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__label__wiki	0.618625	0.618625	The Future for the PRO14 - Part 9 - who’s next? by maestegmafia on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 6:36 am South African media reports emerging around comments made at PRO14 launch by SA Rugby president Mark Alexander that South African players will be better off playing in the northern hemisphere. Alexander hinted South African rugby could be heading north on a more permanent basis in the near future. The Cheetahs and Kings joined the Pro14 last year and there is a strong possibility that two more local teams will be included in the competition next season. ‘It’s a long-term investment. We have options now and in future. At some point in time, in future, if we don’t want to stay in the south [in Super Rugby], we can move north,’ said Alexander. He added that the involvement of local players and coaches in Europe is beneficial for South African rugby. ‘The Pro14 is a good competition for the players and coaches who’re playing against tier-one nations each weekend. When we become a full Pro14 member next season, we’ll be the only nation who plays in the north and the south, and the major benefit of playing in the northern hemisphere is the players are better off. ‘With the structure of the Pro14 competition the way it is, it’s easier for travelling, with distances between places less than in the south, and the time zones are also better. When you consider player welfare and what’s best for them, then the north is better.’ The rumors are that it will be the Griquas and Pumas who will be proposed by SARU next season as their two new teams. How well that will be received by the other participating unions remains to be seen given the poor quality of the Kings thus far. SARU plans to cut the number of professional players in their system from approx 900 to 400 odd using a draft system and to spread the talent across the 8 professional teams. Re: The Future for the PRO14 - Part 9 - who’s next? by LordDowlais on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 8:11 am There's talk of asking the Georgians to join as well. How that will work though ? by Kingshu on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 9:24 am Personally don't rhink the Pro 14 should allow the Griquas and Pumas to join. I have no problem with an extra two SA sides, but the Pro 14 should not have the bottom 4 sides and super rugby top 4 sudes it needs mixed up more. Maybe add Pumas and Griquas join super rugby and stormers/sharks move across. However it looks like a done deal that Pumas and Griquas will join the PRO 14. https://m.sport24.co.za/Rugby/CurrieCup/currie-cup-2019-set-for-dramatic-revamp-20181105 The Currie cup has been revamped to 2 conferences one with super Rugby sides and the other the Pro 14 and Pumas and Griquas sides, however when refering to this conference they just call all 4 the PRO 14 sides. Kingshu by BamBam on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 9:42 am Agree with the above, Pro14 should not be accepting the bottom four sides that SA have, essentially means that they are using the league as a development competition. Do the Cheetahs/Kings have any representatives in the Springbok squad? Not sure off the top of my head, but can't imagine that would improve with these two sides coming in Why are we even considering letting these sides join ? Are they even full pro sides ? by VinceWLB on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 10:15 am That's crazy, Pumas and Griquas could be even worse than the Kings. Even though the Kings are going to be private, SARU doesn't have enough money for 8 teams. VinceWLB by tigertattie on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 10:35 am Willie Le Roux palyed for th girquas you know! by SecretFly on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 10:41 am I guess the reason is...and I feel a song coming on: Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around... Money makes the world go around..... This Anyai guy, ( wrong spelling I'm sure but have no time to go check) beginning to think he's not a consolidator of gains made but rather he just seems to be yet another rugby union gold digger who seem to have infested our sport in recent years. It's like when America was expanding west... all it ever needed was carefully crafted reports of Gold in them thar hills and half the nation was off again looking to stake their claim to more injun land. Why doesN't Pro14 now relax for a bit and let the current operation bed down a little. Let's say five years, before chasing after something BIGGER so soon after making something big enough for now. by LordDowlais on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 11:09 am Yes, but semi Pro teams ? I am sure there are better options. by Kingshu on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 11:20 am If resting for 5 years the Prem and Top 14 would start pulling away, the PRO 14 has to generate more money now to keep the best players. The draft system is the plan to make all 8 competative. Personally think PRO 14 should stand firm and say 2 super sides come into PRO 14 a pumas and Griquas move to super rugby, or else we will only have the 4 poorer, less supported teams with less TV clout, over the long term. by SecretFly on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 12:33 pm If money is the idea, and fast, and not a notion of organisational consolidation to give teams, officials, players, refs everyone a breather to hone what we have, then I think Pro14 will sink. And of course, the regular folks will be out saying that the reason Pro14 is sinking is because it isn't ambitious enough and aggressive enough chasing bigger markets etc. I'll say it's because we're being too ambitious. Not allowing each growth spurt to settle down into its own rhythm before asking for big changes again. What do we want? Half the Pro14 season played in SA and half here in Europe? I just feel there is too much of an unrealistic rush to emulate the Top14 and the Prem. Many businesses have fallen away trying to expand too quickly. We're at risk of that; ....and every time Pro14 looks likes its closing on its competitors, the competitors get another monstrous windfall anyway, based on the strengths of high population concentration areas over our spread out, often times embarrassingly small audiences. We have to understand that we're not the only one playing this competing game. The other two see us clearly - and if they see us reach a level that threatens their product then they'll play the game, seek and find the funding to push us back down the ladder. So as we try to compete, we're only quickly rising the costs of competing. Pro14 is rising the costs of everything... they're part of the ever increasingly rise up and up. So we shouldn't always rush to blame the other two. by Kingshu on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 2:09 pm https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/pro14-poised-become-pro16-super-15906502.amp Maybe it will be what I wantes with Bulls, Sharks and Stormer all emerged as potential additions to the PRO14 by RugbyFan100 on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 2:45 pm 4 league games fewer than 4 seasons ago. And my season ticket is not getting any cheaper. Club fans being shafted again to make way for test rugby. It truly is a stepping stone for the test game. Last edited by RugbyFan100 on Fri 01 Mar 2019, 3:02 pm; edited 1 time in total RugbyFan100 "How do we solve the problem of these fixtures that have hardly any of the best players playing in?" "I know - don't play the fixtures in the first place" by LeinsterFan4life on Sat 02 Mar 2019, 4:54 pm How good is Benetton right now? They should have had a European QF (Connacht scored a last minute intercept try to deny them) and now they look a cert for the HC by BigGee on Sat 02 Mar 2019, 5:12 pm Agreed about Benetton and it is hard not to be happy for them, they have done it the hard way and deserve it. Funny how making the HC qualification based on merit alone has dragged up the quality of some of the countries who had a free lunch before (and I include the Scottish sides in that as well!). That turned out to be one of the better decisions Euro rugby made recently! by VinceWLB on Sat 02 Mar 2019, 5:29 pm LeinsterFan4life wrote: How good is Benetton right now? They should have had a European QF (Connacht scored a last minute intercept try to deny them) and now they look a cert for the HC They have built great depth look at Cannone, was huge again today and got MoM against Dragons, he is only a permit player! Their 2 wingers are great and are there all season long. Crowley should be given a lot of credit for having improved them to that extent. by RugbyFan100 on Sat 02 Mar 2019, 5:51 pm Absolutely disgraceful service from premier sports today Ospreys game was blank screen for first 15 minutes. Scarlets game cutting out and unwatchable. Prem sports blaming s4c but apparently s4c has been fine Scottish football fans also fuming at their game cutting out. Pathetic broadcaster. VinceWLB wrote: The way they have performed during the 6N has been remarkable given how many of them are in the Italy squad. Keatley coming in should improve their squad depth even further. I was worried about the Crowley appointment but he's been brilliant and Canada have been a disaster since he left. by LondonTiger on Sat 02 Mar 2019, 8:09 pm I read somewhere that Georgia may be looking to enter a team into a European league. Would not bring money, but could make things interesting. by The Oracle on Sun 03 Mar 2019, 9:38 am Any chance the fixtures could be looked at going forward?! It’s the Dragons’ last game of the season at home today. It’s the start of March ffs! I know that 1) there might not be a Dragons next year so might not be an issue going forward and 2) the obvious answer is just to win more to be involved in play offs, etc. But, but, but......... still! Anyone fancy a kick around in April?! Give the players something to do and the fans something to watch! If so, let’s get something in the calendar at Rodney Parade. by Kingshu on Sun 03 Mar 2019, 10:08 am Dragons have a home game to finish the season on the 26th April, cant blame the schedule that Dragons will play it at the PS. I do get your poimt though, Dragons over the years have normally got the worst schedule, each year it has been better, hopefully that happens next year. On a side note anyone any clues what will happen the 4 regions, it looks like the WRU want a WRU c owned RCG1404 in North Wales, so one will be merged in the south. Ospreys are doing themselves no favours at the minute. by RiscaGame on Sun 03 Mar 2019, 11:58 am Is it not part Dragons’ fault we have the fixtures like this and that’s why we had three at home in September? RiscaGame by Stone Motif on Sun 03 Mar 2019, 12:07 pm Kingshu wrote: Dragons have a home game to finish the season on the 26th April, cant blame the schedule that Dragons will play it at the PS. Phil posted a very good article on what the likely outcome of the WRUs agenda would be, but it got mangled in the translation into Failtacht. Looking forward to two development sides of Dragons level players lighting up the PrO'25 from 2020, don't know about you. by The Oracle on Sun 03 Mar 2019, 12:45 pm It’s not a home fixture really Kingshu. It’s in Cardiff. My point was that there is not home fixture at Rodney Parade (our home ground) beyond 3rd March. I know we had a few in a row last month so I’m not making out that we’ve got more away than home games or anything like that. Would just be nice to have a relatively uniform layout of home and away fixtures. E.g. Home then away then home then away, etc. But we have whole months with no home games and then like this where we’re not there again at all well ahead of the season finishing. Could be due to difficulties scheduling 3 sides on the pitch too I guess. But it just came as a shock when I heard we’d finished at RP already. Maybe even forever... by Brendan on Mon 04 Mar 2019, 7:45 am Just on the Griquas and Pumas. They have been Currie cup teams for a long time and are more of a level that the Cheetahs are at. The Kings a poor because they play in the level below Currie cup so their core players are a level lower. Since the Currie Cup has ended Cheetahs have got stronger due to the Currie Cup players moving from other regions. With the squads for the 8 teams going from about 100 players down to 50 players the two new teams will be as strong as the Cheetahs with the Kings going up a little. If we look at players who have come in to the Pro14 from Currie cup the standard is high enough and it's not like they get embrassed in Currie Cup games. They will be hard to beat at away for sure. Location : Cork by stevetynant on Mon 04 Mar 2019, 8:02 am Good Article from Franno in the Irish Indie - could be some big investment on the horizon "When CVC Capital Partners took 27 per cent of the Premiership for £230m, I thought, is this Bitcoin? I felt it was an extravagant valuation. It wasn't a case of divide and conquer, but from the perspective of the venture capitalists it was probably best to get the English on board first because they will think they are in charge. The ink wasn't even dry on that contract when CVC went looking for further equity acquisitions - or maybe they were already taking place. Talks for a minority holding in the Pro14 are at an advanced stage, which probably means they began negotiations months ago. If a deal is agreed, and the Premiership valuation is a guide, then it's Mardi Gras time for the Pro14." Big Money talks with the 6 Nations in the sights as well stevetynant Location : Rhymney Valley S Wales by marty2086 on Mon 04 Mar 2019, 10:42 am The growing value of live sports rights makes anything outside the Premier League ripe for investment by SecretFly on Mon 04 Mar 2019, 11:23 am Everything is always relative. Players are still human, still have to train and diet hard to achieve continuous high standards, enough to win things. Teams still need a few naturally skilled players with an X factor that pushes them a little above the chasing pack. And they need the best coaches they can afford. And that's the most relative thing of all - money. Big money/investment is relative to the league you support. If Pro14 gets a big investment of cash.... how much of an increase in purchasing power do they get? I'd argue very little in real terms as the rival leagues won't and don't just wait for Pro14 to catch up. They move ahead with their own plans for even bigger investment... so Pro14 no matter how many hundred million comes in, are still going to be struggling to get and keep best coaches, to hold onto their top players ( players in the other leagues will still be offered more)... and Pro14 will increasingly have to be remarkably good at spotting the very best of their up and coming academy players because increasingly they won't be able to hold on to most of them and delay the choosing as long as possible. So it's all very well Mardi Gra-ing the potential for loadsa money windfalls, it'll remain relative to the windfalls coming to Gallaghers and Top14. All that's happing now is a blind race of immediate greed worldwide... I'd say it's an epidemic, a kind of frenzied madness. But it's certain that amidst all this talk of free money everywhere just there for the asking, that many current interests of power and influence within the game are being set up for a fall - a big one. This is a battle for complete Power over the game, both club and International, and as always when power plays happen, talk of lots of free money do the rounds to soften the minds of conscientious objectors. We're in danger here of National governance of a National sport being taken away from people living within the Nation with the continuous best interests of that Nation as their guiding principle. When you sell you autonomy rights, you just don't get to ask for them back whenever you get uneasy about the direction the sport in your Nation is heading. As Guns said on another thread, be careful what you wish for. by Brendan on Mon 04 Mar 2019, 10:05 pm https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/rugby/ospreys-and-scarlets-set-to-merge-in-radical-overhaul-908699.html Not sure if it is being reported else where. It would be some super team. You would figure that it would result in the Blues being strenghten too. by stevetynant on Mon 04 Mar 2019, 10:11 pm Hard to understand the reasoning to be honest.The Blues and Dragons are 15 miles apart at best, both the W wWales sides have better stadiums and until recently played better rugby.I don’t want to see any of the 4 go having been through it as a Celtic Warriors supporter but why the Ospreys and not the Dragons,I just don’t get it. Is it that the two investors/backers are happy to work together. With the Dragons being the WRU team and the Blues being the Capital team could this new team be seen as the anti WRU team and thus get support from the disenfranchised. To be fair if they are chasing cups every year I don't think it will be hard to find the bandwagon. by RiscaGame on Mon 04 Mar 2019, 10:36 pm Brendan wrote: Is it that the two investors/backers are happy to work together. Ospreys are supposedly skint. by bsando on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 9:12 am Just saw this, I personally think it is a brilliant idea by the WRU. From an outsiders perspective, Wales have consistently been very good at international level but I think their club sides have stagnated, especially in European competition. Scarlets had a good period not so long ago but there is a lack of consistency compared with England, France and recently Scotland. Glasgow will be back in European competition again next year and possibly Edinburgh for a 2nd year in a row if they pull their finger out for their final Pro14 fixtures. What Wales are really missing is consistently making Pro14 playoffs and competitive form in Europe. Add that and I think it'll only benefit the Welsh side further. bsando by marty2086 on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 9:26 am bsando wrote: Just saw this, I personally think it is a brilliant idea by the WRU. From an outsiders perspective, Wales have consistently been very good at international level but I think their club sides have stagnated, especially in European competition. Scarlets had a good period not so long ago but there is a lack of consistency compared with England, France and recently Scotland. Glasgow will be back in European competition again next year and possibly Edinburgh for a 2nd year in a row if they pull their finger out for their final Pro14 fixtures. What Wales are really missing is consistently making Pro14 playoffs and competitive form in Europe. Add that and I think it'll only benefit the Welsh side further. It's a great idea to merge two regions when the whole regional concept got off to a bad start due to doing something similar? This has the potential to alienate both fanbases and make the operating conditions even more difficult and ending up having to do something similar down the line by RugbyFan100 on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 9:30 am The Pro14 is killing Welsh domestic rugby I said. Don't be so ridiculous you said. RugbyFan100 wrote: The Pro14 is killing Welsh domestic rugby I said. So Ospreys are being badly run so the league is to blame? by RiscaGame on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 9:54 am It is a disaster. I would wager Ospreys average attendance is probably more than RGC's ground can hold, so it doesn't make sense for them to be the team to go and risk alienating people who actually do pour money into the game, to pander to people who may or may not. I don't see how it is a positive to merge two strong teams. There are Wales squad members who play in same positions for a start, that aren't going to play as often as they like. Loosehead Evans, Smith, Wyn Jones Ball, Beard, AWJ, Bradley Tipuric, Davies Davies, Parkes, Watkin, Williams. Then where do the academy players go? North Wales or Dragons, where they probably get hammered every week. Last edited by RiscaGame on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 10:02 am; edited 1 time in total I will not be renewing my season ticket, nor will hundreds of others, unless the team is still called scarlets, they play in red and at Parc y Scarlets. by SecretFly on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 10:05 am .... unless a merger doesn't occur..... by The Oracle on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 10:13 am Posted this on the other thread...... Just my personal opinion, but merging Scarlets and Ospreys seems on the face of it the stupidest decision I've ever seen in rugby. However, I say this without knowing what's going on in the background. Maybe the O's are being kicked out of the Liberty Stadium? Maybe the O's backers are deciding to cut and run and they'll go bust? If so then 1 team based at the PYS makes sense. But if the above is not the case then I just can't see why you'd merge the two most successful regions and not cut the Dragons. And that's coming from a Dragons fan. I get that the WRU own the Dragons but they're not going to lose money if they sold the Dragons tomorrow - in fact they'd make a tidy profit. Yet to get them up to the level of the Scarlets or Ospreys, plus trying to get a North Wales team up to pro level on and off the pitch, is going to take a hell of a lot of time, money and effort - which makes you wonder why not just keep both the Scarlets and Ospreys and bin the Dragons? That way they'd just need a bit of work on the Ospreys and focus their resources on N Wales if that's their big 'project'. SecretFly wrote: .... unless a merger doesn't occur..... Yes, I've been thinking that this morning - big meeting taking place and of course the outcome could be........ to just say no. by marty2086 on Tue 05 Mar 2019, 10:16 am Is it not a case of Ospreys holding their hands up saying they can't carry on and Scarlets saying we'll merge with you? I know rugby union seems to be in flux just about everywhere on the planet right now (Not a great advert for the supposed wise-heads that allegedly run it in these modern professional times).... but it seems in particular that Wales is tearing itself apart on the issue. I really don't know why that is but it seems too many Welsh rugby fans think that the regions are the enemy.... even people who support them seem to be less than enthusiastic about the competitions they involve themselves in. Add to that the WalesOnline agenda of baa humbugging just about anything that moves that has an oval ball attached to it and yep, you realise there is somewhat of an implosion taking place. How to solve it all? More mergers and comlicated private meets Union relationships, and more boycotts by more fans that don't want to be corralled into supporting yet another team with another shirt and another new name. I personally still think the main problem (not just in Wales but across the world now) is us - the fans. Now you might say it's a sly media leading fans away from a blunt interest in results to a more lucrative (for the media) interest in All the political intrigues of Rugby admin throughout the world, or you might say it's the fans themselves that are leading the way to all the utter confusion about the Local and world game in recent years. It's the non-ending chatter across the social media platforms that create the hot spots of contention and that also show the ambitious disrupters( the money men) where their targets might be best placed. Then the media follows along for the ride, heating up the topics even more to sell their column inches. Everything is a drama heading to a crisis - everything is something that needs major changes in order to 'GROW'. The narrative is always the same one. There is now more rugby politics talked on these pages than there is threads dedicated to actual games, results, league placements etc. The media love the endless intrigue as it allows stories to be written 24 hours a day' seven days a week. But the meltdown and non-ending confusion about where rugby is, where it needs to go, who has to do the changing, where the money needs to come from.... ; most of it is being generated by fans across the world who now simply enjoy the 'politics' of sport far more than they do the actual game on the field. by TightHEAD on Wed 06 Mar 2019, 3:19 pm The writing has been on the wall for years, I said all I need to say on this years ago too. TightHEAD Location : BOJOLand by Brendan on Thu 14 Mar 2019, 11:53 am https://www.rugbypass.com/news/bulls-set-to-cut-over-100-contracts-reports Bulls are looking to cut a hundred player contracts. These would include loaning players. Good news possibly for Kings and Cheetahs. Last year the Bulls signed up 54 players out of school in a big net gets the best players approach. With the u19 league scrapped they are reviewing how they do things. by LordDowlais on Thu 14 Mar 2019, 7:59 pm Well, seems that others are agreeing with me here in Wales about the state of the Pro14 since it left free to air TV, and Peter Jackson even touched on it on Scrum V on Sunday night, I know this is WOL, but it does make for interesting reading:- The PRO14 is an invisible, convoluted mess that most people simply don't care about The future of Welsh rugby doesn't look too bright in the PRO14 It was at a dinner table in a Cardiff Thai restaurant earlier this week that the message struck home more powerfully than for some time. There we were, a bunch of rugby enthusiasts, discussing various issues affecting the game, when I issued my pals with a starter for 10. "Which of the two Guinness PRO14 conferences do the four Welsh regions play in? Conference A or Conference B?" An immediate bout of conferring ensued, but despite a variety of responses being thrown my way all five friends were forced into a resigned admission. These were guesses. In terms of knowing the correct answer with any degree of certainty, not one of them had the faintest beginnings of an inkling of an idea. Disturbingly, they will be far from alone. Regional diehards will snort derision, but such derision merely underlines the point: the PRO14 is arguably less a part of the Welsh public's general sporting consciousness than at any time since the old club system was done away with in 2003 to usher in the brave new world of Welsh-Scottish-Irish-Italian combat. And without an appeal to a more casual consumer base, its hard to see anything changing. Over and above the stagnation - or decline - in match attendance here, data to underline the pervading sense of apathy is scarce. Broadcaster Premier Sports recently declared subscriptions had exceeded their expectations, but such sweeping statements have little currency. Viewing figures since the paid-for channel took over coverage of the Guinness-backed tournament have been conspicuous by their absence. In fact, several requests for them by this organisation have proved fruitless. Why? Is it because the unpalatable reality is that Guinness PRO14 rugby has become more invisible than ever since the bulk of it was removed from free-to-air TV? Nobody disputes that the extra revenue on offer from Premier Sports was of huge importance to the regions, but if nobody's talking about what they're doing that revenue will soon start to drip away in more insidious streams. After five months of bedding in, it is now difficult to argue that Premier Sports is not a reasonably safe pair of hands, despite one or two teething problems in the commentary box. That shouldn't be a surprise because, let's face it, they've recruited so many who used to be involved with the BBC Scrum V programme. But how many are watching? There are those who are adamant that the £10-a-month fee is worth every penny. Many more refuse point blank to pay yet another broadcaster for the privilege of watching rugby in their living rooms, especially when they don't particularly rate the product. Furthermore, what you can't do, for the most part, is meet your mates down the pub to watch the game. S4C have limited rights, sure. There's also the odd match on FreeSports if Southern Kings v Connacht takes your fancy. But, for example, walking into your local over the Christmas period to watch the Welsh derby games wasn't an option in some towns. Not mine at any rate. Doubtless there is the odd exception, but plenty of pubs simply don't screen Premier Sports. Who can blame them when it already costs thousands to provide Sky and BT? Late last month, on a Friday night, Glasgow and the Ospreys played out a 9-3 affair at Scotstoun and the Scarlets went down 22-17 to Leinster in Dublin in what was a far perkier encounter. While those two games were tucked behind a subscription paywall, Arsenal were playing Manchester United in the fourth round of the FA Cup on BBC One. Given the mass appeal of what was happening at the Emirates Stadium, I would be surprised if the Welsh television audience for the rugby ran into four figures. The PRO14, and all of its previous guises, has, and has always had, an image problem. It has always been given short shrift by UK national newspaper sports desks who don't regard it worthy of allocating a proper resource. The introduction of South African teams, the move to two Conferences and the greater jeopardy introduced around qualification for the Champions Cup were all supposed to address that. I am deeply unconvinced about whether, in terms of the PRO14 appeal in Wales, any of the above have come close to having the desired effect. The conference system has just made following how the competition is unfolding more convoluted. The presence of the South Africans? It's neither here nor there. The Kings and the Cheetahs certainly don't boost turnstile revenue, so why should they be having any tangible impact on armchair watchers? https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/pro14-invisible-convoluted-mess-most-15736120 Have read, this is really what putting the Pro14 on pay per view tele has done to the competition in Wales, yet certain members on here will say I talk nonsense. by marty2086 on Thu 14 Mar 2019, 9:41 pm Given that the conference system existed prior to going to Premier Sports what has 10 entirely believable 'rugby enthusiasts' not knowing which conference the Welsh regions are in got to do with Premier Sports? NB. Games are still on Free To Air tv and haven't left it by mikey_dragon on Thu 14 Mar 2019, 10:02 pm Brendan wrote: https://www.rugbypass.com/news/bulls-set-to-cut-over-100-contracts-reports So that's a 100 players in and around Pretoria? Obviously the best 40 will be snapped up by the franchise, but it HAS to improve the Cheetahs and Kings slightly.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line477
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If you are heading north on Scenic 197 you need to watch back and to the right to see the mill. It is plainly visible heading south. Built on Hazel Creek, Shorts Mill sports an iron millwheel. The nearby area is still referred to as Shorts Mill. Habersham County Courthouse and Clock Tower Scenic 197 divides the city of Clarkesville in two. The largest city on the journey, Clarkesville has been steadily increasing in population from 1,151 in the 1990 U. S. Census to 1,602 in the 2006 estimate. The center of town is marked by quaint shops and the unusual Habersham County courthouse and Clock Tower. In front of the courthouse are a gazebo and the Habersham County War Memorial at the intersection of Scenic 197 and Georgia 17. In Clarkesville Scenic 197 follows the route of Historic 441 in the downtown area before turning north. The beautiful campus of North Georgia Technical Institute is just north of downtown on the highway. North of Clarkesville Route 197 takes on an entirely different persona. The dips and rises shorten and are more dramatic, and turns, almost 90 degrees and some unmarked are a major part of the road. The road follows the Soque River and small arts and crafts shops pop up every couple of miles. Mark of the Potter One of these stores is a converted grist mill called "Mark of the Potter." Owned by Jay Bucek, Mark (as he fondly called the shop) took up most of his time from 1985 until health issues forced him to retire a few years ago. Now two full-time potters and other part-timers make their "mark" on the store, which also features the work of other nearby artists. The current grist mill was built in the 1930's but a mill has existed on the site since the early 1820's, shortly after Habersham County was created. A 25-foot falls creates a beautiful setting and large trout, a hallmark of the Soque, swim underneath the back porch (no fishing allowed). Batesville General Store at the intersection of the Old Clayton Highway and Scenic 197 At Batesville, Scenic 197 is joined by the historic Clayton Road, now designated as SR 255. Here the Batesville General Store warmly greets travelers with country flavor. Behind the General Store is the Wilson Lumpkin Hill House, a unique "bed and biscuit," where guests can visit the Batesville General Store and get their choice of biscuits. Scenic 197 takes a more northerly route, crossing and leaving the Soque and heading to the mountains of Rabun County. It was in this area that the old Clayton Road turned left, entered the Tallulah River Valley, joining the river at the confluence of Bridge Creek. From here it followed the Tallulah River north, crossing the river to became the main street for the town of Burton, Georgia (population 203, 1910 Census), now under Lake Burton due east of Moccasin Creek State Park. The road turned east in Burton, climbing out of the valley and continuing to Clayton. In 1917 Georgia Power Company agent John LaPrade began buying the land for the lake. He built a fishing camp and later a family-style restaurant reminiscent of the Dillard House. It was considered to be one of the finest north Georgia eating establishments. The fishing camp served as a CCC staging location in the 1930's. In 1972 the LaPrade family sold its holdings, but the new owners continued with the same name. On May 15,2005 LaPrades Restaurant burned. Today, a marina on Lake Burton bearing the same name sits across the road from the site of the restaurant. Rent a pontoon boat, fishing boat, canoe or almost anything else here on Saturday and Sunday (These are full-day rentals). Fishermen enjoy the day at Moccasin Creek State Park Moccasin Creek State Park is an excellent stop for travelers on Scenic 197 or US 76. The park offers camping, fishing and boating on the shores of Lake Burton, a wide, watershed lake designed to hold late winter and early spring downfalls for electric production during the hot summer. The fingers of the lake reach deep into the valleys of North Georgia, offering canoeists a remarkable opportunity to paddle down the lake. Near Moccasin Creek along route 197 is Hemlock Falls Trail, a short(2.0 miles roundtrip) hike from the parking area. Although the path continues to a higher falls, and met the Appalachian Trail at Addis Gap at one time, the second trail has not been maintained. The Lake Burton Fish Hatchery offers tours daily. It is on the other side of Moccasin Creek from the State Park. For those who like more technical information about Lake Burton: 62 miles of shoreline 2775.4 acres of surface at normal level, which is 9 miles from bridge to dam(more if you're canoeing) 42 species of fish And for the fishermen who are reading this, the best trout streams are: Dick's Creek Moccasin Creek Tallulah River Wildcat Creek Soque River Popcorn Ridge As the road roams north, next to the only occasionally visible Lake Burton we near the end of our journey, U. S. 76, an old east-west road. Here in a quiet section our journey is almost over. To the right on 76 lays Clayton, Georgia, in the heart of Rabun County. To the left is Hiawassee, in Towns County. Shortly down the road to Hiawassee is a high spot known as Popcorn Ridge. An unusual land formation created the ridge and deposited minerals near the peak. Miners worked this area for a number of years and evidence of their activity can be seen. As you look north from this federally developed roadside stop Rabun Gap is visible as well as most of the mountains in the county. Georgia S.R. 197 runs through Rabun and Habersham Counties. Here are some other interesting pages about the area. Archives of Habersham County Rabun County, Georgia Archives of Rabun County Habersham County, Georgia Moccasin Creek State Park County: Rabun County Habersham County Roads of North Georgia Highways and byways of North Georgia, both present-day and historic Dillard House Hemlock Falls Trail North Georgia Technical Institute About North Georgia Index Add link from your web site to Scenic 197 Georgia Imix All of the photographs, graphics and text on About North Georgia (http://www.aboutnorthgeorgia.com) are © Copyright 1994-2020 by Golden Ink unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. 