab stint and now he feels relieved after sharing the story. Appearing on Liam Neeson still hasn't come to terms with Natasha Richardson's death It’s been five years since his wife Natasha Richardson died and Liam Neeson still hasn’t come to accept that she is gone. Speaking to Loaded magazine, the actor has admitted he still expects to Chris O'Dowd never returns borrowed designer suits Born on the same day Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK Sterling, Virginia, USA Bristol, England, UK Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada Jason Segel collects puppets Madonna slams Lady Gaga in new song 7 Celebrities Who Worked On the Trucks in The Past Jessica Alba: I don't want to be stay-at-home mom Miley Cyrus: Elvis Presley twerked The Love Section McCanick Rate celebrities Hey, what do you think of Anne Hathaway? © magweb.com, 2020 Contact us \| About us	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line677
__label__cc	0.600775	0.399225	Taken, Blessed, Broken, Shared Posted on May 6, 2019 by Maple Creek BY MADONNA HAMEL The last few years I’ve joined a group of motley ‘pilgrims’ to walk an historic Saskatchewan trail. Every year I wonder if I’ll make it the whole way. The obstacles on a prairie walk are less obvious than those presented by a mountain climb or a canyon descent, but just as humbling: the savage heat, the hidden badger holes. There are long stretches where you can watch your fellow pilgrims arrive in the evening as you lag behind in the late afternoon. The knee aches, the arch falls. You take the first step as an act of faith, an assumption that troubles lurk, but so do fellows and they will egg you on. The pilgrimage is a metaphor for the long haul, for life, for everything from parenting to learning how to play an instrument to planting a crop to healing a rotator cuff injury. The Easter season is a pilgrimage too. If you are a decent pagan you begin with Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday. It’s a day of greasy, creamy meals and drunken dinners and much dancing and singing, often ending in Oblivion. (Let’s face it, I joke to my sisters about our ongoing weight loss challenges, all our Tuesdays are fat.) As a culture, Lent and Holy Week are rarely mentioned outside of the religion page of the paper and the pulpit, and Mardis Gras, divorced from its full purpose, is an isolated event, a party to end all parties, where ‘pilgrims’ weave the narrow streets of the French Quarter, boozy ‘hurricanes’ in hand, bellowing for bared breasts and hurling beads. Don’t get me wrong, I love New Orleans, I love the French Quarter and I love those beads. I just don’t lift my shirt for them. I prefer collecting them at the glorious ‘Jazz and Heritage Festival’ where for a few dollars you can wander the racetrack grounds from stage to stage; where entire families, among them Marsalis and Neville, perform together. One year I witnessed Michele Shocked, of Arkansas Traveler fame, join an extended gospel-singing family in the packed Gospel Tent. At the end of her ‘performance’ she gushed: “I came for the singing but I stayed for the song!” I love the singing. I love the dancing. I especially love the no-holds-bared enjoyment of life, which is most poignant in a funeral parade when umbrellas bounce and soar, dip and swirl in the hands of mourners who dance the dearly departed down the street and over to the other side. But I need the song, too. Without the foundation of tradition and an understanding of the rituals within tradition, all the songs, dances and recitations become empty gestures of momentary relief instead of replenishments of spirit. I often wonder how people wake to Ash Wednesday after Mardis Gras. I imagine many call in sick or dose a hangover with a hair of the dog. I imagine others share stories and pictures of the carnival with friends and carry on through the day. I’d love to be part of the group who haul themselves into St. Louis cathedral the next day, to have a Cajun priest rub ashes into my forehead, reminding me that I am born from dust and unto dust I will return. As it was, this year I reenacted the ritual of burning last year’s Palm Sunday palms and hastily rubbed the ashes into my own palms, then blew them into the prairie wind in my back yard. This was shortly after I heard the news that a beloved member of our community had died suddenly on his land. We were shocked silent. It was a moment that demanded a gesture imbued with energy and meaning and potency charged by people observing millions of Ash Wednesdays over the centuries. That’s how Easter began for me. Over the weeks I did my best to fast and pray, as is also the tradition. For me “fasting” means refraining from unhelpful habits. It’s something I should be doing all year, but Easter season asks we make a conscious effort to move the cleansing habit of fasting forward in our lives. Some fast from rich food (hence the last hurrah of Mardis Gras) or coffee or booze or second helpings. Others fast from gossip, flagrant spending, harsh criticisms. As for pray, the idea is similar to fasting. I think of prayer as an effort to talk more often, listen more acutely to The Transcendent instead of letting the ego rip into whining and worrying. I like the words of Henri Nouwen, who reminds us that we are all, like the bread purported to be shared by Christ at the Last Supper, “taken, blessed, broken and shared”. By reminding ourselves of this, says Nouwen, we unmask the “manipulative, power-hungry, controlling and destructive world”, wherein we feel constantly “hurt, offended and rejected”, and replace it with the “eternal” world where God is not a punishing patriarch but the embodiment, especially during Holy Week, of the all-embracing Beloved mirroring our inescapable Belovedness, because, as one friend reminds me, “God doesn’t make junk.” Easter began with a tragic death in Val Marie and the last week, Holy Week, began with a toppling, burning spire. I watched a reporter claim the spire was built for us to marvel at the artistic achievements of man and science. That’s. Just. Wrong. I’m an artist, I like to be noticed. And I know we would not be living today without scientific innovation and reasoning voices. But Notre Dame, Our Lady, was built as a womb, a sanctuary for troubled and weary souls, yearning and fumbling for a place where others can gather and tap into that collective energy that permits brokeness. The reporter, (in hopes of not offending her wide audience?) repeated that Notre Dame is not just a religious edifice, but an historic marker, an architectural and artistic wonder. But it’s the other way around. It’s not just a finite building, an art piece, an history marker, it’s a place where The Beloved can take solace, feel blessed, break open, share freely. And the spire is not, as some would narrowly claim, a bad example of “gawdy design” any more than Mardis Gras is a party unto itself. The spire is, in its fullness, and true to the definition of the word ‘religion’ – which means “to re-link” – a symbol and a reminder to look beyond the petty world, to reach toward ‘heaven’.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line679
__label__cc	0.692416	0.307584	FROM GIORGIO FRANCHETTI TO GIORGIO FRANCHETTI Italy, Venice May 30, 2013 - November 24, 2013 DA GIORGIO FRANCHETTI A GIORGIO FRANCHETTI. COLLEZIONISMI ALLA CA’ D’ORO The exhibition curated by Claudia Cremonini and Flavio Fergonzi is the first time that the collections of Giorgio Franchetti senior and Giorgio Franchetti junior are shown alongside each other. The former (1865-1922) collected an exceptional selection of Italian and European old masters, including Mantegna, Tiziano, Van Dyck, Tintoretto and Guardi. He also purchased and restored the Ca’ d’Oro which he later donated to the Italian state along with his collection. His nephew and namesake Giorgio (1925-2006) was also a collector, and his collection of 20th century art is unparalleled in Italy. The selection of works in the exhibition include Balla, Festa, Schifano, De Dominicis and Cy Twombly. Much of Twombly’s early success is credited to Franchetti, whose sister the artist would marry. Visitors will be able to compare the two men’s taste, from ancient wonders to modern masterpieces, and their shared passion for discovery and innovation. Length in days MondoMostre Largo del Teatro Valle, 6 00186 Roma, IT info@mondomostre.it humanresources@mondomostre.it	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line686
__label__cc	0.655936	0.344064	Geekism Motorcycles Were Made for Saturdays Monday, February 10, 2014 Introspection 3 comments Monkey Paw Brewery, 16th Street and F, East Village, San Diego There's always something about a Saturday that makes a body feel a little slow. While it's just another rotation of the Earth and just another morning I wake up holding my head, there's a sense of relief that I can let down my guard without worrying about the world passing me by. The footsteps of the guy who lives in the unit above seem to tread more slowly on this day of the week, while Sash comments about the aroma of an egg and sausage burrito I'm making in the kitchen. We don't have to tell each other that we hope to go out for the afternoon, it's an anticipation welling up inside us. Whether it's the friendly chatter of neighbors across the street, or the distant echoes of a Johnny Cash comin' around, the sidewalks of a Saturday afternoon leads me a to place where I can rest my elbows with the work week's weary and take a moment to find a piece of my youth in its cracks. Monkey Paw Brewery is just one of perhaps hundreds of craft breweries in San Diego County, but it happens to be one of my favorites. There's just an improvised way it adapted to a building that had been home to a dozen of other businesses over the decades. It's not cookie cutter or formula, it's San Diego's history you feel when you walk in, and then to your surprise there's craft beer on tap. By 12:30pm, Sash and I finally decided to go there for the afternoon. After getting dressed, we warmed up the bikes and rode the few miles into the downtown to get there. Sash riding along I-5 through downtown San Diego on a Saturday East Village has taken on the reputation of being home to San Diego's hipster crowd. It's the place of 20-something year old website developers, community college bohemians, and guys with handlebar mustaches. It was also where Sash and I called home for a year and a half before we took off on Road Pickle, except we were a little more up there in age. Monkey Paw Brewery is right there in the middle of it. And despite their otherwise non-existent electrical lighting, the place was illuminated with the haze of sunshine from its wide open windows. The chatter and crowd was significant enough to make me feel cradled in its arms as it nursed me to peace with a Double IPA. Just as I began to tackle a basket of chicken wings sloshed with curry sauce, the guy seated next to me asked if they're spicy. "No", I said. "They're pretty mild". Some time later, he had ordered the same wings. Otherwise, I hadn't heard a word from him, and I imagine he thought the same thing. But this was also the neighborhood where I roamed as a kid in the 1970s. Just a block away was the old boxing ring where my mom's boyfriend took me on Friday nights. About five blocks away was the bar where she tended in the evenings. About a mile away is the Naval hospital where my father worked as a corpsman. All of these things envelop me with their memories, whether they were happy or painful, and I hang on to them as if they're all I have left of my soul. 11th Street and Broadway. The location of Miho's Foxhole, a bar where my mother once tended, is now a parking lot. Motorcycles, as it turns out, were really made for Saturdays. If I can't feel anything deep inside myself, I still feel Blackbird's heart and soul vibrating through every part of my body. She knows I took my time warming her up today and she senses the lighter grip of her throttle. She knows that today is the day I need her most and knows to be a little more patient with me. Giving her only minimal input, she takes me along downtown's shaded streets, past the same old buildings that were there when I was kid. Around the corner and over the trolley tracks lies the smell of yesteryear's lost innocence waiting to take me back to something that I had lost along the way. Learning to Golf February 10, 2014 at 5:01 PM Fitting 3 words on the wall in the last picture.....future your choice. Substitute any name for America and there it is in its simplistic glory. Our future is our choice and while we are a product of our past it is what we do with tomorrow that really counts. Remembering the past is a necessary evil to insure our future choices take us to a place of contentment. Saturdays and motorcycles indeed. A perfect pair for every tomorrow on the calendar. Feeling nostalgic, are we? Thanks for the glimpse into your past. I think motorcycles were made for any day that ends in a "y". :-) Live Free. Ride Hard. Be Happy www,curtcarter.com Trobairitz February 11, 2014 at 8:26 AM A nice post Steve. I agree with AHD's comment. And Saturdays do seem to be the best day of the week.....to me anyway. Follow Steve A vagabond who hauls a motorcycle around the country in a toy hauler, earning a living as a website developer. Can often be found where there's free Wi-Fi, craft beer, and/or public nudity. (Read more...) Riding Your Motorcycle to Alaska Clement Lake, Stewart, BC R iding a motorcycle to Alaska from the Lower 48 is often described as a "trip of a lifetime", at least ... What Makes a Good Biker Nickname I was monitoring the forum of a riding club I used to belong to. Every now and then, I hang out with them on a ride. But I noticed it seem... Can Women Join Motorcycle Clubs? A lady e-mailed me asking if women are allowed to join "traditional" motorcycle clubs. The answer is "no". Most three-... 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__label__cc	0.741846	0.258154	Home ~ About us ~ Ahead of print ~ Current Issue ~ Back Issues ~ Search ~ Instructions ~ Subscription ~ Advertise ~ Feedback ~ Reader Login A Monograph Series Devoted To The Understanding Of Medicine, Mental Health, Man, Mind, Music And Their Matrix Why MSM \| Acknowledgement \| Call for papers... \| Forthcoming MSM... Users online: 1459 Citation statistics : Table of Contents 2007\| January-December \| Volume 5 \| Issue 1 Archives Previous Issue Next Issue Most popular articles Most cited articles Show all abstracts Show selected abstracts Export selected to Cited Viewed PDF WHAT MEDICINE MEANS TO ME What Psychoanalysis, Culture And Society Mean To Me Lynne Layton January-December 2007, 5(1):146-157 DOI:10.4103/0973-1229.32159 PMID:22058628 The paper reviews some ways that the social and psychic have been understood in psychoanalysis and argues that a model for understanding the relation between the psychic and the social must account both for the ways that we internalize oppressive norms as well as the ways we resist them. The author proposes that we build our identities in relation to other identities circulating in our culture and that cultural hierarchies of sexism, racism, classism push us to split off part of what it means to be human, thereby creating painful individual and relational repetition compulsions. These "normative unconscious processes" replicate the unjust social norms that cause psychic pain in the first place. The paper concludes with thoughts about contemporary US culture, in which the government has abdicated responsibility toward its most vulnerable citizens and has thus rendered vulnerability and dependence shameful states. [ABSTRACT] [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [CITATIONS] [PubMed] 7 12,725 315 What Medical Writing Means To Me Elizabeth Wager This is a personal account based on many years experience as a medical writer. It considers aspects of medical writing with particular focus on the intellectual and ethical dilemmas it can raise. What makes medical writing both so interesting and so challenging is the fact that it often takes place at the border between different disciplines. For example, it straddles both science and art. Ethical issues also arise at the boundaries between academia and commerce. Until recently there have been few guidelines to help navigate such potentially dangerous territory. I have been privileged to be involved in developing two such guidelines and I describe how I hope the Good Publication Practice guidelines for pharmaceutical companies and the European Medical Writers Association guidelines may improve the practice of this fascinating profession, Medical Writing. 4 7,329 350 Academia, Journal Publishing and the Bio-Medical Industry Ajai R Singh, Shakuntala A Singh January-December 2007, 5(1):11-14 [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [CITATIONS] [PubMed] Clinical Practice Guidelines and Industry Of Money And Trust In Biomedical Care Joel Lexchin January-December 2007, 5(1):7-10 Extent And Implications Of The Academia-Industry Connection Jerome P Kassirer January-December 2007, 5(1):1-6 The Image of Pharma MSM Book Review Leemon B McHenry [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [CITATIONS] A Discussion in the Mensanamonographs e-group Roy , Vance , Col Goel, Nicole , Madhukar , Kumar , Morten , Sadhu , Shakuntala , Ajai The ICMJE and URM: Providing Independent Advice for the Conduct of Biomedical Research and Publication Martin B Van der Weyden The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) is a working group of editors of selected medical journals that meets annually. Founded in Vancouver, Canada, in 1978, it currently consists of 11 member journals and a representative of the US National Library of Medicine. The major purpose of the Committee is to address and provide guidance for the conduct and publishing of biomedical research and the ethical tenets underpinning these activities. This advice is detailed in the Committee's Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication (URM). Recently, the ICMJE has adopted an interventionist role to ensure transparency of conflict of interest revelations in the conduct and publication of industry supported research. It also pursues a policy for the lodgement with trial registries of specified details of Phase III clinical trials. Failure to comply would jeopardise publication of trial outcomes in ICMJE member journals. This policy has resulted in the coming on stream of trial registries, international agreement on trial minimal datasets and compliance with trial registration requirements. What Psychiatry Means to Me Helen Herrman Moving in early career from public health physician to psychiatrist gives me a public health view of psychiatry and an interest in pursuing the goals of widening access to community-based services for people with mental disorders and promoting mental health in communities. Training in social medicine in the UK and psychiatry in Australia lead to studies of homelessness in people living with psychotic disorders, the health of family caregivers, assessing quality of life and mental health promotion. 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Ravinder Lal Kapur, M.D.(1938-2006) Editors, Mens Sana Monographs DOI:10.4103/0973-1229.32290 [FULL TEXT] [PDF] - 2,867 165 Ethical Obligation Towards Research Subjects [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [PubMed] Useful And Marketable, New And Traditional Biological Psychiatry, Research And Industry What Propels The Pharma Industry? Questions That This Monograph Raises Footprints To Follow Ajai Singh Guidelines, Editors, Pharma And The Biological Paradigm Shift Foundations And Task Forces Concerned Journals, Editors And ICMJE January-December 2007, 5(1):90-107 Guideline Standardisation, Cost Effectiveness, Industry Needs and Conflict of Interest MSM POEMS Doctor At Work, Late Evening Cortney Davis PMID:22058635 Taking Care of Time Ravinder Lal Kapur, M.D. 1938-2006 Ajit V Bhide Editors , Mens Sana Monographs Madhukar S Bandisode Recollections of a Journey Through a Psychotic Episode: Or, Mental Illness and Creativity What The Cognitive Neurosciences Mean To Me Alfredo Pereira Jr Cognitive Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary area of research that combines measurement of brain activity (mostly by means of neuroimaging) with a simultaneous performance of cognitive tasks by human subjects. These investigations have been successful in the task of connecting the sciences of the brain (Neurosciences) and the sciences of the mind (Cognitive Sciences). Advances on this kind of research provide a map of localization of cognitive functions in the human brain. Do these results help us to understand how mind relates to the brain? In my view, the results obtained by the Cognitive Neurosciences lead to new investigations in the domain of Molecular Neurobiology, aimed at discovering biophysical mechanisms that generate the activity measured by neuroimaging instruments. In this context, I argue that the understanding of how ionic/molecular processes support cognition and consciousness cannot be made by means of the standard reductionist explanations. Knowledge of ionic/molecular mechanisms can contribute to our understanding of the human mind as long as we assume an alternative form of explanation, based on psycho-physical similarities, together with an ontological view of mentality and spirituality as embedded in physical nature (and not outside nature, as frequently assumed in western culture). [ABSTRACT] [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [PubMed] Why MSM Call for papers... Forthcoming MSM... © 2006 - Mens Sana Monographs \| Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow Online since 1st October, 2006	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line689
__label__cc	0.7331	0.2669	Through gritted teeth – Forest 0 Cardiff 1 – Matchday 18 by Scott Eley \| Dec 1, 2019 \| Match Report \| 0 comments Bloody hell that was frustrating yesterday. Sometimes there are days when everything you hit flies in and on others, it finds row Z. Unfortunately, Forest’s performance against Cardiff fell towards the latter for those that just wanted something to warm them up at a very cold City Ground. Forest started brightly enough and some early chances fell to Ameobi and Carvalho who both should have done better after finding themselves in great positions after some good build up work. Cardiff started fairly brightly themselves and Gary Madine was proving to be a handful that neither Figueiredo or Joe Worrall could get to grips with. Madine gave a 1st half master class in how to hold the ball up and bring your team mates into play and frustratingly, Cardiff’s tactics worked a treat. Mendez Laing looked to have had too much time to pick his shot from the edge of the box and Joe Worrall really should have blocked it looking at the replay. Perhaps Brice Samba was unsighted but it didn’t matter, the Bluebirds were ahead and from that point onwards, we struggled to trouble keeper Neil Etheridge. That’s not to say that there wasn’t plenty of endeavour. Ben Watson and Tiago Silva did their level best to keep the side ticking over but when we needed quality, it was badly lacking. 