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__label__wiki	0.840538	0.840538	« Alabama : Professor charged with killing three colleagues Israel’s heritage list worries Unesco » No third term for Uribe February 27, 2010 by babs22 Colombian president Alvaro Uribe (photo, from aljazeera.net) won’t seek a third mandate. The country’s constitutional court has rejected a referendum to allow the president to seek re-election after eight years in office. The referendum has been ruled unconstitutional by the court’s nine magistrates by a margin of 7-2, denying the conservative leader a chance to run for a third consecutive term in May election. Uribe, who had not confirmed he wanted to run for a third term, accepted the court’s decision on Friday. “I accept and I respect the decision of the constitutional court,” Uribe told reporters. The constitutional court’s decision marks the start of a tough campaign among rivals seeking to replace Uribe. After almost eight years in power, the latter became one of the country’s most popular presidents for his US-backed campaign against leftist guerrillas. Monica Villamizar, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Bogota, said: “The main reasons for the referendum being ruled unconstitutional lay in technicalities. The court also cited irregularities over the referendum’s financing.” Political transition It is unlikely for any successor in Latin America’s fourth largest oil producer to diverge far from the president’s security policies. When Uribe was not included as a candidate, most opinion polls placed Juan Manuel Santos, a former defence minister, closely associated with Uribe’s security successes against Farc leftist guerrillas, as future president. Also making ground is Sergio Fajardo, an independent praised for his performance as mayor of the major city of Medellin, while another former defence minister and three-time candidate Noemi Sanin has recently gained in the polls behind him. During Uribe’s presidency, Latin America’s oldest insurgency has ebbed and foreign investment has flowed steadily into Colombia, a country once considered a byword for a violent, failed state. A political transition could unnerve the local peso currency and benchmark TES debt markets as investors absorb the change in command. Yet long-term, most analysts see continuity in Colombian stability. “While a constitutional court rejection may trigger a knee-jerk negative (peso) reaction, this is likely to be transitory as no major shift in economic, regulatory or security policy is expected,” RBC Capital Markets said. Posted in Americas, economy, news, politics \| Tagged Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, election \| Leave a Comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line880
__label__wiki	0.913289	0.913289	Arkansas Takes Care of UAPB in Four Sets Jessica Roberson September 10, 2019 Arkansas 3, UAPB 1 FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas volleyball team put itself back in the win column on Tuesday night after a four-set victory over in-state opponent Arkansas Pine-Bluff (25-13, 21-25, 25-13, 25-19). Three Razorbacks recorded double-doubles for the third time this season while five more Hogs achieved season or career bests. The Razorbacks (4-3) got off to a dominating start, swinging .400 as a team and putting up 13 kills while holding UAPB (0-7) to only five kills in the first set. Freshman Jillian Gillen was leading all players with four kills after the first set and would go on to be one of the three Hogs with a double-double, recording 12 kills and 12 digs. Joining Gillen among the elite were setters, senior Rachel Rippee and sophomore Gracie Ryan. Rippee finished with 22 assists and 11 digs while Ryan racked up 23 assists and 10 digs. Four different Razorbacks have recorded double-doubles this season and Arkansas stands as the only SEC team with four players that have recorded multiple double-doubles so far this season, no other team has more than two. Arkansas dropped the second set and came out firing in the third, jumping out to an early lead and closing out the set claiming ten of the final 11 points. After recording only one kill in the first and second set, redshirt sophomore Maia Stripp was the one that shined in the third set with five kills. Stripp recorded a total 11 kills in the contest, more than doubling her previous career high of five kills in a single match. Helping guide the Razorbacks’ to their mid-week victory, sophomore Ellease Crumpton was lights out at the net against the Lions. Posting a career-high nine blocks (1-8), Crumpton took the top spot in the SEC for blocks in a single match with her defensive performance. With the help of Crumpton’s nine blocks, Arkansas recorded a season-best 13 team blocks against UAPB. Junior transfer Devyn Wheeler and redshirt freshman Maylin Garrett did their part in taking down the Lions as well, as they contributed 11 and ten kills respectively, both season highs for Wheeler and Garrett. Arkansas is back on the road this upcoming weekend. The Razorbacks will travel to College Park, Md. and Athens, Ga. for tournaments before the month is over and will return to Barnhill Arena on Oct. 4 when they host Texas A&M for the Hogs’ SEC home opener.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line889
__label__wiki	0.964974	0.964974	The University of Alabama Wordmark Open Campus Wide Menu Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Toggle navigation Art Roundup of Local Events Course Schedule & Descriptions Faculty & Staff News Department Newsletter Notable UA Art Alumni & Faculty Recent Graduates in Art & Art History All Galleries & Museums Sarah Moody Gallery of Art Sella-Granata Art Gallery Paul R. Jones Museum UA Gallery at Cultural Arts Center UA Public Sculpture Image Resource Center Videos About Art & Art History Visiting Artists & Lecturers Visual Arts Calendars, Venues, & Websites Get an ‘Aerial’ View of This Week’s Art Around West Alabama UA Drawing Professor Exhibits in Atlanta’s Swan Coach House UA Art and Music Professors Collaborate at Samford EXHIBITION: Cultural Collateral SGAG Closed EXHIBITION: Arcadia Elem.-Jones Museum 307 Garland Hall Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0270 Curator to Speak on Contemporary Art World The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series is pleased to present Contemporary Art Curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi. Al-Khudhairi will speak at two events on UA campus on February 9 and 10, 2017. Al-Khudhairi specializes in modern and contemporary art from the Arab world and is a curator at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She will speak at the Bryant Conference Center on Feb. 9, 6-7 p.m. in the Birmingham Room. The title of this lecture-discussion is “Curating Contemporary Art.” On Friday, Feb. 10 at 1:30 p.m., Al-Khudhairi will speak in 203 Garland Hall in Woods Quad. The title of her lecture will be “Exploring The Ecology of the Art World.” ABOUT WASSAN AL-KHUDHAIRI Wassan Al-Khudhairi is the Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She holds a Master of Arts with Distinction in Islamic Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Georgia State University. Al-Khudhairi was previously Co-Artistic Director at the Gwangju Biennale Foundation in South Korea, where she collaborated on the curation of the ninth edition of the Gwangju Art Biennale. Al-Khudhairi has lectured around the world on the subject of modern and contemporary art, specifically related to the Middle East. Other past experience includes positions at the Brooklyn Museum and the High Museum of Art. The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Art and Art History Visiting Artist Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. For information about the Bryant Conference Center lecture, call the College of Continuing Studies Dean’s Office at 205-348-6330. For information about the Garland Hall lecture, call Rachel Dobson, communications specialist, 348-1893. Categories: News, Visiting Artist-Scholar Tags: curation, speaker, visiting artist-scholar series A&S Resources A&S Advising (Undergrad) Collaborative Arts Research Institute Copyright © 2020 The University of Alabama \| Disclaimer \| Privacy \| Accessibility	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line894
__label__wiki	0.657033	0.657033	Articles by Alastair Gordon BOOKS BY ALASTAIR GORDON Lectures/Events Tag Archives: Meteor III ALOFT: Pre-War Summer, 1939 Posted on December 23, 2014 by alastair gordon There is still the sea, it shall not be dried up. – Aeschylus Photographs from that summer look like stills from a silent movie. My father appears to be suspended in space, a happy marionette, in watery reflections and soft, billowing clouds, either dangling from a spar or balanced precariously on a bowsprit. There are no backgrounds, no recognizable features of landscape, just water and the hazy skies of western Scotland, the islands of Jura, Coll, Islay, Mull, and the blurred outlines of distant hills. He turned twenty-three on May 31, 1939, poor as a church mouse, but free to do whatever he liked, go wherever he liked. He rented rooms on Gare Loch and was as happy as he’d ever been, sailing the Clyde and swimming, reading Aeschylus in the original Greek with English annotations by Gilbert Murray, sitting up in his garret with an oil lamp flickering while unseen forces were already at work, plotting and reshaping his future.Through a small side window he could see the ships of the Royal Navy moored at the Tail O’ the Bank, making the words of Aeschylus seem all the more prescient: “Deep in that shingle strand, moored the sloops of war, and men thronged the beach of Ilium…” as if it were lifted from the front page of the Glasgow Herald but filtered through an ancient, amber lens. There’d been reports of a crisis in Danzig and Spanish refugees crossing into France, and Daladier mobilizing reserve troops. Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March about when he’d been studying for finals at St. Andrews. He came down in early June, bringing only a few clothes and books (second-hand volumes on moral philosophy for Malcom Knox’s seminar on Hegel) to the temporary digs in Clynder. That same week, the Japanese imposed a naval blockade on the port of Tianjin and began their assault on southern China. While Ernest was aware of these events, they seemed far removed from his daily life and what he remembered was a pleasant bubble of peace, a dream-like respite between St. Andrews and Munich, between Spring Term and mobilization. “Skies were blue; winds were fair and warm,” he wrote twenty years later. “The Firth was saturated with beauty… I had no money, but I lived like a millionaire on what small skill I had as a yachtsman.” Clynder was little more than a post office with a church and a few houses clustered along Rosneath Road but the hills gave it a kind of grandeur, gathering up to the north of the village as they did, veiled in mist. There was no proper kitchen but he could cook sausages and beans on a little propane stove and he toasted bread in the fireplace. Sometimes, on rainy afternoons, he would go to Bremer’s Tea Room near the ferry pier and buy a scotch egg and wash it down with a cup of strong tea. When he wasn’t sailing, he was swimming Rhu Narrows to Blairvadach and back to the shingle beach at Shandon, or walking from his tiny flat on Brookend Brae, past the Presbyterian manse,across fields of slate and heather, past a greenhouse, a mossy weir, up Garelochhead Wood and a high, rain-streaked trail to Knockderry House on Loch Long. From there he looked across to Greenock, but already felt a world removed from his childhood on that distant shore. (He only went to visit his parents twice that summer.) In June, he went to a movie in Helensburgh: Goodbye Mr. Chips starring Greer Garson and Robert Donat. He also read Aldous Huxley’s new novel, After Many a Summer, about a Hollywood millionaire who fears his own impending death. If the photos from that summer had titles they would be something like “Becalmed Before the Storm”, or “Adrift”, but none of them have titles and there’s no further information so I can only guess their chronology from clues like the shape of his face or the length of his hair. In one, he’s standing at the helm of Janetta, a yawl from Lorimer’s, on a stormy day and he’s smoking a pipe, which I’d never seen him do before. This is probably early summer because his face is closer in shape to that final semester at St. Andrews when he was still boxing and playing rugby. In another, he’s smoking a cigar and posing in the stern of a boat. His chest is thrust out, his hips are cranked, and his hand is resting on the backstay, as if to steady himself. Was he making a joke? Was he drunk? (According to Aunt Grace, he arrived back at Toward Point one night that summer with a black eye and a bloody lip.) An attractive brunette sits in the cockpit with her arm draped over the tiller. She has a coyly bemused expression on her face, suppressing a laugh or possibly trying to ignore my father for behaving like such an ass. It must be late July or early August. The water is glassy smooth, almost obsidian and barely ruffled from the wake of the boat, ghosting along under sail, a mid-summer light washing everything in a luminous glow, my father’s sun-tanned face, his hands, the teak of the deck, block and tackle, transom and traveler, a life-ring with the name of the boat painted on its side. (I can make out an “o” and an “n,” but the brunette’s head blocks out the rest. Could it be Dionne, the mythical ketch of my parent’s first meeting?) In another photo he’s been hoisted aloft and is clinging to the mast of a gaff-rigged yawl, looking young and agile while he doffs his cap, mugging for the photographer below. His right foot rests on one of the mast rings while his left hand clings to the halyard. His body is soft and supple, slightly overweight, but well proportioned and you can see how women must have been attracted, but there’s also something uncouth and wooly about him. In another shot he’s wearing baggy black shorts and a velour shirt with a pattern of crowns and diamonds, Glasgow gangster style, and when I first came upon this photograph I thought it had to be someone else, certainly not my solemn Reverend Father. There was Rose in Colonsay and another–Maira?–when he crewed to the south of Ireland on Vagrant. The old Clyde Forty hit a nor’easter on the homeward leg and limped into Dublin for repairs . Later in July, he crewed on the 6-meter Circe, the Bermudan yawl Zigeneur and Dragon-class Primula. In early August, he earned ten pounds skippering a ketch up the west coast to Tobermory and out to the island of Muck, “seeking harbor by night in lochs protected by hills ancient with wisdom and offering a rare serenity to those ready to accept it,” he wrote, also mentioning a “beautiful redhead” who he’d met on the pier at Tobermory, but couldn’t remember her name–Ainsely? He wasn’t sure. On August 20, Germany announced that they’d reached a trade agreement with the Soviet Union. Two days after that, Prime Minister Chamberlain renewed Britain’s pledge of support for Poland, while appealing to Hitler for truce. But the worst was yet to come and on August 23, while Ernest was sailing Dionne to Cowes, seven hundred miles away, Germany and the Soviet Union signed their non-aggression pact, paving the way for the invasion of Poland, and as the summer drew to an end, he sensed that his days of lofty indolence were over, and marked a passage with red pencil in his copy of Aeschylus: “What is this insistent fear which in my prophetic heart set and steady beats with evil omen, chanting unbidden a brooding, oracular music? Why can I not cast it out like a dream of dark import?” But he could not cast out that brooding, oracular music from his heart, and he had no doubts that war was imminent and he would be killed. Alexander Robertson My mother, Helen Macintosh Robertson, was on board Dionne for the first leg of the Cowes Race, from Hunter’s Quay to Arran. She was the daughter of Alec Robertson and granddaughter of Alexander, the barrel-chested patriarch of the Robertson family and founder of the self-named yacht business based on the Holy Loch. (Alexander reached prominence in 1902 when he made overnight repairs to Kaiser Whilhelm’s yacht, Meteor III, and was thereafter rewarded with a commission to build the Kaiser’s next boat.) According to my mother, she and Ernest barely exchanged a word the whole time, my father standing on the foredeck, raising another jib while glancing aft to the willowy figure in black oilskin. There were dozens of handsome young men that summer, and she pretended not to notice the tanned, shirtless man in the bow. He remembered the way she chain-smoked and chatted madly in the cockpit, flirting with Sandy Garvie whose father owned Dionne. Maybe he’d been trying too hard to impress her, showing off, she scoffed. Who did he think he was in those shabby shorts and rope belt? “Common” was the word she used forty years after the fact, but he was also darkly handsome and tall and her calculated method of gaining his attention was to ignore him all the way to Arran. Dionne placed third in her class and won a bronze plaque. The Garvies put on a festive luncheon for the crew (cold lamb, shepherd’s pie, pickled onions) at the Royal Marine Hotel, a granite pile in Hunter’s Quay with Neo-Tudor gables overlooking the Clyde. Toasts were made all around and my father stayed until the end when everyone stood up to sing God Save the King just before it was announced, almost as an afterthought, that Germany had invaded Poland. After that, everything seemed to unravel and the lofty, loving summer of 1939 came to a rather sudden and squalid end. Earlier in the week I drove east across the narrow waist of Scotland, doubling back through industrial hinterlands, with black smoke rising over Royston and Wallacewell, through the flatlands of Castlecary to Queensferry, across the Firth of Forth Bridge and up the east coast to Fife. After his “mishap” in the RAF–the crumpled plane, the broken collar bone–my father returned to the comforts and relative safety of student life, this time at St. Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university where he studied from September 1937 to May 1939 at St. Salvador’s College on North Street with its high tower and courtyard shaded by the venerable thorn tree that Mary Queen of Scots is said to have planted. He took Introductory Hebrew with Sandy Honeyman, the youngest professor at St. Andrews. He sat in a drafty lecture hall and listened to T. Malcolm Knox, a prominent Hegelian, who taught Moral Philosophy. “In nature everything which happens exemplifies a universal law,” wrote Ernest in his miniscule penmanship with a Burnham fountain pen–speckled orange Bakelite and gold nib–that his parents gave him for his 21st birthday. He drew diagrams of Kant’s Categorical Imperative with a list of sensations–taste, smell, touch–and traced three lines that converged near the middle of the page: I: (Mechanism)—Thought or Consciousness II: (Freedom)—Thought – Self-Consciousness At one point he even considered making a career of moral philosophy. He wasn’t sure how that would work, but anything seemed possible during these idyllic pre-war days. He loved the Old Town, the students, the professors, the ancient golf course and the pristine strand of pale sand that stretched to the north. Again I don’t know much. He didn’t speak very often of these days, and if he did it was usually only a brief anecdote about rugby or drinking beer or saber fencing. He once mentioned his friend Bill McLean who had also signed up for Officer Training Corps (OTC) and how they trekked through the soggy glens of western Fife on weekends dressed in their OTC uniforms of gray kilt, green shirt, long woolen socks, and leather boots. There’s a photograph of them, bivouacked in a field somewhere, lying in the heather, their fresh faces pointed towards the sun. I stroll down Largo Road to Nelson Street where Ernest leased student digs during that final semester before the war, and I follow the same path that he took every morning, past the lawn bowling club and up the well-trodden footpath that crosses Kinnes Burn and tunnels through Louden’s Close, a narrow wynd that passes between stone walls and beneath a low archway onto South Street, now bustling with students in medieval robes, laughing and going about their business. I try to imagine my father here in his crimson robes and thick curly hair, walking up Market Street to the eastern end of town, wandering through the 12th-Century ruins of the cathedral where the relics of Apostle Andrew–fisherman and brother of St. Peter–are said to be buried. Some of the walls are sill standing but most have collapsed and there’s a mossy bed of grass in place of the floor. It’s a garden puzzle of granite and empty spaces where the sky pushes in and the cruciform plan is still evident in the stones that remain. EG at St. Andrews, 1938 All of this was behind me, driving a rented car, passing the Ferguslie lawn-bowls club in Paisley, near the street where I was born, past gray housing and chimneys, and I’m thinking how I like to simplify everything, while my father liked to complicate and obfuscate, or so it seemed, and how my own son feels the same about me and sees excess in almost everything I do. I took M898 across Erskine Bridge and up Great Western Road (A82) toward Crianlarich, through a series of confusing roundabouts, around the far end of Gare Loch, via the old black-topped Haul Road to A814, south onto Rosneath, then all the way down the opposite side of the loch to Clynder. The village seems much the same today as it was during the summer of 1939. There are only a few streets, restaurants, Tam House, Straid-A-Cnoc, Kentroma House, and a more recent block of council flats off Braeside. The steamer ferry’s long gone, but I can see a row of rotting stumps where the old pier once stood. The rusted metal cutout of a kettle hangs in front of the Gr een Kettle Inn, but it’s closed for business, so I walk the shingle shore, trying to imagine my father swimming the breadth of the loch, the opposite shore being quite distant, the water cold, but I always knew that swimming was like breathing for him. At ten, he’d been inspired by Gertrude Ederle, fabled “Queen of the Waves,” when she swam the English Channel to beat the previous man’s record by an astonishing two hours. My father learned the effortless Trudgen Method from Max Ferguson of the Gourock Lido, a seawater pool built on the rocks near the Caledonian ferry terminal. After months of training in the pool, he began to swim the wilder waters of the Clyde and won his first long-distance race in 1930. Two years later, at 16, he won the Royal Life Saving medal for a two-mile swim between Kilcreggan and Gourock, and by then he’d perfected his own version of the Australian Crawl. (I used to swim far out with him in Gardiner’s Bay, trying to keep apace, and even in his eighties he would push away from the beach and swim hard for a hundred yards before taking a rest.) Bremer’s Tea Room is no longer there but the building where my father rented rooms is still in tact, a half-timbered boarding house called “Seasgair”, on Brookend Brae with white chickens out back, wire cages, straw and mud, a few plum trees, and a blackened stone wall with patches of moss and miniature ferns sprouting from its mortared seams. I park the car and try to follow the path that he used to take on his Sunday walks, past the manse, up through the woods and over the top of the hill to Loch Long. I go as far as a barbed-wire fence, and stop to look back across the village and the loch, trying to imagine him standing on this same hill, catching his breath, looking out on the same leaden light falling over the inlets of the Clyde that summer more than sixty years ago. His memories were fractured, disconnected, and I have to work with what I have, a few photographs, a few stories, something about the Loch Long Hotel and Sunday walks over Luss Ridge, the highest ridge. He would go for kedgeree with hard-boiled eggs and curried rice after church, on weekends, when there wasn’t a regatta.There used to be a small-gauge railway that stopped in Tarbert and sometimes, when tired from walking, he would ride it through Ardmay and Finnart, across the hills to Garelochhead, then get off in Rhu and take the ferry across Gare Loch to Rosneath and walk down Shore Road and back to his flat in Clynder. The Loch Long Hotel is still there, catering to bus tours, a cluster of white buildings running down to the sandy flats of Loin Water. I leave my car by the restaurant, and stand on a stone parapet. I can smell low tide wafting up from the muddy flats and kelp beds. A man is walking a Collie along the water’s edge. I head up the path through an orchard and along the edge of a pine forest with a stream that I could hear but couldn’t see–water gurgling, muffled by pine needles–until I was up to the weir where the hidden stream spilled into a small lake. Further up there was a keeper’s cottage with the Duke of Argyll’s crest emblazoned on the front gable. Straw had been laid out in bails beside a fence. I walk through an iron gate, careful to secure the latch after I’m through, and cross a small stone bridge. There are more trees at this altitude and I continue up an even steeper path that switches back and forth to the very highest part of the ridge where there’s a small pavilion with a bench and a glorious view to the west. It feels much wilder and remote than I expected, and the mountains appear to lift themselves up from their own reflections in the placid waters of the loch. Am I looking for my father’s past or is it something else, my own imprint in all of this? I’m not sure. At times it feels as if I’m chasing the flimsiest shadows through these lochs and glens: mysteries of seaweed, hake and haddock, plaited ferns along the shore, water lapping over gray shale, while across the way the clouds press down against the lower foothills. I suppose it’s the afternoon light and the wetness in the air, but the mood of the moment changes and there’s a downpour followed by a breeze that spreads fan-shaped ripples across the loch. A saturation of light hangs over the glen, and for a moment it feel as if the entire world were pulling back to the horizon–a general ebbing–as happens before a tsunami, the clouds hanging low and ribbed in dull streaks of purple like the cartilaginous underside of a skate’s wing. I think of the way my father would say, “Ochh...” in a weary, drawn out voice when something broke in his hands. Was this the bitter cry of his father or was it his own sense of disappointment? He often seemed unapproachable, disconnected from his own body, even when standing in a crowd of people, yet he was hyper-aware of immediate surroundings, aware of who was approaching, who was coming through the door, as if on the alert for a surprise attack. He would scold me for slurring my words and in the way of instruction would enunciate his own words slowly and distinctly like an old-fashioned radio announcer. In the summer he walked around the house naked, without the least bit of modesty. After swimming, he stood in the sun and sucked in his stomach while flexing his abdominal muscles in an undulating motion. He had black spots all over his neck and shoulders–moles, odd pigmentations and blotchy discolorations–from over-exposure to the tropical sun. He was good at grabbing moths in mid-flight and crushing them between his fingers. He preferred not to use toilet paper. He suffered dizzy spells, palpitations of the heart, black outs, fainting spells, and other after effects of malnutrition. He almost never fell into a deep, restful sleep, but would nod off in the living room with a hand draped on his face–his index finger crooked over one eyelid in a guarded way. Sometimes he woke with a start and lashed out, disoriented and confused. He was surprisingly clumsy, well beyond the average, big-man clumsiness. Whenever my father fell on the sidewalk, stumbled down a staircase, slipped on the ice, tripped over a carpet or cut his hand on the lid of a tin can or broke his thumb or accidentally put his hand through a window, it was always extreme, with blood, stitches, curses and ugly bruises that took weeks to heal. Sometimes my father would eat his food like a rapacious dog, stuffing meat or bread into his mouth, swallowing without chewing, jamming it down as if he was still afraid of starving. His favorite sandwich was ripened banana on whole wheat. When he ate an apple, he always ate the whole apple, including the core and seeds. After moving to America in the 1950s, he became even more Scottish in his actions and reactions. His West Highland accent grew stronger. He had his tweed jackets custom-tailored in Duddington Park and he polished his hand-stitched brogues with a special brush. He marched smartly along Prospect Street, nodding and saying “good afternoon” to every student who passed as if he were their commanding officer and they were his subalterns. The rain passes quickly but leaves a heaviness that lingers for the rest of the afternoon, made all the more poignant by the wind whispering through pine needles. I drive over the hills from Arrochar, along the old Military Road to Tarbet and south through Stuckgowan and Culay, along the tourist-crowded banks of Loch Lomond, through Rhu Wood and Strone Wood and into the village of Luss with its pretty parish church. By now, my head is aching so I stop for a cup of sweet tea at the little Glendarroch Tea Room, overlooking the spot where Luss Stream spills into the loch and leaves a swathe of pebbles in the spreading shallows. I sip my tea and watch the evening light sweep across the water, highlighting one of the little islands–Inchfad, or is it Inchmurrin?–to the opposite bank and the rising slopes of Rowardennan Forest, mythical place of fairies and changelings, the light turning the surface of the water into a spectral entity, skimming the upper reaches of Ballinjour Hill, dipping and cupping the heathery shadows, making the clouds appear wanton and unruly above the higher peaks. It’s late summer and I’ve been searching for missing threads to my father’s pre-war life, but all of those threads seem to unravel here and I find myself wondering why I bother. I’ve learned almost nothing that I didn’t already know, other than a feeling for the landscape and the fickle Highland light that shaped his moods during that pre-war summer. He kept everything compartmentalized and discrete. He hardly ever spoke about his mother or father. He hardly ever spoke about the years just before the war and that’s what makes it so hard to link up the disparate parts of his life and create a single, comprehensive portrait of the man. Sometimes I feel as if I’m on the right path, following his footsteps, reaching a clearing of some sort, and then the path peters out and I feel hopelessly lost. How many stone-bound fingers of sea cut into this broken coast? How many lochs? It’s hard to say but there are at least as many as the ancient inlets of the Aegean: Loch Long, Loch Goil, Lock Eck, Loch Striven, Loch Ridden, Loch Craignish, Loch Etive, Loch Spelve, Loch Sunart, Loch Shiel, Loch Arkaig, Loch Quoich… all the way up the coast from here to Durness, the sound of their names clashing together like claymores… Loch Slapin, Loch Cluanie, Loch Duich, Loch Shieldaig, Loch Assynt… Germany invades Poland on Friday, September 1, 1939. Two days later, Britain and France declare war on Germany. On Monday, September 4, Ernest packs up his little flat in Clynder and goes to his parents’ house in Toward. He remembers the feeling of being placeless, as if he’d fallen into the “ebb and flow of fate” that Aeschylus described in the Aeneid. The next morning he takes the bus to Dunoon and walks into the enlistment offices of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on Moir Street. EG, at center: Argyll & Sultherland Highlander’s training exercise, near Stirling, Scotland, October 1939. This is the fourth in a series of “discoveries” about my father: Rev. 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__label__cc	0.594929	0.405071	Please, enter email Email has an incorrect format About Contacts ECONOMY / SECURITY / SOCIAL / DIGEST / MYTHS / Belarus-Russia relations Belarusian language Belarusian military travel to Belarus Why Support Belarus Digest? Donate BelarusDigest > All > WTO v. Customs Union: Russia Decides WTO v. Customs Union: Russia Decides Darya Firsava As Russia is finalizing the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organization, Belarus struggles to understand what this accession will mean to it. The question is difficult and important because Belarus closely cooperates with Russia as member... As Russia is finalizing the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organization, Belarus struggles to understand what this accession will mean to it. The question is difficult and important because Belarus closely cooperates with Russia as member of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Area. On 16 December, 2011 the WTO trade ministers accepted Russia’s bid to join the WTO. Even under the most optimistic forecast Belarus will only follow its larger neighbor in 2-3 years. The idea of accession of the Customs Union to the World Trade Organization as a single entity had been popular for a while but has now sunk into oblivion. A few things will certainly change for Belarus: customs rates will decrease and non-tariff measures will change in relation to the goods imported from the WTO members. This may benefit Belarusian consumers but hurt Belarusian producers. Although the precise effect of Russia's accession deserves a serious study, one can also hope that approximation of the Customs Union’s non-tariff measures to those of the WTO will make regulation of Belarusian imports more liberal and transparent. The Effect of Customs Rates Changes The so-called Schedule of Goods was among the most important documents Russia had to prepare in the final stage of its accession to the WTO. This document stipulates Russia’s final inbound rates – the customs rates which it must implement if they differ from the rates effective as of the date of accession. Russia presented its commitments to the WTO in front of the Customs Union Commission on November 18, 2011. The rates stipulated in its Schedule of Goods were approximately 3 per cent lower than the ones currently stipulated in the Common Customs Tariff. The biggest difference is in the rates for agricultural products, household appliances, and vehicles. The question is what this Schedule of Goods means for Belarus. It may sound counterintuitive but the obligations on rates will automatically apply to Belarus. This follows from the Agreement “On Functioning of the Customs Union Within the Framework of the Multilateral Trade System”. It provides that from the moment of accession to the WTO of the first party to the Customs Union the rates of the Unified Customs Tariff will not exceed the import customs rates indicated in the Schedule of Goods attached to the protocol of accession of such party, unless otherwise provided in the WTO Agreements. The WTO Agreements say nothing on this matter. As a result Russia's obligations with regard to import rates to the goods from other WTO members will be equally applicable to Belarus and Kazakhstan as members of the Customs Union. In other words, not only Russia will have to open its market to cheaper imports but Belarus will have to do the same. This may be good for Belarusian consumers but may hurt Belarusian exporters. As for the rates applied by the WTO members to the goods exported from Belarus, the situation is quite different. Russia’s WTO partners do not undertake any customs tariffs obligations with regard to exports from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Within the WTO the customs rates depend on the country of origin of goods, and the rates agreed with Russia will be applied to the goods originating from Russia only. In other words, WTO member states will have to lower their customs rates to goods originating from Russia, but not from Belarus. The Effect of Non-Tariff Measures Many Belarusian exporters optimistically think that the Unitary Certificate of Compliance of the Customs Union issued with respect to the goods originating from Belarus will ensure a more favorable treatment in accordance with the WTO agreements. Unfortunately their optimism is not justified for the same reason that the WTO members treat goods depending on their origin. Belarusian exports will still originate from Belarus. At the same time the goods of the WTO members imported into Russia will benefit from the privileges of these Agreements, and will be granted certificates of compliance on more favorable terms. However, in the sphere of technical, sanitary, and phytosanitary measures Russia’s accession to the WTO can bring a few very positive trends to members of the Customs Union. Russia undertakes an obligation to bring the regulation of these measures into compliance with international standards. The Customs Union applies unified sanitary, epidemiological, and hygienic measures and their adjustment to the international standards may make them more liberal and effective. The Customs Union member States also tightly cooperate in the area of technical regulations. A number of technical regulations of the Customs Union are still to be adopted. To comply with relevant international standards, Belarusian business may only benefit from it, especially in the long run. Additionally, Russia is going to undertake an obligation on transparency of the procedure of certification of compliance. Those who want to export goods to Russia will be entitled to appeal denial of import permits and to obtain detailed explanations of such denial. Introduction of the same rules within the whole Customs Union is not required under its legislation, but because the parties to the Customs Union committed to coordinate their policy related to technical regulation, this undertaking may improve the transparency of this field in Belarus as well. A long list of factors is yet to be analyzed to assess the effect on Belarus of Russia’s accession to the WTO. But it is already clear that the expected changes in customs rates, technical, sanitary, and phytosanitary regulations will greatly affect Belarus. The existing analysis of this effect is still very weak and Belarus needs to seriously study it to make sure it does not become a passive object of Russia’s decisions. https://belarusdigest.com/story/wto-v-customs-union-russia-decides/ Darya Firsava is a Minsk-based lawyer working on her PhD and leading a number of educational projects in Belarus. Tags belarus-russia relations customs rates customs union import kazakhstan Single Economic Space trade policy wto If you thought this page is useful to your friend, use this form to send. Yauheni Preiherman24 January 2012 Belarus – The Land Of Apolitical Internet Users Belarusian Internet User. Picture: azattyq.org In the first week of January various media reported that under Belarusian law browsing foreign web sites on the territory of Belarus became a crime. Soon it became clear that the new law did not target ordinary citizens. A week after the worries around the new law had subsided the online research agency Gemius published the results of its November study. According to the study, the Internet audience in Belarus has reached the record 4 million people and the level of Internet penetration is already more than 50%. Even despite the authoritarian political realities a growing number of Belarusians freely navigate the World Wide Web, including independent information portals and opposition web pages. However, the Gemius data shows that such web sites are not very popular among ordinary people. And it means that even on the background of massive political repression against civil society and the latest economic turmoil the Belarusians remain mostly apolitical. The Internet Nation Gemius does regular measurements of the audience of the biggest Belarusian web sites. It should be noted, however, that not all the web sites are covered by the research — only those that give permission for that. That is why the study does not feature the most popular Belarusian Internet portal — tut.by on one can find everything – from news to jobs and maps. Its daily audience is roughly 1.8 million people. Nonetheless, Gemius provides quite a telling and systemic overall picture of the Belarusian Internet. Importantly, the company’s archives help understand the dynamic of different data and identify various trends. According to the study carried out in November 2011, from the gender point of view the Belarusian Internet is a zone of absolute equality: 51,3% of the Internet audience in Belarus is represented by female users and, respectively, 48,7% by male users. The age structure of the Internet audience is as follows: % out of total audience Thus, the Internet penetration indicator in the country is quite high and already higher than in Ukraine and Russia. Internet users are more or less evenly distributed across the gender and age groups. As a result, the role of the Internet as a source of information and communication for the majority of the population is growing. More and more Belarusians create their accounts in social networks such as Odnoklassniki.ru, Facebook and Vkontakte.ru. On Facebook, for example, the number of ‘Belarusian accounts’ grew in the last half a year by 15%. Belarusians aged 25-34 years comprise the most fast-growing group here. The Internet is gradually displacing the traditional mass media. The latter’s role in Belarus is diminishing. This is particularly true of newspapers. The falling circulation of the biggest state paper ‘Sovetskaya Belarus’ serves as a vivid example of this trend. In January 2012 the circulation dropped by 11,8% (from 400,000 in December to 352, 860). Even though the paper enjoys large-scale administrative support – most of its circulation is literally forced on state enterprises and institutions – these might be very telling numbers. Free To Choose The most interesting data from the studies conducted by Gemius concern the web sites that are most popular among Belarusian Internet users. This data reveals clear thematic preferences. According to Gemius, in November 2011 the top-10 Belarusian web sites by the number of visitors (real users) were: 1. mail.ru (mail service) 2. yandex.by (search engine) 3. odnoklassniki.ru (social network) 4. onliner.by (technology and gadgets reviews) 5. livejournal_by (blogging platform) 6. deal.by (online shop) 7. zaycevnet.by (music sharing) 8. irr.by (online classifieds) 9. abw.by (car classifieds and reviews) 10.by.all.biz (equivalent of yellow pages) As we can see, among the top-10 there are different types of Internet shops (5), an email service, search engine, social network and a music portal. In other words, it is entertainment and shopping that Belarusian Internet users are mostly interested in. Only one page (livejournal_by) in the top-10 has some political content. And there is not a single news site – either governmental or independent. One possible explanation for such a low level of interest to news and politics might be that the economic situation in Belarus stabilized in November 2011 after Belarus secured various economic subsidies from Russia after the agreements on the Single Economic Space, Beltransgas deal and gas contracts were signed in Moscow. To test this hypothesis we can look at the top-10 Belarusian web pages in, for example, June 2011. At that time Belarus was in the middle of currency crisis and the silent protests were in full swing. Here are the top-10 web sites by the number of visitors (real users) that Gemius named in its study in June 2011: 5. zaicevnet.by (music sharing) 7. naviny.by (news) 9. av.by (car classifieds and reviews) 10. charter97.org (news) The top-10 list in June had two independent from the government news pages – naviny.by and charter97.org. However, as the statistics provided by Gemius shows, each of these sites was visited by only about 10% of the Belarusian Internet users. To compare: the top-3 web sites (mail.ru, yandex.by and odnoklassniki.ru) were each popular among roughly 50% of the Internet users in Belarus. The data in the archives of Gemius shows that in 2009-2011 the thematic priorities of the Belarusian Internet audience were almost unchanged. Entertainment and shopping were high on the preferences list, but news and analytics were either absent from the top-10 list at all or among its outsiders. Why Are Belarusians So Apolitical? Despite the authoritarian political system Belarusian citizens are free to use the Internet and choose what they want to read or watch there. But the research findings demonstrate that the majority of the Belarusian Internet users do not make use of this freedom in order to access uncensored news and analytical web sites. In other words, people choose to be apolitical. The reasons why the Belarusians are so apolitical are multiple and need to be thoroughly researched. However, one reason clearly lies on the surface – no attractive and trustworthy political group has emerged which would make the Belarusians believe that reading political news will be of any importance to the future of the country. https://belarusdigest.com/story/cartoon-fields/ Yauheni Preiherman is Policy Director of the Discussion and Analytical Society Liberal Club in Minsk. Tags censorship Freedom of expression Internet censorship internet freedom in Belarus Mass media public opinion top web sites in Belarus Papers more papers » Myths about Belarus Is inequality a serious problem in Belarus? Are Belarusians fundamentally rural Orthodox Christians? Have Belarusians Always Used the Cyrillic Alphabet? Is Healthcare in Belarus Free? 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__label__wiki	0.683814	0.683814	Chart of the WeekCorruption and Your Money By IMFBlog Español, Português The costs of corruption run deep. Your taxpayer dollars are lost in different ways, siphoned off from schools, roads, and hospitals to line the pockets of people up to no good. (more…) Designing Labor Policies to Foster Inclusive Growth in Emerging Markets By Romain Duval and Prakash Loungani Emerging market economies have enjoyed good growth in recent decades but are still far from closing gaps in living standards with advanced economies. (more…) A Review of IMF-Supported Lending Programs By Petya Koeva Brooks, Martin Mühleisen, and Chad Steinberg The IMF’s Review of Program Design and Conditionality provides a deep look into the design of 133 IMF-supported lending programs in operation between September 2011 and December 2017. (more…) Bank Profitability: Consider the Source IMFBlog2019-05-01T16:42:23-05:00April 30, 2019\| By Udaibir S. Das, Kun Hu, and TengTeng Xu Español, Français, Português The global financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the ensuing period of low interest rates have renewed interest among policy makers in the relationship between bank profitability and financial stability. (more…) Financing for Sustainable Development: Tackling Big Challenges By Chris Lane Without adequate financing, the best intentions of the global community expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will remain beyond reach. The IMF 30 Years After Brady By Rhoda Weeks-Brown and Martin Mühleisen Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the announcement of the “Brady plan”. In response to the 1980s Latin American debt crisis, this plan, named after then US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, allowed countries to exchange their commercial bank loans for bonds backed by US Treasuries, bringing an end to a tumultuous period with possible systemic consequences for the global banking system at the time. (more…) Tackling Corruption in Government IMFBlog2019-04-05T11:48:47-05:00April 4, 2019\| By Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro and Paulo Medas عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский No country is immune to corruption. The abuse of public office for private gain erodes people’s trust in government and institutions, makes public policies less effective and fair, and siphons taxpayers’ money away from schools, roads, and hospitals. (more…) By Claudio Raddatz and Nico Valckx There’s good news for people living in Las Vegas, Miami and Phoenix: the risk of a housing bust like the one they endured during the global financial crisis is fairly small. (more…) Economic Forces, Not Tariffs, Drive Changes in Trade Balances By Johannes Eugster, Florence Jaumotte, Margaux MacDonald, and Roberto Piazza New IMF research finds that macroeconomic factors, not tariffs, explain most of the changes in trade balances between two countries. (more…) Chart of the WeekMind the Gap in SDG Financing IMFBlog2019-02-05T11:56:46-05:00January 31, 2019\| Progress in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) hinges on countries’ ability to scale up spending in important areas like health, education and infrastructure. (more…)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line928
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__label__cc	0.52495	0.47505	Planning Meetings 2020 General Purposes General Purposes 2019 Finance Sub Committee Cemetery Regulations Cemetery Fees Information for Bereaved Information for Undertakers Buckland Monachorum Parish Council The parish of Buckland Monachorum is located between Plymouth and Tavistock about 10 miles north of Plymouth city centre and on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park within the Borough of West Devon. The parish has five villages within its boundaries, Yelverton, Clearbrook, Crapstone, Milton Combe and of course Buckland Monachorum. Part of the parish falls within the National Park and the rest of it is within the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Parish has many notable features such as Buckland Abbey the home of Sir Francis Drake now owned by the National Trust, the Garden House, and an old wartime airfield at 'Harrowbeer' Yelverton. The parish council was formed just over 100 years ago and has 12 members. The Council meet on the third Tuesday in every month except August when there is no meeting and in December when it is brought forward a week. The council also regularly meet to consider planning applications. Normally this is every fortnight but depends if any applications have been received. The dates and locations of all meeting are published on this site and on all parish notice boards. Crapstone Playpark Co-op Community Fund. Crapstone needs a new playpark Buckland Monachorum Parish council would like to create an all-weather naturally themed play area using recycled plastic equipment including a safer and dryer surface for use throughout the year. The play area has been designed by “Green scheme” a well-known local company that specializes in the use of recycled plastic. The parish council feels this would be a better alternative to wood as Crapstone field is a very wet area, we already have the “Crapstone Wetland Meadow” in the field with a recycled plastic information board and it looks good. The role of the parish council is to represent the interest of the whole community and we are seeking to improve the Crapstone field to encouraging residents out into the beautiful area we live. We have a price of £50,000 to raise, and the start off point has been our local Co-op, we were lucky enough to be picked for their “community funding” award. To support us with the Co-op if you are a member just sign in, scroll down and tick our box, if you are not a member sign up and tick our box. Every time you shop and scan your membership card, we gain a share of the profit and every little will help. By showing local participation and support, this will enable further funding to be applied for. If you would like to help with fund raising events or you would like some more information, please contact the clerk. General Election the Notice of Election can be downloaded here - Notice of election (May 2019) NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN CONSULTATION The Neighbourhood plan is out for consulation click here to learn more. ( Feb 2019) NEED TO SPEND A PENNY? You may have seen recent articles about the decision by West Devon Borough Council to stop financially supporting public toilets. WDBC funding has been considerably reduced over the last couple of years and they cannot afford to keep paying for their upkeep. Recognising how important public toilets are, parish councils were offered the opportunity to take over the running of the facilities, and Buckland Monachorum Parish Council has agreed to take on the toilets at Yelverton but not those at Bedford Bridge. The final details are to be agreed but we anticipate the transfer will happen in April 2019. CRAPSTONE WETLAND MEADOW - "THE OLD BOGGY BIT" That "old boggy bit” in the corner of the recreation field in Crapstone is turning into a very special place. With the increasing urbanisation of our landscape it becomes more important than ever to conserve our natural areas such as this small pocket of wet grassland.The field is owned and managed by Buckland Monachorum parish council who in January 2018 gave a small committee, made up of three parish councillors and a few local residents the ½ acre plot “the boggy bit” to create a conservation area. Our first job was to get Tavistock task force out to clear some of the brambles and rushes so we could get an idea as to what we were going to do.Devon Wildlife had been down and had suggested a plan of action and our local well-known landscape gardeners had been and suggested a selection of trees, shrubs and flowers that would look good and increase the biodiversity of the area. With the help of local residents, we planted trees a shrub and some water loving plants, some of which had been donated to the conservation area. As we were fast running out of funds, we applied and got funding from Devon County council and the Tamer valley AONB, with a stall (books and toys) at Buckland village hall coffee morning plus the June fair, we were then able to buy a hedgehog home and a couple of bird boxes and our “big buy” which is an information board supplied and fitted by our local company “Green Scheme” who specialise in recycled plastic products, it will tell you all about our “boggy bit”. Volunteers are always welcomed. The wild life on our doorstep is amazing and so varied, we hope this year we will have even more to share with everyone. (18th April) DEFIBRILLATORS NOW INSTALLED Both defibrillators have now been installed outside Milton Combe and Clearbrook Village Halls. The Parish Council is currently looking into the possibility of providing free training to the community. Watch this space for news. (9th April 2018) NEW DEFIBRILLATORS ANNOUNCED FOR MILTON COMBE AND CLEARBROOK We are pleased to announce that the parish council has been awarded grant funding from the Town and Parish (TAP) fund, administered by West Devon Borough Council to provide two new defibrillators outside the main entrances to Milton Combe and Clearbrook Village Halls. The PC has funded the installation of two heated cabinets for the defibrillators to be stored in. The cabinets were installed last week and the defibrillators will be placed in the cabinets later this week. We are also in the process of orgainising training in the use of the units for anyone who wishes to know how to use them safely and effectively. There are also two other defibrillators installed in the parish, their locations are: The Drake Manor Inn at Buckland Monachorum and; Outside the Doctors Surgery at Yelverton Please get in touch if you spot any errors on this site, however small, or if you have content that you feel should be included. Buckland Monachorum Parish Council - Parish Clerk: Katharine Griffiths Office Hours: 10:00 to 12:00 Tuesday to Thursday - Tel: 01822 855889 email: [email protected] (c) 2020 Buckland Monachorum Parish Council	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line933
__label__wiki	0.508856	0.508856	Reborn as carry-on bags, recycled airplane seat leather will continue to fly Cole Cosgrove December 11, 2014 Alaska Airlines leather has been recycled into carry-on bags. Reclaimed leather from replaced airplane seats will fly again as carry-on bags, thanks to a collaboration between Alaska Airlines and an innovative design team. Alaska’s discarded leather found new life in the hands of Mariclaro, which makes bags and accessories from sustainable materials. Bags made from Alaska Airlines leather: The Atlas Collection “It’s very exciting to see someone developing a grass-roots business from something that we were just going to throw away,” said Pete Roberts, a program manager in Alaska’s maintenance and engineering department and a member of the company’s Green Team, a group dedicated to driving environmental efforts. When Alaska began refreshing its fleet of Boeing 737-800s and -900s with new Recaro seats (complete with power outlets in every seat by the end of this month), the leather appeared destined for a landfill. That’s when members of Alaska’s Green Team stepped up to find someone who could use it. “The material is perfect for this project – the high-quality airplane leather seat covers are made to last,” said Sven Schlegel, who co-founded Mariclaro. “One of our basic missions is to show that you can turn waste materials declared for the landfill into designs that look sleek and last forever – guaranteed for another million miles!” Take a seat – it’s in the bag In addition to the carry-on bags, the designers have made purses and laptop bags, some with airplane seat-belt buckle closures. Bag made from recycled Alaska Airlines seat leather. The bags are available to buy through the Mariclaro website, and Alaska began selling some of the bags, purses and passport covers at the Alaska Airlines Company Store at 20833 International Boulevard in SeaTac. “This collaboration is a fun example of how our airline is living our mission of sustainability and really making a difference in the world,” said Greg Mays, Alaska’s vice president of maintenance and engineering. “By partnering with these innovative designers, we’re not only diverting waste from local landfills, but we’re giving people a chance to own a piece of Alaska’s history. It’s not often that people can own a bag that has already traveled more miles than they have.” In all, Alaska has given more than 6,000 reclaimed leather seat covers to 11 recipients, including a local Boy Scout troop, the Washington State Department of Corrections and the International Academy of Design and Technology in Seattle. That represents more than 18,000 pounds of leather that otherwise would have been thrown away. Integrating sustainability Alaska is an airline-industry leader in integrating sustainable practices into its business, as part of the company’s efforts to be a greener neighbor within the communities where it flies. Alaska is the only U.S. domestic carrier to recycle “mixed recyclables” – glass, paper, plastic and aluminum – on every flight. Alaska has cut waste by more than 50 percent per passenger since 2010, saving nearly 2,900 tons of recyclables that otherwise would have gone to landfills. Earlier this year, Alaska announced aggressive sustainability goals, pledging to decrease fuel consumption by 20 percent (gallons flying one passenger one mile) and use a sustainable aviation biofuel at one or more airports by 2020. Improvements in fuel efficiency have saved Air Group more than 10 million gallons of fuel since 2011, and Air Group has reduced its greenhouse gases by more than 30 percent per revenue mile since 2004. Alaska installs fuel-saving winglets on aircraft, uses cutting-edge satellite navigation procedures and switched to electric vehicles for airport operations at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, among other measures. The International Council on Clean Transportation ranked Alaska Airlines No. 1 in fuel efficiency among U.S. domestic airlines last year. Learn how Alaska is integrating sustainability into its business: Sustainability Report Previously on the blog: “At Alaska Airlines, greener flying starts from the ground up” 5 comments on "Reborn as carry-on bags, recycled airplane seat leather will continue to fly" kristin December 14, 2014, 3:40 pm HI, I love this idea! however, is leather the only material? Cole Cosgrove, Staff Writer December 15, 2014, 8:48 am Thanks, Kristin! Mariclaro makes bags made from all kinds of reclaimed materials, such as car seat belts, tarps, bike innertubes, air bags, even a Dance Dance Revolution video game dance pad. Check out the options: http://mariclaro.ca/shop/en/ jim smith December 11, 2014, 11:27 pm i flew alaska from spokane washington to sea-tac on 12-07-14. coming back on 12-08 i flew alaska, my first time ever in a turboprop. it was a different experience. Ane December 11, 2014, 1:33 pm Hi, Jenn I was wondering if you can Help out by reach by this number is 808-579-6528 if can ASAP ! 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__label__cc	0.728113	0.271887	Pubs, Murder, and Local History in Exeter – The British Newspaper Archive Blog Pubs, Murder, and Local History in Exeter September 6, 2017 In Your newspaper discoveries by Mary McKee Exeter Guildhall Illustrated London News \| 21 August 1869 The British Newspaper Archive is excited to present a guest blog by David Cornforth. David is the author if Exeter Pubs, which offers a captivating glimpse into the history of some of Exeter’s most famous pubs. He also created the local history website Exeter Memories. When I became interested in local history a dozen years ago, I read many books, and spent much time in local archives trawling bound copies of newspapers and other documents. My interest expanded into a website about my local town, Exeter, as I researched the history of buildings, streets, industries, pubs, events and more. To differentiate from much of what had been written before, I like to include trivia and social history, both of which are found in abundance in the local newspapers. Exeter is fortunate in having a private library that has most of its local newspapers in bound format. I relied on trawling these volumes, but unfortunately, a bound volume of a local paper has no index, nor is searchable, so when the British Library offered its collection of local newspapers online, in a searchable form through The British Newspaper Archive, I immediately subscribed. One of my favourite topics is local pubs, and their history. My website has a substantial section on pubs and hotels. It is easy enough to compile a list of landlords from trade directories, but it is hardly compulsive reading. Local newspapers report what is going on in the community; the news from the local courts, drunkenness, murders, fights and tragic events. I have come across one story about a bullock careering into the landlord’s breakfast room, scattering the family and eyeing the marmalade; the writers of 19th century newspapers had a humorous turn of phrase, that is often worth a quote. Western Times \| 19 May 1879 In the 19th Century, coroner’s courts would use the closest public house for inquests into deaths. Pubs by canals would have inquests into drownings, while others in poor suburbs would have inquests into poisoning, accidents and death in bed. One local pub was the venue for the inquest into the death of a baby that was the subject of a notorious baby farming case, with lurid details about the state of the corpse. The pubs section of my website has expanded into a book on the history of 50 local public houses. It took me some time to get the hang of searching. Unless I am searching for an event that is of national importance, I narrow down my search to the newspapers to my county and city, although stories were often copied by newspapers in other the areas. The hints and tips on the BNA site are worth reading. I often put a – (minus) in front of a term to remove it from finds. For example, ““red lion” -barnstaple” will remove all finds containing ‘barnstaple’. It may seem obvious, but it can remove hundreds of unnecessary pages to look through. It can be helpful to add the street for a building, in the search term. Adverts are useful for researching buildings, as sales and lets will be found, often with a full description of the property. In some instances, I like to change the order of results to the earliest first, thus making it easier to find the early history of a building. And don’t forget to try searching for alternate spellings for names. More Hints & Tips Western Times \| 22 August 1919 I do a monthly column covering a hundred years ago, which is obviously the period of the First War. Local newspaper gave a good view of the war effort on the home front, and many national problems are echoed locally. Food shortages caused by the U-boat blockade, saw the growth of allotments, and convictions for breaking the rationing rules. The impact of wounded soldiers from VA hospitals on the locals are also covered by the papers, often through reports on the locals running events to entertain the wounded troops. Families that had several sons serving in the forces were a popular story, and often tragic when several were killed on active duty. Often a story will be included because it has resonance on our 21st Century life. One example is the coverage of whether nurses be offered a pay rise during the austere times of war. Because many reports are far too long to reproduce in full, I search the regular columns that give local news in a potted form. “The Week in Exeter” is one such column, which provides a lot of material, and comment on local events. This Week in Exeter Since The British Newspaper Archive came online, I have found the diversity of local history I have researched has expanded enormously, often in directions that conventional history often does not touch. Exeter has the luxury of having up to five local newspapers listed on the site, allowing comparisons be made for the same story. Although some are limited to certain years, I have noticed that news pages are added every now and then, and the archive is continually growing. I especially like the new layout, which not only looks good, but is faster. To discover more about Exeter, search The British Newspaper Archive’s titles from the Exeter area: Western Times Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams Exeter Flying Post Express and Echo Guest post: “The Atrocious Attempt at Murder at Ludlow” by Richard Tisdale ‘The BNA Has Opened A Window Into A World I Was Sure Was Lost Forever’ – Customer Testimonial Coroner, Discoveries, Exeter, Memories, murder, Pubs, Testimonial Mary McKee Hot off the press – titles added this week Revealing Roots in Lisa Hammond’s Family Tree Performing Arts Newspapers The World’s First Automatic Road Traffic Signals – Westminster, London, 10 December 1868	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line939
__label__cc	0.600725	0.399275	Library Stuff Books. Libraries. Also, cats. Top Ten Tuesday \| My summer TBR Ari @ Books. Libraries. Also, cats.TBR22 Comments Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where book bloggers are invited to share their top ten lists centered on a certain theme. I can’t believe it’s already summer! Summer is always the busiest time of the year for public libraries because it’s when children and teens are out of school and looking for a place to hang out. We have our Summer Reading Challenge going on throughout the summer, plus tons of other events, and it can get quiet chaotic (believe me, libraries are NOT quiet or peaceful, contrary to popular belief!). During the summer, taking breaks to read is a much needed comfort! Here’s what’s on my summer TBR: 1. Wilder Girls by Rory Power I just started this eerie, feminist Lord of the Flies and I’m already obsessed! Goodreads summary: “It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there’s more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.” 2. The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert Brandy is one of my favorite authors and I’m so glad I get to finally read this YA contemporary! Goodreads summary: “Dove “Birdie” Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow the path her parents have laid out for her: She quit playing her beloved soccer, she keeps her nose buried in textbooks, and she’s on track to finish high school at the top of her class. But then Birdie falls hard for Booker, a sweet boy with a troubled past…whom she knows her parents will never approve of. When her estranged aunt Carlene returns to Chicago and moves into the family’s apartment above their hair salon, Birdie notices the tension building at home. Carlene is sweet, friendly, and open-minded–she’s also spent decades in and out of treatment facilities for addiction. As Birdie becomes closer to both Booker and Carlene, she yearns to spread her wings. But when long-buried secrets rise to the surface, everything she’s known to be true is turned upside down.” 3. My Fate According to the Butterfly by Gail D. Villanueva I’m always looking for Filipino rep in books, so I’m super excited for this middle grade novel! Goodreads summary: “When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she’s doomed! According to legend, she has one week before her fate catches up with her — on her 11th birthday. With her time running out, all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. But her sister, Ate Nadine, stopped speaking to their father one year ago, and Sab doesn’t even know why. If Sab’s going to get Ate Nadine and their father to reconcile, she’ll have to overcome her fears — of her sister’s anger, of leaving the bubble of her sheltered community, of her upcoming doom — and figure out the cause of their rift. So Sab and her best friend Pepper start spying on Nadine and digging into their family’s past to determine why, exactly, Nadine won’t speak to their father. But Sab’s adventures across Manila reveal truths about her family more difficult — and dangerous — than she ever anticipated. Was the Butterfly right? Perhaps Sab is doomed after all!” 4. Truly Madly Royally by Debbie Rigaud Look at how cute the cover is! Do I even need to explain why I’m excited for this one? Goodreads summary: “Fiercely independent and smart, Zora Emerson wants to change the world. She’s excited to be attending a prestigious summer program, even if she feels out of place among her privileged, mostly white classmates. So she’s definitely not expecting to feel a connection to Owen, who’s an actual prince of an island off the coast of England. But Owen is funny, charming…and undeniably cute. Zora can’t ignore the chemistry between them. When Owen invites Zora to be his date at his big brother’s big royal wedding, Zora is suddenly thrust into the spotlight, along with her family and friends. Everyone is talking about her, in real life and online, and while Owen is used to the scrutiny, Zora’s not sure it’s something she can live with. Can she maintain her sense of self while moving between two very different worlds? And can her feelings for Owen survive and thrive in the midst of the crazy? Find out in this charming romantic comedy that’s like The Princess Diaries for a new generation.“ 5. Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra I’m so here for a super smart brown girl falling in love! Goodreads summary: “The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds―and falls head over heels―in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She’s always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius―but she’s never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers while adjusting to real life-and-death stakes. And working in the same hospital as her mother certainly isn’t making things any easier. But life gets complicated when Saira finds herself falling in love with a patient: a cute teen boy who’s been diagnosed with cancer. And when she risks her brand new career to try to improve his chances, it could cost her everything. It turns out “heartbreak” is the one thing she still doesn’t know how to treat. In her solo debut, Sona Charaipotra brings us a compelling #ownvoices protagonist who’s not afraid to chase what she wants. Symptoms of a Heartbreak goes from romantic comedy highs to tearjerker lows and is the ultimate cure-all for young adult readers needing an infusion of something heartfelt.” 6. Start Here by Trish Doller Sad books are my jam, and I’m really curious to see how the sailing works into the story. This sounds like it could be a good read-a-like for The Other Side of Lost, which I loved. Goodreads summary: “Willa and Taylor were supposed to spend the summer after high school sailing from Ohio to Key West with their best friend, Finley. But Finley died before graduation, leaving them with a twenty-five-foot sailboat, a list of clues leading them to destinations along the way, and a friendship that’s hanging by a thread. Now, Willa and Taylor have two months and two thousand miles to discover how life works without Finley—and to decide if their own friendship is worth saving. From acclaimed author Trish Doller comes a poignant tale of forgiveness, grief, and the brilliant discoveries we make within ourselves when we least expect it.” 7. Color Me In by Natasha Diaz This is by far one of my most anticipated reads of the year, and I’ve had to force myself to wait to read it since I have so many upcoming releases on my TBR. But it’s finally time! Goodreads summary: “Who is Nevaeh Levitz? Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom’s family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time. Nevaeh wants to get to know her extended family, but one of her cousins can’t stand that Nevaeh, who inadvertently passes as white, is too privileged, pampered, and selfish to relate to the injustices they face on a daily basis as African Americans. In the midst of attempting to blend their families, Nevaeh’s dad decides that she should have a belated bat mitzvah instead of a sweet sixteen, which guarantees social humiliation at her posh private school. Even with the push and pull of her two cultures, Nevaeh does what she’s always done when life gets complicated: she stays silent. It’s only when Nevaeh stumbles upon a secret from her mom’s past, finds herself falling in love, and sees firsthand the prejudice her family faces that she begins to realize she has a voice. And she has choices. Will she continue to let circumstances dictate her path? Or will she find power in herself and decide once and for all who and where she is meant to be?“ 8. All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick It’s queer. It’s mysterious. It has PERFECT cover. Goodreads summary: “ PRIVATE NUMBER: Wouldn’t you look better without a cheater on your arm? AMANDA: Who is this? The daughter of small town social climbers, Amanda Kelly is deeply invested in her boyfriend, real estate heir Carter Shaw. He’s kind, ambitious, the town golden boy—but he’s far from perfect. Because behind Amanda’s back, Carter is also dating Rosalie. PRIVATE NUMBER: I’m watching you, Sweetheart. ROSALIE: Who IS this? Rosalie Bell is fighting to remain true to herself and her girlfriend—while concealing her identity from her Christian fundamentalist parents. After years spent in and out of conversion “therapy,” her own safety is her top priority. But maintaining a fake, straight relationship is killing her from the inside. When an anonymous texter ropes Amanda and Rosalie into a bid to take Carter down, the girls become collateral damage—and unlikely allies in a fight to unmask their stalker before Private uproots their lives. PRIVATE NUMBER: You shouldn’t have ignored me. Now look what you made me do…“ 9. Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson This was a May release that I didn’t have a chance to get to, but I’m hoping to squeeze it in this summer. Goodreads summary: “Biggie Smalls was right. Things done changed. But that doesn’t mean that Quadir and Jarrell are okay letting their best friend Steph’s tracks lie forgotten in his bedroom after he’s killed—not when his beats could turn any Bed-Stuy corner into a celebration, not after years of having each other’s backs. Enlisting the help of Steph’s younger sister, Jasmine, Quadir and Jarrell come up with a plan to promote Steph’s music under a new rap name: The Architect. Soon, everyone in Brooklyn is dancing to Steph’s voice. But then his mixtape catches the attention of a hotheaded music rep and—with just hours on the clock—the trio must race to prove Steph’s talent from beyond the grave. Now, as the pressure—and danger—of keeping their secret grows, Quadir, Jarrell, and Jasmine are forced to confront the truth about what happened to Steph. Only each has something to hide. And with everything riding on Steph’s fame, together they need to decide what they stand for before they lose everything they’ve worked so hard to hold on to—including each other.” 10. For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington I’ve been waiting for this middle grade release for MONTHS! Goodreads summary: “I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda’s family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena―the only other adopted black girl she knows―for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world.” What is on your summer TBR? Posted by Ari @ Books. Libraries. Also, cats. Teen librarian, YA reader, and book blogger demanding diverse books to read & cats to pet It’s Monday! What are you reading? June 24, 2019 TBR Lows & Highs \| August 1, 2019 22 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday \| My summer TBR” Lori's Bookshelf Reads says: I so want to read Wilder Girls. I can’t wait till it comes out Wilder Girls – I’m dying!!! Great list! I can’t wait to try Wilder Girls as well. Happy reading! I want to read LET ME HEAR A RHYME too. Good luck on your list. My TTT Summer reading list Marti (Bookish Treats) says: Great list! I’m obsessed with the cover of Wilder Girls. I want to buy a physical copy of this book just to have it show it off on my shelf. I hope you end up liking the book as you continue it. All Eyes on Us sounds amazing as well. Even when they are chaotic, bookstores are the best. Happy reading! I love reading these even when I’m not participating (I just published another author interview on my blog instead). You might want to take a look – Jane Davis is an amazing author! Wow, that is a FANTASTIC looking list. I’ve gotta look for Color Me In and For Black Girls Like Me for my classroom. These books look amazing! 🙂 I am so excited for Wilder Girls. My Fate According to Butterfly always looks cute. I hope you like these! Our library can get a little loud and busy as well! Wilder Girls sounds awesome! thereadingrebel says: Those all look like great reads. Great list! Start Here sounds really interesting, and I’m looking forward to Wilder Girls. 😀 Nikki @The Night is Dark and Full of Books says: Looks like you picked some great books! The cover for Wilder Girls looks so interesting. Love this list! I got such summer vibes going through it — and All Eyes On Us sounds crazy creepy and good! Hope you enjoy all these reads 😊 My TTT post A Darker Shade of Rosie says: Okay, that was the very first time I read the description of “Wilder Girls” and now it is most definitely going on my TBR! 😜 Wilder Girls looks and sounds so good. I see a few books here I wasn’t aware of so thanks for sharing them! Great list! Very diverse genres! Can’t wait to hear what you think of Wilder Girls and Let Me Hear A Rhyme! i haven’t read any of these but i’m interested with some of them, especially wilder girls and truly madly royally. i hope you enjoy them! ❤ I’ve been seeing Wilder Girls a lot lately. I hope it’s great! You have great taste in books. Honestly, I want to read all of these titles as well! Truly Madly Royally sounds so cute! All of these books sound so, so brilliant and I’m right there with you in anticipating reading them this summer! SO many gorgeous covers, too.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line944
__label__wiki	0.873583	0.873583	Home Films Saudi Film Councils First Movie Will Be Wadjda Director Haifaa Al-Mansours The... Saudi Film Councils First Movie Will Be Wadjda Director Haifaa Al-Mansours The Perfect Candidate — Cannes Rex/Shutterstock Saudi Arabias new national film organization the Saudi Film Council is supporting its first feature in the shape of Wadja director Haifaa Al-Mansours upcoming The Perfect Candidate. The movie will be produced by Al Mansour Productions in Saudi Arabia and Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul of Razor Film Produktion in Berlin. The co-production was negotiated by UTA Independent Film Group which will handle sales in North America. The Match Factory will handle sales internationally. Al-Mansour will direct from a script she wrote with Brad Niemann. Filming is expected to start in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by mid-September. Little is known at this stage about the structure of the Council. The drama tells the story of a young female doctor who runs for municipal office while her father is off touring the country with the re-established Saudi National Band, which had been banned under law prohibiting public music performances. Director Al-Mansour said, “I believe that change must ultimately be sustained and driven by the people who are most in need of improvements and increased mobility in their daily lives. I want to help lead this positive change by telling a story that is full of hope and celebrates the power of resiliency and hard work. I want to encourage Saudi women to seize the moment, to take a chance, and break away from the system that for so long has held us back.” Al-Mansour made history in 2012 as the first female Saudi filmmaker with the award-winning Wadjda, notably the first film shot entirely in Saudi and the kingdoms first submission to the Oscars. As we revealed last month the filmmaker is in development with ShadowMachine on animation Miss Camel. Your ads will be inserted here by Easy Plugin for AdSense. Please go to the plugin admin page to Paste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. She is one of three women on the new 13-member board of the General Authority for Culture (a parent organization to the Film Council) which will oversee cultural and artistic development in Saudi Arabia. If it seems strange that the same board Al-Mansour was just appointed to is also overseeing her next movie, it should be remembered that she is the first and only internationally recognized filmmaker to come out of the country. Following the success of Wadjda, Al-Mansour shot two other features: Mary Shelley, based on the late Frankenstein author, and Nappily Ever After, based on the book by Trisha R. Thomas. A first and large Saudi delegation is in Cannes — the Saudi Pavilion is hosting 12 shorts from the country — as the latest sign of the kingdoms growing movie ambitions. The country is opening its first public cinemas this year and has big plans for entertainment industry growth. Meanwhile, investments are underway between the kingdom and Hollywood. The Sovereign Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is has been negotiating a deal to acquire 5%-10% of Endeavor for $400m. Al-Mansour is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Loeb & Loeb. Previous articleSam Rockwell, Chance The Rapper Join DreamWorks Trolls 2 Next articleBiggest Secret Cinema, Martin Scorseses Sikelia, Nicolas Cage Thriller, Kino Lorber Deal — Global Briefs Elton John and Taron Egerton slam Russia for cruelly cutting out Rocketman gay scenes Dante Brown was asleep while Octavia Spencer painted him white in pivotal Ma scene Frank Lucas Dies: Inspiration For Denzel Washington Character In American Gangster Was 88 Naa Peru Surya Naa Illu India teaser: Allu Arjun as Surya is ever fuming,... GLAAD Film Report Finds Drop In LGBTQ Representation The secrets of Hungary’s Parliament building MoviePass Parents Stock Hammered As Cash Reserves Dwindle To $15.5M Black cats are getting adopted thanks to Black Panther Black cats are getting adopted because of Black Panther? (Picture: Getty) Kittens called T’challa- w.. New Line In Lead To Catch Train To Busan Remake; Gary... Man to sue airline over ban for touching flight attendant Rami Malek and Bohemian Rhapsody cast have a Whatsapp group they... The 16-Year Journey To Release For Duncan Jones And ‘Mute’ –... After 16 years in development, Duncan Jones’ Mute arrives on Netflix tomorrow. It is the fourth film..	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line964
__label__cc	0.651536	0.348464	Posted on 1 February, 2016 Three teams awarded seed money to develop stories on migration, citizenship and future societies During the Camera Interactiva pitch event, which took place on December 10, 2015, three teams have bee awarded seed money to develop their creative stories further. The decision regarding the awards was made by a jury composed of professionals from the academia (Prof. Frank Kessler, Utrecht University), the arts (Marlou Rutten, Dutch Film Festival), NGO sector (Giovanni Campbell, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie) and municipality (Hans Goedkoop, Utrecht Municipality). The projects developed by the short-listed teams will premiere on April 3, 2016, during the Cultural Sunday dedicated to the Utrecht University 76th Lustrum. Below we proudly present to you the three projects that received seed funding. ‘Reality 3.0’ by Omar Daou and Anna Ies Willems (awarded 2500 EUR seed money) Reality 3.0 is an interactive web docu-series that aims to understand how technology has been influencing our everyday lives and explores how we can move towards a world where we use it consciously. As responsible citizens, are we aware of the ways in which we are using what technology has to offer? Chronicling the technological advancements from contemporary times through the present day—with many speculations about the future—3.0 is a journey that tries to understand the gradual evolution of technology’s relationship with nature: how did we get here and where are we going next? How can we use technology in ways that are responsible and conscientious towards our bodies, our minds, our social relationships, and the environment? Zooming in on each particular user though an interactive interface—with personalized questions—and through understanding each user’s particular concerns and habits, Reality 3.0 will outline each customized version of the future for each unique audience member by the end of the documentary. What will your future hold? Omar Daou is a Master Student at Utrecht University majoring in Gender Studies. His main goal is to bring together his research interests with aesthetics and artworks, creating art that can teach us something. Anna Ies Willems graduated as a journalist and specialised in documentary making, passionately curious about questions of future, such as: How is the society and world changing? What are problems and what can be solutions? ‘Paper Paradise’ by Eva van Roekel and Floor de Bie (awarded 1500 EUR seed money) Imagine that you have to ‘prove’ your love in the form of documents, photos, tickets, and receipts. This is what our protagonists Dion (Dutch) and Jenny (Colombian) are doing to obtain a Dutch residence permit for Jenny. Since a few months they are following the Belgium route: they have decided to live 50 meters across the Belgian border to circumvent strict Dutch migration law. After an initial leap forward, they are now lost in incomprehensible Belgian and Dutch rules and European laws. Do they control the course of life or is it all an illusion? Our project is an ‘immersive route’ consisting of two parts: an audio tour through Utrecht and the screening of a 30” documentary. Our immersive route wants to stimulate reflection about bizarre consequences of bureaucracy and the illusion of freedom in modern life. The immersive audio tour leads the audience through several public spaces until they reach their final destination where the documentary will be shown. The documentary follows the Belgium route process of Dion and Jenny. The main themes are bureaucracy, alienation, and borders. With the audio tour, in couples the audience will find itself lost in a ‘bureaucratic maze’, just like the protagonists of the documentary. Floor de Bie is a freelance filmmaker with a background in anthropology and journalism. Eva van Roekel is anthropologist and filmmaker with a background in Latin American Studies. ‘Limbo Citizen’ by Lillian dam Bracia and Pien den Hollander (awarded 1000 EUR seed money) Our project, Limbo Citizen, is an interactive installation located in the city center of Utrecht (possibly on a busy street, for example on Neude square or Stadhuisbrug). In the medium of abstract representations placed inside a maze, the installation aims to communicate the impact of legal borders in the lives of migrants who are in lack or in want of the legal right to stay in the EU. The installation will tell the story of four different migrants: a non-EU student seeking to stay in the EU after his period of study, an undocumented migrant, an asylum seeker and an economic migrant. Our aim is to offer citizens of the world a surprising possibility to critically reflect on his/her own privileges obtained from his/her citizen/national status. This will be in the form of what we would call a ´walkthrough documentary´ where, once inside, one will symbolically experience the stories of people who find themselves stuck in a legal limbo. Lillian dam Bracia has just finished her liberal arts education in University College Utrecht where she completed tracks on anthropology and international relations. She is particularly interested in poststructural and postcolonial debates on issues of today’s modern society, such as massive migration in relation to identity politics and power. Pien den Hollander studied Communication and Multimedia Design in Avans Hogeschool Breda. 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__label__cc	0.58929	0.41071	Making Sense of a Vexing and Perplexing World About Bracing Views Books, Articles, Courses The Ongoing Civil War in Iraq: Mission Accomplished? Yet another “magnificent victory” in Iraq, this time in Tikrit, twelve years after “Mission Accomplished” was declared W.J. Astore American reporting on Iraq focuses on the eternal now, such as the rise of ISIS or recent battles in Tikrit. Rarely is any context given to these events, and rarer still is any accounting of the costs of war (still rising) to the Iraqi people. Let’s return to 2003 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Before the invasion, the U.S. Army War College accurately predicted what was to come. A report co-authored by Conrad C. Crane and W. Andrew Terrill warned that U.S. forces would have “to prevent Sunnis from fighting Shiites, secular Iraqis from fighting religious ones, returned Iraqi exiles from fighting non-exiles, Kurds from fighting Turkomans or establishing an independent state, tribes within all these groups from fighting one another, Turkey from invading from the north, Iran from invading from the east, and the defeated Iraqi army–which may be the only national institution that can keep the country from being ripped apart–from dissolving,” as summarized in “After Saddam,” a short article in “Primary Sources” in the Atlantic Monthly in June 2003.* Read that last bit again: America’s military experts stated the Iraqi army had to be preserved so as to prevent Iraq from devolving into factionalism and chaos. So what did America’s proconsul for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, proceed to do when he took over in 2003? He dissolved the Iraqi army! Under the orders of the all-wise Bush Administration. In a much longer article for the Atlantic Monthly, James Fallows detailed how the Bush Administration went “Blind into Baghdad” (January/February 2004). Fallows concluded that Bush/Cheney (and Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz) oversaw “a historic failure” in Iraq precisely because they “willfully” disregarded “a vast amount of expert planning.” Whether this was by design or not is still disputed, but one must recall Cheney’s rosy prediction that Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops as “liberators.” Hubris is one explanation for such folly. Other commentators suggest a deliberate policy to destabilize Iraq. Whatever the case, the big winner of Iraq’s decline and near fall was Iran, followed by various forms of Islamic extremism that arose from the ashes of violence and civil war. By the spring of 2004, as the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) headed by Bremer prepared to return “sovereignty” to the allegedly newly-democratic Iraq, American officials who hadn’t drunk the kool-aid recognized that civil war was coming. A friend of mine, an Army major, was at that time serving with the CPA in Baghdad. He wrote to me at the time that: “The emperor has no clothes … corruption, private militias, insecurity, and coming civil war [in Iraq] is accepted as given amongst the CPA staff. The focus is on making some sort of transition on 30 June [2004] to whatever ‘government’ we can get in place by then. Anything after 30 June is ‘we’ll get to that when we can.’ This whole operation is a train wreck waiting to happen, and the [Bush] administration simply refused to acknowledge it, much less do anything about it.” Ominously, my friend concluded that “Even the Iraqis who welcomed us after Saddam [fell] have lost patience with us and are pursuing other routes to power and national control.” This was because the U.S. was throwing its support behind an Iraqi regime “which is seen as completely illegitimate by the people it’s supposed to rule in the name of democracy.” In short, the CPA and Bush Administration were selling a lie in 2004, and they knew it. But Bush won reelection later that year, so who really cares if the U.S. lost, in the words of my friend, “serious credibility” in the region as a result? For informed Americans not suffering from amnesia, the above narrative shouldn’t come as a total surprise. By its actions and inaction and lies, the Bush Administration brought endless civil war to Iraq. The U.S. essentially created the conditions for the rise of ISIS and similar extremist groups. But the U.S. media has cloaked this hard reality in a shroud of myths about the “decisive” Petraeus Surge of 2007 (really a temporary lull in the civil war) or various other “mission accomplished” moments promoted by both Bush and Obama. Mission accomplished? A magnificent victory? Only if the “mission” was the dismantling of Iraq, and “victory” is measured by more and more war. The report, dated February 2003, was “Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario.” Posted on April 2, 2015 by wjastorePosted in US Military, US Politics, warTagged Barack Obama, Coalition Provisional Authority, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, James Fallows, L. Paul Bremer. Previous Previous post: Major Sporting Events and Air Shows: Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much Next Next post: Are Troops Being Evangelized Instead of Being Treated for PTSD? 21 thoughts on “The Ongoing Civil War in Iraq: Mission Accomplished?” b. traven says: The facts are very murky in the Tikrit story we are fed by are fact anemic media. Estimates seem to show that ISIS had only 400 fighters in Tikrit who were besieged, according to initial reports, by about 3000 Iraqi army troops and over 20,000 Shia militia advised by Iranian Quds officers who were carrying the main battle. . Sometime during the initial phase the battle stalemated and the Iraq Shia government called in American air support. This seemed to piss off the Shia militia when reports came out that American air strikes had killed some of their fighters. The Shia milita then seemed to back away a bit from the fight in protest on America’s entry. It has than taken close to six weeks for who ever is carrying the battle now with probably ten or more times to reach the center of Tikrit. To date I have heard no confirmation that Tikrit is totally liberated other than the claim by the government that they have attained “victory”. ( which is a claim they made two weeks earlier also) This tragic tale speaks volumes about the failure of both the Obama and Bush administrations and our military to bring our fatal footsteps in Iraq to a final halt. Tikrit with a Sunni population of less than 150,000 is now at the mercy of the Shia again and it is taking at least eight weeks to achieve partial control. We are now ramping up arming and training the Iraq army to retake Mosul, a city ten times the size of Tikrit . Don’t expect any cries of victory when that happens. . wjastore says: Great point. How do we know what’s really going on there on the ground? So much of what we heard about Iraq in 2003-08 was total BS. Part of the problem is the mainstream media no longer commits assets (reporters and camera crews) to Iraq — or Afghanistan — or Yemen. Too expensive. Too dangerous. Most of all, no desire to question the official establishment narrative — not when you’re cozying up to the powerful in the name of access and relevance and in the cause of careerism. Since Easter is approaching, perhaps a Pontius Pilate reference is allowable. Basically, the U.S. has washed its hands of any responsibility for unrest in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, and so on. Wasn’t us. lsnrchrd1 says: The establishment American press is different now from perhaps any time in the history of this nation, primarily because historically enormously diverse private outlet ownership is presently reduced to a small number (5? 6?) of corporate entities seemingly invested less in reporting reality than in doing their part trying to make true the doomed-from-the-outset Karl Rove empire dictum somehow come true: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/846190-we-re-an-empire-now-and-when-we-act-we-create If today’s media had existed 60 years ago, how likely is it that the Civil Rights movement successes would be part of our national history, or the Pentagon Papers would have been influential in shaping policy, or that any single media outlet would have pursued the Watergate break-in to its conclusion? The Nixon Presidency would be remembered completely differently if current WaPo ownership held the reins back then. Hell, how much ozone layer would still remain at this point? Yes. That’s well put. Holes in the ozone layer? Just ozone-pause. Completely natural. Move along, rubes. greglaxer says: Many years ago, when it became evident that Islam was the fastest-growing religion on the planet, I read The Koran to be familiar with it. I also read “Among The Believers,” by V.S. Naipaul. I don’t recall a word from the latter referring to the Sunni-Shia schism. Thus the intense hatred between these two branches of Islam came as a shock to me when conflicts between them erupted post-2003 US invasion. Given that Saddam had a military that “couldn’t shoot straight” when it came to defending Iraqi territory, it’s amazing in retrospect that somehow he had kept a lid on this homicidal argument over who inherited “the True Islam.” The MSM have expressed concern over the (allegedly) triumphant militia forces in Tikrit erupting into armed conflict among themselves. Doesn’t sound like a road to stability, does it? I wonder what percentage of Tikrit was physically destroyed in this operation and how long the supposed good guys can actually hold that turf? (“We had to destroy the city in order to save it.”) BTW, I would say that far from “washing its hands” of the whole mess, the Obama administration continues to pretend it can fix the mess by “scalpel-like” application of air power here and there. The fewer US boots on the ground, the better for domestic politics. We shall see what becomes of that doctrine. Yes, you have to wonder about those “scalpel” applications of airpower. Even Obama’s advisers are not stupid enough to believe that airpower can be decisive. So why? Perhaps the main targets of those bombs, figuratively speaking, are Republicans. With bombs, Obama can claim he’s doing something while refusing to commit ground troops in any significant way. Cynical, yes. But Obama knows he’d be crucified by Republicans if he refused to drop those bombs. Put differently, Obama is not confident enough to play Pontius Pilate and just walk away from a no-win scenario. The result? A policy that is fated to fail because it’s pusillanimous and false. Leland Shanle says: You toss the word lie around quite freely; it damages your credibility. Especially when a “lie” above could essentially be a difference of opinion or tactics. In a recent article you posted about “the big lie of WMD”. And yet there are daily articles about troops being treated for having come into contact with chemical weapons stashes (WMD) in Iraq. By destroying the WMD without proper precautions (chem suits etc.) they are now sick. I was flying over Iraq in the mid 90’s when Saddam was using them on the Kurds. I saw the INTEL photos. So the question wasn’t “if” but “where”. As in where did they go. Some look at Syria, and quite obviously some remained in Iraq. Half of the facts of a story being listed to me is the same as a lie. It also proves the presenter has an agenda IMO. You never mention the Sunni Awakening. My son was in the Sunni Triangle with the 10th Mountain, when we effectively won the war in the mid 2000’s. Backing an incompetent and corrupt regime was indeed a big mistake. However the biggest was pulling our troops out allowing Iraq to plunge into chaos. We still have troops in Korea and Europe, why? To preserve the peace other generations fought for. Whether you agree or not with going into Iraq, only someone with an agenda would not discuss abandoning Iraq (leaving it to the incompetent and corrupt regime) as a causal factor to the mess it now is. Thanks for your comment. The “lie” in question was the Bush Administration’s selling of the CPA’s return of sovereignty to an Iraqi government that was “democratic” and “ready to rule.” Of course, that government was both illegitimate in the eyes of most Iraqis and unready to assume authority in 2004. The result was the civil war in Iraq that we’re still witnessing today. Such a result was eminently predictable, and indeed it was predicted at the time by many, especially American troops who worked in Baghdad. As my friend said, it was obvious the Emperor had no clothes — that Iraq was descending into chaos. The question of WMD is complicated. The WMD you reference is the “old” chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein used against Iran in the 1980s and against the Kurds after Desert Storm. But this was not the WMD feared by the Bush Administration prior to the invasion in 2003. The Bush Administration said that Saddam had an active WMD program, producing new chemical weapons (remember those mobile labs that Colin Powell spoke about before the UN?), and that Saddam was working on drones that could spray WMD. But there were no mobile chem labs and no drones. My opinion is that Bush/Cheney did not “lie” about this WMD; rather, they exaggerated the threat so as to justify the invasion in 2003. The Sunni Awakening in 2007 was a genuine accomplishment, and I’m sure the contribution of your son was praiseworthy. But the “awakening” was due more to Sunni outrage at the tactics and methods of Al Qaeda in Iraq, as well as the Sunni desire to end widespread killing. It was, effectively, a lull in a civil war. It was not decisive in ending tribal warfare or Sunni-Shia tensions, which are still playing out. You mention an “incompetent and corrupt regime” in Iraq. But this is precisely what we served to create in 2004. And the U.S. has never left Iraq. Even when we pulled out most of our troops, we still left behind our enormous embassy in Baghdad, guarded by privatized mercenaries, even as we continued to train the Iraqi military (which failed miserably last year, despite all the money and effort we threw at it). Are Korea and Europe the best analogies to Iraq? I’m not so sure. Look at what happened in Vietnam. We pulled out in 1975 and now have peaceful trade relations with the Vietnamese people, even though they’re “commie bastards” in the lingo of the 1960s. Should we have kept an enormous number of troops in South Vietnam to “save” their corrupt regime? Should we continue to intervene in Iraq with bombs and bullets in the name of providing stability? We’ve spent more than a trillion dollars on wars in Iraq, with lots of US troops being killed and wounded, and for what, exactly? WMD is WMD whether new or old. The press narrative was that there was none. Which in fact was untrue. The Sunni awakening was more about tribal leaders cutting a deal and going on the USA dole than any outrage. Vietnam and the Communist over running South East Asia is hardly a victory for anyone except of course Vietnam. I would remind you the conflict started with Vietnam invading neighbors, specifically Laos. What happened in Cambodia with the power vacuum we left behind didn’t go so well for the Cambodians. To compare that to the relative peace of Korea and Europe just doesn’t pass the sniff test. The “lull” in the Iraqi civil war lasted until we pulled out our troops. A direct correlation. “For what, exactly?” 