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__label__wiki	0.899295	0.899295	Power rot DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 05/11/2012 Power rot Herman Tiu Laurel Meralco files plea for 2013 rate hike,” newspapers announced this week. Former Misamis Oriental Gov. Homobono Adaza and Jojo Borja of Iligan Light and Power updated me on this latest attempt of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to pull a fast one on power consumers. This refers to the case filed against the Maximum Allowable Price (MAP) application of Meralco (Manila Electric Co.) before the ERC by octogenarian accountant and consumer advocate Mang Naro Lualhati — a case that is now filled with several anomalies. First, the notice for the May 7 ERC hearing arrived anomalously late, at lawyer Adaza’s residence on the Sunday afternoon just before Monday. Thus, Adaza had to call Borja to fly from Bukidnon, where the latter had just alighted, back to Cagayan de Oro and then Manila overnight to catch the next day’s event. At the ERC hearing, only a “hearing officer” presided. Upon arriving and entering his appearance, Adaza asked the “hearing officer” if he was “the” hearing officer. It turned out that the guy was only a clerk of court. Only after being informed that Adaza was there did the chairman of the ERC, Zenaida Ducut, suddenly decide to appear and preside — a basic legal requirement that has never been met in all past ERC hearings participated in collectively or separately by our advocacy groups. Since the occasion was being used to formally accept so-called evidence that will buttress Meralco’s MAP petition, it was an evidentiary hearing that, according Adaza, was illegal since Jojo Borja also had a pending petition at the Court of Appeals questioning the continuation of the proceedings until prejudicial questions were resolved. Adaza and Borja would have missed the ERC hearing, with Meralco already laughing all the way to the bank, if the obviously and deliberately late arrival of the notice wasn’t noted that Sunday. Adaza no longer made an issue of it as he had already averted the scheme. Still, he found the order for the hearing anomalous, as it was merely signed “for the ERC commissioners,” even when the law states that such orders need to be signed by all commissioners — an anomaly regularly committed by the ERC, but this time, protested by Adaza — compelling the entire proceeding to be delayed for another five days. As such, five million Meralco customers got a reprieve, thanks to Adaza, Borja and Lualhati (who wasn’t able to attend due to physical infirmities). But trust the ERC to continue frustrating consumer advocates’ questioning and exposés of Meralco’s predatory rate hikes. Since 2003, Meralco and ERC have been having their way in running rings around, despite roadblocks placed by the Puno Supreme Court and the Commission on Audit. This time, they have finally met the determined team that will stop them. When BS Aquino III stepped into Malacañang, the power oligarchs’ noose tightened even more around the Supreme Court with the appointment of BS Aquino III’s justices, including Justice Lourdes Sereno who has decided in favor of Meralco in the most crucial issue of rate increases and nitpicks on consumer protectionists. Meanwhile, on the postponed Joint Congressional Power Commission (JCPC) meet that was supposed to be jointly chaired by Sen. Serge Osmeña and Rep. Dina Abad (who was conveniently out-of-town last April to avoid its convening), there is yet no official word as to when the shelved hearing is to be re-scheduled. The latest reports from Mindanao say the power crisis there is getting worse. Brownouts are getting longer. The cause is supposedly the rehabilitation work being done at the Agus-Pulangi, which energy officials, particularly Department of Energy Secretary Rene Almendras, left undone for two years of the BS Aquino III government, despite calls from Mindanaoans in 2010 that it was desperately needed. Clearly, the negligence was deliberate, as the delay of the rehabilitation directly led to the power shortfalls that created the power crisis there this season. In the wake of Mindanao’s electricity woes, government was compelled to call for a summit and schedule a convening of the JCPC. Amazingly, Mindanaoans were even blamed for this by PeNoy while the JCPC was indefinitely postponed due to a lack of quorum — this, as government losses due to the crisis have already reached P15 billion, with Mindanao’s own economy experiencing losses of up to P60 billion. The attitude and misdeeds of all those involved in the Philippine energy sector, private power companies and the agents they get appointed to government who are horrendously corrupt and rotten — promoting oligarchs’ interests and their own “golden parachutes” — constitute a clear betrayal of the people. How these people continue to hold on to their posts can only be explained by the complicity of the top appointing power and the corruption of money-based elections of this country. In all sectors of the Philippine power elite, such betrayal of duty and rot is evident, as when the Senate cavalierly dismisses the plea to inhibit compromised judges; or when media practitioners irresponsibly report false information; or when police officials get involved in the murder of protected state witnesses, ad nausea. (Tune in to 1098AM, dwAD, Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m.; watch Destiny Cable GNN’s HTL edition of Talk News TV, Saturdays, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11:15 p.m., this May 12 on “Power, Manila, and Mindanao” with Bono Adaza, Al Tillah and Jojo Borja; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives) Spinners FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/11/2012 It is amazing how much spin the prosecution propagandists put into impeachment trial developments. But they really should realize that spins no longer serve the purpose when they become outright lies. The prosecution is not likely to admit it, but the fact that the Chief Justice, Renato Corona, agreed to testify at his trial, after the testimonies from several of his accusers, namely Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales Riza Hontiveros, Walden Bello and Harvey Keh, to name a few, will shatter its case against Corona. This is the reason one of the prosecution spinners, Neri Colmenares, questioned why these individuals served subpoenae by the Senate court should be made to testify, claiming that this move by the defense is yet another delaying tactic..... MORE Loving the bomb: NATO to splurge billions on nuclear weapons overhaul The US is planning to spend $4 billion to upgrade NATO’s Western Eruopean nuclear arsenal. The “unnecessary and expensive” initiative is likely to stir new animosity with Russia, a report says. The alliance is preparing to replace “dumb” free-fall nuclear bombs with new generation of precision-guided nuclear gravity bombs, reveals a report by the European Leaders Network (ELN), a political think tank. The new bombs will also require new delivery aircraft, the Lockheed Martin F-35, each costing $100 million. The report “Escalation by Default? The Future of NATO Nuclear Weapons in Europe” is authored by Ted Seay, a former arms control advisor to the US mission at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. It points to the fact that the upgrade will target such countries as Russia and Iran, who will be the most unlikely to be overjoyed with the prospect..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/us-nato-nuclear-overhaul-969/ British public sector rises up as 200,000 strike against cuts and reforms (VIDEO) As many as 200,000 angry public sector workers staged a day of protest on Thursday, taking to the streets of London to voice their disgust at proposed government cuts. Among the demonstrators were civil servants, lecturers, health workers, Ministry of Defence staff, and immigration officers – fueled by ministers' vows to press ahead with the controversial reforms, made clear in yesterday's Queen's Speech. About 20,000 off-duty police officers from all 43 forces across England and Wales also took to the capital for the first police march there in more than four years..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/uk-strikes-public-cuts-946/ Apocalypse not now: Mayan relic says 2012 not end of time The discovery in a Guatemala jungle of a previously unknown version of the Mayan calendar offers humankind a ray of hope: the world is not going to end on December 21, 2012 and could most probably last for another billion years – or more. The ancient inscription is estimated to be the oldest Mayan almanac found so far. It dates back some 1,200 years, at least 600 years older than previous examples. In many ways, however, the new calendar corresponds with others. The initial results of its study have been published in Science magazine by experts from Boston University. They say the calendar precisely describes solar and lunar cycles, as well as the motion of the brightest stars. Most probably it was used to conduct ceremonies and rituals, synchronized with the positions of celestial bodies..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/maya-calendar-guatemala-discovery-973/ It ain’t over yet NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 05/11/2012 Just as I was about to do the second part of “On actors as National Artists, and Dolphy,” everything and anything to do the matter of Tulfo vs Santiago/Barretto at the NAIA Terminal 3 hit the fan Monday this week. That it was headline news at the Philippine Daily Inquirer wasn’t surprising, for the aggrieved Mon Tulfo had been a long time columnist of the paper. That GMA Network’s 24 Oras, Saksi and Unang Hirit not only gave it extensive coverage but more than hinted the aggrieved Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto were not to blame was also no surprise, for husband and wife are regular talents of its soap opera department. That ABC-TV’s news and public affairs programs especially T3 were also on it was expected, as after all, wouldn’t the aggrieved Erwin, Raffy and Ben rush to defend their kapatid? I tell you, lahat sila, aggrieved, and, hey Raymart and Claudine are said to be planning to sue Tulfo for “child abuse,” for his “acts” that allegedly “traumatized” their two young kids who were in the airport with them, when the incident took place..... MORE Witness in the poll sabotage case vs GMA blinks 05/11/2012 Witness in the poll sabotage case vs GMA blinks The electoral sabotage case that was slapped by the Comelec against the former leader suffered another setback as another witness appeared to have blinked, after admitting before the Pasay Regional Trial Court Thursday that she was not certain whether the voting results she had tabulated were different from those actually canvassed. This as several hearings and more than six witnesses presented, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has yet to link former president, incumbent Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo to the crime of electoral sabotage. At least four hearings had already been conducted on the bail petitions filed by Arroyo, her co-accused former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan and former provincial election supervisor Lintang Bedol while some six witnesses had already been presented but neither one pointed to any participation of the former president on the crime charged..... MORE Beijing suspends RP tours, warns citizens on anti-China protest 05/11/2012 Beijing suspends RP tours, warns citizens on anti-China protest BEIJING — China is suspending some tourism to the Philippines due to a tense territorial row between the two nations that has prompted state media to raise the possibility of war and growing anti-Chinese sentiment in Manila. Chinese tour agencies, including Beijing’s biggest travel agency China International Tour Service (CITS), cited safety concerns for the suspension, just two days after Beijing said it was ready for “any escalation” in the row with Manila. The month-long flare-up is one of the most high-profile incidents for years between the two countries over their competing territorial claims to parts of the South China Sea, which is believed to sit atop vast oil and gas deposits..... MORE City hall employees complain to Erap over ‘delayed’ pays By Van C. Suarez and Pat C. Santos 05/11/2012 City hall employees complain to Erap over ‘delayed’ pays By Van C. Suarez and Pat C. Santos 05/11/2012 Employees of the city government complaining about their delayed salaries and allowances greeted former President Joseph Estrada when he went to City Hall yesterday to obtain his Community Tax Certificate or cedula prior to filing his certificate of registration with the Commission on Elections as a voter of the City of Manila to comply with requirements on his planned bid to become the next Manila Mayor in next year elections. The other day, Estrada formally announced that he is throwing his hat into the mayoralty race in Manila. “I’m very particular with procedures. I want everything to be in order so I made the effort to go to City Hall and file my cedula myself,” Estrada said..... MORE Luisita valuation issue may outlive Carper, Aquino regime 05/11/2012 Luisita valuation issue may outlive Carper, Aquino regime The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) yesterday said the Supreme Court (SC) ruling provided President Aquino’s family, the Cojuangco-Aquinos of Tarlac, the opportunity to maneuver and maintain control over the more than 6,000 hectares Hacienda Luisita. KMP deputy secretary general Randall Echanis said that “upon scrutiny of the decision, the Supreme Court has given the Cojuangcos the opportunity to further derail and even evade land distribution. “The valuation issue alone on Hacienda Luisita could drag for years. It may even outlive the bogus Carper and even the Aquino regime. This case might even go back to the Supreme Court,” said Echanis..... MORE CJ’s wife merely exercised right on libel case — counsel 05/11/2012 CJ’s wife merely exercised right on libel case — counsel Branding as “downright malicious” the allegations of being insensitive to a deceased relative after the court awarded Cristina Corona compensation in a libel case she won against her uncle, one of the Corona’s lawyers said the wife of Chief Justice Renato Corona was merely exercising her rights. “She just exercised her rights. That is the legal course of action of anyone whose reputation is intentionally damaged. She was the aggrieved party in this case and (she) did not go beyond the bounds of the law,” defense spokesman lawyer Tranquil Salvador III said on the various media commentaries that sprang out on the sidelines of Day 36 of the impeachment trial. During Tuesday’s hearing, Quezon City Regional Trial Court (QC RTC) Branch 216 clerk of court Lucita Masangkay-Cristi took the witness stand and testified that the lower court ordered the late Jose Maria Basa III, Raymunda Basa, et al to pay Mrs. Corona P500,000 as damages for the two counts of libel the latter filed and won..... MORE Gov’t lawyers uphold legality of diplomatic immunity granted to Panamanian diplomat accused of rape 05/11/2012 Gov’t lawyers uphold legality of diplomatic immunity granted to Panamanian diplomat accused of rape Government lawyers have upheld the legality of diplomatic immunity granted by the government to the Panamanian accused of raping a 19-year-old girl. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima yesterday said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) was merely complying with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations when it issued certification for immunity that led to the release from detention of Erick Bairnals Schcks. “The DFA is the agency with primary competence or authority on the matter. The immunity from criminal jurisdiction accorded to Mr. Schcks under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations was indeed valid,” she told reporters in a chance interview..... MORE Speaker calls for investigation into murder of witness under WPP By Charlie V. Manalo and Gina Peralta-Elorde 05/11/2012 DILG SECRETARY DISCLOSES YOUNGER BROTHER OF DOMINGUEZ CAR THEFT SYNDICATE LEADERS NOW A SUSPECT IN SUNDAY SLAY Speaker calls for investigation into murder of witness under WPP By Charlie V. Manalo and Gina Peralta-Elorde 05/11/2012 House Speaker Feliciano “Sonny” Belmonte yesterday expressed disgust over the killing of a witness under the protection of the government through the Witness Protection Program (WPP), saying a congressional inquiry into the controversy should be initiated by the appropriate legislative committee. Belmonte said the murder of state witness Alfred “Bading” Mendiola and two other men is “something worth looking into as it raises serious problems in the way government is securing vital witnesses against the accused. Mendiola was the government witness who had positively identified alleged carjacking syndicate kingpins Roger and Raymond Dominguez as the masterminds in the kidnapping and murder of car dealer Venson Evangelista last year..... MORE Power rot DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 05/11/20... Spinners FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/11/201... Loving the bomb: NATO to splurge billions on nucle... British public sector rises up as 200,000 strike a... Apocalypse not now: Mayan relic says 2012 not end ... It ain’t over yet NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-R... Witness in the poll sabotage case vs GMA blinks 0... Beijing suspends RP tours, warns citizens on anti-... City hall employees complain to Erap over ‘delayed... Luisita valuation issue may outlive Carper, Aquino... CJ’s wife merely exercised right on libel case — c... Gov’t lawyers uphold legality of diplomatic immuni... Speaker calls for investigation into murder of wit...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line378
__label__cc	0.507748	0.492252	The Ruricolist Essays and Caprices nondefinitions (31) satires (6) bagatelles (5) parodies (3) The Ruricolist is now available in print. The Black Taj The professor only smiled, and lifted what was not a box, but a cover. Beneath was a small, round, red carving. The student leaned a little closer. It was a stylized carving of a turtle. There were black and white spots on its back. “What does this have to do with architecture?” “Tell me what you see.” “I see a turtle.” “That’s all?” The professor sighed. “Nothing else?” The student thought it over. “It’s Chinese. I’ve seen Chinese carvings that looked like that. Made of – whatever that is – the same stuff.” “And that stuff is?” “How would I know.” It wasn’t a question. “Cinnabar. It’s cinnabar, do you know cinnabar?” “As in cookies?” The professor looked pained. “No, it’s an ore. Mercury ore. It’s very important – cinnabar means a great deal to some people. So does mercury. And the spots. Do they mean anything to you?” “Black and white. Some sort of yin-yang thing, maybe?” “Black and white, yes. Slate and shell if you look closer. The pattern – that’s a double quincunx. Five and five make eight.” The professor stared across the table. “What? I don’t get it! I study architecture – why would I know any of this? You said this would help me. You said I had to know this. How is a Chinese figurine going to make me a better architect?” The professor flipped the turtle over. As it rocked back and forth light flashed over the smooth black that covered its underside. “It’s a lens.” The student looked closer. “But it’s opaque. It’s obsidian.” A small victory. “Yes. But you need the right kind of light. What do you know about the Taj Mahal?” “A lot, I’ve been there.” “Good. Then you’ve heard of the Black Taj?” “I’ve heard of it. It’s a story for tourists.” “And weren’t you a tourist?” The student snorted. “Not that kind of tourist.” “Do you know how the story began?” The professor waited, but the student did not answer. “A traveler’s letters. He wrote Shah Jahan would have built a Black Taj for himself, but he died too soon, and his son abandoned the project.” “There never was a Black Taj. They’ve checked. No foundation, no black marble lying around.” “There is another version of the story.” The professor gestured at the dim bookcase behind them. “It was in a manuscript by a Sufi poet of the time. Though he wrote Hindu poems as well. A wise poet. A little-known poet. But that’s the same thing.” “And this has something to do with the Taj Mahal?” The student pointed at the turtle. “It does.” The professor turned it back over. “Would you like to hear that story?” “If there’s a point…” “There’s a point.” The professor leaned back. Why am I thinking of Sunday School? “The story goes,” the professor began, “that Shah Jahan had promised Mumtaz Mahal two tombs. One for each of them. He was desperate to build the second. But the first one had taken so long, and been so expensive, and his son would not promise to finish the second. He agonized. Sleepless nights. Pacing the hall. He threw tantrums. Finally he decided that what he needed was – well, a consultant.” “A consultant. Someone from outside. Someone who could get things back on schedule. He did a lot of interviews. Wise men, roving worthies. Indian mystics. Europeans with blueprints. But the one he chose came from China. A Chinese sorceror. He promised he could not only build it faster, he could hide it.” “How do you hide a Taj Mahal?” “Inside another Taj Mahal, of course. He promised a Black Taj that would be enfolded by the White Taj, ‘as sound folds silence.’ In the poet’s phrase.” The student kept silent. “For many years,” the professor picked up, “black marble was brought to the Taj by night, and the sorceror’s servants – some of them other Chinese who never spoke to strangers by daylight, and some that were never seen by daylight at all – they carried the black marble through the doors of the Taj. When they were done, when it was finished, the sorceror gave Shah Jahan the only way to see the Black Taj: a black lens, a dark mirror, that would show the hidden tomb inside the one that could be seen. Beyond the reach of his son’s greed, the Shah could be buried at the same time in his own tomb, and buried beside his beloved in her tomb.” The student looked away and back. “OK. I like that. That’s cool. Stretching my mind, right? A new perspective? So I should think about buildings inside buildings. Like multiple uses, right? Like, an office tower is one building for the executives, and one for the janitors, and they have to fit inside each other. That’s a–” “That’s a good observation, but that’s not what you should be getting from this. This isn’t a lesson.” The professor put a hand over the turtle. “I’m trusting you with something here. This isn’t a toy. It’s valuable. How valuable I can’t tell you. I sold, I borrowed… I could only afford it it because nobody else knows about it.” “Listen, please. The sorceror made the mirror for the Black Taj. Shah Jahan used it, he was satisfied with it, but he had the sorceror and his servants surprised one night and killed so nobody else would know about it. He wanted the mirror buried with him. His son couldn’t prevent him from building the Black Taj, but he could at least frustrate his last wishes. After the overthrow, he kept the mirror. And the poet he brought to court and showed it to found out that it doesn’t just work on the Taj. It’s doesn’t work on every building but it works on a lot of them. Just the best ones, the ones with souls. “This is what I’m trying to show you. Every building that has a soul, has as its soul another building, a Black Taj. Some other building that stood in the same spot. Some earlier state of the building – before a renovation or reconstruction, or a flood or a fire or a collapse. Sometimes even a completely different building, the one that could or should have been built but wasn’t – the one the architect really meant or another architect came up with and people didn’t want… just one that’s better.” The student blinked and gaped for a moment. “So… how? How come you had to pay so much for the mirror, if nobody else knew what it was?” “What? You care about that?” “I’m trying to get my head around this.” I trusted you! “All right. We’ll take this slowly.” “You mean there’s more.” “A lot more.” The professor held the turtle out, mirror-up. “You can see the mirror’s round, yes? And the cinnabar holds it in. It goes under the edge here, see? Now this is one piece of cinnabar. And the mirror’s in one piece. So how’d it get in there?” “There’s some trick. Like, I’ve seen it done with quarters and blocks of wood. You drill a hole and stick it in and let the wood grow back over it.” “That’s right. Good. But cinnabar doesn’t grow.” “So it’s impossible.” “I wouldn’t say impossible. It’s Chinese.” “So, you look through this and you see imaginary buildings?” “/Secret/ buildings. And it does more than that. Have you ever thought about why a good God lets bad things happen?” “I’m an atheist.” “Not somebody else’s god, your god. Think about ants. If everything were good for people but ants still had to suffer – say, if people stepped on them – would that be wrong?” “It depends. I guess not.” “Right. So keep going. God is good, we suffer, so…” “So we’re ants. Something else is above us. But what’s above us?” The professor looked around. “/Buildings/ are above us. Buildings are around us. Buildings are real. Realer than we are. We make them, but only like cells make us. Buildings are the real inhabitants of God’s universe. And least, they’re closer to it than we are. They’re the real images of God. The real angels and devils – the real gods. They rule our lives. They hold us in their bellies.” “And the mirror…?” “The mirror shows them for what they are.” “So what do you want from me?” “You’re the best student I ever had. You could be one of the best. But first you have to see the truth. You need to understand your calling, your place. You are not a shelterer of ants. You are a creator of gods.” The student sat still, waiting. Waiting for the turn, the punch line, the explanation. None came. There was just the mirror. — Paul M. Rodriguez For tales After Before Last ru·ríc·o·list The Ruricolist is an independent essay series. Something substantial is run here every week – essays, species of fiction, and other short pieces; mostly essays, and essays in the classical sense: personally tinged, but not confessional. I avoid the timely for the indicated, and the relevant for the applicable; otherwise, within the limits of general interest, I keep conscientiously eclectic. Consult Humanism, Specialization, Uncut pages, Reinvention, Solitude, Versatility, Audience. Nondefinition #4 Four Definitions of Wisdom Memetics Who? pmr Where? ruricolist.com Beloved by Algorithms Victorian Hypocrisy Verbal Thinking Bacon and Montaigne Fable of the Candle Genteel Tradition Uncut pages Zemurray Gardens Fable of the Spider and the Songbird Literature and Philosophy Weakmindedness Part Four	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line389
__label__cc	0.738363	0.261637	Posts Tagged ‘Scott Cooper’ ‘Precious’ Dominates Film Independent’s Spirit Awards Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire won Best Feature and a total of 5 awards last night at the 25th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards. Comedian Eddie Izzard served as Master of Ceremonies at the late-night show at LA Live’s event deck in downtown Los Angeles. Here are all the winners: Producers Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness for Precious Lee Daniels for Precious BEST FIRST FEATURE Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, Judy Cairo, T Bone Burnett for Crazy Heart JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD for Best Feature made for under $500,000 Lynn Shelton for Humpday Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber for 500 Days of Summer BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious Posted in: Awards · Indie · Movies · News Tagged: A Serious Man, Awards, Crazy Heart, Film Independent, Humpday, Jeff Bridges, Lee Daniels, Lynn Shelton, Mo'Nique, Precious, Robert Duvall, Scott Cooper, Spirit Awards, woody harrelson Review: ‘Crazy Heart’ by Shannon Hood, Jan 21 2010 // 11:00 AM I’m a sucker for movies about country singers. Despite the fact that listening to country music makes my ears bleed, I never pass up on a good country drama. The genre traditionally leans toward biopics (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Sweet Dreams, Pure Country, Walk the Line) and Crazy Heart is no exception. Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake, a washed up Country/Blues musician who has been relegated to performing in bowling alleys and other undignified venues. Blake is a raging alcoholic who stumbles off the stage mid-performance to go puke, then returns to finish a set. He drives his pick-up from town to town and beds middle age women who still remember him from his golden days. He tersely thrusts his show notes to whatever band he happens to be playing with that night, and can’t be bothered to rehearse. It’s a gamble as to whether he will even show up on a given night, and to what condition he’ll be in. To make matters worse, his former protégé, Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell), has become a country music superstar, and regularly plays to packed stadiums. There is clearly some bad blood between the two, because anytime Sweet’s name is brought up, Blake bristles. Posted in: Drama · Fox Searchlight · Movies · Reviews · Romance Tagged: Colin Farrell, Crazy Heart, Golden Globes, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhal, Robert Duvall, Scott Cooper, T-Bone Burnett, Tron Writers Guild Nominations Announced by Joe Gillis, Jan 13 2010 // 6:00 AM As hard as it may be to believe sometimes, someone (or someones) actually sits down and writes a movie or TV show before you end up seeing it at your local multiplex or on your favorite TV network. The people who do the sitting and the writing are, surprisingly, called writers and, like the Directors, the Golden Globes and the Oscars, they have their own awards show. This week, the Writers Guild of America, which is the trade group and advocate for writers, announced its nominations for outstanding achievement in feature film and television, radio, news, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2009 season to be honored at the upcoming 2010 Writers Guild Awards on February 20, 2010, in Los Angeles and New York. We realize that these nominations may not be as glamorous as the Golden Globes or the Oscars, but we kinda like writers around here and think they do a pretty important job. So, with that in mind, here’s a complete list of nominees. Check out these names, these people are pretty important. Without them you wouldn’t get to enjoy your favorite TV show, movie or pretty much any other form of entertainment. The 2010 Writers Guild Awards will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2010, simultaneously at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. FILM NOMINEES (500) Days of Summer, Written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber Avatar, Written by James Cameron The Hangover, Written by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore The Hurt Locker, Written by Mark Boal A Serious Man, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Crazy Heart, Screenplay by Scott Cooper Based on the novel by Thomas Cobb Julie & Julia, Screenplay by Nora Ephron Based on the books Julie & Julia by Julie Powell and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher Based on the novel Push by Sapphire Star Trek, Written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman Based upon Star Trek, Created by Gene Roddenberry Up in the Air, Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon TurnerBased upon the novel by Walter Kirn Posted in: Announcements · Awards · Movies · News · TV · Writers Tagged: 500 Days of Summer, A Serious Man, Alex Kurtzman, Avatar, Awards, Breaking Bad, Brian K. Vaughn, Carlton Cuse, Crazy Heart, Dexter, Glee, James Cameron, Jon Lucas, Julie and Julia, Lost, Mad Men, Mark Boal, Michael Moore, Modern Family, Roberto Orci, Scott Cooper, Scott Moore, Star Trek, The Cove, the hangover, The Hurt Locker, WGA, Writers, Writers Guild of America	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line392
__label__cc	0.542588	0.457412	NOHSUNTAG NOHSUNTAG 사진 갤러리 Memory of the Dead and Responsibility of the Living: Noh Suntag’s Forgetting Machines (2006-2007) http://www.tapreview.org/curated/noh/noh.html Memory of the Dead and Responsibility of the Living: Noh Suntag’s Forgetting Machines (2006-2007) _ Curated by Jeehey Kim Noh Suntag made The Forgetting Machines series (2006-2007) by retaking funerary photographic portraits put in front of the tombs of those who died during the Gwangju Democratization Movement in South Korea. The photographic images appear distorted, tainted, burnt, and even obscured with vapors. Noh did not retouch his photographs, but took pictures of the portraits (G) as they were. 1) There are two cemeteries for commemorating the victims of the movement in Gwangju, the city where numerous civilians were killed by soldiers due to their demonstration against the military dictatorship on May 18th, 1980. What is called ‘the old cemetery’ is where the victims were temporarily buried, often carried in handcarts or trash trucks, while the atrocities were going on for ten days. The military dictatorship continued until 1987, and the massacre remained unrecognized during that time. May 18th came to be a national memorial day in 1997 when the new cemetery was established. The government asked the families of the victims to move the burial site from the old cemetery to the new one where they could have graves with tombstones and weather-proof funerary photo-portraits framed in stone. A number of the bereaved families refused since they had (G) not received any official apologies from those who were involved in the violent suppression, and currently the national ‘May 18 cemetery’ includes the both the old and new cemeteries. Noh took photographs in the old cemetery where the funerary photo-portraits, often housed in a glass boxes, were damaged by weather and temperature changes. The funerary photo-portrait originates from the Korean concept that, at death, one’s being is transformed into an ancestor god. The portrait is related to the Confucian emphasis on rituals of filial piety. It is used in funeral and annual ancestor worship as a temporary shelter of an ancestor god. However, those who die in chagrin, such as by murder or unfortunate accident, fail to transform themselves into ancestor gods. Instead, they wander around, often threatening the living. Thus, the funerary photo-portraits serve the process of the dead gazing upon the living rather than the living gazing at the dead. Koreans prepare their own funerary photo-portraits when they are getting closer to the time they will become an ancestor god in their family, usually when they reach their 70s or 80s. In case of an unexpected death, an identification photograph is often used. In the old cemetery of Gwangju, one could witness numerous student identification photographs transformed into the funerary photo-portraits, as well as a wedding photograph used for the tomb of a young female victim. In fact, Koreans rarely have funerary photo-portraits around their graves. During the ten days of the democratization movement in Gwangju when hundreds of civilians were killed, funerary photo-portraits were put on the coffins or in front of the graves in order to identify the dead. The May 18 Memorial Foundation commissioned Noh to make a photographic record of the national May 18 cemetery, including the new cemetery, memorial hall, and large-scale statues evoking patriotism. However, the foundation did not accept his works, including The Forgetting Machines, since the images barely show the heroic achievement of the democratization movement and how true democracy was achieved in South Korea. 2 ) The Forgetting Machines calls into question what memorialization could achieve. A large number of memorials and commemorative facilities serve to make atrocities comprehensible, familiarizing us with what should never have happened. Noh’s works reveal an irony of remembering: The National May 18 Cemetery exhorts us to remember what happened during the demonstration. However, remembering accompanies forgetting. The Forgetting Machines attempts to reveal how institutions like memorials and museums, as well as the media, are complicit in forgetting to ruminate on the way the historical predicament happened, including the processes before and after its outbreak. In the name of memorialization and commemoration, several films were produced on the Gwangju Democratization Movement, often mystifying the event and emphasizing the sacrifices of the participants. Does democracy always require the sacrifice of the anonymous, making it natural for us to go through numerous actions of violence by the powerful? Commemorating those who were targeted by violent suppressions often results in a mere spectacle for those who did not experience the atrocity, including those in the First World rather than a systematic consideration of its causes and effects. In his book “Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and The Archive”, Giorgio Agamben explores how terms like sacrifice and responsibility are used in a confusing way in that one originates from the idea of a religious death but has been used in relation to historical victims such as those killed in the Holocaust, while the other has a necessary implication of legal obligation rather than the mere feeling of guilt. Agamben points out that this kind of confusion often evokes a naïve humanitarian sense of collective guilt rather than recognizing how different ethical categories are from juridical categories, as well as how the idea of law is often mixed with the concepts of truth and justice. 3 ) Some of the bereaved family’s decision to stay in the old cemetery jeopardizes the idea of forgiveness, refusing to let the massacre be concluded as an event of the past or as one of the unavoidable processes toward the peace and democracy of South Korea. In addition, Agamben calls archival projects commingled with witness and testimony into question, pointing out the non-coincidences of the whole and the part as well as the necessity of attention to something in between the dead and the survivors. As an ethical process, he also emphasizes the impossibility of making a distinction between the human and the inhuman, revealing a gray zone between the insider and the outsider, terms which often refer to those directly involved in historical afflictions and others like onlookers. The Forgetting Machines challenges the archival project of enshrining historical victims which often leads to a clear demarcation of the insider and the outsider. In the National May 18 Cemetery, a funerary photo-portrait enshrinement hall was established next to the new cemetery, where visitors could pay silent tribute in front of the victims’ photographs instead of visiting each grave. In contrast to the enshrinement hall, in the old cemetery, visitors should pay tribute in front of each victim’s grave, often before a damaged funerary photo-portrait like the ones in Noh’s works. Some of those who died in suffering remain wandering around in the old cemetery while, ironically, others are worshipped as honorable ancestor gods and national spirits symbolizing patriotism in the new cemetery. Noh’s retaking of vernacular photographs is related to the strategy of doubling, which is an attempt to intervene in the way funerary photo-portraits are used in memorial facilities. Rather than mere copying, Noh’s reframing of portrait photographs functions as a supplement a la Derrida. 4) Personally unknown but historically known to most people, the faces in The Forgetting Machines urge us to learn how to gaze on them rather than to worship them as heroes. 1. Artist interview, May 2nd 2011. 3. Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and The Archive (New York, NY: Zone Books, 1999), 17-39. 4. Supplement, here, connotes both surplus and intervention. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University, 1997),144-151. * Jeehey Kim is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is writing a dissertation entitled “Death and Photography in East Asia,” which is on funerary photo-portraiture in the region. PreviousPrevious post:나경원의 입NextNext post:99%가 99%에게…. Pingback: www.luttapi.com Pingback: long dresses for teens Pingback: best florists online 리뷰 _ 반이정 개발과 재개발, 풍경의 공포 _ 박영선 정치적인, 너무나 정치적인 우리의 삶과 풍경 _ 박영선 폭력에 대한 성찰 _ 박평종 2009 suntag@naver.com \| powered by sidle.net	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line396
__label__cc	0.648516	0.351484	HAPPY NEW YEAR! Swart News 2010... I had to pull up the news page ringing in 2009 just to pinch myself visually. Can't believe a year has gone by, although we seem to say the same thing every new year...and it's true. And Michael and I are still fighting about whether to say "twenty-10" or "two-thousand & 10." Pathetic, yes. Too many fumes in shop? A definite maybe. Do you care? Unlikely. 2009 was a bit rough for many but the Swart Shop managed to stay busy, even through the rather lazy summer months when people prefer to play outside. Late '09 saw a huge spike as people hunkered down with guitars, harps, and Swart Amps, to bring in the fall colors. So we ring in the end of a tumultuous '09 with the amazing little Night Light. It looks to be a hit we're still catching up with, on into '10. While the Night Light is a killer attenuator for all the Swart combos (and any amp in the 22w and below region), we've been using it to link TWO Swarts with GREAT success. Just too fun. And then there's the next play on one of our stalwarts, soon to be causing a stir within the coming month. STR-Tweed Love from Susanna Hoffs & Vicki Peterson Our good friend Matthew Sweet has been using his plethora of Swarts since he first fell for the AST. He now has one of each, including the SST-30, ST-6V6se, and favorite STR-Tweed. He's done a lot of recording with the Swarts, the last being his 70s compilation done with Bangles' member, Susanna Hoffs. Seemed Susanna and Bangles cohort Vicki Peterson both HAD to have Swart STR-Tweeds. Get a load of the shot that just hit the Swart mailbox the other day. We're just wondering why we weren't invited for the Sit-in. Vicki said the little Swarts would be hitting the road with the Bangles so keep a look out. Oolong is smitten! Let's see what else has been going on around here lately ~ kh \| Swart Online Night Light Love from Lou Michael & Kelly, I received the Night Light last week and have been utilizing it continuously since. It is amazing. It has resolved my need for pumping the output on the amp while reducing the volume output. The three settings of attenuation are very comfortable. The lowest (highest attenuation) is extremely quiet but organic (who knew that Swart would be “green”). I have previously hooked up another amp, my Carr Slant 6v, with a switcher to combine for a great sound (not that my AST is not great on its own – it is my main amp), but it is so much clearer and fuller now via the line out from the Night Light. I have since disconnected the switcher. Being able to have tremolo and reverb unified in both amps is a gargantuan achievement. I essentially just adjust the volume setting on the slave amp to suit the attenuation setting to widen the sound. Otherwise, it is the Swart amp, AST, all on its own. Thank you again for such a fine product and for assisting me in further purifying my rig. Lou Vergne Next Swart to take 2010? Well, I have no idea what that is at right, but it was on my digital and possibly the most compelling entry in early 2010. But no, it's not the next Swart to take you by storm (actually, it looks a lot like my desk lamp and hand). So what IS coming down the pike? I have to say, even though I seem to say this every time, it's true more often than not. The last offering in development, hoping to be out for Valentines Day Joy, is looking to be my new favorite. How about 13lbs of 5w tube Glory Reverb with all that baby Swart Tone, the tone that started the whole ball rolling, but with a newly devised triode-run REVERB circuit? And how about dark, luscious, Tweed as stock? Too good to be true? Stay tuned... Kyle Ellison, Roky, & ASTs Well, Kyle Ellison, who's played with the Meat Puppets and Butthole Surfers, among others, was recently out on tour with the one and only Roky Erickson, another one of our favorites. Kyle agrees that there is no one like Roky..and nothing like his favorite ASTs and AST Head II. Kyle has run two ASTs side by side and one partnered with his AST Head. Seems the Austin scene has a bevy of Swarts in play, live and in studios. Cant think of a better place to be for a night of music, actually. Plug into Hell Canoe? Ok, this has nothing to do with Swart's latest release or upcoming project of need. But it IS in the Swart Shop Fridge, waiting for its own release of sorts. I discovered this while on a road trip to Montreal and it was akin to finding a bit of heaven while wandering the streets in search of a proper place to listen to some amplified racket. One has to only glance at the huge bottle topped with daddy cork held on by wire and prayer, this above a label depicting some sort of devil figure below a canoe of lost souls, paddling and screaming across the red sky, heading to the depths of Hell. After I drank two of these beasts, it made my playing sound like notes from the next stratosphere. ps - Dig nephew's birthday card which seemed to make sense at the time. Swart loons bringing in new year in style back in '09; we failed to get a shot of the raging fire this year - oysters & micro-brews were involved, a good thing. Return to Swart News '10	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line398
__label__cc	0.746878	0.253122	Dwell on Design LA Opens This Friday FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE & BEYOND Countdown to Exciting Happenings at Dwell on Design LA 2016 America’s Largest Design Event Opens Friday, June 24 June 24 – 26, 2016 \| Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa Street June 22, 2016 – Los Angeles, CA — Dwell on Design LA (DODLA), the largest design event in the country, will kick off its’ eleventh year in just two short days. Packed with inspiring onstage content, high-end designer home tours, live demonstrations, art installations, consultations and feature areas, including the highly-anticipated Dwell Outdoor curated by famed Australian-born designer Jamie Durie, Dwell on Design LA at the Los Angeles Convention Center will be the place to be June 24-26. LEARN FROM DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE EXPERTS Renowned architect Sou Fujimoto will present the opening keynote Friday, June 24 at 6:00 pm. Fujimoto’s innovative residential structures and institutional projects represent a fresh approach to the relationship between architectural space and the human body. Insightful panel discussions with actor Gary Sinise, architect Matthew Hufft, co-creator of Morpholio Toru Hasegawa, and Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne will cover core content themes including Healthy Architecture, Business of Design, Smart Home, and Nice Modernist. The editors of Dwell will moderate 43 on-stage panels featuring 96 speakers, 29 sessions are AIA and/or IDCEC accredited. To emphasize the importance of book culture in the design world, Dwell on Design is pleased to collaborate with Designers & Books™ to present the Designers & Books Fair. Internationally respected publishers offering books about architecture and various other design disciplines will be available at a special show discount of up to 30% off retail price. In addition, the Designers & Books Fair will host a book signing by keynote Sou Fujimoto on Friday, June 24. Back by popular demand, trusted architects, landscape designers and tile experts will be available for complimentary one-on-one consultations for those seeking first-hand advice on renovation and design projects. Find out more » SEE UNIQUE TWISTS ON MODERN DESIGN Modern designs from today’s emerging and undiscovered talent will be featured in the Prime Edition Pavilion. Built to recreate a gallery-like setting, this “show-within-a-show” offers a unique platform for designer-makers, industrial designers, and artists to showcase their work. All submissions to Prime Edition were juried and assessed based on quality and design integrity. Awards will be presented in two categories: furniture, lighting and accessories, and work for wall and sculpture. Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase the one-of-a-kind pieces on display directly from the show floor. 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Another key component of imm cologne’s presence at DODLA will be onstage programming co-curated by imm cologne creative director Dick Spierenburg, and Dwell Editor-In-Chief and Executive Vice President of content Amanda Dameron. Presented content will complement Spierenburg’s “Pure” programming at the imm cologne in Germany, highlighting emerging designers, product and material explorations, and other facets of the business of design. Dwell on Design LA is proud to be the home of a unique presence of modern design brands that will introduce their newest and most innovative products at DODLA 2016. Brands launching products this year include Fenix NTM, RAD Furniture, Modify Furniture, Ronbow, Signature Kitchen Suite, Koncept, Graff Faucets, Marvin, Samina, and many more. The Modern Family Pavilion is returning with family-friendly activities, including a playhouse crafted by LA’s own Folk Art Playhouses, for the young designers of the future. Designed and curated with modern makings in mind, the Modern Family Pavilion strives to offer architecture and design solutions that address the needs, configurations, and challenges that make a house a home. INTERACT WITH THE LOS ANGELES DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE COMMUNITY See inside exclusive, thoughtfully designed Los Angeles homes by attending a Dwell on Design Home Tour. The self-guided tours allow design seekers the chance to immerse themselves in “Dwell-like” domestic spaces. Every year Dwell editors handpick homes that represent the extraordinary architecture and design in Los Angeles. This year is no different; from the beach to the mountains, home tour attendees will be able to view 15 homes—June 19, 25 and 26, 10:00 am–4:00 pm. Maloney Residence (Venice, CA) Photo by Noah Walker Beech Knoll House (Los Angeles, CA) Photo by Meilijson Attend Meet the Architects Night sponsored by TOTO – June 23, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm at Le Petit Paris restaurant – to learn about the inspiration and creative vision behind the properties featured on the LA Home Tours. Find out more about Home Tours & Meet the Architects. EXPERIENCE PRESTIGE AND TASTE The hybrid car that started it all just got a lot more stylish and aggressive. It has a sleek, aerodynamic design, modern interior and intuitive driving dynamics. Experience first-hand during the Prius Ride and Drive featuring demonstrations of the all-new Toyota Prius on Saturday, June 25, 10:00 am–6:00 pm and Sunday, June 26, 10:00 am–4:00 pm. To create the ultimate experience, become a VIP at Dwell on Design. Purchase a VIP Pass and go first-class with a special invitation to the VIP Dinner with the designers and architects of the home tours, Dwell CEO, and Dwell Editor-in-Chief at a private home in the Hollywood Hills. Also included: three days of Home Tours, Meet the Architects Nights, Keynote + On-Stage Presentations (includes up to 29 CEUs) and more! SAVE TIME, BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE Purchase advance tickets to Dwell on Design LA by registering online and save time upon arriving. Tickets will also be sold on-site at the LA Convention Center, June 23-26, 2016. Trade professionals will want to attend Dwell on Design on Friday, June 24 for Trade Day, featuring association education opportunities and the evening keynote address by Sou Fujimoto. Multiple registration options are available for Trade Professionals including All-Access Passes, 1-, 2-, or 3-Day passes with tickets ranging from $35 to $450, depending on the package selection. 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__label__wiki	0.617033	0.617033	The RTC Podcast: 2013-14 Opening Weekend Edition Posted by rtmsf on November 7th, 2013 That little countdown clock in the uppper left of this site says it’s about 24 hours from the return of the college hoops. We’ve got you covered. Throughout this preseason, the RTC Podcast has been putting in some serious recording work. Led by hosting and producing stalwart Shane Connolly (@sconnolly114), we have now dropped a total of two preseason podcasts (Part I, recorded in mid-October and featuring guest Mike DeCourcy, can be found here) and seven conference-specific podblasts (listed below). AAC Preview Podblast ACC Preview Podblast Big East Preview Podblast Big Ten Preview Podblast Big 12 Preview Podblast Pac-12 Preview Podblast SEC Preview Podblast Today’s Part II of the national preseason podcast is a festive one. Anything is possible! Perhaps an All-America team that will look nothing like the postseason version. Perhaps a trip to the Final Four from a school that was last seen running Steve Alford out of town (no, not that one, keep thinking). Maybe even a new bandwagon to replace the Maize and Blue (alright, not really to replace… more like supplement). There might even be a t-shirt contest in this week’s edition. The point is that we’re all in a great mood with real, live games starting very soon, and we hope you’ll join us for a listen. Keep in mind that from now until the second week in April, the podcast will publish once early in the week with a review of all the big weekend action, and the RTC Podblast, a much shorter 15-20 minute quick hits version, will publish late in the week reflecting on all that week’s action. As usual, the rundown is below if you’d like to skip around to the most interesting parts. Make sure to add the RTC Podcast to your iTunes lineup so that you’ll automatically upload it on your listening device after we record. And feel free to contact us through Twitter or email — we’re listening. 0:00-1:45 – Open 1:45-3:40 – ACC Preview Takeaway 3:40-5:00 – AAC Preview Takeaway 5:00-6:25 – Big East Preview Takeaway 6:25-7:28 – Big 12 Preview Takeaway 7:28-8:21 – Big Ten Preview Takeaway 8:21-9:15 – Pac-12 Preview Takeaway 9:15-10:40 – SEC Preview Takeaway 10:40-16:47 – Randy Officially Picks a New Bandwagon 16:47-27:18 – Rush the Take with Chris Johnson 27:18-33:14 – All-America Discussion 33:14-45:16 – You, Me and the AP: Top 25 Talk 45:16-50:43 – Opening Weekend Preview 50:43-57:11 – Final Four Picks/Wrap \| 2013-14 season preview, rtc podcast \| Tagged: aac, acc, all-american teams, ap top 25, big 12, big east, big ten, chris johnson, feature, final four, pac-12, preseason, rtc podcast, sec Atlantic 10 Season Recap and Postseason Preview Posted by Brian Goodman on March 13th, 2013 Joe Dzuback is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic 10 Conference. You can also find his musings online at Villanova by the Numbers or on Twitter @vtbnblog. Conference Realignment: Who’s Got Next? A non-story for the entire season, the divorce negotiated between the Catholic 7 and the Conference Formerly Known as the Big East was finalized last week, a development guaranteed to kick off another round of musical partners. The Catholic 7 got custody of the last name (Big East) and the house (an older but stately palace in downtown New York), along with a promise to process the paperwork quickly. The new/old conference needs three more members to share the TV money and national exposure they are rumored to have negotiated with Fox Sports. The yearly payout per team, believed to be just under ten times the per-team amount the Atlantic 10 just agreed to with CBS, should draw interest. Butler and Xavier have been at the center of Catholic 7 alignment rumors since last October. Unlike Temple’s announced exit in February of last season, however, neither school has confirmed – or denied – the rumors. Xavier, a member since 1995-96, would be the second flagship program (behind Temple) to exit the conference in that last 13 months. Butler who twice went to the Final Four within the last five years, has barely had time to unpack before moving on. When given the news of Temple’s exit in February of 2012, commissioner Bernadette McGlade took a proactive tack and had two replacements in place eight weeks into the offseason. Expect her to do the same this off season. George Mason and Wichita State are the two mentioned most by fans and conference followers. The Best Basketball-Centric Conference? Mountain West fans may disagree, but it seems certain that the Atlantic 10 Conference will send at least five members to the NCAA Tournament, equaling the highest ever achieved (1997 and 1998). Saint Louis, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth are all but certain to receive bids regardless of what happens this weekend, and prospects for Temple and La Salle remain very strong. On top of that, Massachusetts or Xavier could, with strong conference tournament showings, squeeze out an unprecedented sixth bid for the conference, though it seems unlikely. The last week of conference play opens with only three conference tournament spots – all three on the sidelines, determined. Others (that Saint Louis will take the #1 seed, Virginia Commonwealth will take #2 and La Salle most likely the #3) seem nearly certain, but note that seeds #4 through #12 are pretty much up for grabs…at least until Wednesday. Jim Crews has the right to smirk a little after leading the Billikens to their first regular season title in 42 years. (USATSI) Saint Louis (24-6, 13-3; #16 AP; Projected NCAA Seed #5) – The Billikens stumbled in the last week versus Xavier, but locked down the #1 seed in Brooklyn by beating La Salle. Off until Friday, coach Jim Crews’ team will meet the winner of the Richmond/Charlotte game (most likely Richmond), and if seed holds, most likely La Salle Saturday (and Virginia Commonwealth on Sunday). On the radar however is the NCAA tournament (yes the Bills are a lock at this point, win or lose Friday) seed. The consensus today is a #4-#5 seed with little prospect of moving up without a slew of early conference tournament losses elsewhere. RTC’s Dan Evans’ early March bracket matched the #5 Bills against #12 seed OVC Champion Belmont. The Bears run and gun, which would make this an interesting matchup. \| 2013 conference tournaments, checking in on, microsites, other 26 \| Tagged: alan major, alonzo nelson-odoba, archie miller, brad stevens, Branden Frazier, bryan smith, butler, Cedrick Lindsay, charlotte, chris gaston, chris johnson, dan hurley, david pellom, dayton, demitrius congers, derek kellogg, derrick colter, derrick williams, duquesne, dyshawn pierre, eric mosley, feature, fordham, george washington, gilvydas biruta, isaiah armwood, jake o'brien, jim crews, Jim Ferry, jon kopriva, josh benson, juvonte reddic, kellen dunham, kendall anthony, kevin dillard, kevin larsen, khalif wyatt, la salle, mandell thomas, mark schmidt, matt wright, michael davenport, Nemanja Mikic, phil martelli, ramon glloway, rhode island, richmond, rotnei clarke, saint bonaventure, saint joseph's, saint louis, semanj christon, shaka smart, temple, tom pecora, travis taylor, umass, vcu, xavier, youssou ndoye Checking In On… the Atlantic 10 Conference Posted by rtmsf on January 4th, 2012 Joe Dzuback is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic 10 Conference. You can also find his musings online at Villanova by the Numbers or on Twitter @(vbtnBlog) Reader’s Take No A-10 Teams in the Top 25, Again: The latest round of the AP and Coaches polls (January 2) show no Atlantic 10 team that gathered enough support nationally to be ranked … for the second consecutive week. Saint Louis missed a good opportunity to impress when the Billikens dropped a four-point decision to New Mexico on Saturday, picking up their second loss in the process. With the next six teams showing three or four losses, the conference is out of the Top 25 conversation for the next few weeks. The other name brands, Xavier and Temple, did not help their causes this past week. Xavier dropped their third game in the last four, this time to Gonzaga in what might have been a good “comparison” game for the Selection Committee. Temple won their third straight, but the last two have not been especially impressive. The Owls may get the conference’s last good chance for some noise when they host #3 Duke tonight. Conference Comparisons: Nearly 90% of the out-of-conference games are on the books and the Atlantic 10 has posted a 62.6% winning percentage: Against the six power conferences, the conference has logged a respectable 22-26 (0.458) record. Highlights include .500 or better records against the ACC (7-6, 0.538 – note Temple hosts Duke tonighit, see below), the Big Ten (4-4, 0.500) and the SEC (4-1, 0.800). Conference members logged their strongest numbers against the teams within the conference footprint – those traditional opponents during the out-of-conference portion of the schedule, posting a 63.8% (30-17) winning record against teams located throughout New England, the Middle Atlantic and upper Midwest regions. Against those conferences most likely to compete for the at-large bids not allocated to the power conference teams, the A-10 posted a strong – but deceptive – 23-12 (0.657) record, largely at the expense of the CAA (15-5, 0.750) and C-USA (4-3, 0.571); both show improvement over the 2010-11 season when, through the end of December, the A-10 went 7-10 versus the CAA and 2-5 with C-USA. Conference Play Commences: The conference maintains their traditional “opening night” tipoff with five conference games and a sixth game to be played on Thursday night. Saturday will feature six conference games with the seventh game to be played on Sunday. By next Monday, every member will have logged at least one conference game. Despite A Tough Start, Tu Holloway And Xavier Will Be A Major Challenger For The A-10 Crown (AP) With only a few games scheduled, and those yielding mixed results for the teams at the top of last week’s power ranking, the conference appears to be sliding sideways. Massachusetts disposes of their last out of conference opponents fairly easily to move up a spot, while Temple finishes the month 6-1 and Fordham upsets a ranked team. Saint Louis (12-2) – The Billikens ended the week 1-1 — the loss coming at the hands of New Mexico (WAC) at the notorious Pit, UNM’s homecourt. Rick Majerus’ crew smothered Texas Southern with defense in a 71-39 win on 12/27, limiting the Tigers to a paltry 0.57 points per possession (or PPP, with 68 possessions per team calculated), about half a point per possession, just over half of the Division I average. Saint Louis’ own 1.04 point per possession hints at the ongoing point production problem with Saint Louis, but when a defense holds an opponent under 0.6 PPP, the team does not need a very efficient offense to win. Brian Conklin earned an Honorable Mention for his 35-point performance over the two games which yielded an average of 17.5 points per game with an eFG% of 68.4%. Very impressive numbers indeed. The Lobos were a different matter, as the Billikens were down two at the half, and gave up another two points in the second half. Saint Louis opens conference play at Dayton Wednesday, then returns home to host George Washington on Saturday. Read the rest of this entry » \| atlantic 10, Checking In On \| Tagged: alan major, anthony lee, b.j. montiero, charlotte, chris johnson, chris mack, dayton, derek kellogg, duquesne, fordham, george washington, josh benson, kenny fraese, la salle, massachusetts, michael eric, mike powell, mike schmidt, rhode island, richmond, rick majerus, ron everhart, saint joseph's, saint louis, st bonaventure, temple, tu holloway, Xaiver Posted by rtmsf on December 6th, 2011 Joe Dzuback is the RTC correspondent for the A-10 Conference. You can also find his musings online at Villanova by the Numbers or on Twitter @vbtnBlog. Early Season Performances – The Oooh Aaaah Variety (Teams & Individuals) The A-10 evened the record versus the six power conferences again last week, largely on the strength of performances by Xavier and Richmond. Xavier needed overtime to beat Vanderbilt in Nashville. Down by two with just under four minutes in regulation, Xavier held Vanderbilt scoreless and managed to tie on a Mark Lyons jumper with six seconds remaining in regulation. In overtime the Musketeers took the lead for good 68-66 on two Dezmine Wells free throws and Tu Holloway put a large enough margin between the teams (about eight points) when he hit two threes in successive possessions to absorb a Commodore mini-run. Vanderbilt chipped the Musketeers’ lead down to four, but could get no closer. Forced to foul, Holloway and Travis Taylor went a perfect 6 for 6 from the line to stretch the lead to 10 and suck the life out of the Commodore comeback. Hosting Purdue five days later, Xavier again went down early, allowing Purdue to take the lead at the 18:49 mark of the first half and hold it for the next 37 minutes of play. The Boilermakers took an 11-point lead into the intermission and stretched it to 15 in the first 6:30 of the second half. Over the next 12:24 Xavier outscored Purdue 29-13 to take the lead for only the second time in the game. Once in control, the Musketeers did not let the Boilermakers back in, pushing their lead out to three in the last minute of the game. As for Tu Holloway’s (and Xavier’s) week, we can’t say it any better than Rob Dauster over at Ballin’ is a Habit. Ok we could, but cut and paste required fewer key strokes and brain cells: Those numbers are more interesting, however, when you break up the game. For example, with 3:30 left in overtime against Vanderbilt, Holloway had just 14 points on 4-17 shooting. That stat line looks much more impressive after he hit back-to-back threes on the next two possessions and four straight free throws down the stretch to seal the win. Likewise, against Purdue, Holloway had just 10 points and six turnovers in the first 38 minutes of the game, but in the final two minutes he hit a three on three consecutive possessions (video of the last two below) and followed that up with two free throws, completing the most impressive comeback of the young season…in the final three minutes against Vanderbilt and the last two minutes against Purdue, Holloway had 21 points, went 5-6 from beyond the arc and knocked down all six of his free throws attempts. The Richmond squad had to replace 59% of their minutes and 68.6% of their scoring from the squad that won the A-10 conference tournament and ran to the Sweet Sixteen last March. Freshman point guard Kendall Anthony, three times designated Rookie of the Week by the conference, has picked up a load of time and scoring responsibilities for the Spiders so far. Richmond leaned heavily on Anthony along with sophomores Cedrick Lindsay and Derrick Williams for offense. Both chipped in double digit points to complement Anthony’s production. Lindsay was a serviceable back-up to senior point guard Kevin Anderson last season, but Williams, who has started all eight games for the Spiders, saw very little action as a freshman. Overlooked Temple off guard Aaron Brown turned heads the summer before coming to North Broad, but had few opportunities to show Temple fans and the A-10 what he could do. Brown scored 21 points in 22 minutes in a display during Temple’s 86-74 win over Central Michigan. Ken Pomeroy would find hard to ignore his performance, as he hit 7-11 (4-7 from three point land, 3-4 from inside the arc) shots from the floor while getting to the line for five free throws, of which he hit three. That computes to an 81.8% eFG% with a 1.57 points per weighted shot, an outstanding outing for the sophomore, who was pressed into action due to the injury-depleted squad. Early Season Performances – The What the !@#!@@!# Variety (Teams & Individuals) After winning their early season invitational tournaments, beating four power conference opponents (two each) during the tournament, both Dayton and Saint Louis stumbled in post tournament games. The losses are puzzling because for both teams, the games were winnable. Saint Louis took an “and-one” game with Loyola Marymount of the West Coast Conference, losing by seven with a performance that had team observers scratching their heads. Dayton compounded the first post tournament loss (by 29 to Buffalo of the MAC) with a second loss, this one by 17, to Murray State of the Ohio Valley Conference. The opponents were beatable, making the scoring margins downright consternating. Dayton was pegged to finish in the middle of the conference, but the two unexpected losses (albeit the Racers will most likely contend for the OVC title this season) could damage the Flyers chances for a post season NIT bid. Other inexplicable losses go to Saint Bonaventure’s home loss to Arkansas State of the Sun Belt Conference, a 3-4 team no one expects to make noise this season. The Bonnies were not helped by a lackluster six-point, nine-rebound effort from Andrew Nicholson. The Power Rankings are shuffled again this week in response to the Ooohs, Aaaahs and What the heck games listed above. For the Atlantic-10 the post season margin for error is exceedingly slim. Three losses going into the first or second week of December can take a school off the RPI short list pretty quickly. 1. Xavier (6-0) #8 AP – Xavier took down two more power conference programs last week in fashion impressive enough to climb three more spots in the AP poll. I listed many of the impressive details in the impressive performances section above, but in addition to the video link below that shows two of Tu Holloway’s three “last two minute” three point field goals below (h/t to Dana & Victory Blog for the link). I should also mention that in Nashville Mark Lyons (19 points) and Travis Taylor (11 points) chipped in more than 10 apiece to go with Holloway’s 24 point performance, while Antoine Walker collected 14 rebounds in his return to Vanderbilt where he played for three years. Versus Purdue three Musketeers, Lyons (14 points), Walker (10 points) and Kenny Fraese (10 points) chipped in double digit points to complement Holloway’s 21 point outburst. Xavier will travel to Indianapolis Wednesday for a game with Butler, then return home to host this season’s Crosstown Shootout versus Cincinnati on Saturday. Win these next two and Chris Mack’s squad deserves something special, like Christmas in Hawaii…wait. 2. Saint Louis (7-1) –Their top 25 ranking proved surprisingly short, the penalty for stumbling against the Lions last Tuesday. St. Louis recovered to beat another WCC team, Portland by 20, 73-53 at the Chaifetz. The Billikens’ defense limited Portland to 0.90 points per possession, much as they had Boston College and Oklahoma. Scoring centered on Brian Conklin and Cody Ellis, with Kyle Cassidy and Mike McCall providing efficient long-range scoring. They will host Vermont on Wednesday and Division II Illinois-Springfield on Saturday. \| atlantic 10, Checking In On \| Tagged: aaron brown, alberto estwick, andre malone, andrew nicholson, archie miller, billy baron, bj monteiro, Branden Frazier, brian conklin, bryan smith, carl jones, Cedrick Lindsay, charlon kloof, charlotte, chaz williams, chris gaston, chris johnson, chris mack, chris mooney, cody ellis, Da'Quan Cook, dayton, derek kellogg, derrick williams, devin mcmillan, Dezmine Wells, duquesne, earl pettis, eric evans, eric mosley, fordham, fran dunphy, Freddy Riley, halil kanacevic, jamal wilson, jimmy mcdonnell, jon holton, josh benson, kendall anthony, kervin bristol, kevin anderson, kevin dillard, Kyle Cassidy, la salle, mark lyons, massachusetts, michael davenport, michael eric, mike lonergan, Mike McCall, mike powell, paul williams, phil martelli, ramone galloway, rhode island, richmond, ron everhart, ron roberts, saint bonaventure, scottie randall, sean johnson, st louis, temple, tj mcconnell, tom pecora, travis taylor, tu holloway, tyreek duren, xavier Checking In On… the Atlantic 10 The Week That Was: Early Season Tournaments – The Conference Crossroads: Though the invitational tournaments come in three different formats, they provide A-10 members with the opportunity to face-off against competition from other conferences. If the tournament is a “destination”, all the better, as those often offer one or two games versus power conference opponents on a neutral court. Mixed format tournaments can provide the A-10 member with the chance to play a power conference opponent and then host a sub-regional mini-tournament afterward, as George Washington did for the Preseason NIT last season and Rhode Island did for the Legends Classic this season. Despite the road game incentive built into the RPI, the NCAA does little to discourage the power conference practice of guarantee games beyond officially “frowning” on it. Unless you are Xavier or Temple, your best chance to see a power conference team in a venue besides their home court (on the front end of a home-and-home agreement) is to join one of the early-season invitational tournaments. Though Xavier will spend Christmas in Hawaii at the Diamond Head Classic, virtually all early-season invitational tournaments concluded on or before Thanksgiving Weekend. How did the Atlantic-10 do? The 21-13 record reveals both hope (Dayton, Richmond and Saint Louis) and fear (La Salle, Massachusetts and Rhode Island) as the season progresses, but overall, the 61.8% winning percentage will help the conference come Selection Sunday. Flyer fans can look to a surprise first-place finish in the Old Spice Classic that included wins over Wake Forest out of the ACC and Minnesota from the Big Ten, as signs that the Dayton program revival is ahead of schedule under rookie coach Archie Miller. Saint Louis rolled through the 76 Classic field, cutting through three power conference opponents in four days like a hot knife through butter. No one, not Boston College (ACC), Villanova (Big East) nor Oklahoma (Big 12) could get closer than 11 points to the Billikens in their final scores. \| atlantic 10, Checking In On \| Tagged: alberto estwick, andrew nicholson, archie miller, b.j. monteiro, bill clark, Branden Frazier, brian conklin, bryan smith, c.j. aiken, Cedrick Lindsay, charlotte, chaz williams, chris braswell, chris gaston, chris johnson, chris mack, chris mooney, cody ellis, darien brothers, darrius garrett, dayton, Demetrius Conger, derek kellogg, devon mcmillan, devon white, dezmine well, duquesne, earl pettis, fordham, freddie riley, george washington, greg robbins, halil kanacevic, jamal wilson, jamar briscoe, jerrell wright, jerry jones, jim baron, jon holton, jordair jett, josh benson, josh parker, kendall anthony, kenny frease, kervin bristol, kevin dillard, kwamain mitchell, Kyle Cassidy, la salle, Langston Galloway, mark lyons, mark schmidt, massachusetts, matt kavenaugh, matt lopez, michael eric, Mike McCall, mike talley, nikola malesevic, orion outerbridge, paul williams, phil martelli, ramon galloway, rhode island, richmond, rick majerus, Rob Loe, ron everhart, ron roberts, saint joseph's, saint louis, sean johnson, st bonaventure, steve zack, temple, tony taylor, travis taylor, tu holloway, xavier Posted by Brian Goodman on November 23rd, 2011 Joe Dzuback is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic 10 Conference. You can also find his musings online at Villanova by the Numbers or on Twitter @vbtnblog. How They Measure Up: Results by Conference The A-10 teams played 51 games from November 9 through November 22 against teams from 22 conferences and an independent. The overall record, 34-17 (0.667) may leave fans optimistic as last season’s final winning percentage was 0.589, but the season is very, very early with less than 25% of the schedule in the books. Whether conference members can draw a fourth (or even a third?) bid depends to a considerable degree on how the conference as a whole fares against the power conferences and against schools that will form the pool of at-large candidates. Conferences not played have been omitted. A few oddities should catch the reader’s attention. First, only Saint Bonaventure has engaged a MAAC school so far, unusual for the conference. The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is largely made up of private colleges (many of them Catholic) located in a footprint that stretches from the Capital Region in New York State, west to Lake Erie and south through metropolitan New York down to Maryland. Many MAAC schools share basketball traditions with Fordham and St. Bonaventure, and many of the other A-10 members from New England and Philadelphia. Second, the A-10 is killing the CAA this season, notching a 5-1 record so far. Granted less than a third of the scheduled games have been played, but A-10 teams had to close with a rush of wins to bring last season’s head-to-head record to 7-10, and conference fans watched with mixed emotions as the second CAA team in four seasons advanced to the Final Four last March. While only George Mason from among the CAA’s elite teams has been engaged (and GMU squeaked by, beating Rhode Island in overtime), the early returns are promising. The winning percentage against the power conferences is much lower than last season’s 0.469, but again the season is early as the conference has completed only 20% of their anticipated slate. Excluding the ACC where the A-10 holds a 2-0 edge so far, the conference’s only other power conference win came Sunday against Washington. While the lopsided record compiled against the CAA is the largest influence in the composite record, the A-10 has compiled an 8-1 record versus conferences with a similar profile (the CAA, CUSA, MWC, WAC and MVC), conference teams have sustained winning records against MWC and CUSA competition as well as the CAA. \| atlantic 10, Checking In On \| Tagged: aaron ware, alberto estwick, andre marhold, andrew nicholson, anthony lee, archie miller, b.j. monteiro, brad byrnes, Branden Frazier, brian conklin, brian vonderhaar, c.j. aiken, carl jones, cedric lindsey, charlon kloof, charlotte, chaz williams, chris braswell, chris gaston, chris johnson, chris mack, darien brothers, darrius garrett, daryus quarles, david pellom, dayton, demario mayfield, derek kellogg, derrick williams, devon mcmillan, duquesne, earl pettis, eric evans, eric michael, eric mosley, fordham, fran dunphy, francis martel, Freddy Riley, george washington, halil kanasevic, jabari edwards, jamal wilson, javarris barnett, Javorn Farrell, jerrell wright, jim baron, john propriva, jon holton, jonathan holton, josh benson, juan fernandez, k.j. sherrill, kenny fraese, kervin bristol, kevin dillard, khalif wyatt, kwamain mitchell, kyle cassity, la salle, Langston Galloway, lasan kromah, lavoy allen, mark lyons, massachusetts, matt kavanaugh, mike powell, mike schmidt, mkendall anthony, nemnja mikic, nikola malesevic, orion outerbridge, papa ndao, paul williams, rahlir hollis-jefferson, ramon galloway, ramone moore, rhode island, richmond, Rob Loe, saint joseph's, saint louis, sam mills, sean carter, sean johnson, st bonaventure, t.j. mcconnell, temple, terrel vinson, tom pecora, tony taylor, tu holloway, tyreek duren, xavier RTC Conference Primers: #8 – Atlantic 10 Posted by Brian Goodman on October 30th, 2011 Joe Dzuback of Villanova by the Numbers is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic 10 Conference. You can find him on Twitter @vbtnBlog. Reader’s Take I The A-10 has earned three invitations to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last four seasons. Xavier and Temple, as they have for the past two seasons, will claim two bids. Top Storylines Xavier’s Honors/Recognition: The Musketeers were eliminated in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last March, but have garnered quite a bit of recognition and more than a few awards since last March. Tu Holloway won the 2010-11 Conference Player of the Year award, earned a place on the Wooden Award Preseason Watch List and drew a nod as a member of the preseason A-10 All-Conference First Team. Four of Holloway’s teammates, Mark Lyon, Kenny Frease, Dezmine Wells and Justin Martin, all earned places on several preseason All-Conference teams. Xavier Athletic Director Michael Bobinski will chair the NCAA Mens Tournament Selection Committee for the 2012-13 tournament. Bobinski will succeed Jeff Hathaway, Consultant to Big East Commissioner John Marinatto for Men’s Basketball (yes, that really is his title). Xavier's Tu Holloway Is A First-Team All-American Candidate And One Of The Nation's Best Seniors A-10 to Barclays in 2013: Barclays Center, under construction in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is in the market for multi-day sporting events while the Atlantic 10 is looking for a bigger stage for their post season tournament — a perfect match perhaps? The two announced a deal late last month that will move the 2012-13 A-10 Conference Tournament to the 675,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue that will feature an 18,000 seat arena for basketball. The Atlantic 10 has vacillated between rotating campus sites and a “permanent neutral” site since the first conference tournament in 1976-77. The current location since the 2006-07 tournament, Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, is a 10,500 seat amphitheater. While technically neutral, the attendance is up when one or more of the Philadelphia contingent (La Salle, Saint Joseph’s and/or Temple) advances to the quarterfinal round and beyond, and down when they do not. The conference will return to Boardwalk Hall for their 2011-12 tournament, then move over to Barclays Center the following season. \| 2011-12 Season Preview, atlantic 10, Checking In On, conference primers \| Tagged: aaron brown, aaron ware, alan major, alberto estwick, alonzo nelson-ododa, andre malone, andre marhold, andre walker, andrew nicholson, anthony lee, archie miller, b.j. montiero, billy baron, brandon frazier, brett roseboro, brian conklin, brian gregory, c.j. aiken, cady lalanne, cedric lindsay, charlon kloof, chaz williams, chris braswell, chris gaston, chris johnson, chris mooney, cole stefan, connor smith, cory remekun, Da'Quan Cook, danny herrara, darrio green, darrius garrett, david pellom, demarco mayfield, Demetrius Conger, derrick martin, derrick willaims, devin oliver, Dezmine Wells, dominique mckoy, donnie jones, dr. john giannini, Dwayne Evans, dwayne smith, earl pettis, eric mosley, fran dunphy, francis martel, freddie riley, gregg robbins, griffin mckenzie, ilija ivankovic, jabari hinds, jamar briscoe, jamil wilson, javarris barnett, Javorn Farrell, jeff robinson, jerry jones, jesse morgan, jim whitesell, john kopriva, jon holton, jonathan benjamin, jordan gaithers, josh benson, josh duinker, josh parker, juan fernandez, Justin Martin, k.j. sherrill, kadeem pantophlet, karl hobbs, kendall anthony, kenny frease, kervin bristol, kevin dillard, kwamain mitchell, kyle cassity, Langston Galloway, lasan kromah, liam billings, Luka Voncina, luka zivkovic, luke fabrizius, luke piotrowski, mamadou datt, mark lyon, marquis simmons, matt kavanaugh, matthew wright, max esho, michael davenport, michael eric, mike lonergan, Mike McCall, mike talley, nemanja mickic, nikola malsevic, orion outerbridge, p.j. torres, paul williams, phil amrtelli, porter moser, rahi jefferson, ramon galloway, ramone moore, raphael putney, Rob Loe, Ronald Roberts, ryan canty, sam dehaas, sam mills, sampson carter, scootie randall, sean carter, sean johnson, sean miller, t.j. dileo, t.j. mcconnell, terrell vinson, tom herrion, tom pecora, tony taylor, travis taylor, trey davis, tu holloway, tyreek duren, wayne sparrow, youssou ndoye, zachary chu, zak estes RTC Summer Updates: Northeast Conference Posted by Brian Goodman on August 19th, 2011 With the completion of the NBA Draft and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division I conference during the summer months. Our latest and final update comes courtesy of our NEC correspondent, Ray Floriani. Summer Storylines Monmouth Makes Noise – First came the hiring of King Rice to take over for Dave Calloway. Rice promises a significant upgrade, change in culture and return to winning ways for the New Jersey Shore-based school. To beef up its revenue stream, the university recently announced a partnership with New Jersey’s Millennium Radio Group. As part of the deal, all Monmouth games will be aired on WOBM-AM for the next three seasons. Each Monday, the King Rice Show will also be broadcast on the station. Finally, Monmouth accepted a bid to play in the NIT Season Tip-Off. The Hawks will face Virginia Tech in Blacksburg in the East Regional. Other teams in that group are George Mason and Florida International. Phenomenal Phelan: NEC Hall of Famer Jim Phelan will receive the Lapchick Character Award at Madison Square Garden. The former Mount St. Mary’s mentor joins Hall of Famer Pete Carril and Virginia women’s coach Debbie Ryan in receiving this year’s honor. The trio has enjoyed wonderful and winning careers punctuated with loyalty, longevity and success. Red Flash Commemorates History: St. Francis (PA) looks to improve and be competitive in the NEC, but not without forgetting its past. St. Francis will honor the “Golden” basketball legacy between 1940 and 1970. Players from that area will be nominated and reviewed by a selection committee to be included in an extended wing of the St. Francis Hall of Fame. As 1970 alumnus Bob Moore said, “Small Catholic colleges, particularly in the East, ranked among the nation’s collegiate powers. To pay tribute to those early players and the teams St. Francis produced is long overdue.” Hurley Hunkers Down: Wagner head coach Danny Hurley is getting his teams exposed to the highest level and toughened up for league play. His Wagner club will visit 2011 NCAA Tournament representatives Princeton, UConn and Pittsburgh on the road. The Seahawks will also travel to the Cable Car Classic out west in December. Wagner opens that tournament with Air Force before facing Santa Clara or Eastern Michigan in the next round. More of Moore: Quinnipiac coach Tom Moore was awarded a well-deserved extension through the 2015-16 season. Terms of the pact were not disclosed. Moore led Quinnipiac to 23 victories and a NEC regular season title in 2010. CCSU's Ken Horton Leads The Charge For The Blue Devils. (CCSUBlueDevils.com) \| 2011 summer updates \| Tagged: akeem johnson, Alex Francis, andy toole, anthony ervin, ben altit, bobby ptacek, briahn smith, bryant, central connecticut, chris evans, chris johnson, chris martin, cj garner, danny hurley, dave bike, dave johnson, devan bailey, don friday, drew calloway, ed waite, fairleigh dickinson, Frankie Dobbs, gary cox, glenn briaca, greg vetrone, howie dickenman, jamal olaswere, jamee jackson, james hett, james johnson, Jim Ferry, jim phelan, josh thompson, julian boyd, karon abraham, ken horton, kign rice, Lamar Trice, latif rivers, lijah thompson, long island, matthew lee, melquan bolding, mike keitt meyers, mount st. mary's, orlando parker, quinnipiac, Robert Burke, robert morris, russell johnson, sacred heart, Shane Gibson, st francis (pa), stefan perunicic, tim o'shea, tom moore, travis nichols, Tyler Murray, umar shannon, velton joens, vladyslav kondratyev, wagner, will campbell RTC Summer Updates: Atlantic 10 Conference Posted by Brian Goodman on August 3rd, 2011 With the completion of the NBA Draft and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division I conference during the summer months. Our latest update comes courtesy of our Atlantic 10 correspondent, Joe Dzuback. You can read more of his in-depth writing and analysis at Villanova By The Numbers. Bobinski to Chair NCAA Selection Committee: While the conference again sent seven teams, half of its membership, to the postseason — three to the NCAA, one to the NIT and three to the CBI, the Final Four runs by Butler (Horizon League) and Virginia Commonwealth (Colonial Athletic Association) overshadowed a showing, Xavier’s loss to Marquette excepted, that exceeded 2010’s NCAA results. The NCAA announced that Xavier Athletic Director Mike Bobinski will succeed Connecticut’s Jeff Hathaway as Chairman of the 2012 NCAA Tournament Selection Committee. Bobinski just completed his third year of a five-year term on the Selection Committee. While the Atlantic 10 has been the most successful non-BCS conference in placing teams in the tournament field (with 20 NCAA bids allotted to six teams since 2004), its representatives have tended to draw the short straw when it comes to seeding, and Bobinski will likely lobby hard for that cause. The Coaching Carousel: The conference had two coaching vacancies during the early phase of the coaching carousel. If the 2010 offseason saw coaching turnovers due to firings, the 2011 offseason saw suitors come to call on the Atlantic 10 coaching fraternity. Tennessee, having fired Bruce Pearl on March 21, made its first call to Xavier to talk with Chris Mack. Mack reportedly turned aside an offer of $2 million per year to coach the Volunteers in favor of staying in Cincinnati with the Musketeers. Richmond’s Chris Mooney signed a 10-year contract extension, his second extension in two years, ending Georgia Tech’s courtship. Mooney’s decision triggered a spate of articles (see “Old coaching assumptions are fading” by Dana O’Neil for example) about non-BCS coaches who pass on BCS offers to stay with their programs. The Yellow Jackets turned their attention to Dayton’s Brian Gregory, who succumbed to the lure of the BCS and packed his bags for Atlanta on March 28. Dayton conducted a six-day search and hired Archie Miller, brother of former Xavier head man Sean Miller, away from Arizona to succeed Gregory. In late April, George Washington’s Athletic Director, Patrick Nero, fired 10-year veteran Karl Hobbs. Nero, who succeeded retiring AD Jack Kvancz on June 30, was hired on April 20, and wasted no time in turning over the men’s basketball staff. Nero reached into his old stomping grounds, the American East Conference, and hired the league’s premier head basketball coach, Mike Lonergan of Vermont, on May 6 to replace Hobbs. The resignation of Penn State head coach Ed DeChellis on May 24 (DeChellis took over the Navy program) triggered a few tense days among the Duquesne faithful as coach Ron Everhart landed an interview for the Happy Valley position. The Dukes exhaled on June 1 when Everhart withdrew his name from consideration in favor of staying with the Pittsburgh school next season. Media Coverage: The Atlantic 10 and ESPN renewed their deal to have eight games (selected by ESPN) televised on either ESPN or ESPN2 in each of the next two seasons. The ESPN networks are committed to broadcasting the Women’s Championship and up to 32 appearances in each of the next two seasons. Tu Holloway Makes the XU Offense Go \| 2011 summer updates \| Tagged: aaron brown, alberto estwick, alex gavrilovic, alonzo nelson-ododo, andre malone, andre marhold, andrew mccarthy, andrew nicholson, anthony lee, anthony malhoit, b monteiro, billy baron, blake vedder, brad redford, Branden Frazier, brian conklin, brian vonderhaar, cady lalanne, carl jones, Cedrick Lindsay, charlotte, chaz williams, chris braswell, chris johnson, chris mack, chris mooney, chris wilson, CJ Aiken, cody ellis, conor smith, cory remekun, Da'Quan Cook, daniel herrara, darien brothers, darius quarles, darrius garrett, dayton, dee davis, demario mayfield, derek kellogg, derrick williams, derrio green, Dezmine Wells, dj peterson, dominique mckoy, duquesne, Dwayne Evans, emmanuel tselentakis, eric evans, eric mosley, fordham, francis amrtel, george washington, grandy glaze, greg robbins, griffin mckenzie, jake barnett, jake godino, jamal wilson, jamar briscoe, javarris barnett, jeff robinson, jeffrey short, jerrell wright, jerry jones, jim baron, jimmy mcdonnell, joel wriht, john giannini, john manning, johnkopriva, jonathan benjamin, jonathan davis, jonathan holton, jordair jett, jordan gathers, jordan laguerre, josh duinker, juan fernandez, Justin Martin, kadeem pantophlet, kenny fraese, Kevin Bristol, kevin dillard, khalid robinson, khalif wyatt, kwamain mitchell, kyle cassity, la salle, lamont samuell, Langston Galloway, lasan kromah, Levan Shengelia, liam billings, Luka Voncina, luke piotrowski, mamadou datt, mark lyons, martins abele, massachusetts, matt lopez, maxie esho, michael eric, mike bobinski, mike lonergan, Mike McCall, mike powell, mike schmidt, mike talley, mitch asmus, nikola milesovic, orion outerbridge, papa ndao, patrick nero, pierria' henry, pj torres, rahlir jefferson, ramone moore, rhode island, richmond, rick majerus, Rob Loe, ron everhart, ron roberts, roy ghantous, ryan brooks, ryan canty, ryan hage, saint joseph's, saint louis, scootie randall, sean johnson, Sim Bhullar, st bonaventure, steve zack, taylor dunn, taylor trevisan, temple, tj buchanan, tj dileo, tj mcconnell, todd o'brien, tom pecora, tony taylor, travis taylor, trey davis, tu holloway, victor nickerson, wayne sparrow, will cummings, willie reed, xavier, youssou ndoye, zak estes Set Your Tivo: Selection Sunday Edition Posted by Brian Otskey on March 13th, 2011 *** – quit your job and divorce your wife if that’s what it takes to watch this game live – best watched live, but if you must, tivo and watch it tonight as soon as you get home * – set your tivo but make sure you watch it later ** – set your tivo but we’ll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2013 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor. We finally made it. It’s Selection Sunday and one of the best Championship Weeks ever played concludes today. I’d like to thank any reader out there who has read even just one of these daily features this season. I hope you enjoyed it and maybe even learned something you didn’t know about a team(s) from following Set Your Tivo. All rankings from RTC and all times Eastern. ACC Championship (at Greensboro, NC): #5 Duke vs. #6 North Carolina – 1 pm on ESPN (*****) Barnes and the Heels Could Snag a 1-Seed Later Today With a Win The greatest rivalry in college basketball for the third time this year on the last day of the season? Sign me up. In an ACC year full of mediocrity, the two top dogs stepped up and have successfully found their way to the title game today. As you know, these teams split the regular season series with each winning on their home floor. 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__label__cc	0.711338	0.288662	Shattered Glass Ceiling Pin Posted on October 1, 2016 by Amy Please note: these shattered glass ceiling pins are very popular! I am accepting orders via email and will add you to the list. Please feel free to contact me with questions or an order, but I ask your patience as the turn around is a few weeks. I am making them as fast as I can to keep the wait as minimal as possible. For more about the story of the pins, keep reading below. Thank you! My latest glass offering represents a foray into a new direction for me: jewelry. I don’t think this aspect will grow much from this piece, but that’s ok because it stands alone as it is. In the United States, we are witnessing history here in 2016 with the first woman’s having been nominated for president for a major political party. Hillary Clinton is on the verge of shattering one of the last glass ceilings remaining. As significant as Hillary’s accomplishments are, they are a result of centuries of work by many women before her, helping to forge the paths, change the world, and all of that heady stuff. This new pin is inspired by all of them, including Madeleine K. Albright, who is known for (among many other things) sporting a variety of message pins. I am proud to share an alma mater with Clinton and Albright (Wellesley College), and pleased to offer my own interpretation of the shattered glass ceiling in a wearable pin. Every pin is unique. There is a blueprint for each, of 5 pieces of glass consisting of one piece in a solid color (to hide the pin) and 4 pieces of clear with varying surface textures. Each individual piece of glass is hand cut, and ground to make the sharp edges dull and safe to handle. They are held together with the strongest jewelry glue. I’ve made pins with almost every possible color as the ‘backing’ piece. They are not yet on Etsy but hopefully will be soon. In the meantime, if you are interested, they are $25 each plus postage. I am keeping a list of orders and filling as fast as I can. If you would like to be added to the list, you can email me or do a Request Custom Order (or start a conversation) on Etsy. The colors I can do for the solid piece are comprehensive, pretty much anything except a metallic (gold or silver) and orange (still trying to find a solid orange glass that I like). I’m incredibly grateful for the interest these shattered glass ceiling pins have generated already, with over 200 made as of the first of October. I will keep making them until there is no more interest! My thanks to every woman who is and has been out there in every way to keep making the world a better place for everyone. Onward! Stained Glass Nightlights with peace sign and more → ← Stained glass wreath with scale maille flower – mixed media 13 Responses to Shattered Glass Ceiling Pin Faith Vilas says: Fabulous for this election of (we all hope) Hillary Clinton. Genevieve Fairbrother says: I’d prefer a red backing if available thanks Amy Deborah DeWitt says: I am interested in two pins–One with the green and the other with a darker glass piece. But to be honest, I’ll be happy with whatever you send me. Let me know how to pay. Can send a check in advance. Mani Farhadi says: I would love a glass ceiling pin please! Is there a chance the background color can be Wellesley blue? Or something close to it? I’m Wellesley ’84 and proud of it! I met Madeleine at our 30th reunion and we talked about pins, since there was an exhibit of her pins. I’m a designer in an architectural office. Madeleine said she doesn’t have a lot of architectural pins. Our class was thinking of making her a Wellesley Tower pin as a gift. Is that something you could work on possibly? Please email me. 1) About the glass ceiling pin 2) About a Wellesley Tower pin. Thank you! Isabel Frey says: I want to buy 4 Rebecca Sher says: I’m a Wellesley alum and saw someone wearing this pin at President Johnson’s inauguration last week. I’d love to order one! Roxanne S Taylor says: I’d like 5 shattered glass ceiling pins, please, with these backing, if possible: Mallory Kremer says: Wellesley ’07. Would like to order two pins – a turquoise and blue backing, if possible. 🙂 Thanks, Mallory Wendy Foster says: Hi – I’d like to order a shattered glass pin with a blue background if available. Thank you! Please let me know how to beat get payment to you. Thank you!! Lisa Zaidi says: Hi. How do I order a couple of these “glass ceiling” pins? I would love to order one for myself and one for my daughter. -Lisa Zaidi (Wellesley ’81) Katherine Swan '97 says: I would really like to buy two shattered glass ceiling pins from you. I shouldn’t have delayed. Any chance I can get them before the election? Sari Rapkin says: I’m interested in ordering a few of the shattered glass ceiling pins. What colors does the background come in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line415
__label__wiki	0.551065	0.551065	The Hot Topic, vol. 10 – Porn: Medieval Myths and Modern Quests By Lana Fox There is a Medieval story in which King Arthur is given one of his stickiest challenges. He will die unless, in just one year, he can discover what women most desire. And you know what he finds? Women want sovereignty over themselves. Oh, eureka. Yet look at how long it’s taken for society to accept that gazillions of women freely enjoy porn. Thank heaven the myth that women aren’t aroused by visual images has now been exploded many times, notably by Sex and Tech expert Violet Blue whose Our Porn Ourselves campaign has taken the internet by storm. Blue incited many women – myself included – to declare that we were turned on by porn and that any generalizations to the contrary were attempts to control our sexuality. Many men also champion Our Porn Ourselves, relieved that we are shattering erroneous notions of porn as “so warped that only guys will watch it” – a belief that contains so much prejudice it’s hard to know where to start. But the sexist lies still run deep. I myself was devastated when a beloved sexpert hero of mine declared porn as “basically male entertainment.” In fact, my very first reaction to her statement was, “What if I love lesbian porn? Where’s the ‘male’ in that?” But perhaps part of the problem with the term “pornography” is that its meaning shifts with time and usage. What is porn, exactly? Explicit visuals? Well, yeah, if you video-record sex with your lover, hoping to turn yourselves on with the images, that’s surely porn…but what if you record the sex aurally rather than visually, and listen to the noises at another time? Or what if you don’t record the sex, but just carry the memories around in your head, reliving the moment when he licked your breast or pulled your hair just right? That’s a visual used to arouse, right? So doesn’t that count? While we’re at it, can a oil-painted nude in the Musee D’Orsay be porn if it turns you on? And what of BDSM porn, in which, for legal and/or aesthetic reasons, genital contact doesn’t tend to take place? Is such a dom/sub spanking vid only porn when it actually arouses the viewer? Is porn defined by the creator’s intention or the way the consumer uses it? Whatever the answers, our attitudes are still shifting. This year, Oprah interviewed Violet Blue about women in porn (woohoo! A win for sex-positivity in the media!), plus mags such as the Atlantic Monthly have featured the topic. Porn itself is changing too, especially in terms of its availability. In fact, consumers of free internet porn are also becoming its performers and directors, especially now that sites like YouPorn are popular. Indeed, as internet porn becomes increasingly “real life” we may well see a rise in self-confidence among its viewers – what a great way of proving that you don’t have to be a big-boobed, California blonde to get your partners and viewers off. As society changes so do its art forms and stereotypes. Take what women want from porn, for instance. Coyote Days, Purchasing Manager at Good Vibrations says “Women often want to see very raw sexuality and more hardcore content than would be assumed by some.” That said, her female customers also buy porn for educational reasons, seeking answers to questions such as “How would I go down on another woman?” or “Would I really be aroused by a threesome?” But however we choose to use it, we need to keep defining porn for ourselves rather than letting the haters do the job. Lady Porn Day (the creation of Rachel Rabbit White) opened up this discussion by asking women “What’s porn for you?” Answers included erotic movies, pieces of classical art, feature films, and photos. For my part, I think of porn as a sensual trigger that I choose in order to turn myself on. And I want that route to pleasure, be it solo or partnered. There you are, King Arthur. Suck on that. For experimental research into women being aroused by explicit sexual visuals, take a look at Professor Ellen Laan’s study, which is discussed here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line419
__label__cc	0.709059	0.290941	An Entertaining & Informative Vintage Automobile Internet Magazine The 1905 Thomas Flyer Vanderbilt Cup Racer The E.R. Thomas Company of Buffalo, New York, built this monster of a 60 h.p. 6 cylinder racer with hopes of entering it in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race. Specifications of the car are hard to come by, but we do know that it had a 750 c.i. engine with a 5.38″ bore x 5.50″ stroke and featured a 96 inch long hood. If that dimension is correct, and since the hood is about half of the length of the distance between the axles, the wheelbase must have been about 190 inches long. The photo appears to have been taken at the Thomas factory shortly after it was finished and testing was underway. In photos we’ve seen of the car at the Elimination Trial, it was painted a dark color and carried the number eight on the radiator and cowl and a second set of louvers had been added to the top of the hood. The large funnel-shaped object in the middle of the cowl was a gas tank filler that featured a hinged cap. It might very well have been the first quick release racing gas cap. Montague Roberts drove the racer in the 1905 American Elimination Trial that was set up to select five American cars to participate in the Vanderbilt Cup Race. According to the rules, the U.S. could enter a maximum of five automobiles in the event and on September 23, 1905, the Trial was held to determine which five of the ten entries would qualify. After the 113.2 mile race was run, the Race Commission changed it’s protocol and retained only the top two finishers, the Pope-Toledo and the Locomobile eliminating the Royal-Tourist, the Haynes and the Thomas. The Commission then selected the Christie, the White Steamer, and another Pope-Toledo, cars that they thought more likely to perform better in the race. The results of the Elimination Trial are shown in a listing from the September 30, 1905 issue of Automobile Topics (above), along with their take on the matter. The decision of the Commission led to an understandably huge outcry in the press, by the manufacturers and the general public as well. Photo courtesy of Buz Ras. This entry was posted in Auto Racing 1894 - 1942 and tagged 1905 Thomas Flyer Vanderbilt Cup Racer, 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race, E.R. Thomas Company, Montague Roberts. ←Ride ‘Em, Cowboy! Jimmie Lynch’s Death Dodgers, c.1934 A Day to Remember on Lake Tahoe with George Whittell Jr.’s Fabulous Thunderbird→ 6 responses to “The 1905 Thomas Flyer Vanderbilt Cup Racer” john stewart · September 14, 2013 at 6:51 am isnt that Snidely Whiplash behind the wheel? David Greenlees · September 14, 2013 at 7:28 am John, It’s his brother Willie Whiplash….. paul · September 14, 2013 at 7:23 am Sounds like last week in NASCAR. The Christie bumped into the chase coughed and sputtered around until Vincenzo Lancia’s FIAT slammed into it and tore off the rear wheels. Gordon was not put back in the chase, but Europe got the sliding pillar suspension for free. Ah yes, the one constant in racing that always remains is controversy. Lee Stohr · September 14, 2013 at 9:11 am Christie getting bumped into the main event was very controversial. In his defense, he had been racing all year against the best in America, and he had done reasonably well. He put George Robertson in to drive the Elimination race, and it seems that George didn’t get the hang of front wheel drive. He kept tearing front tires off the thing. So Christie may have agreed to drive the main event if they bumped him in. But while tuning the car the night before the race, he over revved and broke a rod. An all night rebuild got him to the starting line 28 minutes late. Lancia is generally blamed for pulling out in front of Christie, I don’t think Christie was ever blamed for the crash. David Greenlees · September 14, 2013 at 4:39 pm Lee, Thanks for the Christie info. Please note: links to other sites are not allowed. 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__label__cc	0.547703	0.452297	Tag: Bigelow Aerospace Yesterday Was A Big Day For SpaceX By Ryan Marquis April 9, 2016 April 9, 2016 46BLYZ, Uncategorized Yesterday was a big day for Elon Musk and his space launch services company SpaceX. On April 9, 2016, SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. The rocket was topped with the company’s Dragon capsule, filled with 7,000 pounds of supplies destined for the International Space Station. Included in the payload was the 3,100 pound Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), Bigelow Aerospace’s attempt to demonstrate its expandable space habitats. SpaceX CRS-8 Mission Patch – Source: SpaceX The highlight of the mission, designated CRS-8, was SpaceX’s first successful landing of its Falcon 9 rocket on a droneship (christened “Of Course I Still Love You”) in the Atlantic Ocean. This feat is something SpaceX had tried and failed four times previously. SpaceX has successfully landed its Falcon 9 on land, but that challenge paled in comparison to a landing on a barge being tossed around by Atlantic currents. SpaceX has put a huge emphasis on making its programs efficient and reusable. Their hope is that their methods will drive down the costs of putting people and equipment into orbit and beyond, and make launches much more common. Friday’s successful landing of the Falcon 9 was a huge step in that direction. All in all, Friday’s success should serve as an important milestone in space exploration. It also highlights the ever increasing transfer of space access from governments to commercial industries. Check out the amazing video below, of the Falcon 9 landing on ‘Of Course I Still Love You’. Dragon will arrive at the ISS tomorrow, April 10. Tagged BEAM, Bigelow Aerospace, Dragon capsule, Falcon 9, ISS, SpaceX	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line424
__label__cc	0.695425	0.304575	Home \ News \ Another “Will, Should, Could Win” Oscar Prediction Article Another “Will, Should, Could Win” Oscar Prediction Article Paw Patrol Rides Into Stamford, CT A-Sides Interview with ‘American Griots’ Louis York On the surface, it looks like tomorrow night may be an English Patient kind of Oscar night. You know what I mean – a night in which the same film continually gets honored. A few years back, it felt like a Gravity night but the momentum stalled. Anyway, La La Land, with its 14 nominations, should reign tomorrow night at the Oscars. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if we have some jaw-dropping surprises. With that, I unleash my predictions for the big show – just like every “fake news” journalist out there. Enjoy the Trump-rightfully-under-the-bus show, and enjoy Jimmy Kimmel. Methinks the host is going to kill tomorrow evening, and will be the first repeat host since Billy Crystal (1997-1998). But, I’m getting ahead of myself. Arrival has no shot. Sadly, it’s best shot was for its star Amy Adams who deserved to win Best Actress but wasn’t even nominated. Fences is going to win for its acting, but it felt too much like a play so there goes that. Hacksaw Ridge is a fine by-the-book war movie that officially forgave Mel Gibson for his downward spiral decades back. So I guess that’s enough? Hell or High Water is a modern classic but it’s not going to score win here especially when you consider its director wasn’t nominated. So where does that leave us? Lion, a film I thought deserved a lot more praise than it received and packed an emotional wallop like no other, has little chance of winning. I think it should but I’m probably the only dude who you’d find writing that. The nomination alone is an accomplishment. Manchester By the Sea is another emotional wallop, but it’s dialogue and acting make it a standout – the sum isn’t better than its parts. Is that the expression? Anyway, this all comes down to La La Land vs. Hidden Figures vs. Moonlight. La La Land should easily win this with Moonlight – a much deeper, meaningful film – possibly playing spoiler. I doubt it. Hidden Figures gained some momentum with the SAG Award Ensemble win, but the film, while historically important and relevant, is overall a standard Hollywood film. Long story short – it’s La La over Moonlight but closer than once thought. Casey Affleck has been a lock for so long that when Denzel Washington won the SAG Award a few weeks back you could probably hear the jaws dropping on the floor. Momentum has swung toward Washington as Affleck’s (alleged)checkered past caught up with him, but I’m still going to say Affleck squeaks this one out. If it was my call, I’d pick Washington, who delivers arguably his best performance ever – a masterful, nuanced work in a brilliant career. This is the category where we’ll likely see a surprise. I’m going to say Isabelle Huppert takes home the Oscar over favorite Emma Stone but it’s a toss up. Personally, I want to see Stone take it. Natalie Portman, once the frontrunner, is a non-factor and so are Ruth Negga and Meryl Streep. This is such a strong category, but count on odds-on favorite Mahershala Ali to take home the gold guy for his stellar, tender work in Moonlight. I wouldn’t be surprised if my personal fav Jeff Bridges pulled it out for Hell or High Water though. He makes it look so easy. As for Ali, I can’t wait for his speech. Finally. Viola. Period. Oscar has shocked before. Damien Chazelle should go on to win this prize, and become the youngest ever to do so. That said, given the political climate, wouldn’t right NOW be the appropriate time for the Academy to honor the first African American Best Director? Here’s looking at you Barry Jenkins. It likely won’t happen but don’t be shocked if this shocker happens. (It probably won’t.) Nocturnal Animals should be here. It’s not. Moonlight easily takes this home. I don’t care what anyone says the most original one here is The Lobster. It’s just not the best one. I know people are picking La La Land here but no way. Manchester by the Sea needs to be honored here, and will be. Look for Kubo and the Two Strings to upset here. If not, Zootopia reigns. Animated Short Donald Trump’s hands a close runner-up to Piper. I haven’t seen all of these but I’ll just say Timecode. It was a great year for O.J. (in name only) Made in America should take it. Look for Extremis though Joe’s Violin could slide in. Making a statement, I fully expect The Salesman to be honored here. La La Land hands down. Lion deserves some consideration. “City of Stars” from La La Land will win but for me, and what really makes Emma Stone’s performance, is “Audition (The Fools Who Dream).” Still, the former will win though the latter sums up the film’s wonder perfectly. I’d give it to Lion or Arrival, but this is another La La victory. Pay attention here because if La La Land loses this one (it won’t), then we might be in for an unpredictable night. It’s only competition is Moonlight or Arrival. La La Land is the favorite here but I’m going to go with Jackie. I also wouldn’t be shocked if Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them upset. I can’t see the Academy honoring drivel like Suicide Squad with anything so I’ll say A Man Called Ove edges Star Trek Beyond or not. Yeah, not. I’ll go with Star Trek I guess. La La. Duh. I’m going with Hacksaw Ridge here. La La Land is the favorite I would think but this is the only category I can legitimately see Hacksaw winning. By the way, I can’t see Hacksaw Jim Duggan winning anything tomorrow. Sorry wrestling fans. I’m going to go with Hacksaw Ridge again because the nominee never won and I just think La La can’t win everything. I’m likely wrong here but I’ll just saw Gibson’s film sweeps the sound awards. The Jungle Book. Hands down. Good luck with your ballots. Get ready for a roast, Donald. About A-Sides with Jon Chattman – thisisasides.com Jon Chattman’s music/entertainment series typically features celebrities and artists (established or not) from all genres performing a track, and discussing what it means to them. This informal series focuses on the artist making art in a low-threatening, extremely informal (sometime humorous) way. No bells, no whistles — just the music performed in a random, low-key setting followed by an unrehearsed chat. In an industry where everything often gets overblown and over manufactured, Jon strives for a refreshing change. Artists featured on the series include Imagine Dragons, Melissa Etheridge, Yoko Ono, Elle King, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper, fun, Bleachers, Charli XCX, Marina and the Diamonds, and Bastille. 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__label__cc	0.639655	0.360345	Thou Shalt Live Sustainably Sep 9, 2016 Nov 24, 2014 by Mike This unusual cruciform tiny house was designed by architect Dachi Papuashvili of Tbilisi, Georgia, to serve as the residence of a monk or priest. While developing plans for an Orthodox monastery in 2011, Papuashvili realized that traditional stone construction, while attractive, has a couple of big drawbacks: it requires a lot of manpower to implement, and the necessary quarrying has a substantial environmental impact. That led him to create this alternative religious housing design, which he calls the “Skit”. It’s made from recycled shipping containers, but is considerably more vertical than most shipping container homes. Its unique shape makes for a very interesting division of the interior space, as you can see from the cutaway picture included here. The building has completely separate rooms on the first, second, and fourth floors, and even the horizontal section constituting the third floor is quite clearly broken up into a kitchen, sleeping area, and study. That’s effectively six rooms in one 260-square-foot tiny house. Would it feel cramped because each one is so small? Or would it feel like a mini-mansion because there are so many different places to go? It might not work for a couple, who’d no doubt spend most of the day bumping into each other, but for a single, celibate occupant engaged mostly in prayer and study, the layout seems quite adequate. The floor-to-ceiling windows in the kitchen and study should help it feel more spacious, and the three deck areas (a large one on the first floor and two smaller ones on the roof) provide easy access to the outdoors. And whether you’re looking at it from the inside or the outside, its all-wood finish gives a sense of craft and care sure to promote inner calm. While these images are surely impressive it remains to be seen whether or not this design will come to life. If and when the structure is built we will certainly report back. Don't miss these other tiny houses Free KC tiny house village for homeless veterans The Big Adventures of Tiny House Seattle’s 4th tiny house village for the homeless opens in Georgetown Pendleton Estate Phase 2 Students Design 70 sq. ft. Portable Home You Can Easily Tow Tiny House Nation’s downsized Gothic castle Jay Shafer seeks crowdfunding for Bay Area tiny house villages Chinese Students Create Ingenius 75sf Micro Living Space Couple Leaves San Fran to Build “Containertopia” Village in Oakland Mobile 3D printer creates 400sf house onsite in 24 hours These Photos of Russian Hermits Will Haunt You 7 Clever Beds Make the Most of Small Spaces Categories Inspiration, News Post navigation Simple Elegance In This Two Story, 350 sq. ft. Micro Home Sustainable Prefab “Dwelle.ings” Use Newspaper for Insulation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line432
__label__cc	0.503673	0.496327	Aleksandrov, D. and Aumann, and Axelsson, and Baumann, and Borge, and Chulkov, and Cub, and Dostal, and Eberlein, (1998): Invariant mass spectrum and alpha-n correlation function studied in the fragmentation of 6He on a carbon target. In: Nuclear physics. A 633 (1998), S. 234-246, [Article] Oeschler, Helmut and Chulkov, and Avdeyev, and Karcz, and Karnaukhov, and Kuznetsov, and Petrov, and Radionov, and Zubkevich, (1996): Multifragmentation mit leichten Projektilen. In: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. R. 6. Bd. 31 (1996), S. 851-852, [Article] Nilsson, T. and Humbert, and Schwab, and Zinser, and Blaich, and Borge, and Chulkov, and Eickhoff, and Elze, (1995): Dissociation of 8He into 6He+n+X at 240 MeV/u. Humbert, F. and Nilsson, and Schwab, and Zinser, and Blaich, and Borge, and Chulkov, and Elze, and Emling, (1995): Longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions of fragments from break-up of 11Li. In: Physics letters. B 347 (1995), S. 198-204, [Article] Nilsson, T. and Blaich, and Borge, and Chulkov, and Elze, and Emling, and Geissel, and Grimm, (1995): Neutron momentum distributions from 'core break-up' reactions of halo nuclei. In: Europhysics letters. 30 (1995), S. 19-24, [Article] Zinser, M. and Borge, and Chulkov, and Geissel, and Guillemaud-Mueller, and Hansen, and Humbert, and Irnich, and Jonson, (1995): Spectroscopy of neutron-halo and neighbours with break-up reactions. In: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. R. 6. Bd. 30 (1995), S. 602, [Article] Zinser, M. and Humbert, and Nilsson, and Schwab, and Blaich, and Borge, and Chulkov, and Eickhoff, and Elze, (1995): Study of the unstable nucleus 10Li in stripping reactions of the radioactive projectiles 11Be and 11Li. In: Physical review letters. 75 (1995)S.719-1722, [Article]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line435
__label__cc	0.538668	0.461332	Rodney Scott Susie Scott Tom Everett Scott Willard Scott Jonathan Scott-Taylor Vito Scotti Angus Scrimm Earl Scruggs Stevie Sculthorpe Kentaro Seagal Douglas Seale Franklyn Seales Malik Sealy David Seaman Walter E. Sear Diego Bertie Barbara Sears Heather Sears Michael Seater Maria Sebaldt university clipart college visit images tired clipart mini marathon images waking clipart gets up images backgrounds vector futuristic images coast drawing hawaiian images First place on the Earth: Roehampton, London, England, UK (UK) Height: 5' 7'' (1.71 metres) height. Awards Won Golden Globe. and 6 wins & 17 nominations. Worked like: Actress, Soundtrack. First work: 2003 - Henry VIII Last was: 2012 - Arthur Newman, Golf Pro. Emily Blunt mini bio: Emily Olivia Leah Blunt was born on February 23, 1983 in Roehampton, south west London, England. Emily is the second of four children born to a former actress Joanna and Oliver Simon Peter Blunt who is a lawyer. She is married to American actor John Krasinski and was expecting their first child in 2010. Her brother-in-law is her co-star in the “The Devil Wears Prada”. Emily has a brother who is an actor, called Sebastian. She has won several awards like: ALFS Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year, Britannia Award, and Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has co-starred in the Wolfman and has also starred in the adjustment bureau, Salmon fishing in the Yemen and Gulliver’s. She was also in a relationship with MichaelBuble who he met in 2005. Emily Blunt images: Emily Blunt: Other related Soundtrack: So2 So3 So4 So5 So6 So7 So8 So9 So10 So11 So12 So13 So14 So15 So16 So17 So18 So19 So20 So21 So22 So23 So24 So25 So26 So27 So28 So29 So30 So31 So32 So33 So34 So35 So36 So37 So38 So39 Lisa Lampanelli Date / 2015-05-28 12:17:55 Lisa Lampanelli has experienced a real change. In the previous two years, she hasn’t just transformed their physical look, losing over 107 pounds and cutting their hair small, but she is also transformed their complete thinking way, performing and living... Stephenie LaGrossa Date / 2015-05-28 12:16:00 Survivor contestant of Three-time Stephenie LaGrossa not at all took the charming title in spite of being one of the very famous performers ever to look on the reality show of CBS... Marty Stuart Date / 2015-05-28 12:14:16 On 10th June in Nashville, Marty Stuart will host their Late Night Jam 14th annual, a violently eclectic meeting of superstars, legends and newcomers who perform into the wee hours at the momentous Ryman Auditorium...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line441
__label__cc	0.682258	0.317742	writers make worlds Approaches to reading Reading and reception Identifying with literature Performance and reading Great Writers Inspire at Home series 16 January 2017 Featured works, Summary, context and historyNadifa Mohamedadmin Jama, a Somali boy, walks and walks, ‘sharpening his spirit on the knife-edge of solitude’. The long journey that becomes his life begins in Aden, Yemen, and threads through Hargeisa, Somaliland, war-torn Eritrea and Palestine, finally taking him all the way to England. Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy traces Jama’s wandering pathway across the dust of landscapes criss-crossed by many other journeys, till finally he becomes, by accident, a British subject. This involving story draws the reader deep into Jama’s world. We share in his never-say-die optimism, and rejoice when, at last, he becomes an addict of funfairs and gets a chance to play. As Tina Steiner argues in her examination of the divergent pulls of space and time in the novel, Black Mamba Boy can be read as both ‘an adventure tale and as a historical novel’. In addition to the lyricism of Mohamed’s prose and the gripping account of her father’s history, the novel has drawn praise for providing alternative perspectives on world historical events. For example, it shows the pervasive impact of the Second World War beyond the battlefields that tend to dominate the accounts of history books: Jama witnesses the many casualties of Mussolini’s occupation of Eritrea, and later joins a ship transporting Jewish refugees from German concentration camps denied entry to Palestine and seeking safety in Britain. These scenes are some of the most difficult, and most moving, in the novel. Cite this: Boehmer, Elleke and Wallis, Kate. “Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy.” Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds, 2017, https://writersmakeworlds.com/mohamed-black-mamba-boy/. Accessed 22 January 2020. Video of Nadifa Mohamed reading from and discussing Black Mamba Boy with Kate Wallis, Great Writers Inspire at Home, Oxford, 1 June 2017 Nadifa Mohamed interviewed by Belinda Otas about the background to the novel Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Ellah Allfrey, Rift Valley Institute, Nairobi, 21 June 2013 ‘Somali seafarer Ibrahim Ismaa’il: from Cardiff to the Cotswolds’: historical background on Somali sailors in Britain from Our Migration Story Read and annotate an extract from Black Mamba Boy ← Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover! Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love → Summary, context and history Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds (Principal Investigator: Professor Elleke Boehmer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Dr Erica Lombard) is an initiative of the University of Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature, supported by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund. Copyright © writers make worlds Powered by WordPress , Theme i-excel by TemplatesNext.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line449
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__label__cc	0.699719	0.300281	Paganism is a nature religion and always has been Mar 21 Posted by Gus diZerega in Culture Blogs UPDATE BELOW Joseph Bloch has made an interesting case that Pagan religion cannot always be labeled a “nature religion” because historically most weren’t. Instead they were concerned primarily with human affairs. I argue here that he is wrong, and do so in three steps. The first two explore crucial concepts he ignores. The third looks at errors of fact. Grasping how he is mistaken deepens our understanding of what Paganism is and how we relate to the world today. The issues he does not examine are what we mean by “religion” and how Paganism reflects the times in which it exists. Religion is always a community affair. I can be spiritual without having a religion and many people practice a religion without considering themselves particularly spiritual. But they value highly the link it makes with their broader community as defined by that religion. The Gardnerian coven of which I was long a member consisted of many people with varied Pagan theologies. Some were basically animist, some Neoplatonic, some understood what they did in Jungian terms, and likely there were other understandings as well. We rarely discussed such issues of personal spirituality. Instead we practiced ritual together, including having common meals and celebrations as well as providing a place for advice during crises and receiving healing when needed. The quotations Bloch provides of Heathen perspectives on the human community could be mirrored in almost any religious community, certainly including Wicca. They describe common human conditions but within a context of greater than secular meaning. He writes “When I hold my daughter in my arms, that is sacred. When I hold high a horn of blessed mead and toast to an ancestors, that is sacred. When I grasp the oath-ring and swear an oath to do something on behalf of my family or my tribe, that is sacred. When I make offerings to the landvættir in thanks for all they have done and continue to do for myself, my family, and my tribe; that is sacred.” The same is true for equivalent actions among Wiccans. The sacred is expressed in the world of relationships. Then there is the issue of time. Before the rise of the modern world nature was obviously the senior partner in human existence. As hunter-gatherers people had to adapt to Her rhythms or suffer dire consequences. When we shifted to agriculture we partially freed ourselves from nature’s most immediate pressures, but at the cost of increasing our vulnerability to more long-term concerns. Normally food was more abundant if not better, but when a drought struck, hailstorms destroyed crops, or a flood ruined fields, an agricultural people could not easily move. Nor could they simply revert to hunting again, given their increased population In both cases the all-encompassing presence of sea and land, of sky and all that live in and on it was undeniable. With modernity’s rise we are not only freer from this immediate dependence, we are also divorced from the intimate awareness of the natural world within which we arose and on which our own still ultimately depends. Light bulbs have liberated us from subordination to cycles of day and night but also increasingly drown out the stars. Modern transportation ended famines, which were mostly local affairs, but ultimately destroyed local agriculture and with it the awareness of many of their dependence on the natural world. Modern medicine freed women from fear of death in childbirth and helped most children to outlive their parents, but staving off death at progressively higher costs created profound problems regarding when it is appropriate to die rather then spend ever more putting off the inevitable. Cities increase our opportunities for creativity, friendship, and material prosperity, but at the cost of isolation from the living world which has been shown to increase physical health Nature also has a noticeable impact on psychological health. The collective impact of our numbers and power is now destroying many of the natural systems on which our human world rests. Across time the Pagan nature religions have praised harmony and balance as their ideal. It is our equivalent to the Christians’ emphasis on salvation or the Buddhist focus on enlightenment. In their rituals tribal religions seek to acknowledge, celebrate, or restore harmony. In a place and time when the natural world seemed secure from major human impact, this usually took the form of harmony within the human world, especially within the tribe. But even then, the natural world was hardly ignored. My examples are from Native American peoples, but it is my understanding these patterns are almost universal. The "Navajo Blessing Way” prayer goes as follows: In beauty may I walk. All day long may I walk. Through the returning seasons may I walk. On the trail marked with pollen may I walk. With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk. With dew about my feet may I walk. With beauty may I walk. With beauty before me, may I walk. With beauty behind me, may I walk. With beauty above me, may I walk. With beauty below me, may I walk. With beauty all around me, may I walk. In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk. In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk. It is finished in beauty. It is finished in beauty When a Lakota enters a sweat lodge he or she touches the ground and says “Mitakuye Oyasin,” “all my relations. “ The focus is not just on the human world. The sweat lodge is not only one of the most universal practices among Indian peoples, it exists throughout the northern hemisphere and is likely the origin of the sauna. Today, when the natural world is in serious disharmony with the human world destroying all around it that does not immediately serve its purposes, the focus has shifted, and not just for Wiccans. As illustrated by an example from Guatemala, indigenous people across the world are united with us on the issue of preserving the natural world from destruction. Mr. Bloch grants Wicca is a nature religion. It is therefore illuminating to see that our Wheel of the Year links the natural cycle of the seasons with the cycle of individual life. It recognizes each dimension of this cycle as ideally being in balance and our ritual year can be understood as a year-long meditation on these themes so universal in virtually all that lives. Mr. Bloch argues that native peoples used the natural world. And of course they did, and not always wisely. Religion seeks to encourage wisdom in every society and succeeds fully in none. But another Native American, Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday explains how to interpret their using the world: “You say I use the land and I say that is true. It is not the first truth. The first truth and the final truth is that I love the land and I see that it is beautiful. I delight in it. I am alive in it.” Momaday writes about the land the way many of us would write about someone we loved. Out here on the West Coast, up in salmon country, the First Salmon Ceremony was common among the tribes. The first fish of the season was eaten collectively and its bones returned to the water, to ensure that the salmon would continue to come and nourish the tribe. Other stories explained that if the fish were treated without respect disaster would befall the people. Similar kinds of stories existed among other tribes. I know of others in interior Alaska and also among the pueblo peoples of the southwest which do not deal with salmon. What these tribes shared was a understanding they lived in a more-than-human world where they would prosper if relations were kept harmonious with the other “nations” with and among which we two leggeds lived. Bloch’s own example of giving thanks to the landvættir seems to me an echo of this recognition, although from his description the relationship seems to be one of them serving humans rather than reciprocity. But I doubt this is how they were conceived in old times for these spirits of the land are spirits of place in a way any nature religion would find familiar. Today human power recognizes no obligations of reciprocity to spirits and powers recognized by Pagans then and now as independent entities and forces that we wisely treat with respect and with which we can even enter into relationship. Pagans from contemporary indigenous peoples to modern Neopagans are largely united in opposing the brutal and immoral ethic of domination that looks at everything in the other-than-human world in terms of its utility to us, or even worse, its utility to the most powerful among us. This common attitude grows from our seeing and often directly experiencing the natural world’s sacred dimensions. I think it is clear that a deep understanding of Pagan traditions, including those of earlier tribes as well as modern Neopagans indicates that yes, we are a nature religion, it is one of our most distinguishing traits, and this aspect of who we are is particularly important today when our civilization treats the rest of the world with an amorality that is as blind to others as it is short sighted in understanding its own interests. I think that Mr. Bloch's confusion comes from setting the human world over against the natural. This is something the nature religions have never done, and so would not recognize the spiritual dichotomy he, and our society as a whole, has created. Anne Niven suggested I add a word to my opening sentence, from "...Paganism cannot be a nautre religion..." to "...Paganism cannot always be a nature religion..." She is right that the point is more clear, but it is no different. If there are exceptions, and Bloch claimed there were many, Paganism as a class cannot be labeled a nature religion. Tags: Indians, nature religion, Neopaganism, pagan identity, Wicca	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line458
__label__cc	0.714403	0.285597	Zygor Guides is an in-game software strategy guide for World of Warcraft. Every guide comes complete with the Guide Viewer, which displays step by step instructions of what quests to accept, how to complete objectives, when to use items, and more. Our gorgeous waypoint arrow will point you exactly where to go at all times and the model viewer will display fully rendered 3D models of NPCs and objects mentioned in the guide. Sep 1 Blindsight's How to Choose a Server Guide [Originally posted by Blindsight-Spirestone on the old Warcraft forums--it's my understanding he no longer posts, but this is a valuable and informative guide] Since it's a frequently asked question on these boards, I've thrown together a quick guide for how to pick a server. Server Datacentre Location - New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Los Angeles First and foremost: Limit your search to servers that are as close to you (physically) as possible. Closer servers will have better latency, and thus deliver a better play experience. WoWWiki has a great list by datacentre: http://www.wowwiki.com/US_realm_list_by_datacenter Realm Type - PvP, PvE, RP, RP-PvP Now that you know which servers to look at, the next most important question is if you want to play on a PvE, PvP, RP, or RP-PvP server. RP vs. non-RP servers should be a simple choice: when interacting with other players, do you want to act "in character" replying to other players like they're living inside the world of Azeroth, or would you rather just play WoW like any other video game treating everyone else like a player at a keyboard? If you want to play on an RP server with active RPers: "Wyrmrest Accord and Moon Guard are very popular, but Moon Guard is very over populated." -Nok PvE vs. PvP is a bit of a tougher decision. On a PvP server, once you get to about lvl 20, in just about every questing zone you go to you can be attacked at any time by any player of the opposite faction (Horde vs. Alliance). If you like the idea of jumping other players while they're running around killing mobs/questing, this may be for you. If you don't like the idea of a max lvl player killing you in 1 shot when they ride by, then you may want to stick to PvE servers. Some people feel that PvP servers have a slightly more mature community since most children and/or immature players can't stand being killed randomly. Other people feel that PvP servers have a less mature community since it's full of teenagers who like to grief other players while they're just trying to quest. YMMV. Realm population - New, Low, Medium, High, Full The next major consideration for choosing a realm is the realms' population, both the total number of players and the Alliance / Horde ratio. This is a bit more complicated, and there are different ways of looking at the data. First, WarcraftRealms.com has a tool for taking a "census" of various realms, but it relies on data uploads from players on the server. Its data is only as accurate as the data it receives from player uploads, but it gives a pretty good baseline idea: http://www.warcraftrealms.com/realmstats.php?sort=Total Another useful way to look at population data is in terms of server age. Older servers tend to have higher populations. WoWWiki has a list of all US realms' creation dates: http://www.wowwiki.com/Timeline_of_the_creation_of_US_realms So that's great, but what does it mean? How does population affect the game? Here are a few points to consider: Empty servers: By far the easiest way of ruining the MMO experience is to have nobody to play with. Avoid servers with very low population. Queues: Very high population realms often have queue times. This could mean waiting for half an hour every time you want to play during prime time. During prime time (weekday evenings and weekends), check the realm status page to see if the server is listed as full: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/ Economy: Higher population realms have more robust economies. This means the auction house will have many more items listed and will be much more competitive. 10/25 Man Raid PuGs: Higher population => more things happening => more groups going all the time. Pick up Groups will form more frequently and will fill faster, meaning you can play more and sit in town waiting for groups less. This also, however, means (on some servers) that PuGs can be more picky in who they take along since anyone can be replaced quickly. A/H ratio: Depending on how you like to play, you may want an even ratio so that everything that involves opposite faction interaction (like world PvP) are more fair, or you may want to be on the advantage side of an imbalanced ratio so that your side is usually winning. The only disadvantage with being on the plus side of a wildly imbalanced population is that soon, world PvP zones (i.e. Wintergrasp) will only allow the same number of players (beyond a minimum level of 20 players) from each faction in at the same time, so if nobody from the other side shows up, only 20 from your side can get in.Frejya117 Sep 1 Earlier this week, Blizzard finally announced a release date for World of Warcraft Classic, a barebones re-release of World of Warcraft long before it was filled with countless expansions. WoW Classic promises a pure, vanilla experience, one that a portion of the World of Warcraft playerbase has been chasing through unsanctioned vanilla servers stripped of various expansions. The game releases on August 27, which, while still a few months away, is still somewhat exciting, seeing as now most fans have an actual date to look forward to. This is for those who want to own a piece of Vanilla WoW history! This tier requires your physical mailing address so I can mail you the printed paperback binded mini leveling guide/book. By default I will sign "Joana" on each book! If you wish for me to write something else out (such as my real name) you can request that as well. And finally, thank you for the support and I will continue to make the best leveling guides for WoW! Even though the guide was developed with a hunter, the guide can be followed by any class. Except you have to do your class's quests which aren't a whole lot. I do have full intention to make my guide friendly with all classes in the future by listing all of their steps as well. There will be a toggle that allows you to show which class's steps you want to see in the guide. But this is coming later. If you’re eager to claim your character name in WoW Classic, take note: we’ll be opening character creation on Tuesday, August 13.** Players with an active subscription or game time on their account will be able to create up to three characters per World of Warcraft account. We’ll have more information on realm names closer to launch, but rest assured—you’ll have plenty of time to figure out your plans for realm domination! Occasionally it's also been proposed to re-randomize all the gear. We didn't have best in slot lists back then. People weren't starting out as a fresh level 1 character with a complete list of which dungeons to run at 60 in order to gear as quickly and efficiently as possible. Now, all that data is available. If gear were re-randomized then all of those lists would become useless and thing would be close to how they were. Which is a more important part of the "vanilla experience?" the fact that item X from boss Y has exactly Z stats on it, or the voyage of discovery? Personally I think that voyage is way more important. Do you remember how many points of which stat on the ring or whatever that Darkmaster Gandling drops? I don't. Would it kill your experience if the BiS for every class were in a different dungeon so people had to actually play to figure it out rather than simply consult a spreadsheet? I don't think it would. For that matter, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to handle it intelligently so that the better gear is in later dungeons. I remember there because some weird cases where level 40ish gear was better than anything that dropped in level 60 dungeons. A new quest will pop up once your first pet reaches level 3. It will send you to either Audrey Burnhep in Stormwind or Varzok in Orgrimmar. These trainers will offer a quest chain to battle specific Pet Tamer NPCs on each continent. Defeating each of these NPCs will reward a nice chunk of experience for your pets, as well a Sack of Pet Supplies (which has the chance to drop the Porcupette companion, among the always-useful pet bandages). Dec 28, 2016 Better Living through Technology!(new2macros) *note: this guide is for people who haven't used macros or advanced keybinds and want to try. Macros are basically 'super buttons' that you can create in order to use multiple abilities and spells from the same button. This means even if you have 15 different abilities, you can key them all to 3-5 buttons. With macros you can do things like: 1) have all your buff spells on one button 2) 'hide' abilities that you don't use very often so they only show when you need them 3) 'group' similar abilities so that, for example, all your commonly used melee skills are on one button 4) maximize your rotation so that you're always one step ahead of the GCD Macros are great, but there are a few limitations: 1) complicated! -learning macros takes a good chunk of time. It's only something I've been able to do since my work gives me some 'free time' to cruise the UI/macro forum. 2) software limited -While very powerful, there is potential to abuse macros so that, for example, you could hit one button and your character would kill every mob in range (eventually). This potential for abuse has cause blizzard to put some powerful limitations on macros. More about this later. 3) the One Button rule -each macro button can use only one ability each time you press the button. You can code this so that it will use a different ability each and every time you press it (and on a different target!), but you can't press the button once and, for example, have it cast all 5 self buffs on you. I don't even know where to start?! To get started with macros, it's very simple. Just log on WoW and type /m. This brings up your macro box, where you just have to hit 'new' and the game will prompt for a name and an icon. I recommend that you leave the icon as a question mark. (?) The question mark means the game will automatically pick up the picture of the ability that the macro will use. My First Macro For your first macro lets just replace a normal ability you use on your bar in combat. I'm going to use paladin abilities here, but you can replace them with whatever ability you like. So to make my first macro, I went to the /m menu in game, picked a new macro, and gave it the question mark icon. Then I click on the icon, click on the empty box, and type: /cast This is the basic core of every macro. It's basically like the verb in a sentence. You can use different 'verbs' (called slash commands) but this is probably the most popular. Since I want this macro to cast Hammer of the Righteous, I simple type that in after the /cast. /cast Hammer of the Righteous And pow! I'm done! If you drag this onto your bar and hit it a million times, you basically have the paladin protection spec in a nutshell (lol). However this doesn't really give you any extra functionality over a normal keybind. The next thing I'm going to do is make the macro heal a friendly if I have a friendly targeted, or if it's an enemy it will use SotR (shield of the righteous). To do this you add a conditional. This says 'only cast this spell if 'X' is true.' It looks like this (with a breakdown of the macro underneath): /cast [help] Word of Glory; [harm] Shield of the Righteous \__/ \____/\__________/\/ \____/\__________________/ verb-conditional---\|---separator\|----------------\| -------------------ability---------conditional----Ability What this macro will do is check the status of your current target. A 'friendly'(help) value will cause my paladin to heal the target. An 'enemy'(harm) value will trigger the attack ability. If you can grasp macros thus far, you've already learned enough to make macros useful for you. Putting this on your bar will basically cut the number of keybinds you need by 1. Modifier macro commands Another handy feature you can use with macros is called a Modifier. This may sound familiar but it's possible to set a macro so that it will use a different ability or spell if you hold down control, alt, or shift. Here's a basic example: /cast [mod:alt] Seal of Truth;[mod:ctrl] Blessing of Kings;[mod:shift] Righteous Fury; Seal of Insight If you had this macro bound to 1, and you press 1, it would cast Seal of truth (and the seal picture would be on the keybind). Pressin ctrl would change the icon to blessing of kings and would cast blessing of kings if you pressed ctrl-1, etc....Raygecow149 Dec 28, 2016 One of the best ways to make gold in World of Warcraft is to obtain valuable items and sell back on the Auction House for a profit. Farming allows you to do this with little to no money up front or professions needed. The guide will display a list of the highest earning farmable materials and will show you the best place to farm that item with the highest drops and respawn rates. ":" - Any time a step ends in a ":" instead of a "." means that the next step is part of the current step you are on. This generally means the next step should be done while working on the current step. This means every "start working on" or "continue working on" will end in a ":". But this is used with other occasions as well, so keep this in mind.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line462
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__label__wiki	0.671955	0.671955	Shan Shan (°1988) makes films, performances, installations and mixed media artworks. With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, Shan makes work that deals with the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. The work tries to express this with the help of physics and technology, but not by telling a story or creating a metaphor. Her films never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. Her works are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in film. With a subtle minimalistic approach, she tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. Her collected, altered and own works are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka. With a conceptual approach, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work. Her works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life. Her works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By applying abstraction, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles. Her practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of film: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. By choosing mainly formal solutions, she wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation. Her works appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. By emphasising aesthetics, she absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation. Her works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used. Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line469
__label__cc	0.540947	0.459053	All Hawaii News Top state and local government and political news from all the islands Big raises for state officials, cost of living a concern in poll, Big Island hikes general excise tax, many months before lava victims get to go home, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands Hawaii state Capitol ©2019 All Hawaii News Big Pay Raises Coming For Lawmakers And Top State Execs. The commission proposed that the governor’s salary would increase from $158,700 to $189,480 by 2024. Top agency executives, such as the attorney general, would see their wages increase from $154,812 to $188,400 during the same time period. The salaries of state representatives and senators would rise from $62,604 to $83,052. Civil Beat. Advocates urge larger minimum wage hike. The Senate Committee on Labor will hold a public hearing today regarding a bill that would increase minimum wage rates throughout the state. Tribune-Herald. Homelessness, cost of living cited as major concerns in Hawaii. Some 45 percent of Hawaii voters live in homes where someone is considering moving away — or has already left the islands — typically because of the cost of living, according to a new poll of voters conducted for Pacific Resource Partnership. Star-Advertiser. Poll: Hawaii residents say they’re buckling under strain of state’s high cost of living. The biggest takeaway from the survey is simple: While the overall economy in the islands might be doing well, the personal economies of Hawaii’s residents appear to be faltering. Hawaii News Now. Hawaii Projects Could be Defunded to Pay for Border Wall. More than $300 million in funding for military construction projects in Hawaii could potentially be diverted to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Hawaii Public Radio. State Deputy Sheriffs Still Aren’t Accredited — 8 Years After the Law Required It. All four county departments already have the accreditation, which sets standards regarding use of force, weapons, training and officer conduct. Civil Beat. Should Hawaii get rid of safety checks? According to one state lawmaker, they're a waste of time. KITV. The state Department of Education said it uses about 1 million pounds of beef in student meals annually throughout its 256 schools, and most of it is from animals raised locally. Only Oahu and Hawaii Island schools serve a portion of their beef not from local sources. Star-Advertiser. 737 Max grounding strands 2 jets in Hawaii; an expert sees little long-term impact on isles. Star-Advertiser. Thirty Meter Telescope protests were held in Hawaii and on the mainland Wednesday as part of Mauna Kea Awareness Day organized by those who oppose the $1.4 billion project. Star-Advertiser. Oahu homeless debris equal to 184 school buses. City officials hope to fill four more positions to enforce the city’s stored property and sidewalk nuisance ordinances — or what Mayor Kirk Caldwell calls “some of the dirtiest work in the City and County of Honolulu” cleaning up homeless encampments. Star-Advertiser. Department of Facility Maintenance has collected more than 4.6 million pounds of material from city streets and parks. KITV. Names, Ranks And Salaries Of Honolulu Cops Are Still Secret. Legal challenges from Hawaii’s police union have prevented the public release of the identities of almost 2,000 sworn officers. Civil Beat. HPD officers working overtime as officer vacancies look to be filled. The Honolulu Police Department recently released their operating budget, and as of February, they have about 253 officer vacancies to fill. KHON2. City Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro has placed himself on paid leave amid a federal criminal investigation, but sources say he has returned to the office at least twice in the last five days. State Attorney General Clare Connors says she's concerned about reports that city Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro is showing up at the office while on paid leave. Hawaii News Now. One judge approves sale of Kealohas’ home; another reschedules their fraud trial. A federal judge on Wednesday approved the sale of the Mariners Cove home belonging to former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, former city deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha. Less than an hour later, another federal judge set an Oct. 21 trial date for the Kealohas on bank fraud charges. Star-Advertiser. Judge Approves $1.3 Million Sale of Kealohas’ Hawaii Kai Home. Meanwhile, the second scheduled trial on bank fraud charges against the couple was pushed back to October. The first trial in the corruption scandal was earlier pushed back to May. Associated Press. As Deadline Looms, HART May Not Fully Comply With Federal Subpoena. The Honolulu rail agency’s board hasn’t yet consulted with its attorneys on whether to give investigators its closed-door meeting records. Civil Beat. Lifeguards work in deteriorating towers as brand new ones sit unused. City lifeguards are raising alarms over towers they say are in disrepair. Hawaii News Now. USS Arizona Memorial site getting name change again. The new official name for the National Park Service unit, which became law on Tuesday, is the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. Star-Advertiser. The number of undergraduate applications to the University of Hawaii at Manoa this year shattered the previous record set last year. The UH Manoa Office of Admissions reports it received nearly 19,000 undergraduate applications, a 33-percent jump over last year’s record number. KHON2. Oahu luxury home sales decline in February. Sales of luxury homes on Oahu that sold for $1.5 million or more declined slightly in February, compared to a year ago, while the median price of those homes fell 20 percent to $1.9 million. Pacific Business News. Hawaii County residents and visitors will have to dig a few more pennies out of their pockets for goods and services starting Jan. 1, after the County Council on Wednesday passed a half-cent general excise tax surcharge, replacing the one-quarter percent approved last year. West Hawaii Today. Hawaii County anticipates completing a temporary road over lava-covered portions of Highway 132 by September or October. The estimated schedule was posted on the county’s eruption recovery website Tuesday. Tribune-Herald. Temp Road For Lava-Covered Highway 132 By “September-October 2019” Big Island Video News. Hawaii County Council members pressed county administrators Wednesday for details on how they will spend $60 million in disaster aid following last year’s Kilauea eruption. Council members, during a lengthy discussion with Mayor Harry Kim and other county officials, repeatedly noted the county’s credibility is on the line with the Legislature, as well as their constituents, regarding how it uses those recovery funds, in addition to the $22 million already granted by Gov. David Ige. Tribune-Herald. As the Hawaii County Council moves to accept millions in state eruption recovery funds ahead of final legislative approval, resident continue to push for road recovery. Big Island Video News. Two airlines confirmed to have used Boeing 737 Max aircraft to fly to the Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole said they’re making arrangements to minimize disruptions following federal regulators’ decision to ground the planes nationwide. West Hawaii Today. Mayor Michael Victorino voiced his support for a state House water bill, an underpass to Kihei high school and the Wailuku Civic Complex in his inaugural State of the County address on Tuesday night. Maui News. The chair of the Maui County Council is hoping for more collaboration between Mayor Mike Victorino's office and the council. Hawaii Public Radio. The majority of the 14 testifiers at a Maui County Council committee meeting Tuesday expressed support for Mayor Michael Victorino’s appointment of former Council Member Don Guzman as Maui County Prosecuting Attorney. Maui News. Kahana Bay condos aim to fight erosion with beach nourishment plan. A new beach nourishment proposal could help restore a shrinking shoreline along the coast of West Maui — and end a fierce fight over a seawall that’s currently under construction. Hawaii News Now. Inmates Still Agitated, Overcrowding Likely Source of Monday’s Riot at MCCC. Maui Now. The Kauai County Council entertained a loaded agenda Wednesday that included a look at the schedule of islandwide road resurfacing and repairs. Garden Island. State of the County address by Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami on Thursday morning. KHON2. A Kauai company is suing the Board of Land and Natural Resources over a million dollars worth of sand. A lawsuit filed in Fifth Circuit Court last month alleges the BLNR did not hold up its end of a contract with O. Thronas Inc., a Lawai concrete company, that claims it overpaid the board by more than $1 million in a contract to remove sand from BLNR-owned land in Waimea. Garden Island. Posted by All Hawaii News at 6:36 AM Labels: cost of living, General Excise Tax, homeless, Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami, Keith Kaneshiro, Maui Mayor Mike Victorino, minimum wage, salaries All content and content arrangement, ©2019 All Hawaii News . Powered by Blogger. 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__label__wiki	0.800612	0.800612	Investigating Discovery Channel’s KILLING FIELDS with Major Ronald Hebert on After Hours AM/The Criminal Code Radio New True Crime show every Wednesday! by Eric Olsen \| Feb 2, 2017 \| culture, media, radio, television, weird/science \| 0 comments On a riveting episode of After Hours AM/The Criminal Code Radio — Wednesdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis, Eric Olsen, and forensic psychologist Dr. Clarissa Cole — we enter the swampy world of cold case murders in Iberville, Louisiana, with Major Ronald “Ronnie” Hebert of Discovery Channel’s KILLING FIELDS. Major Hebert joins us in the 10pE hour – in the 9pE hour we review the week’s True Crime news and try to figure out why people are so mean to each other. KILLING FIELDS, Tuesdays 10/9c on Discovery Channel, entered its second season on January 3, continuing the live investigation of the infamous 1997 homicide of former Louisiana State University student, 34 year-old Eugenie Boisfontaine. Under Sheriff Brett Stassi and Major Ronnie Hebert, detectives Rodie Sanchez, Aubrey St. Angelo, Lori Morgan, Jeremy Sanchez, and Leslie Bradford and Brett Stassi, Jr. investigate real murders in the small community of Iberville Parish, Louisiana, located just 15 miles from the state capitol, Baton Rouge. Shot in real time, the series picks up from last season as Rodie, Aubrey, and the team zero in on the killer of Eugenie Boisfontaine. Rodie is more determined than ever to close the case, which has haunted him for nearly two decades. But that isn’t the only case that catches their attention. The Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office tracks another terrifying case after evidence surfaces in a nearby Parish of a body stuffed inside a barrel. Rodie believes that this is tied to an unsolved disappearance he worked 26 years ago. Even more compelling – the facts surrounding the barrel are eerily similar to what the prime suspect once admitted in a separate investigation for that missing person’s case. But even with such information, Rodie could never lock him up because the body could not be found… Perhaps until now. Together, with the guidance of Major Hebert, the team works tirelessly to secure crucial evidence, uncover grisly facts, and pursue new leads – all with one mission in mind: closing these cases and bringing justice to the victims’ families. With the advancement in forensic technology—along with good old-fashioned police work—the team gets closer to capturing the truth that leads them in a cat and mouse chase. Will Rodie be able to keep good on his word to Eugenie’s mother that he would solve the case? Major Ronald Hebert In charge of the Criminal Investigation Division at the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office, Major Ronald “Ronnie” Hebert serves as the bridge between the old guard and the new guard in the office. His skill at working departmental politics allows him to be the respected leader that he is. Known to have a silver tongue, Major Hebert prides himself on his interrogation skills and believes he is capable of obtaining a confession out of anyone. Major Hebert lives in the same area where he grew up, allowing him to develop strong connections throughout the Parish, which are beneficial for his team. He also tends to place his family first, often following his daughter’s traveling softball team.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line472
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__label__wiki	0.75872	0.75872	Home Zionism & Palestine Palestine/Israeli Conflict Published: 20 August 2014 \| Written by Maisoon \| Print \| Email Maisoon ميسون 'It's simple: either condemn Israel's actions or embrace your identity as someone who's okay with the wholesale slaughter of children.’ 'Only Israel can murder around 300 children in the span of a few weeks and insist that it is the victim.' 'It's quite simple, really: don't support any ideology whose practice results in dead children.' [ethical Professor Steven Salaita who lost his job because of his comments on Israel’s attack on Gaza-no job is worth SUCKING UP TO JEWISH PRESSURE and intimidation] http://www.palestine-info.co.uk http://www.intifada-palestine.com http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com http://www.middleeasteye.net/ http://alethonews.wordpress.com http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Massive artillery shelling may have caused numerous civilian fatalities in Gaza It is thought that at least 32,000 artillery shells were fired during Protective Edge, four times as much as in Cast Lead in 2008. Why Israel Killed so Many Pregnant Women in Gaza By Robin Beste After five weeks of Israeli bombing and invasion the United Nations reported that the death toll in Gaza was 1,973, 72% of them civilians, including 459 children and 238 women. Not included in that figure were the nine unborn children that Israel killed. Three pregnant mothers were among the 25 members of the Abu Jamaa family who were killed on 20 July, when Israeli forces struck a house near Khan Younis, without warning. The dead included 18 children and five women. The family was eating iftar, the meal that breaks the Ramadan fast. Just as this family was being slaughtered, by an indisputable Israeli war crime, the US secretary of state John Kerry gave an interview in which he said, Israel's attack on Gaza was an "appropriate and legitimate effort" to defend itself. A little earlier in the day, Kerry's boss, President Obama, repeated his "strong support for Israel's right to defend itself". Obama gave this green light to Israel, "after speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earlier in the day". Predictably, Netanyahu was soon all over the media crowing about US support for Israel's indiscriminate bombardment of the most densely populated place on Earth, and announcing that Israel planned to intensify the carnage in Gaza over the coming days. At a press conference on 3 August, Netanyahu praised the United States for its "terrific support" and Obama for his "unequivocal stand with Israel on our right to defend ourselves". Britain's prime minister David Cameron also spoke regularly to Netanyahu, to whom he repeated "our recognition of Israel's right to take proportionate action to defend itself". Whether it was 'proportionate' to kill 459 children, or four boys playing football on a beach, or 25 family members as they sat down for a meal, David Cameron hasn't said. Was it 'proportionate to litter the streets of the Shujai'iya dictrict in Gaza City with dozens of bodies of mainly women and children, after it had been effectively carpet-bombed? Was it 'proportionate' to bomb hospitals and a home for the disabled? David Cameron didn't say. Cameron said he had asked Netanyahu "to do everything to avoid civilian casualties, to exercise restraint". This clearly did not include restraining from sending the world's fifth most powerful military force to invade a tiny area, just 25 miles long and just a few miles wide, into which are crammed 1.8 million people, who have been held captive in a brutal siege for seven years, that has deprived the inhabitants of food, power, access to clean water, a functioning sewage system, medical supplies and other essential resources. Israel's justification for killing so many civilians is the claim that Hamas is using civilians as human shields for its rockets and fighters. These same accusations, were made in 2008 and 2009 during Israel's Operation Cast Lead bombing of Gaza and were found to be without evidence by Amnesty International. Israeli spokesman Mark Regev has been given free rein by the mainstream media to repeat this accusation, despite journalists like the BBC's Jeremy Bowen reporting that they "saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields." In fact, the human shields' argument is a complete myth, which is why Israel has produced no evidence to support it. It is the reason Israel gave for the missile attack on a home for the disabled in Beit Lahiya, killing two disabled residents and injuring four others. Jamilla Alaiwa, a 59 year old social worker who founded the home, said,. "If the Israelis have proof of this let them make it public. There was no one from Islamic Jihad or Hamas living there. We are not involved in politics." No Palestinian civilian has been found to corroborate Israel's claim they are being forced by Hamas to become unwilling human shields. Why then, says Israel, do people stay in their homes when we drop leaflets telling them to evacuate because we are about to bomb? Abdullah al-Daweish, a relative of the family of five killed in Khan Younis, explains: “Where do we go to? Some people moved from the outer edge of Khan Younis to Khan Younis centre after Israelis told them to, then the centre got bombed. People have moved from this area to Gaza City, and Gaza City has been bombed. It’s not Hamas who is ordering us in this, it’s the Israelis.” The United Nations said on 22 July that 43% of the Gaza population had been affected by evacuation or no-go area warnings from Israel. By the beginning of August, the number of displaced Gaza residents was over half a million. Over 200,000 Palestinians fled to centres set up by the United Nations. A total of 344 babies were born in UN schools designated as shelters. But even here they were not safe, with the UN relief agency reporting that six of its facilities, including three schools were struck by Israeli shells. On 22 July at least 15 Palestinians sheltering in a UN school were killed and 200 injured, most of them women and children. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called the attack a war crime. But this didn't stop Israel attacking another UN school a week later, this time killing a further 17 civilians. Even the United States, supplier of the shells that did the killing, felt it needed to call the attack "disgraceful", but at the same time it was rushing arms to Israel as its munitions stocks were running low, so much of it used to devastate Gaza. The British government was shown to be no slouch either in supplying arms to Israel, when it was revealed that UK manufactured weapons and components were being used in Israel's current assault, including drone technology that the Israeli airforce described as the "backbone" of its targeting and reconnaissance missions. With the borders of Gaza sealed by the Israeli and Egyptian siege, no wonder the desperate response from its people -- as Israel bombarded the whole area by land, sea and air -- was, where else is there for us to go? Nowhere, is the reply for the two families -- eleven people -- killed overnight on 23 July. A distraught man told the BBC how his dead relatives there had been relocated twice, first from Beit Hanoun and then from Shujai'iya, areas that received Israeli evacuation orders. Netanyahu says another reason for so many civilians being killed by Israel, is because Hamas wants to "pile up as many civilian dead as they can to make Israel look bad. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better." Netanyahu was allowed to make this despicable accusation without challenge on the mainstream media news broadcasts. But "the more dead the better" is certainly the view of not a few Israelis, including the member of the Israeli parliament, Ayelet Shaked, who said recently, "Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there." Put a little less graphically, Israeli army major general Oren Shachor, explained: “If we kill their families, that will frighten them.” So, is the reason so many pregnant women were killed in Gaza because Israel believes they were acting as human shields for unborn 'terrorists'? When an Israeli air strike killed an expectant mother in the early hours of 23 July, Gaza health officials told the BBC how they tried to rescue the baby from the dead mother, only for the child to die. No doubt two deaths welcomed by Ayelet Shaked and major general Shachor. Source: Stop the War Coalition Israeli War Crimes in Gaza By Jim Miles What kind of God would permit this? Is this permitted by the God that 'gave' the land to Israel? For a people who were to be a shining light for others? Israel Gives Jews a Bad Name By Danny Schechter A new fascism with a Hebrew face. If Hamas rockets were so dangerous and lethal, how come we get Israelis bringing along their couches/sofa and refreshments on the hills around Gaza, Spectators, and watch the Military fireworks from their ‘moral army’ whilst they enjoy their snacks and drinks. How come they are not running for the ‘bomb’ shelters. Perhaps Hamas should target these cold blooded spectators arrogantly and so full of racism, laughing at the deaths of Civilians. Israel society truly is born out of EVIL, no heart, no soul. Blood Thirst: 'Finish The Job!' Of Killing Palestinians —Thousands of Israelis rally in support of Gaza offense Thousands of people in Tel Aviv rallied to show support for the IDF's military campaign in Gaza, urging the government forces to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israel once and for all. An estimated 10,000 Israelis gathered in Rabin Square for first major demonstration since Operation Protective Edge began on July 8, officially to protect Israeli civilians from the barrage of rockets launched from the militant organization on the Gaza strip. WHAT GIVES THE BASTARD STATE OF ISRAEL THE RIGHT TO CALL ANYONE ILLEGITIMATE? A State that has NOT stood on its own financially since its inception A State that has ignored EVERY UN Sanction against it since its inception A State that has sent spies to the very nations that have kept her alive A State has displace millions of people from their homes and properties A State that, in this decade alone, has murdered thousands of innocent civilians including women and children YET, this is how the zionists portray the latest events … CODE PINK TO PROTEST LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION BLAMING HAMAS FOR GAZA WAR This is crazy. How can the LA City Council even consider a resolution focusing on Hamas instead of the crimes committed by the Israeli government that killed over 2,000 Palestinians?? We hear it said that Gaza is an open-air prison, but prisoners get at least minimal food, security and heathcare. We must stand against this resolution and let the City Council know this would be a racist and violent move. Join us this Friday, August 15th at 8:15 AM – At Los Angeles City Hall Main Steps. The Intergovernmental Relations Committee of the Los Angeles City Council is set to meet on Friday, August 15 at 9AM to consider an outrageous resolution that condemns Hamas and fails to mention Israeli war crimes. The resolution turns reality on its head by implying that Israel is the victim, when in fact it is the engaged in brutal occupation, mass killing of civilians and scores of war crimes. The resolution is an attempt to obscure the truth. Wrh.com Webmaster's Commentary: This announcement was sent out as an email and does not yet appear on the Codepink website yet, but the LA City Council, apparently with nothing better to do in the taxpayer dollar than suck up to Israel, is considering a resolution that would drop the blame for 5 weeks of Israel's attacks on Gaza squarely on HAMAS. Codepink is mobilizing a protest. I know there are a lot of protests going on, and maybe that is a good thing, but this is one you should make a point of getting to if you live in the Los Angeles area. If my wife and I still lived in North Hollywood, we would be heading down to this one ourselves! Let's review the timetable. In June, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in an IDF-controlled region of the West Bank, not Gaza. ISIS has taken credit and even the Israeli media admits that the two suspects named by the Israeli government are not part of HAMAS, but of a group known for disobeying HAMAS and trying to cause trouble for them. But Netanyahu declared HAMAS, the legally elected government of Gaza, responsible and launched bombing raids into Gaza using the very latest high-tech weapons provided by the US Government and paid for by the US taxpayers. To put Israel's actions into perspective, let us recall that over the July 4th weekend, 8 people were killed in Chicago. Using Netanyahu's logic, the Democratic party should be blamed and all of Illinois bombed and invaded! The Gazans, who were attacked without provocation, fought back with their home-made rockets, which so far have mostly knocked a few roof tiles loose. But to Israel's supporters, we should all forget that Israel attacked Gaza without a valid reason, and view Gaza's attempts to defend themselves as the crime, so that Israel can go on pounding the Palestinians with their superior weapons. I want to point something out. The Israelis sit in their tanks, or the drone operations centers, or fly high above Gaza in their US-supplied warplanes, dropping the latest in US-supplied high tech lethal munitions, and imagine themselves the heroes they read about in the Torah. The Israelis, clearly unafraid of HAMAS rockets, line the hills overlooking Gaza and cheer the carnage, much as the Romans at the Colosseum cheered as the Christians were thrown to the lions. The Gazans huddle in their giant open-air prison, without an army, a navy, or an air force, and fight back with home-made rockets made out of plumbing supplies. Not since Thermopylae has the world seen such courage in the face of overwhelming odds. The Gazans have balls the US and Israel can only dream of, and the world will remember their courage against the tyrants, and the lies by the corporate media's presstitutes and whorespondents trying to protect Israel's aggression, right alongside the Los Angeles City Council! Israeli Jew website European Bombs Hit Gaza Complicating Europe in the Gaza War, Israel disclosed that it used NATO weapons to attack Gaza while fighting the USA over the supply of Hellfire missiles. On the same day, August 15, a Dutch citizen returned to Israel his Righteous Among the Nations medal, after Zion killed his family in Gaza. American equipment reaches IDF soldiers via NATO, which keeps several warehouses within IDF facilities. Weapons, ammunitions, uniforms and other items are stored for the case that the Western Army is deployed in the Middle East. There is an understanding that in the case of emergency, Israel will take the items for the IDF. The locations are a well-kept secret. I saw two such bases. In both cases, my host had asked "Do you know what this is?" and answered without waiting "It belongs to NATO." Probably a third one exists; veteran readers know that in this page are hints of what cannot be said. Every few years, items are refreshed. Old uniforms are not sent to Langley's Laundromat; instead they are given to the IDF, where soldiers fight for the right to put hands in the pockets while walking. In recent days, President Obama and PM Netanyahu are carrying a quite vocal struggle on Hellfire missiles for the IAF Apache helicopters. The USA wants to delay the sale of offensive weapons while Israel targets civilians. Now that Zanoli returned his medal, Israel wants to speed up its massacres and requests more missiles. This is an irrelevant fight. Nobody forces Israel to destroy Gaza with American helicopters. It has plenty of other bombs that can achieve the same destruction. Despite that, the topic is prominently featured from the Wall Street Journal to Haaretz. Due to the sensitivity of the topic let me be doctrinaire, and emphasize external details. On August 14, WSJ published an article entitled "White House Now Scrutinizing Israeli Requests for Ammunition." The most-shocking paragraph in an otherwise boring piece claimed: "On July 20, Israel's defense ministry asked the U.S. military for a range of munitions, including 120-mm mortar shells and 40-mm illuminating rounds, which were already kept stored at a pre-positioned weapons stockpile in Israel." The topic was confirmed today by Israeli portal walla! Both sources report that despite the political fight, the military echelons are cooperating as usual, and the request was answered positively "via military-channels," walla! expanded. WSJ added that the mortars reached the IDF on July 30, the day when the UN school was bombed by Israel. Was the crime committed with mortars supplied by NATO? Israel Welcomes American And Canadian Recruits For The IDF by trevorlabonte http://wp.me/p2dGk-hJVhttp://wp.me/p2dGk-hJV Trevor ed note-The millions of Palestinian refugees that were driven off of their lands by sheer zionist terrorism have no right of return, but any yay-hoo jew from any remote corner of the world is encouraged, welcomed, and PAID $$$ to show up out of the clear blue sky, kill Palestinians that they were never in a conflict with before, and steal their land, using as their sole justification the Old Testament, which says that's what Yahweh commands of his "chosen people." Read more of this post Bennett Calls to Unilaterally End Gaza Operation As the Security Cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem ended Friday morning, Cabinet member and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) called for Israel to unilaterally end Operation Protective Edge. The minister said Israel should stop the operation without an agreement with Hamas, allowing the IDF to continue actions against the terror tunnels in Gaza while easing the blockade of the Hamas terror enclave. A reminder from 2009, of the most ‘moral army in the world’ mindset, whose sickness is even worse than 2008/9 Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings The revelations centre on t-shirt designs made for soldiers that make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children and include images of dead babies and destroyed mosques. The t-shirts were printed for Israeli soldiers at the end of periods of deployment or training courses and were discovered by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. One, printed for a platoon of Israeli snipers depicts an armed Palestinian pregnant women caught in the crosshairs of a rifle, with the disturbing caption in English: "1 shot 2 kills". Another depicts a child carrying a gun also in the centre of a target. "The smaller, the harder," read the words on the t-shirt. According to a soldier interviewed by the newspaper, the message has a double meaning: "It's a kid, so you've got a little more of a problem, morally and also the target is smaller." Another shows an Israeli soldier blowing up a mosque and reads "Only God forgives". Above a ninja figure, yet another shirt bears the slogan "Won't chill until I confirm a kill". The revelations, coming so soon after Israel's offensive in Gaza in which hundreds of civilians were killed - many of them women and children - are causing outrage. Perhaps the most shocking design shows a Palestinian mother weeping next to her dead baby's grave, also in the crosshairs of a rifle. It suggests it would have been better if the child had never been born, with the slogan "Better use Durex". The controversy follows more revelations by other soldiers about abuses and the shooting of civilians during Israel's offensive during the Gaza offensive. Ex-soldier and campaigner with Breaking The Silence, Michael Maniken, told Sky News Online this week's revelations suggest a pattern of immoral conduct in the army. "We're hearing about this time and time again and the army seems disconnected from reality." A spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) told Sky News Online, the t-shirts were printed on the private initiative of the soldiers and their designs "are not in accordance with IDF values and are simply tasteless. This type of humour is unacceptable and should be condemned ========================================================================== look folks, let us get one thing straight here, Israel and its Hierarchy in the USA dictate to the their Black dog in the Black House, just as they dictate to their White dog in the UK’s Whitehall. Obama is just another programmed Zionist and thus he does what is expected of him, no matter that he is the figurehead ‘President’ of this Super Power country which in reality is and has been for a long time, Israeli/Zionist occupied, something I have stated so many times. Can you imagaine, White Ashkenazi Jew, Milikovsky Netanyahu taking orders form a servile Black half Jew/Gentile Zionist like Obama . Jewish power in the USA is 100% so is it any wonder that Netanyahu can go directly to the Pentagon with his orders for more Weapons, over riding the Jewish dominated White House What Israel demands, Israel gets as they all bend over backwards to comply, knowing full well what the implications are for them personally if they do not comply with ‘Yes sir, no Sir, 3 bags full sir’. Being the avowed dutiful Zionist that he is, and always has been, having after all been pre selected, groomed for this job, mentored by the likes of Rahm Emanuel, and Brezinski, Obomba is more than happy to give Israel everything it demands. ‘Political ‘rift’ between them is just Political theatre- drama drummed up for the Press and the Public, to deceive us all into believing that the USA does not approve of Netanyahu’s meddling in US Political/Military affairs when in reality we know it to be the case and that Israel, under Rothcshild Mastership, rules and owns the USA, its Government, Senate, Congress, Military, Jewdiciary, Bankers/Corporations. That is FACT and Netanyahu can run as many circles around Obomba as he likes, knowing Israel will get what it demands, even if it goes against US Constitution and Laws. The same can be applied to Cameron and his decision of not sending anymore arms to Israel. Just who is kidding who here. This pathetic cabbage faced pipsqueak cannot go against Israel, just as Obomba cannot. Those that still imply that the USA has any control or power over Israel and its present Egotistic psychopath Prime Minister, is being disingenuous or ignorantly blind to this fact Amid Obama-Netanyahu rift, Israel stockpiled weapons through back channels http://nypost.com/2014/08/14/amid-obama-netanyahu-rift-israel-stockpiles-weapons-through-back-channels/ US: We will continue to provide military assistance to Israel: State Department Deputy Spokesperson Harf says 'there has been no change in policy' towards Israel, reiterates 'unshakeable commitment' to its security.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line475
__label__wiki	0.577759	0.577759	Sacrococcygeal teratoma: Clinical characteristics and long-term outcome in Nigerian children Lohfa B Chirdan1, Aba F Uba1, Sunday D Pam2, Stephen T Edino3, Barnabas M Mandong4, Oluwabunmi O Chirdan5 1 Paediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria 2 Special Baby Care Units, Department of Paediatrics, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria 3 Department of Surgery, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria 4 Department of Pathology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria 5 Department of Community Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria Date of Web Publication 3-Oct-2009 Lohfa B Chirdan Paediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Jos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 2076, Jos Background/Purpose : The excision of sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) may be associated with significant long-term morbidity for the child. We reviewed our experience with SCT in a tertiary health care facility in a developing country with particular interest on the long-term sequelae. Methods : Between January 1990 and May 2008 inclusive, 38 consecutive children with the diagnosis of SCT were identified from the operation register and the Cancer Registry of the Jos University Teaching Hospital. Their clinical presentation, investigation, operative findings, histology report, and outcome were recorded and analyzed. The long-term follow-up of some of the patients were also recorded and analyzed. Results : There were 31 females and 7 males. Twenty-three patients presented during the neonatal period with a median age at presentation of 7 days (range 1-18 days) and a median weight at presentation of 2.8 kg (range 2.0-3.6kg), 10 presented between 1 month and 12 months, while 5 were older than 1 year at presentation. Most of the patients had significantly external tumors. Excision of the tumor was mainly by the sacral route, four had abdominal-sacral excision. Histology was mainly benign; four were malignant at presentation. Four children with malignant disease had chemotherapy in addition to excision of the tumor. Eight had immediate post-operative wound-related complications while three children died, two of the deaths were related to anesthesia, while one died of colostomy complications. Twenty-one (60%) were followed up for a median duration of 6 years (range 1 month-8 years). Two (9.5%) had recurrent disease after primary excision; five (23.8%) had some degree of functional impairment at the follow-up. Conclusion : While SCT is usually benign, recurrence, malignant transformations in patients who present late and long-term functional sequelae are problems that must be tackled by the care givers. A multi-center study may be necessary to characterize this disease in developing countries and assess the long-term functional sequelae in survivors. Abstract in French Arrière-plan/objectif: L'excision. de teratoma (SCT) sacrococcygeal peut être associé importantes à long terme morbidité pour l'enfant. Nous avons revu notre expérience de SCT dans un tertiaire facilité de soins de santé dans un pays en développement avec un intérêt particulier sur la séquelles à long terme. méthodes : entre Janvier 1990 et mai 2008 inclusivement, 38 enfants consécutifs avec le diagnostic du SCT ont été identifié à partir du Registre d'opération et le Registre du cancer de le Jos Teaching CHUV. Leur présentation clinique, enquête, résultats opérationnels, rapport de l'histologie et issue étaient enregistrées. et analysées. Le suivi à long terme de certains des patients ont également été enregistrées et analysées. Résultats : Il Y avait les 31 femelles et les 7 hommes. Vingt trois présentées lors de la période néonatale avec une médiane âge à la présentation de 7 jours (plage 1-18 jours) et un poids médian à Présentation de 2,8 kg (gamme 2.0-3,6 kg), 10 présentés entre 1 mois et douze mois alors que 5 ont été plus de 1 an à la présentation. Plupart des patients avaient considérablement externes de tumeurs. L'excision de la tumeur était principalement par sacrée itinéraire, quatre avaient exision abdominale sacrée. Histologie était principalement bénigne; 4 ont été malin à la présentation. Quatre enfants atteints de maladies malignes avait chimiothérapie en plus de l'excision de la tumeur. Huit avaient immédiate post-operative wound complications connexes alors que 3 enfants morts, 2 des décès ont été liés à l'anesthésie tandis que 1 mortes de complications colostomie. Vingt et un (60 %) ont été suivies pour une durée moyenne de 6 ans (plage de 1 mois - 8 ans).Deux (9,5 %) avait maladie récurrente après excision primaire; 5 (23,8 %) avaient certains degré de déficience fonctionnelle au suivi. Conclusion : Bien que SCT est habituellement bénigne, périodicité, transformations malignes chez les patients qui présentent tardive et séquelles fonctionnelles à long terme sont des problèmes qui doivent être abordés par les soins donneurs. Étude multicentrique peut être nécessaire de qualifier cette maladie dans les pays en développement et d'évaluer les séquelles fonctionnels à long terme de survivants. Keywords: Clinical characteristics, long-term functional sequelae, sacrococcygeal teratoma Chirdan LB, Uba AF, Pam SD, Edino ST, Mandong BM, Chirdan OO. Sacrococcygeal teratoma: Clinical characteristics and long-term outcome in Nigerian children. Ann Afr Med 2009;8:105-9 Chirdan LB, Uba AF, Pam SD, Edino ST, Mandong BM, Chirdan OO. Sacrococcygeal teratoma: Clinical characteristics and long-term outcome in Nigerian children. Ann Afr Med [serial online] 2009 [cited 2020 Jan 22];8:105-9. Available from: http://www.annalsafrmed.org/text.asp?2009/8/2/105/56238 Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is a common germ cell tumor of childhood affecting between 1:40,000 and 1:35 000 live births. [1],[2] Most patients present during the neonatal period with a sacral mass, though some intrapelvic tumors may present later. The diagnoses of SCT are being increasingly made within the late second and third trimesters with the advent of improved antenatal imaging techniques, and planned Caesarian delivery is being offered to some pregnant women with better outcome. [3],[4] Previous reports from Nigeria had focused mainly on the clinical presentation without details on the long-term outcome. [5],[6] Besides reports on the long-term follow-up of children treated for SCT worldwide is scanty. The aim of this present article was to review the outcome of SCT in a tertiary healthcare institution in Central Nigeria with particular interest on the long-term outcome. The operation registrar and the Cancer Registry of the Jos University Teaching Hospital were accessed to identify all children treated for SCT at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria, between January 1990 and May 2008 inclusive. The demographic data, clinical presentation, investigations, and histopathology reports of the patients were recorded from case notes, operation notes, and discharge summary sheets. The surgical management with respect to resection of the primary tumor and the early and late complications were also recorded. Our usual operative approach for excision of this tumor is to make a chevron incision, after a piece of gauze impregnated with paraffin has been inserted into the rectum to make its recognition easier. We then transact the lower sacrum and control the middle sacral artery early in the operation to avoid unnecessary hemorrhage. The tumor is then dissected out enbloc from the rectum that has been made easily visible with the gauze in the rectum, the pelvic diaphragm, and the gluteal muscles. The tumor including the coccyx is then removed. In patients with significant intra-pelvic extensions of the tumor, we use an abdomino-sacral route for the total excision of the tumor. Patients with intestinal obstruction and or bladder outlet obstruction usually would have colostomy constructed. For malignant tumors, we use neoadjuvant chemotherapy before excision of the tumors. Outcomes relating to survival, tumor recurrence, bowel and urinary functions were analyzed from the long-term clinical follow-up of some of the patients whose data were available. Forty-one children were suspected to have SCT over the study period; three were excluded (one had sacral meningocele, one had fibrolipoma, while the parents of one child refused surgery) leaving 38 with histologically confirmed SCT and form the basis of this report. There were 31 (81.6%) females and 7 (18.4%) males. Twelve pregnancies were supervised and had delivery in a health care facility. Four (10.5) had antenatal diagnosis using USS; two of them had Caesarian delivery at our hospital due to dystocia. The remaining 26 had their deliveries at home under supervision of traditional birth attendants (TBAs). There was no history of tumor rupture or hemorrhage. Twenty-three (60.5%) presented during the neonatal period; their ages at presentation ranged from 1 to 18 days (median 7 days). Their weight at presentation ranged from 2.0 kg to 3.6 kg (median 2.8 kg). Fifteen (39.5%) presented outside the neonatal period; 10 presented between 2 and 11 months (median 5 months), while 5 presented between 1.5 and 6 years of age (median 3.5 years). One child was premature and had associated congenital heart disease, while one other child had associated anal stenosis. Clinical assessment included a detailed history and physical examination, including a digital rectal examination in all. Imaging studies included lateral sacral radiographs and additional chest radiographs in four. None had a CT scan, as this investigation was unavailable during the study period. One child presented with urinary obstruction and had a micturating cystourethrogram as part of her assessment. Pre-operatively all had estimation of the hematocrit, serum urea, and electrolytes. Alpha fetoprotein estimation was done in 30 children at presentation and 17 at the follow-up. Clinically, there were 17 Altmann type I [Figure 1]; 15 type II; 4 type III; and 2 type IV tumors. Excision of the tumor was done in all the patients. Thirty-four (89.5%) had complete tumor excision via the sacral route only. Four (11.8%) had combine abdomino-sacral resection of tumor. Two children with large intra-abdominal extension of SCT had preliminary colostomy; in one, excision through the abdomino-sacral route was done, while the other child with intestinal obstruction and whose tumor was malignant with fungating ulcers [Figure 2] had a preliminary divided sigmoid colostomy and cytotoxic chemotherapy. This considerably reduced the tumor and a sacral excision was possible. She had her colostomy closed 2 weeks after and had completed her course of cytotoxics. She has no recurrence 2 years after excision and chemotherapy. Two other children had colostomy after resection for iatrogenic rectal injury during excision and post-operative wound dehiscence, respectively. The tumor was cystic in 8 children (all neonates); cystic with solid areas in 20 (15 neonates, 5 infants) and solid in 10. The primary histology showed mature teratoma in 23 (16 neonates and 7 older children) and immature teratoma in 9 (5 neonates and 4 older children). In four, the histology was reported as malignant teratoma (MT), while the histology of two was reported as endodermal sinus tumor (EST) [Table 1]. Complications and long-term follow-up Immediate postoperative complications occurred in eight (21.1%) children. Complete wound dehiscence occurred in three, one had a colostomy constructed and the remaining two were successfully managed without colostomy. Five had partial wound dehiscence that healed with local wound care. One had intra-operative rectal injury, and a colostomy was constructed at operation. There were three (7.9%) deaths. One died on table shortly after induction of anesthesia; the other died a few hours after surgery, while the third child died of colostomy complications. Of the 35 survivors, 14 were lost to follow-up, while 21 (60%) were followed up up for a median duration of 6 years (range 1 month-8 years). Of these, two with initial histology of mature teratoma had recurrent disease 24 and 36 months after primary excision requiring re-excision, and were disease-free at 1 year of re-excision. Of the four children who had malignant teratoma at presentation, two were lost to follow-up, one had chemotherapy and re-excision, while one was free of tumor at 2 years of follow-up. Two children who had excision during the neonatal period had patulous anus with fecal soiling; two other children had nocturnal enuresis at 6 and 8 years of age. One child had urinary incontinence with recurrent urinary tract infection. The details of the children with long-term complications are summarized in [Table 2]. This 13-year review revealed a number of characteristics of this disease from sub-Saharan Africa. A female preponderance noted in this report agrees with most other reports from other parts of the world except in one report from India where there was equal sex distribution. [4],[6],[7],[8] Patients with sacrococcygeal teratomas generally present in two clinical patterns; those presenting during the neonatal period with predorminantly benign tumors and those presenting after the neonatal period, usually as older infants and children with primarily intrapelvic tumors with a likely malignant histology. [7] More than 50% of the children in this report presented during the neonatal period with predorminantly extrapelvic tumors. In developed countries, many more cases are diagnosed antenatally and therefore antenatal intervention and or planned Caesarian delivery is done for large tumors to avoid dystocia, tumor rupture, hemorrhage, or death. [3],[4],[9] The situation is different in our setting where many pregnant women have no access to obstetric care; thereby many of the deliveries are by Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs). However, as health care becomes available to more people from developing countries, and with increasing availability of antenatal imaging techniques and screening, more of our patients may be diagnosed antenatally. This would mean that more of them may have planned caesarian deliveries and better outcome. Over half of our patients presented during the neonatal period. This may be due to the fact that most of the tumors were external. However, it is pertinent to note that in many societies in Africa, such children are considered monsters and therefore may not have the opportunity of getting to the hospitals and left to die at home. It is also interesting to note that a good number (41.6%) of our patients present outside the neonatal period and about four (11.1%) presented after 1 year of age. In developing countries, poverty and inaccessibility to tertiary health care facilities may play some role on the time of presentation of patients to the hospital. Besides, some of the patients with predorminantly intrapelvic tumors may present with urinary or bowel obstruction as in one of our patients. All our patients who presented after 1 year of age had malignant diseases at presentation. The high rate of malignancy with late presentation had been noted by other reports. [10],[11],[12],[13],[14] In this present report, the four children with malignant disease at presentation presented outside the neonatal period. Associated congenital anomalies are common in children with sacrococcygeal teratoma. These associated anomalies include anorectal anomalies, spinal dysraphism, and limb abnormalies. Ascraft and Holder in 1965 reported two children with presacral tumor and anal stenosis and later 17 others with presacral tumor and sacral defects with most of them having anal stenosis in six kindreds. [15],[16] This led them to suggest an autosomal dominant nature of the tumor. Currarino later described three more cases and suggested that the etiology may be related to adhesions between the ectoderm and neural endoderm causing a split notochord. [17] In another report from North-Eastern Nigeria, associated congenital anomalies were noted in three of the patients. [6] In this present report, two children had associated congenital anomalies: one child with congenital heart disease and the other child with anal stenosis with tethering of the cord. It may appear that associated congenital anomalies are not common in children presenting in our environment. This may be related to the fact that most of the children with associated life-threatening anomalies would have died at home without being taken to the hospital. The post-operative morbidity noted in 21% was mainly wound infection that could be because of fecal soilage of the wound. This could be avoided by the construction of a colostomy at the time of surgery; however, colostomy may be associated with its own morbidity and additional cost and re-operation for closure. Wound contamination can also be avoided by the judicious placement of the skin incision and regular anal cleansing by the mothers. For patients in whom we anticipate poor anal hygiene, we usually leave a syringe in the anus for 3 days to divert feces from the wound, and since the introduction of this procedure, the incidence of wound dehiscence has greatly reduced. The overall mortality in this report was 3/36 (8.3%); two of the deaths were directly related to anesthesia. In developing countries, anesthetic complications are common due to unavailability of trained anesthesiologists. The risk increases when operating on neonates and in neonates with SCT who have huge tumors with an increased risk of cardiac arrest after removal. In our center, we still use the services of nurse anesthesiologists due to unavailability of trained physician anesthesiologists. Recurrence after excision of benign or immature SCT has been documented and is common after the excision of malignant disease. [11] Two of our patients with an initial benign histology had recurrence. Four of our patients had malignant histology on presentation; two were lost to follow-up after initial excision and chemotherapy, while two were well at 12 and 24 months after surgical excision and chemotherapy. Even though our patients with malignant disease were few, it would appear that they do well after chemotherapy and excision as noted by Wakhlu et al.[8] A number of reports have attempted to assess long-term outcome after treatment of SCT; [8],[10],[11],[15],[16],[17] which include continence, quality of life, and sexual function. In one UK study on the long-term follow-up of children treated for SCT, [18] a third had some functional problems, and Malone et al, found as many as 41% of children treated for SCT with some long-term functional sequelae. [16] In this present series, only 21 (60%) had some long-term follow-up information; 5 (23.8%) of them had some degree of functional impairments [Table 1]. In developing countries, we may not know the exact prevalence of our patients with long-term sequelae after excision of SCT, as many of them may not come back after initial excision of the tumor. However, with improved health care delivery in the developing world due to improved economy and advocacy, many of the children with SCT would have access to healthcare and so many would survive and reach adulthood. It means then that the problem of long-term function must be on the minds of care givers as they manage this group of patients. Besides, clinicians and counselors need to explain to the parents of these children that excision of a benign tumor may be accompanied by significant long-term functional sequelae for their child. A multi-center study of those few who come back for follow-up in the various care centers may be necessary to quantify the magnitude of these problems in developing countries. 1. Pantoga E, Llobet R, Gonzales-Flores B. Retroperitoneal teratoma: Historical review. J Urol 1996;115:520-3. 2. Laberge JM, Nguyen LT, Shaw KS. Teratomas, dermoids and other soft tissue tumours. In: Ascraft KW, editor. Pediatric surgery, 3 rd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders; 2000. p. 905-26. 3. Graf JL, Albanese CT. Fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma. World J Surg 2003;27:84-6. [PUBMED] [FULLTEXT] 4. Flake AW. Fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma. Semin Pediatr Surg 1993;2:113-20. [PUBMED] 5. Nmadu PT. Sacrococcygeal teratoma in Zaria, Nigeria: Report of 47 cases. Ann Trop Paediatr 1995;15:299-302. [PUBMED] 6. Abubakar AM, Nggada HA, Chinda JY. Sacrococcygeal teratoma in northeastern Nigeria: 18 year experience. Pediatr Surg Int 2005 21:645-8. [PUBMED] [FULLTEXT] 7. Billmore DF, Grosfeld JL. Teratomas in childhood: Analysis of 142 cases. J Pediatr Surg 1986;21:548-51. 8. Wakhlu A, Misra S, Tandon AK, Wakhlu AK. Sacrococcygeal teratoma. Pediatr Surg Int 2002;18:384-7. 9. Antaby EY, Yagel S. Route of delivery of fetuses with structural anomalies. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2003;106:5-9. 10. Gabra HO, Jesudason EC, Mcdowel HC, Pizer BL, Losty PD. Sacrococcygeal teratoma- a 25-year experience in a UK regional centre. J Pediatr Surg 2006;41:1513-6. 11. Rescola FJ, Sawin RS, Coran AG, Dillon PW, Azizkhan RG Long term outcome for infants and children with sacrococcygeal teratoma: A Report from the Children's cancer group. J Pediatr Surg 1998;33:171-6. 12. Atmann RP, Randolph JG, Lilly JR. Sacrococcygeal teratoma: American Academy of Pediatrics Surgical Section Survey-1973. J Pediatr Surg 1974;9:389-98. 13. Grosfeld JL, Ballantine TV, Lowe D, et al Benign and malignant teratoma in children: Analysis of 85 children. Surgery 1976;80:297-305. 14. Hickey RC, Layton JM. Sacrococcygeal teratoma. Cancer 1954;7:1031-43. [PUBMED] 15. Havranek P, Hedlund H, Reubenson A, Guth D, Husberg M, Frykberg T, et al. Sacrococcygeal teratoma in Sweden between 1978 and 1989: Long term functional results. J Pediatr Surg 1992;27:916-8. 16. Malone PS, Spitz L, Kiely EM, Brereton RJ, Duffy PG, Ransley PG. The functional sequelae of sacrococcygeal teratoma. J Pediatr Surg 1990;25:679-80. [PUBMED] [FULLTEXT] 17. 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__label__wiki	0.542396	0.542396	Blair’s World All about Blair & Ellen Williams and CTR « North to Bet She’an, Gideon Springs, Tel Megiddo and Nazareth Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Caesarea and Tel Aviv » Galilee, Tel Dan and the Golan Heights Tiberias is one of the four holy cities in the Talmud, and had a hgh court or Sanhedrian. We motor around the sea to Magdalla and the 4 AD church of Mary, where the multiplication of loaves and fishes occured. It has some exquisite mosaics including the loaf and fishes. Mosaic Loaves and Fishes On to the Church of Hepapagon on the Mount of the Beatitudes a beautiful site overlooking the sea of Galilee. Incidentally over 80% of Jesus’ ministry was around the Sea of Galilee. I am asked to read the Sermon on the Mount (Mathew 1-16). It was a surreal experience – reading and hearing the idealism of the words at the site where they were initially spoken. Mount of Beatitudes on Sea of Galilee It appears that the Saducees believed in today and the Pharisees believed in tomorrow. The Pharisee tradition prevailed and the Beatitudes reflect this. And yet they seem to have been so bureaucratic We drive up into the mountains to the river Dan main source of the river Jordan, and Tel Dan (Hill of the Judge) an ancient Canaanite and Israeli site 900BC, identified with city of Laish, and the tribe of Dan (one of the 12 tribes of Israel – Samson was of this tribe). Dan was the son of Jacob (Israel), who was the son of Issac, the son of Abraham. The river rushes through, on its way in and out of the sea of Galilee and on to the its final destination in the Dead Sea. An inference is that which allows anything to pass through is alive, but that which does not is dead! The gates of the site are where the expression ‘in the gate’ to mean committed to publicly, was used when Boaz pledged marriage to Ruth, the direct ancestors of David (Ruth 4). Tel Dan ‘In the gate” We enjoy a lunch at McDonalds – a refreshing change. Israel has a chain called MacDavid, but their big Mac not called Goliath (sorry). On to the Banias (Caesarea Phippi) where there was an ancient shrine, 50BC, to Pan (there is no P in arabic so Panias became Banias). There are some impressive Roman ruins, including a temple to Augustus 19BC. On this site Jesus asked, ‘And who do you say I am’ and Peter answered correctly and was designated the Rock of Christianity (Mathew 16-13). Caesarea Phillipi_Shrine_of_Pan_on_hill We drive up to the Golan Heights (through Druze Arabs, whose main prophet is Jethro, and who maintained neutrality, with Syria and now with Israel) 3000 feet above sea level, captured by Israel in 1967 and established as a new border with Syria. One understands the stragegic and tactical value of these heights as they overlook the plains of Northern Israel. We see Syria a few miles away with a UN demilitarized zone between, and Damascus in the distance (wish I could have made a side trip, as Damascus is on my list of ‘must see’ cities – duh!) Syria_from_Golan_Heights On our return we stop of at Kinneret Kibbutz. All Kibbutz had three goals – Jews wanted to return to the land of their birth; they wanted to own land (not allowed for most of their history) and wanted to work as worship. We visit their beautiful cemetery on the banks of the sea of Galilee, and pause to read a poem at the grave of Rachael, one of Israel’s most famous poets – ‘ Spread out your hand look yonder, nothing comes’. There are many stones on the grave, a sign of respect. A fitting end to a remarkable day Kinneret_Cemetery_Rachael This entry was posted on Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 04:27 and is filed under Biblical lands. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Biblical lands (14) Blair's World (4) Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Caesarea and Tel Aviv North to Bet She’an, Gideon Springs, Tel Megiddo and Nazareth Southern Israel Muslim Jerusalem Jewish Jerusalem and the Holocaust Jerusalem – Christian and Jewish Quarters The Dead Sea Complex Industry Professor of Manufacturing Engineering. Author of "Manufacturing for Survival" - (Pearson 1997) and "Anglo-Indians - Vanishing Remnants of a Bygone Era" - (CTR 2002). Interests: Life, Golf, Zen Buddhism, Anglo-Indian Ethnicity. Passion: Calcutta Tiljallah Relief (CTR) Inc, an organization dedicated to helping indigent Anglo-Indians in India. A-I Websites Anglo-Indian Portal David McMahon’s “authorblog” Blair’s World is © 2005-2006 Blair Williams \| Site design adapted by Fletch Site powered by WordPress \| Entries (RSS) \| Comments (RSS)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line486
__label__wiki	0.713406	0.713406	Secret Shows Artist Spotlight/ Communion Artist Spotlight: Joseph Arthur with Mike Mills (of R.E.M.) and Bill Dobrow Cause A Scene — December 6, 2013 — Leave a comment Joseph Arthur’s latest album, The Ballad of Boogie Christ Act 2, saw him collaborating with a long list of recognizable names, including the Band’s pianist Garth Hudson, former Ryan Adams & the Cardinals bass player Catherine Popper, and Golden Smog member and former Jayhawks guitarist Kraig Jarret Johnson. For his upcoming date playing at The High Watt for the Communion Nashville show, he’ll be pulling out the big guns again and playing with Mike Mills of R.E.M. and Bill Dobrow. The Ballad of Boogie Christ Act 2, which Arthur is currently on a world tour in support of, is the second album in a planned trilogy. The album has been described as “psychedelic soul” and Arthur has said the first two albums of the trilogy are unlike anything he’s done before. Act 2 was released on Black Friday as an Official Record Store Day release, the first installment having been released in June. It is one of more than eleven albums and ten EPs that Arthur has put out since being signed to Real World Records by Peter Gabriel in the mid ‘90s. Arthur’s albums are often recognized for their artwork, which he does himself. In 1999, he was nominated for a Grammy for Best Recording Package for the extended version of his EP, Vacancy. The Nashville Communion show, which Arthur will be participating in, will be held at the Mercy Lounge on Thursday, December 12th and will also feature performances from Milktooth, Rosco Bandana, Cereus Bright and Josephine & The Wild Front. Get your tickets here for $5. – Meagan Lawson Joseph Arthur- ‘I Used To Know How To Walk On Water’ In Artist Spotlight, Communion Artist Spotlight joseph arthur, Meagan Lawson Cause A Scene Communion Artist Spotlight:... Tweets by @causeascenenash Cause A Scene Announces First Ever U.S. TourJune 1, 2016 Hosts Needed for the First Ever Cause A Scene TourMay 9, 2016 Cause A Scene’s Do615 Top 5 April ShowsApril 13, 2016 Cause A Scene Compilation 001 Out NowMarch 29, 2016 Cause A Scene Named a Top 50 Coolest New Business by Business InsiderDecember 21, 2015 Pip and Why You Should Pursue Your Passion7 comments since February 13, 2012 A black wave is comin’/A black wave wil...3 comments since March 6, 2012 This Is Really Happening2 comments since January 23, 2012 Thanks for letting me know about this! ... Love the song and would love to catch th... new releasesmolly williamserin raeserynlarry kloesswhitaker elledgeMeagan Lawsonhouse showsBailey Bashamchristian lerchenfeld © 2020 Cause A Scene Music — Standard by 8BIT	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line496
__label__cc	0.614218	0.385782	Home Page > Garden Room Cafe > Menu The Garden Cafe Menu Toast and Breakfasts Gardener's breakfast - served until 11.30am Crispy bacon, sausages, grilled tomatoes, portobello mushroom, beans and a choice of poached or fried egg. £7.25 Vegetable gardener's breakfast. (V) - served until 11.30am Vegetarian sausages, grilled tomatoes, portobello mushroom, beans and a choice of poached or fried egg. £5.95 Head gardener's breakfast - served until 11.30am Creamy scrambled free range eggs, Scottish smoked salmon, grilled vine tomato on granary toast. £5.95 Toast.......... £2.25 Two slices of freshly baked farmhouse loaf and a choice of preservse (GF available) Toasted teacakes..........£2.25 Bacon or sausage sandwich..........£4.95 Locally sourced bacon or sausage on white or granary (GF) Scones..........£2.95 Freshly baked fruit or cheese scones, served with butter, jam or cream (or all three) (GF) Speciality toast..........£2.25 Irish fruit loaf of cinnamon loaf, toasted and served with a choice of preserves Served with a selection of our salads. Tuna and spring onion mayonnaise.......... £6.25 Prawn with lemon mayonnaise..........£6.50 Baked beans............£5.95 Cheese...........£5.95 Chilli Con Carne..........£6.95 Chefs specials - changing weekly Garlic mushroom..........£6.95 Creamy garlic and stilton mushrooms served on toasted ciabatta (V) Trio of Pork Sausages......£8.95 Three port sausages, served witha creamy mash and red wine onion gravy Lasagne...........£8.95 Homemade lasagne served with a salad and garlic bread Chilli Con Carne......£8.95 Homemade Chilli Con Carne, served with rice and garlic bread Quiche..........£8.95 Check our specials board for our daily quiches, served with a selection of our salads (GF) Homemade soup..........£4.50 Served with a mini granary Hovis. (V) (GF) available Half soup and small sandwich..........£5.95 Half portion of soup served with a small sandwich Hand cut farmhouse loaf (GF) served with Garden Room salad, coleslaw and crisps. Roast ham..........£5.95 Honey roasted ham, vine tomato and French Brie Prawn Marie Rose..........£6.45 Atlantic prawns, crisp lettuce, tomato, red onion and Marie Rose sauce Tuna mayonnaise..........£5.95 Tuna mayonnaise and spring onion Vintage cheddar cheese..........£5.95 Vintage cheddar with caramelised onion chutney Hand cut grilled paninis served with salad, crisps and coleslaw. Bacon, Brie and cranberry..........£6.95 Dry cured bacon, French Brie and cranberry sauce Tuna melt..........£6.95 Tuna mayonnaise, spring onion and vintage cheddar. Mozzarella and pesto..........£6.95 Sun blushed tomato, Mozzarella and pesto Speciality sandwiches Served with salad, crisps and coleslaw (GF) B.L.T..........£6.95 Bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise served on granary bread Hot Roast Beef........£6.95 Hot roast beef, blue cheese and horseradish sauce served on a soft white roll Pork Loin......£6.95 Slow roasted pork belly, stuffing and apple sauce served on a soft white roll Mediterranean Vegetable (v)......