2 shots on target from 32 attempts and out of 45 crosses, only 5 found a red shirt, tells you everything that you need to know about yesterday. To hear that the ball had only been in play for 29 minutes in the second half tells you the level of shithousing! The time wasting seemed to be lost on the ref and how the officials only found a minutes 1st half injury time despite the ref speaking with Etheridge about it was beyond me. It’s not an excuse though I had no complaints. Cardiff did a number on us bouyed on by a decent away following. The Forest crowd was once again expectant and very quiet as a result. On a day when the players were below par, so was the atmosphere. The club need to think about how it can improve. After scoring the decisive goal, Cardiff had a strong 20 minutes and looked a decent outfit with Bacuna pulling the strings from midfield. Consistent with their lacklustre season, they became sloppy and were encouraging Forest on to really have a go at them. Whilst their had been some strong running from Ameobi to forge a couple of corners, our set pieces yesterday were awful, as bad as I can ever remember in a single game. It’s not the first time that Carvalho has been tried at home and we’ve struggled. The problem with his inclusion is that we are sacrificing the tried and tested midfield set up to accommodate him. We go from having Ben Watson as the shield with two ‘number 8’s’ either side of him to carry a threat from midfield. It’s takes two to screen Joao when he’s in the side and it’s a problem that neither Aitor Karanka or Martin O’Neill could fix. The latters answer was to leave him out completely… It’s a conundrum that at the moment is pointing towards Joao not being in the side if it’s going to effect our promotion chances. It pains me to say that but we simply have to stay up there; at all costs whilst we navigate the next ten games. There’s all to play for if we’re in and around the top six come mid January. A degree of responsibility rests with Joao himself in the sense that if you’ve got a chance in the side, you need to grasp it (with both feet). His lack of movement off the ball seems to be the biggest worry for me and that he’s not finding the pockets of space that he was doing with ease at times last season. That’s not to say Carvalho didn’t do some good things yesterday, he just has to do it more often. A great chance fell to him in the first half and after a beautiful bit of chest control found him well placed in the Cardiff box; he got his technique all wrong and skied the ball over the bar. He volleyed well wide when another chance came his way later in the half. The price tag isn’t his fault but £13m demands more I’m afraid. With so many fleeting appearances, does he need more game time to get up to speed? I don’t think we can afford to do this without gambling our promotion chances away. That’s why Sabri gets paid the big bucks and I’m typing away on a Sunday morning… I did think yesterday was the game for Joao to come on as an impact sub; after an hour of grappling with Cardiff. It seemed inevitable what Neil Harris’ side were going to bring. It really was Millwall in disguise. Sabri can’t be accused of being defensive, he wants this to work but for whatever reason, it’s not so far this season at home. It was very similar to the defeat to Hull. It’s unfair for Carvalho to shoulder the portion of the blame however. That’s certainly not the case here. Sammi Ameobi was more miss than hit despite carrying our greatest threat going forwards. Joe Lolley couldn’t get going after an upturn in his recent showings and Matty Cash had an off day with his delivery. Albert Adomah weakened the side when we needed him to give us a spark. With Silva deployed in a slightly deeper role until the last 15 minutes, he couldn’t put his stamp on the game as he has done in recent games. Given what I’ve just said, you’ll perhaps understand why Lewis Grabban was getting fed up with the lack of service as he ventured out wide in search of the ball; inevitably we lost our biggest threat in the 18 yard box and we have to keep our discipline. It was one of those games where we simply weren’t up to the task and unless we can improve at home; our promotion credentials hang in the balance. There’s been a January transfer conversation going on in the lads WhatsApp group this morning and I honestly don’t really know who we should bring in that’s; a) achievable or b) will genuinely improve the first XI. We’ll have to pay big money for an upgrade so perhaps a high profile loan might be the best bet. We definitely need two squad reinforcements to push the front 4 players because they haven’t been consistent enough so far this season. There is so much potential that hasn’t been unlocked yet and I honestly think this is where the problem lies within at the moment. Let’s not forget this group of players has taken us to 4th in the league playing in 3rd gear. For whatever reason, the manager needs to find the 4th gear for our attacking players. Their effort can’t be questioned but their quality can. It will be the difference in our season. Onto Millwall next Friday! TEAM PERFORMANCE: 5 – Plenty of possession but serious lack of quality. Can’t afford all of your attacking players to have an off day. SAMBA: 6 – Could he have done better with the goal? CASH: 6 – Bit of about off day for Matty with the ball. ROBINSON: 6 – Thought he’d scored 2nd half but it was a no frills performance from Jack. FIGUEIREDO: 6 – Struggled with Madine’s physicality but stuck to the task. WORRALL: 7 – Drove the team on and cleared a game finishing Cardiff chance off the line to keep us in it. WATSON: 7 – MAN OF THE MATCH – Kept the engine room ticking over with endeavour but lacked quality in advanced positions. SILVA: 6 – Really disappointing set pieces yesterday. Gave away some silly 1st half fouls away in dangerous situations that could have cost us more. Kept going though. CARVALHO: 5 – Started brightly but faded. LOLLEY: 5 – Just couldn’t find the quality that was a huge difference last season. Frustrating. AMEOBI: 6 – Some good and some bad. GRABBAN: 5 – No service and couldn’t offer the same physicality that Madine was at the other end. SUBS: ADOMAH: 5 – Didn’t make the much needed impact. SEMEDO: 5 – Missed a good a chance when well placed. MIR: 4 – Think his only touch bought a foul. Away Q&A – Luton Town – Matchday 26 Happy New Year – Forest 3 Blackburn 2 – Matchday 24 Away Q&A – Blackburn Rovers – Matchday 25 A glass half full – Forest 1 Wigan 0 – Matchday 24 Levels – Hull 0 Forest 2 – Matchday 23	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line690
__label__wiki	0.575094	0.575094	Death by Diamonds A Vintage Magic Mystery with Madeira Cutler by Annette Blair Review: Vintage clothing shop owner Madeira "Maddie" Cutler travels to New York City after the death of Broadway star Dominique DeLong and is drawn into an investigation of how she died — and who might have wanted her dead — in Death by Diamonds, the third mystery in this series by Annette Blair. Maddie and Dom shared a love for vintage clothing, Maddie having once designed a gown for the star. When that same gown arrives in Maddie's shop by special courier and includes a note from Dom saying "I hoped someday to give it to you, in person. If you have it, and not from my hand, I'm dead", Maddie knows that the gown may contain clues that will tell her how her friend died, but is somewhat reluctant to use her "talents", especially since the case is complicated by a missing strand of extremely valuable diamonds, which has caught the attention of the FBI. It isn't until Dom's son, Kyle, calls Maddie, telling her that she is the executor of Dom's estate, and she needs to be in New York City to deal with the media circus that has enveloped the family and Dom's production of Diamond Sands, that Maddie realizes she has the perfect opportunity to do a little sleuthing. Fans of paranormal mysteries will be taken in by the delightful Maddie, who has "visions" while wearing or touching vintage clothing, during which she zones out to "view and hear snippets of greed, jealousy, hate, vengeance, secrets, all of which often translate into: means, motive, and opportunity, vintage style." The author's light, breezy approach to the narrative keeps the pace of the storyline of Death by Diamonds moving forward even though it is weighed down somewhat by a large cast of weakly drawn characters who represent the suspects in Dom's murder. That these same characters are used in a rather derivative murder mystery plot doesn't help. The Broadway venue, however, adds interest and entertainment value. Acknowledgment: Book Trends provided an ARC of Death by Diamonds for this review. Location(s) referenced in Death by Diamonds: Connecticut, New York City Death by Diamonds by Annette Blair — A Vintage Magic Mystery with Madeira Cutler Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Format: Mass Market Paperback	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line696
__label__wiki	0.942252	0.942252	In the Friday Early Mixed league at Woodbridge, Docie Whitlock (left) displays the awards received for her perfect game and 733 series rolled Nov. 1, 2002—a 300 game charm and 700 patch from the Virginia State Women's Bowling Association (VSWBA), 700 pins from the Washington, D.C. Area Women's Bowling Association and the Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC), a watch from WIBC for bowling more than 100 pins over average for a game, and a WIBC patch for 125 pins over average for a series. Director Carol Gauthier stands alongside. Meanwhile, Shirley Ginwright (center) receives a VSWBA patch for her 647 series bowled Jan. 3, 2003 (presented by Directors Wendy Bruce [left] and Carol Gauthier). ABC Director Ford Mason (left), WDCAWBA President Dee Poindexter, and NCABA Past President/ABC Director-at-Large Tom Dale Jr. attended the meeting earlier this season at Bowling Headquarters in Greendale, Wis., that approved the proposal for the United States Bowling Congress single membership organization.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line697
__label__cc	0.721632	0.278368	Search Results: 1 - 10 of 8196 matches for " linear combination " Page 1 /8196 Numerical Solution of a Class of Nonlinear Optimal Control Problems Using Linearization and Discretization [PDF] Mohammad Hadi Noori Skandari, Emran Tohidi Applied Mathematics (AM) , 2011, DOI: 10.4236/am.2011.25085 Abstract: In this paper, a new approach using linear combination property of intervals and discretization is proposed to solve a class of nonlinear optimal control problems, containing a nonlinear system and linear functional, in three phases. In the first phase, using linear combination property of intervals, changes nonlinear system to an equivalent linear system, in the second phase, using discretization method, the attained problem is converted to a linear programming problem, and in the third phase, the latter problem will be solved by linear programming methods. In addition, efficiency of our approach is confirmed by some numerical examples. Using GIS-Based Weighted Linear Combination Analysis and Remote Sensing Techniques to Select Optimum Solid Waste Disposal Sites within Mafraq City, Jordan [PDF] Ahmad Al-Hanbali, Bayan Alsaaideh, Akihiko Kondoh Journal of Geographic Information System (JGIS) , 2011, DOI: 10.4236/jgis.2011.34023 Abstract: Landfill siting was determined within Mafraq City, Jordan, through the integration of geographic information system (GIS), weighted linear combination (WLC) analysis, and remote sensing techniques. Several parameters were collected from various sources in vector and raster GIS formats, and then, used within the GIS-based WLC analysis to select optimum solid waste disposal sites. Namely, urban areas, agricultural lands, access roads, surface aquifers, groundwater table, fault system, water wells, streams, and land slope were considered in this research. Also, the trend of urban expansion within the study area was monitored using the Landsat data of 1989, 1999, and 2009 to support the selection process of disposal sites. It is found that about 84% of the study area was within “most suitable” to “moderately suitable” classes for landfill sites, while the rest of the study area was within “poorly suitable” and “unsuitable” classes. Based on the analysis of Landsat satellite data the urban area was expanded of more than 240% during the last three decades, mainly toward south, and southwest, except the villages near the existing disposal site, where the trend was toward east and northeast. Finally, three sites were suggested as alternatives to the existing disposal site taking into the consideration the environmental, biophysical, and economical variables applied in the GIS-based WLC analysis. On Some Procedures Based on Fisher’s Inverse Chi-Square Statistic [PDF] Kepher H. Makambi We present approximations to the distribution of the weighted combination of independent and dependent p - values, . In case that independence of Pi 's is not assumed, it is argued that the quantity A is implic-itly dominated by positive definite quadratic forms that induce a chi-square distribution. This gives way to the approximation of the associated degrees of freedom using Satterthwaite (1946) or Patnaik (1949) method. An approximation by Brown (1975) is used to estimate the covariance between the log transformed P - values. The performance of the approximations is compared using simulations. For both the independent and dependent cases, the approximations are shown to yield probability values close to the nominal level, even for arbitrary weights, ωi ’s. Potential Hazard Map for Snow Disaster Prevention Using GIS-Based Weighted Linear Combination Analysis and Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study in Northern Xinjiang, China [PDF] Gulijianati Abake, Ahmad Al-Hanbali, Bayan Alsaaideh, Ryutaro Tateishi Advances in Remote Sensing (ARS) , 2014, DOI: 10.4236/ars.2014.34018 Abstract: Snow disaster is one of the top ten natural disasters worldwide. Almost every year, there will be snow disasters in north Xinjiang, northwestern China. Since the accumulated heavy snow in winter season will seriously threaten people’s lives, the main object of this study is to produce a potential hazard map for snow avalanche prevention. Taking three snow seasons from November to March of year 2008 to 2010, potential hazard areas were estimated, based on snow volume products and terrain features. Remote sensing (RS) techniques and geographical information system (GIS) based weighted linear combination (WLC) approach were applied, taking into consideration multiple criteria. Snow avalanche risks were analyzed using physical exposure and vulnerability indexes. The analysis indicates that: the areas at high-risk of avalanches are located in the north and south part of the counties of Altay, Bortala and Ili prefectures; the areas at medium-risk of avalanches are found in the certain part of Altay prefecture and Urumqi, Changji, Tacheng prefectures; the avalanche risk is generally low throughout the large area to the certain part of the study area and the region on the border of the eastern north Xinjiang. Overall, the risks of snow avalanche in Altay and Ili prefectures are higher than that other regions; those areas should be allocated correspondingly more salvage materials. Legendre Approximation for Solving a Class of Nonlinear Optimal Control Problems [PDF] Emran Tohidi, Omid Reza Navid Samadi, Mohammad Hadi Farahi Journal of Mathematical Finance (JMF) , 2011, DOI: 10.4236/jmf.2011.11002 Abstract: This paper introduces a numerical technique for solving a class of optimal control problems containing nonlinear dynamical system and functional of state variables. This numerical method consists of two major parts. In the first part, using linear combination property of intervals, we convert the nonlinear dynamical system into an equivalent linear system. And in the second part, which we are dealing with a linear dynamical system, using Legendre expansions for approximating both the state and associated control together with discretizing the constraints over the Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto points, the optimal control problem is transformed into a corresponding NLP problem which is diretly solved. The proposed idea is illustrated by several numerical examples. On Certain Subclass of Analytic Functions Based on Convolution of Ruscheweyh and Generalized Salagean Differential Operator [PDF] Ajai P. Terwase Open Access Library Journal (OALib Journal) , 2017, DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1103716 In this paper, we obtain certain properties of an operator defined by the convolution between Ruscheweyh and Salagean differential operator; coefficient inequality, extreme point growth and distortion among other properties are investigated. A New Multi-Method Combination Forecasting Model for ESDD Predicting [PDF] Haiyan SHUAI, Qingwu GONG Energy and Power Engineering (EPE) , 2009, DOI: 10.4236/epe.2009.12015 Abstract: Equal Salt Deposit Density (ESDD) is a main factor to classify contamination severity and draw pollution distribution map. The precise ESDD forecasting plays an important role in the safety, economy and reliability of power system. To cope with the problems existing in the ESDD predicting by multivariate linear regression (MLR), back propagation (BP) neural network and least squares support vector machines (LSSVM), a nonlinear combination forecasting model based on wavelet neural network (WNN) for ESDD is proposed. The model is a WNN with three layers, whose input layer has three neurons and output layer has one neuron, namely, regarding the ESDD forecasting results of MLR, BP and LSSVM as the inputs of the model and the observed value as the output. In the interest of better reflection of the influence of each single forecasting model on ESDD and increase of the accuracy of ESDD prediction, Morlet wavelet is used to con-struct WNN, error backpropagation algorithm is adopted to train the network and genetic algorithm is used to determine the initials of the parameters. Simulation results show that the accuracy of the proposed combina-tion ESDD forecasting model is higher than that of any single model and that of traditional linear combina-tion forecasting (LCF) model. The model provides a new feasible way to increase the accuracy of pollution distribution map of power network. Stechkin-Marchaud Type Inequalities in Lp for Linear Combination of Bernstein-Durrmeyer Operators [PDF] Feng Guo, Meiqin Ke Open Journal of Applied Sciences (OJAppS) , 2012, DOI: 10.4236/ojapps.2012.24B052 Abstract: In this paper, we use the equivalence relation between K-functional and modulus of smoothness, and give the Stechkin-Marchaud-type inequalities for linear combination of Bernstein-Durrmeyer operators . Moreover, we obtain the inverse result of approximation for linear combination of Bernstein-Durrmeyer operators with . Meanwhile we unify and extend some previous results. GIS Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping with Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process in District Ghizer, Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan [PDF] Irum Rahim, Syeda Maria Ali, Maria Aslam Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection (GEP) , 2018, DOI: 10.4236/gep.2018.62003 Abstract: District Ghizer is a rugged mountainous territory which experiences several landslides each year. There are 16 major landslide areas and 53 villages that are at high risk to hazards. Keeping in view the severity of natural hazards, the present study was designed to generate landslide susceptibility map based on twelve causative factors viz., slope, aspect, elevation, drainage network, Stream Power Index (SPI), Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), lithological units, fault lines, rainfall, road network, land cover and soil texture. Soil texture was determined by particle size analysis and data for other factors were acquired from freely available sources. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed to identify major landslide causative factors in the district Ghizer. Further, a temporal assessment from 1999 till 2015 was generated to assess the impact of land cover change on landslides. It indicated that the barren soil/ exposed rocks and glaciers have reduced while the vegetation and water classes have shown increment. The total area that lies in moderate to very high landslide susceptible zones was 74.38%, while slope is the main landslide causative factor in the district Ghizer. Validation of the susceptibility map showed 88.1% of the landslides in the study area had occurred in the moderate to very high susceptible zones. Viabilidad para pronósticos hidrológicos de niveles diarios, semanales y decadales en colombia Domínguez Calle,Efraín Antonio; Angarita,Hector; Rivera,Hebert; Ingeniería e Investigación , 2010, Abstract: this paper analyses the feasibility of forecasting daily, weekly and ten-day water-levels at 20 hydrological stations forming part of the monitoring network supporting the institute of hydrology, meteorology and environmental studies？ (ideam) alert service in colombia (http://www.ideam.gov.co). such viability was determined by a set of orthogonal performance criteria and implementing optimally adaptive linear combinations (oalc) was recommended for this study as a viable operator for configuring a real-time hydrological forecast system. it is shown that the forecast for daily, weekly and ten-day levels had satisfactory viability for 70% of the cases studied.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line700
__label__wiki	0.782283	0.782283	AXN hits the high note with THE VOICE Hottest New Show in the US set for Asian premiere this August Hosted by Carson Daly (Last Call with Carson Daly, Jimmy Kimmel’s Live!), The Voice boasts a cast of four A-list celebrity judges – Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, rapper-crooner Cee Lo Green, R&B diva Christina Aguilera and country singer Blake Shelton who have sold more than 70 million albums combined – fronting the show as coaches. They must each pick a team of eight singers from the blind auditions (where if more than one coach spins around, the contestant gets to pick) and personally mentor each of them, before whittling the 32 singers down to 16 for the battle rounds. Each coach has a high stake in the game, with bragging rights accorded to whoever has the overall winner in their team. The battle rounds is also when voting opens up to the viewers, where each iTunes purchase counts as a vote for the contestant. The emerging victor receives US$100,000 and a record deal. The Voice has proven itself to be more than a gimmick, as the only new show this season on a major US broadcast network whose ratings rose 10% for its second episode, as compared to its premiere episode which drew in 11.8 million viewers, a big draw especially for the younger 18-34 demographic. As the Los Angeles Times summed it up, “what makes The Voice worth watching, in addition to the clever conceit, is the chemistry among the judges, and the stories.” Indeed, no reality show can ask for a more entertaining bunch of judges than the four, who bounced banter off one another and elicited chuckles with their antics in wooing each contestant to join their team. Aguilera, for one, flirted blatantly with a good-looking male contestant by asking him to first take off his hat, then his pants. What also sets The Voice apart from other singing competition reality shows is the level of genuine involvement the coaches have with their team members, pushing them on to realize their best potential. The contestants get to learn from their mentor’s showbiz experience and even get the rare chance to perform together as equals on stage! As Aguilera explained at The Voice’s press conference in Los Angeles recently, “There is no good and bad. This isn’t about tearing people down. I want to bring these people up. The Voice really does stand for what it says.” From ages 16 to 42, the contestants are an incredible mix in their musical styles and ethnicities – expect a blues-rock chick in her forties with a shaved head and neck tattoos, an African American raised by white Mormon parents and topped with a striking Afro, to a controversial former Idol contestant and even a folksy duo, a married couple who auditioned for the show as a team! Episode one opened with a rousing group performance of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy by all four coaches, certainly a sign of more such fan treats to come. Also to look out for in the show are Cee Lo’s elaborate costume getups (think red robes with spiked shoulder pads!), the chemistry between the coaches and contestants, as well as the friendly, sizzling competition especially between Aguilera and Levine in the blind auditions. Sunday nights will never be lacklustre again, when AXN kickstarts its two-hour broadcast of The Voice this August! Sit back, relax and like the judges, listen with your very own ears. We guarantee that the amazing calibre of contestants in The Voice will blow you away! (AXN's Press Release for THE VOICE) Reflections on Breastfeeding Saturday 9 Questions Sigh No More Oprah's Big Books SM Hypermart - Shaw/Kalentong Cooking Demo Tips on Buying a Used Car Dreamdate on Studio 23 Take the Quiz and Win an Overnight Stay at Richmon... George Javier Tuba Tuba (jathropa curcas) Plants Vs. Zombies Fever Bigger and Better Mcdo - Boni, Barangka Branch Aratiles Earth and Body Friendly Products Mommy Milkshake Year 5 Mom Works, Working Mom, Lifestyle Network Being In Prison Friendly and Exceptional Service at The Legend Vil... July 12 - My Day My Heart Goes to Andi A Girl's Coming of Age - 18th Birthday Conservation Park of Paradise Ranch Peace Through Technology Of Love and Other Drugs The 10 Best Decisions a Woman Can Make Of Being a Mannequin and a Doll Join Pinay Wahms $800 Birthday Giveaway Looking Younger Win Grendha Jelly, as I turn 18... 