911, to keep the fighting over there was the strategy. Whether you agree or not with the strategy it has been fairly effective. And we are discussing the aftermath of the war not the reason(s) for getting into it. Like Vietnam a bloodbath has filled the void. The difference is the Vietnamese Communists had the goal of local conquest (to the point their former benefactor, China, had enough and warred), the Islamists clearly want to attack the West and our way of life. The Neocons had two fatal flaws in their strategy a. they thought Democracy would work in Iraq and b. they assumed the new Iraqi leaders wanted peace. “Democracy for the wolves is slaughter for the sheep.” And they had a total lack of understanding of the Muslim world. The solution was easy IMO; split Iraq into Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite regions. It was a colonial construct to begin with. The former Yugoslavia is now peaceful because they were forced to be. And have remained peaceful because they have their own regions and the threat of NATO to enforce them. The present administration just left Iraq by contrast, that guaranteed a civil war. The absolute biggest mistake was pulling COMBAT troops out of the field. Staffers and a few Contractors guarding “the palace” is not a military presence. If you want to know what is really going on, you ask the foot soldier in the bush. Staffs, like politicians, often have agendas. The bigger problem foisted on the world by the abdication of power is what is coming. A Muslim World War, Sunni vs. Shiite’ vs. Radicals from both sides. It has already started in Yemen, Syria and Iraq as Saudi Arabia/Egypt and Iran face off through surrogates and directly. Would it have been worth it to leave 30,000 troops to prevent all this? If more than 100,000 U.S. troops couldn’t stop civil war in Iraq, how could 30,000? Recall that General Shinseki advocated for an occupation force of at least 250,000 U.S. troops before the invasion of 2003, only to be shot down by Cheney and Rumsfeld. WMD: The issue in 2002 was not whether Iraq had old stocks of chemical and nerve agents (some of which we helped him to procure in his war against Iran). The issue in 2002 was whether Iraq had an active WMD program with the capability of deploying it regionally, perhaps against Israel, hence the reports (which were false) of Iraqi WMD drones that appeared in the US media prior to the invasion. That old stocks of WMD were found was not a surprise to anyone. Indeed, what was shocking was how unprepared the U.S. military was to dispose of these chemical agents, and how preventable injuries to US troops were covered up by the Pentagon. US troops will always be a foreign presence in Iraq, unwelcome to large segments of the Iraqi people. They’ll never win the peace there. That’s up to the Iraqi people. CIA’s final report: No WMD Found in Iraq AP Article from 4/25/2005 “WASHINGTON — In his final word, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.” The narrative was until recently, that there was no WMD in Iraq. No mention of “old stockpiled” or a few “abandoned” chemical weapons or an expectation to find any. That is the new narrative. The press and CIA said NONE, Zero, zilch. A simple google verifies that. We now know there were 5,000 in fact, deliverable by artillery and SCUD Missiles. So, they could and had threatened the area. And used them on Iran and their own people. The fact that Saddam chose not to use them was a political/tactical decision. The fact remains he had the ability. Anyone of those SCUDs that fell on Israel could have contained a chemical war head. The Israelis certainly prepared for it. And of course they were abandoned, the Iraqi Army had dissolved “abandoning” stock piles of all kinds of weapons, aircraft, tanks, everything. You are countering your own point, 100,000 troops DID stop the civil war, the “lull” you called it. To deny that is a disservice to the men and women who did it. 30,000 COMBAT troops (they come with a long support tail/troops) could have maintained the “lull”. The fighting was over, certainly terrorist type bombings continued, but the ground war was over. Again back to point. Of all the mistakes made before, during and after the Iraq war, none was more catastrophic to Iraq and world peace than abandoning the country. You seem to be saying that only the sustained presence of 30,000 U.S. combat troops could have kept the peace in Iraq. First of all, Iraq is slightly larger than California in size. You can’t police an area that large with only 30,000 troops. How many US casualties would we be prepared to tolerate for an indefinite occupation? At what cost? Keeping a force that large in Iraq would cost $50 billion or more per year if they were engaged in combat operations. Second, I didn’t say that 100,000 US troops “stopped” the civil war in Iraq. Indeed, those same troops in a sense started the civil war after the overthrow of Saddam in 2003. The civil war did come to burn itself out for a short time, aided in part by the Anbar Awakening, but the lull was just that — a lull, a temporary dropoff in violence, which Petraeus himself feared would be both “fragile” and “reversible.” And so it has proved. US troops did the best they could in an impossible situation. You can’t win someone else’s civil war. Imagine the British committing 30,000 combat troops to the U.S. in 1862 in an attempt to stop the U.S. Civil War. Is there any chance they could have succeeded? Finally, we’re talking past each other with the WMD question. What I’m saying is this: Before going to war in 2003, the Bush Administration argued that Saddam Hussein had an active chemical weapons program, using mobile chemical labs in trucks, and that Iraq was experimenting with drones to deploy those weapons against its regional enemies. None of that “intelligence” proved to be true. This discussion continues to wander off point. Lets establish facts. First, there was WMD and a means to deliver it. As I pointed out in the CIA Report/AP article from 2005 nobody was concerned with type/means/delivery source until recently when it was disclosed 5,000 Weapons were found. And the way you deploy it, whether drone or SCUD doesn’t matter to whom its deployed on. The troops had stopped the civil war and the fighting had gone from a peak in 2007 while cleaning up AQ to comparative peace. Casualties went from 904 down to 54, 2007-2011. Four years, and 2011 was a full year. We pulled out 18 DEC. Again what you say couldn’t be done was. It was not burned out it was stopped. Like in the former Yugoslavia, like in Korea. Petraeus did indeed warn of “fragile” and “reversible” peace, not a lull for a short period, four years. He warned in reference to a withdrawal. Another fact, Bush warned and predicted pretty much EXACTLY what would happen with a pull out. The Iraqi Army had not been politicized until after we pulled our influence and troops. Of course the Baghdad Regime didn’t want a status of forces agreement. It allowed them to do what they did once we left. The present Administration used that as cover to flee and keep a political promise. Again, the civil war returned after we left, another fact. The incompetence of the present administration is further evidenced in Libya and Yemen. And it knows no bounds, even as Yemen plunged into anarchy, our Embassy and SF/CIA forced to flee the administration claimed it was an example of success of their policy. They have set the stage for a massive war that can and probably will plunge the entire region into a religious war. And it all was precipitated by our abandonment of Iraq. So you want to reset the timeline, eh? Everything was dandy under Dick Cheney and company’s brilliant guiding hands, then Obama got elected and started messing things up. My own condemnation of the present administration is precisely that it has extended Cheney policies abroad. That makes the creation of the mess in Yemen a success, one might say. Intervene in other states’ affairs, create a royal mess and then use that resulting situation as an excuse for further meddling. Thus ignoring the fundamental problem: claiming American “exceptionalism” and the “right” to conduct these interventions. Leland Shanle, your post is dripping with your rightwing perspective. I can’t take it seriously. Ah yes, the Great Right Wing Conspiracy. I find when an argument weakens name calling follows. Sorry to disappoint, I’m a Libertarian and have been for 15 plus years. I would not have sent my son to the Sunni Triangle to spill his blood. In fact I would not have sent so many troops to Afghanistan either. I would have reinforced the SF with 101/82 Airborne and the 10th Mountain, pushed Bin Laden, AQ and Taliban into Tora Bora, Sealed the Pakistan escape routes and dropped bombs for a week. And been gone within another. Perhaps it has slipped your mind but THEY attacked us on 911. However, this discussion was about why Iraq is a Goat-F*k now. Blaming Cheney, while fashionable in your cocktail circle is a lame excuse. He has been gone for 6 years. The decision to abandon Iraq, was not his. And that is the direct causal factor it is in melt down now. All the facts in the world won’t change your mind. Your agenda is clear. Well, Leland, there are facts and there are “facts” (the latter a specialty of Fox “News”–are you a fan, perhaps?). You have repeatedly whipped the dead horse of Saddam having had some form of WMD at some point, so that justified the US invasion. The attacks of 9/11 were, apparently, the acts of a criminal gang. There was NEVER, I repeat, NEVER a justification to launch wars on the soils of Iraq or Afghanistan in response. Those were acts of illegal aggression, acts of war, against sovereign nations (to extent Afghanistan, land of skirmishing warlords, can be deemed a nation). Totally illegal under international law, but of course when you’re the biggest kid on the planet with the biggest arsenal of military toys you disregard such inconveniences as international law. American exceptionalism, indeed. BTW, I don’t participate in any “cocktail circle.” I am a working class guy living in poverty in retirement. I never brought up the word “conspiracy,” please note. And I have sussed out what “Libertarians” are all about. You are correct, though: we both are clear in our agendas. And what is my agenda? To continue to fight for a more just and equitable world. What’s your agenda, Mr. Libertarian?? Acts of a criminal gang? Delusional. I justified nothing as far as entering Iraq and WMD, I merely pointed out that it was indeed there. In fact, I clearly stated I would not have gone into Iraq. I never set policy, I carried it out whether stupid or not, often with one hand tied behind our back. The article was about what lead to the present instability of Iraq. The facts clearly show that the “present instability” can be directly tied to pulling out and leaving a vacuum behind. If you want the root cause you need to go a lot further back than 2003. Leland: This will be my final response to you, since neither of us is about to cave in to the other and I prefer to channel my energy into positive activities. Your denial that the attacks on US soil of 9/11 were the acts of a criminal gang (“al-Qaeda”) IMPLIES that they were…? The only other explanation I can think of is that they must have been sponsored by a specific state, a government (or several, in collusion). Note that I’m not excluding ASSISTANCE from governments to the smallish gang involved; I’m looking for the fundamental planners and perpetrators. Since you apparently believe you possess all the FACTS in the world, kindly enlighten us all as to exactly who sponsored those events. So you’ve missed the world wide movement that has involved millions and killed hundreds of thousands? It currently rages through out the middle east. Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq and to a lesser extend Afghanistan. It has now morphed into a religious civil war pulling in all the regions players, most notably Iran vs. Saudi Arabia. It is also raging through most of sub-Saharan Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria etc. It has spilled into Europe, China, India, Canada and the USA. It’s roots? Wahhabism, started by the Saudi Throne to legitimize their rule. Sponsors? Follow the money, there are many: Iran, some in Saudi Arabia (they created it and it turned on them). There are many others. It has now morphed into the self-sustained (through oil) ISIS and a declared Caliphate. Is that the “smallish gang” you refer to? The Iraq War of 2003 was not only unnecessary — it was a foreign policy disaster. And the cost to the Iraqi people has been horrendous. My intent in this article was to remind us all of the events of 2003-04 and how they led to the seemingly permanent instability of Iraq since then. Cheney had it right after Desert Storm in 1991. When they asked him then, Why didn’t you push on and take Baghdad after liberating Kuwait, he argued that such a move would have destabilized Iraq, leading to civil war. Which is exactly what happened after “Iraqi Freedom” in 2003 BTW, I agree with Bono of U2; I do think the United States of America is exceptional. Its on youtube, give it a look. Follow Bracing Views on WordPress.com The Truth Needs Its Own Channel The Democratic Debate, Part 7 Trump’s Wall and Its Meaning The Welfare Myth: Confessions of a Former Caseworker America is a force for good … Trump Wishes Peace to Iran while Accusing Democrats of Enabling Attacks on U.S. Troops Anti-war Pragmatists and Pro-war Fantasists Ready for War with Iran? Americans want free stuff! 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__label__wiki	0.697332	0.697332	Tag: afx Autechre – Tri Repetae Autechre finally comes to resemble their form. Considering how long their career has lasted, there is no ‘final form’ to Autechre but this is one of the essential steps, one that sounds less like progression more like a discovery of a new way of making and listening to music. It must’ve been impressive when it was released, helping to define IDM. Nowadays it still sounds important, but importance doesn’t equal good music. Important records are good for a spin. Good music is still good after you’re dead. That’s the big problem with this album. Most of the good things about it is how it helps you understand the genre IDM better, yet not much here stands on its own. IDM is a useful term for music that’s all over the place. Some of it consists of drums without rhythm clashing against one another. Some of it is pure, fragile melody. Some of it is both of these at the same time, yet the label is still useful. Yes, how you listen to music defines how you judge it. A lot of Brostep tracks sounded much better once I went to a club. At its best, this album helps you see a vision of IDM that’s not purely ambient and not purely experimental, but somewhere in between. Autechre use both melodies and steady beats to create something else, only what this ‘something else’ is supposed to be, and what good is it, isn’t clear. They seem to try to paint a picture of a cold universe, one where there are only machines who can only calculate and produce. Imagine a technological utopia only without humans. Cars drive from place to place. Assembly lines move. Listen to “Clipper”, and you can see the office opening up in front of you. Printers print and calculations are being made, yet there are no humans. It’s not a cold, hostile universe. It’s not a utopia either, but something in between, a weird middle ground. If people say the music is emotion-less and for machines, they use it in a very specific meaning. Autechre aren’t without passion, but rather music expresses a character of a machine with no emotions and no hostility. While Electro-Industrial bands painted the machine as directly connected to humanity, either stomping on it or a result of our flaws, Autechre imagine the machines without the human observer. Why would anyone want to listen to such a thing though, especially for around an hour? I remember a specific moment where “Clipper” hit me, a moment where that song was perfect for. Such moments are rare. I was young and had trouble with the new found emotions of love towards women – who would’ve known – and that song felt like an escape. It was a world so far from the human experience that it gave me a respite from this annoying and all-too-human emotional turmoil. Moments like these are rare. Rarely did it happen that I needed or could disconnect completely from the human experience. Even if I wanted to, most of this album doesn’t have this effect. “Clipper” rarely does, even if it still remains a beautiful piece. The vibe of this album is too distant from human experience, too robotic for it to be interesting. Such complains have been raised against later Autechre albums, but these are at least weird. Here Autechre are so perfectly ordered there is nothing to look at. It’s the aural equivalent of looking at your fax machine. Translating it to music is interesting for the sake of experimentation, but not much beyond that. The old cliche of elements colliding and erasing each other appears here yet again. The beats are too hard for the melodies to shine, but the beats aren’t hard enough to dance to. Everything about this album is middle-of-the-road. Still, it’s Autechre we’re talking about and there are roots of their brilliant sound design they’ll develop later. There’s also the charm of knowing that they never made something like this. Everything else is either too ambient or too glitchy. “Clipper” has been mentioned already, but it’s the highlight – capturing the album’s aim so perfectly, it’s partly the reason why everything else sounds pointless. “C/Pach” and “Eutow” are more danceable and sound like they might fit in a DJ set, although you may need to adjust the bass a little. “Overand” is the purely melodic one of the bunch and stands out without the concept. Everything else is impressive technically, but is interesting only at the beginning and the end. Listen to this once to understand IDM and Autechre. They deserve all the praise they get. Autechre are truly one of a kind and are worth putting effort to understand them. Yet this record is only worth a single spin or so. Spend the rest of your time on later records, where the ordinary world of clanging machines became an adventure. 2 repetitions out of 5 Author The Brain in the JarPosted on August 1, 2017 August 1, 2017 Categories music, reviewTags access to arasaka, actress, afx, album, album review, alva noto, amber, amon tobin, aphex twin, arca, arovane, autechre, b12, balil, beaumont hannant, biosphere, boards of canada, bochum welt, bogdag raczynski, bola, brothomstates, casino versus japan, caustic window, ceephax acid crew, chemical brothers, chris clark, christ, clark, coil, confield, cylob, electronic, electronic music, electronica, fennesz, four tet, freeform, funckarma, gak, gas, gescom, global communication, global goon, gridlock, hecq, idm, ilkae, isan, jan jelinek, jega, kangding ray, kettel, kid606, kinesthesia, last step, laurel halo, lee gamble, leftfield, lfo, luke vibert, matmos, mike & rich, mira calix, monolake, mouse on mars, music, music album, music review, musicology, muslimgauze, ochre, oneothrix point never, orbital, oval, pan sonic, patten, phoenecia, plaid, pole, polygon window, proem, review, richard devine, ryoji ikeda, seefeel, snd, speedy j, squarepusher, stars of the lid, the black dog, the field, the flashbulb, the future sound of london, the higher intelligence agency, the orb, the prodigy, the tuss, tim hecker, tri repetae, two lone swordsmen, u-ziq, underworld, venetian snares, vladislav delay, wagon christ, william basinski, wispLeave a comment on Autechre – Tri Repetae Aphex Twin – On Read about Aphex Twin and it all seems like a joke. He releases music under hundreds of aliases, puts his face in a track that has him with big breasts and in a bikini for a cover and releases an album of pure Ambient noise. Sometimes listening to him and enjoying the beauty of it feels like you’re being fooled, like there’s some kind of joke which you’re not clever enough to get so Richard serves you with accessible techno. If only you were intelligent enough, you’d realize Selected Ambient Works II was a parody, or that “Windowlicker” thing is meant to prove that Dance music is stupid. Richard himself said he finds the tag IDM pretentious, though. So maybe he’s just really intelligent while also knowing how to have fun and enjoy pretty sounds. “On” is the definitive Aphex Twin track for that reason. While “Windowlicker” is better, “On” is right in the middle. There is no joke here. The song consists of pretty electronic sounds over weird IDM drums that are steady enough to be danceable. Nothing about is extreme, not like the simplicity of Aphex’s debut or the emptiness of his second or the wackiness of his third. It’s just a welcoming, warm track that defines Aphex’s approach better and makes it clear why he’s the dominating figure of IDM. In the end, he really is all about discovering and enjoying simple, pretty sounds. That puts him in contrast to Autechre and Boards of Canada, whose personalities weren’t so deceptive but more impenetrable. Autechre especially came off like two calculating geniuses so absorbed in their research of sound they forgot what’s the point of it all. Whether “On” is one of IDM’s best tracks is a different manner. I’m too ignorant of the genre to say such a thing, but it is one of Electronic music’s best statements in how it welcomes the listener. Whatever you think of Electronic music, listen to this. It’ll give you a clearer image of the point of it all. The EP also contains other tracks, and that’s a problem. “On” is so brilliant that the only way to include it in an album is to feature other tracks that sound like just dicking about. Aphex tries, but nothing close. It’s not like any other album by him can contain this song. “73-Yips” comes close to being worthy. It’s a pounding, almost Industrial track that has no melody and just wants to grind the listener. If “On” is the chill out part, then “73-Yips” is a moshpit starter. The problem is it has no guts. Nearly all Aphex tracks are defined by how clear their idea is, how Richard knows exactly what kind of song he makes. “73-Yips” just doesn’t go hard enough. The sounds are loud and screeching, but it has none of the darkness of actual Industrial music. It actually feels more like a joke track, annoying the listener who enjoyed “On”‘s soft beauty. The other two tracks are attempts at a darker Ambient, but he did it better in his first two albums. “D-Scape” is just “Tha” with slightly different sounds. “Tha” was pretty cool, but there was no need for a replica. How come these 3 other tracks got so dull is beyond me. They’re interesting enough for one or two spins, since Richard is a talented and interesting enough producer. The safety net of IDM is that its nature means the worst track might contain interesting ideas. When your catalogue is so extensive though, average tracks quickly lose their point. Listen to “73-Yips’, and any time you need a loud Aphex track just bump whatever remix of “Ventolin” that comes up in the playlist. Still, the EP does contain “On” and 3 b-sides Aphex Twin tracks which is never a bad thing. If only “On” had a more prominent place in his catalogue. He managed to be famous without it, but that song deserve more fame. How can anyone dislike such an innocent, welcoming song that only wants you to lay down on the beach, look at the sky and think happy thoughts? When IDM is pretty, it’s really pretty. 2.5 yips out of 5 Author The Brain in the JarPosted on February 24, 2017 February 24, 2017 Categories music, reviewTags actress, afx, ambient, amon tobin, aphex twin, artificial intelligence, autechre, b12, biosphere, bjork, boards of canada, bola, bradley strider, braindance, brian eno, caustic window, ceephax acid crew, chill out, chillout, clark, cylob, Electro House, electronic, electronic dance music, electronic music, electronica, elephants, experimental, experiments, flying lotus, four tet, gak, gescom, global communication, house, House music, idm, intelligence, intelligent dance music, leftfield, lfo, luke vibert, massive attack, melody, mescalinum united, nav katze, on, oneothrix point never, orbital, plaid, polygon window, portishead, rephlex, seefeel, selected ambient works, skrillex, squarepusher, techno, technology, the black dog, the future sound of london, the knife, the orb, the tuss, tim hecker, tricky, u-ziq, underworld, universal indicator, unkle, venetian snares, wagon christ, warp, warp records, windowlicker, wispLeave a comment on Aphex Twin – On Autechre – Anti It’s an interesting and important record, but that’s where the fun stuff ends. Autechre already got a massive discography, too. So if you’re just here exploring Electronic Music and What It Means, read about the Criminal Justice Bill and maybe listen to “Flutter”. The Prodigy and Orbital also addressed this topic, and the worst thing about it was that the Prodigy’s song somehow didn’t launch Pop Will Eat Itself to national recognition. Then again, many people describe Autechre’s later works as inaccessible and their early work as sublime. To me, the less traditional Autechre are, the more interesting and listenable they are. Their music contains no recognizable human emotions. I remember “Clipper” working especially well because I was tired of feeling like a human. I wanted something that sounded born of machinery, but not the machinery representing human flaws, like Front Line Assembly does. Autechre’s music, at their best, paint a world of only abstract shapes and no humans. Of course they have no business doing Dance music. I have no idea what people are talking about when they mention that the first two tracks are club-friendly. “Lost” has echoing drums that sound more full of distress than fun. Dance music can be aggressive or anxious or angry, but it’s about release and immediacy. Autechre never actually create a groove. Their music is too detached and scared of human emotions for this. “Lost” doesn’t actually sound like a club track to me, but like the repetitive thoughts of a wallflower with a bad case of social anxiety. It acknowledges people dance, but if it’ll try it will just kill the fun. The other two are glorified demo tracks of Confield. It sounds lazy now, but this was released around the worst era of Autechre, before they got weird. These beats are more dynamic and right when you think repetitions sets in, it changes. It’s a clever trick that may be able to fool the cops, but what else is there? The sounds themselves – what Autechre does best – aren’t interesting. “Flutter”‘s beat is more skitterish and complex, but in IDM tracks need a wider difference than this. You got a gigantic sound palette and can do anything, especially when you eschew repetition. Instead, it sounds like one gigantic track that occasionally changes the rhythm. As a political statement, perhaps it works. Perhaps a musicologist was present when “Flutter” played at a party when the cops came and explained everything. Although if anyone actually plays Autechre at a party, what you need to send is an anthropologist. He’d probably be bored though, since the music on Anti is stereotypical IDM. It’s not danceable, it has some kind of creepy, detached atmosphere and it goes on for way long because it has a lot of ‘tiny details’. Normally, I love this stuff but why would I choose any of these tracks over “Pen Expers”? That one both sounds weird, has no consistent rhythm and is actually quite a banger. Maybe the whole Criminal Justice Bill protest thing was just an excuse to release a bunch of demos. 1.5 illegal raves out of 5 Author The Brain in the JarPosted on December 25, 2016 Categories music, reviewTags actress, afx, alva noto, amber, anti, aphex twin, arovane, autechre, b12, balil, biosphere, black dog productions, boards of canada, bola, breakbeat, british, brothomstates, casino versus japan, caustic window, ceephax acid crew, chris clark, clark, club, club music, cold, confield, criminal justice bill, cylob, dance, dancing, datsik, detached, dubstep, edm, electronic, electronic music, electronica, england, excision, fennesz, funckarma, gas, gescom, global goon, gridlock, idm, jega, kettel, knife party, lfo, luke vibert, mike & rich, mira calix, monolake, mouse on mars, music, music album, music review, ochre, oneothrix point never, oval, pan sonic, patten, pendulum, phoenecia, plaid, plug, political, polygon window, popular music, proem, protest, rave, review, richard devin, rock, seefeel, skrillex, snd, speedy j, squarepusher, team doyobi, the black dog, the chemical brothers, the future sound of london, the orb, the prodigy, the tuss, tim hecker, two lone swordsman, u-ziq, venetian snares, vladislav delay, wispLeave a comment on Autechre – Anti	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line974
__label__cc	0.644892	0.355108	Bret Pimentel, woodwinds Saxophone, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and world and electronic woodwinds Woodwind Doubling in Musicals Fingering Diagram Builder Woodwind blogroll Random Note Picker jQuery Accidentals ReedCast™ The amazing shrinking woodwind section: increasing demands on woodwind doublers May 26, 2014 March 14, 2017 ~ Bret Pimentel There is a long tradition of using small orchestras in musical theater as a money- and space-saving consideration. Presumably, if budgets and orchestra pit square footages were unlimited, full symphonic orchestras would be used for theater like they are for movies, with an 8-12(+)-piece orchestral woodwind section, plus perhaps a 5-piece saxophone section. But let’s go back a few decades and examine the compromises. Here are a couple of examples: (from original 1958 orchestration) Piccolo, flute, alto flute Piccolo, flute Oboe, English horn Clarinet, alto saxophone Bass clarinet, tenor saxophone You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown The Flower Drum Song orchestration uses a 6-piece woodwind section. The bassoons, sadly, are the first thing to go. The principal flutist has to double on both piccolo and alto flute, an uncommon compromise in the orchestral repertoire, where the doubling is often relegated to an auxiliary flute part to allow the principal to be at his or her soloistic best on a single instrument. (The second flutist also doubles piccolo, which is a bit more common.) Similarly, the oboist pulls double-duty as soloist on both oboe and English horn. The full clarinet section is expected to double not on auxiliary clarinets, but on saxophones. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is not quite as demanding on individual woodwind players; the first flute part does include piccolo (again, this is not typical symphonic-orchestral thinking), and the bass clarinetist doubles on saxophone. The double reed section is eliminated completely. photo, NK Eide Now let’s look at how these shows’ orchestrations have been revised in more recent revivals: (from 2002 revival orchestration) Piccolo, flute, alto flute, dizi in C, D, E-flat, F, and B, bamboo flutes in E, F, and G Flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone Flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone Clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, tenor saxophone Piccolo, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano recorder, kazoo 44 years later, Flower Drum Song’s woodwind section has shrunken from six musicians to four, but the number of instruments has boomed from 13 to 25. The first flutist is expected to play some “world” woodwinds in addition to an array of orchestral flutes, and the other three woodwind players each cover instruments from three or four woodwind families, with multiple members from at least one of those families. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’s revival after 33 years drops the woodwind section from five musicians down to one. The lone woodwind player covers seven instruments from (arguably) five families: two flutes, a clarinet, two saxophones, a recorder, and a kazoo (which, despite being vaguely woodwind-like in form, is not one). As the only player of each of these instruments, this musician should expect to be prepared to sound like a convincing soloist on each. Based on these examples and others, two trends seem to be emerging in theater orchestrations: Fewer woodwind players. More colorful orchestrations. In the case of both of these shows, the new orchestrations are not simply a slimming-down of a too-expensive woodwind section—new sounds are being introduced. In some cases these might be meant to rebalance the orchestra due to cuts in other sections, but it also seems that recent orchestrations involve creative choices tending toward a broader aural palette. Both of these mean greater demands upon woodwind players. 21st-century woodwind players need to be able to play a greater number of instruments, from a pool no longer limited to the orchestral woodwinds and saxophones, at a soloist level on each instrument. The common 20th-century clarinet/saxophone or flute/clarinet/saxophone doubler may find him- or herself less employable than in previous years, and less able to hide in the section on a weaker double. Double reeds are a must, and so are auxiliary instruments (piccolo, larger flutes, English horn, clarinets and saxophones of any size) and world or historical woodwinds. As the number of woodwind chairs shrinks and the standards of musicianship and versatility rise, the specialist and the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none will both be out of a job, and the rare jack-of-all-trades-master-of-each will become an increasingly hot property. Posted in Woodwind playing and pedagogy musicals ‹ PreviousDid I play that “right?” Next ›Favorite blog posts, May 2014 My book: Woodwind Basics Posts by instrument Woodwind doubling World woodwinds Favorite blog posts Woodwind playing and pedagogy fingering selection email@address.com Peter Hilliard on contracting woodwind doublers Conrad Asklund on finding woodwind doublers The best _____ for woodwind doublers The woodwind section in Mozart’s late symphonies Advice on writing for doublers Do I need a college degree for my instrumental music career plans? 10 ways to strengthen your embouchure right now! Woodwind doubling and saxophone problems Favorite blog posts, December 2019 Triplets don’t swing Flexible EWI fingerings Misconceptions about saxophone-to-clarinet doubling © 2001–2020 Bret Pimentel. All rights reserved. Proudly powered by WordPress ~ Theme: Penscratch 2 by WordPress.com.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line976
__label__wiki	0.697384	0.697384	Search Articles (1907 – 2011) Under 25s subscription Digital subscription FAQs Binders & Back Issues The British Birds List Recording Areas County Recorders Key references Birdwatchers’ Code BPY 40: the BB Bird Photograph of the Year competition 2016 BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year RSPB/BB Birders Lecture Directors and Trustees BB Editorial British Birds Rarities Committee BB artwork British Birds Charitable Trust Claxton: field notes from a small planet Published on 20 January 2015 in Book reviews By Mark Cocker Jonathan Cape, 2014; hbk; xii + 240pp ISBN 978-0224-09965-3 £14.99 To use an optical analogy, Mark Cocker has great depth of field. His last book was the monumental Birds and People (2013), a panoramic survey of cultural responses to birds from all round the world; but he now focuses down on the wildlife in just one small parish – the village of Claxton in Norfolk, where he has lived for the last 12 years. Readers will already have a sense of this area and what it means to him from his earlier Crow Country (2007) and from his regular Guardian ‘Country Diary’ contributions. Indeed, Claxton largely consists of a selection of these diary pieces, now further shaped and polished and strung like a set of exquisite bright beads on the line of a year’s calendar. This is the art of the miniaturist, a concentration of perception and its expression that evokes the universal from the closely observed particular. It is the prose equivalent of the Haiku. The particulars in question are very various. Birds feature prominently, of course: in the winter months the local Barn Owls, Peregrines and the famous gatherings of Rooks are part of his regular cast, along with visiting Bewick’s Swans with their ‘woodwind calls â€¦ rather resembling wind chimes’; and through the year’s turning we meet the changing succession of spring, summer, autumn and then again winter migrants. Occasionally there are rarer visitors, but the whole emphasis is on the ordinary, or rather the extraordinary in the ordinary – like the wonderful epiphany of the Spotted Flycatcher in his garden on 3rd September, ‘duller than any Dunnock’ but ‘a rainbow of colour expressed in movement’. But birds are only the more conspicuous players among the dramatis personae of the village year. Cocker has made himself – has been inspired to become – an all-round naturalist, who now takes as much delight in St Mark’s Flies and Meadow Browns as in Marsh Harriers. We encounter all these and more in his sharp-eyed, inquisitive company. The seasonal cycle of the year provides the structure for the book, in which the pieces are arranged in chronological order in twelve chapters, one for each month. One can therefore drop in anywhere and get a prompt about what to look out for that week in one’s own patch. I tested this while contemplating this review – and there in his 26th August entry was a captivating account of the Poplar Hawk-moth I had just caught that day in my own moth trap (‘ a compound of the monstrous and of perfection’). Each week offers a new discovery, or a new perception of familiar experiences. But one of the most important elements of this book is of a different kind and comes right at the end – his Claxton Parish Species List, covering all the taxa he has so far identified in his village. This should perhaps have been given more prominence in the publisher’s blurb, since it is really more like the vertebrae of the book than its appendix. Lists have always been important to naturalists, not just for the harmless fun of the tally stick, but as an inventory of our natural heritage that can serve as an index of secular change and a benchmark for conservation. Cocker also insists that many of the vernacular English names of these wonderful organisms contain within them their own narrative histories and affirmations and are equally deserving of wonder and celebration. Think of the Ghost Moth, Smoky Wainscot, Common Stinkhorn, Primrose and leaf miners, each an invitation into a more intimate and understanding relationship with its bearer. These lists are in the end a kind of meditation in themselves, encouraging the biblical injunction, ‘Go, and do thou likewise.’ This is nature writing of a high order and Cocker now takes his place in a grand tradition of diarists that runs from Gilbert White through such authors as Henry Thoreau, Richard Jefferies and John Baker. Perhaps particularly Thoreau, and the comparison is a suggestive one. There is a freshness, vitality and sense of authenticity in the flow of the prose, but also a strong undercurrent of deep concern about our natural environment that speaks of some larger engagement and vision. Claxton is probably Mark Cocker’s most important book to date, and we are left hoping that these themes will be developed in his next one. Jeremy Mynott Browse current articles If you are already a British Birds subscriber, please do not use this form. Instead, please send your email address plus either your subscriber number or your name and address (including postcode) to subscriptions AT britishbirds DOT co DOT uk and we will add you to the list of recipients of the subscriber e-newsletter containing exclusive subscriber content and offers. British Birds – how it works BB 2000 Ltd, the company that owns and publishes British Birds, is run by a board of directors, all of whom are volunteers. The company employs two full time staff – Roger Riddington is the journal’s editor while Hazel Jenner manages subscriptions and administration – and three part-time design/editorial staff. The company is wholly owned by The British Birds Charitable Trust (BBCT, registered charity no. 1089422). 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__label__cc	0.699261	0.300739	Guide to African Novels The Brittle Paper Awards African Literary Person of the Year Monthly Newsletter: Join more than 5,000 African literature enthusiasts! Subscribe for African literature news, and receive a free copy of our "Guide to African Novels." Join List! Lit Scene e-Anthologies The Notable African Books of 2019 Features, Series, Stories and Poems October 16, 2017 The Fall of the Gods \| Chapter 6: Ise \| by Anthony Azekwoh \| #TFOG Ebe onye dara ka chi ya kwaturu ya. Where one falls is where his god pushed him down. Emeka snarled and the others snarled in agreement. When he spoke, his voice was different. It was raspier. If broken glass could somehow possess vocal abilities, it would sound like him. “Where is it?” he asked while slowly walking towards Odion. “Where is it?” Odion had faced dangers in his life, but there was something different about this one. He felt hollow on the inside. It was like his very soul had been ripped out, and now there was nothing left. He had nothing left, and the knowledge of that shattered him. It broke his very being, robbed him of every incentive to even live. It was a feeling so encompassing that Odion didn’t even realize he’d been punched—right on the jaw. He stumbled on the cold ground, one hand to his mouth. His brain was still trying to register this when a kick seemed to come out of nowhere. It blinded him momentarily. All he could see was a bright light. Then the darkness creeped in again, and he could see properly. Emeka—or what used to be Emeka—stood there, grinning with unrealistically sharp teeth. They all wore dark clothing that was torn at odd places, not that any of them seemed to mind. Behind Emeka and his gang, the sun seemed to be peeking from the darkness, and it was sending out tendrils of light that made the sky glitter. Odion would have considered it quite beautiful if he wasn’t going to die at that moment. “So you’re an Ogbanje, like me?” Odion asked. Emeka cocked his head to the side as if pondering a serious issue, then—surprisingly—he laughed. It was a cruel, sordid sound. Then he saw a movement behind Emeka, almost a shadow. It was probably just a trick of the light. Emeka had stopped laughing by now and was now using his clawed hand to clean his eyes. Well, now he knew. Ogbanje could cry. “You’re a case, Didi.” Emeka said with pure disdain. Then there was that movement again. He was sure now that he wasn’t imagining it. This time the shadow moved swiftly and took one of Emeka’s minions with it. Emeka was oblivious to this and kept his focus on Odion. Odion muttered something in response. Emeka was now standing over Odion, looming over him like a giant. “What did you say?” he asked. He was clearly not used to this kind of insubordination from anyone he was speaking to. “Don’t call me Didi,” Odion responded as he stood up from the ground. He was now standing in front of Emeka and fully appreciate just how tall Emeka was. He could literally look down at Odion. From the corner of his eye, he could see that the shadow had taken out every member of Emeka’s gang and was headed towards Emeka. He had to keep Emeka’s attention on him. “All these years, I kept you around. I gave you shelter,” Emeka said with anger. “And this is how you repay me? By hiding things from me? And who told you that you were an Ogbanje? How stupid—” He would never know what Emeka was going to say next because at that moment, a glimmer of a shadow spread across his neck, and his head turned upwards at an odd angle. Odion almost looked to see what Emeka was inspecting, until he looked closer. Emeka wasn’t looking up. His neck had been broken. His body, now lifeless, slumped down on the ground to join the others. The shadow and Odion were now the only ones that stood. “Oh, oops, let me slip out of this,” the shadow said as a boy who looked like he was his age, slipped out of the shadow like they were robes. The boy looked familiar, though Odion couldn’t remember ever meeting him. He was bald—which was odd—and was wearing a green T-shirt and black jeans with sandals. He had broad shoulders and an athletic build, but he looked like he was also strong. His eyes had a sharp color and he radiated a kind of aura. Sango had radiated a kind of calm strength, but this boy seemed to radiate pure chaos and anarchy. Just being around him made Odion’s darkest thoughts come to life. Odion knew now without a doubt that this boy—even though his looks said otherwise—was a god. After Odion’s recent encounter, he was strongly encouraged to be reproachful of strangers offering help. “Who are you?” Odion asked with suspicion. “Why so angry?” the boy said. “I did just save your life. Ogbanje, sad folk. Come let’s go somewhere else. This place is depressing me.” He stretched his hand out to Odion. His hand was adorned with rings on each finger. Odion knew he should be more careful, but then again, if this boy had wanted to kill him, surely he would have done it by now? Besides, Odion was tired and hungry and exhausted. He needed to rest and eat before he collapsed. The moment he took the boy’s hand, the world turned sideways and the alley peeled away. Suddenly they were in some kind of mall. Odion remembered this place as his body tingled with memory. This was where— “The Palms” The boy announced with outstretched arms that reminded Odion of the statue of Jesus in Rio. “It’s a great place, everything you could possibly need.” It was early in the morning and not many people were around, in fact it seemed that only shop owners were here. The stores were all lined in one big row. There was a food court and a seating area. The theatre was upstairs. The last time he was there, he recalled seeing an ice cream store. What was it called? Vanilla Royal? Or something along those lines. The boy was moving like he owned the place and entertaining Odion with mindless chatter he could do without. There were two entrances. They had come from the one furthest from the food court. The place smelled like food as always. But when they arrived at the food court, all the stalls were closed shut with iron railings. “They don’t open this early, let’s just—” Odion began. Then the boy snapped his fingers and green sparks flew. Magic. Odion flinched reflexively and suddenly the whole place flared up in bright lights. Odion used his hands to protect himself from the glare. When his eyes grew accustomed to the light, he put his hand down and realized that all the stores were now open, their machines moving autonomously and making food from ingredients that seemed to come from nowhere. Odion looked in wonder as the smell of food wafted into his nose. It had been so long since he’d had a good meal. If any of the other members of staff noticed, none of them approached the two teenage boys casually sitting in the food court at dawn. Once seated, the boy stared at Odion with an intense gaze. His eyes were almost mesmerizing, taunting him to look back. The boy snapped his fingers again and food flew in from the stores, flooding the table. Didi didn’t need to be told twice to eat. He stuffed food in his mouth, not even bothering to savor the taste. The boy didn’t eat, though. He just sat back and watched until Odion paused to take a drink from the Coca Cola bottle beside him. “So, you found out about your parents?” the boy asked without any premise. Odion pushed the food away and hung his head while murmuring an affirmation. He had tried not to think about them for a while but suddenly the weight of the truth was crushing him. He felt lost and tired and alone. The boy carried his chair and moved beside Odion and stroked his hair while Odion began to sob. The boy kept on muttering, “It’s not your fault, it’s not your fault.” Odion wasn’t even surprised by the tears, Ogbanje could cry after all. The boy just kept on muttering, looking sadly at Odion with those eyes. Those sharp green eyes. #TFOG is a weekly series published every Monday. Catch up on the entire series by clicking on the links below: Anthony Azekwoh is a seventeen year old Nigerian who graduated from Whitesands Secondary School and is now in Covenant University. 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__label__wiki	0.845759	0.845759	Buffet Chronicles Home National Gavin Grimm wins case against Va. school district in National, News, Queer News Gavin Grimm has won his lawsuit that challenged his former Virginia school district’s bathroom policy. A transgender man who challenged his Virginia school district’s bathroom policy has won his case. U.S. District Court Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Aug. 9 ruled in favor of Gavin Grimm, who in 2015 filed a federal lawsuit against a Gloucester County School District policy that prohibited students from using bathrooms and locker rooms that did not correspond with their “biological gender.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Allen ruled the district discriminated against Grimm when it enacted the Grimm was a sophomore at Gloucester County High School when he filed his lawsuit. He said in a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, who represented him, that it is “such a relief to achieve this closure and vindication from the court after four years of fighting not just for myself, but for trans youth across America.” “I promise to continue to advocate for as long as it takes for everyone to be able to live their authentic lives freely, in public, and without harassment and discrimination,” said Grimm. The U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case in March 2017. The justices remanded it to the 4th Circuit after President Trump rescinded guidance to public schools that said Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 requires them to allow trans students to use restrooms based on their gender identity. Media reports indicate the Gloucester County School Board is expected to appeal Allen’s ruling. “Every student should feel safe at school, regardless of gender identity,” said Human Rights Campaign State Legislative Director and Senior Council Cathryn Oakley in a statement. “Transgender students are covered by Title IX and the United States Constitution and are entitled to the same rights and protections as every other student.” “With the Trump-Pence administration’s barrage of attacks on LGBTQ people in this country, including against students, we are pleased that yet another federal court decision has reaffirmed legal rights and dignity of transgender people,” added Oakley. “Congratulations to Gavin Grimm and the American Civil Liberties Union on this milestone victory.” The post Gavin Grimm wins case against Va. school district appeared first on Washington Blade: Gay News, Politics, LGBT Rights. 26 Reasons Why Old People Need To Be Protected AT ALL COSTS 15 Mouth-Watering Places In Sydney To Get Your Ramen Fix 14 Summer Side Dishes You Can Bring To Your Next Cookout 16 Hilarious Gay Tweets From This Week 50 Of The Funniest Cooking Fails From The Last 10 Years Queer News 📰 About Buffet Chronicles Buffet Chronicles is gay male chub & chaser, gainer & feeder, and food-centric site where we aggregate relevant links from other sites and blog about our own experiences. © 2019 BBP Media, LLC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line984
__label__wiki	0.624017	0.624017	Jacket cover images copied to clipboard. BPL Librarians Best of 2019 for Adults & Teens By: bpl_staff Staff-created list Enthusiastic readers all, our librarians share their favourite books of 2019—from popular bestsellers to hidden treasures. Contributors: Amanda, Cody, Frances, Katelyn, Kumkum, Sarah, Suzanne, Selina, Tammy. When You Read This by Adkins, Mary Adult fiction. Told in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other s...Show more Adult fiction. Told in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other snippets of our virtual lives, When You Read This is a deft, captivating romantic comedy--funny, tragic, surprising, and bittersweet--that candidly reveals how we find new beginnings after loss. Show less All copies in use. Availability details Holds: 17 on 2 copies Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf by Chbosky, Stephen Adult fiction. A single mom is on the run with her 7-year-old son. They find themselves drawn to a tight-knit community, far off the beaten track. All appears well, but appearances can be deceiving. Horror in the style of Stephen King. Adult fiction. A single mom is on the run with her 7-year-old son. They find themselves drawn to a tight-knit community, far off the beaten track. All appears well, but appearances can be deceiving. Horror in the style of Stephen King. Show less All copies in use. Availability details Holds: 6 on 4 copies by Crouch, Blake Adult fiction. Memory makes reality. That's what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the phenomenon the media has dubbed False M...Show more Adult fiction. Memory makes reality. That's what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome. As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face-to-face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. Show less by Darke, Minnie Adult fiction. When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) randomly bump into each other as...Show more Adult fiction. When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) randomly bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. Well, no. Nick is an astrological devotee, and his decision-making is guided solely by the infallible horoscopes in his favourite magazine. The magazine Justine happens to work at. Perhaps the stars' guiding forces could use a little journalistic reimagining? Show less Available in some locations You Are Not A Rock A Step-by-step Guide to Better Mental Health (for Humans) by Freeman, Mark With wit, compassion and depth of experience and anecdotes, Mark Freeman shows that we can recover from many mental disorders, from mild to very serious, at all ages and stages of life, and even if other methods have failed. With wit, compassion and depth of experience and anecdotes, Mark Freeman shows that we can recover from many mental disorders, from mild to very serious, at all ages and stages of life, and even if other methods have failed. Show less The Moment of Lift How Empowering Women Changes the World by Gates, Melinda Adult non-fiction. An identification on the link between women's equality and societal health, sharing uplifting insights by international advocates in the fight against gender bias. Adult non-fiction. 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A drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother – in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Adult fiction. A drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother – in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Show less by Lauren, Christina Adult fiction. A free honeymoon up for grabs when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning. That is, except for the best man and maid of honour – who ...Show more Adult fiction. A free honeymoon up for grabs when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning. That is, except for the best man and maid of honour – who can't tolerate each other. Pretending to be the newlyweds, the pair set off for a tropical honeymoon-that-isn't... or is it?! Show less Agent Running in the Field by Le Carré, John Adult fiction. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London w...Show more Adult fiction. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Show less All copies in use. Availability details Holds: 87 on 12 copies Funny, You Don't Look Autistic A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by McCreary, Michael Streaming Audiobook - 2019 Adult non-fiction. A laugh-out-loud, spit-your-drink-through-your-nose funny book, that presents a first person account of “Life on the Spectrum,” in a way that’s poignant and relatable for everyone. Adult non-fiction. 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Availability details Holds: 184 on 26 copies My Perfectly Disastrous Journey Through the World of Self-help by Power, Marianne Adult non-fiction. Self-help can change your life, but is it for the better? With humor, audacity, disarming candor, and unassuming wisdom, in Help Me Mar...Show more Adult non-fiction. Self-help can change your life, but is it for the better? With humor, audacity, disarming candor, and unassuming wisdom, in Help Me Marianne Power plumbs the trials and tests of being a modern woman in a "have it all" culture, and what it really means to be our very best selves. Show less No Happy Endings by Purmort, Nora McInerny Adult non-fiction. The host of the "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" podcast shares meditative reflections on a catastrophic year marked by the losses of her husband, father, and unborn second child. Adult non-fiction. The host of the "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" podcast shares meditative reflections on a catastrophic year marked by the losses of her husband, father, and unborn second child. Show less by Reid, Taylor Jenkins Adult fiction. Everyone knows Daisy Jone & The Six: The band's album Aurora came to define the rock 'n' roll era of the late seventies but no one knows the reason behind the group's split. Adult fiction. Everyone knows Daisy Jone & The Six: The band's album Aurora came to define the rock 'n' roll era of the late seventies but no one knows the reason behind the group's split. Show less The Things We Cannot Say by Rimmer, Kelly Adult fiction. The saga of a well-bonded family facing different challenges—a story about when life throws you a curve ball—from surviving Nazi-occupied Poland to the challenges of modern life with differently-abled kids. Adult fiction. 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No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. But the Bartholomew is not what it seems, and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her. Show less Olive, Again by Strout, Elizabeth Adult fiction. You have to love the character Olive Kitteridge as she weaves her way in and out of 13 superbly written short stories that are interrelated...Show more Adult fiction. You have to love the character Olive Kitteridge as she weaves her way in and out of 13 superbly written short stories that are interrelated and examines the lives of ordinary people as they grow old. A sequel to the book Olive Kitteridge. Give the audio book a try. Show less Women Talking by Toews, Miriam Adult fiction. The distinct voices of eight courageous Mennonite women who decide to say no to the repeated and horrific abuse they have suffered. "Amazing writing!" ~ BPL librarian Adult fiction. The distinct voices of eight courageous Mennonite women who decide to say no to the repeated and horrific abuse they have suffered. "Amazing writing!" ~ BPL librarian Show less by Ware, Ruth Book - Adult fiction. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else, but the opportunity is too good to miss—a live-in nanny post with a gene...Show more Adult fiction. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else, but the opportunity is too good to miss—a live-in nanny post with a generous salary. When Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten by the luxury, the beautiful setting, and the perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare. Show less by Waxman, Abbi Adult fiction. 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Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents. A universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. Show less What's a list? Who can create lists? Why do I sometimes see people from other libraries? Why are some of these titles not available at my library?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line985
__label__wiki	0.556293	0.556293	Science in Society: Charlotte Biil is a “knowledge broker” and urges more researchers to become the same (Photo by Anna Holte) PhD Fellow Charlotte Biil has a mission: to make research within the fields of the work environment and partnership building more available to practitioners, and she is about to submit one of the few reports of its kind on the subject in the Nordics. She calls herself a ‘knowledge broker’, a person who bridges the gap between practice and research, and urges more researchers to adopt the same role. News \| 16 Dec 2019 Anne M. Lykkegaard Researchers often aim to solve problems, optimize methods, or explain why things are as they are. More often than not, results are published in scientific journals, some are featured in teaching and textbooks, and some go directly to the practitioners who need them. And the last example is what PhD Fellow at CBS Charlotte Biil has been occupied with for the past seven years. Her research has investigated how partnerships between voluntary organizations, the public and researchers can realize potentiality in welfare production and also bring new perspectives to research within the field of the work environment. Series: Science in Society This article is the sixth in a series of articles that discuss the aim of conducting research as well as how to communicate it and put it to use. The whole series was sparked off by two CBS researchers who argue that we waste time and money writing articles no one cares to read. For this article, we talked to Charlotte Biil, PhD Fellow at CBS, about her research which aims to understand how research in partnership and work environment can be used by practitioners. She defines herself as a knowledge-broker and think that other researchers should follow her lead. Dean of Research Søren Hvidkjær’s take on the issue the views of the Confederation of Danish Industry, which claims CBS could be much better at making its research and knowledge available. Think tank: The publication race has gone over the top and hinders good research communication Science in Society: “I didn’t intend to be a researcher – I just wanted to change the world” Her research paper on the topic is one of the few of its kind in the Nordics. The aim? To translate and transform the research into tangible knowledge for practitioners. “In general, the welfare state has become much more complex when dealing with production and collaboration on providing welfare benefits,” she says and gives an example from the work environment: “20 years ago, smoke, noise and dirt were the main issues affecting the work environment. Today, we have anxiety, stress and depression. These issues are far more complex to solve, which is why we need research,” says Charlotte Biil, who has her office at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at CBS and will defend her PhD in March 2020. (GIF: Emil Ernst Friis) Before joining CBS to do her PhD, Charlotte Biil worked extensively on building partnerships and studying work environments in various big organizations, where she realized that what was needed was a specific study on how useful knowledge from universities could be transferred to workplaces and support a research-based transformation. And this mainly involves partnerships, it appears. One good example is Charlotte Biil’s colleague Postdoc Pernille Steen Pedersen. Her research has revealed new ways of handling cases of stress at Danish working places. From day one, she wanted her research to change work practices. “Partnerships are what make research take off. Partnerships are also crucial for regulating the work environment in Denmark. So, if you want to change it, you need to engage many partners at different levels,” says Charlotte Biil. Part of a chain During her project, Charlotte Biil has worked intensively with partnerships and sees herself as a bridge builder linking research and practice. A so-called knowledge broker. You may also like: Job satisfaction survey: TAP and VIP have trouble seeing career opportunities at CBS She has developed a five-step ‘Sustainable Partnership Model’ for collaborations between research, practice and policy (see fact box). The model can be used to solve various work environment issues that, according to Charlotte Biil, often touch on different players from the management and employees to those compiling work environment regulations. “My research also clarifies how previous research on the work environment can be used in practice when dealing with complex issues. Here, my research can identify how research can be translated and transformed into something practitioners can understand,” she says, explaining that she can also be seen as a research transformer. She believes more researchers should aim to be knowledge brokers, but also accepts that not everyone should be skilled at everything. “We should see ourselves as links in a chain. As a knowledge broker, I’m the link that bridges research and practice, while other researchers occupy other places in the chain. We don’t all have to be knowledge brokers, but we can bear in mind how our research can reach a wider audience,” she says. Supporting society through knowledge As discussed in previous articles, much of the knowledge produced at universities never finds its way from journals into practice. So, what are the obvious barriers? You may also like: Want a more sustainable society? We need to talk about capitalism, argues CBS researcher “Incentives are lacking. Researchers can’t climb the career ladder by turning their research into practice. Only scientific articles earn the title of Postdoc or Associate Professor,” she says and adds: “And maybe we should consider changing that.” Charlotte Biil reflects for a moment. “Another barrier when talking about welfare research and specifically about work environment research is certainly the high level of complexity. We have ended up overexploiting human resources which, of course, has consequences. The welfare state is changing, and we must understand how and why,” she says. She suggests that one way CBS could make its research more available to society and practitioners would be to construct platforms based on the Sustainable Partnership Model that span practice, policy and research and offer the newest knowledge within given fields, as well as offering courses on welfare partnership management. “We should aim to be a university that supports the society we aspire to have,” she says. Sustainable Partnership Model The Sustainable Partnership Model developed by Charlotte Biil is divided into five steps. The model can, she believes, be a useful tool for solving complex problems involving collaboration between different partners. This could include collaboration between voluntary organizations, municipalities, special groups of citizens and researchers. The aim is to develop solutions as an ongoing process that is as informed as possible. 1: Investigate: Listen and explain the problems the collaboration faces without making a decision. Charlotte Biil suggests that researchers’ input is relevant during all the five steps, and here they can contribute knowledge about the problems raised. 2: Describe: Collaborations can fail due to tension between the different parties because of disagreements on how to approach the problems. Therefore, in this phase, there is no jumping to conclusions. Researchers – depending on the issue – can support the communication and the parties self-reflection in order to understand disagreements. 3: Reflect: Charlotte Biil argues that to make collaboration between partners as successful as possible, the different partners must be able to imagine themselves in each other’s shoes when dealing with tensions and disagreements. If the issue is stress at the workplace, researchers can support the parties in a collaboration by proposing new ways of dealing with stress. Researchers could also teach the different partners about stress management, working partnerships and collect data about stress at the workplace to make sure the solutions discussed actually fulfill a need. 4: Evaluate: Recognize the values in competing considerations. Researchers can help the collaborators to see their prime value in the process. There are different considerations, but which is most important? 5: Instrumentalize: This is the step where solutions are devised. Here, researchers can help the collaborators to implement the solutions in the organization. Charlotte Biil explains that the Sustainable Partnership Model, designates a continuous process that must be repeated again and again as a condition for a new collaboration and practice in securing a good mental health at the work place. She agrees that using this model for partnerships and collaborations is more time consuming, but claims that it has the potential to produce better solutions. Especially where complex issues are concerned. “It is a model connecting an operative level with a policy level, which, in an interplay, can influence each other. It is a model for partnership that can contribute to a quality boost in welfare benefits and the handling of mental work environment which we all in one way or another have to be part of in a changing welfare society with a heavy pressure on the resources,” she says. Do you know how your tea or smartphone is produced? Probably not, but four researchers aim to make the process social and circular 24 researchers trawl through scandal-hit financial sector and give advice for the future Ashamed of flying? It’s both a good and a bad thing, says CBS researcher Tags: Research 10 CBS folks reveal their best and worst Christmas gifts ever. One good tip? Don’t wish for socks! ResearcherZone We must move beyond ‘green capitalism’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line987
__label__cc	0.653691	0.346309	We're proud to introduce our team of highly experienced coaches! Coming from a variety of professional backgrounds, all have graduated from an accredited Coach training program, and are certified in behavioral style analysis and interpretation. Pricing for Coaching Services You are encouraged to review their profiles and select the right coach for you. Alvah Parker Work/Life Coach "I believe every person has his/her own unique gifts to give. I aid my clients to identify their gifts and find ways to use these gifts in their work and personal lives. I move my clients to action in a way that is supportive, validating, and practical." People changing careers or jobs More About Alvah "I feel it is important to help each person identify the unique abilities, skills, and values they have to offer. I also give my clients two things they need in a successful job search: confidence, and hope. It can be a challenging process, and I'm there to support them as they are transitioning." Entry level professionals. Mid-level managers. C-Suite executives. Career changers. Veterans and their spouses. More About Lisa Lenore Mewton "Bring WHO you are to WHAT that you do" -- that phrase embodies my belief that an individual's internal qualities are their external advantage. As a partner, guide, teacher, and change agent, my goal is to help you discover your greatest ally, your authentic self; be it as an employee, leader, entrepreneur, business person/owner or coach.." Individuals in career transition Employees seeking to enhance their careers within organizations More About Lenore Dave McKeon Career & Business Coach "Coaching is a relationship of equals, where accountability for moving oneself forward lies with the individual being coached, and responsibility for providing the insightful and challenging coaching to support that happening for the client lies with the coach." More About Dave Georgiana Carollus "People are often discouraged from pursuing change or improvements in their lives because they judge themselves incapable or their dreams impossible and unattainable. What surprises people is that if they take small steps toward change, their lives unfold with richness, purpose and direction. I help people identify those initial steps and partner with them to create a framework of action to realize their goals and vision." Individuals wish to enhance or change their careers Specialize in those in IT, creative, educational, social service and human resource fields Clients who approach life with a spiritual perspective More About Georgiana Harry Rodenhi Business & Career Coach "I specialize in supporting professionals who find themselves facing career uncertainties or transitions in the fast-paced and dynamic world of high tech. I use an energetic coaching style to support you in clarifying your values, identifying key strengths & abilities and then using these insights to create a personalized value proposition. This becomes the basis for moving forward in the transition while promoting a more balanced work-life perspective." Individuals or organizations in transition, especially those in high-tech product/service sectors Individuals seeking more fulfillment in their lives/relationships or more growth & success in their jobs/careers More About Harry "I help people move forward and feel passionate about what they do. Life is too short to not be happy. It is my job to ask the powerful questions to help you succeed." Individuals who want: career satisfaction, passion in their life and work and are willing to develop a plan and take action! Association and not-for-profit professionals Government, military More About Marshall	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line992
__label__wiki	0.538157	0.538157	Presidential Pop Culture * Unconventional Americana * Mythic History * Dogs * Who is Carl Anthony? Author’s Books & Media Author Photography & Painting Presidents and Animals Presidential Mythology Preisdential Inaugurations Presidential Birthdays Presidential Homes Presidents Together Presidential Campaigns and Elections Cats of the White House First Families The Washingtons The McKinleys The Roosevelts The Tafts The Wilsons The Hardings The Coolidges The Hoovers The Trumans The Eisenhowers The LBJs The Nixons The Reagans The Bushes The Obamas Foster Caring Dogs Yeager the Weimaraner Yeager the Weimaraner Tribute Legendary Americans State Pies Celebrity Degrees of Separation Tag Archive for ‘John F Kennedy’ The House that Jackie Built: Home Movie Inside the Kennedy Weekend Home By carlanthonyonline.com on November 14, 2013 • ( 15 ) Later in life she mused that she might have studied architecture, so interested was she in the design and flowing layout of rooms as the primary blueprint for creating the interior furnishings of a beautiful home. Jackie Kennedy came close… Read More › The Kennedy Family’s Last Public Appearance Together By carlanthonyonline.com on November 13, 2013 • ( 6 ) Among the many public projects of Jacqueline Kennedy as First Lady which continue to be overlooked was her ongoing effort to use the expanse of the great South Lawn of the White House as an outdoor space to provide entertainment… Read More › Why John F. Kennedy Took His Son to Arlington Cemetery (This is the first in a series of illustrated articles recounting the last days of the Kennedy family in the White House during November of 1963. Some will be made available for nominal purchase.) The President and Mrs. Kennedy with… Read More › A First Lady Survives Presidential Assassination Plus Rare Funeral Images By carlanthonyonline.com on November 5, 2013 • ( 2 ) Four Presidents of the United States have been assassinated, each leaving a widowed First Lady. The most recent of these dark moments in history took place fifty years ago this month, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed… Read More › Ari & Jackie Onassis: X-Rated Movie, Nude Photos, the Kennedys & Paradise Lost (Part 5) By carlanthonyonline.com on October 20, 2013 • ( 20 ) Forty-five years ago today, Sunday, October 20, 1968, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Many people still speculate about why she did. Often overlooked in the pondering is the fact that the wedding took place… Read More › Ari & Jackie Onassis: Their “Blended” Family Adapts in Rare Photos (Part 3) By carlanthonyonline.com on August 20, 2013 • ( 7 ) As much as she was able to control his schedule, Jackie Onassis resisted inviting too many guests for too long a time to Skorpios, and usually did so only when she knew her husband would be away from her for… Read More › Ari & Jackie Onassis: Wedding, Yacht, Island, Bedroom & the End in Photos (Part 1) By carlanthonyonline.com on July 28, 2013 • ( 8 ) First, the island. Now, the yacht. Three months ago, the private Greek island Skorpios, home to shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and his wife, former American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sold for $TK by his 28 year old granddaughter… Read More › Speculating on Presidential Sexuality & the first Lesbian First Lady By carlanthonyonline.com on June 12, 2013 • ( 12 ) As early as 1802, when journalist James Callendar first published snide suggestions that President Thomas Jefferson was conducting something of a romance and sexual relationship with African-American Sally Hemings, who was enslaved by him, there has been no hesitation by… Read More › Frank’s First Ladies: Sinatra & Jackie, Nancy, & Eleanor By carlanthonyonline.com on June 7, 2013 • ( 12 ) The Dogs of Jackie O: Thirty Pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy’s Lifetime of Canine Companions By carlanthonyonline.com on February 28, 2013 • ( 16 ) From her earliest childhood days on Long Island, through her youth in New York, Newport, Rhode Island and McLean, Virginia, to her public period as the wife of a U.S. Senator in Washington and in the White House as First… Read More › ‹ Newest 1 2 3 4 5 6 Oldest › Proudly powered by WordPress \| Theme: Opti by Pro Theme Design.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line995
__label__wiki	0.94316	0.94316	Oh, say can you shred? Rocking the National Anthem Grace Zidek, Reporter The strains of the Star-Spangled Banner surprised many students and staff at this year’s Winter Sports Pep Rally. That’s because it wasn’t the Carmel marching band tackling the classic. It was just one student who taught himself how to play the guitar. Senior Grant Blume plays several instruments, including the drums, the banjo and even the piano, but he says that he’s best at guitar. While Blume says he learned a lot from videos on the Internet, he says he started working with a teacher after joining some of the Carmel jazz groups. Señor Schwab asked Blume to play at the pep rally, which meant he had to figure out how to play the song. For the guitarist, though, that didn’t take very long. “It took me about 30 mins to learn,” Blume said. “And another hour and a half to feel comfortable with it.” Grant Blume jazz combo Student art on display Achieving greatness on a world scale Beloved Bader Sophomore Snapshots Women in robotics Miracles and Matthews Dads of the Arts Let’s Amerigo! Expedition: Badminton Crossroads • © 2020 • Privacy Policy • FLEX WordPress Theme by SNO • Log in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line996
__label__cc	0.522196	0.477804	Conductive plastics promise to revolutionise solar cells Posted on April 13, 2010 by kflack New plastics promise to slash the cost of key solar panel components Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen, 08 Apr 2010 Solar panel components that can be printed using technology akin to an inkjet cartridge may not be too far away from commercialisation, if a team of researchers at Princeton University have their way. A group of scientists at the university announced last week that it has developed a way to treat plastic that will make it highly conductive for electricity after it has been moulded into different shapes. The technique, developed by researchers at the University’s Organic and Polymer Electronics Laboratory, could be used to dramatically lower the cost of solar cells by replacing costly indium tin oxide (ITO), which has traditionally been used as a transparent conducting metal in solar panels. The approach would also provide solar panel manufacturers with a more flexible conductive material, potentially opening the door for a wide range of new panel designs. Conductive plastics have been available for some time, but their characteristics mean that processing them into a usable design degraded their ability to conduct electricity. However, the Princeton researchers claim that their new production process means the plastics can be shaped without reducing their conductive capacity. The secret to the new approach lies in the plastics being treated with an acid after they are shaped, in a process known as post-disposition solvent annealing. "This process has enabled a wide incorporation of conducting polymers in organic electronics; conducting polymers that are not typically processable can now be deposited from solution and their productivity subsequently enhanced to practical levels via a simple and straightforward solvent annealing process, " the team said in its paper describing the process, which was published in the 8 March issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences in the US. The new technique could feasibly be used to produce solar cells and other optical electronics such as flexible displays in large quantities using industrial printers. Yueh-Lin Loo, a former assistant professor at the University of Texas, who led the research team said the approach could potentially be scaled up using mass production presses similar to those used to print newspapers. "Being able to essentially paint on electronics is a big deal," Loo said. " You could distribute the plastics in cartridges the way printer ink is sold, and you wouldn’t need exotic machines to print the patterns." She added that a range of other applications could be used for the technology, including medical devices that change colour according to levels of nitric oxide, which is a key indicator of ear infection in children. Filed under: Blogroll, Industry News \| Tagged: inkjet cartridge, solar cells \| « The right font can save you money Printer Cartridges Recycling »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1005
__label__wiki	0.663949	0.663949	Instantly Compare Car Insurance Here! Toyota Has A Remedy For Mixing Up Pedals Issue. Tharahni Kalaiselvan / 26/11/2019 Toyota Motor Corporation, headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. It is the Japanese multinational car manufacturer which was founded in 1937. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Transport in Japan intended to come up with a solution for accidents. They requested Toyota and seven other major car manufacturers to come up with a solution for the misapplication of the accelerator. According to Japan, from January to June 2019 there were 149 fatal accidents involving drivers aged 75 and above. It is assumed that 11% of these deadly accidents were caused by misapplication of the brake. Toyota plans to roll out a new feature in response to this. As reported by The Japan News, to prevent such accidents caused by mixing the brake and accelerator pedals. While on the market for other vehicles, protection against pedal misapplication is already available. But most of these apps concentrate on detecting walls or other cars. What Toyota wants to do is different, it should also be possible to detect pedestrians with the new feature. In other words, if the driver misapplied the accelerator instead of the brakes as a human or a bike was detected up front, the vehicle would not move and the energy of the engine would be suppressed. However, the new safety feature of Toyota will also detect whether the driver has slammed the accelerator, even if there is no obstacle in front of the vehicle. Besides that, the power of the engine will be suppressed, which could raise some people’s eyebrows. On the other hand, some manufacturers might argue that there are instances where fast acceleration may be required, such as climbing a ramp or getting up to speed on the highway. Nonetheless, Toyota starts to differ as it prefers the advantages for pedestrians and bicycles of the new feature. According to sources from “The Japan News”, Toyota aims to add the new feature to new cars by the end of the year. They will start implementing with the Prius which is a popular purchase for elderly drivers. The company would also like to allow older cars to be retrofitted for a cost of about 50,000 yen (around $470) or less. Nevertheless, there are no records when the safety feature hits other countries outside Japan. Click this link to learn more about the Motor Insurance by visiting PolicyStreet motor comparison page today, to compare 8 instant motor insurance quotations in 1 minute. It is that simple! Search Topic Here  Buddhist Monasteries In India That Tourists Should Visit! Tips For Solo Female Traveler To Stay Safe And How To Make It Live? Wheelchair Travelers Can Access To These Famous Cities In Asia! Children With Autism Spectrum And How To Travel With Them? Get Sick While Traveling Abroad? Few Ways To Save Your Travel Khasiat Kismis yang Perlu Kita Tahu! Penyakit Kanak-Kanak Paling Berbahaya Yang Wajib Diketahui Ibu Bapa! Shopping dan 5 Laman Web Paling Best di Internet! Dengkur dan Petua Terbaik untuk Merawatnya! Supplement, Lebih Banyak Kebaikan atau Keburukan? +601 11-684 2590 Copyright © 2020 Polisea Sdn Bhd. All Rights Reserved \| Privacy Policy \| Term of Use	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1009
__label__cc	0.563883	0.436117	Professor of Economics d.n.f.bell@stir.ac.uk Beliefs about how the Scottish economy may perform after independence will be critical to the outcome of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. Aside from its effect on income, another major concern for voters will be whether an independent Scottish economy will be able or wish to support the level of public services they currently enjoy. Taxpayers will want to know how taxes may change to pay for public services after independence. This fellowship will produce original research looking at fiscal aspects of the constitutional change debate in the UK. It will encompass both taxes and spending, and will offer insights into questions such as: How would public services be funded in an independent Scotland? Would current levels of services – and the taxation that funds them – be similar, or vary up or down? Fellowship website: Scottish Fiscal and Economic Studies (ScotFES) See all fellows @MaryCMurphy @IrishPolStudies @JohnOBrennan2 You can also read @MaryCMurphy blog for us discussing why #GE2020 is i… https://t.co/UNBn9NAIoS CCC Fellow @MaryCMurphy edited the latest issue of @IrishPolStudies with @JohnOBrennan2 You can also read her artic… https://t.co/M93oqVVZcn Infrastructure spending: reversing or encouraging regional inequality? 9 December 2019 \| David Bell The gap between rich and poor areas in the UK is larger than any other Western European country. David Bell, Professor of Economics at University of Stirling, analyses the General Election 2019 manifesto pledges to reverse the upward trend in regional inequality. The collapse of the WTO court: how will it impact UK trade deals post-Brexit? 29 November 2019 \| David Bell On 10th December, the World Trade Organisations appeal court will collapse, after the US failed to appoint sufficient judges to keep it quorate. David Bell, University of Stirling, analyses where this will leave the UK when negotiating trade deals post-Brexit. GM foods, the US-UK Trade Negotiations and Scottish Food Production: A Heady Mix 5 March 2019 \| David Bell Professor David Bell, of the University of Stirling, looks ahead to the US-UK trade negotiations post Brexit and how US demands will inevitably produce pitched battles over food quality standards, not least in Scotland. Impact of a Brexit “No Deal” on Scotland Revisited 5 September 2018 \| David Bell Professor David Bell asks what would a chaotic Brexit mean for the Scottish economy? In the run-up, there is likely to be further downward pressure on the pound which will increase prices, but make exports more competitive, though export volumes are unlikely to react quickly. Brexit, devolution and agriculture: a case study in complexity 29 March 2017 \| David Bell David Bell explains that following Brexit, the UK will establish a new set of trade relationships. Agreements about the conduct of agricultural trade will form an important part of this new system. David Bell: The problem with the future is that there are no 'facts', just predictions 22 June 2016 \| David Bell On the eve of the EU referendum, David Bell sorts what we know from what we can only surmise.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1012
__label__wiki	0.825216	0.825216	Home Stories Detroit Public Television and Community Development Advocates of Detroit host community conversations to bolster neighborhood participation in the region’s journalism Detroit Public Television and Community Development Advocates of Detroit host community conversations to bolster neighborhood participation in the region’s journalism June 15th, 2018 Back to Browse Stories Local residents share views about the problems and promise of their comeback city in Detroit Journalism Engagement Fund pilot program. The group of young black men under 30, who make up most of Detroit’s Church of the Messiah congregation, initially were skeptical when they learned Detroit Public Television wanted to sit down with them and listen to their stories about the challenges in their east side neighborhood. The Islandview neighborhood residents were pleasantly surprised that a local media outlet was interested in what they had to say about the community’s needs. They were even more surprised when the station’s leaders came back a second time, with no agenda but to listen to them. “Our members truly felt heard and understood,” Rev. Barry Randolph, pastor at Church of the Messiah, said. “We are going to have an equitable community. That needs to be our concentration more than anything else.” The newfound relationship between DPTV and the residents of Islandview is made possible by the Detroit Journalism Engagement Fund, a $900,000 initiative started in 2017 by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The Fund aims to expand local reporting in Detroit, increase diversity and equity in newsrooms, and to involve residents in telling the story of Detroit’s future. The first round of grants, supporting six innovative projects, were awarded in December. DPTV knew it would need help to bridge the divide that sometimes exists between media and community members when station leaders decided to enhance efforts to connect with city residents. The public television station partnered with Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) and Detroit Metropolitan Area Communities Study, which helped bring residents to the table. Sarida Scott, executive director of CDAD, reached out to leaders of other civic groups and facilitated the discussions. Community organizations were key to the success of the pilot program. The Church of the Messiah provided meeting space. “We wanted a community conversation,” said Scott, who brought together media and community citizens. “We started out by asking, ‘would you be interested in sharing your stories.’” Residents of the Islandview neighborhood, which includes Belle Isle Park, had a lot to say. They talked about the importance of knowing and supporting neighbors and discussed the need for “affordable and liveable” housing, addressed public safety issues including fears of gun violence, frustrations about human trafficking and concerns about a growing number of missing children in the area. They also discussed the area’s spirit of entrepreneurship and the importance of neighbors supporting each other. DeMarco Muhammad of the Helping Hands Community Center talked about the black men who have returned from being incarcerated who have gone on to get degrees, start businesses and employ others yet they are marginalized. DPTV learned about businesses started out first in the church’s basement including a bike shop, a video production company and Nikki’s Ginger Tea, now carried locally at Whole Foods. In March DPTV launched Tale of Two Cities: The Other Detroit, which highlighted portions of the discussion. The goal: learn more about neighborhood problems and develop community-based solutions. Islandview, along with the Fitzgerald and Delray neighborhoods, will be the featured communities in the series. While residents appreciated the value placed on their opinions about what Detroit needs to thrive, for DPTV, the conversations have enlightened their storytelling. The discussions have transformed the station’s approach to developing and reporting news stories. “We’ve started to broaden our thinking about how we’re going to handle these topics,” said Ed Moore, director of content at Detroit Public Television. “We found that there are stories waiting to be told and we want to tell them.” The station didn’t just parachute in and out. They went first just to listen, then returned to probe the issues raised more deeply and ask questions. The conversations will help DPTV more effectively cover the news in communities participating in the project. The community conversations “put us on to story ideas we would never have gone after, and it has changed our view,” Moore said. By developing an ongoing relationship with residents and building trust, the station is able to publish deeper, more nuanced stories. “I hope this trust we are developing will pull more people in,” Scott said. The pilot program also has expanded the pool of people the station can call when working on a story and has helped DPTV cultivate more diverse sources, strengthening its journalism. “This community meeting was a launching pad,” Moore said. “We’re using this to rethink how we gather stories.” Read More Updates on the DJEF Grantees Arise Detroit! and Michigan Chronicle WDET and City Bureau: Citizen Journalism Serving as the Eyes and Ears for the Public Cultivating A New Generation of Storytellers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1013
__label__wiki	0.871016	0.871016	David Rockwell Architect David Rockwell describes his work designing the stage for "Hairspray" and revitalizing downtown New York after September 11th. Entertainment Art and design July 2013 July 2013 May 2007 May 2007 February 2003 December 2000 December 2000 June 1998 June 1998 Tyler; Emmott; Rockwell; Westminster Dog... World, Entertainment, Politics, Art and design Report on the elevated Al Qaeda terrorist threat. Architect Rockwell on revitalizing downtown NY post 9/11. Guests from the Westminster Dog Show. 53:00 Memorial Square Architects Steven Holl, Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, and Peter Eisenman share their design for "Memorial Square." 21:48 Dan Bartlett; Memorial Square World, Politics, Art and design White House communications director Dan Bartlett; architects share their design for "Memorial Square" at ground zero. 53:03 Rebuilding Ground Zero Herbert Muschamp and architects Charles Gwathmey, Frederic Schwartz, Steven Holl, Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Viñoly. 51:37 Developing Ground Zero Critic Herbert Muschamp and architects Charles Gwathmey and Frederic Schwartz discuss the various plans to redevelop Ground Zero. 20:26	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1015
__label__cc	0.702333	0.297667	The Spreading Fire of Anarchy Newsletter - The Spreading Fire of Anarchy “Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.” — Zephaniah 3:8-9 Firestorms of trouble among the nations are ablaze throughout the world today causing great distress in the hearts of many. Fire, as used in Scripture, is a fitting symbol of anarchy. It is a most destructive force, and there is nothing more destructive to society than anarchy. prophetic description of anarchy is found in Ezekiel 38:21… “Every Man’s Sword Against His Brother” While this sad prophetic statement of final anarchy yet looms on the horizon of End Time prophecy, brushfires of anarchy are already flaring up around the world. Since 1998, in the Congo conflict, tragic loss of human life from tribal infighting is estimated to be 5.4 million. Rwanda, Kenya, Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Sudan’s Darfur are all crying for help. Even with international aid, however, the “fire” is spreading. An ongoing seven-year civil war in Syria has created the biggest refugee and migration crisis since World War II. About 11 million Syrians alone have become refugees because of the conflict between the Bashar al-Assad regime and antigovernment rebels, including the Islamic State group. Based on ibttimes.com The global refugee population grew by 5.8 million people in 2016 in part because of conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Read more, download the newsletter The Spreading Fire of Anarchy Subscribe to receive our newsletters in email FREE Booklet Offer: "What is this World Coming to..." The world events of this last decade of the Twentieth Century were like the thunderclaps of a gathering storm—such as there never was. What do these ominous rumblings of society portend? And is there any hope for the world on the other side of this imminent and promisingly furious storm’? With the collapse of the communist camp in Russia and Eastern Europe, the cold war ended. But the era of assured peace was soon eclipsed by the Middle East crisis. The Third World Nations have become armed camps of instability that pose a continual threat to world peace. Since the nineties, the United States has carried a record debt and with recurring economic recessions (...) Is it any wonder that so many ask, ‘‘What is this world coming to?’’ Some go further and reason, ‘‘If there is a God who cares, why does He permit all of this trouble?" Read/Download Online Order one FREE Copy (US Addresses Only) Filed Under: Newsletters	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1020
__label__wiki	0.934615	0.934615	Chris James & The Showdowns Chris James - EPK Revered singer-songwriter Chris James has a reputation for performing several hours a night, with original songs that sound like covers, and cover songs that sound as good as the originals. His rich vocals and honest writing style tug at the heartstrings with a soulful grit and emotion that gives even his most tender pieces a rock n’ roll edge. James strives to put forth well-crafted, memorable songs with an unbridled spirit brought to light and energized by his enduring band: The Showdowns. Often citing 70’s Americana songwriters as influence, the Northern California based group has graced countless stages and has been played on several FM, XM stations and internet radio worldwide. Chris James and the Showdowns latest record: “Somewhere out in California,” is rootsy, rockin’ and authentic. Honing their songwriting craft, the band delivers dance driven rhythms, signature guitar licks, heartfelt vocals, and sing-along choruses throughout an unflinchingly solid Americana Rock album. Recorded primarily at legendary Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA, the group was able to capture the classic sound they’ve come to be known for; often channeling the influences of such heroes as: Tom Petty, The Eagles, The Band, and America, while putting forth their own contemporary alt-country-rock expression. Chris James is no stranger to the recording studio, or to the stage. Throughout his career the singer songwriter has amassed an impressive catalog of recorded material ranging at least eight albums and has played continuously on both coasts in hundreds of venues. His band The Showdowns are comprised of loyal musical soldiers who are all esteemed pro musicians in their own right: Matt Berg (drums), AJ Leighton (bass), John Paterson (keys) and Whitt Vicena (lead guitar). The musical synergy created between them is contagious and transcends the stage. Together they have fought from the trenches of the grittiest bars, to club venues, to corporate events, and everything in between. --"James' style of writing is hard to deny as it rings of times and life situations we can all relate to. It's nice to see an artist and band like the Showdowns hold true to Americana roots while still giving you a rock and roll kick in the ass!" -Starita (Producer - Trevor Hall, Tribe Called Quest) --"Chris is a singer-songwriter with an honest approach and style that really speaks to people on a personal level..." - J. Bowman (Lead Guitarist - Michael Franti & Spearhead) Not like This 4:15 Cold Black 3:58 Somewhere out in California 4:24 Can't Stop 3:53 Make Believe 3:37 The City Speaks To Me 3:50 Wednesday, January 29 @ 7:00PM Wed, Jan 29 @ 7:00PM Chris James (acoustic) Antler's Tavern, Pinole Antler's Tavern, Pinole Saturday, February 1 @ 9:00PM Sat, Feb 1 @ 9:00PM Chris James and the Showdowns The Riptide , San Francisco, CA The Riptide , San Francisco, CA Saturday, February 15 @ 8:00PM Sat, Feb 15 @ 8:00PM Chris James and the Showdowns Antlers Tavern, Pinole, CA Antlers Tavern, Pinole, CA Friday, March 6 @ 9:30PM Fri, Mar 6 @ 9:30PM Chris James and the Showdowns Up & Under Pub, Pt. Richmond Up & Under Pub, Pt. Richmond Saturday, March 14 @ 5:00PM Sat, Mar 14 @ 5:00PM Chris James (Acoustic) Ernies Tin Bar, Petaluma, CA Ernies Tin Bar, Petaluma, CA Thursday, April 9 @ 6:00PM Thu, Apr 9 @ 6:00PM Chris James and the Showdowns Lucca Bar & Grill, Benicia, CA Lucca Bar & Grill, Benicia, CA Saturday, June 6 @ 5:00PM Sat, Jun 6 @ 5:00PM Chris James (acoustic) Ernies Tin Bar, Petaluma Ernies Tin Bar, Petaluma Hi Res Photos © 2016 Milkjug Music & Chris James / follow: @chrisjamessongs, #chrisjamesandtheshowdowns	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1024
__label__wiki	0.964608	0.964608	Mrs. Officer (From "End of Watch") Soundtrack Wonder Band Disquera: Tency Music See You Again (From "Furious 7") Empire State of Mind (From "Sex and the City 2") All of the Lights (From "The Bling Ring") Yeah! (From "The Interview") Try Again (From "Romeo Must Die") Umbrella (From "Just Go With It") Work from Home (From "Bad Moms") Knock You Down (From "Burlesque") Forever (From "Dance Flick") The Boy Is Mine (From "Trainwreck") 1 Thing (From "Somewhere") (When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me [From "Step Up"] I'm Out (From "Think Like a Man Too") Hot in Herre (From "Austenland") American Boy (From "Obsessed") Pony (From "Magic Mike") Survivor (From "Think Like a Man") Crazy in Love (From "Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason") Shawty Get Loose (From "Make It Happen") Touch My Body (From "Get Him to the Greek") Worth It (From "How to be Single") Because of You (From "Are We Done Yet?) Family Affair (From "Friday After Next" U Got It Bad (From "The Sweetest Thing") Pretty Girl Rock (From "The Rover") This Is How We Do It (From "Freedom Writers") Take a Bow (From "The House Bunny") Kiss Kiss (From "Ted") Bug a Boo (From "The Best Man") No More Drama (From "Honey") Turnin' Me On (From "Dance Flick") Doncha Know (Sky Is Blue) [From "The Secret Life of Bees"] Independent Women Part I (From "Charlie's Angels") Talking to the Moon (From "Talk Like a Man") Whatta Man (From "Vampire in Brooklyn") I Swear (From "Sisters") End of the Road (From "Boomerang") Los álbumes más recientes de Soundtrack Wonder Band Essential Movie Themes Patsy Cline Movie Songs Johnny Cash Movie Songs The Rolling Stones Movie Music	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1029
__label__wiki	0.657676	0.657676	Tag: Still Alice BIRDMAN Wins Best Picture at Independent Spirit Awards; BOYHOOD Takes Best Director by Adam Chitwood February 21, 2015 The two Oscar frontrunners split the top prizes, while 'Nightcrawler' walked away with its own pair of trophies. Oscar Beat: Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore, and “The NORBIT Effect” by Adam Chitwood February 6, 2015 Did 'Norbit' really cost Eddie Murphy an Oscar? And what does this mean for Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore in the wake of 'Jupiter Ascending' and 'Seventh Son'? London Film Critics Circle Continues BOYHOOD Awards Streak with Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actress by Matt Goldberg January 18, 2015 There may be no stopping Richard Linklater's coming-of-age film in this year's awards race. Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart Talk STILL ALICE, Trying to Understand What It’s Like to Live with… by Christina Radish January 12, 2015 For anyone who’s had to watch a loved one suffer with a disease, Still Alice heart-breakingly and realistically shows how it not only affects the individual, but everyone in their lives. Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, it is … Oscar Beat: The Best Supporting Actress Race At a Glance by Adam Chitwood December 13, 2014 There are complaints every year that while the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories are stacked with talent, the low number of quality female roles that appear in movies makes for frustratingly thin Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress … Julianne Moore Battles Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease in the First STILL ALICE Trailer by Haleigh Foutch December 8, 2014 Sony Pictures Classics has released the first Still Alice trailer from co-directors and co-writers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s adaptation of the Lisa Genova novel. The film stars Julianne Moore as a brilliant linguistics professor struggling with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and it has gathered a huge amount of awards … Gotham Award Winners: BIRDMAN Wins Best Feature, CITIZENFOUR Wins Best Documentary by Brendan Bettinger December 1, 2014 Matt noted that Awards Season begins with the 2014 Gotham Awards: the winners were announced tonight. Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) took home Best Feature. Birdman lead Michael Keaton earned Best Actor and parlayed the … Oscar Beat: The Best Actress Race at a Glance by Adam Chitwood November 13, 2014 Every year it seems like Oscars’ Best Actor category is crowded, while the number of contenders for the Best Actress trophy feels relatively thin. It’s a result of the sad fact that there just aren’t as many interesting lead roles … Kristen Stewart Asks Julianne Moore What It’s Like to Lose Her Memory in First STILL ALICE Clip by Adam Chitwood October 30, 2014 Sony Pictures Classics has released the first Still Alice clip from co-directors and co-writers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s adaptation of the Lisa Genova novel of the same name, and it’s heartbreaking. Julianne Moore stars in the film as a linguistics professor who begins showing … Julianne Moore Surges into Best Actress Race as STILL ALICE Gets Oscar-Qualifying Release from Sony Pictures Classics by Adam Chitwood September 26, 2014 One of the big surprises of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was a film called Still Alice. Not many people I talked to saw it, but those that did were raving about Julianne Moore’s performance as a linguistics professor …	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1035
__label__wiki	0.502235	0.502235	Water on Mars! Humanity’s Extraordinary Curiosity of Other Life By Bob Franco Curtosity of The New York Times: Scientists say the dark, narrow downhill black streaks are evidence of water from Jet Propulsion Lab/University of Arizona, via NASA http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/science/space/mars-life-liquid-water.html H2O! Woop there it is! Mars, apparently, has water and with that, possibly life; most likely, of the “unseeable” microorganism kind. Alas, this is a huge development. NASA has been divulging incredible information this year, even with their well documented funding cuts. First in March, with one of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, which harbors an ocean underneath its thick icy crust and may have hydrothermal activity. Then in July, with images of Pluto. Its heart shape on its surface took the internet by storm. All these discoveries are truly amazing. In fact, amazing is an understatement, but I can’t help but have an Earth-first mindset. They say curiosity killed the cat, well I think that saying applies to humanity more. Cats shouldn’t be the patsy for that phrase. It’s demeaning to them. For as long as we existed, humanoids have invented tools, learned survival techniques, and continue to explore beyond what was originally our limits. We continue to push the boundaries, which is cool, but also terrifying. Let’s say we find life on Mars, or even Enceladus. Then what? Do we bring it back? How can we be sure that life-form won’t completely destroy us. We have no idea how that organism would react to our already fragile environment. What if it’s a deadly unstoppable parasite or an indestructible strain of bacteria? These are worse case scenarios of course, but even the smartest minds would agree that a devastating outcome is possible. http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/your-body-is-a-wonderland-of-badass-microorganisms?utm_term=.gyL28rPK7&sub=2363164_1298559 Humanity doesn’t even know enough about our own environments, organisms, or atmosphere to even conceive the impact of researching and importing extraterrestrial life. We’ve displaced animals and plants into foreign landscapes and have witnessed collateral damage to the natural species. A high percentage of scientists say we are responsible for at least inducing the 6th mass extinction from overpopulation, over hunting, deforestation, pollution, etc. National Geographic just released their own discovery: BIOFLUORESCENCENT HAWKSBILL SEA TURTLE. And yes, I like turtles, much more than outer space, but that’s not the point. This turtle, whose species is critically endangered, was the first reptile ever recorded that is bioflourescencent, an aspect that only recently has been researched. What this tells me, is that humanity still has so much to learn about our nature and our living organisms. Bringing any possible found alien organism here could be catastrophic. There are just to many unanswered questions to take that risk. As you know, the world of comics has dealt with an infinite amount alien life. DC comics has heroes like Superman, the Green Lantern Corps, and Martian Manhunter. J’onn J’onzz is the lone Martian hero in the DC universe. However, Mars plays a vital role in Watchmen, as Dr. Manhattan goes to there to contemplate his life and knowledge of the universe. The backdrop of Mars is arid and lifeless, but for Dr. Manhattan it’s the perfect retreat. As he looks back on the past and his existence, he constructs this giant clock structure with twirling parts and turning gears. He eventually brings Silk Spectre up there with him and they argue about the future of civilization and its inevitable collapse. He tries to show her the meaningless in it, but in doing so he himself has a revelation and returns to help. J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter, has gone through existentialist thought himself. Unlike Dr. Manhattan’s version of Mars, it’s not a place of peace. It’s a place of disaster. In his original 1956 run, J’onn gets sucked to Earth from Mars, by an experimental teleportation device. In this conception, Mars was not a dead planet, so J’onn fought crime, as he waited for Martian technology to get him back home. Recently and more famously, J’onn Jonzz has come to Earth because he believed to be the last Green Martian alive. On Mars, there are two species of Martians: Green and White. They both come from a race called The Burning, who the Guardians of the Universe (heads of the Green Lantern Corps) monitored and decided to genetically alter them to qualm their immense belligerence and asexuality. The genetic intervention caused them to split and evolve differently. Both essentially have the same abilities and vulnerabilities, yet they differ in temperament. The White Martians are ruthless war mongrels bent on destruction and violence. The Green Martians are family and community orientated, and they were in constant battle for survival. J’onn, amidst the chaos, believed he was the only survivor and fled. There’s also third species of Martian who are more humanoid called the Yellow Martians. They are also more of a belligerent race and tried to take over Earth before Wonder Woman’s intervention. They currently don’t have a connection or continuity to the DC universe. Currently in a long past due revived Martian Manhunter series, with #5 coming out 10/17/2015, (which I’ll be reviewing for ComicsVerse) J’onn seems to be manipulated and controlled by the White Martians, as they slowly turn him into an indestructible weapon. Mars doesn’t seem to be dead all at and Earth is in its tracks. DC comics have treated Aliens with caution, even Superman. One of the most powerful evil deities, Darkseid, is an alien. Water on Mars is extraordinary news, but nature doesn’t have rules. The alien we may eventually find doesn’t have to be a 10 feet conqueror to end our curious human civilization, it can be a microscopic spec that could sweep us all away. After all, we barely know our own home! Stay on the look out for a “Marvel Comics with Mars” edition! 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__label__wiki	0.984574	0.984574	The Monash Commission members The Monash Commission brings together the expertise of Monash University scholars, eminent Australians, local and international enterprise leaders, to inquire, provoke discussion and examine the best possible frameworks for a flexible, well-resourced and well-integrated system for both vocational and higher education. Elizabeth Proust AO - Chair Chair of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Nestle Australia and Bank of Melbourne. Professor Ian Chubb AC - Member Former chief scientist of Australia and former vice-chancellor of the Australian National University. Professor Rory Hume - Member Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Education at the University of Utah, former vice-chancellor of the University of NSW, and former provost and executive vice-president for academic and health affairs for the University of California system. Marie Persson - Member Member and chair of the NSW Skills Board Industry Reference Group, senior public sector executive and former head of NSW TAFE and Community Education. Mette Schepers - Member Mette currently serves as Mercer Australia’s Client Growth Leader for the Pacific Market and senior financial and professional services executive. Sir Nigel Thrift - Member Former vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick and the inaugural executive director of the prestigious Schwarzman Scholars international leadership program at Tsinghua University. ABOUT TERMS OF REFERENCE PRIVACY CONTACT US Copyright © 2017 Monash University. ABN 12 377 614 012 Accessibility - Disclaimer and copyright - Privacy, Monash University CRICOS Provider Number: 00008C. Monash University is a registered higher education provider under the TEQSA Act 2011. We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our five Australian campuses stand. Information for Indigenous Australians.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1039
__label__cc	0.646622	0.353378	Clyde Schipke – Guitarist & Teacher Guitar & Bass Teacher Yeppoon Lessons & Workshops drummer’s van [insert band name here] Posted on November 3, 2016 November 3, 2016 by clydeschipke One of the fun parts of being in a band (they used to be called groups) was deciding on a band name. Some of the names I noticed overseas included The Dead Cuts, The Missing Cats, My Girl the River, Cubic Jazz, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band, and 24 Fighting Camels. Looking back, some of the more notable bands that I’ve been involved with here in Australia include The Zoiks!, Snatch, Darling O’Shea, Le Brat; and a friend was in one called Love Mum And The Urgent Ringmes. Two other clever ones are The Well Hungarians, and Show Us Shiraz. A dear old friend of mine in Sydney was having a ‘name change meeting’ with his band one night. The hours dragged on, the pizza had gone, the mood was becoming emotional and no decision was in sight. Someone said, ‘Why don’t we just leave it as it is?’ Yep, new name – As It Is. One of the things I’ve noticed over the years (gee I seem to say that alot!), is how band names have lost the ‘The’. In the 60s many band names started with ‘The’…. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds etc. Then the ‘The’ became uncool. The Yardbirds became Led Zeppelin for example. Imagine, if you will, how some of the current bands would look with ‘The’ as a name prefix: The Peripheries, The Animals as Leaders, ‘The Radio Heads. Let’s go back even further: The Cold Chisels, The Midnight Oils, The Aerosmiths, The Deep Purples. I recall a band called The The. They would become The The Thes. Band name-changing parties were a highly anticipated event. They were usually organised as an ‘important band meeting’ but were structured around pizzas, beer, and much like reality shows nowadays – alliances. The alliances usually went like this: If the singer was female – then singer / lead guitarist If the singer was female and attached – then singer / partner – if the partner was a band member then that was a really strong alliance. If the partner was an ‘outsider’ then she had a real battle on her hands to get votes Male singer / guitarist / keyboard player – a particularly strong alliance especially if one or more of the players were long-standing members of the group The two weakest alliances were always new member / loneliest member; and drummer / bass player… unless one of them owned a van! The evening would start well enough with everyone (or most) agreeing that yes, or maybe, the name of the band had to be changed. Alternatives would then be presented by the various alliances. With no previous agreement being made regarding majority votes, or any of that sensible stuff, the only obvious way of making a name change (or not, or maybe) was through unanimous decision. The next stage of the evening would see the various alliances ridiculing any name suggestions made by their opponents, while robustly claiming that their own idea was the best. Subtle alterations or alternatives would be suggested but all would be shouted down. As the evening wore on, and the pizzas began to take effect, the band name suggestions would become more and more nonsensical, eventually reaching the point where even the uttering of (THE) WORLD’S GREATEST BAND NAME would pass by unnoticed. The evening would end with one or all of the following voting outcomes: The female singer / partner split up The female signer / guitarist quit and form a new band with the new / old name – big problem. Male singer / guitarist / keyboard player all quit and form a new band with the new / old band name. The problem here (as with the first scenario) is if the band is doing originals, who’s writing the songs? The newest members leave – no real problem here. The bass player / drummer quit – no real problem here (apart from that van!) The band splits! For the last 18 years my band, with various line ups and truly gifted and talented musicians, has been called INDABA. After a unanimous decision last weekend, this band is now called The Thundamentalists… and there wasn’t a pizza in sight! Posted in Teaching, UncategorizedTagged alliances, band names, drummer's van, name-changing meetingsLeave a comment Jazz, rock, funk, blues, country, folk, alternate, pop, reggae, prog-rock, fusion Paradigm Road (2016) a compilation of Clyde’s originals including two covers of Giant Steps (John Coltrane) and Partita in E Major (JS Bach).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1048
__label__cc	0.552709	0.447291	Torchwood: The Hope review Posted August 22, 2019 by Ian McArdell Filed under Reunited from May 2017’s dark, disturbing and deeply funny ‘Corpse Day’, the latest Torchwood monthly release features Owen Harper (Burn Gorman) and PC Andy Davidson (Tom Price) working undercover. The story begins with Owen delivering a fatal cancer diagnosis to a prison inmate. Andy is on the case too, as a prison warden, with the pair hoping that Owen’s patient, the notorious child killer Megwyn Jones (Siân Phillips), will finally reveal the location of her victims’ bodies before she dies. When Megwyn agrees to return to the place where the bodies are buried, the home where she took in troubled children, the pair accompany her. So too do a Police Inspector who has been integral to the case across the years and a representative of the victim’s families – hoping to find some peace. Given its similarities to the darkest of real-life tragedies, James Goss’ tale feels like one of the most disturbing this series has attempted. While the subject matter is bleak indeed, it is handled sensitivity and without ever being glib. That said, there is humour in the darkest of places and the story finds it in odd coupling of Owen and Andy, as well as the unfolding situation. Director Scott Handcock elicits terrific performances from the regulars. Tom Price once again raises PC Andy above the level of comic relief, to become an everyman we can identify with. Meanwhile, Burn Gorman adds further shades to the often blunt and unlikable Owen Harper we saw on-screen. Remarkably, this is still only Burn Gorman’s fourth audio outing and the character still feels as though it has much potential for development, though his situation throughout Series 2 is addressed. Naturally, the star here is (Dame) Siân Phillips, who brings tremendous depth to Megwyn. It is a performance which kept us guessing throughout; having never admitted guilt for her crimes, Owen tries to see the good in Megwyn while Andy remains aghast at her actions, now and then. There is something in the character which put us in mind of Bill Pullman’s Oswald Danes from Torchwood: Miracle Day – detestable but thrillingly watchable too. Credit must also be given to both Ian Saynor as Colbourne, the policeman who has made a career of the case and brings his personal priorities to the investigation. While it could not be further in tone from last month’s ‘Serenity’, proving the enduring scope of the series, ‘The Hope’ is another terrific entry in the Torchwood roster. While perhaps not for the faint-hearted, this is a darkly compelling and emotive story, cleverly told. Torchwood: The Hope is available to buy from www.BigFinish.com on both CD and download. Tags: Big Finish, Burn Gorman, James Goss, Sian Philips, Tom Price, Torchwood	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1062
__label__wiki	0.810618	0.810618	By Jo Lennan City Basics Arriving. Paris's Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG), about 14 miles northeast of the city, is well served by the RER train network. From easily accessible stations beneath the terminals, take the RER B train to central Paris — about a 45-min. ride to stations like Châtelet-Les Halles (about €10), where you can transfer to the Paris Métro lines. Buses run by Air France (from €15) and Roissybus (from €8.60) are less convenient, servicing few stops and usually taking longer than the train, especially in traffic; they also cease running late at night. A taxi to the city center costs upward of $86. Orly Airport is only about 12 miles from central Paris. It does not lie directly on a main train line, but buses connect fliers to the Pont de Rungis station on the RER line C (about 10 min. and €2.50). The Orlyval shuttle train also takes you to the RER line B station Antony (8 min. and €7.40). From either station, trains to Paris take about 25 min. and cost €3.60 (RER C) or €6.10 (RER B). Buses offer a simpler option, however: the Orlybus shuttle direct to Denfert-Rochereau station in Paris, takes 20 to 30 min. and costs €6.30, while Air France buses serve a number of other stops in the city (from €11.50). Taxis from Orly to Paris cost about €35, more in heavy traffic. Getting Around. Look for the art nouveau signs above ground that mark Paris Métro entry points. The Métro is convenient and quick, but with some of the stations being quite close together, you might risk missing how delightfully walkable the city is. Paris has recently replaced its old Carte Orange, which offered unlimited travel on the Paris transit system, with a suite of ticketing options. The new unlimited travel pass is called the ParisVisite. There are one- to five-day passes covering the entire Île-de-France transportation network, including the Métro, RATP buses and RER trains — even the Montmartre funicular. The one- and two-day passes (€9 for one day, €14 for two) offer value for only the most ambitious transit users. Locals get around with the London Oyster-style Navigo Decouverte pass, which costs €5 — but, again, it might not pay for itself on shorter stays. A single t+ ticket (€1.60 or $2.40) covers a single ride on any Métro, regular RATP bus or RER train within Paris; a book of 10 t+ tickets costs $17. Although the passes and t+ tickets are valid on the RATP buses that run throughout the city, you'll scarcely have to use them, given how comprehensive the Métro system is. But buses can be fun on the more scenic routes. Métro and bus service ceases at about midnight. To get back to your hotel in the wee hours, either take a Noctilien night bus or opt for a cab. Taxis can be hailed on the street (lighted signs mean cabs are available for hire), or you can call for one by phone or get in line at one of the city's hundreds of taxi stands. The minimum fare is €6, but all but the quickest trips will cost a good deal more. Have cash handy (credit cards are rarely accepted) and tip the driver 10%. Tariffs are higher after 7 p.m. and on Sunday. Sightseeing. The Paris Museum Pass, which costs $46 for two days, gets you into more than 60 Paris attractions. It also lets you cut a few queues. If you visit at least a couple of sights each day, your pass will pay for itself. Café Culture. Lingering over coffee or a glass of wine is a perfectly Parisian thing to do — waiters will respect you for it, rather than rush to turn over your table. Expect coffee to come espresso unless you order otherwise (and pay a premium). If you have to hurry, don't ask for coffee "to go" — it's not usually done — so just down your caffeine hit quickly at the bar. Tipping. By law, your meal check includes VAT (value added tax) and a percentage charge for service. There's no obligation to tip beyond that, but you can show your satisfaction with a gratuity in the 5% to 10% range. The Snobby French? Whoever started the rumors about Parisian hauteur got it grossly wrong. It's only a matter of approach. A crisp, correct salutation — "Bonjour" ("Good day") or "Bonsoir" ("Good evening") — followed by "Madame" or "Monsieur" almost always elicits attentive service or the assistance you seek. http://www.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1937013_1936995_1937006,00.html	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1068
__label__cc	0.738039	0.261961	Do not show again [X] Home-sharing from the Board’s Perspective Is it Ever Okay? By Kristina Valada-Viars 2017 April Management In recent years, “home-sharing” or “short-term” rental sites have been experiencing increasing popularity as well as political and media attention in many so-called destination cities. At the time of this article, the most popular of these websites, San Francisco-based Airbnb, boasts over 60 million guests and two million listings worldwide. Founded in 2008, Airbnb makes the list of Fortune.com’s most anticipated IPOs of 2017 with a valuation of about $30 billion, according to Reuters. With figures like these from a company that has not even been a decade in the business, it seems safe to say that this home-sharing ‘trend’ is not going to disappear. Responses to the home-sharing economy across the country have made it clear that these sites are having a larger impact on the surrounding community than those benefiting from the arrangement might anticipate, or fully comprehend. Property owners and people seeking long-term apartments or homes to rent in cities where tourism plays a major role in the local economy are identifying these websites – accurately or not – as major contributors to gentrification and housing shortages, spurring political action on a local level like 2015’s Prop F in San Francisco, and similar initiatives in cities as far apart as New Orleans and Berlin. But the complaints against this new industry are as unique as the cities themselves in which they are playing out. Co-ops and condos have a unique set of concerns when it comes to the home-sharing economy. To better understand how and why boards and building managers need to respond quickly, this article will focus on illuminating the issue of home-sharing in multi-dwelling buildings in New York, hopefully providing useful information to present to multifamily community administrators across the spectrum as they seek to serve their residents while considering how to resolve the conflicts brought up by home-sharing. Black and White: The Law Says No Short-term rentals and home-sharing add to the already extensive responsibilities resting on both board members and property managers, and can complicate the execution of other necessary management responsibilities. “There’s no transparency, and it’s impossible to track,” says Jay Nadler, senior property manager for Veritas Property Management in Manhattan. “When I am asked to attempt to track these activities, it takes away from my other duties.” Even with pressures from both state and local governments, as well as knowing they’re in violation of their building’s bylaws and agreements, many co-op and condo residents persist in using sites like Airbnb, simply because if you have a clean, convenient apartment in the heart of a major destination city, the income to be gained from renting it out to visitors may be just too good to pass up. But many shareholders who participate in these sites aren’t knowledgeably factoring the high risk they are taking, should something go wrong. Nor do most home-sharing ‘hosts’ have a clear understanding of what the law currently says, and how they may be in direct violation by continuing to enter into short-term rental agreements. Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email Preparing for the Worst Emergency Prep Event Covers Security Threats and Natural Disasters The Illegal Home-Sharing Issue Safety and Security Concerns Securing Your Building What Can Boards and Residents Do? The Top 3 Security-Related Mistakes ...is Your Building Making Them? Assessing Your Community's Security Needs What Do You Really Need? Common Multifamily Safety & Security Mistakes Is Your Building Making Them? Towers on Common Board Blunders: We have the same problem. Mary on Keys, Key Fobs, and Door Codes: My apt. building deactivates our fob from working on the garage entrance door at 9 pm. Is it against the law for them to do that? I pay ren… Sandra on Common Board Blunders: The board in my building abuese my familly only bc i an not a shearholdr how can i get gelp Anthony de Fex on Board Malfeasance: Yes, board malfeasance, we got that. I've taken all those recommendations. Our board has been issuing false financial statements. I demanded… on Managing Conflicts: Thank you for the follow-up, Michael. I know first-hand how you have assisted Seward Park when disputes between neighbors have required medi…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1073
__label__wiki	0.712995	0.712995	Muzic.net Review: Anthology Lounge Jason Peters @Muzic.net.nz I'd heard about Anthology as a new venue a couple of months back, and any new venues in Auckland that local artists can play after the demise of the legendary Kings Arms are always welcome. My buddy and I were greeted at the door by two friendly bearded characters that turned out to be the drummer and guitarist of the headline act. It's always nice to get a friendly welcome when turning up to a local show, and as is the way of any underground scene, the band members are hands-on running their show. Anthology, situated on K Rd, is a small to medium-sized venue where concrete, large metal pipes and chandeliers collide. It has a small but well-equipped bar and with friendly staff. The venue has a chic industrial vibe and I wondered how heavy bands were going to sound in this concrete/glass room and as predicted the sound was a little harsh/thin but nonetheless it was still better than some other comparable small venues I've been to. To kick this evening's entertainment off are local five-piece Outside In. Lead singer Mikey Brown, rocking a demented accountant look before changing into a bathrobe, was very entertaining indeed. My first impressions of these guys are whilst technically proficient, they just need to work on song structures a little more, it was little hard to grasp onto any meaty choruses and unfortunately the vocals and guitars were a little thin in the mix which didn't help matters, but do I think this band have great potential, and I do like the psychedelic prog-rock direction which seems to translate better in their recorded material than live. Next up were noisy three-piece Animalhead. I've played a couple of shows with these guys before so I knew what I was in for. These dudes seriously have enough energy between them to power a small town. I'm a big fan of the 90's sound and these guys bring the good parts of that era together in a very dynamic and energetic way, think Rage Against The Machine grooves mixed with Helmet type riffing and with a lashing of dessert rock thrown in for good measure and you'll get the cut of their gib. Drummer Dan hilariously rocking a large Panda head for the first track showcasing their humorous side, these guys kick into high gear right from the get-go. Highlights were Stoneface Killer and Rabbit Hole, a tight set with a tonne of energy, definitely check these guys out live if you haven't already, well worth it. Crooked Royals were up next, and whilst I'm not a fan of this style of earnest screamo metal, I can see why people who dig this genre would like these guys. Their show featured two tag-teaming vocalists and technically these young guys were very proficient at their instruments, but I feel their music was lost a little with a thin mix, for some reason the guitars and bottom end were a little lost in that room. Even though Crooked Royals are not my cup of tea they played with a lot of energy and were tight and focused. For fans of screamo math metal, this band will float your boat for sure. Now for the main event. My band Hunt The Witch played a gig with Coridian back in 2015 and I have to say I didn't get them back then, but it's amazing what time and evolving your sound does to a band. What impressed me about these guys is that their songwriting has improved tenfold. Live, they are a tight beast. Kraven and Ribs provide a solid bottom base to the cake for Mikee (Guitar) and Dity (Vocals) to throw their sweet icing over the top. Especially impressive was Dity's grasp of emotion and melody all the while smiling away, having the time of his life performing, you feel that he is passionate about what he's singing and believes in it and is not simply going through the motions. Playing choices cuts from 2017's Caldera, including the excellent track Seed, Coridian also treated us to a cool new track called Redefine and a rousing rendition of 2018's Better Off before ending the set with this writer's favourite track Reflections; a song with a chorus that could easily fill any stadium. One final tune for the encore, we were treated to a sweet new track called Rite Of Passage, and it's a little ripper. Rite Of Passage is due to be released very soon, and it's sure to delight Coridian's fans. In this genre of alt melodic hard rock these guys lead the way in New Zealand, and now that Blindspott has left the building these dudes could easily fill that void given the right opportunities. If their next album is as good as the songs debuted at this show then they can certainly reach the lofty heights they are seeking and deserve. Good luck to them I say! "It's difficult to write a review while you're headbanging and dancing around the room" - a review of Coridian's new EP CALDERA - Release Secrets: Written by Wolves Album Release Re:Coridian-ing Skinny Hobos Lucifer Tour Muzic.nz 20th Anniversary Sponsor"ship" - Buried at Sea Skillet w/Coridian @Powerstation (Shelly Te Haara) Skillet w/ Coridian @Powerstation (Libel) Skillet w/ Coridian @Powerstation (Ambient Light Blog) Fozzy w/Coridian @Galatos (Radio 13)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1074
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__label__wiki	0.746781	0.746781	The World Nomad Games Celebrate Traditional Nomadic Culture Nomadic societies exist all over the globe, moving from place to place to find fresh pasture for their herds, ply a trade, or simply seek out new locales with the seasons. There are an estimated 30–40 million nomads in the world today, but that's nothing compared to what it once was. The modern way of life is threatening nomadic culture, and many are striving to preserve their heritage. That's the reason for the World Nomad Games, an event held in Kyrgyzstan. The September event had its first edition in 2014, and saw its second installment two years later. At the 2016 event, athletes from 40 world countries converged to compete in sports such as horseback archery, dog and eagle hunting, and mas-wrestling, where rivals attempt to win control of a small stick. The fiercest competition, according to The Guardian, was kok-boru, a form of polo where two teams battle over control of a goat carcass. There was even a kind of fashion show, where men and women displayed traditional dress on a nomad catwalk. Learn more about nomadic cultures in the videos below. The World Nomad Games Discover the strange sports that take place at the event. World Nomad Games Are Amazing And Strange – AJ+ Documenting the World's Last Nomadic Tribes Find out how photographers are seeking to preserve these ancient cultures. – Seeker Stories The Nomadic Heirs of Genghis Khan Hear the story of three nomadic communities. Genghis Khan. Nomadic Desert \| Culture - Planet Doc Full Documentaries – Planet Doc Full Documentaries Written by Curiosity Staff October 13, 2016 What It Takes To Be A Pro Player In eSports The Result Of A Perfectly Played Game Of Checkers Is (Yawn) A Draw Culture Sports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1089
__label__cc	0.691728	0.308272	7 die from flesh-eating bacteria linked to black tar heroin Posted 10:28 AM, December 5, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire SAN DIEGO (KSWB) - Seven San Diegans have recently died from a bacterial infection associated with black tar heroin use, county health officials announced Wednesday. Between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24, nine people who injected the variety of heroin were admitted to local hospitals with severe cases of flesh-eating bacteria myonecrosis, a severe soft tissue infection that destroys muscle, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. Seven of them died. The patients ranged in age from 19 to 57 years old. U.S. Border Patrol agents located 7.62 pounds of black tar heroin and 6.57 pounds of fentanyl hidden inside a false battery at the Interstate 8 checkpoint in Campo on Aug, 7, 2019. (Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection) One case of wound botulism, which is also associated with black tar heroin injection, was reported in San Diego County in October. “People who use black tar heroin are not only at higher risk of dying from an overdose, but also more prone to developing myonecrosis and wound botulism,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer. The sources of the black tar heroin were not yet known. An investigation was underway. Symptoms of myonecrosis often include severe pain in the area around a wound or injection site, swelling in the area around a wound, pale skin that quickly turns gray, dark red, purple or black, blisters with foul-smelling discharge, fever, air under the skin, excessive sweating and increased heart rate. When severe, myonecrosis can spread through the body and if treated can cause people to go into shock, and can lead to amputations or death. Any injection drug users with symptoms should seek medical attention right away. Filed in: Nation/World ‘I’m fired up’: 49ers great Jerry Rice gears up for Super Bowl Two people just got the plague in China — yes, the Black Death plague CDC investigating E. coli outbreak likely linked to salad kits Teen accused of using remote control car to smuggle meth across border 11 Chinese migrants found hidden inside furniture, appliances in moving truck Chickenpox outbreak at migrant shelter contained, Mexican officials say New virus prompts CDC to screen passengers arriving from Chinese city Border Report News Texas Asylum-seekers struggle with new wait environments, court procedures in South Texas Water commission warned of flooding in 2009, now silent as wall goes up in South Texas county Migrant arrests down for fifth consecutive month; officials credit MPP program and Mexican army 5 things that surprised us during our 10 days on the US-Mexico border Three STDs reach all-time highs in the US, new CDC report says People unknowingly driving drugs across the border, CBP sources say	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1091
__label__cc	0.603967	0.396033	Home The Post If The Redskins Are Any Better Than Just Mediocre, I’ll Be Surprised If The Redskins Are Any Better Than Just Mediocre, I’ll Be Surprised on: July 23, 2018 In: The Post7 Comments Yeah, I know. Way to be a grump to start the season, El Baldo. Look, I could blow August sunshine in your face about the team I still love and root for, but that’s Joe Theismann’s job! And I expect “Sunshine Joey” to be in his usual pre-season form once exhibition season begins. There’s nothing wrong with optimism. In fact, the NFL does tend to be the most volatile league from year to year. There are many examples of 6-10 losers the year prior, going all the way to either an NFC/AFC championship game, or even the Super Bowl. The Jags were 3-13, and then the next year had New England dead to rights in their building before choking it all away. The Rams were 4-12 and had to fire their dumb-ass mustache of a coach, then won their division by 2 games over vaunted Seattle. The Eagles were coming off a 7-9 “meh” season, then last year ended in a parade (and horse poop eating) even without their franchise QB on the field! So there’s nothing stopping these Alex Smith-led Redskins from surprising everybody else. The only one who won’t be suprised is themselves. Oh yeah, they really think they are “alot” better going into this year. Ummm hmmmm. The team seems convinced they are better at every position (isn’t that the usual feeling for all 32 teams!?) and won’t have that disingenuous nerd Kirk, cautiously padding his stats for a big payday. Oh no, don’t scoff at that. There is an overwhelming vibe in that building that Kirk – his contract stalemate, and his overly cautious trigger finger that left tons and tons of exquisitely designed Jay Gruden yardage rotting like uneaten meat in the All-22 film room – WAS THE PROBLEM last year. That, and well… you know…. “injuries.” I cringe every time I hear a Redskins coach, front-office person, player, or fan/apologist talk about “all the injuries.” I mean, we’re all grown ups here, right? How long have YOU been watching this league? Injuries happen, and happen some more, and they happen in ways in which the injury demon clearly says every single year “I. Do. Not. Give. A. Fuck. About. Your. Precious. Roster.” Some of the most injured teams, at the most important positions, have gone on to win it all. And they never talk about injuries. Yet it seems we talk about them all the time here in Redskinsland. So here’s some quick thoughts before training camp opens at the end of this week. Jordan Reed is not going to “stay healthy.” Period. I’m putting him down for 10 starts. And you know what, we can make a chicken sandwich out of that. Anything less is going to be trouble. I’m going to wait until Derrius Guice has his first 100 yard game to start proclaiming him better than Todd Gurley or Le’Veon Bell. Don’t get me wrong, he appears to be the most talent we’ve drafted high at RB in a long, long time. But show me something first. Ya’ll do know Alex Smith was called “checkdown charlie” derisively by Chiefs fans up until just this past season when his YPA jumped nearly a full yard over his 4 year average as a Chief? He had explosive home run threats in Tyreke Hill and Kareem Hunt. Just because Jay is saying Alex will take chances Kirk refused, doesn’t mean it’ll actually happen. Let’s see. The secondary is a massive gamble. Josh Norman is a full throttle guy who competes and plays hard, but is starting to get hurt more often doing it. Orlando Scandrick at the other corner, is .. well, a bad idea. It’s up to 3rd round CB Fabian Moreau and 4th round S Montae Nicholson to press up into starters to save this unit. Josh Doctson is out of excuses. The team sees massive upside still with this former first rounder, and I hope they are right. I’m skeptical, however, despite his odd statistical season last year. He caught a team-high 6 TDs, but only had 35 catches on 78 targets, a dismal sub-.500 catch rate. There’s genuine excitement on defense, where on paper – assuming first round picks play like first round picks – we’ll have the best front-7 in town that we’ve had in years. It might even be enough to make up for a suspect back end. I really DO like Alex Smith, although I think he’s only a slight upgrade over Cousins. The bonus comes from Smith’s running ability, which is good enough that Gruden might actually run a lot more zone-read stuff than he ever has. And if Guice is good, and Jay decides he’s okay with running the football (I’ll have to see it to believe it), then this Redskins team can win 10 games, 11 if they catch a bounce. The downside is probably 4-12 if certain players don’t materialize as blue-chippers (Doctson, Guice, Payne) and previously counted-upon stalwarts of this team (Trent Williams, Ryan Kerrigan, and Reed) have their seasons actually cut short by injury. If that happens, look out. It’ll be a long ugly year wondering why we just spent $94 million on a 34 year old QB when the team needs to be in rebuilding mode. “I Had This Crazy Dream About Tiger The Other Day….” All That Avacado “Ice Cream” For That Body? Let’s Have a Drone Drop the Onsides Kick Aaron Rodgers is NOT the Problem, but . . . A little somethin’ while on the sh**ter this weekend Whoa, whoa, whoa. That kind of sensible reason will not fly well in the land of the August Championship! It’s the correct way to look at your Redskins heading in to this season though. I’m glad you/we (I count myself a Caps fan after 22+ years living in MD) got to experience that championship feeling. You deserve it! Maybe that feeling will come one day again for Redskins fans, but you won’t “deserve” it until that front office starts making more good decisions than head-scratching WTF decisions. Best of luck to ye! Adam Banig Look at all that hair on the Czabe profile pic! Mark Colling Damn Czabe, you just ruined winning the off season with sane analysis. Strange, You can’t use injuries as an excuse but then hedge your season prediction based on whether there are key injuries or not. Rub a lamp and make a wish Reed plays 10 games. More like starts 9 games is at 70% for 6 games and leaves early in the middle of 2nd quarter in 3 other games due to name your ailment here. This may not be “the Redskins year” so to say, but I think it’s hard to say that they’re the dumpster fire that they were in the mid to late 90s, last decade – except for the Gibbs years – and most the Shanahan era except for 2012. Crazy as it sounds – aside from not re-signing Cousins after the 2015 season for $20 million a year which McCloughan was against too – the Redskins front office has been building the team and doing things the right way. They haven’t been overspending in free agency and they’ve been mostly building through the draft with mostly bargain free agents with the exception of signing Norman – which had McCloughan’s blessing in 2015 – and signing Paul Richardson this offseason. So, somewhere between 4 and 11 wins? Way to hedge your bet Steve. Compared to last year this team is basically the same on defense (better in the line, worse in the secondary) and slightly better on offense (better at running back, a wash at quarterback). Unfortunately after starting with a couple of cream puffs their schedule is brutal – thus my own prediction is they will repeat last year’s 7-9 record.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1092
__label__wiki	0.928745	0.928745	UMass football, Northwestern preparing for battle between two poorly performing offenses The Minutemen average just 20.7 points per game Eva Trainer/Daily Collegian By Dan McGee, Assistant Sports Editor It’d be a major understatement to say the offense for the Massachusetts football team has not been great all year long. A quarterback carousel, a lack of depth and uninspiring play calling has seen the Minutemen (1-9) average 20.7 points per game, ranking them 113th of 130 Division I schools in the country. UMass sits 115th in passing yards per game with 164.9, despite throwing the ball at least 39 more times than the 15 teams that sit below them. Among the teams that rank below UMass in passing yards per game is Northwestern, which the Minutemen will travel to play on Saturday. “Execution is key,” coach Walt Bell said of the offense. “That’s practice habits, that’s coaching, that’s our job. To put together a group for three hours on Saturday and do a good job. It’s just about carrying practice into game day. Every opportunity we get, every repetition that we get, especially with a really young group, we are better for it.” What might help the lousy efforts of the UMass offense on Saturday is the historically poor offense of the Wildcats (1-8), which ranks 129th of 130 teams in the country, scoring only 11.1 points per game. Northwestern was shut out 20-0 against now No. 24 Iowa and could muster only three points in games against now No. 2 Ohio State and Indiana. While a quick glance at the numbers might lead one to believe that the UMass offense is better than Northwestern’s, reading between the lines shows that it probably isn’t. The Wildcats play in the Big Ten, one of the best conferences in college football, against interconference opponents such as No. 14 Wisconsin, Ohio State and Iowa. The Wildcats have the fourth hardest strength of schedule in the country, while UMass has the third easiest. “Everyone is going to see [Northwestern’s] record and say they’re not playing great football,” Bell said. “But they’re sound, they’re disciplined. There’s a reason those guys won 10 games just a year ago.” For the UMass offense, it seemed to be putting things together prior to Sunday’s 63-7 defeat to Army. It totaled a season high 439 yards against UConn, along with two respectable offensive performances against Louisiana Tech and Liberty, where it seemed to pick up steam as the games went along. “It’s just about execution,” quarterback Andrew Brito said. “Everybody needs to do their part and it starts and finishes with the quarterback. Without good quarterback play you’re not going to be able to move the ball at all. I think it’s really focusing on everybody doing their job.” Brito, who transferred to UMass from junior college this season, has seen his play fluctuate over the year. He posted a solid 16-for-27, two-touchdown performance against Liberty, yet could only muster 75 yards on 6-for-16 against Army. Of the 75 yards against Army, 56 came on a trick-play touchdown in the first quarter. He was later benched for Randall West in the third. “Every day at practice, no spots are solidified,” receiver Jermaine “OC” Johnson said about the quarterback carousel. “We’re basically getting reps with mostly all the quarterbacks, the ones, twos and threes. We have a good hold on each quarterback, no telling who the starter will be.” Though the Northwestern offense and the UMass offense seem to be fairly similar, the Wildcats still open the game as 39-point favorites against the Minutemen. “What I’ve been told [is that] their offense is down right now,” Johnson said. “But their defense is told to play physical basically. I know they’re going to bring a challenge and it’s just up to us to accept that challenge and just play physical also.” Two pretty bad offenses. One game. Kickoff is set for noon on Saturday from Evanston, Illinois. Dan McGee can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @DMcGeeUMass. Andrew Brito Northwestern football Walt Bell	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1094
__label__wiki	0.511271	0.511271	Nassau Daily Voice serves Glen Cove, Hempstead, Long Beach, North Hempstead & Oyster Bay serves Babylon, Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip, North Fork, Riverhead, Smithtown & The Hamptons Breaking News: Woman Sitting In Car Robbed At Gunpoint On Long Island, Police Say Accumulating Snow Now Possible From Slow-Moving Storm System Joe Lombardi Facebook @joe_lombardi Email me Read More Stories After a brief warmup on Monday, Dec. 9 and Tuesday, Dec. 10, temperatures will drop dramatically on Wednesday, Dec. 11, with morning, accumulating snow now possible. Photo Credit: AccuWeather.com Following a mostly sunny and dry weekend, a new storm system will bring rain, possible flooding and end with some snow in much of the region early this week. Photo Credit: AccuWeather.com Weekend Storm Will Follow Return Of More Seasonable Temperatures Likelihood Increases For Winter Storm This Weekend Cold, Dry Stretch Will Be Followed By Milder Air, Then Wintry... Click here for a new, updated story: Projected Snowfall Totals Released For Storm From Overnight Tuesday Through Wednesday Morning After a brief warmup to start the week, rain will turn to snow at the tail-end of a slow-moving storm system sweeping through the area, with accumulating snowfall now possible. Here's the five-day forecast: Monday, Dec. 9: Rain will be heavy at times. It will be breezy and warmer, with a high temperature in the mid 50s. Rain will continue overnight with the temperature holding steady in the 50s. Up to three-quarters to an inch of rainfall is possible during the day, with another half-inch possible overnight. Tuesday, Dec. 10: There will be showers, mainly late in the morning and early in the afternoon, on a cloudy day with a high temperature rising to the upper 50s to near 60 in the area. A new round of rain will then arrive and continue at times through the evening, accompanied by a gradual drop in temperatures. Areas farther north will see snow showers at times in the evening. As the overnight low falls to right around the freezing mark, much of the region will see a mix of snow and rain before daybreak. About a half-inch of accumulation is possible before dawn. Wednesday, Dec. 11: The drop in temperatures will continue during the day with the high temperature only in the mid 30s. Snow is possible at times during the morning throughout the area, including Long Island. New snowfall accumulations of 1 to 3 inches are possible before the storm system final moves out around noontime. Thursday, Dec. 12: Sunny and sharply colder with a high temperature in the low 30s. Friday, Dec. 13: Partly sunny and a bit warmer with a high temperature around 40 to 42 degrees. Expect Snowy, Stormy Winter, AccuWeather Says Follow Joe Lombardi on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin Death Of 8-Year-Old At Long Island Residence Under Investigation Students At Long Island School To Be Relocated For Remainder ... Nassau Store Among Six New JCPenney Store Closures Scheduled Nassau Daily Voice! Serves Glen Cove, Hempstead, Long Beach, North Hempstead & Oyster Bay	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1096
__label__cc	0.582883	0.417117	Dalia Abdelhady 2017 – present Associate Professor in Sociology, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 2014 – 2016 University Lecturer, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 2011 – 2013 Senior Researcher, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (Parental Leave 2012 – 2013) 2004-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA (Research Leave: 2006-2008) 2006-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council, Children of Immigrants in Schools Project & Centre Maurice Halbwachs – Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 2000-2004 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, NY, USA ADMINISTRATIVE POSTIONS 2017 – 2018 Director, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 2014 – 2015 Director of Studies, CMES, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 2010 – 2011 Director, Dallas Peace Center, Dallas, TX 2004 Ph.D. in Sociology, The University at Albany, State University of New York, USA 1992 B.A. in Economics, The American University in Cairo, Egypt GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2008 “The Children of Immigrants in Schools: Comparing Mexican Americans and French North Africans.” The Social Science Research Council ($10,000) 2007 The National Science Foundation – Partnership for International Research and Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ($40,000) 2004 Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute (declined) 2004 Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 2003 The Social Science Research Council, International Migration Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000) 2002 The Ford Foundation, Middle East Research Competition Award ($6,000) Institutional/Departmental 2016 Internal Research Grant – CMES, Lund University (SEK 70,000) 2012 “Hydrosolidarity: Opportunities and Constraints in Water Management of the Nile River,” The Pufendorf Institute, Lund University, Thematic Research Grant 2009 Southern Methodist University – Hamilton Undergraduate Research Award ($1,500) 2009 Southern Methodist University – Office of Leadership and Community Involvement Service Learning Course Development Grant ($500) 2009 Southern Methodist University – Council on Research Travel Grant ($2,000) 2003 University at Albany – Department of Sociology, Allen E. Liska Dissertation Award ($1,000) 2001 University at Albany – Graduate Student Organization Research and Travel Grants (1,500) 2001 University at Albany – Initiatives for Women Awards ($500) 2001 University at Albany – Benevolent Association Research Awards ($500) 1996 University at Albany – Graduate Student Presidential Fellowship ($16,000) INVITED TALKS AT UNIVERSITIES 2017 The Crisis Discourse and the Construction of Refugees in Sweden, Workshop on Key Elements of Model Communities for Refugees and Immigrants: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, June 2017 The Role of Social Capital in Understanding Refugees’ Incorporation and Adaptability, Department of Sociology, Lund University, May 2016 Crisis, Mobility and Generation. Symposium on Critical Explorations of Crises, Lund University, October 2012 Women and the Uprisings in the Arab World, Lund University Internet Institute, Module on ICT and New Media in Social Movements, November. 2012 The Lebanese Diaspora: A Comparative Ethnography, Stockholm University, Transnational Migration Seminar Series, October. 2012 Women’s Writes: Cross-National Perspectives on Feminisms and Empowerment (with Lory Dance), Malmö University, March. 2011 A Career in Research, or How I Followed my Passion, Zayed University, UAE, Summer Research Institute, June. 2010 The Challenges and Rewards of International Research and Training, The Social Science Research Council, International Migration Program, September. 2009 Learning to Labor, Learning to Cope: The Integration of Second-Generation Mexican Americans and French North Africans, Fordham University, Department of Sociology, December. 2008 Lebanese Immigrant Identities and Communities: Narratives from Three Cities, The University of Cyprus, Co-sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies and Sociology Departments, April. 2007 Arab-Americans’ Boundary-Making Mechanisms Post 9/11, Conference on “Trojan Horse or Assimilated Citizens? Arab-American Identities after 9/11,” University of Texas, A&M, College Station, February. 2005 Lebanese Immigrants in a Changing Global World, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, November. 2005 A Comparative Analysis of Political Engagement of Lebanese Immigrants in Three World Cities, Conference on Middle Eastern Diasporas, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, March. TALKS AT NON-ACADEMIC INSITUTIONS 2018 Arab Culture in the Diaspora, Arabic Book Fair, Malmö, April 2017 Building Communities, Sustaining Families: Arab Women and Migration to Sweden, Ibn Rushd Studieförbund, Malmö, April 2016 Still a Future: Syria Moving Forward Despite Uncertainty, Almedalen, Visby, July 2015 The Middle East in Focus: Migration from the Middle East to Sweden. Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, November 2015 The Middle East in Focus: What happened to the Arab Spring hope? Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, March 2014 Ambivalent Identities, Contested Communities: Middle East Diasporas in a Global World, Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, January. PEER-REVIEWED PAPER PRESENTATIONS (last 10 years) 2018 Refugees in Sweden and the Crisis in Disciplining Bodies, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Seville, Spain, July 2017 The Racialization of Syrian Refugees in National Newspapers in Jordan and Turkey, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2017 The Role of Social Capital in Understanding Refugees’ Incorporation and Adaptation into Host Countries, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, July 2016 Integration through Education? Aspirations, Experiences, and Opportunities among Two Second Generations, (co-authored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 2016 Newspaper Coverage of the Refugee: Divergent Discourses over Time and Space, the 13th Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO), University of Catania, Italy, March 2015 Perceptions of Socioeconomic Mobility by Second Generation Mexican Americans and French North Africans, (co-authored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2013 Women and Regime Change in Egypt: The Potential for Revolutionary Cultural Codes in a Changing Society, Workshop on Regime Change in the Middle East, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, November. 2013 Women in the UAE between the Global and the National, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August. 2013 Educational Inequalities and perceptions of Social Mobility of the Second Generation In France and US, (co-authored with Yaël Brinbaum and Amy Lutz), Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August. 2013 Inequalities in Education and Employment: Comparing Second Generation Mexicans in the US and North Africans in France, (co-authored with Yaël Brinbaum and Amy Lutz), Colloquium on French-American Comparison, Science Po, Paris, June. 2012 Global Roots and Localized Cosmopolitanism: Lebanese Diasporic Experiences, Conference on “The Mashriq and the Mahjar: Migration from the Levant, 1800-2000,” North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, April. 2012 Women, Nation Building and the Limits of Feminism: A Case Study of United Arab Emirates Female Leaders, Gender and Women’s Studies Consortium Inaugural Conference, Sharjah, UAE, March 2011 Islam and Cosmopolitanism: Expressions of Religiosity and Public Engagement among Egyptian Women, Annual Meeting of the Middle East Association of North America, Washington, DC, December. 2011 The State of the Art of Research on Arab Women, The German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation International Congress, Freie University, Berlin, Germany, October. 2011 Women Businesses and Corporate Social Responsibility in the UAE, The 2nd Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, July. 2009 Educational and Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Mexican Americans and French Maghrebins, (coauthored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), The Children of Immigrants in Schools Conference, New York, NY, October. 2009 Educational and Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Mexican Americans and French Maghrebins, (coauthored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August. 2009 Early Labor Market Experiences among Mexican Americans in the United States and Maghrebins in France, (coauthored with Amy Lutz) accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, April. 2009 Educational Experiences and the Early Labor Market Incorporation of Second-Generation Youth in the United States and France: A Comparison of Mexican Americans and French Maghrebins, (coauthored with Amy Lutz and Yaël Brinbaum), The Second Generation Research Dialogues, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin, Germany, January. 2008 Cosmopolitan Identity and Global Engagement: The Case of the Lebanese Diaspora, The American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, August. 2008 Locating Cosmopolitanism in the Lebanese Diaspora, World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, July. PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS Member of the Metropolis Project International Steering Committee (2018 – present) Member of Middle East Studies Association (2010 – present) Member of the Southern Sociological Society (2005 – 2011) Member of the American Sociological Association (2001 – present) Activities at Professional Meetings 2018 Panel Organizer and Presider: Urban Effects: Understanding Social Change in the Neighborhood Panel Organizer and Presider: Reconstructing the Past, Challenging the Preset Panel Discussant: Revolutionary Subjectivities, Class Politics and the Subalterns World Congress in Middle Eastern Studies, Seville, Spain, July 2017 Panel Organizer and Presider: Beyond Vulnerability: The Creative Use of Social Capital among Middle Eastern Immigrants and Refugees, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, July 2014 Panel Organizer: The Narratives of the Arab Uprisings: Towards a Cultural Analysis of Social Movements in the Middle East Panel Organizer:Perceptions of Socioeconomic Integration of Middle Eastern Immigrants in Europe: Comparing National Discourses and Subjective Experiences World Congress in Middle Eastern Studies, Ankara, Turkey, August 2012 Workshop Co-Director: Women and Globalization in the GCC: Negotiating States, Agency and Social Change. The Third Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge, UK, July. 2012 Session Organizer: New Perspectives on Globalization and Feminism Session Organizer: Introducing Gender in Arabic Gender and Women Studies in the Arab Region: The Inaugural Conference of the United Arab Emirates’ Gender and Women’s Studies Consortium, Sharjah, UAE, March 2011 Session Co-Organizer: Women and Business in the Middle East and North Africa. The German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation International Congress, Freie University, Berlin, Germany, October. 2009 Session Organizer: Arabs and Arab Americans. The American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August. 2008 Session Organizer: (Re-) Asserting Collective Memory in a Global Age. The International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, June. Grant Reviewer European Research Council; The National Science Foundation (USA); University at Albany Faculty Seed Grants; University at Albany Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants Manuscript Reviewer Journal of Refugee Studies, Identity, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Ethnic and Racial Studies, American Sociological Review, Sociological Forum, Sociology Compass, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Sociological Forum, Middle East Critique, Sage Publications, New York University Press “On the declining popularity of governing parties in Sweden,” Radio Sweden, June 6, 2018 “The Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University anticipates ongoing restrictive immigration policies,” Radio Sweden, May 9, 2018 “Gender-related attitudes among Arab youth,” Swedish Public Television, September 3, 2017 “A winding road to the north: Swedish debate about immigration,” Przeglad Baltycki, in Polish, December 7, 2015 “Egyptians go to the polls,” Sydsvenskan newspaper, and Goteborgs Posten newspaper, Smalands posten, November 18, 2015 “Gigantic gas discovery can turn against democracy in Egypt,” Dagens Nyheter, August 31, 2015 “Protests can Reinvigorate Pro-Democracy Movement,” Svd Nyheter newspaper, July 2, 2013 “The Women Faded Away (Ikea in Saudi Arabia),” Sydsvenskan newspaper, October 2, 2012 “Women and Social Change in Saudi Arabia,” Swedish Television, March 16, 2012 “Russia and China veto Intervention in Syria,” Swedish Radio – Arabic Broadcast, February 6, 2012 “North Texas Egyptian Americans Celebrate the Fall of Mubarak,” North Texas National Public Radio, February 11, 2011 “Two Faiths Unite for Holiday Tradition,” North Texas Public Radio, December 16, 2010	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1098
__label__wiki	0.62799	0.62799	Barron Burnett Polk Sawyer Washburn \| Politics & Government Governor Evers Announces More Than $90 Million In Payments To Local Governments Local governments receive quarterly payments totaling $90,431,667 for Transportation Aid. Wisconsin DOT \| Press Release Tuesday, April 2, 2019 \| Updated Apr 02, 2019 12:30 pm CDT Governor Tony Evers announced that local governments received quarterly payments on Monday totaling $90,431,667 for General Transportation Aids (GTA), Connecting Highway Aids and Expressway Policing Aids from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). For calendar year 2019, local governments will receive an estimated $473 million from the state transportation fund to build and maintain local roads and bridges, which includes Expressway Policing Aids to the Milwaukee County Sheriff Department for patrol of Milwaukee expressways. Governor Evers’ budget proposal includes a $66 million increase for GTA. “The state’s local road systems are the “first” and the “last” mile connection to Wisconsin’s economy,” said WisDOT Secretary-designee Craig Thompson. “The governor’s proposed budget is the first step to stop the decline of our roads and give our citizens the transportation system they deserve.” “The stakes are too high to ignore Wisconsin’s infrastructure crisis. It is time to stop kicking the can down the road,” Governor Evers said. “Industry leaders, business owners and residents all over the state understand that Wisconsin’s economic future will rely on sustainable funding for a diverse, high-quality transportation system.” Payments to Wisconsin’s 1,852 villages, towns and cities include: $87,159,818 in General Transportation Aids; $3,015,874 to municipalities eligible to receive Connecting Highway Aids; and $255,975 to Milwaukee County for Expressway Policing Aids. General Transportation Aids help defray the costs of constructing, maintaining, and operating roads and streets under local jurisdiction. Connecting Highway Aids reimburse municipalities for maintenance and traffic control of certain state highways within municipalities. Quarterly payments for cities, towns and villages are sent the first Monday in January, April, July and October. County payments are made in three installments, with 25 percent of the total annual payment on the first Monday in January; 50 percent on the first Monday in July; and 25 percent on the first Monday in October. Communities also receive state transportation fund revenues for public transit, elderly and disabled transportation, and airport and harbor development. Local communities may also receive state and federal funds for specific highway and bridge construction projects. View full list here. River Street Dental Dan King Agency Tim Reedy State Farm Agency The Pour House Crazy Jared's Online Auctions The Body Shop Fitness Centers Economart Sidebar © 2015-2020 DrydenWire \| Site by DrydenWire	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1117
__label__cc	0.731271	0.268729	Dutch Midwife Internet forum aims to build trust 22nd Aug '19 To fix net neutrality we need competition of broadband providers \| Local Loop Unbundling explained Why would Google support net neutrality when it doesn’t even affect them. It’s the stuff like this that gives me trust issues. If you want to advocate for or against something that’s going to affect lives of other people, at least know what you are talking about. Steven, you don’t even know how the Internet works and you advocate for one of the greatest consolidation of economic power in history. Let me break this down for you – edge providers directly benefit from net neutrality. They can potentially get a direct access to the ISPs’ networks without paying for it. They wouldn’t have to beg like dogs for access to their customers, as ISPs are most of the time time having the final word. But I guess terms like settlement-free peering, transit provider, or Internet exchange point don’t say much to you. My point is repealing net neutrality might not be the worst thing ever to propose, but I can only respect it as longs opponents of the rules suggest an alternative. Simply saying “the government regulation is always bad because that’s what my tribal ideology tells me” won’t do the trick. So here I am doing the job for them. How can we fix the Internet after net neutrality gets repealed? Competition is the answer, but two-thirds of the country don’t have such luxury. So how do we restore competition? By finally doing justice to what the 1996 Telecommunications Act was truly intended for – break up big infrastructure monopolies from the ISP market. Net neutrality isn’t perfect and it has its problems. Luckily, there is a better solution that addresses them without creating other problems. So let’s start from the begging. This is the premise. Net neutrality as a public policy will always lose. And there are two main reasons for this. First, the FCC has by design an exclusive authority to choose how it wants to classify services and regulate them accordingly. In 2010 the Commission adopted coherent set of net neutrality rules in the Open Internet Order but chose to classify Internet Service Providers as information services nonetheless. As a result some ISPs chose to honor these rules, but the likes of Comcast and Verizon took the FCC to court arguing the agency lacked the authority to apply Title II regulations to services classified as Title I. The court ruled in favor of the corporations, and rightfully so. But the judge also invited Tom Wheeler, then chairman of the FCC, to reconsider classifying Internet Service Providers as telecommunications services and thus make them abide by the net neutrality order as common carriers. The Commission is bound to follow the exact rules laid out in the Act and it cannot take regulations from one Title and apply them to another. Which means that if FCC wants to enforce net neutrality as a public policy, it can only apply them to telecommunications services and no other service classifications. So as long as they aren’t challenged in courts, by states, or by the Congress, whatever the FCC says goes. All commission members are unelected US citizens, so they have no electorate to respond to either. Every time a new elected administration appoints a chair the Commission is free to rewrite its rules completely. Which is exactly what we’ve been witnessing over the past years. Second, the Internet was never neutral. And it will never be. In reality, Internet Service Providers are nothing more than just huge networks of consumer and business computers that connect to other networks in the world that connect them with other computers running websites, services, applications, or content. There is no single global magical Internet. Internet is really just a network of networks that interconnect among each other. Each time you want to connect to a website or do some instant messaging, your ISP has to exchange your traffic with someone (some other network) to fulfill your request. If you want to watch this Youtube video, your ISP has to exchange your traffic with someone who has that Youtube video on their network. If Youtube wants to reach its audience, it has to exchange their traffic with someone who has access to that audience. These exchanges don’t happen automatically. Real people need to meet often times in real life and make arrangements. But they’re mutually beneficial because by exchanging the traffic, customer demands of both networks are satisfied. A traffic exchange can be arranged either directly with another network, or they can pay someone else to do it on their behalf. These exchanges of traffic can range anywhere from handshakes or simple email communication, to paid contracts to ensure the fulfillment of their promises. When two networks can connect to each other directly, it’s called peering. Usually it’s done for free, because both networks benefit from exchanging their traffic to their respective customers. In which case it’s called settlement-free peering. But sometimes one network might need to pay for peering to another network to increase their invectives to give them open access to their network. Or some network might not want to dedicate their own equipment and staff to get direct access to another network, so they can choose to pay a transit provider to exchange their bits for them. Everybody has to work this way – If a website wants to go online, it has to exchange its traffic with someone who’ll forward their traffic. If you want to connect to the Internet, you pay your ISP to make that exchange of your data for you. If someone wants be an ISP, they have to make deals to exchange their customers’ traffic with someone else’s customers’ traffic. In economics terms the Internet is an incredible amount of mutually beneficial deals made between network operators. None of these deals happen automatically. They all have to be done manually with every single network operator. It requires staff and equipment to settle them, and a little bit of staff to maintain them. Which is why sometimes it’s necessary for one party to pay another. Therefore, the limit of any net neutrality policy is that it cannot adapt to the very nature of this globally interconnected network of networks. All an ISP needs to do to throttle someone’s traffic is to do nothing at all. No deals, no settlements, no upgrades of infrastructure. If we tell ISPs they can’t block a certain traffic, they can say they didn’t manage to make a deal with that network and rightfully so. If we tell them they can’t throttle certain traffic, they can say they just didn’t manage to upgrade their network and rightfully so. If we want to enforce net neutrality rules from an ISP’s network to its customers, they will violate net neutrality rules when making deals with edge providers. Unless we want to regulate how people can make deals amongst one another, we should start thinking about how to promote the right incentive structures that will give consumers back their power. We need to solve this problem by going straight for its root. And that root is that Internet Service Providers, which hold local monopolies on the backbone infrastructure are on top of the market food chain. Every deal about Internet traffic exchange has to have a final confirmation from these ISPs. Without their approval, no Internet traffic is going to reach consumers and therefore – no Internet is happening. Consumers have absolutely no say in this. If they can’t chose another Internet Access Service, they can’t vote with their wallet. Corporations don’t fear cosmetic regulation because they can always afford to dump enough money into lobbying and bribing officials to make sure no laws endanger their dominant position. No net neutrality regulation will ever be able to encompass the entire nature of the Internet unless you want to turn it into a totalitarian monstrosity. A cable TV provider can use the same infrastructure to offer Internet access service to its customers. It has both incentives and opportunities to discriminate Internet traffic to favor their cable TV products. A telephone network operator can use the same copper wires that transfer your calls to transfer bits of Internet traffic. A DSL broadband Internet provider has both incentives and opportunities to throttle competitive Internet traffic to favor their telephone products. The problem isn’t innovation or the amount of bandwidth available. It’s the lack of companies with the ability to bring broadband to American households. The reason for this is that all cable and telephone infrastructure is owned by private corporations and now no one else can use their pipes or lay their own backbone infrastructure next to them. So the root of the problem we need to address has everything to do with the abuse of something called DMP – Dominant Market Position. In the real world, some things are going to be done by a single entity. Some work that needs to be done simply isn’t open to the competitive market. There only needs to be one road, one electrical wire, one gas pipeline, one sewage system, and one water pipe going into your house. Empirically, governments around the world, and even in the US, chose to deal with these infrastructure needs by either regulating a natural monopoly, or building its infrastructure by a dedicated state-run organization. Either of these options try to resolve the same problem – any entity that holds a dominant market position in any uncompetitive infrastructure market, shouldn’t be allowed to dictate terms of every other competitive market built on top of it. This was already captured in the 1934 Communications Act that created the Federal Communications Commission. Dominant infrastructure monopolies were regulated as common carriers so that new markets could be developed on top of them. This was to minimize the amount of regulation to an absolute necessity – regulate monopolies so that you can let free market regulate itself through competition. Road builders shouldn’t dictate what cars people can and can’t drive and for how long. A gas provider can’t mandate its customers to only use certain devices. An electricity provider shouldn’t be allowed to select which appliances can and can’t run in the house. In other words, what’s in the network is decided on by the provider. But how it is being used should be completely up to the end users. Only then can other markets flourish on top of the backbone infrastructure. Without this principle, laying down infrastructure only builds a prison of opportunities operated by the monopoly provider. And thus we will never have a competition of telecommunications infrastructure operators which the Internet has been built upon. But we still can have a fully competitive market of Internet Service Providers, where users will once again be the ones enforcing net neutrality with their market power. The only difference is that we shouldn’t enforce net neutrality as a public policy, but rather a principle called “maximum separation”. Maximum separation was coined by the FCC in the 1970s. This is when first computer networks saw an exponential innovation. They were built on top of the telephone networks, which were then operated by AT&T as a nation-wide monopoly. The FCC realized that AT&T served as both a provider and a competitor for other computer networks. Their incentives and opportunities were colliding with the existence of this new innovative and competitive market of computer networks. The economic potential of what the computer networks could enable simply couldn’t be ignored by the US government in the era of deadly Cold-War competition with the Soviet Union. They needed to speed up competition but realized that all the efforts won’t mean anything if telephone monopolies aren’t put in check. So they came with a simple principle: if a business operates in a market with Dominant Market Position, and it has both incentives and opportunities to harm competition in other markets, it needs to be broken up before it can enter unregulated markets. The maximum separation rule required that all telecommunications carriers give undiscriminated and open access to any information service provider. This would give any computer network business an equal chance to just connect to the whole telephone network at the “last mile”, without having to build their own pipes. A telecommunications carrier could also enter an unregulated market as a computer network provider, but only through an entirely independent entity, with completely separate accounting, staff, facilities, and offices. To require telecommunications carriers to open up their infrastructure to competition in computer networks had been developing for two decades and over three different administrations. It is what enabled the Internet to take over the world in the 1990s as virtually anyone could become an Internet Service Provider. In 1998 North American households could choose from 7,000 independent ISPs. The maximum separation rule then translated more technically into a process known as “local loop unblundling” in the 1996 Telecommunications Act. To understand local loop unbundling the easy way, picture this: imagine AT&T provides a direct telephone line to your house as a voice service. Right now, AT&T is the only company that use that wire to transfer Internet bits over Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). The final part of the telephone line that loops connection from AT&T local telephone exchange directly into your house can only be used by AT&T. The owner of the local loop, which is also referred to as “last mile”. However, if the company was made to open up access to its telephone exchange at a neutral rate, they would still provide you with that DSL broadband, but any competing business could hook up to that local exchange, connect to the AT&T’s telephone pipes, and provide you with their fully independent ISP service. The telephone exchange operator would become an “incumbent local exchange carrier”. The only thing that would be regulated is the open and equal access to the exchange to make sure no parties are favored over the others. The local telephone exchange carrier would be regulated as a common carrier under Title II of the Communications Act. They would be barred from any unreasonable discrimination or preferential treatment in their telephone network traffic. And what happens after that would be completely up to the market. With local loop unbundling in place, broadband Internet Access Service would be regulated as an information service, outside of the tight Title II regulations of common carriers. If AT&T wanted to, they could still violate net neutrality, just like any other broadband provider, but they would be challenged by a competition of an unrestrained number of competing Internet Service Providers that would suddenly appear at your doorstep. The local loop unbundling is the necessary limited government. It enables competition where it otherwise would never be possible. And while incumbent local exchange carrier would argue that this would stifle infrastructure-based competition, the ones behind most of the damaging anti-competitive behavior, are the very monopolistic infrastructure operators. They do everything that’s within their power to prevent any new competitors from laying down their own infrastructure. A common practice for established monopolies is to make as many lawsuits as possible so that their competitors would incur unbearable losses and just give up. Most of the local governments are also reluctant to grant new businesses permission to interfere with the infrastructure and cause some disturbance for any amount of time. The financial, operational and legal costs are simply too high for new competitors to enter the infrastructure market. If you want to become an independent ISP in a certain area and even have means to lay down your own wires, you would most likely have to wait until that area makes some major road repairs to let you in. A city doesn’t need dozens of telephone line providers. It’s actually way more convenient for the infrastructure to have just a single operator. It only has to lay copper wires once and then build the roads on top of them. Copper has extreme endurance and resistance so it requires next to zero maintenance for decades to come. With the current technology there simply isn’t enough room for infrastructure-based competition. So the easiest and the least harmful thing to do is to turn telephone operators with Dominant Market Position into “incumbent local exchange carriers”. This means that you as an end user could receive a telephone line as a voice service straight into your house from an incumbent carrier, like AT&T. But now you would be able to choose from a handful of broadband providers acquiring bandwidth from the telephone exchange of the same carrier you receive your voice service from. But wait a minute. If this was written in the 1996 Telecommunications Act, how come there is still no competition of broadband providers in the US? Good question. It’s because the local loop unbundling was never implemented. The FCC decided cable broadband and fiber optic were not telecommunications services and thus never followed common carrier regulations. Only DSL broadband was because it was using telephone lines. But even that was abandoned as early as 2005. The impacts of this are visible. The United States no longer leads the world in broadband deployment. It’s been replaced by countries that strongly implement local loop unbundling. The number one country with the highest average broadband speeds, South Korea, implements local loop unbundling since 2002. The same goes for most European countries that on top of easily accessible competition with reliable high speed broadband also get it at a lower price than in the US. But what’s most important is that consumers finally get access to a proper broadband competition. Internet Service Providers don’t have to follow government regulations on how to manage their networks. And incumbent carriers can still offer Internet Access Service to their customers, only now they have to face competition. There is plenty of room for various implementations of local loop unbundling. Most countries with this regulation only apply it to DSL, because that’s their dominant way of consumer broadband. Digital Subscriber Line, is one of the most widespread in the world but not in the US. But it would still be good enough even for the US were cable broadband is dominant even if it didn’t have to follow the same DSL unbundling rules. Competition to cable enabled by the abundance of DSL providers would include cable broadband providers just as equally, because DSL forms a perfect substitute for consumer Internet access. But even if that turns out to be false, local loop unbundling could be just as feasibly applied to cable incumbents as well. And on top of that, regulating older technology and deregulating new ones have proven to incentivize innovation. Seeking escape from unbundling requirements of the DSL, incumbent companies will have more incentives to upgrade their network to fiber optic or develop new technologies that don’t need to abide by this regulation. Local loop unbundling isn’t a permanent solution. It’s possible that future technological progress will bring new ways for open Internet access were further government regulation won’t be necessary. But it is a far better regulation than net neutrality because net neutrality recognizes Internet Service Providers as natural monopolies where they shouldn’t be. While local loop unbundling only recognizes companies as monopolies at infrastructure-based market where there is objectively no room for competition. It enables competition where net neutrality would mandate its doomsday. It’s also a far better solution than doing nothing which is what has been proposed by the architects of the repeal of net neutrality. It’s not an ideal solution but a necessary one. Telephone network providers have been natural monopolies pretty much everywhere in the world for the past century or so. Virtually all of the modern economy has moved to the Internet. If you can’t be reached on the Internet, you don’t exist. Sometimes, a simple Google Search algorithm change can make small businesses go dark over night. To give Internet Service Providers the same power Google enjoys with their search engine monopoly, would be to surrender the entire economy to a handful of telecommunications monopolies. It’s easy to switch a search engine or a social network. But for many people it’s almost impossible to switch an Internet Service Provider. 20 years of cable TV consolidation has led to the creation of multi-billion dollar conglomerates that control our media, economic establishment, and political discourse. A simple change of words from “telecommunications” to “information” can completely rewrite all net neutrality rules made by the previous administration. 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__label__wiki	0.842833	0.842833	Southeast Asia hails world's first multilateral air encounter code By Reuters &nbspOctober 19, 2018 \| 01:48 pm GMT+7 ASEAN defense ministers pose for a group photo at the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting in Singapore October 19, 2018. Photo by Reuters Southeast Asian countries agreed on Friday to guidelines to manage unexpected encounters between their military aircraft. Singapore hosted the event, called the pact a world first, and said they would encourage their international partners to join. The agreement, signed by defense ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a conference in Singapore, includes a region-wide pact on the exchange of information on terrorism threats. The voluntary, non-binding guidelines on air encounters build on an existing code to manage sea encounters adopted last year by ASEAN and its “plus” partners - Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea and the United States. “I am happy to announce the first multilateral guidelines for air encounters between military aircraft have been adopted,” Singapore’s defense minister, Ng Eng Hen, told a news conference. “This is a significant achievement.” The ASEAN ministers will meet their eight international partners on Saturday and Ng said they would “seek their agreement” on the guidelines. The framework for the guidelines said a pact was needed because Asia’s rising growth and prosperity had spurred an increase of maritime and air traffic in the region. The United States and China in 2015 signed a pact on a military hotline and rules governing air-to-air encounters. But even with the existing guidelines, tensions remain, especially in the hotly contested South China Sea. China claims almost all of the busy waterway while Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei claim parts of the potentially energy-rich maritime territory. Taiwan also claims the sea. This month, China expressed anger after a U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near islands it claims, saying it resolutely opposed an operation that it called a threat to its sovereignty. Asked if the sea guidelines were working, Ng said, “In a way they are like seatbelts, not completely protected, but at least they provide some protection.” At a lunch meeting with his ASEAN counterparts, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the United States wanted a “constructive relationship” with China but remained concerned by what it saw as the militarization of the South China Sea. In August, Southeast Asian nations and China adopted a negotiating framework for a broader code of conduct in the South China Sea. That framework seeks to advance a 2002 Declaration of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, which has mostly been ignored by claimant states, particularly China, which has built seven islands in disputed waters, three of them equipped with runways, surface-to-air missiles and radars. The ASEAN states also agreed to adopt the “our eyes” initiative as a platform to exchange information on “terrorism, radicalism, and violent extremism, and other non-traditional threats.” They also agreed to set up a “virtual” network of chemical, biological and radiological defense experts to “better share best practices and make quick contact during crises.” Vietnam highlights ASEAN role in resolving South China Sea issues VCCI envisions an ASEAN startup network Weekly roundup: Dog meat debate, flat ASEAN prospects, Saigon tour and more Vietnam relatively safer than ASEAN peers in trade war storm Tags: Air encounter code Southeast Asia Singapore ASEAN Golden Triangle's drug production expands, diversifies amid opioid concerns 'Life goes on': Long road for Typhoon Haiyan survivors Plastic? Fantastic!: Cambodian LGBT fashion designers find beauty in trash Flippin' hard: Myanmar's sea turtles fight against the odds Filipinos deeply conflicted on Duterte's drug war Malaysia begins by-election vote to pave Anwar's return Indonesian islanders fight developer with snorkels and homestays Cambodia to raise minimum wage for garment workers by $12 Reading: Southeast Asia hails world's first multilateral air encounter code	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1125
__label__wiki	0.840726	0.840726	New Climate Change Visualization Presents Two Stark Choices For Our Future Filed to:they call it global warming for a reason Image: Alexander Radtke (Twitter) Last year, a visualization that turned data on our planet’s temperature into a gradient of colorful stripes made a splash by showing how severely the world has warmed to-date. Now, a new visualization riffs on that by showing what the future holds depending on when and how fast humanity cuts its greenhouse gas emissions. And folks, the choice is pretty stark. Scientists and policymakers often talk about the global average temperature and what things will look like in the future, but it can feel vague and hand-wavy. But plot it in technicolor and suddenly the future becomes a lot more visceral. That’s exactly what German engineer Alexander Radtke has done with his new illustration, which extends last year’s climate stripes out to 2200. Each stripe represents the annual global temperature’s departure from average under two different scenarios that leading climate scientists have created. In one, carbon pollution continues unabated through 2100. In the other, emissions peak in the next 12 or so years and begin their decline. I could bore you with all sorts of details on the work that went into creating these scenarios, but Radtke’s visualization cuts to the chase. In a world of unmitigated emissions, the planet would warm up to 9 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) above average (which in this case is 1961-1990) by 2200. That’s the pathway on the top, and it would be a hellacious world inhospitable to civilization as we know it. But as Radtke’s bottom illustration shows, cutting emissions rapidly means the global average temperature would peak near the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degree Fahrenheit) threshold by mid-century and then begin to decline into the future. You can almost feel the fire of global warming being put out in the second visualization. He also created images for pathways between these two, showing what awaits if the world takes mild or belated action to address carbon pollution. Radtke told Earther he was inspired to make the illustration after witnessing the Fridays for Future climate strike in Dusseldorf last week. He said many students incorporated the original climate stripes graphic made by University of Reading scientist Ed Hawkins into their signs, and that “I wanted to make a visualization that shows the paths we can choose and simultaneously puts ‘us and now’ from the edge [to] the center of the picture.” And with a “you are here” reminder placed right in the middle, the crossroads the world is at are clear. This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum TV Meteorologists Double Down on Climate Outreach as Ted Cruz Attacks It Witness Climate Change Anywhere on Earth With This Mesmerizing Visualization A New Visualization Turns Global Warming Into Pop Art	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1126
__label__cc	0.669743	0.330257	What Muslim Problem? Posted on March 2, 2011 by Killian Bundy Oh look, it’s yet another jihadi murderbot, mindlessly killing people in the name of Islam. Gee, I’d sure hate to see what the world would be like if Islam wasn’t the “religion of peace”. Gunman Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Kills 2 US Airmen in Germany A gunman shouting “Allahu Akbar” opened fire on a bus carrying U.S. airmen in Frankfurt, Germany, killing two and wounding two others before his gun jammed and he was subdued, officials said. An ethnic Albanian from Kosovo was taken into custody and the FBI was heading an investigation because U.S. citizens were killed and to determine whether the shooting was an act of terrorism. When he opened fire, the gunman, identified as a long-term resident of Germany, shouted “Allahu Akbar,” according to sources. He fired nine times, killling two and critically wounding two others before the gun jammed and he was subdued by other passengers. While being wrestled into submission, the suspect shouted either “Jihad Jihad” or “Allahu Akbar,” sources said. Germany: Gunman Shouts ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Kills 2 US Airmen Frankfurt shooting update: Gunman shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ before opening fire (UPDATED) 2 U.S. airmen killed, 2 hurt in shooting near Frankfurt airport U.S. Troops Shot in Germany; Terror Suspected Two U.S. Airmen Killed in Frankfurt Airport Shooting US official suggests Frankfurt shooting was terrorism Does shooting at Frankfurt Airport follow pattern of simpler attacks? Gunman Screams ‘Allahu Akbar’, Obama Sees Motive Unclear Shooter kills two US airmen in attack on military bus at Frankfurt Airport US Soldiers Believed Among Dead in Killings 2 reported killed on U.S. military bus at German airport Gunman kills 2 in Frankfurt airport shooting UPDATE: USAFE Airmen killed, wounded in Frankfurt airport shooting Two shot dead at Frankfurt airport Excuse me, the jihadi murderbot Muslim was screaming “Allahu Akbar” and the FBI has to investigate “to determine whether the shooting was an act of terrorism”? /continuing to cling to the politically correct pretend farce that Muslim jihadi murderbots aren’t a global clear and present danger will only get more Americans needlessly killed in the future Filed under: Blog Entry \| Tagged: Albanian, Allahu Akbar, Bus, Custody, Determine, Ethnic Albanian, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Frankfurt, Germany, Gun Jammed, Gunman, Investigation, Islam, Jihad, Jihadi, Killed, Killing, Kosovo, Long-Term Resident, Murderbot, Muslim, Officials, Opened Fire, Passengers, Shooting, Shouting, Sources, Subdued, Submission, Suspect, Terrorism, U.S. Airmen, U.S. Citizens, Wounded, Wounding, Wrestled, Wrestled Into Submission \| Leave a comment »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1128
__label__wiki	0.75039	0.75039	New York, b.1963 Cary Leibowitz For decades, Cary Leibowitz has been the New York art world's master painter of abjection and neurosis, self-loathing, selfdoubt, and self-interrogation—“like a human dynamo of insecurity,” Rhonda Lieberman wrote in Artforum in 1992. In those years, he was still known as Candyass, a prankster-critic of neo-expressionist grandiosity—and one whose selfmocking good humor belied a universe of anxiety below the surface, particularly as the AIDS crisis devastated New York. Cary Leibowitz has exhibited in museums and institutions across the globe including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The Jewish Museum, New York; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; PS1 MoMA, New York; to name just a few. His work has been reviewed in the New Yorker, Artforum, The New York... Cary Leibowitz has exhibited in museums and institutions across the globe including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The Jewish Museum, New York; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; PS1 MoMA, New York; to name just a few. His work has been reviewed in the New Yorker, Artforum, The New York Times, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, among others, and is included in the permanent collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Hirshhorn Museum, and The Jewish Museum in New York. He is currently represented by New Discretions in New York. I guess people read into everything Is it just distrust? Or belief and curiosity? I usually try and stay away from making “important” things I feel like lots of important things have a metaphor or connections that can be snooty-snarky-condescending or worse – boringly-over-used If I write down (draw) what I want then it’s what I want Maybe I should stop I expect too much and am always disappointed I Always Take the Easy Way Out I Want Success But Don't Want the Pressure Latex paint on wood panel 32 x 34 x 1 in. 