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__label__cc	0.735349	0.264651	Joint press conference following the meeting of the heads of the founding states, International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council Talgat Donakov Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Timur Kulibayev, the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Atameken” President of Kazakhstan took part in the opening ceremony of celebrations dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Abai Kunanbayuly The Head of State received Mayor of Nur-Sultan Altai Kulginov President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received GRECO's Executive Secretary Gianluca Esposito Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with members of the Presidential youth personnel reserve Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Minister of Trade and Integration Bakhyt Sultanov President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting on the situation in the Persian Gulf The President held a meeting with the leadership of his administration on priority tasks in 2020 President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's New Year's Eve Speech President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Prime Minister Askar Mamin The Head of State received Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Kazakhstan Alexey Borodavkin The Head of State took part in a solemn ceremony of awarding state awards and prizes Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received the credentials from the Ambassadors of a number of foreign states The Head of State met with Jens Neugebauer, Director of the External Relations Department at the Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research The Head of State held a number of meetings with representatives of German business Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with former German President Horst Köhler President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the 28th meeting of the Berlin Eurasian Club The Head of State met with Chairman of the Munich Security Conference Wolfgang Ischinger President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev addressed the heads of German companies President of Kazakhstan held meetings with representatives of German business President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held talks with German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier The Head of State held a meeting with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder The President of Kazakhstan and the Chancellor of Germany held a joint press conference for the media Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Angela Merkel held talks Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received the delegation of Qatar The Head of State held a meeting with representatives of French business The President of Kazakhstan took part in the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the meeting of the Supreme Interstate Council of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Sooronbay Jeenbekov held talks in a narrow format Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting with the heads of foreign diplomatic missions accredited in Kazakhstan The Presidents of Kazakhstan and Switzerland held talks in an expanded format The Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held negotiations with President of Switzerland Ueli Maurer in the narrow format President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the “Digital Centre”, the office on the provision of digital services The Head of State got acquainted with the facilities of Nur-Sultan’s innovation ecosystem The Head of State received Takehiko Nakao, President of the Asian Development Bank Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Wang Yilin, Chairman of the CNPC Corporation President of Kazakhstan received Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif The Head of State met with former President of Slovenia Danilo Turk The Head of State received the Credentials from Ambassadors of a number of states Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Jacques Attali, prominent French politician, President of “Attali & Associes” The Presidents of Kazakhstan and Russia were presented a number of joint projects Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting with Vladimir Putin Kazakhstan's President received Tanzila Narbayeva, Chairman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with world tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting with Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Radek Vondracek President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea Kang Kyung-wha President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Teo Chee Hean, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security of Singapore Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization Zurab Pololikashvili The Head of State received Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with the US political and expert community in New York President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Che Jun, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting with the founder of Alibaba Group Jack Ma The Head of State visited some cultural landmarks of Hangzhou President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the office of “Hikvision” company The Head of State met with Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Zhanshu President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held talks with Chinese President XI Jinping President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered a lecture at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with representatives of Chinese business circles The President of Kazakhstan met with Yang Jiechi, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Natalya Godunova, Chairman of the Accounts Committee for Control over Execution of the Republican budget Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Vagit Alekperov, President of the Russian oil company “LUKOIL” The Head of State took part at the First Forum of Asian countries’ writers The Head of State received Prime Minister Askar Mamin Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Michael Wirth, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Corporation Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received credentials from ambassadors of 10 states The Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered his State of the Nation Address President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s State of the Nation Address, September 2, 2019 The President of Kazakhstan took part in the ceremony of awarding the “Nazarbayev Prize for Nuclear Weapon Free World and Global Security” The Head of State receives Zhang Xiao, Ambassador of China President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the Kazakhmys Smelting LLP copper smelting plant in Zhezkazgan The President of Kazakhstan visited the new clinic in Karaganda The Head of State visited “Saryarka” special economic zone and “Alfarukh” logistics center Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Askar Beisenbayev, Ambassador-designate of Kazakhstan to Belarus, Permanent Representative to the statutory bodies of the CIS in concurrently Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives the Foreign Ministers of the Central Asian countries Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives David Hale, the United States Under Secretary of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Klaus Mangold, former Chairman of the German Eastern Business Association, Independent Director of “Baiterek” National Management Holding” JSC President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Peter Burian, European Union’s Special Representative for Central Asia Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives US Congressmen Devin Nunes and Rick Crawford Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Yuri Pya, Chairman of the Board of National Scientific Cardiac Surgery Centre Participation in the opening ceremony of the 10th anniversary of the Presidential Cup on ice hockey The Head of State receives Bolat Bakauov, Akim of Pavlodar region Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Prime Minister Askar Mamin The Head of State receives Nurlan Nogayev, Akim of Atyrau region Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Akim of Almaty The Head of State receives Yerlan Aitakhanov, Akim of Shymkent Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives a poet and public figure Nurlan Orazalin Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Tungyshbai Zhamankulov, Chairman of the Union of Kazakhstan’s Theatre Workers President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and Finance of France President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Aidar Arifkhanov, Chairman of the Board of the “National Managing Holding of “Baiterek” JSC The Head of State receives Bauyrzhan Baibek, First Deputy Chairman of Nur Otan Party The Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Altai Kulginov, Akim of Nur-Sultan The Head of State receives Nurlan Yermekbayev, Minister of Defence The Head of State receives Kanat Islam, professional boxer The Head of State meets Cyril Muller, World Bank’s Vice President for Europe and Central Asia The Head of State receives Gizat Nurdauletov, Prosecutor General The Head of State receives Askhat Aimagambetov, Minister of Education and Science The Head of State held extended meeting of Kazakhstan’s Cabinet Head of State receives Stephen Kaniewski, President and CEO of Valmont Industries Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Magzum Mirzagaliev, Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attends concert on the National Day of Dombra Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in the ceremony of hoisting the National Flag Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in 32nd plenary session of Foreign Investors’ Council The Head of State met with Suma Chakrabarti, EBRD President President of Kazakhstan receives Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Tuncay Ozilhan, President of Anadolu Group President of Kazakhstan meets with Julie Monaco, global head in Citi’s public sector group Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meets with Justin Smith, CEO of Bloomberg Media Group President of Kazakhstan met with Bandar Hajjar, President of the Islamic Development Bank Group President of Kazakhstan holds meeting of AIFC Management Council Head of State receives Kairat Kelimbetov, Managing Director of Astana International Financial Centre Kassym-Jomart Tokayev holds meeting with the Presidential Administration leadership President of Kazakhstan receives Stanislav Zas, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus The First President of Kazakhstan visits the new metropolitan mosque Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits the regional clinical hospital The Head of State made a detour of Arys Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits the evacuation centre in Arys President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Zhakip Asanov, Chairman of the Supreme Court Meeting on social protection issues chaired by the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in 30 Years of Leadership International Conference Leader of Nation Nursultan Nazarbayev puts the time capsule with message to future generation Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Ahylbek Kurishbaev, Rector of the Kazakh Agrotechnical University Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meets with the leadership of the State Security Service The Kazakh President takes part in the 5th CICA Summit Meeting with Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani The President of Kazakhstan takes part in the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of SCO President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meets with Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China Kassym-Jomart Tokayev inaugurated as President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev gives a press conference for Kazakh and foreign journalists on the presidential elections The President of Kazakhstan visits Nur Astana mosque President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meets with Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held talks with Donald Tusk, President of the European Council The Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits the National Guard’s military unit President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev holds meeting of National Investors Council The President of Kazakhstan makes speech at the forum of health care workers President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits Kazchrome ferroalloy plant President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev familiarizes himself with Aktobe’s industrial zone The Head of State visits Green Capital Kazakhstan greenhouse complex President of Kazakhstan visits SaryarkaAvtoProm LLP Head of State takes part in Kazakh-Russian youth partnership forum Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Urszula Gacek, head of OSCE/ODIHR observer mission Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Vice Premier of State Council of the People's Republic of China Han Zheng President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meets with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meets with President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Prime Minister of Georgia Mammuk Bakhtadze The President of Kazakhstan visits Ruhani Zhangyru regional centre The President of Kazakhstan gets acquainted with Jan Arai agro-industrial complex President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev familiarizes himself with Uralsk airport modernization project The First President of Kazakhstan visits military parade on the 74th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in ceremony of laying flowers to Otan Korgaushylar Monument President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in ceremony of awarding highest military and special ranks President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Darkhan Kydyrali, President of the International Turkic Academy President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits mayor’s office of Karatal district President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits Kainar AKB LLP President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives the Head of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits the new UN office in Almaty President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in celebration of the Day of Unity of Kazakhstan’s Nation President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev visits Almaty’s urban planning centre The President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits Bakytty Otbasy, centre for mothers with many children President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits Zhambyl Youth Library in Almaty XXVII session of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan chaired by the First President of Kazakhstan - Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Nazarbayev awarded the Order of Friendship of the People's Republic of China Briefing for the media after negotiations with Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Altai Kulginov, akim of West Kazakhstan First President of Kazakhstan gets acquainted with the capital city’s future development plan President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in Nur Otan Party’s 19th extraordinary congress President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in Kazakh-South Korean business forum Briefing on the results of negotiations with President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in Nursultan Nazarbayev meets with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Kazakhstan Zhang Xiao President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev holds talks with President of South Korea Moon Jae-in in expanded format President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has talks with President of Korea Moon Jae-In in a narrow circle President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits Kosshy village President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Alikhan Smailov, First Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Murat Bektanov, First Deputy Minister of Defense, Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes part in extended meeting of Interior Ministry Board Briefing for media on negotiations with the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev Meeting with President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev in expanded format State visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan Visit to Aktau International Sea Trade Port Visit to the Maritime Academy Visit to Aktau’s municipal polyclinic 2 Visit to the business service centre of Aktau city President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Chair of the Russian Public Council for International Cooperation and Public Diplomacy President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Health Minister Yelzhan Birtanov Address of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the nation The President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Maulen Ashimbayev, First Deputy Chair of Nur Otan Party, Azat Peruashev, Chairman of Ak Zhol Democratic Party of Kazakhstan, Aikyn Konurov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan, and Ali Bektayev, Chair of Auyl People’s Democratic Patriotic Party President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Dariga Nazarbayeva, Chair of the Senate, Askar Mamin, Prime Minister, Kairat Mami, Chair of the Constitutional Council, and Vladimir Bojko, Deputy Chair of the Majilis Meeting with Miroslav Lajčák, Chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos Meeting with Valentina Matvienko, Chairwoman, Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Participation in ceremony of laying flowers to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Briefing for media on the negotiations with President of Russia Vladimir Putin Meeting with Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation Official visit to the Russian Federation Meeting with Alexey Borodavkin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Kazakhstan President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receives Andrei Fursenko, Assistant to the President of Russia Meeting with Zhang Xiao, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Kazakhstan Participation in the ceremony of accepting credentials Meeting with akims of regions, cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty and Shymkent, chaired by the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev First President of Kazakhstan, Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev arrives in Almaty Attending the 2020 European Football Championship qualifying match Meeting with Turkestan city's public Familiarization with construction of residential houses under Nurly Jer Program Visiting the regional youth resource centre Visiting Yasawi Mausoleum Participation in the celebration events on Nauryz Meeting with Yerlan Turgumbaev, Interior Minister Meeting with Nurlan Yermekbayev, Minister of Defense Meeting with Yerbolat Dosayev, Chairman of the National Bank Meeting with the Secretary of State Bakhytzhan Sagintayev Meeting chaired by the President of Kazakhstan Meeting with Prime Minister Askar Mamin Participation in the meeting, the Senate of Parliament The President of Kazakhstan takes the oath to Kazakhstan’s nation Address of the Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan Meeting with representatives of women’s public, Koktem Shuagy Meeting on the social policy under the chairmanship of the Head of State Meeting with Natalya Godunova, Chairwoman, Accounts Committee for Control over Central Government Budget Execution A Statement from the Head of State Meeting with Akhmetzhan Yesimov, Chairman of Samruk-Kazyna JSC Board Meeting with winners and prize holders of international sports competitions Meeting with Bahytbek Smagul, Parliament’s Majilis Deputy Meeting with Gabidulla Abdrahimov, akim of Shymkent Meeting with Nurlan Smagulov, Astana Group President Security Council meeting chaired by the Head of State Meeting with Iskander Beisembetov, Rector, Kazakh National Research Technical University Meeting with Maulen Ashimbaev, First Deputy, Nur Otan Party Meeting with akims of regions and cities of Astana, Almaty and Shymkent The Head of State chairs the governmental meeting Meeting with Zhanseit Tuimebayev, akim of Turkestan region Meeting with Arkhimed Mukhambetov, akim of Kostanay region Meeting with Yerlan Koshanov, akim of Karaganda region Meeting with Daniyal Akhmetov, akim of East Kazakhstan Visiting the screening of Equus: History of Horse documentary Meeting with Rolf Draak, WTCA Deputy CEO and Mehran Eftekhar, Group Finance Director of Nest Investments Holdings Meeting with President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa Visiting the Smart Aqkol Situation Centre Visit to Kazakhtelecom’s data processing centre Meeting with state and public figure Myrzatai Zholdasbekov Visit to the Holy Dormition Cathedral Congratulations by President Nursultan Nazarbayev on New Year 2019 Visit to the New Year's ball in the capital city Year-end meeting with representatives of national mass media Participation in the solemn reception on the Independence Day of Kazakhstan The Head of State chaired a meeting on Turkestan city development Participation in Industrialization Map projects’ presentation and ceremony of Paryz and Altyn Sapa awarding Watching The Nutcracker ballet The President of Kazakhstan takes part in the informal summit of the CIS heads of state Participation in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council session Working visit to the Russian Federation Meeting with Canada’s Governor General Julie Payette Visiting the research complex at Nazarbayev University Attending the premiere of The Leader’s Way. Astana Meeting with pupils of Zhas Sarbaz, youth military patriotic movement Meeting with Kanat Bozumbayev, Energy Minister The Head of State chairs meeting on social security modernization Participation in the VIII Civil Forum of Kazakhstan Meeting with Nurdinjon Ismoilov, Speaker of Legislative Chamber, Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan Meeting with Eraly Tugzhanov, akim of Mangystau oblast Meeting with Chan Young Bang, President of KIMEP University Interview for TV channels of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Meeting with Azat Peruashev, Majilis deputy, Ak Zhol faction leader Meeting with Daniyar Akishev, Chairman of the National Bank Meeting with Dinzuhra Tlendieva, leader of Otyrar Sazy, State Academic Folk and Ethno Orchestra Head of State chairs the meeting on judicial system modernization Head of State chairs the meeting on modernization of law enforcement agencies Meeting with Abdizhamil Nurpeisov, People’s writer of Kazakhstan, Laureate of State Prize Meeting with the leadership of Kazakhstan’s State Security Service Meeting with Takir Balykbaev, Rector of the Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University Meeting with Peter Pellegrini, Prime Minister of Slovakia Visit to AstanaGenPlan Research and Design Institute Participation in AIX Market Opening, Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Visiting exhibition on anti-nuclear movement of Kazakhstan Meeting with Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister of Turkey Meeting with Hamid Karzai, former President of Afghanistan Participation in Astana Club’s fourth meeting Meeting with Jose Manuel Barroso, former European Commission President Joint visit to Schoolchildren’s Palace Meeting with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Acquaintance with New Approaches and Trends in Tourism Development in Kazakhstan and Russia exhibition Press conference on the CSTO Collective Security Council session Participation in the CSTO Collective Security Council session in extended format Participation in the CSTO Collective Security Council session with restricted attendance The Head of State chairs the Security Council meeting Meeting with Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas Meeting with Zhenis Kasymbek, Investment and Development Minister, Richard Evans, Board member of Samruk-Kazyna JSC and Peter Foster, President of Air Astana Meeting with the Council members, CIS heads of government Meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Meeting with People's Artist Alibek Dnishev Meeting with Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef, Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia Meeting with State Secretary Gulshara Abdykalikova Meeting with Nurlan Yermekbayev, Kazakhstan’s Defence Minister Meeting with the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Meeting with the Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev Meeting with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker Participation in the 12th Summit of Asia-Europe Meeting Meetings on the sidelines of 12th Summit, Asia-Europe Meeting Meeting with President of France Emmanuel Macron Meeting with representatives of European business Meeting with King Philippe of Belgium Visit to the Kingdom of Belgium Meeting with Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland Meeting with business representatives of Finland Meeting with Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nokia Corporation Visiting Aktobe industrial zone Visit to ACE Tennis Center Visiting the Ice Palace Visit to Ayala children's rehabilitation centre Visit to DaruZharygy ophthalmological centre Meeting with Arystanbek Mukhamediuly, Culture and Sports Minister Meeting with Shigeo Katsu, President of Nazarbayev University AEO Meeting with Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor of Astana International Financial Centre Meeting with Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser , High Representative of the UN Alliance of Civilizations Participation in the plenary session of the VI Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions Meeting with Askar Zhumagaliyev, Deputy Prime Minister Meeting with Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar Briefing for the media on the results of the official visit of the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic Meeting with the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic State of the Nation Address of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, October 5, 2018 Meeting with the public of the region and citizens of Turkestan Meeting on socio-economic development of Turkestan region Visiting the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Familiarization with the project for Turkestan city’s development Meeting on the socio-economic development of Shymkent city Visiting the social service centre in Shymkent Visit to PetroKazakhstan Oil Products LLP Meeting with Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia Participation in the meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State Meeting with Robert Azevedo, WTO Director General Meeting with Gabit Baizhanov, Assistant to the President, Security Council Secretary Meeting with Natalya Godunova, Chairperson, Accounts Committee for Control over Central Government Budget Execution Briefing for the media following the state visit to Turkey Participation in the Third Meeting of High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council between Kazakhstan and Turkey Meeting with the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Meeting with Robert Yüksel Yıldırım, President of Yıldırım Group Meeting with Ali Koch, the Board Chairman of Koch Holding Meeting with business people of the Turkish Republic Meeting on Turkestan city’s growth Meeting with George Krol, United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan Meeting with the active of Astana city Meeting with the Presidential Administration's executive staff Visit to the Park for Recreation and Leisure Visiting ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC Visiting Ak Saray palace of ceremonies Meeting on Karaganda region’s socio-economic development Acquaintance with construction of Karaganda city’s new centre Visit to Karaganda Pharmaceutical Complex LLP Visit to Karaganda’s Maker foundry and machine-building plant Visiting AlmatyGenPlan Research Institute LLP Visit to Falcon Eurobus LLP Visit to Almaty’s industrial zone Inspecting reconstructed streets in Almaty city Participation in the VI summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States Participation in the opening ceremony of the III World Nomad Games Visit to the Kyrgyz Republic Visit to Astana’s lyceum school 85 Participation in the joint session of the Parliament Chambers Visit to Tomotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Centre Participation in the opening ceremony of Beibitshilik Kabyrgasy monument Meeting with Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Meeting with participants of the international conference on the Constitution Day of Kazakhstan Meeting with Sauat Mynbayev, Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas JSC Meeting with Gabit Baizhanov, Director of Syrbar Foreign Intelligence Service of Kazakhstan Participation in the meeting of the heads of the founding states, International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea Visit to Turkmenistan Visit to Embamunaigas JSC Visit to Daulet private industrial zone, Karat LLP Working visit to Atyrau region Visiting Hazret Sultan mosque Meeting with Alik Shpekbayev, Chairman of Civil Service and Anti-Corruption Agency Meeting on Astana city development Meeting with Zhakip Asanov, Supreme Court Chairman Visiting the agricultural complex of Zhuravlevka-1 LLP Visit to the agricultural complex of Eximnan Agrofirm LLP Acquaintance with house construction progress in the village of Ilyichevka Visit to Tayinsha Mai LLP Meeting with Akhmetzhan Yesimov, Chairman of the Board of Samruk Kazyna JSC Participation in the ceremony of symbolic release of sturgeon fishes into the natural environment Meeting with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev Meeting with President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Participation in the briefing for the media following the Fifth Caspian Summit Participation in the plenary session of the Fifth Caspian Summit Meeting with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani Inspection of the city seafront Meeting on Mangistau region’s socio-economic development Meeting with Prosecutor General Kairat Kozhamzharov Meeting with the leadership of Defence Ministry Meeting on preparations for the Fifth Caspian Summit Meeting on socio-economic development of Pavlodar region Visit to Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant LLP Visit to Kazenergocabel JSC Visiting GiessenHaus LLP Meeting with public figure Olzhas Suleimenov Meeting with the National Bank Chairman Daniyar Akishev Visit to Birzhan Sara opera Visit to the national skiing base with a ski jump Familiarization with Promenade Burabay construction plans Visiting «Visit Centre» Participation in the solemn reception on celebration of Astana’s 20th anniversary Meeting with first builders of Astana Joint participation of heads of Central Asian states in presentation of Astana International Financial Centre Meeting on the capital city’s 20th anniversary and the birthday of the President of Kazakhstan Meeting with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, who is on official visit in Kazakhstan Visit to Akzhaiyk park Visiting the Paralympics Training Centre Participation in the ceremony of raising the National Flag Visiting the Botanical Garden Taking a view of Astana’s green space Meeting with Gennady Golovkin, boxing world champion Visit to the Robot-Based Surgery Centre in Ust Kamenogorsk Visiting Silumin-Vostok LLP Visit to OstFish LLP Acquaintance with Bolgar and Sviyazhsk town-island revival projects Meeting with President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov Visiting the exhibition of manufacturing facilities Visit to Kazan Federal University Working visit to Tatarstan Participation in the 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony Briefing for media representatives on results of the visit to the People's Republic of China Meeting with President of Mongolia Khaltmaagiin Battulga Meeting with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Participation in the meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State in an expanded format Working visit to China’s Qingdao Meeting with business people of the People's Republic of China Meeting with Wang Yilin, Chairman of the Board of China National Petroleum Corporation Participation in the ceremony of laying flowers at the Monument to the People's Heroes Meeting with Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China Meeting with the actors of Composer film Meeting with Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Meeting with the Chairman of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping in expanded format State visit to the People's Republic of China Meeting with Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Participation in the 31st plenary meeting of Foreign Investors Council Meeting with the President of the EBRD Sir Suma Chakrabarti Meeting with Eraly Tugzhanov, akim of Mangistau region Participation in the ceremony of awarding diplomas to Nazarbayev University graduates Participation in the expanded meeting of Nur Otan Party’s Political Council Meeting with Alik Shpekbayev, Chairman of the Agency for Civil Service and Anti-Corruption Public enactment of Law Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of Kazakhstan on Improving Business Regulation Meeting with Sergey Shoygu, Defence Minister of the Russian Federation Meeting with secretaries of security councils and ministers of defence departments, CSTO Participation in the opening ceremony of KADEX 2018, V International Exhibition of Weapons System and Military Property Meeting with Beibut Atamkulov, Minister of Defence and Aerospace Industry Participation in the gala concert on the 20th anniversary of the Kazakh National University of Arts Meeting with leading foreign experts participating in the XI Astana Economic Forum Meeting with Arkady Volozh, founder of Yandex Meeting with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak Meeting with Francois Hollande, ex-President of France, member of the Constitutional Council of France Meeting with Ban Ki-moon, the eighth UN Secretary-General, Chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia Participation in the plenary session of the XI Astana Economic Forum, Global Challenges Summit Meeting with Ong Beng Seng, founder of Hotel Properties Limited Meeting on socio-economic development of West Kazakhstan Visit to the Palace of Youth and Schoolchildren Visiting the central city square in Uralsk Visit to Agran LLP Visit to West Kazakhstan Engineering Company JSC Visiting the factory of Zhaiyk Agro LTD Visit to the furniture factory of Quanta LLP Participation in the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council Visiting Atameken Business City exhibition complex Working visit to Almaty region Participation in the ceremony of laying flowers at the Memorial of Glory Participation in the military parade on the Day of Fatherland Defender Meeting with the honoured artist Yuri Pomerantsev Meeting with akim of Almaty city Bauyrzhan Baibek Visit to SmArt.Point start-up site Visit to "Keruen Medicus" medical centre Visiting the new tennis centre Ace Participation in the ceremony of awarding the highest military and special ranks, class ranks and state awards Meeting with Tigran Sargsyan, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Visit to the new mosque in Astana Participation in the celebration of the National Unity Day Participation in the XXVI Session of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan Meeting with Leonid Prokopenko, Deputy Chairman of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan and Head of the Secretariat Board Meeting on Samruk Kazyna National Welfare Fund Management Meeting on the National Bank’s results Meeting with Kang Kyung-wha, Foreign Minister of South Korea Meeting with Timur Suleimenov, Minister of National Economy Participation in presentation of textbooks as part of New Humanitarian Knowledge. 100 New Kazakh Textbooks Project Meeting with Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, People's Artist of Kazakhstan Meeting with Maulen Ashimbayev, First Deputy Chairman of Nur Otan Party Meeting with Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev Meeting on the capital city’s development Participation in the solemn event on the 25th anniversary of Tengizchevroil Meeting with Michael Wirth, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Visit to AstanaGenPlan Official visit to the United Arab Emirates Meeting with the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev Participation in Nauryz celebration Meeting with Foreign Ministers of Guaranteeing Powers in the Astana Process on Syria Participation in the opening ceremony of the Year of Uzbekistan in Kazakhstan Meeting with Serdar Berdymuhamedov, Chairman of the Mejlis Committee of Turkmenistan Briefing for the mass media based on the Working (Consultative) Meeting of the Heads of Central Asian States Participation in the Working (Consultative) Meeting of the Heads of Central Asian States Meeting with President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov Joint visit to the Library of the First President of Kazakhstan Briefing for the mass media on the results of the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon’s official visit Meeting with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon in expanded format Meeting with the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, who arrived in Kazakhstan on an official visit Meeting with Chung Se Kyun, Speaker of National Assembly of Korea Visit to the gala concert on the International Women's Day Interview to The First Channel, TV Channel of Russia Participation in the joint session of the Parliament’s Chambers Meeting with Kulyash Shamshidinova, Chairwoman of Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools’ Board Meeting with Galimkair Mutanov, Rector of the Al Farabi Kazakh National University Meeting with Altai Kulginov, akim of West Kazakhstan region Meeting with Dauren Abayev, Minister of Information and Communications Meeting of the Security Council chaired by the Head of State Meeting with statesman Zhanybek Karibzhanov Meeting with Karim Massimov, Chairman of the National Security Committee Meeting with Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov Meeting with Astana mayor Asset Issekeshev Interview with CCTV Meeting with akims of Astana, Almaty and regions The Cabinet’s expanded meeting chaired by the Head of State Meeting with Nurmukhambet Abdibekov, Chairman of the Accounts Committee for Control over the National Budget Execution Visit to the head office of Nur Otan Party Meeting with Anatoly Smolin, Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council Meeting with the Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan Alexander Meeting with Mikhail Bocharnikov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Kazakhstan Meeting after the official visit to the United States of America Press conference following the official visit to the United States of America Meeting with Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations Meeting with Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland "Non-Proliferation of WMD: Confidence Building Measures" UN Security Council Meeting chaired by the President of Kazakhstan Meeting with Darren Woods, the Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil Meeting with Harvey Schwartz, President of Goldman Sachs Meeting with Adena Friedman, the President of Nasdaq Meeting with Michael Pence, Vice-President of the United States of America Meeting with business people of the United States of America Meeting with Rick Perry, US Energy Secretary Meeting with Ray Washburne, President of Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Briefing for the media following talks with Donald Tramp, President of the United States of America Meeting with Donald Trump, President of the United States of America The Head of State’s Statement on the Address to Kazakhstan’s Nation Meeting with George Krol, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Kazakhstan Meeting with Bauyrzhan Baibek, akim of Almaty city Congratulations of President Nursultan Nazarbayev on the New Year Participation in the New Year's Charity Ball Meeting with the Defence Ministry leadership Participation in the informal summit of CIS leaders Negotiations with Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic, in the expanded format Meeting with Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic The year-end meeting with the national mass media representatives Participation in the solemn reception on the Independence Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan Participation in the ceremony of presenting state awards and prizes Meeting with Serikbay kazhy Oraz, Supreme Mufti of Kazakhstan Participation in the Senate’s session Participation in solemn events on the 20th anniversary of capital city’s transfer to Astana Meeting with Robert Yuksel Yildirim, the CEO and President of Yildirim Holding Participation in the ceremony of oath taking by the Court Chairman of Astana International Financial Centre Participation in presenting "Paryz" and "Altyn Sapa" Prizes Meeting with representatives of business circles of the Federal Republic of Germany Visiting "Arnau" national dance evening Participation in the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council Participation in the ceremony of laying a wreath at the Victory Monument Briefing for the mass media on the results of the official visit to the Republic of Belarus Extended negotiations as part of the official visit to the Republic of Belarus Meeting with Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus Meeting with Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States of America Meeting with the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava Meeting with Elzhan Birtanov, Minister of Health Meeting with Bakytzhan Abdraim, Chairman of Kazakhstan’s Trade Union Federation Meeting with Nurlan Nigmatulin, Chairman of the Parliament Majilis Meeting with Defense Minister Saken Zhasuzakov Meeting with John Watson, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Chevron Corporation Meeting with Kairat Kozhamzharov, Chairman of the Agency for Civil Service and Anti-Corruption Meeting with Abay Baigenzhin, the Board Chairman of National Research Medical Centre Meeting with Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev Meeting with Danilo Turk, former President of the Republic of Slovenia Meeting with Vaclav Klaus and Abdullah Gul Participation in the third meeting of Astana Club Visiting the exhibition as part of XIV Forum of Interregional Cooperation of Kazakhstan and Russia Meeting with Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, at the XIV Forum of Interregional Cooperation of Kazakhstan and Russia Visit to the Academy of Strength Sport Visiting "Tennis Centre" sports complex Visiting "Milh" LLP Visit to Kostanay Plaza" shopping and entertainment centre Visiting "SaryarkaAvtoProm" LLP Acquaintance with construction of “Airport” micro-district Meeting with Nurlan Yermekbayev, Minister of Religious Affairs and Civil Society Meeting with Khalid al-Falih, Minister of Energy, Industry and Natural Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Participation in the expanded meeting of the Nur Otan Party Political Council Meeting with "Rothschild & Co" leadership Meeting with King of Jordan Abdullah II who arrived in Kazakhstan on an official visit Meeting with heads of delegations for negotiations on the Syrian conflict settlement in Astana Meeting with Daniyar Akishev, National Bank Chairman Meeting with Adilbek Dzhaksybekov, Head of the Presidential Administration, and Marat Tazhin, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Meeting with Karim Massimov, National Security Committee Chairman Meeting with Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef, Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Meeting with Askar Myrzakhmetov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Meeting with Investments and Development Minister Zhenis Kasymbek Meeting with Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbaev Briefing for the mass media as a result of the working visit to the Russian Federation Meeting with representatives of business circles of the Federal Republic of Germany together with the President of the Russian Federation Participation in the meeting of CIS Heads of State Council in an expanded format Participation in the meeting of CIS Heads of State Council in private session Meeting with the Working Group on implementing the Project to Latinize the National Language Meeting with graduates of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Inspecting “Arai” sports complex Familiarization with construction of a plant for sheet glass production and processing Familiarization with Baikonur Complex development Visit to the Academy of Creative Activities Visit to Arts Centre Familiarization with implementing the pilot project under Nurly Zher Program Visit to “Greenhouse Kazakhstan” greenhouse complex Visiting Aktobe Rail-Belt Plant LLP Visit to Aktobe ferroalloy plant The Security Council session chaired by the Head of State Meeting with the State Secretary Gulshara Abdykalikova Meeting with Shigeo Katsu, President of Nazarbayev University Familiarization with the Almaty International Airport development plan Visiting the base of Kairat Football Club Visit to the Fund of the First President of Kazakhstan in Almaty Familiarization with a fitness and health centre construction Familiarization with the Museum’s construction Visit to "Batyr Babalar" Memorial Complex Meeting concerning Almaty city development Inspection of reconstructed streets and square in Almaty Visit to akimat and complex of administrative buildings in Nauryzbay district Meeting with Omurbek Babanov, presidential candidate of Kyrgyzstan Visit to a new transport bridge Visiting KazUpackTrade LLP Visiting the House of Friendship in "Ancient Taraz" Historical and Cultural Centre Participation in the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Indoor Games and Martial Arts Meeting with Kazakhstan’s sports delegation, taking part in the 5th Asian Indoor Games and Martial Arts Negotiations with Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, President of Turkmenistan Negotiations with Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Participation in the ceremony of laying a basket of flowers to the monument to former President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov Visiting of the exhibition of Kazakhstan’s companies Visiting the architectural complex "Mausoleum of Tole Biy" Participation in the ceremony of laying flowers to "Independence and Humanism" Monument Press conference for the national and accredited in Kazakhstan media representatives Meeting with the leadership of Hyperloop One Participation in the national meeting concerning digitalization Meeting with Yuri Pya, Chairman of "National Scientific Cardiac Surgery Centre" JSC Board Visit to The St.Regis Astana Hotel Participation in the closing ceremony of EXPO-2017 international specialized exhibition Meeting with Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela, on the sidelines of the OIC Summit on Science and Technology Participation in the ceremony of awarding the OIC special prize for science and technology Meeting with the OIC Secretary General, Dr. Yousif bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen, on the sidelines of the OIC Summit on Science and Technology Briefing for media following the official visit of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey Meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey Meeting with Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of Djibouti Participation in the Kazakh-Polish business forum Participation in the opening of the 3rd session of Kazakhstan’s Parliament Participation in the opening ceremony of the IAEA Bank of Low Enriched Uranium building Meeting with Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General Meeting with Dan Brouillette, Deputy Energy Minister of the United States of America Participation in the opening of "Hilton" Hotel Meeting with