2nd Elements National Singing-Songwriting Camp	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line701
__label__wiki	0.777035	0.777035	WET & HOT NEWS ! Up to 1300 shipwrecks lie undiscovered By treasures From WA Today - Ray Sparvell Two wrecks discovered over six months during the search for Malaysia flight MH370 are ghostly reminders of the shipping dangers posed by the Indian Ocean. While those long-fogotten vessels were found quite some way from land, some estimates suggest as many as 1600 vessels – large and small - may have found their final, watery resting places along the WA coast. Up to 1300 of these, laden with treasure of both the literal and historical variety, lie undiscovered on the ocean floor, in a similar vein to those found in the MH370 search. Maritime archaeologist Ross Anderson of the WA Museum said the key reasons why it has been such a notorious graveyard for ships was primarily storms, cyclones and shallow reefs along the coast. "Some vessels were also purposely sunk or abandoned after they had passed their 'use by' date and were no longer seaworthy," he said. Another key contributor to that extensive catalogue of wrecks was that navigational longitude couldn't be accurately measured until the mid-18th century. Many ships simply failed to turn north for the Dutch East Indies at the right time. As a result they were wrecked on the WA coast. Mr Anderson said coastal trade vessels carrying passengers, cargo and mail had been important in linking WA settlements before road transport. Full article... 9 / 56 56	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line702
__label__cc	0.585614	0.414386	Home / Articles / Extraterrestrial Life / UFO documentary reveals “humanoid of unknown classification” UFO documentary reveals “humanoid of unknown classification” Posted by: Alejandro Rojas April 3, 2013 34 Comments A new documentary on UFOs, extraterrestrials, and advanced clean energy, hopes to provide evidence that the government has figured out how UFOs operate and are hiding advanced technology that can provide clean energy. The film also features the discovery of an alleged humanoid body whose DNA has been sequenced and found to be of an “unknown classification.” Photos of the being were released today with the announcement of the Hollywood premiere of the film scheduled for later this month. It was also announced that the film is narrated by actor Thomas Jane, who is known to have in interest in UFOs. The new film is titled Sirius, and features the work of Dr. Steven Greer. With a similar goal as the film, Greer brought together a panel of highly credible witnesses who testified in front of representatives from all of the major media outlets at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in May of 2001. At that time he filmed hours of testimony from hundreds of credible witnesses. His work has been very influential in convincing people that the government knows more than it is sharing, and as he puts it, “Once people understand that classified projects have figured out how UFO’s operate, they will realize we no longer need oil, coal and nuclear power. This is the truth that has driven the secrecy.” Dr. Steven Greer in a scene from the movie, ‘Sirius’ (Credit: S.T.A.R. Research) – Click to enlarge One of the most shocking claims put forth in the film is that they have obtained, “paradigm shifting physical evidence of a medically and scientifically analyzed DNA sequenced humanoid creature of unknown classification found in the Atacama desert, Chile.” According to the filmmakers the credentials of the group of scientists and the medical team behind this claim are “eye-opening.” They believe that the announcement of their discovery could be “potentially profound and historical.” The Atacama Humanoid as seen in the film, ‘Sirius’ (Credit: S.T.A.R. Research) – Click to enlarge The Atacama Humanoid X-Ray (Credit: S.T.A.R. Research) – Click to enlarge The film is directed by Emmy Award winning Amardeep Kaleka. He won his Emmy in 2011 for his short film Jacob’s Turn, on a child with Down Syndrome. He explained why he would chose to work on such a controversial topic: “Given the possibility that there was something profound to explore here – something that could potentially open minds to new realms and new possibilities – we seized the opportunity to take on this project. For every story we told, we found hundreds of others. Our goal is to initiate our audience on the same journey – to open their minds and inspire them to search – and freely consider that there is more in this world than we may ever know.” Actor Thomas Jane, most recently known for his leading role in the HBO’s Hung, also shared why he chose to participate: “The Sirius documentary is a powerful and important film that I encourage everyone to watch with an open mind, as it truly speaks to the heart of the people who like me, are probably okay with the government keeping secrets from its people in the name of national security, but are not okay with a secret government.” The film is set to premiere in Hollywood on April 22, and will then be followed by a limited theatrical release. It will also be launched video on demand on the Yekra video platform and Yekra’s Affiliate Connect customized social media networks. The film’s funding was mostly obtained through crowd sourcing on the Kickstarter website, and according to the filmmakers press release it has been the “highest documentary crowd-funding raise in history.” You can follow the film’s progress, and access the video on demand later this month via the film’s website: http://siriusdisclosure.com/. UPDATE: Background of UFO documentary’s humanoid alien revealed (click to see story) UPDATE: Analysis of the Atacama humanoid alien (click to see story) UPDATE: Sirius filmmakers release Atacama humanoid sex and age (click to see story) UPDATE: Scientist says Atacama humanoid is human but still a mystery (click to see story) Alien Alien Photos Alien Picture Atacama Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sirius Film steven greer UFO ufo disclosure ufos 2013-04-03 Alejandro Rojas “Sirius” is a feature length documentary that follows Dr. Steven Greer – an Emergency room doctor turned UFO researcher – as he struggles to disclose top secret information about classified energy & propulsion techniques. Along the way, Dr. Greer investigates new technology and sheds light on criminal and murderous suppression. He accumulates over 100 Government, Military, and Intelligence Community witnesses who testify on record about their first-hand experience with the cover-up. Though he feels the pressure of an imminent assassination attempt, he comes upon an amazing find: a possible ancient E.T. skeleton, 6 inches long, is discovered in the Atacama desert. Dr. Greer, along with his team, backed by crowd funding supporters, travel to Europe to get a sample of bone fragment in order to have an IVY league university run genetic tests on the skeleton. What they find will completely change the reality of human existence. While on this odyssey, the audience gains a whole new perspective on technology, human evolution, and clandestine organizations who have manipulated and controlled the public for centuries. Previous: New polls reveal UFO beliefs in U.S., British Columbia Next: Daily UFO Headlines 4/4/13 About Alejandro Rojas Alejandro Rojas is a radio host for Open Minds Radio, editor and contributing writer for Open Minds magazine as well as OpenMinds.tv. For several years Alejandro was the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with several appearances on Coast to Coast AM. Andy Swale Unfortunately for Greer, many are wise to his real object which is to twist our minds and make us beleive his side of things. That supposed ET body has been proven to be fake and his trips to the UK during May, June etc etc, have already got the attention of the authorities. One of the locations for the CE5 courses he is involved in is Monkton Wyld Court http://www.monktonwyldcourt.co.uk/page47/Welcome.html and the owners have apprently now said that they do not wish to be part of his Sirius film any further and have reported things to the Government. This new info was found out by a researcher called Scott Felton who has exposed Greer for what he really is. I’m am wary of his true intentions and so are many now in the UK. ksquared Why do you post disinformation and accusations that are unsubstantiated, Andy. Please provide facts when spouting off your disinformational Rhetoric K.Somers Wow! More speculation. Boy we’re making progress now! The specimen and samples are being studied and analyzed by some of the top scientific experts in their field. It is a biological entity and represents a significant scientific discovery. You cite no evidence to back your claims at all. Every claim made regarding this being in the film is supported with data acquired through rigorous and unbiased scientific analysis. The info you post regarding the CE-5 location and dates is also wildly false an inaccurate, which begs the question: what is your agenda? You question Dr. Greer’s agenda, yet lob baseless claims without a shred of evidence. I challenge you to back anything up that you have said here with real evidence. Tony H Unfortunately for Andy Swale, The commenter above… It is only a very small minority of sceptics and individuals that claim to have “exposed” Dr. Greer and his work. I would like to see the medical and scientific PROOF that the humanoid body is a fake, because proving wrong the conclusions of some of the worlds top scientists and geneticists must be ground breaking news within itself! Also, what about the 500+ credible military, government, and corporate witnesses that Dr. Greer has interviewed over the years? Are they all hoaxes and fakes too? People who have served our country during the wars, and protected us and gave up most of their lives to do so? Are they mealy just “Fakes”? So many of us in the UK are now wary of Steven Greer and his true intentions? I find that odd considering I am from the UK and know of hundreds, maybe even thousands of people who follow and appreciate his work. As for the evidence to suggest Dr. Greer is a fake, is always the same… it never changes and it always attacks the subjects that are totally out of context. So Steven travelled to the UK? Right, your point being? He travels all over the world every year, it is part of his job of what he is doing. Truth is, there will always be people out there attacking this subject and claiming they have exposed it all as fakes, hoaxes or cons… but it’s too late, the embargo of misinformation and disinformation and claims the debunkers are making are slowly crashing and burning and people are simply starting to ignore it now. There are people who do not want this information out to the public and will do or say anything to try and convince people otherwise. Some are just internet trolls, others do this in a more, lets say “professional” manner. Believe what you want, and listen to whom you chose… because some day soon, everybody will know the truth, whether they want you to see it or not. Watch the film, and make up your own minds. Bobby Morrison I believe this like I believe in the tooth fairy. All one has to do is see who puts out this info and once I see Greer is involved I immediately dismiss this as propaganda. But hey, everyone has a make a living. Most people have honest jobs, while Greer the Liar resorts to dishonesty to make his living. He tries so hard to get photos or proof of an extraterrestrial biological entity, but he never will. He should spend a night (not that I want him in my house) with me and I will make sure he gets up close and personal with an ET. And these bastards are NOT benevolent. Greer will get bagged and tagged in short order and spend some quality time with true evil. Think Satan, Lucifer and the Devil are just words? Come meet some true evil bastards, the ET’s I deal with. They are always looking for fresh meat, and Greer would make a nice addition to their inventory. I hope Greer enjoys pain and suffering because ET delights in torture. They get high on it! And hopefully he will become part of ET’s herd, just another one of the livestock. I agree with Andy. I have no proof to offer, because it isn’t my job to vet every wing-nut to make a movie. However, I’ve followed the topic for decades and I’ve seen Greer on TV many times and read some of his material. It does not ring true in the least, to me. Smoke and mirrors. Plus, that “alien” looks to me (from the limited pic available at this point) to be a very tiny object, like barbie doll sized. It actually looks like a doctored rose bud to me. A dried, faded rose bud with facial…features glued on at it’s base. Who knows. I hope I’m wrong. Dr. Greer is for real. ETs have been around for thousands of years. They are seen in much of the art and ancient drawings in Egypt and elsewhere around the world. The truth is that we are not alone, and we never have been. That is just the tip of the iceburg. Down the road the world will realize that the last century or so has been stolen from us. Not only are ETs real, but many other things that have been covered up are as well. If you are a truth-seeker like me you should check out what Andy Basiago has to say about Project Pegasus. The truth really is stranger than fiction! I’d like to send props out to Dr. Greer and everyone else involved in the Disclosure Movement! Your work is greatly appreciated! Unexplored Fact : http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2013/03/sirius-documentary-next-step-in.html Three month after above public interview on August 5, 2012 director’s father Satwant Kaleka (president of the Sikh temple) was killed in shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin Yep he sure was. Are we to believe the official story that some disturbed ex-military bigot confused Sikhs with Muslims and decided to go on a killing rampage? At least that is more believable than the story we were told about how two commercial airliners were used to take down three buildings in NYC… The Sikh temple shooting was very similar to the Batman one in Colorado. What ever happened to that Joker guy anyway? I have yet to see any interviews with that fella. Not a word. MK-ULTRA anyone? Don’t even get me started on Sandy Hook… tony athas Any new information in this film would be awesome.. tired of the same recycled pics and stories. The picture of the humanoid does not seem to match the x-ray, are they supposed to be of the same entity? Wait for the film and related facts in a few short weeks. Both believers and skeptics are in for a surprise. There has never been evidence like this before. Wait a few short weeks. ealex So uhm, where exactly is all this evidence that the movie supposedly talks about? Where’s the scientific data, where’s the paper, where are the scientists. Are we supposed to again just “believe” that it’s there? Or are they going to suddenly be published in a journal they make up over night, with no peer review whatsoever and call it valid science, like some people whose names I won’t mention did recently to “prove” that there was “life” in meteorite samples? Is that the way Greer understands science? Making sensational claims to promote a movie? Proper science would have been to submit the data and paper for public and scientific peer review BEFORE the movie, not to announce some cockamamy doll alien which you’re only gonna know more about IF YOU BUY THE DVD!! Gee I wonder what that means. “hundreds of credible witnesses” yeah like I haven’t heard that one before. The UFO community expects people to take them seriously yet all they put forward is quackery and commerical bullshitism. Whatever thruth there may be there, if any, is always going to remain suppressed because it’s peddled by a bunch of qucks and profiteers. Skadelig Looks like Alexis found August 13, 1996 by Tamara Prosvirina in Kyshtym. http://www.ufolog.ru/publication/2733/ Where can we see the complete sequence of the DNA allegedly obtained from a humanoid found in the Atacama desert? As Carl Sagan one said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Since open-mindedness is required to be objective, posting the complete sequence of the DNA allegedly obtained from a humanoid found in the Atacama desert, Chile, would be a factual contribution appreciated by those of us who are scientifically educated. Would you do just that? If affirmative, when? god will people stop whingeing already! It was backed because people believed that the movie has potential. If you dont then your opinions don’t really matter because they don’t represent everyone. It’s so annoying reading these negative, “oh this is ridiculous!” “so much speculation and false inaccurate information” as if they have anything better! Some of the comments are decent but others get on my nerves. If you have something better by all means bring it to the table. If you don’t shut it and go elsewhere. Just because you don’t believe in something or say it doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. There’s been ufo reports throughout history and i know someone whose had encounters with them. This movie is pretty much reiterating most of the stuff that alternative folks and media have already mentioned.This website is called “open minds” if you don’t have one go elsewhere..like youtube or something Peepeevondong Most of you are clearly mentally ill. Please look up schizotypal personally disorder. It may explain most of your odd and deranged type of thinking. There are no aliens visiting us, no ghosts, no 9/11 secrets, or sandy hook conspiracies. Please go back on your meds and join the rest of the world. Dr Steven Greer is the real deal peopleLLLL!!! For those who are apposed and spreading hate via disinformatioNnnnn!?….what in the world is it going to take for you to awaken from your dumbfounding ignoranceSsssss!? Wakie wake hands of snakiEeeeee!! PeaceSssss 🙂 Andy Swale, the body that has been proven to be a fake, was the one they found was a kind of marmoset, it’s not the body that’s shown above, this one is new. Just thought you should know. Carl-Erik I can’t believe people still fall for Greer’s shenanigans… He had me suckered in years ago, but when he posted a pic of a moth lit up by the camera flash and claiming it was some kind of star being I had seen enough. These so-called “top scientific experts”, who for some reason aren’t even named, are showed in the trailer handling the “specimen” without gloves. Greer-fans feel free to explain how that makes any kind of sense… I agree with Defiant, looks like a rosebud. Fred Little, Author of Twelve Light, "Some specimens are best left alone." Most likely, “Andy” is an agent for government disinformation. Dr. Greer is a highly esteemed gentleman, of impeccable credentials. His work is everywhere and has been for some years, proven time and again to be credible and accurate. “Andy”, on the other hand, is shooting from the hip at the behest of his handlers, who have assigned him and others the task of debunking this film before it is ever shown, an outrageius method of critique to say the least. Dr. Greer is a fraud, a phony, a fake, a charlatan, a huckster, a quack, a snakeoil salesmen and a liar. The people in Hollywood have been deceived by him to produce this film. We here at the Agency decry Dr. Greer’s blatant attempt to mislead the people. Continue filling your automobiles, powering your homes and eating your GMO food – all brought to you by the good people at OPEC, the CIA, NSA, FBI, DEA, IRS and State Department. Carry on. Ab Asaff I have been a UFO and Crop Circle researcher for over 40 years. I do not personally know Dr. Greer and I can’t speak for the Alien humanoid shown above but I can tell you that all I have heard of what Greer has said till now on the subject of UFO’s is accurate and reliable. Forget the UFO skeptics, either they are paid to disinform or they themselves are truly un-informed. Either way they should be taken with more than just one grain of salt. UFOs are now most everywhere. I have also seen the 6 inch alien,,years ago,,does not look like the one that looks alien, found in the driest place in the world,,but the years of being abducted,, makes me KNOW that aliens exist,,since 1959 to just a few years ago…I was burned by the beam that left a big red circle on my leg, surrounded by red small circles, after that healed , the hair on my leg never grew back,,that was app. 5 to 6 years ago,,In 1973 I took an Implant out of my arm and I have never seen an implant like this one,,the ones on TV all look the same, mine was clear with something that looked like a computer chip,,I had things stored in a shed which was ruined by water leaks and someone burned all of it,,I had been gone 3 years,,otherwise I would still have it..In 1968 myself and 6 other relatives were abducted, in the middle of the day, in NE Arizona, years later my cousin killed himself because he remembered a little too much,,it never left his mind,,I saw 3 types of aliens,,in one UFO…The strangest one was solid black and looked like a cross between 2 scary insects, I was sitting on a bed like in a Doctor’s office and tried not to look at it,,but it was sending me a signal making me look,,since this wasn’t the first abduction for me, I didn’t let it bother me too bad,,Another one was taller than the small grey’s and I call it the doctor,,about 5ft tall and very wrinkled face,,he walked up to me and had something that looked like a big syringe, it had a small black ball on the end,,he stuck it up the left side nostril,,I could hear it going through the cartilllege (spelling) and I know it went into my brain because of the length of the needle and how far he pushed it in….I guess it’s still there..This has caused me alot of problems…I see someone has put