£6.95 Roasted vegetables and goats cheese on a ciabatta Garden Room sweet treats Please choose from our delicious selection of fresh home baked cakes, scones and tray bakes. Warmed scone with butter and jam - £2.95 Slice of cake - £3.20 Slice of cake with fresh double cream - £3.75 Tray bakes - £2.85 Choose from either - Toasted teacake, Irish fruit loaf or cinnamon bread served with a generous knob of butter - £2.25 Garden Room cream tea Pot of fresh tea or Americano coffee, warmed fruit scone, clotted cream and strawberry preserve - £4.95 Espresso - £1.90 Filter coffee - £1.90 Hot chocolate Loaded with cream and marshmallows - £2.85 Mocha - £2.50 Horlicks - £2.20 Pot of tea for 1 - £1.80 Specialty teas - £2.20 Iced Latte £3.20 Frappe Coffee £3.20 Iced Mocha £3.20 Chocolate £2.95 Banana £2.95 Strawberry £2.95 Loaded Milkshake - served with whipped cream and popping candy £3.25 Soya milk available on request. Selection of chilled soft drinks from - £1.20	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line504
__label__wiki	0.562137	0.562137	SwipeClock Wins Coveted Technology Excellence Award for Best Advance in Time and Labor Management for Bringing Intelligence to Timekeeping and Advanced Scheduling Home Blog Excellence Awards SwipeClock Wins Coveted Technology… Rachel Cooke Bronze Award Recognizes Benefits of SwipeClock’s Innovative Workforce Management Clock that Greatly Reduces Payroll Processing Time and Helps Companies Comply with Labor Laws December 20, 2016—Salt Lake City—SwipeClock today announced it won the Technology Excellence Award in the category of Best Advance in Time and Labor Management. The bronze award recognizes the benefits of SwipeClock’s recently launched Workforce Management Clock that brings intelligence to timekeeping and advance scheduling with applied business rules logic. The innovative clock also includes a rich set of intelligent, proactive, and dynamic capabilities that greatly improve employee interactions with the time clock so labor data are more accurate. “SwipeClock is honored to win the award for Best Advance in Time and Labor Management for our intelligent Workforce Management Clock,” said Coleman Barney, CEO of SwipeClock. “Our sole focus is to stay one step ahead of our customers’ expectations as they manage their diverse workforces. This is an award that all of our employees should be proud to receive for recognition of their hard work in developing the industry’s most innovative workforce management solutions.” “We congratulate our Technology Award winners, and also thank them for leading the way in designing and utilizing technologies that empower organizations to enhance – and in some cases transform – their organizations,” said Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer of Brandon Hall Group and head of the awards program. “Our research shows that Human Capital Management technology is a primary driver of innovation, and our award-winning organizations serve as models of success.” Rigorous Judging Process Winners of the Technology Excellence Awards are selected after undergoing a rigorous judging process. An international panel of independent industry experts, and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executive leadership team evaluated the entries. The judging was based on design of the solution, functionality, usability, innovation, and overall measureable benefits. About Brandon Hall Group With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is the most well-known and established research organization in the performance improvement industry. We conduct research that drives performance, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results. Brandon Hall Group has an extensive repository of thought leadership, research and expertise in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition and Human Resources. At the core of our offerings is a Membership Program that Empowers Excellence Through Content, Collaboration and Community. 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Learn more about SwipeClock (www.swipeclock.com) SwipeClock, Brandon Nielsen, Director, Sales Operations (888) 233-3450, bnielsen@swipeclock.com Awards ProgramSwipeClockTechnology Awards Previous:Arcusys Wins Silver at The 2016 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology Next:Arcusys Wins Silver at The 2016 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology Chief Operating Officer Rachel Cooke Rachel is responsible for business operations including overseeing client services, research events and project management. Prior to joining Brandon Hall Group, Rachel was the Chief Operating Officer Co-founder of AC Growth. Rachel has over 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development, and sales performance management. Prior to AC Growth, she held several senior management roles and was on the leadership team at Bersin & Associates, a pioneer analyst firm in e-learning and now industry leading HR and talent Research Company. In her Senior Director role, Rachel developed the strategy and led the commercial execution of the solution provider vertical, and grew the vertical into the company’s largest market segment. In her role as Director of Sales, Rachel developed and led a team of senior account executives focused on acquiring global strategic accounts. Rachel was solely responsible for developing key business relationships with over ninety companies including industry icons, such as: Adidas, Hewlett-Packard, Toyota, Oracle, Starbucks, Avnet, Boeing, Kaiser Permanente, Safeway Inc., Wells Fargo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Clorox and Affiliated Computer Services. Rachel began her career in the banking, media and hospitality industries. In these industries, Rachel held several key senior management and executive sales positions. Rachel received a BA in social science and interdisciplinary studies with honors from Florida Atlantic University. Rachel continued her postgraduate education by completing a series of executive management education courses from American Management Association. SweetRush and Clients Rock Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards with 19 Golds! 24th Annual Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards Program Opens for Applications eThink Education Wins Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award for Best Advance in Learning Management Technology	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line509
__label__wiki	0.641507	0.641507	Corpus Christianorum Corpus Christianorum in Translation (CCT 12) John of Salisbury Metalogicon J.B. Hall Online content: http://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.CCT-EB.5.105892 This book offers an historical study of John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon, a treatise that defends the role of logic and of Aristotle’s Organon in the educational system of twelfth-century Paris. John of Salisbury has long been celebrated as one of the foremost humanists of the twelfth-century renaissance, an erudite correspondent, legal expert, historian, poet, diplomat and political thinker, and clerk to two successive archbishops of Canterbury, Theobald and Thomas Becket. His Metalogicon, ostensibly a defence of the role of logic and of Aristotle’s Organon in the educational syllabus of the day, makes a powerful argument for an educational system of real practical utility for society, one whose intellectual coherence and rigour should underpin political morality and rational governance. As such, it has been seen to stand alongside the more famous Policraticus as an integral part of the intellectual contribution of one of Europe’s great political theorists. Based on John’s own experiences as a student and a teacher, the treatise offers unique evidence of the educational system of twelfth-century Paris at a critical stage in the early development of the schools, and of the earliest reception of the Aristotelian texts of the ‘new logic’. It is also an important contribution to the tradition of pedagogical and educational thought, with its unique attention to teaching methods and its belief in the purpose of education both for the formation of the person and for the good of society. The treatise has been accorded an important place in many modern scholarly debates, including those on the origins of the universities, on medieval philosophy and on medieval humanism. This new translation is based on the edition of J.B. Hall, auxiliata K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, which appeared in Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaeualis as Iohannes Saresberiensis - Metalogicon (CCCM 98), and so makes available to the student and general reader for the first time a translation of a text of this important work established on modern critical principles. References to the corresponding pages of the Corpus Christianorum edition are provided in the margins of this translation. Professor J.B. Hall is Hildred Carlile Professor of Latin Emeritus, University of London. Apart from John of Salisbury, he has published books on the textual criticism of Claudian, Ovid and Statius. Dr Julian P. Haseldine is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Hull. He has edited the letters of Peter of Celle and published widely on medieval friendship and friendship networks. "Un des mérites de cette publication est dans l’introduction donnée par J. P. Haseldine, qui propose un panorama à la fois vaste, clair et nuancé, tant de l’histoire que de l’état actuel de la recherche sur cet auteur. (...) Il propose par ailleurs un résumé très utile du Metalogicon, qui en relève la cohérence et les articulations." (Jean-Christophe de Nadaï, dans: Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 98, 2014, p. 768-769) "(...) Pour mener à bien cette tâche, nul n’était mieux placé que l’éditeur principal, John Barrie Hall, éditeur non seulement de Jean de Salisbury mais aussi des auteurs classiques dont ce dernier était familier. De là une traduction excellente, intelligente, à la fois fidèle et claire. (...) Par la qualité de la version anglaise et la richesse de l’introduction, l’ouvrage remplit parfaitement son rôle de traduction, qui est de rendre le texte accessible aux lecteurs et, par le fait même, d’en donner une première interprétation, ici mûrie par une longue familiarité avec l’auteur et son texte." (Dominique Poirel, dans: Archives de Philosophie, 78, 2015/3, p. 567-568) Series Branch: Corpus Christianorum in Translation Early Medieval Philosophy (c. 650-1200) Scholastic Philosophy (c. 1200-1500) Early Medieval (c. 650-1200) Scholastic (c. 1200-1500) Medieval Latin literature Logica antiquioris mediae aetatis I d'Onofrio Isagoge (Porphyry the Phoenician) Policraticus I-IV (Ioannes Saresberiensis) Keats-Rohan Dragmaticon; Summa de philosophia in vulgari (Guillelmus de Conchis) Ronca et al. Cronica I (Salimbene de Adam) Scalia Expositiones in hierarchiam coelestem (Iohannes Scotus Eriugena) Barbet A Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew, and a Christian (Peter Abelard)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line513
__label__cc	0.504345	0.495655	Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600) (HDL 4) J. Kuuliala Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages Constructions of Impairments in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Canonization Processes XIV+380 p., 4 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, 2016 Retail price: EUR 100,00 excl. tax Online content: http://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484/M.HDL-EB.5.106072 In this volume, testimonies from medieval canonization processes are (for the first time) systematically used as sources for the study of medieval attitudes and everyday life concerning physical impairments, particularly of children. This volume offers new insights into medieval disability studies by analysing miracle testimonies from canonization processes as sources for the study of medieval attitudes to and understanding of childhood physical impairments: how they were defined, and the social consequences of childhood disability on the family, on the community, and on children themselves. In these texts, laypeople from different social groups carefully described events leading to children’s miraculous cures of physical impairments, as well as the conditions themselves. They thus provide an exceptionally rich (yet hitherto unexplored) window into the ways in which medieval society defined, explained, and understood children’s impairments. Besides simply describing disabilities and miraculous cures, these testimonies also reveal various aspects of everyday experiences and communal attitudes towards impaired children. The few testimonies by the children themselves offer fascinating insights into personal experiences of physical disability and how disability affected a child’s socialization and the formation of identity. This study thus aims to tease apart the often-complex ways in which medieval society both viewed physical differences and how it chose to (re)construct these differences in the discourse of the miraculous, as well as in everyday life. Chapter 1: Family and the Conceptions of Impairment Chapter 2: Community and the Impaired Child Chapter 3: Reconstructing Lived Experience Chapter 4: Conclusions: Impairment and Social Inclusion “I highly recommend Kuuliala's study of childhood. This work is well written and well researched. It has deep references and notes with translations of quotes and a good bibliography, making it accessible for advanced undergraduates. The book would fit comfortably in a classroom setting of medieval studies, gender studies, and the history of medieval health, religion, disabilities, family, or childhood. This work perceptively and sensitively examines the interplay between saints, the Church, children, and their families.” (Wendy J. Turner, in Sehepunkte, 17/4, 2017) “Kuuliala’s research firmly establishes itself within a relatively new field of medieval disability history. Her book is well written and draws on extensive primary and secondary sources. The work includes detailed footnotes and a rich bibliography for the use of interested students or scholars. The author’s systematic analysis of canonization processes offers valuable new insights to medieval disability. Miracle narratives reflect many practical aspects of medieval religious and daily life (…) Canonization testimonies therefore emerge as rich sources for investigating medieval attitudes toward disability, social consequences for the disabled and their families, and cultural approaches to care and cure.” (Christiane N. Fabbri, in H-Disability, H-NET, January 2018) “Kuuliala’s familiarity with her sources is a valuable guide to her reader, and while she is scrupulously careful not to extrapolate on her findings, and unerringly points out where claims of other researchers are not borne out by her material, more qualified judicious inferences in her concluding remarks would have been welcomed. Other readers might, by contrast, be grateful for her avoidance of precisely such a tendency. This thorough, detailed study is a valuable resource for researchers of disability and childhood in medieval Europe.” (Melissa Raine, in Parergon, 35/1, 2018, p. 181) Christian devotion & forms of religious expression Le Pater noster au XIIe siècle Siri Le temps des congrès catholiques Langlois et al. Embracing Wisdom: The Summa theologiae as Spiritual Pedagogy Mongeau Perceptions of Ecclesia Horie From Learning to Love Sharp Catherine of Siena Hamburger et al. Hagiographie, idéologie et politique au Moyen Âge en Occident Bozóky	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line514
__label__wiki	0.796997	0.796997	Beyonce Knowles > Arrests Made In Beyonce Ticket Scam Investigation By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 June 2014 Follow Beyonce Knowles Picture: Beyonce and Frida Giannini - Chime For Change one-tear anniversary event at the Gucci flagship store - New York City, New York, United States -... Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a Beyonce ticket scam in Britain earlier this year (14). Police launched an investigation amid concerns almost 300 fake tickets were sold for the Crazy in Love hitmaker's shows in Manchester, England in February (14), netting the scammers a profit of around $45,000 (£28,125). Victims were unaware they had been conned until they arrived at the venue for the show only to be informed their tickets were counterfeit. A 31-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman from Essex, England have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. They have been bailed until November (14). Beyonce thanks fans for braving the elements for Ivy Park launch Beyoncé and Jay Z sends Reese Witherspoon a case of champagne after Golden Globes Beyonce's dad clarifies Jagged Edge harassment claims Beyonce and Kelly Rowland faced 'harassment' Beyoncé saves custom dresses for daughter Beyonce learned to 'mother herself' after miscarriages Beyoncé's stressful balance Beyonce's dad releases unheard Destiny's Child songs Beyoncé's holiday-themed merchandise Beyonce wants 'normal people' for music video Beyonce and Jay-Z teaming up for new song and 'steamy' music video Beyonce and Solange Knowles test negative for mutated BRCA2 gene linked to breast cancer Beyonce and Solange tested for mutated gene following dad's cancer diagnosis Beyonce's father has breast cancer Epic Movie Review Although this adventure's premise will appeal to children, and the child within us, the film... Epic Trailer Mary Katherine is a regular teenage girl who somehow mysteriously appears in an enchantingly beautiful... Obsessed Trailer Watch the trailer for ObsessedBeyonce Knowles takes on an unlikely role in Obsessed. Sharon Charles... Cadillac Records Trailer Watch the trailer for Cadillac Records.In there day, Chess Records were a very prominent record... Dreamgirls Movie Review If only they had let Bill Condon direct Chicago instead of just writing the screenplay.... Dreamgirls, Trailer Stream, Beyonce Knowles, Listen, Video Trailer DreamgirlsTrailer StreamBeyonce Knowles, Listen, VideoNew ClipStarring Beyonce Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover and Eddie... The Pink Panther (2006) Movie Review ABC premiered America's Funniest Home Videos in 1989, and the weekly video-clip competition has gone... Austin Powers In Goldmember Movie Review Goldmember finds Mike Myers returning to his most successful franchise, but desperately running out of... The cameo-driven, "Mission: Impossible 2"-spoofing, movie-within-a-movie, pre-title sequence of "Austin Powers in Goldmember" is the... Fade To Black Movie Review In 2003, Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z (a.k.a. Shawn Carter) called it quits after an eight-year career....	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line523
__label__wiki	0.866804	0.866804	Clint Eastwood > Clint Eastwood on his 'American Sniper' Critics: "They're Right" By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11 February 2015 Follow Clint Eastwood Maybe the 'American Sniper' critics have a point. With American Sniper, Clint Eastwood has helmed one of the biggest box-office hits in recent memory though Chris Kyle's story has not been without its criticism. The Oscar-nominated movie has been getting heat from the likes of Michael Moore and Bill Maher for its apparent mindless flag waving and intoxicating bias. Bradley Cooper [L] and Sienna Miller [R] in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper Moore claimed Eastwood was getting "Vietnam and Iraq confused in his storytelling" and Maher said the movie was nothing but the story of a "psychopath patriot." Yet, there is an argument to be made here that Eastwood knows what he's doing. That American Sniper packs a little more than dumb patriotism. A couple of critics, including Mark Kermode point out that the film is potentially a little more ambigious than Eastwood may have us believe. Which begs the question: is this an anti-U.S movie? More: Did you know Chris Kyle's alleged killer is portrayed in American Sniper? Probably not. But Eastwood himself has defended the message by saying "the biggest antiwar statement any film can make is to show the fact of what [war] does to the family and the people who have to go back into civilian life like Chris Kyle did." Still, when quizzed by entertainment site TMZ.com about what he thought of Mayer and Moore's criticism, Eastwood, with a wry smile, said: "Well, they are right." American Sniper began life as a project for Steven Spielberg with the director wanting to share both sides of the story, developing the Iraqi sniper's character. However, the director dropped out and Eastwood took the reins, casting Bradley Cooper as America's deadliest sniper. On a budget of $58.8 million, the film has so far taken $361.3 million worldwide. More: Is American Sniper's Chris Kyle really a coward? Clint Eastwood to direct The Ballad Of Richard Jewell? Clint Eastwood still going skiing at the age of 88 Clint Eastwood's The Mule set for December release Clint Eastwood: 'Fan selfies are pain in the rear' Clint Eastwood Casts Real-Life Heroes In Latest Biopic Clint Eastwood casts real-life heroes Clint Eastwood to direct terrorist tale Clint Eastwood To Helm Train Terrorist Drama 'The 15:17 to Paris' Fascinating Fact: 5547674 Clint Eastwood in talks to direct Impossible Odds Clint Eastwood To Direct Film About Kidnapped Aid Worker Jersey Boys To Leave London's Theatreland After Nine Years Sully Cruising Atop North American Box Office Chart Performer The Lady Chablis Dead Sully Trailer Chesley Sullenberger has been a pilot all of his adult life. Having had an interest... Tab Hunter: Confidential Trailer Tab Hunter was America's Boy Next Door in the 1950s, attracting a large female following... American Sniper Movie Review Once again, director Clint Eastwood lurks in the background, springing a stunningly atmospheric thriller on... American Sniper Trailer What would you do when your own morals come into direct confrontation with your duty... Jersey Boys Movie Review Music-lover Clint Eastwood adapts the long-running stage musical for the big screen with mixed results:... Jersey Boys Trailer The Four Seasons was one of the most adored rock bands of the sixties with... Milius Movie Review A biography of iconic filmmaker John Milius, this engaging documentary features some of the biggest... Trouble With the Curve Movie Review With beautiful but bland direction and a script that can't help but overstate everything, this... Trouble With The Curve - Trailer Trailer Gus Lobel is one of the most formidable baseball talent scouts around, however his age... J. Edgar Movie Review Exquisitely designed and directed, with finely tuned performances that shine even through some heavy make-up,... J. Edgar Trailer Anna Marie Hoover, like any mother, knew that her young son, John Edgar, would grow... Hereafter Movie Review Eastwood's skilfully unrushed direction merges with Morgan's astute, thoughtful screenplay to create a thoroughly unusual... Hereafter Trailer What becomes of the human soul after our time in this life had ended? A... Invictus Movie Review Based on John Carlin's book Playing the Enemy, this is an almost too-inspirational story of...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line524
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__label__cc	0.69767	0.30233	Home >>> Whistle-Blower’s Page Blog >>> Issues >>> Johnson Creek Dam Jury Nullification > Jury Nullification on Facebook More Choices in Bandon NO Bandon Marsh Expansion > Bandon Marsh Expansion on Facebook Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance > S.A.S.O on FB State of Jefferson > State of Jefferson on Facebook The Coos County Charter Urban Renewal Information LTE ~ Not My Governor Not my Governor Remember about 8 years ago when Obozo was violating the Constitution and ramming the not so affordable health care law down over 70% of the populations throat; you know, the biggest redistribution of wealth in the history of the world. Remember that the TEA party rose up to take back our country. TEA Party was everywhere and were attacked by the media and dimwit Demon crats for trying to save our country. The TEA party was called domestic terrorists and other pejoratives, but remained calm, didn’t leave messes, respected property rights and didn’t threaten to blow up the White House, even though we were not happy with our undocumented so called President. The left gloated and bragged about their Obozo phones. Jump up to Occupy and how these left wingers defecated on and practically decimated the park on the waterfront in Portland. They smoked weed and did drugs while impeding traffic, committing rapes and vandalizing businesses. The Mayor of Portland enabled these cultural Marxists to rule the city with no accountability and at the end of the day, we picked up the tab. Now we not only have left wing groups like ANTIFA, Revolutionary Communist Party, Refuse Fascism, Disrupt J20, Black Lives Matters, and other Marxist groups Rioting all over the country, stomping their feet because they don’t like who was elected President. Here in Oregon we have a number of schools that have adopted the Marxist agenda and are practicing indoctrination rather than education and we have a Demon crat Party that has gone rogue. PSU has a Revolutionary Marxist course; Lincoln High School is having a “Saturday teach in, to discuss what educators must do in our classrooms, at our schools, and in our communities to resist the Trump agenda”. Yes the Portland City Commissioner is going to attend. Guess what idiots, half of the country voted for Trump….the productive half that pays the bills and you don’t speak for us. The other day the Governor of Oregon went on a rant about how she would form a coalition as it were to resist anything Donald Trump. In her speech she raved about how Oregon would protect all Oregonians even if they were here illegally or refugees. Are they Oregonians if they are here illegally or refugees? Kate Brown went on to say that Oregon will protect all religious freedom; I suppose that what she was saying is that she will bend over backwards for Islam because it will get her more votes, we know how the State treats Christians when they won’t participate in gay marriage…they get fined into bankruptcy. I wonder how Kate Brown will pay for her voting base extension, and the loss of Federal Funds, she can’t even come up with a budget that isn’t 1.7B dollars heavy. The next time you want to call someone a Right Wing Extremist for standing up for our founders principles and what is really American, take a look at the left wing snowflakes and their Marxist instigators who live in a world where everything is free, there is no accountability and there are participation trophy’s for everyone. Look at these spoiled brats and their destructive ways and tell me what kind of country you want to live in. Then ask yourselves if your elected officials should be using your money to fund revolutionary Marxism. Kate Brown, we will remember that you run again in 2018….you are not my Governor, and you don’t speak for me. Chris Brumbles Columbia County Coordinator Oath Keepers and OFF Co-State Coordinator, Oregon Oath Keepers LTE ~ Participation Trophies for All the Spoiled Brats LTE ~ Election Reflections & the Legislative Session LTE ~ Open Letter to Mayor and Councilors of Coos Bay on Wastewater Treatment LTE ~ Colombia County Approves Second Amendment Preservation Petition LTE ~ Occasionally the Righteous can Still Win LTE ~ Rigging Elections Using Three Proven Mechanisms LTE ~ Help Support the Right to Pursue Fishing, Hunting, & Plinking LTE ~ Irrational Opposition to the Patriot Movement in Saint Helens, OR LTE ~ An Open Letter to the Mayor of Coos Bay Crystal Shoji from Fred Kirby LTE ~ Mark Daily Running on Two Issues, User Rate Fees & Best Available Tech LTE ~ Judge Candidate Ryan Hughes was Libeled & Slandered Anonymously LTE ~ Coos Bay Wastewater at a Turning Point LTE ~ North Bend Airport Manager Might be "Nuts" TEA Party---Rally Around The Flag in Cottage Grove June 14, 2014 RALLY AROUND THE FLAG! Save The Date June 14, 2014 Free Admission! Western Oregon Exposition Fairgrounds in Cottage Grove Booths, Speakers and Networking! Protecting Our Rights – Defending Our Liberty “Property must be secured or Liberty cannot exist” – John Adams 10:30 AM Land Rights Stewardship is the right to own and control property and protect it from infringement by others. “Either you have the right to own property, or you are property” – Wayne Hage David J. Hunnicutt, President of Oregonians In Action Rob Taylor, Coos County Watchdog 12:30 AM Constitutional Rights The rights in the Federal Constitution must be observed by all agents of the federal government. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”–Thomas Jefferson Diane Roark, NSA Whistle Blower 2:30 PM Natural Rights Are those not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable (i.e., cannot be sold, transferred, or removed). Dr. Gordon Fulks, PhD in Physics. George Taylor, Meteorologist, former Oregon State Climatologist. (not confirmed) Chuck Weise, Meteorologist. Oregon Liberty Coalition (OLC) is a statewide Coalition of local, autonomous, non-partisan patriot groups established to advance and strengthen the Founding principles and God-given rights predicated in the U.S. and Oregon Constitutions. Our mission is to encourage and facilitate citizen participation in the political process and empower all citizens with a voice and influence in demanding Constitutional governance. OLC will help local, independent groups grow in numbers and influence and nurture communication and collaboration among patriot and freedom supporting groups. Information send email to orlibertycoalition@gmail.com Download the flyer here! PRE-ORDER your T Shirt Here TEA Party---Solution Revolution in Josephine County Saturday June 7, 2014 The TEA Party---Events in Grants Pass June 7 2014, & Cottage Grove June 14, 2014 The TEA Party 5 Year Anniversary February 27, 2014 TEA Party---Video of Brookings TEA Party January 18, 2014 TEA Party---The Brookings Harbor TEA Party January 18, 2014 The TEA Party---National Town Hall IRS Intimidation: Are you next? The TEA Party---IRS: Protests, Petition, and the People The TEA Party---The Brookings Harbor Tea Party 3/16/2013 The TEA Party---Auto-Pilot Toward the Fiscal Cliff The Tea Party---Some Republicans Caving to No New Tax Pledge The Tea Party---Sign Our New 'No New Taxes' Petition‏ Saturday June 7, 2014 Josephine County Fairgrounds Floral Building Grants Pass, Oregon Presented by : V.A.C.A.T.E. Valiantly Affirming Constitutional Authority Through Education THIS IS A FREE EVENT INVITE YOUR COUNTY & STATE OFFICIALS WITH THIS FLIER Reserve your Group Table here Doors open at 9am, close at 5pm; event starts at 10am Our Morning MC - Bill Meyer from KMED Medford Afternoon MC - Mark Anderson from ISpy radio. SPONSORED BY: Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson and The Liberators It has nothing to do with the environment; it's ALL ABOUT THE MONEY and CONTROL! Attorney and Utah State Representative Ken Ivory, one of the authors and architects of Utah's Statehood Bill, will talk about solutions that can be put in place now to SAVE our forests, wildlife, plant life, fish, water and most importantly, OUR LIVELIHOOD! Learn about Utah's Statehood Bill and how their state & counties are preparing; about other states and counties successes and who's moving forward with courage, conviction and solutions of their own. Our natural resources have AND CAN provide a much needed product and comfortable living for many generations to come! This is a CRITICAL ELECTION! Invite your elected officials and those running in your area to attend. Our representatives must be informed and prepared to act! PLEASE R.S.V.P. !!!!! @ hairpiggie@reagan.com THIS IS A FREE EVENT!! The following are a few TEA Party type events and the public is welcome.....Rob T. CG912Project Members and friends, Some great events coming up in June, Grants Pass with Ken Ivory, and our own Cottage Grove at the W.O.E. Fairgrounds. SOLUTION REVOLUTION coming to Grants Pass June 7th http://www.liberators2004.org/gpage4.html RALLY AROUND THE FLAG coming to Cottage Grove June 14th http://inciteliberty.com/rallyaroundtheflag/ The Tea Party 5 Year Anniversary Event Patriots, On Thursday, February 27, 2014, the Tea Party movement will be five years old. Five years ago, Americans around the country spontaneously united to stand up to government waste, government overreach and government abuse. Five years ago, we said “no more” to watching our elected officials ignore the Constitution and the free market principles this country was founded on. With the auto bailouts, stimulus packages, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and the utter abandonment of fiscal responsibility, it was clear Washington was in need of a serious intervention. Five years later, the Tea Party movement has made significant progress. The 2010 landslide elections showed us that the American people are tired of being let down by spend-happy politicians in Washington. Last year during the budget battle, we learned when we are united, we can accomplish great things, like forcing Congress to listen to the people and stand up to President Obama. Still, there’s work to be done. America still has serious challenges ahead in the form of Obamacare, immigration reform, and runaway spending. On February 27, the Tea Party Patriots will gather at the Hyatt Capitol Hill to celebrate the movement’s five-year anniversary, reflect on past successes, and pave a path forward. Join Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin and other liberty-loving Americans including Sen. Mike Lee (UT), Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX), and Rep. Steve King (IA), as we continue to fight for limited government and fiscal responsibility. For more information on the event or to reserve your place today, please click on the graphic below! Tea Party Patriots National Support Team P.S. Please join the Tea Party Patriots' Thunderclap in response to President Obama's State of the Union tomorrow night. You must have a Twitter account, supply your login information and authorize Thunderclap to send a message on your behalf. Click here and follow the instructions to join us to make your voices heard! RCGI---Time to Support Oath Keepers & Make a Public Comment to The World RCGI---Open Letter to OR State Representative Wayne Krieger RCGI---Douglas and Lane County Lobby our Senators against NDAA RCGI---The Jim Bice Radio Show with Stewart Rhodes founder of Oath Keepers ATF---It’s time to submit comments on proposed NFA rule changes! RCGR----The New NDAA will cost YOU $5,700 RCGR---Legislative Defense Manual If You Value Your Liberties, Stay Out of Coos Bay, Oregon! RCGR---Coos Bay City Council Rejects Promise of Federalism and Oath City of Coos Bay---City Council Meeting Votes to adopt RCGR September 17, 2013 RCG Resolution Against the NDAA 2012----Updated 9/7/2013 Obama administration hiding info on targeted killings of Americans - senator THE U.N. & LOCAL AGENDA 21 THE U.N. & AGENDA 21: The TEA Party---Critique of the Brookings TEA Party and the NDAA From a Watchdog in Brookings What's wrong with the NDAA? Shane Ozbun, Tom McKirgan, and Rob Taylor Shane Ozbun, (State Director for People Against the NDAA), Tom McKirgan, (Regional Coordinator for Oath Keepers) and Rob Taylor (who runs the Coos County Watchdog) provided some answers. Shane Ozbun, Tom McKirgan and Rob Taylor The NDAA is an act that funds the U.S. military and sets policy regarding federal expenditures. But, as Ozbun pointed out, beginning in 2012 it included provisions that allow the federal government to indefinitely detain US citizens without due process or trial! He used several video clips featuring attorney and former prosecutor Kris Anne Hall who provided further details, including the lack of definition for terms such as a "belligerent act" (which may lead to indefinite detention). Ozbun also indicated that state and local government are pushing back with a variety of resolutions condemning part of the NDAA. Four states -- Alaska, California, Michigan and Virginia -- have enacted laws that nullify certain provisions of the NDAA. Similar legislation has been introduced in several other states. McKirgan followed-up with similar comments. He also cited federal government programs that are giving local law enforcement military weapons and armored vehicles. Rob Taylor put a local twist to the event when he described his success in getting the Coos County Commissioners to support a resolution against the NDAA, along with a pending referendum to force the City of Coos Bay to take similar actions. His message was that the NDAA has to be fought first at the local level. Other speakers included Sheriff Dean Wilson (Del Norte County, CA) who made it clear that various sheriff associations overwhelmingly support local law enforcement over the NDAA and federal military actions. TEA Party for the New Year Does the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorize indefinite military detention of U. S. citizens without charge or trial? Three speakers -- Shane Ozbun, Tom McKirgan and Rob Taylor -- will answer this question and explore related issues during our next event. Join us at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, January 18 at the Best Western Beachfront Inn on Lower Harbor Road. Work to turn back part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is heating up. Join us for the latest information on Saturday, January 18, 2014 when Tom McKirgan and others will be speaking about the NDAA -- the law that has broad federal police powers. The Brookings Harbor TEA Party Tom McKirgan & Rob Taylor Thanks for reading. Comments and suggestions are welcomed! contact us, mail the Brookingstea Editor: clydeburke@brookingstea.com THE CHERYL PERIL or Why property rights have been lost to government by bureaucracy? Oregon Tea Party----We Have Not Yet Begun To Fight‏ CGI (OLC) Benghazi Protests Sat Nov 10th‏ Brookings Tea Party---<<< The Debate + Great Videos + PERS Impacts! >>> The Blaze documentary, The Project presented by the Lane County 912 Project The Balance the Budget Petition Sponsered by The Tea Party.net The Tea Party---You Are Keeping The Pressure On Holder‏ TEA Party---Tea Party Announces Social Media Initiative This initiative has nothing to do with the group Oregon Tea Party PAC, it is a completely different organization. The names are confusing, but try to keep up....Rob T. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/02/13 – Tualatin, OR. Oregon Tea Party (OTP) today announced the launch of JiminyCricket -- a new initiative that uses the power of social media to encourage personally responsible behavior. JiminyCricket launches with integrated website, facebook, and twitter properties. The website is located at http://www.jiminycricket.net. The facebook page is located at https://www.facebook.com/jiminychirp. The twitter page is located at https://twitter.com/jiminychirp. On November 13th, OTP announced a new vision and mission (http://wp.me/439pg). OTP's new vision and mission is intended to positively encourage the underlying values of a personally responsible culture. The launch of JiminyCricket is an initial step in that direction. Geoffrey Ludt, Oregon Tea Party founder, said this of JiminyCricket, “This initiative will be a voice that encourages our communities to reflect the standards we expect of our leaders, while it is very different from what people have come to expect of the Tea Party in recent times, it is very similar to some of the successful initiatives the Tea Party engaged in early on. I pray that people find it useful, entertaining, and a delight to share.” About Oregon Tea Party: The tea party movement began in Oregon on February 27, 2009 in response to excessive federal deficit spending. The larger tea party movement is a true grass roots movement, composed of a loose affiliation of national and local groups that determine their own agendas without any central leadership. In the past, the tea party movement has sponsored political protests and supported candidates and ballot initiatives. Oregon Tea Party Geoffrey Ludt oregonteaparty@gmail.com http://www.oregonteaparty.org From the TEA Party Patriots: IRS Intimidation: Are you next? National Town Hall to Review the Situation and Plan Next Steps The Farm, 239 Anderson Ferry Road, Cincinnati, OH 45248 Starts at 7:00pm EDT Patriots, Tonight, the SouthWest Cincinnati Tea Party will be hosting a national "Town Hall" on the IRS scandal. The IRS attack on conservative groups and individuals has an impact on all Americans not just those currently targeted. The government should never have the power to single out individuals for "special" treatment based on what they believe or who they talk to - it's called Freedom of Speech and it is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. This time it to those who happened to disagree with the current administration. The next time the criteria may include you! Live Webcast: This event will be broadcast live from at http://www.teapartypatriots.org from the Tea Party Patriots... IRS: Protests, Petition, and the People This IRS situation is getting huge and we need your help to keep putting on the pressure. Below are the ways you can get involved. This is the time to make your voices heard! Next Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 12pm noon local time, we are calling for protests in front of IRS locations across the country. Will you go? Click for more details. Are you just completely outraged that people in our government are using the power of massive government agencies to discriminate against opposing ideological organizations? Demand answers from the IRS. Click to sign our petition to demand that Congress fully investigate the IRS. Were you or your Tea Party group targeted by the IRS because of your affiliation with the Tea Party, Patriot, 9/12, or Liberty movement? If so, tell us your story so that we can help. Thank you so much for what you continue to do for America. Patriots cannot be silenced! -Tea Party Patriots Support Team Tea Party in Brookings Saturday, March 16th at 2:00 PM the Best Western Beachfront Inn 16008 Boat Basin Rd Brookings, Oregon 97415 http://goo.gl/maps/aDi3Y We will continue to address Agenda 21 during our next event with a three revealing stories on local issues. Put it on your calendar: Saturday, March 16th at 2:00 PM at the Best Western Beachfront Inn. To contact us, mail the Brookingstea Editor: clydeburke@brookingstea.com The TEA Party----Reedsport 1:00 pm Saturday March 23, 2013, from a Watchdog in Reedsport: Watchdogs, OK, here it is: You will find the flyer for the coming meeting attached here. If you know of a party that is not on our email list, someone who might be interested in this program, feel free to forward this post, rearranging the body to your tastes. You may also print it out and pass it around. We are blessed to have Herm Oberholzer as a speaker for this event. Herm is a former financial planner and his presentation is well received wherever he takes it. We look forward to his inspiring edification on the Federal Reserve. It is time for us to get organized to oppose the gutting of measure 10-119. We will not have all of the answers, but we certainly have some questions for you. Should fees pay for the services rendered or should they also be a revenue enhancing tool? Examining the list of administrative fees presented by the City we note that some fees should be reduced. If you agree that most fees need no change, then why is this almost an emergency? An almost impoverished position has been presented by elected officials and staff. Are they really impoverished? If they are impoverished how do the justify spending $60,000.00 with the Judicial Review. How do they justify the expense of the coming election? Watch for our website to come alive with the discussion of this issue. We consider polling you for your opinion on these fees. Frank Barth, as a newly elected Councilor is committed to serve the people of Reedsport and working to solve local problems. He will not become part of the ruling oligarchy. Mark your calendars for this meeting, you don't want to miss it! Old Dog Restore Reedsport! Visit http://www.refreshreedsport.org The Tea Party---You Are Keeping The Pressure On Holder Auto-Pilot Toward the Fiscal Cliff With the failure of “Plan B” in the House last night, it appears very likely that the “fiscal cliff” is going to arrive. Of course, the mainstream media is blaming Tea Party-minded (read: principled) Congressmen for not supporting the plan. This is outrageous, and an insult to the American people. Yes, principled Members of Congress held the line on tax hikes. Yes, Speaker Boehner has been awful in negotiating an alternative to the “fiscal cliff." But in the end, blame lies almost exclusively on the backs of two people: President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV). Consider that even before details of “Plan B” had been released, President Obama and Senator Reid had already declared the legislation dead. The Senate departed Washington until after Christmas, and President Obama went on vacation, leaving the nation on auto-pilot as we speed toward the fiscal cliff. Apparently, kicking the proverbial can down the road is more important than actually doing the jobs for which both men were elected. Apparently, the ideology of raising taxes is more important than actually solving the spending problem that Washington has. Because of their lack of leadership, America is likely to go over the fiscal cliff. Yet looking at the facts, it’s clear that raising taxes and not cutting spending really is the problem: A major study has found that the combination of expiring tax cuts and the implementation of ObamaCare will cost the country 710,000 jobs. Imposing a 100% tax on all households earning more than $250,000 – the “wealthy,” according to the President and Senator Reid – would keep Washington running for only 190 days according to Walter E. Williams. The government currently spends about of $30.60 per hour on welfare compared to the median income of $25.03 per American worker according to a study by Congressional Research Service. Cutting taxes in a time of economic stagnation would help boost the economy, boost employment, and increase revenue to the federal government to reduce the deficit. Many in the media and Washington will try to accuse the Tea Party of causing the dive over the “fiscal cliff.” Yet, we have outlined over the last 12 days, 12 solutions that would be a positive step in the right direction. It is time for Washington to stop avoiding their responsibilities, as they seem to have done here by leaving the country speeding on auto-pilot toward the fiscal cliff. Take USA Today Poll on Gun Ownership---Holder says, "WE HAVE NO RIGHT" Attorney General Holder says, "WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO POSSESS GUN TAKES 10 SECONDS ... DO IT AND PASS IT ON. Guess they were not happy with the poll results the first time, so USA today is running another one...Vote now... Attorney General Eric Holder, has already said this is one of his major issues. He does not believe the 2nd Amendment gives individuals the right to bear arms. This takes literally 2 clicks to complete. Please vote on this gun issue question with USA Today. Then pass the link on to all the pro-gun folks you know. Hopefully the results will be published later this month. First - vote. Second - Send it to other folks, we will see if the results get published. Click to vote: The Tea Party---Some Republicans Caving to No New Tax Pledge‏ From: www.TheTeaParty.net Update: 30,000 letters sent in less than a few days! Top Republican senator ditching Norquist anti-tax pledge. We have to send a message to 'The Establishment' that we will not stand for this! How many can we get to before the weekend is over? Between this petition and the Benghazi petition let's flood our congressman's mail boxes!! NO NEW TAXES Dear Patriot, President Obama is doubling down on his class warfare rhetoric by vowing to raise taxes on those making over $250,000 as part of his economic plan. He continuously states that the “Bush tax cuts” must go. These are not the “Bush tax cuts”. These are the CURRENT tax rates that have been in effect for 12 years! We must not let him get away with this spin. Sign Petition Here Johnson for President TEA PARTY THOUGHTS ON THE PRIMARY in Josephine County tea party demonstration at the JoCo 4th Anniversary Tax Day Tea Party Celebration Statewide Tax Day Tea Party Events: From: www.TeaParty.net Obama is playing a dangerous game of pitting Americans against each other with the dividing line in his “us” vs. “them” game being $250,000. Those making over $250K per year will see their federal tax rate increase between 3% and 4.6% with the top tax rate going up to 39.6%, effectively increasing the amount of taxes they pay by 13%. But, Obama doesn't think this is enough and believes that these individuals need to pay more in order to pay their “their fair share”. In addition, if Obama is not successful in strong arming Republicans to give in to his class warfare demands, then those individuals making less than $8700 per year will see their tax rates increase from 10% to 15%. That’s an increase of 50%! In this terrible economy filled with rising costs, decreased jobs, and massive economic uncertainty, both of these scenarios are a lose/lose situation. When is enough, enough??? Speaker John Boehner has already shown us that he is not willing to stand up to Obama in his second term by saying that ObamaCare, another taxation nightmare, is the law of the land. He has also indicated that he is willing to “compromise” on raising more tax revenue, which is just cover for saying ‘raise taxes’. If our leaders in D.C. won’t stand up for us, then we must stand up for ourselves. Sign this petition to send a message to President Obama, Speaker Boehner, and all the bureaucrats in D.C. that enough is enough. No higher taxes! No new taxes! Todd Cefaratti Freedom Organizer Josephine County Oregon had a really close nail-biter of a race in their County Commissioner race Position 3 between Walker and Just. Below is a really good article that sums up the problem in our county and the rest of the country. Rob T. Here are the results with a letter sent out just before the election. County Commissioner, Position 3 Vote For 1 Cherryl Walker. . . . . . . . 16,967 49.87% Bob Just. . . . . . . . . . . 16,876 49.61% WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 177 .52% Total . . . . . . . . . 34,020 Over Votes . . . . . . . . 17 Under Votes . . . . . . . . 6,053 The Cheryl Walker Peril or property rights have been lost to government by bureaucracy From: John Kuzmanich Dear Oregon Tea Party Patriots, We got the wind knocked out of us yesterday. We're tired and frustrated and many want to give up. I get it. I really do. This is our "Valley Forge" moment, and we have a decision to make. Do we throw in the towel and surrender, telling our children and grandchildren that ours was the generation that allowed their liberties to be stolen without a fight? Or do we pick ourselves up and show these Marxists what we're made of? As Thomas Paine wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." If we give up, our children and grandchildren will suffer under the tyranny of the USSA. I can't allow that to happen while there is still breath in my body to fight it. America was founded at a great cost of blood, sweat, and tears. It must be defended the same way, from all enemies, foreign AND domestic. Freedom is not free. We understand that now more than ever. So take a few days to mourn and rest, but remember that day always follows night. Our finest hour is yet to come. We have not yet begun to fight. Who's with me? "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." ~ Thomas Paine Marxist-in-Chief Tightens His Grip: What To Expect Courage for the Long War Ahead Conservative Candidates Needed For Local Office! Let's not forget, the next election isn't 4 years away... or 2 years away... it's SIX MONTHS away. The local officials we elect next May (school boards, community college boards, fire boards, etc) will be our last line of defense against the leftists who are now in total control at the higher levels. And it's a perfect time for us to get good people in while the other side is complacent. In every past off-cycle election, we have left positions all over the state uncontested - let's change that! Send any good potential candidates you know to RescueOregon.com for help getting started. It's All Happening On The Oregon Tea Party Facebook Page The Oregon Tea Party Facebook Page is swiftly becoming one of the most active pages in Oregon, where people go to find the news that the mainstream media won't report, as well as helpful resources and a place to organize and discuss the issues that confront our nation and state with other liberty lovers. If you haven't already, go to the page, click "like," "share" with your friends and get the word out. Support the fight for liberty in Oregon! With Liberty for All, John Kuzmanich Oregon Tea Party PAC www.OregonTeaParty.org andtotherepublicforwhichitstands@live.com News of the Depot Bay Firework Ban Goes International Feds Spend $133 Million to save $280,000 a Year Please share with your family and friends. Today is a sad day for America. We had been forewarned by the founders - More Takers than Makers and Apathy is the death of a Nation. To turn this around we must hold dearly onto our Values and Principles roll up our sleeves and get involved. There is unfinished business to be resolved, On September 11, 2012, The Ambassador to Benghazi, Libya was murdered with three others NEEDLESSLY, as the Administration and the State Department clearly denied requests for security and protection for our Counsel. WHY? A security team was relieved one month prior, even after they requested an extension as the situation was deteriorating with ten Al Qaeda training camps in the area. WHY? When the alert of an attack in progress was sent out, personnel a mile away in the annex, were told to stand down three times and no military help was sent to rescue our Ambassador. WHY? There are statements released before the attack it was peaceful and there was no protest . The Administration watched the attack on a live feed from a drone. The attack was blamed on a you tube video about Mohamed, which provoked a protest at the Council This claim was made for 14 days and included a report to the UN. The Administration would not comment. WHY? The mainstream Media failed to report on Benghazi, even when there were cables and emails that confirmed the Administration was lying. WHY? Could this have changed the outcome of the election.. we will never know as the media failed to report. WHY! There needs to be resolve to the families and the American people. There is an outrage across the nation that is building as more are becoming aware of the atrocity in Benghazi. Last Saturday there was a Peaceful non-political protest was held at the Register Guard in Eugene and was covered by KEZI http://www.kezi.com/benghazi-protesters-hit-register-guard/http://youtu.be/Uv9k4hWpUiU There will be a peaceful non- political protest Saturday Nov 10, NOON at KMTR NewsSource 16, 3825 International Court, Springfield 97477 Please call them (541) 746-1600 if you want the media to report on Benghazi!. I called! There will be other protests in Oregon and across the nation, please visit and like Conservative Call to Action on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/ConservativeCallToAction?ref=ts&fref=ts For my twitter friends: the hashtags are #benghazi #7hoursofhell #tcot #orcot For Patriots that live outside of the Eugene/Springfield area, watch for new locations, or grab a few friends, call first and visit a media outlet Saturday Nov 10 at NOON. Get an interview to let them know you demand that coverage of Benghazi be reported. The signs we are using state: BENGHAZI #7HOURSOFHELL May God bless this Nation and that resolve will be granted to the families of the slain in Benghazi. Congressional District 4 Calendar: http://bit.ly/Oregon-CD4LibertyCalendar Statewide Calendar of Events - http://bit.ly/OregonLibertyCalendar Bob Sowdon Issues Committee CG912Project.org Tweet @CG912Project FaceBook Cottage Grove 912 Project Get Connected: http://connect.freedomworks.org/ CG912 Project---Lane Co. commissioners delay terminal discussion‏ CG912 Project Members and friends, EUGENE, Ore. — Lane County commissioners have delayed for two weeks their consideration of a proposed resolution supporting a coal cargo terminal at Coos Bay, Ore. Such a terminal would handle coal trains shipped through Eugene. The Register-Guard reports (http://is.gd/HEUBAN ) that all five commissioners said Wednesday they supported the delay to give the public more time to comment. Interested parties will be able to comment at commissioners' meetings Oct. 16 in Florence and Oct. 17 in Eugene. Environmental groups are fighting several proposals for terminals at Northwest ports that would ship coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia. Supporters include business and labor groups. http://www.registerguard.com/web/updates/28844478-55/coal-public-board-commissioners-trains.html.csp Congressional District 4 Calendar: http://bit.ly/Oregon-CD4LibertyCalendar Welcome to UPDATE! Round One... One-click videos... No contest. Romney won the first debate. But, for what it's worth, Obama took first place in the "uh" contest. Thanks to The Blaze, we invite you to go here for a compilation of "uhs". We have heard it all before. The promises in 2008 repeated in 2012.Click here to watch Mr. Obama recycle words. "Voices without a vote..." captures some smart kids who get it. Go here to see how they would vote, if they could. If you enjoy the annual Brookings Kite Festival, you will like this one-man show. Go here for the fun of it. The British Broadcasting folks have an interactive test of reflexes. Just throw darts at some sheep. Click here to take the test. Please forward this issue to a friend. New on www.Brookingstea.com Go to Brookingstea.com for these new posts... First, we reviewed dozens of articles regarding the first Romney vs. Obama debate. One, by Peggy Noonan writing in The Wall Street Journal, is far better than most. Read it today. Next, in July 2013, Oregon's Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) will begin sucking about $2 billion more from state, county and local budgets. Thanks to increases in employer contributions beginning next July (for FY 2013 to 2015), that's somewhere around $2,000,000,000 statewide that will not be spent on essential government services. This is IN ADDITION TO A BILLION DOLLAR INCREASE in the current biennium. Read some of the details we posted in two new articles. Then, as usual, you should take a break with some new humor, including Abbott & Costello on the unemployment rate. Finally, a couple of weeks ago, we posted an incorrect article about President Obama's Executive Orders. We apologize! It will be put in the trash bin in a day or so. Short Takes News Flash! Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery. "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." This morning a coalition of Muslim leaders warned the United States that if military action against Muslim countries continues, they intend to cut off America's supply of 7-11 and Motel 6 managers! If this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be next, followed by Dell, AT&T and AOL customer service reps. Finally, if all else fails, they have threatened not to send us any more presidents either. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it. Karla Kay Edwards, The Oregon State Director with Americans for Prosperity (AFP), will join us for what promises to be an exceptional presentation. Mark your calendar: Saturday, October 20th at 2:00 PM at the Best Western Beachfront Inn. Bring a friend or neighbor. Better yet, bring both! This will be a special meeting, as most of the time will be dedicated to the screening of The Blaze documentary, The Project.A manifesto now known as "The Project" was recovered during a raid in Switzerland that turned out to be a Muslim roadmap for infiltrating and defeating the West. Today, files containing evidence from the largest terror financing trial in U.S. history, which include details about "The Project", are being withheld by the DOJ, think Eric Holder of Fast and Furious fame. The Blaze documentary unit investigates how the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the American government and exposes how our nation's safety is in jeopardy as a result of this government cover up. Please come early if interested in a buffet dinner or pizza.Visit 9-12 Project Lane County Oregon at: http://912lane3.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network And now some details. The documentary, The Project, will be shown at Izzy's Pizza at 950 Seneca Rd on October the 9th at 6:00. Visit 9-12 Project Lane County Oregon at: http://912lane3.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network Visit the Polling Booth on RefreshReedsport.org.... Please vote on these important questions concerning Reedsport. http://www.refreshreedsport.org/polling-booth.html Elect a New Majority for Reedsport. Visit www.refreshreedsport.org state-of-the-art petition If we've learned one thing about politicians in Washington, it's that they can't be trusted with the taxpayers' money! 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__label__wiki	0.531389	0.531389	Cover Me Turns Ten: A Free Covers Album Posted by Ray Padgett at 10:00 am 18 Responses » Ten years ago today, I had a whim. I was studying abroad one semester and found myself with a lot of free time – school work was light, and a college student’s budget limited my international explorations – so I decided to start a blog. A second blog actually, since for several years I had run a personal blog of concert reviews and bootleg downloads called Dylan, Etc (it had more “Dylan” than it did “Etc”). I’d fallen in love with the cover song after hearing Bob Dylan (who else) play a revelatory cover of “Summertime” on his short-lived radio show. I’d already hosted a Cover Me college radio show, and decided to expand us to the World Wide Web. These were the days of the so-called “MP3 blog,” which included a vibrant subgenre of cover-songs blogs. That’s right, I’d like to claim credit for inventing the category, but I didn’t – not even close. RIP to Copy Right?, Cover Freak, Fong Songs, and the rest of the pioneers – and shoutout to our fellow survivors from that era, Coverville, which was releasing podcasts before most people knew what that word meant, and the folk blog Cover Lay Down, which began around the same time as us. A lot has changed over the past decade. We’ve published 3,564 posts as of this one. Oh, and did you notice the pronoun change there? Cover Me is no longer an “I” – it’s a “we”, with over 60 writers contributing over the years. We’ve grown from an ugly Blogspot to our spiffy own domain (which is overdue for a redesign itself, frankly). And in case the large banner ads all over the site weren’t clue enough, I just released a book also called Cover Me, which – back-patting alert – Variety called “one of the best multi-subject music books to come down the pike in years.” We wanted to do something special to celebrate our tenth birthday. And we wanted to celebrate not just ourselves, but celebrate the cover song itself. So we put together this little album Cover Me Turns 10: A Covers Tribute to Covers as a gift to our readers. We contacted several dozen of our musician friends and asked them to cover a cover. That is, to honor the many great songs we might not even know without an iconic cover – Aretha Franklin reinventing Otis Redding’s “Respect,” Quiet Riot amplifying Slade’s call to feel the noize, Prince learning that nothing compares 2 Sinéad O’Connor. We’re honored that so many of our favorite musicians contributed, and frankly speechless at how great a job they did. So speechless, in fact, that we asked them all to introduce their own work with a few sentences. A million thanks to all of them, and also to Cover Me writer and art whiz Sean Balkwill for designing the lovely – ahem – cover. The whole thing is free to download at Bandcamp until downloads run out, and free to stream forever. Enough chatter from me. For ten years this blog has been all about celebrating the music and we’re not going to stop now. Thanks for taking this journey with us. – Ray Padgett Cover Me Founder Continue reading » Announcement, Download, Feature, Premiere Tagged with: 82nd Street, Adam Seltzer, Allison Crowe, Alyson Greenfield, Anita Cash, Anthony D'Amato, Aretha Franklin, B.J. Thomas, Badfinger, Barry McGuire, Bessie Banks, Betty Nugs, Bill Scorzari, Billy Idol, Blue Swede, BoomBoxRepairKit, Christina Cone, Cyndi Lauper, Danica Dora, David Gans, Delaney and Bonnie, Elvis Costello, Fleetwood Mac, Frances Cone, Garden on a Trampoline, Gen X, George Harrison, Harry Nilsson, Hula Hi-Fi, J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, J Hacha De Zola, James Ray, Janis Joplin, John Dissed, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Land of Leland, Linda Lyndell, Little Killer, Man About a Horse, Mark Mulcahy, Matthew Crosby, Milli Vanilli, Miracle Legion, Mr. Russia, Nick Francis DiFonzo, Nick Lowe, Nine Inch Nails, Numarx, Otis Redding, Owen Biddle, Patsy Cline, Pearl Jam, Peregrino, Prince, Quiet Riot, Salt N Pepa, Santana, Sinead O'Connor, Slade, The Brains, The Carpenters, The Clash, The Crickets, The Diamond Family Archive, The Land Below, The Majorleans, The March Divide, The Moody Blues, The Peptides, The Turtles, Thom Yorke, Three Dog Night, Tiffany, Tommy James and the Shondells, Unwoman, Wayne Cochran, Willie Nelson Cover Classics: Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy Posted by Patrick Robbins at 5:00 pm No Responses » Cover Classics takes a closer look at all-cover albums of the past, their genesis, and their legacy. In 2008, Melissa Rich Mulcahy died, leaving behind two-year-old twin girls and her husband Mark. That would be Mark Mulcahy, leader of the ’80s college radio favorites Miracle Legion and Polaris (Adventures of Pete & Pete – ’nuff said) and a solo artist who was suddenly not just a widower, but one who was unable to record or tour because he needed to be there for the kids. What he didn’t know was that plans had been set in motion to put together a tribute album whose proceeds would assist him in his hour of need – plans which evolved into what Big Takeover called “a sort of indie-rock equivalent to the final scene of It’s a Wonderful Life.” Cover Classics, Download, Feature Tagged with: A.C. Newman, Butterflies of Love, Dinosaur Jr., Mark Mulcahy, Miracle Legion, Polaris, Radiohead, Syd Straw, The New Pornographers, Thom Yorke Best Cover Songs of 2009 2009 will disappear into the ether in a few hours, but before it does there’s time for one last retrospective to do: The Top Covers of 2009. The Artists-to-Cover this year seemed to be Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson, though somewhat surprisingly no particularly definitive tribute to the latter has surfaced. Speaking of tributes, anything off of our Best Cover Albums list was excluded for consideration here (you can still download those songs here though). Without further ado, let the list begin! 25. Imogen Heap – Thriller (Michael Jackson) Any cover of this song loses something without the Vincent Price voice-over. Imogen Heap may not be the Godfather of Horror, but she’s just quirky enough to pull it off. [Buy] 24. Jason Bajada – You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son (Wolf Parade) There’s nothing harder to pull off than an acoustic-guitar and voice cover. Anyone can try – just strum the chords – but few stand out from the pack of YouTube wannabes. Bajada is one. [Buy] 23. Thom Yorke – All for the Best (Miracle Legion) How a semi-obscure songwriter got so many A-listers for his tribute album (Yorke, Michael Stipe, Frank Black) is a bit of a mystery, but the “Idioteque”-esq blips Yorke warbles over somehow makes perfect sense. [Buy] 22. Atlas Sound – Walk a Thin Line (Fleetwood Mac) Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox’s other band put up this tempered falsetto cover on his blog with little fanfare earlier this year. As with most things he gets his hands on, it exploded. [Buy] 21. Florence and the Machine – Addicted to Live (Robert Palmer) Largely known for the robo-models who jerk about in the video, “Addicted to Love” gets a much-needed upgrade from blog darling Florence and the Machine whose Lungs was one of the best albums of the year. [Buy] 20. The Dead Weather – You Just Can’t Win (Them) This list easily could have been the twenty-five best Jack White covers of the year. On the b-side to the “Treat Me Like Your Mother” single (vinyl only, naturally), White hollers like an in-the-gutter bluesman which the band emits musical sludge around him. [Buy] 19. Ben Lee – Kids (MGMT) To anyone who thinks this song is all synth-hook, this plucked acoustic take should change your mind. [Buy] 18. Matt the Electrician – Faithfully (Journey) The triumphal horns bring the bombast early on, before ceding the stage to a singer-songwriter and his ukulele. [Buy] 17. Joensuu 1685 – I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen) Bruce Springsteen covered Suicide in 2005 and this one sounds like Suicide fighting back. The feedback frenzy of an opening lasts almost three minutes until the singing begins. And this is the short version! [Buy] 16. Anya Marina – Whatever You Like (T.I.) I despise this song with a passion, so it’s ironic that not one but two brilliant covers were some of my most-played (the other being by Joan As Police Woman). The lyrics are as profound as ever. Shorty, you the hottest. Love the way you drop it. Brain so good, could have sworn you went to college. [Buy] 15. Eels – Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan) Eels’ E recorded this vulnerable piano cover for MySpace Transmissions, the sound of a man unable to mask his pain. [Buy] 14. Feist and Ben Gibbard – Train Song (Vashti Bunyan) Indie-tastic charity comp Dark Was the Night had more new covers than many tribute albums, but was excluded for consideration from our list ‘cause it had just as many originals. However, the harmony on this semi-obscure song form 1966 cannot be ignored. [Buy] 13. John Frusciante – Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley) Frusciante recently quit the Chili Peppers. If that enables him to make more experimental psychedelic covers like this one, thank goodness. He should have brought Flea with him. [Buy] 12. Coldplay – Fight for Your Right (Beastie Boys) The Beastie Boys canceled a summer of high-profile festival appearance when MCA announced he had cancer. Jay-Z subbed in at All Points West, paying predictable tribute (“No Sleep Til Brooklyn”). More unexpected was Chris Martin’s brilliant minor-key piano ballad two days later. And the crowd goes wild . [Buy] 11. Town Bike – Radio Nowhere (Bruce Springsteen) Bruce Springsteen closed his four-hour appearance on Elvis Costello’s Spectacle with a mashup of this and “Radio Radio.” Slamming it into “Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio” works too. [Buy] 10. Ben’s Brother – Poker Face (Lady Gaga) Everyone from Weezer to Daughtry covered “Poker Face” this year, its catchy hook a natural for ironic sing-alongs. The indie-acoustic covers seemed to work best and “beta male” Jamie Hartman sings it so enthusiastically you almost don’t hear the tongue in cheek. [Buy] 9. Chromeo – I Can’t Tell You Why (The Eagles) Electro-funk duo Chromeo seems an unlikely duo to cover the Eagles. Their effects-laden delivery beats the odds though, taking the 1979 single straight into the twenty-first century. [Buy] 8. Dex Romweber Duo ft. Jack White – Last Kind Word Blues (Geechie Wiley) Definitely the best Geechie Wiley cover this year. Jack White produced this one for his Third Man Records label and was nice enough to add his enviable yelp to this blues stomp. [Burn] 7. My Gold Mask – Bette Davis Eyes (Jackie DeShannon/Kim Carnes) My Gold Mask sent this one our way a couple months ago, which just goes to show you artists out there, submissions are never ignored. [Buy] 6. The Pluto Tapes – Wolf Like Me (TV on the Radio) Just when you thought you were sick of this song, this slow-burn cover strips away the effects to bring the submerged tune to the fore. [Buy] 5. The BPA ft. Iggy Pop – He’s Frank (Slight Return) (The Monochrome Set) Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook to his mom) created the Brighten Port Authority apparently solely to produce some killer club-funk tracks with his favorite vocalists. Iggy Pop, who these days seems to have made a career out of guest appearances, sneers his way through this unearthed gem. Biggest shock of all: he managed to keep his shirt on during live performances! [Buy] 4. The Gaslight Anthem – I Do Not Hook Up (Kelly Clarkson) The Gaslight Anthem tend to cover Bruce Springsteen, The Band, and Johnny Cash. Did the heart-on-sleeve rock revivals finally succumb to the temptation of the ironic pop cover? Not a chance. Against all odds Brian Fallon gives a Kelly Clarkson song the emotional heft of “The River.” [Buy] 3. Elizabeth and the Catapult – Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen) A song so good we did a whole interview about it. [Buy] 2. Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers – I Only Have Eyes For You (The Flamingos) Nick Cave recently called this his new favorite band, which is all the recommendation one needs. Their garage-punk racket turns this innocent love song into the best stalker rocker since “Every Breath You Take.” [Buy] 1. Kings of Convenience – It’s My Party (Leslie Gore) Pure beauty straight out of Norway, complete with a faux-trumpet solo. Nothing more to say. [Buy] That’s it for this year. See you in 2010! Best Of Tagged with: Anya Marina, Atlas Sound, Beastie Boys, Ben Gibbard, Ben Lee, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Chromeo, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Dex Romweber, Eels, Elizabeth and The Catapult, Feist, Fleetwood Mac, Florence and the Machine, Geeshie Wiley, Iggy Pop, Imogen Heap, Jack White, Jason Bajada, John Frusciante, Journey, Kelly Clarkson, Kim Carnes, Kings of Convenience, Lady Gaga, Leonard Cohen, Leslie Gore, Matt the Electrician, MGMT, Michael Jackson, Miracle Legion, My Gold Mask, Radiohead, Robert Palmer, Shilpa Ray, T.I., The Dead Weather, The Eagles, The Gaslight Anthem, The Pluto Tapes, Them, Thom Yorke, Tim Buckley, Town Bike, TV on the Radio, Van Morrison, Vashti Bunyan, Wolf Parade	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line527
__label__wiki	0.774851	0.774851	DA VINCI LAUNCHES 2017 ACADEMIC YEAR The Da Vinci Institute held its Official Academic Opening on Thursday 16 February 2017. The momentous occasion combined elements of academic and African contexts that begun with the ceremonial flag hoisting. The Academic Procession led the march around the Da Vinci campus as students, guests and staff watched on with awe. Special guests included TT100 Certificate mentors, Mr Miguel Cunha from Wiesenhof Wilgers, Mr Barry Kramer from Massmart, Mr Lee McFayden from SVA Consult and Mr Michael Roberts from Khonology. Also in attendance was Ms Natalie du Toit, Brand Ambassador of The Da Vinci Institute. The formal welcome was made by President of The Institute, Prof Edward Kieswetter, whose address served as words of encouragement to not fall into a trap of following blindly. It takes great courage, maturity and generosity to be a leader, a leader that motivates and empowers their followers. Mr Sechaba Motsieloa, Chairman of the Da Vinci Council offered simple advice to spectators, “We have been given a voice so that we can express ourselves. Get used to listening to your own voice until you are comfortable with it – and then share it, the world is yearning to hear it. You need to move your thinking in order to effect change. Our thoughts have creative powers. They are alive and give meaning to life. Not just your own life but even to all of life itself.” Student Representative, Mrs Janet du Preez stated, “Da Vinci students are uniquely poised to participate in the potential explosion of innovation and technology on the African continent. It is people like us who will ensure that Africa contributes intentionally and benefits economically in the Exponential Age. Let us support one another as students as we expand the bounds of our knowledge, test the limits of understanding, and most importantly positively impact our world.” The Academic Opening ceremony served to announce and gown the following Faculty Heads, for the 2017 year. Mr John Arneson, Faculty Head of Marketing Dr Vulumuzi Bhebhe, Faculty Head of Entrepreneurship Dr Jan Bosman, Faculty Head of Management of People, Managerial Leadership Mr Ben Burger, Faculty Head of Risk Management Mr Graeme de Bruyn, Faculty Head of Business Management Mr Isaiah Engelbrecht, Faculty Head of Management of Innovation Mr Richard Goddard, Faculty Head of Statistics and faculty member of Economics, Business Management and Numeracy Mrs Henra Mayer, Faculty Head of Management of Innovation Mr Raldu Nel, Faculty Head of Monitoring and Evaluation Mr Greg Tosen, Faculty Head of Management of Technology and faculty member of Systems In coinciding with the African theme, Gauteng Opera, an all-round performing arts and entertainment company sang beautiful songs with power, passion and precision. Equally, Drumtribe, an interactive drumming team facilitated a rhythmic rumble of drumbeats and energy. Ends- Storm Thomas Storm@davinci.ac.za This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2017 by Da Vinci. DA VINCI LAUNCHES ACADEMIC YEAR WITH A BANG The Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management is a School of Managerial Leadership contributing towards socio-economic development and transformation. The Institute’s purpose is to cultivate managerial leaders through the core principles of business driven action learning by offering students a personalised journey of self-discovery and co-creation. The launch of the 2017 academic year takes place on Thursday 16 February 2017 at The Institute’s campus, situated in the peaceful suburb of Modderfontein, Johannesburg. The official Academic Opening serves as a momentous occasion led by a traditional academic procession. The procession will consist of Da Vinci Council and Da Vinci Faculty members who will march around The Institute’s campus. Students, alumni and guests in attendance will witness the hoisting of four flags. The one flag signifies the relevance of The Da Vinci Institute in relation to its dream of contributing to the development of a sustainable society. The second flag signifies the importance of the TT100 Awards Programme, which has been recognising companies for their business prowess in the Management of Technology, Innovation, People, Systems, Research and Sustainability. The third flag signifies that of the Purple Cow, which is popularised by author and marketer Seth Godin. The Purple Cow serves as a reminder to practice remarkable behaviour every day. The fourth and final flag is that of the South African flag and signifies the love of our beloved country. Another highlight of the Academic Opening is the launch of a new cohort titled the TT100 Certificate group. Twenty-two individuals from various host companies will start their learning journey on this day. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), MTN and Eskom have respectively sponsored the individuals. This is the first programme of its kind at The Institute and certainly will not be the last. The final highlight of the Academic Opening is the official welcome and announcement of Da Vinci Faculty Heads and Faculty. The entertainment for the day will be Gauteng Opera, an all-round performing arts and entertainment company and Drumtribe, an interactive drumming team. PRESS RELEASE: COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE TO GEAR AFRICA FOR RESILIENCE Subject: COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE TO GEAR AFRICA FOR RESILIENCE Date: 3 February 2017 Issued: Da Vinci TT100 – Storm Thomas The Da Vinci Institute, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Blank Canvas International and Innocentrix are excited to announce the formation of a remarkable partnership in support of increased impact for the TT100 Business Innovation Awards programme for the period 2017-2019. This collaboration will support, showcase and recognise the role of leadership in the Management of Innovation and Technology as it relates to growth, differentiation and sustainable development. Prof Bennie Anderson, CEO of The Da Vinci Institute says: “The programme is an effective vehicle for achieving growth and innovation advancement in South Africa and Africa at large. It further serves to raise awareness of the critical need for all organisations to embrace the Management of Technology, Innovation and People within a systemic and sustainable manner.” The event calendar kicks off on 21 February 2017 with the first TT100 Forum ’Deep Dive’ session on Sustainable Business Performance in Africa. These sessions are cross-functional gatherings of industry representatives, focusing on pre-defined business areas to identify potential risks and opportunities for collaboration. The Forum will take place at The Da Vinci Institute located in Modderfontein, Johannesburg. It will launch the TT100 Business Innovation Awards programme for 2017, and host South African author and businessman, GG Alcock, as keynote speaker. To register for the launch or to get detailed information about the 2017 calendar contact: Storm Thomas, Communications Manager (Da Vinci/TT100) E-mail: storm@davinci.ac.za For information about the Deep Dive event and agenda contact: Surisa Nel, Summit COO E-mail: surisa.nel@blankcanvas.co.za ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP The Da Vinci Institute is a School of Managerial Leadership contributing towards socio-economic development and transformation. Their annually hosted Awards Programme seeks to identify role models who have demonstrated excellence in co-creating new workplace realities. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) serves to increase well-being and prosperity through science, technology and innovation. Their mission aims at providing leadership, an enabling environment, and resources for science, technology and innovation in support of South Africa’s development. Blank Canvas Int. and the Sustainability Summit are synonymous with enabling resilient business and value chain performance. The Sustainability Summit 2016 launched the SMME Green Pitch (competition and incubator) and the African Sustainable Development Association (A-SDA) (“Centre of Excellence” for South Africa and Africa). Innocentrix is an innovation business and technology service company who serves South Africa’s leading companies and has a strong network of international partnerships. They focus on innovation and technology services with the mission to take ideas to commercialisation. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2017 by Da Vinci.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line531
__label__cc	0.603393	0.396607	Kingston Technology Expands HyperX Memory Family Written by News HyperX Predator Debuts with New Heatspreader, More Aggressive Design Fastest Speeds, Lowest Latencies and Highest Capacities Fountain Valley, CA -- August 16, 2012 -- Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the launch of the new Kingston® HyperX® Predator. The new high-performance DRAM module complements the HyperX product range with the fastest speeds, lowest latencies and highest capacities. HyperX Predator is aimed at extreme enthusiasts and overclockers looking to push their systems to the maximum with the fastest speeds and highest performance hardware. With its new heatspreader, HyperX Predator offers a more aggressive design, which accompanies the look and design of the latest PC hardware, and provides great heat dissipation to optimize memory reliability. The memory is Intel® XMP certified and has been fully tested and validated on a top range of motherboards currently available on the market. End users can easily overclock their systems by simply selecting a profile in BIOS with no need for manual adjustments. “The PC gaming market is robust and growing and we are pleased to contribute to that market with our new, more aggressive HyperX Predator memory kits,” said Mark Tekunoff, senior technology manager, Kingston®. “Enthusiasts will experience higher performance, ultra-responsive multitasking possibilities and an overall faster system thanks to its top optimized performance settings for specific modules ― handpicked and tested by our Kingston engineers.” HyperX Predator is available in speeds up to 2666MHz; CAS latencies of 9 and 11; and, capacities from 8GB to 32GB in various dual- and quad-channel kit configurations. Kingston HyperX memory is backed by a lifetime warranty and free live technical support. For more information visit www.kingston.com/hyperx Kingston HyperX Predator Specifications: Capacity: 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB in kits of 2 and 4 Frequency (speed): 1600MHz-2666MHz CAS Latency: CL 9, CL11 Voltage: 1.5v -1.65v operating voltage enables stable overclocking XMP Certified: Higher-performing frequencies, timings and voltage are attainable by simply enabling Intel’s Extreme Memory Profile. Compatible: Designed specifically for P55, H67, P67, Z68, H61 (AG), and Z77 Intel chipsets; as well as A75, A87, A88, A89, A78, and E35 (Fusion) AMD chipsets Reliable: 100-percent tested Guaranteed: Lifetime warranty, Free technical support Kingston HyperX Predator Capacity and Features MSRP (U.S. only) KHX16C9T2K2/8 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2) T2 Series KHX16C9T2K2/8X (Kit of 2) XMP T2 Series KHX16C9T2K4/32 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM KHX16C9T2K4/32X $ TBD KHX21C11T2K2/8X 8GB 2133MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL11 DIMM KHX21C11T2K2/16X 16GB 2133MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL11 DIMM Kingston can be found on: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/kingstonhyperx Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hyperxcommunity Twitter: http://twitter.com/kingstonhq LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/kingston About Kingston Technology Company, Inc. Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Through its global network of subsidiaries and affiliates, Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, China and sales representatives in the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Australia, India, Taiwan, China, and Latin America. For more information, please call 800-337-8410 or visit www.kingston.com. Editor’s Note: For additional information, evaluation units or executive interviews, please contact David Leong, Kingston Technology Company, Inc. 17600 Newhope Street, Fountain Valley, CA USA 92708, 714-438-1817 (Voice). Press images can be found in Kingston’s press room at kingston.com/press/default.asp Kingston and the Kingston logo are registered trademarks of Kingston Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. All other marks may be the property of their respective titleholders. Published in Press Releases Latest from News PAPAGO launches a new Tire Pressure Monitoring System that works with your phone Mobile slots inside casinos: the next big thing for online gaming? Commandos and Cossacks form bundle alliance Inteliscope to Suspend Shipments to Russia TRENDnet® Launches HomePlug AV2 Powerline Adapters More in this category: « MAINGEAR ADDS KEPLER PERFORMANCE WITHOUT THE NASA PRICE Waves MaxxAudio Technologies Employed on the New ASUS N Series »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line535
__label__wiki	0.801128	0.801128	5/1/2007 - Meeting Minutes Chairwoman Marylynne Dube, Vice Chairman Michael Yacino, Leon Mosczynski, Linda Brown, Michael Valliere, Brandi Van Roo, Stephen Zisk (Planning/Conservation Agent), William Cundiff (Town Engineer) and Maria Chesley (Administrative Secretary). Absent was Ralph Dudley. CONSERVATION COMMISSION BUSINESS 1. Signed Voucher. A MOTION was made by Brown to approve a reimbursement to Michael Yacino for items spent for the sign, seconded by Van Roo. VOTE: YES-4, ABSTAINED-2. VOTE PASSED. 2. Extension Permit for Order of Conditions. The Commission signed this one year Extension Permit for Patrick & Heather Mawn, 42 Cross Street. Zisk said that no work is being done at this site. 3. Certificate of Compliance. James & Kimberly Schwenderman, 346 Southwest Main Street. Zisk said that when he was out there he didn’t see that any water had gone down in the resource area. A MOTION was made by Van Roo to issue a Certificate of Compliance, seconded by Yacino. VOTE UNANIMOUS. 4. Meeting Minutes of 4/17/07. After review, a MOTION was made by Brown to approve the Meeting Minutes of Tuesday, April 17, 2007, as amended, seconded by Mosczynski. VOTE UNANIMOUS. 5. Enforcement Order. Brian & Donna Lacey, 141 Yew Street. Zisk informed the Commission that he had issued an Enforcement Order to the Lacey’s on 4/30/07. The violation was for clearing trees on a lot. There is a wet area across the street from where the tree clearing took place. The wet area flows through a culvert under Elm Street and water from the wet area runs through the property where the large trees had been cut. The tree clearing possibly took place within a buffer zone of a resource area and/or within a resource area. The Order informed the Lacey’s to cease and desist all work within the 100-foot of the resource area and to attend the May 14, 2007 Conservation Commission Meeting at 7:00pm to discuss any further action needed. A MOTION was made by Brown to ratify the Enforcement Order, seconded by Van Roo. VOTE UNANIMOUS. 6. Conservation Sign on Mumford Street. Mosczynski thanked everyone for dedicating the land on Mumford Street to him and for the thoughtful sign. 7. Board of Health Meeting. The Commission will meet with the Board of Health on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at 6:45pm. 8. Rosenfeld Concrete Corp, South Street Gravel Pit. Zisk said that a final detailed plan to restore the area was received. Zisk and Cundiff will go to the site to check on the work periodically. 9. Zisk reminded the Commission that the hearing for Paul Brule, off Birch Hill Road will be held on 5/7/07 and Maryann Dipinto will be present on behalf of DEP and on 5/9/07 for Pyne Sand & Stone, Davis Street and Marielle Stone of DEP will attend that hearing. DEP suggested that a representative from Conservation attend. A MOTION was made by Brown to authorize Zisk to attend these two hearing on the Commission’s behalf, seconded by Valliere. VOTE UNANIMOUS. 7:29 PM PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED: FORESTVIEW ESTATES ASSOC., INC. (NOI) Webster Road, Lot #4 The Commission received a faxed letter from the Applicant/Owner Iqbal Ali of Crescent Builders, Inc., dated 5/1/07, withdrawing his Notice of Intent’s for Lots #1, #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, & #13. Ali states that he is in the process of changing the permits and getting new approvals for the said project. A MOTION was made by Yacino to close the Public Hearing for Lot #4, seconded by Brown. VOTE UNANIMOUS. 7:36 PM PUBLIC MEETING CONTINUED: NORTH BROWN, LLC (RDA) Zisk recused himself because he is an abutter. Present on behalf of the Applicant was Attorney Edwin Taipale and Paul Hutnak of Heritage Design Group. The Applicant proposes to use an existing logging road to cross the wetland and access the upland area with an excavator in order to do soil testing. Taipale said that the parcel is now zoned industrial but the owner (Jane Bresnahan) wants it to be zoned residential and said that the Board of Selectmen allowed a Local Initiative (40B) Project. The Applicant agreed to comply with all the town bylaws. Anderson said that the Board of Selectmen approved the project consisting of 28 single family homes on 1/3-acre each and 105 townhouses, with a playground, sidewalks and Water/Sewer requirements. Anderson said that they want to cross the wetland areas to do soil testing. Hutnak said that the NHESP de-listed the spotted turtle but they will still protect them. Hutnak submitted a plan for the reduction to cross once to get in to do the soil testing and once to get out. Hutnak said that one week before the work they propose to install silt fencing 30-feet long on each side of both areas and fold the silt fence over and hold it down with stones to protect the turtles and salamanders. Hutnak said they also propose to have wetland and species biologists on the site to make sure the species are being protected. Brown noted that this is priority habitat and asked how they would know if the salamanders wouldn’t go around when the other sections are open and Hutnak said that they would stop at the silt fence. Van Roo is concerned about disturbing the area if the silt fence is installed because she feels that the road (temporary crossing) is in good condition and that by installing a silt fence would be more of a disturbance and she suggested going with the original proposal. Cundiff said that the salamanders could get into any nook and cranny and the work should be done during the dry months. Hutnak said that they planned on doing the soil testing during the beginning of June. Brown feels that during migration the work should be done during the dry season (June). Yacino said that the Commission can set conditions regarding this. Cundiff said that the ground pressure beneath the logs are minor. Dube attended the Board of Selectmen’s Meeting at 8:00pm and Vice Chairman Michael Yacino took her place as Chairman. Hutnak said that they would not do any work during a wet season. A MOTION was made by Van Roo to issue a Negative Determination of Applicability with the conditions that (1) the work is done between June 1, 2007 and July 1, 2007 (during the dry weather) and (2) to reference the Original Plan Date, seconded by Mosczynski. VOTE UNANIMOUS. 8:03 PM PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED: C & C REALTY TRUST (NOI) 169 Davis Street Present was Applicant William Gingras. Gingras told the Commission that due to the rain the pipe is ¾ blocked and he wants to install a 5-foot piece of pipe. Zisk said that a 5-foot pipe is adequate with an extension and headwall and clean out the culvert. Yacino wants to see rip rap on the slopes on both sides. Gingras said that the work would be done in August but would like to take the rocks out now and the Commission agreed. A MOTION was made by Yacino to close the Public Hearing and issue an Order of Conditions with conditions discussed, seconded by Van Roo. VOTE: YES-4, ABSTAINED-1. VOTE PASSED. 8:12 PM PUBLIC HEARING: BRYAN BURNETT (AB.NOI) Present on behalf of the Applicant was his representative Seth Lajoie of Seth Lajoie & Associates. The scope of work consists of the construction of a 43-foot garage within the 50-foot buffer zone. The Applicant wants to take down an existing shed and would be amicable to use some lawn area where the garage will go. Mosczynski said that the Commission should stick to their 50-foot no build policy. Valliere said that this is a good plan and that there is no encroaching in the wetland but they need to move the garage out of the 50-foot buffer zone. Van Roo asked if there would be any wasted space that could be cut and Lajoie said that this is what the Applicant would like to do. Brown asked if the garage could be built along the driveway and Lajoie said no because there is a walk out basement. Yacino asked Lajoie to take a second look for other alternatives. The Commission scheduled a site walk for Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 9:00am. A MOTION was made by Valliere to continue the Public Hearing on Monday, May 14, 2007, at 7:45pm, seconded by Brown. VOTE UNANIMOUS. Present were the Applicants and their representative Michael Yerka of Yerka Engineering. The Porters’ propose to construct a garage within 50-feet of a bordering vegetated wetland and a riverfront area. Yerka said that the garage will be on a 4-foot deep concrete slab. Yerka told the Commission that the alternatives analysis to move the driveway would cost $15,000 and to turn the garage sideways, the owners would lose parking and access to the existing garage. Zisk suggested using the stone and concrete areas (1/3 cut) mitigating perimeter protection into the rain garden and to move the proposed garage up closer to the concrete. Yerka said that he may be able to move the proposed garage 17 additional feet away. Dube told Yerka to keep in mind that the Commission has a 50-foot no build policy. Van Roo suggested moving (swing) the proposed garage 10-feet out of the buffer zone plus the 17 additional feet that Zisk suggested. Yerka said that he would come back with a revised plan. A MOTION was made by Yacino to continue the Public Hearing on Monday, May 14, 2007, at 8:00pm, seconded by Brown. VOTE UNANIMOUS. 8:53 PM PUBLIC HEARING: DENIS LETOURNEAU (NOI) 35 Hough Road Present was Applicant Denis Letourneau and his representative Bill Halston of Land Planning. The scope of work is to clean out silt that washed into Manchaug Pond from the road and to reconstruct a portion of Hough Road by paving 20-feet of dirt road with granite curbing 87-feet from the wetlands. Rip rap will also be placed at the outlet. Cundiff asked about the extent of grading and Halston said just to the right of way 20-feet and they may bring in new gravel. Cundiff said that this project seems minor. Abutter Brian Guilfoyle is concerned that the water will flood his yard. Halston said that the water would go where it usually goes and will pitch away from his property. Van Roo asked if there would be any standing water due to the pitch. Cundiff asked for a plan with spot grades. The Commission scheduled a site walk for Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 9:30am. A MOTION was made by Yacino to continue the Public Hearing on Monday, May 14, 2007, at 8:15pm, seconded by Brown. VOTE UNANIMOUS.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line537
__label__wiki	0.514067	0.514067	Storm Damage & Emergency Services Stormwater Pond Management Greenwaste Recycling Norcross Tree Care / Tree & Plant Health Care Berkeley Lake Greenwaste Recycling Austell Tree Care / Greenwaste Recycling Destin Tree Care Savannah Tree Care The Dark Side of a Christmas Tradition Of Cacti & Trees: A Diatribe of Drought! Downey Trees Joins an Elite Fraternity & What it Means for You! Do Trees Harbor a Hidden Life? Downey Tree Service Professional Full-Service Tree Care The custom began nearly 1000 years ago in Norse mythology, and because of it we tend to make light of an insidious problem for our trees! The myth: there once was a man named Odin who was married to a woman named Frigg. Together they had a son, Baldur. Frigg loved Baldur very much and was most distressed when she found out that it was prophesied that he would die. In her desperation, Frigg went to all the plants and animals in the natural world and had them vow not to harm Baldur. However, in her haste she failed to obtain a vow from one particular plant. The antagonist in the story, the evil god Loki, learned of the oversight and made an arrow from that plant and killed the otherwise invincible Baldur. The plant that killed him? Mistletoe! According to one version of the myth, the gods were able to resurrect Baldur from the dead. Frigg was filled with joy and declared Mistletoe a symbol of love, vowing to plant a kiss on anyone who passed under it. By the 18th Century, Mistletoe had become widely incorporated into the celebrations of Christmas. Young girls would stand beneath a sprig of the plant, inviting daring young suitors to steal a kiss from them. The dark side: For all the Christmas revelry and romance attributed to Mistletoe, there is a dark side to this plant that causes death and devastation. Mistletoe (the plant common to our area is Phoradendron serotinum) is a parasitic plant, extremely well evolved to pray upon, and kill, many species of trees. The name of this group of plants comes from the Old English word misteltan, meaning “bird droppings” and “twig”– 2 clues to phenomenal adaptations of this plant to its parasitic nature. The Mistletoe that we see in our area, while a native plant, has its origins in the northwest Amazon basin: it is actually a tropical plant. Amazingly, it has migrated all the way to our region over the millennia, but the range does not extend any farther north than Georgia at the present time. It is a hemiparasite, meaning that while it does steal water and nutrients from the trees on which it grows, it also has leaves that contain chlorophyll and can therefore photosynthesize its own food. The plant is also a true angiosperm, producing flowers and fruits. Mistletoe flowers from mid-September to late-November and produces fruit from November through March, so often those sprigs hanging around at Christmastime will be adorned with clusters of little white berries. Equipped to kill. One might wonder how those evergreen clumps of Mistletoe get so high up in the branches of the trees? The secret is inside those little white berries, for they contain many sticky seeds. Mistletoe berries are a favorite food of many birds. As the seeds are eliminated from the bird, their sticky composition (viscin is the sticky substance) allows them to adhere to a branch on which they land, and the bird provides a shot of fertilizer at the same time. This is the answer to the first clue from the English word misteltan. The seeds germinate quickly, but no leaves are formed until the second year. Now for the deadly part of this killer: while the leaves that form will feed the top of the plant (the ectophyte), the base of the plant forms a foot-like structure called a haustorium, which generates strands that enter the phloem to steal nutrients from the tree, and sinkers that invade the ray cells of the xylem to steal water. The haustoria with their strands and sinkers form the parasitic endophyte portion of the plant. The photos here show the foliage, berries, and haustoria of the Mistletoe plant. Trees have an amazing way of compartmentalizing wounds to protect the rest of the plant and prevent secondary infestations from insects and disease. They essentially “seal off” affected areas from the remaining undamaged portion of the tree. One might therefore conclude that trees could do the same when attacked by Mistletoe. Not so! Once the foot-like haustoria get under the bark, growth regulators called cytokinins are injected into the vascular system through those strands and sinkers. These growth hormones perform the task of telling the tree that the Mistletoe is not really Mistletoe – “I am just another branch on the tree!” Here, therefore, is the answer to the second misteltan clue. The tree responds by funneling water and nutrients to the Mistletoe – at the expense of the adjacent branch, which eventually withers and dies. As the infestation on the tree worsens, the entire tree may be lost. Devastation and death. Mistletoe attacks 105 species of trees in the United States. It is amazing that a parasite that produces 98% of its own food can destroy a tree the way Mistletoe does, but the plant has no means of obtaining water and nutrients except by way of the host plant. And in the true form of a parasite, Mistletoe will only die when the host does. Mistletoe most often attacks twigs and branches ½ to ¾ inches in diameter, though heavy infestations can lead to the attack of much larger ones. In a year such as 2019 in which we have seen not 1, but 2 periods of extreme drought, it is alarming to know that even a moderate infestation of Mistletoe makes drought stress on a tree 25-30% worse. Management & mitigation: Mistletoe is a difficult parasite to manage. Physical removal by pruning highly infested branches is arguably the best management practice where the aesthetics and health of the tree is not compromised by excessive pruning. Physical removal is another method, though breaking the plants off the branches only results in about 20% control: 80% of the plants will regenerate from the haustoria in the bark of the tree in 1-3 years. Chemical management is also possible, but must be carefully done and is not often practical during certain times of year or in high-traffic areas. The tree in the photos shows a fairly heavy Mistletoe infestation both before and after pruning of infested limbs and removal of plants. Not really an effective control method, but interesting to note nonetheless that the Great Blue Hairstreak butterfly is wholly dependent upon Mistletoe for its survival. Further, the Hickory Horned Devil moth will eat the foliage of the plant. What began as story in Norse mythology and grew into a tradition of kissing at Christmastime has masked and made rather light of a serious pest of the trees in our forests and gardens. This Christmas, when that sprig of Mistletoe hanging over the doorway allows you to steal that kiss from one you love, remember that there is a Mistletoe menace high up in the branches outside: that sprig may be for that tree – the kiss of death! Contact Downey Trees to evaluate the trees on your property for Mistletoe management. Thanks to Dr. Kim Coder, Professor at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry, for much of the information presented in this blog. Foliage and white berries of the Mistletoe plant. The red berries in the photo are those of the host plant, Hawthorn. The green haustorium at the base of this Mistletoe plant is the point at which it attaches to the branch of the tree, the latter gray in color. A Water Oak tree with a heavy infestation of Mistletoe. Downey Trees in the process of pruning heavily infested limbs from the Water Oak, otherwise physically removing the plants from other limbs. The Water Oak tree following pruning and removal of Mistletoe. Mistletoe may allow you to steal a kiss, but it’s the kiss of death for trees! About Tree Care Services Plant Health Care Our Work Vegetation Management Blog Greenwaste Recycling Contact Retention Pond Management Careers Emergency Services 5055 Shadburn Rd, Cumming, GA 30041 Website by Forum Communications Copyright 2017 Downey Trees INC. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line538
__label__wiki	0.670346	0.670346	Dublin Galway Greenway This is an independent site dedicated to information on the Dublin Galway greenway Home » » Center Parcs Planning Approval calls for a link to the Royal Canal Greenway Center Parcs Planning Approval calls for a link to the Royal Canal Greenway By Ivo Brett6:43 AM Wednesday, March 2, 20163 comments Now that planning permission is granted, it is hoped that Longford Forest can be linked to the Royal Canal Greenway. According to planning documents seen by this blog, a new off road cycle link between Newcastle Woods and the Royal Canal Greenway is being considered as part of the development of the Center Parcs holiday park. The decision to grant planning permission, subject to 22 conditions was announced this week. The planning grant included a clause that Center Parcs will have to provide almost €1 million (€951,420) to Longford County Council as a contribution to the upgrading of public infrastructure in the area of the development. Furthermore, details of the planning conditions specifically calls for a off road cycle link to the Royal Canal. This decision to grant permission is welcomed by campaigners for the Royal Canal Greenway and is a vote of confidence in the work carried out by Longford Council so far. Longford Council have developed the Royal Canal Greenway as far as Abbeyshrule and are planning to bring the canal cycleway to the junction of the Royal Canal and the N55 by Summer 2016. Campaigners are calling for funding to be provided to complete the cycleway all the way to Longford Town and thereby joining with the Longford to Clondra greenway and possible connections to the Mayo Greenway and the Greenways planned in Leitrim. Longford Council have NOT developed the greenway to Abbeyshrule. It stops at the Westmeath county boundary. There is a further 1 km of existing roadway past the airfield. From Abbeyshrule on the bulk of the pathway is barely fit for walking particularly in wet conditions. There are two junctions between the canal and the N55. Only the second one (involving an extra 1.6 km of pathway) at Toome is suitable for access to Newcastle and will still involve crossing the N55 by bike and using a further 2km of public road. Direct off road link wiil require either a bridge over the N55 or over the River Inny. Ann J January 19, 2017 at 11:44 AM The route along the royal canal around Ballymahon WAS simply breathtaking & picturesque. Now, after all that 'work' done, it looks like something from the outskirts of a city. No character. Why is it so necessary to sterilize nature? The pathways were perfectly accessible on foot and on bicycle. Maybe you got a little muddy if it rained - that's what being OUTSIDE involves. Being out doors should mean escaping the man-made and enjoying our natural environment.There are no free spaces anymore. Not of theres some money to be made along the way it seems Ivo Brett March 3, 2016 at 2:19 AM Hi Arthur, Thanks for the comments. When is the last time you visited the route in question. Longford CoCo completed work in November to bring the canal cycle path to Abbeyshrule (http://www.dublingalwaygreenway.com/2015/12/new-extension-to-royal-canal-greenway.html). Sources in the council have said that they hope to bring the cycleway to the N55. I think the local people are pushing for a bridge to be reopened over the Inny and this could become part of a direct off-road link to the canal. If you have further details please email me as I would like to provide as accurate information as possible Dublin Galway Greenway Bridge set to open in 2 years According to recent reports in the Shannonaide news, a new bridge across the Shannon in Athlone for the Dublin Galway greenway will open ... Dublin Galway Greenway is the centrepiece of the National Greenway Strategy At the launch of the highly anticipated greenway strategy last week Minister Shane Ross announced €53m funding for Greenways and highlight... Dublin Galway Greenway Route Several people have contacted us and asked if there is single source of information on the proposed Dublin Galway greenway route. The r... By 2018, it will be possible to cycle from Dublin to Athlone almost entirely off-road “By 2018, it will be possible to cycle from Dublin to Athlone almost entirely off-road thanks to Greenways" say Minister Ross who ... Greenway office to be located in Ballinasloe In a significant move for the Dublin Galway greenway, Ballinasloe has been selected as the location for the office that will oversee the pro... TII to take the lead in completing the Dublin Galway Greenway It was announced this week , that Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) will be handed the lead role in delivering the remaining sectio... YOU ASKED: WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE DUBLIN GALWAY GREENWAY? Editor’s Note: Many of our readers have contacted us and asked us how plans to develop the Dublin Galway Greenway were going. Here’s what ... ROYAL CANAL GREENWAY (DUBLIN CITY END) – PROGRESS REPORT The following update is thanks to Cllr. Ray McAdam on his website . "Since my last update on the delivery of a dedicated cycle... Public Consultation on the future of greenways to begin in coming days According to Minister Ross, the eagerly awaited public consultation on future greenway development will begin in the coming days. Ministe... Now that planning permission is granted, it is hoped that Longford Forest can be linked to the Royal Canal Greenway. According to plannin... Ivo Brett 1.65 million funding allocated in 2016 for Dublin ... Center Parcs Planning Approval calls for a link to... Cross party support from Longford Westmeath Candid... Copyright © Dublin Galway Greenway \| Powered by Blogger	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line542
__label__cc	0.70539	0.29461	Home > Topics > Canon > News > Digital Camera News, 12/14/07 Digital Camera News, 12/14/07 December 14, 2007 by David Rasnake Reads (15) “Hand Powered” Sony digicam prototype announced On Thursday, Sony revealed a prototype digital camera that does away with batteries favor of human power. The pizza-cutter shaped “Twirl ‘N Take” is powered by a small wheel-driven generator on one end of the device. Fifteen seconds of turning produces enough power to take one shot, according to the manufacturer. The imaging unit itself, similar in design to the small models currently used in cell phones, is mounted inside the device’s handle. In the interest of minimal power consumption, the Twirl N’ Take does away with an LCD display. Users must connect the camera to a computer to view photos. Sony has released several similar environmentally conscious prototypes, including a “Crank N’ Capture” video camera, but the company says not to expect production models of these eco-aware gadgets on store shelves any time soon. Kingston 19-in-one Media Reader reaches consumers Memory manufacturer Kingston recently rolled out its new Media Reader, a 19-in-one high-speed flash memory reader. The USB 2.0 device supports most common flash memory types, including miniSD and microSD cards without adapters. The external box has a retractable chassis that stores cards safely inside and houses the reader’s short USB cable. Other supported formats include CF Type I and II, SD, SDHC, MMC, and Sony’s Memory Stick. The notable oversight here is xD Picture Card compatability, leaving Fuji and Olympus owners out in the cold on this one. Units are already available on the web. Expect to pay around $17. Samsung/Microsoft unveil WiFi photo frame Samsung and Microsoft recently teamed up in the development of the Samsung SPF-83V, an 8-inch digital photo frame with wireless network connectivity. Announced on Wednesday, the SPF-83V is “one of the few offerings in the marketplace that offer a ‘network’ approach to digital photo sharing,” according to Samsung’s Christopher Franey. User photos uploaded to the online Windows Live Photo Gallery are automatically downloaded to the frame via WiFi, allowing users to share new photos with friends and family in different locations or while traveling. The frame can also play audio and video files, and receive online content including RSS feeds. Current street price for the SPF-83V is around $250. Nikon D3 and Canon 1Ds Mark III settle dispute with Barbies John Harrington’s recent head-to-head comparison of the new Nikon D3 and Canon 1Ds Mark III professional DSLRs starred Barbie (yes, the doll), plus her buddy Penelope and a photographer action figure named Marcus in the lead roles. The review, posted on Harrington’s Photo Business & News Forum over the weekend, pitted the latest offering in a Nikon professional system that’s taken some flack for showing too much noise at moderate ISOs against the 1Ds Mark III, which builds on the controversial technology first seen earlier this year in the 1D Mark III. (Those that closely follow the world of professional equipment have probably seen Rob Galbraith’s candid review of the 1D Mark III’s autofocus system woes from a few months ago.) In spite of the Canon’s huge resolution advantage (22 megapixels, versus the D3’s 12.1), Harrington and Marcus come down on the side of the Nikon – if only just – in early tests. Check out Barbie, Penelope, and ringside camera smack-down shots from these two heavyweights here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line543
__label__wiki	0.843978	0.843978	Foreword by The President of Ireland Thursday 21st March / Déardaoin 21Ú Márta Friday 22nd March / De hAoine 22ú Márta Saturday 23rd March / De Sathairn 23ú Márta Sunday 24th March / De Domhnaigh 24ú Márta Sunday 24th Claymation Workshop Físín Your FestivaL Pass Volunteers for 2019 – NOW CLOSED The Phoenix Cinema General Terms and Conditions for Competitions The Peck Family (2016) Laura Dern (2014) Jean-Jacques Beineix (2011) Stephen Frears (2010) Jim Sheridan (2009) Gabriel Byrne (2008) We’ll Always Have Dingle Patron Offers Saturday 17th March Lá Le Pádraig – St. Patrick’s Day The Stand-In 26mins/1969/Colour/8mm/Ireland/Silent Film WITH LIVE MUSIC – Eilís Kennedy & Nico Brown : LE CEOL BEO – Eilís Kennedy & Nico Brown ST. James’ Church – 8am €10 Dingle Fife & Drum Band will line the entrance to St. James Church and play an old traditional tune to welcome you this Paddy’s Day to the beginning of our exclusive day of Irish Film. This never before seen footage of behind the scenes during the filming of Ryan’s Daughter in 1969 Dingle, was taken by Tom Fitzgerald. Tom owned a hardware store (now called Value) when David Lean and his circus came to town. Tom became good friends with Robert Mitchum and was to later become his stand-in during the filming. The footage was taken by Tom while on set during the filming of Ryan’s Daughter. Tom served for 13 years in Seanad éireann and is currently a film censor in The Irish Film Classification Office. Tom resides in Dingle with his wife Bridie. For those of you who want to begin the day a little earlier join the earliest parade in Ireland at 6.30am – leaving the water front. Another parade will take place at 12noon through the streets of Dingle. Join us for a full Irish Breakfast at John Benny Moriaty’s Bar Award Winning Kennedy’s Local Sausages, Ashes Local Pudding & Lispole Free Range Eggs served with their own Soda Bread – €9.95 The Day She Came to Dingle 60mins/2012/Colour/Digibeta/Ire-UK/BBC arena ST. James’ Church – 7.30pm €10 Director: Maurice Linnane Producer Tina Moran Executive Producers Philip King and Anthony Wall The Director Maurice Linnane will also introduce the film with Anthony Print Source: BBC Arena On December the 3rd 2006 Amy Winehouse appeared in the fifth series of Other Voices, a music show shot every winter in the small Irish fishing village of Dingle in County Kerry, deep in the southwest corner of Ireland. Just after 9pm Amy Winehouse took to the stage in the Church of Saint James. In a performance that lasted a little over 20 minutes she absolutely wowed the small crowd singing songs accompanied for that one night only by just a guitar player and a bass player. In that unique, stripped down formation Amy Winehouse delivered a searing, wonderful set that will never be forgotten by anyone who was lucky enough to be there. Amy Winehouse was a star and we were lucky enough to meet and record her when she was shining at her very brightest. Immediately after she left the stage a relaxed and very happy Amy Winehouse crossed the road to Benner’s Hotel where she spoke with the show’s presenter, John Kelly, about her music, her influences and her plans for the immediate future. Then she ate a plate of oysters and visited a couple of the more famous of Dingle’s hostelries before climbing into a taxi and driving to Cork. All in all she was in Dingle for about 6 hours. A flying visit but a lasting impression. Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle will tell the story of that very special visit on that very special day. All of the songs Amy Winehouse sang on the night will be used, plus the complete interview with John Kelly. We go back to Dingle and catch up with some of the people that Amy met on that day including the taxi driver who collected her from the airport, the musical director who booked Amy in the first place and the reverend of the Other Voices church. We will showcase some of the influential artists and music that Amy spoke of in that fascinating post concert conversation: Mahalia Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles and the Shangri-las to name a few. Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle showcases all that was great about Amy Winehouse. And that’s a very important thing because Amy Winehouse was great. And on the 3rd of December 2006, in a tiny church, in a tiny town on the south west coast of Ireland, she left a lasting record of just how great she was. Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle is about the music, not the madness. And that’s how it should be. Other Side of Sleep 88mins/2011/Colour/Ireland, Netherlands, Hungary/DCP The Phoenix Cinema – 6pm €10 Director: Rebecca Daly Writer: Rebecca Daly and Glenn Montgomery Producers: Morgan Bushe, Macdara Kelleher in co-production with Ference Puzstai, Reinier Selen and Ivo de Jongh Print Source: Fastnet Films A sleepwalker. A body. A family. A small community. Arlene is like a ghost in her life. She lives in a small town in the midlands – surrounded by field after field, woodlands and laneways to disappear down and never come back … One morning Arlene wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman. Someone watches from the trees. The body is soon discovered and suspicion spreads through the community. Increasingly drawn to the girl’s family – her grieving sister and accused boyfriend, Arlene barricades herself in at night, afraid to sleep. Haunted by grief buried and delayed, Arlene’s sleeping and waking realities soon blur. And all this time someone is watching her. 75mins/2011/uK and Ireland/HDCaM, Digibeta Director: Alexandra McGuinness Producers: Mark Lee, Morgan Bushe, Macdara Kelleher, Kyle Blanshard Script: Alexandra McGuinness, Brendan Grant Major Cast: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Johnny Flynn, Benn Northover Production: McGuinnessLee, Fastnet Films Print Source: Fastnet Films The bright young things of London’s social elite lead an excessive, lavish lifestyle that allows them to luxuriate in their own self-destruction. At the center is Alice, an ex-model unable to keep up with the opulent standards her peers feverishly chase. Alice may be in love with her on-and-off boyfriend Charlie, but the multiple pleasures of wealth and youth distract them from commitment. Meanwhile, Felix is besotted with Alice, even as he indecisively takes up with his naïve, needy girlfriend. Between wild summer nights in Glastonbury and the South of France, a lovelorn Orna gets her rocks off weaving overlapping love triangles that wreak havoc on impressionable hearts. SHORT: Hold on Tight 12.40mins/2011/Digibeta/Colour/Ireland Holding hands or kissing in public isn’t for everyone. When it comes to same sex relationships, showing your love outside of the home is sometimes a complicated personal choice. This short documentary moves between the public and private spaces in which lesbian and gay couples live, and explores small gestures of human connectedness. These gentle interactions not only carry a huge personal significance, but also the potent power to create social change. Yet, for most people, being affectionate beyond the hall door isn’t intended as a political statement – it’s an expression of love. Shorts Programme 3 ST. James’ Church – 3.45pm €6 Running Time: 90mins Nowhere in Particular 19mins/2012/Colour/Ireland/Digibeta Producer: Edwina Forkin Director: Mason Cardiff DOP: Jack Conroy Running away from a broken heart, a young American returns to his native Ireland. He soon finds himself in the middle of nowhere when he picks up a beautiful young Irish woman. Shortly into the journey, she confesses something to him that will transfer him into a world of trouble … 3.25mins/2011/colour/Ireland/Digibeta Director/Producer/Writer: Jennifer Daly A journey through the ocean depths; passing by a variety of unusual creatures of the deep. The film was created using various traditional and experimental animation techniques. Liquid Sun 10.48mins/2011/Colour/Netherlands/DVD Director: Diede van Vree Writer: Rosanne Pel Producer: Rob IJpelaar Liquid Sun is a short film about the intimate friendship that comes to an end due to the current economic circumstances in Ireland. It shows, in a personal manner, the influence it has on the life of two individuals that are forced to separate. 8mins/2011/Ireland/Colour/Digibeta Director: Thomas Hefferson Producer: Dave Leahy Two years after a traumatic car-accident has left a young girl in a catatonic vegetative state, the man who put her there seeks out her mother to atone for his crimes. However, he soon discovers that righting his wrongs may take more than what he’s prepared to give … Roped-In 7.23mins/2011/Colour/Ireland/HDV Director/Producer/Writer: Helena O’Connor A young girl is moving to the country and is having trouble finding her new cottage she is not very good at reading maps or working the sat-nav and so she has to rely on the direction of strangers. Riders to the Sea 5.11mins/2011/Colour/Ireland/Digi-Beta Director/Writer: Orla Walsh Producer: Ian W Davis A surfing duel breaks out between a male and female surfer off the West Coast of Ireland. Breaking waves, racing hearts, and the treachery of Lycra. Ciarán 21.56mins/2011/Colour/Ireland/PaL Directors: Diarmuid Hayes, Shauna Farrell, Jane Wilson Producers: Diarmuid Hayes, Shauna Farrell, Jane Wilson, DCU A documentary film based around the life of a twelve year old boy with a severe mental disability which has never been diagnosed. The story is told from the perspective of those closest to him; his parents, his two brothers and sister and his teacher in St. Michael’s House, Paula. Home Turf 14.10mins/2011/Ireland/Colour/Digibeta Directors: Aideen O’Sullivan & Ross Whitaker A fascinating visual celebration on the ancient art of cutting turf by hand in Co. Kerry, Ireland. Following a band of turf cutters from North Kerry throughout the cutting season from April to September, the film gives insight into a way of life that will soon be forgotten. Casting Summit with Amy Hubbard of Hubbard Casting Skelligs Hotel – 2.30pm €15 Amy Hubbard is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and The College of Law in London. She has worked for some of the best agents in the business Ken McReddie (Ken McReddie Associates), Sally Long-Innes (Independent) and the late, legendary Sam Cohn (ICM New York). But casting is where her passions lie, and she is delighted to form one quarter of the family business, Hubbard Casting, which has been open for business since 1975. THE HOBBIT: An Unexpected Journey Director: Peter Jackson THE HOBBIT: There and Back Again Director: Peter Jackson MAMA (UK casting) Director: Andres Muschietti ALBERT NOBBS Director: Rodrigo Garcia GHOSTED Director: Craig Viveiros THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE Director: Lee Tamahori THE ARBOR Director: Clio Barnard Outstanding Debut nomination BAFTA 2011, Winner Best New Documentary Film-maker Tribeca 2010, Winner Best British Newcomer and Most Original Debut Feature at London Film Festival 2010, Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards 2010. THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY Director: Peter Jackson CHOCOLAT (UK casting) Director: Lasse Hallstrom HATFIELDS & McCOYS (History Channel) Director: Kevin Reynolds ROUGE BRESIL (UK casting) Director: Sylvain Archambault NEVERLAND (Syfy & Sky Movies) Director: Nick Willing BEN HUR (ABC) Director: Steve Shill IFB Shorts Programme Bord Scannán Na hÉireann/Irish Film Board presents a selection of new shorts This is Ireland … ST. James’ Church – 2pm €6 Running Time: approx 93mins Director: Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman In the midst of a stormy night, on-board a rural irish fishing trawler, a fisherman and his son witness a glowing object fall to sea. As they battle the elements to get it on deck, the father loses something very dear to him, and gains something utterly unexpected. Director: James Stacey A young man is on the brink of emigration, but as he races through the streets of Dublin he comes to realise the spirit he’s leaving behind. Director: Lorcan Finnecan A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world. A world of the paranormal or perhaps insanity. Director: Claire Dix An ode to Ireland and to the rain; love in the rain, love of the rain, love of a country drenched in rain. Washed Up Love Director: Dylan Cotter Moira is looking for love. Love doesn’t even know he’s missing. An Rinceoir Director: Elaine Gallagher Níos Gaelaí ná na Gaeil iad féin: Competing at a feis, a young girl demonstrates her grá for Irish dancing. Director: Harvest Films Each Tuesday in St. Luke’s hospital the door to Radioactive Iodine Suite B is shut behind a patient who remains there, alone, until the end of the week. We move slowly up to and through the lead-lined glass to frame an intimate portrait of one woman’s solitary time with illness, fate and faith. 23 degrees 5 minutes Director: Darragh O’Connell Pursuing the answer to the ‘unified theory’ leads professor Orit to the edge of madness and beyond. Director: Tom O’Sullivan Fionn, a young fisherman, risks everything to help a friend. The Boy in the Bubble Director: Kealan O’Rourke, Igloo Films The whimsical tale of Rupert, a ten year old boy who falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, Rupert wishes never to experience heartache ever again. Turning to an ancient book of magic, Rupert invokes a powerful spell to shield himself from all emotion forever. Muide Éire Film will be introduced by its director Cathal Watters Director/Photography Cathal Watters Producer Rachel Lysaght Writer Dr. Ruth Lysaght Editor Áine Furlong Composer Denis Clohessy Print Source: Underground Films Muide Éire is a documentary film on the history of Ireland onscreen. From horse drawn carriages of yesteryear to the latest summer blockbuster, the documetary takes an intimate look at TV and filmmaking as a visual expression of Irish culture, celebrating contemporary filmmakers, in both the Irish and English language. From the glamour of red carpet interviews to behind-the-scenes 5am starts, Muide Éire invites the viewer into a world where art and industry exist in delicate balance. The heart of our investigation is onscreen representations of Ireland – how the Irish have been viewed abroad, and how we represent ourselves. 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__label__wiki	0.578717	0.578717	Criterion Confessions A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich. SAWDUST & TINSEL - #412 Ingmar Bergman is one of those artists who took some time to bloom. His early career is populated with a string of films that weren't successful financially, and which show a director struggling to find his voice. Made in 1953, Sawdust and Tinsel is his thirteenth film, and it precedes his breakout feature, Smiles of a Summer Night, by two years. Even so, in the video introduction he recorded for Sawdust in 2003, Bergman calls it the first good movie he made, despite a tepid response from critics and audiences. To take it further, I'd daresay that Sawdust and Tinsel, released on DVD for the first time by the Criterion Collection, has more in common with his late '50s masterworks like The Seventh Seal and The Virgin Spring than Smiles does. In this early Bergman motion picture, we can begin to see the complicated emotional drama and penchant for off-kilter imagery that would define much of the Swedish filmmaker's work. The film opens as a ragtag circus makes its way across the European countryside early in the morning. Cold, battered, and quiet, this caravan shows little of the fun and frolicking that is usually associated with circuses. The ringmaster, Albert (Ake Grönberg), goes and sits with the driver of the lead wagon, and the horseman reflects on a story from seven years before, when the troupe's pasty-faced clown Frost (Anders Ek) caught his wife Alma (Gudrun Brost) swimming naked with a bunch of soldiers who paid her to strip for them. Encouraged by the others to be a man and take back what is his, Frost doesn't have the cajones to stand up to the soldiers. The best he can do is swim out and bring his wife to shore. The laughter of the crowd strikes him as if riddled by bullets, and the poor clown--a stand-in for the common everyman, it could be any of us under that make-up--collapses. Instead of carrying his wife back to camp, she has to carry him. This early anecdote serves two purposes: it shows the dark cloud that hangs over Albert's circus troupe and acts as an indicator for how Bergman is using performance and spectacle purposefully. For this interlude, he and cinematographer Sven Nykvist give the story an old-time look and feel. The whites are blown-out, and the heavily pantomimed action runs mostly without dialogue, the only audio being music, like a silent film. It's as if Bergman is backtracking. He is making a modern film, but by using old film styles, he takes one step back, taking us along with him toward even older performance arenas, the circus and the traditional stage. Once the circus gets to town, Bergman puts together a multifaceted social drama, the structural complexity of which, as well as the focus on infidelity, makes it a darker cousin to Smiles of a Summer Night. Who wants to be with whom, and whom will they sleep with instead? The current stop happens to be the town where Albert left his family, and he intends to go see his wife (Annika Tretow) and two sons for the first time in three years. This makes his current lover, the Spanish horse rider Anne (a buxom Harriet Andersson), feel insecure. Deciding this is her time to get out of the circus life, she goes into town thinking that a lothario actor (Hasse Ekman) will take her in. It's not a bad instinct, because Albert is also trying to jump from the caravan and settle back down at home. Both of them are dreaming larger than they are capable of. Here, though, is where Albert's story crosses with Frost's. Realizing that Anne has cheated on him, and denied by a wife whose financial security depends on Albert staying out of her life, his very manhood is called into question. Will he just drop down and take it like Frost, or is Albert capable of more? Sawdust and Tinsel in a lot of ways feels more like fodder for Federico Fellini than it does Ingmar Bergman. The Italian director loved looking backstage and showing the lives of performers. One mustn't forget, however, that Bergman has written and directed stage plays his entire career, even after he retired from film, and he wrote about actors even as late as Fanny and Alexander. At this stage in Fellini's filmography, he would have been more fascinated with the female performers than even Bergman was. Though Bergman calls attention to the thin line between performing for the pleasure of others and prostitution, and the humiliations women often suffer, Sawdust and Tinsel is more in tune with the male cuckolds. The men are at various times framed in mirrors, either searching for or revealing their true nature in the glass. There is a split between Albert, who can barely face himself, and the actor, Frans, who isn't afraid of the things he so deviously hides. In a similar vein, Bergman also uses make-up as a metaphor. Both the circus performers and the actors wear make-up in their work. Frost uses heavy powder to completely obliterate any pretense to being socially functional, whereas Frans wields it as a weapon of seduction and deception. When he and Anne are alone, the phrase "war paint" takes on a whole new meaning. Frans notes how poorly Anne's make-up is applied and tells her that he can show her how to do it properly. The sexual threat of the scene is clear, the tension rising as Anne first submits to the treatment and then tries to get out of it. Adding further to the layers that separate these people is Bergman's clear delineation of the social strata that puts the circus at the bottom of the pack. The theatre people have a permanent place in town, but just as with everything else with the actors, it's a false placement. They can play the part of being respectable citizens, but they are wolves in sheep's clothing. Frans would make no more suitable a husband than Albert. Both types of performers are really just grist in the town's entertainment mill. The final act of Sawdust and Tinsel takes place entirely at the circus. It's the performance night and the morning-after tear down. Under the big top, Albert is meant to be the master, and it's here that Bergman will lather on the irony and mete out his punishment. The tragic flailing of the ending is painful to watch--a reeling, impressionsitc battle of both body and will. When it comes down to it, the circus ring is its own circle of Hell, closed and unbending. Thus, it's fitting that the end of the film first shows Frost and Albert walking alone, men who see their position in this world all too clearly, bringing both a bitter resignation and one hope's a happy acceptance. For technical specs and special features, read the full article at DVD Talk. Posted by Jamie S. Rich at 1:05 PM Labels: bergman Thank you for your insights on this film. I just saw it, and the Criterion DVD is beautiful, lush black and white; wonderful compositions, and a lot of mirrors used! I don't think Sven Nykvist shot the bathing scene, however. It seems like 3 photographers worked on the film, with Nykvist being called in when one of the others had another obligation. Jamie S. Rich Author of prose novels and comic books like Cut My Hair, It Girl & the Atomics, You Have Killed Me, and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her. 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__label__cc	0.658401	0.341599	News and musings from the Farm Neighborhood Food Exchange and Garden Workday This past Saturday May 9th, 2016, we had our very first neighborhood food exchange and garden work day. Together with our Councilwoman Nury Martinez of District 6, her amazing staff, Pacoima Beautiful, Jessika Mitchell of TreePeople, our neighborhood Juice Shop, It's Juice Time, and a core group of dedicated farm volunteers: Maddy O'Neil, Sara Jacobs, Bea Elliott, and Lila Burgos (to name a few)--we hosted over 30 community members , planted 40 tomato plants, eight avocado trees, and exchanged nearly 30 lbs. of locally grown food. It was amazing to see the vision of this day come together; to see it as more than just a facebook post or flyer tucked into a mailbox, because it was the unexpected elements which truly gave the magic to the day. We had community members from 6 months old on up to 80+ years, and they were all digging into the soil, engaging with the mulch, conversing with neighbors, and exchanging laughs and food freely--without judgement or a fear of the unknown. To me that was the most salient part of this first opening to the public: Food, its production and consumption and all the energy that goes into it from seed to table, is truly the simplest platform from which we can all learn to relate to one another. It was so inspiring to see the range in ages, cultures, languages, and so on. Perhaps there are no strangers in the garden, only friends waiting to be discovered. The San Fernando Valley in all of its vastness has changed much over the centuries. A once giant flood basin for the mountains which encircle it, it has settled into the concrete grid which now defines so much of Los Angeles. However, beneath that hardscape, the cracked curbs, and endless strip malls sits the soil which has always made this place so great--which has always been home to the roots of all the plants and communities which came before us. I trust that as the soil on this farm continues to be cared for and cultivated, so to shall be the friendships and community which continue to spread ever outward. Stay tuned for next month's food exchange! CUFarmer Updates, News, and thoughts from the garden. From me to you.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line549
__label__cc	0.712121	0.287879	Cambridge University Hockey Club (EST. 1890) CUHC Team Sheets Squanderers Wblues (from some time in the past) Sports Personality of the Year Awards 2019 Script: Gabby Logan: “And now we must turn our attention to the final award of the night, Do(Decade). This prize goes to the person who has produced the most outrageous behaviour in the final week of Cambridge University Hockey Club’s Saturday matches in 2010s. Niche, we know. Clare Balding: Tonight’s award will be jointly presented CUHC’s WBlues Captain Amy Edwards and Squanderer’s Captain Tom Whitworth. Both have been instrumental in the recipient’s nomination and facilitated her development into a questionably fun third year. Gary Lineker: Having fought of stiff competition from Mollie for oversleeping and Bethan for peeing in the street post Cindies (REPEAT OFFENCE), tonight’s winner will have upset the bookies, as she has only won the normal Dod award once previously in her CUHC career (for her love of the Squandies). But after a wild Christmas Dinner in Cindies and major Friday Night PMB, please put your hands together for our winner…. #### ### [Do(Decade) receives the award to music inspired by the Christmas Dinner Speech of 2018 by ex-Squandies Captain Owain Houghton]: “We’re in love with the Women’s Blues, and we really hate Oxfrd too” Anon Do(Decade): I am honoured and surprised to have won this award. Third year has been the year of the Amy (anon WBlues vice captain), and so for me to win Do(Decade) in her place is somewhat of a shock. Yet we both share a love for a certain men’s third team, especially when a few VKs have been chopped. She has led the way in showing the WBlues how reciprocate the Squandies’ affection as mentioned in the 2018 speech to which I came up on stage. In fact Dr Love shows that while the Women’s Blues in general only have a 64% love for the squanderers (Figure 1), el captain and myself have taken this to a whole new level at 83% (Figure 2). She has also been the most frequent winner of the DoD award in the first half of the current season and I have been inspired to take up this honourable pursuit, bonus if it’s for loving the Squandies. I would also like to thank the Squanderers Captain for his top selection of 3rd XI this year. On the pitch this excellent team have inspired other players in CUHC, remaining unbeaten in East Hockey Leagues in 2019 and only suffering defeat on what turned out to be WDOTY. Hopefully the WBlues will manage to replicate the Squandie blueprint in 2020 (with the exception of the Varsity loss). They have been scoring plenty of times a match in the first half of the 2019/2020 season, 47 goals to be precise (if my maths is correct). I have managed 1 in my CUHC career, so only 46 to go to catch up this season alone. Not that my accuracy in front of goal in the 10am start will improve if my main match day aim has to be not to vomit on the pitch after attending Snowball til 4.30am (not that this affected an anon Squanderers captain’s efforts at 11.30am!) As mentioned earlier, this is not the only success the Squandies have been having – indeed without the scoring of the Oldest Squandie post Christmas Dinner, I wouldn’t be here today. Do(Decade) does a Miranda side eye at the camera as she reminisces: If only the event were still at Wilby and permitted the Squandies lap** Anyway, I will make sure that this award goes on my desk to remind me of what is my greatest achievement to date. I hope not to continue this DoD form into 2020 and pass on the baton to other fun WBlues, while also aspiring to score like the Squandies. Goodnight everyone! Figure 1: courtesy of lovecalculator.com, the WBlues and the Squandies love each other a 2.1 amount Gary Lineker: Well that was the weirdest speech we’ve ever had for the weirdest award we’ve ever seen Gabby Logan: DON’T LET HER ANYWHERE NEAR THE VKs! Figure 2: courtesy of lovecalculator.com, El Captain and DoD love the Squandies a starred first amount…. Squandies vs. St Neots (11/01/2020) For the benefit of those who will be meeting the squanderers at swaps this term (or already have but are suffering from amnesia) this might help you get to know them better. Here is an update on what the squanderers have (probably) been up to over the holidays. Thomas Whitworth (c) – Playing Hockey After a very successful 2019 with the squanders, Tom climbed back up the beanstalk to the land of the giants. Determined not to let the performances slip, he trains with his family, even on Christmas day. Maybe this year he’ll have beaten his previous record of 2 family members sent to A&E. Ally Macdonald (vc) – Killing indiscriminately Be it frogs, toads, or newts, no amphibian is safe. Armed with a hockey stick to do the damage and earn DoD. Did you know that newts are a type of salamander, and sometimes kept as pets? Fraser Allen (SS) – ??? Records are short for this. We must start on January 1st when Frallen awakes in a bush alongside the Cam. The wreckage of a punt strewn nearby, clearly commandeered the previous evening. Fraser begins the long walk home past his beloved Perse. Will Parker (GK) – Training with Sol Campbell Will has been solid in goal for the squandies this year, and particularly handy with his sliding challenges when 1-on-1. Clearly he’s been learning from the best. George Milner – Working on his podcast Not much here. George is nearly as boring as his cousin James. Jason Allen – In his own bed After a busy term in Cambridge, followed by varsity ski trip, Jallen’s demanding fitness regime caught up with him and he needed some rest. Also he’s now a self confessed boring 3rd year. James Burman – Swiping through Tinder Age is just a number. James demonstrates this with both his athleticism on the hockey pitch, and his willingness to adjust with technology. He has even been seen wearing leggings sporting the Tinder logo, but not whilst walking home one early morning. James’ next frontier is Snapchat. Mark Roberts – Lonely Another one of the squandies who went skiing after term. Unfortunately for Mark he was deserted and left to take the train by himself, courtesy of a different squanderer choosing to get a taxi with a group of Beds. Chris and Elliot Bealey – Running their magic shop Weasley’s wizard wheezes is a well known shop in the wizarding world, located at number 93 Diagon Alley. What you may not know is that it is owned by 2 members of the squanderers. Marketed as a joke shop, we are somewhat dubious given the standard of chat displayed by the twins. Elliot’s favourite magic trick is appearing in the opposition Dee trying for a goal whilst he’s supposed to be playing half back. Sam Pritchard – Hiding from the Captain Sam returned after the holidays refreshed and ready to play hockey. The only problem – he had told the captain he wasn’t available for the match. Despite this he still found a way to turn up to training and Friday night dinner. Tom Edmiston – Keeping people healthy and safe Just a shame one of those people wasn’t himself, as he missed the match through illness. Rob Gorgy – Got the mumps Avoid at all costs. Sam Reynolds – In the gym With Jallen leading the way (joint with George Milner) for goals mostly due to drag flicks, Sam has been getting envious. He hit the weights to try and make himself first choice flicker. Harry Cox – Running Harry doesn’t seem to stop running, and the benefits showed as he ran round the St. Neots defense earning himself MoM. Now he just needs to learn how to score, as he kept on running into the keeper. At least he didn’t get concussed. Henry Pulver – Drinking Huel Whilst most of us will have enjoyed a roast on christmas day, Henry would have no doubt found a “better” alternative. Don’t bring this up if you have anywhere to be in the following 5 hours. Duncan Parry – Crying about football The Christmas period wasn’t the best for his beloved Manchester City, but it could be worse. He could be a United fan. MoM: Harry Cox DoD: Ally Macdonald Wblues vs. Maidstone (D 2-2) Women’s blues vs Maidstone MoM: Mog DoD: Bethan 1. The match, 2-2 draw Already keen to escape the Cambridge bubble, the WBlues decided to take a day trip to Kent and play a bit of hockey. The sports service nearly scuppered our transport plans but alas we persevered and Maid it. Maidstone quickly went 1-0 up from a short corner, but we answered politely with a routine of our own, ‘The Monty”, resulting in Monty equalising. With 14 minutes left of the second half we whipped out another corner routine – this time defender Rachel neatly slotted it in (huuuuge fantasy points just saying). Maidstone came back hard, and after defending approximately 600 corners, a swing and a miss from them, and some dubious tackles from their forwards, the WBlues conceded a goal to make it 2-2 with 2 minutes to go. Then the match ended, as matches normally do, and Mog was awarded well-deserved MoM. After yet another jacket potato match tea and some serious snakery by our dear captain, I was awarded Dod (despite another member of our team literally forgetting her own name whilst filling out a form). 2. Findings from DoD actions So to make the most of my unjust DoD appointment I thought I would share my discoveries. The day started at what I was told would be a ‘cheese sesh’ (vegan heavan amirite?) at around 4pm. Turns out this was a lie and cheese was actually gin. After many a round of cambio, we continued our journey to a fine Wetherspoon establishment called ‘ The Edward Rayne’. I would say that the following combination of decisions led to a rapid decrease in decorum, but I’ll let you decide for yourselves (also nice procrastination if you’re still reading this). The cider of choice for the following five hours, called ‘Gwynt Y Ddraig – Black Dragon’, a decent 7.2%, combined with replacing dinner with a bowl of peas (only 55p in case you were wondering), alongside apple sourz not in the showers, all topped off with a replacement bus service as my way home, resulted in what you can only describe as A Mess™ (sorry James). Anyway, enough about me and more about my findings! It turns out my spoons drink of choice happened to have a high alcohol to price ratio, and this got my slightly inebriated brain thinking – what are the best ratios in the Regal? (Excluding half pints, the top five are as follows) Gwynt Y Ddraig Black Dragon – Pint, 7.2% ABV, £3.25, 12.58 ml of alcohol for every £1 Magners – Pint, 4.5% ABV, £2.19, 11.67 ml of alcohol for every £1 Lagunitas IPA – 355ml, 6.2% ABV, £1.99, 11.06 ml of alcohol for every £1 Sharp’s Doom Bar – Pint, 4.0% ABV, £2.15, 10.57 ml of alcohol for every £1 Greene King Abbot Ale – Pint, 5.0% ABV, £2.69, 10.56 ml of alcohol for every £1 So for those who want a challenging tee off to next year’s pub golf, there you go, and for all the lightweights out there who just want to make a nice first impression when meeting your boyfriends’ home friends, these are the ones to go easy on xxx 1dies vs. Bourne Deeping (W 4-0) So today did not start well. After a quiet evening in I went to bed at a reasonable time excited to be playing hockey in the morning after far too many weeks without the Wandies. It fails me as to why I then committed the mistake that would cost me the crucial votes for Dod but nevertheless I did. At 10:15am 14 Wandies congregated at wanderful Wilby and Mr Peony decided that all were present and correct. Now, the fact that all who were present were correct I do not doubt and in this I cannot fault our captain. I can, however, find fault with his counting. 4 is 1 and 5 is 2 and 14 may be 11 and 15 may be 12 but 14 is not 15. I was not present and this had not been noted by our captain. I was still asleep. In a land far far away I woke up, looked at my watch to see the time showing 10:20. I chuckled to myself and wondered how I had managed to set my alarm for 10:20 instead of 9:00. I then checked my phone. It was indeed 10:20 and I was late. Very late. I tried to phone Ranunculus but he didn’t pick up. He had obviously decided with my performances in the first half of the season that I was no longer necessary for a big Wandies W so 14 was close enough to 15 that I could be left behind. A few missed calls later I managed to get hold of our esteemed webmaster to notify him that I was (a) alive and (b) wanting to play. A swift shower, and packing and I was ready to be picked up at 10:35. A large car with many people already in it arrived at my house and we made our way up the (still not quite open) A14. A detour through Godmanchester and Hinchingbrooke allowed OAP alcopop to regale us with tales of walking down the A1307 between GP practices on his travels. What an interesting life he has had. When we eventually got there I was given hope in my fight to avoid a second Dodship in 4 years by Mr William James. He had joined the boys in Hawks the previous night and was confused by this type of beer his fellow Wanderers were consuming. Nevertheless he ploughed on and ordered his own “normal” beer. This was a mistake. Consumption of beer is welcomed during most of the occasions in which we frequent the establishment of the birds of prey but prey upon the iniquities of the uninitiated we do not. Mr James was informed that consumption of beer or other alcoholic beverages was not allowed the night before games lest that man be fined for such practices. We warmed up poorly but started the game well. Keeping the ball around the back seemed not to faze our defenders and midfielders (to be fair the press was light) and eventually we got our chance. Julian drove down the right hand side, along the baseline and played the ball across, only for it to deflect into the path of Will who pushed it simply past the keeper for our first goal. The rest of the first half passed smoothly with smooth passing but not into the goal and it remained 1-0 at HT. In the second half we switched off a bit and as we felt looser so was our marking. Bourne Deeping had a few chances and Julian enjoyed some cheddar after falling over into one of their players but the goal was not troubled. Their centre-back decided I hadn’t had enough to do in the game so he gave the ball just outside their D with far too much time and I panicked and tried to lob the keeper. Thankfully the rebound fell to Jim who passed it to Mr Carnation who put it in. 2-0. I can’t remember how the third goal went in, sorry Jengland but Begonia scored an O3/2 and we won 4-0. Congratulations go to the Wandies for their first win in the first game of a calendar year in CUHC memory and to Will for being good enough at 5s to win Mom (unlucky Camellia). Mom: Will James Dod: David Gibson For previous match reports, please see each team’s individual pages: Men’s Blues Women’s Blues Sub-sponsor Want more from CUHC? 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__label__wiki	0.950182	0.950182	Home Hayleys’ Talawakelle Tea wins Asia Sustainability Awards Hayleys’ Talawakelle Tea wins Asia Sustainability Awards CSRWorks International Managing Director, Rajesh Chhabara presenting Hayleys Plantations Managing Director, Roshan Rajadurai with the Best Integrated Report Award at Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards Emerging ahead of leading Asian corporates, Hayleys Plantations’ Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC (TTEL) was crowned as winners of Asia’s Best Integrated Report at the 4th Annual Asia Sustainability Reports Awards (ASRA) in Singapore. Setting a new benchmark for Sri Lankan corporates, TTEL’s annual report was ranked ahead of leading Asian companies such as Maybank-Malaysia, Singtel-Singapore, Ajinomoto Co., Inc-Japan, Tata Motors Limited-India & Orient Overseas (International) Limited-Hong Kong. “We are defined by a firm commitment to excellence and continuous improvements in everything we do. Our commitment to a strong framework of corporate governance and accountability has allowed us to thrive and enabled our organization to be transparent and accurate in reporting into all aspects of our performance. This in turn has facilitated Hayleys Plantations to deliver excellence to all our stakeholders, and we are deeply encouraged by our victory on such a prestigious international platform as the Asia Sustainability Reports Awards,” Hayleys Plantations Managing Director, Roshan Rajadurai said. Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC was also nominated as a finalist for Asia’s Best Materiality Reporting, Asia’s Best Environmental Reporting, Asia’s Best Carbon Disclosure, Asia’s Best SDG Reporting & Asia’s Best Report Design. A record 82 companies from 14 countries made it to the final round of the 2018 Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards across 17 categories. “Sustainability reporting has become an important tool for investors and stakeholders to assess a company’s full value” said Rajesh Chhabara, managing director at CSRWorks International. “Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC’s winning report demonstrates the company’s leadership in sustainability reporting and a deep sense of commitment to transparency, disclosure and value creation,” ASRAis an international platform that recognises and honours sustainability reporting leaders in Asia. Senior business leaders from 13 countries attended the exclusive awards ceremony hosted by the British High Commissioner in Singapore Scott Wightman. Dignitaries from diverse fields including academia, non-profit, embassies, trade associations and advocacy organisations were also present at the ceremony. The awards were presented by Guest of Honour Jessica Cheam, managing editor of Eco-Business, The British High Commissioner Scott Wightman and special guests Dr Lawrence Loh, director of Corporate Governance, Institutions and Organisations at NUS Business School and Dr Wu Huijuan, Assistant Director, Singapore Institute of International Affairs. CSRWorks International, a Singapore-based firm focusses on sustainability consulting, training and thought leadership, created the non-profit Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards to inspire Asian organisations to adopt sustainability reporting and integrated reporting. The performance of Hayleys Plantations at the ASRA is the latest in a string of accolades and prestige secured by the organsiation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line553
__label__wiki	0.537896	0.537896	East Meets West Design WeekDIGITAL FESTIVAL of ART & DESIGN UK - USA > Amina John Supported by Gee Living ART INDUSTRY > Streets of Growth Gemma Seddon Matthew Lloyd Winder Sara Sherwood Sinead Gabriel Tara Khemiri Take Part! Booking Form - Established Booking Form - Emerging Talents Booking Form - Students \| Graduates Booking Form - Guest Artists MOCA UK EAST MEETS WEST DESIGN WEEK EAST MEETS WEST DESIGN WEEK is a digital Art Festival dedicated to celebrating art, by shining a spotlight on artists around the world on a Global Art Trail that will feature articles and links to the world of art across social media and address the 'Business of Art' through a global webinar and interactive forum. Open to artists of varying calibres, disciplines and expertise, creative businesses, buyers, experts, professionals, venues; museums, galleries and art studios everywhere who are profiled to consumers, art buyers and professionals who can sign up to participate at any stage of the nine days event and join the @globalarttrail. East Meets West Design Week is strategically timed to take place as part of the London Design Festival which is held at the notorious Victoria and Albert Museum and alongside trade shows taking place in the UK during this period in September including: London Fashion Week and 100% Design. East Meets West Design Week enables artists to gain maximum exposure over its nine days run on a trail that explores the Art World along its path. As the week of Art & Design nears its finale, you're invited to participate in Macmillan Cancer #Global Coffee morning and donate the money you'd usually spend on cakes, pastries and coffee. Presented by the Museum of Cultural Arts - MoCA UK provides platforms for artists to exhibit and sell their artworks through a range of year round events. With a focus on sustainability, capacity building and the use of new technologies. East Meets West Design Week runs from 17 - 25 September in London. Visitors engaged with final degree students from some of the UK' leading Art & Design Universities and purchased art in an arena dedicated to serving the public and providing them with that 'je ne sais quoi' we all love in art. So whether you like the cream of the crop, or seeing what the world' emerging talent has to offer or enjoy upcycled art then you're in for treat! This September we're going virtual! Giving audiences direct access to art, artists, museums and institutions spanning the globe without having to leave home, the office, the park, restaurant, bar or wherever you and your friends and loved ones choose to enjoy this fabulous array of talented artists. If you like what you see you'll be able to buy art directly from the artist and have works of art delivered or shipped to your allocated address. Stay informed by subscribing to the mailing list and receive regular updates by clicking on JOIN NOW below. Until then we invite you to support us on social media at: www.facebook.com/eastmeetswestdesignweek.com or using the links below and spread the word! We look forward to welcoming you to East Meets West Design Week. Stay tuned for news of this years Global Coffee morning in support of "We Are MacMIllan!" Museum of Cultural Arts 30 Marsh Wall, E14 9TP 'Art' has taken over what was once Canary Wharf' NHS Walk-In Centre with consultation rooms transformed into Art Galleries by artists and students for the: East Meets West Design Week inaugural event. Contemporary design, installations and exhibitions from an eclectic range of creatives all offering something unique and individual were on display with some art available for purchase. MoCA' inaugural event ran from: 1100 - 1900 on July 16-18 offering visitors a taste of things to come, and who were treated to the museum' self-branded Mocha beverage and chocolate marshmallows, On July 16th; wine, light beverages, cake and nibbles added to the days official opening ahead of September' (19-27) nine days global event catering for the growth of public art consumption. The D8 bus stops less than 3 minutes walk from the International Hotel which is situated directly opposite the Museum of Cultural Arts, HQ. MOCA' HQ is within easy walking distance of Canary Wharf, Heron Quay and South Quay DLR stations. Image, Copyright, MOCA, by Snap! Photography. South Quay DLR Station MOCA UK HQ 30 MARSH WALL DOCKLANDS SOUTH QUAY LONDON, E14 9TP STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT ARTIST CONSULTATION CURATOR SERVICE SALES & ENTERPRISE RETAIL PRESS \| ENQUIRIES admin@museumofculturalarts.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line556
__label__wiki	0.850337	0.850337	Mike Kunath Like Sinatra, Seattle developer Martin Selig's defining song could be 'I did it my way' Business Flynn's Harp People Issues Frank Sinatra's defining song "I did it my way" would be equally appropriate for Seattle developer Martin Selig, except that Selig, at the age of 77, continues to do it his way. "His way" includes buying or constructing buildings on his own (meaning no partners) at a relentless pace, taking far-flung solo trips on his Harley Davidson motorcycle (he recently returned from circling Switzerland) and turning out paintings that demand a high price when he donates one to a charity auction. At a recent question-and-answer session at the Columbia Tower Club as part of the 30th anniversary activities of the club Selig founded atop the 76-story building that is his signature project, which is also marking 30 years, he reflected on his decades impacting the face of Seattle-area development. Selig bought his first building and founded Martin Selig real estate in 1958 while still a college student and recalled at the q and a session that he put $2,000 down on what was a $50,000 building on the edge of University Village, which came into existence later on. That first purchase began a process of acquisition and development which today has Martin Selig Real Estate having developed more than 7.7 million square feet of first-class mid- to high-rise office space, representing about a third of the downtown Seattle office market. Selig first got involved in shopping centers, building them then bringing in occupants before selling them. He used the proceeds from sale of the shopping center to buy his first building, a one-story structure in the Lower Queen Anne area that in 1969 led to the development of his first commercial office building, which was a five-story, 60,000-square foot project. That began a process in which Selig developed a building a year over the next two decades, including the Columbia Center, which he explained to the audience was "merely like building eight buildings at a one time." Once part of a group of local CEOs who donned leathers and rode off together on their Harleys to become known as "Hell's Rotarians," Selig has seen the group mostly retire and put away their bikes, leaving his trips to be solo ventures. He told the audience at the Tower Club interview that he is sending one of his bikes to Rhode Island for the Newport Jazz Festival, after which he plans to travel home across Canada. Asked what he worries about, Selig replied "I don't worry about anything." That despite the fact that as he remade Seattle's skyline, he was no stranger to what others might view as treading on the financial brink during several economic downturns, surviving by selling off some of his key properties including in the late '80s the Columbia Center where we were doing the interview. But as a well-known Seattle real estate broker once joked, "he's been the cat with nine lives." Referring to his riding, painting and other personal activities, Selig summed up "as long as you can do whatever you want to do, it makes what you have to do at work easy." Asked about his succession plan, Selig said: "I leave the future to Goldman Sachs," noting he has no particular thought of guiding his real estate company into the hands of his kids. The answer was in response to a question about his thoughts on media mogul Rupert Murdoch's unabashed and high-profile effort to put his children into ascendant roles in his company. "They come and go in the business," Selig said of his three children, noting that Lauren, the oldest of two daughters, is now a producer with several movies at the Venice Film Festival, and that his son, who has been living in Israel, is returning to Seattle to enroll in real estate at the UW.Youngest daughter, Jordan, still in her 20s, has been acquiring, fixing up and leasing residential properties in Germany. Meanwhile, his pace of development activity shows little sign of slowing with planned future buildings sharing space with his paintings on his office walls. I asked Selig about the total absence of partners in his years in the business and he replied that while partnerships may start out well, inevitably a disagreement will arise and that diverts attention from the business focus. Selig is a close watcher of politics and at one point in our interview said to me: "I thought you might have some political questions." "So if I were to ask you a political question, what would it be?" I responded. "Who is going to win the Republican presidential nomination?' he replied. So I bit and asked that question. "It will be a brokered Republican convention, with none of the numerous candidates having enough delegates from the primaries to capture the nomination," he predicted. "Then the convention, which won't be able to agree on any of the candidates who have been competing bitterly through the primaries, will settle on Mitt Romney." Considering that if Selig buildings, past and present, were color coded on a perspective photo of Seattle, they would dominate the picture, he actually is less visible than people might expect, making little effort to grab the limelight. Thus, as Mike Kunath, founder and principal at the investment advisory firm Kunath, Karne, Rinne and Atkin, and a friend of Selig's for a quarter century or more put it: "Selig's contributions and his legacy are understood or appreciated by maybe 10 percent of people here." Putting those contributions in perspective may not happen until Selig finally slows down. business Mike Flynn corporations people issues Frank Sinatra "I Did It My Way" Martin Selig Mike Kunath Concern among Seattle business people that Delta turning from Alaska partner to predator There's a growing concern among Seattle-area business leaders that they are seeing a once mutually beneficial partner relationship between Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines changing to one in which Delta seems to be moving from partner to predator. There is an obvious agreement within the business leadership that losing Alaska would be a significant blow to the economies of Seattle and the state. And that is leading many toward a conviction that the business community can't merely stand on the sidelines to watch to see what the outcome is of a battle between the world's second largest airline and hometown Alaska. Thus if those expressing such concerns are accurate, then Seattle will need to shed its "Seattle Nice" image for a time to forcefully take a position in support of Alaska. "The business community must take sides in this and do so forcefully and visibly and an important part of its message is that Delta is actually not good for Seattle," suggests Joseph Schocken, president of Broadmark Capital, a successful Seattle boutique merchant bank that focuses on emerging companies. "Delta is anti-Boeing, and thus anti-Seattle, with both its dollars and its political clout," Schocken said. "With its dollars, it buys Airbus planes rather than Boeing's and with its political clout it opposes the Ex-Im bank that is important to Boeing's success," he added. As I talked with various people in the business community, there was an expression of the need to have a pro-Alaska effort, even a forceful one, but not an Anti-Delta one, lest that generate sympathy for the Atlanta-based airline since it is a very successful airline that employs a large number of people and successfully serves parts of the region's air-carrier needs. Yet as each got into the competitive aspects of the issue, comments frequently turned from support of Alaska to negative on Delta. As business people discuss this Alaska-Delta struggle, there is a logical defense of free-markets competition but a dark view of competitors who turn predators. And I detected growing sense that predator is what Delta's competition with Alaska has devolved into. One who best summed up the competition issue was John Fluke, whose family's business leadership, investment focus and philanthropic involvements are widely known and respected, who said: "The notion of free markets and competition are absolutely necessary to the success of our economic system and the effort to gain advantage over competitors, ethically pursued, benefits customers." But Fluke suggested that the current competitive activities amount to Delta "abusing" the definition of competition, saying "its tactics with everything from current pricing to their philanthropic outreach with nonprofits here are likely to last only as long as it takes to drive Alaska into submission." "If that happens, then airline tickets will eventually cost more, route structures will become less accommodating and Delta's support of important philanthropic causes will be lower and that would be abusing the real meaning of competition," he added. Woody Howse, whose Cable & Howse Ventures basically launched the venture-capital industry in this region, exemplified the enthusiasm of Alaska supporters when he said "Alaska Airlines is one of the most community minded, customer serving and socially contributing corporations in our region." But his comments also quickly turned against Alaska's challenger, noting his view that "Today Alaska Air is being attacked vigorously by the Carpet Bagger Delta Airlines, coming to town with Airbus (not Boeing) airplanes and viciously attacking the Alaska Air routes with competing schedules. Our Northwest Community must band together and support the company that has so supported us through the good as well as difficult times." "With Delta's current actions and apparent ulterior motive in Alaska's hometown hub, engaging in a process intended to squeeze Alaska Airlines with the objective of acquiring, we customers need to be very alert to the probable outcome if Delta is successful," Howse added. Mike Kunath, principal and founder of Kunath, Karren, Rinne & Atkin LLC, a successful Seattle investment advisory firm, summed it up succinctly as: "Alaska has been a true supporter of the region. Delta never will be." Herb Bridge, longtime Seattle civic leader and philanthropist as well as chairman and CEO of Ben Bridge Jeweler for several decades before guiding the company into acquisition by Warren Buffet, notes that corporate acquisitions themselves are not evil. "It is possible for an important local company to be acquired in a way that allows it to retain local control and oversight, as happened with our acquisition by warren Buffet," Bridge said. "But when the acquisition is pursued in a predatory rather than a friendly manner, not only the shareholders of the pursued company but the community it serves are losers. There is nothing beneficial about Delta's pursuit of Alaska." Alaska CEO Brad Tilden, retired CEO Bill Ayer and board members are reluctant to get into any Delta-bashing conversation, preferring to focus on Alaska positives. Ayer, who as Alaska chairman and CEO for a decade before retiring in early 2012 guided the carrier through some of the industry's most tumultuous times, told me "The question of whether Alaska could remain independent has been raised for decades." "Our response was that a locally based, independent airline was better for customers, the community, employees, and investors. While there were no guarantees of remaining independent, all we could control was our own performance, and our chances were much better if we did a great job for each of those stakeholders," he said. And as Tilden puts it, "The transformation over the last decade has been all about cost. We're trying to balance low fares and lots of service to the destinations (passengers) want, with a strong and successful company that can grow and buy new airplanes and has the capital to add new services." The financial results are impressive as the parent company for Alaska Airlines and its regional sister carrier Horizon Air made a record $508 million profit in 2013, and the stock continued a steep ascent to five times its value from just five years ago. What needs to happen is for Delta CEO Richard Anderson to be convinced by those who know him well, and that includes some in Seattle, that he is risking a serious downside in creating the potential for an in-your-face attitude among Seattle business people on behalf of Alaska. For as Schocken summed it up: "There needs to be a real corporate campaign to encourage flying Alaska, discouraging flying Delta and make it unpleasant, hurting Delta's bottomline so Anderson decides that not only isn't it going to be as he thought, but shareholders and board members are getting unhappy.'" Evidence that neither Fluke, Howse nor any of those who echo similar sentiments about Delta targeting Alaska are out of line is Delta's own home page where it headlines "Exclusively for Seattle, 2x miles all year long." But Delta's sharpest critics could suggest with a smile that what happens when you click on that link on Delta's home page might prophetically point to where Delta would be for Seattle if they were to push Alaska into a merger. The click leads to a page that says "the requested page could not be found." people corporations business Mike Flynn issues Alaska Airlines Delta Airlines Joseph Schocken John Fluke Mike Kunath Herb Bridge Brad Tilden Bill Ayer Chihuly gift of 12th-Man art, new challenges for cancer facilities boost Gilda's Club visibility Renowned blown-glass artist Dale Chihuly is creating an exclamation mark for the role of the 12th Man in the Seattle Seahawks' Super Bowl victory by crafting a dozen Seahawk-color seaform pieces to be sold or auctioned to benefit Seattle Gilda's Club and its cancer-support network. And the Seahawks will be closely involved, led by star wide receiver Golden Tate. With a grandmother who died of breast cancer, Tate quickly became a supporter of Gilda's Club after learning of its work, and then attracted his teammates to play in the annual Gilda's golf-tournament fundraiser. The Chihuly dozen will be replicas of the blown-glass piece by Chihuly that was a key in the wager between Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and his Denver counterpart and was to be auctioned off to benefit Denver homeless in the event the Seahawks lost. The sale of the Chihuly pieces will be the pizzazz for Gilda's club visibility this year. But visibility of a different and more lasting sort is growing within the healthcare community in the Northwest in the past couple of years because of the club's focus on the emotional impact of cancer on the sufferers and their families. Cancer-care medical centers are coming under increasing pressure to provide services beyond the medical to the whole patient, as well as patient families. And that has opened a new door for Seattle Gilda's Club, which now has contracts with three area hospitals to provide those services, often referred to as compassionate care. Anna Gottlieb "We now have contracts to provide services to Overlake and Children's hospitals and the Muilticare system, which encompasses Auburn, Gig Harbor, Puyallup and Tacoma," Gottlieg noted, adding that the arrangements represent 20 percent of last year's revenue for Gilda's Club. And the programs Gottlieb's organization is putting in place, both in the community and with the hospitals, are bringing a much broader awareness of Gilda initiatives that have been unfortunately little known to the general public until recently. Seattle Gilda's Club was founded in 1996 by Anna Gottlieb and the doors to its building opened five years later, the first Gilda's Club in the West. Gottlieb explains her commitment to the Gilda's cause, including weathering the years of financial struggle, by recalling that her mother had breast cancer "and no place to go, no one to talk to. I was 12 at the time and that sort of thing sticks with you." It was the bond of both having endured their mothers' cancers that brought Dr. James Bianco, the CEO of Cell Therapeutics Inc. (CTI), to become the major business-community force behind Gilda's, including bringing business practices to the operation of the non-profit. He had known Gottlieb from her involvement with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where Biano had been a doctor working with Nobel Laureate Donnell Thomas before he launched CTI, which is seeking to create a range of oncology products. Mike Kunath, A principal in the Seattle-based investment advisory firm of kunath Karren Rinne and Atkin LLC, was among those introduced to Gilda's Club by Bianco and he has helped Gottlieb with the business focus. "Until now Gilda's Club has been largely unknown and under loved, but that's changing," said Kunath. "Now when cancer strikes a family, the second call is likely to be to GC." Now back to the Chihuly glass pieces. Bianco developed a close friendship in recent years with Chihuly and in a dinner conversation that included Golden Tate about an event to provide financial support for Gilda's Club, Bianco threw out the idea of doing 12 glass pieces in honor of the 12th man. Tate quickly bought into the plan, Bianco recalls. "I asked 'what if your studio could do 12 of the Seahawk-color seaforms and announce that Golden Tate, Russell Wilson and Richard Sherman invite you to a special event?'" He said Chihuly instantly agreed, but wanted to get the $10,000 price the seaform pieces usually go for. "I said we needed to start the prices on them at $12,000, keeping with the 12th man theme of it all," Bianco added. A date for the event hasn't been pinned down, but will likely be in May. They also don't yet know whether they can do an auction of any of the pieces because of uncertainties relating to use of the 12th Man beyond the Seahawks reach. In discussing the challenges facing hospitals, Gottlieb says "Health care systems do not do a good job of assessing distress in patients and need to pay more attention to the whole patient. We can help with patient satisfaction and help medical centers keep their own patients. We can take the burden off hospitals and workplaces." "Patients are unhappy with their care and are demanding more services," she says. With respect to the emerging program opportunities for Gilda's, Gottlieb says "Our strongest programs are in the education arena. We have lectures, put together symposiums on all cancers, facilitate workshops and we take lectures out in the communities. We have been to Bellingham, Bremerton, and all over the South Sound." "We run the only summer day camp in the Northwest for families living with cancer," she added. "We do camp for three weeks in the summer for kids, ages 5-12, who have a parent with cancer or have lost a parent to cancer, and we do a cancer program for the kids. We are now doing the camp in in Tacoma and will soon branch out to other locations around the State." In addition to overtures from cancer-care hospitals elsewhere in Washington, and in Oregon, a group in Eugene has been pressing Gilda's Club to extend its presence there. And Gottlieb says she has now been in communication with cancer-care facilities beyond the Northwest. And one program Gottlieb is hopeful of taking nationally. "We started a writing contest for teens with cancer or who have a parent or friend with cancer," Gottlieb said. "We have collected over 1,500 essays and we have given out scholarship money, over $75,000 in the past seven years." My goal is to take this to a national level. Looking ahead, Gottlieb suggests "Our biggest area of future growth may be in the survivorship area, which is screaming out for help. Particularly with what patients call 'lost in transition.'" "Patients are released from care with no plans, no idea of what is next and symptoms can linger for years and years," she says. "Cancer is now a chronic illness for many and they still need help long after diagnosis, areas where we can really step in and help with more education and address many issues, since patients need help finding their new normal and navigating their way back to work and relationships and life in general." issues people Mike Flynn Dale Chihuly 12th Man Golden Tate Gilda's Club Anna Gottlieb James Bianco Mike Kunath	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line565
__label__wiki	0.925344	0.925344	Browse By Project/Activity Browse By Dataset Submit Data & Info Geographical Term Details Ure (Yorkshire) Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Ure) The River Ure is a river in North Yorkshire, England, approximately 74 miles (119 km) long from its source to the point where it changes name to the River Ouse. It is the principal river of Wensleydale, which is the only one of the Dales now named after a village rather than its river. (Wikipedia) N/A Ouse (Yorkshire) Swale (Yorkshire) Geographical Feature Is Geographical Feature of N/A Swale, Ure, Nidd and Upper Ouse catchment River Ure (Yorkshire) Items having a keyword relationship to this geographic term Interim report on the environmental impacts of the drought on Yorkshire rivers April 1995 to April 1996 River Ure - Geomorphological Audit- April 2000 Rivers Swale Ure and Ouse Search (beta) TitleSubject KeywordGeographic KeywordRelated Party/AuthorAbstract Freshwater Biological Association	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line570
__label__wiki	0.563321	0.563321	Home Android News Review List of best selling smartphones in Europe List of best selling smartphones in Europe Here’s what you need to know about the best-selling smartphones in Europe. Samsung launched to the highly competitive new A series. Its highest share in Europe since 2015,” said Kantar’s global director, Dominic Sunnebo. “For years Samsung has been searching for an answer to Huawei and Xiaomi in Europe and the new A series has finally hit the market, proving hugely popular with consumers across numerous price brackets." Samsung Galaxy A50 1. Samsung Galaxy A50 The Galaxy A50 is a well-rounded smartphone packing as many cool specs as possible. Start with the slim design with the gradient paint job, move to 6.4" the Infinity-U Super AMOLED screen with a premium fingerprint scanner underneath, then there is a powerful Exynos chip, and a triple camera on the back. The large battery and the latest Android Pie with the clean One UI are hard to miss, too. The Galaxy A50 is obviously positioned between the lower-tier of As with HD AMOLEDs and less-impressive snappers, and the higher-tier A70 and A80 with larger screens, more powerful chips, and even more premium snappers. And that's exactly what makes it so special - having the best from both worlds - cool specs on a lower price. The Samsung Galaxy A40 is the most compact one in Samsung's A-series lineup while still embodying everything great about these midrange phones. It's supposed to be a compact, well-balanced mid-ranger with a Super AMOLED screen serving as a key selling point and main advantage over its direct rivals. It also offers an ultra wide-angle camera as a bonus, which is a rare find in the segment. In addition to the ultra wide-angle lens and the Super AMOLED panel, the Galaxy A40 packs an in-house Exynos 7885 chipset that can go head-to-head with the competition's Qualcomm offerings and a generous 3,100mAh battery considering the small dimensions of the phone. 3. Samsung Galaxy A20e The smartphone is easy to use the phone for your day to day lifestyle. You can easily shoot on the simple camera. You get ample storage space to keep your photos and videos. The phone has a huge battery of 3000 mAh, Li-Polymer. With Samsung Galaxy A20e you can see a design that fits easily in your hands, pocket, or bag. Effortlessly look through photographs and send messages on the 5.8 inches HD screen. Samsung is a renowned brand. It helps its customer even after the sale with real-time customer care that is only one click away. The smartphone comes with a feature of easy mode that helps you to get right what you want with a simple interface. Samsung Galaxy A10 smartphone has a TFT display. It measures 155.6 mm x 75.6 mm x 7.9 mm and weighs 168 grams. The screen has a resolution of 720 x 1520 pixels and 271 ppi pixel density. The Galaxy A10 smartphone runs on Android v9.0 (Pie) operating system. The phone is powered by Octa core (1.6 GHz, Dual core, Cortex A73 + 1.35 GHz, Hexa Core, Cortex A53) processor. It runs on the Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7884 Chipset. It has 2 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage. The Galaxy A70 builds on the very balanced tri-eyed mid-ranger Galaxy A50 by enlarging its AMOLED screen and employing a higher-end chipset with a better processor. Then the camera setup on the back might be keeping its logic (wide/ultra-wide/depth) but the main snapper is now a 32MP one and it can capture 4K videos. Finally, the Galaxy A70 has one beefy 4,500 mAh battery capable of up to 25W fast charging courtesy of USB-PD technology - a departure from the Samsung's Adaptive Charging that's been around since the Galaxy S5. 6. Samsung Galaxy S10 The Samsung Galaxy S10 comes with the usual annual chipset update and it's top quality silicon whether it's Exynos or Snapdragon trim. The triple camera setup on the back with a brand new ultra wide module is the same as on the Plus - so two cameras more than last year's regular sized S9. If only all incremental upgrades were like this one. The S10's got a smaller display than the Plus at 6.1 inches - the 0.3-inch spacing Samsung instituted between the four S10s. And then with a smaller display a smaller battery is in order, the 3,400mAh capacity a slightly bigger downgrade than the diagonal. And that's about it - unless you absolutely insist on 12GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, an option only available in Plus size. 7. Samsung Galaxy S10+ Now, just because we opened so bluntly, doesn't mean all of that isn't true - there is, indeed, a hole in the display, but it's one gorgeous AMOLED panel that covers almost the entirety of the phone, plus the hole is not simply a hole but an all-new 4K-capable dual pixel selfie camera. Also true, there's a third camera on the back of the S10+ and S10, the missing ultra wide angle piece of the S9+'s camera puzzle, completing what is in our minds the smartphone camera trifecta. At least for now. And the chipset is new and almighty, and there's more RAM than on many people's laptops, and the S10+ can be had with up to a terabyte of internal storage - the hardware is top-class. Here's a rundown of what makes up a Galaxy S10+. 8. Redmi Note 7 The Redmi Note 7 is an embodiment of Xiaomi's philosophy when it comes to smartphones, and the Redmi phones have become the benchmark for mid-range devices. And one would argue that the mid-range segment has seen the biggest improvement over the years with the ever declining prices of components and tech. It will be interesting to see whether the Redmi Note 7 was able to benefit from that and whether it will match the success of its predecessors. The company says the Redmi Note 7 has gone through the same quality control as Xiaomi's top-shelf smartphones. The huge 48MP sensor on the back of the Redmi Note 7 should take some sweet daylight and nighttime shots. The sensor is quite big at 1/2", though the individual pixel size is not that large at 0.8µm pixels. Let's start with the front panel where the 6.3-inch LCD IPS panel resides. It features fairly thin side bezels but compensates with a thick-looking chin and upper bezel, which was to be expected given the price point of the handset. which also runs on Android 9.0 Pie with MIUI 10 on top but we found some small differences with the Redmi Note 7's build. The chipset itself incorporates an octa-core CPU with 4x Kryo 260 cores ticking at 2.2 GHz and 4x of the same cores but clocked at 1.8 GHz. This ensures sensibly better performance than the Snapdragon 636. 9. Apple iPhone XR The iPhone XR has a 6.1-inch, IPS LCD with a resolution of 1792x828. This gives it a pixel density of 326PPI, which is identical to the iPhone 8 and previous small screen iPhones but less than the Plus sized iPhones (401PPI), and the iPhone X, XS and XS Max (458PPI). The iPhone XR ships with iOS 12, or to be precise, iOS 12.0.1. We have covered iOS 12 in the past and the software experience is generally similar or identical to other iPhones, from the most expensive iPhone XS Max to the five-year-old iPhone 5s. The iPhone XR has a single 12MP f1.8 camera on the back with OIS and quad-LED two-tone flash. The camera is capable of recording videos in up to 4K60. On the front is Apple's TrueDepth camera system with a single 7MP f2.2 camera and 1080p60 video. The selfie camera is the same 7MP f/2.2 camera you get on the iPhone XS so at least in this respect the phones are identical camera-wise. The image quality is the same too. In low-light, the camera can use the so-called Retina flash, where your screen lights your face up in particular color to provide more pleasing skin tones depending on the color of the available light. The iPhone XR ships with the same brand new 7nm A12 Bionic chipset found inside the new iPhone XS. This is Apple's own custom designed chipset, with a custom 64-bit six-core CPU that has two high-performance cores (Vortex) and four high-efficiency cores (Tempest), in a big.LITTLE configuration that lets the CPU controller decide which cluster is suited for a particular task or run all six at the same time. The Vortex cores are said to be 15% faster and consume 40% less power than the Monsoon cores from A11 Bionic, and the Tempest cores are said to consume 50% less power than the Mistral cores from last year. 10. Apple iPhone 8 The iPhone 8 is out with an all-glass design, the powerful new chip, the improved camera and, at long last, wireless charging. The True Tone support for the display is duly noted. The doubled base storage and Bluetooth 5 support are welcome additions as well. iPhone 8 is built with most durable glass ever used in a smartphone. The phone has a 4.7-inch LCD Multi-Touch display with IPS technology and a pixel resolution of 1334-by-750- at 326 ppi. It also has a Fingerprint sensor built into the Home button. Apple iPhone 8 comes in three colour variants ? Gold, Silver and Space Grey. The device is available in 32GB, 256GB and 512GB variants with price starting from $699. List of best selling smartphones in Europe Reviewed by dgrezaul on December 01, 2019 Rating: 5 Tags : Android News Review	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line572
__label__wiki	0.531352	0.531352	"Furrock" The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre, although unfortunately, no football. Daggers close to securing outside investment The Daggers have issued a statement today regarding securing much needed outside investment into the football club. The Daggers have issued a statement today regarding securing much needed outside investment into the football club. The statement can be found here. At the recent Fan's Forum Daggers MD Steve Thompson said that two groups were still in advanced disussion and it would seem that one of these, apparently US based, are now at a position where the club can make the interest public. The statement does say that the full terms of the deal are not settled yet, and that it will need both FA and National League approvals before completion. This is welcome news to supporters who have stuck with the team over a rocky August where, despite showing a lot of promise, just one point has been picked up, leaving the Daggers rock bottom after seven games. DiggerDagger.com will keep it's ear to the ground and bring further news when we get it.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line577
__label__wiki	0.746971	0.746971	Felix Hatfield Album: Boundaries Label: Self Released Website: http://www.felixhatfield.com Born in Vermont and based in Portland, when not making music Hatfield makes sculptures from found objects, preferably ones discarded by others. It strikes me that somehow is an apt metaphor for his songwriting too, crafting songs built on emotions left after relationships end. Indeed, this album charts a somewhat ambivalent one with a woman, a muse, who, while she doesn't reject him, isn't committed to him either. As he sings on the folksy fingerpicked six and a half minute title track, "You say you like me good as any/But I can't say I'm delighted to feel like one of many." He sounds forlorn, but he's also aware of the absurdity of the situation, hence the sense of wry self-critical whimsy that permeates the songs. 'I Love You Blues' is a case in point, a harmonica laced dusty jug band prairie ramble delivered in a hangdog croaked manner, the song getting a back reference in the subsequent dry-throated,wheezingly sung 'The Day I Cried In Your Car' as he recalls playing a gig with the woman of his longings in the audience and making an idiot of himself afterwards. 'Roll On' lifts the tempo somewhat on a number that conjures inevitable comparisons to Michael Hurley, the witty lyrics complemented by a brief musical departure from the strummed dirge midway. For a man beset by turbulent feelings, he generally sounds overcome by ennui, even when, as on 'Take Care of That Ass, Darling', he mopes about the sex he's not getting anymore: "There's peace within you or without you, but you know what piece I'd rather ride." Having referred to himself as a lion a couple of songs earlier, he develops things further with, well, 'Lion', in which he comes over all predatory with his sleepily seductive husky purr ("thanks for the ride, come into my den, I want to thank you for the ride with a ride my friend" adding that he doesn't want to complicate things: "I'm not looking for love. I just want to hear you sigh." Fittingly, it's followed by the closing track entitled 'Sex Addiction', a number very much in the Loudon Wainright vein of humour-laced sadness as, in a song that talks about forgetting to buy cat food, he returns to the fact of his being just one of many friends with benefits and how "I never wished so hard I had a stranger's face." Confessing how he's "starved for your passion" and admitting he wants to screw, it deftly sums up all the contradictory wants and needs in the disarmingly poignant simple refrain "I miss you, but not your sex addiction." One from the margins perhaps, but well worth pushing your listening envelope for. Kora Feder: In Sevens Steve Earle & The Dukes: Guy Lucky To Be A Sadman	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line580
__label__wiki	0.573863	0.573863	SFU Professor Stephen Collis Lies And Appropriates Indigenous Voice- Will @UBCIC Wake Up? #BurnabyMountain Unmasked Part III: Preview, ForestEthics & WaterWealth Charts #BurnabyMountain Unmasked Part II: David Suzuki, Extremists And The RCMP (Feat. Harsha Walia) David Suzuki with the RCMP designated extremist Unist’ot’en Camp in August 2014 Note: Please click here for Part I The first time I met David Suzuki was in early 2011. I was with a friend and her daughter, exiting Banyen Books in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood (and feeling relieved as we escaped the pan flute music) when I was jolted out of nirvana as my friend grabbed my arm with great excitement saying “look, there he is!”. Her daughter looked up and asked “who?”, “David Suzuki!” said mom. The girl looked up with a sense of wonder and excitement. Suzuki was mom’s hero, she knew that- look in her eyes was as if she just saw God. The next time I crossed paths with Suzuki was in October when he came to speak at Occupy Vancouver. His visit was unexpected, announced out of the blue with no votes or discussion at the General Assembly. Some of us had a conversation when we heard about the visit, I proposed that it may be a good opportunity to ask hard questions and see what he’s made of. The response I got was somewhat unnerving, with one occupier saying, “You hurt David Suzuki, you hurt Canada”. With all the positivity I’d heard about David Suzuki, I was shocked when I heard people speaking critically about him. I’ll be honest, the first time I heard Ezra Levant say “Saint Suzuki”, it kind of got under my skin. But the more I learn about his connections to militant extremists, the more I realize that David Suzuki is no saint. Now, after observing recent events on Burnaby Mountain, the situation has become very clear to me- Suzuki is enabling some very dangerous people. Stunt 1: Tamo Campos Gets Arrested Harsha Walia was on the scene during the arrest… On November 20th David Suzuki’s grandson Tamo Campos made his way up to Burnaby Mountain to participate in the protests. Campos’ bio describes him as a “sponsored snowboarder chasing winter for the last 12 years” who is “now putting roots into both environmental and humanitarian activism”. Campos was the founder of “the collective” called Beyond Boarding– the group has close ties to the RCMP monitored radicals at the Unist’ot’en Camp. The 20th was the first day that the RCMP announced they were ready to make arrests. The first arrests happened at the protester’s tents, arrestees included Bridgette DePape of the Council of Canadians (Tamos & Brigette will be speaking together at Simon Fraser University next year), and Brett Rhyno (a Toronto anarchist transplant who has been spending time at the Unist’ot’en Camp since he’s come to BC) who ceremonially locked their arms together with other less notable protesters. Tamo Campos’ official position is that he wasn’t intending to get arrested that day, but the RCMP mercilessly pulled him across the police line and took him into custody. His group Beyond Boarding released a deliciously sliced and diced video that claimed his arrest was an “injustice”: But like with any good propaganda, BB’s video went a bit overboard with the sensationalism and was light on reality. A more realistic video shows how members of the crowd were intentionally baiting the RCMP officers, causing confusion, and encouraging others to push their way into the police line. Make sure to pay attention to the aggressiveness of the guy with the facepaint: Only a blatant propagandist could make the statement this protest was peaceful. The crowd were yelling at, insulting, and one even spitting on RCMP officers- and similarly to many protests led by Harsha Walia (who posted the first announcement of Campos’ arrest), first nations people were placed on the front-line to help weaken the police’s ability to respond (it’s all about PR). Check out this video if you want a more in-depth look, it gives an interesting perspective from behind the police line. So, why would Tamo want to get involved with something like this, he’s a good kid, right? Tamo Campos commits to direct action Up until this weekend, Beyond Boarding used to have a page on their website listing the group’s members “pledges” on how they plan to make the world a better place (the cached version is here). Campos’ pledge was that he would “organize a direct action for our Climate Crises”, it appears Burnaby Mountain may have been an attempt to accomplish his goal. And as we’ll continue to explore, it appears that Canada’s most prominent promoter of anti-police violence was recruited to act as stage manager. The next day Campos came back to the mountain and (after making a big deal about being unprepared) he made a short speech in response to his arrest. The first part of his speech seems to make it clear Campos knew he was standing-up against the police: “Anyways[sic], I’m a little flustered after yesterday, and a bit emotional- so hopfully I don’t choke up on this. Yesterday really put things into perspective. What is radical? Is it radical to expand fossil fuel infrastructure in the midst of climate change? Is it radical to use police force to quell public opinion and public opposition? It’s not radical at all to stand up and be arrested to unjust laws.” Is it radical to organize a spectacle of angry jerks smashing their way into police lines? Anyways[sic], next, Campos curiously tried to weasel-out of the consequences of his actions by declaring Canadian law to be invalid- it was like he thought he was Kevin Annett or something: “And indigenous people have had natural laws that pre-dated colonial law by thousands of years, and we need to respect that. Our government comes in and says they reconciled, have they reconciled, everything that happened yesterday was illegal. There were no treaties on this land we’re not being led by the people who rightfully owned these territories.” So, basically, it’s Campos’ position that he’s above the law. Oh, and that guy with the facepaint who was baiting the RCMP officers? Well, he and Tamo Campos shared the same ride to the bottom of Burnaby Mountain… Tamo and facepaint guy- (Jail)Birds of a feather? Stunt 2: David Suzuki Comes To Burnaby Mountain Next, Burnaby Mountain was treated with a visit from David Suzuki (who’d only recently arrived home from a conference in Malaysia). Suzuki came to protest his grandson’s arrest, and to give his support to the protesters. The David Suzuki Foundation made their support public a couple days earlier on a petition that was promoted by Harsha Walia (the list of signatories was a who’s who of Canadian radicals). One of the first questions Suzuki was asked was “are you getting arrested?”. He gave a curious answer, saying that he didn’t want to lose his position with the CBC- even more curiously, nobody criticised the CBC for not allowing Suzuki to engage in what the protesters argued was their “charter right” to engage in civil disobedience. Many observers called bullshit on Suzuki’s claim that the CBC would fire him, it didn’t pass the stink test- could there be another reason he wasn’t willing to risk being arrested? The answer might come from a June 2011 event in Washington DC where Suzuki, Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians, Naomi Klein, and Bill McKibben of 350.org urged others to get arrested, but warned that some wouldn’t be getting arrested themselves because: “half the signatories to this letter live in Canada, and might well find our entry into the U.S. barred” The Canadian government has been sharing information about people who are arrested with the US Department of Homeland Security. If Suzuki (or Barlow, or Klein) was denied entry to the US, they’d potentially lose access to the US gravy train that’s been funding them. So, while Suzuki is willing to encourage other people to take this risk, he’s unwilling to do it himself (how dangerously hypocritical of you David). Suzuki started his speech immediately calling out the RCMP: “I did want to start by speaking to the RCMP first. To the RCMP, I come before you with great respect. But now you are here to enforce the law. That does not mean that you are above the law, or that you make your own law. My Grandson, was dragged across the line yesterday (or the day before) and arrested. You’re breaking the law! And I’m disappointed, I am disappointed, it grieves me. Because of the respect we hold for you!” [Dear David Suzuki: I’m disappointed, I am disappointed, it grieves me- because of the respect that little girl I know holds for you. You used your position as a CBC “national treasure” to intentionally cast shame on the hardworking members of a respected national institution- people who were dealing with an incredibly difficult situation. What happens when one of those cop’s kids sees the video David, or perhaps one of their schoolmates? Do you feel their humiliation would be justifiable?] Regardless of how much knowledge Suzuki had about the circumstances behind his grandson’s arrest, it’s hard to miss that his implication the RCMP acting like they’re “above the law” and making their own laws is complete rubbish (if you wish to contest that David, please show me the lawsuit or complaint you and/or Tamo filed). That’s a serious claim, one that should only be made once all the facts are known. Equally, if Suzuki did know all of the facts, it would have been entirely inappropriate for him to have treated the RCMP officers this way. Either way, it’s entirely scandalous. Suzuki identified himself as a representative of the CBC when he arrived on the mountain and gave his excuse for not getting arrested. The CBC’s employment guidelines demand that their staff and associates treat people with respect, dignity and fairness. David Suzuki appears to have failed miserably with his speech about the RCMP- perhaps it’s a good time for the CBC to start an investigation? Stunt 3: Suziki’s Granddaughter and Daughter Get Arrested (Feat. Harsha Walia) Anushka Nagji at the Union of BC Indian Chiefs with the Klabona Keepers The Suzuki clan saved the best for last on the final day of their spectacle.The day’s events started with a promotional activity for a protest group connected to the Secwepemc First Nation called the Klabona Keepers. Harsha Walia of No One Is Illegal and her husband Harjap Grewal work closely with this group. Fellow anarchist and occupier Anushka Nagji represented this group at the Union of BC Indian Chiefs during a September press conference (there’s lots more information on Nagji, and other characters in this story, on the interactive chart). David Suzuki with Hannah Campbell and the Klabona Keepers in August 2014 (Notice the fists?) The Keepers presented themselves to the media scrum alongside with David Suzuki’s daughter Tamiko, granddaughter Midori Campos, and with Desiree Wallace & Hannah Campbell of Beyond Boarding (Wallace is also with the Capilano Students Union). When they were finished promoting a cause that has absolutely zero connection (outside the organizers, of course) to the protest on Burnaby Mountain, they then presented themselves for a ceremonially staged arrest. The most shocking part of the arrests is that they appear to have been stage managed by none other than Harsha Walia. She helped guide the women across the police line, and guided them to hold each other’s hands and throw them up in the air once they got there. Video indicates Walia crossed the police line at least three times- curiously, Walia wasn’t arrested. It was almost as if the RCMP knew Walia was only stage managing and allowed her to get away with breaking their line. Who Is Harsha Walia, And Why Is This Important? If you ever find yourself in the company of law enforcement specialists on extremism, here’s a trick you should try. Say the name “Harsha Walia”, their ears will stand up faster then their favourite German Shepherd’s does every time he hears cat. Put simply, Walia is very well-known to law enforcement and is a person of great interest to them. Walia tries to frame the situation that the police view her as dangerous because they’re racist, sexist, misogynist, colonialist pigs. A more realistic explanation is that it’s because Walia openly advocates for (and often supports) “activists” (thugs) who use violent tactics. Walia was on the front line during the Toronto G20, and was arrested for her part in organizing the mayhem. Luckily for Walia, her activities weren’t directly monitored by undercover officers, she was later released for a lack of evidence. Yeah, Harsha, real classy… There’s likely no worse role model for young activists than Harsha Walia. Whatever David Suzuki’s connection is to Walia, it’s absolutely inappropriate for a CBC personality to be anywhere close to working with her- no less, to leave their family in her hands. Impressionable young people may take the Suzuki clan’s collaboration as an endorsement- remember, it’s not Walia who gets arrested… Suzuki Clan Meets RCMP Labeled Extremists At The Unist’ot’en Camp: Purple: Love Is The Movement, Red: Arrested At Burnaby Mountain, Green: Militant NGO The easiest way to explain how inappropriate it is for a CBC star like David Suzuki to be visiting and/or endorsing the Unost’ot’en action camp is to share the story about how the RCMP have been tracking them as part of their investigation into activist extremists. Clayton Thomas-Muller was at the centre of that controversy, he’s previously collaborated with Suzuki, and has visited Unist’oten. This site has covered Unist’ot’en in-depth in previous articles- including one that identified five things every journalist needs to know about it: The camp doesn’t represent all local indigenous people, there are others who are supportive of pipeline projects. The camp isn’t all that indigenous (camp leaders Huson and Naziel have admitted this), it’s mostly led by anarchists and NGOs. The camp uses the threat of violence and equipment “confiscation” to scare away pipeline workers. The camp is supported by NGOs including the Council of Canadians (where Walia’s extremist husband Harjap Grewal works), Ruckus Society, the ultra-violent Deep Green Resistance, and the Indigenous Environmental Network (who are also RCMP designated extremists). The camp is getting money from foreign revolutionary groups. (And a Canadian foundation we’ll cover shortly) Oh what a curiously tangled web… Back in November camp leaders Freda Huson and Warner Naziel travelled to San Francisco where they were featured speakers at the Earth At Risk conference, an event that billed itself as an opportunity to “move us to the next steps in developing a strong and sustainable culture of resistance“. The conference is run by a Bellingham, Washington based NGO named the Fertile Ground Environmental Institute that claims their position “is simple: every successful social movement in history has used force to achieve it’s goals”. The event was funded by the Wallace Action Fund. Other speakers at the event included Derek Jensen of the violence promoting Deep Green Resistance, University of Victoria professor and specialist in “warrior societies” Sakej Ward, and (very curiously) Chris Hedges (he was the Occupy movement’s #1 opponent of Black Bloc violence). Bringing it all together, Hedges will be speaking at the same series of SFU speeches as Walia, Campos and DePape in 2015. You’ll also notice a strong influence from the Wallace Global and Action funds- we’ll dig deeper into funders in a few moments. Harjap Grewal of the Council of Canadians with Harsha Walia… What’s Love Is The Movement Got To Do With It? See the full-sized interactive chart for more detail This site first published its research on the Love Is The Movement “tattoo cult” in July 2013. An elite group of activists all share a tattoo that says “Love Is The Movement”- curiously, this small group appear on the leadership rolls of Occupy, Idle No More, the Unist’ot’en Camp, Burnaby Mountain, the battle against Line 9, and the brewing battle over the Energy East Pipeline. Four of the people with the tattoo have direct connections with Suzuki. RCMP labelled extremist Clayton Thomas-Muller has collaborated on a presentation with Suzuki, brother/sister team Eriel and Ryan Deranger participated with Suzuki in last year’s (TIDES funded) Neil Young fundraiser for the Athabasca Fort Chipewyan First Nation, and Occupy Edmonton leader Chelsea Flook helped organize the Common Causes “counter summit” for the 2013 Conservative Party of Canada convention. Tattoo wearer Sheila Muxlow runs a BC based NGO called the WaterWealth Project, a group whose employee list makes-up the leadership for the “grassroots” (and TIDES funded) PIPE-UP Network; she was also previously employed by the Council of Canadians. Clayton Thomas-Muller visited Muxlow in BC earlier this year where they worked on local organizing projects. Beyond Boarding has co-promoted events with both WaterWealth and PIPE-UP. Occupy Love’s tagline: “Love Is the Movement: In 2012 this site described the film Occupy Love as the place Where Judy Rebick, Michael Moore, Hollyhock, Renewal Partners, Soros & The Black Panthers Intersect. The film was conceived at the TIDES funded Hollyhock Social Change Institute on Cortes Island. Occupy Toronto matron Judy Rebick met filmmaker “Velcro Ripper” at Hollyhock, the film’s co-director Nova Ami had previously enjoyed funding from Hollyhock director Joel Solomon’s NGO Renewal Partners. (Solomon was on a panel in California earlier this year with RCMP labelled extremist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who appeared in the film). Once the film was complete Rebick, “Ripper” and Ami took it on a premier tour across Canada and the US. After that stage was complete, David Suzuki’s daughter Severn Suzuki took it on a “Love Is The Movement” tour across Japan (named after the film’s tagline). One of the more interesting discoveries found while researching Suzuki’s connections was the wide influence of an American foundation called the Wallace Global Fund. The fund helped cover the costs of the Earth At Risk conference with the leaders of the Unist’ot’en camp, violence advocate Derek Jensen and Chris Hedges. The previous two are directly funded by the Wallace Global Fund- who’ve also funded the Council of Canadians, Indigenous Environmental Network, the David Suzuki Foundation, and 350.org (where Thomas-Muller now works). The Wallace Global Fund also funded the New York City People’s Climate March in September where their Executive Director Ellen Dorsey led the highly covered NGO plan to divest from fossil fuels- other participants included the Rockefeller Foundation (who’ve funded many of the same anti oilsands groups), and Desmond Tutu (who was in Alberta earlier this year with Love Is The Movement activist Eriel Deranger). Suzuki and Tutu both work together with 350.org (more on that in Part III). Another interesting source of funding is the Ruth And Henry Goodman Fund for Social and Ecological Justice based out of Vancouver. This fund gives it’s money to a who’s who of Canadian militants- including the RCMP designated extremist Unist’ot’en Camp. Other beneficiaries include the Council of Canadians, David Suzuki Foundation, Hollyhock, the Media Co-Op, Rabble, Common Sense Canadian, BC Civil Liberties Association, ACORN Canada, PIVOT Legal, NDP MP Libby Davies, and the list goes on. (Each of the links includes organizations whose members have spread slanderous attacks on Your Humble Narrator- Ruth and Henry must be proud!) AstroTurf: From Occupy, To Idle No More, To Burnaby Mountain: This guy gets around! David Suzuki couldn’t make it to the first day of Occupy Vancouver- he was asked if he could, but was in Iceland on October 15th. He showed up a few days later though, first at Occupy Montreal and then Occupy Vancouver. Curiously, when Suzuki introduced himself in Vancouver (and not in Montreal), he made a special effort to note that he wasn’t representing the David Suzuki Foundation. But there was a representative of the Foundation on the stage who offered his organization’s assistance. A few days later the David Suzuki Foundation contracted media consultants and contributed their time to Occupy Vancouver. I was at the training, I’m sure the foundation will be happy to hear that the training provided me with a lot of valuable information that helped lead me to writing this very article. I had no idea how deep Suzuki and his foundation were helping to lead grassroots movements like Occupy at the time, but something didn’t smell quite right- little things, like how the foundation bought Occupy Vancouver’s Google keywords. Suzuki’s involvement got a whole lot more clear during Idle No More, when this site first exposed how the movement’s founders didn’t hit the big time until the David Suzuki Foundation showed-up. Clayton Thomas-Muller showed-up next and with a little help of an American fundraiser, helped funnel Idle No More’s money into a union-allied group in Toronto called the Defenders of The Land (who refused to release the bookkeeping). And guess who’s involved with DotL! Well, that wasn’t really a surprise, was it? But don’t worry readers, there’s still one last surprise left to share: We covered a group called cstreet in the Idle No More Unmasked series. They’re a Toronto based company that made INM’s fundraising website, they also made fundraising sites for the Neil Young concert, Greenpeace, RAVEN Trust, Hollyhocker Van Jones (former “Green Czar” to president Obama), and Olivia Chow. In a new discovery researching this story, we now know that cstreet made the website for Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson’s political party Vision Vancouver. It’s a small, small, world indeed… Stay Tuned For Part III! In Part III of Burnaby Mountain Unmasked we’ll dig into some of the other NGOs involved with Burnaby Mountain, their connections to violence promoting anarchists, and some of the most entertaining lies they’ve told us. Special guests will include Tzeporah Berman and Ben West of the (Canada hating?) ForestEthics, the militants at the Council of Canadians- and 350.org the grassroots organization that’s so AstroTurf even the anarchists question their genuinity (but, curiously, they still work with them). For a larger version of the relationship chart- please follow this link. Greg Renouf Permanent link to this article: http://www.genuinewitty.com/2014/12/08/burnabymountain-unmasked-part-ii-david-suzuki-extremists-and-the-rcmp-feat-harsha-walia/ No on December 9, 2014 at 00:01 People who value the environment, and are willing to be militant about it, aren’t extremists. People who don’t value the environment, and are willing to be militant about it, are extremists. The majority of our human history was as sustainable creatures living in balance with our surroundings. Civilization is only a drop in our collective historic bucket. Civilization is extreme. Greg Renouf on December 9, 2014 at 00:08 NME22 on December 9, 2014 at 13:59 What a bucket of horse shit! Fritz Becker on December 10, 2014 at 05:28 Well then, you should be willing and able to rough it then, collect your own water, gather, grow, or hunt your own food, build and fuel a fire. You should also be able to live without the modern conveniences like electricity, automobiles, telephone, computers, internet, or MONEY! But I suspect that would involve too much work for you, or the jet setting “Activists”, or the pathetic protesters on Burnaby mountain who needed the cops to bring them firewood. james on December 10, 2014 at 16:17 I was quite disappointed you left out “therefore, I’ve decided to jump off the lion’s gate bridge…” Cate on December 10, 2014 at 22:43 Whoa………..someone who actually was born yesterday!!! Richard Heathen on September 16, 2015 at 21:20 If you folks actually cared about the environment you’d be promoting free markets and private property instead of the socialist nonsense that you peddle. CaligulaJones on December 9, 2014 at 16:39 “The majority of our human history was as sustainable creatures living in balance with our surroundings” The majority of our human history was savage as well. As someone has pointed out, those rednecks with the gunracks will be still around when these self-professed anarchists have starved to death if there is a real anarchy. Greg Renouf on December 10, 2014 at 16:33 Indeed. What we’re looking at here is a curiously selective interpretation of history- or, in layman’s terms, intellectual fraud. The more I learn about “the movement” the more I realize it’s the exact opposite of what will make the world better… Curious that the Beyond Boarding group, and Tamo Campos seem to have no hangups about “fossil fuels” or “carbon footprint” when it comes to jetting down to South America, Asia, and elsewhere for their recreational activities. How about all of the energy and “fossil fuel” derived products that went into creating their equipment? Apparently oil is only an issue if it’s Canadian oil, being transported through a pipeline, in their backyard. If they don’t like oil sands maybe they should protest against Venezuela developing their oil sands as well? But they won’t do that since the place is ruled by one of the Castro regime’s puppets, and they love the Castro brothers. Communist/socialist rulers can do no wrong in their eyes, raised fist salutes noted in their group photos, just like the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 70s. Indeed, I noticed all of their travels too. Beyond Boarding seems like some sort of a rich kid’s partying club than an NGO, dontcha think? Well I looked up this guy’s name on poohgle, because I am so much of a square that I have never heard of a Tamo Campos, the only references that I could find were in reference to that “Beyond Boarding” group or magazine articles about thereof. If the guy actually is a renowned or professional snowboarder it’s a closely guarded secret by everyone else but him, one would think that he would have participated in a few competitions at some point? I think that the fact that he is the grandson of David Suzuki speaks volumes, without his rich and famous granddad, Campos and that group would not even be on the radar. I don’t think that they really amount to that much outside the activist groups, most people go to the ski hills to get away from it all, including the political crap. I’m not saying that Beyond Boarding is a group of Communists, but they are from the Left, and to the Left everything is political. Even the more moderate Lefties seem to have a soft spot for the Castro and Venezuelan regimes, in that they are all too willing to praise their “accomplishments” and play blind, dumb, and deaf to their flaws. Global Warming and David Suzuki’s Lies \| think-and-discern on December 29, 2014 at 13:14 […] http://www.genuinewitty.com/2014/12/08/burnabymountain-unmasked-part-ii-david-suzuki-extremists-and-… […] Leave a Reply to No Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line585
__label__wiki	0.633208	0.633208	FAQ \| Advanced Search \| Forum Guidelines Jump to: Board index » F-16 Fighting Falcon » F-16 News Turkish fighter jet (F-16) crashes after training flight Discussions about F-16.net news articles. A topic is created automatically whenever someone posts a comment in the F-16 News section. airforces_freak Turkish fighter jet crashes after training flight The pilot ejected from the F-16 and was uninjured. By Doug G. Ware \| Dec. 12, 2016 at 1:50 PM http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/ ... 