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__label__cc	0.7477	0.2523	Jump to: Board index General RPG Forum Transformers: Rebellion hub A place to play and organize role playing games on the forums with others. "Mafia" games welcome. Godzilla165 E.S.P.Spy Re: Transformers: Rebellion hub Postby Godzilla165 » Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:18 pm New characters inbound: Name: Bumblebee Faction: Autobots Appearance: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/or ... 8bf711.jpg With the Decepticons now the dominant force, and the stakes raised, Bumblebee has now been forced to "grow up" some. With that newfound maturity, comes a brand new and hardened look for the scout, with sharper edges and more toned lines. Bumblebee has also inverted his color to include a lot more black as to blend in with his surroundings, and keep any prying Decepticon optics at bay. This black coloration is also specialized to help mask the scout's energon signature. Alt Mode: '17 Camaro ZL1 Weapons/Equipment: A high caliber plasma cannon with a razor sharp pincer is mounted in Bumblebee's right forearm, and rack-loaded missile launchers are embedded in both of his wrists. Bumblebee can also use the wheels on his back as massive throwing stars, and wields a grappling hook within his plasma cannon to assist in reaching high places. Bumblebee's now iconic battle mask has been heavily modified to scan for any Decepticon energon signatures that may be in the vicinity, and has been reinforced to take larger amounts of punishment. Whereabouts: Bumblebee and his human best friend: Spike Witwicky, were last spotted in the outskirts of North Carolina heading towards West Virginia, before visual was lost. Abilities: Adept fighter- Don't let his size fool you, as Bumblebee is one of the most potent fighters in the Autobots' ranks, and is able to hold his own against the likes of Sideways and Ironhide. If he wasn't so reckless, Bee would be an all out warrior. His vehicle mode also grants him the ability to travel at 200 mph while in it. Personality: The once Autobot Jokester, happy-go-lucky scout that Bumblebee used to be is all but gone these days; there just isn't a place for that anymore. Now, Bee is a much more focused and matured cybertronian who is cautious and aware of his surroundings at all times. He has to be with Spike traveling alongside him 24/7. If anything were to ever happen to his friend, Bumblebee would never forgive himself for it; he is Spike's guardian, and it's time he started acting like it. Name: Spike Witwicky Faction: Humans/Autobots Appearance: Spike has dark brown eyes to match the uncut brown hair that runs down to his shoulders. He also wears an unkempt goatee. Spike's upper body is riddled with healed scars of different lengths and shapes, due to having been thrown around and shot at for a good deal of his life, especially nowadays. Weapons/Equipment: Spike wields the cybertronian equivalent of a revolver, specially designed by Ironhide for him to use. It fires superheated ion rounds at a rate of mach 1, and completely annihilates any fleshy targets of similar size to Spike. While practically being useless against Transformers, Spike has used it to at the very least somewhat annoy a Decepticon, and draw their attention on multiple occasions. Spike also wears a small canister of energon around his neck. This isn't just any energon, however, this is the lifeblood of Optimus Prime himself. It was the last gift that the Autobot leader gave to Spike before being captured. Optimus wanted the human to always remember him and make it clear that Spike was both one of the Autobots now, and one of the most trustworthy and kind hearted beings that Optimus had ever met. Abilities: None. Personality: Spike used to be as optimistic and free spirited as his best friend, Bumblebee was. That was until the entire world was flipped upside down, and life as he knew it was over. Now, Spike is a gruff and hardened survivor of the apocalypse, and has been turned cynical to the prospects of peace and happiness. That's what being one of the last few humans to have not been killed, or enslaved by the Decepticons will do to a man. Spike doesn't consider himself lucky for this fact. In fact, it makes him sick to his stomach to know that most of his friends and family have been killed, and thousands of people have been turned into slaves, while he is running around in the world. There is still a sliver of hope that burns deep within Spike, and that is most likely due to Optimus telling him to never give up on that aspect. With Bee's help and guidance, they will find the other Autobots that are scattered across the globe, storm the Decepticon gates, free Optimus, and take back the Earth. They have to. EDIT: And Bumblebee CAN talk here, so no radio, just his natural, real voice. Last edited by Godzilla165 on Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:12 pm, edited 3 times in total. #BotM Grimlock#1 Location: On my computer, of course Contact Grimlock#1 Postby Grimlock#1 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:57 pm Because I think he would fit in here like a glove. Name: Overlord Faction: Decepticon Appearance: http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Mastermind-Creations-Carnifex-8.jpg Alt-Modes: Tank and Jet (I don't know exactly what the specific type of tank and jet he turns into, so I'm guessing just generics) Weapons/Equipment: Overlord's greatest weapon is his brute strength and superior knowhow when it comes to fighting. Back on Cybertron he was among the top fighters in the gladiatorial matches Megatron held in secret, so he knows a wide variety of fighting styles. When he isn't using his fists, Overlord enjoys blasting his foes with his enormous gun he's dubbed the Transector Destroyer Cannon, which is able to inflict near-fatal shots using enormous shells (Overlord doesn't use it often due to preferring the use of his fighting skills to kill his enemies). The Transector Destroyer Cannon additionally functions as his tank mode's cannon. Also on his person is a katana sword, and he uses the front half of his jet mode as a shield. Whereabouts: Overlord continues Megatron's gladiatorial matches in a private arena Overlord himself personally constructed in Washington Memorial Park. Although he hosts these matches, Overlord isn't shy about taking part in them. These matches help entertain the many Decepticons stationed on Earth, and are quite a treat for them. Autobots are primarily the 'bots used; either to fight each other to the death or fight Decepticon warriors; but some times Decepticons who fail Megatron wind up here to serve as examples and show what happens if you fail the Emperor of Destruction. Overlord considers himself to be one of the strongest Decepticons in the galaxy and isn't shy about expressing it, although he keeps his desire to challenge Megatron to a one-on-one fight to the death a secret until he believes the time is right. It's not that he doesn't think Megatron is a great leader, he just thinks that the strongest should rule. Abilities: Overlord is remarkably strong on his own, but when he's in dire straits he can naturally call upon energy reserves stored in his body to give him temporary strength boosts. These strength boosts give him the power to lift objects 10x his size and makes his strength levels rival that of Omega Supreme. The downside is that once his boost wears off, he's left in a weakened state. Overlord is quite adapt at fighting in robot and vehicle modes. "Operator, give me the number for 911!" Space Hunter M wrote: Ah, you and your corns. Great. When you and the MUTO meet, be sure you tell him all about your corn problems. "MECHAGGGGGGGGGGGGG!" Postby Godzilla165 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:59 pm Nice choice and accepted mate, welcome. Last edited by Godzilla165 on Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:00 pm, edited 1 time in total. Kaijunator Location: Everywhere doing everything Contact Kaijunator Postby Kaijunator » Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:48 am Gosh darn it, my boy Grimlock's taken! Doctor, if you ever decide to stop using him for whatever reason, I'll take him. But for right now, I'm thinking about AOE Strafe or Dragonstorm. Only problem with Dragonstorm is that he's made up out of twelve Knights so would I be controlling all the Knights or would he just be a single non-combining bot? If you have digital copy codes for movies you want to give away, I'll gladly take them! Dillyziller wrote: Evangelion 4.0: This is (not) a joke It opens with Shinji, Asuka, and Rei walking along the lifeless, red earth. Suddenly the ground begins to shake. Godzilla bursts from the ground, killing the 3 pilots. Godzilla will then battle his newest opponent... parental issues. TitanoGoji16 wrote: "Do you think C-Rex and FeMUTO could make sweet love down by the fire and give birth to Gabara?" Best song ever. Postby Godzilla165 » Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:08 am If you'd want to base Dragonstorm off of his TLK incarnation, then you would be using twelve knights to do it. You're more than welcome to make your own Dragonstorm, though; twelve characters seems a bit intimidating to have to write for. EDIT: And we all can use more than one character peeps. Last edited by Godzilla165 on Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:11 am, edited 1 time in total. Godzilla165 wrote: If you'd want to base Dragonstorm off of his TLK incarnation, then you would be using twelve knights to do it. You're more than welcome to make your own Dragonstorm, though; twelve characters seems a bit intimidating to have to write for. Alright. I'll make my own Dragonstorm. I'd like to use Bayformers Strafe too if he is allowed. Sure. We have our three animal TFs now guys, so no more Dinobots unless you ask me, and it's for a good reason . Godzilla165 wrote: Sure. We have our three animal TFs now guys, so no more Dinobots unless you ask me, and it's for a good reason . Thanks. I'll start working on bios. Dr. Carter Yin-Yang Master Postby Dr. Carter » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:17 pm I'll be sure to let you know Kaijunator. I chose Grimmy because he's one of my favorite TFs, so much so that I have several versions of the character in toy form including the TR Titan Master version, though I skipped on the AOE/TLK version because I'm no longer collecting Bayformer toys. But yeah, sorry about that. First come first served. And technically, we probably could have more animal tfs, but they'd either have to be non-dinos/non-dragons since we have enough of those on the Autobot side, or Decepticons. (Unless that Dragonstorm is going to be a Decepticon.) Right, G165? Postby Godzilla165 » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:33 pm Yes, I should've worded that better. We can have more animal TFs, but just now Dinobots because of how ludicrously powerful they are. MechaGoji Bro7503 Location: Black Hole Planet 3 Contact MechaGoji Bro7503 Postby MechaGoji Bro7503 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:30 pm Name: Soundwave Faction: Decepticons Appearance: ( Cybertron "Unicron Trilogy" design) sorry phone's acting up and I can't post any imags yet. Alt Mode: Cybertronian Jet Casset Tapes: Lazerbeak, Buzzsaw, and Rumble. Weapons/Equipment: Soundwave wields a Neutron Rifle in his right hand, and in his left hand a sound cannon. Lazerbeak and Buzzsaw are equipped with miniature photon pulse cannons. Rumble has his signature dual earthquake creating weapons. Whereabouts: Contuines to serve as Megatron's right- hand man in their base in Jasper, Nevada. Abilities: His iconic helpers are masters of infiltration, and are some of the most loyal Decepticons. Soundwave can hack nearly anything; and as his name suggests he has the ability to generate massive ear splitting ( to humans, circuit damaging to bots) soundwaves. Last edited by MechaGoji Bro7503 on Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:30 pm, edited 1 time in total. "Bang on, mate.", - Murdoc Niccals 2018. Dv-218 wrote: This is so sad, Alexa play "Bio-Wars". Dr. Professor wrote: If I had a dollar for every "SAVE MOTHRA" joke, I'd be able to buy Legendary Pictures, renew the license for Godzilla, acquire the rights to the rest of the Toho monsters, and make a Godzilla film that totally bombs without even putting a dent in my bank account. "Wake the fruck up Godzilla, we got a city to burn." - Goro Maki, 2016. Postby Godzilla165 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:24 pm Accepted . Postby Godzilla165 » Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:00 pm Introducing my last three characters, you guys are going to like these . Name: Barricade Appearance: http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thu ... -robot.jpg Alt Mode: Koenigsegg One 1 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6_qbZ7KpUPY/V ... hoot-2.jpg Once a highly modified, police Mustang, Barricade took on this much more exotic and powerful form to be several steps ahead of Bumblebee at all times. Weapons/Equipment: Barricade wields an Ion sub machine gun, Energon Harvester shotgun wrapped around his left forearm, and two knuckle dusters with the words, "Punish" and "Enslave" engraved in them. Whereabouts: Barricade's main place of stay is located at one of Megatron's fortresses in the heart of Chicago, where he assists in making sure that every single operation gets done to the letter. When he isn't near the tower, Barricade and his personal strike team relentlessly hunt down any and all Autobots that might be nearby, especially his arch rival: Bumblebee. Barricade relishes in the day when he will finally have the chance to tear the scout's spark from his chest. Abilities: Barricade is one of the best trackers among the Decepticons, and was one of the biggest reasons why they managed to find nearly every Autobot on Earth. He is also a master interrogator, and is usually able to break even the toughest of foes. Barricade's vehicle mode allows for him to reach speeds of 275 MPH. Name: Thundercracker Appearance: http://orig03.deviantart.net/06e6/f/200 ... rble_v.jpg Alt Mode: F-117 Weapons/Equipment: If Starscream is the perfect balance, then Thundercracker is the scalpel of the vaunted Seeker trio, relying more on stealth and ambush tactics than anything else. He utilizes a high caliber, armor piercing Nucelon sniper rifle mounted in his right forearm, to pick off opponents from miles away. Thundercrack also wields an experimental Glass Cannon, that when used on an enemy, will literally harden their armor to the point of being extremely brittle, and crushing them under their own weight. In stealth bomber mode, Thundercracker possesses dark energon bombs that not only annihilate anything they hit, but also infect and kill off all organic life in the surrounding area. Whereabouts: Thundercracker is the overseer of the Chicago fortress, left in charge personally by Megatron himself. If he isn't there, then Thundercracker will almost always be with Starscream and Skywarp during their scouting missions for any useful resources, and of course, hunting down Autobot refugees. Abilities: Active camouflage- Thundercracker can turn himself completely invisible in both robot, and vehicle mode. This is especially useful for scouting an area from above, and not being picked up by enemy sensors. However, if Thundercracker begins to move too much or suddenly, his camouflage will be broken. Name: Skywarp Appearance: https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/tr ... 1027093849 Alt Mode: F-18 Weapons/Equipment: Skywarp is the hammer of his Seeker brethren, relying solely on sheer firepower and brutality to get the job done. In both arms, Skywarp wields X86 Scrapmakers that are modified for faster wind up speeds. He also has three bunker buster missiles on both wrists. For close quarters combat, Skywarp has spiked fists to beat his enemies beyond recognition, and a large mace. Whereabouts: Skywarp works alongside Thundercracker and Barricade in the ruins of Chicago, but will occasionally go off on his own for certain... Destructive purposes. Abilities: Short distance teleportation- Skywarp can teleport up to 100 feet at a time to disorientate his opponents, or get out of a tough spot. We need a good Ironhide here; you can't have a true TF story without him, right ? Last edited by Godzilla165 on Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:43 pm, edited 2 times in total. Postby Dr. Carter » Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:01 pm Indeed, though I'm not going to use Ironhide personally, as much fun as he would be to control. And G165, you spawn of Unicron, why'd you have to put those three in Chicago? That's not far from Detroit, it's like my guys are bound to get ambushed. XP I wasn't exactly planning on getting into a fight this early in the rp. Haha, don't worry Doctor, I won't sick the hounds on you this early . Postby MechaGoji Bro7503 » Mon Jul 24, 2017 8:49 am Oh yeah! Thundercracker and Skywarp! I'll save Sixshot for when the time is right- look out Autobots . Postby Dr. Carter » Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:52 pm Name: Rattrap Appearance: http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/6/6 ... th_gun.jpg (More for reference, I'm using his Transmetal form, but he's not actually a Transmetal this time around.) Alt Mode: Cybertronic Rat Weapons/Equipment: -Assault Blaster: Rattrap's primary weapon, he uses this when engaging enemies at distance. It has two settings, one which rapid fires, and the other which does one shot per trigger pull. -Demolition Charges: These little bombs he keeps in his forearms, and when he needs to blow something to smithereens, these are his tool of choice. It just so happens that being a demolitions expert goes hand in hand with being a spy. Whereabouts: Last spotted in a Junkyard in Detroit with his friend Rhinox. Rattrap knows that he needs to keep moving if he's to survive, and boy is this world out to get him. Because of this, he often utters his phrase, "We're all gonna die..." A lot more than he used to. -Expert Spy: Rattrap can get anywhere he needs to be, and has sensors specially attuned to detecting sounds. Something very important for his role as a spy. There is one cost to this though, he stinks like nobodies business, but then, in this world, that's not quite an issue anymore... -Demolitions Expert: If it can be brought down, Rattrap can figure out how to do it. He has a knack for finding weak points, and putting his demolition charges right there. He's even better at getting out of that spot lickity split. -Extra-Speed Mode: Simply put, this is his Cybertronic Rat mode with the wheels deployed, enabling him to speed off at up to 200 mph. Name: Rhinox Appearance: http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/4/4 ... rhinox.jpg (Just think of his altmode being more mechanical in this version.) Alt Mode: Cybertronic Rhinoceros with front loader wheels on the legs. -What else? His Twin Chain Guns Of Doom. Whereabouts: Rhinox was last seen digging around an abandoned junkyard in Detroit, likely searching for things to use in putting together some sort of device to help him, Rattrap, and any other Autobot Refugee they find to survive. -Brilliant Mind: Rhinox is basically a genius when it comes to science and especially physics. So much so that he can be described as a miracle worker by making a working device out of simple junk and spare parts. He's also highly knowledgeable on cybertronian physiology. -High Strength: Rhinox is one of the stronger Autobots out there, naturally, since he does take nature's tank, the Rhinoceros as his alternate mode. And while in his alt mode, he can take a brutally punishing amount of hits, and still keep going. He's not nearly as tough as Grimlock though... -High-Speed Mode: Like Rattrap, Rhinox modified his beast mode with a pair of wheels in order to travel faster. He can clock up to 120 mph in this mode, otherwise, he's just about even with Grimlock in the foot speed department when it comes to alt modes. I just couldn't help myself, I was thinking too much on having these two in. More so with Rattrap though. I was tempted to try Waspinator, but he may be too comical for this. XD Though, seeing him getting blow up once in a while could be good... This actually would be a good rp to see Waspinator actually be happy in. And no worries, I won't use Dinobot. I'll just have Rattrap form a rivalry with Grimlock instead. XD Assuming my five characters so far live long enough to meet. And that's assuming that Rattrap and Rhinox get accepted. Postby Godzilla165 » Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:13 am Postby Kaijunator » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:21 pm Strafe: Robot mode: http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/181/a/d/transformers_age_of_extinction_strafe_robot_mode_by_tfprime1114-d7onggx.png Alt mode: http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/4/48/AOEStrafeandBumblebee.jpg but with the colors of this http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/e/e4/TLKDeluxeStrafe.JPG Weapons/Equipment: Cybertronian Crossbow and dual swords (I couldn't find any more information on these weapons, basically it's the ones the toys come with), can breathe fire capable of easily melting armor using a flamethrower installed in each of his two heads. Whereabouts: Strafe, being one of the legendary Dinobots, is a high-value target for the new rulers of Earth, the Decepticons due to his strength. This has forced him to constantly be on the move, like the rest of the Autobots. To assist him in evading capture, he has hidden all Autobot insignia inside him (he has transformed the parts of his body where they would be visible) and will use his red eyes to trick his would-be captors into thinking he's an ally. Of course, any Autobot would be able to recognize him. If he is ever questioned about his allegiance, he can reveal the Autobot insignia. Strafe would also like to find the rest of his team one day. He's sure that at least his leader Grimlock survived. Grimlock is one of the few Cybertronians that can beat Megatron in a 1-on-1 fight. Strafe may not be as strong as Grimlock, but he does have two heads and the ability to fly, so it's a lot easier for him to see incoming hostile. But the other Dinobots' whereabouts are unknown. Are they in hiding? Were they captured or maybe even killed? Everywhere he went, the winged Dinobot would look for signs of his allies. He knew that if he grouped up with the remaining Autobots, they could free Optimus Prime and take Earth back. Abilities: Strafe can take flight using the large wings on his back. Like the rest of the Dinobots, he also is extremely powerful and durable, able to crush Decepticons easily with his jaws and claws. Strafe is capable of carrying multiple Cybertronians, either on his back or using his feet. Custom Dragonstorm's up next. Last edited by Kaijunator on Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:28 pm, edited 1 time in total. Postby Godzilla165 » Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:05 am Return to “RPG Forum”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line808
__label__cc	0.742591	0.257409	1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. 4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. 7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. 8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil [is] upon us; What [is] thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what [is] thy country? and of what people [art] thou? 9 And he said unto them, I [am] an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry [land]. 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest [is] upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring [it] to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them. 14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. 15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. 16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. 17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line818
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__label__cc	0.713198	0.286802	Recombinant Research: Breaking open rewards and incentives In the previous articles in this series I've looked at problems in current medical research, and at the legal and technical solutions proposed by Sage Bionetworks. Pilot projects have shown encouraging results but to move from a hothouse environment of experimentation to the mainstream of one of the world's most lucrative and tradition-bound industries, Sage Bionetworks must aim for its nucleus: rewards and incentives. Previous article in the series: Sage Congress plans for patient engagement. Think about the publication system, that wretchedly inadequate medium for transferring information about experiments. Getting the data on which a study was based is incredibly hard; getting the actual samples or access to patients is usually impossible. Just as boiling vegetables drains most of their nutrients into the water, publishing results of an experiment throws away what is most valuable. But the publication system has been built into the foundation of employment and funding over the centuries. A massive industry provides distribution of published results to libraries and research institutions around the world, and maintains iron control over access to that network through peer review and editorial discretion. Even more important, funding grants require publication (but the data behind the study only very recently). And of course, advancement in one's field requires publication. Lawrence Lessig, in his keynote, castigated for-profit journals for restricting access to knowledge in order to puff up profits. A chart in his talk showed skyrocketing prices for for-profit journals in comparison to non-profit journals. Lessig is not out on the radical fringe in this regard; Harvard Library is calling the current pricing situation "untenable" in a move toward open access echoed by many in academia. Lawrence Lessig keynote at Sage Congress. How do we open up this system that seemed to serve science so well for so long, but is now becoming a drag on it? One approach is to expand the notion of publication. This is what Sage Bionetworks is doing with Science Translational Medicine in publishing validated biological models, as mentioned in an earlier article. An even more extensive reset of the publication model is found in Open Network Biology (ONB), an online journal. The publishers require that an article be accompanied by the biological model, the data and code used to produce the model, a description of the algorithm, and a platform to aid in reproducing results. But neither of these worthy projects changes the external conditions that prop up the current publication system. When one tries to design a reward system that gives deserved credit to other things besides the final results of an experiment, as some participants did at Sage Congress, great unknowns loom up. Is normalizing and cleaning data an activity worth praise and recognition? How about combining data sets from many different projects, as a Synapse researcher did for the TCGA? How much credit do you assign researchers at each step of the necessary procedure for a successful experiment? Let's turn to the case of free software to look at an example of success in open sharing. It's clear that free software has swept the computer world. Most web sites use free software ranging from the server on which they run to the language compilers that deliver their code. Everybody knows that the most popular mobile platform, Android, is based on Linux, although fewer realize that the next most popular mobile platforms, Apple's iPhones and iPads, run on a modified version of the open BSD operating system. We could go on and on citing ways in which free and open source software have changed the field. The mechanism by which free and open source software staked out its dominance in so many areas has not been authoritatively established, but I think many programmers agree on a few key points: Computer professionals encountered free software early in their careers, particularly as students or tinkerers, and brought their predilection for it into jobs they took at stodgier institutions such as banks and government agencies. Their managers deferred to them on choices for programming tools, and the rest is history. Of course, computer professionals would not have chosen the free tools had they not been fit for the job (and often best for the job). Why is free software so good? Probably because the people creating it have complete jurisdiction over what to produce and how much time to spend producing it, unlike in commercial ventures with requirements established through marketing surveys and deadlines set unreasonably by management. Different pieces of free software are easy to hook up, because one can alter their interfaces as necessary. Free software developers tend to look for other tools and platforms that could work with their own, and provide hooks into them (Apache, free database engines such as MySQL, and other such platforms are often accommodated.) Customers of proprietary software, in contrast, experience constant frustration when they try to introduce a new component or change components, because the software vendors are hostile to outside code (except when they are eager to fill a niche left by a competitor with market dominance). Formal standards cannot overcome vendor recalcitrance--a painful truth particularly obvious in health care with quasi-standards such as HL7. Free software scales. Programmers work on it tirelessly until it's as efficient as it needs to be, and when one solution just can't scale any more, programmers can create new components such as Cassandra, CouchDB, or Redis that meet new needs. Are there lessons we can take from this success story? Biological research doesn't fit the circumstances that made open source software a success. For instance, researchers start out low on the totem pole in very proprietary-minded institutions, and don't get to choose new ways of working. But the cleverer ones are beginning to break out and try more collaboration. Software and Internet connections help. Researchers tend to choose formats and procedures on an ad hoc, project by project basis. They haven't paid enough attention to making their procedures and data sets work with those produced by other teams. This has got to change, and Sage Bionetworks is working hard on it. Research is labor-intensive. It needs desperately to scale, as I have pointed out throughout this article, but to do so it needs entire new paradigms for thinking about biological models, workflow, and teamwork. This too is part of Sage Bionetworks' mission. Certain problems are particularly resistant in research: Conditions that affect small populations have trouble raising funds for research. The Sage Congress initiatives can lower research costs by pooling data from the affected population and helping researchers work more closely with patients. Computation and statistical methods are very difficult fields, and biological research is competing with every other industry for the rare individuals who know these well. All we can do is bolster educational programs for both computer scientists and biologists to get more of these people. There's a long lag time before one knows the effects of treatments. As Heywood's keynote suggested, this is partly solved by collecting longitudinal data on many patients and letting them talk among themselves. Another process change has revolutionized the computer field: agile programming. That paradigm stresses close collaboration with the end-users whom the software is supposed to benefit, and a willingness to throw out old models and experiment. BRIDGE and other patient initiatives hold out the hope of a similar shift in medical research. All these things are needed to rescue the study of genetics. It's a lot to do all at once. Progress on some fronts were more apparent than others at this year's Sage Congress. But as more people get drawn in, and sometimes fumbling experiments produce maps for changing direction, we may start to see real outcomes from the efforts in upcoming years. All articles in this series, and others I've written about Sage Congress, are available through a bit.ly bundle. OSCON 2012 — Join the world's open source pioneers, builders, and innovators July 16-20 in Portland, Oregon. Learn about open development, challenge your assumptions, and fire up your brain. Save 20% on registration with the code RADAR20 Tags: Data Mobile Programming cloudcomputing crowdsourcing fda freesoftware genetics healthcare healthit lawrencelessig medical opensource peerproduction pharma pharmaceuticalcompanies sagebionetworks sagecommons sciencetranslationalmedicine synapse wealthofnetworks wisdomofcrowds RT @lessig Posted 'Institutional Corruption - v3' to blip.tv: Tags: LawrenceLessig lecture corruption Reposted from piratenpartei	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line829
__label__cc	0.512549	0.487451	Last week we learned that NetApp's executives consider IBM sales efforts incremental. If that is the case , then I suspect after looking up IBM sales numbers, that IBM management must consider their rebranded NetApp sales insignificant to their bottom line. "IBM is very focused on what I call white space, which is where we are not covered," Mendoza said. "For example, state and local government, and retail. So it's largely incremental for us." IBM Numbers for 2005 Revenue $91,134.000,000.00 Cost of Goods Sold $54,602,000,000.00 Gross Profit $36,532,000,000.00 Gross Profit Margin 40.1% NetApp’s number for IBM’ sales = about $60,000,000 That means that IBM branded NetApp's unit sales are much less than 1% of IBM’s sales. By the way, NetApp is reporting sales of $2,066,000,000.00 for 2006. Would you consider that insignificant to IBM, or incremental as NetApp’s Mendoza states? It could be both. But I think the sales are probably much more important to NetApp than to IBM. I wonder how it makes IBM sales folks feel to know their efforts are merely incremental? Does IBM have a bonus plan and sales contest to help determine who is their most insignificant and incremental NetApp sales person of the year? : ) Posted by mike at 4:56 AM 1 comment: This could be significant. After all the speculation, Dell has announced it will start selling computers with pre-installed Linux distributions instead of Microsoft Windows. NetApp says that IBM's branded sales are just incremental. Tom Mendoza, president of NetApp, said that improving sales through IBM is not affecting NetApp's solution providers. "IBM is very focused on what I call white space, which is where we are not covered," Mendoza said. "For example, state and local government, and retail. So it's largely incremental for us. They've done an excellent job of minimizing conflicts by focusing on where we are not." The article linked below says that IBM is 3% 0f Netapp sales. 3% of sales seems like a big increment to me... Do the math $2,000,000,000.00 in NetApp Sales * 3% = $60,000,000.00 The OEM deal with IBM accounted for almost 3% of NetApp's revenue during the quarter, reflecting a relationship that NetApp claimed is going better than expected. I have to wonder how much NetApp's big resellers are pushing out the door if IBM sales are only incremental? Could there be some perspective or marketing spin issues in play? How much longer will NetApp support this small incremental sales channel? The word in the street since the announcement last spring by IBM that it would be reselling a portion of NetApp's product line has been at best hushed and at worst that it's a disaster. I heard that there were channel conflicts all over the place and that field compensation hadn't been worked out to a point where the two could work together. I'll bet Larry King can find out the answers... Talk-show host Larry King and his wife, Shawn Southwick, have agreed to buy a Beverly Hills home listed for just under $12 million. The five-bedroom, Tuscan-style home was on the market less than two weeks before the couple agreed to buy it. The almost 10,000-square-foot house, built in 1989, has a skylit foyer and a master suite with a sitting room and twin bathrooms. There is also a two-bedroom guest house and a pool. Local agents identified Mr. King as the buyer. Listing agent Stephen Resnick of Westside Estate Agency confirmed that a contract has been signed, with the deal set to close later this month. Mr. Resnick wouldn't name the sellers but said they spent two years renovating the house. Records show the sellers are Thomas and Kathy Mendoza, who bought the home three years ago. Thomas Mendoza is president of Network Appliance, a Sunnyvale, Calif., data-storage company. The King and Mendoza families declined to comment. Mr. King, 73 years old, is the longtime host of the CNN talk show "Larry King Live." Ms. Southwick, 47, is a former host of the television show "Hollywood Insider." You just can't make this stuff up ! It is always nice when we get a letter like this... Thank you for your letter following up on the order we placed. I am impressed by the quality of customer service that your company has provided, and fully satisfied both with the order and the helpfulness of your staff. BXXXXX NXXX ( Name x'd out for privacy) One of our customers read the Google study in the previous post and sent along this link and the conclusion is fascinating. I certainly hope that all our customers will read this . You can download it here Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? Bianca Schroeder Garth A. Gibson {bianca, garth}@cs.cmu.edu Many have pointed out the need for a better understanding of what disk failures look like in the field. Yet hardly any published work exists that provides a large-scale study of disk failures in production systems. As a first step towards closing this gap, we have analyzed disk replacement data from a number of large production systems, spanning more than 100,000 drives from at least four different vendors, including drives with SCSI, FC and SATA interfaces. Below is a summary of a few of our results. * Large-scale installation field usage appears to differ widely from nominal datasheet MTTF conditions. The field replacement rates of systems were significantly larger than we expected based on datasheet MTTFs. * For drives less than five years old, field replacement rates were larger than what the datasheet MTTF suggested by a factor of 2-10. For five to eight year old drives, field replacement rates were a factor of 30 higher than what the datasheet MTTF suggested. * Changes in disk replacement rates during the first five years of the lifecycle were more dramatic than often assumed. While replacement rates are often expected to be in steady state in year 2-5 of operation (bottom of the ``bathtub curve''), we observed a continuous increase in replacement rates, starting as early as in the second year of operation. * In our data sets, the replacement rates of SATA disks are not worse than the replacement rates of SCSI or FC disks. This may indicate that disk-independent factors, such as operating conditions, usage and environmental factors, affect replacement rates more than component specific factors. However, the only evidence we have of a bad batch of disks was found in a collection of SATA disks experiencing high media error rates. We have too little data on bad batches to estimate the relative frequency of bad batches by type of disk, although there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that bad batches are not unique to SATA disks. * The common concern that MTTFs underrepresent infant mortality has led to the proposal of new standards that incorporate infant mortality [33]. Our findings suggest that the underrepresentation of the early onset of wear-out is a much more serious factor than underrepresentation of infant mortality and recommend to include this in new standards. * While many have suspected that the commonly made assumption of exponentially distributed time between failures/replacements is not realistic, previous studies have not found enough evidence to prove this assumption wrong with significant statistical confidence [8]. Based on our data analysis, we are able to reject the hypothesis of exponentially distributed time between disk replacements with high confidence. We suggest that researchers and designers use field replacement data, when possible, or two parameter distributions, such as the Weibull distribution. * We identify as the key features that distinguish the empirical distribution of time between disk replacements from the exponential distribution, higher levels of variability and decreasing hazard rates. We find that the empirical distributions are fit well by a Weibull distribution with a shape parameter between 0.7 and 0.8. * We also present strong evidence for the existence of correlations between disk replacement interarrivals. In particular, the empirical data exhibits significant levels of autocorrelation and long-range dependence. I wonder why these folks are not invited to speak at storage conferences like SNW ? Could it be that the vendor community has something to hide? Google releases significant research paper on Disk Failure. http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf I wonder why NetApp has not done this research, or if they have why didn't they release it? Perhaps they can do a follow up study on FC disks? Is NetApp concerned that Huawei and Xyratex have teamed up? If Huawei is using the same storage subsystem provider as NetApp how long will it be before Huawei introduces a very similar product to NetApp's? Suppose that NetApp's Gross Margins remain high, Huawei's interest in the enterprise stroage market is logical from a business perspective, and in the long run may produce competition for NetApp equipment. How similar will the Huawei equipment be to NetApp's DS14 series of storage shelves? It will be interesting to see what hits the market from this team. Storage is a priority for Huawei, according to the company's spokeswoman Lynn Zhou. "Both storage and security are recognized within Huawei as areas of strategic importance as [telecom] operators move towards an all-IP network environment," she said in an email to Byte & Switch. Certainly, Chinese technology giants have been fleshing out their storage strategies. Huawei, for example, was teamed up with 3Com, and also forged partnerships with FalconStor, Intransa, iVivity, and Xyratex. The Chinese connection may also explain NetApp's rush into Bangalore India to lower its cost structure. While I was visiting some of our customers last week I ran into a few that were actually told they could not use any more power by their Colo's and their power companies. Coincidentally computerworld also noticed there is a problem. I have not seen any mention of how many BTU's are saved because our lives are more efficient because we can work remotely now, I wonder what the trade off is between working at home, shopping from home and commuting to work and driving to the shopping mall? Economic growth is going to require power. We are going to need more electrical power to run our infrastructures that is certain, are we going to build generating stations and power them with fossil fuel or nuclear power? Probably both. Storage density can save a small amount of power in data centers and so that is what our customers in the situation are looking at. Below is an excerpt of the article. February 15, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Estimated electricity consumption by servers in the U.S. doubled from 2000 to 2005, when the systems consumed as much power as every single color TV in the country or all the electric devices used in the state of Mississippi -- take your pick. The growth in power use is due to increases in the number of servers being installed and stacked in data centers as demand for computer services accelerates, according to a paper written by Jonathan Koomey, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who has been advising the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on energy issues related to data centers. Using server growth figures based on data from market-research firm IDC, Koomey estimated the amount of power consumed annually by servers and associated equipment, such as cooling systems and uninterruptible power supplies. Those technologies consumed 45 billion kilowatt hours nationwide in 2005, he wrote in his paper, which was funded by a grant from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Koomey expects power consumption to rise by another 75% by 2010. But he said in an interview yesterday that forecasting consumption is a little harder because it's unknown how much demand for new computing services, such as a YouTube, will affect electricity use. Some folks just don't care about their energy usage. NetApp profit falls as expenses rise By Rex Crum, MarketWatch Last Update: 5:48 PM ET Feb 14, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Network Appliance Inc. on Wednesday reported a fiscal third-quarter profit that fell 13% from a year ago as the storage-technology company said that expenses rose and revenue exceeded analysts' expectations. From the you can't make this up department - ... Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It's time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries. And now some humor from Clive in London..... Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!! 1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. 2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. 3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard 4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end. 5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles. 6. PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. 7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. 8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. 9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. 10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. 11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. 12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. 13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. 14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. 15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located. 16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions. 17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake). 18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks. Is there a windfall profits tax in Google's future? Will it hurt tech investment in R&D? From US News and world report..... ... Why not confiscate a portion of Google's fat annual profits–the company's 2006 earnings were some $3 billion on revenue of $10.6 billion–and use it for some relevant national goal? The search-engine company is, after all, profiting from technological infrastructure it didn't even build, an "information superhighway" (to use a quaint term) that came out of a government defense project. It's time to pay Uncle Sam back. When Sen. Barack Obama officially announced his own presidential bid last weekend, he called for a new Internet initiative. "Let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America," Obama said. So there you go. A portion of Google's profits, as well as those perhaps from Amazon, Yahoo!, and eBay could be funneled into a government-managed fund to pay for laying down fatter pipe. Heck, it's too bad that some candidate missed an opportunity back in 2004 to advocate the confiscation of home builders' profits to help low-income renters buy their own McMansions. Of course, profits at Lennar, Centex, and Toll Brothers aren't what they used to be, thanks to the housing bust. And if oil prices drop, neither will those at ExxonMobil or Chevron. And if the economy sinks, Google's bottom line won't look so healthy, either. The thing, though, is that these targeted taxes don't have a great track record. Look at what happened when oil companies were hit with the windfall profit tax that President Carter signed into law in 1980. According to a report by the Congressional Research Service, as recently unearthed by the Tax Foundation, the windfall profits tax–a real bear to administer–had two nasty side effects: 1) It didn't raise as much money as forecast. Instead of raising $320 billion between 1980 and 1989, it raised only about $40 billion; 2) the CRS determined that the windfall profits tax had the effect of decreasing domestic production by 3 to 6 percent. So the United States had to import more oil than it otherwise would have. And that's the big worry. Today's earnings are tomorrow's investments, both in exploiting hard-to-reach oil reserves and in alternative fuels. And in some cases, today's earnings are what allow companies to make it through the lean times. Confiscating profits is hardly a pain-free way to finance new government spending. Congress may already be undercutting Clinton's plan. She views that "strategic energy fund" as payback from companies that have been benefiting from government subsidies. But the Democrats in Congress are already stripping out those subsidies as a way of paying for promotion of renewable fuels under new pay-as-you-go budget rules. Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" works in mysterious ways.... Entertainment and Storage meet in Beverly Hills! It looks like CNN's Larry King and his wife are purchasing the President of Network Appliance Tom Mendoza's House. By Ben Casselman From The Wall Street Journal Online It would make an interesting interview on the Larry King show for Tom Mendoza to spend an hour answering questions on his company's technology, future vision, and commitment to long term relationships for resellers, partners and customers. Inquiring minds are wondering if Larry King will get transferable licenses with the purchase? Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Is NetApp going to stand by its reseller partners for the long term? Network Appliance chief executive officer Dan Warmenhoven warned partners they need to sell more of the company's software and services or risk "being left behind" as the company grows. In in keynote address at the company's annual partner summit held this week in San Francisco told partners that they need to increase their commitment to NetApp in order to continue to work with the company. "You have to lead with NetApp," Warmenhoven said. "If you walk into an account with a NetApp relationship and are not leading with NetApp, then maybe that relationship will not be there in the future." Whatever happened to the Hard Deck mentioned in CRN for resellers that got so much press about two years ago? Network Appliance is defining which customers can and cannot be approached by its direct-sales reps, CRN has learned. Under the forthcoming Hard Deck program, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based vendor of SAN and NAS products will work with its channel managers and district sales managers to determine which customers throughout North America will be named accounts targeted mainly by direct sales and which will be channel-exclusive, said Leonard Iventosch, NetApp's vice president of Americas channel sales. Or this article... Leonard began by telling me that he has been at NetApp for about five years. That means he came in at just about the same time that many channel partners were getting screwed by the company by having their primo accounts reassigned to direct-sales androids at the mother company. It is unclear whether Leonard had anything to do with this. He went on to say that Hard Deck was conceived as a good thing for channels. He went to great pains to say that the line being drawn between 'big accounts and all the rest' was not intended to create a no-fly zone for channel guys, but for NetApp guys. This is what was unclear in press accounts of the program – so unclear in fact that several resellers e-mailed me to complain about the program. If you are a channel guy, everything below the Hard Deck is yours, Leonard said. NetApp direct-sales androids don't get any commission from this business unless it is filed through a channel partner. Is NetApp outsourcing more jobs to India? From an economics point of view I can understand the need to outsource technical requirements to a low cost provider. What will be the long term effect of this move on NetApp US based technical support? Does Netapp view their US technical staff as too costly? This will be an interesting story to watch over the next few years. According to Tom Georgens, NetApp's executive vice president and general manager of enterprise storage, India represents significant potential for the company and is one of the key markets marked for top investment this year. Georgens, who was in Singapore last week, said during a media lunch that the company plans to beef up its three-year-old engineering and support site in the Indian city of Bangalore. The outfit, which currently employs 600 workers including contract staff, is expected to have about 750 engineers over the next year. "NetApp has identified India as a strategic operation, and since NetApp has had a facility in India for some time, we have decided to grow this operation with additional investments and to leverage the vast pool of technical talent that exists in Bangalore to drive product innovation," he said. I wonder how it will impact their government contracts that require US content. Last week we learned that NetApp's executives c... This could be significant. After all the speculat... NetApp says that IBM's branded sales are just inc... It is always nice when we get a letter like this..... One of our customers read the Google study in the ... Google releases significant research paper on Dis... Is NetApp concerned that Huawei and Xyratex have... While I was visiting some of our customers last we... NetApp profit falls as expenses rise By Rex Crum, ... Is there a windfall profits tax in Google's futur... Entertainment and Storage meet in Beverly Hills! ... Andrew Carnegie Teamwork is the ability to work t... Is NetApp outsourcing more jobs to India? From an...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line833
__label__wiki	0.644506	0.644506	Philip Anselmo’s Bill & Phil Unveil Video for ‘Dirty Eye’ Chad Bowar Back in January, Bill & Phil (horror icon Bill Moseley and Philip Anselmo) unleashed the EP Songs of Darkness and Despair. The video for the track "Dirty Eye" has been released, and you can check it out above. As you'd expect from something starring Moseley (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, House of 1,000 Corpses), there's blood and gore and violence, but also puppets! Director Ryan Oliver says, "As a three-year alumni of Housecore Horror Fest, it was a special honor to make a video for Bill & Phil. My crew and I had a lot of fun making this bizarre puppet show over the past winter/spring. This opportunity came right on the heels of our last Housecore video for [Housecore labelmates] Child Bite's 'Vermin Mentality.'" Oliver continues, "Though different, I think they complement each other quite well. Once again, we were trusted to do what we wanted creatively and in the end, it seemed best to follow Bill Moseley's lyrical cues and try to interpret them in an entertaining fashion. We're pretty pleased with the turnout and hope it lives up to the uniquely wild music on this record." "This video and down 'n' dirty and comes with no strings attached, well, except for the puppets," says Moseley. "I can't speak for Phil, but frankly I've never looked better!" Anselmo finds it "very, very, very, very, very interesting." You can listen to the entire Songs of Darkness and Despair album at this location. See Where Philip Anselmo Ranks Among the Top 66 Hard Rock + Metal Frontmen of All Time Philip Anselmo Plays 'Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction' Round 1 + 2 10 Unforgettable Philip Anselmo Moments Source: Philip Anselmo’s Bill & Phil Unveil Video for ‘Dirty Eye’ Filed Under: Phil Anselmo Categories: Loudwire News, Videos	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line835
__label__cc	0.609908	0.390092	‘Virtual ward’ eases burden on hospitals Providing rehabilitation services in the home rather than the hospital bed can improve patient outcomes and create various efficiencies, according to a new study published this week in the Australian Healthcare and Hospital Association’s (AHHA) academic journal, the Australian Health Review. AHHA Chief Executive Alison Verhoeven says the study, undertaken by the University of Western Australia and the Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, highlights that rehabilitation in the home (RITH) services can be a safe and effective alternative for many, including older people. “In looking at about 1350 cases managed by a well-established RITH service in WA, this study has provided some illuminating data that shows improvements in quality of life, delirium incidence and mortality rates among patients,” Ms Verhoeven said. “Analysis of such data also helps identify future patients who may be at risk of a poor RITH outcome, thus ensuring hospital beds are prioritised for those most in need. Where a patient is not at risk, the RITH service can provide short-term patient-centred care for a wide range of conditions, while passing the indirect ‘hotel-type’ costs back onto the patient.” The model sees patients assessed for RITH suitability while they are hospital inpatients, entering a ‘virtual ward’ upon discharge and commencing home-based rehabilitation based on their individual needs. In the study, about 93 per cent of patients were successfully discharged following their ‘stay’ on the virtual ward, with negative outcomes occurring in 90 cases, including five deaths (0.4%) and 85 readmissions (6.3%). Independent associations with negative outcomes were significantly linked to certain conditions in older age patients, such as orthopaedic conditions and longer inpatient length of stay, which almost doubled the chance of a patient’s negative outcome. It was also found that patients aged over 80 years were about three times more likely to have negative outcome. “The study shows that, through using existing systems and databases, we are able to assess clinical outcomes of large RITH services, find useful predictors of poor outcomes and, ultimately, improve the way these services are run,” Ms Verhoeven said. The open access articles in the November edition of the Australian Health Review include: · Effectiveness of ‘rehabilitation in the home’ services by Sneha Bharadwaj et al · Aiming to be NEAT: safely improving and sustaining access to emergency care in a tertiary referral hospital by Clair M. Sullivan et al · Implementing a working together model for Aboriginal patients with acute coronary syndrome: an Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer and a specialist cardiac nurse working together to improve hospital care by Karen Daws et al. The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association is the national peak body for public and not-for-profit hospitals, community and primary healthcare services, and advocates for universal, high quality and affordable healthcare to benefit the whole community. For more information on the AHHA, visit http://ahha.asn.au. Alison Verhoeven Chief Executive, The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association Virtual ward Outcomes that matter to patients Healthcare costs increasingly shifting to patients, study shows ‘Emergency departments are as different as they are similar’ Victoria’s ‘citizen-driven’ voluntary assisted dying laws apply from today	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line839
__label__cc	0.747132	0.252868	Turning Air Pollution Into Ink Graviky Labs is transforming the microscopic particulate matter (known as PM2.5) in machinery exhaust resulting from burning fossil fuels – what we might call soot – into black ink. Whether from cars and trucks or generators and factories, what would have been inhaled by millions or contaminated water and soil, can now be used for drawing and printing. As the Graviky Labs website states, "Our vision is to arrest the urban PM air pollution in a way that it doesn't reach our lungs or waste streams." The goal is "to confine and bind that captured pollution into high grade inks that everyone can use and express themselves with through art or writing." Carbon black, a byproduct of the incomplete burning of petroleum products, is normally used to produce ink, as well as being a component in rubber, paints and plastics. Rather than burn new fossil fuels for ink production, Sharma and his colleagues wanted to create ink from vehicle and machinery exhaust already being produced, thereby also reducing particulate matter in the air from these sources. A 2013 experiment with candle soot and an improvised printer cartridge led to a lab setup in India in 2015, where pollution restrictions are not as strict as the U.S., allowing for easier particulate capture and more effective testing. The trial and error of attaching strange equipment to cars in Bangalore for capturing PM2.5 produced KAALINK, a small device that can be retrofitted to exhaust pipes. This electrical and mechanical device can capture 95 percent of PM2.5 in the exhaust without any adverse effect on engine performance. One 30 milliliter pen is the equivalent of 45 minutes of diesel pollution. Source: https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/new-inventions/air-pollution-into-ink.htm AirQo Software Systems Centre, Level 3, Block B, College of Computing and Information Sciences About AirQo Recieve our Latest updates via email © 2020 \| AirQo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line843
__label__cc	0.731535	0.268465	The tobacco endgame Could restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies, combined with cessation advice in these settings, accelerate progress towards a tobacco-free future? New Zealand researchers have aimed to quantify the impacts of a hypothetical intervention package on future smoking prevalence, population health and health system costs. In the first study of its kind, they used an intervention package that involved restricting tobacco sales to pharmacies only, including the provision of cessation advice. The University of Otago researchers chose New Zealand as the setting for the study, since the country has an ‘endgame’ goal for a tobacco-free future. They used two peer-reviewed computer simulation models to forecast smoking prevalence across a population, and model for for future health gains and costs by sex, age and ethnicity. For a ‘base component’ they estimated recent annual trends in smoking uptake and cessation by sex, age and ethnicity (Māori/indigenous population and non-Māori/non-indigenous). These rates were then used as inputs for the ‘forecasting component’ to project future smoking prevalence from 2011 until 2060, for business-as-usual and for additional changes in future prevalence from restricting tobacco sales to pharmacies and the provision of cessation advice. Greater costs due to increased travel distances to purchase tobacco were treated as an increase in the price of tobacco. Annual cessation rates were multiplied with the effect size for brief opportunistic cessation advice on sustained smoking abstinence. The intervention package was associated with a reduction in future smoking prevalence, such that by 2025, prevalence was 17.3%/6.8% for indigenous/non-indigenous populations compared to 20.5%/8.1% projected under no intervention. Under the intervention measure, they estimated the populations would accrue 41,700 discounted quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) (95% uncertainty interval (UI): 33,500 to 51,600) over the remainder of the 2011 NZ population’s lives. Of these QALYs gained, 74% were due to the provision of cessation advice over and above the limiting of sales to pharmacies. “This work provides modelling-level evidence that the package of restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies combined with cessation advice in these settings can accelerate progress towards the tobacco endgame, and achieve large population health benefits and cost-savings,” say the authors of the paper published in the BMJ. Earlier this year, the same researchers explored the attitudes of New Zealand pharmacists towards such schemes, conducting interviews at 30 pharmacies in Wellington. They found that just a quarter were ‘very likely’ to sell tobacco if pharmacies were the only legal outlet for its sale, but this proportion increased to over a third if the strategy had been proven to work elsewhere in the world. Internationally the trend is to move away from pharmacy tobacco sales: in 2014, US chain CVS Health became the first national retail pharmacy chain to stop selling tobacco products in all its stores. Its research later found that since the move, there had been a downward trend in cigarette consumption in states where CVS had 15% or more share of the retail pharmacy market compared to states with no CVS Pharmacy stores. The study also showed a four percent increase in nicotine patch purchases in those same states during the period immediately following the end of tobacco sales. cigarettes NZ news public health quit smoking smoking smoking cessation tobacco Previous Agenda Setters: Erica Tong Next Report card: CWH training pay compliance Should pharmacies sell tobacco? Should cigarette sales go back to pharmacies? Champix changes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line845
__label__wiki	0.824273	0.824273	Watch Ed Sheeran Write Songs In His New Doco Songwriter! SWANSEA, WALES - MAY 26: Ed Sheeran performs during day 1 of BBC Radio 1's Biggest Weekend 2018 held at Singleton Park on May 26, 2018 in Swansea, Wales. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) Stephanie Anderson Entertainment Editor The doco was filmed over 10 years and is a collaborative work between Ed and his cousin Murray Cummings. We love a title that tells us exactly what we're in for! Titanic? The Titanic is in it! Mean Girls? Yep, there are mean girls in it! Alien? It's about an alien!!! Today, Ed Sheeran released the trailer for his new documentary titled Songwriter and, would you believe, you get to see his songwriting process! Inviting fans along to experience Ed's journey to fame, there's home video footage of Ed as a kid, partaking in high school music classes, and all the way through to the recording of his latest album Divide and subsequent stadium concerts. Filmed over 10 years as a collaborative work between Ed and his filmmaker cousin Murray Cummings, the doco is set to be released by Apple Music on August 28 and offers a glimpse into the "Shape of You" hitmaker's ~process~. “I guess this is the first time on-camera you’re gonna see a song being written, so make sure you get all of it,” Ed says in the trailer. Promising to show us how "sounds become songs", the trailer shows glimpses of how a song goes from "jam session to writing session to become a song, and the thing that people sing back to [Ed] at gigs". “I just have a weird sense it’s gonna be the career-defining album,” Ed says of Divide. “All the songs have a thread that go through it and it’s all family.” “The album… it’s the peak of my songwriting and ability,” he shares, adding that “the last two albums were building up to something.” Oh, and remember that Titanic reference we just made up there? Ed made one in the doco, too. Our hearts will go on. Feature image: Getty Images ed-sheeran music I'm A Celebrity 2020: Billy Brownless Is I'm A Celebrityless I'm A Celebrity 2020: Best Of Billy I'm A Celebrity 2020: Cosentino Hypnotises Ryan I'm A Celebrity 2020: Screaming For Stars I'm A Celebrity 2020: Charlotte Wants To Leave The Jungle How Dr Chris Brown Spends His Days Off (And Why He Always Packs Calvin Klein Obsession) I'm A Celebrity 2020: Nikki Osborne On Unlikely Friendships And Her Babysitting Nightmare ‘I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore’: Charlotte Crosby To Quit ‘I’m A Celeb’ The Best Tweets About THAT Moment Between Brad And Jen Ed Sheeran Wanted To Record A Male Version Of 'Lady Marmalade' A Jury Will Decide If Ed Sheeran Copied Marvin Gaye	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line847
__label__cc	0.618213	0.381787	Adam Stanley Super Sunday? Canadian Updates On April 26, 2015 April 26, 2015 By adamstanley540In Uncategorized If you’re a Canadian golf fan, this has the making of an exciting Sunday. Here’s everything you need to know as you enjoy your Sunday-morning coffee. Brooke’s Big Day Despite stumbling in with back-to-back bogeys, Smiths Falls, Ont.’s Brooke Henderson is in a position that not many 17-year-olds have ever been in. She has a one-shot lead at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, and will go in the final group with childhood idol Morgan Pressel and South Korea’s Min Seo Kwak. After a tournament-record 7-under-par 65 Friday, Henderson shot even par Saturday, while Pressel shot the round of the day, a 5-under-par 67. When asked about Pressel’s influence, Henderson said she met Pressel when she was just 8 years old at an event in Ottawa. “Ever since then (the U.S. Women’s Open in 2014) she’s been very kind to me. I’ve still always been a little nervous around her because I’ve looked up to her my whole life, but I’m really looking forward to tomorrow.” Henderson, Pressel and Min Seo Kwak tee off at 4:05 p.m. EST. Note: The last time a Canadian won on the LPGA Tour was 2001. Henderson was three. Fun day @SwingingSkirts! Excited for the weekend! — Brooke Henderson (@BrookeHenderson) April 24, 2015 David Hearn just one shot back At the rain-soaked Zurich Classic of New Orleans, David Hearn sits at -12, just one back of American Erik Compton and Australian Jason Day. Torrential rain washed out most of round three, and now golfers will have to be back in position early Sunday to complete Moving Day, along with all of their final rounds. Hearn lost to Jordan Spieth in a playoff at the John Deere Classic in 2013 and is still looking for his maiden PGA Tour victory. Through seven holes of his third round, Hearn is 3-under-par. Play resumes again at 8:30 a.m. EST. This is what afternoon delays look like. #takecover pic.twitter.com/3OJo9VcYyb — David Hearn (@HearnDavid) April 25, 2015 Svensson wins… again Adam Svensson just turned professional a few weeks ago, but he’s already notched two victories and $40,000 (USD). Not a bad way to start your first job. Svensson, 21, captured the most-recent SwingThought.com Tour event Saturday, thanks to the round of the day, a 65. Coming from a number of shots back, Svensson leap-frogged eight golfers – including fellow Golf Canada Young Pro Mackenzie Hughes – for the win. This marks Svensson’s second victory in just three professional starts. Perhaps even more exciting in his eyes, this victory guarantees him into the Knoxville News Sentinel Open on the Web.com Tour later this summer. It’s likely Svensson will get another Web.com Tour exemption – into the Nova Scotia Open – in July. Otherwise, he’ll be most active on PGA Tour Canada. And the BULL does it again @adamsvensson59 wins @TheNGATour. Two pro wins out of three starts. @SportBoxGroup — Danny Fritz (@dfritzy1976) April 26, 2015 Taylor Pendrith and Sonny Michaud were the lone Canadians to earn status for PGA Tour Canada’s 2015 season at the California Q-school, which concluded Friday. Pendrith is exempt through the first six events of the year and will join five other Golf Canada team members with status on that tour this year… Eight Canadian girls made the cut on the Symetra Tour this week, led by Maude-Aimee LeBlanc, who’s T3… Cam Burke finished second on the eGolf Gateway Tour Saturday… Brooke HendersonDavid HearnMorgan PresselPGA TOUR FootJoy: Fashion Forward How TaylorMade helped me change my game	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line850
__label__cc	0.682129	0.317871	Archive for category: How Interesting You are here: Home / Blog / How Interesting HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Biggest Bashes Around the World. December 31, 2015 /in How Interesting /by Taste-the-Love It’s that time again! The ubiquitous New Year’s Eve…an occasion steeped in traditions and symbolism. While some of us prefer a quite evening of reflection, and others prefer a massive crowd, December 31st is the day for most of the world to ring in the New Year. However, historically, New Year’s Eve was not on December 31st. Beginning with the Ancient Greeks, originally New Year’s Eve was held with the new moon after June 21. Before the time of Julius Caesar the Roman New Year started on March 1. In most European countries during the Middle Ages the New Year began on March 25, the day of the Feast of the Annunciation. Today, New Year’s Eve Celebrations are high spirted, noisy occasions that are made up of sights and sounds that are synonymous with New Year’s Eve. Ringing church bells, blowing horns, tooting whistles, shrieking sirens all echo all over the world. Well known American Traditions are to toast in the New Year with champagne and kiss someone (sometimes a perfect stranger) at the stroke of 12:01am. According to National Geographic, here are some more notorious celebrations and there traditions held (and sometimes heard) around the world. New Year’s Eve in New York’s Times Square defines the evening for hundreds of millions around the globe who watch on television, wishing they were there. A million revelers squeeze into the city’s neon epicenter where Broadway and Seventh Avenue come together, waiting for the Waterford crystal LED ball to drop from the former New York Times Building, for which the iconic square is named. It’s an American tradition more than 100 years old. Ring in the New Year casino style in kitschy Las Vegas, where fireworks blast over Paris Las Vegas, the MGM Grand, the Bellagio, and the array of other casino hotels on the famous Strip. The city buzzes with tens of thousands who come in for special concerts and performances with the biggest stars, until the sun comes up over the surrounding desert. Réveillon, Rio’s New Year’s celebration, is one of the world’s largest. Dressed in white like Candomblé priestesses, millions of locals and visitors line the city’s miles of beaches, throwing flowers into the waves at midnight for the African sea goddess Yemanjá, whose traditions have become mixed with the Virgin Mary. Afterward, the streets, bars, and restaurants fill with parties, dancing, and music. Millions of eager Londoners line the Thames waterfront and gather in Trafalgar Square, waiting for the city to explode in a dazzling display of sparks and color. At midnight, the tower around Big Ben pulses with fiery blasts timed for the 12 strokes of the hour. All eyes then turn to the London Eye as the famous wheel produces a swirling fireworks and light show timed to British rock music echoing through the city. The City of Light becomes a city of fireworks on New Year’s Eve. Hundreds of thousands line the Champs-Élysées, Champagne bottles in hand, for a view to the Eiffel Tower. At midnight, fireworks burst from the entire length of its iron structure, in one of this evening’s most beautiful displays anywhere. Other gathering spots with great views include the steps of Sacré-Couer church and the Trocadéro. Madrileños celebrate the New Year by swallowing 12 grapes—one for each stroke of the clock at midnight. Finishing them on time is considered to be a sign of good luck in the upcoming year. Tens of thousands gather in front of the clock in Puerta del Sol plaza for the annual ritual and line Gran Via to watch fireworks. Each New Year’s is a promise that everything will be better in the capital of formerly war-torn Lebanon. Thousands gather to watch the light show on the city’s 1933 art deco clock tower in Nejmeh Square, the heart of central Beirut. At midnight, couples kiss and fireworks burst, shining over a mix of floodlit church steeples and mosque minarets in this eclectic Levantine metropolis. On New Year’s Eve in Tokyo, streets and restaurants teem with people, many eating buckwheat noodles to ensure health and happiness in the New Year. Temples ring bells as a countdown to midnight, adding a dreamy quality to the celebration. Stay in town through January 2, one of only two days when the emperor opens the palace grounds to the public. Everyone comes to the waterfront in Sydney to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and nearby buildings ignite at midnight with one of the world’s most spectacular fireworks productions. Whatever your plans are this year, we here at Alpine Bakery and Trattoria, wish you a healthy and very Happy New Year! https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/new-years-eve-alpine.jpg 533 800 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-12-31 23:04:022016-01-01 21:10:03HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Biggest Bashes Around the World. The Christmas Cookie… A Tradition Worth Keeping, And Savoring In Medieval Times, originating with the Winter Solstice Celebrations, cookies were served as a dessert. There was practicality to both the timing of the Celebration, and the focus on hearty food. The Winter Solstice Celebration was literally “the feast before the famine” of another long, bitter winter. Solstice typically marked the arrival of the first frost, which permitted animals to be killed and stored safely to eat throughout the winter, while the fermented beverages (beer and wine) that had been brewed in the spring were finally ready to drink. With the meat and the drink in order, the special occasion dessert —the cookie– was born. Fast forward to the Middle Ages where Christmas had overtaken solstice rituals throughout much of present-day Europe. While Christmas was now the Holiday, the old feasting tradition remained. With meat and beverage preparation pretty much unchanged, these things were carried over, and maintained. The pastry world, however, was in the midst of a renaissance! Nutmeg, cinnamon and black pepper were becoming common, and dried exotic fruits like citron, apricots and dates opened up new possibilities. Sugar, lard and butter were considered premium ingredients and were reserved for the Christmas Special Occasion. The smaller size, and portability of the cookie made it easy to share and gift to neighbors and friends. Our modern Christmas cookies date back to these medieval gifts. Today, Christmas Cookies remain a staple of the season. They are the stars in neighborhood cookie exchanges, the ultimate hostess gift, and the traditional snack offering to Santa himself. Whether you prefer black and whites, basic sugar, or crunchy biscotti, chances are you’ll enjoy some fresh baked Christmas cookies this holiday season. While the custom of the Christmas Cookie dates back hundreds of years, we say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” At Alpine our Christmas Cookies are legendary. With over 25 varieties, the possibilities seem endless. Ranging from classics to contemporary, and with some cookies larger than your face, we know we have something perfect for you and your Christmas Tradition. We package them by the pound and wrap them up in festive Holiday wrapping. Come in today and get yours. You can gift them to friends and associates, take them to your favorite hostess, sit back at home and keep them all to yourself, and leave a few for Santa (warning… you may not want to, but wind up at risk of being on his “naughty” list if you don’t). Whatever you decide, it’s the season to “Taste the Love.” https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cookies.jpg 375 600 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-12-16 14:48:162015-12-16 14:48:37The Christmas Cookie… A Tradition Worth Keeping, And Savoring Thanksgiving: A Closer Look (Part Two of Two) November 24, 2015 /in How Interesting /by Taste-the-Love Turkey Pardon President John F. Kennedy was the first one on record to pardon a turkey – sparing its life. In 1963, he sent back a turkey mailed by the National Turkey Federation, saying, “We’ll just let this one grow.” President Richard Nixon sent turkeys to a Washington, D.C., petting farm but didn’t officially pardon them, according to the White House Blog. President George H.W. Bush gave the first official pardon to a turkey in 1989. FUN FACT: The survivor lived out its days at a Virginia petting zoo called Frying Pan Park Macy’s Parade In 1924, Americans began to watch the spectacular Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. A tradition that began when Macy’s employees held a Christmas parade filled with knights, clowns and jugglers. Turns out there was a great turn out! The 6-mile (9.7-kilometer)-long parade attracted a crowd of 250,000 viewers. The iconic department store decided they needed to do it every year. Fun Fact: First Balloon was Felix the Cat. Football Fever Another family pastime is Thanksgiving football, which began in the Great Depression. In 1930, the Portsmouth Spartans moved to Detroit. In 1934, in order to draw fans, the team’s owner arranged a match between the Spartans (renamed the Lions) and the world champions, the Chicago Bears. Though the Spartans lost, a Thanksgiving tradition was born. The ticket sold out two weeks in advance, and the event became a hit! Turducken – Hybrid meats A relatively new creation is the turducken…a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. We can give credit to Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme for popularizing this culinary marvel, although it first appeared in central Louisiana meat shops sometime between the late 1970s and early 1980s. FUN FACT: The tradition of stuffing birds inside of other birds dates back even further and can be attributed to French foodie Grimod de la Reynière who first described the rôti sans pareil (roast without equal) in L’Almanac des Gourmands between 1803 and 1812. The dish packs 17 birds inside one another, from a tiny warbler all the way up to a giant bird called a bustard. Whatever your Thanksgiving Traditions are, we hope your Holiday is filled with a good fun, plenty of family and a delicious meal. On behalf of our Alpine Family, we’d like to wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving. https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/happy-thanksgiving.jpg 600 600 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-11-24 03:05:172015-11-24 03:05:34Thanksgiving: A Closer Look (Part Two of Two) Thanksgiving: A Closer Look (Part One of Two) Thanksgiving Day is almost here! Thanksgiving is filled with so many long standing traditions, we thought it might be fun to examine some of the more universal ones, and explore where the more iconic traditions come from. Although our traditions have evolved, most are deeply rooted in American History. Read on and this year you can be the one at the table with all the fun facts to impress your friends and family. Thanksgiving, the Beginning The “historical version” that we are taught as early as Kindergarten (compete with reenactments) is that in 1621, the Pilgrims come to Plymouth Rock woefully unprepared, almost all die of hunger and are saved as the local, friendly population lovingly teaches them to farm. A successful harvest of new crops are reaped by the pilgrims and then they prepare a bountiful feast for their agricultural teachers and new neighbors to express their gratitude. However, at least two other theories exist when it comes to the origin of Thanksgiving. One claims a Thanksgiving in Texas marks the beginning. The residents of San Elizario, Texas, say the first Thanksgiving feast was celebrated in 1598 by Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate following the survival of a treacherous crossing through the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico. The second story centers around Spanish admiral Pedro Menendes de Aviles and Thanksgiving feast with 500 soldiers and hundreds of the local Timucuan Indians in 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. Wherever Thanksgiving started, Plymouth Rock, Texas or Florida, suffice it to say, Thanksgiving is thriving today an considered one of the MAJOR Holidays. So let’s check out what is consistently true for today’s Thanksgiving while taking a look back. Official Holiday – Thank You Mr. Lincoln President Lincoln is responsible for declaring the last Thursday in November for the day of thanks. Celebrations and Feasts went on way earlier, with every state having a different day. Lincoln nationalized the day, so we can all get on the same page! Turkey Hasn’t Always Been the Star Pilgrims actually preferred duck and goose, and seafood shared equal billing. Lobsters, clams, mussels and even eels made it to the table. On the other hand, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce weren’t even on the menu for at least another 50 years. Check back next week for Part Two of Thanksgiving: A Closer Look https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/thanksgiving-place-setting.jpg 399 600 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-11-16 14:37:392015-11-17 16:38:43Thanksgiving: A Closer Look (Part One of Two) Thanksgiving: What to bring when you are the guest. November 1, 2015 /in How Interesting /by Taste-the-Love Are you hosting Thanksgiving this year? Or, do you get to play the lucky “guest” role? If it the latter, give some extra thought as to the hostess gift. Flowers or a bottle of wine are fine, but expected. With a little pre-planning and some instructions from us, you can show up with something exciting and memorable from our bakery! Below are some other things to consider before making your final choices. ALWAYS ask your hostess if there is something specific you can bring. Sometimes the hostess will literally assign a specific dish, wine or dessert. This is common in extended families where the hostess may only provide the turkey and the location and assign everyone something specific. How much to spend? Are you coming for the day or the long weekend? Is the hostess a family member or friend? Both of these questions should factor in to your consideration. A weekend stay should warrant a more substantial gift, although preparing and hosting a Thanksgiving meal is no small undertaking on your hostess’ part either! Will You Be Traveling? Catching a plane? Driving a full day? Obviously, this information is important. Surprisingly however, there are simple methods that we have perfected that will allow you to transport our most delicate bakery creations. Forego the Flowers. Take the Cake. One of our dramatic desserts will show your gratitude and deliver plenty of WOW factor. We can share our tried and true methods to help you get even our biggest cakes to your Thanksgiving celebration looking every bit as impressive as they do in our pastry case. Gift Card and a Sampling. An ALPINE Gift Card with a Sampling is an equally impressive gift. A box of cookies or truffles with a gift card attached makes a beautiful presentation and says, “Something now to share with your guests, and something just for you, for later!” We would love to help you put together the perfect hostess gift and tell you EXACTLY how you can travel with your cake, pie or cookies and have them arrive unscathed and ready to impress. Stop by our Bakery Counter to learn exactly what you need to do and when you need to do it. Follow our instructions and show up with one of our creations, and we’re confident you’ll be invited back again and again! Whatever your plans are this Thanksgiving, from our Alpine Family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving. https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/DOM-Pumpkin-Cheesecake-blog.jpg 368 600 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-11-01 23:17:382015-11-01 23:18:39Thanksgiving: What to bring when you are the guest. BOO! Autumn and Halloween Fun Facts. October 15, 2015 /in How Interesting /by Taste-the-Love Come October, carving pumpkins, running through corn mazes and eating lots of candy are all traditions that everyone is familiar with. However, we thought we would look at some other Halloween and autumn traditions and how they got their start, as well as some Fun Facts about the season. Orange and Black. This striking color combination was established because orange is symbolic of fall and black represents darkness and death. Halloween. It first came to North America via immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell fortunes. Masks & Costumes. Thank the ancient Celts who literally thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night. They began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human. Clever! Trick or Treating. The custom of trick or treating evolved in Ireland centuries ago. In preparation for All Hollow’s Eve, the poor would call upon the rich folks and request money, gifts and food. The food was gathered for a huge feast and celebration. Bobbing for Apples. Believed to have originated from the Roman Harvest Festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees. Halloween = Big Money. It’s the second most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first. Halloween Candy. Sales average about 2 billion dollars annually in the United States. Chocolate Candy Bars. The most popular candy among trick-or-treaters with Snickers at Number 1. Tootsie Rolls. The very first wrapped penny candy in America. Pumpkins. Not just orange, they also come in white, blue and green. Jack o’ Lanterns. Concept originated from Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips – not pumpkins – to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday. Black Cats. Once believed to be witch’s familiars (animal-shaped spirit or minor demon believed to serve a witch or magician as domestic servant, spy and companion, in addition to helping to bewitch enemies or to divine information.) Samhainopobia. Defined as the fear of Halloween. Come in to check out our incredible Fall Offerings that will get you in the spirit, as well as some special surprises just for the young and young at heart! From all of us here at Alpine, we wish you a wonderful October and Halloween. Taste the Chocolate and Pumpkin! Taste the Love! https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/halloween.jpg 584 600 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-10-15 07:00:462015-10-14 22:19:26BOO! Autumn and Halloween Fun Facts. Apples, Pumpkins and Other Homey Fall Ingredients October 1, 2015 /in How Interesting /by Taste-the-Love Ahh… it’s finally that time of year when the blazing Atlanta sun at last gives us a break and the temperatures start to drop. Now, we can all begin to contemplate the homey flavors of fall. At Alpine, our fall dessert preparations are in full swing. Our fall favorites include our Rustic Apple Pie, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Classic Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Swiss Roll, and our wildly authentic German Apple Strudel. Our Bakery hums with activity as the aroma of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and ginger infuse the air. Here’s what’s baking in greater detail. Our Rustic Apple Pie, which NOT coincidently is our October Dessert of the Month is at once simple and majestic. Boasting a full two pounds of apples, we’re not messing around. We’ve perfected our techniques to ensure that this TWO crust beauty is baked to perfection with flaky crust and amazing flavors. Pumpkin Cheesecake… what a lovely combination. Our creamy New York style cheesecake with graham cracker crust, combined with pumpkin and traditional fall spice (cinnamon, cloves, and ginger) topped with fresh, natural whipped cream and a dash of cinnamon. Our Innovative Pumpkin Swiss Roll is equally representative of great fall flavors. We begin with our pumpkin spice cake rolled filled and covered with our signature cream cheese frosting then we decorated with whole pecans. Authentic Apple Strudel is surprisingly hard to find and we have stuck to the preparation that screams German Style authenticity and will have you wondering why you chose to have it any other way. Layers of buttered phyllo dough rolled and filled with fresh cut and cooked Granny Smith Apples and raisins before baking to perfection. We can serve it you your at room temperature or heated. Dreaming about Vanilla Bean Ice Cream to go with? Just wake up and ask, and we will bring out the Häagen-Dazs. We could offer you all kinds of tips on how to pick the perfect apples, whether to go with canned pumpkin or not, but seriously, why not just come in and enjoy our fall lineup. We promise we have it figured out and you won’t be disappointed. Taste the Fall Flavors. Taste the Love. Traveling somewhere this season? We get all sorts of disappointed folks who would love to spread the Alpine Love to friends and family who don’t reside in the Atlanta Area. We have some proven trade secrets on how to transport our bakery creations. We would be happy to share, so please just ask. https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/DOM-Apple-Pie-blog.jpg 490 800 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-10-01 15:59:082015-10-01 23:14:42Apples, Pumpkins and Other Homey Fall Ingredients Ragu vs Bolognese: The subtle but powerful difference. September 15, 2015 /in How Interesting /by Taste-the-Love Ragu is not Bolognese. It’s true that both are Italian favorites, both are sauces made with meat, but’s it’s also true that they are different. Ragu is also a meat-based Italian sauce and stay with me here, is a distinct variation of Ragu. Most people think of Ragu as a tomato sauce, but it’s actually a meat-based (veal, beef, lamb, pork, fish or poultry) sauce with a small amount of tomato sauce added to it. Ragu sauce has more meat and minced elements, specifically minced carrot, celery and pancetta…also known as soffritto, and is made with wine, beef broth, and usually a little bit of heavy cream or milk poured in it to lighten the color and enrich the flavor. Ragu alla Bolognese or Bolognese is a variation of Ragu and the most popular version of Ragu. Bolognese sauce originated in Bologna, Italy and dates all the way back to the 15th century. It uses white wine and less tomatoes. Beef, soffritto, pancetta, onions, tomato paste, meat broth, white wine, and cream or milk. Like many Italian preparations, Bolognese sauce has different variations primarily when it comes to the meat of choice. Pork, chicken, veal, rabbit, goose, and others are all candidates. Which Sauce With Which Pasta? Typically Ragu sauces are used with spaghetti pasta, while Bolognese is used for wider-shaped pasta like lasagna. The thinking is that the thick sauce blends better with wider-shaped pasta. When we look at Italian Cuisine, we can see that there are multiple incidents where virtually the same simple ingredients are manipulated multiple ways- often using different ratios of ingredients or methods. For instance, a wide variety of Pasta is made with the same ingredients, but