in some plants,,why would anyone get on a site that they don’t believe in,,It should be people who actually know something,,not complete idiots !!! lb AB – ASAFF,,Good for you,,I’m surprised that most of the world population has not seen at least one UFO,,As far as Steven Greer goes, aparently he does know Alot…I have been researching for 45 years,,and seeing UFO’s for 54 years,,during that time I would see his name in many places, I would trust him and Dr. Bruce and many others,,The people at MUFON are now a government operation and trying to come across as civillian,,like it was a year ago,,If you trust the gov. then by all means, spill your guts to the people who will make you a liar !! Keep Looking Asaff !! They are here ..Period Carl – Erik,,They have copies to use because it’s to fragile to let hundreds of people play with it,,,maybe it’s an unknown from here, or not..Everyone used to say how fake Bigfoot was,,and now look..Nov. 2012..they got the DNA (finally) Now,,Bigfoot does really exist,,look it up….DNA – 50% human,,and the guy who murdered the 2 Bigfoot, freaked him out because they looked like humans,,in the face and he was very sorry he killed them,,Truth is out on that one!!!! Check out this story for more on the humanoid. We found some background information on who found it and when. http://www.openminds.tv/background-of-ufo-documentary-humanoid-alien-revealed-964/ Smedley Butler Jr. The Disclosure Project was initially and probably still is funded by Rockefeller money. The Rockefellers, by admission, are devoted to a global government, which ultimately means goodbye to our Constitution and the sovereignty of all nations. Additionally, Greer’s witnesses are mostly from the military/industrial complex, you know, the same entity that Eisenhower warned us about. That doesn’t inspire a feeling of confidence. IMO, we are being set up for a deception. Let’s see, the Vatican has recently come out and said that they would welcome ET, former astronauts are saying there is a coverup, UFO shows are all over TV – it seems like a mass brainwashing program to me. Of course, I could just be paranoid, aye? I have studied the UFO phenomenon for 30 years and seen UFO’s myself (with other witnesses). UFO phenomena seem to have more in common with the occult, e.g., possession, automatic writing, foretelling the future, poltergeist activity, astral projection, beings appearing out of thin air and moving through walls (like ghosts), and encounters with actual “ET’s” bear striking resemblances to medieval stories of encounters with ghosts, demons, fairies, etc. Oftimes, UFO’s in the sky look “alive,” as opposed to nuts & bolts craft and even merge with one another. Another thing: if there are benevolent entities up there, then why haven’t they helped us already? Personally, I don’t believe in the Star Trek “prime directive.” If you can help someone now, in the present, than you help them NOW. You don’t wait for centuries of bloodshed heaped upon the innocent by despots and sociopaths to go by, rather, the ethical thing to do is to come down and teach us a better way to live, on a global scale, centuries BEFORE we invent atom bombs and HAARP. Whatever the truth is, I think that we need to be very cautious if ET were ever to make it’s presence known globally. If you meet someone for the first time, even if they seem like a good person, they could be a sociopath. You can only tell whether a person is moral or not over a good chunk of time. How much more cautious should we be when dealing with an alleged alien? If they come during a global crisis, we will be that much more ready to accept them as saviors. Therein lies the danger. An independent panel of medical and anthropological experts would clear this up swiftly. I don’t think for minute Greer would hand over that so called alien body to a panel of experts that everyone agrees would be objective and unbiased. My bet is that its identity will be left ‘up in the air’ , unsubstantiated, plausible but not proven wrong, which just adds to the mystery and hype of the documentary film. “Greer’s witnesses are mostly from the military/industrial complex, you know, the same entity that Eisenhower warned us about. That doesn’t inspire a feeling of confidence.” Yeah it amazes me that people think these credentials infer trustworthiness. Another commenter said that these are: “People who have served our country during the wars, and protected us and gave up most of their lives to do so? Are they mealy[sic] just “Fakes”?” Ok so they’ve spent most of their lives working in the system you say is lying to us and have worked towards propping up the status quo all these years (and quite successfully too), isn’t it conceivable that some or all of them might still be on the books? Still serving their country, continuing the mission? Also this I find hard to reconcile with the assumption that these ETs are benevolent and want to help the Human race: Why are these supposedly benevolent beings colluding with our oppressors by keeping knowledge of their existence and technology in the hands of the pentagon and the CIA and whatever black ops you can frighten yourselves with? They could go public at any time couldn’t they? Send a message worldwide that their ambassador would like to address the UN assembly and the people of the world. But no seems they’re happy to let us stumble around in the dark while we trash our home. The more I find out about the whole UFO/disclosure thing the more strikes me as a psuedoscientific sort of religion or faith, beings coming down from the heavens with a promise of free energy, abundance and salvation for the human race, transporting us to other worlds and no one will want for anything in a techno utopia. Its a really tempting vision and when you see whats going on in the world day after day its an attractive notion to cling to. I would love this documentary to be true and deliver the earth shattering paradigm shifting revelations that it promises, I want to travel to the stars and visit other worlds! But I’m stealing myself for the inevitable disappointment that it wont really deliver anything we haven’t heard before and that so called world renowned geneticists will remain anonymous and wont put their names to what would be the biggest discovery in history. Still I’m looking forwards to seeing it. Wow. People are ignorant. I’m a skeptic and I get all your arguments about Steven Greer and this Sirius movie… What I don’t understand is this: There are hundreds of trustworthy witnesses with background at the highest levels in military, politics, aeronautics, NASA, FAA etc.. from various countries and various agencies who clearly state that they have witnessed UFOs, and even, for some of them, retrieved crashed ships, and interacted with extraterrestrial beings and yet…. We still have people, making fun of these witnesses, dismissing their statement as some kind of “conspiracy theory”, or lunatic drivel, when these testimonies should, at the very least, be seriously investigated. What is going on..?? Why is it that people seem unable to even consider the possibility that these witnesses are talking about something -VERY REAL?? A lot of people see UFOs. I haven’t but a lot of my friends have. I’m not going to deny what they saw just because I haven’t seen it… that’s a close-minded thing to do. Just because you don’t understand something, it doesn’t mean it’s completely false. Everyone throws the baby out with the bathwater. No balance on anything. To all those skeptics, why are you here? You must believe in something or you wouldn’t be on this site otherwise. I have seen the documentary, i did buy It and it does have some compelling evidence and he has provided the body to some of the best and they haven’t been able to dismiss it as a fake, and its not human. Its not human DNA. I believe others who have posted in the comments, people are so quick to dismiss things as faked but look at all the evidence, look at the Mona Lisa, not to mention countless other cave drawings the evidence is all over history not to mention every continent. Can you really dismiss people from all origins as making it up when the testimony’s match everyone else’s. Most of the people who are skeptics will never believe because they are to closed minded – I believe its FEAR personally. Most of these skeptics probably still think the world was created 6000 years ago. Why would we be so special to be the only ones in existence? Out of all these stars not to mention billions of galaxies…All we are is a time in space. Don’t be scared, if they wanted to take us out they already would have. Skeptics are here because they care about the truth. Why are you trying to keep skeptical people silent? Is that what someone who is truly confident of his opinions would do? You see, people who truly believe something are perfectly willing to deal with skepticism. Those who have doubts are the ones who try to avoid rational analysis. By trying to deny skeptics the opportunity to express their opinions you are supressing dissent. Supressing dissent is not the approach an honest believer in anything would use. This all implies that either Tom is pretending to be a UFO believer or that the beliefs Tom has about this particular film are easily destroyed by skeptics and thus he needs to keep them away in order to preserve his false beliefs. You pick which one you think is more likely. William Fauber You’ll find that video’s which cover major topics like abductions, implants and UFO’s etc. there is an usually number of trolls then you would find for any other subject. These trolls throw out absurd comments and/or insults, with little to no constructive argument to back up their views and hardly ever respond when you ask them for an analysis as why they called the material a fake. In my opinion these are people afraid of upset to their normal narrow worldview & denial of the truth helps them keep grounded or it’s the Gov. trying to discredit or foster doubt towards the material being presented. It would be easy for the Gov. Programmers to run search and insert programs on UT and other sites that cover these topics, I believe that’s why we get some of the ridiculous comments like the ones we see here. At least I hope, I would hate to think so many people are this naive to the growing evidence that we are being visited by Extraterrestrials. The Debunker’s of today call themselves Skeptics (Not) a skeptic has an open mind Debunker’s do not. The Debunker’s tactics are all the same, 1st deny the evidence is real, 2nd Try to discredit the methods used to gain the evidence, 3rd attach the person presenting the evidence. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all worked together to simply find the truth without bias and preconceived outcomes. one × two =	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line705
__label__cc	0.700272	0.299728	Broadening our impact: How scientists affect change on the Hill Home » Broadening our impact: How scientists affect change on the Hill Broadening our impact: How scientists affect change on the Hill2019-06-142019-06-17/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Best-Logo-Final.svgBEST/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Best-Logo-Final.svg200px200px Madeleine Y. Bee Ph.D. Candidate in Food Science, fourth year @madeleineybee linkedin.com/in/mybee/ Seeing the sunrise over the Capitol building while driving down North Capitol Street was certainly not a typical Wednesday morning, for myself or a few other graduate students from Cornell University. Like hundreds of other graduate students from across the country, we’d traveled to Washington, DC for Advocacy Day: A day jam-packed with meetings that provided a unique opportunity for graduate and professional students from a variety of fields across the country to talk with staffers, policymakers, and, if they’re lucky, a senator or representative. I signed up for Advocacy Day, not exactly knowing what I was getting myself into; I had spent all of my professional life in academia. I’ve written grant proposals and annual progress updates and presented my research in written, poster, and talk formats, but I’d never advocated for scientific funding. At first, it felt uncomfortable and awkward to present myself, my personal story – no data, no carefully developed figures, no PowerPoint presentation – and tell staffers and policymakers why higher budget caps were so critical for increasing the federal funds dedicated to scientific research, which would eventually provide a paycheck and resources to other graduate students just like me. Our meetings on the Hill were straight and to the point: nearly everyone we spoke with was running both from and to other meetings. We introduced ourselves, with a brief description of our fields, programs, and research areas – a great exercise in science communication. Staffers handed out their business card as we discussed our planned points about raising budget caps, maintaining subsidized student loans, and increased federal funding, especially for graduate students funded by agencies like NSF, NIH, and USDA. We shook hands, took a photo with the office plaque, and power-walked to our next meeting. That was it: policy, affected to the best of our ability. In addition to staffers, we also met with science policy fellows. The majority of these fellows are Ph.D.-holding scientists who’ve left industry or academia – some temporarily, some permanently – to spend a year or two in DC learning the policy-making process by working in a Congressional office or committee. It was inspiring hearing about their journeys through graduate school, scientific careers, and then how they shifted into policy. Some fellows received the fellowship straight out of grad school, others were professors or professional scientists on sabbatical, and still, others had worked in other government agencies before pivoting to policy. Each felt that while they were initially out of their element in the policy world, their scientific training had prepared them well to learn on the job. Science policy fascinates me because it’s the ultimate application of science communication: impacting legislation and funding that directly correspond to research potential. Many of the fellows we spoke with on Advocacy Day had a few big projects they were working on, but also served as scientific liaisons in meetings. Policy fellows are often thrown into situations far from their area of expertise, relying on the critical thinking and problem-solving skills they developed from their scientific training. By the end of the day, I knew for certain that science policy is what I want to pursue after graduate school. I expected science communication to be a critical component of science policy but wasn’t quite aware how impactful it could be: policymakers rely on us, scientists, to drive our point home to them clearly and succinctly. They have to make crucial decisions quickly and don’t have the time or know-how to parse through the primary literature. Science policy fellows are responsible for bridging this gap, but as graduate students, we can be useful too. If science communication, policy, or working on the Hill intrigues you, I highly recommend the Advocacy Day experience! Apply for it and the AAAS CASE Workshop next year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line714
__label__wiki	0.548448	0.548448	Pittsburgh Sporting News Pittsburgh's #1 Source for Sporting News! PENGUINS NEWS Around the NHL PIRATES NEWS Around the MLB NCAA FBALL Division 1 & FCS Division 2 & 3 NCAA BBALL Wildthings More Pro Sports Home / Archives for NHL Conor Sheary named NHL’s “First Star” of week January 23, 2017 by Shannon Carroll Three two-goal games in his last four games. Nine points in his last four games. Eight goals in the month of January. Yeah, it makes sense that Pittsburgh Penguins left winger Conor Sheary is this week's NHL “First Star.” The NHL has named @csheary13, Thomas Greiss and @TJOshie77 as the @Molson_Canadian 3 Stars of the Week. https://t.co/30rXv9la7A — NHL (@NHL) January 23, 2017 In the four games that the undrafted Sheary has a league-best nine points (6G, 3A), the Penguins have gone ... Read More Penguins dominate third period against Bruins to win fourth straight January 22, 2017 by Alexander Chismar Not too long ago the Pittsburgh Penguins (30-11-5) were on a three-game skid. With its 5-1 win Sunday against the Boston Bruins (23-21-6), Pittsburgh has found itself on a four-game win streak. This fourth win in a row has helped separate the Penguins from the New York Rangers for third place in the division, and Pittsburgh now only trails the Columbus Blue by a single point for second place (the Washington Capitals are currently in first). The 5-1 victory Sunday night featured both an ... Read More Penguins snap three-game road losing streak, Murray bounces back After a game where Matt Murray allowed a staggering seven goals, the Pittsburgh Penguins' young goalie allowed only one against the Montreal Canadiens (27-13-6) in Pittsburgh's 4-1 win Wednesday night. With the defense allowing only 20 shots on net, Murray’s job was considerably easier than in his previous game against the Washington Capitals. The game began with both teams' offenses off to a good start, but Pittsburgh (28-11-5) got on the board firsts thanks to a wide-open Ian Cole flying ... Read More Penguins edge out Capitals in offensive onslaught On Monday night, fans were once again treated to one of the most intense division rivalries in the league, when the Pittsburgh Penguins (27-11-5) took the ice against the Washington Capitals (29-9-6). While the teams combined for a staggering 15 goals, the Penguins just edged out the 8-7 win in overtime. The game ended in just 34 seconds into the extra period when Conor Sheary zoomed down the boards and shot right at the Capitals' goalie, Braden Holtby. The puck was never completely gathered, ... Read More Penguins blow two-goal lead to for third-straight loss Prior to Thursday, the Pittsburgh Penguins (26-11-5) hadn't lost two games in a row all season. And now the Penguins have added to that losing streak, falling 6-3 to the Detroit Red Wings (18-19-6) on Saturday night. A Kris Letang goal in the opening minute of the game instantly put Pittsburgh in the lead. And the Penguins' lead would increase in the second period with a goal from Evgeni Malkin. But Detroit wouldn't go down without a fight. Two straight Red Wings goals by Gustav Nyquist and ... Read More Ovechkin, Capitals break Penguins’ five-game win streak With their five-game win streak on the line, on Wednesday night the Pittsburgh Penguins (26-8-5) went on the road to the divisional-rival Washington Capitals (26-9-5). Entering the game with good news that goaltender Matt Murray was cleared to dress, Pittsburgh looked to upset the Capitals on their own ice. However, things didn't go as the Penguins had hoped, and they lost this game 5-2. Although starting goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury has been on a roll lately, giving up only eight goals ... Read More Penguins haven’t missed a step in first game of 2017 January 8, 2017 by Alexander Chismar After a long week since their last game, the Pittsburgh Penguins (26-8-5) won their fifth straight game after beating the Tampa Bay Lightning (19-19-4) 6-2 on Sunday evening at PPG Paints arena. Following a scoreless first period, the Lightning got on the board first when Jonathan Drouin scored. However, his goal was answered by Conor Sheary and Eric Fehr in the same period to give the Penguins a 2-1 lead heading into the final period of play. Two quick goals in the third period — one by ... Read More Matt Murray out “week to week” with lower-body injury December 29, 2016 by Shannon Carroll Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray is “week to week” with a lower-body injury, head coach Mike Sullivan said Thursday. Murray suffered the injury in Wednesday night's win over the Carolina Hurricanes, although it's unclear exactly what play Murray was injured on. He left after the second period and was replaced by Marc-Andre Fleury. Murray started the 2016-17 season on the injured reserve because of a broken thumb he suffered in the World Cup of Hockey. But when he returned to the ... Read More Penguins win third straight game, lose Murray to injury December 28, 2016 by Alexander Chismar For the third straight game, the Pittsburgh Penguins (24-8-5) have picked up a win, this time against the Carolina Hurricanes (15-12-7). Wednesday night’s game was led mostly by the Hurricanes until the final period of play, when both Chris Kunitz and Carl Hagelin scored to tie and eventually win the game, 3-2. Elias Lindholm and Lee Stempniak each scored a goal for Carolina, but the team's lack of offense in the third period prevented the Canes from being able to hang on to their ... Read More Crosby continues to shine, Penguins beat Devils 5-2 Some familiar names propelled the Pittsburgh Penguins (23-8-5) to their 5-2 win against the New Jersey Devils (13-15-7) on Tuesday night. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin both scored a goal and had at least one assist in Pittsburgh’s solid win. Justin Schultz, who has been one of the Penguins' hottest players this month, scored his seventh goal on the season. His goal gave the Penguins a very late second-period 3-2 lead and, with two more goals – one from Carl Hagelin, the other from Bryan ... 