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Now!, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY Accumulated Crap for Collectors: The Multiples 1989-2001, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Between Bust and Boom: Artists in the Slack Years, 1990-2005, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Heartbreak Hotel, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York LGBTQ Survival Guide, curated by Steed Taylor, The Center, New York Viewer Discretion, curated by Kathleen Cullen, Stux+Haller, New York Melancholia, Galerie VIVID, Rotterdam, NL Art Rotterdam, Galerie VIVID, Rotterdam, NL WPA Select, Artisphere, Arlington, VA Great Expections, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL Not For All My Little Words, curated by Tim Hawkinson, Marc Strauss, New York Das stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinski, Exile, Berlin, Germany Jew York, Zach Feuer Gallery and Untitled Gallery, New York Textual Attraction, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York Summer Camp, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York Hard Targets - Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN Notes on Notes on Camp, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York Multiple Pleasure: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Heads Or Tails, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York Think Pink, Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL Hard Targets, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, MoMA PS1, New York LEARN TO READ ART: A History of Printed Matter, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Talk Dirty to Me..., Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York The End, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA Common Threads, Illingworth Kerr Gallery at Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB Repairing the World: Contemporary Ritual Art, The Jewish Museum, New York ceci n´est pas... (this is not...), Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Common Threads, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PE LACE Annual Benefit, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA Situation Comedy, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS Safe: an exploration of domesticity ..., Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York it is, "what is it?", Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Humor Me, H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Post No Bills, White Columns, New York Trade, White Columns, New York Conscious Consciousness, curated by Mathew Singer Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA Assimilatiana: Conscious Consciousness, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, PA Mama's Boy, White Columns, New York I shop, therefore it’s Christmas, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany The Holiday Shopping Show, Wallspace, New York Love, David Risley Gallery, London, UK State of the Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Stop Copying Me Stop Copying Me, Arcadia College, Pittsburgh, PA Space Co-Opted, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Terra! Terra!, Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy Benefit 2001 Raffle, Momenta Art, New York Blondies and Brownies, weiß weiß bin ich auch, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany Lighten Up - Art with a Sense of Humor, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA Schmuck, Ten in One Gallery, New York Not Without Laughter, Gallery M, New York I saw stars, Momenta Art, New York Fear of Jewish Planet (with Rhonda Lieberman), Four Walls, New York Jewish Museum, New York Chase Manhattan Bank, New York Fidelity Investments, Dallas TX Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence KS Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Syracuse NY Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA The Art Institute of Chicago The Peter and Eileen Norton Collection The Robert J. Shiffler Foundation, Dayton OH Cary Leibowitz, Museum Show, Contemporary Jeish Museum, San Francsico, 2017. Rosenfield Lafo, Rachel. 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__label__wiki	0.578675	0.578675	EduBlog.News Aggregated News from Universities Across the Country SIUEâ€™s Dr. Temko Warns against the Dangers of Only Focusing on Diversity September 26, 2019 seoexpert Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 0 As an advocate, activist, teacher and one-time politician, Ezra Joseph Temko, PhD, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, is driven by his commitment to community and desire to effect positive social change. One key way the professor believes change will come about is by pairing inclusion with diversity. â€œThe goal is not just to have diversity in our communities, but for our community members to be respected, be supported and to thrive,â€� emphasized Temko, who partly describes himself as being Jewish and a member of the LGBTQ community. As SIUE prepares to observe its second annual Diversity Day to be held Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 14-15, several University students, faculty and staff discuss the meaning of the phrase, â€œI Am SIUE.â€� â€œDiversity in and of itself is a broad, vague concept without a lot of meaning,â€� said Temko. â€œIf diversity simply means difference, then there are incredible advantages and benefits to many forms of diversity, but there are also forms of diversity that are unwelcome, for example serial killers, factory farming, identity-based hatred, and laws restricting girls and womenâ€™s education are all forms of diversity. â€œWhen diversity is a broad concept that encompasses a multiplicity of identities, such as race, class, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability status, nationality, etc., it has positive potential but also enables specific concerns to get lost. Sociologist Ellen Berrey has documented how, as a well-intentioned result of court decisions around affirmative action, institutions of higher education have come to emphasize diversity as a public good in lieu of goals of remedying historical and ongoing discrimination.â€� Temko continued, â€œDiversity can be a positive concept, particularly when paired with inclusion. Having a diverse student, staff and faculty population that includes robust representation of those who have historically been marginalized is a politics of presence that is most meaningful when paired with a politics of inclusion.â€� Temko will speak about the need for gender-based inclusion during a presentation hosted by the SIUE Womenâ€™s Studies program. His lecture, â€œThe Social Construction of Gender Quotas: Iowaâ€™s Successful Adoption of Gender Balanced Boards and Commissionsâ€� will be from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22 in the Morris University Center, International Room. His background in politics began when he was in high school. During the summer of 2001, Temko worked in then U.S. Sen. Joe Bidenâ€™s Wilmington, Delaware office. He went on to serve two terms on the Newark (Delaware) City Council, where he was the youngest elected official in the state at the age of 22. Temko earned a bachelorâ€™s in politics in 2006 from Oberlin College, a masterâ€™s in state and local management in 2009 from the University of Delaware, a masterâ€™s in secondary teaching in 2010 from Wilmington University and a doctorate in sociology, with a specialization in social stratification (structural inequality), politics and culture in 2019 from the University of New Hampshire. Temko came to SIUE in August 2018. â€œIn terms of teaching, I like SIUE because I get to help our departmentâ€™s curious and socially invested students develop a sophisticated sociological understanding of the social world through courses like theory and statistics,â€� remarked Temko. â€œI get to teach our diversity and social justice specialization students, who have such compassion and passion, through courses like Creating Social Change and Sociology of Grassroots Fundraising. Last fall, my students raised about $10,000 for local families in need.â€� â€œIf we all did our best to live with loving-kindness, our world would be the better for it,â€� said Temko. â€œBut even then, acts of loving-kindness are moderated by our own perceptions, informed by our social structures and systems, and limited by what we know and understand of each otherâ€™s lives, histories and experiences. â€œSIUEâ€™s upcoming Diversity Day is thus appropriately themed â€˜From Awareness to Action,â€™â€� added Temko. â€œI hope that SIUE community members take advantage of the opportunities they have at SIUE to learn more about issues of diversity and inclusion, and about different peopleâ€™s experiences, needs and dreams.â€� Temko, his husband Drew, and their 4 Â½ -year-old son, Lev, live in Edwardsville. Photo: Ezra Joseph Temko, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. 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__label__cc	0.720902	0.279098	Tag: Package Dependencies (Solved) How the Latest Wine-Staging Release, for Debian, Introduces a Packaging Problem: Unresolved Dependencies. One piece of software which many Linux users benefit from is called “Wine”, which is an acronym that stands for ‘Wine Is Not an Emulator’ . This software allows some Windows programs to run under Linux, but has recently been made more powerful, to allow graphics-intensive games to run as well. The version of wine which I’ve been subscribing to is called ‘wine-staging’ , and contains the latest, bleeding-edge features that Wine is to contain, at any later point down the road. But as I’ve been receiving updates to wine-staging, the latest update would have taken all my computers from version 4.0-rc2, to version 4.0-rc4, which means, ‘…Release Candidate 4′ . At that point, some of my computers could not install the update, because of unresolved package dependencies. Apparently what’s been happening with Wine-Staging is twofold: The original maintainers are no longer running the project, which also means that Wine is in the midst of a Code Freeze, and that present updates may offer fewer or no new features, from what Linux users are used to, and In the interest of allowing the Windows games with the highest graphics requirements to run (potentially), the devs have nevertheless created a dependency of the latest Wine packages, on the OpenCL packages that install OpenCL natively under Linux. ‘OpenCL’ is a user-side API, which also requires system-side drivers for the specific graphics hardware, and which allows greatly parallel computations to be carried out on the GPU, instead of on the CPU. Apparently, some games use either ‘OpenCL’ or ‘CUDA’ these days, in order to incorporate complex Physics simulations into the game. (I will assume that the version of CUDA which Wine emulates, requires OpenCL to be installed on the side of Linux.) The problem under Debian which I’ve detected is, that the newly-introduced dependency of ‘wine-staging-amd64′ (as an example) is simply mainly: ‘ocl-icd-libopencl1′ Which means, that Wine will now insist on using the generic OpenCL drivers, that were developed for and by the Linux community, while not allowing the use of proprietary OpenCL drivers, that are closed-source, and that were developed by the manufacturers of each graphics card. The problem with this is, that as users, we may only have one or the other OpenCL driver-set installed. We cannot install both the generic and the proprietary drivers. When we try to update Wine-Staging now, doing so will try to install the package above, which will also try to ‘kick out’ , any proprietary packages we may have installed, that provide OpenCL. Continue reading (Solved) How the Latest Wine-Staging Release, for Debian, Introduces a Packaging Problem: Unresolved Dependencies. Posted on January 1, 2019 January 1, 2019 Tags 32-bit, 64-bit, Generic Driver, Multi-Arch, Multi-Architecture, OpenCL, Package Dependencies, Proprietary Driver, Release Candidate, Wine, Wine-StagingLeave a comment on (Solved) How the Latest Wine-Staging Release, for Debian, Introduces a Packaging Problem: Unresolved Dependencies.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1139
__label__wiki	0.611151	0.611151	J. Churchill Arlidge fonds CA OTUFM 34 Fonds contains writings, family letters, photographs, and photocopies of biographical documents including, collected by Bob Arlidge. Arlidge, Joseph Churchill Ron Collier fonds Fonds consists of records created during Ron Collier's career as a performer, composer, arranger, teacher, and band leader. The fonds includes manuscripts of Collier's arrangements and original compositions; correspondence with musicians; photographs; lecture notes from his career at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario; and records from his collaborations with Duke Ellington. Fonds also contains audio and video recordings of performances and lectures. Collier, Ron Kathleen Coburn fonds CA ON00399 35 The fonds consists of records pertaining to Kathleen Coburn’s career as an academic and to her personal life. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: General correspondence Series 2: Subject correspondence Series 3: Research and editorial records Series 4: Lectures and publication files Series 5: Scrapbooks and journals Series 6: Personal files and, Series 7: Graphic materials (photographs and slides). Coburn, Kathleen Gordon Delamont fonds Fonds consists of jazz compositions, dance band arrangements, and biographical materials. Delamont, Gordon Keith Davey fonds The fonds consists of records pertaining to Keith Davey’s political career as a campaign organizer and Senator, in addition to some personal records. Fonds is comprised of the following series: 1) General correspondence 2) Political campaign files 3) Correspondence with Members of Parliament 4) Research and publication files 5) 6 & 5% anti-inflation programme files 6) Special Senate Committee on Mass Media 7) The Trudeau Years correspondence 8) Personal and political files 9) Student files 10) Business files 11) Ontario Liberal Association files 12) National Organizer (Liberal Party of Canada) files 13) Canadian Football League files 14) Senate files 15) Liberal Party publications 16) Personal files 17) Research reports 18) Graphic material Davey, Keith John Hawkins fonds Fonds consists of compositions and arrangements by John Hawkins, program notes, correspondence, teaching materials and biographical documents, sound recordings, and video recordings. Hawkins, John Janis Rapoport fonds The fonds consists of Janis Rapoport’s records pertaining to her activities as a writer, editor and educator, and to her personal life. The fonds includes correspondence, professional files, legal records, publications, manuscripts, and personal files including photographs and sound recordings. Douglas Donegani material is also included. The fonds consists of the following series: Series 1: Ethos Cultural Development Foundation records; Series 2: Neighbourhood journalist files; Series 3: Writer-in-Residence; Series 4: Teaching files; Series 5: Manuscript files; and, Series 6: Personal records. Henry Frost fonds Fonds consists of digital images of the 211 page music instruction manual. A collection organized into 12 volumes. Frost, Henry David Sinclair fonds Fonds consists of research notes and correspondence relating to Sinclair's publications, including correspondence with Germaine Warkentin regarding a controversy over the reprinting of Nineteenth Century Narrative Poems and research notes on English sources for nineteenth century Canadian book history assembled in preparation for his unwritten doctoral thesis, 1972-74. Sinclair, David Paul Ernest G. Clarke fonds The fonds consists of Ernest G. Clarke’s records pertaining to his career as an academic and to his personal life. The fonds includes personal files, including correspondence; and professional files, including lectures, course materials, research notes and material, corrected and annotated drafts, publications, publishing contracts, and (annotated) manuscripts. The fonds also includes microfilm copies of manuscripts held in other repositories, including the British Museum. Clarke, Ernest George Fonds contains documents relating to Leslie R. Bell's career as a composer, arranger, choral conductor, educator, and music columnist. Materials include manuscript music (both of arrangements and original compositions); radio scripts and notes relating to his work in broadcasting as a radio commentator for CBC and CFRB, Toronto; publicity documents relating to performances by Leslie Bell and the Leslie Bell Singers; correspondence; documents relating to his work as the co-founder and first executive director of the Canadian Music Educators' Association (CMEA); and, newspaper articles, including those written by Bell and about him). The fonds also contains postmortem documents, including condolence correspondence to his wife, Leona Bell, and documents relating to the Leslie Bell Singers reunions and the Leslie Bell Scholarship. Bell, Leslie R. University of St. Michael's College. Treasurer's Office fonds CA ON00347 4 This fonds contains the records of the Treasurer's Office of the University of St. Michael's College from 1852 to 1989. The records include ledgers, ledger cards, cased files, accounts payable, and correspondence about student fees. Ledgers record College expenditures, fees and tuition paid by students. Also included are invoices, receipts, mortgages, insurance, and information on College properties. University of St. Michael's College. Treasurer's Office Lawrence Johnston Burpee fonds 1900-[1947?] The fonds consists of 52 letters, 1 annotated article (An Unconscious Humourist) by Lawrence Burpee, and 1 article about Lawrence Burpee by Pelham Edgar. The majority of the letters were written by Burpee to the Arthur H. Clark Company and concern the publication of the book series "Fur Traders of the North". Burpee, Lawrence Johnston Doug Riley fonds Fonds consists of records created, accumulated, and used by Doug Riley between the years 1966-2007. The majority of the records in this fonds is sheet music resulting from collaborations with other musicians, arrangements by Doug Riley, or original compositions. Although the fonds consists largely of jazz music, there is a wide variety of genres including classical music represented. Audio recordings could prove useful in the understanding of Doug Riley's performances or musical techniques. Throughout his career Doug Riley collaborated in a variety of projects including composing music for theatre, television, awards shows, and social events. The fonds includes evidence of these projects including scripts, itineraries, storyboards, etc. Also included in the fonds is correspondence between Doug Riley and other prominent figures in the music industry. Many set lists included in the fonds could provide insights into the performances of Doug Riley. Riley, Doug Yvonne McKague Housser fonds Fonds consists of Yvonne Housser's journals and correspondence (1931-1980), including correspondence with her husband Frederick Housser (1931-37), and Arthur Lismer (1937) and notes on Theosophy (1953-1980); lectures, book reviews and stories (1933-1980); and documents and drawings pertaining to her travels and sketching trips (1939-1975) to Europe, the United States, Mexico, and Québec. Housser, Yvonne McKague Bader Family fonds Fonds consists of correspondence from Isabel (Overton) Bader to Alfred Bader, 1949-1951, 1975; correspondence from Alfred to Isabel, 1975; correspondence from Mrs. Overton to Alfred, 1949, 1951; and records re "A Canadian In Love", the published collection of letters with an introduction by Roseann Runte, 2000. Bader family Jane Millgate fonds The Jane Millgate fonds contains records pertaining to her academic career and spans the years 1976 through 2002. It primarily includes correspondence, drafts, typescripts, research materials, reports and other records relating to her work on the novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, 1976-2000; Series 2: Siege of Malta, 1976-2001; Series 3: Sir Walter Scott's Magnum Opus, [ca.1977]-1987; Series 4: Royal Society of Canada, 1977-1991; Series 5: Walter Scott; the Making of the Novelist, [ca. 1984]-1987; Series 6: Scott's Last Edition: a Study in Publishing History, 1986; Series 7: Toronto Centre for the Book, 1994-2002; Series 8: Macaulay, 1973; Series 9: Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence, [ca. 1995]-[ca. 2002]. Millgate, Jane Solomon Alexander Nigosian fonds The fonds contains material that documents S.A. Nigosian's scholarly and teaching career, as well as his role as a minister of the Armenian Evangelical Church and a member of the Armenian community in Toronto. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Scholarly activities/publications records 1970-2011; Series 2: Teaching records, 1966-2013; Series 3: Armenian community and church records 1961-2005; Series 4: General correspondence, 1971-2014; and Series 5: Personal records, 1949-1976, 1996-2001. Nigosian, Solomon Alexander Aldeburgh Connection fonds Fonds consists of the administrative, financial, and performance records of the Aldeburgh Connection. Most of the fonds consists of materials created for, and as a result of, each concert produced by the Aldeburgh Connection, including promotional materials, scripts, annotated scores, correspondence, research notes, and reviews. The fonds also contains textual materials from the production of the Aldeburgh Connection’s recording projects, promotional events, board minutes, complete financial records, and correspondence regarding their fundraising efforts. Aldeburgh Connection Eva Kushner fonds The fonds consists of the following series: records relating to publications, 1961-2004; articles, addresses and related records,1950-2003; personal records, 1937-2004; records relating to professional activities and teaching, 1952-2007. Kushner, Eva John Reibetanz fonds The fonds contains archival records as well as published material, and consists of the following series: Series 1: Literary papers and related records, 1962-2018; Series 2: Published poetry and reviews, 1962-2016; and Series 3: Published research material, 1965-2008. Reibetanz, John John Douglas fonds 1958–1991, predominant 1985-1991 The John Douglas fonds documents his career as a radio drama producer for the CBC and as a writer of scripts for stage and radio plays. It consists of scripts, including drafts and plot outlines of radio and stage productions; correspondence, programme proposals, planning notes and other records relating to professional work; and personal correspondence and related records. Douglas, John Frank Blachford fonds Fonds consists of transcriptions and original compositions for string quartet and orchestra, copies of Frank Blachford's songs, and a program from a performance by Blachford at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Many of Blachford's transcriptions are not dated. Blachford, Frank F. David Hoeniger fonds The fonds consists of manuscripts, correspondence, notes, research material and other records relating to publications and intended publications, 1957-1992, including Types of Shakespearean Romance with interpretations of Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, Pericles, and Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance; manuscripts, notes, announcements, correspondence and other records relating to lectures and papers given at conferences and seminars, 1964-1997; correspondence, course notes and outlines, research material and other records relating to other academic work, 1951-1980; and photographs of illustrations used in essay in Science and the Arts in the Renaissance. Hoeniger, Frederick Julius David Albert Frank Moritz fonds The A.F. Moritz fonds contains records relating to his education, teaching, translation and editing work, journalism and other employment, and, predominantly, his work as a poet. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Education, [195-?]-2002; Series 2: Teaching, 1985-2017; Series 3: Poetry manuscripts, essays and related records 1970-2017; Series 4: Correspondence, 1973-2017; Series 5: Poetry Readings, 1975-2017; Series 6: Periodicals containing material by or about A.F. Moritz, 1969-2017; Series 7: Editing and Watershed Books, 1979-2017; Series 8: Anthologies containing A.F. Moritz poems, 1976-2015; Series 9: Literary related activities, 1973-2017; Series 10: Translation projects, 1973-2016; Series 11: Personal material, 1935-2017; and Series 12: Employment, 1969-2001. Moritz, Albert Frank Bliss Carman fonds The fonds consists of Bliss Carman’s records pertaining to his activities as a poet and to his personal life. The fonds includes correspondence with Madelaine Galbraith, poems, photographs, and other material. Carman, William Bliss Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies fonds This fonds contains the records of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, including early organizational files, correspondence, administrative files, the files of the Praeses, faculty papers, personnel files, and some publications by faculty. Related fonds include the papers of PIMS faculty, including the papers of Etienne Gilson, the first director of PIMS. The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Stephen Harold Riggins fonds Fonds consists of the following series: Series 1: Correspondence,1965-2008; Series 2: Art and records of Khoa Pham, 1976-2011;and Series 3: Writings, 1964-2013. Riggins, Stephen Harold International Virginia Woolf Society fonds Fonds consists of records related to the establishment and operation of the Virginia Woolf Society. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Correspondence; Series 2: Administrative Records; Series 3: Records relating to Virginia Woolf Miscellany; Series 4: Articles and news clippings; Series 5: Photographs; and Series 6: Audiovisual Records. The International Virginia Woolf Society Reuben Butchart fonds Fonds consists of published and unpublished material about the history of the Disciples in Canada, authored or gathered by Reuben Butchart in the course of his research and writing. The material includes some official records of organizations such as the Wellington and Ontario Co-operations of the Disciples of Christ, as well as the local Church of Christ in Guelph. Although there is a focus on Ontario churches and on the Hillcrest Church in Toronto, there is also extensive correspondence with local church historians in the Maritimes and Western Canada. Butchart, Reuben Gwendolyn Grant fonds Fonds consists of poem collections, 1987-2002, notes and other writings, and printed material, 1952-2002, and photographs of Gwen Grant and others. Grant, Gwendolyn Margaret G. E. Bentley fonds 1954–2017, predominant 1974–2017 Fonds contains records that reflect G.E. Bentley Jr.’s career and interests as a professor, a William Blake scholar, and a collector of Blake’s work. It consists of the following series: subject/correspondence files, 1954–2017; research material, 1963–2016; records relating to writings, 1956–2016; and ephemera relating to William Blake, 1955–2011. Bentley, Gerald Eades J. Howard Woolmer fonds Fonds consists of correspondence, catalogues, research and production material, photographs and other records relating predominantly to the revised edition of A Checklist of the Hogarth Press 1917-1946 (1986) compiled by J. Howard Woolmer, and including material regarding the first edition (published 1976). Woolmer, James Howard Norman Jewison fonds The archive of celebrated Canadian film director-producer Norman Jewison contains photographs and publicity materials, papers and correspondence, shooting scripts and schedules primarily for films directed or produced by Jewison between the years 1975 and 2003. Materials related to the films Fiddler on the Roof, …And Justice for All, A Soldier’s Story, Moonstruck, The Hurricane, The Statement and others undertaken by Jewison are held in this collection. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Films directed by Norman Jewison, 1966–2003; Series 2: Television productions, 1994–2001; Series 3: Shooting scripts, 1981–2003; Series 4: Films produced by Norman Jewison, 1966–1994; Series 5: Film projects not undertaken, 1971–2002; Series 6: Professional activities, tributes and honours, 1968–2007; Series 7: Correspondence/subject files, 1962–2007; Series 8: Canadian Film Centre, 1987–2004; Series 9: Autobiography, 1953–2005; Series 10: Photographs and posters, [1926?]–[2003]; and, Series 11: Memorabilia and publicity material, [194–?]–2007. Jewison, Norman David Gilmour fonds Fonds consists of personal and professional records and includes journals and calendars, 1966-2006; drafts, outlines, reviews and other records relating to writing, 1972-2010; various correspondence, articles and photographs, 1966-2011; and a journal kept by David Gilmour's father, John Gilmour, 1941-1943. Gilmour, David Besly Family fonds 1797–[1907?] Fonds consists of sermon regarding death of Maria Besly, 1797; correspondence to John Besly, 1820–1865; commonplace book kept by members of the family, [184–?]; correspondence relating to the Boer War by Barton Hope Besly, 1899–1900, and photograph, [1907?]. Besly family SMCSU fonds This fonds contains the records of the St. Michael's College Student Union (known earlier in its history as the St. Michael's College Students' Administrative Council). Included are minutes of meetings (1936-1986), financial records, and photographs of student events and council members. St. Michael's College Student Union A.E. Coleman fonds [19-?]-[before 1934] The fonds consists of Albert E. Coleman’s records pertaining to his activities as a writer. It includes (annotated) copies of his stories. Coleman, Albert Evander Vernon G. Turner fonds CA OTUED 6 This collection contains the notebooks, school work, and school records of Vernon G. Turner documenting his education at North Toronto Collegiate Institute (high school) and Maurice Cody Public School (elementary school) during the late 1930s and 1940s. Turner, Vernon G. Alice Boissonneau fonds [ca. 1940]-2003 Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: notebooks, [ca. 1940]-2001 Series 2: manuscripts and other records, [ca. 1940]-2003. Boissonneau, Alice Catharine Carrington fonds Fonds consists of letters, 1970-2000, written by Catharine Carrington to her friend Maryse Shaw, who was a bookseller in London, England. The correspondence covers a wide variety of subjects, including local and family news, cultural interests, social events, as well as persons once involved in the Bloomsbury Group; it also includes photocopies of photographs of the Carrington family, their farm, and friends, including Maryse Shaw. Carrington, Catharine Jeffrey M. Heath fonds Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Records relating to Profiles in Canadian Literature, 1980-1991; Series 2: Records relating to The picturesque prison: Evelyn Waugh and his writing, 1969-84; Series 3: Records relating to writing, teaching and research, 1966-1996; Series 4: Records relating to The creator as critic and other writings by E.M. Forster, 1999-2008. Heath, Jeffrey M. Earle Toppings fonds Fonds contains records related to Earle Toppings' professional career as an editor, producer, news caster and educator and includes correspondence with artists and writers, radio scripts, proofs, transcripts of interviews, notebooks and audiovisual material. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Typescripts, proofs and other records; Series 2: Correspondence with Canadian Writers; and Series 3: Records relating to "Canadian Writers on Tape", "Canadian Poets on Tape" and "Nightfall". Toppings, Earle Quentin Bell fonds Fonds consists of letters, postcards and an invitation from Bell to Simon Watney, 1972-1991, regarding publishing, finances, artistic matters and other topics. Also includes two letters from Anne Olivier Bell to Watney. Bell, Quentin Virginia Woolf fonds 1926, 1936, [1939?] The collection of more than 3000 items contains all the books hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in London (1917–1932). (The hand-printed works include many variant issues and bindings). It is also a nearly comprehensive collection of Hogarth Press machine printed books to 1946 (the year Leonard Woolf and the Press joined Chatto &Windus) and contains many rarities and all the significant texts. Included are many variant bindings, first editions, subsequent isues and editions, presentation copies, proofs copies, limited editions and signed limited editions. 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__label__cc	0.580762	0.419238	← 30 Disney Movies That Share A World – Part 3 Wreck-It Ralph Proves The Disneyverse Is One Giant Computer → Is Rapunzel Elsa’s Cousin? And How Else Are Frozen And Tangled Connected? Posted on 24th March, 2014 by Joshubuh Recently, an imaginative redditor proposed a theory that connected the worlds of Frozen and Tangled. Below I have compiled what I think are the best pieces of ‘evidence’ raised in support of the theory, as well as one key detail that I believe changes everything. But first, the theory: The Frozen Theory It didn’t take long after the release of Frozen for the internet to spot a certain cameo during the song ‘For The First Time In Forever’. Princess Anna runs out to meet Flynn Rider and Rapunzel. In this screenshot from early on in the film, we see a certain Disney princess attending the rare event of Arendelle opening its gates. Judging by Rapunzel’s hair colour and style, we can see that this is set after Tangled because that film ends with Rapunzel cutting off her golden locks. Flynn Rider and Rapunzel as they appear at the end of Tangled. This is not the only proof that Frozen is set after Tangled. In fact, we know exactly how much time has passed between them. You see, in Frozen, Anna and Elsa’s parents board an ill-fated ship that sadly never returns. The moving scene of the King and Queen’s demise. We are then told that three years have passed since the ship sank. This is when the main plot of Frozen takes place. Three years later. It is, of course, no accident that Frozen was released three years (almost to the day) after Tangled. The shared ‘7.9’ score is a conspiracy theory for another day. Because Anna and Elsa’s parents died on their way to Rapunzel’s wedding. Well, in The Disney Theory I point out that the King and the Grand Duke appearing at the wedding in The Little Mermaid isn’t surprising as many European dignitaries would likely be invited to a European royal wedding. (Since I wrote this article, Frozen writer and director Jennifer Lee has actually confirmed in a Reddit AMA that Elsa’s parents were on their way to a wedding. Co-director Chris Buck added that they survived the accident, and may be Tarzan’s parents.) But Anna and Elsa’s parents were not just invited because they were royalty. They were invited because one of them was related to Rapunzel. The Queen from Tangled and her brother, the King from Frozen. The family resemblance between Tangled‘s Queen and Frozen‘s King is striking, and it makes sense given the setting of the films that a Norwegian princess (the Frozen animators have acknowledged Norway is basis for Arendelle) would end up married to a German king (‘Rapunzel’ was written by German authors, The Brothers Grimm). It also explains Elsa’s magical abilities, and how the King is so prepared for a magical child. Clearly the blonde daughters of this royal family are somehow susceptible to developing magical abilities. When Rapunzel cuts her hair it turns brown like her mother’s and she loses her magic. Unlike her sister, Frozen‘s Anna is a redhead and never displays any magic (or does she?) (Elsa’s not the only member of Disney royalty with control over the elements. To find out more, you should read The Lion King Theory.) So of course when Elsa magically injures Anna, her father immediately knows where they have to go, retrieving a book on trolls and how they can help cursed youngsters. The troll chief even asks ‘Born with the powers or cursed?’ as if he is aware of their family history. ‘Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let it show.’ Having seen his magical niece kidnapped by a jealous witch, it’s understandable that Elsa’s father wouldn’t want anybody to know about his daughter’s powers. This is why he teaches his daughter to hide her abilities, and later decides not to bring her to her cousin’s wedding for fear she might reveal them. Poor Anna was then also left so Elsa’s absence wasn’t so suspicious. Three years later, when Arendelle opens its gates for Elsa’s coronation, it’s actually the first chance Rapunzel will have had to pay her respects to the previous king and queen – or rather, her aunt and uncle. It Goes Deeper Like all great conspiracies, the Frozen theory doesn’t stop at the easy connections. Not content to link just Frozen and Tangled, the threads stretch even further to connect to another Disney fairy tale that also shares an author with Frozen. Because the sunken ship of Elsa’s parents has appeared in the Disney world before. It’s the wreck that Ariel explores in The Little Mermaid. Different, yes, but years underwater will do that to a wreck. OK, so cynics might point out that this could be just about any ship. So let’s bring in some geography to explain the crazy. You see, to travel from Frozen‘s frozen Norway to Tangled‘s Germany, you have to sail past Denmark. Denmark is of course the home of Copenhagen’s ‘Little Mermaid’ statue and is the birthplace of Hans Christian Anderson, who wrote both ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Snow Queen’, which is the fairy tale Frozen is based on. If the ship sank between Norway and Germany it would be lost somewhere in the North Sea that Ariel calls her home. That’s how it appears in The Little Mermaid, after years of degradation. (For a different explanation of how Ariel finds the ship, read:) Are Frozen’s King And Queen Actually Tarzan’s Parents? And so ends The Frozen Theory. In The Disney Theory I used a certain scene from Tangled to support my theory. See that book on the right? This scene shows three Disney films that clearly exist as fairy tale books in the world of Tangled. In the top left we see Sleeping Beauty, below that is Beauty and the Beast, and over on the right… The iconic image of The Little Mermaid. So, the question: how can Ariel find the ship from Frozen if it exists as just a fairy tale in the connected world of Tangled? The simple (and boring) answer would be that it doesn’t. But What If It Does? In the conclusion to The Disney Theory I argue that the fairy tales and recurring characters of the Disneyverse are archetypes in a grand repeating narrative of: ‘Daughters who dream of freedom, parents who die tragically and evil relatives who seek to control them.’ Like a computer trying to solve some cosmic puzzle, the Disney universe keep taking the same pieces and combining them in different ways in an attempt to find some great answers. So maybe Ariel doesn’t find Elsa’s parent’s ship. Maybe the ship belongs to some other ill-fated Disney parents. Maybe the ‘Little Mermaid’ book in Tangled isn’t simply the story of Ariel’s life but is one of the many pre-defined narratives that a princess’ life can follow in this repeating Disney universe. Maybe we’re looking in the wrong place for answers. Because as exciting as the Little Mermaid connection is, it has almost completely distracted theorists from a far more interesting unified Disneyverse connection. Wreck-It Ralph‘s ‘Sugar Rush’ land as it appears in Frozen. Perhaps the ‘one big computer program’ The Disney Theory imagined is more literal than anyone realised, and the Disney universe is actually a collection of Disney games (and no I don’t mean Disney Infinity). But that will have to wait for… Wreck-It Ralph Proves The Disneyverse Is One Giant Computer This entry was posted in The Disney Theories and tagged Beauty and the Beast, Disney, Frozen, Head Canons, Movies, Sleeping Beauty, Tangled, Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Theories, Wreck-It Ralph. Bookmark the permalink. 162 Responses to Is Rapunzel Elsa’s Cousin? And How Else Are Frozen And Tangled Connected? 25th March, 2014 at 4:03 pm Rapunzel’s power and hair color come from her mother drinking the potion made from the golden flower while she is still in the womb. It is not a genetic trait and therefore her brother (Elsa’s father) would not possess magical abilities that could be passed on to his children. Joshubuh says: Good point, though it doesn’t explain why Rapunzel’s mother doesn’t also get magical abilities from the flower. I believe there is significance in the blonde hair. I wonder what other Disney royalty they might be related to… Maybe it’s more of a susceptibility to magic’s abilities as a genetic trait. Something like that family having a low magical immunity, so to speak. The idea of a princess with magical ice powers makes more sense in the original context of the idea Disney had, where there was a troll prophecy that the kingdom would fall victim to a never-ending winter. jeannetta says: i would like to point out that in tangled rapunzel does not loose her powers when she cuts her hair. Her powers transfer into her tears. She even shows this when she saves flynn, her tears fall onto his wound and are more powerful than her hair ever was. I assumed this was a one-off sacrifice, just like the last magic of the flower came from drinking it. Since the magic came from the drop of sunlight it was then reflected by the yellow petals of the flower and Rapunzel’s blonde hair. Rapunzel obviously doesn’t show any magic in the animated short or Frozen but it will be interesting if she does in the future. ernie817 says: 3rd July, 2014 at 4:08 am The king(elsa’s father) is blonde and he doesn’t have magical powers. That is a very valid point, however it could have been that the magic position was used to keep her alive during the birth of her (twin) daughters, Elsa and Rapunzel. Which can explain 1- why they are the same age, 2- why they both posses magic powers, and 3- why they both have their blonde hair 🙂 just a theory florrie says: What if Rapunzel’s mother had twins (Rapunzel and Elsa) but when Rapunzel was stolen they sent Elsa to live with her uncle to keep her safe from mother gothel? that would explain how Elsa has magic powers and Anna doesn’t (as Rapunzels mother drank the potion) It would also explain why they took away anna’s memories at the start of frozen (to keep their only child safe) Dains Lacson says: 21st January, 2015 at 9:28 pm ernie817 I think he does have the power to control ice too like Elsa… This is just my own opinion (theory) If you notice when child Kristoff saw the family riding horses at night to the trolls and there was ice appearing on the road the horses stepped on, he asked ‘ice?’ Now the ice MAY have been Elsa’s own powers but the king knows just what to do with Elsa’s powers. And when they died and Elsa has to take the throne, she looks up to the picture of her father holding the staff and (a ball?) which she also tries to do but freezes it. Elsa may have been trying to conceal her powers much like her father so he had always told her to conceal and don’t feel. Also, the king was very certain that she would learn to control her powers, this is because he had gone through the same thing ^^ Pretty long but just a theory xD I love that theory however I feel as though if that were the case then her father could have helped teach her how to control it, how to freeze and unfreeze things rather than having to hide it. It also doesn’t make since to me why Elsa is the only one with bright blonde hair in her family, when blonde hair, is a recessive trait. So if you think about it somethings up with that. Now we already know rapunzels background and how she got her powers, but why wouldn’t Disney bother to make a background for Elsa’s magic powers??? Laziness??? Or just simply because the same background applies for both girls, BECAUSE THEYRE TWINS!!!! 😄 to be more specific, they not only look alike, have the same characteristic that should not have been passed down to them under any other circumstance other than magic, but you also have to think why they would have been separated??? Because when the girls were born Rapunzel was kidnapped because she had the power of healing and keeping things young and new. While Elsa did not display any powers. However afraid that someone would come for her too, they sent her off to another land. That would 1- explain why they locked her away for so many years. To keep the one who kidnapped magical Rapunzel from finding out the twin sister had magic too. So it was to keep her safe 🙂 Grace Elizabeth says: 9th August, 2015 at 6:38 pm I always thought that possibly Rapunzels’ mother had another child a year or 2 after Rapunzel but she was married off (she would be of an acceptable age for this in that time period) to a Norwegian prince (fin fact – Arendel is real. It was a medical fort in Norway.) This would allow for the whole relative thing and the genetic powers and blonde hair going to the eldest daughters. Also for the similar appearance of the Queens of Corona and Arendel. This would make the queen of Corona Anna and Elsas’ grandmother and Rapunzel their aunt though, so the 3 year time space kills that doesn’t it? If the Queen and Rapunzel are sisters close in age, Anna and Elsa could not be as old as they are. I meant medical fort, not medical Dammit! Medieval sarabraaz says: 29th September, 2015 at 6:49 pm In Rise of the Guardians, Jack’s little sister grew up to marry the king of Arendelle. The moon told her that her first child would have ice powers in honor of Jack, who she thought was dead. THIS IS HOW ELSA GOT POWERS! Yarden Nissan says: 1st August, 2016 at 2:08 am How do you know that his sister marry to The king of arendelle? Teresa Fritz says: Yeah, but one movie is Disney’s and the other is DreamWorks Rosa Diaz says: 25th March, 2014 at 10:46 pm Maybe this is why Elsa’s father is so secretive about the “magic abilities” All he knows is that his niece was blond, and saved by a magic flower and kid-napped. But then again it doesn’t state that Rapunzel’s family knew of her powers, only the old lady (kid-napper), so why would he be so scared. Also, yahoo had proven that Elsa’s parents we on there way to Rapunzel’s return party. Not the wedding. Meaning the reason why Rapunzel was at Elsa’s party is to honor her in the repect of Elsa’s parents death. Interestingly, Frozen writer and director Jennifer Lee confirmed Elsa’s parents were going to a wedding in this Reddit AMA. In answer to the same question, co-director Chris Buck suggested they washed up on shore on a jungle island. But that’s another story… Whether the family could know about her powers is a good question. When the queen is sick at the beginning of Tangled it’s interesting how the kingdom immediately knows they need a ‘magic golden flower’. Presumably this means there were already rumours about a witch and a magically rejuvenating flower, and when the flower cures the queen these rumours were confirmed. The king sees the witch disappear with his child, so he would have almost certainly launched an investigation in to why Gothel needed her. I’m betting the lock of brown hair in their blonde daughter’s crib was a clue… Ron mcneal says: yeah that makes a lot of sense but it is just so mind blowing hat elsa might be related to rapunzel. 75niamh says: Don’t know if you’ve seen this or not, but it’s a really interesting perspective on the Rapunzel/Elsa relation. Definitely worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhf9dekzyq4&feature=youtu.be 26th March, 2014 at 3:22 am Have you seen the possible connection of Frozen to Tarzan? That the Anna and Elsas parents didn’t die in the ship wreckage but washed up on shore of an island and had a baby boy. There is a picture of Tarzans parents next to the king and queen and they are strikingly similar. What are your thoughts on that? Also saw someone say they think Jane is Belle and Beasts grandaughter explaining why Mrs. teapot and chip are there… I’m no Disney conisour so I could definitely be missing major flaws in these theories but the Tarzan and Frozen connection is convincing. Good point Lauren but if that were the case then Mrs Potts and chip wouldn’t be in their cursed form but in their human form because of the fact that they turned human at the end of the movie when the curse was broken. Way before Bell and Beast had kids. I wouldn’t doubt it if there was a connection between Frozen and Tarzan. Them sharing the same parents. I just saw a picture of Tarzan’s parents and they do not look like Elsa’s parents besides there is a picture in Tarzan (movie) showing the parents holding Tarzan when he was a baby. Since we know Elsa’s parents were only leaving for 2 weeks there is no way they could have gotten pregnant, had a baby and had a picture painted all before the ship had went under. mandylobo says: 8th June, 2014 at 10:56 am The creators of Tangled has announced that Tangled had been set around the 1740s. Since Rapunzel and Eugene feature in ‘Frozen’ looking relatively same, we can assume Frozen is set around the same time too. Tarzan however was set in the 19th century. There is no way the King and Queen of Arendelle are the father and mother of Tarzan. The time is way off. Appfan says: 22nd December, 2014 at 5:44 am Has it occurred to any of you people that, based on the clothing, Tangled and Frozen are at least 100 years apart, if not more. I’m suprised to read Tangled was set in the 1740s, it looks like the Renaissance to me, while I’d put Frozen some where near 1800. I know it’s all just internet fun, but the idea that Rapunzel in Frozen is anymore than an Easter egg and is actually intended to connect the films is just silly. 3rd January, 2015 at 8:42 pm Plus, if they really where Tarzans parents, how did they go from the coast of Denmark to a Jungle? 2nd October, 2018 at 11:14 pm Appfan Rapunzel (in hair cut form) was in the frozen movie tho 3rd August, 2014 at 1:15 pm i have a theory of my own. What if prince Hans sailed to another kingdom to get married but actually found a true love so he stayed there for a while and got a son. Soon he decided to get back to his homeland and show his newborn to his brothers but they end up in a storm which carries them to Tarzan’s land. As he says he is ”Prince Hans of the Southern Isles” so it would explain how he ended up in a storm in the Caribbean and his beard is nearly the same as Tarzan’s father’s. What do you think? Took the words right out off my mouth xD I was going to comment about how Hans has a slight resemblance to the king of Arendelle with brown hair so I imagined Hans older with a mustache and thought that if he isn’t Tarzan’s dad, one of Hans’ 12 brothers may be his dad 🙂 Interesting idea. However, it would only work if you place Tarzan after Frozen in the timeline, because Tarzan’s parents are killed on the island. I like this idea though! I haven’t heard this before; it’s intriguing. Rose Lee says: Lauren that is an interesting theory but that would mean the King and Queen of Arendale would have to swim ALOT to get to Africa also you may have noticed but lots of Disney characters look alike. Other than that it is convincing. Those are just plot holes that I have found and read. Disneyconnectfan says: OK. So if Elsa’s dad is a blonde too, couldn’t he have known about the possibility of magical powers being passed through his own genes? After all, he knew the trolls and right where to go when he needed them. Why and how did he know this? Had he visited them before himself? Perhaps some magical abilities were gifted to his line (maybe by some tiny fairies long ago to another blonde?). Shiheim says: 2nd April, 2014 at 4:42 pm Meaning Aurora? Those fairies do get around. They teach at the princess school Sophia the First attends. Isn’t she often visited by the Disney Princesses? Sandra Kozlowska says: 14th February, 2017 at 11:48 pm Unfortently I seen the one where Merida appeared Merida is my fave Disney princess but Anna and Merida could be sister because they look so alike they both like adventures Ginger hair:’* The Sleeping Beauty suggestion is so amazing and works so well it deserves it’s own article. so how did the haunted mansion’s statue end up in Frozen? Well spotted! The busts in the Haunted Mansion are pretty modern compared to that last image but the link is certainly there. If u see the movie tangled, ull see that she was birn with powers because of a flower so the family isnt all magic whittany says: In the last picture, the statue head, isn’t that prince eric? Perhaps! Denmark certainly isn’t far away. But if Frozen is before The Little Mermaid how could Eric already be old enough to be in this statue? Maybe it’s a relative? Maybe it’s Eric’s father? 31st March, 2014 at 12:14 am Josh, you see they got married in on 2012 (Tangled Ever After). So this theory doesn’t have full proof or they got married earlier on 2010 and the animators just made Tangled Ever After late. Tarzan and elsa can’t be related cause in the movie Tarzan. Tarzans dad has red hair and elsa’s dad has blonde hair What if Tarzan’s mom was Anna and Elsa’s dad’s sister? There is also a theory that the parents of Elsa and Anna survived the ill-fated sinking of the boat, washed up on an island, had a boy, then was killed by a leopard. The boy, Tarzan. Kenneth Stadelbauer says: 16th August, 2014 at 5:35 pm Tarzan’s parents were the Lord and Lady Greystoke of Englund. That story was set in the 1880s or 1890s. Frozen’s artwork sets it in the 1840s. I think people are reaching a little too far to connect everything. 14th April, 2014 at 11:40 pm I’d like to see if there is any link to Hans and his brothers who are princes and kings-if we’ve already met some of his brothers… sofreshithurts says: 17th April, 2014 at 12:56 am Reblogged this on So Fresh It Hurts and commented: Just spent an hour looking at this. Fresh? Maybe. Interesting? More than you know. Reblog worthy? You bet. jayray says: What if the parnets survived the wreck and gave birth to Tarzan The Tarzan’s parents are Elsa and Anna’s theory might be wrong. because the ship of Tarzan’s parents contained items not from Arendelle and the Father in the portrait was wearing a Suit and tie in the pic, which I think wasn’t invented yet or they simply didn’t wear those things at that time. Jeralyn says: I thought Rapunzel’s magic came from her mother drinking the potion. The magic didn’t give the queen any powers because it healed her…that was the magic working in her. It had nothing to do with Rapunzel being blonde. And Elsa isn’t technically blonde. Her hair is white. Also if they were cousin’s why would Anna have just walked by Rapunzel, singing, when they opened the gate? Wouldn’t she have greeted her? Becky Chester says: Actually, in the official Frozen books, it is stated that Elsa has Platinum Blonde hair, which is the lightest hair color and appears to be white hair in certain lights. Also, lets consider the fact that Anna never met her cousin (it being Rapunzel in the theory) & that she was probably told that her cousin was born with Blonde hair, as well as the fact that there were all kinds of Royals & dignitaries attending the coronation, she might not have thought twice about the pretty brunette in the light pink dress in the sea of incoming people. well when she walked out she smiled really big when she saw Rapunzel and she waved Tyler Batiste says: If you pay attention to a certain thick french accent, you’ll find a Beauty and the Beast cameo in Frozen. 27th July, 2014 at 5:55 am what!!!!!? I need to know more, just tell, don’t tease! lol jeffysm35@gmail.com says: 4th November, 2015 at 10:00 pm Tyler!!!? Now you need to tell more!! Camille Chuaa says: 21st April, 2014 at 8:26 pm How can Tarzan’s parents be Anna & Elsa? The shipwreck was in Denmark and Tarzan is in Africa then so how the hell can that happen? BTW Elsa & Anna’s father is a redhead while their mother is a brunette. DeathByGlory says: 22nd April, 2014 at 4:14 am Hey I just wanna tell you that Kristoff did sing “Don’t let the frostbite bite”. Didn’t it sounds like Pumbaa’s “Don’t let the bed bugs bite”? Also, is there’s a way that Elsa and Anna’s Castle is actually the Beast Castle? Amy Tolonen says: 20th August, 2014 at 12:55 am No because Frozen is set in Norway and Beauty and the Beast is set in France Evan rose says: Just a head up at the end he asks how could Ariel exist if it’s just a fairy tale for some of e older disney fans u can recall the little mermaid tv show on Disney Chanel there is an episode that shows Hans christoph Anderson on a ship and catches a glimpse of Ariel which gives the idea to write the little mermaid keep in mind the show takes place before Ariel becomes human so It could be he finished his book before the timeline we see in tangled DisneyTheories says: Anna and Elsa’s cousin are Rapunzel. When Anna and Elsa’s parents were shipwrecked, Ariel explored the ship but Anna and Elsa’s parents were not there because they have escaped in an island. In the island, they give birth to a boy named Tarzan, and they died because of a wild cut. Roblox players says: Youre right There is to much of a time gap for that theory PlanesFan says: 23rd June, 2014 at 1:55 pm But,why their son named “Tarzan”? Why not another Europan name like John,etc? 21st July, 2014 at 4:23 am You are wrong because in the start of Tarzan a baby is already being held The apes named him Tarzan… he is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. There is a 40-50 year gap between events, Tarzan’s parents were the Lord & Lady Greystoke (Clayton) and they were marooned on the Atlantic coast of Africa by mutineers. Edgar Rice Burroughs did give quite a bit of background to Tarzan, and I’m fairly sure he didn’t mention Scandinavian mutants at all 😛 While that sounds pretty cool, I do recall it being a plan that crashed. That’s how tarzans parents got there by plane crash. Not to mention it makes more sense for the ‘cousins’ to be ‘sisters’ seeing as they both have beautiful blonde hair (which if you know genetics you know blonde is a recessive gene so even if one parent did have the trait it wouldn’t show because darker hair is a dominant trait) so it makes sense that both girls are “twins” who received their powers from the magic flower potion their mother drank before there birth. Now in order to solidify this you can also look at age. When tangled came out (nov. 24, 2011), it takes place when Rapunzel is 18. Then three years later when frozen came out (nov. 27, 2014) (correct me if I’m wrong, but I know it’s around there) the story takes place when Elsa was 21, which would mean Rapunzel is also 21. So how did they get separated??? Well it was of course when mother Ethel kidnapped Rapunzel that their parents declared their kingdom unsafe and handed her to another kingdom to raise in hopes of she did show to have magic powers, the kidnapper of Rapunzel wouldn’t find out. Which explains why they didn’t seek help for her powers in the first place, because they knew where they came from!! It also explains why they locked her up and isolated her from everyone, even her sister. So no one would try to kidnap her like with what happened to Rapunzel, her twin sister. NicoleAnn says: About the Tarzan theory, what if that comment by the co-directoris a hint @ a new movie in development. And, what if Anna and Elsa’s parents’ ship sank en route to Rapunzel and Flynn’s wedding, because of Ursula’s Mega octo-witch victory dance hurricane. Also, Anna and Elsa’s father seemed to have known something about controlling magic. Plus, nothing in her room remained frozen when he was around. Pat Pat says: 1st May, 2014 at 9:27 pm Maybe the king of Arendelle is also the queen from tangled’s son. I know its far fetched, but it would also explain the resemblance in between him and the queen 3rd May, 2014 at 4:49 am and his daughter’s powers, and the fact that he seemed so prepared to have a magical child, and the theory about the powers get sent down to the blond children in the family 20th August, 2014 at 1:04 am Actually I think that they are brother and sister. Mostly because of Rapunzel and Eugene showing up in the First Time in Forever sequence. They look to be the same age as they did when they were in Tangled (Or Tangled Ever After. Take you’re pick) and Rapunzel and Anna/Elsa look to be the same age. If the king of Arendalle is the queen of Corona’s son, there would have to be a huge age gap between Rapunzel and Elsa/Anna No offense, but I honestly think that you people are paying way too much attention to the little things. There are many more things to worry about in life rather than if Repunzel was Anna and Elsa’s cousin or not. If Disney’s movies are so repetitive than just don’t watch them! Can’t I just watch a movie and not have so many people trying to find out every single detail? I mean, are you serious? Slippery Dolphin says: 13th May, 2014 at 11:54 pm ?? Why are you so upset about it then?? You don’t have to be here. You don’t have to comment. If you don’t like it, then you don’t have to participate!! You can just watch a regular Disney movie if you want! Look, I’m sorry if we upset you but we ENJOY this!! YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING IF YOU DON’T WANT TO!!! Just so you are aware, I was reading the comments, and someone mentioned something about Anna and Elsa’s parents being gone for two weeks and not being able to get pregnant in that amount if time. Well, if you had payed attention, in Disney’s Frozen, Anna and Elsa’s parents never returned, so yes they would have enough time to have a baby…I’m just pointing out the obvious. In Tarzan, the baby is already born when the ship is sunk. In Frozen, Anna says “See you in two weeks” because that’s how long until they come back. The creators of Frozen have released that they were on their way to a wedding when the boat sinks (most likely Rapunzel’s wedding). Anna’s mother is not pregnant when they leave, meaning that it is impossible that she could have given birth to Tarzan in the two weeks that they were on board the ship in those two weeks. The thing with the whole “blonde hair” …the area that this animated film was to take place, was in Norway…it’s common for people around Germany or Russia to have blonde hair and blue eyes so stop freaking out Ghougle says: Didn’t The Little Mermaid take place in the Caspian Sea? Apart from Hans Christian Andersen, what makes everyone think TLM took place in Denmark? 25th May, 2014 at 12:18 am I like the original theory of Elsa, Anna, and Rapunzel being cousins, the Arial thing is a little far fetched and so is the tarzan stuff, the animation is totally different and doesn’t quite flow with the original theory, unless Eric was Anna and kristoffs son. Or Repunzel and Eugenes son. however, I have heard rumors on Jack Frost and Elsa, are they related by some chance? or possibly just two magic people who meet then marry? what do you think? Dragoon11792 says: Rise of the Guardians is a Dreamworks film, so no, there is absolutely no connection. The Frozen and Rise of the Guardian fandoms like to pair the two up cuz they both have ice powers, but since Frozen is Disney and ROTG is DreamWorks, no, its not possible for them to have a connection. That doesn’t mean the they can’t be connected. Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel are all Disney, correct? Shrek is DreamWorks, correct? Yet they are all in the DreamWorks movie together! also I wanted to add, that the ship that there parents sank on couldn’t be the one Arial finds, I have been studying the ships and there original ship didn’t have little round windows that Arial used to escape from the shark. And the tarzans parents jumped from a boat that was on flames, not swam up from a sinking boat. as for anna and elsas parents were in a server storm and got drowned. now I kinda have a idea. the boat in tarzan could be the same in arial? maybe?? Nikhil Rajkumar says: I don’t know if anyone realized this yet, but doesn’t the bust in Anna’s picture with the chocolates look like Prince Eric from the Little Mermaid? I might be looking too far into things…but… 3rd June, 2014 at 1:48 am In TLM, Sebastion sounds like he’s from the Caribbean, but the cook has is extremely French, and in TLM 2, Melody manages to get all the way to the North Pole within a day… it’s all very confusing. My personal opinion is that TLM and Frozen aren’t connected. Since we have no evidence where TLM take place, we can’t just assume they crossed paths. I support the Tangled and Frozen theory wholeheartedly, and since we have visual proof that Rapunzel knows the Frozen family well enough to attend Elsa’s coronation, its safe to say she has some relationship with them. Has anyone thought about Kristoff? No body knows his true lineage, since he lives with trolls, so it may be possible that he has a connection with someone else in the Disneyverse. Reply if you have any ideas on this. I’ve actually thought about this, and I’m wondering if maybe he’s related to Anastasia and the Baker from Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True. If you look up “The Baker Cinderella 2” you can see some pictures of The Baker and Anastasia. Look at Kristoff’s round face, blonde hair, large nose that compares to The Baker, and his dark brown eyes that compares to Anastasia. Don’t forget Kristoff’s attraction to excentric redheads that compares to his father’s… There is not a ton of evidence supporting this, because it is questionable how Kristoff managed to make his way from 1700’s France to and area near Russia… but neverless, the extreme similarities between Anastasia, the Baker and Kristoff is kind of undeniable. As I said, PLEASE reply if you have any comments on this! 3rd June, 2014 at 4:21 pm Good idea! Never would have thought of that, the timing and living makes it kinda far fetched but the accually resemblance is astonishing. Perhaps he was left alone when they crashed on a boat towards Arandelle or Anastasia didn’t want him ( since she has been known for a faul themperment) she very easily could have sent him away.. AAB says: 7th July, 2015 at 9:57 pm ARIEL AND ERICS SON!!! It could also be there daughters son, but it kinda makes since, I mean, they are close, and if Ariel came first by like 80years then there daughter could be kristoffs mom. Any ideas for a dad? Sorry if I got any of that wrong I’m kinda new at all this.. 23rd February, 2018 at 7:12 pm Actually Kaley, I’ve always thought the story of Cinderella takes place in the 1870’s, while Cinderella’s past took place in the 1860’s. It says on Disney’s wiki that Frozen takes place in 1839, while Elsa was born on the winter solstice and Anna was born on the summer solstice. Now, we know that Rapunzel’s birthday was in the spring or summer, on May 13th, according to Disney. How would Rapunzel and Elsa be twins if Elsa was born around December 21st and Rapunzel would be born on May 13th or possibly around the summer solstice, which would be around June 21st? It still doesn’t explain how King Agnar and Queen Iduna’s royal ship would be discovered by Ariel years later, if the story of The Little Mermaid was available to read in the 1740’s, by Rapunzel and Eugene/Flynn. apai811 says: 12th June, 2014 at 5:44 am How did Elsa get her powers? We have to look at the Tangled/Frozen storylines together. There are many clues that point to this 1. Why is Elsa born with the special powers 2. How does the king know where to go when Elsa strikes Anna accidently 3. Who are the King/Troll in the King’s book – it seems like the trolls had saved someone in the family from frozen head syndrome before. 4. When the troll warns of Elsa’s power having dangers the King says she can learn to control it I’m sure – what gives him this confidence. Why is he sure that Anna or others will not be in danger again 5. How does he know that the gloves will help Elsa – even though other materials like shoes don’t block Elsa’s icy powers? Elsa likely got her powers from her father’s side. Many hundreds years ago when a drop of sun fell on the Earth the magic flower bloomed with healing powers. Around the same time the force of the wind and water combined in Arendelle away and gave rise to a magic ice crystal which was likely acquired by Arendelle’s King to gain magical powers. However, this power was not controlled and resulted in at least one example of frozen head syndrome and the troll helped. Since then the family did not disclose the powers to anyone. The powers subsequently passed on to descendants, sometimes skipping a generation. It is likely Elsa’s father had seen someone in the family with these powers and that’s how he knows how to help. This also ties in to why everyone in Rapunzel’s kingdom starts searching for the magic flower when the queen is ill. If Rapunzel’s mom is the sister of Elsa and Anna’s dad then it is very likely that she or her brother might have asked for a search of the magic source – having known of the ice crystal and its power. That also explains why the healing powers was acquired by Rapunzel and stayed strong in her tears with her even though her hair was cut. This brings me to the more exciting part of my theory. It is very likely there will be two more Disney princesses with powers. We have had two as of now – Rapunzel the princess with the healing and restorative power of Magic flower which was born when a drop of the Sun (Fire) fell on the Earth. The second magical princess is Elsa, with the power of the magic ice crystal born of the cold air (Wind) and Mountain Rain (Water) combining (as alluded to in the Frozen Heart song). Rapunzel has the power of restoration/life and represents Earth, Elsa wields the beautiful but deadly power of water. The next two princesses will have the powers of the Wind and Fire. 12th June, 2014 at 1:30 pm In response to the previous post, I agree that the Tangled and the Frozen families might possibly be related… and to the response to the Fire, Ice, Wind and Water theory, I think it might be plausible. And guess what! Disney is creating a new Princess movie called Moana! Although we might have to wait for a few years, we might have another power Princess in the league. And also, maybe we already have a Water power person… think about King Triton! Although he is defiantly NOT a princess, he still has the Water power. And this sort of ties into the Frozen Theory too… what if Tangled’s family, Frozen’s family and TLM’s family really are connected, at least in the power department. Thanks so much for making the connection – I didnt think it through before. Moana is a Polynesian princess and this confirms the Earth, Water, Fore Wind Theory. The South Pacific is the spirited/mystical meeting ground of Fire and Water – where Volcanic Lava flows into the ocean. (Fire goddess Pele is an example of the folklore). Moana is the Princess with Fire Powers. And the Trolls, King Triton – King of Mermaids/other magical characters confirm that other creatures are able to harness these powers but humans can only do so in extremely rare circumstances. King Triton and probably other sea creatures like the sea witch Ursula possess varying degrees of water power. Pabee the magical Troll ( or rock creature) possesses the Healing/Life giving power of Earth as did some of his ancestors (if he isn’t several hundred years old and was the troll in the King’s book). It is not yet revealed as to WHY certain human princesses were also able to possess these powers – is there a grander theory hiding behind the “Earth, Water, Fire, Wind” Theory. Will there be a princess who brings them all together for a grand adventure ( similar to the assembling of the Avengers). Only time will tell and I can’t wait. Same here. Can’t wait 🙂 Cokkie says: 1st August, 2017 at 10:14 pm Do u have any evidence to support the fact that all the disney characters are connected Muppetaz says: 1st July, 2014 at 5:48 am Interesting to note, the skeleton of a pirate (with a sword lodged in the place his chest should be) appears on board the ship Ariel explores in The Little Mermaid; how precisely would one explain that? Audrey Drenes says: 22nd January, 2015 at 10:20 pm Wait!! If anyone has seen, The Little Mermaid Ariel’s Beginning (the prequel), there is a pirate ship that killed Ariel’s mother. Maybe that’s the ship Ariel was actually exploring many many years later!! Smiles says: 2nd July, 2014 at 6:21 pm What if the girl’s magical powers is closely related to marvels “mutants”? Therefore connecting the marvel world and the Disney world. In the start of Tarzan the ship is on fire and a mother is already holding her baby even though Elsa and Ana’s mother never looked pregnant. My idea is that rapunzels parents also were in a ship crash in the future and they are the ones. A bad luck in families which would also mean that Eric is related to them! 21st July, 2014 at 1:15 pm Tarzan was raised in a completely different century than Elsa and Anna. There is no way he’s related to them, not their brother at least. Also the geography kinda shoots this theory apart. Considering that they were traveling from Norway to Germany the ship being washed up in Kenya where Tarzan is said to have been set is pretty unplausible. jmc23 says: Tarzan’s parents were on a ship which suffered mutiny, but there’s nothing to say they weren’t on another ship prior to that. Let’s say they were Anna and Elsa’s parents, their ship sank so everyone thought them dead, but they were picked up by another ship and that ship was then subject to mutiny and the mutineers sailed it to the African coast. That would also add plenty of time to the timeline for them to have another baby. It doesn’t explain why they suddenly become Lord and Lady Greystoke though! 23rd July, 2014 at 5:44 am So I’m obsessed with the theory of a relationship between Tangled, Frozen, and The Little Mermaid. Many of my friends and family were skeptical. However, today, when watching Frozen for the hundredth time, in the scene right AFTER the Rapunzle cameo, it cuts to Elsa again, and then back to Anna. The first millisecond of the scene when it cuts back to Anna you see her turned around and waving to the exact spot Eugine and Rapunzle were seconds ago. Confirming that there was. Prior connection between the two girls. It’s the slightest glance of a wave, but it’s there! Maithri Hegde says: The theory that the Disneyverse keeps repeating patterns actually seems quite reasonable to me; and quite close to the idea presented in Mercedes Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey_bibliography#Tales_of_the_Five_Hundred_Kingdoms) , where all the fairy tales that we’ve known so far take place in some unspecified medieval era – controlled by a magical atmosphere called The Tradition(or Fate, if you will) which tries to fit every person’s story to match existing ones. everman says: 31st August, 2014 at 10:52 pm I have one thing that I don’t understand what is the map that fell from the old book in frozen and what the mean of TRNI that wright on the Map Well I thought that was the map to the trolls. But they didn’t use it! Maybe ur on to something we overlooked!! Hmmm.. are there any movies where they had to look for treasure? Eliza Whi says: 1st September, 2014 at 6:26 pm I believe I’m commenting this in the wrong place, but only because I lost the page I was one while reading when I came up with a theory. What if the prince Ariel sees on the ship is one of Hans’s brother or hans himself? He did have 12 brothers. Or what if on the way back to The Southern Isles they have a ship wreck? And Hans is the prince Areil sees. It seems impossible for both of the ships to wreck in the same place but it would explain why the Duke is in Tarzan right? maybe Tarzan is a child that Anna and Elsa parents saved from the ship wreck rather then it being theirs, cause the time frame would be wrong or maybe Tarzan parents where also on the same ship. I don’t think Tarzan is Elsa and Anna parents though. Oh and in case your all forgetting Elsa is blonde because of the curse she is born with, she may not naturally be a blonde e.g. like Rapunzel wasn’t naturally blonde she could just be blonde because she has magic inside her rather then the other way round, thus being blondes are magic I.f you remember in the film she frozen Anna mind and even Anna hair turned blonde because she had ice in her. Rapunzel was naturally brunette so Elsa could. But why doesn’t she turn brunette at the end of the film you ask, well this is because Elsa unlike Rapunzel doesn’t actually get rid of her powers, she just simply learns to control them for good. So it is magic that turns your hair blonde to show you are magical. And the reason the queen doesn’t turn blonde is because the baby in the womb drinks the nectar also hence why Rapunzel is born blonde. Errr-no. says: 6th November, 2014 at 5:46 am The Tarzan’s parents theory doesn’t makes sense because they had all that extra stuff with them. Why would they things like a family photo if they planned to return? blakrayvon says: 5th October, 2014 at 12:27 pm Perhaps we should consider that Anna and Elsa’s father is descended from a certain redheaded demi-god. The sharp, straight nose is rather Greek. Being related to the Gods could certainly play havoc on genetics. And I believe that the ship that Ariel explores in The Little Mermaid, is suppose to be the ship that crashed and killed Ariel’s mother in The Little Mermaid 3. I do believe that The Little Mermaid takes place around the Caribbean (at least the Disney version does) due to the colorful reef and fish and the Jamacian crab. With that information, it could be speculated that Eric is one of Hans’ older brothers, being as Hans is from “the Southern Isles”. 8th October, 2014 at 5:19 am This is just a thought but the head that Anna sings too what if it’s the head of the Prince Eric statue. As much as we all want “The Little Mermaid” to actually have occurred in Denmark…..how about all those TROPICAL FISH? Frau Jott says: 25th November, 2014 at 8:22 am “Rapunzel’ was written by German authors, The Brothers Grimm”. It was actually just collected by them, like all German fairytales, parts of them being related to French fairytales (like Sleeping Beauty) and eastern European fairytales. Maybe the people working for Disney are aware of these things too? florence diana elicano besande says: I hope jack frost from the rise of the guardians and elsa from frozen will soon be related . . think they have love chemistry 😀 hope ull work it up. . because they both got the ice powers anyway. . 😀 Pstorm says: Jack frost is dead and can only be seen by children who belive in him Sarah Price says: 2nd January, 2015 at 10:36 pm The Tarzan and Frozen theory is not real at all, for one Frozen and Tarzan take place at different time lines. Also when Tarzan s parents bout BURNED Tarzan was already there, he wasn’t born in Africa he was born even before his parents set sail, and finally Tarzan’s parents were commoners and from England, not Norway. WAIT!!! I just realized something! Maybe Tarzan’s parents aren’t Elsa and Anna’s parents, what if they’re Hans’!! It is certainly likely that since Hans came to the coronation, there might be a connection to Rapunzel as well. People say that Elsa and Anna’s mom didn’t have red hair like Tarzan’s mom did, but didn’t Hans have red hair?? Maybe on the way to Rapunzel’s wedding, Hans’ parents might’ve got stuck in the same storm. Maybe since Hans’ parents are out of the way, they couldn’t get mad or lecture (or whatever) Hans for taking over Elsa’s kingdom!!!!!!! Also I wonder what his connection is with the Duke of Weselton is?? Hmmmmm says: So at the end of tangled rapunzels hair is cut and goes brown, and you see rapunzel in frozen with brown hair, so why in the frozen fever trailer does she have the long blonde hair again???!!! If you are speaking of Rapunzel, you must have seen a fake trailer because she isn’t in it…..if you are talking about Elsa, elsa never got rid of her powers, just learned to control them so she would still have her blonde hair. aero82886 says: The thing with the hair I have issue with is that lets say elsa lost her powers when she cut her hair! Elsa would have had to have hair almost as long as Rapunzel. Elsa’s Hair grew to just below her shoulders where it should have been even longer if her hair was never cut. This leads to believe that the ice powers is a recessive gene in her family’s bloodline not something that was cursed upon them. Elsa was in fact born blonde but it was more a platinum blonde due to the recessive gene in her blood. Elsa had to have had her hair cut multiple times from youth to an adult or her hair would have been really long in frozen. Katy P says: 8th April, 2015 at 3:40 am Ariel in The Little Mermaid is actually in the carribean, not near where Elsa and Ana would live. She is actually between the islands of Jamaica, Haiti/the Domician Republic and Cuba. She spots Eric on a beach in a part of Jamaica called Port Royal, explaining why Sebastian has a “Jamaican” accent. This part of Jamaica was often populated by pirates in then time Ariel would have lived. Famous pirates lived there, including Black Beard. This is why Ariel spots a pirate ship going to a kingdom, they were most likely going to Port Royal. So, this means, that it is impossibe for Ariel to find Elsa and Ana’s parent’s shipwreck. Maiya says: if you pay really good attention to frozen you will notice that all of the disney princesses are at Elsa’s coronation and in tangled Anna is one of the children in the town that does Rapunzels hair. 312tacocat213 says: Whaaaaaaaaa? I’m watching both of those again! cartoons8 says: A feature-length movie with the spirit, if not the splendor, of the Disney classics. Kayy says: 8th May, 2015 at 10:15 pm I’m pretty sure Rapunzel is roughly the same age as either Elsa or Anna, so it couldn’t be Rapzunel’s wedding. it could be Rapunzel’s wedding because in frozen Anna asked for Elsa’s blessing of marriage so Anna is old enough to marry and so whether Rapunzel was Anna or Elsa’s age she is old enough to marry I don’t know if others noticed this but Rapunzel’s mom and Anna and Elsa’s mom look similar … well sort of, and some people have the theory that they are sisters or twins. glutenfreehacker says: I thought the same thing! IMO they look more alike. Here’s my beef with the theory that the king has powers. If he did he could have/should have saved the ship from the storm, by simply freezing the sea. That isn’t to say the powers don’t run in his family (although according to OUAT it’s from the queen’s side) but truly I don’t think he had powers himself. I am completely sold (and giddy) on Rapunzel being Elsa and Anna’s cousin, although I do wonder if it could have been on the queen’s side? But the point is they are related and it’s awesome!! The Tarzan thing does not line up geographically or chronologically IMO, plus it’s not a fairy tail so I feel it’s a stretch to connect those dots. I so so badly want there to be a connection between TLM and Frozen!! If the time lines were different I even kicked around the idea of Melody being the queen’s mother because there are similarities in their looks. I could definitely see Eric being an older brother of Hans. Note in TLM2 there is no mention made of Eric being king or Ariel being queen, leading us to believe that Eric is likely not the crown prince, but simply a prince with his own palace (so there would be an older sibling involved, one would think). I think there is a resemblance there, although most Disney princes do have a similar “look”. But the smile … the eyes … I could see it. This seriously made my day, lol! Now my mind just twisted everything up … what if the king and queen were traveling to Prince Eric (of the Southern Isles) and Areil’s wedding?? And then Ariel and Eric couldn’t attend the coronation because Ursala’s crazy sister was hell bent on trying to snatch Melody, so a trip by boat would be out of the question. Although I do really like the theory someone else had about that insane storm being caused by Ursula. Disney needs to give us answers 😛 22nd June, 2015 at 5:20 pm I think is that Elsa and Anna parents were going back to Arendelle then the storm came cause you should rematch the tangled ever after because it has frozen king and queen in the back row. But I like how you explain it. joce says: or elsa and anna dad is snow whites son and the evil queen cursed snow whites sons daughter with those powers idk -.- or elsa and anna are like the snow queen and the summer queen I saw something like that in a movie Josie Hart says: 21st August, 2015 at 6:54 pm so Elsa and Anna are related to Rapunzel or no 23rd August, 2015 at 12:53 am I kept thinking about the ships and realized something: Ariel doesn’t visits the ship where Elsa and Anna’s parents were travelling. I got curious and saw both movies and also made captions and there is a main thing I want to point out to prove what I am saying: The design and something that one really should pay attention to it. Here’s one of the captions I’ve made, from the ship from Frozen: http://tinyurl.com/q6h95yh . Pay attention to two important details: 1) No hatchway or the wooden details like it’s shown on this scene of Little mermaid (Which, also, it’s what Ariel goes through to get into the ship): http://tinyurl.com/oejt7rp. And, on an open plan from the shipwreck it’s possible to notice the second detail: http://tinyurl.com/p9nd4lz. Near the bow, we can see clearly the wooden balusters that do not exist in the ship from Frozen. Seeing this… I must disagree with the thing that Ariel visits the shipwreck from Frozen. craftytravels17 says: 8th September, 2015 at 12:29 am You are actually wrong about something. Rapunzel doesn’t have her powers because of heritage but because her mother drank the magic flower when she was pregnant with her. And also, Rapunzel doesn’t lose her magic powers because it is AFTER Flynn cuts her hair that she heals him. Maybe she had the powers all along, and the flower just triggered them. Something similar could have happened to trigger Elsa’s powers (or maybe the powers just trigger naturally at a certain age). midnighttoll says: Don’t know if this has been commented already, but there is a portrait of the King from Tangled earlier in the same song. Now why would a portrait of another King be hanging in the royal palace? Iemcee says: WAIT WAIT WAIT I have something to add to this theory! …So if this theory is true and Frozen/Tangled/The Little Mermaid all share the same universe, then it confirms that TLM take place in Denmark. Denmark. A land mostly composed of islands. At the South of Arendelle/Norway… Yes. THE LITTLE MERMAID TAKES PLACE IN THE SOUTHERN ISLES. So, assuming the Southern Isles only have one royal family, that can only mean one thing : Prince Hans and Prince Eric are related. 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I agree it makes sense that the King and Queen were travelling to the castle of Rapunzel. But ignoring the tropical nature of the Little Mermaid and assuming it’s in between Frozen and Tangled. I don’t think the ship wreck Aries goes to is the Frozen ship. I believe the storm that kills / maroons the Elsa and Anna’s parents was actually caused by the end encounter between Aries / Eric and Ursula. It is actually Ariel’s fault he Elsa and Anna are orphaned. That’s quite a theory. I do say its possible. But in all honesty I think the theory of Elsa and Rapunzel being sisters make more sense than cousins Nyssa Emelie Mikkusu says: Maybe they’re siblings on one side cousin on the other. I completely agree. I mean not only do the actions of Elsa’s parents prove suspicious, but their genetics seem to match up a bit more. Not to mention, why don’t the parents have powers? And why did the dad hesitate to answer the questio the troll king asked about whether she was born with them or cursed with them??? I feel like it’s because he wasn’t there for her birth. Now where did her powers come from??? I mean we know rapunzels came from the flower which gave her blond hair, but what about Elsa??? Where did her blond hair come from? And how did she get to the kingdom??? Well We knew mother ethyl kidnapped Rapunzel because she displayed healing powers. Well if you think about it. At first Elsa couldn’t have displayed powers because well she was a baby and hers wasn’t activated by song. So when Rapunzel was kidnapped her parents decided to send her to another kingdom to keep her safe! Then when she began displaying powers, Anna’s parents didn’t treat it like a normal parent would. Instead they hid it and her powers so no one would come after her!!! cricketer says: 3rd March, 2018 at 2:39 am no cause elsa and anna’s parents where different than rapunzel’s ones and have you realises that elsa looks like her mom I think that was just a shipwreck that belonged to the kingdom Prince Eric was from if not to Prince Eric himself or his parents. Maddison says: 23rd March, 2016 at 1:20 am i never new anna’s and elsa’s mom and dad had a sun. jaahnvi jeebun says: 22nd May, 2016 at 3:23 pm wow j’ai jamais cru ke elsa et anna sont raiponce sa soeur wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow Bonnymum says: And why were elsa and anna not also going to the wedding? They were older. They were princesses. So surely the king and queen would have taken them. Nira says: AbSolutely Nothing to add, than this is just cool, even if we might be adding meanings to minor things but then again people do write these stories and such twists isn’t impossible. Why Disney is doing this…All this time all movies where conected together.Disney wants that we finish they puzzle.And we gonna do it Ily Calhoun says: how are they cosins? Lærke says: 7th May, 2017 at 5:39 pm I still Think that Rapunzel and Elsa is twins, and Anna is there cousin (Tarzan too), the night Rapunzel was taken by mother Gothel, they sended Elsa to Arendale and her aunt (their mothers sister) and her uncle, that explains why the king in frozen waits a little before he said “born with” or something like that (I’m from Denmark and I only remember that part in Danish) but Elsa and Rapunzel doesn’t know that they are twins. (There is many more parts of it but I’m kinda tired right now so I don’t have energy enough for writing anymore) Xx Lærke (Btw the author of the little mermaid and the snow queen is named Hans Christian Andersen 😉 Not Anderson) 8th January, 2018 at 7:35 am I agree with everything in the previous comment except for the Tarzan bit. There would be a serious time gap therefore, Anna, Elsa, and Tarzan could not be siblings or cousins. I am not saying that they couldn’t have been related though… Alexis Johnson says: 8th February, 2018 at 6:58 pm I don’t get it why doesn’t Anna have powers? Bris Theory says: I have a theory. What if Anna, Elsa, and Rapunzel’s great great grandparents are Hercules and Meg. Think about it. That could be why Anna wasnt born with powers because she got Megs gene. So Hercules and Meg had a child who had Anna and Elsas dad and Rapuzels mom. And maybe Tarzans mom or dad is Elsa, Anna, and Rapunzel’s aunt/uncle. And they were also headed to the royal wedding. So they survived but Anna and Elsa’s parents died. So Tarzan is actually Elsa, Anna, and Rapunzel’s cousin.🤯 It is kind of confusing but I think it makes alot of sense. Here’s what I’m thinking. Once upon a time there was a family, with Rapunzel’s mother and father. Now obviously, the queen is sick blabla magic potion boom healthy baby. Next thing you know, your baby is kidnapped. Then, boom, another baby. Elsa. Possibly a twin, possibly not. Either way, now they’re freaked out. OMG our child was just snatched no way are we endangering our other child. So they gave it to a loving family in Arendelle, not too far away. Uh oh, just realized, that the magic powers from the queen backfired. So I’m assuming maybe there was some left, that got transferred into the genes of Elsa, and so now Elsa has ice powers. And cause Rapunzel has this vivid beautiful bright hair, and all that magic was used, Elsa now is left with platinum blond hair (which would explain how different it is). Even more so, Rapunzel’s power is healing right, well then BAM the kinda opposite is ice. Cold. Freezing. Not glowing like a fire. So anyways, Elsa grows up, unaware, and soon has a little sister named Anna. Then the whole icy blast incident happens between Elsa and Anna and now, the King is like whaaaa!! So anyways, they go to the trolls (still not sure how he knows) and heal Anna. The king and queen don’t want to endanger Anna or Elsa or bring the kidnappers attention so they keep them away from the world. Specifically Anna cause ya know, their real child. Now, they go on the boat. THIS IS NEW, I HAVENT DONE MUCH RESEARCH but what if, hear me out, they are on the same boat, or again, hear me out, in the same storm as prince Eric. Both going to the wedding or whatever… Not sure about timelines though. Or, their ship crashed and became the monument boat that Ariel was exploring…thats obvious, its a common theory. So the three that connect that way, in my opinion, are Frozen, Ariel and Rapunzel Then again Im probably completely wrong… spring crider says: OMG! i think that Anna has secret fire powers. She has red hair, brighter red than the kings, and Elsa’s white hair means ice and snow. my own little theory.