481566708/ ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A Turkish fighter jet crashed after a training missions Monday, military officials said. The F-16 was returning from the training sortie and attempting to land at a military base in Diyarbakir when it crashed, officials said. The pilot ejected before the plane went down. The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known. No injuries were reported. Turkey has been part of military operations in northern Syria, where they have targeted Islamic State militants and Kurdish forces. Diyarbakir is about 80 miles north of the Syrian border. This brings Turkey's viper fleet to 239. We do not know whether the aircraft was a Block 30 which underwent a Turkish indigenous modernization program or a CCIP/Advanced Block 50+. As a result of the numerous attrition losses of late the Turkish Air Force may order another squadron of vipers as a stop-gap measure until it "commissions" its F-35 in 2018. However, a further F-16 order is more likely in light of Mr. Trump's recent statements on the JSF program. The Turkish Aerospace Industries F-16 production line has also not yet been decommissioned as it delivered its last F-16 Block 50+ only a year ago. Thus, reactivating this line would be quite easy. The Turkish Air Force which usually has 500 combat aircraft in its fleet had had this size drop to 300 aircraft when it decided to retire the majority of its F-4 Flying coffins but was then unable to replace them with new F-16's due to the financial crisis at the time. Last edited by airforces_freak on 13 Dec 2016, 03:37, edited 1 time in total. F-16.net Webmaster Thanks for the post! We added an article on http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article5039.html Early rumors stated it was the same pilot who ejected on September 2nd, 2014 in the same area. That seems to be false though. Lieven wrote: Thanks for the post! We added an article on http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article5039.html No probs Lieven. There are strong rumors from sources close to TuAF circles that this was the product of a MANPAD rather than a training mission going wrong. geokav airforces_freak wrote: There are strong rumors from sources close to TuAF circles that this was the product of a MANPAD rather than a training mission going wrong. So..., someone was hiding in the bushes and fired a surface to air missile against the F16...??? It would be nice if you can bring some more information about this mishap. geokav wrote: F-16's are also susceptible to MANPADS during take-off and landing. The timing of the incident grossly corresponds to the timeframes the TuAF were conducting bombing missions in Northern Iraq against PKK targets. The chatter is that the aircraft sustained a hit. This could be from MANPADs or 12.7mm or 14.5mm Anti-Aircraft gun rounds which the PKK have in their "inventory". The US Congress (NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017) had authorised the US to arm the YPG/SDF with MANPADS: See http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/201 ... -S2943.pdf and http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/e357 ... s-in-Syria If it is confirmed that it was in fact a US supplied manpad to the YPG/SDF that hit this aircraft this will cause a massive crisis of confidence between the two countries. This incident will also have massive implications for civilian aviation in the region if it is confirmed that a MANPAD was responsible. Open sources in Turkey are reporting that: (1) the Pilot has confirmed in an interview that she sustained a direct hit. (2) the aircraft crashed into a field next to Diyarbakir Airbase. If the above is true, a MANPAD attack during takeoff or landing is more plausible. saberrider airforces_freak wrote: Open sources in Turkey are reporting that: So the pilot is a woman? saberrider wrote: Many pilots in the Turkish Air Force are females. Maj. Esra Ozatay is even a Squadron Commander. F-16.net Editor If anyone knows a serial, that would be nice to update our aircraft database. Bjorn Claes Photo Library Admin Aircraft Database Admin Update: aircraft belongs to the 181 Filo (Pars). mafaky 1) Its yet unclear if the surviving pilot is a male or female. It's only confirmed that the pilot is a lieutenant. 2) It's yet unclear if the lost F-16 is a Block 40 or 50+ one. 181 Pars squadron normally flies with Block 40. 3) If the pilot is a female one, she definitely is not the pilot named "Burcu" who survived another mishap several years back, again at Diyarbakır AFB. Ms. Burcu is not in TuAF any longer, she's flying as FO in Pegasus Airlines; the Turkish LCC. mafaky wrote: 1) Its yet unclear if the surviving pilot is a male or female. It's only confirmed that the pilot is a lieutenant. Photo's floating around of the wreckage show Conformal Fuel Tanks which thus confirms that this aircraft is a Advanced Block 50+ recently commissioned. Your statement on Lt (Ret.) Şefika Burcu Arpacı is correct. She is no longer a commissioned officer in the TuAF. HOWEVER, a recent Presidential degree called for the immediate return of former TuAF pilots to serve in the Air National Guard due to a pilot shortage after the purge of 300 pilots who took part in the 15 July coup attempt. Hence, there may still be some truth to these allegations by some circles. We will need to wait and see. News reports indicate that a female was taken to hospital after the crash. Update: The pilot is most definitely a male. Footage taken by Kurdish villagers at the site of crash. Scroll to 4:25 to see pilot. Every aircraft in the world are vulnerable during take off and landing. There is no information if it was a two seater or a single seat aircraft, but this isn't the issue. The problem is that if it really been hit by a missile, then you have a very serious problem... AFAIK F-16's operated by the 181 filo are single seaters. The possibility of this being a MANPAD has Turkish Defence circles alarmed. One needs to note that Sabiha Gokcen Airport in the heart of Istanbul came under rocket-propelled grenade attack just only a few months ago and also that a Turkish Cobra was shot-down by a MANPAD as well more recently. If this is confirmed it will also have massive geopolitical implications. Turkish Crash Investigators are conducting a meticulous investigation as we speak. Their objective is to find the cause and if it is due to a direct hit identify the weapon used and country of origin. 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__label__cc	0.60995	0.39005	The REAL reason why Bianca Del Rio was replaced by a clown in new Drag Race Actor Matthew Camp: 'I am cautious about sex, but I do not want to live my life being afraid of love.' ‘Staying in the closet at work means you DON’T give your all!’ Christian Guiltenane January 3, 2016 Careers Sky’s Internal communications manager Mark Tittle tells us how he landed his job. Sometimes we end up doing a job we never thought we would. Probably because we just didn’t know the job we did actually existed. Take Mark Tittle, for example. When he was younger, his plan – if becoming the fifth member of Scooch didn’t work out – was to become a teacher. But his life journey took him in a very different direction, becoming Internal communications manager. Here, Mark reveals how he landed a job that he never thought he’d do and why he discovered that staying in the closet at work didn’t work for him. So Mark, you work for Sky, but what exactly do you do? I work for Sky doing internal communications, change and engagement. Internal comms teams help employees understand what an organisation is all about – what’s happening, why decisions have been made and what it all means for people. I’m currently working with our property team running a programme to get 7000 people ready for (and excited about) moves into buildings on our brand new campus in West London this summer. What exactly is it that you do on a day to day basis? A mix of planning, writing strategies, advising leadership teams, interviewing people for stories, running events, prepping presentations, managing websites. It’s pretty varied. And fun! How did you land the job? I don’t think anyone grows up thinking ‘You know what – I want to work in internal comms’. You grow up wanting to be a footballer, a fireman or the next big pop star, no? (Or in my case, the fifth member of Scooch.) Personally, I’d always wanted to be a teacher and did a degree in French and linguistics where I spent a year living in Paris working in primary and high schools teaching English. It was an amazing time and I loved it, but my colleagues – a fair bit older than me and who’d done it for years – were frustrated with the education system. Which got me thinking if it were the same for teachers in the UK, I could probably make a bigger difference if I got in ‘at the centre’ where the decisions were being made. So back home (after a brief stint working at Disneyland, thus ensuring my vocab covered important stuff like all the Disney characters’ French names) when it came to look for jobs, I turned to the public sector and got onto the National Graduate Development Programme (ngdp.org.uk) which is like a fast-track programme for local government. As part of my training with Suffolk County Council, I spent six months in our internal comms and engagement team where I got to meet and advise lots of people at all different levels on how to land their message in the best way, manage big events that brought staff and the community together, be a reporter for our county-wide magazine… and loads more. It was creative, fun, exciting, and – alongside working as a Special Constable – made me feel I was actually doing something that had meaning. So you had finally found your feet. Yes. But delightful as Ipswich was, after a couple of years I set my sights on the bright lights of London and got a job helping to set up the new internal comms team at Ofsted – so I finally got to work with teachers – before being offered a deputy head of department role at the Department of Health. I spent nine months there before finally deciding to dip my toe in the private sector. That’s when I joined Carphone Warehouse, which was a turning point. Carphone was my first experience of the private sector and was some of the most exciting, fastest-paced stuff I’d done at the time. It was a pretty big culture change too: my first day was an all-day party at Kensington Roof Gardens where I had to do karaoke with my new team in front of about 200 people having been force-fed Prosecco and cocktails. Possibly not my finest moment. Sounds like hard work! Was it an easy journey or were there obstacles, especially as a gay man? I’ve been really fortunate to have had loads of great experiences with lots of companies. Being gay in itself hasn’t necessarily been an obstacle but I think early on it was always on my mind. When I came out ten or so years ago, attitudes were a little different. My parents had told me to keep it quiet in case it affected my career, so I definitely kept that part of my life hidden to many people for a long time (although my annual Eurovision parties probably made it pretty obvious.). But looking back, I would now say that by not bringing your ‘full self’ to work, it affects what you do because you’re always putting all your energy into being something you’re not, rather than your job. So one of the biggest obstacles was me – and having the confidence to just be me to everyone. You’re involved in a Sky LGBT network now aren’t you? So I’ve headed up the LGBT@Sky staff network for the last couple of years now. There’s currently around 270 members from right across the UK, and we have monthly meetings to talk about upcoming activities like Pride or LGBT History Month and how we’ll support as a group, new policies we’re being asked to advise on, or plan social events. We’ve got a plan based on three core areas – supporting our LGBT staff, making a positive different for our customers community, and being industry leaders for promoting equality. That’s very admirable. It must be hard work on top of everything else you do. It’s all voluntary and it’s early days (so we don’t have a Exec sponsor or a budget yet) but we’ve done some great stuff – took part in our biggest coordinated Pride season ever, updated our People Survey to include a ‘trans’ gender option, grown the community by over 100 in a couple of years, run our first networking events, started joining up with Sky’s LGBT networks in Europe and entered the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index to name but a few. So LGBT issues are important to you, then. Yes. I’m also on the Steering Group for InterMediaUK, a network where LGBTers from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Discovery, MTV and any other media/creative organisations can come together to socialise, share best practice from work, and talk about experiences of being gay in the industry. Again, fairly early days as we’re a new team looking after the network, but it’s great to be part of something that reaches across the whole sector. What’s the hardest thing about your job? Internal comms is quite a new profession and it can be quite hard explaining what you do to people who quite often don’t ‘get it’ and think you’re there to write emails for them or ‘make a presentation look nice’. What makes it so fulfilling? Every day is different. It’s incredibly creative and you get to do loads of fun stuff. Right now, I’m working on interviews, running events, building an exhibition area and planning tours for 7000 people of a brand new building, for example.The nature of the role also means that you get to hear about and see loads of stuff before anyone else, and you’ll quite often be working with directors and Chief Execs directly at a fairly young age, advising them on how to land their message in the best way. And when you reach out and talk to people about what they’ve read or experienced and they tell you that they now understand what’s going on and why – that’s a nice feeling. What advice would you give to others? Get experiences in lots of different roles – there might be something out there you never knew existed but which turns out to be your perfect job. If you want a job at Sky click here LGBTSkySpecial Constable Previous ArticleOMG! Has Colton Haynes just made our dreams come true? Next ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Meet the 'New Year' HERO who took on the HOMOPHOBIC IDIOT!! Austin Armacost: ‘EQUALITY under the law DOES NOT MEAN ACCEPTANCE’ Inside the year’s most shocking film! Meet sexy gay canoeist Matt Lister and hear how his bully said sorry! Austin Armacost: ‘Only come out when you’re ready!’ Sex, guys and singalongs: Confessions of a show choir singer! The evil face of the Florida nightclub killer! Why YouTuber Chris Thompson is making the world better for LGBT people!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line593
__label__wiki	0.750269	0.750269	20th-century Art Title: 20th-century Art Subject: Modern art, Situationist International, Avant-garde, History of art, Nouveau réalisme Collection: 20Th Century in Art, Modern Art, Modernism, Western Art Jackson Pollock, No. 5, 1948 20th-century art and what it became as — Braque, Metzinger, Gleizes and others rejected the plastic norms of the Renaissance by introducing multiple perspectives into a two-dimensional image. Futurism incorporated the depiction of movement and machine age imagery. Dadaism, with its most notable exponents, Marcel Duchamp, who rejected conventional art styles altogether by exhibiting found objects, notably a urinal, and too Francis Picabia, with his Portraits Mécaniques. Parallel movements in Russia were Suprematism, where Kasimir Malevich also created non-representational work, notably a black canvas. The Jack of Diamonds group with Mikhail Larionov was expressionist in nature. Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905 Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 Jean Metzinger, Le goûter (Tea Time), 1911, Philadelphia Museum of Art. André Salmon dubbed this painting "The Mona Lisa of Cubism" Albert Gleizes, Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon, Paysage avec personnage, 1911 Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art Wassily Kandinsky Composition VII, 1912 František Kupka, Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors, 1912 Robert Delaunay, Le Premier Disque, 1912–13 Kasimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915 Francis Picabia, Ici, c'est ici Stieglitz, foi et amour, cover of 291, No1, 1915 Dadaism preceded Surrealism, where the theories of Freudian psychology led to the depiction of the dream and the unconscious in art in work by Salvador Dalí. Kandinsky's introduction of non-representational art preceded the 1950s American Abstract Expressionist school, including Jackson Pollock, who dripped paint onto the canvas, and Mark Rothko, who created large areas of flat colour. Detachment from the world of imagery was reversed in the 1960s by the Pop Art movement, notably Andy Warhol, where brash commercial imagery became a Fine Art staple. Warhol also minimised the role of the artist, often employing assistants to make his work and using mechanical means of production, such as silkscreen printing. This marked a change from Modernism to Post-Modernism. Photorealism evolved from Pop Art and as a counter to Abstract Expressionists. Subsequent initiatives towards the end of the century involved a paring down of the material of art through Minimalism, and a shift toward non-visual components with Conceptual art, where the idea, not necessarily the made object, was seen as the art. The last decade of the century saw a fusion of earlier ideas in work by Jeff Koons, who made large sculptures from kitsch subjects, and in the UK, the Young British Artists, where Conceptual Art, Dada and Pop Art ideas led to Damien Hirst's exhibition of a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine. Some important movements Symbolism (arts) Divisionism Cubo-Futurism Synchromism Lyrical Abstraction Informalism Outsider art (art brut) Neo-Dada Rayonism Color Field painting Appropriation art Late Modernism Remodernism History of painting Western painting List of modern artists 20th-century Western painting List of 20th-century women artists Classificatory disputes about art List of art movements Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1862-63) Olympia (1863) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886) Mont Sainte-Victoir) (1887) The Starry Night (1889) Ubu Roi (1896) Verklärte Nacht (1899) Le bonheur de vivre (1905-1906) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) The Firebird (1910) Afternoon of a Faun (1912) Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) In Search of Lost Time (1913–1927) The Metamorphosis (1915) Fountain (1917) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) Ulysses (1922) The Waste Land (1922) The Magic Mountain (1924) The Sun Also Rises (1926) The Threepenny Opera (1928) Villa Savoye (1931) The Blue Lotus (1936) Fallingwater (1936) Waiting for Godot (1953) Luca Caragiale Constantine P. Cavafy Odysseas Elytis F. S. Flint Theo van Doesburg Méret Oppenheim Édouard Vuillard George Antheil Milton Babbitt Jean Barraqué Aaron Copland Henry Cowell Henri Dutilleux Josef Matthias Hauer Luigi Nono Harry Partch Krzysztof Penderecki Anton Webern Walter Hasenclever Georg Kaiser Seán O'Casey Anton Giulio Bragaglia Carl Theodor Dreyer Robert J. Flaherty Lev Kuleshov F. W. Murnau Vsevolod Pudovkin Clotilde von Derp Michel Fokine Loie Fuller Hanya Holm Léonide Massine Alwin Nikolais Alexander Sakharoff Anna Sokolow Helen Tamiris Charles Weidman Mary Wigman Gordon Bunshaft Hector Guimard Raymond Hood Victor Horta Konstantin Melnikov Erich Mendelsohn Pier Luigi Nervi Hans Poelzig Edward Durell Stone Paul Troost Armory Show Ballets Russes Degenerate art Expressionist music Fourth dimension in art Fourth dimension in literature Late modernity Lettrism List of avant-garde artists List of modernist poets Neo-primitivism New Objectivity Postminimalism Reactionary modernism Metamodernism Second Viennese School Structural film Merovingian Ottonian Gothic (International Gothic) Early Netherlandish Caravaggisti Dutch Golden Age Cloisonnism Synthetism Kalighat painting Bengal School of Art Amazonian pop art Scuola Romana Neue Künstlervereinigung München Neo-Fauvism Precisionism Vienna School of Fantastic Realism Metaphysical art Minimalism (visual arts) Nouveau réalisme International Typographic Style Letterist International Systems art Art intervention Neo-Futurism Stuckism International Superflat Relational art Video game art 20th century in art Aesthetics, Samuel Beckett, T. 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__label__wiki	0.792171	0.792171	Anne Hathaway On Her Anxiety: ‘I Did Everything Wrong For So Long’ Anne Hathaway opened up about her battle with anxiety and disordered eating in a revealing new interview with People. The 36-year-old actress spoke to the outlet’s editorial director, Jess Cagle, about the “10-year challenge” photo she posted on Instagram this month and how she’s changed in the decade between the photos. “Wow. Check out 2009 me trying so hard not to do anything wrong. Check out 2019 me doing what feels right. Wicked sweet,” the actress had written on Instagram, quoting “Princess Diaries.” “I remember, 10 years ago, being so scared going into the whole awards season and doing what I thought I was supposed to do, so I barely ate anything at Christmas. I hate to say that,” Hathaway said, her voice going to a whisper as she covered her face with her hands. “I remember my dad making a pie and I ate just a little bite because I thought movie stars had to have a certain body. I was just smoking, just smoking my nerves away and wasn’t nourishing myself,” she added, miming smoking a cigarette with her hands. “And cut to 10 years later, I just figured out how to say thank you to life by trying to nourish myself, by taking care of myself, by not apologizing for occupying space ― which is not something I knew how to do 10 years ago,” she said. These days, Hathaway is unapologetically herself. Gone is the girl who constantly suffered from “feelings of inadequacy, insecurity and nervousness and anxiety,” she told People. Bravo via Getty Images Anne Hathaway on “Watch What Happens Live” with Andy Cohen and Matthew McConaughey. The actress also made headlines recently when she revealed that she’d given up drinking back in October after a wild night with her “Serenity” co-star, Matthew McConaughey, and his wife, Camila Alves. “I quit drinking back in October, for 18 years. I’m going to stop drinking while my son is in my house just because I don’t totally love the way I do it and he’s getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the mornings,” Hathaway told Ellen DeGeneres earlier this month. The actress added, “I did one school run one day where I dropped him off at school, I wasn’t driving, but I was hungover and that was enough for me. I didn’t love that one.” 10 All Too Relatable Comics About Coping With Anxiety The Best CBD Products Of 2019 That Are The Real Deal What People Get Wrong About Living With Both Anxiety And Depression 6 Things To Let Go Of If You Want To Be A Tiny Bit Happier This Year Drills, needles, and pain, oh my! Coping with dental anxiety 8 Little Things You Can Do To Help Manage Your Holiday Stress Eagles Star Brandon Brooks Says Anxiety Prompted Him To Leave Game Medical News Today: ¿Por qué me duele el brazo izquierdo? Gall Bladder Surgery – Know More About It! Active Shooter And Other Drills At School Are Giving Kids A Lifetime… Medical News Today: Myths and facts about penis captivus	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line598
__label__wiki	0.762203	0.762203	The Goudhurst & Kilndown Local History Society The Official Site for the Goudhurst & Kilndown Local History Society Christ Church, Kilndown Burials in Goudhurst Methodist Chapel Goudhurst War Memorial Brass Memorial World War One: Goudhurst – Those who died World War One : Goudhurst men who served and survived World War One: Goudhurst – Died – NOT on the War Memorial Coronations & Jubilees Elizabeth II – 1953 George V – 1911 George V – 1935 Kilndown George VI – 1937 George VI – 1937 Kilndown Prince of Wales Marriage -1863 Festival of Britain – 1951 Charities and Endowments Goudhurst Poor Relief 1799 -1801 Richard Church CBE (1893-1972) – Author and Poet Dame Edith Evans DBE (1888 – 1976) – Actress Sir Leonard Franklin (1862-1944) Robert Fuller (d. 1678)- The Pirate’s Grave Stephen Groombridge (1755 -1832) Alfred Mynn (1807-1861) and Walter Mynn (1804-1878) – Kent and England Cricketers William Rootes Snr. (1869 – 1955) William Sturt (1718-1797) Bethany School Goudhurst Grammar School Goudhurst Ladies College Kilndown School National School Riseden Infants’ School Winchet Hill School Blacksmiths and Wheelwrights Burgess Stores Cloth Trade Curtisden Green – The Stores and Post Office Globe and Rainbow High Street – North Side High Street – South Side Hope Mill Kilndown Trades North Road The Plain 2019/2020 Programme Home→Robert Fuller (d. 1678)- The Pirate’s Grave Pirate’s Grave postard Dubbed the pirate’s grave in the 20th century by local villagers because of the skull and cross bones on the headstone. (actually a symbol of death or mortality) The myth of the pirate was further embedded in local folklore by the publication of a postcard depicting the “Pirate’s Grave” published by A Vernon Talbot the local postmaster and photographer in Goudhurst during the 1950s. Although the burial register for St Mary’s Church, Goudhurst, records that Fuller, a yeoman, was buried on the 16th November 1678 the transcript of the headstone (done in the 1920s) records the inscription as: “Here lyeth the body of Robert FULLER who departed this life the 19thday of November Ano Dom 1678”. The headstone is now virtually illegible so it is impossible to verify if this date is correct. There are no other names on the headstone. The fact that Fuller has a headstone, coupled with the description of him as a yeoman indicates that he was a man of some standing and wealth. In terms of social standing a yeoman is placed above a farmer but below that of the gentry. His status as a yeoman would have been reliant on the amount of land owned and probably the extent of his farming activities. It is also possible that Fuller may have had a second occupation as this would not have been uncommon at that period. “Pirate” Grave in 2012 It is not known if he married or had children. He did, however, leave a will and it has been possible to use this to gather some information about his family connections. He was the (youngest) son of Robert Fuller of Stonecrouch, who was also the postmaster for the area and well as being the occupier of several fields near Combwell which he leased from the Campion family. Robert Fuller, senior lived at a property called Coppins which he left to his son Robert in his will. The location of this has yet to be identified although we have to surmise it was in the Kilndown/Combwell/Chingley area of the parish of Goudhurst. Robert Fuller of the pirate’s grave, made a will on 24th October 1678 indicating that he was “sick and weak in boddie but of perfect mynd and memorie” and this was duly proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on 27th November 1678. His will makes no mention of a wife or any children. He refers to his “father in law” George Needler to whom he left 40 shillings so that he could buy a mourning ring and to a “sister in law” Elizabeth Needler to whom he left £40. Having inherited Coppins from his father he left that to his brother-in-law Thomas Nokes, of Ticehurst, Sussex who had married his sister Elizabeth Fuller in Etchingham, Sussex in 1666. Thomas Nokes, is described as a weaver and when he died in 1688 he in turn left the property to his sons. Other members of the Fuller family mentioned in his will are the five children, (John, Sarah, Anne, Thomas, Dorothy) of his deceased brother, Nicholas, who were all left 20 shillings each to be paid within 6 months of Fuller’s death. Although he had several older brothers, none are referred to in his will, only the sons of his cousins i.e. Robert, John and Thomas, (sons of Thomas Fuller), and Anthony (son of John Fuller) who were both left £10 each to be paid to them within two years. Robert Fuller, senior (the father), was buried in Goudhurst on 29th September 1657. There is no gravestone and his age is unknown. His will, made 23rd March 1653, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 26th January 1658. In it he refers to his eldest son John Fuller, his second son William Fuller, his third son Nicholas Fuller and his youngest son Robert Fuller, (aka the Pirate) who he also indicates was, at the date he made his will, under 21 years of age. Also mentioned is his youngest daughter, Elizabeth Fuller, who was also under 21. There is also a reference to three grandchildren, Thomas, Robert and John Fuller (the sons of Thomas Fuller deceased), his wife Elizabeth, was executrix and his son-in-law, William Rabson made overseer of his will. The parish registers confirm that An Fuller married Wylliam Rabson on 8th October 1632 and that Ann was baptised 18th February 1609/10. This Robert Fuller, also described as a yeoman, leased several parcels of land near Combwell, i.e. Pitfield (6acres) Furthest Pitfield (7acres) Middle Field (7 acres) Further Field (7 acres) at a rent of £10 10s 8d per annum, in 1649 (document unseen but catalogued on internet held in East Sussex RO). A similar document dating from 1623 (for 16 years) lists him as Robert Fuller of Goudhurst, postmaster renting, Smithfield, Stonefield, and the Burchett, part of Combwell Manor and Stone Crouch Farm but not the wood, at a rent of £64. The burial registers also show that Nicholas Fuller was buried 31st May 1674 and that three of his five children, who had been left legacies by Robert, (the pirate) were also buried in 1679; i.e. Thomas (3rd Sept), Sarah (11th Nov) and Dorothy (6 Dec). Nicholas Fuller was baptised 25th May 1627 and appears to have been married to Ruth according to the baptismal entries for his children Anne (25th March 1666); Sarah (2nd August 1663); Thomas (26th July 1668) and Dorothy (19th March 1670/71); no baptism has been traced for his son, John. Fuller Family – names in blue appear in will of Robert Fuller of the “Pirate’s Grave” An inventory (held at The National Archives (PROB 4/9414) of Robert Fuller’s estate was taken on 25th November 1678. It mentions only “his purs and ready money” (value 8s 6d) ; “weareing Apparrell”; “one joyne chest and one little Firr box” and the amounts of money owed to him. Far from being a “Pirate” Fuller was probably a reasonably well off and respected member of the community. 1811 Census – Goudhurst Parish Registers: Christ Church, Kilndown St Mary’s Churchyard, Goudhurst – Maps & Gravestones St Mary’s Churchyard, Goudhurst: index to Gravestones: sections 1 – 5 St Mary’s Churchyard, Goudhurst: index to Gravestones: sections 6 – 13 Tithe Records for Goudhurst and Kilndown ©2020 - The Goudhurst & Kilndown Local History Society - Weaver Xtreme Theme	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line603
__label__wiki	0.50395	0.50395	1 World Trade Center 11 Times Square bank of america building LEED-CI LEED-CS LEED-EB LEED-H LEED-NC LEED-ND LEED-S green globes 10 Hudson Square 3 Columbus Circle The Argonaut Building 51 Astor Place The High Line Building Columbus Circle gbNYC Real Estate Group \| Commercial Real Estate & Green Buildings in New York City Tenant-focused representation in the world's most challenging real estate climate. You are here: Home > Weekend Reading: Frank Gehry Talks Beekman, New Yorkers Go Crazy For Compost, PlaNYC’s Green Roof Push Weekend Reading: Frank Gehry Talks Beekman, New Yorkers Go Crazy For Compost, PlaNYC’s Green Roof Push posted on Friday, October 8, 2010 in Architecture, Buildings, Design, Financial District, Green Building, Green Construction, Green Real Estate, Green Roofs, Manhattan, Most Recent, Neighborhoods, New York City, Residential Sustainable tapas. Green mezes. An EnergyStar pu-pu platter. Whatever food metaphor you favor, here are three snack-size stories to keep you sated over the weekend. As you may have noticed, gbNYC has been in energy-saver mode over the last week-plus. This is in part because of our dedication to efficiency and sustainability in all its forms, but mostly it’s because I’ve been really busy, and Stephen is always really busy, and… well, yeah. At least we’ve got a nice backlog of stuff to cover next week, when we’ll hopefully get back on a more reasonable schedule. Until then, though, here are three stories I meant to cover, but didn’t, and now kind of am. It’s the return of your Friday Reading, but given how late on Friday this return is occurring, it’s perhaps best if we call it Weekend Reading. So let’s do that. And let’s read these stories: Frank Gehry has been quite clear about how he feels about LEED — spoiler: he feels curmudgeonly in the extreme — and his typically striking Beekman Tower at 8 Spruce Street in the Financial District will not be pursuing any kind of LEED certification. That said, it’s impressive-looking enough — and Gehry is an interesting enough interview — to make it worth a gbNYC mention even without the bike racks and other LEED point-getters. The building is interesting enough in the context of the Financial District real estate ebb-and-flow, but Gehry successfully makes it sound more interesting in his conversation with the Wall Street Journal’s Peter Grant. “I am a contexualist,” Gehry says by way of putting the building in context. (Which, also: really?) “I pay a lot of attention to where I’m doing things. And I have a mind-set not to talk down to people or places. People have been telling me this is a New York building. I don’t think you would build that building anywhere else. With its stair-steps, it has a New York persona. I think I’ve nailed that part of it. That was intentional. I think it talks to the Woolworth Building. I like the juxtaposition. It sure as hell doesn’t talk down to it.” Sean O’Driscoll of the Associated Press, who wrote an interesting piece about white roofs — that in turn drew some interesting comments-section criticism here at gbNYC from the estimable Anne Whitacre — is back in action with a piece on New York City’s composting underground. Which makes it sound kind of menacing, I know. It’s really just a bunch of well-meaning gardener/foodie types intent upon making the most out of their garbage. “New York has become a center for compost coops, especially after cutbacks two years ago forced the city sanitation department to drastically cut back on a program that had offered the public free compost,” O’Driscoll writes. “In its place, gardeners have come together to share each other’s decomposing waste.” Green roofs: I believe I am on the record as pertains to this issue. But while I make no real bones about my sorrow at green roofs sluggish adoption in New York City, I don’t pretend not to know why that’s so. They’re expensive, and heavy, and don’t necessarily confer the sort of green building benefits that lead to fast paybacks; that they’re beautiful is enough for me, but it’s easy to see why one doesn’t see more of them in New York. That may — may, as in maybe or maybe not — change, though. The Bloomberg administration has announced an initiative, as part of the ambitious green PlaNYC omnibus, designed to incent green roof construction (and blue roofs, and porous paving of parking lots and sidewalks) in the hopes of diverting runoff from the city’s overmatched sewer system, and thus from the city’s unappealingly sewage-rich waterways. “Bloomberg estimates the city could save $2.4 billion over 20 years if the state allows it to use this kind of green technology instead of relying on so-called grey infrastructure, such as storage tanks and tunnels,” Reuters’ Joan Gralia reports. I get suspicious whenever politicians promise savings in the 10-figure range, but you know my biases on this and it is at the very least cheaper than the proposed $6.8 billion modernization of the city’s sewer system. 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Beekman, Compost, Frank Gehry, Friday Reading, Most Recent, North Brooklyn Compost Project, PlaNYC 2030 Blue and Green: Blue Sea Development’s Forest Homes Mark Another Green Triumph In The Bronx Surpass The Salt: Dattner’s LEED Silver-Hopeful SoHo Salt Shed Is Surprising, And Not Surprising 2 Responses to Weekend Reading: Frank Gehry Talks Beekman, New Yorkers Go Crazy For Compost, PlaNYC’s Green Roof Push Stephen Del Percio Friday, October 8, 2010 at 9:10 pm # Dave, one more piece to note from today is Krugman’s editorial about Chris Christie’s reprehensibly short-sighted decision earlier this week to axe the new mass transit tunnel under the Hudson River. It’s the most important infrastructure project anywhere in the country and if Christie gets away with killing the project, I think it says a lot about our collective ability to tackle big problems that require big solutions: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/opinion/08krugman.html?_r=1&hp David Roth Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 11:43 am # I’m working on a longer post about that, SDP. Or at least was planning on doing so. It’s a bad, bad move by a bad, bad governor, and while Krugman gets it right and expresses himself more economically than I probably will, I’m still hoping to do something on it. 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__label__wiki	0.671746	0.671746	Thomas M. Greene Michael Tabb Ryan P. Morrison Tucker D. Greene Stephanie Greene Margaret N. Rosenberg False Claims Act & Whistleblower Cases Director & Officer Liability Close Corp./Freeze Outs Insurance/Bad Faith Industrial and Construction Site Accidents General Liability and Auto Collisions False Claims Act Cases Director/Officer Cases Professional Malpractice Cases Copyright Cases Insurance Cases Product Liability Cases Medical Malpractice Cases General Liability & Auto Cases Why Greene LLP? Directions by Car Directions by Public Transit « Kaiser Verdict Second Largest in Massachusetts in 2010 Judgment Entered for Kaiser on RICO, Unfair Competition Claims » Thomas M. Greene Leads Seminar on Off-Label Promotion at Johns Hopkins University On February 9, 2011, Greene LLP attorney Thomas M. Greene led a seminar hosted by the Center for Clinical Trials at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The seminar drew from Mr. Greene’s experience with Neurontin litigation. Open to all students at Johns Hopkins University, the seminar was entitled “How Industry Distorted the Scientific Evidence and Turned ‘Snake Oil’ Into a $10 Billion Blockbuster: Lessons for Public Health.” Mr. Greene was invited by Dr. Dickersin to illustrate to public health students how a pharmaceutical company can enjoy enormous success through marketing messages that are not based in scientific evidence. “It’s important to show future public health professionals just how easy it is for a pharma company to perpetrate a fraud this expansive,” said Greene. “That fraud took years of dedicated effort to expose. The Neurontin litigation was a true example of collaboration between medical doctors and experienced litigators, to ensure that the medical literature, the evidence base physicians most rely on, remains untainted by fraudulent marketing messages.” In 2010, Mr. Greene tried a RICO case against Pfizer that centered on fraudulent off-label promotion of the drug Neurontin, leading to a $47 million dollar verdict that was automatically trebled and a $102 million judgment under the California Unfair Competition Law. Dr. Kay Dickersin’s research and testimony were essential to the RICO case. She reviewed Pfizer’s clinical trial research reports and compared them to the medical journal articles that were supposed to describe the results of the research, revealing a systematic scheme to show efficacy for off-label uses by suppressing negative results and misrepresenting others as positive. Dr. Dickersin published her research on Neurontin research and publication practices in the New England Journal of Medicine, as senior author of the article entitled Outcome Reporting in Industry-Sponsored Trials of Gabapentin for Off-Label Use. Experts like Dr. Dickersin and Dr. David Kessler, former Commissioner of the FDA, were crucial to the RICO case’s success – but the jury verdict also would not have been possible without the investigative lawyering spearheaded by Greene LLP attorneys over a fourteen year period. For attendees of the Johns Hopkins seminar, Mr. Greene carefully described the off-label strategy of Pfizer and its predecessors and the methods by which the company converted its illegal strategy into billions in off-label sales. Mr. Greene pointed out several poignant documents uncovered by his firm during discovery, including the email in which a Pfizer employee stated: “Gabapentin is the ‘snake oil’ of the twentieth century. It has been reported to be successful in just about everything that they have studied.” Mr. Greene was grateful for the opportunity to speak to Johns Hopkins students about Neurontin, but cautioned everyone who attended that if they were to experience off-label marketing practices in the future first-hand, those practices might not look exactly like the fraud he had illustrated. “I wanted to be sure those students knew that they will have to be on guard,” said Greene. “The Franklin False Claims Act case that I settled in 2004 was the first time that a pharmaceutical company was held accountable for off-label promotion. Since then, it doesn’t seem to me like companies have stopped promoting their drugs off label; they’ve just gotten more clever about it. Staying one step ahead is the challenge that faces attorneys and public health professionals in the future.” This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 at 6:13 pm and is filed under Press Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. First Circuit Sides With Greene LLP Over $34 Million Whistleblower Award Greene LLP Whistleblower Secures $6.5 Million False Claims Act Settlement With Carolinas Healthcare System Over Upcoding Allegations Far-Reaching False Claims Act Decision Won in U.S. Supreme Court by Greene LLP © 2020 Greene LLP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line610
__label__wiki	0.584104	0.584104	Black Nudists: Embracing the Skin You’re in with The Black Naturists Association How Hanukkah Came to America Hanukkah may be the best known Jewish holiday in the United States. But despite its popularity in the U.S., Hanukkah is ranked one of Judaism’s minor festivals, and nowhere else does it garner such attention. The holiday is mostly a domestic celebration, although special holiday prayers also expand synagogue worship. So how did Hanukkah attain its special place in America? IMG: Paul Arps. Flag of Israël (Jerusalem, Israël 2013). Flickr. Creative Commons. Hanukkah’s Back Story The word “Hanukkah” means dedication. It commemorates the rededicating of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C. when Jews – led by a band of brothers called the Maccabees – tossed out statues of Hellenic gods that had been placed there by King Antiochus IV when he conquered Judea. Antiochus aimed to plant Hellenic culture throughout his kingdom, and that included worshipping its gods. Legend has it that during the dedication, as people prepared to light the Temple’s large oil lamps to signify the presence of God, only a tiny bit of holy oil could be found. Yet, that little bit of oil remained alight for eight days until more could be prepared. Thus, each Hanukkah evening, for eight nights, Jews light a candle, adding an additional one as the holiday progresses throughout the festival. For the 2.3 million Jewish immigrants who entered the U.S. between 1881 and 1924, providing their children with gifts in December proved they were becoming American and obtaining a better life. Hanukkah’s American Story Today, America is home to almost 7 million Jews. But Jews did not always find it easy to be Jewish in America. Until the late 19th century, America’s Jewish population was very small and grew to only as many as 250,000 in 1880. The basic goods of Jewish religious life – such as kosher meat and candles, Torah scrolls, and Jewish calendars – were often hard to find. In those early days, major Jewish religious events took special planning and effort, and minor festivals like Hanukkah often slipped by unnoticed. My own study of American Jewish history has recently focused on Hanukkah’s development. It began with a simple holiday hymn written in 1840 by Penina Moise, a Jewish Sunday school teacher in Charleston, South Carolina. Her evangelical Christian neighbors worked hard to bring the local Jews into the Christian fold. They urged Jews to agree that only by becoming Christian could they attain God’s love and ultimately reach Heaven. Moise, a famed poet, saw the holiday celebrating dedication to Judaism as an occasion to inspire Jewish dedication despite Christian challenges. Her congregation, Beth Elohim, publicized the hymn by including it in their hymnbook. This English language hymn expressed a feeling common to many American Jews living as a tiny minority. “Great Arbiter of human fate whose glory ne’er decays,” Moise began the hymn, “To Thee alone we dedicate the song and soul of praise.” It became a favorite among American Jews and could be heard in congregations around the country for another century. Shortly after the Civil War, Cincinnati Rabbi Max Lilienthal learned about special Christmas events for children held in some local churches. To adapt them for children in his own congregation, he created a Hanukkah assembly where the holiday’s story was told, blessings and hymns were sung, candles were lighted and sweets were distributed to the children. His friend, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, created a similar event for his own congregation. Wise and Lilienthal edited national Jewish magazines where they publicized these innovative Hanukkah assemblies, encouraging other congregations to establish their own. Lilienthal and Wise also aimed to reform Judaism, streamlining it and emphasizing the rabbi’s role as teacher. Because they felt their changes would help Judaism survive in the modern age, they called themselves “Modern Maccabees.” Through their efforts, special Hanukkah events for children became standard in American synagogues. IMG: Patrick Lentz. Star of David and angels. Flickr. Creative Commons. 20th-century Expansion By 1900, industrial America produced the abundance of goods exchanged each Dec. 25. Christmas’ domestic celebrations and gifts to children provided a shared religious experience to American Christians otherwise separated by denominational divisions. As a home celebration, it sidestepped the theological and institutional loyalties voiced in churches. But by giving those gifts at Hanukkah, instead of adopting Christmas, they also expressed their own ideals of American religious freedom, as well as their own dedication to Judaism. After World War II, many Jews relocated from urban centers. Suburban Jewish children often comprised small minorities in public schools and found themselves coerced to participate in Christmas assemblies. Teachers, administrators and peers often pressured them to sing Christian hymns and assert statements of Christian faith. From the 1950s through the 1980s, as Jewish parents argued for their children’s right to freedom from religious coercion, they also embellished Hanukkah. Suburban synagogues expanded their Hanukkah programming. As I detail in my book, Jewish families embellished domestic Hanukkah celebrations with decorations, nightly gifts and holiday parties to enhance Hanukkah’s impact. In suburbia, Hanukkah’s theme of dedication to Judaism shone with special meaning. Rabbinical associations, national Jewish clubs and advertisers of Hanukkah goods carried the ideas for expanded Hanukkah festivities nationwide. In the 21st century, Hanukkah accomplishes many tasks. Amid Christmas, it reminds Jews of Jewish dedication. Its domestic celebration enhances Jewish family life. In its similarity to Christmas domestic gift-giving, Hanukkah makes Judaism attractive to children and – according to my college students – relatable to Jews’ Christian neighbors. In many interfaith families, this shared festivity furthers domestic tranquility. In America, this minor festival has attained major significance. Dianne Ashton is a Professor of Religion at Rowan University. Dr. Ashton’s areas of scholarly research include American Judaism, women and Judaism, and religious life in America. She is currently the Editor of the scholarly journal, American Jewish History. She has also coordinated the interdisciplinary program in American Studies. You can visit the homepage for American Studies here. She listens to all kinds of music, hates winter, loves summer and claims to find archives exciting. The author has received funding for her research on Hanukkah from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the American Jewish Archives, and Rowan University. This article was originally written for The Conversation and has been republished for Griots Republic under the Creative Commons licenses CCBY-ND 2.0. Previous ArticleThe World of Lesser Known Christmas Holiday Traditions Next ArticleUp In The Air Life \| The Art of Connections and Luxury Travel Experiences Arm Wrestling the Global Sport of Strength Usman Riaz Earth Magic \| Explore The Pagan Past in Ireland & Scotland Black Travel Movement \| From The Northern Lights to a Stunning Safari 8 Travel Gifts for Travelers Green Book Travel \| Culturally Immersive Trips Sisters and Suitcases \| Balancing Chill & Adventure	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line611
__label__cc	0.709513	0.290487	Knowing Which Key You Are In Question by Max (Woodmere, NY) If I play a progression such as A minor - E minor - C major, am I in the key of A minor or C major? Key is defined by the chord to which your progression resolves, known as the tonic chord. This is like the feeling of returning home. Since C major and A minor are relative major/minor keys, you can resolve to either quite naturally from a few of their related chords. But key can be quite subjective, especially when you have two very closely related tonics like Am and Cmaj. C major resolves most strongly from F major or G major (the 4 and 5 chords). However, the resolution to Cmaj isn't as strong from a chord like Em (the 3 chord). Because Em is the natural 5 chord of the A minor key, there is more "pull" to Am than Cmaj as a tonic chord. But like I said, this is all quite subjective and you really have to let your ears be the judge. Some keys are fairly ambiguous, some are more obvious. Think of key as being "implied" rather than set in stone. A lot of this implication is done with the opening chord setting the scene/mood. If you start with Am and move through to Em, chances are you'll feel more of a pull to Am as that "home" chord. However, start on Cmaj, and Em will feel more of an intermediary chord. It's all about context. Keep playing around with different chord combinations and explore this "pull" and resolution effect. I go into this in some depth in the guitar chord progressions section.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line613
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The Game Start Blog Video Game Screenshots General Purpose Pictures Community Knight Video Manager XBL Review: Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[st] barrel posted a article in PS4 Reviews Developer: Soft Circle French Bread Publisher: Aksys Games Platform: PS4, PS3, and PS Vita Release Date: February 8, 2018 ESRB: T for Teen Clearly, the Japanese developer French Bread has given up any attempt at a coherent title with their newest fighting game rerelease, Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late(st). In spite of its self-inflicted and unfortunate naming choice, the newest Under Night In-Birth iteration remains steadfast as a fighting game gem amongst some pretty fierce competition. It is just a shame that it is highly likely to be buried by the recent Dragon Ball FighterZ (for a multitude of reasons) and possibly even redundant due to many serious fans having already imported this version of the series half a year ago. Those who are still curious as to what Under Night's second console release has to offer may notice its handful of new bells and whistles as it tries to justify its additional retail price tag. I would define the original PS3 release of Under Night In-Birth as having no unnecessary frills, yet also quite entertaining, and that it was only really held back by simply not explaining its nuanced fighting game system mechanics (such as "Chain Shift", "Veil off", and the likes). The lack of tutorials would essentially force one who wanted to give the prior game a fair shot to dig into online guides or wikis to understand the gameplay systems. This is no longer the case with Exe: Late(st) with many, many tutorials that are willing to teach in a very beginner-friendly manner, which range from simply moving around or looking at the health bar to going as deep as explaining concepts like "fuzzy guarding" in high-level play. It is a rather dry text dump based approach compared to Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator's tutorial but the in-game insight is more than welcome nonetheless. It is all well and good that they added tutorials; however, features beyond that should be more enticing for returning players, such as new playable characters and modes. In addition to adding much-needed re-balancing from the prior game (Seth and Chaos are finally viable competitively!), the four new playable characters themselves are all quite enjoyable and generally easy to pick up & play like the rest of the roster. Some are straightforward enough, like Enkidu, who is a close ranged fighter with various parrying skills to Phonon who keeps foes at bay with long-range whipping abilities. The more intriguing newcomers design-wise, however, are Mika -- who is a deceptively mobile fighter despite wielding two huge gauntlets -- and the lady Wagner, who has a fiery and hyper aggressive playstyle that is similar to her presence in the main story. Speaking of which, the newly added story mode may just be the worst part of the whole game. One could tell that the storytelling was not particularly noteworthy in the arcade mode of the earlier release; having an exhausting ten hour-plus visual novel story mode could not do this game fewer favors. As someone who tolerated the extensive visual novel narratives in various Blazblue games, it says a lot about just how dull and uneventful the Chronicles story mode in EXE Late(st) ends up being. At best, players will see some halfway interesting backstory regarding the playable cast. Yet, the far more prevalent theme is that it'll likely bore them out of their mind with incredibly mundane and redundant exposition that can stretch the course of five minutes into feeling like several hours. The worst part about the storytelling is that there is very little resembling a central narrative as whole making it feel that much more pointless to endure. The rest of the gameplay mode feature set is a matter of taking the good with the bad. For example, the "Mission" mode is neat in that it has players be able to learn actual viable bread & butter combos to more advanced techniques. Then there is the training mode which, despite being a total user interface nightmare, allows somewhat granular options in finding out which actions can easily be countered. The Network features remain to be much more mixed, however. In addition to being close to dead in terms of online presence (one of many reasons why the release date timing was unfortunate...), the online netcode itself is kind of dodgy and bare bones. There are the standard lobbies and ranked matchmaking, sure, but good luck finding fellow opponents or matches without noticeable lag. Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late(st) makes for a tricky recommendation in the modern fighting game climate. It's a criminally overlooked, and surprisingly approachable fighting game series though I find myself quite conflicted in how underwhelming Exe: Late(st) is as a re-release. The story mode is downright awful and whatever potential for longevity it has is sapped away by a weak online interface and an even worse release date timing thanks to the recent Dragon Ball FighterZ. What is left are a few neat additions such as the four entertaining new characters and the smart training mode options, as well as the solace in that would-be fans no longer have to go out of their to import the title, but little else. Pros + Rock solid fighting game fundamentals that is surprisingly approachable in terms of controls + The four new playable characters are diverse and entertaining + Nice tutorials and training mode options Cons - Utterly boring visual novel story mode - Wonky versus netcode with the online presence of a ghost town -Interface and UI is clumsy Overall Score: 7 (out of 10) Good Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late(st) is stuck in the unfortunate position of being a really good fighter that is held back by an underwhelming overall re-release and terrible release date timing. But for those willing to accept Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late(st) as the diamond in the rough that it is should still have fun playing it. Disclosure: This game was reviewed using downloadable PS4 code provided by the publisher. under night in-birth exe: late[st] PlayStation Plus dropping free PS3 and PS Vita titles in 2019 Jason Clement posted a article in Sony UPDATE: According to Polygon, Sony provided a comment clarifying that only two PS4 games will be offered for free in 2019. It was only a matter of time before this happened but today PlayStation finally announced that it will be dropping PlayStation 3 and PS Vita titles from the monthly PlayStation Plus free game lineup in 2019. Both platforms have continually seen an audience decline ever since the PlayStation 4 launched and neither can be widely bought at retail stores now either. However, the good news is that you'll still retain the ability to download any PS3 and PS Vita games that you've already gotten for free through the PlayStation Plus service. With PlayStation Plus pivoting to PS4-only games, the real question is whether the selection will expand from the current two free games to encompass the other four empty game slots that will be left vacant by PS3 and PS Vita or whether we'll only get two games from 2019 on. The official post on The PlayStation Blog doesn't give any indication, so we'll have to wait and see, though it's a good bet Sony doesn't feel the need to offer so many free games now since the PS4 is (and has been) selling like hotcakes for some time. Source: PlayStation Blog What are your thoughts on PlayStation dropping PS3 and PS Vita games from PlayStation Plus? Playstation Plus: June 2017 Free Games Venom posted a topic in Sony Sony just revealed the Playstation Plus lineup for June, giving you some new games to play while you wait for all the awesome new games that will be shown at E3. Here's the full lineup: Killing Floor 2, PS4 Life is Strange, PS4 Abyss Odyssey, PS3 WRC 5: World Rally Championship, PS3 Neon Chrome, PS Vita (crossbuy with PS4) Spy Chameleon, PS Vita (crossbuy on PS4) Killing Floor 2 and Life Be Strange are the obvious standouts here. I haven't played either one (I've had Life is Strange on Steam forever and still haven't gotten around to it...) but compared to the rest of the lineup they're relatively big-name games. Abyss Odyssey is pretty cool, though it's a shame it's not cross-buy with the enhanced PS4 version. Spy Chameleon is kinda fun, I dunno anything about WRC or Neon Chrome though. Anyway, what do you all think about the lineup? If nothing else maybe we could all get together for some Killing Floor 2 matches sometime. Review: Guilty Gear Xrd: REV 2 Developer: Arc System Works Publisher: Aksys Games Platform: PC, PS4, and PS3 Release Date: May 26, 2017 ESRB: T for Teen Note: This review is based on the PS4 version of the game It is hard to be proud of a beautiful series' 3D resurrection in Gear Gear Xrd-SIGN- when it is already so eager follow in the shallow re-release footsteps that plagued Gear Gear X2 for nearly ten years. Despite somewhat feeling like what the original release should've been at launch last year's rocking Gear Gear Xrd: Revelator generally earned its place as a bombastic fighting game follow-up. That game had it all: a fully-featured sequel story mode (that gets surprisingly good), five entirely new characters, smartly revamped gameplay systems and online, and essentially the best tutorial in a fighting game ever. This year's annual follow-up in Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2 has, well, two new characters and feels like a premium balance patch for the most part. Now, I'm not going to lie. I genuinely adore Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2's two new playable characters. Baiken and Answer feel right at home with the already wonderful diverse character cast and now brings the current total to 25. The fan-favorite Rurouni Kenshin inspired and one-armed lady samurai Baiken finally makes a return in Xrd's gorgeous 3D art style. Retaining familiar skills like randomly kicking a tatami mat into the air, grabbing foes from afar with a weird mechanical claw, and even her signature parry-focused mechanic are there as well as a few others. Baiken does seem simplified compared to her 2D counterpart, especially her combos, but she remains quite enjoyable to play and her rejiggered parry mechanic still feels very execution heavy to use effectively. Oddly enough, despite myself and many others begging to see Baiken in Xrd for years (which she should've been there day one), my favorite of the two new characters to play is actually that of the businessman ninja: Answer. While if it easy to shrug him off when we already have a ninja as cool as Chipp Zanuff fulfilling that role, Answer has a lot of intriguing tricks to his gameplay arsenal. In one moment Answer is tossing business cards, and in the next he's doing Naruto styled ninpo shenanigans mid-air, all while trying to maintain an important phone call in the midst of battle. Best of all -- he has a Ninja Gaiden styled Izuna Drop too, so that's awesome There really is not a whole lot new aside from those two (very fun to play) new characters, however. Everything else included comes across as very subtle gameplay refinements more than anything else. Don't get me wrong, if you haven't played the previous iteration Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator, Rev 2 is absolutely worth one's time and may arguably be the best 2D styled fighter this console generation. As a retail follow-up to Revelator, however, it is quite lacking as an overall package. For returning players from Revelator it can certainly come off as a $20 DLC pack with two new characters (or $40 if one is getting the disc version to replace it) and character re-balancing. Sure, some characters have new abilities, like Faust has extra items to toss or Ramlethal gets two added sword skills, but most of the cast has seen very few significant balance changes (Both my boys Slayer and Potemkin got almost no changes at all despite being extremely low ranked competitively). That said, it is kind of neat that one can change between the balance changes in Revelator and Rev 2 at any time though if one is so inclined. While this update approach is not entirely uncalled for for Arc System Works standards -- as they are notorious for character DLC being sold at $8 a piece -- it can still feel quite thin especially for how few single player additions were added as well. What new single player content it does include does not really help Rev 2's case either. Former characters that didn't have arcade mode-like "Character episodes" now have them as well the two newcomers but they generally add so little story-wise beyond teasing at least one more familiar Guilty Gear X2 face (which will highly likely be DLC or appear in yet another future version). The most substantial piece of storytelling is in the "After Story A" chapter which, while decent, takes less than 20 minutes to complete following the main story (though, it's safe to assume there will be more to come based on naming alone). Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2 is Arc System Works's most obvious attempt of a retail cash grab under the Guilty Gear Xrd name. As tempting as it is to praise an already great fighter that brings just enough excuses to play it once more -- like two awesome and very fun new characters. It is difficult to not feel somewhat shortchanged following right after last year's iteration when Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2 is willing to offer so little that is genuinely fresh as a whole. If one hasn't played Guilty Gear Xrd in any form, this is technically the most complete version to date with a budgeted retail price of $40. If you have, well, Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2 does not make any real strides to impress beyond satisfying die hard Guilty Gear fans that are willing to pay for what is basically $20 DLC pack with balance changes and two new characters. Pros + Wonderfully diverse list of playable fighters with both Xrd newcomers, Baiken and Answer, being awesome additions + Still the best looking 2D fighter on the market + Neat refinements to the online lobby interface Cons - Pretty thin single player additions with only a few new character episodes and a brief "After Story" chapter - Is kind of difficult to look at it as anything more than a $20 dlc pack for two characters if one is coming off of Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator - Danger time is still a bad mechanic - Some baffling balance changes (or lack thereof) Overall Score: 6 (out of 10) Decent As great of a fighter as Gear Gear Xrd has become Gear Gear Xrd: Rev 2 makes a paltry argument as a re-release for anyone less than serious fans Disclosure: This game was reviewed using downloadable PS4 code provided by the publisher. Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 Playstation Plus games for May 2017 Sony has revealed next month's lineup of free games for PS Plus members, and, well, just have a look for yourself and decide if you're excited! Full lineup: Tales from the Borderlands, PS4 Abzu, PS4 Blood Knights, PS3 Port Royale 3: Pirates and Merchants, PS3 Laser Disco Defenders, PS Vita (Cross Buy with PS4) Type:Rider, PS Vita (Cross Buy on PS4) So, from me, Tales from the Borderlands is hilarious and worth playing even if you know nothing about the Borderlands series, so that's a big plus for next month's selection. Of course it was also on sale for like $3 a while back so anyone interested probably already has it now. I know Abzu will be interesting to some people, so I'll leave my personal feelings on it aside. Blood Knights is an okay-ish hack 'n slash and I don't really know anything about the other games, so it doesn't seem like an amazing month but I guess it's not the worst month ever either. What do you all think? PS Now dropping PS3, Vita, and other devices to focus on PS4 and PC If you're a PS Now subscriber, you're about to have a lot less ways to access the service in the near future. Sony announced today that on August 15, 2017, PS Now will be discontinued on every device except for PS4 and PC. This includes: PlayStation 3 PlayStation Vita PlayStation TV All 2013, 2014, 2015 Sony Bravia TV models All Sony Blu-ray player models All Samsung TV models Additionally, all 2016 models of Sony Bravia TVs will be discontinued on April 1, 2017. It's currently unclear why those models are being discontinued before earlier ones. The move to drop support for these devices is due to Sony wanting to focus their efforts to further develop and improve the user experience on PS4 and PC, which they believe will put them in the best position to grow the service further. Also of note -- PS Now cloud game saves can be accessed on PS4 and PC, in case you were previously using one of the devices being discontinued, so that's good to hear. Source: PlayStation Blog What are your thoughts on PS Now dropping support for everything except PS4 and PC? PSN Flash Sale (10/14-10/17): Deals Under $10 Venom posted a topic in Deals This month's flash sale is live, and unlike most of the recent ones it doesn't have a particular focus on genre or style or anything. Just a selection of various games for under $10. https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/flash-sale/cid=STORE-MSF77008-FLASHSALEWEBLP Check it out and see if anything stands out! For me, I'll probably buy Catlateral Damage since it hasn't been more than 50% off on Steam and it's been out there longer than PS4, so this might be as cheap as it gets for a while. I might also buy The Last Blade 2 or something just to push my total over the $5 minimum. Also, Sony is doing a PSN promo this month where if you spend over $100 before the end of the month you get $15 credit back, so if you're spending a lot this month anyway this might help give you a push. PSN Flash Sale (8/19-8/22) Another month, another flash sale! https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/flash-sale/cid=STORE-MSF77008-FLASHSALEWEBLP Not really a ton of notable stuff, but there might be a few things worth checking out. The Final Fantasy PSOne Classics are cheaper than usual (70% off as opposed to the usual 50%) and the PS4 ports of Prototype 1 and 2 are the price they should have been at launch. Take a look at the list and let us know if you see anything you can't live without! I ended up buying Dark Cloud 2 and Chronicles of Teddy. I really wish Dark Cloud was in the sale since I've been wanting to replay it, maybe next month it'll pop up. I'd have probably gotten Final Fantasy Tactics if it was the PSP version, but oh well. I'm still somewhat tempted to get Wild Arms 3 so I may end up going back. I'm also tempted to get the GOTY version of Dragon Age: Inquisition, but I really don't want to have to download it. :\ Playstation Plus games for August 2016 revealed! So today the PS+ lineup for August was revealed, and it's...different? Full lineup: Tricky Towers, PS4 Rebel Galaxy, PS4 Yakuza 5, PS3 Retro/Grade, PS3 Patapon 3, PS Vita Ultratron, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 Tricky Towers looks like some kinda crazy version of Tetris, so that could be fun, and I'll probably try Rebel Galaxy. My PS3 isn't working otherwise I'd give Yakuza 5 a shot too, but I have Retro/Grade on Steam already. I dunno anything about Patapon so I'll have to look that up, but Ultratron (which I also have on Steam) is pretty fun. Overall doesn't seem like a terrible lineup, but also nothing really stands out, besides maybe Yakuza 5 since it was one of the last big PS3 releases and isn't that old yet. Anyway, what do you think about August's PS+ games? Review: Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- Developer: Arc System Works Publisher: Aksys Games Platform: PS4 and PS3 Release Date: June 7, 2016 ESRB: T for Teen This review is based on the PS4 version of the game For almost an entire console generation the classic 2D fighting game series, Guilty Gear, was nowhere to be seen. Basically, after a merge between Sega and Sammy Corporation, the developer Arc System Works lost the rights to Guilty Gear entirely. To fill in the generational gap, Arc System Works even went so far as to create a spiritual successor to the series called Blazblue, which saw many iterations and spin-offs. Then, out of basically nowhere, Arc System Works managed to reclaim the rights to Guilty Gear and revitalized the series in a spectacular fashion with Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- in 2014. With a master craft approach to gorgeous 3D cel-shading, and many familiar gameplay systems, it was basically the perfect storm of feeling fresh and familiar at the same time. Of course, even with a rocking debut, the reinvigorated series continues with fighting game tradition and finds itself with an enhanced release by the name of Guilty Gear Xrd- Revelator-. As impressive as Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- was at reviving the series, and even as a fighter, it was also noticeably bare bones in most ways. Xrd basically debuted with only fifteen characters, used a rather standard fare approach to most modes, and had a mess of an online interface. Though I enjoyed my time with the original release, it was almost in spite of itself in some regards. The first significant improvement is boosting the -SIGN-'s default character roster of 15 to a current total of 22 in Revelator. Like -SIGN- before it, the entirely new playable characters are all welcome additions. New character Raven is one such example, who is an incredibly agile fighter that gets a masochistic burst of strength with the less health he has. Then there is the martial-artist Kum Haehyun where, as bizarre as a mechanical old man controlled by a young girl is, she has a more straightforward fighting style that relies on more traditional fighting game "link" inputs rather than "gatlings" like the rest of the cast. Most unique of all, however, and without a doubt my current favorite to play, is the tricky Jack-O. Jack-O“s core concept is built around Real Time Strategy gameplay mechanics in which she puts down miniature fortresses, which get stronger and also spawn mnay minions over time to overwhelm foes. The other added characters are certainly very enjoyable as well but not quite entirely new for different reasons. For instance, former DLC only members in -SIGN- (like the literal walking Guns N' Roses reference that was Elphelt Valentine to the overly-confident 2nd king Leo Whitefang) are still entertaining and no longer have the overpriced DLC stigma attached to them. However, the cooler additions are the returning, and formally 2D, fan-favorites Guilty Gear characters like the sky-pirate Johnny and Ki master/ greedy waitress Jam. The two not only look fantastic in Revelator's captivating aesthetic, but even retain their signature mechanics from their 2D days like Johnny's technical "glitter is gold" system (yes, a Led Zeplin reference) to Jam's charge based Ki-style. Shockingly enough, Revelator is also a direct narrative sequel to -SIGN-. Now, I won't dance around how I found -SIGN-'s storytelling to be a rather dull tease of things to come. And frankly, I would've said the exact same for Revelator, which "ended" on an even more insulting cliffhanger... until the day 1 patch. Yes, it is hard to believe, but they literally added the 2nd half of the storytelling via a free day one patch, and it's far and away the best half. It is jarring how much better the 2nd part of the storytelling is in comparison (even the production values) actually, as it is thoroughly entertaining, bombastic, and surprisingly fulfilling throughout. Frankly, if the first half of the story mode was as consistent as the second half of Revelator's narrative, it could've easily become my go-to example for a fighting game story mode done right. Other than that, Revelator feels like an appreciated checklist of refinements and, weird fishing minigame aside, without so much as any real new modes. Character re-balancing is there as one would expect as well as a few mechanical and presentation tweaks. Such mechanical changes include being able to break from throws, the new Blitz attack, an added homing dash to dust moves, and the ability to power up special moves at the cost of a Burst. Better yet, If none of that previous sentence made any sense to you, well, don't worry, as the tutorials are quite helpful in Revelator and may very well be the most entertaining in a fighting game outright. First off, the standard tutorial is, dare I say it, actually kind of fun. The tutorial for Revelator is basically an obstacle course created by none other than Jack-O. To intentionally spice things up from normally regimented instructions in most fighters, Jack-O has the player do things like pop balloons to practice movement and also navigate around the terrain, as well as her minions, while hopefully teaching the player many fundamentals like attack links and blocking. There are even many helpful FAQs at the pause menu to also clarify many basics. Granted, while Guilty Gear Xrd-Revelator- is still a rather technical and hyper aggressive fighter at the end of the day, it's still great to see that it is willing to teach its' basic concepts in a fun fashion without being too daunting. Last, but certainly not least, for players who intend to play the title more actively (myself), will be happy to hear of the vast improvements added to the online multiplayer. Xrd arguably had some of the most poorly presented menus for online multiplayer, where basically setting up matches or picking your character was more cumbersome than not. Revelator, however, basically steals Persona 4 Arena Ultimax's arcade-like lobby system and feels far more inviting because of it. Players can seamlessly use any of the game's modes while being in the many regional lobbies to. And, just like in -SIGN-, the netcode is excellent and seems to be even better with Revelator. Perhaps the most unfortunate consequence that Guilty Gear Xrd- REVELATOR- has going against is that it feels like what Guilty Gear Gear Xrd Sign- should have been right out of the gate. On one hand, Revelator truly makes a lot of smart improvements and is still a great fighter. The new characters are a blast to play, the online multiplayer and accessibility options are fantastic, various mechanical changes are appreciated, and even the story mode (...2nd half) ends up being actually worthwhile. On the other hand, it is a harder sell at the full retail price because of the strong sense of familiarity without any real added modes and most other enhanced aspects being harder to appreciate through less trained fighting game fans eyes outside of the fun tutorial. At the end of the day, Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- makes much headway for both serious and completely new players, but those straddling the line will may find it to be too little and too soon. Pros + New characters are a lot of fun to play, Jack-0 in particular being incredibly unique + Great, and surprisingly approachable; tutorials with many useful tips + Excellent online netcode and lobby interface + Story mode becomes surprisingly entertaining Cons - Very little that is new in terms of modes -First half of the story mode is a real slog - Does not quite shake off the feeling of it basically being what Guilty Gear Xrd-SIGN- should have been Overall Score: 8 (out of 10) Great Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator much improves the nitty gritty details of its predecessor, from quite welcome additions to the playable cast, great online multiplayer and tutorials, and even storytelling. But, for those who were not already looking forward to its release, it will be harder to appreciate its existence with a less apparent sum total of enhancements that likely should have been part of its first debut Disclosure: This game was reviewed using downloadable PS4 code provided by the publisher. Guilty Gear Xrd --REVELATOR- GP Daily 2/9/16: Shiren the Wanderer coming to Vita, Unsung Story on hold, and more Jason Clement posted a article in Industry News In today's GP Daily, an old classic returns, yet another Kickstarter game is put on hold, a beloved outlet dissolves, and new games come to the PlayStation Store. Check out the headlines below: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is coming to Vita this Summer These days it seems like the only time you see a Mystery Dungeon game in the West is when a new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon releases, but the roguelike series seems to be having somewhat of a revival thanks to last year's Etrian Mystery Dungeon from Atlus and Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon from Nintendo. Aksys must have taken notice of this because they recently announced that they'll bringing Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate to the PlayStation Vita in North America this Summer. The game is set to feature loads of items, monsters, epic quests, and Vita-exclusive dungeons, so if you're a Mystery Dungeon fan, keep an eye out for more info on this as Summer nears. Source: Press Release Final Fantasy Tactics Director's Unsung Story on Hold Remember Unsung Story? It was set to be Final Fantasy Tactics director Yasumi Matsuno's next big game, and it even had a successful Kickstarter. Alas, it appears that the game's developer Playdek has been having issues with development in the last few months, which has caused the company to have to put the game on hold to focus on more profitable ventures. This likely won't go over well with Kickstarter backers but Playdek cites the loss of several key personnel as one of the major reasons for this. Perhaps the game got too ambitious for its own good? In any case, Playdek isn't giving up on the game altogether, but there's no word on when they'll return to development on it either. Unfortunately, backers will have to wait and see what happens. Source: Kickstarter GameTrailers closes its doors In news that's a bit more sad, GameTrailers was suddenly shuttered yesterday. Even the staff apparently only found out hours before the announcement was official, which is pretty shocking to hear. The outlet has been one of the biggest resources for trailers and clips of video games in the last 15 years, and its staff and work is well-beloved, so it's a shame to see them go. Source: Twitter PlayStation Store Update 2/9/16 Like last week, there are some fairly big games debuting on the PlayStation Store today, not the least of which are Firewatch and Unravel. Check out the full list below: PS4 Arsland: The Warriors of Legend Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia Dying Light: The Following (Enhanced Edition) Firewatch Level 22 (out 2/11) Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime Mop: Operation Cleanup Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Rugby Challenge 3 (out 2/10) Siralim Unravel PS3 Arsland: The Warriors of Legend Level 22 (out 2/11) PS Vita Breath of Fire III Level 22 (out 2/11) Siralim We Are Doomed For a list of all the games on sale, check out the source link below. Source: PlayStation Blog Are you excited for a new Shiren the Wanderer? What are your thoughts on Unsung Story and GameTrailers? And will you buy anything new on PSN this week? Let us know below! Playdek Shiren the Wanderer Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel barrel posted a article in Vita/PSP Reviews Developer: Nihon Falcom Publisher: XSEED Games Platform: PS Vita, PS3 Release Date: December 22, 2015 ESRB: T for Teen To say it is surprising that not one -- but two -- The Legend of Heroes games got localized in 2015 is more than an understatement. It was a miracle in itself that extremely patient RPG fans of the original 2011 PSP release, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, got its nightmarishly hard-to-localize sequel, Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter, after a four-year wait from its original debut. But then XSEED managed to pleasantly surprise series fans even more by starting to localize Japan's most current trilogy to the series: Trails of Cold Steel (which I actually imported because of how convinced I was we wouldn't see it localized anytime soon). The point is, XSEED Games paved the path for Trails of Cold Steel despite all likely expectations. Trails of Cold Steel diverges from its The Legend of Heroes predecessors in a lot of ways. For one, it completely omits 2D sprite work in favor of complete 3D. Another key difference is the setting. Opposed to the mercenary-ish and on-the-road "Bracer" lifestyle that was featured in Trails in the Sky, Trails of Cold Steel often takes place in a military academy... that is basically a high school. It technically resides within the same world as Trails in the Sky (and the unlocalized Zero/Ao no Kiseki), however, both the main story and primary cast of Trails of Cold Steel are quite self-contained from previous games, minus a few noteworthy cameos here and there. The narrative itself starts off on the first day of school at the prestigious Thors Military Academy. Opposed to a normal first day of classes, the lead character Rean, and other distinctly red-uniformed individuals, are dropped into Class VII. Quite literally, as a brief introduction turns into a trial-by-fire and surprise trip through a monster-infested underground facility. After some begrudging alliances through the ordeal, and awkward introductions, the students learn that Class VII was made to test the combat aptitude of "ARCUS" units, and does not divide it members by social class or background. Though given the option to back out, Rean and the others decide stick around to see what Class VII has in store. The actual curriculum of Class VII tends to be divided between school life and the "field studies" to other towns and cities every month. As for the school life in Trails of Cold Steel, it's very reminiscent of titles like Persona 3 & 4, as it was clearly influenced by them. There are "bonds", which are basically P3/P4 social links, that flesh out party members in addition to progressing combat perk unlocks. Even beyond bonds, the great localization helps make the members of Class VII stand out throughout and become surprisingly likable in the long haul, though their early narrative moments may suggest otherwise. Rean can also do odd jobs for the student council that are basically sidequests within the town of Trista. The sidequests themselves tend to be nothing too special but there is an oddly homely sense of world-building that it creates for its denizens by doing unique, but minor tasks. Then there are field studies which are when the rest of the gameplay elements usually come into play. Day to day Class VII gets a set of tasks to complete during their trip, somewhat similar to Rean's student council stuff, that range from investigation, simple monster slaying, or hearing out the woes of random citizens. Exposition may often be at the forefront of Trail of Cold Steel but the combat, character customization, heck, even the occasional mini game are rock solid. Much of the basic combat refines upon systems that were introduced in previous The Legend of Heroes titles, yet are frankly more enjoyable in Cold Steel. The turn-based combat is smart and relies on both positioning and learning to manipulate turn phases to one's advantage. The flexible "Orbament" system also returns and allows players to slot "quartz" skills to grant a character many different abilities and stat bonuses primarily in combat, and lends to fairly versatile party compositions. What unfortunately cripples Trails of Cold Steel the most is its pacing. Trails in the Sky fans likely know it comes with the territory for a series that loves its character development and world-building (going as far as to place multiple optional short novels to causally read about some of it). However, there is an unnecessary slowness for even that. As much as I like the writing, which is outright dense with personality, it can certainly feel unnecessarily long-winded in most contexts. There are plenty of main story scenes that have no problem with going at-length for casual character banter or in-depth about the current political landscape. Which would be fine if the overarching main story did not basically take more than half the game to kick in to actually justify it. The presentation also faces growing pains with this newest entry. Neither the environments or character models look particularly impressive. The characters models in particular are disappointing compared to their key concept art, with their stiff animations and awkward mouth flaps, making me wish me wish they took the Atelier Shalie route with models that complement it. Though, Falcom does tend to prefer being functional gameplay-wise over showing off visually, the Vita release in particular suffers from noticeable technical quirks. There is an occasionally erratic framerate that rears its ugly head when traversing certain towns and noticeable frequent load times for Vita. To go back to pacing, there is also an odd obsession with lengthy environment pans that bogs down the presentation too. As with Falcom tradition the soundtrack the JDK band whips up has some awesome rock battle themes, though admittedly, most other parts of the soundtrack don't particularly stand out. The more pleasant surprise about the audio is actually the surprisingly fitting English dub. It is honestly a shame that more of the game is not dubbed, because of how noticeably absent it is during certain story scenes (very likely because of budget). This is coming from someone whom often times turns off the dub outright in many Japanese RPGs. As numerous as its changes may be, Trails of Cold Steel certainly has the heart of recent The Legend of Heroes titles. The military academy setting did seem like a recipe for disappointment (and shameless pandering), but the charming script and surprisingly likable cast defy initial expectations over time. Unfortunately, at the same time, the unnecessarily slow pace for both its gameplay and storytelling, and occasional technical grievance on Vita, prevent Trails of Cold Steel from reaching greatness. Though it is a promising debut for Class VII, one can only hope that the upcoming sequel capitalizes upon what is built up so strongly in Trails of Cold Steel. Pros: + Well-written script and cast of characters that have a lot of personality + Good turn-based combat system with flexible mechanics + Lots of detail towards its world-building + Sweet battle themes and solid English dub Cons: - Pacing is very slow at times - Rather underwhelming 3D visuals overall - Occasional technical problems on Vita Overall Score: 7.5 (out of 10) Good Trails of Cold Steel is a promising debut for the newest The Legend of Heroes series from its characters and in-depth world, but remains just shy of greatness during the inconsistently paced path towards it. Disclosure: This game was reviewed using downloadable Vita code provided by the publisher XSEED Nihon Falcom The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 6 barrel posted a gallery image in Member's Album From the album: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Review image 4 From the album: XBlaze: Lost Memories Xblaze: Lost Memories PlayStation Plus Vote to Play Coming Soon Being a PlayStation Plus member certainly has its perks, such as being able to download a number of PSN titles each month for free. Unfortunately, members have never quite had a say as to what free games would appear for free — that is, until now. Sony has announced that an upcoming "Vote to Play" promotion will enable PS Plus members to vote for the game they want to see as a free PS Plus game in one of the upcoming monthly lineups. Of course, the game with the most votes will have that honor, and in the first promotion, players will be able to get the runner-ups for a discounted price. More details about this promotion are forthcoming, but it sounds like this will be an ongoing thing from now on, which is great to hear for PS Plus members. Source: PlayStation Blog Are you glad to hear that you'll be able to vote for a game to appear in future PS Plus lineups? Need Help: PS3 isn't reading discs TKtheknight posted a topic in Sony Hey guys just wanted to ask for your guy's help on this. I was playing my PS3 earlier and was playing Medal of Honor: Warfighter. I was on the last level to finish the game and then the game froze. No prob just restart the system and load it back up right? Nope. That didn't work. My PS3 suddenly can't read discs. I put the disc in and the corner of the screen shows spinning circle indicating that it's trying to read. It goes on forever and nothing loads. I tested out other games to see if it's just the disc being scratched up or dirty. Same problem. I tried DVDs and Bluray movies and does the same thing. Is there any solution to fixing this? I don't have money to buy a new system or send it for repairs. I can play digital games though, but pretty pissed I deleted digital Ratchet and Clank All 4 One cuz I bought the disc version. I can't afford to buy PS+ membership anyways. Anyways please share any helpful tips, solutions, or whatever to help bring my PS3 back to life reading games. It's a used 2007 model with backwards compatibility Metal Gear 4 bundle. I want to play games. Thanks. cant read disc Review: Lost Dimension Developer: Lancarse Publisher: Atlus USA Platform: Vita, PS3 Release Date: July 28, 2015 ESRB: T for Teen This review is based on the Vita version of the game "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer". And, in Lost Dimension's case, they are rather close to being one in the same. Etrian Odyssey developer Lancarse has decided to take a detour from their frequent dungeon crawling expeditions with their newest property Lost Dimension. Having some novel concepts like a traitor mechanic for both narrative and gameplay (as well as Shin Megami Tensei and Etrian Odyssey pedigree for its development), it seems predestined for good things. Yet, it is certainly possible that a gifted staff can be betrayed by their own ambitions, and Lost Dimension may be the result of just that. The setting starts off with a bang, quite literally, when the self-proclaimed mastermind called "The End" declares a nuclear doom upon the entire world after 13 days. So, a special unit known as "SEALED," each imbued with different psychokinetic "gifts", attempt to assassinate The End. The assassin ends in failure, however, and thus leaves the group stuck in a mysterious tower referred to as the "Pillar." The End then tells the group that if they want to reach him they have to climb to the top of the tower while also being mindful that there is a mysterious traitor in their ranks. Treachery or not, the group has to work together through the course of its many Strategy-RPG battles. As an SRPG, Lost Dimension is actually surprisingly decent. Each character brings several different strategic options and there is a strong emphasis on working together through many confrontations due to follow-up attacks. One character may be able to teleport through the terrain to attack behind an enemy while another character can essentially copy another ally's skills, along with any heals/buffs they receive, bringing versatility to party formations. It is also rather encouraged to use different team formations to help fully utilize the main character Sho's precognition skill, which I'll get into later. Where the SRPG formation sort of dismantles is how it is presented. Frankly, Lost Dimension is not a good-looking title on PS3 or Vita for its 3D visuals in particular. Animations are rather stiff and hardly complement their anime character portraits while the framerate dips quite low both in and out of combat. In battles specifically it also has a similar problem as Code Name: S.T.E.A.M does in which enemy attack phases last a bit too long even if they aren't in your peripheral vision. Not only that, but a bit too much of the combat's strategy involves clumping your allies in groups to do lengthy attack chains. The gameplay is mechanically solid, but its lack of polish is certainly apparent as well. Far more interesting than the aesthetic is Lost Dimension's traitor system. Every playthrough of Lost Dimension is basically randomized with who will betray the party. What isn't random is how you determine and react to the traitor(s). At the end of each section of the Pillar The End forces the group to choose who to outright "erase" the existence of in order to proceed. There is no elaborate courtroom scene like you'd see in something like Ace Attorney or Danganronpa, guiding you to the correct solution, these Judgement rooms are concise and decided by majority vote. Right or wrong, someone is going to die the further you climb up (and it'll make sure of it due to some mean auto-saving.) and hopefully it ends up being the traitor. So, how do you go about correctly determining the traitor then? Well, that's where Sho's precognition ability comes into play. After each battle, Sho hears distorted voices which gives a lead on a possible traitor in that group (encouraging the use of different members). Sho can then affirm for sure in a strange, but limited in use, minigame called "Deep Vision" which weeds out the suspect. However, Sho alone is not enough even if he does find out, so he also needs to be on good terms with fellow party members to influence their votes in Judgment Rooms. This is done generally by chatting with party members or simply working together in follow-up attacks, which will then in turn have them ask Sho on who he think the traitor is or isn't at certain random points. As interesting as many aspects of Lost Dimension are conceptually most of them don't feel fully realized. This issue is most apparent with its storytelling. Many characters and the conversations around them are not very interesting to the point where it is sort of hard to get attached to a good majority of the cast. Figuring out the traitor doesn't require any real deduction skills either, it is just a situation of having a minigame basically give you the answer. Lost Dimension also buries its storytelling in a "true ending" matter, wanting you to do at least two playthroughs to get it, and even if you do obtain it it is not exactly worth an 2nd run for it. Lost Dimension is generally better than the sum of its parts but one can't help but feel like its potential is underutilized throughout. Lost Dimension is a clear example of taking an interesting premise and running with it the entire game. But, in that same stride, it doesn't quite flesh out the other aspects around it because of its lack of hindsight and polish. Lost Dimension serves well enough as a strategy-RPG but your investment in what it has to offer overall is almost entirely based how sold you are on its intriguing, but not fully realized, traitor concept. Pros + Strategic turn-based combat system with a strong emphasis on teamwork + The concept of a traitor amongst the party brings a fairly fascinating take on how the storytelling and gameplay are presented Cons - Rough, unattractive visuals - Many of the characters and the conversations with them are not very interesting - Enemy attack phases are too slow Overall Score: 6 (out of 10) Decent Lost Dimension wraps itself around its intriguing concept but loses sight on several portions that would support it to the fullest. It serves as a solid foundation but can't help but leave those who play it feeling somewhat under-served by the end of it. Disclosure: This game was reviewed using downloadable Vita code provided by the publisher. Strategy-RPG Lancarse Atlus USA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line616