truly transformed with an endless array of shapes, sizes, widths, and textures. Some are better with certain sauces…as their shape makes a perfect vehicle for a particular sauce. So when it comes to Ragu vs Bolognese, the differences may be primarily ratios, but nonetheless the end results are impactful. Come in and try both to see which you prefer. Gnocchi with Veal Ragu, Baked Fusilli Bolognese, or Spaghetti with Bolognese or Ragu should give you plenty of “research” options! Taste the Ragu and Bolognese. Taste the Love. https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fusilli-Bolognese.jpg 532 800 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-09-15 07:00:342015-09-15 00:37:34Ragu vs Bolognese: The subtle but powerful difference. Happy Anniversary…. to Us! August 31, 2015 /in How Interesting /by Taste-the-Love Here at Alpine, we help couples celebrate their anniversaries all the time. They come to Alpine to enjoy a great bottle of wine, a fantastic dinner and their favorite desserts to celebrate what is a very significant occasion…their anniversary! We are thrilled when they spend their special day with us! And now, we’d like to invite each and every one of them, and YOU to help us celebrate our anniversary! Beginning September 1st, and continuing through the entire month, we are celebrating the five year anniversary of Alpine Bakery and Trattoria. Five glorious years that have proven to be more successful, and satisfying than we had ever imagined. Opening Trattoria was one of our very best ideas in the twenty years since Alpine Bakery was born! A Look Back. In 2005, less than a mile from our current location, we first opened our storefront to serve our bakery offerings, as well as our pizzas, calzones, and breads to the general public. People liked what we did, and liked our food. That success led to a groundswell among our customers for us to offer more food, and a dynamic dining experience. That led to Alpine Bakery and Trattoria’s opening five years ago, and since then we’ve served a full lunch and dinner menu, as well as a robust wine list featuring wines from regions all around the world. Today, after five years, our trattoria is humming with regulars that keep returning for their favorites, as well as new diners that come in to see what the fuss is all about, and to try our creative, and delicious spins on fresh, local ingredients for themselves. Our award winning bakery continues to provide cakes, pastries and breads to over 80 restaurants in Georgia and beyond. A Look Further Back. Creative Team and Owners William Clementi and Stephen Bishop began the wholesale bakery 20 years ago. Today, joined by managing partner Anthony DeTommaso, Alpine Bakery and Trattoria is flourishing along with the wholesale business, and the ongoing success of both is dependent upon keeping our primary commitment front and center. Create everything with high quality, fresh ingredients, a relentless imagination, and lots of love; and always provide our customers with an experience that is exceptional. What’s Ahead? We are excited to announce our expanded bakery with counter currently under construction in Woodstock. We plan to open sometime in early 2016. Thank you for making Alpine Bakery & Trattoria the success that it’s been over these five years. We value you and your business, and hope you’ll join us in September to help us celebrate! Like us on Facebook to keep up with all the details of our Anniversary Celebration September. We have giveaways galore – gift cards, cupcakes and limited edition cakes. Enjoy our week long Prix Fixe 3 course dinner, and a mayoral ribbon cutting followed by a reception celebration. Taste the fun! Taste the Love. https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/5-year-anniversary-hdg.jpg 221 250 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-08-31 07:00:332015-08-31 02:08:09Happy Anniversary…. to Us! The Magnificent SEVEN: Seasonal Fruits & Vegetables (3 of 3) The final three members of the Magnificent Seven are chard, peaches and corn. The bright and sunny possibilities are endless and once summer’s gone, it’s just not the same. So get busy now, or come in and find them popping up in our weekly chef’s features! Tender, young chard is most often used raw in salads while the more mature chard leaves and stalks are typically cooked or sautéed, mainly because they can have a bitter quality that mellows and becomes more delicate. Chard is a classified as a biennial and harvesting is a continuous process, as most species of chard produce three or more crops. Nutritionally chard is packed with vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, and protein. With dozens of varieties to choose from, peaches vary radically in color, flavor and size. But when it comes to classifications there are just two- freestone and clingstone. Freestone is when the stone or pit pulls easily away from the flesh. Clingstone, just like the name implies, is when the stone clings stubbornly to the flesh. Mainly, the Freestones are considered your garden variety and what is most commonly purchased in stores. Lucky for us, peaches have a long growing season and are readily available from May-October. When buying them for yourself, look for peaches that give slightly to palm pressure and smell fragrant. They are sensitive and bruise easily so handle with care when you are testing them out. Great in pies, as a fresh chutney topping for pork (exactly how we did it last weekend) or fish or incorporated into salads, peaches are a seasonal, juicy and healthy ingredient. Summer is synonymous with corn and Americans love it! White corn is typically smaller and sweeter while yellow is bigger and more favorable. But corn also comes in colorful red, blue, brown and purple. Look for bright green tight husks and milky plump kernels and wait till just before cooking to separate the silk and husk. Cooking methods run the gamut, including boiling, (with much debate on as to precisely how long), grilling, roasting, sautéing, and simmering. At Alpine we would love to help you explore some creative uses of summer fruits and vegetables. We recently created an 8oz. Bone in Pork Chop topped with a beautiful Peach Chutney. Delicious. Taste the Summer Seasonal Ingredients. Taste the Love. Follow us on Facebook to see what we’re preparing just for you! https://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ears-of-corn.jpg 533 800 Taste-the-Love http://alpinebakeryandtrattoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alpinebakery-web-logo.jpg Taste-the-Love2015-08-15 07:00:022015-08-15 15:15:40The Magnificent SEVEN: Seasonal Fruits & Vegetables (3 of 3) How Interesting Summer Loving Menu 2019 Valentine’s Weekend Menu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line866
__label__wiki	0.810118	0.810118	American History Home O Say Can You See? Stories from the Museum How a Congressional vote to create Revolutionary War medals affirmed the Declaration of Independence By NMAH, January 13, 2017 I'm a native New Englander. Sometimes I feel like I've been to Boston more times than Samuel Adams. When one grows up in New England, it is a safe assumption that every school field trip will somehow relate to Colonial America and the American Revolutionary War. In light of this, I am always thrilled and excited to learn new things about the fledgling American nation. I hit the jackpot with the National Numismatic Collection's Comitia Americana medals. Earlier this year, I was able to record, research, and digitize this particularly historic group of medals. The Comitia Americana (Latin for "American Congress") medals originally consisted of 11 medals celebrating the heroism of George Washington, John Eager Howard, William Washington, Anthony Wayne, John Stewart, Daniel Morgan, John Paul Jones, Horatio Gates, François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury, Henry Lee, and Nathanael Greene. Each medal was meant to commemorate and celebrate particular military victories and the champions who led them—everything from the Siege of Boston in 1776 (George Washington) to the battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis in 1779 (John Paul Jones). Artistically, the medal engravings range from portraiture and classical iconography to panoramic battle scenes complete with ship sails billowing in the wind. Almost every medal depicts a moment of the American Revolutionary War that changed the course of the colonies' futures. Several medals display the Battle of Cowpens (1781) with three of the toughest Revolutionary War heroes in different scenes from the battle: John Eager Howard, William Washington, and Daniel Morgan. Some of these medals employ mythic iconography to depict and honor their respective recipient. The medals depicting Horatio Gates, Anthony Wayne, John Paul Jones, Henry Lee, and Nathaniel Greene all use portraiture to celebrate these early American heroes. The Comitia Americana medals were created after a vote by the Continental Congress in March 1776. The congress commissioned the creation of a series of medals to be given to American heroes, foreign royalty, dignitaries, and even universities as a continued declaration and celebration of American independence. The practice of giving medals was a common action of independent European countries, so by joining in this tradition the 13 colonies were declaring their status as an independent and worthy nation. In their book, Comitia Americana and Related Medals: Underappreciated Monuments to Our Heritage, John W. Adams and Anne E. Bentley write, "the Comitia Americana medals were seen as a potentially fundamental building block in the diplomatic and public relations of our young nation." The Comitia Americana medals represent some of the earliest moments of the United States—as an independent nation—engaging with the international community through both politics and art. The celebration of military victory through these medals declares America to be a sovereign nation legitimized not only through victory in battle but also through medallic craft. Additionally, these medals serve as a grandiose thank you to France—particularly the Libertas Americana and medal celebrating de Fleury (the most heroic-looking medal of them all!). The Comitia Americana medals, and their later additions, allowed the first American Congress to reaffirm the statement of American legitimacy, originally made in the Declaration of Independence, through numismatic art. The National Numismatic Collection (NNC) has 119 Comitia Americana medals with the inclusion of the Libertas Americana medal (a medal specifically created to thank France for her participation in the American Revolution), and the Diplomatic Medal of Thomas Jefferson's design. Thanks to the generosity and support of author and medal expert John W. Adams, the NNC has now completed the digitization of its Comitia Americana holdings! The collection's high-resolution images can be found on the Smithsonian's Learning Lab website. Virtual viewers can explore the images and iconography of each medal and learn more about the engravers behind their creation. For my New England compatriots (and friends from other locales) these Comitia Americana medals make interacting with the American Revolution and its heroes feel new, exciting, and tangible. Emily Pearce Seigerman is a museum specialist with the National Numismatic Collection. Posted in Numismatics, From the Collections Let them eat dollars: Hyperinflation from revolutionary France to Zimbabwe When my friend Trish got her first paycheck from her part-time job in high school, it was for $50,000. "It was enough to buy a pair of... Hidden turtles and rude gestures in World War II-era Chinese banknotes When we joined the museum's National Numismatic Collection team this summer to rehouse a collection of international banknotes, we expected... You asked, we answered: What did Revolutionary War soldiers have in their pockets? Linda B. asked through our Facebook page: "I have a research question … What kinds of things would Revolutionary soldiers carry in their... From the Collections; Remember Abe Star-Spangled Banner Stories of Freedom & Justice Race to the Museum Object Project You Asked, We Answer Conserving Jefferson's Bible American agriculture America Participates Back to Our Roots Civil War 150 Latino History & Culture Julia Child Recipe of the Week Jazz Appreciation Intern Perspectives Invention & Innovation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line871
__label__cc	0.578764	0.421236	Man On Hunger Strike to Stop Deportation to Iran By Paul Collins Last updated Dec 26, 2014 Kavoos Soofi immigrated to Canada from Iran in 2004 through a student visa. It expires every 2 years. In 2006, he renewed his visa and applied for refugee status. He was rejected outright and appealed through PRRA, a form of a pre-risk assessment format. A few weeks ago, he went to get the results and the authorities said it was rejected again. They then told him to go to Ottawa to get his travel documents, and prepare to travel back to Iran. When he explained his situation would be dangerous in Iran, they arrested him and placed him in Rexdale Detention Center. At first, they asked for three thousand in bail money, but then they rose it to twelve thousand dollars, finally denied him any release options whatsoever. Such a situation led Kavoos to go on a hunger strike. This led to the authorities to move him from Rexdale Detention Center to Toronto Metropolitan West Detention Center. They threatened him if he did not end his hunger strike, they would put him in the criminal section of their facility. “All his family and friends wish to do,” said his brother Kiomar Soofi, “is give Kavoos another chance. Stop his deportation,” continued Kiomar, while he looked at me. “We want his file reviewed again because we are extremely worried if he returns to Iran, there will be torture and it will be much worse.” Kavoos Soofi has lived in Canada for 8 years, always legally worked and paid taxes. “He is a hard worker,” said his brother. “He created a job in the community. He has never been on welfare, or involved in criminal activity. He has lots of deep relationships with his friends and family. His friend, Medi Shams,” Kiomar pointed around him, “shut down his shop. All the last 2 weeks, Shams has been involved in the campaign to save his friend, our friend, my brother.” “What else do you want to say right now,” I asked Kiomar, “What else do you feel you want to say that you could not say already?” “As a Canadian,” he continued, “I came to Canada because Canada is a free country. And I expect my community and all Canadians, especially the government, immigration officers and judge who have behaved inhumanly. We respect any decision they make but there is new evidence which happened after 2009 which puts Kavoos’ life in more danger if he returns to Iran.” Apparently, in 2009 Kavoos Soofi posted anti-Islamic postings on face book, comparing Islam to Nazism and Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran to Hitler. These posting were later removed. Quite recently, Iranian-Canadian blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for his online comments. Thus, many fear Kavoos Soofi could face a similar situation. Protests are planned all over Toronto and all is welcome. Join the petition to save Kavoos from deportation at: http://www.kavoos.org/ . For more information go to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urgent-STOP-Kavoos-Deportation/306729129372965 An area businessman even stopped 100% his business activities at Sign & Print until February 7th. He offered his store at 6186 Yonge Street as the main quarter for this stop the Kavoos deportation campaign. Medi Shams can be reached at www.signandprint.ca , or you can call him at 416-512-9915. Paul Collins, author of Mack Dunstan’s Inferno / Mystery of Everyman’s Way LegalNewsPolitics You Tuber at https://www.youtube.com/user/pollywolly77 Hidden In Your Heart Yiddish Penicillin Trump Protests Disguised as Cultural Marxism Political Correctness Needs a Reformation Government War on Eccentrics Tobias Smollett – Author Lost in Translation Jack Eason says 8 years ago No matter who you are, or where you come from – the authorities, while paying lip service to ‘human rights’ care little. 🙁	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line873
__label__wiki	0.963818	0.963818	Tom Brady speaks out against Trump's 'divisive' comments on players taking a knee "I certainly disagree with what he said," Brady said. NFL players send message to Trump in national anthem disputeNFL stars linked arms, kneeled and raised fists after President Trump blasted NFL players who kneel during the "Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of games.Steven Senne/AP — -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was the latest friend of President Donald Trump's to speak out against his comments this weekend about NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem. Trump called for the NFL to "fire or suspend" those who kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner." "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!" Trump tweeted on Sunday, which followed similar comments he made Friday at a rally in Huntsville, Alabama. Read: Trump's slam against kneeling NFL players was 'attack on our brotherhood': Ravens player Related: NFL owners stand with players in Trump kneeling rebuke Read: Colin Kaepernick takes knee to continue protest during anthem Brady, who has said that he's friends with Trump, spoke out Monday, saying, "I certainly disagree with what he said. I thought it was just divisive." After Trump's comments, players on various teams took a knee together on Sunday or stayed in the locker room during the national anthem. Brady, 40, was interviewed on WEEI's "Kirk and Callahan" show Monday morning, one day after he linked arms with his fellow Patriots to show unity. "Like I said, I just want to support my teammates," he said of his actions. "I am never one to say, 'Oh, that is wrong. That is right.' I do believe in what I believe in. I believe in bringing people together and respect and love and trust ... I have been blessed to be in locker rooms with guys all over the United States over the course of my career ... The one thing about football is it brings so many guys together — guys you would never have the opportunity to be around." Brady said what makes a football team so special is that "we're all different." "I think everyone has the right to do whatever they want to do. If you don’t agree, that is fine. You can voice your disagreement, I think that is great. It’s part of our democracy. As long as it is done in a peaceful, respectful way, that is what our country has been all about," he continued. Brady followed in the footsteps of another Trump friend, Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft, who released a statement Sunday saying how "deeply disappointed" he was "by the tone of the comments made by the president." "I am proud to be associated with so many players who make such tremendous contributions in positively impacting our communities. Their efforts, both on and off the field, help bring people together and make our community stronger. There is no greater unifier in this country than sports, and unfortunately, nothing more divisive than politics," Kraft said. The taking of a knee by NFL players began last year when now former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick declined to stand during the national anthem before a preseason game against San Diego. He later explained to reporters that he was doing so to peacefully protest until there is "significant change" on racial oppression in this country. Sep 25, 1:52 PM Roger Stone found guilty on all 7 counts Nov 15, 5:32 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line883
__label__cc	0.549986	0.450014	NIGERIA NOT MATURE FOR STATE POLICE-IGP OPPOSES GOVERNORS The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has warned that Nigeria’s political system is not ripe for state police. He, however, called for improved funding for the agency to enable the Police do better. “I sincerely believe that the Federal Police is still the best for the country and with improved funding the challenges of crime will be addressed. “Those agitating for state police should consider the level of our political maturity,” police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, quoted the IGP as saying. “It is my sincere believe that once the Police Trust Fund Bill is passed into law, the necessary finances required to effectively police the nation will be available”, he added. The IGP said this would also reduce the pressure on the state governments in the funding of the Police. Idris noted that the Nigeria Police were one of the “least paid” security organisations in the world in spite of operating under the UN ratio of 1:400. He added that with the current ratio of 1: 602 the Nigeria Police was operating far below the United Nation’s ratio. APC taking Nigerians for granted – Chieftain Timi Frank “About 10,000 police officers have been recruited recently to fill the gap but this is still a far cry. “To meet up with the UN ratio of 1:400, the Nigeria police requires additional 155,000 Police Officers for the next five years,“he said. He said a request to recruit 31,000 policemen had been sent to President Muhammadu Buhari for approval. Idris said the current Police Management was making efforts to establish structures that would bridge the communication gap between the Police and members of the public. Idris said one of such structures included the establishment of the Nigeria Police Broadcasting Service (NPBS). “When commissioned, it will broadcast Nationwide on TV, Radio, online and the National Emergency Communication Command Control Centre (NEC4).” Controversy, Crime, News, Security UNIPORT VC UNDER FIRE AS STUDENTS PROTEST CLOSURE OF TUITION PORTAL AKWA IBOM MAN HIT BY BRAIN CANCER, HIS BRAIN EXPOSED, SEE GORY PICS A former Commissioner for Women Affairs in Delta State, Queen Betty Efekodha has appealed to women... Happening now. The Lagos State chapter of the PDP is holding a rally against the Supreme... January 21, 2020 admin Comments Off on RONALDO KISSES DYBALA IN THE MOUTH, PICS, VIDEO GO VIRAL, SEE PIX Ronaldo was a real whirlwind. He scored both goals. With him, Juventus smile. In the 2nd...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line889
__label__cc	0.730552	0.269448	How to fool VCs into thinking you have traction, Part 3 This is the 3rd article in a multi-part blog. Here are quick links to Part 1 and Part 2. Today, we’re going to talk about using automatic page refreshing and other navigational tools to generate extra pageviews for every user, whether or not they are really using the site. Here’s what you say When people ask you for what kind of traction you have, this is what you say: "Last month, we got 30 million pageviews – and wow were people engaged. We had an average of 40 pages per session!" These are great numbers, particularly the engagement factor of many pageviews in the session. These are the kind of stats VCs are looking for when they think about the scarcity of attention. This is particularly true when you show them the hockey stick that’s driven by all these sticky pageviews. If you need an example of why VCs value stickiness, just check out the excellent blog from First Round Capital on the subject, called "Catch and Release Business Models". Basically, their view is that more pageviews per session is a proxy for more passionate users, which means more viral, and better growth, etc. What’s weird with these stats? Of course, these stats could look great on paper, but in fact they be caused by a number of negative factors which have been documented in the past, particularly two: Inefficiently designed navigation that causes pageviews (See the MySpace analysis, called "The Click Factory") Automatic page refreshes which generate garbage pageviews (See the analysis on Drudge report in Valleywag) In both of these cases, users are NOT more engaged, yet generate garbage pageviews that are hard or impossible to monetize. So while a simplistic analysis would just multiple the 30 million pageviews by a comparable CPM, the smart money would figure out how sticky or wasteful the pageviews are, and discount it accordingly. The second problem of automatic page refreshes is a particular problem for news sites, where it’s gray-line justifiable. Oftentimes, this encourages people to stretch it a little further than they need. On the flip-side, of course, this is the hidden downside of heavily AJAX-y sites that do everything very efficiently. Realize that early on in the process, a site like that might be decreasing their overall pageviews by close to 50%. That’ll generate a huge hit to the startup’s valuation. It’s advantageous for everyone to be educated on this topic, and the pluses and minuses. How do you figure out the truth? To understand if these numbers are being inflated, you really have to break down the source of the pageviews on the site. You should ask: "When users come to your site and expend 40 pages per session, break down what is happening on the 40 pages. What pages are spent on the automatically refreshing news page, versus commenting, versus other activities on the site?" You typically want to make sure you are separating engagement from the stickiness of the site. Some of this stuff cannot be faked. For example, here are questions that go directly to stickiness: How many users come back every day? Every 2 days? Every week? Every month? How long do you retain users over time? What percentage of your registered userbase is active? How many friends do most people have? How many articles do your users forward on? If you ask these questions, you’ll get much more information on how people use the site, rather than relying on a simple metric like pageviews/session. You’ll also get a good understanding of how well they can interpret past their metrics into the behavior of the users, and why the users are acting different ways. In my next article, I’ll be covering how people fiddle around with the definitions and standards around pageviews, uniques, and other numbers to inflate their numbers. Stay tuned!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line902
__label__wiki	0.514855	0.514855	Android 4.4 gets new non-destructive Photo Editor, coming to AOSP as well Juan Carlos Torres Image editors and enhancers are a dime a plenty on the Android platform, yet there is still something to be said about tools that come already preinstalled on any system. Even more can be said when such tools acquire new features that puts it closer with more advanced third-party versions, as is the case with the built-in Photo Editor in Android 4.4. With the prevalence of popular tools such as Snapseed, PicsArt, Paper Artist, or Adobe Photoshop Touch, it is quite easy to forget that the default Gallery app also has a photo editor that might very well cover the basic use cases of touching up a photo that was just grabbed via the camera before uploading it to a social networking site or sending it through e-mail. While this photo editor doesn’t offer all the bells and whistles of those bigger apps, it does have a kind of simplicity and quick access going for it. That photo editor has now been considerably enhanced for Android 4.4 and might soon have you reaching less and less for those other apps. The editor now includes a non-destructive editing feature that will help users make changes on the photo without worrying about permanently losing the original version. The user interface has also been improved to support both smartphone and tablet screen sizes. It also gains a variety of new advanced tools such as graduated filters, per-channel saturation controls, local adjustments, and more. Developer Nicolas Roard has released a video showcasing the new photo editor which you can watch below. The other great news about this built-in photo editor is that now only will it be included in Android 4.4 KitKat but will also be included in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). This means that this new editor will eventually be making its way to AOSP-based custom ROMs for everyone to use. SOURCE: Nicolas Roard Android 4.4 design explained in-depth Android 4.4 and the Nexus 5: a recap of the day's event Nexus 5 factory image dump yields Android 4.4 Google apps downloads Photospheres getting a big fix in Android 4.4 Android Open Source Project AOSP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line903
__label__cc	0.724691	0.275309	Tag: Android 4.2 Android Distribution for November: business as usual Juan Carlos Torres - November 4, 2014 You might have noticed that Google didn't release any figures for Android's spread last October. Perhaps it was due to the busy-ness of getting... New LG Tab Book is a superpowered Android tablet hybrid LG may not put out much Android tablets in the market, but when it does, it tries to make it into something truly distinct.... Jolla Launcher Alpha ported to Android 4.2 devices Juan Carlos Torres - July 6, 2014 Jolla has started the alpha testing of its Jolla Launcher for Android, available only for a selected few alpha testers. Of course, this being... Nikon COOLPIX S810c smart camera can do almost everything except make calls Juan Carlos Torres - April 10, 2014 It's been a while since we've seen an Android-powered camera and now Nikon comes along to make sure we remember that such a device... Philips outs first UHD TV powered by Android Juan Carlos Torres - March 28, 2014 Our home entertainment systems and mobile devices are all converging in more ways than one. While gadgets like the Google Chromecast aim to bring... AT&T HTC One X to finally get Android 4.2.2 on January 29 Juan Carlos Torres - January 27, 2014 HTC has just announced that the One X will soon be receiving a much awaited Android 4.2.2 update, that is, if the device was... AT&T HTC One X+ Android 4.2.2 update now arriving Robert Nelson - January 17, 2014 Earlier in the week HTC let it be known that AT&T One X+ users would have an update beginning soon. At the time they... T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z Android 4.2 update begins today Robert Nelson - November 19, 2013 While many Android users are looking for updates to Android 4.4 or 4.3, there are still plenty of handsets that will be getting updated... KAZAM smartphones arrive from former HTC execs HTC, who is already struggling with internal and external problems, might be facing a new competitor in the European market right from its own... HTC One SV receives Android 4.2.2 and Sense 5 update It is always good news when devices that don't always make it to the headlines still get some much needed love. This time it's... ViewSonic SonicSmart VSD241 display packs Android 4.2 with a Tegra 3 processor Robert Nelson - October 29, 2013 ViewSonic has introduced the SonicSmart VSD241, which is a 24-inch display that is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and running Android 4.2... Galaxy S4 for Verizon sees update, but is still on Android 4.2 Nate Swanner - October 16, 2013 Starting today, owners of a Verizon branded Samsung Galaxy S4 will be able to upgrade their device. The upgrade is said to be incremental,...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line904
__label__cc	0.67436	0.32564	« Automating Tasks Save Time via API Services \| Main \| The Comunicano Communique for Monday December 28th 2015 » The Comunicano Communique Sunday Edition for December 27th 2015 The Comunicano Communique The Sunday Edition of The Comunicano Communique is here. The idea behind the "Sunday Edition" is to curate more feature focused articles that can help you grow, think about how your business is run and identify trends in the world of business and technology. While the weekday editions tend to include more "hard news" the Sunday Edition will offer a greater mix of insight, perspective and opinion. I hope you enjoy it and, like the Sunday paper of days gone by, you read leisurely, without the pressures of the workday. Have a view on the news today? Please let me know what you think....Andy Abramson How To Focus: 5 Research-Backed Secrets To Concentration A question a lot of us are struggling with these days is "how to focus." Concentration seems hard. Why does everyone joke about having ADD? There's a reason... Ed Hallowell, former professor at Harvard Medical School and bestselling author of Driven to Distraction, says we have "culturally generated ADD." [continue...] 6 Reasons Why Bigger Is Not Better In Your Startup Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay Attention Gone are the days of the 40-hour work week that kept us at work eight hours a day (I find that most startup founders or business owners in Silicon Valley work 50-60 hours a week). Freelancing is becoming the accepted norm of the startup world. Drone jammers to guard top events The system can detect, track and disrupt the controls of any rogue drones (Christopher Furlong) SOPHISTICATED drone-jamming technology is to be deployed at major public and sporting events in the UK following a successful trial at last month's Remembrance Sunday parade, The Sunday Times can reveal. Verizon Rumoured to Launch Premium Go90 with Zero-Rated Streaming Video Service Verizon will introduce a paid version of its Go90 video streaming service in the first quarter next year, according to Barclays in its report to its trading clients about Verizon. The new service will be similar to what T-Mobile is offering via its 'Binge On', allowing subscribers to enjoy unlimited video streaming without eating into their monthly data allocation. 2016: The year the freight industry goes online Uber was founded just six years ago. It's come a long way since. In its latest funding round, Uber was valued at $68 billion, more than Netflix and Twitter combined. But industries change slowly. With all the hype, Uber still just has 13% market penetration in New York, with traditional taxi companies responding by also going online. The WiFi Scam That Could Steal Your Credit Card Info Hotel WiFi is one of the most important amenities these days. But it can also create serious headaches for travelers. Josh Roberts of SmarterTravel.com weighs in on the newest WiFi scam and how you can protect yourself. Charities target social media influencers Charities are turning to online stars with large YouTube audiences, following an approach increasingly used by big brands to reach new donors and volunteers. The Make-a-Wish Foundation, for children with life-threatening illnesses, DigDeep, the non-p 11 Bitcoin Startups That Went Bust in 2015 This year was a time of further consolidation for the bitcoin industry. After what you might call a 'Wild West' period (when it seemed everyone with the urge was setting up their own bitcoin-based service), the space is now rapidly becoming more dominated by bigger, more professional outfits, often with serious funding to get them off to a solid start. Top 10 industry highlights of 2015 As we step into 2016, ClickZ presents the most important news in digital marketing over the past year, such as Periscope's debut and Google's "Mobilegeddon." Looking back, 2015 was an exciting time to be in the digital marketing industry, with so many technology advances and product updates, as well as mergers and acquisitions. The 25 Must-Download Apps of 2015 It's easy to get stuck in a rut using the same ol' apps day in and day out -- or maybe you're hoarding so many random Bejeweled Blitzes and fancy weather widgets you can't see the forest for the trees anymore. Either way, which new apps are actually worth a trip to the iTunes store? A Holiday Perspective On Technology And Consumerism Holiday shopping, long a staple in American life, has undergone significant change over the past half century. The "Miracle on 34th Street" post-war tradition of heading downtown to Macy's or Bloomingdale's has evolved from quaintly old-fashioned to downright anachronistic. Columbia House Counting On Vinyl Resurgence For Its Revival Millennials can be forgiven for not knowing about Columbia House because by the time they grew up this company had practically lost all of its importance that it held on to for decades. This mail-order service actually went bankrupt over the summer primarily because nobody wants to buy discs anymore when digital downloads and streaming have made life so much easier. 5 ways developers can exploit geospatial tech in 2016 Since the rise of geospatial technology, applications like Facebook, Uber, and Grindr, have enabled users to engage with their surroundings to connect with friends, book a room, or set up a date. But the application of geospatial technologies is really in its infancy. Mark Cuban: I Don't Take Risks But I Sure Can Dance I've considered Mark Cuban a friend since September 1997, when I flew from New York to New Orleans to attend a broadcast news industry conference. At the event - the Radio Television News Directors Association convention - I came across a exhibitor then known as AudioNet. We hope you are enjoying The Comunicano Daily. 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__label__cc	0.641075	0.358925	August 14, 2019 August 14, 2019 Author Linda Vallejo at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes Linda Vallejo, The Brown Dot Project Adobes: 91.2% of Los Angeles’ Eastside, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Rethinking Brownness: Brown Belongings by Linda Vallejo LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles through January 13, 2020 Written by David S. Rubin Linda Vallejo has spent much of the past decade investigating the deeply personal subject of what it means to be a brown-skinned American. With daily media coverage of current controversies over the citizenship question on the 2020 Census, Latin American migrant children living in inhumane concentration camps, and the tenuousness of the future of DACA, Vallejo’s research project couldn’t be any timelier. Her findings, which are presented in the form of more than 125 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, should elicit more questions than answers, which is exactly the artist’s stated intention. Although nonlinear and non-chronological in presentation, the exhibition is devoted to five themes (and some subthemes) that reveal the range and depth of Vallejo’s inquiry. She began the project with the series Make ‘Em All Mexican, for which she altered found and mostly kitschy historical or cultural representations of white people by painting their skin and blond hair or blue eyes (where applicable) in different shades of brown. The generic question asked is simply, “What if?” What if the likes of George and Martha Washington, the woman behind the Mona Lisa smile, the familiar couple in Grant Wood’s American Gothic, or media icons such as Elvis Presley and Bob’s Big Boy had had brown skin? Would this have changed the course of history? Would our perceptions and assumptions about what it is to be Mexican, Mexican American, Latinx, Chicanx, or Indigenx be different than they are today? Vallejo approached the next two thematic groupings like a statistician, cleverly translating quantifiable data into visual imagery as opposed to numbers. For The Brown Dot Project, she did her own census taking, recording the percentages of Latinx populations in such areas as housing, occupations, and education level by painting tiny brown dots into grid modules. Some take the form of indigenous textile designs, while others are organized into configurations referring to the topic or superimposed over postcards featuring related imagery. In the subsequent series Datos Sagrados (Sacred Data), Vallejo opted for a more visceral approach, with data concerning immigration presented as brown patterns painted on white handmade paper to form circular abstract mandalas. In the final series, Cultural Enigma, Vallejo adds to the mix dialogues about revisionist history and what it is simply to be human, to be part of the global population. One group is comprised of portraits of anonymous brown-skinned figures dressed in shimmering light blue clothing. With their poses and features appropriated from compositions by well-known Caucasian artists, the images call attention to the dearth of representation of artists of color in art history books and curricula. A second series, which Vallejo views as “abstract Rorschach tests,” encourages viewers to find their own meanings in iridescent blue abstract symbols that float against luminous fields rendered in various shades of brown. In the end, this comprehensive survey should provoke thoughtful reflection on some of the most pressing issues of our time. It also demonstrates how small mundane objects can be transformed to pack a remarkably mighty punch. LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes 501 N. Main St., Los Angeles, 90012 Linda Vallejo, The Brown Dot Project: 23.9% of Sex Trafficking Victims are Latino, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, The Brown Dot Project Adobes: 25.7% of All DACA Reside in CA, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: Big Boy “Muchachote”, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Datos Sagrados: 50% of U.S. Immigrants were Latino in1965-2008, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Datos Sagrados: 65% of U.S. Latinos are U.S. native born, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Datos Sagrados: 66% of unauthorized. Latino immigrants in the U.S. have lived there for at least a decade, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Cultural Enigma: Untitled American Portrait, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Cultural Enigma: Untitled Symbols and Signs, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: El Vis, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: Little Fourth of July Princess, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: Justice, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, The Brown Dot Project: LA 48.3%, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: La Mona, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: La Pieta, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, The Brown Dot Project: Latino High School Graduation Rates Growth Patter 1993-2013, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Brown Oscars: Bernardo y Mateo, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: Mexican Gothic, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, Make ‘Em All Mexican: Our Founders, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist Linda Vallejo, The Brown Dot Project: National Latino Authors and Writers, 5.6%, Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes; Image courtesy of the artist art interview art magazine David S. Rubin Linda Vallejo los angeles artist solo show Published by Author Kristine Schomaker is a new media and performance artist, painter and art historian living and working at the Brewery artist complex in Los Angeles. For over 14 years she has been working with various interdisciplinary art forms including online virtual worlds to explore identity and the hybridization of digital media with the physical world. Whether virtual or physical, the object-based work Kristine creates combines elements of color-based gestural abstraction, animation, pattern and design, neo-Baroque and Populence. Using installation, text, photography, mixed media, video and performance for her ongoing conceptual project My Life as an Avatar, she visualizes a narrative/dialogue with her virtual persona, Gracie Kendal. Kristine then documents her experiences on her blog. In 2012, exploring ideas of community, Kristine turned a local gallery into a modern day creation of Gertrude Stein’s salon of the 1920’s with a live mixed-reality dinner party merging the physical world with the online virtual world. Over the summer she also performed The Bald and the Beautiful in which she had her head shaved as a statement to challenge society’s standards of beauty. Currently, Kristine is working as an Artist-in-Residence through the Linden Endowment for the Arts creating an immersive virtual environment which she is planning to bring into the physical world via sculpture/public art work. View all posts by Author Previous Narrative Painting in Los Angeles Next The Lineup: This week’s must-see art events	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line906
__label__cc	0.591448	0.408552	ASEAN Women For Peace Registry Remarks, Speeches PRE-EVENT PRESS RELEASE – Training Series for the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR) PRE-EVENT PRESS RELEASE PHILIPPINE-LED ASEAN INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION EVENT TO CULTIVATE MORE MEDIATORS IN ASEAN The Permanent Mission of the Philippines to ASEAN, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), and Ateneo de Manila University, with the support of the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund, have teamed up to conduct a Training Series for the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR) entitled Mainstreaming Peace and Reconciliation in ASEAN.? The multi-year Training Series will kick-off its first leg on 21-22 February 2019 in Manila with the theme Approaches in Peace Processes and Peace Building in Southeast Asia and the Role of Mediators. Around 80 experts, diplomats, peace practitioners, educators and representatives of civil society from ASEAN Member States will gather to discuss the challenges and best practices in mediation within a peace and reconciliation context. Among the distinguished roster of resource persons is Former Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda who will share his experiences as an international mediator during the peace processes between the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), as well as during the Aceh Peace Process. Permanent Representative of the Philippines to ASEAN, Ambassador Elizabeth P. Buensuceso, notes that the holding of this event is timely, given the current national and international realities that shake the foundations of our hard-earned peace.? She highlights that the major inspiration for this Training Series is the fact that despite the myriad of potential conflicts that may erupt, ASEAN chooses to live in peace. Therefore it is fitting that ASEAN analyze how peace is made with a view to create more peace and reconciliation experts, especially in the area of mediation. Kim Young-chae, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to ASEAN underscores that this event rightly promotes a Culture of Peace. He also said that, in the area of peace and reconciliation, much can be learned from the ASEAN story ? a group of diverse Member States that continue to live in peace despite so many challenges and diversities. The event is being conducted under the auspices of the Jakarta-based ASEAN-IPR, led by Executive Director Rezlan Ishar Jenie. The Institute is mandated to be ASEANs primary institution for research activities on peace, conflict management and conflict resolution.? Succeeding legs of this Training Series will tackle the topics of Peace Mechanisms: Ceasefire, Security Arrangement in Conflict Areas (2nd leg) and Reintegration Experiences in Southeast Asia: Focus on Transitional Justice, Healing and Reconciliation Modes (3rd leg). Related News/Updates ASEAN WOMEN INTERFAITH DIALOGUE: PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING FOR AN INCLUSIVE AND PEACEFUL SOCIETY Study Visit on ‘PEACE FACILITATION & RECONCILIATION’ brought ASEAN-IPR to touch base with like-minded institutions in Switzerland PRESS RELEASE – ASEAN-IPR RESEARCH PROJECT ON MINDANAO KICK-STARTS IN JAKARTA ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation © 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line909
__label__wiki	0.776869	0.776869	Category: Longhorns Longhorn Band dances through Austin in latest hype video Photo via Longhorn Band/YouTube There’s something familiar about the UT Longhorn Band’s latest hype video. It’s like a play off of those sorority videos everyone’s always buzzing about — the difference being that this one’s full of burnt orange cowboy outfits, an irresistible dog and many of Austin’s most iconic spots. Related: Jimmie Vaughan, Longhorn Band team up on orange-and-white rhythm & blues The video, which was posted just a few days ago, has been circulating the university community, garnering more than 3,000 views. It comes in anticipation of Longhorn Band’s “Band Week” and the prospective 250 members expected this fall. Read: Horns, Aggie bands recall the day music trumped rivalry, tragedy Hook ’em, y’all. Author Danielle LopezPosted on August 15, 2016 August 15, 2016 Categories LonghornsTags austin spots, band week, corgi, hook em, longhorn band, newsLeave a comment on Longhorn Band dances through Austin in latest hype video What readers are saying about a possible Big 12 expansion Big 12 chancellors, presidents and athletics directors are meeting this week in Irving to discuss the state of the league. Chief among those discussions: Should the Big 12 expand, or stay the way it is, currently with 10 teams? And how likely is it that the league will just dissolve? Bevo Beat has put together a series of blogs discussing the Big 12’s expansion options. They’ll look at two schools a day for the rest of the week and weigh the pros and cons of each considered team joining the conference. First up for discussion this week are BYU and Boise State. But this is the Internet, and emotions run high, especially when speaking about college football. So what did readers have to say about all this Big 12 discussion? A lot. One reader was annoyed about why the Big 12 was called the Big 12 when the conference only has 10 teams, and thought the conference had become “unwieldy.” Some were fed up with the conference and all the talk of expansion. Please, for the love of God, stop the expansion talk and just kill the conf. UT & OU should leave. — 337 (@jps337) May 23, 2016 As far as expansion talk, many readers weighed in on how they would rearrange the conference. And everyone had a lot of thoughts about whether or not the conference should add a championship game in football. What’s your take on all of the expansion talk? Let us know in the comments. Author Jake HarrisPosted on May 23, 2016 Categories around the web, Longhorns, SportsTags Big 12, college football, longhorns, newsLeave a comment on What readers are saying about a possible Big 12 expansion Reports: ‘Junior the Wendy’s Guy,’ a Texas Union fixture, died Monday The man owning what were once the fastest fingers in the Texas Union died Monday, according to the Austin Chronicle. Junior rings up another customer at Wendy’s in the UT Student Union in 2003. (Photo by Laura Skelding/American-Statesman) The Chronicle reports that Ishmael Mohammed Jr., aka “Junior the Wendy’s Guy,” was found unconscious at an Austin bus stop Friday. An examination later showed severe bleeding in his brain, and despite surgery, he died early this week, according to the paper. Mohammed was the toast of the University of Texas at Austin’s student union for more than a decade, nimbly taking orders for burgers and fries at unbelievable speed. He was “the Rachmaninoff of the register, holding the record for taking the most orders and sales within a 30-minute span, 246 orders for $1,035 — or one order every 7.3 seconds,” according to a 2014 American-Statesman story. Mohammed was the subject of short documentary in 2006. In 2014, Benjamin McPhaul, a 2011 UT graduate, was approached by Mohammed and found out that the former Wendy’s employee had become homeless after leaving Austin for New York City in 2012 and later returning. McPhaul set up an online fundraising page for Mohammed, smashing the original goal and spreading the word about “Junior” across social media. Mohammed’s daughter, Kimberly Guerin, told the Daily Texan that the family took her 61-year-old father off life support Sunday morning. From the Texan: “I know he had been mugged before and that he has had stitches before,” Guerin said. “There have been altercations with people on the street, so they think it was probably a fall, but no one really knows because no one was there.” Guerin initially set up a GoFundMe page to pay for her father’s funeral, but updates to the campaign indicate that the expenses have since been covered. She wrote on the fundraising page that “We are now going to use the donations to come up with a celebration of his life.” Author Eric WebbPosted on April 14, 2016 April 14, 2016 Categories local news, Longhorns, old Austin, university of texasTags newsLeave a comment on Reports: ‘Junior the Wendy’s Guy,’ a Texas Union fixture, died Monday Q&A: How the mock mass shooting near UT campus went down SELECT THE IMAGE TO WATCH THE MOCK SHOOTING A local gun rights advocacy group held its controversial mock mass shooting event near the University of Texas on Saturday. WATCH VIDEO OF THE MOCK SHOOTING Its organizers wanted to show the dangers of gun-free zones because they wouldn’t allow people to carry guns in designated areas. Its opponents said it was a callous and disrespectful act, especially in light of the killings of 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif. earlier this month and given UT’s history with mass shootings. The event’s opponents answered with a counter protest that disrupted the mock mass shooting by making fart noises and pointing plastic phalluses at the gun rights group. But just when the two protests were supposed to converge and hit a boiling point, the event was a dud and left people confused and bewildered. So what exactly happened? Did the mock mass shooting even take place? Yes. But few people were around to see it. Murdoch Pizgatti, the organizer of the event and the president and founder of Come and Take It Texas and Dontcomply.com, said this was by design. The mock mass shooting was one of two events Pizgatti and his groups organized for the day. The first was the “Life and Liberty Walk to End Gun-Free Zones,” and was meant as a precursor to the mock event. But after an underwhelming event, which included no more than 15 marchers and was upstaged by a student counterprotest, Pizgatti and his group told the hoard of local and national news reporters covering the event that the guns rights activists were going to lunch and would return at 2:30 p.m. to stage the mock shooting. During the intervening time, most onlookers turned their attention to the counter-protest on the campus, which included fart noises, plastic phalluses and signs that read “Fart here,” “Butts not bullets,” and “I fart in your general direction.” Meanwhile, the guns rights activists were not at lunch at all. They secretly made their way to the corner of 27th Street and Whittis Avenue and quietly staged their controversial event to little fanfare. “It was amazing,” Pizgatti said. “We planned it to distract people on one side of campus while the mock shooting happened on the other side.” The old, bait and switch. But wait, if no one saw the event, doesn’t that defeat its purpose? Pizgatti doesn’t think so. First, his group recorded the event and plans to post the video of the mock shooting on his website dontcomply.com so people will eventually see it. A live stream of the event was also available online. Secondly, Pizgatti said he has been doing interviews with news outlets for the past three days and getting the word out about the event. When you consider that Pizgatti’s ultimate goal is not to stage mock shooting events but to get people to know about his push to end gun-free zones, he’s doing exactly what he set out to do. And thirdly, the decoy trick also played into Pizgatti’s imaginary mass shooting narrative. In real mass shootings, he said, you never know when they’re going to happen. The corner of 27th and Whittis, he said, is a “nice, calm corner, which is where a real shooting could have happened.” And, he took it one step further. Pizgatti said the whole event was so low-key that his group performed it twice before police arrived 10 minutes into it. He said that also helped his group show the response times law enforcement has in real-life scenarios and the necessity of letting people carry firearms in all places. I don’t know if I’m buying that. Did they really pull this off? You’re not alone in your confusion. The counterprotesters were also thrown off by the heist. By the time the fart machine and dildo-carrying crowd showed up at the site of the mock shooting all that remained were chalk outlines of the imagined victims of the mass shooting. The counterprotest group was quick to claim their event a success and said they had driven off the gun-free zone protesters. “I thought it was amazing,” said Robert Oxford, a member of the Gun Free UT group. “If you look at the variety of people here it is clear UT students do not want a militarized campus.” Pizgatti said he will post his videos online later to prove the event happened and we got an interview with a man who said he participated in the event. John Young of Cedar Park, said he was one of five or six “victims” who wore ketchup-stained “Gun Free UT” t-shirts during the event. Hmm, so it sounds like they actually were successful then. Right. But in the end, both sides claimed victory. Pizgatti said he had pulled off his event and gotten national attention for the subject while his opponents said they had outnumbered and overwhelmed his efforts. To be clear, the opponents of the mock mass shooting clearly outnumbered its participants. During the earlier walk event near the campus, the guns rights supporters, who were no more than 15 in number, were followed by a group of between 20 and 30 student protesters who largely drowned out the guns rights group’s message by chanting “Mock shootings mock victims” and “Remember the tower.” Later, during the counterprotest with farts and dildos, the opponents of the mock shooting numbered between 30 and 60 people as they chanted “We fart in your general direction” and “Texas! Fart!” This counterprotest sounds interesting. Tell me more. Interesting is an understatement. The group gathered near the University Co-Op and held up signs of “Fart Here” and “Butts not Bullets.” One university student proclaimed his arrival by yelling out: “I’m ready to fart!” to the approval of the crowd. Tim Sookram, an alumnus and one of the organizers of the counterprotest, may have had the silliest end to a TV interview in history. TV reporter: “Anything else you’d like to add?” Sookram: “Yes. (Makes loud fart noise)” People carried bullhorn like fart-noise-making machines. I think they might have been “fart guns,” actually. One guy rode on a bike and attached a speaker that made fart noises as he passed. A guy dressed as Santa showed up for a bit. So there. Now you’re all caught up. Photo provided by DontComply.com and Come and Take It Texas Author James BarraganPosted on December 12, 2015 December 13, 2015 Categories Latest News, local news, Longhorns, Things To Know, university of texas, weirdTags austin, austin news, news, university of texas, ut austin2 Comments on Q&A: How the mock mass shooting near UT campus went down Longhorn graduates respond to Scalia’s comments with hashtags Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on Oct. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) The conversation around affirmative action at universities has heated up as the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments once again in the case of a white woman not admitted to the University of Texas at Austin. During the arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia made controversial comments about the success of black students at UT. “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said. Those students were quick to respond on Twitter. Shortly after Scalia’s comments first circulated on social media, the hashtag #BlackTexasEx was born, referring to the university’s Texas Exes alumni organization. http://twitter.com/theREIGNYseason/status/674675679447814144 Other Longhorn graduates tweeted photos of themselves, often in graduation regalia, as an example of black students who graduated from the university in various degree programs. The hashtag #StayMadAbby accompanied some tweets, referring to Abigail Fisher, the woman behind the case against UT’s admission policies. #BlackTexasEx building products at Microsoft that Abigail uses daily. #StayMadAbby pic.twitter.com/6oFGZLuHyj — Dara Oke (@daraoke) December 9, 2015 Abby we made it! 😊 #StayMadAbby #BlackTexasEx #FishervUT pic.twitter.com/oKjCWZHOuy — Mélat (@beholdmelat) December 9, 2015 haha too advanced. ok #StayMadAbby #BlackTexasEx pic.twitter.com/nyoyJgN967 — kev (@PhaThePhenom) December 9, 2015 https://twitter.com/AMixedReaction/status/674733579797180416 Some tweets included groups of Longhorns wearing graduation stoles from historically black fraternities, sororities and organizations on campus. #StayMadAbby #BlackTexasEx #FlexinMyComplexion pic.twitter.com/LgaNETNSsh — K I A R A (@kiaraAUDREY) December 9, 2015 #BlackTexasEx #staymadAbby pic.twitter.com/FwlLo6AS6m — Kevin J Hicks (@KJHicks_5) December 9, 2015 White House. TFA. Fulbright. Finance. Digital media. Acting. You think we had it easy? #BlackTexasEx #StayMadAbby pic.twitter.com/rwnyytOTNN — Z (@ZWingham) December 9, 2015 When asked about its official stance, the alumni organization tweeted that it did not agree with Scalia’s comments. @AMixedReaction Although we take no position on the Fisher case, Scalia's comments today were racist and offensive. #BlackTexasEx — Texas Exes (@TexasExes) December 9, 2015 Fisher sued the University of Texas in 2008, claiming she would have been admitted if she was not white. Fisher went on to graduate from Louisiana State University, and her case has been to the Supreme Court once before in 2012. https://twitter.com/alexisdgeorge/status/674692326925602816 Author Maribel MolinaPosted on December 10, 2015 December 10, 2015 Categories around the web, Longhorns, Texas, university of texasTags newsLeave a comment on Longhorn graduates respond to Scalia’s comments with hashtags George Costanza visited the LBJ Library yesterday It’s a Festivus miracle! Jason Alexander, the actor best known for playing George Costanza on “Seinfeld,” tweeted a rather presidential selfie Thursday night. Amazing time at LBJ Library today. Thanks for a great tour. Not to be missed! pic.twitter.com/csZI0G8xpG — jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) November 20, 2015 Apparently, the man who played the founder of the Human Fund took a tour of the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas at Austin. In case you thought Alexander might be pulling a George-esque stunt, the library retweeted him and offered their own excitement. This was a fun tour for us. Thank you to @IJasonAlexander for stopping by yesterday! [Photo by Jay Godwin] pic.twitter.com/v0idL52NAJ — LBJ Library (@LBJLibrary) November 20, 2015 We’re used to seeing Alexander’s erstwhile co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the Oval Office on “Veep.” Gotta say, Costanza looks at home, too. (Via Twitter: @IJasonAlexander) Now that you’re in the holiday spirit, please, air your grievances that you didn’t catch a glimpse of the star. Author Eric WebbPosted on November 20, 2015 November 20, 2015 Categories local news, Longhorns, Texas, university of texas, weirdTags newsLeave a comment on George Costanza visited the LBJ Library yesterday	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line921
__label__cc	0.514203	0.485797	Hill Country Science Mill Creating New Generation of Problem Solvers February 11, 2015 by Guest Blogger 1 Comment Light wall at Hill Country Science Mill in Johnson City, TX (Credit: Kevin Tully/A Smith Gallery) Guest article by Anne Hebert A 40-foot wall of LED lights demonstrating the power of cell phone signals. A giant Romenesco broccoli-shaped sculpture illuminating fractals. A lifelike look at the inside of the Edwards Aquifer, showing the water cycle. Would you imagine you’d find each of these inside once-defunct grain silos? This is the new Hill Country Science Mill in Johnson City, a non-profit science museum that encourages interactive learning, creative thinking and scientific discussion. The 14,000-square-foot space features more than 25 interactive and educational exhibits, plus hands-on maker stations and art installations, all designed to spark kids’ interest and help them fall in love with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Technology of the Past Transformed for the Future Housed in an historic 1880s gristmill and cotton gin, the museum has transformed the colorful grain silos and original mill building into high-tech exhibits engaging kids in cutting-edge science. Learning exhibit displayed in Spanish (Credit: Kevin Tully/A Smith Gallery) The Science Mill is the brainchild of founder Bonnie Baskin, PhD. She and her husband, both life-long scientists and educators, fell in love with Johnson City after visiting friends and moved there from Minnesota in 2009. When she noticed the dilapidated old grain mill downtown on Hwy 290, Baskin saw it was for sale and the idea of a new science space was born. Baskin and her team spent two and a half years renovating the site, sourcing interactive, engaging exhibits and designing a place where kids can learn about science and career opportunities through hands-on involvement. “Demand for scientists and engineers is expected to greatly exceed other occupations in the next few decades,” says Baskin, “yet many kids have no idea what kinds of opportunities exist for them in science and technology. Our goal at the Science Mill is to inspire a large and diverse work force for the future.” Science Fun for All Ages Brilliantly illuminated fractals at the Science Mill (Credit: Kevin Tully/A Smith Gallery) The Mill’s exhibits were sourced both locally and globally, and many were created specifically for the space. The installations blend art, kinetic technology, augmented reality and computer gaming, and all are available in English or Spanish. With hands-on experiments and interactive maker stations, the Science Mill engages the next generation of problem solvers by encouraging them to explore and engage with science. With a focus on middle school and high school students (but with something for ALL ages to enjoy), it allows students to imagine themselves as a future scientist or engineer. Whether creating a chemical explosion in the hydrogen ball launcher, experimenting with air pressure to move sailboats or making a 3D topographic map in a sandbox, it’s inevitable that visitors of all ages will have great fun while learning. In addition to the many exhibits and hands-on activities, the Science Mill has a 3D movie theater, outdoor exhibits, a toddler play area and magnetic gear wall, exploration space, a Biology Lab, a café and much more. Scientific exploration doesn’t end once visitors leave the museum. Through the Mill’s Avatar Experience, kids create their own personalized, animated, 3D avatar to accompany them throughout the Science Mill. The avatar serves as their science buddy and tour guide, and later as guide to the Explorer Zone–a personalized web resource available to them based upon their individual interests. Team building at Hill Country Science Mill The Science Mill will host field trips, educational programs and summer camps, as well as special events. For more information, visit the venue’s official website. Regular museum hours are: Wed-Sat: 10 AM-4 PM Sunday: 12-4 PM Admission is free for children under 2, $6.50 for ages 2-18 and students, $8 for adults and $6 for seniors (65+) and military. Will you be visiting the new Hill Country Science Mill in Johnson City? Filed Under: Culture, Day Trips, Discoveries, Museums Tagged With: for kids, johnson city NEW: The Art of Shoes in Austin Teaches How to Create Your Own Shoes 👡 ➡️ https://t.co/9GFIfOwJ4d https://t.co/1pgr6bVDfj About 6 hours ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line922
__label__wiki	0.901394	0.901394	Shortsnout Lancetfish, Alepisaurus brevi Shortsnout Lancetfish, Alepisaurus brevirostris Gibbs, 1960 Scientific name: Alepisaurus brevirostris Shortsnouted Handsawfish A juvenile Shortsnout Lancetfish trawled during the NORFANZ expedition in a midwater trawl at a depth of 1275m (bottom depth: 3580m), in international waters south-east of Norfolk Island, May 2003. Image: Mark McGrouther © NORFANZ Founding Parties brevirostris Alepisaurus Alepisauridae The Shortsnout Lancetfish is a slender species with large fangs. It occurs in deep temperate waters in most oceans. The Shortsnout Lancetfish has a slim, elongate body. It has a long-based first dorsal fin followed by a small adipose fin. The caudal fin is large and forked. The anal fin is short-based and positioned posteriorly on the body. The species has a large mouth with large fangs on the roof of the mouth and at the front of the lower jaw. There are smaller triangular and caniniform teeth elsewhere on the jaws and the roof of the mouth. It is iridescent brownish-black above and paler laterally. The long lateral keels at the rear of the body are black. The dorsal fin may have a row of white spots close to its base. A Shortsnout Lancetfish caught off Bermagui, southern New South Wales. Image: Greg Barea © Greg Barea It occurs at bathypelagic and mesopelagic depths. The species occurs in temperate marine waters worldwide, except the North Pacific. In Australia it has only been recorded from off Eucla, Western Australia. The map below shows the Australian distribution of the species based on public sightings and specimens in Australian Museums. Source: Atlas of Living Australia. Glover, C.J.M. in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & R.H. Kuiter (Eds). 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. State Print, Adelaide. Pp. 992. Alepisauridae Hammerjaw fish Girdled Pipefish, Festucalex cinctus (Ramsay, 1882) False-eyed Wrasse, Halichoeres biocellatus (Schultz, 1960) A review of the Australian species of Clusiidae (Diptera, Acalyptrata) Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Part XVIII: a new species of the genus Alpheus from the mouth of the Sepik River, New Guinea Pelican Flounder, Chascanopsetta lugubris Alcock, 1894 Anthony Forge: Biographical Sketch What does art communicate? The history and significance of the fossil Casuarius lydekkeri Temperate Snaggletooth, Astronesthes psychrolutes (Gibbs & Weitzman, 1965) The ecology, morphology, distribution and speciation of a new species and subspecies of the genus Egernia (Lacertilia: Scincidae) On an insular form of Melithreptus brevirostris, Vigors and Horsfield Slender Suckerfish, Echeneis naucrates (Linnaeus, 1758) Museum staff 1829–1977 From 'Rare and Curious Specimens', Appendices.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line923
__label__cc	0.700719	0.299281	azizonomics Economics, Technology, Futurism September 6, 2013 by John Aziz Will Robots Drive Us To Socialism? I read recently that Rio Tinto has already replaced 30% of their mining machinery operators and drivers with robots. The future of work in an age of increasing automation is a topic that a lot of economic thinkers have considered. Frances Coppola ponders the question of how the future may look in a world in which automation is driving people out of the labour market: Automation only happens when machines are cheaper to run than people, and it is probably fair to say that in the last few decades automation has not happened quite as fast as one might have anticipated because companies have discovered that labour in emerging markets is cheaper than the cost of investing in machinery. But as the standard of living rises in emerging markets, and the cost of technology falls, that will not remain the case. Hazlitt, writing in 1952, pointed out that it was automation of production that enabled families to survive without children’s labour, because the price of goods produced with the new machinery was so much lower than those produced in a more labour-intensive way. In the short term automation caused hardship, as people whose livelihoods depended on the old way of doing things lost their jobs: but in the longer term there was benefit to society in the reduced cost of goods that enabled many people to work less, and in the development of new industries to employ those people no longer needed in the old ones. The change we are seeing today is every bit as great, and the short-term consequences are the same – high unemployment, particularly among those with poor or irrelevant skills. Automation should both require fewer people to work AND enable people to work less, since the whole point of automation is to reduce the cost of production, which in a competitive system would result in falling prices. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case: the owners of automated industry may use reduced production cost as an opportunity to take more profit, and they may use political influence to create barriers to entry and trade tariffs to prevent competition driving down prices. But assuming that governments don’t use subsidies and protections to keep inefficient companies alive and prices artificially high, where does that leave us in terms of employment and incomes in the future? Where it leaves us is with increasing inequality, which of course is something that we have seen in recent years, alongside increased unemployment, which is another thing we have seen. And in a world where a minority, historically known as the capitalists own the physical means of production like factories, robots and patents this will result in greater inequality as labour becomes less and less important as an economic factor. The owners of capital will be able to produce to satisfy market demand with little labour input. This will result in more former labourers leaving that field and either becoming entrepreneurs themselves, or becoming dependent on welfare. I think this transformational phenomenon is already well under way in the West — and I only expect it to become more pronounced globally as automation becomes ubiquitous. In theory, physical labour may become totally obsolete. If every house has a decentralised energy source like solar panels and reliable energy storage, as well as an advanced 3-D printer or molecular assembler that can produce almost physical object imaginable from a few basic recyclable chemicals then human poverty will essentially have been abolished. We can just spend the vast majority of our time doing things that we enjoy, while spending only a few minutes or at most hours a day programming our machines to fulfil our material desires. That is the more optimistic vision. In a less optimistic vision, only a small minority of people will have access to such technologies as while the technology may exist, the costs of mass distribution remain too high (at least for a time). The vast masses, will be stuck in impoverished material conditions — dependent on welfare, and charity — without any real prospect being able to climb the ladder through selling their labour. Only a lucky few — who have an inimitably good idea, or a creative skill that cannot be replicated by a robot — will have a prospect of joining the capital-owning upper class. And for the others who are left out in the cold, political action may look attractive. Simply have the government take a larger chunk of the capital-owning class’s income or wealth, and redistribute it to the poor. Ideally, this would be done with the intent of abolishing poverty through making cheap electricity, internet access and molecular assemblers available to all. Less ideally, rather than giving the poor the means to fish (so to speak), it might instead take the shape of a giant welfare net, keeping the means of production in limited hands and simply confiscating and redistributing some wealth. These issues unresolved could create a lot of tension between the two classes. In a worst-case scenario, that could lead to social breakdown or even revolution. Fortunately, I think that this can be avoided through voluntary charity. The billionaire class today is split between those on one hand determined to give it all away with the intent of improving the material conditions of the very poor — Bill Gates, Warren Buffett — and those on the other determined to create new futuristic technologies and systems — Elon Musk — that can improve the material conditions of the masses. As we proceed through the 21st Century and as the technologies of superabundance — solar energy, nuclear energy, wind energy, cybernetics, genomics, the internet, 3-D printing, molecular manufacturing, desalination, etc — create more and more wealth and more and more billionaires, this trend may accelerate. Simply, the wealthy may have so much wealth that eliminating material poverty through voluntary charity may in the long run be an obvious and inevitable move. As Brian Caplan notes: At first glance, I admit, a vision of a superabundant world where people who own only their labor eke out a meager existence seems frightening. But put your fears aside. In an ultra-productive world, a relatively tiny amount of non-labor resources would make your rich by current standards. Labor + zero non-labor assets = poverty; labor + token non-labor assets = riches. In any case, a slight charitable impulse in the better-off is all you need to ensure fabulous riches for every human on earth. Once you’ve got a world this wonderful, the last thing you’d want to do is start down a potentially slippery slope with a high tech Russian Civil War at the bottom. Indeed, a more sensible reaction would be abolish the welfare state as obsolete. If half of us were billionaires, mopping up any residual human poverty with voluntary charity would be child’s play. Ironically, this kind of world could be strangely like the decentralised and classless society that Marx originally envisaged. The route to which we appear to be travelling toward it on, though, is totally and completely different to the one Marx envisaged. Instead of violent revolution, the road to superabundance may be paved by technological progress made by the capital-owners. Posted in Economics \| Tagged economic, economics, economy, robots, science, transportation \| 173 Comments My Writing Elsewhere Pieria View Aziz Reads Behavioral Macro Cullen Roche Daniel Kuehn Economic Thought Evan Soltas Lord Keynes Mike Norman Modeled Behavior Philosophical Economics Reggie Middleton Tony Yates Unlearning Economics Zak David	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line934
__label__wiki	0.654149	0.654149	The First Acolyte of The Upshan Berental Note: A revised (better) version of this story is available for free as part of the Immerse Or Die 2016 Anthology, All These Shiny Worlds. Nestled deep in a secluded valley, ringed by the most imagination-defying mountains you can imagine (only moreso), there is a temple. It is a massive building, three stories of black granite, halfheartedly trimmed with the pious but artless golden engravings of someone who had come along centuries after the fact and decided it could use work. A small but vibrant city of several thousand souls encircles the temple as though the city's inhabitants are huddling close to it for warmth. The temple is the heart of the city. It's where people go to celebrate births, mourn deaths, feast, get drunk and say things they'll regret come morning, and to celebrate the fact that time has passed, and that they have passed it together. And time does pass, drawing them ever further from the beginning, when the original settlers came here from the sky and built a temple that stood as silent evidence of powers that their descendants no longer possessed. Then, as if by agreement, they took the knowledge of their former existence to their graves. Fifty years after the temple was completed, the last of the original adult settlers had laid on her deathbed. A frail, sweet-tempered, batty old woman, she was revered and cherished by the descendants of the community. Her last words were dutifully transcribed. Mixed into the delusions, there were hints of what had brought her and the others to this windswept valley. But this record is most cherished for the two pieces of advice, the last advice that the founders would ever give. "Don't shove the glow rock. It doesn't like that." Then, with an unmistakable urgency, she added, "Don't let things get complicated. Things always go badly when you let them get complicated." Then, as if to emphasize that advice, she died. Eight hundred ninety-four years later, their descendants tried to honor their will by not speculating too much on the whys behind it. It was enough to live as the ancestors had shown them: simply, compassionately, perfecting without ever really innovating. Above all, they tried not to let it get complicated. Reesa was thirteen. Things felt very complicated, and she feared that things were about to go very, very badly. She felt hundreds of eyes boring into her back as she ascended the marble steps. Despite the elegance of the simple, white robe she wore, she felt naked and exposed. Four other girls had performed the ceremony before her, and each of them had done their part properly. She reached the top of the stairs, and knelt before the wizened high priest. The priest sprinkled water on her forehead, muttering with phonetic precision words whose meaning was lost to antiquity. She would respond, at the proper intervals, by raising her hands above her head and shouting "Tah kali! Upshan!" The handful of peasants attending the girl's rite of passage didn't know what the phrase meant. Wrongly, they assumed that the priests did. There were two more unintelligible exchanges and a notoriously difficult bit involving three candles. Finally, in the climax of the ceremony, a cloth was removed from the marble column behind the high priest, revealing the sacred Upshan Berental. It was a translucent, glowing ball which hovered about a handspan above a squat marble altar. But in the minds of the gathered worshippers, it was more than a novel parlor trick. It was an object of reverence, of devotion, a conduit linking their minds to the minds of the gods. It glowed green today. The purpose of the Upshan Berental was comfortingly inscrutable, like the will of the gods itself. It glowed, it hovered, it frequently changed color, and from time to time stray cats would wander in and take great fascination in it. Outside both the temple and the earshot of their flock, the priests would jokingly refer to it as "The Sacred Thingy." The inductee rose, placed her hands upon the sphere, and tried her best to feel the monumental significance of this moment. It wasn't easy. In the moment she touched the orb, she'd half expected some flash of revelation, some deeper understanding of the universe and her place in it, or maybe a bolt of lightning for some past transgression. But no, it was just a warm, glowing rock. Once the smell of incense washed out of her clothing, her life would be unchanged but for a new obligation. She would be required to stand watch over the ball for eight hours twice a week. Though the Upshan Berental -- Conduit to the Mind of Heaven -- was admittedly very pretty, she expected the novelty would wear off quickly, leaving long hours of boredom and drudgery. Now the ceremony switched back to their native English -- hey, nobody questions it on Star Trek -- and Reesa made solemn vows to guard the ball with her very life, wax and polish it whenever necessary, and keep herself undefiled by men. No problem there, she thought. She'd first have to have a conversation with a boy that didn't leave her pondering how hopelessly stupid they all were. The high priest spoke a few words, praising the girl for her willingness to make the required covenants, which made her flush with pride. He followed his praise with a rather long-winded parable that started out being about virgins and lamp oil, but soon drifted off into a story about a beautiful woman he'd met before joining the order. Before the old man could say anything too incriminating, one of his assistants whispered something in his ear, and he wrapped it up. The girl made her way back down the stairs, to the general relief of the mostly bored and confused congregation. The rite of passage was over, and after some congratulations from the congregation, the last few difficult weeks would be a fading memory. No more sixteen hour days of studying, no more subsisting on bread and water, and the opportunity to see her parents again. She gave a backward glance to the Upshan Berental. Silly, overgrown marble, she thought. I heard that, said a voice in her head. Her face went pale, and she spun around to face the shining sphere. She stared at it for a few moments, while the audience began muttering in confusion. Finally, in embarrassment, she turned and started walking quickly. Just my imagination, she thought. Just your imagination, the voice agreed cheerfully. Reesa broke into a sprint. The three days between the ceremony and Reesa's first time watching over the Upshan Berental was a time of dread for her. But what could she do? Ask one of the priests to guard her as she guarded? Tell people that she had been hearing voices? Her fear of the Upshan Berental was exceeded only by her fear of embarrassment. She resolved to pretend that nothing had happened, and hoped that nothing would. The world turned quickly, and all too soon the dreaded evening was upon her. She entered the temple as the sun set, to find her friend Arkit standing watch in front of the pedestal. Arkit was only a year older than Reesa, but a full head taller, and as self-confident as any adult in the village. And she was beautiful. They would laugh together about the way boys salivated over Arkit, about how foolishly they behaved trying to impress her. But secretly, Reesa wished that she could inspire a tenth of that sort of foolishness. Arkit saw her and waved for her to come over. "Hey, Ree. I have to run. Try not to get caught sleeping." Arkit gave her a quick hug, then began rushing toward the door. "Wait!" Reesa yelled. Arkit turned back. "What's wrong?" "What if it," Reesa swallowed hard. "What if it does something?" "Oh, Reesa. The Upshan Berental doesn't do anything. It just floats there." She gave it a demonstrative shove. The sphere was nudged slightly off of center, then slowly floated back into place. "I once saw it change color. Red to blue." "Can it... can it get angry? Do you think?" "You've just got jitters. The ball won't do anything, and if anybody comes in, there's a dozen priests quartered upstairs." She leaned in and whispered conspiratorially, "I hear that some of them are warrior monks." She patted Reesa's hand. "Now, I'm supposed to meet Jedoan down by the lake. I know, you think he's too old for me," she chattered as she headed for the entrance, "and of course he doesn't have a single thought in his head. But he's just sooooo pretty." The heavy temple doors made a frighteningly loud noise as they slammed shut, and Reesa was left alone with the suddenly menacing orb. Reesa stood in the appointed spot, apprehensive eyes fixed on it. Its unblinking gaze met hers, and the hours began to pass. Eventually her resolve waned and the discomfort in her back and shoulders waxed. She sat down. The priests had warned her to be vigilant and always remain standing, but Arkit said that they never got in trouble for sitting down, or even sleeping. More than a couple of the boys claimed that they could skip out for hours at a time unnoticed. Reckless, stupid boys. Ree. Sa. The voice entered her mind like the hiss of frigid air. Reesa yelped, jumping to her feet and spinning to face the orb. "Who's there?" It had heard her thoughts before. She was sure of it. Just stop it. she flung the thought back viciously. Whoever you are, leave me alone! The orb grew brighter, its pale cream color melting into a furious crimson. Ree. Sa. Come. To. Me. Controlling her breathing, she stepped closer to the pedestal. Every muscle in her body was primed and desperate to flee, but she'd been given a commandment, a test of her faith. Fighting down her rising panic, she reached out with a single finger and touched the warm, glowing surface of the orb. The instant she touched it, the light extinguished, and the ball dropped as though a supporting string had been cut. As the ball clattered down the steps, making a bang bang bang noise that only the dead could sleep through, Reesa screamed at the top of her lungs. The acoustics of the temple were really quite remarkable. It was all over town the next day: how Reesa had burst in on half a dozen jammie-clad priests, screaming "I broke it! I broke it!" How they'd all rushed down the stairs to find the Upshan Berental burning quietly in its proper place. How the poor, crazy girl had started hurling venomous accusations at the ball, using such language as had not defiled the temple in centuries. [Actually, it had only been a few weeks. Priest or no, you try holding your tongue when you've just dropped a heavy marble statue on your foot.] For her ungodly behavior, she was banned from Watch for a full month, and confined to the Temple's kitchens when she wasn't at school. Washing dishes was dull, humid drudgery, but this made Reesa happy. Plates never whispered to her brain. The month passed too quickly, and her embarrassment soon faded. When it came time to return, she was given the coveted morning shift, where the body was fresh and people sometimes came by to break the monotony. This would be easier, she figured. But it wasn't. By the end of her first hour, her nerves were already raw from the constant tension. Any second now, she just knew that the voice would come again. It would be there, inside her head, saying... saying... saying... Just say something! she shouted the thought into the gaping silence where the voice should have been. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. The voice seemed apologetic. Reesa tried to keep her face neutral. A few elderly worshippers milled around the periphery of the room, offering up prayers, or maybe just gossiping to pass the time. They certainly weren't paying the girl any notice. My name was Kyron. I'm not sure it applies anymore. Are you a god? No. I was... a boy. An acolyte like you. Curiosity almost overcame the girl's resentment. But not quite. So, I probably won't burn in the Blackfire if I tell you to leave me alone? Probably not. As far as I'm aware, I have no say in the fate of your eternal soul. Good. She turned her back on the pedestal, staring determinedly towards the vaulted ceiling. I really am sorry, the voice spoke. Reesa didn't reply. They waited out the remainder of the shift in silence. Finally, Arkit arrived to replace her. "Did you have fun?" "More than you can imagine." "Rile asked if you'd be at the festival this evening," Arkit very nearly squeaked the good news. "I think he fancies you." The sphere flared red again, but only Reesa noticed. "It'll be good to be away from here," Reesa said. "This overgrown marble is starting to get on my nerves." She turned and bounded down the stairs to the awaiting entrance. Someone let out a shriek, and Reesa spun around. The Upshan Berental. It was following her. Four priests stood in a circle around Reesa and her unwanted companion, studying the pair like a new species of insect. The aged High Priest Ragnar was the first to give his professional evaluation of the problem. "She's bewitched it! She's an evil sorceress!" "That may not be the case, your excellency," said Uther, a handsome young priest who was often a subject of speculation among Reesa and her peers. "It may be that the gods have chosen this girl for some special purpose." "Most irregular, most irregular," he muttered. Then he rapped the orb with his cane, shouting, "Speak English!" Uther cast him a worried look, then turned to the girl. "I'm not sure how to ask this," he said, "but have the gods tried to... contact you?" "No," she said. It was the truth, right? "But you've seen some unusual behavior from The Sacred Thing -- I mean, from the Upshan Berental, correct?" "I wasn't lying. The first night, I touched it, and it turned off and rolled down the stairs." "Most irregular, most irregular." "Before that? Before you touched it, I mean." "It was red." "I see. You recall nothing else?" "Nothing," she lied. What was she supposed to say? There's a boy in the ball, and we're having a quarrel? She snapped back to reality a moment too late. "What?" Uther repeated, "Until the Conduit stops following you, we can't allow you to leave the temple." Reesa started to get suspicious. The priesthood actually seemed to enjoy waiting on her. They'd rigged up a tent and some bedding behind the pedestal, to give her someplace private to sleep. One of the older priests taught her how to repair the temple's books, to make her feel useful. They made sure she was well fed and let the other acolytes talk to her, even when they were on duty. And every waking hour on the hour, they would escort her to the entrance to see if the Upshan Berental would follow. It always followed, like an eager puppy looking for a walk. Sometimes she would try and strike up a conversation with her captor, but without success. Sometimes it seemed like Kyron was stubbornly refusing to respond. Other times, it was like he wasn't there to answer. But whatever the reason, it was almost a week before she heard from him. The silence was broken after the third visit from her parents. They had argued. Her father had yelled at her, as though the whole thing was something she made up to get out of chores. As usual, mother seemed to disagree, but her objections were timid and muted. When they left, she burst into sobs. Reesa? The girl's temper flared for a second, but she fought it down. As much as she disliked the boy, she would never be free without his cooperation. What can I do for you, Kyron of the Glowing Marble? He laughed with delight. I'm in an awkward position. I have many strange and fantastic stories to tell, and some secrets of the universe to reveal. But the only one I can tell them to is angry and cannot forgive me. Of course I'm angry! You're keeping me prisoner! You were ignoring me! You humiliated me in front of everybody! Why don't you bother someone else? Like I said. You're the only one I can talk to. Reesa was taken aback. Not even the other acolytes? There was only silence. "You're alone in there, aren't you?" she whispered aloud. Not exactly. Sometimes I can sense others, but they're impossible to really talk to, and they never stay long. Reesa wasn't sure what he was getting at, but it did sound very lonely. So, if I forgive you, you'll tell me the secrets of the universe? Then I forgive you. But let me get ink and paper. Mysteries of the universe ought to be written down. Nearly seventy years ago, Kyron had watched over the Upshan Berental, as so many had before him. He was fascinated with it, maybe even obsessed. He found that, when he was completely calm and relaxed, he could feel the presence of the orb, feel its distinct warm texture in his mind. Then, late one night, he found something deep inside. It was a way in. It was open. The moment his mind entered it, the door slammed shut. Kyron watched in horror as his body stood up, eyes unfocused, and shambled away. He watched from inside the sphere as the weekly services marked the passage of time. Once, he watched his parents as they spoke to the congregation of the difficulties they were having raising their suddenly silent child. After years of pounding on the door, screaming to get out, he gave up and started exploring his new prison. He soon found that he was not entirely powerless. The orb had controls that a mind could manipulate. First, he figured out how to look up and down, and from side to side. He soon got bored with spinning himself dizzy, but eventually discovered that he could rotate in still another dimension, having nothing to do with the physical space he was familiar with. A small twist, and he found himself looking out over a gleaming metal city at sunset. Another twist, and he was staring into faces of alien creatures, all feathers and tenatcles, squawking at the sphere in what could as easily be either outrage or lust. He quickly became lost, and every attempt to retrace his steps seemed to lead him further afield. When his panicked dash through the sphere had exhausted itself, he found himself staring at an abandoned temple, half collapsed and covered with jungle life. Two creatures which looked a lot like monkeys -- but with extra arms -- were beating the sphere with sticks, howling at it. It seemed as good a place to stop as any. The monkeys soon got bored and left. Kyron also got bored, and started searching for other controls. He found one, which he explored for the longest time, before giving it the most tentative twist he could manage. Time froze. Emboldened, he twisted it further. The monkeys returned, walking backwards. Another turn, and the jungle life started retreating from the ruins, which started stacking themselves back up into a luxurious palace. A few more adjustments, and he found himself watching as the palace was sacked and burned. It must have been awful, Reesa whispered. She felt his muted agreement more than heard it. Imagine cute, fuzzy stuffed animals slaughtering each other. Better yet, don't. It's not pleasant. He spun away from the scene, and found himself staring into pitched blackness. Eventually, the sphere returned him home of its own accord. I doubt I'd ever have gotten back on my own. It's too vast. There are that many places to go? Reesa marveled. Not exactly. It's more like I'm always in the same place, but looking in different directions. At first, I thought I must be moving from sphere to sphere, but this sphere is the only one there is. After nearly an hour spent clumsily trying to explain what it felt like to live in a hyperdimensional sphere that permeated the fabric of reality, Kyron gave up. You look tired. Reesa only nodded in agreement. I'll let you go, if you like. But I have other things to tell you, so promise you'll come back. The next time the priests came to escort her to the front door, the sacred orb didn't follow. She went home and, after reuniting with her parents, stole off to the barn to find a secure hiding spot for the mysteries of the universe. Five years later, another dreaded day had come. Upon reaching a certain age, Reesa was expected to take up new vows, those associated with a marriageable woman. Thus would she be freed from the duties of guarding the Upshan Berental -- or, as she had begun thinking of it, storytime. Reesa had stalled as long as she could, using diversions as varied as a poor dowry, moral support for younger acolytes, an upset stomach, and the dire warnings of a soothsayer who did not technically exist. Now, as she walked next to the now-High Priest Uther, she found herself running out of excuses. "Reesa," Uther's kind voice flecked with the tiniest hint of frustration, "let me be blunt. The rites of the Watcher are for the benefit of those who guard. They instill physical and mental discipline, to prepare you for your life as an adult in the community. The Glowing Marble -- and I truly wish you'd stop calling it that -- doesn't really require protection." He looked at her expectantly, and she realized with a start that he thought he was telling her something she hadn't already deduced. "I... I understand." She tried to summon up a thoughtful look, as though it came as a revelation. She wasn't sure she'd succeeded, but the conversation flowed on. "You've always impressed me as an intelligent, deliberate young woman. From the beginning, you've had more discipline than most of your peers would ever develop. The whole village is waiting for you to take the last step into adulthood, and I wish I understood why you're hesitating." Reesa mulled this over for the longest time as she walked with the high priest through the town square. Uther, infinitely patient, allowed her the time to think. She decided to trust him with a small part of the truth. "I guess I enjoy the time I spend with The Sacred Thingy. It's a quiet place where I can live in my head, where I can ponder--" she hesitated, then added, "the infinite variety of the universe." Uther nodded appreciatively. "You know, if you enjoy it that much, I suppose some arrangement could be made." He thought quickly. "Perhaps you could become a special advisor to the acolytes. The younger ones practically worship you already. And you could still guard the sphere yourself from time to time." "Really?" Reesa tempered her initial rush of excitement. She poked and prodded at the idea, as though it might be booby-trapped. It seemed safe enough. "That would be nice," she concluded. "But people would find it a bit strange." "Strange? Who knows? I minister to a widow on the edge of town who keeps thirty cats, and insists that I treat them as full participants in our conversations." Reesa laughed. Uther smiled and continued. "Nobody in the village is without their eccentricities. I would be disappointed if you were the only exception. Is there anything else bothering you?" "Well, the thought of marrying is a little overwhelming, and no man would be tempted by the dowry my family could offer." Uther nodded. "Your family is poor, true. But only a truly stupid man would need a bribe to marry you." Something in his tone gave her pause. "Why do you say that?" she asked. She slowed her steps noticeably. "You have a keen mind and a gentle wit. You desire to honor the gods in all things. You're beautiful." "Nobody would call me beautiful." "I would," Uther said, a little too sincerely. "But I do not wish to speak for other men," he added quickly, then winced as he stumbled into the subtext of what he'd just said. "But, speaking only for yourself," Reesa said, trying not to laugh, "you think I would make a good wife?" Reesa caught the frown of concentration that crossed the young priest's face. She stopped walking, grabbed his hand, and pulled him to a stop. The question spilled out of its own accord. "Uther, do you love me?" His response was simple, with only a hint of hesitation. "I believe I do, yes." Reesa had expected him to be flustered, to stammer, to perhaps deny that any such thought had crossed his mind. "You seem disappointed," he continued. "I promise that we need never speak of--" "No, no. Uther, I'm not. I feel the--" she faltered. "I love you. I think I have for a while now. But you're the High Priest now, the youngest ever. If you took a wife, you'd have to step down." Uther smiled. "I know marriage is... discouraged. I'd probably be asked to let someone else take over the duties of High Priest, and I would not protest. But taking you as a wife would not be breaking any sacred vows. The gods won't hold me in contempt for it, so I don't care if the priesthood does. But I fear that you might." "No, never!" The priest laughed with relief, his eyes joyous. "Then the day you are eligible, I'll go to your father and ask for your hand." "Only my hand?" "Only your hand. I could never convince him to part with eyes like yours." Reesa smiled graciously. "Are priests allowed to flatter innocent maidens so?" "Tell me you'll say yes." A thought came to her, one that both thrilled and frightened her. "Before you ask for my hand, I have to tell you..." she trailed off. "What is it?" "The secrets of the universe." Trapped, deeply shamed, physically and emotionally spent, Reesa watched the eyes of the priests as they pored over the notes she'd gathered over the last five years. From time to time, one of them would look up at her, each look accusing her of the most vile blasphemies. Except Uther, who wouldn't look at her at all. She kept looking, hoping for a compassionate glance, a word in her defense. But no, she only saw his distance, and a mixture of betrayal and despair. They had been in council for six exhausting hours. Reesa was desperately thirsty, but didn't ask for water. If her throat was dry, then so were her eyes, and at the moment her only solace was the irrational certainty that she had no more tears left in her. "Now, child," Father Nolhein's high, cutting voice bored into her. "Are we to understand that, on one of these... other worlds," he spat the phrase in disgust, "that there is a race of lizard men named the Tarktok?" "Yes, Father," she whispered, without a shred of resistance. "And they have another gender which is neither man nor woman? And fly about in these metal birds?" "Yes, Father." "And these orgies you describe..." Reesa sank lower in her chair. "They're part of the religious rites of these demons?" "Father, I don't think they're dem--" His voice became hard and angry. "Clearly, they are. Blasphemous, low creatures who mock the gods with their actions. Others here have encouraged you to recant. I disagree; you should stand by these tales. I would be even more horrified if you admitted you could invent such vileness." Some of his peers nodded. Uther spoke for the first time in several hours. "What disappoints me most, my child--" My child. The formality of the phrase shook the girl to the core. "--is the lack of any piety to these imaginings. Worse than telling lies about the gods, it's as though they don't even exist to you. All these years, I saw you as such a devout young woman, who loved the gods and was beloved of them in turn. All those long nights with the Upshan Berental, you weren't worshipping the gods, you were mocking them." In that moment Reesa realized that she'd still held on to some small reserve of hope, because in that moment she felt it all ripped away. Head hung in shame, tears flowing, she whispered, "Burn them. They're all lies." Uther gave a nod, then strode from the room. The other priests gathered up the tattered papers with their delicate writing, and fed them one by one into a blazing cistern in the middle of the table. Reesa didn't watch. The priests escorted her down the stairs and out into the main tabernacle. She passed the altar without looking at the orb, without looking at anything. Reesa? What happened? She returned only silence, but even in that silence, Kyron could feel the depths of her humiliation. He didn't know what to say. He burned red with rage. As Reesa was escorted out the door, a crash louder than a thunderclap enveloped the hall. Everyone turned to see the Upshan Berental floating like a flame amidst a cloud of dust, above the rubble that used to be its pedestal. After a year's banishment from the Temple, Reesa returned to perform the ritual that would reunite her with her village. She had not heard from Kyron in all those months, and her only contact with Uther was one short, cordial meeting a week ago when she offered her petition to rejoin the Temple, and he had accepted. They had not discussed marriage, and Reesa knew they never would. When the time came, the doors to the main hall opened to grant her entrance. She marched towards the front of the hall, where Father Nolhein was waiting. She knelt before him and offered a few words of penitence, then he poured water over her head. He bid her to stand. She closed the ceremony by placing her hands on the Upshan Berental. Hello, stranger, Kyron said. I've missed you, Reesa thought, smiling. Then she turned, and Father Nolhein presented her as a full member of the congregation. She took her seat next to Arkit, and caressed the tiny hand of her new infant. "You did great," Arkit whispered. Reesa tried to smile at the encouragement. Can we talk? Kyron asked as Reesa's mind drifted away from the service. Certainly. I've been exploring. Mostly I've been trying to figure out the door that brought me here. I think I've figured out how to open it. You mean, you can get out? No. When you're in here, you're in for forever. But I think I could open it wide enough to bring you in. What? Why would I want to do that? Because you always told me how much you wanted to see the screaming turnip people? At this, Reesa laughed aloud, drawing some indignant looks. She couldn't deny it; she really did want to see the screaming turnip people. There's so much to see in here. More than that, there are people in here. I'm learning to talk to them. Every one of them used to live in one of the places I've told you about. I think they found their way here, like me. We're working together, trying to figure out how the whole thing works. We could use your help. Kyron, please. I just want my old life back. Oh, I think we both know that's not true. Reesa pondered the offer. She had worked hard to get back in the good graces of the village. But no, that wasn't it. She had worked hard to get back into contact with the Sacred Thingy. She would miss Arkit, and the parents she loved but couldn't seem to get along with. But the things that kept her here seemed insignificant when compared to those innumerable alien worlds, the ebb and flow of civilizations. How could she, who had heard Kyron's stories for years, not want to see them for herself? First, you close your eyes. The gathering had ended, and the congregation was filing out. Reesa sat staring forward in her seat, unmoving but for shallow breaths and the occasional eyeblink. Uther watched her from the entrance, first with sadness, then with annoyance. Not until Reesa's mother began to wail did he come back inside to investigate. Reesa's mother clutched the girl's head to her own chest, as though trying to summon her back through the sheer force of the embrace, sobbing uncontrollably. Arkit's arms were around them both, trying to offer comfort. Her father stood beside them, one hand on his wife's shoulder, trying to remain stoic. "Did she say anything to you before-" Uther tried to summon a word for it, but came up blank. Arkit nodded. "She said she was sorry, and to look after her parents." Arkit gave a strained, abortive laugh. "I don't know what to make of it. She said, 'the secrets of the universe are mine.'"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line940
__label__wiki	0.932914	0.932914	Arrow Season 8, Episode 6 Review – Saying goodbye one more time Eric Frederiksen Arrow -- "Reset" -- Image Number: AR806A_0175b.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance/Black Siren, Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance and Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow -- Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW -- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Arrow has been through more ups and downs than any other show in the Arrowverse, with some of the best and worst episodes in the entire library belonging to good old Ollie. This last season, though, has been consistently excellent, cashing in on years of character equity in all the right ways. This episode is no different. Spoilers follow for Arrow Season 8, Episode 6, “Reset.” This episode exposes its conceit quickly: Oliver is trapped in a time loop. In this version of reality, Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) is still alive and is acting as Mayor. The charity dinner the two are at is put on hold when mercenaries take hostages at the police station. Despite Oliver’s planning, though, the terrorists denotate the bomb. The time loop resets. After a few more resets, Oliver and Laurel meet up and figure out they’re both in the time loop. They go after Lyla, who they now know is working for the Monitor, but get nowhere. Rather than teaching themselves to throw cards into a hat, they continue to push forward, getting further into the time loop each time. That is until Laurel has to watch her pseudo-genetic-adoptive father bleed out (remember, he’s Earth-1 Laurel’s father, and she’s Earth-2 Laurel). This takes its toll and Laurel checks out after saying goodbye to the man who helped her redeem herself and get onto the path of heroism. Oliver, on the other hand, is more tenacious, and it takes him longer to figure out what’s going on. He knows this isn’t reality, but his stubbornness keeps him from understanding that certain fates can’t be changed. Oliver has a heart to heart with Quentin, at which point Lyla appears to let Oliver out of the loop. Unlike so many of the ongoing stories on these shows, this episode is refreshingly easy to follow. It takes the time-loop trope and uses it effectively to both pull Oliver back into the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline but also give both us and these characters a chance to talk to Quentin Lance. Lance was a core character until he died at the end of season 6, and throughout he was always shown to be someone who believed in good and tried to do his best to deliver on that. Despite the adversarial relationship he had with Oliver in earlier seasons, the two found common ground and bonded. Bringing a character back from the dead can feel cheap, but the show uses it effectively once again here to first zero in on what made that character so crucial to the show for so long. It then lets both the characters and us as viewers say goodbye to them. Arrow — “Reset” — Image Number: AR806A_0283b.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow and Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance/Black Siren — Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW — © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. I usually have a lot more to say about these episodes, but this one is so simple and elegant that all I can say is that I loved it. Paul Blackthorne was one of my favorite actors on the show, and this episode was a great way to bring him back for one more adventure. Seeing Lance, Laurel, and Oliver working together feels immediately like ‘home’ as far as Arrow is concerned. It’s impressive how clear of vision this season feels. Each episode has a mission, whether it’s showing Oliver what Star City would be like without him, letting him say goodbye to someone, or giving him a chance to be a father for just a little bit. Each episode is effective. And the effectiveness is going to make that moment when he dies in Crisis bite with that much more power. I’m glad Arrow is getting to go out like this, rather than being canceled or just not continuing. This season feels like a reward to viewers for sticking with the show, the show itself for launching a whole universe of other shows, to and to Oliver (and Stephen Amell) for everything he’s been through.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line943
__label__cc	0.619264	0.380736	Added Value, and Values Gender Balance & Women's Initiatives Efficiency & Project Management Knowledge & Innovation Clients Stay Ahead 1155 René-Lévesque Blvd. West Montréal, Quebec H3B 3V2 Go to the Montréal office page See on Google Maps Toll-free: +1 877 973 5500 Go to the Toronto office page Go to the Ottawa office page Go to the Calgary office page Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2X8 Go to the Vancouver office page Go to the New York office page Go to the London office page Go to the Sydney office page People 0 See all people Knowledge Hub Careers Download PDF document (Language: ) Eveline Poirier Partner Eveline Poirier is a partner in the Employment & Labour Group. She routinely provides clients with strategic advice to reduce risks for their businesses and resolve disputes. She possesses a vast experience in conducting litigation on a broad range of employment and labour matters before both provincial and federal arbitrators, boards, tribunals, and courts. Her expertise includes all aspects of individual and collective labour relations, dismissal cases, psychological harassment complaints, the application of non-competition and other restrictive clauses in employment contracts, employee incentive programs, pension plan issues, occupational health and safety matters, and human rights complaints. Eveline’s expertise also includes legal advices related to Canadian business immigration. Her services include the preparation of documentation for temporary work permits as well as providing services with respect to permanent residence applications for foreign executives as well as their families. Eveline regularly assists employers with the negotiation of executive employment contracts and incentive plans. In addition to drafting employment contracts, employee policies, codes of ethics, confidentiality agreements, accommodation agreements, service and consulting contracts and secondment agreements, she advises on conditions of employment, individual rights and freedoms in the workplace, pay equity, privacy, occupational health and safety, employment insurance, use of the French language, and other legal and contractual obligations. Eveline acts as a specialist advisor on the employment aspects of various commercial transactions and provides employers with assistance on employment issues related to corporate reorganization, restructuring and outsourcing. Eveline co-authored the book Executives and Managers - Their Rights and Duties, and has given seminars on a wide variety of employment law matters. She also gives different training sessions for several clients. Eveline is a member of the Quebec Bar and of the Canadian Bar Association. She is a Gouverneur à la Fondation du Barreau du Québec. She is also a member of the office’s Students & Stagiaires Committee and Gender Balance Initiative. She was the recipient of the Crochetière-Pétrin Prize. Employment & Labour Université de Sherbrooke (LL.B. 1995) Québec, 1996 Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40. Lexpert 2011 Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada as Canadian lawyer to watch “Canada” chapter, Fintech Regulation, Lexology Navigator, 2018 (co-author). Legal Posts Significant victory for Quebec employers in relation to employees with annual salaries Canada's new Electronic Travel Authorization Program- Update Stikeman Elliott acts on more than half of the 2018 Lexpert Top 10 Deals "How to tweet yourself out of a job", Stikeman Elliott CLE Seminar, June 2018. "Comment créer une alliance profitable entre les droits de l'emploi et de l'immigration", Stikeman Elliott CLE Seminar, September 2016. "Quand l'exercice de vos droits à titre d'employeur devient un abus de droit", Stikeman Elliott CLE Seminar, April 2015. See allSpeaking Engagements © Stikeman Elliott LLP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line944
__label__cc	0.719766	0.280234	How to Avoid What Jerry Maguire Endured Hugo V. Alvarez \| 08.09.2019 Newsletter \| Becker's Legal Buzz There is a pivotal scene in the movie “Jerry Maguire” where the hot-shot quarterback’s dad tells Jerry Maguire that his “word is stronger than oak” after Jerry Maguire asked him to sign the contract permitting him to represent his son. The dad went on to explain that because his word was so strong that he “does not do contracts.” Of course, we later learn that Jerry Maguire’s competitor signed the quarterback. The quarterback’s father had broken his promise despite assuring Jerry Maguire that his “word is stronger than oak.” That broken promise damaged Jerry Maguire’s reputation while costing him thousands of dollars. What happened to Jerry Maguire illustrates the importance of committing your deal to a written document signed by everyone. Yes, some oral agreements can be enforced in Florida. But oral agreements present many legal challenges and not all are enforceable. For instance, an oral agreement is probably unenforceable if the agreement cannot be performed in less than a year, involves the sale or transfer of real estate, pertains to home improvements, health care, or credit. Of course, and as we saw in “Jerry Maguire,” what typically transpires is that business is being transacted with individuals you already know and trust. Therefore, a handshake deal may just “feel like the right thing to do” especially when someone you know, and trust, says something like “my word is stronger than oak.” But if there is a problem, or misunderstanding, then how will a Judge or jury interpret the oral agreement if there is no writing signed by all the parties memorializing the terms of the deal agreed upon? While it can be done, enforcing oral contracts presents many challenges and hurdles. As that scene in “Jerry Maguire” illustrates, it is always better to have a written agreement because you may not get the benefit of your bargain if you simply rely on a handshake or verbal commitment. That handshake may help you get the deal done. But it won’t necessarily help you if you need to go to court to file a lawsuit to enforce your rights. Like Jerry Maguire learned, you can avoid those headaches and uncertainty with a written agreement. Feel free to contact me should you wish to discuss “Jerry Maguire” or should you want to discuss your potential rights pursuant to a written or oral agreement you currently have in place.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line947
__label__cc	0.579792	0.420208	Home News Facebook’s Quill App Gets Animation Tools for VR Creation Facebook’s Quill App Gets Animation Tools for VR Creation Karthik Iyer - Karthik Iyer Facebook’s painting app Quill is quite popular among casual artists of this generation. It’s an incredibly handy tool that lets you create stunning illustrations and sketches, and in fact was used by Oculus Studios to make a short film called Dear Angelica. Although the film was nominated for an Emmy, it lacked animations which would have truly brought the story to life. Well, that’s exactly what the new version of Quill brings to the table. It is indeed quite surprising since Facebook declared last year that the app wouldn’t receive any future updates. The new updates add the ability for artists to craft and edit frame-by-frame animations inside VR. In addition to that, the update will also allow you to copy and repose models to bring the creation to life. Essentially, the idea here is to let you draw and arrange discrete frames into animation sequences. The app also has new visual tools that’ll help you visualize previous frames and create new ones to bring a particular sequence to life. According to Facebook, this is the biggest update to the app till date and the in-VR animation tools bring major time savings compared to using a combination of VR and traditional animation software. In a Facebook blog post, the Quill team explains, “We’ve already seen some incredible artwork created with Quill, including the Emmy-nominated Dear Angelica. But with today’s new animation tools, production time for projects like this will be slashed dramatically. While testing the tools, our resident artist, Goro Fujita, was able to complete his animated short film ‘Beyond the Fence’ in just three weeks, an undertaking that could have lasted over a year with traditional 3D animation software.” Facebook is also planning to integrate Quill creations with Facebook Spaces. Once done, it will allow multiple people to enter the world in which these stories are set to explore them together. Facebook Quill	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line948
__label__cc	0.723344	0.276656	Tag Archives: William Marshall Scream Blacula Scream (1973) Director: Bob Kelljan Main Stars: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Lisa Fortier Storyline: A voodoo cult has some internal issues so they resurrect Blacula to fix them. Review (Spoils): Blacula (William Marshall) has returned as an internal disagreement happens in a voodoo cult on who should be the new leader after the elderly woman dies (yes this is the plot). One man is so fit in rage of not being chosen he digs up the bones of Blacula and brings him back to make them pay. Of course, from the get go Blacula bites him and makes him one of his spawn. During which Blacula works his way through the female members of the cult until he has a large grouping of spawns. However yet again Blacula falls in love with one member (Lisa Fortier) and this weakness ends his life again. Much like the first film of the series, we have bright red blood marks, some smashed windows, some seductive neck biting, some jive talking, pimps, bad Blacula make-up, some cool vampire spawn make-up and a horrible storyline. At least this round Blacula has dropped the growling noises but some of the story if just whacked. A prime example of this is when they discuss the possibility of a vampire existing, while Blacula sits in the room like a normal man but in his black and red cape. (Can’t make this shit up) Rating: I personally believe this is the last movie of this series and I can see why. This was a bad plot and the film is very laughable. The movie is pretty much the same as the first one except you have some more voodoo involved. The film is not horrible but I was expecting more in this sequel than what I saw. Blacula was okay but I was much more interested in his vampire spawn as the make up on some of the characters was good for its time. This film is still as cult classic as the series holds its own. Filed under Vampire Tagged as 5 Beers, Blacula, Bob Kelljan, Don Mitchell, Lisa Fortier, Pam Grier, William Marshall Director: William Crain Main Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicolas Storyline: An African prince get cursed by Dracula and comes back from the dead to LA during the 70s. Review (Spoils): Manuwalde (William Marshall) is an Africa Prince and after his visit with Count Dracula goes wrong, he is killed and cursed by the vampire to come back to life as the undead. Even Dracula names him under the curse Blacula. Time shifts to 1972 in LA, the coffin is transported there, and when opened by two men they unleased the evil inside. Blacula roams around biting people and stalking women until he runs into Tina in which he falls in love with but unfortunately, her friends hunt him down. Not as Blaxploitation as I thought it would be (except the title of course), this film was an okay ride. We have groovy music, growling vampires, giant bat, some decent make-up, fangs, red blood, a solid storyline and even a love story. Some of the actual downfall of the film was the growling of Blacula (seemed a bit more bestial than vampire) and the voice of William Marshall as it came off that he was trying to sound like Christopher Lee. Rating: This film was not as bad as I thought it would be and I can see why it has a cult following. The acting from both female leads was solid and Blacula is memorable character. I love the fact that nobody was shocked or taken away from a groovy dude in a cape checking out the local bar scene and that women found him attractive. There is a ton of 70s lingo that makes this film also enjoyable when your going through the motions. Tagged as 5 Beers, Blacula, Denise Nicolas, Vonetta McGee, William Crain, William Marshall	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line950
__label__cc	0.518028	0.481972	Tag: Bogaert 100 years ago today – à Mesdemoiselles SCOTT On 22nd July 1916, the Belgian Colony of Tunbridge Wells celebrated their National Day (21st July) by honouring the ladies of the Mayor’s Refugee Committee – Mrs BURTON, Mrs GUTHRIE, Miss POWER, Mrs Le LACHEUR, Mme Le JEUNE, Miss McCLEAN, Mrs WILSON and the Misses SCOTT – and the local Doctors – WILSON, C. SMITH and GUTHRIE – who ministered to the refugees free of charge. A ceremony and celebration was held in the Town Hall on Calverley Road to which townspeople and Belgian refugees were invited. On the evening in question the hall was packed. At 7.30pm precisely the Mayor, Councillor Charles Whitbourn EMSON with his wife, Margaret, and Miss EMSON (presumably their elder daughter, Marjorie), arrived in the hall and were welcomed by Monsieur Florent COOSEMANS, Mrs EMSON then being presented with a floral arrangement of orchids and roses by one of the Belgian children. Monsieur Albert LE JEUNE, Honorary President of the ‘Club Albert’ spoke patriotically of his country’s history and its links with Britain, and Monsieur COOSEMANS then spoke of the two years they had spent in exile and of the kindness afforded to them by the people of Tunbridge Wells, and by the ladies and doctors of the Committee in particular. The reception received in this lovely county, rightly named the Garden of England, was above what the Belgian people could have expected… It took all the dexterity and amiability of the British, whose noble and chivalrous character was proverbial, to sweeten their troubles and suffering. (Kent & Sussex Courier, 28 July 1916) While the Kent and Sussex Courier reported that a commemorative album, to which all the Belgians in the area had contributed, was then presented to Mrs EMSON as the representative of the ladies of the Committee, the Belgian press-in-exile reported that albums were given to each of the ladies of the Committee – including Belgian refugee Mme LE JEUNE – , along with bouquets of flowers. What we know for certain is that an album was presented to the Misses SCOTT -Amelia and Louisa. Because it still exists – in the Papers of Amelia Scott which are held in the Women’s Library @ LSE [1] It is an amazing resource, providing as it does a list of names of possibly all, maybe most, certainly some, of those in the area at the time. Some entries take up a whole page – there are patriotic poems, poems of gratitude, drawings and paintings. I will never forget my excitement when I first held it in my hands back in December 2013! I have transcribed this wonderful album, and to mark its Centenary I am today posting a new page with the names and addresses of all the signatories (see tabs above). ‘Club Albert’ Committee 1916 And some fascinating discoveries as I research the names. Among them is Josef DENYN, the famous ‘carilloneur’ of Malines, who was a close friend of local musician and composer, William Wooding STARMER, and spent the whole period of the war in Tunbridge Wells with his family; Carillon Music by ‘Mechlin Bellmaster’ Josef DENYN members of the family of painter James ENSOR of Ostend were here, and possibly his companion and muse, Augusta BOOGAERTS; Augusta BOOGAERTS and Madame ENSOR Albert LE JEUNE, Hon. President of the Club Albert of Tunbridge Wells, went on to be a Belgian Senator for the Antwerp region – my photo of his family’s entry is very blurred, so here instead is Madame Florent COOSEMANS’ painting of Bruges and a poem of homage to Great Britain which I presume she wrote herself since she doesn’t credit anyone else… Contribution from Madame Florent COOSEMANS Mayor EMSON and Doctor WILSON thanked the gathering on behalf of the Committee and the doctors, and the evening concluded with a concert and the National Anthems of Belgium and Britain. Concert programme, Belgian National Day 1916 Concert performers : Mons. J. DENYN, Mr. O. GROVEN, Madame O. GROVEN, Mlle & Mme DENYN, Mons. DELATTRE, Mons. R. DAVELUY, Mons. R. CLAEYS, Mr WHITBURN, Miss Sylvia WRIGHT, Miss Suzy SWAN. Invitation to the Misses SCOTT for the event on 22 July 1916 [1] Photos taken on my mobile phone Posted on 22 July, 2016 17 April, 2017 by belgiansrtwPosted in Belgian refugees, Mayor's Committee, People, Tunbridge Wells, WW1Tagged 1916, Amelia Scott, Anna McClean, Belgian National Day, Bogaert, Boogaerts, Charles Whitbourn Emson, Claeys, Club Albert, Coosemans, Daveluy, Debergh, Delattre, Denijn, Denyn, Dr C. Smith, Dr Guthrie, Dr Wilson, Ensor, Groven, Le Jeune, Lydia Le Lacheur, Mayor's Committee, Mrs Burton, Norah Guthrie, Ostend, Susan Power, Tunbridge Wells, W.W. Starmer. 2 Comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line951
__label__cc	0.706403	0.293597	Tag Archives: shock value Critical Readership In response to “What are some techniques to help me read critically?” Read sitting up, not leaning back. Read with a pen in hand, and point its tip toward the page, as if it's a knife, ready to cut. Read with your mouth; read aloud sentences that might have rhythmic qualities. Read Nietzsche or another philosopher who requires two or three passes over a passage, to fully grokk. Read angry, filled with bile and disappointment. Read as if the house is on fire. Read as if this text is a link to your mysterious past. Leave a comment \| tags: aphorisms, art, bad writing, books, bread and butter, bullshit, crime, critics, education, firefighter, free lunch, game of thrones, German philosophers, Germany, impertinence, intelligence, invective, learning, literary criticism, literature, movies, murder, novels, offensive, philosophy, pithy, pliant, Reading, shock value, shocking, superiority, swollen ego, technique, woodworking \| posted in Uncategorized Believing is like Dreaming: a byproduct of intelligence In which I urge a writer to explore his character’s doubts, rather than the deploring of others’ faith. My personal take on religion is that it is a housing for experiences of an extremely personal and powerful effect, and over the centuries it has moved away from that, to a more or less impersonal aggregator of communal opinion, that seeks to mold the internal verity to an external denominator. However (and this again is my personal take), both the disbelievers and believers base their beliefs on their own experiences. And when your character declares that he does not believe, that is not a lack of belief, but a (positive) belief in the lack of reality (negative value) of the religious experience, based on his dislike/mistrust/refutation of the religious doctrine. Were he challenged by a [man] who uses religion not as a way to constellate the self in a cult of belonging — but rather as a way to communicate “deeper” or “uncommon” notions of connection, meaning, faith, and self — what would your character say to defend his belief that religious experience is a lie? How would your character hold up under a patient, reasonable examination of his certainty (absence of doubt) that there is no God? If he were to discuss his “un”belief with an intelligent inquisitor who insists on the psychological value, rather than the cultural influence, of spirituality — what experiences would he share? In his past, were there any moments [in his church] where the rituals fell away and he merged with something greater than him? What were the instances when his doubt emerged—the first cracks, leading up to the final shatter, which forced him to be honest with his own experience? Believing is like dreaming: it’s a byproduct of our intelligence and imagination. We can’t not do it. And if some are convinced they don’t, it is more likely that they are not conscious of it. (I in no way mean to say we all believe in a certain Something, but that belief itself is an attribute of human beings) And a parting query: Can we doubt our dreams, while still allowing for their significance? 1 Comment \| tags: agnosticism, Articles of Faith, atheism, belief, Bible, boating, certainty, conviciton, criticism, death, debate, disbelief, doubt, eschatology, examination, experiences, faith, fiction, Freud, immorality, irony, Jung, Koran, latihan, laundry tips, life, literary theory, literature, meaning, monotheism, moral relativity, noisy sugar packets at the next table, non-fiction, objectivity, philosophy, physics, process theology, psychology, purpose, Quran, reality, relativity, religion, religious, scene building, science, scientific method, self-righteousness, shock replacement, shock therapy, shock value, skepticism, snobbery, spirituality, sports, string theory, subjectivity, subud, theism, theology, theory, top ten, Torah, velocity of return \| posted in Uncategorized In Defense of Myth In a writing group I’m grateful to be a part of, I got called out for using masculine and feminine stereotypes. Here is the tail-end of my defense: Literature follows an escalating curve: from myth to legend to romance to novel to “meta-fiction.” Each tier has its own laws and guidelines, and when I go into myth and fairytale I assume a thicker pen, and a brighter palate. In the beginning, there are binaries — single celled organisms who eat and poop and not much else — cartoonish representations that, as time progresses, descend/evolve into increasingly complex entities, with more dextrous appendages and greater amounts of volition and articulation. Which all goes to say: I totally dig what you’re saying [about the adverse effect of stereotypes on actual people], but when we invoke the giants, they lumber about clumsily, tangling powerlines, toppling celltowers, smashing through our warm little domiciles with careless momentum. They have massive digits good for pushing and pulling, and use simplistic, deafening growls for words. Likewise, there will be nothing so evocative as talking about “The White Man” or “The Angry Woman” — there’s something about these terms that move us on a primary level, and they force us to reckon with or reject them outright — but still, even when we deny them defiantly, they irritate us with their repulsive attraction. As to why there’s such a breadth of form in this collection — I’m not a polymath, but I am a polygenreiste. I’ve always worked in multiple forms, partly because any given style doesn’t encapsulate what possesses me to be expressed, and partly due to my Intention Surplus Disorder (aka “over-ambitiousness”). The problem, however, remains ‘accessibility.’ My myths always require commentary, and my commentary is too rapid and changeable to hammer down into a flat, print-worthy form. I blame this on the woman in me, who speaks in loops and purls — who the man in me can never peg down to just one definition, or statement, or even climax! “Riddles and hogwash!” hollers the centaur, as the little girl draws her questionable answers in the receding surf. 1 Comment \| tags: advice, allegory, ambiguity, angry woman, anthropology, archetypes, art, artistic license, bisexuality, chic lit, childishness, climax, culture, definition, demeaning, domiciles, equality, fairytale, feminism, gaming, gender, gender studies, gods, inequality, legend, literary theory, masculine and feminine stereotypes, masculinity, masculism, mediocrity, meta-fiction, metafiction, modern literature, myth, novel, occupy, offensive, ovarian, philosophy, poetry, politics, protest, religion, romance, sex, sexuality, shock value, simplistic terms, single celled organisms, stereotypes, stories, testicular, titans, unequivocality, white man, women's rights, writing \| posted in Uncategorized	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line952
__label__wiki	0.573656	0.573656	The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal Type IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Surgical Emergency? A Case of Massive Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage Stephen G Chun1, 2, †, Patrick Pedro1, †, Mihae Yu1, Danny M Takanishi1 1 Department of General Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 2 Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI Retroperitoneal hemorrhagic bleeding is a known manifestation of Type-IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome that is caused by loss-of-function mutations of the pro-alpha-1 chains of type III pro-collagen (COL3A1) resulting in vascular fragility. A number of previous reports describe futile surgical intervention for retroperitoneal bleeding in Type-IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome with high post-operative mortality, although the rarity of retroperitoneal bleeding associated with Type-IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome precludes an evidence-based approach to clinical management. We report a 23-year-old male with history of Type-IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome who presented with severe abdominal pain and tachycardia following an episode of vomiting. Further work-up of his abdominal pain revealed massive retroperitoneal bleeding by CT-scan of the abdomen. Given numerous cases of catastrophic injury caused by surgical intervention in Type-IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, the patient was treated non-operatively, and the patient made a full recovery. This case suggests that even in cases of large retroperitoneal hemorrhages associated with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, it may not truly represent a surgical emergency. Keywords: Type-IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, retroperitoneal hemorrhage, conservative management, non-operative, COL3A1, connective tissue disorder.. Publisher Id: TOCMJ-5-210 © Chun et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine University of Hawaii at Manoa 1356 Lusitana Street, University Tower 6th Floor Honolulu, HI 96813; Tel: 214-645-8525; Fax: 214-645-8526; E-mail: Stephen.Chun@UTSouthwestern.edu† These authors contributed equally to the production of this manuscript. 28-7-2011 Original Manuscript Type IV Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Surgical Emergency? A Case of Massive Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage "I am very satisfied by all the services, friendly communication and the attention that was given to my manuscript. My sincere gratitude tou you and the entire team of Bentham Open" Aristofanis Gikas Health Centre of Kalivia, K alivia, Attiki,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line955
__label__cc	0.639896	0.360104	Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix Honors 11 Teens at Annual Gala Metro Arts Institute Senior Iyana Jameson named BGCMP “Youth of the Year” (PHOENIX, March 19, 2019) – Eleven teens who attend the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix (BGCMP) were honored at one of the top fundraising galas in Phoenix. One of these teens was named the “Youth of the Year” at the annual Today’s Kids, Tomorrow’s Stars event. Iyana Jameson from the I.G. Homes Branch was selected as the Youth of the Year 2019 for BGCMP. Iyana, a Senior at Metro Arts Institute, has been a Club member since she was 9 years-old. She credits the Club with providing her a safe and caring environment when she needed it most. Iyana served as her school’s Student Body President last year and coaches volleyball and soccer at the I.G. Homes branch. She is very active with her school’s theater program and stays very involved in performing arts. Iyana’s Youth of the Year platform focuses on addressing the issues of mental health and removing the stigma of these challenges. She has bravely opened up about her own challenges with mental health and how she’s stronger and healthier now. After high school, Iyana plans to spend time abroad teaching English, and then plans to attend Arizona State University to double major in fine arts and linguistics. The journey culminated with the Today’s Kids, Tomorrow’s Stars event where the teens shared their stories of inspiration. In addition to crowning the 2019 “Youth of the Year” for BGCMP, the evening honored Bob Bove’ of Jiffy Lube and his many years of service back to our community. All proceeds raised support programming for the 10,000+ kids who are members of the 13 Clubs across metro Phoenix and the West Valley. This year’s Youth of the Year for each Club are: Isabel Morales Eli Fuentes Maria Higuera Tania Castillo Avondale, AZ Iyana Jameson Rolando Aucca Valenzuela Mikayla Lowry Rachel Ann Howard Tyler Ebbat Jerry & Helen Wisotsky/Peoria Branch Phoenix, AZ Steven Quintero MLB All-Star/Arizona Diamondbacks Branch: A Kieckhefer Family Legacy Individual photos for this year’s Youth of the Year are available by request. About the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix provides premier after-school, summer programs and outreach to nearly 20,000+ young people in grades K-12. At 13 clubs in Phoenix and the West Valley, BGCMP provides award-winning programs designed to change the lives of young people in four key areas: Fun with a Purpose, Academic Success, Be Great, Do Good, and Healthy Choices. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix empowers young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible members of the community. Previous\|Next Donate Locations Volunteer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line965
__label__wiki	0.869855	0.869855	49ers Beat Saints in Game of the Year to Take Control of Their Own NFC Destiny Mike Freeman@@mikefreemanNFLTwitter LogoNFL National Lead WriterDecember 9, 2019 Chris Graythen/Getty Images It was gorgeous. It was bonkers. It was soul churning. It was the game of the season. It was 49ers 48, Saints 46, heart palpitations 1 billion. There were five lead changes and 94 total points. It was the highest-scoring game in 77 all-time matchups between these two teams. The 55 points and 581 yards in the first half were the most by two NFL teams since 2014. This was an entire fantasy football season in one game. It was also one of the biggest regular-season wins in the history of the 49ers franchise, and that's saying something considering that history includes Bill Walsh, Joe Montana and Jerry Rice. With a win in hand on the Saints and Packers, the 49ers control their own destiny for the No. 1 seed in the NFC, which could come down to their Week 17 matchup against the Seahawks. There were the usual Drew Brees heroics late in the game. There were Jimmy Garoppolo heroics all throughout the game. Garoppolo had 349 passing yards with four touchdowns and one interception. Brees had 349 passing yards and five scores. They put on an all-time-great quarterback clinic. We won't know the true impact of this game for years, maybe. If the 49ers win the Super Bowl and Garoppolo raises the Lombardi Trophy, it will trace back to this. It could eventually be seen as the start of a dynasty. And for Brees and the Saints, who knows how many of these are left in them. But back, for now, to this nugget of a game. It featured brilliant coaching from Sean Payton and beautiful trickery from Kyle Shanahan. There was the elegant dominance of 49ers tight end George Kittle, who caught a 39-yard pass on 4th-and-2 to put the 49ers in field-goal range with 28 seconds left. The game-winner was Robbie Gould's 30-yarder. There was also the speed and physical dominance of 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa, who at times absolutely wrecked the Saints. There was so much happening in the game—the wildest contest of the year, full of spectacular coaching, plays and overall sexiness—even something that occurred during halftime was eye-opening. It involved one of the stars of the game, 49ers receiver Emmanuel Sanders. Early in the second quarter, Sanders caught a 75-yard touchdown. Then midway through the same quarter, Garoppolo handed the ball to receiver Deebo Samuel, running a reverse, and then Samuel tossed it off to Sanders, who stepped back and threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to running back Raheem Mostert. San Francisco 49ers @49ers 🤯@ESanders_10 to @RMos_8Ball 🏄‍♂️ #GoNiners #SFvsNO https://t.co/3AzpuJVbPE At halftime, the 49ers posted the Sanders pass, and Sanders or someone acting on his behalf liked the post. LikeGate is far from a crime, but it is against NFL rules, which state that a player, or anyone representing the player, can't update social media accounts during games. That's how remarkable this game was. Someone was so excited about what was happening, they were breaking NFL rules to like a post as the game unfolded. It's difficult to say which team is the best in football, but after this, the 49ers can lay a respectable claim. And the Saints aren't far off. One of many things that makes this win so impressive for the 49ers is how they kept fighting. They trailed 20-7 early in the second quarter and then 27-14 with seven minutes left in the first half. They never seemed down or doomed. San Francisco actually took a 28-27 lead with 42 seconds left in the half following a 10-yard Mostert touchdown run and the extra point. The Saints would throw a punch, and the 49ers would counter. The Saints would dip, move and counter with a hook, and San Francisco would do the same. More scores, more plays, more excitement. There was Kittle's five-yard touchdown to give San Francisco a 35-30 lead. There was the Saints cutting the lead to 42-40 after Brees connected with Michael Thomas for a 21-yard score. Thomas had 11 catches for 134 yards and a score. Kittle had six catches for 67 yards and a score. Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images There was a Gould field goal (45-40 49ers), another Brees touchdown pass and a missed two-point conversion to make it 46-45 Saints. Then came San Francisco's seven-play, 63-yard drive that ended with Gould's 30-yard kick. And all of this in New Orleans, one of the most intimidating places in the league to play, but no problem for a 49ers team that continues to show its mental strength. All of this with two of the game's stellar defenses on the field, at times completely helpless against supercharged offenses. This game was splendid, crazed and beautiful. And do you know what the fun part of this is? We could see it all over again in the NFC title game. Lucky us. Mike Freeman covers the NFL for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter: @mikefreemanNFL. Report: AB Investigated for 'Possible Battery' in Florida Tyler Conway Marshawn Talks NFL's Lack of Minority Owners Lynch keeps it real during interview with J. Cole and movie director Ryan Coogler Joseph Zucker J.J. 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__label__cc	0.650481	0.349519	← The naming is the hardest part. Transfer City, baby → This is fine. College football attendance continues to decline. Major-college football experienced its largest per-game attendance drop in 34 years and second-largest ever, according to recently released NCAA figures. Attendance among the 129 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams in 2017 was down an average of 1,409 fans per game from 2016. That marked the largest drop since 1983 when average attendance declined 1,527 fans per game from 1982. The 2017 FBS average of 42,203 fans per game is the lowest since 1997. I knew those players taking a damned knee during the National Anthem… oh, wait. How about this, then? Those liberals just don’t appreciate ‘Murica’s greatness like they used to… um, what’s that you say? Even the most rabid league in the country saw a dip. In 2017, the SEC experienced its sharpest per-game decline — down an average 2,433 fans — since 1992. That figure led the Power Five in fans lost per game in 2017. While the SEC led all FBS conferences in average attendance for the 20th consecutive year, its average attendance (75,074) was the lowest since 2005. The SEC has slipped an average of 2,926 fans per game (3.7 percent) since a record 78,630 average in 2015. Well, dayum, Johnny, what’s the problem? College sports has long been at odds with how to manage the time/value relationship. In other words, how to make attendance at a live event more valuable than the alternatives, which range from remaining at a tailgate outside the venue to viewing on a smartphone while on the go to watching in the comfort of one’s living room. “It’s a technology issue,” said Wright Waters, Football Bowl Association executive director and former Sun Belt commissioner. “The public is ahead of us every day in what they can get from technology. We have not been able to keep up.” One former Power Five athletic director called it a “societal shift” leading the powers that be scrambling to figure out the viewing habits of millennials as well as well-heeled alumni. “This is not surprising to me,” said Bill Lutzen, a veteran sports TV programmer who is currently the CFO of a web optimization firm. “This issue is with lack of involvement of the college students. They no longer view attending sporting events as part of the university experience.” Gee, you mean there’s a price to pay for crapping all over your fan base? Who’da thunk it? Certainly not the geniuses who’ve been selling out the sport to whatever broadcast partner they can find with some cash to spend. Well played, everyone. Ordinarily, I’d say it’s something to bring to the attention a certain someone at Butts-Mehre, but he’ll be long gone by the time this particular poo hits the proverbial fan. Filed under College Football 74 responses to “This is fine.” My top 5 reasons. My game-day experience centers on winning even if I have to hold my water for 4 hours. 1.) every game on TV 2.) higher ticket prices 3.) irregular start times 4.) high price of concessions/parking 5.) countless commercial and replay timeouts Big screen HD TV Stocked refrigerator No line when waiting to pee. No drive and walk…in rain or heat or freezing cold. No drunks. bulldogbry “While the SEC led all FBS conferences in average attendance for the 20th consecutive year, its average attendance (75,074) was the lowest since 2005.” Ironically, the LAST time we won the SEC. Somehow, we’re gonna get blamed for this, aren’t we? It is all tied together. With the conference, esp. the East, bottom heavy. Tennessee usually packs in 100K but they are the bottom feeder now. So their attendance would be down..as would UF’s. The same reason UGA had a cakewalk to the SECE championship. UT and UF suck and even their fans know it. Maybe Tennessee and Vandy can play at Bristol this year. “Bottom Feeders Bowl”..That would help. But the raw #’s and avg were up at Vandy, Kentucky and USC. Senator, didn’t the WWL lose viewers as well? That would signal something other than stadium game experience falling off. parrishwalton Pretty sure viewership was down. My theory is there are simply way more options than ever before and I think the concussion awareness among Joe Fan is much, much higher than it used to be and it’s having an impact (albeit a small one most likely). College teams aren’t protesting like the NFL, so we can’t use that a potential reason like it can for the NFL ratings slide. I think we’re seeing people tune out live TV in general. The EPL (English soccer league) just sold its rights in Great Britain for the same rate is it did in the last negotiation window after the previous two windows jumped significantly. I think globally there’s been a push to consume content when people want as opposed to live. Concussion awareness was in the forefront of my thoughts as well. 75 inch 4k tv with perfect camera angles, 7 speaker surround, BBQ on the BGE and cooler of beer on deck, perfect weather, no restroom lines or traffic issues, no drunk slob taking up half your seat while cursing explatives at a long departed OC, no cost (other than beer and BBQ), no getting up before dawn for noon games or getting home after midnight for night games, ability to switch to other games during halftime or myriad breaks in action, no worries about drunk driving/drivers… Hmm…I can’t possibly figure out why attendance is declining. No live football in 4K as far as I know…YMMV. You needn’t count the cost of BBQ and beer, as you have to eat and drink beer on Saturday, football or no. Keep raising prices, keep making tailgating difficult, don’t worry too much about anything except the most spartan stadium improvements for the fans, and keep allowing TV to control the tempo of the game. This is the formula for getting people to stay at home. I guess that’s one explanation. Another one might be that the programs most responsible for the dip in 2017 were Arkansas (-6,300), Ole Miss (-6,300), Tennessee (-5,200), Texas A&M (-3,100), and LSU (-2,700). Seeing as all of those coaching situations were tenuous, might I suggest that fan optimism plays a larger role than technology or those damn kids? There are always programs suffering down years. Don’t see how that explains a trend. It’s two years following a record high. I don’t think that’s a trend. And the programs who have been both good and stable haven’t dipped (unless you’re fretting over a few hundred at Auburn). Sorry… I was talking about the general trend in CFB. But on the SEC, I assume there have always been programs that have suffered through poor seasons, so why are we seeing a dip now and not before? I think it ebbs and flows, and we saw a peak right before a whole lot of things happened to reduce attendance at a lot of programs all at once. Missouri’s campus problems followed by a coaching change in 2015 killed 2016, and they haven’t recovered. A&M fan expectations were on a decline, so we saw a year to year decline in both 2016 and 2017 there. Florida fans like offense, and the end of the 2015 season was brutal for them, so a decline for them in both 2016 and 2017. Ole Miss went up between 2015 and 2016, then plummeted again with their probation. I can go on, but I think if you analyze each situation individually you don’t get a simple answer about the state of modern college football. There’s no obvious reason for attendance not to rebound everywhere but maybe Missouri. The SEC as a whole had a bit of down year. Look at how terrible Florida and Tennessee were when was the last time both UT and UT didn’t make a bowl? I would also argue the playoff has devalued the regular season resulting lower attendance. Yes, the playoff [sic] has devalued the regular season. In case you’re wondering about the dip from 2015 to 2016, the major dips belonged to Missouri (nearly -13,000!), Kentucky (-7,600, which I don’t understand. Am I missing something about 2015 Kentucky?) and Florida (-2,200). I forgot MSU who fell over 3,400 per game from 2015 to 2016, which makes sense. Schools regularly report student tickets as sold out even when the students don’t show up. How does BM convince the kids to wake up early for the likes of Austin Peay? Intimidation of course! The school can track if you do (or don’t) use your student tickets because they are 100% electronic and tied to the student’s personal ID card. If you don’t show up for games you can lose the rest of the season. This has the added benefit of allowing all resales to flow through BM, because most students are not keen on just giving their student ID to a stranger. So now you get the students walk over to the game when the gates open, scan their tickets and then walk back out to go back home/downtown. Those seats remain empty, even if there was another student that maybe would have gone (Particularly for games like that when students likely would just give them away). This obviously applies to students and not the rest of us, but just one example of how It’s not just technology. How to fix this. All un-scanned student tickets go on sale for 10 bucks apiece five minutes after kickoff. A standby buyer gets if for ten bucks. If the student shows up in say 15 minutes, he gets another no-show’s ticket if there are any left. After 20 minutes, the tardy student has to get in the stand by line and pay 10 bucks like the other standbys. None of this effects the student’s future ticket status. But it will piss off scalpers. Amazing stuff can be accomplished with technology. MDDawg That last quote basically reads like “It’s those damned kids!” to me. tony barnfart The college student drop-off is pretty concerning . I simply don’t understand how you could live in Athens, have access to season tickets for apx $50 and still not attend the games. For others, a lot of the problem is the total cost to do it “right.” Nobody wants to tailgate 1.5miles from a stadium. (so you pay out the — for parking). People would love to recreate the college weekend experience but not at $400+ per night for a room. So the all-in cost for a good experience becomes expensive and the “do-it-on-the-cheap” option ends up being kind of a pain in the rear that isn’t all that cheap. Bogart Double Dawg As a many year financial supporter of the “Dawg House” by Joe Purcell in Athens, that distance isn’t bad. We have a bus (a short bus…no comments there please) that takes us to the stadium and picks us up. Best tailgating there is, tvs bathrooms and a kitchen. Look it up and you’ll probably get an invite. That’s the fun you can have here.., AuditDawg Yeah – that rubbed me the wrong way. Rather than figuring out how to engage your customers, let’s just blame the kids because they and adults our own age don’t consume content the exact way we believe they should. To me TV is a poor substitute for being in the stadium but if they keep upping the prices we will end up watching at home too. The other Doug “This issue is with lack of involvement of the college students. They no longer view attending sporting events as part of the university experience.” I remember a few years ago there was a heated discussion on this blog about whether all the students who want tickets should get tickets and if the student section should be close to the field. Now, we are seeing the results of not engaging the students. The results of not engaging the students, along with dropping TV viewers leading to less TV revenue, will change the sport. Add CTE and it doesn’t bode well for the long term future. The students are not just not interested in College, it goes back to High School. I went to see my Nephew’s school play my Mother’s and Grandfather’s High School in the playoffs. It was the 1st time for my Nephew’s school to make the playoffs in their ~20 year history. Attendance was about the same a a typical home game from my time in school and my school never stood a chance of making the playoffs back in the 90s when I was there. The model for College is going to have to change in the coming decades. I also believe fantasy leagues are keeping the NFL rating up which will eventually change. *interested in College football Yep, I agree Otto. It’s just not “must see” like it was when we were in college. It happened to baseball, and it will happen to football. High school football has nothing to do with college football viewership, IMO. I couldn’t give a shit about HS ball when I was there (I didn’t choose the school), but I was a RABID CFB fan when I arrived in Athens (I grew up a UGA fan). dawgxian ‪If you don’t see the effect of the players protesting idiots getting themselves shot by cops during the anthem, you are living in a bubble. It’s not just stats. I know multiple people who won’t nothing to do with the NFL and refused to watch the Super Bowl. I’ve never seen anything like this Maybe you missed it, but the post is about college football attendance. Isn’t that the same savant who missed the whole idea on a post yesterday? My favorite part was a vague reference to stats immediately followed up with anecdotal evidence as irrefutable. Right-wing dude with right-wing friends discover evidence that totally is in line with their world view… gee, now there’s a shocker. Goes both ways. You could fit all the left wing dudes in the west end zone at Sanford. And there would still be room left over in the west end zone. You used this quote to discredit the population decline. Taking a shot at the “protest protesters?” that’s a bit talking out of both sides. Good Lord, man, it was a joke. And I wasn’t discrediting the attendance decline. I was kidding about the rationale some have suggested for the NFL. I get your joke. Im just saying you cant rag the guy for bringing up something you already did imo. YMMV You know multiple people who “won’t nothing to do with the NFL?” How interesting. That of course has nothing to do with attendance at college football games, but thanks so much for that particularly insightful contribution. The Masters has a pretty good model that the conferences should replicate. ATL Dawg The decline of football started a few years back. I feel sorry for people who think their Hartman Fund points are going to be worth a shit in 20-30 years. As my Hartman Fund points go up and up the out of town and postseason games I qualify for go down and down. The only value of my Hartman points right now is I keep the seats I like and a free media guide. You could say your 20 year projection is closer than you think. Yes – we hit peak football right around 2010/2011. It had nowhere to go but down. It will be a long slow slide but something could speed it up. Concussion and health issues most prominently. College football programs having to rethink and retrench to woo back live attendance. Whoda thunk it? I don’t know about that. It seems they’ve noticed the dip and responded with the same ole same ole. MOAR WIFI!!!1!1 Oh I definitely think it’ll be the better part of a decade before we see seats being widened, cushioned, and/or removed, or any other sea change attempting to draw fans back. But it has happened. See Trade School, North Avenue, circa early 80’s. SlawDawg Could this have anything to do with the rising number of neutral site games rather than strictly on-campus match ups? The Benz – for example – (and the Dome before it) has a smaller seating capacity than quite a few SEC stadiums. Alabama/FSU opening this year in Atlanta missed out on a few thousand attendees in Tallahassee (~80,000 capacity) and tens of thousands in Tuscaloosa (~100,000 capacity). The $$$ must be better than the crowd. Even with the recent price hike for disney tickets I can still get in the gate of the magic kingdom for less than the price of a decent UGA ticket. At disney there will be no shortage of people to help make my experience great. At a UGA game I will be explaining to my son why the young man leaving the bathroom only has one shirt sleeve and there is shit all over the bathroom wall. Reipar That is odd. Your price comment indicates you have the best seat in the stadium but your bathroom comment indicates you are in the student section. I told’em that people would buy Disney tickets instead if they didn’t put a urinal trough off the top back of the North stands that flows sideways and down to the two bathrooms there. Think of the view of downtown Athens while relieving yourself. Or maybe just a small shelter built onto the side of the Skyboxes that flows into their bathroom. Hell, no one listens to anyone suggesting the pleasures of outdoor peeing. What was your explanation – careless shitter who had to use his shirtsleeve to wipe? Austin Peay, Middle Tennessee, UMass, Vandy, Tennessee, Auburn, Ga Tech. Not sure much more needs be said. And our schedule is similar to most others…unfortunately. So let’s go ahead and raise the price on those attend, make em crap in porta pots, stand in long lines for overpriced concessions and make em park on Mars so they don’t mess up campus for 6-7 days a year. Of course we aren’t surprised we we treat em like hamburger. Georgia’s attendance hasn’t budged in at least the last four years by the official numbers. It’s sellouts all the way down. I know the tickets get sold and that’s all that counts…for now. I’d like to see the numbers on actual butts in seats. To me, that seems to be the leading indicator of future ticket sales problems. People will pay those Hartman and ticket fees for a few years, even if they aren’t going as much. But at some point it becomes too big of a pain and they drop tickets all together. With less students turning into money-spending young alumni, that’s going to eventually catch up. Unfortunately, that’s when the big schools go to the NFL model with fewer, more expensive seats, PSLs, and the rest. Then it becomes a social/business expense rather than a football game. Tickets sold is what pays the bills…they can’t make folks attend… Athens Dog I’ve opined on this topic for years………the likes of BM can’t see anything but TV revenue and increasing donations. They have no clue that their continued focus on seemingly making it less fun to actually attend a game, will eventually lead to a decline. My children are 25 and 23. They were brought up coming to football, basketball, baseball in Athens. I was able to coax them into coming to the National Championship game with me. No other games. And the “fan” experience at the Natty was…………….well you know. And that had nothing to do with the outcome. That upper deck will be tented over sooner than they expect. I’m much closer to all TV and the younger generation isn’t going to replace us. Some what on the subject but I was watching the start of Speed Week at Daytona and noticed that as part of their new renovation they had put in seat backs of varying colors mixed it looked like at random so that it was very hard to tell if people were in the seats or they were just empty. If you are going to just have a television production I can see ESPN/The Mouse using special effects to make the fans look real for TV. The fan ticket prices are just chump change now compared with the TV money. Stegman has new black seats so you can’t see they are empty………… If someone can bring robofans to market, they’ll make a fortune. Talledega has been this way for quite a few years, look over there from I-20 and you’d swear there was something going on. ChiliDawg Yeah somehow the fact that I couldn’t get a full season’s worth of student tickets while I was attending coupled with the university trying to get me to start paying into the Hartman fund before even graduating didn’t really sit well with me. Maybe in the future treat your future alumni base like they’re valued by you, not just a resource to be drained. Have had disagreements with you in the past, if unexpressed, but you are right here. Absolutely right. Didn’t realize you were so young though, unless I’m wrong I thought the no season tickets was less than a decade or so old. Of course I could be wrong, wouldn’t be the first or last time. Class of ’09. They were doing full and half-season packages depending on the number of requests. You know, rather than just fulfilling the student requests for tickets because, hey, we were the students. Nope. Too much money to be made off of others. By the way thanks for referring to me as “so young.” LOL For me, it came down to $$$$. Not going to spend the money to watch crappy teams play, spend way too much time getting there and back, and last but not least, I got tired of the crowds. Call me an old curmudgeon, it would fit, but stay home and spend those $$$ on travel. It is all ones priorities. As an aside: years ago I bought Seahawks season ticket. Then they made you pay for the “pre season” games as part of the ticket. Kinda like watching Austin Peay or UW vs Portland State. Rest assured, this is not a problem at Georgia. McDoofus and the rubber stamp board do not care that the current students are the folks who would have to replace ticket buyers such as me. If McDoofus cannot get the students interested in football when it is cheap and convenient then he damn sure won’t get them interested in 10 years when it is a big time and money commitment. He does not care because television money will replace ticket money, you say. If he doesn’t get them interested in football now they aren’t going to watch it later, and the broadcast value will go down. Of course, McDoofus and the current board members will be gone and it will be someone else’s problem.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line978
__label__cc	0.534018	0.465982	Leydig cell tumors of the testis: a case report Ancuta Augustina Gheorghisan-Galateanu1,2 Leydig cell tumors are the most common non-germ cell gonadal tumors with apparent increased incidence in the last few years. They are usually benign tumors. We report a case of Leydig cell tumor of testis in a patient presenting atypical features. A 29-year-old Caucasian man, born with right cryptorchidism, corrected without medical treatment before the age of two years, was diagnosed with Leydig cell tumor. Two years after diagnosis was identified moderately elevated estradiol serum level, in the context of a significant overweight, hormonal changes which had maintained after unilateral orchiectomy and after the patient's return to normal weight. Four years after unilateral orchiectomy, elevated value of estradiol persisted and subdiaphragmatic micro lymphadenopathy was observed. Despite the favorable evolution of the patient four years after unilateral orchiectomy, long-term follow-up is necessary to exclude recurrence or metastasis to the testis. The endocrine profile and imaging investigations need to be repeated periodically. The changes in the hormonal assay and any new aspects on computed tomography scan can be used as a marker of tumor recurrence and require careful screening and the correct therapeutic decisions. Approximately 5-6% of all testis tumors are non-germ cell tumors. Included in this group are sex cord/gonadal stromal tumors, most originating from Leydig or Sertoli cells, mixed tumors, and tumors of mesenchymal or hematopoietic origin [1]. Leydig cell tumors (LCTs) are uncommon neoplasms arising from gonadal stroma, accounting for 1-3% of all testicular tumors in adults and 4% in prepubertal children [2, 3]. In the last few years the incidence of LCTs seemed to increase well above the literature predictions (14.7% of all testicular tumors removed). One possible explanation for this phenomenon is the increasing use of better ultrasound technology and the subsequent increased detection of small nodules that have not been found in historical series [4]. We communicate a case of Leydig cell tumor with atypical evolution marked by maintaining of moderately elevated estradiol serum level four years after unilateral orchiectomy. A 29-year-old Caucasian man presented to the endocrinology department with a recent right testicular mass observed at self-examination. The patient was born with right cryptorchidism. The right testis moved down into the scrotum before the age of two years old, without medical treatment. His family history revealed a lung cancer at his paternal grandfather. On physical examination the right testis was 6.5 × 3.5 cm in size, with a palpable tumoral mass of approximately 1.93 × 1.30 cm in size. No other sign, including gynecomastia or swelling of superficial lymph nodes was observed. Scrotal ultrasonography revealed a non-homogenous hypoechogenic tumoral mass in the right testis (Figure 1). Tumor markers such as alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and β-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) were negative, and hormonal investigations were normal (Table 1). Surgery was indicated but the patient refused. He returned to the endocrinology department after two years with scrotal pain in the last month. One year before the patient has successfully fathered a child. Over these two years the patient overgrowth 30 kilos (at initial examination weight 90 kilos/height 195 cm). On physical examination the testicular tumor mass has not changed in size and scrotal ultrasonography had the same aspect, but gynecomastia was present. The tumor markers (AFP and β-hCG) were also negative and hormonal investigations were normal, except moderately elevated estradiol level (E2) and low normal level of testosterone (T) (Table 1). This time the patient accepted surgery. With a diagnosis of right testicular tumor, radical right high orchiectomy was performed and the specimen has been submitted for histopathological examination. The final diagnosis of benign Leydig cell tumor of testis was given (Figure 2). Immunohistochemical profile showed diffuse positive staining for Calretinin, Vimentin and CD99 and negative staining for Synaptophysin and Cytokeratin AE1/AE3. Hormonal investigations made after surgery showed still the persistence of a moderate increase of serum level of E2, while tumor markers AFP and β-hCG were still negative (Table 1). The postsurgical evolution was favorable. With diet and physical activity, the patient returned to normal weight one year after the unilateral orchiectomy. Without further treatment, the patient was evaluated yearly. The blood tests including tumor markers and hormonal investigations, along with scrotal ultrasound, abdominal and pelvis computed tomography (CT) scan were normal, except E2 serum level which was moderately increased each time (Table 1). The abdominal CT scan performed, four years after surgery, showed subdiaphragmatic micro lymphadenopathy (5–10 mm). Ultrasound of a right testis with Leydig cell tumor. The tumor appears as a hypoechoic non-homogeneous mass within the testicular parenchyma. Table 1 Tumor markers and hormonal evaluation at baseline, after surgery, and in the follow-up Leydig cell tumors of the testis. a. The tumor was surrounded by an incomplete, dense lamellar area. In non-neoplastic testicular tissue, the seminiferous tubules showed Sertoli cells with complete spermatogenesis, hematoxylin-eosin stain x10 b. No evidence of necrosis, or vascular invasion was seen. Stroma was fibrous with prominent vascularity, hematoxylin-eosin stain x10 c. The testicular tumor was composed of nests, insular or pseudotubular pattern, hematoxylin-eosin and methylene blue stain x40 d. The tumor cells were large, polygonal, with acidophilic to vacuolated cytoplasm and regular round nuclei, some with visible nucleoli. Mitoses were scarce, hematoxylin-eosin stain x40. The etiology of LCTs is unknown and it seems to be heterogeneous. Furthermore, the molecular basis of LCTs is poorly understood. Some studies showed a possible role of genetic factors in the etiology of this tumor. Interestingly, genetic mutations identified to date in child and adult were different, and in some cases have been associated with other cancers [5]. Some authors have reported in Leydig tumors in adult a somatic activating mutation in the guanine nucleotide-binding protein α gene, which may result in tumor development, leading to overexpression on the inhibin alpha subunit and hyperactivity of the testosterone biosynthetic pathway [6]. Also, in adult, it has been reported inherited fumarate hydratase mutation which appear to cause tumor growth through activation of the hypoxia pathway [7]. Alterations in local stimuli, including müllerian-duct inhibitory factor, inhibin, growth factors, and temperature, may also create favorable conditions for tumorigenesis [8]. LCTs are usually unilateral. However, 3-10% of them have been estimated to be bilateral and 15% may extend beyond the testis at the time of presentation. Origin from testicular Leydig cells is demonstrable in most cases, but rarely they may originate from the epididymis [9]. Although these tumors arise at any age, they affects mostly men between 20–60 years old. In our case the tumor was unilateral in right testis and the patient belongs to the age group with the highest incidence. LCTs may be an incidental finding of a testicular mass on scrotal ultrasonography performed for other conditions [10]. Except for the testicular tumor mass present in all cases, other signs and symptoms may be present in different degrees (pain in the testis, enlargement of a testicle, heaviness in the scrotum, and gynecomastia). Azoospermia and infertility are uncommon and, if exist they are reversible after removal of the tumor [11]. Ultrasound of scrotum is very useful to confirm the diagnosis of testicular tumor [12], but it cannot differentiate between a benign and a malignant tumor [13]. In our case scrotal ultrasonography has revealed a non-homogenous hypoechogenic tumoral mass in the right testis. In patients with LCTs the blood tests for tumor markers (AFP, β- hCG, and lactate dehydrogenase) are negative. The most common hormones secreted by LCTs are testosterone and estrogens. In most cases, adults have non functional testicular masses. In our case tumor markers were always negative. Hormonal profile was initially normal. Two years after the discovery of the tumor the occurrence of gynecomastia and moderately elevated E2 serum level associated with decreased T to lower normal serum value was observed. After unilateral orchiectomy the blood tests were normal, except E2 serum level which was moderately increased each time (Table 1). The use of fine needle aspiration for diagnosis may be an alternative to more invasive biopsy procedures in the preoperative diagnosis of this rare testicular tumor [14]. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis and chest radiography are indicated especially if malignancy is suspected. In our case, except the tumor in the right testis, CT scan was normal. Orchiectomy is the initial treatment for LCTs, with or without removal of nearby lymph nodes (lymphadenectomy). Today, some authors suggest a more conservative therapy. Testis sparing surgery has proved to be a feasible and safe choice and could be regarded as first-line therapy in cases of benign, small tumors (under 25 mm), and young men [15–19]. Although orchiectomy is curative in approximately 90% of cases, the remaining patients can develop metastases refractory to chemotherapy and radiations. Radical orchiectomy remains in use if malignancy is suspected [20]. In our case, based on family and personal medical history, radical right high orchiectomy was performed. The pathological exam and immunohistochemistry are essential for the diagnosis and for the next steps in treatment. In our case, no histopathological feature suggestive of malignancy was seen and the final diagnosis of benign Leydig cell tumor of testis was given. The results of immunoreactive tests were consistent with the existing literature (Table 2) [21–28]. Table 2 Immunohistochemical staining results of Leydig cell tumors While benign, LCTs have malignant potential in about 10% of cases with metastatic forms, particular to the lymph nodes, especially the retroperitoneal and inguinal nodes (70%), liver (45%), lungs (40%), and bone (25%) [29]. The metastatic type occurs exclusively in adults and is more common in older patients with an average age of more than 40 years. The risk of malignancy in the undescended testis is 4 to 10 times higher than that in the general population but the most common type of testicular cancer occurring in undescended testes is seminoma [30]. Palazzo et al. have suggested that the majority of LCTs are diploid and the less common malignant tumors are typically aneuploid, and that deoxyribonucleic acid flow cytometric findings can be useful as a prognostic indicator in these tumors [31]. In our case all clinical, hormonal, immunocytochemical, and pathological findings have supported the diagnosis of benign LCT. Initially, starting from negative tumor markers and normal hormonal profile, tumoral mass seemed to be a non functional Leydig cell tumor, the only detectable element has been testicular tumor mass. After two years the occurrence of gynecomastia and moderately elevated E2 serum level associated with decreased testosterone to lower normal serum value was observed which led to a new considerations of the case presented. Leydig cells can synthesize both androgens and estrogen, and this cells contain the aromatase enzyme necessary to convert irreversibly testosterone to estradiol [32]. There have been reported cases of Leydig cell tumor which demonstrated only an increase of serum E2 and suppression of serum testosterone as a consequence of increased aromatase activity in tumoral Leydig cells [33]. The direct inhibitory action of elevated E2 on the enzymes involved in steroidogenesis and the negative feedback action on luteinizing hormone secretion of the E2 possibly caused the suppression of serum testosterone [34]. Due to the significant increase in weight of the patient, in our case hormonal changes were rather considered a consequence of aromatization in adipose tissue of testosterone to estradiol and gynecomastia as a consequence of increased levels of estradiol and change of estrogen/androgen ratio. This assumption was confirmed by maintaining high levels of estradiol after unilateral orchiectomy, because it was demonstrated that after removing the tumor, in most cases, hormone levels return to normal, which in the case presented did not. Therefore has been indicated to the patient the weight loss in the hope that he will return to normal levels of estradiol and gynecomastia will disappear. Surprisingly, after the return to normal weight, estradiol levels continued to be slightly increased in the absence of any identifiable factors that could explain the maintenance of high levels of estradiol, such as red meat abuse consumption [35]. Statistics show that LCTs are rarely malignant and they correlate with increasing age of the patient, tumor size (over 5 cm) and increased tumor mitotic index. These data were missing in our case. In 2002 Maeda et al. raported on an adult patient with a larger testicular tumor in whom metastasis of Leydig cell tumor was suggested by elevated serum estradiol 9 years after the removal of the primary tumor [36]. We cannot yet draw a conclusion. For four years our patient remained free of disease, with no evidence of recurrence or metastasis, but persistent moderate high levels of estradiol and the result of the last abdominal CT scan (subdiaphragmatic micro lymphadenopathy) do not definitely exclude this possibility. It is known that changes in hormonal assay can be used as a marker of tumor recurrence in patients followed. Furthermore, the patient has a family history of cancer and at birth he had cryptorchidism. These data require careful monitoring and correct therapeutic decisions. Although estradiol levels are not suggestive for a malignant lesion, imaging investigations are of great interest, and need to be repeated periodically. Moreover, endocrine evaluation is useful for patients with a Leydig cell tumor in whom endocrinological abnormality is demonstrated. Many times was told that the next step in such cases is “wait and see”, which for our patient seems to be the most appropriate thing. Leydig cell tumors are uncommon neoplasms arising from gonadal stroma. It is critical for physicians to remember and do not overlook the possibility of this rare tumor. The self-examination of testicles appears to be a very important step for the diagnosis of testicular tumors. 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Maeda T, Itoh N, Kobayashi K, Takahashi A, Masumori N, Tsukamato T: Elevated serum estradiol suggesting recurrence of Leydig cell tumor nine years after radical orchidectomy. Int J Urol. 2002, 9: 659-661. 10.1046/j.1442-2042.2002.00538.x. The author would like to thank Dr. L. Pop for his contribution in providing immunocytochemistry data and pathologic diagnosis. Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Eroii Sanitari Blvd, Bucharest, 050474, Romania Ancuta Augustina Gheorghisan-Galateanu C.I.Parhon National Institute of Endocrinology, 34 Aviatorilor Blvd, Bucharest, 011853, Romania Search for Ancuta Augustina Gheorghisan-Galateanu in: Correspondence to Ancuta Augustina Gheorghisan-Galateanu. The author declares that he has no competing interests. AAGG: collection and assembly of data, microscopic imaging in final form for publication, manuscript writing, conception and final design. The author has read and approved this final manuscript. Gheorghisan-Galateanu, A.A. Leydig cell tumors of the testis: a case report. BMC Res Notes 7, 656 (2014) doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-656 Leydig cell tumor Subdiaphragmatic micro lymphadenopathy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line979
__label__wiki	0.77907	0.77907	BMC Veterinary Research Feeding mastitis milk to organic dairy calves: effect on health and performance during suckling and on udder health at first calving Katharina Abb-Schwedler1, Ariane Maeschli1, Renate Boss2, Hans U Graber2, Adrian Steiner3 & Peter Klocke1,4 BMC Veterinary Research volume 10, Article number: 267 (2014) Cite this article Infection pathways of S. aureus udder infections in heifers are still not well understood. One hypothesis is that calves become infected with S. aureus via feeding mastitis milk. Especially on small-scale farms, pasteurisers are not economic. The purpose of this randomised comparative study was to investigate the influence of feeding milk containing S. aureus genotype B (SAGTB) on the health and development of calves and udder health of the respective heifers. Additionally, a method reducing the bacterial load to obtain safer feeding milk was tested. Thirty-four calves were fed mastitis milk from cows with subclinical SAGTB mastitis. One group was fed untreated milk (UMG). For the other group, milk was thermised at 61°C for one minute (heat treated milk group = HMG). After weaning, calves were followed up until first calving. A milk sample of these heifers was taken at first milking to compare udder health of both groups. Thermisation of milk led to an effective reduction of S. aureus in the feeding milk. 78% of the analysed pools were free of S. aureus, a reduction of at least one log was obtained in the other pools. Quarter milk samples revealed that two heifers had a S. aureus intramammary infection, but caused by a genotype different from genotype B. During the suckling period, the UMG had a significantly higher incidence rate of 1.09 diarrhoea cases per 100 calf days at risk compared to 0.26 cases per 100 calf days in the HMG (p < 0.05). Under the conditions of this study, no effects of feeding milk containing SAGTB on udder health after first calving were observed. But a power analysis indicated that the sample size in the current setup is insufficient to allow for assessment on mastitis risk after SAGTB exposition, as a minimal number of 4 calves infected (vs. 0 in the HMG) would have shown significant effects. High bacterial load, however, was associated with an increased incidence rate of diarrhoea. Thus, thermisation as a minimal preventive measure before feeding mastitis milk to calves might be beneficial for maintaining calf health. Feeding whole milk to dairy calves during the first three months of life is mandatory for organic farms in Switzerland [1]. This feeding regimen is supposed to meet the physiological needs of young calves. Godden et al. [2] found lower morbidity and mortality rates in whole milk-fed calves compared to those receiving milk replacer. Whole milk has a higher energy content and a more balanced composition of nutrients than milk replacer [3]. Maternal hormones and growth factors are included in whole milk but not in milk replacer [4]. Due to economic considerations, milk that is not suitable for sale is frequently fed to dairy calves. This milk often originates from diseased cows and thus is contaminated with antibiotics or pathogenic microorganisms. Selim and Cullor [5] found high concentrations of bacteria, including pathogens, in milk fed to calves. Feeding untreated mastitis milk can facilitate the transmission of infectious pathogens and provoke disease in calves [2]. The mastitis prevalence levels of heifers range from 12.3 to 57% of infected quarters at first parturition [6]. In some studies, environmental mastitis pathogens such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Streptococcus uberis (S. uberis) have been found to be predominant [7],[8], while in others coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) had the highest incidence rate [9],[10]. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) as a major pathogen [11] was also frequently isolated in cases of clinical mastitis around parturition: Waage et al. [12] reported 44.3% of clinically affected heifer quarters infected with S. aureus. In a Swedish study, S. aureus was reported to be the most commonly isolated udder pathogen in veterinary treated mastitis of primiparous cows [13]. In Switzerland, S. aureus genotype B (SAGTB) in particular reaches within-herd prevalence of up to 87.5%, because it is contagious and pathogenic [14]. Epidemiological studies in Switzerland and New Zealand indicated that feeding mastitis milk to calves is a risk factor for heifer mastitis [15],[16]. This hypothesis was already tested in different studies with conflicting results [17]-[20]. Schalm [17] concluded from his trials that udder infections with Streptococcus agalactiae (S. agalactiae) were transmitted via suckling among pen mates after consuming infectious milk. In another study, milk containing haemolytic Staphylococci was fed to 12 calves and inter-suckling was avoided. Nevertheless, 5 animals suffered from mastitis with haemolytic Staphylococci at calving [18]. Roberson et al. [19] tested herds with a high prevalence of coagulase-positive staphylococcal mastitis and where waste milk was fed to calves for mastitis prevalence of heifers when calving and compared them to low prevalence herds. No statistically significant difference was found. Another study was performed on feeding milk inoculated with S. aureus. After first parturition, two out of 29 heifers from the treatment group and 6 out of 35 control heifers were affected with S. aureus mastitis [20]. One recommended method to decrease the risk of milk with a high bacterial load for calves is pasteurisation before feeding [21]. It was concluded, however, that this strategy is not economically feasible for small-scale farms. Godden et al. [2] considered pasteurisation unfeasible for less than 23 calves fed per day, while Jamaluddin et al. [22] found it to be unprofitable even for farms with less than 315 calves fed per day. Thermisation is a sub-pasteurisation method that uses temperatures of 57 to 68°C for at least 15 s such that after heating the milk shows a positive reaction to the phosphatase test [23]. With this technique, the number of spoilage bacteria in milk can be reduced markedly with minimal heat damage to milk proteins [24]. Especially for coagulase-positive Staphylococci, a time temperature combination of 60°C for 30 s was reported to reduce the bacterial load by 3.3 log colony-forming units (CFU)/ml [25]. The objective of this study was to compare the effect of feeding untreated versus heat-treated whole milk originating from cows affected with subclinical S. aureus mastitis on the health of dairy calves during a 3-month suckling period and on their udder health at first calving. An additional objective was to determine the ability of thermisation to reduce the S. aureus load in whole milk from cows with subclinical S. aureus mastitis. Therefore, a non-blinded randomised comparative study was performed. Animals and animal keeping The experimental protocol used in this study was approved by the Cantonal Veterinary Office Aargau (Switzerland) before onset of the study. A total of 34 calves of 3 breeds (17 Simmental, 16 Holstein, 1 Brown Swiss) born between January and November 2009 were recruited from five different dairy farms (all running free stall housing systems, 40 to 110 cows, within a distance of 10 km from the experimental unit). Four of these calves were twins. As no data was available concerning the effect size (according to Cohen [26]) of feeding S. aureus mastitis milk to calves, it was estimated from the data of an epidemiological study [15]. There, a mean logarithmically transformed Somatic Cell Count (logSCC) of 2.12 was found in first calving heifers from farms practising mastitis milk feeding to calves. Farms not practising this management had a mean logSCC of 1.36. Using WinEpiscope program (WinEpiscope 2.0), assuming a variation coefficient of ≤0.33 corresponding to effect size s ~ 0.7, for two-sided hypothesis-testing, a minimum sample size of 16 animals per group was calculated. In order to have two spare calves available, it was decided to recruit 34 calves. Until introduced into the experiment, the calves were housed in individual calf igloos and fed with the milk of their respective dams that were udder health monitored per monthly SCC-checks and yearly quarter milk sampling for bacteriological culture in the previous and current lactation. In cases of clinical mastitis or elevated SCC (>150,000 cells/ml) additional quarter milk samples were analysed. At the average age of 11 days (SD ± days), calves were transferred from their farm of origin to the experimental unit. Calves from every farm were, after initial random selection for the first calf, alternatingly assigned to one of two groups (see Figure 1): 1) Untreated milk group fed with untreated pooled whole milk from cows with subclinical S. aureus mastitis (UMG) confirmed by weekly repeated quarter milk sample investigation; 2) Heat-treated milk group fed with heat-treated milk from the same cows (HMG). The groups were housed in two separate small group pens on deep litter straw. These were cleaned twice a day and if necessary fresh straw was substituted. Water was available ad libitum in 10 l buckets and replaced with fresh water twice a day. Hay provided from the farms of origin and concentrates (Kälber-Aufzuchtfutter Proflex Würfel, Alb. Lehmann, Birmenstorf, Switzerland) were also available ad libitum in hayracks and feeders, respectively. Study design and animals included in the trial. Number of animals in different periods and analyses in UMG and HMG, respectively; drop out reasons were death after illness and accidents, slaughtering because of infertility, late calving and lack of milk recording data; UMG = untreated milk group; HMG = heat-treated milk group. For suckling, two automatic calf-feeders (U40, Urban, Hude-Wüsting, Germany) with two nipples each were installed. Calves were suckled for 12 weeks. The feeding plan of milk available at the automatic feeders is depicted in Table 1. Portions were limited to a maximum of two litres per meal. When calves entered the suckling station, milk was pumped from the storage churns to the feeder unit, heated to 40°C and offered at this temperature for a maximum of 20 minutes. After these 20 minutes, the milk not consumed was discarded. Daily consumable amounts of milk were available for 12 hours during the daytime and were recorded. No milk was available during the night. Calves were stepwise weaned starting in suckling week 7 (see Table 1). Suckling the juvenile mammary glands of pen mates in both groups was documented as far as it was observed during the periods when observers were present (approximately 1.5 hours twice per day). Table 1 Maximum amounts of milk (litres/calf/day or week, respectively) offered during the suckling period The internal surfaces of the feeders were cleaned by an automatic programme twice a day. For this purpose, a phosphoric acid-based cleaning agent (Unipred, Timac Agro Swiss, Sion, Switzerland) and hot water were pumped through the milk-conducting parts of the system. There were 12 hours in between the cleaning procedures. In the morning the hoses linking the feeders and the storage churns were also cleaned automatically. The stations were manually cleaned externally daily and the entire equipment twice a week. Preparation of milk The milk used for the pooled feeding milk (PFM) was provided by a farm in 10 km distance, with an evident herd health problem of S. aureus mastitis. Untreated cows that were positive for S. aureus at culture were considered as PFM contributors for the project; PFM was daily transported to the experimental unit in milk churns immediately after milking. For the UMG, untreated PFM was cooled down to 5°C with an immersion cooler (UK200, Alfa Laval, Lund, Sweden). For the HMG, heat-treated milk was prepared in a commercial 30 l auto-preserving cooker (WAT14, Weck, Wehr, Germany). For this purpose, PFM was heated to 61°C for one minute, filled into 40 l churns and cooled down to 5°C with another immersion cooler. Milk was stored at 5°C in the two 40 l milk churns for a maximum of 24 hours until consumed or discarded, respectively. General health examination and weighing (animal balance, Meier-Brakenberg, Extertal, Germany) were performed upon entering the experimental unit. During the suckling period, the two groups were observed daily, and general clinical examinations were conducted once a week by the first author, including evaluation of the general condition, body temperature (obtained as rectal temperature), the frequency of heartbeat and breath and auscultation of the respiratory tract. Furthermore, the gastrointestinal tract, focussing on appearance and consistency of feces, the central nervous and locomotor systems and the umbilicus were examined. Fever was diagnosed at body temperatures exceeding 39.5°C. Respiratory disease was defined as combination of breath frequency >45, pathological lung sounds and coughing present. Omphalitis was diagnosed in calves with a swollen, painful, warm umbilicus with discharge. Diarrhoea was defined as faeces of runny or watery consistency. During the rearing period, clinical examination was performed once a month, and weight was estimated based on heart girth measurement with a tape (Animeter, Albert Kerbl GmbH, Buchbach, Germany) [27]. If calves showed disease symptoms, the affected animals were individually treated. Treatments were primarily non-antimicrobial following published recommendations so as not to influence the microbial intake [28]. The homeopathic remedy corresponding to the symptoms was searched in the handbook, and 5 globuli of the C30 potency were given to the respective diseased animal twice a day (morning and evening) until the calves recovered. Remedies were adapted after a change of symptoms or if no amelioration of the calves condition was observed within 12 hours after treatment. Only in cases of therapy resistance or life-threatening diseases, conventional therapies with antimicrobials and NSAIDs were undertaken. Both groups were observed during three stages of life: 1) the suckling period; 2) the rearing and breeding period; and 3) the calving and postpartum period. Figure 1 graphically depicts these periods and the involved animals. For the suckling period, calves were kept at the experimental unit. They were housed together with the penmates of their group and fed with the defined milk of their respective group throughout the suckling period. For the analysis of the suckling period, a disease was registered as such only after an individual calf had passed a disease free period of 5 days at the experimental unit, in order to exclude effects from the farms of origin. After weaning, calves were housed in groups together with calves not participating in the project at their farms of origin. These farms all cooperated with specialised rearing farms located in the mountain regions of Switzerland (1200 to 2300 m above s. l.). Calves were brought there at the age of 4 to 6 months. The first artificial inseminations were performed in winter 2010/2011. The timing of the first insemination depended on individual body-weight, but also according to the alpine pasturing seasons and the farmers’ personal decisions. Heifers returned for calving to their farms of origin between 5 months and one month prior to the calculated calving dates. Farmers were instructed to contact the first author immediately at the onset of calving symptoms to ensure that the very first milk prior to suckling or milking could be sampled. Collection and analysis of milk samples Of the PFM, daily milk samples were taken immediately after delivery at the experimental unit. Afterwards samples of the heat-treated PFM were taken from the auto-preserving cooker. Both samples were frozen at -18°C for later analysis. Individual composite samples of the PFM-providing cows were weekly taken prior to milking and analysed in a certified routine diagnostic laboratory (Idexx-Diavet, Bäch, Switzerland) to confirm the S. aureus shedding in the milk. PFM samples were analysed at Agroscope research station (Agroscope, Berne, Switzerland) in summer 2012. All PFM samples were investigated in two steps: first the pooled samples were qualitatively analysed using classical culturing methods. In a second step, the number of CFU of S. aureus in milk was determined with plate counts. In preparation for the analyses, samples were thawed and pre-warmed in a water bath at 37°C for 10 minutes. Daily samples were merged to weekly pools and plated on 5% sheep blood agar (Biomérieux Suisse, Geneva, Switzerland) and CHROMagar Staph. aureus plates (CHROMagar, Paris, France), specific for S. aureus [29]. From heat-treated milk, 100 μl from each pool was plated. From untreated milk samples, only 30 μl was plated on blood agar after the first 10 processed pools grew too densely. All plates were incubated at 37°C. Results were obtained after 24 and 48 hours. Colonies grown on blood agar were identified according to the guidelines of the National Mastitis Council (NMC) which include morphology, biochemical properties, and detection of haemolysis [30]. S. aureus, S. uberis, S. dysgalactiae and coliforms were referred to as major pathogens, whereas Corynebacterium sp. and CNS as minor pathogens. Concerning the CHROMagar plates, pink coloured colonies were considered to be S. aureus and were additionally identified by PCR for the nuc-gene [31]. This gene codes for the S. aureus specific enzyme thermonuclease. If colonies were nuc-positive, they were genotyped according to Fournier et al. [32]. For each PFM sample, one S. aureus colony was isolated. In cases, where colonies visually differed from each other, the according number of colonies was isolated. The quantification of native S. aureus in the PFM was performed with serial dilutions. After thawing the pools in a water bath at 37°C for 10 minutes, two 1:10 dilutions with 0.9% sodium chloride solution were produced. Two 50 μl samples of pure milk and one 50 μl sample of each of the two 1:10 dilutions were plated on CHROMagar Staph. aureus plates with a spiral plater (EddyJet, iUL Instruments, Barcelona, Spain). The plates were incubated for 24 hours at 37°C and the colonies were manually counted. If the plates with pure milk were not countable, 1:100 dilutions were cultured and counted again. Sterile quarter milk samples were taken from the heifers immediately after calving, following the guidelines of NMC [33]. A pre-milking teat disinfectant based on chloraminum (0.5%; Desinficin CL, DeLaval, Lund, Sweden) was applied before sampling. Of each quarter, two 10 ml sterile plastic tubes were filled. Immediately after transport (10 km), the milk samples were frozen at -18°C and stored until analysed. The samples were analysed at Agroscope according to the procedure for the PFM samples, as described above. For each quarter, one blood agar and one CHROMagar Staph. aureus plate was used. Milk was hand plated at 30 μl per plate on blood agar and 100 μl per plate on CHROMagar Staph. aureus by a sterile glass triangle. The plates were incubated at 37°C. Results were obtained after 24 and 48 hours and different pathogens were semi-quantitatively documented. In case of S. aureus-suspicious colonies, nuc-PCR and genotyping was performed as described above. SCC and milk yield of the heifers were obtained from the first three routine monthly milk recordings provided by the Swiss breeding associations. Seven heifers (three of the UMG and four of the HMG) were excluded from this data collection, because the respective farm did not participate in the milk recordings. For all periods, variables of both groups were compared using univariate, univariable analysis methods with the exception of the general linear regression modelling that was univariate and multivariable. Group balance was checked in respect to the season of birth, breed, age, weight at arrival and clinical symptoms at arrival at the experimental unit using the Welch Two sample t-Test and Fisher’s exact test. Because of unequal variances within both treatment groups, the Welch Two sample t-Test was chosen rather than Standard t-Test. The disease incidence rates (cases per 100 calf days at risk) and the specific disease incidence ratios with their 95% CIs for diarrhoea and respiratory disease during the suckling period were calculated and comparison between groups was performed using Chi-square-Test. In order to control for carry over effects from the farms of origin, the disease registration period for the analysis started for each calf individually after 5 disease-free days after arriving at the experimental unit. Survival analysis was conducted considering the time from the start of the disease registration period at the experimental unit to the first occurrence of the respective disease (diarrhoea and respiratory disease). Censoring happened at the day of the last feeding at the experimental unit. Survival differences were tested for statistical significance using a log-rank test. The weekly recorded growth rates were compared group-wise by calculating the mean daily growth rate and using the Welch Two Sample t-Test. One calf from the UMG was excluded from the suckling period analysis, but not for further analysis of the post-weaning periods. With the requested five disease free days at the experimental unit before registering diseases, the start day for registering of this calf exceeded the mean start day of registering of the other calves (20th day of life) by 34 additional days. Moreover, this calf was treated with antibiotics. For the growth and health evaluation during the rearing period, all remaining animals were considered, even if they failed calving afterwards and could not be analysed for calving and udder health parameters (rearing period analysis population in Figure 1). Body weights were only compared to day 440 in the life of every heifer, because that was the earliest age at first breeding. Linear regression modelling was used to model the effects on heifer growth. The mean weight gain per day at the rearing farms was set as the dependent variable. Independent variables were farm of origin, breed, birth season and treatment group as factors and disease days during the suckling period as continuous variable. Somatic cell count values were transformed logarithmically to logSCC values in order to achieve normal distribution [34]. Comparison of logSCC and milk yield were performed by using the Welch Two Sample t-Test. Significance level in all statistical calculations was set at α = 0.05, statistical trends were indicated in case of α < 0.10. The statistical analyses were calculated with the programme R ver. 2.15.2 base packages and the package epiR for incidence rate comparison [35]. For the post-hoc power analysis the package pwr was used in order to assess the ability of the study to detect prevalence differences in both groups. The function pwr.2p2n.test is based on Cohen’s statistical power analysis methods [26]. Effect of heating on bacterial load in milk In the PFM samples of the untreated milk (41 pools), in all but one of the pooled samples SAGTB was identified. In this single sample S. aureus genotype S was detected instead. These results confirmed the cultural findings of the weekly composite samples of the milk-donating cows that were constantly positive for S. aureus. Apart from S. aureus, growth of CNS, Streptococcus sp., Corynebacterium sp. and Bacillus sp. was discovered on the plates of the untreated milk pools. In the heat-treated pools, bacterial growth was seen in all but one pool. Ten of 46 pools (22%) were positive for S. aureus. In 7 pools (15%), traces of SAGTB were found. In 3 pools (7%), S. aureus genotype S was found. Corynebacterium sp. was the most frequently discovered genus in the heat-treated milk; in some pools also CNS, Bacillus sp. and Streptococcus sp. were detected. Quantification of S. aureus showed a maximum content of 68,050°CFU/ml and a minimum content of 1,330°CFU/ml in untreated milk. The median was 2,468°CFU/ml. In the heat-treated milk, 37 pools were negative for S. aureus, the maximum was 1,450°CFU/ml (median 0°CFU/ml). Compared to the corresponding untreated milk samples, there was a one log reduction (90% reduction of S. aureus CFU) in the heat-treated milk samples containing S. aureus. Group balance Considering the birth season, breed, age at arrival and body-weight at arrival, the two groups were not significantly different from each other at the beginning of the experiment. In contrast, with regard to the health status at arrival at the experimental unit, HMG calves showed clinical symptoms of disease in 9 out of 18 animals (50%), whereas, in the UMG 3 out of 16 calves (19%) showed clinical symptoms, although the difference was not significant (p = 0.08). Diarrhoea was the disease most often recorded (7 HMG calves, 2 UMG calves). With the requested five disease free days before registering diseases after arrival for the suckling period analysis, both groups entered the analysis period with a mean calf age of 20 days (SD ± 5 days). Suckling period The median (quartile) of the total amount of milk consumed per calf in the trial was 436.3 (422.3-481.8) kg. Figure 2 shows the mean weekly bacterial intake of S. aureus CFU during the 12-week suckling period. S. aureus intake during the suckling period. Mean and SD of total S. aureus CFU intake per calf and week during the 12-week suckling period of 34 calves fed untreated (UMG) and heat-treated milk (HMG), respectively; UMG = untreated milk group; HMG = heat-treated milk group; log = log10. Disease incidence rate for diarrhoea in the UMG was 1.09 per 100 calf days at risk; in the HMG, the rate was 0.26 per 100 calf days at risk (p < 0.05). The incidence rate ratio was 4.22 [95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.01; 24.68]. The survival analysis confirmed the significant differences between the groups concerning diarrhoea cases per day at risk (p < 0.05). While in the HMG the first analysed diarrhoea episodes (n = 3) lasted 2.3 days in mean (SD ±0.6 days), in the UMG (n = 9) they lasted 6.3 days in mean (SD ± days). The difference in duration was significant (p = 0.004). In the HMG, there were no second episodes during the suckling period, while in the UMG, there were three relapses, lasting 3.3 days in mean (SD ±1.52 days). The incidence rate for respiratory diseases did not differ significantly between the two groups. The mean daily weight gain during the suckling period was 715 g/day (SD ±9 g/day) in the UMG and 775 g/day (SD ±9 g/day) in the HMG (p = 0.06). Conventional therapies were administered to two calves of each group. One calf of the UMG had a buccal abscess and severe lesions on the oral mucosa and the tongue. It was treated with Oxytetracyclin (Engemycin®, MSD Animal Health GmbH) 8 mg/kg once a day for four days administered by the intramuscular route and Tolfenamin Acid (Tolfendine®, Vetoquinol AG) 4 mg/kg once per day for two days administered by the subcutaneous route. Another calf of the UMG had a painful bronchitis or/and pleuritis and was treated with Benzylpenicillin (Norocillin®, Arovet AG) 12000 I.U. Penicillin/kg administered by the intramuscular route and Tolfenamid Acid (Tolfedine®, Vetoquinol AG) 2 mg/kg administered by the subcutaneous route both once per day for three days. One calf of the HMG was suspected to have osteomyelitis. It was treated with Benzylpenicillin (Norocillin®, Arovet AG) 12000 I.U. Penicillin/kg for four days administered by the intramuscular route. And the second calf of the HMG suffered from a severe omphalitis and was treated with Amoxicillin (Betamox®, Arovet AG) 15 mg/kg once a day for five days administered by the intramuscular route. Suckling of pen mates and being suckled by pen mates was observed in all calves of both groups. Calves were observed being suckled on an average of 22% of the observation periods (SD ±8% of the observation periods). They were observed suckling pen mates on an average of 21% of the observation periods (SD ±7% of observation periods) each. At the end of the suckling period, there were 16 calves in the UMG and 18 calves in the HMG (Figure 1). Rearing and breeding period During the rearing and breeding period, no significant differences in health and performance parameters for both groups were found. Linear regression modelling showed that differences in weight gain depended on the farm of origin. The results are depicted in Table 2. Table 2 Results of the linear model performed for the rearing and breeding period In this period, 7 heifers were lost. Three of these dropped out prior to breeding, one of the UMG and two of the HMG (Figure 1). The reasons for drop out were: Two heifers were killed in accidents (one of the UMG and one of the HMG) and two after illness (both HMG). Necropsy was performed in the latter two animals. The first one died after a severe episode of diarrhoea and the resulting metabolic disorders. The other heifer had to be euthanised because of a progressive paralysis of the hind limbs, caused by a Waller degeneration of the neurons. Two heifers were infertile and therefore slaughtered (both UMG). One heifer of the UMG was calving late after all the others. It was therefore excluded from the postpartum and milk recording analysis. Calving and postpartum period Out of the initial 34 calves, 13 animals remained in the UMG and 14 in the HMG for the postpartum period analysis (Figure 1). Examination of the heifer quarter milk samples revealed the growth of S. aureus in two animals, one from each group from two different farms. Both heifers showed three affected quarters and both of them carried S. aureus genotype C in all of these quarters. Both dams of the two heifers were never tested positive for S. aureus mastitis in the lactations before and after giving birth to these calves. Given the sample size considered, significance level of 0.05 and power set to 0.8 and assuming that no infections occurred in the HMG, power analysis indicates a total of 4 calves infected (31%) that would have been necessary to detect a statistically significant effect of feeding SAGTB contaminated milk on homologous SAGTB infection after calving. Thirteen out of 14 heifers (20/56 quarters, 36%) of the HMG and 10 out of 13 heifers (18/52 quarters, 35%) of the UMG were infected with udder pathogens. The types of pathogens involved and their prevalences are depicted in Figure 3. Clinical symptoms of mastitis were not observed. Results of the bacteriological culturing of heifers’ quarter milk samples. Samples collected from 27 heifers (108 quarters) immediately after first calving; contaminated means three or more different pathogens per plate. Results of 10 calves of each group were available for the analysis of the milk recording data (Figure 1). Comparison concerning SCC measurements and milk yield did not reveal any significant difference between the two groups. At first recording, there was a trend (p = 0.09) for higher logSCC values in the HMG (mean 2.5; SD ±1.8) as compared to the UMG (mean 1.2; SD ±1.5). The udder health data from this trial did not reveal any significant difference between calves fed with heat-treated and untreated mastitis milk. Results from the suckling period, however, indicated that calves fed with unheated mastitis milk suffered more diarrhoea days than calves receiving milk after heat treatment. Blinding was not possible in this study as the same person prepared the milk and took care of the animals. Housing at the experimental unit was designed to separate the two groups from each other in order to prohibit microbial carryover on calves of the other group. As we collected the milk sample from each heifer immediately after calving, it seems reasonable to rule out that the pathogens ingested during the suckling period might cause mastitis. Intramammary S. aureus infection discovered later might much more likely have been acquired via alternative infection pathways, for example during the milking process or by cow to cow transmission [36]. We intended to exclude these two factors with the chosen study design. In addition, there is evidence from the literature that the majority of intramammary infections occur at the beginning of the lactation [13]. Even subclinical cases should have been detected during laboratory analysis thanks to the high sensitivity of the agar plates [29]. Additionally, 100 μl of milk was plated on a separate plate per quarter to increase sensitivity [37]. Although under the conditions of this study, there was no influence of the quality of the feeding milk on udder health, this finding cannot be generalised, as the focus of the study was exclusively on the transmission of S. aureus. Other pathogens present in waste milk, such as S. agalactiae might have other transmission pathways and may infect suckling calves [17]. And the milk used for this trial came from one specific farm and contained mainly SAGTB. The mean number of CFU of S. aureus in the feeding milk changed from week to week, according to the individual shedding patterns of the milk-donating cows. Nevertheless, we decided not to use inoculated milk, because we aimed at mimicking field conditions. Other dosages as well as combinations with other microorganisms might have caused other effects. Apart from the study of Barto et al. [20], precise quantities of S. aureus fed in milk can hardly be found in the literature. Because of labour and material intensity the PFM samples were analysed after the analysis of the heifers’ milk samples. Despite the long storage time the analysed quantities should reflect the original S. aureus content as it is recorded that freezing does not affect the viability of S. aureus in milk samples [38]. Investigations that indicate feeding mastitis milk to calves as being a risk factor for heifer mastitis might reflect an indirect correlation and have to be interpreted carefully. A possible interpretation is that farmers feed mastitis milk to calves due to a serious mastitis problem present in their herd, which represents another risk factor for heifer mastitis [16]. Feeding waste milk to calves could also be an indicator of lower hygiene standards on a respective farm so that the transmission of S. aureus is facilitated by an alternative infection pathway as, for example, not wearing gloves at milking or not cleaning milking equipment properly. Such effects were minimized by the particular design chosen in our study, as calves were not raised in herds with an evident mastitis problem. Some epidemiological studies include the whole range of heifer mastitis pathogens, whereas we put the emphasis on one particular pathogen. Due to the lack of information about heifer SAGTB prevalence in general and, particularly, after exposition with SAGTB during the suckling period, sample size was primarily calculated based on the Cohen’s effect size mentioned by Ivemeyer et al. [15] regarding postpartum SCC difference. Given our setting (considering 17 calves in each group, significance level 0.05, power 80%), we calculated that provided missing SAGTB cases in the HMG, a number of 4 cases (31%) of SAGTB infection in the UMG would detect a statistically significant effect of feeding contaminated milk to suckling calves on SAGTB prevalence in heifers. Results of the presented study suggest that expectable effects of a comparable setting have to be rather small, and with respect to Cohen [26] likely less than 0.2. Given the sample size calculation performed by Cohen’s algorithms, this would require a sample size of nearly 1000 calves for the entire study to detect a difference of prevalences in both groups. Hence, the study results indicate that further research on this topic would have to consider an immense study setting upscaling. Considering the fact that in the current study not a single case of SAGTB was detected after exposition with SAGTB contaminated milk, it has to be evaluated carefully whether this effort is justified at all. Analysis of the milk samples taken immediately after calving revealed that only two out of 27 heifers had intramammary infection with S. aureus. The genotypes, however, were different from those found in the milk during the suckling period. Therefore, it can be ruled out that bacteria from the milk fed in the experiment during the first months of life caused the mastitis of these two heifers in this later period of life. As the dams of these two heifers had never been tested positive for intramammary infections with S. aureus in the lactation before and after the birth of both calves, it is very unlikely that they had transmitted S. aureus via milk to their calves during the first days after birth. Heat treatment of the feeding milk was thermisation. In the EU-definition [23] the phosphatase test is recommended to distinguish thermisation from pasteurisation. In this trial, we rather standardised the time-temperature combination to obtain a more exact and repeatable method. The phosphatase test, therefore, was not performed during the trial. By thermisation, inactivation of S. aureus was achieved in 78% of the samples. In the other 22% of samples, S. aureus CFU were reduced by one log compared to untreated milk. Also, the shift of the bacterial spectrum should be pointed out: in untreated milk, Staphylococcus sp. comprised the main part of the bacterial load. After heating, Corynebacterium sp. was most frequently found. The reduction of bacteria and the switch of the bacterial spectrum that disadvantaged the major pathogen fauna seem to have had an effect on calf health. On the other hand, the bacterial load was not reduced as effectively as after pasteurisation. Further investigation is needed to measure more accurately the cost effectiveness of thermisation compared to pasteurisation. The obtained reduction of the bacterial load, however, is expected not to be sufficient for some specific bacteria such as Mycobacterium paratuberculosis or Mycoplasma sp. [39],[40]. We did not offer the prepared milk to the calves for longer than 12 hours per day. This was in accordance with the traditional Swiss feeding practice, where calves obtain their milk within this period. The same milk was used for both groups, but heat-treated for one group. Accordingly, the same amount of nutrients was provided to all calves but without the high bacterial load for the group obtaining the thermised milk. Side effects of heat-treating milk, such as the change of protein structure or loss of vitamins can be reduced to a minimum with the method advocated in our study [24]. The lower risk for diarrhoea in calves after ingesting heat-treated milk coincides with Jamaluddin’s findings [41]. Episodes of diarrhoea in the group obtaining pasteurised milk were shorter and thereby less severe. Staphylococcus aureus is not a typical diarrhoea-causing pathogen in calves, but its enterotoxins are well known as contributing to immunosuppression which can explain a higher susceptibility to disease [42]. The presence of enterotoxins in milk was not analysed. But the minimal bacterial count of 105°CFU/g, necessary for enterotoxin formation, was reached in the pool milk. And high counts of viable bacteria are considered to play a role in adverse effects in calf health [5]. Some diarrhoea episodes, especially in the UMG, are overlapping with the episodes of other calves in the group (see Additional file 1). As causative organisms were not differentiated, a transmission of enteric pathogens from one calf to another cannot be excluded. Nevertheless, calves of the UMG seem to have been more prone to diarrhoea. During the suckling period, a trend to higher weight gains was observed in the group fed with heat-treated milk, which was also stated in earlier studies [2],[41]. An explanation might be that diseases such as diarrhoea can adversely affect growth [43]. Feeding female calves with milk containing a high load of SAGTB under the conditions of this study did not affect udder health of these animals at first calving. As the power analysis revealed, generalisation of this result however, is not justified. The heat treatment of milk originating from cows suffering from S. aureus mastitis is a reasonable measure to reduce the risk of calf diseases, particularly diarrhoea. For small-scale farms without paratuberculosis problems, where a professional pasteuriser is not available, thermisation for one minute to 61°C might be a promising alternative to reduce calf morbidity. Furthermore, this technique is sustainable, as discarding the milk from cows with S. aureus mastitis can be avoided. KA carried out the practical work with the study animals, reviewed the literature, managed the data, performed the statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript. AM participated in the design of the study, helped with the practical work, gave practical advice and revised the manuscript. RB analysed the milk samples, helped to draft the manuscript and revised it carefully. HG participated in designing the study, coordinated and assisted the milk analyses and gave input to the manuscript draft. 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Donovan GA, Dohoo IR, Montgomery DM, Bennett FL: Calf and disease factors affecting growth in female holstein calves in Florida, USA. Prev Vet Med. 1998, 33 (1-4): 1-10. 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00059-7. This study was mainly funded by the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office (BVET; Project number 1.08.22) and in parts by FiBL. The cooperating project partners at the University of Berne, Agroscope and FiBL and the farmers supporting our work are gratefully acknowledged. Thanks to Marcus Doherr for his input as statistical expert. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Ackerstrasse 21, Frick, 5070, Switzerland Katharina Abb-Schwedler , Ariane Maeschli & Peter Klocke Agroscope Research Station, Schwarzenburgstrasse 161, Berne, 3003, Switzerland Renate Boss & Hans U Graber Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Clinic for Farm Animals, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Berne, Bremgartenstrasse 109a, Berne, 3012, Switzerland Adrian Steiner bovicare GmbH, Hermannswerder Haus 14, Potsdam, 14473, Germany Peter Klocke Search for Katharina Abb-Schwedler in: Search for Ariane Maeschli in: Search for Renate Boss in: Search for Hans U Graber in: Search for Adrian Steiner in: Search for Peter Klocke in: Correspondence to Katharina Abb-Schwedler. Additional file 1: Data diarrhoea, Calendar diarrhoea, Legend. “Data diarrhoea” shows the exact individual dates of when each diarrhoea episode of each calf took place. Calendar diarrhoea, gives a graphic overview of the episodes in a calendar. “Legend” explains the abbreviations and colour used in the previous tables. (XLSX 49 KB) Abb-Schwedler, K., Maeschli, A., Boss, R. et al. Feeding mastitis milk to organic dairy calves: effect on health and performance during suckling and on udder health at first calving. BMC Vet Res 10, 267 (2014) doi:10.1186/s12917-014-0267-7 Received: 29 April 2013 Heifer mastitis Feeding milk Calf health	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line980
__label__wiki	0.664143	0.664143	/ Cory Doctorow / 7:26 am Thu Apr 26, 2018 The predictable dystopian trajectory of China's Citizen Scores China's Citizen Score system combines surveillance of your social media and social graph with your credit report, your purchase history and state spy agencies and police files on you to produce a "trustworthiness" score -- people who score low are denied access to high-speed travel, financial products, and other services like private school for their kids. Also: being friends with low-scoring people pulls your score down. Liu Hu is a Chinese journalist who is critical of the state -- he was recently ordered to apologize for critical social media posts and then sanctioned for being "insincere" -- and it has earned him a low Citizen Score. Now he can't buy airplane tickets or property, or send his kid to private school. When Liu Hu recently tried to book a flight, he was told he was banned from flying because he was on the list of untrustworthy people. Liu is a journalist who was ordered by a court to apologize for a series of tweets he wrote and was then told his apology was insincere. “I can’t buy property. My child can’t go to a private school,” he said. “You feel you’re being controlled by the list all the time.” China Assigns Every Citizen A ‘Social Credit Score’ To Identify Who Is And Isn’t Trustworthy [Ben Tracy/CBS] (via /.) alibaba / censorship / china / citizen score / credit / media theory / surveillance / surveillance communism / systems thinking / tencent / weaponized whuffie / web theory Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt Frontier is the bottom-rung of the top-tier of US ISPs, serving customers in 29 states. Despite enjoying monopoly control over its customers' online lives, and despite massive government handouts and a lackadaisical approach to maintenance, and despite out-and-out theft from customers, the company is filing for bankruptcy, having accumulated $16.3b in debt through mismanagement. Schneier: "It's really too late to secure 5G networks" Bruce Schneier's Foreign Policy essay in 5G security argues that we're unduly focused on the possibility of Chinese manufacturers inserting backdoors or killswitches in 5G equipment, and not focused enough on intrinsic weakness in a badly defined, badly developed standard wherein "near-term corporate profits prevailed against broader social good." Something Awful's "Fuck You and Die" forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it's dead Long before 4chan and other anything-goes forums existed, every major online community had a similar community: the Well had its "weird" forum, Usenet had alt.syntax.tactical (among others), and Something Awful had the "Fuck You and Die" forum, where people were funny, mean, obscene, and gross, sometimes all at once.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line981
__label__wiki	0.926435	0.926435	Search For Movie, TV Show or Games Thor Ragnarok (2017) Starring Chris Hemsworth, Kate Blenchett Musical Mystery Box Office Buz is an entertainment website covering everything from gadgets and gaming to movies and comics. - In the Media - Posters - API - Terms of Service D.O.B: May 05, 1938 \| Łódź, Poland 28Credit Score Jerzy Skolimowski (born May 5, 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol (The Menacing Eye). Best Known For: Jerzy Skolimowski (born May 5, 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol (The Menacing Eye). He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and acted occasionally in films. More recently, he returned to Poland, and to film making as a writer and director after a 17 year hiatus with Cztery noce z Anną (Four Nights With Anna) in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerzy Skolimowski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. September Eleven 1683 Eastern Promises Operacja Samum Innocent Sorcerers 30 Door Key - Latest Trailers Box Office Buz Batwoman First Look http://bit.ly/2Wfp1g1 #Batwoman #RubyRose #MeaganTandy #CamrusJohnson #ElizabethAnweis @BoxOfficeBuz © 2020 \| Box Office Buz, All Right Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line985
__label__wiki	0.505592	0.505592	Savannah LGBTQ Groups Speak Out By Charlotte Robinson, March 15, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to appear at the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday March 17th in Savannah, Georgia which is the second largest such parade in the United States behind New York City & has been a tradition in the city for 194 years. St. Patrick’s Day has always brought controversy with the exclusion of LGBTQ groups from marching in most St. Patrick’s Day parades. In Savannah LGBTQ organizations have never been represented at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade nor have requests to be represented been responded to from the organizers. Representatives of Savannah Pride, First City Network, the Savannah LGBTQ Center & Dusty Church, Festival Director of Savannah Pride issued the following statement in response: “As members of Savannah’s LGBTQ community, we are troubled by our public officials’ welcoming of Vice President Mike Pence. Mr. Pence has proved himself to be one of the most anti-LGBTQ political crusaders to serve in government. As governor of Indiana, he led a concerted effort to deny equality to LGBTQ people, opposing gay marriage & signing into law a bill that made it legal for businesses to turn away gay & lesbian customers. As a member of Congress, he voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, co-sponsored a bill to define marriage between a man & woman & sought to cut off HIV funding to organizations that did not encourage the reprehensible practice of gay “conversion therapy.” These attacks have continued with at least 2 dozen actions by the current administration against LGBT people, including those serving in our armed forces. Ordinarily, there is no place for his brand of discrimination in Savannah. However, this weekend, he will feel right at home at the largest St Patrick’s Day Parade in America that discriminates against LGBTQ organizations. We Savannahians are proud of our diversity, so we welcome Vice President Pence to join our interracial gay families raising adopted children, trans service members proudly defending their country, queer artists inspiring creativity, immigrant students dreaming of a bright future with a same-gender spouse & the many other faces of the Hostess City that will be proudly lining the streets this weekend & we hope the St. Patrick’s Day committee, whose “Southern Hospitality” resembles Mr. Pence’s “Hoosier Hospitality”, will open their eyes & see us as well.” LISTEN: Pulse Survivor Talks No NRA Money Pledge & More Boston Pride Marshals Announced Ricky Martin To Be Honored Mirah At Break the Chains Event AARP Survey Addresses LGBT Elders Boston Wicked Queer Film Festival Trans Military Under Attack Again Fashion Icon To Be Honored Boston Design Week In April March For Stronger Gun Laws GLAAD Media Awards Los Angeles Tallahassee LGBTQ Gala Event Savannah Pride Mermaid Fest Federal Anti-LGBTQ Bill Filed DOJ Ends LGBTQ Census Inclusion Celebrate International Women's Day Boston Gay Men’s Chorus "ABBA" PFLAG Celebrates 45 Years LGBTQ Presence At The Oscars Equality Florida Miami Gala Event Bermuda Marriage Equality Update Atlanta Rallies Against LGBT Hate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line994
__label__cc	0.740223	0.259777	300 for 300 + Portraits from Week 42 Posted October 26, 2018 by Cat Todd We’re excited to share with you the forty-second week of portraits recently published on Nola.com, including Patricia Gay, Jan Ramsey, Sunny Norman, Angela Gregory, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Judy Watts. Patricia Gay, by Saegan Swanson 300 for 300: Patricia Gay, by Saegan Swanson “Patty is one of the country’s strongest voices for preservation in the broadest sense. She knows all of the facts and figures, as well as the human side. She has been tireless in seeking solutions that benefit both old houses and celebrate those who built, live and work in the historic fabric of the New Orleans. It’s hard to imagine how the city would be without her years of insight and tireless action.” — local preservationist Camille Strachan, quoted in Preservation in Print magazine (excerpt from Nola.com) Discover more about Saegan Swanson and her creative process here Read the full story about Patricia Gay on Nola.com Jan Ramsey, by Alexandra Kilburn “It became an avocation for me to help develop the music business. It occurred to me that the best way for me to make an impact on music was through media. I wasn’t thinking about it as a business. I was thinking that this was just something that I could do by force of will. I didn’t understand the scope of the project.” — Jan Ramsey, discussing the motivation for founding OffBeat Magazine, in a University of New Orleans interview (excerpt from Nola.com) Discover more about Alexandra Kilburn and her creative process here Read the full story about Jan Ramsey on Nola.com A Portrait of Sunny Norman, by D. Lammie-Hanson “She leads. She puts people together. She has a vision, and she’ll lead you there. She’ll listen and then subtly give you the idea and — bingo!” — Dot Shushan, an arts leader and longtime friend, describing Sunny Norman’s style in a 1999 Times-Picayune interview (excerpt from Nola.com) Discover more about D. Lammie-Hanson and her creative process here Read the full story about Sunny Norman on Nola.com Angela Gragory, by Jessica Strahan Angela Gregory, by Jessica Strahan “Ideas are born in clay, stone and bronze.” — Angela Gregory, from her journal (excerpt from Nola.com) Discover more about Jessica Strahan and her creative process here Read the full story about Angela Gregory on Nola.com Louis Gottschalk, by Jeff Morgan “Gottschalk was assimilating the musics of Europe, North America, South America, and the Islands into a cauldron that would eventually produce jazz in the late 1890s and early 1910s. One wonders how fellow pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton (and Scott Joplin, for that matter) would have turned out had Gottschalk not preceded him.” — C. Michael Bailey, in the essay “There Would Be No Jazz Without Louis Moreau Gottschalk” for allaboutjazz.com. (excerpt from Nola.com) Discover more about Jeff Morgan and his creative process here Read the full story about Louis Moreau Gottschalk on Nola.com Judy Watts, by Connie Kittok “”Judy is the very best example of everything a leader in child advocacy should be. She is passionate without being threatening, she is honest without being self-righteous, she is smart without being pompous, and she is in it for the long term.” — Carol Kamin, executive director of Children’s Action Alliance of Arizona and a board member of Voices for America’s Children, a national advocacy group, in a 2006 Times-Picayune story (excerpt from Nola.com) Discover more about Connie Kittok and her creative process here Read the full story about Judy Watts on Nola.com Where Y’Art is the proud partner of Nola Media Group, the producers of Nola.com / The Times-Picayune for its 300 for 300 project, marking the tricentennial of New Orleans, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people who have made New Orleans, New Orleans. Tags: 300 for 300, activism, activist, Agenda for Children, Alex Kilburn, Alexandra Kilburn, Angela Gregory, art in New Orleans, CEO, child care, child-advocacy, composer, Connie Kittok, D. Lammie-Hanson, french quarter, garden district, Jan Ramsey, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Jeff Morgan, Jessica Strahan, Judy Watts, Junior League, Lammie Hanson, Louis Gottschalk, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, New Orleans Art, New Orleans artists, New Orleans founder, New Orleans jazz, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans music, New Orleans musician, New Orleans Tricentennial, Nola Media Group, Nola.com, NOMA, OffBeat magazine, Patricia Gay, philanthropist, philanthropy, pianist, piano, portrait, powerful women, preservation, Preservation in Print, Preservation Resource Center, Saegan Swanson, sculptor, sculpture, Sieur de Bienville, Sunny Norman, The Times-Picayune Loving Cup, Where Y'art, yartist504	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1002
__label__wiki	0.867629	0.867629	Rahm birdies 18th to pip Fleetwood to tournament – and Race to Dubai in Golf As well as being number one in Europe, Rahm moves up to third in the world rankings after his fourth tournament win of 2019 DP World Tour Championship, Dubai: Final-round leaderboard -19 J Rahm (Sp); -18 T Fleetwood (Eng); -17 M Lorenzo-Vera (Fra); -12 R McIlroy (NI); -11 D Willett (Eng); -10 S Garcia (Sp), T Pieters (Bel), T Lewis (Eng); -9 M Fitzpatrick (Eng) Selected others: -7 S Lowry (Ire); -6 R MacIntyre (Sco); -4 P Casey (Eng); -3 J Rose (Eng); -2 P Reed (US), B Wiesberger (Aut); Par L Westwood (Eng); +1 F Molinari (Ita); +3 I Poulter (Eng); +4 T Hatton (Eng) Jon Rahm birdied the final hole to win the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai on 19 under par and clinch the European Tour’s season-long Race to Dubai title. Rahm holed a three-foot putt to finish one ahead of England’s Tommy Fleetwood and win the event for the second time. The win also meant the 25-year-old Spaniard also pipped Fleetwood, 28, to be the number one in Europe for 2019. Rahm becomes the second Spaniard to achieve the feat after the late Seve Ballesteros, who won it six times. “Seve was such an idol for us,” said Rahm. “To put my name there, it’s hard to believe. I can’t believe some of the things I have accomplished.” Rahm survives rollercoaster day Such drama on the final green seemed unlikely when Rahm began with five birdies in his first seven holes on Sunday to open up a six-shot lead – but he then wobbled, making four bogeys in the next eight. In contrast, Fleetwood was inspired on the back nine, picking up five birdies in his final seven holes, including at both 17 and 18 to draw level with Rahm at 18 under after a best-of-the-day seven-under 65. Fleetwood finished on 18 under, meaning Rahm knew he needed a birdie four up the last to take both prizes. He produced an exquisite up-and-down from a greenside bunker to card a closing 68, seal a one-shot victory and claim the Race to Dubai. It was his fourth win of 2019 and his second in a row, having won the Open de Espana in his last tournament six weeks ago. The victory also takes him up to third in the world ranking behind number one Brooks Koepka of the United States and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, who finished fourth at Jumeirah Golf Estates after a closing 73. He also secured the biggest winning cheque in tournament golf of $3m (£2.34m) and a further $2m (£1.56m) for winning the Race to Dubai. “It was such an up-and-down day,” he said. “I had a six-shot lead and I came down 18 needing a birdie to win. “But how many times do you dream of having to birdie the last to win a tournament?” European Tour 2019 Race to Dubai final standings: 1. Jon Rahm (Sp) 5,898.3 points 2. Tommy Fleetwood (Eng) 5,414.8 3. Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 4,905.9 4. Shane Lowry (Ire) 3,813.6 5. Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng) 3,588 Fleetwood has now finished first, second and third in the last three seasons on the European Tour Close but no repeat for Fleetwood Fleetwood began the week in second place in the Race to Dubai standings behind Austrian Bernd Wiesberger but Rahm’s 66 on day three put him in charge, four clear of the Southport player. But Fleetwood, who won the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa last week, again produced his best golf on Sunday as he took the battle all the way to the end in trying to repeat his Race to Dubai success of 2017. Joint overnight leader Mike Lorenzo-Vera finished two shots behind Rahm in third after a closing 70, but five clear of McIlroy. Wiesberger finished in a tie for 28th, leaving him third in the Race to Dubai, while Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre capped an impressive season with a 68 as he won the Rookie of the Year crown. 2020 Farmers Insurance Open odds: PGA picks, Tiger Woods predictions from same model that nailed six majors First Cut: After a big win in Abu Dhabi, Lee Westwood looks like a dark horse at the 2020 Masters Hull runner-up to South Korea's Kim at Tour Championship	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1005
__label__wiki	0.947911	0.947911	2.2 magnitude earthquake 14 km from Ridgecrest, California, United States Ridgecrest#California#Disasters#USA #earthquake#Ridgecrest#California news#California map Among the bills signed today by @POTUS: H.R. 1252, designating the @USPS facility in Van Nuys, California as the Marilyn Monroe Post Office and H.R. 1253, naming the Ritchie Valens Post Office Building in Pacoima, California Vandenberg Air Force Base,California U.S. test-fires ground-launched ballistic missile that was previously banned under the 1987 INF Treaty https://t.co/Aw95ece4bb Orangevale,California Authorities are investigating a burglary attempt and a shooting on Santa Juanita Avenue in Orangevale. Seal Beach,California Barricade situation unfolding at military housing unit near Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach Authorities identified a 42-year-old Montana man as the victim of a fatal Corvette crash earlier this week Barricade situation unfolding at military housing unit near Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach Man seen in handcuffs near the scene not believed to be a suspect https://t.co/Ejvnk0n686 A man was shot three times at his home early Thursday morning while confronting an intruder, authorities said. SamTrans bus hits, kills pedestrian in Redwood City; section of El Camino Real closed SJFire at scene of a 2 alarm for in the 4100 block of Blackford Cir. 1 woman was able to get out. Pentagon: "The Department of Defense conducted a flight test of a conventionally-configured ground-launched ballistic missile at approximately 8:30am. Pacific Time, today, Dec. 12, 2019, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. We are currently evaluating the results of the test" Authorities in central California have arrested a man they say forced his pregnant girlfriend to take drugs at gunpoint so she would have a miscarriage. Police activity has been reported at an apartment complex in Santa Rosa Thursday morning. Both NB 101 and SB 101 in Mountain View past San Antonio Rd is shutdown due to a crash involving multiple cars. ALT. ROUTE: Exit San Antonio, turn right to San Antonio then make a U-turn at Bayshore to get back to NB 101 Palo Alto,California CHP reports minor injuries after work trucks crash into abandoned vehicle on Hwy 101 in Palo Alto; all lanes remain closed A crash involving two work trucks and a Zipcar has closed all northbound and southbound lanes of Hwy 101 on Palo Alto. One of the trucks spilled gravel on the roadway. McFarland, California USGS reports a M2.28 earthquake 4km WSW of McFarland, CA 3.5 magnitude earthquake 14 km from Ridgecrest, California, United State The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment with major injuries, the California Highway Patrol said. The crash happened around 9:10 p.m. on westbound Hwy. 50 near Sunrise Boulevard. Two vehicles were involved but no one A 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck near the Lytle Creek area early Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. 3.1 magnitude earthquake 14 km from Oak Hills, California, United States A confrontation between two workers at a Palo Alto company ended in a stabbing Wednesday. The suspect, identified as 21-year-old San Jose resident Lionel Munoz, allegedly took the victim by surprise and stabbed him from behind and then chased him outside Bakersfield police say a 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg during a robbery attempt Wednesday night in Central Bakersfield. CHPNSac investigators say a total of five people were hospitalized after tonight's crash on Watt near Arden Way - several of them children. One of those hurt suffered major injuries. https://t.co/L6tv5wEVoM Man arrested for murder after allegedly forcing his girlfriend to ingest pills, inducing miscarriage, Bakersfield police say Two people are in the hospital after a shooting in northern Tulare County, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Neighbors say the intersection of Avalon Bl. and 81st in South L.A. is dangerous. It's where a man was recently hit and killed crossing the street. Police are looking for the driver who killed 47 yo Rufino Miranda. https://t.co/avakUuPGQg Hesperia, California Suspect killed by deputies after attacking 2 elderly people in "random act of violence" in Hesperia identified as 42-year-old Mauro Carrillo of Westminster 3 injured in crash on Hwy. 50 in Rancho Cordova Gonzales, california Salinas Police says the suspect in a shooting and standoff near Gonzales has been taken into custody. Oxnard authorities investigated a shooting victim reported on Wednesday night In the middle of flashing lights and crumpled metal, a teddy bear, a bottle and a tiny shoe were left behind after two cars tangled on Watt Avenue near Arden Way in the Arden-Arcade area. Hazmat crews evaluate white powder found in envelope at downtown courthouse https://t.co/JtaW5Aa8GL Major crash at Arden Way & Watt Ave. A child's belongings brown spilled out on street from the car with the worst damage. A man was wounded in what police say appeared to be a gang-related incident early Wednesday, Two big rigs involved in crash on Highway 43 & Conejo Ave. believe drivers are Ok. HighlandIncident Firefighters on scene of a vehicle accident at HWY 43 & Conejo. Crews reporting one vehicle into a building with victim trapped. Fresno County Fire's Technical Rescue Team responding Fentanyl sold for $125 in the Tenderloin made its way to Santa Rosa & led to the deaths of Patrick Oneill, 29, and his 13mo son Liam Burbank neighborhood cordoned off, streets closed as police investigate device resembling pipe bomb Firefighters and police responded to 7055 N. Corbin Ave. at around 6:50 a.m., where they found the black pickup truck smashed in the middle of the street and the white FedEx truck on the front yard of a nearby home. The immediate area has been evacuated a few blocks from Warner Bros. Studios Burbank Police investigating a suspicious device found on the front yard of duplex apartments near Warner Bros Bomb squad on scene of a suspicious package near several apartment buildings in Burbank A 25-year-old woman was struck and killed by two vehicles in Stockton on Tuesday night A man was arrested after allegedly attacking and biting a Walmart employee at its Suisun City store, according to police One person was killed Wednesday in a traffic collision involving a FedEx truck and a passenger vehicle in the Reseda area. Desert Hot Springs,California The victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries Auburn,California Police have arrested the suspect in a brazen attack inside a quiet library in Auburn A man was fatally struck by a Metro train after falling off of a station platform in the West Adams District of South Los Angeles early Wednesday morning. Fresno Police are investigating a stabbing early Wednesday morning. Police say two people were arguing in a car when one person was stabbed. One person has died in a two-vehicle crash on SB I-280 in Cupertino at the Lawrence Expressway off-ramp Early morning stabbing lands two people in the hospital. Officials say it started off as an argument between two men that quickly turned violent. The stabbing happened at east Gery Street and South Lee Avenue near California and MLK Blvd. Police still investigating	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1009
__label__cc	0.602241	0.397759	Graduate Field of Development Sociology Field-leading social scientists & development practitioners The Graduate Field of Development Sociology provides rigorous training for aspiring academics and development professionals. Our graduate curriculum builds off the foundation of classical sociological theory, integrating diverse frameworks and methodologies to fuel investigation, analysis, and evaluation of social phenomenon. Whether through ethnographies, statistical analyses, or participatory action research, our students are trained to produce the highest quality social science research in areas including: Inequality across health, class, and gender Impacts of social policy including health and education Governance, community development, and civic organization Food systems, food sovereignty, and sustainable agriculture Migration and demographic change Political ecology and land use change Lecturer Sarah Giroux and graduate student Anthony Poon discuss research. M.S./Ph.D. Master of Science (M.S.) or M.S./Ph.D. The Graduate Field of Development Sociology offers two degree tracks: the MS/PhD and the PhD. It does not accept students into a terminal MS degree program. Learn more about the curriculum Learn more about moving from M.S. to Ph.D. More about Development Sociology Population & Development Rural & Environmental Sociology State, Economy, & Society Back to list of careers Focuses on theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of population and development in both developing countries and the United States from a social demography perspective emphasis on links between population, food and environmental sustainability, fertility, and population movements. Learn more about the Population and Development concentration Emphasis on environmental equity and rural sustainability, social carrying capacity and the nexus between poverty and resource allocation, access and use, and devolution of power and responsibility. Learn more about the Rural and Environmental Sociology concentration State, Economy, & Society combines themes of political and economic sociology, within macro- and micro-comparative and historical approaches, emphasizes general training in the social change and development area to enhance students' credentials for general sociology programs, and views development as less the analysis of the Third World, and more the analysis of global and local processes with broad variation. Learn more about the State, Economy, and Society concentration Explore your opportunities A CALS education goes beyond the classroom and gives students frequent opportunities to apply what they learn in real-world settings. Development Sociology Admissions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1011
__label__cc	0.623312	0.376688	Deliverology Digital Governance EyeCues From Apolitical Digital Governance with Jeffrey RoyICT Life in the fast lane of public life A new year is a good time to reflect on the relentless march of time and its close ally, our growing obsession with speed. The Internet, of course, is synonymous with speed, with instant access to information, products and services all just a click away. Have a question? Ask your iPhone and Siri enlightens or does her best to search the web on your behalf. Technology giants and start-ups alike all share the common mission of constant connectivity while getting you what you want (or what you may want but did not yet realize you did) as conveniently and efficiently as possible. Nonetheless, as the infamous Eagle’s song tells us, life in the fast lane may come with a downside (apologies to younger readers for the rather dated musical invocation, especially given that 2012 is the year that online music sales in North America will surpass that of physical CDs). For the public sector, the road ahead is far from linear, fraught with both promise and peril. It’s useful here to dissect the discussion in three: service, policy and politics. With respect to service, the mantra of efficiency is everywhere and not without significant improvements to interacting with public service providers. Governments have little choice but to benchmark themselves with private industry, and tremendous innovations are taking place in both service design and delivery. The rise of social media and mobile applications is particularly fertile ground for sharing, seeking and using information ever more quickly: health care, transportation and public safety are but three examples where the promise of collective intelligence is becoming reality. Looking ahead, our entire payment apparatus is soon due for a major shake-up as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon compete to offer faster ways of enabling you to part with your currency. Government must adapt accordingly. A key challenge, however, lies in how the public sector decides which services to deliver how and when. Constituencies are increasingly segmented between those online all the time and those doing so only occasionally. Coupled with a deep-rooted culture of risk aversion, it is a tall order for governments to compete successfully. In fact, across an ever more virtualized service eco-system, whether and how governments should “compete” will become an ever more contested notion. Shifting to politics, the tensions are far more pronounced. Democratic venues such as parliaments and councils are meant to be methodical and deliberative, which is why they are losing ground, shunned by a YouTube generation preferring imagery and real-time tweets to long speeches and in-depth debate. How, then, to focus on long-term challenges and trade-offs (the very sorts of issues distinguishing public purpose from private gain)? Companies too, are not without their own governance challenges in terms of an obsession with speed. As stock markets become fixated on quarterly earnings and daily headlines, the role of a board is to set guidance and provide oversight – and to think long term. Parliament is akin to a board in some respects, overseeing Cabinet and facilitating debate over longer-term questions and choices. In doing so, there has long been contention over the time horizon of a politician, and the relative weight of re-election versus the interests and unheard voices of the next generation. Historically, such tension gave rise to countervailing mechanisms such as an appointed Senate and more recently independent officers free from short-term partisanship and politics. The U.S. offers important insights too as a small but growing chorus of commentators call for a new constitutional assembly to redesign government from the bottom-up. The hopes derived from President Obama’s digitally innovative 2008 campaign seem largely quashed by economic uncertainty and institutional gridlock. Back in Canada, the advent of social media coupled with the decision federally to strip parties of their public funds seems likely to further augment the instantaneous and customer service orientation of partisan action. In a world of smart phones and tablets where fundraising will be top priority, it’s hard to imagine that long-term policy thinking will be priority number one. In majority government settings, where strategic reviews are outsourced to private experts and deputies are rewarded for short-term budget cuts, the risks of hollowing policy capacities within government are real. 2012 promises Facebook’s IPO and the arrival of yet another version of iPad, to name but two notable events epitomizing today’s digital revolution and its ethos of immediacy. At some point, spurred by plummeting partisan legitimacy and involvement (especially among youth) and a need to rebalance customer and citizen orientations online, democratic redesign may paradoxically require a temporary slowdown in order to optimally and collectively leverage technological change as opposed to futile efforts at playing catch-up. Jeffrey Roy is Professor of Public Administration at Dalhousie University (roy@dal.ca). BRelated News Best Practice CGE announces the first round of its ‘all-star’ speaking lineup for TechGov September 19, 2017 ICT Using technology to integrate asset management May 7, 2012 ICT Why government needs the future of two-factor authentication May 6, 2015 ICT Reducing the legal paper trail May 7, 2012 Digital Governance with Jeffrey Roy New mechanisms for the e-health quagmire May 7, 2012 ELatest Posts Update on digital strategies for public sector CGE Radio Supporting IT modernization in government Minority Governments in Canada AI prosperity in Canada Jeffrey Roy Jeffrey Roy is Professor in the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Management. He is a widely published observer and critic of the impacts of digital technologies on government and democracy. He has worked with the United Nations, the OECD, multinational corporations, and all levels of government in Canada. 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__label__cc	0.682366	0.317634	boo-box: Sharpening, targeting, and improving decision-making About boo-box With a quality network of websites and blogs available for media campaigns in bot, traditional, and special formats, boo-box helps enhance publishers’ revenues with the sale of ads, while developing relevant, creative, and innovative ways to raise advertisers’ exposure. Products: BigQuery Google Cloud Platform results Improves targeting with a powerful data analysis tool to provide quick insights into the performance of ads placed on 350,000 blogs and websites each month Improves decision-making, customer service, and ad spend through more detailed reporting Saves $200,000 per year by avoiding the need to buy additional machines or train staff and avoids adding machines and specialized staff Takes advantage of Google’s vast data processing infrastructure to analyze billions of rows of data in five seconds using a simple SQL-like language Boo-box, which runs one of the top ad networks in Brazil, uses BigQuery to target its ads more effectively. Under the boo-box model, publishers earn money by hosting ads on their websites and blogs, while advertisers reach new customers by displaying ads on websites that deliver the best results. Boo-box, which Fast Company called one of the world’s most innovative companies, uses BigQuery to hone its targeting and gain near real-time insights into the more than 3 billion ads it places on 350,000 blogs and websites each month. As the Sao Paulo-based boo-box’s user base and ad inventory grew, the company needed to be sure that its system was targeting ads as effectively as possible. Chief technology officer Thyago Liberalli and his team wanted a tool that would improve the system’s intelligence by quickly processing the hundreds of millions of records it generated daily on ad impressions, click throughs, website views, and other variables. The team tried using MySQL triggers — code that automatically updates information throughout a database each time one change is made — to uncover relationships within the data, such as the numbers of unique users per ad, per publisher, and per format (for example, banner vs. video ads). However, this approach was tedious, since the team needed to update the code each time they wanted to explore different relationships. They then tried Hadoop, but it proved unfeasible since it required continual investments in infrastructure and a specialized staff to run it. The team needed a less cumbersome, highly scalable tool to gain deeper insights into the information and improve ad targeting. Boo-box began using BigQuery in early 2011. The web-based service, which enables companies to analyze massive datasets using Google’s data processing infrastructure, helps Liberalli and his team gain the robust insights they need without having to purchase expensive machines or train staff. In addition, the service uses a familiar, SQL-like query language that was easy for the staff to learn. Liberalli and his team upload their data to Cloud Storage, which allows users to store and manage data on Google’s infrastructure. From there, they import the information into BigQuery. They can analyze billions of rows of data in seconds, enabling them to explore their data much more deeply than they could with MySQL triggers or Hadoop. They can query the data to discover how many unique visitors are viewing blogs and websites, identify the most successful ad formats, and gain other information. “Google’s infrastructure gives us incredible data processing capabilities with little effort on our part,” Liberalli says. “BigQuery lets us perform analyses on the fly and receive answers in seconds. We know that as our customer base grows, the service will scale with us.” Google BigQuery is saving boo-box more than $200,000 per year, since the company does not need to purchase additional hardware or to train staff to run a Hadoop system. Just as important, BigQuery’s fast insights are helping boo-box customers achieve better results from their ad spending. “We can now provide our customers information such as the number of unique visitors to their ads on different websites and blogs, which we couldn’t in the past,” Liberalli says. “This improves their engagement with the service and has even increased their ad spend.” BigQuery’s power and ease of use are also helping boo-box staff with other important business tasks. They can use insights gained through the service to develop complex revenue forecasts, for instance. “BigQuery has helped strengthen our company in many ways,” Liberalli says. “For any company needing a powerful analytics solution, BigQuery should be the top choice.” “Google’s infrastructure gives us incredible data processing capabilities with little effort on our part. BigQuery lets us perform analyses on the fly and receive answers in seconds. We know that as our customer base grows, the system will scale with us.” —Thyago Liberalli, chief technology officer, Boo-box	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1038
__label__cc	0.637865	0.362135	Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences AMCS Main navigation AMCS Program Guide More rain for the Red Sea if El Niño breezes in earth science and engineering ErSE ECRC CEMSE-AMCS-ECRC-Vertical-Structure-Of-The-Winter-Wind-Circulation Vertical structure of the winter wind circulation over the Red Sea depicts the Red Sea Convergence Zone and the transport of moisture to the northern regions. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been shown, for the first time, to play a role in increased rainfall and storms along the Red Sea and surrounding regions. During the winter months, from October to March, the northern Red Sea experiences northwesterly winds from the Mediterranean and southeasterly winds from the Gulf of Aden. These winds form the Red Sea Convergence Zone (RSCZ), an area characterized by cloudy skies and drizzle that contrasts with the typically clear weather of the region. Associate Professor of earth science and engineering Ibrahim Hoteit and colleagues at KAUST have explored how the intensity and position of the RSCZ affects rainfall during the winter months and how it is influenced by the ENSO. “The Red Sea is a narrow basin; thus, it requires high spatially resolved data to accurately describe variations in the RSCZ,” explains Hoteit. “This means we require extensive and accurate datasets to assess the influence of the ENSO variability on the region’s rainfall.” The team modeled rainfall patterns between 1979 and 2016. This involved combining data from a number of datasets from NASA’s ERA-Interim, a global atmospheric reanalysis, and the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer for sea surface temperatures with satellite data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the Asia focused APHRODITE, a dataset containing gridded daily precipitation. Using data on wind speeds and patterns, the researchers first identified the position and intensity of the RSCZ and the locations of the associated high- and low-pressure systems. Then, to explore the mechanisms responsible for rainfall, they analyzed variables, such as convective available potential energy, total column perceptible water vapor and evaporation. “Because rainfall intensity is associated with the meeting of different water-vapor fluxes, we used a moisture budget analysis to identify the sources of moisture and to estimate the amount of rainfall in the region,” says Dr. Hari Dasari, the first author of the study. Ibrahim Hoteit Professor, Earth Science and Engineering ErPE Geophysical Fluid Modeling Bayesian Estimation uncertainty quantification Numerics Algebraic flux correction for finite element discretizations of hyperbolic conservation laws Prof. Dmitri Kuzmin, Applied Mathematics, TU Dortmund University 14:00-15:00, Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214 Energy and Entropy in Numerical Methods 12:00-13:00, Building 9, Level 2, Hall 2 Gaurav Agarwal wins IISA best student paper award 2020.01.19IISA Award Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences Program Research at AMCS AMCS Faculty Careers at AMCS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1044
__label__cc	0.547725	0.452275	Home > News < ‘Time for the Right-Wing to Unite’ ‘Time for the Right-Wing to Unite’ Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for the formation of a joint right-wing list Monday, after the left-wing Labor and Meretz parties formed an alliance ahead of the 2020 Knesset election • Full Story Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home-National Union) called for the formation of a joint right-wing list Monday, after the left-wing Labor and Meretz parties formed an alliance ahead of the 2020 Knesset election. With just days left before the Wednesday night deadline for registering Knesset lists for the election, Smotrich urged the small right-wing parties to reform the Yamina list which brought together the Jewish Home, National Union, and New Right factions in the September election. Otzma Yehudit, which is currently allied with the Jewish Home, did not run as part of the Yamina list in September. “After the Left united – and even if they hadn’t – we must all unite,” Smotrich tweeted Monday morning. “From one end of the [Right] to the other.” “This morning I’m continuing to push towards this goal, in every way and from every possible direction.” “The Right won’t forgive anyone who prevents this unity and causes tens of thousands of votes to go to waste. That is the reason why we didn’t have a right-wing government formed after the first election” last April. Earlier on Monday, the Labor and Meretz parties announced that they had formed a joint list for the 2020 election. Peretz will be placed in the first spot on the slate, followed by Gesher chairwoman Orly Levy-Abekasis. Meretz chairman Nitzan Horowitz will be placed in the third spot. A Knesset member from Meretz will be placed in the fourth spot on the list, and Labor members will be placed in the fifth and sixth spots. Tags: Israel Fox News Updates on Israel Israel Bardugo’s Exceptional Exhibition Watch: Fox News Amona Coverage Tefillin For Israel In Melbourne	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1048
__label__cc	0.666141	0.333859	champagne&backpacks Category Archives: Village & Yurt Stays Asia, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Village & Yurt Stays Just Slip Out the Back, Jack. Make a New Plan, Stan. Seeya ‘Stans! May 16, 2014 champagne&backpacks 1 Comment Ahh, our last few days in the ‘Stans. We checked out the yurts in Uzbekistan, but Kyrgyzstan’s nomadic culture just begged for some additional round accommodations. So, naturally, we drove out to the far side of Lake Issyk Kul to stay in a yurt for the night. This experience was much more rustic than our “fancy” yurt stay in Uzbekistan (as in no flushing toilets (though they weirdly had a Western style Porta Potty), no running water, no potable water, and certainly no showers). To be fair though, they provided lots of blankets and even a small space heater (much appreciated as it got COLD at night). It was also far quieter, as we were the only guests on the premises. So while we sadly missed out on the Russian serenading, we thoroughly enjoyed a little solitude among the peaks. ::yurt camp:: ::yurting:: ::walking up to yurt camp:: ::the road in:: The best part, by far: the views! It was most certainly a yurt with a view. Though set back quite a ways from the lake, the yurts were nestled in a pretty phenomenal spot, with a view of the picturesque Lake Issyk Kul backed by snow capped mountains on one side, and more red stone mountains behind. ::yurt with a view!:: ::Lake Issyk Kul:: We walked down to the lake the first day and were pretty blown away. I’m definitely more of an ocean person than a lake person (speaking strictly for myself here, Alan goes both ways when it comes to bodies of water), but this lake was pretty awesome. It was a lovely turquoise color, had a sandy shoreline (with oddly reddish sand) and even had waves. While much too early in the season when we arrived, it’s rumored to be a very agreeable place to cool off from the hot summer heat. ::best part of traveling with family? someone to capture your selfies:: ::love the color of the sand:: After lunch at the yurt we explored Manjyly-Ata, a holy pilgrimage sight with sacred springs believed to cure a plethora of maladies. I think the Kyrgyz have been draining these dry though because we barely even saw trickles coming from them. Ah well, the views and the donkeys were worth it. ::not a ton of water left:: ::donkeys!:: A few days later, on our drive out from the home stay, we stopped in a village to get an introduction to yurts (aka bozuy, in Kyrgyzstan) and how they’re made. We saw the intricacy and detail required to build the collapsible wooden frames, how they are hoisted together, and then covered in layers of felt and woven mats made from a tall grass called chiy. We even tried our hand at making some decorative chiy, and I’m disappointed to admit we were not as skilled as the masters (shocker, I know). ::raising the (yurt) roof:: ::her daughter was too cute:: Our next stop was a village stay to get a feel for the rural Kyrgyz experience. While the accommodations were far from luxurious, we were really glad we got to witness this scene. The village we stayed in was tiny, maybe three or four blocks wide and a mile long (if that). You could see the whole place just by hiking up half an hour on the mountains nearby. And you’re more likely to see a horse than a car on the dirt road that runs through the center of “town.” Everything and everyone here comes from a radius of just a few miles. The family we stayed with are, like most of their neighbors, farmers. They farm potatoes, and at times carrots, beets, onions and garlic. They have their own horses, sheep, goats, chickens and cows. And these furry friends (mostly) live in the backyard. ::view of the village:: ::getting to know the family farm:: ::I stopped to pet this baby cow on every trip to the bathroom:: ::good dreams or bad??:: Overall, the home had a fair number of modern comforts and conveniences (a television, DVD player, a dead fox on the wall… We got a kick out of the bedroom décor.), but the bathroom is rustic for sure. Getting there entails a foray through the animal pen to a small wooden outhouse with a tiny triangle cut out of the floor. I think it is uncommon to stay in homes like this, as most tourists visit later in the season and stay up the hillside in yurt camps (that were not yet set up for our visit). Clearly six months of travel through Asia has changed our standards a bit, as I was just excited that they had toilet paper. ::five-star facilities:: ::en route to the toilet:: ::don’t you just love what they did with the care bears and the dead fox?:: We stopped in to visit the village school and were bombarded with cute kids. I mean, really. We were even treated to a class rendition of the Kyrgyz national anthem (accompanied by the music teacher on accordion). ::headed straight to the top of the class:: ::how awesome is this guy?:: And a video for your listening pleasure… The mother of our house cooked all our meals and we ate at the table pseudo-with her. (She speaks no English, so she kind of just watches you eat and then refills your teacup every few minutes). The food was actually pretty good, if you could get past the hairs in it (seriously, I think there was a hair in every item I touched. Woman needs some anti-hair-fall Pantene). But oh well, I suppose a few hairs are a necessary evil when all the food is so local it’s literally coming from the back yard. Lady made a mean chak chak (sticky sweet fried noodles). And as with many places we stayed in Kyrgyzstan, she provided some phenomenal jams, which we slathered on bread until the carb police had to pull us away. ::veritable feast:: To work off the lamb and jam we went on a really nice hike up the mountains behind the school. It was positively picturesque up there. Steep, rocky and craggy in parts, there were also wide valleys full of grazing sheep and their shepherd on horseback (who, by the way, was the only other person we passed on the trails). I loved that the local village has a carpool equivalent set up for their sheep: they take turns shepherding all the neighborhood sheep up the mountains to feed. ::sheep carpooling:: ::the sheep fur gets stuck in the thorns:: Up top (at perhaps 3,000 meters) we were afforded immense views of Lake Issyk Kul and behemoth mountains in seemingly every direction. Pretty incredible, especially once we realized some of these peaks were around 4,700 meters! That (almost) rivals the heights we reached trekking in the Himalayas! I decided to hold down the home stay while Alan, Ron and Linda went horseback riding one morning. You know, my whole being afraid of everything, thing. Horses are such a prominent part of the Kyrgyz history and culture, and these were some well-trained steeds, so they enjoyed the outing. In the hopes of finding a shower and a flushing toilet we moved to a different home stay the next night, this time in a town called Kochkor. The town was far more substantial, and the experience was more hotel-like than home stay, but trust me we were happy about the bathroom situation. And the dinner spread was impressive, complete with a tiered tray of desserts. No complaints here ☺ ::lovely Orto-Tokoy Reservoir, which we passed on the drive:: ::our last yurt dinner:: On the way out of Kyrgyzstan, we spent one uneventful night in the town of Naryn so that we could make the long drive across the Torugart Pass to China the following day. Naryn may have its charms, but I would not say they reveal themselves during a drive down the main drag. It’s in the mountains with a river running through it, but seems slightly more gritty than alpine cozy. We did little here other than get really excited at the thought of private flushing toilets in our room, only to be disappointed when the tank literally fell off the toilet and shattered in Ron and Linda’s room, which required shutting the water off in our adjoining room. To make matters worse, there was some confusion about whether our room bill was already paid or not. Yet another miscommunication by our tour operator, which fortunately we resolved without too much commotion. At least we got in a little excitement in Naryn, eh? ::bright side? even when it’s raining the drives are beautiful!:: And, at long last, it was time to bid farewell to the ‘Stans. We (shocker) piled into the van for a long drive across the border, bracing ourselves for our old familiar and favorite (not) Central Asian pastime: overland border crossings. At first, the road was very smooth, and the scenery was quite beautiful. Then the road turned into dirt and while the ride was much less pleasant the view only increased in grandeur. It was remote, and beautiful, with nothing but pastures of sheep… …stunning mountains… …endless stretches of road surrounded by pastures of sheep and mountains… …and a truck carrying a yurt. (Also lots of furry marmots running funnily. If you’ve never watched a marmot run, you’re missing out, man.) It became impossible to hold out for toilets, so we used these lovely facilities: ::bathroom break:: And then we finally for once had a relatively smooth border crossing experience. I mean sort of…it still took hours, but this time mostly because checkpoints were as much as 70km apart. But by comparison, we had it good, since we picked up a poor stranded Dutch couple that had been waiting for their car from China for hours at the gate between Kyrgyzstan and China. And Torugart Pass is renowned as one of Asia’s most unpredictable borders, due to frequent logistically caused gridlock and weather related closures (it sits at an altitude of more than 12,300 feet!). Not to mention the lines of dozens of trucks sitting in a row on either side of the border. So I think we were pretty lucky. Most of our time in Central Asia was arranged through a UK-based travel agent, but eco- and community based tourism are popular in Kyrgyzstan and thus we arranged a few nights of yurt and home stay lodging via Ecotour. This is the website: http://www.ecotour.kg. It is a good idea to bring drinking water or purification tools as potable water was not always available. And if you need your coffee, bring some instant grounds. Kochkor is one of the centers for Kyrgyzstan’s budding community based tourism industry. Through outfits like CBT, Shepherd’s Life and others, you can arrange home stays, yurt stays, horse trekking, day trips to Song-Kul Lake, etc. When we altered some plans mid-trip, Ainura at Shepherd’s Life was very kind and helpful. To clarify here, we had arranged things through Ecotour, which has an office in Bishkek, and we were pleased with their services. But Shepherd’s Life got involved because they have an office in Kochkor, and so they coordinated the local changes. A popular attraction in this region is Song-Kul Lake, which we might have visited had it been later in the season and/or we had more time. We also skipped Tash Rabat on the drive from Naryn to the border because we were worried about getting to the border early enough on a Friday to minimize the risk of missing the cut off and getting stuck until Monday! Transportation: We arranged our own transport from Green Yard Hotel in Karakol to Bokonbayevo, where we met our Ecotour team. The drive from Green Yard was two hours. We paid 3,500 KGS for a (very) small minivan. The other options were 2,500 for a sedan or 5,000 for a luxury SUV. Green Yard helped us arrange this. We could have taken a public bus for much less money. From Bokonbayevo our transport through Ecotour was a white Mercedes minibus, of the sort seen all over Kyrgyzstan. It took only 15 minutes to reach the yurt camp near the lake shore. The drive from the yurt camp to our first home stay was perhaps 30-45 minutes. From the first home stay to the second in Kochkor, the drive was longer but I don’t recall details. From Kochkor to Naryn, we crossed the Dolon Pass at nearly 10,000 feet elevation. The road was pretty rough much of the time, and this took 2.5 hours. Our last day in Kyrgyzstan involved a very long and rough drive over the Torugart Pass. This border crossing was more pleasant than some of the Uzbek gems, but it was at least as bizarre. We left Naryn at 7:20 am and two hours later reached the first passport checkpoint. We said goodbye to pavement and bumped along for two more hours until we reached the Kyrgyz customs and immigration station. Three passport checks at this spot. Then we continued ascending to the high point of the pass, where we said goodbye to Kyrgyzstan and walked through a gate to our next van on the China side. Then we drove several km down the hill to the first Chinese checkpoint, where again passports were inspected, along with every item in my father’s bag since he had to empty it on the table after passing through the mobile x-ray truck. Continuing on, there was another checkpoint before we finally reached the actual Chinese immigration station. And we must say that these government workers were extraordinarily nice and friendly. It was such a welcome change, Jenni wanted to hug the lady! A few minutes later, we were driving on a perfectly paved, divided highway…and we were ecstatic. There was a full nine hours of actual driving time from Naryn, Kyrgyzstan to Kashgar, China. You can also cross the border at the Irkeshtam Pass, but we were coming from a different part of Kyrgyzstan. Should you decide to cross the Kyrgyz/China border by land, be very diligent in your research and plans because there are many rules and pitfalls for the unwary. Things like you may need to arrive at the border by noon, and you may not be allowed to proceed unless the Kyrgyz officials confirm there is transport awaiting you on the China side. Note that local time in China is two hours later, since that entire country uses one time zone. Be sure you understand whether people are talking about official Beijing time or local Kashgar time, because both may be used. Accommodation: Three of the four nights covered in this post were spent in a yurt or home stay, all arranged by Ecotour. In Naryn we stayed at the Khan Tengri Hotel. There were some mishaps (noted above) and a lack of WiFi, though the property was fine and the onsite restaurant was quite good. It is far enough outside town that you could walk in but might not want to do so. Food: Almost all our meals were covered by the Ecotour package, but I’m including this section to mention two things. (1) we had a yummy stuffed and rolled pasta type dish called oromo, and (2) it’s a good idea to carry water and ample snacks for these long drives, especially crossing the Torugart Pass. May 12-16, 2014 (Monday-Friday) Central AsiaEcotourKyrgyzstanSilk RoadVillage StayYurt Camping Savute Okonjima Iban Longhouse Semenggoh Shangri-La Rasa Ria Eagle Hunting Karakol Animal Market Village & Yurt Stays Kashgar Animal Market Cho La Pass Gokyo Lukla to Namche Bazaar Railay Munich (Oktoberfest) Operation EurAfro Grapes on the Cape champagneandbackpacks@gmail.com Archive Select Month November 2014 (4) October 2014 (10) September 2014 (9) August 2014 (10) July 2014 (4) May 2014 (13) April 2014 (11) March 2014 (7) February 2014 (10) January 2014 (12) December 2013 (20) November 2013 (18) October 2013 (24) September 2013 (28) August 2013 (15) July 2013 (4) November 2010 (1) July 2010 (1)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1049
__label__wiki	0.629636	0.629636	Home » Regional » Ennis » Car-parking costs ‘crippling Ennis’ Car-parking costs ‘crippling Ennis’ October 6, 2011 2,045 Views THE cost of parking in Ennis is “crippling business”, according to one local councillor, who this week claimed “if we don’t reduce the cost, we will be in serious trouble”. However, town manager, Ger Dollard rejected the claim by Councillor Paul O’Shea at this week’s meeting of Ennis Town Council, saying that the price of parking in Ennis is comparable with major towns on the low end of the scale. He stated that reducing charges could result in a reduction in the amount of money available for local authority spending in the town. The debate arose from a motion tabled by Councillor Johnny Flynn, who called for an urgent review of public car-parking usage in Ennis. “I believe we can stimulate our own income stream by dropping the car-parking price,” he said. Responding to the motion, Mr Dollard informed the meeting that a review of car parking in Ennis commenced in autumn 2010 and resulted in the introduction of the 2011 On Street Pay and Display and Car Park bylaws in March 2011. “The charges implemented are under continuous review to assess their impact in terms of space availability and revenue generation,” he stated. He outlined that the 2008 Ennis Car Parking Study made a number of recommendations aimed at improving parking. Recommendations implemented included the active discouragement of long-stay parking within 100m of Abbey Street/O’Connell Street; restricting the use of special parking permits; the creation of two types of annual parking permit; re-designation of the 39 long-stay spaces in Friars Walk for short-stay parking only; reviewing the use at Bindon Street car park, where space turnover appears low; extension of the two-hour maximum stay zone to include both Market Place and Friars Walk carparks. Mr Dollard told the meeting that when he first joined the council, the debate centred on a shortage of parking but the focus has now shifted to cost. He said that the council has three main sources of income, including parking charges, warning, “If your income sources are under pressure then you are limited in what you can do and maybe we would have to look at our expenditure.” Councillor Flynn argued that reducing the parking charge should be examined as Ennis is competing with Limerick, which last year offered free car parking for shoppers in the lead-up to Christmas. “People can drive elsewhere and do their shopping and get free parking. Local businesses are down on Saturday trading and they are looking for some incentive,” he said. Councillor Paul O’Shea said it was “imperative” that parking charges are reduced as they are “crippling business”. “People want to support local traders, we have some of the best clothes shops not just in Ireland but in Europe and we have fantastic local produce in our markets. But people won’t come into Ennis because of the price of parking,” he said. Councillor Peter Considine urged that another study be carried out comparing Ennis’ parking charges and rates with other towns around the country of a similar size. “That would give us an idea of the situation, I would not like people to think that Ennis is the most expensive places to park because it’s not.” Councillor Michael Guilfoyle insisted that the cost of shopping in Ennis has become too expensive and dismissed the idea that parking charges are keeping people away. “When you go into town there doesn’t seem to be a recession given the prices of food, drink and clothing. “I don’t think Ennis is a cheap place. People only have so much money in their pockets to spend, no matter what way you look at it. All the doom and gloom is being blamed on parking charges but there are a lot more higher costs in the shops.” He argued that many people who live in Ennis walk into the town to do their shopping. Councillor Frankie Neylon said the situation needs to be discussed when the council looks at the estimates. “There needs to be a genuine effort to relieve some of the problems,” he said. He added that many local businesses are making special offers available in a bid to entice shoppers. “It’s a difficult situation to be in business wise because they don’t have the footfall and the reason for that is the parking,” he said. “He also suggested that signs advertising where parking is available in the town be placed on approaching routes. Councillor Tommy Brennan stated that car-parking charges “can’t be blamed for everything that’s happening in Ennis”. About News Editor Previous Killaloe centre launches new counselling service Next Council on target with road works Ennis receives €2m in Local Authority Housing funding CLARE County Council has received approval in principle for more than €2 million in funding …	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1058
__label__wiki	0.582705	0.582705	Lisa Renner Lisa Renner has been a journalist for 22 years and has worked for The California Health Report, The Modesto Bee, The San Mateo County Times and The Tri-Valley Herald. She is a freelance writer and the proud mother of two energetic small boys. She enjoys reading, camping and playing piano and violin. @MilleganRenner Ingrid Ahlgren Ingrid Ahlgren is a freelance writer and editor, currently based in New York City. Joanna Corman Joanna Corman is a Sacramento-based freelance journalist, writer and editor. Josh Brodesky is a San Antonio-based writer. @joshbrodesky Cindy Baker Cindy Baker is a Sacramento-based freelance journalist. Nelson Harvey Nelson Harvey is a freelance print and radio journalist currently based in Denver, Colorado. He is also the editor of edibleASPEN magazine. He has reported for a wide range of newspapers, magazines, websites and radio stations, and particularly likes writing about food, agriculture, and the environment. Nelson has worked as a farmer, waiter, juicer, tutor, delivery man, recycling collector, amateur mixologist, and lab intern. Kristen Lowrey Larson Kristen Larson is a former freelance writer current owner of Kristen Larson Content Marketing. Janet Fullwood Janet Fullwood is a Sacramento-based freelance journalist. Robert Ehlert Robert Ehlert is a freelance writer. Kim Laughton Kim Laughton is president of Schwab Charitable, based in San Francisco.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1067
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__label__wiki	0.721328	0.721328	MoneyGram Boosts Ripple And XRP With The Latest Move Ripple has been enjoying a great year and the company also made huge efforts to boost XRP. MoneyGram is also boosting XRP, and Ripple fans could not be more excited these days. Entering new corridors by the end of the year A lot of rumors surrounding MoneyGram and their connection to Ripple and XRP surfaced in the crypto space. MoneyGram seems to be planning to expand its partnership with Ripple, using the fintech’s XRP-based cross-border payments solution to enter new corridors by the end of 2019. Now, CEO of payment giant MoneyGram said that the company is expanding its use of Ripple’s XRP-based ODL intro four new corridors. Alex Holmes addresses the former xRapid aka ODL In a new interview at Swell 2019, Alex Holmes talks about the company’s early experience with the cross-border payments product formerly known as xRapid. “We’re pushing today about 10% of our volume that we normally do to Mexico through the ODL platform. It’s working extremely well,” he said. He continued and explained “We’ve now opened into four new corridors that we’re beginning to scale. And I think that those will continue to ramp in the coming weeks and months…” Settling billions of dollars in a matter of seconds It’s been also revealed that ODL relies on crypto exchanges to accept fiat from financial institutions and send the equivalent value in XRP across borders, and then it’s converted back to fiat. The process can be completed in a few minutes, and the assets are exposed to XRP for a few seconds. Holmes says the solution is capable of moving billions of dollars in an instant. “What I love about ODL is that we’re completely at the forefront of this technology…We’re able to settle billions of dollars in seconds. The magic really comes from pairing MoneyGram transactions with Ripple’s ODL.” alex holmes Eduard Watson Author An experienced finance writer for more than 10 years, active industry watcher, and gadget enthusiast.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1092