Umirzak Shukeyev, Board Chairman of Samruk Kazyna JSC Meeting with the management of “Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium and Magnesium Plant” JSC Participation in the opening of "Burabay" golf club Visit to "Kokshetauminvody" JSC Visiting the farm business of "Umai Zher" LLP Meeting concerning the regional socio-economic development and state programs’ actualization presided over by the Head of the State Interview to "Khabar" TV channel Meeting with Tlektes Espolov, Rector of the Kazakh National Agrarian University Meeting with Akhmetzhan Yessimov, Chairman of “Astana Expo-2017 National Company” JSC Board Meeting with Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Meeting with the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council members Visit to “Kazanat” race track Meeting with Doris Leuthard, President of the Swiss Confederation Meeting on Kazakhstan’s Law Enforcement System Reform chaired by the Head of the State Meeting with Lee Myung-bak, former President of the Republic of Korea Meeting with the Honored Artist Alibek Dnishev Meeting with Ana Pastor, Chairperson of the Congress of Deputies of the Kingdom of Spain Ceremony of awarding the President of Kazakhstan with the Order of Isabella the Catholic Visit to "Research Farm of Oilseeds" LLP Visiting "Nurly Zhol" Park Meeting with heads of national security agencies of the CIS states Visiting the Pavilion of Germany together with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of the Federal Republic of Germany Briefing for media following the official visit of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany Meeting with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany, who arrived in Kazakhstan on an official visit The Security Council meeting chaired by the Head of the State Participation in the solemn reception dedicated to the Capital’s Day Sightseeing in Astana Interview to "Russia 24" TV channel Participation in the solemn ceremony of raising the National Flag Meeting on Astana’s green zone development under the chairmanship of the Head of the State Inspection of Astana’s green belt development Meeting with heads of diplomatic missions and representations of international organizations accredited in Kazakhstan Meeting with Asset Issekeshev, akim of Astana Meeting with Malik Murzalin, akim of Akmola region Meeting with Yerlan Nysanbaev, Vice-Minister of Agriculture Meeting with Islam Abishev, Chairman of Committee on Water Resources at Agriculture Ministry Meeting with Abdullah Gul, former President of the Republic of Turkey Meeting on the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s Internal Affairs and Police Day Participation in V World Kurultai of Kazakhs Meeting with "Best Civil Servant" republican contest winners Bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Council of Foreign Investors’ plenary session Participation in the 30th plenary meeting of Foreign Investors Council Meeting with Suma Chakrabarti, the EBRD President Meeting with Richard Evans, Independent Director of Samruk-Kazyna JSC, Member of the Board Participation in “New Energy, New Economy” Astana Economic Forum's plenary session Meeting with the Nobel Prize winners and leading economists Meeting with Karim Massimov, National Security Committee Chairman, and Kalmukhanbet Kassymov, Interior Minister Briefing for media following the official visit of the Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili Meeting with Giorgi Margvelashvili, Georgian President, who arrived in Kazakhstan with an official visit Meeting with Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Meeting with King Felipe VI of Spain Meeting with Milos Zeman, President of the Czech Republic Participation in the opening ceremony of EXPO-2017 international specialized exhibition Meeting with Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, President of Turkmenistan Participation in the SCO Heads of State Council meeting in an expanded format The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Heads of State Council meeting in a narrow format Meeting with Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General Meeting with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Visit to a concert dedicated to the SCO Summit Meeting with Alexander Lukashenko, the President of the Republic of Belarus Meeting with Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India Meeting with Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Participation in "Kazakhstan and China, Transit Bridge of Eurasia" space bridge Negotiations with Xi JInping, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, in expanded format Meeting with Xi Jinping, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, who is in Kazakhstan on an official visit Meeting on holding EXPO-2017 international exhibition chaired by the Head of State Meeting with Timur Kulibayev, Chairman of the Presidium, "Atameken" National Chamber of Entrepreneurs Participation in the opening ceremony of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Meeting with Kairat Mami, Chairman of the Supreme Court Meeting with Tugrul Turkesh, Deputy Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic Visit to "Astana EXPO-2017"exhibition complex Visiting "Nurly Zhol" new railway station complex Visiting the new terminal of Astana airport Visiting "Green Quarter" residential complex Participation in the ceremony of laying wreaths at the memorial plate of ALZHIR museum-memorial complex of victims of political repressions and totalitarianism Meeting with Myrzatay Zholdasbekov, state and public figure and prominent scientist Participation in the meeting of the Supreme Board of Trustees of "Nazarbayev University", "Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools" and "Nazarbayev Foundation" Autonomous Educational Organizations Meeting with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates Meeting with Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, on the sidelines of the US-Islamic World Forum The ceremony of awarding Asanali Ashimov the title of "Kazakhstannyn Yenbek Yeri" Meeting with Nurtai Abykayev, deputy and member of the Senate’s Committee for Foreign Relations, Defense and Security in the Parliament Participation in Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation Meeting with Xi Jinping, Chairman of the People's Republic of China Meetings with leaders of foreign states Participation in the opening ceremony of "One Belt and One Road" Forum for International Cooperation Meeting with Samer Al-Sabhan, Minister of State for the Arab-Gulf Affairs in Saudi Arabia Meeting with Yerbolat Dossayev, Chairman of “Baiterek” National Holding Board Participation in the ceremony of laying flowers at "Otan Korgaushylar" Monument Participation in the military parade on the Day of the Fatherland Defender and the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s Armed Forces Participation in the concert dedicated to the Day of the Fatherland Defender and the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s Armed Forces Meeting with Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Participation in the ceremony of presenting the state awards Participation in the ceremony of awarding supergrade, special and class ranks Interview for National Geographic Channel Visit to Caspian Food LLP Meeting with Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Meeting with the public of South Kazakhstan region Visit to "DALA-FRUIT.KZ" LLP Participation in the XXV Session of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan Meeting with film director Akan Sataev Meeting with singer Dimash Kudaibergenov Onsite visit of Astana Meeting with Gabit Baizhanov, Director of “Syrbar”, Foreign Intelligence Service of Kazakhstan Meeting with Bakhyt Sultanov, Finance Minister Meeting with Dmitry Pankin, Chairman of the Eurasian Development Bank Management Board Visit to the concert of the Presidential Orchestra of Kazakhstan’s State Security Service, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of a special state body’s creation Meeting with the Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member countries Meeting on Astana’s socio-economic development and preparations for "Astana Expo-2017" specialized exhibition Meeting with representatives of Kazakhstan’s creative intellectuals Meeting with Kazakhstan’s Spiritual Board of the Muslims Meeting with Kalmukhanbet Kasymov, Minister of Internal Affairs Negotiations with Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov, President of Turkmenistan, in expanded format Meeting with Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov, President of Turkmenistan, who arrived in Kazakhstan on a state visit Meeting with Zhang Gaoli, First Vice-Premier of the State Council, People's Republic of China Meeting with Darkhan Kydyrali, President of the International Turkic Academy Meeting with Mukhtar Kul-Muhammed, First Deputy Chairman of the Nur Otan Party Participation in the informal meeting of the CSTO member states’ leaders Meeting with President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon Meeting with Marat Beketaev, Minister of Justice Course towards the future: modernization of Kazakhstan’s identity Meeting with Beibut Atamkulov, Minister of Defense and Aerospace Industry Meeting with Saken Zhasuzakov, Minister of Defense Meeting on the National Bank’s activity results Interview to "MIR" multinational TV channel on the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s anniversary Reception of delegation leaders, who arrived in Astana for the 12th Meeting of the SCO Security Councils’ Secretaries Meeting with Askar Zhumagaliev, Chairman of Kazatomprom JSC Board Meeting with the public of Mangistau region Visit to Azersun Production and Logistics Center LLP Visit to the Aktau Sea Northern Terminal Visiting "Mangystau Arena Sports Club" multifunctional sporting complex Briefing for the media after the official visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan Negotiations with Ilham Aliyev, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in expanded format Meeting with Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Participation in flower-laying ceremonies to the Eternal Flame at the Martyrs’ Lane and laying a wreath to the grave of Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s National Leader Visit to the Dubai International Financial Center Meeting with Sheikh Muḥammad bin Rāshid al Maktūm, Vice-President, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Emir of Dubai Sightseeing Astana jointly with Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the President of Uzbekistan Negotiations with Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the President of Uzbekistan, in an expanded format Participation in Nauryz Meiramy celebration Participation in the solemn event on the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s National Olympic Committee Meeting with the national mass media Meeting with Akmola region activists on socio-economic development issues Meeting with the Karaganda region’s active on socio-economic development Visiting “Astanagenplan” Research and Design Institute Meeting with Yerlan Sydykov, Rector of the Gumilyov Eurasian National University Visit to the concert dedicated to the International Women's Day on March 8 Meeting with representatives of Kazakhstan’s "Koktem Shuagy" Women's Community Meeting with Nurlan Yermekbayev, Minister for Religious Affairs and Civil Society Participation in the joint meeting of Kazakhstan’s Parliament Chambers Participation in the meeting of the Working Group on reauthorization between governmental branches Meeting with the Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin Meeting with Berdybek Saparbayev, Akim of Aktobe region Meeting with representatives of the public, intellectuals and politicians Meeting with Zhanseit Tuimebaev, the akim of South Kazakhstan Visiting "Kyz Zhibek" opera’s opening night Meeting on speedy technological modernization of the economy chaired by the Head of State The Head of State receives Culture and Sport Minister Arystanbek Muhamediuly Meeting with Kanat Bozumbayev, the Energy Minister Meeting with Yerlan Sagadiev, Minister of Education and Science The meeting with the Prosecutor General Zhakip Asanov Nursultan Nazarbayev meets with Jan Hamáček, the Chamber of Deputies’ Chairman of the Czech Republic Parliament Expanded meeting of the Government with participation of the Head of State Participation in the oath rite of the political officers of state Participation in the opening ceremony of the 28th World Winter Universiade-2017 Visit to the School of Medicine’s new building at Nazarbayev University Participation in the ceremony of lighting the fire of the 28th World Winter Universiade-2017 Meeting with Kozy-Korpesh Dzhanburchin, the Chairman of the Accounts Committee for Control over Execution of the Republican Budget Participation in the meeting of the Working Group for reauthorization of governmental departments Meeting with “Atameken” National Chamber of Entrepreneurs’ leadership Meeting with the UN Secretary General Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura Meeting with Anatoly Smolin, the Supreme Judicial Council Chairman Visit to the Abu Dhabi Global Market Free Financial Zone Meeting with the IRENA Director-General Adnan Z. Amin Visit to World Future Energy Summit exhibition Participation in World Future Energy Summit Meeting with the United Arab Emirates business community Meeting with Micael Calatrava, co-CEO of Calatrava Grace Negotiations with the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in expanded format Meeting with "Baiterek” National Holding Board Chairman Yerbolat Dosayev Meeting with "Samruk-Kazyna" Board Chairman Umirzak Shukeyev President Nursultan Nazarbayev wishes a Happy New Year Meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs leadership Visiting the capital city’s New Year Charity Ball Participation in the meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Board Participation in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting Visit to "Diakont" company Meeting with the Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Tigran Sargsyan Briefing the media as result of talks with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani Talks with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani in expanded format Meeting with the Islamic Republic of Iran President Hassan Rouhani, who arrived in Kazakhstan on official visit Visit to Almaty museum Meeting with a community worker and a World War II veteran Amanzhol Kalikov Meeting with a public man Umirzak Aitbayev Visiting "Astana EXPO-2017" international exhibition facilities Participation in the opening ceremony of “Тәуелсіздіктің 25 жылдығы” monument Visiting "25 Years of Achievements and Gains" gala concert on the 25th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan Participation in the solemn meeting on the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s Independence Briefing for the media after the talks with the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Negotiations in extended format as part of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s official visit Meeting with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, who arrives in Kazakhstan on an official visit Meeting with Chairman of the National Bank Daniyar Akishev Public signing of Law "On amnesty on the 25th anniversary of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s Independence" On the Republic of Kazakhstan’s national awards Meeting with Chairman of the Russian Federation State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin Participation in the National Festival of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan Meeting with heads of multinational oil and gas companies Meeting with the oil industry representatives Participation in presentation of Industrialization Map projects and "Altyn Sapa" and "Paryz" award ceremony Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin Participation in the National Youth Forum Meeting with "KazMunayGas" JSC Board Chairman Sauat Mynbayev Meeting with the heads in charge of the state media Meeting with "Nur Otan" First Deputy Chairman Mukhtar Kul-Muhammed Interview for “Russia 24” The National Modernization Commission activity session under the chairmanship of the Head of the State Participation in the meeting on socio-economic development Meeting with the appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Interview for Bloomberg News Meeting with the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Czech Republic Lubomír Zaorálek Participation in the VII Congress of Judges of Kazakhstan Meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić Participation in the 2nd meeting of the Astana Club Meeting with the ex-President of the Republic of Korea Lee Myung-bak A visit to Yonsei University Meeting with representatives of business circles of Korea Talks with the President of the Republic of Korea Park Geun-hye in expanded format The state visit to the Republic of Korea Participation in the 2016 Goi Peace Foundation Culture of Peace Special Award ceremony The meeting with the Goi Peace Foundation President and Chairperson, spouses Hiroo and Masami Saionji Meeting with Сhairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda Speech at the National Diet (Parliament of Japan) Meeting with business people of Japan Visit to Tokai University The meeting with Foreign Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida Talks with the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe in expanded format Meeting with members of the Kazakhstan-Japan Friendship Parliamentary League headed by Chairman Takeo Kawamura Visit to Tokyo Rope enterprise Meeting with the Emperor of Japan Akihito Meeting with Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Miroslav Lajčák Interview for Japan Broadcasting Corporation and Kyodo News Meeting with “Kazatomprom” JSC Board Chairman Askar Zhumagaliyev Meeting with Governor of “Astana” International Financial Centre Kairat Kelimbetov Visiting the "Kazakh Eli" film exhibition Meeting with the Finance Minister Bakhyt Sultanov Meeting with the Foreign Affairs Minister Erlan Idrissov Meeting with Yury Luzhkov Meeting with Minister of National Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev Meeting with Samruk-Kazyna JSC Board Chairman Umirzak Shukeyev Meeting with Chairman of the Majlis al-Shura of Saudi Arabia Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al ash-Sheikh The meeting with the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Meeting with Vice-President of Amiantit Group Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Fahd Meeting with Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Cooperation Iyad bin Amin Madani Meeting with President of the Islamic Development Bank Bandar bin Mohammed Hajjar Official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Meeting with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Interview for CNBC Arabia Meeting with President of the National Academy of Sciences Murat Zhurinov Meeting with the Minister of Defense and Aerospace Industry Beibut Atamkulov Meeting with akim of Astana city Aset Issekeshev The meeting with the Attorney General Zhakip Asanov The Head of State addresses to workers of the country's agricultural sector over successful harvest Participation in the ceremony of taking diplomatic credentials Visit to exhibition of “Panfilov’s 28 Men” film Participation in the plenary session of XIII Forum of Interregional Cooperation of Russia and Kazakhstan Meeting with the Board Chairman of ‘National Company Astana EXPO-2017’ JSC Akhmetzhan Yessimov Visiting the Embassy of the State of Israel Meeting with the Pavlodar region public Familiarization with construction of a bridge across the Irtysh River Visit to Startup Academy of Pavlodar State University LLP Visiting Saryarka district and the Children's Technical School Meeting with Honorable Senior Minister, Member of Parliament of Singapore Goh Chok Tong Meeting with Kostanay region’s public Visit to Kostanay’s Bayan Sulu confectionery plant Visit to Uteulin farm enterprise Visiting a newly-built sports palace Visiting the exhibition of military industry Visit to Shagala Agro limited partnership Visiting the building of Petropavlovsk International Airport Meeting with the Supreme Court Chairman Kairat Mami Visiting Zhastar City Park Visiting the Youth Service Centre Visiting the Schoolchildren’s Palace Visiting Taldykorgan’s multi-field hospital Visiting Tekeli mining and processing complex Visiting Nam G.N. farm Visit to the airport and airport terminal buildings Visiting Halyk Arena sporting complex Visiting Almaty School 168 Visiting Athletic Village Participation in the gala concert on the occasion of Almaty’s 1000-year anniversary celebration Participation in the Council of CIS Heads of State meeting Meeting with the Minister of Finance of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region John Tsang Working visit to Akmola region Statement on personnel and structural changes in the public administration system Meeting with the Ministry of Defense leadership Meeting with the Acting President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyeyev The ceremony of laying flowers to the grave of Islam Karimov Visit to the National Security Committee Meeting with the Director of Kazakhstan’s Syrbar Foreign Intelligence Service Gabit Baizhanov Meeting with Minister of Information and Communications Dauren Abayev Visiting cultural facilities as part of the working visit to China Meeting with Deputy Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the G-20 Summit Meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May on the G-20 Summit fields Meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at G-20 Summit Meeting with the US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of G-20 Summit Meeting with the Board Chairman of ‘Alibaba Group’ Jack Ma Participation in the G20 Summit Joint press briefing following the talks between the Presidents of Kazakhstan and Turkey Meeting with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Meeting with Chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Daniyar Akishev Meeting with Minister of Investment and Development Zhenis Kassymbek Meeting with Minister of Energy Kanat Bozumbayev Security Council Meeting under the chairmanship of President Nursultan Nazarbayev Official visit to the Republic of Cuba Press briefing following President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s participation in the Nuclear Security Summit Meeting with Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of Nuclear Security Summit Meetings on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit Participation in the first session of the Nuclear Security Summit Participation in the Nuclear Security Summit Working Dinner Meeting with professional boxer, Honoured Master of Sports of Kazakhstan Gennady Golovkin Meeting with public figures and politicians of the United States Meeting with President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace William J. Burns Visit to the United States of America Meeting with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker Participation in the opening of the first session of Parliament of the 6th convocation Meeting with United World Wrestling President Nenad Lalovic Visit to Greenwhich hypermarket Visit to Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics in Aktobe Visit to Aktobe Oil Equipment Plant Visit to Aktobe Zhylyzhai greenhouse complex Visit to Kadir Mirza Ali Centre for Culture and Arts Participation in the National Forum of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Independence of Kazakhstan Visit to house building factory Bolashak-T LLP Visit to McDonald’s restaurant President Nursultan Nazarbayev attends concert dedicated to the International Women’s Day Meeting with representatives of women’s community of Kazakhstan Meeting with Chairman of Board of Directors of National Company KazMunayGas JSC Sauat Mynbayev Meeting with Minister of Internal Affairs Kalmukhanbet Kassymov Meeting with Chairman of Locus Solutions and Chief Executive Officer of Ganeden Biotech Andrew Lefkowitz Meeting with Diplomatic Corps Meeting with Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan Participation in Thankfulness Day activities Meeting with President of National Railways Company Askar Mamin Meeting with President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Meeting with Secretary General of International Exhibitions Bureau Vicente Loscertales Meeting with Chairman of Eurasian Economic Commission Board Meeting with Chairman of Accounts Committee for Control over National Budget Execution Kozy-Korpesh Dzhanburtchin Visit to National Election Office of the Nur Otan Party Meeting on the issues of Almaty development and preparation for the 2017 World Winter Universiade Nursultan Nazarbayev visits Ice Arena in Almaty Nursultan Nazarbayev visits mosque construction site in Almaty Nursultan Nazarbayev visits Carrefour hypermarket Meeting with poet Olzhas Suleimenov Participation in Extended Session of Government Meeting with Chairman of the Board of JSC Samruk-Kazyna Umirzak Shukeyev Meeting with Minister of Energy Vladimir Shkolnik Meeting with Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu Meeting with Head of Syrbar Foreign Intelligence Service Gabit Baizhanov Enlarged meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the chairmanship of President Nursultan Nazarbayev 17th Congress of the Nur Otan Party under the chairmanship of President Nursultan Nazarbayev Meeting with Astana EXPO 2017 National Company Chairman Akhmetzhan Yessimov Meeting with Chairman of the National Security Committee Vladimir Zhumakanov Meeting with academician Kenzhegali Sagadiyev Meeting with Mayor of Akmola region Sergey Kulagin Meeting with Mayor of Aktobe region Berdybek Saparbayev Nursultan Nazarbayev holds meeting on early elections to the Majilis of Parliament Consultations with Chairman of the Constitutional Council Igor Rogov Сonsultations with Chairman of the Senate of Parliament Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev and Prime Minister Karim Massimov Сonsultations with Chairman of the Mazhilis of Parliament Kabibulla Dzhakupov and Prime Minister Karim Massimov Meeting with Chairman of the Majilis of Parliament Kabibulla Dzhakupov President Nursultan Nazarbayev holds meeting on implementation of the five institutional reforms Meeting with staff of the Executive Office of the President Nursultan Nazarbayev visits National Security Committee Meeting with Rector of Kazakh-British Technical University Iskander Beisembetov Participation in the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Meeting with Principal of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Vladimir Philippov Meeting with Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Cyril Participation in the celebratory meeting marking the Independence Day of Kazakhstan Ceremony of presenting state awards Meeting with Member of the Committee on International Relations, Defense and Security of the Senate of Parliament Mukhtar Altynbayev Nursultan Nazarbayev holds meeting on oil and gas development issues Meeting with Mayor of Pavlodar region Kanat Bozumbayev Meeting with Chairman of Board of JSC National Holding Baiterek Kuandyk Bishimbayev Nursultan Nazarbayev visits Astanagenplan Scientific Research Design Institute Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the military base of Special Forces "Arystan" Meeting with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte Participation in the New Year Tree lighting ceremony Meeting with Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovski Nursultan Nazarbayev attends concert marking the Day of the First President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visits National Military-Patriotic Center Nursultan Nazarbayev visits LLP Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering armored wheeled vehicle production plant Meeting with governors of the regions and mayors of Astana and Almaty State of the Nationa Address Meeting with leadership of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Meeting with Mayor of Almaty region Amandyk Battalov Meeting with Mayor of the city of Almaty Bauyrzhan Baibek Nursultan Nazarbayev visits Kazlegprom Almaty LLP Nursultan Nazarbayev visits kindergarten No.125 in Almaty Meeting with President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Enlarged Government meeting under the chairmanship of President Nursultan Nazarbayev President Nursultan Nazarbayev holds meeting on preparation for International Specialized Exhibition EXPO-2017 Meeting with First Deputy Chairman of the Nur Otan Party Askar Myrzakhmetov Nursultan Nazarbayev visits French Embassy in Kazakhstan Participation in the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference Meeting with UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova Meeting with President of the French Republic Francois Hollande Meeting with Heads of the leading French companies Meeting with Peugeot Citroen chief executive officer Carlos Tavares Meeting with the president of Total Company Patrick Pouyanne Meeting with President of Aubert&Duval Company Georges Duval and President of JSC Ust-Kamenogorsk Titan-Magnesium Plant Assem Mamutova Meeting with French economist Jacques Attali Meeting with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Meeting with the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Meeting with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond Meeting with representatives of business circles of the United Kingdom Meeting with Chairman of the J. Rothschild Capital Management Jacob Rothschild Meeting with Chairman and CEO of steel group ArcelorMittal Lakshmi Mittal Meeting with Chairman and Chief executive officer of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC Said Darwazah Meeting with Director General of Rio Tinto Company Sam Walsh Meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Shell Company Ben Van Beurden Participation in the opening of the second session of the Kazakh-British Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation Meeting with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron Meeting with the US Secretary of State John Kerry Address by President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the Senate of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Participation in the Industrialisation Day Meetings and sittings Participation in the First Graduation Ceremony at Nazarbayev University Participation in events, visits to objects Working trips	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line491
__label__cc	0.639335	0.360665	View source for Software ← Software The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: emailconfirmed. [[Image:mutant_model.jpg\|right\|thumb\|350 px\|A community model is a collection of original and borrowed parts. CISM efforts began with the [http://forge.nesc.ac.uk/projects/glimmer/ Glimmer ice sheet model], borrowed components from [http://climate.lanl.gov/Models/CICE/ CICE] and [http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~fpattyn/3dhomodel.html ICE3D<sup>HO</sup>], and uses infrastructure from [http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ NetCDF] and [http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/ UMPFPACK]. ]] ==Community Ice Sheet Model== ''[http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CISM The Community Ice Sheet Model] is being developed at [http://www.lanl.gov Los Alamos National Laboratories], [http://www.umt.edu University of Montana, Missoula] and elsewhere. The effort began from the [http://forge.nesc.ac.uk/projects/glimmer/ Glimmer ice sheet model] developed in Bristol by Tony Payne, Ian Rutt, and Magnus Hagdorn. '' The core improvements that CISM provides are: ===[[Higher Order Physics]]=== ===[[Parallel Solvers]]=== ===[[Validation and Verification]]=== ===[[Climate Drivers]]=== ===[[Basal Water Modeling]]=== ===[[Evaluating Model Output]]=== ===[[Code Refactoring]]=== ===[[Grounding Line Migration]]=== ==ISIS== ===ISIS=== [[Image:ISISViz.jpg\|thumb\|right\|400 px\|The ISIS Visualization provides quick viewing of model output, even while the simulation is running.]] [[Image:ISISConfig.png\|thumb\|right\|400 px\| ISIS provides an intuitive interface for setting the values of important simulation parameters and model settings.]] '''ISIS''' is an acronym for ''Interactive System for Ice sheet Simulation''. [[Wikipedia:Isis\| Isis]] also happens to be the Egyptian goddess of fertility. This is an appropriate name in that our objective is to produce more modelers. ISIS attempts to spawn more modelers by lowering the barrier to trying ice sheet modeling by * Providing a compiled version of an ice sheet model on Mac, Linux, and Windows platforms. * Provide interesting data sets and scenarios that can be run with the model. * Provide some simple tools for visualizing the model results. ====Download==== Versions of ISIS have been prepared for Linux, OS X, and Windows operating systems. Download them here. {\| \|-valign="top" \|[[Image:Mac.jpg\|thumb\|100 px\|[[Media:ISISMac.zip]]<br>Mac OS X version of ISIS, Intel Mac only.]] \|[[Image:Windows.jpg\|thumb\|150 px\|[[Media:ISISWindows.zip]]<br>Windows version of ISIS]] \|[[Image:Linux.jpg\|thumb\|150 px\|[[Media:ISISLinux.tar.gz]]<br>Linux version of ISIS]] \|} <br><br> ===ETSU ISIS=== The [http://www.cs.etsu.edu/ Computer Science Department at East Tennessee State University] has made several changes to ISIS. ETSU ISIS provides a * command line option for enabling educational mode, * a generic model class (PISM and Glimmer included), and * various bug fixes For more information on ETSU ISIS see [[Software/ETSUISIS/Model]] ====Download==== ETSU ISIS has been tested on Windows and OS X<br> Downloads will be available here soon ===eduISIS=== There is potential for Earth systems models to provide instruction for students in a range of subjects and at a range of levels. Seeking to target high school students, eduISIS was developed as an extension of ISIS with a simplified user interface. {\| \|-valign="top" \|[[Image:Mac.jpg\|thumb\|100 px\|[[Media:eduISISMac.dmg]]<br>Mac OS X version of eduISIS, Intel Mac only.]] \|[[Image:Windows.jpg\|thumb\|100 px\|[[Media:eduISISWindows.zip]]<br>Windows version of eduISIS]] <!--\|[[Image:Linux.jpg\|thumb\|100 px\|[[Media:ISISLinux.tar.gz]]<br>Linux version of eduISIS]] --> \|} ==Ice Sheet Models== ===PISM=== The [https://gna.org/projects/pism/ Parallel Ice Sheet Model] being developed at the [http://www.uaf.edu/ University of Alaska, Fairbanks] has provided CISM with many fresh ideas for model verification and data interchange. Ultimately, it will be desirable to have a common interface to both models, allowing for rapid cross model comparisons. For the time being, the first step is a common data format. This is largely completed, but remains to be tested in more depth. ===Glimmer=== CISM efforts began from the [http://forge.nesc.ac.uk/projects/glimmer/ Glimmer ice sheet model] developed in Bristol by Tony Payne, Ian Rutt, and Magnus Hagdorn. This is a thermo-mechanically coupled shallow ice model that uses an implicit finite difference scheme to solve the field equations. Beyond this level of simulation, Glimmer has a number of attractive software features including; NetCDF support, Automake build system, modular architecture created in FORTRAN 90, Open Source, GPL license, designed with interface to climate models in mind, and set of test suites ===COMSOL Multiphysics=== [[COMSOL Multiphysics]] is a commercially available finite element solver. ==Glimmer Netcdf Data Conversion Program== ===Data Conversion=== Data used by Glimmer is initially stored in separate data files with a ".dat" file extension. The advantage to the data conversion is to eliminate having multiple files by merging them into one Netcdf file. The data converting program is a Java application that allows users to open data files and convert them to Netcdf format. The conversion program examines each data file and reads the format instruction at the beginning of each file. This information is read based on a parse tree that is created using a data file with the rules for the instruction's grammar. The file's data is then read and stored in a multi-dimensional ArrayList. This multi-dimensional ArrayList is then written to a Netcdf file. ==Glimmer Netcdf Data Portability Analysis== ===ESML=== ESML stands for Earth Science Markup Language. "ESML is an interchange technology that enables data (both structural and semantic) interoperability with applications without enforcing a standard format within the Earth Science community".