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1142
__label__wiki	0.636889	0.636889	DE · Topics · Engineering Computing · Engineering Computing Affordable Power: A Tale of Two Dells We evaluate Dell’s Precision 3540 and 3541 mobile workstations. Dell’s latest budget-friendly mobile workstations, the Precision 3541 (left) and Precision 3540 (right), look identical, but are based on very different internal components. Images courtesy of David Cohn. Engineering Computing News Electra Cloud provides anywhere access for designers via workstations, smartphones The v20.1.0 release features more efficient process streamline and acceleration. Velocity Micro Announces New Small Form Factor Chassis and Custom Cooling... Aluminium NX2 is PC builder’s new foundation for ultra-compact high-performance workstation desktops. AMD introduces 64-core HEDT processor AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X. Engineering Computing Resources Breaking down common misconceptions about cloud-based HPC solutions. Computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software and more. By David Cohn Earlier this year, we reviewed the Dell Precision 3530 (see DE January 2019), a system that delivered great performance and more than 9 hours of battery life at a very affordable price. Imagine our surprise when Dell followed up by sending us not one, but two new mobile workstations—the Precision 3540 and 3541—as successors to that very successful system. Outwardly, the 3540 and 3541 appear identical. Both share the same chassis design, charcoal gray case and connectivity options, although there are minor differences. For example, the Dell Precision 3540 measures 14.14x9.30x0.80 in. (WxDxH), while the Precision 3541 measures 13.85x9.29x0.86 in. Although the actual weight varies a bit depending on the installed components, the 3540 we received weighed 4.25 lbs. plus 0.79 lbs. for its 90-watt power supply, while our 3541 tipped the scales at 4.78 lbs. plus 0.98 lbs. for its 130-watt power supply. Despite the wattage difference, the power supplies were otherwise identical. What’s the Same Lifting the lids of both systems reveals a 15.6-in. display with a webcam centered in the top edge of the bezel, flanked by a pair of microphones and a camera status light. The webcam is optional on the 3540 but standard on all 3541 systems. Both the 3540 and 3541 include a 102-key keyboard with a separate numeric keypad and mostly full-size keys. Though the base configuration keyboards are not backlit, the systems we received included backlit keyboards, an option that adds $35. Numbers in blue indicate best recorded results. Numbers in red indicate worst recorded results. Click here for larger version. A round power button with optional fingerprint reader is located to the upper-right of the keyboard. Although the base configurations include only one pointing device and no fingerprint reader, the Precision 3540 and 3541 systems we received included both a 3.87x2-in. gesture-enabled touchpad with two buttons and a pointing stick nestled between the G, H and B keys, along with its own three buttons. The available ports are identical for the Dell Precision 3540 and 3541. The right side provides a micro SD memory card reader, a headphone/microphone jack, two USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports, an HDMI port, an RJ-45 network port and a security lock slot. The left side hosts a round power connector, a USB Type-C 3.1 Gen 2 port with DisplayPort/Thunderbolt support, an additional USB 3.1 Gen 1 port with PowerShare and space for an optional Smart card reader. The remainder of the left side is consumed by a ventilation grille. There are no other ports or lights on the front or rear. The bottom includes only a fan vent and a pair of speakers for the built-in Realtek audio. Both systems included Intel dual band wireless AC 9560 adapters with Bluetooth 5.0. Since both Dell Precision workstations are billed as budget-friendly laptops for “graphics or power-intensive tasks” and share many of the same features, you are probably wondering about the differences. Beneath the nearly identical exteriors, these are two very different workstations. According to the Dell representative we spoke with, the Precision 3540 is a new entry-level system equipped with a U-series processor and lower-performing graphics while the Precision 3541 is the true successor to last year’s 3530, offering H-series processors and higher-performing graphics. The Dell Precision 3540 The Dell Precision 3540 has a base price of $769 for a system equipped with a 1.6GHz quad-core Intel i5-8365U CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB 2.5-in. 7200 rpm hard drive, and a 1366x768 display powered by the integrated Intel graphics. But that is just the starting point. Dell offers three other quad-core CPU options, including the Core i7-8565U in our evaluation unit (adding $77). That 1.8GHz Whiskey Lake processor has a maximum turbo speed of 4.6GHz and an 8MB cache while managing a frugal 15-watt thermal design power (TDP) rating. Price/performance chart of recent mobile workstations, based on the SPECwpc Product Development benchmark. Our 3540 also included an AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 graphics board with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and 512 cores. At $84, this is the only discrete graphics option offered for the Precision 3540. Our evaluation unit also included a 1920x1080 WVA display with 100% sRGB gamut and an infrared (IR) camera, adding $129. Touchscreen options are also available. Price: $1,782 as tested ($769 base price) Size: 14.14x9.30x0.80 in. (WxDxH) notebook Weight: 4.25 lbs. plus 0.79-lb. power supply CPU: 1.8GHz Intel Core i7-8565U 4-core w/8MB Smart Cache Memory: 16GB (2x8GB DDR4-2400MHz non-ECC SDRAM) Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 w/2GB GDDR5 memory LCD: 15.6-in. FHD WVA 1920x1080 anti-glare non-touch Storage: 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Class 40 SSD Audio: Realtek audio with built-in speakers, built-in microphone array Network: Intel Dual-Band Wireless-AC 9560, 802.11ac, MU-MIMO Dual Band 2x2 plus Bluetooth 5.0 Other: Three USB 3.1 Gen 1 (one with PowerShare), one USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 3, HDMI, headphone/microphone combo jack, microSD card reader, RJ-45 LAN port, integrated 1MP IR webcam, fingerprint reader Keyboard: Integrated 102-key full-size backlit keyboard with numeric keypad Pointing device: Gesture-enabled multi-touch touchpad with two buttons and pointing stick with three buttons CPU: 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-9750H six-core w/12MB Smart Cache Memory: 16GB (2x8GB DDR4-2667MHz non-ECC SDRAM Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro P620 w/2GB GDDR5 memory The Precision 3540 can support up to 32GB of memory. Our evaluation unit came equipped with 16GB, installed as a pair of 8GB 2400MHz DDR-4 dual-inline memory modules (DIMMs; $210). Our system also included a 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Class 40 solid-state drive (SSD; $287). Unfortunately, the 3540 supports only a single hard drive, but you can choose from SATA or M.2 drives of up to 2TB capacity. With the inclusion of the AMD graphics card, our evaluation unit also came with a four-cell 68Whr ExpressCharge-capable battery ($25) and a 90-watt power supply. Dell offers a choice of a standard power adapter with a 7.4-mm diameter barrel, or a power adapter that plugs into the USB Type-C port. Our system came with the latter, but if we had to choose, we’d opt for the standard power adapter so that the single Type-C USB port remained available. Windows 10 Home 64-bit came preinstalled. Other OS options include Windows 10 Pro ($42) or Ubuntu Linux ($67). The Precision 3540 is backed by only a one-year warranty, not what we have come to expect from a major manufacturer. As tested, our Dell Precision 3540 priced out at $1,782 after applying current online discounts and adding $115 for a three-year warranty with onsite service after remote diagnostics. At $879, the base model Dell Precision 3541 includes a ninth-generation 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-9400H CPU quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, the same 500GB 2.5-in. 7200rpm hard drive as the base-model 3540, and the same 1366x768 display powered by the integrated Intel graphics. But Dell offers many more options for the 3541, such as a choice of five other CPUs, including a 2.8GHz Intel Xeon E-2276M. Our evaluation unit came with a six-core 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-9750H, adding $305. That Coffee Lake processor has a maximum turbo speed of 4.6GHz and a 12MB cache yet maintains a TDP rating of 35 watts. Our Precision 3541 also included an NVIDIA Quadro P620 graphics processing unit (GPU) with 4GB of GDDR5 and 512 compute unified device architecture (CUDA) cores. At $90, this is the only discrete graphic option offered for the 3541. Our evaluation unit also included a 1920x1080 WVA display with 100% sRGB gamut and an IR camera, adding an extra $148. Touchscreen options are also available. The Precision 3541 can support up to 32GB of memory, including error-correcting code memory for systems equipped with a Xeon processor. Our evaluation unit came with 16GB, installed as a pair of 8GB 2666MHz DDR4 non-ECC DIMMs ($207). Our system also included a 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Class 40 SSD ($283) and unlike the 3540, the Precision 3541 can support a 2.5-in. SATA drive in addition to an M.2 SSD. The inclusion of the NVIDIA GPU also required the addition of a six-cell 97Whr ExpressCharge-capable battery ($50) and a 130-watt power supply. Again, Dell included a power adapter that plugs into the USB Type-C port. We think users would be better served by an older-style adapter, freeing up the Type-C port for other devices while saving $21. Although Windows 10 Home is included in the base configuration, the system we received had Windows 10 Pro 64-bit preinstalled, adding $42. Windows 10 Pro for Workstation is required for systems equipped with a Xeon CPU. Like the Dell Precision 3540, a one-year warranty is standard, but our as-tested price of $2,087 includes a three-year warranty. Evaluating Performance Both Dell Precision workstations remained cool and nearly silent throughout testing, with fan noise barely audible even under heavy compute loads. Although the Precision 3540 ran for 15 hours and 17 minutes, the Dell Precision 3541 astounded us when it lasted a record-setting 15 hours and 28 minutes. That was where the similarities ended, however. On the SPECviewperf test, which evaluates pure graphic performance, neither system turned in great results, but the scores for Precision 3540 placed it at the bottom of the pack, comparable to an ultrabook rather than a full-fledged workstation. But scores for the SPECapc SolidWorks benchmark were much better for both Precision workstations, illustrating that they are indeed very capable of running mainstream CAD software. On the very demanding SPECwpc benchmark, the Dell Precision 3541 performed moderately well, with decent results for tests more reliant on CPU and storage performance, while its graphics results were quite low. For the Dell Precision 3540, the SPECwpc results were disappointing, with almost all results near the bottom of the pack. The only high points here were results dependent on storage. The Toshiba M.2 drive in the Precision 3540 turned in the best storage subsystem score we have recorded to date. Scores on our AutoCAD rendering test were respectable at best, with the Dell Precision 3541 averaging 59.7 seconds to complete the rendering, while the Precision 3540 averaged 77.5 seconds. As configured, the Dell Precision 3540 priced out at $1,782, making it one of the most affordable mobile workstations available today. But at $2,087, the Dell Precision 3541 may be a better choice for most users, despite costing $305 more. As you would expect, both the Precision 3540 and 3541 are independent software vendor (ISV) certified for major CAD, digital content creation and scientific applications. Both systems also came with a copy of the Dell Precision Optimizer, which automatically tunes the system to run ISV applications, but a new Dell Precision Optimizer Premium version costs $123 extra after a 30-day free trial period. Although neither system blew us away in performance, the Dell Precision 3540 and 3541 are half the price of those mobile systems with the top-rated benchmark results. Both are well-designed, affordable, lightweight, and deliver incredible battery life. Although either Precision workstation would be a great choice for a mainstream CAD user on the go, we preferred the Dell Precision 3541 thanks to its more robust graphics and better storage options. More Dell Coverage Productivity Study: ANSYS Mechanical Simulation run times are up to 4.8 times faster using a current workstation equipped with a powerful GPU compared to an older system. Virtual Reality: Workstation Configuration As more engineering firms adopt virtual reality tools, new workstations must address performance, hardware capabilities. Deep Learning Meets 3D Modeling Machine learning and AI introduce predictive behavior in design software. Productivity gets boost with Latitude 9510, an intelligent 15-in. 5G-ready business PC with built-in AI. Thinner and smaller XPS 13 debuts its first four-sided InfinityEdge display for virtually borderless viewing experience. Data Avalanche: Growing Need for New Storage Strategies Larger, more complex models and simulations mean data storage and management are more important than ever. Visualizing Digital Twins The true cost of deploying and maintaining a digital twin is in collecting and analyzing the data. The data gives life to static 3D models. Dell Company Profile David Cohn has been using AutoCAD for more than 25 years and is the author of more than a dozen books on the subject. He’s the technical publishing manager at 4D Technologies, a contributing editor to Digital Engineering, and also does consulting and technical writing from his home in Bellingham, WA. Email at [email protected] or visit his website at www.dscohn.com. 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__label__wiki	0.941666	0.941666	Seimas speaker expects deal with Order and Justice to help ensure majority A cooperation agreement between the Order and Justice political group in the Seimas and lawmakers from the ruling bloc will help ensure a stable majority in the parliament in voting on major issues, the speaker of the Seimas said on Tuesday. Viktoras Pranckietis © DELFI / Domantas Pipas "I think the signing of the agreement will take place at the very start of the fall session. That would ensure a formal majority. Informally, we have it," Viktoras Pranckietis told reporters. "(We don't agree to) all of the (Order and Justice) requirements, but talks on the requirements are ongoing and I think we'll manage to finalize these issues before the signing," he said. The Order and Justice has put forward a list of 15 measures that the Seimas should adopt by the end of its current tenure. Lithuania's ruling bloc, Order and Justice MPs put off signing deal until September All major Lithuanian parties, except LSDP, likely to sign new defense deal next week (Updated) The speaker confirmed that the ruling bloc had agreed to 12 of the 15 requirements, but he did not elaborate. The party wants the cooperation agreement to include a commitment to raise the minimum monthly wage to at least 50 percent of the average wage, which should reach 1,000 euros next year. Its proposals also include introducing direct elections of heads of elderships, the smallest administrative units of Lithuania, as well as the institute of jurors in courts and a reduced 9-percent tax rate for fuel used for heating. They also call for imposing restrictions on the opening hours of major shopping centers on weekends and for increase funding for housing renovation. The LVŽS offers the post of a Seimas vice-speaker to the Justice and Order. The agreement would be signed by the political groups of the LVŽS, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP) and the Order and Justice in the parliament. The Order and Justice has seven seats in the Seimas, the LVŽS has 55 and the LSDDP has eleven. The signing of a cooperation agreement between the Order and Justice political group in the Seimas... All of Lithuania's parliamentary political parties, except for the Social Democratic Party of... Election Action of Poles might get Seimas' vice speaker's post, Farmers' leader says Ramūnas Karbauskis , leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, says the Electoral... Mistrust in parties: political scientist warns – voters are irked by catchall politics Urbonaitė: group coalitions devalue the role of parties TS-LKD, LVŽS remain most popular parties in Lithuania – survey The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats and the ruling Lithuanian Farmers...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1159
__label__wiki	0.674362	0.674362	Ninja Turf Ninja Turf (also known as Los Angeles Streetfighter and L.A. Streetfighters) is a 1986 martial arts film, starring Jun Chong and Phillip Rhee. Loren Avedon, Thomas F. Wilson, and Peter Malota appear in this film in small roles.[1] Woo-sang Park Jun Chong Ji-woon Hong Jaime Mendoza-Nava Phillip Rhee James Lew Loren Avedon Gary Falcone Charles Pavlosky Barry Scheider David Kim Maximo Munzi Alex Chang Manson International PlotEdit Tony is the new kid at school. Right off the bat, he befriends gang leader Young and his friends Mark, Frank, and Darrin. However, after bumping into Young's rival Chan, he gets threatened. Young challenges Chan to a fight and defeats him using a wooden sword to Chan's staff. Two mysterious people show up and offer Young and his friends a job for a private security agency. When the boys aren't in school, they pull security at a party. They get into fights with the Spikes Gang, a racist gang and the Blades, a Latino gang. Meanwhile, Tony starts a romance with Lily, who just happens to be Chan's sister and that just makes Chan even more upset and at the same time, Young seems jealous that Tony has found love where Young feels alone due to his mother's constant drinking and promiscuity. He sees Tony as a brother and when he sees him with Lily, it makes his upset. When the boys are asked to do security for a rich businessman, Young learns that his new client is actually one of the biggest drug dealers in the city. After the party, while the dealer is with his girlfriend, Young takes the briefcase of money the mob boss scored on the deal and runs off. Angry, the mob boss hires two hitmen, a master Yakuza swordsman named Yoshida and a New York-based martial artist named Kruger. The hitmen confront Chan and his men, yet Chan decides to help them locate their hideout. Mark, Frank, and Darrin are all kidnapped and tortured. While Tony is at home studying, Young proceeds to take out the syndicate. He kills Yoshida but is slightly injured in the process. He defeats Kruger by breaking his knee. On his way back with the very injured Mark, Frank, and Darrin, Young is confronted by Chan and his gang. Finally realizing her mistakes, Young's mother tells Young she is sorry and that she loves him. However, Chan proceeds to hit Young's mom and Young is mortally wounded in a fight. Tony, looking for Young, finds his fallen friend and goes on a rampage. Taking Young's wooden sword, he proceeds to defeat Chan's gang and mortally wound Chan himself with a strike to the head with the sword. As Young's mom and Tony run towards Young, Young passes away in their arms and the two grieve as daylight hits Los Angeles. CastEdit Jun Chong as Young Phillip Rhee as Tony James Lew as Chan Rosanna King as Lily Bill Wallace as Kruger Ken Nagayama as Yoshida Mark Hicks as Mark Frank Marmolejo as Frank Darrin Mukama as Darrin Loren Avedon as Chan' s gang member Danny Gibson as Spikes Gang leader John Rojas as Blades leader Toma Gjokaj as Drug Dealer Peter Malota as Syndicate gang member Thomas F. Wilson as Spikes gang member The movie gained mixed reviews.[2] ^ "Big Pop Fun #3: Part 2 of Marc McClure Talking Directors and "Getting There" « Nerdist". Nerdist.com. Retrieved 2013-08-19. ^ "MOVIE REVIEW A BLEND OF TWO GENRES FOUND IN `NINJA TURF'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-13. Los Angeles Streetfighter on IMDb Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ninja_Turf&oldid=833755460" Last edited on 2 April 2018, at 08:03	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1161
__label__wiki	0.50115	0.50115	Rights of Aliens \| Article about Rights of Aliens by The Free Dictionary https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Rights+of+Aliens (redirected from Rights of Aliens) Also found in: Legal. persons located on the territory of one state but holding citizenship in another—that is, persons who are not citizens of their country of domicile. The status of aliens in their country of domicile is regulated by domestic state legislation and by international agreements. Aliens may be accorded national status (equal rights with the local citizens), most-favored status (equal rights for all aliens without discrimination against citizens of a particular country), or a special status (specific, precisely established rights). Rights are granted to aliens, as a rule, on the basis of reciprocity. In the USSR, aliens enjoy a number of political rights and civil liberties, including freedom of speech, press, and conscience; inviolability of person or dwelling; and privacy of correspondence. Aliens do not have the right to vote and are not subject to compulsory military service. Aliens who are persecuted for defending the interests of the toiling masses, for scholarly activity, or for engaging in a national liberation struggle are granted asylum. In the sphere of civil and legal rights aliens in the USSR are accorded national status. They can acquire the same civil rights as Soviet citizens (to buy and dispose of property, to inherit property, to conclude contracts, to claim authorship of inventions) and the right to appeal to courts and notary institutions. Aliens may marry Soviet citizens or other aliens; they may adopt children or be adopted; guardianship may be established over them, and they themselves may be guardians. Except for persons who enjoy immunity from jurisdiction (diplomatic and consular representatives as well as certain other persons), aliens are subject to criminal responsibility for any crimes they commit on the territory of the USSR. Aliens who are permanent residents of the USSR enjoy health care equal to that of Soviet citizens. There are certain legal limitations on the rights of aliens—for example, on moving within certain regions and on choosing certain occupations (ship’s captain, for one). The USSR has concluded a number of specific agreements on the legal status of aliens—for example, treaties on the rendering of legal aid in civil, family, and criminal cases; citizenship; social insurance; and entering the country without a visa. The USSR has a system of permissions for aliens with regard to entering and leaving the country: entry and exit are permitted when their passports have special visas; entry or exit without a visa is possible only when there is a specific agreement between the USSR and the state in question. There are simplified regulations for certain categories of aliens—for example, no special permission is required for the crews of foreign merchant ships when they are in port. I. K. GORODETSKAIA <a href="https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Rights+of+Aliens">Aliens</a> abominable snowman Alegría, Ciro Alexander Mitchell Palmer Alien Autopsy alien substitution AlIen, Rex Whitaker Asian Tsunami 2004 benthamidia kousa Despite lacking legislative authority over commerce, territorial acquisition, or the rights of aliens, the Continental Congress made treaties on all these subjects. The boundless treaty power within a bounded Constitution Because the DHS's indefinite-detention regulation falls outside the narrowed ambit of plenary power, (176) the Supreme Court should assert its authority and insist that the DHS respect the due process rights of aliens facing indefinite detention. Ending indefinite detention of non-citizens My paper considers the case of the Guantanamo detainees as a window on the broader question of the constitutional rights of aliens abroad. Current debates in the conflict of laws With the participation of the judiciary, the rights of aliens would be more expansively conceived. Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship (119) This reliance provides no guidance as to the rights of aliens who have not yet gained entry into the United States and affords them only minimal rights. The future of aliens ordered removed from the United States in the wake of Zadvydas v. Davis Thus, while the rights of aliens are undoubtedly qualified in Enemy aliens Second, you might join with others to sponsor or join a refugee program in your parish, town, or diocese--doing anything from running an education night (show "El Norte" or "Grapes of Wrath" and discuss the experience and rights of migrants and refugees), to requesting your pastor to preach on refugees for the feast of the Holy Family, to getting involved in some advocacy for the rights of aliens and refugees. They might be angels The various substantive human rights problems dealt with in the book include arbitrary arrest and the rights of aliens, indigenous rights, the right of self-determination, consistent patterns of human rights violations, disappearance, the right to free and fair elections, abortion and the right to life, mutilation, and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. DAVIS TO PROTECT DUE PROCESS RIGHTS OF ALIENS UNDER FINAL ORDER OF REMOVAL Demore v. Kim: upholding the unnecessary detainment of legal permanent residents United States,(60) one of the earliest cases to discuss the constitutional rights of aliens stopped at the border, the Supreme Court found those rights to be extremely narrow.(61) In Chae, a Chinese national working in the United States was denied entry into the country upon his return after a visit to China.(62) He petitioned for habeas corpus review, challenging the law under which his re-entry had been denied.(63) The Court found that the power to admit or exclude citizens of other countries was an inherent sovereign power and that Congress had the authority to pass a law excluding aliens.(64) The exit fiction: unconstitutional indefinite detention of deportable aliens Richardson means states cannot pursue the goal of greater electoral equality by sacrificing the equal representation rights of aliens alone. Allocating the local apportionment pie: what portion for resident aliens? The court's decision in this case is yet another example in which the judicial branch of the United States government has completely ignored the rights of aliens who are "within the United States" according to the INS's definition of this term.(10) What makes Barrera's case so incredible is that he has been imprisoned for over a decade without having been convicted of a crime that could justify such prolonged detention.(11) The court once again sees the fiction and ignores the truth right-hand helicity right-hand limit right-hand lock right-hand polarization right-hand reverse door Right-Hand Rule right-hand screw right-hand stairway right-hand taper right-handed coordinate system right-handed curve right-handedness righting arm righting lever righting moment right-invertible element right-justify right-laid right-lateral fault right-lateral slip fault right-reading Rights and Duties of the Citizens of the USSR Rights of Aliens Rights, Freedoms, and Duties of the Citizens of the USSR rightsizing right-slip fault Right-Whale Dolphin Right-Wing Deviation in the All-Union Communist Party Bolshevik Right-Wing Socialists rigid airship Rigid arch rigid bent rigid concrete pavement rigid connection rigid copper coaxial line rigid dampproof course rigid foam Rigid frame rigid insulation board rigid joint rigid lock rigid metal conduit rigid panel insulation Rights and Voice Initiative Rights Commissioner Rights Data Dictionary - Rights Expression Language Rights Description Table Rights for Electronic Access to and Dissemination of Information Rights in Action Rights in Case of Remarriage Rights in Technical Date Rights in Water and Irrigation Act 1914 rights issue Rights Language Technical Committee Rights Management File Rights Management Server External Connector Rights Management Services Rights Manager Rights Metadata for Open Archiving Rights never die Rights Object Acquisition Protocol Rights of accumulation rights of asylum Rights of Children Rights of Citizenship rights of common Rights of Detainees Rights of Entry Collection Centers Rights of Establishment Rights of Foreclosure Rights of kids to parent's house during illness Rights of Man and of the Citizen Rights of Passage Apartment Living Rights of Privacy Rights of Redemption Rights of Rescission Rights of Return rights of search Rights of Service Members Rights of Set Off Rights of set-off	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1162
__label__wiki	0.671849	0.671849	Power » NTPC Unaudited results NTPC Unaudited PAT for Q2 of 2015-16 registers 40% increase at Rs 2898 cr on Q-on-Q basis The Country’s largest power generator NTPC, having an installed capacity of 45548 MW, has posted unaudited Total Income for Q2 FY 2015-16 of Rs. 18,173.90 crore as against the unaudited Total Income of Rs. 17,267.32 crore in the Q2 FY 2014-15, registering an increase of about 5%.ETEnergyWorld \| October 29, 2015, 16:14 IST The Country’s largest power generator NTPC, having an installed capacity of 45548 MW, has posted unaudited Total Income for Q2 FY 2015-16 of Rs. 18,173.90 crore as against the unaudited Total Income of Rs. 17,267.32 crore in the Q2 FY 2014-15, registering an increase of about 5%, NTPC said in a statement today. Gross generation for the Q2 FY2015-16 rose to 60.159 Billion Units from 55.448 Billion Units in the corresponding period of previous year, registering an increase of over 8%, added the statement. The unaudited Profit after Tax for the Q2 FY 2015-16 was Rs. 2,898.28 crore as compared to the unaudited Profit after Tax of Rs. 2,071.63 crore declared for the Q2 FY 2014-15, registering an increase of about 40%, on Q-on-Q basis, the statement said. On half-year basis, the unaudited Total Income was Rs. 35,497.20 crore for H1 FY 2015-16 as against Rs. 36,136.63 crore reported for the corresponding period in previous year. For H1 FY 2015-16, unaudited Profit after Tax was Rs. 5,033.63 crore as compared to Rs. 4,272.83 crore declared in the corresponding period of previous year registering an increase of about 18%, said NTPC in the statement. Tags : Power, NTPC Unaudited results, NTPC, financial results Most Read in Power Rs 53,000 LED threw light on Karnataka scam Jaipur-based EV Startup BattRE in talks with 10 venture capitalists to raise funds Electricity Act may be amended to ensure discoms honour power pacts NTPC, Nalco, NMDC probables for OFS in DIPAM list Major shift: PMO mulls to open gates for FDI in nuclear power Bosch to cut thousands of jobs in India	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1164
__label__wiki	0.522	0.522	An attack aided by the state August 21, 2004; after the terrifying grenade attack on Awami League rally that shook the nation, police refused to take the case. Instead, the police filed suit. The deposition was arranged on the advice of senior police officers. Militants have The second coming of Bangabandhu I have this secret pride in my mind. On the 44th death anniversary of Bangabandhu, I wish to express that pride in a humble way. After all, I was the first to come to a foreign country and write about this national tragedy after the assassination of Traffic system in rest of Bangladesh is not same as Gulshan: Ratanawadee Bangladeshi students hit the street right around this time last year. But the number of accidents did not go down at all, increased instead! In the last one year, 297 people were killed in Dhaka due to Road accidents and out of the 38% were Shattered dreams in Malaysia: Slavery masked in migrant labour Out of 259 workers, who died while working abroad, the highest 67 died in Malaysia in February this year. According to a list, signed by Md Tanvir Hossain, assistant director of Probashi Kollyan Desk of Shahjalal International Airport, 35 of 'Zia wanted US to takeover Bangladesh defence' Ziaur Rahman, the founder of the BNP, called upon the authorities of the United States to take the responsibility of Bangladesh's defence. This message was later conveyed to Washington DC, the capital of the United States, by the then Ambassador In spite of migrating legally, more than three million migrants have been illegal due to some corrupt brokers' designed deception. The dishonest companies make the migrants illegal taking their passports away at the very entrance in the What would happen if humans killed all mosquitoes? Mosquitoes, probably the deadliest creature to have ever lived on the face of the earth. They are responsible for more human deaths than any other creature on this planet. Being one of the most widespread of creatures, almost every human The reporter had interviewed a total of 78 workers among whom 42 workers migrated to Malaysia in G2G arrangement and each of them had to pay the brokers Tk. 250,000-Tk. 450,000 that estimates a per worker expense of Tk. 337,000. As a part of the '45 organisations paid $12m to Myanmar to conduct Rohingya genocide' The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar gave a four-page report on Monday in Geneva that contains some bewildering information. In the report, it is stated that as many as 45 companies and organisations gave at least US No sooner had this reporter stepped in Malaysia than a piece of 'hot' news came about the workers' unrest at a printing factory named Tiong Tat, which is a Bangladeshi ridden one. Contacting with a local labourers' 'A remarkable initiative by Bangladesh government' "Bangladesh government's SDG tracker has proven to be a successful initiative in Bangladesh’s pursuit to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which can be exemplary for other countries. Bangladesh has also made remarkable 1,712 new cases of dengue in 24 hrs, 20,000 this year Mosquito-borne dengue fever is reaching epidemic proportions as the number of dengue patients has exceeded 20,000 as of August 1. This large number of patients are pushing the hospital personnel to the edge. Fear of dengue has spread panic The true plight of Bangladesh’s migrant workers, whose hard-earned remittance keep the economy afloat, can be seen first-hand across Malaysia. As I boarded the Biman Bangladesh flight to Kuala Lumpur on October 3, I could not help noticing the Monetary penalty (fine) used as an administrative tool of regulation Monetary penalty (fine) is the sum of money ordered to be paid, as a penalty or punishment in a civil or criminal case. The amount of fine depends on the grievousness of the violation. Generally, court or other regulatory government authorities 1.2 million Malaysia expats trapped in modern day slavery A total of 275,714 Bangladeshi youths have migrated to Malaysia under the government-to-government (G2G) arrangement, taking the total number of expatriate workers to 1.2 million. Of them, a large number of youths face indentured servitude similar Govt bank recruitment results before eid without 1,615 withheld posts The Secretariat of Bankers Selection Committee (BSCS) has decided to publish the recruitment results of Janata and Rupali Banks before the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, keeping the results of 1615 withheld positions of senior officers, officers and cash Lynching is a social crime, say experts Several deaths due to mob beating over suspicion of child lifting have taken place in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Netrokona and other places in the last few days. They fell victim to the social menace even without any prior 1132 trees at stake due to construction of 5 halls in JU A complaint has been raised against the university administration regarding their deciding to build five residential halls demolishing the natural landscape of Jahangirnagar University, which is renowned as an ideal land of natural beauty. If < 1 2 3 4 5 > End › Baul songs bear no relation to arrest of singer: PM 22 January, 2020 20:28 PM Crisis-hit Lebanon names new government 22 January, 2020 18:50 PM Trump trial opens with fiery clashes over witnesses 22 January, 2020 18:48 PM India on high alert to prevent ‘Novel Corona Virus Disease (nCoV) 22 January, 2020 18:43 PM Zindagi Tamasha: Pakistan film suspended after religious uproar 22 January, 2020 18:41 PM PM warns of stern action against profit-mongers 22 January, 2020 18:27 PM Bangladesh Tariff Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2020 passed in JS 22 January, 2020 18:23 PM Publish ad asking SK Sinha to appear before court by Feb 20: court 22 January, 2020 18:02 PM 'Another Morning' on domestic violence 22 January, 2020 18:06 PM DU BCL men beat up 4 students 22 January, 2020 17:45 PM Indian woman suffering from AIDS gang-raped in running train 22 January, 2020 15:42 PM National Housing Authority job circular 21 January, 2020 18:24 PM DNCC, DSCC Polls: HC bans polythene wrapped posters 22 January, 2020 13:29 PM Govt to launch e-passport Wednesday 21 January, 2020 21:40 PM Bangladesh moves 8 notches up in EIU Democracy Index-2019 22 January, 2020 16:12 PM E-passport is a ‘Mujib Barsho’ gift for nation: PM 22 January, 2020 15:36 PM ECNEC approves TK 20,526cr project to establish 329 technical school & colleges 21 January, 2020 16:00 PM Dhaka, Ctg airports begin screening following spread of China virus 21 January, 2020 16:18 PM Kartik- Sara’s date 22 January, 2020 14:21 PM 4 new dengue patient detected in 24 hrs: DGHS 21 January, 2020 16:27 PM Road accident claims 4 lives in Keraniganj 21 January, 2020 21:53 PM Shilpa Shetty busy with Tik Tok 21 January, 2020 18:00 PM BGMEA building set to be demolished Wednesday 21 January, 2020 19:11 PM PM inaugurates e-passport today 22 January, 2020 11:50 AM Prince Harry arrive in Canada ahead of new chapter 21 January, 2020 16:21 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1165
__label__wiki	0.980993	0.980993	KENYA: Church leaders say northern military operation must end Fredrick Nzwili Kenyan church leaders are urging the government to halt a military operation in the north of the country to recover firearms and 6,000 animals stolen by cattle rustlers. "We are saying the operation must stop," Anglican Bishop Charles Gaita of Nyahururu told Ecumenical News International on March 11. "Those who have stolen other people's animals should return them voluntarily." On March 5, the government launched the operation in which soldiers are impounding animals allegedly stolen by the Samburu, a pastoralist community, and redistributing them to the purported owners in Meru and Isiolo districts. Gaita said, however, the local people had told the church they were being subjected to harassment and brutality. He warned the operation would not solve the problem of cattle rustling in the region. "The government must look into the root causes of the problem. It must find out why people are stealing each others' livestock, and end the problem once and for all," said Gaita. The bishop said the cattle rustling had been fuelled by an age-old tradition in which young men from pastoralist communities have raided cattle to raise bride prices, the wealth by a groom or his family to the parents of his intended bride. Gaita said the young men should be educated about new ways of finding that price. Roman Catholic bishops Anthony Ireri Mukobo of Isiolo and Virgilio Pante of Maralal issued a call in a March 9 statement for an urgent peace meeting and compensation for communities that have lost their animals in the operation. "The government seems not to be conscious of the aftermath of this operation, which leaves the communities more divided than before," they stated. "We call upon the government to cease the operation immediately and use those resources to bring its people together for dialogue." Anglican Church of Kenya	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1169
__label__wiki	0.790646	0.790646	Defund the Bans Pro-Lies.org HHS Watch Family Separation Crisis Fire Scott Lloyd FOIAs Back to Media Room Group Calls for House Investigation of HHS’ Role in Child Separation Crisis; Launches Digital Ad Campaign Demanding Scott Lloyd’s Firing 10.26.18 – Today, Equity Forward sent a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform calling on Chairman Gowdy to hold Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Director Scott Lloyd accountable for their role in the family separation crisis. The group also began a new digital ad campaign calling on Azar to fire Lloyd with an initial five-figure buy in DC. The renewed calls for oversight come after the Republican-controlled House Energy and Commerce and its subcommittee on Health have for months stonewalled any meaningful oversight of HHS’ role in the crisis “Both Secretary Azar and ORR Director Lloyd have a lot to answer for. They have failed to comply with court orders and have proven to be incompetent when it comes to reuniting families and ensuring child safety. They have exhibited an appalling lack of planning, overall incompetent management and have cost taxpayers millions of dollars that were designated for other critical health issues. This issue merits serious, bi-partisan oversight of HHS, and it is Congress’ duty to do so,” said Mary Alice Carter, Executive Director of Equity Forward. “Getting to the bottom of the many failures and the mismanagement at HHS must be a top priority for this Congress. And since Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee are refusing to do their job, the responsibility now lays with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Our hope is that Chairman Gowdy uses the remainder of his chairmanship to tackle this vital issue.” Earlier this week, a new report issued by the Government Accountability Office detailed how Secretary Alex Azar’s HHS was woefully unprepared to handle the more than 2,600 children ripped from their families at the border this summer. Also this week, Politico reported that “a top official at the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs the refugee resettlement program, is conducting what she called a “top to bottom” review of the program, three months after the migrant crisis paralyzed the agency.” The Politico report faulted ORR Director Scott “Lloyd [for making] decisions that complicated reunifications.” Read the letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform HERE. A sample of the ads is here: ©2020 Equity Forward. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1171
__label__cc	0.643079	0.356921	Reading: DataGauge: A Practical Process for Systematically Designing and Implementing Quality Assessm... Model / Framework DataGauge: A Practical Process for Systematically Designing and Implementing Quality Assessments of Repurposed Clinical Data Jose-Franck Diaz-Garelli , Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Wake Forest School of Medicine, US Elmer V. Bernstam, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US MinJae Lee, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US Kevin O. Hwang, Mohammad H. Rahbar, Todd R. Johnson The well-known hazards of repurposing data make Data Quality (DQ) assessment a vital step towards ensuring valid results regardless of analytical methods. However, there is no systematic process to implement DQ assessments for secondary uses of clinical data. This paper presents DataGauge, a systematic process for designing and implementing DQ assessments to evaluate repurposed data for a specific secondary use. DataGauge is composed of five steps: (1) Define information needs, (2) Develop a formal Data Needs Model (DNM), (3) Use the DNM and DQ theory to develop goal-specific DQ assessment requirements, (4) Extract DNM-specified data, and (5) Evaluate according to DQ requirements. DataGauge’s main contribution is integrating general DQ theory and DQ assessment methods into a systematic process. This process supports the integration and practical implementation of existing Electronic Health Record-specific DQ assessment guidelines. DataGauge also provides an initial theory-based guidance framework that ties the DNM to DQ testing methods for each DQ dimension to aid the design of DQ assessments. This framework can be augmented with existing DQ guidelines to enable systematic assessment. DataGauge sets the stage for future systematic DQ assessment research by defining an assessment process, capable of adapting to a broad range of clinical datasets and secondary uses. Defining DataGauge sets the stage for new research directions such as DQ theory integration, DQ requirements portability research, DQ assessment tool development and DQ assessment tool usability. Keywords: Clinical data quality, secondary use of clinical data, data quality assessment, model-driven development, clinical and translational science How to Cite: Diaz-Garelli J-F, Bernstam EV, Lee M, Hwang KO, Rahbar MH, Johnson TR. DataGauge: A Practical Process for Systematically Designing and Implementing Quality Assessments of Repurposed Clinical Data. eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes). 2019;7(1):32. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/egems.286 Accepted on 19 Feb 2019 Submitted on 03 Jul 2018 There is growing interest in the reuse of routinely-collected clinical data for comparative effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research and clinical quality improvement [1]. However, analysis of raw clinical data can yield misleading results [1, 2, 3]. Data flaws such as inaccuracies and incompleteness are often cited as the cause for this hazard [4, 5, 6], but a fundamental problem is reuse of clinical data for purposes other than originally intended; usually clinical care and health care administration [2, 7, 8]. Thus, evaluating the data’s fitness for a specific secondary purpose is crucial to ensure valid analytical results [9, 10]. Such evaluation is called a data quality (DQ) assessment [11, 12, 13]. Current repurposed clinical DQ assessment methodologies found in the literature fall short in supporting design and implementation in two distinct ways. On one hand, tool-driven methods and focus on directly detecting data flaws such as inaccuracies rather than supporting assessment design to evaluate ‘fitness for purpose’ [9, 10]. These methods fail to enable systematic assessments by failing to provide a fixed, reproducible sequence of steps. They also tend to be rigid detection algorithms rather than generalizable methodologies [10]. On the other hand, DQ guidelines and theory-based methods define approaches to assess data adherence to more abstract DQ concepts [14, 15]. Though these methods achieve much higher potential for broad applicability and generalizability, they usually fail to provide explicit implementation guidance to design and execute DQ assessments [10, 15]. Due to their higher level of abstraction, they tend be perceived by users as lacking in clarity, difficult to operationalize, and tedious to implement, although this may be the only available way to conduct systematic, reliable DQ assessments [14]. Model-driven software development and QA, is a well-established branch of software engineering that has enabled the systematic evaluation of software products with a fitness-for-purpose approach [16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21]. Based on standard methodologies from this field, we developed the DataGauge framework for the systematic DQ assessment of repurposed clinical datasets. DataGauge satisfies most desiderata for DQ assessment guidelines [10, 14] by (1) defining a broadly applicable, systematic and explicit assessment pipeline, (2) being able to cover any repurposed clinical dataset and secondary purpose, (3) fully engaging clinical data reuse teams in DQ assessment design, and (4) being independent of a gold standard. DataGauge integrates disparate tools and techniques into a cohesive process blueprint that aims to standardize the design and implementation of data quality assessments. This work integrates existing DQ assessment methodology techniques and provides a clear functional context for their development. We present our framework in three sections. First, we discuss the theoretical foundation and related work that led to the definition of DataGauge. Then, we define DataGauge in detail, illustrating the procedure with a practical and applied example. Lastly, we discuss DataGauge’s ability to integrate past DQ work in the field, its contributions and future research work that would further enable the reliable reuse of clinical data through the development of DQ assessment pipelines. Quality assessment (QA) methods are used in many disciplines other than biomedical informatics. Some of these methods address one or more of the aforementioned limitations but have not yet been adapted to assessment of repurposed clinical DQ. Basic QA methods rely on qualitative evaluations (e.g., satisfaction surveys) that provide measures of perceived quality [22]. This type of assessment is usually purpose-driven and based on a general set of guidelines [23] to ensure validity. However, such approaches tend to produce ad-hoc evaluations rather than systematic assessments. To facilitate systematic QA, standards organizations such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have defined quality control standards [24] and methodologies [25, 26, 27, 28] that require the definition of quantitative requirements and a systematic approach to test compliance with these requirements. One particularly relevant research field that resulted from the creation of these quality control standards is model-driven software engineering and QA [29]. This field focuses on developing methods to support the explicit definition of formal requirements and automatic evaluation against these formal requirements. Model-driven QA has not yet been adapted to assess the quality of repurposed clinical data. Model-driven software development and QA is a well-established branch of software engineering that has reduced the number of errors in complex software (i.e., improved software quality) [16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21]. The similarities between DQ and software quality suggest that these methods can be adapted to assess repurposed clinical DQ. The adaptation of these methods is likely to be viable for two reasons: (1) data can be evaluated for quality just like any other product [30] and (2) model-driven data validation has been successfully done on non-clinical administrative data [31]. At the highest level these model-driven software QA methods share three stages: (1) Evaluation of needs and scope definition [16, 32, 33], followed by (2) Explicit modeling of product specifications (i.e., the quality requirements) based on the needs [16, 31, 32, 33, 34], and (3) Evaluation of the product based on the previously-defined requirements [16, 31, 32, 33, 35]. Though these stages do not explicitly define the criteria and requirements needed for assessment, they structure the assessment process to make it systematic. This process can be adapted to the secondary use of clinical data as follows: (1) conduct a data needs and scope assessment in the context of the analysis question, (2) develop specifications, which includes the explicit definition of the data needs in a model as well as the definition of DQ requirements and, (3) assess the data according to the DQ requirements. We applied this three-stage approach to our clinical data reuse and extraction requests submitted to our local clinical data warehouse and data team for several different use cases. By iteratively working through this process with each use case we were able to define a concrete pipeline for the development and execution of systematic DQ assessment for repurposed clinical data. We describe this process in the next section along with a concrete application example. 3. The DataGauge Process Overview and Example DataGauge proposes that the three stages of QA be completed by iteratively executing five concrete steps (see Figure 1): (1) Define information needs based on the analysis question and analytical methods, (2) Develop a data needs model (DNM) that formalizes the data needs, (3) Develop analysis-specific DQ requirements based on the analytical purpose, the DNM and the dimensions of DQ, (4) Extract data from the source data set to fit the DNM, and (5) Evaluate the extract according to the DQ requirements and flag all data that infringe on the DQ assessment standard. These flags can then be used to clean the dataset. Note that DataGauge is defined at a high level of abstraction because it aims to accommodate any kind of clinical data and secondary purpose. This is necessary given the broad range of possible secondary purposes as well as the qualitative nature of DQ. However, DataGauge defines specific and concrete steps that fully define a pipeline for DQ assessment design and execution. DataGauge is also designed to accommodate current and future DQ guidelines through the definition of explicitly defined DQ requirements dependent on the application and assessed dataset. DataGauge, an iterative analysis-specific DQ assessment method for the secondary use of clinical data. This process defines the general stages and steps for analysis-specific DQ assessment using data models and an analysis-specific DQ standard. In the description below, we provide a concrete example as an illustration of each step of the process and preliminary viability validation. We used DataGauge to assess DQ for a repurposed clinical dataset and address the challenges of analysis-specific DQ assessment. The analytical purpose was to determine whether prednisone, a commonly-prescribed corticosteroid, is associated with weight gain. We chose this association because weight gain is a known and clinically-significant side effect of prednisone [36] that is likely to be detectable through retrospective review of clinical data. Our data source was a CDW containing routinely recorded clinical data from six academic outpatient clinics in a large metropolitan area in the southern United States. 3.1. Scope Definition Stage The DataGauge process begins by having a domain expert and statistician explicitly define an analytical approach to address the research question, along with the information needed to answer the research question. This is common in statistical analyses [37] and helps to achieve consensus regarding DQ assessment scope. This is not always required in other DQ assessment methods, leaving vagueness in the DQ assessment scope [11, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41]. For our example, any analysis would require information about the patients, their prednisone exposure, and their weight over time. Second, DataGauge requires the analytical team to develop a formal and explicit DNM from the information needs defined in the previous step. We suggest the use of Unified Modelling language-based (UML) entity-relationship diagrams [42, 43] for the definition of these models. The DNM explicitly and unambiguously defines the ideal analytical dataset, a step often overlooked in other DQ assessment methods [11, 38, 40, 41, 44, 45]. The model serves as a design specification document that defines variables and their relationships but also the scope based on analytical requirements. The qualities of a satisfactory DNM are difficult to define generically because they heavily depend on the analytical purpose. However, we encourage DNM designs to be in at least third normal form [46] or, equivalently, follow a tidy data format [47] to ensure repeatable data structures design, promote systematicity and simplify downstream extract-transform-load and DQ assessment tasks. For our example, we used a UML-based database modeling tool (MySQL workbench data modeler; Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA) to develop the DNM. A team composed of a clinician, a statistician and an informatician (the first author), who also played the role of database administrator, developed the final UML diagram for the research question (Figure 2c). The team created a series of models and discussed their ability to satisfy the analytical purpose as well as data availability in the CDW based on the information needs defined in the previous step (i.e., Patient demographics, prednisone exposure and weight over time). Figure 2 shows the iterative improvement of the DNM from (a) a single-table format that is not tidy data-compliant into (b) a tidy data compliant model with four observational units (i.e., Patient, Visit, Prednisone Prescription and Weight). The final DNM (c) improves on the tidy-data compliant model by removing the Visit observational unit, which is not directly relevant to the research question. The final model is also adapted to fit the data available in the CDW (e.g., changes in the variables describing the prednisone prescription). Evolution of the data needs model for the purpose of assessing a relationship between prednisone and weight gain using repurposed clinical data. This data model defines the data needs for the evaluation of an association between prednisone and weight gain. a), b) and c) show the three versions of the DNM; one for each iteration. Note how the first DNM (a) obscures the observations of interest and their relationships, whereas the third (c) makes these explicit and makes it possible to specify cardinality requirements among them. 3.2. Specification Development Stage The third step is to define an analysis-specific DQ standard composed of DQ requirements that fully describe a fit-for-purpose dataset based on the DNM. The DNM serves as an overview and map of the analytical dataset. In this step, it enables the research team to ensure coverage of every value, variable, observation, table and dataset. We define DQ requirements as explicitly-defined constraints that describe the testable features that a dataset must meet to support answering the research question. This step is specific to the research question and DNM (i.e., the dataset and its intended purpose). The DQ standard allows the analytics team to explicitly define and agree on DQ requirements for a particular case. We suggest the use of Object Constraint Language (OCL) paired to the entity-relationship diagrams suggested in step 2 as a possible implementation route [48, 49, 50, 51]. Specifying DQ requirements (i.e., DataGauge Step 3) is a complex, but crucial, task because the analyses rely on requirements to identify possible DQ issues. Although this is a complex task because it requires integrating multiple information sources (i.e., research question, data model and DQ theory knowledge) it has historically been left to domain experts for ad hoc development with no concrete guidance [41, 44, 45]. This is the main source of ambiguity in DQ assessment methods as well as a major threat to systematicity. Specifications development has been the target of much recent DQ research [14, 15, 52, 53]. As new guidelines resulting from this research are developed, they can be integrated into DataGauge. DataGauge, provides specific, structured guidance to address the complexity of the DQ requirement definition task by integrating existing DQ work outside the clinical data reuse literature. We use two dimensions to guide the definition of requirements: (1) formal levels of data granularity [54] to support thorough evaluation of the DNM and the thorough definition of DQ requirements and (2) existing DQ dimensions and approaches for assessing them [15, 39, 55, 56]. DataGauge combines these dimensions to ensure comprehensive coverage of DQ issues. For our example, DQ requirements were defined in the form of Boolean expressions and Object Constraint Language (OCL) constraints [49]. We chose OCL due to its integration with the UML diagrams previously used for the data models [48, 51, 50]. We generated DQ requirements iteratively and collaboratively. We considered the DNM at different levels of data granularity (e.g., single value, multiple values, observation, observational unit, dataset, etc.) [57] in light of each DQ dimension then tied them to a specific DQ assessment approach as integrated in Table 1. For example, when we combined the accuracy dimension with the single value level for the final DNM within the medication table, we generated requirements such as “Dose must be positive” or “Refills must be positive or 0”; both of these requirements were mapped to a range checking method. The concordance dimension at the observation level yielded criteria such as “the prescription date should be later than the patient’s date of birth” which was mapped to the semantic profiling DQ check method. At the observational unit or table level we assessed the timeliness of the data with the “Patient has a second weight measurement within 4 months of the first prescription” requirement. This requirement was also mapped to the semantic profiling check method. The process of running through each DQ dimension and DNM subset was repeated until the analytics team deemed the DQ standard adequate. A sample of the resulting requirements is shown in Table 2. DQ requirement development guidance table. Integrated and modified from Wang & Strong’s classification of data quality dimensions (1996) [39] and Borek et al.’s classification of data quality assessment methods (2011) [44]. Data Quality Dimensions Data Granularity Levels Correctness and Plausibility Cell/Value Domain analysis, Data Validation, Lexical analysis Domain Analysis, Lexical Analysis Domain Analysis Column Analysis, Lexical Analysis, Schema Matching Domain Analysis Column/Variable Column Analysis, Data Validation, Semantic Profiling Column Analysis, Domain Analysis Column Analysis, Data Validation Column Analysis, Schema Matching Column Analysis, Domain Analysis Row/Observation Domain Analysis, Semantic Profiling Domain Analysis, Semantic Profiling Domain Analysis, Semantic Profiling Domain Analysis, Schema Matching Domain Analysis, Semantic Profiling Table/Observational unit Domain Analysis Domain Analysis, Column Analysis Column Analysis, Semantic Profiling Schema Matching Semantic Profiling, Domain Analysis Multiple Tables/Dataset Semantic Profiling, PK/FK analysis, Column Analysis Domain Analysis, Semantic Profiling Domain Analysis, PK/FK Analysis, Semantic Profiling Column analysis, PK/FK Analysis, Semantic Profiling, Schema Matching Semantic Profiling, Domain Analysis Multiple Databases/Multiple Datasets Semantic Profiling, Domain Analysis, Column Analysis Domain Analysis, Semantic Profiling Semantic Profiling, Domain Analysis Column analysis, Schema Matching, Semantic Profiling Semantic Profiling, Domain Analysis 3.3. Data Processing Stage The last two steps implement the specifications developed in steps 2 and 3, beginning with the fourth step: extraction and formatting of the repurposed dataset from its database of origin. The DNM guides data extraction from the original database. The database administrator creates a schema with tables matching the DNM then loads the source clinical data into the tables. This schema should have all database rules such as variable type definitions, primary key rules, table relationship rules and other data validation triggers built in. In other words, the DNM serves as a dataset blueprint for extraction. Using this predefined schema to load the extracted data ensures that values match the agreed upon data model, variable types and database relationships. This step is an initial representational DQ test; if the data are not in the right format or variable types do not match, the database software should produce an error. For our example, the final DNM served as a data specification document to guide data extraction. Database tables were created to match the DNM and the raw data were extracted from the source database into the DNM schema using standard SQL queries. The fifth and last step consists of evaluating DQ based on the previously defined DQ requirements. Appropriate DQ test methods [58] are implemented to test each DQ requirement. This process evaluates DQ requirements compliance and flags discrepancies. Note that if the DQ requirements in a standardized, machine-readable way, this step can be easily automated. The resulting flags allow further analysis, data diagnosis and imputation [59]. Several indicators (i.e., DQ measures) can be calculated from these flags as measures of DQ (e.g., compliance percentage for each variable or patients with no data flaws divided by the total number of patients). These results provide quantitative evidence of non-compliant data and can serve as a basis for experts to judge their DQ (i.e. their fitness for purpose). At this point, a visual representation of the DNM can be used to organize, present and interpret the DQ assessment results. In our example case, we evaluated the quality of extracted data based on the third version of the DQ standard (Figure 2c). We covered analysis-specific DQ requirements as well as generic requirements to test accuracy and believability of the data. Of 52 requirements, 17 were analysis-specific. Analysis-specific requirements tended to be more complex and involved a larger number of variables. Table 2 shows how the requirements evolved over iterations; note the increasing precision and analysis-specificity (e.g., “2 values per patientID” in iteration 2 followed by “50 percent patients with 2 weight measures within 4 months of first prescription”). Each new DNM represented a specific data model designed to satisfy the same analytical purpose; each iteration for the DQ requirement created an increasingly complete, refined and analysis-specific set of requirements. DQ requirement examples as they were generated with their respective percentage of compliance. The requirements became more specific and analysis-specific with each iteration. DQ Dimension Variable Granularity Variable(s) Analysis Specific DQ assessment method DQ Result (% Compliance or Pass/Fail) 1 Accuracy Value Gender No In {‘M’,‘F’,‘U’} Data Validation 99.99 Accuracy Value WeightValue No >0 Range Checking 92.65 Believability Value WeightValue No <400 Range Checking 99.95 Accuracy Value Strength No >0 Range Checking 97.37 Believability Value Strength No <2* [Max dose] Domain Analysis 100 Accuracy Value Dose No >0 Range Checking 51.68 Believability Value Dose No <2* [Max pills at min strength] Domain Analysis 100 Accuracy Value Refills No >=0 Range Checking 100 2 Accuracy Value WeightTime No >[System Installation Date] Data Validation 100 Accuracy Column PatientID No Unique Column Analysis 100 Concordance Row WeightTime, DoB No Timestamp > DoB Domain Analysis 100 Concordance Row PrescDTTM, DoB No PrescDTTM > DoB Domain Analysis 100 Concordance Table PatientID, WeightTime, WeightValue Yes Patient weights on prescription date are less than 2% apart Domain Analysis 92.45 Completeness Table PatientID, WeightValue Yes 2 weight measurements per patient Domain Analysis 85.92 Completeness Line PatientID, WeightTime Yes Patient has weight measurement on prescription date Domain Analysis 97.54 Timeliness Table PatientID, WeightTime Yes Patient has second weight measure within 4 months of prescription Domain Analysis 48.62 3 Amount of data Table Strength, Dose, Days, Refills Yes Can calculate total milligrams prescribed for 50% of prescriptions Domain Analysis Failed Amount of data Table Patient, PRN Yes Less than 25% PRN prescriptions Domain Analysis Passed Amount of data Dataset PatientID, WeightTime Yes 50% patients 2 weight measures within 4 months of first prescription Domain Analysis Failed Completeness Dataset PatientID, WeightValue, WeightTime, PrescriptionTable Yes Patients with at least 2 unflawed weights after an unflawed prescription Domain Analysis 13.1 All Dataset All Variables No Patient records with no general DQ flaw Domain Analysis 2.93 Overall DQ tests revealed several DQ flaws in our test case (Table 2). We were able to identify specific DQ issues such as inaccuracies (e.g., 84 weight values were above 400 kg), inconsistencies (e.g., 56 instances where weight changed more than 20 percent over 2 days) and incompleteness (e.g., 43,135 patients with less than two weight measurements within 3 months of the prescription). This showed the approach’s effectiveness at catching DQ issues and screening data at the basic data level. We also excluded 14.1 percent of the patient records as they contained a single weight measurement and weight gain can only be calculated with two or more. We flagged all data items that violated DQ criteria and then calculated the number of patients with no flagged data in their records, having at least two weight measurements after their first prednisone prescription. Thus, only 2,379 patients out of 80,990 (13.1 percent) could be used reliably for analysis without any further data quality assessment, cleaning, imputation or manual chart review. This raised questions about the reliability of direct analysis and potential conclusions drawn from such analysis. DataGauge specifies a procedure that supports the systematic design and implementation of clinical dataset and secondary purpose-specific DQ assessments. DataGauge differs from previous work by combining guideline [14, 15] and DQ test [41, 44] approaches to DQ assessment into one process, integrating clinical data extraction [60] and assessment. DataGauge contributes to the field of clinical data reuse for comparative effectiveness, patient-centered outcomes research and quality improvement in two ways: (1) it provides an explicit implementation method for the variety of guidelines available for DQ assessment and (2) it describes a new methodological layer to (at least partially) satisfy the four requirements of “fitness for purpose” DQ assessment methodologies [14, 56]. DataGauge is systematic because it defines an explicit set of steps to prevent the ad-hoc application of DQ tests with no “fitness for purpose” testing plan. Being a direct adaptation of software QA methodologies [16, 32, 61], it is also domain expert knowledge-based. In addition, it builds upon Kahn et al.’s framework for pragmatic DQ assessment [11] adapting its single-site DQ assessment fitness evaluation. DataGauge accounts for the task-dependent nature of DQ by dedicating three out of five steps to the design of the dataset and purpose specific documents (i.e., the DNM and DQ requirements). DataGauge also engages users by enabling communication, discussion and iterative design as a basis for DQ assessment implementation. It is designed for collaborative execution by a team of domain experts (e.g., clinicians), data users (e.g., researchers, clinical administration, etc.), informaticians, statisticians, and database administrators. Finally, DataGauge is independent from the availability of gold-standard data, as it leverages expert knowledge to explicitly define a purpose-specific standard. Recent work in the field of DQ for EHR data reuse has also aimed at enabling systematic assessments in two ways. On one hand, other DQ assessment processes have been published [62, 63] but they do not provide a methodology that is systematic yet purpose-specific. For example, Reimer et al. describe a six-step process to assess clinical data based on the dimensions of DQ, focusing on issues such as patient matching across databases and evaluating record completeness rather than testing fitness for a specific purpose. On the other hand, the field has focused on establishing the theoretical basis for DQ assessment as well as assessment guidelines. For example, DQ reporting guidelines help structure the definition of DQ assessments [15], development of a harmonized terminology to facilitate discussion of DQ assessments [55], the development of an ontology-based DQ assessment framework [64] have all set a strong theoretical basis for systematic DQ assessment method development. One of the most impactful contributions has been the 3 × 3 DQ assessment guideline based on the literature, EHR data assessment and expert review that provides clinical data analysts with a clear framework to test specific aspects of DQ in a purpose-specific way [9]. However, the existing literature does not provide much guidance on systematic DQ assessment design and implementation processes. DataGauge defines a series of concrete steps for the design and execution of DQ assessments to support implementation and relies on the definition of explicit DQ requirements (Step 3). However, DQ requirement definition is a complex, cognitively taxing activity. The complexity stems from the need for mixed quantitative-qualitative reasoning as well as information from multiple data sources such as the intended analytical design or purpose [9, 15], data source descriptions [40, 41], data management constraints [44, 57] and DQ theory [14, 15, 38, 55]. DataGauge supports this process by: 1) Providing a systematic process to encode and define and the assessment scope and assessed data in explicit, unambiguous terms through a DNM that integrates knowledge about the purpose-specific data model, the data available in the clinical data source, its clinical data types, 2) Providing preliminary guidance to account for DQ theory as an initial guideline (see Table 1) that integrates general DQ dimensions [39] with levels of data granularity [44, 57] and practical granularity-specific DQ testing approaches [44] and 3) Enabling the use of existing DQ assessment guidelines through DQ requirement definition. Users can enrich the DataGauge process by defining their requirements using existing guidelines that may better serve their specific applications. For example, we could apply the 3 × 3 DQA guidelines [14], a recently published guidance framework for the design of systematic DQ assessments, to our illustrative example (see Figure 1c and Table 2). Data reuse teams can develop DQ requirements to ensure fitness for purpose for each dimension of 3 × 3 DQA for at all data elements in the DNM, at all levels of data granularity to make this process systematic, comprehensive and potentially repeatable. Using our example, we would decompose the DNM into multiple tables, variables, observations (e.g., weight and associated timestamp), etc. Then we would use each model subset and examine it in light of each DQ Dimension-Construct combination. For example, when we combine the “Correct” dimension with the “Variable” construct at the single value level of granularity for the final DNM we may generate requirements such as “Dose must be positive” or “Refills must be positive or 0”. Both requirements can be mapped to a range checking method (Table 1). This methodical dataset decomposition approach paired to the guidance provided by the 3 × 3 DQA framework would enable data reuse teams to ensure systematic DQ requirement definition. 4.1. Limitations DataGauge has limitations that stem mostly from the vast number of ways each step may be executed. This is an artifact of the general problem of defining a procedure to assess the quality of data or “fitness for purpose”. This is also the case for many DQ frameworks, guidelines and methods and, in the case of DataGauge, it has multiple repercussions. First, the definition of specific DQ requirements for each possible DQ threat is human resource intensive. However, the threats posed by data repurposing [2, 8] demand such a thorough evaluation. DataGauge also supports the explicit definition of these features, enabling clearer and more transparent communication [15, 55] of DQ assessment designs, requirements and results. Using DQ requirements rather than testing tools also opens new research directions such as defining methods for DQ requirement portability. DataGauge does not define any specific standard to encode these requirements, limiting the potential reusability of DQ requirement development work; further research is needed in this area. A promising avenue to enable the portability of DQ requirements is archiving. For example, DQ requirements could be archived based on the clinical data types (e.g., demographics, labs, medications) that they touch on and the purpose for which they were developed (e.g., disease prevalence estimation). This archive would enable previously-defined DQ requirement retrieval for future studies involving the same clinical data types and purpose. This would progressively reduce the human-intensive nature of DataGauge but further research and development is needed to make such systems available. Second, DataGauge does not provide guidance on the number of iterations needed to ensure reliable evaluation of fitness for purpose (i.e., knowing for certain when all requirements have been defined). However, this may not be definable because of wide variability in secondary purposes. DataGauge structures the DQ assessment process rather than defining an algorithm. DataGauge, in its current form, cannot be automated because it requires purpose-specific domain knowledge and relies in part on human judgment [14]. Nevertheless, DataGauge is a systematic process that can support future automation efforts and the systematic implementation of published DQ assessment guidelines. 4.2. Future Work Defining the DataGauge process opens many research avenues that require the involvement of the broad community of researchers making secondary use of clinical data. Beyond additional empirical validation of DataGauge’s effectiveness at guiding clinical data reuse efforts [65], future research should address practical barriers to DQ assessment implementation. We propose further development and integration of the DataGauge process-oriented approach to DQ assessment. Some development avenues to pursue are the development of automated DQ requirement generation from data model and metadata, the integration of harmonized DQ terminology within implementation process [55] and the development of an interactive tool for DQ requirement development capable of automated evaluation following the DataGauge process. Some integration research ideas are the implementation of an interactive version of the DQA 3 × 3 guideline [14] for the generation of DQ requirements within an interactive DataGauge process platform, the integration of the DataGauge process with existing DQ assessment tools [66] and facilitating the formal definition of DQ tests by integrating Johnson et al.’s DQ ontology and DQ measurement definitions [64, 67]. We also propose pursuing research to build DQ assessment practices into the learning health care system along three research directions: DQ infrastructure development, DQ portability [68] and DQ usability [69]. Infrastructure could be developed by researching the use of formal, machine readable models to automate the extraction of clinical data directly from DNMs and the development of DQ requirement databases based on clinical data types, domain knowledge and intended secondary purpose to be reused for automated DQ requirement generation or suggestion. To enable DQ portability, we propose the definition of a formal, machine-readable DQ requirement encoding standard [70] and testing the viability of DQ requirement portability across repurposed clinical datasets and secondary purposes. DQ requirement warehousing and cataloguing methods should also be investigated to enable intelligent retrieval for reuse based on clinical data types and secondary use purpose. An accessible library of DQ requirements containing previously-defined requirements would enable reducing the number of man-hours to complete a thorough DQ assessment. Finally, DQ usability research should explore the cognitive challenges DQ requirement generation process using think aloud sessions with data scientists designing DQ assessments and verify the usefulness of explicit DQ assessment design documents (i.e., DNMs and DQ requirement sets) to improve DQ assessment. 4.3. Conclusion We have presented DataGauge, a model-driven, iterative, team-based process to carry out purpose-specific DQ assessment for the secondary use of clinical data. It addresses a major barrier in the field: the lack of an explicit procedure for the design and implementation of DQ assessments. DataGauge also allows its users to systematically implement their preferred DQ assessment guideline for the definition of DQ requirements. DataGauge has two core contributions: (1) the integration of a number of disparate DQ assessment methods and techniques into a cohesive implementable process and (2) the explicit definition of a DQ assessment design and implementation methodology. This work also contributes by opening new avenues of research on systematic DQ assessment methods such as the development of a platform for shareable DQ requirements and the integrated implementation of existing DQ assessment guidelines. 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__label__cc	0.697161	0.302839	Κύρια Tarski's World: Revised and Expanded Tarski's World: Revised and Expanded David Barker-Plummer, Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy Tarski’s World is an innovative and exciting method of introducing students to the language of first-order logic. Using the courseware package, students quickly master the meanings of connectives and qualifiers and soon become fluent in the symbolic language at the core of modern logic. The program allows students to build three-dimensional worlds and then describe them in first-order logic. The program, compatible with Macintosh and PC formats, also contains a unique and effective corrective tool in the form of a game, which methodically leads students back through their errors if they wrongly evaluate the sentences in the constructed worlds. A brand new feature in this revised and expanded edition is student access to Grade Grinder, an innovative Internet-based grading service that provides accurate and timely feedback to students whenever they need it. Students can submit solutions for the program’s more than 100 exercises to the Grade Grinder for assessment, and the results are returned quickly to the students and optionally to the teacher as well. A web-based interface also allows instructors to manage assignments and grades for their classes. Intended as a supplement to a standard logic text, Tarski’s World is an essential tool for helping students learn the language of logic. Categories: Mathematics\\Logic Εκδότης: CSLI Publications Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes Κατεβάστε (pdf, 1.37 MB) Convert to EPUB Hyperproof CSLI Publications Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy The concept of logical consequence Center for the Study of Language and Information John Etchemendy Language, Proof and Logic Television and the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Democracy and the Media Peter Dahlgren Heaven : our enduring fascination with the afterlife Tarski’s World: Revised and Dave Barker-Plummer Jon Barwise Albert Liu CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE Copyright c 2007 Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barker-Plummer, Dave. Tarski’s world / by Dave Barker-Plummer, Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy.– Rev. and expanded. p. cm. – (CSLI lecture notes ; no. 169) ISBN 1-57586-484-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. First-order logic. 2. Tarski’s world. I. Barwise, Jon. II. Etchemendy, John, 1952– III. Title. IV. Series. BC128.B35 2004 511.3–dc22 ∞ The acid-free paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. CSLI was founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC to further the research and development of integrated theories of language, information, and computation. CSLI headquarters and CSLI Publications are located on the campus of Stanford University. CSLI Publications reports new developments in the study of language, information, and computation. Please visit our web site at http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ for comments on this and other titles, as well as for changes and corrections by the authors and publisher. To the people who made Tarski’s World a reality: Rick Wong, Rolf van Widenfelt, Steve Loving, Alan Bush, Mike Lenz, Eric Ly, Pete Murray, Dan Fish, Kalpana Bharadwaj, Christopher Fuselier and Albert Liu. How to Use This Book To the student To the instructor What’s new in this edition? More acknowledgements I Exercises Instructions About the Exercises Exercises on Propositional Logic Exercises on First-order Logic More Theoretical Exercises II Using the Software Using Tarski’s World Opening saved files 68 Starting new files 68 viii / Tarski’s World: Revised and Expanded Edition The World Panel Writing formulas 72 Commenting your sentences 73 Creating a list of sentences 73 Moving from sentence to sentence 73 Deleting sentences 74 Typing symbols from the keyboard 74 Cutting, copying, and pasting 75 Verifying syntax and truth Adding blocks 70 Selecting blocks 70 Moving blocks 70 Sizing and shaping blocks 70 Naming blocks 71 Deleting blocks 71 Cutting, copying, and pasting blocks Hiding labels 72 2-D view 72 Rotating Worlds 72 The Sentence Panel Saving a file 68 Closing Tabs 69 Reverting a File 69 Quitting (Exiting) Tarski’s World Picking blocks and sentences 76 Backing up and giving up 76 When to play the game 77 Using Submit Choosing files to submit How you know your files were received Saving your user data Contents / ix A.1 First-order languages A.2 Individual constants A.3 Predicate symbols A.4 Atomic sentences A.5 Connectives A.6 Variables A.7 Atomic wffs A.8 Quantifiers A.9 Wffs and sentences A.10 Satisfaction and truth A.11 Game rules A.12 Logical equivalences A.13 Validity and logical consequence Using Tarski’s World 5.x B.1 Getting started Launching Tarski’s World 107 The main windows 107 Opening saved files 109 Starting new files 110 Saving a file 110 The world window Adding blocks 111 Naming blocks 111 Moving blocks 111 Sizing and shaping blocks Deleting blocks 112 Hiding labels 112 2-D view 112 Rotating Worlds 113 x / Tarski’s World: Revised and Expanded Edition The keyboard and sentence windows Writing formulas 113 Commenting your sentences 114 Creating a list of sentences 114 Moving from sentence to sentence 114 Deleting sentences 115 Typing symbols from the keyboard 115 Cutting, copying, and pasting 116 Printing 116 The evaluation box / sentence inspector B.4.1 Verifying syntax and truth B.5.1 Picking blocks and sentences 118 B.5.2 Backing up and giving up 118 B.5.3 When to play the game 119 File Index Tarski’s World is a computer-based introduction to one of the most significant and widely applied intellectual developments of the twentieth-century: first-order logic. While it grew out of work in the philosophy of mathematics, first-order logic has become a requisite tool for the study of a multitude of disciplines, from philosophy and mathematics, its original inspirations, to linguistics, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. First-order logic is the most basic system of logic. While the language it is based on uses very few primitive concepts, and so is easily learned, it has proven to be a powerful language, one capable of expressing many important notions. Indeed, it is frequently claimed that the language of first-order logic is the appropriate language for the conduct of all rigorous discourse. We do not in fact agree with this opinion, since there are many demonstrably richer languages which are every bit as precise and rigorous. Nevertheless, first-order logic stands in a privileged position; all more powerful logics are merely enrichments in one direction or other of the first-order case. It is clearly the right starting point for any student who needs to understand logic. First-order logic has two main parts, syntax and semantics. On the syntactic side we have notions like: predicate and individual symbol connective and quantifier symbol sentence and well-formed formula (“wff”) free and bound variable inference rule provable wff xii / How to Use This Book On the semantic side we have notions like: relation and individual world, model, or relational structure truth and satisfaction valid wff Most computer-based treatments of logic concentrate almost entirely on concepts from the list of syntactic notions, in particular the last two. But the main lesson of the last fifty years’ research in logic has been that the items on the second, semantic list are by far the most fundamental. In designing Tarski’s World, our goal was to provide an introduction to the semantic side of logic. The program is named after one of the pioneers of the semantic approach to logic, the famous Polish-American logician, Alfred Tarski. Tarski’s World makes learning the basic ideas of first-order logic much more interesting, fun, and efficient than any other method we have found. Part one of the book consists of over one hundred exercises which you can complete, most using the the Tarski’s World application. If you are using Tarski’s World in conjunction with a logic class, then we suggest that you proceed as follows. Begin by skimming Chapter 5 for an overview of the Tarski’s World program, and appendix A for a brief introduction to FOL. Then you should work carefully through Section 5.5, Playing the game, to make sure you understand how and when to play the game, and why it works the way it does. Finally, when you are comfortable with the program, plunge into the exercises in Chapters 2–4, referring to other parts of the book as needed. The table of contents and index will help you find your way if you get stuck on something. If you are working through Tarski’s World on your own rather than in a logic class, then you should start by reading appendix A, to get an overview of FOL. Then read through Chapter 5 for an introduction to the Tarski’s World application. Refer back to appendix A as needed. You should be able to read through the chapter in a couple of hours. After that, you will feel comfortable with Tarski’s World. Once you have finished that, you should be ready to start work on Chapters 2–4. As you work through the exercises, you will need to consult various sections To the instructor / xiii of appendix A from time to time. Be sure to submit your solutions to the Grade Grinder to receive feedback on how you are progressing. Our motivation for developing Tarski’s World was to make teaching first-order logic easier and more fun for us. There were two particularly vexing problems. One had to do with getting introductory students to understand the central semantical ideas of first-order logic. The way these ideas are usually presented in textbooks makes them so abstract that students have a hard time understanding the point. Tarski’s World makes them very concrete and easy to understand, and so makes our job, both in the classroom and during office hours, much more pleasant. The other problem had to do with teaching students how to express themselves in the first-order language. Some students catch on quite quickly, while others need a lot of help and practice. Unfortunately, it is help that is hard to give. For example, when you give translation exercises, there is no single right answer: anything logically equivalent to a right answer is also a right answer. So someone has to read the answers carefully and try to see if they are logically equivalent to the right answer—an undecidable question, of course. Tarski’s World allows us to solve this problem in two ways. First, it opens up many ways other than translation to teach what first-order sentences mean. If you scan through our exercises and think about them, you will see that they employ all the various ways that we learn any new language. With Tarski’s World, we are not limited to the abstract task of translating back and forth from English: we can directly describe worlds, use the language to identify objects, construct worlds satisfying a description, and so forth. What’s more, when it does come to translation, Tarski’s World allows a better way to check if the answer is correct. It allows the student to test the truth-value of the translation against the truth-value of the orginal English sentence in a variety of worlds, to see if they are always the same. These tests won’t mistakenly reject logically equivalent translations, as syntactically based tests invariably do. In designing Tarski’s World, we wanted a tool that could be used in two ways. First of all, we wanted to use it as an integral part of our basic logic course. In such a course, we tailor many of our classroom xiv / How to Use This Book examples to Tarski’s World, and assign a large number of exercises from Chapters 2–4 of the book. Most of these exercises may be submitted to the Grade Grinder, our Internet-based grading service. The second use we put Tarski’s World to is with more advanced logic courses. In teaching such courses, we usually find a few students who really do not know how to express themselves in first-order logic. Rather than let these students flounder, we wanted a tool that we could simply hand them, and let them work through on their own. Tarski’s World also serves this function remarkably well. As a result, we think we have come up with a tool that is flexible enough to be of use to almost anyone teaching first-order logic. We hope that you find it to be as helpful as we have. We welcome suggestions for improvements in later versions, both from you and from your students. This book is intended for instructors who want to use Tarski’s World as a supplement to some other logic text, or in a course not devoted primarily to logic. Our stand-alone courseware package Language, Proof and Logic, would be more appropriate for instructors teaching a course devoted to FOL. Language, Proof and Logic contains Tarski’s World as well as two other applications: Fitch, a program for constructing natural deduction proofs, and Boole, a program for constructing truth tables. Purchasers of Language, Proof and Logic also have access to the Grade Grinder. The book contains (optional) chapters on set theory, on inductive definitions, and on such topics as resolution and unification. Language, Proof and Logic is published by CSLI Publications, and is distributed by the University of Chicago Press. More information is available from the Language, Proof and Logic web site, http://lpl.stanford.edu. If you find Tarski’s World useful, you might also be interested in Hyperproof and Turing’s World, two other instructional packages that we have developed for use in logic courses. Hyperproof is an introduction to analytical reasoning, built on the semantic perspective presented in Tarski’s World. Turing’s World is a self-contained introduction to Turing machines, one of the fundamental notions of logic and computer science. Like Tarski’s World, both of these programs are published by CSLI Publications and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. At present, they are available only for the Macintosh. Acknowledgements / xv Our primary debt of gratitude goes to the programmers who made Tarski’s World such a wonderful program. The original version was written by Rick Wong and Rolf van Widenfelt, under the guidance of Steve Loving. Developing the original program took over three years from our initial conception to the first released version. Rick, Rolf, and Steve’s work on the program was supported by the Faculty Author Development Program at Stanford University. The current Macintosh version of Tarski’s World incorporates numerous improvements to the original program, and itself took many years to complete. The programming was carried out by Mike Lenz, except for the desktop grading facility, which was written by Alan Bush. The growing success of the package over the past few years convinced us to develop versions for other machines. This development has been overseen by the (alphabetically) third author. The NeXT and Windows versions share a computational engine, but required completely distinct user interface code. The common engine was written by Eric Ly, Pete Murray, and Dan Fish. Eric wrote the NeXT interface single-handedly in a matter of months, a great tribute both to Eric and to the NeXTstep development platform. The Windows interface was much more difficult, due to the complexites of the Windows environment. The interface was written by Christopher Fuselier and Kalpana Bharadwaj, building on earlier code written by Pete and Dan. Except for the original version, all work was funded by the Center for the Study of Language and People who have been involved in software development will realize what a tremendous debt we owe to all ten of our programmers. The creativity, originality, and pure hard work that goes into developing an ambitious piece of software is too often overlooked or undervalued. Finally, but perhaps most important, we have gotten a lot of personal pleasure out of working with all of our Tarski’s World programmers over the past decade, and take our hats off to them for a job well done. This edition incorporates some major changes. First and most obvious is the addition of the Grade Grinder service to the package. This grading service allows students to submit answers to exercises over the Internet to an automated grading server, and to receive commentary xvi / How to Use This Book on their work almost immediately by email. The Grade Grinder thus serves as an always-available teaching assistant that can point out many of the errors typically made by students in working through exercises. Students can correct many of these errors by themselves, once they have been pointed out to them. This has the effect of freeing instructors from grading these misunderstandings and leaving more time for aiding students with deeper conceptual misunderstandings. In addition, the Grade Grinder frees the instructor from the burdens of managing electronic submission of homework, for example the storage, opening and management of the many files that are submitted in response to homework exercises. In order for an instructor to receive grade reports from their students, it is necessary for them to register at http://tarskis-world.stanford.edu An important change to the software is the simplification of the semantics of the predicate Between. In this edition, an object can only be between two others if they are all on the same row, column or diagonal of the checkerboard. We believe that the advantages of a rule that is simple to state outweigh the possible unnaturalness of the definition. The original introduction to the text was written at a time when students could not be assumed to be familiar with basic operations like opening, saving and printing files on a computer. We have revised the introduction to reflect the fact that these operations are now likely to be familiar to all students using our book. Finally we have added to the exercises in the package. This edition contains more than thirty exercises not found in the previous edition. The Tarski’s World web site is Users should consult this site for updated software, errata, and other information concerning the package. Bug reports and other correspondence concerning the software can be addressed to TWbugs@csli.stanford.edu Since the previous edition of this book, Albert Liu has taken over the development of Tarski’s World. The current version of Tarski’s World incorporates numerous of his improvements. Albert Liu, Richard Sanders and Tom Robertson contributed code to Submit and the Grade Grinder. More acknowledgements / xvii Ben Davidson was largely responsible for the modifications necessary to the Grade Grinder, and for identifying necessary changes to the text, which enable us to offer the grading service to readers of this book. This book came packaged with software that you must have to use the book. In the software package, you will find a CD-ROM containing the Tarski’s World application. The CD-ROM also contains an electronic copy of the book, in case you prefer reading it on your computer. When you buy the package, you also get access to the Grade Grinder, an Internet grading service that can check whether your work is correct. Most of the exercises in this book require that you create a file or files using Tarski’s World and then submit these using the program Submit. When you do this, your solutions are submitted to our grading server which assesses your files and sends a report to you and (optionally) your instructor. Exercises in the book are numbered n.m, where n is the number of the chapter and m is the number of the exercise in that chapter. Exercises whose solutions consist of one or more files that you are to submit to the Grade Grinder are indicated with an arrow (ö), so that you know the solutions are to be sent off into the Internet ether. Exercises whose solutions are to be turned in (on paper) to your instructor are indicated with a pencil (.). For example, exercises might look like ö Exercise 1.1 Use Tarski’s World to build a world in which the following sentences are all true. . . . . Exercise 1.2 Turn in an informal proof that the following argument is logically valid. . . . The arrow on Exercise 1.1 tells you that the world you create using Tarski’s World is to be submitted electronically, and that there is 4 / Exercises nothing else to turn in. The pencil on Exercise 1.2 tells you that your solution should be turned in directly to your instructor, on paper. Some exercises ask you to turn in something to your instructor in addition to submitting a file electronically. These are indicated with both an arrow and a pencil (ö\|.). This is also used when the exercise may require a file to be submitted, but may not, depending on the solution. For example, the next exercise might ask: ö\|. Exercise? 1.3 Is the following argument valid? If so, turn in an informal proof of its validity. If not, use Tarski’s World to build a counterexample and submit your world as World 1.3. Here, we can’t tell you definitely whether you’ll be submitting a file or turning something in without giving away an important part of the exercise, so we mark the exercise with both symbols. By the way, in giving instructions in the exercises, we will reserve the word “submit” for electronic submission, using the Submit program. We use “turn in” when you are to turn in the solution to your instructor. Exercises may also have from one to three stars (?, ??, ???), as a rough indication of the difficulty of the problem. We think that the exercise above would be a little more difficult than average. When you create files to be submitted to the Grade Grinder, it is important that you name them correctly. Sometimes we will tell you what to name the files, but more often we expect you to follow a few standard conventions. Our naming convention is simple. Your file should be called World n.m or Sentences n.m, where n.m is the number of the exercise. The key thing is to get the right exercise number in the name, since otherwise your solution will be graded incorrectly. We’ll remind you of these naming conventions a few times, but after that you’re on your own. Your First Exercise Here’s your first Submit exercise. Make sure you actually do it, right now if possible. It will teach you how to use Submit to send files to the Grade Grinder, a skill you definitely want to learn. You will need to know your email address, your instructor’s name and email address, and your Book ID number before you can do the exercise. If you don’t know any of these, talk to your instructor first. Your computer must be connected to the Internet to submit files. If it’s not, use a public computer at your school or at a public library. Instructions About the Exercises / 5 ö Exercise 1.1 (Submit) We’re going to step you through the process of submitting a file to the Grade Grinder. The file is called World Submit Me 1. It is a world file, but you won’t have to open it using Tarski’s World in order to submit it. We’ll pretend that it is an exercise file that you’ve created while doing your homework, and now you’re ready to submit it. More complete instructions on running Submit are contained in Chapter 6. 1. Find the program Submit on the CD-ROM that came with your book. Submit has a blue and yellow icon and appears inside a folder called Submit Folder. Once you’ve found it, double-click on the icon to launch the program. If you have installed the software onto your hard disk, the folder will be within the TW Software folder created by the installation. 2. After a moment, you will see the main Submit window, which has a rotating cube in the upper-left corner. The first thing you should do is fill in the requested information in the five fields. Enter your Book ID first, then your name and email address. You have to use your complete email address—for example, claire@cs.nevadastate.edu, not just claire or claire@cs—since the Grade Grinder will need the full address to send its response back to you. Also, if you have more than one email address, you have to use the same one every time you submit files, since your email address and Book ID together are how Grade Grinder will know that it is really you submitting files. Finally, fill in your instructor’s name and complete email address. Be very careful to enter the correct and complete email addresses! 3. If you are working on your own computer, you might want to save the information you’ve just entered on your hard disk so that you won’t have to enter it by hand each time. You can do this by choosing Save As. . . from the File menu. This will save all the information except the Book ID in a file called Submit User Data. Later, you can launch Submit by double-clicking on this file, and the information will already be entered when the program starts up. 4. We’re now ready to specify the file to submit. Click on the button Choose Files To Submit in the lower-left corner. This opens a window showing two file lists. The list on the left shows files on your computer—currently, the ones inside the Submit Folder—while the one on the right (which is currently empty) will list files you want to submit. We need to locate the file World Submit Me 1 on the left and copy it over to the right. The file is located in the Tarski’s World exercise files folder. To find this folder you will have to navigate among folders until it appears in the file list on the left. Start by clicking once on the Submit Folder button above the left-hand list. A menu will appear and you can then move up to higher folders by choosing their names (the higher folders appear lower on this menu). Move to the next folder up from the Submit Folder, which should be called TW Software. When you choose this folder, the list of files will change. On the new list, find the folder Tarski’s World Folder and double-click on its name to see the contents of the folder. The list will again change and you should now be able to see the folder TW Exercise Files. Double-click on this folder and the file list will show the contents of this folder. Toward the bottom of the list (you will have to scroll down the list by clicking on the scroll buttons), you will find World Submit Me 1. Double-click on this file and its name will move to the list on the right. 