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__label__wiki	0.534794	0.534794	Survivor: Rider Quarterback Edition At the request of my good friend CRF, here are my thoughts on the quarterbacking situation in Saskatchewan. Let me start off by saying that I do not endorse Survivor nor do I recommend people actually watch the show. It just seemed to be a fitting theme for today's post - after all, both Survivor contestants and Rider QBs are Americans that are sent off to an obscure, far away location to compete for a prize that only one can win. I guess the only real difference is that if you actually win on Survivor, people where you're from will probably know about it. Now then, on to business... Ever since Eric Tillman traded for Steven Jyles, speculation has been running rampant in Riderville over what will happen with our QBs. With Jyles on the roster we now have 5 QBs under contract which is one too many given the standard CFL roster. So we know 1 of them has to go. What we don't know is which one it will be. So who will be moved? For starters, I believe we can exclude Jyles and Tate from the list. We just paid a hefty price to bring in Jyles, and Tate was very highly coveted by both Tillman and Austin and they haven't given up on him. So that leaves Joseph, Crandell and Durant. All 3 have strengths and weaknesses... Kerry Joseph: Pro - Athletic quarterback known for making things happen with his legs. Con - Uncertainty as to how he will perform without Kent Austin's guidance. Marcus Crandell: Pro - The most accurate passer of the three. Con - Injuries have piled up over the years. Darian Durant: Pro - just barely Con - not as far as we know All logic would dictate that Crandell would be the one to go. Joseph is the reigning league MVP, the offense is built around his mobility and Crandell is a seasoned veteran who would be highly coveted across the CFL. However, with Tillman making the decisions I wouldn't be so fast to rule out Kerry Joseph. Let's not forget that the re-negotiation of Joseph's contract has not been going well (ask Fred Perry what that does for your job security). Plus, Tillman never hesitates to ship off a veteran he feels has peaked (Joseph was just named league's Most Outstanding Player and won a Grey Cup, he has nowhere to go but down, right?). That said I don't think it's a strong possibility... it's just not out of the question. It seems likely that Marcus Crandell will be the QB on the move, but where he's headed is up for debate. Given the uncertainty surrounding Anthony Calvillo's football future and Marcus Brady's ability to play quarterback, Montreal could be a potential destination. Former Winnipeg head coach Dave Ritchie used to say that you lose one game for every rookie in the lineup, and Ryan Dinwiddie is living proof of that, so the Bombers could be in the market for a seasoned veteran to carry the team when (not if) Kevin Glenn gets hurt. Plus Brendan Taman handles draft picks like they were live grenades. There is also an outside shot that Toronto might be interested, which would seem to be a good fit; trading Crandell to Toronto would allow both the Argos and the Riders to get almost ten years younger at the backup quarterback position. Now, the question is "What will Eric Tillman be able to get for Crandell?" Well, let's look at recent history to see the going rate for quarterbacks in the CFL. Two years ago, Calgary GM Jim Barker sent a first round pick to Winnipeg for the rights to Jason Gesser, who lasted one season on the Calgary roster. Barker wasted a first rounder on Jason, and all he had to show for it a year later was second gessers. Last year, Eric Tillman gave Edmonton a third round pick for the rights to Drew Tate, who may or may not have been willing to come to Canada. As it turns out, Tate did venture north, at which point his career went south. Actual roster quarterbacks seem to go for much more, as evidenced by Tillman shipping third stringer Rocky Butler to Hamilton last year for Wayne Smith and DJ Flick. Smith and Flick went on to start for the Riders while Hamilton realized that Rocky would never be able to make use of his greatest strength - that being the Ti-Cats defense - and subsequently released him. The most recent quarterback move once again featured Eric Tillman, this time shipping CFL all-star Fred Perry to Edmonton for the depth chart diving Steven Jyles. Clearly quarterbacks are at a premium in the CFL. Gone are the days when rosters were loaded with legends such as Damon Allen, Doug Flutie, Matt Dunigan and Tracy Ham while future stars such as Khari Jones, Jeff Garcia, Anthony Calvillo and Dave Dickenson were relegated to backup and third string roles. The reality in today's CFL is that marginal players such as Buck Pierce and Michael Bishop are viewed as legitimate starters while the roster of backups features revered names such as Ryan Dinwiddie, Stefan Lefors and well, Damon Allen. Dave Dickenson was recently released from his contract with BC, and was subsequently sought after by multiple teams in search of a legitimate backup. Let's face it, if even Dickenson can ignite a bidding war when there are questions as to whether he will make it through the ensuing press conference without suffering a head injury, there has to be a pretty decent market out there for Marcus Crandell. There is another possibility all together. The arrival of Steve Morley points to an all Canadian line this year which opens up an import spot elsewhere on the roster. There has been talk that we are considering an import safety. Hmm... we are considering an import safety at the same time we are contemplating Joseph's future... coincidence? Maybe not. I mean, how many CFL teams can boast an NFL caliber safety? I mean, I know it was only the Seahawks, but still... For now all we can do speculate on what Tillman's next move will be. It's kinda like waiting to here the winners at the Oscars... except in this case people actually care about the result. Posted by Rider Prophet at 1:36 PM well done, as usual...except for the shot at my Seahawks! Just trying to make sure you're still paying attention! :) - Craig That was purely Media Consultant's idea. I will never deny that, I was proud of that Seahawks comment! On This Day In Roughrider History NFL in Toronto Au Revoir Reggie Hunt Finally some good news in Riderville Valentines Day Picture You traded Fred Perry for what?! Ken Miller Come On Down CFL News – When the saints go marching… out	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line727
__label__wiki	0.553536	0.553536	More Richmond News Radio Free Richmond 1 reaction Nat Bates: The Politics of Renaming Macdonald Avenue By: Radio Free Richmond Although the City of Richmond election for mayor and four city council members is not until November of this year, the infamous Richmond Progressive Alliance is off and running to woo voters toward their slate of candidates. It appears RPA will be supporting Councilmember Jovanka Beckles, Eduardo Martinez and Mayor Gayle McLaughlin for the four year term and Michael Parker, mouth piece of the RPA for Mayor. It is interesting to note Richmond Progressive Alliance seems to have abandoned their name in favor of “Team Richmond” and they have been reluctant in identifying themselves as RPA member when speaking during city council meetings. An interesting thing occurred during the February 4, 2014 council meeting where McLaughlin, Beckles and Councilmember Jael Myrick placed on the agenda an item to rename Macdonald Avenue after the late Nelson Mandela. The mayor acknowledged she had spoken with a few African American citizen and they agreed it was a good idea. When Councilmember Butt, Booze and I pointed out the proper way was for the request to go before the Recreation Commission, the mayor became frustrated and irritated especially when I questioned if anyone knew who Mr. Macdonald was and his contributions to the City of Richmond. The mayor interrupted saying he was a “developer,” as if that was some sort of negative stigmatization to his profession. When I pointed out we all admired the work of Mr. Mandela and his world wide contributions but rather than renaming a street after someone who long ago made contributions to the city, perhaps it would be more appropriate to rename a street that has numbers like 10th, South 37th Street, etc or a building, school, park as an suitable recognition. I further stated some of us would like something later named in honor of President Obama or a more suitable site for Martin Luther King, etc. The mayor obviously was not interested in what I had to say as she continued to interrupt me as I spoke and finally commented that she thought Mr. Mandela’s work far exceeded Mr. Macdonald's contributions and therefore justified the name change. I trust I am not being overly sensitive when I state, I respect all streets named in honor of individuals who in the past and present have made contributions and deserve their names in history regardless of who they may have been. However, I highly resent Mayor McLaughlin, Councilmembers Beckles and Myrick, and the RPA attempting to use renaming streets, etc for political purposes. If they think this plantation style politics of renaming Macdonald Avenue in honor of Mr. Mandela will generate African American votes for their RPA candidates this coming November, they do not know the African American community as I know them. Nat Bates Richmond City Councilmember Jael Myrick commented 2014-03-17 21:51:01 -0700 This is just silly! The item we presented in February did not specify Macdonald or any other street to be renamed for Mr. Mandela. I know this, because when I was asked to co-sponsor the item I made clear that I wasn’t sure if Macdonald was the most appropriate street. I reached out to Richmond Main Street and asked their opinion. Once I shared that with the Mayor, the item was changed to a more generic call for us to rename some street (or prominent community center) for Mr. Mandela. During the course of our discussion several ideas were floated including the idea of renaming Civic Center Plaza for Mr. Mandela. What I highly resent is the insistence of some on the Council of turning every small thing we discuss into a political issue. Honoring the great Nelson Mandela should not be controversial and it should not be political. Yes, 2014 happens to be an election year, but Nelson Mandela died at the end of 2013. So should we not honor him all year because we happen to have an election? As I stated during the meeting I am all for finding a street or center to rename in honor of Martin Luther King (or President Obama), but why use that as an argument against honoring the memory of Nelson Mandela, the hero of the anti-apartheid movement. Truthfully, there is only one current Councilmember who was in office during the year following MLK’s assassination. Why that individual has waited 46 years to bring forward an item honoring MLK is beyond me, but I would be happy to support such an act. We can find an appropriate street or community center to rename for Nelson Mandela. Mr Bates, please stop turning everything we do into a political football, it is unhealthy for the city. Jael Myrick Subscribe with RSS2 Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email info@radiofreerichmond.com Copyright (C) 2015, by Don Gosney and Felix Hunziker. All rights reserved. Follow @RF_Richmond on Twitter RFR on Facebook RFR on Twitter RFR on Flickr Tweets by @RF_Richmond Fight your California speeding ticket and win here. Fight your red light camera ticket here. Fight your cell phone ticket here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line736
__label__wiki	0.944878	0.944878	A friendly voice around the world Economy/Tourism Science/Environment News cumbre-americas Cuban Kaleidoscope World of Stamps The Cuban Five NewsSportsCuba in Semi-Finals of World Series of Boxing Cuba in Semi-Finals of World Series of Boxing SPORTS NEWS for Saturday, May 20th Cuban Tamers and Heroics of Colombia will face a revenge duel in one of the WSB semifinals, after coming back in their quarter-final duels. The Cuban franchise, an exponent of the match, beat Uzbekistan Tigers 5-0 in a match in Havana to reach an aggregate score of 7-3, as the Uzbeks won 3-2 in the first match. Heroics, meanwhile, overcame Thunde of Italy 4-1, to add a global of 6-4, after the triumph of the Italians in the first match 3-2. In the Cuba-Uzbekistan top +91 kg Jose Angel Larduet sealed the crushing 5-0 with which Domadores advanced to the semifinal of the VII World Series of Boxing. Larduet, tanned at the 2009 World Cup in Milan, was all impetus and signed a decision of 3-0 before the giant Bakhodir Jalolov, owner of the bronze in Qatar 2015 and who gave two counts. The decision came to close the match, which also won the fly Yosbany Veitía, the light Lázaro Álvarez, welter Roniel Iglesias and light heavyweight Julio Cesar Cruz. Veitía did not believe in the greater stature of Jasurbek Latipov in sublet of the orb, and won 3-0, Lázaro Alvarez was shown as the triple world champion and repeated dominion over world bronze Elnur Abduraimov, whom he struck with exactitude, abundance and Variety to overcome it for the third time, this time 3-0. The panorama was then ready for the Olympic champion La Cruz to contribute the definition and this responded to the height of the expected when dispatching 3-0 to the subtitling Olympic Bektemir Melikuziev. With the global confrontation already decided Larduet gave the puntillazo of the blanqueada. Teams from Colombia, Ecuador, the United States, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela expressed interest in participating in the Cuba Cup of track cycling to be held May 25 to 28, the national commission confirmed today. In contact with Prensa Latina, Commissioner Pablo Campis, pointed out that, although they still do not have the confirmation of all, if the presence of at least three is met, it will increase the level of the contest and allow the bluff of the national preselection and of the contestants Of province that will participate as guests. "We are beginning a cycle in which we are going to strengthen the work at the base, then choose the main talents and develop them. Our commitment is to consolidate the performance of women and to renew forces among the men in the face of the main international events, about All at regional and continental level, "he said. According to the director, the contest will serve to strengthen the national elite's preparation for the qualifying tournaments for the XXIII Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia, from July 20 to August 5, 2018. In this regard, he recalled that the island already has seven safe places for the mentioned regional event, five in the female sector and two in the male. The goal, he said, "is to ensure as many athletes as possible and for this we will go with the best panisteros to the Pan American discipline to be held in Trinidad and Tobago from July 29 to August 3 to come." Campis, said that on the opening day of the Cup Cuba will play the finals in the chase and team speed; The scratch in all cases for women and men and 500 meters for women, a test in which the great absentee will be the starlet Lisandra Guerra, currently in a state of gestation. In the Cup, category 2.2 that gives points for the ranking of the International Cycling Union, will also compete in the 20 km launched, Omnium, Madison and the kilometer against the clock. Edited by Ed Newman Cuba's Domadores take the lead in 8th World Series of Boxing Final Santiago classifies for semi-finals as first stage of Cuban Baseball Series concludes Cuban in Youth Wrestling World Championship Finals Cuba's Domadores Face France in Semi-Finals of WSB Cuba to Take its Chances against Azerbaijan at World Boxing Series on Friday Cuba to face Russia at World Boxing Series Another Cuban Success in World Boxing Series Cuban Olympic Champion Leads Team to World Series of Boxing World Series of Boxing: British Lionhearts suffer heavy defeat Your email(NOT TO BE PUBLISHED)* RHC's national and international news stories Jan. 17 President Diaz-Canel: Trump Administration blames others for its flaws in foreign policy Artists attending 35th edition of Jazz Plaza come from around the world RHC's Caribbean Outlook Show Visit Cuba Notes on the Revolution / Column #58 NUMBER OF HITS/VISITORS Max: 19729 Specials Reports Redactores-Editores Editors "Responsive" Design Foundation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line737
__label__wiki	0.688348	0.688348	Judge orders USD99.5 million compensation over Athos I spill by ShippingHerald Environment, Headlines, Shipping News, The Wire, Top Stories A Philadelphia judge has ordered an asphalt refinery to pay about USD100 million in damages to two Greek shipping companies and the US government over the 2004 Athos I oil spill. In a 25 July ruling, US federal district court judge Joel Slomsky found Citgo Asphalt Refining and related companies liable for USD55.5 million in damages to Frescati Shipping and Tsakos Shipping & Trading, the owner and manager respectively of the tanker Athos I, which spilled about 264,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the Delaware River after colliding with a rogue ship’s anchor partially buried in the river bottom. Citgo was also ordered to reimburse the US government USD44 million it had paid to the shipping companies from the Oil Spill Liability Trust fund. The ruling marked the culmination of 12 years of litigation and “the devoted commitment of an army of lawyers and experts from the government and the private sector” to uncover the incident’s cause and who was liable, Slomsky noted in his opinion. The accident occurred after a six-day voyage from Venezuela as the 60,880 dwt, 1983-built vessel approached Citgo’s dock in Paulsboro, New Jersey, with a load of heavy crude. The uncharted 9-tonne anchor ripped holes in the tanker’s ballast and cargo tanks, resulting in a spill that affected some 450 km of shoreline. Cleanup costs and natural resources and third-party claims totalled about USD300 million. A Pennsylvania district court ruled in 2011 that Citgo had not been obligated to survey the approach to the berth and rejected a damages claim from Frescati Shipping, which was seeking USD180 million to reimburse cleanup costs. But the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in May 2013 that Frescati were beneficiaries of the safe berth warranty contained in the Citgo voyage charter so could seek damages. The ruling in effect shifted the burden of liability from shipowners to terminal operators when contracting on a safe place to load or unload vessels, according to a lawyer commenting at the time. The upper court also determined in 2013 that the terminal owner had an obligation to use due diligence in its duty of care to the visiting ship, and that the anchor involved in the accident lay in the ship’s immediate approach to its berth. However, the appeals court was prevented from making a final determination of liability based upon the facts in the case “due to the failure of the original district court judge to issue specific findings of fact on both the liability and damages despite evidence heard during 41 days of trial”, according to a statement by a Frescati representative. The Third Circuit consequently remanded the case to a new district court judge – Slomsky – “with instructions to make factual findings in accordance” with the appeals court’s decisions on the issues of law, the shipowner representative explained. Citgo had attempted to get the US Supreme Court to overturn the Third Circuit’s ruling, claiming in its petition that it had no control over the federal waters where Athos I collided with the abandoned anchor. According to Law360, an online court filing aggregator, Citgo had asked the Supreme Court to consider “whether a wharf owner’s duty to provide a safe approach for a vessel extended to federal waters and whether a safe berth provision in a voyage contract is a guarantee of safety”. The high court denied Citgo’s petition in 2014 without comment. Source: fairplay.ihs New Fuel Rules Push Shipowners to LNG ‘No proof’ Greek vessel activity led to oil leak off Brazil coast – ship manager Exxon Valdez case ends after 25 years Houston Ship Channel Reopened to Vessel Traffic After Collision China bans discharge from open-loop scrubbers at some ports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line745
__label__wiki	0.940684	0.940684	OUTDOOR STYLE & FLORAL Print Email Font Resize At The Table: Caterer Joanna Biondi By Natalie Martinez; photos by Kerry Hiroshi Paul Posted: 11/12/2009 11:23:58 AM PST Associated Food Articles Nov 18: At The Table: Party Secrets At The Table: Holiday 'Dinner By The Bite' CAFÉ PRIMAVERA 201 S. Market St., San Jose 408.885.1094; www.cafeprimavera.com Caterer/owner Joanna Biondi Hometown: Born in San Luis Obispo; grew up in the Bay Area, mostly in Los Gatos; graduated from Woodside High School. Experience: Worked in restaurants and catering for 32 years. While in college, she was a waitress at Garden City in San Jose. That job led to catering gigs, which in turn evolved into the Party Helpers, a catering company she co-owned for 12 years. In 1990, she opened Café Primavera in Willow Glen, her first restaurant (she sold it in 2002). The brand has grown to include a catering business and Café Primavera outposts at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose and Menlo Park's Allied Arts, the latter of which opened on Sept. Early inspiration: "My grandmother lived with us. I spent all my summers with her. When I think of her, I think of food. She cooked and cooked. Our family was centered on the next meal." At home: "I cook at home a lot. My hubby loves his pasta. In the summer, we barbecue almost every night. In the winter, I get my crockpot out." A love of wine country: "We just bought a house in Napa for the sole purpose of eating in the restaurants. All we do is go up and we hit a new restaurant. We've been eating a lot in Bottega, Michael Chiarello's restaurant in Yountville." Favorite holiday: "Probably Easter because I love to do Easter brunch." Holiday noshing: "What we do at Christmas is 'dinner by the bite.' It's an open house with dishes of one or two bites, tapas-style." Signature menu item: "We're famous for our crab cakes. We have people from Virginia tell us our crab cakes are the best they've eaten." Toughest everyday challenge: "Right now, the economy. I've been doing this for 32 years. I know how you have ups and downs. I know how to survive them but it's a challenge." Word of mouth: "I tell my staff that every job we do is our marketing. We have to hit it 100 percent every time." Culinary philosophy: "Obsessive. I am always looking for the best. I go to every trade show. I eat in restaurants constantly. I read every cooking magazine I can. I'm always looking for a product that's the best. I try to find the absolute best of the best. If you cut corners, it's going to taste like you cut corners. If I don't eat it, I wouldn't serve it to my clients." Print Email Font Resize Return to Top » moreRELATED ARTICLES Updated: May 03, 2010 2:46:10 PM PDT The Tasting Room: A no-peeking party Haute Stuffs: Tray Cool At The Table: Caterer Caroline Somary The Perfect Setup Fantastic Florals (From the last 12 hours) A Paris Accent Contact Us \| Media Kit \| About Our Ads \| Advertise \| National Spaces Magazine Copyright © Spaces Magazine Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use \| MNG Corporate Site Map \| Copyright	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line759
__label__wiki	0.544351	0.544351	Classic South West of Ireland Golf Tour Play all the classic golf courses in south west Ireland, including Ballybunion, Old Head, Waterville, Tralee, Lahinch and Doonbeg. Luxury chauffeur driven coach for the ultimate in touring luxury, with leather captain's seats, tables, DVD and air conditioning for maximum comfort. Choice of four or five star accommodations. Click on the 'Request Offer' button to make your enquiry . West of Ireland Golf Tour The West Coast of Ireland is blessed with an abundance of terrific golf links, some of them even ranking among the best in the world. This trip includes the highly rated links at Carne ( Belmullet) as well as nearby Enniscrone and County Sligo ( Rosses Point). We have also included Connemara, Donegal ( Murvagh) and Lahinch. This is unspoilt golf all the way. Six rounds in seven days, deluxe accommodations and lots of fun! Click on the 'Request Offer' button to make your enquiry. 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__label__wiki	0.675228	0.675228	SpincycleNYC Drag & Cabaret Search ... 