[1] ESML is basically a metadata file written in the XML grammar syntax which describes the contents of another data file. ESML metadata file can be used by different data readers with the help of ESML library. This way data readers can read any data format that has an ESML file associated with it. ESML library is currently supported in C++. An ESML file for the glimmer netcdf data can be created making the glimmer data more portable. ===ncmL, ncML-GML=== ncML is an XML based language for netCDF data files. It is also a metadata language which explains the contents of an associated netCDF file. ncML-GML is a hybrid technology of ncML and GML. ncML-GML uses both ncML and GML grammer. Study of this technology is in progress and more information will be updated very soon. == Other (Post Processing / Visualization) == See the [[Data#NetCDF_Viewers]] section of the [[Data]] page. ==References== [1]http://esml.itsc.uah.edu/ Return to Software. Retrieved from "http://websrv.cs.umt.edu/isis/index.php/Software"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line493
__label__wiki	0.662211	0.662211	Ana Antic's Fraenkel Prize lecture By Jessica Reinisch Published 07 April 2016 Wounded minds: Experiencing the violence of the Nazi New Order in Yugoslavia Ana Antic will present her Fraenkel Prize lecture at the Wiener Library on Wednesday, 27 April, 6.30-8pm. In WWII, death and violence permeated all aspects of everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe. Moreover, almost entire populations were drawn into fierce and uncompromising political and ideological conflicts, and many ended up being more than mere victims or observers: they themselves became perpetrators or facilitators of violence, often to protect their own lives but also to gain various benefits. Yugoslavia in particular saw a gradual culmination of a complex and brutal civil war, which ultimately killed more civilians than did the foreign occupying armies. This lecture will tell a story of the tremendous impact of such pervasive and multi-layered political violence, and will look at ordinary citizens’ attempts to negotiate these extraordinary wartime political pressures. It proposes to use Yugoslav psychiatric case files as unique windows into this harrowing history in order to gain an original perspective on the effects of wartime violence and occupation through the history of psychiatry, mental illness and personal experience. By looking at patient files as historical sources, it explores the socio-cultural history of wartime through the eyes of (mostly lower-class) psychiatric patients. Moreover, the experiences of observing, suffering and committing political violence critically affected the understanding of human psychology, pathology and normality in WWII and post-war Balkans and Europe. The lecture traces the formation and re-definition of psychiatric concepts, categories and practices in the context of extreme violence, Nazi occupation and post-war socialist revolution. It shows how such brutal external conditions and unprecedented anti-civilian violence transformed psychiatric and scientific paradigms, and changed psychiatric and broader public evaluations of the human psyche. Please reserve your place here. We’re launching the Centre for the Study of Internationalism Participate online – ‘After the End of Polio’ with Dora Vargha 2018 © Centre for the Study of Internationalism. Cookie Policy \| Terms Design and build by Playfields We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. By clicking "Accept cookies" you are allowing us to use cookies in accordance with our Cookies Policy.Accept cookiesNo cookies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line499
__label__cc	0.595977	0.404023	Auto Polishing and Detailing Pinnacle--An Intro to The Ultimate In Car Care Marie A. Stroman Pinnacle was born of a desire to create a line of premium auto care products for the enthusiast, a person who strives for perfection in every detail. For Pinnacle to be the best, it had to meet the standards of this connoisseur of car care, and even exceed those standards. The shine of our carnauba wax had to be the deepest, the glow produced by our leather cleaner had to be the warmest…Every product had to yield uncommon results in order to carry the Pinnacle name. Beyond visual perfection, we made it our mission to formulate products that would take the best that nature has to offer and combine it with the latest scientific technology. These products would actually nourish the vehicle’s surfaces to render a deeper, richer appearance than any topical product could achieve. Pinnacle began with one key ingredient, carnauba wax. For years, auto enthusiasts have recognized this natural substance as the basis for the warm, wet-looking shine that has become the standard in auto care. Carnauba is the hardest, purest, and most transparent wax nature has to offer. It is harvested from the “Tree of Life”, a tall palm that grows in northeastern Brazil. The tree produces the wax through its leaves to protect them from the harsh climate. The leaves are harvested every year and the wax is mechanically removed from them. The wax is then graded according to the age of the leaves and the level of processing. We choose only No.1 Yellow, the finest carnauba available, for our Pinnacle waxes. Once we had the key ingredient, our chemist went one step further by refining the carnauba a second time. This additional refinement removed any remaining impurities and the result was the ultra-pure ivory carnauba found in every container of Pinnacle wax. Pinnacle’s team of researchers then went to work on a means by which the carnauba would bond to the paint for a long-lasting finish. The answer lay in modern crystalline polymers that resist breakdown from acid rain and ultraviolet light while still allowing your paint to breathe. After finalizing the formula for our carnauba wax, we addressed other areas of the vehicle with the same passion that led us to create Pinnacle in the first place. The result of all this research is the Pinnacle Natural Brilliance line of superior car care products. Each and every product is formulated with science and nature in harmony so you achieve the highest level of surface enhancement and protection possible. That commitment to car care excellence continues today as we constantly research new ingredients and combinations in order to deliver the absolute best in surface enhancement. Pinnacle has exceeded the expectations of the most discriminating enthusiasts and taken its rightful place among the top auto care products in the world. written with permission of Auto Geek https://autogeek.net/pinnaclesstory.html Pinnacle Car Care Content copyright © 2019 by Marie A. Stroman. All rights reserved. This content was written by Marie A. Stroman. If you wish to use this content in any manner, you need written permission. Contact Marie A. Stroman for details. Interior and Exterior Maintenance and restoration help for your vehicle´s appearance. Auto Polishing and Detailing Forum Eagle One Next Level Surface Prep Mitt Review Eco Touch Quick Wax Review Eco Touch Waterless Wheel and Tire Care Review Eagle One Products Produce Results Eco Touch Waterless Car Wash Review Subscribe for free weekly updates from this Auto Polishing and Detailing site. Follow Auto Polishing and Detailing Auto Polishing and Detailing Categories Auto Polishing and Detailing Contacts Auto Polishing, Detailing Links Car Washes / Waterless Car Washes Leather and Vinyl Lubricants and Anti-Friction Rubber, plastic, vinyl The Paint´s Finish Tires, Rims and Wheels Top Detailing Suppliers Upholstery and Carpet Windows, Glass, Plastic and Metal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line502
__label__wiki	0.756114	0.756114	Me and Roy McCurdy Hard to believe it’s been 35 years since I first attended the Stanford Jazz Workshop as a camper in 1984. I’ve returned there to teach, learn and play and live & breathe jazz most summers since then. This year was particularly inspiring. In my musicianship classes, I basked in the glow of some amazing young musicians, many with perfect pitch and boundless energy, who always managed to play back whatever chromatic craziness I played at them… Watch out world! My combo met in the courtyard this year, which allows us to truly enjoy Northern California’s loveliness as we swung and learned. In addition to a full teaching schedule, I got to perform in 3 concerts during my 6-day trip. The first was a poignant and heartfelt celebration of the music of bassist/composer John Shiflett, who passed far too soon about 2 years ago. Saxophonist Kris Strom and guitarist Scott Sorkin arranged Shifflett’s music for groups from 5-10 instruments, and we joyously remembered and celebrated our mutual friend from the stage in Campbell Recital Hall, where I saw John play so many times over the years. Bassist Ruth Davies has led “Blues Night” at Stanford Jazz Festival for almost a decade. It’d been a few years since I’d been there to join her for one; in past years the late Ndugu Chancler, she, I along with guitarist Danny Carron, were the house band for artists including: Robin Ford, Henry Butler, Keb Mo’ and others. This year found us reunited behind Grammy-Nominated Blues artist Ruthie Foster. (Thanks to keyboardist John Burr for sharing the keyboard chair with me!) Ruthie flows effortlessly between soulful blues and gospel singing, groovy guitar playing and inspired songwriting. It made for a super-fun evening of groovy blues and beyond. Kris Strom, me, Ruthie Foster & Ruth Davies Me, Kris Strom, Scott Sorkin, Ken Okeda & Jason Lewis John Burr, Ruthie Foster & me On the final Friday I got to swing with saxophonist/composer Lynn Speakman’s band. Lynn is an amazing alto player from Pittsburgh, who I met at SJW, and also hug with during her NYC years. We swung through some swinging hard bop, and got to play the Cannonball Adderley classic Azule Serape (written by Victor Feldman) with Cannonball’s long-time drummer Roy McCurdy. Roy is 82 years young, and swings with a feel and passion of a guy half his age. He was always one of my favorite drummers (and Billy Hart cites him as his primary influence); I’d always wanted to swing with Roy, and I’m glad we got to do it this summer. Thanks to all who have shown support for my new CD Indivisible by purchasing the CD, streaming the record, sharing it with friends and/or attending one of our performances. I’ve heard from so many friends and fans , both here in the NYC area and around the USA and overseas about how much they’re enjoying the groovy jazz sounds. We’re so appreciative for your support and your feedback! Stay tuned for more performances coming soon- We’ll be at Halyard’s in Brooklyn on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019. The record has been played on over 20 radio stations, mostly jazz and college radio with a peak chart position of 63, but it has made the top 10 weekly jazz lists of several stations. Thanks to Ben Sholz at Sholz Productions for his deft radio promotion. Thanks to the tireless work of Jim Eigo’s Jazz Promo Services, we’ve also gotten lots of positive feedback from jazz critics around the world. Here’s a sampling of reviews. Click here for more press about Indivisible. “A very fine keyboardist and pianist, Bennett Paster grows by leaps and bounds with every project. On his new CD Indivisible, he doesn’t synthesize his influences, but rather turns every composition into his own private vision of blues, mainstream jazz, funk, New Orleans and beyond… He displays bebop sensibilities while reserving the best of his immense talents for a sense of teamwork.” MGN, Hot House Magazine, June 2019 “Deeply moving grooving jazz” Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Reviews “For his latest, keyboard ace [Bennett Paster] wants to underscore that the groove is everywhere and it can’t be separated no matter how you try to separate the genres. He proves his point mightily. With loads of swing throughout, his jazz isn’t always purely jazz but it’s welcome no matter to which extremes he takes it. Tasty and assured throughout, this is jazz that’s always welcome. Well done.” Chris Spector, Midwest Record “A pianist-organist virtuoso… fun grooves…and smooth interplay between the musicians…timeless elegance and shimmering grace… highly danceable… A universally enjoyable and intriguing affair of solo filled and carefully constructed fusion of blues, country, funk, surf, and others on this charmingly entertaining album.” Tom Haugen, Take Effect Reviews I’m delighted to announce the release of my new album Indivisible, available now! Deep groove is the number one priority on Indivisible, my latest recording of melodic instrumental jazz. Each of the album’s 10 original songs explores a different flavor of groove. From 5/4 swing to funky 70s samba, from New Orleans to Nordic open 8th, and onwards to funk, country waltz, fusion, surf and beyond, this collection takes you on a tour of rhythmic styles, drawing connections between contrasting beats through our constant commitment to groove. Recorded at my Brooklyn studio in mid 2018, each song is produced with a unique sonic identity to match its style. The magic is in how this hand-picked band of groove-master musicians- most of whom I’ve collaborated with for more than 20 years- draw this collection of diverse songs together into one cohesive, accessible album. This is Indivisible. Available wherever you stream or purchase music, including: CDbaby, Amazon, Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify & Soundcloud. Tuesday 9/3, 8:30-10pm Halyards 406 3rd Ave @ 6th St, BK Thursday 11/14/19 at 8:30-10pm Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3 185 Orchard St, NYC Bennett Paster- keyboards Jeff Hanley- bass Tony Mason- drums Al Street- guitar Kenny Brooks- tenor sax Samuel Torres- congas & percussion Todd Isler- percussion All compositions by Bennett Paster Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Bennett Paster at Benny’s Wash & Dry, Brooklyn, NY Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk (c) (p) 2019 Wurliboy Music (SESAC) Wash & Dry Studio News, Fall-Winter 18-19 The tulips and crocuses are popping up in Brooklyn- another Fall and Winter seems to be succumbing to the relentlessly encroaching Spring. It’s a great time to look back on all the hard work that I’ve been doing in my studio, Benny’s Wash & Dry, both on my own and with a collection of talented musician artists. I love to produce recording projects, both for instrumentalists and singers. From conceptualizing the project and picking repertoire, to finding the right band personnel, through the arranging, recording and mixing process, I enjoy the journey! Last Fall I had the pleasure of co-producing two sensational singers, Ellynne Rey and Melanie Gall. Both of their new recordings are available now. Connecticut-based vocalist/songwriter Ellynne Rey’s The Birdsong Project features a broad-range of jazz approaches to a diverse collection of songs about birds. Ellynne and I worked together to craft the arrangements over a period of several months of rehearsal, then we recorded the album in two sessions at the Wash & Dry. The resulting album is well rounded, exciting and eminently listenable. From the classics “Skylark,” “Blackbird” and “Ornithology,” to the unexpected: Schubert’s “Die Krahe (The Crow)” and Joni Mitchell’s “Song to a Seagull,” to Rey’s original jazz waltz “The Snowy Owl,” the album features a talented group of experienced NYC-based jazz musicians, including Rey on vocals and me on piano and organ, plus Joel Frahm on sax, Alex Norris on trumpet, Freddie Bryant on guitar, Marcus Mclauraine on bass and drummers Anthony Pinciotti and Joe Strasser. The packaging also showcases her formidable talent as a wildlife photographer. This was our second recording project together and I’m delighted to have had both opportunities to grow together as artists. http://www.ellynnesings.com/ Canadian chanteuse Melanie Gall travels the world presenting her original shows in Fringe Festivals, theaters and beyond. I’ve arranged and recorded many of the soundtrack and accompaniments to these shows. When she approached me wanting to put together a recording of songs that have inspired and influenced her over the years, I jumped at the opportunity. The songs naturally divided themselves into two groups: half required a standard pop & jazz rhythm section; the other half seemed to merit an acoustic string band. I found the perfect group of folks who could fulfill both and we set out on a campaign of realizing her vision. Highway Rhapsody features Gall presenting 3 standards: “But Not for Me,” “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” and “My Ship”, and a group of songs which were new to me, including: “Gulf Coast Highway,” “Let the Cold Wind Blow,” “The Queen and the Soldier,” “I Will Play a Rhapsody” and more… It’s a crazy collection of folk songs, standards, pop songs, country classics and more, unified by her love of all them! The album features: Gall on vocals, me on keyboards, plus Ross Martin on guitars, Jacob Joliffe on mandolin, Bobby Hawk on fiddle, Jim Whitney on bass and Robert Weiss on drums. https://www.melaniegall.com/ In addition to composing, producing, performing and recording my own music, I enjoy supporting other artists as a sideman, both playing live and also contributing keyboard tracks “remotely” from my studio. Here are two featured sideman projects from the last few months: In his own words, Jonathan Coulton’s Some Guys “covers of 70s soft rock songs that sound exactly like the originals.” Produced by the amazing Christian Cassan, we set out to recreate the smooth magic of the songs that fueled many a long car ride with my folks back in my childhood in New Mexico. It was a joy (and a ton of work) to learn and recreate, note-for-note classics including: Baker Street, How Deep is Your Love, On and On, Make it With You and many more. Listening to it is like time travel- I’m transported back to the back of my mom’s Buick with the maroon interior. Dig it. https://www.jonathancoulton.com/ Sean McMorris’s new album C’est La Vie is the third I’ve played on for the LA-based singer/songwriter. Also produced by Christian Cassan, it’s a spirited collection of original rock and pop featuring me on vintage keyboards. https://www.seanmcmorris.com/home Other recent clients at the Wash & Dry include: Joe Clausell, Xavier Casellas and Emillio Solla, Ethan Eubanks, Storefront Music, Stefan Litzky, John Thomas, Janie Barnett, Ricky Tinelli, Annette Genovese, Fiona Smart, Akiko Matsumoto, Aaron Morrill, Dahlia Ross, Dennis Day, Jawney Conroy, Alex Khurgen, Yuma Sung, Paul Spencer, Ed Littman, Sidecar Astronauts, Michael Harren, Kim Cameron, Juwanna Jenkins, Carol Lipnik and more… If you’ve got a musical vision you’d like help realizing, please reach out– I’d love to discuss your project with you to explore if we’d be well suited to working together. Come join the family at Benny’s Wash & Dry! Remembering Ndugu: A musical send-off for one of the greatest drummers ever. Thursday July 26, 2018 7:30pm Gregory Ryan, Ndugu Chancler and me (1996) When Leon “Ndugu” Chancler passed away earlier this year, the world lost one of the greatest drummers in music. His contributions to pop and funk are legendary, from Michael Jackson’s iconic “Billy Jean” and records with Lionel Richie and Donna Summer, to the deeply funky “Let It Whip” by the Dazz Band and equally grooving collaborations with keyboardist George Duke. His jazz credentials are no less impressive, including projects with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Jean-Luc Ponty, Weather Report, Santana, Frank Sinatra and many others. For over 20 years, Ndugu was an essential and much beloved member of the Stanford Jazz Workshop faculty, generously sharing his vast experience with SJW students. For many of these years I had the privilege of learning from him and of teaching alongside him during this Summer workshop. The music we played ran the gamut from straight ahead jazz, to my original music- Latin jazz swing, groove and beyond, songs by Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report, and Blues Nights with Ruth Davies, Keb Mo, Henry Butler, Houston Person and more. Every time we shared the bandstand Ndugu raised the level of the musical dialectic. Playing with him was like being fueled by a nuclear reactor. Hearing him teach and talk about his career was like a direct line to the tradition and the future of jazz simultaneously. I’m proud to have called him a friend, and I truly miss his smile, his encyclopedic knowledge of the tradition, his profound reverence for music and his deep groove. At this special concert, members of the SJW faculty will celebrate our personal and musical connections to and memories of Ndugu over the years. We’re especially honored to have Ndugu’s close friend and associate, legendary keyboardist Patrice Rushen joining us for this show. Campbell Recital Hall 471 Lagunita Drive Bennett Paster, keyboards Patrice Rushen, keyboards Carmen Staaf: Keyboards Allison Miller, Ana Barreiro, Mike Mitchell, Miles Labatt: Drums & Percussion David Yamasaki: Guitar Josh Thurston Milgrom, Rob Kohler, Aneesa Strings: Bass Ben Flocks, Lynn Speakman, Jessica Jones, Kris Strom, Steven Lugerner: Woodwinds Victor Lin: Violin Natalie John, Aneesa Strings, Valerie Troutt: Vocals Studio Update 2017-18 2017 and early 2018 have continued to find me busy recording and producing great music at my studio Benny’s Wash n’ Dry. Recent studio and recording project highlights have included: I added 2 exceptional condenser microphones to my mic locker made by ADK: Z-Mod 67 and Z-Mod 251. Special thanks to ADK founder Larry Villela for his help in finding the best choices for my studio. Recording and mixing my original music with my Trio Brasiliero featuring Gregory Ryan and Alex Katz with a special guest appearance by the New York Horns (listen to that track here). Work on a new original collaboration with Joe Clausell and Anthony Pinciotti that fuses my original instrumental funk and jazz with Joe and Anthony’s rhythmic and textural skills. Sam Thomas guested on Oud on one track, so far! Tracked new release by phenomenal young Haitian drummer Johnbern Thomas and his band; mixed by Ben Rubin Work on a new full-length project by Canadian singer Melanie Gall that runs the gamut stylistically from jazz to rock to Americana & string band. Working title: Songs I Like Recorded vocals for Kat Gang’s new CD which was recently mixed and master by Dave Darlington Mixed baritone Bremner Duthie’s latest release “Bremner Duthie Sings Kurt Weill vol 2” Recording several library music projects with producer/drummer Ethan Eubanks Recorded James Shipp and Nadje Nordhuis duo and James Shipp solo projects I’ve performed and co-written many tracks with legendary house DJ and producer Joe Clausell I recorded and played keyboards for Jonathan Coulton’s latest recording Solid State, and his super-secret next release, with produced by the amazing Christian Cassan. Singer/songwriter Michael Harren tracking string quartet, piano & voice for his suite about animal rights Producer Brinsley Evans, Lisa Molina and I have co-written a song that we hope to place in a major motion picture… standby for more details Co-writing with Hannah Gill and Brad Hammonds for Hannah’s upcoming album Produced and arranged several songs for jazz Singer Dennis Day which we recorded at Sear Sound, in Manhattan, recorded and mixed by Chris Allen. Keyboard tracks for artists including: Storm, Jim Satten, CeCe Gianotti, Rench, Sean Mc Morris, Horace Scott, Annette Genovese, Pete Miser, Engineered projects for: Victor Lin & Ben Flocks, Nikki Denner, Carol Lipnik & John Kelly, Drew Paralic, Glenn Spivack, Paul Spencer, Jacob Joilff (Pat Ferguson), Myriam Phiro, Sheryl Bailey Mercury and the Architects – concept album and puzzle website. One of the best parts about my work is contributing to other people’s original music projects. They run the stylistic gamut from rock & pop to Latin & jazz to Americana, Blues or roots and beyond, and I love following an artist and a song to try to help them fully realize their potential using my diverse palette of musical experience. But, every now and then I get the chance to work with someone who’s vision is so different than mine, but is so strong and irrefutable: TJ Mercury is a young songwriter, singer, rapper, visual artist and conceptualist. Producer (and Grammy-winning Mastering Engineer) Mark Christensen discovered TJ and invited me to work on the album, called “The Ghost that Haunts My Castle” from the ground level of pre-production. We continued work on tracking the project at Engine Room Audio in NYC, and did extensive synth and string overdubs too. The basic tracks feature legendary NYC session drummer Shawn Pelton (SNL), guitarist Ben Butler (George Michael), bassist Oscar Convers and TJ’s sister, singer and creative partner Chelsea Rae with additional contributions by his regular working band. The result is a broad-based concept album about love, politics and the travels of the modern world that’s rooted in classic rock and modern rap with psychedelic, neoclassical and piano-rock and modern pop influences too. TJ just kept wanting to add more and more layers to this recording, and somehow Mark Christensen and his mixing team (Greg Pizzulo and Darren Fewins) reconciled the layers into a deep, broad modern concept album. TJ is a talented visual artist, too. And, when I browsed over to his website, https://mercuryandthearchitects.com I discovered that it was rich with graphic imagery and, much to my surprise, a “maze” with ciphers and visual puzzles for visitors to enter and solve. All things told, he’s a very creative young artist with the chutzpah to follow through on his vision. Check out his site, his music (streaming on iTunes and Spotify and Soundcloud) and as TJ writes: “Crack the code. Take off your TV head. Become an Architect.” Highly recommended! Jonathan Coulton’s “Solid State” You may be familiar with singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton (aka JoCo) as the house musician on the NPR game show “Ask Me Another” (recorded live at Brooklyn’s Bell House), or perhaps you heard his “Thing a Week” podcast where he recorded, produced and posted song every week for a year. If so, then you know he’s a pithy songwriter with a knack for writing catchy, sardonic, modern pop songs about literally anything! I’ve been recording keyboard tracks for Jonathan and his producer Christian Cassan for many years now, including music for the TV show A Crime to Remember,” but they recently released JoCo’s strongest original recording yet, Solid State. I’m proud to have contributed some piano and keyboard tracks to this epic concept album that is available as an impressive LP package including full-color graphic novel and digital download encoded on a mock-science lab ID card with USB flash drive built in. The album peaked at #8 on the Billboard Indie Album charts, and I’ve enjoyed listening to it quite a bit. Here’s an article about JoCo from the Huffington Post with more info. Check out Solid State wherever you stream or purchase music, know what I mean? Ditmas Park Corner Interview I’m excited to announce that the popular local blog Ditmas Park Corner just posted an interview of me by author Chris Farrell. We discuss life as musician and studio owner at the intersection of Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Ditmas Park, and he asks some interesting questions about my piano and keyboard collection. You can check it out the original post here. Due to space constraints, DPC cut almost half of the content. Chris has graciously offered to make the entire article available to me- if you’d like to read the un-abridged version, the complete text is here. What’s New? (And haven’t I read about it here?) Goodness gracious, I realize it’s been almost 2 years since I last posted any news entries on this website. I’m so sorry! I’ve been so busy gigging, working in the studio and enjoying my family that I’ve been seriously remiss in posting anything new here. I promise to be better about it- there’s a lot to share. And my gigs page is current. In the meantime, here’s a super short synopsis of what I’m up to. Gigs- My Friday evening trio residency continues in earnest at Hillstone. I have the privilege of playing with a hand-picked selection of the best rhythm section players in NYC and beyond. Join us for a drink, some spinach dip, steak or sushi, or just chill and listen as we play original music, jazz and standards, Stevie and Beatles tunes and more at the Ranch. Bill, Still! Celebrates the Music of Bill Withers- we’re at Bar Lunatico every other Thursday in June, plus we’ve been playing the Bitter End and Rockwood Music Hall. Halcyon Jukebox takes you on a trip back in time to the glory days of 70’s AM and 80’s Soft-Rock radio. Some of NYC’s most fearless improvisers will balance reverence and exploration on a playlist of deliciously cheesy hits form yesteryear. During the summer I’m often busy with The Loyales, a party band I play with that NY Magazine called “A living, breathing jukebox, full of expertly curated 45s.” Our playlist includes classic soul, Stax and Motown, classic country and bluegrass, vintage reggae and some choice 80’s favorites. We rarely showcase in public- mostly we play hipster weddings and swanky corporate parties. (Getting married??) Studio- My studio, Benny’s Wash & Dry has been buzzing with activity lately… I’m always up to something creative and funky down here. We do live ensemble recording for jazz, singer-songwriters, rock, roots and beyond. Plus we do a lot of commercial and educational work. Check out the studio site for more details. Recent artists have included Joe Clausell, Rench, Lisa Parrott, Paul Beaudry & Dennis Day, John Thomas, Laurell Eden, Sal Cosentino, Melanie Gall, Yuma Sung, Cory Cullinan and more! Recent gear improvements include microphones by Schoeps, SAMAR and Lawson, and preamps by John Hardy and Vintech. Upcoming Travel- From June 15-26 I’m off to Israel for a tour with singer-songwriter KJ Denhert. We worked together regularly in the mid 2000’s and I’m excited to reunite with her for my first trip to Middle East since 1984. This July and August I return for my 30-somthingth summer at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. I’ll be teaching and playing shows there, including a Steveie Wonder tribute featuring vocalist Claytoven Richardson on Wed, July 27th. OK- I promise to write more soon. Thanks for visiting bennettpaster.com Don’t hesitate to contact me for more info about anything I do.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line503
__label__wiki	0.894446	0.894446	Bet On The Singapore Guineas May 16, 2013 by Daniele Polizzi The Singapore Guineas takes place on Friday, bringing to an end the Singapore Three-Year-Old Challenge. The race was well won by Super Easy last year, with the Michael Freedman colt taking the title in convincing fashion. This time out, a talented and well-balanced field is expected to take the starting blocks, with Stepitup and Super Ninety Seven among the early favourites for the race. 2013 The Singapore Guineas Odds The best place to have a bet on the 2013 Singapore Guineas is with Bet365.com. The odds below were taken from the site, and you will be able to find the latest race odds there as well. Bet365.com is also offering each-way betting on the race, with which you will receive 1/4 if should your selection place in positions one to three. Stepitup 6/4 Super Ninety Seven 6/4 Zac Spirit 12/1 Philanthropist 14/1 Mr Magnus 14/1 Bendicion 14/1 Super Shadow 20/1 Bale Star 20/1 Approval Given 20/1 Alpha Centauri 66/1 Golden Mission 66/1 War Lord 100/1 Breaking Vaults 100/1 Silver And Gold 150/1 Super Easy was ridden to victory last year by talented jockey Joao Moreira, who will again saddle up for the race. This time Moreira will be with Mr Magnus, who is at 14/1 for the race. Mr Magnus emerged as a contender for the Singapore Guineas after recording a victory in the Gingerbread Man 2011 Graduation Stakes over Alpha Centauri and Luwak Coffee in the 1400-metre race. The Stephen Gray-trained horse is looking good for a strong for the event and at his current price offers decent value for an each-way bet at least. Gray also seemed confident of his charge’s prospects, adding that ‘he’s going to love the mile and will get even further later on. He’s had a lovely preparation for the Guineas. We’ve looked after him and taken the easier options with him and I know what it takes to win the Guineas.’ However, Mr Magnus will be coming up against some stiff opposition in the event, with joint-favourites Stepitup and Super Ninety Seven boasting some impressive records, and come in to the race on the back of strong 2013 form. Stepitup has six win from his seven starts, with one second place, as his career record. He has won the last three races in which he has started, the last of which was in April over Super Ninety Seven with just under a length distance between the two horses, though it is to be noted that these victories came over 1200 and 1400-metre distances. That loss to Stepitup in April was Super Ninety Seven’s first taste of defeat since January, and during the intervening period enjoyed success in two outings secured with more than one length victories. The Australian colt has won in four of his eight starts, placing in second in three other races. Where To Bet On The Singapore Guineas As mentioned above, the best racebook to place a bet on the 2013 Singapore Guineas is Bet365.com, who will offer the best odds on the race. When visiting Bet365.com, click on ‘Horse Racing’ in the left sidebar and scroll down to the Antepost section of the page, where you will find the markets for this race and many more. The Singapore Guineas is a Group 1 race for three year old horses, and is run over 1600 metres. With a purse of $500,000, it always attracts a talented and diverse field from both home and abroad. The Singapore Guineas is the final leg of the Singapore Three-Year-Old Challenge.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line505
__label__cc	0.582752	0.417248	BetBright Chase 2014 Preview February 20, 2014 by Harvey Mayson Saturday’s BetBright Chase, formerly known as the Racing Post Chase, has attracted a field of 13 headed by Bury Parade. The race has often proved a decent trial for the Aintree Grand National but that looks unlikely this year with the going currently heavy. Bury Parade is likely to be a strong favourite here after an impressive victory at Ascot last time out. He is one of three runners trained by Paul Nicholls who has recently had a frustrating time in the big Saturday races. Big Buck’s, Zarkandar, Unioniste, Rocky Creek, Dodging Bullets and Irish Saint have all been beaten in recent weeks. Bury Parade is up 9lbs for that victory but is only 4lbs worse off with runner-up Grandioso and should confirm the form. He won at this course in November, holding off the useful Hadrian’s Approach by a nose under Sam Twiston-Davies. He blotted his copybook by refusing to race at Exeter in December but ran in a hood for the first time at Ascot and will be hard to beat if repeating that form here. The ground was particularly testing that day so there should be no fears on that score. He is the current favourite at 4-1 with Bet365. Grandioso, a stable companion of Bury Parade, has always been well regarded by the trainer but is yet to win this season. His last effort was his best to date and he has won at this venue. The third Nicholls runner is Jump City who ran well when second to Planet Of Sound here in January but failed to reproduce that form at Sandown next time out. Planet Of Sound is 4lbs worse off for two lengths with Jump City but that was his first start of the season. He is now twelve years of age but Philip Hobbs and Richard Johnson have a marvellous record in this event. The trainer has won it four times while Johnson has steered home the winner on five occasions. He could prove to be the each-way value of the race at around 12-1. Alan King’s stable are starting to make up for lost time after the yard was shut down for a few weeks over Christmas. Bless The Wings and Midnight Appeal both have chances on their best form. Midnight Appeal ran particularly well last time when just touched off by Triangular here at the last meeting. Ardkilly Witness is another fancied runner after chasing home Relax at Sandown. The gelding is nothing if not consistent and looks sure to run his usual solid race. Baile Anrai finished second in the Great Yorkshire Chase at Doncaster and will be staying on at the finish. Whats Happening and Bally Legend are the pick of the outsiders while Standing Ovation is probably in the grip of the handicapper after running up a sequence at the start of the season.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line506
__label__wiki	0.912013	0.912013	Storia della serie Stagione Uno (1993-1994) Evoluzione e nascita di un mito Stagione Due (1994-1995) Stagione Tre (1995-1996) Stagione Quattro (1996-1997) Stagione Cinque (1997-1998) Fight the Future (1998) Stagione Sei (1998-1999) Stagione Sette (1999-2000) Stagione Otto (2000-2001) Stagione Nove (2001-2002) Sospesi nel tempo I Want to Believe (2008) Stagione Dieci (2016) Riepilogo Awards Stagione UNO Stagione DUE Stagione TRE Stagione QUATTRO Stagione CINQUE [FILM] Fight the future Stagione SEI Stagione SETTE Stagione OTTO Stagione NOVE [FILM] I Want to Believe Stagione DIECI Stagione UNDICI Olio Nero Super Soldati La sigla della serie Il poster di Mulder Episodi non realizzati Gli X-Philes Notizie e curiosità Gli speciali di BTS David Duchovny e Gillian Anderson per il ventennale di X-Files Frank Spotnitz al Roma Fiction Fest 2013 X-Files al Comic Con di San Diego 2013 Gillian Anderson al Roma Fiction Fest 2012 Intervista a Mark Snow Still us, but in English! [2011] BELIEVE AGAIN [2010] BELIEVE [2008] I Want To Believe 'It kept me sane and alive': Gillian Anderson on therapy at 14, sex scenes and why she loves London Kirsty Lang Daily Mail (UK) Agent Scully? She only did it for the money. Hollywood? No thanks, she’s happier in London. And those sex scenes in BBC hit The Fall... what’s all the fuss about? Event meets the straight-talking TV detective set to take science fiction by storm There’s a scene in the first series of The Fall, the BBC’s brilliant and controversial Bafta-nominated crime drama, when DSI Stella Gibson, played by the American actress Gillian Anderson, summons a young policeman up to her hotel room for sex. She spots him at a crime scene, calls him over and tells him her room number in the same matter-of-fact way she would ask a junior officer about witnesses. Afterwards, she dismisses him with same lack of emotion. It’s powerful, graphic and, I suggest, quite shocking. ‘Why should this be shocking in 2014?’ shoots back a clearly exasperated Anderson, when I meet her in a tiny dressing room backstage at the Young Vic Theatre in London, where she has just finished a three-month run in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. ‘People have one-night stands all the time. Stella is comfortable with her sexuality. 'She has needs and if those are met by the occasional night between two consenting adults, what’s the problem?’ It’s the sort of no-nonsense response you’d expect from the actress who blasted onto our screens 20 years ago as the feisty, red-headed FBI agent in The X Files and who is about to publish her first novel – a sci-fi thriller called A Vision Of Fire. Since returning to Britain from America in 2002, Anderson has established herself as one our most compelling actresses, playing a succession of ballsy women in a man’s world, from Agent Scully in The X Files to the tough wife of a missionary doctor in Uganda, in Kevin MacDonald’s film about Idi Amin, The Last King Of Scotland. Her latest is the high-powered detective in The Fall, BBC2’s most popular drama in 20 years, which returns this month for a second series. A psychological thriller about a serial killer in contemporary Belfast, the first series won plaudits for its creepy, tension-building plot. But there were also complaints about the violence against women. I had gone to interview Anderson with some trepidation, having been warned that she can be frosty and hates being asked anything personal. Perhaps she is more comfortable with women, but for most of our interview I found her to be warm, funny and quite open. There are definite no-go areas when she clams up with a frosty determination, but there is part of her that clearly likes to shock. Two years ago in an interview with the gay magazine Out, Anderson spoke about having had a lesbian love affair, saying, ‘I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school... I’m old enough to talk about these things now.’ When asked today why she had chosen to reveal this, her answer is illuminating. ‘She had died of a brain tumour a year earlier and I had never really spoken about her. (Anderson’s younger brother also died of a brain tumour, three years ago, which ‘had a profound effect on all of us. It did make me change priorities and realise life is short.’) 'She was a beautiful person who was very meaningful in my life and I wanted to honour her instead of hiding my experience. 'There was a point years after we had split when she phoned to tell me to say she had been offered a large amount of money to sell a photograph of us together and had chosen not to do it. It was a very big decision because she really could have used that money. ‘I felt it was very important to take the onus off that type of relationship, to say this happened and I feel no shame about it.’ Later in our conversation she mentions that her sister is over visiting from the U.S. with her wife. Although she doesn’t say it, I am sure that talking about her own lesbian relationship was Anderson’s way of paying respect to her sister’s life choices as well. Given that Anderson has had two husbands and another long-term relationship with the father of her two sons, she is clearly more inclined towards men, and they like her too. In 1996 she was voted the world’s sexiest woman. At 46 and a mother of three children, she is still incredibly attractive, with mesmerising blue eyes and a pale, freckled face you can’t help staring at. She’s tiny but with a perfectly proportioned hourglass figure. Her oldest child, 20-year-old daughter Piper – an art student in London – is from Anderson’s first marriage, to Clyde Klotz, an assistant director she met on the set of The X Files. The father of her two sons Oscar, seven, and Felix, six, is the British businessman Mark Griffiths. He made his money in wheel-clamping and had previously been linked to Spice Girl Geri Halliwell. In between, Anderson was with film-maker Julian Ozanne for three years. After an idyllic honeymoon off the East Coast of Africa, the couple tried for children but she had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy. It was widely reported that the marriage officially ended only after she became pregnant by Griffiths, but since this is one of Anderson’s no-go areas, I don’t pry. She met Ozanne at a dinner party in London just after leaving The X Files. She had come to Britain to do theatre and wasn’t planning on staying permanently until she met him. They married in 2004 and lived together in Notting Hill. These days she has moved to another part of London and tells me very firmly that she’s single but has a very good relationship with the father of her two sons, who lives around the corner. For most of the Nineties, however, the man she was most associated with was the actor David Duchovny, Agent Mulder to her Agent Scully in The X Files. It was a relationship that crackled with sexual chemistry on screen, and their fans have always been convinced that there have been close encounters of the bedroom kind in real life. Anderson has been quoted as saying, ‘It’s a nice idea but it’s never going to happen.’ To me, she says they’re still very close. ‘The filming days on The X Files were long and gruelling, so the cast and crew became like another a family.’ You’d think it would be the ambition of any young actress to be in such a popular TV show, but Anderson says she never intended to work in television and only auditioned for The X Files because she was out of money and desperate (she described the pay disparity on The X Files as ‘massive’, revealing that she received half the salary of her male co-star). ‘I had a very negative opinion – and rightly so – of TV at the time.’ When I ask her about what that early celebrity was like she says, ‘For most of the time we were protected by the fact that we were living and shooting in Vancouver and it wasn’t until I moved down to LA and started to be recognised in restaurants that I realised I was famous. ‘I cannot imagine what it must be like for young and impressionable actors getting into the business today with the whole tweeting thing, members of the public snapping you on their phones, the fact that anyone can post a picture of you sitting in a restaurant. There is no privacy any more.’ Does she suffer from that these days? ‘There are moments in stressful situations when you are travelling with your kids or you are in the park drying their bums and someone is taking a photo of you on their phone. 'Nowadays everyone becomes a member of the paparazzi.’ When I ask her if she regrets moving to London after The X Files, as if she’d stayed she might have become a major Hollywood star, she hoots with laughter but never answers the question. She says she moved to London because she wanted to act in plays here. ‘I loved being in London. But what I loved the most was the “moment to moment” focus that takes place in live theatre.’ Since then Anderson has carved out a formidable reputation on the British stage and screen. She has been in two award-winning BBC adaptations of Dickens novels, playing Miss Havisham in Great Expectations and the haughty Lady Dedlock in Bleak House, as well as the ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies’s masterpiece The House Of Mirth. Her run in A Streetcar Named Desire was widely acclaimed. Her dressing room is crammed to the rafters with huge bouquets of wilting flowers, messages of congratulations from family and friends – and her children’s drawings are pinned up on the mirrors. Outside the theatre posters champion Anderson’s ‘utterly compelling’ ‘five-star performance’. The theatre’s publicist tells me in hushed tones that it was the fastest-selling show in the venue’s history and sold out even before it opened. It’s a testimony to Anderson’s huge popularity and her skill as an actress. On the night I watched the show, Anderson’s performance as the alcoholic Southern belle Blanche Dubois was electric and the play sizzled with the sexual longing Tennessee Williams intended it to have. ‘It was exhausting because I was on stage for three hours – but also wonderful.’ She says the only way to understand Blanche Dubois is to see her as an alcoholic. ‘She comes to the table with a great deal of psychological frailty, but her excessive drinking only exacerbates her condition.’ Anderson is unhappy when she finds out I only saw the opening night. ‘It got much better, tighter’ she assures me, before joking that one of the hardest aspects of playing Blanche was having to negotiate the revolving stage while tottering about in impossibly high heels. The night before her photoshoot with Event, she cut her leg on stage during a violent scene, proof if we needed it of her commitment to her craft. Killer stilettos are also part of her look in The Fall. As DSI Stella Gibson, Anderson gives Helen Mirren’s DCI Jane Tennison from Prime Suspect a run for her money. She plays a super-cop who clicks down the corridors of Belfast’s central police station in her heels, terrifying male colleagues with her confident sexuality and incisive brain. She’s been brought in from the Met to solve a series of murders that conform to a pattern: all the victims are young, attractive brunettes with good jobs. Unlike most TV murder mysteries, we know whodunit. Played by Jamie Dornan, who is poised to become a huge star after being cast in the much-awaited film adaptation of the EL James bestseller 50 Shades Of Grey, the killer is a good-looking, married bereavement counsellor with two children. He has a lot in common with the policewoman who is hunting him. Anderson has been gushing in her praise of Dornan, saying that he is ‘very funny and good at telling stories. He’s a good mimic as well. He’s a lovely lad. 'On the first series, people said, “Who is this guy? Is he an ex-model or something?” Now people don’t want to talk to me about The X Files. They only ask about Jamie Dornan.’ But when I ask about working with him, she replies cautiously, ‘We will be sharing some screen time later in the series but that’s all I’m prepared to say.’ Did she tease her co-star about his appearance in the sexy bonk-buster? ‘No,’ she replies with an irritated and condescending look. ‘My understanding of that shoot is that the director Sam Taylor Wood – because she is an artist – approached it in a very quiet way.’ As the serial killer in The Fall, Dornan is also called upon to do a fair bit of tying up and bondage, but that’s where the comparison ends. There is nothing submissive about Anderson’s female detective. The series was created by Allan Cubitt, who wrote Prime Suspect 2, and there are parallels between Anderson’s Gibson and Mirren’s Jane Tennison. They are both controlling, straight-talking characters. But Anderson says there are also big differences. ‘Jane Tennison is tortured. Stella isn’t. Jane is a drinker, she has a neediness for a man’s attention and is always getting into awkward relationships. 'Stella is much more in control and self-sufficient. What they do have in common is a big ego. They both think they are the only people who can solve a crime.’ The first time Anderson saw Prime Suspect, she was living in Los Angeles working on The X Files. ‘Helen Mirren presented me with one of my first awards and I remember standing on stage, dumbstruck by meeting her.’ It’s clear that Anderson likes to be in charge. ‘Ask anyone I work with and they’ll tell you I’m OCD about my schedule. I even colour-code it.’ Whenever she takes on a new role, Anderson lays down her conditions right from the start. ‘I say this is it: I am coming home for the weekends, half-terms, parents’ evenings... I must have time for my children.’ She prefers doing plays during the school holidays so she can spend time with her children during the day. But the Young Vic extended Streetcar’s run by two weeks and it ran into the beginning of term, meaning she could only see her two boys at the weekends. But, she says, ‘I have a great nanny and they have a great, very present father who they love being with, so that helps a lot.’ Before doing Streetcar, Anderson spent five months commuting between Belfast, where The Fall is filmed, and Toronto, where she appears in another serial killer drama, Hannibal, for the American network NBC. ‘I tend to go out to film in Belfast or the U.S. for no more than four to five days and then come home. I learned that lesson working on The X Files when my daughter was little.’ She enjoyed getting to know Belfast and believes the setting brings something extra to The Fall. ‘We are so used to seeing London in police dramas – in Northern Ireland there is a definite and palpable edge in the air all the time. 'Also, we are not used to seeing Belfast outside the context of the Troubles.’ At a time when so many British actors are playing American roles on U.S. TV, Anderson is probably the only actor who can claim to be genuinely bilingual – or bi-accented. Born to American parents in Chicago, she moved to the UK as a toddler. She spent her formative years at a primary school in north London before the family moved back to the U.S. when she was a teenager, where she had to learn to speak American for the first time in her life. When she was 14 she had therapy and although she won’t go into the details she has said that ‘it kept me sane and alive. I seriously needed it.’ She slips effortlessly between the two identities – British and American. However, when it comes to politics she still has a foreigner’s perspective. ‘I tend to follow what’s happening in America. That’s where I vote, not here. ‘There is a lot about British politics I don’t understand. But my kids are British and this is my home. I can’t ever imagine moving back to the U.S. permanently.’ Amid her hectic schedule, Anderson has found time to write a novel on her transatlantic plane journeys. A Vision Of Fire – out this week – is a sci-fi thriller co-written with American author Jeff Rovin. Anderson says she is not a fan of science fiction but a friend thought she and sci-fi geek Rovin should try and write a book together. The book is a page-turner with a strong female protagonist. She’s a brilliant child psychologist who works in the world’s trouble spots. ‘That was my idea,’ says Anderson. ‘Jeff is probably the world’s greatest expert on science fiction but I came up with the main character because ultimately I want this to be made into a film, so I was writing a character for myself.’ There are parallels between Anderson and her protagonist. Both are competent and ambitious single mothers who manage to combine an exciting international career with being good parents. Anderson says she wanted to create a character who ‘is my age but not stuck in any of the stereotypical aspects of how women are usually portrayed. 'Caitlin is raising a deaf child on her own but she is also at the top of her field. She manages to balance these worlds while remaining level-headed and capable. 'She’s not an alcoholic and she’s quite happy being single.’ There’s no reason to think that Anderson won’t enjoy the kind of success with her book that she has done with everything else in her career. For the moment she’s happy with a foot on each side of the Atlantic, weighing up her options. ‘I have also been extraordinarily lucky at this time in my life to get plenty of offers of work. 'Right now in America there is an influx of TV series led by women of a certain age. On the one hand it’s great on the other hand it’s slightly tokenistic.’ She gets animated on the subject of female directors and can’t understand why they don’t get more work. ‘I recently shot a series in the U.S. called Crisis. I was in hair and make-up and this woman in her 50s came in and introduced herself as the director and I nearly fell off my chair, it’s so rare.’ When I say it’s because women tend to be less confident and pushy she disagrees. ‘I honestly think there is an assumption that women are not as competent.’ So it’s sexism pure and simple? ‘Yes, I believe it is.’ Anderson has railed against the ‘intolerable’ sexism women still suffer from men in everyday life, saying it’s ‘built into our society… it’s easy to miss and it’s easy to get used to it… the expectation that if a woman is wearing a short skirt she is asking for it.’ Given that The Fall is about a serial killer, a voyeur who stalks his prey for days and steals their underwear, what does Anderson feel about the levels of violence against women on television? ‘I wouldn’t have done this series if I felt the violence was gratuitous,’ she says. ‘We get to know and like the victims, we see the grief and devastation it causes their families. 'I think it engages the viewer with the wider issue – there is a huge amount of violence against women in the world today and most of it is committed by men...’ So despite her tough, no-nonsense image, some things clearly do get to Gillian Anderson. ‘The Fall’ returns to BBC2 later in the autumn. The novel ‘A Vision Of Fire’ is published on Thursday, price £9.09 FONTE: Daily Mail (UK) Gillian Anderson A Vision of Fire The Fall articolo visto 3800 volte Condividi ''It kept me sane and alive': Gillian Anderson on therapy at 14, sex scenes and why she loves London' X-Files IWTB TXF - Stagione Dieci XF3 Rumors TXF - Stagione Undici 20° anniversario di X-Files BBC FTF The Fall XF2 Rumors SDCC Great Expectations Californication Junkets Millennium Gillian Anderson Chris Carter David Duchovny Frank Spotnitz Vince Gilligan Glen Morgan Darin Morgan James Wong Mitch Pileggi Howard Gordon Mark Snow John Shiban William B. 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The X-Files Season 11 Ending Explained Exclusive Interview: Creator Chris Carter Looks Back at The X-Files, Discusses Potential Third Movie and More Sexuality? It's fluid... AMC 2014 Upfront/Development Announcement; New Chris Carter, Michael R. Perry; Amy Lippman Projects \| The PC Principle Il segreto di David Duchovny Gillian Anderson on Late Show with David Letterman David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Know Exactly What They're Doing to Us and Seem to Be Enjoying It The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with David Duchovny The X-Files 20th Anniversary Blogging: ''F. Emasculata'' (April 28, 1995) Chris Carter on Area 51, Playing Softball With Brandon Tartikoff, and the TV Musical in His Closet Statistiche Archivio Il nostro sito, online dal mese di Ottobre del 2001, è un omaggio ad X-FILES, la serie tv creata da Chris Carter che racconta la storia di due agenti dell'FBI, Fox Mulder e Dana Scully, e delle loro indagini su fenomeni inspiegabili. Guida Episodi [Mulder] Qualunque nastro tu stia guardando non mi appartiene. [Scully] Bene, così posso metterlo in quel cassetto, con tutti gli altri nastri che non sono tuoi. #2X11 Excelsius Dei una mail ai nostri Feed Beyondthesea.it © 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line508
__label__cc	0.715997	0.284003	beauty . lifestyle . happiness More Old Forsythes I have 4 more shades of the old Forsythe polishes I bought from VNS for you today. One is a hit, one is a possible "it's all right, but indecisive", the others--not my favorites! Above & Below: This would be my "hit" of these four, Blazing Burgundy. It's more of a blood red than a burgundy, and this creme has a jelly finish. I used 2 coats and had very nice coverage and application, especially considering how old these are. Below: This is the one I'm indecisive about, Glamourose. It's just a little too frosty for me--you haven't seen frost until you see the next two, so compared to those, it's not a bad shade. It's also similar to other shades I have, so it's not really moving me one way or the other. A light cranberry red shimmer, this one seems to have a very slight black base to it. I used 2 coats, as I did on all four shades. Below: Step away from your monitor if you don't like frosts! Some frosts work for me, some don't. We'll say this one doesn't! Lunar is an off-white shade that didn't cover quite as well as the others. The color itself looks nice in the bottle, with an almost ivory cast, but no. Just no on this one. Below: The frost-fest continues...this is even worse than Lunar to me. Shimmering Lilac is not only a frost, but it also has a somewhat chrome finish. With this pale silvery lilac shade, that is just not the best combination of color/finish, in my opinion. Below: Shimmering Lilac did match the flowers on the Hosta plants, but that doesn't make me like it any better! Well, you win some and you lose some! With the exception of Blazing Burgundy, the other three shades aren't doing much for me. I blame only myself for purchasing them sight unseen, but so far, I have found some of these older Forsythe's to be nice additions to my collection, while others are not so impressive. Heart Strings and Rosy Glow, which I swatched a few weeks ago were my favorites so far, and you can search my Forsythe label here if you're interested in seeing those. Chrome/Foil, Creme, Forsythe Cosmetics, Frost-type Finish, Lavender/Lilac, Red, Shimmer, White/Off-White Zara July 16, 2010 at 6:18 PM Love Blazing Burgundy could take or leave Glamourose, and as for Shimmering Lilac and Luna...ick. Just ick. I can't stand that much frostiness. Biba July 17, 2010 at 2:05 AM I'd pick Glamourose! Geo58 July 17, 2010 at 2:33 PM I love Glamorose because of the unusual black base...It looks frosty however, to me it looks like a little on the caramel/cranberry red shimmer. It looks beautiful on your gorgoeus fingernails Mary. Love how you can separate the polish away from your cuticles so perfectly. How do you do that? Also, the lilacs are very beautiful flowers but not too crazy about the frosty whites of Shimmering Lilacs and Lunar. Have a great weekend. Nameste. Supersparklekitty July 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM That's too bad about Lunar, it looks so pretty in the bottle! I don't have a problem with frosts and the lilac is actually my fave of the four haha Blog Archive December (16) January (2) August (3) January (4) January (8) December (1) July (1) June (5) November (1) October (4) September (6) August (9) July (2) May (1) April (5) March (13) February (15) January (3) December (4) November (15) October (3) July (2) June (2) May (1) March (5) February (9) January (14) December (18) November (2) October (5) September (10) August (22) July (15) June (16) May (13) April (3) March (4) February (14) January (14) December (20) November (18) October (29) September (28) August (20) July (28) June (28) May (23) April (29) March (34) February (32) January (41) December (37) November (36) October (43) September (43) August (31) July (38) June (43) May (37) April (34) March (45) February (38) January (47) December (42) November (41) October (30) September (31) August (55) July (51) June (31) May (32) April (30) March (32) February (19) 2009 - 2017 BODY & SOUL BEAUTY, All Rights Reserved. Powered by Blogger. © COPYRIGHT Body & Soul \| DESIGN BY EFLAIR	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line510
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__label__cc	0.660264	0.339736	Buccaneers Tickets Bucs Schedule « Bucs Don’t Want to Move Backup QB Johnson Dez Gets His Shot » Bucs Battle the Pats in Game Two of the Preseason Tonight August 18th, 2011 Matt Loede Posted in News Even with Tom Brady and most of his cohorts watching from the sidelines, the Patriots’ offense operated at near maximum efficiency in the team’s preseason opener. The star quarterback should now get his chance to take the controls when he makes an expected 2011 debut in Friday’s game against the Buccaneers from Raymond James Stadium. Despite head coach Bill Belichick sitting out over 30 players — a list that included Brady, wide receivers Chad Ochocinco, Wes Welker and Deion Branch and the entire projected offensive line — the Patriots were still able to do plenty of damage in last week’s matchup with Jacksonville. New England’s cast of benchwarmers racked up 476 total yards and 335 through the air en route to a 47-12 rout of the Jaguars. Backup quarterbacks Brian Hoyer and Ryan Mallett combined to complete 27-of-40 throws on the night, with the rookie Mallett hitting on 12-of-19 passes for 164 yards in an splendid intro to the pros. Mallett was one of two third-round selections by the Patriots in this past April’s draft to shine against the Jags. Running back Stevan Ridley scored three touchdowns and amassed 111 yards from scrimmage (64 rushing, 47 receiving) along with a team-best seven receptions. Brady, the NFL’s reigning Most Valuable Player, won’t likely get too many reps on Thursday before turning things over to Hoyer and Mallett, however. Ochocinco, meanwhile, is tentatively slated to see his first game action as a Patriot since the colorful wideout’s trade from Cincinnati in late July. New England fans may have to wait a bit longer for their first glimpse at the team’s two other notable offseason additions, however. Defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth has practiced sparingly in camp for undisclosed reasons, while veteran end and ex-New York Jets Shaun Ellis has yet to be activated from the physically unable to perform list. The youthful Buccaneers were impressive in their own right last week, dominating a Kansas City team that was albeit using its preseason lid-lifter as an extended scrimmage by a 25-0 count last Friday at Arrowhead Stadium. Tampa Bay limited the Chiefs to a mere 137 total yards and compiled six sacks on the night, while also forcing and recovering a pair of early fumbles that led to scoring drives. On offense, quarterback Josh Freeman threw for 73 yards on 9-of-13 passing while running for a touchdown in a little over a quarter’s worth of action. He and the majority of Tampa Bay’s healthy starters figure to be on the field for most of the first half in this contest. Defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, the No. 3 overall pick by the Bucs in the 2010 draft, is expected to play on Thursday for the first time since suffering a season-ending torn biceps last December. Two other second-year starters — wide receiver Arrelious Benn (torn ACL) and defensive tackle Brian Price (groin) — are likely to be held out for at least another week, however, as the pair continues rehabbing from their respective surgeries. Tampa Bay has had the upper hand in its all-time preseason series with the Patriots, winning seven of the eight such meetings between the clubs. The most recent one took place at Raymond James Stadium in 2008, with the Bucs claiming a 27-10 decision. New England prevailed in the last regular-season matchup, cruising to a 35-7 victory at London’s Wembley Stadium during the 2009 season. Enjoyed this post? Subscribe to Buccaneers Gab via RSS Feed or E-mail and receive daily news updates from us! 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__label__cc	0.544861	0.455139	Mark Bryant Budolfson Homepage edited by Mark Bryant Budolfson Research Publications Articles Papers By Mark Bryant Budolfson attachment from Mark Bryant Budolfson attachment removed by Mark Bryant Budolfson Teaching Syllabi Syllabus Mark Bryant Budolfson‎ > ‎ foodethics Introduction to Ethics and Food Systems Fall 2017, University of Vermont (PHIL 010: Food Ethics) Office Hours: Tues and Thurs 1:40-2:40pm and by appointment This course provides an introduction to ethics through the lens of food systems. It also includes modules on the ethics of ending life, and on sustainability. (Students should verify that they are comfortable with course that includes a module on abortion and ending life.) In more detail, this course explores the different ethical issues that arise in the context of our food choices both at the level of personal decision-making and at the level of public policy. We address questions such as: what sorts of ethical obligations do we have to those who produce our food? Are the food choices we make ethically constrained by our obligations to preserve the environment or to preserve our own health and, if so, how are they constrained? Is it ethically permissible to eat meat? Is the government ethically permitted or even obligated to regulate our personal food choices (e.g. by regulating the volume of single serving soft drinks)? To what extent is a government like ours obligated to ensure that people have adequate access to food? This course has two, related educational aims (goals, objectives). The first is to prepare you to begin developing and defending your own answers to these and other questions in the domain of food ethics. The second is to equip you with a certain set of skills: both in preparing for class, in your writing, and through class discussion and group work, you will develop your ability to (1) communicate clearly and concisely, (2) reconstruct arguments for a position or view from a piece of text, (3) critically evaluate arguments, (4) construct persuasive arguments of your own in defense of a position or view, and (5) anticipate and address potential objections to arguments that you find persuasive. Although deploying these skills will be crucial in your effort to advance your own thinking about the questions in food ethics that we will discuss in this class, developing these skills has independent value as they can also be usefully applied in a variety of different domains outside of philosophy. Optional Textbook Anne Barnhill et al., Food, Ethics, and Society, Oxford UP, 2016 (Readings below are marked 'T' if they are in this textbook.) Readings (Only Numbered Readings are Required) August 29: Overview of Course Outcomes; Collective Ethics vs. Production Ethics vs. Consumer Ethics 1. Introduction to Chapter 1: The Ethically Troubling Food System (T) Optional: Milton Friedman, "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits" (not in T) August 31: Intensive Industrial Animal Agriculture and Empirical Premises about Animal Welfare 1. Jonathan Safran Foer, "The Truth About Eating Animals" (T) 2. Humane Society of the United States, "The Welfare of Animals in the Meat, Egg, and Dairy Industries" (T) Optional: Introduction to Chapter 7: Industrial Animal Agriculture (T) Optional: selection from Gilovich et. al., Social Psychology, 1st ed. (introduction to social psychology textbook) (not in T) September 5, 7, 12: The Ethics of Ending Life; the Nature of Basic Rights 1. Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion" (not in T) Optional: Michael Tooley, "Are Non-Human Animals Persons?" (not in T) September 14: Objections to Thomson's Arguments 1. Michael Tooley, objections to Thomson on abortion (not in T) (note that this provides an excellent model for how to write your own philosophy papers in this course) Optional: Carol Kaesuk Yoon, "No face, but plants like life too" (T) September 19: Utilitarianism; Singer on Expanding the Moral Circle and Speciesism 1. Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal" (T) September 21: Singer vs. Tannsjo on the Implications of Utilitarianism; Total Utilitarianism vs. Average Utilitariansim 1. Torbjorn Tannsjo, "It's getting better all the time" (T) FIRST PAPER ASSIGNMENT: due Sunday, October 1 at 11:59pm via email September 26: No In-Class Meeting; Non-utilitarian Approaches to Animal Ethics 1. Roger Scruton, "Eating Our Friends" (T) Optional: Matt Halteman, "Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation" (T) Work on First Paper Assignment September 28: Consumer Ethics; Non-utilitarian Vegan Arguments 1. Tristram McPherson, "How to Argue for (and against) Ethical Veganism" (T) (note that this provides an excellent model for how to write your own philosophy papers in this course) October 1: First Paper Assignment is due at 11:59pm via email October 3: Consumer Ethics and the Inefficacy Objection If your class begins at 11:40am, we are meeting directly at the Intervale to glean (meet in the lot at 114 Intervale Rd at 11:50am (gives you time to get there), first on the left as you enter the area). Otherwise if your class is at 2:50, we are meeting in the normal class location. (Optional: USDA fact sheet on gleaning; Optional: Info on Intervale gleaning initiative and its goals.) 1. Grace Boey, "Eating Animals and Personal Guilt" (T) Optional: Introduction to Chapter 4: Consumer Ethics (i.e. pages 165-186) (T) October 5: Kantian non-utilitarian theories of Animal Ethics and Consumer Ethics 1. Christine Korsgaard, "Getting Animals in View" (T) 2. Eliot Michaelson, "A Kantian Response to Futility Worries?" (T) 3. Read pp. 176-178 (only) on Kantian and other deontological theories of consumer ethics in the Introduction to Chapter 4: Consumer Ethics October 10: Production Ethics; Ideal vs. Non-Ideal Theory; Industrial Plant Ag and the Ethics of Feeding the World 1. Kenneth Weiss, "As World Population Grows, Hunger Persists on a Massive Scale" (T) 2. pp. 333-335 (only) of the Introduction to Chapter 7: Industrial Animal Agriculture (T) 3. pp. 407-423 (only) of the Introduction to Chapter 9: Industrial Plant Agriculture (T) October 12: Industrial Plant Ag and Empirical Premises about Feeding the World 1. David Tilman et al., "Global Food Demand and the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture" (not in T) 2. Norman Borlaug, "Feeding a World of Ten Billion People" (T) Optional: "Your Questions about Food and Climate Change, Answered" New York Times (not in T) October 17: Global Hunger If your class begins at 2:50pm, we are meeting directly at the Intervale to glean (meet in the lot at 114 Intervale Rd at 3pm (gives you time to get there), first on the left as you enter the area). Otherwise if your class is at 11:40am, we are meeting in the normal class location. 1. Pages 36-47 of the Introduction to Chapter 2: Global Hunger (T) (only pp. 36-47) Optional: USDA fact sheet on gleaning Optional: Info on Intervale gleaning initiative and its goals.) October 19: Food Security 2. Amartya Sen, "Hunger and Entitlements" (T) 3. USAID factsheet on the importance for food security of water, sanitation, and hygiene, 2013 (not in T) Note: these public health sources agree that proper nutrition requires more than adequate intake of food; on this basis, USAID claims that food security should be understood as requiring more than reliably adequate dietary intake; nonetheless, global and national definitions of 'food security' that guide policy typically take only dietary intake into account -- for example, see FAO and USDA MIDTERM EXAM: due Sunday, October 29 at 11:59pm via email October 24: Why Adequate Food Access is Insufficient for Proper Nutrition, Importance of Early Childhood Nutrition and other factors for Future Life Outcomes 1. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, "More than 1 Billion People are Hungry in the World: But what if the experts are wrong?" (T) Optional: Lisa Belkin (and Annie Murphy Paul), "A Womb With a View" (not in T) Optional: Douglas Almond and Janet Currie, "Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis" (not in T) (feel free to skip 158-160) Optional: "Sanitation and Stunting", Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (not in T) October 26: Singer's Argument for a Demanding Duty of Beneficence to Help the Global Poor 1. Peter Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" (T) 2. Browse www.givewell.org (not in T) Recommended: Reread pages 36-47 of the Introduction to Chapter 2: Global Hunger (T) Optional: "Philanthropy In Silicon Valley" (not in T) October 29: Midterm Exam is due at 11:59pm via email October 31 and November 2: Objections to the Empirical Premise of Singer's Argument, and Replies 1. Page 38 and pages 57-59 of the Introduction to Chapter 2: Global Hunger (T) (only pp. 38 and 57-59) 2. Angus Deaton, "Response to Effective Altruism" (T) 3. Bill Gates, "The Great Escape is an Excellent Book With One Big Flaw" (T) Optional: Angus Deaton, "How to Help Those Left Behind" (not in T) Optional: Kimiko de Freytas Tamura, "For Dignity and Development, East Africa Curbs Used Clothes Imports", New York Times, 12 October 2017 November 7: Sustainability and the Tragedy of the Commons 1. Pages 47-52 of Introduction to Chapter 2: Global Hunger (T) 2. Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (not in T) Optional: Amartya Sen, "Population, Food, and Freedom" (not in T) Optional: Paul Ehrlich, "Overpopulation and the collapse of civilization" (T) November 9: Sustainability and Self-Government of Common Resources Recommended: Handout on Hardin and Ostrom 1. Elinor Ostrom et al. "Revisiting the Commons" (not in T) 2. Pages 13-23 of Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons (not in T) Optional: Strong vs. weak sustainability -- and is sustainability worth focusing on? (not in T) Optional: Some definitions of sustainability (not in T) Optional: More definitions of sustainability (not in T) Optional: James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (not in T) SECOND PAPER ASSIGNMENT: due Sunday, November 21 at 11:59pm via email November 14: Ethics and Local Food November 16: No Class: Work on second paper assignment, get feedback from other students November 21: Second paper assignment due at 11:59pm via email November 20-24: No Class: Thanksgiving Break November 28: Ethics and Organics, Food Sovereignty, and Local Food 1. Page 416 (only) of the Introduction to Chapter 9: Industrial Plant Agriculture (T) 2. Introduction to Chapter 10: Alternatives to Industrial Plant Agriculture (i.e. pages 459-473) (T) 3. Helena de Bres, "Local Food: The Moral Case" (T) Optional: Bill McKibben, "A Grand Experiment" (T) Optional: Paul Thompson, "Food Security and Food Sovereignty" (T) Optional: Joan Dye Gussow, "The Real Story of 'O'" (T) Optional: Fred Kirschenmann, "Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World? And Is That the Right Question?" (T) Optional: Pierre Desrochers et. al., selections from The Locavore's Dilemma (T) November 30: Domestic Food Justice -- i.e. Justice Within Our Nation's Food System; Oppression and Injustice 1. Pages 92-101 (only) of the Introduction to Chapter 3: Food Justice (T) 2. Iris Marion Young, "Five Faces of Oppression" (T) Optional: Mariana Chilton, "Witnesses to Hunger and FRAC, Angel's Story" (T) Optional: Carol Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat" (T) FINAL EXAM and FINAL PAPER: due via email at the university-assigned final exam times (listed further below) December 5: Farmers, Farm Workers, and Food Justice 1. Page 179 (only) of the Introduction to Chapter 4: Consumer Ethics (T) 2a. Either read: Barry Estabrook, "The Price of Tomatoes" (T), 2b. Or read: Seth Holmes, "Farm Workers" (T) (or if you prefer, you can watch this video of Seth Holmes speaking on this topic instead) Recommended: reread Iris Marion Young, "Five Faces of Oppression" (T) Optional: Introduction to Chapter 11: Workers (T) (i.e. pages 519-529) Optional: Alan Wertheimer, "The Value of Consent" (T) Optional: Hallie Liberto, "Exploitation and the Vulnerability Clause" (T) December 7: What should you do? What should we do? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Civil Society 1. Reread pages 469-473 of Introduction to Chapter 10: Alternatives to Industrial Plant Agriculture (discussion of sustainable intensification) (T) Andrea Solazzo visit Optional: Reread pages 333-335 (only) of the Introduction to Chapter 7: Industrial Animal Agriculture (discussion of ideal vs. non-ideal theory) (T) Optional: Julie Guthman, "If Only They Knew: The Unbearable Whiteness of Alternative Food" (T) Optional: Austin Kiessig, "What 'Big Ideas' in Food Get Funded in Silicon Valley?" (T) Optional: Michelle Paratore, "Rising to the Food Waste Challenge" (T) Optional: Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, selections from Nudge (T) Optional: Elizabeth Devitt, "Artificial chicken grown from cells gets a taste test -- but who will regulate it?" (not in T) Optional: EWG Food Scores Methodology (not in T) Optional: IMMP 25th Anniversary Report on Dolphin Safe Tuna (not in T) Optional: Stanford panel on meat without animals (not in T) Optional: Marion Nestle, "Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production: Update" (T) FINAL EXAM and FINAL PAPER: due via email at the university-assigned final exam time: 92081 PHIL 010 J GP Intro Phil: Ethics of Eating 11-DEC-2017 1330 1615 L/L-A A161 92082 PHIL 010 K GP Intro Phil: Ethics of Eating 14-DEC-2017 1030 1315 LAFAYE L107 Peter Singer and Jim Mason, The Ethics of What We Eat, Rodale, 2006 (on reserve at library) Ronald Sandler, Food Ethics: The Basics, Routledge, 2015 (on reserve at library) Marion Nestle, Food Politics, website www.civileats.com The Dish, www.citymarket.coop/dish Gordon Conway, One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?, Cornell UP, 2012 (on reserve at library) The Rise and Future of the Food Movement, online course with lectures at UC Berkeley, taught by Raj Patel and Michael Pollan Food, Ethics, and Global Society, course at UVM, taught by Mark Budolfson First Steps Toward Sustainable Food Solutions, course at Stanford, taught by Priya Fielding-Singh and Mark Budolfson Effective Altruism, online course with lectures at Princeton, taught by Peter Singer The Ethics of Eating, online course with lectures at Cornell, taught by Andrew Chignell National Geographic, The Future of Food, Multi-Article Series	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line517
__label__wiki	0.70092	0.70092	Diseño y aplicación de una propuesta de aprendizaje cooperativo de los contendios del area de Ecología mediante el estudio de casos (inclou versió en anglés) . En “Hacia el espacio europeo de educación superior (EEES). Experiencias docentes innovadoras d Rodrigo A, Martínez-Vilalta J, Piñol J, Lloret F, Ribas A, Retana J, Losarcos J (2009) Diseño y aplicación de una propuesta de aprendizaje cooperativo de los contendios del area de Ecología mediante el estudio de casos (inclou versió en anglés) . En “Hacia el espacio europeo de educación superior (EEES). Experiencias docentes innovadoras d e la UAB en ciencias sociales y en ciencias humanas”. Maite Martínez y Elena Añaños (eds.). Unitat d’Innovació Docent en Educació Superior. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions. Are conservation strategies effective in avoiding the deforestation of the Colombian Guyana Shield? Armenteras D., Rodríguez N., Retana J. (2009) Are conservation strategies effective in avoiding the deforestation of the Colombian Guyana Shield?. Biological Conservation. 142: 1411-1419. Doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.002 There is general agreement regarding the importance of analysing the territories' roles under different biodiversity management figures in order to support better decision making in the management of natural resources in tropical countries. In this study we analyse the deforestation process to address the question of whether existing strategies such as national protected areas (PAs) and indigenous reservations (IRs) are effective protecting forests in the Colombian Guyana shield. We analyse whether these territories have successfully halted deforestation and agricultural frontier expansion by comparing deforestation occurring within these areas with their surroundings from 1985 to 2002. We also evaluate the impact of roads, illicit crops, and the size of PAs and IRs on deforestation rates. The results indicate that deforestation levels along the outside borders of both management figures were almost four times higher than inside declared PAs and 1.5 times higher than in IRs. However, within IRs, the loss of forested ecosystems was approximately six times greater than inside national parks. As a whole, roads were a significant factor associated with the changes in the region, as well as the influential expansion of coca cultivation particularly outside the national parks. The size of the PAs and indigenous lands also determined their positive impact as barrier against deforestation. Our results suggest strong pressure on areas surrounding PAs, driven by economic forces such as illegal crop expansion, particularly in the last decade. Indigenous lands with small territories have suffered intensive deforestation processes since the 1980s, but changes have been less dramatic in larger areas. Today, PAs are an effective barrier to deforestation, especially given their large extension, but are still under high risk. Future management plans should consider a designed infrastructure development paired with the establishment of new indigenous reservations with minimum viable sizes in order to control accessibility, natural resources extraction, and deforestation. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Forest management conditioning ground ant community structure and composition in temperate conifer forests in the Pyrenees Mountains Arnan X., Gracia M., Comas L., Retana J. (2009) Forest management conditioning ground ant community structure and composition in temperate conifer forests in the Pyrenees Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management. 258: 51-59. The search for indicators to monitor management impact on biodiversity is a crucial question because management practices promote changes in community structure and composition of different animal groups. This study explores the effect of widely conducted management practices (forest logging and livestock) in Pinus uncinata forests in the Pyrenees range (NE Spain) on the structure and composition of ground ant communities compared to those of old-growth stands. Forest structure clearly differed in stands with different forest managements. These stands managed for different uses also showed marked differences in structure and composition of ground ant communities. There was a great dominance of a single species, Formica lugubris, which accounted for 99% of ants collected in pitfall traps. Rarefaction curves indicated that species richness was highest in old-growth stands and lowest in even-aged ones, with woodland pasture stands showing an intermediate value. Classification methods allowed us to identify two groups of species: six species related to old-growth plots and three species (including F. lugubris) associated to managed stands. Habitat structure played an important role in determining the structure of ant communities: forests with high tree density but low basal area were the most favourable forest type for F. lugubris, while the abundance of the remaining ant species was negatively affected by the abundance of F. lugubris and by tree cover. © 2009. Ant community structure in citrus orchards in the mediterranean basin: Impoverishment as a consequence of habitat homogeneity Cerdá X., Palacios R., Retana J. (2009) Ant community structure in citrus orchards in the mediterranean basin: Impoverishment as a consequence of habitat homogeneity. Environmental Entomology. 38: 317-324. Doi: 10.1603/022.038.0203 This study analyzes the structure and composition of ant communities in citrus orchards in Catalonia (northeast Spain) and compares them with the ant fauna found in natural communities of the region. In the citrus orchards considered in this study, the most abundant species were Lasius niger and Pheidole pallidula, which are behaviorally dominant species. Two other dominant species, Linepithema humile and Tetramorium caespitum, were also abundant, although only in one orchard. Species richness and diversity in the studied orchards were low compared with natural communities: although in orchards, there were few species and low diversity values, in natural communities, the number of species was higher and diversity also increased. This reduction of species richness and diversity was not modified by edge effects: only light and local differences were found between the inner part of the orchards and the orchard margins, and differences among orchards were greater than differences between inner parts and edges. The activity peaks of the different ant species actively foraging on these citrus orchards were distributed throughout the whole activity period of ants. Overall, the composition of ant communities present in the citrus orchards of this study was extremely poor. This agrees with the fact that monocultures are ecosystems associated with an inevitable loss of biodiversity and abundance of insect populations. © 2009 Entomological Society of America. Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness Dunn R.R., Agosti D., Andersen A.N., Arnan X., Bruhl C.A., Cerdá X., Ellison A.M., Fisher B.L., Fitzpatrick M.C., Gibb H., Gotelli N.J., Gove A.D., Guenard B., Janda M., Kaspari M., Laurent E.J., Lessard J.-P., Longino J.T., Majer J.D., Menke S.B., McGlynn T.P., Parr C.L., Philpott S.M., Pfeiffer M., Retana J., Suarez A.V., Vasconcelos H.L., Weiser M.D., Sanders N.J. (2009) Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters. 12: 324-333. Although many taxa show a latitudinal gradient in richness, the relationship between latitude and species richness is often asymmetrical between the northern and southern hemispheres. Here we examine the latitudinal pattern of species richness across 1003 local ant assemblages. We find latitudinal asymmetry, with southern hemisphere sites being more diverse than northern hemisphere sites. Most of this asymmetry could be explained statistically by differences in contemporary climate. Local ant species richness was positively associated with temperature, but negatively (although weakly) associated with temperature range and precipitation. After contemporary climate was accounted for, a modest difference in diversity between hemispheres persisted, suggesting that factors other than contemporary climate contributed to the hemispherical asymmetry. The most parsimonious explanation for this remaining asymmetry is that greater climate change since the Eocene in the northern than in the southern hemisphere has led to more extinctions in the northern hemisphere with consequent effects on local ant species richness. © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS. Acorn crop size and pre-dispersal predation determine inter-specific differences in the recruitment of co-occurring oaks Espelta J.M., Cortés P., Molowny-Horas R., Retana J. (2009) Acorn crop size and pre-dispersal predation determine inter-specific differences in the recruitment of co-occurring oaks. Oecologia. 161: 559-568. Doi: 10.1007/s00442-009-1394-x The contribution of pre-dispersal seed predation to inter-specific differences in recruitment remains elusive. In species with no resistance mechanisms, differences in pre-dispersal predation may arise from differences in seed abundance (plant satiation) or in the ability of seeds to survive insect infestation (seed satiation). This study aimed to analyse the impact of pre-dispersal acorn predation by weevils in two co-occurring Mediterranean oaks (Quercus ilex and Quercus humilis) and to compare its relevance with other processes involved in recruitment. We monitored the patterns of acorn production and acorn infestation by weevils and we conducted experimental tests of acorn germination after weevil infestation, post-dispersal predation and seedling establishment in mixed forests. Monitoring and experimental data were integrated in a simulation model to test for the effects of pre-dispersal predation in recruitment. In both oaks pre-dispersal acorn infestation decreased with increasing acorn crop size (plant satiation). This benefited Q. ilex which exhibited stronger masting behaviour than Q. humilis, with almost a single and outstanding reproductive event in 6 years. Acorn infestation was more than twice as high in Q. humilis (47.0%) as in Q. ilex (20.0%) irrespective of the number of seeds produced by each species. Although germination of infested acorns (seed satiation) was higher in Q. humilis (60%) than in Q. ilex (21%), this could barely mitigate the higher infestation rate in the former species, to reduce seed loss. Conversely to pre-dispersal predation, no inter-specific differences were observed either in post-dispersal predation or seedling establishment. Our results indicate that pre-dispersal predation may contribute to differences in seed supply, and ultimately in recruitment, between co-existing oaks. Moreover, they suggest that seed satiation can barely offset differences in seed infestation rates. This serves as a warning against overemphasising seed satiation as a mechanism to overcome seed predation by insects. © Springer-Verlag 2009. Els alzinars Manuals de gestió d’hàbitats. Espelta JM, Gracia M, Molowny R, Ordoñez JL, Retana J, Vayreda J et al (2009) Els alzinars Manuals de gestió d’hàbitats. Diputació de Barcelona. Barcelona. 181 pp. Factors influencing the formation of unburned forest islands within the perimeter of a large forest fire Román-Cuesta R.M., Gracia M., Retana J. (2009) Factors influencing the formation of unburned forest islands within the perimeter of a large forest fire. Forest Ecology and Management. 