__label__wiki	0.505742	0.505742	Use Monero (XMR) As A Currency, Not An Investment, Riccardo Spagni Tells Forbes One of Forbes’ latest articles presents Monero’s Riccardo Spagni’s views on XMR. Riccardo Spagni – aka FluffyPony on Crypto Twitter – tells author Leslie Ankney that XMR is not the best choice as an investment. Use XMR as a currency “Monero's probably not an investment. It's designed to be a currency, and in particular it's designed to be a privacy-preserving currency,” are his exact words as reported by Forbes. For Spagni, Monero is reportedly not only a crypto with its own unique codebase; its setup reflects his beliefs. “I'm a big advocate for personal privacy. I think that it should be a basic human right. The way all our data has just sort of been splurged online through hacks and compromises and malware and sometimes our own stupidity, we're in a situation where privacy-preserving projects are a necessity,” he said via Forbes. We recommend that you read the complete Forbes article to see more of Spagni’s beliefs on Monero. Monero gets ready for a hardfork Monero (XMR) seems to be ready for the next hardfork. Ambcrypto revealed that the Monero team made the recent announcement and revealed that the hardfork would occur on block number 1788000 and it will take place on March 9, 2019. It was also reported that the new fork would be not introducing new features for Monero besides new notification and new block size algorithm. A statement also followed which revealed that the testing of the fork should be an easy one and there will be some small changes with it. “Apparently this will be forked with the current 0.13 code, so very few. A couple of default payment ID changes, new adaptive block size algorithm, new notifications, and the new mining algorithm. I don’t know when the 0.14 code will be used,” a Redditor explained via Ambcrypto. The announcement was not exactly received with open arms by the Monero community. Andreas Townsend Author I am a technical writer, author and blogger since 2005. An industry watcher that stays on top of the latest features, extremely passionate about finance news and everything related to crypto.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1093
__label__cc	0.687383	0.312617	New Costume Exhibitions - Get Thee to New York Part 2! Yesterday, I featured the first part of a unique double exhibit taking place this summer in New York. Last year, the Metropolitan Museum and the Brooklyn Museum began the massive job of transferring the Brooklyn Museum's extensive costume collection to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum. In the process, so many treasures have been discovered that an unusual double exhibit was designed to highlight the finds. Tomorrow, May 7, "American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection" opens at the Brooklyn Museum, and believe me, you do not want to miss it! The exhibit will feature approximately 85 garments from American designers, including Bonnie Cashin, Charles James, Norman Norell, Gilbert Adrian, and others, along with hats, shoes, handbags, and other accessories that have not been shown for years. Also included will be garments from French designers who influenced American fashion, such as Schiaparelli, Dior, Lanvin, and Vionnet. Following is just a smidgen of what you'll see at this exhibit. Charles James "Butterfly" ball gown, 1955 Carolyn Schnurer cotton sundress, 1951 Claire McCardell wool and cotton ensemble, 1946 Arnold Scaasi silk bubble dress and coat, 1958 Gilbert Adrian silk and metallic evening ensemble worn by Janet Gaynor, 1949 "American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection" is at the Brooklyn Museum from May 7, 2010 - August 1, 2010. The Brooklyn Museum can be reached by subway from the Metropolitan Museum for $2.25 and the ride will take approximately 50 minutes. Do you need any other reasons to go to New York before August 1st? Go! All images courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute. Labels: brooklyn museum, museum exhibit Shouldn't You Be Wearing Pink? Memorial Day Tribute New at Couture Allure - Vintage Dresses and Evenin... Weekend Eye Candy - Chanel, 1987 Vintage Evening Gowns - 1955 Add Some Color to Your Summer J. Peterman Sarong Dress Summer Dressing - 1954 Swimsuits - 1961 Weekend Eye Candy - Paul Poiret, 1925 Luis Estevez - 1961, Part 2 Weekend Eye Candy - Romeo Gigli, 1989 Weekend Eye Candy - Valentino, 1967 Meet Jessica and Alexis Le Groupe Mode et Création Weekend Eye Candy - Audrey Hepburn in Valentino, 1... Vintage Shoe Exhibit in Hong Kong New Costume Exhibitions - Get Thee to New York Par... New Costume Exhibitions - Get Thee to New York! Corsetry - 1940 Candice Bergen, Model - 1969 New at Couture Allure - Vintage Dresses, Suits, an... Weekend Eye Candy - Marcel Rochas, 1951	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1112
__label__cc	0.67771	0.32229	Reclaim your health and freedom the natural way today, We vow to be with you every step of the way! Latest Herpes Research in 2019 Herpes: Causes, Is there a Cure for Herpes? With Herpes Biogetica Immunity Boost Product Latest Research for Herpes Treatment and Cure in 2019 Herpes is the second most prevalent infection on the planet after the common cold! An increasing number of people suffer from it in silence each day. The latest research is dismal as it shows that having herpes more than doubles ones chances of catching both Alzheimers and HIV! As you read this Millions are experiencing a herpes outbreak and billions have the virus snaking around their nerve ganglia unchecked. There are also others who never have outbreaks since their immune systems have the virus in check. There is little that “modern” medicine has been able to achieve in terms of a viable herpes treatment, cure or vaccine. The research continues, but what always tends to limit results is the fact that the virus lies dormant in places where medicines do not get to it and only the immune system can. Thus an increasing number of people each day leave the Doctors office with life shattering diagnosis of “you have herpes, and there is no cure for herpes”. What really are their options? Where have we reached in our search for a herpes cure? Does this “no cure for herpes” statement truly stand true even today or has our understanding of viruses, their diagnoses and treatment evolved to a point that it doesn’t hold true. Evidence Based Multidisciplinary Kits US FDA Approved Herpes Treatments Antivirals such as Acyclovir, Famciclovir and Valacyclovir are presently the only US FDA approved antiviral drugs for the treatment. Although these medications may help reduce the frequency and severity of symptoms, they cannot stop or cure Herpes. The side effects of these drugs can range from nausea and hair loss to severe symptoms of neurotoxicity.(1) The research for an effective herpes allopathy medicine is an extremely expensive and lengthy process. Most pharmaceutical and biomedical companies have been dissuaded by this, diverting their funds into other ailments. Most of Nature never makes it to the FDA as no one is willing to fund research and approvals on a plant that cannot be patented. And yet mankind has relied on plants for millennia in its pursuit of good health. Religious texts such as the Bible Say “The Lord hath created medicines out of the Earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them!”(2) However, in accordance with the present laws, only your FDA has the right to label something as a treatment or cure. The laws differ in each country and given below are some of the treatments approved outside of USA. EU Approved Herpes Treatment: Herpes Nosodes (Homeopathy) A herpes nosode is an energetic, homeopathic imprint of HSV Viral RNA that is traditionally used to empower a very specific response from your immune system. Imprints do not contain any actual virus in them like vaccines do, but aim to strengthen your system and make it difficult for the virus to survive. A peer reviewed published clinical trial(3) reports that: ‘82% of French clinical trial participants who took Herpes nosodes for just 6 Months had reduced or NO Genital Herpes outbreaks for 5 Years!’* As per the new FTC Enforcement Policy Statement on Marketing Claims for OTC Homeopathic Drugs, sellers of homeopathy products must state that: There is insufficient scientific evidence that homeopathy works, and The product's claims are based only on theories of homeopathy from the 1700s that are not accepted by most modern medical experts. Nosodes are not an FDA approved treatment or cure for herpes in USA as of now. So they can only be used to boost immune response outside of lands that allow for homeopathic treatment. Homeopathy is considered a valid medicine system in India and most of the EU. Switzerland recently passed a law that ensures insurance payments for the same. The USA supports homeopathy only for Over-The-Counter (OTC) issues. Indian AYUSH Approved Ayurvedic Treatment for Herpes Hyperisince: A unique combination of ayurvedic anti-viral herbs including hypericum mysorense Since Herpes is a family of viruses, Ayurveda recommends antiviral, immune boosting, and cooling herbs. Ancient texts mention Hypericum Mysorense in particular as being helpful against Herpes - the ‘snake virus’ and this was rediscovered recently when news articles such as these reported that the renowned Indian Dr Vijayan had found a Herpes cure. Dr Vijayan tested 18 most popular anti-viral immune boosting herbs at the JSS School of Pharmacology. Of those, Hypericum mysorense and Hypericum hookerianum were the only ones that suppressed the herpes virus 100% in Vitro!(4) The US Library of Medicine hosts the peer reviewed research clearly stating that "Our results showed that H. mysorense and H. hookerianum suppressed HSV infection."* Biogetica’s kits feature this rare and powerful ingredient, and their formulation received AYUSH (Ayurvedic, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) approval in 2007. Performance of Hypericum Mysorense in Trials Clinical trials of Hypericum Mysorense revealed some of the most promising results ever. The highlights from a recent study(5) published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Research in Ayurveda and Pharmacy are as follows. Percentage of people who reported relief: Over 76% Rating of Hyperisince by a majority of patients: 10 out of 10 Effect of Hyperisince: Reduced nerve pain Decreased healing time of herpes outbreaks from three days to one Reduced likelihood of future outbreaks. Average time taken to heal an outbreak: By Hyperisince – 3 days By Acyclovir (standard allopathy drug) – 10 days Over 80% of patients who took Hyperisince for 4 months or more never had another outbreak! These results are truly ground-breaking! Herpes Vaccine Research(6) After a number of clinical trials of both therapeutic and preventive vaccines for genital and oral herpes, the efforts were abandoned due to partial or complete failure(7). A case in point is Genocea's experimental herpes vaccine GEN-001, which was declared ineffective in reducing outbreaks caused by HSV-2. Resolve Herpes Resolve Herpes seems to have done a good job of getting their word out. However, we were not able to find a single iota of published clinical evidence to back up their claims. Other Traditional Natural Treatments for Herpes Supported by Scientific Research Black seed oil (Nigella Sativa or black cumin)(8): Studies indicate that this herb exhibits significant antiviral activity. Lysine(9): Studies report less severe symptoms and speedier healing. Chinese herbs(10): A TCM doctor might suggest a herbal decoction that combines Astralagus(11) and Glycyrrhizaglabra (licorice)(12). Prunella vulgaris(13): Potentially believed to address inflammatory conditions and certain infections. Sida cordifolia(14): Along with other Ayurvedic herbs, it helps inhibit the herpes simplex virus. Olive Leaf Extract(15): Research indicates that this herb has anti-HSV-1 activity as it forms a barrier field around the infected cells, thus inhibiting their activity. Monolaurin(16): It is believed to dissolve viral envelopes and this then supposedly makes it easier for the immune system to eradicate them. Health Canada now recommends monolaurin to all HIV and Herpes patients. Copper lysinate(17): Research suggests that this organic complex may prevent the absorption of elements on which Herpes simplex virus thrives. Cat's claw(18): A study showed that Cat's claw may help boost the immunity and inhibit viral attachment in the host cells. Picrorhiza Kurroa(19): Results of an In vivo study suggested that Picrorhiza may be a potent immunostimulant. Acoruscalamus(20): An In vitro study revealed that this herb has immune-boosting and immunomodulatory properties. Vitamin C(21): Ascorbic acid has been shown to inactivate a wide range of viruses in vitro, including Herpes simplex virus. Results inconclusive or require further research Red Marine Algae: In a laboratory setting, algae extract has been shown to inhibit HSV-2 growth; however further research is required. Colloidal Silver: No valid science-backed research so far Oregano: Used as a home remedy, but no scientific researches or large scale clinical trials so far Bee products: No evidence of benefits so far Echinacea: No evidence of benefits so far Please do read the information on Ayurveda at the bottom of this page. Since herpes is not amenable for self diagnosis and treatment in USA, you must visit a licensed Doctor in your state and city to treat it. Only your country’s individual FDA has the right to decide if something is a herpes cure or treatment, and no one else can, based on herpes research alone. The peer reviewed and published researches linked above have most probably not been studied or approved by the FDA in your country as a treatment or cure. Hence no claims can be made by calling anything a cure or treatment, until the FDA in your country goes through the 5 year process to do so. We do hope that every country’s FDA realizes the disastrous effects of herpes and then studies these herbs in the interests of public health. Our products have not been displayed on this page because, as of now, they cannot be associated with herpes in the countries that have not evaluated them as a herpes treatment yet. However, you may choose to take Hypericum mysorense, Herpes Nosodes, Black Seed Oil, monolaurin and others in one easy-to-use immune boosting kit from here. Our kits make it possible for you to avail high quality natural ingredients from across the globe in the form of one easy-to-use package. They will be discreetly delivered to your doorstep. We, at Biogetica, are passionate about purity, meticulous about quality and sensitive to energetic sanctity. Each ingredient is acquired from the most pristine source available in order to ensure purity and bio-availability. Our stringent quality controls greatly enhance the bio-active molecules of each plant that we bottle. It is these controls that ensure that Biogetica can consistently deliver potent bio-active products that make a noticeable difference in your lives. You will sooner or later realize that Nature completes you, even when all else fails, and this is why we are able to stand by these immune boost products night and day! If you have herpes, take it as a life’s alarm bell to make a combined use of high-quality foods and supplements that nourish you and make your healing easy. Complement your diet with our immunity boosting kits that aid your unique situation. Why do so many people trust natural, holistic methods for Herpes Cure even in 2019? Modern medicine aims to stop the viruses from replicating in your body or kill them. The virus however keeps mutating. This is why even in 2019, there is no cure for herpes in western medicine systems, nor any vaccine to prevent it. US FDA approves antiviral drugs as herpes treatments. These drugs attempt to control attacks once the virus crosses the blood brain barrier and manifests itself as an outbreak. Outbreaks occur when immunity is low and there are no drugs that boost immunity nor drugs that get to the virus when it is dormant in the nerve ganglia. Drugs such as acyclovir are reported to have side effects under certain conditions(22). It is also contentious whether taking anti-virals lowers one's chance of infecting another or if taking them during outbreaks reduces the frequency of future outbreaks. So if allopathy drugs cannot be considered ‘Herpes cure,’ and if their approach is disagreeable, what options exist for patients who are seeking the answers? The image below throws light on the comparison of conventional approach versus holistic. Please visit the Herpes Ayurvedic Diet section to find out which foods will nurture you the most in this stage. You will find a lot of useful information there, but if you want precise suggestions catering to your specific health condition, you may chat with a Biogetica doctor by clicking here. Once you are informed and can choose a healing protocol, you can face these viruses from a place of empowerment, instead of powerlessness, fear or shame. Remember that life of freedom and comfort? Come let's quantum leap back to it, the Biogetica way today! Feel free to discuss our holistic approach with your doctor. Sharing knowledge that can help uplift lives is an act of immeasurable value, and we plead you to discuss the approaches outlined here with anyone in need. We appreciate your choice to be here, and your choice to consider Nature and Biogetica your allies on this path. We vow to be with you every step of the way. All testimonials on this page have been withheld as they may imply a cure or treatment. We are here to help you to understand your ailment. Consult a Biogetica Practitioner Now! View Evidence Based Multidisciplinary Kits [+] References https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)00182-5/pdf https://www.biblestudytools.com/lxx/sirach/passage/?q=sirach+38:4-14 http://www.ijrap.net/admin/php/uploads/1831_pdf.pdf http://www.ashasexualhealth.org/herpes-vaccine-research/ https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/06/11/vical%E2%80%99s-herpes-vaccine-bombs-company-exit-hsv-research-13069 https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/14724098 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281611837_Sida_cordifolia_a_Traditional_Herb_in_Modern_Perspective_-_A_Review https://www.catie.ca/ga-pdf.php?file=sites/default/files/mono.pdf http://www.altmedrev.com/archive/publications/11/2/93.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378874186900255 Disclaimer information: Ayurveda is only considered medicine in India and no disease claims can be made for it outside India. The Indian AYUSH department has now particularlyapproved Hyperisince as a herbal treatment to manage herpes. Outside of India, you may take these potent Ayurvedic herbs to boost your immunity. We at Biogetica will always comply with the law.We will ensure that only the FDA in your country makes any treatment or cure claims for herpes. Unique 100% Natural Multi-Disciplinary Kits Our products are sold in unique multi-disciplinary kits that are 100% natural and not available anywhere else.Results may vary from person to person and we will promptly refund you the entire purchase price if you are not truly amazed. Try our Products Now! Our Unconditional 100 % Money Back Guarantee is Valid for 90 days. We put people before profits and will deliver these products to you against any donation if you truly cannot afford them. You may discuss this donation based program with our doctors during your consultation. With you Every Step of the Way to Ease Your Life. All our products are made in FDA and WHO compliant GMP certified Laboratories in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, USA, India and New Zealand. They are appropriately registered with the FDA in various countries as either Dietary supplements, Homeopathic medicine or Ayurvedic herbs. Utmost care is taken to ensure purity and optimum quality. Biogetica is a website visited from across the globe. Some countries consider Ayurveda, TCM, Supplements, Bioenergetics and Homeopathy to be medicine, while others do not. In order to comply with various FDA norms of numerous nations we say: Ayurveda & Homeopathy may or may not qualify as medicine in your home jurisdiction. The complementary advice of our practitioners who are considered Homeopathic and Ayurvedic Doctors in some jurisdictions does not replace the medical advice given by your primary care physician. Biogetica's Homeopathic products may be used for treatment of self limiting over the counter ailments in USA, India & Europe that support Homeopathy for OTC use. Biogetica's Herbal remedies from the Ayurvedic, Chinese and other traditions may only be used to balance the 5 elements and rejuvenate organ systems in countries where Herbs, Ayurveda and TCM are not considered medicine. Biogetica's ground breaking supplements may only be used to support the ideal structure and function of the various systems in the Human Body. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Our products are are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. * This peer reviewed and published research has most probably not been studied or approved by the FDA in your country as a treatment or cure. Hence no disease claims can be made and you are welcome to take the natural ingredients for (immunity, lung health, cardiovascular health etc). Homeopathy is medicine in USA but only for OTC issues. Ayurveda is medicine only in India and TCM is medicine only in China. Switzerland supports insurance payments for Homeopathy. + All Homeopathic products are made in accordance with the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, a document which has been published for over 100 years and which is recognized as an "official compendium" by Sections 501(b) and 502(e)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 351(b) and 352(e)(3) ("FD&C Act")." These indications are based solely on traditional homeopathic use. They have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. As per the new Regulations set forth by the US FTC in November 2017 we must state that "the product's claims are based only on theories of homeopathy from the 1700s that are not accepted by most modern medical experts". Some Biogetica Homeopathic Products have modern evidence supporting them & others do not. Homeopathy isn't supported by all scientists today. Our remedies have been traditionally used in Ayurveda and Homeopathy for centuries. Each remedy has a varying amount of modern research behind it. We, in abiding by the law make no claims of a miracle cure or permanent results. Individual results may vary from individual to individual. ++ These testimonials are unsolicited and unedited except for the name of the sender. They contain the senders' initials or first name only for purposes of privacy. These are actual letters from many we were able to help over the years. Testimonials represent a cross section of the range of outcomes that appear to be typical with these products. Your results may vary. We do however stand by our products and will refund you completely if our products don't meet your expectations. * Try our Products Now! Our Unconditional 100 % Money Back Guarantee is Valid for 90 days. What we do is simply point you and your Doctors to independent research from all sources that we know of, on the ingredients of our natural products, which are Herbal, Ayurvedic, Bioenergetic, Homeopathic and Complementary in nature. We invite you to read these studies on our clinical trials page or on scholar.google.com. Results may vary from person to person. Dr. Vijaykumar S. Kamat Dr Vijay Kamat graduated from K.L.E. society’s Shri B. M. Kankanwadi Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Belgaum, India; one of the oldest Ayurvedic institutions in India. He is a prestigious member of the Ayurvedic Association of India. He possesses deep ancestral and research-based knowledge of plants, and is passionate about bringing age-old secrets of Ayurveda within the reach of a common man. In keeping with his passion, he is presently leading the medical team of Biogetica – a collective of Doctors dedicated to natural medicine. Together, they work to bring evidence-based natural healing solutions to the world. http://www.biogetica.com/bioblog/dr-vijaykumar-s-kamat-b-a-m-s/ 1 M Jenaer, MF Henry, A Garcia, B Marichal. “Evaluation of 2LHERP in preventing recurrences of genital herpes”. British Homeopathic Journal. Volume 89 issue , Oktober 2000, Pages 174-177. https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.1999.0429. 2 Vijaykumar Kamat, Ritu Sandhu. “Patient reported outcomes and patient satisfaction with hyperisince® (an ayurvedic medicine/poly-herbal combination) in herpes simplex”. Interntaional Journal Research Ayurveda Pharm. 8 (3), 2017. DOI: 10.7897/2277-4343.083143. 3 Shari Lieberman, Mary G. Enig, Harry G. Preuss. “A Review of Monolaurin and Lauric Acid: Natural Virucidal and Bactericidal Agents”. Alternative and Complementary Therapies. 12 (6): 310-314. Dezember 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/act.2006.12.310 4 Griffith R.S.a • Walsh D.E.b • Myrmel K.H.b • Thompson R.W.b • Behforooz A. “Success of L-Lysine Therapy in Frequently Recurrent Herpes simplex Infection”.Pharmacology and Treatment. https://doi.org/10.1159/000248823 5 Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan, Arjumand Ather, Kenneth D Thompson, Roberto Gambari. “Extracts and molecules from medicinal plants against herpes simplex viruses”. Antiviral Research. Volume 67, Issue 2, August 2005, Pages 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2005.05.002. 6 Mohammad Motamedifar, Ali Akbar Nekooian, Afagh Moattari. “The Effect of Hydroalcoholic Extract of Olive Leaves against Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1”. Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences. 32 (4): 222-226 Dezember 2007. 7 Mohamed Labib Salem. “Immunomodulatory and therapeutic properties of the Nigella sativa L. seed”. International Immunopharmacology. 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__label__cc	0.720986	0.279014	Tag Archives: Charles City Edgewood Plantation, Virginia Edgewood Plantation Elizabeth “Lizzie” Rowland fell in love with a young man from a nearby estate. As soon as she heard the distinctive gait of her suitor’s horse, Lizzie would run to the window, watching for her true love’s approach. The couple hoped to marry but the onset of the Civil War put their pending nuptials on hold..To Lizzie’s dismay, her fiancé joined the Confederate Army and was called to battle before they could be married. She waited patiently, dreaming of the day he would return and restore normalcy to her life. Each day, Lizzie gazed from her window on the third floor. Listening. Yearning. Praying for the young man’s safety. At one point, she etched her name into the bedroom window glass, some say with a diamond ring. Sadly, the two lovers were never reunited. Lizzie remained a spinster, dying at the age of forty-seven. Legend suggests she succumbed to grief brought on by a broken heart after never reconciling with the unknown fate of her fiancé. Today Edgewood Plantation functions as a bed and breakfast. Frequent sightings of Lizzie’s forlorn ghost have made the B&B a favorite destination for paranormal enthusiasts. The current owners embrace the ghostly presence and encourage visitors to seek their own supernatural experiences. Reported encounters include seeing mists on the stairs and hearing footsteps in the corridor. But a lucky few have glimpsed Lizzie in the upstairs window – still waiting for her lover’s return. by Debra S. Sanders Farley is a small town on the south end of nowhere, tucked between what was and what could have been. Most folks find amusement in the form of fishing, an occasional movie at The Orpheum, or special events like the Fourth of July Parade. But kids on summer break don’t always think the way their parents do and prefer mischief to amusement. Such was the case when Fred Walker brought his prize Hereford bull, Solomon, to town. Fred was on his way to the Double M Ranch so the bull could conduct his annual “servicing” of heifers when he decided to stop at the Lazy Susan Café. After filling a pail with sweet corn, he left Solomon in the livestock trailer and sauntered across the street. It took less than a minute for Lucy Johnson to arrive at his booth with coffee and a slice of apple pie – and even less time for Fred to forget all about Solomon. Since his wife had passed two years earlier, Lucy made sure the handsome widower ate properly by frequently taking leftovers from the restaurant to his house. Of course, the town gossips claimed Fred’s appetite wasn’t the only thing Lucy satisfied. Fred liked apple pie almost as much as he liked the cute little waitress who served it. He didn’t see no harm in taking a half hour to indulge his hankerin’ for something sweet. It wasn’t as if Solomon got paid by the hour. On this particular day, Fred asked for a scoop of ice cream to go with his pie. The weather was hot for the end of June. Looking at Lucy Johnson made it seem even hotter. While ice cream melted across Fred’s pie, a group of local kids were examining their fireworks for the upcoming Fourth of July celebration. It was the biggest event of the year which meant testing the Black Cats beforehand to make sure they popped. No one wanted duds on the Fourth. When Billy Simmons spied Solomon lounging in the back of the livestock trailer, he double-dog dared the Connor boys to stage a Spanish bullfight. using Solomon as “el Toro”. They drew straws to see who would be the lookout, who would open the trailer gate and chase Solomon out with a lit firecracker, and who would be the matador. The plan would have gone flawlessly if Miss Beasley hadn’t come crawling up Main Street in her ’59 Oldsmobile. She slowed down when she saw the bull in the middle of the street. He was madder than a wet hornet because Billy threw a whole string of Black Cats through the window instead of just one. When they started poppin’ around Solomon’s hooves, he charged out of the trailer bellowing like a locomotive and almost trampled Joey Conner in the process. It was no secret Miss Beasley had passed the day when she should be driving a vehicle but the old spinster brandished such a despicable disposition, no one had the nerve to tell her. So when she saw Solomon pawing the ground, the fight was on. Her hand came down on the horn about the same time her foot hit the accelerator. Solomon wasn’t anxious to tangle with the front end of a ’59 Oldsmobile so he headed for the first thing that looked like a barn . . . the open door at Red’s Hardware. Now, there’s no way a twelve-hundred-pound bull is going to fit through a thirty-six-inch entrance. Solomon took the path of least resistance and lunged right through the front glass window. Ignoring the screams from customers, he disappeared down the tool aisle, huffing and panting like a demon from Hell. It was about that time Fred Walker came outside to see what was causin’ all the ruckus. His eyes got real big as he looked at the empty trailer and then at Red’s broken window. Fred took off down the street, disappearing into the feed store. After scooping up sweet grain in an empty coffee can, he headed back to the scene of Solomon’s escape. By this time, a crowd had gathered outside Red’s establishment. Fred pushed through the door and began shakin’ the can, calling Solomon’s name soft and low. Sounded almost like a lullaby. Hearing a snort a few aisles over, Fred moved in that direction. Sure ‘nuff, Solomon was in the middle of the garden department with a piece of hose coiled around his back hoof. Fred poured a little sweet grain into his hand and extended it toward the bull. A long, gooey tongue lapped it up as Solomon nudged his owner affectionately. They exited through the back loading dock with the bull following Fred like a duckling after it’s mama. It was an exciting day, alright. People talked about Solomon’s antics for over a year. Not much happened after that and life returned to the slow, routine pace folks around Farley seem to favor – until someone rented the Elkin’s place. The rundown house on the outskirts of town had been vacant for years, and over time had become the object of several ghost stories. Old timers said a woman died there while waiting for her husband to return from the Civil War. She simply lost her will to live. Minutes before she passed, her husband stumbled through the door, still wearing bandages on his wounds. She was too far gone to escape death’s clutches but with her last breath, vowed they’d meet again. Distraught with grief and half dead himself, the poor fellow disappeared into the night and was never seen again. No one wanted to live in the Elkins house after that. Folks said they heard things. Furniture moved by itself. One day a peddler was passing through town and mentioned seeing a woman staring out the window. Well, that started the rumors flyin’ and the next thing you know, people claimed the ghost of the Elkins woman was lookin’ for her husband. Parents used that story to make their children behave. The Elkins ghost will get you if you don’t go to bed. Those same children are now parents. They still believe the house is haunted. When a community lives with a ghost story as long as Farley, it becomes part of their culture. They’re not eager to give it up. And if folks have to give up a myth, you can bet they’ll replace it with another. Which is exactly what happened when a stranger bought the Elkins place. A few weeks after curtains appeared in the windows, people claimed a witch had taken residence in the dilapidated structure. It wasn’t long until young men began knocking on the evil creature’s door, challenged by those less valiant. Such was the case on a Saturday night when Bobby Greene eased past the rickety gate and made his way up the walk. It was late. His friends hid in the bushes, watching as he approached the porch. Bobby was determined to prove his manhood by peeking in the window where a single candle burned. With heart pounding against his ribs, he tiptoed toward the dusty window. A voice slithered from the shadows with all the menace of a coiled snake. “I wondered how long it’d take for people to start pestering me.” Bobby wanted to turn and run right then but his legs wouldn’t move. Mustering the last of his courage, he swiveled his head enough to make out the faint outline of an old woman rocking in a chair. He prayed she didn’t hex him with a magical incantation. “I’m . . . I’m sorry to bother you, ma’am. We . . . I . . . just wondered who lived here.” “What’s it to you? I don’t recall issuing an invitation to tea. It’s pretty late for Welcome Wagon.” The old woman rose to her feet, stepping into a pool of moonlight. Her wrinkled face and narrowed eyes left no doubt that his fears were valid . . . she was definitely a witch. “Why don’t you admit it? You’re here because your friends put you up to it.” Bobby’s face turned ashen. “You’re right. It was a stupid thing to do. I apologize.” His feet finally responded to the command to move. Easing forward, he winced as the skirt of her long, black dress brushed against his leg. “I’ll be on my way now.” “Not so fast, young man. Anyone who ventures out here in the dead of night must be a damn fool or have something to prove. Now if you’re a fool, Bobby Greene, I’m gonna make you sorry you ever stepped foot on my property but if you’re as strong on the outside as you appear on the inside, I might have a way to sweeten that pittance you earn at McCrory’s Dry Goods. Do you know how to use a hammer and nail?” Bobby mouth opened and closed. How did the old woman know his name? Or where he worked? “I reckon I’m pretty good with tools,” he muttered at last. “I helped my dad build a barn last year.” “I don’t need a barn. I need this fence repaired so it doesn’t fall down.” Her eyes seemed to bore right through him. “Be here at one o’clock tomorrow. The sooner you get started the better.” With those final words, she slinked into the shadows. A sudden chill followed her departure. The next sound he heard was the quiet swish of the front door as it closed. Bobby sprinted down the walk, scaling the short gate with a leap instead of pausing to open it. There was no sign of the other boys when he reached the clump of bushes where they’d hidden. He walked home alone, angry his friends abandoned him in the face of death. The old woman could have killed him. Cut out his heart. Boiled him alive. Or even worse, turned him into a toad. Instead, she offered him a job. Climbing into bed that night, Bobby vowed never to return to the Elkins house. By morning however, he changed his mind. Bobby wanted a truck in the worst way. It would take him a year working as a stocker to earn enough for a down payment. McCrory’s paid minimum wage and only offered twelve to fifteen hours a week. Perhaps working for the witch wasn’t such a bad thing. When he arrived at the Elkins house, Bobby found a large rock anchoring an envelope to the front porch. Inside was a handwritten note instructing him to use the tools in the shed to repair the picket fence. The woman wrote that she expected the job to last a few weeks. He was to come and go without bothering her. Bobby pulled out another sheet of paper. Wrapped inside were several large bills. Few words were spoken between Bobby and the woman during his visits. Occasionally when he rummaged through the shed for more nails or lumber, a tall glass of lemonade and cookies would be on the porch when he returned. He figured it was her way of showing approval for his work. One day, as he nailed a board in place, the front door opened. The woman’s withered figure hovered behind a dirty screen door. “Bobby, come here.” He dutifully approached, pausing to wipe the sweat from his neck with a faded bandanna. “I need help washing the windows and planting flowers.” “Yes, ma’am. Can it wait until I’m done with the fence?” “I don’t want your help,” she snapped. “Men don’t know nothin’ about such chores. Next time you come, bring that girl who works at the ice cream shop.” “Which one?” He hoped it wasn’t Rachel Stoddard. She was the most popular girl in school and the mayor’s only daughter. There was no way she would dig in the dirt with manicured nails. “The quiet one who works in back.” When he frowned, the old woman added, “The girl with long brown hair. She doesn’t talk much.” “You mean Laurie Evers? I barely know her. She keeps to herself.” “Then get to know her and make sure she comes with you next time.” “But . . .” “Don’t argue, young man.” The door slammed before he could say another word. On the way home that night, Bobby struggled with how to convince a girl he barely knew to work for the town’s witch. The task proved easier than he imagined. Bobby’s part time job at the Elkin’s place had elevated him to a local celebrity. He was the only person in town allowed on the property. A group of women from the local church decided to invite the witch to bible study. She refused to open the door when they arrived and supposedly chased them off the porch with a broom when they persisted. Laurie Evers discovered Bobby lurking at the back door of the Ice Cream Parlor when she was locking up for the night. She didn’t think Bobby Greene even knew her name much less where she worked so it was a surprise to find him waiting for her. Bobby stammered through a quick explanation of why he was there. The more he talked, the more he realized Laurie would never agree to such an outrageous proposition. And who could blame her? He sounded like an idiot. A bewitched idiot. To his surprise, Laurie accepted the job. After Bobby left, she pondered her decision, still not certain why she agreed to such an odd proposal. Perhaps because Bobby looked so cute as he pleaded for her cooperation. Or maybe it was curiosity. Laurie had heard the rumors about a witch living in the Elkins house. She didn’t believe such nonsense but it would be fun to do something no one else had done besides Bobby . . . actually meet the woman. On the other hand, such an encounter would undoubtedly attract lots of attention, just like it had for Bobby. She shunned the limelight, preferring to stay in the background, observing rather than being seen. This was one time when Laurie felt compelled to risk the consequences. She couldn’t shake the feeling that if she said no, regret would haunt her the rest of her life. The next afternoon, Bobby met Laurie at the Elkins house. She wasn’t sure what to expect but it wasn’t even close to what she found when they arrived. A note had been left under a bag of potting soil detailing what plants to repot and where they were to be placed, as well as instructions for weeding the exterior gardens, a task that would take several weeks. The days passed quickly after that. Lemonade and cookies appeared magically on the porch from time to time with Laurie and Bobby chatting over the refreshments. Bobby liked the way the sun glinted on Laurie’s soft brown hair, bringing out golden highlights that crowned her head in a halo. And the way her smile went all the way to her eyes each time he spoke. He liked it so much he found himself thinking about her even when they weren’t together. One day, as he reached for a cookie, Bobby’s arm bumped Laurie’s head. The next thing he knew, they were kissing and neither seemed eager to stop. He’d kissed other girls but never felt like this . . . like he’d been waiting his whole life for this one moment. When he opened his eyes and saw the glow on Laurie’s face, he knew she felt the same. The next day, as they marched up the crumbling walk hand in hand, Bobby noticed the screen door blowing back and forth. “That’s odd. She usually keeps it latched.” He hopped onto the porch with Laurie close behind. The front door was open, too, but the old woman was nowhere in sight. Bobby called through the opening. “Ma’am? Ma’am, are you home?” Laurie pushed past him, peering into the shadows. “What if she’s ill? Or sick?” “She’ll be mad if we go inside without permission.” “She’ll be madder if we stand on this porch all day and she needs our help. She might have fallen.” Bobby hesitated, then pulled open the screen door and stepped inside. He wasn’t prepared for what he saw. “Laurie . . . come here.” She eased through the entrance and stopped. The foyer was in complete disarray. A thick layer of dust covered the floor, marred only by their footprints. Cobwebs hung from the chandelier, stretching to a dark corner. “It doesn’t look like anyone has lived here in years.” Bobby inched into the parlor, followed closely by Laurie. An envelope perched against a tall vase on the mantel. It wasn’t yellow and dusty like everything else so he retrieved it. A single sheet of paper was inside. He unfolded it, reading the words aloud. “For everything there is a time.” “I don’t understand.” Laurie took the note and read it. “The rest of our money is in here, too.” He met Laurie’s gaze. “I guess she’s gone.” Laurie wandered to an old desk near a window and picked up a photograph. She stared at it for several seconds before motioning Bobby to join her. “She’s right. For everything there is a time.” He didn’t understand until she handed him the picture. Bobby looked at the image then back at Laurie. Then at the photograph. The man in the Civil War uniform looked just like him – and the woman standing next to him bore an uncanny resemblance to Laurie. Turning it over, he read the faded scrawl across the back. “Robert and Laurel Elkins, Wedding Day, 1864”. Now, I don’t know if that story is true. Bobby Greene told it to me right before he and his pretty little bride moved to Louisville, and he’s never been one to lie. The Elkins house burned down shortly after they left, which put a stop to the stories of ghosts and witches. But I hear tell when the moon is bright and the sky is clear, a young Civil War soldier and his bride can be seen walking hand in hand past the old homestead ruins . . . but then again, it could be the shadows of days gone by. copyright 2017 – Debra S. Sanders This entry was posted in Paranormal, short story and tagged Charles City, Edgewood Plantation, Ghosts, love story, reincarnation, short story, virginia on February 6, 2018 by Debra S. 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__label__cc	0.652509	0.347491	About the Diva March Fabness Awards Show Fashion Weekly Fashion Recaps Red Carpet Predictions Front Row Fashion Follow the Diva via Email Project Runway: Season 12 Decoy Collections 2019 Oscars, Part 1 2014 Emmy Awards, Part 3 Project Runway All Stars: Season 3 Premiere Project Runway Recap: S12 E12 alexander mcqueen armani burberry calvin klein chanel christian dior diane kruger dolce & gabbana elie saab giambattista valli givenchy gucci j. mendel jason wu jenny packham lanvin louis vuitton marchesa michael kors miu miu monique lhuillier oscar de la renta prabal gurung prada saint laurent stella mccartney valentino versace zac posen zuhair murad The Democracy Diva Give me fabulous or give me death. Project Runway Recap: S8 E3 Last night’s Project Runway featured the “unconventional challenge,” a favorite of this Diva, Tim Gunn, and anybody who loves to see the designers sweat. The challenge was to create a garment entirely out of items found in a party favor store, and of course the guest judge was my personal hero BETSEY JOHNSON. (What a perfect judge for this challenge – nobody does party clothes better than Betsey.) Of course, with every unconventional challenge comes some true inspiration and innovation (remember Daniel Vosovic’s garden party dress? How about Jillian’s twizzler corset?) – but some designers inevitably crack under the pressure. Let’s dive in and see who sank and who swam. Design: AJ knew that the pressure was on him to create something spectacular for this challenge, because it’s so in his design aesthetic. Once he started trying to downplay the expectations of Tim and the other designers, I knew he was cracking under the pressure. The judges were right: this simply has too much crap all over it. It’s not cohesive, it just looks like he threw everything he could onto it. He needed to either refine the look and edit down his ideas, or go completely over-the-top and wow us with how fun and crazy he could be. This just looks like a bad Betsey Johnson knockoff. And the beads hanging in front of her crotch? Awkward. Execution: The “fabric” on the bodice is strange and doesn’t lay nicely. Otherwise, it’s impossible to see what’s made well and what’s not, since there’s so damn much to look at. Styling: Her eyebrows are dyed pink, which would have been a better idea if it were actually visible. All the accessories are stupid (except the shoes), but no more stupid than the dress itself. Design: Genius. At first I, like many others, thought Andy bit off a bit more than he could chew with this dress, but he somehow pulled it off. It’s easy to make a party-favor dress look girly and silly; making it look dark and interesting is a totally different challenge. The shape is interesting, the back is great, and the pattern is obviously killer. And that faux-leather glove, made out of balloons? Perfect. Execution: No complaints here. Styling: Amazing. The severe high ponytail, the over-the-top black eyeliner, and the glove were perfect, because they were exactly how the real woman wearing this dress would style herself. Design: Hello, Gaga! That shoulder piece is totally fierce and totally copied straight from Lady Gaga’s costuming department. I still love it, but it doesn’t win any originality awards. Execution: Anybody else think that April just threw on those black tights because she realized the dress was way too short? That’s what it feels like to me. And although the shoulder piece is great, the rest of the dress looks like paper. (I know it is paper, but it shouldn’t look like paper.) Styling: Cool bag, and again I’m digging the heavy eyeliner. But the Lady Gaga wearing this dress would not have a simple blowout as her hairdo. (Although, anything that covers up this model’s ears is a blessing.) Design: I am so happy this dress was made, if only because it made Michael Kors say, “She looks like a transvestite flamenco dancer at a funeral.” There’s no way I can find a wittier or more succinct way to describe this dress, so I’ll leave it at that. But I will say this: He made something awful and complicated, while Sarah made something awful and boring. I knew they’d pick the boring one to send home, but I have to defend Sarah by saying this: her garment may have been worse, but I know she is capable of more than that. I can’t say the same for Casanova – and that’s why he should have gone home. Execution: The construction wasn’t really the problem, it was more the fact that Casanova has no taste whatsoever. Styling: The gloves are pretty, and the plush puppy scarf was kind of a cool idea, but there’s obviously way too much happening here. Design: Cute, flirty, and fun, but Christopher didn’t step outside the box for this one. It’s adorable and totally wearable, but think about the workmanship that went into Andy and Valerie’s designs. This can’t compete with that. Execution: Pretty good. The dress mostly doesn’t look like it’s made out of paper. Styling: Love the blue shoes – they pop against the color of the dress. And the hair is perfect for the adorable real-life woman wearing this dress. Design: I already hate Gretchen, but even I had to agree that this was a solid look. First of all, she made separates, which is rare in general on this show, but particularly rare in unconventional challenges. People are so thrown off by having to use new materials that they tend to stick to a basic cocktail dress silhouette with one or two twists and turns to seem less boring. The skirt is definitely wearable – 1920s flapper meets American Apparel. The faux denim jacket is pretty awesome, and I like the blouse as well. Execution: Pretty excellent. She may be a total bitch, but she’s a bitch who knows her shit. Styling: The boots were an AWFUL choice. She should’ve gone with little badass studded black heels or booties. And again, the girl wearing this outfit would not have a perfect California girl blonde blowout. And that bracelet has literally nothing to do with the rest of the outfit. Design: Oof. This makes the model look HUGE. Execution: It’s called tailoring, darling. The dress shouldn’t make the model look thirty pounds heavier. The fit is all off. Styling: A weak side ponytail and an ugly green bracelet? Ivy, you’re going to need to do better than that. I mean, if you’re not hospitalized. Design: AGAIN Kristin got away with sending something butt ugly down the runway without having to face the Wrath of Nina! This is three weeks in a row that Kristin has delivered something awful and gotten thrown in the ‘safe’ pile, further proof that 17 designers is just too damn many to start with. Someone needs to hold this bitch accountable. Execution: The trim around the neckline looks elementary. And I can’t sew on a button, but I bet I could’ve constructed the skirt better than that. Styling: Some ugly bracelets and a tacky bag. And is she wearing CLOGS?! I may vomit. Design: You know, we don’t see enough full-length gowns in these kinds of challenges (no, Casanova’s tranny-flamenco-funeral gown doesn’t count). So kudos to Michael C for going there. And this is actually pretty fucking fabulous. I don’t think this should’ve been overlooked as a contender for the top 3. The shoulder piece is really great Execution: I’m not sure I love where the material changes halfway down the skirt. I can’t tell if that’s intentional or not, and it hangs awkwardly. But the top looks great. Styling: Classic Hollywood styling for a classic Hollywood gown (with a twist). It works. Design: Can anyone tell me how that top matches that bottom? I love the distressed look of the skirt and the shininess of the top, but only the look of the fabrics interests me. The shape and fit and proportions are all a mess. Construction: You’ll need to view the runway show yourself to understand how bad the construction was on this garment. But the top and bottom move like they’re on two different people. It’s atrocious. And the stiffness of that skirt is terrifying. Styling: Cool bracelet. Hair and makeup is far too boring for this alien-dress. Design: Honestly? It’s a little boring. Mondo has skills, but he didn’t show them off here. Using those poofy leis to make a skirt was about as basic as it gets. And the top – well, it looks like she’s wearing a corset made of plates. And once AGAIN, I think those black tights were thrown on just so we didn’t get a peek at the model’s vagina. Execution: Pretty terrific, actually. The skirt flares out in adorable way and the details on the bodice are very symmetrical, which must have been difficult since, you know, it’s plates. Styling: The black tights over-emphasize the ballerina element of the outfit, and the jewelry looks like something I bought at Claire’s when I was twelve. Design: My boyfriend Nate pointed out something interesting about Peach and her tween-tastic, girly designs: It seems like she’s overcompensating for her age (she’s 50) by designing these uber-youthful, tacky clothes. And I agree wholeheartedly that this is Peach’s biggest problem. She has a serious misconception of what young women wear (whether that’s due to her age or her ignorance, I’m not sure) but insists upon designing outfits that only the extremely young and trashy would be interested in wearing. Execution: What the fuck is up with that bodice? It looks like it was molded out of a cast. It’s dreadful. And don’t think you’re so creative for using cupcake holders – we’ve seen the coffee filter dress on this show before. The skirt is pretty well-made, but it’s still the tackiest thing since leopard print fanny packs. Styling: Little-girl hair, baby pink lipstick, a pink bracelet, and a matching purse. Now I really think I might vomit. Design: Sarah. You were my girl! You were the one I liked most when I read your interview and saw your portfolio before this season aired. There’s always one designer who I become attached to because I feel like he or she is designing for me. (Jillian Lewis, Kenley before I realized she was a plagiarizing bitch, Jeffrey on his good days, etc.) But you had to stick to a dress you knew was awful, and in doing so, you broke this Diva’s heart. But another word in support of Sarah: she at least knew she was making a train wreck. Casanova thought he had designed a couture gown. I’ll take someone with a good head on their shoulders than a loon who thinks he’s Oscar de la Renta any day. Execution: It looks like cardboard over plastic, honey. Styling: I don’t know. Is she an ice dancer? Is she Wonder Woman? Is she queen of a “Tropical Wonderland” themed prom? Design: Valerie said it best herself: “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” But keep it up, Valerie. Those who keep cranking out consistently killer looks without scraping up the win will get what’s coming to them eventually. And you’ve got some seriously good designer karma headed your way. This dress is sex on a stick, total perfection. Wearable, loveable, and I’m surprised Betsey didn’t add it to her next collection on the spot. Execution: Flawless. It ain’t easy to make a perfect neckline out of unconventional materials, but she nailed it. And all 600 napkins she used look absolutely perfect. Styling: That model looks 50 years old – not sure if it’s the makeup or the face. But those little booties are fantastic. Judges’ Top 3: Andy (winner), Gretchen, Valerie Diva’s Top 3: Andy, Valerie, Gretchen Judges’ Bottom 3: AJ, Casanova, Sarah (out) Diva’s Bottom 3: Kristin, Sarah, Casanova Published: August 13, 2010 (updated: November 2, 2011) Filed under: Project Runway Tags: A.J. Thouvenot, Andy South, April Johnston, Carlos Casanova, Christopher Collins, Gretchen Jones, Ivy Higa, kristin haskins simms, Michael Costello, Michael Drummond, Mondo Guerra, Peach Carr, sarah trost, Valerie Mayen Posted by democracydiva 3 responses to Project Runway Recap: S8 E3 I haven’t watched this episode yet, but I’m so exited to! Some of these outfits are stunning. That balloon glove ROCKED MY WORLD, I don’t even know! Project Runway: The Season 8 Scorecard « The Democracy Diva […] Episode 3: It’s A Party […] FacebookE-MailPinterestTwitter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1130
__label__cc	0.591294	0.408706	Posted on January 13, 2014 by dicmortimer Cardiff’s quarries Inside Lesser Garth Did you know that Cardiff has the biggest underground cave system of any city in the UK? I thought not. Uncharacteristically, the authorities do nothing to publicise what could be a unique amenity, attraction and selling point; in fact they go to great trouble to conceal what lies beneath. Why so shy? Well, partly because the labyrinth of uncharted tunnels, hidden chasms, bottomless pits, subterranean lakes and collapsed roofs is extremely dangerous – but mainly because to publicise the caves would draw attention to one of the city’s most shameful and extraordinary secrets: a hollow mountain. The 210m (690ft) high Lesser Garth in Morganstown is a geological paradise where man has scratched, burrowed, dug and quarried since prehistory. The dolomitic limestones of the ridge of hills either side of the Taff Gorge were in demand as soon as hominids sussed out how to bash them with a flint, containing as they do iron ore, lead and silver as well as the predominate limestone. The excavations of Neolithic cave dwellers, Iron Age Celts, 1st century Romans, 5th century Welsh metal workers, 16th century iron industry pioneers and the Pentyrch Ironworks operation of the 18th & 19th centuries have intermingled and interweaved to form an amazing, multi-level warren stretching for miles through the soft and porous band of Carboniferous Limestone hills that mark the southern edge of the coalfield and Cardiff’s northern limits. Subsequent quarrying for building materials, continuing to this day, has not only wrecked much of the Lesser Garth’s complex cave system but also gradually and inexorably eaten away the mountain’s innards so that today the steep wooded slopes act as an entirely cosmetic bracelet hiding a vast astonishing void within (see below). The Lesser Garth Quarry is the last fully working quarry in Cardiff, but the area’s rich and varied mineral resources and Wales’ long centuries as an extractive economy ripe for exploitation mean there are plenty more. These quarries are the easiest points to access the extant cave systems deep below (it goes without saying that such caving is definitely not for beginners). Most of the quarries are disused and have evolved into a series of curious biospheres in various stages of being re-colonised by nature. All are well worth visiting, especially in winter when there are no security guards or jobsworths patrolling and vegetation die-back permits better views of the rocks. Here then, for urban explorers, is the (unofficial) guide to the quarries of Cardiff: Blaengwynlais Quarry At the very top of Rhiwbina Hill, Blaengwynlais Quarry is famed among geologists for its goethite iron ores which outcrop in rusty orange and brown pyrite crystals in a rich variety of shapes from needles to concentric blobs. Classified as ‘dormant’ rather than abandoned, this Quarry is supposedly out-of-bounds, but nobody was around to stop me entering the voracious maw of this petrifying place. Beware of old air shafts in the woods and meadows to the north. Castell Coch Quarry The sheer, red cliff on the east side of the Taff Gorge is the Castell Coch Quarry, also sometimes called the Taffs Well Quarry, laid bare by the construction of the A470 in 1971. Here, where the Taff carves through the last daunting obstacles on its journey from the Brecon Beacons to the alluvial flood plain and the sea, the rocks were quarried for their haematite iron for 300 years until the 19th century. The iron seeps its rusty tint into the rock, and when a low sun bathes the cliff on a winter afternoon it becomes a wall of fire in every shade of red. Access is via a path by the roundabout at the foot of the cliff, much frequented by crampon-clanking rock-climbers scaling the vertiginous face. The path eastward into Fforest Fawr leads to a dramatic offshoot, Castell Quarry, a menacing grotto hidden by a dense canopy of trees. Cefn Garw Quarry Another geologists’ shrine, on the southern side of Heol-y-Fforest above Castell Coch. After 19th century quarrying into the massive beds of dolomite exposed the transition anticline between the Carboniferous Limestone and the Devonian period Old Red Sandstone on the north face of the Quarry, this fantastic display of faults, folds and thrust planes entered the geology textbooks. Not worked since 1987, the huge, boulder-strewn, shelved cavity is in an early phase of plant colonisation, notwithstanding the concrete batching plant at the entrance. Creigiau Quarry A formidable complex, best approached from near the Heol Pant-y-Gored bridges over the parallel cuttings of the disused Barry Railway and the Taff Vale Railway’s Waterhall Branch at Creigiau. First quarried for its dolomite ironstone, used in the building of Roath Basin and Roath Dock, later for its limestone, used in the steel-making process on the East Moors, the Quarry was a source of road stone in its last decades and only closed in 2001 after 130 years getting ever wider and deeper. A summer day in Creigiau Quarry is a special Cardiff treat. One time, sitting on a hot rock eating a sandwich, I had the strange sensation of being watched. Half turning, I came eyeball to eyeball with a basking viper, assessing the air with its flickering tongue. You could have heard my shriek in Capel Llanilltern… UPDATE: In 2016 Cardiff Council, ignoring local opposition, gave Tarmac permission to reopen and expand Creigiau Quarry. Gelli Quarry Halfway down Rhiwbina Hill close to the footpath along Cwm Nofydd is this sensational mini-universe quite invisible from both the road and the path. The Quarry was last worked in 1930, so plant life has had 80 years to regenerate and – Wow! I don’t want to make too much noise about it just in case anybody reads this stuff, acts on my advice and disturbs this paradise for badgers, foxes, adders, moths, bats, goldfinches, greenfinches, orchids and mighty beeches. Greenmeadow Wood Quarry Differing from most of the other quarries in that it was cut into sandstone rather than limestone, this old working closed more than a century ago and the enchanting site, accessible via a path off Greenmeadow Drive, has been swallowed up by the thick mixed woodland. I accept no liability if you encounter the Cŵn Annwn (Hell Hounds), spectral beasts with glaring eyes that haunt the Fforest according to age-old local superstition. Lesser Garth Quarry Known over the years as the Dolomite, the Taffs Well Quarry, the Steetley (one-time owners), the Walnut Tree Quarry and, since bought by the giant Mexican cement producer in 1999, the Cemex Quarry, this Mother Of All Quarries has to be seen to be believed. PAY ATTENTION: if you only ever go to one place highlighted in this entire blog, go here. The best approach is from the back of the Tŷ Nant pub car park in Morganstown. After a long, steady climb through the most westerly native beech woods in the British Isles, past the hidden entrance of the Lesser Garth Cave, home of the extremely rare white cave spider Porrhomma Rosenhaueri, beyond the breathtaking portal of the Barry Railway’s 1901 tunnel through the mountain, and up vestiges of tramroads and inclines that sent the ores down to the Pentyrch Ironworks, you reach the rim of a stupendous abyss. With the dimensions of an amphitheatre that could hold the entire population of Wales and the plunging depths of a crater left by an enormous meteorite impact, the disembowelled Lesser Garth defies description. Think Blofeld’s extinct volcano hideout in You Only Live Twice and you’re getting close. Often, on long mid-summer days, I trek to the summit, ignore the ‘Danger! No Entry!’ signs, pick my way past the scintillating debris of centuries of industry, and settle down to feast on the eye-popping panorama from a creaking, rusty, metal viewing platform that precariously hangs over the north edge of the Quarry – my favourite spot in all of Cardiff. Leave me alone. Pentrebane Quarry Outcrops of Jurassic Blue Lias limestone form high ground on both flanks of the River Ely in western Cardiff. Quarrying of this valued building stone still goes on at Leckwith and Wenvoe on the Vale of Glamorgan side of the river, but has long ceased at Pentrebane on the Cardiff side. Engulfed by the Pentrebane housing estate in the 1960s, overgrown shards of the Quarry remain off St Fagans Road and Beechley Drive. Penylan Quarry The most difficult of all these quarries to visit is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a wild wonderland in the incongruously tame heart of middle-class Penylan. Unless you know someone who lives in one of the houses on the north side of Dorchester Avenue, where the gardens back onto the Quarry, the only way in is over a fairly high wall at the end of Ferry Court (on your own head be it) or by clambering up a steep embankment from the hard shoulder of the A48 Eastern Avenue dual carriageway and squeezing through a gap in a fence (you will probably die in the attempt). Completely overgrown with impenetrable thickets of shrubs and brambles, the Quarry hasn’t been worked since the 19th century when this outcrop of Silurian mudstone, Cardiff’s oldest rocks, was identified as one of the most important fossil sites in Wales, crammed with a rich shelly fauna of brachiopods, corals, graptolites and trilobites. This is a veritable Eldorado of palaeontology, but that SSSI designation looks increasingly feeble as salivating property developers hover with intent. Radyr Quarry Worked between 1850 and 1910 for its distinct Triassic sandstone breccia, the warm-hued stone that was one of the building blocks of Victorian Cardiff (most explicitly used for the knobbly slabs of the Gorsedd Circle in front of the National Museum), Radyr Quarry became a household refuse tip in the 1930s, its rock face a dump-and-go rubbish chute for fly-tippers. Today it is part of the absorbing Radyr Woods Nature Area, opened in 1986 and including the Hermit Wood Nature Reserve to the south. Access is from Taff Terrace or via a footpath opposite the 1894 mansion Radyr Chain (named after the chain stretched across the old turnpike road to Llantrisant to stop travellers until the hated tolls were abolished in 1851). Rumney Quarry Abandoned in the 1920s, its gritty shales having provided road stone for Cardiff’s Victorian expansion, Rumney Quarry was cut into an exposed vein of ancient Silurian strata teeming with fossils of the bivalves and gastropods that inhabited the warm shallow seas here 430 million years ago. Extremely important to both palaeontology and geology, the Quarry is a designated SSSI doubling as a public park accessible from Tŷ-Mawr Road – a contradictory dual role that has done more damage to the fossil record in a few decades than the shifting of tectonic plates managed across unimaginable aeons of time. Ton Mawr Quarry Finally, just west of the Lesser Garth, is another massive bite out of the 350 million year-old Carboniferous Limestone. Disused and tricky to reach via pathways through Garth Wood, Ton Mawr is a designated SSSI where spectacular mineralisation is exposed in the Quarry walls. The display of beautiful, sparkling, geometric Calcite crystals in several stages of growth is policed only by peregrine falcons and buzzards drifting on thermals high overhead, scanning for rabbits and voles in the pioneer undergrowth. Pictures: Pentyrch & District Local History Society; Leigh James This entry was posted in Cardiff. Bookmark the permalink. ← Apart Rhyme line, rhyme → Alex Tyler You’ve really got to try and get some imagery into your blogs. Please see attachment. Al.x Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:07:13 +0000 To: alex_tyler@hotmail.co.uk Carl Morris Maybe… Or maybe not! I tend to like the mystery. Through this blog Mr Mortimer has made me visit places I would never have considered before. He’s a writer! I’ve got photos and video footage of both above and below ground in this area. Me and a friend abseiled into the huge sink hole found at the top of garth woods. It can be found via the back quarry road entrance off Heol Goch road. At the top of that road you will find an old car park, which appears to be the end of the path!!! It obviously isn’t. If you walk that area you’ll find the sink hole, just don’t loose to much height. It’s a 45m free abseil into a cave system that’ll take your breath away. jllh Never knew that Penylan Quarry was so interesting, used to go there as a kid… Dylan Foster Evans Thanks for the great blog, Dic. One minor point – Cardiff University sold Radyr Chain back in 2002 for £676k: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/radyr-chain/llantrisant-road/llandaff/cardiff/cf5-2pw/4053282. But I don’t know who owns it now. dicmortimer Cheers Dylan, amendment made. Cefn Onn quarry – is that in Cardiff or Caerphilly? There’s a small gated tunnel just by the path that leads down from the quarry to Cefn Onn park, not far from the ventilation shaft. I’ve often wondered what it was. Somebody once told me it leads down to the railway tunnel underneath. Notes on Radyr Quarry Radyr Quarry was opened up principally to provide stone for building Penarth Dock between 1859 and 1865 and certainly did not open before 1857. (The Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Company was formed in 1856 and the Penarth Harbour, Dock and Railway Company was formed in 1858, after which the Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Company ceased to exist). The quarry was last worked in 1908 as far as I can tell (last entry in Cardiff Directories and the year when the last proprietor John Lewis died). As well as stone, from the late 1880’s it also produced bricks from the Devonian mudstones that underlie the Triassic rocks. According to Edgar Jenkins,(i) boys used to swim in the quarry pool in the 1930s, “sometimes with tragic consequences”, though I have been unable to find any reports of drownings at this location. At this time the area was apparently teeming with wild life. By 1941 aerial photographs show that the quarry pool had been filled in. I have been informed that the quarry was used in the 1950’s unofficially by the scouts for adventure activities including climbing. According to the Environment Agency (ii) the site received waste between December 31st 1960 and December 31st 1972 (confirmed by aerial photographs) and the types of waste deposited were, inert, industrial, commercial, household and special. Waste was transported via a purpose built access track off Radyr Court Road. Ferruginous leachate from the waste deposits still pollutes the River Taff. Only an extremely small part of the northern end of the original quarry might just about be within the Radyr Woods/Hermit Wood Nature Reserve area, which incidentally is being systematically degraded by local inhabitants (last time I went there there was a makeshift BMX track under construction made of soil and subsoil dug up from all around the place.) The southern end of the quarry can still be accessed via the original cart road which passes under the Penarth Railway and is now a public footpath. The underpass is constructed of Radyr Stone. It is worth noting that the quarry had its own railway siding which entered from the north end. In the northern section the quarry cliffs are still visible but are now very overgrown with ivy and trees. Interestingly The Radyr and Morganstown Community Council Village Plan (iii) of 2010 makes no mention of the presence of the quarry. I assume it is owned by Network Rail? It is also worth mentioning that there are two other much smaller quarries for Radyr stone in the Parish, one is in the grounds of the Comprehensive School and the other is in Hermit Wood. The latter certainly pre-dates the main quarry and may have been where stone was quarried to build the Taff Vale Railway bridge at Mellingriffith. i In “ Memories of Radyr and Morganstown”. (1993) freely available at http://www.radyr.org.uk/i-718 ii http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/wiybyController?latest=true&topic=waste&ep=query&lang=_e&x=314099.5355&y=179437.046&scale=7&layerGroups=2&queryWindowWidth=25&queryWindowHeight=25 iii http://www.radyr.org.uk/docs/1776 Mario Umberto Fiorillo Interestingly, in that location there is also a prehistoric hearth, a fireplace and probably more. Shame there aren’t more pictures here. Would have been great to see more pics I’m useless at photography, pics are beyond me. When I’ve got time I’ll add a Google Earth map of all the quarries. Leigh James I’d be interested in taking some photos for your project discordion Reblogged this on discordion {Artist Ian Pritchard} and commented: A well written piece on the shameful ecological disaster of the Lesser garth cave system under Morganstown’s hollow mountain. Taffs Well quarry is the one in the Lesser Garth, officially; next to the new entrance on to the lower road (by the radio station) there is the original entrance, when it was still underground, much of it; the other mentioned with that name is still active and sealed off, seen it a month ago. Very nice article, well done. Will check the other places :o) Hi. Mario, I’m fascinated to take a photo of the underground lake, can you still get in through the original entrance? no, the original entrance is gated and filled in; it does say in metal letter “Taffs Well Quarry”, and it is hard by the roundabout and before the new entry – on the left going to Gwaelodygarth … got some photos as well hang on … Note: excellent recent photo of Lesser Garth by Leigh James now included. Lesser Garth Quarry from above, a few months ago; Strange that neither Ely Quarry at the top of the Racecourse nor Wenvoe Quarry are mentioned. Wenvoe is still working. Neither are in Cardiff (see Pentrebane Quarry entry). Tony Haines Not sure if your reference to Pentrebane Quarry covers this comment. The former Quarry House pub just off St Fagans Road was built from stone quarried from a smallish quarry located behind the pub, which as far as I know still exists. When travelling from Fairwater Green towards St Fagans, just beyond where the former Glan Ely Hospital was located, there is on the right a pathway into the woods which also contains a small quarry. Both back on to the Pentrebane area. Interestingly the original Quarry House was owned by the Hindmarsh family who as I recall were part owners of the Hindleigh Shipping Company of Cardiff. Can you get into Penylan Quarry from the allotments? I used to walk up Waterloo Road every day on the way to school and never knew there was a quarry there. tridral Thank you for yet more fascinating information about Cardiff. Spent a lot of time at Penylan Quarry in my younger days fishing for Tench or digging for Fossils. Good times. Would love to visit some of these if anyone fancies it ??? LovelyLudwig Agreed. Sounds fascinating. Having explored some of these fascinating sites as a direct result of reading your blog I’d like to say thanks for posting the info. One thing I’d suggest would be worth mentioning mate is that the Penylan Quarry is now so thick with undergrowth that it is virtually impossible to explore and there is precious little in the way of exposed rock. It’s pretty unlikely the visitor is going to get anywhere near any graptolites unless they can organise some kind of napalm strike beforehand to clear the jungle. All the best Pingback: A mine of information – Mary Gillham Archive Project Reblogged this on sideshowtog. Leave a Reply to Mario Umberto Fiorillo Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1132
__label__wiki	0.582105	0.582105	Posted on February 26, 2019 by dicmortimer Daffodil time Perhaps because of the mild winter, the yellow explosion of daffodils (Narcissus) seems to have come slightly earlier than usual this year, adding garish colour to public parks, roadside verges, roundabouts and central reservations, cheerfully glinting in herbaceous borders, pots and windowboxes, and forming spectacular blankets drifting across glades and grasslands. As is more or less obligatory for any self-respecting Welsh person, I have of course given the daffodil a place in my garden: a couple of clumps of dwarf varieties that virtually look after themselves while they gradually spread where they will. There are more narcissi in UK gardens than any other flowering plant, and that popularity is based as much on their idiot-proof simplicity to grow as on their vivid colour and reassuring augury of spring. They’re indestructible; just leave the leaves alone after the flowers fade, letting them wither and wilt rather than cutting them off, and that’s about it, bar the very rare need to water them in extreme drought. For me, the daff’s very ubiquity is its drawback – given the copper-bottomed rule of human affairs that anything extremely popular is invariably rubbish. That isn’t ‘elitism’, incidentally, any more than, say, not reading the Sun or not eating Big Macs would be elitism: it’s just taste and discernment. As waspish American writer HL Mencken (1880-1956) put it, “nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public”. There’s no avoiding the conclusion that daffodil enthusiasts are like the Amazonian tribe that surrendered their ancestral lands and abandoned thousands of years of culture in return for a handful of worthless Coca-Cola bottle-tops – they were shiny and sparkling, see. For a couple of reasons, I also have a small problem with the daffodil’s emblematic status as the ‘national flower of Wales’. Firstly, there is nothing specific to Wales about the plant. Native to southern Europe, it became naturalised across the whole continent and was growing wild in lowland Wales by Roman times. Around the 5th/6th centuries the tough bulb was familiar enough here to be given the name cenhinen Bedr (St Peter’s leek), because its leaves resembled those of the pungent edible vegetable – a member of the completely unrelated onion family. As for the Bedr/Peter reference, the precise reason why it was felt appropriate to associate the early Christian with daffodils has been lost in the mists of time, although it was common practice to invoke the beatified when naming natural phenomena in the Welsh ‘age of saints’. It wasn’t until the 16th century that large-scale cultivation of daffodils for commercial purposes began in the Netherlands, and they were not a widespread garden plant in Wales until the 19th century. So the daffodil has no more relevance to Wales than it does to anywhere else in Europe, and often much less. Our adjacent noisy neighbour England, for instance, could make greater claims to a special relationship with the daffodil by dint of the single most famous poem in the English language being all about the bloody things: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth (1770-1850). As it turned out, they chose rose – the pricks. No, if Wales is to have a ‘national flower’ it should surely be an indigenous plant unique to Wales, such as the Snowdon lily, brwynddail y mynydd (Gagea serotina), the Welsh poppy, pabi melyn (Meconopsis cambrica), or even the Welsh hawkweed, llysiau’r hebog (Hieracium cambricum). Secondly, the adoption of the daffodil as a Welsh symbol has no historic or cultural basis. It was actually the confusion of the shared word for daffodil and leek, cenhinen, that brought about the plant’s adoption. The leek (Allium ampeloprasum) has been indelibly associated with Wales since the green and white stalks were distributed to Welshmen during a 7th century battle with the Saxons, to enable them to distinguish friend from foe, while wearing a leek on St David’s Day is an abiding 1,000-year-old Welsh tradition. Moreover it’s a native plant integral to Welsh cuisine – the antithesis of the highly toxic daffodil which can kill if eaten. However, in the late 19th century a handful of uptight social climbers attempting to rebrand Wales as genteel and anglo-friendly started agitating for the daffodil to replace the leek as the emblem of Wales, purely because it was more decorative and aesthetic and less smelly and proletarian. To boost their case, it was argued that the daffodil was the emblem intended all along – a self-evident nonsense since the original mistake was to name the daffodil after the leek, not vice-versa. That didn’t stop David Lloyd George (1863-1945), Liberal politician and the British establishment’s pet Welshman, from insisting that the daffodil rather than the leek should take centre stage at the 1911 Investiture of Edward Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1894-1972) as ‘Prince of Wales’ at Caernarfon Castle. Contemptuously chucking a distracting circus at the masses, the treacherous Lloyd George invented a ludicrous mock-medieval ceremony to mark the conquest and subjugation of Wales, and the blood-soaked Castle walls were duly drenched in daffs. Edward, of course, would go on to become king of England for just 11 months in 1936 before he quit to spend a useless life in the lap of luxury as a vacuous spendthrift, snob and fascist sympathiser, but Lloyd George wasn’t to know that. In a way the Old Goat’s dumb daffodil campaign worked, because its popularity as an alternative to the leek as national emblem has only increased in the subsequent century. Prissy pretension and PR puffery is gradually ousting idiosyncrasy, authenticity and earthiness. What a shame, and yet how apt. Now the yellow peril is manifest everywhere and in every conceivable format, utilised as an all-purpose logo by a range of sports clubs, charities, health campaigns and corporations, in Wales and beyond, to vaguely suggest niceness, approachability, hope and, indeed, love. And the degeneration of the daff into a badge of banality has truly arrived at the bottom of the barrel with those two annoying cartoon Welshwomen in daffodil hats who seem to be a mandatory feature of BBC rugby coverage. As ever, overkill has destroyed what once delighted; a glut will always eventually nauseate. Even Narcissus himself got sick of looking at his own reflection. Call me jaundiced, but I, for one, shall be wearing a leek at the St David’s Day Parade* in Cardiff this Friday. *NOTE Assemble 11.30 City Hall. Parade to The Hayes starts 12.30. Picture: vegplotting This entry was posted in Plants, Wales. Bookmark the permalink. ← Let them eat lentils Marc howell Thank you Dic for that historical context. Although I consider myself fairly well educated (and especially after reading your book on the biography of Cardiff) I was unaware of the colonial associations with the daffodil. Diolch Yn fawr Robert Tyler Bang on the nail, as usual. Leave a Reply to Robert Tyler Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1133
__label__wiki	0.920051	0.920051	Word Whipped Giveaway! This giveaway is now closed. We are excited to have a wonderful giveaway today! Word Whipped is a fabulous etsy shop full of solid wood, hand painted and vinyl typography signs! You can find everything from classic subway art, to family rules signs, “keep calm” signs, and they even make CUSTOM signs! The gal making these signs is Holly – a stay at home mom with a passion for WORDS! Lucky for you, Holly is offering not one, but TWO(2!) $30 gift certificates to ANYTHING in her shop to two lucky DIY Show Off readers!!! You’ll want to tell your friends about this one. Here are just a few of the signs to choose from at Word Whipped: Here’s how to Enter: Leave a comment for each of the following! FIRST ENTRY (mandatory) – First visit her shop and leave a comment letting me know which sign is your favorite! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Holly83?ref=si_shop SECOND ENTRY– Visit her Facebook page and become a fan, don’t forget to say Hello and let her know where you’re from! http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Word-Whipped/156036167786780 THIRD ENTRY– Facebook, Tweet, Blog about the giveaway. Giveaway starts Wed., 4/27 and ends Monday, 5/2 at midnight EST. Winner will be drawn randomly and announced shortly after. Winning comment must be an entry as listed above. Please remember to include your email address in your entry if you cannot be reached via your blog. Open to US residents only. If you’re reading in your reader or email…click WORD WHIPPED GIVEAWAY to enter! 