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__label__wiki	0.552955	0.552955	America’s first symbol, Miss Liberty, is all but forgotten Terry and Kim Kovel Patriotic symbols like the Statue of Liberty, the American flag, the bald eagle and Uncle Sam are easily recognized today, but our first symbol, Miss Liberty, is almost forgotten. Before the Revolutionary War, the word “liberty” was the battle cry. Perhaps because a female figure was used to represent liberty in ancient... Across The Block www.antiquesandthearts.com Original Post April 30, 2019, Antiques & The Arts Weekly https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/across-the-block-77/ COLUMBUS, OHIO – On April 5, Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers conducted its Eclectic Auction. Fetching $4,688 and grabbing top lot status was a pair of KPM Art Nouveau vases. From Germany, fourth quarter of... Fine Art Auction Fundraiser Upcoming at HMA The Huntington Museum of Art is partnering with Garth's Auctions of Columbus, Ohio for the second year to host a fine art auction from 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 21, with a preview from 1 to 2 p.m., featuring more than 170 works of art to support the museum. The works included in the sale were supplied by private donors, living... HMA & Garth's Partner for Art Auction Fundraiser on October 15 The Huntington Museum of Art will host a fine art auction on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. The museum is proud again to be partnering with Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers of Delaware, Ohio. Garth's CEO and principal auctioneer, Jeff Jeffers, will run the live auction which features nearly 150 works of art supplied by priva... Pennsylvania Chest Tops Garth's Sale Don Johnson for Maine Antique Digest Top lots from different sessions had an interesting connection during the sale held by Garth’s in Delaware, Ohio, on May 12 and 13. The link—longtime collections. While high-quality items remained in demand, the event underscored the added appeal of desirable antiques that have been in private hands for decades. The au... Silver Ingot Shines At Garth’s Auction DELAWARE, OHIO — Leading Garth’s July 22 auction of European, Asian and Twentieth Century furniture and accessories was a silver Atocha ingot weighing about 75 pounds, which brought $26,400. The molded ingot with various marks from the ship wreck Nuestra Senora de Atocha, measures 3½ by 14¼ by 5 inches. The ship, part... Country Americana at Garth's Analyze the country Americana sale held in Delaware, Ohio, by Garth’s Auctions on March 18, and three things stick out. 1) When it comes to furniture, sometimes brown is beautiful. 2) In an already soft market for Oriental rugs, too much is certainly not a good thing. 3) People throw away the darndest things. The brown... American Figurative Paintings Presented by Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers Huntington Museum of Art This exhibit (running March 4 - June 11, 2017) will showcase a sampling of American paintings in the collection of the Huntington Museum of Art that feature the human form. From ancient times, depicting the human figure has been a central focus for artists. As an artistic culture formed in the early days of the United... Curating a Lifestyle: Reinterpreting A Classic Amelia & Jeff Jeffers for Sophisticated Living In 1927 when René Jules Lalique released his Bacchantes vase, he was 67 years old and riding a wave of success that had lasted an impressive four decades. His eponymous glassworks, based in Alsace, France, had received extraordinary acclaim at the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts... American American Antiques and European and Asian Furniture and Decorative The first sale each year for Garth’s Auctions in Delaware, Ohio, tends to be not only a mixed affair but also a mouthful. Described by the company as offering “American Antiques and European & Asian Furniture & Decorative Arts,” the January 14 event included all the above, but the day belonged largely to the American... Garth's welcomes media inquiries regarding pre-auction stories, post-auction highlights, photography, and interviews with our specialists and principals regarding any and all aspects of the fine art, antiques and collectibles market. National & Trade Media: Kellie Seltzer kellie@garths.com Amelia Jeffers American Figurative Paintings Andrew Richmond Andy Lee Kirk AntiqueWeek Antiques Show Antiques and The Arts Weekly Bill Traylor Carol Kee Cornelius Ver Bryck Dr. Bernadine Healy Dr. Floyd Loop Dunlap School Ferdinand Brader Fred Brusher Garth's Gentleman's Auction George Hughes Grueby Jay Suiter Jeff Jeffers Jim Wieker Kentucky Collectibles Kovels L.D. Owen M.S. Rau Marcus Mote Marcy Burns Margaret Brusher Matthew Harris Jouett Ohio Institute of Photography Ohio Magazine Oliver Frazer Peaseware Peter Finer Pizzuti Collection Radtke Collection Ron Pizzuti Scott Diament Selkirk Auctioneers Shirley McGill Susan Nutter Terry Thurston The Bee The Columbus Dispatch The Daily Record Thomas Glass WCMH-TV4 Wallpaper box avon faience coverlet	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2605
__label__cc	0.741453	0.258547	Home Motoring Motor Reviews 2019 BMW 3 Series Review Amandeep Sethi Most distinguished automakers have a model that has stood the test of time; a model that stands to represent the heritage of the brand. Often times these models fill a niche in the automotive market that was left previously unsatisfied. For Volkswagen this model is the Golf, for Honda, the Civic and for BMW, the 3-Series. With the 3-series name spanning over four decades, it’d be hard to believe that they don’t have the sport-saloon formula down to a T. With the 2019 and 2020 model year, BMW have introduced the newest iteration of the 3-series. The new 3-series is, yet again, the prized pony of the new lineup and coursing with prestigious BMW lifeblood. There is absolutely no doubt that the newest 3-series is the successor to a long lineage of purpose built automobiles. Sitting in the lower quadrant of the new 3-series model range is the 2019 BMW 330i. Now gone is the under-powered and unenthusiastic base 320i model of the previous generation. With that being said, the 330i doesn’t look or feel confined to the lower end of the BMW totem pole. In fact, the 330i is a pretty remarkable bang for your buck at $70,900. From a distance, the silhouette of the 2019 330i is unmistakably BMW. The flowing body contours seem to wrap around the entirety of the car in a cyclical way, hinting towards tried and true BMW design. In the spirit of retaining decades old design cues, the 330i displays prominent front kidney grilles, albeit with a more angular shape, and BMW’s signature Hofmeister kink along the rear windows. While some of the styling is clearly reminiscent of other competing manufacturers, looking at you Lexus, it is evident that the designers took care in delivering a unique and interesting product. While BMW has held true to a great deal of 3-series character traits, the interior of the 2019 330i is certainly a step beyond what we’ve come to expect from an entry level BMW sport-sedan. Where the interior of the previous generation 3-series felt like an up-scaled Mini Cooper, the interior of the 2019 330i feels like that of a slightly muffled 5-series of a much higher class. It really is the subtle details that make the most difference in the case of the 330i’s interior. Most of the knobs, buttons and accents are finished in a beautiful brushed aluminum, opposed to the cheap plastic of the generation before. Some elements of the aluminum-bolstered interior redesign are no-doubt borrowed from the competition. The centrally mounted start/stop button and infotainment selector dial seem to be lifted from an Audi, but still retain a BMW twist. The dash has taken an entirely digital form, with speedometer and tachometer information displayed prominently on the outer edges. The digital cluster really shines when it comes to customisability. Navigation, media information and vehicle statistics can all be displayed, front-and-center, to your liking. Paired with a heads-up display that projects an equally customizable array of information on the front windshield, you truly do feel surrounded by helpful and unobtrusive technology. The heads-up display is even more impressive in the diesel variant, with an astounding amount of windshield real estate dedicated to displaying speed, revs and other pertinent information. These are features you are unlikely to find in any other base model vehicle. As you probably would have guessed, technology is certainly a primary focal point in the 2019 330i’s interior experience. The enormous 12.3 inch central display is the powerhouse for media setting and controls, running BMW’s new iDrive 7 operating software. While the interface is intuitive, it relies heavily on using the touchscreen to navigate; not exactly ideal for on-the-go use. Furthermore, many of the interior buttons lack the elegantly tactile ease that you would expect from a luxury brand. An annoyance that repeatedly reared its ugly head came in the form of the A/C control buttons. With the controls being so small, and button based instead of a traditional dial, making simple air-con adjustments was a chore. The 330i’s autodrive feature will undoubtedly bring a smile to your face if you haven’t experienced the tech firsthand. Watching the steering wheel move independently is something genuinely surreal. Despite the elevated nerves from letting technology take control, the experience feels oddly natural as the autodrive feature does a wonderful job of following traffic in a safe way. With that being said, autodrive is undoubtedly a freeway aimed feature and probably wouldn’t fare too well on suburban streets. I did come to trust it, just maybe not that much yet. Just for kicks and added technological bragging rights, BMW included 360 panoramic parking assist on the 2019 330i. It truly does give you confidence to reverse without looking in a mirror at all. Of course a good driver wouldn’t use this as a crutch, but the overhead birds-eye view surround cameras definitely add some extra assurance if you’re sliding into a tight spot. While the space-age tech is most often a welcome addition to the new 3-series, there are a few areas that fail to meet the expectations of a premium sedan. The lane assist feature felt like more of a burden than a safety feature. On the highway, slight drifts near parallel lanes will be met with a dramatic correcting nudge, which might be a bit extreme. The lack of radar cruise control, a standard feature on many competing models, is quite disappointing when compared to some of the other standard technology included in the new 3-series. The presence of extremely high quality materials elevates the 330i’s interior to compete with vehicles twice the price. The M-Sport steering wheel provided on our test vehicle is light-years improved over that of the diesel variant, with a thick, merino-leather wrap that feels natural in the palm. The bolstered seats have clearly been designed with longevity in mind, with added accented stitching and segmented areas to prevent uneven wear. Even the storage space seems to be manufactured with elegance in mind, with a somewhat oddly placed wireless charging tray under the central climate controls, the space is pleasantly large and shrouded by leather. While the flashy tech and lavish interior are welcomed and appreciated, they are only half of the battle. BMW’s trusty slogan is ‘The Ultimate Driving Machine’ not ‘The Best Place to Sit,’ after all. Luckily, the new 330i keeps the claim alive. Powered by a 190kW 4-cylinder engine paired with an 8-speed sport automatic transmission, ample acceleration is just a foot-stomp away. The 400Nm of torque makes the 330i feel like a dominant force off the line. It certainly isn’t a slouch around the bends either. While there was no M-adaptive suspension on our test vehicle, the ride was excellently balanced and kept the chassis flat when thrown into a curve. While the steering feels on-point around corners, power is quite limited when exiting; Quite disappointing as the exit is the most important spot for power delivery. Somewhat surprisingly, the sporty 19-inch wheels provide a smooth and grippy ride. The brakes were also a spot of praise, stopping the 330i as fast as it can accelerate. As far as the typical 3-series formula is concerned, the 2019 330i certainly fulfills the criteria of comfort and sportiness, leaving one crucial piece: Practicality. As a sport oriented saloon, the 2019 330i allows quite a bit of room to sprawl out. The 14-way front seats allow for ample legroom for driver and passenger. The front cabin feels increasingly more spacious with the large sunroof in the open position. A mesh slide cover would have been a more ideal solution, rather than a block out cover, but the increased size is quite a nice addition. The rear seats are also fit for three adults to sit without any awkward squirming. BMW has always touted that 3 full-sized golf bags can fit in the boot of any 3-series and the 2019 330i is no exception. The tried and true BMW 40/20/40 folding seats allow for a 480-litre boot; plenty of space for weekend adventures. While space is ample, there are quite a few cracks and crevices that smartphones and other trinkets to get lost in. My only other gripe is the underwhelming cargo hooks that might make loading anything more than two bags a hassle. BMW had a lot to live up to with the newest iteration of the 3-series. It can be a make or break for a distinguished manufacturer to redesign a model that has defined a brand for decades. With the new 3-series platform, I am pleased to say that BMW has largely succeeded. Even on the lower end of the 3-series range with the 330i, you get the elegant and premium driving experience that BMW has been widely renowned for in the past. By Amandeep Sethi Previous articleAustralian PM condemns Smith’s booing from English fans Next articleDidn’t know I had tuberculosis for 8 years: Big B Volvo to unveil its first electric car XC40 SUV on Oct 16 Generating Electric Power within a Tyre BMW 2019 M140i Review Mini Cooper S Clubman Review 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2609
__label__wiki	0.861008	0.861008	‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap: Run From the Future By Nick Mangione 04.05.2019 :: 12:42PM EST 04.05.2019 Anson Mount as Captain Pike (Photo Credit: Russ Martin/CBS) ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Teases Troubled Patrick Stewart How Designers Achieved the Sci-Fi Sound Magic of 'The Orville' Can you tell there are only two episodes left after this one? Things are clearly ramping up for a big finale, and it appears the Discovery might not make it out in one piece. After the big reveals of recent episodes, this season has become all about trying to change the future. Or rather, how to avoid a possible and increasingly likely future where an AI has wiped out all sentient life. The role of fate in the universe, how much of the future is malleable, those are interesting questions. Ones that Star Trek loves to chew on every now and then. The importance of the Discovery and Michael Burnham’s unpredictability, we learned last night, makes the future super malleable, at least at this moment in time. That’s why Captain Pike’s role here is so interesting. With Dr. Burnham pulled irrevocably back into the future, there’s nothing more for the Discovery to do but protect the Sphere data from Control and wait for more signals. The revelation that Dr. Burnham never heard of the signals caused exactly the debate you’d think it would. Can the crew even trust them? If Dr. Burnham wasn’t sending them, who is? Could they be Control setting a trap. And yeah, that’s possible. But they also have to consider that the signals led the Discovery to help people. Including the descendants of a people Dr. Burnham saved. Plus, something the show didn’t bring up, Dr. Burnham still could have sent the signals from a point even further in the future. Maybe they pulled her from a time before she’d sent them. To steal a phrase from another sci-fi series, wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff. Mary Chieffo as L’Rell; Anson Mount as Captain Pike; Shazad Latif as Tyler (Photo Credit: John Medland/CBS) As much as I’d be down for a full episode of this debate, Michael Burnham points out that it’s accomplishing nothing, and there are more pressing matters at hand. Considering there are two weeks left in the season, she makes a point. A new signal appears above a planet in Klingon space. Specifically, the monastery where Tyler and L’Rell sent their son. The Klingon monks there guard the time crystals, which are exactly what the crew needs to send the Sphere data into space where Control can’t get it. After an argument between L’Rell and Tyler about whether Tyler visiting their son would put him in danger, Pike elects to go. He really is the ideal Star Trek captain. He has the confidence and charisma of Kirk, with the compassion and dedication to Starfleet values of Picard. It’s too bad he won’t last. Pike elects to go retrieve a time crystal, and L’Rell warns him that difficult trials await him. He holds steadfast both to her and the guardian he meets at the monastery. With the fate of all sentient life at stake, he’s not going to leave empty-handed. As the old Klingon guardian leads him through the monastery, Pike is surprised to learn he’s talking to L’Rell and Tyler’s son. It’s an effect of the Time Crystals. Time moves much faster for the people who live near them. Trees grow instantly too, which is a cool visual effect. At this point, we’re wondering when these trials will start. Turns out there’s only one. It’s real rough, though. Doug Jones as Saru (Photo Credit: John Medland/CBS) What makes this plot about trying to change the future a bit bitterly ironic is Pike. This series takes place after “The Cage,” but before “The Menagerie.” We know what Pike’s future looks like already. It’s a burned, disfigured face and a robotic wheelchair that allows him to communicate in beeps. The Discovery can prevent Control from wiping out all life, but The Original Series already set Pike’s future in stone. And now Discovery has too. When Pike grabs hold of the Time Crystal, he sees his future. A ship being destroyed around him, he gets the crew to safety. He’s trapped on the bridge and an explosion burns his face. He flashes further forward and sees the life he’ll eventually lead. The future terrifies him, and he’s given a choice. Leave the time crystal and maybe prevent that future, or take the crystal and guarantee it. As Pike represents the best of Starfleet, it’s not even a choice. He’ll gladly sacrifice himself to have a shot at saving the universe. As cool and full of Trek fanservice as that story was, the B-plot was plenty exciting as well. As Star Trek: Discovery moves toward its season finale, these episodes are getting so much better. While Pike’s getting the time crystals, Burnham wants to investigate a Section 31 ship that checked in an hour late. She wants to go after Leland, hoping to destroy control as soon as possible. Acting Captain Saru gives her permission to go, and Spock goes with her. As he points out, Burnham’s mom can’t come back in time to save her anymore. That’s a nice way to raise the stakes in these final episodes. They can’t count on a last minute deus ex machina anymore. Ethan Peck as Spock; Ali Momen as Kamran Grant; Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham (Photo Credit: Russ Martin/CBS) They come across a ravaged ship with one surviving crew member that served with Michael on the Shenzhou. He helps them get to the bridge of his ship so they can isolate Control and reboot the system. The whole story has the pacing of a good thriller. After we saw Control take over Leland last week, there isn’t anyone we can trust. That includes this crewmember. At this point, it’s not a matter of whether he’ll turn out to be Control, but when. As his dialog slowly starts to get more pro-AI while Spock is conveniently out of the room, Burnham grows more concerned. This is some great suspense here. We know the reveal is coming, we’re just growing increasingly anxious waiting for it. When the fight does happen, it’s fun, fast and scary. Even if Burnham does have main character invincibility at this point, watching the assimilation needle get ever closer to her eye is still unsettling. So is the part where, after Spock at least distracts the crewman with a failed Vulcan nerve pinch, Burnham phasers the guy multiple times and he keeps coming. She blows a giant hole in his chest and it doesn’t knock him down. Instead, a metallic Control goop comes out of him and speeds toward Burnham. For a brief second, it’s a full on horror movie until Spock figures out to magnetize the floor, stopping Control in its tracks. Tig Notaro as Reno (Photo Credit: John Medland/CBS) This whole excursion did more than provide the episode a few action beats. I mean, the action beats here were good enough that I wouldn’t have minded. Spock and Burnham learn that the whole situation was a trap for Burnham. She is the one variable the computer can’t predict. That’s why it’s so dead set on controlling her. That should make for some exciting situations over the next two episodes. So should the complication that ends the episode. After Pike returns to the Discovery, the ship finds itself approached by 30 Section 31 ships, all taking aim. The Discovery is outgunned and can’t run. Pike calls the Enterprise to receive the full crew of the Discovery, preparing for its destruction. Looks like the incident that burns Pike’s face is closer than we thought. This episode set us up for what’s sure to be two harrowing final episodes of the season, but it also managed to be plenty thrilling itself. It appears that as the show gets more episodes under its belt, it gets better at striking the balance between classic Star Trek storytelling and modern sci-fi action. It at least knows that action-oriented episodes don’t have to be entirely brainless. I’m excited to see where Discovery takes the series in Season Two’s final two episodes and beyond. I also appreciated the nice character moment between Jett Reno and Culber. She helps him start to realize that he needs Stamets just as much as Stamets needs him. He gets a second chance, which is way more than Reno got with her wife. It was a sweet, genuinely touching moment that gave me hope for this storyline. I just hope the show gives itself enough time to land it. Star Trek: Discovery streams Thursdays at 8:30 on CBS All Access Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Star Trek Discovery Season 2 Episode 11 Star Trek Discovery Season 2 Episode 9 Ali Momen Captain Pike Mary Chieffo Shazad Latif Sonequa Martin-Green	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2610
__label__cc	0.591428	0.408572	LinkedIn, Zillow among the top IPOs of a tough 2011 by John Cook on November 12, 2011 at 5:01 pm November 12, 2011 at 5:01 pm LinkedIn and Zillow have been two of the top IPO performers of the year (Click on chart for interactive graphic) It was shaping up to be a solid year for initial public offerings. But then things hit a wall in August and September, with IPO Dashboards reporting just five IPOs during the two-month period. Now, things are heating up again, though with the holidays around the corner it’s unlikely. But, for the most part, it’s still been a tough slog for the majority of the 96 companies that have ventured into the public markets. According to IPO Dashboards, companies that went public are down on average of 10.3 percent since their IPOs. But one of the bright spots of the year has been Zillow, which surprised some with its strong surge. The company boosted its offering price to $20 per share, and since going public in mid-July the shares are up 50 percent. LinkedIn, the social networking powerhouse, also has performed well. In fact, it is the top performer in the 2011 class, showing an impressive 71 percent uptick over the offering price. The worst performer? That would be FriendFinder Networks, which is off 81 percent on the year. Previously on GeeWire: “Tech: The Worst IPOs of 2011” Five tips for every startup thinking about going global Entrepreneur alleges that Benchmark stole his idea Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: Economy • IPOs • LinkedIn • Zillow 2019 could be a blockbuster year for tech IPOs as Uber, Lyft, Slack, Airbnb, others prep to go public As Wall Street preps for huge IPO year, will any Seattle companies go public in 2019? How the Bay Area tech IPO boom could create a ‘ripple effect’ in Seattle’s housing market Adaptive Biotechnologies stock soars 90% after ringing Nasdaq opening bell following $300M IPO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2611
__label__wiki	0.946606	0.946606	GENOCIDEWATCH Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. Our purpose is to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide. Ten Stages About Genocide The Alliance Against Genocide Act For Sudan Aegis Trust The Antiquities Coalition The Anuak Justice Council Arakan Rohingya Union Brandeis Center For Human Rights Und Burma Human Rights Network Cambodian Genocide Project Center for Holocaust & Human Rights The Center for Political Beauty CSGJ CALDH The Combat Genocide Association CWBI Darfur Women Action Group DC-CAM Education Must Continue Initiative EMMA Organization for Human Rights FGCP Gatumba Refugee Survivors Foundation Genocide Prevention Advisory Group Yale Genocide Studies Program Hammurabi Human Rights Organization The Human Security Centre Hudo Centre In Defense of Christians The Institute for Genocide Studies The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy IHASA ITCAHIL Institute for the Study of Genocide International Alert Iraqi Christian Human Rights Council Center for Genocide Prevention Holocaust and Genocide Center Mediators Beyond Borders Minority Rights Group International The Montreal Institute for Genocide Nuba Vision Coalition North Korea Freedom Coalition Not In My Country Operation Broken Silence Pacific Atrocities Education People4Sudan Protection Approaches Proof- Media For Social Justice Shlomo Organization for Documentatio Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiop Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia Stimson Center The Talking Stick Council The Vienna Project Waging Peace WARM Foundation World Outside My Shoes World Without Genocide 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative Genocide Watch is the Coordinator of the Alliance Against Genocide. Founded in 1999, the Alliance is made up of over 75 organizations from around the world and was the first coalition of organizations focused completely on preventing genocide. Nazi-hunter accuses France of ‘complicity’ in genocide \| The Times of Isreal In interview on eve of 75th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv deportations, Serge Klarsfeld says it is ‘historical accuracy’ France’s best-known Nazi hunter, Serge Klarsfeld, accused his country’s government during World War II of “complicity in a crime against humanity and genocide.” Klarsfeld, a Holocaust survivor and historian, who, in 2014, received France’s highest civil honor together with his wife, Beate, made the assertion in an interview with the French news agency Agence-Presse France, published Saturday, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv deportations. On July 16 and 17, 1942, French police officers rounded up more than 13,000 Jews at the Winter Stadium, or Velodrome d’Hiver. The men, women, and children were imprisoned there for days in unsanitary conditions and without sufficient water, leading to dozens of fatalities, including through suicide. Then the Jews were transported, partly on French national railway wagons, to Nazi death camps in Eastern Europe. More than 1,000 people, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attended the commemoration of the 75th anniversary Sunday near a monument that was erected where the stadium, which was demolished decades ago, used to stand. Earlier, Klarsfeld accompanied Macron to a new memorial space, opened near the main Vel d’Hiv monument for Jewish children who were murdered by the Nazis, with help from French authorities. “It’s not an appeal to sentiment,” Klarsfeld, who is a prominent member of the executive board of the Memorial for the Shoah group in France, told the president, “but to historical accuracy.” Macron told him: “Thank you for the work that you do.” French presidents rarely attend the annual commemoration for the Vel d’Hiv deportations. Earlier this month, the Communist Party of France condemned Netanyahu’s attendance at the Vel d’Hiv commemoration. An Israeli prime minister had not yet attended the annual ceremony, which is an official day of commemoration in France. The ceremony “is about peace, whereas the Israeli prime minister is a man of war,” the party said in a statement. But Klarsfeld defended Netanyahu’s presence there as “totally appropriate.” He disputed that the ceremony was about peace, arguing it was about remembrance. “If there was a State of Israel, a Jewish state, in 1942, Vel d’Hiv would not have happened,” Klarsfeld said. (c) 2017 The Times of Isreal Follow Genocide Watch for more updates:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2615
__label__wiki	0.52567	0.52567	Composition in Retrospect John Cage (veja mais livros deste autor) Exact Change(veja mais livros desta editora) Written in his characteristic ?mesostics? (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), Composition in Retrospect is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of his work: indeterminacy, imitation, variable structure and contingency. Finished only shortly before his death in 1992, Composition in Retrospect completes the documentation of Cage?s thought that began with his classic book Silence (1961), but it is an introduction and invitation to his work as much as a summary or conclusion. Also included in this volume (at Cage?s request) is ?Themes and Variations,? a piece written in 1982 about friends and heroes such as Jasper Johns, Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp and Erik Satie. Together these pieces form a book that is both a testament to the artists Cage admired and a clear statement of his own ars poetica. illustrated throughout.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2618
__label__wiki	0.692269	0.692269	Technology & Democracy Freedom on the Net 2019 Countries in Detail Partly Free A Obstacles to Access 16 25 B Limits on Content 24 35 C Violations of User Rights 21 40 Last Year's Score & Status 60 100 Partly Free Ecuador’s internet freedom improved for a second year in a row, as government-led tactics to restrict and punish online activities and skew public debates eased under the new administration of President Lenín Moreno. Newly approved reforms to the repressive Communication Law promise a more open environment for independent media outlets, although provisions criminalizing certain forms of speech are still in place. While public institutions have largely stopped filing politically-motivated takedown notices on copyright grounds, several account suspensions on Twitter targeted sensitive discussions related to the previous government. President Moreno’s administration, which came to power in 2017, has taken steps to strengthen democratic governance and remove restrictions on civil society and press freedom, in a move away from repressive policies espoused by his predecessor Rafael Correa. A deepening feud between Correa and Moreno resulted in the ruling party splitting into two different movements: Alianza PAIS, led by president Moreno and “Revolución Ciudadana” (Citizens’ Revolution), led by his predecessor. Key Developments June 1, 2018 – May 31, 2019 In February 2019, the National Assembly ratified reforms to the repressive Organic Communication Law. Changes included the elimination of the notorious media regulator, which was in charge of monitoring media content, investigating journalists, and issuing fines and other sanctions (see C2). In August 2018, the Constitutional Court nullified 2015 amendments to Ecuador’s Constitution, eliminating the characterization of communication as a "public service" and potentially restoring it to a right. Changes to a similar provision in the reformed Communication Law were still pending (see C1). In a case that sparked widespread criticism from digital rights groups, police arrested Swedish programmer and internet activist Ola Bini in Quito on April 11. He spent two months in jail, and remained under investigation for his alleged involvement in illegal hacking, although concrete evidence about his supposed crimes was not made public (see C3). In April, Ecuador decided to revoke Julian Assange’s asylum in its London embassy. The government accused the Wikileaks founder of using the embassy as a “center for spying.” In March, Wikileaks tweeted a link to an anonymous site dubbed the “INA Papers,” which leaked private photos of Moreno and documents related to offshore accounts under the name of Moreno’s brother (see C3). A Obstacles to Access While Ecuador has promoted digital literacy across the country, geographical and socioeconomic gaps in internet access persisted during the coverage period. Reforms to the Organic Communication Law, ratified in February 2019, eliminated the country’s politicized media regulator. A1 0-6 pts Do infrastructural limitations restrict access to the internet or the speed and quality of internet connections? 46 Access in Ecuador has steadily increased thanks to government campaigns to improve internet access across the country. Official figures show that some 58.3 percent of people used the internet in 2017.1 However, Ecuador’s fixed broadband penetration ranked relatively low compared to other Latin American countries, at around 11 percent in 2018.2 Six percent of Ecuadorian cantons lack optical fiber to connect to the internet, phone services, and digital television.3 According to Speedtest Global Index, the average download speed for fixed broadband in March 2019 was 16.21 Mbps, and the average upload speed was 13.45 Mbps.4 Meanwhile, mobile internet penetration reached 54.88 percent by the end of 2018.5 The quality of service has improved and become more readily available with the expansion of 4G technology. Government data shows that the number of active lines using 4G technology (LTE and HSPA) increased from almost 3.2 million by the end of 2016 to more than 8 million by July 2018.6 The Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS), a new high-speed fiber-optic cable completed by a consortium of operators in August 2015, represents part of a larger advance in infrastructure improvements in Ecuador.7 The government’s “Universal Service Plan” for 2018-2021 aims to increase availability and access throughout the country, notably by deploying next generation networks such as LTE and fiber optic networks.8 1. “Percentage of Individuals Using the Internet (excel),” International Telecommunication Union (ITU), accessed December 27, 2019, https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx. 2. “Fixed-broadband subscriptions (excel),” ITU, accessed December 27, 2019, https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx; Ecuador. 3. “Plan de Servicio Universal 2018- 2021,” [Plan of Universal Service], Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información [Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Association] (MINTEL), October 2018, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Plan-d…. 4. “Ecuador: November 2019,” Speedtest, accessed December 27, 2019, https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/ecuador. 5. ARCOTEL, Boletín Estadístico Cierre 2018, http://www.arcotel.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/BOLETIN-ESTADISTIC… 6. “Servicio Móvil Avanzado,” [Advanced Mobile Phone System], Agencia de Regulación y Control de las Telecomunicaciones (ARCOTEL), accessed December 27, 2019, https://www.arcotel.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/BOLETIN-ESTADISTI…. 7. “C&W Networks Launching New Submarine Cable System: Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS) ,” Global Newswire, September 3, 2015, https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/09/03/1157305/0/en/C-W-…. 8. “Plan de Servicio Universal 2018- 2021,” [Plan of Universal Service], MINTEL, October 2018, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Plan-d…. Is access to the internet prohibitively expensive or beyond the reach of certain segments of the population for geographical, social, or other reasons? 13 Socioeconomic and geographic disparities in internet access persist in Ecuador. Underserved zones are mostly in the Amazon region, but other areas lacking infrastructure include the Southern mountains and coastline, as well as the Galapagos Islands. Moreover, a typical household may spend 5 percent of their monthly income on communications (fixed phone, mobile phone, internet, and cable TV). Given lower full-time employment and people earning less than the minimum wage, internet access is becoming prohibitively expensive for families with lower incomes.1 On average, a monthly internet subscription costs around $30, while the minimum monthly wage for 2019 is $394.2 Meanwhile, 1GB mobile data plans cost on average almost $7, though there is a competitive environment with prices ranging from $0.65 to $20.3 Major network operators offer alternative data plans, such as Claro (600 MB for $6), Movistar (650 MB for $5), and CNT (650 MB for $5).4 Imported mobile phones are subject to taxes which all combined amount to 27.5 percent over the purchasing price.5 In addition, courier services for online purchases to Ecuador started to pay new import taxes in January 2018.6 There is a significant divide in internet access between urban households (46.1 percent) and rural households (16.6 percent).7 Fixed internet subscriptions are still concentrated in two provinces with higher levels of urbanization: Guayas (27.6 percent of subscriptions) and Pichincha (31 percent).8 Among 15-49 year olds, digital illiteracy is also significantly greater in rural areas (21.2 percent) than in urban areas (6 percent), and heavily impacts indigenous people and other minority ethnicities. Digital illiteracy is also greater among women (12 percent) compared to men (8.9 percent).9 Ecuador has made improvements in advancing internet literacy and access for rural areas through programs facilitated by the Ministry of Telecommunications (MINTEL). Ecuador’s state-run “Infocentros” – community centers that began to be installed in June 2012 – provide free internet in rural zones.10 As of September 2018, there were 831 Infocentros and 25 larger “Megainfocentros,” which cover 74 percent of the country’s rural parishes.11 1. “INEC: Empleo pleno cayó a 37,9% en marzo,” [INEC: Full employment fell to 37.9% in March], El Universo, April 15, 2019, https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2019/04/15/nota/7287056/inec-empleo…. 2. “Ecuador fija en 394 dólares el salario mínimo mensual para 2019,” [Ecuador sets the monthly minimum salary for 2019 at $394], El Universal, December 27, 2018, http://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/29254/ecuador-fija-en-394-dola…. 3. “Worldwide mobile data pricing: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 230 countries,” Cable, accessed December 27, 2019, https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/. 4. Information based on online offers by main network providers (Claro, Movistar, CNT) on April 2019. 5. Evelyn Jácome, “27,5% de impuestos se pagará por cada celular que llegue vía courier,” [27.5% of taxes will be paid for each cell phone brought via courier], El Comercio, January 7, 2016, https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/impuestos-celular-limportacion-co…. 6. Evelyn Tapia, “Las compras vía courier pagarán nueva tasa desde el 1 de enero en Ecuador,” [Purchases via courier will pay new rate beginning on January 1 in Ecuador], El Comercio, November 9, 2017, https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/compras-courier-pago-impuesto-ecu…. 7. “INEC Encuesta Tecnológica 2017,” [INEC Technology Survey 2017], Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación, [Information and Communication Technologies], (TIC), accessed December 27, 2019, http://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Estadisticas_Soci… 8. “Boletín Estadístico Cierre 2018,” [Survey Release 2018], ARCOTEL, accessed December 27, 2019, http://www.arcotel.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/BOLETIN-ESTADISTIC… 9. INEC Encuesta Tecnológica 2017,” [INEC Technology Survey 2017], Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación, [Information and Communication Technologies], (TIC), accessed December 27, 2019, http://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Estadisticas_Soci…. 10. “Infocentros Comunitarios,” [Community infocenters], MINTEL, accessed December 27, 2019, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/infocentros-comunitarios/ 11. “Plan de Servicio Universal 2018- 2021,” [Plan of Universal Service], MINTEL, October 2018, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Plan-d…. Does the government exercise technical or legal control over internet infrastructure for the purposes of restricting connectivity? 66 There were no network shutdowns in Ecuador during the past year, and no evidence of throttling or other intentional disruptions. Social media, communications and video streaming platforms remained readily available. Ecuador’s physical infrastructure is not highly centralized. There are three submarine cables providing connection to the global internet, and the three major ISPs – two of which are private – control their own national infrastructure. A provision in the 2015 Organic Law of Telecommunications grants the president the power to unilaterally take over telecommunications services in times of national emergency.1 Civil society groups have raised concerns about the scope of this provision and its potential abuse by the government because of its vague standards and lack of oversight by an independent and impartial court.2 However, there is no hard evidence of abuse in this regard. 1. “Ley Orgánica de Telecomunicaciones,” [Telecommunication Law], Asamblea Nacional República del Ecuador [National Assembly of Ecuador], February 12, 2015, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016…. 2. Katitza Rodriguez, “Leaked Documents Confirm Ecuador’s Internet Censorship Machine,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, April 14, 2016, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/leaked-documents-confirm-ecuadors…. Are there legal, regulatory, or economic obstacles that restrict the diversity of service providers? 46 Ecuador has four major internet service providers (ISPs) covering nearly 85 percent of users. State-owned National Telecommunications Corporation (CNT) has a dominant position with 48.9 percent of market share of fixed internet services. The other three major players are: Megadatos (14.18 percent), Setel (11.65 percent), and Conecel (Claro) (9.22 percent). Mobile service providers, on the other hand, are an oligopoly: Conecel (Claro) represents 52.29 percent of market share, followed by Otecel (Movistar) and CNT.1 Registration with the regulatory agency ARCOTEL is mandatory for ISPs and cybercafés. 1. “Boletín Estadístico Cierre 2018,” [Survey Release 2018], ARCOTEL, accessed December 27, 2019, http://www.arcotel.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/BOLETIN-ESTADISTIC…. Do national regulatory bodies that oversee service providers and digital technology fail to operate in a free, fair, and independent manner? 14 Created by the 2015 Law of Telecommunications, the Agency for the Regulation of Telecommunications (ARCOTEL)–linked to the Ministry of Telecommunications–is responsible for technical aspects of administration, regulation, and control of the telecommunications sector and the radioelectric spectrum.1 ARCOTEL’s directors are appointed directly by the president, which may undermine the body’s independence.2 ARCOTEL has had frequent turnover in its directors, with seven directors in nearly two years.3 Juan Carlos Martínez, who was removed after just five days in January 2019, claimed that his dismissal was linked to his aim to combat corruption within the agency.4 In past years ARCOTEL’s efforts to redistribute radioelectric frequencies have been criticized for being politicized and lacking transparency.5 Audio leaks released by the media in January 2019 suggest that former ARCOTEL officials fostered unfair competition by awarding concessions to providers whose owners had ties to former vice president Jorge Glas.6 Efforts by access providers and other internet-related organizations to establish self-regulatory mechanisms are allowed and, to a certain extent, promoted. Examples of this include the public assistance to develop public and private Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT); the local internet exchange point (NAP.ec) managed by AEPROVI (Ecuadorian Association of Providers of Internet Services and Information Technologies), and the Ecuadorian IPv6 Task Force, among others. The allocation of digital assets, such as domain names or IP addresses which is done by NIC.ec7 is not controlled by the government. Created in 2013, Ecuador’s former media regulator, the Superintendency of Information and Communications (SUPERCOM), was highly criticized for acting as a politicized censorship organ.8 The agency was eliminated by the reform to the Communication Law that went into effect in February 2019, and SUPERCOM was set to close by the end of July 2019.9 1. “Ley Orgánica de Telecomunicaciones,” [Telecommunication Law], Asamblea Nacional República del Ecuador [National Assembly of Ecuador], February 12, 2015, https://www.grupotvcable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ley_organica_de…. 2. Leticia Pautasio, “Ecuador: Ley de Telecomunicaciones entra en vigencia y Arcotel inicia sus funciones,” [Ecuador: Telecommunications Law enters into force and Arcotel starts its functions], TeleSemana.com, March 6, 2015, https://www.telesemana.com/blog/2015/03/06/ecuador-ley-de-telecomunicac…. 3. “Tercer director de Arcotel en menos de quince días" [Third director of Arcotel in less than fifteen days], El Universo, January 21, 2019, https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2019/01/21/nota/7151390/tercer-dire…; “Arcotel posesiona a su séptimo director en casi 2 años,” [ARCOTEL is on its seventh director in almost 2 years], Ecuavisa, February 14, 2019, https://www.ecuavisa.com/articulo/noticias/politica/459096-arcotel-pose…. 4. Patricia Carolina González, “Nuevo director de la Arcotel solo duró cinco días en el cargo,” [New Arcotel director only lasted five days in office], El Comercio, January 21, 2019, https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/nuevo-director-martinez-arcotel-r…; “Cambian a director de Arcotel que removió funcionarios,” [They change to director of Arcotel that removed officials], Ecuavisa, January 21, 2019, https://www.ecuavisa.com/articulo/noticias/actualidad/450941-cambian-di…. 5. “La ARCOTEL y los riesgos de la redistribución de frecuencias,” [ARCOTEL and the risks of frequency redistribution], Plan V, February 22, 2016, https://www.planv.com.ec/historias/politica/la-arcotel-y-riesgos-la-red…; “Glas, El Senor del Espectro Radioelectrico,” [Glas, the lord of the radioelectric spectrum], Periodismo de Investigación, October 12, 2016, https://periodismodeinvestigacion.com/2016/10/12/glas-el-senor-del-espe…. 6. “Audio sugiere ‘influencia’ de operadores en Arcotel” [Audio suggests operators´ 'influence' in Arcotel], El Universo, January 25, 2019 https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2019/01/25/nota/7155848/audio-sugie… 7. https://www.nic.ec/ 8. “La máquina sancionadora de medios llamada Supercom,” [The media sanction machine called Supercom], Plan V, January 10, 2017, http://www.planv.com.ec/historias/sociedad/la-maquina-sancionadora-medi…. 9. “La próxima semana estará listo plan para cerrar la Supercom,” [Next week plan to close the Supercom will be ready], El Comercio, February 23, 2019, https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/supercom-cierre-loc-edison-toro.h…. B Limits on Content While the government reportedly initiated just one takedown during the coverage period, many Twitter accounts that discussed former President Correa continued to be suspended. Reforms to the Communication Law aimed to lift broad restrictions against media outlets. During the reporting period, social media users mobilized against issues like femicide, though a crowdfunding campaign to investigate Correa suffered from a DDoS attack. B1 0-6 pts Does the state block or filter, or compel service providers to block or filter, internet content? 66 There is no evidence of systematic blocking or filtering of content by the Ecuadorian government. There were no reports of technical blocking of social media platforms, communication apps, blog-hosting platforms, or discussion forums during the coverage period. Likewise, there were no reports of blocking of tools for anonymization of navigation or circumvention of censorship. Do state or nonstate actors employ legal, administrative, or other means to force publishers, content hosts, or digital platforms to delete content? 24 Under former President Rafael Correa’s rule, copyright law was frequently used to censor politically-sensitive content online. 1 This practice has eased considerably under Moreno’s presidency, as public institutions have largely stopped filing takedown notices on copyright grounds. One government-initiated takedown was reported in April 2019, when the pro-Correa news website Ecuador Inmediato was taken offline for six hours. According to the outlet, the takedown happened after their Canada-based hosting provider iWeb received a complaint from Ecuador’s presidential office regarding copyright infringement, related to the use of YouTube videos and Flickr photos posted by official government accounts.2 Initially, the president’s office denied any involvement with the takedown.3 Subsequently, Ecuador Inmediato published the email that they received showing the claim, which came from copyright[at]presidencia.gob.ec.4 The Secretary of Communications himself, Andrés Michelena, said in a radio interview that the takedown stemmed from the publication of photographs from President Moreno's family holiday.5 On the other hand, account suspensions on Twitter have continued, many of them targeting discussions related to the previous government: On June 16, 2018, the Twitter account of journalist Fernando Villavicencio (@fevillaviVa) was suspended, apparently in retaliation for posting a leaked document from the Office of the Prosecutor referring to investigations into the assassination of General Jorge Gabela in 2010.6 This was the fifth time that accounts belonging to Villavicencio were suspended after posting sensitive news involving Correa. In March 2019, Twitter granted @VillaFernando_ verified status, which is expected to end recurring issues.7 On July 17, 2018, the account @CrudoECU was limited for 12 hours after posting a tweet denouncing Correa’s evasion of property taxes by transferring his house to his son.8 On April 13, 2019, the alternative account @CrudoEcuador7 was suspended without explanation; a new account, @CrudoEcuador8, was subsequently created.9 On January 3, 2019, user @Shababaty was also suspended after tweeting a link to a news piece related to Julian Assange and his asylum in Ecuador’s Embassy in London.10 The sensitive content was an official letter from the Ecuadorian General Comptroller to Correa.11 Even though Correa shared the same content, his account was not suspended. In the week between March 26 and April 1, 2019, two accounts belonging to the anonymous leaker of “INAPapers” were suspended by Twitter for violating privacy rules.12 Twitter did not issue formal statements related to the repeated suspensions of the Villavicencio and Crudo Ecuador accounts. However, they may have been included on a blacklist because they were previously suspended for publishing third parties’ private data.13 Such private data could have been information about bank accounts, office addresses and properties of public servants scrutinized for mismanagement of public funds, and therefore it was necessary to back the claims in the news reports, according to the affected journalists.14 1. Maira Sutton, “State Censorship by Copyright? Spanish Firm Abuses DMCA to Silence Critics of Ecuador's Government,” EFF, May 15, 2014, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/state-censorship-copyright-spanis…; Alexandra Ellerbeck, “How U.S. copyright law is being used to take down Correa's critics in Ecuador,” Committee to Protect Journalists, January 21, 2016, https://cpj.org/blog/2016/01/how-us-copyright-law-is-being-used-to-take…. 2. “Comunicado de Protesta del Consejo Editorial de Ecuador Inmediato,” [Announcement of Protest from the Editorial Council of Ecuador Inmediato], Ecuador Inmediato, April 23, 2019, https://archive.is/8Cj2O; “Abuse #20166814” email, Ecuador Inmediato, March 29, 2019, http://www.ecuadorinmediato.com/modules/umFileManager/pndata/2018-12/de…. 3. Comunicación Ecuador (@ComunicacionEc), “Secretaría General de Comunicación de Presidencia rechaza acusaciones infundadas del portal digital @ecuainm y reitera su respeto a la libertad de expresión. Lea mas aqui,” [General Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency rejects unfounded accusations of the digital portal @ecuainm and reiterates its respect for freedom of expression. Read more here] Twitter, April 23, 2019, https://twitter.com/ComunicacionEc/status/1120862047678365696. 4. “Abuse #20166814” email, Ecuador Inmediato, March 29, 2019, http://www.ecuadorinmediato.com/modules/umFileManager/pndata/2018-12/de…. 5. “Andrés Michelena afirma que portal correísta de noticias 'se está victimizando',” [Andrés Michelena affirms that the pro-Correa news portal is ‘playing the victim’], Ecuador en Vivo, April 24, 2019, http://www.ecuadorenvivo.com/politica/24-politica/95376-andres-michelen…. 6. “Cuenta de periodista Villavicencio (@fevillaviVa) es suspendida, es su quinta cuenta,” [Account of journalist Villavicencio (@fevillaviVa) is suspended, this is his fifth account], Usuarios Digitales, June 20, 2018, http://www.usuariosdigitales.org/2018/06/20/cuenta-de-periodista-villav…. 7. Verified accounts‏ (@verifiedstats), “@VillaFernando_ congratulations with having your account verified by Twitter. https://twopcharts.com/VillaFernando_,” Twitter, March 15, 2019 https://twitter.com/verifiedstats/status/1106677964937269248?s=12 8. “Cuenta en Twitter Crudo Ecuador suspendida por tercera vez,” [Account on Twitter Crudo Ecuador suspended for the third time], Usuarios Digitales, July 17, 2018, http://www.usuariosdigitales.org/2018/07/17/cuenta-en-twitter-crudo-ecu…. 9. Usuarios Digitales @usuariosdigital, “#AlertaDigitalEC La cuenta satírica de #CrudoEcuador ha sido suspendida por @Twitter, sin explicación, la nueva cuenta es @CrudoEcuador8,” April 13, 2019 https://twitter.com/usuariosdigital/status/1117236613547950081. 10. ShababatySuspendida (@BorisVianII), Mi cuenta @shababaty ha sido bloqueada x @Twitter a pedido del régimen de #LeninMoreno x denunciar la corrupción de Lenin Moreno. Exactamente como hacía su socio #Correa con aquellos q denunciábamos su corrupción. Hay #LibertadDeExpresion siempre que no se denuncie SU corrupción,” Twitter, February 27, 2019, https://twitter.com/BorisVianII/status/1100798424931291137. 11. Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael), “La última de Contraloría: “Examen especial” al otorgamiento de asilo a Julian Assange. Eso es tan “procedente” como hacer un examen especial al nombramiento de un ministro. Ya que gobierne nomás Celi, el contralor impostor. Por su odio y persecución, somos el hazmerreír del mundo,” Twitter, January 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/MashiRafael/status/1080503452747341830. 12. Usuarios Digitales (@usuariosdigital), “#AlertaDigitalEC la cuenta @inapapers1, que difunde información sobre el caso #INAPapers, habría sido suspendida por "postear información privada" según @Twitter, nueva cuenta @inapapers4,” Twitter, April 19, 2019, https://twitter.com/usuariosdigital/status/1119414396873314304. 13. This information was provided to Javier Pallero, Access Now Policy Lead for the Latin America Region, in response from Twitter to his request of explanation on the reasons for the repeated suspension of Ecuadorian journalists’ accounts. Email, March 8, 2019. 14. Martha Roldos, Fundacion Mil Hojas Executive Director. Email, March 13, 2019. Do restrictions on the internet and digital content lack transparency, proportionality to the stated aims, or an independent appeals process? 24 Recent reforms to the Communication Law enacted in February 2019 promise a less restrictive environment for media outlets and signal a move away from the punitive system established under Correa’s administration which was highly politicized and left room for abuse. However, censorship practices linked to murky copyright and privacy complaints have continued to raise concerns. Social media platforms such as Twitter have suspended multiple accounts of journalists and activists publishing critical information, often linked to the former administration of President Correa. It is often unclear whether such suspensions are justified by legitimate violations of the company’s terms of use. A significant part of the reform was the elimination of the powerful Superintendency of Information and Communication (SUPERCOM). Under Correa’s government, SUPERCOM had aggressively pursued print media (including all media with an online presence) under accusations of unbalanced reporting and “media lynching”—an allegation that was often applied to investigative reporting in Ecuador.1 The reforms also remove digital media and content providers’ liability over user comments, while upholding their responsibility over editorial content published by non-credited authors.2 The corresponding regulations are expected to be approved in 2020. ARCOTEL is authorized to block internet domains that violate national laws. ARCOTEL’s agenda for 2019 includes the development of a technical norm that should add more transparency by outlining blocking and notification procedures to be followed by the regulator.3 1. Silvia Higuera, “Ecuador’s National Assembly eliminates controversial sanctioning body with reforms to Communications Law,” Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, December 20, 2018, https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-20435-ecuador%E2%80%99s-nationa…. 2. “Ley Orgánica Reformatoria a la ley Orgánica de Comunicación,” [Ammendment of the Organic Law of Communication], Asamblea Nacional [National Assembly], February 20, 2019, https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/sites/default/files/private/asamble…. 3. “La ARCOTEL difundió la Agenda Regulatoria que ejecutará en 2019” [ARCOTEL disseminated the Regulatory Agenda that it will execute in 2019] ARCOTEL, accessed December 27, 2019, http://www.arcotel.gob.ec/la-arcotel-difundio-la-agenda-regulatoria-que…. Do online journalists, commentators, and ordinary users practice self-censorship? 34 Coverage of corruption cases or abuses of power by the current administration has increased. Nonetheless, some journalists have noted that while there is more permissiveness to openly criticize the former administration, some self-censorship remains. News related to drug trafficking and gangs on the Northern border with Colombia must be treated with special care by journalists. In addition, reporting related to the March 2018 kidnapping of three members of the El Comercio news team and their subsequent murder by a Colombian cartel near the Colombian border is restricted: detailed information about the kidnaping and failed negotiations are under state reserve.1 Unofficially, journalists are told to be cautious when reporting on this case, as well as other issues related to drugs cartels. 1. “Three Lives Lost, Many Questions Still Unanswered” Is an in-depth report on this case, known as #NosFaltan3 (“We are missing 3”), Forbidden Stories, accessed December 27, 2019, https://forbiddenstories.org/three-lives-lost-many-questions-still-unan…. Are online sources of information controlled or manipulated by the government or other powerful actors to advance a particular political interest? 24 Progovernment trolling, harassment of critics, and punitive media restrictions were particularly prevalent under former President Correa, but government-led manipulation tactics have eased significantly since then. Past reports on state-sponsored troll farms in Ecuador revealed efforts to skew public opinion in favor of Correa’s government.1 According to Catalina Botero, former Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, investigations identified troll IP addresses in government offices.2 During the past year, observers continued to raise concerns about the impact of misleading or false information on public opinion in Ecuador, especially during electoral periods.3 There was still no certainty about the actors behind these trends, though some reports have pointed to groups linked to Correa’s administration. In March 2019, the National Communications Secretariat (SECOM) denounced that certain digital outlets and false social media accounts were manipulating photos, videos, and other information to attack the national government and President Moreno. Their statement suggested that these accounts were “related to former officials and supporters of the former government.”4 In 2017, at the beginning of Moreno’s term, SECOM had also denounced that institutional Twitter and Facebook accounts created by the former government such as “Enlace Ciudadano” (Citizen’s Link) were used to disseminate information that was not authorized by the current administration.5 1. “Troll center: derroche y acoso desde las redes sociales” [Troll center: waste and harassment on social media], Fundación 1000 hojas, March 24, 2015, http://milhojas.is/612261-troll-center-derroche-y-acoso-desde-las-redes…; Samuel Woolley, “#HackingTeam Leaks: Ecuador is Spending Millions on Malware, Pro-Government Trolls”, Global Voices, August 4, 2015, https://advox.globalvoices.org/2015/08/04/hackingteam-leaks-ecuador-is-…. 2. “Catalina Botero compara acciones de Bukele con Correa en Ecuador,” [Catalina Botero compares Bukele to Correa in Ecuador], La Prensa Gráfica, February 19, 2016, https://www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Catalina-Botero-compara-acci…. 3. “Las noticias falsas marcan situaciones “sin precedentes” en Ecuador,” [Fake news sets “unprecedented” situations in Ecuador], Pública FM, March 24, 2019, https://www.publicafm.ec/noticias/actualidad/1/noticias-falsas-sin-prec… 4. Comunicación Ecuador (@ComuinicacionEc), ”BOLETÍN DE PRENSA \| Secretaría General de @ComunicacionEc denuncia la manipulación de información en portales digitales cuya tarea es generar, difundir y promocionar noticias falsas contra el Gobierno Nacional. #Periodismo Responsable,” Twitter, March 15, 2019, https://twitter.com/ComunicacionEc/status/1106666861620547584/photo/1?r…. 5. “Secom denuncia suplantación de administración de cuentas en redes sociales,” August 5, 2017, Fundamedios, http://www.fundamedios.org.ec/alertas/secom-denuncia-suplantacion-admin…; “La Secom desautorizó el 'Enlace Ciudadano' de Jorge Glas,” El Comercio, August 5, 2017, https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/secom-enlaceciudadano-jorgeglas-L…. Are there economic or regulatory constraints that negatively affect users’ ability to publish content online? 23 Recent reforms of the Communications Law have sought to dismantle broad restrictions on media outlets that encouraged censorship and curtailed financial resources for independent media. Under the now defunct SUPERCOM, print media (including all media with an online presence) faced accusations of unbalanced reporting and “media lynching”—an allegation that was often applied to investigative reporting in Ecuador. The 2013 Communication Law banned foreign ownership of media in Ecuador, and the 2019 reform maintains the prohibition, according to Article 6. Financial corporations and their shareholders are also banned from investing in media according to the Article 312 of the Constitution as well as article 256 of the Organic Monetary and Financial Code.1 There is a general mandate to protect net neutrality in both the Culture Act (Article 5) and the Telecommunications Act (Articles 3, 4 and 66). However, Article 64 allows ISPs to establish “tariff plans consisting of one or more services, or for one or more products of a service, in accordance with his or her authorization certificates.” This provision may allow providers to set different speeds for different contents, sites or apps. Nonetheless, there is no evidence that ISPs are operating with content discrimination rules that might violate net neutrality. 1. “Republic of Ecuador,” Georgetown Political Database of the Americas, January 31, 2011, http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Ecuador/english08.html. Does the online information landscape lack diversity? 24 A wide array of media outlets has emerged in Ecuador in the last decade. Since blocking of websites is not an issue, regular internet users do not need to use VPNs or other circumvention tools to access online news. However, a history of censorship and polarization, as well as restricted financial resources for independent media prevent entrepreneurial efforts from thriving. As of April 2019, the top ten most popular websites in Ecuador included the digital versions of traditional newspapers and TV channels, such as El Comercio, El Universo and Ecuavisa.1 Nonetheless, some small independent digital media have become influential because of their investigative work; such as Mil Hojas and La Posta. There are no major digital outlets publishing content in Kichwa, the primary language for at least 10 percent of the Ecuadorian population. There are several very small digital media outlets (e.g. blogs) focused on matters affecting the indigenous population, but they publish content in Spanish rather than indigenous languages. 1. “Top Sites in Ecuador,” Alexa, accessed December 27, 2019, https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/EC. Do conditions impede users’ ability to mobilize, form communities, and campaign, particularly on political and social issues? 56 There are no legal restrictions around digital advocacy or online communities, and social media continued to be a dynamic tool for social mobilization in Ecuador. In January 2019, social media users flocked to Facebook and Twitter to express indignation about violence against women, which was exemplified by a case of gang rape and a femicide. The hashtags #TodosSomosMartha and #JusticiaParaDiana, as well as the banner “Machismo kills, xenophobia too” were used to rally against femicide and to call for street demonstrations demanding justice.1 Technical attacks and online threats may still thwart certain attempts to mobilize around politically-sensitive topics. In July 2018, digital media outlet La Posta started a crowdfunding campaign to cover expenses to travel to Belgium to investigate Correa’s living conditions since he moved to Brussels when his presidential term ended. After the launch of the campaign #OperaciónQuéVaina, the crowdfunding portal “Haz Vaca” suffered a DDoS attack.2 1. Gabriela Barzallo, “Todos Somos Martha [We are all Martha]: Ecuadorians Protest Gender Violence, Femicide, and Xenophobia,” Latin Dispatch, March 27, 2019, https://latindispatch.com/2019/03/27/todos-somos-martha-ecuadorians-pro…. 2. “Amenazas y difusión de datos personales de periodistas por anuncio de investigación a expresidente” [Threats and personal data disclosing of journalists for announcing investigation of former president], Usuarios Digitales, July 15, 2018, http://www.usuariosdigitales.org/2018/07/25/amenazas-y-difusion-de-dato…. C Violations of User Rights The National Assembly approved reforms to the repressive Organic Communication Law in February 2019, including the elimination of the media regulator in charge of investigating journalists and issuing sanctions. An August 2018 Constitutional Court decision will potentially restore the characterization of communication from a “public service” to a right. After Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s asylum was revoked in April 2019, a number of government websites were hit by cyberattacks. In addition, a Swedish programmer and activist who had visited Assange was arrested in Quito and accused of illegal hacking. C1 0-6 pts Do the constitution or other laws fail to protect rights such as freedom of expression, access to information, and press freedom, including on the internet, and are they enforced by a judiciary that lacks independence? 36 Ecuador’s Constitution guarantees “universal access to information technologies and communication” (Article 16.2), and confers the ability to exercise one’s right to communication, information, and freedom of expression (Article 384). In a promising move, several restrictive provisions contained in the 2013 Communication Law were reformed and enacted in February 2019.1 Important changes included the elimination of the mandatory media code of conduct (article 10) and the figure of media lynching that was used to prevent journalists from investigating corruption. Furthermore, the SUPERCOM, the agency that was in charge of overseeing compliance and sanctioning infractions, was eliminated. Nonetheless, a progressive disposition such as the audience ombudsman – a figure to whom citizens may appeal when discriminatory content is published – was also lost.2 In December 2015, the National Assembly amended Article 384 to include the mandate that “communication as a public service will be provided through public, private and community media” (emphasis added). The move to categorize communication as a public service raised criticism for undermining freedom of expression as a human right and opening the way for broad media regulation.3 In August 2018, the Constitutional Court nullified the 2015 amendments, which eliminated the characterization of communication as a "public service" and potentially restored it to a right.4 However, the 2019 reforms to the Communication Law, in its article 5, maintains that media "provide a public service."5 In January 2019, President Moreno sent to the Nationally Assembly a partial reform to the Communication Law to address article 5, removing the "public service" characterization and reinstating communication as a right.6 At the end of June 2019, the National Assembly has not yet debated this matter. In March 2019, a proposal to reform the Organic Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information was presented to the National Assembly. The proposal aims to limit the scope of “reserved information” that has been used to curtail access to public information in the past.7 The matter was pending debate in July 2019. 2. “¿Qué cambia con las reformas a Ley de Comunicación?" (What changes with the reforms to the Communication Law?) , GK, February 18, 2019, https://gk.city/?s=la+reformas+la+ley+organica+comunicacion. 3. John Otis, “How Ecuador's plans to make communications a public service is threat to free press,” Committee to Protect Journalists, January 20, 2015, https://cpj.org/blog/2015/01/how-ecuadors-plans-to-make-communications-…. 4. “La comunicación dejó de ser un servicio público en Ecuador” [Communication stopped being a public service in Ecuador], El Telégrafo, August 1, 2018, https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/politica/3/enmiendas-corte-cons…. 5. “Comunicación como servicio público no se eliminó de proyecto de Ley Orgánica de Comunicación,” [Communication as a public service was not removed from the Organic Communication Law project], El Universo, January 15, 2019, https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2019/01/15/nota/7139510/comunicacio…. 6. “Asamblea debatirá en marzo la comunicación como servicio público,” [National Assembly will discuss in March Communication as a public service], El Telégrafo, February 16, 2019, https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/politica/3/asamblea-debatira-co…. 7. “Comisión de los Derechos Colectivos Comunitarios y la Interculturalidad,” [Commission on Collective Community Rights and Interculturality], Asemblea Nacional [National Assembly], March 13, 2019, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1j38sGXQAAoOly.jpg Are there laws that assign criminal penalties or civil liability for online activities? 24 A lack of legislation specifically targeting online speech has allowed journalists and bloggers to enjoy relatively higher levels of freedom online than offline. During his second year in office, President Moreno pushed through promised reforms to punitive legislation that led to systematic abuses in the past, though the country still retains provisions that may threaten freedom of expression online, including criminal provisions against libel. Changes to the penal code that entered into force in August 2014 eliminated criminal charges for insult, but retained them for slander and libel.1 Article 396 notably punishes expressions that “discredit or dishonor” with imprisonment of 15 to 30 days. Article 179 restricts protections for whistleblowers by establishing a prison sentence of six months to one year for any person “who, by virtue of his/her state or office, employment, profession, or art, has knowledge of a secret whose divulgement might cause harm to another and reveals it.” The article makes no exception for revealing information in the public interest. Article 229 places further restrictions on divulging information by banning the revelation of registered information, databases, or archives through electronic systems in a way that violates the intimacy or privacy of someone else, with no exceptions for whistleblowers or journalists. Article 307 establishes a penalty of five to seven years in prison for creating economic panic by “publishing, spreading, or divulging false news that causes harm to the national economy in order to alter the prices of goods.” On the other hand, controversial legislative proposals for social media regulation have also emerged. On February 25, 2019, a group of National Assembly representatives introduced a bill on the "responsible use of social media."2 The bill would hold digital platforms liable and proposes up to 3 years in prison for disclosing personal information, including information about public figures, or for abusive or false information. Digital rights groups heavily criticized the proposal for its negative impact on freedom of expression online, though it had not yet been scheduled for debate.3 Other legislative proposals were still pending. On March 28, a proposal for a Digital Security Law was presented to the National Assembly. The law’s stated aim is “to detect and block hackers attempting to interfere and break information networks from the existing systems within the country” (sic).4 There was also an initiative to draft a cybersecurity law. As of May 2019, the Telecommunications Minister was working on the early stages of this project, and little was known regarding its normative orientation. Ministerial changes may delay the final draft and its submission to the National Assembly. 