258: 71-80. Large forest fires have recently increased in frequency and severity in many ecosystems. Due to the heterogeneity in fuels, weather and topography, these large fires tend to form unburned islands of vegetation. This study focuses on a large forest fire that occurred in north-eastern Spain in 1998, which left large areas of unburned vegetation within its perimeter. Based on a satellite post-fire severity map we searched for the relative influence of biotic and abiotic factors leading to unburned island formation. We divided the area of the fire into individual units we called "slopes" which were meant to separate the differential microclimatic effects of contrasted aspects. The number of unburned islands and their areas were related to 12 variables that influence their formation (i.e. land cover composition, aspect, steepness, forest structure, two landscape indices and weather variables). We hypothesized that unburned vegetation islands would concentrate on northern aspects, in less flammable forests (i.e. broadleaf species) and higher fragmentation to interrupt the advance of fire. While north and western aspects did have a higher presence of unburned vegetation islands, our study suggests greater presence of islands in slopes that are larger (i.e. more continuous areas with relatively homogeneous aspect), with greater proportions of forest cover, with higher wood volumes and with lower proportions of broadleaf species. Climate also played a role, with relative humidity and wind speed positively and negatively correlated to island formation, respectively. Unburned vegetation was more frequent on slopes with lower diversity of land covers and higher dominance of one land cover in the slope. Since slopes with only one land cover (i.e. forests) had more islands than slopes with multiple cover types, we infer that under severe meteorological conditions, fragmented forests can be more affected by wind and by water stress, thus burning more readily than forests that are protected from this edge phenomenon. These results would reinforce forest management strategies that avoid linear features (fire-lines and fire-breaks), to enhance fuel treatments that focus on areas and minimize fragmentation. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 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__label__cc	0.546389	0.453611	Enable JavaScript in your browser for better experience. Here is how. Business Eye Magazine Printed & Online Editions Follow Business Eye Twitter Businesses Join Forces To Combat Skills Shortages Tweet on Facebook by Richard Buckley, Editor, Business Eye A recent initiative by nine companies from Mid Ulster, the North West and North Antrim to join forces in a unique collaboration to address local IT skills shortages has proved such a success that they are now calling on nine more companies to come on board for the next phase of the programme. The businesses, all of whom invest heavily in IT, collaborated with Northern Regional College to launch Career Encode, an innovative Earn As You Learn Higher Level Apprenticeship in Computing for school leavers. Over 85 school-leavers and individuals considering a career change applied, exceeding all expectations. Due to the high calibre of applicants a total of 10 apprenticeships have been offered and are due to begin as early as June 2019. The nine participating companies are Specialist Joinery Group and FP McCann, Maghera; Bloc Blinds, Magherafelt; CDE Global and Mallon Technology, Cookstown; Kilrea-based Acorn IT Solutions; Coleraine based Spatialest; Randox, Crumlin; and Toomebridge-based SDC Trailers Camilla Long, Director of Bespoke Communications, which specialises in training and leadership development, is acting as an independent facilitator for the nine employers, explains why more companies should embrace innovative approaches of this nature to plug the skills gap: “Recruiting new staff, and in particular IT staff, is one of the major challenges facing businesses today. The companies who took part in the Career Encode pilot were finding it increasingly difficult to find the right skills in their local area. As a result, they decided to take steps to develop their own labour force via this innovative Earn as You Learn Higher-Level Apprenticeship in Computing. “We had a phenomenal response to the launch of the initiative. Over 85 young people applied, and the calibre of the applicants was exceptionally high. The young people who were interviewed were interested, engaged, motivated and willing to learn. There is clearly a need for opportunities of this nature.” Ms Long adds: “We are now looking for a further nine companies to join the second phase of the programme. If you are wondering why your business should join, the answer is simple. Career Encode will alleviate your technology staffing problems. It will allow you to grow your own skilled staff in a tight labour market, so you can develop employees with the skillset that you need. “It will also further build your employer brand, so you can differentiate yourself and attract the very best candidates. We support you all the way, offering specialist workshops to help your team leaders mentor and manage your new apprentices. By working in collaboration with other like-minded companies you will be in a position to build a talent pipeline, so skill shortages are no longer an issue.” Discussing the calibre of individuals that applied for the Career Encode apprenticeships, Brian Law, IT Manager from FP McCann, a participating company, says: “FP McCann is one of the largest employers in the mid Ulster region. Our bespoke IT infrastructure and software is critical to the sustainability of our enterprise. “We were so impressed with the high calibre of the applicants that we offered two apprenticeships as opposed to one. We are looking forward to continuing our investment in a skilled IT team with the Career Encode initiative and would strongly recommend it to any business that is experiencing difficulties in recruiting staff with technology skills.” In addition to gaining skills in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and software development, the Career Encode Earn As You Learn Higher Level Apprenticeship offers a number of benefits to young people. Bronagh Gallagher from Maghera, who secured an apprenticeship with FP McCann, discusses: “I think Career Encode is a brilliant programme. I’m going to get a Foundation Degree qualification accredited by Ulster University, without having to pay university fees or run up student debt. “Higher Level Apprentices get paid a full salary so I will be earning while I learn from an experienced professional mentor. I know that this valuable experience will help me to stand out from the crowd. I can’t wait to get started.” For further information log onto www.careerencode.com. Dawid Lysakowski from Limavady, who has secured an apprenticeship with Mallon Technology; David McQuillan, Director, Mallon Technology, Cookstown; and Camilla Long, Career Encode facilitator. Receive Monthly Magazine Choose Printed or Online Edition © 2020 Buckley Publications	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line531
__label__cc	0.572441	0.427559	The administration of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α/γ agonist TZD18 inhibits cell growth and induces apoptosis in human gastric cancer cell lines Yuhong Ma, Bin Wang, Ling Li, Fang Wang, Xichao Xia Department of Basic Medicine Courses, Nanyang Medical College, Nanyang 473003, PR China Date of Web Publication 13-Mar-2019 Dr. Xichao Xia Medicine College of Pingdingshan University, Pingdingshan 476000, Henan Province PR China > Abstract Aim of Study: This study is to investigate the effects of a novel peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) α/γ dual agonist TZD18 on cell growth, apoptosis, caspase activity, mitochondrial membrane potential, cytochrome c release, and apoptotic-related protein expression in MKN-45 cells. Materials and Methods: 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay against various human cancer cell lines was performed to investigate the whether TZD18 could in reduce the proliferation rates of cancer cells. The percentages of apoptotic cells and mitochondrial membrane potential level were determined by flow cytometry. The subcellular localization of cytochrome c was examined by immunofluorescence microscopy. Western blotting assay was performed to reveal the expression of apoptosis-related proteins. Results: The results showed that the administration of TZD18 could inhibit the growth of MKN-45 cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner. In addition, the apoptotic ratio increased sharply along with a significant increase of caspase activities, mitochondrial membrane potential, and cytochrome c release following TZD18 exposure. The expression of Bax and p27kip1 increased significantly, whereas the expression level of Bcl-2 protein was downregulated. Conclusion: These results indicated that the administration of PPAR α/γ agonist TZD18 may inhibit cell growth by inducing the apoptotic process in MKN-45 cells. Keywords: Apoptosis, gastric cancer cell, MKN-45 cells, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α/γ dual agonist Ma Y, Wang B, Li L, Wang F, Xia X. The administration of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α/γ agonist TZD18 inhibits cell growth and induces apoptosis in human gastric cancer cell lines. J Can Res Ther 2019;15:120-5 Ma Y, Wang B, Li L, Wang F, Xia X. The administration of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α/γ agonist TZD18 inhibits cell growth and induces apoptosis in human gastric cancer cell lines. J Can Res Ther [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 23];15:120-5. Available from: http://www.cancerjournal.net/text.asp?2019/15/1/120/208753 The incidence and mortality of gastric cancer have shown a widespread decrease in recent years; however, gastric cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer death. According to the previous study, gastric cancer is estimated to account for approximately 10% of invasive cancers around the word.[1],[2] Even in Australia where the cancer mortality rates are considered to be relatively low, gastric cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death raising a wide public concern during the late 20th century.[3],[4] In general, chemoprevention plays a potential role in host defense against human cancers through the administration of pharmacologic reagents selectively interacting with the specific molecular targeting ligands such as estrogen, androgen, and retinoid receptor and thereby inhibiting the tumor development processes.[5],[6] For example, the administration of prostaglandin E receptor antagonist ONO-8711 can exert a chemopreventive effect by inducing the apoptosis in breast tumors.[7] In addition, the activation of retinoic acid receptor by utilizing natural or synthetic retinoids can inhibit the growth rates of nonsmall cell lung cancer cells.[8] Recent findings indicate that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) can modulate the proliferation and apoptosis manner in cancer cells of various species, which are considered to be novel targets for anticancer therapeutics[9]. PPARs, including PPAR α, β, and γ subtypes, share a highly conserved characteristic feature of DNA binding motif that interacts with retinoid X receptor to form a heterodimer. This heterodimer thereby regulates the expression of related target genes by binding to peroxisome proliferator response elements which located at the downstream of specific DNA sequences.[10] PPARs are ligand-activated transcription factors acting as the major modulators capable of regulating hormone homeostasis and inhibiting the inflammatory process.[11] The oxidized lipids derived from oxLDL can activate PPARs to modulate the expression of inflammatory cytokines.[12] Accumulating evidences indicate that PPAR γ serving as the cell cycle modulators can influence the proliferation and differentiation of cancer cells,[13] and its ligand activation can significantly suppress the growth of human colon cancer cells and increase expression of carcinoembryonic antigen, as well as trigger the reversal of gene expression events.[14] Similarly, PPAR γ activation by the administration of TZD can cause lipid accumulation in breast cancer cells, modulate the epithelial genes expression associated with cell differentiation, and inhibit the cancer cell growth rates.[15] However, the role of PPAR α/γ agonist TZD18 in the growth and immune parameters of gastric cancer cells remains unclear. In the present study, the growth rates and apoptotic gene expressions of gastric cancer cells following the exposure to PPARs agonist in vitro were analyzed so as to investigate the potential correlation between PPARs agonists and gastric cancer. > Materials and Methods Cell lines and reagents Human gastric carcinoma cell line, MKN-45, (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) was cultured in RPMI-1640 medium (Invitrogen, New York, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum. MKN-45 cell was maintained in a humidified incubator containing 5% CO2 at 37°C. TZD18 was kindly provided by Merck (NJ, USA). 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay MKN-45 Cell was seeded into 96-well plates and cultured for 12 h. Then, the medium was removed and replaced with fresh medium containing varying concentrations of TZD18 (12.5, 25, 50 μm) or solvent (dimethyl sulfoxide) alone. The chemosensitivity was assessed using a standard 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay following a continuous 24, 48, and 72 h and exposure, respectively. The effects of TZD18 on cell cycle distribution on different time points and concentrations were determined by flow cytometry with propidium iodide (PI) staining. Apoptosis measurements The percentages of apoptotic cells were determined by flow cytometry as described previously.[16] Briefly, cells were harvested and fixed in 70% ice-cold ethanol overnight at −20°C. After washing with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), the cells were centrifuged and stained for 30 min in PBS containing PI (50 μg/ml; Sigma) and RNase A (100 μg/ml; Sigma, CA, USA). About 106 cells were measured and analyzed using a FACScan flow cytometer (Becton–Dickinson). Immunofluorescence microscopy The subcellular localization of cytochrome c was examined using an antibody against cytochrome c. Cells were seeded on glass coverslips placed in 24 wells for 18 h and then incubated with fresh medium containing varying concentrations of TZD18 (10, 50 μm). After 36 h incubation, cells were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde and then permeabilized in 1% triton X-100 for 15 min. After washing with PBS, cells were blocked with 2% bovine serum albumin for 30 min. Cells were incubated with mouse anti-cytoc antibody (1:100; Merck, NJ, USA) for 2 h, then incubated with a secondary antibody conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate (1:100; Pierce) for 1 h. After that, cells were stained with 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole for 8 min, washed with PBS, and then observed under a fluorescence microscope (Leica, Wetzlar, Germany). Measurement of mitochondrial membrane potential JC-1 was used to evaluate the alteration of mitochondrial membrane potential. Following the treatments with PPARs agonists, cells were washed with fresh culture medium and incubated with JC-1 dye (10 μg/ml) for 20 min. The percentages of cells with mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) level were quantified by flow cytometry. Briefly, cells were collected and stained with 10 μg/ml JC-1 solution for 15 min. The cells were centrifuged at 500× g for 5 min and resuspended in 0.5 ml PBS for further flow cytometry analysis. Western blotting assay Protein extract was prepared and subjected to Western blotting assay as described previously.[17] The protein concentration was determined using BCA kit. The proteins were electrophoresed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis containing 5% stacking gel and 12% separating gel. The proteins were electrically transferred to polyvinylidene fluoride membranes by using a semi-dry apparatus (Bio-Rad, CA, USA). After that, the membranes were incubated with mouse anti-Bcl2, anti-Bax, and anti-p27kip1 primary antibodies (Abcam, UK) for 2 h at room temperature and then were incubated with a secondary antibody conjugated with peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies for 1 h. The band on the membranes was visualized using ECL detection system ( Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Germany). Anti-β-actin primary body (Abcam, UK) was used as an internal control. The gray-scale analysis for the protein expression was measured by ImageJ program. The experiments were performed in triplicate. The data analysis was measured using SPSS 18 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA) analysis program and represented as means ± standard deviation. All of the experimental data analyses were subjected to one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA). In the further analysis of Duncan's Multiple Range Test, only if the level of P < 0.05, the differences were considered statistically significant. > Results Determination of MKN-45 cell proliferation rates To investigate whether TZD18 could in reduce the proliferation rates of cancer cells, MTT assay against various human cancer cell lines were performed. As shown in [Figure 1], the proliferation rates in the control group maintained stable around 91.3%. In contrast, the proliferation rates in the treatment groups were consistently lower than that of the control group following TZD18 exposure. The proliferation rates of MKN-45 cells treated with 10 μm TZD18 showed a slight decrease, from 84.3% at 12 h postexposure to 69.8% at 72 h postexposure. A significant decrease of MKN-45 cell proliferation rates from 75.3% at 12 h postexposure to 45.3% at 72 h postexposure was observed in the treatment group with 50 μm TZD18. As illustrated in supplement [Figure 1], flow cytometry demonstrated that TZD18 significantly induced cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 phase with the increase in concentration. In conclusion, the results argued that TZD18 could in reduce the proliferation rates of MKN-45 cells. Figure 1: Effect of TZD18 on cellular viability in vitro. Human gastric carcinoma cell line (MKN-45) was treated with TZD18 at different doses for 24, 48, and 72 h. The viability was determined by the 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay and the values are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. Significantly different from control groups at P < 0.05 TZD18 induced the apoptotic process in MKN-45 cell To characterize the mechanism involved in TZD18-induced cells death, we assessed if the effect of TZD18 on MKN-45 cells was due to apoptosis. Stained nuclei were observed under a fluorescent microscope using a blue filter, and condensed chromatin and nuclear shrivel were found [Figure 2]a. In [Figure 2]b, the apoptotic ratios in the control group maintained stable at approximately 6.1%. In contrast, the MKN-45 cells treated with 12.5 μm TZD18 showed a slight increase of apoptotic ratios from 8.2% at 24 h postexposure to 18.5% at 72 h postexposure. A significant increase of apoptotic ratios was observed at 24 h and exposure to 50 μm TZD18 and gradually increased to 47.1% following 72 h postexposure. In [Figure 2]c, the apoptosis percentage of cells staining with Annexin V-FITC and PI. The results were shown from one of three experiments with similar results. To sum up, the effect of reduced proliferation rates for TZD18 on MKN-45 cells was due to apoptosis. Figure 2: TZD18 could induce cell apoptosis in MKN-45 cells. (a) Cells were treated with 50 μM TZD18 for 72 h, fixed, stained with 4, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole and stained nuclei, and observed under a fluorescent microscope. (b) Cells treated with 0, 12.5, 25, and 50 μM TZD18 for 24, 48, and 72 h were assessed for apoptosis by staining with Annexin V-FITC and propidium iodide. (c) The apoptosis percentage of cells treated with 0, 12.5, 25, and 50 μM TZD18 for 24, 48, and 72 h were assessed for apoptosis by staining with Annexin V-FITC and propidium iodide. P < 0.05, compared with control Regulation of caspase activities following the TZD18 exposure Caspase activation, which contains caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9, is known as a major step in apoptosis. To further identify the mechanism of TZD18-induced proliferation inhibition, expression of these caspases was tested. In [Figure 3]a, the activities of caspase-3 increased slightly after 72 h and exposure to 12.5 μm TZD18 and continuously increased to a peak level at 50 μm postexposure with the highest value of 3.1-fold greater than that of the control (P < 0.05) [Figure 3]b. The expression of caspase-8 treated with 12.5 μm TZD18 exhibited a significant increase at the beginning (72 h) and reached a peak level at 50 μm postexposure with the highest value of 4.3-fold greater than that of the control (P < 0.05). Similarly, the expression of caspase-9 treated with 50 μm TZD18 exhibited a significant increase with the highest value of 3.8-fold greater than that of the treated with 12.5 μm (P < 0.05). In all, our results indicated that TZD18-induced proliferation inhibition is by apoptosis and caspases are enrolled in this process. Figure 3: Regulation of caspase activities following TZD18 exposure. (a) The MKN-45 cell was treated with 12.5 and 50 μM TZD18 for 72 h lysed using RIPA/MPER and 40 μg of cell lysates were immunoblotted for caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9 protein levels. β-actin was used to determine protein loading. (b) Data were represented as mean ± standard deviation of three separate experiments. Significant differences from control were indicated, P < 0.05 TZD18 exposure modulated the mitochondrial membrane potential and the release of cytochrome c in MKN-45 cell To reveal whether mitochondrial dysfunction participated in the induction of apoptosis or even played a pivotal role in the apoptotic process, mitochondrial membrane potential damage was evaluated using JC-1 reagent using flow cytometric analysis and mitochondrial and cytochrome c translocation were observed with fluorescent photomicrograph. In [Figure 4]a, the percentage of cells in 12.5 μm TZD18 treatment group with depolarized MMP increased from 12.3% at 24 h postexposure to 26.4% at 48 h postexposure, whereas the cells treated with 50 μm TZD18 showed a sharp increase of MMP depolarization at 24 h postexposure and continuously increased to 34.5% at 72 h postexposure [Figure 4]b. In [Figure 4]c, the distribution pattern of cytochrome c was colocalized with the mitochondria in the control cells. In contrast, a sharp increase of cytochrome c release was observed following 72 h and exposure from 12.5 to 50 μm TZD18. Together, the results showed that mitochondrial dysfunction was indeed participated in the induction of apoptosis and played a pivotal role in the apoptotic process. Figure 4: TZD18 exposure modulated the mitochondrial membrane potential and the release of cytochrome c in MKN-45 cell. (a) Mitochondrial membrane potential damage was evaluated using JC-1 reagent using flow cytometric analysis. (b) The results are presented as means ± standard deviation of three independent experiments (P < 0.05). (c) Fluorescent photomicrograph of mitochondrial (Green) and cytochrome c (Red) translocation treated by 12.5 and 50 μM TZD18 for 72 h Effects of TZD18 exposure on the expression of p27kip1 Bcl-2, Bax To investigate the effect of TZD18 on the apoptosis-related protein expression, the cells were exposed to 12.5 or 50 μm TZD18 for 72 h. In [Figure 5], the expression of p27kip1 increased significantly in the TZD18 treatment group following 72 h postexposure by comparing with that of the control. In addition, Bax expression increased dose dependently following 72 h and exposure to various doses of TZD18, while the Bcl-2 expression decreased. The result further pointed out that TZD18 plays a role on the proliferation rates of MKN-45 cells by apoptosis. Figure 5: Effects of TZD18 exposure on the expression of p27kip1, Bcl-2, and Bax. (a) The expression of p27kip1, Bcl-2, and Bax was analyzed by Western blot with the loading control of β-actin. (b) Significant differences from control were indicated, P < 0.05 > Discussion PPAR γ is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that can modulate a variety of physiological processes including regulation of fat cell development and maintenance of glucose homeostasis.[18],[19] In cancer study, recent findings indicate that PPAR γ is playing an important role in the antitumor processes as a negative modulator capable of inducing the apoptosis by increasing the expression of p27kip1 protein in the gastric cancer cell line through a p53-dependent mechanism.[20] In addition, the administration of Troglitazone can inhibit cell growth and induce differentiation markers in colon cancer cell lines. TZD18 is a newly synthesized dual agonist for PPAR α/γ that can exhibit anti-proliferative effect by activating PPAR α and γ. Previous studies indicate that the administration of TZD18 can significantly inhibit cell growth and induce apoptosis process in T98G cells.[21] However, there are little data on the parameter changes of MKD-45 cells following exposure to TZD18 treatment. In this study, we investigated the effect of TZD18 exposure on the MKN-45 cell. Following the exposure to TZD18 treatment, the growth of MKN-45 cells was inhibited by TZD18 exposure in a dose-dependent manner, implying that TZD18 exposure has anti-proliferative effect on MKN-45 cells. Evidence is emerging that the agonists of synthetic TZD class can cause G1 arrest in colon cancer cells by increasing the expression level of p21Waf-1, Drg-1, and E-cadherin,[22] which are similar to other cancer cells exposed to TZD including pancreatic cancer cells[23] and breast cancer cells.[15] In general, the cell cycle withdrawal in cancer cells by TZDs may be related to the increased level of CDK inhibitors such as p27kip1. In this study, a sharp increase of p27kip1 expression was observed following TZD18 exposure. Previous studies indicate that the T98G cell cycle withdrawn may be associated with upregulation of p27kip1,[21] implying that TZD18 exposure may possibly cause the induced G1 arrest in MKN-45 cells. Indeed, cell cycle arrest is one of the prerequisite conditions for apoptosis. To determine the underlying mechanisms of the growth inhibitory effect by TZD18 treatment, we also investigated the induced apoptosis. It is found that TZD18 exposure could induce apoptosis in MKN-45 cells in a dose-dependent manner. Caspase is playing an important role in the apoptotic cell death as a class of cysteine proteases capable of cleaving the critical cellular substrates such as lamins and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, thus triggering the significant changes of apoptotic process.[24] Cells undergoing apoptosis following the activated apoptotic pathway can execute programed cell death by activating a hierarchy of caspases. Besides, caspase-3 activated by caspase-9 is essential to dismantle the cell function and form the apoptotic bodies.[25],[26] Previous studies indicate that the chemical exposure can cause the apoptotic process by increasing the expression of caspase-3 and caspase-9 and modulating the mitochondrial membrane potential.[27] A variety of major events in apoptosis may also link to different signals that converge on mitochondria to trigger or block these events including the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, release of cytochrome c, change in electron transport, and the involvement of pro- and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins.[28] In this study, we found that the caspase-3 and caspase-9 activity increased significantly along with a sharp increase of MMP and cytochrome c release, indicating that TZD18-induced apoptosis may be associated with the caspase activation. In addition, among dozens of apoptotic-related molecules, Bcl-2 is playing an important role in apoptosis by inhibiting the programed cell death process, whereas Bax is a member of the proapoptotic proteins that can be regulated by chemotherapeutic drugs through a p53-dependent mechanism.[29] Previous studies indicate that PPAR α/γ ligand TZD18 can induce a remarkable apoptosis in leukemia cell lines by increasing the expression level of Bax.[30] In addition, the administration of TZD18 can upregulate the Bax expression but decrease Bcl-2 expression in human glioblastoma T98G cells. In this study, we found that TZD18 exposure inhibited the expression of Bcl-2 at the protein level, while an upregulation of Bax expression was observed, suggesting that the apoptotic mechanism for the administration of TZD18 mediated apoptosis process by increasing Bax expression but decreasing Bcl-2 expression. > Conclusion The current study showed that TZD18 inhibited cell growth and induced apoptosis in MKN-45 cells, which linked to activation of Bax, caspase-3, and caspase-9 along with a sharp increase of MMP and cytochrome c release but downregulation of Bcl-2 expression, suggesting that TZD18 might have a therapeutic role in the treatment of human gastric cancer. Further studies using other cells as well as potential synergy with other agents should now be pursued. 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__label__cc	0.687095	0.312905	Voting Austen onto the island Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister – in other words, the head of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government – is a famously patriotic Scot. She leads the Scottish National Party, campaigned hard last year in favor of the failed referendum promoting independence from the UK, and played a Robert Burns song at her wedding. But if she were stranded on a desert island, the book she would take along with her would be the complete works of the quintessentially English Jane Austen. Or so Sturgeon said recently on “Desert Island Discs,” the venerable and beloved BBC radio program on which celebrities choose the eight records – and one book – they would want to bring along if they were marooned. (Every castaway also gets two freebie books: the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare.) Why pick Jane Austen? Sturgeon didn’t say. But isn’t it obvious? Clearly, Sturgeon must have run across the “Jane Austen for YES” Twitter account, established last fall, which gave the world the hitherto unsuspected news of Austen’s support for Scottish independence. (I blogged about it here.) The account seems to have gone dark last December, not long after wishing Austen a happy 239th birthday, but the Scots have long memories. Filed under: Sturgeon, Nicola, Austen, Jane	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line541
__label__wiki	0.509886	0.509886	Tayfun Serttaş Tayfun Serttas [1] Courtesy: Tayfun Serttaş Tayfun Serttaş (Turkey) is an artist, writer and researcher. His installation-focused work involves various media including ready-mades, found objects, sculptures, videos, photographs, artist’s books and drawings around a documentary theme. From various viewpoints, Tayfun interrogates normative memory based on the model of “modern society”, assuming a psycho-strategic position encountering dominant streams of consciousness in his work. He conducts interdisciplinary research into the social interruptions of recent history and their complex impact within the equation of the individual, identity and culture. Tayfun attempts to construct a visual language drawing strength from experimental narratives between social sciences and contemporary art disciplines. Born in 1982, Tayfun Serttaş graduated from the Istanbul University Social Anthropology Department in 2004. He completed his MA at the Yıldız Technical University Art and Design Faculty Interdisciplinary Art program in 2007 with a thesis titled Photography And Minorities in Istanbul in the Context of Modernism and Cultural Representation. Since 2000 he has taken part in numerous domestic and international academic projects. The themes of his work include urban anthropology, social gender, the cultural heritage of ‘the other’, the critique of civil society, the sociology of everyday life, minorities, urban transformation, sex workers, immigration and change, socio-political strategies and minor politics. Tayfun continues his studio work within the scope of SALT Research Center and continues to write for the Taraf newspaper. He lives in Istanbul and Bodrum. Tayfun was the second Accented resident through a network partnership including Platform Garanti CAC (Istanbul, Turkey), Vector Association (Iasi, Romania), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, Lebanon), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Delfina Foundation (London, UK) and Spike Island (Bristol, UK). Garanti Platform Contemporary Art Centre (Istanbul) London, Turkey ' dots: true, responsive: [ { breakpoint: 1200, settings: { //fade: true, cssEase: 'linear', centerMode: is_centerMode } } ] }; jQuery.extend( options, o2 ); jQuery( this ).slick( options ); }); });	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line542
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__label__wiki	0.925258	0.925258	About The DN Lincoln, NE (68508) Rain showers early with precipitation turning to a mixture of rain and snow overnight. Some mixed winter precipitation possible. Low 31F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 70%.. Rain showers early with precipitation turning to a mixture of rain and snow overnight. Some mixed winter precipitation possible. Low 31F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 70%. Other Husker Sports Fighting the Footprint Visiting UNL Curious Cornhuskers Memorial Stadium at City Campus on Sept. 24, 2019, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Photo by Zekiel Williams UNL athletes share what it’s like playing on the same team as their siblings Thomas Codo A common buzzword for coaches describing their team is family. A team whose members have each other’s backs through thick and thin. It’s what helps build trust and chemistry, two key factors for a successful team. From over 100 football players to the almost dozen tennis players for men’s and women’s, brother/sisterhood is a crucial element to every team. Of course, some players have their real families close by to cheer them on, and others’ are far away. However, some athletes also have family with them on the playing field. Within Nebraska sports, there are five sets of twins along with five more sets of siblings. Some are well known around campus, most notably Carlos and Khalil Davis from the football team. There are also twins who aren’t as well known, like Connor and Corbin Ruth who are also on the football team. Then, there are twins who have more family with them, like Erika and Mark Freyhof from cross country and track who have their younger sister Audrey with them on the team. However, the last two sets of twins are the most unknown, mainly because they are new additions to the Husker family. The first set of true freshmen twins are looking to make a name for themselves on the tennis court. Chloe and Ellie Kuckelman are from Overland Park, Kansas, and have been playing tennis since they were four years old. “It all started on one summer day,” Ellie said in an interview. “We were hitting tennis balls against our neighbor’s garage door with some friends. Their mom came out and told our mom she should put us in some lessons. Our mom did just that and we have been playing ever since. As twins, we do everything together so of course we had to do the same sport.” Chloe and Ellie were a part of a three-time state championship team at Blue Valley North High School. The two dominated in singles and were some of the top players in the state of Kansas their senior year. The two even played each other in the state finals their junior and senior year, splitting the matches. With a stellar run like that, the twins wanted to continue in college, and even with a competitive list of schools to pick from, the two chose Nebraska. “We just absolutely fell in love with the coaches and the players and the incredible amount of kindness and commitment that they displayed,” Chloe said. “We instantly felt welcomed and loved how supportive the entire community was of Nebraska athletics. It felt like a family and we could tell the school puts great emphasis on student athletes’ academic and athletic well-being.” Chloe and Ellie enjoy playing with each other as well as against each other. “There is always someone to practice with,” Chloe said. “We can always make each other better. We are very competitive on the court but I think that has made us better over the years because we are always trying to improve and be better than the other in some way. ” The twins also see tennis as something that brings them closer together. “Being a twin is really an indescribable relationship,“ Ellie said. “We are like each other’s other half. We know each other’s strengths and weaknesses and although we fight, we are each other’s best friend and at the end of the day, we’re on the same team. It helped us grow closer by playing a sport together and learning to become each others own cheerleader.” The twins are also recently coming off a strong performance at the Clay Court Classic taking second in doubles. With Chloe and Ellie already making a name for themselves in tennis, the other set of true freshmen twins are slowly making their mark in cross country and track. For Jade and Jaylyn Hallgrimson, who are apart of the women’s cross country and track and field teams, running is everything. “We started running in 3rd grade,” Jade said in an interview. “Our school started a track club and we loved it and have been running ever since.” For Jade and Jaylyn, neither one would be where they were without the other. “When it comes to competing it is super nice to have someone so similar to you push you in meets,” Jaylyn said. “Also when practicing and training on your own, it is always nice to have that built in training partner.” The twins grew up in Billings, Montana, where both runners finished in the top 35 at the state cross country meet for Billings Senior High School in all four seasons. The team finished in the top three at state all four years as well. For track and field, the twins qualified for state their sophomore and junior years. They competed in the 800-meter, 1600-meter and 3200-meter races, making finals in two of the three events both years. Jaylyn’s highest finish was ninth in the 800-meter race her junior year. Jade’s highest was 14th in the 1600-meter race also in her junior year. When it came to their senior year however, the twins decided to take their last season of track and field off so they could focus on the next level. For the next level, the twins had multiple offers, but after some time discussing it, they finally settled on Nebraska. “We chose Nebraska because we loved the atmosphere and the way that we are treated here as student athletes,” Jaylyn said. “We also loved the programs here and viewed it as the best opportunity for growth in both athletics and academics.” The twins competed in the first two meets of the cross country season, and both are looking to improve upon their starts to their college careers. “We enjoy the same things and spend a lot of time together,” Jade said. “We have become extremely close and running has been a huge part in that. 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__label__cc	0.522327	0.477673	Chess Translations Chess Wit and Wisdom Ray Schutt Memorial Today I played in a chess tournament with a difference — the 9th Annual Ray Schutt Memorial at the Mechanics Institute. It’s been a long time since I went to a tournament and just had fun. The Schutt Memorial is a blitz tournament, 4 minutes per game with a 2-second time increment. There’s no pressure and no rating points, but lots of other nice things. For starters, a $1000 prize fund, even though the entry fee is only $10. Not only that, every player wins a book. And between rounds, there is a generous table of refreshments. This was before round one. After round one they brought the pizza! The event was organized by John Donaldson and the Schutt family in memory of Ray Schutt, a 2350-or-so player from Hayward. One player told me that Schutt “definitely would have been an IM” if he had hit his peak today instead of in the 1960s and 1970s, when there were very few opportunities for American masters to play for international titles. Two photos of Ray Schutt were on display in the break room. The star of the show today was Daniel Naroditsky, who had just returned from the World Team Championship in Armenia, where he helped the United States team to a better-than-expected tie for fourth place with Russia. For Daniel the highlight of the tournament was his game with Dmitri Jakovenko, the first 2750 player he has ever beaten. His win against Jakovenko [at the team tournament] enabled the U.S to tie the match with Russia and really turned the tournament around for the American team. Daniel signing copies of his books that were offered as prizes. I remember that just a few years ago, Danya would have been just about this same height if he stood up straight! It’s amazing how he has grown, both in height and as a chess player. Danya was the clear favorite, outrating everyone else by close to 200 points, and he justified the rating by finishing first with a smooth 10½-1½ score. (The tournament had six rounds, with each round consisting of one game as White and one as Black.) I’m afraid that I didn’t write down the names of the other prize winners. I do know that an expert won fourth place, a major surprise in a tournament with three grandmasters and four international masters. My own tournament result was, well, okay. I scored 6-6, with the highlight being a victory over IM Vladimir Mezentsev in the second round. In fact, I was crushing Mezentsev in both games, but I botched the first one and nearly botched the second one. But that is to be expected in blitz. It’s not my game, and so I really can’t complain about an even score. Here’s a photograph of the action in the first round. Craig Mar (baseball cap) is watching the game between Andy Lee and William Li, Jr. Craig didn’t play in the tournament, claiming he’s “too rusty.” Lee beat Li, 2-0. It sounds cooler if you say it aloud instead of reading it. By the way, I think that the guy in the light blue shirt on the left side of the picture is James Critelli, who tied for second. (I know, I didn’t write down the names of the winners but I just remembered that Critelli was one of them.) Here’s a picture of Daniel Naroditsky’s father, Vladimir, talking with James Tarjan. Daniel and Tarjan played on board one in the last round. I believe that Tarjan needed to win 2-0 to pass Daniel, but it wasn’t in the cards. They drew the first game and then Daniel absolutely blew Tarjan away with an attack along the h-file in the second game. What can I say? Blitz, especially, is a young person’s game. Speaking of young people, there were very few of them at this tournament, because it also happened to be the weekend of the state scholastic championship. So instead of getting 80 players with about 40 juniors, we had 50 players and only 3 juniors. It was weird. It was like a trip to the past, actually. That’s the kind of age distribution that tournaments used to have back in the 1970s and 1980s, but nowadays (in the Bay Area, at least) even the top sections of the “adult” tournaments are about a third juniors, and the lower sections are predominantly teens and pre-teens. Thanks again to the Mechanics Institute and the Schutt family for a fun occasion! Tagged as: Andy Lee, blitz, Craig Mar, Daniel Naroditsky, James Critelli, James Tarjan, John Donaldson, Mechanics Institute, photos, Vladimir Mezentsev, World Team Championship, youth Previous post: Matrimony Strikes Again! 