5. When you have successfully gotten the file World Submit Me 1 on the righthand list, click the Done button underneath the list. This should bring you back to the original Submit window, only now the file you want to submit appears in the list of files. (Macintosh users can get to this point quickly by dragging the files they want to submit onto the Submit icon in the Finder. This will launch Submit and put those files in the submission list. If you drag a folder of files, it will put all the files in the folder onto the list.) 6. When you have the correct file on the submission list, click on the Submit Files button under this list. Submit will ask you to confirm that you want to submit World Submit Me 1, and whether you want to send the results just to you or also to your instructor. In this case, select Just Me. When you are submitting finished homework exercises, you should select Instructor Too. Once you’ve chosen who the results should go to, click the Proceed button and your submission will be sent. (With real homework, you can always do a trial submission to see if you got the answers right, asking that the results be sent just to you. When you are satisfied with your solutions, submit the files again, asking that the results be sent to the instructor too. But don’t forget the second submission!) 7. In a moment, you will get a dialog box that will tell you if your submission has been successful. If so, it will give you a “receipt” message that you can save, if you like. If you do not get this receipt, then your submission has not gone through and you will have to try 8. A few minutes after the Grade Grinder receives your file, you should get an email message saying that it has been received. If this were a real homework exercise, it would also tell you if the Grade Grinder found any errors in your homework solutions. You won’t get an email report if you put in the wrong, or a misspelled, email address. If you don’t get a report, try submitting again with the right address. 9. When you are done, choose Quit from the File menu. Congratulations on submitting your first file. Here’s an important thing for you to know: when you submit files to the Grade Grinder, Submit sends a copy of the files. The original files are still on the disk where you originally saved them. If you saved them on a public computer, it is best not to leave them lying around. Put them on a floppy disk that you can take with you, and delete any copies from the public computer’s hard disk. More detailed instructions on using Submit can be found in Chapter 6 on page 81. The following three chapters contain many valuable exercises intended for both beginning and more advanced logic students. If you have already studied some logic, you may find some of the exercises quite easy. Still, it is a good idea to run through all the exercises, since they build on each other. Before trying any of these exercises. however, please read Chapter 1 and complete exercise 1.1 on page 4. The exercises are ordered according to the complexity of the firstorder sentences involved. Within this ordering, we use a series of stars (?, ??, ???) to indicate the difficulty of the problem. Exercises with no stars are the most basic. Those with three stars are quite challenging and provide good term projects for the interested student. Exercise 2.1 (Basic sentences) First-order logic assumes that every predicate is interpreted by a determinate property or relation. By a determinate property, we mean a property such that, given any object, there is always a fact of the matter about whether the object has the property or not. This exercise will help you see exactly how Tarski’s World interprets the various predicates. Open the files called Wittgenstein’s World and Wittgenstein’s Sentences. You will find these in the folder TW Exercise Files. In these files, you will see a blocks world and a list of atomic sentences. (We have added comments to some of the sentences. Comments are prefaced by a semicolon (“;”), which tells Tarski’s World to ignore the rest of the line.) 1. Move through the sentences using the arrow keys on your keyboard, mentally assessing the truth value of each sentence in the given 10 / Exercises world. Use the Verify button to check your assessments. (Since the sentences are all atomic sentences the Game button will not be helpful.) If you are surprised by any of the evaluations, try to figure out how your interpretation of the predicate differs from the correct interpretation. The correct interpretation is given in Table 2 on page 92, but try to work it out for yourself if you can. Next change Wittgenstein’s World in many different ways, seeing what happens to the truth of the various sentences. The main point of this is to help you figure out how Tarski’s World interprets the various predicates. For example, what does BackOf(d, c) mean? Do two things have to be in the same column for one to be in back of the other? Play around as much as you need until you are sure you understand the meanings of the atomic sentences in this file. For example, in the original world none of the sentences using Adjoins comes out true. You should try to modify the world to make some of them true. As you do this, you will notice that large blocks cannot adjoin other blocks. In doing this exercise, you will no doubt notice that Between does not mean exactly what the English between means. This is due to the necessity of interpreting Between as a determinate predicate. For simplicity, we insist that in order for b to be between c and d, all three must be in the same row, column, or diagonal. When you are finished, close the files, but do not save the changes you have made to them. There is nothing to submit or turn in for this exercise. ö Exercise 2.2 (Copying some sentences) The following are all wellformed sentences of our language. Start a new sentence file and copy them into it. Check each after you write it to see that it is a sentence. If you make a mistake, edit it before going on. Save your sentence list as Sentences 2.2. (If you have already played around with writing sentences and don’t feel the need for this exercise, you can skip it. We will not use the sentence list you create.) Tet(a) FrontOf(a, b) ¬Between(a, b, c) Between(a, b, c) ∧ Between(a, c, b) Exercises on Propositional Logic / 11 5. FrontOf(a, c) → Between(d, e, c) 6. (Tet(a) ∧ FrontOf(a, b)) → Between(a, d, e) Submit the file that you have created. ö Exercise 2.3 (Fixing some expressions) Most of the following are not quite well-formed sentences of our language. Start a new sentence file and copy them into it, adding whatever punctuation (parentheses and commas) is necessary to make them sentences. With some of them, there is more than one way to make them a sentence. Use Verify to make sure your entries are well-formed sentences. If you have any trouble with these, try referring to Section A.9, page 97. Cube(a) ∧ Cube(b) ∨ Dodec(b) Tet(a) ∧ Small(a) → BackOf(a, b) Cube(c) ∧ Small(c) ∧ LeftOf(c, b) Tet(a) → Small(a) ∨ Medium(a) Tet(a) ↔ Cube(b) ↔ Dodec(c) Between(cba Submit your sentence list as Sentences 2.3. The next few exercises deal with sentences that can be built up using just the connectives ∧, ∨, and ¬. If you do not know what these connectives mean, read Section A.5, page 92. ö Exercise 2.4 (Basic propositional logic) In this exercise you are asked to evaluate some sentences built up from atomic sentences using the propositional connectives ∧, ∨, ¬. Run through Boole’s Sentences, evaluating them in Wittgenstein’s World. (If you made changes to Wittgenstein’s World while doing Exercise 2.1, close the file and open it again to get back the original version. When it asks you if you want to save the changes you made, click No.) If you make a mistake, play the game to see where you have gone wrong. Don’t go from one sentence to the next until you understand why it has the truth value it does. Do you see the importance of parentheses? After you understand all of the sentences, go back and see which of the false sentences you can make true by adding, deleting or moving parentheses but without making any other changes. Submit your file as Sentences 2.4. ö Exercise 2.5 (Building a world) Open Quinn’s Sentences. Build a single world where all the sentences in this file are true. As you work through the sentences, you will find yourself successively modifying the world. Whenever you make a change in the world, be careful that you don’t make one of your earlier sentences false. When you are finished, verify that all the sentences are really true. Submit your world as World 2.5. ö Exercise 2.6 (Describing a simple world) Open Boole’s World. Start a new sentence file, named Sentences 2.6, where you will describe some features of this world. Check each of your sentences to see that it is indeed a sentence and that it is true in this world. 1. Notice that f (the large dodecahedron in the back) is not in front of a. Use your first sentence to say this. 2. Notice that f is to the right of a and to the left of b. Use your second sentence to say this. 3. Use your third sentence to say that f is either in back of or smaller than a. 4. Express the fact that both e and d are between c and a. 5. Note that neither e nor d is larger than c. Use your fifth sentence to say this. 6. Notice that e is neither larger than nor smaller than d. Use your sixth sentence to say this. 7. Notice that c is smaller than a but larger than e. State this fact. 8. Note that c is in front of f; moreover, it is smaller than f. Use your eighth sentence to state these things. 9. Notice that b is in the same row as a but is not in the same column as f. Use your ninth sentence to express this fact. 10. Notice that e is not in the same column as either c or d. Use your tenth sentence to state this. Now let’s change the world so that none of the above mentioned facts hold. We can do this as follows. First move f to the front right corner of the grid. (Be careful not to drop it off the edge. You might find it easier to make the move from the 2-D view. If you accidentally drop it, just open Boole’s World again.) Then move e to the back left corner of the grid and make it large. Now none of the facts hold; if your answers to 1–10 are correct, all of the sentences should now be false. Verify that they are. If any are still true, can you figure out where you went wrong? Submit your sentences when you think they are correct. There is no need to submit the modified world file. ö Exercise 2.7 (Some translations) Tarski’s World provides you with a very useful way to check whether your translation of a given English sentence is correct. If it is correct, then it will always have the same truth value as the English sentence, no matter what world the two are evaluated in. So when you are in doubt about one of your translations, simply build some worlds where the English sentence is true, others where it is false, and check to see that your translation has the right truth values in these worlds. You should use this technique frequently in all of the translation exercises. Start a new sentence file, and use it to enter translations of the following English sentences into first-order logic. You will only need to use the connectives ∧, ∨, and ¬. Either a is small or both c and d are large. d and e are both in back of b. d and e are both in back of b and larger than it. Both d and c are cubes, however neither of them is small. Neither e nor a is to the right of c and to the left of b. Either e is not large or it is in back of a. c is neither between a and b, nor in front of either of them. Either both a and e are tetrahedra or both a and f are. Neither d nor c is in front of either c or b. c is either between d and f or smaller than both of them. It is not the case that b is in the same row as c. b is in the same column as e, which is in the same row as d, which in turn is in the same column as a. Before you submit your sentence file, do the next exercise. Exercise 2.8 (Checking your translations) Open Wittgenstein’s World. Notice that all of the English sentences from Exercise 2.7 are true in this world. Thus, if your translations are accurate, they will also be true in this world. Check to see that they are. If you made any mistakes, go back and fix them. But as we have stressed, even if one of your sentences comes out true in Wittgenstein’s World, it does not mean that it is a proper translation of the corresponding English sentence. All you know for sure is that your translation and the original sentence have the same truth value in this particular world. If the translation is correct, it will have the same truth value as the English sentence in every world. Thus, to have a better test of your translations, we will examine them in a number of worlds, to see if they have the same truth values as their English counterparts in all of these worlds. Let’s start by making modifications to Wittgenstein’s World. Make all the large or medium objects small, and the small objects large. With these changes in the world, the English sentences 1, 3, 4, and 10 become false, while the rest remain true. Verify that the same holds for your translations. If not, correct your translations. Next, rotate your modified Wittgenstein’s World 90◦ clockwise. Now sentences 5, 6, 8, 9, and 11 should be the only true ones that remain. Let’s check your translations in another world. Open Boole’s World. The only English sentences that are true in this world are sentences 6 and 11. Verify that all of your translations except 6 and 11 are false. If not, correct your translations. Now modify Boole’s World by exchanging the positions of b and c. With this change, the English sentences 2, 5, 6, 7, and 11 come out true, while the rest are false. Check that the same is true of your translations. There is nothing to submit except Sentences 2.7. The remaining exercises of this chapter use the full set of propositional connectives, including → and ↔. If you do not know what these symbols mean, read Section A.5, page 92. ö Exercise 2.9 (Evaluating sentences in a world) Run through Abelard’s Sentences, evaluating them in Wittgenstein’s World. If you make a mistake, play the game to see where you have gone wrong. Once you have gone through all the sentences, go back and make all the false ones true by changing one or more names used in the sentence. Submit your edited sentences as Sentences 2.9. ö Exercise? 2.10 (Name that object) Open Sherlock’s World and Sherlock’s Sentences. You will notice that none of the objects in this world has a name. Your task is to assign the names a, b, and c in such a way that all the sentences in the list come out true. Submit the modified world as World 2.10. ö Exercise 2.11 (Describing a world) Launch Tarski’s World and choose Hide Labels from the Display menu. Then, with the labels hidden, open Montague’s World. In this world, each object has a name, and no object has more than one name. Start a new sentence file where you will describe some features of this world. Check each of your sentences to see that it is indeed a sentence and that it is true in this 1. Notice that if c is a tetrahedron, then a is not a tetrahedron. (Remember, in this world each object has exactly one name.) Use your first sentence to express this fact. 2. However, note that the same is true of b and d. That is, if b is a tetrahedron, then d isn’t. Use your second sentence to express this. 3. Observe that if b is a tetrahedron, then c isn’t. Express this. 4. Notice that if a is a cube and b is a dodecahedron, then a is to the left of b. Use your next sentence to express this fact. 5. Use your next sentence to express the fact that if b and c are both cubes, then they are in the same row but not in the same column. 6. Use your next sentence to express the fact that b is a tetrahedron only if it is small. [Check this sentence carefully. If your sentence evaluates as false, then you’ve got the arrow pointing in the wrong direction.] 7. Next, express the fact that if a and d are both cubes, then one is to the left of the other. [Note: You will need to use a disjunction to express the fact that one is to the left of the other.] 8. Notice that d is a cube if and only if it is either medium or large. Express this. 9. Observe that if b is neither to the right nor left of d, then one of them is a tetrahedron. Express this observation. 10. Finally, express the fact that b and c are the same size if and only if one is a tetrahedron and the other is a dodecahedron. Save your sentences as Sentences 2.11. Now choose Show Labels from the Display menu. Verify that all of your sentences are indeed true. When verifying the first three, pay particular attention to the truth values of the various constituents. Notice that sometimes the conditional has a false antecedent and sometimes a true consequent. What it never has is a true antecedent and a false consequent. In each of these three cases, play the game committed to true. Make sure you understand why the game proceeds as it does. ö Exercise 2.12 (Translation) Translate the following English sentences into fol. Your translations will use all of the propositional connectives. If a is a tetrahedron then it is in front of d. a is to the left of or right of d only if it’s a cube. c is between either a and e or a and d. c is to the right of a, provided it (i.e., c) is small. c is to the right of d only if b is to the right of c and left of e. If e is a tetrahedron, then it’s to the right of b if and only if it is also in front of b. If b is a dodecahedron, then if it isn’t in front of d then it isn’t in back of d either. c is in back of a but in front of e. e is in front of d unless it (i.e., e) is a large tetrahedron. At least one of a, c, and e is a cube. a is a tetrahedron only if it is in front of b. b is larger than both a and e. a and e are both larger than c, but neither is large. d is the same shape as b only if they are the same size. a is large if and only if it’s a cube. b is a cube unless c is a tetrahedron. If e isn’t a cube, either b or d is large. b or d is a cube if either a or c is a tetrahedron. a is large just in case d is small. a is large just in case e is. Save your list of sentences as Sentences 2.12. Before submitting the file, you should complete Exercise 2.14. ö Exercise? 2.13 (Building a world) Build a world in which all of the English sentences listed in Exercise 2.12 are true. Now make sure that all your translations are also true. If one of your translations is false, see whether the original English sentence is true. If it is, then there is something wrong with your translation. Play the game to try to figure out what the problem is. Submit your world as World 2.13. In order for us to grade your files, you must submit both World 2.13 and Sentences 2.12 at the same time. Exercise 2.14 (Checking your translations) Open Bolzano’s World. Notice that all the English sentences from Exercise 2.12 are true in this world. Thus, if your translations are accurate, they will also be true in this world. Check to see that they are. If you made any mistakes, go back and fix them. Remember that even if one of your sentences comes out true in Bolzano’s World, it does not mean that it is a proper translation of the corresponding English sentence. If the translation is correct, it will have the same truth value as the English sentence in every world. So let’s check your translations in some other worlds. Open Wittgenstein’s World. Here we see that the English sentences 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 20 are false, while the rest are true. Check to see that the same holds of your translations. If not, correct your translations (and make sure they are still true in Bolzano’s World). Next open Leibniz’s World. Here half the English sentences are true (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 18, and 20) and half false (3, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, and 19). Check to see that the same holds of your translations. If not, correct your translations. Finally, open Venn’s World. In this world, all of the English sentences are false. Check to see that the same holds of your translations and correct them if necessary. There is no need to submit any files for this exercise, but don’t forget to submit Sentences 2.12. ö Exercise? 2.15 (Figuring out sizes and shapes) Start a new sentence file and use it to translate the following English sentences. If a is a tetrahedron, then b is also a tetrahedron. c is a tetrahedron if b is. a and c are both tetrahedra only if at least one of them is large. a is a tetrahedron but c isn’t large. If c is small and d is a dodecahedron, then d is neither large nor small. c is medium only if none of d, e, and f are cubes. d is a small dodecahedron unless a is small. e is large just in case it is a fact that d is large if and only if f is. d and e are the same size. d and e are the same shape. 11. f is either a cube or a dodecahedron, if it is large. 12. c is larger than e only if b is larger than c. Save these sentences as Sentences 2.15. Then see if you can figure out the sizes and shapes of a, b, c, d, e, and f. You will find it helpful to approach this problem systematically, filling in the following table as you reason about the sentences: When you have filled in the table, use it to guide you in building a world in which the twelve English sentences are true. Verify that your translations are true in this world as well. Submit both your sentence file and your world file. ö Exercise 2.16 (Parentheses) Show that the sentence ¬(Small(a) ∨ Small(b)) is not a consequence of the sentence ¬Small(a) ∨ Small(b) You will do this by submitting a counterexample world in which the second sentence is true but the first sentence is false. ö Exercise 2.17 (More parentheses) Show that Cube(a) ∧ (Cube(b) ∨ Cube(c)) (Cube(a) ∧ Cube(b)) ∨ Cube(c) The next few exercises exploit the propositional equivalences described in appendix A, section A.12 on page 103. They demonstrate that the language or propositional logic can be reduced by discarding some connectives, without affecting the expressive power of the language (but while sacrificing convenience.) ö Exercise 2.18 (Redundancy of conditionals) The file Gentzen’s Sentences contains sentences involving ↔ and → in the odd-numbered slots. In the even numbered slots, write equivalent sentences using only the connectives ∧, ∨ and ¬. Evaluate your sentences in Bolzano’s World, Boole’s World and Wittgenstein’s World before submitting your sentences. The sentences in the even numbered slots should always have the same truth value as the sentence preceding them. ö Exercise 2.19 (DeMorgan Equivalences) Open the file DeMorgan’s Sentences. Construct a world where all the odd numbered sentences are true. Notice that no matter how you do this, the even numbered sentences also come out true. Submit the world as World 2.19.1. Next build a world where all the odd numbered sentences are false. Notice that no matter how you do it, the even numbered sentences also come out false. Submit this as World 2.19.2. . Exercise 2.20 (Explaining de Morgan) In Exercise 2.19, you noticed an important fact about the relation between the even and odd numbered sentences in DeMorgan’s Sentences. Explain in terms of the meaning of the connectives why each even numbered sentence always has the same truth value as the odd numbered sentence that precedes it. Turn in your explanation. ö Exercise 2.21 (Negation normal form) A sentence is in negation normal form (NNF) if all occurrences of ¬ apply directly to atomic sentences. Any formula involving only the connectives ∧, ∨ and ¬ can be put into negation normal form using the equivalences (our use of the symbol ⇔ is explained in section A.12 on page 103): ¬¬A ⇔ A ¬(A ∧ B) ⇔ ¬A ∨ ¬B ¬(A ∨ B) ⇔ ¬A ∧ ¬B Open Turing’s Sentences. You will find the following five sentences, each followed by an empty sentence position. ¬(Cube(a) ∧ Larger(a, b)) ¬(Cube(a) ∨ ¬Larger(b, a)) ¬(¬Cube(a) ∨ ¬Larger(a, b) ∨ a 6= b) ¬(Tet(b) ∨ (Large(c) ∧ ¬Smaller(d, e))) Dodec(f) ∨ ¬(Tet(b) ∨ ¬Tet(f) ∨ ¬Dodec(f)) In the empty positions, write the negation normal form of the sentence above it. Then build any world where all of the names are in use. If you have gotten the negation normal forms correct, each even numbered sentence will have the same truth value in your world as the odd numbered sentence above it. Verify that this is so in your world. Submit the modified sentence file as Sentences 2.21. ö Exercise 2.22 (Converting CNF to DNF) A sentence is in disjunctive normal form (DNF) if it is the disjunction of one or more conjunctions of one or more literals. Distribution of ∧ over ∨ allows you to translate any sentence in negation normal form into a sentence in disjunctive normal form. P ∧ (Q ∨ R) ⇔ (P ∧ Q) ∨ (P ∧ R) Similarly, a sentence is in conjunctive normal form (CNF) if it is the conjunction of one or more disjunctions of one or more literals. Distribution of ∨ over ∧ allows you to translate any sentence in negation normal form into a sentence in conjunctive normal form. P ∨ (Q ∧ R) ⇔ (P ∨ Q) ∧ (P ∨ R) Open CNF Sentences. In this file you will find the following conjunctive normal form sentences in the odd numbered positions, but you will see that the even numbered positions are blank. (LeftOf(a, b) ∨ BackOf(a, b)) ∧ Cube(a) Larger(a, b) ∧ (Cube(a) ∨ Tet(a) ∨ a = b) (Between(a, b, c) ∨ Tet(a) ∨ ¬Tet(b)) ∧ Dodec(c) Cube(a) ∧ Cube(b) ∧ (¬Small(a) ∨ ¬Small(b)) (Small(a) ∨ Medium(a)) ∧ (Cube(a) ∨ ¬Dodec(a)) In the even numbered positions you should fill in a DNF sentence logically equivalent to the sentence above it. Check your work by opening several worlds and checking to see that each of your sentences has the same truth value as the one above it. Submit the modified file as Sentences 2.22. ö Exercise 2.23 (Converting to CNF via NNF) Open More CNF Sentences. In this file you will find the following sentences in every third ¬[(Cube(a) ∧ ¬Small(a)) ∨ (¬Cube(a) ∧ Small(a))] ¬[(Cube(a) ∨ ¬Small(a)) ∧ (¬Cube(a) ∨ Small(a))] ¬(Cube(a) ∧ Larger(a, b)) ∧ Dodec(b) ¬(¬Cube(a) ∧ Tet(b)) ¬¬Cube(a) ∨ Tet(b) The two blanks that follow each sentence are for you to first transform the sentence into negation normal form, and then put that sentence into CNF. Again, check your work by opening several worlds to see that each of your sentences has the same truth value as the original. When you are finished, submit the modified file as Sentences 2.23. ö Exercise 2.24 (Elimination of ∨) Each of the sentences in Gentzen’s Other Sentences involve the use of both ∧ and ∨. In each even numbered position write a sentence equivalent to the one above it, but that uses only ∧ and ¬. Before submitting your work, check that the truth values of the pairs of sentences agree in a number of worlds. ö Exercise 2.25 (Elimination of ∧) This exercise is the same as the previous one, except that here we ask you to write a sentence that uses only ∨ and ¬ and is equivalent to the one above it. ö Exercise 2.26 (Equivalences in the blocks language) In the blocks language used in Tarski’s World there are a number of equivalent ways of expressing some of the predicates. Open Bernays’ Sentences. You will find a list of atomic sentences, where every other sentence is left blank. In each blank, write a sentence that is equivalent to the sentence above it, but does not use the predicate used in that sentence. (In doing this, you may presuppose any general facts about Tarski’s World, for example that blocks come in only three shapes.) If your answers are correct, the odd numbered sentences will have the same truth values as the even numbered sentences in every world. Check that they do in Ackermann’s World, Bolzano’s World, Boole’s World, and Leibniz’s World. Submit the modified sentence file as Sentences 2.26. ö\|. Exercise 2.27 (Context sensitivity of predicates) We have stressed the fact that fol assumes that every predicate is interpreted by a determinate relation, whereas this is not the case in natural languages like English. Indeed, even when things seem quite determinate, there is often some form of context sensitivity. In fact, we have built some of this into Tarski’s World. Consider, for example, the difference between the predicates Larger and BackOf. Whether or not cube a is larger than cube b is a determinate matter, and also one that does not vary depending on your perspective on the world. Whether or not a is back of b is also determinate, but in this case it does depend on your perspective. If you rotate the world by 90◦ , the answer might change. Open Austin’s Sentences and Wittgenstein’s World. Evaluate the sentences in this file and tabulate the resulting truth values in a table like the one below. We’ve already filled in the first column, showing the values in the original world. Rotate the world 90◦ clockwise and evaluate the sentences again, adding the results to the table. Repeat until the world has come full circle. Rotated 90◦ Rotated 180◦ You should be able to think of an atomic sentence in the blocks language that would produce a row across the table with the following Add a seventh sentence to Austin’s Sentences that would display the above pattern. Are there any atomic sentences in the language that would produce a row with this pattern? If so, add such a sentence as sentence eight in Austin’s Sentences. If not, leave sentence eight blank. Are there any atomic sentences that would produce a row in the table containing exactly three true’s? If so, add such a sentence as number nine. If not, leave sentence nine blank. Submit your modified sentence file as Sentences 2.27. Turn in your completed table to your instructor. ö Exercise 2.28 (Name that object) Open Rebus’ Sentences and Rebus’ World. Modify the world by assigning names to the blocks in such a way that the sentences are all true. Submit your world. The first exercises in this chapter involve sentences that contain a single instance of one of the quantifier symbols, ∃ and ∀, and propositional combinations of such sentences. If you are not familiar with these symbols, see Section A.8, page 96. ö Exercise 3.1 (Evaluating sentences in a world) Open Peirce’s World and Peirce’s Sentences. There are 30 sentences in this file. Work through them, assessing their truth and playing the game when necessary. Make sure you understand why they have the truth values they do. (You may need to switch to the 2-D view for some of the sentences.) After you understand each of the sentences, go back and make the false ones true by adding or deleting a negation sign. Submit the file when the sentences all come out true in Peirce’s World. ö Exercise 3.2 (Building a world) Open Aristotle’s Sentences. Each of these sentences is of one of the four forms treated in Aristotle’s logic: All A’s are B’s No A’s are B’s Some A’s are B’s Some A’s are not B’s Build a single world where all the sentences in the file are true. As you work through the sentences, you will find yourself successively modifying the world. Whenever you make a change in the world, you had better go back and check that you haven’t made any of the earlier sentences false. Then, when you are finished, verify that all the sentences are really true. Save your world as World 3.2. ö Exercise 3.3 (Fixing some expressions) Open the sentence file Bernstein’s Sentences. The expressions in this list are not quite wellformed sentences of our language, but they can all be made sentences by slight modification. Turn them into sentences without adding or deleting any quantifier symbols. With some of them, there is more than one way to make them a sentence. Use Verify to make sure your results are sentences and then submit the corrected file. ö Exercise 3.4 (Fixing some more expressions) Open the sentence file Schönfinkel’s Sentences. Again, the expressions in this list are not well-formed sentences. Turn them into sentences, but this time, do it only by adding quantifier symbols or variables, or both. Do not add any parentheses. Use Verify to make sure your results are sentences and submit the corrected file. ö Exercise? 3.5 (Name that object) Open Maigret’s World and Maigret’s Sentences. The goal is to try to figure out which objects have names, and what they are. You should be able to figure this out from the sentences, all of which are true. Once you have come to your conclusion, assign the six names to objects in the world in such a way that all the sentences do indeed evaluate as true. Submit your modified world. . Exercise 3.6 (A common translation mistake) When we get around to translating English sentences containing quantifiers, we will see that sentences of the following forms are translated in quite different ways: The former are translated as: ∀x (A(x) → B(x)) whereas the latter are translated as: ∃x (A(x) ∧ B(x)) Beginning students are often tempted to translate the latter more like the former, say as: ∃x (A(x) → B(x)) This is in fact an extremely unnatural sentence of first-order logic. It is meaningful, but it doesn’t mean what you might think. This exercise is designed to show you exactly what a sentence of this form means. Exercises on First-order Logic / 27 Open Edgar’s Sentences and evaluate them in Edgar’s World. Make sure you understand why each of them has the truth value it does. Play the game if any of the evaluations surprise you. Which of these sentences would be a good translation of There is a tetrahedron that is large? (Clearly this English sentence is false in Edgar’s World, since there are no tetrahedra at all.) Which sentence would be a good translation of There is a cube between a and b? Which would be a good translation of There is a large dodecahedron? Express in clear English the claim made by each sentence in the file and turn in your answers to your ö Exercise 3.7 (Fixing ungrammatical expressions) Open Bozo’s Sentences 1 and Leibniz’s World. Some of the expressions in this file are not wffs, some are wffs but not sentences, and one is a sentence but false. Read and assess each one. See if you can adjust each one to make it a true sentence with as little change as possible. Try to capture the intent of the original expression, if you can tell what that was (if not, don’t worry). Use Verify to make sure your results are true sentences and then submit your file. Sentences 2 and Leibniz’s World. Most of the expressions in this file are not sentences. Some are not wffs, while others are wffs but not sentences. Read and assess each one. If it is not a wff, fix it. If it is not a sentence, adjust it so as to make it a true sentence with as little change as possible. If it is a false sentence, try to make it true, again with as little change as possible. See if you can capture the intent of the original expression. Save your list of sentences as Sentences 3.8. ö Exercise 3.9 (Describing a world) Open Reichenbach’s World 1. Start a new sentence file where you will describe some features of this world using sentences of the simple Aristotelian forms. Check each of your sentences to see that it is indeed a sentence and is true in this 1. Use your first sentence to describe the size of all the tetrahedra. 2. Use your second sentence to describe the size of all the cubes. 3. Use your third sentence to express the truism that every dodecahedron is either small, medium, or large. Notice that some dodecahedron is large. Express this fact. Observe that some dodecahedron is not large. Express this. Notice that some dodecahedron is small. Express this fact. Observe that some dodecahedron is not small. Express this. Notice that some dodecahedron is neither large nor small. Express 9. Express the observation that no tetrahedron is large. 10. Express the fact that no cube is large. Save your list of sentences as Sentences 3.9. Now change the sizes of the objects in the following way: make one of the cubes large, one of the tetrahedra medium, and all the dodecahedra small. With these changes, the following should come out false: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8 and 10. If not, then you have made an error in describing the original world. Can you figure out what it is? Try making other changes and see if your sentences have the expected truth values. ö Exercise 3.10 (Translating existential noun phrases) The first thing you have to learn in order to translate quantified expressions is how to treat complex noun phrases, expressions like “some boy living in Omaha” or “every girl living in Duluth.” In this exercise we will concentrate on the former sort of noun phrase, those whose most natural translation involves an existential quantifier. Typically, these will be noun phrases starting with one of the determiners “some,” “a,” and “an,” including noun phrases like “something.” . Start a new sentence file and enter translations of the following Eng- lish sentences. Each will use the symbol ∃ exactly once. None will use the symbol ∀. As you go, check that your entries are well-formed sentences. By the way, you will find that many of these English sentences are translated using the same first-order sentence. 1. Something is large. 2. Something is a cube. 3. Something is a large cube. 4. Some cube is large. [Hint: This sentence means the same thing as Something is both a cube and large.] 5. Some large cube is to the left of b. 6. A large cube is to the left of b. 7. b has a large cube to its left. 8. b is to the right of a large cube. [Hint: This translation should be almost the same as the last, but it should contain the predicate symbol RightOf.] 9. Something to the left of b is in back of c. 10. A large cube to the left of b is in back of c. 11. Some large cube is to the left of b and in back of c. 12. Some dodecahedron is not large. 13. Something is not a large dodecahedron. 14. It is not the case that something is a large dodecahedron. 15. b is not to the left of a cube. [Warning: This sentence is ambiguous. Can you think of two importantly different translations? One starts with ∃, the other starts with ¬. Use the second of these for your translation, since this is the most natural reading of the English sentence.] Save your list of sentences as Sentences 3.10. Open Montague’s World. Notice that all the English sentences above are true in this world. Check that all your translations are also true. If not, you have made a mistake. Can you figure out what is wrong with your translation? Move the large cube to the back right corner of the grid. Observe that English sentences 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 15 are now false, while the rest are still true. Check that the same holds of your translations. Now make the large cube small. The English sentences 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 15 are false in the modified world, the rest are true. Again, check that your translations have the same truth values. If not, figure out what is wrong. Finally, move c straight back to the back row, and make b large. All the English sentences other than 1, 2, and 13 are false. Check that the same holds for your translations. If not, figure out where you have gone wrong. ö\|. Exercise 3.11 (Common mistakes, part 2) In this exercise we return to the point made in Exercise 3.6, page 26. Glance back at that exercise to recall the basic point. Now open Allan’s Sentences. In this file, sentences 1 and 4 are the correct translations of Some dodecahedron is large and All tetrahedra are small, respectively. Let’s investigate the logical relations between these and sentences 2 and 3. 1. Construct a world in which sentences 2 and 4 are true, but sentences 1 and 3 are false. Save it as World 3.11.1. This shows that sentence 1 is not a consequence of 2, and sentence 3 is not a consequence of 4. 2. Can you construct a world in which sentence 3 is true and sentence 4 is false? If so, do so and save it as World 3.11.2. If not, explain why you can’t and what this shows. Submit any world files you constructed and turn in any explanations to your instructor. ö Exercise 3.12 (Translating universal noun phrases) Universal noun phrases are those that begin with determiners like “every,” “each,” and “all.” These are usually translated with the universal quantifier. Sometimes noun phrases beginning with “no” and with “any” are also translated with the universal quantifier. Start a new sentence file, and enter translations of the following sentences. This time each translation will contain exactly one ∀ and no ∃. All cubes are small. Each small cube is to the right of a. a is to the left of every dodecahedron. Every medium tetrahedron is in front of b. Each cube is either in front of b or in back of a. Every cube is to the right of a and to the left of b. Everything between a and b is a cube. Everything smaller than a is a cube. All dodecahedra are not small. [Note: Most people find this sentence ambiguous. Can you find both readings? One starts with ∀, the other with ¬. Use the former, the one that means all the dodecahedra are either medium or large.] 10. No dodecahedron is small. 11. a does not adjoin everything. [Note: This sentence is ambiguous. We want you to interpret it as a denial of the claim that a adjoins everything.] 12. a does not adjoin anything. [Note: These last two sentences mean different things, though they can both be translated using ∀, ¬, and Adjoins.] 13. a is not to the right of any cube. 14. (?) If something is a cube, then it is not in the same column as either a or b. [Warning: While this sentence contains the noun phrase “something,” it is actually making a universal claim, and so should be translated with ∀. You might first try to paraphrase it using the English phrase “every cube.”] 15. (?) Something is a cube if and only if it is not in the same column as either a or b. Now let’s check the translations in some worlds. . Open Claire’s World. Check to see that all the English sentences are true in this world, then make sure the same holds of your translations. If you have made any mistakes, fix them. Adjust Claire’s World by moving a directly in front of c. With this change, the English sentences 2, 6, and 12–15 are false, while the rest are true. Make sure that the same holds of your translations. If not, try to figure out what is wrong and fix it. Next, open Wittgenstein’s World. Observe that the English sentences 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 13 are true, but the rest are false. Check that the same holds for your translations. If not, try to fix them. Finally, open Venn’s World. English sentences 2, 4, 7, and 11–14 are true; does the same hold for your translations? When you are satisfied that your translations are correct, submit your sentence file. ö Exercise 3.13 (Translation) Open Leibniz’s World. This time, we will translate some sentences while looking at the world they are meant to describe. . Start a new sentence file, and enter translations of the following sentences. Each of the English sentences is true in this world. As you go, check to make sure that your translation is indeed a true sentence. 1. There are no medium-sized cubes. 2. Nothing is in front of b. 3. Every cube is either in front of or in back of e. 4. No cube is between a and c. 5. Everything is in the same column as a, b, or c. Now let’s change the world so that none of the English sentences is true. We can do this as follows. First change b into a medium cube. Next, delete the leftmost tetrahedron and move b to exactly the position just vacated by the late tetrahedron. Finally, add a small cube to the world, locating it exactly where b used to sit. If your answers to 1–5 are correct, all of the translations should now be false. Verify that they are. Make various changes to the world, so that some of the English sentences come out true and some come out false. Then check to see that the truth values of your translations track the truth values of the English sentences. So far, most of the sentences we have looked at have had at most one quantifier. In the next few exercises, we delve into sentences that contain more than one instance of ∀, or more than one instance of ∃. ö Exercise 3.14 (Vacuously true generalizations) Open Dodgson’s Sentences. Note that the first sentence says that every tetrahedron is large. 1. Open Peano’s World. Sentence 1 is clearly false in this world, since the small tetrahedron is a “counterexample” to the universal claim. What this means is that if you play the game committed to the falsity of this claim, then when Tarski’s World asks you to pick an object you will be able to pick the small tetrahedron and win the game. Try this. 2. Delete this counterexample and verify that sentence 1 is now true. 3. Now open Peirce’s World. Verify that sentence 1 is again false, this time because there are three counterexamples. (Now if you play the game committed to the falsity of the sentence, you will have three different winning moves when asked to pick an object: you can pick any of the small tetrahedra and win.) 4. Delete all three counterexamples, and evaluate the claim. Is the result what you expected? The generalization is true, because there are no counterexamples to it. But it is what we call a vacuously true generalization, since there are no objects that satisfy the antecedent. That is, there are no tetrahedra at all, small, medium, or large. 5. Confirm that all of sentences 1–3 are vacuously true in the current 6. Two more vacuously true sentences are given in sentences 4 and 5. However, these sentences are different in another respect. Each of the first three sentences could have been non-vacuously true in a world, but these latter two can only be true in worlds containing no tetrahedra. That is, the only way they can be true is to be vacuously true. Let’s call generalizations with this property “inherently vacuous.” Thus a sentence of the form ∀x (A(x) → B(x)) is inherently vacuous if any world in which it is true is also a world in which ∀x ¬A(x) is true. 7. Add a sixth generalization to the file that is vacuously true in Peirce’s World but non-vacuously true in Peano’s World. (In both cases, make sure you use the unmodified worlds.) Save your new sentence file as Sentences 3.14. In everyday conversation, it is rare to encounter a vacuously true generalization. When we do, we feel that the speaker has misled us. For example, suppose a professor claims “Every freshman who took the class got an A,” when in fact no freshman took her class. Here we wouldn’t say that she lied, but we would certainly say that she misled us. Her claim suggests that there were freshman in the class, and if there were no freshman, then that’s what she would have said if she were being forthright. This is why inherently vacuous claims like sentence 5 strike us as counterintuitive: we can see that they cannot be true without being misleading. ö Exercise 3.15 (Evaluating multiple quantifier sentences) Open up Peano’s World and Peano’s Sentences. The sentence file contains 30 assertions that Alex made about this world. Evaluate Alex’s claims. If you have trouble with any, play the game (several times if necessary) until you see where you are going wrong. Then change each of Alex’s false claims into a true claim. If you can make the sentence true by adding a clause of the form x 6= y, do so. Otherwise, see if you can turn the false claim into an interesting truth: don’t just add a negation sign to the front of the sentence. Submit your corrected list of sentences. ö Exercise? 3.16 (Building a world) Open Ramsey’s Sentences. Build a world in which sentences 1–10 are all true at once. These sentences all make either “particular” claims (that is, they contain no quantifiers) or “existential” claims (that is, they assert that things of a certain sort exist). Consequently, you could make them true by successively adding objects to the world. But part of the exercise is to make them all true with as few objects as possible. You should be able to do it with six objects, total. So rather than adding objects for each new sentence, try adjusting the world, and only add new objects when necessary. Again, be sure to go back and check that all the sentences are true when you are finished. [Hint: To make all the sentences true with this small a world, one of the objects will have to have two names.] Save your world as World 3.16. ö Exercise 3.17 (Modifying the world) Sentences 11–20 of Ramsey’s Sentences all make “universal” claims. That is, they all say that every object in the world has some property or other. Check to see whether World 3.16 satisfies the universal claims expressed by these sentences. If not, modify it so it makes all 20 sentences true at once. Save the ö Exercise 3.18 (Expanding a world) In the real world, things change in various ways. They come, move around, and go. And as things change, so do the truth values of sentences. . In this exercise, the goal is to change World 3.17 to make as many of Ramsey’s sentences false as you can. But here’s the catch: you can only add objects of various sizes and shapes; don’t change the existing objects in any way. Save your world as World 3.18. (?) Do you notice anything about which sentences you can make false in this way and which you cannot? Try to give a fairly clear and intuitive account of which sentences you cannot make false in this way. We will return to this topic in Exercise 4.14, page 60. and World 3.18 at the same time. ö Exercise 3.19 (Simple multiple quantifier sentences) The file Frege’s Sentences contains 14 sentences; the first seven begin with a pair of existential quantifiers, the second seven with a pair of universal quantifiers. Go through the sentences one by one, evaluating them in Peirce’s World. Though you probably won’t have any trouble understanding these sentences, don’t forget to use the game if you do. When you understand all the sentences, modify the size and location of a single block so that the first seven sentences are true and the second seven false. Submit the resulting world. Now that you have plenty of experience with quantifiers, we present exercises in which both universal and existential quantifiers get mixed ö Exercise 3.20 (Mixed quantifier sentences with identity) Open Leibniz’s World and use it to evaluate the sentences in Leibniz’s Sentences. Make sure you understand all the sentences and follow any instructions in the file. Submit your modified sentence list. ö Exercise 3.21 (Building a world) Open Buridan’s Sentences. Build a world in which all ten sentences are true. Submit your world. ö Exercise 3.22 (Consequence) These two English sentences are consequences of the ten sentences in Buridan’s Sentences. 1. There are no cubes. 2. There is exactly one large tetrahedron. Because of this, they must be true in any world in which Buridan’s Sentences are all true. So of course they must be true in World 3.21, no matter how you built it. . Translate the two sentences, adding them to the list in Buridan’s Sentences. Name the expanded list Sentences 3.22. Verify that they are all true in World 3.21. Modify the world by adding a cube. Try placing it at various locations and giving it various sizes to see what happens to the truth values of the sentences in your file. One or more of the original ten sentences will always be false, though different ones at different times. Find a world in which only one of the original ten sentences is false and name it World 3.22.1. Next, get rid of the cube and add a second large tetrahedron. Again, move it around and see what happens to the truth values of the sentences. Find a world in which only one of the original ten sentences Submit your sentence file and two world files. ö Exercise 3.23 (Independence) Show that the following sentence is independent of those in Buridan’s Sentences, that is, neither it nor its negation is a consequence of those sentences. ∃x ∃y (x 6= y ∧ Tet(x) ∧ Tet(y) ∧ Medium(x) ∧ Medium(y)) You will do this by building two worlds, one in which this sentence is false (call this World 3.23.1) and one in which it is true (World 3.23.2)— but both of which make all of Buridan’s sentences true. ö Exercise 3.24 (Simple mixed quantifier sentences) Open Hilbert’s Sentences and Peano’s World. Evaluate the sentences one by one, playing the game if an evaluation surprises you. Once you understand the sentences, modify the false ones by adding a single negation sign so that they come out true. The catch is that you aren’t allowed to add the negation sign to the front of the sentence! Add it to an atomic formula, if possible, and try to make the claim nonvacuously true. (This won’t always be possible.) Make sure you understand both why the original sentence is false and why your modified sentence is true. When you’re done, submit your sentence list with the changes. ö Exercise 3.25 (It’s a small world after all) Create a world containing at most three objects in which the nine sentences in Ockham’s Sentences are all true. Save this world as World 3.25. We will be using it later. ö Exercise 3.26 (Building a world) Create a world in which all ten sentences in Arnault’s Sentences are true. Save your world as World 3.26. ö Exercise? 3.27 (Numerical sentences) By a “numerical claim” we mean one that says that there are a certain number of objects, or a certain number with some property or other. In earlier exercises, we have already come across some simple numerical claims. This exercise will help you recognize numerical claims when you come across them in our first-order language. Open Whitehead’s Sentences. 1. The first sentence says that there are at least two objects, and the second sentence says that there are at most two objects. (Do you see how they manage to say these things?) Build a world where the first two sentences are both true. 2. Sentence 3 is the conjunction of the first two. Hence it asserts, in one sentence, that there are exactly two objects. Check to see that it is true in the world you have just built. 3. The fourth sentence is in fact equivalent to the third sentence. It is a shorter way of saying that there are exactly two objects. Use the game to see why it is true in a world where there are two objects, but false in worlds with more or less than two objects. 4. Sentence 5 appears, at first sight, to assert that there are at least three objects, so it should be false in a world with two objects. Check to see if it is indeed false in such a world. Why isn’t it? Play the game to confirm your suspicions. 5. The sixth sentence actually manages to express the claim that there are at least three objects. Do you see how it’s different from the fifth sentence? Check to see that it is false in the current world, but is true if you add another object to the world. 6. The seventh sentence says that there are exactly three objects in the world. Check to see that it is true in the world with three objects, but false if you either delete an object or add another object. 7. Sentence 8 asserts that a is a large object, and in fact the only large object. To see just how the sentence manages to say this, start with a world with three small objects and name one of them a. Play the game committed to true to see why the sentence is false. Now make object a large. Play the game committed to false to see why it is true. Finally, make one of the other objects large as well, and play the game committed to true to see why it is false. 8. Sentence 8 asserted that a was the only large object. How might we say that there is exactly one large object, without using a name for the object? Compare sentence 8 with sentence 9. The latter asserts that there is something which is the only large object. Check to see that it is true only in worlds in which there is exactly one large 9. Construct a world in which sentence 10 is true. Save your world as World 3.27.1. 10. Make sentences 11 and 12 true in a single world. Save your world as World 3.27.2. 11. Sentence 13 is another way to assert that there is a unique dodecahedron. That is, sentence 13 is equivalent to sentence 10. Can you see why? Check three worlds to see that the two sentences are true in the same worlds—those in which there is a single dodecahedron. 12. Sentence 14 says that there are exactly two tetrahedra. Check that it is true in such worlds, but false if there are fewer or more than ö Exercise?? 3.28 (The Russellian analysis of definite descriptions) First-order logic has only two quantifiers, whereas English has many determiners, words like “some” and “every,” that combine with nouns to produce noun phrases (like “some cube,” “every cube”). Other determiners include numbers (as in “two cubes”) and the definite article “the” (as in “the cube”). Bertrand Russell proposed that a sentence like The cube is small should be analyzed as asserting that there is exactly one cube, and it is small. According to this analysis, the sentence will be false if there is no cube, or if there is more than one, or if there is exactly one, but it’s not small. If this analysis is correct (and many do not think it is), then such sentences can easily be expressed in first-order logic. 1. In exercise 3.27 on page 36 we saw two ways for saying that there is a single dodecahedron (sentences 10 and 13). Open Russell’s Sentences, the first sentence here uses the second method for asserting that there is a single cube. Compare sentence 1 with sentence 2. Sentence 2 is the Russellian analysis of our sentence The cube is small. Construct a world in which sentence 2 is true. 2. Construct a world in which sentences 2-7 are all true. (Sentence 7 contains the Russellian analysis of The small dodecahedron is to the left of the medium dodecahedron.) Submit your world. ö Exercise 3.29 (Describing a world) Open Peano’s World. Start a new sentence file where you will describe some features of this world. Again, be sure to check each of your sentences to see that it is indeed a sentence and is true. 1. Notice that every dodecahedron is small. Use your first sentence to say this. 2. State the fact that there is a medium sized cube. 3. Next, assert that there are at least two cubes. 4. Express the fact that there is a tetrahedron between two dodecahedra. 5. Notice that it is not the case that every cube is in front of a dodecahedron. Say this. Save your list of sentences as Sentences 3.29. Now let’s change the world so that none of the above facts hold. We can do this by first changing the medium cube into a dodecahedron, and then moving the leftmost dodecahedron to the front row. If your answers to 1–5 are correct, all of the sentences should now be false. ö Exercise 3.30 (Translating mixed quantifier sentences) When an English sentence contains more than one quantified noun phrase, translating it can seem quite confusing unless it is approached in a very systematic manner. It often helps to have a number of intermediate steps, where quantified noun phrases are treated one at a time. For example, suppose we wanted to translate the sentence Each cube is to the left of a tetrahedron. Here, there are two quantified noun phrases: each cube and a tetrahedron. We can start by dealing with the first noun phrase, temporarily treating the complex phrase is-to-the-left-of-a-tetrahedron as a single unit. In other words, we can think of the sentence as a single quantifier sentence, on the order of Each cube is small. The translation would look like this: ∀x (Cube(x) → x-is-to-the-left-of-a-tetrahedron) Of course, this is not a sentence in our language, so we need to translate the expression x-is-to-the-left-of-a-tetrahedron. But we can think of this expression as a single quantifier sentence, at least if we pretend that x is a name. It has the same general form as the sentence b is to the left of a tetrahedron, and would be translated as: ∃y (Tet(y) ∧ LeftOf(x, y)) Substituting this in the above, we get the desired translation of the original English sentence: ∀x (Cube(x) → ∃y (Tet(y) ∧ LeftOf(x, y))) This multi-step process usually makes translation of multiple quantifier sentences much easier than if we tried it in a single blow. Eventually, though, you will be able to go through the intermediate steps in your head. This exercise is designed to give you a feel for the intermediate stages in this translation process. . Open Montague’s Sentences. This file contains expressions that are halfway between English and first-order logic. Our goal is to edit this file until it contains translations of the following English sentences. You should read the English sentence, make sure you understand how we got to the halfway point, and then complete the translation by replacing the hyphenated expression with a wff of first-order logic. 1. Every cube is to the left of every tetrahedron. [In the sentence window, you see the halfway completed translation, together with some blanks that need to be replaced by wffs. Commented out below this, you will find an intermediate “sentence.” Make sure you understand how we got to this intermediate stage of the translation. Then complete the translation by replacing the blank with ∀y (Tet(y) → LeftOf(x, y)). Once this is done, check to see if you have a well-formed sentence. Does it look like a proper translation of the original English? It should.] 2. Every small cube is in back of a large cube. 3. Some cube is in front of every tetrahedron. 4. A large cube is in front of a small cube. 5. Nothing is larger than everything. 6. Every cube in front of every tetrahedron is large. 7. Everything to the right of a large cube is small. 8. Nothing in back of a cube and in front of a cube is large. 9. Anything with nothing in back of it is a cube. 10. Every dodecahedron is smaller than some tetrahedron. Open Peirce’s World. Notice that all the English sentences are true in this world. Check to see that all of your translations are true as well. If they are not, see if you can figure out where you went Open Leibniz’s World. Note that the English sentences 5, 6, 8, and 10 are true in this world, while the rest are false. Verify that your translations have the same truth values. If not, fix them. Open Ron’s World. Here, the true sentences are 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. Check that your translations have the right values, and correct them if they don’t. ö Exercise 3.31 (More multiple quantifier sentences) Now, we will try translating some multiple quantifier sentences completely from scratch. You should try to use the step-by-step procedure. . Start a new sentence file and translate the following English senten- 1. Every tetrahedron is in front of every dodecahedron. 2. No dodecahedron has anything in back of it. 3. No tetrahedron is the same size as any cube. 4. Every dodecahedron is the same size as some cube. 5. Anything between two dodecahedra is a cube. [Note: This use of two really can be paraphrased using between a dodecahedron and a dodecahedron.] 6. Every cube falls between two objects. 7. Every cube with something in back of it is small. 8. Every dodecahedron with nothing to its right is small. 9. (?) Every dodecahedron with nothing to its right has something to its left. 10. Any dodecahedron to the left of a cube is large. Open Bolzano’s World. All of the above English sentences are true in this world. Verify that all your translations are true as well. Now open Ron’s World. The English sentences 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10 are true, but the rest are false. Verify that the same holds of your translations. Open Claire’s World. Here you will find that the English sentences 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 10 are true, the rest false. Again, check to see that your translations have the appropriate truth value. Finally, open Peano’s World. Notice that only sentences 8 and 9 are true. Check to see that your translations have the same truth values. ö Exercise? 3.32 (Sentences that need paraphrasing before translation) Some English sentences do not easily lend themselves to direct translation using the step-by-step procedure discussed above. With such sentences, however, it is often quite easy to come up with an English paraphrase that is amenable to the procedure. Consider, for example, If a freshman takes a logic class, then he or she must be smart. The step-by-step procedure does not work here. But we can paraphrase the sentences as Every freshman who takes a logic class must be smart, and this is easily treated by the procedure. . Translate the following sentences by first giving a suitable English paraphrase. 1. Only large objects have nothing in front of them. 2. If a cube has something in front of it, then it’s small. 3. Every cube in back of a dodecahedron is also smaller than it. [Warning: This is an example of what is known as a “donkey” sentence, following a notorious example Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it. What makes such a sentence a bit tricky is the existential noun phrase in the relative clause which serves as the antecedent of the pronoun “it” in the verb phrase. This combination in effect forces us to translate the existential noun phrase with a universal quantifier. First, the donkey sentence would be paraphrased as For every farmer and every donkey, if the farmer owns the donkey, then he beats it. This sentence clearly needs two universal quantifiers in its translation. Several of the sentences that follow in this and the next exercise are donkey sentences.] 4. If e is between two objects, then they are both small. 5. If a tetrahedron is between two objects, then they are both small. Open Ron’s World. Recall that there are lots of hidden things in this world. Each of the above English sentences is true in this world, so the same should hold of your translations. Check to see that it does. Now open Bolzano’s World. In this world, only sentence 3 is true. Check that the same holds of your translations. Next open Wittgenstein’s World. In this world, only the English sentence 5 is true. Verify that your translations have the same truth ö Exercise 3.33 (More sentences that need paraphrasing before translation) Translate the following sentences by first giving a suitable English paraphrase. 1. Every dodecahedron is as large as every cube. [Hint: Since we do not have anything corresponding to as large as (by which we mean at least as large as) in our language, you will first need to paraphrase this predicate using larger than or same size as.] 2. If a cube is to the right of a dodecahedron but not in back of it, then it is as large as the dodecahedron. 3. No cube with nothing to its left is between two cubes. 4. The only large cubes are b and c. 5. At most b and c are large cubes. [Note: There is a significant difference between this sentence and the previous one. This one does not imply that b and c are large cubes, while the previous sentence does.] Open Ron’s World. Each of the above English sentences is true in this world, so the same should hold of your translations. Check to see that it does. Now open Bolzano’s World. In this world, only sentences 3 and 5 are true. Check that the same holds of your translations. Next open Wittgenstein’s World. In this world, only the English sentences 2 and 3 are true. Verify that your translations have the same truth values. Submit your sentence file. ö Exercise? 3.34 (Name that object) Open Carroll’s World and Hercule’s Sentences. Try to figure out which objects have names, and what they are. You should be able to figure this out from the sentences, all of which are true. Once you have come to your conclusion, add the names to the objects and check to see if all the sentences are true. Submit your modified world. ö Exercise? 3.35 (Definite descriptions and numerical quantifiers) In this exercise we will try our hand translating English sentences involving numerical claims and definite descriptions. For purposes of this exercise, we will assume that the Russellian analysis of definite descriptions, described in Exercise 3.28, page 38, is correct. . Translate the following English sentences. 1. There are at least two dodecahedra. 2. There are at most two tetrahedra. 3. There are exactly two cubes. 4. There are only three things that are not small. 5. The small tetrahedron has nothing in front of it. 6. The tetrahedron with something in front of it is large. 7. No dodecahedron is in back of the large cube. 8. (??) The medium cube is to the right of the large cube. 9. (??) The only thing with nothing to its right is the medium cube. 10. (??) The smallest cube is medium. Open Peano’s World. Note that all of the English sentences are true in this world. Check to see that your translations are as well. . Open Bolzano’s World. Here sentences 1, 3, and 7 are the only true ones. Verify that your translations have the right truth values in this Open Skolem’s World. Only sentences 5 and 7 are true in this world. Check your translations. Finally, open Montague’s World. In this world, sentences 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10 are the only true ones. Check your translations. ö Exercise? 3.36 (Saying more complicated things) Open Skolem’s World. Create a new sentence file and describe the following features of Skolem’s World. 1. Use your first sentence to say that there are only cubes and tetrahedra. 2. Next say that there are exactly three cubes. 3. Express the fact that every cube has a tetrahedron that is to its right but is neither in front of or in back of it. 4. Express the fact that at least one of the tetrahedra is between two other tetrahedra. 5. Notice that the further back something is, the larger it is. Say this. 6. Note that none of the cubes is to the right of any of the other cubes. Try to say this. 7. Observe that the small tetrahedron is in front of but to neither side of all the other tetrahedra. State this. Save your list of sentences as Sentences 3.36. If you have expressed yourself correctly, there is very little you can do to Skolem’s World without making at least one of your sentences false. Basically, all you can do is “stretch” things out, that is, move things apart while keeping them aligned. To see this, try making the following changes. 1. Add a new tetrahedron to the world. Find one of your sentences that comes out false. Move the new tetrahedron so that a different sentence comes out false. 2. Change the size of one of the objects. What sentence now comes out false? 3. Change the shape of one of the objects. What sentence comes out 4. Slide one of the cubes to the left. What sentence comes out false? 5. Rearrange the three cubes. What goes wrong now? ö Exercise 3.37 (Translation) Open Peirce’s World. Look at it in 2D to remind yourself of the hidden objects. Start a new sentence file where you will translate the following English sentences. Again, be sure to check each of your translations to see that it is indeed a true Everything is either a cube or a tetrahedron. Every cube is to the left of every tetrahedron. There are at least three tetrahedra. Every small cube is in back of a particular large cube. Every tetrahedron is small. Every dodecahedron is smaller than some tetrahedron. [Note: This is vacuously true in this world.] Now let’s change the world so that none of the English sentences are true. (We can do this by changing the large cube in front to a dodecahedron, the large cube in back to a tetrahedron, and deleting the two small tetrahedra in the far right column.) If your answers to 1–5 are correct, all of your translations should be false as well. If not, you have made a mistake in translation. Make further changes, and check to see that the truth values of your translations track those of the English sentences. Submit your sentence file. ö Exercise?? 3.38 (More translations for practice) This exercise is just to give you more practice translating sentences of various sorts. They are all true in Skolem’s World, in case you want to look while translating. . Translate the following sentences. 1. Not every cube is smaller than every tetrahedra. 2. No cube is to the right of anything. 3. There is a dodecahedron unless there are at least two large objects. 4. No cube with nothing in back of it is smaller than another cube. 5. If any dodecahedra are small, then they are between two cubes. 6. If a cube is medium or is in back of something medium, then it has nothing to its right except for tetrahedra. 7. The further back a thing is, the larger it is. 8. Everything is the same size as something else. 9. Every cube has a tetrahedron of the same size to its right. 10. Nothing is the same size as two (or more) other things. 11. Nothing is between objects of shapes other than its own. Open Skolem’s World. Notice that all of the above English sentences are true. Verify that the same holds of your translations. This time, rather than open other worlds, make changes to Skolem’s World and see that the truth value of your translations track that of the English sentence. For example, consider sentence 5. Add a small dodecahedron between the front two cubes. The English sentence is still true. Is your translation? Now move the dodecahedron over between two tetrahedra. The English sentence is false. Is your translation? Now make the dodecahedron medium. The English sentence is again true. How about your translation? ö Exercise? 3.39 (More translations) The following English sentences are true in Gödel’s World. Translate them, and make sure your translations are also true. Then modify the world in various ways, and check that your translations track the truth value of the English sentence. Nothing to the left of a is larger than everything to the left of b. Nothing to the left of a is smaller than anything to the left of b. The same things are left of a as are left of b. Anything to the left of a is smaller than something that is in back of every cube to the right of b. Every cube is smaller than some dodecahedron but no cube is smaller than every dodecahedron. If a is larger than some cube then it is smaller than every tetrahedron. Only dodecahedra ar	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1179
__label__wiki	0.639506	0.639506	Home › Reviews › In Theaters › Disarming and daring, Jordan Peele’s ‘GET OUT’ is an audacious directorial debut. Disarming and daring, Jordan Peele’s ‘GET OUT’ is an audacious directorial debut. By Douglas Davidson on February 24, 2017 • ( 1 ) The things that terrify us are rarely the things that go bump-in-the-night. Instead it’s the less sinister, yet equally malignant, living among us that pose the greatest threat. Evil doesn’t wear a sign as a warning. They creeps in when we’re not looking, hiding in plain sight, waiting to take us at our most vulnerable. Coming in the form of friends, neighbors, or even loved-ones. Never knowing we’re in danger until it’s too late. This social terror has been building within our nation for some time, so it’s of little surprise a film would use it as the basis for its narrative. What is surprising is the mind it comes from: that of prolific comedic writer and actor Jordan Peele (Key & Peele/Keanu). His directorial debut, Get Out, collects the writhing frustration of social outrage and channels it into a daring psychological thriller that challenges and disarms its audience. L-R: Catherine Keener as Missy, Bradley Whitford as Dean, Allison Williams as Rose, Betty Gabriel as Georgina, and Daniel Kaluuya as Chris. After dating for five months, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose (Allison WIlliams) decide it’s time for the most treacherous of life rituals – meeting the parents. With best friend Rod (Lil Rel Howery) watching his dog, Chris packs a bag, leaves New York City, and drives off to rural suburbia to meet Dean (Bradley Whitford) and Missy Armitage (Catherine Keener). Chris initially shrugs off his discomfort as the standard growing pains of meeting parents for the first time, but as odd occurrence after odd occurrence happens, he begins to suspect it’s something more. Director Jordan Peele. Knowing the director and the plot does little to spoil the experience, which is good because Get Out should be experienced as blindly as possible. In support of this, my standard review format is restructured to prevent even modest spoilers. If you have doubts over Peele’s capability to tell a terrifying story, remember that he’s one of the minds behind the Make-A-Wish sketch from Key & Peele Season Four. It’s absolutely chilling. When you go to Get Out, and you should, make sure you go with some friends or are in a crowded theater. It is the rare film that requires audience members to see it in a group to get every juicy ounce out of this psychological thriller. This is your last chance. Continue reading or quit now. Final Score: 4 out of 5. Still with me? Alright, here we go. Self-proclaimed cinephile Jordan Peele demonstrates a clear knowledge and love of the films that inspire him. Impressively, at no time does Get Out feel like an out-and-out homage; rather, it stands on its own as it takes our own social anxieties and turns them into a revelatory cinematic experience. The terror that permeates Get Out feels real – even at its most unreal – because of the exceptionally grounded narrative. For example, the film begins with a lone man walking the streets of a suburban neighborhood at night. He’s lost because it’s dark and all the houses look the same. There’s a natural discomfort here because we’re shown an individual (a) outside of his element and (b) it’s at night when vision is limited and uncertainty surrounds. Without showing anything dangerous, Peele already implies unease, which is amplified when a mysterious car approaches from the opposite direction, comes into frame, and stops. Though not something supernatural – as in the 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street – this scene sets up the idea that even the most visually idyllic neighborhoods harbor something nefarious underneath. Later on, Peele channels the 1975’s The Stepford Wives – a film about a community transforming itself from within – as Chris meets members of his girlfriend’s family and friends. They move in a certain way, they speak in a certain way, and it’s undeniably creepy. Chris, as an African American male, may be unfamiliar with how this largely Caucasian group engages with non-whites. Are they communicating in their tribe’s way, are they unpracticed in speaking outside of their tribe, are they racist, or something else? Chris is able to manage his own expectations because his life experience tells him Caucasians may mean well but don’t know how to engage him or connect with his experience. That doesn’t mean that watching a group of five turn in unison isn’t largely unnerving. Then, to ramp things up, Peele goes all in on the creep factor, utilizing aspects of the 1978 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers to brilliant affect to disrupt Chris’ mental stability. Most horror films focus on tearing down individuals through malicious means, which is why this homage is by far the most impressively used by as Peele. Rather than rupturing society, Body Snatchers is about appropriation, a concept that’s both socially relevant within the African American community and terrifying all on its own. Appropriation is about taking aspects of one group into another to make their own. Not in terms of an assimilation of one culture into another, but as a means of removal. In many ways, appropriation is a stronger, though passive form, of cultural removal. With it, a culture can cease to exist. Herein lies the true terror of Get Out. Williams and Kaluuya. These homages won’t work without strong characters and performances at play. Kaluuya as Chris is intelligent and capable. Rather than embody the stereotypical horror “Final Girl” who leaps without looking, Chris quickly becomes keenly aware that something strange is going on around him. He doesn’t snoop or investigate so much as he engages in calculated conversations with Rose’s family and friends, plus he remains in communication with his friend Ron, throughout. Rose is neither ambivalent nor overly defensive regarding Chris. Williams portrays her as aware of her family’s eccentricities and in tune with Chris’ concerns. There’s an expectation that Rose would try to shut down Chris’ seeming insecurities, but – because the grounding in realism is strong – she attempts to understand his discomfort and support him, without putting him down. In this way, Get Out frequently feels more like a social drama then a psychological thriller, which makes the storytelling all the more disarming. Similarly, the Armitage family – Dean and Missy – are portrayed expertly by Whitford and Keener. These are two grandmasters of acting and their use of subtly in every scene is what makes a re-watch necessary as their lines and delivery are entirely duplicitous. Whitford and Keener. There’s so much going on under the skin of Get Out that as soon as you finish it, you’ll want – nay – need to watch it again. It’s not just the homages to horror films of old or the revelatory approach to horror, but the fact that Peele constructs a story grounded in existing social fears. While there’s laughter, none of the narrative is played for laughs. Instead, there’s an overarching gloom that spreads in a strangely delightful way throughout the course of the film. Frankly, Peele’s psychological thriller could play as a solid film even without the deep dive into the perverse. But don’t take my word for it. Stop what you’re doing and get out. ‹ ‘John Wick: Chapter Two’ increases the legend of John Wick in a world-expanding sequel. Zhang Yimou’s ‘THE GREAT WALL’ offers pretty, but hollow fun. › Categories: In Theaters, Reviews Tags: Allison WIlliams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Daniel Kaluuya, entertainment, entertainment review, Get Out, homage, horror, Jordan Peele, Lakeith Stanfield, Lil Rel Howery, movie review, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, review, social commentary Ten Films From 2017 That Stuck With Me \| Elements of Madness Places To Find Me View EOMreviews’s profile on Facebook View Elmntsofmadness’s profile on Twitter View Elmntsofmadness’s profile on Instagram View Elmntsofmadness’s profile on YouTube Archives Select Month January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2015 January 2013 August 2012 July 2012 May 2012 April 2012 Critics Choice Association NC Film Critics Association Southeastern Film Critics Association	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1180
__label__cc	0.73361	0.26639	Challenging times for broilers? Phytomolecules, not antibiotics, are the answer 9. September 2019 EW Nutrition By Ajay Bhoyar and Sabria Regragui Mazili Anyone working with today’s fast-growing broiler chicken knows that it is a sensitive creature – and so is its gut health. Thanks to continuous improvements in terms of genetics and breeding, nutrition and feeding, as well as general management strategies, broiler production has tremendously upped performance and efficiency over the past decades. It is estimated that, between 1957 and 2005, the broiler growth rate increased by over 400%, while the feed conversion ratio dropped by 50%. These impressive improvements, however, have come at the cost of intense pressure on the birds’ digestive system, which needs to process large quantities of feed in little time. To achieve optimal growth, a broiler’s gastrointestinal tract (GIT) needs to be in perfect health, all the time. Unsurprisingly, enteric diseases such as necrotic enteritis, which severely damages the intestinal mucosa, hamper the intestines’ capacity to absorb nutrients and induce an inflammatory immune response. The modern broiler’s gut – a high-performing, but sensitive system However, in a system as high performing as the modern broiler’s GIT, much less can lead to problems. From when they are day-old chicks up to slaughter, broilers go through several challenging phases during which they are more likely to show impaired gut functionality, e.g. after vaccinations or feed changes. Good management practices go a long way towards eliminating unnecessary stressors for the animals, but some challenging periods are unavoidable. The transition from starter to grower diets is a classic situation when nutrients are very likely to not be well digested and build up in the gut, fueling the proliferation of harmful microbes. Immunosuppressive stress in combination with an immature intestinal microflora results in disturbances to the bacterial microbiota. At “best”, this entails temporarily reduce nutrient absorption, in the worst case the birds will suffer serious intestinal diseases. Phytomolecules – the intelligent alternative to antibiotics To safeguard performance during stressful periods, poultry producers need to anticipate them and proactively provide effective gut health support. For many years, this support came in the form of antibiotic growth promoters (AGP): administered prophylactically, they were effective at keeping harmful enteric bacteria in check. However, due to grave concerns about the development of antimicrobial resistance, non-therapeutic antibiotics use has been banned in many countries. Alternatives need to focus on improving feed digestibility and strengthening gut health, attacking the root causes of why the intestinal microflora would become unbalanced in the first place. Phytomolecules are secondary metabolites active in the defense mechanisms of plants. Studies have found that certain phytomolecules stimulate digestive enzyme activities and stabilize the gut microflora, “leading to improved feed utilization and less exposure to growth-depressing disorders associated with digestion and metabolism” (Zhai et al., 2018). With other trials showing positive effects on broilers’ growth performance and feed conversion, the research indicates that phytomolecules might also specifically support chickens during challenging phases. The effect of phytomolecules on broilers during a challenging phase A study was conducted over a period of 49 days on a commercial broiler farm of an AGP-free integration operation in Japan. The farm reported gut health challenges in the second and third week of the fattening period due to vaccinations and changes to the animals’ diets. The trial included 15504 Ross 308 broilers, divided into two groups. The negative control group included a total of 7242 birds, kept in another house. All the birds were fed the standard feed of the farm. The trial group (8262 birds) received Activo® Liquid, which contains a synergistic combination of phytomolecules, administered directly through the drinking water. Activo® Liquid was given at an inclusion rate of 200ml per 1000L of water (3.3 US fl oz per gallon of stock solution, diluted at 1:128), from day 8 until day 25, for 8 hours a day. The results are summarized in Figure 1: Figure 1: Improved broiler performance for Activo® Liquid group (day 49) The Activo® Liquid group clearly showed performance improvements compared to the control group. Livability augmented by 1.5%, while the feed conversion rate improved by 3.2%. This resulted in a more than 5% higher score in terms of the performance index. Challenging times? Tackle them using phytomolecules Poultry producers take great care to eliminate unnecessary sources of stress for their birds. Nonetheless, during their lifecycle, broiler chickens face challenging periods during which the balance of the intestinal microflora can easily become disturbed, with consequences ranging from decreased nutrient absorption to full-blown enteric disease. The trial reviewed here showed that, after receiving Activo® Liquid, broilers raised without AGPs showed encouraging performance improvements during a challenging phase of feed changes and vaccinations. Likely thanks to the activation of digestive enzymes and a stabilization of the gut flora, the broilers showed improved livability and feed conversion, thus delivering a much more robust performance during a critical phase of their lives. In times where the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics is no longer an option, phytomolecules allow poultry farmers to effectively support their animals during challenging times. Photo Source: Aviagen Adedokun, Sunday A., and Opeyemi C. 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Robinson. “Growth, Efficiency, and Yield of Commercial Broilers from 1957, 1978, and 20051.” Poultry Science 93, no. 12 (December 2014): 2970–82.