143 thoughts on “Word Whipped Giveaway!” Allison on April 27, 2011 at 10:26 am said: I love the family subway art. Great giveaway! Terry on April 27, 2011 at 11:13 am said: I visited and love the one that's called custom family rules sign that says Love Jesus. Dani on April 27, 2011 at 11:15 am said: I love the 'Keep Calm & Carry On' — will be ordering one for certain 🙂 . Sharon @ Elizabeth & Co. on April 27, 2011 at 11:33 am said: I've always wanted a keep calm and carry on sign! Little Brick Ranch on April 27, 2011 at 11:58 am said: I am also loving the Keep Calm and Carry On!! Perhaps it just goes with the blogging bidness!! Homemaker Honey on April 27, 2011 at 12:03 pm said: Here's my favorite: http://www.etsy.com/listing/71464370/custom-family-rules-sign-extra-large It's the family rules sign. Huddyma on April 27, 2011 at 12:08 pm said: I would love an aqua Keep Calm distressed sign! {northern cottage} on April 27, 2011 at 12:11 pm said: I ADORE the big ol aqua KEEP CALM & CARRY ON sign! Hollee on April 27, 2011 at 12:36 pm said: I would love the Family Subway sign. So cute!! Shelley on April 27, 2011 at 12:38 pm said: These are great! I love the Peace, Love, & Happiness sign 😀 Simple and perfect. Samantha on April 27, 2011 at 12:41 pm said: My favorite has to be the Less and More sign. Kyra @ RACKS and Mooby on April 27, 2011 at 12:44 pm said: I like the Family Rules sign – would be great in our playroom. wordmartini on April 27, 2011 at 12:51 pm said: I love surrounding my children with "advice," so any of the signs with mommy instructions are awesome! Like a lot of the other commenters, though, I really like the "Keep Calm and Carry On." Posting this in the hallway outside my kids' rooms would ensure that they heeded its advice…right?? Hannah Riddle on April 27, 2011 at 1:13 pm said: Custom Family Name Sign-Year Established is my favorite! We're getting ready to move into a new house & I'd love this! Aaron on April 27, 2011 at 1:16 pm said: I really like the Family Rules Sign that says Love Jesus and Know You Are Loved! ohshootphotography on April 27, 2011 at 1:27 pm said: I'm her new fan on facebook!! kellysauerbrei@gmail.com I love the custom name sign, but I think the family subway art is my favorite. My kids have different names, so I love to get personalized things!! Sangeetha on April 27, 2011 at 1:30 pm said: Love the custom baby subway art Robyn on April 27, 2011 at 1:33 pm said: I like the "Keep Calm and Carry On" signs. I would get one in yellow. robyn(dot)geddes(at)gmail(dot)com angie @ the cellar door stories on April 27, 2011 at 1:38 pm said: i like them all, but i really like the family rules signs! Courtney @ Scraps and Scribbles on April 27, 2011 at 1:50 pm said: Love the small Keep Calm and Carry On signs! I "like" Word Whipped on FB and I went by to say hi Auntie Em on April 27, 2011 at 1:50 pm said: The custom family name sign would be great for one of the wedding gifts we need to come up with this summer. eesuiter (at) h0tmail (dot) c0m pkwillis on April 27, 2011 at 1:51 pm said: I love the family subway tile art. Jinii on April 27, 2011 at 1:56 pm said: I love so many items in your shop. I need a keep calm and carry on and will be ordering one soon! I also would love to get a custom baby subway art. We are having a baby boy this summer and his room is alphabet based! So cute. I became a facebook fan! Mentioned the giveaway on FB Tweeted about the giveaway Suzanne@Meridian Road on April 27, 2011 at 3:00 pm said: I really like the black and white family rules sign that runs more lengthwise. witknitter on April 27, 2011 at 3:07 pm said: I would love to hang the New Family Rules sign, not only for my children but to remind me too. Sometimes life gets in the way of nice and we forget. twelve30 on April 27, 2011 at 3:09 pm said: The Baby Subway Art would make such a cute gift for a new addition to our family. Thanks for the giveaway. twelve30{at}gmail{dot}com Emily on April 27, 2011 at 3:17 pm said: I really want a Keep Calm & Carry On sign. I love the color selection. I liked her on FB. Joni.Ann on April 27, 2011 at 3:19 pm said: I LOVE LOVE LOVE her family rules sign!!! Absolutely wonderful!!! I "liked" Word Whipped on FB!! MrsJCH on April 27, 2011 at 3:26 pm said: I LOVE the Family Subway Art Sign, So cute and I can already picture it in the house! jenn on April 27, 2011 at 3:39 pm said: Love the established sign!! Malissa on April 27, 2011 at 3:49 pm said: My favorite is the Family Typography sign. So cute! And I have the perfect spot for it. 🙂 Seth's Mommy on April 27, 2011 at 4:05 pm said: The Family Rules are my favorite! Jenna on April 27, 2011 at 4:09 pm said: Liking the "Little Girls Make the World Sweeter" Sign. Erica Wyatt on April 27, 2011 at 4:24 pm said: I love the keep calm and carry on sign facebook fan of word whipped ro-grammie on April 27, 2011 at 4:29 pm said: I like the family name with est on it. the keep calm and carry on are fun too, but I would change it to "keep clam" for a beach house! heather.foster@kp.org my favorite is the little girls are sweeter sign. I like on facebook. I posted this giveaway on facebook. Linda on April 27, 2011 at 4:37 pm said: I LOVE the Family Rules Typography! Dee in BC on April 27, 2011 at 4:37 pm said: I love the " keep Calm" sign especically in the cheery aqua colour. Love the established sign! Breaking Free From Old Ways on April 27, 2011 at 4:43 pm said: I like the keep calm and carry on signs kaylynn_0419(at)yahoo(dot)com I follow her fb page Stephanie on April 27, 2011 at 5:17 pm said: My favorite is definitely Family Rules Subway Art! Posted on her facebook! Blogged about her Etsy shop and this wonderful giveaway. Jinksfam on April 27, 2011 at 5:43 pm said: I love love love the NEW Family Rules Subway Art Sign!! So cute! Sjinks4352@yahoo.com Shevon on April 27, 2011 at 5:43 pm said: I love the Family Rules Subway Art! Can't have too many pleases & thank yous. I "LIKED" word whipped on facebook. accordingtocarey on April 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm said: The Keep Calm series cannot be beat! morgan on April 27, 2011 at 5:56 pm said: I love the custom baby subway art! Perfect for our little one on the way! Meredith on April 27, 2011 at 6:08 pm said: I love the family typography sign – so cute! Sue Pickwell on April 27, 2011 at 6:35 pm said: my favourite is the keep calm and carry, I'm from England so I need one of those… It's Just Me on April 27, 2011 at 7:10 pm said: My favorite is the Family Rules Sign – "Less and More". LOVE it !!!! http://twitter.com/deannario/status/63319565316276226 I liked and commented on their Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/wordwhipped?sk=wall#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=167598313297232&id=1384344275 I also updated my FaceBook update too Misty on April 27, 2011 at 7:32 pm said: Love the FAMILY RULES Subway Sign in Blue! I have the perfect place for it in my home, too! =) "like" Word Whipped on facebook and made sure she knew DIY Showoff sent me! I facebooked about your giveaway! Kate on April 27, 2011 at 8:12 pm said: Family Subway Art Sign — LOVE IT!! & I am following on Facebook! melissa on April 27, 2011 at 8:30 pm said: I love the family rules that is horizontal. Very nice! crystavol on April 27, 2011 at 9:24 pm said: love the family rules sign! following on facebook too! Meagan on April 27, 2011 at 10:08 pm said: I love the Keep Calm and Carry On sign! Tiffcanblog on April 27, 2011 at 11:03 pm said: I love the "Tiffany" colored Keep Calm and Carry On sign. I've seen them everywhere but I like distressed look on this one. M on April 28, 2011 at 1:10 am said: 2ricks@gmail.com would love the Family Rules Subway Art Sign Tiffcanblog on April 28, 2011 at 1:38 am said: I visited your Facebook page and "liked" it. Annie on April 28, 2011 at 3:34 am said: I LOVE the family rules in black! anniehewlett23@hotmail.com Angela C on April 28, 2011 at 6:29 am said: LOVED Custom Family Rules Sign- Choose Your Own Rules, Phrases, Words to Live By…Available in other colors, thought it was fantastic! Nancy H. on April 28, 2011 at 11:15 am said: I would love to win the New Family Rules Sign. mrlcoy on April 28, 2011 at 1:13 pm said: I would do a custom Family Rules sign! They are wonderful! I am a fan on facebook! Trendy Chic Emmy on April 28, 2011 at 1:16 pm said: I love the turquoise 'Keep Calm & Carry On'!!! So stinkin' cute 🙂 heather122209 on April 28, 2011 at 4:22 pm said: I've been in love with the keep calm sign for a while now, and would love to win it! 【ツ】 ⒶⓃⓃⒺ 【ツ】 on April 28, 2011 at 4:41 pm said: I love the Family Typography Sign…can already picture it hanging in my home!!! I 'liked' her Facebook page…and said hello!!! I shared your giveaway both on my Facebook and Twitter pages!!! blair @ a case of the mundays on April 28, 2011 at 7:13 pm said: i love the family typography signs – but of course am smitten with the "keep calm and carry on" signs! especially the teal w/ orange. i "liked" word whipped on FB! and said hello! Alice H on April 28, 2011 at 7:44 pm said: I love the custom family rules sign – extra large – distressed – solid wood. Such a great design – thanks! alicedemskehansen at gmail.com The New Witty's on April 28, 2011 at 8:12 pm said: obviously the Family Subway Art Signs are my fave! <3 houseofchaos on April 28, 2011 at 8:18 pm said: Love the "Mothers who know"! tmt678@gmail.com Liked WW on FB! Its So Very Cheri on April 28, 2011 at 8:31 pm said: ooh — I love the personalized Custom Typography Subway art with the pne lettering in Cranberry liked her on fb and left a message doing a post on the diy club. Courtney @ A Diamond in the Stuff on April 28, 2011 at 9:04 pm said: I have been wanting a Keep Calm and Carry On Sign for forever now!!!! Crossing fingers now! I "liked" them on FB!!! Jessica @ My World - Made By Hand on April 28, 2011 at 9:26 pm said: I love the Mother's Who Know – Typography Sign the best {although they are all super cute} PhillyFoodies on April 28, 2011 at 9:49 pm said: This one is my fave: COFFEE. CLEAN. CUPCAKE. on April 28, 2011 at 9:59 pm said: Definitely my fave of all faves is the Family Rules Subway Art Sign / Horizontal LOVE LOVE LOVE! Maryann @ Domestically-Speaking on April 29, 2011 at 1:49 am said: Little girls make the world sweeter! Would LOVE for my girl's bathroom. Crystal on April 29, 2011 at 2:28 am said: I like the baby subway art! crystaljo85@hotmail.com Chandeen @ Designed by Chance on April 29, 2011 at 4:05 am said: "Little girls make the world sweater!!!" Love that. Judy on April 29, 2011 at 4:54 am said: What fun! I really like the custom subway art sign in black with white. Such a whimsical addition to my kitchen! judithahall@gmail.com Little Spoon on April 29, 2011 at 4:37 pm said: Would love to win these gift certificates! I love the "Custom Family Name Sign-Year Established" … very classy. Samerin24 on April 29, 2011 at 5:42 pm said: I love the "keep calm and carry on" in turquoise or the grey!! ruthanne 17 on April 29, 2011 at 7:21 pm said: i love both the keep calm and carry on but my real favorite is the Family Rules. Very nice. Thanks! McElprangs on April 29, 2011 at 10:07 pm said: I love the custom family rules sign. Too cute! makieasusanne at gmail dot com Catherine on April 30, 2011 at 1:12 am said: I love the Family Typography sign – I've been searching for something that can represent all the places my husband and I have lived. Trissta on April 30, 2011 at 1:45 am said: Hey! 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Great giveaway! lmnj1164 on May 1, 2011 at 10:41 pm said: I need that "Keep Calm and Carry On" sign! Well, okay I really ♥ it a lot! 🙂 "Liked" Word Whipped on FaceBook too! Andrea on May 2, 2011 at 5:29 am said: The family subway art is my favorite. Lady Lidia on May 2, 2011 at 8:33 am said: I would love the Custom Family Name Sign! – Lidia S Gwendolenparmer on May 2, 2011 at 11:13 am said: Live love live the family rules sign!! I'm a fb fan!! Shaina on May 2, 2011 at 1:48 pm said: Love the family rules and est signs! The Clines on May 2, 2011 at 2:43 pm said: I love the Custom Family Name Sign-Year Established. teresacline2001(at)yahoo(dot)com Style, via TIa on May 2, 2011 at 5:04 pm said: I love the FAMILY RULES!! Sarah D on May 3, 2011 at 2:29 am said: I LOVE the family rules signs fb fan as well! 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__label__cc	0.717132	0.282868	Xcelerate Offers Extended Warranty Coverage For Teslas & Other EVs Electrical autos might require far much less common upkeep than legacy autos, however they aren’t invulnerable – issues can and do go mistaken. Actually, the worry that one thing will go expensively wrong with a automobile that depends on new and revolutionary expertise most likely holds many drivers again from shopping for a Tesla or different EV. It’s a legitimate concern, particularly when you’re contemplating a pre-owned automobile which will now not be lined by the unique guarantee. This text involves us courtesy of EVANNEX (which additionally makes aftermarket Tesla equipment). Posted by Charles Morris. The opinions expressed in these articles should not essentially our personal at InsideEVs. Instagram: rado.hloska That’s the place Xcelerate is available in. Along with providing leasing, financing and fleet administration companies, the Texas-based firm offers prolonged warranties for Teslas and different EVs. Milad Davoodi, Xcelerate’s VP of Gross sales & Gross sales Operations, not too long ago spoke with EVANNEX in regards to the challenges of making a wholly new class of guarantee product. Davoodi labored for Tesla from 2011 to 2018. He was there for the tail finish of the Roadster period and the appearance of Model S, and performed a task in establishing Tesla’s early retail operations. “We employed the VP of Actual Property Operations for Apple, George Blankenship, and he sort of spearheaded the gallery places,” Davoodi instructed EVANNEX. “The thought was to get into the excessive foot site visitors areas, the shops, go to the folks somewhat than ready for them to come back to us. Educate, educate, educate about what electrical autos are.” When Davoodi helped open Tesla’s third retail location, in Houston, it was uncharted territory. “Texas has all these [restrictive] legal guidelines, the place you may’t promote straight as a producer, so, we needed to take care of this from scratch,” Davoodi explains. “There was no playbook – our authorized staff actually had no concept what we might or couldn’t do. My concept was: we don’t know the place the road is, till we cross it. We actually simply pushed the boundaries till we had been instructed to cut back.” “In 2014, we began delivering Mannequin S, and now we had been coping with much more autos. We stored listening to from clients, ‘How can I purchase this automobile if I can’t provide you with my outdated automobile? I must commerce it.’ Tesla didn’t have a trade-in program, so the reply was, ‘Sorry, we will’t do something that can assist you, go and promote privately.’ That clearly was not incentivizing gross sales.” Davoodi moved to Chicago and helped begin up Tesla’s trade-in and used automobile division. “It was the primary time Tesla had ever began buying belongings from clients and crediting that in direction of the brand new automobile buy,” he says. “In October of 2014, when dual-motor was introduced, that was one of many largest days we ever had, as a result of that’s when everybody that already had a Mannequin S needed to commerce in for the brand new dual-motor mannequin, which got here with Autopilot.” Youtube: Xcelerate Auto “That was once we began pondering, okay, if we’re going to soak up a whole lot of our personal vehicles, let’s resell them. Let’s work out find out how to value them, let’s work out a complete certification program. How are we going to refurbish these vehicles? The place are we going to retailer them? We began in North America after which I helped increase this system into Europe, and we realized find out how to purchase and promote vehicles in about 38 international locations.” “For 4 years, there have been nonetheless very, only a few of the vehicles [on the used] market,” says Davoodi. “We did that on objective – we needed to manage what number of autos had been on the market as a result of that additionally betters our personal model. However, clearly, that wasn’t going to be sustainable, as a result of ultimately folks had been going to undergo sellers. Issues occurred in a short time. Once I left there have been only a few vehicles, possibly like a few hundred, out there, after which hastily it shot as much as about 1,000. The final I noticed, there have been like three,000 to five,000 [used Teslas] within the unbiased market – a couple of third of all the used EVs within the market.” Davoodi left Tesla to hitch Xcelerate, however he remained within the California carmaker, and carefully adopted its progress. “What I began noticing was that sellers didn’t essentially know find out how to promote [Teslas] very effectively. Tesla clients are very totally different than your conventional patrons that simply go into sellers and get bought on a automobile. Teslas are distinctive, it’s tougher to know what sort of choices there are on the automobile as a result of they’re not very seen [and] there are such a lot of modifications which have occurred over time.” “So, what our thought was, let’s deal with find out how to construct worth within the unbiased market. How do you assist sellers promote these vehicles? As a result of in the event that they don’t, the valuations will begin dropping, and ultimately, that may harm the model, which I don’t need to see as a result of that is nonetheless my mission, one thing I care about very deeply.” A guaranty product for used autos was badly wanted. On the time, individuals who purchased a used automobile from a dealership (somewhat than from Tesla) couldn’t purchase an prolonged guarantee. Xcelerate created an unbiased third-party guarantee that automobile patrons might buy, regardless of who they purchased their automobile from. “It took us a very long time to develop this – most likely a full yr of fixed work,” says Davoodi. One problem was discovering the appropriate companions. “We couldn’t simply do that on our personal, as a result of that’s not going to make anybody really feel snug. So, we partnered up with Endurance Seller Companies – they’re one of many largest suppliers which can be promoting warranties in your complete motor business. They’ve three,500 dealerships beneath their belt, they’re very well-known. And our underwriter is AmTrust Monetary, a significant insurance coverage financial institution, a publicly traded world firm.” Determining find out how to create a claims course of that Tesla would work with was one other difficult drawback. “Tesla wouldn’t accommodate regular third-party guarantee corporations, so we needed to create a claims course of that works particularly for Tesla solely,” says Davoodi. “We had fairly a bit of information from our industrial leasing purchasers, so we had a common understanding of what a number of the largest part failure gadgets are, and find out how to perceive danger and pricing. We bought our companions to take this leap and and we created a contract from the bottom up. We’ve been stay now for a little bit bit over six months and it’s been a wild experience.” The shopper tales Davoodi hears remind him why Xcelerate created this system. “Most individuals I converse to don’t even personal a automobile but. They are saying, ‘I need to discover a automobile the place I can get a guaranty,’ and we give them the record of all of our sellers. We’ve been partnering up with sellers which can be really attempting to ascertain gross sales packages round EVs and round Teslas. And that’s what excites us. We’re not taking a look at sellers who’ve only one or two EVs, and actually know nothing [about them], however sellers which can be exhibiting 30 to 50 of them, and establishing a enterprise mannequin round that. And so they’re prepared to study. They name me every single day saying, ‘Hey, I’ve some questions on some choices, do you thoughts serving to?’ Completely. We’re greater than only a provider of a guaranty, we’re actually attempting to assist everybody on this specific house grow to be stronger, as a result of I imagine it strengthens the model general.” “Tesla’s fairly delicate with the phrase ‘associate,’ so we don’t say we’re companions with Tesla,” Davoodi explains. “We’re fully unbiased. We don’t work straight with Tesla – we had been capable of create one thing that works round Tesla. Lots of third-party guarantee corporations require an inspection of the automobile when it goes into service. They require the technician to name the contract provider and work out what components must be ordered – they work straight with the service technician and the service supervisor on the telephone. That requires a whole lot of backwards and forwards and a whole lot of inefficiencies that Tesla is not going to do, and we perceive that.” “We put a whole lot of belief in Tesla’s service, as a result of we all know they’re not attempting to rack up the price of restore like your conventional dealerships,” says Davoodi. “They’re simply attempting to get the automobile fastened and out the door as rapidly as doable. So with that degree of belief, we don’t require Tesla to name us. The shopper calls us, we begin the declare and every thing else occurs usually. After which, as an alternative of the client paying the invoice, we simply pay Tesla straight proper earlier than the automobile is handed over to the client.” Instagram: pichutesla Creating guarantee contracts for all 50 states concerned expensive and time-consuming paperwork. “On this business, once you write up a brand new contract, it’s important to get that accepted independently by each state earlier than you may promote it in that state,” says Davoodi. “We needed to create a very new contract that didn’t embody any elements which can be a part of legacy autos. Most corporations, even when they do cowl EVs, have a contract that has a bunch of gasoline elements, so it will get very complicated for the client: ‘Wait a second…alternator, spark plug, these elements don’t even exist. All these oils, upkeep…this has nothing to do with my automobile.’” Clearly, this doesn’t give the client confidence that the service supplier understands EVs. “‘What occurs if my Autopilot system goes out, my digital management module, my MCU? Are you going to cowl it? Do you even know what that’s?’ We needed to fully redesign the contract and ensure it’s particular for the EV proprietor, and we needed to get it accepted by each single state. That took a couple of yr.” The marketplace for used Teslas has exploded over the previous few years. Teslas are actually obtainable at auto auctions in addition to from trade-ins. “One factor about Tesla autos is the manufacturing cycle is actually excessive as a result of newer choices are launched fairly often, particularly for Mannequin S and Model X house owners. You see a two- or three-year possession timeline, after which they need to get a brand new one. Model 3 house owners, it looks like that’s really very totally different – I believe it’s going to be extra like eight or ten years, as a result of we’re promoting a whole lot of eight- and ten-year warranties for Mannequin three clients.” Tesla offers two producer warranties. The four-year/50,000-mile bumper-to-bumper guarantee covers every thing besides the battery and drive unit. “That’s your whole electrical elements, your MCU, your sensors, your door handles, suspension.” A separate eight-year/100,000-mile guarantee covers the battery and drive unit. “We operate similar to Tesla’s ESA,” says Davoodi. “We’re the one prolonged service settlement for Mannequin three on the market. We’re overlaying largely every thing outdoors of the battery and drive unit. The conventional wearable gadgets like climate strips, issues which can be presupposed to exit over time, like mild bulbs – these are the issues that aren’t lined beneath a guaranty. But when the AC goes out, the display, the sunroof, air suspension begins leaking – actually all of the high-ticket gadgets, these are the issues that we cowl.” Xcelerate presents warranties not just for Teslas, however for all battery-electric autos. How is a guaranty for an EV totally different from that of a legacy automobile? “The largest distinction is that there are fewer elements that may really fail. So, we cowl put on and tear [for some components]. For instance, door handles, they’ve little gears inside that ultimately exit and that’s the explanation why they cease coming out. That’s thought-about put on and tear, and we do cowl that.” The worth of an prolonged guarantee for an EV is often a bit decrease, as a result of an ICE automobile has much more elements that may put on out. “Typically talking, when you had been to check an prolonged guarantee for Mannequin S with [for example], the BMW 5 or 7 sequence, [the latter] can be considerably dearer, as a result of there are various extra elements that endure put on and tear, and extra elements on the whole which can be making the automobile transfer and tick and performance.” Davoodi most likely is aware of as a lot as anybody about Tesla reliability points. Has the reliability been getting higher? “I believe we noticed a pivotal second for the standard between the tip of 2014 and the start of 2015, the place vehicles had been being made higher. Identical to any firm, repetition makes you significantly better over time. As you’re constructing increasingly more vehicles, you study the intricacies, you tweak it over time and it turns into higher. And that’s true for any automobile, not simply Tesla. In the event you take a look at any new automobile that’s produced, the primary couple of years sure issues can go mistaken, then ultimately, they get higher.” “Being a brand-new firm, there are clearly several types of issues,” says Davoodi. “They’re new elements, not essentially the identical ones that individuals are used to coping with. On the very starting, there was some shock about some issues that went mistaken, however when you take a look at the grand scheme of issues, I believe these autos are extremely dependable.” “I’m on my second Mannequin S,” says Davoodi. “My first Mannequin S was in 2014 and I purchased one other in 2015. I haven’t had too many points – very small issues and all the time beneath guarantee. I’ve by no means had an MCU exit, luckily. I had a suspension difficulty, however that’s about it. Total, I’d say these vehicles are phenomenal – if I didn’t suppose so I wouldn’t be selling them, and I wouldn’t be driving one myself. There are a couple of elements that may go mistaken, however after they do, they’re lined.” Logically, EVs ought to be much more dependable, just because there are fewer issues to interrupt down. However in spite of everything, they haven’t been round very lengthy. Is EVs’ vaunted higher reliability a undeniable fact? The resale market appears to just accept it as such. “For Mannequin three, it’s arduous to say as a result of it’s nonetheless very new, however let’s take a look at Mannequin S. You might have a comparable automobile, a BMW 5 or 7 Sequence – when you simply add up the main prices over a five- to seven-year interval, I extremely doubt Mannequin S goes to be wherever near that of a 7 Sequence. That’s the explanation why you may get a [used] 7 Sequence for about half the price of a Mannequin S.” The decrease upkeep prices are a part of what contributes to Tesla’s robust resale worth. BMWs and different luxurious sedans have decrease resale values as a result of folks know that they’re going to have increased upkeep prices. “It’s much more snug to purchase an EV with increased mileage than a fuel automobile,” says Davoodi. “You don’t have to fret in regards to the engine and the transmission.” It’s essential to know the distinction between upkeep and part failure. Xcelerate’s prolonged warranties defend you in opposition to the latter. “Simply because these elements should not meant to exit, doesn’t imply that they will’t,” says Davoodi. “There’s actually nothing you are able to do to forestall an MCU from going out. You possibly can roll the cube and see if it occurs to you or if it doesn’t, or if you wish to ensure you have that peace of thoughts, that’s what we’re right here for.” Upkeep, however, is one thing EV house owners don’t want to fret about a lot, as Davoodi explains. “Upkeep is getting your oil modifications, getting your fluids flushed, getting tune-ups, your 20, your 40, your 50, your 75,000-mile upkeep factors. These are issues that you just don’t need to do with EVs. You possibly can go 80,000 miles on a Mannequin S and simply exchange tires. You actually need to do nothing else.” Written by: Charles Morris InsideEVs Editor’s Word: EVANNEX, which additionally sells aftermarket gear for Teslas, has kindly allowed us to share a few of its content material with our readers, freed from cost. Our thanks exit to EVANNEX. Take a look at the location here. 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__label__wiki	0.65997	0.65997	Dragos at RSAC 2018 Apr 25, 2018 \| Industry News By Selena Larson Dragos made the annual cybersecurity pilgrimage to San Francisco, California on April 16-20 where each year thousands of people from the security industry gather for a week at the RSA Conference. Dragos founder and CEO Robert M. Lee spoke about the importance of nuance in ICS and the risks of misattribution, adversary hunter Joe Slowik hosted a peer-to-peer session on threat profiling for network defense, and Dragos sponsored the ICS Village in the RSA Sandbox where a simulated ICS environment open to vulnerabilities showcased the Dragos platform. Necessity of Nuance “Hype has costs,” Mr. Lee told a packed audience on Tuesday. His talk, “Industrial Cyber Attacks: A Quest For Nuance With Lessons Learned From The Field,” highlighted the issues with overhyping industrial control system security threats and the consequences stemming from misunderstanding an increasingly active threat landscape. Failure to appropriately communicate and report on ICS incidents can snowball into ineffective internal discussions and potentially make incident response difficult for defenders. Government and company leadership should consider the following questions before attributing cyber incidents within industrial control systems: How do you respond after publishing erroneous reports? What kind of consequences could false reports have? Industrial infrastructures are among the most defensible networks around the world. Cyberattacks are difficult to execute and scale. “The threats are worse than we realize but not as bad as we imagine,” Mr. Lee said, but the threat landscape is still mostly unknown. The industry is not effectively collecting and analyzing data to determine the root cause of industrial cyberattacks, and the depth of activity of the adversaries. Historically, methods to understand the threat landscape have relied on security vendors, incident responders, and governments analyzing through internet-connected sensors like firewalls and endpoint detection services. However, ICS threat detection can’t rely on traditional IT methods. Mr. Lee said that over the next few years, the measurement of the threat landscape will hockey stick. This activity spike will be due to increasing threats, but also an increase in collection and analysis leveraging new tools, resources, and information-sharing. ICS attacks are increasingly sophisticated. Dragos has analyzed three destructive malware samples targeting power generation facilities in 2015, 2016, and 2017. CRASHOVERRIDE, the malware attack that briefly took down electricity in Kiev, Ukraine in 2016 used legitimate protocols and functionality to disrupt the grid. And, even more troubling, the TRISIS attack against a petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia last year targeted a safety system and was designed to cause harm and potential fatalities. According to Dragos’ 2017 Year in Review, 64 percent of ICS-related vulnerability patches didn’t fully eliminate risk because the components were insecure by design, and 72 percent of ICS-related vulnerability advisories provided no mitigation guidance in addition to patching which suggests there is no method to reducing risk until after an update cycle. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is especially important to ICS environments, and poor RCA can lead to increased Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) following an incident. To understand detection coverage, Dragos suggests mapping detection capabilities to each stage of the ICS Cyber Kill Chain and ensure analytical coverage across networks. By establishing and understanding a threat model, organizations can use it to create an intelligence-driven hypothesis that can be used to develop a threat hunt and incident response playbooks. ICS-focused threat activity groups are becoming more prevalent and attacks are increasingly bold. To defend against the growing threat landscape and combat hype, Mr. Lee left the audience with one piece of advice: Do more, fear less. A SOC in the Sandbox Dragos sponsored the ICS Village inside the RSAC Sandbox to demonstrate how an attacker could leverage a home internet-connected camera to turn off a water pump in an ICS environment. The ICS Village is designed to simulate threats in ICS environments, and how safety and security platforms, software, and human defenders identify threats and prevent attacks. The organization exhibits at a number of industry events including RSA and DEFCON. The village featured a smart home display full of IOT devices like a Google Home, garage door opener, and an IP-based camera. The interactive ICS Village demonstration panel next to the tabletop smart home contained a number of ICS components including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), variable drives, water pumps, and switches. In one theoretical attack scenario, a controls engineer who owned the home was unaware that his camera contained a vulnerability. A theoretical attacker leveraged the vulnerability to gain access to his corporate ICS network. The attacker scanned the home network and took over the engineer’s work computer. They waited for a VPN connection and then transferred an executable file to run on the computer within the control network and shut off the water flow. The Dragos platform identifies and visualizes assets and activity on ICS networks, and in this scenario, the platform detected the malicious behavior between the compromised computer and the water pump. With the platform’s map of security zones, a defender can analyze activity between devices and analyze specific changes on individual assets. The platform operates as an operational technology security incident and event management system (SIEM) and can be deployed in a security operations center (SOC) model. SOCs monitor networks, devices, applications, and servers and defend against threats. Thomas VanNorman, director of application engineering at the ICS Village led a discussion about SOCs in industrial control systems. He said each SOC should be a three-tiered system. Tier one contains analysts who identify and escalate abnormalities. At tier two are incident responders who triage the events, analyze activity, and apply mitigations. Subject matter experts who dive deeper into analyzing threats and are closest to the process are on tier three. Unlike IT, threat detection in OT systems should be 100% either false positives or a detection. There is no room to leave detections unknown, Mr. VanNorman said. The ICS Village demonstration panel is a valuable tool for practical exhibition of ICS assets, and Dragos will keep it at our offices in Hanover, Maryland. Implementing Threat Profiling for Network Defense Across from the ICS Village, Dragos’ Joe Slowik led a working session on threat profiling, focused on identifying threats to the organization and how to appropriately prioritize resources for defense. This session emphasized many key components of Dragos’ perspective on network security: Adopting a threat-centric approach to defense and response, and combining “self-knowledge” of operations with adversary information to develop appropriate security strategies. In the session, Mr. Slowik started out by shifting attendees’ focus from external threats to internal sources of value: What parts of the defended network are important to an adversary, and how must an adversary reach these goals. This approach allows defenders to narrow the scope of potential threats to those most-relevant to the organization, while also identifying key resources and nodes that will likely feature in adversary operations. After identifying sources of value and threats to those items, defenders can then begin developing a perspective of what countermeasures and visibility are necessary to respond to relevant threats. The entire purpose of this approach is to prioritize resources and focus defensive effort on those potential items that are both critical to the organization’s operations, and relevant to the organization’s likely adversaries. Almost 40 people participated in the packed peer-to-peer session. Following the session, Mr. Slowik fielded requests to further the discussion and host future talks on the issues, which Dragos may incorporate into a future Dragos webinar.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1158
__label__cc	0.74637	0.25363	A Discussion of Baptism (part two) Modes of Baptism Does it really matter if one is immersed, sprinkled, washed, effusion (pouring), etc.? These are referred to as the modes of baptism. Â The word given in the Bible for baptism is the Greek baptizo, which means â€œto dip under repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge.â€[1] To immerse is the primary meaning of the Greek word baptizo.Â Also, the other referenced modes of baptism mentioned had Greek words to reference them (sprinkling; rantidzo, pouring; epicheo and prochusis) but they were never used in discussion of baptism (only baptizo). Immersion best pictures the significance of baptism, which is death to the old life and resurrection to the new (Romans 6:1-4). Immersion was the universal practice of the early church and every instance in the New Testament either demands or permits it. There are also extra-biblical references to baptism that are helpful in determining the proper mode of baptism. In the Didache (an early form of catechism around AD 100) it says, â€œAnd concerning baptism, baptize this way: having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water. But if you have no living water, baptize into other water; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head into the name of Father, and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.â€[2] From this text one can gather that early believers expected baptism, and it was preferably by immersion. However, we can also see how the early church began to add to the canon of Scripture (i.e. fasting before baptism as a requirement, baptism in living water, cold water, etc.). There are secondary modes, referenced by other early extra-biblical sources, used (such as pouring) but were used only when immersion was not possible. In such cases, such as sick people, pouring was called â€œclinical baptism.â€ Baptism in not part of a believer obtaining salvation or the forgiveness of sin, that only comes through faith in Christ and His death on the cross. Baptism follows oneâ€™s acceptance of Christâ€™s gift of salvation as an outward act of obedience to what has transpired inside his soul. So the order of importance to the subject of baptism is (1) saving genuine faith in Christ alone for salvation (2) a proper understanding of the symbolic meaning of baptism and a profession of Christ (3) baptism (4) mode of baptism â€“ preferably by immersion (5) membership into a local church. When is a Child Ready for Baptism? In the eleventh chapter of second Samuel is the story of David and how he has fathered a child with Bathsheba, and killed her husband. Because of this sin, God tells David through the prophet Samuel that He is going to take the child. David then begins to pray and fast in hopes of changing the Lordâ€™s mind, but eventually the child dies, and he responds to the servants concern about his drastic change in behavior from mourning to normalcy by saying in verse twenty-three, â€œBut now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.â€ David is stating here that small children who are too young to make professions of faith or have the cognitive ability to understand their depravity and receive the gospel go to heaven. He says that he will one day â€œgo to him.â€ The child was too young to make a decision of faith in God, and yet as a son of Adam he was â€œborn in sin.â€[3] So he has the inherited sin nature from Adam, and did not express his faith in a coming Messiah. Yet, David says that he will see his son again. So Baptists have explained this passage as there is an â€œage of accountability,â€ where children develop cognitively, emotionally, and physically to such a point that they are able to understand their own sin, their lostness, and the gospel. Davidâ€™s son was shown grace from God that we are not fully able to explain this side of heaven. So a child is ready for baptism once they understand these things, have genuinely received Christ as their Savior, and then follow of their own volition the teaching of Christ to be baptized. [1] Wayne Grudem, Bible Doctrine (Grand Rapids, Michigan; Zondervan, 1999), 377. [2] The Didache, Early Christians, The Twelve Apostles, Chapter 7. [3] Romans 5:12ff.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1162
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__label__wiki	0.65841	0.65841	Prank Phone Call Reveals the Real Wisconsin Governor February 23, 2011 / Jim Luke Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin gets totally pranked and reveals a lot. No, it’s not about the money. It’s about busting the unions and he’ll lie if he has to. From Yves Smith, the author of Econned and a blogger extrordinaire at naked capitalism : The Beast’s “David Koch” Speaks to Wisconsin Governor Walker I was alerted about and listened to this recorded phone conversation between a caller claiming to be David Koch and Walker a couple hours ago and did not post it then over concern that might not be real. However, the governor’s office has issued a press release attempting to defend the governor’s half of the conversation. Per reader Doug Smith, who pinged me about the official statement: Here’s the press release from Walker’s office: The Governor takes many calls everyday. Throughout this call the Governor maintained his appreciation for and commitment to civil discourse. He continued to say that the budget repair bill is about the budget. The phone call shows that the Governor says the same thing in private as he does in public and the lengths that others will go to disrupt the civil debate Wisconsin is having. I listened to the full tape. Walker said nothing at all that would indicate his appreciation for civil discourse. For example, at one point he describes a gambit under consideration where he’d invite the 14 Senators to join him in a conversation. Walker says ‘not a negotiation, a conversation’. Then he goes on to describe the purpose of this conversation: if they can get the 14 into a room, the law may support the notion that the session has officially begun — at which point, even if the 14 leave again, the quorum for the session would be there and the Republicans can move forward with votes even in the absence of the 14 Dems. Walker says, he’d be happy to have the 14 ’scream at him for an hour’ if he could accomplish this legal tactic. Civil discourse? Not a whiff of that in anything Walker said when he thought he was speaking to Koch. Oh, at one point after “Koch” suggested Walker bring a baseball bat to the possible meeting, Walker did say “I’ve got on in my office. A Slugger”. You can listen below: Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? \| Rolling Stone Politics The headline says it all. Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them via Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? \| Rolling Stone Politics. It’s all about cronyism and revolving-door regulation. There’s no way the feds can compete with the money the banks put out there, so probably the only way to stop this kind of crookedness is to keep the banks from getting so big in the first place. We used to have laws about that – antitrust, Glass-Steagall, etc. It’s Nice to Advise the King February 6, 2011 / Jim Luke / 5 Comments Follow-up to my post Fox, Hen House, Economic Advisors on appointing GE boss Jeff Immelt to advise President Obama. So Obama begins enforcing new environmental rules, but GE gets an exemption. How convenient. As Mel Brooks used to say, It’s good to be the king. I think it’s pretty nice to just be the king’s advisor. Last month, the Obama EPA began enforcing new rules regulating the greenhouse gas emissions from any new or expanded power plants. This week, the EPA issued its first exemption, Environment & Energy News reports: The Obama administration will spare a stalled power plant project in California from the newest federal limits on greenhouse gases and conventional air pollution, U.S. EPA says in a new court filing that marks a policy shift in the face of industry groups and Republicans accusing the agency of holding up construction of large industrial facilities. According to a declaration by air chief Gina McCarthy, officials reviewed EPA policies and decided it was appropriate to “grandfather” projects such as the Avenal Power Center, a proposed 600-megawatt power plant in the San Joaquin Valley, so they are exempted from rules such as new air quality standards for smog-forming nitrogen dioxide (NO2). There’s something interesting about the Avenal Power Center: The proposed Avenal Energy project will be a combined-cycle generating plant consisting of two natural gas-fired General Electric 7FA Gas Turbines with Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) and one General Electric Steam Turbine. Maybe GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s closeness to President Obama, and his broad support for Obama’s agenda, had nothing to do with this exemption. But we have no way of knowing that, and given the administration’s record of regularly misleading Americans regarding lobbyists, frankly, I wouldn’t trust the White House if they told me there was no connection. On the upside, at least Job Czar Immelt is creating jobs! Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/02/obama-issues-global-warming-rules-january-gives-ge-exemption-febr#ixzz1DD8BfFQj “Change”: I don’t think this word means what they think it means. May 19, 2009 / Jim Luke Hmmm. This isn’t exactly confidence inspiring. Tim Geithner’s new nominee for number two at the Treasury Department, Neal Wolin, played a key role in drafting legislation in the late 1990s deregulating the banking system, a former Treasury Department official confirms to us. We aren’t going to fix the mess in banking (and the economy) by turning to the same cast of characters whose lack of vision and deregulatory ideology got us into the mess. Forget the Swine flu, the real epidemic is corruption and greed. In the past I’ve mentioned Simon Johnson’s article on “The Quiet Coup”. It’s worth another look. The real epidemic that’s going to wipe us out isn’t swine flu or any other virus. Instead it’s a viral idea. An idea that people in positions of power hold in this country. Namely, the idea that they got where they are due solely to merit. And since they believe they got where they are by merit, then they must be good people. And then they conclude that whatever is in their personal best interest must also be good. It’s rationalization of greed, corruption, and avarice. Nothing less. A few data points to consider: Our secretary of treasury, Tim Geithner, was confirmed despite admitting to being a tax cheat. Even when he was caught by the IRS and informed that his “interpretation” of the tax laws was errroneous, he paid only the absolutely legal minimum. He refused to pay back the back taxes that were beyond the statute of limitations. Apparently it’s only wrong if you get caught and publicized in Timmy’s book. That doesn’t bode well for the Timmy designing a derivatives regulatory regime, does it? From NewsDaily and other sources: Stephen Friedman, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank‘s board of directors, resigned on Thursday amid questions about his purchases of stock in his former firm, Goldman Sachs. What did he do? He “quit” (the revolving door is open) a job at Goldman Sachs to take a position replacing Tim Geithner as President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. For those not familiar, the NY Fed is supposed to regulate Goldman Sachs. So did Friedman put his Goldman stock in a blind trust? No. Did he sell it and seperate himself from Goldman? No. Instead he not only continued to own stock in the firm he is supposed to regulate (and that has profited by the billions from bail-out programs, including those of the Fed). He not only continued to own stock, he bought more. Later in the same article Friedman is quoted as saying what he did was “in compliance with the rules”. Of course it was. That’s because even later in the same article we discover that he was granted a waiver of the rules. He sounds absolutely indignant that people think he has a conflict of interest and that we question his motivation. From Reuters today: Private equity fund The Carlyle Group will pay a $20 million penalty to settle its role in a probe of investment firms that hired politically connected people to help them get chosen to manage New York state’s pension fund, the state’s attorney general said on Thursday. Of course it wasn’t just the NY state pension fund, it was pension funds in at least 36 states. Carlyle Group is one of the largest private private equity and investment mgt firms in the world. One of it’s prime methods is to employ former top political people (ex-Presidents of US, ex-Secretaries of State, ex-Prime Ministers of UK, etc). Then magically, the firm’s owned companies get big government contracts. Surprise! In this latest episode, Carlyle bribes “employs” people who make campaign contributions to the politicos who are on the boards of the ublic pension funds. Then, magic, the funds find that Carlyle is an excellent investment manager and should be hired. Bankers as Royalty May 1, 2009 / Jim Luke Arianna Huffington has a very good read today about why bankers continue to get preferential treatment at the expense of Main Street. Here’s just an excerpt: Just this week, the bankers and their lobbyists — who you might have reasonably thought would be the political equivalent of lepers in the halls of power these days — have kneecapped substantive bankruptcy reform in the Senate, helped pull the plug on a government-brokered deal with Chrysler, and tried feverishly to throw up a roadblock in the way of credit card reform in the House. You heard me right. America’s bankers — those wonderful folks who brought us the economic meltdown — are still being treated as Beltway royalty by those in Congress. According to Sen. Dick Durbin, the banks “are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.” When it comes to reforming our financial system, we are truly through the looking glass. I mean, since when did it become “to the vanquished go the spoils”? How do the same banks that have repeatedly come to Washington over the last eight months with their hats in their hands, asking for billions to rescue them from their catastrophic mistakes, somehow still “own the place”? But the banks continue to be rewarded for their many failures. How did banking get so screwed up? March 23, 2009 / Jim Luke One of the best articles I’ve found on how the banking industry & Wall St got so screwed up that they could take down the world’s economy. It’s very long, but an easy and engaging read – you don’t have to be an economist to understand it. Warning to the sensitive: it’s from Rolling Stone, so some of language is a bit salty. Check it out here at: The Big Takeover.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1169
__label__cc	0.530867	0.469133	« The Blue Bath A Small Indiscretion » Last Ride to Graceland 2 Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books Reviewed by Lorraine Kleinwaks “Love Me Tender” – A mother, a daughter, Elvis and a Southern journey (Beaufort SC to Macon GA to Fairhope AL to Tupelo MS to Memphis TN; daughter’s trip in 2015, mother’s late seventies): Summer’s coming and I’m in a Southern state of mind. So let’s take a “blues and rockabilly” road trip down South searching for Elvis, and a whole lot more. We’re not taking off from Virginia where I live. It’s the “shallow South,” says Cory Beth, one of our two female Last Ride to Graceland narrators. We’re setting off from the “Old South,” from Beaufort, South Carolina “so beautiful it hurts,” where Cory lives and sings. She’s 37, or as Cory perceives herself, a “coming-on-forty loser who lives in a trailer and plays waterfront bars and sleeps with the wrong men.” Whatever you think of Cory, I’ll bet you’ll be rooting for her. Our destination is Memphis, Tennessee. In case there’s anyone left on this planet who doesn’t know, this is where Elvis Presley’s mansion, Graceland, sits like a king. We could take a direct route, make it in one long 10-hour day. Pack for five days though for Cory intends to meander, allowing us to traverse “clichés about the angry South” and some of its “fairyland” scenery. Somewhere along our route we’ll cross the “invisible line between the South and The South,” as we travel through the “acceptability of Georgia,” to the “anxiety of Alabama,” and “then the complete throwing-in-the-towel-ness of Mississippi.” Elvis Presley, 1970 By Ollie Atkins, chief White House photographer at the time, via Wikimedia Commons Cory may be acting on impulse and gut, but she’s making this trip and following this roundabout itinerary on a strong hunch and a few clues. “Born 7 months, 9 days after my momma left Graceland,” she thinks Elvis is her father. At 18, her mother, Laura Berry, was a backup singer in Elvis’ touring entourage, one of eight singers, four white, four black. Elvis called her Honey Bear. That was the last year of Elvis’ iconic life, 1976 to 1977, a period “between the hippie years and disco years.” So our journey moves back and forth in time, told in Cory and Honey’s fictionalized Southern voices. The Honey chapters are trips down memory lane, when Elvis captured America by storm and then “Elvis did such a good job of breaking America’s heart.” He was the “first artist to sing like all of America, not just half of it. Proof that he had come to bring us happiness and heartache in the same spin of the turntable.” Honey’s roller-coaster year reflected that too: from the highs of learning “how to glitter” to the lows of seeing “what happens when a poor boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, gets all the money and sex and fame in the world and still isn’t happy.” All this means Kim Wright’s fourth novel poignantly dishes out Southern soul and winning rhythmic prose that I can’t stop quoting, as she pays tribute to Elvis at 42 (the last year of his life, the same age his mother Gladys died, part of his vulnerabilities), down to imagining the last tragic moments of his lonesome life even though he was “constantly surrounded by people,” including Honey at Graceland. The music you’ll hear brings us to “the kind of music that gave him his start … Like he was circling back. Like he knew he didn’t have long.” Before we head off, a few more things to know about Cory and Laura/Honey. They both look like Priscilla Presley. Laura was a preacher’s daughter, so she had (and Cory has) what Elvis had: a “gospel tremor in his voice.” Here’s how Kim Wright movingly describes that sound: “It’s the voice of anybody who started out in the church or maybe even just in the South, the voice of someone who can’t even say the goddam word home without lifting the note just a little bit right at the very end, as hopeful as a dog at a rest stop, sure as shouting that waiting out there somewhere, somehow, is an angel just for them.” Key to the timing of our trip is seven months ago Laura died a “ragin’ Cajun kind of cancer that takes you from daiquiris to the funeral home in five months flat.” The novel opens when the “good man” that raised Cory, the only father she’s known, Bradley Ainsworth, is on his annual fishing trip and seems to have forgotten his waders. Could Cory ship them to Florida? An odd, expensive request. Cory suspects he planned this intentionally, because when she enters his fishing shed, which she never had an occasion to do, it’s not just big old waders left behind but a perfectly preserved 1973 Stutz Blackhawk – Elvis’ car – the car he actually drove on August 16, 1977, the last night of his life. Cory figures Honey drove it back home when she fled Graceland – pregnant. Cory guesses Bradley has decided it’s finally time she discovers the truth about her biological father. Elvis’ 1973 Stutz Blackhawk By Thomas R Machnitzki (thomasmachnitzki.com), via Wikimedia Commons So climb into this rare “muscle car.” Slide into its soft, red leather seats. Gawk at what looked like “real twenty-four carat gold” interior trim (it was 18-carat). Turn on the eight-track player. Hear a melody reminiscent of “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” crooned by Otis Redding. It’s marked demo. Recognize two of the three harmonizing voices: the King’s “stripped-down version from the early years, even before he started recording at Sun Records” – one of many Elvis tidbits revealed on our trip. The other familiar voice is Honey’s; the unfamiliar one Cory assumes is her mama’s backup singer friend, Marilee. Notice the trash in the car. A BBQ napkin from a place called Doozy’s. A receipt from Tupelo, Elvis’ birthplace. Clues – and a car that makes you feel like the “whole world is vibrating” – guide the roads Cory will be taking. Pure, escapist fiction. Historical Marker By Spudgun67, via Wikimedia Commons Time to let Cory take the wheel. Be confident Cory can competently steer this “big 425 engine” that guzzles gas (the real car got 8 miles to the gallon) along a fortuitous path. The strangers she meets, the coincidences that happen are planted for more good reasons. Soon you’ll be traveling with another companion: a coon dog Cory names Lucy. Not a typical name for a male dog. Then again, this isn’t an ordinary trip. Since the point of a car adventure is the unexpected journey, you’re on your own from here, like Cory was. She set off to find her father; discovers some of Honey, some of herself. So sit back, and enjoy the memorable ride. 2 thoughts on “Last Ride to Graceland” Reply Jackie Cangro Jun 6,2016 7:27 PM Your description of this story takes me back to my trip to Graceland and Sun Records. I also saw the exhibit of the fabulous cars Elvis owned. I can’t remember this one in particular, but the pink Cadillac stuck in my mind. 🙂 LAST RIDE TO GRACELAND sounds like a wonderful journey narrative about an iconic figure who is ingrained in our memories. For another rousing endorsement of this book, She Reads selected this title as one of their summer book club titles. Terrific review, Lorraine! Reply lorraine Jun 7,2016 10:00 AM Glad to see the raves elsewhere! Thanks for sharing She Reads, as I also caught they are recommending probably my next read, The Fifth Avenue Writer’s Society (but I didn’t read their review as don’t like to be influenced). Here’s why this is interesting and FYI: Kim Wright is promoting Graceland with three other Carolina authors, one is the author of the Fifth Avenue Writer’s Society, which I’d planned to read. It’s an interesting marketing idea: http://writerunboxed.com/2016/06/05/authors-out-of-carolina-or-anywhere-else-for-that-matter/ As always, thanks for your comments. Since you visited Graceland and you recently wrote about fun reads, think this one you will very much enjoy. Lorraine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1173
__label__wiki	0.788811	0.788811	Latvijas karavīri Afganistānā Photo: flickr.com/saeima Latvian troop stay in Afghanistan to be extended Authors: eng.lsm.lv (Latvian Public Broadcasting), BNS The mandate of Latvian troops participating in the NATO-led international operation in Afghanistan is to be extended until December 31, 2016, according to the agenda of the Latvian government for the Cabinet meeting on November 17, reported BNS newswire Thursday. NATO's role in Afghanistan after 2014 has changed, with the Alliance providing training and consultations to the local national security forces. NATO launched Operation Resolute Support in Afghanistan in January 2015 based on the Afghan government's request expressed in the bilateral agreement with NATO. The Alliance plans to continue the operation in 2016. With a December 4, 2014 resolution the Latvian parliament approved participation of Latvian soldiers in Operation Resolute Support until December 31, 2015. Considering that the Latvian government has confirmed willingness to provide for continued presence of Latvian troops in Afghanistan, a new parliamentary resolution extending the Latvian contingent’s mandate in Afghanistan is required. Latvia's involvement in the operation in Afhganistan is expected to remain at its present level. In 2015 Latvia sent 25 soldiers for participation in the international mission in Afghanistan. Source of army information leak identified Fireworks and processions mark 101st anniversary of Latvian independence Soldier tales: aviator Voldemārs Miervaldis and the German surveillance seaplane Expect snap checks of combat readiness, says Latvian Defense Minister Not their battle to fight. Latvian veterans remember trials of Soviet-Afghan war Latvia to maintain troop presence in Afghanistan and Iraq Eight howitzers to be stationed in Latgale	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1176
__label__wiki	0.950315	0.950315	homepage NEWS Top News JNU Hosts 16th Student Film Awards Ceremony Source: School of Art Author: Wang Shiyu The 16th Guangzhou College Student Film Festival Green Panicle Award Ceremony, hosted by JNU, was held at the Guangzhou Beilei Theater on Dec. 11. Song Zuer, one of the festival’s ambassadors, and Aaron Kwok, named the festival's most popular leading actor, attended, and the well-known director Feng Xiaogang brought the leads of his film Only Cloud Knows. Many actors, including Yang Mi, Huang Jingyu and Guan Xiaotong, supported the activity through videos. At the ceremony, more than 10 Most Popular Among College Students film awards were announced. The Wandering Earth was selected as most popular science fiction film, and its director, Guo Fan, as most popular director. A Cool Fish was named most popular comedy, and its screenwriters, Rao Xiaozhi and Lei Zhilong, most popular screenwriters. Shadow won as most popular action film. My Best Summer was awarded most popular film, and its song My Best Summer won most popular film song. White Snake was selected as most popular intangible cultural heritage film. Lost in Time was most popular online film (ancient costume/fantasy), The Last Summer most popular online love film, LiBai:Hellfire most popular online action film, and Fierce Family most popular online comedy. Yang Mi was most popular actress for the role of Jiang Meng in Baby. Huang Jingyu was selected as most popular supporting actor for the role of Lin Zhendong in Pegasus. Yang Zi, one of the festival’s image ambassadors, was named most popular supporting actress for her role as Wang Lu in The Bravest. (JNU Vice President Rao Min awarding the Green Panicle Award certificate to the producer of The Wandering Earth) Kwok presented the Green Panicle Award Certificate to the winning student competition, encouraging its members to work hard and pursue their dreams in film. Panicle refers to the stalk of a rice plant, symbolizing a good harvest and, for the student filmmakers, the realization of their dreams. More than 3,000 entries were received for the eight modules of the student competition unit, with students from nearly 2,000 colleges participating. (Aaron Kwok awarding the certificate to the first-place winners of the original short video and animation film, sports imaging short video and film dubbing competitions. )	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1177
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__label__cc	0.676556	0.323444	Refine by Job Categories Climate Change/ Resiliency (2) Sustainability (2) Communication - Public Outreach (2) Research (1) Biology - Ecology (1) Energy (1) Energy Efficiency (1) Renewable Energy (1) Environmental Education - Interpretation (1) Advocacy and Policy (1) Environmental Protection (1) Technology (1) Policy Advisor Blue Green Alliance Washington, DC, USA The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) seeks qualified candidates for the position of Policy Advisor in our Washington, D.C. office. BGA unites fourteen of America’s largest and most influential labor unions and environmental organizations to identify ways that today’s environmental challenges can create and maintain quality jobs and build a stronger, fairer economy. The organization’s efforts center on the immediate need to develop commonsense solutions to our environmental challenges in a way that creates and maintains quality, family-sustaining jobs across the economy. 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__label__cc	0.56557	0.43443	Experiments to elucidate the genetic variability of wild oats and varieties of cultivated oats. An interim-statement with special regard to the fatuoids Leist, N. Landwirtschaftliche Forschung Sonderheft: 5) 513-529 Experiments on the elucidation of genetic variability in wild oats and varieties of cultivated oats. An interim report with special reference to fatua types. Landwirtsch Forsch (Sonderheft 35): 513-529, 1979 Wild oats, cultivated oats and intermediate forms (fatuoids in particular) in the past and at the present time. Saatgut-wirtschaft, 5: 12, 306-11. bibl. 35, 1953 Investigations into hybrids between cultivated oats avena sativa avena byzantina and wild oats avena fatua avena sterilis as well as into fatuoids. Seed Science & Technology: 781-806, 1981 Distinguishing hybrids between cultivated oats (Avena sativa, Avena byzantina) and wild oats (Avena fatua, Avena sterilis) as well as fatuoids. Seed science and technology(3): 781-805, 1981 Electrophoretic identification of fatuoids and hybrids between cultivated and wild oats. Selektsiya i Semenovodstvo, USSR (11): 11-12, 1984 Conversion of oats into fatuoids and wild oats. Agrobiologija (Agrobiology). 6, 868-72, 1964 Distinguishing species of Avena by their seed. A study of cultivated oats, the fatuoids, and certain wild species of economic interest. Proc Assoc Offic Seed Analysts 38: 84-96, 1948 Morphological and physiological variation in wild oats (Avena fatua L. and A. ludoviciana Dur.) and in hybrids between wild and cultivated oats. J.agric.Sci, 49: 3, 259-274. bibl.23, 1957 The origin of fatuoids in cultivated oats. Nature [London] 119(2984): 49, 1927 The determination and evaluation of faruoids and hybrid forms between cultivated oats and wild oats. Saat- u. Pflanzgut, 10: 71-73, 1969 Conversion of naked oats to hulled oats and fatuoids under the influence of x irradiation, low temperature and winter and autumn sowing.. Trud. Inst. Genet. (Trans. Inst. Genet.). 30, 155-70, 1963 Transitional forms between the types of wild oats and those of cultivated oats. REC TRAV BOT NEERL 25a: 416-444, 1928 Special session on wild oats. Progress report on wild oats. Proc. 9th W. Sect. Nat. Weed Comm, 33-35, 1955 Evaluation of variability in forage oats (Avena sativa L.) varieties in regard to feed composition. Grassland Science 43(4): 474-481, 1998 Investigations on the susceptibility to Ustilago avenae of wild and cultivated strains of Oats, with special reference to the process of infection. Kuhn-Arch, 15: 349-409, 1927	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1186
__label__wiki	0.632494	0.632494	Undoing the Fourth Amendment The Power to Search Is the Power to Degrade Becky Akers 0510Akers Carlos Gonzalez, 21, of Weston, Florida, stands spread-eagled while an officer pats him down. When the officer bends to frisk his legs, Carlos lowers his arms without asking permission. The officer snarls,“Hey, we’re not even close to being finished. What are you trying to hide?” While a crowd watches, Carlos is ordered to disrobe. He hands over his shoes and belt and empties his pockets as the search continues in mortifying detail.1 Is Carlos a convicted criminal entering prison, or is he merely among the 10–15 percent of American citizens whom the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) hauls aside for “additional screening” at the nation’s airports? Two million passengers weekly are pawed as if they were felons, though their only crime is catching a flight. And while even suspected murderers are not supposed to be searched without warrants, law-abiding passengers such as Carlos abandon this freedom when they enter an airport as surely as Dante’s sinners abandon hope when they enter hell. The Fourth Amendment is so clearly written that even TSA bureaucrats and Supreme Court justices should be able to comprehend it: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” How is it, then, that no warrant is ever produced nor any probable cause cited before passengers are manhandled and bags rummaged? The answer leads us down a rabbit-hole of court decisions to the Wonderland of post-constitutional America. Ironically, despite its high-tech wands and X-ray machines, its sophistication and jargon, Wonderland’s tactics have been copped from a long-dead British king. Nor have the evils that result from those tactics abated over the years. Eighteenth-century British citizens, whether in England or the colonies, were almost alone among the world’s peoples in boasting that their homes were their castles, inviolate even from their government. Sir William Pitt described this liberty in November 1783 while addressing the House of Commons: “The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.” Folks lived in peace, their homes and persons sacrosanct. No officer disturbed them unless he had good cause—good enough that he was willing to swear to it—to suspect foul play. Even then, he might not search indiscriminately. He had to specify the place he wanted to search and the object he hoped to find. “Fishing” was not allowed. As the French and Indian War waned in the early 1760s, so did this halcyon interlude. England’s treasury had been depleted by the war, and it lusted after the customs revenues being lost to smugglers. Because so many items were either prohibited outright or prohibitively taxed, smuggling flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. King George III, however, concentrated on the colonists’ criminality. How dare they patronize French and Dutch merchants! The law required them to buy their sugar and furniture, clothing and molasses from the king’s friends, regardless of high prices or poor service. Worse, Americans were also dodging the punitive duties on foreign goods by sneaking them past the understaffed customs office. The first thing George did was beef up his customs department with “swarms of officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance. ”Then, because that would drive smugglers to increasingly ingenious ploys while the swarms wasted time obtaining warrants, the king resurrected an institution from earlier British history called “writs of assistance.” The term alone sent shivers over any colonist who bought or sold smuggled goods—activities perhaps as common in eighteenth-century America as purchasing plane tickets is today. Writs of assistance professed to be search warrants, but they specified neither the person and place to be searched nor the item to be found. Their generality turned long-standing premises of British law upside down.Writs assumed that everybody was a criminal, that he could be searched at any time for anything. Armed with a writ, an officer could ransack any home or shop, any place at all, in an open-ended hunt for contraband.As Mercy Otis Warren put it, writs permitted officers to “enter the dwelling of the most respectable inhabitant on the smallest suspicion of a concealment of contraband goods, and to insult, search, or seize, with impunity.”2 Writs so enraged Bostonians that they hired—or tried to hire: he refused payment—Mercy’s brother, James, to rebut them before the Superior Court of Massachusetts in February 1761. Otis introduced his case by thundering:“I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book.”3 If the power to tax is the power to destroy, then the power to search is the power to degrade. That may explain why government cherishes this authority as much as free people despise it. Few things short of torture keep men more servile than knowing they may, at their ruler’s whim, be prodded, poked, stripped, and humiliated. However, if we grant that one of government’s few legitimate pursuits is to apprehend and try thieves, murderers, and other genuine criminals, we must allow it to search for evidence of the crime. Theoretically, warrants balance the state’s need to search with the citizen’s right to privacy. They severely limit governmental power over the suspected individual—who, at this point has not been convicted of any crime—by specifying the particulars of what can be searched as well as the items sought. Obviously, the more items the state declares illegal, the more essential to freedom these limitations become: allowing government to search indiscriminately means it will find and punish the possessors of drugs, guns, or any of the million and one other things it bans. Otis listed the malignancies that multiply when specific warrants are abandoned in favor of general searches, malignancies threatening us today. First were the numbers of people who could procure a writ. No longer were a few, specially deputized officers permitted to search. Rather, “Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.” Screeners with Criminal Backgrounds Otis could have been speaking of the TSA. The agency employs about 45,000 screeners, some with criminal backgrounds.4 It also boasts about how quickly it hired these people;5 no wonder the screeners weren’t screened. Nevertheless, they wield enormous power over the passengers who fall into their hands. One bragged to magician/comedian Penn Jillette, “Once you cross that line, I can do whatever I want.”6 Another confiscated a passenger’s cigarette lighter after exclaiming that he’d always wanted one like it.The passenger reported him to a supervisor but received no satisfaction, so he threatened to contact TSA authorities. The supervisor replied, “Go ahead and complain, there is nothing you can do to us.”7 “In the next place,” Otis observed, general searches are “perpetual; there is no return. A man is accountable to no person for his doings. Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him.” When an officer is not looking for a specific item in a specific place, his search never ends. For all practicable purposes, he can search the entire population, and then, if his busybody tendencies still itch, begin over again. The scope and universality of airport searches confirm this. One court noted in 1989 that “[i]n the 15 years the [airport searching] program has been in effect, more than 9.5 billion persons have been screened, and over 10 billion pieces of luggage have been inspected” (Nat’l Treasury Employees Union v.Von Raab). “In the third place,” Otis continued, “a person with this writ . . . may enter all houses, shops, etc., at will, and command all to assist him.” He added, “Bare suspicion without oath is sufficient.” Writs exempted the officer from swearing to an impartial third party that he had “probable cause” to believe—not merely suspect—that a person had committed a crime. This obliterated any limits on who could be searched because an officer could claim to suspect everyone. It also destroyed the balance of power, so hallowed in Anglo-American jurisprudence, between branches of government. Judges traditionally stood between citizens and the state, protecting them from overly zealous or personally vindictive officers. Having to seek judicial permission for a search meant that an officer offended at the pub one evening could not suddenly appear on a man’s doorstep and demand to search his home. He must first charge his victim with a crime and then convince a judge. Writs of assistance sacked this safeguard. The same person who had authorized the search conducted it. There was no recourse to the judiciary, no objective third party deciding whether a proposed search was necessary. Instead, personal pique and prejudice determined who was searched as well as how thoroughly. The TSA searches all passengers and their baggage. Without any grounds, without even a specific suspicion of a specific passenger, screeners search the flying population at large. The fact that passengers are going about their business peacefully, that they have done nothing to warrant suspicion, much less a search, means nothing. Furthermore, no judge interposes between the citizen and the state. The searches are both sanctioned and conducted by the executive branch of the federal government. And because screeners enjoy enormous leeway in their jobs, they can take revenge on anyone who defies, disobeys, or displeases them. “Fourthly,” Otis wrote, “by this writ not only deputies, etc., but even their menial servants, are allowed to lord it over us.” That rendered citizens “the servants of servants, the most despicable of God’s creation.” Tucked away on the TSA’s website are three explosive words that encourage screeners “to lord it over us.” On a page titled “Civil Sanction Guidelines for Individuals” is a list of eight “Aggravating factors” that, when committed by passengers, may result in the TSA’s “imposing civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation. . . .”8 Number 8 is “Attitude of violator.” Passengers waiting in long lines to be groped had better smile, obey screeners’ orders without question, and be deferential. Even so, a screener may find a passenger’s “attitude” troubling, particularly if the screener is tired and hungry, or dislikes the passenger’s ethnicity or choice of T-shirt, or considers himself the poor man’s vengeance on anyone wearing a Rolex and designer clothes. The TSA’s antics might also sour a passenger’s “attitude,” especially given the “factors” that can provoke a fine. These include “number of weapons” and “type of weapon” found on passengers at checkpoints.9 That sounds reasonable, if unconstitutional: everyone knows not to bring guns or grenades to an airport. However, the TSA’s definition of “weapon” is amazingly broad, so broad it encompasses emery boards and Zippo lighters. This turns many passengers into “criminals” who are liable to fines—or worse. Add to this that at the checkpoint, mid-search, screeners can suddenly declare anything—barrettes, belt buckles, bracelets—a weapon. The TSA’s website lists “Permitted and Prohibited Items,” but it warns that “The prohibited and permitted items chart is not intended to be all-inclusive and is updated [that is, changed, usually without any fanfare or announcement] as necessary. To ensure everyone’s security, the screener may determine that an item not on the prohibited items chart is prohibited. In addition, the screener may also determine that an item on the permitted chart is dangerous and therefore may not be brought through the security checkpoint.”10 The wise passenger will betray no displeasure at these arbitrary decisions, even if the “weapon” stolen from him is a fountain pen inherited from his father or a diamond-topped stickpin. As he is ordered about, insulted, mauled, and prodded by screeners, as they confiscate his nail clippers or steal his money11 or jewelry,12 the wise passenger merely smiles and thanks them. Otherwise, he may incur a $10,000 fine. Cigarette lighters were banned from commercial aircraft in February. But many plastic lighters can slip past the TSA’s metal detectors. Nevertheless, the wise passenger who forgot to leave his lighter at home will resist the urge to keep it quietly in his pocket: “artful concealment” is No. 1 on the list of “factors.” Should the wise but forgetful passenger make it through the metal detector only to be pulled aside for a random pat-down, he again risks a fine. “Our intent is just to make sure that people who are a threat are dealt with accordingly. The, ‘Oh, I forgot I had it’ doesn’t work with us anymore,” explained Lauren Stover, speaking on behalf of the TSA, when a passenger not only lost the contraband in his carry-on bag but was fined $250 for the pleasure.13 (For his part, the passenger protested, “I don’t feel as though I had intent that would really go hand in hand with a fine.” But, as with so many legal niceties, “intent” no longer matters when dealing with the TSA.) The TSA prizes its power over American passengers every bit as much as the British government prized its power over colonial consumers, so Otis was probably not surprised when the court ruled against him. What did surprise him was an ambush by some of the customs commissioners his suit had threatened. They jumped him one night and beat him so severely he was left for dead. “[T]he wounds did not prove mortal, [but] the consequences were tenfold worse than death,” his sister reported. Otis’s mind “was destroyed, reason was shaken from its throne, genius obscured, and the great man in ruins lived several years for his friends to weep over. . . .”14 End of an Era—Almost Meanwhile, arbitrary and warrantless searches continued, until, 15 years later, they sparked a revolution. (Even modern courts admit this. General searches “more than any one single factor gave rise to American independence,” Justice Felix Frankfurter noted in a dissenting opinion in Harris v. United States, (1947). “John Adams surely is a competent witness on the causes of the American Revolution. And he it was who said of Otis’ argument against search by the police . . . ‘American independence was then and there born.’ ”) Later, when the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution, Americans whose homes and papers had been ransacked, who had been humiliated and insulted by the Crown’s “menial servants,” made sure they never would be again. The Fourth Amendment — and, as Frankfurter also noted, similar provisions in all 48 state constitutions — guaranteed Americans’ freedom from general searches. Over the next hundred years the government occasionally assailed this liberty. It began its assault in earnest, however, during the twentieth century. “Moral” crusaders against gambling, drinking, and drugs hated the Fourth for thwarting their attempts to make their neighbors as virtuous as themselves. Politicians drafted laws circumventing the Fourth, while sympathetic judges ruled in favor of the state’s power to search.Their decisions mimic the childhood game of “Telephone,” in which one judge mistakes a term or concept when rendering his decision, and the next judge not only repeats but adds to the error.The judicial reasoning that allowed the government to eavesdrop on gamblers and launch “no-knock” raids on drug dealers now permits passengers to be pawed. Several preposterous presuppositions underlie this reasoning. First, the government always assumes its “interest,” which it sometimes cloaks as “society’s interest,” outweighs the individual’s. Whatever the government determines its interest to be—purging the land of poker and pot, extorting taxes, controlling airports and passengers—trumps any individual’s right to privacy, property, or even life. Second, the government has an “interest” in “safe aviation.” How it procured this interest is anyone’s guess. Unlike the natural rights to life, liberty, and justly acquired property, which “their Creator” has “endowed” on “all men,” government’s “interests” seem to have materialized, appropriately enough, out of thin air. Flight paths, airports, and runways are goods like any others that would be privately owned but for the government’s usurping that ownership. That usurpation is a crime and an outrage, but it confers on the state neither an “interest” in searching passengers nor the right to do so. The government’s third presumption is that flying is a “choice.” Judges are apparently seldom faced with driving a couple of cranky kids cross-country in a car whose odometer has turned over 150,000 miles. Also, by “choosing” to fly, passengers give their consent to whatever the government wreaks on them meanwhile. This doctrine apparently applies to any action the government wishes to take, including strip searches, groping, and theft. Finally, there are no inalienable rights and no absolute truths. Rights depend on what “society” considers “reasonable,” “average,” or “normal,” and they change with society’s whims. The Bill of Rights is void unless your neighbors are in a generous mood that day. These presuppositions permitted the Feds to “protect” aviation after a couple of hijackings in the 1960s and early ’70s (dignified as an “observable national and international hijacking crisis” in one decision). Then, in 1974, government made the scary leap from apprehending criminals after they had committed a crime to preventing them from committing it in the first place. The courts declared (in United States v. Moreno) that “the hijacker must be discovered when he is least dangerous to others and when he least expects confrontation with the police. . . . In practical terms, this means while he is still on the ground and before he has taken any overt action.” In practical terms, it also meant that any passenger could be a hijacker. All passengers and their luggage, therefore, must be searched. Previous Wounds The Fourth Amendment might have reared its pesky head here had it not already sustained some serious wounds. In Silverman v. United States (1961) the Supreme Court announced that the Founders intended the Fourth to secure a man’s right to “retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.” However true that statement was, subsequent decisions emphasized that only in his home might a man be free from governmental intrusion; he abandoned such an expectation once he stepped outside. From this sprang much slicing and dicing of freedom, including the bizarre notion that neither automobiles nor public areas such as airports afford the same level of privacy and freedom from the government as homes, so cops may search the former with far more impunity than they do the latter. One of the most seminal cases in modern thinking regarding the Fourth is Katz v. United States (1967). Charles Katz was a bookmaker who used a public phone booth to conduct his illegal business. The FBI attached microphones to the booth and eavesdropped. Katz argued that this constituted an unreasonable search. The Court agreed but nonetheless dealt the Fourth some fatal blows. First, the court announced that the “Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection.” How the justices determined that “places” are beyond the Amendment’s scope when it clearly mentions “houses” remains a mystery. Also troubling is the Court’s conflating “public” with “government.” A citizen may eagerly expose to the public what he would be loath to reveal to government, given the latter’s proclivities for violence and retribution. A person might display a gun collection over his mantel; folks invited into his home would certainly see it, and it might even be visible to neighbors through the front window. But neither visitors nor neighbors are likely to incarcerate the owner for possessing firearms, as is the government. What is knowingly exposed to the public, then, most definitely needs the Fourth’s protection in case government also stumbles across it. Second, the Court decided that eavesdropping on Katz was indeed a search, regardless of “the presence or absence of a physical intrusion.” The phrase was merely descriptive in this decision and therefore innocuous, but other judges in other cases pounced on it, took it out of context, and twisted it. Sometime later, Jonathan Lewis Miller reports, freedom from “trespass” was redefined as “freedom from unwarranted invasion of one’s right to privacy.”15 Trespassing is an objective act: someone either impinges on property that does not belong to him while installing wiretaps or he does not. But an “unwarranted invasion of one’s right to privacy”? One judge’s “unwarranted invasion” is another judge’s “Why would anyone object to this?” Worse, the Fourth no longer applied unilaterally and absolutely. Instead, requirements must now be met before the Amendment kicked in: not only should the individual have an expectation of privacy, but that expectation also must be one which “society is prepared to recognize as ‘reasonable’ ” (Justice Harlan concurring in Katz). Thus if most people do not object to being searched at airports, if they consider it necessary for their safety, the Fourth Amendment no longer applies. Nor are specific suspicions of specific passengers required for a search. “When the risk is the jeopardy to hundreds of human lives and millions of dollars of property inherent in the pirating or blowing up of a large airplane, that danger alone meets the test of reasonableness.” Additionally, the “passenger has been given advance notice of his liability to such a search so that he can avoid it by choosing not to travel by air. . . .” (United States v. Bell, U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972). In other words, because the government searches everyone at airports, and everyone expects to be searched at airports, the government may search us at airports. Neither the innocence of the vast majority of passengers nor the effectiveness of the search matter. “Nor would we think . . . that the validity of the Government’s airport screening program necessarily turns on whether significant numbers of putative air pirates are actually discovered by the searches . . . . By far the overwhelming majority of those persons who have been searched . . . have proved entirely innocent . . .” (Von Raab). The government wins either way, whether it discovers hijackers or not. The courts have also decreed that no reasonable person will object to forfeiting the Fourth. “[T]he danger [of skyjacking] is so overwhelming, and the invasion of privacy so minimal, that the warrant requirement is excused by exigent national circumstances” (U.S. v. Epperson, 4th Circuit, 1972). Airport searching “is not a resented intrusion on privacy, but, instead, a welcome reassurance of safety.” Indeed, a warrant would only “frustrate the governmental purpose behind the search” (United States v. Davis, 9th Circuit, 1973, quoting Camara v. Mun. Court,U.S. Sup. Ct., 1966). Finally, they get it right: frustrating the government’s invasion of the individual’s privacy and property was precisely the reason for the Fourth Amendment. Freedom versus Security However, in the modern contest between freedom and security, Americans increasingly choose security. Apparently, nothing is sacred—the Fourth Amendment, personal modesty and dignity, airports free of horrific lines, lower ticket prices—so long as the government promises to keep us safe. And most passengers believe those promises. When the TSA’s Office of Strategic Management and Analysis commissioned a survey of passengers at 25 airports, it asked, “How confident are you in TSA’s ability to keep air travel secure?” Eighty-two percent answered “fairly confident or very confident.”16 But a month after this survey was released, two reports from the government itself demolished this touching faith in bureaucracy. Both the Government Accountability Office and the Homeland Security Department concluded that aviation is no safer now than it was before the birth of the TSA. In tests conducted by undercover inspectors, screeners still miss the same 20 percent of weapons that they did prior to 9/11.17 “We need to step back and look at the billions of dollars we spent on the system, which doesn’t provide much more protection than we had before 9/11,” said Rep. John L. Mica of Florida, the chairman of the House aviation subcommittee as well as an author of the legislation that created the TSA.18 But the agency cannot secure a loan, let alone the entire system of American aviation. That’s because the TSA has never been an honest response by the airlines to terrorist threats against their property and customers. Rather, it resulted from political pandering to a population panicked by 9/11. The former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee admitted as much. “After 9/11,” said Christopher Cox of California, “we had to show how committed we were by spending hugely greater amounts of money than ever before, as rapidly as possible.”19 Whether that money bought safety for American passengers was beside the point. Instead, the expenditures made government seem involved and caring, which bought vastly more power for politicians. The TSA has become such an embarrassment with its incompetence, larceny, arbitrary policies, and “hugely greater” budgets that it will likely be abolished.20 That doesn’t mean passengers will recover their Fourth Amendment rights, especially because general searches are turning up treasures beyond nail files: drugs and other contraband are putting more Americans behind bars21 and yielding more money in fines.22 Rather, the feds will shift the TSA’s “duties” to other bureaucracies. As the government continues to criminalize behavior, and to ban the accouterments of that behavior, airport searches will become increasingly valuable for discovering “criminals.” Americans who might object to being frisked on the street, who would insist on a warrant before allowing a cop to toss their home, actually want government agents to search them at airports. After all, that’s what keeps them safe. Imagine their shock when they realize their protectors have become their wardens. 1. http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/terrorism/what_rights_are_left.htm. 2. Mercy Otis Warren, History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, vol. 1 (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1994), p. 28. 3. James Otis, Argument Against the Writs of Assistance [1761]. Full text, including John Adams’s notes, can be found at www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/writs.htm. All of Otis’s subsequent quotes are taken from this speech. 