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__label__wiki	0.683205	0.683205	Florida, FL smaller cities, FL small cities Fellsmere, FL housing info Fellsmere, Florida Fellsmere: Fellsmere Sky Fellsmere: this bee ws after fresh orange blossom pollen in a fellsmere grove Fellsmere: Fellsmere Marsh with birds making a heart Fellsmere: sun set on the east marsh in fellsmere Fellsmere: The beautiful Fellsmere back roads Fellsmere: The Beautiful Marsh Fellsmere: Fellsmere Florida Back yard Submit your own pictures of this city and show them to the world Current weather forecast for Fellsmere, FL Population in 2017: 5,723 (93% urban, 7% rural). Population change since 2000: +50.1% Males: 2,824 (49.3%) Females: 2,899 (50.7%) Florida median age: Zip codes: 32948, 32958, 32966, 32967. Fellsmere Zip Code Map Estimated median household income in 2017: $37,712 (it was $30,395 in 2000) Fellsmere: FL: Estimated per capita income in 2017: $12,897 (it was $10,258 in 2000) Fellsmere city income, earnings, and wages data Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $118,341 (it was $54,200 in 2000) Mean prices in 2017: all housing units: $145,324; detached houses: $156,618; mobile homes: $100,874 Median gross rent in 2017: $716. March 2019 cost of living index in Fellsmere: 88.2 (less than average, U.S. average is 100) Fellsmere, FL residents, houses, and apartments details Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 42.9% (28.5% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 9.1% for Black residents, 46.4% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 53.0% for other race residents) Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Fellsmere, FL Rancho Alegre-Colombian Food 4,21581.1%Hispanic 69113.3%White alone 2464.7%Black alone 210.4%Two or more races 150.3%American Indian alone 50.10%Asian alone 30.06%Other race alone Pacific Islander alone Races in Fellsmere detailed stats: ancestries, foreign born residents, place of birth According to our research of Florida and other state lists, there were 11 registered sex offenders living in Fellsmere, Florida as of January 22, 2020. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Fellsmere is 510 to 1. Crime rates in Fellsmere by year (per 100,000) 0 (20.5) 0 (127.4) 6 Assaults (per 100,000) 14 (130.4) 10 (1,029) 23 Thefts Auto thefts City-Data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 274.0) 206.8 169.0 132.0 182.8 222.8 159.4 111.4 147.7 115.4 130.7 133.7 104.8 117.7 103.2 The City-Data.com crime rate weighs serious crimes and violent crimes more heavily. It adjusts for the number of visitors and daily workers commuting into cities. Click on a table row to update graph Crime rate in Fellsmere detailed stats: murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, arson Full-time law enforcement employees in 2018, including police officers: 8 (7 officers). Officers per 1,000 residents here: Florida average: Recent articles from our blog. Our writers, many of them Ph.D. graduates or candidates, create easy-to-read articles on a wide variety of topics. Over 18 million Americans live in areas with high noise levels Jan 16 Popular New Year’s resolutions Dec 31 Christmas is America’s favorite holiday season Dec 13 Search engine queries in the United States Dec 6 Places to buy a real Christmas tree in the U.S. Nov 29 Recent posts about Fellsmere, Florida on our local forum with over 2,200,000 registered users. Fellsmere is mentioned 87 times on our forum: Hurricane advice before they happen (32 replies) WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND! fairs, festivals, etc. (370 replies) Fellsmere/Sebastion (10 replies) Looking to possibly move to Vero Beach (8 replies) Please help a worried mom! (8 replies) Saw Palm berries (51 replies) Latest news from Fellsmere, FL collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations Ancestries: American (3.3%), English (2.5%). Current Local Time: EST time zone Elevation: 25 feet Land area: 5.30 square miles. Population density: 1,079 people per square mile (low). 2,606 residents are foreign born (45.2% Latin America). This city: Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2017: $891 (0.9%) Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2017: $716 (0.6%) Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Palm Bay, FL (15.4 miles , pop. 79,413). Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Tampa, FL (115.0 miles , pop. 303,447). Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Philadelphia, PA (901.6 miles , pop. 1,517,550). Nearest cities: Sebastian, FL (2.7 miles ), Roseland, FL (2.9 miles ), Micco, FL (3.0 miles ), Wabasso, FL (3.2 miles ), West Vero Corridor, FL (3.3 miles ), Winter Beach, FL (3.4 miles ), Orchid, FL (3.4 miles), North Beach, FL (3.4 miles ) Latitude: 27.77 N, Longitude: 80.60 W Area code commonly used in this area: 772 Fellsmere, Florida accommodation & food services, waste management - Economy and Business Data Single-family new house construction building permits: 1997: 28 buildings, average cost: $61,100 2002: 30 buildings, average cost: $100,400 2004: 9 buildings, average cost: $111,100 2014: 1 building, cost: $205,200 Unemployment in March 2019: Population change in the 1990s: +1,652 (+76.4%). Most common industries in Fellsmere, FL (%) Both Males Females Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting (25.1%) Groceries & related products merchant wholesalers (14.0%) Construction (11.5%) Accommodation & food services (6.1%) Administrative & support & waste management services (5.1%) Health care (4.2%) Educational services (3.5%) Groceries & related products merchant wholesalers (9.3%) Truck transportation (3.7%) Food & beverage stores (2.3%) Health care (10.1%) Social assistance (4.7%) Most common occupations in Fellsmere, FL (%) Agricultural workers, including supervisors (28.1%) Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7.3%) Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4.0%) Construction traders workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (3.9%) Other production occupations, including supervisors (3.8%) Child care workers (3.5%) Construction laborers (3.3%) Other material moving workers, except laborers (3.6%) Other management occupations, except farmers and farm managers (4.9%) Supervisors and other personal care and service workers, except child care workers (4.2%) Secretaries and administrative assistants (3.8%) Cooks and food preparation workers (3.7%) Average climate in Fellsmere, Florida Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations Air pollution and air quality trends (lower is better) AQI Ozone PM10 PM2.5 Air Quality Index (AQI) level in 2018 was 50.0. This is significantly better than average. Ozone [ppb] level in 2018 was 19.9. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 18.2 miles away from the city center. Particulate Matter (PM10) [µg/m3] level in 2018 was 12.8. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 19.9 miles away from the city center. Particulate Matter (PM2.5) [µg/m3] level in 2018 was 7.25. This is about average. Closest monitor was 24.9 miles away from the city center. Tornado activity: Fellsmere-area historical tornado activity is slightly below Florida state average. It is 16% smaller than the overall U.S. average. On 4/15/1958, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 18.5 miles away from the Fellsmere city center injured 20 people and caused between $50,000 and $500,000 in damages. On 4/4/1966, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 46.1 miles away from the city center killed 11 people and injured 530 people and caused between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 in damages. Earthquake activity: Fellsmere-area historical earthquake activity is slightly below Florida state average. It is 97% smaller than the overall U.S. average. On 9/10/2006 at 14:56:08, a magnitude 5.9 (5.9 MB, 5.5 MS, 5.8 MW, Depth: 8.7 mi, Class: Moderate, Intensity: VI - VII) earthquake occurred 386.1 miles away from the city center On 11/22/1974 at 05:25:55, a magnitude 4.7 (4.7 MB, Class: Light, Intensity: IV - V) earthquake occurred 356.1 miles away from Fellsmere center On 11/11/2002 at 23:39:29, a magnitude 4.4 (4.0 MB, 4.4 LG, Depth: 1.5 mi) earthquake occurred 323.2 miles away from Fellsmere center On 2/22/1992 at 04:21:34, a magnitude 3.2 (3.2 MB, Depth: 6.2 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: II - III) earthquake occurred 143.6 miles away from Fellsmere center On 8/2/1974 at 08:52:09, a magnitude 4.9 (4.3 MB, 4.9 LG) earthquake occurred 436.9 miles away from the city center On 6/11/2001 at 18:27:54, a magnitude 3.3 (3.3 LG, Depth: 6.2 mi) earthquake occurred 175.5 miles away from the city center Magnitude types: regional Lg-wave magnitude (LG), body-wave magnitude (MB), surface-wave magnitude (MS), moment magnitude (MW) Natural disasters: The number of natural disasters in Indian River County (18) is greater than the US average (13). Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 9 Emergencies Declared: 6 Causes of natural disasters: Hurricanes: 12, Fires: 5, Tropical Storms: 2 (Note: some incidents may be assigned to more than one category). Hospitals and medical centers near Fellsmere: SEBASTIAN RIVER HOME HEALTH (Home Health Center, about 9 miles away; SEBASTIAN, FL) SEBASTIAN RIVER HOME HEALTH (Home Health Center, about 10 miles away; BAREFOOT BAY, FL) INDIAN RIVER DIALYSIS CENTER (Dialysis Facility, about 14 miles away; VERO BEACH, FL) PALM GARDEN OF VERO BEACH (Nursing Home, about 15 miles away; VERO BEACH, FL) HEALTHSOUTH TREASURE COAST REHAB HOSPITAL (Hospital, about 15 miles away; VERO BEACH, FL) CONSULATE HEALTH CARE OF VERO BEACH (Nursing Home, about 15 miles away; VERO BEACH, FL) ATLANTIC HEALTHCARE CENTER (Nursing Home, about 15 miles away; VERO BEACH, FL) Airports located in Fellsmere: Fellsmere Airport (4FL3) (Runways: 1) Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Fellsmere: Florida Institute of Technology-Online (about 21 miles; Melbourne, FL; Full-time enrollment: 3,046) Florida Institute of Technology (about 21 miles; Melbourne, FL; FT enrollment: 4,452) Indian River State College (about 28 miles; Fort Pierce, FL; FT enrollment: 12,211) Eastern Florida State College (about 44 miles; Cocoa, FL; FT enrollment: 12,053) Florida Technical College (about 67 miles; Orlando, FL; FT enrollment: 4,907) Universal Technical Institute-Auto Motorcycle & Marine Mechanics Institute Division-Orlando (about 68 miles; Orlando, FL; FT enrollment: 4,338) University of Central Florida (about 69 miles; Orlando, FL; FT enrollment: 51,457) Public elementary/middle school in Fellsmere: FELLSMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 597, Location: 50 N CYPRESS ST, Grades: PK-5) See full list of schools located in Fellsmere User-submitted facts and corrections: The city of Fellsmere now continues east on both sides of Rt.512 up to I-95. This land, now mostly wooded, was annexed by the city to accommodate projected future growth. Click to draw/clear city borders Notable locations in Fellsmere: Indian River County Fire Rescue Station 10 (A), Fellsmere City Police Department (B), Marian Fell Library (C). Display/hide their locations on the map Churches in Fellsmere include: Fellsmere Community Bible Church (A), Fellsmere Church of God (B), Church of God in Christ in Fellsmere (C). Display/hide their locations on the map Indian River County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level less than 2 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Low Potential Drinking water stations with addresses in Fellsmere and their reported violations in the past: FELLSMERE, CITY OF (Population served: 2,500, Groundwater): Past health violations: MCL, Average - Between JUL-2007 and SEP-2007, Contaminant: TTHM. Follow-up actions: St Public Notif received (OCT-03-2007), St Compliance achieved (DEC-11-2007) MCL, Average - Between JUL-2007 and SEP-2007, Contaminant: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5). Follow-up actions: St Public Notif received (OCT-03-2007), St Compliance achieved (DEC-11-2007) MCL, Average - Between APR-2007 and JUN-2007, Contaminant: TTHM. Follow-up actions: St Public Notif received (AUG-09-2007), St Compliance achieved (DEC-11-2007) MCL, Average - Between APR-2007 and JUN-2007, Contaminant: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5). Follow-up actions: St Public Notif received (AUG-09-2007), St Compliance achieved (DEC-11-2007) MCL, Average - Between JAN-2007 and MAR-2007, Contaminant: TTHM. Follow-up actions: Fed FAO issued (OCT-24-2006), St Public Notif received (APR-30-2007), St Compliance achieved (DEC-11-2007) MCL, Average - Between JAN-2007 and MAR-2007, Contaminant: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5). Follow-up actions: Fed Public Notif requested (OCT-24-2006), Fed FAO issued (OCT-24-2006), St Public Notif received (APR-30-2007), St Compliance achieved (DEC-11-2007) 12 other older health violations Past monitoring violations: Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R - In JUL-01-2008, Contaminant: Lead and Copper Rule Monitoring and Reporting (DBP) - Between APR-2005 and JUN-2005, Contaminant: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5). Follow-up actions: St Tech Assistance Visit (SEP-20-2005), St Compliance achieved (SEP-20-2005), Fed Formal NOV issued (AUG-18-2006) Monitoring and Reporting (DBP) - Between APR-2005 and JUN-2005, Contaminant: TTHM. Follow-up actions: St Tech Assistance Visit (SEP-20-2005), St Compliance achieved (SEP-20-2005), Fed Formal NOV issued (AUG-18-2006) Monitoring and Reporting (DBP) - Between JAN-2005 and MAR-2005, Contaminant: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5). Follow-up actions: St Compliance achieved (SEP-20-2005), Fed Formal NOV issued (AUG-18-2006) One minor monitoring violation 77 people in workers' group living quarters and job corps centers in 2010 402 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms in 2000 Banks with branches in Fellsmere (2011 data): The Oculina Bank: 56 N Broadway Street at 56 N Broadway Street, branch established on 2007/02/12. Info updated 2011/07/21: Bank assets: $138.3 mil, Deposits: $125.2 mil, headquarters in Fort Pierce, FL, negative income in the last year, Commercial Lending Specialization, 8 total offices, Holding Company: Colonial Banc Corp. For population 15 years and over in Fellsmere: Graduate or professional degree: 1.7% Education Gini index (Inequality in education) Graphs represent county-level data. Detailed 2008 Election Results Political contributions by individuals in Fellsmere, FL Neighborhoods in Fellsmere: (Fellsmere, Florida Neighborhood Map) Fellsmere neighborhood Fellsmere Farms neighborhood Fellsmere Woods neighborhood Homewood neighborhood Lincoln Park neighborhood Morning Side Park neighborhood Tropical Village Estates neighborhood Religion statistics for Fellsmere, FL (based on Indian River County data) Catholic 36,514 5 Evangelical Protestant 14,161 76 Mainline Protestant 9,975 17 Other 3,022 10 Black Protestant 1,554 15 None 72,802 - Source: Clifford Grammich, Kirk Hadaway, Richard Houseal, Dale E.Jones, Alexei Krindatch, Richie Stanley and Richard H.Taylor. 2012. 2010 U.S.Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Graphs represent county-level data Food Environment Statistics: Number of grocery stores: 24 Indian River County: 1.83 / 10,000 pop. Number of supercenters and club stores: 3 Number of convenience stores (no gas): 20 This county: Number of convenience stores (with gas): 28 Number of full-service restaurants: 100 Adult diabetes rate: Adult obesity rate: Low-income preschool obesity rate: Health and Nutrition: Healthy diet rate: Average overall health of teeth and gums: Average BMI: People feeling badly about themselves: People not drinking alcohol at all: Average hours sleeping at night: Overweight people: General health condition: Average condition of hearing: More about Health and Nutrition of Fellsmere, FL Residents Local government employment and payroll (March 2012) Full-time employees Monthly full-time payroll Average yearly full-time wage Monthly part-time payroll Police Protection - Officers 8 $30,265 $45,398 0 $0 Streets and Highways 6 $16,603 $33,206 1 $2,092 Financial Administration 3 $13,578 $54,312 0 $0 Other Government Administration 2 $16,049 $96,294 0 $0 Housing and Community Development (Local) 2 $10,171 $61,026 0 $0 Water Supply 1 $3,325 $39,900 0 $0 Other and Unallocable 1 $3,069 $36,828 1 $1,822 Parks and Recreation 0 $0 0 $0 Police - Other 0 $0 1 $390 Totals for Government 23 $93,060 $48,553 3 $4,304 Expenditure Revenue Fellsmere government finances - Expenditure in 2012 (per resident): Construction - Parks and Recreation: $1,064,000 ($185.92) Regular Highways: $6,000 ($1.05) Current Operations - Police Protection: $483,000 ($84.40) Regular Highways: $459,000 ($80.20) Water Utilities: $438,000 ($76.53) Protective Inspection and Regulation - Other: $305,000 ($53.29) General - Other: $267,000 ($46.65) Central Staff Services: $225,000 ($39.32) Sewerage: $215,000 ($37.57) Financial Administration: $171,000 ($29.88) Housing and Community Development: $149,000 ($26.04) Parks and Recreation: $47,000 ($8.21) Judicial and Legal Services: $26,000 ($4.54) General Public Buildings: $24,000 ($4.19) General - Interest on Debt: $134,000 ($23.41) Other Capital Outlay - General - Other: $362,000 ($63.25) Police Protection: $1,000 ($0.17) Central Staff Services: $1,000 ($0.17) Total Salaries and Wages: $1,257,000 ($219.64) Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $76,000 ($13.28) Fellsmere government finances - Revenue in 2012 (per resident): Charges - Sewerage: $223,000 ($38.97) Other: $1,000 ($0.17) Parks and Recreation: $1,000 ($0.17) Federal Intergovernmental - Water Utilities: $349,000 ($60.98) Other: $125,000 ($21.84) Miscellaneous - General Revenue - Other: $248,000 ($43.33) Rents: $58,000 ($10.13) Interest Earnings: $15,000 ($2.62) Fines and Forfeits: $9,000 ($1.57) Revenue - Water Utilities: $666,000 ($116.37) State Intergovernmental - General Local Government Support: $405,000 ($70.77) Tax - General Sales and Gross Receipts: $552,000 ($96.45) Property: $500,000 ($87.37) Public Utilities Sales: $351,000 ($61.33) Occupation and Business License - Other: $253,000 ($44.21) Motor Fuels Sales: $178,000 ($31.10) Other License: $49,000 ($8.56) Fellsmere government finances - Debt in 2012 (per resident): Long Term Debt - Outstanding Unspecified Public Purpose: $4,801,000 ($838.90) Beginning Outstanding - Unspecified Public Purpose: $4,707,000 ($822.47) Issue, Unspecified Public Purpose: $219,000 ($38.27) Retired Unspecified Public Purpose: $125,000 ($21.84) Fellsmere government finances - Cash and Securities in 2012 (per resident): Bond Funds - Cash and Securities: $7,000 ($1.22) Other Funds - Cash and Securities: $1,383,000 ($241.66) Sinking Funds - Cash and Securities: $434,000 ($75.83) 8.61% of this county's 2016 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2015 ($95,891 average adjusted gross income) 0.04% of residents moved from foreign countries ($713 average AGI) Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2015 and 2016: from St. Lucie County, FL 1.08% ($45,029 average AGI) from Brevard County, FL 0.60% ($42,657) from Palm Beach County, FL 0.38% ($120,076) 5.86% of this county's 2015 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2016 ($52,165 average adjusted gross income) 0.05% of residents moved to foreign countries ($194 average AGI) Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2015 and 2016: to St. Lucie County, FL 0.88% ($38,958 average AGI) to Brevard County, FL 0.55% ($42,650) to Palm Beach County, FL 0.27% ($52,050) Businesses in Fellsmere, FL U-Haul: 1 Strongest AM radio stations in Fellsmere: WFLF (540 AM; 50 kW; PINE HILLS, FL; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.) WIXC (1060 AM; 50 kW; TITUSVILLE, FL; Owner: GENESIS COMMUNICATIONS I, INC.) WQTM (740 AM; 50 kW; ORLANDO, FL; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.) WHOO (1080 AM; daytime; 35 kW; KISSIMMEE, FL; Owner: GENESIS COMMUNICATIONS I, INC.) WDYZ (990 AM; 50 kW; ORLANDO, FL; Owner: ABC, INC.) WONQ (1030 AM; 45 kW; OVIEDO, FL; Owner: FLORIDA BROADCASTERS) WFTL (850 AM; 50 kW; WEST PALM BEACH, FL; Owner: JAMES CRYSTAL ENTERPRISES II, L.L.C.) WMEL (920 AM; 5 kW; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: TWIN TOWERS BROADCASTING INC.) WJNA (640 AM; 38 kW; ROYAL PALM BEACH, FL; Owner: SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO, INC.) WJNX (1330 AM; 5 kW; FORT PIERCE, FL; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.) WINT (1560 AM; daytime; 5 kW; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.) WQYK (1010 AM; 50 kW; SEFFNER, FL; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF TAMPA) WAQI (710 AM; 50 kW; MIAMI, FL; Owner: LICENSE CORPORATION #1) Strongest FM radio stations in Fellsmere: WSJZ-FM (95.9 FM; SEBASTIAN, FL; Owner: SEBASTIAN BROADCASTING COMPANY) WGNX (99.7 FM; VERO BEACH, FL; Owner: VERO BEACH FM RADIO PARTNERSHIP) WOSN (97.1 FM; INDIAN RIVER SHORES, FL; Owner: VERO BEACH BROADCASTERS, LLC) WQOL (103.7 FM; VERO BEACH, FL; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP) WAOA-FM (107.1 FM; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.) WSCF-FM (91.9 FM; VERO BEACH, FL; Owner: CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING, INC.) WGYL (93.7 FM; VERO BEACH, FL; Owner: VERO BEACH BROADCASTERS, LLC) WCZR (101.7 FM; VERO BEACH, FL; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP) WWFR (91.7 FM; STUART, FL; Owner: FAMILY STATIONS, INC.) WEJF (90.3 FM; PALM BAY, FL; Owner: FLORIDA PUBLIC RADIO, INC.) WSYR-FM (94.7 FM; GIFFORD, FL; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP) WCIF (106.3 FM; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, INC.) WQCS (88.9 FM; FORT PIERCE, FL; Owner: INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE) WFLM (104.7 FM; WHITE CITY, FL; Owner: MIDWAY BROADCASTING COMPANY) W213AX (90.5 FM; FORT PIERCE, FL; Owner: PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, INC.) TV broadcast stations around Fellsmere: WTCE (Channel 21; FORT PIERCE, FL; Owner: JACKSONVILLE EDUCATORS B/CNG, INC.) WRDQ (Channel 27; ORLANDO, FL; Owner: WFTV-TV HOLDINGS, INC.) W60CE (Channel 60; SEBRING, FL; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK) WOPX (Channel 56; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: PAXSON ORLANDO LICENSE, INC.) WTGL-TV (Channel 52; COCOA, FL; Owner: GOOD LIFE BROADCASTING, INC.) WBCC (Channel 68; COCOA, FL; Owner: BREVARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE) WWCI-CA (Channel 10; VERO BEACH, FL; Owner: V-1 PRODUCTIONS, INC.) W46DB (Channel 46; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC) WPBF (Channel 25; TEQUESTA, FL; Owner: WPBF-TV COMPANY) WTVX (Channel 34; FORT PIERCE, FL; Owner: C-34 FCC LICENSEE SUBSIDIARY, LLC) W57DM (Channel 57; VERO BEACH, FL; Owner: PAPPAS TELECASTING OF THE TREASURE COAST, L.L.C.) WOTF (Channel 43; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: TELEFUTURA ORLANDO, INC.) W26BN (Channel 26; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: WIRELESS BROADBAND SERVICES/AMERICA) W59CX (Channel 59; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: THREE ANGELS BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.) WMVJ-LP (Channel 29; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: TIGER EYE BROADCASTING CORPORATION) W44AY (Channel 44; FORT PIERCE, FL; Owner: BARRY TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.) WSCF-LP (Channel 31; MELBOURNE, FL; Owner: JAMES J. CHLADEK) W16AJ (Channel 16; MELBOURNE, ETC., FL; Owner: ORLANDO HEARST-ARGYLE TELEVISION, INC.) Fellsmere fatal accident statistics for 1975 - 2017 Fellsmere fatal accident list: May 27, 2016 12:50 AM, Cr-512, Lat: 27.739769, Lon: -80.642300, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 1, Fatalities: 1 Jul 24, 2015 05:50 AM, S Broadway St, Lat: 27.765769, Lon: -80.601331, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 1, Pedestrians: 1, Fatalities: 1 Jul 23, 2010 09:36 AM, I-95, Lat: 27.738628, Lon: -80.548978, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 4, Fatalities: 2 Feb 20, 1984 01:30 PM, 9, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 3, Fatalities: 1, Drunk persons involved: 1 Apr 14, 1977 00:30 AM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 3, Fatalities: 1, Drunk persons involved: 1 National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics 25Number of bridges 322ft / 98.0mTotal length 321,818Total average daily traffic 50,189Total average daily truck traffic 536,783Total future (year 2038) average daily traffic New bridges - historical statistics See full National Bridge Inventory statistics for Fellsmere, FL FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers: 4 (See the full list of FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers in Fellsmere) FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 127 (See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers) FCC Registered Broadcast Land Mobile Towers: 7.5 Mi Wnw (Lat: 27.826694 Lon: -80.705333), Structure height: 312 m, Call Sign: WPFN973, Assigned Frequencies: 935.387 MHz, 935.400 MHz, 935.412 MHz, 935.425 MHz, 935.437 MHz, 935.450 MHz, 935.462 MHz, 935.475 MHz, 935.487 MHz, 935.500 MHz, Grant Date: 06/14/1999, Expiration Date: 08/08/2004, Cancellation Date: 10/09/2004, Registrant: Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman,LLP, 3000 K Street, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20007, Phone: (202) 424-7500, Fax: (202) 424-7643, Email: 7355 County Road 512 (Lat: 27.740778 Lon: -80.658639), Call Sign: WPVY319, Assigned Frequencies: 462.212 MHz, 462.287 MHz, 462.412 MHz, 467.212 MHz, 467.287 MHz, Grant Date: 09/04/2002, Expiration Date: 09/04/2012, Cancellation Date: 11/10/2012, Certifier: David R Hodson, Registrant: Agrilink International Incorporated, 195 Concourse Boulevard, Suite A, Santa Rosa, CA 95403, Phone: (707) 522-2274, Fax: (707) 579-1735 7735 Cr 512 (Lat: 27.741972 Lon: -80.656444), Type: Tower, Structure height: 108 m, Overall height: 111 m, Call Sign: WQDZ552, Assigned Frequencies: 853.387 MHz, Grant Date: 06/02/2006, Expiration Date: 12/02/2006, Cancellation Date: 02/03/2007, Certifier: Frances G Sherwood, Registrant: Apco International Inc Licensing Service, 351 N Williamson Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL 32114-1112, Phone: (386) 944-2463, Fax: (386) 322-2502, Email: 7735 Cr 512 (Lat: 27.741972 Lon: -80.656444), Type: Tower, Structure height: 108 m, Overall height: 111 m, Call Sign: WQEC249, Assigned Frequencies: 852.012 MHz, 852.512 MHz, 853.012 MHz, Grant Date: 10/01/2015, Expiration Date: 12/27/2025, Certifier: Frances G Sherwood, Registrant: County Of Indian River, 4225 43rd Ave, Vero Beach, FL 32967, Phone: (772) 226-3853, Fax: (772) 770-5245, Email: 7735 Cr 512 (Lat: 27.741972 Lon: -80.656444), Type: Tower, Structure height: 108 m, Overall height: 111 m, Call Sign: WQEJ730, Assigned Frequencies: 158.737 MHz, 158.737 MHz, Grant Date: 02/02/2016, Expiration Date: 02/14/2026, Certifier: Frances G Sherwood, Registrant: County Of Indian River, 4225 43rd Ave, Vero Beach, FL 32967, Phone: (772) 226-3853, Fax: (772) 770-5245, Email: 7735 Cr 512 (Lat: 27.741972 Lon: -80.656444), Type: Tower, Structure height: 108 m, Overall height: 111 m, Call Sign: WQGE491, Assigned Frequencies: 853.387 MHz, Grant Date: 05/09/2008, Expiration Date: 11/05/2008, Cancellation Date: 01/24/2009, Certifier: Frances G Sherwood, Registrant: Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A., 11921 Rockville Pike, 3rd Floor, Rockville, MD 20852, Phone: (301) 255-0553, Fax: (301) 230-2891 FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 18 (See the full list of FCC Registered Microwave Towers in this town) FCC Registered Paging Towers: 1 (See the full list of FCC Registered Paging Towers) FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 21 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Fellsmere) FAA Registered Aircraft: Aircraft: ANTHONY CROENLEIN SPRINT (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: ROTAX 912ULS SERIES (100 HP) (Reciprocating) N-Number: 135BG , Serial Number: 9569087, Year manufactured: 2018, Airworthiness Date: 03/27/2018, Certificate Issue Date: 05/10/2019 Registrant (Individual): Frank Bernaby, 14165 95th St, Fellsmere, FL 32948 Aircraft: LUSCOMBE 8E (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 86 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 HP) (Reciprocating) N-Number: 1406B , Serial Number: 6033, Year manufactured: 1948, Certificate Issue Date: 12/20/2017 Aircraft: MOONEY A-2A (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 93 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 HP) (Reciprocating) N-Number: 5495F , Serial Number: B-295, Year manufactured: 1968, Airworthiness Date: 11/01/1968, Certificate Issue Date: 10/15/2018 Registrant (Co-Owned): Frank A Bernaby, 14165 95th St, Fellsmere, FL 32948, Other Owners: Nicholas Garcia Aircraft: PIPER PA-18-150 (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 97 mph), Engine: LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 HP) (Reciprocating) N-Number: 80BJ , Serial Number: 18-7709191, Year manufactured: 1977, Airworthiness Date: 09/23/1977, Certificate Issue Date: 09/08/2014 Registrant (LLC): Sun Ag LLC, 7735 County Road 512, Fellsmere, FL 32948 Aircraft: PIPER J3C-65 (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 67 mph), Engine: LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 HP) (Reciprocating) N-Number: 88361 , Serial Number: 15979, Year manufactured: 1946, Airworthiness Date: 07/08/1971, Certificate Issue Date: 06/23/2000 Registrant (Individual): Frank Valle, 12250 91st St, Fellsmere, FL 32948 (Based on 1 partial tract) LOANS ORIGINATED 1 $155,880 1 $55,960 1 $152,580 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 0 $0 1 $174,450 APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0 0 $0 1 $83,540 LOANS ORIGINATED 1 $115,830 1 $151,210 2 $125,730 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 0 $0 1 $74,900 LOANS ORIGINATED 1 $92,060 5 $136,486 3 $164,993 1 $28,950 2 $123,425 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 1 $76,180 1 $209,020 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 1 $205,490 4 $183,455 1 $35,550 1 $150,840 APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0 1 $132,310 2 $140,295 0 $0 0 $0 FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 LOANS ORIGINATED 11 $141,613 5 $178,196 1 $78,920 4 $160,888 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 1 $177,340 1 $198,080 0 $0 1 $116,820 APPLICATIONS DENIED 4 $140,100 3 $153,290 1 $42,230 2 $145,330 APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 2 $169,080 2 $198,670 0 $0 1 $137,640 FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 1 $98,350 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 1 $158,720 1 $96,300 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS DENIED 2 $149,805 2 $147,190 0 $0 1 $105,690 APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 2 $135,465 3 $112,413 0 $0 1 $83,580 FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0 LOANS ORIGINATED 6 $127,472 4 $105,288 1 $140,490 2 $150,875 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 1 $83,850 1 $56,100 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS DENIED 1 $107,360 2 $107,590 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 1 $68,740 2 $98,650 0 $0 0 $0 Choose year: 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 Detailed HMDA statistics for the following Tracts: 0509.01 LOANS ORIGINATED 2 $196,020 1 $134,780 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0 0 $0 APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 1 $90,920 0 $0 LOANS ORIGINATED 2 $102,415 1 $68,610 Choose year: 2007 2006 2005 2004 Detailed PMIC statistics for the following Tracts: 0509.01 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents: Fire: 18 Hazardous Condition: 13 See full 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System statistics for Fellsmere, FL Most common first names in Fellsmere, FL among deceased individuals Joseph 12 78.9 years Willie 9 66.7 years Thomas 8 66.7 years George 7 72.1 years Charles 7 63.0 years Dorothy 7 70.6 years Most common last names in Fellsmere, FL among deceased individuals Smith 16 70.4 years Yates 12 71.9 years Williams 9 77.1 years Hall 7 80.8 years Pennington 6 81.8 years Jones 6 76.7 years Herndon 5 84.2 years Green 5 85.8 years Dixon 5 81.6 years King 4 71.8 years Houses and condos Apartments 3.4%No fuel used Fellsmere compared to Florida state average: Median house value below state average. Unemployed percentage below state average. Black race population percentage below state average. Hispanic race population percentage significantly above state average. Median age significantly below state average. Foreign-born population percentage significantly above state average. Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher below state average. 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__label__cc	0.697709	0.302291	On The Shore Ask Rod Quick Sips Become a City & Shore Insider PRIME MAGAZINE A few words with Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill Departments — 02 June 2017 By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine When you think “zoo,” you don’t normally think “personality,” but that may not be the case in South Florida. As its zealous Goodwill Ambassador and communications director, Ron Magill is essentially the human face of Zoo Miami, where he’s worked since its 1980 opening. The spotlight first found him a few years later as handler for Miami Vice’s pet alligator, Elvis; and in his nationally televised appeals for the zoo’s displaced inhabitants following the devastation of Hurricane Andrew, 25 years ago this August. An expert wildlife photographer, Magill, 57, is now an official wildlife expert for Good Morning America, CNN, Telemundo and Univision. Having been a regular on Sabado Gigante for 27 years, he now appears weekly on ESPN Radio’s Dan Le Batard Show. However, the 45-year Florida resident and UF grad considers his most important achievement to be the over $1 million he’s raised for the zoo’s Ron Magill Conservation Endowment. Aside from the weather, what do you enjoy most about living in South Florida? The wonderful cultural diversity combined with the natural beauty from the Everglades to the Keys. Aside from the weather, what do you dislike most about living in South Florida? Increasing traffic and impatient drivers. Are you a beach person or a pool person? Definitely a beach person. When in your life are you or have you been the happiest? My wedding day [to Rita] and the births of my two children. What do you do when you’re stuck in a traffic jam on I-95? Turn up my satellite radio and let the music relax me. What music are you listening to now? I know it sounds ‘sappy,’ but ‘Velvet’ and ‘Love Songs’ on satellite radio, which feature Adele, Josh Groban and the like. I also love oldies like Bread and Chicago. Are you a fan, and if so, of what? I’m a big fan of college football and basketball – especially my beloved Gators! Do you do social media? Facebook [Ron Magill] and Twitter [@RonMagill], though I rarely tweet. Who is your real-life hero or heroine? My father and mother. They did amazing things with very little to provide my sister and me with tremendous opportunities. If you had to choose: Rocky or Raging Bull? Definitely Rocky! What car are you driving now? Cadillac Escalade. I’ve had everything from a koala to a cheetah in that truck! What do you like most about yourself? I like to think of myself as a very compassionate and sentimental person, the type of guy not ashamed to say I easily cry at movies or even a good Hallmark commercial! What places do you recommend to guests visiting from out-of-town? Zoo Miami, of course! In addition, the Florida Keys and Everglades National Park. I wish I could have a better ‘filter.’ I often say things out of passion and frustration without counting to 10 first. What do you consider your greatest achievement? In the grand scope of things, it’s certainly my children. In my professional life, it’s the Ron Magill Conservation Endowment, which contributes tens of thousands of dollars annually to conservation in the wild places where the animals we exhibit naturally occur. It will continue to provide this support in perpetuity – a legacy I am extremely proud of! city and shore Fort Lauderdale lifts alcohol ban at beach for Super Bowl weekend Heading to the beach for Super Bowl weekend? Feel free to get lit while you bury your toes in the sand — if you’re in Fort Lauderdale, that is. The city has lifted its beach ban on alcoholic beverages for three days around Super Bowl Sunday. The ban on open containers at the beach will […] To get free tuition, graduates would agree to work in Florida under new bill Community college could soon become free for many Florida students — as long as they don’t go elsewhere for a job. A bill that would create a new “Sunshine Scholarship” for students from low- and moderate-income families passed through committees in both chambers of the Legislature this week. ... The Go Guide Shopping & Beauty Free entry at museums on Saturday and Sunday Enjoy free admissions to museums on Aug. 3-4 with Bank of America’s Museum on Us program. The year-round program offers free entry to more than 200 national arts institutions on the first full weekend of each month with an ID and a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit or debit card. Get free... 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Each issue explores South Florida fashion, home design, travel, fine dining, society, entertainment and lifestyle. The magazine is distributed with the Sun Sentinel to selected subscribers. Also available through mail and upscale businesses from north Miami-Dade, through Broward to Palm Beach counties. City & Shore is published by the Sun Sentinel Co., publisher of the Sun Sentinel, South Florida's leading daily newspaper; and is also available on iTunes, http://tinyurl.com/cf6n93p © 2020 City & Shore Magazine. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line556