1. Código Orgánico Integral Penal, Ministerio de Justicia, Derechos Humanos y Cultos, 2014, http://www.oas.org/juridico/PDFs/mesicic5_ecu_ane_con_judi_c%C3%B3d_org…. 2. "Ley del Uso Responsable de Redes Sociales,” [Law of Responsible Use of Social Media], Asemblea Nacional [National Assembly], accessed December 27, 2019, https://es.slideshare.net/fabriciovela1973/proyecto-de-ley-para-uso-res…. 3. Maria Paz Canales, "Ley orgánica del uso responsable de las redes sociales: expresión bajo acecho,” [Organic Law of responsible use of social media: Expression under stalking], Derechos Digitales, March 7, 2019, https://www.derechosdigitales.org/12857/ley-organica-del-uso-responsabl…. 4. “Proyecto de Ley de Seguridad Digitial,” [Digital Security Law], Asamblea Nacional [National Assembly], March 28, 2019, http://ppless.asambleanacional.gob.ec/alfresco/d/d/workspace/SpacesStor…. Are individuals penalized for online activities? 36 A prominent case against a Swedish digital security expert with links to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gained international attention and sparked widespread criticism among digital rights activists. On April 11, Ecuadorian police arrested programmer Ola Bini, who was placed under investigation for his “alleged participation in attacks against the integrity of computer systems.”1 Based on the lack of incriminating information, human rights defenders said that his arrest was arbitrary.2 His detention was connected with allegations of a scheme to blackmail President Moreno over Ecuador’s disassociation from Julian Assange,3 as Bini had visited Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London over ten times, according to the Ecuadorian government. Other than such encounters with Assange, no evidence of Bini´s involvement in illegal activities was made public.4 Bini was arrested on the same day that British authorities removed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. After more than six years, Ecuador revoked his asylum.5 Moreno asserted that Assange was establishing a spy center within the Embassy from which the Australian hacker was interfering with democratic instability in several countries, including Ecuador.6 In March 2019, Wikileaks tweeted a link to an anonymous site called the INA Papers, now defunct, which disclosed content from President Moreno and his wife’s personal email accounts, Telegram and WhatsApp messages, family pictures, and documents related to offshore accounts under the name of Moreno’s brother. 7 Ecuadorian open source and open data communities supported the hashtag #FreeOlaBini as a widespread campaign demanded his release.8 Bini was finally released from his detention on June 21, after the Provincial Court of Pichincha granted his lawyers request for hábeas corpus.9 However, the investigation against him for attacks against state security was still ongoing.10 1. “Ciudadano sueco fue procesado por presunto ataque a la integridad de sistemas informáticos,” [Swedish citizen processed by alleged attack on integrity of computer systems], Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE), April 13, 2019, https://www.fiscalia.gob.ec/ciudadano-sueco-fue-procesado-por-presunto-…. 2. David Kaye (@davidakaye), “nothing in this story connects @olabini to any crime. digital privacy advocate/expert, expressed support for WL, etc - for sure. but the govt of #Ecuador must demonstrate more than that or this looks like an arbitrary detention,” Twitter, April 14, 2019, https://twitter.com/davidakaye/status/1117489081397547008. 3. José María León Cabrera, “Ecuador Detains a Friend of Assange. Critics Say It’s Guilt by Association,” The New York Times, April 21, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/world/americas/ecuador-ola-bini-assa…. 4. Joshua Goodman and Frank Bajak, “Who Is Ola Bini? Swedish Developer Who Visited Assange Arrested In Ecuador,” TPM, April 13, 2019, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/who-is-ola-bini-swedish-programmer-w…. 5. Patrick Wintour, “Assange tried to use embassy as 'centre for spying', says Ecuador's Moreno,” The Guardian, April 14, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/14/assange-tried-to-use-emba…. 6. Nicholas Casey and Jo Becker, “As Ecuador Harbored Assange, It Was Subjected to Threats and Leaks,” The New York Times, April 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/europe/ecuador-assange-wikilea…. 7. Wikileaks (@wikileaks) “Corruption investigation opened against Ecuador's president Moreno, after purported leaked contents of his iPhone (Whatsapp, Telegram) & Gmail were published. New York Times reported that Moreno tried to sell Assange to US for debt relief. http://inapapers.org/,” Twitter, March 25, 2019, https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1110283469349896193 8. Asociación de Software Libre del Ecuador (@asle_ec), Twitter, April 12-14, 2019, https://twitter.com/asle_ec/status/1116712138964381697. 9. “Justicia de Ecuador ordena liberar a informático sueco vinculado con Assange” [Justice of Ecuador orders release of Swedish computer specialist linked to Assange], El Comercio, June 20, 2019, https://elcomercio.pe/mundo/actualidad/ecuador-justicia-ecuador-deja-li…. 10. "Suspenden audiencia de Ola Bini prevista para el 27 de junio en Quito" [Suspended Ola Bini hearing scheduled for June 27 in Quito], El Comercio, June 26, 2019, https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/suspenden-audiencia-ola-bini-quit…. Does the government place restrictions on anonymous communication or encryption? 34 Neither anonymous nor encrypted communications are banned in Ecuador, and users of encryption are not subject to turn over their keys without a court mandate. The recent reform of the Communication Law eliminated requirements to register with name and ID number to make comments in digital fora and news sites.1 Registration of cell phones and SIM cards, however, is mandatory.2 ISPs are required to submit the IP addresses of their clients without a judicial order upon request by the regulatory agency ARCOTEL.3 1. “Normas deontológicas, eliminadas de la Ley de Comunicación,” [Deontological standards, removed from the Communication Law], El Universo, December 3, 2018, https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2018/12/03/nota/7081764/normas-deon…. 2. “Freedom of Expression, Encryption and Anonymity, Civil Society and Private Sector Perceptions,” Derechos Digitales, 2015, https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/freedom-of-express…. 3. “Reglamento Abonados Servicios Telecomunicaciones y Valor Agregado, Art. 29.9,” [Telecommunication Subscribers and Value Added Regulations), ARCOTEL, July 20, 2012, https://www.arcotel.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/reglamento-para-l…. Does state surveillance of internet activities infringe on users’ right to privacy? 26 Ecuador has a history of government surveillance of citizens, at least since 2013. Created in 2009, the national intelligence agency, SENAIN (National Secretariat of Intelligence), was in charge of producing “strategic SIGINT [signals intelligence] for the integral security of the state, society and democracy.” Most of its budget was allocated to “special expenses for communications and counterintelligence.”1 During Correa´s administration, evidence mounted that the government engaged in surveillance of a wide range of individuals, as leaked documents have exposed illegal spying on politicians, journalists, and activists.2 In September 2018, President Moreno eliminated SENAIN and created the Strategic Intelligence Center (Centro de Inteligencia Estratégica – CIES).3 The CIES is mandated to operate “within the current constitutional framework, so that during the execution of intelligence activities, strategic intelligence and counterintelligence, only information that contributes to public and State security will be produced.”4 Nonetheless, CIES received all the functions, competences, attributions, rights, obligations, resources, and budget previously allocated to SENAIN.5 Ecuador’s intelligence agency has access to extensive surveillance capabilities. A recent investigation by the New York Times showed that the national emergency response system known as ECU911 was a central piece of a massive surveillance system under Correa.6 The system began to be developed in 2011 by the Chinese state company CEIEC, as well as Huawei. There are more than 4,000 cameras deployed across the country. These cameras transmit live to the ECU911 headquarters and a direct mirror of the ECU911 cameras is reportedly found at SENAIN (now CIES) offices.7 There have also been reports about the application of facial recognition technology in certain areas such as airports, and the introduction of a new system to locate and track mobile phones.8 Leaks over the past few years have pointed to government investments in spying software to conduct surveillance. In July 2015, many of these suspicions were bolstered when the Italian technology company Hacking Team suffered a cyberattack, which resulted in the leak of emails showing contracts between Hacking Team and the Ecuadorian government.9 According to a technical analysis by “ilv”, a Tor Project developer, the government targeted judges, members of the national electoral council, political parties, and political movements.10 SENAIN also made use of information gathered by public agencies and stored in the government platform Dato Seguro. This website, administered by the National Directorate of Public Data Registry (DINARDAP), claimed their data was encrypted in transit and on its servers.11 However, public entities, the Registry included, were legally obliged to provide any information required by SENAIN as long as this request had been communicated to the president.12 Current DINARDAP director, Lorena Naranjo, asserted in October 2018 that in accordance with the Constitution, the agency is currently devoted to protecting personal data that circulates among government agencies.13 1. “Programación Anual de la Política Pública,” [Annual Program for Public Policy], Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia, February 11, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20160327011719/http:/www.inteligencia.gob.e…. 2. Roberto Aguilar, "La policía política de la Senain vigila a civiles y grupos sociales," Ecuador en Vivo, September 20, 2017, http://www.ecuadorenvivo.com/politica/24-politica/66136-la-policia-poli…; “Las perspectivas del cambio en los servicios de inteligencia,” [Perspectives Of Change In Intelligence Services], Plan V, October 1, 2018, https://www.planv.com.ec/historias/politica/perspectivas-del-cambio-ser…. 3. “Decreto de creación del Centro de Inteligencia Estratégica,” [Decree for creation of the Center of Strategic Intelligence], Centro de Inteligencia Estratégica (CIES), September 21, 2018, https://www.cies.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Decreto-de-creaci%C3…. 4. “Lenín Moreno, vía Decreto 526, elimina la Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia (Senain),” [Lenín Moreno, via Decree 526, eliminates the National Secretariat of Intelligence], El Diario, September 21, 2018. http://www.eldiario.ec/lamarea/noticias-manta-ecuador/483291-Lenín-more…. 6. Paul Mozur, Jonah M. Kessel and Melissa Chan, “Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State,” The New York Times, April 24, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-surveillance-came…. 7. “How China Trains the World’s Autocrats to Surveil Their People,” The New York Times Youtube, April 24, 2019, https://youtu.be/p8WAIFatAqw. 8. Jun Mai, “Ecuador is fighting crime using Chinese surveillance technology,” South China Morning Post, January 22, 2018, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2129912/ecuad…. 9. “Senain compró paquetes de espionaje de Hacking Team para 3 años,” El Universo, March 27, 2018, https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2018/03/27/nota/6686833/senain-comp…. 10. Ilv, “Hacking Team, Chile & Ecuador,” July 11, 2015. 11. “Preguntas Frecuentes,” [FAQ], Dirección Nacional de Registro de Datos Públicos, accessed December 27, 2019, http://www.datospublicos.gob.ec/que-se-considera-por-informacion-public…. 12. Law of Public and State Security, Article 17, http://www.oas.org/juridico/PDFs/mesicic5_ecu_panel5_SERCOP_1.3._ley_se…. 13. “Los retos del padrón electoral,” (The challenges of the electoral roll), El Comercio Facebook, October 23, 2018. https://www.facebook.com/elcomerciocom/videos/176260246570323/. Are service providers and other technology companies required to aid the government in monitoring the communications of their users? 46 Under the rules of the Telecommunications Law, ISPs are obliged by ARCOTEL to “provide technical, economic, financial, legal documents, and in general, any form or request for information” and to “allow inspections to facilities and systems.”1 In September 2018, ARCOTEL approved a technical standard for the registration of subscribers or customers of telecommunications services and broadcasting services. This technical norm establishes that services providers must protect personal data in their databases and cannot use such data for any other purpose without explicit informed consent from the customer.2 ISPs can receive orders from a judge to provide communication data to law enforcement agencies. Content intercepted during internet surveillance is admissible in court and can be used to convict criminals under Articles 476 and 528 of the Criminal Code. Since 2015, the Subsystem for Interception of Communications or Computer Data (SICOM) of the General Attorney allows interception of voice calls and text messages (SMS) of criminal suspects.3 Mobile operators are required to implement technology that would automatically provide the physical location of cellphone users for emergency purposes, within an accuracy range of 50 meters.4 1. “Decreto Ejecutivo 864,” [Executive Decree 864], January 25, 2016, ARCOTEL, https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Reglam…. 2. “Norma Técnica para el empadronamiento de abonados, suscriptores y clientes de servicios de telecomunicaciones y servicios de radiodifusión por suscripción,” [Technical standard for the registration of subscribers, subscribers or customers of Telecom services and broadcast services by subscription], ARCOTEL, 2018, https://www.arcotel.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Prop-norma-empadr…. 3. “La interceptación de llamadas se hace solo bajo la autorización de un juez,” [Call interception is done only under the authorization of a judge], FGE, July 21, 2015, https://www.fiscalia.gob.ec/la-interceptacion-de-llamadas-se-hace-solo-… 4. Servicio Integrado de Seguridad ECU 911, “Informe de Gestión Anual 2015,” [Annual Report 2015], February 19, 2016, https://issuu.com/ecu911/docs/informe_de_gestion2015, Ecu 911, “Geolocalización,” [Geolocation], https://www.ecu911.gob.ec/localizador-mobil/. Are individuals subject to extralegal intimidation or physical violence by state authorities or any other actor in retribution for their online activities? 35 Reporters and social media personalities have generally experienced lower levels of intimidation during the past couple of years, and there were no reports of physical attacks against ICT users. However, former President Correa continued to encourage his followers to find and release personal information about Twitter users who criticize him. Two journalists of La Posta reported in July 2018 that they received threats via WhatsApp and Twitter after they launched an investigation about Correa’s living conditions in Belgium. They were also victims of doxing after their residential addresses were shared on Twitter.1 1. “Amenazas y difusión de datos personales de periodistas por anuncio de investigación a expresidente,” [Threats and personal data disclosing of journalists for announcing investigation of former president], Usuarios Digitales, July 15, 2018, http://www.usuariosdigitales.org/2018/07/25/amenazas-y-difusion-de-dato…. Are websites, governmental and private entities, service providers, or individual users subject to widespread hacking and other forms of cyberattack? 13 A few technical attacks targeted media websites during the past year. On June 21, 2018, the news commentary website 4Pelagatos suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took the site offline for around 15 hours.1 The investigative journalism website Plan V also suffered a similar attack on May 30, 2018. These attacks occurred after the publication of pieces referring to a corruption case under Rafael Correa´s administration. In April 2019, after Julian Assange’s asylum was revoked, the government reported a series of cyberattacks (mainly DDoS), apparently in connection with the #FreeAssange campaign. Attacks were mainly coming from the United States, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria, United Kingdom, and from within Ecuador. Numerous government websites were targeted, including the foreign ministry, central bank, the presidential office, and tax authorities.2 Between April 18 and 19, the Constitutional Court’s website suffered an attack from Turkey,3 and the site also was defaced to say “Owned For Julian Assange” in an action claimed by Turkish Hackers.4 According to the Ecuadorian Corporation for the Development of Research and Academia (CEDIA), its Computer Incident Response Team (CSIRT) responded to the incidents to mitigate their impact. They recorded leaks of information stored in a dozen sites; defacement of five websites; seven cases of unauthorized access to systems; and a large number of DDoS attacks on websites and networks.5 In September 2019, after the coverage period of this report, it was revealed that the majority of Ecuadorians had their personal information exposed on the server of a data analytics company. The government quickly launched an investigation and stated that a new data protection law would be submitted to the National Assembly.6 1. “365 millones de ataques contra 4Pelagatos…,” [365 million attacks against 4Pelagatos], 4Pelagatos, June 22, 2018, https://4pelagatos.com/2018/06/22/365-millones-de-ataques-contra-4pelag…. 2. “Ecuador Claims It's Been Hit With 40 Million Cyberattacks Since Giving Up Julian Assange” Gizmodo, April 16, 2019, https://gizmodo.com/ecuador-claims-its-been-hit-with-40-million-cyberat…. 3. Usuarios Digitales (@usuariosdigitales), “#AlertaDigitalEC @CorteConstEcu en boletín de prensa informa de ataque de DDoS y Defacement a su sitio web #OpEcuador #OpAssange #FreeAssange,” [@CorteConstEcu in a press reléase attacks the DDoS and Defacecement to their website], Twitter, April 19, 2019, https://twitter.com/usuariosdigital/status/1119339989203128321. 4. Screen captures of the defacement Iria Puyosa (@NSC), “Hackers turcos se atribuyen hacking de página web de la Corte Constitucional de Ecuador, Su consigna #FreeAssange,” Twitter, April 19, 2019, https://twitter.com/NSC/status/1119378061483552773. 5. The listed incidents were those in which CEDIA´s CSIRT worked on mitigation. Other cases occurred. “Acciones ante los ataques fa infraestructura y servidores del país,” [Actions before attacks on infrastructure and servers in the country], CEDIA, April 18, 2019, https://www.cedia.edu.ec/es/noticias-y-eventos/noticias/noticias-2019/a…. 6. Catalin Cimpanu, “Database leaks data on most of Ecuador’s citizens, including 6.7 million children,” ZDNet, September 16, 2019, https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/database-leaks-data-on-most-of…; “Arrest made in Ecuador’s massive databreach,” Catalin Cimpanu, ZDNet, September 17, 2019, https://www.zdnet.com/article/arrest-made-in-ecuadors-massive-data-brea…. Freedom in the World Status Networks Restricted Social Media Blocked Websites Blocked Pro-government Commentators Users Arrested @2020 FreedomHouse	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2619
__label__wiki	0.991871	0.991871	Home Entertainment YouTube star PewDiePie makes racial slur YouTube star PewDiePie makes racial slur The world’s highest-paid YouTube star, PewDiePie, has used the “n-word” during an online broadcast. The 27-year-old Swede – real name Felix Kjellberg – could be heard using the racial slur while he was playing a video game during a live streaming. After using the term, he apologised and said: “I don’t mean that in a bad way.” He has previously had to defend himself over allegations of anti-Semitism, and was suspended from Twitter for making jokes about so-called Islamic State. PewDiePie has more than 57m subscribers on YouTube. He amassed his following by posting recordings of himself playing video games and providing commentary. In February, some of his videos were found to contain Nazi references or anti-Semitic imagery, which resulted in Disney cutting ties with him. He is reported to have made $15m (£11m) through YouTube last year – he gets billions of views per month and generates vast amounts of income from advertising. He had been associated with Disney via Maker Studios, a company with a network of YouTube stars. ‘Insane claims’ In February, Disney said that while Mr Kjellberg had a reputation for being provocative and irreverent, some of the videos he made were “inappropriate”. In one of the controversial videos, Mr Kjellberg paid two people through a crowd-sourcing website to hold up a sign which read “Death to all Jews”. PewDiePie accepted the material was offensive, but said he did not support “any kind of hateful attitudes”. He said that the anti-Semitism claims were “insane” and “unfair”, adding: “I am sorry for the words I used as I know they offended people.” YouTube cancelled the release of Mr Kjellberg’s new series Scare PewDiePie 2. Previous articleSlavery checks not fit for purpose at UK firms, report says Next article14th Dalai Lama to Talk about Long-Term Solution of Refugee Crisis in His Upcoming Europe Visit Weinstein lawyer urges ‘biased’ judge to step down Chris Packham: Dead fox left at TV presenter’s home Indians win in 11th at Texas after debuting new relievers Dodgers’ skid reaches 6 games with loss at Miami, 6-5 Sajid Javid to be new home secretary Padres, Braves resume series following eventful Friday night MPs urged to take part in live fire drills in Parliament	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2621
__label__wiki	0.529062	0.529062	Solar Turbines 5200 kW Taurus T60 Solar Turbines 5200 kW Taurus T60 Specifications Manufacturer: Solar Turbines model: Taurus 60 T7301S kw: 5200 (5) Units Available Fully Overhauled by Solar Turbines 18 Month Solar Turbines OEM Warranty Located in USA Voltage: 13.8 kV 21,000 hours on turbine discs Turbine undergoing fresh overhaul in 2017 About Solar Turbines Solar Turbines Incorporated, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial gas turbines. Solar Turbines' products include gas turbine engines (rated from 1590 to 30,000 horsepower), gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets (ranging from 1.1 to 22 megawatts). Solar's customers put the company's products to work in many areas including production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2622
__label__cc	0.724881	0.275119	USAID Water Activities USAID Partnerships USAID In the News GW Stories Water Currents Gender Equality & Empowerment U.S. Govt. Global Water Strategy About Globalwaters.org Priority Countries D. R. Congo Strategy Aligned Countries Sustainable Water Partnership Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Finance Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability Water for Africa Through Leadership and Institutional Support Global Handwashing Partnership Rotary USAID Toilet Board Coalition Water and Development Alliance Women + Water Alliance Sanitation and Water for All Working With USAID Intl Campaign Days Global Waters Stories World Water Day 2020: Water and Climate Change World Water Day is observed annually on March 22 to raise awareness about the vital importance of water to safeguarding human security and maintaining the health of the planet's ecosystems. This year's theme, "Water and Climate Change," highlights the urgent importance of strengthening water security and establishing access to a sustainable water supply in the face of changing climate conditions worldwide. The observance will also raise public awareness about the many ways shifting atmospheric and oceanic conditions are reshaping the global hydrologic cycle. Increasing sustainable access to safe drinking water is a key objective of the U.S Government Global Water Strategy and USAID’s Water and Development Plan. In support of the water strategy, USAID seeks to provide 15 million people with sustainable access to drinking water services by 2022. Globally, 663 million people still lack access to safe drinking water sources—the very resource on which a healthy, productive life depends. Even for those who have access, services are often inadequate to meet basic needs. Across sub-Saharan Africa, 30 percent to 50 percent of rural systems are nonfunctional within five years of being built, and utilities in urban areas often ration water servicing. Similarly, water is often contaminated from urban, industrial, and agricultural pollutants that can compromise nonpiped water systems, even those that are classified as improved water sources. Many of those who lack access to basic water services also live in conflict-affected states with poor governance, insecure tenure, high rates of poverty, and weak institutions. In countries with a history of conflict and civil unrest, the impact of refugees has further deteriorated the condition of water supply services. USAID’s Approach The Agency helps partner countries reach the poor and assist the underserved in gaining first-time or improved access to basic drinking water services and climb progressively toward safely managed services. Access to a safe and reliable drinking water source is critical for health and livelihoods, and is especially important for unlocking educational and economic opportunities for women and girls. The reliable provision and management of drinking water also builds trust in local and national governments, and can contribute to local and national stability. Increasing access levels in rural areas has been a traditional focus of USAID investments. While investments in rural water supply will continue, the rapid pace of urbanization also requires increasing attention to urban services and utilities, particularly in dense peri-urban settlements and secondary cities and towns, often served by informal providers. Examples of USAID’s water assistance include: Increasing the number of people with access to basic drinking water services Improving the ability of education and health facilities to provide and manage water services adequately in schools and clinics Catalyzing increased financing for the operations and maintenance of water systems, including through investing in innovative financial vehicles Improving the quality and reliability of drinking water Increasing the number of people with access to safely managed drinking water services As a result of USAID programs, communities around the world are benefiting from access to improved water and sanitation services, and becoming more resilient in the face of a changing climate. Intl Campaign Day Related Geography Searchable Keywords agriculture climate change disaster risk reduction economic development food security infrastructure sustainability water security water supply World Water Day Agricultural Water Management, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Transboundary, WASH, Water Quality, Water Resources Management, Water Security, Water Supply More on globalwaters.org EventWorld Wetlands Day: February 2, 20207 Jan 2020 News LinkGroundwater Can Prevent Drought Emergencies in the Horn of Africa. Here’s How13 Nov 2019 BlogWhat You Missed at this Year’s Water and Health Conference22 Oct 2019 Strategy and GuidanceInnovator Guidebook: Navigating Business Models for the Base of the Pyramid in...14 Sep 2019 VideoProyecto PARA-Agua: Cuenca Chica-Piura29 Aug 2019 Sharing knowledge and ideas to solve global water and sanitation challenges, as USAID and its partners work toward a healthier and more secure future for all.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2623
__label__cc	0.532807	0.467193	AI challenges how technology is designed > AI challenges how technology is designed The human brain is cleverer than any machine, which is why we’re mimicking it with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our devices. But AI developments can only go so far with the approach to technology that we have now. Our brains are smarter and more efficient than any machine. Every second, your brain takes in more than 11 million bits of information from the outside world. It makes sense of all this information by designing algorithms that mean you can do things like recognize words in a conversation, appreciate music, navigate your way through the city, and respond to objects and signs like stop lights or car horns. And it does all this instantly. Wouldn’t it be amazing if machines could think like humans do? Scientists have thought so since the 1940s, but it’s only in recent years that we’ve had the technology to make artificial intelligence like machine learning a reality. Today, AI is at work in virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa; in estimating traffic delays and suggesting routes on Google Maps; in facial recognition when tagging a friend in a photo on Facebook; and in recommending music on Spotify. It’s at work in headsets and hearing aids, too, as innovators like GN strive to replicate and even exceed how we hear naturally as humans (Read about How GN’s AI-powered audio knows what you want to hear – and what you don’t [Article]). Why the brain is so hard to copy One of the challenges of designing hearing aids which aim to mimic human hearing is that the “brain” – the microchip – where all the “thinking” or calculations happen, is nowhere near the size of a human brain. In a phone or a car, for example, the chip can be as large as you like, but in a tiny hearing aid which sits in or behind a human ear, there is limited room to move – literally. The brain of a hearing aid is smaller than the size of a fingernail, and the batteries that power it are just as compact. A hearing aid chip is smaller than a fingernail From evolution to revolution in how we do tech Each time we design a new hearing aid, a dedicated team of chip designers stretch the previous limits to squeeze more power and efficiency out of the chip, meaning the hearing aid can do more and last longer. See the video below about the advances in chip technology in GN’s premium rechargeable hearing aid, ReSound LiNX Quattro. The problem is, as Brian Dam Pedersen, Chief Technology Officer at GN Hearing explains, the hardware, such as the chips, that we use today have not been built to cope with the heavy mental load of AI. “The basic algorithms used in hearing aids today were developed 15-20 years ago, and the industry has been refining them over time. Hardware development so far has been an evolution, but the transition to machine learning is a revolution in the way we think of chips and their architecture. This is where we see the greatest opportunities for achievements," Brian says. The challenge of making machines think like humans How does AI work differently to other technology, and why does it put such a heavy load on the hardware? It all comes down to how that thinking, or processing, is structured. Take a process like word recognition. Your brain has designed algorithms so that when you hear a word like “Emergency”, you pick it up very quickly. But for computer software to recognize words using traditional algorithms, it takes a lot of math. It processes the sounds of that word in a sequence, hearing that it started with an ‘E’, then scrolling through different possibilities to find that the second letter is an ‘M’, and so on. It processes in a series, whereas AI processing that simulates the human brain does this work in parallel, all at once. When we are talking about thousands or even millions of bits of information running through tiny circuits on a microchip, this puts significant pressure on that chip and quickly drains the battery. The way humans, and the machine learning that imitates them, "think" or process information is fundamentally different to how traditional machines have been programmed to think And that is exactly the challenge engineers now face in trying to design AI structures on microchips. "To use machine learning within the hearing device itself means that dedicated hardware is probably the one only realistic way forward, because the structures are so different from what we know today. The hardware that runs machine learning is not like the hardware we use today for normal signal processing," explains Brian Dam Pedersen. Why machine learning matters for hearing Today, the machine learning at work in hearing aids doesn’t happen in the hearing aid itself, but rather makes use of the greater processing power in the smartphone that it connects to via an app. It uses input from hearing aid users to make analyses and recommendations for optimal settings in different situations, and refines these over time as more and more user data comes in. But running AI on the chip of the hearing aid itself would mean big gains in getting closer to natural hearing. “The next step is algorithms that learn from the sound environments coming into the hearing aid, in order to automatically adjust the settings to provide the best experience for different situations like a restaurant, cycling out on the street, or watching TV,” Brian Dam Pedersen explains. The ultimate achievement for hearing aids, which may well entice people with normal hearing, too, is solving the problem of how to focus on the person speaking to you in a noisy, crowded situation. Known as the Cocktail Party Effect, sorting speech from noise has been the toughest nut to crack. The ultimate achievement for hearing aids, which may well entice people with normal hearing, too, is solving the problem of how to focus on the person speaking to you in a noisy, crowded situation. Known as the Cocktail Party Effect, sorting speech from noise has been the toughest nut to crack, but machine learning in hearing aids could help solve it. Running machine learning on hearing aids means the hearing aids would be able to tell what sound or voice you want to listen to in a noisy situation, and focus on making that speech clear, while reducing the amount of distracting background noise. For people with normal hearing, these types of situations in restaurants and parties can be challenging enough, so imagine how it is for a person with a hearing loss – and just think what it could mean if we could overcome it. Future solutions that are more human and less engineered While it may seem ironic, what is so exciting about implementing machine learning in hearing aid hardware is its potential to make technology more human. Solutions that mimic how we as humans take information, process it, act on it, and constantly learn from it mean that in the future, we can expect to see tech that is less top-down and human-engineered, and more bottom-up, thinking for itself. Sources: Artificial intelligence definition, Chambers 21st Century Dictionary Machine learning definition, Google Developers Machine Learning Glossary Applications of information theory: Physiology, Encyclopedia Britannica	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2627
__label__wiki	0.745034	0.745034	NY Stars PWA are LIAHL Tier III Champs 03/04/2019, 12:00pm EST By NY Stars The NY Stars PWA team secured the LIAHL Tier III Championship in a hard fought 2-0 game against the PAL Sound Tigers. The Stars came in second place in the regular season which included at least one win over every opponent they faced in division play. However, they also lost to both of their playoff opponents so they knew the road would not be easy. The semifinal game was against the 3rd place Great Neck Bruins at Abe Stark and the Stars jumped out to an early 3-0 lead and never looked back as they skated to a 5-3 win. The next and final hurdle would be a rubber match against the Sound Tigers who bested the Stars in the first game by a score of 3-1. The second game took place after the new year and the Stars came out on top in a squeaker by a score of 1-0. So due to the results of the first 2 games the anticipation was a low scoring, tightly played affair. The overflowing crowd was fired up for the boys with horns, cowbells and chants before they even took the ice. The game played out in the first as advertised as both teams didn't generate many premium scoring chances and when they did the goalies on both teams took care of business. Eventually something had to give and give it did as 5 minutes into the 2nd period with the Stars shorthanded and the play in the Sound Tiger's zone, Joseph Ludovico took a low shot on the goalie who was unable to corral it. A generous rebound went right to Mason Hitt's stick and he tucked the puck past the goalie for a 1-0 Stars lead and an eruption of epic proportions from the stands and the player's bench. With plenty of game left, the Stars stuck to their game plan with fierce back checking and staunch defense. Halfway through the final period, the Stars gave their opponent an opening when a Sound Tiger player stole the puck and broke in all alone only to be denied by Aden Shimunov who feverishly back checked but in his denial drew a penalty resulting in a penalty shot. This was a pivotal moment to say the least and in this type of game, you had the feeling might be PAL's last chance to get things even. As the buzz died down to a whisper and with all eyes on Stars goalie Liam Conry, the opponent rushed in and fired his attempt only to be stoned by Conry. Jubilation from the Brooklyn crew and a big exhale! With that bullet dodged, the Stars went back to the methodical business of defensive pressure and counter attacking which would pay off a few minutes after the thwarted penalty shot as Mason Hitt converted another rebound in almost identical fashion as his first goal. That goal sealed their opponent's fate as a 2-0 lead with a few minutes to go felt insurmountable. And it was as that is the way the game ended with smiles, hugs and high fives by the adults and a sea of humanity on the ice by the players(and some of their PWAA cohorts who stayed to support) Congratulations to Coaches Roman Radomiselski and Jay Ludovico for a great season and for all their hard work and effort to prepare this team for a tough playoff run and to all of the parents and players for a great season with an even better ending!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2628
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__label__cc	0.704525	0.295475	This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Continue if you are OK with this or find out more in our Privacy Policy. Search standard Press Enter for more results Slide to close < < < Sex & Gynae Sarah Vine Susannah Taylor Sense & Sensitivity The Makeup Maniac Who, What, Hair Not Fair Zen Mistress SOS: Advice Why you need to stop weekend binge eating now July 8th 2016 / Dr Deyo Famuboni / 0 comment Eating clean during the working week, a different story come the weekend? GP, Dr Deyo Famuboni reveals how it could be doing your body, mind and overall health more harm than good Food is an integral part of who we are and a necessity for survival. Providing us with the right nutrients, it contributes to us functioning optimally. At the start of the week, we often have good intentions of getting this right - eating nutrient dense, real foods. By the weekend, our good intentions tend to falter for different reasons; maybe it's the end of a stressful week, we are socialising more, celebrating events, living a life of balance and having an indulgent meal which turns into an excessive food weekend, have restricted our food intake during the week or are, simply, bored. Overindulging on food on occasion isn't a cause for concern. However, because of the effect it has on the body it does become worrying if it occurs at least on a weekly basis, in the form of a binge episode. During these sessions, sometimes done alone, you may notice you eat faster than normal until feeling uncomfortably full. It usually involves large quantities of food although you’re not feeling hungry and you may feel guilty, depressed or upset with yourself afterwards. This is known as a binge eating disorder and it is worth speaking to your healthcare professional about it. Binge eating often happens because of a mental or traumatic issue and once this is addressed, either through self-help, support groups, talking therapy or as a last resort, medication, it can be controlled well. When we binge eat, our bodies go through both physical and mental changes. Here are a few of them. 1. Bloating In the first instance, the large amount of food ingested can make us very bloated and develop abdominal discomfort. If this becomes sudden, sharp and severe, it requires urgent attention. The swelling of our abdomen can cause pressure upwards, making us feel breathless as our lungs don’t have enough space for us to breathe normally. Binge eating often involves unhealthy, junk food with very little fibre. This can lead to even more bloating and constipation. MORE GLOSS: The bloat-busters - 14 ways to feel less bloated at the end of the day 2. Heartburn Binge eating can cause the stomach to be full of food, leading to pressure on the sphincter (lock) at the bottom of the gullet and it relaxes and can open up. This lock usually stops food from coming back up or regurgitating. Once it opens up, you can get a burning sensation all the way to the throat and some food particles or liquid in our mouths. For some, it can cause them to vomit. Recurrent episodes of this can be a form of bulimia and can in the long-run affect our teeth, gums and jaw. This heartburn can also cause inflammation which can cause long-term damage. Refraining from binge eating and getting this treated early on is very important. MORE GLOSS: Orthorexia - do you have an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating? While changes in hormones made in the ovaries (oestrogen and progesterone), the ‘hunger’ hormones (ghrelin and leptin) and the 'stress' hormone (cortisol) have been linked to episodes of binge eating, the foods consumed can also affect other hormones such as insulin. This is because the binge is often on foods that cause our blood sugar levels to spike, triggering a sharp rise in insulin so the excess sugar can be absorbed and potentially stored as fat. This can result in fluctuating energy levels, fatigue, tiredness and a signal to your brain to eat more. Long-term, obesity can set in and conditions such as diabetes can occur. MORE GLOSS: How to stop your hormones wrecking your life and waistline Binge eating is a rate limiter when it comes to losing weight - whether overweight or maintaining our weight. The cycle of eating a balanced diet during the week and then binge eating at the weekend usually involves consuming a lot more empty, low nutritional value calories than required. A lot of people find they lose weight steadily from Monday to Friday and by the following Monday morning, their weight has gone up and is usually more than the previous week. People tend to have less of a routine, socialise more and potentially consume more alcohol at the weekends. In order to maintain or lose weight if needed, lifelong consistency and being mindful of our eating and exercise habits is vital. MORE GLOSS: 5 ways to overcome emotional eating for good Undernourishment Eating ‘clean’ during the week is great as long as it can continue into the weekend and consists of sufficient nutrient dense calories. Depending on your lifestyle, it is important to be aware of adequate portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and good sources of protein and complex carbohydrates to ensure you do not develop a nutritional deficiency. This is even more important if you exercise with moderate to high intensity regularly. The risk of undernourishment can be similar if you binge eat on high energy foods with no nutritional value. Always check the label. One cannot highlight enough the effects of undereating. From feeling dizzy to being breathless and weak, to the long-term effects on the skin (such as early skin ageing), heart and bones (osteoporosis, i.e. thinning of the bones which can be painful), these are just some of the consequences of an inadequately balanced diet. Please seek medical advice should these symptoms occur. MORE GLOSS: 15 anti-ageing bloopers that are making you age faster Anxiety and low mood After binge eating, people tend to feel bad. A lot of people are concerned about their weight and the binge episodes make them anxious, worried and sad that they aren't reaching their weight loss goals. It can become a vicious cycle as going on a diet during the week and restricting food then triggers another binge episode resulting in anxiety and remorse afterwards. Easier said than done, but try not to feel bad after a binge or compensate by over-exercising or restricting/skipping your next meal. These reactions tend to contribute to the risk of having another binge episode in the future. If you are concerned about eating disorders for yourself or someone else, help is available. Please speak to your Doctor. You can also visit the UK leading charity on eating disorders - Beat. Follow us @getthegloss and Dr Famuboni @DoctorDeyo. Like this? 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__label__cc	0.671163	0.328837	About GLA Certified Global Leadership Coaches Certified Coaches in Europe Certified Coaches in the US and Canada Certified Coaches in Australasia Certified Coaches in Asia GLA Consultancy Vertical and Horizontal Development The Global Leadership Profile The GLP Overview Levels of Leadership Development Action Inquiry Getting Started with the GLP Take the GLP Transformations™ Deck Scientific Validity of the GLP The Academic Hub Events and Forums The GLP is based on Torbert’s 40+ years of research (see below Torbert & Associates, Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership [Berrett-Koehler, 2004], as well as Seven Transformations of Leadership [April 2005 Harvard Business Review].The 2013 scholarly summary CDAI appears in Torbert’s Listening Into the Dark And for the latest methodological review of five different measures (2016), see Bill’s Developmental Measures Compared Torbert has been involved in testing the validity of several developmental leadership measures that are close equivalents, and the GLP is the latest version, building on the validity of the others, while improving upon them in various ways. For example, we now offer each person who takes the GLP a Self-Estimate document that supports making your own subjective estimate of your centre-of-gravity action-logic before receiving our relatively objective estimate. This process generates better conversation afterwards both within yourself and with a coach. Also, we no longer depend merely on occasional testing of reliability between scorers. Instead, each set of sentence completions submitted is tested for reliability between two of the half dozen most senior scorers of such developmental instruments. Finally, even more important than the already-established validity of the objective GLP instrument is the catalytic validity that engaging the action inquiry process at a workshop or with an executive coach achieves on behalf of your ongoing transformation to later leadership action-logics. Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry Read more about the research behind Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry (CDAI) CDAI was born in Torbert’s 1972 book Learning from Experience: Toward Consciousness and further developed in his 1976 book Creating a Community of Inquiry, his 1987 book Managing the Corporate Dream, his 1991 book The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society, and Scientific Inquiry, his 1995 book (with Dal Fisher) Personal and Organizational Transformations, his 2004 book (with associates) Action Inquiry, and his 2016 book (with Hilary Bradbury) Eros/Power: Love in the Spirit of Inquiry. All of Torbert’s research interweaves quantitative, qualitative, and action methodologies, and is written up in first-, second-, and third-person voices. In particular, the third-person psychometric measure of persons’ developmental action-logics – the Global Leadership Profile (the GLP, progressively evolved from Loevinger’s Washington University Sentence Completion Test [WUSCT] since 1980) has undergone the widest range of validity and reliability testing of any measure we know. The tests of the GLP run the gamut from conventional reliability tests and internal validity tests, to use of the measure in laboratory and field experiments, and in predicting the outcomes of studies using non-obtrusive measures, interview analyses, behaviour-scoring schemes, and analyses of organizational case studies. In many cases, the variance in the GLP accounted for more than half of the variance in the dependent variables beyond the .01 level of significance – very unusual for social science studies. The best and most recent methodological reviews of CDAI and the GLP are found in the ‘Concluding Scientific Postscript’ of Torbert, 2004, in the 2013 Integral Review refereed article “Listening into the Dark” and in the 2016 paper “Brief Comparison of Five Developmental Measures”. In 1972, when Torbert’s first book in this area was published, there was no field of adult development. Since then, Ken Wilber’s The Atman Project, 1980, and later books; Bob Kegan’s The Evolving Self, 1982, and later books; and Susanne Cook-Greuter’s Postautonomous Ego Development, 1999, among many others, have helped to define the field. What remains distinctive about the contribution of CDAI is that its methods are applied to the researchers themselves as well as other participants, that its methods are applied in action settings, and that its methods generate not only single-loop feedback, but also double- and triple-loop feedback. Put differently, CDAI offers dynamic, transformational action research methods that theorize, document, and catalyze not only individual, adult development, but also organizational development, and scientific paradigm change. In the past twenty years, PhD dissertations by Hilary Bradbury, Aftab Erfan, Erica Foldy, Ed Kelly, Valerie Livesay, David McCallum SJ, Cara Miller, Aliki Nicolaides, Robin Postel, Shakiyla Smith, and Karen Yeyinman have all used elements of CDAI theory, practice, and method. (Several of these dissertations can be found listed in Research) Also, these authors and others are responsible for some 15 chapters in 2015 Handbook of Action Research..(Several also listed in Research) Bill Torbert and associates illustrate how individuals and organizations can progress through more and more sophisticated “action-logics” — strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it — until they will eventually be able to practice action inquiry continually. Offering action inquiry exercises at the end of the chapters, the book moves from junior managers beginning to practice action inquiry through CEO’s transforming whole companies, to world leaders transforming whole countries, as exemplified by Czech president Vaclav Havel. Through short stories of leadership and organizational transformations, this groundbreaking book illustrates how action inquiry increases personal integrity, relational mutuality, company profitability, and long-term organizational and environmental sustainability. – Offers a powerful method that leaders in organizations of all types can use to increase the timeliness and effectiveness of their actions – Provides numerous real-world examples of action inquiry in action – Includes exercises individuals and organizations can use to begin practicing action inquiry Find this article HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ARTICLE Seven Transformations of Leadership Most developmental psychologists agree that what differentiates one leader from another is not so much philosophy of leadership, personality, or style of management. Rather, it’s internal “action logic”–how a leader interprets the surroundings and reacts when his or her power or safety is challenged. Relatively few leaders, however, try to understand their action logic, and fewer still have explored the possibility of changing it. They should, because leaders who undertake this voyage of personal understanding and development can transform not only their own capabilities but also those of their companies. In 2012, HBR chose this article as one of its 10 best leadership articles ever for its new book on the Top Ten Leadership MUST READS. One Test of the Validity of the 2008 version of the current Global Leadership Profile (GLP) Reut Livne-Tarandach and Bill Torbert Global Leadership Associates is a private limited company registered in England & Wales under company registration number 10143897. Registered office address is 264 Banbury Road, Oxford, England, OX2 7DY. Copyright GLA 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2637
__label__wiki	0.714748	0.714748	Solidarity for HDP Kurdish mayors from Sydney Ismet Tashtan The Kurdish community in Sydney held a protest on August 21 outside NSW Parliament, against the recent removal of elected Kurdish mayors in Turkey. These mayors were members of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) which won the third highest vote in the March 31 local elections in Turkey. More than 450 Kurdish activists were also recently detained in what has become a major clampdown on Kurdish communities. NSW Greens MPs Jamie Parker and David Shoebridge and Peter Boyle from the Socialist Alliance expressed solidarity with the Kurdish mayors. Video footage by Peter Boyle and Ismet Tashtan for Green Left Weekly. Kurdish struggle Turkish arrests People's Democratic Party (HDP) If you like our work, become a supporter Green Left is a vital social-change project and aims to make all content available online, without paywalls. With no corporate sponsors or advertising, we rely on support and donations from readers like you. For just $5 per month get the Green Left digital edition in your inbox each week. For $10 per month get the above and the print edition delivered to your door. You can also add a donation to your support by choosing the solidarity option of $20 per month. Freecall now on 1800 634 206 or follow the support link below to make a secure supporter payment or donation online. Green Left Weekly has been an invaluable source of serious left-wing journalism in this region for many years. I have come to rely on GLW for news from Australia and Asia in particular. GLW has also been a champion of our work at Unite Union and certainly one of the only sources for news on that in Australia. For that, we are also very grateful. May your good work continue. Mike Treen National Director of Unite Union, Aotearoa (NZ).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2638
__label__wiki	0.587857	0.587857	Inauguration Parking and Transportation The Inauguration of Rabbi Daniel L. Lehman, Eighth President of the Graduate Theological Union, will be held at: International House at University of California, Berkeley 2299 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720 (see map below) Parking is available at the Stadium Parking Garage: 2175 Gayley Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720 (One block north of the International House) Metered street parking is free after 6 pm. If you arrive by car service or taxi you may be dropped off at the North entrance to International House, just beyond the main entrance. If you are traveling by public transportation,... InaugurationDaniel LehmannGTU PresidentOffice of the President Rabbi Daniel Lehmann is the eighth president of the Graduate Theological Union, where he is also professor of pluralism and Jewish thought. He is the first non-Christian president in the institution’s 57-year history. From 2008 through 2018, he served as the eighth president of Hebrew College in Newton, MA, and professor of pluralism and Jewish education. Prior to joining Hebrew College, he was the founding headmaster of Gann Academy — The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, and founding director of the Berkshire Institute for Music and Arts (BIMA). He also co-founded several... GTU PresidentDaniel LehmannOffice of the President The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 requires that all institutions of higher education provide an emergency notification and warning system to alert their campus community in case of an emergency. GTU has contracted with Omnilert, a leading provider of emergency alert systems, to provide this service for the GTU Community. Our system, called GTU-ALERTS, is available to faculty, staff, and students of the GTU and its Member Schools on an opt-in basis. In the event of an emergency announcements will be sent out via text message, email and voice recording, as deemed necessary.... GTU AlertsEmergencyemergency alert GTU Emergency Alerts Policies, Compliance, and General Information Credit Units/Hours Policy Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Consortial Registration Policies Tuition and Fees Costs for Books and Supplies Textbook Information Tuition Refund Policy Withdrawal Policy Copyright Policy Transfer Credit Policy Consortial Policy for Responding to Student Complaints Title IV Grant and Loan Assistance Religious Holidays State Authorization and Complaint Policy Academic PoliciesSafetySecurityEmergency ProceduresAccreditationPrivacy RightsConsumer InformationGTU Alertemergency alert GTU Presidential Inauguration The Inauguration of GTU President Daniel L. Lehmann The Inauguration of Rabbi Daniel Lehmann as the 8th president of the Graduate Theological Union on Thursday, October 24, 2019, at the International House in Berkeley was a night to remember. President Lehmann's inauguration marks a new era in the GTU's ongoing commitment to interreligious education and dialogue, as Rabbi Lehmann is the first president in the GTU's 57-year history who is rooted in a religious tradition other than Christianity. It was an evening of celebration and hope, with exceptional music from multiple groups and... (-) Remove Basic Page filter Basic Page (-) Remove Magazine filter Magazine (-) Remove emergency alert filter emergency alert (-) Remove Office of the President filter Office of the President Cal Cross-Registration (2) Apply Cal Cross-Registration filter Emergency Procedures (2) Apply Emergency Procedures filter Inauguration (2) Apply Inauguration filter Member Schools (2) Apply Member Schools filter University of California Berkeley (2) Apply University of California Berkeley filter Academic calendar (1) Apply Academic calendar filter Accreditation (1) Apply Accreditation filter Campus safety (1) Apply Campus safety filter certificate program (1) Apply certificate program filter democracy (1) Apply democracy filter Harassment (1) Apply Harassment filter interreligious dialogue (1) Apply interreligious dialogue filter James Lawrence (1) Apply James Lawrence filter jobs (1) Apply jobs filter Lauren Guerra (1) Apply Lauren Guerra filter Title IX (1) Apply Title IX filter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2646
__label__cc	0.545285	0.454715	Hayling Herald Local Plan Delays Anne Skennerton On behalf of HIRA may I wish readers a very happy, healthy New Year. I hope that you’ll attend our next open Public Meeting on Wednesday February 12th 2020 7:15 for 7:30pm start at the URC, Hollow Lane. Speaker will be Mark Cubbon, Chief Executive of Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. Hear his Presentation and put your own questions for discussion. Regarding our Borough’s Local Plan to 2036, Havant Borough Council gave us the frustrating news very late in 2019 that the Pre-Submission Plan has not yet been presented to the Planning Inspector as we had been told. Instead this is likely to be in the Summer of 2020. HBC’s December announcement explained that they are still working on “the issue of nutrient neutrality” which, readers may know, seriously affects our local harbours, marine life and soil. Despite the continued uncertainty regarding this issue, HBC is working hard to persuade the Government to permit proposed developments on our green fields. We sincerely wish that there were similar passionate concerns for our natural environment and real sustainability - for all Hayling residents - of the projected major developments. The other further required work has, as we all know, been on the Hayling Transport Assessment Addendum, which is a vital ‘evidence base’ for the Pre-Submission Local Plan. The Infrastructure Group’s two November Meetings, at which HBC presented their revision, heard many residents express profound disquiet that there is little substantive change from the original, rejected, Hayling Island Transport Assessment. Indeed at the second November Meeting, Save Our Island group presented a detailed Report, which explained why HBC’s new workings are fundamentally flawed. This independent Report was written with the advice of University of Southampton Visiting Professor Nick Hounsell, a national and international Consultant on Transport and Infrastructure. Indeed it also echoes facts provided by HIRA’s own Responses to the Draft Local Plan to 2036 back in 2016: these facts were provided by Tony Higham’s research as a technical and engineering expert. It appears to us all that the A3023’s limited traffic capacity, often demonstrated by well established and documented traffic congestion on the Island, is simply being ‘smoothed over’ by a Council determined to press through building development. We have formally requested that all our critiques of the revised Addendum be presented to the Inspector. Whether or not one frequently uses Hayling coastlines, everyone recognizes that these are vital resources of our island as well, of course, of our wider region. HBC’s ‘Hayling Seafront Regeneration Analysis & Feasibility Study January 2019’ has detailed proposals following its initial summary and which includes photographs to illustrate all the building and features described. It’s important to view all these very specific proposals which you can do online (type the title into your Search Bar) or request them from the Council. Is this how you see Hayling’s beaches developing? The previous Regeneration strategy last year, proposed some reduction of a number of car parking locations. This seems counter-intuitive to the acknowledgement that Hayling’s Seafront is a key attraction for visitors and therefore Council revenue – quite apart from its benefit to the Island’s commerce and residents’ well-being. Currently, West Beach provides a graphic illustration of how residents and visitors alike have already lost, over the past few years, not only locations for Beach Huts but now car parking as well. HIRA’s Public Meetings keep people informed about such key issues and we learned, from the Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership, that the Inn on the Beach’s structure and its location apparently reduces the build up of gravel and sand onto West Beach. Arguably however, removing revetments instead of maintaining them at this location, is now speeding up this process and we can actually see underlying core as the beach erodes. More unnervingly is the sight of coastal material such as seaweed, from an ordinary high tide without strong winds, only yards from the boundary of the Par 3 Golf Course. Let your Councillors know your views. Get behind the launch of Hayling's new paper, The Hayling Herald. Read the Editor's email to us all below and do all you can to advertise in it, prov... New: Hayling Herald! Successive Government policies continue to drive the pressure on all Local Authorities to significantly boost the supply of housing through their Loca... 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__label__cc	0.652592	0.347408	Where To Eat and Stay on the Wild Atlantic Way [Video] Video of RnP4Fg0Y72U On June 4th, in Kinsale, West Cork, John and Sally McKenna launch Where to Eat and Stay on the Wild Atlantic Way, the first-ever book on the culinary treasures to be discovered on the WAW, all the way from the Foyle Bridge in Derry to Kinsale in West Cork. Where to Eat and Stay on the Wild Atlantic Way features 350 entries, starting with the brilliant Pyke'n’Pommes food cart, in the shadow of the Foyle Bridge, and ending up with the piscine brilliance of Martin Shanahan’s cooking in Fishy Fishy in Kinsale. This is the first book to be published on the WAW, the biggest tourist initiative ever focused on the West coast of Ireland. Running for some 2,500 kilometres, the WAW hugs the coast through counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry and West Cork. At every point of the journey, John and Sally McKenna have used their 25 years of experience in writing about Irish food and hospitality to unearth the best places to eat and stay on the route, the places you need to know about in order to get the most authentic experience when travelling the WAW, the places and people that unveil the heart of the WAW. The book is illustrated with more than 300 photographs by Sally McKenna, showcasing the extraordinary natural beauty of the WAW, along with the west coast champions who cook and create the best things to eat and drink along the route. Where to Eat and Stay on the Wild Atlantic Way is published by Estragon Press at €12, and can be ordered, post-free, at www.guides.ie. The book will also appear in the autumn as an interactive Smartguide for phones and tablets, developed by Donal Mulligan of Dublin City University. Here is a video we made whilst researching the amazing route this year. Read more articles in Megabites... Sally's blog More from Megabites Megabites Awards - Places, Destinations, Hotels and People of the Year Megabites Awards - Artisans, Drinks and Delicious Things Megabites Awards - Restaurants, Cafes, Delis, Pubs Food of the Edge and the Twin Eurekas 12 Tastes of Summer - Dublin & Leinster 12 Tastes of Summer - South South West	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2656
__label__cc	0.658852	0.341148	View current Business Development Executive jobs Business Development Executive - Strategic / Mega Deal Projects IBM Middle East At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk. Your Role and Responsibilities We are continuing to expand and are keen to receive profiles of evangelists in this skill area. If you are interested in upcoming positions in IBM please review the skills that our strategic sales teams will require. 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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region. Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program. Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. Learn more about IBM Middle East Search Heads Middle East Dubai 28 Nov Media Sales Executive Empire Dubai 18 Dec Knowledge Hub Dubai 10 Dec Hyatt Dubai 18 Dec Quest Search & Selection Dubai 21 Nov Business Development Executive Jobs in Dubai Business Development Executive Jobs in UAE Business Development Executive Jobs Sales Jobs in Dubai IBM Middle East Jobs Business Development Executive salaries in UAE Average monthly compensation Breakdown available for industries, cities and years of experience Check full breakdown	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2657
__label__cc	0.649889	0.350111	From inception onwards... We have helped 50 companies this year using the Gullands Business Hub Gullands appoints new partner Gullands Solicitors has announced the appointment of Amanda Finn, Head of Employment, to Partner, to take effect from 1 October 2014. Blair Gulland, said: “Amanda has developed a strong and loyal client base during her time with us and has proved herself to be a real asset to the firm. I am very pleased that she has accepted our invitation to become a partner and we all look forward to continuing to work with her in the future.” InBrief caught up with Amanda to find out more about her time at Gullands… Name: Amanda Finn Position: Partner (from Oct 2014) Department: Employment I act for local businesses and charities of all sizes on a wide range of employment law matters. When and why did you move to Gullands? July 2004. I was just coming to the end of my maternity leave and after having commuted to Canterbury/Herne Bay for the previous 14 years I wanted to find a job nearer to home. How do you feel about becoming a partner? I am delighted to join the partnership at Gullands and I look forward to playing an active role in strengthening and developing both the employment team and the business over the coming years. What’s been your biggest career lesson and why? If at first you don’t succeed try again. Never ever give up. If you weren’t doing this job what would you be doing? Probably something people based and problem solving. It’s stressful but very satisfying when you solve a problem or make someone’s life a little better. Which changes to the law would you most like to see? I would like the law to pay more than lip service to the issues of sex discrimination and flexible working. I enjoy doing anything that involves being outdoors. My office window is known to be open even in December! Amanda Finn is Head of Employment and can be reached at a.finn@gullands.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2658
__label__cc	0.589112	0.410888	New focus on parental kidnapping overseas On behalf of Luke Gunnstaks of Gunnstaks Law Office posted in Child Custody on Monday, December 16, 2013. Parents in Texas and across the nation may be getting help with foreign custody battles if a new bill passes. Between 2008 and 2013, the federal government reported that 7,000 American children were abducted by one of their parents and taken overseas. The parents that remained in the U.S. battled for custody or visitation rights in countries where U.S. laws don't apply and an international treaty has been ignored. Most children never come back. Parents are often frustrated from trying to work with other nations and the U.S. State Department. Some in Congress want more attention placed on the problem of international child custody battles. One man told his story to the House and explained that putting the work 'parental" before the word 'kidnapping" doesn't make it legal. The law enforcement officer and military veteran explained that his wife took his two children to Japan using fake passports seven years ago. He has told others of his private struggle as he hopes that Congress is listening. In June, Japan cooperated when they signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The agreement sets the ground rules for custody battles but unfortunately doesn't apply to cases that pre-date it. Chris Smith, a House Republican, wants more attention put on this issue to open the door for resolution with foreign leaders. He is backing a bill that would ask the president to become involved in abduction cases through meetings and even sanctions. However, the State Department's adviser for children's issues places more emphasis on the Hague Convention instead of a new bill to resolve foreign custody issues. Child abduction, especially to another country, can devastate a parent. A family lawyer might be able to help parents regain custody of their children and their advice may keep the children from being collateral damage in a divorce. Source: northjersey.com, "Bill may help 'left-behind parents' in global child custody fights - See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/community/family/Bill_may_help_left-behind_parents_pursue_kids_in_global_custody_fights.html#sthash.V5hiOBqH.dpuf", Herb Jackson, December 11, 2013 Tags: Child custody, family law Related Posts: Determining custody for parents who choose not to marry, Opioids tied to increase in grandparents caring for grandchildren, The Amicus Attorney in Texas, Plano parents fight at kids' game: How this can affect custody	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2659
__label__wiki	0.933199	0.933199	ISIS, Hamas Both Claim Responsibility for Jerusalem Attack This is the first time ISIS took responsibility for an attack in Israel; Hamas accuses ISIS of sowing confusion; Israeli army says assailants didn't belong to any terror group The scene of a deadly knife and gun attack in Jerusalem, June 16, 2017.Thomas Coex, AFP Both Islamic State and Hamas claimed responsibility for an attack in Jerusalem on Friday in which an Israeli border policewoman was killed, but the Israeli army said the assailants didn't belong to any terror group. Three Palestinians carry out knife-and-gun attack in Jerusalem, policewoman killed Israel rescinds entry permits handed to Palestinians for Ramadan after deadly Jerusalem attack Islamic State's Amaq news agency said "soldiers of the caliphate" attacked a "gathering of Jews," and warned the attack "will not be the last." >> Just how credible is ISIS' claim of the Jerusalem attack? >> This is the first time ISIS has claimed an attack in Israel, although it did say it was behind rocket fire from Sinai in April. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri rejected the Islamic State's claim, saying it was meant to sow confusion, AFP reported. Abu Zuhri said that one of the attackers was a member of Hamas and the other two belonged to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Israeli border guards stand outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City following the attack, June 16, 2017.AFP/ Thomas Coex But the Israeli army said that the attack was perpetrated by a local cell that doesn't belong to any terror organization. In the attack carried out Friday evening, three Palestinian assailants armed with guns and knives killed one Border Policewoman and left a number of people wounded. The officer, Hadas Malka, 23, was critically stabbed while attempting to reach for her gun, according to Israel's Police, and later succumbed to her wounds. All three attackers were shot dead by officers at the scene. The attack unfolded along Sultan Suleiman Street, near Damascus Gate in the Old City. At one scene, two of the attackers were shot and killed after assaulting police officers with knives and guns. At the other, an attacker was shot dead after stabbing a border policewoman, critically wounding her. Another officer was lightly wounded in the attack. Both were evacuated to Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem for treatment, where the female officer died of her wounds. According to the police, two Palestinian bystanders were wounded in the shootout, one moderately and one lightly. Send me email alerts for new articles by Haaretz	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2661
__label__wiki	0.745302	0.745302	Home > Middle East News > Egypt ISIS Claims Attack on Egypt Sinai Police Patrol That Killed Four Authorities in Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, are hunting the gunmen who fired at the patrol car, state media reports File photo: A member of the special police forces stands guard in Cairo, Egypt April 28, 2017. MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/REUTERS Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a patrol car on Wednesday that killed four Egyptian policemen in North Sinai, the militant group's AMAQ news agency said on Thursday. Four policemen killed in attack in Egypt's North Sinai ISIS genocide of Yazidis still ongoing but world is silent, UN inquiry says Lebanon's army prepares to clear border area of ISIS militants Authorities in Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, were on the hunt for gunmen who fired at the patrol car, state news paper Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday. Attacks on security forces have been frequent in Egypt since the army, led by general-turned-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule. The violence has been concentrated in the Sinai Peninsula, where Egypt is fighting an insurgency, but has also expanded to hit Egypt's Coptic Christians, the country's largest minority.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2662
__label__cc	0.722774	0.277226	Impact investing vs investing with impact Category: Newsroom How investors regard philanthropy and impact investment can affect how organizations are structured and secure funding for various impact ventures. Article originally published by Forbes. Hargreaves Lansdown is not responsible for its content or accuracy and may not share the author's views. News and research are not personal recommendations to deal. All investments can fall in value so you could get back less than you invest. Right now, interest in impact investing is experiencing explosive growth as the concept continues to capture the attention of mainstream investors the world over. In fact, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) estimates the current size of the global impact investing market to be around $502 billion. While many are fully invested in making an impact, there’s still a great deal of confusion among investors and startups concerning impact investment as a financial instrument and how it forms part of a greater portfolio alongside philanthropy. The reason for the confusion is multi-causal. Some believe it stems from the notion that there is a binary decision between investing for-profit and donating funds to social causes. According to Sapna Shah of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), “The binary between investing and philanthropy is a false one.” Philanthropists who embrace impact investing believe that while traditional grant-making may assist in overcoming market-based failures, impact investing has the potential to leverage the power of the markets to bring about lasting change. Still, impact investing requires far more from the companies that an investor is involved in than philanthropy does. Other proponents believe that a lack of clarity in practice is to blame for the confusion. In the experience of Gareth Ackerman, chairman of South African, family-owned retail giant Pick n Pay, many ventures that investors or organizations label “impact investing” are purely philanthropic with different expectations tacked onto them. This disconnect means that often impact startups that have no real chance of yielding the expected returns receive funding only to have it pulled later. How a lack of investor clarity affects impact startups How investors regard philanthropy and impact investment can affect how organizations are structured and secure funding for various impact ventures. This is something Jimmy Scavenius, founder of Kwerafund, an organization that makes education accessible in Malawi using income sharing agreements, experienced first-hand when his local market wasn’t entirely ready for his venture in impact investment. The benefit of experience allows Scavenius to see both sides, “Often pure philanthropy and free money isn’t sustainable as this can create dependency and complacency, but at the same time many investors are still not ready to direct their funding toward impact areas.” While impact ventures are unable to accept tax-deductible donations while running “for-profit,” they are still able to qualify for various “philanthropic grants” alongside raising more traditional debt and equity finance. Despite the seemingly numerous potential financial vehicles available to fund impact startups, raising capital is not always easy. For Kwerafund, raising funding through donations has proven to be more effective than securing impact investment. This led to its conversion from a company to a non-profit organization to get it off the ground. Still, Scavenius believes his organization can move beyond being just a philanthropic cause. He explains that “It’s up to social entrepreneurs to ensure that they are self-sustainable in the long-run and can create a pull market.” So, what is an investor to do? While philanthropy and impact investing may not be mutually exclusive pursuits in many respects, it is essential for investors to identify their own objectives in order to determine how best their giving can serve these as well as not inadvertently to cause a negative impact. According to Catherine Grum, head of family office services at KPMG in the UK, it helps to have a view of where on the impact-to-return spectrum, families or organizations want to sit. She advises that investors ask themselves, “Are they undertaking this exercise because they want to create a particular impact first and foremost while hopefully generating some financial return, or are they focused on generating good financial returns by investing in more impactful businesses? Both options are available, but it helps both the family and, ultimately, the company or fund they are investing in if their expectation is clear at the outset.” Shah echoes this sentiment, “Start with your objectives – addressing a specific issue, generating a certain amount of financial return, and then work backward into what type of financial tool is best able to get you there.” Having clear a clear family purpose and objectives will enable you to set clear expectations when it comes to giving. This will help you to determine whether or not you’re ready to take the step beyond the philanthropic realm. This article was written by Francois Botha from Forbes and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@newscred.com. 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__label__wiki	0.599247	0.599247	December 12, 2018 Fiction Harris Lahti It’s weird at first. The tenants through the wall. Inhabiting what used to be one-half of their home. The clanging pots and toilet flushes, heavy footsteps. The second truck in the driveway beside Vic’s at night. The ache in Heather’s breast whenever the newborn cries. The tenants make it easier, however. This seven-foot tall garbageman and mousy stay-at-home mom. With their wind chimes in the oak trees. Their muffled laughter and shoes on the mat at the side entrance. Their rent in a dirty envelope stuffed with cash on the first of the month. In this way, after only a couple months, the sound of their living reduces to a common sound. Like the boiler or the old house shifting. Coyotes yapping off in the woods. Plus, the supplemental income really helps. Money tied up in their fledgling real estate business, as it is. So much so, Heather believes they can afford a vacation. Vic laughs when she tells him. “No, really,” she says, looking over the numbers in a notebook. But the discussion goes no further, and for a while their lives continue as usual. Heather with the toddler, keeping the books. Vic renovating a foreclosure they’re hoping to flip—a disheveled colonial they purchased for a prayer. Until one night, after looking over the numbers again, Heather says, “If we do it on a budget, I really think we can swing it.” She appears serious this time. Already purchased the tickets, made arrangements with Mother-in-Law to watch their child, in fact. For a week at an all-inclusive in Puerto Vallarta. Is Vic mad? “Of course not. Thrilled.” A few days pass. Then a week. Before Heather notices the garbageman’s truck alone in the drive. How it stays there for days, unmoved. While Vic’s off at work. The garbageman inside the house now. With the stay-at-home mom. His hulking presence creaking beams, shaking the walls with the basso sound of his talking. “I know it’s silly,” she tells Vic in bed that night. “But it irks me. I tiptoe so he doesn’t think I’m home.” To which he tells her she’s being silly, that the garbageman’s a hard worker like they both are, that he’d probably just been coming home for lunch. But then, the interaction in the garden happens. Heather’s weeding when the garbageman emerges from the side entrance, lingers too long to talk. He smelled whatever it was she’d been cooking for lunch, he tells her. Wonders if she’d give him the recipe. Freaks Heather out. When Vic comes home, she shows him the deep impressions the garbageman’s feet left in the soft black dirt of the garden. Imitates the way his teeth gnashed up ice cubes of the drink he had with him. The way the tops of his eyeballs showed. “What do you want to do?” says Vic tells her, a little concerned now. “Kick them out?” No, she doesn’t want to do that. Not over that. She just needs a to get away, she tells him, speaking low like the garbageman might be listening. Only a couple more weeks until our vacation. Thing would be different when they got back. Then the first of the month passes. “They’ve probably just forgotten,” Vic says. But the envelope doesn’t show up on the second, either. Or the third or fourth or the fifth after that. And with each day closer to vacation, Vic and Heather listen through the wall a little more closely. To the toilet and pots and footsteps. The sounds of them no different than before but made weird again by their listening. To these strangers living in one-half of their home. The day before the vacation, Vic has no choice but to go over. To stand at the side entrance and knock. He looks through the blinds when no one answers. Finds the apartment dark. He knocks harder. Keeps knocking. And is just about to leave when the stay-at-home mom answers, cradling a newborn in her arms. “I’m sorry,” she says. “I was sleeping. Come inside.” She starts telling him about a clogged drain as he enters. The bathtub keeps filling up, she says. The garbageman has been working, hasn’t had a chance to fix it. Would he look at the drain while she fetches the rent from the drawer? He nods, relieved. Of course. The drain isn’t clogged, however. Not even a little. The stay-at-home mom doesn’t even inquire about its status when she enters the small bathroom behind him, either. Just pins him there. Starts talking. About the garbage man. No envelope in her hand that Vic can see. Bouncing the baby on her hip. About how he’d left her after getting fired and relapsed. How he was prescribed something. An upper. And it wasn’t his fault. Caused him to relapse, she says, tears in her eyes now. Used to be a drinker. A good man now. Hardworker until this slip up. He’ll come back, she tells him. He always does. Then she stops talking. After which, it takes Vic a few seconds to realize that she’s posing a question. That her problems are now on him. And thinks about this a moment. He thinks longer than he should of. Until something like hope catches her crying eyes. Before he says what he must. Next morning, Vic packs his luggage. Shorts, flip-flops. A Xanax wrapped in a tissue for the flight. Another Xanax in his mouth to staunch the worry Heather instilled last night. “You should have waited until we got back,” she said after he told her what he’d done. “I thought it’d be better to get things moving,” he said. “What if he comes back?” she said. “To do what?” he said, to which she started listing offences: Concrete down the pipes, paint thinner in the well, holes punched in the sheetrock, copper wires ripped from the wall until he said she didn’t need to continue. On the plane, he drinks a double scotch and unwrinkles the Xanax. Breaks off half for Heather who’s unscrewing a plastic bottle of white wine. Glugs his down. They agreed not to discuss the tenants anymore, but the silence does it for them. They don’t hold hands or watch the movie. Out the window, the clouds are a low, flat grey wall. Heather doesn’t even finish the Sudoku puzzle in the back of the in-flight magazine before the plane touches down. As they step into the blinding x-ray light, a line of taxi drivers jockey for their fare. Of which, Heather selects the most desperate: a small man with a scar on his face who then drives them through small towns so far gone Vic wouldn’t even know where to start renovations—the thin, dilapidated walls, crooked roofs of corrugated steel. Barb wire fences and gutted cars. The taxi driver points at a clump of them and tells them he lives there in broken English. With his wife and child. Too many people to fit, he says. But we manage. Before offering them beer from a cooler in the passenger seat for an inordinate price. Once inside the resort’s gates, Heather pays the driver, tips him a substantial sum. While a child scurries out of the shade of a palm tree and into the dry heat to fight the luggage from Vic’s hands. Struggling to balance the largest suitcase on his head, he then leads them to the front desk in the open-aired lobby where a woman with a roan tooth gives them wristbands and shots of tequila, which they accept. “Everything’s included,” she says. “Except for the Jet-skis. Those are an upcharge.” As the bag boy leads them to their room, he kicks Iguanas out of the way. Drops the luggage on the king-sized bed, for which Vic tips him. Waits for him to leave while the AC mutters on the wall. But the bagboy remains. Lingering bashfully almost. Before producing a small baggie of marijuana from his pocket, which Vic buys out of pity. With Heather disrobing in her bikini behind them, thinking the bagboy had already gone. Oblivious and naked before his small, dark eyes. Once in the pool, Vic and Heather wade to the bar. The green over-chlorinated water undulating around them. As they order margaritas, perched on seats submerged in the water beneath the cabana, talking little. Then order a second round, talking a little more. A third while they watch a fleet of jet-skiers crosshatch the horizon. Neither has drank much since having their child or put anything in their stomach since breakfast, and they become drunk rather quickly. When Vic reaches into his pocket to tip the bartender, the small baggie of marijuana falls into the water, floats off. And he waves at it, laughing. “We should probably eat dinner,” Heather says. They hold hands while they enter. Stand close while they shuffle along the sneeze-guard of the buffet, piling plates sky high like the other vacationers. With tamales and spaghetti, dinner rolls. Sushi stuffed with cream cheese. Whatever they can fit. While they eat, a waiter darts in and out, offering more tequila. When Vic accepts one, the waiter leans his head back, drapes a napkin over his eyes, and pours some down his throat before taking his head in his hands and rocking it back and forth. “Boom, boom, boom,” he says until Heather begins laughing. “Do it again,” she says, wanting a photo. Afterward, it’s sunset. Late jet-skiers skip across the purpling water. In the distance, Samba music echoes. A small bandshell stands off near the beach before which people appear to be dancing. The trail clear of Iguanas now while Heather drags Vic toward it. On the dance floor, couples in floral prints sway awkwardly. Heather and Vic join them. A tall, handsome man goes around giving lessons. When he works his way to them, he pushes their crotches together, says nothing else. Leaves them like that. Swaying. Back and forth. A heat rising between them. As the stars emerging overhead. Jet-skiers still skipping. The earth rotating over the horizon with the dusk. With Heather's cheek on Vic’s shoulder. The perfume of her hair filling his nose. Harris Lahti's work is forthcoming or appeared in Post Road, New York Tyrant, Elm Leaves Journal, Yemassee, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He edits fiction for Fence. Read more: harrislahti.com image: Laura Gill	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2664
__label__cc	0.732219	0.267781	How To Play English Pool How to play pool: How to Bridge In this video Gareth Potts, 4 times World Pool Champion, explains how to bridge. He takes you through the different heights needed depending upon the shot you are playing. Also, he shows you how to effectively bridge when taking a shot over another ball which is in the way, preventing you bridging normally. Video Transcription: Gareth Potts: So in this video, we're going to talk about the bridge and how to hold the cue on your bridge hand. So, there's lots of different ways to hold the bridge hand, and it also depends on which shot you're playing on how you'd have your hand on the For example, if I was playing with top spin in the cue ball, I would have my bridge hand raised higher from the bed of the table, as you can see my hands moving up and down. If I was playing with top spin it needs to be higher, because I need to get higher on the cue ball to hit with topspin. If I was playing in the middle of the cue ball, I would slightly lower my bridge hand, like this, so it's now flatter to the bed of the table, which allows me to get to the middle of the cue ball. If I was playing with bottom on the cue ball, I would lower my hand even further to the bed of the table, like this, you can see my hand going up and down, lower even further, which allows me to get to the bottom of the cue ball to play with backspin. If you're playing with excess backspin, obviously you need to get even lower onto the cue ball. It's important that your hand is quite flat, because otherwise, if your hand is still high up in the air and you're trying to get low onto the cue ball, as you can see now, the cue's now coming at an angle and you've got a chance of playing with side spin. So, it needs to be flat to the bed to play with bottom, in the middle to play with the middle and high to play with the topspin. Andy: So it's the back of your hand actually firm on the table as well as your fingers, or is it the back of your hand raised Gareth Potts: It's always the back of the hand, the palm of the hand is always flush to the table, which is like the anchor point basically. It's like stability on the table; the most important thing as well is a lot of people don't actually put the thumb onto the first finger. So as you can see my thumb there is moving, it has to be pressed up against the first finger, which allows the cue then to have a V shape if you like, which you would have in a rest. So it creates a V shape, which the cue then sits in. So therefore you can't go any other way other than backwards or forwards. The only time you would have the palm of the hand raised off the table is if you were bridging over a ball. So, if we have a ball here and the cue ball's here, obviously with the palm of my had on the table, I can't get to the cue ball. So to get to the cue ball, I need to allow this had to raise up in the air. It's also important to bury the fingers into the table, because any movement either way on the hand will mean you either touching the ball. So, fingers raised up in the air there. You can see my hand is quite firm against the bed of the table, and again the finger now gets pressed still against the first finger. The thumb, so it gets pressed there and then as you can see the cue sits in the V shape again. It allows me to get elevation to get to the top of the cue ball. Andy: So, if you're trying to do a backspin shot, some people find that they tend to chip the cue ball up, rather than getting backspin on it, it actually chips up off the surface of the table. What's causing that and what should they do to stop it? Gareth Potts: Yeah, well that comes back to what I was just explaining with, it's on the height of the fingers, or on the height of the hand on the table. So, if you're trying to get to the bottom of the cue ball, you need to flatten the hand out so that so it's quite flat on the table. As you can see, my knuckles there are quite flat. If I was playing with top spin, my knuckles would be quite high up in the air. If I was playing with bottom spin, I would lower the hand out. So flatten the hand to the bed of the table. The palm of the hand is still touching the bed of the table, which allows me to get lower. The reason why people chip the cue ball up in the air is because, if you're still playing with you hand quite high up in the air as if you're playing with top spin, but now the cue has to be striking down onto the cue ball, so what happens is it causes a loop. So as I'm cueing up like this, as you come back, loops. That's the reason people chip the cue ball up in the air. So the hand has to be flat onto the table so that the cue is parallel to where you're striking the cue ball. It allows you to pull it back and push it through in one straight line. Andy: So you see, in American pool, people would be using a loop style bridge; why would they do that, and why do you not really see that in English eight ball? Gareth Potts: Yeah, well, I've got an American pool cue here and the reason that American cues allow you to use what they call the loop bridge, is because the shaft from there to there is basically the same thickness. So when you loop over the shaft, it's all one size so it allows it to run smoothly through the fingers with no gaps in between the fingers. That's why a lot of the American people use the loop bridge. If you were to try and use the loop bridge on my English eight ball cue for example, the taper of my shaft is thicker there than it is there. So, if you look at the difference of an English cue and an American cue, you can see how much mine tapers and how and American cue stays the same all the way through the shaft. So with the English cue, if I'm trying to use the loop bridge, as I draw the cue back, it now becomes a really large gap in between my fingers. So therefore the cue can move side to side. So, to use the loop bridge with an English pool cue is really difficult because of the tapir of the shaft. So it's a lot easier having it sitting on the finger touching, the thumb touching the finger, and therefore there can be no movement. Andy: What's the reason for using the loop bridge? Gareth Potts: Well, it's just something that's originated with the American players, but the loop bridge again, is exactly the same. The bed of your hand is planted firmly onto the table. And it allows... It's just another device, basically, of pushing the cue through in a straight line. It's just easier to get by with it on an American cue, because the taper of the shaft is exactly the same. With an American... with an English eight ball cue, I wouldn't advise to use the loop bridge just because it allows too much movement when you draw the cue back as you can see there between my hands. The cue there goes to probably about nine millimeters as in when the cue's there it's probably more like 16 or 17 millimeters. So as you draw there's probably eight or nine millimeters movement in between the fingers, as opposed to when you are using the American cue. Andy: For more videos from Gareth Potts, please visit homeleisuredirect.com. << Back to How To Play English Pool Shop for Pool Tables >> More How to Play Pool Videos How to Play Pool: Lining Up Side Spin Shots How to Play Pool: Off-Set Plant How to Play Pool: Planning Order of Shots How to Play Pool: Positional Play How to Play Pool: Rail Shots How to Play Pool: Reverse Side Spin How to Play Pool: Shots Tight to the Cushion How to Play Pool: The Break How to Play Pool: Top Spin Where's the Cue Ball Going? 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__label__cc	0.579634	0.420366	Thanks for visiting HeraldMailMedia.com. You're entitled to limited access of articles every 30 days. If you enjoy our site and want full access, we ask you to purchase an affordable subscription. Thank you for reading HeraldMailMedia.com free articles on our site. You can come back at the end of your 30-day period for more free articles, or you can purchase a subscription and continue to enjoy valuable local news and information. If you need help, please contact our office at 301-733-5131. Plentiful sunshine. High near 35F. Winds NNW at 10 to 15 mph.. Herald-Mail columnist Tim Rowland End of the apostrophe Tim Rowland If you want to say Merry Christmas from the Smith’s, go right ahead. If you want to buy two can’s of sweet potatoes, thats fine two. Stupidity has won. This is not me talking, it’s 96-year-old John Richards, founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, who for nearly 20 years has led the good fight. But now, he’s closing up shop, as he announced on his website: “With regret I have to announce that, after some 18 years, I have decided to close the Apostrophe Protection Society. There are two reasons for this. One is that at 96 I am cutting back on my commitments and the second is that fewer organisations and individuals are now caring about the correct use of the apostrophe in the English Language. We, and our many supporters worldwide, have done our best but the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won!” Certainly grammar nerds will be alarmed. If the apostrophe goes, can the hyphen be far behind? And then the question mark, comma and the almighty period. The entire civilized world of punctuation is at risk. It is, admittedly, tough turf to defend. Do we really need such a thing as a question mark. Based on that last sentence, it would appear not because the posit “Do we” effectively implies the interrogative. And what if there were no such thing as the apostrophe? People confuse its and it’s all the time, and life goes on. As a matter of fact, the surfeit of errors pertaining to its v. it’s implies to me that it’s the grammar that’s wrong, not the its-using public. Way back there, someone arbitrarily decided that — in awarding an apostrophe — the conjunction would take precedence over the possessive. So we write “it’s raining,” but not, when speaking of a dog, “it’s fur.” Even though we would say “the dog’s fur.” Richards’ lament, though, seems to be less about the apostrophe itself and more that there are no longer enough schoolmarmesque boots on the ground to fight back. “When I first set it up I would get about 40 emails or letters a week from people all over the world,” Richards told the BBC. “But then two years ago it started to tail off and nowadays I hardly get anything.” Indeed, the battle seems to be being lost on all fronts. We kind of understand when text messages lack even the most basic periods or commas. But whither the Associated Press, publisher of the stylebook that dictates usage for America’s newspapers. What’s up with them? It’s as if the Visigoths are at the gates and they’re frantically burning all their cherished grammar rules lest the enemy get their hands on them. Or maybe someone brought a bottle of Scotch to their editorial meeting and they’re dancing on the conference table, stripped down to their bras and skivvies with lampshades on their heads, cackling, “Hey, I got one. Let’s get rid of ‘percent’ and replace it with %. Eeeee-Hahahaha, that’ll get ‘em.” The problem is that all these changes seem to be happening all at once. It’s the grammar equivalent of going straight to Medicare for All without just trying to rein in the cost of prescription medicine first. To me? You allow “they” to refer to “everyone” and then you sit around for 250 years while that sinks in, and then you make some other mild improvement. But Mr. Richards and I are on the losing side. When the entire world seems to be erupting in violent and deadly protests, arguing over an apostrophe does seem a bit frivolous. But I’m all for wars that can be conducted from a couch. Tim Rowland is a Herald-Mail columnist. Follow Tim Rowland Don Stevenson: Unpreferred visits An unpreferred visit is an encounter one makes to meet or greet a person or situation not out of desire but out of necessity. Surely you have had appointments in your lifetime that were without primal choice. I am beginning to chuckle within as I think of a couple visits that were not at the… Lloyd 'Pete' Waters: A gossiper in search of feathers There was an old saintly widow by the name of Mary I. McGruder, or so this story goes, who lived alone in a tiny village. All her life, she had been a lady of fine reputation and never drank hard liquor or cursed. She cared for her neighbors and sowed kindness and compassion wherever she went. Lloyd 'Pete' Waters: Reginald Walters and the revenue man Reginald Walters, my great-great-uncle’s son, was born in Dargan in 1891. Just outside of Boonsboro in 1927, he murdered Hunter R. Stotler, a revenue man. Lloyd 'Pete' Waters: A visit to the pearly gates and trial I was listening to the old John Prine tune “Please Don’t Bury Me” the other evening as he sang about getting up from bed one night, walking in the kitchen, slipping on the floor, hitting his head and dying. George Michael: Making predictions for 2020 New Year’s Day is a great time to set some goals and think about what might occur in 2020. I much prefer the idea of setting goals instead of making New Year’s resolutions. If you break a resolution, you might be prone to feeling defeated and likely to give up. HM Media Columnists Parasiliti: MLB needs to take stock in its farm Bob Parasiliti Major League Baseball should refinance and repurpose the minor leagues. Parasiliti: Adversity is fork in the road to success Adversity is the opponent no one wants to face, but it ends up on everyone’s schedule. A late night knock, a police officer with bad news By JD MULLANE Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times “A lot of times kids, especially when they’re teenagers, they build walls between you and them,” Officer John Yeager said. “Resentment builds, and the walls grow higher and thicker.” Parasiliti: Has time for action on stadium passed? The light is back on Hagerstown’s new-stadium debate, after Major League Baseball announced a proposal to eliminate 42 minor league affiliations. Parasiliti: County teams in constant pursuit of history Chasing history isn’t for the faint of heart. The pursuit is quite addicting for those brave enough to try. Receptionist PT receptionist, 20-25 Medical Assistant Medical practice FRANKLIN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF XPO Logistics Now Oak Hill House School is hiring	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2668
__label__wiki	0.559578	0.559578	Hudson Dairy innovates large scale dairy farming Nancy Hastings nhastings@hillsdale.net @nhastingsHDN HUDSON – Every day is a “day at the beach” when cows at Hudson Dairy nap in a bed of sand. The sand is obtained through recycling at the dairy farm where substantiality is of key importance. Hudson Dairy Farm Manager Jade Clark takes pride in the Milk Source facility located south of Hudson on US-127, noting it is MAEAP verified in cropping, farmstead and livestock. “The comfort of the cows is paramount – we like our cows to be happy,” Clark said. Clark added that Milk Source has invested millions into the facility to help the dairy be more environmentally friendly, efficient and kinder to its cattle. A second dairy is located in Medina, Ohio and the company is based in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. The 3,500 acre farm produces 4,000 tons of hay, 4,500 tons of corn silage and 200,000 bushels of moisture corn. MAEAP technician Allison Dauer said the dairy farm has overcome “a big battle with prior existing issues” on dairy farms in the area. “Years ago it was owned by another company that didn’t manage the farm well,” Dauer said. “That left a bad taste in people’s mouthes. They had to overcome the perception of modern day dairy farming and are very community oriented, doing things with the Waldron and Hudson area.” Giving school tours and donating milk and ice cream is part of the successful public relations. Clark said many leave the farm with a better understanding of what is done in larger scale dairies. “Sometimes bigger farms are managed better because they are more conscious of risks,” Dauer added. The farm was purchased in 2013 by Milk Source and started construction for manure technology soon afterwards. The dairy's system for recycling sand and separating manure into solids and liquids is one of the efficiencies Clark refers to. Manure comes into the facility in its natural, mostly liquid form, where the manure is collected by a machine that blasts water through the mix to remove the sand from the manure. The remaining mix is shaken and separated sand is put into a pile to be dried and reused for the cows. The remaining liquid manure goes into a roller separator, where the water is squeezed out to create a solid compost. Another efficiency is the livestock wastewater recycling plant that Milk Source has invested in, allowing the company to return about 60 percent of the water to portable use to keep the facility clean and the cows watered. Each barn has a special water sprayer system running through the ceiling specifically to help cool the cows on overly warm days since dairy cows thrive in cooler temperatures. Clark said the farm has 99.9 percent Holstein cattle and 3,000 are milked daily at the dairy. There are 27,750 gallons of milk produced a day at each farm. There are around 70 full-time employees between the two dairies, with five to 10 employees who work part time in the summer. Employees are OSHA trained, attend cow handling classes and wear high visibility coats and vests. “We’re big on safety for employees and cows,” Clark said. Clark said he loves working with cattle, a job he stumbled into at age 15 when he was bailing hay for a dairy farmer. “He asked if I could work weekends and he started training me,” Clark said. “It's something I've been doing since and I'll be 40 in April.” Milk Source’s goal every day is to be an outstanding dairy producer through quality care of animals, sustainable practices, environmental accountability and constant attention to detail. Therefore, being MAEAP verified is important to Clark. “It’s important to me and the owner of the company to show we're above and beyond individual standards,” he said. “The company cares about the cows and the environment at the same time and thought it would be a good way of showing that to others.” Jonesville W Academy Hillsdale.net - Hillsdale, MI ~ 263 Industrial Dr., Hillsdale, MI 49242 ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Cookie Policy ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service ~ Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2674
__label__cc	0.716274	0.283726	Why Lord Ram Send Mata Sita to Forest? Was Lord Rama Right or Wrong? By Abhilash Rajendran Sunday, May 19, 2019 This is the original article which is copied by speaking tree...Google ranks copied articles higher and removes the original content. "Why Lord Ram Send Mata Sita to Forest? Was Lord Rama Right or Wrong?" copyrighted to Abhilash Rajendran. One of the greatest merits of Hindu Scriptures is that it is open to interpretation and criticism. Some of the actions of Lord Rama in Ramayana have been criticized and many even doubt whether Lord Ram deserves the reverence and worship that he is getting. All the actions of Lord Ram that are open to criticism today could have easily been polished and edited by Sage Valmiki and presented him without any so called flaws. This is the greatness of Hindu scriptures; it does not preach or impose teachings and ideas but kindles the reader to think, participate in a healthy debate and reach a conclusion. It wants the reader to remain independent and think independently. Our king might accept a wife who had stayed in another man’s home but not me – On hearing a washer man question the purity of the Queen of Ayodhya, Lord Ram decides to send a pregnant Mata Sita to the forest. Rama is the ideal king and for a modern reader this is heights of stupidity and absurdity. A modern reader would want Lord Ram to stand by his wife and defend her and not to fall for the irresponsible prattle of his foolish subjects. If Lord Rama had sent the washer man questioning the purity of Mata Sita to prison, he would be performing the duty of a husband. But will he be performing the duty of a King? Lord Ram could have beheaded the washer man on the spot. But will he be able to behead all those people that questions the purity of Mata Sita. Lord Ram would have become a dictator! Would we worship such a Lord Ram today? Some would suggest that Lord Ram should ignore such silly comments. A husband can ignore silly comments but an ideal King cannot. The people of a kingdom looked up to their King for inspiration and all his actions had a meaning and they were followed and often quoted by elders in a village whenever there was a crisis situation. He is the best and final example. An ideal king like Lord Ram who accepted all his subjects as a part of his family was forced to act when there was a dissenting note in the society. It was not a silly dissenting note but one that questioned the very moral fabric of the society. Lord Ram was forced to sacrifice his wife for the well being of the society and to stop it from undergoing moral degradation. We are used to prime ministers, presidents, chief ministers and ministers who are corrupt, and famous for nepotism. So we cannot even imagine about a ruler like Lord Ram. A ruler like Lord Ram is utopian for many of us. But it is true that a king like Lord Ram ruled this earth and even today we dream of Ram Rajya. But did Lord Ram marry again? No, in fact he suffered more than Mata Sita. He was lonely in the huge palace. He was always immersed in the thought of Sita. He had to bear the voidness created by Mata Sita’s departure. He was filled with remorse - a husband who had to send his pregnant wife away. A father who could not even look at the face of his children. So what did Lord Rama gain by sending Mata Sita to the forest? Nothing but pain and misery and he is criticized for the act even after thousands of years. But Rama did his Dharma, he upheld the accepted standards of ideal kinghood. It might not be acceptable to modern man who is rarely bothered about Dharma. Hindu Issues Ramayana Labels: Hindu Issues Ramayana	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2675
__label__cc	0.715506	0.284494	El Convento Hotel Destinations \| Puerto Rico \| El Convento Hotel Hamlet’s proclamation to Ophelia, “Get thee to a nunnery” implies a certain negativity, but Puerto Rico is legions away from Denmark, and if the Bard had the good fortune to find himself on that Caribbean isle today, standing in front of the remarkable edifice of El Convento, he’d have surely penned something else. As its name implies, Hotel El Convento is a former Carmelite convent, embraced by the walled city of Old San Juan since 1651. Fifty-eight rooms occupy the top four floors of the yellow-hued hotel, accessible via a private entrance in the original courtyard where a 300-year-old Nispero fruit tree from Spain still stands. Rooms and luxury suites are individually decorated with Andalusian tile floors, mahogany beams, throw rugs and hacienda-style furniture. Each room has a view of Old San Juan or its bay. The first two floors feature restaurants, ten new guest rooms and meeting facilities interconnected by a series of black-and-white-tile hallways. The garden terrace, overlooking the Plaza de las Monjas and historic San Juan cathedral, offers a serene atmosphere for relaxing and enjoying evening cocktails. Follow that by retreating to the flower-bedecked rooftop pool terrace, with its spectacular panoramic views of Old San Juan, and luxuriate under the warm tropical sun, take a dip in the plunge pool or soothe your woes in the Jacuzzi. This small boutique hotel celebrates the old—as its address in historic San Juan indicates—while embracing all the comforts modern travelers expect. El Convento Hotel, a member of Historic Hotels of America since 1999, dates back to 1651. The magnificent courtyard, where a 300-year-old Nispero fruit tree from Spain still stands, is home to the hotel's restaurant Patio Del Nispero. 100 Calle del Cristo Check-out time: 12:00 p.m. Cancellation Policy: 72 hours prior to arrival. Deposit: First night deposit. Early Check-In/Late Check-Out: Available, depending upon availability. Late Check-Out Fee: starts on $75. Extra Person Fees: Extra-person charges apply ($35 per person). Hotel/Resort Fees & Taxes: Fee: 20%. Taxes: 20% Hotel Taridd, 9% government tax. Parking: Valet parking: Available. Payment: All forms of payment are accepted. Payment is required at time of booking. Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and Discover are accepted. Pet Policy: Service animals allowed: Please contact hotel. Pets allowed: No. Rollaways: Available upon request; surcharge ($35 plus tax). Early Settlement, 1600 ~ 1763 Hamlet’s proclamation to Ophelia, “Get thee to a nunnery” implies a certain negativity, but Puerto Rico is legions away from Denmark, and if the Bard had the good fortune to find himself on that Caribbean isle today, standing in front of the remarkable edifice of El Convento, he’d have surely penned something else. Learn more about the History of El Convento Hotel .	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2677
__label__cc	0.662373	0.337627	Barrett-Jackson to sell-off mysterious collection Tickets available now to our sell-out motorsport events! Barrett‑Jackson to sell‑off mysterious collection What began with a 52 car haul at Barrett-Jackson’s 2003 Scottsdale auction grew into one of the most infamous car collections in America, and now it’s all going to be liquidated. Famous for not exactly being tight with his money when he sees a vehicle he really wants, Ron Pratte became an almost permanent fixture on the front row at Barrett-Jackson’s events for almost a decade. Known for showing his collection to only a lucky few, and never giving interviews, Pratte has now decided to put the lot back on the market Via Barrett Jackson, and the list of machines he’s disposing of makes for some fine reading… particularly if you’re fond of American iron. Top of the list has to be one of nine-remaining GM Futureliners, which was bought in 2006 for $4.1 million. Within the year Mr Pratte had dropped a further $5.5 million on the last-remaining Shelby Cobra Super Snake (above), and just kept going from there. Added to the list of extraordinary purchases were the 1954 Pontiac Bonneville Concept Car, the last-ever ’67 Corvette Sting Ray, the first-ever Ford Thunderbird, a Tucker 48 (now sold for a record $2.9m), Howard Hughes’ 1953 Buick Roadmaster, a Baldwin Motion Camaro, at least two Plymouth Superbirds, and a host of Boyd Coddington rods and customs as well as a plethora of other highly significant American classics, rods, customs, and muscle cars. Some critics responded negatively to the apparently inflated prices Pratte paid for some of his cars at the time. Will they be proved wrong when the whole lot crosses the block at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction in January 2015? Goodwood Greats: Ex-works 1963 Shelby Cobra Video: Very First Shelby Cobra Set For RM Auction Video: on board – thrashing a Cobra round Silverstone On Track Today - Revival testing in Shelby Cobra and Daytona The £700k Lamborghini Countach... is it a record? Apache calls in at Goodwood (with video)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2681
__label__wiki	0.966089	0.966089	UK help and services in Netherlands Services if you're visiting, studying, working or living in the Netherlands. Includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and the Netherlands, and your rights as a result of Brexit. Get email alerts for this topic UK help and services in Netherlands British Consulate General Amsterdam The British Consulate General in Amsterdam maintains and develops relations between the UK and the Netherlands. British Embassy The Hague We maintain and develop relations between the UK and the Netherlands. Netherlands: in prison abroad Information on the Dutch legal and prison systems for British prisoners, their family and friends. Rape and sexual assault in The Netherlands: information for victims Information for British nationals who are victims of rape and sexual assault in The Netherlands. Travelling to Netherlands Netherlands travel advice Latest travel advice for Netherlands including safety and security, entry requirements, travel warnings and health Living in Netherlands Guidance on Brexit changes, accessing healthcare, getting a document legalised, English-speaking lawyers and how to vote abroad. Living in the Netherlands Official information for UK nationals moving to and living in the Netherlands need to know, including Brexit guidance, residency, healthcare and driving. Netherlands: doctors List of English-speaking medical facilities and practitioners for British nationals in the Netherlands. Netherlands: lawyers List of English-speaking lawyers for British nationals in the Netherlands. Netherlands: translators List of translators and interpreters for British nationals in the Netherlands. Netherlands bereavement: death abroad Information to help the family and friends of British nationals who have died in the Netherlands. Netherlands: funeral directors List of English-speaking funeral directors for British nationals in the Netherlands. Find out about the UK government's diplomatic, security and development work in Netherlands. Netherlands and the UK Updates, news and events from the UK government in Netherlands Includes investing and setting up a business in the UK and doing business in Netherlands. Department for International Trade Netherlands DIT provides trade and investment services and practical support. We help UK companies succeed in the Netherlands, and Dutch companies set up and invest in the UK. UK Science & Innovation Network in the Netherlands Science and innovation underpin the economies of both the Netherlands and the UK. Encouraging work between the two countries therefore produces benefits for both. To promote international collaboration the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office jointly fund the UK Science and Innovation Network based in 31 countries around the world. UK Science and Innovation Network Country Snapshot - The Netherlands An introductory brief from the UK Science and Innovation Network which covers the local Science and Innovation landscape, UK priorities and successes in The Netherlands. Netherlands: consular fees List of fees for consular services in the Netherlands. Netherlands: notarial and documentary services How someone in the Netherlands can get documents legalised, witnessed or certified, take an oath of British citizenship and obtain informative notes.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2683
__label__cc	0.673731	0.326269	Born in Taoyuan, 19-year-old Amy Lee enjoys doing the normal things we all like to do, watch cartoons, and listen to music. Yet this EBSC student is a fierce English Speech competitor who has won many local competitions in her short age. “It all started as an accident” Amy said, when she narrated that during her high school years, she lost against her classmates to volunteer in a school English speech competition that no one wanted to participate. One of the judges saw her potential and pushed her to continue competing on national English Speech events. Amy to the date has only lost 1 competition wining every single one after. We ask her, if she had one last thing to say, what would she like to share with others: “Love yourself before others love you” ~ Amy Lee	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2689
__label__wiki	0.892123	0.892123	News \| Data Security \| Developing Your Strategy IAB releases CCPA compliance framework ahead of Jan. 1 rollout Dylan Lepak December 11th, 2019 min read The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been looming on the horizon for over a year now, but we've all been in-the-dark when it comes to implementation. CCPA officially takes effect on January 1st, and marketers are scrambling to make sense of the madness. To help soothe the transition, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recently released its CCPA Framework — which will help marketers clear the CCPA fog when it comes to ad targeting and publisher data. A CCPA refresher The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was created on June 28, 2018, and goes into effect on January 1st, 2020. Broadly, CCPA means to protect consumers' data in California, but it has implications for every business in the United States. Since it impacts any brand that is "doing business with California residents," it's safe to assume that it applies to hundreds of brands nationwide — as long as they meet one or more of the following criteria: Have $25 million or more in annual revenue Possess the "personal data" (this includes basically any type of consumer data) of more than 50,000 consumers Earns over 50% of revenue from selling consumer data However, other states have announced plans to enact similar laws, and Microsoft has already promised to extend CCPA protections to all customers in the US. CCPA vs GDPR The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) already covers similar grounds, has a similar scope (albeit a more granular one), and loosely defines "personal data" to be an all-encompassing term. Overall, GDPR compliance is stricter, more defined, and provides more rights to consumers, except in two specific ways: CCPA forces marketers to include an opt-out "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link. Consumers can click this link to altogether opt-out of ALL data collection services. CCPA defines new roles (that GDPR doesn't) in the consumer data ecosystem, namely "Service Providers" and "Third Parties." This is where things start to get tricky. How do third-party entities like ad tech vendors know if consumers opted out? The relationships between third-party vendors, brands, and consumers has the potential to be headache-inducing. Overall, CCPA requires that ad tech vendors have a clearer, more transparent relationship with brands. But that's "on paper." How does that process actually take place, and what kind of tech is required to enable that relationship? Programmatic advertising and CCPA To be entirely honest, CCPA isn't a tough sell. GDPR has a far more rigid set of rules, and the bulk of CCPA is already included in GDPR. Currently, every marketer should be following GDPR guidelines (or at least using tools that automate GDPR compliance.) So, it shouldn't be surprising that this new IAB CCPA Framework is remarkably similar to the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by IAB's Europe team for GDPR. But they're not identical. The most significant difference is the opt-out link. Vendors need to immediately be aware that the opt-out link has been clicked to control their programmatic spend and utilization. To facilitate this shared ecosystem, IAB has created a methodology and technology for alerting third-party ad tech vendors that consumers have opted out. According to IAB: "When a user clicks [the 'Do Not Sell My Personal Information'] link, a signal is sent to the technology companies with which the publishers do business via a technical mechanism that is based upon specifications developed by the IAB Tech Lab." Once this signal is received by the ad tech company, it ceases the sale of consumer information for that individual, and it causes all downstream tech companies handling that consumer's data to switch their roles over to "service providers" — changing how they're legally able to interact with data under CCPA guidelines. All of this is facilitated by an agreement signed between the ad tech company and the brand, creating a new, fluid legal relationship that promotes transparency throughout the data lifecycle. This has benefits for both parties. Brands can ensure that consumer data is only being utilized in accordance with CCPA for policy and regulatory control. Ad tech providers and third-party programmatic ad companies can simplify their contract workflows by utilizing a single agreement instead of a cluster of smaller contracts for each client. It's a win-win. What does this mean for marketers? In the big scheme of things, this will end up with marketers adding a new plugin and signing a new agreement. The IAB CCPA Framework will likely get granular changes over the coming years. Still, most of the burden of this particular framework falls on the ad tech companies and tech providers. Google has already announced that it's implementing IAB standards for its CCPA compliance at the beginning of next year, so IAB will likely be the go-to agreement signed with tech vendors. Expect to see some of these agreements when you sign up for that next tech contract. While Google and other vendors dragged their heels when it came to adopting outside party GDPR frameworks, the relative speed of CCPA's enactment has caused a bit of a stir in the tech community. So, it's safe to say that most companies will be happy to have a consistent framework to build on. Debate flares up over the ownership of ‘.org’ domains By Jolie Higazi on January 21st, 2020 Microsoft launches new Edge Chromium browser By Joel Waggener on January 21st, 2020 What Google's plan for a cookie-free Chrome means for marketers By Dylan Lepak on January 20th, 2020 Google updates ads and organic search display on desktop By Karisa Egan on January 17th, 2020 What should businesses really be doing about Google's BERT update? By Rachel Denney on January 16th, 2020 Page managers finally get insight into change history on Facebook By Vin Gaeta on January 15th, 2020 Spotify introduces game-changing ad technology for podcasts By John Becker on January 14th, 2020 According to a new report, Mailchimp owns 60% of the email market By Arielle Gnann on January 13th, 2020 Why do regular backups of your website matter? By Daniel Escardo on December 23rd, 2019 Data security: Should you trust an agency with the 'keys' to your website? By Alex Serrano on November 28th, 2019 Microsoft extends CCPA privacy protections beyond California By Kate Williams on November 15th, 2019 What should you do when your website gets hacked? By Daniel Escardo on October 22nd, 2019 Is Apple's iOS 13 hindering location-based marketing? By John Becker on October 10th, 2019 Leading American Business Executives Urge Congress to Pass Federal Data Privacy Law By Katie Pritchard on September 13th, 2019 The Fall of Nacho Analytics: Important Lessons for Site Owners By Iris Hearn on August 19th, 2019 Why you need to use YouTube in your video marketing [Infographic] By Megan Lang on January 19th, 2020 Does HubSpot work for startups? By Joe Bachir on January 16th, 2020 3 tips to propel your sales productivity in 2020 By Steve Bookbinder on January 15th, 2020 Marketing vs. advertising: What’s the difference? By John Becker on January 7th, 2020 What small business leaders need to know to thrive during a recession By Marcus Sheridan on January 3rd, 2020 What not to wear: Tips for choosing the right clothes for your marketing and sales videos By Megan Lang on January 1st, 2020 It’s almost 2020: Is your marketing still relevant? 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__label__wiki	0.720098	0.720098	Call us: 01485 536030 info@heacham-manor.co.uk Our Facebook Our Twitter Our Instagram Our Trip Advisor Book Online Gift Vouchers Private Dining & Events Spa Enquiries Societies & Groups Breaks & Offers The Memories Venue & Conferences Corporate Accommodation Everything you need to know about the Thursford Christmas Spectacular Published within the category of Heacham Blogs Heacham Blogs The Thursford Christmas Spectacular is one of the fixtures of the festive season. Set in the magical surroundings of the Thursford Collection, including mechanical organs, Wurlitzers and carousels, the 3-hour musical extravaganza features a cast of 130 professional performers and musicians. This year's Christmas Spectacular is well underway, and although it's sold out across the board, we thought we'd put together an article on everything you need to know about the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, for those lucky few of you who booked your tickets in advance! It began life as a Student Sing Song The Christmas Spectacular may be a huge attraction now, but it started life in 1977 as a concert of Christmas music and carols performed by students from the University of Cambridge. The show has grown exponentially over the following years, resulting in the all singing, all dancing, sequined spectacle that we know today. It's a favourite of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are frequent visitors to the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, having first attended together in 2010 following their engagement. Four years later the couple, now married, brought their first-born son, Prince George, to Thursford to meet Santa, while George and his sister Princess Charlotte were both in attendance with their mother at last year's show. It's the Hottest Ticket in Norfolk! The show is a hugely popular attraction, and tickets sell out months in advance, year in, year out. If you didn't manage to get tickets this year, then you won't have to wait long to book your tickets for 2018, with tickets set to go on-sale online on the 18th December. Dancers travel thousands of miles to be involved 700 professional dancers from across the world applied to be in the show earlier this year, with just 22 eventually selected to join the 130 professional performers and musicians involved in the production. Among the final 22, were dancers from as far afield as Hungary. Speaking to the Lynn News, the show's professional choreographer, Tracey lliffe, revealed that "One of the girls, Hannah, drove from Hungary to get here to take part and that's pretty committed. Another girl, Sophie, finished a contract two days early and drove to Norfolk from Paris to appear in the show". The costumes are fabulous Extravagant costumes are a hallmark of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular. 2,000 costumes are used per show, and it takes 30 costume makers and fitters to produce all of the stage outfits. The budget for this year's costumes is set at a staggering £200,000, which will be spent on dressing the performers in, among other things, a total of 1,000 ostrich feathers and over 10,000 rhinestones! Its bigger than Glastonbury! While Thursford may be a tiny village, with a population of little more than 200 people, it welcomes coaches from all four corners of the UK when the Christmas Spectacular begins, with 5,000 visitors arriving each day. In total, the 180,000 visitors who arrive each year eclipses the 135,000 who attended the Glastonbury Festival in 2016! It's a huge part of the Norfolk economy As might be expected for a show that attracts almost 200,000 people each year, the Thursford Christmas Spectacular is a huge contributor to the Norfolk economy, generating as much as £10 million for the local economy. Shows at Thursford Christmas Spectacular are performed daily at 2.00pm and 7.00pm from 8th November - 23rd December. All tickets for 2017 are now sold out. Newsletter Signup Sign up to our email newsletter for the latest news and special offers! We never sell on data or contact details. Please view our privacy policy for more information. Unable to subscribe, please ensure you've filled in the form fields correctly. Thanks! We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. Please follow the link to complete your sign up. Keep up with our team and share your holiday memories with us on social media. Join us today for Sunday lunch, our menu includes lovely Roast Sirloin of Local Beef, Roast Leg of English Lamb and Roast Breast of Chicken. There are also other great fish and vegetarian dishes available... Are you getting married and would like to find out what goes into planning the best day of your life? Head over to our website to read Kylie & Lee's real wedding case study: http://ow.ly/Zh0550xYmeR... January is a time for new routines and positive change. To find out more about how to Practice Self-Care and Nurturing Wellbeing in 2020 check out our latest blog --> https://www.heacham-manor.co.uk/blog... Our Facebook Our Twitter Our Instagram Our Trip Advisor © 2018 Heacham Manor Hotel. All rights Reserved Heacham Manor Hotel, Hunstanton Road, Heacham, Nr Hunstanton, Norfolk, PE31 7JX Website designed & developed by Clockwork Marketing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2693
__label__wiki	0.55478	0.55478	National Stock Exchange: What is NSE? Market segment of NSE, Functions of NSE, Management, Trading Schedule, NSE NIFTY 50 Bhumika Khandelwal Incorporated in 1992, The National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) is India’s largest financial market offering capital raising abilities for corporations and a trading platform for equities, debt, derivatives including mutual fund units and currencies. It is India’s leading stock exchange with a total market capitalization of more than US$2.27 trillion as of April 2018, making it the world’s 11th-largest stock exchange. NIFTY 50 Index is one of the popular offerings, which tracks the largest assets in the Indian equity market. NIFTY 50 is regarded as the flagship index which represents about 63% of total market capitalization listed on the exchange. US investors can access the index with ETF (Exchanged traded funds) like the iShares India 50 ETF, which is listed under the ticker symbol INDY. The national stock exchange is the largest private wide-area network in the country which supports more than 3,000 VSAT terminals. In 2018, NSE introduced cross-currency derivatives contracts on GBP-USD, EUR-USD, and USD-JPY. National Stock Exchange (NSE) Location Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Currency Indian rupee (₹) No. of listings 1,952 Market cap US$2.27 trillion (April 2018) Website www.nseindia.com Operation/Market Segment of NSE: Operations of NSE are divided into two market segments- Wholesale Debt Market (WDM) segment (commenced operations in June 1994) Capital Market segment (commenced operations in November 1994) WDM segment provides trading facilities for a variety of debt instruments like Government Securities, Bonds of PSUs, Treasury bills, Certificates of Deposits, units of MF’s, Commercial paper, zero-coupon bonds, mutual funds, etc. Trading can be done only by members, recognized by the NSE. The membership is open only to, body corporates, financial institutions, and subsidiaries of banks. WDM product, which is now disseminated jointly with FIMMDA, the FIMMDA NSE MIBID/MIBOR is used as a benchmark rate for the majority of deals struck for Interest Rate Swaps, Floating Rate Debentures, Forwards Rate Agreements, and Term Deposits in the country. Even NSE-VaR for Fixed Income Securities as well as ‘Zero Coupon Yield Curve’ have become very popular for the valuation of sovereign securities across all maturities irrespective of its liquidity and facilitated the pricing of GOI Bond Index and corporate papers. The capital market segment of NSE covers trading on equities and convertible debentures. The players in the market include individuals, corporates, registered firms, and institutions. This segment offers investors NEAT (National Exchange for Automated Trading), a fully automated screen-based trading system that enables members from across the country to trade with enormous ease and efficiency. In addition to these two segments, there is also an a) NSEs Futures & Options segment which provides trading of a wide range of derivatives like Index Options, Index Futures, Stock Options, and Stock Futures, which commenced on June 2000. b) NSE Currency Derivatives segment which commenced on August 29, 2008, provides trading on currency futures contracts on the USD-INR. The important subsidiaries of NSE include: National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd. (NSCCL) Estd. 1995 National Securities Depository Ltd. (NSDL) -Estd. October 1996- which is the repository of all securities in electronic form. India Index Services & Products Ltd. (IISL) Estd. 1998. NSE.IT Ltd. Estd. in 1999. The NSE series of indices includes Nifty, Nifty Junior, CNX 100, CNX Midcap, etc. Functions And Working Of NSE NSE serves as a role of a catalytic agent in reforming the market in terms of microstructure and market practices. Because of NSE’s innovative endeavors, the market today uses state-of-art information technology to provide efficient and transparent trading, clearing and settlement mechanism with the elimination of settlement risks. NSE provides the screen-based automated trading system with a high degree of transparency in trading and operations and equal access to investors irrespective of geographical location. The investor is assured of the best price in the market with price and brokerage are separately shown on contract notes. NSE has given importance to information technology to increase liquidity in these 20 years and now can handle 1,60,000 orders/messages per second. This ensures NSE with infinite ability to scale up at short notice on demand, thus increasing investor’s confidence. Management of National Stock Exchange NSE has adopted the form of a demutualized exchange – the management, ownership, and trading are in the hands of three different sets of people. NSE is owned by a set of leading financial institutions, insurance companies, banks, and other financial intermediaries. But the exchange is managed by professionals, who do not directly or indirectly trade on the Exchange which has completely eliminated any conflict of interest. This helped NSE in aggressively pursuing policies and practices maintaining a public interest framework. The exchange comprises of senior executives in the fields of law, finance, economics, taxation, accountancy, etc, nominees of SEBI, public representatives, and one full-time executive. The board deals with broad policy, procedure and compliance issues, and also focus on decisions relating to market operations. And then delegated by the Board to various committees includes representatives from trading members, the public, professionals, and the management. The day-to-day working management of the Exchange is managed by the Managing Director, supported by a team of professional staff. NSE EMERGE NSE EMERGE is a National stock exchange’s new intuitive for growth and development of SME & Startup companies from India where companies can get listed without IPO (initial public offer) on NSE. This platform will help SME & Startup to connect with investors and help them with the funding. Trading Schedule Of NSE Trading on the NSE equities segment takes place on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared in advance. The market timings of the equities segment are: (1) Regular trading session: In this session, you can do the trading Normal/Retail Debt/Limited Physical Market Open: 09.15 hrs Normal/Retail Debt/Limited Physical Market Close: 15:30 hrs. (2) Pre-open session: Order entry & modification Open And Close: 09:00 hrs to 09:08 hrs Order matching starts from 9:08 hrs to 9:15 hrs and no cancellation of the order is allowed during this session. (3) Closing Session is from 15:30 hrs to 15:40 hrs and it is basically for calculating the closing price of the stocks. The closing price is calculated based on the average value of all the stocks in the last half an hour from 15:00 hrs to 15:30 hrs. (4) Post Closing Session is from 15:40 hrs to 15:00 hrs. In this session, you can place an order for trading and will be placed at the closing price, if the buyer or seller is available. Nifty is an amalgamation of two words, that is, Nifty’s Fifty owned and managed by India Index Services and Products Ltd. (IISL). On NSE, more than 1600 companies are listed out of which only 50 selected companies represent Nifty. Nifty or Nifty 50 is nothing but the calculated weighted average of the performance of 50 companies from 12 sectors of the Indian economy like financial, auto, pharma etc which are listed on NSE. Base Year 1978-79 Base Value 100 Calculation on the basis of the free-float methodology Market Capitalization Calculation Multiply the market price of share with a number of outstanding shares. NIFTY is used for a variety of purposes such as benchmarking fund portfolios, index funds, and index-based derivatives. Various indexes operating in NSE are: Bank nifty (comprising of Banking stocks) CNX IT (Information Technology Companies’ Like the Infosys, TCS etc) CNX Nifty Junior (comprises of second-most liquid stocks) CNX Midcap (Midcap companies) CNX Small Cap, etc (Small Cap Companies) Indexes serve as lead indicators of the economy and allowing investors, financial institutions and money managers good hedging tools and instruments for their investments. Related Topics:Management of National Stock ExchangeMarket Segment of NSEnational stock exchangenseNSE EMERGETrading Schedule Of NSE All about Bombay Stock Exchange: What is BSE? BSE Facts, Functions of BSE, Management, BSE Sensex, BSE Investor Education How To Save Income Tax For FY 2019-20? Sakshi Yadav Uber Eats India has sold its online food-ordering business in India to local rival Zomato in exchange for a 9.99% i.e around Rs 2,485 crore ($350 million) in an all-stock deal. Since launching in India in 2017, Uber Eats has struggled so much to gain market share and came third after Swiggy and Zomato. All three online food ordering have spent heavily on deals and discounts to attract customers in a highly competitive market. Now, Zomato will not absorb Uber Eat employees, which means they will either be absorbed in Uber’s other verticals or could face lay-off. There’s less clarity on their future roles right now. The entire deal is worth around $350 million. This acquiring deal of Uber India by Zomato will be an attractive this will also help them to crack Swiggy’s stronghold in the southern states. After this acquiring Uber Eats will seize to exist as a separate Uber brand in India now and all its customers will be automatically redirected to Zomato’s app. While Swiggy is little ahead of Zomato in the food delivery space right now, Uber Eats coming onboard with Zomato will try more hard to take on Swiggy, and the combined entity will capture around 50-55 per cent market share. When it comes to the Indian food delivery market, UberEats is a distant third in comparison to its rivals Zomato and Swiggy that gets 2-2.5 million orders every day. On the other hand, UberEats only gets 2,50,000-3,00,000 orders per day. As for the value of the order, on an average UberEats witnesses $2 per order as compared to $3-4 per order for Swiggy and Zomato. Zomato CEO said in a statement “With our expansion to 550+ cities over the last year, our continued focus on user experience and our commitment to operating excellence, we have demonstrated our ability to execute on a variety of parameters”. Zomato has operations across 24 countries and serves more than 70 million users every month. Airtel joins Google Cloud to offer its G Suite services in India Team Headlines Airtel joins Google cloud with an aim to provide the needs of millions of Indian businesses in a rapidly digitizing economy. Airtel and Google Cloud on Monday announced a partnership that will allow the telecom operator to offer G Suite to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the country. Airtel and Google Cloud are sharing same vision for delighting customers with great products. India with its growing economy and adoption of digital services offers one of the biggest opportunities to serve customers with innovative solutions. Gopal Vittal, MD and CEO of Bharti Airtel, said ” We are happy to strengthen our relationship with Google Cloud and building products and services together aimed at changing Indian businesses”. The agreement will provide both huge opportunities for growth in India, which also helps India to ranks amongst the fastest-growing economies. Further Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud said “Indian companies are making a massive transformation to the cloud and we’re thrilled to partner with Airtel to support this transition. The combination of G Suite’s collaboration and productivity tools with Airtel’s digital business offerings will help accelerate digital innovations for thousands of Indian businesses”. G Suite is a set of apps like – Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar and more which bring people together and help them work smarter and safer. On the other hand, Airtel currently serves over 2,500 large businesses and over 500,000 Small and Medium Business and technology startups across India. World Economic Forum: Union Ministers, CMs, 100 Indian CEOs and more attend Davos summit The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020, will held on January 20-24, with aim to focus on establishing stakeholder capitalism as a way of addressing the world’s greatest challenges, from societal divisions created by income inequality and political polarization to the climate crisis facing today. As the rich and powerful person from across the globe assemble this week at Swiss ski resort to discuss about sustainable world’, over 100 CEOs as also some union ministers and chief ministers from India would also be present there alongwith filmstar Deepika Padukone and Sadhguru. Deepika will talk about mental health and other issues, Sadhguru will hold morning meditation sessions at the summit attended by over 3,000 world leaders. The 50th annual meeting of World Economic Forum beginning from Monday. US President Donald Trump, Britain’s Prince Charles, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan would be also attending the meeting. The Geneva-based International organisation for public-private partnership has said that “The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020, taking place on January 20-24, will focusing on making stakeholder capitalism and also discussing about world’s greatest challenges like income inequality and political polarization to the climate crisis we face today”. The main aim of this meeting is to give a soild meaning to “stakeholder capitalism”, assist governments and international institutions in tracking progress towards the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, and facilitate discussions on technology and trade governance. From India industry leaders like Gautam Adani, Rahul and Sanjiv Bajaj, Kumar Mangalam Birla, N Chandrasekaran of Tata Group, Uday Kotak, Rajnish Kumar of SBI, Anand Mahindra, Sunil and Rajan Mittal, Ravi Ruia, Pawan Munjal, Nandan Nilekani and Salil Parekh of Infosys, C Vijayakumar of HCL Tech, Ajay Piramal, Rishad Premji, Ajay Singh and Pirojsha Godrej are registered. Doubling investments on Amazon Prime Videos in India, says Jeff Bezos Amazon Prime Video is getting good response in India than anywhere else, that is why the company CEO Jeff Bezos has said he will rise its investment for the streaming service in India . “In Japan, Germany and in America also Prime Video is doing well. But India is doing much better than other countries”. Bezos said this on 16 January. He also said “the world is witnessing a golden age of television, and i want Amazon to be the most talent friendly studio in the world and India features prominently in this plan. Bezos met Bollywood celebrities at a gathering where he talked with superstar Shah Rukh Khan and director Zoya Akhtar. The streamer, which rivals Netflix and Hotstar, also unveile seven more shows. The shows are Dilli, Bandish Bandits, Paatal Lok, Gormint, Mumbai Diaries-26/11, The Last Hour and Sons of Soil- Jaipur Pink Panthers, will soon be joining its exclusive Indian content slate. Bezos said ” A person should not try for a successful formula in entertainment. Storytelling is an incredibly difficult art because people always looking for something new”.”This is one of those businesses which really takes human creativity. I want Amazon Studios to be all over the world. When you look at TV series today, they are really good in terms of content. They’re as good as the very best movies have ever been. And now we’re getting the best storytellers and actors to come and do work”. “One of the hardest things that humans do is tell creating, engaging, inspiring stories. When you get it right, it can change the world,” he said further. Amazon Prime has signed up with the majority of Indian production houses and stars for dedicated series and shows. Bezos was also meet some corporate person. Bezos added that “the Prime membership, which comes with free shipping from Amazon, has also proved great for the e-commerce service”.These are the reason we made a decision to increase in our Prime Video investments here” he said. The number of hours that people watched Prime Video had grown by six times in just two years in India, he added. Bezos came to India on 15 January made a commitment to invest $1 billion in India over the next few years, calling it India’s decade which we have entered in. Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on 16January said that Amazon has not done any favor by committing the money. Jeff Bezos’s $1 Billion MSME Push Welcomed With Protests By Local Traders Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos plans to invest around $ 1 billion to help small businesses online in India and also plans to use Amazon’s size, scope, and scale to export $10 billion of Indian goods by 2025. On the other hand, angry Indian vendors plan protests against Jeff Bezos as the authorities have launched an anti-trust investigation into e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Wallmart owned Flipkart. Jeff Bezos came down to India for a business meeting focused on the maiden edition of Amazon’s micro, small and medium enterprises(MSME). This comes in at the moment when the Competition Commission of India(CCI) on Monday announced an investigation into Amazon and Flipkart on several complaints that claim that there have been tie-ups and deep discounting practices with preferred sellers which have probably killed small businesses. Bezos donned the traditional Indian attire to showcase his company’s commitment to be a long-term partner of India. The firm proposed investment to assist and digitize around 10 million MSMEs by providing training and enrolling MSMEs into Amazon’s programs. Along with this, Amazon will assist them to be able to work on cloud technology through specialized offers at low costs from Amazon Web Services. Amazon also confirmed it would fully cooperate with the investigation and was confident that its operations were legal. But traders across the country planned protests during the visit demanding the government to take action against Amazon. Several merchants have accused these e-commerce giants of breaking and disregarding foreign investment rules while giving billions of dollars into discounts that have forced many traditional traders to lose their businesses. Amazon in the past five years has invested around $5 billion in India. They even also announced to expand it’s Amazon Easy Programme and ‘I Have Space’ Programme to support local neighborhood shops as well as Kiranas. This will look into helping shops and kiranas to set up kiosks to provide guidance to customers helping them choose the right products, place orders and earn commission on sales. These protests were actively planned in 300 cities by The Confederation of All Indian Traders that represents around 70 million small businesses. Though the CCI said that it would report within 60 days, inquiries might take much longer time as usual. Last year, Google was fined $21 million USD by CCI for abusing Google’s dominant position for creating a search bias.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2695
__label__wiki	0.977486	0.977486	Laura Plummer Hull woman Laura Plummer 'weeps' in dock as she appears in Egyptian court on Christmas day Laura Plummer has appeared in court today Faye Preston A Hull woman accused of smuggling pain killers into Egypt has appeared in court today - but became so upset her case was adjourned. Laura Plummer, 33, is said to have wept in the dock as she stood, handcuffed, in court on Christmas Day. Ms Plummer is accused of smuggling 290 Tramadol tablets into the country, which is illegal, and could even face the death penalty. Jayne Sinclair (left), Rachel Plummer (middle) and Laura Plummer Her mother Roberta Sinclair and her husband, Omar Caboo, 33, were standing outside the courtroom having arrived late to the trial. Her sister Rachel Plummer said the judge adjourned the case for a day because of Laura's condition. She said: "She's sleep deprived, she's visibly nervous and upset. "She's answered some questions wrong because she's not understanding them, she obviously can't think straight. "You can imagine the pressure - this is her life." Hull woman in Egyptian court on Christmas Day over drug smuggling offences Because Egypt is an Islamic country, Christmas Day is a normal working day. Ms Plummer has spent 10 weeks in jail after she was arrested at Hurghada Airport. Her family say she is “unrecognisable”. Laura Plummer with her brothers Kirk Plummer (left) and James Plummer The Labour MP said Foreign Minister Alistair Burt had been to Egypt and spoken to his counterparts. He said: "I don't think we could have asked for any more. "Unfortunately ministers can only do so much, the judiciary in Egypt is independent and impartial and the judge will come to a view without any outside influence." Mr Turner said: "The evidence is pretty clear that she didn't know the drug was banned and she was taking it out there to help her boyfriend, who has come up with the evidence that he does suffer from a severe back problem. Hull woman in Egypt jail 'sobs with joy' as she's given heartfelt messages from home "The lawyer acting for them is very honest and has said the situation is very serious. "But there is an awful lot of good things to say on behalf of Laura, and hopefully the judge will use his or her discretion." The Plummer family has previously said she had no idea that what she doing was illegal and was just "daft". They said she did not try to hide the medicine, which she had been given by a friend, and she thought it was a joke when she was pulled over by officials after arriving for a holiday with her partner. Mrs Sinclair said her daughter was being held in terrible conditions in a communal cell with no beds, sharing with up to 25 other women. Ms Plummer maintains her innocence, with her family saying she did not realise Tramadol was illegal and had been bringing them into the country to help ease her husband’s back pain. Here's what prisoners in Hull will be eating for Christmas dinner Earlier this month her sister Rachel Plummer told the Hull Daily Mail how friends and family had been rallying round, bringing her messages of support and begging her not to ‘lose her sparkle’. Humberside Police	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2715
__label__wiki	0.546238	0.546238	Nobody learned anything from the global financial crisis June 11, 2018 by IWB When it comes to predicting a stock market crash, all roads lead back to the economy. That’s why it’s so jarring to hear someone claim that today’s economic system is “dysfunctional,” which is what the world-renowned market skeptic John Hussman just did. Hussman, a former economics professor who is now the president of the Hussman Investment Trust, is no stranger to such bearish proclamations, having made a name for himself by repeatedly predicting a stock market decline exceeding 60% and forecasting a full decade of negative equity returns. He has now turned his sights on the economy, which he says is setting the market up for unprecedented failure. In a recent blog post, Hussman paints a grim economic picture, lamenting labor-market slack that has kept wages low, massive deficits being run by the market, and lopsided corporate profits he says favor high-income people. To drive this point home, Hussman uses the chart below to show that wage and salary compensation are near an all-time low relative to gross domestic product. He notes that while it appeared to be rebounding, it has since faded. © Hussman Funds But perhaps Hussman’s biggest worry is how indebted consumers and companies have become as they’ve attempted to navigate a difficult economic landscape. In his experience, this instability can only end one way: with mass defaults and copious investor tears. “The hallmark of an economic Ponzi scheme is that the operation of the economy relies on the constant creation of low-grade debt in order to finance consumption and income shortfalls among some members of the economy, using the massive surpluses earned by other members of the economy,” Hussman wrote in a recent blog post. “The debt burdens, speculation, and skewed valuations most responsible for today’s lopsided prosperity are exactly the seeds from which the next crisis will spring.” Add this to past arguments from Hussman that investors are too complacent, and that adverse valuation and sentiment conditions are brewing ahead of a meltdown, and you get an increasingly well-rounded view of the hurdles facing the nine-year bull market. ‘This time feels different’ Even though investors have two relatively recent market crashes to which they can refer, Hussman says they’re largely ignoring that helpful historical precedent. They’re instead telling themselves that the same excesses and glaring issues that destroyed the market last time around don’t apply now. His take can be summarized simply as: “Nobody learned anything from the global financial crisis.” It’s an extension of an argument Hussman has made in the past – one centered on the degree to which complacency and comfort are blinding investors to mounting risks. In his latest note, Hussman goes further to say the market’s resilience in the face of myriad headwinds has emboldened investors to a degree, which makes sense when you consider that they’ve survived problems that previously derailed them. But that has given way to a new problem, now that traders feel as if they have dodged a bullet and have let their guard down. And that, in turn, has given rise to a new fallacy that is infecting investor psyche. “Our reliance on those syndromes left us crying wolf for quite some time,” Hussman said. “In response, many investors have concluded that all apparent risks can be dismissed. This conclusion will likely prove to be fatal, because it implicitly assumes that if one measure proves unreliable (specifically, those ‘overvalued, overbought, overbullish’ syndromes), then no measure is reliable.” So when Hussman says “this time feels different,” he really means it in two ways. First, he’s noting that investors are interpreting the same old bearish signals in a new, carefree way, since they aren’t culminating in the exact same disastrous fashion as last time. The second is how different it feels for people like him, who see investor complacency and get even more worried. In the end, no one truly knows what will cause the market’s historic bull run to come crashing down. But when it does happen, the chances are you’ll be able to point back at Hussman’s warnings and triangulate the source pretty quickly. Tags anything, crisis, financial, global, learned, nobody Post navigation Cops Raid City Council President’s Home After He Exposed Their Corruption Animals: Eight MS-13 gang members indicted for Long Island murders	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2718
__label__cc	0.603288	0.396712	The Garran Oration The Australian Journal of Public Administration Insight Hack 2019 The Public Administration Research Trust Fund Prime Minister’s Awards National Fellows Sam Richardson Award Budgets and Intergenerational Inequity by Kevin P. RileyJun 3, 2019Blog YOUR IPAA QLD NSW ACT VIC TAS SA WA NT Author: Kevin Riley This article was first published in the American Society for Public Administration’s PATIMES on 14 April, 2019. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA [or IPAA] as an organization. At 7:30 P.M., April 2, 2019, Josh Frydenberg, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia, delivered his first Budget speech. He introduced the Australian Government’s budget for the 2019–2020 financial year. As a father of four teenage children, one line in the Treasurer’s speech was of interest to me: “Our commitment to fairness means the next generation not having to pick up the tab for the last.” Background to Intergenerational Reporting Reporting on intergenerational equity has been a feature of Australian public finances since the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 (the Charter) became law. The Charter legislates that the Treasurer must deliver an intergenerational report at least once every 5 years. The intergenerational report presents the long term sustainability of current Government policies. It shows the financial impact of current policies applied over the next 40 years, including the financial implications of demographic change. The first intergenerational report was presented by Treasurer Peter Costello in May 2002. Costello famously encouraged Australians to increase the natural birth rate by having one child, “For mum, one for dad and one for the country.” That first intergenerational report presented some stark effects of the aging of the Australian population on the government’s fiscal position. The 2002–2003 financial year surplus was estimated to be 0.3 percent of GDP. By 2041–2042, this surplus had developed into a fiscal deficit projected to be around 5 percent of GDP. The second, third and fourth intergenerational reports were produced in April 2007, January 2010 and March 2015 respectively. The second intergenerational report showed a modest improvement in the long term fiscal deficit, predominantly due to improving access to and affordability of child care. This enabled caregivers, mostly women, to re-enter the labour market and grow the productive capacity of the economy. The third and fourth intergenerational reports include the short term impacts of and policy responses to the global financial crisis. In each of these reports the 40-year view ahead continues to project a significant fiscal gap. So, the problem is not going away. The fiscal effects of the aging population over the 40 years ahead are two fold: There is a reduction in personal income tax revenue to the government as people move from being in work to being in retirement. There are increases in a range of health, aged care and income-support expenditures as an aging population accesses a range of services. One week ago the Parliamentary Budget Office, and independent provider of confidential costing and budget analysis services to all parliamentarians, released a new report: Australia’s Aging Population: Understanding the Fiscal Impacts Over the Next Decade. This report quantifies the increasing fiscal gap over the next decade as being $36 billion caused by: Decreases of $20 billion in real terms from revenue in 2028–2029, primarily personal income tax revenue. Increases of $16 billion in real terms from expenditures in 2028–2029, primarily the aged pension, aged care and health care costs. Public Policy Responses to Reports on Intergenerational Inequity Public policy options to address the underlying reasons for inequity include consideration of the following: Continuing to grow the economy. Australia has had 28 years of continued economic growth. This is the very best prescription for removing inequity. Opening our economy to more trade, exposing Australian industry to competition and investing in education provides opportunity for individuals, families and businesses. Maintaining a balanced budget over the economic cycle. This will require revenue earned in good economic times to be used to strengthen the Government’s balance sheet. For example, the Future Fund in Australia is accumulating assets to meet the Government’s liabilities to Australian public servants. Increasing the age of eligibility for access to the pension. The current Australian policy will see the age of eligibility for the pension moving from 65 to 67 years of age over the period to July 1, 2023. Continuing to increase eligibility to 70 years of age is an important recognition of the changing nature of population demographics. Overcoming outdated approaches to the taxation of capital gains. Currently capital gains receive a 50 percent tax holiday—or are not taxed at all. Reverting to taxing the “real” capital gains on assets will improve vertical, horizontal and intergenerational equity of the taxation system. Better targeting the concessional taxation of superannuation savings. Through the application of limits to deductions, or by linking the superannuation tax concession with the individual taxpayer’s marginal taxation rate we can improve the sustainability of the superannuation savings policy as well as intergenerational equity. Broadening rather than shrinking net migration into Australia. Our history of migration over the last two decades has been the basis for broadening the skills base and reducing the average age of the Australian population. Recent contractions to the net migration rate will adversely affect intergenerational inequity. If fairness means the next generation not having to pick up the tab for the last, then that means my generation and I will need to pick up our tab for the public services we have consumed. While none of us will like it, how else do we teach our children about fairness? Author: Kevin P Riley is the Managing Partner of GPA Partners, a Canberra based firm advising on governance, performance and accountability matters. Kevin was born in Warwick, R.I. and continues to follow U.S. governance arrangements closely. Kevin is a Fellow with both CAANZ and CPA Australia and is a Qualified Accountant with the UK based CIPFA. Kevin is the National Treasurer for the Institute of Public Administration Australia Inc. Kevin can be contacted by email at kevin.riley@gpa.partners. ← Sophie Yates, Winner of the 2017 Sam Richardson Award, Collects the Rosemary O’Leary Prize 2019 Future Shapers Forum energises IPAA’s up-and-coming leaders → WITH YOUR IPAA Division you would like to contact Division you would like to contact IPAA National QLD NSW ACT VIC TAS SA WA NT Your IPAA IPAA QLD IPAA NSW IPAA ACT IPAA VIC IPAA TAS IPAA SA IPAA WA IPAA NT IPAA News + Blogs The Mandarin The Canberra Times PS News © INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2019 \| PRIVACY POLICY \| CONTACT WEBSITE BY ENDURE WEB STUDIOS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2720
__label__wiki	0.540546	0.540546	App Developer’s Workshop – Privacy and Personal Health Information in Ontario Senior Policy and Technology Advisor Fred Carter delievered this presentation on January 31, 2017 to the App Developer’s Guide to Privacy and Security Workshop. The workshop was hosted by the National Institute for Health Informatics (NIH), Mohawk College Technology Access Centre in Digital Health (Hamilton, ON) and Privacy Horizon. Fred Carter Senior Policy & Technology Advisor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2721
__label__wiki	0.895973	0.895973	E-edition Read the Ipswich Star online edition Ipswich Star Search Suffolk Armistice 100 What's on Wayne Star Lifestyle Paul Geater Liz Nice Just a' Ipswich girl Ipswich Icons New £3million pot announced for Suffolk projects PUBLISHED: 06:00 16 December 2019 \| UPDATED: 10:06 17 December 2019 Jason Noble Local democracy reporter The funding could be used for new cycle lanes in Suffolk Picture: GREGG BROWN A £3million pot has been formed to fund projects such as new speed cameras, electric charging points or new cycle lanes over 12 months. Suffolk County Council's finance cabinet member Gordon Jones unveiled the Suffolk 2020 fund this morning - a one year fund which organisations can bid for a share of. Bids between £50,000 and £500,000 will be accepted within 100 days of the new financial year, and will be for Suffolk-wide projects. Mr Jones said nothing is ruled out, so could be used for schemes such as new cycle lanes, electric charging points, road safety schemes, automatic numberplate recognition cameras, tree planting or other projects. He said: "I think it's quite exciting to take the opportunity to continue to engage with the communities and respond to some of our priorities. "These are really significant and if there is an opportunity for match-funding the projects can be even better. It's not essential but it can provide an opportunity to kick start some really exciting and sizeable projects." Community groups, parish and town councils and other organisations can make an expression of interest for the cash through their county councillor, which must then be backed by a cabinet member at Suffolk County Council. The bid will then be assessed in a second stage and, if approved, will be publicly announced. It is understood that the one-year financial settlement from central government, which effectively dictates how much the council will get, has enabled the fund to happen because that money would normally be absorbed in other departments across a financial settlement of several years. Mr Jones confirmed those bids could only be for one off project costs, rather than being used to prop up running costs of any project or organisation. The council currently has cross-party task groups investigating measures to help with climate issues and provision for cycling, and Mr Jones said the fund could well be used to help fund recommendations from those groups. Mr Jones added: "Nothing is ruled out and nothing is ruled in, but we are making the most of what we have got." The rest of the council's budget first draft is set to be published today. Sarah Adams, leader of the Labour Group at Suffolk County Council said: "Any additional money for our cash starved public services is welcomed, however, we must recognise that this is only a one-year fund. "It will not address the chronic underfunding of front-line public services in Suffolk which are in dire need of sustained investment. "It appears the Conservatives have adopted a short term and haphazard approach to spending, with the likely result of this fund being a patchwork of schemes and projects. "Instead, the council should have a long-term strategy for future investment to ensure maximum benefit for the people and communities that need it most." Penny Otton, leader of the Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent group, said: "I'm pleased that the council are providing funding for projects like electric vehicle charging and cycle lanes - these are really important for our response to the climate crisis. "I hope the bidding process won't be too bureaucratic, and that there is a strategic approach from the council to ensure that Suffolk benefits as a whole. "Given that there is also a financial crisis in social care and SEND services, we are slightly surprised that this funding pot has been announced in advance of the council's scrutiny of the budget, without discussion with councillors." Owners ‘absolutely devastated’ as fun Alice-themed cafe closes Latest from the Ipswich Star Suspended prison sentence for drug dealer found in possession of cannabis 16 half-term treats to keep families entertained Green Un Email us: Newsroom, Sport Cookies Policy \| Manage Cookies \| Advertise with us \| Contributor's charter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2722
__label__wiki	0.603061	0.603061	Fascicolo n. 1 - 2012 gennaio / marzo Direttore: Sabino Cassese Vicedirettore: Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella Comitato di direzione: Stefano Battini, Aldo Sandulli, Giulio Vesperini Primo redattore: Lorenzo Casini Comitato di Redazione Web: Andrea Averardi, Bruno Carotti, Lorenzo Casini, Davide Ragone, Patrizio Rubechini, Giulio Vesperini Scegli l'anno2019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007 n. 4 - 2019 - ottobre / dicembre n. 3 - 2019 - luglio / settembre n. 2 - 2019 - aprile / giugno n. 1 - 2019 - gennaio / marzo Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella Fortuna e decadenza dell’imperatività del provvedimento amministrativo The concept of the “imperativeness” of administrative acts has been of great importance for the development of the scholarship on Italian administrative law of the 20th century. The concept’s ambiguous nature enabled it to perform various different roles and to adapt to the evolution of administrative law. Its importance arises, firstly, in the context of the legal effects of administrative acts: indeed, it has been used to describe or highlight certain features of these acts that are not peculiar to administrative acts alone, but, rather, common to all unilateral acts, including those concluded within private law. Secondly, it informs the general understanding of the relations between citizens and public administrations: here, it first reflected the notion of administrations’ supremacy, but was later influenced by principles of democracy and legal protection of individual rights. Thirdly, imperativeness has been interpreted as a quality typical to all public law acts, common to administrative acts and to those issued by the other branches of government, such as statutes and judicial decisions. Finally, it has been used to distinguish between administrative and private acts, and therefore to distinguish between public law and private law and between the respective competences of ordinary and administrative courts. The present essay analyzes this variety in definition and role of the concept of imperativeness of administrative acts, while also addressing some fundamental issues of Italian administrative law and its evolution. This evolution eventually contributed to the decline of the imperativeness concept by revealing its underlying deceptiveness and the simplifications which it entailed. The concept was once important for the study of administrative law, but is now a burden that still gives rise to misunderstandings in the theory of administrative powers and acts. Nascondi l'abstractabstract Stefano Battini Il principio di separazione fra politica e amministrazione in Italia: un bilancio The principle of separation between policy tasks — entrusted to politics — and managerial functions — assigned to the public administration — was introduced in the Italian administrative system in 1993. Eighteen years later, it appears appropriate to take stock. The original meaning of the principle, as conceived in 1993, was later abandoned by the legislature, as relationships of trust between the minister and public managers developed. More recently, the Constitutional Court declared the unconstitutionality several statutes that provided for the introduction of spoils system mechanisms, thereby partly restoring the authentic purpose of the principle. However, important issues have yet to be addressed, such as the means of identification of the top managerial positions to which spoils system mechanisms can be constitutionally applied, and the possibility of dismissing top managers upon expiry of their mandate, without observing principles of due process and the duty to give reasons. This article illustrates the evolution of the system, critically reviews its recent developments and offers some suggestions as to its interpretation. Giulio Napolitano From the Financial to the Sovereign Debt Crisis: New Trends in Public Law The 2008 financial crisis cast doubt on the fundamental assumptions and theories, developed over the last two decades, advocating the retreat of the State and the rise of markets’ dominance over governments. The crisis forced governments to nationalize banks, financial institutions, and other strategic companies. Policies of deregulation nderwent serious attacks and regulatory reforms became a policy agenda priority. The 2010 sovereign debt crisis suddenly reversed these trends. Extraordinary taxation measures and public expenditure cuts were adopted. Safety nets were established, at international and European levels. The doubly shocking experience of the financial market failure and of the sovereign debt crisis led governments “into the storm”. To resolve these crises, governments must implement exceptional mutations in both external and internal frontiers of government, mutations which challenge many fundamental assumptions of public law. Elena Mitzman The Proliferation of Independent Accountability Mechanisms in the Field of Development Finance This article analyzes the development of a new type of accountability mechanism that is proliferating in the field of development finance. Organizations operating in this sector have started to adopt social and environmental policies and procedures seeking to address the local impact of financed projects. Several of these organizations have also established Independent Accountability Mechanisms, modeled on the World Bank Inspection Panel, and that have the power to conduct investigations on specific projects to assess policy compliance. These mechanisms receive complaints from individuals adversely affected by projects, thus constituting a new avenue for third parties to gain redress. The mechanisms’ main weakness, however, consists in their lack of coercive powers and their vulnerability to external interference. To a certain extent, these mechanisms further administrative law principles such as the right to participate in administrative decisions, transparency, duty to give reasons and proportionality. However, when compared to other systems of review of administrative action, it is clear that they do not amount to fully-fledged judicial remedies, but rather comprise a mix of various functions: dispute settlement (problem-solving), quasi-judicial review of the organization’s activity (compliance review), and a “consultative” function within the organization. However, despite their intrinsic limitations, over the years these mechanisms have evolved, at times succeeding in overcoming some of their original weaknesses, and thus becoming an interesting model for administrative bodies also at national and European levels. Edoardo Chiti The Administrative Law of the Roman Catholic Church. A Comparative Inquiry This paper proposes a comparative inquiry on the differences and similarities between two bodies of administrative law: the administrative law of the Roman Catholic Church — an institution that combines elements typical of legal-rational authorities with a number of charismatic and traditional features — and the administrative laws of those States and regulatory systems beyond the State that are mainly legal-rational in nature. The comparison between canon administrative law and the administrative laws of mainly legal-rational regimes is developed by considering four interconnected aspects: i) their processes of emergence and development; ii) their constitutive “materials”; iii) their position within the legal order; and iv) their overall explanatory paradigms. The inquiry reveals that canon administrative law is based on a complex combination of religious and state elements, that gives rise to an unstable regulatory framework in which several internal tensions are intertwined. On a more general level, the comparative inquiry sheds some light on the links between the features of administrative law and the types of power (legal-rational power, charismatic power and traditional power) that administrative law serves and regulates. Fabio di Cristina La corruzione negli appalti pubblici This essay focuses on a concrete evaluation of Italian public procurement legal rules to highlight the main risks of corruption they may entail. First, the institutional and legal framework is analyzed with regard to both national and international debates on corruption in public procurement. A close examination of a number of preventive solutions is also provided. Second, the main risks of corruption related to certain legal principles and norms of the Italian Code on public contracts (subcontracts, variances in public works, regularity of the qualification process and so on), considered by courts and by the National Authority for Public Procurement, are analyzed. Third, a short examination of certain practices and background elements of the national market for public contracts (secret public procurement contracts, urgent ordinances, outsourcing of services) which increase the risk of corruption in public procurement is given. Finally, the corruptive relationship between distortions of competitive bidding and the degree of inter-firm collusion is evaluated. Rivista bibliografica Handbuch Ius Publicum Europaeum, volume IV, Verwaltungsrecht in Europa: Wissenschaft, a cura di A. von Bogdandy, S. Cassese, P. M. Huber, Heidelberg, C.F. Muller, 2011 (Luca De Lucia) J. Mendes, Participation in EU Rule-Making. A Rights-Based Approach, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011 (Edoardo Chiti) D. Galliani, Il Capo dello Stato e le leggi, Tomo I, Aspetti storici, profili comparatistici, ordinamento italiano, Milano, Giuffrè, 2011; Tomo II, Il concreto svolgimento costituzionale, Milano, Giuffrè, 2011 (Alessandro Basilico) I servizi sanitari: organizzazione, riforme e sostenibilità. Una prospettiva comparata, a cura di Alessandra Pioggia, Stefano Civitarese Matteucci, Gabriella M. Racca, Marco Dugato, Rimini, Maggioli, 2011 (Alberto Massera) E. Albanesi, Pareri parlamentari e limiti della legge, Milano, Giuffrè, 2010 (Renzo Dickmann) Un nuovo «Traité de droit administratif» (Sabino Cassese) Il libro bianco sui servizi pubblici nel Regno Unito (Mariangela Benedetti) Riflessioni sull’iconografia della giustizia (Davide Ragone) Il silenzio del giudice Thomas durante le udienze della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti (Federico Fabbrini) Quanto democratica è la democrazia diretta? (Sabino Cassese) Un convegno su Cesure e continuità nelle vicende dello Stato (Monica Cocconi) Un convegno sui rapporti tra ordinamento statale e ordinamento sportivo (Ippolito Piazza) La valutazione della qualità della ricerca-VQR per il periodo 2004-2010 (Giulio Vesperini) Il quinto corso-concorso per l’accesso alla dirigenza dello Stato (Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2725
__label__cc	0.625762	0.374238	Home » Sleepless In Safetyland HealthTraining/Incentives Sleepless In Safetyland KEYWORDS health According to ISHN's 23rd annual White Paper reader survey, work hours in the past year have increased for 40 percent of safety and health pros. Half the respondents report higher levels of stress, and 51 percent have heavier workloads. So what kind of sleep are you getting these days? More than four out of five of our White Paper respondents are over age 40, the point in the aging process when our sleep becomes much more fragmented than when we're younger. Have you noticed you're more aware of outside noises and your own body aches? Sleep disorders also increase with the aging process - restless leg syndrome, insomnia, and sleep apnea, for instance. We're not picking on safety and health managers. "America runs on Dunkin'," goes the slogan for Dunkin' Donuts. And much of business runs on too little sleep. Sleep deprivation is a "problem of epidemic proportions," according to an article in the October, 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review. But how many companies, their safety departments - or safety pros themselves - are doing anything about it? Let’s study the risks of sleep sacrifices found in almost any workplace. Frenzied cultures The HBR article goes on to say that "frenzied corporate cultures" put their employees at serious jeopardy of heavy-lidded at-risk behavior all over the world in the name of "sleepless machismo" that is downright dangerous. It's the "antithesis of intelligent management," bemoans HBR, to push employees "to the brink of self-destruction." Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, says in the piece it's past time for executives to own up to their critical responsibility to take sleeplessness seriously. But we can't put sleep deficits in the age of over-scheduling all on the shoulders of pushy bosses. We've got to accept some personal responsibility for running at the pace we do. Baby boomers, who run most businesses and families these days, have turned out to be quite the competitive generation. And in the book, "Tired of Being Tired" (The Berkley Publishing Group, 2001), authors Dr. Jesse Lynn Hanley and Nancy Deville remind us, ""Highly ambitious people love the adrenaline rush." It's the high that seduces. And the lifestyle that has us skipping lunches, swilling Red Bull, and getting by on five or six hours of sleep. "I'll sleep when I'm dead," sang the songwriter Warren Zevon, a boomer favorite. "I don't want my headstone to be blank," says a running-on-empty business manager in the book, trying to rationalize her addiction to overtime, deadlines, red-eye flights, late dinners, early power breakfasts, midnight emailing, Power Bars and Diet Cokes. Serious consequences It's not as though we're blind to our at-risk behavior. Barnes & Noble is stocked with titles such as, "No More Sleepless Nights," "Say Goodnight to Insomnia," "The Promise of Sleep," and "Sleep Disorders for Dummies." How many road warriors pack a few Ambien pills before they hop-scotch across the country, or around the world? Quite a few, considering the sleep medication rings up annual sales of $1.4 billion in the U.S., according to HBR. Sepracor, the pharmaceutical manufacturer of Estorra, which lays claims to be longer-acting, predicts sleeping-pill sales will top the $5 billion mark by 2010, according to an article in Mother Jones magazine. Still, people everywhere operate heavy and dangerous machinery, guard high-security sites, make critical decisions and attempt to lead teams and meetings and train employees every day while they're exhausted, says the HBR article. That's not all: An estimated 80,000 drivers fall asleep at the wheel every day. Driver fatigue has accounted for more than 1.35 million auto accidents in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Sleep researchers estimate between 10 and 15 percent of Americans experience serious insomnia (defined as not getting a good night’s sleep for a month or more). In a study of hospital interns who had worked at least 24 straight hours, the odds of stabbing themselves with a needle increased 61 percent, their risk of crashing while driving shot up 168 percent, and their risk of a near-miss multiplied 460 percent. Off the radar A good sleep policy is smart business strategy, advocates Dr. Czeisler. Of course it would be a sound personal policy as well. But the good doctor's sincerity, warnings and evidence documenting the dire consequences of sleep deprivation will go unheeded by most of us, who are too busy and/or complacent to take note. The antidote for all this sleep cheating? Dr. Czeisler prescribes corporate sleep policies. Behavioral expectations for getting enough rest along the lines of rules against smoking, drug abuse and sexual harassment. A business ban on red-eye flights. A day off for employees after a long international flight. Annual screening for sleep disorders. Mandatory employee education. And supervisory training and modeling in proper sleep behavior. You can stop laughing now. Search the OSHA web site topic index for "sleep deprivation" and the closest you come is "slide presentations." The doctor's remedies would prevent accidents and save lives, no doubt. But when it comes to the risks of shorting ourselves on sleep, most of us are fatalists (You gotta do what you gotta do to make a living and raise a family) or fanatics (I worked 12 hours, finished the project, clinched the deal, closed the sale and still made it to my son's soccer game. So what did you do today?) Stay awake longer than 18 consecutive hours and your reaction speed, memory, attention-span and decision-making all start to suffer. Five or six hours of sleep a night for several days in a row has a cumulative effect that magnifies these negatives. Throughout the waking day, humans build up a stronger and stronger drive for sleep. Most people can't get to sleep without some wind-down time, even if they are very tired. There is a transitional phase between when you wake up and the time your brain becomes fully functioning. This is why making key decisions at the crack of dawn is never a good idea. A person who is sleep deprived has no idea how functionally impaired he or she actually is. Source: "Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer," Harvard Business Review, October, 2006, Vol. 84, No. 10. Pages 53-59. The week that was in safetyland 8.6.2010 â€“ Obamaâ€™s one sentence nod to job safety; OSHA in middle age; universal job stress The week that will be in safetyland 7.12.2010: Enterprise enforcement; BP cleanup safety; OSHA in the cross-hairs; Wal-Mart fights $7,000 fine The week that will be in safetyland 8.2.2010 â€“ OSHA reform fade out? Overview of OSHA activity The week that will be in safetyland 8.9.2010 â€“ OSHAâ€™s torrid pace; backdoor ergo enforcement? Top Ten Pitfalls in OSHA Recordkeeping and How to Avoid Them Study Guide for Alive and Well at the End of the Day: The Supervisor s Guide to Managing Safety in Operations Decision Point Associates Fenix Lighting	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2726
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For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The collapse of the Cypriot banking system in March and the introduction of tough fiscal measures to steady the country’s economy, took the shipping industry massively by surprise. But while the Limassol-based shipping industry backed up by the Nicosia government has been quick to proffer a message of business as usual, it has opened the door to the debate on Cyprus’ future and the potential for a possible successor to the Mediterranean island as a major shipmanagement cluster. According to a report by Ernst & Young, the island’s business credentials will remain largely unaffected by the crisis. “Despite the planned change in taxation, the favorable environment of Cyprus for the international businesses companies remains significantly unaffected”, it said. But while the country continues to promote its position as an attractive international centre, there are concerns, internally, that the situation was allowed to happen in the first place. And there are wider concerns about the overall viability of the Eurozone itself. Since the day the bank sector collapsed with Laiki Bank going bankrupt and Bank of Cyprus being restructured, the large shipping companies which operate and have bank accounts in other jurisdictions did not face that much problem in terms of cash flow. But the smaller players, who are Cyprus based, were in trouble. As far as the shipping industry was concerned there was panic, but this has been overcome and now people are concerned about the validity of the European Union. The European Union is not helping the shipping industry and it is very slow, and shipping has been drifting away from Europe because has not been reliable and acted badly and are moving towards Hong Kong and Singapore which are more user friendly. Mr Andreas Hadjipetrou, Deputy Managing Director of Columbia Shipmanagement, while being asked whether companies will start to move money out of Cyprus he quoted: “There is surely a risk that some of the companies conducting their banking here in Cyprus, but who were not doing it with the two main banks, would move money out of Cyprus. So, the banking sector would obviously shrink and would be affected by this change but the fact that local companies do have offices here and do employ qualified people out of Cyprus does not mean that they will close their businesses or will move out of Cyprus”. Mr Hadjipetrou is not concerned that Cyprus will shrink as a maritime centre although he believes it will be tough for the island to bounce back. He also believes that it will take some time to reach the same level as before. We should not forget that Cyprus is still an attractive location to do business and the country’s tax regime has not been significantly affected, since the 12.5% rate is still quite good, whereas the personal taxation remains better than most European countries. Cyprus is a country with a very nice climate and people do like to live here and taking into concern its small size and economy, it is easy to bring things back to where they were. According to Mr Thomas Kazakos, Director General of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, despite the imposition of the banking restriction after the banks reopened on 28thMarch shipping has been unaffected. Mr Philippos Philis, Chairman and CEO of Lemissoler Navigation, shared the same views by saying: “It is still the case that Cyprus is an attractive centre for shipping – there has been no impact at all. Because there is no impact even on money that was initially blocked, they have been released apart from those that we need to prove are client accounts but practically speaking all new money coming in is fully released. We are operating 100% uninterrupted.” The government has announced a number of undersecretary positions – one for shipping and one for tourism. Tourism is improving, Shipping is something they pay a lot of attention to and one of the primary tasks of the new undersecretary is to market the tonnage tax and attract more companies to relocate to Cyprus, according to Mr Philis. The government and fiscal authorities have sought to help shipping to operate without significant interruption and to preserve outside confidence in the industry. These restrictions are being reduced by the day. It is, however, now most imperative that all restrictions are lifted the soonest, and the shipping industry’s aim is to reduce to the least possible extent the exposure of shipping companies to the affected banks. Double Tax Treaty signed between Cyprus and Barbados President Anastasiades’s visit to India Cypriot passport ranks among the strongest in the world India Imposes 30% Temporary Withholding Tax on Cyprus Transactions – 8 April 2014 Cyprus Interested in Receiving Investments from EBRD-February 5th, 2013 Costas Indianos & Co, Diagorou 4, Kermia House Corporate & Shipping Department, 2nd Floor – Office 204 Litigation Department, 6th Floor – Offices 601 & 602 1097 Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus CY 1510 Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus © 2018 Copyright Costas Indianos & Co \| Developed by Embio Diagnostics \| Disclaimer \| Privacy Policy \| Privacy Statement The materials included in this website do not constitute legal opinion or advice, they are to be used in an informative manner, and do not engage the Law Firm Costas Indianos & Co into a professional relationship with its user, neither does any message sent to the Law Firm via this website. 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__label__cc	0.740189	0.259811	Induswomanwriting.com As You Say IWW Blog Famous Writers Earn Online Income Diary Writing For Illustrators Writers Quotes Inspirational Writing Quotes by Ratnika Singh (Karaikal, Puducherry, India) The Bliss skyline looked glorious from so high up. Standing on top of one of the tallest skyscrapers Mist gazed at his city, his home. The night sky glittered like a diamond tiara on one of those wealthy black heads. The city lights couldn’t overpower the natural glitz of the universe this high up. The sight of what he thought to be heaven, calmed him, soothed his mind, but total peace still eluded him. His black shirt felt too tight even though the top two buttons were open. The breeze made it flutter around him and still it felt somehow restricting and he itched to discard it. He sighed. Even his usual escape wasn’t working these days. The desire to fly away and leave everything behind was strong today. He closed his eyes and let his head fall back as he took in a deep breath. A strong gust of wind made his electric blue hair blow up in his angular face. He opened his eyes and straightened again. His steel grey eyes sparkled with determination. Pushing his bangs roughly back, he turned around to walk back to the world, a world that quite literally awaited him. As he entered through the double glass doors, people turned and stared. Mist sighed again, “This never gets old.” He straightened his spine and put his hands back in his jeans pocket. If they wanted to look, he would give them a damn show! His trademark smirk in place, he swaggered into the hall as if he owned the place. Hell, he actually did own this place, along with hundreds of others in the city. Being the top honcho of the building business had its perks. Being the face of the night clubs and parties around the city and the most sought after bachelor of the city were a few of them. It was usual for Mist to be the centre of attention. He was used to the eyes turning in his direction, some with envy, some with admiration and a lot with desire. Nobody saw his inner turmoil; his outer appearance was all they knew about him. His entry had raised the standard of the party up a few notches already. He lazily strolled towards the bar. The sea of people parted for him and a path cleared automatically. As soon as he reached the bar, the sassy bartender moved towards him, sashaying her hips and with a seductive smile on her purple colored lips. “And what may I get for you tonight sir?” she slurred to him. Obviously she had been smuggling a few drinks for herself the entire night. He grinned and said “Shots.”. He needed to get wasted tonight. That alone would clear his damn mind when it was in a state like this. Tomorrow was the day he had waited for this whole time and now that it was here, he didn’t know if he had the courage to do what he wanted. So for now, he needed his mind to empty out. Keeping his inner demons at bay, he almost inhaled the shots as soon as the over clingy bartender kept them in front of him. With the drinks inside, he began to notice his surroundings. The neon blue decorations and the dark red corners of the club looked exciting. He noticed Charlie’s Angels playing the music from the band corner. Next his gaze snapped on to the redhead approaching him from the right. Dressed in a black sequined fitting mini dress with her long red hair lying in contrasting waves along her back, she looked like a dream, a vision. This is why he loved getting drunk. It made him let go and relax. It gave a dreamlike quality to all that was hauntingly real. He smirked towards her in invitation. “Wanna dance?” she whispered against his ears. “Sure.” He said as he led her onto the dance floor. The silver disco ball cast shadows and then weird shaped light over them as they moved to the beats. He knew she tried to talk to him but he ignored her. He wasn’t in the mood for conversation. He had no idea who he was dancing with and he didn’t care. Sometimes oblivion was bliss and tonight he just needed to let everything go. Mist woke up the next day with one hell of a hangover. As he lay on his king size bed in his penthouse facing the Shaun river, he tried to remember what he could of last night. There wasn’t much to remember anyway. The night passed as it usually did for him. God, he was tired of this life. He wished he could find some meaning, some purpose behind this pointless existence, well, apart from the one he already had which would most definitely lead to his doom. The need to escape for good and let everything go was so strong that it was almost a physical pain now. He grumbled as he got up and prepared for his day ahead. His movements were slow and sluggish courtesy of the head splitting headache he was harboring. Getting drunk hadn’t worked. His dreaded day was still here and he was still painfully aware of this fact and all his surroundings. It happened as he was knotting his tie. The flashback was so strong that it almost made him stagger backwards. He saw her so clearly for a moment, tying his first tie ever, that he raised his hand to hold her once more. But then the vision vanished. He still remembered that day with vivid clarity though. He wasn’t rich or famous or the guy every girl wanted then. He was nobody and she still loved him more than life itself. Zen, her name still made him shiver. As he thought of his last day with her, he could easily remember her fingers trailing down his arms, her lips and her smile which could make his days brighter, her bubblegum pink hair that shone under the sun and felt like wisps of cloud between his fingers. But then he could also remember how her still body had felt in his hands and how her warm blood had felt flowing through his fingers this same day 3 years back. An earth shattering shiver wracked his core and he fell on the lush carpet. Clutching his head in his hands he desperately hung on as nerve wrecking sobs after sobs burst out from him. After all these years, it was still the same, the pain still hurt as new and the raw wound on his heart still bled. An entire day with his staffs and business partners squabbling over market prices and property taxes did nothing to calm his nerves. He missed her and there was no avoiding the fact. He could wait no longer. Tonight was the night, and he knew this in the depths of his very being. As soon as evening drifted into the night he escaped to his favorite destination, the roof on the skyscraper. It had started three years ago on this very night. As he saw Zen change, he knew things had turned forever and it would never be the same again. He also knew that the Rulers would go to any length to keep their secrets buried. So, he had dreaded this moment from the day he had held her limp body in his arms and watched her last breath shudder through her body. The laser shots in her body had never been explained but he knew the truth. As he let the high wind whip his over-shirt across his body he let the truth sink in again. They weren’t going to keep him a prisoner in his own body anymore. Tonight he wanted to do this. Tonight he was getting back his freedom one way or another. He had waited a long while to gather the courage for this. Now he knew that the longer he lingered the weaker he became. He knew that this may be his last time up here and what he was about to do was one hell of a risk, but if it got him closer to Zen he was ready to do it. With a slow and painful breath he climbed on top of the railing lining the roof. A moment later he was on the other side of the railing and holding on to it with one hand. It was time to accept his true nature and he was prepared, societal norms be damned. He inhaled and as he exhaled, he let his grip loose. 126 floors up. Gravity did the rest of the job and pulled him downwards. His hair whipping upwards, he felt at peace for the first time in life. 85 floors up. He closed his eyes and let go. With a rush like no other, power zinged through his veins. With a cry of torn cloths his shirt ripped off his back. Two glorious wings unfurled from beneath his skin and his body jerked in mid-air. With a wingspan of about 6 meters across, his body easily reversed course and swooped back up in the air. Nobody could stop him from being himself again. He opened his eyes and for the first time in Bliss, he truly understood what it meant to be in bliss. For the very first time in three years he grinned with true joy in his heart. Now he knew how Zen must have felt. The first laser shot pierced straight through his heart. The second shot ripped through his right half. He still grinned. He now knew exactly how Zen felt in her last moments. His wings had retracted back. For the Rulers he was back to normal again, in his heart there hadn’t been a more bitter lie. After feeling real for the first time, the absence of his wings felt all kinds of abnormal to him. He didn’t mind. He was finally going to find peace. The city’s golden boy was going down. He wondered how they would explain this. 5 floors up. He looked at the five moons in the sky for the last time. They were forming a perfect heart in the sky today. It happened only once in every 17 years. His timing was right. He would finally find his one true love on the Eve of Love. He closed his eyes, the smile still in place. 1 floor up. Zen was waiting for him and he had no plans to linger here anymore. Peace held him with the loving arms of a lover. Mist could finally let go. Comments for Letting Go by: vimala ramu Author has the gift of deep insight combined with a wonderful vocabulary making the narration a delightful one. great one ... keep writing by: krithikha u very good work ... very different from your earlier stories... Awesome.. by: Deepak Highly descriptive. Each line is a picture in mind. Had to look up the dictionary for a few words. Awesome indeed. Waiting for more to come.. nice job.. Keep writing.. :) by: risuv Description was lucid,whatever it may be, the railing commotion , the hazy memories of bar or the drift in whatever he recalled of her and finally his desire for fall... 'Letting go' was all apt and distinct, and has a mark of impression. by: Sweta Beautifully weaved thoughts.. by: Shama Khalid Wel it was good!! Rattuu mar kyu diya us bichare ko ek gae toh dusre aa jati ti na......;) for the third one in the series... by: Nithya superb imagination rats! good work! by: Priyaa Trippayar Sahasranaman Great piece !! 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__label__wiki	0.938131	0.938131	Myles Turner questionable for Pacers opener with ankle injury The lottery pick rolled his ankle Monday, according to coach Frank Vogel, and may miss Wednesday's game at Toronto Myles Turner questionable for Pacers opener with ankle injury The lottery pick rolled his ankle Monday, according to coach Frank Vogel, and may miss Wednesday's game at Toronto Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://indy.st/1N65Fym Nate Taylor, IndyStar Published 3:35 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2015 \| Updated 6:08 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2015 The Indiana Pacers' top draft pick Myles Turner, 11th overall, works out in practice on the first of three days of the Pacers' rookie/free agent camp that got underway on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 on the practice court at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.(Photo: Charlie Nye / The Star, Charlie Nye / The Star) Myles Turner, the Indiana Pacers’ lottery-pick rookie, sustained another minor injury Monday, according to coach Frank Vogel. After Tuesday's brief practice, Vogel listed Turner as questionable for Wednesday’s opener in Toronto due to landing on a teammate's foot and rolling his ankle the previous day. If Turner plays, Vogel said, he could use his 6-11 backup center for up to 20 minutes if his performance is strong and his body cooperates. Turner was limited in Tuesday’s practice and did not speak with reporters. “He’s questionable, and we’re hopeful that he plays,” Vogel said. Turner has dealt with three injuries during training camp. His participation was limited during the start of camp and he did not play in the five-on-five scrimmages because of knee soreness. He missed the exhibition against the Chicago Bulls last week after he strained his left calf in a practice. Doyel: This is not the same Ian Mahinmi Through those first two setbacks, Turner did not sound concerned about his health at any point. He promised to play in the Pacers’ final preseason game in Fort Wayne, and scored seven points and grabbed eight rebounds against the Charlotte Hornets. Then he rolled his ankle Monday. With each day the past month, Vogel and athletic trainer Josh Corbeil have tried to not push Turner too much, to not put much stress on his precious knees. Even with all the precautions, it is now possible that Turner could start his NBA career by missing the Pacers’ season opener. Glenn Robinson III, who had an impressive preseason, is also questionable for Wednesday’s game with a sore right shoulder. That injury, which the Pacers hope is also minor, occurred during Friday’s practice. Vogel said Monday that Robinson III could be in his 10-man rotation if he continues to play well in the regular season. Call Star reporter Nate Taylor at (317) 444-6484. Follow him on Twitter: @ByNateTaylor.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2731
__label__cc	0.592312	0.407688	Tags: Innovation, Optical, Submarine Toward a Petabit Trans-Atlantic Submarine Cable By Geoff Bennett Director, Solutions & Technology Last week, I had the opportunity to moderate a Light Reading webinar on the topic of “The Race for Capacity: Space-division Multiplexing in Next-generation Submarine Cables.” A replay of the webinar is now available. Our guest speakers were Dr. Steve Grubb, Global Optical Architect for Facebook; Dr. Sergei Makovejs, who heads up submarine optical fiber development at Corning; and Dr. Pierre Mertz, one of Infinera’s submarine transponder gurus. The three speakers were able to cover all four major areas of the topic. First, why is demand in the submarine market so high? Second, what are the capacity limitations on today’s highly advanced submarine cables like the trans-Atlantic MAREA cable? This section introduced a new submarine cable architecture known as space-division multiplexing (SDM). Third, what are the developments in the next generations of submarine transponder design that will allow SDM cables to maximize transmission capacity? Then the final section looked at the evolution of SDM toward trans-Atlantic cables that could potentially carry a petabit per second of capacity in the future. For those of you not familiar with SDM, the idea is as follows. Cables like MAREA represent the pinnacle of submarine fiber quality today – using advanced large-area, positive-dispersion fibers, and with somewhat shorter spacing between the in-line amplifiers. These design decisions enable record-breaking deployed capacity (in contrast to field trial capacity) over MAREA using Infinera’s fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4) technology. In fact, the features that enable this level of fiber pair capacity were covered in a previous Light Reading webinar, a replay of which is also available. However, while the capacity per fiber pair in MAREA may be at record levels because of the type of fiber and high amplifier power levels, the amplifier power budget acts a limit on the number of fiber pairs in the cable – which is eight pairs for MAREA. A future SDM cable would deliberately operate the amp chain at a lower power level so that more fiber pairs could be deployed in the cable. While the capacity in each fiber pair would be somewhat lower than a MAREA-style pair, this would be more than made up for by the larger number of pairs in the cable. If I were to summarize SDM in one line, it would be: Take a small hit on the capacity per fiber pair in order to achieve a much bigger increase in the total cable capacity While Steve Grubb explained the sort of traffic types Facebook would expect to drive the need for this capacity increase, Sergei covered the mathematics behind SDM, and also speculated on the fact that at lower amplifier power levels, it would be possible to use smaller effective area fibers, which would reduce the cost of the cable. In his second section, Steve also pointed out that future SDM architectures might swap a copper electrical conductor for one made from aluminium, which would offer certain technical advantages and would be significantly cheaper in terms of the cost of the metal itself. Pierre explained that within this new lower optical power environment, really effective probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) would be one of the major factors in delivering optimal performance, and I recently wrote a blog about the need for long codewords in a high-efficiency PCS implantation. We had some interesting questions from the audience, and one thing I’m looking forward to as we look toward 2020 is that more interesting technologies will be in lab and field trial demonstrations to show how we can genuinely move toward the petabit era in the submarine cable systems of the future.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2732
__label__wiki	0.853322	0.853322	Wood director switches firms to head Aberdeen firm's operation Down Under Paul McCarthy is named Enermech's regional director for Australasia Hamish Burns Paul McCarthy is Enermech's new director for Australasia Aberdeen-based engineering group EnerMech has appointed Paul McCarthy as its new regional director for Australasia. McCarthy moves from Wood PLC , the Aberdeen where he was APAC operations and maintenance director.He has more than 30 years' experience in leadership roles in the energy, resources, defence and infrastructure sectors. EnerMech names new CEO to replace founder Doug Duguid He will aim to extending Enermech's footprint in Australia's infrastructure sector after the Australian government committed to spend $10 billion on road and railways, while strengthening the business's operations in LNG and oil and gas industries. He said: "The Australian LNG sector is entering the next phase where major plants are enhancing capacity through brownfield projects improvements, maintenance and shutdown optimisation. We have worked across all of the LNG facilities and have strong relationships with the operators and main contractors and this puts us in a strong position to be at the centre of this new cycle of investment." Aberdeen energy explorer's share price doubles after Australia gas discovery EnerMech has completed mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) projects on major road and tunnel networks in New South Wales and has similar projects ongoing. It employs 700 staff in Australia and has bases in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Gladstone and Chinchilla. McCarthy added: "We have a proven track record of delivering integrated services on large scale transportation and oil and gas projects. As the infrastructure and oil and gas sectors move to the next phase of significant investment, my objective is to demonstrate how EnerMech's nimble and flexible approach will provide high quality and efficient services benefitting the end user with cost and asset performance benefits." Strong US energy sector helps Wood get ahead EnerMech has 3,500 staff across 40 locations in the UK, Norway, the Middle East, Caspian, Asia, Africa, Australia and Americas. Chief executive John Guy added: "Australasia has been the fastest growing region in EnerMech's global operations and under the stewardship of Paul McCarthy I am confident that our presence will continue to flourish and we will become established as the go-to company for integrated services of the energy, infrastructure, resources, mining and minerals sectors." Banking & FinanceHampden & Co recruits former Scottish Building Society chiefMark Thomson promises individual approach as head of credit at Edinburgh boutique bank DigitalTech veteran joins board of Investing WomenFormer MGt and McLaren Software exec Rhona Campbell steps up involvement	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2737
__label__cc	0.500487	0.499513	® 8 days in New York City Itinerary 8 days in New York City Itinerary Created using Inspirock New York City trip itinerary builder Writer Pearl Buck once called New York City “a place apart,” and this giant urban center remains unlike any other in the world. Popular historic sites such as 9/11 Memorial and Hamilton Grange National Memorial are in your itinerary. Let the collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History capture your imagination. Explore the numerous day-trip ideas around New York City: Minnewaska State Park Preserve (in Kerhonkson), Schunnemunk State Park (in New Windsor) and Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (in Oceanville). And it doesn't end there: take a stroll through Times Square, take in the architecture and atmosphere at St. Patrick's Cathedral, explore the landscape on two wheels at East River Waterfront Esplanade, and take a memorable tour with Tours. To see where to stay, photos, traveler tips, and other tourist information, you can read our New York City travel planner. If you are flying in from Bangladesh, the closest major airports are La Guardia Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and John F Kennedy International Airport. Expect a daytime high around 10°C in December, and nighttime lows around 2°C. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 12th (Thu) early enough to travel back home. Parks Museums Outdoors Philadelphia, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Schunnemunk State Park, Minnewaska State Park Preserve Find places to stay Dec 5 — 12: 12:00pm, Thu Dec 5 4:30pm, Thu Dec 5 10:00am, Fri Dec 6 10 days in New York City BY A USER FROM COLOMBIA December, teens, kids, culture, outdoors, historic sites, museums, shopping, wildlife, slow & easy, popular sights PREFERENCES: December, teens, kids, culture, outdoors, historic sites, museums, shopping, wildlife ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular sights PACE: Slow & easy 9 days in New York City BY A USER FROM COLOMBIA January, kids, culture, historic sites, museums, shopping, popular sights PREFERENCES: January, kids, culture, historic sites, museums, shopping ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular sights PACE: Medium 10 days in New York City BY A USER FROM COLOMBIA January, kids, culture, historic sites, museums, shopping, popular sights PREFERENCES: January, kids, culture, historic sites, museums, shopping ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular sights PACE: Medium 9 days in New York City BY A USER FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC December, fast-paced, popular & hidden gems PREFERENCES: December ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular & hidden gems PACE: Fast-paced 11 days in New York City BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA June, kids, culture, outdoors, relaxing, romantic, beaches, historic sites, museums, shopping, wildlife, popular & hidden gems PREFERENCES: June, kids, culture, outdoors, relaxing, romantic, beaches, historic sites, museums, shopping, wildlife ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular & hidden gems PACE: Medium 11 days in New York City & Washington DC BY A USER FROM UNITED ARAB EMIRATES October, culture, outdoors, relaxing, beaches, shopping, wildlife, popular & hidden gems PREFERENCES: October, culture, outdoors, relaxing, beaches, shopping, wildlife ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular & hidden gems PACE: Medium 12 days in United States BY A USER FROM ITALY December, kids, culture, outdoors, historic sites, museums, shopping, popular sights PREFERENCES: December, kids, culture, outdoors, historic sites, museums, shopping ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular sights PACE: Medium 9 days in New York City BY A USER FROM PANAMA December, teens, kids, popular sights PREFERENCES: December, teens, kids ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular sights PACE: Medium 9 days in New York City BY A USER FROM THAILAND December, slow & easy, popular & hidden gems PREFERENCES: December ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular & hidden gems PACE: Slow & easy 12 days in New York City BY A USER FROM AUSTRALIA November, teens, popular & hidden gems PREFERENCES: November, teens ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular & hidden gems PACE: Medium 12 days in New York City BY A USER FROM THAILAND January, kids, popular sights PREFERENCES: January, kids ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular sights PACE: Medium 11 days in New York City BY A USER FROM THAILAND January, kids, popular sights PREFERENCES: January, kids ATTRACTION STYLE: Popular sights PACE: Medium The Most Interesting Historical Places in New York City The Best Museums in New York City The Most Relaxing Things to Do in New York City The Best City Tours in New York City	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2738
__label__cc	0.632932	0.367068	Dixie Davis: Program Coordinator Senior Celebration 2018-2019 Closing Program 2018-2019 College of Integrated Science and Technology 2018-2019 College of Health and Behavioral Sciences 2018-2019 Shark Tank 2018-2019 Team Building 2018-2019 Opening Program 2018-2019 College of Inegrated Science and Engineering 2017-2018 Community Service Day 2017-2018 Family Day 2017-2018 Educational Day 2017-2018 Forbes House 2017-2018 Opening Ceremony 2017-2018 Closing Ceremony 2016-2017 Our Graduates' Stories Student success resources College planning resources Financial resources/ Scholarships Job and internship resources Additional JMU resources Support Valley Scholars Current friends and supporters davisds@jmu.edu Dixie Davis was born and raised in Elkton, Virginia located in the eastern part of Rockingham County. She attended Rockingham County Public School system and was the first in a family of 10 children to attend college. Her undergraduate and master’s studies were from James Madison University earning degrees in elementary education and education administration. Davis earned a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University. Her passion lies in supporting and preparing disadvantaged first generation students for college. Being a disadvantaged first generation student, Davis is dedicated to using her life story and hard work to break barriers and cycles for first generation college students. In her educational career, Davis has taught several grades levels and subjects at the elementary and middle schools. For her first teaching assignment, Davis returned to the elementary school she attend, Elkton Elementary teaching 5th grade. After many years of teaching, Davis moved into leadership roles serving at the district and building levels. Davis has been an assistant principal and principal at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Additionally, she has taught courses for Shenandoah University in the Department of Education. Davis resides in Harrisonburg, Virginia with her husband, Tom. She has two children: Charity and Kris and five grandchildren: Devon, Mikayla, Noah, Dean and Maddie. She enjoys spending time with her family, knitting, quilting and watching the Redskins, Cavaliers and JMU DUKES!!! Valley Scholars Program valleyscholars@jmu.edu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2745
__label__wiki	0.774635	0.774635	MS Dhoni not retiring, confirms MSK Prasad New Delhi [India], Sept 12 (ANI): The speculations regarding MS Dhoni's retirement were put to rest on Thursday with chief selector MSK Prasad saying that there was no update on the 38-year-old wicket-keeper batsman bidding adieu to cricket. Prasad on Thursday announced the India squad for the Test series against South Africa at a press conference here. When he was asked if there was any update on Dhoni's retirement, Prasad said: "No, absolutely not. I am really surprised to hear that."A deluge of speculations emerged after India skipper Virat Kohli shared his image along with Dhoni on Twitter. Kohli captioned the image as "A game I can never forget. Special night. This man, made me run like in a fitness test @msdhoni."In the Test squad, KL Rahul has failed to find a spot while Shubman Gill has been named in the squad. Prasad said that Gill has done well in both the positions as an opener and a middle-order batsman. "Shubman Gill has done well in both positions as an opener and middle order, so he can be a back up in both the slots," he said. India's squad for three Tests: Virat Kohli (Captain), Mayank Agarwal, Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (Wicket-keeper), Wriddhiman Saha (Wicket-keeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Shubman Gill. The first Test match between India and South Africa will begin on October 2. (ANI) Huge West Coast wind farm approved Selection chief: Faf still has ODI future, Rabada rested Foreign investment in Brazil jumps by 25%	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2747
__label__wiki	0.593133	0.593133	Displaying items by tag: Federal Government Telstra delivers 500th mobile black spot base station, 100 million calls and 5000TB of data Telstra is making it easy for its customers in former black spot areas to make calls, with over 100 million made from those locations, so Chuckie's cry of "why didn't you call" can't be because you didn't have mobile service. Industry and consumer groups attack govt proposal to replace TIO Government proposals for changes to the rules for resolving telecommunications consumer complaints have drawn strong concerns from telecoms industry bodies – including concerns over the formation of a new External Dispute Resolution body to replace the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Friday, 15 June 2018 06:19 Canberra 'fine' with WA rail deal going to Huawei Federal Government agencies have told the Western Australian Government that they are not fazed by the fact that Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Telecommunications is very likely to win a $120 million Perth Transport Authority contract.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2750
__label__wiki	0.791404	0.791404	Storm brings snow to Sierra, raises skiers' hopes Updated: 3:47 PM PST Nov 9, 2012 A storm has left up to 18 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada and raised the hopes of skiers and snowboarders after a subpar snowpack last winter.Frigid temperatures also have allowed ski resorts to crank up snow-making machines in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday period.Mammoth Mountain Resort, just east of Yosemite National Park, reported Friday that the storm brought 6 to 12 inches of snow. It was the only resort open in California on Friday, a day after it began operations for the season with some 1,000 skiers and snowboarders on the slopes."Snow brings them out of the woodwork," Mammoth spokeswoman Joani Lynch said. "It's very nice to have an addition of natural snow for our opening this year, and it looks like it's setting up for a real nice Thanksgiving."Boreal Mountain Resort, atop Donner Summit north of Lake Tahoe, plans to resume daily operations Saturday afternoon after receiving 8 inches of new snow. It opened for six days beginning on Oct. 26, then suspended operations due to a lack of snow."With this storm we hope to be up and running for the season," Boreal spokesman Jon Slaughter said, adding it was lightly snowing Friday afternoon with the resort's snow guns going at full capacity.Northstar California resort, just north of Tahoe, reported 8 to 18 inches of new snow, while Heavenly on Tahoe's south shore received 8 to 14 inches of snow. Both resorts plan to open Nov. 16.Just north of Tahoe, the storm brought a foot of snow to both the Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows resorts. Squaw is set to open Nov. 21 and Alpine Meadows Dec. 7.The snowfall caused slow going over the Sierra as tire chains were required Friday afternoon on all vehicles except four-wheel drives on Interstate 80 over Donner Summit and State Route 88 over Carson Pass. Similar controls were in effect on other highways in the Sierra. A storm has left up to 18 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada and raised the hopes of skiers and snowboarders after a subpar snowpack last winter. Frigid temperatures also have allowed ski resorts to crank up snow-making machines in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday period. Mammoth Mountain Resort, just east of Yosemite National Park, reported Friday that the storm brought 6 to 12 inches of snow. It was the only resort open in California on Friday, a day after it began operations for the season with some 1,000 skiers and snowboarders on the slopes. "Snow brings them out of the woodwork," Mammoth spokeswoman Joani Lynch said. "It's very nice to have an addition of natural snow for our opening this year, and it looks like it's setting up for a real nice Thanksgiving." Boreal Mountain Resort, atop Donner Summit north of Lake Tahoe, plans to resume daily operations Saturday afternoon after receiving 8 inches of new snow. It opened for six days beginning on Oct. 26, then suspended operations due to a lack of snow. "With this storm we hope to be up and running for the season," Boreal spokesman Jon Slaughter said, adding it was lightly snowing Friday afternoon with the resort's snow guns going at full capacity. Northstar California resort, just north of Tahoe, reported 8 to 18 inches of new snow, while Heavenly on Tahoe's south shore received 8 to 14 inches of snow. Both resorts plan to open Nov. 16. Just north of Tahoe, the storm brought a foot of snow to both the Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows resorts. Squaw is set to open Nov. 21 and Alpine Meadows Dec. 7. The snowfall caused slow going over the Sierra as tire chains were required Friday afternoon on all vehicles except four-wheel drives on Interstate 80 over Donner Summit and State Route 88 over Carson Pass. Similar controls were in effect on other highways in the Sierra.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2755
__label__wiki	0.560018	0.560018	Irene Country Club to host Davis Cup tie against Luxembourg Generic image NATIONAL NEWS - It was no surprise when Tennis SA (TSA) announced on Tuesday they had opted for a high altitude venue for their forthcoming Davis Cup by BNP Euro Africa Group 2 round 1 tie vs Luxembourg. The Irene Country Club in the City of Tshwane was once again named by TSA as the preferred venue for the tie to be played next month from March 4-6. A medium to fast hard court will be laid for the tie. This is the first time South Africa and Luxembourg will meet in Davis Cup competition and it will be the first time newly appointed South African Davis Cup Captain, Marcos Ondruska will lead his country. Last year South Africa went up against Ireland in the Euro/Africa Relegation play-offs also staged in Centurion at the Irene Country Club where South Africa romped past Ireland 5-0 and avoided relegation to Group 1. Fritz Wolmarans and Tucker Vorster won a couple of tight four-setters on the opening day to give the hosts a handy 2-0 lead. Then Dean O’Brien and Ruan Roelofse combined in the doubles contest to seal the tie. Vorster and Roelofse added to Ireland’s misery, by triumphing in the Sunday reverse singles too. Luxembourg in 2015 got no joy when they drew Bulgaria. Bulgaria took the tie 5-0 meaning Luxembourg remains in group 2 for 2016. Luxembourg’s best performances in the Davis Cup competition have been reaching the Europe/Africa Zone Group I second round, which they achieved in 1993, 2003, 2004 and 2006. Irene has played host to three Davis Cup ties over the past two years. South Africa won the ties versus Monaco and Ireland but lost closely to Lithuania making it a happy hunting ground for the hosts. Tie Director, Clark Coetzee said that the success of hosting the Davis Cup at Irene Country Club over the past two years made the choice easy. “TSA enjoys a sound working relationship with Irene Country Club and our players have always given the club and the crowd support it attracts the thumbs-up,” said Coetzee. Tickets are available at R100 per person and at R250 for a season ticket via Webtickets.co.za and Pick n Pay stores. Source: African News Agency (ANA) Read more about: Irene Country Club to host Davis Cup tie against Luxembourg Posted on: 08:14 Wed, 10 February 2016 Den_B Hopeless_Romanti_889 I'm a 29 year old man looking to meet women between the ages of 18 and 100. Pammy28 I'm a 29 year old woman looking to meet men between the ages of 29 and 100. GannaS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2756
__label__wiki	0.89364	0.89364	KHJBrand Activation MENU KHJ Today Franciscan Children’s Redefining media. Reimagining storytelling. When KHJ wanted to tell the Franciscan Children’s story in an impactful, attention-grabbing way, we inspired the city’s premiere storyteller to partner with us on developing an innovative program and campaign. Following our rebrand of Franciscan Children’s in 2016, they had a strong brand identity, positioning and tagline. After an engaging internal launch, the next step was to launch the brand externally and generate brand awareness. We knew Franciscan Children’s was brimming with stories of amazing kids just begging to be told. But how could we bring these stories to life in the most impactful way? Our solution was to reach out to BG BrandLab (BGB) – the Boston Globe’s content marketing studio – to engage them in partnering with us to create a dynamic multi-media campaign around these captivating stories. BGB was both moved by Franciscan’s mission and excited at the opportunity to help out. Through close collaboration, we arrived at an exciting, multi-pronged program that would make maximum impact. “…with stories of amazing kids just begging to be told.” Our program enlisted music therapy students from Berklee College of Music to interact with some of the kids at Franciscan’s and co-create songs inspired by the children’s achievements. The campaign also leveraged a comic book artist who created superheroes based on kids at Franciscan’s. The music and illustrations helped bring our stories to life in charming, unexpected ways, and were unveiled through a series of heart-warming articles, videos, and digital banners on the Boston Globe online. “We wanted to rethink how we work with media to tell the Franciscan Children’s story. BG BrandLab rose to the challenge.” Judy Habib, CEO, KHJ Brand Activation In the first four months, the series engaged over 350,000 people, who spent over six minutes on average reading each story. Plus, traffic to Franciscan Children’s website increased 198%. Together with the Globe, we found ways to stretch a modest media budget and multiply its impact through powerful storytelling. About KHJ 155 Seaport Blvd. info@khj.com This website uses cookies for improvement of quality and user experience. By continuing to use the site, you confirm your awareness and acceptance of our use of cookies. For more information, see our privacy policy.Ok	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2764
__label__cc	0.678834	0.321166	Will Pankaj Singh ever get a Test wicket? Luckless at the Rose Bowl, mediocre at Old Trafford, Pankaj Singh has thus far found two ways to avoid taking a Test wicket. Our worry is that two will prove enough; that he’ll fail to take a wicket in this match and will never return to the team. It’s become a ‘thing’ now. People talk about how many balls he’s bowled without success. “Oh, Pankaj!” they cry as another impassioned appeal peters out, unfulfilled. We’ll be at Old Trafford today and we’ll be delighted if Pankaj gets that first wicket. If he gets a second, we’ll be nonplussed. A third and we’ll basically hate him. Muttiah Muralitharan’s 709th Test wicket R Ashwin learns from Harbhajan Singh Anil Kumble retires as India’s top Test wicket taker August 9, 2014 / King Cricket / 20 appeals England cricket news, India cricket news Stuart Broad isn’t who you think he is India unveil a new breed of collapse It’s the way that Jonathan Agnew says “Pankaj” in that rumbling tone of voice as he rushes in to bowl. The only time I came across the name Pankaj before, was at a client of mine 25+ years ago. A gentleman who worked in the accounts department was named Pankaj. He liked to be known as Mr Pankaj, even though Pankaj was his first name. Mr Pankaj was also a rather luckless fellow. When the commentators refer to Pankaj, it often pops into my head, “shouldn’t they say Mr Pankaj?” …and within moments of me typing the above comment, Dhoni brings on Mr Pankaj and he gets a wicket with a leg side strangle. I think I’ll refer to him as “Lucky Mr Pankaj” from now on. Mr. Agnew was so overjoyed. Heartening to hear. Nonplussed it is then. No effing around there at least I hope you enjoyed yourself KC. A mate of mine has tickets for tomorrow – I’d like you to have his email so as you can send him a long description of how good it was. A P Webster I had tickets for tomorrow. At least now I can have a lie in, and don’t have to spend a whole day waiting for the inevitable announcement of play being called off. Plus, England won. Well well. I don’t know if anyone here has read Ed Hawkins’ ‘Bookie, Gambler, Fixer, Spy’, but if you have it’s hard to watch a collapse like that without at least a hint of suspicion. Let’s hope it was all genuine. Oh no, let’s not go there, Sam. I didn’t go there. I just took a glance down the street that leads there before continuing on my way. If it turns out there was something down that road, you heard it here first. shut up sam i was having a nice day KC, you must have had an amazing day. I’m really pleased for you. Pankaj’s batting is a joy to behold. Only trouble is, if you blink you might miss it. Since the cricket is rather depressing, I present you this nice piece of news: https://twitter.com/AndrewBloch/status/497736397638631425 Meanwhile … Well at least the ‘Playgue of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ managed to climb 2 spots overall despite having only being ranked 117 this test. Something to cheer about. I ranked in the 70s for this test, and I’m still two places ahead of p = mv overall. Ha! (I’m not struggling to catch up, I’m just conserving my momentum…) We’ve got three slots in the first eleven now, plus Bowljob taking second place overall in the fourth test. I just want to see one of us disrupt that awful alliteration at the top of the table. Oh wow, that is terrible. I agree that something must be done. …Fancy actually doing something, Che-Pu? lbking I was mildly startled to find myself up so high. It is the first time I got 11 players playing but then 2 of them weren’t playing by the end. I’m a bit disappointed that I don’t get one of those bracelets though because my feet hurt today. Generally, if India played Varun Aaron, Praveen Kumar and future Amit Mishra, they would have one of the better bowling attacks. They would have the worst bowling captain. Michael Clarke can be excused because he doesn’t have any bowlers. This is because people have not been finding the new Shane Warne and have instead been finding many types of bowlers. “Future Amit Mishra”? Can England play “past Headley Verity” in exchange? Yuvraj Singh in one-day cricket this summer Victory for a city in the summer Ball tampering: England must try harder Cricinfo’s new home page looks really amateur How Jacques Kallis broke Vernon Philander	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2767
__label__cc	0.647949	0.352051	Free Stamping Resource Library! Creative Escape Stamp Set of the Month and Card Kit in the Mail! Karina's Kreations Reward Program! Krafting Crew Team! Last Chance for FREE Ink Pads! Do you love a great deal? Tomorrow is end of the FREE Ink Pad special. Choose a color family for FREE which are 10 ink pads along with the starter kit. The starter kit is $135.00 and you get $165.00 in product and pay no shipping or GST. Another perk is being able to order from the new holiday catalog on August 1. One month before customers. Plus you will save 20% on your order. Isn't that a great deal!!! Click this link to get your starter kit! Here's a sneak peek of three bundles from the upcoming catalog. This bundle is called Falling for Leaves. Posted by Karina at 8:53 AM My name is Karina and I want to welcome you to my blog. I have been a Stampin'Up demonstrator for 12 years and love every minute of it. I've been lucky to make many new friendships through stamping. Come join me in one of my classes if you live in the Edmonton area or take an online class. If you love stamping, come join my Krafting Crew group and save on all your purchases. Thanks for looking at my blog. Blog Archive January (16) December (26) November (26) October (22) September (22) August (25) July (25) June (22) May (27) April (27) March (26) February (26) January (30) December (30) November (29) October (30) September (26) August (30) July (28) June (28) May (30) April (29) March (28) February (26) January (26) December (24) November (21) October (22) September (24) August (27) July (29) June (27) May (32) April (28) March (28) February (28) January (29) December (31) November (30) October (29) September (26) August (29) July (22) June (26) May (30) April (30) March (31) February (29) January (31) December (30) November (30) October (30) September (30) August (29) July (30) June (29) May (30) April (29) March (30) February (28) January (31) December (31) November (30) October (31) September (30) August (31) July (30) June (30) May (31) April (30) March (31) February (28) January (31) December (31) November (30) October (29) September (30) August (30) July (31) June (30) May (31) April (34) March (31) February (27) January (36) December (32) November (30) October (32) September (29) August (30) July (31) June (30) May (31) April (30) March (31) February (29) January (31) December (31) November (30) October (31) September (31) August (31) July (31) June (30) May (31) April (30) March (31) February (25) January (24) December (15) November (9) October (14) September (13) August (15) July (12) June (11) May (17) April (17) March (18) February (13) January (18) December (18) November (21) October (21) September (22) August (24) July (9) Karina Chin Stampin'Up Demonstrator THIS IS MY PERSONAL BLOG Karina Chin, Independent Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, I am responsible for its content. Stampin' Up! does not endorse the use of or contents of the classes, services, or non-Stampin' Up! products I may offer here. Images © Stampin’ Up! Home Shop Online Events Specials Catalogs Join Stampin' Up! Contact Me Karina's Kreations © 2013 • All Rights Reserved • Blog Design by DreamUp Studios • Back to Home	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2769
__label__wiki	0.77016	0.77016	Katie Cristol Arlington's Elected Leaders Endorse Katie Cristol for Arlington County Board Arlington, VA – Twenty elected officials, comprising all of Arlington’s School Board, Constitutional Officers and Richmond delegation, and much of the County Board, today endorsed Katie Cristol’s campaign for Arlington County Board. Citing Cristol’s policy background, community experience and new perspective, Arlington’s longstanding leaders are supporting her bid for one of two open seats on the County Board this year. All five of Arlington’s current School Board members, including Chair Emma Violand-Sánchez, Vice Chair Nancy Van Doren, Barbara Kanninen, James Lander and Abby Raphael have endorsed Cristol for her commitment to education and the Arlington Public Schools. School Board Chair Emma Violand-Sánchez said, "As an educator and advocate for more than three decades in Arlington, I know how important it is to have County Board members committed to the success of all our children. I'm endorsing Katie because of her background and experience working with APS and in school systems across the country, and her passion for a more inclusive and diverse Arlington. I look forward to working with her to ensure that our kids have the school and County resources they need to learn, grow and thrive." Four of Arlington’s current County Board members, including Libby Garvey, Jay Fisette, Chair Mary Hynes and Vice Chair J. Walter Tejada, have also shared their support for Cristol. In a statement, County Board member Libby Garvey noted, “Katie Cristol will bring new energy, enthusiasm and a willingness to listen to Arlington voters. Katie works with school districts, states, philanthropies, and nonprofits to tackle strategic planning and implementation challenges—skills that would be a great asset to the County Board." In addition, all of Arlington’s five Constitutional Officers, including Treasurer Carla de la Pava, Commissioner of Revenue Ingrid Morroy, Sheriff Beth Arthur, Clerk of the Court Paul Ferguson and Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos, are endorsing Cristol’s campaign. “Katie will be an excellent addition to the County Board. She combines progressive Arlington values with new insights and perspectives. I know that she is committed to hearing from all parts of the Arlington community and will be uniquely responsive to neighborhood issues on the Board,” said Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos this week. Arlington’s State Senators and Delegates are also backing Cristol, citing the valuable partnership she will offer for their work in Richmond. “I enthusiastically endorse Katie Cristol for the Arlington County Board,” said Senator Barbara Favola of the 31st District. “Katie knows our values and knows how to translate those values into policy. I need a strong partner like Katie in local government to ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed. Katie will work to create a bright future for all Arlingtonians.” Senator Favola is joined in her support of the Cristol campaign by Senator Adam Ebbin of the 30th District, Senator Janet Howell of the 32nd District, Delegate Patrick Hope of the 47th District, Delegate Rip Sullivan of the 48th District and Delegate Alfonso Lopez of the 49th District. “I’m humbled and energized by the overwhelming support of Arlington’s elected leaders,” said Cristol. “I believe that Arlington can grow and evolve to meet our current challenges without abandoning our progressive values. We need County Board members who are good stewards of the public’s trust and resources, and I am honored to have this extensive support in my campaign to be such a Board member.” Authorized and paid for by Katie Cristol for County Board.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2770
__label__cc	0.531985	0.468015	School Health Sciences Handbook University Faculty Handbook Matters of Academic Unit Governance and Related Procedures Close Matters of Academic Unit Governance and Related Procedures Overview Mission and Goals of the School Structure and Organization of the School Handbook Modification, Amendment and Revision Teaching Assignments and Workloads Close Teaching Assignments and Workloads Overview Faculty Workload and Workload Equivalents Teaching Assignments and Class Schedules Summer Teaching Assignments Other Faculty Roles and Responsibilities of the Fulltime Faculty Annual Workload Summary Faculty Leaves Faculty Absence and Travel Policy Faculty Sick Leave Outside Employment and Other Outside Activities Copyright Restrictions Academic Misconduct Faculty Code of Ethics Faculty Grievance and Appeal Procedures Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Criteria and the Criteria and Processes Relating to Other Faculty Personnel Actions Close Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Criteria and the Criteria and Processes Relating to Other Faculty Personnel Actions Overview Faculty Appointments Faculty Ranks Appointment and Review of Tenure-Track Faculty Appointment and Review of NTT Faculty Close Merit Overview Other Academic Unit Guidelines Close Other Academic Unit Guidelines Overview Appendix I - School Organizational Chart Appendix II - Merit Summary Spreadsheet Basic Expectations Faculty members are expected to demonstrate sustained engagement and contributions to the University, the community, and their discipline/profession. Reappointment: The candidate must provide evidence of service on various Program, School, College, or University adhoc and standing committees appropriate to years of appointment and faculty work load assignments. Service to the community and/or his/her profession also will be considered. Tenure: The candidate must provide evidence of involvement and continued growth in service to the Program, School, College, or University through requisite membership on adhoc and/or standing committees. Responsiveness to the needs of the Program and the needs of the students must be demonstrated. Service to the community and/or his/her profession also will be considered. Promotion to Associate Professor: The candidate must provide evidence of active involvement and emerging leadership in service to the Program, School, College, or University through requisite membership on adhoc and/or standing committees. Responsiveness to the needs of the Program and the needs of the students must be demonstrated. Service to the community and/or his/her profession also will be considered. Promotion to Professor: The candidate must provide evidence of leadership in service to the Program, School, College, or University through requisite membership on adhoc and/or standing committees. Responsiveness to the needs of the Program and the needs of the students must be demonstrated. Service to the community and/or his/her profession also will be considered. Evaluation of Service Candidates for reappointment, tenure, and promotion are expected to be continually involved in University service throughout their time at the University (they may begin with program-level service and progress by adding service to the School, College, and/or University). 1. University service includes but is not limited to active committee membership and leadership, program development, accreditation and certification reviews, and serving as an advisor to student groups. 2. Community service includes but is not limited to developing and fostering partnerships with community agencies, enhancing opportunities for field experiences and/or service-learning for students, serving on community agency boards, translating and presenting research to community audiences, and serving as a volunteer for agencies addressing community needs. 3. Service to the profession includes but is not limited to membership and leadership in national- and state-level professional organizations, serving as a reviewer for conferences, journals, books and funding agencies, and serving on a journal’s editorial board or as journal editor. 4. Funding. Candidates for reappointment, tenure, and promotion are encouraged to seek funding to support their activities involving community service, organizations, and agencies.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2772
__label__wiki	0.826982	0.826982	Ladysmith Tourism Guide Smart Guide to Local Business Directory VIDEO: Kenney lays out key demands for meeting with Trudeau Alberta Premier Jason Kenney aims for clear signs of federal action on two-day Ottawa trip Alberta Premier Jason Kenney set out a dire picture of the economic and social impact of federal policy on Alberta Monday as he embarked on a two-day political trade mission in the capital. The trip is intended to rope the federal government into making immediate changes to improve the province’s fortunes. A full-page newspaper ad setting out five key demands he’ll take into his meeting Tuesday with the prime minister was followed by a 30-minute speech to a packed Ottawa ballroom that saw Kenney argue that if change does not come, one of the key engines of the Canadian economy will stall out for good, and the entire country will suffer. Support for western separation is running at 30 per cent, Kenney noted, but what’s more troublesome is that upwards of 80 per cent of people polled on the issue say they understand and sympathize with that sentiment. “They have not given up on Canada but more and more they believe that Canada has given up on them,” he said. The polling numbers were one of dozens of statistics Kenney used to illustrate his speech to the Canadian Club of Ottawa, numbers that charted everything from Alberta’s economic contributions to Canada to rises in addiction, suicide and bankruptcies and the billions lost by the oil sector in the province since 2014. READ MORE: Alberta ‘Fair Deal Panel’ starts public town hall meetings in Edmonton Too many Canadians believe the issues facing the province are about a downturn in oil prices that year, he said. But the reality is, oil prices have stabilized and while in the U.S. the energy sector is in the midst of a job boom, Alberta remains in crisis, he said. “The difference is not (oil) prices,” he said. “It is policy.” Among the casualties of federal government uncertainty and reversal of regulations, Kenney said, have been the Northern Gateway and Energy East pipelines as well as a liquefied-natural-gas project in B.C., all of which hit the Canadian energy industry hard. There are also the issues created by two new pieces of federal legislation, known as bills C-69 and C-48. The former governs the environmental assessment process for energy products, and is derided by Albertans and others as the “no more pipelines” act in the belief it will further bog down new projects. The latter is a ban on massive oil tankers being allowed to make port in northern B.C., a ban that Kenney and others argue is a direct slap to Alberta, whose products would be taken to market on those ships. Many — including Kenney — want both laws repealed, but Kenney acknowledged Monday that might not be possible. Instead, the relevant regulations needed to apply them, especially the environmental-assessment law, must be made with direct provincial input, he said. The fiscal-stabilization program is another irritant. It’s a mechanism that allows the federal government to top up provincial coffers by a maximum per-capita amount in the event of an economic downturn, but the funds available barely scratch the surface of how much Alberta has lost, Kenney claims. He wants Alberta to receive about $2.4 billion going back to 2014. Action on the fiscal-stabilization program and the two new laws are among the five demands Kenney will make of the prime minister on Tuesday. Both were issues supported by all premiers at a meeting last week, Kenney pointed out Monday after his speech. “If I was the federal government, I would take that as a pretty strong prompt, a nudge, to deliver,” he said. “I don’t expect to be walking out of the prime minister’s office with written agreements on these things tomorrow but I sure hope we get an indication they are prepared to move.” READ MORE: ‘Pick a lane:’ Alberta premier fires back at Bloc Quebecois leader During Monday’s lunch, Kenney was seated at the same table as Trudeau’s deputy prime minister, Alberta-born Toronto MP Chrystia Freeland, who has been tasked by Trudeau with repairing the strained relationship between the federal and provincial governments. The two met in Alberta last month. Kenney is in Ottawa with eight cabinet ministers and a posse of officials who will make the rounds with their federal counterparts, industry leaders and Opposition politicians. Later Monday, he was meeting with the leader of the NDP, and hosting political and industry insiders at Ottawa’s private Rideau Club Monday night. On Tuesday, he’ll sit down with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer prior to his afternoon meeting with Trudeau. In addition to seeking action on legislation and the fiscal-stabilization program, Kenney will press the prime minister to place a hard deadline on the completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline project, with Indigenous groups quickly made partners; an expansion of tax instruments to help increase investment; and federal recognition for Alberta’s methane regulations as being equivalent to a federal program. What Albertans want isn’t unreasonable, nor does it hurt any other province, Kenney said. “We are simply asking for a fair deal now,” he said. Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press Too much of a Greta thing? Activist urges focus on others ‘We were very scared:’ Woman describes fiery derailment near Lanigan, Sask. Ladysmith Art Council announces new Poet in Residence John Edwards will serve as the innagural Poet in Residence ‘Snowmaggedon 2020’ has passed, but 20-30 milimetres of rain expected Friday Residents should brace for rain and clear drains to prevent localized flooding What happens in the Cowichan Valley when an earthquake strikes When an earthquake does happen, will the Cowichan Valley be ready for it? Exploring life, the afterlife, and near death experiences with Dr. Lynn Echevarria Echevarria will deliver a talk to the LRCA Seniors Centre Tuesday, January 21 at 1:30 pm Winter storm warning now in effect for Island’s east coast Environment Canada issues new weather warning late Wednesday afternoon Explore Ladysmith Chronicle Ladysmith News Ladysmith Weather Ladysmith Classifieds © 2020, Ladysmith News and Black Press Group Ltd.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2775
__label__wiki	0.545193	0.545193	Alternative funding can regenerate Lancashire firms Young entrepreneurs and business owners in the UK are the most cynical of banks, according to research from Huddlebuy.co.uk, with 3 in 4 saying they’d have no option but to look for financial alternatives in 2012. Economic development company Regenerate Pennine Lancashire has pledged to help Lancashire businesses by directing them to other sources of funding. Regenerate maintains an online directory of available finance and support services and works alongside the North West Access to Finance team to help businesses become investment ready and identify financial options. Steve Hoyle, Regenerate’s Managing Director, said: “A solid financial base is essential for running your own business, and traditional finance from banks is not the only option. Fortunately, there is a wide range of support available from many different sources, including the Government and the European Union. In addition to loans and equity funding there is a significant number of specific funds allocated to certain types of projects such as Research and Development or energy saving measures and it is worthwhile for businesses to investigate these funding options alongside traditional sources of finance. Much of this support can be found via our online directory or through the North West Access to Finance team.” Magma Digital launches Fun at Work trial Magma Digital has signed on to trial a new scheme which will see it become a Fun at Work employer. Building strong property connections By Ged Henderson - Jan 15 2020 Lancashire Business View, the county’s independent business news and information provider, has become an off... PHC Law bought out of administration Preston-based personal injury firm PHC Law has been bought out of administration Free support helps furniture maker double sales Marsh Mill Interiors has doubled its sales across 2019 after receiving free business support from the Univer... Cassidy + Ashton handed Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone contract Cassidy + Ashton will complete a feasibility study at Blackpool Airport after winning the commission from Bl... Students gain insight and develop skills during Industry Careers Days Almost 900 vocational students at Nelson and Colne College and Accrington and Rossendale College took part i... Give your team the edge with engineering and construction courses By Blackpool and the Fylde College - Jan 13 2020 Blackpool and The Fylde College launches courses to improve performance and profitability and develop leader...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2777
__label__wiki	0.733202	0.733202	Honky Tonk Samurai by Joe R. Lansdale NOW THE BASIS OF THE NEW SERIES ON SUNDANCETV. Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas. The uneventful stakeout is coming to an end when the pair witness a man abusing his dog. Leonard takes matters into his own fists, and now the bruised dog abuser wants to press charges. One week later, a woman named Lilly Buckner drops by their new PI office with a proposition: find her missing granddaughter, or she’ll turn in a video of Leonard beating the dog abuser. The pair agrees to take on the cold case and soon discover that the used car dealership where her granddaughter worked is actually a front for a prostitution ring. What began as a missing-person case becomes one of blackmail and murder. Filled with Lansdale’s trademark whip-smart dialogue, relentless pacing, and unorthodox characters, Honky Tonk Samurai is a rambunctious thrill ride by one hell of a writer. Genre: Mystery & Thriller / Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense On Sale: February 14th 2017 Mulholland Books Logo Trade Paperback Arrow Icon Audiobook Downloadable Unabridged "Listening to a Joe R. Lansdale's East Texas detective yarn in the Hap Collins-and-Leonard Pine series is like hanging out with a skilled barroom raconteur. Lansdale's language dances with colorful and regular profanity as he performs a shotgun wedding between wild and ridiculous, tying it together with enough cartoonish violence and abundant wit to send you reaching for your wallet to buy the next round. . . . Altogether it's wild, funny, utterly improbable and thoroughly satisfying entertainment."—Jenni Laidman, Chicago Tribune "Audacious . . . Honky Tonk Samurai lives up to the rich legacy of the titles that preceded it in Lansdale's Hap and Leonard series. . . . It takes a masterful writer to pull off what Lansdale accomplishes in these books, combining humor, nihilism and absurdism along with sublime plotting and character development. It reads as if it's done effortlessly, and that's no small trick."—W.K. Stratton, Dallas Morning News "Terrific . . . This shambolic, action-packed novel will ensnare new readers and satisfy devoted fans alike. With the Sundance Channel's highly anticipated Hap and Leonard cable series coming in early 2016, this really could be Lansdale's year."—Publishers Weekly (starred boxed review) "This is damn fine reading from Lansdale . . . Don't miss it."—Booklist (starred) "Dubious delights... await you in Honky Tonk Samurai, the latest outing for Joe R. Lansdale's perpetual bad boys, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.... a ton of fun."—New York Times "The camaraderie and down-home scatology carry the day. Let's hope there's more of that good feeling to come in this terrific series."—Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Another jawdropper from the seemingly indefatigable favorite son of Nacogdoches, Texas . . . Hilarious, crude and violent, peppered through and through with unforgettable characters that leap off the page, dance around the room, and run off down the road. It doesn't get any better than this. . . . Give this man a National Medal of the Arts for his entire body of work."—Joe Hartlaub, BookReporter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2788
__label__wiki	0.837306	0.837306	by Stacy Schiff Read by Robin Miles The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings the last queen of Egypt to life in a “captivating” (New York Times) and “exceptionally artful” (New Yorker) biography that has become a modern classic. A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year Though Cleopatra’s life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers and she poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra had a child with Julius Caesar and — after his murder — three more with his protégé, Mark Antony. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Along the way, her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff ‘s is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life. “Captivating…A cinematic portrait far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning picture of Cleopatra’s world.” –Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Genre: Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical On Sale: November 1st 2010 Audiobook Downloadable Arrow Icon Hardcover Large Print Audiobook CD Unabridged "Stacy Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book we'd miss if it didn't exist."—Wall Street Journal "A masterpiece."—Daily Beast	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2789
__label__wiki	0.533799	0.533799	L e t s R u n World Famous Message Boards Better Shoes Where your dreams become reality Popular Running Shoes Podcast Pro Runner $alaries Ritz out of World Cross New Start Thread 9 years ago 02/28/2010 3:31pm CST re: Sagarin Back To IndexForum Index Even better, all four backed out of the WXC slots awarded to them as a result of their placing in that race. In fact, they backed out before they even ran the race! Sagarin wrote: A picture of four Olympians, all having attended the same school? Hard to duplicate that feat. Nice work. re: Breaking It Down Several months ago, I "pleaded" for Ritz to run. Everyone said I was n.u.ts to want it... that Ritz would be n.u.ts to run, and that there wasn't much interest for him to do it. I hope none of the disappointed posters are the same people. Rush OBeckity re: CMON CMON wrote: Non-WC Year in Track wrote: I'd think more highly of Ritz on the podium at WXC than with an AR that will just be broken by Rupp or Derrick or Fernandez or Verzbicas in a handful years. Worst post ever. Verzbicas? Even worse, he forgot someone who is going to break it THIS YEAR. Um, ever heard of BERNARD LAGAT??? shortstsck re: Rush OBeckity Lagat has been getting a nice stipend from Nike to not break the last remaining "white-owned record" in US track for years now. 9 years ago 02/28/2010 10:08pm CST Rush OBeckity wrote: Lagat ain't running a 10k this year, clown. snow_no_sun 9 years ago 03/01/2010 12:06am CST re: Deshawn Kemp interesting... just pointing out some trends with positive tests... The Daily Nation newspaper in Kenyan reported late yesterday that Bernard Lagat, the #2 fastest ever at 1500m tested positive for the performance enhancing drug EPO prior to the World Championships. Lagat pulled out of the World Championships with an unknown stomach ailment... http://www.letsrun.com/2003/lagatepo.php 9 years ago 03/01/2010 9:46am CST re: snow_no_sun Dathan Ritzenhein's decision to not go to the World Cross Country Championships is merely the latest in a long line of "no-shows" from the U.S. Year after year, people qualify for the World Cross team at the U.S. Nationals but decide not to go. I think it is too bad that a race that is in theory the most competitive distance race on the planet - and that is, after all, a WORLD championship - is one that has little appeal to Americans. (In fact, it seems to have little appeal in North America, South America, Australia, and many European and Asian countries, so it's not as though the U.S. is the only country whose best distance runners skip the World Cross.) In this non-Olympic, non-(outdoor) World Track & Field Championship year, there are three world championships: World Indoor, World Cross, and World 1/2 marathon. I can see someone preferring to choose between World Indoor and the World Cross, but deciding to skip everything altogether means that these events aren't important to those who choose not to run. Instead of having the opportunity to race the best in the world - with no rabbits, no track surface or paved road, just grass, hills, and at times some barriers to hurdle and mud to traverse - the best U.S. distance runners routinely bypass the World Cross Country Championships. I'm more disappointed with what Ritz's decision reflects about the loss of prestige of this world championship than I am about his not being there... hardset nipples re: Disappointed WXC loses nothing with Ritz's absence, it has been great all those years that he didn't lie to the public about going. I'm not disappointed about him not going, either. I never believed his claim that he would go. Like with a lot of other top non-African runners, skipping it is the safe thing to do. weight on foot re: hardset nipples Or he has a stress fracture. re: weight on foot Those were supposed to be a thing of the past with the move to AlBALCO Salazar. re: shortstsck ...Because the Mile, 3k, 2M, 5k, 15k, & 1/2 Marathon aren't held by a white guy, right? ;) stillllll searching..... re: Babbit Babbit wrote: and the marathon. Hall has it. Kalid is Morrocan. the dude held the Morrocan record and American at the same time.... gimme back my sport! re: stillllll searching..... Google before you post re: gimme back my sport! Lagat don't run no 10k Kenyans Laughingatyou re: There Will Always Be Questions Just another American runner who can't handle the miles! What's LetsRun.com? Advertise On LetsRun.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2792
__label__wiki	0.558506	0.558506	Home News Legal 43 Lawmakers Sign for War, Economic Crime Courts 43 Lawmakers Sign for War, Economic Crime Courts Leroy M. Sonpon, III Members of the House of Representatives voting on one of the President's priority bills. — President’s Propositions on Dual Citizenship, as well as Articles 45 and 48 to be “reworded” Forty three of the seventy three Representatives have so far affixed their signatures on a Resolution to establish the War, Economic Crime Court in Liberia, the Daily Observer has reliably gathered. Margibi County District #2 Representative Ivar Jones, also confirmed in a telephone conversation over the weekend that he signed the document since Wednesday, August 28, 2019, and was among the first batch of the lawmakers, who strongly support the establishment of War, Economic Crime Courts in the country to end impunity. Montserrado County District #17 Representative Hanson Kiazolu and chairman of the Unity Party (UP) Legislative Caucus, also told the Daily Observer that was signing the Resolution to join Bong County District #4 Representative Robert Womah, who is also from the UP. The UP caucus chairman said that other like-minded lawmakers, including Representatives Francis Dopoh, Dixon Seeboe, Rustonlyn Suakoko Dennis, and Mary Karwor, also signed the Resolution. Representative Thomas Goshua of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), also joined Nimba County District #8 Representative Larry P. Younquoi, who earlier expressed support to the creation of the War , Economic Crime Courts in the country. “We have spoken through our signatures, and there are remaining six signatures to have the two-thirds that would be forwarded to the Senate for concurrence,” Rep. Kiazolu said. It can be recalled that Representatives Womba and Younquoi, in separate interviews, informed journalists that their decisions to support the creation of the Special Courts are to end impunity in the country, and allow perpetrators of the wars to give account of human rights and economic abuses by exonerating themselves in open court. Grand Gedeh County District #2 Representative, George S. Boley: “The sooner the war crime court is established, the better it would be for Liberia.” Some of Nimba County lawmakers, including Districts #1 and #4 Representatives, Jeremiah Koung and Gonpu Kargon, respectively (both supporters of Senator Prince Y. Johnson) did not sign the Resolution. They have expressed displeasure over the establishment of the War Crime Court. Political pundits are arguing the endorsements of the establishment of the War, Economic Crime Courts and the eight propositions for constitutional, printing of new banknotes and some priority bills. These were some of the prime reasons the recent Presidential-Legislative Retreat that was hosted from Friday, August 16 – Saturday, August 17, 2019. The President’s recent communications are evidence of the four weeks’ extension of the 2nd Sitting of the 54th Legislature. The President informed the Legislature that he is committed to a holistic implementation of the National Consensus, and do hereby call on the Legislature to advise and provide guidance on all legislative and other necessary measures towards the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, including the establishment of the Economic and War Crime Courts. The President also told the Legislature in another communication that the Central bank of Liberia (CBL) has advised him that the economy may be seriously affected due to the unaccounted local currency infused in the economy that is causing high inflation, and has recommended the printing of LS$35 billion new currency to replace the existing ones. Meanwhile, the President has written for the consideration of eight propositions to amend certain sections of the Constitution of Liberia (1986). The Daily Observer has learned that among the eight suggested propositions, the House of Representatives is considering the passage, but with modifications on the ‘dual citizenship’ that any person, at least one of whose parents was a citizen of Liberia at the time of the person’s birth, shall be a citizen of Liberia; but a citizen of Liberia may hold the citizenship of another country, but shall not qualify or contest elected position and shall not be appointed or to hold positions of Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Liberia, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassadors, Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice. Also, the House of Representatives has agreed to scrub propositions two and eight to amend Article 45 to provide for filling vacancies created by death, resignation, expulsion or otherwise of senators, as well as suggested amendment Article 80 (f) to address historical imbalances and gender inequality experienced by the female population, one female constituency seat shall be established and reserved exclusively for women representatives in each county. The lawmakers argued that democracy is expensive, and therefore, by-elections must exist and elections must be equally conducted for such a position as may deem necessary. Previous articleLTA Hosts First ITU Regional Spectrum Workshop Next articleSenate Pro-Tempore ‘Insulted’ The Court’s Jurisdiction I am a Liberian journalist, born November 7 and hailed from the Southeast and of the kru tribe. I began contributing to the Daily Observer 2008 and was fully employed in 2012. I am the 3rd of eight children and named after my great grandfather. Am happily married with three children (girls). I am a full member of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) and also the Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL) and the Legislative Press Pool (LEGISPOL). I can be contacted through email: [email protected] or cell number/WhatsApp: (+231) 0886585875 or Facebook. cooper Kweme September 23, 2019 At 2:56 am Article 45 amended: In the event of financial and monetary hardships, Congressional vacancies will be filled by appointments through special arrangements supervised by the superintendents of the counties in which these vacancies may occur. Amending Article 45 is a good idea. Bi-elections are expensive and divisive. We need to look at the bright side of things and the situation the country faces at this time. Peter Gboyo September 23, 2019 At 4:09 am Not surprising at all, with such backward thinking. In that case then why don’t we hold election for president every 12 years, since it is more expensive than a by-election? Will the supervision of by-elections by superintendents make them more credible, when those superintendents are beholden to the president? Don’t you see that as another way of solidifying the power of the presidency with such byzantine formula? People like you are a disgrace to educated people for these shallow thinking. There are surely other pragmatic ways of raising the monies needed for such incidentals, than denying citizens their rights to have representatives/senators of their choice and instead create an imperial presidency. Shame on you. F. Hney September 23, 2019 At 3:10 pm If there are seventy-three Lower House members and Forty-three have signed on in order for the economic and war crimes court to be established, then it’s over with. Once established, it is hoped that the proceedings will be methodical. There are some lingering questions though. Charles Taylor, the mastermind of the bloody senseless war is locked up in a British prison. The question is this: will Taylor be re-charged in a Liberian war crimes court? Is there a possibility for Taylor’s exoneration if his legal team produces an exculpatory evidence? Or will there be a proxy examination of Taylor? Then there is Madam EJS. Her involvement in the Liberian “destablization period” is unclear. What remains to be discussed is whether severe jail terms will be handed down to the guilty ones if anyone is found guilty. The dual citizenship issue also raises heckles. It is not certain whether many lawmakers fully support this concept. For instance, once a person was born in Liberia into the union of a Liberian couple, that person is technically a Liberian! However, if a Liberian changed his or her status because of an economic or political reason, that Liberian is not a foreign monster, but rather a Liberian. First of all, there was a bloody, senseless war in Liberia. During that painful period, some diaspora Liberians changed their status in order to obtain scholarship in pursuit of education. Now, some of those erudite Liberians (I am not one of them) are eager to return to their country of birth. As good as it is to be back in one’s country, sadly, the diaspora Liberians are being told that they can and cannot do some openly available government jobs. But wait a minute. While they were away studying and working, the diaspora Liberians helped in terms of stabilizing the Liberian economy. The stabilization of the Liberian economy occurred by way of remittances through Western Union, Money Gram and other money transfer network. So although they were naturalized because of undue hardship, otherwise known as (“can’t help so monkey ate pepper”) in the Liberian vernacular, the educated diaspora Liberians are being punished. What on earth are the lawmakers afraid of? If the lawmakers are not petrified, why are they engaged in this form of blatant discrimination? Mr. Legalist, where in Liberian Immigration law or perhaps the constitution does it state, a Liberian can change his/her citizenship for extenuating reasons and still retain his or her Liberian citizenship? see why you were retired from playing any more active role in legal matters? You talk like a street peddler yet, you claim to be a lawyer? For your information there are host of countries like Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE, Kuwait, Japan, India, Botswana, Ethiopia, Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Qatar,China and the list goes on that do not allow dual citizenship and yet, have thriving (few exceptions) as you may well be aware. And diasporans don’t send monies to their governments directly per se, rather they send their monies to their families, even though it impacts/benefits the overall economy of the particular country somehow. The point being with or without diaspora remittances, Liberia will still survive. So hold your money all you want and let’s see who will suffer, the government or your families? Too darn much of this carrots and sticks negotiation. Correction: …and yet, having thriving economies… above. Alpha Conneh September 24, 2019 At 12:02 am A wise person once said, “Liberia’s brain-drain is the world’s brain-gain.” What will it take for Liberia’s Lawmakers to realize that some progressive countries in Africa are finally waking up! These countries are feverishly searching for solutions to the massive brain-drain taking place on the continent of Africa? The Western World is gaining from Africa’s brain-drain!! Several progressive countries in Africa are now finding remedy to Africa’s dilemma (brain-drain). These progressive countries are enacting sensible dual citizenship laws to accommodate talented citizens from the diaspora to help build their respective countries. Liberia’s dual-citizenship law could follow similar dual-citizenship criteria set forth in Ghana’s constitution that limits critical positions to holders of only Ghanaian citizenship and not those of dual citizenship. “43 Lawmakers Sign for War, Economic Crime Courts.” “We have spoken through our signatures, and there are remaining six signatures to have the two-thirds that would be forwarded to the Senate for concurrence,” said Rep. Kiazolu on votes to establish war and economic crime court in Liberia. It is commendable to see these Lawmakers exercised their patriotic duty in trying to bring long overdue justice for those innocent victims who died in Liberia’s civil war. Similarly, why is it so difficult for these same enthusiastic lawmakers to show their patriotic duty when it comes to voting for reduction in their high salaries they are receiving in a poor economic bankrupt country like Liberia? A wise person also said, “Patriotic talk is no proof of patriotism. Anyone can wave a flag. The real patriots live their patriotism in everything they do.” Lawmakers show your real patriotism where it hurts the most: by reducing your inflated salaries and cutting back on other emoluments (travel, vehicle, housing allowances, etc.) paid for by the Liberian tax payers. F. Hney September 24, 2019 At 9:11 am Pete Gboyo, You’ve badly misunderstood what I wrote. Because of that, I will try my level best in terms of setting the record straight. First of all my fellow countryman, I am not a lawyer. Don’t assume like that! Nice try though. Secondly, I’ve never said in my above piece that diaspora Liberians had at anytime paid their remittances to the government. Come on Gboyo. What should be understood by you is that remittances help in terms of stabilizing countries in which money is wired. Without a shred of doubt, the government is not the sole agent of economic stability. Of course, the government is counted on to put forth sound economic policies. But to the extent of reality, outside money that diaspora Liberians wire in our country from time to time, helps in terms of beefing up the economy. Gboyo, to say that Liberians “can” change their citizenship is something you’re saying. I didn’t say that. I said that some diaspora Liberians changed their status because of a litany of reasons. The pursuit of education in the US is enhanced if one’s status changes from an F-1 visa to a Permanent Residence status or to citizenship status. In the past, F-1 holders were students who paid more school fees than a citizen. When the Liberian war erupted, many Liberians scattered. There was no way money could be wired in the states. So those who went to college during those turbulent times of ours had to become creative. Let’s get on with it Sir. F. Hney September 24, 2019 At 10:01 am Gboyo, You’re right. Without money being wired in the country, Liberians will survive. The truth must be told. I can assure you beyond doubt that if money is not wired in from Liberians abroad, there’ll be more suffering in the country than now. Of course, the Liberian economy will be affected. It’s illogical to say that without remittances, the Liberian economy will go on well. Leave a Reply to Peter Gboyo Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2794
__label__cc	0.519334	0.480666	Blood Conditions What Happens When Lactate Levels Are High? By Joseph Pritchard Joseph Pritchard Joseph Pritchard graduated from Our Lady of Fatima Medical School with a medical degree. He has spent almost a decade studying humanity. Dr. Pritchard writes as a San Francisco biology expert for a prominent website and thoroughly enjoys sharing the knowledge he has accumulated. Lactic acid is a by-product of the process cells use to produce energy. As cells convert glucose to energy, they use oxygen. If there is not enough oxygen within the cell, the cell is still able to produce energy, but also produces lactic acid. The cells releases lactic acid into the blood, where it is converted to a similar molecule called lactate. High lactate levels within the blood can harm your cells, the University of New Mexico warns. Elevated lactate levels can affect your heart rhythm. Causes of Elevated Lactate Levels There are certain conditions that cause a decrease in oxygen levels and thus lactic acidosis. Severe hypoxia, such as in patients in shock, congestive heart failure, liver disease and lung disease are all possible causes of elevated lactate levels, according to MedlinePlus, a service of the National Institutes of Health. These diseases force the body to make energy without having enough oxygen. Elevated lactate levels can lead to severe complications. Symptoms of Lactic Acidosis Lactic acidosis is a disorder that occurs when lactate levels in your bloodstream rise above the normal limits. Symptoms of this condition include an abnormal heartbeat, difficulty breathing, nausea, vomiting, muscle weakness, inflammation of the pancreas, fatigue, weight loss and enlargement of the liver, AidsHealth.org explains. If you experience these symptoms, immediately consult your doctor, as lactic acidosis is a potentially life-threatening condition. Measuring Lactate Levels Measuring lactate levels requires a blood test called a lactic acid test. Blood is drawn from a vein and the amount of lactic acid in the sample is measured. Normal lactate levels range from 4.5 mg/dL to 19.8 mg/dL, MedlinePlus cites. Do not exercise for several hours prior to taking the test because exercising can temporarily increase lactic acid levels. Lactic acid tests are typically performed only in patients suspected of having lactic acidosis. Normally, lactic acid tests are not part of a annual physical exam. Treatment of Lactic Acidosis Once lactic acidosis is diagnosed, treatment is started immediately. Initial treatment focuses on providing the patient with oxygen, which reduces the amount of lactic acid produced by your cells. The temporary administration of oxygen reverses the symptoms of lactic acidosis and prevents any possible complications. Treatment must also focus on diagnosing and reversing the proximate cause of the lactic acidosis, "The New York Times Health Guide" reports. Once the underlying medical cause is treated, the patient's lactate levels should return to normal. University of New Mexico; Lactate: Not Guilty as Charged; Len Kravitz, Ph.D. New York Times Health Guide; Lactic Acidosis; Linda Vorvick, MD; November 2008 AIDS Healthcare Foundation; Lactic Acidosis; 2008 MedlinePlus; Lactic Acid Test; David C. Dugdale, III, MD; May 2009 High Potassium & Anemia Lung Puncture Symptoms What Is Submaximal Graded Exercise? High Bilirubin Levels in Adults Sodium Bicarbonate & Hyperkalemia High Potassium and Sodium Levels	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2796
__label__wiki	0.983476	0.983476	Ebola: Governors stress quarantine Under the protocols Cuomo detailed, the state also will pay for any lost compensation. Ebola: Governors stress quarantine Under the protocols Cuomo detailed, the state also will pay for any lost compensation. Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/1tYU8Zw Published 9:02 a.m. ET Oct. 27, 2014 \| Updated 2:27 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2014 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, speaks at a news conference Friday in New York. At left is Dr. Howard Zucker, acting commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is at right. The governors announced a mandatory quarantine for people returning to the United States through airports in New York and New Jersey who are deemed "high risk." In the first application of the new set of standards, the states are quarantining a female healthcare worker returning from Africa who took care of Ebola patients.(Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP) NEWARK, N.J. – A nurse who protested being kept in a tent in New Jersey over the weekend despite lacking symptoms after caring for Ebola patients in West Africa was to be released Monday as scientists and federal officials clashed with state officials over quarantine policies. Kaci Hickox, the nurse forced into quarantine Friday after arriving from Sierra Leone, was to be flown on a private carrier to Maine, New Jersey's Health Department said. An agency statement said she'd been symptom-free for 24 hours; Hickox has said she never had symptoms and tested negative for Ebola in a preliminary evaluation. She had called her treatment "inhumane" and was talking about suing. Hickox had been the first person affected by New Jersey's mandatory 21-day quarantine for medical workers returning from West Africa. New York and Illinois announced similar plans, even though scientists say the restrictions go too far and could hamper global efforts to contain the outbreak. "When she has time to reflect, she'll understand," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at a campaign event in Florida Monday. Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called federal health guidelines inadequate when they announced their quarantine plans on Friday, only to find themselves under fire through the weekend from members of the medical community and the White House. "The best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in Africa, and we need those health care workers, so we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The three governors said their policies permit home confinement, with twice-daily monitoring, for medical workers who have had contact with Ebola patients but show no symptoms. Maryland officials announced a similar measure Monday: They will require anyone considered to have "high-risk exposure," which they defined as known, unprotected contact with bodily fluids from someone infected with Ebola, to stay home and have daily contact with health officials until they're Ebola-free. Cuomo said quarantine tents at medical facilities like the one Hickox was put in would be used only in certain cases, such as if the health care workers don't have a home to go to in New York or New Jersey. For workers under home confinement, family members will be allowed to stay, and friends may visit with the approval of health officials. Workers displaying any symptoms will go straight to the hospital. "We're staying one step ahead," Cuomo said Sunday night. "Some people say we're being too cautious. I'll take that criticism." New York also will pay for any lost compensation if the workers aren't paid by a volunteer organization for their time in quarantine, according to the protocols Cuomo detailed. It wasn't immediately clear if other states' leaders will make similar offers, but even then, three weeks' salary for highly paid medical workers could represent an additional burden on hard-pressed charities. The Obama administration considers the policies in New York and New Jersey "not grounded in science" and conveyed its concerns to Christie and Cuomo, a senior administration official told The Associated Press Sunday. The official wasn't authorized to comment by name and insisted on anonymity. President Barack Obama said Sunday after meeting with "Ebola czar" Ron Klain and other public health and national security officials that any measures involving health care workers "should be crafted so as not to unnecessarily discourage those workers from serving." These returning workers should be "treated like conquering heroes and not stigmatized for the tremendous work that they have done," said Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is on a trip to West Africa. Fauci insisted that any quarantine policy should be driven by science — and that science says people with the virus are not contagious until symptoms appear. Even then, infection requires direct contact with bodily fluids. Close monitoring of medical workers for symptoms is sufficient, Fauci said, warning that forcibly isolating health care workers for the 21-day Ebola incubation period could encourage the spread of Ebola by removing responders from the fight. The state-imposed quarantines were announced after Dr. Craig Spencer returned to his New York City apartment after treating Ebola victims in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders. In the week before he developed a fever and was admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center, he rode the subway, went bowling and ate at a restaurant. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that Spencer's condition remains serious, but stable. The case comes a week after officials in Rockland announced that a local resident had been cleared of isolation after exposure to the illness in Liberia. The World Health Organization said more than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola in the outbreak that came to light last March, and nearly half of them have died, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Eltman reported from New York. Other Associated Press contributors include Brian White in Baltimore; Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield, New Jersey; Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, New Jersey; Josh Lederman and Thomas Strong in Washington; Matt Sedensky in Florida; and Jonathan Lemire and Verena Dobnik in New York. 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__label__wiki	0.691346	0.691346	Jenkins calls for pension waiver reform in Westchester In the wake of the arrest of an aide to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on a DWI charge, Democratic... Jenkins calls for pension waiver reform in Westchester In the wake of the arrest of an aide to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on a DWI charge, Democratic... Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/1prdBzf Elizabeth Ganga, eganga@lohud.com Published 5:14 p.m. ET Aug. 29, 2014 In the wake of the arrest of an aide to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on a DWI charge, Democratic Legislator Ken Jenkins is renewing his call for legislation to require to Board of Legislators to approve pension waiver requests. Hugh Fox Jr., the aide, who is also the chairman of the Westchester Conservative Party, had secured two two-year waivers from the state to allow him to collect both his pension from years as a Yonkers firefighter and his county salary. The county was seeking a third waiver for him when Fox was arrested Monday night after a five-car chain-reaction crash. He resigned his county job the next day. In a press release, Jenkins said it was time to end “automatic approvals for the County Executive’s political cronies to double dip.” “There are probably some rare instances when a retiree would make a good hire for the County, and it would make sense financially for the waiver to be granted,” said Jenkins. “But for the sake of good, open and transparent government that keeps the interests of our taxpayers at the forefront of decision making, we must take these automatic, unilateral approvals out of the purview of only the Administration and let the Board of Legislators also deliberate on each waiver, case by case, and make a decision up or down.” Twitter: @eganga Photo: Hugh Fox Jr. Read or Share this story: http://lohud.us/1prdBzf	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2805
__label__wiki	0.820003	0.820003	Landmark Projects View All Landmark Projects V&A Projects View All V&A Projects Festival Commissions Festival Guide 2019 Design Districts Bankside Design District Brompton Design District Chelsea Design District Clerkenwell Design Quarter King's Cross Design District Marylebone Design District Mayfair Design District Pimlico Road Design District Shoreditch Design Triangle Victoria Connections Design District West Kensington Design District Design Destinations: Tradeshows Focus/20 London Design Fair Design Routes Paddington Central Design Route London Design Biennale Global Design Forum Headline Partner British Land The Medals Making The Medals Medals Archive Old Royal Naval College presents: Greenwich artists and makers Mon-Sun 10am-5pm Old Royal Naval College is the centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a long and celebrated 500-year history. Today it is a diverse cultural destination and one of London’s most popular venues and visitor attractions, a site that attracts over 1.2 million visitors every year. The classical buildings that adorn the site today were built as the Royal Hospital for Seamen between 1696 and 1751. Designed by England’s greatest architects, including Sir Christopher Wren, the buildings are considered amongst the finest in Europe, featuring the sumptuous Painted Hall and the neo-classical Chapel. Prior to that the site was home to the celebrated Greenwich Palace, the favoured Royal residence of Henry VIII. A small part of the excavated palace, revealed during recent conservation works, can be viewed in The Sackler Gallery in the King William Undercroft. The rich maritime history of the site continued after the departure of the Royal Hospital in the 1860s. From 1873 to 1997 the buildings housed the Royal Naval College, one of the world's foremost naval training establishments. After the departure of the Naval College an independent charity was established in 1997 to conserve the magnificent baroque buildings and grounds for present and future generations and to provide opportunities for wide and diverse audiences to enjoy and share their significance. Today this historic landmark is open to the public. The Painted Hall, built as a ceremonial dining room, has the greatest grand-scale decorative painting in England and has been described as ‘Britain’s Sistine Chapel’. The abundant and complex painting scheme covers some 4,000 square metres and was designed and executed by Sir James Thornhill between 1707 and 1726. An extensive National Lottery Funded renovation project was completed in 2019. The Chapel of St Peter and St Paul is a neo-classical masterpiece by James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. Featuring a Samuel Green organ and an altarpiece painted by Benjamin West, it is one of the country’s finest 18th-century interiors. Home > Events > Old Royal Naval College presents: Greenwich artists and makers UNESCO world heritage site, the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, joins London Design Festival for the first time this year with a free exhibition showcasing local artists and makers. Upload Carousel Images Kethi Copeland © Rick Smee A View from the South by Kethi Copeland Olivia J Holland © Jamie Trounce by Olivia J Holland Storytelling Chair by Matthew Nicholls Throughout London Design Festival, a free exhibition at the Old Royal Naval features contemporary interpretations of the architectural and decorative elements of the Old Royal Naval College, such as Sir Christopher Wren’s landmark domed design and Sir James Thornhill’s magnificent Painted Hall, recently re-opened after an award-winning renovation. The exhibition includes A Walk by the River by printmaker Kethi Copeland, a set of prints exploring elemental themes by artist and architectural designer Charles Chambers, jewellery by Sophie Martin-Glinel and a selection of limited edition prints from Woolwich Contemporary Editions. Inside the Painted Hall (open to ticket-holders) works include handcrafted textiles by knitted textile designer Olivia J Holland, The Storytelling Chair made by Matt Nicholls Designs from recycled wood in the Victorian Skittle Alley, itself made from upcycled ships, as well as fascinating 3D scans of the Painted Hall by Simon Withers, showing the labour and care that went into creating the room in the 18th century, and the 21st century conservation efforts. The Old Royal Naval College is open year-round and visitors are welcome to explore Sir Christopher Wren’s iconic riverside grounds, book tickets to visit Sir James Thornhill’s baroque masterpiece the Painted Hall and learn more about the site’s rich history from royal tudor palace to royal naval college. The London Design Festival exhibition is in the Old Royal Naval College’s Mezzanine Gallery located in the Visitor Centre. Free \| Drop-in The Storytelling Chair and the 3D Scans of The Painted Hall are available to view with tickets to the Painted Hall. Adults £12, Kids under 16 go free, includes a free tour of the fascinating Old Royal Naval College. Book at https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/tickets #LDF19 Principal Supporter London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world and as the gateway to the international creative community. London, WC1N 2AT We are committed to protecting our visitor and Partners' privacy. 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__label__wiki	0.737006	0.737006	Select LanguageBengaliEnglishGujaratiHindiMalayalamMarathiTamil Lonely Planet Magazine India Mini Guides Laos: Under the Influence by Team LPMI (Lonely Planet Author) Jun 2017 This article is from the June 2017 issue of Lonely Planet Magazine India. Vientiane’s familiar looking Patuxai translates as ‘Arch of Triumph’ Photographer: Simon Urwin Laos is Southeast Asia’s most overlooked country – an enigmatic nation shaped by powerful external forces, where brutalist communist monuments sit alongside ancient Buddhist temples, and snails and frogs’ legs are on the menu WORDS: MARCEL THEROUX PHOTOGRAPHS: SIMON URWIN On a narrow terrace overlooking the wide, brown Mekong River, a dozen men are gathered in the shade of a bamboo thicket to play a game that is more French than garlic. Pétanque, provincial France’s version of bowls, is an obsession in Luang Prabang, the jungly second city of the tiny nation of Laos. The players – guides, teachers, tuk-tuk drivers – compete fiercely, launching the steel balls with an abrupt backhand throw that resembles a cobra strike. “Everyone plays,” explains Som Phon, one of the spectators. “You let go of all your stress, your suffering.” Poor, weak and landlocked, Laos has had its history determined by powerful outside forces: France, Thailand, Vietnam, China – even Russia and the United States. Each of them has left some mark on this nation. A few miles from the pétanque _court, 40-year-old Pon Panyatip is hard at work kneading risen dough and shaping it into baguettes. His upper body is toned from turning out 3,000 batons a day. As fast as he can make it, the dough is deposited in the wood-fired oven. Isn’t he fed up with the sight of baguettes by now? Pon shakes his head. “Sometimes I eat them in the morning and evening. I have them with butter, chilli, dried beef or shrimp paste.” France governed Laos as a protectorate for more than half a century, until 1954. The customs, food and language here are subtly marked by the vanished French presence, but the country’s most distinctive Gallic inheritance is in its architecture. The heart of Luang Prabang is a finger-shaped promontory that sits at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, and it is where the French supervised the construction of long leafy avenues of whitewashed, two-storey houses. Vientiane deposed Luang Prabang as capital of Laos in 1563, but the latter is by far the more beautiful. It still has the somnolent green charm that originally attracted the French. It is bewitching and quiet; at dusk, the streets are empty of cars. The warm breeze carries the jasmine-like scent of teak flowers. The jungle envelops the city, and the Mekong flows south, bearing your troubles away. Under the French, Luang Prabang was a backwater that attracted a certain kind of unambitious, pleasure-seeking official. The writer Norman Lewis, a visitor here, said they seemed like the outcome of successful lobotomy operations – “untroubled and mildly libidinous.” Some of the French couldn’t tear themselves away after Laos became independent. Yannick Upravan’s grandfather, Henri, was a French soldier who travelled from Marseilles to serve in the First Indochina War. “He came to fight and kill, but he fell in love. It happened a lot like this,” says Yannick, a youthful, green-eyed 40-something. Henri never went home. Travel to Laos NOW, for ancient Buddhist temples, architecture and food. Check out LPMI’s June 2017 issue. Pick up a copy from your newsstand or click to subscribe via Zinio or Magzter. 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__label__wiki	0.57006	0.57006	Love The Everglades Movement Everglades Cleanup Series Everglades Awareness Concert Summer Symposium 2016 SS16 Speakers Walk for Mother Earth Videos: Filmgate 2014 Music Video: THE RAVEN MDC Jubilation Dance Ensemble: KAHINA, A Tangled Root About the Performance Kahina: a tangled root explores the sustainability, water and the intersectionality of the Black Female Body. The work is inspired by the North African Queen, Warrior and religious Leader, DIHYA KAHINA, who lived during the 7th Century. She was a Berber and of Jewish Religion but also was known as an animist. The work generates a conscious awareness and expanded knowledge of self and collective identity of the community. The performance will “un-earth’ significant historical, economical, philosophical and cultural contributions of the Black Female Body utilizing Ancestral Memory, story, song, text, collective memory, pictures and film with an exploration of the landscape of the individual body. The work explores stories of the notions of giving, sacrifice, warrior, birth, re-birth and erasure. What is it to be a Black Female in the 21st century? How does/has the Black Female Body extend itself into the continuum? How has the phenomenology of time effected and affected the embodied knowledge of the Black Female Body in America? The original work is a story of displacement, migration, reciprocity, sustainability, and exile to freedom. About the Artists Choreography: Michelle Grant-Murray Performer: Michelle Grant-Murray Music: Prince Aderele Sussex County NJ Dance Studio link When you decide to learn salsa through the dance classes, you can come across different types of dance classes. Various features like budget, time and location play an important role as when you decide to choose the best dance classes. But all these types of salsa dance classes come with advantages as there are also disadvantages that come along with each of these types.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2808
__label__cc	0.634686	0.365314	CARUSO, Enrico 1873-1921 Vintage reproduction of an original waist-length Mishkin photograph of Caruso in formal dress, with his bold signature with flourish on a slip of paper mounted below On board, with image size ca. 224 x 150 mm., slip of paper with signature ca. 41 x 140 mm., overall size 286 x 203 mm. Slightly worn and soiled; bleeding to upper portion of letters "E" and "C" of signature. "The winning quality of the sound, the tender mezza voce (particularly in the early years), and his phrasing, based on a rare mastery of legato and portamento, enabled Caruso to sing the French and Italian lyric repertory as well as lighter operas. In addition, his noble, incisive declamation, his broad, generous phrasing, and his vigor in dramatic outbursts made him a notable interpreter of Verdi as well as of French grand opéra. In this repertory his performances were characterized by the irresistible erotic appeal of his timbre allied to a temperament as warm and vehement as his voice. His numerous recordings, now faithfully remastered on CD, not only made him universally famous, they also did much to encourage the acceptance of recording as a medium for opera." Rodolfo Celletti and Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. An attractive image. Item #29380 Price: $450.00 other currencies See all items in Art & Photographs See all items by Enrico CARUSO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2810
__label__wiki	0.513846	0.513846	Professional Development > Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices This video library illustrates effective instruction and assessment strategies for the teaching of foreign languages in grades K-12. A video library for K – 12 foreign language teachers; 28 half-hour, 8 approx. ten-minute, and 2 one-hour video programs, library guide, and website. Teaching Foreign Languages K – 12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages. The language classrooms shown in this library include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. All classroom videos are subtitled in English and are appropriate for K – 12 teachers of any foreign language. Created in conjunction with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the library includes a 30-minute introduction and 60-minute overviews of ACTFL’s Standards for Foreign Language Learning and new assessment practices, an overview specifically for Arabic teaching, as well as 34 classroom programs. In the classroom programs, teachers from schools across the country model interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication throughout a range of grade and competency levels. Concepts of culture, comparisons, connections to students — lives, and the importance of community are also integrated into the lessons. A web site and print guide accompany the video programs, providing a complete professional development experience. The Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 video library captures best practices in foreign language teaching in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms across the U.S. The languages featured in the collection are: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish. The library and professional development guide bring to life the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. Illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies, the series documents 34 teachers and their students in K–12 classrooms around the country as they study nine languages across a range of competency levels. Here are some examples of what you’ll see: Second-graders express their likes and dislikes for vegetables through drawings in an Arabic lesson that naturally connects with art. Third-graders learn about the seasons and German holidays as they practice basic reading skills and build cultural knowledge in their German class. Eighth-graders explore a traditional Cajun folktale and then try their hand at playing zydeco music in their French class. Tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-graders in a multilevel Japanese class create a travel brochure and promotional video to attract visitors to Japan. Twelfth-grade students of Spanish become Latin American artists and debate whether to exhibit their work in Spain in light of that country’s visa requirements. Lively and provocative, these videos are designed to inspire thoughtful discussion and reflection and provide the opportunity to learn from the successful practices of other teachers. Library Components Teaching Foreign Languages K–12: A Library of Classroom Practices includes the following components: Introduction to the Library (1 video, 30 minutes) An overview of the library and its components, and suggestions for using them Standards and the Five Cs An introduction to the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages Assessment Strategies Three case studies featuring foreign language teachers using innovative assessment methods (34 videos, ranging from 6 to 30 minutes each) Examples of best teaching practices in real foreign language classrooms across the country, subtitled in English Professional Development Guide Viewing and discussion guide for the video library, available on the Web and in print How to Use This Library Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 can be used for individual or group professional development. You can view the programs here. The web guide was designed to help you get the most out of each video. The guide is also available in print form and downloadable. If you are working in a group, discuss the questions provided in the guide; if you are working alone, write down your responses for later reflection. To help you get the most out of the videos, each unit of the professional development guide is organized into six parts: This section includes a short summary of the videotaped lesson, information about the teacher and students, a list of the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages addressed in the lesson, and the key terms relevant to the lesson. Use this information to determine which lessons will best meet your needs. 2 Class Context This section describes the school community, the teacher’s approach to lesson design, background on the lesson, and where the lesson fits within the course curriculum. This section also identifies the key teaching strategies evident in the lesson. Read this section before viewing the video. 3 Analyze the Video This section is divided into four parts: Before You Watch, Watch the Video, Reflect on the Video, and Look Closer (or Take a Second Look in the Arabic lessons). Before You Watch poses several questions to activate your current knowledge through reflection, discussion, or both. Watch the Video asks you to take notes on instructional strategies you find interesting, surprising, or especially important as you watch. Reflect on the Video presents questions to structure your review of your notes. Finally, Look Closer/Take a Second Look has you take a second look at specific teaching strategies within the video. 4 Connect to Your Teaching This section is divided into three parts: Reflect on Your Practice, Watch Other Videos, and Put It Into Practice. Reflect on Your Practice poses questions that help you connect the video lesson to your own teaching. Watch Other Videos recommends additional videos in the Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 library that illustrate teaching methodologies similar to those you’ve just seen. Put It Into Practice offers ideas on lesson design and activities you can try in your classroom. 5 Standards This section outlines the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages that correlate to the videotaped lesson. This section offers Web and print resources related to the lesson, including selected lesson materials seen in the video, curriculum references related to the teacher’s lesson design, and the teacher’s resource recommendations. Tips for Facilitators The following facilitator tips can enhance the professional development experience: Review the Web or print guide prior to running a study group or workshop. Print or photocopy the Introduction and Class Context sections of the lesson you will be viewing; have all participants read them prior to viewing the lesson. Use the suggested questions and include other questions that interest you and your colleagues. Allow enough time for participants to respond. Individual Program Descriptions Video Summaries This program provides an overview of the entire library, with suggestions for use in professional development settings. An introduction to and illustration of the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, this program shows how teachers can use the Standards to help their students advance in foreign language proficiency. This program offers a detailed look at assessment in the foreign language classroom. Three case studies feature foreign language teachers using innovative assessment methods such as the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) model, performance tasks, and backward design. Each of these case studies follows a teacher as she works through the process with her students, from setting guidelines and modeling to giving immediate and helpful feedback on performances. These 34 programs include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish language classrooms. All programs are subtitled in English and can provide insight into strategies and activities for K–12 teachers of any foreign language. The program descriptions below are organized by language. To view the programs by grade level, performance range, the Five Cs, or key teaching strategies, go to the Video Organizer Chart. Comparing the Weather Arabic, Grade 6: In this lesson, Wael Fawzy’s students compare weather in the Arab world with weather in Chicago and elsewhere. The lesson combines written activities, which reinforce Modern Standard Arabic, and presentational ones, which can facilitate the use of dialects. Mr. Fawzy has students practice dialects to prepare them for real-life encounters in Arabic-speaking countries. How We Spend Our Free Time Arabic I, Grade 8: Katie Quackenbush begins class with a game of musical “hot potato.” Students use the game to practice asking and answering questions using “you” and “I” before polling one another about what they like to do in their free time. Using the recorded data, students make bar graphs that will be used in the next class to compare their free-time activities with those of Saudi Arabian students. Arabic V/VI, Grades 9–12: Belal Joundeya’s multilevel class develops interpersonal communication skills as students make plans with one another. Through a series of paired and small-group activities, students discuss the possibility of meeting up for activities after school and on the weekend. Before class ends, students exchange emails with a native-speaking “friend” in Lebanon, who invites them to do something later in the day. Making Sales Calls Arabic I, Grades 9 and 11: In this lesson, Eric Bartolotti’s students practice using basic greetings and expressing likes and dislikes in a role-playing activity. Students pair up and adopt the roles of telemarketer and customer. Through simulated phone conversations, Mr. Bartolotti can informally assess students’ ability to express targeted functions and structures in spoken language. Arabic, Grade 1: Khamael Alaloom’s class of young, mostly heritage speakers learns about the people whose work helps the community at large. After showing students images of people and their professions, Mrs. Alaloom has students reinforce content learning and communication skills in a series of small- and large-group activities. A Place I Call Home Arabic II and III, Grades 9 and 10: Manar Mayalah takes her multilevel class on virtual tours of a traditional and a modern house in the Arab world. Students develop confidence with unit vocabulary through reading and writing activities. They then use what they’ve learned to describe their dream houses, first with a partner and then in front of the class. Vegetables We Like Arabic, Grade 2: After introducing vocabulary to her students, Rita Lahoud leads them through an art activity in which students draw pictures of vegetables they like and don’t like. Students discuss their drawings in pairs, and then Miss Lahoud invites groups to present their work to the class. Communicating About Sports Mandarin Chinese, Grade 6: In pairs and in small groups, Jie Gao’s students develop interpersonal communication skills as they state their sports likes and dislikes. They practice writing Chinese characters for an ongoing activity — a letter they are composing and sending to students in China. At the end of the lesson, the students create skits to perform for their classmates. Exploring New Directions Mandarin Chinese II-IV, Grades 9-12: In this lesson, Haiyan Fu’s multilevel class explores directions — in both the literal and metaphorical sense of the word. While Chinese IV students practice reciting Chinese cultural poems, students in Chinese II and III work on mapping the location of nearby restaurants and providing directions to them. A Cajun Folktale and Zydeco French, Grade 8: After preparing her students for new vocabulary, Paris Granville retells a Cajun folktale while students act out the story. Students then create a story map to delve into the different story elements. Ms. Granville introduces zydeco music and the instruments typically used to play it, such as the washboard, accordion, and spoons. French, Kindergarten: Jai Scott’s French immersion class uses the topic of chicken pox, from an Arthur book and a French song, and Total Physical Response (TPR) movements to learn new vocabulary for the parts of the body. The class practices emerging literacy skills to match vocabulary labels to a drawing of a person. Comparing Communities French III, Grades 9-12: Ghislaine Tulou’s students work in pairs to discuss aspects of their own community. They also discuss a Canadian community that they had read about, and plan what they would do there if they were to visit it. Through individual and group-centered activities, students learn to express conditional statements about personal preferences. French, Grade 5: In this two-part lesson, Debra Terry’s students integrate vocabulary about the family by creating an imaginary family tree. Then they develop more complex ideas by describing the location of the family members in different rooms of the home. For homework, students write about activities that take place in each room. Interpreting La Belle et la Bête French IV, Grade 11: Michel Pasquier focuses his class on interpreting film, literature, and music, using the traditional tale Beauty and the Beast. The students work in groups to find moral meaning in the 1946 Jean Cocteau classic film, and compare the film to the original story and to a French rap song. Mapping Planet Earth French, Grade 2: Stephanie Appel connects her French lessons to content and teaching materials in the general classroom curriculum. She employs TPR and map activities to practice vocabulary for the planets, continents, and oceans. Performing With Confidence French IV-V AP, Grades 10-12: This lesson focuses on advanced conversational proficiency with connections to social, political, and pop culture. Yvette Heno’s students play word games, discuss French politics, and stage a mock TV talk show with students portraying celebrities and journalists. Touring a French City French, Grade 8: Prior to this lesson, Robin Neuman’s students researched French architecture and constructed a model of a French city on the classroom floor. During the lesson, students take turns role-playing tourists asking for directions and tourist bureau agents giving directions and describing the buildings and the city. German, Grade 3: Margita Haberlen’s lesson combines the topics of seasons and German holidays to reinforce basic reading skills, build cultural knowledge, and introduce more abstract thinking. Using a Venn diagram, students compare aspects of Fasching and Halloween. Sports in Action German I, Grades 9-11: Denise Tanner guides her students through graduated activities including a TPR vocabulary review of the parts of the body, a grammar segment teaching the German structure gefallen, and a discussion of the German medals won at the 2002 Winter Olympics. As a culminating activity, students act out a TPR story in front of the class. Sports Stats German, Grade 5: In Amy Garcia’s German class, students write in journals, listen as classmates share their sports preferences, take a poll on sports likes and dislikes, and record the class results on a graph. Using a chart showing the favorite sports of young Germans, Ms. Garcia makes connections to math by having students analyze statistical data in the chart. U.S. and Italian Homes Italian II, Grade 9: In this lesson, Marylee DiGennaro’s students compare American homes with typical dwellings in Italy. The class learns new vocabulary, then practices them during a line dance and a card game. For homework, the students compose letters describing their homes, which they will email to students in Italy. Japanese, Grade 5: This lesson focuses on individuals’ daily routines in Japan and in the U.S. Margaret Dyer uses a variety of activities, including TPR, modeling, pairs practice, and student-led charades, to introduce and review new vocabulary and concepts. Japanese II, Grades 10-12: Students learn about some common products and practices of the Japanese New Year’s celebration. Leslie Birkland divides her class into two main groups: One sings New Year’s songs, writes cards, and plays cultural games, while the other splits into smaller groups to discuss New Year’s food and decorations. Then the two main groups switch activities. After the two groups have participated in both sets of activities, the class reconvenes to compare the Japanese New Year’s celebration with those of other cultures. Promoting Attractions of Japan Japanese III-IV, Grades 10-12: As part of a larger unit on the geography and culture of Japan, students learn about that country’s major regions and cities and discuss some of its popular tourist destinations. Using timed activities, including a fast-paced Jeopardy-style quiz game, Yo Azama assesses students on recall and recognition. As a culminating project, students create a travel brochure and begin planning a promotional video to attract visitors to Japan. Music and Manuscripts Latin II-III, IV AP, Grades 10-12: Lauri Dabbieri’s class explores how Latin manuscripts are interpreted, translated, and created. Latin IV students work independently to translate a passage from Vergil’s Aeneid, while students in Latin II and III are guided through activities in translation and interpretation. Then the whole class works in pairs to create their own versions of illuminated Latin manuscripts. Russian Cities, Russian Stories Russian I and IV, Grades 9-12: In this unique, mixed-level class, Jane Shuffelton’s students work on geography skills, story writing, and presentations. Russian IV students are paired with small groups of Russian I students to read a story, gather information, and write their own folktales. Each group shares its tale while the remaining students use their interpretive skills to write down specific information. In a separate activity, Russian IV students debate the role of the leader in Russian history after reading an article about Russian president Vladimir Putin. Creating Travel Advice Spanish III, Grade 11: In this lesson, Fran Pettigrew gives her students a letter from a teacher in Chile who plans to bring students to visit the United States. Working with authentic tourist brochures in Spanish and drawing on prior research, student groups plan itineraries for their Chilean counterparts. They prepare to send a follow-up letter to the Chilean teacher, sharing their suggestions. Food Facts and Stories Spanish I, Grade 8: Students use math and science skills as they interpret nutritional information in a Spanish-language McDonald’s menu. John Pedini’s lesson integrates authentic materials, makes connections to other academic areas, and develops interpretive and interpersonal communication skills. Fruits of the Americas Spanish, Grade 4: Teacher Carina Rodriguez combines visual media and multisensory activities in a vocabulary-building lesson about familiar and unfamiliar fruits. Students learn which country each fruit comes from, try to identify it solely through touch, and taste the fruit to categorize it as sweet or sour. Hearing Authentic Voices Spanish, Grade 8: Davita Alston’s class engages in mock phone conversations, brainstorms about how American teenagers occupy their free time, and reviews a video of Spanish-speaking youth discussing their leisure activities. Later, two native Mexican students visit the class and answer questions about how they spend their free time in Mexico. Interpreting Literature Spanish III, Grade 11: This lesson centers on the story Dos caras by New Mexico author Sabine Ulibarri. Barbara Pope Bennett guides students as they recount the details and discuss their interpretations of the story and its moral message. Students act out segments of the story and then collaborate in groups to come up with alternate endings. The class also listens to a student’s oral presentation about a local artist. Interpreting Picasso’s Guernica Spanish II, Grade 10: In this lesson, students use their interpretive abilities to learn about culture and history through art. The students in Meghan Zingle’s class make initial observations about Picasso’s painting, and then work in pairs to write and present a mock radio announcement about it. After reading about the painting’s background, they discuss the history it represents. Politics of Art Spanish V, Grade 12: Lori Langer de Ramirez’s class stages a political debate based on Spain’s visa requirement for Central and South Americans who wish to enter that country. During the debate, students assume the role of Latin American artists whose work they had researched, and weigh the pros and cons of boycotting an invitation to exhibit their work in Spain. After the debate, the class votes on whether to accept the Spanish invitation. Routes to Culture Spanish II, Grades 9-10: This culturally rich lesson falls in the middle of a thematic unit about the African presence in Latin America. Pablo Muirhead’s students identify cultural aspects of stories about a fictitious African girl who is taken to Panama and enslaved. Then they work in small groups to incorporate these cultural aspects into skits to be performed by their classmates. The class also practices playing African/Latin American box drums called los cajones. World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages Language and communication are at the heart of the human experience. The United States must educate students who are equipped linguistically and culturally to communicate successfully in a pluralistic American society and abroad. This imperative envisions a future in which ALL students will develop and maintain proficiency in English and at least one other language, modern or classical. Children who come to school from non-English-speaking backgrounds should also have opportunities to develop further proficiencies in their first language. Statement of Philosophy — World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages In 1993, four professional organizations (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, American Association of Teachers of French, American Association of Teachers of German, and American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) began development of national standards for foreign language learning. The organizations appointed a task force, representing a variety of languages, levels of instruction, program models, and geographic regions, to define the content standards — what students should know and be able to do — in foreign language education in grades K–12. In 1996, with extensive input from the broader professional community, the task force published Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century. The document identifies five goal areas: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities—called the Five Cs. Each goal area contains two to three content standards that describe the knowledge and abilities all students should have by the end of high school. The Standards are designed to inform state and local standards and curriculum frameworks of the recommended approaches and expectations for each school or district. In 1999, with help from seven additional professional organizations, the task force expanded the document to include language-specific standards. This became the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. In 2015, the original Standards were revised to the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. The revisions emphasize how learning world languages supports literacy development and real-world applications. The classrooms in the Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 library present examples of the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages in action. The Introduction page of each lesson’s Web or print guide lists the Standards addressed by that lesson—those that are most evident in the lesson or that students in beginning language classes are taking first steps toward developing. Standards that are only briefly touched upon in a lesson are not listed for that lesson. To learn more about the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, view “Standards and the Five Cs.” The video provides an introduction to and illustration of the goal areas and Standards, using clips from classrooms in the Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 library. Use the Standards and the Five Cs Web or print guide to inspire group discussion and personal reflection as you view the video. For purchasing information of the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, go to General Resources. Advanced Placement is a program sponsored by the College Board. The AP program gives students the opportunity to take college-level courses in a high school setting; passing the course exam may earn them college credit or advanced standing. AP courses follow guidelines developed and published by the College Board. affective filter The affective filter hypothesis (Dulay, Krashen, and Burt, 1982) describes the need for second-language learning to occur in an environment of low anxiety, to encourage the processing and learning of new information. Dulay, Heidi, Stephen D. Krashen, and Mariana Burt. Language Two. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1982. authentic materials Authentic materials are resources that have been developed specifically for native speakers. These include print, audio, and visual materials. backward planning In backward planning, also called backward design, the teacher plans a unit or lesson by first identifying the desired end task or product, then working in reverse to identify the prerequisite learning tasks and benchmark assessments. character dictation A character language such as Chinese does not use an alphabet for sound/symbol correspondence, but rather integrates both meaning and pronunciation in its characters. Character dictation can be used to build character recognition and sound/symbol correspondence. The teacher or a student dictates characters to the class to build familiarity with individual characters’ meaning and to practice creating sentences in various contexts. A form of a language used among people who live in the same geographical area or who share the same social identity. While language instruction traditionally emphasizes a “standard” form of a language, to more effectively communicate linguistically and culturally, instruction should also incorporate dialect elements within the curriculum to reflect the actual/authentic ways in which people communicate day-to-day. Foreign Language Exploratory Program (FLEX) This elementary/middle school model introduces learners to one or more languages. The primary focus is an introduction to language learning, awareness of culture, appreciation of language/culture study, and motivation to further language study. Exposure to a single language may take place from one to several days a week over six to nine weeks. FLEX programs are topic oriented with a strong focus on vocabulary. They are not intended to be part of a sequence of instruction; after completing a FLEX program, students go on to a beginning language program. See also Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES). Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) This elementary school model organizes instruction around a scope and sequence taught by a qualified foreign language teacher. Its goals include developing language proficiency with an emphasis on oral skills, as well as providing a gradual introduction to literacy, building cultural knowledge, and tying language learning to the content of the early grades’ curriculum. FLES programs vary, especially in the number of meetings per week or minutes per session. See also Foreign Language Exploratory Program (FLEX). formal assessment During a formal assessment, all students in a class are evaluated in the same manner. Their examination involves the same content, format (for example, chapter test or oral report), and testing conditions (for example, length of time). Results are reported as a grade or a score and are used to determine individual students’ abilities in a specific area of learning. Fossilization refers to the linguistic phenomenon in which students internalize “incorrect” or “non-standard” forms of the language to the degree that they become habits of speech not easily corrected. heritage speaker A heritage speaker is a student who is exposed to a language other than English at home. Heritage speakers can be categorized based on the prominence and development of the heritage language in the student’s daily life. Some students have full oral fluency and literacy in the home language; others may have full oral fluency but their written literacy was not developed because they were schooled in English. Another group of students — typically third- or fourth-generation — can speak to a limited degree but cannot express themselves on a wide range of topics. Students from any of these categories may also have gaps in knowledge about their cultural heritage. Teachers who have heritage speakers of the target language in their class should assess which proficiencies need to be maintained and which need to be developed further. See also native speaker. In this model, most commonly found in elementary schools, general academic content (the primary educational goal) is taught in the target language, and language proficiency is a parallel outcome. Individual districts design their programs such that English is introduced at a given grade level, with a gradually increasing percentage of time given to English language instruction. Partial immersion programs differ in the amount of time and number of courses taught in English and in the target language. During an informal assessment, a teacher evaluates students’ progress while they are participating in a learning activity, for example, a small-group discussion. Results are typically used to make decisions about what to do next, namely, whether the students are ready to move on or whether they need more practice with the material. information gap Information gap is a questioning technique in which learners respond to a question whose answer is unknown to the questioner. This contrasts with “display questions” that seek obvious responses. Example of an information gap question: What did you buy at the mall? Example of a display question: What color is your sweater? Used in one of the three Japanese writing systems, kanji are the characters drawn from the Chinese writing system. Approximately 2,000 kanji, many with multiple meanings, are needed to read materials written for adults in Japanese. kindergarten benchmarks Kindergarten benchmarks identify what young learners should achieve during kindergarten. They include awareness of body parts, letter and some word recognition, control of tools such as crayons and scissors, and more. learner-centered classroom A classroom in which a teacher works with students to develop, implement, and evaluate learning goals based on students’ interests and unique needs. In this way, students have a voice not only in what they learn but also in why, when, how, and with whom they learn it. In a learner-centered classroom, the teacher facilitates rather than instructs, allowing learners greater opportunity to collaborate with peers in the target language. native speaker A native speaker considers the target language to be his or her first language. Teachers seek opportunities for students to communicate in person or through technology with native speakers. Students in foreign language classes who are first- or second-generation immigrants and who use the language extensively outside the classroom are also considered native speakers. These students typically maintain the cultural norms of their heritage in certain situations. See also heritage speaker. negotiation of meaning In this process, teachers and students try to convey information to one another and reach mutual comprehension through restating, clarifying, and confirming information. The teacher may help students get started or work through a stumbling block using linguistic and other approaches. During a performance assessment, students demonstrate their ability to use the target language in real-world activities, namely, things that native speakers might do. For example, students might create a newspaper, respond to a want ad, or conduct an interview to learn about a cultural topic. Teachers can evaluate the performance using a rubric and/or assign traditional grades. The ACTFL Performance Descriptors for Language Learners and the NCSSFL–ACTFL Can-Do Statements (derived from the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012) describe the language outcomes for students in standards-based language programs. The performance levels include Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced. Learners in the Novice range operate primarily with learned and practiced material. Learners in the Intermediate range use language to create with language on familiar topics. While operating primarily at the sentence level, they begin to expand and string sentences together as they build narrative skills. Learners in the Advanced range are able to sustain narration and description in past, present, and future tense and in a range of content areas. See also proficiency level. proficiency level Proficiency describes how well a person functions in a language. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages further defines proficiency with a set of guidelines for assessing communicative abilities. The guidelines cover how an individual performs across three criteria: function, content/context, and accuracy. When combined, these criteria determine the student’s communicative ability to be Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, or Superior. See also performance level. realia Realia are materials that are highly visual, contextualized, and culturally authentic. Realia can include posters, advertisements, labels, schedules, tickets, placemats, and more. Role-playing is an activity in which students dramatize characters or pretend that they are in new locations or situations. This activity challenges students by having them use language in new contexts. spiraling Spiraling is the process of teaching a theme or language rule to different levels of learners by creating multiple tasks that are increasingly complex. For example, a lesson on weather can be spiraled as follows: (1) Novice students can describe the weather in short formulaic sentences; (2) Intermediate students can talk about the weather and its effect on their activities, or gather information from broadcasts or newspapers; and (3) Pre-Advanced students can tell a story about a frightening weather-related event or follow a description of weather in a literary piece. A story map is a graphic organizer that leads students to discover specific elements from a written or oral text. It is built upon common elements such as characters and characteristics, place, plot, resolution, and moral or lesson, or a “who, what, when, where, how, and why” format. Thematic units are designed using content as the organizing principle. Vocabulary, structures, and cultural information are included as they relate to the themes in each unit. For an excellent example of theme-based units, see the Nebraska Foreign Language Education Web site in General Resources. Total Physical Response (TPR) Developed by Asher, Kusudo, and de la Torre (1974), TPR is an approach for teaching vocabulary that appeals to learners’ kinesthetic-sensory system. First, the teacher introduces new vocabulary words and establishes their meaning through corresponding actions and gestures. Students mimic the teacher’s actions as they learn the words, and eventually demonstrate comprehension through the actions and gestures. Ultimately, the language is extended to written forms, and students begin to respond verbally. Research evidence attests to the effectiveness of TPR for learning and retaining vocabulary. See also Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS). Asher, J., J. Kusudo, and R. de la Torre. “Learning a Second Language Through Commands: The Second Field Test.” Modern Language Journal 58 (1974): 24-32. Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) This adaptation of TPR adds the element of storytelling and uses the story narrative or episodic structures to build meaningful comprehension. The technique begins with the teacher telling a story and using actions and gestures to introduce new vocabulary. As students listen to the story, they confirm their understanding by repeating the actions: First they perform the actions for specific events and then recreate the whole story. Once the story is understood, students take over the narrative task, either as a group or individually. See also Total Physical Response (TPR). A Venn diagram is a type of graphic organizer consisting of two partially overlapping circles. A Venn diagram helps learners see the similarities and differences between two topics. Each circle represents one topic (for example, “U.S.” and “Target Culture”). Common characteristics are recorded in the overlapping area between the circles. Information unique to each topic is recorded in the area outside the overlap. The Venn diagram is a strong visual support for concrete and abstract comparisons. Provides options to purchase the Standards in multiple formats Foreign Language Teaching Forum Features a collection of Web resources for foreign language teachers World Languages Lesson Plans Features lesson plans created for foreign language classes The Internet Picture Dictionary An online, multilingual picture dictionary designed for language learners of all ages Language Exchange Community An online community that creates opportunities for language exchange among language learners across 115 different languages Language Resources Directory Offers links to resources for teaching and learning foreign languages, such as study abroad programs, reference materials, and Web forums Nebraska Foreign Language Education Presents the Nebraska Frameworks document, which includes good examples of thematic units State and Local Foreign Language Standards Provides links to many state and local foreign language curriculum frameworks The National Standards Collaborative Board. (2015). World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. 4th ed. Alexandria, VA: Author. To purchase the Standards, go to https://www.actfl.org/publications/all/world-readiness-standards-learning-languages (or standards4languages.org). Brown, H. Douglas. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson ESL, 2000. Hadley, Alice Omaggio. Teaching Language in Context. 3rd ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2001. Lee, James F., and Bill VanPatten. Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 1995. Shrum, Judith L., and Eileen W. Glisan. Teacher’s Handbook Revised: Contextualized Language Instruction. 2nd ed. Boston: Thomson/Heinle, 2000. 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Session 0 Introduction to the Library This program provides an overview of the entire library, with suggestions for use in professional development settings Session 1 Arabic: Teaching Arabic Overview Provides background on the standards with commentary by teaching experts and clips from the classroom programs. Session 2 Arabic: People Who Help Us Arabic Grade 1: Khamael Alaloom introduces her class to people who help in the community and teaches students a new letter of the alphabet. She projects images of community helpers and reviews their names and what they do. Session 3 Arabic: Vegetables We Like Arabic Grade 2: Rita Lahoud’s Art and Arabic students draw pictures of vegetables they like and don’t like. Students discuss in pairs what they drew and then present their drawings to the full class. Session 4 Arabic: Comparing the Weather Arabic Grade 6: Wael Fawzy’s class learns about the weather in the Arab world and practices speaking and writing using dialects. Mr. Fawzy shows slides of the weather in Chicago and Egypt and asks students about the weather in each place and then has them develop questions of their own. Session 5 Arabic: How We Spend Our Free Time Grade 8, Arabic I: In a unit on hobbies, Katie Quackenbush’s novice-level students practice asking and answering questions about what they like to do in their free time. In a small-group activity, students picks a card and asks classmates whether they like doing the activity pictured. Students then poll one another about their free-time activities. Session 6 Arabic: A Place I Call Home Grades 9 and 10, Arabic II/III: In a lesson rich with music and visuals, students learn vocabulary to describe the rooms and exterior features of modern and traditional houses in Arab countries. Manar Mayalah introduces the lesson with a song about a “dear little house,” then shows videos of a traditional house in Syria and a modern house in Lebanon. Session 7 Arabic: Making Sales Calls Grades 9 and 11, Arabic I: Eric Bartolotti’s high school class of novice and heritage speakers use basic greetings and express likes and dislikes through a role-playing activity. Students pair off, assuming the roles of telemarketers and prospective customers. Session 8 Arabic: Making Plans Grades 9–12, Arabic V/VI: Students converse about what they will be doing in the future, in pairs and expanding to a group of four. Belal Joundeya presents a scenario in which two celebrities negotiate their busy schedules to agree on a dinner date, and then he role plays a similar situation with a student volunteer. Session 9 Chinese: Communicating About Sports Chinese I, grade 6: In pairs and in small groups, Jie Gao's students develop interpersonal communication skills as they state their sports likes and dislikes. They practice writing Chinese characters for an ongoing activity — a letter they are composing and sending to Chinese students. At the end of the lesson, the students create skits to perform for their classmates. Session 10 Chinese: Exploring New Directions Chinese II - IV, grades 9 - 12: In this lesson, Haiyan Fu's multilevel class explores direction - both literally and metaphorically. While Chinese IV students practice reciting Chinese cultural poems, students in Chinese II and III work on mapping the locations of nearby restaurants and providing directions to them. Session 11 French: A Cajun Folktale and Zydeco French I, grade 8: After preparing her students for new vocabulary, Paris Granville retells a Cajun folktale while students act out the story. Students then create a story map to delve into the different story elements. Ms. Granville introduces zydeco music and the instruments typically used to create it, such as the washboard, accordion, and spoons. Session 12 French: Chicken Pox French I, kindergarten: Jai Scott's French immersion class uses the topic of chicken pox, from an Arthur book and a French song, and total physical response (TPR) movements to learn new vocabulary for the parts of the body. The class practices emerging literacy skills by matching vocabulary labels to a drawing of a person. Session 13 French: Comparing Communities French III, grades 9 - 12: Ghislaine Tulou's students work in pairs to discuss aspects of their own community. They also discuss a Canadian community that they had read about and plan what they would do if they were to visit. Through individual and group-centered activities, students learn to express conditional statements about personal preferences. session 14 French: Family and Home French I, grade 5: In this two-part lesson, Debra Terry's students integrate vocabulary about the family by creating an imaginary family tree. Then they develop more complex ideas by describing the location of family members in different rooms of the home. For homework, students write about activities that take place in each room. session 15 French: Interpreting La Belle et la Bete French IV, grade 11: Michel Pasquier focuses his class on interpreting and adapting film, literature, and music, using the classic tale Beauty and the Beast. The students work in groups to find moral meaning in the 1945 Jean Cocteau classic film and compare the film to the original story and a French rap song. session 16 French: Mapping Planet Earth French I, grade 2: Stephanie Appel connects her French lessons to content and teaching materials in the general classroom curriculum. She employs TPR and map activities to practice vocabulary for the planets, continents, and oceans. session 17 French: Performing With Confidence French IV - V, grades 10 - 12: This lesson focuses on advanced conversation proficiency with connections to social, political, and pop culture. Yvette Heno's students play word games, discuss French politics, and stage a mock press conference with students portraying celebrities and journalists. session 18 French: Touring a French City French I, grade 8: Prior to this lesson, Robin Neuman's students researched French architecture and constructed a model of a French city on the classroom floor. During the lesson, students take turns role-playing tourists asking for directions and tourist bureau agents giving directions and describing the buildings and the city. session 19 German: Holidays and Seasons German I, grade 3: Margita Haberlen's lesson combines the topics of seasons and German holidays to reinforce basic reading skills, build cultural knowledge, and introduce more abstract thinking. Using a Venn diagram, students compare aspects of Fasching and Halloween. session 20 German: Sports in Action German I, grades 9 - 11: Denise Tanner guides her students through graduated activities including a TPR vocabulary review of the body, a grammar segment teaching the German structure gefallen, and a discussion of the German medals won at the 2002 Winter Olympics. As a culminating activity, students act out a TPR story in front of the class. session 21 German: Sports Stats German I, grade 5: In Amy Garcia's German class, students write in journals, listen as classmates share their sports preferences, take a poll on sports likes and dislikes, and record the class results on a graph. Using a chart showing the favorite sports of young Germans, Ms. Garcia makes connections to math by having students analyze the data. session 22 Italian: U.S. and Italian Homes Italian II, grade 9: In this lesson, Marylee DiGennaro's students compare American homes with typical dwellings in Italy. The class learns new vocabulary words, then practices them during a line dance and a card game. For homework, the students compose letters describing their homes, which they will email to students in Italy. session 23 Japanese: Daily Routines Japanese I, grade 5: This lesson focuses on the daily routines of individuals in Japan and the U.S. Margaret Dyer uses a variety of activities including TPR, modeling, paired practice, and student-led charades to introduce and review new vocabulary and concepts. session 24 Japanese: Happy New Year! Japanese II, grades 10 - 12: Students learn about some common products and practices of the Japanese New Year's celebration. Leslie Birkland's class splits into two groups: One sings New Year's songs, writes cards, and plays cultural games, while the other discusses New Year's food and decorations. After switching activities, the class reconvenes to compare the Japanese New Year's celebration with those of other cultures. session 25 Japanese: Promoting Attractions of Japan Japanese III - IV, grades 10 - 12: As part of a larger unit on the geography and culture of Japan, students learn the major regions and cities and discuss popular tourist destinations. Using timed activities, including a fast-paced Jeopardy-style quiz game, Yo Azama, 2012 ACTFL Teacher of the Year, assesses students on recall and recognition. As a culminating project, students create a travel brochure and begin planning a promotional video to attract visitors to Japan. session 26 Latin: Music and Manuscripts Latin II - III, IV AP, grades 10 - 12: Lauri Dabbieri's class explores how Latin manuscripts are interpreted, translated, and created. Latin IV students work independently to translate a passage from Vergil's Aeneid, while students in Latin II and III are guided through activities in translation and interpretation. Then the whole class works in pairs to create their own versions of illuminated Latin manuscripts. session 27 Russian: Russian Cities, Russian Stories Russian I and IV, grades 9 - 12: In this unique mixed-level class, Jane Shuffelton's students work on geography skills, story writing, and presentations. Russian IV students are paired with small groups of Russian I students to read a story, gather information, and write their own folktales. Each group shares their tale while the remaining students use their interpretive skills to write down specific information. In a separate activity, Russian IV students debate the role of the leader in Russian history after reading an article about Vladimir Putin. session 28 Spanish: Creating Travel Advice Spanish III, grade 11: In this lesson, Fran Pettigrew gives her students a letter from a teacher in Chile who plans to bring students to visit the United States. Working with authentic tourist brochures in Spanish and their previous research, student groups plan itineraries for their Chilean counterparts. They prepare to send a follow-up letter to the Chilean teacher sharing their suggestions. session 29 Spanish: Food Facts and Stories Spanish I, grade 8: Students use math and science skills as they interpret nutritional information in a Spanish-language McDonald's menu. John Pedini's lesson integrates authentic materials, makes connections to other academic areas, and develops interpretive and interpersonal communication skills. session 30 Spanish: Fruits of the Americas Spanish I, grade 4: Teacher Carina Rodriguez combines visual media and multisensory activities in a vocabulary-building lesson about familiar and new fruit. Students learn what country the fruit comes from, try to identify the fruit solely through touch, and taste the fruit to categorize it as sweet or sour. session 31 Spanish: Hearing Authentic Voices Spanish I, grade 8: Davita Alston's class engages in mock phone conversations, brainstorms about how American teenagers occupy their time, and reviews a video of Spanish-speaking youths discussing their leisure activities. Later, two native Mexican students visit the class and answer questions about how they spend their free time in Mexico. session 32 Spanish: Interpreting Literature Spanish III, grade 11: This lesson centers on the story Dos Caras by the New Mexican author Sabine Ulibarri. Barbara Pope Bennett guides students as they recount the details and discuss their interpretations of the story and its moral message. Students act out segments of the story and then collaborate in groups to come up with alternate endings. session 33 Spanish: Interpreting Picasso’s Guernica Spanish II, grade 10: In this lesson, students use their interpretive abilities to learn about culture and history through art. The students in Meghan Zingle's class make initial observations about Picasso's painting, and then work in pairs to write and present a mock radio announcement about it. After reading about the painting's background, they discuss the history it represents. session 34 Spanish: Politics of Art Spanish V, grade 12: Lori Langer de Ramirez's class stages a political debate based on Spain's visa requirement for Central and South Americans who wish to enter that country. During the debate, students assume the role of Latin American artists whose work they had researched and weigh the pros and cons of boycotting an invitation to exhibit their work in Spain. After the debate, the class votes on whether or not to accept the Spanish invitation. session 35 Spanish: Routes to Culture Spanish II, grades 9 - 10: This culturally rich lesson falls in the middle of a thematic unit about the African presence in Latin America. Pablo Muirhead's students identify cultural aspects of stories about a fictitious African girl who is taken to Panama and enslaved. Then they work in small groups to incorporate these cultural aspects into skits to be performed by their classmates. The class also practices playing African/Latin American box drums called los cajones.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2816
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Exit and special exit examinations for professional courses will be developed by the respective course clusters handling the critical course series or the group of stand-alone courses. Exit Examination System for Physics, Mathematics, and General Chemistry The exit examination system in mathematics and physics will be applicable to all science and engineering programs that require licensure examinations. The exit examination system in general chemistry will be applicable only to programs where chemistry is an integral part of the licensure examination: BS Chemical Engineering; BS Chemistry; the double degree program in Biotechnology and Chemistry; and the double degree program in Geology and Geological Science and Engineering. Supercritical Courses Supercritical courses are those with great contribution and impact to the licensure examination. Critical Course Series A course series is a succession of courses interconnected by flow content. A critical course series is a course series, the content of which is part of the syllabus of a licensure examination. The critical course series in mathematics, physics, and general chemistry in a science or engineering program requiring a licensure examination are schematically shown below. Critical course series in Mathematics Critical course series in Physics Critical course series in General Chemistry Diagnostic Examination In a critical course series, diagnostic examination will be given from the second course up to the terminal course in the series. The coverage of the diagnostic examination is cumulative up to the curricular content of the course immediately preceding the one during which the exam will be given as shown in the table. Course in which Diagnostic Exam is given in Mathematics Examination Coverage Plane and Solid Geometry Algebra and Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Algebra, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Solid Mensuration, and Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry Algebra, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Solid Mensuration, Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry, and Differential Calculus Algebra, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Solid Mensuration, Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry, Differential Calculus, and Integral Calculus Course in which Diagnostic Exam is given in Physics General Physics 2 General Physics 1 and General Physics 2 General Physics 1, General Physics 2, and General Physics 3 Course in which Diagnostic Exam is given in General Chemistry General Chemistry 2 General Chemistry 1 and General Chemistry 2 The method in giving the examination will be decided on by the Department of Mathematics for mathematics courses; Department of Physics for general physics courses; and School of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry for general chemistry courses. The diagnostic examination will be considered as one quiz. Exit Examination All exit examinations will be administered every time the terminal course is offered: multivariable calculus for mathematics, general physics 4 for general physics, and general chemistry 3 for chemistry. The portion of the terminal course and the whole cumulative scope of the other courses in the critical course series will be the coverage of the exit examination. The caretaker department or the school can schedule additional examination dates, if needed. A student must get a score of at least 70% to pass an exit examination. A passing mark in an exit examination is one of the prerequisites to enrol in an advanced course or a correlation course. There is no limit as to the number of times a student can retake an exit examination. Ad-hoc examination committees will be formed to formulate the questions to be given in the exit examination. The members of the examination committee for mathematics will be selected from among the faculty members teaching advanced engineering mathematics or graduate-level mathematics course. Selected faculty members teaching relevant professional courses will be chosen as members of the ad-hoc examination committee for general physics. Selected faculty members teaching advanced or graduate-level chemistry course will be chosen as members of the ad-hoc examination committee for general chemistry. The ad-hoc examination committees will also be responsible for the screening of the contributions to the examination databank. At the beginning of every quarter, students who intend to take the exit exams will have to go to the Customer Service Section of the Registrar’s Office for billing. Two weeks after the examinations, the results will be posted on the individual My-Mapua account of the students. The Office of Instruction will be the overall administrator of the exit examination system. The caretaker schools or departments are the Department of Mathematics for mathematics, the Department of Physics for general physics, and the School of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry for general chemistry. The Center for Student Advising will develop review materials and conduct remedial review classes. The final grade of a student in any course shall be as follows: Grade Symbols Meaning 1.25 Highly Meritorious 1.50 Meritorious 2.00 Very Satisfactory 2.50 Satisfactory 3.00 Lowest Passing Grade 5.00 Failure I Incomplete ABS Absent W Official Withdrawal IP In Progress P Passed F Failed SA Special Audit Au Audit For regular courses, the final grade is based on the following requirements: Quizzes and major exams Class standing Note : The exact percentage distribution of each item above is shown in the course syllabus of the program. The grading system shall not apply to special courses that require a modified grading system as determined by the office of the dean. THE GRADE OF 5.00 (FAILURE) The grade of 5.00 is given to: To those students whose performance is poor. To those students whose midterm grades are failing and who stop attending their classes after the midterm examinations. To those students who stop attending their classes any time without officially dropping their courses through the Office of the Registrar. To those students who have accumulated a number of absences equivalent to 20% of the prescribed number of school days in one (1) quarter THE GRADE OF ABS (ABSENT) The grade of ABS is given to a student who is officially enrolled in a course but failed to report in his class even once since the beginning of the term. The grade of ABS shall be considered as a grade of “5” in the computation of the weighted average for one (1) quarter. THE GRADE OF "I" (INCOMPLETE) The grade of "I" is equivalent to an incomplete grade and is not a mark of conditional failure. The grade of "I" should only be given under the following conditions: The student was not able to take the final examination because of justifiable reason, provided that his class standing is passing before the final examination The student was not able to submit the terminal or capstone project a a design, feasibility study, or a similar course In case of extraordinary or special circumstances, the Dean or Department head can approved the request, on a case-to-case basis, after weighing all factors and considerations which would properly justify the giving of a grade of "I". A grade of "I" for a course outside the program of study of a student shall not affect his/her scholarship privileges. A grade of "I" for a course within the program of study shall disqualify a student from his/her academic scholarship. A grade of "I" shall not be included in the computation of the general weighted average for a particular quarter. No general weighted average shall be reflected in the grade report if all courses for a particular quarter are given a grade of "I". The grade of "I" must be completed within the next two (2) quarters. If the student fails to complete the requirements within the prescribed period, the grade of "I" lapses and the student will be given a failing mark of 5 for the course. During the prescribed period of completion, the student may re-enroll the course in lieu of completing the requuirements; in such case, he will have to repeat the same course and satisfy all its requirements, and the grade he will receive from the re-enrolled course will be his completion grade. Permit to complete form (available at the Customer Service Section of the Office of the Registrar) Completion form signed by the professor concerned Payment for completion of grade THE GRADE OF P (PASSED) The Grade of P shall be given only for dissertation, thesis or research practicum course. The grade of P shall not be included in the computation of the general weighted average for a particular quarter. THE GRADE OF IP (IN PROGRESS) The grade of IP shall be given only for dissertation, thesis or research practicum course which is not finished during the prescribed term. The grade of IP shall be replaced by the final grade P or F once the course is completed. The procedures for the completion of the grade of IP and the grade of "I" are the same. The grade of IP shall always appear in the students course load every quarter until he/she completes the dissertation, thesis or research practicum course. While the student need not to pay the tuition fee for this course in this particular situatuin, the dissertation, thesis or research practicum course units will be considered in the computation of the total units enrolled by the student for a particular term. The grade of IP shall appear in the final rade report of the student every quarter until it is completed and given a final grade of P or F. The grade of IP must be completed within one (1) year for undergraduate and masteral programs and three (3) years for doctoral programs. After such period, the student must re-enroll the course. The grade of IP shall not be included in the computation of the general weighted average for a particular term. THE GRADE of IP (IN PROGRESS) FOR BS NURSING A grade of IP (in progress) is given to students enrolled in Part A components of the Nursing professional courses (both lecture and RLE) and who are not in any of the following: A grade of ABS is given if student did not attend any of the meetings. A grade of W is automatically given if student officially applied for withdrawal of course A grade of 5.0 is given if student stopped attending classes without official withdrawal of course or cancellation of enrolment. In the succeeding term, the grades in Part B components of the same courses are submitted and are likewise reflected as the same grades obtained by the student in the Part A components. However, if the grade in Part B is I (incomplete), the grade of IP in Part A is retained. THE GRADE OF F (FAILED) The grade of F shall be given only for dissertation, thesis or research practicum course. The grade of F shall be considered as a grade of 5 in the computation of the weighted average for the quarter. THE GRADE of SA (SPECIAL AUDIT) The grade of SA is given to students with very slim chance of passing the course. Students are advised by the faculty to apply for SA at the Registrar’s Office. The grade of SA is given only on the condition that they continue to attend the class till the end of the quarter. Students with a SA grade do not qualify for awards and