__label__wiki	0.901222	0.901222	ISA HOPKINS Raconteur. Adventurer. Kimchi Enthusiast. A Marvelous Grief Note: I use “MCU” here to refer strictly to the film franchise, not to any of the Marvel television properties. Acknowledgments: thanks to all those who engaged in a fascinating and deep discussion of superheroes with me via Facebook. There are few analyses of the topic that center on women’s perspectives or include the voices of many women of color, and much of this essay grew out of a lengthy thread that featured both. Special shout-out to Robin, who in addition to contributing quite a bit to that conversation has also been reviewing the Marvel movies on her own blog, which served as another inspiration. The United States, we are told — we see in headlines every day — can’t agree on much right now, and we can agree with the international community even less. Political turbulence is fracturing society, pitting brother against brother, but one cultural property has apparently managed to transcend (or at least navigate) such dramatic social rupture: I’m talking, of course, about the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the spectacular, superhero-addled, money-printing global juggernaut that has, over the last ten years and twenty movies, made billions upon billions upon billions of dollars for its parent company Disney and even bested their sibling franchise Star Wars to become the most profitable in Hollywood history. The MCU is certainly popular. It’s often fun. But is it any good? The shortest answer is that it can be. “Black Panther,” released earlier this year and the highest-grossing non-Avengers “one-off” film in the MCU pantheon, is an impeccable and daring version of a traditional origin story which directly engages with the United States’s colonialist history and suggests a radical, Afro-futurist redemption. That this is not your typical take on the hero’s journey is evident from one of the earliest scenes, a twist on “Hamlet” which subverts the core of the Western canon’s greatest classic: it is the good king who slays his brother here, and the dramatic arc of the movie reaches its climax when a ghostlike vision of T’Chaka confesses to his princely son that, in fact, he was wrong to do so. Take that, Claudius! Take that, centuries of Claudius knock-offs who have so thoroughly infested Western storytelling that we might say they have effectively colonized it! Another advantage of contemporary storytelling as compared to Elizabethan tales is that we are now — at least some of us, at least director Ryan Coogler — able to imagine a greater space for women, an outcome for Ophelia beyond her own collapse; indeed, it is the wisdom of T’Challa’s love interest, Nakia, which ultimately resolves the film’s central conflict (perhaps her concomitant empathy and anti-colonialism are the truest mechanisms for reviving Ophelia). It falls to the unapologetic blackness of “Black Panther” to repurpose an old saw, and the film succeeds so fully because it does so with extraordinary technical skill, political intelligence, and narrative care. Neither is it the sole example of excellence within the MCU. 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok,” the third one-off film to center the Norse god, was billed as a comedic refashioning of its previously overserious main character (first introduced to us in a plodding effort at Shakespeareanism directed by none other than the most famous living Hamlet himself, Kenneth Branagh), but it is much more than that: like its successor, “Ragnarok” is a remarkably coherent decolonialist delight, less ideologically overt than “Black Panther” but no less powerful for its allegory and abstraction — that is, if one can read it. Disturbingly, nearly every North American review of the film missed nearly all of its politics, embedded as they are in the visual language of Maori and Australian aboriginal designs which — though apparently rather obvious to antipodean viewers — drew blanks from everyone except the Village Voice and a website rooted in anti-colonialism and black liberation. One normally perceptive reviewer described the production design on Jeff Goldblum’s highly stylized planet of Sakaar — an aesthetic which Maori director Taika Waititi developed meticulously, to emulate aboriginal and Pasifika motifs without culturally appropriating them, which culminates in Thor escaping from Sakaar and returning to Asgard to confront his plunderous, imperialist sister in a plane painted like the goddamn Aboriginal flag — as “80s-arcade-inspired.” Suffice it to say, the reviews of “Ragnarok” are not exactly an endorsement of the cultural curiosity of North American audiences. There are a couple of baffling points about this, not least that we live in a digital world where it is enormously easy to discover other points of view, to educate oneself about a symbology that, once learned, is about as blatant as Captain America’s shield. That North American reviewers failed to look beyond their own assumptions when engaging with the work of an indigenous director is a deep indictment of North American indigenous erasure, of the way we still project a kind of “terra nullis” onto the cultural spaces inhabited by indigenous artists. That reviewers would fail to reconsider their perceptions when dealing with a film whose narrative is an explicitly anti-colonialist fable in which the son of fortune discovers that his inheritance is one built not on benevolent dictatorship but plunder and violent conquest, who attempts to confront an agent of that violence, is dispossessed, finds himself without status, property, or identity, builds solidarity with similarly dispossessed people, returns to confront the agent of plunder and violent conquest once more only to now recognize that the only way forward is to burn his inheritance to the fucking ground, to destroy it altogether and become not so much a king as a cosmic refugee — that this story can be read by anyone as lighthearted or apolitical or confused betrays the egregious vacuum at the heart of popular understandings of imperialism, oppression, and white allyship, to which “Ragnarok” offers a more revolutionary instruction than even “Black Panther” can muster: when it comes to the inheritances of colonialism, the only just response of the privileged is to blow that shit up. Sure, each movie suffers from overlong fight scenes — an occupational hazard for our cinematic superheroes — but then again, excellence doesn’t mean the same thing as perfection. To read the responses of (most) superhero fans to any critique or questioning of their beloved genre is a study in reflexive defensiveness, a refusal to entertain the idea that the stories, characters, and cultural properties into which they have invested so much of their time, money, and sense of self might be less than worthwhile. But now that the MCU has brought in more money than god and led to two movies whose excellence extended not only to their visuals, their humor, and their narrative but also to an incredible political coherence the likes of which is rarely found in even Oscar-winning or arthouse films — now that the possibility of not just goodness but greatness has been validated and replicated — can we admit that most of the MCU is not very good? Some of the movies are fine, perfectly serviceable ways to spend one hundred and twenty minutes, maybe even worth spending fifteen bucks to see in theaters if you’re going with friends or looking to beat the heat. 2011’s “The Avengers” brings Our Heroes together for the first time in a series of spectacles that, despite their Manhattan (or Cleveland, where the film was shot)-destroying consequences, remain legible, where the sheer implausibility of the stakes doesn’t divorce them entirely from characters and story. It might sound like damnation by faint praise, but both the DC universe and so many action and disaster movies in the past demonstrate all too readily the challenge of using mass destruction as a plot point. Director Joss Whedon is generally overrated and the relentless quippiness of his dialogue in this film is, as in all of his projects, wearying — but the mechanics are there, and things mostly hang together. (His second outing, “The Avengers: Age of Ultron,” betrays the cool weirdness of its title and, in attempting to outdo the spectacle of its predecessor, ends up so incoherent that it manages to be simultaneously too-serious and too-cute, investing vastly more screen time and narrative space in an out-of-left-field, stilted, and unearned “romance” between Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner than in any consequences for the building-leveling urban destruction unleashed by the Hulk/Wanda and Iron Man in Johannesburg. The desperate desire to one-up past movies, and the willingness to ignore characterization in order to do so, has proven a consistent storytelling priority for the Marvel team-up movies, and it also explains why those team-up movies continue to get worse and worse.) Complaining about quippiness in the MCU might seem ungenerous, as it is a series essentially founded on quippiness — the first film, the one on whose success the entire franchise was built, is 2008’s “Iron Man,” and Robert Downey Jr.’s titular character is nothing if not quippy, and who doesn’t love a wisecracking playboy billionaire, anyway? Well… I don’t, at least not when the character, despite repeated feints towards growth, essentially ends there. A lot of people enjoyed “Iron Man,” overlooking the misogyny which opened the film — in the first scene Tony Stark sexually harasses a US soldier, and moments later the movie deploys one of my least favorite misogynist tropes, that of the reporter who sleeps with her subject, only to dispose of said reporter (whose pointed questions to Tony Stark about war profiteering are painted as bitchy and self-serving when coming out of her mouth, but profound when Tony Stark asks himself the same thing later, in his non-shrill non-lady voice!) in an impossibly catty dialogue between Pepper Potts, Paragon of Stand-Quietly-By-Your-Man-Until-He-Deigns-To-Notice-You Virtue, and Slutty Overbearing-Reporterface-Who-Dares-To-Do-Her-Job-And-Ask-Relevant-Questions-Of-A-Public-Figure McSlutson, whom Pepper literally refers to as “trash.” The only trash is a system in which scenes like this are written, produced, and consumed without complaint, but hey, it’s not like denigrating journalists as whorish, self-interested enemies of the public good could ever have any real-life negative consequences, right? If I’m harping a lot on the first five minutes of a long movie, it’s only because they are abhorrent enough to deserve it. Comics fans may be capable of projecting other stories onto Pepper Potts, but in the movies she’s nothing more than a Good Girl (and, once they are in a relationship, a Good Woman), a mechanism for Tony Stark to measure his self-improvement rather than her own independent character. I admit the bias that I bring to Iron Man — my childhood experiences have left me deeply resistant to tales of The Boy Genius, And Also The Non-Genius But Still Very Smart Ladies Who Help Make Him Great — but that bias serves mostly to refocus my gaze towards the female characters who are invariably badly served by this narrative type. Before he’s ever a garbage boyfriend Tony Stark is a garbage boss, one who forces his assistant to end relationships for him because he’s too busy Boy Geniusing to treat women like human beings; why would anyone be interested in watching Pepper Potts accept his abuse? What value is there in having a romantic relationship with such an asshole except to be The Special One, The One Girl In All The World Worth Treating Decently, which is itself an implicit validation of the idea that all the rest of the girls in the world are not? If the gender politics of “Iron Man” and its sequels are actively terrible, it clears a somewhat higher bar in its critique of the military-industrial complex (the same critique that the shrill slutty lady reporter dared to make in the first moments of the first film, only to be punished by the narrative for it so that the Menfolk! could go on three movies’ worth of Important Personal Journeys to discover that she was right all along, for which she gets zero credit, because honestly who cares about that broad?) — unlike the films’ treatment of women there’s at least a glimmer of intention to engage seriously with the topic, to address the human consequences of weapons manufacturing. Of course the execution of this critique is not just muddled but mangled beyond any point of meaning or coherence, which is perhaps inevitable for a work that wanted to interrogate the post-9/11 state of permanent war without actually taking a political stance that might potentially alienate any of the young white men who comprised its target demographic; out of such an impossible paradox it’s not surprising that the movie’s conclusion is best summarized as “War is bad but also necessary but weapons of war can hurt innocent people, so instead of making those this one guy at the top of the military-industrial complex will stop making them and instead just make one superweapon, totally under his own non-democratic control, but you can trust him because he’s quippy and likable and has a Good Woman at his side.” Sure, the second and third “Iron Man” movies attempt to introduce some complexity into this formulation (shockingly, the military isn’t entirely comfortable with Tony Stark’s choices! Here’s another super-suit, which is literally called “War Machine,” but it’s OK because it’s ironic! But not really! Tony’s unhappy with what he’s doing, but, well, he’s just gonna keep on doing it! Here, have a tiresome volume of quips to distract you from the fact that none of this hangs together!) but they mostly proceed, as so many blockbusters do, on spectacle and charisma, cashing in on CGI and Robert Downey Jr.’s easy, misogyny-masking charm. Such adulation can bring its own unintended consequences, but thus far RDJ has avoided the pitfalls that have ensnared his peers or his younger self and dutifully maintained the bankability of the franchise. Of course, he does not bear that burden alone, but rather shares his leadership with Chris Evans’s Captain America. Of the original six Avengers — Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow — two have never had standalone features (Hawkeye, because why would you unless you’re Joss Whedon using “Age of Ultron” as a kind of beta-test for a Hawkeye backstory which is another reason why that film mostly sucked, and Black Widow, because why would audiences want to pay money to see a story centering a compelling female character when she could be repeatedly thrown into other, male-driven stories as a supportive best friend or sudden love interest instead?), while the Hulk’s limited emotional range as a character, coupled with his pre-“Avengers” recasting and the long box-office shadow of Ang Lee’s pre-MCU “Hulk,” has granted him nothing more than an origin story. The remaining threesome each have their own standalone (ish, in the case of the Cap) trilogy at their backs, the three episodes of “Iron Man” an indulgent celebration of rich white men of techno-capitalist ego, the first two “Thor” movies eminently forgettable bro-ish mediocrities which left their demigod hero the least-popular MCU leading man until the revelation that was “Ragnarok” — and then, there is the Captain. “Captain America: The First Avenger,” the origin story of Steve Rogers, supersoldier, is — much like the first “The Avengers” — a perfectly serviceable and competently made film, if not a particularly memorable one (except for Steve’s final radio call with Agent Carter, the only scene in any MCU movie from Phase I or Phase II which actually manages to achieve the romance for which it is reaching). The story is helped by the fundamental likability of a main character whom every MCU script is very careful to avoid calling “Mr. Rogers,” an everyman underdog who believes in decency and punching Nazis, whose premise rests in the virtue of right action, rather than the cool-guy distraction of quippiness and shiny toys. Cap returns for a semi-solo outing in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” with Black Widow as his temporary sidekick, until Anthony Mackie’s delightful Sam Wilson/Falcon can be fully introduced over the course of the movie; for a long time “Winter Soldier” was widely regarded as the best of the MCU, and its success became the springboard for directing partnership Joe and Anthony Russo (Clevelanders, and Benedictine boys no less) to move onto more ambitious MCU projects, including the recent “Infinity War.” “Winter Soldier” is, in most respects, a good and well-constructed movie, whose narrative and thematic shortcomings only become evident in their follow-up, although the most problematic of these is obvious even upon first viewing. The notion that HYDRA, the Nazi-adjacent apparatus of supervillainy which Captain America appeared to successfully defeat in “The First Avenger,” not only secretly flourished in his absence but has, in fact, engineered Every Bad Thing In Recent History is more than preposterous; it’s extraordinarily insulting to the majority of humans (who create history, bad and good together, by virtue of our own choices and agency, thankyouverymuch), and it also undermines the very point it attempts to make — such conspiracies appeal precisely because they collapse the incoherent chaos of human experience into a single, easily digestible narrative of power operating in a decipherable world. It’s been a common critique of the MCU that it has suffered from a “villain problem,” with Thor’s conniving and unpredictable brother Loki the only memorable antagonist until the belated arrival of the extraordinarily effective Killmonger. But Loki works for the exact reason that HYDRA doesn’t, crowd-surfing on the random maliciousness of whomever he encounters rather than attempting to engineer overcomplicated supervillainy at the outset, which seems like a fairly pedestrian observation until one recognizes that this is, in fact, how most actual human villainy operates, ad-hoc and improvisational, that this is both its greatest strength and greatest weakness, and that pretending a single, small cabal of Bad Guys bear sole responsibility for All The Bad Things is a cop-out at every possible level. (Do these Bad Guys infiltrate families, to enact domestic violence and child abuse? Are they priests, doctors, and coaches? Is Brock Turner part of HYDRA? Are the same Bad Guys responsible for both the KKK as well as anti-colonialist violence? Who the fuck mistakes “HYDRA did everything!” for good writing?!) Such vociferous disagreement might seem like railing against a relatively minor point in an otherwise well-put-together film, but it is central to the (many) failings of the successor to “Winter Soldier.” To read about “Captain America: Civil War” is to be constantly reassured that, in spite of the reviewer’s myriad objections, it is a good movie, a bizarre kind of gaslighting explainable only by its comparison to the genuinely execrable “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” with which it shared certain traits, as well as a release year. But not being a terrible movie in nearly every conceivable way does not actually make “Civil War” a good movie, because it’s not. It has good moments — legible fight choreography (made interesting and fun by the introduction of Ant-Man’s scale effects and Spider-Man’s web-slinging into the melee), two new-ish characters (Ant-Man and Spider-Man, once again) whose quips are fresh and funny, and the very presence of T’Challa, the Black Panther, whose plotline is the only one in the movie that is not nauseating — but those moments are cladding around a fundamentally ugly armature, a structure derived from an attempt at moral and political argument so badly formed that it’s easier to believe it willfully bad than to imagine that educated adults might actually think so simplistically. Why is the core conflict of “Civil War” so odious? Well, in large part, because it’s built on the worst element of “Winter Soldier,” the notion that HYDRA and its agents have infected and controlled so many levers of power that democratic institutions and, indeed, even the idea of democracy itself have become suspect. And this anti-democratic position is delivered by no less than Captain America, who imagines himself a lone wolf arrayed against the corruption of “agendas” — if that sounds so vague as to be essentially meaningless, it is, and it’s also directly from the film, the totality of Cap’s argument against any kind of international agreement to regulate superhero behavior. And here the worst impulses of “Winter Soldier” reach fruition, for nobody in “Civil War” bothers to suggest to the Cap that “agendas” are, in fact, a necessary precondition for democracy, that political self-interest is endemic to the human experience, and that it is through the labor of inclusive, representative institutions that democracy operates to determine which agendas are worth honoring for the betterment of all, and which to cast aside. No: with the wind of HYDRA infiltration at his back, Captain America’s distrust of democracy is understood by the movie to be not only justified but just, validated by a truly absurd eulogy offered by Sharon Carter at the funeral of her aunt, the Agent Carter with whom Cap shared romantic affection in “The First Avenger,” in which it is suggested that opposition to widely held beliefs is inherently morally correct, that iconoclasm can never be just an empty pose, that to be a dick in a sea of kindness is to be somehow noble or courageous so long as you are the lone dick, that rebellion, righteousness, and right are intrinsically intertwined. This is political philosophy imagined by an angry, and not particularly bright, fourteen-year-old; it’s the self-indulgent self-assurance of a grounded teenager petulant about having their phone taken away. That anyone deigns to take Steve Rogers seriously — that the movie makes him out to be the hero — is frankly vile, and undermined by even a minute’s reflection on the film’s opening action sequence: who invited the Avengers to Lagos? On whose intelligence did they discern the bombing plot? Who provided transportation, who granted visas, who notified the Nigerian police and military? The MCU often likes to pretend that “Tony Stark’s money” and “only the United States has any meaningful government infrastructure” are enough to answer these questions, when it bothers to acknowledge that such infrastructure even exists — this is, after all, a franchise whose first moment of triumph featured Tony Stark cruising down the Pacific coastline in a super-suit, flying to 80,000 feet in a busy patch of airspace near the Santa Monica Pier easily recognizable to many Southern Californians as the LAX takeoff zone, a moment whose triumph rested less on Tony and more on the legions of pilots, air traffic controllers, NTSB investigators, and avionics engineers whose decades of labor in negotiating global safety standards and procedures for civil aviation prevented a major disaster, the very possibility of which the entitled and oblivious Iron Man never even considers, because bureaucracy that works well becomes invisible even when its clear necessity and benefit provide more-than-ample rejoinder to Steve Rogers’s preening confusion of conscience and ego — but if the central conflict of your story is about supranational regulation and you even take the time to throw in a “joke” about Wanda Maximoff probably being denied a visa, well, the absolute and complete lack of care in world-building devoted to these same issues is going to become pretty obvious pretty fast. (Speaking of lack of care: this movie is so bad that it features two white, middle-aged, sandy-haired men employed by the United States government, both of whom are named Ross. It is damn near unbelievable that any point in the years-long development, making, and marketing of this product, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, nobody spoke up and said “Hey, fidelity to the comics is great and all, but this could be really confusing to most of our audience — there’s a reason that ‘Don’t give two separate characters the same name’ is a basic rule across pretty much all narrative forms — so what if we call this new guy Agent Everett, instead?” Though a minor point, the carelessness that it evinces is truly astonishing, and points towards similar carelessness throughout the MCU.) And what of that Tony Stark money? Captain America’s egoism forms one-half of the titular Civil War, and so Iron Man’s must constitute its opposite. Willingness to sign the Sokovia Accords might be an admirable bit of growth for a character defined by his ostensible inability to play well with others, if not for the loathsome motivations ascribed to Tony’s newfound institutional inclinations (plus the obvious point that, as the scion of a massive multinational corporation with a long history of government contracts, Tony has spent the entirety of his cosseted life enveloped, supported, and cushioned by institutions, so this is hardly some kind of major turnaround). Rather than accept genuine responsibility — and concomitant consequences — for creating Ultron and nearly single-handedly unleashing a deadly AI on the world, Tony projects the possibility of his own absolution onto the Accords, even suggesting that his signature might win back his momentarily estranged girlfriend, the long-suffering Pepper Potts. The deep stupidity and selfishness of each position in this so-called “civil war” reaches its denouement in its final fight scene, where it’s revealed that Cap’s childhood friend Bucky Barnes — the Winter Soldier himself, framed for the bombing of the UN which killed T’Challa’s father, T’Chaka — assassinated Tony Stark’s parents while under HYDRA control. That the resulting fight is less between Iron Man and Captain America than it is Tony Stark and Steve Rogers is meant to be meaningful, but only comes off as laughable and pathetic when one considers that Tony Stark is a middle-aged billionaire throwing punches because, rather than processing his adolescent trauma, he makes patently ridiculous choices to perform that grief in Stark-designed AI environments in auditoria full of strangers before handing out money to all assembled, a desperate gamble to be liked — “Look at me, I’m smart, I’m sympathetic, and I’m rich! Here’s some cash PLEASE LIKE MEEEEEEE!” — so transparent that it would be unbelievable in someone with his public prominence except that our current US president is still clamoring for the approval of his long-dead father with all the bumbling, obvious insistence of a toddler and he’s seventy-two goddamn years old, so I suppose wealth and privilege can coddle one more than I’d previously thought possible. The emptiness of both Steve and Tony’s positions is evident in the presence of so many secondary characters, the vast majority of whom have no discernible motivation in regards to the Sokovia Accords. Yes, military man War Machine sides with the government, and a scared Wanda backs Cap — but that nobody else has any real stake in this fight is evidenced most clearly by Tony’s recruitment of Spider-Man, a literal child, whose narrative involvement is basically nonsensical. This emptiness gives lie to the title — this conflict is less of a civil war than a showdown between two egotists — but then, “civil war” has always been something of a construct; the idea that brother fought against brother in the United States of the 1860s is viable only for a narrow range of “brother,” one predicated on whiteness, because for black Americans the US Civil War offered no moral complication and was, indeed, not a discrete event, but merely a brief moment during the centuries-long fight for full personhood and citizenship in which white-on-white violence notably convulsed. Such pat generalizations as “pitting brother against brother” and even “civil war” make for nice rhetorical shorthand (see: the second sentence of this essay), but they also occlude the narratives and experiences of those who fit less easily into such simplified formulations. Such as: T’Challa. While Steve Rogers and Tony Stark descend into fisticuffs, Wakanda’s newest monarch — who has been pursuing Bucky Barnes out of vengeance for his father — instead confronts the actual villain of the film, a character whose presence is so inessential that I can’t quite remember his name (Zemo, I think?). The Bad Guy mumbles some generic Bad Guy speech and attempts to commit suicide; T’Challa stops him, and demands justice instead. It’s something of a premonition of “Black Panther,” a movie whose argument is rooted not in reluctant or justified violence but rather in genuine, MLK-inspired nonviolence — Wakanda might hold nearly all of the world’s vibranium but it’s only been made into weapons of mass destruction by the likes of Klaue and Howard Stark, colonialist interlopers who align with and enable the logic of Killmonger, the imperialist hegemony of the United States come to life in a single, deadly body (and yes, it is a damn shame that a coherent critique of US hegemony can only be mounted in pop culture when that hegemony is represented by a black body). But the fact remains that, across all of the MCU, T’Challa is unique in being the sole superhero to actively reject violence as a tool; it’s not a universal rejection — it wouldn’t be an MCU movie without an overlong fight scene, after all — but in seeking genuine alternatives to conflict resolution, T’Challa is the man Steve Rogers imagines himself to be. Who does the United States imagine Steve Rogers to be? The cultural value of Captain America — whose captaincy extends only to a small portion of America, which is to say, the United States of America — illuminates not only how profoundly wrong Steve Rogers is throughout “Civil War,” but also the necessary value of politics itself. Because we don’t need to wonder about how the US would react to such a hero; we have a historical record, because we have a historical analog, and the answer is that we would first elect him president, and then shoot him in the face. A scrawny Irish Catholic from Brooklyn, a scrawny Irish Catholic from Boston — Cap-as-JFK is less of a reach than it might first appear. Steve Rogers repeatedly applied to join the fight in World War II, despite multiple medical deferments, until a doctor recruited him for the purpose of giving him superpowers via genetic manipulation. John F. Kennedy’s superpower was his father’s vast wealth and connections (the truest superpower of all in our world, and if it’s gauche — or Randian — to glorify any of the one percent as heroic it’s only in contrast to our current overlords of inherited oligarchy), which he used to gain medical certification impossible for a mere mortal in his physical condition (which is to say, chronically ill), a neat inversion of the all-too-typical story of money and power being deployed to refuse military service (coughBushcoughTrumpcough). In high school I was taught that Kennedy won the presidency due to his youth and good looks and Nixon’s penchant for televised flop-sweat, but the truth is that he was already a prominent war hero, whose efforts were at least as absurdly over-the-top as any Howlin’ Commando mission (Kennedy worship has dimmed over the decades, and an informal survey of politically engaged thirtysomethings found universal oblivion to that cultural touchstone of the baby boomers known as the PT-109). He even had his own Bucky Barnes, deconstructed into a pair: the how-homoerotic-is-this-though devotional friendship of Lem Billings, and the wartime loss of his older brother Joseph, who — jealous of his little brother’s heroic stature — volunteered for a mission that sounds closer to a comic-book plot than an actual military plan (not least because it was named — wait for it — Operation Anvil), an experimental form of proto-drone warfare which cost Joe Jr. his life and left the perennially sickly Jack to assume the mantle of their father’s overweening political ambition. Captain America debuted, in comics, during the jingoistic era of World War II, and lasted until 1954, when the tempo of such wartime jingoism became unsustainable. His return was teased in a fortuitously timed issue released in November 1963, the same month that devoted Communist Lee Harvey Oswald fired from a window in the Texas Book Depository into Dealey Plaza, abruptly ending the life of the world’s most prominent Cold Warrior. Cap returned in full form the following spring, as the US struggled to manage its grief; resurrected into the burgeoning tumult of the sixties Cap quickly rejected his status as a patriotic symbol, just as the slain thirty-fifth president was converted by hagiography and conspiracy theory from flawed human to an all-purpose symbol, emptied of meaning by ubiquity, and the same desperate memorialization that sought to give meaning to the shocking brutality of the charming, handsome, obscenely wealthy, Most Powerful Man In The World having his brain exploded onto his beautiful wife for all the world to see informed the re-emergence of Captain America, equally powerful, equally symbolic, but able to hit back in the superhuman way that the world was so stunned to discover JFK could not. The Cap that emerged in the wake of the sixties assassinations turned his back on institutional power, it’s true, but in his cross-country motorcycle-tripping he developed his conscience in the context of encountering the marginalized, siding with student protestors and civil rights activists as he met them and saw them square off against the power of the police. The Cap of the MCU never encounters such otherness, living the entirety of his resurrection in a cocoon of narrow power and privilege — how can he possibly comprehend democracy as a tool of, by, and for the people if he so steadfastly refuses to meet any of those people? I searched for “JFK Captain America” to see if this was old news. This was the only result, but it turns out Basquiat and I had the same idea. (Jean-Michael Basquiat, “JFK, Thor, Iron Man & Captain America,” 1978.) But even comics-Cap offers a profoundly limited understanding of the moral responsibility of power, and to recognize as much we need only look towards that other inheritor of JFK’s public virtue: that is, Lyndon Johnson, who ascended to the presidency in the wake of Kennedy’s death. The value of throwing a few punches against cops, real though it may be, pales in comparison to the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, which LBJ accomplished not by turning his back on institutional power but by embracing it. Insofar as Captain America has a guiding precept, it is his oft-professed hatred of bullies; by most accounts LBJ was a bully, an old-school Texas Democrat who stood against the Dixiecrat consensus and twisted every arm he could to pass past-due civil rights legislation, trading on the symbolic currency of JFK’s death to enable an expansive vision of domestic politics that built, if not a genuinely great society, at least a better and fairer one than existed before. Concurrently he led us deeper into the Vietnam War, costing the lives of far too many US servicemen and Vietnamese civilians in an ultimately pointless conflict, and of course proper credit for the Civil Rights Act goes not to JFK or LBJ but to MLK, to the SNCC and the Freedom Riders and Rosa Parks and the thousands who Marched on Washington, to the mattering of so many black lives, who built a cultural moment that politics — at least the most remotely decent practice of it — could no longer ignore. Politics: it’s complicated. There’s a famous moment in the history of Captain America’s comics incarnation when he punches a post-Watergate Nixon. It’s built of the same naive triumphalism that expects the mechanisms operating in that scandal to work to the US’s benefit now, against the current occupant of the Oval Office, ignoring not only the power of FOX News — a network built by former Nixon aide Roger Ailes to serve the precise purpose of protecting future Nixonian figures from the slings and arrows of outrageous (self-created) criminal fortune — but also the dynamics of Watergate itself, that Deep Throat was motivated in his expose to Bernstein and Woodward not by a sense of public righteousness but rather personal grievance, that Mark Felt was J. Edgar Hoover’s protege at the FBI and his revelations of Nixon’s misdeeds were retribution to Nixon’s distaste for Hoover, a distaste which — however myriad Nixon’s personal and political failings may be — is eminently justified by the fact that Hoover was a terrible human being whose paranoia had a genuinely awful impact on American public life. The story of Watergate, like the story of most whistleblowing, has been too readily collapsed into an easy story of heroes and villains, but the reality is that it came about largely because terrible people were sniping at each other, which is true of a fair bit of whistleblowing throughout the corridors of power. People make the right choices for the wrong reasons all the time. They have agendas. LBJ knew this; JFK knew this. Steve Rogers ignores this as a means to hold himself proudly outside of politics, but outside of politics is a place of acquiescence to injustice, to power as currently constituted, and so the ultimate failure of “Civil War” is that, in seeking to position Captain America as an iconoclastic hero, it ultimately deploys him as nothing more than a mouthpiece for the status quo. I have written at length about the perils of the anti-democratic sentiment embodied by both Iron Man and the Cap, and it begs the question: is similar excoriation merited for “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Black Panther,” both of which center on dynastic struggles in monarchial systems? Is it not hypocrisy to critique the US-centric stories, while allowing those in other contexts to escape such examination? The answer is that it’s not hypocritical at all, because that’s not what “Ragnarok” or “Black Panther” are about, thematically, while both the entire Iron Man and Captain America cinematic ouevres are very much making arguments about representation and power. “Ragnarok” and “Black Panther” engage with questions of power from an explicitly anti-colonialist perspective, seeking to overthrow the oppressor, and even the most cursory familiarity with history should be enough to remind any readers that democracy has been no check at all against colonialist violence. Both slavery and the white theft of Maori land occurred under representative regimes. The point isn’t that democracy is somehow wrong or useless, but rather that there are certain problems for which it is not a relevant answer — for which its function as an answer is, in fact, a false triumphalism, a way to obscure the injustice being fought against — and those are the problems confronted by “Ragnarok” and “Black Panther.” The brutality of violence in “Ragnarok” has not entirely immunized it from this critique, but most of the calls for democratization have been directed at “Black Panther;” unlike the Asgardians the Wakandans end the film with an intact state and the resolution suggested is political, an outreach and community engagement program derided by even many who enjoyed the film as somewhat milquetoast. But this, too, fails to recognize the subversive political instruction offered by the movie. As much as Killmonger is a criticism of white American imperialism he is a reference, too, to black American masculinity, recalling the real-life Black Panthers with his militancy and militarism (and Oakland roots), and just like the real-life Black Panthers his greatest failing is his enclosure within the patriarchy, a narrow space which sees violence as the only viable solution and thereby renders itself vulnerable to co-option by power, black bodies piling up in inadvertent service to white supremacy — the plains of Wakanda are not the jungles of Guyana but Killmonger hid black loss in his rhetoric of black liberation as surely as Jim Jones, allied with the leadership of the Black Panthers, ever did. Peel away the mass homicide and Jonestown becomes a struggle for utopia imagined and labored over by black women, whose efforts are rendered futile in the face of patriarchal violence; on a vastly less deadly scale the same narrative played out amongst the (real-life, historical) Panthers themselves, their school lunches and day-care programs and community-building programs overwhelmed by the forcible militarization (and police response) demanded by male leadership. That T’Challa sees the futility of violent overthrow and invests Wakanda’s wealth and future in Nakia’s fugitive femininity of teaching the children well is a radical realignment of power indeed, and if it feels timid for the film’s narrative to end here — to not imagine the outcome of such efforts, the Jonestown might-have-beens — it is perhaps because the very notion of patriarchal power subjugating itself to community support and feminine fugitivity is so radical that even the most visionary artists can’t see past such an act to its outcome: we have been conditioned to expect inspiration and are offered instead a challenge, dared to fill in the blanks of our own futures. The film offers another answer, too, in the metatextual truth of its own existence, black liberation implicit in black creativity (with whites in fugitive solidarity, as with cinematographer Rachel Morrison), pushing against the narrative enclosures constructed by so much white supremacist patriarchy. In the comics, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a storyline about Wakanda’s transition to a constitutional monarchy, and I’d love to see that play out on the big screen but for it to do so effectively it must acknowledge that democracy is not an end-point, but rather, a beginning; not a pat resolution to anti-imperialism but only a step along the way, inclusive representation necessary but not sufficient for a genuinely just society. Given that one of the first events in “Infinity War” is the genocide of the Asgardian refugees, I don’t expect the MCU to explore the idea as it relates to Thor any further — though perhaps we can hope for sincere engagement on the topic in “Black Panther 2” — but it is the likes of “Infinity War,” and its willingness to not only ignore but actively destroy the character and thematic development of the one-off movies, which gives me pause. There are counter-examples, but on balance, this is a franchise that remains more devoted to spectacle and violence than to thoughtful political exploration. Film is, as the obvious saying goes, a visual medium, and is thus prone to spectacle and violence. Most of us, in most of our lives, do not experience conflict as action movies portray it, but rather know it as words and feelings, perhaps harsh, perhaps passive-aggressive, perhaps public, perhaps private. Words and feelings are hard to render visually, and although film is also a temporal medium and an emotive medium and ultimately a narrative medium above all else, the reliance on concretized, well-visualized representations of conflict is a highly paid Hollywood habit. Sometimes it’s justified by the story. More often that not, it’s not. The tragic limitations of violence as a storytelling device are best represented in the MCU not only by the falseness of Killmonger’s righteous payback but by the relationship between Tony Stark and Peter Parker, which serves as a surrogate father/son relationship particularly for the aging, childless Tony. The tragedy is limned from their first meeting, when Tony recruits a painfully young Peter to join his personal fight with Cap; that Peter disintegrates in Tony’s arms at the end of “Infinity War” is less tragic than the realization that Tony has, over the course of their relationship, nothing to offer his surrogate son except indoctrination into the mindless menace of violence, posing as virtue. What cure does democracy offer here? Forced into the visual vocabulary and comic book logic of the MCU, Captain America’s Nixon-punching becomes somehow more valuable than the vital democratic process of investigation, reportage, and near-impeachment. With some exceptions — “Black Panther,” natch — this is an extraordinarily cynical conception of power, a near-total repudiation of Kennedyesque idealism in which the vast majority of humanity remains absent and silent, and only those who throw the most devastating blows are able negotiators. Hank Pym might be a brilliant scientist, but in the opening scenes of “Ant-Man,” it’s his ability to punch somebody that earns him the most credibility. How do you solve a problem like “Ant-Man”? It’s the most purely fun of any MCU outing — some might argue for “Guardians of the Galaxy” but, true confessions time, I’ve fallen asleep each time I’ve tried to watch either of them, which is not to say that they are bad movies but simply that I find “Andy Dwyer Goes To Space” vastly harder to connect with than I would have ever predicted — but that fun obscures so many frustrating oversights that to call it good is far too generous. It’s effective at what it does, but that effectiveness is precisely what makes its goals — and all the things it chose not to do — so obvious and problematic. Scott Lang is lots of fun (and, because Paul Rudd might be immortal, looks identical to Mike Hannigan), and Hank Pym gets to be a hero; but why bother hiring Judy Greer only to so thoroughly waste her comedic talents, and as for Hope… watching her on-screen, participating so little in the story while the men around her got to do so much, I felt like a kid again, waiting and, yes, hoping for the female characters on my screens to help drive the story only to be disappointed, time and again, by the consolation prize of a kiss masquerading as empowerment. Yes, yes, I know she gets her own suit in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” but to have to wait a whole movie for her to get second billing — for her to have to earn what is freely offered to white male characters — only proves my point: equal in the sequel in not equal at all. Then there’s Luis, portrayed by the reliably luminous Michael Pena, who remains the only major Latinx character in the MCU. Writing that out feels wrong — in as many movies as they’ve made, surely there must be more Latinx representation than one Bay Area street criminal — but it’s correct, and if Hope functions best to highlight the unrelenting maleness of this franchise, Luis, despite his delightful monologues, serves the same depressing purpose for its whiteness. Such whiteness reaches its peak in “Doctor Strange,” a movie which dedicates itself so wholly to film as a visual medium — and it is a very visually interesting experience — that it forgets to tell an interesting story, too. Stephen Strange’s journey is a bog-standard special-white-guy-goes-to-the-mystical-East-and-becomes-the-most-heroic-hero-who-ever-hero’ed; given that we’ve seen the likes of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon in essentially the same role, it was only a matter of time before it fell to Benedict Cumberbatch. As the anticipation for “Crazy Rich Asians” has hopefully articulated there is a deep well of interest in stories not only of Asians and Asian-Americans but also of return, of second-generation immigrants experiencing the conflict of visiting their families’ countries of origin, and the bald fact is that “Doctor Strange” would have been a much more compelling story if its titular character had been Asian-American himself. Instead, the filmmakers chose to render the ageless oracle of Eastern wisdom as Tilda Swinton. To discuss the identity politics of casting and characterization in a major franchise right now is to inevitably invoke thoughts of the MCU’s Disney sibling, Star Wars, the fandom of which has been riven since “The Last Jedi” about the wisdom of straying from the original trilogy’s Skywalker-centric storytelling. To say that the fandom has been riven might be overselling — as in so man matters, not least US politics, a small minority of loud white men have taken to preaching their complaints so doggedly and vociferously that they are easily mistaken for widespread sentiment — but that’s the narrative that has arisen in the wake of a new central trio composed of a girl, a black guy, and a brown guy, and to whom an Asian girl has recently been added. The only white guy left is the villain! Oh no! We are truly oppressed! say fans who can look to the entire original trilogy, any of the prequels, every MCU movie except “Black Panther,” and the vast majority of movies ever made to see protagonists who look just like them; I wouldn’t find their whining worth addressing except that I’ve heard echoes of it in other viewers who should know better, who say things like “Yeah but that whole plotline with Canto Bight was just silly” or “Rose didn’t really have a point, but I guess they wanted to put in an Asian chick” — comments which, much like the complainers themselves, miss the entire thematic argument of “The Last Jedi,” a statement about the power of political nobodies which is made quite plain by a lowly mechanic, who has suffered great personal loss in this fight, persuading a rebel hero who has nothing at stake beyond his own skin to stay and fight, rather than take the easy outs of escape or, later, martyrdom. Canto Bight is similarly necessary, demonstrating the galactic inequalities against which the rebels fight — a necessary corrective in a world where neoconservative Twitter makes sport of supporting the law-and-order regime of the Empire, claiming that the destruction of Alderaan was justified as a military target — grounding the story in broader stakes beyond Sharon Carter’s dumb notion that rebellion needs no justification (a position one encounters in the real world in the ongoing, ahistorical romanticization of the confederate cause) and showing the ultimately fruitless, but not at all pointless, efforts that our beleaguered heroes must make in order to gain even the slightest edge in their battle against imperial power. Imagine “The Last Jedi” without Rose Tyco or Canto Bight and you will imagine a profoundly stupid movie, incoherent politically and narratively, claustrophobically narrow in its perspective on a galaxy far, far away. And Rey — oy, vey. The invective directed by fans against Rey for not being a Skywalker is puzzling, to put it mildly; it’s like an ostensible progressive being angry that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t a Kennedy (with JFK, RFK, and Teddy as the Leia, Luke, and Chewie, respectively), which is to say, sure, that dynasty was interesting and all, and I guess you’re entitled to your bereavement, but also… you’re kind of missing everything that makes her interesting and exciting, for either value of “her” under discussion. Go ahead and feel whatever complex feelings you have about the matter, but please stop making the rest of us responsible for those feelings, punishing us with your guns or your enormous social advantage. That inchoate sense of loss is named grief, and despite the lavish, escapist promises of capitalism it is foundational to the human condition — to join the rest of us in learning how to process such grief, to accept it rather than turning it outwards as rage, well, I guess this is growing up. I’ve seen “Mr. Rogers” (Fred, not Steve) and I know white dudes are just as capable of emotional maturity as anyone else. “The Last Jedi” is not a perfect film; indeed, I question whether perfection is possible within the loose, baggy monsters that are contemporary franchise blockbusters. Unlike “Ragnarok” or “Black Panther,” it’s not an excellent film, either, though it is a good one. The difference is perhaps inevitable, for although writer/director Rian Johnson is a deeply well-intentioned white man he has lived his entire life with the soft bigotry of low expectations, whereas directors like Coogler and Waititi — and Patty Jenkins, whose “Wonder Woman” is the sole exception to the consistent terribleness of the films of the DC Universe — must be twice as good to get half as far; to land in the same place — directing franchise blockbusters for Disney — demands, as a simple matter of arithmetic, that women and people of color be at least four times as good, and it shows in their output. Such quantification is partly joking but the reality, for filmmakers attempting to walk the line between inclusion and unheard viewpoints and mass-market studios and predominantly white male audiences, is that women and people color will of course be more skilled at this negotiation, not by any inherent virtue but simply because it is what we practice every single day of our lives; it is the vulgar and exhausting dance by which we are constantly striving to secure our personhood in a world which has made it conditional and earned. We’re good at code-switching and subversion, because it’s how we survive. The most recent apogee of the form is Hannah Gadsby’s transcendent Netflix special “Nanette,” which white-dude comedy bros who happily defend and deconstruct the likes of Andy Kaufman have lined up to declare “not real comedy” on account of it not being comedy that they can access as performers, and of course, if white guys can’t do it then it doesn’t count. “The Last Jedi” might be inelegant, at least in part, but just wait until Star Wars finds their Waititi or their Coogler or their Jenkins — or their Dee Rees, or their Ava DuVernay, or their Karyn Kusama or Gina Prince-Bythewood, who was supposed to be the first woman of color to direct a superhero movie until “Silver and Black” stalled out. There’s plenty of choices. Let’s see what they can do. Of course it’s always possible for a film to be misread, as with “Ragnarok,” rather than rapturously welcomed, as “Black Panther” and “Wonder Woman” were (and even they could be misread by the willful). The cause need not be the studied ignorance of indigenous art and thought; sometimes, it can be purely a matter of studied discomfort. If “Black Panther” recapitulates and subverts “Hamlet” in order to racebend the MCU then it is following a tradition from another Disney sibling, Pixar, whose “Brave” similarly subverted the Bard so as to genderbend their own narrowly imagined universe, where male rats and male cars and male monsters and male robots could all be heroes but a human female, ah, that might be a step too far! Set in medieval Scotland, “Brave” is an obvious critique of The Scottish Play, but one in which the Queen’s political skill and ambition, as contrasted to her warrior husband, is presented not as cunning or evil but as necessary and intelligent diplomacy; if you must call her Lady M, let it stand for meritorious. “Brave” is often regarded as a mediocre movie, or at least the worst of Pixar, but in truth it tells a very similar story to the celebrated “Moana” with at least as much skill: a headstrong young princess in conflict with a parent over the role she must inherit and its concomitant duties, who goes on an impulsive journey that, though she risks her life, teaches important lessons about selfhood. Both movies reject romance as a resolution, and though only one has songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, that’s not the distinction which made “Moana” the more legible offering — for that we must look at which parent our headstrong young princess found conflict with, for therein lies the crucial difference. “Moana” trades out a young man for a daughter to tell an otherwise conventional story about negotiating fraught paternal expectations; in “Brave,” Merida finds refuge in her father’s obliviousness and derives conflict from her relationship with her mother. Moana’s mother is barely a presence in her daughter’s story, silent and supportive. Merida’s mother is a complicated villain (…ish) who opens us to the complicated nature of motherhood, an interrogation towards which we, as a society, have repeatedly turned our backs. Mother/daughter conflict makes for a less satisfying vision of girl power, but the truth is — as so many women know all too well — mothers, and other female authority figures, can often be the most brutal enforcers of patriarchal values, knowing from their own hard personal experience that accommodating systems of power is often easier than resistance, if only one can cultivate the stomach for it. “Brave” is an excellent movie, if one is up to the task. The truth is that I’m not particularly invested in the MCU, or Star Wars, or Pixar; I never dressed up as any of their characters for Halloween, never wrote their fanfic, never invested any of my identity in their stories. I have some fun memories of watching the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS tapes during high school slumber parties but ultimately it’s about as meaningful to me as the Kennedys — I had a friend who used to keep her weed in a bust of JFK, ha ha ha, aren’t random teenage memories fun? — which is to say, hardly at all. It’s not because I was opposed to any kind of fandom but merely because mine lay elsewhere, at X-Ville and Scullyfic and the Gossamer Project, in dressing up as Dana Scully or John Shiban, which is to say, in “The X-Files.” Such a love affair was an easier thing to admit to three years ago; in the wake of the monumentally disastrous revival of the show — six episodes in 2016, ten episodes in 2018 — I’m almost embarrassed to admit to the fandom which veritably defined my adolescence, and yes, it really was that bad. Star Wars fans can bitch all they like but until those movies decide to retcon Kylo Ren so that he’s not the son of Leia and Han but rather Leia and her rapist Emperor Palpatine, we are not even in the same universe of having our beloved and formative stories shit on by an uncaring narrative overlord. When such a reveal is conducted exclusively among male characters, with Leia’s reaction to the news happening belatedly and entirely off-screen — well, then perhaps I might accord their frustrations some legitimacy. The sheer awfulness of the “X-Files” revival — its malice, its stupidity, its self-importance — made me question whether the show had ever been good at all, or if I’d wasted years of my younger life investing in something venal and profoundly dumb. The truth is that such interrogation was scary and difficult, and easier to replicate publicly with the MCU — to which I have no real attachment — than to document in its messy, overinvolved uncertainty and nostalgia, the endless stream of memories I can append to even the briefest glance between Mulder and Scully. But it was worth my time, and I’d recommend the exercise to anyone with a fandom of their own. Like what you like, but understand and recognize why you like it and where its faults might lie; nobody who has watched “Cougar Town” as many times as I have has any right to demand that art and entertainment should be entirely unproblematic but I know what it is that makes that series good — its big-hearted take on the relationships we build as we age, the serious consideration it gives to the obligations of physical proximity — and I’m only occasionally unwilling to admit to the small-minded sexism and homophobia that keeps it from being great. There was one excellent episode in the sixteen hours of the revival, a singular feat which towered over all the rest: “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat,” by Darin Morgan, who penned four of the series’ finest episodes during its original nine years (the answer to whether or not “The X-Files” is any good is the answer to the same question about the Marvel Cinematic Universe: it can be, and when Darin Morgan (or Vince Gilligan) wrote the story, it invariably was). “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” is a strange episode, one that argues against its own existence, against the very concept of a revival, against nostalgia altogether. It’s brilliant and funny and ends with the perennial wisdom of Dana Katherine Scully refusing to try to recapture the past, wanting instead to remember it all, just as it was. We should all be so lucky. The truth may not be out there, but the truths are, so many untold stories and experiences waiting to be discovered, to be folded into our common understanding. We don’t find those truths in the same places we’ve explored so many times already and yet sometimes, in the right hands, we can: “Spider-Man: Homecoming” was the third reboot of the series in recent years but somehow the combination of the virtually unknown director Jon Watts, the precocious vulnerability of Tom Holland, and the confident surprise of Zendaya made a movie that was not only good in a narrative or visual sense, but one which was also startlingly honest about being a teenager, a feat unmanaged by any of its predecessors. “Ragnarok” was treading already well-churned waters when it managed to reinvent Thor with its deft decolonialism — of a paragon of far-right paganism, no less — and low-key Kiwi humor, trading a tired heroes’ journey for something simultaneously more fun and more impactful. “Black Panther,” “The Last Jedi, and “Brave” all traffic in new takes on the monomyth, which suggests that there are always new stories left to tell, as least if we’re willing to divorce ourselves from fealty to such insubstantial details as MJ being a redhead — and willing to let new voices tell those stories. It’s easy to dismiss so much verbiage with the idea that it’s just a movie, that these things are somehow beneath serious consideration, but the combined box office of the MCU or Star Wars or Pixar is larger than the GDP of dozens of countries; these are built on an edifice of massive financial investment and the labor and artistry and livelihood of tens of thousands of individuals. They shape our cultural conversations and our political understandings, our interpretation of our world, and for that it is fair to demand not perfection or even excellence but at the very least a good-faith effort. Political prescription in pop culture is made out to be chorey and unentertaining but “Ragnarok” and “Black Panther” are far from either; further afield there’s stories which don’t rely on heroic archetype at all but yet manage hilarity, like “What We Do In the Shadows” (there’s Waititi again), and easy as it is to joke that we live in the darkest timeline let’s also remember that we’re in a world where “Hamilton” exists, where we can enjoy a musical or at least a soundtrack in which mind-bendingly good rhyme melds with more traditional Broadway standards to impart lessons about early American history while also deconstructing the heroic stature of at least a few of our Founding Fathers — and this is a thing that was not only made but became explosively, historically popular. It may get lost behind the scrim of so many revivals, behind the relentless longing of our nostalgia, but we are desperately thirsty for new stories and new perspectives, and we are learning — haphazardly, perhaps — how to embrace them. If the hero does indeed have a thousand faces, then we have seen only the most miniscule proportion of them. Maybe it is the need for a hero that is the real mirage; Campbellism has held our culture in thrall for far too long, and perhaps the greatest popular myth of all is the lie that there is only kind of story worth telling. PS: If you or anyone you know want to buy my complete series of “X-Files” DVDs, plus an Official Fan Club copy of the pilot script, let me know.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line620
__label__wiki	0.940328	0.940328	Following the Los Angeles Lakers with Mark Medina Jordan Farmar leaves Lakers-Bucks game with hamstring tightness Posted on December 31, 2013 by Mark Medina The Lakers are losing games at almost the same rate they’re losing players. Jordan Farmar left with 6:33 remaining in the third quarter of the Lakers’ game Tuesday against the Milwaukee Bucks at Staples Center after experiencing tightness in his left hamstring. He won’t return and plans to receive an ultrasound on Wednesday. This marks yet another blow to the Lakers’ depleted roster, which already includes injuries to Kobe Bryant (fractured left knee), Steve Nash (nerve issues in back), Steve Blake (hyperextended right elbow), Xavier Henry (bone bruise in right knee) and Wesley Johnson (stomach flu). That leaves the Lakers with only one traditional point guard in Kendall Marshall, who was taken from the Developmental League only a week ago. Farmar has struggled ever since returning from a strained left hamstring that had sidelined him for 10 games. He finished with zero points on 0 pf 5 shooting, seven assists and four rebounds in 20 minutes in the Lakers’ game against Milwaukee. Through four games in his return, Farmar had averaged 6.75 points on a 27.7 percent clip and six assists in 26.25 minutes per game. Before his injury, Farmar had averaged a dependable 9.2 points and 4.4 assists in 18.9 minutes. Lakers wouldn’t accept Bynum-for-Gasol deal Nick Young to start against Milwaukee Pau Gasol to play Tuesday vs. Milwaukee Follow L.A. Daily News Lakers beat writer Mark Medina on Twitter. E-mail him at mark.medina@dailynews.com Share this post ... Posted in Kobe Bryant \| Leave a reply A trade that woud bring Andrew Bynum, right, to Los Angeles and send Pau Gasol, left, to Cleveland, is not going to happen, a source tells the Daily News. Gasol and Bynum are seen here after losing 103-100 to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game Four of the Western Conference Semifinals on May 19, 2012, at Staples Center. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum will forever be linked as Laker teammates. It’s unlikely they will be linked as centerpieces of a deal, however, that would involve Gasol going to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Bynum going to the Lakers. According to a league source familiar with the details, the Lakers wouldn’t accept such a proposal as reported by ESPN.com. One, the Lakers have no desire to bring back Bynum. His role in bringing two NBA championships with the Lakers was soured with behavior issues before ultimately being part of a four-team traded that brought Dwight Howard to the Lakers last season. Bynum was also indefinitely suspended by the Cavaliers for conduct detrimental to the team. Bynum has only averaged 8.4 points on 41.9 percent shooting and 5.3 rebounds in 20 minutes. Secondly, the Lakers aren’t keen on the deal even if it would involve immediately waiving Bynum. He would be owed $6 million of his $12.3 million salary if he is waived before Jan. 7. Cleveland has already paid Bynum around $4.828 million, leaving the Lakers to owe Bynum the remaining $1.72 million.Though the Lakers could ultimately save up to $20 million in payroll and luxury taxes, the Lakers would want more assets. Per NBA rules, the Cavaliers would have to include another player to make the deal work. Third, the Lakers are currently hoping Gasol will bounce back from a sub-par season where he has averaged only 14.7 points on a career-low 44.6 percent shooting. Gasol, who is making $19.3 million in the final year of his contract, is slated to play when the Lakers (13-18) host the Milwaukee Bucks (6-24) tonight at Staples Center after sitting three of the past five games because of an upper respiratory infection. “He has talent and will find it,” Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said of Gasol. “He’s battling injuries and battling sickness there. We got to get in a groove, but he’s been around a long time. He knows.” The Lakers are decimated by injuries, including Kobe Bryant (fractured left knee), Steve Nash (nerve issues in back), Steve Blake (hyperextended right elbow) and Xavier Henry (bone bruise and tone cartilage in right knee). But the Lakers currently remain reluctant in writing this season off. Follow L.A. Daily News Lakers beat writer Mark Medina on Twitter. E-mail him at mark.medina@langnews.com In what will mark their 17th different starting lineup this season, the Lakers (13-18) will start Nick Young at small forward tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks (6-24) at Staples Center because of the strong likelihood Wesley Johnson sits out with gastroenteritis, otherwise known as the stomach flu. The Lakers are already reeling from long-term absences to Kobe Bryant (fractured left knee), Steve Nash (nerve issues in back) and Steve Blake (hyperextended right elbow). The Lakers also will reevaluate small forward Xavier Henry in 7-10 days after suffering torn cartilage and a bone bruise in his right knee. Young has become of the few bright spots for the Lakers’ this season, averaging 16.2 points on 42.9 percent shooting mostly as a bench reserve. But Young’s ascension to the starting lineup has less to do with his stellar play and more to do with Johnson’s illness. Through six starts, Young averaged 9.5 points per game on 33.5 percent shooting. Through 25 games off the bench, Young has averaged 17.8 points per game on a 44.3 percent clip. “We’ll look and see how it goes tonight,” Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said. “You always evaluate it. But this move was caused by this. We’ll see what happens. Continue reading “Nick Young to start against Milwaukee” » Jordan Hill on his role, love of tattoos & video games os Angeles Lakers center Jordan Hill, right, puts up a shot as Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Below is the beginning of an occasional series that features a Lakers player or official answering five questions on matters both on and off the court. The first subject: Lakers forward/center Jordan Hill How many tattoos do you have? Too many to count. It’s in the 50’s or 40’s. I don’t have a favorite one. They’re all my favorites. Most of them are about my family, kids, basketball, God and where I’m from. I got my first one when I was 16 with a basketball and my mom’s name on it that says “In Loving Memory. Doing it for You.” I then waited before I got more. I didn’t have a lot of money. So I started doing a little extra. I got them in high school sporadically. Once I got in the NBA, I got some every week. Continue reading “Jordan Hill on his role, love of tattoos & video games” » Xavier Henry out at least 7-10 days with bone bruise in right knee With an MRI showing a bone bruise and cartilage damage in his right knee, Lakers forward Xavier Henry will be sidelined for the next seven to 10 days. The Lakers’ initial timeline means Henry is slated to miss at least the next three games at Staples Center against Milwaukee (Tuesday), Utah (Friday) and Denver (Friday). It’s currently unclear if Henry could return in time for the Lakers’ two-game trip next week in Dallas (Jan. 7) and Houston (Jan. 8). The Lakers will reevaluate him around that time frame, making it possible Henry could miss even more time. Pau Gasol has healed his upper respiratory infection enough to feel comfortable playing Tuesday against Utah. But the Lakers also remain hobbled by other injuries, including Kobe Bryant (fractured left knee), Steve Nash (nerve issues in back) and Steve Blake (hyperextended right elbow). Lakers center Chris Kaman also missed practice on Monday because of sprained left ankle, though he is expected to play Tuesday vs. Milwaukee. “He’s sore,” Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said of Henry before the MRI results were available. “But we hope he’s not bad. But he’s been a point guard so he might be out for a couple of years.” Continue reading “Xavier Henry out at least 7-10 days with bone bruise in right knee” » The Lakers’ Pau Gasol #16 looks to pass as the Heat’s Dwyane Wade #3 defends during their game at the Staples Center December 25, 2013. The Heat beat the Lakers 101-95. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht/Los Angeles Daily News) Long after everyone else cleared the practice court, Pau Gasol remained there working on post moves, mid-range jumpers and conditioning drills. Once it was all done, Gasol stuck his head into a trash can and coughed out the built up mucus stemmed from a upper respiratory infection that kept him out of three of the past five games. Gasol will suit up when the Lakers (13-18) host the Milwaukee Bucks (6-24) Tuesday at Staples Center. But the image revealed two things. It aimed to contradict the notion that Gasol was using his season-long ailments as an excuse either to sit out or not play with full effort. It also caused some team officials to roll their eyes at the apparent theatre before Gasol spoke to reporters. Whatever the case may be, Gasol sounded both determined to play through his latest ailments and unapologetic for sitting out earlier. “I tried to play through it as much as I can. “I played through it when I first got the respiratory issue earlier in the season and I was getting killed by not performing and all that stuff,” said Gasol, who has 14.7 points on a career-low 44.6 percent shooting. “When you try to play through stuff, you still don’t get any credit. You don’t play through stuff, you still don’t get any credit. You’re not going to get credit much especially when things aren’t working out and the team is losing .It is what it is. I’m trying to do what’s best for myself and the team in this case.” Continue reading “Pau Gasol to play Tuesday vs. Milwaukee” » Kobe Bryant talks about “Pure Joy” in Nike Prelude IV Once it became official, Kobe Bryant jumped up in the air and flailed his arms. The grumpy personality Bryant usually displayed suddenly evaporated. And he couldn’t stop smiling. Bryant just won his fourth NBA championship in the 2009 NBA Finals against the Orlando Magic. And though he experienced this already before, the adrenaline rush felt different. Hence why the Nike Prelude IV that he wore during that time captures what he calls the “pure joy.” “The shoes are pure joy because of all the hard work and the misery the year before,” Bryant said in a Nike interview, referring to the Lakers’ 2008 NBA Finals loss to the Lakers. “I remember winning the championship and being on cloud nine. It was very different than he previous ones. The previous ones I was 21 years old, 22 years old, 23 years old and it was like, ‘This is what happens.’ You come into the league and you win championships.” Continue reading “Kobe Bryant talks about “Pure Joy” in Nike Prelude IV” » Xavier Henry maintaining optimism about knee injury Xavier Henry calmly sat by his locker, bearing the same laid-back expression and tone that he does after posting a a breakout performance. Yet, these circumstances were different. Henry had strained his right knee in the first quarter of the Lakers’ 111-104 loss Sunday to the Philadelphia 76ers at Staples Center. Henry will take an MRI on Monday after describing the knee as “a little swollen.” And the Lakers offered no evidence they will snap their five-game losing streak anytime soon. But Henry still maintained optimistic everything would work out. Why? “I just have faith everything will be okay,” said Henry, who was scoreless on two shot attempts in only four minutes and 26 seconds of play. “This is not the end of the world for me no matter what they say with the MRI. It’s part of God’s plan and I can only ride it.” Continue reading “Xavier Henry maintaining optimism about knee injury” » Xavier Henry leaves Lakers-Sixers game with strained right knee As if the Lakers could afford any more injuries. Lakers forward Xavier Henry strained his right knee early in the Lakers’ game Sunday against the Philadelphia 76ers at Staples Center, and will have an MRI on Monday morning. Henry left the game with 1:14 remaining in the first quarter and went scoreless on two field goal attempts in five minutes. It remains to be seen how serious Henry’s injury will become. But with the pain in his knee keeping him out at least for the rest of the Lakers-Sixers game, it exposes the team’s already flimsy backcourt. The Lakers are still nursing injuries to Kobe Bryant (fractured left knee), Steve Nash (nerve issues in back) and Steve Blake (hyperextended right elbow). Lakers backup guard Jordan Farmar played in the past three games after missing the previous 10 contests because of a strained left hamstring. But the Lakers relied heavily on Xavier Henry as the team’s backup point guard because of D’Antoni feeling uncomfortable with Kendall Marshall, whom the Lakers’ recently acquired from the Development League. “I’ve seen him play many two minutes,” D’Antoni said of Marshall, who posted three points on two shot attempts and four turnovers through two games totaling 10 minutes. “I don’t think we’re at the point where we can experiment. We’re not going to lose games because I’m experimenting.” But with the Lakers’ roster dwindling by the day, D’Antoni may have no other choice. Jordan Hill to start tonight vs. Philadelphia Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recalls Andrew Bynum’s inconsistent commitment Nick Young argues Andrew Bynum received unfair criticism in Philadelphia Jordan Hill will start at center when the Lakers (13-17) host the Philadelphia 76ers (8-21) tonight at Staples Center. Pau Gasol will miss his third game in the past five contests because of an upper respiratory infection, while Chris Kaman will come off the bench after sprained his left ankle in the Lakers’ loss Friday to Utah. Hill has started in 16 games, averaging 10.8 points on 56.8 percent shooting and 8.5 rebounds in 23.8 minutes. But Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni has preferred playing Hill off the bench out of concern that he burns out with fatigue. “He’s an energy guy,” D’Antoni said. “I think his best position is coming in and giving us spurts. You have to do what you have to do. He’ll perform well. We won’t keep him out there a long time where he has to play heavy minutes.” If not for Kaman just coming off an ankle injury, he would have started. Against Utah, Kaman posted 17 points and 10 rebounds. But D’Antoni said Kaman will come off the bench ahead of Robert Sacre both so he can get in a rhythm off his tender ankle and because of Gasol’s absence. Steve Nash participates in shooting drills after morning shootaround Tweets by @MarkG_Medina LaVar & Lonzo Ball reality TV show premieres on Aug. 31 Spectrum SportsNet’s Mike Bresnahan on Lonzo Ball & Lakers’ front office getting an ‘A-‘ this offseason Why Fred Roggin cautions Lakers fans not to overreact from Las Vegas Summer League Why Magic Johnson has no regrets trading D’Angelo Russell Lakers anticipate filling out roster in “next week or two” Lakers’ Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma to play Wednesday vs. Sixers Lakers waive second-year guard David Nwaba Why Lonzo Ball’s summer league performance is an encouraging sign for his rookie season Lakers’ Lonzo Ball to sit in Monday’s summer-league game vs. Sacramento with groin injury How Kyle Kuzma’s work on outside shot helped in second Summer League game Wayrma New York on Metta World Peace expected to start in Kobe Bryant’s place vs. Kings Cihan Ayaz on Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal bury hatchet during podcast Zach Henderson on Did you have Senegal plus 46? Zach Henderson on Jeremy Lin, Steve Nash star in another parody video Zach Henderson on Magic Johnson said he’ll “never interfere” with Luke Walton’s efforts to coach the Lakers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line621
__label__cc	0.666538	0.333462	Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi Al Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi Hazza Bin Zayad Stadium, Al Ain Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai Rashid Stadium, Dubai Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah Asian Cup 2019 opener: UAE edge Bahrain in head-to-head stats By Abdelaziz Abuhamar January 5 – The 2019 Asian Cup opener today between the host nation UAE and Bahrain will be only the second encounter between the two national teams in this competition. The first was in the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia. UAE won 2-1. UAE features in the Asian Cup for the 10th time while Bahrain is posting its 6th appearance in the Asian continental showpiece finals. The meeting is in fact the 28thinternational encounter between the two countries; UAE have won 14 times, Bahrain 9 times, with four matches having been drawn. Traditional the opening matches in the competition have been poor for both countries. The UAE in their last 9 openers lost 4, drew 4 and were only able to win once, in their 2015 Asian Cup opener in Australia against Qatar. UAE won 4-1. As for Bahrain, the reds are yet to find a winning start in the Asian Cup having lost 3 times and drawn twice in their previous 5 opening games. The two teams are meeting for the first time in over two years. Their last encounter, an international friendly in November 2016, saw UAE winning 2-0 at the Hazza bin Zayed stadium. UAE have won the last five encounters over Bahrain with the reds now looking for their first win over UAE for more than ten years. Bahrain’s last victory over the UAE was also in an international friendly, 3-2 in August 2008 in Abu Dhabi. Head to Head games 19/11/2016 UAE 2- 0 Bahrain International Friendly 15/1/2015 Bahrain 1 – 2 UAE Asian Cup 8/1/2013 Bahrain 1 – 2 UAE Gulf Cup 16/10/2012 Bahrain 2 – 6 UAE International Friendly 29/11/2010 UAE 3 – 1 Bahrain Gulf Cup 29/8/2008 UAE 2- 3 Bahrain International Friendly 27/6/2007 Bahrain 2 – 2 UAE International Friendly 7/1/2004 UAE 1- 3 Bahrain Gulf Cup 27/1/2002 Bahrain 2 – 1 UAE Gulf Cup 30/10/1998 UAE 1- 0 Bahrain Gulf Cup 19/4/1997 UAE 3 – 0 Bahrain World Cup qualifier 11/4/1997 Bahrain 1 – 2 UAE World Cup qualifier 18/10/1996 Bahrain 1 – 1 UAE Gulf Cup 12/11/1994 UAE 0-0 Bahrain Gulf Cup 4/12/1992 UAE 2-0 Bahrain Gulf Cup 30/5/1992 UAE 3 – 1 Bahrain Asian Cup qualifier 3/3/1988 UAE 2 – 0 Bahrain Gulf Cup 27/3/1982 Bahrain 3 –2 UAE Gulf Cup 6/1/1979 UAE 2 – 0 Bahrain Asian Cup qualifier 27/3/1976 Bahrain 3 -2 UAE Gulf Cup 18/3/1974 UAE 4-1 Bahrain Gulf Cup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IObovkknQco&t Grp A UAE 1 2 0 4 2 5 Thailand 1 1 1 3 5 4 Bahrain 1 1 1 2 2 4 India 0 1 1 4 4 3 Grp B Jordan 2 1 0 3 0 7 Australia 2 0 1 6 3 6 Palestine 0 2 1 0 2 2 Syria 0 1 2 2 5 1 Grp C Korea rep 3 0 0 4 0 9 China 2 0 1 5 3 6 Kryzg Rep 1 0 2 4 4 3 Philippines 0 0 3 1 7 0 Grp D Iran 2 1 0 7 0 7 Iraq 2 1 0 6 2 7 Vietnam 1 0 2 4 5 3 Yemen 0 0 3 0 10 0 Qatar 3 0 0 10 0 9 Saudi Arabia 2 0 1 6 2 6 Lebanon 1 0 2 4 5 3 DPR Korea 0 0 3 1 14 0 Grp F Uzbekistan 2 0 1 3 4 6 Oman 1 0 2 4 4 3 Turkmenistan 0 0 3 2 3 0 Tweets from https://twitter.com/kick_digital/lists/iwf-football-asia AFC Competitions Suwon Samsung Bluewings (KOR) 0 3 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC (KOR) ACL QF - Suwon win 4-2 (PSO) Tianjin Quanjian FC (CHN) 0 2 Kashima Antlers (JPN) ACL QF - Kashima win 5-0 arg Al Sadd SC (QAT) 2 2 Esteghlal FC (IRN) ACL QF - Al Sadd win 5-2 Persepolis FC (IRN) 3 1 Al Duhail SC (QAT) ACL QF - Persepolis win 3-2 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC (KOR) 0 3 Suwon Samsung Bluewings (KOR) ACL QF - 1st leg Kashima Antlers (JPN) 2 0 Tianjin Quanjian FC (CHN) ACL QF - 1st leg Al Duhail SC (QAT) 1 0 Persepolis FC (IRN) ACL QF - 1st leg Esteghlal FC (IRN) 1 3 Al Sadd SC (QAT) ACL QF - 1st leg	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line622
__label__wiki	0.526278	0.526278	The House subcommittee that had planned to vote this morning to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's recent net neutrality order has postponed the proceeding. The GOP leadership of the Energy and Commerce Committee had been planning to bring a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, a procedural move to reverse rules they argue will impose burdensome regulations on the fast-growing Internet sector. But yesterday, the ranking Democrats on the committee and subcommittee called on the Republican leadership to delay the vote and schedule a hearing to on the resolution of disapproval before moving ahead with a markup. House Republicans said the vote would be rescheduled with the date to be determined. With a solid Republican majority in the House unified against the FCC's order, the resolution of disapproval could sail through the chamber, but would face a tougher time clearing the Senate, where the Democrats maintain a majority and could block efforts to overturn a policy they largely favor. Joint resolutions passed under the CRA would still be subject to a presidential veto. President Obama praised the FCC when it passed its net neutrality order in December.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line624
__label__wiki	0.79045	0.79045	Tag Archive for: The Goon You are here: Home / The Goon Horror News Network’s Comic Awards 2019: Artist of the Year December 31, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Comics, News /by Nick Banks Horror News Network would like to congratulate Eric Powell for his 2019 Artist of the Year Award for his work on The Goon, Grumble vs. The Goon, Spookhouse Halloween Special, a variety of cover work, and his first art collection, The Art (and Many Other Mistakes) of Eric Powell. Powell returned to his fan favorite title The Goon this year to mark the 20th anniversary of the character. He also brought the title back to his own company Albatross Funnybooks. As usual, the new Goon series returned to form, and as Powell told HNN, “I’ve always done The Goon without any boundaries or limitations in mind, and I’ve always taken the book in the direction that I was feeling at the time.” read more http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg 0 0 Nick Banks http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg Nick Banks2019-12-31 08:41:192020-01-01 09:01:32Horror News Network's Comic Awards 2019: Artist of the Year ‘Hellboy vs Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death’ Artist Mike Norton: The Horror News Network Interview May 28, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Comics, News /by Nick Banks Ever since 2010’s Hellboy in Mexico, the series has incorporated elements of lucha libre, Aztec mummies, and other classic influences from “South of the Border” (and south of Heaven, for that matter). Most of these adventures also imagine “Big Red” in Mexico during the heyday of wrestlers vs monsters on screen, so why not share a lost tale from this bygone era and thrown in Lobster Johnson to boot! Mike Norton tackled the artistic duties on the new one-shot entitled Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death and he shared some of his ideas about returning to Hellboy, as well as his critically acclaimed new series from Albatross Funnybooks, Grumble. read more http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg 0 0 Nick Banks http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg Nick Banks2019-05-28 06:30:462019-05-28 06:30:46'Hellboy vs Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death' Artist Mike Norton: The Horror News Network Interview Eric Powell Hits the Road to Celebrate 20 Years of ‘The Goon’ March 7, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Comics, News /by Nick Banks The Goon creator Eric Powell is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of his character by hitting the road for a 23 city tour this year, that will run from March 8 to November 10. Powell will be travelling the country (and Australia), visiting with long-time fans and spreading The Goon gospel to new converts. Powell realizes that there may be “… a select few who have not read the Goon in its 20 year existence. Those unfortunate souls are for the most part survivors of religious cults forbidding all forms of pure joy.But there is a light on the horizon, you victims of programmed mental abuse! The first issue of the new Albatross Funnybook’s The Goon is a perfect jumping on point for new readers and die hard fans alike! If anyone needs help reprogramming your joyless cult existence, I’ll be happy to personally put a copy of The Goon #1 in your hands along any of the 23 stops on my international Goon 20th Anniversary barnstorming tour.” read more http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg 0 0 Nick Banks http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg Nick Banks2019-03-07 16:58:342019-03-07 16:58:34Eric Powell Hits the Road to Celebrate 20 Years of 'The Goon' ‘The Goon’ Creator Eric Powell: The Horror News Network Interview February 25, 2019 /0 Comments/in Horror Comics, Horror Movies and TV Shows, News /by Nick Banks Over the past few years, fans have missed the monsters, mayhem, and mirth that Eric Powell’s The Goon always provides. Even though the artist/writer has kept busy with a variety of other projects (Hillbilly, Spook House, and tons of covers and Mondo art), Powell is about to reunite with the character that made him famous. Powell took some time out of his busy schedule to share some news about his company (Albatross Funnybooks) and the triumphant return of everyone’s favorite tough guy in this exclusive interview. read more http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg 0 0 Nick Banks http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg Nick Banks2019-02-25 06:32:282019-02-25 06:32:28'The Goon' Creator Eric Powell: The Horror News Network Interview Eric Powell’s ‘The Goon’ Returns to Comics in 2019 October 9, 2018 /0 Comments/in Horror Comics, News /by Nick Banks Fans of Eric Powell and his non-nonsense, zombie-smashing, stone-faced hero the Goon have cause to celebrate today, because Powell will be bringing new stories starring his most famous creation to his publishing company Albatross Funnybooks in 2019! An all new Goon comic book will debut from Albatross Funnybooks with a new The Goon #1 next spring. This will be the first new Goon story to be published since Dark Horse’s The Goon: Once Upon a Hard Time hard cover graphic novel in 2015, and according to the official press release , “…will kick off a year-long, 20th anniversary celebration featuring a national signing tour, Albatross Funnybooks’ collected editions of classic Goon graphic novels, limited edition Goon tiki mugs and more.” read more http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg 0 0 Nick Banks http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HNN-logo.jpg Nick Banks2018-10-09 19:22:102018-10-09 19:22:10Eric Powell's 'The Goon' Returns to Comics in 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line629
__label__cc	0.636041	0.363959	Published on November 26th, 2013 \| by adminbill The world’s largest online social networking service with over a billion users connected to its servers. Putting A Face On It Facebook’s password policy is pretty straightforward, although when signing up it doesn’t give new users any indication whatsoever of the restrictions that are in place. It can get frustrating when the password you’re inputting keeps getting rejected. Facebook accepts passwords that are at least 6 characters long and there seems to be no upper limit. Numbers, symbols and different letter cases are all accepted as long as the chosen password isn’t blacklisted by the system. In fact, Facebook has a blacklist system whereby it automatically rejects common names, surnames, places and words it deems to be easy to guess. Keeping It Safe Facebook supports secure browsing (https), but this security features needs to be turned on by the user to take effect. To switch on secure browsing, click on the gear icon at the top-right of the screen and select Account Settings from the menu. On the Accounts Settings page, click on Security and then click on the ‘Secure browsing’ section. Check the box provided and save your settings to start browsing Facebook more securely. Another important security feature that Facebook provides its users is a login notification that alerts the user via email or text message whenever his or her account has been accessed. This can also be enabled from the ‘Security’ section of the Account Settings page. Facebook offers a type of two-factor authentication procedure through something it calls ‘Login Approvals’. Login approvals is a Two Factor Authentication system that requires you to enter a code that is sent to your mobile phone via text message whenever you log into Facebook from a new or unrecognized computer. Once you have entered this security code, you’ll have the option to save the device to your account so that you don’t see this challenge on future logins. You can enable ‘Login Approvals’ from the ‘Security’ section of the Account Settings page. Your Security On Facebook The security settings on Facebook can all be accessed easily from the Account Settings page. After logging into your account, go to the account settings page and click on the ‘Security’ section to find a list of options related to your account’s safety. Among the things you can configure are: secure browsing, login notification, login approvals (two-factor authentication) and app passwords. You can also review a list of trusted contacts (who can help out in case you lose access to your account), app passwords as well as a list of recognised devices that have access to your data and all open sessions. Privacy Prerogatives Facebook collects a variety of personal data from your account both during the registration process as well as during your day-to-day use of the service. Facebook uses the information it collects to administer the services it provides to you and other users like your friends, our partners, the advertisers that purchase ads on the site, and the developers that build the games, applications and websites you use. While Facebook makes extensive use of the data you give it, they stress that you always own all of your information and that this information will not be shared without your permission. If you want to stop using your Facebook account, you can either deactivate or delete it. Deactivating your account puts your account on hold. Other users will no longer see your timeline, but Facebook do not delete any of your information. You will have the opportunity to reactivate your account in the future and pick up where you left off. You can deactivate your account on your account settings page. If you choose to delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Facebook and you cannot reactivate it again. It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days. To delete a Facebook account click on this link. You have to be aware that some of the things you do on Facebook are not stored in your account, like posting to a group or sending someone a message, and this data may remain there after you delete your account. Facing The Music Unfortunately, Facebook is notorious for the hacking attempts that have been made on users’ accounts and there have been several reports of attacks that have been made. This has pushed Facebook to improve its service security considerably over the years and the company is known to respond quickly to any threats to its users’ data integrity. Befriending Apps Facebook integrates with countless other websites, third party applications and games. You can manage the list of connected apps through your account settings page by clicking on the ‘Apps’ section. On this page you can easily change the privacy settings of your apps or revoke their access to your Facebook account and remove them completely. Facebook helpfully provides links to these apps privacy policy and recommends that users read this to make an informed decision about whether to trust third party apps or not. Tracking The Safety Of Your Information Facebook provides you with some basic tools to track the security of your information. These tools can be accessed through the Account Settings page and include such functions as: the ability to review your timeline’s privacy settings and friends’ tags, a list of open sessions with time of access and location, and various other privacy settings to protect your posts or restrict the searchability of your profile. adminbill Orkut → Netlog Twoo → MyLife → Hi5 →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line634
__label__cc	0.504531	0.495469	hussain Abid Saranga Urdu > Qehqaha Insan nay ejad Kia Dhundlaey Din Ki Hidat Utri Koonjain Deutsche Uebersetzungen The Call Of The Floating Reflection I wrote my first poem at the age of twelve and it became my lifelong passion. At fiftien, I began to learn music; harmonium and violin. I graduated in human medicine from the university of punjab, pakistan, and practiced as a general physician for a few years. Dejected by the ongoing political and religious suppression in the country, I left for Europe. My poetry moves in the spheres of contemplation of beauty, philosophy and socio-political delirium. I write in the genres of ghazal, free verse, prose poetry, kafi and song. My poetry has been published in renownd urdu literary journals for thirty years. Three volumes of my poetry and two as a co-author has been published in Lahore, which earned high praise. I have been reciting poems on literary platforms, in recitation sessions (Mushaeyra) and on nationwide radio channels in Pakistan. In 2008, I formed the band Saranga. Our music sounds somewhere between tradition and the modern, combining elements of indian classical ragas, mystic rhythms and melodies pertaining to world music; moving from composition to improvisation. Among other concerts, saranga has performed at '' An Evening With Vandana Shiva'' in Freiburg, at the vernissage of Roger Willemsen's book '' Afghanische Reise'', at International Tamburi Mundi Festival and at Bollywood Filmfestival, Stuttgart. Saranga's debut album '' talking to the river'' was released in 2012. Besides writing and playing concerts, I teach indian/pakistani music and urdu language and, work as an urdu-german interpreter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line636
__label__wiki	0.6028	0.6028	You are here: Home » The Archive » Crashes Expose Oversight Failures Crashes Expose Oversight Failures Posted by Guest Columnist • September 16, 2009 • Printer-friendly Aviation regulators have missed blatant pilot training violations, failed to identify illegal charter flights and allowed planes to fly that should have been grounded, according to government accident records reviewed by USA TODAY. At least six recent fatal crashes of charter jets and small airliners have exposed failures in the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of for-hire air carriers, according to accident files and investigators. In nearly every case, the failures were discovered by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and not the FAA. Charter operators fly planes on a for-hire basis and are considered the air taxis of the aviation system, scheduling flights at the whim of customers. The flights accounted for 249 deaths between 2003 and 2008. Large commercial airline accidents killed 107 people during the same period. "We've got serious violations of the public trust," said former NTSB board member Kitty Higgins. Recent NTSB investigations into crashes that killed 13 people found numerous problems with enforcement. In each case, the fatal accidents happened on planes with nine or fewer seats: After the crash of a jet near Milwaukee on June 4, 2007, that was carrying a lung transplant team from the University of Michigan, NTSB investigators discovered that the charter company's chief pilot, the captain of the fatal flight, was a convicted drug runner. Company training records for pilots were also falsified. The crash March 4, 2008, of a jet in Oklahoma City revealed that a helicopter company helped arrange a jet flight for businessmen in spite of the fact that it was authorized to fly only helicopters. The investigation into a Dec. 23, 2003, crash of a chartered jet in Helendale, Calif., revealed that the plane should have been grounded. One FAA inspector had ordered that the plane not fly because the owner could not document maintenance, but another inspector gave the OK. The issue has come up repeatedly in other accidents. The NTSB found that "inadequate oversight" by the FAA had contributed to the cause of a 2003 accident in Teterboro, N.J., in which a chartered jet skidded off the runway. The FAA's Flight Standards Service director, John Allen, did not address the specific accidents but called the agency's inspections "thorough." He said it can be difficult to prove wrongdoing unless inspectors witness illegal acts. The agency is revamping oversight of smaller carriers, he said. The FAA cannot discuss personnel matters but would take action if it found problems, spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said. In some cases, inspectors blamed heavy workloads. The inspector in the Milwaukee crash case told the NTSB that he oversaw 19 companies and described his workload as "busy."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line642
__label__cc	0.696187	0.303813	Tag Archives: Bombay Bling Parfums Dusita La Douceur de Siam Collage: my own, of the following photos. Left: Photographer unknown. Source: Shotkit.com & Pinterest. Right: Photo by Claire Harrison for Slink Beauty. Sometimes, when I wear La Douceur de Siam, I’m reminded of the famous Forrest Gump line about life being like a box of chocolates, “you never know what you’re going to receive.” In the case of the Dusita fragrance, it’s not chocolates with different fillings but, rather, a tropical fruit salad. Like Gump’s box of chocolates, it sometimes opens up to reveal unexpected surprises, though, at its core, its fundamental essence is always the same: fruity, tangy, tart, and zingy sweetness with a profoundly exotic character. Pissara Umavijani takes this fruity core, layers it with frothy, luminous, tropical florals and creamy vanilla mousse, anchors the bouquet on a base of Mysore sandalwood, then envelops everything in airy clouds of soft benzoin amber and spices for a scent that is always fun, bright, and exuberantly happy. The end result often reminds me of another fragrance, Neela Vermeire‘s Bombay Bling which several bloggers used to characterize as “Prozac in a fragrance bottle.” I think La Douceur de Siam has a similar tropicality, character, and effect. Posted in Floral Oriental, Fruity Florals, Parfums Dusita, Perfume Review \| Tagged Bombay Bling, Douceur de Siam review, Dusita Douceur de Siam, Dusita Douceur de Siam fragrance review, Dusita La Douceur de Siam, Dusita Paris, Fruity floral orientals, La Douceur de Siam, Parfums Dusita, Pissara Umavijani, Tropical fruity florals, tropical orientals Interview – Neela Vermeire: Ashoka, Perfume, Food & Life Posted on September 6, 2013 by Kafkaesque Source: In Rig Veda Psych4u blogspot A while ago, I asked Neela Vermeire of Neela Vermeire Créations (“NVC”) if she would be kind enough to do an interview. She graciously agreed, and I sent along some questions. “Some” is an understatement — not being one for brevity, I’m afraid I inundated her with rather a lengthy list. Ms. Vermeire never blinked, and never once said that her incredibly busy schedule couldn’t accommodate such a barrage. Instead, she spent a portion of her holidays answering them. (And she never told me to fly a kite when I came back with follow-ups, twice!) I’m incredibly grateful for her graciousness, her time, her enormous patience, and her always sunny disposition. Neela Vermeire. Source: Ms. Vermeire. My goal with the questions was for us to learn as much about Neela Vermeire the person and perfume lover, as about the one who creates beautiful perfumes. Many of you know the brief outlines of Ms. Vermeire’s story. She was born in India, living life in the lushness of Calcutta (now Kolkata), before travelling around the world. She studied in America, completing a Master’s Degree in social sciences, then eventually moved to England where she studied law and became a solicitor. She spent a little time in Aberdeen, Scotland, practiced in London, and, for a brief period, moved to Paris where she remained for two years. She went back across the pond to England, then, six years after she left Paris, Ms. Vermeire and her Belgian husband moved back for good, this time for her husband’s work. Bertrand Duchaufour. Source: mparis.ru Ms. Vermeire was always passionate about perfumery and, in an almost organic process, she decided to express her love concretely by starting her own line. So, she approached Bertrand Duchaufour — one of the most famous perfume noses in the world, who has worked with everyone from Dior, to Acqua di Parma, L’Artisan Parfumeur, Comme des Garcons, Givenchy, Penhaligon, and many others. The result was Neela Vermeire Créations, three highly acclaimed fragrances, an award nomination, inclusion at the top of many perfume sites’ annual “Best of” lists, and a passionate following of admirers. And now, a fourth creation whose release is just a week away: Ashoka, Imperial Buddhist, a scent intended to capture the essence and life of India’s most famous Emperor, the man whose very symbol (a chakra) is now placed right in the center of India’s flag. Emperor Ashoka. I asked Ms. Vermeire about Ashoka, its creation, and the feelings that she sought to capture. But what about the woman herself? As I said earlier, I wanted you to know the complex, intellectual, extremely diverse, fascinating woman behind the fragrances, as much as the perfumista who created them. Ms. Vermeire kindly shared everything from some of her favorite perfumes that she used to wear, to her favorite television shows, her culinary weaknesses, and even her favorite type of chocolates. I hope you enjoy the answers as much as I did. What are some of your favorite notes in perfumes? Notes that make you sit up with excitement when you see them on a perfume list? There are too many to list but here are some: iris, jasmine sambac, tuberose, rose, lavender, vetiver, galbanum, sandalwood and most precious woods, styrax, resins… Are there any perfume notes that you struggle with or that you don’t like at all? Certain fruits, heavy patchouli, overtly sweet “gourmand” notes. Which fruit notes don’t you like? Peach? Grape? Grapefruit? Blackcurrant? I have difficulty with fruity notes in general – difficult to point to and blame certain fruits. It really depends on how a perfumer works with some of the fruity notes. What was your earliest perfume memory? It comes of course from my childhood years in India –smell of sandalwood paste, incense, tea, spices, flowers… Before you started your own perfume line, what were some of your favorite perfumes? There are too many to list as I collected many fragrances over the years. What I reached out for the most were: Chanel Bois des Iles Extrait; Chanel No. 22 Extrait; Guerlain Jicky, Vega, and Sous Le Vent; Frederic Malle Iris Poudre and Une Fleur de Cassie; Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist and Bois de Violette. I used to wear the Le Labo Tubereuse 40 NY exclusive, Iris 39 and Labdanum 18. Also, I love and collect vintage perfumes. My main haul this year include an unopened Shalimar extrait in the box from the 1940s with the original wrapping paper, vintage Femme, and vintage Madame Rochas over summer from an antique fair, among a few…. [All font emphasis to the names added by me.] Did you ever have a signature fragrance? I don’t have a signature fragrance; I have always been too interested in experimenting or trying new scents. That said, I do wear NVC Mohur frequently, and a future creation which is still work in progress. [Font emphasis added by me.] When you started your own perfume house, you obviously had a clear overall vision and inspiration for the perfumes that subsequently became Trayee, Mohur and Bombay Bling. What happens after you have that initial idea for a scent? Can you share a little about the steps in the creative process, and the methods by which you and Bertrand Duchaufour rendered your initial idea into something concrete? For example, would both of you test out different formulas each week? Once I have clear vision – it is expressed to the perfumer. Sometimes we can start with a part of the entire vision and then build the foundation of the fragrance – we usually work on a couple of options in line with the original idea. For Ashoka, the challenge was rather different compared to the first trio (which express vast periods of history) and not a legendary personality who helped spread a magnificent religion Buddhism. [Font emphasis to the name added by me.] Can you expand a little on the process of building the perfume’s foundation and working with different options in line with the original vision? It is one of the ways for me to develop and flesh out ideas – when you express an idea – you may not get (as a mod) what you think it is going to be. [Me: “Mod” is industry-speak for “version.”] The guiding factor is in imagination of the notes and the balance of the work-in-progress creation. A perfume can take shape from those early stages to something very different from what was presented at say stage one. It is truly a matter of being on the same page for all parties involved in the creation. Things take time in general – it is either a matter of being quick/hurried and accepting mods which may not be fully formed or the tougher route when one decides to carry on with the development and make sure that one reaches a satisfactory stage where the “eureka moment” actually happens! Why did Emperor Ashoka appeal to you in the first place as a source of perfume inspiration, as opposed to some other Indian figure representing peace? Has he always interested you? Emperor Ashoka’s Chakra, which is the very symbol in the center of the Indian national flag. Personally as an Indian, Ashoka has always held a very special place since my childhood. One cannot ignore his importance if you grow up in India. In a nutshell – he was a true humanist (after his self-realization) and possibly one of the greatest emperors ever. He believed in secularism and was way ahead of his times. In fact, our logo was adapted from Ashoka’s famous Chakra. The bottle for Ashoka, as designed by Pierre Dinard. Our new bottle, designed by Pierre Dinand, has 24 ridges just like Ashoka’s chakra. The logo [adaptation of the chakra] is also embossed on the metal cap. [So, the perfume] is about the meaning of this important symbol. H.G. Wells summed up what you need to know about Ashoka in his book A Short History of the World. (1922): “Asoka was at first disposed to follow the example of his father and grandfather and complete the conquest of the Indian peninsula. He […] was successful in his military operations and —alone among conquerors— was so disgusted by the cruelty and horror of war that he renounced it. He would have no more of it. He adopted the peaceful doctrines of Buddhism and declared that henceforth his conquests should be the conquests of religion. The Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, India, constructed by Ashoka. Two monks are meditating in front of it. The tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment is on the left, behind the monks. This temple is the number 1 pilgrimage site of Buddhism in the world. Source: Wikicommons. His reign for eight-and-twenty years was one of the brightest interludes in the troubled history of mankind. He organized a great digging of wells in India and the planting of trees for shade. He founded hospitals and public gardens and gardens for the growing of medicinal herbs. He created a ministry for the care of the aborigines and subject races of India. He made provision for the education of women. […] Such was Asoka, greatest of kings. He was far in advance of his age. He left no prince and no organization of men to carry on his work, and within a century of his death the great days of his reign had become a glorious memory in a shattered and decaying India. […] But beyond the confines of India and the realms of caste Buddhism spread—until it had won China and Siam and Burma and Japan, countries in which it is predominant to this day…” Perhaps the sole sculptural depiction of Emperor Ashoka that remains today, though the identity of the figure has not been fully established. What made you both decide on certain notes, like fig, being a perfect way to reflect a stage in Emperor Ashoka’s life? The main idea was to ensure that the fragrance has a contrasting start from a strong top note to a gentle drydown. We included some floral notes, fig leaves and fig milk, styrax, and sandalwood as some of the important notes to bring about this contrast. Buddha achieved his enlightenment while meditating under a Bodhi tree/Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa) and the fact that Ashoka converted to Buddhism to gain his own enlightenment. The new NVC bottle design by Pierre Dinand. For each of the perfumes, including the upcoming Ashoka, when did you finally know that a particular version or formula was “the” final, perfect one? Was there one of the perfumes that was a little harder to finalize and perfect (according to that mental vision) than the others? I could go on perfecting a perfume forever and I do not care to rush towards any deadline. In the case of the trio, Trayee was the toughest to declare “final” as well as Mohur. Bombay Bling appeared to be relatively less complex to finalize in comparison to the other two. Ashoka was incredibly tough and took many iterations. [All font emphasis to the names added by me.] Speaking of Ashoka, there is already a tidal wave of anticipation and excitement. I read your interview with Fragrantica back in April about the two versions of the perfume that you showed at Milan: versions 108, 110 and their differences. To quote the relevant part of the Fragrantica reviewer’s perceptions: “108 is more masculine, green and harsh, with a fierce start recalling the period of the youth of Ashoka—a fearless hunter, cruel warrior and a great conqueror. 110 is more lactonic and sleek; it shows Ashoka after his enlightment [sic], as a kind and compassionate person…” Given his description and your own words about having different versions in Milan, it sounds like you went through numerous different interpretations for the scent. Did you finally settle on #108? And, if so, what made one formula seem like a better, truer, more representative fit for Ashoka than the other? The numbers got juxtaposed somehow and did not get amended! It is 110 we settled for as it “is more masculine, green and strong, with a fierce start recalling the period of the youth of Ashoka—a fearless hunter, cruel warrior and a great conqueror.” 110 was the overall character of the perfume that we had in mind for Ashoka. 108 was relatively gentle in the opening. One of the many, many things that I think will make Ashoka such a hit is that it hits that sweet spot in your line-up for a comfort fragrance. Each of your other ones represent a certain type of fragrance: Trayee is the seductive temptress with flair; Mohur is quiet, refined elegance; and Bombay Bling is fun, jubilant, exuberance. For me, Ashoka represents soothing comfort, a sort of serenity mixed with a mother’s protective embrace. Obviously, that’s my subjective interpretation of it, but I’m curious if you thought about the types of perfumes that you had already, and if you sought to create a type of refined, sophisticated comfort fragrance for your line-up? Thank you for your faith in our fourth creation! To answer your question, for us – it is about the general mood of a fragrance. Trayee is spiritual, contemplative and refined. Mohur is elegant and glamorous as the same time. Bombay Bling is sheer sophisticated fun. Ashoka is intended to be that sophisticated comfort fragrance that you describe, both powerful and gentle. All are created for men and women. We wanted everyone to be able to select a fragrance wardrobe from the collection. [All font emphasis to the names added by me.] If you had to choose a painting, picture, photo or place that you think sums up the overall feel of Ashoka, perhaps as an emotional experience, what would it be? It is very much a collage of various images – it is very tough to link it to one single image. The only image I can think of right now is the Ashoka’s chakra. Emotionally it is a fragrance that works from a powerful top note to a very warm and comforting heart and base notes. I’m always in awe of the quality of your ingredients but, especially, of that stunning sandalwood in your original trio. Without getting into trade secrets, can you tell us anything about the sandalwood or perhaps the Laotian Oudh that you use? I have faith in a specialist perfumer like Bertrand Duchaufour’s choice of materials – naturals and aroma chemicals he uses in the compositions and we know that in the case of the NVC perfumes we did not cut any corners for the sake of economics. We have used some precious woods like Mysore sandalwood oil and Laotian Oudh. We hope to continue on this path. To what extent has your creative process or the perfume’s development been impacted by sourcing issues for ingredients? For example, that beautiful sandalwood is neither cheap nor in great abundance. As mentioned above, I leave this to the perfumer and the essence company. The perfumers are specialists and know their materials well. It is their tool. Using some of the rare and precious raw materials can make a formula exorbitantly expensive. When you work with experts/professionals in the fragrance world and I will underline experts – who know how to create a formula and know that if the ingredients are excellent – the end result will usually be very good. There is a level of complexity to get an idea or message across through the perfume – even though the message is used mainly as an intellectual prop. The perfume should make one “feel”/emote… You make very French perfumes, even if they have an Indian inspiration. I think there is a very definite style to French perfumery as a whole or, at least, there was. Do you think that may be in danger in the years ahead due to things like IFRA or EU restrictions? Do you see any changes ahead for French perfumery? Yes, but as long as one can conform to the new rules – it will hopefully be ok. Perfume and your company obviously take up a vast amount of your time. What do you do to relax? Or, to put it another way, what are some of your non-perfume-related passions? Do you have any guilty pleasures — whether in television, books, food or something else — that you would confess to? 