0 FRINGENYC ENCORE SERIES Nearly 2 dozen Fringe Festival audience & critic favorites get official extensions. September 4 - October 5 at Baruch PAC & SoHo Playhouse Get tickets below. In 17 days, even the most intrepid theatergoer can only sample a fraction of the over 200 offerings at the New York International Fringe Festival. Now in its 10th year, the official 2014 FringeNYC Encore Series gives theatre lovers another chance at seeing some of the most critically acclaimed and most crowd-pleasing shows from the Festival. This year, the FringeNYC Encore Series will be divided into two separate mini festivals. Baruch Performing Arts Center will present exclusively solo performances as part of its ongoing "Solo In The City" performance series (which has previously presented works by Sandra Bernhard, Jackie Hoffman and Tovah Feldshuh), while SoHo Playhouse will host an array of drama, comedies and musicals. FringeNYC and The FringeNYC Encore Series are servicemarks and/or trademarks of The Present Theatre, Inc. and are used with permission. SOLO IN THE CITY: THE FRINGENYC ENCORE SERIES runs September 11 - October 3 at Baruch Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of Baruch College in Manhattan on East 25th Street between Lexington & 3rd Aves. Tickets are $18 - $20, available online at www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac, by phone at 646-312-5073, or in person at the box office at 55 Lexington Ave. (enter E. 25th St. between Lexington & 3rd Aves.) Performances will include: • Confessions of Old Lady #2 Joan Shepard's sparkling account of 74 years on Broadway and on TV. Laced with side-splitting stories & witty songs, this musical memoir won four stars from the London Times. Sept. 18 at 7 PM & Sept. 22 at 2 PM • Fearless The story of one man's broken engagement (not his fault), failed suicide attempt (definitely his fault), the relationships that followed (probably his fault) and the misguided attempts to teach his students how to take risks and become fearless. Sept. 20, 27 at 9 PM • Gary Busey's One Man Hamlet (As Performed by David Carl) In this absurdist romp through Shakespeare, pop culture, and life in the theatre, iconic actor Gary Busey (played by comedian David Carl) will perform all the parts in "Hamlet", using homemade puppets, videos, live music, and poetry. FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Sept. 19, 26 at 9 PM & Oct. 3 at 9 PM • Hoaxocaust! Written and performed by Barry Levey, with the generous assistance of the Institute for Political and International Studies, Tehran Ever wish the Holocaust hadn't happened? Some say it didn't! Join Barry's journey to find deniers from Illinois to Iran, meeting engineers and ex-presidents, dodging a brother in Hungary and a boyfriend back home to discover the truth. FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Sept. 11, 18, 24 at 7:30 PM & Sept. 21 at 3 PM • Magical Negro Speaks Jamil Ellis gives voice to the Magical Negro -- one of Hollywood’s favorite tropes -- and examines what images in entertainment mean for future generations. FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. • Murder Margaret and Me Margaret Rutherford became a global legend playing Miss Marple. Originally she didn't want the part, and Agatha Christie didn't want Marple played by "the funniest woman alive." This British sell-out sensation sees Christie playing detective, unearthing Rutherford's terrible secrets. FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Sept. 13 at 3 PM; Sept. 19 & 20 at 7 PM • The Pawnbroker: Lies, Lovers, and Bertolt Brecht What price would you pay for love -- your dignity, your sanity, your place in history? Discover the lies behind Brecht's legend - and what five women lost to create it. Sept 17 at 7:30 PM; Sept. 28 at 7 PM • Sex, Lies & Earl Grey How do you take your tea? Georgina likes it hot with good manners, bad behavior and a pianist. Her crash course in etiquette reveals more than she, or you might expect. Sept. 20 at 2 PM; Sept. 28 at 7:30 PM THE FRINGENYC ENCORE SERIES runs September 4 - October 5 at SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street between Varick and Avenue of the Americas). Tickets are $18, available at 212-352-3101 or online at OvationTix at www.fringenyc-encoreseries.com. Performances will include: • <50% Gianmarco and Laura star in a completely factual play about the end of their five-year relationship. Everything is exactly as it happened, is happening, and will happen. Mon 9/15 @ 9, Fri 9/19 @ 7, Mon 9/22 @ 8, Mon 9/29 @ 9:30 , Sat 10/4 @ 5 • Chemistry Steph is a recovering depressive. Jamie overachieved himself off the deep end. When they meet in their psychiatrist's office, they can't deny their chemistry, but can they survive it? A pitch black and piercingly insightful comedy about being crazy in love. Sat 9/13 @ 5:30, Fri 9/19 @ 9:30, Sat 9/20 @ 7, Sun 9/21 @ 5, Sat 10/4 @ 7 • Fatty Fatty No Friends As the fattest kid in school, Tommy lives a lonely, living nightmare. When the skinny kids’ taunting goes too far, Tommy takes revenge without amends. A dark spoken-word Tim Burton-esque musical diving into the lunchtime of life, where bullies are delicious. FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Wed 9/10 @ 8, Sun 9/14 @ 3, Mon 9/15 @ 7, Wed 9/17 @ 8, Thu 9/17 @ 7 • Held Momentarily Trapped on a stalled New York subway, seven strangers realize it's not just the train that's stuck. A poignant musical comedy about making connections, living in the moment and moving on in life... and a woman just went into labor. Thu 9/11 @ 7, Fri 9/12 @ 9:30, Sun 9/14 @ 5, Thu 9/18 @ 9, Sun 9/21 @ 3 • The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking Join world-renowned mixologist and raconteur Anthony Caporale (Art of the Drink TV) for a boozy romp through the history of alcohol. Cocktails and comedy combine for an utterly unique musical theatre experience! “An absolute must-see!” raves The Huffington Post. 21+ only Fri 9/5 at 8, Fri 9/12 at 8, Fri 9/19 at 8, Fri 9/26 at 8 • Jump Man A musical parody of the Mario Brothers world. When a crime wave hits their Brooklyn neighborhood, Mario and Luigi have their heroism tested. Jump Man addresses age-old questions like "What defines a hero?" and "Do plumbers love to sing?" FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Sat 9/6 @ 7, Fri 9/12 @ 7, Sat 9/13 @ 3 & 8, Sun 9/14 @ 7 • Moses, The Author Meet Moses. He has family problems (gay son, rocky marriage), God problems (existential), and career problems (writer’s block, a hellish deadline). To make a better Bible he must become a better man. A love story, with scrolls. Don't miss it. Fri 9/26 @ 7, Sun 9/28 @ 3, Wed 10/1 @ 3, Sun 10/5 @ 3 & 7 • Mother’s Day Acid-tongued New York drag queen Helen Back incites a nuclear family meltdown when she comes home to New Jersey for Mother's Day. The debut of a pitch black comedy/drama that explores the rules of engagement for a family at war. Thurs 9/4 @ 9:30, Fri 9/5 @ 9:30, Tues 9/9 @ 8, Thurs 9/11 9:30 • No One Asked Me Illegal. No papers. They are not supposed to be here, yet for thousands of undocumented children, the U.S. is the only home they know. They face an uncertain future, fearing deportation. Based upon stories of "illegal" NYC students. FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Fri 9/26 @ 9, Sat 9/27 @ 4, Sun 9/28 @ 7:30, Mon 9/29 @ 7, Tue 9/30 @ 8 • Smashed: The Carrie Nation Story A beer-soaked, absurdly comic opera loosely based on the hatchet-wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation. Raise your frothy brew high! Sun 9/21 @ 8 • This is Where We Live Two teenagers collide like a modern day Orpheus and Eurydice in a dead-end Australian town. A dark, moving comedy infused with the rhythm of beat poetry. Australia's Paperbark Theatre Company presents this US premiere, which won the 2012 Griffin Award. FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Thu 9/4 @ 8, Fri 9/5 @ 8, Sat 9/6 @ 9:30, Sun 9/7 @ 5, Mon 9/8 @ 8 • Urban Momfare Why don't we ever hear songs about moms not actually liking their kids? This romp through motherhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side spans 17 years: "Music For Gifted and Talented Babies" to bra straps and Bellinis. Sling on your stilettos! FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winner. Sun 9/21 @ 7, Wed 9/24 @ 2, Thu 9/25 @ 7, Sat 9/27 @ 7, Sun 9/28 @ 5 • Warm Enough For Swimming Mom drowned years ago. Grandma died yesterday. Eddie fled his wedding. And Bridget can't make coffee. Can estranged siblings clean the living room when the bride arrives with a post-recession pyramid scheme and a Russian Mafioso stalks their childhood home? Sat 9/20 @ 9:30, Tue 9/23 @ 8, Thurs 9/25 @ 9:30, Sat 9/27 @ 9:30, Thurs 10/2 @ 8 Past FringeNYC Encore Series have served as a launching platform for many commercial and regional runs including Silence! The Musical, Krapp 39, Triassic Parq, 5 Lesbian Eating A Quiche, Jamaica Farewell, The Complete Performer and Piaf, among others.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line761
__label__cc	0.60595	0.39405	Robert Hurt Spitzer Visualization Scientist "If only you could see the things I've seen with your eyes." - Roy Batty from "Blade Runner" Posts by Robert Hurt March 24NASA & Spitzer @ SXSW August 24Happy 9th Birthday, Spitzer! June 5There's a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today! May 29The Case of the Missing Planet March 9History of Space Photography Exhibit in Pasadena November 1111-11-11: At 3000 and Counting! October 25See Spitzer at the Smithsonian! July 5Star Formation Seen through Dust-Covered Glasses March 11One Galaxy, Two Views December 23My First (Galaxy) Relationship The Case of the Missing Planet Sometimes not seeing something can be as scientifically important a result as seeing it. Consider the case of the exoplanet knows as Fomalhaut b. A recent non-detection of this proposed planet by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that it may not be a planet at all! A recent news article on the Nature website summarizes the current state of research on what has been proposed to be the first exoplanet ever directly imaged by a telescope. In 2008, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope presented findings suggesting that a tiny speck appeared to be moving around Fomalhaut, a nearby star a mere 25 light years away. This faint object appears to orbit its star at a distance of 115 astronomical units, almost three times further out than Pluto, and is thought to be roughly the size of Jupiter. However, scientists all acknowledge that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the planetary candidate Fomalhaut b has been the subject of significant follow-up and extensive discussion. A number of counter explanations have been proposed, and some observational inconsistencies with the planet hypothesis continue to stoke the fires of the debate. Spitzer's role in the controversy came about earlier this year when astronomers reported their non-detection of Fomalhaut b. Seeing no evidence for the planet in the infrared part of the spectrum (4.5 microns, to be precise), they concluded that the object imaged by Hubble would likely not be a planet, since such an object is expected to be significantly brighter in the infrared. It is still too early in the game to rule out the planet hypothesis entirely, however. More observations will help nail down more details about this mysterious blip. Whether or not it turns out to be a planet, the fun in science is really watching how all of the detective work plays out. And usually things turn out to be stranger than we ever guess at first! Image credit: NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Don’t Sneeze On Spitzer! Matthew Ashby remembers his first time meeting the telescope NASA’s Spitzer’s Space Telescope: Shaping Scientific Careers of Researchers and Future Space Telescopes The Adventure of a Lifetime Seeing Spitzer Spitzer: More than a space telescope. It is part of my family and a piece of who I am.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line762
__label__wiki	0.891032	0.891032	Newsroom \| Horse Racing \| August 1, 2018 at 8:56 am Aidan O’Brien is no stranger to sending his top thoroughbreds to Australia in search of the huge prize money on offer during the Spring Carnival, and his team heading Down Under this year is set to include July Cup hero U S Navy Flag. The master Irish trainer is to aim his three-year-old colt, who is a son of War Front out of a Galileo mare, at The Everest – a weight-for-age horse race in October that had a purse of A$10,000,000 last year. Although the 1,200 metres sprint contest that takes place at Randwick racecourse in the eastern suburbs of Sydney isn’t eligible for Group status yet, once it has more history behind it this is likely to be awarded in the near future when you consider how much money is on offer. U S Navy Flag – the first horse for 35 years to win the juveniles only Middle Park and Dewhurst Stakes in 2017 – returned to his happy hunting ground of Newmarket for the centrepiece of the July Festival. He put in a scintillating front-running performance under Ryan Moore and made all in the centre of the course to win going away from Brando (a horse twice his age) by 1 3/4 lengths. <iframe width=”854″ height=”480″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/d2rcCYO7PVo” frameborder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; encrypted-media” allowfullscreen></iframe> It is yet another remarkable feat of training by Ballydoyle handler O’Brien, who had been highly trying U S Navy Flag over a mile since the end of last season. While many of those efforts didn’t suit his bold running style as other types with more stamina outpaced him in the closing stages of previous races, a drop back in trip at Newmarket was a masterstroke. Serious credentials U S Navy Flag was also runner-up in a Classic when finishing 2 1/4 lengths behind Romanised in the Irish 2000 Guineas at The Curragh and will now be trained for The Everest with this year’s renewal taking place on October 13. If you fancy using a William Hill bonus bet on this Irish raider heading Down Under, then U S Navy Flag has earned an early quote of 8/1 for the race with that bookmaker. There are also other potential targets connections could take in on route before the trip to Australia. While O’Brien has said U S Navy Flag will have a little rest, he holds early closing entries for a number of high-profile sprints in the UK and Ireland. “Ryan Moore gave U S Navy Flag a brave ride” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Ogiyoshisan These include the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes during York’s Ebor Festival towards the end of August – which U S Navy Flag is a 5/1 chance with William Hill to win. Haydock’s Sprint Cup and the Flying Five Stakes at The Curragh in September are other possible races. Although soundly beaten on his only really lengthy voyage to the Breeders’ Cup in California at Del Mar last November, that race was on dirt and his first crack at a mile. Now he’s heading Down Under to tackle a trip that suits him better on turf, U S Navy Flag is a serious contender for The Everest and the mega prize money that will have lured O’Brien’s principal owners.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line763
__label__cc	0.689908	0.310092	Dec. 11, 2019, 2:08 a.m. EST Entertainment Robots Market 2019 - 2023: Key Finding, Business Trends, Regional Analysis, Size, Share and Industry Profit Growth Dec 11, 2019 (AB Digital via COMTEX) -- Entertainment Robots Market Highlights: This study offered by Market Research Future (MRFR) unfolds that the global entertainment robots market is poised to expand at 23.06% CAGR across the evaluation period. Also, the market is set to scale valuation of USD 3715.29 Mn by 2023 from USD 981.25 Mn in 2016. Rapid adoption of technological advancements is likely to influence the market greatly in the years to come. The rising population of aged people has led to an increase in demand for these robots, especially companion robots. In addition, the education sector is also leveraging these robots to promote interactive studying. These factors are poised to open growth avenues for players in the Entertainment Robots Market . Invention of robot has add pleasure to human life. Entertainment robot are made to complete a specific task, it also provide pleasure to human lives. They can be used in trade-shows to generate lots of media exposure and can be programmed with different speeches, dance routines and more. The entertainment robot presence can be seen in movies with huge structure with their unique characteristics. Companies Covered: The key players of the global entertainment robots industry KUKA (Germany), Hasbro, INC. (US), MATTEL, INC (US), SPHERO (US), BLUEFROG ROBOTICS (France), Modular Robotics (US), Robobuilder (South Korea), Sony Corporation (Japan), and Lego (Denmark). Entertainment Robots Market Regional Analysis: Market Research Future Analysis shows that educational robots strengthen and supports the student’s abilities and develop their knowledge through the creation, design, assembly and the operation of robots. The robotics play a very important role in the automation technology, teaching robotics familiarize students to the current production processes which is related to the use of the mechanical, the electronic and the computer-based , in the operation and control of the production . Regional analysis for entertainment robots trends is studied in different geographic regions as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World. North America region is mainly dominating the market because of advanced robotic technology implementation in entertainment robots market. The European region is gaining growth because robotics markets is evolving quickly and robotics will be a key source of competitive advantage and a means for embarking societal challenge and to excel in science Growth Drivers and Key Barriers: The global entertainment robots could reach greater heights in the near future, backed by the fact that the entertainment industry is continuously on the lookout for automation. For example, the entertainment sector has used artificial intelligence (AI) extensively in children’s toys. The market’s main focus in on the end-users that make high demand for entertainment robots, such as children and geriatric population. This could benefit the entertainment robots market to a great extent during the review period. Having said that, the entertainment robotics market requires high initial investment, which is something that slows down the otherwise smooth market growth rate. However, entertainment robots find multiple applications such as band performances, movies, video games, dance performances, robot competitions and live performances, which could be fruitful for the market in the coming years. One of the prominent trends making its way in the entertainment robots market includes the emergence of humanoid robots. Sarcos Corp.a company based in the United States (U.S.), recently developed elegant and intelligent humanoid robots along with virtual reality platforms. It manufactures hypersensitive and durable entertainment robots, wherein the price range of robot toys are from USD 50 to USD1000 and comes in different designs that meet with the needs of diverse end-users. Entertainment robots also act as personal companions for children at home. Some of the prominent commercial robotic toys include Poo-chi, Aibo, I-Cybie, Bo-wow, Gupi, iDog, K-9, Goddard, Preston, and Space dog. Also, commercial entertainment robots are utilized as a marketing tool that helps promote products and technology of a company. These types of robots also find use as artificial performers for stage performances entertaining a generally large audience. Some of the non-commercial applications for entertainment robots include those that are kept on the shelves of museums giving interactive performances. Entertainment Robots Market Segmentation: The entertainment robots for global market has been segmented on the basis of product. Science, technology engineering and math’s education is ever growing in the classroom and the robotics movement nationwide aims to add fun and creativity into the mix. The educational robots has numerous advantage which includes, the robots can be launching platform for students and help them to realize their passion. Robotics can teach students how to communicate across different technology platforms. 1 Market Introduction 1.2.1 Research Objective 1.2.2 Assumptions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line774
__label__wiki	0.552198	0.552198	Dec. 7, 2019, 7:37 a.m. EST IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) Combination Therapy Data From Two Studies and Long-Term Integrated Analysis Presented at ASH 2019 Show Efficacy and Safety in First-Line Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Follow-up data from Phase 3 E1912 study (Abstract #33) evaluating the investigational use of IMBRUVICA® in combination with rituximab versus fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab showed statistically significant difference in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were maintained in previously untreated patients (ages 70 or younger) with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)- Integrated analysis from RESONATE™ and RESONATE™-2 studies in CLL (Abstract #3054) reported long-term PFS, OS and response rates with earlier treatment with IMBRUVICA®- IMBRUVICA® plus venetoclax data from Phase 2 CAPTIVATE study (Abstract #35) showed high rates of undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) in peripheral blood (75 percent of patients) and in bone marrow (72 percent of patients) in previously untreated patients with CLL for time-limited, MRD-guided combination regimen ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced combination data from two studies and a long-term integrated analysis evaluating the use of IMBRUVICA [®] (ibrutinib) for the treatment of previously untreated patients with CLL or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). Results from a 48-month follow-up analysis of the Phase 3 E1912 clinical study reported a statistically significant difference in PFS and OS for IMBRUVICA [®] plus rituximab compared to a standard chemoimmunotherapy regimen of fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab (FCR). Further, the latest integrated analysis from the Phase 3 RESONATE™ (PCYC-1112) and RESONATE™-2 (PCYC-1115/1116) studies investigating the use of single-agent IMBRUVICA [®] in CLL, reported that at up to six years of follow-up, PFS, OS and response rates improved when IMBRUVICA [®] was used in earlier lines of therapy. During this extended follow-up, IMBRUVICA [®] was tolerated across all lines of therapy with 19 percent of patients discontinuing due to adverse events. In addition, results presented from the Phase 2 CAPTIVATE study suggest that patients who received IMBRUVICA [®] plus venetoclax as a time-limited treatment achieved high rates of uMRD in peripheral blood (75 percent of patients) and bone marrow (72 percent of patients). These new findings from the E1912, RESONATE™/RESONATE™-2 and CAPTIVATE studies were presented at the 2019 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. "We're pleased to see follow-up results from the Phase 3 E1912 trial, where the investigational use of IMBRUVICA plus rituximab is shown to extend OS for previously untreated patients with CLL. In addition, with the integrated analysis of the Phase 3 RESONATE and RESONATE-2 studies, IMBRUVICA demonstrated an OS benefit in untreated and relapsed patients with improved outcomes in early lines of therapy," said Craig Tendler, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development and Global Medical Affairs, Oncology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "We are also excited to see the first MRD data from the fixed-duration regimen of IMBRUVICA plus venetoclax in the Phase 2 CAPTIVATE trial, reporting a high rate of undetectable MRD at 15 months both in the peripheral blood and bone marrow." E1912 extended follow-up of investigational use of IMBRUVICA® plus rituximab compared to FCR in patients with CLL/SLL ages 70 or younger ( Abstract #33 ) Longer-term outcomes data from the Phase 3 E1912 clinical trial – designed and conducted by the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health – were also presented. As previously reported in earlier data readouts, the study evaluated 354 previously untreated patients with CLL ages 70 years or younger who were randomly assigned to receive IMBRUVICA [®] and rituximab or six courses of intravenous FCR every 28 days. At a median follow-up of 48 months, 73 percent of patients in the IMBRUVICA [®] plus rituximab treatment arm remained on IMBRUVICA [®] with median time on treatment of 43 months. PFS benefits were observed for the IMBRUVICA [®] plus rituximab arm