scholarships. Students with a SA grade will not be given tuition discount privileges. All audit courses will be given a grade of “Au”. This grade will not be included in the computation of quarterly weighted average. OFFICIAL WITHDRAWAL OF COURSES A student desiring to withdraw a course must do so not later than the deadline set by the Office of the Registrar. Any student who is allowed by the Registrar to withdraw the course for justifiable reasons shall be given a grade of W (OFFICIAL WITHDRAWAL). A student wishing to withdraw a course must fill out the request form at the Customer Service Section of the Office of the Registrar. A student caught cheating during the examination shall not be allowed to withdraw a course; he must be reported to the Center for Student Activities and Discipline (CSAD) for proper action. Students who intend to withdraw a course shall obtain clearance from the CSAD and the Office of the Registrar. A student may withdraw any course except PE and NSTP. Request to withdraw the course should not violate the ff: the prerequisite course regulation the paired lecture and lab/field/drafting courses regulation Withdrawal of a lecture course that is a corequisite of a laboratory course constitutes withdrawing both the lecture and the laboratory courses In cases wherein the student fails to officially withdraw a course, the faculty member shall be guided by the following: The student shall be given a final grade of "5" (FAILURE). The student shall be given a final grade of ABS (ABSENT) if he failed to report in his class since the beginning of the term. The grade of W can neither be removed nor completed. It has no bearing on the rules regarding refunds or payments made as stipulated in a memorandum from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Requirements for Graduation Formal ceremonies, referred to as the Commencement Exercises, are held every quarter as follows: Graduates of the 1st Quarter – November Graduates of the 2nd Quarter - February Graduates of the 3rd Quarter – May Graduates of the 4th Quarter - August Upon satisfactory compliance with all requirements as prescribed in the program, a student may be granted a degree subject to the recommendation of the Dean and the faculty members of the School/Department under the following conditions: The candidate must have completed the prescribed program, provided that the last academic year shall have been spent in residence in this University. All requirements of the program shall have been submitted on or before the deadline set by the Office of the Registrar. The candidate must have settled all obligations with the University. Students with 34 units or less remaining are required to have their records evaluated at the Office of the Registrar. Maximum Residency Rule (MRR) The curriculum of a program will be in effect up to a period equivalent to two (2) times of its normal length reckoned from the time it is first offered. Students who fail to complete the requirements of an undergraduate program within a period of two (2) times the normal length of the concerned program shall not be allowed to register further in the program. For example, the effectivity of the curriculum of a four-year program is eight (8) years. Beyond this period, except for some courses in languages, humanities, and social sciences, all courses will be considered obsolete; hence, crediting of such courses will no longer apply. Students returning after this period, if accepted, will have to repeat the whole program using the latest curriculum. Under meritorious cases, extension of residency may be granted by the Dean of the school or Chair of the program. The above rule is applicable to the following students: For four-year programs, Batch 2007 and onwards For three-year programs, Batch 2008 and onwards Batch 1989 and prior SPECIAL REACTIVATION AFTER MAXIMUM RESIDENCY For all Batch 2000 to Batch 2006 students, and for Batch 2007 students of three-year programs, they will be allowed to finish their studies using their original curriculum if their remaining number of course units is 15 units and below. For students with more than 15 units remaining, the most appropriate curriculum, with crediting of courses, will be adopted. For Batches 1990 to 1999 students, they will be allowed to finish their studies on a case-to- case basis and subject to the conditions required by the University. Maximum Course Load (15 Units) Under the quarterm system of the University, the regular academic calendar consists of eleven (11) weeks. The maximum student load per quarter is prescribed by the curriculum of the student. It should, however, not exceed fifteen (15) units. Students with a remaining load of thirty four (34) units are allowed to apply for an overload of four (4) units over the prescribed maximum load for the last two (2) quarters (if there is no prerequisite violation and the number of laboratory/drafting units does not exceed two (2). Midterm, Final and Departmental Examination In addition to the regular quizzes required by the syllabi, the University gives three (3) major examinations, namely: The midterm examinations which are given for one (1) hour in the case of courses of three (3) units or less and for two (2) hours for courses of four (4) units or more during the examination week scheduled by the office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. The final examinations taken during the week scheduled by the office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. The departmental examinations for Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and courses under the Department of Languages and Social Sciences. Official Conduct of Academic Activity Any academic activity (e.g. written and oral exams, completion of grades, etc.) involving a student is considered official only when the student is officially enrolled during a particular term. In cases when no particular course or courses are available for student registration, the student must apply for residency status. He/she must enroll and pay for the corresponding residency fee. The residency fee which is the counterpart of the prevailing registration fee entitles the student to the use of the libraries in the campus. The enrollment and payment of the residency fee may be accomplished at any time during the term but always prior to the scheduling of any academic activity involving the student. A student who lacks the completion of a dissertation, a thesis or research practicum to graduate from a program must pay the residency fee for every quarter until he/she becomes eligible for graduation. This requirement however is waived once the student officially applies for leave of absence (LOA). Prior to the issuance of a Completion Request Form to a student with an incomplete grade (“7”), the Office of the Registrar shall check if the student is officially enrolled during the term. If not, the student must first enroll and pay the corresponding residency fee. Even if the student is only enrolled “in residency”, that quarter will be included in the computation of his or her total number of terms where he/she is in residence. Withdrawal of a lecture course that is a corequisite of a laboratory course constitutes withdrawing both the lecture and the laboratory courses. The student shall be given a final grade of “5” (FAILURE). Requirements For Diploma/Transcript of Records Authentication (Local) A clear duplicate copy of the diploma and /or transcript of records. An authorization letter (if the applicant is not available) Document shall be released one (1) week after receipt of payment. Mailing Of Transcript Of Records Abroad Students may request for their official transcript of records through fax, e-mail or snail mail. Request form from school/s where official transcript of records is needed must be attached. Pertinent information like name used while studying in the University, program, date of graduation, and date of birth must be indicated. Official transcript of records shall be mailed to the addressee within twenty one (21) working days from receipt of request and payment of transcript and mailing fees. Academic record-related certifications may be issued upon request at the Customer Service Section of the Office of the Registrar. Paired Lecture and Lab/Field/Drafting Courses A lecture course and its corresponding lab/field/drafting course (termed as “paired courses”) must be taken simultaneously and must both be completed before the next paired course can be taken up. A special course label P means that in addition to lecture, the course has one (1) unit LFD. Programs with Licensure Examinations As of printing this handbook, the following programs require licensure examination: BS Accountancy BS Architecture BS Chemical Engineering BS Civil Engineering BS Electrical Engineering BS Electronics Engineering BS Environmental and Sanitary Engineering BS Geology BS Geological Science Engineering BS Industrial Engineering BS Interior Design BS Mechanical Engineering BS Nursing AB/BS Psychology A program shall be added to this list if licensure examination is required by the government. In such case, all policies related to programs with licensure examination shall apply to that program. Pre-Requisite Course Regulation Students are given a structured program of study (curriculum) once they enroll in the University. Students are expected to strictly follow their curriculum and self-manage their registration of courses each quarter. As prescribed by the Commission on Higher Education, courses taken and completed without satisfying the prescribed prerequisites shall not be given credit. A student who receives a grade of “I” (INCOMPLETE) for a prerequisite course shall not be allowed to take its advanced courses. The student must first remove the grade of “I” in the prerequisite course before he is allowed to take any of its advanced courses. Only graduating students or students with 34 units or less remaining may be allowed to take the prerequisite and advanced courses simultaneously. A waiver form available at the Office of the Registrar must be duly accomplished. Seasonal courses will be treated as special cases subject to the approval of the Dean and the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Download: Waiver Form Reactivation Student is qualified for reactivation when: he applied for LEAVE OF ABSENCE; they have been inactive/have not enrolled for more than one quarter but with a readmission status of OK prior to inactivity; they have no accountabilities with the University. Student is not qualified for reactivation when: he did not apply for “leave of absence”; the transfer credentials have already been issued; or, the status has been declared “OUT”. A “2” x “2” black and white picture A proof of application for leave of absence/cancellation of enrollment and/or the latest final grade report Students are advised to apply for reactivation at the Customer Service Section of the Office of the Registrar, one and a half (1½) months before the enrollment period. Download: Request for Reactivation Requirements For Ched Certification, Authentication & Verification (CAV) A clear duplicate copy of the official transcript of records. A clear duplicate copy of the diploma. A certification of enrollment (for undergraduates only) A letter of authorization to transact or to claim (if the applicant is not available) Document shall be released fifteen (15) working days after receipt of request. Download: Request for CHED Certification, Authentication & Verification (CAV) Registration in a Course Any student who enrolls in any course and who subsequently pays its corresponding fees shall, as a rule, report to and attend the class in that course from the start of classes. Failure to do so shall mean a grade of “ABS” (ABSENT) in the course unless he officially withdraws it through the Office of the Registrar and merits a grade of “W” (OFFICIAL WITHDRAWAL). Review of Academic Status A student, on account of a failing weighted average, may be denied readmission subject to the SELECTIVE RETENTION AND READMISSION POLICIES of the Mapúa University. For students who entered the University during the first quarter, all courses enrolled during the first curriculum quarter shall not be included in the evaluation for academic status review. The first academic review of new students who did not start on the first quarter shall be done at the end of the quarter that they are admitted into the University. Academic review shall be done every quarter thereafter. Students enrolled in a program with licensure examination A student who shall obtain a quarterly weighted average between 1.00 and 3.50 shall have an academic status of ACADEMIC GOOD STANDING. A student who shall obtain a quarterly weighted average between 3.51 and 4.50 for the first time, shall be given ACADEMIC WARNING STATUS. for the second time, shall be placed on ACADEMIC PROBATIONARY STATUS. The ACADEMIC WARNING STATUS shall be removed once the student obtains a quarterly weighted average better than 3.51 in the succeeding term. The ACADEMIC PROBATIONARY STATUS shall be reduced to ACADEMIC WARNING STATUS once the student obtains a quarterly weighted average better than 3.51 in the succeeding term. A student on ACADEMIC PROBATIONARY STATUS who shall obtain a quarterly weighted average between 3.51 and 4.50 in the succeeding term shall be placed on ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS for the next term. A student shall also be placed on ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS for the succeeding term due to any of the following reasons: obtained a quarterly weighted average between 4.51 and 5.00 for Architecture and Interior Design programs: received a failing mark in any professional course for the third time for other programs other than Architecture and Interior Design: received a failing mark in the same course in any science, mathematics and professional course for the third time failed to obtain a passing grade in more than half of the total number of units enrolled in a year for the first time. A student on ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS due to Rule 6-b or 6-c will remain in his current status until such time that he passes the course/s in question. A student on ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS can only enroll a maximum academic load of twelve (12) units. The ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS shall be reduced to ACADEMIC PROBATIONARY STATUS once the student obtains a quarterly weighted average better than 3.51 in the succeeding period. A student on ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS who obtained a quarterly weighted average between 3.51 and 5.00 in the succeeding term shall be given an ACADEMIC DISMISSAL STATUS and shall not be readmitted to his program or to any program with licensure examination. A student shall likewise be given an ACADEMIC DISMISSAL STATUS and shall not be readmitted to his program or to any program with licensure examination due to any of the following reasons: for Architecture and Interior Design programs: received a failing mark in any professional course for the fourth time for programs other than Architecture and Interior Design: received a failing mark in the same course in any science, mathematics and professional course for the fourth time failed to obtain a passing grade in more than half of the total number of units enrolled in a year for the second time. Students enrolled in a program with no licensure examination A student who obtained a quarterly weighted average between 4.51 and 5.00 shall be placed on ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS. A student on ACADEMIC FINAL PROBATIONARY STATUS shall be placed on CONDITIONAL ACADEMIC DISMISSAL status if he obtained a quarterly weighted average between 3.51 and 5.00 in the succeeding term. The CONDITIONAL ACADEMIC DISMISSAL STATUS cannot be reduced to a better academic status despite improvement in academic performance. A student in CONDITIONAL ACADEMIC DISMISSAL STATUS who obtained a quarterly weighted average between 3.51 and 5.00 four times over in the succeeding terms shall be given an ACADEMIC DISMISSAL STATUS and shall not be readmitted to his program or to any program with licensure examination. The Academic Advisor shall confer with and advise the parent and the student of the implication of the academic review. No appeal for readmission shall be entertained. Students may apply for TRANSFER to another program (see Policies and Guidelines on Shifting and Transferring). Otherwise, he must secure transfer credentials from the Office of the Registrar. A student who shall be denied TRANSFER to any program shall NOT be re-admitted to the University. He must secure transfer credentials from the Office of the Registrar. A student who has only nineteen (19) units or less remaining to graduate may be allowed to enroll. In addition, the following program-specific rules shall apply: o An Accountancy student who fails to achieve any of the following requirements will be removed from the program:  at least a grade of 3.0 in ACT111, Fundamentals of Accounting 1A  at least a grade of 2.5 in all succeeding basic and/or board accounting courses, as follows: COURSE NO. ACT112 FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTING 1B FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTING 2 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING THEORY AND PRACTICE 1A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING THEORY AND PRACTICE 1B ACT125-1 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING THEORY AND PRACTICE 3 LAW ON OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS TAX001 PHILIPPINE TAX SYSTEM AND INCOME TAX COST ACCOUNTING AND COST MANAGEMENT ASSURANCE PRINCIPLES, PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE LAW ON BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS ADVANCED ACCOUNTING 1 & 2 SALES, AGENCY, AND OTHER COMMERCIAL LAWS ADVANCED ACCOUNTING 3 AUDITING AND ASSURANCE SERVICES 1 & 2 LAW ON NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 1 & 2 BUSINESS AND TRANSFER TAXES A student who fails twice in comprehensive exam to be given during the last quarter of second year will not be allowed to continue the BS Architecture program. A student who fails twice in any of the courses, regardless of GWA, will be removed from the program: General Chemistry courses (CHM11-2, CHM12-2, CHM13-2P) Analytical Chemistry (CHM111) Physical Chemistry 1 (CHM170) Calculus courses (MATH21, MATH22, MATH23) A student who fails twice in the following Exit Exams will be removed from the program: General Chemistry Exit Exam (CHM13X) Material Balances and Process Thermodynamics Exit Exam (CHE122X) Failure in CHE111P, CHE112P. A student who takes any of the CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CALCULATIONS courses for the second time must earn a grade of 2.75 or better; otherwise, he/she will be removed from the program. A student who fails thrice in any of the following courses will be removed from the program regardless of the number of units left to complete the program: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 1, Separation Processes courses, Heat and Mass Transfer courses, Fluid Mechanics and Chemical Reaction Engineering. Organic Chemistry courses (CHM145, CHM146, CHM147) Organic Chemistry Exit Exam (CHM147X) Physical Chemistry Exit Exam (CHM175X) Double-Degree Program in BS Chemistry and BS Chemical Engineering (CCE) A student will be retained in (or removed from) the BS Chemical Engineering component of the double-degree program on conditions specified in the program-specific retention policies of the BS Chemical Engineering program listed above. A student will be retained in (or removed from) the BS Chemistry component of the double-degree program on conditions specified in the program-specific retention policies of the BS Chemistry program listed above. A student will be retained in (or removed from) both BS Chemical Engineering and BS Chemistry components of the double-degree component on conditions specified in the program-specific retention policies of both programs listed above. Double-Degree Program in BS Biological Engineering and BS Chemistry (BECM) A student who receives three consecutive quarterly weighted averages of less than 3.25 during his/her third and fourth year standing in the program will not be allowed to continue the BS Civil Engineering program, regardless of the number of units left. A student who fails twice in any of the following exit exam will not be allowed to continue the BS Civil Engineering program. MEC32-1X MECHANICS OF DEFORMABLE BODIES EXIT EXAM CE121PX SURVEYING EXIT EXAM CE140-1PX MECHANICS OF FLUIDS EXIT EXAM THEORY OF STRUCTURES 2 EXIT EXAM GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 1 (SOIL MECHANICS) EXIT EXAM A student who fails twice on the following courses will be removed from the program: MEC32-1 MECHANICS OF DEFORMABLE BODIES CE121P SURVEYING 2 CE140-1P MECHANICS OF FLUIDS THEORY OF STRUCTURES 2 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 1 (SOIL MECHANICS) A student who receives three consecutive quarterly weighted averages of less than 3.25 during his/her third and fourth year standing in the program will not be allowed to continue the BS Environmental and Sanitary Engineering program, regardless of the number of units left. A student who fails twice in any of the following exit exam will not be allowed to continue the BS Environmental and Sanitary Engineering program. ESE122PX SEWAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS AND DESIGN EXIT EXAM ESE144-0X WATER PURIFICATION PROCESS DESIGN EXIT EXAM ESE156X ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING, LAWS AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT EXIT EXAM MEC32 ESE122P SEWAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS AND DESIGN ESE144-0 WATER PURIFICATION PROCESS DESIGN ESE156 ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING, LAWS AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT A student who fails twice in Principles of Geology lecture (GEO100) or Principles of Geology laboratory (GEO100L) or thrice in other Geology professional course will be removed from the program. BS Geological Science and Engineering The Department of Psychology will enforce a strict TWICE TO FAIL removal policy in which students are only allowed to fail twice (2x) in any of the following professional courses: All PSY coded courses (except PSY100 – Program Orientation) Math 30-4 – Behavioral Statistics RES100-1 – Research Methods Students who fail twice in any of these courses shall automatically be given an ACADEMIC DISMISSAL status and shall not be readmitted in the program. No appeal for re-admission shall be granted except in select cases to be determined by the Psychology Program Coordinator and the Dean of SLHS. The law (R.A. 10029) identifies four (4) board and critical courses in the psychology curriculum: Abnormal/Clinical Psychology, Theories of Personality, Psychological Assessment/Testing, Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The minimum passing grade required for all students taking the aforementioned critical courses is 2.5. Students who obtain lower than 2.5 (i.e. 2.75 – 3.00) will automatically get a failing mark (5.0 or equivalent) in the course regardless of his/her standing in class. The TWICE TO FAIL policy shall also apply to these critical courses; thus, students who receive a failing mark twice in any of these courses shall automatically be given an ACADEMIC DISMISSAL STATUS and shall not be readmitted to the program. No appeal for re-admission shall be granted except in select cases to be determined by the Psychology Program Coordinator and the Dean of SLHS. Revision of Course Load A student who has paid his fees during enrollment but who wishes to apply for revision for course overload due to erroneous course load may do so at the Office of the Registrar during the “revision of load” period. Students must fill up the request form available at the Office of the Registrar. Failure to revise the course load within the prescribed period shall mean payment of fees for dropped courses. A student enrolled in abolished classes shall be issued a refund provided he formally applies for a revision of his course load at the Office of the Registrar during the prescribed period. Failure to revise the load shall be construed as a waiver of the right to refund of fees. No student shall be allowed to add courses to his current load after the “revision of load” period. Revision of course load should not violate the following: the corequisite course regulation the paired lecture and lab/field/drafting course regulation Scholarships, Awards and Academic Honors After each quarter, students may avail of a scholarship program upon application at the Center for Scholarships and Financial Assistance (CSFA) on the basis of their academic standing in the previous quarter. A full scholarship consisting of free tuition for one quarter may be earned by a student who obtains a weighted grade average of between 1.00 and 1.50, provided he/she carries an academic load of not less than ten (10) units and has not obtained a grade lower than “3” in any course. A partial scholarship, consisting of 50% reduction in the quarterly tuition fee, may be earned by a student who obtains a credit average of 1.51 to 1.75, provided he/she carries an academic load of not less than ten (10) units and has not obtained a grade lower than “3” in any course. The general weighted average (GWA) of a student is the weighted average of his/her grades in all academic courses in his program of study with the number of credit units used as the weights. In its computation, two decimal places are retained disregarding the succeeding digits without rounding off.Academic courses are courses in a student’s program of study except PE and NSTP. Failing grades are 5.00, 8.00 and F. Undergraduate List Awards: Every end of the quarter, there are two undergraduate academic list awards given per program: the President’s List Award and the Dean’s List Award. President’s List Award The President’s List Award is given to all full-time undergraduate students who received the top ten highest quarter weighted averages (QWA’s) in a given quarter in the university provided that he/she: had a QWA in the previous quarter equal to or higher than 2.00 has never received a failing mark (“5”, “8”, “F”) did not drop any course in the previous quarter did not receive any incomplete grade (7.00) in the previous quarter was enrolled in at least 2/3 of the required curricular load in the previous quarter Dean’s List Award The Dean’s List Award is given to all full-time undergraduate students who received the top ten highest QWA’s in a particular program in a given quarter, provided that he/she: For 3rd year and 4th year BS Nursing students, the Dean’s List Award shall be given only after the 2nd and 4th quarter. The combined QWA of the 1st and 2nd quarter academic results shall be the basis for the determination of 2nd quarter academic list awards and the combined QWA of the 3rd and 4th quarter academic results shall be the basis for the determination of the 4th quarter academic list awards. For a student enrolled in double or triple degree programs, his/her QWA in the previous quarter, notwithstanding the nature of courses taken, shall be considered in the determination of the Dean’s List Awards in all the programs he/she is officially enrolled in. Baccalaureate Awards: The awards are subject to some or all of the following general requirements: Academic. The student must not have obtained a failing grade in any academic course. Residency. The student must have completed in the University a minimum of 75% of the total units required for the degree. The time of residency of a student is the number of elapsed quarters from first-time enrollment to graduation minus the quarters when he officially cancelled his enrollment or took an official leave of absence. His time of residency must be no more than one quarter beyond the regular number of quarters indicated in his program of study. In the case of a transferee, his program of study must be defined at the time of his admission to the University. Disciplinary. The student must not have/had a record of any disciplinary action meted out against him/her during his/her stay in the University. The awards may be given to one or more qualifiers in a certain category. The following awards are given: The GOLD MEDAL AWARD is given to the student(s) who obtains the highest WGA in a program of study. In no case should his/her WGA be lower than 2.00. He/she must satisfy all the requirements stated in item 1 above. In case the student(s) who obtains the highest WGA in a program of study fails to satisfy any of the requirements stated in item 1 above, no award shall be given.The GOLD MEDAL AWARD shall be named DON TOMAS MAPUA MEMORIAL ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from the School of Architecture, Industrial Design and the Built Environment, the School of Information Technology, or from any School of Engineering, GOLD MEDAL ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from the School of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences, ET YUCHENGCO GOLD ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from the ET Yuchengco School of Business and Management, and SAN LORENZO RUIZ GOLD ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from the San Lorenzo Ruiz School of Health Sciences. The SILVER MEDAL AWARD is given to the student(s) who obtains the second highest WGA in a program of study. In no case should his/her WGA be lower than 2.00. He/she must satisfy all the requirements stated in item 1 above. In case the student(s) who obtains the second highest WGA in a program of study fails to satisfy any of the requirements stated in item 1 above, no award shall be given.The SILVER MEDAL AWARD shall be named PRESIDENT OSCAR B. MAPUA MEMORIAL ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from School of Architecture, Industrial Design and the Built Environment, the School of Information Technology, or from any School of Engineering, SILVER MEDAL ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from the School of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences, ET YUCHENGCO SILVER ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from the ET Yuchengco School of Business and Management, and SAN LORENZO RUIZ SILVER ACADEMIC AWARD for awardees from the San Lorenzo Ruiz School of Health Sciences. The DEAN’S AWARD for academic achievement is given to a graduating student who has a WGA that is higher than or equal to 2.00 but lower than 1.75 but who is not a recipient of either a gold or a silver medal. In addition, he must satisfy all the requirements stated in item 1 above. A LATIN HONOR is awarded to a student based on the table below. In addition, the student must satisfy the academic and residency requirements stated in item 1 above. This award may be given to a student in addition to the gold medal or silver medal. Weighted Grade Average Latin Honor Summa Cum Laude Magna Cum Laude Shifting/Transferring to Another Program Shifting - transfer from one program to another program of the same or of another program group Transfer - transfer from one program to another program of another program group due to failure to comply with the academic requirements of the previous program Guidelines For Shifting Students may request to shift from one program to another program provided that he satisfies all the criteria required by the accepting program. (Please refer to the summary of requirements.) Students who received an academic status of WARNING, PROBATIONARY, or FINAL PROBATIONARY shall not be allowed to shift to any program with licensure examination. Students may shift for a number of times from one program to another. The Center for Guidance and Counseling (CGC) and the Center for Student Advising (CSA) shall assist students requesting to shift. The Office of the Registrar shall evaluate all courses taken by the student for credit in the new program. To shift to multiple programs, the student must satisfy all the criteria required by all accepting programs. Guidelines For Transferring Students removed from one program due to failure to comply with the academic requirements may request for transfer to another program provided that he satisfies all the requirements of the accepting program. (Please refer to the summary of requirements.) Students who received an academic status of WARNING, PROBATIONARY, or FINAL PROBATIONARY shall not be allowed to transfer to any program with licensure examination. Students removed from one program due to failure to comply with the academic requirements may not transfer to another program of the same program group. Students removed from one program due to failure to comply with the academic requirements and who apply for transfer to another program will not be allowed to transfer back to his previous program or to any program with licensure examination, regardless of an improved academic standing. The CGC and the CSA shall assist students requesting transfer. The Office of the Registrar shall evaluate all courses taken by the student for credit in the new program. Requirements for Shifting and Transferring from One Program to Another Board Programs Non-board Programs Engineering and Science AR and INT Board Programs: Engineering and Science Weighted average must be 2.50 or better for all basic academic courses, with no record of failure. The weighted average in Mathematics (up to Integral Calculus), Physics and Chemistry must be 2.50 or higher. Weighted average must be 2.50 or higher, with no record of failure. All basic courses that are similar to those in the first year level of the AR or INT program, including PE and NSTP must have been completed. Weighted average for drawing courses must be 2.00 or higher; with no record of failure or dropping. Weighted average in Mathematics (up to Integral Calculus) and Physics must be 3.00 or higher. Weighted average grade must be 2.5 or higher, with no record of failure. Weighted average must be 2.5 or higher, with no record of failure. All basic courses that are similar to those in the first year of the BSN program, including PE and NSTP must have been completed; has to pass the PPP psychological test; the IELTS and the Interview Subject to the approval of the accepting Department or School Weighted average must be 2.50 or better for all basic academic courses, with no record of failure. Weighted average in Physics and Mathematics must be 2.50 Weighted average must be 2.50 or higher, with no record of failure. All basic courses that are similar to those in the first year level of the AR or INT program, including PE and NSTP must have been completed. Weighted average for drawing courses must be 2.00 or higher ; with no record of failure or dropping. Weighted average in Mathematics (up to Integral Calculus) and Physics must be 3.00 or higher. Weighted average must be 2.5 or higher, with no record of failure. All basic courses that are similar to those in the first year of the BSN program, including PE and NSTP must have been completed; has to pass the PPP psychological test; IELTS and Interview Weighted average must be 2.50 or better for all basic academic courses, with no record of failure with no record of failure. Weighted average in Mathematics (up to Calculus) must be 2.50 Weighted average must be 2.50 or better for all basic academic courses, with no record of failure. Weighted average in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry must be 2.50 or higher. Download: Request to Shift or Transfer Student Leave of Absence A student who plans to discontinue his studies for one or more quarter must apply for a STUDENT LEAVE OF ABSENCE on or before the deadline set by the Office of the Registrar before the end of the enrollment period. A student who has been absent without applying for this leave from the University for more than one (1) quarter shall not be readmitted. A student who has applied for a leave of absence must file for reactivation six (6) weeks before the enrollment period; otherwise, his application shall not be acted upon. Download: Student Leave of Absence Transfer Credentials (Honorable Dismissal) All inactive students/graduates who shall transfer to another school should apply for his/her transfer credentials (honorable dismissal) Transfer credentials application request form The transfer credentials fee Upon request for the transfer credentials, a student may also apply for the following: A certificate of good moral character A certified true copy of grades/course description/F137A/F138 A certificate of attendance/number of units earned Transfer credentials shall be released to students at the Customer Service Section of the Office of the Registrar one (1) day after receipt of the duly accomplished and paid application request form. Download: Request for Transfer Credentials Tutorial Classes Tutorial classes are conducted for students as needed when a course is not offered as a regular class and the number of enrollees is less than fifteen. Except for students under Athletic Scholarship, when a student requesting for a tutorial class is on a scholarship, he must pay the difference of the tutorial fee and the regular class fee. A tutorial class may be requested by a graduating student if there are no other available courses that he may take and if all the sections available for a regular class are in conflict with his/her schedule. He/she must accomplish the Application for Tutorial Classes form and submit it to the department or school concerned for approval. Enrollment Guidelines Freshmen ID Non-Student Guidelines Graduate Verification	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2821
__label__cc	0.731239	0.268761	Sharapova can't say what's next after Australian Open loss Her Grand Slam losing streak up to four matches, Maria Sharapova surely was aware questions about her future would be coming. Rafael Nadal says he's thinking about his next opponent ... and his next practice session ... and trying to recreate the ... Nicklaus turns 80 and remains a part of golf's conversations Jack Nicklaus turns 80 on Tuesday, no closer to retirement than when he was at the peak of his golf career. Never mind that ... Empire Maker, Belmont winner and prolific sire, dies at 20 Empire Maker, who won the 2003 Belmont Stakes to spoil Funny Cide's Triple Crown bid and went on to become a prolific ... The Latest: Nadal advances to 2nd round in straight sets The Latest on the Australian Open (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Rafael Nadal had a 6-2, 6-3, 6-0 win over Hugo Dellien in his ... Gaby Lopez wins LPGA tournament in Florida in 7-hole playoff Having already battled for five extra holes into darkness without producing a champion a day earlier, Gaby Lopez and Nasa ... Bradley to have surgery, likely sidelined about 4 months Toronto midfielder Michael Bradley needs surgery on his right ankle and likely will be sidelined about four months. Beckham's MLS team in Miami takes field for first time David Beckham’s new soccer team finally got to play soccer. After more than six years of planning — and a process that was ... More than a half-century later, Tommie Smith and John Carlos are cemented into Olympic lore — their names enshrined in the ... Djokovic cedes Australian Open set in 1st Rd; 1st since 2006 Novak Djokovic did something he hadn't in 14 years: He dropped a set in a first-round match at the Australian Open. The Latest: Djokovic's win wraps up opening day in Melbourne The Latest on the Australian Open (all times local): 11:40 p.m. Novak Djokovic began his bid for an eighth Australian Open ... 'My mission was to win': Coco tops Venus at Australian Open Everyone had the same question when the Australian Open draw was revealed: What were the odds that Coco Gauff and Venus ... Andrew Landry regroups to win The American Express Andrew Landry was reeling after blowing a six-stroke lead on the back nine Sunday in The American Express. “I don't want to ... Liverpool goes 16 points clear by beating Man United 2-0 Mohamed Salah ripped off his Liverpool jersey at a freezing Anfield after completing a 2-0 victory over Manchester United in ... After providing the assist, Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson wasn't going to miss out on joining the celebrations. Even if it ... Man United set to be without Marcus Rashford for weeks Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is expected to be out for a few weeks with a back injury, manager Ole Gunnar ... Conor McGregor blasts Cerrone in 40 seconds in UFC return Conor McGregor's opening flurry — a punch that missed, followed by shoulder and elbow shots to the face — bloodied Donald ... Westwood wins in Abu Dhabi for his 25th Euro tour victory Lee Westwood secured his 25th European Tour win with victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Sunday. Westwood, who had ... Kyle Larson scored one of the biggest victories of his career by ending an 0-for-12 streak to finally win the Chili Bowl ... Noël wins World Cup slalom; Kristoffersen leads overall Clément Noël skied through steadily falling snow to protect his first-run lead and win a World Cup slalom on Sunday. Noël was ... 1/38 1 234… 9… 18… 27… 38 Superbowl 49ers vs. Chiefs NFL Playoff Schedule Kansas City, Mo., police crime scene investigators gather evidence at the scene of a shooting at a nightclub in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. Police say an armed ... mail.com services Mail Toolbar Mail Android App Organized Email Online Calender Plane Dumps Fuel On Schools Coronavirus Spreading China Trade Deal Signed	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2832
__label__wiki	0.78044	0.78044	Pay czar’s bank negotiations ‘troublesome’: panel By Ronald D. Orol Published: Feb 10, 2011 10:41 a.m. ET Oversight panel hikes concerns with czar’s failure to claw back pay RonaldD. Orol WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A Treasury Department pay czar’s decision not to negotiate reimbursements of executive pay before February 2009 from bailed out banks is “troublesome,” a key government overseer group said Thursday in a critical report. The Congressional Oversight Panel, which is charged with overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, focused a section of its report on the Treasury’s Office of the Special Master for Executive Compensation. ECONOMY AND POLITICS \| @MKTWEconomics A city-by-city look at home prices in May Tampa, Charlotte among gainers. • U.S. homeownership at 18-year low On June 15, 2009, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appointed Kenneth Feinberg to be the Special Master. Feinberg served in that position until September 2010, when Patricia Geoghegan replaced him. The office actively negotiated executive pay for the seven institutions that received “exceptional assistance,” including American International Group Inc. AIG, -1.84%, Bank of America Corp. BAC, -1.01% , Citigroup Inc. C, -1.36% , General Motors Co. GM, -1.43% and others. Specifically, a section of the report focused on a congressional requirement that the office review payments received by executives at TARP recipient banks before Feburary 17, 2009. According to the panel, Congress instructed the office to “negotiate” with TARP recipients for “appropriate reimbursements” of any payments made before February 2009 that were “contrary to the public interest.” The office found no payments had violated the “public interest” and did not attempt to claw back any payments from executives based on their conduct in that period. However, the office said $1.7 billion in payments to these institutions was “disfavored” and “not necessarily appropriate.” “The finding that pay was ‘disfavored’ but not “contrary to the public interest” is troublesome for several reasons,” the report said. “It may appear to the public to be excessively legalistic, it may represent an end-run around Congress determination that the Special Master should make every effort to claw back wrongful payments, and it may give the impression that the government condoned inappropriate compensation to executives whose actions contributed to the financial crisis.” The panel also raised concerns about how the Special Master’s office justified its decision not to claw back any of these payments. “As a result, aspects of the Special Master’s work are essentially ‘black boxes’ to the public, and it would be very difficult for any outside expert to replicate the Special Master’s efforts,” the COP report said. “The ‘black box’ approach is especially troubling given the Special Master’s aspiration for his determinations to be used as a model for compensation structures. So long as compensation experts on Wall Street and elsewhere lack the information needed to use the Special Master’s deliberations as a model, what seemed an opportunity for sweeping reform will be destined to leave a far more modest legacy.” In response, Treasury Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Tim Massad pointed out that the agency took action following the mandate provided by Congress to reduce executive compensation at the companies receiving “exceptional assistance” from TARP. “Our first rulings cut total pay in half and slashed cash compensation by 90%,” said Massad. “A key goal of Treasury’s actions was to make sure taxpayers were repaid in a timely manner, which is happening faster than anyone expected.” Massad added that questions raised in the report about reforms to compensation structures are welcome and being addressed by regulators implementing provisions in the Dodd-Frank act. American International Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE: AIG Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE: BAC P/E Ratio 12.5 Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE: C General Motors Co. U.S.: NYSE: GM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2837
__label__wiki	0.841133	0.841133	MARS TV MARS Magazine Japanese Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation of Information Within a Diamond Quantum Computing \| Japan The goal is to develop scalable quantum repeaters for long-haul quantum communications and distributed quantum computers for large-scale quantum computation. Researchers from the Yokohama National University have teleported quantum information securely within the confines of a diamond. The study has big implications for quantum information technology – the future of how sensitive information is shared and stored. The researchers published their results on June 28, 2019 in Communications Physics. “Quantum teleportation permits the transfer of quantum information into an otherwise inaccessible space,” said Hideo Kosaka, a professor of engineering at Yokohama National University and an author on the study. “It also permits the transfer of information into a quantum memory without revealing or destroying the stored quantum information.” The inaccessible space, in this case, consisted of carbon atoms in diamond. Made of linked, yet individually contained, carbon atoms, a diamond holds the perfect ingredients for quantum teleportation. A carbon atom holds six protons and six neutrons in its nucleus, surrounded by six spinning electrons. As the atoms bond into a diamond, they form a notoriously strong lattice. Diamonds can have complex defects, though, when a nitrogen atom exists in one of two adjacent vacancies where carbon atoms should be. This defect is called a nitrogen-vacancy center. Surrounded by carbon atoms, the nucleus structure of the nitrogen atom creates what Kosaka calls a nanomagnet. To manipulate an electron and a carbon isotope in the vacancy, Kosaka and the team attached a wire about a quarter the width of a human hair to the surface of a diamond. They applied a microwave and a radio wave to the wire to build an oscillating magnetic field around the diamond. They shaped the microwave to create the optimal, controlled conditions for the transfer of quantum information within the diamond. “Our ultimate goal is to realize scalable quantum repeaters for long-haul quantum communications and distributed quantum computers for large-scale quantum computation and metrology,” Kosaka said. Kosaka then used the nitrogen nanomagnet to anchor an electron. Using the microwave and radio waves, Kosaka forced the electron spin to entangle with a carbon nuclear spin – the angular momentum of the electron and the nucleus of a carbon atom. The electron spin breaks down under a magnetic field created by the nanomagnet, allowing it to become susceptible to entanglement. Once the two pieces are entangled, meaning their physical characteristics are so intertwined they cannot be described individually, a photon which holds quantum information is applied and the electron absorbs the photon. The absorption allows the polarization state of the photon to be transferred into the carbon, which is mediated by the entangled electron, demonstrating a teleportation of information at the quantum level. “The success of the photon storage in the other node establishes the entanglement between two adjacent nodes,” Kosaka said. Called quantum repeaters, the process can take individual chunks of information from node to node, across the quantum field. The rest of the team from Kosaka’s laboratory at Yokohama National University who contributed to the paper are Kazuya Tsurumoto, Ryota Kuroiwa, Hiroki Kano, and Yuhei Sekiguchi. Cover image by Jason D via Unsplash TagsJapan Quantum Computing Science Tech Teleportation DNA Database Sold To Help Law Enforcement Crack Cold Cases Star Wars: From The Force To R2D2, Does The Science Hold Up? A New Study Shows An Animal’s Lifespan Is Written In The DNA. For Humans, It’s 38 Years Lab-Grown Mini Brains: We Can’t Dismiss The Possibility That They Could One Day Outsmart Us Humans Placed In Suspended Animation For The First Time Zombie Flu: How The 1919 Influenza Pandemic Fueled The Rise Of The Living Dead © 2020 MARS Magazine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2840
__label__wiki	0.85624	0.85624	December 26, 2019 News » Cover Feature Future reflections: a look into the new year. by Flyer Staff There's no turning back now. The decade's in the rearview, and our eyes are set on what's to come in 2020 — in politics, sports, film, music, and more. Happy New Year, Memphis! CannaBeat Medical cannabis died in Tennessee in April. Well, a bill that would have allowed it did anyway. But the sponsor of that bill, Sen. Steve Dickerson (R-Nashville), told The Daily Memphian in June that he intended to bring the bill back to the Tennessee General Assembly in 2020. The strategy to pass it may change, he said. He and House sponsor Rep. Bryan Terry (R-Murfreesboro) plan to reroute the bill through the legislative process, avoiding committees with members unfriendly to medical cannabis. Terry, chairman of the House Health committee, issued a formal invitation to actor Michael J. Fox in December to appear before the committee during the 2020 session to talk about his foundation's work to support expanding research on medical cannabis. A September poll of influential Tennesseans found that many across the state were in favor of loosening cannabis laws. "In Memphis and Nashville, clear majorities favor making it completely legal for both medicinal and recreational use [57 percent and 58 percent respectively]," according to the Power Poll. About 29 percent of those polled in Memphis thought cannabis should be legal for medical purposes. Only 15 percent thought it should not be legalized at all. There will be one major change for the possibility of cannabis legislation in 2020. In November, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would legalize marijuana on the federal level. — Toby Sells When lawmakers return to Nashville in 2020, they'll also consider a slate of bills against the LGBTQ+ community called the "Slate of Hate" by the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP). The recurring anti-transgender student bathroom bill would give state legal support to public school districts that experiment with anti-transgender student policies. An adoption discrimination bill would make private adoption/foster care agencies eligible for tax dollars, even if those agencies decide to turn away potential parents because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or religious views. A business license bill would prevent local governments from favoring businesses with inclusive policies in their contracting. The so-called "God-Given Marriage Initiative" may emerge here in 2020. It would end marriage licensing and replace it with a man and a woman registering their marriage contract with the state. — TS A rendering of the MRPP-helmed redesign of Tom Lee Park Memphis in May/ Tom Lee Park The sounds of music and the smell of barbecue will again rise from Tom Lee Park in May 2020. It's one stipulation of the mediation between the Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRPP) and Memphis in May International Festival (MIM). The mediation ended in December, closing months of talks between the two groups over a redesign of the park proposed by MRPP in February. MIM officials feared the new design would not allow enough space for its festivals in the park. The festivals will be moved to another location in 2021, however. Tom Lee will close after the festivals in 2020 for the construction of the park's many new features. — TS Marc Pegan Avant-garde jazz ensemble The Dopolarians Shopping around for a New Year's resolution? Here's one that will have a ripple effect: Get out to see more live music. Compared to the late 20th century, this is a veritable Golden Age of venues and performers for Memphis. And the list keeps growing. Consider New Year's Eve at what may be both the newest and the oldest club in town, Hernando's Hide-A-Way. Co-owner Dale Watson and his Lone Stars often hold court there, as they will on the last night of the year, recording a live album to boot. But there are plenty of other national acts already taking advantage of this mid-sized venue, intimate yet spacious, swanky yet country. Piper Ferguso If 2019 was the year that Crosstown Theater reached cruising altitude and the Green Room at Crosstown really came into its own, the year to come looks to continue that upswing. At the former space, January 18th will witness a homecoming show of sorts for the great Booker T. Jones. Those who saw him speak at Stax in November got a taste of his new album; now Memphians can hear that album and more, live and in the moment. As a perfect contrast, acclaimed avant-garde jazz ensemble The Dopolarians, boasting two Memphis-associated players and some elder legends of the genre, will play the Green Room on February 7th. In the classical realm, watch for the remainder of the Iris Orchestra's season at both GPAC and the Brooks Museum, starting with their performance of "Spoonfuls," pianist Conrad Tao's new work in honor of Memphis' bicentennial, on January 25th. Meanwhile at the Cannon Center, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra will feature Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and a Marimba Concerto by Abe, among other works, as they continue their season from January through April. The city's newest club, The Lounge at 3rd & Court, promises to be the jazz viper den that many in the city have longed for, often featuring guitar great Joe Restivo and band. And then there are the unsurpassed standby clubs for rock, country, and jazz, which continue to feature original music: Bar DKDC, Lafayette's Music Room, Wild Bill's, B-Side, Hi Tone, Minglewood Hall, Murphy's, Lamplighter, Blue Monkey, and many others, including the ever-reliable Beale Street. Get out there and keep it alive! — Alex Greene The Memphis City Council moves into 2020 with six new members The Memphis City Council will move into 2020 with six new members. This is the first time five African-American women will sit on the council together. Councilwoman Patrice Robsinson will chair the group in 2020, with Frank Colvett Jr. serving as vice chairman. Jeff Warren, Rhonda Logan, Chase Carlisle, Edmund Ford Sr., Michalyn Easter-Thomas, and J.B. Smiley Jr. will join the council next year. "We're going to make a better Memphis as a team," Robinson said of the new council. After approving Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) rate hikes for water and gas at its last meeting of the year, the council will return to the issue of electric rate hikes in 2020. Beginning in July, MLGW customers' bills will go up $2.23 if no rate increase is approved for electric. MLGW proposed increasing electric rates by a total of $9 for the average customer. The council voted this move down, prompting the MLGW board to reconsider their proposal. The council will consider MLGW's new proposed increase once the utility's board comes up with the new numbers. — Maya Smith Next year the city is slated to add about 20 miles of new bike facilities, says Nicholas Oyler, the city's bikeway and pedestrian program manager. One new bike facility will be the completion of the Hampline in early 2020. This is a project nine years in the making that will connect the Shelby Farms Greenline to Overton Park. In other bike news, the city will get 500 new federally funded bike racks primarily located near existing bus stops to "encourage synergy between using transit and bicycling for the last- and first-mile connections," Oyler says. — MS Police Surveillance Later this year, U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla will decide what to do with the 1978 Kendrick consent decree that prevents police surveillance by the Memphis Police Department (MPD). McCalla ruled last year that the city and MPD had violated the decree and imposed sanctions. Since then, a court-appointed monitor team has been working with the police department on improving its adherence to the decree and developing policies and procedures related to the decree. At a final evidentiary hearing scheduled for June, the court will decide if the decree should be modified, and, if so, how. In the meantime, the monitor team and MPD are in the process of finalizing updated social media and training policies for MPD, which are subject to the court's approval. Additionally, the monitor team will organize focus groups in early 2020 to hear more from the community on the consent decree. — MS Larry Kuzniewski Coach Penny Hardaway points the way to Tiger victory The new year — new decade — in Memphis sports will be unlike any we've seen before. Such is the case every year, of course, as the sports world remains among life's few truly unscripted delights. Perhaps, even without the recently departed James Wiseman, the Tigers will will make a deep NCAA tournament run. Perhaps Ja Morant returns to full health and dribble-drives his way to the NBA's Rookie of the Year trophy. Perhaps the University of Memphis football team finds a way to top its 2019 season. Okay, let's be realistic ... Penny Hardaway's Tigers will regain center stage with conference play, his program seeking a first American Athletic Conference championship. The nation's top freshman class — prior to Wiseman's departure — will find its biggest test come tournament time in March. (Memphis hasn't reached the NCAA tournament since 2014.) The Ja and Jaren era is upon us with Grizzlies basketball, Mr. Morant and Mr. Jackson having become the faces of a franchise now climbing back toward playoff relevance in a Western Conference top-heavy with superstars, most notably those playing for the two Los Angeles franchises. Still shy of his 21st birthday, Morant could become only the second Grizzly to earn top-rookie honors (and the first since Pau Gasol raised the hardware in 2002). Spring could bring one of the top prospects in baseball to AutoZone Park. Outfielder Dylan Carlson earned the St. Louis Cardinals' Minor League Player of the Year honor for 2019, primarily for his performance at Double-A Springfield. The 21-year-old slugger will compete for a spot on the Cardinals' major-league roster in March but will more than likely fine-tune his swing in Memphis with the Redbirds before making his big-league debut. 901 FC will take the pitch (pardon the pun) at AutoZone Park for its second season in the USL Championship. The Bluff City's new soccer outfit went 9-18-7 in its first season, making up in fan-base passion what it may have lacked in finishing ability. With the likes of Louisville City FC and Birmingham Legion FC to catch in the standings, regional rivalries are already growing, gas to the fire for the local futbol faithful. As for football, American style, the Memphis Tigers will have to follow-up on the finest season in program history, one that ended with an American Athletic Conference championship and an appearance in the prestigious Cotton Bowl. A new coach will be on the sideline, Mike Norvell having taken his stellar four-year mark (38-15) to Florida State. Star running back Kenneth Gainwell will return to spark the offense, which suggests winning won’t be a thing of the past at the Liberty Bowl. Since 2014, the Tigers are 35-5 at home.— Frank Murtaugh It may well be that, as politics takes its course in 2020, the nation's currently beleaguered president, Donald J. Trump, will survive a vote of confidence this year, as, locally, Mayor Jim Strickland did at the city polls in 2019 and Governor Bill Lee's program probably will with the legislature. But advance polling always had Strickland comfortably ahead of his rivals, and a just-concluded Vanderbilt University poll of state voters has given first-termer Lee a 62-percent approval rating. Trump, uniquely, has never been over the 50-percent mark — not even in 2016, when Hillary Clinton actually out-polled him nationally. Trump's only sure win would seem to be in the GOP-dominated Senate, over the sudden-death matter of impeachment. And Republican numerical domination, not popular demand nor irresistible logic, will empower the Governor's prospects in the General Assembly. But not necessarily. It is famously (or infamously) true that Lee's controversial bill to permit private school vouchers (or "education savings accounts," in the euphemism of the day) passed by a single vote in the state House and only by means of highly devious wheeling and dealing and overtime arm-twisting on the part of the since-disgraced GOP Speaker Glen Casada, who was later forced into resigning. The new Republican Speaker, Cameron Sexton, is a sworn foe of vouchers and has indicated that, at the very least, he'd like to delay the onset of ESAs, which are due to be imposed (take that, you blue bailiwicks!) only on Shelby and Davidson Counties. In the long run, Democrats are hoping for a swing of the electoral pendulum that could bring them more of the incremental suburban vote gains that got them close to a couple of major legislative upsets in Shelby County in 2018. The expected large Democratic vote in the presidential election will be helpful in that regard. The timing of vouchers, health care, and the question of freeing up TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) will be on the agenda in Nashville, as will, very likely, the return of the "fetal heartbeat" anti-abortion measure. A U.S. Senate race will be on the statewide marquee, with primary races in both major parties. The Republican winner will be heavily favored. In city politics, it will be interesting to see if the development community's hold on the Council will be loosened by the addition of some of the grassroots winners from the October election. In Shelby County politics, Mayor Lee Harris is on again/off again on solidarity with the County Commission. It is universally assumed that he is looking ahead to a future-tense congressional race, but in the meantime he has seemingly (and sensibly) committed himself to some center-left populism focused on wage equity and minority/women-owned business enterprises advances. Former Shelby County Democratic chairman Corey Strong will meanwhile take a crack at the 9th district Congressional seat now held by long-running Democratic monolith Steve Cohen. — Jackson Baker No doubt the biggest story in the Memphis film scene for 2020 will be the opening of the new Indie Memphis Cinema. Just before 2019's annual film festival, Malco Theaters struck a deal with the nonprofit to turn over operation of one of the screens at Studio on the Square in Midtown's Overton Square. Malco will be renovating the aging Studio to bring it up to the standards set by Malco Powerhouse (read: new seats and a greatly expanded food and drink program) this winter and spring. Then, Indie Memphis will begin daily showings of the acclaimed films from the festival circuit and repertory offerings that have populated their increasingly popular weekly screenings. This will be a sea change for film fans in Memphis. The Malco Ridgeway Cinema Grill has built a steady audience with sophisticated, non-blockbuster offerings in East Memphis, but this new arrangement will mark the beginning of a true art house in the Bluff City. The seeds of Indie Memphis were sown in the mid-1990s with an effort to build such a theater in Midtown before morphing into a festival, so this new cinema is the realization of a long-term dream. 2020 will be the year the mainstream industry fully faces Disney's market dominance. Since the acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the House of Mouse is now set to control almost half of the total global box office. Their slate for 2020 is a mixed bag. In February, Fox Searchlight drops Wendy, a retelling of the Peter Pan story from the heroine's POV, and 20th will offer an adaption of Call of the Wild with Harrison Ford that looks promising. March begins with Pixar's urban fantasy Onward and ends with the live-action remake of Mulan, which looks to have slightly more reason to exist than the flaccid Aladdin. In April, Marvel takes a mulligan on the last X-Men film with The New Mutants, then the long-anticipated Black Widow premieres on May Day. Pixar's second film of the year is Soul in June, a musical by Inside Out director Pete Docter. In the fall, expect Marvel's The Eternals and Disney Animation's Raya and the Last Dragon. Studios not named Disney also have anticipated offerings. Robert Downey Jr. will talk to animals in his first post-Iron Man role as Dr. Doolittle in January, which will go up against Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Bad Boys for Life. In February, Warner Brothers will again attempt to make a watchable DC comic book movie with the Margo Robbie-led Birds of Prey, and the cringeworthy Sonic the Hedgehog will face a horror adaptation of Fantasy Island from Blumhouse. In March, Paramount will try to replicate a sleeper hit with A Quiet Place Part II. Daniel Craig will strap on the Walther PPK for the last time as James Bond in No Time to Die. June is stacked with the return of Diana Prince in Wonder Woman 1984, Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, and the Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned musical In the Heights. In July is Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which will reunite the original cast, and the Kristen Wiig road trip comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Speaking of reuniting the original cast, in August, Bill and Ted Face the Music brings back Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as the Wyld Stallyns. Edgar Winter takes a swing at psychological horror with Last Night in Soho. In October, Kenneth Branagh does Death on the Nile, and Jamie Lee Curtis returns for Halloween Kills. The biggest film weekend of the year looks to be the titanic matchup on December 18th, when Dennis Villeneuve's science-fiction epic Dune, Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story, Columbia's adaptation of the Uncharted game franchise, and Memphis' own Craig Brewer directing Eddie Murphy in Coming 2 America battle for box office supremacy. See you at the movies. — Chris McCoy P/K/M Architects Rendering of the proposed new South of Beale There's no doubt that big things are going to happen in 2020, and many of us — myself included — may find ourselves stress-eating or self-medicating with food. With that said, Memphis foodies have a lot to look forward to in the year ahead, including more French food, riverfront views, and even a brand-new brewery. Cheers! Out east, the fine dining establishment Erling Jensen: The Restaurant will undergo an expansion in early 2020, more than doubling the size of its bar menu and dining room. East Memphis will also welcome a new crab restaurant when The Juicy Crab opens a new location in a 7,200-square-foot space in the Eastgate Shopping Center. In the suburbs, Slim Chickens plans to open a second location in Collierville in late spring at the corner of Poplar and Maynard Way, and Wing Guru is expanding to new locations in Collierville and Hernando, Mississippi. Their current locations can be found on Mt. Moriah in Memphis and on Stage Road in Bartlett. Downtown, Memphis' newest brewery, Soul & Spirits Brewery, will open in the Uptown neighborhood at 845 N. Main. Owned and operated by husband-and-wife team Blair Perry and Ryan Allen, the brewery will likely focus on traditional German-style beers "inspired by the diverse music culture of Memphis" (per their Facebook page). South of Beale, Memphis' first gastropub, will move to a new location. The new venue, located on the first floor of the old Ambassador building, will open in the spring at 345 S. Main. Memphis chefs Michael Hudman and Andy Ticer will bring a taste of Europe Downtown when Bishop, in the Central Station Hotel, has its grand opening in January. After a soft launch in December, the French restaurant will be fully open in January serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also Downtown, One Beale finally broke ground in 2019 and has a projected completion date in 2020. Besides apartments and hotels, the massive development project will include a new riverfront restaurant and a rooftop whiskey bar with indoor and outdoor seating. As that project comes closer to completion, another project will begin: Construction on Union Row is projected to start in 2020, and the plans include a few new restaurants and a hotel overlooking AutoZone Park. In keeping with the Downtown hotel boom, Memphis' first Aloft Hotel will also open at 161 Jefferson in the summer of 2020. The hotel will include a full-service restaurant and the brand's signature WXYZ bar. — Lorna Field Keep the Flyer Free! Always independent, always free (never a paywall), the Memphis Flyer is your source for the best in local news and information. Now we want to expand and enhance our work. That's why we're asking you to join us as a Frequent Flyer member. You'll get membership perks (find out more about those here) and help us continue to deliver the independent journalism you've come to expect. 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(Cover Feature) Jan. 16, 2020, 4:00 AM 2 New Year, New You: Ways to Reinvent Yourself in 2020 (Cover Feature) Ideas for new beginnings in the new year. Jan. 9, 2020, 4:00 AM 2020 Vision (Cover Feature) Dec. 26, 2019, 4:00 AM Grizzlies Fall to Pelicans 126–116 Aimee Stiegemeyer 01/21/2020 Report Scores Memphis Businesses on LGBTQ Equality Toby Sells 01/21/2020 Ja's World Frank Murtaugh 01/21/2020 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton: Conrad Tao and Iris Orchestra Jesse Davis 01/21/2020 Music Video Monday: THE PRVLG Chris McCoy 01/20/2020 Politics Beat Blog Pence, in Memphis, Pays Homage to MLK and Touts Trump Accomplishments Jackson Baker 01/20/2020 The Next Generation Grizzlies Appear to Have Arrived Sharon Brown 01/18/2020 Grizzlies' Mid-Season Check-up You Have 20 Seconds To Comply With RoboCop at the Time Warp Drive-In More by Flyer Staff Year That Was: Tom Lee Park, Bluff City Law, and The CA A new park plan, Memphis on the small screen, and turbulence for Gannett. 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__label__cc	0.74826	0.25174	Stan A. Grombchevsky Darren M. Harris Demands for Sexual Favors in the Workplace Orange County Sexual Harassment Lawyer When it comes to sexual harassment in the workplace, the law divides this offense into two separate categories: they are either hostile environment claims, or they are quid pro quo claims. Quid pro quo is Latin for "this for that", meaning, in this arena, that someone in a supervisory position tells a woman that she will be able to keep her job or get a promotion or other reward in exchange for sexual favors. We have been successfully doing this for many years, and if you have been the victim of a supervisor demanding sexual favors from you in the workplace in order to advance in some way or even stay employed, you need to contact us. The person who is demanding sexual favors in the workplace must be someone in authority, such as a supervisor, manager or other higher-up executive. Further, it must be clear that the demand for the favors is connected with the victim's employment in some way. The exchange for the sexual favors could include a promotion, bonus, ideal work projects, different or better schedules, being hired, or just staying employed. At Harris Grombchevsky LLP in Southern California Orange County, we are very well versed in what it takes to bring a sexual harassment claim against an employer. The employer is responsible for the behavior of its supervisors and managers, so the claim can also be against the company. You will have to prove only that you were sexually harassed, that the harassment was directly connected to conditions of your employment, and that you did not welcome the demands. While victims in these cases are often women, they can also be men. Legal Advocates Protecting your Rights in Southern California We offer a free case evaluation, which enables us to understand the nature of your claim. If we determine that there is a good chance of a favorable outcome for you, be assured we will work relentlessly to protect your rights as well as pursue monetary compensation. You have the right to a safe and harassment-free work environment, and those who violate that right need to be held accountable. Contact us today to discuss your case and learn your options. Are Sexual Harassment Complaints Confidential? Can I Be Fired if I Report Sexual Harassment? Have You Been the Victim of Sexual Harassment? Sexual Harassment vs Sexual Assault What Qualifies as Unwelcome Conduct? Sexual Harassment Explained Sexual Innuendo Sexual Intimidation Sexual Joking Sexually Explicit Email Harassment Sexually Explicit Pictures Unwanted Physical Contact Unwanted Sexual Advances Demands for Sexual Favors “Stan is a tenacious negotiator and a man that has a tremendous amount of integrity. He won't let you down.” Oren W. “You won't regret using SB&G and Stan, it's a winning combination.” Russell M. “You were always easy to talk to and very prompt on calling back and answering all my questions.” “They really care about their clients and the results were far better than I ever expected.” “He has a proven track record of honesty and integrity, is reliable, is always prepared on his cases, is well spoken and is just an all-around great litigator.” Cynthia D. Hafif, Hafif & Baron LLP “Highest levels of professionalism, knowledge in his area of practice.” Tracy Collins, ERISA Disability Attorney “He was always available to take my questions and put my concerns at ease.” “They didn't miss a beat -- we stayed in contact and he gave me updates on where we were at in the case weather things were at a standstill or moving along.” “Will definitely fight for you and look out for your best interest.” Jen S. “I truly felt like my brother was talking to me and taking care of me! ” Graziela C. “If it weren't for your support, hard work, and honesty, I would never have been able to pursue my sexual harassment case.” “I haven't thanked you enough for all the assistance and support you had given me all throughout.” “Had my back when everyone else just wanted to take my money.” Julianne H. “I have never met someone who works for their client so much as he.” “Fights for us and gives a voice to women everywhere!!! I am extremely happy with my outcome.” 