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1181
__label__wiki	0.757731	0.757731	US soldiers leave Iraq’s cities Filed under: Latest, Politics News — Tags: ambassador, American, Baghdad, combat, decline, Iraq, Kirkuk, military, national, soldiers, troops, US, violence — expressyoureself @ 11:28 am US and Iraqi commanders say Iraqi forces are ready to take over security US troops have withdrawn from towns and cities in Iraq, six years after the invasion, having formally handed over security duties to new Iraqi forces. A public holiday – National Sovereignty Day – has been declared, and the capital, Baghdad, threw a giant party to mark the eve of the changeover. Hours before the midnight deadline, four US soldiers were killed in combat. US-led combat operations are due to end by September 2010, with all troops gone from Iraq by the end of 2011. The US military said the four soldiers served in Baghdad, but did not provide further details before families had been notified. They died as a “result of combat related injuries”, the military said. Iraqi and US troops have been on the alert for insurgent attacks during the handover. Despite the pullback from cities and towns, due to be completed on Tuesday, US troops will still be embedded with Iraqi forces. We think Iraq is ready and Iraq thinks Iraq is ready Christopher Hill US Ambassador to Iraq Both American and the Iraqi commanders say they are expecting al-Qaeda in Iraq and other groups to attempt to re-ignite sectarian tensions. BBC defence and security correspondent Rob Watson says that while the pullback is significant, the actual withdrawal of US combat troops in 2010 will pose a greater challenge. The success of that depends on Iraq’s political leaders and their ability to tackle the country’s many outstanding problems and tensions, he says. Some 131,000 US troops remain in Iraq, including 12 combat brigades, and the total is not expected to drop below 128,000 until after the Iraqi national election in January. ‘Now is the time’ Iraqi soldiers paraded through Baghdad’s streets on Monday in vehicles decorated with flowers and Iraqi flags, while patriotic songs were played through loudspeakers at checkpoints. Signs were draped on some Baghdad’s concrete blast walls reading “Iraq: my nation, my glory, my honour”. US commanders have said security and stability is improving, and that Iraqi forces are now ready to take over security operations. The US Ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, said there would be no major reduction in forces until 2010 but the pullback was a “milestone”. “Yes, we think Iraq is ready and Iraq thinks Iraq is ready,” he said. “We have spent a lot of time working very closely with Iraqi security services… and I think there is an understanding that now it is the time.” Mr Hill stressed that there would still be “a lot of US combat capabilities in Iraq for months to come”. “After 30 June, with US combat forces out of cities and villages, localities, we’ll still be in Iraq,” he said. “We will still have a very robust number of US troops in Iraq and, in fact, those troops will not begin to withdraw from Iraq until probably several months from now.” The pullback comes two years after the US “surge” of extra troops between February and June 2007, which took US troop levels in Iraq to 168,000. There was a decline in violence, but recent months have seen an upsurge. In the past 10 days nearly 170 people have been killed and many more injured in three attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Did you attend Monday’s celebrations in Iraq? Send your comments or pictures	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1186
__label__wiki	0.972825	0.972825	A Blog About Facts of the World Home » Figures » 10 Facts about Claude McKay 10 Facts about Claude McKay Sunday, January 10th 2016. \| Figures Facts about Claude McKay inform you with an important person in the Harlem Renaissance. He was a poet and novelist. This Jamaican-American author won some literary works including his most famous novel ‘Home to Harlem’. Not all people know exactly what kind of person he is. These are some facts about him. Facts about Claude McKay 1: His Parents Claude came from a big family. In fact, he was the youngest among his siblings. His parents were farmers. The father was Francis McKay and his father was Hannah Ann. They had 11 kids and Claude is the youngest. Facts about Claude McKay 2: The Mentor In 1907, he met a mentor named Walter Jekyll. With this person help, Claude started writing based on his own literary style. He learned lots of stuff from his mentor and wrote some verses in a local dialect. He also published his 1st work in 1912 ‘Songs of Jamaica’. Claude McKay Facts Facts about Claude McKay 3: The Constab Ballads Claude published his Constab Ballads in the same year as his first work. This volume actually was based on his personal experience when he was in Jamaica. At that time, he worked as a police officer. Facts about Claude McKay 4: His Famous Work ‘Home to Harlem’ is Claude’s most renowned work. It tells the story of a US fighter who retreat the WWI to visit his hometown in Harlem. Due to his work, he made his name well-known throughout the United States. Claude McKay Image Facts about Claude McKay 5: A Journalist Career Claude McKay was once a journalist. He involved in communism due to his job in the socialist paper. He was drawn to attend the CUC that initiated the Communist Party of the United Kingdom. Still, he kept writing poetry during that time. Facts about Claude McKay 6: His Autobiography He wrote an autobiography ‘A Long Way from Home’. It was published in 1937 and he described all the problems he had passed through due to race discrimination. Still, the society considered the book as unreliable as there are some facts missing. Get facts about Charles Swindoll here. Facts about Claude McKay 7: The Musgrave Medal He got a Musgrave Medal from Jamaican Institute of Arts and Sciences. The medal was honored to him due to his two first works in 1912. The medal indeed gave him encouragement to write more. Facts about Claude McKay 8: The Harmon Foundation Award Claude McKay also received a famous award in 1929. The Harmon Foundation Award was given due to his works ‘Home to Harlem’ and ‘Harlem Shadows’. By this, his was big enough to be recognized outside the United States. Facts about Claude McKay Facts about Claude McKay 9: His Personal Life His personal life was good. He married a childhood friend in 1914. The name was Eulalie Lewars. They had one daughter from such marriage. Find facts about Charles Sturt here. Facts about Claude McKay 10: The Death After he got his American citizenship in 1940, he had a heart attack in 1948 and he died due to such disease. He was 59 years old at that time. Claude McKay Pic Do you enjoy reading Facts about Claude McKay? tags: Claude McKay, Facts about Claude McKay Related For 10 Facts about Claude McKay 10 Facts about Derek Bentley Facts about Derek Bentley show the reader with detail information about an English man hanged because he was accused 10 Facts about Edmund Randolph Facts about Edmund Randolph tell us about the American attorney who served as the first Attorney General of United 10 Facts about Bernie Mac Facts about Bernie Mac tell you about the notable American actor, stand-up comedian and voice artist. He was born 10 Facts about Corrie Ten Boom Get the valuable information about a Dutch Christian who gave a hand to many Jews during the Second World 10 Facts about Emile Waldteufel 10 Facts about Emile Durkheim 10 Facts about Emiliano Zapata 10 Facts about Emeralds 10 Facts about Daniel Morgan 10 Facts about Dylan Dauzat 10 Facts about Ancient Egyptian Pha 8 Facts about Belle Boyd About Us Contact Us Disclaimer Privacy Policy Sitemap Copyright © 2017 Fact File	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1189
__label__cc	0.741861	0.258139	Bitcoin NewsUncategorized Bitcoin (BTC) Remains the Crypto King, Both in Marketcap and Twitter Hype By Jose Antonio Lanz A recent DataLight report found that BTC has considerably increased its popularity after the price rally it experienced a few weeks ago. According to the data analysis firm, BTC continues to be the “Crypto King” not only in terms of marketcap but also by the number of interactions it generates in social networks. Economics is a social science, and whoever understands the dynamics of society may have an approximate knowledge of the causes behind price movements and the possible consequences of a given stimulus. While this is not a strange thing, sometimes this type of information tends to be omitted by some analysts who prefer to perform technical analysis exclusively focusing on prices. The Twitter Hype Index is a statistic developed by the DataLight team to measure how excited the community feels about a given Token. The more tweets, the greater the interest. At the time of writing this article, BTC surpasses all crypto currencies, with an advantage of almost 3x over its nearest competitor (Ethereum). The report shows that the first three tokens have a hype proportional to the position they occupy by marketcap, however from the fourth place the situation changes. Tron (TRX) competes with XRP and XLM despite being outside the Top 10 of the global marketcap, but no one can doubt the marketing skills that Justin Sun (project leader) has demonstrated over time. DataLight explains that they design this index for those traders who rely more on fundamental analysis. Since Twitter is one of the most popular social networks among crypto currency enthusiasts, a correct twitter hype measurement allows us to know how attractive a token is and how much expectation it generates not only in the community but also in other investors. This index helps you to conduct price analysis. For example, soaring prices which are not accompanied by positive dynamics in Hype Index can make an investor cautious, but a fall in the Hype Index accompanied by a stable price might be a reason to fix profits/losses on an asset. BTC has never lost its position, but certainly its popularity had decreased, however, the results obtained by DataLight show that it is not only growing in marketcap but also in the level of confidence and interest it generates in the community. This is not only because of the prices, but likewise because of the number of new projects that are being developed around Bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC) General News Bitcoin (BTC) Price and Markets research Jose Antonio Lanz Lanz is a freelance journalist and native of Venezuela. He is a lawyer, specialist in strategic planning, and professor whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. Email Jose directly at lanzjose@pm.me	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1190
__label__cc	0.587509	0.412491	First published Feb 6th 2013 The horror of the circumstances leading to the Francis enquiry demand urgent action. We understand the temptation to impose punitive controls on a system that demonstrably failed to understand its core purpose. But the danger of such populist intervention is that it will exacerbate the very cultural flaws that created the hole into which Mid Staffordshire Hospitals Trust fell. At its heart, there is only one sure-fire way forwards. The solution must lie in reinforcing the statutory duty Board directors already have. Their duty is first to do no harm, but then to inspire everyone in their organisation to do great things using the resources available to them to maximum effect. This is hard and difficult stuff. We need people of courage to step forward and lead the way. For too long, we have prevented leaders from making the right decisions at the right time, conditioning them to look over their shoulder to the heavy handed interference of the army of regulators, government departments and politicians. There are three imperatives for anything that flows from the Francis report. These are messages for all leaders and managers in the NHS, and potentially even wider for all organisations, whether they are public, private or not-for-profit sector: the failings which occurred in Mid Staffordshire hospitals were horrific, unacceptable, inexcusable and must never be allowed to happen again; the friends and relatives of those caught up in these failings were confronted with a system which was completely deaf to their pleading and complaints: a level of arrogance, complacency and closing of ranks which must never be allowed to be repeated; the review has exposed a level of systemic failure of both leadership and governance in which accountability, priority-setting and decision-making are always someone else’s responsibility. Francis produces 290 recommendations targeted liberally throughout the system. The report condemns the system for allowing the target culture to supplant the core purpose of the NHS. Francis rightly demands a new culture which is dominated by patient outcomes, and does not tolerate harm to anyone caused by failure to implement known practice. It is astonishing that these recommendations then are designed to reinforce that purpose with an unprecedented level of micromanagement and imposition of a regime in which the centrality of that purpose is threatened by total emphasis on compliance. Evidence points time and again to the fact that cultures built around compliance lose the spirit and passion that constantly strives for improvement. CHE is proud to be a major partner of EIGA – the European Institute of Governance Awards – a body whose purpose is to encourage and celebrate organisations that have an approach to governance designed to demand more from continuous learning and improvement. This is liberating, empowering stuff that encourages leaders to inspire and motivate their staff. It treats clarity of purpose, insatiable curiosity and fearsome courage as bedfellows in leadership. This report is entirely about leadership. It is about Boards that have developed a subservient culture of seeking both direction and permission from multiple regulators and government departments: outsourcing their very duties to others. It is about a system-wide style of management that focuses on centralised control of power rather than leadership capable of inspiring a whole workforce to align behind the great values of service on which the NHS was built. It is about performance management that focuses irrepressibly on enforcement of process targets, rather than encouraging a relentless drive for improvement and learning at every level and by everyone. In any and every organisation, it is the single-minded duty of the board of directors to act with integrity and commitment to ensure that they deploy the scarce resources of their organisation to achieve the very best outcomes for the groups of people whom they serve – customers, patients and relatives, staff, suppliers, community, shareholders. Boards must ensure that they have an unequivocally clear purpose and that they drive towards this purpose working with a clearly exhibited set of values – the ethos they personally live and breath, and which they expect their staff to live and breath at all times. Boards must put in place the mechanisms of accountability by which the directors personally and collectively know categorically that their teams are doing the best they can. And they need to encourage the curiosity in leadership that is hungry for new learning, new insight and new experience, which will help them to shape a better future. None of this can be imposed from outside by fiat or mandate, or strengthened under the watchful gaze of regulation by compliance but nor can it be delivered behind closed doors. An external view from regulators and those who have direct experience of the services will stimulate the openness, without which hubris and complacency lurk. Francis demands a populist response of the iron fist and a tightening of control, and even a little bit of vengeance. But this is just a rewiring of the stuff that got us to this point. The emasculation of real accountability by those whose job it is to guarantee the quality, safety and effectiveness of services that created the breeding ground within which compassion was replaced by soulless complacency. We need to rebuild trust in the management and leadership provided by the Boards who understand that their duty is first to do no harm, but then to inspire everyone in their organisation to do great things using the resources available to them to maximum effect. This is hard and difficult stuff. We need people of courage to step forward and lead the way. See how this has been reported in the Huffington Post, and the National Health Executive. Watch my interview on the subject as part of the Cass Talks series of video recordings by Cass Experts on topical new stories. First published March 28th 2012 So many hopes have been built on the expectation that integration is a silver bullet for the woes of the health system, that we really should see it as a golden bullet – far more than a mere silver one. Well! The reporting of the evaluation of the DH funded integrated care pilots would have you believe that we are doomed! The headlines suggest that patients did not experience greater continuity of care, reduction in emergency admission has not materialised, and there is little, if any, overall financial benefit. More of a rusty bullet than a golden one! But the only gold items that rust are fakes – still built of base metal but painted over to make it look like gold. And we should surely conclude that there is an element of dressing up and pretence about the integrated care pilots. If only we had looked for the evidence before clasping the pyrites to our bosoms. We know from most industry sectors, that all the case study reviews of transformation teach us that success needs to begin with transformation of the business model. Which of the pilots did this? We know from our own studies (which will be published in May) that what marks out good leadership of whole systems, demands new characteristics of our leaders: that are currently in short supply amongst the NHS top leaders. Were the leaders of our pilots selected for their fit to these new styles? We know from the very basics of engineering, that failures occur at boundaries, so our integration design should do three very specific things: reduce the number of boundaries; reduce the risk of failure at boundaries; and, reduce the impact of those failures which do occur at the boundaries. Which of our pilots have used these as design criteria? We know that for any system to work smoothly and efficiently, we must align the driving forces – i.e. incentives – to make sure that each part of the system is acting in harmony with every other. What dispensations have our pilots been given to devise a new locally fit-for-purpose system of incentives, rather than the conflicting set currently in play? We know that at times of disruption, attention naturally and easily focuses inwardly to deal with the consequences of change, diverting away from the attention which should be on the relationship with the cared-for. What investments have the pilots made into genuine engagement with and involvement of patients in the redesign, or better still in co-design? We know that sharing the right, high quality information across the whole system is the only way to reduce some of the risks, build a common purpose and enable all players to feel part of a single solution. Which of the pilots has moved beyond temporary lash-ups between data sets? Let’s hope that we can now read the small print of the evaluation report, not just the headlines. The small print suggests we’ve got to work harder to get it right. I suggest we just need to work smarter! Integration is not the right answer, especially if most of what we do puts fixes around the current system weaknesses and boundaries. The smart answer lies in understanding how to use the principles of integration to achieve a clear vision of patient centred, seamless care, and then to use that to drive investment in a purpose designed business model, that has all the characteristics to make it work. Just because we have a pot of gold paint doesn’t turn us into successful alchemists. First published 19th Feb 2012 I was recently introduced to the following quotation: “I wouldn’t give a fig for simplicity, this side of complexity, but I would give my right arm for simplicity the other side of complexity.” For a long time I have been conscious that if we are to achieve the necessary transformation of the care system, then we need to stop pretending that it is a simple system, instead recognising that it is truly complex, in the meaning used in complexity science. A blog is not the place to introduce readers to complexity science – there is plenty to be read elsewehere, but suffice it to say, that one of the neatest ways of thinking about a complex system, is that it contains so many variables that even if we know everything there is to know about the system, we can never predict exactly how that system will behave. But, if we treat it properly as a complex system, then we can describe the state it is most likely to be in. It is not unlike a poor man’s quantum physics, but applied to everyday life. Put simply, this means that we can never control a complex system, but we can influence it. Control is the stuff of centralised management, and influence is the stuff of shared leadership. Get my drift? Back to that fabulous quotation. Pretending that a complex system can be simplified, before we have got a good understanding is worse than useless. Making sure that we understand the system, getting to grips with what is important, and then simplifying it for a given context is priceless. Facing down the complexity, allows us to simplify the system, AND know when those simplifying assumptions run out of steam, and we have to go back to the complexity to understand the new context. So who made that profound statement? It was Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior, more than a century ago, long before anyone had conceived any of the sciences which contribute to Systems Thinking. As I read more, I got to like the man who challenged the established clinical practices with his observations about infection control before Pasteur. Amidst more controversy, he sought to admit the first black medical students and the first woman medical student to Harvard. It seems to me that he was a man before his time – in so many ways rocking the established thought and practice. His work eventually reflected new norms in diversity and infection control. As a man of letters, he coined the new term Anaesthesia to describe the emerging practice. Are we, even now, on the dawn of responding to his plea to stop pretending and grapple with that kind of simplicity which only emerges on the other side of complexity? First published 26th Jan 2012 Those of us involved in any way with the care ecosystem need to keep our mums and grannies and kids in mind. Whether we are commentating or deeply involved in delivery, commissioning or education. Yesterday provided one such opportunity – a hospital appointment for my mum. It was always going to be difficult! I had mentally taken that extra beta blocker as preparation, but I hadn’t reckoned on the real cause of the stress. There is no better word than primitive! Mum’s record was only about 3 cm of paper in a tattered and torn green folder with an elastic band round it and containing her previous two addresses, but not the current one. The scheduling system was determined by where this folder rested in a large pile of similar folders, few less than 2 cm and some up to 8 or 9 cm thick. The first check with the nurse took 5 or 10 minutes longer than it needed, because the part of the record she needed had only been added as a comment at the foot of one page somewhere in this stack of inaccessible information. She kept overlooking it in the search for a more substantial and carefully constructed account of a previous treatment cycle. For the next half an hour, I watched as this teetering pile of information was shuffled and inspected each time another patient completed the pre-assessment to begin their wait for one of the three doctors in that clinic. Goodness knows what the glancing look proved, but it was a ritual which clearly provided some satisfaction to the nurses amidst this forlorn process. Perhaps I dreamed the papyrus scroll sitting there next to the ink-well and the neatly clipped feather! At least one patient appeared to be missing that vital folder, but maybe it turned up. I couldn’t keep up my excitment levels to notice! I’ve been working with IT systems for so long, I had forgotten that life can still be so primitive and processes inexcusably mismanaged! And this is the point to ask: “how could we get the National Programme for IT so badly wrong?” The potential for improvement in safety, quality, efficiency and outcomes is just so obvious. Any engineer will tell you that weaknesses, failures and poor quality happen at boundaries between systems and processes and organisations. And here, in these fat, green, scruffy folders are a series of broken boundaries on show for everyone to see! This is not a technology issue. This is a basic fact that, following the command to do no harm, the next most important rule for every clinician must be to keep an accurate, reliable record of every aspect of the intervention, which is communicated effectively to anyone else involved in delivering care. And then later that afternoon, as I sat in recovery mode with steaming towel round the forehead to dissipate the stress, in through my inbox came the report from the working party of clinicians seeking to establish a basic standard of clinical record keeping. As I mused on the way this was reported, it read just like a repeat attempt to reinvent the technology mistakes of NPfIT. But I had been privileged to engage with one of the leaders of this work at the beginning of the month. This is different! It has the potential to be revolutionary! It is the work of each Royal College and other luminaries, stating that the solution to better outcomes, greater efficiency and more inclusive working with patients and carers must begin with these clinicians focusing on transforming the way clinical records are defined and kept. Defining and adopting structure and standards which will later lend themselves to better use of technology, intelligent mining, and ease of sharing! This is the first real sign I have seen that the kind of monumental change we need to see right across care, must begin with the experts in the care processes powering it forwards by driving the development of appropriate tools. This is real clinical leadership in action! Don’t be confused by the way it is reported! This is good stuff! I continue to be fascinated by the juxtaposition of apparently different streams of intelligence and observations. Sometimes the light bulb moments are genuine and uplifting. Folks! There is hope! What of the bill? First published on Oct 11th 2011 As the Health Bill returns to the House of Lords for its second reading, what are peers expected to make of the increasingly vociferous messages directed at them? I have written before about how most of the reporting sits at one or other end of a polarised debate, often showing limited understanding of either the NHS or this entire sector of our economy. Andy Burnham, the new shadow secretary, says scrap the bill and we will work with you. But this is to deny the fact that the fabric of decision-making structures has already been dismantled beyond the point of no return. Going back is not an option. Too much has already changed for that to happen. Stopping mid change, leaving a vacuum within which confusion and indecision reigns is arguably even worse – possibly the surest way to seal the very demise of the NHS that people are clamouring to avoid. It is therefore incumbent on the Lords to avoid the temptation for filibustering, scoring points from each other, and other parliamentary devices, so that the debate can be shifted onto a more worthy plane. Such a debate would pivot around what it takes to secure a sustainable future for health services: that are better at adopting innovation, in which all elements of the system drive together towards best possible outcomes for available resources, that ensure we continue to drive up the health of the nation, whilst also reducing the unacceptable inequity – both in terms of health (mortality /morbidity), but also in access to quality care when needed. Many improvements have been made to the Bill through its previous readings, the Pause and revision, but uncertainty remains. The Bill continues to focus too heavily on structural issues, leaving unanswered those more important questions dealing with roles, responsibilities and effective governance. Such ambiguities include: detail of how Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) will be held to account; how Monitor will promote the integration of services whilst deterring anti-competitive behaviours; how the NHS Commissioning Board (NCB) process will work to evaluate and strengthen CCG Boards. Current indications are that the NCB will continue conflating its important role to determine what needs to be done, with interference in how things should be done. If CCGs are to drive innovation, improvement and best possible outcomes, then they must feel a real sense of ownership. Much commentary focuses on these individual issues, but the real risk lies in the unknown cumulative effect of how these interact. Current debates tend towards passionate defence of both ingrained vested interests and the proliferation of silo working. These have proven time and again to prevent progress, always keeping internal issues in the spotlight, instead of giving real attention to transforming the way customers (patients, carers, relatives, service users) are meaningfully engaged. “No decision about me, without me” will never become more than a collection of words until these internal issues are relegated to the back seat. What we need is an open-minded focus on how to achieve successful transition to a new shape. The health system is too big and complex, to be susceptible to management by central diktat. We need more emphasis on applying the best management science to understand how such a complex beast can be steered to achieve the desired outcomes, by using the right incentives. We welcome the increased attention on integration, but success in tackling quality and efficiency, requires incentives to be aligned with outcomes throughout the whole system. GPs manage 90% of patient encounters, and need to retain identity as primary care providers, properly integrated with all other aspects of community and hospital care. There is a real danger that concentrating on developing their role as commissioners will prevent opportunity for better integration of provision. That GPs will be subject to conflicts is clear in recent stories, and the solution to place commissioning responsibility for primary care in the NCB makes a mockery of localism – surely primary care is the area which most needs and deserves to be given a local commissioning flavour. Achieving the right balance here demands that Health and Wellbeing Boards are strong enough to direct the NCB and robust enough to hold them to account. Health and Wellbeing Boards bring the different cultures of NHS and local authorities directly together. Success of these boards is pivotal to the future. It is essential that they are rapidly gain maturity to deal with difficult issues robustly, demanding significant organisational development to face up to and overcome these often ingrained cultural differences and tensions. We see no attempts being made to nurture the new relationships on which success can be assured. The Lord’s second reading has much to discuss and shape, but its biggest challenge will be to avoid the polarisation and misunderstanding which has shaped debate to date. There are important matters to be understood, which will make a real and important difference. The perils of squeezing out judgement First published Oct 6th 2011 Our recent past is littered with large scale systemic failures, each of which has led to probing reviews, a myriad reports and the inevitable rewriting of regulation, each time marking a new dawning of governance and protection for innocent casualties. Maxwell! Enron! Clapham! Barings! Baby P! Bristol! Alder Hey! MidStafford! In some ways the review findings are predictable. Technology has enabled practice to outstrip and outsmart the regulator. The regulator caught napping! Regulators essentially caught colluding with the deceit – Enron was the first of these to reach my consciousness. When you peel the layers away, every one of these is a failure of risk management process. Inadequate consideration of, and planning for, the risk that things might not work out as we want them to. Insufficient integrity in those controls which should have been starting to glow red as the likelihood of impending failure rose. Insufficient emphasis on assurance – that triangulation process which seeks independent confidence that all is well. But then, risk management is too easily relegated to the “process nerds” who interfere with innovation and shun entrepreneurial flair, demand that proper time is allocated to consider complex issues in depth. An opportune moment perhaps to rewrite that perception? In 2009, Sir David Walker’s report on the failure of banking recorded some of the most memorable words from a governance review: “……improvement in corporate governance will require behavioural change in an array of closely related areas in which prescribed standards and processes play a necessary but insufficient part. Board conformity with laid down procedures such as those for enhanced risk oversight will not alone provide better corporate governance overall if the chairman is weak, if the composition and dynamic of the board is inadequate and if there is unsatisfactory or no engagement with major owners. The behavioural changes that may be needed are unlikely to be fostered by regulatory fiat, which in any event risks provoking unintended consequences. Behavioural improvement is more likely to be achieved through clearer identification of best practice and more effective but, in most areas, non-statutory routes to implementation so that boards and their major owners feel “ownership” of good corporate governance.” Earlier this year, Professor Eileen Munro reported on the circumstances of the Baby P tragedy, concluding that the child protection system had been built up of layer after layer of so-called assurance, which ultimately diverted attention away from the very purpose for which the processes existed, recommending that energy in safeguarding needed to be brought back to its core aims: “These forces have come together to create a defensive system that puts so much emphasis on procedures and recording that insufficient attention is given to developing and supporting the expertise to work effectively with children, young people and families”; and: “instead of ‘doing things right’ (i.e. following procedures) the system needed to be focused on doing the right thing (i.e. checking whether children and young people are being helped)” Can the combination of Walker and Munro mark a sea change in thinking about risk management and governance? Yes, process is an important part of the story, but it can never be seen as more than just a part. I have a few simple mantras which, if applied in a few more places could improve effectiveness. One of these applies here. Information rarely gives you answers – it simply helps you understand and formulate the important questions to ask! Put simply, it is the duty of management to use the best available information and evidence, combine it with experience and professional judgement, and subject it to peer review from as wide a cross section of perspectives as practical. That for me is a statement of good governance and the duty of both individual managers and whole boards. So, when we read the litany of misfortune and the apparent disarray within CQC, we have to be worried, even after stripping out the undoubted misreporting, exaggeration and sensationalising of the telling. Easy to make a transcription error that puts the wrong number down for the number of inspections carried out last year, but impossible to misjudge your core business by a factor of two! Valuable for board members to be setting aspirational plans for how they want to see processes becoming more consistent and controls being tightened, but unacceptable to then misjudge the gap between today’s reality and that future goal. Commendable to see an internal review conducted when staff properly raise concerns about process quality, and easy to understand why sharing such a review publicly would need careful handling, but impossible to see how an organisation whose very raison’d etre is to provide public assurance, could misjudge the importance of transparency and consider disciplinary action as a first resort. And the biggest question of all! What can be done to enable the CQC board to achieve Walker’s sense of “ownership of good governance”, to generate an effective balance between process and culture, when the government imposes increasing demands, expands the scope and reduces resources at the drop of a hat? Where is the meaningful consideration of risks, the integrity of the controls and the confident, independent assurance and exercise of professional judgement. Surely, at the very heart of this governance minefield, it is ironic indeed to see the Department of Health acting almost in the role of Shadow Directors of CQC, removing the very ownership the board should have in determining how to square this shrinking circle! This feels to me to be the very antithesis of the assurance process for which CQC exists.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1191
__label__wiki	0.848171	0.848171	Subtitle European Film Festival Awards Tags: 8-Ball, A Hijacking, Agniezska Grochowska, Aisling Franciosi, Aksel Hennie, Allan Hyde, Amy Huberman, Angela Awards, Antonio De La Torre, Avy Kaufman, Borgen, Children of Sarajevo, Danila Kozlovsky, David Caffrey, Gabriel Byrne, Grupo 7, Hannah Hoekstra, Harry Potter, Headhunters, Heart of a Lion, Hemel, Jakub Gierszal, Jessica Grobowsky, Jim Sheridan, Jo Nesbo, Kilkenny, Kon-Tiki, Laura Birn, Laurence Kinlan, Lincoln, Marija Pikic, Marwan Kanzari, Morten Suurballe, Ninety Minutes, Pauline McLynn, Per-Erik Eriksen, Peter Franzen, Peter O'Meara, Pilou Asbaek, Purge, Robert Sheehan, Sean McGinley, Sean Penn, Shame, Soulless, Subtitle European Film Festival, Suicide Room, Tanya Seghatchian, The Gunman, The Killing, The Life of Pi, The Set Theatre, The Sixth Sense, Tom Hickey, True Blood, Vampire Academy, Walesa, Wolf The Subtitle European Film Festival drew to a close tonight in Kilkenny with the second Angela Awards, celebrating excellence in European film-making. Actors honoured at the awards included Norwegian actor Aksel Hennie (known for his role in the crossover hit Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters), Finnish actor Peter Franzén (who will shortly be seen on screens starring alongside Sean Penn in The Gunman), Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky (star of the forthcoming Vampire Academy alongside Gabriel Byrne) and Danish actor Pilou Asbaek (star of TV hit Borgen). The Awards were hosted by actress and author Pauline McLynn in The Set Theatre, Kilkenny, with a host of luminaries including director Jim Sheridan, writer David Caffrey, Harry Potter producer Tanya Seghatchian, and actors Robert Sheehan, Amy Huberman, Laurence Kinlan, Sean McGinley, Tom Hickey, Peter O’Meara, Aisling Franciosi, Morten Suurballe (The Killing), and Allan Hyde (True Blood) all in attendance. At the awards Jim Sheridan also presented Emmy Award-winning casting director Avy Kaufman with a Lifetime Achievement Angela. Kaufman was the casting diector for films as diverse as The Sixth Sense, The Life of Pi, Lincoln and Shame. She has also worked with Jim Sheridan, casting many of his films. Subtitle presents popular films from European countries such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, France, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bosnia. With 70 screenings of 36 popular films from over 13 countries across Europe over 7 days in Kilkenny, Subtitle makes you see cinema in a different way. Full List of Angela Winners: Pilou Asbaek, Denmark, Actor For his role in: A Hijacking Agnieszka Grochowska, Poland, Actor For her role in: Walesa Aksel Hennie, Norway, Actor For his role in: Ninety Minutes Peter Franzén, Finland, Actor For his role in: Heart Of A Lion Danila Kozlovsky, Russia, Actor For his role in: Soulless Antonio De La Torre, Spain, Actor For his role in: Grupo 7 Marija Pikic, Serbia, Actor For her role in: Children Of Sarajevo Jakub Gierszał, Poland, Actor For his role in: Suicide Room Laura Birn, Finland, Actor For her role in: Purge Hannah Hoekstra, Netherlands, Actor For her role in: Hemel Jessica Grobowsky, Finland, Actor For her role in: 8-Ball Marwan Kanzari, Netherlands, Actor Breakthrough: Wolf Per-Erik Eriksen, Norway, Editor Editing: Kon-Tiki Avy Kaufman, US, Casting Director Lifetime Achievement: Casting	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1196
__label__wiki	0.677325	0.677325	Full report on FE Week and Policy Consortium second annual sector survey released Freddie Whittaker Fri 15th May 2015, 8.00 The full report on the results of the second annual FE Week and Policy Consortium survey has been published. The consortium, a group of FE and skills experts responsible for carrying out the survey and collating its data, has issued its full report. The survey, covered in edition 136 of FE Week, showed concerns about funding once again topped a list of issues for sector staff. In his introduction to the report, Policy Consortium member and FE journalist Ian Nash said: “Concerns over funding, external bureaucracy, workload and the pace and volume of change top the list of concerns among those polled in the survey. Ian Nash “As the government continues to transfer skills funding to employers – despite evidence from employer ownership pilots that it doesn’t work – broader education initiatives with a proven track record have been severely curtailed. “Equally alarming, say survey respondents, despite the ring-fencing of schools cash, is the failure of the Coalition Government to ensure that it is used by them in sufficiently tackling the levels of pupil underachievement in schools. “This has left colleges with the unachievable target of bringing everyone up to GCSE A to C or equivalent in maths and English by age 18, with the demand that they ‘do it again’ until they make the grade. “Moreover, the reduction in funding means that the sector is perceived as being less important than schools and higher education, say the respondents. The top two concerns around funding and government priorities appear to impact directly on status and morale in sector. “Unnecessary and damaging competition with schools – as the Government’s free schools and other structural reforms take priority over all other considerations – is also a major concern. The proliferation of providers, especially small school sixth forms, was identified by many as a cause for concern both for young people and FE providers, says the survey report.” The report is available to view on the consortium’s website. Sector leaders hit back at Ofsted for ‘encouraging government’ to restrict funding choices Ofsted boss still ‘not happy’ with colleges ‘flooding’ economy with arts and media students Ofsted: ‘Target apprenticeship levy money more directly at skills shortages’ Call for Treasury to invest £20m in FE research centre Tributes paid after death of college lecturer and UCU president-elect	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1197
__label__wiki	0.825103	0.825103	December 3, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue CLAYTON HEIGHTS: Soon to be Metro Vancouver’s newest transit-oriented community The Clayton area has evolved over the last decade into 3 nodes; East Clayton, West Clayton and North Clayton providing a Family orientated community which is technically reported under the Cloverdale population estimates, and data suggests that the area population will reach over 100,000 residences by 2031. November 25, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue Where You’ll Love to Live Strata Living has its Perks August 1, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue July 29, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue Downsize Without Compromise June 13, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue Abbotsford Has All You Need! Invest Today. May 1, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue March 27, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue Gabriola Park, Natural living on Langley’s Yorkson Park , by: Fifth Avenue Ventura, Abbotsford’s newest condominiums inspired by timeless design. March 8, 2019, by: Fifth Avenue Abbotsford City Centre: Building the Hub of the Fraser Valley	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1198
__label__wiki	0.761811	0.761811	FILMING REQUEST FORM CREW & FACILITIES FILMED IN THE WEST MIDLANDS Dark Mon£y Man Like Mobeen Lloyds Bank: By Your Side One Born Every Minute Red Bull: 5-A-Side Nationwide: The Birth of the Building Society About Film Birmingham Birmingham & West Midlands – The Region Filming In The West Midlands The Team & Testimonials Studio / Build Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vcUQE2yvo N.F.A Patrick Baladi Saskia Butler David Proud David Sterne Sean Connolly Watch the full trailer A brutally touching narrative about homelessness and mental illness. N.F.A (No Fixed Abode) had its premier screening at the 88th Edinburgh International Film Festival and has received outstanding 4 star reviews. NFA is a psychological drama about Adam (Patrick Baladi) who has a good job, nice house, a beautiful wife and little girl. After his delightfully quiet birthday celebration with just the three of them, Adam bids his daughter and wife good night, unaware of the consequences falling asleep would bring into his life. It is immediately clear something is very wrong when Adam wakes to find himself in a hostel with no memory of how he got there. He knows his name but lacks any sort of identification proving he is whom he says. A trip to the police station proves useless as officers look down in disgust at a man they presume to have drunk too much the night before and tossed out by his wife. As flashbacks periodically afflict his mind like migraine lightening, Adam fights to maintain control of his fleeting psyche. It’s like a nightmare where you just can’t wake yourself up. One moment you are on the top of the world and the next you find yourself at a loss for where your life has disappeared to. Filmed entirely at locations in Birmingham. Director: Steve Rainbow See what's been recently #FilmedInBirmingham Film Birmingham is Birmingham City Council’s Film and Television office – we are committed to making filming in the West Midlands as easy and efficient as possible by providing a one-stop shop for filmmakers’ production needs. Our team handles a wide range of queries from international and domestic productions and work closely with them to find locations and crew across the region and offer a comprehensive range of services to help them meet their requirements. © 2020 Film Birmingham. Website by Big Cat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1201
__label__wiki	0.836677	0.836677	Tyler Hilton Tyler James Hilton (born November 22, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Hilton began his professional career in music in 2000. Rolling Stone Magazine compared him to his contemporary, Howie Day, while others have compared Hilton to Elton John, both vocally and instrumentally. Since the release of his debut album, Hilton has ve… Read More Stations With Tyler Hilton Tyler Hilton Radio Plays Tyler Hilton along with similar artists like: Kate Voegele, Vanessa Carlton, David Gray, Aly & AJ, Newton Faulkner… Tanner Patrick Radio Plays Tanner Patrick along with similar artists like: Megan Davies, MKTO, David Archuleta, Hailee Steinfeld, Aaron Carter… Jason Mraz Radio Plays Jason Mraz along with similar artists like: Eric Hutchinson, A Fine Frenzy, Gavin James, Milow, OneRepublic… Matt Nathanson Radio Plays Matt Nathanson along with similar artists like: Matt Wertz, Blind Pilot, American Authors, Griffin House, Boyce Avenue… Kate Voegele Radio Plays Kate Voegele along with similar artists like: Tyler Hilton, Heather Nova, Jon McLaughlin, Kris Allen, Tristan Prettyman… Howie Day Radio Plays Howie Day along with similar artists like: Five for Fighting, Ingrid Michaelson, Donavon Frankenreiter, Boyce Avenue… Dave Barnes Radio Plays Dave Barnes along with similar artists like: Matt Wertz, Gavin James, Joe Purdy, Roo Panes, Ingrid Michaelson… Justin Nozuka Radio Plays Justin Nozuka along with similar artists like: Amos Lee, Josh Rouse, Obadiah Parker, Ben Harper, Lissie… Graham Colton Radio Plays Graham Colton along with similar artists like: Matt Wertz, Boyce Avenue, Jason Mraz, Brett Dennen, Justin Nozuka… From Tyler Hilton When It Comes This World Will Turn Your Way	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1205
__label__cc	0.739348	0.260652	Glenn Basham Singer / Songwriter in Lumberton, New Jersey 10,675 views on fandalism Glenn Basham - Songwriter, Vocals and Playing All Instruments Carefree Sparrow (Studio Version) - Glenn Basham Here is a song that I created back in 1992. I recently did a multi track recording of it and made a video for it last weekend. The idea for the song came to me one day as I was watching a bird through a window as I was sitting in my parked car during my lunch break. Thanks for listening. May you have a carefree day! I started playing guitar when I was sixteen. A lot of my friends knew how to play, so it was only natural for me to want to learn as well. A friend of mine taught me how to play the chords I needed to know to play House Of The Rising Sun. That was the first song I learned how to play. After that, I learned more on my own. The first concert I ever went to was in the Summer of 1976. My friends and I saw Peter Frampton, Gary Wright and Yes. I have a Breedlove 12 string acoustic guitar with a built in pickup, a Yamaha 12 string acoustic guitar and a Gibson 6 string acoustic guitar. I like my Breedlove 12 string the best. The Beatles were my biggest influence growing up.When they came out, no one else was like them. They created great melodies and I really liked their harmonies and overall sound. They had a lot of variety as well. I've been in bands over the years, but I'm not in one right now. I've been in rock bands, folk groups and oldies bands. Right now, I either play solo or team up with other musicians and friends at places that have open mike nights. I also enjoy writing and performing my own songs. I think it would be great to jam with Paul McCartney. Glenn Basham - Guitar Lumberton, New Jersey Fish Out Of Water - Glenn Basham I am starting 2020 off by diving deep into my archives and pulling out this original of mine from 1987 called "Fish Out Of Water". The original recording was on a cassette tape and only featured acoustic guitar and vocal. I decided to make a new recording of the song featuring vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards and drums. I did this at the end of last year and made the video too, which included film footage of mermaids, courtesy of Vimeo.com. When I composed the song back in 1987, I was inspired and influenced by a group from England called "Squeeze" who were very popular at the time. I liked them because their music was very melodic and their lead singer Glenn Tilbrook's voice sounded similar to Paul McCartney. So, I decided to create a tune that had a "Squeeze" vibe to it. Here is how it all turned out. Thanks for tuning in. Happy 2020, everyone! Glenn Basham - Songwriter/vocals and playing all instruments Winter Is On Parade (Peter and the Wolf) - Glenn Basham I grew up enjoying the classical piece by Prokofiev at Christmastime called "Peter and the Wolf". I wondered what this instrumental would sound like if it had lyrics and was sung, so I decided to write lyrics for the main theme of the overall piece and sing to excerpts of Prokofiev's classical piece. It is kind of a weird idea, I suppose, but I had fun doing it! I quickly put it all together, so that I could post it in time for Christmas. I call it "Winter Is On Parade". Thanks for listening. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Glenn Basham - Lyrics and vocals Winter Holiday (2019 mix) - Glenn Basham, Yvalain and Mark Taylor Hi everyone! Zapple Pie is back with a song composed by Glenn Basham called "Winter Holiday". This is a new audio mix made in 2019. The initial version by Zapple Pie was published for Christmas in 2017. Yvalain and Mark play all the instruments on this recording and Glenn sings the vocals. Merry Christmas to everyone! Thanks for listening. Glenn Basham - Songwriter/vocals/collaboration God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Glenn Basham Another folky acoustic performance under the Christmas tree. This was filmed last year, but never posted until now. Thanks for listening. The holidays are upon us! We now have to get our tree up and decorated soon for this year! Glenn Basham - Vocals and guitar Childlike Wonder (live) - Glenn Basham Here is an acoustic live performance of my original Christmas song that I composed last year. This was actually filmed last year after Christmas and New Year's were over, but the tree was still up, so I decided to play this one under the tree and save the video for this Christmas. Christmas is on its' way! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Glenn Basham - Songwriter/vocals and guitar The Cheshire and Mad Hatter - Glenn Basham Here is a new original song by me called "The Cheshire and Mad Hatter". I started to compose this song about three years ago and then abandoned the project. (Sometimes life gets too busy.) Anyway, when I was recently checking out unfinished songs and musical ideas of mine, I was inspired to take another look at this tune and finally complete it. I loved "Alice In Wonderland" as a child, so it is not surprising that I was inspired by it when writing this song. When creating the video for this tune, I added bits of film footage from Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" (1951), "Alice" - Mozuya and "Alice In Wonderland Title Sequence" - URUU, all courtesy of Vimeo.com. Thanks for listening and watching. Taker's Holiday - The Moon Shadows Kevin Kapuscinski and Glenn Basham are back with another original tune from their past. Glenn took an acoustic demo of them from 1983, consisting of vocals and acoustic guitar and recently tried to enhance it by adding keyboard, bass guitar and drums to the recording. Kevin wrote the words and composed this song. He also sang on the recording. Glenn added his vocals as well and played all the instruments. Next, Glenn created this video for it. Some film footage from a video called "My Haunted House" by Insectula! was also added to the video, courtesy of Vimeo.com. The Moon Shadows thank everyone for stopping by for a listen! Glenn Basham - Vocals/ all instruments/collaboration See The Penguins - Glenn Basham I was inspired when I heard "I am The Walrus" by The Beatles back in the sixties, so I created my song called "See The Penguins" back in 1982. It is a rather childlike tune that does have something to say. I originally recorded a basic demo of it on cassette. Years later in 2009, I made this more produced recording of it. Recently, I decided to make this video for it, so that I could post it on Youtube, Facebook and Fandalism. The video contains film footage of penguins, courtesy of Vimeo.com. Hope you enjoy the show! The penguins and I thank you! Glenn Basham - Songwriter/vocals and all instruments Desiree (2019 mix) - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with their new 2019 remix of "Desiree", just in time for Halloween. Happy Halloween from Zapple Pie! Glenn Basham - Collaboration/vocals/lyrics Empty Places, Empty Faces (2019 Halloween Mix) - The Moon Shadows The Moon Shadows are making their debut on Fandalism today. The Moon Shadows are Kevin Kapuscinski and Glenn Basham. Glenn and Kevin used to compose songs together back in the early eighties. Recently, the two of them reconnected on Facebook and started talking about music again. Glenn decided to take an acoustic recording from 1983 that consisted of Glenn's acoustic guitar and both of them singing and create a new 2019 Halloween mix by adding keyboard, bass guitar and drums to the original recording. This is how it turned out. Luckily, the new mix was done in time for Halloween. This particular song was composed by Kevin. The video includes film footage from two old Disney cartoons from 1929, courtesy of Vimeo.com. The films include "Mickey Mouse - The Haunted House" and "Silly Symphonies - The Skeleton Dance". Thanks for listening. Happy Halloween from The Moon Shadows! Glenn Basham - Vocals/guitar/ bass/ keyboards and drums/collaboration Revolution (Beatles cover) - Mark Taylor, Glenn Basham and Kristen Rider Hi everyone! Mark, Kristen and Glenn are back with another rendition of a classic Beatles' tune. This time they decided to do a cover of Lennon/McCartney's "Revolution". Mark plays all the guitars and drums on this one, Kristen plays the keyboards and Glenn does all the vocals. Thanks for listening! Glenn Basham - Vocals/collaboration Someday, Together - Glenn Basham Twenty five years ago on this day my cousin Karen died. Recently, Karen's husband Tony asked me if I would compose a song in memory of Karen. So, during the summer months, I wrote this original tune called "Someday, Together". Thanks for listening. Watching The Sunrise - Glenn Basham I have been having fun going back into my archives and taking originals from my past and bringing them back to life in the present. Here is another song that I created back in 1987. I created a lot of songs that year. This particular song was originally called "Heart Line". I recently wrote a whole new set of lyrics for the song and gave it a new title. It is now called "Watching The Sunrise". Here is my new recording of it. Thanks for listening. Topsy Turvy - Glenn Basham I went back into my archives and pulled out this original song of mine from 1987 called "Topsy Turvy". I changed a few lines in the lyrics and then made a new recording of the song. I enjoyed working on this one a lot because this song is a little departure from 'my style' or what I tend to usually do. The video is made up of photo collages that I created and there are also bits of film footage from various films courtesy of Vimeo.com. I hope you enjoy this tune. Thanks for listening. Lighthouse - Glenn Basham Here is a new original song by me, inspired by my love of lighthouses. Thanks for listening. The Missing Chord - Glenn Basham Here is an original song that I composed back in 1987. All I had of it was an old cassette recording, so I decided to record a new decent recording of it, create a music video and bring this song back to life. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for listening. Eight Days A Week (Beatles cover) - Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Mark and I are back with another Beatles' cover. This time, we did our rendition of The Beatles' big hit called "Eight Days A Week". Mark does all the guitar work on this one. I sang all the vocals and played the drums. Thanks for listening! Glenn Basham - Vocals and drums/collaboration Love Me Do (Beatles cover) - Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Mark and I are back with another rendition of a classic Beatles' tune. This time we chose to cover "Love Me Do" which was The Beatles' first single back in 1962. Mark plays guitar and harmonica in our rendition and I do the vocals, bass guitar and drums. Thanks for listening and have a great weekend! Glenn Basham - Vocals/ bass guitar and drums/collaboration Sunset Road - Glenn Basham Here is a brand new original song by me called "Sunset Road". The inspiration for this song came to me when I saw a photo of the sun setting over a highway. On the surface, the song seems to be about a vacation of driving down Sunset Road, but it is much more than that. It is really about trying to finally live out one's dreams in the last years of one's life. What do you do with yourself and your life in the so-called golden years? What are one's plans when one retires and one is finally, hopefully free? Come take a journey down "Sunset Road". Thanks for travelling with me. You Can't Do That (Beatles cover) - Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Glenn and Mark are back with their rendition of another Beatles' tune. This time they are covering a song from The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" album. The song is called "You Can't Do That". Mark plays all the instruments on this track. Glenn does all the vocals. Thanks for listening! It's Only Love (Beatles cover) - Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Mark and I are back with our rendition of a Beatles classic called "It's Only Love" which was from the American version of The Beatles' Rubber Soul" album. Mark plays all the instruments and I do all the vocals. We hope you enjoy our rendition. Thanks for listening. Searching - Glenn Basham Here is another song that I pulled from my archives to create a music video for. This tune is an original song of mine called "Searching" that I composed back in 1989 and was part of my collection of songs years ago called "In Search Of The Tree Of Life". All of the songs in this collection fit together as part of a spiritual concept. In 2007, a year after I got my multi track recorder, I finally made decent recordings of all the songs. Thanks for listening and watching. Two Trees In A Field - Glenn Basham I was digging through my archives again and I pulled out this original song of mine that I composed back in 1995 called "Two Trees In A Field". This song ended up being a part of my collection of songs called "In Search Of The Tree Of Life" that I put together years ago. I decided that it was time to make a video for this tune. Thanks for watching and listening. Yeshua - Glenn Basham Here is another original song from my archives called "Yeshua", which is a Hebrew name for Jesus. This song is a "bluesy" spiritual song about Jesus that I composed back in 1988. It was a part of my collection of originals called "In Search Of The Tree Of Life" I created years ago. I decided that now was a good time to make a video for it, considering that Easter is coming soon. I included bits of film footage from "Jesus de Nazareth"_teaser official by Beverly Hills Entertainment and "bbc - miracles of Jesus", both courtesy of Vimeo.com. Happy Spring to everyone and Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it! Thanks for watching and listening. Seasons Swirling - Glenn Basham Here is another original song from my archives that I recorded back in 2010. I decided that it was time to create a video for it. Here it is. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for your support! Dear Prudence (Beatles cover) - Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Mark and I are back with another rendition of a classic Beatles tune. This time, we did our acoustic rendition of "Dear Prudence" from The Beatles White Album. Mark did all the guitar work and I did all the vocals. Thanks for stopping by! :) Falling From The Sky - Glenn Basham Here is a song from my archives that I composed back in 1989. It is called "Falling From The Sky" and it is probably one of the strangest songs I ever wrote. The song is about the third of the angels in Heaven and how they rebelled and were cast out of Heaven. This is rather unusual subject matter for me and is a different and dark direction for me as well. Obviously, the tune that I created had to reflect this strangeness as well. Time went on before I created a decent recording of it. In 2007, I finally did this recording of it, which was a year after I received my multi track recorder. I was able to experiment with sound and I tried to create sounds that would express the idea of "falling". Recently, I decided to create this strange video for it. Here is how it turned out. Another Slice Of Pie - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Mark Taylor and Glenn Basham) Zapple Pie is back with another slice of music. This song was composed by Yvalain with Glenn on vocals, Mark on lead guitar and Yvalain on bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and arrangements. The audio was produced by Yvalain and the video was produced by Glenn. From our album "Destination Peace" that is available online on every known digital store and free streaming services such as Spotify or Deezer. Thank you for your support. Hiking In The Woods - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Mark Taylor and Glenn Basham) Zapple Pie is back with a new song written by Mark Taylor (music) and Yvalain Debodinance (words). Glenn does the vocals, Mark is on lead guitar and Yvalain is on bass, acoustic guitar, percussion and production. Glenn put the video together using photos and photo collages both created by Glenn and Yvalain and also added some hiking film footage of Switzerland, courtesy of Vimeo.com All Zapple Pie original works are available on digital stores and free streaming services. Search "Zapple Pie" on Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music, Google Play, Apple Music/iTunes, Tidal and more. Thanks for your support. Don't Wanna Grow Old - Glenn Basham I am back with another song from my archives. I composed and recorded this one back in 2009. I finally decided to make this video for it. The tune has an old fashioned 50s rock and roll vibe. The words are about someone not wanting to grow older and the things that one goes through as they get older and their attempts to stay young. Maybe some of you, like me, can relate to it. Misty Moon - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with their first song for 2019! "Misty Moon" was composed by Glenn Basham and the song was recorded by Zapple Pie. Mark Taylor plays lead guitar, Glenn does the vocals and Yvalain plays the bass and all other instruments. Yvalain produced the final audio mix and Glenn created the video. We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for stopping by. Tie Dyed Dreams - Glenn Basham Hi everyone! Here is another original from my archives. It's called "Tie-Dyed Dreams" and it is a tribute to Woodstock and the Woodstock generation. It was composed and recorded back in 2011. The 50th anniversary of Woodstock is happening this summer in August, so I was inspired to create this slide show music video for my song. I hope this year's festival is successful filled with peace, love and music. Nobody Wants To Hear Love Songs Anymore - Glenn Basham Welcome to 2019! I decided to start the year off by diving into my archives and pulling out another original song from my past. Here is a song that I composed and recorded back in 2011. I decided to make a quick video for it so that I could post it. The song is called "Nobody Wants To Hear Love Songs Anymore". I got the idea for the song when I was performing at an "open mike nite" at a local bar. I played a love ballad and someone told me to only play fast songs, because "nobody wants to hear love songs anymore". So I played rockers for the rest of the night. Later, when I got home, I composed this song! I hope that some of you still like love songs! Ha ha! Thanks for listening. 2018 Retrospective - Zapple Pie Glenn, Mark and Yvalain look back on all the music created by Zapple Pie in 2018. The music you hear in this video is an unreleased instrumental version of Glenn's "Making Sparrows Out Of Clay" which features Juha Hintikka as a special guest playing saxophone with the band on all other instruments. Happy New Year to everyone from Zapple Pie! Glenn Basham - Songwriter/collaboration Zapple Pie's Christmas Message for 2018 - Zapple Pie It's that time of year again. Time for Zapple Pie's Christmas message for 2018. Mark, Yvalain and Glenn want to thank everyone for listening and supporting Zapple Pie! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the three of us! We are looking forward to creating more music in the year ahead! Wishing everyone all the best in 2019! Glenn Basham - Songwriter/vocals and guitar/collaboration Childlike Wonder - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original Christmas song. This song was composed by Glenn Basham. Mark plays lead guitar, Glenn does the vocals and Yvalain plays guitar, bass, zither, organ synth and percussions. The final audio mix and video were produced by Yvalain. Zapple Pie wishes everyone a Merry Christmas! Helter Skelter (Beatles cover) - Mark Taylor and Glenn Basham It is the 50th anniversary of The Beatles white album, so to celebrate, Mark and I decided to do our rendition of a song from the white album, Here is our rendition of "Helter Skelter". Mark played all the instruments on this one and I sang all the vocals and created the video. Thanks for listening! Long live the music of The Beatles! :) In My Life - (Beatles cover) Glenn Basham, Mark Taylor and Kristen Rider Mark and I are back with our rendition of another Beatles song. Kristen joins us with her piano on this one! Have a great day, everyone and thanks for listening! Glenn Basham - Vocals/bass and drums Scarecrows - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) We are back with a slice of Halloween pie! This song was composed by Glenn. Glenn does the vocals on this one, Mark plays lead guitar and Yvalain plays bass, acoustic guitars and drums programming. The audio and video were produced by Yvalain. Happy Halloween to everyone from Zapple Pie! It Happened - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with their latest piece of "cosmic" pie! This song is an original composed by Yvalain! We hope you enjoy our song and "out of this world" video! Thanks for watching! Do Lidee Do Lida - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original song. This one was composed by Yvalain. Glenn did the vocals, Mark played lead guitar and Yvalain did all the rest on this recording. We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening! If you have trouble seeing our video, you can use this link : http://dev213.fandalism.com/... Our Magical Mystery Life - Zapple Pie (Mark Taylor, Yvalain Debodinance and Glenn Basham) Zapple Pie is back with a new original song co-written by all three of us. Mark and Yvalain composed the music and Glenn created the lyrics. We hope you enjoy our latest slice of music all about the gypsy life. Thanks for listening! Glenn Basham - Lyrics/vocals/collaboration Girl - (Beatles cover) by Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Hi everyone! Mark and I are back with another rendition of another Beatles song. Thanks for listening! We hope we passed the audition! Glenn Basham - Vocals/bass guitar and drums/collaboration Misty Moon - Glenn Basham and friends Here is an original song that I wrote in 1983 and recorded on a cassette that year. (Remember cassettes? Ha ha!) I thought that the recording was decent, so I decided to make a video for it and post it.. I played guitar and did the vocals on this one. I am joined on this recording with my brother Mark Basham who plays drums and his friend Dennis Brennan who plays vibes. Hope you enjoy this blast from the past! Scarecrows - Glenn Basham Here is a rather strange original song that I created back in 2001. I made this recording of it in 2011. This song is a "dark fairy tale" about a flock of crows and an army of scarecrows and the farmer battling over the farmer's cornfield. The song is obviously written from the crows' point of view. Maybe Zapple Pie will do their version of it for Halloween. Have a great summer and stay out of the cornfield, everyone! Ha ha! :) Something - (Beatles cover) by Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Mark and I are back with our rendition of "Something" by The Beatles, which was composed by George Harrison. Mark plays both lead and rhythm guitar. Glenn does the vocals and plays bass and drums. Thanks for listening! One Is Too Many (2018 version) - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance and Glenn Basham) Here is a repost of a song that Yvalain composed called "One Is Too Many" that is from Zapple Pie's second album called "A Lot of Zapple Pie'. This is a new video that Yvalain produced for our tune. Because of all the things happening in the world right now, we felt that it was an appropriate time for posting our song. I hope that the day will come when everyone has a home in this world where they feel free, safe and at peace. I can only dream. We thank you for listening. Have a happy, peaceful summer, Jenny Wren - (Paul McCartney cover) by Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Mark and I are back with our rendition of a Paul McCartney song called "Jenny Wren". Mark plays all the instruments and Glenn does all the vocals. I can picture Mark and I playing and singing this one around a campfire. Too bad that we live so far away from each other. We hope that you enjoy our rendition. Thanks for listening. Have a great day, everyone! Destination Peace - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original song. This one was written by Glenn Basham. Mark plays lead guitar, Yvalain plays acoustic guitar and bass and Glenn does all the vocals on this recording. Production, strings and drums arrangements are by Yvalain. The concept for this song came to Glenn in a dream. Hopefully someday, world peace will become a reality. Thanks for listening to our song of peace. Soul Colors - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original tune. This song was composed by Yvalain with Mark on lead guitar, Glenn on all vocals and Yvalain on bass, guitars, keyboards and drums arrangement. The final mix and video was produced by Yvalain! We hope you enjoy this colorful production! Thanks for listening! And I Love Her - (Beatles cover) by Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor I asked Mark if he would like to collaborate with me and do our rendition of this Beatles tune and he agreed. This is our cover of "And I Love Her". Mark plays lead and rhythm guitar and Glenn does the vocals, plays bass guitar and percussion. Mark and I are big Beatles fans! We hope you enjoy our rendition of this classic tune! Glenn Basham - Vocals/bass guitar and percussion/collaboration Little Red Bird - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original song. This one was composed by Glenn Basham with Glenn on all vocals, Mark on lead guitar and Yvalain on bass, guitar and orchestration. The audio and video production is by Yvalain. We hope you enjoy it! Have a zappley fantastic day! Destination Peace - Glenn Basham "Destination Peace" is a new song that I have composed that was inspired by a dream that I recently had. In the dream, me and my two friends (Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) were hiking on foot for many miles, trying to find a special place that we had heard about where everyone is free and where everyone takes care of each other and the environment. It is basically "heaven on earth". As the dream continues, the sun is starting to go down and we finally see this beautiful city on the horizon, where the only flag flown is the flag of peace. At that point I woke up and realized that it was a great concept for a song! The verses describe the dream. The chorus is a request to everyone to do their part to bring about peace in this troubled world. Hopefully, someday peace can exist everywhere on the earth. I know it's a dream, but I am a dreamer. The video contains photos, photo collages that I have made and also some film footage from two films, courtesy of Vimeo.com. The films are : "Helvetia:The Great Switzerland" by Peter R. and "Zu nachtschlafender Zyt / Bern Hyperlapsed" by stadium-punctum. I dedicate this song and video to my two bandmates from our group "Zapple Pie", Mark Taylor and Yvalain Debodinance. I hope that you enjoy my song of peace. Mr Regular - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with an original rocker. This song was composed by Yvalain. Mark plays lead guitar, Glenn is on vocals and Yvalain plays guitar, bass guitar and drums arrangement. Yvalain also did the audio and video production. We hope you enjoy our latest slice of music! Thanks for listening! Centerfield (John Fogerty cover) - Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor Mark and I decided to do our rendition of John Fogerty's tune called "Centerfield". Mark plays lead guitar and bass guitar. Glenn plays drums, bass guitar and does the vocals. The video contains photo collages, photos and cartoon images. The video also contains various film clips courtesy of vimeo.com including : "Baseball Sounds" by Scott Duffy, "SSF Baseball" by Featherwax, "Major League Baseball - Stadiums" by Pete Harvey, "Los Angeles Dodgers : It's Time for Dodger Baseball" by Aaron James and "Major League Baseball 2017-Intro" by Onesal. We hope you enjoy our tribute to baseball! :) Glenn Basham - Vocals/ drums and bass guitar/collaboration Peace Canoe (2018 version) - Glenn Basham I went back into my archives and pulled out this original song of mine that I composed in 2003. I decided to rewrite some of the lyrics and make it more of a romantic song. Next, I made a new recording of the song. So here it is, my new 2018 version. Take a step into my "Peace Canoe"! Every Color of the Rainbow - Glenn Basham I was going into my archives again and recently pulled out this original of mine from 1996. Recently, I rewrote some of the lyrics to this song. I pulled out a 2009 recording of it and recorded the vocal lyrical changes, keeping the instrumental background the same, instead of recording everything all over again from scratch. So here is my 2018 updated version of my original song called "Every Color of the Rainbow". Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend, everyone! My Country Girl - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Howdy, everyone! Zapple Pie is back with a love song for Valentine's Day! The music was composed by Yvalain and the words were written by Glenn. Mark plays harmonica and lead guitar, Glenn does all the vocals and Yvalain plays acoustic guitars, bass and production. Thanks for listening! Happy Valentine's Day! :) Glenn Basham - Vocals/lyrics Dreams (Can Take You There) - Glenn Basham Here is another song from my archives. I wrote and recorded this original of mine back in 2014. I enjoy making videos of songs of my past and posting them! Each individual song is like a piece of me! Thanks for listening. Have a great day, everyone! :) Wooden Nickel - Glenn Basham I decided to go back into my archives. Here is a song that I wrote back in 1982 called "Wooden Nickel". The inspiration for this song came from simply obtaining a wooden nickel. I thought it was kind of cool, even though I knew it wasn't worth anything. The next thing I knew I was composing this song! It's funny where inspiration comes from sometimes! This particular recording of the song was done in 2009. Recently, I decided to make a slide show music video for it, so I could post it. As far as the melody and music go, I was inspired by The Beatles. The inspiration for the loud and overly emphasized drums came from listening to songs like "I Dig Love" by George Harrison, which was on his "All Things Must Pass" album. While making the video, I also included some photos of myself from the early and mid eighties. It was a fun trip down memory lane! Star of Wonder - Glenn Basham I know that Christmas is over, but I wanted to play a song by my tree, before it came down. That's right, my tree was still up! I have a strange tradition of playing a song by the Christmas tree every year before it comes down! I could not sing during the holidays, because I developed a bad cold and lost my voice at Christmas. I am finally getting my voice back, even though it's not 100 percent yet. I knew I needed to film this quickly, because the tree is coming down! Back in 1987 at Christmas time, I was playing around with some chords that I like and for some strange reason, I started to sing the words of "We Three Kings of Orient Are" to my own melody. I called my version "Star of Wonder". I revisited that song recently. I kept the first verse and chorus of "We Three Kings", but wrote words of my own for the last two verses. The original "We Three Kings" was written in 1857 by John Henry Hopkins Jr.. My version called "Star of Wonder" was filmed live. The only thing I did was add some visual effects to the film, just for fun. Hope you enjoy my version. Maybe someday I will record a studio version. Okay folks, now it is time to move on to Valentine's Day! Ha ha! Glenn Basham - Guitar/vocals/songwriter Keep Holding On - Glenn Basham Here is my first post for 2018. "Keep Holding On" is an original of mine that I wrote and recorded back in 2014. I recently decided to make a slide show music video for it. Happy 2018, everyone! Thanks for listening! Zapple Pie's 2017 Christmas Message - Zapple Pie It's time for Zapple Pie's annual Christmas message! This is our audio video Christmas card for everyone! This is our last post for 2017. We are looking forward to creating more music in 2018. We are grateful for everyone's support during 2017. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :) Glenn Basham - Vocals/guitar If I Were Santa - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with a new original Christmas song. Yvalain composed the music and Glenn wrote the lyrics. Mark added some great lead guitar work and harmonica, while Glenn provided the vocals and Yvalain supplied all the other instruments. We hope that you enjoy our slice of Christmas pie. Merry Christmas to all from Zapple Pie! Glenn Basham - Vocals/lyrics/collaboration The Answer Is Love - Glenn Basham I went back into my archives, which I do every now and then, to post an original from my past. Here is a short little song about love that I wrote in 2014. Love is certainly something that we could use more of in this world today. So, I quickly put this slide show music video together for this tune the other day. Hope you enjoy it. Happy listening. Pieces - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with a promo video for our new album called "Pieces of Zapple Pie". The video contains samples of the 15 songs that are on the album with some rare film footage of the group. It is like a visual musical scrapbook of Zapple Pie of all that we have done during the year. We hope that you enjoy it! That Look of Love - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original tune. This song was composed by Glenn with Mark on lead guitar, Glenn on vocals and Yvalain on guitar, bass and programing of electric piano and production. The drums were created using Band in a Box's real drum samples. This song is from our new album "Pieces of Zapple Pie" available in all known online music stores. We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening. My Moon Shadow - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with an original Halloween song composed by Glenn Basham. Mark Taylor plays lead guitar, Glenn does all the vocals and Yvalain plays bass, guitar, strings and drums. Zapple Pie wishes everyone a Happy Halloween! We hope you enjoy this slice of Halloween pie! Hello, My Love - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with a new original song with music composed by Yvalain and words written by Glenn. Mark plays lead guitar, Glenn does the vocals and Yvalain plays guitar, bass and did the audio and video production. Come to the studio and listen to us perform! Have a great day everyone! Glenn Basham - Vocals and lyrics/collaboration Whistling In The Wind - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original. Yvalain composed the music and Glenn created the lyrics for this song. Mark plays lead guitar, Glenn sings all the vocals and Yvalain plays bass, and acoustic guitar. Yvalain is also the mystery whistler! The drums were created with Band In A Box. The background video was borrowed from vimeo.com called "Muse of the Wind".by Fiev. An overall production by Yvalain. Thanks for tuning in! Home - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with another original song. This particular song was composed by Yvalain and has an important message about the need for all of us to have a place we call "home". This music video is our first experience with using a "green screen" which allows us many creative possibilities! We hope you enjoy our newest song and video. Thanks for watching. Silent Raindrops - Zapple Pie (Mark Taylor, Glenn Basham and Yvalain Debodinance) Zapple Pie is back with another original tune. Mark had composed an instrumental. Yvalain added his magical touch to it, adding strings and glockenspiel. Then, Glenn wrote lyrics for it and added a vocal melody. Yvalain created a final audio mix and produced the video. We hope you enjoy our creation! Thanks for listening! :) Glenn Basham - Songwriter/vocals and lyrics/collaboration Branches on the Vine - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back! Here is our new original composed and sung by Glenn Basham with Mark Taylor on lead guitar and Yvalain Debodinance on bass, guitars and drums and synths programming. The final audio mix and video production was done by Yvalain. We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening. For All Seasons - Glenn Basham Here is an original song that I wrote back in 1997 called "For All Seasons". It is the last song on my CD called "Seasons of the Heart" that I recorded in 2010. I recently decided to make a video for this song. Hope you enjoy it and I hope you are enjoying whatever season of your life you are in right now. Thanks for listening. There's A Magic All Around You - Glenn Basham Here is an original song that I wrote and recorded in 2014. I decided to make a music video for it using home movies of 4th of July fireworks at Atlantic City, New Jersey back in 2011. Hope you enjoy the fireworks and the song! Have a great weekend! Summer Sun - Glenn Basham Here is an original song of mine that I created back in 1993.This particular recording of it is from 2010 and I finally made a video for it two days ago, using home videos from recent years at the beach. This song is from my collection of my original songs called "Seasons of the Heart". Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening. Have a happy summer, everyone! :) Susanne - Glenn Basham "Susanne" is one of my earliest originals going way back! I was influenced by early Beatle tunes like "love Me Do". So, I purposely wrote very basic lyrics with lots of oo-woos and oh-wohs. It is definitely not real deep and may sound a little dated now, but I still like it. I like the melody and groove, so I decided to post it. The video consists of kaleidoscope images created by Xxzzxcut and Raluca Buta, courtesy of Vimeo, com, Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching. We Were Going To Change The World - Glenn Basham This is an original song that I created and recorded back in 2014. I finally got around to making a music video for it. If you are from the "baby boomer generation" like me, you might be able to relate to the words! Ha ha! Thanks for listening. Glenn Basham - Songwriter/playing everything Life Swings To A Pendulum Beat / Grandfather Clock - Glenn Basham Here are a couple of songs that I created back in 1978 and recorded in 2009. I made the video and posted "Grandfather Clock" in the past, but I made the video for "Life Swings To A Pendulum Beat" last weekend. I thought that the two songs went well together, so here they are! Thanks for listening! Snow In The Desert - Glenn Basham I have been having fun making music videos for original songs I have written in my past. Here is a song I wrote back in 1996 called "Snow In The Desert". Have a great day, everyone! :) Boardwalk Blues - Glenn Basham Here is an old original tune that I wrote back in 1976. It is one of my earliest songs. It is called "Boardwalk Blues". This particular recording of it was done in 2009. I felt like posting something, so I gathered together some home movie footage I had and quickly made this music video for Blues Thursday! Thanks for listening! Like A Movie - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Zapple Pie is back with a new tune. This song was composed by Yvalain and the words were written by Glenn. On this recording, Mark plays lead guitar, Glenn does the vocals and Yvalain plays acoustic and electric guitars, bass and drums programming. Thanks for listening! Spirit's Guitar - Zapple Pie (Mark Taylor, Glenn Basham and Yvalain Debodinance) Zapple Pie is back with their newest tune. The instrumental music was written by Mark Taylor. The vocal melody and words were created by Glenn Basham. On this recording, Mark plays guitar, Glenn is on vocals and Yvalain is on guitar and arrangements. Thanks for listening! Glenn Basham - Vocals/songwriter/collaboration Hand in Hand - Zapple Pie ( Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor ) Here is a new romantic vaudeville tune by Zapple Pie, just in time for Valentine's Day! The music was composed by Yvalain and the words were written by Glenn. Mark plays lead guitar, Yvalain is on ukulele, guitar, bass and strings arrangement and Glenn sings all the vocals. We hope you enjoy it. Happy Hearts Day, everyone! :) Making Sparrows Out Of Clay - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor) Here is a song I wrote back in 2009. My friends, Yvalain and Mark, heard it and liked it, so we decided to record Zapple Pie's version of it. Mark Taylor plays lead guitar on this version. Yvalain plays bass, guitar, arrangement (drums and mellotron) and production. I sang the lead vocal and all the harmony vocals. We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening! Speaking Words of Wisdom - Glenn Basham Here is a song that I composed last year in January of 2016. I was busy trying out a new guitar pedal that I received from that Christmas in 2015, when I created the tune. The lyrics contain many famous quotes by John Lennon. This song is my tribute to John. The title of the song, "Speaking Words Of Wisdom", happens to be a phrase contained in a line of a famous song written by Paul McCartney called "Let It Be". Happy New Year, everyone! Thanks for listening. Zapple Pie's Second Christmas Message (2016) - Zapple Pie Here is Zapple Pie's video Christmas card for 2016. Glenn, Yvalain and Mark wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks for supporting us throughout all of 2016! Winter Holiday - Zapple Pie ( Glenn Basham, Yvalain Debodinance and Mark Taylor ) Here is a new Zapple Pie song written and composed by Glenn with Glenn on all vocals, Mark on lead guitar and Yvalain on guitar, bass, drums and synth programming. Zapple Pie wishes everyone a Merry Christmas, a wonderful winter holiday and a Happy New Year! Thanks for listening! Glenn Basham - Songwriter/vocals Hey Noah - Zapple Pie (Yvalain Debodinance, Glenn Basham and Mark Taylor) Here is a new song by Zapple Pie. Yvalain composed the music and Glenn wrote the lyrics. Glenn sang all the vocals, Mark played lead guitar and Yvalain played guitar, bass guitar and arrangements. We hope you enjoy our new slice of music! One With Nature - Zapple Pie (Glenn Basham, Mark Taylor and Yvalain Debodinance) Here is a new original by the three of us. Glenn took an original instrumental composed by Mark and created a vocal melody for it and lyrics. Glenn added vocals to it. Next, it was presented to Yvalain, who added more guitar, bass guitar and synth to it. Yvalain made the final mix, resulting in this new song by Zapple Pie. We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening! Props 203,576 Location Lumberton, New Jersey Instruments Songwriter, Vocals, Guitar Genres Pop, Rock, Folk, Classic Rock, Oldies Influences The Who , British Invasion groups , The Beatles, John Lennon, The Privileged Few Band, Paul McCartney, The Doors , The Moody Blues, Creedence Clearwater Revival , The Rolling Stones , The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkle Private message to Glenn Basham	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1207
__label__cc	0.604983	0.395017	Adidas pos... Adidas posts jump in sales and profit, confirms outlook In the second quarter, currency-neutral revenues at Adidas Ag grew 4 percent, while revenues at brand Adidas were up 4 percent, driven by a high-single-digit increase in Sport Inspired. In euro terms, the company’s revenues grew 5 percent to 5.509 billion euros (6.18 billion dollars). Adidas said, net income from continuing operations grew 10 percent to 462 million euros (517.8 million dollars), and basic EPS from continuing operations reached 2.33 euros including the IFRS impact, an increase of 13 percent year-over-year. “We delivered another successful quarter. Sales in our strategic growth areas Greater China and e-commerce continued to increase at a double-digit rate – and so did our bottom line,” said Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted in a statement, adding, “We remain confident about the sequential revenue acceleration in the second half of the year and confirm our top- and bottom-line outlook for 2019.” Adidas posts revenue growth across markets The company said, revenues in Sport Performance declined at a low-single-digit rate as the non-recurrence of last year’s FIFA World Cup-related sales led to a strong decrease in the football category which more than offset double-digit growth in the training and basketball categories. Driven by the Classics category, revenues of the Reebok brand grew 3 percent on a currency-neutral basis. From a channel perspective, Adidas added that the company’s top-line increase reflects a double-digit improvement in direct-to-consumer revenues with particularly strong growth in e-commerce, where sales increased 37 percent in the quarter. The combined currency-neutral sales of the Adidas and Reebok brands expanded at a double-digit rate or by 12 percent in Emerging Markets and at a high-single-digit rate or 8 percent in Asia-Pacific, driven by 14 percent growth in China. Revenues in North America increased 6 percent, reflecting a 5 percent increase at brand Adidas and 10 percent growth for Reebok. While sales in Latin America also increased by 5 percent and revenues in Europe were flat year-over-year. The company added that sales in Russia/CIS declined at a mid-single-digit rate by 4 percent due to difficult prior year comparisons in relation to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The company’s operating margin improves 0.4 percentage points to 11.7 percent, while the company’s gross margin increased 1.2 percentage points to 53.5 percent. The company’s operating profit grew 9 percent to 643 million euros (720.7 million dollars), representing an operating margin increase of 0.4 percentage points to 11.7 percent. Adidas first half revenues increase 4 percent In the first half of 2019, revenues increased 4 percent on a currency-neutral basis, which the company said, is in line with the 3 percent to 4 percent guidance provided at the beginning of the year in light of the supply chain shortages the company has been experiencing following a strong increase in demand for mid-priced apparel. In euro terms, revenues grew 5 percent to 11.392 billion euros (12.7 billion dollars). From a brand perspective, currency-neutral revenues for brand Adidas grew 5 percent, while Reebok revenues declined 2 percent. Gross margin was up 1.8 percentage points to 53.5 percent, while the company’s operating profit grew 13 percent to 1.518 billion euros (1.70 billion dollars), representing an operating margin of 13.3 percent, an increase of 0.9 percentage points compared to the prior year. Net income from continuing operations grew 14 percent to 1.093 billion euros (1.23 billion dollars), resulting in a 17 percent increase in basic earnings per share from continuing operations to 5.50 euros (6.16 dollars). Adidas confirms revenue and earnings outlook for FY 2019 For 2019, the company continues to expect sales to increase at a rate of between 5 percent and 8 percent on a currency-neutral basis. Following the 4 percent revenue growth during the first six months, Adidas continues to project a sequential acceleration during the second half of the year. The company’s gross margin is forecast to increase to a level of around 52 percent in 2019. The operating margin is expected to increase between 0.5 percentage points and 0.7 percentage points to a level between 11.3 percent and 11.5 percent. Net income from continuing operations is projected to increase to a level between 1.880 billion euros and 1.950 billion euros, reflecting an increase of between 10 percent and 14 percent. The company also announced that its supervisory board extended the mandates of executive board members Karen Parkin, responsible for global human resources, and Harm Ohlmeyer, chief financial officer, by five years beyond 2020 until 2025. Karen Parkin and Harm Ohlmeyer have both been members of the Adidas AG executive board since 2017. Picture:Adidas media centre adidas reebok	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1210
__label__wiki	0.565098	0.565098	From Seed to Shirt Esquel Launched the Initiative for Sustainable Development Actions from Businesses Esquel Group is honored to be one of the four leading corporations (with Alibaba Group, Yili Group and China Three Gorges Corporation) committed to the Initiative for Sustainable Development Actions from Businesses. On October 24 and 25, Chairman Marjorie Yang attended the first Sustainable Development Forum in Beijing, in which a total of 16 Chinese and overseas enterprises signed the Initiative as they pledged to deliver the long-term value of sustainable development for the brighter future of the companies, the communities, the countries and the planet. The Forum was guided by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and co-organized by the Development Research Center of the State Council, Beijing's municipal government and United Nations organizations. Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the Forum. Vice Premier Han Zheng had also met with overseas delegates. Addressing the participants, Yang said the top management of businesses, including the chairman and the CEO, have to be the drivers to promote sustainable development on a corporate level. But it is just as crucial to get everyone in the company on board to embrace the concept, act together and accelerate the impact. Since 2005, Esquel Group has reduced per unit output consumption of water by 67%, and electricity by 49%. Asia Garment Manufacturer (Vietnam) Company Limited is renamed to “Esquel Garment Manufacturing Vietnam – Dongnai Company Limited” The launch of “ShanghaiTech-Esquel Joint Lab” fosters innovative university-industry collaboration Integral Named Gold Winner in MIPIM Asia Awards 2019 Our 5E-Culture Awards & Certifications & Membership Why Esquel Lifelong Journey Experienced Hires (Hong Kong) Integral Conversation Major Customer List Major Supplier List ©2020. Esquel Group. All Rights Reserved Esquel Enterprises Ltd. 13/F Harbour Centre, 25 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1216
__label__cc	0.671218	0.328782	Expert Help in Writing a Movie Review If you want to achieve great results in writing a movie review, you need to understand the main purpose of such a paper. Generally speaking, a film review offers a detailed insight into a specific movie giving readers an opportunity to properly assess its value. It provides information about such film aspects as the plot, sound effects, costumes, setting, dialogues, and other items. This kind of assignment will let you both extend your knowledge about diverse film points and develop your creativity. Now, let us find out what points you need to pay attention to make your movie review thought-provoking. Price for a Movie Review Mention the title. No matter the type of a movie, i.e. documentary or fantasy, it is essential to indicate its title. Try to decipher the meaning it bears and explain it to readers. Thus, they will see that you have watched the whole movie and made its critical evaluation. 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__label__wiki	0.644953	0.644953	Estonian Investment Marketplace Secures License in Singapore by Fintechnews Singapore September 26, 2019 Estonian fintech startup Funderbeam announced today that it has secured the Capital Market Services License and Recognise Market Operator license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, marking the startup’s entrance into the Singaporean market. Funderbeam’s marketplace enables investors to buy and sell equity stakes in private companies. Founded in Estonia in 2013, the company is headquartered in the UK and regulated in Europe by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and it was previously highlighted as the top 10 Hottest Fintech Startups in the Baltic States by our sister publication at Fintech Baltic. The company aims to fill in the gap in venture and SME capital markets by providing access and liquidity to growth investments; namely by introducing trusted structures and technology to provide 24/7 global access to the service. Kaidi Ruusalepp “Our vision is to be the funding and trading platform of global private companies. To achieve this, we had to introduce a new business model and technology that could overcome the limitations of the existing, regulated alternative markets.” said Kaidi Ruusalepp, the founder and CEO of Funderbeam. “We are very pleased to have been recognised by MAS in Singapore — underscoring the high degree of trust towards our vision. As we will soon be operating in two continents, obtaining recognition from the MAS adds further assurances to the robustness of our established marketplace and distinguishes us as a truly global funding and trading platform.” To date, Funderbeam claims to have 39 high-growth portfolio companies on its marketplace and has onboarded over 12,000 verified investors across 122 countries. Since the platform’s inception, more than US$3 million worth of investment shares have been exchanged via Funderbeam’s initial, limited secondary marketplace. Having now secured an RMO trading license, Funderbeam can accelerate the growth of its secondary offer, namely by introducing automated trading and secondary listing service to any private company in Europe and Asia and solve the long-standing liquidity problems present in start-up and SME investment. With the CMS license, Funderbeam will now be able to make its platform available to Singapore-based companies and investors. Featured image credit: Funderbeam team, 2019 Funderbeam Fintechnews Singapore More by Fintechnews Singapore Related Crowdfunding Articles Similar Posts From Crowdfunding Category CoAssets Reports Half-Year Results With 471% Increase In Revenue CoAssets: Southeast Asia’s Very First Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform The State of ICOs Around The World	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1221
__label__cc	0.665355	0.334645	Find a Florida Jail Criminal Case Search Go ProSe! Florida Statutes How Bail Bonds Works “BAIL” is the security posted by the Defendant to ensure that he will appear in court and answer to the accusation brought against him. Bail can be posted in the form of cash or a bail bond. When a person is arrested for a crime, the jail or magistrate may impose a bail amount that must be paid before the person will be released from jail. The Defendant can pay the full amount themselves or they can pay a Bail Bond Agent 10% (ten percent) of the full bail amount and the Bail Bond Agent will then pay the jail the full bail amount in the form of a Bail Bond. Post a Cash Bond at the Jail Post the Bond in Cash ——> Save the Receipt and once the case is closed, get back about half of that bond money after the Clerk takes out court costs, housing & attorney fees. Most people don’t have the Cash. So they go through a Bail Bondsman. Understanding Bail Bonds Opinion: Should you trust your bondsman? What does ‘signing on a bond’ mean? Use a Bondsman A bail bond guarantees a Defendants appearance in front of a Judge. There are 3 things a bondsman needs to post bail: 1.) Premium: Bondsman are Governed by The State of Florida to ONLY charge a fee of NO MORE than 10% of the bond. So, Let’s Say Someone you know got arrested for a DUI, their standard Bail Bond in Broward County would be $1000. A Bail Bondsman will charge you a “premium” of $100 and would need something to hold for collateral. The 10% (ten percent) paid to the Bail Bond Agent is a non-refundable fee for the service of paying the bail amount on behalf of the Defendant. The court holds the bail amount, in either the cash or bond form, without interest, until the court case is complete then it will be returned to the depositor, which can sometimes take months or even years. However, if the Defendant misses a required court date, the bail is forfeited and the court may keep it. 10 Benefits to Bail Bonds Why you shouldn’t post a cash bond 2.) Collateral: COLLATERAL IS ANYTHING IN VALUE OF THE AMOUNT OF THE BOND. Collateral can be one or a combination of things. Acceptable forms of collateral Include but are not limited to: SIGNATURE OF A HOME OWNER SIGNATURE OF A BUSINESS OWNER Collateral is also determined on an individual basis whether -or- not, No Collateral is needed. ONCE THE CASE IS CLOSED WHAT EVER YOU PUT UP FOR COLLATERAL YOU GET BACK!!!! 3.) Qualified Signer: Bail Bond companies need someone to ‘sign for the bond.’ a Qualified Signer guarantees a Defendant will appear for court. A Qualified Signer needs to have: A good job Owns their own home/business And a Qualified signer must be willing and able to pay on a bond in the event a Defendant fails to appear for court and an forfeit has been issued on the bond. Credit Assistance Network, Inc. Christian Singles Online at ChristianCafe.com. 903.046 Purpose of and criteria for bail determination.— (1) The purpose of a bail determination in criminal proceedings is to ensure the appearance of the criminal defendant at subsequent proceedings and to protect the community against unreasonable danger from the criminal defendant. (2) When determining whether to release a defendant on bail or other conditions, and what that bail or those conditions may be, the court shall consider: (a) The nature and circumstances of the offense charged. (b) The weight of the evidence against the defendant. (c) The defendant’s family ties, length of residence in the community, employment history, financial resources, and mental condition. (d) The defendant’s past and present conduct, including any record of convictions, previous flight to avoid prosecution, or failure to appear at court proceedings. However, any defendant who had failed to appear on the day of any required court proceeding in the case at issue, but who had later voluntarily appeared or surrendered, shall not be eligible for a recognizance bond; and any defendant who failed to appear on the day of any required court proceeding in the case at issue and who was later arrested shall not be eligible for a recognizance bond or for any form of bond which does not require a monetary undertaking or commitment equal to or greater than $2,000 or twice the value of the monetary commitment or undertaking of the original bond, whichever is greater. Notwithstanding anything in this section, the court has discretion in determining conditions of release if the defendant proves circumstances beyond his or her control for the failure to appear. This section may not be construed as imposing additional duties or obligations on a governmental entity related to monetary bonds. (e) The nature and probability of danger which the defendant’s release poses to the community. (f) The source of funds used to post bail or procure an appearance bond, particularly whether the proffered funds, real property, property, or any proposed collateral or bond premium may be linked to or derived from the crime alleged to have been committed or from any other criminal or illicit activities. The burden of establishing the noninvolvement in or nonderivation from criminal or other illicit activity of such proffered funds, real property, property, or any proposed collateral or bond premium falls upon the defendant or other person proffering them to obtain the defendant’s release. (g) Whether the defendant is already on release pending resolution of another criminal proceeding or on probation, parole, or other release pending completion of a sentence. (h) The street value of any drug or controlled substance connected to or involved in the criminal charge. It is the finding and intent of the Legislature that crimes involving drugs and other controlled substances are of serious social concern, that the flight of defendants to avoid prosecution is of similar serious social concern, and that frequently such defendants are able to post monetary bail using the proceeds of their unlawful enterprises to defeat the social utility of pretrial bail. Therefore, the courts should carefully consider the utility and necessity of substantial bail in relation to the street value of the drugs or controlled substances involved. (i) The nature and probability of intimidation and danger to victims. (j) Whether there is probable cause to believe that the defendant committed a new crime while on pretrial release. (k) Any other facts that the court considers relevant. (l) Whether the crime charged is a violation of chapter 874 or alleged to be subject to enhanced punishment under chapter 874 or reclassification under s. 843.22. If any such violation is charged against a defendant or if the defendant is charged with a crime that is alleged to be subject to such enhancement or reclassification, he or she is not eligible for release on bail or surety bond until the first appearance on the case in order to ensure the full participation of the prosecutor and the protection of the public. (m) Whether the defendant, other than a defendant whose only criminal charge is a misdemeanor offense under chapter 316, is required to register as a sexual offender under s. 943.0435 or a sexual predator under s. 775.21; and, if so, he or she is not eligible for release on bail or surety bond until the first appearance on the case in order to ensure the full participation of the prosecutor and the protection of the public. 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__label__wiki	0.65313	0.65313	Folk, Trad, Roots & World Folk Music and Dance SA Gigs by Category Celtic & Trad Folk Folk Rock/ Contemporary Roots & World Clubs Calendar Adelaide Clubs Submit a directory entry (clubs etc.) June 5, 2016 @ 2:00 pm – @ 6:00 pm Prospect Town Hall 128 Prospect Rd Prospect Acoustic, Country & Bluegrass, Folk Rock/Contemporary, Indigenous 2016 National Reconciliation Week Showcase/Concert The brilliant line-up (see attached poster) includes: · Hannah Yates – a young singer songwriter from Adelaide’s North. She interweaves Folk and Soul performing her original music including pieces in honour of the Stolen Generation, and covers from 60’s and 70’s artists who have influenced her such as Joni Mitchell and The Kinks. Her floating vocal melodies accompanied by her nylon strung guitar, auto harp or cello, joined by an acoustic band just for this special event, will leave you with the lingering feeling of sweet agony… ” A past CLUB5082 partcicpant. · Tilly Thomas – a 13 year old singer songwriter and guitarist who started performing in 2015 at arts and cultural events. She’s performed at the 2016 Survival Day event at the Semaphore foreshore on 26 January. Her song writing and performance is inspired by her Nukunu and Ngadjuri roots and driven by a blending of country, folk and pop music · Ellie Lovegrove – as X Factor finalist in 2013 and a Young Achiever Award Winner who says her father, who died when she was 10 years old, was a country music singer and inspired her passion for music. · Eskatology – Australian Hip Hop Artist and Triple J Unearthed finalist who started writing music at 12, Eskatology is one of most exciting new talents to come out of South Australia. His Indigenous roots remain his foundation, but this artist sees himself as a bridge , with a desire to affirm positive thoughts, and foster deep respect across cultures · Kurruru Youth Performing Arts – is one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth performing arts companies. It is committed to supporting the ongoing maintenance of culture, community and identity through the provision of quality performing arts opportunities for children, young people and their communities. · Yorke Band – from the Yorke Peninsular playing music that everyone will enjoy The Showcase was developed by Councils Youth Officer, Mark Crabtree in partnership with Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute through their Community Arts Engagement Officer (and renowned street artist) Narisha Cash – Working together for and in reconciliation. Please help spread the word far and wide and I look forward to seeing you all there in three (3) week’s time. Carolyn Ramsey Manager Arts Gallery and Events 128 Prospect Road Prospect I PO Box 171, Prospect SA 5082 carolyn.ramsey@prospect.sa.gov.au Prospect City CouncilFacebookTwitterInstagramYouTube cid:image011.jpg@01D1536B.8C519D20 « Áine Tyrrell At The Singing Gallery » Adelaide The Songs Website by Lockinski Design © Copyright HATs 2015	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1244
__label__wiki	0.714347	0.714347	Charlton’s superheroes face down the smirk The redemption of Erik Lamela Football League season review: Watford and how it all w... The Big Match: The revolution will be televised Posted by Pete Spencer \| Jan 3, 2020 \| Nostalgia \| 0 \| With the right subscription these days you can view a whole array of football matches from around the world, live. But back when I were a lad we only had the option of crowding round a little television on a Sunday lunchtime to watch highlights. The Big Match was regular viewing in our house during the ‘70’s. Back then all we had was the Big Match on a Sunday lunchtime and, if you were old enough to be allowed to stay up, Match of the Day on a Saturday night. Football on TV was not what it is now. ITV was resolutely regional. I lived in the South East and during the week we had Thames Television and then once Friday evening came around, we were switched to London Weekend Television. John Bromley was in charge of ITV’s flagship sports programme, World of Sport, which was broadcast throughout each Saturday. Match of the Day had been launched by BBC in 1964 and was already a success. ITV and BBC were fierce rivals, seeing as they were the only broadcasters on the market. ITV first broadcast The Big Match on 28th August 1968 when cameras were at Loftus Road to see QPR take on Manchester City. Brian Moore was the commentator and pretty soon he became the voice of football on the channel. In addition to Moore on commentary, Jimmy Hill would provide tactical analysis. The Big Match was the programme which launched Hill’s media career. Hill introduced the programme for a while but then Moore took over when Hill moved to the BBC. The format was generally one main match to concentrate on, taking up at least half the hour-long show. The rest of the programme would show goals from a couple of other games from other regions. Then there were one or two interviews and features. As the popularity grew during the 70’s, Moore would read out viewers letters. For the 21st century viewer, these always amuse me when I watch them back. Mainly as Moore reads out the whole address of the author, house number and postcode. No worries about GDPR back then! They introduced goal of the month/season and would often show clips from past matches at the request of the viewers. Interestingly enough they weren’t obsessed with giving you all the results or even league tables. If you wanted passing or possession stats, this wasn’t the place for you. Points won from losing positions was the stuff of NASA as far as we were concerned. Bromley’s ideas didn’t stop there as he introduced the concept of a panel of experts. The 1970 World Cup was where this was first unveiled and was a resounding success. For the one and only time, ITV’s viewing figures bettered BBC’s. Bromley understood how a combination of controversial and outspoken figures was a recipe for compelling viewing. As the decade moved on the programme grew. Regular viewers became familiar with commentators from other regions. Viewers in those areas found many of their club’s finest hours synonymous with the same voice in their respective regions. Gerald Sinstadt covered the North West, Gerry Harrison East Anglia, Hugh Johns the Midlands. Tyne Tees television pulled off a coup bringing in legendary commentary from the BBC, Kenneth Wolstenholme. In the West, Graham Miller covered matches involving clubs from the South West and Wales. Martin Tyler would also be heard covering some matches involving Southern clubs, outside London. My earliest recollections of the programme revolve around hoping Mum could be late with the dinner so we could watch some of it. With only one television in the house and no video recorder till the 80’s, quite often we would run back into the lounge when she was preparing pudding only to be summoned back when it appeared on the table. None of this ‘eating in front of the telly’ in those days. Don’t forget we just had three channels back then, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. We were served up a feast of just two highlights shows on a weekend. No live league football, other than the FA Cup Final. Generally, the only international matches which were broadcast live were England v Scotland and then the World Cup Finals. Watching back some of the programmes brings back so many memories of going to football matches as a kid. The excitement and anticipation of getting to the ground, as you mingle with all the crowds, equally excited and interested to find out what may unfold, who they might see and what they might see them do. This was in daylight. By the time you came out of the ground it was dark. You’d been stood up on the terraces, huddled with the crowd keeping warm. Now you were out in the fresh air, feeling the cold around your nose and ears. There would be chattering of what you’d all just seen, and what it meant for your season and whether you could catch a lift with someone to the away game next week. Then you arrived home having listened to the results in the car being read out on radio. When ITV broadcast the League Cup Final this was another first which BBC hadn’t bothered with. Of course, we didn’t actually get to see it live. It was the highlights package on the Sunday. But it covered the whole programme, with maybe a little time for interviews afterwards. It was still a measure of how ITV would occasionally get one over on their bigger, more advantaged rival. Towards the mid-seventies the programme was interspersed with one or two celebrities and players. Bobby Moore and John Mitchell of Fulham appeared during the Second Division club’s record run to the FA Cup Final in 1975. During that year Wimbledon goalkeeper, Dickie Guy, was brought into the studio to take viewers through his penalty save from Leeds United’s Peter Lorimer. Wimbledon were a non-league side then. Terry Venables, then Crystal Palace manager appeared with a young Kenny Sansom. One Christmas show was hosted by great mates, Mick Channon and Kevin Keegan, with Watford Chairman, Elton John, making a guest appearance. Men such as Moore and Hill were real pioneers. They had no idea the product would evolve into what we see today. Back then the view was if you showed too much football on television then people wouldn’t bother going to matches. How wrong they were. In the early days the action replays were added back in the studio after the game had finished. Watch some of the early action on YouTube and that becomes quite clear. You would only get one replay too, as there were only ever a few cameras at the ground. There was always a bit of a buzz going to a game in London and seeing the broadcasting vans parked outside the ground, knowing you might be on telly later. The 1980-81 season ITV pulled off another coup when they won exclusive rights to all league football coverage in a move labelled “snatch of the day”. The BBC and ITV alternated between having their packages broadcast on a Saturday night. Then in 1983 television was finally granted live coverage for league matches. Sunday 2nd October 1983 was the landmark when Tottenham’s 2-1 win over Nottingham Forest was shown live. We’re talking about things from over forty years ago, yet in broadcasting terms it seems a century away. It’s todays smart phone compared to a Nokia. Or fibre-optic broadband up against dial-up AOL. But these were innocent times. We only knew what we knew and believed what we were told. So as you sit down to watch a Bundesliga 2 clash between Sandhausen and Hamburg, just consider yourself lucky people like Moore, Hill and Bromley saw the potential one day there would be a market for it. 