4. Sara Kehaulani Goo, “TSA Under Pressure to Stop Baggage Theft; For Agency, a New Airport Security Problem,” Washington Post, June 29, 2003, p. A01. 5. Remarks for the Honorable Norman Y. Mineta, secretary of transportation, TSA Anniversary Event, Washington, D.C., November 18, 2002, www.tsa.gov/public/display?theme=46&content= 09000519800039e0. 6. Penn and Teller, “Federal V.I.P. Penn–11/13/02,” www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/penniphile/roadpennfederalvip.html. 7. John P. Hoke’s Asylum, July 14, 2004, http://john.hoke.org/index/asylum/comments/my_experience_with_a_tsa_screener. 8. www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/Sanction_Guidance_for_Individuals_7-15-2004.pdf. From the TSA’s homepage, four clicks are required to access this information. Casual visitors to the site would be unlikely to see it. 10. www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/Prohibited_English_4-1-2005_v2.pdf. Emphasis added. 11. See note 7. 12. www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1292356/posts, December 1, 2004. 13. KLTV, “Carry On Controversy,” May 2, 2005, www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3289874. 14. Mercy Otis Warren, p. 50. 15. Jonathan Lewis Miller, “Search and Seizure of Air Passengers and Pilots:The Fourth Amendment Takes Flight,” 22 Transportation Law Journal (1994), pp. 199, 203. 16. http://tsa-screeners.com/start/modules.php?op=modload&name =News&file=article&sid=5205. 17. “Airport Screeners Still Doing Poorly, Says Report,” NewsMax.com Wires, April 16, 2005,www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/15/220205.shtml. 18. Eric Lipton, “Transportation Security Agency Criticized,” New York Times, April 20, 2005, p. A18. 19. Eric Lipton, “U.S. to Spend Billions More to Alter Security Systems,” New York Times, May 8, 2005. 20. Sara Kehaulani Goo, “TSA Slated for Dismantling,” Washington Post, April 8, 2005, p. A1. 21. Sara Kehaulani Goo, “Grateful Dead Songwriter Contests TSA Search,” Washington Post, December 20, 2004, Page A9. 22. “Screeners find live snake in woman’s suitcase,” USA Today, May 5, 2005, www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-05-airportsnake_x.htm. Becky Akers is a free-lance writer and historian who has published two novels of the American Revolution, Halestorm and Abducting Arnold.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1209
__label__wiki	0.735139	0.735139	WTXfilmfest The purpose of the West Texas Film Festival is to screen diverse independent films in West Texas. The festival was launched in 2016 with a grant from Odessa Arts. www.wtxfilmfest.org Home >> Blogs >> WTXfilmfest's blog >> FIRST ANNUAL WEST TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FINAL FILM SELECTIONS FIRST ANNUAL WEST TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FINAL FILM SELECTIONS The first annual West Texas Film Festival today announced its lineup of 48 films from 18 counties. The films were curated from over 500 submissions and will be presented in blocks comprised of shorts, student, feature and documentary films over three days in Odessa, Texas. The 2016 West Texas Film Festival will take place October 13th – 16th. “We are very proud to champion this diverse group of films and provide the people of West Texas an opportunity to screen them,” said Jennifer Ramsey, Director and Founder of the West Texas Film Festival. The opening gala at the Rose Building in downtown Odessa will feature two short dramatic films, a short documentary and a feature length spaghetti Western. A spaghetti dinner will be catered by Curb Side Bistro. In addition, there will be some visiting filmmakers delivering Q&A sessions after the screening of their films including: James Fite & Brandon Johnson, Big Spring, TX, Project Mone’t (documentary short) Carolyn Macartney), Alpine, TX, Wanda the Wonderful (documentary feature) Claudia Sanchez & Alejandro Solórzano, Chula Vista, CA, Heroyna “I am thrilled that we have a mix of local filmmakers from West Texas attending the festival as well as two up-and-coming filmmakers from Tijuana, Mexico,” said Harlan Whatley, Programming Director. 2016 West Texas Film Festival Program Short films (dramatic) There Was a Place (Drama) Spain TRT 14:00 Carlos has lived for years remote from the site where he and his family grew by an aversion to the figure of his father. When he dies, Carlos returns to face his disappearance in a way to reconnect with a part of his past that seems lost. Lightning in the Hand (Western) USA TRT: 20:00 The Apache say it is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. ... About Want and Need (Animation) TRT 5:00 Since Will has lost his wife, his relationships are completely moribund. Now he tries to get over his loss by projecting his problems onto Gertrude, his bird. But the new relationship does not seem to result in any improvements. Will projects his fears onto the helpless bird that just doesn't seem to be open for this kind of mental training. Fabrizio’s Initiation (Comedy) Argentina TRT 17:00 A coming of age story that recently won the Crystal Bear at Berlinale Generation Section. The Golden Fish (Animation) Taiwan TRT 5:00 In this society, self-mutilation is described as intending to get attention. But this kind of comment is helpless. This is a story about self-mutilation. It encourages everyone to accept and face ourselves. No matter what kind of person we think we are. Monday (Comedy) USA TRT 9:00 When Dustin is pranked into giving a speech in front of the entire school, he will stop at nothing to try and escape. Will he survive THIS Monday? Fill in the Blanks (Comedy) France TRT 9:00 At the laundry, a man listens to two girls’ intimate conversation. Unfortunately, several noises prevent him to hear the most interesting details. Valery’s Suitcase (Romance) Canada TRT 14:00 A well-educated immigrant working a remedial job in a small town discovers an abandoned suitcase with an unusual secret. No. 16, Da an Road (Animation) USA TRT 7:00 “Open the window so the air can circulate. Keep the letters if you see my name on them, otherwise they are just ads and you can recycle them. There’s stuff in the fridge, but I will bring something back. And don’t forget to lock the door. I should be home soon sweetie." With a sketchbook in hand, a young girl copes with her longings and loneliness through imagination. Endo (Comedy) USA TRT 8:00 A robo-phobic man has a foul incident with his new cleaning android. Mini Maestro (Mockumentary) USA TRT 8:00 The power of imagination as seen through the eyes of a three-year old boy. Grocery Store Action Movie (Comedy) Canada TRT 13:00 Alex is in the express checkout lane at the grocery store when he realizes with horror that he has forgotten the all-important crackers. With his dinner guests already on their way over, Alex must risk life and limb to achieve the impossible: locate the salty snacks before losing his place next in line. A hilarious send-up of action movie clichés created by and starring three-time Canadian Comedy Award-winning sketch duo Peter n’ Chris. Dark Dreamer (Thriller) Germany TRT 15:00 A fantasy short about the nature of dreams. Marcus wakes up in the middle of the night and gets a visit from a strange creature with unnatural powers. The man calls himself a Nighthob and opens up about the fact that Marcus doesn't know what life he has lived so far. Hanging on the Wall (Drama) Italy TRT 11:00 A robbery failed: two boys are jailed. Now is the time of memory, of repentance and of the future. What is a mistake? What is an opportunity? Horsepower (Horror) India TRT 6:00 A young girl suffers hallucinations after watching the late night show of a horror film. But are they really hallucinations? Brainwash (Experimental) United Kingdom TRT 8:00 A group of people head to work, it's just their average 9 - 5 working day. Forgotten Days (Drama) Greece TRT 11:00 An old man, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is wandering out onto the deserted country roads of Greece. A driver helps him to reach his destination. Their common journey awakens memories that bring them closer to each other. Cinema Francais (Drama) United Kingdom TRT 10:00 An old movie theatre nears its final screening. One mysterious visitor returns every day to watch the same film. And one curious girl ventures to find out why. Screened at Cannes 2016. Le Cirque Mentale (Fantasy) USA TRT 18:00 An introverted and socially awkward 18-year-old Macy has had frequent carnival dreams for years that serve as her social escape. The dreams are led by the suave and manipulative Ring Master, who always puts Macy in the spotlight in her dreams. When her cousin Sam suggests she seek counseling because of how strange the dreams can be, she visits Peter the peer counselor. At the Border (Drama) Serbia TRT 15:00 In 2012, a wave of western emigrants in search of happiness, want to enter poor but happy Serbia. But this country closes its borders to the rich and builds an anti-migration wall. Arnaud, a French illegal emigrant, wants to join Jelena in Serbia. Audition (Drama) Venezuela TRT 13:00 Nina travels inside Venezuela to Caracas to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress. After a long wait to get the long-awaited audition, she moved to the city of Caracas. Overwhelmed and having overcome several adversities, she finally manages to reach the majestic Main Theater. Always Stop for Rabbits (Comedy) USA TRT 13:00 In this offbeat short, Clarence, a desperately bagged, bound, and half-blinded runaway evades his hangmen by hitching a ride with an eccentric stranger. He soon finds out that asking for any real help is pointless… No matter how much he smiles. Gorilla (Comedy) France TRT 14:00 Hollywood, 1952. Henry Corso performs a costumed gorilla on horror movies and adventure movies. For Jungle Jenna, he must terrorize the leading actress lost in a fake jungle. But scaring the woman he desires is going to be particularly tricky for the gorilla man. Prestige Ingredients (Drama) USA TRT 26:00 A stifled, young Hollywood actress slips into a world of delicacies, heartache, and bitter tears when she takes an unlikely job with an inspired chef in Paris, France. The Texas Sun (Documentary) USA TRT 6:00 It's good to have friends in high places. Enemies? Not so much. Good Night (Animation) Austria TRT 7:00 Music clip for the first song from Franz Schubert's song cycle “Winter's Journey”. A sock puppet strolls through niveous winter worlds as we hear the music by Schubert. The dark expressionist black and white imagery oscillates between comedy and tragedy. Champagne (Drama) USA TRT 11:00 In 1944, Champagne, France two American soldiers survive an accident and are left stranded in the country side with a German prisoner and argue over the fate of his life. Lifeline (Thriller) United Kingdom TRT 12:00 The Teacup (Animation) Ireland TRT 5:00 Once there was a man who was afraid to go out... Thornbird (Drama) USA TRT 9:00 THORNBIRD is an award-winning experimental fairy-tale about a young girl who is transported into a dream world after finding a magic mask. The Lottery (Musical Drama) USA TRT 13:00 Billy, a starving orphan, steals a winning lottery ticket from the town drunkard only to later question and doubt his own morality. Light Sight (Animation) Iran TRT 8:00 M.E. is born inside a room made of varied sized spheres and brightened by a floating light. While M.E. is greatly astonished by the light, the spheres start glittering with colorful displays and attract him to themselves. The Example (Drama) USA TRT 24:00 During a race riot in Beaumont, Texas in June 1943, Officer Miller Harvey, a white police officer is determined to protect and serve his city and family. Black business owner Carver Jefferson is hell-bent on taking his family far away from the city as racial hostility has led to the destruction of his home and business. After curfew while Beaumont is under martial law, Harvey, another white officer and Jefferson’s worlds collide at a roadblock. Tensions explode on that hot summer night, forcing them to make decisions that will question their morals, loyalty and manhood. A Thousand Aces (Drama) USA TRT 25:00 A young man infiltrates an anarchist cult in search of his ex-love who disappeared there some time before. Feature films (dramatic) Ace High (Spaghetti western) Italy TRT 127:00 Bounty hunters (Terence Hill, Brock Peters) chase an outlaw (Eli Wallach) who beat them to a reward offered for a bank robber. Heroyna (Romance/Thriller) Mexico TRT 70:00 King and Queen are robbers, addicts and -above all- lovers. Together they form the center of the universe. After a life of failure and loneliness, they are faced with the opportunity of one last, great crime that could buy their way to freedom. Now, they will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wild, violent euphoria; a paradise where they can be away from the world, alone with each other. Circus of the Dead (Horror) USA TRT 102:00 A man becomes entangled in a deadly morality game when the circus comes to town and a sadistic clown forces him to examine the things in life he takes for granted in the most horrific ways. To Keep the Light (Drama) USA TRT 88:00 Maine, 1876. Tending the lighthouse on a remote island for her ailing husband, a woman confronts secrets buried in deep waters and navigates a hostile, new world. Brennan (Religious Drama) USA As a storm approaches the gulf coast, an alcoholic ex-priest Brennan Manning must rely on a troubled ragamuffin to get home to New Orleans to save his marriage before it’s too late Documentaries (features and shorts) West Texas Chow (Documentary) USA TRT 7:00 This short documentary explores the booming food truck industry in Odessa, Texas. Two food trucks are featured along with interviews from their owners and customers. Jackrabbits of Odessa (Documentary) USA TRT 7:00 There are 37 jackrabbit statues in Odessa, Texas. They are located in front of local businesses, schools and hospitals. This is the story behind these colorful statues. A Passion of gold and fire (Documentary) Belgium TRT 6:00 A beekeeper shares his worries about the future of his apiary school. A passion of gold and fire which definitely helps our environment to keep on living. Like a Star (Documentary) Italy TRT: 11:00 Tizianao Barbini is an Italian actor with Downs Syndrome. This is his first plane ride and trip to America. Brass Banned (Documentary) India TRT 12:00 Documentary on brass bands which have been banned to perform in the state of Maharashtra. The Beekeeper’s Keeper (Documentary) USA TRT 7:00 Born and raised in Manhattan, Liane Newton dreamed of owning a farm. After the death of her father, she set out to make her fantasy a reality. Newton now runs nycbeekeeping.org, a non-profit working to ensure that all beekeepers in NYC have access to training and mentoring. Project Mone't (Documentary) USA TRT 20:00 A short documentary about a young artist who exorcises her demons through the creation of a beautiful monster made of steel. She describes and shows her journey from childhood to adult through her art. Director James Fite will attend the screening for a Q&A session. Midnight Oil: the Making of a Mural (Documentary) USA TRT 24:00 The journey of a West Texas artist as she researches, designs and paints a large mural depicting the history of oil discovery in the Permian Basin. Wanda the Wonderful (Documentary) USA TRT 60:00 A feature length documentary about a volatile 1920’s Wild West sharpshooter who uses her firearm skills to escape her past. Carolyn Macartney, director and writer, will attend the screening for a Q&A session. The West Texas Film Festival is an outreach of the West Texas Film Commission and the Odessa Council for the Arts and Humanities. The purpose of the annual festival is to bring diverse films to the Permian Basin and surrounding areas that would not otherwise have been seen. Tickets and Festival Passes www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/66963/chk/1255 Jennifer Ramsey, Director and Founder westtexasfilm@gmail.com Harlan Whatley, Programming Director wtxfilmfest@gmail.com Official Web Site www.westtexasfilm.org Facebook @WestTexasFilmFestival Twitter @WTXfilmfest Instagram @westtexasfilm 26.09.2016 \| WTXfilmfest's blog Cat. : Ambiance Odessa TX West Texas Film Festival WTXFF WTXfilmfest's blog WTXfilmfest's videoblog About WTXfilmfest Whatley Harlan (Odessa College) West Texas Film Festival 501 W. 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__label__wiki	0.962024	0.962024	Wharf dispute will hurt earnings: Asciano Ports and rail operator Asciano Ltd expects that an industrial dispute on its wharves will cut its full year earnings by up to $4 million. Asciano operates the Patrick ports and stevedoring business and the Pacific National rail freight service. Asciano said on Thursday that the maritime dispute, affecting its Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle container terminals, also would reduce its revenue by up to $8 million. "Previous guidance given in Asciano's March operating quarter update. .. indicated that full year EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) was expected to be in the range of $530 million to $540 million," Asciano said in a statement. "These estimates did not include the effects of any worsening or material prolongation of the (Maritime Union of Australia's) industrial disputation from that point in time as those effects were unknown at that time. "Asciano now believes that the estimated financial impact associated with the current industrial activity in Asciano's Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle container terminals will be a reduction in revenue of up to $8 million and a reduction in EBIT of up to $4 million. "This reduction is to Asciano's previous guidance." Asciano's securities were 3.5 cents higher at $1.535 on Thursday. Stevedore Patrick is locked in a pay dispute with port workers represented by Maritime Union Australia (MUA) and is expected to lodge an application with Fair Work Australia for compulsory arbitration. Patrick on Thursday closed access to wharf workers at its port in Fremantle, after taking similar action at ports in Sydney and Brisbane on Wednesday. The MUA planned a week of work restrictions at the ports but Patrick has refused to pay them for the days and denied workers access. Asciano Wharfies All white, it's time for Bundy Five GrainCorp says annual profit to rise	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1219
__label__cc	0.731277	0.268723	0.0000(-0.0000%) Hedge Funds Are Dumping Ceragon Networks Ltd. (CRNT) Nina Todic Insider Monkey December 23, 2019 It seems that the masses and most of the financial media hate hedge funds and what they do, but why is this hatred of hedge funds so prominent? At the end of the day, these asset management firms do not gamble the hard-earned money of the people who are on the edge of poverty. Truth be told, most hedge fund managers and other smaller players within this industry are very smart and skilled investors. Of course, they may also make wrong bets in some instances, but no one knows what the future holds and how market participants will react to the bountiful news that floods in each day. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Total Return Index ETFs returned approximately 27.5% in 2019 (through the end of November). Conversely, hedge funds’ top 20 large-cap stock picks generated a return of 37.4% during the same 11-month period, with the majority of these stock picks outperforming the broader market benchmark. Coincidence? It might happen to be so, but it is unlikely. Our research covering the last 18 years indicates that hedge funds' consensus stock picks generate superior risk-adjusted returns. That's why we believe it isn't a waste of time to check out hedge fund sentiment before you invest in a stock like Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:CRNT). Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:CRNT) was in 3 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2019. CRNT has seen a decrease in activity from the world's largest hedge funds of late. There were 4 hedge funds in our database with CRNT positions at the end of the previous quarter. Our calculations also showed that CRNT isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). Video: Click the image to watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks. 5 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the Russell 2000 ETFs by 40 percentage points since May 2014 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter. [caption id="attachment_26340" align="aligncenter" width="467"] Ken Griffin of Citadel Investment Group[/caption] CITADEL INVESTMENT GROUP We leave no stone unturned when looking for the next great investment idea. For example Discover is offering this insane cashback card, so we look into shorting the stock. One of the most bullish analysts in America just put his money where his mouth is. He says, "I'm investing more today than I did back in early 2009." So we check out his pitch. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. We even check out this option genius' weekly trade ideas. This December, we recommended Adams Energy as a one-way bet based on an under-the-radar fund manager's investor letter and the stock already gained 20 percent. Keeping this in mind let's check out the fresh hedge fund action surrounding Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:CRNT). What does smart money think about Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:CRNT)? Heading into the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 3 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -25% from the second quarter of 2019. On the other hand, there were a total of 6 hedge funds with a bullish position in CRNT a year ago. With the smart money's sentiment swirling, there exists a few notable hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings significantly (or already accumulated large positions). The largest stake in Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:CRNT) was held by Renaissance Technologies, which reported holding $11.1 million worth of stock at the end of September. It was followed by Two Sigma Advisors with a $0.7 million position. The only other hedge fund that is bullish on the company was Citadel Investment Group. We view hedge fund activity in the stock unfavorable, but in this case there was only a single hedge fund selling its entire position: Arrowstreet Capital. One hedge fund selling its entire position doesn't always imply a bearish intent. Theoretically a hedge fund may decide to sell a promising position in order to invest the proceeds in a more promising idea. However, we don't think this is the case in this case because none of the 750+ hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey identified CRNT as a viable investment and initiated a position in the stock. Let's check out hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:CRNT). These stocks are New Age Beverages Corporation (NASDAQ:NBEV), Monroe Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:MRCC), Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:BWFG), and Tuscan Holdings Corp. II (NASDAQ:THCA). This group of stocks' market caps are closest to CRNT's market cap. [table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position NBEV,6,1169,2 MRCC,6,2832,2 BWFG,6,45471,1 THCA,9,31142,9 Average,6.75,20154,3.5 [/table] View table here if you experience formatting issues. As you can see these stocks had an average of 6.75 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $20 million. That figure was $12 million in CRNT's case. Tuscan Holdings Corp. II (NASDAQ:THCA) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand New Age Beverages Corporation (NASDAQ:NBEV) is the least popular one with only 6 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:CRNT) is even less popular than NBEV. Hedge funds dodged a bullet by taking a bearish stance towards CRNT. Our calculations showed that the top 20 most popular hedge fund stocks returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Unfortunately CRNT wasn't nearly as popular as these 20 stocks (hedge fund sentiment was very bearish); CRNT investors were disappointed as the stock returned -27.1% during the fourth quarter (through the end of November) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds as 70 percent of these stocks already outperformed the market so far in Q4. Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey. 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of AmericaColumbia MO, Columbia Regional Airport (COU), United States of AmericaColumbus OH, Port Columbus Airport (CMH), United States of AmericaCopenhagen, Kastrup Airport (CPH), DenmarkCork, Cork Airport (ORK), IrelandDa Nang, Da Nang Airport (DAD), VietnamDalian, Zhoushuizi Airport (DLC), ChinaDallas TX, Fort Worth Airport (DFW), United States of AmericaDammam, Khobar SABTCO Bus Station (DMS), Saudi ArabiaDammam, King Fahd Airport (DMM), Saudi ArabiaDarwin, Darwin Airport (DRW), AustraliaDayton OH, James M Cox Airport (DAY), United States of AmericaDenver CO, Denver Airport (DEN), United States of AmericaDes Moines IA, Des Moines Airport (DSM), United States of AmericaDetroit MI, Wayne County Metro Airport (DTW), United States of AmericaDhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Airport (DAC), BangladeshDonegal, Donegal Airport (CFN), IrelandDubai, Etihad Bus Station (XNB), United Arab EmiratesDublin, Dublin Airport (DUB), IrelandDubuque IA, Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ), United States of AmericaDunedin, Dunedin Airport (DUD), New ZealandDurban, King Shaka Airport (DUR), South AfricaDusseldorf, Dusseldorf Airport (DUS), GermanyEdinburgh, Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United KingdomEl Paso TX, El Paso Airport (ELP), United States of AmericaEmerald, Emerald Airport (EMD), AustraliaEugene OR, Mahlon Sweet Field Airport (EUG), United States of AmericaEvansville IN, Evansville Airport (EVV), United States of AmericaExeter, Exeter Airport (EXT), United KingdomFaisalabad, Faisalabad Airport (LYP), PakistanFargo ND, Hector Airport (FAR), United States of AmericaFaro, Faro Airport (FAO), PortugalFayetteville AR, Northwest Arkansas Airport (XNA), United States of AmericaFlint MI, Bishop Airport (FNT), United States of AmericaFlorence, Peretola Airport (FLR), ItalyFort Lauderdale FL, Hollywood Airport (FLL), United States of AmericaFort McMurray, Fort McMurray Airport (YMM), CanadaFort Myers FL, Southwest Florida Airport (RSW), United States of AmericaFort Wayne IN, Fort Wayne Airport (FWA), United States of AmericaFrankfurt, Frankfurt Airport (FRA), GermanyFresno CA, Yosemite Airport (FAT), United States of AmericaFukuoka, Fukuoka Airport (FUK), JapanGan Island, Gan Airport (GAN), MaldivesGdansk, Lech Walesa Airport (GDN), PolandGeneva, Geneva Airport (GVA), SwitzerlandGenova, Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA), ItalyGlasgow, Glasgow Airport (GLA), United KingdomGold Coast, Coolangatta Airport (OOL), AustraliaGoteborg, Landvetter Airport (GOT), SwedenGran Canaria, Gran Canaria Airport (LPA), SpainGrand Rapids MI, Gerald R Ford Airport (GRR), United States of AmericaGreen Bay WI, Austin Straubel Airport (GRB), United States of AmericaGreensboro NC, Piedmont Triad Airport (GSO), United States of AmericaGreenville SC, Spartanburg Airport (GSP), United States of AmericaGuam, Antonio B Won Pat Airport (GUM), GuamGuangzhou, Baiyun Airport (CAN), ChinaGuernsey, Guernsey Airport (GCI), GuernseyHalifax, Stanfield Airport (YHZ), CanadaHamburg, Fuhlsbuettel Airport (HAM), GermanyHamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef Airport (HTI), AustraliaHannover, Hannover Airport (HAJ), GermanyHanoi, Noibai Airport (HAN), VietnamHanover, Hanover HBF Train Station (ZVR), GermanyHarrisburg PA, Harrisburg Airport (MDT), United States of AmericaHartford CT, Bradley Airport (BDL), United States of AmericaHelsinki, Vantaa Airport (HEL), FinlandHervey Bay, Hervey Bay Airport (HVB), AustraliaHo Chi Minh City, Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN), VietnamHobart, Hobart Airport (HBA), AustraliaHong Kong, Hong Kong Airport (HKG), ChinaHouston TX, George Bush Airport (IAH), United States of AmericaHumberside, Humberside Airport (HUY), United KingdomHyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi Airport (HYD), IndiaIndianapolis IN, Indianapolis Airport (IND), United States of AmericaIslamabad, New Islamabad Airport (ISB), PakistanIsle Of Man, Ronaldsway Airport (IOM), United KingdomIstanbul, Istanbul Airport (IST), TurkeyJacksonville FL, Jacksonville Airport (JAX), United States of AmericaJaipur, Jaipur Airport (JAI), IndiaJakarta, Soekarno Hatta Airport (CGK), IndonesiaJersey, Jersey Airport (JER), United KingdomJohannesburg, O R Tambo Airport (JNB), South AfricaJohor Bahru, Sultan Ismail Airport (JHB), MalaysiaKagoshima, Kagoshima Airport (KOJ), JapanKalamazoo MI, Battle Creek Airport (AZO), United States of AmericaKaliningrad, Khrabrovo Airport (KGD), RussiaKansas City MO, Kansas City Airport (MCI), United States of AmericaKarachi, Jinnah Airport (KHI), PakistanKathmandu, Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), NepalKazan, Kazan Airport (KZN), RussiaKerry, Kerry Airport (KIR), IrelandKhartoum, Khartoum Airport (KRT), SudanKiev, Boryspil Airport (KBP), UkraineKnock, Ireland West Airport (NOC), IrelandKnoxville TN, McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS), United States of AmericaKochi, Cochin Airport (COK), IndiaKoh Samui, Ko Samui Airport (USM), ThailandKolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport (CCU), IndiaKota Bharu, Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (KBR), MalaysiaKota Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu Airport (BKI), MalaysiaKozhikode, Calicut Airport (CCJ), IndiaKrabi, Krabi Airport (KBV), ThailandKrakow, John Paul II Balice Airport (KRK), PolandKrasnoyarsk, Yemelyanovo Airport (KJA), RussiaKuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Airport (KUL), MalaysiaKuala Terengganu, Sultan Mahmud Airport (TGG), MalaysiaKuching, Kuching Airport (KCH), MalaysiaKuwait, Kuwait Airport (KWI), KuwaitLa Crosse WI, La Crosse Airport (LSE), United States of AmericaLabuan, Labuan Airport (LBU), MalaysiaLagos, Murtala Muhammed Airport (LOS), NigeriaLahore, Allama Iqbal Airport (LHE), PakistanLambert MO, St Louis Airport (STL), United States of AmericaLampang, Lampang Airport (LPT), ThailandLangkawi, Langkawi Airport (LGK), MalaysiaLanzarote, Lanzarote Airport (ACE), SpainLas Vegas NV, McCarran Airport (LAS), United States of AmericaLaunceston, Launceston Airport (LST), AustraliaLeeds, Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), United KingdomLexington KY, Blue Grass Airport (LEX), United States of AmericaLille, TGV Railway Station (XDB), FranceLipetsk, Lipetsk Airport (LPK), RussiaLisbon, Portela Airport (LIS), PortugalLittle Rock AR, Adams Field Airport (LIT), United States of AmericaLjubljana, Joze Pucnik Airport (LJU), SloveniaLondon, Heathrow Airport (LHR), United KingdomLondon, London City Airport (LCY), United KingdomLos Angeles CA, Los Angeles Airport (LAX), United States of AmericaLos Angeles CA, Ontario Airport (ONT), United States of AmericaLouisville KY, Standiford Field Airport (SDF), United States of AmericaLuang Prabang, Luang Prabang Airport (LPQ), LaosLuxembourg, Luxembourg Airport (LUX), LuxembourgLyon, Part Dieu TGV Railway Station (XYD), FranceLyon, Satolaos Saint Exupery Airport (LYS), FranceMackay, Mackay Airport (MKY), AustraliaMadison WI, Dane County Airport (MSN), United States of AmericaMadrid, Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport (MAD), SpainMakassar, Sultan Hasanuddin Airport (UPG), IndonesiaMalaga, Malaga Airport (AGP), SpainMale, Velana Airport (MLE), MaldivesManado, Sam Ratulangi Airport (MDC), IndonesiaManchester, Manchester Airport (MAN), United KingdomMandalay, Mandalay Airport (MDL), MyanmarManhattan KS, Manhattan Airport (MHK), United States of AmericaManila, Ninoy Aquino Airport (MNL), PhilippinesMarquette MI, Sawyer Airport (MQT), United States of AmericaMarrakech, Menara Airport (RAK), MoroccoMarseille, Marignane Airport (MRS), FranceMarseille, St Charles TGV Railway Station (XRF), FranceMauritius, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Airport (MRU), MauritiusMedan, Polonia Kualanamu Airport (KNO), IndonesiaMedellin, Jose Maria Cordova Airport (MDE), ColombiaMelbourne, Tullamarine Airport (MEL), AustraliaMemphis TN, Memphis Airport (MEM), United States of AmericaMiami FL, Miami Airport (MIA), United States of AmericaMilan, Malpensa Airport (MXP), ItalyMilwaukee WI, General Mitchell Airport (MKE), United States of AmericaMinneapolis MN, Saint Paul Airport (MSP), United States of AmericaMinsk, Minsk 2 National Airport (MSQ), BelarusMiri, Miri Airport (MYY), MalaysiaMiyazaki, Miyazaki Airport (KMI), JapanMoline IL, Quad City Airport (MLI), United States of AmericaMontpellier, St Roch TGV Railway Station (XPJ), FranceMontreal, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL), CanadaMoscow, Domodedovo Airport (DME), RussiaMoscow, Vnukovo Airport (VKO), RussiaMultan, Multan Airport (MUX), PakistanMumbai, Bombay Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport (BOM), IndiaMunich, Franz Josef Strauss Airport (MUC), GermanyMuscat, Muscat Airport (MCT), OmanNagoya, Chubu Centrair Airport (NGO), JapanNantes, TGV Railway Station (QJZ), FranceNapoli, Capodichino Airport (NAP), ItalyNashville TN, Nashville Airport (BNA), United States of AmericaNay Pyi Taw, Nay Pyi Taw Airport (NYT), MyanmarNew Delhi, Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL), IndiaNew York NY, John F Kennedy Airport (JFK), United States of AmericaNew York NY, La Guardia Airport (LGA), United States of AmericaNew York NY, Newark Liberty Airport (EWR), United States of AmericaNewcastle, Newcastle Airport (NCL), United KingdomNewcastle, Williamtown Airport (NTL), AustraliaNewquay, Cornwall Airport (NQY), United KingdomNha Trang, Cam Ranh Airport (CXR), VietnamNice, Cote D Azur Airport (NCE), FranceNiigata, Niigata Airport (KIJ), JapanNizhny Novgorod, Strigino Airport (GOJ), RussiaNorfolk VA, Norfolk Airport (ORF), United States of AmericaNottingham, East Midlands Airport (EMA), United KingdomNovosibirsk, Tolmachevo Airport (OVB), RussiaNovy Urengoy, Novy Urengoy Airport (NUX), RussiaOakland CA, Metropolitan Airport (OAK), United States of AmericaOkinawa, Naha Airport (OKA), JapanOklahoma City OK, Will Rogers World Airport (OKC), United States of AmericaOmaha NE, Eppley Airfield (OMA), United States of AmericaOmsk, Tsentralny Airport (OMS), RussiaOrlando FL, Orlando Airport (MCO), United States of AmericaOsaka, Itami Airport (ITM), JapanOsaka, Kansai Airport (KIX), JapanOslo, Gardermoen Airport (OSL), NorwayOttawa, Macdonald Cartier Airport (YOW), CanadaPadang, Minangkabau Airport (PDG), IndonesiaPalma Mallorca, Palma 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AustraliaQueenstown, Queenstown Airport (ZQN), New ZealandRabat, Sale Airport (RBA), MoroccoRail n Fly, DB German Railway Service (QYG), GermanyRaleigh Durham NC, Durham Airport (RDU), United States of AmericaRegina, Regina Airport (YQR), CanadaReno NV, Tahoe Airport (RNO), United States of AmericaRichmond VA, Richmond Airport (RIC), United States of AmericaRiga, Riga Airport (RIX), LatviaRochester MN, Rochester Airport (RST), United States of AmericaRochester NY, Greater Rochester Airport (ROC), United States of AmericaRome, Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO), ItalySaint Petersburg, Pulkovo Airport (LED), RussiaSalalah, Salalah Airport (SLL), OmanSalt Lake City UT, Salt Lake City Airport (SLC), United States of AmericaSamara, Kurumoch Airport (KUF), RussiaSan Antonio TX, San Antonio Airport (SAT), United States of AmericaSan Francisco CA, San Francisco Airport (SFO), United States of AmericaSan Jose CA, Norman Y Mineta Airport (SJC), United States of AmericaSanto Domingo, Las Americas Airport (SDQ), Dominican RepublicSapporo, Chitose Airport (CTS), JapanSarasota FL, Bradenton Airport (SRQ), United States of AmericaSaskatoon, J G Diefenbaker Airport (YXE), CanadaSeattle WA, Tacoma Airport (SEA), United States of AmericaSendai, Sendai Airport (SDJ), JapanSeoul, Incheon Airport (ICN), South KoreaSeville, Seville Airport (SVQ), SpainSeychelles, Mahe Airport (SEZ), SeychellesShanghai, Pudong Airport (PVG), ChinaShannon, Shannon Airport (SNN), IrelandShenyang, Taoxian Airport (SHE), ChinaShenzhen, Bao'an Airport (SZX), ChinaSiem Reap, Angkor Airport (REP), CambodiaSingapore, Changi Airport (SIN), SingaporeSioux City IA, Sioux Gateway Airport (SUX), United States of AmericaSioux Falls SD, Joe Foss Field Airport (FSD), United States of AmericaSolo, Adi Sumarmo Wiryokusumo Airport (SOC), IndonesiaSouthampton, Southampton Airport (SOU), United KingdomSpringfield MO, Branson Airport (SGF), United States of AmericaSt. John's, St John's Airport (YYT), CanadaStavanger, Sola Airport (SVG), NorwayStockholm, Arlanda Airport (ARN), SwedenStockholm, Bromma Airport (BMA), SwedenStrasbourg, TGV Railway Station (XWG), FranceSukhothai, Sukhothai Airport (THS), ThailandSunshine Coast, Maroochydore Airport (MCY), AustraliaSurabaya, Juanda Airport (SUB), IndonesiaSydney, Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD), AustraliaSyracuse NY, Clarence E Hancock Airport (SYR), United States of AmericaTallinn, Lennart Meri Airport (TLL), EstoniaTampa FL, Tampa Airport (TPA), United States of AmericaTamworth, Tamworth Airport (TMW), AustraliaTangier, Boukhalef Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG), MoroccoTawau, Tawau Airport (TWU), MalaysiaTbilisi, Tbilisi Airport (TBS), GeorgiaTenerife, Tenerife North Airport (TFN), SpainTenerife, Tenerife South Airport (TFS), SpainThiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum Airport (TRV), IndiaTokyo, Narita Airport (NRT), JapanToledo OH, Express Airport (TOL), United States of AmericaToronto, Pearson Airport (YYZ), CanadaToulouse, Blagnac Airport (TLS), FranceTownsville, Townsville Airport (TSV), AustraliaTrat, Trat Airport (TDX), ThailandTraverse City MI, Cherry Capital Airport (TVC), United States of AmericaTrieste, Ronchi Dei Legionari Airport (TRS), ItalyTucson AZ, Tucson Airport (TUS), United States of AmericaTulsa OK, Tulsa Airport (TUL), United States of AmericaTurin, Caselle Airport (TRN), ItalyUfa, Ufa Airport (UFA), RussiaValencia, Valencia Airport (VLC), SpainVancouver, Vancouver Airport (YVR), CanadaVenice, Marco Polo Airport (VCE), ItalyVerona, Villafranca Airport (VRN), ItalyVientiane, Wattay Airport (VTE), LaosVigo, Vigo Airport (VGO), SpainVoronezh, Voronezh Airport (VOZ), RussiaWarsaw, Chopin Okecie Airport (WAW), PolandWashington DC, Dulles Airport (IAD), United States of AmericaWashington DC, Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), United States of AmericaWaterloo IA, Waterloo Airport (ALO), United States of AmericaWausau WI, Central Wisconsin Airport (CWA), United States of AmericaWellington, Wellington Airport (WLG), New ZealandWest Palm Beach FL, Palm Beach Airport (PBI), United States of AmericaWestchester County NY, Westchester County Airport (HPN), United States of AmericaWichita KS, Mid Continent Airport (ICT), United States of AmericaWinnipeg, Winnipeg Airport (YWG), CanadaYangon, Mingaladon Airport (RGN), MyanmarYekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg Airport (SVX), RussiaZanzibar, Zanzibar Airport (ZNZ), TanzaniaZurich, Zurich Airport (ZRH), Switzerland toA Coruna, A Coruna Airport (LCG), SpainAberdeen, Dyce Airport (ABZ), United KingdomAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH), United Arab EmiratesAdelaide, Adelaide Airport (ADL), AustraliaAgadir, Al Massira Airport (AGA), MoroccoAguadilla PR, Rafael Hernandez Airport (BQN), United States of AmericaAhmedabad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport (AMD), IndiaAl Ain, Etihad Town Office Bus Station (ZVH), United Arab EmiratesAlbuquerque NM, Sunport Airport (ABQ), United States of AmericaAlbury, Albury Airport (ABX), AustraliaAlmaty, Almaty Airport (ALA), KazakhstanAlor Setar, Sultan Abdul Halim Airport (AOR), MalaysiaAmman, Queen Alia Airport (AMM), JordanAmsterdam, Schiphol Airport (AMS), NetherlandsAncona, Falconara Airport (AOI), ItalyAsturias, Asturias Airport (OVD), SpainAthens, Eleftherios Venizelos Airport (ATH), GreeceAuckland, Auckland Airport (AKL), New ZealandAustin TX, Bergstrom Airport (AUS), United States of AmericaAyers Rock, Connellan Airport (AYQ), AustraliaBahrain, Bahrain Airport (BAH), BahrainBaku, Heydar Aliyev Airport (GYD), AzerbaijanBali, Ngurah Rai Airport (DPS), IndonesiaBalikpapan, Sepinggan Airport (BPN), IndonesiaBallina, Byron Gateway Airport (BNK), AustraliaBaltimore MD, Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), United States of AmericaBangkok, Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), ThailandBarcelona, El Prat Airport (BCN), SpainBeijing, Capital Airport (PEK), ChinaBeirut, Rafic Hariri Airport (BEY), LebanonBelfast, George Best City Airport (BHD), United KingdomBengaluru, Kempegowda Airport (BLR), IndiaBergen, Flesland Airport (BGO), NorwayBerlin, Tegel Airport (TXL), GermanyBilbao, Bilbao Airport (BIO), SpainBillund, Billund Airport (BLL), DenmarkBintulu, Bintulu Airport (BTU), MalaysiaBirmingham AL, Shuttlesworth Airport (BHM), United States of AmericaBirmingham, Birmingham Airport (BHX), United KingdomBloomington-Normal IL, Normal Airport (BMI), United States of AmericaBogota, El Dorado Airport (BOG), ColombiaBologna, Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), ItalyBordeaux, Merignac Airport (BOD), FranceBordeaux, Saint Jean TGV Railway Station (ZFQ), FranceBoston MA, Logan Airport (BOS), United States of AmericaBrisbane, Brisbane Airport (BNE), AustraliaBristol, Lulsgate Airport (BRS), United KingdomBrussels, Brussels Airport (BRU), BelgiumBrussels, Midi Railway Station (ZYR), BelgiumBudapest, Liszt Ferenc Airport (BUD), HungaryBuenos Aires, Ministro Pistarini Airport (EZE), ArgentinaBuffalo NY, Niagara Airport (BUF), United States of AmericaBurlington VT, Burlington Airport (BTV), United States of AmericaCairns, Cairns Airport (CNS), AustraliaCairo, Cairo Airport (CAI), EgyptCalgary, Calgary Airport (YYC), CanadaCali, Alfonso Bonilla Aragon Airport (CLO), ColombiaCanberra, Canberra Airport (CBR), AustraliaCancun, Cancun Airport (CUN), MexicoCape Town, Cape Town Airport (CPT), South AfricaCardiff, Cardiff Wales Airport (CWL), United KingdomCasablanca, Mohamed V Airport (CMN), MoroccoCebu, Mactan Cebu Airport (CEB), PhilippinesCedar Rapids IA, The Eastern Iowa Airport (CID), United States of AmericaChampaign IL, Willard University Airport (CMI), United States of AmericaCharlottesville VA, Albemarle Airport (CHO), United States of AmericaChelyabinsk, Balandino Airport (CEK), RussiaChengdu, Shuangliu Airport (CTU), ChinaChennai, Chennai Airport (MAA), IndiaChiang Mai, Chiang Mai Airport (CNX), ThailandChiang Rai, Mae Fah Luang Airport (CEI), ThailandChicago IL, O'Hare Airport (ORD), United States of AmericaChristchurch, Christchurch Airport (CHC), New ZealandCincinnati OH, Covington Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG), United States of AmericaCleveland OH, Hopkins Airport (CLE), United States of AmericaCoffs Harbour, Coffs Harbour Airport (CFS), AustraliaColombo, Bandaranaike Airport (CMB), Sri LankaColorado Springs CO, Colorado Springs Airport (COS), United States of AmericaColumbia MO, Columbia Regional Airport (COU), United States of AmericaColumbus OH, Port Columbus Airport (CMH), United States of AmericaCopenhagen, Kastrup Airport (CPH), DenmarkCork, Cork Airport (ORK), IrelandDa Nang, Da Nang Airport (DAD), VietnamDalian, Zhoushuizi Airport (DLC), ChinaDallas TX, Fort Worth Airport (DFW), United States of AmericaDammam, Khobar SABTCO Bus Station (DMS), Saudi ArabiaDammam, King Fahd Airport (DMM), Saudi ArabiaDarwin, Darwin Airport (DRW), AustraliaDayton OH, James M Cox Airport (DAY), United States of AmericaDenver CO, Denver Airport (DEN), United States of AmericaDes Moines IA, Des Moines Airport (DSM), United States of AmericaDetroit MI, Wayne County Metro Airport (DTW), United States of AmericaDhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Airport (DAC), BangladeshDonegal, Donegal Airport (CFN), IrelandDubai, Etihad Bus Station (XNB), United Arab EmiratesDublin, Dublin Airport (DUB), IrelandDubuque IA, Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ), United States of AmericaDunedin, Dunedin Airport (DUD), New ZealandDurban, King Shaka Airport (DUR), South AfricaDusseldorf, Dusseldorf Airport (DUS), GermanyEdinburgh, Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United KingdomEl Paso TX, El Paso Airport (ELP), United States of AmericaEmerald, Emerald Airport (EMD), AustraliaEugene OR, Mahlon Sweet Field Airport (EUG), United States of AmericaEvansville IN, Evansville Airport (EVV), United States of AmericaExeter, Exeter Airport (EXT), United KingdomFaisalabad, Faisalabad Airport (LYP), PakistanFargo ND, Hector Airport (FAR), United States of AmericaFaro, Faro Airport (FAO), PortugalFayetteville AR, Northwest Arkansas Airport (XNA), United States of AmericaFlint MI, Bishop Airport (FNT), United States of AmericaFlorence, Peretola Airport (FLR), ItalyFort Lauderdale FL, Hollywood Airport (FLL), United States of AmericaFort McMurray, Fort McMurray Airport (YMM), CanadaFort Myers FL, Southwest Florida Airport (RSW), United States of AmericaFort Wayne IN, Fort Wayne Airport (FWA), United States of AmericaFrankfurt, Frankfurt Airport (FRA), GermanyFresno CA, Yosemite Airport (FAT), United States of AmericaFukuoka, Fukuoka Airport (FUK), JapanGan Island, Gan Airport (GAN), MaldivesGdansk, Lech Walesa Airport (GDN), PolandGeneva, Geneva Airport (GVA), SwitzerlandGenova, Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA), ItalyGlasgow, Glasgow Airport (GLA), United KingdomGold Coast, Coolangatta Airport (OOL), AustraliaGoteborg, Landvetter Airport (GOT), SwedenGran Canaria, Gran Canaria Airport (LPA), SpainGrand Rapids MI, Gerald R Ford Airport (GRR), United States of AmericaGreen Bay WI, Austin Straubel Airport (GRB), United States of AmericaGreensboro NC, Piedmont Triad Airport (GSO), United States of AmericaGreenville SC, Spartanburg Airport (GSP), United States of AmericaGuam, Antonio B Won Pat Airport (GUM), GuamGuangzhou, Baiyun Airport (CAN), ChinaGuernsey, Guernsey Airport (GCI), GuernseyHalifax, Stanfield Airport (YHZ), CanadaHamburg, Fuhlsbuettel Airport (HAM), GermanyHamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef Airport (HTI), AustraliaHannover, Hannover Airport (HAJ), GermanyHanoi, Noibai Airport (HAN), VietnamHanover, Hanover HBF Train Station (ZVR), GermanyHarrisburg PA, Harrisburg Airport (MDT), United States of AmericaHartford CT, Bradley Airport (BDL), United States of AmericaHelsinki, Vantaa Airport (HEL), FinlandHervey Bay, Hervey Bay Airport (HVB), AustraliaHo Chi Minh City, Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN), VietnamHobart, Hobart Airport (HBA), AustraliaHong Kong, Hong Kong Airport (HKG), ChinaHouston TX, George Bush Airport (IAH), United States of AmericaHumberside, Humberside Airport (HUY), United KingdomHyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi Airport (HYD), IndiaIndianapolis IN, Indianapolis Airport (IND), United States of AmericaIslamabad, New Islamabad Airport (ISB), PakistanIsle Of Man, Ronaldsway Airport (IOM), United KingdomIstanbul, Istanbul Airport (IST), TurkeyJacksonville FL, Jacksonville Airport (JAX), United States of AmericaJaipur, Jaipur Airport (JAI), IndiaJakarta, Soekarno Hatta Airport (CGK), IndonesiaJersey, Jersey Airport (JER), United KingdomJohannesburg, O R Tambo Airport (JNB), South AfricaJohor Bahru, Sultan Ismail Airport (JHB), MalaysiaKagoshima, Kagoshima Airport (KOJ), JapanKalamazoo MI, Battle Creek Airport (AZO), United States of AmericaKaliningrad, Khrabrovo Airport (KGD), RussiaKansas City MO, Kansas City Airport (MCI), United States of AmericaKarachi, Jinnah Airport (KHI), PakistanKathmandu, Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), NepalKazan, Kazan Airport (KZN), RussiaKerry, Kerry Airport (KIR), IrelandKhartoum, Khartoum Airport (KRT), SudanKiev, Boryspil Airport (KBP), UkraineKnock, Ireland West Airport (NOC), IrelandKnoxville TN, McGhee Tyson Airport 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__label__cc	0.538146	0.461854	Morgan Bonaparte “Bone” Mizell Flo’s Favorite Cracker Cowboy Flo gets upset when she learns that someone is unaware of Florida’s history as a cattle-raising center. ” Hell, Ponce de Leon started it all in 1521 and it’s been going gangbusters ever since then!” Flo points out. For a long time most of Florida cattle were shipped to Cuba from a dock in Punta Rassa, a town on Sanibel Island, but the Civil War created a second market for Florida beef. The Confederate Army depended on Florida to feed its armies in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina. Most of the cattle ranged in central Florida and one of the more prominent cow towns was Arcadia. While there were cattle kings and cowboys alike in abundance, there was one who’s antics separated him from all the rest. Morgan Bonaparte “Bone” Mizell’s exploits made him famous at the time and Flo thinks he deserves more recognition now. It wasn’t his rugged good looks or his natty attire that earned Bone his fame, as evidenced by Frederick Remington’s painting of him entitled, “A Cracker Cowboy.” Like other Florida cowboys he wore boots that extended up to the knees to protect against the saw grass and snakes, a cheap “2- gallon hat” and used a long whip instead of rope, which was useless in the heavy under growth. Cracking these whips to drive cattle earned these cow hunters the nickname ” Cracker Cowboys.” D. B. McKay in the Tampa Tribune reported that a contemporary described Bone as “an expert horseman and a crack shot with rifle and six-gun, lightning fast at roping and branding, and no four-legged brute was too big or too bad for him to tackle and master.” Bone was, some say, the most skilled cow hunter in all Florida and at the same time, one of the most humorous men alive. Some of his humor was self-generated with substantial wit and a wonderful sense of timing. However, his prestigious thirst for strong drink was legendary and created many humorous situations where the laughs were at his expense. In the movie, “Cat Baloo”, the title role played by Lee Marvin often comes to Flo’s mind when mentally trying to picture Bone Mizell. It seemed that Bone enjoyed being laughed at as much as being laughed with and sometimes he combined both. Such as the time he arrived at a two-story church on Sunday morning after a bout of heavy drinking. He went to the second floor, talked with someone and started back downstairs. He tripped at the top, came tumbling down end over end to land on his feet at the bottom. He responded to the shocked group of people who had observed the fall and asked if he was hurt, “Naw” he said, ” That’s the way I always come down stairs.” Another favorite story of Flo’s about Bone has two versions. V.K. Graham in the Tampa Tribune told of an attempt on the part of several cowboy friends to scare Bone into slowing down his drinking. Bone had arrived in camp dead drunk, fallen off his horse and lay passed out on the ground. The cowboys rested his head on his saddle and then placed a circle of dried, highly flammable cow dung all around him. The first one up in the morning lit the circle of fire, tugged Bone awake while they pretended to be asleep. Bone stood up, looked at the ring of fire, uttered an oath and commented to the heavens, “Well, by God! Dead and in hell! And I’m the first one up. “Another version related how Bone, passed out again, was deposited in a graveyard and one cowboy stayed in the cemetery hidden behind a nearby gravestone. He reported that Bone came to in the morning, sat up rubbing his eyes and staring at his surroundings. In his own ingenious style, Bone commented, “Here it is Judgment Day, and I’m the first one up.” Flo thinks both events happened. Jim Bob Tinsley, in his book about Bone, tells the various versions of what’s reputed to be the greatest legend of Bone’s humorous life. It starts with his good friend, John Underhill, becoming sick and Bone riding to the cow camp to take care of him. After a few days, John died and Bone admonished the cow hands who were preparing to wash the body before dressing it for burial, “Hellfire no, you ain’t going to wash him. You all know he’d never allow it if he was alive and you all ain’t going to take advantage of him now he’s dead.” Subsequently, a young boy from a wealthy New Orleans family drifted into the area became mesmerized by Bone and followed him wherever he went. The boy was described as weak and sickly and he died shortly thereafter with only Bone to take care of his burial. Bone buried the young man next to where he had previously buried his friend John. When the young man’s family eventually learned of his death, they sent several hundred dollars to the local undertaker to exhume the body and send it by rail to be reinterred in the family plot. The undertaker paid Bone to retrieve the body. Two things bothered Bone on the way to the gravesites. The young man, he knew, was fed up with trains and traveling and never wanted to go home again. On the other hand, his friend, John, had always wanted to take a train ride and had never been able to afford to do so. The answer was obvious to Bone and since he was the only one who knew which grave was which, he pointed out the wrong site to his helpers. To Bone’s mind, he had done right for both. Bone’s life, his humor, and endless practical jokes became legendary. These are but a few of the tales of his life. His contemporaries as well as today’s writers have written about his actions and antics extensively. Flo thinks so highly of Bob Tinsley’s book, Florida Cow Hunter: The Life and Times of Bone Mizell, she sells it in her store, Floribbean Flo’s. Flo has also been encouraging budding screenwriters and wanabe film producers alike to use Bone’s life as the basis of a motion picture. “It’s a natural!” according to Flo, “the humor has already been created and the jokes written, by Bone himself.” The only sad note in the entire tale was that Bone Mizell was only 58 years old when he died. Entered, as the cause of death on the certificate was “Moonshine, went to sleep and did not wake up.” His funeral was held in Arcadia and he was buried in the Joshua Creek Cemetery. To read more about Bone and his times order: Florida Cow Hunter: The Life and Times of Bone Mizell by Bob Tinsley 131 pages, 6×9, Paper for $23.74 which includes Shipping & Handling Email Received About Bone Mizell It was nice to read yet another set of stories about Bone. He was my cousin several times removed and I believe that most of the stories are absolute truth. I am one of the last Mizell’s from my line and my family has deep roots in Pine Level, Florida between Arcadia and Sarasota. One story never told was about my Grandfather on my mothers side Judge Lewis Purvis and Bone. One evening Bone in his usual alcoholic state hired my Grandfather who was at the time about 5 years old to drive him around the thriving town of Nocotee. Not only did he hire the five year old to drive while he sat in the back seat but made sure that his driver had an abundant supply of cheap cigars to smoke during the trip. John Mizell An exchange: Hi Flo, I’m a local free-lance actor. I just got cast at the Orlando History Museum to do living histories. One of the characters that I have been cast to do is Bone Mizell. It’s their script but I’m going to do all I can to research and portray him with as much accuracy as possible. If they ever decide to do the movie, I’d love to be part of it. David Preuss What a rich role you’ve gotten. Good luck on this opportunity and I wish you luck in getting the movie role. Florida doesn’t have all that many characters in its history that are as interesting and fun. The state ought to finance the production itself with all the attention it would bring to its history. Subject: a cowboy from osceola county im a songwriter from Kissimmee i grew up here my family moved here when i was 2 years old i spent most of my time on this 7000 acre cattle ranch owned by the Brown family i experienced just what Bone went through all their cows were wild scrub cows for years i ve been thinking of writing a song about Bone for many years and out of the scrub on a strawberry roan rode bone Nitetrainwayne From: MarshTaci@ Subject: old florida My mothers people first signed document in Florida was 1763 not sure how long they could have been here before that, most of them were a little strange but some really good stories and lots of strong women. Daddy’s people go back to the indigenous Indians and I am writing a book about that set. But there is a lady who passed on a few years back they called here Miss Lillian and she was from north Florida and wrote quite a bit I have a written interview with her and a taped one she has a different view on OLE Bone Mizell or at least the stories about him. Seems she thinks her brother did some of the things that OLE Bone gets credit for and she has dates and Names. There is history village that was given all her records after her death and they could be used for research. As for the work cracker and Remington well Florida never really liked either one until the 1950s and it became profitable to do so. Remington never liked us either. He considered the real cowboys to be in the West we were just trash. I’ll call my people cowhunters men and women cause that what was necessary in Florida before fences, if you wanted to find you cattle. Joyce Peters And in another email from MarshTaci@ I am holding a cowcamp just as granny Messer would have done with horse and fire at the St. Lucie County HistoricalMuseum on Sept. 25, 2005. I have old Florida in my very soul. Joyce (notice the marshtaci that is the first name for the horse after the Spanish left in what is now Florida. Marsh meaning the land the horse was on and taci was the original name for the horse) To: Flo From: bhammergoldenpeacock.com Haven’t thought about Bone Mizell in years. Did a series of TV shows on WINK-TV with Frog Smith, a cracker and artist from Fort Myers. He had stories that went on forever about Bone. I guess my favorite was how Bone was dared to go into the bush after a longhorn and brand him with nothing but his jack knife. Bone went in, there was a whole lot of huffing and snorting from that old bull, and then Bone came out smiling. Said he’d lost his jack knife, but he branded the bull’s ear with his teeth. It was fun to think of him again. Beth Hammer The photos used on this page are from drawings by Frederic Remington in the Florida Photographic Collection of the Florida State Archives	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1227
__label__cc	0.616942	0.383058	Home >> >> Managing Poor Behaviour The majority of people attending matches participate in a respectful manner, creating an enjoyable and safe environment. Unfortunately sometimes a minority don’t demonstrate responsible and acceptable behaviour. Below are some useful resources for Associations and Clubs that can be used to educate and send important messaging via your websites, on social media and at grounds. Education is the first step to maintaining a consistent approach towards poor sideline behaviour. ‘Let Kids Be Kids’ is a national sport program designed to help clubs and associations tackle the issue of poor sideline behaviour. Let Kids Be Kids Just Let Kids Be Kids The Kids & Sport Icons Venue Signage templates A Message to Parents This is Not the World Cup Spectator Behaviour Policy Club Education How clubs can tackle poor sideline behaviour in sport Conduct and Behaviour PBTR Conduct & Behaviour website What Committees Can Do Sports Rage Prevention Resources Sport rage is any violence, foul language, harassment, abuse or bad behaviour in sport. Sport rage is bad for sport – reducing enjoyment, risking safety and tarnishing club reputations. Prepare your club A planning guide for clubs Creating a positive sport environment at your club Preventing sport rage: Educating your members Dealing with incidents Download sport rage resources Jacketed Ground Officials In most associations it is a requirement for clubs to appoint ground officials for every game day and/or for each team (both home and away) to prevent and deal with any incidents that may arise involving poor behaviour. The title of the ground official will vary depending on each club and association. The role is often referred to as Ground Official, Ground Marshal or Jacketed Official. Club committees can best prepare their ground officials by: Providing ground officials with the Information guide for Ground Marshals Ensuring ground officials stand out on game day by providing them with a high visibility vest or jacket. Providing training – ground officials need the skills and confidence to deal with difficult situations. Have your ground official complete the Play by the Rules Child Protection, Harassment and Complaint Handling training. Establishing a reporting system – put in place an incident reporting system for ground officials to use. Ground marshal’s should be familiar with steps to help resolve conflict and deal with issues quickly and appropriately. Download Resolving Conflict Steps for Ground Marshal’s. Respect Referees Match officials are critical to the sport of football and without them there would be no game. Players, team officials parents and spectators should treat them with respect and recognize that they too are often learning, and just like players, can only improve with more training and experience. FA Respect campaign video GHFA – Respect Program SGFA – Respect our Referees Photography & Videoing in Football In Australia, generally speaking, there is no law restricting photography of people (including children) in public spaces as long as the images are not: being used for voyeurism or made for the purpose of observing and visually recording a person’s genital or anal region protected by a court order (eg. child custody or witness protection) being for commercial purposes (person’s likeness is used to endorse or entice people to buy a product). Information about taking images in sport: Acquiring images of children in sport E-Safety Commission information Common Issues for Players, Parents and Clubs Insufficient Game Time Insufficient game time is not a child protection issue. It is a decision for the coach of a team to determine how much game time players receive. Some clubs have policies relating to amateur football game time and this can be clarified by contacting your club to find out if they have a game time policy. Football is a team sport and time on the bench is part of playing a team sport and being in a football team. The strategies used by coaches are many and varied in their efforts to try and provide players with fair game time, but equal time is not always possible particularly where the games are closely contested and where player fitness, endurance, ability and team cohesion are factors in player selection, rotation and positioning. Non-selection in team or squad Non-selection is not a child protection issue. The selection of players and the suitability of players for a team is a decision for selectors. Players are generally selected based on skill, strength, stamina, physique, fitness, commitment, positive attitude and a willingness and ability to learn and improve. A good behaviour record and compliance with the Codes of conduct, Laws of the Game and all relevant club, FNSW and FFA policies, both on and off the field, is also important. Our team is not winning – My child is not scoring goals It is interesting to note that a study on children’s sport found that the top 3 reasons children play amateur sport were: To make friends; To have fun; and To play the game. Winning is not always a priority for children and just playing with their friends, having fun and kicking the ball is often what they base their good experience on. Parents should support their children and encourage good sportsmanship no matter their priorities or outcome of the game – win, lose or draw, the experience should always be a positive one. Sport is great for children’s fitness and well-being and is often the only outlet a child has from the stress of school and the pressures of life in general, so it is important they are allowed to enjoy their football and have a good experience. My child is not being played in the position they prefer The position that a child plays in or is allocated to is a decision for the coach of the team. Although a child may play in a certain position when they join the club or trial for a club, there is no guarantee that this is the position the child will play in at the club. While clubs and coaches like to try and keep everyone happy, it is not always possible to play children where they want or prefer to play at any level. Failure to release a player from a contract This is not a child protection issue and is a matter for resolution between the club and the player involved. Behaviour of the coach Inappropriate behaviour in football is unacceptable and clubs and associations are responsible for taking appropriate action where they consider the behaviour of their team officials to be in breach of the Coaches Code of Conduct or relevant policies. Clubs are responsible for managing all complaints in relation to their coaches and any appropriate disciplinary action that may arise in relation to their employees and volunteers. Local associations also have a level of jurisdiction over coaches and team officials which can result in those persons appearing before the association tribunal and penalties applied. Options which clubs may consider when responding to complaints about or breaches of the Code of Conduct: Speaking with the coach about their behaviour Monitoring the coach to observe the reported behaviour Mentoring the coach on how to improve his/her behaviour Mediation between the aggrieved parties Requiring the coach to complete the Play By The Rules on-line training Requiring the coach to complete an accredited coaching course or other form of further education Issue of a written warning to the coach about their behaviour Taking disciplinary action Applying a sanction Suspending the coach from his/her duties for a period of time Dismissing the coach or a combination of the above Any action taken is at the discretion of the club or association or the relevant tribunal if applicable. The complainant DOES NOT determine how their complaint is managed or what (if any) action or sanction is applied. Where a coach or other team official identifies that an error in their behaviour has occurred or where a misunderstanding may have occurred, it can be beneficial to acknowledge this and offer a sincere apology as this can often result in clarifying the matter with a good outcome and resolution for all parties.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1231
__label__wiki	0.661188	0.661188	Florida players still suspended, but hardly banned By Mike MillerJun 28, 2011, 9:08 PM EDT This indefinite suspension at Florida is living up to its name. But it’s not overly harsh. Gator forwards Erik Murphy and Cody Larson, arrested back in April for allegedly trying to break into a car, are still in Gainesville taking classes but their status hasn’t changed, according to Kevin Brockway of the Gainesville Sun. They’re still suspended, but that doesn’t mean they’re completely banned from all Gator basketball activities. “They are here for summer school,” Florida coach Billy Donovan told the paper. “They will be doing some workouts. Hopefully we will have some kind of resolution to this soon but how long I don’t know.” As Brockway tweeted, Donovan hasn’t shied away from harsh punishments in the past. But if Murphy and Larson will be doing workouts, it’s apparent the legal process just needs to end for their suspension to be complete. Maybe Donovan figures the public embarrassment of their arrests has been enough punishment. With the Jayhawks closing out an 81-59 Big 12 home win over their in-state rivals, things got heated.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1238
__label__wiki	0.878402	0.878402	‘I Am Not Okay with This’: Netflix Series Cast Revealed in First-Look Images The ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Season 10 Premiere Is Pretty, Pretty Relentless ‘Little America’ Review: Deeply Human Stories Shine in Apple Anthology Series ‘Mindhunter’ Season 3 in Doubt as Cast Released from Contracts; Is the Show Cancelled? Bill Nye Bringing Science Talk to Netflix in ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ by Dave Trumbore August 31, 2016 Like many of you out there, my childhood fell right in the scientific sweet spot that was the period from 1993 to 1998, which is when Bill Nye, the Science Guy aired on PBS. Like the long-running series featuring Don Herbert, a.k.a. Mr. Wizard, before him, Nye introduced a whole new generation of young television watchers to the eye-opening world of science. Since the 90s, the television landscape has been relatively barren when it comes to shows that teach scientific concepts with a colorful host like Mr. Wizard, the Science Guy, and even Paul Zaloom of Beakman’s World, but Netflix is now hoping to capitalize on nostalgia and the modern understanding of “doing the science” brought about via the Internet. It was announced today that the streaming giant will be launching a new science talk show, Bill Nye Saves the World in the spring of 2017. Image via Bill Nye According to their press release, each episode of the series “will tackle a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths, and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of industry.” That’s a pretty bold statement for a synopsis, one that feels less like the 90s version of “science is cool” and more like the contemporary view that science is truth. That’s a perspective that an independent content provider like Netflix can stand behind, one a publicly funded network or more traditional platform probably wouldn’t be able to do. I’m already 100% on board. Here’s what Nye himself had to say about the exciting new series: “Since the start of the Science Guy show, I’ve been on a mission to change the world by getting people everywhere excited about the fundamental ideas in science. Today, I’m excited to be working with Netflix on a new show, where we’ll discuss the complex scientific issues facing us today, with episodes on vaccinations, genetically modified foods and climate change. With the right science and good writing, we’ll do our best to enlighten and entertain our audience. And, perhaps we’ll change the world a little.” In addition to Nye’s unique approach to science communication, Bill Nye Saves the World will also feature special guests, experiments and demonstrations, with facts firmly grounding the argument in question. Bill Nye Saves the World is produced for Netflix by Bunim/Murray Productions. Gil Goldschein and Julie Pizzi serve as Executive Producers for Bunim/Murray Productions. Michael Naidus (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson) serves as showrunner and Executive Producer. Writer and standup comedian Mike Drucker serves as Head Comedy Writer; and, astronomer, author and award-winning science communicator Phil Plait serves as Head Science Writer. The Oscars Will Be Brodcasted on ABC Through 2028 ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ TV Spot Reminds You There’s a ‘Ouija’ Prequel… • Bill Nye • Bill Nye Saves the World • Netflix	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1240
__label__cc	0.595575	0.404425	Governments & Organizations Elite Units of the German Army 1939-1945 Cult Icon 27 Jul 14, 21:12 I found a copy of this osprey book and I wanted to post the author's interesting choices to see if they are agreeable: 1. Grossdeutschland 2. Feldherrnhalle 3. Infantry regiment 119 and 19 'List' (In honor of Adolf Hitler) 4. Panzergrenadier division Brandenburg 5. Cavalry regiment 5 'von Mackenson' 6. 44th Reichgrenadier division 7. 116th Panzer division Windhund 8. 21st Panzer division 9. 24th Panzer division 10. Panzer Lehr division 11. 3rd Mountain 12. 5th Mountain 13. Tiger tank battalion 1-10 (first ten) I must admit that I never heard of the bolded outside of this volume. Zhitomir-Berdichev, West of Kiev: 24 Dec 1943-31 Jan 1944 Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army Barbarossa Derailed I & II Battle of Kalinin October 1941 The Jaeger divisions had a good reputation as assault divisions. The original 44th Infantry Division died at Stalingrad. It was a prewar Austrian Infantry Division out of Vienna. It was rebuilt and soldiered on. While not in the Wehrmacht, the Fallschirmjaeger also had a good reputation. Pruitt, you are truly an expert! Kelt06 Have you been struck by the jawbone of an ASS lately? by Khepesh "This is the logic of Pruitt" Salinator ACG Forums - Field Marshall Panzer Division Brandenburg had a interesting story. The nucleus was originally special forces of the Abwehr and were the personal troops of Admiral Canaris, who was executed for treason. I believe under their various guises and names, they served in more theaters than any other German unit. They acted as advance troops in invasions to secure bridges and the like, and also served as infiltrators. They served in Poland, Poland, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Norway, USSR, Finland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Crete, North Africa, South Africa, India, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. Flag: USA / Location: West Coast Prayers. http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8757/snap1ws8.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PtsX_Z3CMU T. A. Gardner Originally posted by Cult Icon View Post Not a chance. Was wiped out twice and really didn't prove any better than any other division in combat. Again an honorific without merit. Formed towards the end of the war. A meaningless honorific. Can't say. Unfamiliar with this unit. HuD or Hoch und Deutchmeister was a decent division but hardly elite. I think 2nd Panzer did better. The 116th really didn't prove elite. Where? North Africa? Certainly not in Normandy. It was originally formed using French junk and those Becker conversions. It certainly didn't prove highly effective after 6 June. Like its infantry cousin at Anzio, Lehr didn't live up to its reputation as skilled training troops. Same thing. I don't buy they are elite units. The 78th Sturm division might qualify. It was designated to hold the Smolensk to Moscow highway and kept up to strength as a 9 battalion division with support. As such it got good manpower and equipment. I might buy the three cavalry brigades formed one per army group in 1943 for use in the East. Nord, Mitte, and Süd all were hard fighting fire brigade units that were led by some of Germany's elite horsemen. 1st Fallshrimjäger would qualify at least into 1944. It got the cream of the Luftwaffe's ground forces, was fully motorized later on and from 1940 on was a very well trained unit. I think 24th Panzer division is an elite division. I have the divisional history, and it was formed out of the elite 1st Cavalry division that fought in poland and france. Various supporting units were attached to it including a company of Brandenberger commandos. I tried to find more material about the cadres but I haven't found it yet. What is immediately noticeable is how the officer corps are sourced from 'vons' and clearly from Germany's military class. Many are professionals- older men with many years of prewar experience. I think of Manfred von Richthofen (from the junkers, and immediately sent into the elite calvary like others) when I saw this. The personnel are graduates from Germany's cavalry schools. Afterward France, they lost their 17,000 horses and were converted into a Panzer division and then debut in the 1942 summer offensive until their destruction in Stalingrad. It was rebuilt, and ended the war with 44 Knight's crosses. Just quickly breezing, not exact: According the 24th Panzer division's records, they captured ~32,000 soviet troops and a huge amount of material between the end of July to the end of October. This cost them over 5,500 causalities and operational tanks were down to a trickle. According to the 23rd Panzer division's records, from the end of July to the end of November they captured over 10,000 soviet troops. They took a few thousand casualties. Their tanks were also down to a trickle, and both divisions started with around the same number. The history of the 24th starts off with the comments pertaining to their background as cavalrymen, and implying that this experience paid dividends in the future as a panzer division. All of this is circumstances and so forth, but still. I wonder what that implied? I know that cavalry in WW2 worked as assault reserve, reinforcements, recon, screening, infiltration/flanking forces, etc. Last edited by Cult Icon; 28 Jul 14, 01:08. Dunnigan I hate subjective labels. I'm sure at one or several points in time these units were very good and capable. Elite has such an air about it that you can't apply it to a division that at one point in time has 14,000 men and then completely churns through men through a 1 to 5 year period. Commanders come and go, good ones and bad. Some units are decimated performing a heroic stand then are rebuilt with no veteran cadre. One unit will get blacklisted and sent to some remote location where it can't distinguish itself... there's so many things that make a unit "good". The 800 pound gorilla in the room is that there's no SS in the list. But let's not go there because apparently as soon as you mention SS, everyone assumes elite. Labels are just easy subjective measurements without merit. 101combatvet Originally posted by Dunnigan View Post My worst jump story: My 13th jump was on the 13th day of the month, aircraft number 013. As recorded on my DA Form 1307 Individual Jump Log. "Everything looks all right. Have a good jump, eh." -2 Commando Jumpmaster Would have to broadly agree with both TAG's and Dunnigan's posts. "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Churchill "I'm no reactionary.Christ on the Mountain! I'm as idealistic as Hell" Eisenhower I consider this to be a pretty bad book. The author simply chose a bunch of units that he liked but did not include any criteria behind his selection. The sections that cover these units, some of them really obscure, do not extend evidence of their capability but rather are just a very short unit descriptions. The inclusion of several units (espec. the adolf hitler regiment 'List') is just odd. This unit was Adolf Hitler's old regiment from WW1. These units make sense to me, though: 13. Tiger tank battalions Difficult question. I learn towards the view that the iterations of units that were formed pre 1942 were of a higher caliber after their experiences and for a time, could compete and achieve big things on the battlefield. I believe that there were no elite units in the Wehrmacht in 1944 outside of GD/FJ 1 and the Wehr as a whole had deteriorated competitively. 78th Sturm yes. Brandenburg yes. 1st. FJ up to 1944. PzD 1 to 11, 21st PzD, 24th PzD. up to 1943 GD up to the spring of 1944. SS PzD 1,2,3,5 in 1943 only. given the numerous units and gaps in my knowledge, this list is admittingly very imperfect. Originally posted by T. A. Gardner View Post There were several regular Heer divisions that had a good reputation throughout the war (1st, 11th and 121 for example(, and despite the huge difficulties they faced, they remained so. That's also true for some Stug Abt's The German army developed a system for rating Divisions - "Bewertungen des inneren Wertes". The system was used from 1942, rating divisions according to a set of fixed criteria: hardness, endurance, command structure/skill of the Divisons leadership, fighting spirit, training standards and dependability. The grading system was: I: Particularly good division, unconditionally dependable. Has proven itself with distinction in crisis situations. II: Dependable division, proven in crisis situations. III: Conditionally dependable division, not or not fully proven in crisis situations. IV: Division of low dependability, not to be relied upon. They used a I-V system in the Great War. After the collapse of Russia, there were only two Class IV divisions and the rest were Class V! There were several Cavalry Divisions in the V Class. Class I were outstanding in Attack. Class II were very good in attack. Class III were not to be used in the attack but were good in defense. Class IV were capable of holding a defense under good conditions. Class V were bad! Divisions were also variable over time and the state of their personnel and equipment. Regarding the Brandenburgers You're forgetting that they started as a battalion of special forces under the command of military intelligence. Grossdeutschland started out as a battalion of ceremonial guards. They grew in parallel with Grossdeutschland. was their training partner. and finally was part of Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland. Until Admiral Canaris and the Abwehr lost control of the Brandenburgers they served all over the place at the same time in small units and also as firemen like the Fallschirmjaegers. These guys were language experts, demolition experts, special tactic experts, evasion experts, engineers, and more. A great number of Brandenburgers managed to melt away and escape capture when the Eastern front fell apart toward the end. Eighteen hundred of Otto Skorenzy's men were transferred from the Brandenburgers when they morphed into a panzer division because they did not want to fight conventional warfare. All together, their contributions were greater than it appears at first glance. And in my earlier post, I inadvertently left off Belgium, Italy, and Turkey on their list of theaters that they served in. Last edited by Salinator; 29 Jul 14, 03:19. Turkey?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1247
__label__cc	0.553542	0.446458	Home Forums > Discussions > Music Corner > Tony Iommi remixing Forbidden Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Sentient Six, Sep 21, 2018. Sentient Six Forum Resident Thread Starter Annandale, NJ USA TONY IOMMI Doesn't Know What OZZY OSBOURNE Meant When He Said He 'Didn't Have A Great Time' On BLACK SABBATH's Final Tour The real news is that he is working on remixing the Forbidden album: "I'm in the process of remixing [BLACK SABBATH's 1995 album] 'Forbidden' with Tony Martin [vocals], Cozy Powell [drums] and Neil Murray [bass]. That's an album I've never been satisfied with, so I'm about to start pulling that apart and remix it." Hopefully this will be the start of seeing more Tony Martin era albums getting worked on. Sentient Six, Sep 21, 2018 JediJoker, Paulette, marc with a c and 14 others like this. keefer1970 Metal, Movies, Beer! Of course it will... because I just finished buying Russian bootleg CDs of all of 'em. That figures. (kicks rock)... haha keefer1970, Sep 21, 2018 angelo73, warewolf95, Mr.Sean and 8 others like this. Claus Senior Member Please no..... a waste of time. A remix doesn’t help, maybe a re-recording with a new singer! One of the worst Metal abums! Claus, Sep 21, 2018 audiomixer, vinyl diehard and slipkid like this. angelo73 ⬚⿻⬚⿻⬚ I love Tony. Here's a man who knows how to say, 'I really couldn't care less at this point what Ozzy says' without starting in with the trollball volley. Of course he knows what Ozzy meant; the latter's statement couldn't be more unambiguous: "I didn't have a great time. I spent nine or 10 years in SABBATH, but I'd been away from them for over 30 years. With them, I'm just a singer. With me, I get to do what I want to do. I was getting bad vibes from them for being Ozzy. I don't know — what the **** else can I be?" Tony's got a great attitude, the mark of a warrior who is battling the most formidable and lethal of foes, with a resolve to conquer, not be conquered. Original Sabbath is history, enshrined. Tony's legacy travels far beyond that lineup. Looking forward to hearing his upcoming projects ! angelo73, Sep 21, 2018 Shak Cohen, Kim Olesen, Mr.Sean and 9 others like this. SizzleVonSizzleton The Last Yeti Hopefully he'll turn up Jason Newsted's bass. Wait..... SizzleVonSizzleton, Sep 21, 2018 Cokelike-, coffeetime, 500Homeruns and 14 others like this. dlokazip Forum Transient That's great Tony. Meanwhile, if you can get Steven Wilson to remix Born Again and have someone reissue Tyr with its original mix, that would be great. dlokazip, Sep 21, 2018 500Homeruns, warewolf95, FVDnz and 5 others like this. Sandinista Forum Resident Near a beach, Florida dlokazip said: ↑ That would be cool, re: SW but I would also be more than happy with Andy Pearce continuing what he started - I have enjoyed all the reissues thus far - even the Born Again DE, while still not a great sounding album imo, the Pearce remaster is better than any of the versions I have had. Sandinista, Sep 21, 2018 Mr.Sean, serj, Matthew Tate and 2 others like this. blacksabbathrainbow Sabbnatic I almost missed this thread because you didn't write "Black Sabbath" in the title. Glad I found it, thanks for starting it! I am very curious how a remix of Forbidden will sound. I also still haven't given up on hoping for Deluxe releases of all post-"The Eternal Idol" Tony Martin era albums with some bonus material, maybe even 1 or 2 new songs. However, haven't heard any news about that for something like two years. Tony Martin IRS Era Deluxe Editions – Black Sabbath Online Tony Martin era Sabbath reissues Tony Martin/Tony Iommi Reunion? I guess Tony Martin is still waiting for Iommi's call... Oh well, some things never seem to change... Meanwhile, check out this thread and share your opinions on what's the best-sounding release of "The Eternal Idol": Best CD version(s)/mastering(s) of Black Sabbath's The Eternal Idol??? blacksabbathrainbow, Oct 6, 2018 Mr.Sean, Leigh Burne, Mr. H and 2 others like this. Matthew Tate Forum Resident Excited plus there was news of all the Martin era releases being expanded Matthew Tate, Oct 6, 2018 groundharp, The MEZ, Mr.Sean and 4 others like this. Matthew Tate said: ↑ Yeah, but those news are several years old, no? I would be glad if Tony Iommi finally confirmed he was really preparing those releases now. From what I read over the last two years, including the more recent news, I don't get the impression that the Tony Martin era Deluxe releases, other than Forbidden which he now working on, will happen any time soon, or happen at all. Basically Tony is recording new music, hundreds of great musicians (including of course Tony Martin) would love to work with him again, while Tony I. does not even rule out that the current recordings might become an instrumental album. I am glad we will likely get more music from him; but I am very skeptical about the possibly Deluxe releases of Headless Cross, TYR, and/or Cross Purposes as long as Tony Iommi does not explicitly state that he is working on that right now. And I am afraid that when the two Tonys met a while (two years?) ago, Tony M. was much too quick to post his public announcement that they would likely work together again. Matthew Tate and Purple like this. Purple Forum Resident The rough mixes for Forbidden were impressive, relatively speaking. Throw in "loser gets it all" and you have a solid record. While not necessary, a remixed 'illusion of power" without ice-t (or with the original vocal by Tony Martin) would improve it even further. There is tons of material for a deluxe disc, whether that's the demos or live tracks (concert). Purple, Oct 6, 2018 warewolf95 and Matthew Tate like this. blacksabbathrainbow said: ↑ i'm guessing we will get the others at some point Mr.Sean, Leigh Burne and Mr. H like this. Mr. H Forum Resident Springfield, VA, U.S.A. It seems like Iommi is in no rush with these. Which is totally fine by me, as long as we get them eventually. Mr. H, Oct 7, 2018 Matthew Tate likes this. Mr. H said: ↑ It seems like Iommi is in no rush with these. Which is totally fine by me, ...and by me. Especially considering Tony's age and the fact that he just defeated cancer, while making it very clear in interviews that he and his doctors are not at all sure it won't come back. I wish Tony all the best, and I seriously hope he will take good care for himself and NOT start any huge projects that wear him out rather than be fun. (He said that the extensive touring was really too much for him.) What I am less happy about is that after the two Tonys met and talked to each other the last time (after they hadn't seen each other for many, many years), Tony Martin's impression obviously was that Tony Iommi was going to call him in order to start working together again, as soon as his (Iommi's) studio would be ready. Martin posted that on his Facebook account and it was also on Blabbermouth. And it seems that since then (it was probably 2 years ago), Martin has expected Iommi's call - a situation that awkwardly resembles the situation after the Forbidden tour and earlier situations when, according to Martin, he never really got fired from Sabbath - the telephone just "stopped ringing". This time, the telephone doesn't ring at all. (Even now that Iommi is finally remixing "Forbidden". I am afraid that even if he finally starts working on the Martin era Deluxe releases, it is far from sure that Martin will be personally involved at all.) Instead, Martin has probably learned, once again, through the media that it is far from clear if Iommi will ever call him again - because for Iommi, another collaboration with Martin is just one of many projects that he might or might nor pursue. Which is, again, totally fine by me (except that I personally of course would love the Deluxe Editions of the Martin era albums to happen, hopefully with lots of unexpected bonus material and a few new, or previously unknown, songs - but Tony Iommi's health and happiness is definitely more important than that); I just wish that Iommi's (non-)communication habits would finally change. Don't forget that Iommi's account of Martin in his autobiography was pretty devastating, while, according to Martin, he (Iommi) had never brought up any of that criticism in person while they were still working together (or any other time). And I am sure nobody has forgotten how the situation with Bill Ward not participating in "13" and the following live reunion tours was apparently never discussed directly by the band members - instead, first it was managers talking (and then stopping talking), then it was all in the media. I don't like that. I think it is perfectly natural that things sometimes don't work, plans and priorities change, and/or people talking to each other misunderstand each other. I just think that in such cases, especially with friends or colleagues, the right thing to do would be to call or visit the other person, have a chat and explain. The history of Black Sabbath (not just Tony Iommi), regrettably, seems to be full of moments where that simply didn't happen. Besides Bill and Tony Martin, situations with Glenn Hughes, Ronnie James Dio (RIP) and Vinnie Appice come to mind. I think that's pretty annoying and unnecessary. as long as we get them eventually. ...which is, under the circumstances, very far from sure, see above. By the way, I actually like "Illusion of Power" with Ice-T. I have seen some posters say that his voice should be removed from the album for the remastered release, a manipulation that I would find very insulting against Ice-T (a big fan of Black Sabbath) - and also simply untrue to the album's history, which does involve Ice-T and his voice, whether someone likes it or not. Remastering the album, great; adding the instrumental and/or the Tony-Martin-only version of "Illusion of Power" (and also the alt. version of all other songs) as bonus material, fine. Removing a singer from the album itself? Crazy - and I am not just saying that because I do like the Tony Martin/Ice-T duet. I just think that the band history and former bandmates should be treated with respect. Rant over. I almost forgot we're discussing some bit of good news here: Tony Iommi's remixing Forbidden. Paulette, AlienRendel, Mr. H and 4 others like this. FVDnz Forum Resident I'm definitely all over this! And I have no issues with Ice-T's contribution to Illusion of Power, so keep that in there. A version without Ice-T can still become a bonus track. FVDnz, Oct 7, 2018 Shak Cohen, Mr.Sean, Mr. H and 2 others like this. walrus Forum Resident I don't really think the problem with Forbidden was the mix. It was just an uninspired record, the result of a band working with a poorly-paired producer to fulfill a contractual obligation and ride out their contract. I do hope we get new music from Tony at some point though. Sabbath is done, but I wouldn't mind another album like Iommi with a rotating cast of guest singers. walrus, Oct 7, 2018 Mr.Sean, Purple, Matthew Tate and 2 others like this. walrus said: ↑ Very good points! Yes, at least Tony Iommi didn't really seem to be interested in working on "Forbidden", and they finished the studio recordings unusually quickly. And it shows. I totally forgot to mention in my comments above that I never found the sound or mix of Forbidden to be as bad as many people claimed. As much as I am interested in a remix of the album simply because it will hopefully make the album sound the way Iommi would like it to sound (and I am curious what that will be like), there are indeed no miracles to be expected from it. I am more interested in the bonus stuff. Tony Martin once mentioned on his Facebook site that he has several SBD live recordings from the Forbidden tour. My guess is that Iommi has them too. However, I have a feeling they will not use any live recordings as bonus material for Forbidden. The demos are nice but would not be new to me since they have been circulating as bootlegs for many years. Scott6 Forum Resident How much improved is the mix on the Born Again deluxe edition (the one with the Reading show on the second disc)? Scott6, Oct 7, 2018 Scott6 said: ↑ It is not a remix, just a remaster. They wanted to remix the album, but reportedly did not find the original multi-tracks, so all they could do was remaster. The Deluxe remaster is good, but many people who have the PHCR-2054 (1st Japanese pressing) prefer it over all other copies. I agree it sounds very good, but haven't finished my comparisons between the PHCR-2054 and the Deluxe 2xCD yet. It is all said somewhere in here: Roland's favorite CD versions of Black Sabbath albums (part2) Purple, FVDnz, Matthew Tate and 1 other person like this. Cheers for the info! No problem. I just listened to a few songs from the 1990 Japan PHCR-2054 vs. the Sanctuary Deluxe on my AKG K 141 headphones. A difference is there, but it is not shocking, or not to these ears. The Deluxe seems to sound a little fuller, the PHCR-2054 seems to leave a little more room for breathing. Given the price difference (€49.00 + shipping from Russia for an NM used copy of the PHCR-2054 vs. $12.69 + shipping from USA for a MINT used copy of the Deluxe), I'd probably order the Deluxe. Anyway, I cannot listen with good speakers at the moment. Scott6 and Matthew Tate like this. Purchased the deluxe. Sounds good to me. Certainly better than I remember my old vinyl copy being. The Fallen and the extended Stonehenge on disc 2 are well worth the price of admission. I have always been fascinated by the whole Born Again album / era. Really interesting time which produced in my view a stunning album. Purple and Matthew Tate like this. Sick Sick Phil Forum Resident Claus said: ↑ It was a really bad album but I thought tyr was far worse. Sick Sick Phil, Oct 9, 2018 "The Fallen" is my favourite track. Not entirely finished or perfect, but energetic like hell. Amazing song. I think they should have included the demos of all tracks though, not just the two. They had been available in bootleg circles for quite a while when the Deluxe was released. Also, the Worcester live recording would have been an even better addition than Reading. Anyway, it is a very good release. Sick Sick Phil said: ↑ Really? What didn't you like about TYR? I am not a big fan of the last two tracks, nor of some of the lyrics. But I think many of the songs are awesome. Purple likes this. Leigh Burne Forum Resident I really hope this means we’re finally gonna get the other Tony Martin albums reissued. I’ve always been a fan of Martin’s work with the band. Headless Cross is one of my all-time favourites, I’ve been dying for a deluxe edition of that ever since they slammed the brakes on after The Eternal Idol. Leigh Burne, Oct 24, 2018 Mr.Sean, blacksabbathrainbow, Mr. H and 1 other person like this. Classical Corner DCC Archive SH Spotlight Classic :: Blue Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1249
__label__wiki	0.900034	0.900034	Get ready for October with reissued classics such as City of The Living Dead, Deadbeat at Dawn and Candyman. All from Arrow Video FromPage2Screen / July 30, 2018 As October brings with it the promise of Halloween, Arrow Video announces a slate perfect for lovers of a good scare – whether that means out and out horror, blood and gore, or even a bit of dystopian sci-fi. For an early Halloween fix, Arrow Video is releasing its Limited Edition Blu-ray of Lucio Fulci’s seminal City of the Living Dead in a gorgeous 4K restoration. This is the film that saw Fulci break with traditional narrative convention and give us a masterpiece that was as surreal as it was grisly. Following that is a double bill of crazy B-movie goodness and critically lauded sci-fi, with Blu-ray releases of John Landis’s Schlock and Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys. 