as compared to the FCR treatment arm (hazard ratio [HR], 0.39; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.26-0.57; p<0.0001). OS benefit also continued to favor the IMBRUVICA [®] plus rituximab arm (HR, 0.34; 95 percent CI, 0.15-0.79; p=0.009). Grade 3 and above treatment-related adverse events (AEs) were observed in 70 percent of patients in the IMBRUVICA [®] plus rituximab arm versus 80 percent in the FCR arm (odds ratio [OR], 0.56; 95 percent CI, 0.34-0.90; p=0.013). The E1912 study served as the basis of the recent supplemental New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the IMBRUVICA [®] label to include the combination with rituximab for the first-line treatment of patients with CLL or SLL. The submission is being reviewed by the FDA under the Real-Time Oncology Review (RTOR) pilot program. MRD cohort of the Phase 2 CAPTIVATE study on IMBRUVICA® plus venetoclax combination in patients with previously untreated CLL/SLL ( Abstract #35 ) The Phase 2 CAPTIVATE (PCYC-1142) clinical trial evaluated 164 patients younger than 70 years (median age of 58 years) with previously untreated CLL/SLL. Patients received IMBRUVICA [®] monotherapy as lead-in treatment for three cycles, followed by 12 cycles of IMBRUVICA [®] plus venetoclax combination therapy. MRD status was evaluated in peripheral blood (PB) after six, nine, and 12 cycles and in bone marrow (BM) after 12 cycles of IMBRUVICA [®] plus venetoclax. "The new results from the CAPTIVATE study demonstrated the all-oral regimen of ibrutinib monotherapy followed by combined ibrutinib and venetoclax achieved promising rates of undetectable minimal residual disease, an important indicator of deep response, in previously untreated patients with CLL," said Constantine Tam, M.D., Hematologist and Disease Group Lead, Low Grade Lymphoma and CLL, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia, and principal study investigator. "We look forward to continuing to explore the efficacy and safety profile of this regimen and its potential to provide a limited-duration option in first-line treatment of CLL." Results showed undetectable MRD (uMRD) – defined as less than one CLL cell per 10,000 leukocytes (MRD<0.01 percent) by flow cytometry– was achieved at any time after baseline in PB for 75 percent of patients (122 of 163 patients) and in BM for 72 percent (111 of 155 patients). The high rates of uMRD in BM were consistent across high-risk subgroups, including in patients with del(17p); del(17p) or TP53 mutation; del(11q); complex karyotype; and unmutated IGHV status. In patients with uMRD in PB with matched BM samples, 93 percent of patients had uMRD in both PB and BM. With median follow-up of 14.7 months, three patients (2 percent) experienced disease progression. The most common AEs of any grade (in 20 percent of patients or greater) were diarrhea (31 percent) and arthralgia (22 percent) during treatment with IMBRUVICA [®] alone; and diarrhea (60 percent), neutropenia (40 percent), nausea (34 percent), upper respiratory tract infection (24 percent), and fatigue (20 percent) during treatment with IMBRUVICA [®] plus venetoclax. AEs leading to dose reductions occurred in 20 percent of patients overall. AEs leading to discontinuation were infrequent, occurring in 7 percent of patients overall (IMBRUVICA [®] : 5 percent; venetoclax: 4 percent). Results from the MRD-guided, randomized treatment discontinuation cohort and fixed-duration cohort of the CAPTIVATE clinical trial are being further evaluated and will be presented at a future medical meeting. About IMBRUVICA® IMBRUVICA [®] is a once-daily, first-in-class Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor that is administered orally, and is jointly developed and commercialized by Janssen Biotech, Inc. and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie company. IMBRUVICA [®] blocks the BTK protein; the BTK protein sends important signals that tell B cells to mature and produce antibodies. BTK signaling is needed by specific cancer cells to multiply and spread. [1,2] By blocking BTK, IMBRUVICA [®] may help move abnormal B cells out of their nourishing environments in the lymph nodes, bone marrow, and other organs. [3] IMBRUVICA [®] is the most comprehensively studied molecule in the class with more than 150 ongoing clinical trials and four Phase 3 studies supporting the U.S. label. It is approved in more than 95 countries for at least one indication, and to date, has been used to treat more than 170,000 patients worldwide across approved indications. It was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2013, and today is indicated in six disease areas, including five hematologic cancers – chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with or without 17p deletion (del17p); small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) with or without del17p; Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM); previously-treated patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL); previously-treated patients with marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) who require systemic therapy and have received at least one prior anti-CD20-based therapy; and previously-treated patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy. [4] * Accelerated approval was granted for MCL and MZL based on overall response rate. Continued approval for MCL and MZL may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials. As of early 2019, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network [®] ( NCCN [®] ), a not-for-profit alliance of 28 leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education, recommends ibrutinib (IMBRUVICA [®] ) as a preferred regimen for the initial treatment of CLL/SLL, and it is the only Category 1 single-agent regimen for treatment-naïve patients without deletion 17p. IMBRUVICA [®] is the only FDA-approved medicine in WM and cGVHD. IMBRUVICA [®] has been granted four Breakthrough Therapy Designations by the FDA, and it was one of the first medicines to receive U.S. approval with the Breakthrough Therapy Designation. For more information, visit www.IMBRUVICA.com . Hemorrhage: Fatal bleeding events have occurred in patients treated with IMBRUVICA [®] . Major hemorrhage (≥ Grade 3, serious, or any central nervous system events; e.g., intracranial hemorrhage [including subdural hematoma], gastrointestinal bleeding, hematuria, and post procedural hemorrhage) have occurred in 4% of patients, with fatalities occurring in 0.4% of 2,838 patients exposed to IMBRUVICA [® ] in 27 clinical trials. Bleeding events of any grade, including bruising and petechiae, occurred in 39% of patients treated with IMBRUVICA [®] . The mechanism for the bleeding events is not well understood. Use of either anticoagulant or antiplatelet agents concomitantly with IMBRUVICA [®] increases the risk of major hemorrhage. In IMBRUVICA [®] clinical trials, 3.1% of patients taking IMBRUVICA [®] without antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy experienced major hemorrhage. The addition of antiplatelet therapy with or without anticoagulant therapy increased this percentage to 4.4%, and the addition of anticoagulant therapy with or without antiplatelet therapy increased this percentage to 6.1%. Consider the risks and benefits of anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy when co-administered with IMBRUVICA [®] . Monitor for signs and symptoms of bleeding. Consider the benefit-risk of withholding IMBRUVICA [®] for at least 3 to 7 days pre- and post-surgery depending upon the type of surgery and the risk of bleeding. Infections: Fatal and non-fatal infections (including bacterial, viral, or fungal) have occurred with IMBRUVICA [®] therapy. Grade 3 or greater infections occurred in 24% of 1,124 patients exposed to IMBRUVICA [®] in clinical trials. Cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) have occurred in patients treated with IMBRUVICA [®] . Consider prophylaxis according to standard of care in patients who are at increased risk for opportunistic infections. Monitor and evaluate patients for fever and infections and treat appropriately. Cytopenias: Treatment-emergent Grade 3 or 4 cytopenias including neutropenia (23%), thrombocytopenia (8%), and anemia (3%) based on laboratory measurements occurred in patients with B-cell malignancies treated with single agent IMBRUVICA [®] . Monitor complete blood counts monthly. Cardiac Arrhythmias: Fatal and serious cardiac arrhythmias have occurred with IMBRUVICA [®] therapy. Grade 3 or greater ventricular tachyarrhythmias occurred in 0.2% of patients, and Grade 3 or greater atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter occurred in 4% of 1,124 patients exposed to IMBRUVICA [®] in clinical trials. These events have occurred particularly in patients with cardiac risk factors, hypertension, acute infections, and a previous history of cardiac arrhythmias. Periodically monitor patients clinically for cardiac arrhythmias. Obtain an ECG for patients who develop arrhythmic symptoms (e.g., palpitations, lightheadedness, syncope, chest pain) or new onset dyspnea. Manage cardiac arrhythmias appropriately, and if it persists, consider the risks and benefits of IMBRUVICA [®] treatment and follow dose modification guidelines. Hypertension: Hypertension of any grade occurred in 12% of 1,124 patients treated with IMBRUVICA [®] in clinical trials. Grade 3 or greater hypertension occurred in 5% of patients with a median time to onset of 5.9 months (range, 0.03 to 24 months). Monitor blood pressure in patients treated with IMBRUVICA [®] and initiate or adjust anti-hypertensive medication throughout treatment with IMBRUVICA [®] as appropriate. Second Primary Malignancies: Other malignancies (10%) including non-skin carcinomas (4%) have occurred in 1,124 patients treated with IMBRUVICA [®] in clinical trials. The most frequent second primary malignancy was non-melanoma skin cancer (6%). Tumor Lysis Syndrome: Tumor lysis syndrome has been infrequently reported with IMBRUVICA [® ] therapy. Assess the baseline risk (e.g., high tumor burden) and take appropriate precautions. Monitor patients closely and treat as appropriate. Embryo-Fetal Toxicity: Based on findings in animals, IMBRUVICA® can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Advise women to avoid becoming pregnant while taking IMBRUVICA [®] and for 1 month after cessation of therapy. If this drug is used during pregnancy or if the patient becomes pregnant while taking this drug, the patient should be apprised of the potential hazard to a fetus. Advise men to avoid fathering a child during the same time period. B-cell malignancies: The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with B-cell malignancies (MCL, CLL/SLL, WM and MZL) were thrombocytopenia (58%), diarrhea (41%), anemia (38%), neutropenia (35%), musculoskeletal pain (32%), rash (32%), bruising (31%), nausea (26%), fatigue (26%), hemorrhage (24%), and pyrexia (20%). The most common Grade 3 or 4 adverse reactions (≥5%) in patients with B-cell malignancies (MCL, CLL/SLL, WM and MZL) were neutropenia (18%), thrombocytopenia (16%), and pneumonia (14%). Approximately 7% (CLL/SLL), 14% (MCL), 14% (WM) and 10% (MZL) of patients had a dose reduction due to adverse reactions. Approximately 4-10% (CLL/SLL), 9% (MCL), and 7% (WM [5%] and MZL [13%]) of patients discontinued due to adverse reactions. cGVHD: The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with cGVHD were fatigue (57%), bruising (40%), diarrhea (36%), thrombocytopenia (33%), muscle spasms (29%), stomatitis (29%), nausea (26%), hemorrhage (26%), anemia (24%), and pneumonia (21%). The most common Grade 3 or higher adverse reactions (≥5%) reported in patients with cGVHD were pneumonia (14%), fatigue (12%), diarrhea (10%), neutropenia (10%), sepsis (10%), hypokalemia (7%), headache (5%), musculoskeletal pain (5%), and pyrexia (5%). Twenty-four percent of patients receiving IMBRUVICA [®] in the cGVHD trial discontinued treatment due to adverse reactions. Adverse reactions leading to dose reduction occurred in 26% of patients. *Treatment-emergent decreases (all grades) were based on laboratory measurements. CYP3A Inhibitors: Co-administration of IMBRUVICA [®] with strong or moderate CYP3A inhibitors may increase ibrutinib plasma concentrations. Dose modifications of IMBRUVICA [®] may be recommended when used concomitantly with posaconazole, voriconazole, and moderate CYP3A inhibitors. Avoid concomitant use of other strong CYP3A inhibitors. Interrupt IMBRUVICA [®] if strong inhibitors are used short-term (e.g., for ≤ 7 days). See dose modification guidelines in USPI sections 2.4 and 7.1. CYP3A Inducers: Avoid coadministration with strong CYP3A inducers. Hepatic Impairment (based on Child-Pugh criteria): Avoid use of IMBRUVICA [®] in patients with severe baseline hepatic impairment. In patients with mild or moderate impairment, reduce IMBRUVICA [®] dose. Please click here for full Prescribing Information. About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson At Janssen, we're creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We're the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular & Metabolism, Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Vaccines, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Hypertension. Learn more at www.janssen.com . Follow us at www.twitter.com/JanssenGlobal and www.twitter.com/JanssenUS . Janssen Research & Development, LLC and Janssen Biotech, Inc. are part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Cautions Concerning Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib). The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, any of the other Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; manufacturing difficulties and delays; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; product efficacy or safety concerns resulting in product recalls or regulatory action; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2018, including in the sections captioned "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and in the company's most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and the company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at , or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments. [1] Genetics Home Reference. Isolated growth hormone deficiency. http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/isolated-growth-hormone-deficiency . Accessed December 2019. [2] Turetsky, A, et al. Single cell imaging of Bruton's tyrosine kinase using an irreversible inhibitor. Scientific Reports . 2014;6:4782. [3] de Rooij MF, Kuil A, Geest CR, et al. The clinically active BTK inhibitor PCI-32765 targets B-cell receptor- and chemokine-controlled adhesion and migration in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood . 2012;119(11):2590-2594. [4] IMBRUVICA U.S. Prescribing Information, September 2019. Media Inquiries: Brian Kenney Bernadette King Investor Relations: Christopher DelOrefice Lesley Fishman U.S. Medical Inquiries: 1-800-526-7736 View original content: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/imbruvica-ibrutinib-combination-therapy-data-from-two-studies-and-long-term-integrated-analysis-presented-at-ash-2019-show-efficacy-and-safety-in-first-line-treatment-of-chronic-lymphocytic-leukemia-300970942.html SOURCE Janssen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line775
__label__cc	0.647707	0.352293	MovieBytes Interview: Wildsound Writing Competition Posted on Jul 1st, 2007 \| Category: Interviews An interview with screenwriter Teresa Lewis regarding the Wildsound Writing Competition. Q: What’s the title of the script you entered in this contest, and what’s it about? A: BEYOND REASON. A true love story, based on the witty philosopher Voltaire and the love of his life, Émilie Du Châtelet. Emilie was no ordinary woman of her time, known for her “amorous nature” and brilliant mind, but best remembered as the woman who conquered Voltaire’s heart. Voltaire celebrated her, in her own right, as, a ‘great and powerful genius’, his equal. Beyond Reason, is a humorous and timeless glimpse at the polarity of men and women that will touch anyone ever involved in a passionate relationship. Q: What made you enter this particular contest? Have you entered any other contests with this script? If so, how did you do? A: Actually, Matthew Toffolo, at WILDsound, found me here on Moviebytes Winning Scripts regarding my feature script, Rebirth. Because of another Production company’s interest in Rebirth, my attorney advised me to enter another script– (Beyond Reason). Prior, I also entered one of my first drafts of Beyond Reason in the British Short Contest and was suprised and pleased when it made the quarter then Semi-Finals. I have only entered it in one other contest, still in progress. Q: Were you satisfied with the adminstration of the contest? Did they meet their deadlines? Did you receive all the awards that were promised? A: Extremely Satisfied and would recommend WILDsound highly. WildSound offers a monthly Reading Series for the top three screenplays and gives them the opportunity to hear their scripts read out loud by Top Actors. All three winners are treated equally. Not sure, but I think the audience votes at the end. But no matter what happens, you get full feedback on your script on the good, the bad and ways to make it better. If you visit their website, you’ll get a sense of the energy, hard work, and creativity of this extremely talented Toronto group. Q: Were you given any feedback on your script? If so, did you find the feedback helpful? A: Re: Feedback… it’s a writer’s dream. If you win in the top three, your script is read by professional actors in front of a large audience in Toronto, and you get to hear feedback from an Industry Professional who moderates the event and facillitates a Q&A with the audience. Out of town Winners (like me) receive free hotel accommodation during the reading. I’m planning the trip to Toronto now. But even if a writer can’t make the event, they email a DVD copy of the reading of your script, plus the full moderation and audience participation. To view actual taped readings, and so much more, you can visit their website www.wildcardpictures.com for more information. AMAZING– and the contest only costs 15 dollars! Q: Has your success in this contest helped you market your script? Were you contacted by any agents, managers or producers? A: Actually, I wrote Beyond Reason just because I enjoyed the feisty wit and brillance of the characters and I think others will likewise appreciate and identify with them. I may be able to say more after the reading in later July. I’ll post either on my writing website: tlllewis.net or myspace.com/screenwritertllewis Q: What’s your background? Have you written any other screenplays or television scripts? A: I’m a scholar at heart, with a passion for writing with a love for a great story. I’m an educator who loves to learn, having taught myself film editing and also fortunate to have a backgound in marketing. This is a good thing, since I seem to spend much time on print, P.R. and web design for my scripts. My genuine passion, is for my provocative, larger budget feature script, Rebirth and it’s 3D characters– to come to life on the big screen. I have several smaller production companies interested, including offered options, both in the U.S. and Europe, but am awaiting that lead producer to make Rebirth the classic film for profit and “for the sake of love and honor”. The process is akin to an emotional roller coaster that’s ‘highly adrenalin addictive’. Q: Do you live in Los Angeles? If not, do you have any plans to move there? A: I lived in L.A. during most of my childhood and still remember, with fondness, the great weather and variety of terrain. My sister lives just north of the city, and I can visit whenever I want. I’m now pretty independent with my career and can travel when and if I wish. It’s not about where you are, but who you are and what you have to offer. Q: What’s next? Are you working on a new script? A: Actually, I’m working on another historical action script as well as developing three seperate comedies with my off the wall sense of humor. One I call DAYTONA DREAMING– a Comedy about a Florida State University Film student and a Surfer Dude – set in Daytona about two “losers”, who are inspired to follow their dreams after a Tony Robbins motivational CD gets accidentally stuck in their car stereo. To include sets at a Florida University, the Daytona Speedway, and the Daytona Auto Mall— and of course, Daytona Beach –at Spring Break. And another comedy: SHORT BUS — about the power of expectations… When two transfer middle school students get their diverse IQ scores switched…The gifted student ends up riding the “Short Bus” and actually finds relief from the rigidity of high expectations, and the “slower” student gains new confidence, when everyone suddenly looks up to her. The possibilities– when laughter and lessons of life, converge. ”Days of Kings” — Fantasy/ Sci Fi Based on bits of Celtic Mythology and Mystery, “legend” of a Hollow Earth, a touch on Atlantis, but all tied to a Book of Life that records all actions, thoughts, our histories that create our future– with a twist . It could easily be set in NZ or, on the Isle of Man, off Ireland. And of course, others, but enough for now. I write daily because it’s as natural and as essential to my well being as breathing. I’m always working on a script whether in the shower, in my dreams, or just vacuuming:). I have two 21 inch computer screens with 3-4 scripts open and in progress at any given time. I can honestly say that I’m never bored. A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ~Rita Mae Brown Rebirth has it all, from the love and romance, to the martyrs and heroes staking their lives on the quest for peace and justice… I LOVED IT! — Sasha Lauren, Epiphany Scripts, Los Angeles Château de Condé Discovery Academy InkTip MovieBytes Rynoceris Slavery Isn't History The-GreenLight.com WGA West Registry Without a Box	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line779
__label__wiki	0.842037	0.842037	The national criminal DNA database and Black Britain: ending the criminalisation of the innocent Posted by Koos on 30 May 2012 / 0 Comment By Matilda MacAttram Black Mental Health UKâ€™s campaign calling for the removal of innocent DNA from the criminal database brought to the nationâ€™s attention that 42% of the entire black male population and 77% of all young black men are profiled on the database, even though people from this group are less likely to commit a crime than their white counterparts. These staggering statistics were first brought to the attention of the community at a public meeting at the House of Commonsâ€™ hosted by Sarah Teather MP, now minister for children and families, back in May 2008. Teather raised this issue in a parliamentary debate because of her concerns over how the use of the database was affecting her constituents in Brent. In the run up to this meeting BMH UK flooded both the community and national press with information about the injustices of this issue and almost overnight this became of widespread concern across the community. BMH UKâ€™s political lobbying on the DNA database changed the public debate on the impact it has had on both mental health service users and black Britain. The only agency that has lobbied parliament over the impact of the DNA database on innocent mental health service users and black Britain, BMH UKâ€™s four year campaign brought to the communityâ€™s attention an issue that had for the most part been shrouded in secrecy for this group. The first public meeting at the House of