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__label__wiki	0.790578	0.790578	Main Massassi Forums Anything games Page 40 of 47 First ... 303839404142 ... Last Thread: Anything games Thrawn[numbarz] colonpee addict Originally Posted by Baconfish I just wanna chime in here and say Thrawn# is def one of my top 3 massassians. Are they still called massassians? massassian til I die Originally Posted by Jon`C I feel kinda bad for Limited Run because: - Classic Star Wars games are mostly broken on new computers - Most people don't know and can't figure out what Limited Run does so there are going to be a lot of disappointed people expecting stuff like KotOR on Switch, X-Wing in HD, and a Jedi Knight that works on their computer. Yeah I like LR and I have a bunch of their indie game releases, but almost all the replies to that tweet are people thinking they're doing remasters for modern systems and it's kind of heartbreaking haha ^^vv<><>BASTART Fallout 76 is the first BGS game in 20 years that I haven’t bought, and the idea of a Fallout BR has done exactly nothing to change my interest. Mostly because it already cannot go down. Bethesda wants to engage with the people playing their games for years or decades after release. Fine, that’s great. Then keep releasing content for it. Switch to a subscription model and trickle content out. Whatever, I’m fine with it all - I got multiple hundreds of hours out of Skyrim, im fine paying for it. But make it a survival game and you’ve lost me. Make it grindy multiplayer and you’ve lost me. Make it a competitive survival shooter and you’ve lost me. Make it a Skinner box loot and shoot and you’ve lost me. Do all of those things at the same time, and you’ve probably lost me forever. Same. Fallout 4 was already a disappointment and I didn't like the direction of 76, so it was a pass for me. I feel like tacking on Battle Royale modes was already a meme a year ago, shoehorning it into FO76,when everything about Fallout is pretty much incompatible with that style of game, is the silliest decision I've seen in a while. Reverend Jones I prefer BOMBERMAN 64 Last edited by Reverend Jones; 06-13-2019 at 11:44 PM. Hmm, I just watched a video of Fortnight, and tbqh I can't see how this is any better than Battlefield 1942, either in terms of graphics, complexity, or hilarity of shenanigans. It honestly looked wonky as **, a chore to play, and with an extremely ugly and garish color palette. I'd even rather play CS 1.5. Eversor Given to fly well duh CS is good former entrepreneur I'll play an outdoor shooter once technology can render foliage at reasonable distances. Until then 'sniping' in games will always be about spazzing out and dancing on hills until one person gets luckier than the other. Wookie06 If you can't make DF or Shadows of the Empire work with an XBox style controller I don't want to see it. "I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16 Some interesting stuff from Jedi Fallen Order's behind-closed-doors E3 demo (c/o Waypoint and random tweets): - People feel like the footage they showed undersold the game - Stuff in the footage that looked like a cutscene (e.g. AT-AT sequence) was player-controlled - Combat is parrying- and stamina-focused and similar to Sekiro (not as hard as Sekiro) - Levels are (somewhat?) nonlinear - You have a ship that you can use to travel to and from planets at your choosing, with NPCs on it that you can spend time w/ - Areas of planets will be gated by abilities/items that you gain later in the game, Metroid-style - Hub areas with NPCs/story content (not sure the extent of this) I thought that was interesting b/c they did make it look a LOT like a linear TFU/Uncharted-like. There's more to it, although it sounds like they aren't trying to reinvent anything (good imo) Jon`C Admiral of Awesome It looked more like GoW4 to me and that basically confirms it ECHOMAN "Has it won yet?" Why a hub world? Set-up for DLC? SnailIracing:n(500tpostshpereline)pants -----------------------------@% Originally Posted by ECHOMAN Gotta have a loot treadmill to pad out the game and distract from the shallow content. Can't have a loot treadmill without a town to sell at. Slot machines sure are addicting. Activision-Blizzard is remaking Modern Warfare now on top of already remaking WoW. What does it suggest when they're remaking two of the biggest mid 00's hits? Maybe they're losing older players and want to bring them back in. Because God of War 4 had one. Originally Posted by Reid WoW started losing players to vanilla server emulators. People do not like Cataclysm+. A vanilla wow “remake” is both something the fans desperately want and a bona fide shot in the arm for the game, because Cataclysm was so bad that rolling it back is an upgrade. I remember, I was playing at the time it was released. The previous expansion was already trending south by the end in terms of how people played the game, and a lackluster expansion on top of other game-killing features made me quit 1 month in. Everyone I know who used to play WoW is hyped. Everyone. It's a whole movement right now. Never experienced hype for a game like this in years, and it's all just repackaging old content. Last edited by Reid; 06-18-2019 at 12:52 PM. WoW has never particularly appealed to me, but I will probably resub for vanilla to reminisce about a simpler time when WoW didn’t have as many poop jokes. I tried out a vanilla private server, and I think many people have, err, "-tinted glasses" when remember vanilla. It's not a hard game at all and is not nearly the time sink people remember it to be. It's ~100 hours to 60, which is not much time for an MMO. Though not many of us have even that kind of time. But yeah, for how much everyone calls it a broken game it comes across fine to me. Edit: I found out that the two most upvoted posts on r/wow history are the announcement of classic wow and this salty thread. I think this says everything which needs to be said lol. Last edited by Reid; 06-19-2019 at 05:53 AM. https://ogn.theonion.com/ignorant-ma...cit-1835585566 ^ Big ouch I don’t think it’s the ...? level up time, or even the gameplay changes that people want rolled back. Cataclysm has a materially worse world design. Besides migrating from a gentle hand theme park model to an aggressive one, they changed the look and character of every zone. Before Cataclysm those areas were largely/entirely left alone, so if you were nostalgic for those areas you could always reroll and experience again. Now they’re gone. That’s the stuff I think people are really looking for. I’ve had this same discussion with Asherons Call players. Pretty much every long term player is breathlessly nostalgic for the 1999 version, but there were massive QoL improvements introduced after that. So why? I think it’s because they had a monthly patch model that caused major changes to the game, most of which were unpopular. People want to go back to a cohesive and well planned world. That's certainly part of it, but people also now despise the endgame. I heard someone calling it a "dressed up Skinner box" and describing end game as little more than playing a slot machine, and they're insulted by it. Anywho, my complaint was more registered at people who think vanilla WoW was some kind of terrible time sink, or terribly designed game. It plays much better than you'd think for 2006 game. People who actually like WoW today reregister these complaints ad nauseum. before burning crusade came out people were grinding molten core for epics 24/7 Yup, game was like crack. Blizzard for a long time gaslighted fans about how bad classic was so they'd stop demanding what they wanted, and the rubes repeat those lines. Doesn't matter what actually happened, which as we know WoW was the marriage and job destroyer. ^^ um no Originally Posted by Brian Which direction offends you more? I thought what made that early period of the game so exciting was that none of the third-party tools that automate the game yet existed, nor most of the online resources that tell you where everything is and what everything does, and also none of the content designed for grinding that made it feel as if the game had some kind of definite objective, not all the optimized character templates that made characters so powerful that much of the low-level content wasn’t worth engaging with anymore because it wasn’t challenging — before all that, it felt like a sandbox world, there for you to explore with no real defined purpose, but all those elements made it much more rigid and took out all the magic. I mean, even that, fact that it was an entire virtual world, with thousands of people in it, was pretty exciting all on its own, when you put it in perspective and remember home primitive the technology was at the time. Last edited by Eversor; 06-19-2019 at 08:09 PM. Originally Posted by Eversor I thought what made that early period of the game so exciting was that You're welcome to your own opinion, but I respectfully suggest that you may be misremembering a few things: none of the third-party tools that automate the game yet existed, Drain macroing was already widespread by November 1999. ACExplorer dropped January 2000, SplitPea officially released in February 2000 (although most had the alpha sooner), ACTool mid-2000, Decal was released within the first year and widespread by end of 2000. This stuff all happened incredibly fast. nor most of the online resources that tell you where everything is and what everything does, CoD had everything documented for the base game pretty much at release (thanks in part to the official strategy guide) and kept pace with updates at most within a few days. ACExplorer (as mentioned) automatically fed from the CoD database. and also none of the content designed for grinding that made it feel as if the game had some kind of definite objective, This is part true but mostly false. The major XP grind dungeons were introduced in June 2000, and they fundamentally changed the character of the game by encouraging all players to grind monsters to level infinity. I'm not sure that's a huge improvement over the base game, though, which was ultimately powered by camping high tier chests for random loot. If you don't believe me, please look at a list of release dungeons and quests - with very few exceptions, the reward is a random chest pull. A part of me really likes the purity of this design but ultimately it's just grinding too. not all the optimized character templates that made characters so powerful that much of the low-level content wasn’t worth engaging with anymore because it wasn’t challenging Min-maxed characters weren't powerful at low levels. You'd always take some combination of 10 end, str, quick - often all three - which gave you no HP and no way to run away from enemies. The most aggressive mage templates at the time didn't get meaningful offensive magic until mid-20s. Launch low-level content was capped level 6. By the time any of these characters were powerful enough to survive launch content, they were too high level and weren't even allowed to complete it. Beyond that, the content wasn't extrinsically rewarding (as previously mentioned, your reward was usually just a chest pull - often not even a high tier chest); it was very far out of the way once most of the launch outposts were destroyed/replaced with training academies; you were too high level for that content by the time you finished an academy even if you wanted to do it; and unlike the 'modern' starter town quests and the society quests, none of the off-grid starter quests were properly maintained, so even if you were low level enough to get in the monsters outside were certainly too powerful for you to handle, and the monster weenies had undergone many years of tweaking and rebalancing, so the monsters inside would obliterate you too. Which, I think, hints at what I said before: people really stopped running these quests because the game changed. Partly because the players started playing with it differently, but mostly because the developers changed the game to the extent that it wasn't really feasible to do them. — before all that, it felt like a sandbox world, there for you to explore with no real defined purpose, but all those elements made it much more rigid and took out all the magic. But mostly the changes. Before Sudden Season the game was very loose and self directed. Sudden Season introduced a strongly linear story-based quest (Lost City of Frore) which, while really cool at the time, was a radical departure from how quests and dungeons were designed before that. The developers shifted from providing dungeons for the purpose of exploration and chest pulls, to story/quest dungeons for the purpose of killing a boss at the end. I'm not arguing which approach is better. I'm just saying it's different. Asheron's Call in November 1999 was a completely different game from Asheron's Call a year later, in all the ways that really mattered. That's all true, but doesn't offer a satisfactory explanation for why future games were able to recapture this magic while providing nothing more than Asheron's Call on paper, even though Asheron's Call clearly lost the script within a few months of release. I mean, if nothing else blowing up Arwic pissed off a lot of players. I was prepared to concede that my comments may have reflected my personal experiences. After all, I didn't start playing until early in 2000, and it took a little while for me to discover all that stuff. So even if those things existed, I was in blissful ignorance of them. But after you've laid down the timeline, I'm not sure I want to make that concession anymore. Those first few months of the game were exceptional, and I think it is because, for example, BSD and Lugian Citadel (which came out in the same patch, IIRC, although obviously BSD was much more effective for grinding) didn't yet exist. I don't think any other game came anywhere close. Granted, I didn't play a ton of MMORPGs. I only tired EQ (very briefly), DAoC and WoW (ok, and also AC2, but lol), but none of them came close. I think part of what made MMORPG so magical for me was that it was my first MMO. I think a lot of people who played AC from near launch to the end (and, presumably, are still playing, although I haven't followed the emulator stuff at all) ultimately stuck with it for that reason more than any other. You should concede: it's what I've been saying, they took the original game and within the first year they'd whittled it down from something great to something thoroughly meh. "I think it’s because they had a monthly patch model that caused major changes to the game, most of which were unpopular. People want to go back to a cohesive and well planned world" The TL;DR is they threw in BSD, OHN, HoM, Lugian Citadel etc. in June 2000 to help players grind up to the next set of linear event quests. The game went to utter dog. Complete opposite of a cohesive and well planned world. I remember some launch-era starter dungeon outside of Shoushi that capped at level 6 (and was deleted when they rebooted the starter dungeon, or perhaps even before that), fighting with my first ever gimped as hell character when I had no idea how stats worked, getting merked by Drudges. It was so suspenseful. The stakes of getting killed and losing the leather armor that I bought at the store for 800 pyreals or whatever it was seemed like incredibly high stakes, in this new sort of world where you had a character that you could keep playing through respawns and logins. Like, even that was such a novel and fresh gameplay dynamic for me, having only played FPSs online up until that point (and really only JK). Eeeeh, my intention wasn't to really register sharp disagreement with you in the first place. I did think a lot of the arcs were actually pretty cool, though. It took them a little while (a few years, in fact) to really lose the thread such that I lost interest (although the first arc was still the most intriguing). I was able to participate in a lot of the monthly quests even thought I was only playing on weekends and didn't at any point have a char that was considered high level. None of the Shoushi starter dungeons were deleted. Shoushi was preserved as one of the surviving three starter towns. One of the small dungeons (a cave) was converted from a portal dungeon to a... well, a cave. The rest of the dungeons were upgraded over the years and their levels caps increased. The same applies to Holtburg and Yaraq. The other starter towns were not updated, and their quests are basically uncompleteable without using an emulator/cheats. Three of the Osteth towns were completely destroyed within the first year, along with all of the content involving those towns. At least one more beginner friendly town was destroyed in following years; probably more, but I quit playing so I don't remember for sure. Overworld and uncapped dungeon spawns were upgraded haphazardly, beginning a few months after release when all of the carefully hand-placed region and biome specific monster spawns were bulk replaced with defined level regions. For example, at launch reedsharks preferred watery areas, with normal reedsharks in swamps, sandsharks on beaches, and mattekars in snowy areas. By the end of the first year they were distributed uniformly. I could sadly go on for a long time talking about all of the stuff they did to destroy Asheron's Call's character as a game. They put real effort into this. (This is fresh for me because I fairly recently used an emulator to visit all of the dungeons, ca. 2006 or so. The launch dungeons feel completely different. In many cases there are whole tilesets and aesthetic styles that they abandoned in favor of others; for example, there's a launch dungeon that switches from a fairly generic dungeon to a creepy fleshy semi-organic shadow dungeon midway through. Later shadow dungeons are all just black stone with some red lettering on the walls. The Tumerok dungeon visual style was similarly abandoned.) Huh, that's pretty interesting. I have a vague recollection of seeing the shadow dungeon you're describing. Some of the later designs for Virindi dungeons were so... blah. Somewhere between a Tim Burton movie and a Japanese game show. The best Virindi dungeon is Sylsfear, because you don't even realize it's a Virindi dungeon. Which is pretty damn appropriate. Edit: At launch Sylsfear had a bunch of banderlings up top, then as you worked your way down you got to tuskers, and at the bottom is a laboratory full of equipment and some elemental enemies. Hidden in a room near a laboratory was a level 100 virindi observer, nigh unkillable in november 1999 when the highest level characters were 40, and with a name that was apparently supposed to mean something before they flooded the entire **ing world with virindi observer+tusker slave spawns for some reason. Last edited by Jon`C; 06-20-2019 at 12:04 AM. To add to this, by way of reminiscing: there was a point early on where suddenly being trailed by an Ash Gromnie while running through the mountains was the most frightening thing that could possibly happen to you. Those things could really mess you up, and leave you with a corpse that was basically impossible to recover. The stakes felt so high! Eventually, though, those creatures either became a mere nuisance or so weak that they didn't pose any threat at all. It seemed like a lot of the game was designed with the idea that all chars in the world would be level 15 at most with really gimped templates. Once that wasn't the case anymore, and the player base moved beyond that stage, you were left with world that was dotted with creature that weren't worth engaging (until they changed the distribution of creatures, but it didn't really improve much). I guess one of the coolest things about AC was that the devs designed a world that was so complex that they couldn't really anticipate how it would be used and how the player base would alter it. I think that's especially true with templates. The element of users discovering things about the world that the devs didn't intend is a really fascinating aspect of the game. The trading economy is a good example of that, too. 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Regulatory changes Royal Decree-Law 8/2019, of 8 March, on urgent social protection measures and the fight against precarious work in the working day recover the record of work after more than a year and a half of lack of obligation of this control. It must be remembered that the Supreme Court freed the companies from this action by means of a judgment issued in April 2017. Only one month later, the Labor Inspectorate stopped pursuing the absence of registration of the day in self-employed workers and companies with hired workers. This Royal Decree comes to modify those sections on the registration of working hours included in the Law of the Statute of Workers, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23. 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__label__wiki	0.532083	0.532083	What’s the difference between “Ich habe dich lieb” and “Ich liebe dich”? Both are defined as “I love you” in many dictionaries, as I’ve checked. differences german-to-english I've heard Germans say "there's a difference but hard to explain", I wonder if there really is a difference or it's just their biased opinion. – user508 Aug 30 '11 at 1:05 Interesting you ask that, since I experienced the exact same confusion even though being a native German - over 10 years ago, a girl I loved said "Ich hab dich lieb" to me and meant "Ich mag dich sehr gern", but I understood it as "Ich liebe dich". The good part of it is, that today she's my wife, so no harm done. ;-) – Alexander Rühl Feb 29 '12 at 7:19 Not quite sure about this but what range of emotions and commitment does "you are (near and) dear to me" cover? – VolkerK Jan 23 '13 at 10:21 The spelling is "Ich hab dich lieb. A variant is "Ich hab dich gern", a Bavarian variant is "I mo di (Ich mag dich)". All these variants mean the same as "Ich liebe dich", but they have a more colloquial and regional value and don't sound as official as "Ich liebe dich". – rogermue Sep 17 '14 at 15:22 Oh, there is a very very big difference, you can not imagine :) If you don't want to say I love you you may use ich habe dich lieb. If you say 'ich habe dich lieb` to your wife, in worst case, it can be understood something like: It is not easy but I can endure you – user19546 Dec 21 '15 at 19:47 “Ich liebe dich” is stronger and more profound than “Ich habe dich lieb”. The difference is hard, if not impossible, to translate to English, or only with some extra language acrobatics; but in German, there is indeed a difference. “Ich habe dich lieb” is commonly used among somewhat close and beloved family members, such as towards aunts/uncles/nieces/nephews, grandparents/grandchildren, parents/children etc., or as a more light-hearted, not quite as “binding” declaration of love for the significant other. Saying it to mere friends or acquaintances would be inappropriate usually. (Edit: It can be used outside the family circle, among friends in a very affectionate way, but only towards someone who knows exactly how you mean it, unless you want to risk misunderstandings.) “Ich liebe dich” is reserved for the significant other such as boy/girlfriend, wife/husband, or your closest family such as parents/children. It is the unambiguous declaration of love. HackworthHackworth You're welcome. No citations, just my understanding as a native speaker. – Hackworth Aug 30 '11 at 7:04 If you were completely right, why would people write HDL ("hab dich lieb") in text messages to their significant other? Or is someone who uses (god beware!) acronyms in text messages not serious? ;) Note that I'm not saying that Hackworth isn't right, it's still a +1 answer for me. It's just that the difference isn't as strict as this answer suggests. – OregonGhost Aug 30 '11 at 7:52 By my experience, teenage girls use "hdl", "hdgdl" (= "hab dich ganz doll lieb") and "hdal" (= "hab dich auch lieb") extremely often in text messages or chats, but almost never in spoken language. Males would only use it towards their girlfriends, not towards each other (even for close friends). That also is just my experience as a native speaker. – cemper93 Sep 2 '11 at 23:40 Good answer. Short addendum: Ich hab dich lieb shouts out friendzoned! to me ;) – Jan Mar 17 '15 at 23:52 FWIW, as a native speaker, I have never witnessed a child telling their parent "Ich liebe Dich". In my experience, that is strictly reserved for romance. – hiergiltdiestfu Nov 17 '15 at 18:21 As far as I know, in English you have these gradations, ordered from weak to strong (I’m a German native speaker, so I’m not absolutely sure if there are more): I like you. In German you can say it these ways (again ordered from weak to strong): Ich mag dich. Ich hab dich gern. Ich hab dich lieb. Ich liebe dich. I would translate the first three as “I like you”. Only “Ich liebe dich” is “I love you”. If you are creative, you will find even more shades (in both languages). This is another question, but I've noticed you've written "hab" instead of "habe" here, and I've already seen the phrase "ich hab dich Lieb" written somewhere. So, why hab (is it a simple contraction)? – martina Jun 27 '13 at 20:59 @martina hab is just lazy German. To be completely grammatically correct you would still say habe. It's like saying gonna instead of going to in English -- it's just a lazy way to say something and it's widely accepted but not actually grammatically correct. – Hanna Aug 12 '13 at 22:23 @Hubert in English some might argue that I'm in love with you is even a step above I love you because you could still say I love you to friends, but you'd never say I'm in love with you to a friend. – Hanna Aug 12 '13 at 22:24 @Johannes: And for completeness' sake, in a way, it's the other way round in German with these two expressions. – O. R. Mapper Sep 30 '15 at 8:07 @martina There is now a question here which answers your question: german.stackexchange.com/questions/37207/… – glenneroo Jun 16 '17 at 17:33 “Ich habe Dich lieb” is commonly used as a sign of strong feeling of friendship, of being prepared to go the extra mile to make the other person happy, to care for him/her and not to wish anything ill. Even close relatives would nearly never say “Ich liebe Dich”, but “Ich habe Dich lieb” (EDIT: with the noteable exception of children and their parents). The phrase gets more common when the age difference becomes bigger. Caring is a strong motive of that phrase. “Ich liebe Dich” on the other hand suggests a closeness and desire including (but not restricted to) sexual meanings. That’s one reason why relatives often shy away from that phrase. If you say “Ich liebe Dich” you usually imply you want to move together with that person and share rooms (and more) with him/her. It is a much stronger phrase with the emphasis on being and staying together. Note that capitalising dich was correct only in pre-1996 orthography. Nowadays, it is only sometimes used to display respect, similar to capitalising Sie, but it is no longer considered correct by spelling rules. – Jan Sep 30 '15 at 9:14 share rooms (and more) perhaps even... food?!? – ANeves Oct 18 '15 at 3:03 Ich hab dich lieb = agape (the love for a child, non-sexual love for someone) Ich liebe dich = eros (desire, lust, sexual love) Ich habe dich lieb is something a little girl would say to her mommy. Ich liebe dich is the ultimate expression of emotion a person can make towards another and is used sparingly, as it easily comes across as pointlessly melodramatic. A little girl would only use that towards her mother if she had watched too many cheezy, badly translated Hollywood rom coms. Also, in German, no-one would ever say something like I love you, but I’m not in love with you as they do so often in Hollywood movies (errrmm, or so I heard …); in German, I love you is the ultimate, nothing will ever top that. sscssc I have never used “Ich liebe dich” with anybody but my significant other. Maybe it’s more common in other parts of Germany, but “Ich hab dich lieb” can be used for both family and spouse. Additionally, you’ll find “Ich liebe dich” in real literature, but “Ich hab dich lieb” seems more casual and novel style to me. KageKage It's not really novel style nor casual. It goes back to Luther who translated the Bible Jesaja 43.4: ...und ich habe dich lieb. – Takkat♦ Sep 2 '11 at 20:38 Takkat, it might have been like that at Luther's time, but nowadays and in spoken language you will clearly hear "Ich hab' dich lieb" more often than "Ich liebe dich" – Kage Sep 5 '11 at 20:22 This may be true for spoken German but may be not in writing if we trust this Google ngram – Takkat♦ Sep 6 '11 at 6:29 You are entitled to your own opinion, but if "Ich hab' dich lieb; mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt; und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt" (Der Erlkönig) doesn't sound strange to you. Or think of replacing all instances of "Ich liebe dich" with "Ich hab' dich lieb" in works of Goethe and Schiller... – Kage Sep 8 '11 at 21:23 @Takkat: The Google Ngram is really shocking, I didn't expect something like that. – user508 Nov 27 '11 at 13:00 Ich habe dich lieb sounds like it can be translated to I hold you (very) dear, or You are (very) dear to me. It expresses deep affection/endearment, something that you don’t feel for everybody. Ich liebe dich. can easily contain romantic meaning, and is probably most likely used in such contexts. Disclaimer: I’m learning German still, but my maternal language, Romanian, seems to have many unexpected semantic similarities with German (they’re also the source of an uncanny feeling while learning it). But that’s the subjective opinion of a beginner. CamilBCamilB Absolutely. Having lived in England for 4 years, I'd also translate "Ich habe dich lieb" to "I hold you dear", usually without sexual context. – Turion Dec 24 '15 at 9:35 From my experience, “Ich liebe dich” does translate as “I love you”, and is typically used between intimates, e.g.: “I love you, Darling.” It is used more sparingly than the American/English counterpart. It is also used less seriously in friendships, cravings, and advertising, e.g.: “I love you, luscious chocolate.” “Ich hab dich lieb” translates as “I have love for you” (awkward phrasing), but would be roughly the equivalent of “I cherish/care for/am glad I am related to you.” It has two principle uses: between family members, e.g., “I love you, Grampa”, and as a precursor to “Ich liebe dich”, e.g.: “I really like you, Sweetheart.” My daughter uses this phrase as a closing in many of her emails back home. MagenDaSwedeMagenDaSwede As already mentioned Ich habe dich lieb is a not so strong version of love. It’s meaning is most of the time the same as Ich liebe dich but put into a non-sexual/non-relationship context, like the feelings you have for your sister/brother. But I’ve also seen it used very easily/watered down between teenagers (especially while communicating via text messages, (especially the shortened hdl, hab dich lieb)) to imply a simple friendship. The best translation/explanation in English I can think of is “I like you [very much] and I care for you”. Though, that one might be off, too, because I’m not a native English speaker. BobbyBobby "I love you" in English has two meanings, one sexual, and one deep caring. I use this phrase with my significant other, as well as with my parents, siblings and close extended family. "I like you [very much]" and "I care for you" might be weaker (or more awkward?) versions of "I [sexually] love you". This might be a case of many-to-one translations, rather than 1-to-1. – diN0bot Dec 28 '11 at 4:38 The reason that the google ngram shows a higher usage of "ich liebe dich" vs. "i hab(e) dich lieb" is because there are so many translation books that teach non-natives to say "ich liebe dich". It's overly commonly taught. I have never once seen a translation book teach "ich hab(e) dich lieb" (but they should). This heavily skews the results. This is why "results" do nothing to combat native speakers experience. Speravir schadenfreudeschadenfreude Although this question has been answered well enough, I’d like to add a little story, which is exactly about the topic: Some 14 years ago, a girl which I was very interested in, wrote me Ich hab dich lieb! in a text message. I interpreted that as the confession, that she loves me and I wrote back some happy answer, which resulted in confusion, since she only wanted to express, that she likes me very much, but was not intending to say Ich lieb dich!. So you see, not only non-Germans have trouble in understanding the difference … at least, it turned out well, since she is my wife now for many years! Alexander RühlAlexander Rühl Interesting debate. If anyone ever saw the movie die Ehe von Maria Braun, there was this same confusion during her trial. When asked about her feelings for her husband, she said “Ich liebe ihn”. But when asked her feelings about an American sergeant she had been having an affair with, she said, “Ich habe ihn lieb”. Since it was a trial being conducted by Americans in postwar Germany, the judge was completely confused about the relationships because the interpreter translated both phrases as “I love him”. johnnyleenjohnnyleen "Ich liebe dich" = I love you "Ich hab dich lieb" = I like you very much I always say "Hab dich lieb" to my friends or family because if you say "Ich liebe dich" to your best friend when he is a boy he would misunderstand you if you just want to say that you like him a lot. Unless you are German and understand its subtle usages, a simple translation isn’t going to work here! There is formal/informal, there are extra pronouns, there are many differences from German to English. It is not straightforward. A dictionary or translation page isn’t going to teach you the subtleties of the language. To those on this page that are making it all black and white … sorry German doesn’t work that way. There are even differences in usage from High German to Low German … (North and South) the different dialects place emphasis on words and combinations differently. It is not simply a literal translation … Ich liebe dich (I love you) is not something someone there says flippantly, it’s not spoken on a day to day basis in public, like it’s thrown around in the states … period. It’s similar to the English not hugging in public — or at all in some cases … it’s a behavior thing, rather than a language thing. And it’s taken seriously. I was born there … learned German first and then learned English. Army BratArmy Brat “Ich habe dich lieb” means “I have (some) love for you.” “Ich liebe dich” means “I love you (a lot).” The second is stronger than the first. Tom AuTom Au I would say the phrase: Ich hab dich lieb, is more timely defined to the moment when said, while: ich liebe dich shows the deep and permanent feeling. In English I would use: I love you and you are lovely, as a reference. Something like that. English doesn't share this concept linguistically, but philosophically it's easy: Big L versus little l. "Ich liebe dich" is ONLY for lovers. "Ich habe dich lieb" is the love you share with family. If you use this say ("Ich liebe dich") on your mother, you'd be insinuating you want to make love to your mother. So children who say "Ich liebe dich" to their parents, want to make love to them? I don't think so... – Baz Oct 21 '13 at 10:56 @Baz Never heard a child say that to their parent. – hiergiltdiestfu Nov 17 '15 at 18:11 @hiergiltdiestfu Doesn't mean it's not used in this context. The accepted (and highest voted) answer suggests the same btw. – Baz Nov 17 '15 at 18:16 Does “Ich hab dich lieb” mean the same as “Ich liebe dich”? 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__label__cc	0.650528	0.349472	Warner Brothers Announces Re-Release Date For ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ In 3D By The Movie God \| @ \| Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 at 1:00 pm Last October we found out that Warner Brothers was planning to convert the 1939 fantasy classic The Wizard of Oz into 3D for a re-release. At the time it was expected that the updated version would arrive in September or October a year later, and now comes word that WB has set an official re-release date for the movie, complete with its pretty little makeover. The Wizard of Oz in 3D is set to arrive in theaters on September 20th, which is in celebration of the original’s 75th anniversary. The re-release will run for one week on 400 IMAX screens nationwide, including the ones in museums. It will not be released on standard screens, but a limited international run is being worked out. WB is also releasing a new five-disc Blu-ray version of the movie for the 75th anniversary celebration, which will hit store shelves on October 1st. Will you head out to theaters to see how a 1939 classic looks in 3D? [Source: USA Today via Collider] Tags: The Wizard of Oz, Warner Brothers Comic Review: Lone Wolf 2100 Omnibus Comic Review: The Lone Ranger #15 Related Articles on Geeks of Doom • Warner Bros. May Or May Not Be Talking To Todd Phillips About A ‘Joker’ Sequel • Henry Cavill Says He Hasn’t Given Up Playing Superman Again • Dwayne Johnson Announces Release Date For ‘Black Adam’ Movie • ‘The Way Back’ Trailer: Ben Affleck’s Saves Himself By Coaching High School Basketball • ‘The Batman’ Adds Recent Juilliard Graduate Jayme Lawson To Cast	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1291
__label__wiki	0.839077	0.839077	Mechanised Infantry Vehicles (MIV) Multi Role Vehicle Protected (MRVP) AJAX suppliers Mission Systems Discover who we are The Innovation Sourcing Network Our corporate responsibility Supporting our Armed Forces Supporting our local communities Supporting our next generation (STEM) Our economic benefits to the UK Our apprenticeships Our graduate scheme Apply for a graduate role Benefits of working for us Home / See what we do / Land Systems / AJAX The Future of Armoured Fighting Vehicles AJAX provides a step-change in the Armoured Fighting Vehicle capability being delivered to the British Army. The AJAX programme includes six variants: AJAX, ARES, APOLLO, ATHENA, ATLAS and ARGUS. 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__label__cc	0.682623	0.317377	View from the fence Social, environmental and economic issues surrounding GM foods, and the latest news Retraction of Seralini’s controversial toxicology study December 2, 2013 by Rebecca Nesbit 11 Comments This week a widely-criticised paper claiming negative effects of Roundup and Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize on rats was retracted by the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology. The author, Professor Seralini, stands by the results, but received a letter from the journal stating that “The panel had many concerns about the quality of the data, and ultimately recommended that the article should be withdrawn.” Criticisms included inadequate numbers of rats to draw conclusions (especially as the strain used were extremely prone to tumours). There were also insufficient control groups (there should have been more rats fed on non-GM diets to see whether this was any different to those fed GM diets). The stats have also been questioned. These criticisms were widespread from the scientific community, many from universities, including toxicologists who have no interest (vested or otherwise) in GM. I have included some responses to the study from scientists and food regulatory authorities at the bottom of the post. Not all scientists felt the same way, and one person who wrote to the journal pointed out that other studies in the same journal had used the same strain of rat. I am disappointed not to have found the journal’s answer to this.* Unless they can explain this difference, I hope that they are reassessing the validity of those papers too, not just the one that people have made most fuss about. *I have since found an answer elsewhere – these rats are fine to use for shorter studies. There were also animal welfare issues. Even to my untrained eye, it is clear from the pictures that the rats should never have been kept alive with tumours which had become so large. The French Society of Toxicologic Pathology (SFPT), a not for profit organisation specialising in veterinary and toxicologic pathology, wrote to the editor with serious animal welfare concerns. Seralini, to his credit, tackled many of the criticisms he faced, and this was published in the same journal. I do not know enough to respond to most of the toxicologocal points, but I must say his animal welfare points concerned me. There is one thing Seralini and I agree on. He said: “[the study] should not be considered as a final point in knowing the toxicological effects of NK603 and R[oundup].” I hope this proves to be true, that this study is repeated by independent scientists, using an improved experimental design and with higher standards of animal welfare. Absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence, so we can’t make judgements based on this paper. This study only looks at one type of GM crop, so it wouldn’t be possible to extrapolate to other types even if we trusted the data. Also, Roundup is a herbicide which you can easily buy for your garden. The significance of this is summarised in the words of Professor Ottoline Leyser, associate director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge: “Like most of the GM debate, this work has very little to do with GM. The authors of the paper do not suggest that the effects are caused by genetic modification. They describe effects of the roundup herbicide itself and effects that they attribute to the activity of the enzyme introduced into the roundup resistant maize. There is good evidence that introducing genes into crops using GM techniques results in fewer changes to the crops than introducing them using conventional breeding.” There’s lots more to be said, and I will keep saying it (and listening to it), but here are some ethical points not specifically related to the science, followed by the quotes. Science in the media I am not a toxicologist or statistician, so have to rely to a certain extent on other people’s views for that analysis, but I am a science press officer and I can say with certainty that Seralini acted in an unethical way with media relations. He sent out an embargoed press release to announce the imminent publication of his paper, as is normal, but made journalists sign confidentiality agreements for the paper, preventing them from consulting other experts before publication. A fundamental aspect of good science journalism is to seek expert opinions, and Seralini prevented this from happening. Carl Zimmer wrote a great article about this, explaining why journalists shouldn’t let themselves be played. I heard an interesting podcast about the MMR scandal this week, and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for more insight into how science (especially criticised science) is communicated. The retraction came after a letter was sent to Professor Seralini on 19th November 2013, stating “A more in-depth look at the raw data revealed that no definitive conclusions can be reached with this small sample size…” The letter was clear that it wasn’t accusing Seralini of fabricating data. Unsurprisingly, there was a lot of criticism of the journal for retracting the paper, partly saying that inconclusiveness is not grounds for retraction. And they have a point, retraction is essential when results have been fabricated or when there are other problems with them (in my field of research there was a famous example of retraction when scientists realised that their results came about because the butterflies they were studying flew towards someone’s bright t shirt!). But inappropriate conclusions from legitimate data? That’s pretty common. This post is far too long already, but the study has raised some publication ethics issues in my mind. Perhaps we need a more open peer review system? Currently scientists comment on papers anonymously. Were the letters to the editor criticising the paper good post-publication peer review, or do we need to make this a more standard and formal process, with specific guidelines for when such peer reviews give grounds for retraction? Could there be a way for Seralini’s data to be available, even if we disagree with his conclusions? For me, a more valid reason for retraction is animal welfare issues. If a study wasn’t carried out in accordance with ethical standards, is it appropriate that it is published? And where do we draw the line? Does it make any difference if the study was sound in other ways? Or if the ethical violations are against people? One criticism is that the journal has a Monsanto scientist on the board, and there are claims that this is why the paper was retracted. However, as you can see from links above and quotes below, criticism of the study also came from academic scientists, Government scientists and not for profit organisations. To say that they are all corrupt is a bold claim. The paper is also very badly written, to the point that the abstract is almost unreadable (rats in the experimental group “…died 2–3 times more than controls…”, whatever ‘dying more’ might mean). While I very much sympathise with authors for whom English is not their native language, I don’t blame one correspondent with the journal for including criticism for the editor in his letter: “I was left wondering if anyone had really read the paper carefully.” Quotes and reactions Analysis of Seralini’s claims by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that “The study as reported by Séralini et al. was found to be inadequately designed, analysed and reported.” The German Institute for Risk Assessment found that “A study of the University of Caen neither constitutes a reason for a re-evaluation of genetically modified NK603 maize nor does it affect the renewal of the glyphosate approval.” Similarly, Food Standards Australia New Zealand said “On the basis of the many scientific deficiencies identified in the study, FSANZ does not accept the conclusions made by the authors and has therefore found no justification to reconsider the safety of NK603 corn, originally approved in 2002.” Of course there are many who stand by Seralini’s findings, and believe that it is pressure from industry that has caused people to criticise the paper. I wanted to share quotes from people who have relevant expertise but do not work in a GM-related area, so I have no reason to believe they could possibly have anything to gain from the study. Professor Alan Boobis, Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology at Imperial College London, said: “Retraction of a scientific article should always be seen as a last resort. Even when inconclusive, an article can contribute to scientific discourse on a topic. This is why replication of findings is so important. However, there are instances where the conclusions of a paper significantly over-interpret the findings, as was the case here. Whilst always of concern, this is particularly problematic when the subject of the paper is of considerable public and media interest. Hence, in the case of the article by Seralini et al I believe that the journal has acted responsibly and appropriately in evaluating all the data and taking this decision.” Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, said: “It was clear from even a superficial reading that this paper was not fit for publication, and in this instance the peer review process did not work properly. But at least this has now been remedied and the journal has recognised that no conclusions can be drawn from this study, so I suppose it is better late than never. Sadly the withdrawal of this paper will not generate the publicity garnered by its initial publication.” Seralini, GE (2013). Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize Food and Chemical Toxicology DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.08.005 Categories: Food safety, News \| Tags: genetic modification, gm maize, Monsanto, Roundup, Seralini, toxicology \| Permalink. Author: Rebecca Nesbit I am author of a popular science book 'Is that Fish in your Tomato?' exploring the fact and fiction of GM crops. In my work and leisure so far, I have trained bees to detect explosives, used a radar to study butterflies for my PhD, written a novel, taken the train from London to China, organised Biology Week, sold science jewellery on Etsy, and traveled to four continents with Nobel Laureates. Best off all, I've made lots of friends whose support I very much appreciate. Thank you! Please visit my website: http://rebeccanesbit.com/ 11 thoughts on “Retraction of Seralini’s controversial toxicology study” Rebecca Nesbit The Ecologist produced an interesting article, and raised (very worrying) questions for me about the motivation for leaving rats alive for the tumours to get so large. The sentence “Pictures of test rats with grotesque cancer tumors appeared in newspapers around the world” shows how successful tumours can be at eliciting fear. Of course the size of the tumours is irrelevant – that reflects the amount of time they had been left to grow. And if you feed rats of the healthiest diet in the world some will still get ‘grotesque tumours’. Nobody is claiming that people will end up with tumours the size of our heads, equivalent to the rats in the photos. 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__label__cc	0.704921	0.295079	Articles of Freedom Author Topic: Articles of Freedom (Read 2314 times) Hello Wilbur. http://www.cc2009.us/images/pdf/Articles-of-Freedom.12.24.2009.pdf Across many administrations and years, by each branch of government, through each major political party, the Constitution for The United States has been violated. The People have formally Petitioned the Government for Redress of the violations in the most humble of terms. The People and their Petitions have been ignored. Each un-remedied violation has taken its toll with dire impact on our economic interests, our people, our quality and way of life and our international and national reputations. We hold this Truth to be Self- Evident: Any action, by any branch of the Government, that is repugnant to the Constitution, is null and void. On November 11, 2009, and for eleven days continuing morning, noon and night, Citizens of America gathered in St. Charles, Illinois, as Delegates from each of forty-eight States, to discuss these violations, and Government?s refusal to be held accountable, and to recommend a course of action to restore Constitutional Obedience in a Constitutional Republic now challenged to Its core. These were not professional legislators, wordsmiths or attorneys. These were ordinary, non-aligned citizens from across America and all walks of life. They set aside their lives for this Assembly. They represent You and Me, the Free People of America. The conclusion of their efforts is This Document called „„Articles of Freedom.?? It is proposed that these Articles be distributed to All in the Land with the intent to draw the attention and courage of a “goodly number of millions of People” who, entitled to their Freedom and essential to Its maintenance, Arise to Restore the Constitution for the United States of America. Then and only then shall America?s Destiny be Fulfilled. (Want to get rid of the ad? Register now for free!) Re: Articles of Freedom Did they wear powdered wigs and try to play characters or did they write like that on purpose? ben ji Alot of people dont hit on an 18 Quote from: Jeffy on February 03, 2010, 09:03:59 PM 48 states? I'm guessing they left out Hawaii and Alaska... What about all the oil up there Quote from: ben ji on February 03, 2010, 09:42:16 PM Nope. You'll have to read at the link to figure out which states they were. ChiCat Chawbacon Sorry, just because you gather random people from most the states doesnt mean theyre not idiots BTW, no idea if this is Dem/Repub garbage and dont care. The notion that if you can find one person from 96% or the states, your cause is just...thats stupid. Quote from: fatty fat fat on January 26, 2010, 11:23:37 PM in the end, EMAW will always win. Quote from: ChiCat on February 04, 2010, 04:24:10 PM How many people signed the Declaration of Independence? How many worked on the Constitution? But you are right.... A group of people working to create something doesn't make them smart. Take the Apollo Alliance and the Stimulus Bill for example. But regardless of what program, declaration, bill, product is created, it NEVER involves everyone. So what's your point? If every group of 48 people who got together got an audience with the highest ranking officials in the government, nothing would get done. Petitioning the government for redress? Its putting on a show for (I'm guessing cuz I'm still not reading that crap) right-wing news outlets. You want to make a difference, you're better off voting and campaigning. Instead when your party loses, its a big dog and pony show and talk of oppression. Look, I'm was sick of hearing all that "America, love it or leave it crap." Now that the White House has changed parties its all "This is not our America and we want it back" Nobody says love it or leave it now, that only works when your party is in power and people are trying to suppress real discussion. I'm all for real discussion, but that's not what these people are trying. They are trying a publicity stunt. JIMHO I'm sure I'll get painted as some hardcore dem now. Frankly, I think both parties suck most of the time. I will completely agree on the bolded part, which is why we need to blow out congress and get a fresh set of minds in there, from all parties. But the people that created this document did so with the foundation of this country in mind. Is it wrong to want your country to remain the same country that it generally always has been? There are a lot of pissed off people that, until recently, have never followed politics before (I'm one of them). Obama threw the frog in the boiling water and forcibly brought many people into the political landscape. How many people would you like to have sign the petition of grievances before the gov't should address it? 200? 1000? 1000000? 20% of the population? If enough people were concerned, it would at least be a voting issues in enough key elections that it would be addressed. And they are, and their issues are. This showing doesn't do anything to change any of it. I hardly think Obama was the one that heated up the political landscape. Clinton's infidelities seemed to start things and Bush elevated them. <Thats as it seems to me but then again I'd guess a lot of it could just depend on my age and when I started paying attention I don't think Clinton had anything to do with heating up the political landscape for the general public. While blowjobgate was mainstream news, it really had no focused intensity from the average American. Did they follow it? Perhaps. It was very tabloid. Between it and the OJ mess, it definitely focused people into the National Enquirer mindset. Bush Jr. definitely motivated the left. During his term, the internet became a vibrant source of political info that just wasn't available prior to that. Bloggers, etc. found a niche. The hatestorm focused at Bush was fueled by the bloggers. It wasn't until late in his term that most conservatives really began to ire. "I've abandoned the free market system to save the free-market system" was a major eye-opener. Rewarding failure instead of using it as a teaching tool (bailouts) was another. So in essence, it was Bush that got everyone focused. Obama merely galvanized the right, particularly the fiscal conservatives, by proposing additional failure rewards. I'd say Bush got the right going to, through their "we're constantly under attack middle America," there is a war on Christmas/religion/marraige," and "Democrats want the terrorists to win by giving them trials" rhetoric that was constantly being preached even thought they had an overwhelming majority. The Clinton thing I think helped energize the morality arguments, though, at my age it may also of just seemed that way because it was the first giant political event of my lifetime (at least when I was old enough to understand). SuperG I'm all for reminding our elected officials that the only oath they take before taking office to uphold the constitution... But until there are more than two viable parties that simply won't happen. Save Paul, Kucinich and a handful of others these fuckers are only loyal to thier parties. Not their commander in chief, constituents or constitutions... only a party. Quote from: SuperG on February 05, 2010, 02:12:35 AM Couldn't agree more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1298
__label__wiki	0.63696	0.63696	Guy With Typewriter The random musings of filmmaker Gorman Bechard A new video promo for our upcoming Grant Hart film We put together a new promo video for Every Everything, our documentary on Husker Du’s Grant Hart. We’ve got 11 days to go on the KickStarter project. Please support indie film by pre-ordering that DVD, t-shirt…we have so many great rewards. But watch the video. It will make you want to see more… gormanbechard documentaries, errol morris, filmmaking, indie rock, rockumentary Leave a comment April 23, 2012 1 Minute To say that I love both the article and the photo in the May 2012 issue of Inked Magazine is a complete understatement. Thank you! Profile in Inked Magazine gormanbechard dogs, tattoo Leave a comment April 22, 2012 1 Minute When Kristine and I moved to New Haven in 1989 so she could run the about-to-open Sam Goodys on Chapel Street (whose 20% off Saturdays are still legendary), we were on the verge of having seven record shops in a town of roughly 120,000 people. Think about that. We have one now. Most towns this size have none. But on this national day of celebration (I’m sure many would think of it as a national day of mourning), I prefer to talk about the great majestic record shop of my impressionable years. Of a store that started in a second floor apartment on Bank Street in Waterbury, Connecticut. I’m guessing on the year here, but thinking 1978, give or take. It lasted there for only a year or so, then moved up the block into another second floor apartment over the Thom McCan shoe store on that same street, then after a few years in that location, moved into a sprawling space on the third floor of another Bank Street building that housed a jewelry store on its first floor, and an Arthur Murray dance studio on it’s second. Its original name was Cheapskate Records, and sometime during its run at its third location (yes, there would be a fourth, and now a fifth) became Phoenix Records. But it always remained Cheapskate Records to me. Cheapskate was started and run by a silver-haired gentleman (gray way before his time), with crazed and brilliant eyes, and the ability to print in 6-point type. He was one of the funniest, most sarcastic people I’ve ever met. The missing Monty Python. His name was Professor Morono. Or simply The Professor to those who knew. If anyone in my life has deserved the title of “professor” it was this man. He influenced my career, my art, as much as Holy Cross’ Sister Noreen who handed me Vonegut’s “Breakfast of Champions” and Brautigan’s “In Watermelon Sugar” during my Junior year of High School. As much as Donald Spotto who made me marvel at the wonders of Alfred Hitchcock during his course at the New School for Social Research. This Professor would on a weekly basis hand me the vinyl eucharist that would make me believe, make me see, make me into who I was destined to become. Where should I begin? (Where could I begin!) The “I Will Dare” 12-inch from The Replacements, and later “Let It Be,” all the early Elvis Costello, it was where I bought “London Calling” for Christ’s sake. The first R.E.M. EP, Nick Lowe’s “Jesus of Cool,” The Sex Pistols, the Dead Kennedys, Pere Ubu, Devo, Siouxsie, Tom Waits, countless picture sleeved import singles, live recordings (that amazing Springsteen boot from the Bottom Line). At one point before moving to New Haven, I had a wall of vinyl that measured about 15 feet wide and 6 feet high, with another few dozen crates in my grandfather’s basement. Don’t know how many albums that is exactly. But it’s a lot. And a good part of them came from Cheapskate. But it was more than just about vinyl. It was about the friendship. The never-ending dialog. The Professor and his cohort, the lovely Diane. Music was our politics, our religion. And no one was a republican or a democrat. We were Clash fans or Pistol fans. Punks or lovers or modern rock, or even hard core. Hell, even heavy metal, or old time country. We were old school, new school, any school. It was about the music. The music was all that mattered once you walked through that door into the collection of crates packed so tight you had to remove a dozen albums just to be able to flip through. The walls lined with those breathtaking 4×4 posters. Could I possibly fit another on my apartment walls? But how could I resist Paul Simonon smashing that bass in 4-foot-square glory? (Quick answer: I couldn’t. And damn I wish I still owned that now.) When time came to write my first novel, “The Second Greatest Story Ever Told,” I made The Professor a fictional character (as I did The Replacements), one who would have a profound effect on the Daughter of God during her teen years. Turning her on to what was truly important on this planet: Patti Smith (that opening line to “Gloria” so made her laugh), the aforementioned Costello or The Replacements, and of course Husker Du, and with a song called “Green Eyes” how could they not appeal to our lovely green-eyed savior? The Professor was her John the Baptist. Perhaps he was mine as well. I miss those days. When traveling around with my Replacements documentary “Color Me Obsessed,” the one stop I always make in any strange town is at a record shop, if one even exists. A couple of them, if I’m lucky. I’ll buy something from a local band. And I’ll think back to the days when I’d walk in to one of those less-than-glorious locations — okay, they were glorious to me, Cheapskate Records was a cathedral. My church of rock ‘n’ roll. I’d be handed a stack of vinyl. It was what The Professor had for me that day. A respite from life. Or perhaps the gift of life. A little salvation. And a whole lot of inspiration. Thank you, Professor. For everything. gormanbechard music, Record Store Day, rock n roll, thoughts 3 Comments April 21, 2012 April 21, 2012 4 Minutes What Were We Thinking Films official site The official What Were We Thinking Films page. Home to all of Gorman’s feature films. Gorman’s Facebook page PIZZA, A LOVE STORY Click here to visit the official Pizza, A Love Story website Pizza, A Love Story facebook page A DOG NAMED GUCCI Click here to visit the official A DOG NAMED GUCCI documentary website. A Dog Named Gucci facebook page WHO IS LYDIA LOVELESS? Click here to visit the official WHO IS LYDIA LOVELESS documentary website. WHAT IT TAKES: FILM EN DOUZE TABLEAUX Click here to visit the official What it Takes: film en douse tableaux website. COLOR ME OBSESSED Click here to visit the official COLOR ME OBSESSED, A FILM ABOUT THE REPLACEMENTS website. Color Me Obsessed Facebook page Click here to visit the official EVERY EVERYTHING, THE MUSIC, LIFE & TIMES OF GRANT HART page. Click here to visit the official WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? THE ARCHERS OF LOAF LIVE AT CAT'S CRADLE page. NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival Click here to visit the official NHdocs website.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1301
__label__wiki	0.978564	0.978564	Eight feared killed in Plateau, Anambra attacks By Isa Abdulsalami Ahovi (Jos), Uzoma Nzeagwu (Awka), Saxone Akhaine (Kaduna), Joseph Wantu (Makurdi) and Njadvara Musa (Maiduguri) 10 April 2018 \| 3:59 am Anambra state. PHOTO: FLICKR No fewer than eight persons were on Sunday night shot dead by unknown gunmen at a relaxation spot in Nding community of Fan District, Barkin Ladi council area of Plateau State. A resident, who simply identified himself as Williams, told journalists that eight persons were killed when the gunmen struck. He said the assailants stormed the village around 8p.m. and opened fire on the people. The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mathias Terna Tyopev, who confirmed the incident, however said five persons were killed while the injured are receiving treatment at the Plateau Specialist Hospital in Jos. He added that investigation had begun to bring the perpetrators to justice. The member representing Barkin Ladi constituency in the State House of Assembly, Peter Ibrahim Gyendeng, said he was on an assessment tour when contacted. Also the representative of the area at the National Assembly, Istifanus Gyang, has condemned the attack, describing the killings as inhuman, wicked, irrational and ungodly. In a statement in Jos, he said the attacks bore the signs of ethnic cleansing. The spokesman of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Major Adam Umar, who further confirmed the incident, said the attackers had fled the scene when his men arrived. He appealed for timely provision of information to check activities of criminal elements in the society. In a related development, suspected herdsmen at the weekend allegedly raped and murdered a middle-aged woman in her farmland at Nteje, Oyi Local Council of Anambra State. The Guardian learnt that the death of the widow had provoked a series of meetings geared at preventing a reprisal by the irate youths in the community. The traditional ruler in the settlement, Igwe Rowland Odegbo, in a telephone interview, confirmed the development but refused to disclose her identify but, however, added that she was from a neighbouring village. He said: “The picture of the deceased has been taken and passed round the community, and no one could identify her as one of their own. “The incident happened in a land belonging to our neighbours, Umuleri. That was where she was found, so we suspect that she may be from Umuleri or even Aguleri. The matter has already been lodged at Otuocha police division.” The spokesperson for the State Police Command, Princess Nkeiru Nwode, said the incident had nothing to do with herdsmen. Also in Kaduna, armed bandits yesterday invaded Birnin Gwari council area, shooting sporadically and injuring scores in the process. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Mukthar Aliyu, could not confirm the casualty figure. However, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has condemned the attack on passengers by hoodlums near Yelwata, along Lafia-Makurdi highway. He commended the police for swiftly arresting some of the suspects. AnambraPlateau	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1302
__label__cc	0.707695	0.292305	Solar Panel Installation at the Progressive School of Long Island Home / Newsletter / Issue 27 – Nov 2008 / Solar Panel Installation at the Progressive School of Long Island Issue 27 – Nov 2008 contents BUILDING NEOHUMANIST FUTURES Neohumanist Education Conference CNS Asheville CNS Croatia CNS Sweden In Other AMGK News A New Wave of Consciousness Ananda Bharati – Sunrise Farm PSOLI SOLAR PANELS Neohumanism, Comparative Economics and Education for a Global Society Towards A Neohumanist Approach – Part Two Tending Climbing Vines: Guiding Youth to Maturity The First AMSAI Primary School in Maharlika Lotus Children’s Centre Education and Health Centre in Syria Nairobi Sector I Love Yoga Using Visualization to Help Children Deepen Their Meditation Environmental Education through PCAP Programs Georgetown Sector Kahira Sector Berlin Sector Delhi Sector On October 2, 2008, “Solar Day”, the whole school celebrated the installation of 53 solar panels on the roof of the middle school. The Progressive School of Long Island promotes social and moral responsibility in its students’ minds and hearts. This is a cornerstone of Progressive education, as is nurturing students’ curiosity, learning by doing, and instilling a respect for every living creature on the planet, as well as the planet itself. At this K-8 private school, middle school students devote an entire period to student volunteering. The elementary school is also heavily focused on doing for others. Many communities have benefited from the school through their volunteer programs. Director Eric Jacobson feels that the student-run volunteer activities help the local and global community, but they also help engender a limitless sense of empowerment. Students feel that they can overcome any obstacle that they recognize in society, with solid planning and facilitation from instructors. This sense of empowerment carries over into academics; it is not unusual for students to study one or two grade levels ahead at PSOLI. One of the most consistent areas where students focus their volunteer time is on the environment. Grade school students ensure efficient, school-wide recycling and design numerous programs, including a sixth grade carnival to save the wild-cats. Environmentally aware “stu-vol’ projects have included selling eco-friendly reusable supermarket bags, volunteering at animal shelters, as well as protecting other endangered species. The intensity with which students regard the environment was heavily reflected in the student run newspaper, The Progressive Post, and its news broadcasts. With so much school-wide energy focused on the environment, it is fitting that the school focused on their own use of consumable energy. Mr. Jacobson felt that the installation of solar panels would align with the school’s sense of environmental responsibility. After considerable fund-raising spearheaded a parent and her three children (who organized theme parties to raise funds), the school installed the panels during the latter part of the summer. Critical to making the project possible was the generosity of K-Star Solar, a solar installation company, which provided one hundred percent free labor as well as providing a monitor for the science room, which records scientific data about the amount of electricity generated and the green house gases avoided by installing the solar panels. Gencorelli and Salo also donated one hundred percent of their time for their architectural services provided. The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) provided a generous rebate for the installation of the panels.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1306
__label__wiki	0.899864	0.899864	You are here: Home Page > Science & Mathematics > Psychology > Cognitive Psychology > The Oxford Handbook of Expertise This title is available as an ebook. To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. Bookseller Code (05) https://global.oup.com/academic/covers/pop-up/9780198795872 The Oxford Handbook of Expertise Edited by Paul Ward, Jan Maarten Schraagen, Julie Gore, and Emilie M. Roth A comprehensive and inclusive review of the science of expertise. Expert editors and contributors guide readers through a growing research area. Wide range of topics covering a broad field give readers everything they need to know about this ever growing area of research. Provides guidelines on how to use the material presented to study expertise. The study of expertise weaves its way through various communities of practice, across disciplines, and over millennia. To date, the study of expertise has been primarily concerned with how human beings perform at a superior level in complex environments and sociotechnical systems, and at the highest levels of proficiency. However, more recent research has continued the search for better descriptions, and causal mechanisms that explain the complexities of expertise in context, with a view to translating this understanding into useful predictions and interventions capable of improving the performance of human systems as efficiently as possible. The Oxford Handbook of Expertise provides a comprehensive picture of the field of Expertise Studies. It offers both traditional and contemporary perspectives, and importantly, a multidiscipline-multimethod view of the science and engineering research on expertise. The book presents different perspectives, theories, and methods of conducting expertise research, all of which have had an impact in helping us better understand expertise across a broad range of domains. The Handbook also describes how researchers and practitioners have addressed practical problems and societal challenges. Throughout, the authors have sought to demonstrate the heterogeneity of approaches and conceptions of expertise, to place current views of expertise in context, to show how these views can be used to address current issues, and to examine ways to advance the study of expertise. The Oxford Handbook of Expertise is an essential resource both to those wanting to gain an up-to-date knowledge of the science of expertise and those wishing to study experts. 1. An Introduction to the Handbook, Communities of Practice, and Definitions of Expertise, Paul Ward, Jan Maarten Schraagen, Julie Gore, and Emilie Roth Section One: Characterising Expertise: Frameworks, Theories and Models 2. The Classic Expertise Approach and its Evolution, Fernand Gobet 3. Domain-General Models of Expertise: The role of cognitive ability, David Z. Hambrick, Alexander P. Burgoyne, and Frederick L. Oswald 4. Studies of Expertise and Experience: A sociological perspective on expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans 5. Giftedness and Talent Development in Children and Youth, Steven I. Pfeiffer 6. Neural Mechanisms of Expertise, Fredrik Ullen, Orjan de Manzano, and Miriam A. Mosing 7. Modeling Experts with Fast-and-Frugal Heuristics, Ulrich Hoffrage 8. Expertise: A holistic, experience-centered perspective, John M. Flach and Fred A. Voorhorst 9. Macrocognitive Models of Expertise, Robert J B Hutton 10. Cognitive Systems Engineering: Expertise in sociotechnical systems, Neelam Naikar and Ashleigh Brady 11. Is Expertise All in the Mind? How embodied, embedded, enacted, extended, situated and distributed theories of cognition account for expert performance, Chris Baber 12. Adaptive Expertise, Katerina Bohle Carbonell and Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer Section Two: Methods to Study, Test, Analyse and Represent Expertise 13. Representative Test and Task Development and Simulated Task Environments, Kevin R. Harris, Nicholas A. Foreman, and David W. Eccles 14. Developing Mastery Models to Support the Acquisition and Assessment of Expertise, Karol G. Ross and Jennifer K. Phillips 15. Computational Models of Expertise, Alex Kirlik and Michael D. Byrne 16. Studying Expert Behavior in Sociotechnical Systems: Hierarchical task analysis, Paul M. Salmon, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker, and Gemma J.M. Read 17. A Historical Perspective on Introspection: Guidelines for eliciting verbal and introspective-type reports, Paul Ward, Kyle Wilson, Joel Suss, William Douglas Woody, and Robert R. Hoffman 18. 'Close to Practice' Qualitative Research Methods, Sarah Yardley, Karen Mattick, and Tim Dornan 19. Incident-based Methods for Studying Expertise, Laura Militello and Shilo Anders 20. Cognitive Work Analysis: Models of expertise, Catherine M. Burns 21. Reflections on the Professional Practice of Knowledge Capture, Brian Moon 22. Stress, Skilled Performance, and Expertise: Overload and Beyond, Gerald Matthews, Ryan W. Wohleber, and Jinchao Lin Section Three: Domains and Applications 23. Expertise in STEM Disciplines, David. F. Feldon, Soojeong Jeong, and Joana Franco 24. A Cognitive Examination of Skill and Expertise in Word Games and Puzzles, Shane T. Mueller 25. Musical Expertise, Jennifer Mishra 26. Skilled Anticipation in Sport: Past, present, and future, A. Mark Williams, Bradley Fawver, David P. Broadbent, Colm P. Murphy, and Paul Ward 27. Diagnostic Reasoning and Expertise in Healthcare, Vimla L. Patel, David Kaufman, and Thomas G Kannampallil 28. Firefighting and Emergency Responding, Mark Wiggins, Jamie Auton, and Melanie Taylor 29. Expertise in Aviation, Christopher D. Wickens and Frederic Dehais 30. Railroad Operations: Uncovering expertise for safe and efficient performance in railroad operations, Emilie M. Roth, Anjum Naweed, and Jordan Multer 31. The Cyber Domains: Understanding expertise for network security, Robert Thomson 32. Expertise in Intelligence Analysis, Michael P. Jenkins and Jonathan D. Pfautz 33. Expertise in Law Enforcement, Joel Suss and Laura Boulton 34. Military Expertise, J.D. Fletcher and Dennis Kowal 35. Expertise in Business: Evolving with a changing world, Lia DiBello 36. Teamwork in Spaceflight Operations, Ute Fischer and Kathleen Mosier 37. Developing Operator Expertise on Nuclear Power Production Facilities and Oil and Gas Installations, Margaret Crichton (DR), Scott Moffat, and Lauren Crichton 38. Expertise in Weather Forecasting, Daphne S. LaDue, Phaedra Daipha, Rebecca M. Pliske, and Robert R. Hoffman Section Three: Developing, Accelerating, and Preserving Expertise 39. Expertise for the Future: A new challenge for education, Lauren B. Resnick, Jennifer Lin Russell, and Faith Schantz 40. Learning with Zeal: From deliberate practice to deliberate performance, Peter J. Fadde and Mohammadreza Jalaeian 41. Cognitive Flexibility Theory and the Accelerated Development of Adaptive Readiness and Adaptive Response to Novelty, Rand J. Spiro, Paul J. Feltovich, Aric Gaunt, Ying Hu, Hannah Klautke, Cui Cheng, Ian Clemente, Sean Leahy, and Paul Ward 42. Cognition and Expert-Level Proficiency in Intelligence Analysis, David T. Moore (DR) and Robert R. Hoffman 43. Team Reflection: A catalyst of team development and the attainment of expertise, Kai-Philip Otte, Kristin Knipfer, and Michaela Schippers 44. Learning at the Edge: The role of mentors, coaches, and their surrogates in developing expertise, Erich Petushek, Guler Arsal, Paul Ward, Mark Upton, James Whyte IV, and Robert R. Hoffman 45. Acquiring and Maintaining Expertise in Aging Populations, Dan Morrow and Renato F. L. Azevedo 46. Skill decay: The science and practice of mitigating loss and enhancing retention, Winfred Arthur, Jr. and Eric Anthony Day 47. Expertise and Resilience, Jop Havinga, Johan Bergstrom, Sidney Dekker, and Andrew Rae 48. Framing and Translating Expertise for Government, Gareth E. Conway and Julie Gore Section Four: Current Issues and the Future of Expertise Research 49. The War on Expertise: Five communities that seek to discredit experts, Gary Klein, Ben Shneiderman, Robert R. Hoffman, and Robert L. Wears 50. Reflections on the Study of Expertise and Its Implications for Tomorrow's World, Paul Ward, Jan Maarten Schraagen, Julie Gore, Emilie Roth, Robert R. Hoffman, and Gary Klein Paul Ward, Lead Applied Cognitive Psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, The MITRE Corporation and Michigan Technological University, USA,Jan Maarten Schraagen, Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, University of Twente, The Netherlands,Julie Gore, Reader in Organizational Psychology, School of Management, University of Bath, UK,Emilie M. Roth, Owner and Principal Scientist, Roth Cognitive Engineering, USA Paul Ward is a Lead Applied Cognitive Psychologist (Human Behavior and Cybersecurity Capability) in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at The MITRE Corporation. He also holds an appointment as adjunct Professor of Psychology at Michigan Technological University. He is a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors specialist, Chartered Psychologist, and Chartered Scientist and internationally known for his pioneering research on expertise, adaptive skill, training, and accelerated learning. He has attracted funding from grant agencies worldwide and published over 100 scientific papers, including a co-authored book entitled Accelerated expertise: Training for high proficiency in a complex world. Jan Maarten Schraagen is Principal Scientist at TNO and Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research interests include adaptive automation, resilience engineering, team communication processes, human-machine teaming, and scenario-based training. He was main editor of Cognitive Task Analysis (2000, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and Naturalistic Decision Making and Macrocognition (2008, Ashgate). He is editor in chief of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. Dr. Schraagen holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Julie Gore is a Reader in Organizational Psychology, at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK. A Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society her research focus is on the psychology of expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) across a range of professions working under uncertainty. She is Associate Editor for Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and serves on the boards of the British Journal of Management and Frontiers in Organizational Psychology. Dr Gore holds a PhD in Applied Cognitive Psychology (one of the world's first in the field of NDM) from Oxford Brookes University, UK. Dr. Emilie M. Roth is a cognitive psychologist whose work has involved analysis of human problem-solving and decision-making in real-world environments (e.g., military command and control; nuclear power plant emergencies; railroad operations; healthcare), and the impact of support systems (e.g., computerized procedures; alarm systems; advanced graphical displays; new forms of decision-support and automation) on cognitive performance. She is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, serves on the editorial board of the journal Human Factors, and is a member of the Board on Human-Systems Integration at the National Academies. Shilo Anders, Center for Research and Innovation in Systems Safety, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA Guler Arsal, Envision Research Institute, Envision Inc., USA Winfred Arthur, Jr., Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA Jamie Auton, Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Australia Renato F. L. Azevedo, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Chris Baber, University of Birmingham, UK Johan Bergstrom, Lund University, Sweden Laura Boulton, School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, UK David P. Broadbent, Brunel University London, UK Katerina Bohle Carbonell, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Ashleigh Brady, Centre for Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis, Joint and Operations Analysis Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia Alexander P. Burgoyne, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, USA Catherine M. Burns, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael D. Byrne, Department of Psychology, Rice University, USA Cui Cheng, Michigan State University, USA Ian Clemente, Michigan State University, USA Harry Collins, Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK Gareth E. Conway, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory; UK Ministry of Defence Lauren Crichton , People Factor Consultants Ltd, UK Margaret Crichton (DR), People Factor Consultants Ltd, UK Phaedra Daipha, Data, Discovery & Decision Science (D3) department, Allstate, USA Eric Anthony Day, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, USA Orjan de Manzano, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Frederic Dehais, Universite de Toulouse, France Sidney Dekker, Griffith University, Australia Lia DiBello, Workplace Technology Research Inc., USA Tim Dornan, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queens University Belfast, UK David W. Eccles, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, College of Education, Florida State University, USA Robert Evans, Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK Bradley Fawver, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation, University of Utah, USA Peter J. Fadde, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Southern Illinois University, USA David. F. Feldon, Utah State University, USA Paul J. Feltovich, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA Ute Fischer, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Media and Communication, USA John M. Flach, Mile Two, LLC, USA J.D. Fletcher, Science and Technology Division, Systems and Analysis Center, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA Lindsey N. Foreman, Department of Psychological Science and Counseling, Austin Peay State University, USA Joana Franco, Utah State University, USA Aric Gaunt, Michigan State University, USA Fernand Gobet, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK Julie Gore, University of Bath, UK David Z. Hambrick, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, USA Kevin R. Harris, Department of Psychological Science and Counseling, Austin Peay State University, USA Jop Havinga, Griffith University, Australia Robert R. Hoffman, Institute for Human Machine Cognition, USA Ulrich Hoffrage, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Ying Hu, Michigan State University, USA Robert J. B. Hutton, Trimetis Ltd, UK Mohammadreza Jalaeian, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Southern Illinois University, USA Michael P. Jenkins, Charles River Analytics Inc., USA Soojeong Jeong, Utah State University, USA Thomas G Kannampallil, Department of Anesthesiology & Institute for Informatics, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, USA David Kaufman, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, USA Alex Kirlik, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Hannah Klautke, Michigan State University, USA Gary Klein, MacroCognition LLC, USA Kristin Knipfer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Dennis Kowal, Science and Technology Division, Systems and Analysis Center, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA Daphne S. LaDue, University of Oklahoma, USA Sean Leahy, Arizona State University, USA Jinchao Lin, Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, USA Gerald Matthews, Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, USA Karen Mattick, Centre for Research in Professional Learning, University of Exeter, UK Laura Militello, Applied Decision Science, LLC, USA Jennifer Mishra, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA Scott Moffat, People Factor Consultants Ltd, UK Brian Moon, Perigean Technologies LLC, USA David T. Moore (DR), US Department of Defense, USA Kathleen Mosier, TeamScape LLC, USA Miriam A. Mosing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Dan Morrow, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Shane T. Mueller, Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Michigan Technological University, USA Jordan Multer, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, USA Colm P. Murphy, St Mary's University London, UK Neelam Naikar, Centre for Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis, Joint and Operations Analysis Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia Anjum Naweed, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Australia Frederick L. Oswald, Department of Psychology, Rice University, USA Kai-Philip Otte, Kiel University, Germany, Kristin Knipfer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Vimla L. Patel, Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, USA Erich Petushek, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, USA Jonathan D. Pfautz, Department of Defense, USA Steven I. Pfeiffer, Florida State University, USA Jennifer K. Phillips, Cognitive Performance Group, USA Rebecca M. Pliske, Dominican University, USA Andrew Rae, Griffith University, Australia Gemma J.M. Read, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Lauren B. Resnick, University of Pittsburgh, USA Karol G. Ross, Cognitive Performance Group, USA Emilie Roth, Roth Cognitive Engineering, USA Jennifer Lin Russell, University of Pittsburgh, USA Paul M. Salmon, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Faith Schantz, professional writer/independent scholar Michaela Schippers, Rotterdam School of Management, Department of Technology & Operations Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Jan Maarten Schraagen TNO, The Netherlands and University of Twente, The Netherlands Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Rand J. Spiro, Michigan State University, USA Neville A. Stanton, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, UK Joel Suss, Department of Psychology, Wichita State University, USA Melanie Taylor, Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training, Department of Psychology Macquarie University, Australia Robert Thomson, Army Cyber Institute, United States Military Academy, USA Fredrik Ullen, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Mark Upton, My Fastest Mile Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer, Department of Educational Research and Development, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Fred A. Voorhorst, R3PI, Zurich, Switzerland Guy H. Walker, Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton, UK Paul Ward, University of Northern Colorado, USA Robert L. Wears (DR), University of Florida, USA James Whyte IV, College of Nursing, The Florida State University, USA Christopher D. 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__label__wiki	0.785001	0.785001	globalnation / Featured Gallery A PH tour buffeted by storms By: Mariano Santos - @inquirerdotnet Pinoy Newsmagazine/INQUIRER.net News Partner / 07:56 AM September 04, 2014 One of the many cultural presentations performed July 29 by the school students of Nasugbu was a pageant on Philippine History including the martyrdom of Dr. Jose Rizal. City Mayor Charito Apacible headed the reception party. PINOY PHOTO CHICAGO, Illinois — It was 10 years ago that the Ambassadors, Consuls General, Tourism Directors Tour of the Philippines was launched. Until last year, Filipino Canadians were part of this annual project, but last January, those neighbors up north, ventured into their own “Winter Escapade.” In its decade of existence, there was only one year that the tour was called off, thus this year’s is the 9th ACGTDT, not the 10th. Without the Canadians, the number of participants dwindled to fewer than 50 percent of the usual numbers, or just 260. Despite the declaration of the spin-doctors that this year’s tour was a success, I’m convinced, as a participant, that this year’s tour should have been mercifully cancelled. This is my third ACGTDT tour, and I was also in two of its smaller winter version called, WOW Philippine Tours. True, this year’s tour luckily started just after the destructive typhoon Glenda had blown out of the country. Two other tropical storms stayed away from the area, giving us relatively fair weather, but there are reasons why it should have been scratched. Call these storms by themselves: There are the major road repairs in the main thoroughfares of Greater Manila and the slow NAIA Terminal 1 reconstruction. There’s the End of Ramadan holiday, the State of the Nation Address of the President and even the opening of the Iglesia ni Cristo’s world’s biggest covered coliseum, not to forget the monsoon weather. These were like storms on the radar that the coordinators should have taken into consideration. ITEM July 28: On the first day, the tour guide from Rajah Tours told us that being Monday, the announced visits to the Ayala and the University of Sto. Tomas Museums were being replaced by a visit to San Agustin Church Museum. Additionally, late morning rain truncated the scheduled visit to the Bangko Central Museum. PINOY publisher Anong Santos (right) poses with the Detroit participants including Rebecca Tungol (2nd from left) who won the top prize of Western Union raffle of a round trip to the Philippines while Efren Balancio won an iPad. PINOY PHOTO The newly appointed Honorary Consul Audie de Castro (San Diego) summed up these early surprises. Being a second generation Filipino-American, he intimated that he is still trying to adjust to the Filipino way of communicating—it is never direct and clear, and one is always entrapped into something you least expected. This honorary diplomat is also a prophet, if I may say, in view of what awaited us in the next few days. (He was part of the Los Angeles group—the biggest delegation. LA is also this year’s coordinator.) After watching President PNoy’s SONA on TV early evening, we were treated to a Mindanao-themed welcome reception at Makati Shangri-La. The entertainment was world-class. “The Englighten Black Theater Group” showcased a magical choreography with a subtle environmental message. El Gamma Penumbra certainly made the hosts of the evening ecstatic in its “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” number. If you are in search of a local performing company, the producer Fantasmic Production Haus is highly recommended. ITEM July 29, Day Two: Because of End of Ramadan, there was another juggling of schedules. The trip to Malacanan Palace was pushed back to Day Three and the out-of-town excursion to Nasugbu, Batangas, was moved forward, resulting in a big disappointment for those who looked forward to meeting Batangas Governor Vilma Santos, who was a no-show because she could not adjust to the changes. Anyway, Nasugbu Mayor Charito Apacible and the area Tourism personnel came out big, complete with school bands, dance troupes and other cultural groups—the presentations were somewhat lengthy and overdone. Food was generous to a fault. (Our new ConGen Gene Colonge quipped sadly about the enormous amount of leftovers.)The meandering speeches, like that of area DOT boss, Emily Katigbak, who stood in for Ate Vi, did not help either. Was this one instance that hospitality felt unwelcome after a certain point? The promised snorkeling or nature-appreciation in the much-hyped Hamilo Cove was sacrificed, thanks to the uncontrolled cultural presentations and the mid-afternoon downpour. The hectic trip from Nasugbu affected the enthusiasm of the already jet-lagged participants. Credit the corporate sponsor, Western Union, for its outstanding reception. Their Lady Jazz Trio, the violin virtuoso and the dance troupe were so engaging and helped most of those who made it to the dinner survive their tiredness. Western Union also presented a $20,000 check to Save the Children, the recipient of its annual grant to NGOs that help talented but poor youth. The company had a raffle, and two of the major winners were from the Chicago group. Rebecca Tungol and Efren Balancio won a round-trip ticket to the Philippines and an iPad, respectively. The two were part of a group that just finished its volunteer work in Tacloban before they joined the Ambassadors Tour. (Call it providential, but if anyone should win, it is these charitable persons.) ITEM July 30, Day Three: It is surely patriotic to lay a wreath at the tomb/monument of the National Hero, Jose Rizal. Due to the traffic and construction around the Rizal Park, it made it a struggle to rush in one’s terno or barong to the point of convergence. But, duh! Those who came ahead just did the ritual, offered their flowers and forgot the rest. Curses! This was just the start of another unpleasant day. At the Palace, a practice drill of calling different delegations to the stage was undertaken before the coming photo opportunity with the President. WESTERN Union, a consistent ACGTDT sponsor, hands over to Ambassador Jose Cuisia a $20,000 donation to Save the Children during its July 29 dinner-reception at Dusit Hotel. PINOY PHOTO But the beleaguered PNoy was a too busy with his budget that he needed to submit to Congress, so said Secretary Herminio Coloma, thus, and broke the heart of mostly the first time participants. Honorary Consul Ethel Mercado could not diplomatically hide her disgust, muttering something about bait and switch. Young Isabel Gilles, in her sweet way also expressed disappointment over not seeing PNoy. The subsequent tour of the Palace did not help much. “Dusty,” “ill-kept,” “hot,” “neglected,” “sayang naman,” were the utterances of an obviously disappointed bunch about the Palace museum. Another Tacloban volunteer, and novelist, Almira Gilles was particularly dismissive of the shrill woman-emcee of the after-lunch program at the Palace Heroes Hall. But there was something positive about the Palace trip. The lunch catered by Via Mare was a delight. Oh, those tasty paco (fern) and ubod salads! July 31 was checkout day. It was the start of the post-tour (or departure for the U.S) phase. Palawan, Boracay and Cebu were the top choices. When I inquired about Vigan, I was told that no one reserved for that destination. Vigan being on the short-list of the new seven wonders of world being voted online, I checked out the heritage city; but that is a subject for another article. Post-tour was when you’re on your own. No police escorts this time. So just like the rest of the suffering Manilenos you shared their pain of going through its hellish traffic. One started feeling the shame that for three days you were pampered, subsidized and yet whiny about small inconveniences. The relentless rain was no consolation. On departure day, sans the sampaguita lei, was when you confronted the question on who would like to organize a tour on the condition that NAIA Terminal 1 is in? Indeed, if there was another ACGTDT that should have been cancelled, it was this year’s. Perhaps, the Canadians were right. Why not do it in the Winter? And please qualify the come-ons with the phrase, “Meet Pnoy subject to his availability.” DOT offers special Ambassadors’ tour to the Philippines Filipino peacekeepers’ defiance of order to surrender recalled TAGS: ambassadors, Bangko Sentral Museum, Consuls General, Gov. Vilma Santos, Iglesia ni Cristo, Malacanan Palace, NAIA Terminal 1, Nasugbu Batangas, Philippined Department of Tourism, San Agustin Church, special tour of the Philippines, Tourism, Tourism Directors Tour of the Philippines ACGTDT	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0057.json.gz/line1310

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