2 Corporate Park	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2850
__label__cc	0.504959	0.495041	LawServer Are you an attorney? Add your profile LOG IN SIGN UP Research Laws Are you an attorney? Add your profile California Codes > Labor Code > Division 5 > Part 4 California Codes > Labor Code > Division 5 > Part 4 – MINING INDUSTRIES Current as of: 2019 \| Check for updates \| Other versions Chapter 3 Underground Telephones Terms Used In California Codes > Labor Code > Division 5 > Part 4 Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths. Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court. Allegation: something that someone says happened. Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it. 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__label__cc	0.649267	0.350733	Minneapolis Theater Your independent guide to the best shows in Minneapolis OTHER CONCERTS IN MINNEAPOLIS Cody Jinks David Archuleta Event home Cold War KidsBrandi CarlileBrantley GilbertExcisionCody JinksThe Infamous StringdustersTrixie Mattel Closed December 14, 2019 THE CEDAR The Cedar Please selectVenue homeLocation and directionsPre-theatre diningNearby parkingOvernight accommodationSeating maps Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Sorry! You missed David Archuleta at The Cedar You can catch David Archuleta at The Slowdown in Omaha, showing Apr 14, 2020 David Archuleta is also touring to: Fri 17th Apr 2020 Mon 20th Apr 2020 Wed 22nd Apr 2020 View the entire David Archuleta tour The former American Idol star in concert Why See David Archuleta? ConcertsContemporary Pop Ok, All Right Tour David Archuleta first came to attention on American Idol, where he wowed the judges in his audition with a cover of Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer. He eventually finished as runner-up, and released his self-titled album in the same year. Since then his career has taken many twists and turns, and in 2012 he withdrew from the music business to spend time as a missionary in Chile. Four years later he released his long-awaited sixth studio album, Postcards In The Sky, which included singles 'Up All Night' and 'Invincible'. 2020 sees him set out on the Ok, All Right Tour, bringing his much anticipated follow up to venues across North America, including new single 'Paralyzed.' Performance date: 14 December 2019 Sound good to you? Share this page on social media and let your friends know about David Archuleta at The Cedar. Please note: The term The Cedar and/or David Archuleta as well as all associated graphics, logos, and/or other trademarks, tradenames or copyrights are the property of the The Cedar and/or David Archuleta and are used herein for factual descriptive purposes only. We are in no way associated with or authorized by the The Cedar and/or David Archuleta and neither that entity nor any of its affiliates have licensed or endorsed us to sell tickets, goods and or services in conjunction with their events. Minneapolis Theater is part of the Theatreland Ltd Collection. Established in 2003, Theatreland offers the largest individual collection of websites providing complete, impartial guides to all the theatrical, musical and performance arts events and venues in the world's greatest theatre cities, from New York's Broadway to London's West End and from the showrooms of Las Vegas to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2858
__label__wiki	0.620975	0.620975	Mobiletor.com Google Assistant can now speak in Hindi Android trojan targets 232 banking apps including Indian banks Millions of Android users plagued by malware Judy 13 lakh Android phones in India infected by HummingBad malware Android Lollipop 5.1.1 starts rolling out to smartphones under Google’s Android… Apple’s giving Rs 3900 to users who paid for iPhone battery… Flipkart Apple Week sale offers cuts on iPhone X, iPhone 8 Apple Watch Series 3 hits India via Airtel, Jio Man caught smuggling 100 iPhone X units at Delhi airport Airtel, Jio to sell Apple Watch Series 3 Cellular in India Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus now open for pre-orders in… Nokia 6 (2018) goes up for sale in India Nokia 6 (2018), Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 8 Sirocco get launched… Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6 (2018) set to… Nokia 1 budget Android Go smartphone hits India Safely Streaming Content On A PC From Your Android Phone WhatsApp makes its simpler to change fonts, find emojis Chinese company Adups sent data from thousands of Android phones to… India to receive updated version of Cortana this summer LG named leading OEM for beaming security patches to its Android… Home Nokia Nokia 6 (2018) goes up for sale in India By Sumit Chauhan - The Nokia 6 (2018) made its debut in India a few days ago and is now available to buy via stores across the country, as well as the brand’s own online site. The company is selling it at Rs 16999 in a 3GB of RAM and 32GB of ROM variant. There’s no word on whether a 4GB of RAM and 64GB of ROM option will be available in the future. HMD Global had followed a similar pattern with the original Nokia 6, so it stands to reason that the sequel might get an upgraded model as well. Big changes this time round include Bothie support and 360-degree OZO Audio recording. The Nokia 6 (2018) has been bundled with a bunch of offers to make it a bit more attractive to potential buyers. Airtel 4G customers will get Rs 2000 as cashback and access to Airtel TV for free till 31 December 2018. There’s also a 12-month accidental damage insurance scheme being offered by Servify. Makemytrip is handing over a 25% instant discount. A quick look at the specifications of the Nokia 6 (2018): – Display: 5.5-inch, 1080 x 1920 pixels – OS: Android 8.0 Oreo with Android One – CPU: 2.2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 630 – Camera: 16MP rear, 8MP front – Storage: 32GB, expandable up to 128GB – RAM: 3GB – Battery: 3000mAh – Size: 148.8 x 75.8 x 8.6mm – Weight: 172g – Connectivity: dual-SIM, USB Type-C, Wi-Fi, 4G, Bluetooth 5.0, A-GPS, GLONASS Also See: Nokia 1 budget Android Go smartphone hits India Finally, ICICI Bank is giving away a 5% cashback deal till 31 May 2018. The Nokia 6 (2018) is set to be sold in Blue/Gold, White/Iron, and Black/Copper colors. You can snap it up via the Nokia Mobile Shop or physical retailers like Poorvika, Croma, Sangeetha, Reliance, and Big C. Previous articleReliance Jio rolls out Rs 251 IPL 2018 pack Next articleAirtel rolls out 4G VoLTE beta program in Delhi, Rajasthan Sumit Chauhan Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus now open for pre-orders in India Nokia 6 (2018), Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 8 Sirocco get launched in India Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6 (2018) set to hit India on April 4 Top Card Game Apps To Play This Year Keval Shah - Jan 21, 2020 Card games are perfect for portable play, with their turn-based nature making them ideal for anyone who has a hankering for something a bit... Shreya Shetty - Dec 17, 2019 So you happen to be out of the country with just your Android phone and a PC at the local internet cafe or library.... Is Mobile the Most Popular Online Gaming Platform in India? Mobile gaming is a global phenomenon, generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue each year and attracting audiences of all kinds, from casual... OnePlus 6T and OnePlus 6 Welcome Android 10 Update Keval Shah - Nov 4, 2019 OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T users are finally getting the new Android 10 OS. The software update comes packaged as OxygenOS version 10.0, as... Turn Your Phone Into A Virtual Reality Headset Keval Shah - Oct 29, 2019 Photo by Marc van der Chijs, Attribution CC BY ND 2.0 Virtual reality sets are all the rage at the moment; they're changing the way... © Mobiletor.com 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2860
__label__wiki	0.882901	0.882901	mc commute Triumph Street Single \| Coming Soon One if by land? Illustrated by Motociclismo Brasil Triumph motorcycle production continues to reach new heights, with the company on-track to build 53,000 motorcycles this year in two British and three Thai factories. Much of this growth is the result of a headlong rush into new markets with bold products like the Tiger 800 adventure bike and Daytona 675 supersport. Triumph will continue to extend its range, which has grown from 13 models in 2007 to 20 models in 2011, with even more new models planned for the next two years. We've already spied the large-capacity Trophy tourer (Up To Speed, February), and it's widely understood this motor will also power a new adventure-tourer to compete with BMW's R1200GS. Now we've learned that Triumph is developing new product at the opposite end of the spectrum, in the form of a small-displacement, single-cylinder beginner's bike. News of this machine first broke in Brazilian magazine Motociclismo, which says the bike will be assembled at a new Triumph factory in Manaus, Brazil, from kits produced at one of Triumph's Thai factories. The so-called Street Single will be presented in 2012 and will be powered by a liquid-cooled, four-valve, single-cylinder engine displacing 267 to 350cc, depending on where it's sold. This will be a potent rival for the Indo-Austrian KTM 350 Duke in developing markets, and a distinctive and desirable alternative in America to the Kawasaki Ninja 250 and Honda CBR250R—the latter, by no coincidence, also made in Thailand. This artist’s rendering shows what Triumph’s Street Single will likely look like, with a 350cc engine mounted in an upright chassis, clad in bodywork inspired by the firm’s iconic Speed Triple. Can There Be A Perfect Motorcycle For A New Rider? The World’s Most Dangerous Motorcycle Road Race—Macau GP Alpinestars Tech-Air 5 Motorcycle Airbag System 2020 GMC Sierra Harley-Davidson Truck Preview Photo Gallery 2020 GMC Sierra Harley-Davidson Truck Preview 2020 Yamaha Tracer 900 GT Damon Motorcycles Hypersport Electric Preview CES 2020 Motorcyclist Merch Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. Motorcyclist may receive financial compensation for products purchased through this site. Copyright © 2020 Motorcyclist. A Bonnier Corporation Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2862
__label__wiki	0.860974	0.860974	The Art of the Plasterer By: George Bankart with an Introduction By Tim Ratcliffe and Jeff Orton Book Condition: Brand New George Bankart first wrote The Art of the Plasterer in 1908, it was then re-issued, with amendments, a few years later. Now available from Donhead in this re-printed facsimile edition, this impressive, well illustrated volume offers an artistic interpretation of the way plaster was used in response to stylistic changes. Bankart was an architect inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement who cared passionately about the craft of plastering and sought to complement Millar’s earlier craftsmen’s book by producing a volume which traced the history and art of plastering throughout the United Kingdom. It explores in detail how plaster materials and methods were developed and used, giving a fascinating insight into some of the unusual substances added to plaster. For instance, he tells us that ancient stuccos sometimes contained fig juice, curdled milk, blood or beer to make them harder. The book also contains an account of wattle and dab as well as parge-work, using practical illustrated examples to give an excellent description and record of the subject. With over 400 illustrations, comprising black and white photographs and drawings of ceilings and the profiles of mouldings, this volume will be of value to craftsmen engaged in plasterwork, conservation professionals and all architects and architectural historians with an interest in this field. Contents: Introduction Ancient stucco-duro The stucco-duro of the Italian Renaissance Sgraffito or scratched ornament Stucco-duro in England Wattle and dab and parge-work The English school of plasterwork Scottish plasterwork Irish plasterwork English plasterwork of the later Renaissance The eighteenth-century degeneration The Adam brothers and their work Modern plasterwork: Part I: Present day methods – Part II: The teaching of the past: a comparison Index to text and illustrations Printed Pages: 368 with numerous illustrations. Title: The Art of the Plasterer Author Name: George Bankart with an Introduction By Tim Ratcliffe and Jeff Orton Categories: Architecture, Publisher: Dorset, UK, Donhead Publishing Ltd: 2002 Keywords: Heritage Conservation Museums Stone Masonry Leadwork Masonry, Bricklaying, and Plastering By: Robert Scott Burn with an Introduction By Ian Pritchett History Today: Journal of History and Historical Archaeology, Vol. 16 By: D.P. Tewari & Ankit Agarwal (Authors) The Nanoscope: Encyclopaedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 6 Vols. By: Dr Parag Diwan and Ashish Bharadwaj (eds.) Library of Great Sanskrit Classics, 11 Vols. By: Cosmo Publications Role of Women in Nation Building: 12 Vols. By: Mrs Vijay Kaushik and Bela Rani Sharma The Samyutta-Nikaya of the Sutta-Pitaka, 6 Vols. By: M. Leon Feer (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 10 Vols. By: R.E. Asher (Editor-in-Chief); J.M.Y. Simpson (Coordinating editor) Mahabharata (Translated Into English from Original Sanskrit Text), 7 Vols. By: M.N. Dutt (trs.) Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Sanskrit Literature, 5 Vols. By: J.N. Bhattacharya and Nilanjana Sarkar (eds) The Oxford English Dictionary: Being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected By The Philological Society, 13 Vols. By: James A.H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W.A. Craigie, and C.T. Onions (eds.) A Treasury of Mystic Terms, 6 Vols. By: John Davidson	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2869
__label__cc	0.635613	0.364387	interviewInterviews Josh T Pearson Texan Josh T. Pearson has just released his album "Last Of The Country Gentlemen" on MUTE Records. The album is receiving quite a few very positive reviews. He is ready to tour Europe starting today in Brussels and ending in the UK. Last month I was given the opportunity to ask him a few questions via e-mail. So I did and to be honest I have no idea what to think of it. Hopefully you will, at least, enjoy it. MusicRemedy asks [Q]: First off, congratulations on your album "Last Of The Country Gentlemen" and single "Country Dumb". Please tell us about the album and single. [A:] It's a double lp and it's tough being single. [Q]: Which song on "Last Of The Country Gentlemen" took the longest to complete? Why? [A:] Honeymoon's Great. It's 15 minutes. [Q]: Some will remember you, other won't and to other's you are completely new. In what way will your new album be enjoyable to all three? [A:] It's a masterwork by a master craftsman. Makes for a great beverage coaster for any and all. AND! If you get the vinyl, you can make one of those cool fruit bowls by melting it down later. It's also got a 50 cent coupon good at the Super Walmart in Mexia, Texas, Limestone County. (for a limited time only) [Q]: It's been 10 years since the "The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads" by Lift to Experience was released. What took you so long? [A:] Time. Definitely time. [Q]: During these years, what has changed you personally and musically? [A:] Nuthin'. People don't change. [Q]: Any chance for a reunion record with Lift to Experience? Or do you have other (future-)plans? [A:] Like 'Reunited' by Peaches and Herb or like 'Reunion' by Sabbath? I'm thinkin' more like Peaches and Herb cuz both peaches AND herb are great. [Q]: When creating a track, do you have a set theme and pre-written lyrics, or do you start with an idea or the music first? [A:] Chicken, er wait, no egg. Both. Music, then words, then rewrite music to fit words, then rewrite words to fit music. Collect one-liners daily, both musically and lyrically. It's a constant contest between the two worlds. Which is better or worse, music or verse. Choose the better. Apply. [Q]: Are there (still) goals you want to reach as an artist? [A:] 6' 5'. 6' 4" is ok, but 6' 5" is my ultimate goal as an artist in Texas. [Q]: First the UK-tour, then you will start your US-tour at SXSW. Why? Can we expect more dates for the US-tour? [A:] Why indeed. My old label boss is going to be there and I plan on stabbing him in the heart with a Bowie knife. For some reason, it has to be on Texas land (Possibly for legal purposes). Don't ask me why. I also heard Bowie would be there too so I thought it would be cool to have him sign the knife after. A David Bowie signature on a Jim Bowie knife. That's cool. And what better than 25,000 drunk musicians trying to get into the same damn bar? You get to play 9 times in a week and not get paid. Actually, you have to pay to play to cover your cost. It's awesome. And you're surrounded by beautiful industry types who only want to help serve you better and who are not in it for themselves. What could be better? Maybe a knife in the back by the people who love ya. [Q]: Recently, what is a typical day like for you? [A:] Don't waste my time. 24 Hours. [Q]: Final words? [A:] "Woman did you poison my soup again?" Here's a SXSW joke So a million people walk into that cool Mohawk bar down on 10th and Red River during Southby and the bartender's says, 'Ok, now some of ya'll are gonna have to leave!' And here's SXSW hipster joke. 'How many hipster's does it take to screw in a light bulb?' 'What!!!? Ya'll don't know?' SXSW Rules! 1. Stay drunk 2. Don't 'plan' on seeing anything 3. Follow the currents esp 'Free Beer and BBQ' signs 4. Pass out on your stomach, not your back 5. Don't tell ANYONE you've got cocaine. ANYONE 6. Bring your own cocaine 7. Remember! These people cannot be trusted. They are not your friends.They are called the Music 'Industry' and the Music 'Business' for reasons we don't speak of. It's tough stuck between art and commerce. Bless ya'll for tryin'. Play on. It's Spring Break for musicians. What's not to love? Tags: interview , Interviews Blogger, Google and of course Jermy Leeuwis. Link list 4 I Can Make A Mess Like Nobodys Business Ace Enders has been one of the most talked about underground pop punk songwriters over the past few years in this scene be it with The Early... LIVE REVIEW: The Struts at The Sinclair 10/25. The Struts The British invasion has been something that has been happening in full force over the last two years or so both in mainstrea... Lights chats her new acoustic record and touring with The Mowgli's! Lights Lately I’ve been feeling like the Canadian Ambassador for the music scene in Boston and I am one hundred percent okay with that.... 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__label__cc	0.729999	0.270001	Flights North America Mexico Montreal to Mexico Cheap flights from Montreal to Mexico One-way Round-trip Multi-city Any month ---- Winter 2020 Spring 2020 Summer 2020 Fall 2020 ---- Jan. 2020 Feb. 2020 Mar. 2020 Apr. 2020 May 2020 Jun. 2020 Jul. 2020 Aug. 2020 Sep. 2020 Oct. 2020 Nov. 2020 Dec. 2020 Compare vs. momondo Anytime Early (4:00a.m.-8:00a.m.) Morning (8:00a.m.-12:00p.m.) Afternoon (12:00p.m.-5:00p.m.) Evening (5:00p.m.-9:00p.m.) Night (9:00p.m.-12:00a.m.) 1:00 a.m. 2:00 a.m. 3:00 a.m. 4:00 a.m. 5:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Noon 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Montreal to Mexico flight comparison made easy Below you can see the best fares for your route over the next three months. All fares were found on momondo this week. Browse the quickest and cheapest flights from Montreal to Mexico by changing tabs Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau Intl airport 313 C$ Mexico City Benito Juarez airport Alternative routes for Montreal to Mexico Montreal to Cancún Montreal to Mexico City Montreal to La Paz Montreal to Veracruz Montreal to Santa Maria Huatulco Montreal to Puerto Vallarta Montreal to San José del Cabo Montreal to León Montreal to Mérida Montreal to Manzanillo Montreal to Guadalajara Montreal to Acapulco Montreal to Puerto Escondido Montreal to Monterrey Montreal to Mazatlán Montreal to Ixtapa Ottawa to Cancún Montreal to Oaxaca Ottawa to Mexico City Ottawa to Puerto Vallarta Flights from Montreal to: Flights to Mexico from: Flights to other cities in Mexico Lost the lust for Mexico? Check out some flights to other cities in Mexico 65 C$ 1,007 C$ *Flight prices to Mexico are based on prices for economy tickets found by momondo users during searches within the last 72 hours. These prices may no longer be available. Argentinian Pesos ARS Bangladesh Taka BDT Bermuda Dollars BMD Bolivia Bolivianos BOB Botswana Pula BWP Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY Costa Rica Colones CRC Cuba Pesos CUP Guyana Dollars GYD India Rupees INR Iran Rials IRR Lebanon Pounds LBP Liberia Dollars LRD Mongolia Tugriks MNT Namibia Dollars NAD Nepal Rupees NPR Nigeria Nairas NGN North Korea Won KPW Oman Rials OMR Panamian Balboa PAB Papua New Guinea Kina PGK Sri Lanka Rupees LKR Yemen Rials YER Estimated prices for round-trip flights	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2872
__label__cc	0.514163	0.485837	A City of Monrovia Historic Landmark Founding History History of "The Plunge" Museum Rental Information Other Local Museums Trentalange Research Center As We Welcome the New Metro Station, A Look Back Here is a photo of the first Pacific Electric car in Monrovia--March 1, 1903. Earlier, the city fathers had awarded a contract for the Olive Street Railway in 1901, the fare to Los Angeles not to exceed 25 cents. This system was superseded by the Big Red Cars of the Pacific Electric Railway. To get ready for this future, the city council passed an ordinance to prohibit expectoration in public buildings, sideways, and the floor of street railways. There's a display about the Big Red Cars at the Monrovia Historical Museum and you can even ring a trolley bell! The museum,l at 742 E. Lemon, is open Thursdays and Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m. #mymonrovia Calendar Museum Rental Info RESEARCH & COLLECTION All Content © Copyright 2015 The Monrovia Historical Museum.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2873
__label__cc	0.531713	0.468287	Lenders to benefit from new Veda service Australia and New Zealand’s largest credit reference agency has launched a new service designed to support lenders in assessing the risk profile of customers applying for a loan. VedaScore Apply takes advantage of the enhanced data Veda is able to collect from individuals, following changes to the Privacy Act last year. Lenders can now access stable risk scoring models, assisting them in minimising risk while maximising approval rates and, in addition, easing the transition to comprehensive reporting. “While traditional negative data is a good predictor of credit defaults, the comprehensive data we can now collect in Australia allows businesses to see the complete picture of an individual’s credit history including insights into good repayment records,” Veda's general manager of consumer risk, Angus Luffman, said. Veda noted the need to decrease the burden inflicted on lenders who rely on these scoring metrics to review their customers. Mr Luffman said the early insights from New Zealand demonstrate how the superior predictive power of VedaScore Apply scoring models can help strengthen lenders' credit decisions, reduce risk and benefit consumers by allowing their recent positive credit behaviour to speak louder than any blemishes they may have had in the past. Last Updated: 18 February 2015 Published: 18 February 2015	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2875
__label__wiki	0.839898	0.839898	Security ramps up at local movie theaters for 'Joker' showing Posted: 10:38 AM, Oct 04, 2019 The Oak Creek Police Department had a presence inside Marcus South Shore Cinema Thursday night, and just a couple days ago Marcus Theatres changed their bag size requirement. Movie theaters in southeastern Wisconsin are ramping up security for the first screenings of 'Joker.' The two safety measures aren’t going unnoticed by those who came to see the first showings like Cindi Lee Michalski "I heard about it and we were like wow, there's going to be like cops here and stuff like that so we were kind of like, 'ehh,'" said Michalski. Michalski arrived to private security outside the theater and police inside where theater staff made sure her purse met Marcus Theatres' new bag size requirement which is displayed on the theater's front door. Marcus Theatres Ban Larger Bags "They checked our bags, my bag, my purse," she said. "My purse has nothing in there except for a comb, maybe some lipstick." "I've heard about the controversies, but never really read up on much of it," said Michael Gorman. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are warning law enforcement across the country after several social media threats called for mass shootings at showings of 'Joker.' A similar nightmare unfolded seven years ago in Aurora, Colorado when a shooter opened fire during a showing of 'The Dark Knight Rises.' Twelve people were killed and 70 were hurt. "I mean, if somebody's going to be crazy enough, they're going to do it either way," said Chase Kleppin. While there aren't any known credible threats at this time, Matthew Standke appreciates the extra safety measures. "If there's stuff going on it's probably a good idea to keep people from bringing weapons or whatever that they might bring in," he said. TODAY'S TMJ4 reached out to the Oak Creek Police Department to ask how low long they will have officers staffed at the theater, but they have yet to get back to us.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2881
__label__wiki	0.837564	0.837564	Public’s Help Sought After Mother Shot in Garden Grove Home Invasion Masked men entered the home while the woman was home with her infant twin daughters, two other family members By Kelly Goff and Jason Kandel • Published at 3:04 pm on May 23, 2014 A 29-year-old mother was shot in the neck on Friday during a home-invasion robbery in Garden Grove and was found with her twin baby daughters in her arms, police said. Three masked men broke into the house at 11 a.m. in the 11500 block of West Street. Updates: Download the NBCLA News App The woman was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. She was expected to survive, Garden Grove police Lt. Ben Stauffer said. Inland Empire 2 hours ago Mother of Teen Victim Says Ding-Dong Ditch Prank May Have Led to Deadly Crash Her 15-month-old girls were unharmed, he added. A 70-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were found with their hands zip tied behind their backs, police said. Read: Skywatchers, Scientists Prepare for Friday Night Meteor Shower A neighbor saw the men run inside the home and called police. "I just thought it was strange and called the police because it was strange how they ran in the house and ran out," the witness said. "I didn't see anything in their hands, I didn't see a gun, I just saw them come out." Police were looking for four suspects, who were wearing dark clothes, gloves and ski masks. They were still at large Friday night. All four were armed with revolvers and were last seen driving away south on West Street in a white SUV, Stauffer said.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2882
__label__wiki	0.638798	0.638798	From the Cozy to the Gross, Here are 4 Holiday Shopping Trends to Watch Blame it on holiday stress: Target, Kohl's and other retailers are pushing "cozy" goods Cozy sweaters and soft pajamas are in for adults. Kids, meanwhile, are asking for board games featuring fake poop and pimples. Those are just some of the trends expected this holiday season, when shoppers are projected to spend as much as $720 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. Here's what to expect: Blame it on holiday stress: Target, Kohl's and other retailers are pushing "cozy" goods. That means pajamas for the family, weighted blankets, fuzzy mules and everything Sherpa — from socks to sweatshirts. "This holiday season we will see this trend in all of its furriness," says Maria Rugolo, an apparel industry analyst for NPD Group, in a company blog . Kohl's is making it easy to choose soft and snuggly fashions by prominently displaying the looks near store entrances and in nearly a dozen gifting areas. Greg Revelle, Kohl's chief marketing officer, told reporters last month that "cozy knits" was one of the most searched for terms on its website last year. PIMPLES, POOP AND SOMETHING CUTE "Gross definitely sells in the toy business," says Jim Silver, the editor in chief of toy review site TTPM.com. In one game, called Don't Step In It, players are blindfolded and have to avoid stepping in soft, clay-like "poop." A unicorn version of the game features poop in bright colors. Both have been on Amazon's list of bestselling toys. Another popular game is Pimple Pete, says Silver. Players pull, wiggle or twist out squishy "zits" from a plastic face. Losers get squirted with water. It's not all gross. The LOL Surprise brand is a hot seller again so far this year, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracks online spending. With LOL Surprise, kids peel each layer of a shrink-wrapped plastic ball to reveal dolls, stickers or other trinkets. SPRUCED UP APPS AND WEBSITES Old-guard retailers are adding some new features to their shopping apps and websites. Using Target's app, shoppers can scan its physical toy catalog so they can find more details about the items and add them to their shopping cart. The Kohl's app offers the option to scan and store Kohl's cash and redeem the store's rewards points and gift cards in a digital wallet for easy access to checkout. Shoppers can also use the app to take photos of products and then find similar items at Kohl's. Walmart has been revamping its website over the past year to allow shoppers to easily discover more items. The discounter recently introduced WalmartToyLab.com, a new digital playground where shoppers can play with 20 top toys on their computer or tablet. They can also share their favorites on a digital wish list. At the store, Walmart's app now helps shoppers find the exact location of a particular item. The Macy's app comes with an augmented reality feature that lets customers virtually design and experience the interior of a room. The app also lets shoppers scan items and pay with a pre-registered credit card. They then walk to a checkout counter so that a worker can verify their purchase. ONLINE RETAILERS GO OLD SCHOOL Amazon and eBay are taking a page from traditional retailers and printing their own toy catalogs. Amazon is shipping its toy book to shoppers' mailboxes while eBay placed a shortened six-page version inside People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue. Amazon's will also be available at its physical bookstores, and eBay handed out a longer version at a New York pop-up shop. One thing missing from Amazon's toy book: prices. The online retailer tells readers to pick up a phone, open the Amazon app and take a snap of the toy to see how much it costs. Both companies are trying to make a play for former shoppers of Toys R Us, which sent holiday toy catalogs each year before shutting down this summer. "Kids love them," says Silver, noting how they like to circle what they want. "It's a different experience than sitting at the computer."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2883
__label__wiki	0.511704	0.511704	Methods. 2015 Nov 15;90:85-94. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.07.008. Epub 2015 Jul 23. Single cell mass cytometry reveals remodeling of human T cell phenotypes by varicella zoster virus. Sen N1, Mukherjee G2, Arvin AM3. Departments of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94025, USA. Department of Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Departments of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94025, USA; Departments of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94025, USA. Electronic address: aarvin@stanford.edu. The recent application of mass cytometry (CyTOF) to biology provides a 'systems' approach to monitor concurrent changes in multiple host cell factors at the single cell level. We used CyTOF to evaluate T cells infected with varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection, documenting virus-mediated phenotypic and functional changes caused by this T cell tropic human herpesvirus. Here we summarize our findings using two complementary panels of antibodies against surface and intracellular signaling proteins to elucidate the consequences of VZV-mediated perturbations on the surface and in signaling networks of infected T cells. CyTOF data was analyzed by several statistical, analytical and visualization tools including hierarchical clustering, orthogonal scaling, SPADE, viSNE, and SLIDE. Data from the mass cytometry studies demonstrated that VZV infection led to 'remodeling' of the surface architecture of T cells, promoting skin trafficking phenotypes and associated with concomitant activation of T-cell receptor and PI3-kinase pathways. This method offers a novel approach for understanding viral interactions with differentiated host cells important for pathogenesis. Published by Elsevier Inc. Single Cell Linkage using Distance Estimation (SLIDE); Single cell mass cytometry; T cell remodeling by VZV; VZV lymphotropism 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.07.008 Gating Scheme Normalized data collected on the mass cytometer was transferred to www.cytobank.org. The T cells were consequently sequentially gated for DNA content to identify nucleated cells, and viability markers to extract uninfected (UI), bystander (Bys) and VZV-infected (V+) populations for downstream analysis. The UI cells chosen for comparative analysis were matched to be on the co-ordinates as the Bys cells from the VZV-infected sample (containing both Bys and V+ cells). Single Cell Mass Cytometry Reveals Remodeling of Human T Cell Phenotypes by Varicella Zoster Virus Methods. ;90:85-94. (A) 3D visualization of UI T cells on a PCA scatterplot obtained using the Partek Genomic software. Each dot on the plot represents a cell, the location of which is determined by the co-ordinates of its first three principal components. The PCA parameter loading components for the first three components, Principal component 1 (PC1; blue), PC2 (red), and PC3 (green), for UI T cells was plotted as a bar diagram shown below the scatterplot. The UI cells distributed into three major subpopulations corresponding to CD4+ memory, CD4+ naive, and CD8+ naive T cells. (B) The subpopulations were annotated based on the expression levels of each of the four core markers, CD4, CD8, CD45RO and CD45RA, ranging from minimum (yellow) to maximum (red). (C–D) PCA scatter plot of V+ T cells and of V+ T cells (green dots) pooled with an equivalent number of UI (red dots) and Bys (blue dots) T cells obtained as described above. The hashed sphere indicates the unique location of V+ cells compared to the overlapping UI and Bys cells. The V+ T cells were iteratively compared with randomly selected equal number of UI and Bys T cells and a representative iteration is shown here. Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (A) Heatmap displaying the hierarchical clustering of UI T cells; each row of the heatmap represents a cell and each column the indicated protein; the color scale indicates protein expression levels from minimum (black) to maximum for each protein. Dendrograms on the left denote the Euclidean distance between the clustered cells. (B) Hierarchical relationship of pooled UI, Bys, and V+ T cells based on surface proteins by PCA (left) and agglomerative clustering (right). A majority of the V+ cells clustered together on the heatmap distinct from the overlapping UI and Bys cells indicated by the red and blue lines, respectively, shown on the left of the heatmap. Spanning Tree Progression Analysis of Density Normalization Events (A) SPADE tree from a representative experiment in which the UI (left panel) and VZV-infected (unseparated Bys and V+ T cells; right panel) T cells were distributed into 50 nodes based on expression of the four core markers CD4, CD8, CD45RO and CD45RA; each node denotes a collection of cells with a similar profile placed in proximity to nodes with closely related profiles. The size of the nodes is directly proportional to the number cells in that node. The color of the nodes from blue (minimum) to red (maximum) denotes increasing median intensity of gE expression in UI and VZV-infected samples. (B) The nodes on the SPADE trees were annotated into subpopulations based on the expression of CD4, CD8, CD45RO and CD45RA as shown in respective panels; DP = double positive (CD4+CD8+), DN = double negative (CD4−CD8−). (C) SPADE trees showing the differential expression of CD69 on UI and V+ T cells across phenotypic hierarchies. Single Cell Linkage using Distance Estimation (A) Schematic representation of single cell linkage distance estimation (SLIDE) analysis. Each V+ T cell within any given subpopulation was matched with every UI T cell to identify its closest neighbor, UIv, based on combinatorial expression of 13 non-core surface markers and the absolute distance between the 2 cells were recorded as d1. The UIv T cell was subsequently matched to its nearest neighbor, Uuv, in the UI population and the distance between the two UI cells was measured as d2. (B) The d1:d2 ratio for each cell in a given subpopulation (x-axis) was calculated, averaged and plotted (y-axis) with confidence intervals incorporating 95% of V+ T cells. t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding algorithm viSNE maps showing the distribution of the VZV-infected T cells based on the expression (A) 17 surface markers including the core proteins and (B) 13 non-core surface markers. Each dot on the biaxial scatter plot represents a cell and the intensity of protein expression is determined by the color ranging from blue (minimum) to green (maximum). (C–D) visNE maps, generated using conditions A & B, showing the expression pattern of CD49d, CD7, and CD3 in Bys and V+ cells. Activation Index of Signaling Proteins (A) SPADE tree showing the fold-change in expression levels of pZap70 and pCREB in V+ and Bys T cells relative to UI T cells by SPADE analysis. In this case the node colors indicate fold-change in expression from minimum (blue) to maximum (red). (B) AIs for each phosphoprotein in V+, UV, and total UI T cells in the CD4+RO+ subpopulation was plotted. The mean AI (±SD) (y-axis) for each protein in V+, UInn, and total UI T cells was calculated from five independent experiments. P values were determined by one-sided Student t test (p <0.05) for each protein compared between V+ and UV T cells and for V+ and total UI T cells. (C) Schematic representation of the T cell signaling pathways indicating the hierarchical locations of the different phosphoproteins that were analyzed in this study. VZV particles and green arrows indicate the points at which activation (solid lines) or inhibition (dashed lines) of the signaling pathway was detected in V+ T cells. The colored circles represent the activation index (AI) for each phospho-protein in V+ and UI T cells. Basal activation state of each protein in UI T cells is represented as red circles on the left branch and the size is proportionate to the AI. The right branches indicate the fold changes in AI for each protein in V+ T cells relative to UI T cells, green circles indicate an increase and yellow circles indicate a decrease in AI. Proteins indicated in small font were not tested but are important intermediary components of the T cell pathways. Publication types, MeSH terms, Grant support Herpesvirus 3, Human/physiology* Host-Pathogen Interactions* Single-Cell Analysis/methods* T-Lymphocytes/virology* AI20459/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States R01 AI020459/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2884
__label__wiki	0.686433	0.686433	Man accused of hit-and-run in East Naples crash that killed teen cyclist faces Sept. 9 trial Pedro Silva-Diaz is accused of hitting Shayden Colvin, 13, with a pickup on Lakewood Boulevard near Estey Avenue the night of Nov. 10, 2017. Man accused of hit-and-run in East Naples crash that killed teen cyclist faces Sept. 9 trial Pedro Silva-Diaz is accused of hitting Shayden Colvin, 13, with a pickup on Lakewood Boulevard near Estey Avenue the night of Nov. 10, 2017. Check out this story on news-press.com: https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/21/man-faces-trial-crash-killed-teen-bicyclist-east-naples/2079348001/ Jessica Rodriguez, Naples Daily News Published 7:19 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2019 PHOTOS: Pre-trial hearing held for East Naples man accused of 2017 hit-a... Pedro Silva-Diaz, who is accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed 13-year-old Shayden Colvin, arrives at a pre-trial hearing at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. A previous jury trial for Silva-Diaz ended June 14 in a mistrial. Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA The family of 13-year-old Shayden Colvin, who was killed in a hit-and-run in 2017, from left to right, Miranda Jenner, Parker Colvin, Niki Colvin, Hanna Thomas, and victim advocate Betty McGuire listen during a pre-trial hearing for Pedro Silva-Diaz at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA Judge Ramiro Ma–alich talks to Assistant State Attorney Mara Marzano during a pre-trial hearing for Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed Shayden Colvin, at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed Shayden Colvin, listens to proceedings through an interpreter during a pre-trial hearing at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Aug. 21, 2019. Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA Miranda Jenner sits next to a photo of her brother, Shayden Colvin, during a pre-trial hearing for Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed Shayden, at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA The family of 13-year-old Shayden Colvin, who was killed in a hit-and-run in 2017, from left to right, Miranda Jenner, Niki Colvin, victim advocate Betty McGuire, Parker Colvin, and Hanna Thomas listen during a pre-trial hearing for Pedro Silva-Diaz at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA A pre-trial hearing is conducted for Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed Shayden Colvin, at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA A man accused of hit-and-run in a crash that killed a teen bicyclist in East Naples in 2017 will face a second jury trial Sept. 9. At a hearing Wednesday, a judge disagreed with a defense allegation of prosecutorial misconduct. Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused of hitting Shayden Colvin and then fleeing the scene, appeared in front of Collier Circuit Judge Ramiro Mañalich for the last hearing before trial. Pedro Silva-Diaz, who is accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed 13-year-old Shayden Colvin, arrives at a pre-trial hearing at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. A previous jury trial for Silva-Diaz ended June 14 in a mistrial. (Photo: Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA) On June 14, a jury was unable to reach a verdict after a five-day trial to determine whether Silva-Diaz knew he hit Colvin, 13, while driving a 2015 Toyota Tundra pickup north on Lakewood Boulevard near Estey Avenue on the night of Nov. 10, 2017. Colvin died of injuries the next night. On Wednesday, a motion filed by defense attorney Lee Hollander to dismiss the charges against Silva-Diaz was denied. Miranda Jenner sits next to a photo of her brother, Shayden Colvin, during a pre-trial hearing for Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed Shayden, at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. (Photo: Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA) The motion alleged prosecutorial misconduct, according to court documents. More: Judge finds no evidence of Giglio violation in 2017 fatal hit-and-run case, more motions to be heard SUBSCRIBE TODAY: Help support local journalism by becoming a subscriber. Learn more » Hollander filed a motion to prevent the state from referring to a mark on the front bumper of Silva-Diaz’ pickup as paint or rubber that was transferred from Colvin’s bicycle when it was hit. The family of 13-year-old Shayden Colvin, who was killed in a hit-and-run in 2017, from left to right, Miranda Jenner, Niki Colvin, victim advocate Betty McGuire, Parker Colvin, and Hanna Thomas listen during a pre-trial hearing for Pedro Silva-Diaz at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. (Photo: Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA) Hollander argued Wednesday that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement concluded the paint was not from Colvin’s bike. Assistant State Attorney Mara Marzano argued that Hollander’s wording was inaccurate. She stated the FDLE found striking similarities in what they referred to as the “red swab” but that they were unable to confidently confirm. She stated they also could not confirm the red swab was not from Colvin’s bike. The bike Shayden Colvin was riding when he was struck by a Toyota Tundra on Nov. 10, 2017 is presented as evidence to the jury during closing arguments at the Collier County Courthouse on June 14, 2019. (Photo: Jessica Rodriguez/ Naples Daily News) “She cannot say that the smear came from the bike seat, but she also cannot say that it did not,” Marzano said. “That is what I would have to argue to the jury.” Hollander’s motion was denied, and Marzano will be able to use the FDLE findings in court. Last week, Hollander cited in the motion that the state held evidence — a longer video from an East Naples Middle school surveillance camera than what was shown to the jury —- that would have been crucial to the defense during the jury trial. Hollander stated that someone edited or modified the video and created a different video that only showed the defendant's car. Judge Ramiro Ma–alich talks to Assistant State Attorney Mara Marzano during a pre-trial hearing for Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed Shayden Colvin, at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. (Photo: Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA) More: 55 people on Florida's death row have been executed in the past 20 years Marzano and Deputy Chief Assistant State Attorney Nicole Mirra argued that Hollander was aware of the video before the jury trial. Mañalich determined that the state did not suppress the video and that the existence of the video had been disclosed, according to court documents. Pedro Silva-Diaz, the man accused in a 2017 hit-and-run that killed Shayden Colvin, listens to proceedings through an interpreter during a pre-trial hearing at the Collier County Courthouse in Naples on Aug. 21, 2019. (Photo: Alex Driehaus/Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA) Save Our Water 2019: Hundreds gather to hear Gov. DeSantis, experts talk water quality More: Judge approves motion for separate trials in Sievers homicide case Read or Share this story: https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/21/man-faces-trial-crash-killed-teen-bicyclist-east-naples/2079348001/ What roads are closed Monday for the MLK parade? Four Fort Myers teens injured in crash Mark Sievers transferred to death row 6 Wendy's in SWFL cited for child labor law violations Shooting on SE 8th Place draws Cape Coral police Meet the 31 teachers who are up for a Golden Apple award in Lee County Election/Politics All Area Sports Awards David Moulton FGCU Everblades Coastal Life © 2020 www.news-press.com. All rights reserved. Data/Public records News-Press Staff iPad Extras Get Your App Gannett Foundation Grants Cars.com Fort Myers SWFL Homes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2889
__label__wiki	0.936696	0.936696	Coronavirus: What is the mystery illness sweeping through Wuhan, China? First case confirmed in United States TikTok pro-vaccine video made by Ohio pediatrician Dr. Nicole Baldwin blasted on social media Sudan lions are starving in Khartoum, spark campaign to save them China coronavirus outbreak: Symptoms, transmission, treatment, CDC China virus outbreak death toll hits six with more than 300 infections confirmed today Vuitton’s diamond as big as a tennis ball steals the show in Paris China’s ‘mermaid descendants’ weave final garments from skin of fish Coronavirus in China: What is the mystery illness sweeping through the country? Baby Trend strollers sold at Target and Amazon recalled for fall risk News Talkz Home/Health/Planned Parenthood announces $45 million investment in 2020 elections today Planned Parenthood announces $45 million investment in 2020 elections today admin 5 days ago As abortion-supporters brace for another year of restrictions and court battles, Planned Parenthood is throwing its weight into the 2020 elections. This week, Planned Parenthood launched the biggest electoral effort in its history: a $45 million spend to support presidential, congressional and state-level candidates in the 2020 elections who support abortion rights. Jenny Lawson, the Planned Parenthood Votes Executive Director, said, “The stakes have never been higher.” “[The Trump Administration} has managed to undo so much over the last three years,” Lawson said in an exclusive interview with CBS News. “The fact that this summer the Supreme Court might gut Roe v. Wade is an indicator of their intention and they’ve never been so bold.” Planned Parenthood’s electoral efforts — which the group has dubbed “We Decide 2020” — hope to reach five million voters in nine battleground states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. A spokesperson for the organization said this week was the “official start” to the strategy. The investment intends to fund large-scale grassroots programs and canvassing, digital, television, and radio and mail programs, according to Planned Parenthood. Just this week, the organization and its affiliated political organizations have hosted over 60 events, according to a Planned Parenthood spokesperson. State lawmakers introduced over 300 anti-abortion measures last year, a record-high number, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights research organization. Twelve states passed bans on the procedure, though all have been blocked by federal judges. Many of those other restrictions have gone into effect, however, including mandatory waiting periods and other measures designed to dissuade women from choosing an abortion. This year is expected to be no different. South Carolina is considering its own six-week ban on abortion and lawmakers in Tennessee are pushing to restrict the procedure entirely. A bill in Ohio overhauls the state’s penal code to call for some abortion patients to receive the death penalty. In March, the Supreme Court will hear its first abortion case since the appointments of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh flipped the Supreme Court conservative. The case centers on a 2014 Louisiana law that requires abortion-providing doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. If the law is upheld, Louisiana could become the first state not to have legal abortion access since the procedure was legalized in 1973. Earlier this month, 39 senators and 168 House members submitted an amicus brief in that case, supporting the abortion restriction and suggesting that Roe v. Wade might be “unworkable.” Kaplan said that Planned Parenthood Votes is comfortable with “every major democratic candidate.” “The Democratic candidates collectively have the boldest reproductive rights policies we’ve ever seen,” Kaplan said. “Every major candidate in the 2020 elections, except for Donald Trump, has spoken out against dangerous abortion bans and many of them have actually introduced real plans to protect the reproductive rights in this country.” Structurally, financially and operationally, Planned Parenthood Votes is separate from the organization clinic operations. Abortion-rights opponents are also expected to increase their advocacy efforts ahead of the 2020 election. In a press release issued last year, the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion rights activist group, said it plans to spend $41 million with a goal to “aggressively challenge, erode, and finally, overturn Roe v. Wade.” The organization did not return an email requesting comment. Last year, Planned Parenthood’s acting president told CBS News that recent laws attempting to restrict abortion have forced the organization to be both a health care provider and an advocacy group. “We are primarily a health care provider,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “We provide access to sexual and reproductive health, in some cases primary care. We’re not political by nature but we’ve been politicized, and that fight has actually been our focus — to ensure that our health centers stay open.” Moonstruck: Japanese billionaire's girlfriend entrants top 20,000 Students' support group for friend battling cancer still thriving 20 years later Democratic debates 2019: Schedule, candidates, start time, watch online stream, on TV, for the first DNC debate of 2020 election season Ford Explorer recall: Toe link suspension issue causes Ford recalls of 1.3 million Explorer SUVs, F-150 pickups, Taurus, , Flex and Lincoln vehicles Beef recall: More than 62000 pounds of raw beef products recalled nationwide due to E. coli risk Texas mayor Richard Molina arrested, charged with voter fraud Kim Jong Nam murder suspect Doan Thi Huong given reduced charge News From All Over World Russia will follow US footsteps and abandon INF treaty, Putin says Trump administration withdraws from U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty Ohio deputy killed, another injured during overnight standoff Botswana offers U.S. a valuable lesson about achieving racial harmony Accused drug lord allegedly had sex with underage girls	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2892
__label__wiki	0.828898	0.828898	Super Bowl 2019: 5 cringeworthy moments from Maroon 5's halftime show Sure, Maroon 5 has hits, but that doesn't change the fact that they're almost TOO easy to hate on. Not many expected the band's Super Bowl LIII halftime show to be good (in fact, the best moments from the show had nothing to do with Maroon 5 or Adam Levine), but here are the top cringeworthy moments from the halftime show. Adam Levine's wardrobe -- and lack thereof He started the show wearing a track suit and a long black coat, which means probably 90 percent of the people watching at home were dressed better than the man headlining the Super Bowl halftime show (pretty sure the holey sweatpants I'm wearing right now are more fashionable). Then he took off coat and jacket to reveal the world's worst tank top, and then he took THAT off to reveal the world's worst tattoos. And those chains? Oof. The track suit was somehow the best part of the outfit. Super Bowl 2019: Quiz yourself on these halftime shows and musical mishaps "Sicko Mode" doesn't really work on TV The show producers (sort of) gave the people what they wanted with that SpongeBob SquarePants "Sicko Mode" intro and Travis Scott flying in on a fiery meteor, but it went downhill from there. Which reminds us, we need to talk about... ...Travis Scott's weird belt The leather vest? Cool. The utility belt? Uh, distracting to say the least. It looks like it should belong to a video game character to hold the many items you'll need on your quest. Spongebob intros@trvisXX during the#SuperBowl halftime showhttps://t.co/iwO7K8xmZZpic.twitter.com/IpkF8w41qa — Hollywood Reporter (@THR)February 4, 2019 Big Boi without Andre 3000 Listen, we're gonna let Big Boi finish, but there's no Outkast without Andre 3000. And when the Atlanta rapper came on stage in a massive fur coat to perform "The Way You Move," it just left us a little wanting. Super Bowl 2019: Gladys Knight delivers flawless national anthem Adam Levine in general Maybe the performance would have been better if it was Maroon 4. From the aforementioned stripping to serious pitch issues to really bad dancing during Travis Scott's (entirely too brief) set, to a cringe-so-hard moment in which he asked the crowd, "Can I play guitar for you?" and the moment floating drone lanterns spelled out "One Love" in the sky while he performed "She Will Be Loved," the song you all danced to with your middle school crushes, it was just really, really, really rough. Better luck next year, NFL.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2893
__label__wiki	0.791293	0.791293	myscience.org › news wire.myScience Microtechnics - 10:37 How Bristol drones could help save our most endangered species Life Sciences - 08:00 Pharmacology - 07:02 European Commission approves Roche’s Polivy for people with previously treated aggressive lymphoma Mathematics - Jan 21 How a first edition of Principia with Isaac Newton’s notes got to Sydney Pharmacology - Jan 20 Novartis announces EU approval of Mayzent (siponimod) for adult patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) with active disease Physics - Jan 20 Environment - Jan 20 Six million hectares of threatened species habitat up in smoke Health - Jan 20 Team win ¤22.5m EU funding to develop rapid test for serious illnesses Business - Jan 18 The Myth of Dominant Thinking in Economics and Finance Philosophy - Jan 17 Ethics guidelines galore for AI - so now what? Life Sciences - Jan 17 Bushfires left millions of animals dead. We should use them, not bury them Scientists seek landholder help to combat toxic fireweed Social Sciences - Jan 16 Attentiveness and trust are especially effective in combating juvenile crime Administration - Jan 16 Police platform patrols create ’phantom effect’ that cuts crime in Tube stations Results 1 - 20 of 359. Physics - Materials Science - 20.01.2020 A new, extremely efficient source of terahertz radiation has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna): Lasers turn air into plasma, thereby producing terahertz rays for many possible applications. Terahertz radiation is used for security checks at airports, for medical examinations and also for quality checks in industry. A New Look at "Strange Metals" For years, a new synthesis method has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna) to unlock the secrets of "strange metals". Now a breakthrough has been achieved. The results have been published in "Science". Superconductors allow electrical current to flow without any resistance - but only below a certain critical temperature. Finds billions of quantum entangled electrons in ’strange metal’ Physicists provide direct evidence of entanglement's role in quantum criticality In a new study, U.S. and Austrian physicists have observed quantum entanglement among "billions of billions” of flowing electrons in a quantum critical material. The research, which appears this week in Science, examined the electronic and magnetic behavior of a "strange metal” compound of ytterbium, rhodium and silicon as it both neared and passed through a critical transition at the boundary between two well-studied quantum phases. Materials Science - 14.01.2020 Researchers break the geometric limitations of moiré pattern in graphene heterostructures Researchers at the University of Manchester in collaboration with CMT theorists (M. Andelkovic, S. Milovanovic, L. Covaci and F. Peeters) have uncovered interesting phenomena when multiple two-dimensional materials are combined into van der Waals heterostructures (layered 'sandwiches' of different materials). Materials Science - Physics - 13.01.2020 Carbon nanotube film produces aerospace-grade composites with no need for huge ovens or autoclaves. A modern airplane's fuselage is made from multiple sheets of different composite materials, like so many layers in a phyllo-dough pastry. Once these layers are stacked and molded into the shape of a fuselage, the structures are wheeled into warehouse-sized ovens and autoclaves, where the layers fuse together to form a resilient, aerodynamic shell. Materials Science - Chemistry - 10.01.2020 ETH researchers have created an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold, using a matrix of plastic in place of metallic alloy elements. Lovers of gold watches and heavy jewellery will be thrilled. The objects of their desire may someday become much lighter, but without losing any of their glitter. Especially with watches, a small amount of weight can make all the difference. Materials Science - Health - 09.01.2020 Bandage material helps stop bleeding without adhering to the wound Researchers from ETH Zurich and the National University of Singapore have developed a new kind of bandage that helps blood to clot and doesn't stick to the wound. This marks the first time that scientists have combined both properties in one material. "We did not actually plan this, but that is just how science works sometimes: you start researching one thing and end up somewhere else," says ETH Professor Dimos Poulikakos. Early humans optimised stone tool use at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge Early Stone Age populations living up to 1.8 million years ago made complex decisions in selecting different types of stone to optimise a variety of cutting tools, according to a new study by UCL, University of Kent and the Centre for Human and Social Sciences, Spain. The study, published in the Journal of Royal Society Interface , offers new insight into the complexity of stone tool use, design and production. Materials Science - Life Sciences - 30.12.2019 Materials ’remember’ past stresses as they age A new study by University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania scientists shows that as materials age, they 'remember' prior stresses and external forces, which researchers can then use to create new materials with unique properties. The study, published Dec. 20 in Science Advances , found that certain types of materials have a "memory" of how they were processed, stored, and manipulated. How a ’vegetable ion’ helped scientists unlock theory behind transitions of materials A puddle freezing on the sidewalk, your humidifier pumping out water vapor, salt trucks melting icy streets-wintertime in Chicago is full of examples of a physics phenomenon called a "phase transition," in which a material changes state. Physicists are fascinated by this phenomenon, which is useful in technology from the basic steam turbine all the way to MRIs. In a paper published Dec. History / Archeology - Materials Science - 19.12.2019 New archaeological discoveries reveal birch bark tar was used in medieval England Scientists from the University of Bristol and the British Museum, in collaboration with Oxford Archaeology East and Canterbury Archaeological Trust, have, for the first time, identified the use of birch bark tar in medieval England - the use of which was previously thought to be limited to prehistory. Health - Materials Science - 19.12.2019 Skin and Mucous Membrane Lesions as Complication of Pneumonia Painful inflammatory lesions of the skin and mucous membranes may occur in children who develop bacterial pneumonia. A research group at the University Children's Hospital Zurich has recently developed a new diagnostic blood test, which reliably diagnoses bacteria as the causative pathogen at an early stage, allowing more specific treatment and prediction about prognosis. Materials Science - Agronomy / Food Science - 19.12.2019 Making chocolate colourful ETH researchers are making chocolates shimmer in rainbow colours without the addition of colourants. They have found a way to imprint a special structure on the surface of the chocolate to create a targeted colour effect. By playing this video, you agree to the use of cookies by YouTube This may include analytics, personalization, and ads. New coating hides temperature change from infrared cameras An ultrathin coating developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers upends a ubiquitous physics phenomenon of materials related to thermal radiation: The hotter an object gets, the brighter it glows. The new coating - engineered from samarium nickel oxide, a unique tunable material - employs a bit of temperature trickery. Berkeley Lab’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2019 From the health benefits of cool roofs to an experiment to search for dark matter, Berkeley Lab researchers did a lot of science! The breadth of science conducted by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is vast, spanning from fundamental questions about the nature of the universe to solutions for saving energy in our homes and offices. Tiny Quantum Sensors Watch Materials Transform Under Pressure Scientists at Berkeley Lab convert diamonds' atomic flaws into atomic sensors with front-row seats to a quantum world of materials under extreme pressure S ince their invention more than 60 years ago, diamond anvil cells have made it possible for scientists to recreate extreme phenomena - such as the crushing pressures deep inside the Earth's mantle - or to enable chemical reactions that can only be triggered by intense pressure, all within the confines of a laboratory apparatus that you can safely hold in the palm of your hand. Stretchy and squeezy soft sensors one step closer thanks to new bonding method Imperial College London bioengineers have found a way to create stretchy and squeezy soft sensing devices by bonding rubber to electrical components. Stretchy and squeezy soft sensors that can fit around body parts or squeezed in hands could be used for applications including sports and rehabilitation after injury or stroke. How Electrons Break the Speed Limit In work that may have broad implications for the development of new materials for electronics, Caltech scientists for the first time have developed a way to predict how electrons interacting strongly with atomic motions will flow through a complex material. To do so, they relied only on principles from quantum mechanics and developed an accurate new computational method. Earth Sciences - Materials Science - 06.12.2019 Gaining insight into the energy balance of earthquakes Researchers at EPFL's Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory and the Weizmann Institute of Science have modeled the onset of slip between two bodies in frictional contact. Their work, a major step forward in the study of frictional rupture, could give us a better understanding of earthquakes - including how far and fast they travel.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2905
__label__wiki	0.517749	0.517749	Web speed test Download bitrates Host a server 0 collected data since in displayed area. Select a carrier! Please select a carrier using the menu above the map to show data. See also the Carolina West Wireless 3G / 4G / 5G mobile network coverage in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Austin, Columbus and in Ohio : Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, Parma, Canton, Youngstown, Lorain, Springfield, Kettering, Elyria, Lakewood, Cuyahoga Falls. Take part to the nPerf project, download our app now ! How do the nPerf maps work? Where does the data come from? The data is collected from tests carried out by users of the nPerf app. These are tests conducted in real conditions, directly in the field. If you'd like to get involved too, all you have to do is download the nPerf app onto your smartphone. The more data there is, the more comprehensive the maps will be! How are updates made? Network coverage maps are automatically updated by a bot every hour. Speed maps are updated every 15 minutes. Data is displayed for two years. After two years, the oldest data is removed from the maps once a month. How reliable and accurate is it? Tests are conducted on users' devices. Geolocation precision depends on the reception quality of the GPS signal at the time of the test. For coverage data, we only retain tests with a maximum geolocation precision of 50 meters. For download bitrates, this threshold goes up to 200 meters. How can I get hold of raw data? Are you looking to get hold of network coverage data or nPerf tests (bitrate, latency, browsing, video streaming) in CSV format to use them however you like? No problem! Contact us for a quote. Does a PRO tool for coverage maps visualization exist ? Yes. This tool is mainly intended for mobile operators. It has been integrated into an existing cockpit that already includes internet performance statistics from all operators in a country, as well as access to speed-test results and coverage data. These data can be visualized by applying filters by technology (no coverage, 2G, 3G, 4G, 4G+, 5G) over a configurable period (only the last 2 months for example). It's a great tool to track the deployment of new technology, monitor competitors and identify poor signal coverage areas. By browsing nPerf.com, you consent to our Privacy and Cookies Usage Policy as well as our nPerf test End User License Agreement. OK	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2908
__label__cc	0.667605	0.332395	Sweeten Sugar Season with Special Savings Vermont’s Woodstock Inn & Resort offers travelers savings up to 50 percent off and a roster of seasonal activities. Northshore Magazine February 28, 2018 In celebration of Sugar Season, when the maple sap starts to run signaling Vermont’s transition from snowy winter to lush spring, the Woodstock Inn & Resort offers travelers savings up to 50 percent off and a roster of seasonal activities. As a kick-off to the season, Maple Madness Weekend takes over the town of Woodstock on March 24 and 25. Festivities include a maple taste-a-round at Suicide Six Ski Area featuring specialty maple-themed dishes made by chefs from local town eateries. The event takes place on Saturday, March 24 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the door. Woodstock Inn & Resort’s Sugar Season packages offer travelers the following: The Sugar Season Escape package includes: Luxury accommodations at the Woodstock Inn & Resort Hearty country breakfast for two each morning Midweek rates start at $179 per night; weekend rates start at $209 per night Available March 6 through May 17, 2018 The Sugar Season “Extra Sweet” package includes: $100 spa credit per room, per night Sugar Season “Suite Deals” package includes: Luxury suite accommodations at the Woodstock Inn & Resort A bottle of wine upon arrival A taste of maple welcome amenity Midweek rates start at $299 per night; weekend rates starting at $329 per night While cold temperatures linger, snow enthusiasts can get in the last runs of the season at the resort’s Suicide Six Ski Area or nearby Killington. The shift to warmer weather beckons guests to try resort activities such as handling a bird of prey at the New England Falconry or wrangling a fish during an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing excursion. Outdoor adventurers can hike trails such as the route up Mt. Tom, a trek that starts walking distance from the resort and offers panoramic views of the town below. A visit to Sugarbush Farm to learn about the maple sugaring process, taste pure Vermont maple syrup, and sample locally made cheese appeals to foodies and maple aficionados. The 10,000 square foot spa features a relaxation space, a hot tub, and a Scandinavian sauna. March’s seasonally crafted spa treatment is the Sugar & Spice. It starts with a fine sugar polish drenched in jojoba and calming rose essential oil and is followed by a marshmallow shea butter balm body mask packed with antioxidants and vitamins. While wrapped, spa-goers receive a peppermint foot massage and wild lime scalp massage. The treatment ends with a clove and chamomile lotion application to help protect and soothe winter skin. Pricing starts at $135 for 50 minutes; $194 for 80 minutes (includes full body massage). A choice of culinary options includes the Red Rooster, a fine dining restaurant that emphasizes fresh, local ingredients sourced from the best purveyors in New England, and the cozy Richardson’s Tavern. Recognized as one of the “prettiest small towns in America,” the village of Woodstock offers guests history brimming with true New England charm. For shopping and strolling, downtown Woodstock’s quaint antique shops, art galleries, boutiques, restaurants, specialty food markets and more are just outside the resort’s front door. Also, a short walk away are The Billings Farm and Museum and The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion, Laurance and Mary Rockefeller’s home, which are part of the March-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park. For more information about the Woodstock Inn & Resort and additional Sugar Season package offerings, visit: woodstockinn.com Starting rate accommodations for Sugar Season packages are in Garden King rooms. Other restrictions, taxes and fees apply. 13 Things to Love About Sunday River, Maine By Tamsin Venn January 17, 2019 Scenic Rail Rides Joseph Prezioso October 30, 2018 Weekend Getaway in Baltimore Victoria Abbott Riccardi October 26, 2018 2018 Walking Tours of Portsmouth Northshore Magazine May 11, 2018 Summer Staycation Packages at Boston-Area Hotels Northshore Magazine May 9, 2018 RiverWalk Resort at Loon Mountain Northshore Magazine April 5, 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0047.json.gz/line2909

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