Commonâ€™s on this issue coincided with the launch of a report on the database by the Human Genetics Commission, a government advisory body, calling for almost exactly the same changes to the database that BMH UK were calling for. A European Court of Human (ECHR) Rights ruling in 2008 that the UKâ€™s DNA retention regime was illegal boosted the calls in this campaign and forced the former government to review its policywhere anyone arrested for any â€˜recordable offenceâ€™ automatically has a DNA sample taken, whether charges are brought against them or not. Proving that information is power, now other activists armed with the data from BMH UKâ€™s campaign also began speaking out about this issue. BMH UKâ€™s 10 Downing Street petition went viral, community, pirate, mainstream and Christian radio stations also covered this campaign. When the Voice newspaper ran a front page news story on the impact of the DNA database alongside the death of Michael Jackson back in June 2009, the team at BMH UK knew that what had started off an almost impossible task, which many said was pointless in trying to change, were proved wrong. In response to ECHR ruling the Home Office launched a consultation seeking public opinion on police retention of innocent DNA. August 2009 saw BMH UK along with GeneWatch UK and Privacy International host the only public event on this consultation for the community at the London School of Economics (LSE), in central London. Hungry for information on this issue many who were personally affected by the DNA database attended along with the press, government and union officials and church groups. Delegates learnt for the first time from experts about exactly what the DNA database is and how people are added to it, and most importantly how innocent can get their DNA removed. Delegates also heard first hand form the then shadow justice minister David Burrowes MP of the Tory Partyâ€™s commitment to the deletion of innocent DNA if elected to power. This commitment for the deletion of innocent DNA was made again at a symposium organised by BMH UK hosted by the current Home Office minister James Brokenshire and the Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesperson Paul Homes MP. Landmark victories in this campaign include securing a slot on the BBC;â€™s The One Show of over seven 7 million viewers. BMH UKâ€™s inclusion in one of ITNâ€™s prime time programmes and coverage in Guardian newspaper, all of which turned this into an issue that even the most senior politicians could not afford to ignore. The consistent support from The Voice newspaper and community radio also turned the DNA database into a national concern for black Britain. During the 2010 general election a consortia of close to 50 agencies from across the community officially endorse BMH UKâ€™s election manifesto calling for among other things the deletion of all innocent DNA from the National Criminal DNA database. In February 2011 the coalition pledge to adopt the protection of the Scottish model for the UKâ€™s DNA database was introduced in the Protection of Freedoms which means a large percentage of the 1.1million people on the DNA database without a criminal conviction will be eligible to have their records deleted. During the passage of this Bill through parliament Lord Herman Ouseley and Baroness Hamwee called on government in include a clause to ensure mental health service users taken into police custody under S136 of the Mental Health Act did not have their DNA taken. While rejected by the government a commitment was made to ensure that this is included in the code of practice for this bill. The introduction of the new Protection of Freedoms Act is a major step forward, but constant scrutiny will be needed in order to ensure that every innocent person who has been criminalised by this system has all their records including the record of arrest from the Police National Computer (PNC) permanently destroyed. Matilda MacAttram is the founder and director of Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK). Launched in August 2006, BMH UK has led various campaigns to raise awareness of the inequality of mental health treatment provided to Black communities. This article originally appeared in May/June edition of BMH UK’s The Solution Magazine. www.blackmentalhealth.org.uk Written by Koos	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line780
__label__wiki	0.523378	0.523378	10 Hole Harmonica Tunes to Play February 19, 2012 February 21, 2012 Richard 0 Comments Bunessan, Cat Stevens, ensemble, Harmonica tab, Junior harmonica, Learn to play harmonica, Morning Has Broken, solo, Yusef Islam Here’s a beautiful Springtime tune to play on the harmonica in C. It’s called Morning Has Broken and it’s been sung in schools for many years. It became popular in 1972, when Cat Stevens took it to N0.6 in the pop charts. But the melody was originally a folk tune from Scotland. Let’s investigate some more, and then learn how to play along on the harmonica. Like the first morning In the 1800s, a Scottish crofter’s wife called Mary MacDonald wrote a new hymn in her native Gaellic language. The hymn was called Leanabh an Aigh (Child In A Manger). Today we call the tune Bunessan, after the village near Mary’s home on the Isle of Mull in Argyllshire. The words to Mary’s hymn were eventually translated into English and we now call the song Morning Has broken. The translation was made by Eleanor Farjeon, a children’s author who lived in East Grinstead in Sussex. Blackbird has spoken Time to learn the tune on our harmonica. Remember, D means draw (breath in). B means blow (breath out). Numbers shown are for a 10 hole harmonica. Orange numbers are for a 10 hole harmonica. Green numbers are for a 4 hole harmonica. 4B 5B 6B 7B 8D 7D 6D 6B 6D 6B 4B 4D 5B 6B 6D Like the first bird 6B 5B 4B 4D Praise for the singing Praise for the morning 3B 2B 1D 1B 1D Praise for the springing Fresh from the world 4D 5B 4D 4B Well done! Now try to find a backing track and play the song to an audience by yourself (solo), or with a group of harmonica players (ensemble). Perhaps you could try work out some harmony notes and write down a second part to play. ← Happy New Year from The Toot Suite! Harpsichords and Harmonicas →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line781
__label__wiki	0.903017	0.903017	Tacocat Announce New Album and Tour, Share Video for New Song “Grains of Salt” This Mess Is a Place Due Out May 3 via Sub Pop Feb 14, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Seattle's wonderfully named Tacocat have announced a new album, This Mess Is a Place, and shared a video for its first single "Grains of Salt." They have also announced some tour dates. This Mess Is a Place is due out May 3 via Sub Pop, their first for the label. Watch the "Grains of Salt" video below, followed by the album's tracklist and cover art, as well as the band's upcoming tour dates. Tacocat features vocalist Emily Nokes, bassist Bree McKenna, guitarist Eric Randall, and drummer Lelah Maupin. Erik Blood produced This Mess Is a Place, which is the band's fourth album. A press release says the album "finds the band waking up the morning after the 2016 election and figuring out how to respond to a new reality where evil isn't hiding under the surface at all-it's front and center, with new tragedies and civil rights assaults filling up the scroll of the newsfeed every day." In the press release Nokes had this to say about the album and the camaraderie among the band members: "We can examine some hard stuff, make fun of some evil stuff, feel some soft feelings, feel some rage feelings, feel some bitter-ass feelings, sift through memories, feel wavy-existential, and still go get a banana daiquiri at the end." Nokes had this to say about "Grains of Salt": "This song is for roller skating, friendship, self friendship, yes and no doubt, turning it off, running up and down that hill, leaving gross stuff behind, landing the backflip, imposter syndrome, being your own genie, and remembering who the fuck you are." This Mess Is a Place Tracklist: 1. Hologram 2. New World 3. Grains of Salt 4. The Joke of Life 5. Little Friend 6. Rose-Colored Sky 7. The Problem 8. Crystal Ball 9. Meet Me at La Palma 10. Miles and Miles Tacocat Tour Dates: May 09 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club May 10 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club May 11 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall May 12 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme May 13 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe May 15 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair May 17 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg May 18 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle May 19 - Washington, D.C. - U Street Music Hall May 21 - Durham, NC - The Pinhook May 22 - Atlanta, GA - The Drunken Unicorn May 23 - Nashville, TN - The High Watt May 24 - St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway May 25 - Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar Jun. 08 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox at the Market Jun. 12 - Spokane, WA - The Bartlett Jun. 13 - Boise, ID - Neurolux Jun. 14 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court Jun. 15 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge Jun. 17 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada Jun. 18 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall Jun. 19 - Austin, TX - Barracuda Jun. 21 - Sante Fe, NM - Meow Wolf Jun. 22 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar Jun. 23 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah Jun. 25 - Los Angeles, CA - The Bootleg Theater Jun. 26 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel Jun. 28 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater Support Under the Radar on Patreon. Just discovered this band lol Tacocat is a palindrome.. I know that because I play Exploding Kittens and there’s a card with the name in it! haha Algarclima I love this group, their so retro. Thanx undertheradarmag for share this ^^	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line788
__label__cc	0.550602	0.449398	Will Artificial Intelligence explosion lead to massive ... The cult of ego – part 2 VR and the reimagining of Story – part 3 The future of the Auter filmmaker Jul 30, 2017 \| A.I., Film, Story, Storytelling, Virtual Reality ha(V)en Mar 4, 2017 \| Story Clunky words, fuzzy images Feb 4, 2017 \| Film, Literary fiction, Story \| We are genetic Gods, but what about our children? Feb 14, 2017 \| Genetics, Technology \| VR - a redefining technology or heroin for the masses? Jan 26, 2017 \| Technology, Virtual Reality \| Data Mining - the future of education Jan 14, 2017 \| Technology \| Think with your heart. Feel with your head. Apr 2, 2017 \| Spirituality The evil that is within Feb 25, 2017 \| Spirituality The fever for the sublime - part 2 of 2 Dec 3, 2016 \| Spirituality Storygeist – Start here VR and the reimagining of Story - part 2 In the first installment of this series I wrote about how seasoned game fanatics were turned into crying babies by the power of the VR medium, thereby proving what potential psychologically this medium holds. I also touched upon the utterly heart wrenching semi-interactive story “That Dragon Cancer” which more than proved that some artists do have something worthwhile to tell. This time around, as promised, I would like to get more into the hurdles which the VR-medium poses on the storyteller, and how some people think it’s an obstacle, while I think this is only an advantage and holds the true power of this particular entertainment/art form. I also want to make a humble appeal to the future VR-filmmakers for a more sensitive sensibility in their tales. To create stories which search for, and question, something deeper, more humane, existential and morally complex, than what most games/interactive stories have to offer right now. Two different beasts. Personally I am utterly in love with Film as an art form. But when you break it down to its simple building blocks, which are more than a century old, you discover it’s quite an artificial construct. The different kind of shots, the scenes, the mis-en-scene, and the flow of time in film, is a language. And its purpose is to emulate the flow of the story. When you peer closer, it’s quite striking how this language differs from the way we perceive reality, from one instant to the next. You could make a case for the indie film which uses less cuts, wider shots, and is generally less prone to force upon the viewer author’s intention. But even those films have a distinct vision and a multitide of artistic choices, be they more or less subtle, which force upon the viewer some kind of vision. And there is nothing wrong with this. On the contrary. It’s an art form, just like any other, with its rules and rigor. So when you think about VR as a storytelling medium, you realise a lot of what works in film, just doesn’t make any sense in VR. The framing of the shots which is the staple of the filmatic language goes right out of the window. This one is a biggie. I mean, what simple tools generates more emotion in Film, than precise framing. This not only directs our attention to the action, but is also able to conceal or reveal true human emotions in a very subjective way. This is what makes film an art form. But if you think about the real time rendered, open-world VR experiences, which have a freeform camera, this (the framing) is no longer valid. Although games like Fallout 4 are not yet done in VR, they are a good example of well done interactive stories, but where the camera is the viewer’s player’s eye. You could argue that there are cut scenes, of course, and here the artist can force upon us short snippets of well composed filmatic shots. Here he can manipulate our feelings at will, just the way he inteded it. And when you inspect interactive stories like “That Dragon Cancer”, they resort to this simple tool as well. But, I think these sort of storytelling tools are on their way out. And if one uses them, one misses the point with the medium. In my opinion Virtual Reality, as the name implies btw, has the biggest impact when it emulates life itself. So when you think about framing, and watching something passively, even a story well-told, you are not using the power of this medium. Once you get into the pre-made shots, where the viewer loses control of their ability to look around, you lose the viewer’s sense of free will, and the illusion that he is in a real/parallell reality. And this brings us to another powerful tool in film. Just as framing, the passage of time, has its own tools which the public is well used to. But when you break it down, it’s again a very archaic way of presenting reality. The ellipses and shot cuts are necessary but that doesn’t mnean they work well in VR A man by the name of Cartelmike makes a succint point: And this brings us to the elephant in the room with the current notion of VR Storytelling. (Storytelling) It always has been. People didn’t sit around the campfire telling stories in the timeframes that they actually occurred. And i’m not aware of realtime books. Linear… Storytelling is a RETROSPECTIVE thing. Interlude narrative mechanisms have evolved to break down the constraints of time and emotive viewpoint. But herein lies the VR Storytelling anachronism. Cartelmike continues to make an argument that VR can never succeed as a storytelling tool. Personally, I think it’s missing the point. The true power of storytelling in VR lies in its natural 1:1 passage of time. Only this true to life flow of time has the ultimate power of immersing us in the story. Anything less woul dbe jarring. Of course there will be some ways as to jump bigger chunks of time, for the sake of the story, (a fade comes to mind) but mostly we want to get the viewer grounded in the here and now. I think that in order to batter the viewer’s emotional heart-strings, we need to see the story unfold before our eyes, while we particpate in it in real time. Not while we watch a lengthy cut scene where the author’s tools are visible right in front of us. But done, “behind the scenes”, through dialog with another character, by exploration in real time, or by performing a certain story tasks, making the veiwer active. We need to feel that we are tight in the middle of the story by the way of participation. This is the true power of this medium. And we need to make him believe that what is evolving in front of his eyes, is 100% real. That’s powerful. Image from the game “Fallout” by Bethesda Studios. The image illustrates one of the cut scenes which push forward the main storyline in the game. This is an example of the pre-defined storytelling tools used by the team. To reiterate my point, I think we are missing the point with VR by emulating the tools which work so well in Film. In my opinion,the closer we get to life, and the subtler cues we can create behind the scenes of the VR narrative, in order to guide the viewer through the story, the more powerful of an emotional experience we will end up with. As a side note, read this excerpt by Carolina Milanesi: Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab has been studying VR for more than a decade. In 2009, the lab published the results of a study that focused on children’s memory and VR. A group of children played with whales underwater through VR. A week after the experience took place, they were asked about it. Some 50 percent of them said they remembered it as if it actually happened in the physical world. And she goes on to say: Even more interesting was how viewers reacted to one tested story ending, where the other bunny dies. Killing the bunny triggered much stronger feelings than it would have done in a regular movie. You are in the story; you are the bunny’s companion, yet there is nothing you can do to save it. You can see how this must be much harder on children — and adults, for that matter— I cried watching “Pete’s Dragon”! — than a traditional screening, even a 3-D one. Image from Wong Kar Wai’s sublime movie “In the mood for love”. Few other movies embody such a poetic sense of framing, mis-en-scene and musicality. An appeal for the future. Let’s leave the toolshed of these mediums for a while. And go over to something inherently more important. The sensibilites and the artistic motivation to tell your story as an artist. One could argue that some stories are better suited to tell in VR right now than others, it would probably be much easier to recreate a Mike Bay blockbuster with all of its emotional crudeness, than it would be to emulate a sublime european art-house flick. One where the characters struggle with inner conflicts, and structure which veers wildly away from the classical three-act structure. But this doesn’t mean we can’t create beatiful stories which are set in our world. I understand the needs of the market and the economic environment which drives the development of these games. It’s obvious that especially games are driven by the target group’s needs and wants, and the pragmatic thinking within the companies to stay financially afloat. But games like “That Dragon Cancer”proved two people can create a piece of art, and it can still be just as appreciated by young and old. So why not strive for stories which are more true to life, stories which brings us, and the viewer more in contact with the dilemmas of our own world. And ultimately in contact with ourselves. These stories don’t have to be filled with passive characters, doing nothing else than living through invisible to the eye, inner conflicts. On the contrary. “A Child made to order” is one of my own stories, and is inhabited by the main protagonist, Viola. She is an investigative journalist who stumbles upon illegal therapy treatments in an in vitro clinic. Through this, she is faced with the biggest dillema in her life. Should she do what’s right as a working professional, and go public with the story, or fulfill her lifelong desire of being a mother which these therapies can provide her. This story has a very clear goal-oriented character which researches the clinic and discovers, bit by bit, the secrets which the people hold at this place. Beside the clear emotional stakes playing out for this character, there are also enough secrets in this place and characters, to hold us vested in the story from beginning till the very end. But more importantly, told in parallel, the protagonist confronts her innermost longings for a child she could never have. By giving this story as an example, I would like to propose a more realistic, and character based, sensibility for the future stories done in VR. Stories filled with real life dilemmas and emotionally truthful people. Tales which could hold their place in the tough marketplace and entertain, but also simultaneously fulfill a healing role in our society. And given the immersive power of this medium, I do believe there is great opportunity here, to tell exactly these kind of stories. A few images from the leaflet from a fictitious company “Invitrogen” selling in vitro treatments. This leaflet was created by me for the project “A child made to order” which is being developed both as a book and a movie. For more info go to www.piotr-ryczko.com. The future redefined – a new kind of VR-making. In the next installment, I would like to take a look at what’s on the horizon of the future of VR. And with this I would like to draft a rough picture of a new kind of movie/hyper-reality experience which I think Virtual Reality might be headed for in this decade. Something which we are just beginning to see in a very few places in the world right now done with VR, but taken to a different artistic level. And this might just be where the true screenwriting/actor/theater/ film talent might be heading for. If you want to read first part of this story please go HERE. PreviousIntimacy NextEnlightenment Plug in to Storygeist! Want exclusive content not available here? Stay plugged in to the Storygeist vine. Plug me in! Consider yourself plugged in! 1st Teaser for the Sci-Fi Feature PANACEA available Sep 27, 2017 \| Genetics Genetic engineering in the novel “A Child Made To Order” Feb 24, 2017 \| Genetics Feb 14, 2017 \| Genetics, Technology PANACEA – Novel & Movie PANACEA - Thriller/Drama/Sci-fi - Novel Released on Amazon Kindle - Movie TBR 2019 "After an unexplained malfunction, Renata, an Artificial Intelligence parent/mother, is sent to A.I. group-therapy in order to see if she is still fit to be a surrogate mother for her troublesome Kamil. But events take an unexpected turn when Renata discovers the true nature of who she really is." A child made to order – The Novel Novel - Psychological Drama/Thriller - OUT NOW - Publishing house: THE BOOK FOLKS “When an investigative journalist’s search for a missing woman turns up illegal gene therapy treatments, she has to choose if she wants to reveal the story publicly or fulfill her lifelong desire of being a mother. “ The future of medicine & nano-tech in the Sci-fi thriller “The Core” A.I. A child made to order art-house Artificial intelligence Big brother Big Data buddhism cinema Collective conciousness CrispR Data mining Director ego Elon musk Facebook Film Filmmaker Filmmaking Future Genetic engineering Genetics gnosticism God No privacy Novel Orwell Parenting Privacy Psychological thriller Ray Kurzweil Science simulated reality spirit spirituality Story Storytelling Surveillance Technology The Book Folks Thriller Tracking Trends Virtual Reality VR www	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line794

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