🙂 Music – all forms – I do enjoy going to classical concerts and productions of baroque opera. Theatre when we visit London or NYC. We enjoy some French Theatre. Art – everything from street art (like Space Invader), to Chagall. Food – see below. I adore the Cinema but rarely find the time to go. I am also a fan of intelligent TV series – enjoy some excellent HBO productions, BBC and Nordic productions. I know you love the TV show, Borgen, but what else? Which HBO or BBC series? Borgen, Wallander, The Killing, The Bridge. On the BBC, there are too many to list, as I grew up with the BBC – crime, justice, comedy. But I am a Downton Abbey fan. I’m also a HUGE Poirot fan. From HBO or American television, there are also too many, but some include The Wire, Boardwalk Empire (fabulous), The Sopranos…. I also watch other shows like: Engrenages (French), The Shield, and The Good Wife. I’ve enjoyed Mad Men very much. It’s very stylish, and I love John Slattery’s part, as well as many other characters. Homeland is also great, and I liked the original Israeli version, Prisoners of War. Another show I like is the new Netflix series, House of Cards, mainly for Kevin Spacey. I’ve been a fan of his since early in his career with The Usual Suspects. I do not dare to mention feature films, as I am film buff and have an endless list that may bore everyone. Source: Ms. Vermeire. Since you live in Paris with all that glorious food, and since I’m a foodie myself, I have to ask as my last question: what are some of your favorite dishes, cheeses, patisseries, breads, or other aspects of French culinary life? Please let us live vicariously through you! Even though I live in Paris, I remain a huge fan of all types of Asian cuisine (which I still like the best). Second for me comes Italian cuisine. I also enjoy savoury Persian and Lebanese cuisine. In fact, I am known to impose Asian or Middle Eastern cuisine on my friends. There is nothing like good organic bread and we have some excellent artisanal boulangeries near us. Sadly, we have not found a truly great Indian restaurant in Paris, the UK and the US just seem better for that. In India, the cuisine is varied – I love most regional cooking. My favourite type of cuisine is Dum Pukht. If you are in New Delhi, you must try the restaurants Dum Pukht and Bukhara for an excellent culinary experience. I also enjoy creative meals from any of the great French chefs and from chefs from all over the world. There, I go more for quality than quantity. Source: goodealmart.com However, if I have to go for general French cuisine, I enjoy good fish restaurants. I enjoy platters of my favourite French oysters — speciales Gillardeau with some vintage champagne — followed by a deliciously cooked sole (grilled or fried), or grilled sea bass with olive oil or cooked in salt crust. Biscuits Roses de Reims. Source: agence-des-grands-crus.com I also enjoy wine tasting wherever we go. And we enjoy looking for good champagne houses that are rather niche in production. My favourite champagne maison is Jacquesson. I also enjoy dunking rose biscuits from Reims in champagne. I’m not fond of heavy patisseries, but I enjoy some good dark chocolate from time to time. My favourite chocolatiers include Pierre Marcolini (Belgian), Patrick Roger, Debauve et Gallais (French)… Oh my God, I don’t know about you, but I salivated like a dog reading her food answers! Wouldn’t you love to go eating and drinking across Europe with Ms. Vermeire?! Coincidentally, I went to the famous Bukhara in New Delhi years ago, and can attest that it is as good as Ms. Vermeire says it is. (Actually, it was completely mind-blowing. And I gained 6 pounds to prove it!) Ms. Vermeire clearly knows her food. And her oysters, too! The New York Times calls Gillardeau “the most famous name in oysters.” If you’re curious about Jacquesson, the champagne house has a fascinating history that goes back to 1798 and not only pre-dates Krug, but arguably gave rise to the latter. Macarons, Pierre Marcolini, via Wikicommons. Lastly, if you’re a masochist who loves to torture yourself with food porn from afar (as I do), then you really should check out the handsome Pierre Marcolini, his lovely website with its various chocolate collections, and his e-Boutique that offers everything from macarons to your own choice of chocolate selections. (No U.S. deliveries, alas.) A much less visually appealing website is that of Debauve & Gallais, and it offers chocolate deliveries on a more global basis, including FedEx shipments to the U.S. The company was founded in 1800, and became the official chocolatiers to Emperor Napoleon, as well as to several kings who followed him. As for the perfumes, I think we would all agree with Ms. Vermeire that the fragrance should make us feel. And the very best ones always do. I have felt the soothing comfort of Ashoka, and I think many of you will love the Emperor’s embrace. I’m still madly in love with the upcoming Mohur Extrait above all else (yes, even more than Trayee!), but I think Ashoka has a refined gentleness that makes it very appealing and perhaps the most versatile of all the NVC creations. I can’t wait for you all to try it! I would like to repeat my grateful thanks to Ms. Vermeire for taking big chunk of time out of her extremely busy schedule to answer my questions. She is working on a new fragrance, is constantly on the move, and is also preparing for the new launch of Ashoka that is mere days away. The fragrance will be officially released at the Pitti Immagine Fragranze Faire in Florence on September 13th! In light of all that, her graciousness, and patience mean even more. I shall see if I can one day repay her with dark chocolates or, perhaps, with some grilled sea bass.… [AVAILABILITY UPDATE: Ashoka will be available for sale starting on September 23, 2013. In the U.S., it will be sold at Luckyscent and Min New York. I asked Ms. Vermeire about Ashoka samples and the Discovery Sets. This is her reply: Here is what we are planning till we have Ashoka in the sets. Try your India sample sets (3×2 ml) and Discovery sets with Ashoka EDP from late autumn from the site. We will include a free glass vial sample of Ashoka with every purchase of the NVC Discovery set 10 ml x 3 of the first trio. Please stay tuned for news on e-boutique. The full flacons of Ashoka will be available at 190 Euros plus shipping. So, starting on September 23rd, if you order the Discovery Set, you will get a glass vial of Ashoka. Ms. Vermeire says that samples of Ashoka won’t be available to go with the smaller “Try your India” sample set until much later in the Fall. So you can only get a sample if you order the NVC Discovery Set. As for a possible 10 ml bottle of Ashoka, at some point much later in the Fall, Ashoka will be added to the Discovery Set, but it is not offered being right now. (When it is, the Discover Set’s prices will presumably change for 4 x 10 ml, instead of 3 x 10 ml, but that is just my guess).] Posted in Neela Vermeire Creations, Perfume Profiles or Interviews \| Tagged Ashoka, Ashoka history, Bertrand Duchaufour, Bombay Bling, Mohur, Neela Vermeire, Neela Vermeire Ashoka, Neela Vermeire Creations, Neela Vermeire interview, Neela Vermeire perfumes, Trayee Perfume Review – Bombay Bling by Neela Vermeire Créations: Dance, Dance, Dance! Posted on March 1, 2013 by Kafkaesque Source: National Geographic India stole my heart. I’ve said it before, and I will no doubt say it again, but it really did. While the ancient temples and palaces left me in awe, while the stunning beauty of Matheran left me speechless, it was really Bombay (as it was known then) which did it. For someone like myself with a nomadic upbringing and who stopped counting all the places she lived in before she was even twenty-one, Bombay somehow felt like home. It was the perfect mix of East and West, a city of contrasts with such incredibly high energy and with such a gusto for life that it left one feeling just a little more alive. Marine Drive, aka The Queen’s Necklace. Source: Floyd-n-Milan Deviant Art Source: UncorneredMarket.com Among my many memories of Bombay was one day which began with lunch at the Queen’s Necklace, a sweeping, gleaming curve of beautiful white buildings by the sparkling, electric-blue sea, and which ended at the wee hours of the morning the next day, staggering out from an exclusive nightclub to see lines of mango sellers with their stalls before us. There were cars and people everywhere, the street lights glittered, and the sheer volume of noise outside quite rivaled anything inside. Mumbai at night is as much an electric jolt of energy as Mumbai by day — perhaps more so. Dadar Flower Market, Mumbai. Photo: Ravindra Zende. Source: Kemmanu.com From Moscow and Shanghai to New York or Paris, I’ve never quite seen or felt anything to rival the brightness, bustle and expresso-in-the-arm energy of Mumbai. Nor have I ever encountered a perfume that encapsulates the sights, the sounds, the colours, and the very feel of a city. Not until Bombay Bling, a ravishing, euphoric explosion that really has to be tried to be believed. I fear that I simply won’t be able to do it justice, this wildly energetic creation that — unbelievably — has managed to bottle a whole city’s bursting zest for life. Bombay Bling is one of a trio of Indian-inspired scents from the Indie perfume house, Neela Vermeire Créations, Parfums Paris (“NVC”), and it was justifiably chosen by the prestigious perfume website, CaFleureBon, as one of their top 25 fragrances for 2011. Launched in late 2011, it is the result of collaboration between Ms. Vermeire and the famous perfumer, Bertrand Duchaufour. Each of the three fragrances that they created is meant to pay homage to a different part of India’s history, with Bombay Bling (the third and last in the line) representing modern India and, in specific, the glorious vitality of Mumbai. As the company’s website explains: This joyful creation embodies every aspect of the very modern, colourful, eclectic, esoteric, ecstatic, liberal, happy side of buzzing India, a world economic power, where nothing is to be taken for granted, where the underbelly of the big city combines with the glitter of Bollywood on the vast sandy stretches of Juhu Beach and the Queen’s Necklace. Fortunes are made and lost on the Bombay stock exchange and gambling dens of Mumbai. Abandon yourself to the nightlife as dawn breaks over the city. There is nothing like it and there will be nothing like it. Welcome to a vibrant new India! I can’t recall the last time I read a press release or perfume backstory and thought to myself, “I’ve actually experienced part of that tale!” And I have with Bombay Bling. (Well, minus “the fortunes made and lost” bit, unless you count the small fortune I lost shopping and at the races.) But I can tell you that Bombay Bling delivers on its promise because it truly took me back to the city, collapsing space, time and geography in a remarkable way. The perfume manages this feat, in part, due to its long list of notes. Unlike many perfumes nowadays with their six or, maybe, eight ingredients, Bombay Bling has seventeen! The fruity-floral oriental has: Mango, lychee, blackcurrant, cardamom, cumin, cistus, Turkish rose, jasmine sambac, Madagascar ylang-ylang, tuberose, plumeria [frangipani], gardenia, patchouli, tobacco, sandalwood, cedar, vanilla. Bombay Bling opens with a veritable BOOM of mango! It’s an explosion of the zestiest, sweetest, juiciest mango you’ve ever tried — short of cutting in twenty fresh ones and reducing them down to their most concentrated levels. It’s unbelievably fresh and bright. Even though Ms. Vermeire has used green mangoes — not yellow ones — yellow, red and orange are the colours that practically shine before your eyes. Black currants or cassis. Source: NWWildfoods.com Seconds later, other notes follow. There is tart black currant (or, as I call it, “cassis”), carrying a hefty punch of zesty tanginess, and sweet, light lychee. There are also light hints of jasmine and rose, too, but the accompanying floral notes are primarily dominated by sweet plumeria. It’s soft, fruity, almost peachy, and has a subtle creaminess. Thirty minutes in, the fruity-floral notes take on another hue with the arrival of sandalwood. It adds a slighty smoky creaminess and an element of woodiness to the mix. There is also a growing whisper of tobacco. It’s not sweet or fruited like pipe tobacco, nor is it anything close to cigars, but rather, like tobacco leaves being cured in the sun: honeyed, dry, and a little woody, as well as a little nutty. Or perhaps that last note comes from the cardamom — it’s sometimes hard to tell with a perfume that’s as superbly well-blended as this. Either way, the tobacco note adds a lovely depth and contrast to the perfume’s sweetness. It’s never masculine, heavy, or coarse but then, nothing in this lovely perfume is. Source: Riflebirds.com For some reason, my nose also detects something that really smells like bright, zesty lemon, along with a hefty dose of fresh ginger. To my surprise, there is also something that smells distinctly like anise or black licorice. None of these ingredient are in the perfume, but that’s what it smells like. Plumeria or frangipani. What I don’t really smell in the perfume is any one particular flower. Though there tuberose, rose, gardenia and ylang-ylang, they’ve all been blended into a single, very feminine, sweet floral accord. This isn’t a perfume where you can smell, for example, tuberose in any dominant way; by the same token, neither the ylang-ylang nor the rose trump all the others. Perhaps the plumeria does most of all but, as a whole, no single flower really stands out — and that’s a very good thing. Tuberose, gardenia and ylang-ylang can be very indolic, heavy, even bullying notes. In less capable hands, they can lead to headaches and a sense of over-ripeness that verges on rotting fruit, sourness or plasticity. None of that ever happens here. All these new additions add further complexity to the perfume and take it far beyond the confines of a mere “fruity” scent. The sudden spiciness, subtle dryness, and smokiness are a noted contrast to zesty mango and the tart cassis fruits, as well as to the sweetness of the slightly tropical florals. Each note adds up to much more than individual parts, creating a balanced, harmonious whole that is never boring, singular, or generic. The combination of these contrasting elements means one thing: Bombay Bling simply doesn’t smell like any fruity-florals I’ve encountered. And it is a testament to the very sure, very expert hand of the legendary Bertrand Duchaufour that all these eclectic, rich notes melt so perfectly together without any discord or abruptness. Shopping at Colaba Causeway, Mumbai. Source: MyGola.com By the second hour, there are still further newcomers on the scene. This time, it’s pine needles! The cedar tree has a distinct role here, adding some chilled freshness and coolness to the mix. It brings to mind a pine forest where the floor is covered with sweet florals but there are tangy black currant berries in bushes nestled near the giant roots of the tree. It’s unexpected — like much of this perfume — and it’s the one time that Bombay Bling didn’t truly evoke Mumbai for me. Then again, eclecticism and sharp contrasts is perhaps the ultimate embodiment of that city of paradoxes. Four hours in, Bombay Bling is a fascinating mix of tart cassis, cool cedar pines, creamy sandalwood, and some slightly musky jasmine, with just a faint dash of earthy, dry cumin. The earthiness and spiced dustiness underlying the sweetness really brought me back to the dusty, spicy, sweet aromas of Bombay’s bustling street bazaars. But the really entrancing part is the sandalwood. It’s copious and positively swoon-worthy. As Ms. Vermeire showed in the astoundingly beautiful Trayee, she prefers to use real Mysore sandalwood. That is a very rare thing in perfumery today given its prohibitive cost and the Indian government’s protection of this over-sourced prized wood. The expert perfume critic, Luca Turin, has often bemoaned the use of a synthetic replacement in “sandalwood” perfumes or the reliance on the very different Australian sandalwood, and he’s right. Real sandalwood is usually too expensive for most perfumers, especially if used in any significant quantity. Here, as in Trayee, there is a significant amount of absolutely genuine, lovely sandalwood. And it dominates the final hours of Bombay Bling’s development. At the ninth hour, the perfume is sandalwood and cedar with tart black currant and hints of some musky jasmine. By the thirteenth hour, it’s just sweet, soft vanilla and creamy sandalwood. Yes, I said the thirteenth hour. Bombay Bling’s pure essences and rich ingredients makes this one very long-lasting perfume! Even on my voracious skin where very little lasts for a significant amount of time, Bombay Bling had incredible longevity. I smelled faint traces of it here or there well past thirteen hours, truth be told. It is remarkable and supports everything Ms. Vermeire has said regarding her goal of using only the finest raw materials and expensive essences in her perfume. For example, her amazing Trayee was made without regard to cost: I did not give a budget cap so Bertrand Duchoufour never had a budget – Trayee is one of the most expensive perfumes he has created. We made sure there are lots of high quality natural ingredients…. Most niche companies want to spend 150 euros or so max per kg of essence. We went more than 7 times that so the essences are expensive (and hopefully exceptional). The same “to hell with the cost, we’ll only use the very best” approach shows with Bombay Bling, too. Neela Vermeire Creations is a tiny company that clearly has put the bulk of their resources in their production costs. The perfumes are not cheap, but they don’t work with giant distributors to add further mark-ups to their expenses. There is no corporate slickness behind any of this. When you order from the company, you will receive a handwritten note from Ms. Vermeire herself. The goal is one thing and one thing only: to make truly rich, luxurious-smelling perfumes that are the very best they can possibly be. And Neela Vermeire Creations has succeeded in that goal with one perfume, Trayee, receiving a Fifi award nomination (the perfume world’s equivalent of an Oscar nomination) and the other, Bombay Bling, being critically-acclaimed as one of the best perfumes of its year. Bombay Bling deserves that accolade without question. What you have is an unbelievably vibrant, bouncy, joyous scent. Like the Bollywood movies that it is a partial nod to, Bombay Bling screams out high-octane energy and begs you to “be happy!” and “go dance!” It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that when the perfume blog, Olfactoria’s Travels, recently asked “What is the most uplifting perfume you know?,” the repeated answer was “Bombay Bling!” Read the answers; the references to Bombay Bling are so numerous, that Birgit at one point said it should be considered as “prescription medicine.” It’s not just the readers of Olfactoria’s Travels, either. On numerous different sites or perfume groups, people repeatedly turn to Bombay Bling when they’re blue, when the weather is grey and chilly, or when they’re in need of an energetic pick-me-up. On Fragrantica, there is almost a uniformly gushing assessment of the perfume. One commentator raves that it is like ” like the spirit of Mardi Gras or Carnival captured in a bottle,” while another writes “[h]appiness and sunshine in a bottle, this makes me see the perfume in rainbow of colours. Full bottle worthy???? Every last penny of it to me.” Clearly, Bombay Bling’s happy, incredibly exuberant heart seems to make it people’s “secret happiness weapon.” Bombay Bling is not cheap. It costs $260 for a 1.8 oz/55 ml bottle. In perfumery, as in many other things in life, cost is no guarantee of either quality or a positive experience. But, in this case, I think you are actually getting what you pay for. There are many similarly priced perfumes out in the luxury market (albeit, usually for a slightly larger sized bottle) but the luxuriousness of Bombay Bling’s ingredients make it truly stand out. To me, it is the equal of perfumes from Ormonde Jayne and the uber-luxury perfume house, Amouage, and far surpasses many fragrances from better-known, luxury perfume houses. Thankfully, however, Ms. Vermeire offers a Discovery Set (see below, in the Details section) which lets you try 10 mls of all three of her perfumes for a very reasonable price. I highly recommend Bombay Bling. The complex notes mean that you don’t have to be just a fan of fruity-florals to like this scent. Nor do you have to be a woman. There are a number of men who adore and wear Bombay Bling. On Luckyscent, the perfume is categorized as “unisex,” and I think it is. The sillage is not overwhelming, either, so it is definitely something that can be worn to the office. In fact, I was surprised by how moderate the projection was for a perfume with notes as rich and as heady as these. After the first thirty minutes, I’d say the perfume could be detected only from a distance of about two feet away. It’s a strong perfume, and you can smell it on yourself, but it’s softer than Trayee. And it’s definitely no Fracas that’s going to immediately overwhelm someone across the room. Thereafter, the projection became much less and you’d have to be close to someone to detect it. I also noted that Bombay Bling is even more moderate when you only dab on a little, as opposed to applying a few sprays. It’s office-friendly, but it’s also something that is extremely versatile. I could see this being used as an antidepressant in a bottle, to go on a date, or just to have dinner with friends. In short, it’s sexy, it’s happy, and it wants you to dance, dance, dance! I suggest you take it up on its offer. Disclosure: My sample was courtesy of Neela Vermeire Creations. However, that did not impact this review in any way. Full bottle, boxed, of Bombay Bling. Cost & Availability: In the U.S., Bombay Bling is available exclusively at Luckyscent where it costs $260 for a 50 ml bottle. Samples are also offered at $7 for a 0.7 ml vial. (And the site ships world-wide.) A much better offer comes from Neela Vermeire Creations itself which offers Bombay Bling as part of a Discovery Set that includes the award-nominated Trayee and Mohur, Neela Vermeire’s rose perfume.The set is available exclusively on the company’s website. It costs: €21 (or about $27) for three, much larger, 2 ml vials; or $117 or €85/90 (depending on your location) for three large 10 ml decants. Shipping is included in the price. In Europe, Trayee costs €200 for the 55 ml bottle and is available at Jovoy Paris, the Swiss Osswald Parfumerie and Munich’s Sündhaft. You can find a few additional retailers from the Netherlands to Moscow which carry Trayee on the store’s Points of Sale page. 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__label__wiki	0.854625	0.854625	School district bans students with lunch debt from participating in extracurricular activities written by ABC News Portland Press Herald via Getty Images, FILE A New Jersey school district is banning students with school lunch debt from attending extracurricular activities, including prom and field trips. The Cherry Hill school district passed a policy that prohibits high school students who owe $75 or more in meal payments from "participating in extracurricular activities, purchasing tickets for school dances including proms, attending class trips including the Senior Trip, and purchasing a yearbook," according to a detailed outline of the policy. Middle school students who owe $75 or more in school lunch fees will face the same punishment, while elementary school students will be barred from participating in after-school events and attending class trips. The policy, which was approved last Tuesday at a board of education meeting, received swift backlash from parents and students. Video of the board meeting, which was posted to the district's website, showed students, teachers and parents addressing the board to condemn the policy. A student bites into an macintosh apple at Westbrook Middle School in Westrbook, M.E., on April 9, 2015. Dr. Vibiana Cvetkovic, whose grandchildren attend schools in the district, said at the meeting, "there are many reasons why parents can't pay. It is an elitist assumption on the part of this school board that parents are not paying a bill because they don't want to." Jacob Graff, a senior at Cherry Hill East, said, "If my mom or dad can't pay for lunch, why should I be restricted from my passions?" "What are colleges gonna think?" he asked the board, noting how important extracurricular activities are on applications. The school district had $14,343 in unpaid meal debt in the last school year from more than 300 students who had a debt of more than $10, according to NJ.com. Superintendent Dr. Joseph Meloche said at the meeting the district's goal is "responsibility with compassion." He urged those criticizing the policy to take note that it does not include a state statute, which would require meals to be withheld from students who owe lunch money. "Money is certainly something that we have to deal with. That's our world, but that's not the most important thing that we're addressing in terms of the policy and the work that's being done," Meloche said. "It's about supporting children and supporting families ... sometimes the right thing is not the easy thing to do." Multiple calls to the school district were not returned. NEWSNewsMore>> Posted: Tuesday, January 21 2020 12:26 AM EST2020-01-21 05:26:46 GMT Updated: Wednesday, January 22 2020 1:16 AM EST2020-01-22 06:16:40 GMT (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta). President Donald Trump waves as he leaves the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, in Washington to attend the annual economic forum in Davos, Switzerland. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is set to unfold at the Capitol in a contentious proceeding to render judgment on his actions. One year later: mother pushes for stronger gun laws One year ago, Tuesday, Geneva Smith got the worst call any parent could expect. Cancellations and changes Cancellations and delays Third-ranked Kansas and Kansas State ended their bitter showdown Tuesday night with a wild melee behind the basket that included punches, shoving and at least one player picking up a stool, moments after the Jayhawks tried to dribble out the time on their 81-59 victory. Local nurse goes above and beyond to help families suffering from the loss of a baby "Every birth is monumental, whether it's a few minutes or a few days. It's still monumental, that the parents acknowledge their child's existence." SportsMore>> Etienne carries Wichita St. over South Florida 56-43 Tyson Etienne registered 13 points as Wichita State topped South Florida 56-43. Dexter Dennis had 12 points for Wichita State. From Kansas to the 49ers, Katie Sowers makes NFL history “I remember we would make boys cry,” San Francisco 49ers assistant coach Katie Sowers said, laughing and adding some of that might have come from their technique: Seize “their shirts, spin them around and throw them down.” Baylor jumps Zags to give AP poll record-tying seventh No. 1 Baylor leaped over Gonzaga and into the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll to give the Top 25 its seventh team on top this season. Travel tips if you're headed to Miami to cheer on the Chiefs A trip to Miami, Florida always sounds good to Kansans this time of year. With the Chiefs headed to the Super Bowl on February 2nd for the first time in 50 years, there is a huge incentive. But what does that mean for traveling? "The biggest thing would get your airline tickets as soon as possible. Also your hotel reservations as soon as possible. It's going to fill up, there's going to be a lot of people in the Miami area. Do it now. Don't wait," said Matt Bert with... Check out these photos from across KAKEland snapped by our viewers, staff and local officials. Do you have pictures to share with us? Email them to news@kake.com. MORE SLIDESHOWS HERE Chiefs superfan gets Super Bowl chance of a lifetime, tragedy might keep her from going written by Morgan Mobleyhttps://www.facebook.com/MMobleyTV "The first time i walked into arrowhead stadium i just fell in love with it." 25 years ago, Andrea Lara's love story began with with the Chiefs. Since then, she's only missed 5 games. written by Associated Press A mother of two who was acting as a surrogate for another family, died during childbirth, according to a GoFundMe created to help the family. Man arrested after smartphone app finds Wichita woman's stolen car written by Brianne Smith Thanks to a phone app, Wichita police quickly found a car jacking victim's 2019 Ford Escape. Within 24 hours of the crime, investigators tracked it to a quick trip near downtown and took two suspects in for questioning. 1st confirmed US case of deadly new virus reported in Washington state: CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said the first case of the new coronavirus that has sickened nearly 300 people in Asia has been reported in a patient in Washington State. At least six people have died. Winter Weather Advisory issued for much of Kansas written by Tony Laubach Meteorologisthttps://www.facebook.com/TonyLaubach/ Winter Weather Advisories are in effect until noon Wednesday for greater Wichita, Hutchinson, and central Kansas. Tennis player Elliot Benchetrit told off by umpire for asking ball girl to peel a banana for him Banana skins are commonplace in the early stages of a grand slam but no one expected something quite like this. Kansas governor's $7.8 billion budget calls for taxing streaming services written by Kansas News Servicehttp://www.facebook.com/KansasNewsService/ Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s budget wish list is long: boosting spending on higher education, public safety and human services. The Super Bowl matchup is set with the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, and this highly anticipated game has sent ticket prices soaring. Mother arrested after baby dies from meth intoxication An Indiana woman is in custody, accused of killing her baby who coroners said had ingested methamphetamine.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line654
__label__wiki	0.61327	0.61327	La Fiera Internazionale D'arte Comtemporanea Torna Anche Quest'anno a Torino All'oval Lingotto Fiere Dal 4 Al 6 Novembre 2011 During the four days of the event (one dedicated to trade and the three others opened to the public), Artissima 18 counted about 45,000 visitors, confirming the increasing attendance. The bad weather did not deter italian and international audiences of professionals, enthusiasts and collectors that rewarded the quality of the fair: once more, Artissima prooves to be one of the most interesting showcases on the international art scene, a crossroads for all the art world of our time. At the spectacular location of the Oval, the two souls that have always distinguished Artissima, complementary dialogued: the exhibition hall, as a point of reference for the contemporary art market, and the "Simple Rational Approximations " program co-curated by Lara Favaretto and Francis Manacorda. The novelty of this year's program also had excellent results: Artissima Lido, calendar of events and exhibitions in the Roman Quarter, selected by Christian Frosi, Renato Leotta and Diego Perrone during the late opening hours of the fair. The 161 galleries (58 Italian and 103 foreign) that animated Artissima 18, were divided into four different sections (Main Section, New Entries, Present and Future Back to the Future) and proposed a total of about 800 artists works, over a time period that ranged from the early sixties (Back to the Future) to now."Back to the Future" characterized the 2011 edition, offering to the visitors a thematic exhibition conceived as a real museum's exhibit in line with the curator's ideas.A serie of individual exhibits, dedicated to Italian and foreign artists, were presented. They deserve special attention as their Technic are closed to the most contemporary artistic developments, even if dated in the 60s and 70s."Main section" has welcomed the most representative galleries of the world art scene, chosen by the Selection Committee."New Entries" was the section dedicated to the most interesting young galleries, with less than five years of activity and present for the first time in Artissima.This year 25 galleries from 11 countries were admitted. During the show, the prize Guido Carbone was awarded to the gallery section "New Entries", considered most worthy for the research and promotion of young artists.The international jury, composed by Florence Derieux, Peter Eleey, Stefan Kalmar and Laura Avenue, decided to award Laveronica Modica (Ragusa). The prize, consisting of 5,000 euros and has been awarded "for the presentation space and the type of works exhibited, and particularly for the gallery's programming integrity, its support in the production of most of the work and its ability to contextualize its program beyond the narrow limits of the market. "Present Future is dedicated to 16 artists invited by a team of international curators and presented by their respective galleries. The section is organized in collaboration with illycaffè. The related illy Present Future Award was awarded to Dina Danish, with the work untitled "Halim: The Dark Nightingale whistling" of 2011, represented by Jeanine Hofland Gallery.The artist was awarded the sum of $ 10,000 and the opportunity to propose a project for the construction of a new illy Art Collection. The jury was composed by Anne Ellegood, Tessa Giblin, Beatrix Ruf.Exerpt:During the four days of the event (one dedicated to trade and the three others opened to the public), Artissima 18 counted about 45,000 visitors, confirming the increasing attendance. The bad weather did not deter italian and international audiences of professionals, enthusiasts and collectors that rewarded the quality of the fair: once more, Artissima prooves to be one of the most interesting showcases on the international art scene, a crossroads for all the art.. Artissima 18 Images: VIA: http://www.designamid.com/magazine.php?pageno=28	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line658
__label__wiki	0.760089	0.760089	Drinks Brand ‘Xachoh’ Gets Calligraphic Logo by Afterhours By Editor October 30, 2019 Branding agency Afterhours has created the logo and packaging for recently launched drinks brand, Xachoh. Founded by Mohamad Djahanbakhsh, whose family has reportedly been making health remedies for six generations, the drinks label currently has two offerings, dubbed “Blend No. 5” and “Blend No. 7”. The plant-based drinks, which are not only free from alcohol but also contain no sugar, sweeteners, calories, fat, gluten or extracts, are claimed to be distilled using a method influenced by that of Ibn Sina, the famous tenth-century Persian alchemist and philosopher who later became known in the West as Avicenna. The company’s business name also alludes to the brand’s Persian-Muslim heritage; pronounced “Za-Ko”, it comprises two elements, with “Za” standing for Zakariya Razi (b. 854), one of the greatest figures in medieval medicine; and “Ko” representing, firstly, the three constituent elements of most herbs and spices, namely, carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O), and, secondly, C2H5OH, a chemical formula used for alcohol (ethanol) – which was first discovered by Razi. From a visual perspective, the brand’s logo takes the form of a gold-coloured bird inspired by the zoomorphic calligraphy of Islam, while the pack design alludes to the distillation process by way of a series of stylised icons that represent the combination of herbs and spices used to create each blend. “This purposeful range of premium, alcohol free spirits crafted from Silk Road herbs and spices is inspired by centuries old Persian herbalism and required a luxurious and exotic new identity equal to its illustrious roots,” explain the designers. “Our brand concept of ‘The Enlightened Spirit’ captured both its progressive, scholarly heritage and the more subtle, sensory uplift the spirits offer. This was expressed through the calligraphic brand mark which is a depiction of the mythical Simurgh”. The latter is also hot foiled using 24 carat gold directly onto the glass bottles used for the packaging. www.afterhoursdesign.co.uk Tags: alchemy, alcohol, beverage, bird, calligraphy, drink, exotic, Farsi, gold, herbs, Huma, icon design, identity design, Islamic, logo design, luxury, Mohamad Djahanbakhsh, naming, nastaliq, packaging design, Persian, premium, science, Silk Road, Simurgh, spices, spirit, Xachoh, zoomorphic Robot Food Rebrands Feel Good Drinks Robot Food Rebrands Panda Drinks & SMITH and We All Need Words Create Identity for Elderbrook Drinks bottlegreen Relaunches Range with Designs by Ziggurat Brands ROCKTAILS Gets New Identity by B&B Studio Firefly Drinks Get Rebranded Packaging by B&B studio	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line659
__label__cc	0.58903	0.41097	New Vegan Cake Brand ‘Bells & Whistles’ Gets Logo and Packaging by Robot Food Robot Food has designed the logo and packaging for a new range of free-from cake slices from family bakers, Bells of Lazonby. Established over 70 years ago in 1946, the Cumbria-headquartered business claims to have not only been the first purpose built free-from bakery in the UK but also the first to have supplied own […] & SMITH Brands Albion & East’s New ‘Serata Hall’ Restaurant London-based branding agency & SMITH has created the logo and identity for Serata Hall, a new eatery from restaurant group Albion & East. Recently opened on Old Street roundabout in London’s Shoreditch, Serata Hall joins the brand’s two sister sites, namely, Canova Hall in Hackney and Martello Hall in Brixton – both of whose identities […] Mr Kipling Gets Redesigned by Robot Food Leeds-based branding agency Robot Food has tweaked the logo and packaging for cake manufacturer, Mr Kipling. Although a household name in the UK as a result of its famous “exceedingly good cakes” television adverts, Mr Kipling is relatively unknown internationally. “It was clear there was a great opportunity in both the US and Australia for […] Big Fish Reveals New Logo and Packaging for Thomas J Fudge’s Branding consultancy Big Fish has refreshed the logo and packaging design for British biscuit maker, Thomas J Fudge’s. The London-headquartered agency actually rebranded the over 100-year-old business back in 2012 – repositioning it at the time from “Fudges” to “Thomas J Fudge’s Remarkable Bakery”. The latest update is said to have come about as a response […] B&B Studio Creates Identity for Genius’ New Product Line Free-From bakery category brand Genius Gluten Free has unveiled two wraps as part of a new “Good for the Gut” range of six products due to roll out this year, with design from London-based B&B studio. The first products to launch are the “Fibre Fest Beetroot Wraps” and “Fibre Fest Kale Wraps”. In line with […] Pet Food Brand ‘Nineteen87’ Gets Branded by OurCreative. New pet food brand Nineteen87 has launched with packaging, website, advertising and POS design by OurCreative. The design agency, formerly known as Hornall Anderson UK, says it used illustration combined with photographic trends from Instagram and colour coding taken from human food categories on the new brand. “Research revealed there was a gap in the […] Genius Bread Gets New Logo and Packaging by B&B Studio Genius Gluten Free has launched a new brand identity across its bread range, with design from London-based B&B studio. As the Free-From Bakery category is becoming more mainstream, bosses at the company felt the brand needed to update both its positioning and visual look. Whilst maintaining colour-coding for individual product lines, the Genius Gluten Free range […] « Older Page	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line660
__label__cc	0.674332	0.325668	Semantic Technologies in Financial Services Revision as of 07:07, 11 December 2011 by Marco (talk \| contribs) Welcome / Intro - Marco Neumann, KONA 1 QuickTip - Expert Advice 2 What would you do with free pictures of everything on Earth? 3 TipTop in the Finance World with Abhijit Sahay 4 Enterprise-Scale Power & Effectiveness for the financial industry with OWLIM - Ontotext with Barry Norton QuickTip - Expert Advice short presentation 10 min "What does a "good" vs. a "bad" Job Title look like and why does it matter for Information Retrieval, Matching and classification?" - Leslie Barrett, TheLadders.com What would you do with free pictures of everything on Earth? Ookaboo.com has gathered nearly a million images of 500,000 precise topics from Dbpedia and Freebase with a highly accurate automated process. The Ookaboo API makes it easy, given a linked data term, to find relevant images. I'll talk about how I built Ookaboo and my plans to further enrich it with linked data. http://ookaboo.com/ After getting a PhD in theoretical physics, Paul Houle spent ten years developing e-publishing, e-commerce and community applications with a variety of tools. He was turned on to DBpedia in 2008 and has been getting increasingly involved with the semantic web and linked data. He's recently worked on text analysis, large-scale analysis of linked data, and the ingestion of linked data into social-semantic systems. TipTop in the Finance World with Abhijit Sahay Social media & search are two of the most exciting areas of innovation these days and with TipTop’s semantic technology users get the best of both worlds. The semantic platform now powers a real-time social search product and was launched in Fall of 2010 at FeelTipTop.com. The core semantic engine enables quick development of applications and plugins to extend TipTop's across services and devices. TipTop also focuses on building lead generation commercial products and data-agnostic search-and-discovery solutions for various enterprise applications. Abhijit is VP, Strategy at TipTop. He was Director at Deutsche Bank from 1999-2010, where he served as Head of Technology and Research for Equities Arbitrage. In addition to his passion for algorithms that mine market data and news for trading signals, Abhijit has a broad knowledge of applied computing technologies, analytic, financial and quantitative systems, as well as fundamental computer science. Before his tenure at Deutsche Bank, he served as Co-head of Technology in the Bond Index group at Salomon Brothers. Abhijit holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur. Enterprise-Scale Power & Effectiveness for the financial industry with OWLIM - Ontotext with Barry Norton main presentation Dr. Barry Norton, of Ontotext, will present OWLIM 4.3, one of the industry's leading RDF databases. The latest release includes full support for SPARQL 1.1 federated queries, adding more power for enterprise-scale implementations. Barry will also preview the upcoming release, scheduled for January 2012. This next release will include enhancements to make number range queries more efficient, extending OWLIM's effectiveness for the financial industry. Dr. Norton has been actively involved with semantic technology training for 10 years, including work on organizing committees of training events for the SSSW, IEEE SSSC, ESWC, and Karlsruhe Summer School on Service Research. Barry Norton is based in London. http://www.ontotext.com/owlim Retrieved from "http://www.lotico.com/index.php?title=Semantic_Technologies_in_Financial_Services&oldid=2296"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line661
__label__wiki	0.546069	0.546069	Laser Time – #1reason FUN! December 3, 2012 C.Ant An equal helping of guys and gals unite to talk about the sexiest topic in all of video games: SEXISM! Disney and Star Wars sittin' in a tree... Laser Time - Your Shame Songs 2015 Newspaper Comics! - Laser Time #316 See The Best Cartoon Christmas Specials of All Time! The Best New Releases for December 4- THE DARK KNIGHT RISES 96 thoughts on “Laser Time – #1reason FUN!” Supergiraffe says: I was just listening to the scat episode and thinking that Cheryl should be on again. It’ll be interesting to hear you guys get seriousish. C.Ant says: I swear, nothing too serious. Nobody wanted to do it if it was going to be a downer. ch3burashka says: I also think of Cheryl when I think of scat. Now that I’ve put that down in words, I’m pretty disgusted as well. Cheryll says: Thanks guys. o_____O Zipper says: That was real sexist. You need to take her out to dinner first. And on that backwards sexist remark, I am glad it was light hearted and not over the head rballa2 says: What happened to part 2 of the Worst Live Action Cartoons? Apologies, it’ll be up next week. It was decided that this was more pressing Transmatrix says: Ha! More pressing 😉 Stabby Joe says: Fair enough, I assumed as such since this was brought up all of a sudden. Snorlax says: Yay podcast! SunniDee says: If this episode even briefly touches upon my little pony: friendship is magic. I will be so happy. Robot says: Me too. Also, listen to Cape Crisis #20. DarthEnderX says: They mention it. But none of them have seen it. MGMT2 says: Cheryl said she was a pegasister… Does that give you a wing boner? I'll bear his children.He probably has a massive dick says: I wanna fuck hank the motherfucking tank shyfonzie says: REAL QUESTION: is the squeakel sexist? Buttmumps says: Thanks for this episode, love that you all are taking on a topic like this. The whole “do you play games” issue isn’t just insulting to women gamers, it is belittling to gaming as a whole. Assuming “women don’t play games” takes games as a medium of art and storytelling and reduces it to “a guy thing”. One of the worst examples of that question I’ve seen was a me3 co-op game (normally a great community) were a guy sincerely asked a girl on the team if she plays video games. As she was playing the game, and had a significantly higher score than him. Again, just want to say I really enjoyed the episode, I would be be interested in seeing this topic expanded to include sexism as seen in videogames themselves. Could that be why the industry and communities around gaming have this bend towards a certain type of behavior, because of the objectification present in the media itself? I know it is a topic that has been covered before, but I would like to see the laser time crew view of things, especially with your ability to keep topics light-hearted. Also I am curious as to what the women (and men to a lesser extent) in the group think of franchises like No More Heroes, in how they use sexism to parody and bring attention to problems and tropes present in gaming history. Is this seen positively, or another example of jokes on a topic just feeding into to a culture of discrimination? somerandomchap says: I guess a lot of people that don’t like girls playing games are the ones that grew up as an outcast and ridiculed by girls especially for being a “nerd” so i understand where a lot of the bitterness comes from when they see the same people all of a sudden loving the same thing they love but without the social stigma. The other side to this, are the young kids that are hard to defend that do it because they are immature. Also, there are plenty of “GRLLL GAMERZZ” these days that advertise the fact that they are OMG A GURL, which some people berate them on and others defend to the high heavens. I have played many games with these types, they give a bad name to girls worldwide. I think another divide is that there is a lot of publicity surrounding how girls are treated in games which really does nothing but escalate the problem seeing as they arent the only people picked on in games, how many times have you heard people scream out f****t or make fun of people because of their race or religion, these examples rarely make news and the people that this happens to feel resent toward females for making it a special case all about them. I’m not saying it’s justified to harass people because of their sex but the way it is handled only worsens the situation. You want to shut people up, do it the way everyone else does, beat the shit out of them in the game and throw some insults back. I think sexism in video-games gets more attention (not by much in my opinion) than racism or homophobia because if a women is playing a video game with voice chat they are going to be harassed, its not a question of if but of when. So while race and sexual preference is more ambiguous and might not get immediately targeted for additional shit-talk, we have an entire segment of the gaming population that are essentially barred from participating in a certain type of games. I also feel (and I may be wrong) that the “gamer girlz” type of people are a much smaller part of the overall female population than others like to make it seem. If you were to compare the amount of sexist people who use that stereotype to undercut female gamer’s credibility with how many people actually act in that way, I think there would be disconnect. Also when you think about that, that type of persona can be developed as a result of the current levels of sexism, if you get asked if you played games over and over again you might start over exaggeration the way you approach the situation. Sorry if I am coming off as confrontational, I think we have all been in the situation you describe being ridiculed or picked on for what we like, but I think its important for us all not to turn that bitterness onto an entire gender. It would be great if multiplayer communities called people out for being jerks, not for being girls. No I was just saying why i believed people act bad toward women online, and that the way it is handled only fuels the irrational hatred of the groups mentioned above. I get how shit it is to feel secluded and hated online, women that write articles on how they tackled evil masculinity is only doing more damage in the long run, you can’t change someone online with that type of publicity. If you want to be respected in these peoples eyes it’s not going to happen by calling them on the abuse which only makes them indignant. Tariray says: ok – firstly, I actually agree with you. I really do actually. Which is why if may politely troll (or counterargue – but the internet likes to think that playing devil’s advocate is trolling – that’s a whole different social dynamic) We cannot psychoanalyse every adult male and deduce that their generic douchebaggery – and in this case douchebaggy behaviour towards the opposite sex is caused by not being hugged enough by mum or because meanie girls pointed and laughed at them as children. It could be likely, maybe, not the best excuse and certainly only true for everyone. I know you said it doesnt justify their behaviour, I know you made a point on it, what i’m saying is past trauma and past behaviour can only explain so much bad behaviour before we can only call it bad behaviour regardless of its origins. The fact that these kinds of people insult other people by singling them out for a difference, is the problem. In the online world, that difference by first port of call is your gender. If these people think that having a vagina somehow implies that its ok to single you out, then these people wont have much problem in victimising you out for your ethnicity or sexual orientation or hell, for something else that is inconsequential and trivial but extremely harmful nonetheless. A lot of feminist blogs argue that sexism, homophobia and racism are all part of the same problem that they are speaking out against. There is also, nothing ever wrong in speaking out and calling out. It may cause more damage than good, but at least we know about it, and the damage it causes should be seen as a symptom of what is wrong with gaming culture and mysoginy in general. I dont particularly like or follow or sometimes even agree with sites like the Mary Sue or Jezebel, but it is essential that they continue to speak out. Why? these problems have existed for ages, finally there are those who are brave enough to speak out against it even when we get trolled, abused and attacked and put down for it. Let them get indignant, if they are unwilling to learn from their mistakes it is they who will get left behind. And please remember that the feminist argument is not about calling men evil pigs and women are better. That is mysandry and like mysogony, helps no one, especially other women. Feminism argues that because we have made unequal levels of perception for both genders (or all genders), we have created a vicious cycle in which women AND MEN have been imprisoned into unhelpful social prisons and norms. The fact that gamer guys are stereotyped as virginal zit faces with napoleon complexes and low self esteem as much as the stereotype that the female gamer is fat ugly or slutty (or nonexistent as Carolyn pointed out) is dangerous and caused by the very things that demand women get back in kitchens and men act like they’re all Captain Americas (which makes no sense because there will only ever be one Cap). The levels of sexism in the gaming industry are toxic because it is discouraging a whole demographic from injecting new ideas, points of view into the gaming world and keeping them mute means that men will also be forever victims to the ‘face down, eyes up’ male protagonists that are also projecting stupidly ridiculous stereotypes about fictional male characters. Sexism is dangerous to everyone, women cop it more overtly but what it does to the male psyche is also insiduous. I believe i have argued this before on here. I have written all too much and I sincerely apologise for the TL:DR. I hope this didn’t come out as a rant. ultimatepunchrod says: Oh great…time to feel guilty about liking something again. Wizkas says: Hearing the girls opinions on rape-jokes and humor in general really grinded my gears. Hope Chris doesn’t really take it to heart… I just hate when people spew bullshit psychology. Making rape jokes does not create an enviroment were rape is more accepted, if anything, the opposite is true. When rape is a more tabu subject of conversation it is less likely that someone who has been a victim of rape will admit that it happened or talk about the terrible experience. Carolyn does not seem to know how a rapist thinks. If rape was even less “accepted” that would only make it more enjoyable for the rapist, you see, a rapist gets of on causing another person mental harm, that’s the idea of rape. I also take offence when someone who is not funny and does not understand how humour works tells someone who is funny what is and what is not ok to joke about. I ALSO do not get why they thought it was a good idea to make podcast void of humour and nostalgic value (first part, second part was fine i guess) when that is the only reason to listen to it. Is this like one of those intentionally bad albums that artists who feel they’ve gotten too popular release to scare of their fans? This is like a bizzarro version of Talkradar, it’s exactly the opposite of what I wan’t from podcast by chris… Aeshir says: “I just hate when people spew bullshit psychology” Irony! To quote Brett Elston, “I can’t even begin to tell you how wrong you are…” This episode did have humor in it. I laughed my ass off a few times during the sexism segments (I wasn’t laughing at the actual sexism stories). Humor just wasn’t the focus. Also, I didn’t take it as Carolyn attacking Chris about his jokes, just her saying that people use that kind of humor as a crutch at times or they use it to spew hateful speech (which does have an effect btw) under the guise of comedy. Yes, it could have an effect when it comes to hatespeech as in racism or homophobia but not when it comes to a criminal act such as rape. Chris doesn’t believe in causing real harm though so he’s not really the problem in this regard. Shitfest101 says: 100% with Carolyn here, so glad this is being brought up. Great episode! SuperAppleFox says: Try and find a way to listen from the wii u ! please and thank q Yes it’s called go to a store and buy a iPod Touch. DoctorDrPepper says: Nice job being balanced lots of men are very nice to women and yet have to deal with being vilified in the media as rapist and sexist pigs. Also the “Do you play games” thing is something other women say to women who play games. Many of the sterotypes women deal with come from other women as well. How about someone stand up and speak for men who also deal with issues and have no voice. I bet just for asking for help about body issues or feeling bad I’ll get belittled because that’s how men get treated. It’s just as unfair but in a different way. I hear what you’re saying, but the positives of being a guy far outweigh the negatives. There are things that we can do, as guys that will not reflect poorly on our entire gender; women don’t have that luxury. Take Carolyn and Cheryll’s stories on LT. If I was a game journalist and went into a preview event and didn’t understand the controls immediately, I would be seen as an anomaly. “Most guys get the controls, this one is just not picking it up.” But if a woman who is a game journalist does the same thing, it suddenly becomes “Oh of course she doesn’t get it, she probably doesn’t play too many games.” This extends far beyond games. So yeah, I don’t disagree that men have to go through some serious bull shit in life, but it’s nowhere near the same degree. Obviously, this is my opinion. Clevername says: “Also the “Do you play games” thing is something other women say to women who play games.” You’re ignoring the context with which they were talking about that question. They were usually asked not only in bewilderment, but in several cases where the girls had already made it clear that they do. P Darzada says: I am as much of an open-minded, equal rights-supporting liberal as you are going to find, but I really think sexism in videogames is getting over-played. I acknowledge that this sexism exists, but at the end of the day, there are people in this world dealing with REAL problems. If some douchebag online is harassing you over voice chat, tell him he’s a jackass, or just mute him. Is it wrong of me to think that a woman in that situation has both the ability and the reason to stand up for herself? If a game has a joke that upsets you, then don’t laugh at the joke, or stop playing the game. I can only have so much sympathy for healthy young employed people in America complaining about hurt feelings and inappropriate jokes when there are women in other countries (such as my home country) getting acid poured on their faces for having the gall to wear jeans. That’s not to say Americans can’t complain about anything, but there comes a point where you need to put it in perspective. Maybe it’s just because I lived in Pakistan until I was 5, but the complaints Americans in general have have a tendency to scream “We’re out of touch with the rest of the world” to me. I did appreciate that this podcast stayed fairly lighthearted throughout, though. I’d like to see more of that than the dramatizations I commonly witness. I think it’s completely fair to say that Americans love to complain about our “first world problems” and I appreciate your perspective as someone who was born outside of the US. However, sexism and the hurt feelings that exist arguably do lead to “real” problems too. Sexism, on a universal level, is ultimately responsible for creating a society where women are seen as less important than men. This in turn leads to things like the suppression of women’s rights in places like the Middle East, genital mutilation, female infanticide, rape as a weapon of war, the sex trade and human trafficking. Would these female-centric crimes gain more attention if they affected exclusively men? Thanks for your comment and glad you listened. Sexism is not a “first world problem”. Do you actually not know what that phrase means, or are you intentionally distorting it in order to grind your axe against Americans? The barrista not making your latte properly is a first world problem. Stepping in dog crap in your $800 designer shoes is a first world problem. Treating women like second class citizens is a GLOBAL problem. Women being mistreated in the games industry in the U.S. and women having acid thrown in their faces in Pakistan are different points on the same continuum. Just because one woman is in a worse situation, it doesn’t invalidate the problems of the all the women who don’t have it quite as bad. The fact that you think sexism boils down to “hurt feelings” shows how out of touch you are with reality. Grif says: Incredibly relevant Dorkly Comic (posted today) http://www.dorkly.com/comic/46874/female-fantasy-iii The last panel with them prancing away really tickles me. Well that sure is one web comic ass looking web comic. Here have a actual good web comic http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=311 JMarsella09 says: Bronies, yeah! DarkTone says: Cheryl is on? Gonna enjoy this! Girls can use computers? Nailed it. codystovall says: I feel jipped. I wanted to say how amazing you guys were. Not just Carolyn and Chryle (cause you always are) but Brett and Chris too in discussing this in a poignant and funny way. I wrote too much already. But thanks. As someone who is coaching a lot of very young girls (and boys) who love playing video games on how to stay strong in light of the horrifying abuse they get online – its nice that you are throwing a bit of light on the problem. Seiously, although I wanted more live action cartoons, this was pretty cool too. (and holy shit I love Unico too!!!) VA says: I don’t think bitch and whore are comparable to racist slurs. Both are used as insults by both men and women regardless of what gender the person they dislike is. They’re like “asshole” or “dick.” I disagree. “Bitch” and “whore” are typically targeted at women specifically. If you’re a “man-whore” it’s seen as being more funny than insulting. Even if someone is calling a man a bitch then the idea is that they are weak or whiny because they are acting more like a woman. alorithin says: Tuned out after 20 minutes. Listening to someone list off pet peeves is annoying regardless of circumstance. KryptonDick says: So sexism is only a pet peeve that some people happen to have? Pretty much. Good on them for calling out assholes, but the notion that this issue is solved via community outreach through forums and twitter is insane. You shame someone if they disrespect you to a degree you find uncomfortable. Assertive actions will always trump passive aggressive nondescript post-analysis. You’re part of the problem! “you’re either with us, or against us” NeedNerdyName says: After listening to this, it definitely made me go back and review my interactions with women-not even in a video gaming context, but in hobbies where women are a minority. This episode was very enlightening for me, keep ’em coming. Great episode. I think the off the cuff remark of “do you play games” is a recurring mannerism I’ve noticed. This seems to come up a lot to this one woman who works in a game shop where I live. Now granted I have been in places, not even game related where an employee is just there for a paycheck but she has been working there for a few years, gives public demos and has talked to customers about her experience with a game someone may be inquiring about. Yet (and always the 14 to 20 age range) still ask “do you play games”. I’ll never be asked that question in any game store when in actual fact those browsing are more likely to not IE parents, friends, partner buying for someone else. Garnsr says: Is the fact that the only reviews I remember seeing Cheryl do on GR were music games, especially dance games, because of sexism, either because women like games that don’t have complicated controls, or she was given those games to review because that’s women’s work? I’ve never known a female who liked to play video games. I grew up in the Midwest, though in a bigger city than Brett, and don’t know any women who grew up before the Playstation who played at all. Dan Amrich’s wife Kat worked at Gamepro for years, and she says she has a hard time using a control pad. Maybe it’s just that she plays computer games more, but it seems unlikely that a guy working at a gaming magazine would ever say the same thing. Why the big push to pretend that men and women are the same thing? Why is it wrong to think that men and women think and do things differently? Stereotypes don’t get made up out of nothing, and you’ll have members of any group who aren’t the same as most of the group, but that doesn’t make what’s usual for a group go away. Stereotypes sometimes come from the “kernel of truth” side of things where the stereotype came from an exaggerated idea about a group. Sometimes they are completely made up, based on propaganda or false information. It’s not about thinking men and women are “the same thing”. It’s about treating everyone equally and not having preconceived notions about a group which can sometimes even overpower what you already know to be a fact about the person. You may even see conflicting information that contradicts the stereotypes you have and just end up thinking that the person who conflicts with that stereotype is the exception and not the rule. Take your own example about Cheryll; she reviews a lot of music and dance games (I haven’t checked, but for the sake of argument let’s say you’re correct). What about Sophia who works at Radar now or…you know…the other woman that was on this podcast? Carolyn played and reviewed a ton of different kinds of games at Radar, not just because she did it for a living, but like most game journalists, she did it because she is genuinely enthusiastic and passionate about games. I really don’t like the implication in your post that women are just not as good at games and those fancy controllers that come with them. It’s just not true. bladdercat says: Chris got an erection from watching Rainbow Brite! Of Course he did.This is great!! Mr. Bucket says: Yeah I will be passing on this one, like the Mass Effect rant episode. I could give a rats ass what happens to women, sorry to be frank, because I am not one myself, I hate white knighting and I feel that regardless of sex or color, you should stick up for yourself rather than do some passive-aggressively Twiter campaign while you could just as easily file complaints against the people responsible for any types of sexism involved. Sorry, but like a person said above, this all strikes as First World Problems to me while women are getting massacred for lesser shit in other countries. Still love the show, but white-knighting bothers me as much as being ranted at for either shit I don’t care about (like the ME episode) or shit I don’t have control over, like sexism. I’ll jump back in for the movie episode. I can tell you didn’t listen because there’s no way someone could listen to people talk about how empathy is important and then act like such a dick. juicenpancakes says: There could not be a worse attitude to have. God forbid you actually attempt to better yourself in the slightest way. don’t worry guys, i’m sure he’s just too preoccupied with all his donating money to charities and volunteering in the peace corps, that he’s just totally spent when it comes to things happening in his own country that he could be helping by simply not denying that it matters. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll develop a more mature perspective on the world. Smars says: i feel like i can’t even speak properly on this subject, because i wanted to talk about everything you guys were talking about with you. gaaaah! what a great topic. i have a few female friends and they ALL berate me for not playing ENOUGH video games, and comics. anyhoo… this was a very great ep. me and my friend Tai were just talking about their not being enough female representation in comics, games, and the animation industry. we recognize that with out that representation these industries are bound to hit a big wall really fast. i love how somehow chris always is able to twist a lasertime subject into a talk about animation. i’m going to keep asking for that animation podcast until you give it to us. XD call it Frame by Frame or something. idk… give cheryll and caroline a podcast on this network. i think it’s safe to call this a network now, what with 4 different series right? Itchy Sunburn says: Yes, a new episode right after I finished listening to cheapcast 2! pdc says: Hey Chris love your podcasts but this one was pretty boring.I understand that there are problems in the world but I don’t listen to this podcast to hear about them. I like the nostalgia and pop culture stuff that you do. IM not a sexist,I just thought this was a boring episode I hate to derail this, but do you think you could send someone in to clean out the forums again? Superdude22 says: I demand that more booth-men be placed around conventions! matty b says: Cheryll is dreamy. TheCrazyness says: Now THIS I can masturbate to. RadicalLemur says: I think this was actually one of my favorite episodes. I’m not sure if that is a popular opinion but Cheryll and Caroline should be on more often. So two points i want to bring up. The first part i thought was fantastic. It was interesting and kind of shocking to hear how Carolyn and Cheryl were treated at press events, which leads us to believe their are much worse stories about other girl gamers. Also, it made me think about using Bitch and Whore as much as i do. Lastly, you guys were SO CLOSE to talking about MLP:FIM and it would actually be relevant…oh well. It was nice to hear from Carolyn and Cheryl again. Also Cheryl /) WhiteSteveHarvey says: This was a great episode. DrunkOrsonWelles says: I’ll be the first to admit that I tend to get kind of prickly when this topic gets brought up. It’s all too easy to feel like I’m being scolded for something that I didn’t do, and get defensive and dismissive as a result. However, you guys handled this pretty damn well. I think the big problem is that we’re in a kind of feedback loop: there aren’t as many women involved in videogames (professionally of otherwise), which makes it easy to make false assumptions about them in that context, which leads to a unwelcoming environment, which drives women away from the medium. Also, there’s a specific dynamic that I’ve noticed that I feel compelled to mention. There are plenty of situations when I will be with other men, and wouldn’t dare bring up videogames, because I would be ostracized and made fun of for caring more about Skyrim DLC than college basketball. That situation is far more common when I’m with women. That doesn’t mean that women are more critical than men, it’s just a combination of fewer women playing games and the horrible tendency for humans to marginalize anyone different than them. I have to imagine that women experience the exact same thing, and to also often feel like that in the “safe place” of the gamer community must be pretty damn shitty. Robusken says: You guys talked about how the next generation will probably be more open about this in general; well I don’t FEEL like the new generation but I guess I’m part of the new wave you guys are talking about. I was actually surprised that this kinda behavior was still going around, a lot of the friends that I have that are girls play games and can probably beat me in most games (since all I play is pokemon and fighting games.) Good cast though! I don’t think you should shy away from these sorta topics, hell you guys could talk about cheese or something and I’ll still enjoy the podcast. Really enjoyed this episode, listened to it with my fiancee and it really spurred a good conversation about some similar issues she’s had in the film industry. As for people that tuned out after 20min or didn’t listen at all, or listened and just didn’t care for the episode, that’s totally fine, but then please spare us all your dismissive attitude towards women and these issues if this is how you feel. “Boy, girls talking about what bothers them really upsets me. Srry, but I’ll come back when the show is RELEVANT TO ME AGAIN.” chrisantistasmellslikepizza says: Great episode, would love to have Cheryl and Carolyn on more This episode was SEXcellent! ehhh? ehhhhhhh? XanderGC says: RFswitchBlade says: All intelligent, insightful discussion aside, Brett is beginning to worry me… heartichelle says: I was a little afraid to listen to this episode because as a female feministy geek I didn’t want to not be able to keep listening to your podcasts if any of you had taken the other side of this issue (and you’ll understand why if you’ve read the comments section on any of the many articles or videos that have taken the woman’s side). I’m glad I did. I think you guys did a good job of addressing the issue but not throwing accusations around. Unfortunately, there are so many people who refuse to admit that sexism still exists. The problem isn’t every man or only men. There are many women who have sexist attitudes too because of how the various forms of media have permeated our consciousnesses with this difference of value or with stereotypes. The best way I can see to improve the situation involves everyone checking the opinions and attitudes that we hold and evaluating whether the reasons we hold them are from actual personal experience with people in the world or from things you’ve learned through osmosis because men and women and relationships are portrayed in a certain inaccurate way on tv or in movies or comics or whichever media you choose to consume. I’m thinking the reason this issue is so prominent lately within geekdom specifically is because the people who participate typically spend more time with these media (having hobbies takes time) and less with a variety of actual real humans than a random sample of extroverts. krogan-love-child says: got internet service back time for LASERTIME Hjels says: What’s the R-word? I still haven’t been able to figure it out… Oh, right. That word. I was concidering rickets, is how far off the mark I was. UrbanGarlic says: Great episode! Basically flipped my shit when Unico was brought up Really enjoyed Cantista’s efforts to be the devils advocate, deffinitely a big help towards making a good show. Spybreak says: Lol and Brett manages to sneak in a Transformers discussion in there, haha that made me burst out in the office,nice. Thanks folks, I didn’t hear about this but I don’t follow twitter. I have had game design classes where the ratio of guys to girls was at least 2:1. It’s a shame what happened to Carolyn at E3 though, wow that’s some bs right there. I play a bunch of games and, yeah I’m a dude, but I get the strange looks when I talk about playing Facebook games. Hey they’ve come a long way and browser games are becoming a norm for delivery. Mindpilot says: Great episode! You picked an awesome topic, and Cheryl and Carolyn’s perspectives were really insightful. Please have them on again. Unoriginal says: http://www.gamesradar.com/why-its-hard-being-a-girl-gamer-explained-by-a-dude/ Resident Evil 4 PS4 Part 3 – Hey it’s that Dog The Best Movies and TV of 2018 – Laser Time #363 The Walking Dead: Season 2 - PlayStation 4 Dying Light - PlayStation 4 Monsters, Inc. 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__label__wiki	0.964078	0.964078	Meghan and Harry quit despite repeatedly being told Queen had future plans for couple Home Express News PRINCE Harry was told repeatedly he and Meghan Markle were to be part of a slimmed down Monarchy, but snubbed the Queen regardless, it has been claimed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex last night insisted they would still quit their roles as senior royals and move to Canada part time, dividing their time between Toronto and the UK. This came despite the wishes of the Queen, who was said to have been “disappointed” by the revelation. In a strikingly personal statement Prince Harry’s 93-year-old grandmother said she had wanted the couple to “remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family” but respected their... source: Express The Queen has decided the future of Harry and Meghan. Here's her statement: Buckingham Palace said under the new arrangement agreed with Harry and Meghan they are "required to step back from royal duties" and will no longer receive public funds for royal duties, adding: "This new model will take effect in the Spring of 2020." Lancashire Evening Post 2020-01-19 01:47 Prince Harry warning: Duke told future plans with Meghan to backfire - 'You've jacked it' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle earlier this month announced their plans to become part-time working royals to pursue a career and spend more time away from the UK with their son Archie Harrison. The Duke of Sussex on Monday evening reunited with the Duchess and their son in Vancouver Island to Express yesterday 08:02 Harry and Meghan: The duke has landed but the Sussexes' future is still up in the air Where Harry and Meghan go from here is the subject of much speculation, but for now their small family is reunited. Thirteen hours after taking off from London, the Duke of Sussex bounced down the steps of a small passenger plane and into his new life in Canada. The short hop from Vancouver to Vancouver Island was the latest step on what is a monumental journey. It was a short five-minute drive The Sky News yesterday 09:05 Harry and Meghan: Four key questions left unanswered about their future Prince Harry and Meghan will lose royal funds and no longer use their HRH titles from spring - but several questions remain. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have walked away from the monarchy after having to choose between personal freedom and royal duty. In a statement issued on their behalf by Buckingham Palace, Harry and Meghan laid out the deal that had been agreed following a series of meetings. The Sky News 2020-01-19 03:26 Queen Elizabeth II news: The subtle way Queen showed Meghan Markle and Harry who is boss Meghan Markle, 38, and Prince Harry, 35, will step down as official royals in spring, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The terms of the Megxit deal were outlined in a statement last night which was accompanied by a kind message from Queen Elizabeth II. While the Queen’s heartfelt words Express 2020-01-20 00:26 Latest news from Express today 05:05 Chris Evans: ‘Helps for so many reasons’ Virgin Radio DJ on 'bizarre' wife admission today 05:05 Shark horror: 12 foot monster and diver face off in near death battle under water today 05:05 Piers Morgan race row: GMB host sparks international outrage in horror Chinese remarks today 05:05 Las Vegas shooting: ‘Multiple people’ left injured after horror attack in shopping mall today 05:05 Jack the Ripper breakthrough: Bombshell clue reveals Scotland Yard may have known killer today 05:05 Thomas Markle fears he will never speak to Meghan or Prince Harry again The 75-year-old has also revealed how had never heard of the Duke of Sussex when he found out his daughter was dating him. today 05:05 Public supports more drone use, in return for tighter controls, suggests survey The report suggests the creation a traffic management system to help co-ordinate drone flights with other airspace use. today 05:05 New code aims to force tech giants to protect kids online The provisions include privacy settings to high and turning off location settings by default and minimising data collection.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line675
__label__wiki	0.960481	0.960481	ANC to unveil new programs and new look on October 26 By Media Newser Philippines \| Thursday, October 22, 2015 ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel, will launch a new programming lineup on Monday, October 26, to solidify its leadership and better serve its viewers with top of the hour news and in-depth analysis of issues. At the same time, the 24/7 news channel will also unveil its new look, with its signature rhombus logo now featuring refreshed colors – a change that highlights ANC’s expertise in presenting stories with context amid an ever growing deluge of media information. “What viewers will see is a newer and stronger ANC with a more robust and relevant lineup of programs covering politics, business, economy, lifestyle, and entertainment,” said Ging Reyes, SVP and Head of the Integrated News and Current Affairs of ABS-CBN Corp., and the Managing Director of ANC. “And these shows will be more visually attractive as well — better form and better substance.” Full press release after the jump... PRESS RELEASE FROM ABS-CBN: The country’s leading cable news channel is set to become even better. ANC’s design overhaul will include the broadcast design of all its programs, which will prominently carry its red-and-blue scheme to show a cleaner, unified look that represents the holistic news experience ANC offers. Right after a quick roundup of top news stories on “News Now” at 5 a.m., viewers can get their two-and-a-half-hour's worth of news, human interest and lifestyle stories on the new “Mornings@ANC” at 5:30 a.m., with a new team of anchors to keep viewers informed about what they need to know to start their day. Leading the “Mornings@ANC” team are David Celdran and Ginger Conejero, who will deliver the biggest headlines and lead incisive discussions on current events. Not to be missed are David’s interview with CEOs and influential business leaders, as well as his insightful talks on business, economy, and politics. Joining them are Gigi Grande, who will provide a thorough look at the most relevant stories from around the metro, Southeast Asian region, and the world, and Paolo Abrera, who will provide weather updates and news on traffic situations in key areas around the metro. New additions to “Mornings@ANC” include Gretchen Ho and “On The Money” anchor Edric Mendoza, who will deliver special reports covering entertainment, sports, technology, lifestyle, travel and leisure, arts, culture, and fashion. Aside from “Mornings@ANC,” viewers will also be seeing more of Gretchen on her own new program “The Daily Serve,” where she will give viewers a comprehensive look at the day’s major sports stories, as well as health and fitness-related information and throwbacks to the greatest moments in sports. The program will air at 6:30 p.m. on weekdays. Meanwhile, “Market Edge” will also kick off its morning edition on October 26 with award-winning broadcast journalist Cathy Yap-Yang giving real-time updates from the Philippine Stock Exchange and other regional markets, insight into the top financial and economic news, and exclusive interviews with newsmakers. It will be followed at 10 a.m. by “News Now,” anchored by veteran journalist Nancy Irlanda, who will bring the freshest updates in national and foreign news, business, sports, weather, and social media. “ANC is known for its discerning news, relentless coverage, and complete news experience delivered by seasoned journalists and experts,” Reyes said. "Our strong team of journalists further enhances the ANC brand as the go-to channel of business leaders and decision-makers for breaking political and business news.” Media Newser Philippines' Media Winners and Losers for 2019 Michael Fajatin officially leaves GMA News Another Kapuso departure: Julius Segovia exits GMA News Former GMA News reporter Tricia Zafra joins CNN Philippines ANC's Cathy Yang named Best News Anchor at the 24th Asian TV Awards Sherrie Ann Torres leaves GMA-7 Former GMA News correspondent Sherrie Ann Torres joins ABS-CBN News Former GMA-7 reporter Isay Reyes joins ABS-CBN News Watch: Jiggy Manicad announces his departure from the media industry Gel Santos Relos steps down as anchor of "Balitang America' TOP STORIES OF THE MONTH First on MNP: CNN Philippines renewed for another five years First on MNP: DJ Sta. Ana leaving TV5 TOP STORIES OF THE YEAR 'Unang Hirit' anchor Rhea Santos leaving GMA-7 Former TV5 weather anchor Joseph Ubalde passes away at 33 ABS-CBN News quietly makes key appointments GMA News TV moving to Channel 27; expands its 'Dobol B Sa News TV' block 'Newsroon Ngayon' anchor Cherie Mercado leaving CNN Philippines MNP Poll: Where on TV are you watching the coverage of the 2019 midterm elections? TOP STORIES OF ALL TIME MNP Poll: Where on TV do you plan to watch President Duterte's 2nd State of the Nation Address? First on MNP: Erwin Tulfo officially out as co-anchor of 'Aksyon' Watch: Jessica Soho and Mike Enriquez appear on '60 Minutes Australia' News5's Shawn Yao draws flak over comments about Tondo Netizens blast Noli De Castro for being rude to Winnie Cordero on live television MNP Poll: Where on TV will you be watching the coverage of Duterte's 1st State of the Nation Address? Erwin Tulfo claims Ed Lingao's rebuttal on Facebook a 'below-the-belt attack on my being' CNN Philippines anchor Amelyn Veloso dies at 43 Ed Lingao blasts TV5 colleague Erwin Tulfo for falling for fake news First on MNP: Atom Araullo leaving ABS-CBN to join GMA-7	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line678
__label__wiki	0.551396	0.551396	TIM encounters a black man pushing a cart and singing, who also uses a lot of slang - “looka-year, buddy,” “is you got the dog?” and “daddy-o” (173). What does TIM’s reaction to him say about TIM? How does his reaction shift as the conversation progresses? How does it connect with his grandfather’s last words? What did you think about TIM’s breakfast choice versus what the counterman assumed he would order (178)? Was it problematic that the counterman had an assumption about TIM? Was TIM’s reaction/feelings about the counterman’s assumption problematic? Is it a matter of “discipline” or is he being a “traitor” or something else? Quote: (on Dr. Bledsoe) “Whether we liked him or not, he was never out of our minds. That was a secret of leadership” (179). Is Dr. Bledsoe a good leader for African Americans? In what way or why not? Is it okay for whites Americans to own or appreciate African art? Why or why not? When the young man in Mr. Emerson’s office asks TIM about attending college in New England, TIM thinks to himself: “Did he mean Harvard? Was this good or bad? Where was it leading?” (183), do you think this is a good or bad thing? The young man in the office says “Ambition is a wonderful force...but sometimes it can be blinding … On the other hand, it can make you successful--like my father … The only trouble with ambition is that it sometimes blinds one to realities …” (184). What do you think this means? Is this quote specifically directed at TIM for being African American? Or does he mean it for anyone? Do you agree with this quote? Why or why not? Another quote from the grandfather on page 186: “Don’t let no white man tell you his business, ‘cause after he tells you he’s liable to git shame he tole it to you and then he’ll hate you. Fact is, he was hating you all the time …” What does this quote mean? How does it connect to his last words from page 16 that we keep bringing up? Reflect on Dr. Bledsoe’s letter on pages 190-191. Did it surprise you? Do you think Dr. Bledsoe was justified in his message? Do you think it comes from a positive place or is he just trying to save himself/the college? Reflect on Mr. Emerson’s son - what do you think of him? Is he genuine in his desire to help? Or do you think there is something malicious or even racist behind it?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line684
__label__wiki	0.743056	0.743056	facebook twitter google plus rss tumblr instagram {{issue.issue.title}} {{topic.topic.short_title}} {{teaser.description}} LIVE: Watch MSNBC Digital Documentaries The Rachel Maddow Show / The MaddowBlog WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 03: (AFP OUT) US President Donald Trump flanked by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (R) looks... The Trump-era pact between retired Gens. Mattis and Kelly By Steve Benen The Associated Press ran a lengthy piece last week on retired Gen. John Kelly taking over as Donald Trump’s new White House chief of staff, and the article largely focused on Kelly’s reputation and level of support. But way down in the piece – literally the 21st paragraph – the AP noted something the public hadn’t heard before: [Defense Secretary James Mattis] and Kelly also agreed in the earliest weeks of Trump’s presidency that one of them should remain in the United States at all times to keep tabs on the orders rapidly emerging from the White House, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The AP’s article didn’t dwell on this point, which is a shame because I’d like to hear a lot more about it. Two retired four-star generals joined Donald Trump’s cabinet in prominent and high-profile posts, but they were concerned enough about the president’s possible orders that they formed a pact? One of them should be on American soil at all times to keep an eye on the White House? Putting aside the oddity of a president requiring this kind of supervision, what I’d really love to know is what exactly Mattis and Kelly intended to do if they believed “the orders rapidly emerging from the White House” were misguided or dangerous. All of this, of course, comes against a backdrop of leading U.S. military figures taking on increasingly important roles in the Trump administration. In addition to Mattis running the Pentagon and Kelly running the White House, H.R. McMaster, a three-star Army general, is the White House national security advisor. Mike Bell, a retired Army colonel, is now advising the president on the Middle East, following a shake-up of Trump’s National Security Council. Slate’s Michelle Goldberg had a good piece on the phenomenon yesterday, noting, “It’s a sign of how thoroughly Trump has corrupted our democracy that this interlude of quasi-military rule comes as a relief to many Democrats as well as establishment Republicans. If we saw this scenario in another country – a populist demagogue of dubious legitimacy slowly being hemmed in by a clique of military men – we would easily recognize it as a sign of democratic backsliding.” The MaddowBlog, Cabinet, Donald Trump, Military, National Security and White House Politics of health care fight takes its toll Trump's health care antics carry consequences from NBC News and MSNBC Psychiatrist: Trump's projection on Chairman Schiff is ‘primitive’ House Intel's impeachment report has a 'flood of evidence' against Trump Ari Melber breaks down the 'underlying stupidity' of requiring a felony in an impeachment trial Americans remain divided on impeachment, polling shows ‘A damn shame:’ Cory Booker on lack of diversity in race amid Harris’ exit Michael Phelps: 'It's okay not to be okay' Republican women look to make up lost ground in House Jay-Z is an 'American original,' says Michael Eric Dyson Democrats struggling with black voters Cory Booker: Polls have never been predictive facebook twitter google plus tumblr instagram rss MSNBC Info Blog © NBC UNIVERSAL Select your TV provider to watch Your favorite MSNBC shows the day after they air MSNBC does not collect any of your account information share tweet email save Embed	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line685
__label__wiki	0.603501	0.603501	Marvel's Jessica Jones S01E12 "AKA Take a Bloody Number" Recap Luke Cage is physically unharmed after the explosion in his bar. He reveals how he tracked down Kilgrave two days earlier and was commanded to blow up his bar but only when Jessica would see it. Kilgrave learned how Luke was involved with Jessica and that he was Reva's husband but not about Luke being virtually indestructible since it's not the sort of thing that he would've thought to ask. Jessica reveals how killing Reva seems to have been the trigger that made her immune to Kilgrave. Luke wants to help but Jessica tells him he needs to hit the twelve-hour mark first to ensure any lingering commands from Kilgrave wear off. Trish calls Jessica to tell her that someone got into her apartment to clean up the dead guys and Jessica says that someone did the same at her place with Will. Kozlov worked for a company called "IGH". Trish is also visited in the hospital by her mother. Their relationship is not mended but they are relatively cordial to one another. Her mother later visits Trish at her apartment with some paperwork that show that IGH had also paid for Jessica's medical bills following her childhood car accident. Trish's mother wants a relationship with her but Trish doesn't want to pursue it when she gets the sense that her mother doesn't fully understand the extent of how abusive she was. But Dorothy says that the remaining files will still be waiting for her if she decides to come home, so the question has been posed of whether they were involved in her gaining her superpowers. But that's a questions for another day (season 2, perhaps?) Jessica and Luke follow their own investigation into what Kilgrave is getting up to, including forcing some scientists in a lab to work non-stop. They speculate that he may be keeping Albert alive in order to find a way to boost the strength of his abilities. Kilgrave not only wants more power, he wants protection to keep Jessica from being able to stop and kill him as she remains the one person immune to his abilities. During their investigation and stake-outs, Luke also tells Jessica that he forgives her for killing Reva and the two seem to be in a better place now with whatever relationship they will have moving forward. Trish visits Jessica and meets Luke Cage. She tells Jessica in private that she should pursue a relationship with him or at the very least, forgive herself and find some happiness once everything with Kilgrave is finished. She had intended to tell Jessica about what she learned regarding IGH but decides that now isn't the right time to do so. Jessica and Luke track down a nightclub where Kilgrave had been testing the capabilities of the enhancements on his powers. Kilgrave emerges and confronts Jessica, revealing that he has had Luke under his control the entire time and had told him what to say to forgive Jessica. Their entire intimate conversation about forgiving her had been composed by Kilogram. Luke then knocks Jessica to the other side of the club while Kilgrave shares the numbers on how far his powers reach and for how long they last. Luke, still under Kilgrave's control, attacked Jessica and the two fight with the full strength of their abilities. After police officers arrive and are overpowered by Luke, Jessica is finally able to get the upper hand and get a shotgun pointed directly at his head. Luke, still unable to shake off Kilgrave's influence, tells her to do it and so she shoots him. Marvel's Jessica Jones is available for streaming on Netflix. Labels: Carrie-Anne Moss David Tennant Eka Darville Erin Moriarty Krysten Ritter Marvel marvel comics Marvel's Jessica Jones Mike Colter Netflix Rachael Taylor Season 1 Wil Traval	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line687
__label__wiki	0.727477	0.727477	257 Labels / Record Deals 32 Song placements 30 Production Deals 18 Management Deals 17 Artist Development 12 Professional Song Critique 11 Publishing Deal 9 Sync Licensing: Advertising 9 Sync Licensing: TV / Movies / Video Games 8 Distribution Deals 7 Exposure Opportunity 2 Radio Playlisting 2 Compilations 2 Career Coaching 279 fully mastered 269 broadcast ready 228 rough mixes 254 submission only 25 critique 111 under $10 253 under $20 275 under $30 275 under $40 275 any price 259 Yes 20 No 113 Negotiable or N/A 84 Exclusive 34 Non-Exclusive 70 Not Available 6 $1 - $100 28 $501 - $1,000 86 $1,001 - $1,500 7 $1,500 - $2,000 6 $2,001 - $3,000 4 $3,001 - $5,000 13 $5,001 - $10,000 7 $10,001 - $25,000 4 $100K+ 41 within 7 days 59 within 14 days 157 within 45 days 119 longer than 45 days 3 unknown 120 at least 141 at least 152 at least 152 at least 156 at least 279 all Seeking Hits for Licensing Placements We have been working tirelessly over the years to build the best catalog of great independent music from various genres. However, there is one area in which we feel we could do better. Therefor, we are seeking Pop music to represent for licensing in films, TV shows and ad campaigns. By “Pop” we are referring more to the broad appeal of the music than the genre. As long as the song has hit potential, we would like to hear it. Genre wise we are open, but indie pop and indie folk seem to work best for licensing placements. Here are some great examples of music that we would like to have in our catalog: - The Lumineers - Ho Hey - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home - Charli XCX - Break The Rules - James Bay - Hold Back The River We accept ONE-STOP submissions only, ie songs that you own or control 100% (writer, master and publisher). Please submit only professionally recorded and mastered songs. NO DEMOS, NO COVERS. As an added bonus, if your song is Selected, we will offer to release your music on Filter Label. The songs by our talented artists can be heard in The OA, Exatlon, The Matrix Revisited, CSI: Las Vegas, Nikita, on ads for McDonald's, Nestle Wagner, Nike, Philip Morris, Hachette Filipacchi, in shows on MTV, CNN, Bravo, Nat Geo, NBC, Esquire, Channel 4 and almost every major TV network in the world. - Emil Hadji -Panzov Founder / CEO - Filter Label new Tommy Boy Seeks New Music for Potential Signings Tommy Boy Seeks New Music for Potential Signings Legendary Hip Hop & Electronic label founded in NYC in 1981 seeks new talent to add the roster. We are looking for artists that bring originality and undeniable vibes to the table. Please submit your best tracks for consideration. Tommy Boy is credited with launching the careers of notable Hip Hop legends Afrika Bambaataa, Coolio, Queen Latifah, House of Pain, De La Soul, and Naughty By Nature. - Brian Delaney - A&R - Tommy Boy Entertainment Sire Records (Warner) Seeking Artists for Label Roster Consideration Music Submissions for Sire Records - Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records. We are seeking artists (solo and groups) for label roster consideration. In the later 1970s, Sire transformed itself into a successful independent record label and went on to sign artists from the burgeoning punk rock and new wave scenes, including the Ramones, the Dead Boys, the Undertones and Talking Heads. Sire switched distribution to Warner Bros. Records in 1977; in 1978, Warner acquired Sire Records. During the 1980s, Sire achieved mainstream status after having launched the recording careers of Madonna (its biggest act), The Smiths, Ice-T, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Pretenders and the Cure in North America. Into the 1990s, the label had continued success with Seal, k.d. lang, Tommy Page and Ministry. Current roster includes: Delta Rae, Kill It Kid, Ewert and the Two Dragons, Cold Fronts, Residual Kid, Cyndi Lauper Please DO NOT contact the industry professional or anyone directly at the industry professional's company. Doing so will DISQUALIFY you from consideration. We only accept submissions via Music Xray - Sire Records / Warner Music Group Deal Type: Label Roster Consideration Artist Roster Consideration at JTV Digital We are constantly looking for new artists to work with and would be happy to consider your songs. All our deals, was it digital distribution, licensing, publishing, etc. are artist-friendly and we aim to deliver value via a personal support and involvement in all the projects we work on. Our current roster includes more than 2,000 artists and we work in partnership mode with a growing number of acts. JTV Digital is a digital music distribution, licensing and online promotion company that uses all new digital marketing techniques and hacks to help artists building and growing their audiences. - Jeremie Varengo / JTV Digital Deal Type: Artist Roster Consideration Compensation: $500+ Song Quality: Fully mastered Shopping Artists for Roster Inclusion for Upcoming Record Label Payout: $5,001 - $10,000 Seeking exciting new artists for roster inclusion for upcoming Parliament Records. After years of working with top industry leaders including Tony Bongiovi and his team at Power Station, as well as national recording artists and some of America's largest independent labels, Parliament Publishing is now broadening it's presence to include a record label in 2020. We are seeking exciting, upcoming recording artists in the realms of rock, pop, and dance. Country and rap acceptable if professionally-produced. - Shayne Leighton - Licensing Manager - Parliament House Publishing Decision Maker: Selected artists will be pitched for final decision Compensation: $5,001 - $10,000 Similar Sounding Artists: Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Mumford & Sons, Bleachers New artist development projects, artists or bands Payout: $100K+ I'm looking for new artist development, production, mixing and re-mixing projects for the new year ... If you have any serious recommendations get in touch. I love making records, if you are innovative, musically different and interesting please send me a demo! Indie pop, ambient, electro. (not rap or country) As a Writer / producer / programmer James is credited with 60 million record sales worldwide. His work having also won 3 Brit awards, 18 Grammys and 2 Ivor Novello awards since 2001. Not only has James worked for some of the most respected and established artists of this generation, but he has also helped establish the ‘sound’ and ‘sonic identities’ of major league acts. Defining their outputs well after his musical interventions. James's client list includes: ‘U2’, ‘Madonna,’ ‘Dido,’ ‘Phil Collins’, ‘Manic Street Preachers’, ‘Kylie Minogue,’ 'Mel C', ‘Brian Eno’, ‘Keane’, 'Sinead O'Connor', 'Bryan Ferry', 'Alex James from Blur',' Pet Shop Boys', 'Joe Satriani ', 'Annie Lennox', 'The Cure' Siobhan Donaghy ...and many more! - James Sanger / Vibey Developments Deal Type: Artist Development Compensation: $100K+ Similar Sounding Artists: something new! Artist Roster Consideration at DigSin Digital Single Label Deals Available At DigSin We are constantly looking for new music to work with and would love to listen to what you have. Even if your music is not selected, we will let you know what we thought of the song. With a focus on artist-friendly deals, smart marketing budgets, and deep industry connections, DigSin artists are positioned for greatness with more flexibility than other labels. Our current roster includes: Paradise Fears, Bronze Radio Return, Connie Lim, Jenn Bostic, Lauren Shera, Like Swimming, NNXT, Richard Barone, and Stargroves Def Jam Looking for New Artists for Record Deal Def Jam Recordings is seeking outstanding artists for a full record deal. We want an artist that can do it all. If you think you belong on our US roster, which you can see here: www.defjam.com/artists and you have what it takes to make it in today's hyper-competitive music environment, we want to hear what you have before you submit it anywhere else! Def Jam is home to some of today's music greats and if you belong among them we want to be the first to know. - Jason "Polo" Carbonell / Def Jam Recordings Deal Type: Record Deal Similar Sounding Artists: Please see our artist roster HERE Sire Records (Warner) Seeking Hit Pop/Rock Songs and Artists Sire Records, part of Warner Music, is seeking hit pop songs and artists to sign. Songs in vain of songs like: American Authors - "Best Day Of My Life" and "Believer", Neon Trees - "Animal", Walk The Moon - "Shut Up and Dance With Me" and XAmbassadors, and Smallpools' hits...those big rock band pop records. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. - Sire Records (Warner) Deal Type: Label Deal Rock Mafia Seeking New Artists, Songwriters & Producers Rock Mafia is an American record production/songwriting team, consisting of Tim James and Antonina Armato who have been active since the early 2000s. They have worked with artists such as Demi Lovato, Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, No Doubt, Wyclef Jean, Green Day, Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, Flo Rida, Ellie Goulding, A Great Big World, Tokio Hotel, Bebe Rexha, Armin van Buuren, and Laura Marano. Rock Mafia have sold over 100 million albums worldwide. We are seeking the best new artists, songwriters, and producers to add to our growing team to help with new projects. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. - Rock Mafia Deal Type: Label / Management Signing / Collaboration Similar Sounding Artists: Demi Lovato, Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, No Doubt, Wyclef Jean, Green Day, Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, Flo Rida, Ellie Goulding, A Great Big World, Tokio Hotel, Bebe Rexha, Armin van Buuren, and Laura Marano Looking for Rock, Pop, Country, Metal This is a Venture with Phil Quartararo former Warner Chairman/CEO and Co-founder of Virgin Records with Richard Branson and Linkin Park Manager, Grammy winning Producer Bob Cutarella and global industry veteran Chris Carlucci. We are looking for management opportunities, consulting and production deals. We have worked with U2, Joss Stone, Linkin Park, The Coronas, and many more, we have the ability to walk acts into any Major or Indie label globally and set up your strategy and social media. Send us your music, we will listen and give you honest feedback, and who knows, we could open those doors you are looking to enter! We primarily seek artists that have built something and are ready to expose it globally, we work with label head on every continent as well as Booking Agents. - Chris Carlucci-Partner-Licensing and Distribution and A&R - Phil Quartararo-Partner-Former Warner Music CEO and Virgin Co-Founder - Robert Cutarella-Partner-Grammy Winning Producer-Writer/Publishing - Doreen D’Agostino-Publicist - Mike Jackson-Partner/A&R Metal and Hard Rock - Susan McCarthy-Partner/Business Manager - Daniel Boehm-Managing Director-Europe - Daniel Costa-A&R Manager-Los Angeles - Dale Huxford-Managing Director UK and Legal - Kai Yamata-Managing Director-Japan Similar Sounding Artists: Evanescence, Keith Urban, John Mayer, Foo Figters Movement Music Seeking Artists for Management, Publishing/Licensing, Label Signing Movement Music is seeking artists for management, publishing/licensing, and label roster consideration. All submissions will be reviewed by our A&R team for release opportunities with us or our partners and publishing/licensing opportunities for commercial sync. Available artist projects will be also be considered by our management team. Movement Music is a record label, publishing, and management company founded in 2016 and based in Los Angeles. - Zael E. - CEO - Movement Music Deal Type: Management, Publishing/Licensing, Label Signing Similar Sounding Artists: Blackbear, Cashmere Cat, Louis The Child, Major Lazer, Calvin Harris, Marian Hill Big Fuss Records Seeking Artists for Label Roster Consideration Payout: $10,001 - $25,000 Big Fuss Records is looking for amazing artists to sign to our label. We specialize in Pop, Rock, Adult Contemporary and Alternative; Christian, Folk, Country and New Age Inspirational music; Soul and R&B. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. We look forward to hearing your submissions. We are a positive music label and believe in bringing inspiration and hope into the world through music. We stay away from dark, death metal artists and explicate lyrics. Our tag line represents how we feel about our artists. We Make a Big Fuss Over You! We stand for new ideas in the new music industry and work in tandem with artists we represent. We have been in business since 2002. We are selective in bringing the best music to the forefront of the music industry. Our deals are 50/50 splits. - Kristin Pedderson - CEO/Director - Big Fuss Records LLC Compensation: $10,001 - $25,000 Similar Sounding Artists: Coldplay, Lorde and others DeeVu Records Seeking Artists and Producer for Label Deals We are a record label, artist management and PR company based in the south east of England specializing in quality music from any genre, especially, pop, dance, soul, house, uk garage, funk. We are looking for artists from any genre, however the music must be of a very high standard, for example, mixed and ready to master. We are also looking for new remixers and producers to work with and again their work would need to be of a high standard. We are offering recording deals on a per track basis, which leaves the doors open to negotiate deals with the majors if we are able to generate the right interest. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. We've released records by the following artists: Jack Rose, KC Thorpe, Triptych, DJ Fen, Angel Farringdon, April, Carpe Diem, Jasmine Knight, DJ Mark Anthony, Cellardore, Leda Stray, RiP Productions, Elizmi Haze, Sandi Bogle Warner Music Spain is seeking new talent for the Spanish Market & new songs for talent signed to its local roster of Spanish acts Warner Music Spain seeks new talent for the Spanish market and new songs for artists already signed to its local roster such as Pablo Albarán, Sara Montiel, Antonio Rey, & Andrés Suárez. Warner Music Group and is a leading label in the Spanish market, based in Madrid. The label is dedicated primarily to pop, dance, rock/alternative, & flamenco/esopañola. Looking for Artists Trying to Build Their Brand Bentley Records is an international record label operating since 2013, specialized in building careers of artists. Throughout the years we have laid the foundation to jump start the careers of many artists. We're all about the quality of music and the quality of everything else we do. The artists who work with us are a prime example of this principle. Our roster includes well established, industry standard artists, producers and songwriters. A well experienced team is at your disposal to guide you to take your music to the next level. Mission: Create stars out of talent! Clients: Universal Music, Sony BMG, Warner Music, Zooland, Kontor Experience: We have worked with international record labels and built the careers of multiple artists. “We don’t just make music, we create Classics!” NYC Based International Record Label www.Bentley-Music.com - Troy Beelen - Executive A&R - Bentley Records Similar Sounding Artists: The Chainsmokers Union Music Group Ltd Record Label. We are looking for new artists to work with and would be happy to consider your songs. All our deals, digital distribution, licensing, publishing, etc. are artist-friendly and we aim to deliver value via a personal support and involvement in all the projects we work on. Union music Group Ltd is a Record label and digital music distribution, licensing and online promotion company that uses all new digital marketing techniques and hacks to help artists building and growing their audiences. All submissions will be reviewed by our A&R team for release opportunities with us or our partners and publishing/licensing opportunities for commercial sync. Available artist projects will be also be considered by our management team. Union Music Group is a record label, publishing, and management company founded in 2008 and based in United Kingdom. - Alex - Director - Union Music Group LTD Similar Sounding Artists: Taylor Swift, Adele, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez , Zara Larsson etc Bentley Records Looking for New Artists I’m Troy Beelen, the Executive A&R for Bentley Records based in New York City. We are an international record label company serving many professional artists worldwide. For more information you can visit our website www.Bentley-Music.com If you’re interested in working with us please submit your best track(s) and include any social media links. We're ready to take your music career to the next level! Troy Beelen Executive A&R Bentley Records Seeking Metal Artists for Wagner Records Seeking Metal Artists/Bands for Wagner Records Hi musicians! We are looking for you! We are seeking metal artists and bands to sign to Wagner Records. If selected we will offer a contract for artist material for one year, and if the artist and the label (Wagner Records), want to continue working, the contract will renew automatically. If one of the two parties doesn't want to continue, with 30 days of anticipation, a written notice will cancel the auto renewal. The material to work can be a Single, Demo, EP, or Album. We highly recommend to work an album for an extended promotion of material. In this case, a EP/Single can be used to start the process with Wagner Records. All income while under contract will be divided 50/50 net revenue. We make two payouts per year; one in July and one in January, all via PayPal or bank account transfer. Once signed, we only ask that the artist/band remove all free download links of the material, from streaming/sales stores and YouTube videos. Wagner Records would have ONLY the digital distribution rights. Besides that, we don't intrude on any exploitable rights without the written authorization of the artist. Wagner Records Offers: * Digital distribution on the major online stores and platforms * Wagner Records Store for digital material to buy (storewagnerrecords.com) * YouTube Partner Channel for all your official videoclips and lyric videos. * Merchandising on demand store for the artist with items like, t-shirts, hats, iPhone cases, etc. * Promotion on Facebook and Instagram * Physical CD and DVD on demand Future projects (for 2016/2017/2018): * Booking for playing in LATAM and Europe (2017) * Live Streaming and Studio Recordings (2018) Hope that you can join the squad and grow together team! - Octavio Boggiano - CEO & Founder - Wagner Records Accepting Rock & Pop Submissions for Artist Development & Management Random EQ is currently seeking Rock, Hard/Heavy Rock, and Pop artists with great potential for Artist Development and Management. We have already had successes facilitating acts with licensing and publishing deals, assisting conferences and artists with sponsorship procurement and endorsement deals, etc. We also have distribution (physical and digital), marketing (radio and web), and web/graphic design teams that have worked for both indie and major labels. Random EQ is a multifaceted independent music management and publishing company. We specialize in artist development, production, licensing and marketing for all genres. Random EQ Music Publishing is currently a licensed publishing company with ASCAP and we are expanding with help from several mainstream partnerships. - Will D / Random EQ CupaDella Records Submissions Submissions we select will be evaluated and may be placed for 1 or more of our 3 opportunities: 1. Catalog Inclusion 2. Direct Placement 3. College Radio Play - California Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. CupaDella strives for intimacy and signs only a few bands at a time in order to be more attentive and ensure each musician is receiving the focus and attention they deserve. CupaDella focuses on what we do best: creating music, finding talent, and bringing it to the audience. Each Artist receives the resources required to reach their full potential. - Pedro Berumen - CEO/Producer - CupaDella Records Deal Type: 1. Catalog Inclusion 2. Direct Placement 3. CA - College Radio Play Similar Sounding Artists: Tame Impala, Jim James, War Paints, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tora, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mndsgn Looking for Pop & EDM Artists to Sign to our Major Label Partners Sony and UMG I'm looking for Pop and EDM artists to present to our label partners (Sony and UMG) to sign. It helps if the artists have a story and a buzz and a single ready be to distributed. The artist will need to be packaged and ready for promotion. 