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A medium has a mysterious vision of a priest hanging himself… A seemingly dead woman awakes screaming in her coffin… And in the sleepy New England town of Dunwich, a local girl vomits up her intestines and a town misfit has a drill-bit ploughed into his cranium… These hallucinogenic, often grotesque visions punctuate a skeletal story telling of a reporter (Christopher George, The Exterminator, Pieces) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl, The House by the Cemetery, The Beyond) who must race against time to prevent hordes of rotting corpses spewing forth from the gates of hell… Stridently going beyond the classical stylings of his horror hit Zombie Flesh Eaters, City of the Living Dead sees Fulci eschew conventional narrative logic in favour of a delirious, oneiric mode of storytelling which stresses style, surrealism and atmosphere (as well as offering up bucket-loads of brains, blood and guts!) Presented here in an exclusive 4K restoration with a wealth of extras, Fulci’s gore-drenched classic can now be devoured as never before! LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative by Arrow Films High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed 1.0 mono and optional 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Original English and Italian soundtracks Newly translated, optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Audio commentary with star Catriona MacColl and journalist Jay Slater Audio commentary with star Giovanni Lombardo Radice and writer Calum Waddell We Are the Apocalypse, new interview with writer Dardano Sacchetti Through Your Eyes, new interview with Catriona MacColl Dust in the Wind, new interview with cameraman Roberto Forges Davanzati The Art of Dreaming, new interview with production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng Tales of Friendship, new interview with cinematographer Sergio Salvati I Walked with a Zombie, new interview with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice They Call Him “Bombardone”, new interview with special effects artist Gino De Rossi The Horror Family, new interview with father and son actors Venantino and Luca Venantini Previously unseen interview with composer Fabio Frizzi Archival interview with actor Carlo De Mejo Building Fulci’s City, a new video interview with Stephen Thrower, author of the definitive tome, Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci Reflections on Fulci, a new appraisal of Fulci’s Gothic period by actor, writer and director Andy Nyman (Ghost Stories) The Dead Are Alive!, a new video essay by Kat Ellinger on Lucio Fulci and the Italian zombie cycle Behind the scenes 8mm footage with Roberto Forges Davanzati audio commentary Alternative US Gates of Hell opening credits Original trailers and radio spots Extensive image gallery featuring over 150 stills, posters and other ephemera from the FAB Press and Mike Siegel archives Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Wes Benscoter Double-sided fold-out poster 6 lobby card reproductions Limited 60-page booklet featuring new writing by Travis Crawford and Roberto Curti, an archival interview with Lucio Fulci, and original reviews Schlock Blu-ray ( 15th of October) From writer/director John Landis, the mind behind The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London, comes a love story that transcends the boundaries of nature and good taste – the one and only Schlock! Carnage! Terror! Banana skins! The mighty prehistoric ape Schlocktropus has emerged from hiding to embark on a full-scale rampage across a quiet Southern Californian suburb. The police are baffled. The army is powerless. The body count is rising. But when Schlocktropus encounters a kindly blind woman (Eliza Garrett, National Lampoon’s Animal House) who sees beyond his grotesque visage, the homicidal simian is presented with a chance at redemption… Shot over twelve days on a micro-budget, Schlock launched the careers of both Landis and legendary effects makeup artist Rick Baker (Videodrome). An uproarious pastiche of monster movies, packed to the gills with irreverent humour and biting satire, Schlock serves as the outrageous missing link between the creature features of yesteryear and its creators’ subsequent varied and celebrated careers. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative Original lossless mono soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by writer/director John Landis and makeup artist Rick Baker New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman Birth of a Schlock, a 2017 video interview with John Landis Archival video interview with cinematographer Bob Collins 1972, 1979 and 1982 US theatrical trailers US radio spots Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys FIrst pressing only: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Joe Bob Briggs Twelve Monkeys – Blu-ray (15th October) Following the commercial and critical success of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam next feature would turn to science fiction and a screenplay by Janet and David Peoples (Blade Runner, Unforgiven) inspired by Chris Marker’s classic short film La Jetée. In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world’s population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole (Bruce Willis, Die Hard) is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure. Featuring an Oscar-nominated turn by Brad Pitt (Fight Club) as mental patient Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys would become Gilliam’s most successful film and is now widely regarded as a sci-fi classic. Arrow Films are proud to present the film in a stunning new restoration. Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative by Arrow Films, approved by director Terry Gilliam DTS 5.1 Master Audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Audio commentary by Terry Gilliam and producer Charles Roven The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys, feature-length making-of documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Lost in La Mancha) Extensive image gallery More to be announced! Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin First pressing only: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Nathan Rabin and archive materials Deadbeat at Dawn – Blu-ray (22nd October) Jim VanBebber’s notorious, blood-drenched cult classic Deadbeat at Dawn rises again on the advent of its 30th anniversary, newly restored for the first time on Blu-ray. Locked and loaded with a raft of new extras, see Deadbeat as you’ve never seen it before – in all its head-busting, bone-crushing glory! Written by, directed by and starring VanBebber, Deadbeat follows the story of Goose – a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who’ve now formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goose sees an opportunity to exact his brutal, deadly revenge. The very definition of DIY, independent filmmaking (VanBebber quit film school after his first year and used his student loan to fund the movie), Deadbeat at Dawn surpasses its low-budget origins to create a revenge movie that delivers more thrills and bloody spills than all of Chuck Norris’ films combined. Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements by Arrow Films, supervised and approved by writer-director Jim VanBebber Original uncompressed PCM mono audio Brand new free-wheeling audio commentary with Jim VanBebber (’Goose’, The Ravens’ Gang Leader), actor Paul Harper (’Danny Carmodi’, The Spyders’ Gang Leader) and guest Cody Lee Hardin, moderated by filmmaker Victor Bonacore (Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber) Jim VanBebber, Deadbeat Forever!, a brand new retrospective documentary on VanBebber and the Deadbeat legacy by Filmmaker Victor Bonacore, featuring first-time interviews, super-rare footage, VanBebber’s college films and much, much more! Archival 1986 behind-the-scenes documentary – Nate Pennington’s VHS documentary on a failed Deadbeat shoot Outtakes, newly transferred in HD Four newly-restored VanBebber short films – Into the Black (1983, 34 mins), My Sweet Satan (1993, 19 mins), Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (1994, 14 mins) and Gator Green (2013, 16 mins) Jim VanBebber Music Video Collection, featuring never-before-seen Director’s Cuts Chunkblower, promotional trailer for an unfinished Gary Blair Smith-produced gore-soaked feature film Extensive Image Gallery – Never-Before-Seen Stills! Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain First pressing only: Collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Scott Gabbey and Graham Rae Candyman – on Limited Edition Blu-ray from 29 October 2018 Dare you say his name five times? From the chilling imagination of horror master Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed), comes Candyman – arguably one of the greatest horror movies of the 1990s, now newly restored on Blu-ray. When grad student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) begins working on a thesis looking at urban legends, she encounters the tale of the Candyman – the vengeful spirit of a hook-handed slave, who, it is said, can be summoned by saying his name five times in the mirror. As her research leads her into the bowels of Chicago’s deprived housing projects and deeper into the Candyman’s world, Helen learns that some legends are best left alone… Expertly directed by British filmmaker Bernard Rose and boasting an astounding score by composer Philip Glass, Candyman ingeniously reworks Clive Barker’s original short story “The Forbidden” (originally published as part of his Books of Blood collection) into a modern horror parable that remains as timely today as ever. Brand new 2K restoration from a new 4k scan of the original negative, supervised and approved by writer-director Bernard Rose and director of photography Anthony B. Richmond 5.1 DTS-HD MA and Original Uncompressed Stereo 2.0 Audio Optional English subtitles Exclusive packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin Reversible fold-out poster featuring two artworks Fully illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by festival programmer Michael Blyth Limited Edition perfect-bound booklet reproducing the original hand-painted storyboards by Bernard Rose Brand new audio commentary with writer-director Bernard Rose and actor Tony Todd Brand new audio commentary with Stephen Jones and Kim Newman Be My Victim, a brand new interview with Tony Todd It Was Always You, Helen, a brand new interview with Virginia Madsen The Writing on the Wall: The Production Design of Candyman, a brand new interview with production designer Jane Ann Stewart Forbidden Flesh: The Makeup FX of Candyman, brand new interviews with special makeup effects artists Bob Keen, Gary J. Tunnicliffe and Mark Coulier A Story to Tell: Clive Barker’s “The Forbidden”, writer Douglas E. Winter on Clive Barker’s seminal Books of Blood and Candyman’s source story, “The Forbidden” Urban Legend: Unwrapping Candyman, a critical analysis of the film with writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes Three rarely-seen Bernard Rose short films, newly restored in HD: Looking at Alice (30 mins, 1978), A Bomb With No Name on It (3 mins, 1976), The Wreckers (5 mins) July 30, 2018 in Home Release. Exclusive 4K restoration of FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS from Arrow Video out 9th December From writer/director John Landis, the mind behind An American Werewolf in London, comes Schlock! Get saving those pennies for October for these Arrow releases ( @arrowfilmsvideo ) ← Fanged Up: On DVD and Digital Download NOW Altitude Film Entertainment Five Fingers for Marseilles riding into theaters September 7th 2018 from Uncorkd Entertainment →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1260
__label__wiki	0.579885	0.579885	Interview: ‘Godzilla’ Screenwriter Max Borenstein By Adam Frazier \| @ \| May 5th, 2014 at 12:10 pm Hey geeks, FamousMonster here! I recently had the opportunity to speak with Max Borenstein, screenwriter of Gareth Edwards‘ upcoming Godzilla film, as well as a graphic novel tie-in, Godzilla: Awakening. Borenstein wrote, edited, directed, and starred in the 2003 film Swordswallowers and Thin Men while a senior at Yale University. The film starred Peter Cellini, Zoe Kazan, Fran Kranz, and Graham Norris and won Best Feature and Best Screenplay at the New York Independent Film Festival. What Is Life Worth?, Borenstein’s 2008 screenplay based on Kenneth Feinberg’s memoir, was honored with inclusion on The Black List, an annual list compiled by Hollywood executives of their favorite unproduced screenplays. His 2009 script Jimi, commissioned by Legendary Pictures and based on the life of guitarist Jimi Hendrix, was also included on The Black List. Borenstein’s script for Legendary Pictures’ Seventh Son, inspired by Joseph Delaney’s young adult dark fantasy novel, The Spook’s Apprentice, is scheduled to be released on February 6, 2015. Godzilla, which comes to theaters on May 16, 2014, will be his first major motion picture screenplay to hit the screen. Topics: Features, Interviews, Movies Tags: Alan Quah, Arthur Adams, Eric Battle, Gareth Edwards, Godzilla, Godzilla 2014, Godzilla: Awakening, Lee Loughridge, Max Borenstein, Monsterverse, Yvel Guichet First Look: â€˜Godzilla: Awakeningâ€™ Graphic Novel Cover By Henchman21 \| @ \| March 27th, 2014 at 11:12 pm Weâ€™re not too far off from the release of Godzilla starring Byran Cranston and Aaron Johnson, and to go along with the film Legendary Comics is releasing Godzilla: Awakening, an 80-page graphic novel that details the origins of the classic monster. Today, we get a look at the cover for the book, drawn by Arthur Adams. Godzilla: Awakening is co-written by Max Borenstein, who is also the screenwriter for the movie, and Greg Borenstein. This is not the first time Adams has drawn Godzilla, having drawn the monster a number of times in the ’90s. Continue below to check out the cover. Topics: Comics, Movies, News, Photos Tags: Arthur Adams, Godzilla, Godzilla 2014, Godzilla: Awakening, Legendary Comics, Legendary Pictures, Monsterverse NYCC 2013: ‘Avengers World’ Spins Off Of Marvelâ€™s Infinity In January 2014 By Henchman21 \| @ \| October 12th, 2013 at 9:08 pm As we get towards the end of Marvelâ€™s Infinity event, weâ€™re starting to get the shape of what the universe will be like once the cosmic storyline comes to an end. One of the books that will spin out of Infinity was announced at New York Comic-Con this weekend with Avengers World set to release in January 2014. Avengers World teams up writer Nick Spencer (Secret Avengers, Superior Foes of Spider-Man) with co-writer Jonathan Hickman (Avengers, Infinity) and artist Stefano Caselli (Avengers) and focuses on â€œthe new heroes recently added to the teamâ€™s roster.â€ Topics: Comics, Conventions, News, NYCC Tags: Arthur Adams, Avengers, Avengers World, Infinity, John Cassaday, Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Comics, Nick Spencer, NYCC, Stefano Caselli Comic Review: Idolized #1 By PS Hayes \| @ \| August 15th, 2012 at 6:30 pm Idolized #1 Written by David Schwartz Pencils by Micah Gunnell Colors by David Curiel Letters by Josh Reed Editor Vincent Hernandez Cover by Arthur Adams, Michael Schwartz and Joe Benitez I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t think that Aspen Comics would stick around long after the unfortunate passing of founder Michael Turner. But, they’ve done a good job keeping the fire burning and I was actually surprised at how much I liked Idolized #1!!! Writer David Schwartz does a FANTASTIC job writing this comic! I’m guessing that he watches a lot of reality TV, because to me, the dialogue, premise, and execution of the issue was almost perfect. And he knows how to combine it perfectly with the superhero genre. From start to finish this is a great comic. It’s a perfect blend of reality and super heroics and a really fun read. It’s got a great shock ending, that I honestly didn’t see coming. There’s an origin that takes up about a quarter of the book, and that’s a little standard, but it read well and was entertaining. This book was a VERY pleasant surprise. Topics: Comic Reviews, Comics, Reviews Tags: Arthur Adams, Aspen Comics, David Curiel, David Schwartz, Idolized, Joe Benitez, Josh Reed, Micah Gunnell, Michael Schwartz, Rachel Clark, Vincent Hernandez Comic Review: Rocketeer Adventures 2 #1 By PS Hayes \| @ \| March 20th, 2012 at 9:00 pm Rocketeer Adventures 2 #1 Written by Marc Gugenheim, Peter David, Stan Sakai Art by Sandy Plunkett, Bill Sienkiewicz, Stan Sakai, and Arthur Adams Colors by Jeromy Cox, Dave Stewart, and John Raunch Letters by Robbie Robbins, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Stan Sakai Rocketeer Created by Dave Stevens Design by Chris Mowry Covers by Darwyn Cooke and Dave Stevens There’s days when I love comics and then there’s days when I LOVE comics. Reading Rocketeer Adventures 2 #1 made me glad that out of all the hobbies or passions in the world, that mine is comic books. From start to finish, this book is one of the highest quality works I’ve read in a long time. There’s three stories in this issue: Marc Guggenheim, Peter David, and Stan Sakai all tell wonderfully charming stories of the late Dave Steven‘s Rocketeer. While all three are good, Stan Sakai’s is my favorite. There’s a great innocence to it and a fantastic ending that will leave you smiling. Speaking of smiling, Peter David’s story will have you grinning from ear to ear. It’s an all out parody of our hero and very entertaining from start to finish. Marc Guggenheim’s story is the first of the issue and I think it’s meant to be the “heavy” of the issue. While I liked it, I really felt that I was being covertly preached to. Tags: Arthur Adams, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Mowry, Darwyn Cooke, Dave Stevens, Dave Stewart, IDW Publishing, Jeromy Cox, John Raunch, Marc Gugenheim, Marc Guggenheim, Peter David, Robbie Robbins, Sandy Plunkett, Scott Dunbier, Stan Sakai, The Rocketeer IDW Welcomes Comic Readers Back to ‘Jurassic Park’ By Vactor \| March 29th, 2010 at 2:13 pm IDW has announced that they are teaming up with Universal to develop all-new comics based on the Jurassic Park franchise. IDW’s Jurassic Park comics will start off with a five-issue story arc available in both print and digital form, written by IDW Senior Editor and comics veteran Bob Schreck. Nate Van Dyke will be providing interior art, while comics’ legends Tom Yeates and Frank Miller will be offering their gory covers to the first issue. Variant covers for the first storyline will be contributed by Arthur Adams, Paul Pope, and Bernie Wrightson. Fans attending WonderCon 2010 (April 2-4th) in San Francisco, can get a sneak peak of the new series at the IDW booth (#519) and at the Jurassic Park panel on Friday. IDW is going to be giving away a Jurassic Park poster at WonderCon as well, featuring Frank Miller‘s cover art for issue #1. Schreck, Van Dyke, and Yeates will also all be on hand throughout the weekend to sign autographs. Topics: Comics, News Tags: Arthur Adams, Bernie Wrightson, Bob Schreck, Frank Miller, IDW Publishing, Jurassic Park, Nate Van Dyck, Nate Van Dyke, Paul Pope, Tom Yeates	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1270
__label__wiki	0.827692	0.827692	ISO 14689-1:2003 Geotechnical investigation and testing — Identification and classification of rock — Part 1: Identification and description BS EN ISO 14689-1:2003 Geotechnical investigation and testing. Identification and classification of rock. Identification and description EN ISO 14689-1:2003, ISO 14689-1:2003 This part of ISO 14689 relates to the identification and description of rock material and mass on the basis of mineralogical composition, genetic aspects, structure, grain size, discontinuities and other parameters. It also provides rules for the description of other characteristics as well as for their designation. This part of ISO 14689 applies to the description of rock for geotechnics and engineering geology in civil engineering. The description is carried out on cores and other samples of natural rock and on rock masses. Soil mechanics, Geology, Construction engineering works, Rocks, Classification systems Title in French Recherches et essais geotechniques. Denomination et classification des roches. Denomination et description Title in German Geotechnische Erkundung und Untersuchung. Benennung, Beschreibung und Klassifizierung von Fels. Benennung und Beschreibung 4 Identification and description of rock 4.1 Rock identification 4.2 Description of rock material 4.2.1 Colour 4.2.2 Grain size 4.2.3 Matrix 4.2.4 Weathering and alteration effects 4.2.5 Carbonate content 4.2.6 Stability of rock material 4.2.7 Unconfined compressive strength 4.3 Rock mass 4.3.2 Structure 4.3.3 Discontinuities 4.3.4 Weathering of the rock mass 4.3.5 Rock mass permeability Annex A (informative) Aid to identification of rock types on the basis of geological features forengineering purposes ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 14689-1 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 182, Geotechnics, Subcommittee SC 1, Geotechnical investigation and testing. ISO 14689 consists of the following parts, under the general title Geotechnical investigation and testing — Identification and classification of rock: – Part 1: Identification and description – Part 2: Electronic exchange of data on identification and description of rock. This part of ISO 14689 covers areas in the international field that were never previously standardized. It is intended that this document presents broad good practice throughout the world and significant differences with national documents are not anticipated. A more detailed description of rock and related to the site and project is likely to be appropriate. This document is based on international practice (see the Bibliography). Rock mass classification systems using one or more descriptive parameters to suggest likely rock mass behaviour are beyond the scope of this part of ISO 14689 (see Bibliography). Identification and classification of soil for engineering purposes is covered in ISO 14688-1 and ISO 14688-2. The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. ISO 710-1, Graphical symbols for use on detailed maps, plans and geological cross-sections — Part 1: General rules of representation ISO 710-2, Graphical symbols for use on detailed maps, plans and geological cross-sections — Part 2: Representation of sedimentary rocks ISO 710-3, Graphical symbols for use on detailed maps, plans and geological cross-sections — Part 3: Representation of magmatic rocks ISO 710-4, Graphical symbols for use on detailed maps, plans and geological cross-sections — Part 4: Representation of metamorphic rocks ISO 710-5, Graphical symbols for use on detailed maps, plans and geological cross-sections — Part 5: Representation of minerals ISO 710-6, Graphical symbols for use on detailed maps, plans and geological cross-sections — Part 6: Representation of contact rocks and rocks which have undergone metasomatic, pneumatolytic or hydrothermal transformation or transformation by weathering ISO 710-7, Graphical symbols for use on detailed maps, plans and geological cross-sections — Part 7: Tectonic symbols For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply. NOTE Additional terms and definitions are given in EN 12670. a naturally occurring assemblage of minerals, consolidated, cemented, or otherwise bonded together, so as to form material of generally greater strength or stiffness than soils rock mass the rock together with its discontinuities and weathering profile rock material the rock within the framework of the discontinuities rock type a name in relation to a defined petrological composition, predominant grain size and genetic origin, including relevant structure and texture NOTE Common examples are given in Table A.1. fine grained, glassy or amorphous groundmass of a rock containing larger mineral grains or rock particles size, shape and arrangement of the grains for sedimentary rocks and crystals for igneous and metamorphic rocks spatial arrangement of the constituents (grains) in the rock NOTE In sedimentary rocks, fabric is the orientation (or lack of it) in space of the elements (discrete particles, crystals, cement) comprising the rock. The term is used in igneous and other crystalline rocks for the patterns produced by non- uniform arrangements of grains, crystals and matrix. foliation planar arrangements of components like minerals in any type of rock, especially the planar structure that results from flattening, segregation and other processes undergone by the grains in a metamorphic rock surface which breaks the rock material continuity within the rock mass and that is open or may become open under the stress applied by the engineering work EXAMPLES Bedding plane, joint, fissure, cleavage and fault in rock mass. pattern of discontinuities in rock masses, which subdivide the mass into individual rock blocks The identification of rocks is based on the determination of the following: a) genetic group: sedimentary: clastic, chemical, organic; metamorphic; igneous: plutonic, volcanic; b) structure: bedded, foliated or massive (without sharp genetic discontinuities); c) grain size: descriptive terms (for various sizes) are given in Table A.1 in correlation to rock types; d) mineralogical composition: quartz, feldspars and related silicate minerals; dark coloured minerals (e.g. biotite, amphibole, pyroxene); clay minerals; carbonate minerals (e.g. calcite and dolomite); siliceous amorphous material (e.g. glass); carbonaceous material (e.g. coal and graphite); salts (e.g. halite [rock salt]), gypsum); swelling minerals (e.g. anhydrite and clay minerals) sulfide minerals (e.g. pyrite); e) void content: primary voids (e.g. gas bubbles in volcanic rocks); secondary voids (e.g. solution voids). NOTE Lithological identification of rock is necessary to appreciate the geology of an area, to correlate geological profiles seen in boreholes or to distinguish boulders from bedrock. It is also important when rock material is required for construction purposes. Engineering properties can only partially be inferred from the identification of rock type. The names of the more common rock types are given in Table A.1, which presents an aid to rock identification for engineering purposes. Rock names are given particular combinations of features in this subclause and correct naming requires recognition of the attributes listed. The rock shall be correctly identified within geological science. Geological maps related to the project shall be used for the designation of rocks. Rock material colour may be described using Colour Charts of an approved type. As an alternative, the following simple system should be used, which serves to limit the subjectivity of an estimation. One term is selected as required from each column (see Table 1) and combined as a colour assessment. Examples of use are: yellow, light yellowish brown, dark reddish brown, dark brown, etc. If necessary, colour differences can be emphasised separately by the use of terms such as spotted, dappled, mottled, streaked; for example, light yellowish brown spotted with dark brown. A colour chart provides a useful aid, particularly to improve the consistency between descriptions by different persons. Table 1 — Terms for lightness, chroma and hue which may be used in combination for colour description (examples) Tertiary descriptor Chroma Secondary descriptor Hue Primary descriptor Dark Pinkish Yellowish Greyish Pink A descriptive scheme is given in Table A.1. Grain size refers to the average dimension of the predominant mineral or rock fragments comprising the rock material. It is usually sufficient to estimate the size by eye, which may be aided by a hand lens in the assessment of fine-grained or amorphous rocks, but separate descriptions of the grains and the matrix may be appropriate. The particle size and the mineralogical composition of the matrix shall be determined. Mineralogical composition shall be described using the terms given in Table A.1 (siliceous, calcareous, carbonaceous, etc.) but may be amplified, as appropriate, with such standard geological terms as ferruginous, argillaceous (containing clay minerals), quartzose and others. The results of weathering/alteration of rock material are given in Table 2. Any or all of the descriptive terms can be used to describe weathering/alteration Table 2 — Terms to describe weathering/alteration of rock materials Term Description Fresh No visible sign of weathering/alteration of the rock material Discoloured The colour of the original fresh rock material is changed and is evidence of weathering/alteration. The degree of change from the original colour should be indicated. If the colour change is confined to particular mineral constituents, this should be mentioned. Disintegrated The rock material is broken up by physical weathering, so that bonding between grains is lost and the rock is weathered/altered towards the condition of a soil in which the original material fabric is still intact. The rock material is friable but the mineral grains are not decomposed. Decomposed The rock material is weathered by the chemical alteration of the mineral grains to the condition of a soil in which the original material fabric is still intact; some or all of the mineral grains are decomposed. The weathering terms given in Table 2 may be subdivided using qualifying terms, for example “partially discoloured”, “wholly discoloured” and “slightly discoloured”, as this will aid the description of the material being examined. The last three terms may be used in combination, for example, “wholly discoloured and slightly decomposed”. The carbonate content is determined by the application of droplets of dilute hydrochloric acid (HCl) (3:1 or 10 %). The following characteristics could be distinguished: a) carbonate-free (O) if the addition of HCl produces no effervescence; b) calcareous (+) if the addition of HCl produces clear, but not sustained, effervescence; c) highly calcareous (++) if the addition of HCl produces strong and sustained effervescence. It should be noted that, in wet or moist rocks, the effervescence usually occurs with some delay. The degradation of rock material when it is exposed to a new water or atmospheric environment should be assessed where the relevant conditions shall be determined (see Table 3). Table 3 — Stability of rock material Stable No changes Fairly stable Specimen surface crumbles, slakes Unstable Specimen disintegrates Its behaviour when exposed to water should be described using the terms in Table 4, together with a description of the test undertaken. Some weak rocks do not show disintegration in water straight away, but only after being dried. Table 4 — Rock material stability in water Term Description (after 24 h in water) Grade Stable No changes 1 Fairly stable A few fissures are formed, or specimen surface crumbles sligthly 2 Many fissures are formed and broken into small lumps, or specimen surface crumbles highly 3 Unstable Specimen disintegrates, or nearly the whole specimen surface crumbles 4 The whole specimen becomes muddy, or disintegrates into sand 5 The unconfined compressive strength of rock material can be estimated according to Table 5. Table 5 — Field identification of the unconfined compressive strength Term Field Identification Unconfined compressive strength Extremely weak a Indented by thumbnail less than 1 Very weak Crumbles under firm blows with point of geological hammer, can be peeled by a pocket knife 1 to 5 Weak Can be peeled by a pocket knife with difficulty, shallow indentations made by firm blow with point of geological hammer 5 to 25 Medium strong Cannot be scraped or peeled with a pocket knife, specimen can be fractured with single firm blow of geological hammer 25 to 50 Strong Specimen requires more than one blow of geological hammer to fracture it 50 to 100 Very strong Specimen requires many blows of geological hammer to fracture it 100 to 250 Extremely strong Specimen can only be chipped with geological hammer greater than 250 a Some extremely weak rocks will behave as soils and should be described as soils according to ISO 14688-1. NOTE Unconfined compressive strength cannot always be defined in the field, thus point load tests are often used as indices for strength of rock material. Any report describing compressive strength tests shall mention the specimen size, the test procedure, the anisotropy of the specimen and its water content. The description of rock mass shall include: a) types of rocks; b) structure; c) discontinuities; d) weathering; e) groundwater. The structure of the rock mass should be described with relation to the larger scale interrelations of geological features and the associations between rock types in the mass. Examples of common terms which may be used and which are defined in standard geological practice are as follows (see Table 6). Table 6 — Examples of terms which may be used in the description of rock mass structure Sedimentary Metamorphic Igneous Bedded Interbedded Graded Cleaved Schistose Lineated Gneissose Folded Massive Flowbanded 4.3.3.1 Introduction The tensile or shear strength across or along the surface is lower than that of the intact rock material. They have many modes of origin, for example, bedding planes, joints, shears, faults, cleavages or foliations and may occur locally in sets of relatively uniform characteristics or individually. In addition to describing the type of discontinuities, their orientations, spacing, persistence, roughness, aperture and filling, and seepage characteristics, the number of sets and the rock block size resulting from their combination should be recorded. It may often be necessary to describe large or important discontinuities individually. Full information on rock mass discontinuities can only be obtained from suitable exposures of the rock mass. 4.3.3.2 Measurement of dip and dip direction The maximum declination (dip) of the mean plane of the discontinuity is measured with the clinometer, and should be expressed in degrees as a two digit number, e.g. 50 (00 to 90). The azimuth of the dip (dip direction) is measured in degrees counted clockwise from true north, and expressed as a three digit number, e.g. 240 (000 to 360). The dip direction and dip should be recorded in that order, with the three digit and two digit numbers separated by a slash, e.g. 240/50. The pair of numbers represents the dip vector. The relationship between dip, strike and dip direction is given in Figure 1. 1 dip direction 2 strike α dip direction (dip azimuth) = 240° β dip (dip angle) = 50° plane of discontinuity 240/50 Figure 1 — Diagram indicating, dip, dip direction and strike 4.3.3.3 Discontinuity spacing and block shape The term “spacing” refers to the mean or modal spacing of a set of discontinuities and is the perpendicular distance between adjacent discontinuities. The terms to be used to describe bedding thickness are given in Table 7 and discontinuity spacing in Table 8. Table 7 — Terms to describe bedding thickness Term Spacing Very thick greater than 2 000 Thick 2 000 to 600 Medium 600 to 200 Thin 200 to 60 Very thin 60 to 20 Thickly laminated 20 to 6 Thinly laminated less than 6 Table 8 — Terms to describe discontinuity spacing Very wide greater than 2 000 Wide 2 000 to 600 Close 200 to 60 Very close 60 to 20 Extremely close less than 20 In drilled cores, it is usually difficult to measure the true discontinuity spacing: measurements are commonly made along the core axis. The method of measurement shall be reported. Discontinuity spacing in three dimensions should be described with reference to the size and shape of rock blocks bounded by the discontinuities. For the rock block size, the following scheme should be used (see Table 9). Table 9 — Dimensions of rock blocks Term Average length of block sides Very large greater than 2 000 Large 600 to 2 000 Small 60 to 200 Very small less than 60 The rock block shape should be described according to the terms in Table 10. The rock block shape shall be correlated to the spacing of discontinuities. Table 10 — Terms to describe the main rock mass structures and block shapes Term Figure Description a) Polyhedral blocks Irregular discontinuities without arrangement into distinct sets, and of small persistence. b) Tabular blocks One dominant set of parallel discontinuities (1), for example bedding planes, with other non-continuous joints; thickness of blocks much less than length or width. c) Prismatic blocks Two dominant sets of discontinuities (1 and 2), approximately orthogonal and parallel, with a third irregular set; thickness of blocks much less than length or width. d) Equidimensional blocks Three dominant sets of discontinuities (1, 2 and 3), approximately orthogonal, with occasional irregular joints, giving equidimensional blocks. e) Rhomboidal blocks Three (ore more) dominant, mutually oblique, sets of joints (1, 2 and 3), giving oblique-shaped, equidimensional blocks. f) Columnar blocks Several, usually more than three, sets of continuous, parallel joints (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) usually crossed by irregular joints; length much greater than other dimensions. 4.3.3.4 Persistence of discontinuities The linear extent of discontinuities from their inception to their termination in solid rock mass or against other discontinuities has to be measured in metres. The size of the exposure shall be recorded and, if possible and appropriate, measurements should be made in two or preferably three orthogonal directions. 4.3.3.5 Roughness The surface of discontinuities has to be described on the basis of three scales of observation: a) small scale (several millimetres) — rough or smooth; b) medium scale (several centimetres) — planar, stepped or undulating; c) large scale (several metres) — wavy, curved or straight; and using terms as indicated in Figure 2. A discontinuity surface could thus be described combining large or medium and small scale terms to give descriptions such as “stepped smooth” or “planar rough”. For total clarity of description, it may be necessary to give wavelength and amplitude measurements of the larger scale features. Note that all “smooth” discontinuities may be slickensided. Slickensides are striations on a discontinuity surface as a consequence of movement and pressure. Slickensided surfaces may be polished and reflect light. “Slickensided” should only be used with clear evidence of shear displacement along the discontinuity. The vertical and horizontal scales are equal. Rough (irregular) Smooth Stepped 1 2 Undulating 3 4 Planar 5 6 1 stepped rough surface 2 stepped smooth surface 3 undulating rough surface 4 undulating smooth surface 5 planar rough surface 6 planar smooth surface Figure 2 — Terms for discontinuity roughness (not to scale) 4.3.3.6 Aperture The perpendicular distance between the two surfaces of a discontinuity is referred to as the aperture. The origin of the exposure, such as natural outcrop, artificial excavated surface, etc., shall be reported. The separation has to be described using the terms in Table 11. Table 11 — Terms for the description of discontinuity aperture Aperture size term Aperture Very tight less than 0,1 mm Tight 0,1 to 0,25 mm Partly open 0,25 to 0,5 mm Open 0,5 to 2,5 mm Moderately wide 2,5 to 10 mm Wide 1 to 10 cm Very wide 10 to 100 cm Extremely wide greater than 1 m 4.3.3.7 Infilling The infilling material between discontinuity surfaces shall be identified and described (e. g. soil, minerals such as calcite quartz, epidote, chlorite clay gouge or breccia). The shear strength of infilling and the potential for infilling to swell shall be described, when relevant. 4.3.3.8 Seepage Free moisture or water flow visible at individual spots or from discontinuities should be described using the terms “moisture on rock surface” and “dripping water” respectively. If the rate of flow can be estimated or measured then the rate of flow may be described using the terms given in Table 12. Table 12 — Terms to describe seepage rates from discontinuities Descriptive term Rate of flow Small 0,05 to 0,5 l/s Medium 0,5 to 5 l/s Large Greater than 5 l/s The weathering of the rock mass should be described in terms of the distribution and relative proportions of fresh rock and discoloured, decomposed or disintegrated rock, and the effects of weathering on discontinuities. Weathering eventually converts rock to a soil and the weathering profile shall be described in terms of three basic units: rock, rock-and-soil, soil. To subdivide the different weathering units, a scale with six distinct grades applicable to a profile in rock is given in Table 13. Table 13 — Scale of weathering stages of rock mass Term Description Grades Fresh No visible sign of rock material weathering; perhaps slight discoloration on major discontinuity surfaces. 0 Slightly weathered Discoloration indicates weathering of rock material and discontinuity surfaces. 1 Moderately weathered Less than half of the rock material is decomposed or disintegrated. Fresh or discoloured rock is present either as a continuous framework or as core stones. 2 Highly weathered More than half of the rock material is decomposed or disintegrated. Fresh or discoloured rock is present either as a discontinuous framework or as core stones. 3 Completely weathered All rock material is decomposed and/or disintegrated to soil. The original mass structure is still largely intact. 4 Residual soil All rock material is converted to soil. The mass structure and material fabric are destroyed. There is a large change in volume, but the soil has not been significantly transported. 5 Table 13 gives a typical classification which is unlikely to apply to all rock types. More specific local classifications may be available and can be used where they are useful and unambiguous. In logging cores, the distribution of weathering grades of rock material may be recorded; distribution of weathering grades of the rock mass from which the cores were obtained has to be inferred from this type of evidence. Distribution of weathering grades in a rock mass may be determined by mapping natural and artificial exposures. It should be borne in mind, however, that isolated natural exposures of rock and excavations of limited extent are not necessarily representative of the whole rock mass. The rock mass permeability shall be measured by appropriate tests (e.g. pump test, Lugeon test). Symbols according to ISO 710-1 to ISO 710-7 shall be used to represent rocks on borehole legends or on engineering geological maps. It has to be clearly stated that the descriptions are based on visual and manual identification. The description of any rock shall at least contain: author’s name; date of description; details of origin of collection and handling of samples (see ISO 22475); details on data collection in the field; identification and description of rock according to this part of ISO 14689; key of symbols and terms used. If investigation results are recorded electronically, data should be transferred using open data transfer systems, such as XML (extensible mark-up language). (informative) Aid to identification of rock types on the basis of geological features for engineering purposes The purpose of Table A.1 is to provide the engineer, with limited geological knowledge, a means of assigning a rock a name, which may not be strictly correct geologically, but should place the rock within a rock family and thus aid the identification of engineering problems associated with that family. Rock names are mainly selected from those used in non-specialist geological text books, and are not used strictly but as a general term for a wide group of related rock types. The rock to be identified is best seen in outcrop or as a large fragment showing broken surfaces. In using Table A.1, the first step is to decide whether the rock is igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic. Igneous and metamorphic rocks are crystalline; crystal surfaces reflect light, some crystals show geometric forms. Usually igneous rocks show no sharp layer boundaries and are massive. Metamorphic rock usually show layering, often bounded by wavy surfaces and are described as “foliated”. Clastic or detrital sedimentary rocks are, mostly composed of mineral grains cemented together and show “bedding planes” marking the boundaries between sediment layers. Pores between grains may be filled with cement or may be open; in which case the rock is porous. Some sedimentary rocks, such as the evaporites and some limestones, may be crystalline. However, the evaporites such as gypsum and rock salt are easily scratched with a fingernail, while the mineral calcite, of which most limestones are formed, can be scratched with a knife and gives off gas bubbles if dilute hydrochloric acid is applied to it. Sedimentary rocks may contain fossils. Once a rock has been placed into one of the three main categories then predominant grain size will help determine the name. The 63 mm boundary between coarse and very coarse grain size, and the 2 mm boundary between medium and coarse grain size are easily recognized by eye. The grains in rocks of less than 0,063 mm grain size cannot be seen clearly even with the aid of a normal hand lens. Distinctions between igneous rocks are partly based on quartz and feldspar content. Quartz- and feldspar-rich rocks tend to be light in colour while quartz- and feldspar-poor rocks are dark. Some distinctions are difficult. The names “mudstone” and “shale” in the fine grained clastic sedimentary rocks are used in Table A.1 to distinguish between rocks with bedding planes at more than about 6 mm spacing (mudstone) and less than about 6 mm spacing (shale). Bedding planes in shale may divide the rock into lenticular shaped pieces. Slate is also fine grained but the slate used for roofing has very closely spaced parallel foliation planes. Slate is usually a strong, tough rock. Both shales and slates may give severe engineering problems because they split easily and are very anisotropic. Table A.1 — Aid to rock identification for engineering purposes [1] DEERE, D.U. (1963): Technical description of rock cores for engineering purposes. — Rock. Mech. Eng. Geol., 1, pp. 18-22. [2] DEERE, D.U. (1968): Geological considerations. — In Stagg, K.G. & Zienkiewicz, O.C. (Eds.): Rock mechanics in engineering practice, John Wiley Sons. [3] EN 12670, Natural stone — Terminology [4] HOEK, E. and BROWN, E.T. (1980): Underground excavations in rock. — The Instiution of Mining and Metallurgy, London. [5] FOLK, R.L. (1959): Practical petrographic classification of limestones. — AAPG (Amer. Assoc. of Petrol. Geologists) Bull., KV 43, pp. 1-38. [6] IAEG (1981): Rock and Soil Description and Classification for Engineering Geological Mapping. — Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology, No. 24, pp. 235-274. [7] ISRM (1977a): Suggested Method for Petrographic Description of Rocks. — Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. & Geomech. Abstr. Vol.15, pp.41-45. [8] ISRM (1977b): Suggested Methods for the Quantitative Description of Discontinuities in Rock Masses. — Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. & Geomech. Abstr. Vol. 15, pp. 319-368. [9] ISRM (1978): Suggested Methods for Determining the Uniaxial Compressive Strength and Deformability of Rock Materials. — Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. & Geomech. Abstr. Vol. 16, pp. 135-140. [10] ISRM (1980): Basic Geotechnical Description of Rock Masses. — Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. & Geomech. Abstr. Vol. 18, pp. 85-110. [11] ISRM (1984): Suggested Method for Determining Point Load Strength. — Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. & Geomech. Abstr. Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 51-60. [12] ISRM (1996): Commission on Rock grouting, Final Report. — J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci, Vol 33, Nr. 8, Pergamon Press. [13] ISRM (1999): Suggested Method for complex stress-strain curve for intact rock on uniaxial compression. — Int. J. Rock, Mech. Min. Sci. & Geomech. Abstr. Vol. 36, pp. 279-289. [14] ISSMFE (1994) Testing Method of Indurated Soils and Soft Rocks — Suggestions and Recommendations, ISSMFE Technical committee on Indurated Soils and Soft Rocks, pp. 65-69, 1994. [15] KANY, M. (1997) Geocol — Colour charts, Beuth Verlag, Berlin. [16] KRAEFT, U. (1997): Classification of Rock and Minerals. Europ. Geologist, pp. 53-54. [17] LE MAITRE (Ed.), BATEMANN, P., DUDEK, J. et al.: A Classification of Igneous Rock and Glossary of Terms: Recommandations of the Union of Geological Sciences Subcommission on Systematics of Igneous Rock (1989): Blackwell Sci. Publ., Oxford. [18] ISO 14688-1, Geotechnical investigation and testing — Identification and classification of soil — Part 1: Identification and description [19] ISO 14688-2, Geotechnical investigation and testing — Identification and classification of soil — Part 2: Classification principles [20] ISO 22475 (all parts), Geotechnical investigation and testing — Drilling and sampling methods and groundwater measurements Example of mechanical cone penetrometer tip The cone is first pushed into the soil to the desired depth (initial position) and then a force is applied to the inner rods that moves the cone downward into the extended position.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1273
__label__cc	0.580979	0.419021	in Lifestyle, Series 9, Technology Edwina Bartholomew Meets Uplifting Australia CEO Garry Thomson by Presenter May 24, 2019, 4:37 pm Garry Thomson is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about inspiring families having spent over 25 years in the family development sector from a grassroots perspective all the way to executive management in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. An international public speaker and author, Garry is responsible for leading and implementing Uplifting Australia’s vision for a new generation of inspired and emotionally together young men and women. Garry is a loving father to two beautiful children and is happily married. He lives by the philosophy that success begins at home and prides himself on the loving and authentic connections he has with his family. “Our Family Connect Program has been researched by the University of Melbourne’s Positive Psychology Department, evaluated and used by thousands of Australian families and is based on four simple competencies,” says the Not-For-Profit CEO. Uplifting Australia CEO Garry Thomson Becoming a father changed how you perceived emotional wellbeing within the family. Why are you so passionate about this cause? I worked in the community support/wellbeing industry when my first child was born. When I became a parent, I wanted to use a different set of parenting values/skills to my parents who had inherited parenting issues from their parents. The magnitude of the mental health problem in Australia is staggering. Give us some statistics. Currently 1 in 4 kids will have poor mental health by the age 24 Mental Health is costing us A$60 billion/year By 2030 mental health will be the biggest health issue on the planet. We’re here today because you have a ‘call to action’ you want to speak about. How can people help support your charity Uplifting Australia’? We already have the support of some wonderful Trusts, Foundations and Corporate sponsors but we need more supporters, more help – philanthropists who want to leave a legacy. We are gathering resources so we can take our proven program and make it accessible to all Australian families through digital assets. We want to put it on their phones and ipads to empower them to take preventative action. At Uplifting Australia, you concentrate on preventing poor mental health rather than curing it.. but when the emotional problem is a generational one, how do you break the trend? Our mental health is affected by both the internal world (family) and the external world (school, friends and experiences). We can’t control the external world but we can make sure our family is as supportive and positive as it can be. If the emotional wellbeing of the family unit is hurtful then children really struggle to cope with the outside world. One of our most successful programs is called ‘Family Connect’ which is based on the four competencies and involves the entire family so everyone helps the other members to learn. This program has been researched by the Centre of Positive Psychology, University of Melbourne. The four Competencies are: Listening (quality of listening); Positive Messaging (are your messages encouraging or are you giving critical feedback because you want the family member to live up to your expectations?); Emotional Literacy(being good at identifying and being able to talk about your feelings and validate one-another’s feelings); Accountability(realising how you impact everybody in the family and avoid being hurtful in the way you speak. Be ready to apologise and repair relationships). Parenting is stressful at times and we’re not always at our best. Family Connect allows for this and helps us not only stay on track to good mental health but get back on track when we fall off. At Uplifiting Australia, you believe emotional wellbeing is as important as learning to read and write for kids.. or their physical health. Why? There’s evidenced based research which links family interaction and an individual’s success or happiness later in life, so this is important for personal as well as social success. It’s pretty well accepted that you teach kids to read and write, or even swim – there’s even social pressure on parents to teach these skills, but not to monitor the quality of our emotional environment at home and that’s because we don’t value it as highly. Until we do, we won’t solve mental health problems. Which other aspects of the community do you work in besides with parents and kids? We work mainly with regular families (so not ‘complex needs’ families) but also with schools and businesses. Families are the breeding ground of our society, so we want to work at that grassroots level to improve kindness. Meet Uplifting Australia CEO Garry Thomson About ‘Uplifiting Australia’ Uplifting Australia is a Not-For-Profit, Registered Charity. Their mission: to Improve the emotional wellbeing and resilience of children and families across Australia. 30,000 within the community have already benefitted. Our children face more challenges to their resilience, social confidence and self-esteem than any generation before them. Approximately 1 in 5 people in Australia experience symptoms of mental illness each year, and 1 in 4 of our children by the age of 24, so we want to support children and families by providing them with the skills and strategies they need to face life’s challenges and thrive. Uplifting Australia believes improving the emotional wellbeing and resilience of children is as important as teaching them to read and write. The evidence shows the best predictors of a child’s future happiness are the emotional wellbeing and strength of their family, the quality of their role models, and the skills they take with them on their journey through life. Children who relate well to their peers, can understand and manage their emotions and are good at resolving problems go on to have more successful lives. Prevention is the key – one in five people in Australia experience symptoms of mental illness each year and the number is increasing. The best predictors of a child’s future happiness are the emotional wellbeing and the strength of their family, the quality of their role models and their life skills. Emotional wellbeing is a skill that can be learnt and put into practice by all. The ‘Lift-Off’ Programs: Ready > Steady > Go; Family Connect; Teacher Training; Family HangOut; Parent Talks https://www.upliftingaustralia.org.au/# ceoCharityFamiliesUplifting Australiawellbeing Written by Presenter Edwina Bartholomew is an Australian journalist and television presenter. At Network Seven's breakfast show 'Sunrise', Edwina has covered everything from the Olympics, Royal Weddings to the Oscars. 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__label__wiki	0.684425	0.684425	Pension, Benefits & Executive Compensation Workplace Safety & Insurance Information, Data Security & Privacy Arts & Sports Government Ministries & Agencies (Federal and Provincial) Membership Associations Municipalities & Municipal Agencies Professional & Technical Services Canadian-based U.S.-based Bill 47 and Bill 148 Client Training Toronto 416 362 1011 Waterloo 519 746 0411 London 519 433 7515 Kingston 613 549 6353 Ottawa 613 234 0386 Judicial Review & Appeals Wrongful & Unjust Dismissals Training & Event Type School Board Update Ontario Government Proposes Central Bargaining for School Boards October 24, 2013 By: Michael A. Hines, Paul E. Broad The Ontario government has introduced legislation that would, if passed, provide for central bargaining for school boards – a significant departure from how collective bargaining has historically occurred in the sector. Bill 122, the School Boards Collective Bargaining Act, 2013, was introduced at First Reading on October 22, 2013, and will now undergo consideration by the Legislature. In this FTR Now, we will consider the key changes proposed by Bill 122 and the potential impacts for school boards in Ontario. Bill 122 is the latest step in the Ontario government’s attempts to address collective bargaining issues in the school board sector, and can be seen as a continuation of developments from the previous few years. It would replace the provisions of the Education Act related to collective bargaining. The Bill would continue existing teachers’ bargaining units at the province’s school boards, which would continue to be represented by the current teacher associations as bargaining agents: l’Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (“AEFO”); the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (“ETFO”); the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (“OECTA”); and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (“OSSTF”) However, Bill 122 would formalize and give structure to what has become a reality in the past few rounds of school board negotiations – the involvement of the Ministry of Education. This would be accomplished through the proposed medium of central bargaining. CENTRAL BARGAINING – TEACHERS The key feature of Bill 122 is the new central bargaining structure, which is intended to run in parallel with local bargaining. The Bill would establish five central tables to facilitate central bargaining for teachers: a central table for French-language public district school boards for every teachers’ bargaining unit represented by AEFO; a central table for French-language separate district school boards for every teachers’ bargaining unit represented by AEFO; a central table for every teachers’ bargaining unit represented by ETFO; a central table for every teachers’ bargaining unit represented by OECTA; and a central table for every teachers’ bargaining unit represented by the OSSTF. There would be two parties to central bargaining – an “employer bargaining agency” and an “employee bargaining agency”. The Bill would, however, grant the Crown the right to participate in central bargaining at any central table that is established. Where the Crown elected to participate in central bargaining, no agreement could be reached without the tri-partite concurrence of the employer bargaining agency, the employee bargaining agency and the Crown. Central bargaining for teachers would be mandatory. Individual boards would not be able to negotiate “central terms” at the local level, nor would they be able to “opt out” of the central process or otherwise avoid being represented by their designated “employer bargaining agency”. The Bill is silent on how the sequencing of different central bargaining processes might be controlled. Where a memorandum of settlement (bilateral or, if the Crown participates, trilateral) is reached at a central table, the Bill provides for a further requirement of “ratification” by the two agencies and “approval” by the Crown. The following organizations would be designated as the employer bargaining agencies: L’Association des conseils scolaires des écoles publiques de l’Ontario for French-language public district school boards; L’Association franco-ontarienne des conseils scolaires catholiques for French-language separate district school boards; the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association for English-language separate district school boards; and the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association for English-language public district school boards and boards established under section 68 of the Education Act. Each employer bargaining agency would be deemed by law to have the capacity and authority to conduct central bargaining as contemplated by the Bill. Each would be given the authority to represent school boards during central bargaining, to bind the boards to the central terms of their collective agreements and “to exercise all of the school boards’ rights in respect of central bargaining”. The scope of this last phrase is not altogether clear. The Bill specifically removes the process of giving notice to bargain from local participants – notice to bargain would occur centrally and would apply to all local boards and bargaining units that were subject to the central bargaining in question. Employer bargaining agencies would have the ability to agree to mid-term amendments to central terms and would be responsible for representing the involved boards in a new centralized arbitration process that would be developed to resolve disputes over central terms. Employer bargaining agencies would be subject to a duty of fair representation towards the school boards they represented. They would also be required to establish policies and procedures to effectively exercise their new responsibilities. If a voting process is to be used by an employer bargaining agency, approval must be based on a majority of the school boards with the votes “weighted to reasonably reflect” the size of each board’s bargaining unit. These agencies would also have a duty to co-operate in good faith with the Crown in preparing for and conducting central bargaining. The “employee bargaining agencies” would be the four teachers’ associations. They would have obligations imposed on them similar to those imposed on the employer bargaining agencies. As noted, the Crown could elect to participate in any central bargaining process, and it would be entitled to participate in all aspects of the central bargaining, including negotiations, conciliation, mediation and interest arbitration. Notably, the Bill would establish the need for Crown consent before employer bargaining agencies could take key steps in central collective bargaining, such as referring the dispute to an interest arbitrator, “authorizing or requiring” school boards to lock out employees, or changing terms and conditions after the expiry of the statutory freeze period (whether unilaterally or with the agreement of an employee bargaining agency). The ability of an employer bargaining agency to “authorize or require school boards to lock out employees” is not explained. Finally, Bill 122 would establish a process by which employee bargaining agencies could raise issues relating to denominational and linguistic education rights, which would then be allocated to local bargaining. If the parties could not agree on whether to exclude the matter raised from central bargaining, the OLRB would have the authority to determine the issue. CENTRAL BARGAINING – OTHER EMPLOYEES Given the number of unions that represent other employees of school boards, it is not surprising that Bill 122 does not mandate central bargaining for other groups of employees. Nevertheless, the Bill does permit the government to establish other central tables and to designate, by regulation, a “council of trade unions” to be an employee bargaining agency for employees in specified non-teacher bargaining units. This would likely duplicate and formalize the assemblies of support staff unions that have participated in recent bargaining processes. Similarly, the Bill would allow the government to establish a “council of trustees’ associations” to conduct centralized support staff bargaining. Central bargaining would then occur, subject to the same process as described above. LOCAL BARGAINING In addition to the central bargaining introduced by Bill 122, there would also be local bargaining that would be more in line with traditional collective bargaining. The parties to the local bargaining would be the school board and the local bargaining agents holding bargaining rights at that board. Not surprisingly, the scope of local bargaining would include any issue that did not fall within the scope of central bargaining. The Bill clarifies that local bargaining would remain subject to the requirements of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA“). THE KEY ISSUE – WHAT ARE “CENTRAL TERMS”? It goes without saying that the government has been “at the table” in one sense or another in the past several rounds of school board bargaining, imposing (to a greater or lesser extent and with a variety of inducements) different forms of “centralized” negotiations. However, in strictly legal, statutory terms, the current school board bargaining model is premised on local bargaining. This fact has been reflected by the recurring need for individual school boards to adopt, ratify, append or otherwise accept (or reject) any centrally determined outcomes. Bill 122 would effectively graft on to the current statutory model of local bargaining a new centralized bargaining process, one that can result in the imposition of “central terms” that individual school boards will not be able to avoid. The extent of the impact on the current “local” model (and the resulting incursion on existing school board autonomy) will therefore depend to a very great extent on the definition of “central terms”, specifically the range of school board interests that can qualify for (or be subject to) negotiation as a “central term”. Bill 122 does not directly define the “central terms” that will be subject to the new processes. Rather, the determination of the negotiable “central terms” in any round of bargaining will, itself, be a matter of negotiation between the involved employer bargaining agency, employee bargaining agency and the Crown. This means that the “central terms” may well vary as between central tables and from one bargaining round to the next. Where the parties cannot agree on whether an issue should or should not be a “central” issue, the dispute can be taken to the Ontario Labour Relations Board (“OLRB”) for resolution. The OLRB will apply specified criteria such as the impact of the issue on provincial education policy, its cost implications for one or more school boards, whether the matter raises issues common to a number of the school boards involved and any other factors the OLRB considers relevant. Apart from the trilateral method of determining the scope of central bargaining described above, Bill 122 also permits the Crown to unilaterally “reserve” a matter for central bargaining where education policy or significant expenditures are implicated. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING DISPUTE RESOLUTION Bill 122 also addresses how dispute resolution would fit into the new bargaining regime. Although the Bill contemplates the resolution of impasse by consensual interest arbitration, the process of strike/lockout would remain available in a modified form. Specifically, Bill 122 contemplates that there could be strikes and lockouts both with respect to central bargaining and with respect to local bargaining. In each case, the requirements of the LRA would have to be met, as amended by the Bill. With respect to strikes, Bill 122 would require a five-day written notification by either the central employee bargaining agency (in the case of a strike over central bargaining) or the local employee bargaining agent (in the case of a strike over local bargaining). The current broad Education Act definition of “strike” in respect of teachers would remain unchanged. With respect to lockouts, Bill 122 would also impose a five-day written notification by an employer bargaining agency before it could “authorize or require a school board to lock out employees” following an impasse in central bargaining. Similarly, a local board would be required to give five days’ notice before it could lock out employees following an impasse in central bargaining. Importantly, in both cases the Crown must first consent to any lockout related to central bargaining. For lockouts related to local bargaining only, the five-day written notice requirement would apply to the local board, but the Bill would not require Crown consent. Where a central bargaining dispute is referred to interest arbitration, the Bill mandates that the arbitrator consider the following criteria in addition to other criteria considered by the arbitrator to be relevant: the school boards’ ability to pay; the extent to which services would be reduced if current funding and taxation levels are maintained; the economic situation of Ontario; a comparison between the public and private sectors; and the school boards’ ability to attract and retain qualified employees. Bill 122 also establishes a procedure to address the situation where a central employer bargaining agency seeks an employee vote on its final offer that has been rejected by the involved central employee bargaining agency. A collective agreement would be comprised of both the central terms and the local terms that have been agreed to or decided by arbitration. The Bill confirms that the parties to the agreement remain the school board and the local bargaining agent. Collective agreements would be required to have terms of two, three or four years, which would be specified by regulation. They would have commencement dates of September 1st of the applicable year. Amendments to a collective agreement could only be agreed to by the parties and participants who were at the relevant bargaining table. Thus, for example, a change to a central term would require the agreement of the relevant employer bargaining agency, employee bargaining agency and the Crown. Where differences arise over the interpretation of centrally bargained terms, the Bill would establish a centralized grievance process. That is, if a dispute developed over the meaning of a central term of a collective agreement, the relevant employer bargaining agency and employee bargaining agency would be permitted to submit the matter to a rights arbitration. The Crown would have a right to participate in the proceeding, and would have to consent to any settlement reached by the parties. Bill 122 addresses a number of other matters incidental to the new bargaining regime. Of note, the Bill establishes a priority as between collective agreement provisions and the various education-related statutes: a central term of a collective agreement would prevail over a local term; Bill 122 and its regulations would prevail over a collective agreement; the Education Act and its regulations would prevail over a collective agreement; Bill 122 and its regulations would prevail over the LRA and its regulations; and the Education Act and its regulations would prevail over Bill 122 and its regulations. If passed, Bill 122 would result in significant changes for collective bargaining in the school board sector, including radically redefined roles for school boards and trustee associations. We remind readers that the governing Liberals still control only a minority of the Legislature, so they will need the buy-in of one of the other parties to ensure passage of the Bill. Based on recent experience, this could result in changes to the Bill as it goes through the legislative process. Hicks Morley will continue to monitor Bill 122 and will report on its progress. Bill 122 will be discussed in detail at our upcoming Hicks Morley School Board Management Conference, to be held on November 15, 2013 at the Holiday Inn – Toronto International Airport. For further information on this Conference or to register, click here. If you would like to discuss how Bill 122 might affect your board, please contact Michael Hines at 416.864.7248, Dolores Barbini at 416.864.7303, John-Paul Alexandrowicz at 416.864.7292, or any other member of our School Board Practice Group. The articles in this Client Update provide general information and should not be relied on as legal advice or opinion. 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__label__cc	0.543502	0.456498	Category : Rabies Rabies Vaccine Found to be Effective Even in Limited Refrigeration Facilities A research team from the Washington State University found that storing rabies vaccines at a warm temperature between 25 -30℃ will still protect dogs from Vaccinating Dogs can Reduce Rabies Deaths in India Every year, rabies claims around 20,000 lives in India but, in new that cheers, researchers have found a way out to reduce the menace by Rabies Can Be Prevented – World Rabies Day Highlights: World Rabies Day observed annually on the 28th September hopes to create and spread awareness about rabies, a disease caused by the rabies virus Rabies in Africa can be Eliminated Elimination of rabies in Africa is achievable. However, it is necessary first to eliminate dog rabies, reveals a new study. In West- and Central Europe, Feasibility of Eliminating Rabies in Africa Revealed Rabies is transmitted through the bites of infected dogs and foxes. It is a viral disease that kills tens of thousands of people every year, Low-cost Protocol for Rabies Prophylaxis World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended Himachal doctor’s low-cost protocol for rabies prophylaxis. For a single treatment, the price worldwide was expected to reach just Africa can be Rabies Free! Elimination of rabies in Africa is possible with political will and necessary funding, reveals a new study. The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, together Trick Used By Rabies Virus Could Help Deliver Drug Deep In The Brain Highlights By learning how rabies virus travels in the brain, Anti-Parkinson’s drug can be delivered deep in the brain where currently the drugs are not Drug Scandal Shakes China’s Vaccine Industry to Halt Rabies Vaccine A drug scandal in one of China’s largest manufacturer of vaccines has sparked outrage nationwide. The scandal erupted a week ago which followed an outcry Emetine- An Amoebic Dysentery Drug can Help Prevent Rabies Virus Invasion Emetine- an Amoebic dysentery drug can help prevent the neuronal invasion of rabies virus, finds a new study. The findings of this study are published	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1297
__label__cc	0.728276	0.271724	GBM Blog Archive: February 2013 The Rockefeller Foundation Selects New York City Students for Inaugural Wangari Maathai Environmental Award. February 18, 2013 - 08:10PM Cecil Brooks Jr. and Awa Sow have been revealled as the recipients of the 2012 Wangari Maathai Award for Civic Participation in Sustainability. Leaders of emerging countries are called to be accountable on disputed lands Published by Emanuela Piccolo Private sector investments have produced an average economic growth of 5% in emerging countries since 2000. But what might seem a positive achievement is hiding an alarming reality: economic growth in southern countries is happening at a high price. When the resources available for investments are natural resources and governments give rights to land investors without consent from communities, who often do not even know their land has been granted to someone else, communities, governments and land investors are exposed to conflicts. But Southern countries have a choice for their path to economic growth: private sector’s growing role in development will only be beneficial if governments provide leadership and accountability on land investments. GBM’s Environment Health and Population Project Published by Grace Wanene The Green Belt Movement(GBM) is concluding a three-year project on Environment, Health and Population (EHP) inKenya. The project, which began in 2010, sought to promote community consciousness of the interrelation between the environment, health and population and sensitize the community on the various actions that they could take to reduce the threats of rapid population growth to the environment and people’s health. Princess Lalla Hasnaa of Morocco to Visit Karura Forest Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, sister to the current King of Morocco, will visit Kenya as a guest of the UNEP Governing Council from18th to 22nd February, 2013. Tales for Trees: Chilean storytellers spreading Wangari Maathai’s legacy. February 8, 2013 - 12:30PM The inspirational life and legacy of Wangari Maathai is being shared with the younger generation across Lo Barnechea Municipality in Chile. Working with children in disadvantaged schools, 'Tales for Trees' uses story-telling, music and ceremonial tree planting to share Wangari Maathai's passion for envrionmental conservation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1301
__label__cc	0.697817	0.302183	Jubilee Bulletin 1975 —2000. 25 years in the life of a Society: a good moment to look back, to thank and to dream. As many of you know, the Society was officially established at the 2nd International Kodály Symposium in Kecskemét (Hungary). It was the result of an initiative taken at the previous symposium (Oakland, 1973) with Professor Erzsébet Szõnyi, Dr. Alexander Ringer and Sister Mary Alice Hein as the driving forces. Those among you who attended the first Kecskemét Symposium will remember the lively discussions at the General Assembly, the exchange of ideas, the comments and suggestions from the floor, the compromises to be made, and finally the installation of the first Board. So the IKS became a fact and its principle aim was 'the world-wide propagation of the musical, educational and cultural concepts associated with Zoltán Kodály for the benefit of music generally and in particular for the educational advancement of youth. The Society shall serve as an international forum for all who are active in the spirit of the Hungarian master as composer, scholar and educator.' Today, 25 years later, we embrace the same objectives, of course seen in the light of the present challenges. Since 1975 many have given their professional expertise as members of the Board, of a committee or in participating actively in the life of the Society. To avoid the danger of forgetting someone, we will not mention names. Our gratitude goes to all who are or have been involved in the life of the Society, each in their particular way. In this jubilee Bulletin is a compilation of major articles published in the past 25 years. Many more articles could have been chosen, but we trust that you understand that a selection had to be made. We extend our gratitude to the editorial committee. Looking into the future, we dream of building the IKS into a strong professional organization, of which all interested in carrying on the spirit of Zoltán Kodály can have the benefit. To achieve that goal we need you. Therefore we count on your ongoing interest and support in the International Kodály Society. Available only in E-book format (the printed version is already sold out), through the IKS Executive Office office [at] iks [dot] hu. Current IKS members can receive the E-book for USD 24.00. For non-IKS members the E-book can be bought for USD 30.00. KODÁLY, Zoltán: The Role of the Authentic Folksong in Music Education, Lecture (1966) BARTÓK, Béla, Junior: Kodály as I Knew Him DILLE, Denijs: Souvenirs de Zoltán Kodály RINGER, Alexander: Vir Justus in Musica SZÕNYI, Erzsébet: Zoltán Kodály - Face to Face ITTZÉS, Mihály: A Centenary Tribute to Jenõ Ádám LUKIN, László: In Memory of Lajos Bárdos ITTZÉS, Mihály: Double Anniversary of Márta Nemesszeghy HEIN, Mary Alice: The Legacy of Zoltán Kodály: An Oral History Perspective EÕSZE, László: Zoltán Kodály's Timeliness ITTZÉS, Mihály: East Meets West in Kodály's Oeuvre: Multicultural Ideas in His Writings and Musical Works UJFALUSSY, József: Kodály and Debussy YOUNG, Percy M.: Kodály and the British Choral Tradition SZABÓ, Miklós: Problems of Interpretation in Kodály's Choral Music VIKÁR, László: Kodály, the Musicologist TANIMOTO, Kazuyuki: Kodály, the Ethnomusicologist KODÁLY, Zoltán: Music in the Nursery School, Radio Speech (1941) DE GREEVE, Gilbert: The Human Value of the Kodály Philosophy HERBOLY-KOCSÁR, Ildikó: The Kodály Concept and 20th Century Music SOLOMON, Batia: Constant Values in the Changing World of Education – The Significance of Kodály's Philosophy RIBIERE-RAVERLAT, Jacquotte: Progression pédagogique en passant par les chansons populaires françaises et les auditions d'oeuvres FAVREAU, Sharyn G.: Une analyse pour fin pedagogique de chansons canadienne-françaises telles que collectionnées par Marius Barbeau FORRAI, Katalin: Kodály and the Children BACON, Denise: Kodály Music for Learning Disabled Children CHOKSY, Lois: Teacher Training and Re-Training Via Kodály Principles: A Study in Effective University-Community Cooperation PATTERSON, Anne L.: Toward an Expanded Musical Literacy: Music History and the Kodály-Inspired Teacher CHAILLEY, Jacques: La solmisation Kodály, révélateur des problèmes de hauteur absolue et de hauteur relative dans les pays latins GARO, Edouard: Le Son, le Nom et le Signe, une distinction utile à la pratique de le solmisation kodályenne dans les pays latins SINOR, Jean: The Ideas of Kodály in America HOERMANN, Deanna and HERBERT, Gwynneth: The Adaptation of the Kodály Philosophy in Australia. Music Gives a Fine Edge to Learning VAJDA, Cecilia: Kodály and British Education KALJUSTE, Heino: A Brief Survey of the Application of the Principles of the Kodály Method in the Schools of the Estonian SSR, USSR IKS Boards of Directors IKS Symposia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1303
__label__wiki	0.718807	0.718807	Venezuelan Fighter Jet's Unsafe Approach Over International Waters Written by U.S. Southern Command Washington, DC - Friday, a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II aircraft, flying a mission in approved international airspace, was approached in an unprofessional manner by a SU-30 Flanker Venezuelan fighter aircraft. After reviewing video documentation, we have determined the Russian-made fighter aggressively shadowed the EP-3 at an unsafe distance in international airspace for a prolonged period of time, endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing the EP-3 mission. The U.S. routinely conducts regionally-supported, multi-nationally recognized and approved detection and monitoring missions in the region to ensure the safety and security of our citizens and those of our partners. The EP-3 aircraft was adhering to international standards and rules. The Maduro regime continues to undermine internationally-recognized laws and demonstrate its contempt for international agreements authorizing the U.S. and other nations to safely conduct flights in international airspace. Despite the Venezuelan people’s suffering, his nation’s vital infrastructure crumbling, and children starving, Maduro chooses to use his country’s precious resources to engage in unprovoked and unjustified acts. This latest action also demonstrates Russia’s irresponsible military support to the illegitimate Maduro regime and adds to Maduro’s growing legacy of reckless and negligent behavior, which undermines international rule of law and efforts to counter illicit trafficking.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1308
__label__cc	0.596678	0.403322	Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer Alba Rocco, Laslo Schandl, Jie Chen, Hongbing Wang, Z. Tulassay, Deirdre McNamara, Peter Malfertheiner, Matthias P A Ebert Semmelweis University Purpose: The fragile histidine triad (FHIT) gene has recently been proposed as being a tumor suppressor gene. FHIT gene deletions or aberrant transcripts have been identified in a variety of human malignancies, including gastric carcinomas, suggesting that FHIT may play a key role in tumor development. However, the clinical impact of FHIT mutations in gastric carcinogenesis is still debated. Our purpose was to investigate whether FHIT expression in human primary gastric carcinoma is associated with the histological type, grade or stage of the tumor. Methods: We analyzed a well-characterized set of 137 primary gastric cancers. FHIT protein expression was evaluated in gastric mucosal samples, both from the tumor and tumor-free areas by immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, in a subgroup of 30 patients, FHIT mRNA expression was assessed by nested RT-PCR. Results: Absent or reduced expression of FHIT protein correlated significantly with diffuse type (P <0.0001), poor differentiation (P <0.0001), and advanced stage (P <0.0001) of gastric cancer. In contrast, FHIT protein was strongly expressed and uniformly distributed in tumor-free areas. The FHIT mRNA expression was absent or altered in diffuse and poorly differentiated carcinomas. Conclusion: These results show that the expression of FHIT in gastric carcinoma is related to the type, grade, and stage of the tumor. We suggest that FHIT expression may be considered a potential prognostic factor in gastric cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology Published - Feb 1 2003 fragile histidine triad protein FHIT Tumour suppressor Rocco, A., Schandl, L., Chen, J., Wang, H., Tulassay, Z., McNamara, D., ... Ebert, M. P. A. (2003). Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 129(2), 84-88. Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer. / Rocco, Alba; Schandl, Laslo; Chen, Jie; Wang, Hongbing; Tulassay, Z.; McNamara, Deirdre; Malfertheiner, Peter; Ebert, Matthias P A. In: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, Vol. 129, No. 2, 01.02.2003, p. 84-88. Rocco, A, Schandl, L, Chen, J, Wang, H, Tulassay, Z, McNamara, D, Malfertheiner, P & Ebert, MPA 2003, 'Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer', Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, vol. 129, no. 2, pp. 84-88. Rocco A, Schandl L, Chen J, Wang H, Tulassay Z, McNamara D et al. Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 2003 Feb 1;129(2):84-88. Rocco, Alba ; Schandl, Laslo ; Chen, Jie ; Wang, Hongbing ; Tulassay, Z. ; McNamara, Deirdre ; Malfertheiner, Peter ; Ebert, Matthias P A. / Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer. In: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 2003 ; Vol. 129, No. 2. pp. 84-88. @article{eb3c3f05a3d64ebebdf6f6c02dc48c5d, title = "Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer", abstract = "Purpose: The fragile histidine triad (FHIT) gene has recently been proposed as being a tumor suppressor gene. FHIT gene deletions or aberrant transcripts have been identified in a variety of human malignancies, including gastric carcinomas, suggesting that FHIT may play a key role in tumor development. However, the clinical impact of FHIT mutations in gastric carcinogenesis is still debated. Our purpose was to investigate whether FHIT expression in human primary gastric carcinoma is associated with the histological type, grade or stage of the tumor. Methods: We analyzed a well-characterized set of 137 primary gastric cancers. FHIT protein expression was evaluated in gastric mucosal samples, both from the tumor and tumor-free areas by immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, in a subgroup of 30 patients, FHIT mRNA expression was assessed by nested RT-PCR. Results: Absent or reduced expression of FHIT protein correlated significantly with diffuse type (P <0.0001), poor differentiation (P <0.0001), and advanced stage (P <0.0001) of gastric cancer. In contrast, FHIT protein was strongly expressed and uniformly distributed in tumor-free areas. The FHIT mRNA expression was absent or altered in diffuse and poorly differentiated carcinomas. Conclusion: These results show that the expression of FHIT in gastric carcinoma is related to the type, grade, and stage of the tumor. We suggest that FHIT expression may be considered a potential prognostic factor in gastric cancer.", keywords = "FHIT, Gastric cancer, Gene, Tumour suppressor", author = "Alba Rocco and Laslo Schandl and Jie Chen and Hongbing Wang and Z. Tulassay and Deirdre McNamara and Peter Malfertheiner and Ebert, {Matthias P A}", journal = "Zeitschrift fur Krebsforschung und Klinische Onkologie", T1 - Loss of FHIT protein expression correlates with disease progression and poor differentiation in gastric cancer AU - Rocco, Alba AU - Schandl, Laslo AU - Chen, Jie AU - Wang, Hongbing AU - Tulassay, Z. AU - McNamara, Deirdre AU - Malfertheiner, Peter AU - Ebert, Matthias P A N2 - Purpose: The fragile histidine triad (FHIT) gene has recently been proposed as being a tumor suppressor gene. FHIT gene deletions or aberrant transcripts have been identified in a variety of human malignancies, including gastric carcinomas, suggesting that FHIT may play a key role in tumor development. However, the clinical impact of FHIT mutations in gastric carcinogenesis is still debated. Our purpose was to investigate whether FHIT expression in human primary gastric carcinoma is associated with the histological type, grade or stage of the tumor. Methods: We analyzed a well-characterized set of 137 primary gastric cancers. FHIT protein expression was evaluated in gastric mucosal samples, both from the tumor and tumor-free areas by immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, in a subgroup of 30 patients, FHIT mRNA expression was assessed by nested RT-PCR. Results: Absent or reduced expression of FHIT protein correlated significantly with diffuse type (P <0.0001), poor differentiation (P <0.0001), and advanced stage (P <0.0001) of gastric cancer. In contrast, FHIT protein was strongly expressed and uniformly distributed in tumor-free areas. The FHIT mRNA expression was absent or altered in diffuse and poorly differentiated carcinomas. Conclusion: These results show that the expression of FHIT in gastric carcinoma is related to the type, grade, and stage of the tumor. We suggest that FHIT expression may be considered a potential prognostic factor in gastric cancer. AB - Purpose: The fragile histidine triad (FHIT) gene has recently been proposed as being a tumor suppressor gene. FHIT gene deletions or aberrant transcripts have been identified in a variety of human malignancies, including gastric carcinomas, suggesting that FHIT may play a key role in tumor development. However, the clinical impact of FHIT mutations in gastric carcinogenesis is still debated. Our purpose was to investigate whether FHIT expression in human primary gastric carcinoma is associated with the histological type, grade or stage of the tumor. Methods: We analyzed a well-characterized set of 137 primary gastric cancers. FHIT protein expression was evaluated in gastric mucosal samples, both from the tumor and tumor-free areas by immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, in a subgroup of 30 patients, FHIT mRNA expression was assessed by nested RT-PCR. Results: Absent or reduced expression of FHIT protein correlated significantly with diffuse type (P <0.0001), poor differentiation (P <0.0001), and advanced stage (P <0.0001) of gastric cancer. In contrast, FHIT protein was strongly expressed and uniformly distributed in tumor-free areas. The FHIT mRNA expression was absent or altered in diffuse and poorly differentiated carcinomas. Conclusion: These results show that the expression of FHIT in gastric carcinoma is related to the type, grade, and stage of the tumor. We suggest that FHIT expression may be considered a potential prognostic factor in gastric cancer. KW - FHIT KW - Gene KW - Tumour suppressor JO - Zeitschrift fur Krebsforschung und Klinische Onkologie JF - Zeitschrift fur Krebsforschung und Klinische Onkologie	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0049.json.gz/line1311

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