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Amir has teamed up with Music Xray to give artists opportunities to bring him virtually into their studios. Maybe he has the advice that's going to push your song or brand to the next level and propel it to eyes and ears all over the world. Windom’s recent accomplishments include becoming an Oscar nominee for his A&R work on Pharrell’s international hit “Happy”. Windom’s creative genius on Trey Songz, Kanye West, T.I. Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B’s albums has a reputation for impressive results. He has also developed marketing campaigns for renowned brands such as Adidas and Kodak. Amir Windom Atlantic Records Seeking Great Emerging Urban Acts Atlantic Records has a great history of promoting and breaking urban acts. If you have what it takes to be next, we can't wait to hear it. We always listen and respond here and we can't wait to hear what Music Xray helps us discover next. Let's get it! - Dallas Martin / SVP - Hip-Hop & Urban - Atlantic Records Seeking Female Singer/Songwriter to sign to Dreamwire Entertainment I'm looking to sign a self-contained female artist who can play an instrument, preferably, and can write potential hit records. Ultimately, I want to sign this artist to a major distribution deal and also get placements on other artists and licensed for tv/film. I want to know all about your experiences on your journey to becoming a signed artist, see pictures, any videos, and any additional information or music to will help guide my decision. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. Bobby Springsteen started as a recording artist then went on to become an A&R for several labels. He's now Founder/CEO of Dreamwire Entertainment Inc. managing artists, producers, songwriters, and screenwriters. He consults with publishing companies and has been instrumental in developing Nottinghill Publishing and its urban catalogue, as well as Royalty Network. Similar Sounding Artists: I'm open to any type of artist and prefer not to compare. Europe/Australasia/S. Africa Expansion - Seeking STAND-OUT Songwriters Following the establishment of strong new partnerships covering the UK, Europe, and Australasia, Audity Music is seeking to incrementally expand our roster of songwriters with undeniable talent. If your music would work for artists like Adele, Sam Smith, Fifth Harmony, Little Mix, Lorde, Tove Lo, Avicii, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Ellie Goulding, Sia, Major Lazer, Kiezsa...we want to hear it. We are also specifically looking for writers/producers who produce high quality music for TV/FIlm/Ad synch global opportunities as well as those who produce commercially-competitive music that targets the primary European markets, Australasia, and South Africa. You're music has to primarily target those markets but you can be located anywhere. Keep rockin'! Audity Music, LLC We Make Hits \| We Place Hits Looking for Pop/R&B Male Artist for a Record Deal Darian "DP" Pollard, President DP Music Entertainment Group, is looking for male Pop/R&B artists for a record deal. Seeking a male artist that's label ready! Must be marketable with an incredible voice and have social numbers to prove it (real numbers). All around polished male artist that has the total package (the sound, the look, and work ethic). If select will need to be included in artist showcase for labels *Must be unique and not affected. Will need to be ready for touring, and promotion. All submission must represent your best. Seeking Artists for Label Roster consideration at Iceman Music Group INC I'm seeking tracks and production for possible roster expansion at Iceman Music Group INC. We are looking for hip-hop, R&B and EDM joints. 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The winner will receive full consideration as a new member of the Two B Entertainment music artist roster. Open to ages 18+ Two B Entertainment(IIB) is a full-service music entertainment group based in Orlando Florida. IIB is centered around artist management, development, recording and touring. Our group of professionals provide music artist services for song/lyric writing sessions, vocal lessons, studio recording and distribution. - Two B Entertainment Seeking Pop & R&B Writers to Sign Darryl Williams, former Vice President of A&R for Atlantic and Elektra Records is looking for the next Pop and R&B writing sensation to sign to a boutique record label. Submitting artists should have taken the time and developed their sound and have a good sense of who they are. I'm not looking for Chris Brown knock-offs. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. Darryl Williams discovered and was the executive producer of Brandy, Ray J and Amerie. 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League, is an American record production team. hey have produced songs for prominent recording artists such as Drake, Young Jeez, Rick Ross, Mary J Blidge, Nas, Jay Z, Elle Varner, DJ Khaled etc among many others. Please do not contact us outside of Music Xray. We like to keep things organized and are only taking submissions here. Thank you. Seeking Pop & R&B Singers to Sign Darryl Williams, former Vice President of A&R for Atlantic and Elektra Records is looking for the next Pop and R&B singing sensation to sign to a boutique record label. Submitting artists should have taken the time and developed their sound and have a good sense of who they are. I'm not looking for Chris Brown knock-offs. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. We are looking for HOUSE & EDM Producers, Remixers for label deals We're looking for new dance music artists to sign on Meska Music record label. 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We're looking forward to hearing your best material. - Word Entertainment (Curb) Seeking EDM/Dance and Pop Producers/Writers/Vocals/Artists Overdrive Productions is looking for cutting edge EDM/Dance and Pop producers/writers/vocals/artists for label shopping opportunities, collaborations, and releases. Looking for finished songs or demos. No HIP-HOP. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. Overdrive Productions is responsible for signing artists, booking talent, and shopping records to labels such as Universal Republic, Sony BMG, Robbins Ent., Armada, etc. In addition to managing and booking artists, Overdrive has previously secured placement with networks such as MTV, VH1, BET, CBS, NBC, USA, Spike TV and Bunim/Murray. Overdrive has also secured placements with top brands such as Tag Body Spray, Hooters, Dr. Pepper, Malibu and Friskees. - Jared Overeem / Overdrive Productions Similar Sounding Artists: Chainsmokers "Roses" - Tritonal "Blackout" - Major Lazer "Lean On" - Don Diablo & Steve Aoki "What we started" - DJ Snake "Middle" Alesso "I wanna know" Audity Music is seeking STAND-OUT Pop/Urban Songwriters and Producers Audity Music is seeking the best songwriters and producers to work with our team. We have a global network of talented and successful songwriters who we represent as publishing clients, management clients, and simply song-plugging clients. We are always seeking high quality co-writes and collaborations as well as exceptional writers to join us for international writing camps with record label clients in multiple territories. Audity has uniquely special, value-added reach in Asian markets. Please note that we submit music to major labels globally and can ONLY work with commercially-viable and competitive music. We are highly-selective but also very attentive. And, we will provide honest and thorough feedback. Past placements include Girls Generation, Big Sean, Super Junior, Destiny's Child, BOA, EXO, Lady Gaga, and more. Please submit ONLY your best to us and ONLY through this DropBox. Please do not email us directly. Robomagic is seeking incredibly compelling acts with amazing music people have GOT to hear Robomagic is seeking charismatic, amazing new acts (solo or groups) with infectious music people want to hear. Acts should have an eye toward working hard to make it in the music business and come to the table ready to get involved with experienced teams that know how to make it happen. Acts can be based anywhere but relocation to London may be necessary, depending upon a range of variables and circumstances. But if you've got the goods, we'd got the team, the know-how, and the resources to help make it happen. - Rob Hallett - Founder / President - Robomagic Consideration for Management Roster at Kaner Music We are currently seeking to expand our management roster. We are based in Brooklyn and are open to great acts from anywhere so long as you're music is awesome and you are eager to work hard to achieve success. Currently an artist manager, Jared Kaner has held many different positions in the music business. Prior to his management career, Jared was the bass player for a band on a major label, a talent buyer at a concert promotions company, and even began as a ticket office clerk at a popular Boston music venue. It was during his band experience where management occurred naturally. After she parted ways with her management, Jared became the day-day manager for singer/songwriter Aimee Proal, who he also played guitar for. During this time, Jared oversaw the deals that landed Aimee songwriting placements on Kelly Clarkson's "All I Ever Wanted," and Alison Iraheta's "Just Like You," records. She eventually signed to Emblem Music/Primary Wave. After that, Jared managed Bamboo Shoots for Epic records, where he took a band that no one knew about and got them on tour with the popular band 3OH!3 and a feature on a CW series, giving them their first exposure to a national audience on television. - Kaner Music Love To Infinity Records seeking Dubstep and Drum n Bass Love To Infinity Records seeking Dubstep and Drum n Bass for single label deal or artist placements. Looking for tracks in the style of Nero, Chase and Status, and Emeli Sandé. Please send us finished tracks we can sign. If it sounds like something we can get on BBC Radio One we will. We also may look to reproduce songs for our artists. We are looking for hit records for the new Soda Club album Soda Club has had 4 top 40 hits records in the UK and been on over 50 compilation albums. Love To Infinity Records is the label of Multi Platinum, Grammy Nominated record producers Love To Infinity who have sold 34 million records worldwide to date. DO NOT contact the industry professional or anyone directly at the industry professional's company. Doing so will DISQUALIFY you from consideration. - Andy Lee / Love To Infinity Records Deal Type: Song Placement / Label Deal Decision Maker: We are the final decision makers Similar Sounding Artists: Soda Club, Nero, Chase and Status, Emeli Sandé	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line688
__label__wiki	0.892939	0.892939	Music Technology - Jan 1987 Stepping Out Steps Ahead by Liz Rose, Leslie Fradkin What do you get when you cross brilliant musicianship, technological wizardry and one of the brightest line-ups in modern jazz? Answer: Steps Ahead. Interview by Liz Rose and Leslie Fradkin. Steps Ahead have been drawing the crowds with modern jazz shows that are fine examples of using new technology imaginatively. We uncover their secrets. WHEN YOU APPROACH New York's Bottom Line nightclub on a night when Steps Ahead are about to play, you notice two things: one is that the queue for the show wraps most of the way around the block, and the other is that as you wander towards the end of it, you recognise plenty of musicians standing in there amongst the regular punters. This supergroup of five of New York's hottest players draws musicians. Lots of musicians. Sure, everyone's there for the chops and the chops are there. There's co-leader Michael Brecker, for example, blowing his Steinerphone (more later) and tenor sax - sweet, hard, fast and lyrical. His chops have been heard biting into music with Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Chick Corea, Eric Clapton, Diana Ross, Phil Collins, George Clinton, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra - need more? There's plenty. And Michael Manieri, the other co-leader, on MIDI vibraphones and synths, has graced a few dates with his playing, arranging or producing. Starting with his debut as a 17-year old vibraphonist who stole Buddy Rich's comeback show from the charismatic drummer, Manieri has worked with Billy Joel, Jim Hall, Aerosmith, George Benson, and Linda Ronstadt, to name a few. He's also produced albums for Carly Simon, and arranged and played on Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms. Steve Smith, the group's drummer, pounds away on his Dynacord and Simmons SDS5 kit, after playing music of a slightly different kind for seven years with Journey. Mike Stern, Steps Ahead's guitar player, has worked out touring and recording extensively with Miles Davis, David Sandborn and Jaco Pastorius, among others. And don't forget the impressive Darryl Jones, Mr Bassman. After his stint with Davis, he recently completed a worldwide tour with Sting after recording the Blue Turtles LP. So there are chops galore. Enough to draw a sizeable and electric crowd. But there's one other big attraction when it comes to seeing this band. There's some technology going on here. I mean, there's Brecker with something that looks like a sawn-off clarinet (it's actually called a Steinerphone EWI) playing orchestral parts - and chords. How's he doing that? There's computer tape coming out of that instrument and that thing changes sounds without Brecker pushing a button. On the other side of the stage, Manieri taps his vibes, and out come strings and bells and vocal pads and cellos and ice. When he plays a pulsating solo tune along with what seems to be a sequenced loop, surprise! There's a pause in the piece, the time changes and the harmonic structure changes, too. So there can't be a loop. Like everyone else there, we began trying to figure out how they were doing it. So we asked... WE SPOKE TO Mike Manieri and Dennis Alichwer - Steps Ahead's resident technological whiz who builds their rigs and MIDIs their instruments together. We asked the duo how the band got together in the first place, and in the second place, how do they do that stuff on stage, anyhow? It turns out that Steps Ahead is an outgrowth of Mike Manieri's own band. He had a deal with Warner Bros which produced an album called Wanderlust. Brecker appeared on that album, along with Peter Erskine (drums), Tony Levin (bass), Warren Bernhardt (piano and synths), and Don Grolnick (keyboards). He went on the road with a band which represented that album including Omar Hakim (drums), Marcus Miller, Bernhardt, and Bob Mintzer on tenor sax and electric bass clarinet. Manieri: "It was a high-energy thing and I said, boy it would be nice to play some bebop - some acoustic, real quiet music. So I put together an evening at Seventh Avenue South (in New York) with Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Don Grolnick on acoustic piano, Brecker and myself. We played three nights and there were lines three blocks long to hear this band playing some standards." "Musicians love playing with this band because the compositions really draw the best guys in the country. They always have and they always will." Alichwer: "Evidently, there was a Japanese promoter in the club who put together a Japanese tour and double album project (Smokin' in the Pit). The live album went gold, selling 50,000 copies in three months. That was in 1979. "We were basically a Japanese band. We just played Seventh Avenue South and Tokyo. Gadd couldn't make the next tour of Japan, so I asked Peter Erskine to come along, and we did another tour, two or three weeks in Japan. In the middle of the tour we got really serious, and we decided we were having so much fun with the music and the reception was so great that we extended the tour, played Hawaii and worked our way back through California. Then we proceeded to record the third Steps album which was called Paradox Live at Seventh Ave. South. "Then we made the decision to keep the band together and we signed with Elektra. At that time Grolnick left the band - he'd had it with the road. Elaine Elias, Mrs Randy Brecker, joined the band; she was on that first Elektra album. Then she got married, pregnant and left the band and we replaced her with Warren Bernhardt. Our last problem was when to tour and support this last album. Michael and I wanted to go out in the summer and tour Japan, and Peter was a little unhappy with the whole Steps situation because we weren't playing very much. He decided to go back to Weather Report. They were on an extended four-month tour and he was really into being out playing. And Victor Bailey (bass) was only in Steps whenever he couldn't do Zawinul's thing, so when Joe Zawinul went out with Weather Update, both of those guys left. It was up to Michael and I either to wait until they got back and use that band when Weather Update wasn't working, or to just go with new guys. "My feeling is that musicians love playing with this band, not because Michael is in the band or I'm in the band, but because the compositions really draw the best guys in America. They always have and they always will. "So we started auditioning people and within a month, I didn't want to go near my phone. We had hundreds of calls - guys from everywhere, from Europe had found out. It was really flattering. "Steve Smith found out we were auditioning and he joined the band without an audition. I wasn't that familiar with the guy's playing, so I listened to a couple of Journey records. He came highly recommended, but to be perfectly frank, I didn't know if he could play jazz. Brecker and I said yeah, why not? - he'll give us another dimension. And if this guy's willing to take a shot, so are we. "Darryl Jones had just finished the tour with Sting, so he was available, and Mike Stern had just finished his stint with Miles. We put together this couple of rehearsals and it was just roaring." "Playing vibes through MIDI is a whole different thing. You have to play ahead of the beat, but more than that, you have to play perfect: incredibly clean." So much for history. Now how about that flashy electronic stuff that's being done on stage? To begin with, Mike Manieri is the pioneer of electric vibes. He's gone from using condenser mics glued to the bottom of the resonators (around 1964), through Barcus Berry pickups, to the Deagan Commander II vibraphone which he now uses. There's a pickup on each of the bars (!), and Alichwer has built a system of MIDI conversion from each of these pickups, as he explains. "What I built is a series of triggers defining each note. It just derives a trigger from each note and assigns a number to it. The trigger is developed as a five-volt logic level through linear electronics." ESOTERICS ASIDE, Mike's vibes' MIDI Out go to his Memorymoog's MIDI In, the Memorymoog's MIDI Thru to MIDI In on one of his DX7s. There's a program stepper switch that allows for program-change commands forwards or backwards in order. Program changes are set up in advance in sequence so that all Manieri has to remember is that when he wants his sound to change, he just steps it forward. Manieri, a former tap dancer, uses three pedals: a delay time pedal (it plugs into the back of a Lexicon PCM41) and two volume pedals. The delay allows him to sweep pitch-bends, as Alichwer revealed. "It's interfaced with a box that I built; it's an up/down slew-limiter with separate up/down rates so you can control the bend rate. If you put the pedal down you can control the bend rate with a pre-determined curve, so you can get your effects out of that. You can set the pedal all the way back to be any delay time within the range of the delay, and the pedal forward to be any other delay time, and sweep between the two at a rate. The rate is adjustable in either direction so you go down fast and back slow, or down slow and back fast..." And does Manieri have to change his technique to play through MIDI? "Oh yes, it's a whole different thing. You have to play ahead of the beat, but more than that, you have to play perfect. Incredibly clean. One of the things about bebop is that the funkier you play, the harder it is to swing. You hold back and you want to let one note flow into the other, and sometimes that little laziness is inherent in the music. It's not totally articulated, you know, it's gotta be kind of exaggerated laziness. "Pre-setting the show is the key. Knowing exactly what you want to do, going from this patch to that patch, lining them all up. It's all advancing to the next patch." "And with the vibraphone, especially with these pickups, it's so sensitive that if I just touch the note very lightly, it'll trigger those notes. I've had other vibraphonists come up to the studio and play and they say, why am I making all these mistakes? I say, well you normally do, too, but you don't hear them because you're hitting the bar, like 98% of that bar and about 2% you're probably touching the bar next to it; you never notice that because you don't hear it, but with this, you hear it. "You hear the synthesiser trigger so you have to rework your entire process and technique. The Memorymoog tracks like a bandit. I don't have the problems that guitarists are having. The Moog is right there. Mine has just been an amazing Mercedes." Not so for Michael Brecker. According to Alichwer, the Steinerphone tracks quite fast, but with delays of 10-15 milliseconds. This means he's probably compensating all the time. The Steinerphone triggers an Oberheim Xpander, with separate breath control and pitch for bending via the assignable pedal inputs on the synth. He also has thumb pitch-bend and bite vibrato, so he can slur and vibrato. On the Xpander there are two pedal inputs which are programmable or assignable; he uses one for breath (for opening and closing filters and for triggering envelopes) and the other for pitch-bending. He's also triggering a Yamaha TX7 expander and an Akai S612 sampler. There's a CV-to-MIDI converter (for interfacing the Steiner to MIDI) built right into the Steiner brain module. Because there are two gates, different thresholds can be set, one being the Steiner itself and one for the Xpander. So he might come in with the Steiner, then blow a little harder and have the Xpander come in. With clever programming of the Xpander itself, Brecker introduces similar or different timbres when he reaches certain velocity thresholds. In other words, when he blows harder, he's triggering more notes. And that's how he plays those amazing chords. A neat trick. Both Manieri and Brecker use Roland MSQ700 sequencers on stage. The Oberheim DMX drum machine drives the sequencers, mastering via the Roland sync. The drum machine just comes up through the monitors as the drum beats, and the musicians play off that. This allows them to make tempo changes through the DMX, something the MSQs don't allow you to do. For Manieri's untitled solo number, the master clock is the DMX driving two Ensoniq Mirages, split with vocal sounds on one and percussion and orchestral sounds on the other. He also has a TX7 and a DX100 MIDI'd into the system. Together, those instruments play the sequence, while the Memorymoog and another DX7 are played with his vibes to accompany the sequence. The sequence is programmed with a pause, tempo changes, and harmonic changes, and is splashed with lyrical and timing surprises. Definitely one of the night's highlights. As for Steve Smith, his Dynacord and Simmons percussion modules are triggered from the drums. Alichwer (is there no end to this man's talents?) has built custom switching boxes to turn the triggers on and off, so Smith can select kick on, snare on, toms on and master on and off. He can trigger any sound, and can turn that trigger on and off with a footswitch. It seems like a lot to keep in mind during a gig, but again, Alichwer has provided a solution. "Well, he can hear in his monitor what's going on. And on the switch that I built, there are lights so if it's on you see a green light - there are four switches. Mike Stern uses the Roland GR700 MIDI guitar synth - sparsely. During a beautiful solo introduction on a tune called 'Self Portrait', he plays along with a footswitch-controlled delay unit which holds a pedal note while he improvises. Darryl Jones, who uses Yamaha's QX1 sequencer at home, has yet to bring it on stage with him. For the most recent tour he used a Roland delay with a mild chorus and a variety of stomp boxes. And then there are the tunes themselves. Hummable, lyrical, changeable, dynamic, surprising. But you have to catch these guys live to get it. You can buy Steps Ahead's latest Elektra album, Magnetic Love, but make sure you find a place in line if they ever they sweep through your neighbourhood. 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__label__wiki	0.776595	0.776595	European NHS staff ‘frightened and anxious’ over Brexit uncertainty Uncertainty over the UK’s exit from the European Union is causing “serious instability” within the NHS workforce, a leading official from the BMA has warned. Speaking at a conference organised by the Westminster Health Forum, BMA council chair Dr Mark Porter emphasised that addressing the risks that Brexit posed to EU staff was essential to safeguarding and reassuring the NHS workforce. Doubt surrounding the future working status of European staff and medical students is causing many to be “frightened and anxious”, something that could cause problems for the morale of the entire workforce. In an Ipsos MORI survey undertaken by the Royal College of Surgeons based on responses from 3,500 members, for example, more than half of staff listed low morale as the main issue they face at work – prompting concern of a ‘winter morale crisis’ in the NHS. A separate survey also discovered that just under half of the public viewed the NHS as the biggest issue facing the country, narrowly beating Brexit. Speaking at the conference yesterday, Dr Porter said: “Some of the medical workforce don’t have the permanent right to remain at the moment, and the BMA believe that in order to give security to our workforce, they should be given that right to remain, perhaps as a one-off measure and regardless of the current five-year thresholds. “We also think it’s very important to address the serious instability expressed by people who have arrived here to qualify as medical students.” In the past, the BMA has called for the government to prioritise the health service when it enters negotiations about the UK’s exit from the EU by granting all EU nationals working in the NHS permanent residency. CEO of NHS England Simon Stevens has also echoed the same message of the importance of EU staff, whilst influential think tank IPPR has recommended granting European staff free citizenship. But despite ongoing concerns, health secretary Jeremy Hunt recently appeased the NHS by guaranteeing that the government will continue to focus on improving the health and care system in its Brexit negotiations and deal “positively” with the consequences of leaving the EU. Have you got a story to tell? Would you like to become an NHE columnist? If so, click here. Peter Ashcroft 02/03/2017 at 16:35 I believe that currently resident EU staff should be allowed to stay here as long as they wish. The 'Sword of Damoclese' is no joke. Why we can’t afford to overlook NHS volunteering in this General Election Bedford Hospital recruits Australian nurses to address staff shortages Government announces £25m Brexit medicines ‘express freight service’ BMA says GP Patient Survey results are ‘testament to hard work of GPs’ Perfect storm brewing over NHS pensions and tax rules ‘Worst winter on record’ as BMA warns of ‘hidden crisis’ in NHS Majority of doctors at high risk of ‘burnout’ as BMA shines light on mental health crisis Urgent inquiry launched after senior female doctors blow the whistle on harassment and ‘institutional sexism’ within the BMA NHSE to strip Capita of ‘shambolic’ cervical screening contract and bring it in-house BMA to sue government over pension changes resulting in ‘huge’ losses	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line692
__label__cc	0.535059	0.464941	KaleidoscopeTelearc Meet EMMA. - a brand new multilingual MOOC Platform for Europe: 12 leading universities and companies in 8 European countries announced the launch today of the new EMMA project which will provide access to MOOCs in different languages and supported by automatic transcription. Participatory Design. Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: New Reports and Findings, by the Council on Library and Information. February 2014. 110 pp. $0. ISBN 978-1-932326-48-2. CLIR pub 161 New book. The STELLAR project is proud to announce the publishing of the following new book on Grand Challenges in Technology Enhanced Learning iJET December 2013 issue. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) has just published its latest issue. We invite you to have a look at the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to read articles and items of interest. Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Games. North Carolina State University. Department of Computer Science. CSC Cluster Hire Announcement – Games 2 PhD positions at Trinity College Dublin. Identification, mapping, analysis of lifelong learning transitions of mobile learners HoTEL survey. Consultation on the key levers that can enhance faster and more effective innovation cycles in Technology Enhanced Learning. PhD Research Award The third TELEARC award, addressing PhD excellence, has been delivered on the occasion of the 2013 edition of the Alpine Rendez-vous, January the 30th, in Villard de Lans (France) The award winner is Yvonne Mulder from University of Twente, department of Instructional Technology (NL) rewarded for his work on: "Learning Science by Creating Models". TelearnEU Tweets de @telearnEU TEL Meta-project The Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) meta-project intends to create an intellectual platform to support the conceptual and theoretical integration in the TEL research area. Two tools have been launched with this objective : a TEL Thesaurus and a TEL Dictionary. Both tools are fully interdisciplinary, multilingual and takes into account the multicultural and epistemological roots of research on learning. TeLearn open archive TeLearn is the first international open archive dedicated to research in the field of technology enhanced learning. It accepts research papers and videos, in any language. For more information, visit TeLearn at telearn.archives-ouvertes.fr/.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line696
__label__cc	0.731342	0.268658	NSTC Awards Procurement Invitations S&T Directories Science & Technology Act Annual Performance Reports S&T News Promoting STEM in Schools Phase 1 Trial Results of the Sondashi Formula SF 2000 Released 3rd Educa-Mozambique International Conference and Exhibition NSTC Intranet NSTC Board/Council Programme Development & Implementation Documentation & IT R&D Registration Research Funds STIYF NSTC Events Zambia Science Conference 2016 Research and Innovation Management Forum [2017] Global Research Council (GRC) Africa Regional Meeting [2017] Committed to the promotion of science and technology for improved quality of life in Zambia Onsite Training presented by SARIMA A Pupil from Fatima Girls Secondary School explains her experiment to the Minister of Higher Education Hon. Prof. Nkandu Luo during the 2016 Science, Technology and Innovation Exhibition held at NORTEC in Ndola The 2016 Agriculture and Commercial Show Welcome to National Science and Technology Council The National Science and Technology Council is a statutory body through which the Government of the republic of Zambia directs policy on the development and application of science and technology in the country. It was established by the Science and Technology Act No. 26 of 1997. Science and Technology in Zambia is guided by the National Policy on Science & Technology. The broad objective of NSTC, as stipulated in the S&T Act No. 26 of 1997 is to promote science and technology so as to improve the quality of life in Zambia. VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT – EXECUTIVE SECRETARY AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL For the full Job Description, kindly click here: Advertisement for the Executive Secretary Position DOWNLOAD PRESENTATIONS FROM THE 2019 JOINT RESEARCHERS’ SYMPOSIUM ON SOLAR ENERGY This year’s symposium was focused on Solar Energy.Conference sessions were organized around multiple sub-themes. Kindly download all presentations by clicking the following link: NSTC-DFG-FNI 2019 Joint Research Symposium Presentations Please Add Widgets Remove this message by adding widgets to Footer Widget Area 1. Click here to go to Widget area. NSTC Calendar The Executive Secretary Fax: +260 211 257194 Email: nstc@nstc.org.zm Copyright © 2018 NSTC. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line699
__label__cc	0.743181	0.256819	Happy 90th Birthday to Trevor Thatcher – 18 November 2016 Congratulations on achieving this significant milestone. I am told by the 95 year old father of one of my golfing mates that 90 is the new 80! Please accept my best wishes for a happy and healthy 2016/17. Peter Bull November 18, 2016 at 10:21 am A significant milestone indeed, and it just goes to show what can be achieved with “the good life”. Pass on my very best wishes. Is has been a pleasure to know him, and in fact there has always been a special attachment, as he was instrumental in actually getting me into the OTC training school way back when. Jim Hulme Thanks, and if you have a chance please pass on my congratulations to Trevor (although he may or may not remember me). But also is there any chance you could ask Trevor whether can he still do Morse Code? I remember clearly getting “tested” for my Morse Code ability by Trevor at his desk in the managers office downstairs in Broadway. I am guessing that it would have been in the mid to late 1980’s. Before that test he was rather incredulous that I could even do it at all but I recall what he said to me afterwards, “Yes I do believe you now!” Ian Weldon I don’t have an address for TWT, but would you please pass on my congratulations as well? John Lilley. Please pass on my congratulations and best wishes to Trevor, with whom I worked for some years in Operations at the Martin Pl Head Office. Peter Bull November 18, 2016 at 12:46 pm Here, here. Well done Trevor. Enjoy the day. I hope you have many years of good health ahead of you.. Rob (Bob) McAulay. I do not have Trevor’s email address so I can’t send congratulations, however I remember Trevor Thatcher working on the 10th floor of OTC House Martin Place, when I was also working in 1969 that was 47 years ago when I was 19, just before I was sent off to Carnarvon So Trevor must have been 43 years old at the time. His nickname was TWT, after travelling wave tubes I think, some others said the TWT was TWIT but that was unkind He also used to complain a lot about bad spelling typewriters, all the typewriters he used did not spell correctly I think I remember he was responsible for restoration plans / outages planning and the like Trevor certainly made us feel that work was not all too serious, thank goodness I hope he lives many more years, as we all hope for. Matt Saunders Peter Bull November 18, 2016 at 1:20 pm Sa da qase saraga na tamata gai me bula balavu o iko. Loloma Yani, Kaiviti. Trevor signed up myself and my bother, Jim, years ago in 1965/66. I owe him a great debt. A real gentleman. cheers Terry Hulme. Thanks for telling us Trevor and Ray Baty interviewed me for my traineeship in OTC Bob Murray Congratulations Trevor ….. 90 and not out … it’s a great score so far …. I hope you’re in good health and that there’s many more Birthdays to come. Congratulations Trevor. My father is 96 and would like to be 90 again! Ron Beckett Peter Bull November 21, 2016 at 8:04 am Congratulations Trevor All the best Trev .. keep it up…catch up with me on the 10th of next month my 95th birthday… Best wishes also from Hope who is having her 94th a few days after. From John Grosbard	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line701
__label__wiki	0.837742	0.837742	9/7: PWR Annual Backyard Show Please Support Our Supporters Click here to see a list of our supporters About PWR Parents Who Rock is a non-profit association of musicians and others based in Montclair, NJ, who volunteer their time and talents onstage and behind the scenes to raise money for non-for-profit organizations throughout the community. Since 2005, fundraising events featuring PWR artists and other volunteers, working with the Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence (MFEE), have netted more then $200,000 for such organizations and causes as the All-Children’s Playground, Mountainside Hospital Breast Cancer Education Center, the Montclair Rape Crisis Center, and more. Read more here Go Play Outside: The debut CD from Parents Who Rock. Buy your copy now! Get our last CD! - LET 'EM PLAY Let 'Em Play, the second CD from Parents Who Rock, is out now. Proceeds from the sale go to benefit Little Kids Rock in Montclair. Click on the cover above for more information and a list of the fine retailers selling the CD. Parents Who Rock has gotten some nice press over the last few weeks: Check out what Baristanet had to say about the new CD: http://www.baristanet.com/2009/01/the_second_cd_by_the.php. And the folks at New Jersey Family magazine are giving away a copy of the latest CD. Read what they have to say at http://www.njfamily.com/en/news/Kids_can.aspx And then there's this one from the Montclair Times: Riffing and Rocking to Enrich Public Schools Parents Who Rock showcase new CD, fundraising gigs by Mark S. Porter of the Montclair Times Local musicians by the dozens fill the 23 tracks of "Let ’em play," a second CD released by the Montclair organization Parents Who Rock. PWR is not only an organization. PWR is a guitarization, bassization and percussionization. There’s also plenty of vocalization. "There are 60 musicians from Montclair and the Montclair area" performing on the new album, which features performances from the past year, said Alma Schneider, founder of Parents Who Rock. PWR’s key membership requisite is that performers must be parents, many of whom long ago placed their musical instruments in closets to make space for playpens and kids’ toys. The association’s popularity has attracted enough older musicians that a sub-group has been established: Grandparents Who Rock. "We have this amazing ‘Grandparents Who Rock’ thing happening," Schneider told The Times. "This is like a rebirth for some of them. It’s becoming this community event where they’re meeting new friends and collaborating on music." And there’s an ancillary array of players who are young people. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," one of the new CD’s tunes, features "the children of Parents Who Rock." Produced and engineered by Dave Cushing at Snowdome Studios in Montclair, and mastered by the acclaimed recording-studio maven Greg Calbi, the CD is available in numerous shops around town. Proceeds from sales of the $10 album will fund the purchase of rock instruments and musical teaching in Montclair’s public schools. "We’re hoping everyone in town will buy a CD to support this great program," said Schneider, who noted that PWR’s fundraising efforts are tied in with the Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence. The music education program is initiated by the national organization Little Kids Rock, whose founder, David Wish, resides in Montclair. Proceeds from PWR’s debut CD, "Go Play Outside," along with numerous live performances and fundraisers, helped raise about $150,000 toward the construction of the All-Children’s Playground in Edgemont Memorial Park. Since she founded PWR four years ago, Schneider and her colleagues have raised donations for local or regional nonprofits. They initially were motivated to share their success with nonprofit groups that needed financial assistance. Now, with the U.S. economy reeling, PWR members recognize their assistance is needed to assist human services agencies. "Times are so tough, and soup kitchens and other nonprofits are suffering," Schneider explained. Parents Who Rock have numerous fundraisers scheduled, with most focused on the Little Kids Rock endeavor. "There are all these opportunities for people to participate in these fundraising events," Schneider said. "It’s so important that we have music in our lives." Contact Mark S. Porter at porterm@montclairtimes.com. Upcoming PWR Events Parents Who Rock has scheduled a series of performances and fundraisers. Wednesday. Jan. 28: Uptown, at restaurant at 595 Valley Road, will feature PWR members Ellen Paretti and Alisa Harmon in shows on Wednesday evenings, with half-priced meals for children and 5 percentof proceeds donated to Little Kids Rock. Saturday, Jan. 31: Zara Phillips, Meryl McCusker, Barbara McCathry, Ron Holtz, Jessica Owen, Scott Moore, Cindy McCord, Hamstrung and Los Primos perform at Diva Lounge, 369 Bloomfield Ave., to benefit the Christ Church Soup Kitchen in East Orange. The show runs from 7to 10 p.m. Tickets: $10. Reservations: 973-509-3000. Sunday, Feb. 22: PWR presents Rockin' for Kids, a family friendly concert at 3 p.m. at the Montclair High School Auditorium (entrance on Park Street). Performers include the Mama Doni Band, Mr. Ray, the Momclair Singfunny Orchestra, and the Roo-Mates from the soon-to-open Club Kid'doo. Tickets are $12 at the door or $10 in advance, and are available at the Montclair Community Pre-K, Grove Pharmacy and Keil's Pharmacy. Or order at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ or call 800-838-3006. Proceeds will fund the work of Little Kids Rock in Montclair. Saturday, Feb. 28: Grandparents Who Rock debutsat Diva Lounge, 369 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair, to benefit Little Kids Rock in Montclair. Performers include Jane Susswein, the Schuchinskis, Barbara Hassenfeld, Jim Steiner, Meg Beatie-Patrick and Barbara McCarthy. The show runs from 7 to 10 pm. Tickets are $10. Call 973-509-3000 for reservations. http://www.divalounge.com/. CHECK OUT THESE GREAT SITES Studio 12 Montclair: Open Mic Wednesday: Great live music! Trend Coffee and Tea House: Open Mic Every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Studio Art Kids: Great kids art classes, great house party shows! Subscribe to PWR via Email Subscribe to PWR via RSS This Year's Fundraising Goal Thanks for helping us reach our goal! 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__label__wiki	0.620784	0.620784	"I'm tired of emotions They bore me with distortions They cut me, saying 'Fuck me' Wipe them all away Now let me see through eyes made of stone..." -- Front 242 Last week, on Friday night, he had been curled up in bed with his youngest teammate, naked, talking softly of matters both serious and inconsequential while trading touch and kiss, happy in some quiet, contented way he could not put his finger on. Last week, on Friday night, he had not been thinking of anything other than his young lover and the gentle, almost dream-like time they spent together. Last week, on Friday night, he had been happy. Last week, on Friday night, his teammate had been Tsukiyono Omi, and not Takatori Mamoru. It had been on Sunday that the truth had come out, and Aya -- Ran -- whomever he was -- had felt the bands of iron slide around his heart and squeeze until he thought he might choke. Omi -- Mamoru -- had been shaking while holding the gun on his teammates, but the aim was true. Ran could still hear the anguished cry of "He's -- he's my brother," could still hear the sobs that followed it. Part of him had wanted to go to Omi, to gather his lover into his arms and hold him, despite what the others might think. Part of him had wanted to offer that comfort, wanted to let Omi know that it was all right, that he didn't need to worry. All that the rest of him could hear was "Takatori". It had been on Monday when Omi had knocked on his door, at about the time that he usually did, to find out if Aya hated him. He'd heard the words from his own lips a second before they fell, could feel Omi jerk in response before turning and leaving on quick and silent feet. Part of him hated himself for what he'd said, what he'd done; he knew that Omi's eyes were shining with the tears he refused to give into, and part of him curled in on itself and cried with him. The rest of him was cased in those iron bands. Don't feel, Ran. Don't hurt. Don't reach out. Don't feel, because if you can't feel, you can't get hurt, and if you hurt others, well, they let themselves be hurt. Don't think about Omi. Mamoru. Don't. Friday came back too fast. He paced the length of his room, feeling the walls pressing in on him, feeling the weight of the others in the building, feeling the weight of him. Finally, impatiently, with a snarl on his face that would startle him if he were to see it in a mirror, he picked up his leather jacket and slung it around his shoulders, stuffing his hands violently into the pockets and striding out of the building. He would go to the hospital. He would see Aya-chan. He would remind himself why he was there, why he was a murderer, why he did all of this: for her. Halfway down the street, he realized that he was going the wrong way. His feet, apparently, knew where he was really going more than his mind did. He hadn't let himself consciously think about it, not once, but he apparently hadn't had to. Snarling a little more, he picked the pack of cigarettes -- filched from Youji, who had bitterly complained about losing them and wondered where he could have left them -- out of his pocket, lighting up one and coughing with the rasp of someone who hasn't smoked in longer than he'd care to think about. Eight forty-five. Eight months. Friday. It was Friday. He hated himself. But he kept walking. And there, waiting -- on the same park bench that he'd waited on that last Friday, eight months ago -- was his old teammate. The other lover, the first one. Knight sat with his arms crossed, legs spread wide, an expression of weariness and boredom on his face. Ran almost drew up short at that look, but the footsteps had already drawn the other man's attention, and a smile -- so familiar, so angry and yet pleased at the same time -- curved his lips. "You're early, Ran. It's only eight forty-five." Ran winced at the tone. "Eight months late, but at least you made it fifteen minutes early tonight." Ran stopped several feet shy of Knight, not precisely looking at him, but not quite looking away, either. He could feel his own shoulders tense and taut beneath the black leather, and knew that his body was leaner than it had been eight months ago, thinner and more whipcord-tense. Some small part of him wondered what Knight would think of the changes. If Knight would think of the changes. It was a long moment before he spoke. "I wasn't going to come." He took another drag off the cigarette, feeling the sudden heat as tobacco came too close to filter, and dropped it, stepping it out. "I didn't know if you'd be here or not." He forced his voice flat, cool, distant. Don't feel, Ran. Don't feel. The agreement had been simple at first. They would work together all week, sniping at each other, arguing violently -- if relatively good-naturedly -- about anything under the sun. And Friday nights would be theirs -- the one time of the week when he didn't have to think of his sister, his revenge, his father's talk of perversion. Knight had set out to draw the badly-hurt eighteen-year-old out of his shell, and had mostly succeeded. When Ran had changed teams, the agreement held, albeit refined: they would meet, once a week, every Friday. No strings, no attachments; if the other had not shown by nine-thirty, the first was free to go, with no hard feelings. The weekly respite had been all that had gotten Ran through those tumultuous first months with Weiss. And then ... Omi. Mamoru. Knight looked up at him, squinting against the back-lit glow of the streetlamp. "Nice to see you still remember the script," he sneered, cheerily. "I've been here, Ran. Not every week, but close enough." There was anger there; that much was plain. Anger, and a sense of betrayal. "You know, I went to Krikiter to see if you'd died?" "No. I didn't know." He closed his eyes. "Manx never told us." Pause. "I'm sorry I never contacted you." This was the Ran that Knight had first known; the one that Knight had shoved aside to discover the man underneath. The one who didn't want to feel anything. The one who couldn't be hurt, and if he was, he bled ice. As defenses went, it was fairly effective. Certainly Knight didn't appear to be able to see through it (but Knight always saw through it, the little voice whispered in his head; Knight always knows); he laughed, a quick bitter sound, and then rose to his feet. He crossed the space between them to stand uncomfortably close to Ran: too close, too tall, too near. Ran had to fight the urge to take a step back. "Are we going, then?" Ran tipped his head back up to meet Knight's eyes, quietly resenting the other man's height advantage. He should leave; he knew that much. He should at least insist that they stay in the park longer, until Knight's anger cooled, or suggest that they go and get something to eat, to talk about the intervening months. He knew what would happen if he said yes. And part of him thought that it was all he deserved. "Are we?" he asked, lowly. A single muscle twitched in Knight's jaw, subtly. "Unless you just came tonight to tell me to get a new date for Friday nights." His eyes narrowed. "In which case, you could have had the courtesy of saying something eight months ago instead of leaving me to think that you'd been killed or something." A moment of that piercing eye contact was more than Ran could handle, and he looked away, unable to face the anger that he saw there. It had been easy to justify staying away for so long to himself -- easier by far than telling Knight that he'd found another relationship. Faced with the anger his actions had produced, he felt smaller, more ashamed. Fishing another cigarette out of the pocket of his trenchcoat gave him something to do. "No." It was quiet, too quiet; he wasn't sure if Knight even heard him. "I didn't." Knight snatched the cigarette out of Ran's mouth and broke it in half before Ran could even think of fishing for his lighter. The action brought old memories to life; Knight had been the one to make him quit the first time the eighteen-year-old desperately trying to be more adult had taken up the habit. Eyes still narrowed, Knight grabbed Ran's wrist, holding it with bone-crushing tightness. "Then we're going. Come on." Ran's chin came up again; he could feel the flash of anger overlaying the ice in his eyes. He dropped the pack back into his pocket, meeting Knight's eyes again, steadily. If that was how Knight wanted to play it, fine. It was pretty much what he deserved, after all. He didn't say a word, didn't move; though the hand of the wrist that Knight was holding tensed, slowly, into a fist. Reflexes were so hard to overcome. Knight pulled on Ran's wrist, sharply, dragging Ran along. His strides were long on the old, familiar path to his apartment, and he didn't look back over his shoulder, didn't loosen his grip, though Ran made no attempt to do anything but follow. Ran felt something closely akin to gratitude for that respite. It was almost easier when someone else made the decisions, when someone else called the shots, and it was for that reason -- despite what it cost him in pride, despite what instincts told him, despite everything -- that he did not struggle. Half a step behind Knight the entire time, knowing that at any time he could break free and end this little charade, he didn't speak any more than Knight did. The walk to Knight's apartment had never been longer. Knight let go of Ran only to unlock the door, graciously opening it and bowing with a little sweeping gesture for Ran to enter first. "Everything should be just as you remembered it." Ran hesitated, just barely, before stepping through the door; subtly, hoping it would not be noticed, he twisted his wrist sharply to crack it. It hurt, but he welcomed the pain. He didn't say anything, just slipped out of his trenchcoat, tossing it on a nearby chair. The room was dark. He knew where the light was, knew these rooms about as well as he knew his own, but he didn't want to have to look at Knight. Didn't want to see the anger in his friend's eyes. The first touch of a hand on his shoulder was almost gentle, until the hand tightened and turned him; Knight glared at him through narrowed eyes for a second before slamming him to the wall and kissing him roughly. Ran didn't fight the kiss. He half-leaned into it, teeth and roughness and all; his hands rested flat against the wall for a second, then curled into fists. The kiss held only the smallest amounts of affection. Finally, Knight pulled back and demanded, "So where the fuck have you been for eight months?" Ran lifted the back of one hand to his lips -- not to wipe away the taste of Knight's lips, a taste that was familiar and close to welcome -- but to press against lips he knew were already beginning to swell. "Busy," he said, harshly, leaning his head back against the wall and closing his eyes. He didn't want to think about the last eight months. He'd come here to forget about them in the first place. Knight put the palms of his hands flat against the wall, on opposite sides of Ran's head; Ran fought the feeling of being cornered. "Busy? With what?" He snorted, faintly. "Or is it 'with whom'?" Cold, distant, ice. It had to be. If it wasn't, he would break, and once he broke, he wouldn't be able to piece himself back together. "With someone I just found out is the son of my worst enemy in the world." Knight's eyebrows raised; Ran could feel genuine surprise radiating from him. "You're telling me you were fucking one of the Takatori brats for eight months?" The tone was disbelieving, and Knight laughed, just a little. "You fucked me over for one of them?" Now, the anger flared into life. "We didn't know," Ran hissed, stung into defending himself. "He didn't know." Almost thoughtfully, Knight looked into Ran's eyes for a long moment; once more, Ran had to fight the urge to drop his own. "Must have been pretty special to keep your attention for so long." Don't feel, Ran. Don't feel. No matter how much the thought hurts. "It's over." "Because now you know he's a Takatori." Knight always had been able to hear the unspoken reasons behind what Ran actually said. "Nice to know you think I'm a preferable alternative." "I wasn't going to come," Ran said, slowly. Trying to convince himself. "But you did. And now you're here. And it's the old question, Ran: What do you want?" He knew that the eyes that opened and met Knight's were a horrible mixture of cold and anguished. "I don't know." Knight leaned a little closer, bringing them almost nose to nose; he was close enough for Ran to feel the heat of his body. "Well, we could chat about what we've been up to in the last eight months," he said, lightly. "Or you could tell me all about your little Takatori. Or we could fuck." So close. So familiar. Ran lifted his hands to Knight's chest, feeling the hard splay of muscle beneath his fingertips, for a moment the gesture almost tender. And then, feeling the anger rise again, giving in to it just that little bit, he shoved -- hard, the kind of unbalancing shove backed by emotion and fueled by a temporary rage. Knight stumbled backwards as Ran hissed, "Don't call him that." The look that Knight gave him was almost startled, before it was replaced by a sneer of anger. He found his balance again and shoves Ran back against the wall, pinning him hard. "What else am I supposed to call him?" he asked, nearly growling. "That's all you've told me about him. That's why you're fucking here, isn't it? Because he's a Takatori, you can't handle it, and you'd rather fuck me than him." ~Goddamn it, you know he can read you like a book.~ Ran fought hard to keep his temper, knowing the struggle was playing out over his face. ~He's your friend.~ The urge to hurt was rising; he fought it. ~You can't afford friends.~ "I shouldn't have come." His voice rasped between them. "Oh, fuck that, Ran, if you didn't want to be here, you wouldn't have come," Knight hissed. "Fuck, I can still see right through all of your iceman bullshit. Yeah, you're here because you're scared." He laughed a little and forced Ran's shoulders more tightly against the wall. "Whoever your little Takatori is, he must have been something to keep you occupied for so long, and now you're scared that you'll treat him like a human being or something even though he's a Takatori, because if you do, well, fuck, you're screwing over Aya." He leaned back close again. "Did you come here to get some honesty? Someone to tell you what the fuck you're doing? Don't any of them know how to get past all that ice?" Ran lifted his hands to Knight's shoulders, as if to shove again; he stopped himself with a force of will, simply curling his fingers around those shoulders, and hissed, softly, "I don't know." Maybe Knight heard the fear that backed those simple syllables; he drew in a hissing breath through his teeth. He opened his mouth, as if to launch into another tirade, but all that came forth is, "Fuck you." And then he pressed close to Ran, lips crushing against his, the weight of his body pinning Ran to the wall. Ran knew that he could get free, if he wanted to. He could get free and turn around and leave and never come back again, never feel again, never be anything other than ice and distance. But he didn't. He rested his head back against the wall, closed his eyes, and kissed back. Trying not to think of gentler lips. Welcoming the roughness. Knight's teeth tugged at his lips and bit at his tongue; a crushing force, enough to bruise lips and leave them reddened. After an eternity that was still somehow too short, he pulled back, glaring at Ran as he caught his breath. "I know /one/ thing you want," he growled, then grabbed a fistful of Ran's shirt in one hand to pull him roughly towards the bedroom. His balance disturbed, not quite able to get it back, Ran stumbled along behind Knight. One hand rose again to press against his lips, wondering what bruises he would leave here with, wondering what the hell he was doing. Trying not to think about it. Trying not to feel. Knight pulled Ran into his bedroom, giving him another seconds-long glare, then pushed him hard back onto the bed. He stared down for a moment longer, jaw tensed; Ran could feel his cheeks begin to flame, but didn't move to protest, to protest any of it. Knight pulled his shirt off over his head, tossing it aside. He moved quickly to pin Ran to the bed, broader thighs enclosing slim hips, and kissed him again, this time biting at his lip hard enough to draw blood. Ran made a little involuntary noise as Knight bit him; not quite a complaint, not quite a protest, but something along those lines. He wasn't even certain himself what the noise signified. ~Not so rough,~ he thought, but did not say. Somewhere deep inside, he knew that this was what he wanted, it was what he deserved, it was all he deserved. His hands hesitated for a moment, and then fell to Knight's sides, feeling the heat and barely restrained anger. ~I hurt him.~ And it wasn't precisely clear, not even to himself, what "him" he meant. The dull copper-and-iron taste of blood exploded on Ran's tongue as Knight suckled on his lip. Hands clenched in the fabric of Ran's shirt and began to pull it upwards; Knight drew back from the kiss with a rough smacking sound to pull the garment over Ran's head, with the faint popping sound that spoke of torn stitches. "Miss this, Ran?" he growled as he dropped his head to bite hard at Ran's throat, sucking hard enough to leave marks. "Did you?" "No." Ran's voice was rough as he tipped his head backwards against the bed, eyes shut. "Yes. I don't know." His hands clenched mutely against Knight's side. Knight laughed, the sound pitching upwards to something shrill and harsh. "Some things never fucking change, do they, doll?" He bit hard at Ran's collarbone, working his way downward, and Ran could feel the marks already forming against pale flesh. Knight's fingers made quick work of Ran's belt and unfastened his pants, beginning to yank them downwards. "Did you expect them to?" Ran asked, bitterly, his eyes shut tightly against the assault on his senses. He shifted, a little, to make Knight's undressing him a little easier, and roughly dug his nails into Knight's back, wanting to tear, to rend, to hurt. And not wanting anything of the sort, at the same time. "Maybe you could have gotten older and wiser," Knight growled against Ran's skin as he yanked off his pants, tugging underwear down with them. "Or maybe your Takatori could have changed your ways." Ran tensed at the mention of Omi, willing the guilt away sharply. "Anything could have happened." Knight bit hard at one of Ran's nipples as he worked open his own pants, tossing them over his shoulder and not caring where they landed. Ran responded only by tangling his hand into Knight's hair, yanking his head back sharply. ~Too much,~ he thought, fuzzily. His other hand fumbled between them, finding one of Knight's nipples, pinching hard. Knight let out a short, sharp cry and bit harder at Ran's nipple, tugging on it roughly. He knocked Ran's hand away from his body, pinning it to the bed. His other hand lifted to Ran's mouth, palm resting against lips as though to muffle him. The command was simple, terse, direct. "Lick." Ran knew exactly what Knight wanted, exactly what Knight planned. One part of him protested sharply, and his cheeks flamed into full bloom, but he obeyed. They'd gone too far to turn back. "Thank you," Knight responded, cool politeness a mockery. He pulled his hand away from Ran's mouth, wrapping it around his cock, stroking quickly. Ran closed his eyes again; despite the tense emotion building, the emotions that were not precisely pain or fear or anger but somehow shared elements of all three, his body still reacted to the sight. He felt Knight's hands rough against his own legs, pulling them upwards, draping them over Knight's thighs; fingers bit into the curve of Ran's hips, with a strength that would leave dusky bruises. A sharp growl -- frustration, anger, arousal -- and Knight pushed into him. Fast. Hard. Painful. Ran did not cry out at the pain as it knifed through him, spreading from his gut through his body. He turned his head to one side, cheek pressed against the pillow, eyes closed, breath ragged and halfway on its way towards being a sob. It wasn't the pain; he'd felt worse. It was the shame, as Knight let his weight drop down on top of Ran, pinning him with heaviness and heat. "Is this what you want?" he hissed against Ran's ear as one hand loosed its grip on Ran's hip, sliding between their joined bodies to stroke Ran's cock, roughly. "Is this what you came here for?" His answer was not in words; his only response was another little gasp as his hips rise to meet Knight's thrust. It hurt. Oh, it hurt. But with every bit of pain, he was reminded again that he should not try to feel. He bit down on his lip, tasted blood, and once more dug his nails into Knight's back. "Did he fuck you like this?" The rough sound of skin slapping against skin with each rapid thrust. "Did your Takatori give you this?" The hand on Ran's cock squeezed roughly, almost painfully, just as painfully as everything else. Ran's eyes remained tightly shut; even if Knight were not talking, he could not have pretended that Knight were Omi. Omi had never touched him like this, never touched him with anything less than utter care. "No," he gritted out from between clenched teeth, "he didn't. And that's why I stayed with him." "Fuck you," Knight growled again, dropping his head down to bite hard at Ran's neck. "Fuck you." The last words broke off into a groan as his hips pumped faster; sweat began to bead on his brow, worked its way down the side of his face. Ran dragged his nails up Knight's back, hard, not caring. Not caring. Not, dammit, caring. "You -- already are." Knight arched back into Ran's nails, tossing his head backwards. His face was a rictus that could be a sickly grin, could be a grimace, but either way was simply a great deal of teeth bared in an expression that Ran knew even through the haze of pain and sensation was far from pleasant. "Yes," Knight hissed, although perhaps not as an response to Ran. He thrust once, twice, and then again, hard, then cried out as he came inside of Ran. When he was spent, he pulled out of and away from Ran, slumping onto his back on the bed and staring at the ceiling. Leaving Ran arching backwards against the bed, just beginning to overcome the pain, just starting to want. ~No --! Ran stilled as Knight rolled over, biting back the cry. He refused to show the weakness, refused to show Knight his need. Half a second, and then he rolled over onto his side, curling up against himself. The shame threatened to choke him. A few more seconds went by, and then Knight grabbed the edge of the blanket crumpled at the bottom of the bed, pulling it up over himself slightly. "Don't forget your coat when you leave." All Ran could hear was the disgust. The sudden rage swept Ran along with it. By the time his vision cleared, he found himself on top of Knight, pinning him to the bed, one forearm over Knight's throat to restrict the flow of air. "Bitch," he hissed, and his voice in his own ears was not quite sane. "You're forgetting something, Knight." Letting his reflexes free, he fit one knee into the curve of Knight's hip, dangerously close to the other man's crotch, pressing down hard to keep Knight from struggling. Knight struggled nonetheless, eyes bulging slightly as he fought for air against the relentless pressure on his windpipe. "What's that?" he managed to hiss out, as his hands lifted from the bed to paw at Ran's shoulders, trying to gain some purchase, to free himself. "You may outweigh me," Ran growled back, slamming Knight back against the bed, ignoring the hands at his shoulders. He dropped his head down to Knight's shoulder, resting cheek against cheek in a gruesome parody of tenderness. "But I've always been stronger than you are." Knight turned his head to try and bite; his teeth skimmed over Ran's cheek, connecting sharply around his jaw. "Get off me, Ran," he rasped, the panic starting to thread through his voice. "Get the fuck off me." He worked his hands under Ran's shoulders and tried to free himself by pushing Ran up and off; Ran responded only by leaning more weight on his forearm, depriving Knight of much-needed air. Grimly, he knocked the other's hands from his shoulders, wrestling them to the pillow and pinning them there with his free hand. The bite mark against his jaw flared into color and pain; he ignored it as inconsequential. "No," he said, and could be surprised at his own voice, so eerily calm. "How do you like it, Knight? How do you like being treated like that?" Knight's struggle for air took most of the force out of his answer; the sound was more harsh gasping than words, and Ran could only guess at the vehemence behind them. His lips formed the word "No," along with the word "Stop." With his hands pinned, all Knight could do was kick futilely at Ran's legs; Ran leaned more of his weight on the knee pinning Knight's hip, slipping dangerously close to the other man's cock, warning without words that this could get ugly very quickly. "No?" he hissed into Knight's ear, body pressed up against body, hot and furious. "Stop? I said that once, Yuuji. You didn't listen to me then. Why should I listen to you now?" "Because I mean it, you fucker," Knight choked. "Let me breathe." "How did you know that I didn't?" Old bitterness welled up and threatened to choke him even as he was choking Knight; he closed his teeth wetly on Knight's throat, his shoulder. "You said that I wanted it, Yuuji, and maybe I did, but does that change the fact that I told you to stop?" He eased the pressure on Knight's throat, just a bit, just enough to avoid serious danger of strangulation. "Why should I listen to you, when you didn't listen to me? Damn you, Yuuji..." Knight gasped in air sharply, once, and then again; another breath and then he made a noise near a growl as he tried to launch his body off the mattress, pushing every muscle up against Ran. "Fuck you, Ran, this is different," he hisses. "You liked it." Abruptly, Ran lifted his arm up off Knight's throat, letting him breathe "Maybe I did," he said, slowly. "Until tonight." He nipped at Knight's shoulder, sharply, teeth closing all too near to the veins in the neck. "And maybe I enjoyed tonight. And maybe you do know what I'm thinking. But fuck you if you think that you can just hurt me and not give me anything back for it and then throw me out of your room." The sudden terror that crossed Knight's eyes left Ran feeling dizzy. "Ran, get off me, don't do it, I don't want this." He pronounced each of the words clearly and sharply, emphasizing each one as if uncertain if Ran understood. "Get off me, this isn't the same." "Isn't it?" He pinched one of Knight's nipples, sharply. "You pushed me up against that wall and touched me until I wanted you to and then I pushed you back and said 'stop, Yuuji', and you laughed and you told me no." He wasn't talking about tonight anymore, and they both knew it. "You told me to stop denying it to myself. How am I supposed to know that you don't mean the same thing?" Knight made a harsh noise that was hardly one of pleasure. "Because if you let my hands go, I'm going to punch you in the face." He twisted away from Ran's hands as much as he could. "Stop." "That's not likely to make me let you go." "Then what will?" Knight snarled, teeth snapping for skin again and missing. ~What the hell are you doing?~ The thought, sudden and clear, pierced through the ice and fury. Ran could feel the anger draining away, and try as he might, he couldn't hold on to it. Didn't want to hold on to it. His voice was a scant whisper as he said, "I don't know." Abruptly, he let Knight go, rolling off of him and to his feet. He backed away from the bed, slowly -- remembering Knight's threat -- and then turned and left the room without a further word. He was thankful for his nudity when the door of the bathroom slammed shut behind him; he was shaking so badly that he didn't think he could have fumbled with fastenings. Distantly, he could hear the front door of the apartment slam, and knew that Knight would not return that evening. The hot water hurt against his injuries, but it was nothing he couldn't handle. Nothing he didn't deserve. He huddled there on the floor of the shower for what felt like forever before he started to scrub his skin, as if trying to remove -- not Knight's touch, but whatever it was in him that had made him roll over and throw his arm against Knight's throat.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line712
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__label__cc	0.699348	0.300652	HDMI Monitors: Marshall V-LCD651STX, Marshall V-LCD50 & SmallHD DP6 I was contacted recently by Cache Media the company that distributes Marshall monitors in the UK asking if I’d like to take a look at some of their newest models. I gratefully accepted the offer as I thought it would be very interesting to compare Marshall’s latest HDMI monitors to the two that I own and use regularly, the Marshall LCD-70 and the SmallHD DP6. It’s great to know that the latest Marshall gear is available here in the UK now, previously it’s been a bit tricky to find them and a lot of UK buyers have had to order from the states. Click here for a list of UK retailers that Cache Media distribute to. The models that were supplied were the 5″ V-LCD50 which is a tiny HDMI monitor aimed firmly at DSLR shooters and the larger V-651STX which is a higher end 6.5″ monitor. The smaller of the two retails for around £500 in the UK whereas the V-651STX as aimed more at pro users and as a result costs over three times as much. Before starting on the review I would like to say that I have not gone down the road of tweaking and calibrating these monitors, I set them all to the factory defaults and started using them without further tweaks. For the purposes of this review I’ll be looking at the basic functionality, build quality and ergonomics of the monitors. I’ll give what I feel are the important factors to consider with each monitor. My initial plan was to feature all four monitors but my Marshall LCD-70 has been replaced by an updated model, the LCD-70XP. The newer version fixes some of the limitations of the LCD-70 I own so rather than confuse matters by talking about an out of date monitor I decided to leave that one out of the review. We’ll begin with a quick overview of the three monitors… Marshall LCD-651STX-HDMI I’ve been wanting to get my hands on one of these for a while now. The LCD-651STX is a ‘Super Transflective’ outdoor monitor offering a higher res display than the larger LCD-70 monitors at 1024×768 pixels. As you may have noticed the LCD-651STX is not a standard 16:9 display which is an interesting choice these days considering the prevalence of the 16:9 system. The LCD-651STX can be configured with a wide range of battery mount options, the one I have for this review has a Sony B adapter so that I can power it with my Sony BPU batteries from the EX1. This monitor is also available in 3GSDI & HDA models but the one I’m looking it is the HMDI only version. Marshall claim that their technology minimizes surface reflection of both outdoor and indoor light, while featuring a much wider color reproduction range than typical transflective/reflective LCD’s or even those with increased back-light performance. I’ll be putting that to the test a bit later on. The LCD-651STX features Marshall’s False Colour exposure aid as well as Peaking to help you nail focus. Marshall V-LCD-50-HDMI Marshall introduced the V-LCD-50 as the perfect solution for DSLR users. It really is like a LCD-70 that shrunk in the wash! The monitor features an 800 x 480 pixel 5″ display and offers most of the features that we’ve come to expect from it’s bigger brothers including false colour and peaking. Powered by four AA batteries the V-LCD50 fits as neatly in the palm of your hand as it does on the top of your favourite DSLR and is very light so won’t put too much strain on your DSLR’s hot-shoe. The SmallHD DP6 features a high res 1280×800 5.6″ display packed inside a solid aluminium shell. The unit can be powered using SmallHD’s own slimline batteries or various camera batteries using a range of adapter plates that fit on the back. Unlike the Marshall monitors these include SLR batteries as well as more traditional camcorder batteries so you can power the DP6 with the same batteries you use on your DSLR. The DP6’s proudest feature by far is it’s high resolution, SmallHD are not shy in saying that they feel resolution is one of the most important factors in a field monitor. The DP6 is available as HDMI / Component only or with optional HD/SDI inputs / outputs. Like the Marshall’s it also features focusing and exposure aids such as false colour and focus assist. Seeing all of the monitors lined up should give you a good idea of the range of sizes we have here. My initial thought for this review was to make it a ‘Shootout’ but that wouldn’t really be fair as each monitor is in a different class and all are in different price brackets. So my aim here then is really just to share my thoughts with you about each and talk about each monitors strengths and in some cases weaknesses. Size & build I’ll start this one with the SmallHD DP6, only because I’ve had a lot longer with this monitor than the others so it’s going to make a good benchmark. I purchased my DP6 back in September last year (2010) and since then it’s been on quite a few shoots with me. The build quality of the DP6 is excellent, it’s solid aluminium body instills confidence that it’s going to be able to cope with professional use. The DP6 is very minimal when it comes to controls, which is partly why the unit itself is barely bigger than the display it holds. The DP6 has four main controls, a power switch on the side with two assignable buttons on the top along with a click-able scroll-wheel. The design and build of the DP6 is really nice although it would be nice to have access to a few more features using assignable buttons. I’ve found the scroll-wheel isn’t very precise when trying to scroll through menu’s quickly but it’s fine for normal (slower) usage. SmallHD have produced a wide range of accessories for the DP6 including protective screens, battery brackets, sun hoods, protective cases and much more. This one is fitted with a protective cover as I prefer not to get fingerprints all over my monitors. It’s often easier to replace a screen than try to clean the display. Mine is also fitted with a Canon DSLR battery plate so that I can use my 5D / 7D batteries to power it. It also comes with a power supply for mains power. Marshall V-LCD50-HDMI I knew the baby Marshall was going to be small but when I opened it’s box I was still quite surprised how compact it was. It retains the style and layout of it’s bigger brothers but in a much smaller format. It has a rubberised finished that makes it feel very secure in the hand and although the controls are very small they all remain easily accessible and intuitive. I’m assuming by it’s light weight that it’s made of some kind of plastic. The back has a protruding compartment that holds four AA batteries and it can also be powered by a supplied PSU. One area that seemed like a bit of a design fault was that the power button sticks out further than the other components on the back meaning that whenever you lay it down on it’s back you can accidentally power it up, draining any AA’s that might be installed. It’s a shame that Marshall didn’t put it on the recessed area beside the battery compartment. Marshall V-LCD615STX-HDMI The V-LCD651STX looks and feels like a professional monitor. It’s all metal construction feels very sturdy and much like the LCD-70 it features BNC connectors for Component and Video as well as the HDMI port. The monitor can be purchased with adapters for many camcorder batteries. This one is fitted with an ‘SB’ adapter (Sony B) so that I can use the BPU-60 batteries from my Sony EX1. Another thing I really like about the V-LVD615 is that it uses an XLR type power connector. These are a lot more robust and secure than the cheapo jack sockets found on the other monitors in the review. DSLR Scaling Handling the video from HDMI outputs on a DSLR is a tricky task for all external monitors. These cameras were not designed with live monitoring in mind and as such the video signal they deliver are not the standard type of signals most monitors expect. This is especially true for the 5D mkII as it changes output resolution when you start recording causing the monitor to have to rescale it’s display accordingly. On both the 5D and the 7D you can cycle through display modes by pressing the ‘INFO’ button on the back of the camera, this causes the layout of the display to change allowing you to use more of the screen space your monitor provides for viewing the image. The video below shows how each of these monitors handles those displays. Note that the SmallHD DP6 is the only monitor here that actively scales the image to reduce the areas of black around the edge of the image. These areas of black are part of the HDMI signal being delivered by the cameras. Where a monitor helps A monitor can help you out in many ways. The first benefit is one of ergonomics and is especially true if you’re shooting with a DSLR. The LCD on the back of the camera has many limitations, it’s small and fairly low res so even at the best of times can be limiting for achieving critical focus. What’s often worse though is that the cameras LCD is often pointing in totally the wrong direction for you to be able to use it comfortably. You can mount an external monitor on the camera itself or as I usually do on a tripod or light stand giving you the ability to perform camera movements without your viewing angle being effected. Of the monitors here I would only mount the DP6 or the LCD50 on a DSLR, the larger LCD651 would be too heavy with a BPU-60 attached in my opinion, hot shoes are not designed for that amount of weight. Having a bigger screen has obvious viewing benefits, especially when using one of the higher resolution screens we have here. Basic tasks like composing your shot, checking the background and setting up lighting etc are all made easier with a bigger monitor. One of the main reasons for using an external monitor is to help with focusing. The more detail you can see in the image your capturing the more accuracy you have in controlling focus. The SmallHD DP6 is especially strong in this regard, it scales up the image to fill the visible area and displays the results in high resolution making it easy to see a lot more detail in faces or other subjects whilst shooting. The Marshall V-LCD651 is also very good and resolves a lot of detail although it’s hindered by the fact that the image being displayed is not using the whole screen area, partly because it’s not 16:9 and partly due to hardware / software limitations with DSLR HDMI output. It would be great if it could scale dynamically like the DP6. The Smaller LCD50 is not as strong for visual focusing as the other monitors. It’s a big improvement over the cameras LCD for sure, but personally I’d go for one of the bigger monitors if focusing is more important than portability to you. As well as focusing by eye all of these monitors provide tools to help you. Both Marshall models have a ‘Peaking’ function which makes the image grayscale and highlights in focus areas in red. This is very useful although not every red area is in fact in focus. You soon get to grips with it though and it’s easy to see the area in focus whilst adjusting. The Peaking on the LCD50 is not as good as that on the bigger LCD651. The DP6 features a similar system called ‘focus assist’ which turns the image red and highlights in focus areas in white. I find this more accurate than the Marshall system as it seems to be more reliable at only showing the in focus areas as highlighted. The following video shows the focus assist features offered by each monitor. All three of these monitors also feature a 1:1 pixel mapping function function that enables you to expand the displayed image, effectively zooming in on part of the image. I’d say that an external monitor like the ones on review here are essential to DSLR shooters for exposure reasons alone. It’s impossible to have an accurate understanding of how your shot is being exposed with a DSLR because they do not provide the Zebra stripes that are a standard tool in professional dedicated video cameras. If you haven’t worked with Zebra’s before they simply display lines over any area in the shot which is brighter than a specified setting. The Sony EX1 for example can display two sets of zebra’s, I have one set at ideal skin tone levels and the second showing any area that has blown out to white. In order to help with exposure control all three of these monitors come with a feature called ‘False Colours’. This works by displaying different areas of brightness in the image as different colours. By dialling in your exposure using false colours you get a very reliable understanding of the part’s of your image that are either too blown out or under exposed. The following video shows the false colour feature working in each of the three monitors… Outside use and reflections All three of these monitors have sun shades available as accessories for working outside but I thought it would be good to put them to the test without shades just to see how they stack up. In theory the Marshall V-LCD651STX should shine here as this is where it’s ‘Super Transflective’ technology comes in to play. Below are two shots taken of each monitor in similar situations. They were shot on a dull overcast day with the clouds reflecting directly in the monitors, partly shaded by me taking the photo’s to give some clarity. I think you’ll agree that the Marshall V-LCD651STX does indeed live up to expectations. Where both of the other monitors are almost totally obscured by the reflection of the sky, the LCD651 remains perfectly viewable albeit with a purple tint covering the reflective area. That could come in very handy! The LCD50 seemed to fare slightly better than the DP6 but there wasn’t a lot in it. As I said at the start of this mammoth article I’m not going to start messing with the settings of these monitors to try and calibrate them, I simply don’t have enough time. What I am going to do however is try to show you the way they display colours at their default settings. This is a totally unscientific thing, if you’ve got colour test charts etc I’d love to see this all done with a bit more accuracy but for now a shot of a plant will have to suffice :) First up, the Camera SmallHD DP6. I’ve had a lot of problems with colour on this monitor, it has a tendency to apply a yellow tint, especially on subjects with high green levels. You can see in this shot that the greenery through the window is suffering from this same effect, the window frame should be white! Next is the Marshall V-LCD50. Interestingly this too displayed an image that was more reddish / yellow than the LCD on the camera. I looked in to this after taking this shot and found that the colour temperature as well as RGB bias can be changed. Changing the the colour temp option to linear got the display much closer to matching the cameras LCD. Finally the Marshall V-LCD651STX. As you can see this is a lot closer to the colours coming through the window and was by far the most accurate of the three at the default settings. The window frame is closer to white and the greens look more accurate. If anything the image is a bit on the cold side with this one but I actually prefer that to seeing an image that’s warmer than it should be. All three monitors feature a high enough resolution relative to their screen size to make the displayed images look smooth and pixel free. My 7″ Marshall LCD70P is the same 800 x 480 res as the small LCD50 and at 7″ the pixels start to become visible making critical focus harder to achieve. I’m not going to end this review by picking a ‘best’ of the three as each one really does have it’s benefits. The little Marshall V-LCD50 is perfect if you’re looking for a small monitor that you can carry around with you with the minimum of fuss. It runs on AA batteries which could be a big benefit for travel projects and when you’re not using it you can put it in your pocket. I found the peaking feature wasn’t as strong on this monitor as the others tested but it will still make focusing a whole lot easier than trying to use the on-camera LCD. The excellent Marshall false colour feature will definitely help you to get better exposure and you’ll have the ability to do all that with you’re camera in awkward positions where you wouldn’t normally be able to shoot if using the on-camera LCD. The SmallHD DP6 is a step up from the LCD50 in terms of focusing ability due to it’s focus assist feature, the large high res display and the way SmallHD have developed it’s scaling to work so well with DSLR’s. It’s colours are not the most accurate so you have to be careful with judging white balance but it can’t be beat for focusing duties at it’s size. It’s also very robust and small enough to be mounted on camera so it makes a great choice if focusing is your number one priority. It’s exposure features also work very well, although are not quite as strong as on the Marshalls. Finally the Marshall V-LCD651STX. In terms of overall image accuracy this monitor was by far the best of the bunch. It performs amazingly outside in the daylight with its Super Transflective display. It’s false colours are excellent and although the peaking isn’t perfect it still made it very easy to get accurate focus. It’s just a shame that it’s not a 16 x 9 monitor and that more of the screen can’t be utilised by DSLR’s. It’s also worth bearing in mind that the V-LCD651STX costs three times as much as the LCD50 and nearly twice as much as a DP6. Buying in the UK Marshall Monitors are distributed to a wide range of retailers in the UK by Cache Media, click here to see a list of retailers. Buying in the US The Marshall V-LCD50 is available in the US from B&H Photo Video The Marshall V-651STX is available in the US from B&H Photo Video The SmallHD DP6 is only available direct from SmallHD, visit their website at www.smallhd.com 2020digging Given the colour issues you point out with all three models one is probably better off with a viewfinder like a Z-Finder Pro until something comes out that truly reflects what you see and hope to get without having to fiddle around too much. But then again, there is no doubt there is a calibration procedure that each manufacturer would advise for best performance. Speaking as a new entrant in this field the catch-22 with all this gear is that you can never get your hands on the item to test it out. Relying on reviews helps but at the end of the day we each have varying levels of approaches to filming with dslr’s. What seems to be the most logical approach, especially for paying jobs, is to hire out. There is still the cheaper option of using your laptop and the EOS utility software hooked up via USB to get focus. Would work perfectly well in a controlled studio environment. The Sony DSRL monitor is due for release in March so it will be interesting to see how this compares feature and price-wise to these models. I agree that you’re better off using the on Camera LCD to judge colour but it cannot achieve the same thing as using one of these external monitors, even with a loupe fitted. I’m sure both Marshalls could be dialled in, in fact I might have a go at that today as it’s bound to be a common question. The DP6 on the other hand cannot be dialled in to provide the same colours as the cameras LCD, at least I haven’t been able to yet in the months I’ve owned it. i have the marshall 70xp hdmi monitor. the good news is that i sent it in to get the new firmware with canon ratio fix. cant wait to get it back. Cool, does the XP display red in false colour mode? It doesn’t on mine but it’s not the XP model. Alex V March 27th, 2011 1:54pm I wonder if it is possible to add the DSLR RATIO ADJUSTMENT fix to the V-LCD50. Just wrote an email to marshall… Just got an answer from marshall: “That feature is only available on our V-LCD70XP-HDMI unit. It is not available for the LCD50 unit.” :o( Jeff Regan The new TV Logic WFM-056WP is a very nice 5.6″ monitor using the same LCD panel as the SmallHD, but adds scopes, markers, zoom, embedded audio and TC display. It also has an HDMI to HD-SDI converted output so that DSLR shooters can add HD-SDI monitors downstream for client viewing. Tom Fuldner I’m experiencing the same issues as Paul regarding yellow color bias on the SmallHD DP6. It’s a bit disappointing, especially since I lack the expertise or knowledge of how to make proper adjustments. I could fiddle with the RGB settings, but it’s a stab in dark for me. Perhaps a cure in the next software upgrade? Steve Kimmel This is a great review and exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks for doing this Paul! One question: I’m trying to decide between the Marshall LCD-70 and the 651: Given the 3:2 ratio of the Marshall 651, how big is the actual image on the screen from the Canon 7D, relative to the Marshall LCD-70? Thanks. The image is smaller on the 651. The image from the 7D fills the screen widthways but that image actually includes the black areas each side. The LCD-70 is lacking in dpi compared to all three of these monitors to point where I’d say that even the little LCD50 makes it easier to focus than the LCD70. Certainly the 651 looks a lot more detailed than the LCD-70 even if the actual displayed image is smaller. Thanks! Comparing the SmallHD with the 651: How different are the image sizes? The screen widths are very similar so there’s not much in it. The DP6 makes the image size bigger when using DSLR’s though which gives it an advantage in visible size. Thanks Paul. I think I’d go for a SmallHD if it weren’t for the issues with getting color correct (important for me) and not sure about long-term durability (given reports of problems with scroll wheel, etc) I don’t think there’s anything to worry about with the controls, they are solid enough to rely on. Andree Markefors Thanks a lot Paul for taking the time to do this properly with nice videos to illustrate! I’ve already fallen in love with the DP6 and I have it inbound, so I’m not going to debate pro/contra against the Marshalls. I take note about the color issue and hope that SmallHD will create an SLR profile as a later update. But if it remains the same, it’s not a deal breaker for me. I bought the DP6 to assist me with focusing and exposure on a 5D mkII. I strongly disagree that the False Colors on the DP6 are less capable than those of the Marshalls. To me it’s almost the other way around! DP6 offers one shadow clip color, one highlight clip, one discreet midtone and then gradients towards shadows and highlights respectively. In essence: as few colors as possible, but as many as needed. Plus—black on the DP6 means good unclipped shadows and white means good unclipped highlights. That seems intuitive to me. No need to tape a color chart on the side of the monitor… ;) Each to his own I guess! Well, well… most importantly—thanks! Thanks Andree. Yes it’s all a personal preference and both systems work well. I find the Marshall False Color better because it’s easier to spot the highlights in red than yellow and also because the pink denotes average IRE levels for skin tones. Red = Danger! It just seems more intuitive to me but as I say, both do the job, which you prefer is down to individual tastes. I’m sure you will be very happy with your decision, please post back with your findings. Justin Benn February 21st, 2011 1:02pm Nice review – thanks. I liked the look of the SmallHD but decent colour fidelity is a must for me in the absence of calibration tools. The poor focus assist on the Marshalls seems to defeat their main purpose so not sure what’s going on there. I already use the TV Logic LVM -071W and am likely to look at their VFM-056WP for my 5D too. The peaking on the Marshall monitors works well whilst racking focus but you have to be aware that not everything being highlighted is actually in focus. It’s still a useful tool though, especially on something like a DSLR that doesn’t have a built in peaking feature. The SmallHD on the other hand does a better job of only showing the actually areas in focus, even when looking at a static shot. November 23rd, 2011 7:31pm Do you use your LVM-071W w the 5D through an HDMI to DVI adaptor or an HDMI-SDI adaptor? Just came off a shoot where we hired in this monitor, but couldn’t get it to work with my 5D. I don’t own a monitor, but have never had a problem using one through HDMI before… Don’t know if the HDMI to DVI connection may have caused the problem or not… Great review! But just to throw something into the ring on build quality, I was just on a shoot witha 5D using the Marshall LCD50 and the screw mount to hold the camera into the hot shoe broke off. It was molded plastic, not metal, and you could see that it wasn’t very well molded. It was a rental model and I’m not sure how much prior wear and tear it had, but still, not a good sign. March 22nd, 2011 9:12pm So it seems that SmallHD is listening and now have upgraded firmware to 1.3 (with 1.4 in development). This new fw adds better colour handling with as well as a new hue control, 1-to-1 scaling and False Colour HL. I like a company that listens. Now seems more attractive than before, though the TVLogic’s HDMI/HD-SDI loop through is still very useful. March 23rd, 2011 12:20pm Thanks for the great review Paul! Have your DP6’s yellow tinting issues been resolved with the latest 1.3 firmware? I’ve had very little time with the DP6 lately but will be using it next week with the latest firmware so I’ll let you know. Christian Anderl thanks for this post, this just helped me make a decision May 2nd, 2011 3:46pm Hi, really nice review and comparison, thanks! But is there really no chance to buy the SmallHD in the UK or Europe? Ordering from the US sucks because of the high taxes … Awww, I hate it. :) daniel haggett Great review. Really helps me make a choice. Think I am now leaning towards small HD. Having SDI and HDMI really helps future proof the monitor. Such a shame they don’t stock them in the UK and have to be ordered on line. Cammon Randle October 8th, 2011 5:32am On this last feature we produced we had the Marshal 7″ and then the Small HD DP6 and DP4.. Although the Marshall has always been a workhorse for me it was a nice change to have a smaller and what seemed to be little bit tougher product to work with.. I did feel that the image was a bit sharper on the Small HD products.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJIfrseSIU Great review and excellent site. However, unfortunately I am unable to stretch to a SmallHD at this time to use with my 5D MK3, I am just starting to experiment with DSLR video. Any recommendations for a cheaper alternative? May 8th, 2019 6:32am send quotation of all of the monitors size Trackback from : Anyone using Small HD for 5D, etc… at DVinfo.net	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line714
__label__cc	0.695148	0.304852	Phil Keith, Living the Dream The Blind Side: How One College Student Dropped Some Knowledge on Me With Plano LIVE Green Expo 2011 right around the corner, I wanted to tell you about the time I got dressed down by a college student at last year's expo. 2010 was the first year that I volunteered at the Expo. I served on the Carbon Footprint team. I was one of four who walked the floor, surveying attendants about: How far they drove to get to the expo? What was the make/model of the vehicle that they drove/rode in? How many people came with them? It was a quick-and-dirty questionnaire that gave our team the data to yield a crude estimate of the carbon footprint of each attendant at the Expo. At least, everyone we could possibly ask those questions of during our two hour shifts. We had a booth outside that served as our team headquarters. There we had some laptops, a large metroplex map, and push-pins. Folks came by and gave the same info to the questions above and we assigned them a rating and corresponding colored push-pin. Green-colored pins were, you know, well...EXCELLENT! It meant than you received a low carbon rating and had minimal impact on your trip out that Saturday. It devolved from there, of course--blue, red, black. I think black was the worst. I remember interviewing one guy laughed when he told me that he drove some kind of three-axle truck from Weatherford...alone. Irony, indeed. Now, about that college student. I posed my questions to this young man whose face fell as I started in. He quickly interrupted me in that indignant and frenetic way that twenty-somethings do when they've recently spent a lot of time arguing about such subjects with their compadres over late-night Taco C chow. "That's a terrible indicator of carbon footprint and it's much more complicated than that!" he complained. He, then, proceeded to grill me on the finer points of GHGs (that's "Green House Gas Emissions") and how transportation carbons are a small fraction of the total footprint picture. I gave him one of those shoulder-shrugging I-just-work-here looks. Clearly, I had been under-trained for this job. We awkwardly parted and I shook it off. I went on to survey the most of anyone else on our team--500+ people. My method was to catch people while they were waiting in line for things. They didn't have anything better to do and I wasn't asking for money so I didn't any resistance to answering my questions. I've been thinking about that kid, though. He was right in that the problem of GHGs is much bigger than individual actions. A quick search on Wikipedia shows that "Residential" and "Transportation" emissions account for only 25% of all annual GHG impact. The biggest offenders are the Industrial and Power-generating (see: coal) sectors. Alas, our problems are always bigger that we think. It still doesn’t mean we are powerless of ineffectual. I am convinced that by continuing to (cliché alert!) reuse, reduce, and recycle—along with lobbying for change through legislation—we can affect the world for the better. Not convinced? I came across this two-year old video by high school science teacher Greg Craven about our decisions to take action regarding Global Warming. I have to say that it's fairly convincing, even in its original iteration. Apparently, his theory has been sharpened after tens of thousands of comments. He even self-published a book about it. Craven’s engaging, to boot. Take a look: Phil Keith America's #1 Authority on America, the number one, and authorities. Four Hour Body Joel Keith	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line719
__label__wiki	0.530459	0.530459	Piaggio Aerospace Villanova d’Albenga August 23, 2019 Piaggio Aerospace awarded aircraft maintenance contract worth 12.6 million euros The Italian manufacturer will provide ENAV - the Italian air navigation service provider – with the maintenance of the four P.180s used for flight inspection activities at national airports. Piaggio Aerospace has been awarded a contract for the maintenance of the P.180s owned by ENAV, the company that manages civil air traffic in Italy. The agreement, with an estimated duration of approximately 7 years, is worth 12.6 million euro and will guarantee integrated logistic support for ENAV’s fleet of four P.180 Avanti II. "The agreement signed represents a further step forward in the turn-around process of Piaggio Aerospace", commented Vincenzo Nicastro, Extraordinary Commissioner of Piaggio Aerospace. "While strengthening the backlog of the Genoa factory-owned service centre, it also confirms the unique expertise of the company in the airframe MRO domain, consolidated throughout decades of activities”. The ENAV P.180s perform an average of 1,800 flight hours per year. Thanks to their special equipment, they carry out regular measurements and calibration of airport navaids (Radar, VOR, DME, VDF, ILS etc.) in order to guarantee their continuous operational accuracy, essential for the safety of air navigation. A similarly equipped P.180 will be showcased at MAKS ’19, the international air show that will be held at Zhukovsky International Airport (Moscow) from August 27 to September 1. A delegation of Piaggio Aerospace will also be present at the air show. Share on: Twitter Facebook 2019 Archive (18) 2018 Archive (5) Customer Support News Login Website Tech Pubs PIAGGIO AERO INDUSTRIES S.p.A. in Amministrazione Straordinaria C.F./P.IVA IT03748280108Phone +39 018 2267911 REGISTERED OFFICE: Largo Angelo Fochetti 29 - 00154 Roma OPERATING OFFICE: Viale Generale Disegna, 1 - 17038 Villanova d'Albenga (Savona, Italy) - Tel. +390182267911	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line721
__label__cc	0.577468	0.422532	San Diego Comic-Con 2014: First Look At Mattel's Star Wars Hot Wheels Posted by D. Martin on July 23, 2014 at 02:04 PM CST Mattel's Star Wars Hot Wheels collection is surprisingly good in person! The level of detail and creative, yet still iconic, design is spellbinding! You may not want to buy them all (though we're guessing you probably will), you'll be hard pressed not to pick up the cars based on your favorite characters! The top row of the displayed cars in the gallery attached to this story is a one-off set being produced as a Walmart exclusive assortment.Eight cars then no more. done deal. The single packed cars are comparable with most, if not all, existing Hot Wheels tracks, but that doesn't mean they aren't producing Star Wars themed tracks. In fact, there is one on display that allows kids (and kids at hear) to blow up the Death Star. This explosive track blows up good! Sadly, it wasn't ready to show, so you'll have to wait until we go back to see them again. not shown, but discussed is the Jedi Luke Skywalker car. Collectors can expect a white flap to help identify the character. At this point they aren't exploring a Hoojib car. We can't figure out why... The two packs on displays displayed feature a single pack car paired with a cool exclusive car. In the R2-D2 & C-3PO pack, the R2 does have a unique dirty wash, so technically it is also new. The Chewbacca & Han Solo pack, according to Mattel is a straight repack of our favorite Wookiee and a totally awesome Han Solo design that amazed us! The next set in the two pack collection will include a repainted Darth Vader (red windshield and black chest armor) pitted against an Obi-Wan Kenobi car. While it was considered to give this Vader a matte finish, Lucasfilm requested a gloss finish. We're guessing the licensing guy may not have seen A New Hope in a while… Also on display, but not shown, is their film accurate die cast collection. These vehicles take the Titanium concept to the next level and in some cases introduce plastic environments to sell the display ability. Once more, we're willing to bet you'll buy some if not all of these! November 15, 2014 Target Exclusive Star Wars Hot Wheels Five Pack Found November 11, 2014 Mattel: 501st & Tusken Hot Wheels Character Cars Are Out November 11, 2014 Mattel: Two New Hot Wheels Character Cars On eBay October 30, 2014 Target Exclusive Hot Wheels Star Wars Character Car Set Up On eBay October 29, 2014 Star Wars Hot Wheels Found At Target October 9, 2014 Mattel: The First Wave Of Hot Wheels Found At Walmart September 25, 2014 Hot Wheels: Death Star Battle Blast Track System Set Uncovered At Toys "R" Us July 24, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Star Wars Pavilion: JAKKS Pacific July 24, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Mattel's Life-Sized Hot Wheels Darth Vader Car July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: A Second Look At The Hasbro Display July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Quick Look At The Anovos Star Wars Display July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Sideshow Collectibles' Star Wars Display July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: First Look At The Kotobukiya Star Wars Display July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: First Look At Gentle Giant's Star Wars Display July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: First Look At Gentle Giant's Vintage Monuments Boba Fett July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Star Wars Celebration Anaheim Pin Trading Collection July 23, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Life Size Rebels Character Statues On Display July 22, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: First Look At The Hasbro Display July 21, 2014 San Diego Comic-Con 2014: Factory Entertainment Exclusives The Vintage Collection - General Toy Discussion Thread (Now with Spoilers. Yea be warned!) The next big ticket item?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0050.json.gz/line727
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