__label__wiki	0.952567	0.952567	PM Abbasi chairs Federal Cabinet meeting DNA News \| November 23, 2017 ISLAMABAD, NOV 23 (DNA) – Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired a meeting of the Federal Cabinet here at Prime Minister’s Office. Following decisions were taken during the meeting; The Cabinet approved appointment of Mr. Murtaza Khan (Pakistan Audit & Accounts Service BS-20) as Financial Advisor in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Board. The Cabinet accorded approval for Signing the MoU on Bilateral Political Consultations between Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and Pakistan. The Cabinet approved signing the MoU on Bilateral Consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan and the Slovak Republic. Approvals were accorded for Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP/APCICT) and the National School of Public Policy (NSPP); and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA) and the National School of Public Policy (NSPP), Pakistan. The Federal Cabinet approved appointment of Mr. Rehmatullah as Member NEPRA from Balochistan. Ex-Post Facto approval was accorded for the Acceptance of Awards “King Abdul Aziz Medal of Excellence” and “Honorary Award of Malaysian Armed Forces Order of Valour-gallant Commander of Malaysian Armed Forces, First Degree” Medal by the Governments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Malaysia Respectively to Admiral (Rtd.) Muhammad Zakaullah, NI (M), Former Chief of the Naval Staff, Foreign Affairs Division. Appointment of Mr. Nasim A. Virk as Judge Special Court (Central), Faisalabad was approved. The Cabinet accorded approval for appointment of Mr. Nasir Hussain, District and Sessions Judge as Judge Banking Court, Bahawalpur and Mr. Naveed Ahmad, District and Sessions Judge as Judge Banking Court-II, Gujranwala. Ex-Post Facto approval was accorded for the Acceptance of “Star of Merit” to Mr. Zamir Akram, Former Ambassador of Pakistan by the Government of the State of Palestine, Foreign Affairs Division. Constitution of Board of Directors of National Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (NEECA) was approved by the Cabinet. The Cabinet approved the proposal moved by National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination Division to implement Inter-Ministerial Committee Recommendations regarding enhancement of pictorial health warning on Cigarette Packets. The Cabinet lauded the services of Mr. Nadeem Hassan Asif, former Secretary Cabinet Division who recently retired after rendering meritorious services at the Cabinet Division and other important assignments in the civil service.=DNA LATEST NEWS, PAKISTAN No Comments » « Senator Mushahid Hussain elected Vice President of Asian Parliamentary Assembly in Istanbul (Previous News) (Next News) Pakistan, China agree to build Chashma 5 » Private sector can fight poverty through community development: Chinoy ISLAMABAD, JAN 17 (DNA) – Private sector of Pakistan has a lot ofRead More Iranian ambassador, Chinese envoy meet Army Chief Gen. Bajwa RAWALPINDI, JAN 08 (DNA) – Yao Jing Ambassador of China to Pakistan and Seyyed MohammadRead More Transport group imports reduced by 53.57 per cent in first quarter The President of Kazakhstan, H.E. Mr. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s initiatives on public safety, the rule of law and human rights Shah Mehmood Qureshi calls for ‘active Diplomacy’ to de-escalate tensions in Middle East NA standing committee deliberates on acts concerning extensions of armed forces’ chiefs PM Imran summons important meeting of govt, party officials CNG stations across Sindh shut down for next 36 hours again Saudi King, Iraqi president review regional situation after US strike Tahir-ul-Qadri lambastes PM Imran over due justice to victims	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line564
__label__wiki	0.672115	0.672115	Blog Kiosk: 8/18/2017 - Dodgers Links - Some Odds and Ends One of the premier auction houses in the world is getting into the Baseball business. Christies is currently running their "Golden Age of Baseball" auction at it includes a whole bunch of fantastic Dodger photographs; including the above 1961 spring photo of Dodger aces Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax. (auction link) There is also the below pic of the 1925 Brooklyn Dodgers during spring training. (auction link) At center are Hall of Famers Wilbert Robinson, Zach Wheat and Sazzy Vance. Below are more links to check out: This Day in Dodgers History: In 1959 former Dodger GM Branch Rickey is named President of the newly formed Continental League. The new third Major League never plays a game, though. Instead, it became a catalyst for the addition of eight more teams to the American and National Leagues over the next decade. In 1995 the Dodgers traded for Brett Butler. This would be his second stint with the team. Happy Birthday, Burleigh Grimes, William Marriott, Jim Peterson, Bob Kennedy, Paul Popovich, Don Crow & Yimi Garcia! Audio: A Yu Darvish imposter - The man who has been following Yu Darvish across the country his entire MLB career joins Lunchtime with Roggin and Rodney. (audio link) Audio: Vin Scully joined David Vassegh ahead of Wednesday's game at Dodger Stadium. (audio link) Via the Editorial Board at the LA Daily News; "Dodgers are hot; fans should be too, four years into TV blackout." It’s the kind of season that could win a team both a World Series — which would be the Dodgers’ first championship since 1988 — and a generation of young fans. Only if fans can watch. Per Bill Shaikin at the LA Times; "Dodgers set postseason ticket prices. World Series seats would start at $166." The most expensive ticket would be $531, not including suites and luxury seats. That ticket would put you in the front row of the field-level box seats, between the bases. If you are a season-ticket holder, that price would be $381. Ticket prices range from $31 to $236 for the division series, $63 to $256 for the league championship series and $166 to $531 for the World Series. Carson Cistulli at FanGraphs shares this weeks Fring Five and it includes Dodger prospect Tim Locastro: Locastro, for his part, has proven to be a pretty useful ballplayer. The combination of contact skills and defensive ability that first earned him a place among the Five remain. Currently, however, he’s exhibiting them not for Division III school or Cal League team but rather the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate. In 82 appearances for Oklahoma City, he’s produced walk and strikeout rates of 6.1% and 13.4%, respectively, plus a .181 isolated-power figure and 10-for-11 stolen-base record. The 168 wRC+ mark he’s posted would place second of all qualified Triple-A batters — ahead, for example, of power-hitting Rhys Hoskins, who was just basically given Philadelphia’s left-field job. Despite sliding a bit down the positional spectrum as he’s ascended minor-league levels, Locastro appears capable of still providing positive defensive value. This is fantastic. One-time Dodger Babe Dahlgren was quite a letter-writer. His grandson shares several letters written by his granddad to a young fan in the 30's, and in it he details for the young lad how he should play 1st base. Go here to check it out. By ernest at Friday, August 18, 2017 Labels: Babe Dahlgren, Blog Kiosk, Christies, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Tim Locastro, Vin Scully, Yu Darvish 2017 Dodgers Sports Crate - July Edition - Corey S... Better Late Than Never -- 2017 Topps Now -- #484 -...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line566
__label__wiki	0.948002	0.948002	Search skiplink Main navigation skiplink Main content skiplink Utility Navigation skiplink Explore the Family Law Section site You are here: Media releases/news > New legal aid direction concerns New Zealand Law Society Media releases/news Find a family lawyer Family Dispute Resolution New legal aid direction concerns New Zealand Law Society The New Zealand Law Society is concerned that the new legal aid policies announced by Justice Minister Simon Power could have a serious longer-term impact on access to legal advice and the quality of the representation provided. Law Society President Jonathan Temm says while there is a valid concern over the increasing costs of legal aid, it is very worrying that the assumptions behind the forecast “savings” are untested. “This is not a group of lawyers complaining that they are going to miss out on what some people mistakenly see as a comfortable way of getting rich at the taxpayer’s expense,” he says. “It is very important to put the myths and stories aside and consider the impact of today’s announcement on the access all New Zealanders have to justice. The heart of the matter is really ensuring that everyone is able to receive high quality legal advice and representation at appropriate cost to the taxpayer if they could not normally afford it.” Mr Temm says the decision to expand the Public Defence Service (PDS) to take up to half of all criminal legal aid work in main centres assumes that a bigger New Zealand-wide PDS will produce the same results which had come from a smaller tightly controlled and supervised Auckland-based scheme. “The Law Society has always supported the PDS as a small, high-quality service in the years since it was established. However, a large, national PDS will be a totally different matter. Will the projections and assumptions made from the pilot trials be true on a national scale? Will experienced lawyers join the Service, or will it continue to draw most of its staff from recent law graduates and very junior lawyers?” The issue of service quality which might arise from an expanded PDS could also be seen overseas, where tight fiscal restraints on similar services has resulted in an organisation staffed by inexperienced and overworked lawyers who are unable to provide effective representation. Mr Temm says New Zealand needs a strong and independent private bar. There is a major problem with the planned removal of legal aid work from private lawyers, particularly with the announced reduction of eligibility. This has the potential to finally drive experienced practitioners away from legal aid work, again reducing the quality of legal aid. A mixed model depends on allowing the private bar a sufficient workload to ensure it could work economically and efficiently. “Since the report on legal aid by Dame Margaret Bazley in November 2009, the Legal Services Agency has greatly stepped up the work it does in auditing the quality of legal aid delivered by independent criminal lawyers. This has shown that over 90% of those lawyers are providing competent, very good or excellent services,” he says. “New Zealand has an effective, hard-working and competent criminal bar and it is unfortunate to think that the system which is being created now could make it uneconomic for many members to continue to provide legal aid services.” Mr Temm says the Law Society is also very worried at what is still to come. The Minister has announced some fundamental changes to family law legal aid and has already made it clear that there will be even more far-reaching cuts to this in September. “These changes to a family law system which is a world leader are going to deeply impact on our Family Court, family law practices and family law services in New Zealand,” he says.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line571
__label__wiki	0.71278	0.71278	Fanbase Press’ Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Video Games Amidst the chaos of decorating the house, booking flights, or preparing a holiday feast, deciding on gifts for friends and family is likely to be the last thing on your mind this holiday season. Fanbase Press is here to help with the best recommendations for the must-playvideo games from the year as suggested by our staff and contributors. Video games make great gifts for the geeks in your life, especially for the holidays where the requisite number of players is usually right around the corner. Whether playing with Jack-Jack or providing your party of adventurers with opportunities to avoid the White Walkers, playing a game together is a great holiday event. Recommended by Carl Wilson Developers: ArtPlay, Inti Creates, WayForward, Monobit, DICO Co., Ltd. With development led by former Castlevania series producer Koji Igarashi, Bloodstained is a spiritual sequel to the long-running, vampire-killing game series (now also a Netflix cartoon). Starting out as a Kickstarter project, going on to raise over $5.5 million throughout the campaign, Bloodstained has been shaped by an understanding of its heritage. Alongside the stunning orchestral score and dozens of unique weapons and defensive buffs, the side-scrolling action adventure is saturated in monster mythology. Reprising several enemies from past “Iga-vanias,” vampires and wolfmen are remixed alongside scylla (Ancient Greek), buers (16th Century occult), and Kunekune (Japanese internet), all adding up to 128 delicious monstrous flavours to vanquish. Dodge-rolling copyright, players control Miriam: a kick-ass heroine with the ability of the Shardbinders: an alchemy induced invitation to absorb the powers of the monster-mashed. Borrowing the Tactical Souls system of earlier games though, these powers not only give access to previously unreachable parts of the expansive castle environment, they can also be combined to create carnage in a playstyle that suits the mood of the moment, offering many hours of reconfigurable slaying. Where else can you throw ghosts at a dragon then throw dragons at a Dracula? Click here or here to purchase. Developer: Lucas Pope A ghost ship, a pocket watch, and a photo: from here you must work out the fates of the Obra Dinn’s crew, one clue at a time. It helps that Lucas Pope’s indie puzzle game, Return of the Obra Dinn, endows your chronometer with the gift of limited time travel. Set in the early 1800s, with a wooden ship and a concrete motivation to fulfill your duty as an insurance collector working for the East India Trading Company, players can hear a snippet of someone’s final moments before being shown an explorable freeze-frame of the outcome: bloody, frantic and sometimes … surprising. Pope is the sole creator of the game, allowing him to create a tightly structured experience with 1-bit aesthetics (think Mac games from the mid-'80s). You’ll study facial features, shadowy motivations, and unusual audio cues as you unpick the reversing narrative, ascribing a cause of death to each of the 60 sea-farers. Assuming they don’t get motion-sickness, this is a game you can play with the family all working together, making it a gripping virtual change to those festive detective re-runs on the telly where Grandma spoils the plot, five minutes in. Developer: House House Do you want to mess about as a virtual goose with a cheeky predilection for terrorizing the peaceful lives of those you waddle into contact with? If the answer is yes: Honk! Buy the game and flap your wings with pride. If the answer is no: Honk! The goose has stolen your sandwich and thrown it in the pond. Try again. The beauty of indie studio House House’s stealth puzzle video game is in how charming and easy they make it to be a waterfowl prankster. Set in a quaint English sandbox environment of pastel colours, the eponymous goose is the mechanism by which you can stealthily toy with the innocent village victims, making them the slapstick punch line to the jokes you put into motion. From stealing keys and hiding in bushes, through to running around with human dominoes collapsing in your mischievous wake, the goose is an agent of chaos, rewarding cunning ingenuity with solid laughs. Are you the bad guy here? Who cares! Chase that kid into a phone box! Honk! Coming in at a few hours or so of gameplay, Untitled Goose Game is the perfect break from the Untitled Turkey games of the holidays. Developer: Capcom R&D Division 1 The 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 will scratch the tasty itch of those that are riding the nostalgia train straight out of Umbrella’s secret underground lab. It’s also one the most graphically advanced games available on home consoles, making the dark, dank nightmare a perfect spooky showcase to terrify your loved ones with on Christmas morning. Combining the ease of modern controls with a tough, old-school attitude towards creeping and crawling enemies, Resident Evil 2 makes each shot against the zombie hoard count. And if you’re not counting, then expect the Assault on Precinct Raccoon City to end violently and abruptly with a bloody game over screen as you careen from puzzle room to death room via claustrophobic corridors. Not really one for the blind-firing gung-ho gamer, Resident Evil 2 rewards purposeful movement and nerves of monster-repellent steel. Featuring two overlapping Hollywood storylines (enacting the naïve rookie cop or protective Final Girl tropes) and a host of free mini-missions (the sentient Tofu returns, as does Hunk and some new challenge scenarios for the canonically less-fortunate), there’s plenty of ambient, M-rated gaming for the seasonal winter period. Developers: Sega Games Co., Ltd. & M2 Co., Ltd. Whether it be for nostalgia, simplicity of use, or to settle perennial sibling rivalries, with 42 games to choose from, two controllers to button-mash, and modern emulation from M2 you can actually believe in (looking at you AT Games), Sega’s foray into the classic micro-console market is everything you need for a retro holiday session. The replica console features tactile flaps and switches for the ultimate retro-kinaesthetic experience while still having an HDMI output for modern televisions, where the games look crisp and fresh. Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage II, and Golden Axe are the familiar heavy-hitters in the collection, but Castle and World of Illusion are still as Disney enchanting as Earthworm Jim is intensely goofy and groovy. Zelda-clone Beyond Oasis and Shining Force lead the pack for RPG gaming, while Castlevania: Bloodlines and Mega Man: The Wiley Wars are distinctive excursions for franchises often found on a Nintendo console. (Let the console wars begin… again!) Wrapped up tightly with arcade experiences, such as Ghouls and Ghosts and Strider, the Genesis Mini is a macro slice of 16-bit gaming from the late '80s/early '90s. Forget the future and go back to the past; where we’re going, we don't need downloads. Recommended by LN Conliff Developed by Kojima Productions I don’t know if anything has brought my brother and me together more than waiting for Death Stranding. This game had reached legendary status before it was even released. From the tangled web of events that led to its announcement to the mysterious trailers that told the fans nothing, we waited with bated breath for a game that was supposed to change our lives. And then… it arrived! While it isn’t quite what we expected, Death Stranding is still a masterful game that seems to have folks divided. If you’re looking for something heavy in narrative, with beautiful visuals, and unique gameplay, then you’ll probably love Death Stranding! Just get ready for a long game that’s perfectly content going at its own snail’s pace. Know the type of gamer you are before you go in and you won’t be disappointed! Cost: $59.88 Physical Copy Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 And 2.5 Remix Developed by Square Enix Once upon a time, introducing people to Kingdom Hearts was a nigh-impossible challenge. Getting all of the games required owning a Playstation 2, a Gameboy Advance, a Playstation Portable, a Nintendo 3DS, a Playstation 4, and downloading at least one mobile app. Thankfully, in the leadup to Kingdom Hearts 3 earlier this year, the games were finally gathered together into two collections that only require the Playstation 4 to play. Now, a bundle of those two collections makes getting into the series easier than ever before. In case you hadn’t heard: Kingdom Hearts is amazing. It's a wild and crazy mishmash of Final Fantasy and Disney wrapped up in exciting action RPG gameplay. There’s a reason that this series has persisted despite its release order. The value of even one of these collections is staggering with at least 50 hours of gameplay per collection. New Kingdom Hearts 3 DLC is only a few months away, so if you’ve never played this series, there’s no better time like the present. Published in: Holiday Gift Guide Fanbase Feature: 20th Anniversary Retrospective on ‘Shadow of the Vampire’ (1999) Tread Perilously - ‘Scandal: Say Hello to My Little Friend’ The Arkham Sessions, Ep. 138: ‘Doom Patrol - Puppet Patrol’ Paul and Corey Cross the Streams: Season 2, Episode 1 [New Year, ‘New’ in the Title - ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch’ (1990)] Tread Perilously - ‘Private Practice: The Next Episode’ Fanbase Press’ Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Comics & Books Fanbase Press’ Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Geeky Extras Fanbase Press’ 2019 Holiday Gift Guides: Your Guide to Geeky Holiday Shopping! Fanbase Press’ Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Movies Fanbase Press’ 2018 Holiday Gift Guides: Your Guide to Holiday Shopping!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line572
__label__wiki	0.981851	0.981851	By Stephan Uersfeld Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang signs new Borussia Dortmund contract Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was one of the few Borussia Dortmund players to impress last season. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has signed a contract extension at Borussia Dortmund until 2020. Aubameyang, who had been linked with Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain earlier this summer, extended his previous terms by two years. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang extends BVB contract until 2020 #Auba2020 http://t.co/9MvbQMlIo8 pic.twitter.com/2S2lkxVeYO - Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) July 31, 2015 The 26-year-old told his club's official website: "I'm absolutely delighted that the next years of my career will be spent at Borussia Dortmund. I feel very happy at the club, in this team and in this city. "BVB has become like a second home to me. Every part of me wants to be here and I have never wanted to leave." Aubameyang arrived from St Etienne in 2013 and, after beginning his time at the club on the right wing, he was converted into a central attacker by former Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp after Robert Lewandowski's move to Bayern Munich. The Gabon international was one of the few players not to disappoint for Dortmund last season, scoring 24 goals in all competitions and providing 10 assists. Sporting director Michael Zorc said: "Auba has developed outstandingly. We are very happy that we have been able to tie him down to a long-term contract." TRANSFER LATEST - Atletico sell Jackson Martinez to Chinese club for €42m - How your Premier League side did in the transfer window - Prem spending hits £1bn \| Imbula joins Stoke for £18.3m - Bayern loan Tasci \| Doumbia to Newcastle \| Sanogo loan - Anderlecht sign Buttner \| Perotti to Roma \| Eder to Lille - Fletcher to Marseille \| Van Ginkel get PSV \| Powell loan - Fer to Swansea \| Fazio rejoins Sevilla \| Jones, N.E. talks? - FC TV: Not sure Teixeira's worth the money \| Paul Pogba - LIVE: Transfer Talk \| Done deals \| ENG \| SPA \| GER \| ITA \| FRA Dortmund, now led by coach Thomas Tuchel, have managed to retain their key players this summer. Ilkay Gundogan, who was widely expected to leave, signed a one-year extension at the start of this month, while Neven Subotic, who had flirted with a move to the Premier League, penned a contract tying him to the club until 2018. Mats Hummels also opted to stay despite interest from Manchester United, and the club told ESPN FC this week that it is "100 percent" certain that Marco Reus will remain at the Westfalenstadion.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line573
__label__wiki	0.698891	0.698891	Electronic structure and magnetism Aharonov-Bohm interferences from local deformations in graphene Femtoscale magnetoelastic distortions in multiferroic TbMnO3 Strong coupling of Sm and Fe magnetism in SmFeAsO Observation of a zero-magnetisation ferromagnet in exchange-coupled system Violation of Hund’s third rule in structurally-disordered ferromagnets Suppression of ferromagnetism in compressed 3d metals Organising single-molecule magnets on surfaces while preserving their magnetic properties Spin reconstruction at La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrTiO3 interfaces Visualising clean catalytic technologies in action Size influence on Pd catalysis for pollutant abatement Plutonium redox chemistry on corroding steel surfaces The elusive structure and symmetry of the proton conducting oxide Y:BaZrO3 Molecular near-infrared to visible light upconversion Next chapter: Structural biology At the time of writing this introduction the major construction works for the ESRF upgrade are in full swing. The electrons are no longer circulating in the ring and the laboratory has become a construction site with the scientific visitors replaced by workers with hard hats. The creation of new experimental facilities and long beamlines will be possible in 2013 when the buildings are handed over to the facility. By then we will be well into phase I of the upgrade. These new facilities will be crucial to the long term success of the ESRF allowing us to carry out experiments not possible today. As the upgrade is reaching its peak activity, we are seeing the first fruits of the programme in terms of new beamlines appearing on the floor. The XAFS beamline (BM29) has been refurbished and moved to BM23 to be next to its sister beamline ID24. We envisage new highlights coming from the better performance of the new beamline and continuing the impressive history of BM29. More importantly, ID24 has been fully upgraded with two branches and has started commissioning. It was inaugurated at the November Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting as the first Upgrade beamline. The new facility provides optimised X-rays for small and large spot activities, improved stability, and a 1000-fold increase in time resolution for single shot studies. Within the Electronic Structure and Magnetism group the next step in upgrading the beamlines will come with the closure of the ID08 soft X-ray beamline in the second half of 2013 and the construction of the new upgrade beamline on ID32. The new beamline will extend to 120 m making full use of the new building. Its scientific programme will centre on the use of two techniques: very high energy resolution soft X-ray resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) and state-of-the art soft X-ray dichroism. Ribbons were cut during the inauguration ceremony of ID24 to mark the opening of two new beamline branches. Left: High-pressure/extreme conditions branch. From left to right: Francesco Sette, ESRF Director General, Sakura Pascarelli, Scientist in charge of ID24, Harald Reichert, ESRF Research Director. Right: Chemistry branch. From left to right: Michel van der Rest, vice-chairman ESRF Council, Geneviève Fioraso, Députée de l’Isère et Adjointe au Maire chargée de l’Economie, l’Emploi, l’Université, la Recherche, Rafael Abela, Chairman ESRF SAC. However, recent budget cuts have impacted on the group beamlines and the magnetic scattering beamline ID20 has closed during the past year: this was not before producing some very interesting results on multiferroics as can been seen in these Highlights. The challenge now is to produce new exciting proposals for a much anticipated phase II of the ESRF upgrade which will be one of the main objectives for the coming year. If a phase II were funded then it would also be an opportunity for new upgrade beamlines. These could be, for instance, in the areas covered until recently by the magnetic scattering beamline and the hard X-ray circular polarisation beamline (ID12) which have not been part of the phase I upgrade, or they could be something totally new. The upgrade will allow us to improve our experimental facilities and offer better possibilities to our user community. This will be true for the group beamlines already being upgraded and we hope for the other beamlines in phase II. Despite the difficulties, we have to think to the future and, once they have finished the concrete work, to move forward with a scientific programme taking full advantage of the new facilities in order to strengthen our activities in the areas of magnetism and electronic structure research. N.B. Brookes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line574
__label__wiki	0.890781	0.890781	[Korean Drama] Love With Flaws >> Love with Flaws Episode 12 Online Videos (English Sub) Watch Love with Flaws Episode 12 Download Love with Flaws Episode 12 (High Quality, 100% work) Online Videos For Love With Flaws Watch Love with Flaws Episode 16 3 mirror HevnVideo Watch Love with Flaws Episode 9 3 mirror HevnVideo Protect the Boss Details: No Eun Seol finally gets a job as a secretary at a law firm after struggling with unemployment, only to fall in love with her boss, Cha Ji Heon, the immature youngest son of a chaebol... Details: This drama is an adaptation of the American CBS TV series “The Good Wife (2009-2016)“, starring Juliana Margulies. This drama is about a woman, Kim Hye Kyung (Jun Do Yun) who... Secret Investigation Record Details: Secret Investigation Record is based on cases detailed in the Annals of Joseon History with a bizarre twist; these incidents incorporate mysterious, supernatural elements that cannot be... God's Quiz Season 2 Details: Han Jin Woo and his team of medical experts continue to solve mysterious deaths and cases larger in scale and more intractable than before, including the truth of a rare disease that had... Invincible Lee Pyung Kang Details: Lee Pyung Kang's father unfortunately met with an untimely death before completing his ambitious work as a golf course designer. Pyung Kang came to terms with the reality as she supports... Paradise Ranch Details: Dong Joo and Da Ji were once a couple who were married at 19 but they quickly divorced. Years passed, they both return to their old house and discover that their feelings for each other... Handsome Guy and Jung Eum Details: This drama tells the story of a handsome and charming guy who is an expert of romance theories but not interested in love itself, meets a former athlete whom, after giving up her love... Details: A romantic thriller about a mystery solving duo who bicker and fight but end up developing feelings for each other. A complicated love story between a criminal profiler who uses his...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line577
__label__cc	0.528189	0.471811	World of Blue - Twin Peaks - David Lynch a Twin Peaks and David Lynch Electrical Resource Board index World of Blue Twin Peaks Movie, TV, Books Season 3 (2017) The Return Parts Discussion Part 13 - What story is that, Charlie? (SPOILERS) Discussion of each of the 18 parts of Twin Peaks the Return Moderators: Annie, BookhouseBoyBob, Ross, Jerry Horne, Brad D sylvia_north Re: Part 13 - What story is that, Charlie? (SPOILERS) Postby sylvia_north » Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:35 am Novalis wrote: whoisalhedges wrote: Novalis wrote: I'm the kind of person who considers Glitch Art beautiful, so for me these faults, bugs and defects, whether motivated or unmotivated, are absolutely significant. I recognise of course they may be entirely inconsequential to the plot, but the plot is hardly ever what has held my attention with Twin Peaks, or indeed most of Lynch's work. I'm certainly not hooked into the idea that everything has to mean something. I love Asemic Writing for example; here it's the opacity of the form, the fact that it doesn't transparently communicate anything but brings the materiality of the signifier as such to the foreground. A lot of Lynch's devices do the same, especially his experiments in sound design. When it comes to the "glitches" in TPTR (and TSHOTP, but that does have to be considered slightly differently at least, as Lynch was uninvolved) I think there are three kinds, and they are ALL present: 1) evidence of "something" going on in-universe, particularly in Twin Peaks itself 2) an artistic choice made by Lynch (and/or Frost) 3) mistakes I think there have been some mistakes. Miriam's last name on the letter? The crew said that was a prop error. Serendipitously, it worked - but we were told it was a mistake. I'm sure there have been others. When it comes to #1, actual temporal anomalies, my thoughts are very close to this article: https://25yearslatersite.com/2017/07/19 ... rt-jacoby/ I don't think what we're looking at is some kind of Star Trek/P.K. Dick alternate timelines, I just think it's these little "timequakes" for lack of a better word. And with artistic decisions, often made in editing: I don't think Diane wearing green while putting coordinates into the phone, "Dougie" having a catch with Sonny Jim (who is wearing the same outfit he wore in Part 5), Bobby finding something from the Major "today," or perhaps most controversially Hawk's going to Glastonbury Grove in Part 2, are instances of time jumping forward and back. I think those scenes were placed where they are during Lynch's editing his "18 hour movie" into 18 parts, into television "episodes." I think he made these choices for thematic, emotional, dramatic reasons. Sometimes (especially with Lynch) the medium is the message; he often structures his films for a very specific reason - and that reason is intuitive, not plot-dependent. I'm not the most eagle-eyed viewer. I didn't catch ANY of the wardrobe "malfunctions." I didn't catch Ed's reflection until it was shown to me. But I've still seen a LOT of things being shown "out of order." TIME as it's traditionally understood isn't the only thing we're dealing with here, either. I'm still in the camp (I might be the only person who thinks this, in fact ) that in the past 2 parts we've seen "Schrödinger's Audrey" - nobody in Twin Peaks has seen her. The only character we see interacting with Audrey is Charlie. So, as far as I'm concerned, she is unobserved; and as such, she both woke up from her coma and did not. I'm FAR from the only person to look at Lynch with a wink toward quantum mechanics; Martha Nochimson wrote a whole book about it. But I am the only person I know to consider Audrey Horne in TPTR to be in an unobserved, and thus simultaneously dead and alive state. How that's gonna break down, I haven't the faintest. But until she talks to someone whom we have EVER seen outside that room, her reality in unobserved. From the sounds of it I really have to read Nochimson's Swerves. I got a lot out of her Passion of David Lynch. It's really interesting, this Schrödinger's Audrey scenario. I chose 'other' in the Audrey's Situation poll because I couldn't make my mind up whether she was dead or alive, comatose or awake, delusional or sane. It never struck me as a possibility before, but now that you've mentioned it, maybe she simply is under-determined, i.e. in an unresolved superposition. I also smile to myself that Charlie threatening to end her story 'too' plays a lot like a Romantic-Irony Lynch insert, reflexively referencing the way a lot of other secondary characters have had to be axed in this season. Ludwig Tieck eat your heart out. Robert Jacoby in TSHOTP is something deeper than a parallel timeline. The multiverse coexisting with this one seems like the best explanation. For anyone who says TSHOTP is just retconning the storyline to taste neglects the very obvious two deaths. No one writes that badly intentionally. We see the same thing happen at Jack Rabbits that we do at the convenience store , and then there is the 2:53 jump from American Girl and Cooper entering the Lodge, which now has Naido entering Twin Peaks while Cooper is hovering in the box even as Cole is looking for Dougie Jones in his subjective timeline And now we know Tina is a 'real' character, so Audrey must be in real time. Unless Audrey has something to do with why Billy had a bad night and she skipped into a multiverse while his face was getting messed up, Pete Dayton style Yes, read Swerves for sure!! LFB > S3 < green tea latte Frank Postby tlk » Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:27 am LateReg wrote: It's Tom Sizemore from Heat. Yep. Just thought he was feckin A in this ep. blue_rose_case Postby blue_rose_case » Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:42 pm Noticed on my re-watch today that when doppelCoop is riding the elevator at The Farm, the text "No Passengers" is displayed behind him. Possible clue that, as has been speculated, Bob is, indeed, no longer with him? sewhite2000 Postby sewhite2000 » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:39 pm Audrey Horne wrote: So if we take the edited reflection as intentional, what are we to infer? Since Lynch is treating this as an eighteen hour film, and in that regards one wouldn't have the ability to stop the film and rewind in his ideal scenario. Is this an Easter egg that Lynch and Frost would point out after the fact to the plot? Are they suggesting something down the line with Ed, who hasn't had any weight to the story fourteen hours in? Or that it signifies doppelgängers existing in all of us that will be an emerging and end plot point? Or will it be representative of something Engels mentioned years ago about certain time frames coexisting minutes or seconds apart that was touched upon briefly in FWWM between Cooper and Jeffries Whatever the trick done with Ed, I fully agree it is not meant to be noticed, but possibly slightly subconsciously registered to encompass the series's themes. To me, personally, I think it will just amount to a detail people years from now will say, "what was that all about?!" Here's another poster suggesting the moving reflection might mean dopplegangers exist inside all of us, implying possession. So, I found three posts that suggest possession in fewer than five minutes yet you scream in capital letters that not one person said it. Clearly, you are wrong. Postby Ragnell » Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:39 pm Can we maybe get a separate thread for the reflection discussion? claaa7 Postby claaa7 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:32 am i am currently doing my rewatch of Twin Peaks: The Return. Now that the story has all been laid out for us i want to experience the whole shebang as a whole. i started watching episode 1/2 on Tuesday and yesterday i finnished 11/12/13/14. it's pretty great seeing it like this, for example Mister C's hunt for the coordinates doesn't seem like it's a months long plotline and the "Dougie" strand (which might be my favorite of it all) seems more balanced in hindsight. if anyone is currently doing a rewatch i suggest to switch the order of episodes 12 and 13 so that ep. 13 directly follows ep. 11.. man does those two episodes flow so much better together! there's really nothing in ep. 13 that couldn't come directly after 11 and especially how the Dougie plotline picks up right after the "Heartbreaking" scene works wonders for the narrative.. ep. 12 and 14 also works really well in tandem. Spoilers for other episodes: the only scene that's hurt is introducing Audrey in 13 instead of 12, as i think her apperance in 12 was fantastic - the way it broke from Jacoby's angry rant to a sudden dreamlike stillness (like the Formica tabletop), with Audrey just standing there in silence while we pan across the room. Mr. Reindeer Postby Mr. Reindeer » Fri Oct 06, 2017 3:55 pm Ray clarifies (?) “Jeffries”’ motives: Ray has only ever spoken to Jeffries on the phone, he makes it sound like his imprisonment was a set-up to protect him and/or bait Mr. C (?), and Jeffries wants Mr. C dead because he has something inside him “they” want (Bob). Who are “they”? The case for “Jeffries” being either Mike or in league with him is getting stronger and stronger. So Ray is working for Mr. C, the FBI, the Lodge spirits, and is also a member of Renzo’s merry band?! He was sure a busy little bee. Surprising that Renzo is ok with Ray freelancing, he seems very possessive of his labor force. We know Todd works for Mr. C. Is Mr. C behind the Vegas insurance fraud ring? Is this part of how he made the fortune that let him buy that gorgeous house in Brazil (and perhaps to become the “anonymous millionaire” behind the NYC experiment)? This Part implies that Dougie was involved in the insurance fraud. It would be amusing if Dougie were unwittingly working for the doppel! One has to ask, though, why Mr. C pals around with redneck lowlives and spends his time in dirt road country if he’s so rich. Is the “dandruff” on Tony’s shoulders supposed to be some of the poison that blew on to him? I’m still a tad puzzled by that moment. Tony says he just wants to “die or change,” reminiscent of “fix their hearts or die.” Maybe it’s just wishful thinking because I don’t want to consider Bobby and Shelly having to deal with the tragic murder of their daughter, but I assume Steven’s disappearance is due to him tripping in the woods, and that he never returned home. The references to “stories” this season remain intriguingly, maddeningly elusive. This viewing, Charlie’s threat to end Audrey’s story reminded me of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf,’ wherein the older (infertile) married couple have an elaborate lie-agreed-upon that they have an imaginary son at college whom they frequently discuss (named Sonny Jim!), and at the end of the play/film, the husband, fed up, “kills” the son (ending the story). Not exactly sure how this applies to Audrey/Charlie, but I have a hunch it has something to do with their “contract”... Also note that Charlie says he always feels like himself. Interesting, especially given the possibility that he may simply be a fragment of Audrey’s psyche. And the sole mention of Ghostwood in S3....so much to process, so little to go on. I love it, but it’s not hard to see where the Profoundly Disappointed are coming from. The Big Ed closing is absolutely beautiful. We know from the earlier scene that all Norma’s recipes are homemade. If Ed were married to Norma, he would be eating her soup from a bowl in their dining room. Instead, he’s getting a sad poignant taste of what could have been, eating her cooking from a to-go container. This is probably Sarah’s weakest scene in S3, but it still stands out as a high point of Part 13 and the series. Hypnotic, weird, unsettling. Sarah relives her suffering endlessly, feeding her rage, just as the boxing match plays on endless loop. My Twin Peaks timeline. Postby Jasper » Sat Oct 07, 2017 2:34 pm Mr. Reindeer wrote: Is the “dandruff” on Tony’s shoulders supposed to be some of the poison that blew on to him? I’m still a tad puzzled by that moment. It's a weird moment, but Anthony's dandruff was indeed set up beforehand. Take a look at the scene with the conga line in the Lucky 7 offices. When Anthony is freaking out in his office you'll see that he's got heavy dandruff. I noticed it at the time and I was very confused until the poison coffee scene, at which point I was confused in a different way. I think Dougie-Coop simply becomes distracted by the dandruff and plays around with it. Maybe his intuition is connecting it to the powder that's been put in the coffee. (I don't think the visual similarity is an accident.) Anthony seems to take it as accusatory that "Dougie" is looming over him from behind rather than drinking the poisoned coffee. Postby ThumbsUp » Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:10 pm Hi friends, just finished my first post-finale rewatch. Questions/thoughts: 1. Who gave Ray the ring in the prison? I assume someone Jeffries sent from the Lodge, as the ring was left in the Lodge after Dougie was sent back. 2. What "prison thing" did Jeffries set up with Warden Murphy? That Ray would end up there and lure Mr. C into a cage? 3. If the ring sends dead wearers to the Lodge, why didn't it send Laura back in FWWM? Did Bob take the ring? 4. Does Coop make the same hand gesture he makes when he opens the curtains in the Lodge in part 18, and tries to open them in front of the Palmer house with Carrie Page? Coop does this in part 13 when attempting to open the door in the office building before meeting Anthony. 5. You can VERY faintly hear the "Mike sound" when Coop starts massaging Anthony's dandruff. 6. The constant shots of Bushnell with his old boxing poster behind him fits the season's theme of the bittersweetness of nostalgia. 7. Bushnell mentions the "two cops Dougie found" - I'm dumb, who are these cops again that Anthony is afraid of and apparently worse than Duncan Todd? 8. I have a lot of Audrey thoughts but I put those in the Audrey thread. Postby Mr. Reindeer » Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:51 pm ThumbsUp wrote: 7. Bushnell mentions the "two cops Dougie found" - I'm dumb, who are these cops again that Anthony is afraid of and apparently worse than Duncan Todd? I think the Harvey Keitel-type dude who hooks Tony up with the poison, and his partner. Postby Xavi » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:47 am The dandruff on Tony's shoulder relates to the otherworldly as the motif of Leland's jacket related to the chevron floor. BTW Hope you notice that Naido/Diane really fell for Cooper. Postby Mr. Reindeer » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:34 pm On my Blu Ray rewatch, I’ve been trying to keep track of character wardrobe to gain an understanding of how scenes might have been rearranged during editing. This led me to a fun realization I haven’t seen mentioned: the Fuscos have three ties which they share between them, swapping from day to day. Not much else to say about this one except: what the hell is this nightmarish thing from Audrey and Charlie’s wall? It bears some resemblance to the Albatross jerky logo... 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__label__wiki	0.68586	0.68586	TERRORCLOWN TerrorClown a.k.a. Marvin Lukas started his career in 2007. At first he played a lot at underground events. Bigger promotors became aware of him and his booking agenda got filled up quickly. In 2012 there was a breakthrough and he was booked for the first time on one of the biggest German hardcore events - Pokke Herrie. Shorty after that other events followed such as Army Of Hardcore, Nature One, Ruhr In Love, Footworxx, Noisekick ́s Terrordrang, Terror Machine, just to name a few. In 2013 he started producing his own tracks alongside his DJ. As a result, in 2016, the first release "Do You Wanna Balloon" appeared on the label of Dj Smurf - Deng Deng Rec. Remixes for the first track were made by SRB and Darkcontroller."Do You Wanna Balloon" has also been played by many top acts of the scene including Destructive Tendencies, Drokz, SRB, Darkcontroller, Masters Of Noise and more. In the meantime, his productions have been published on many different labels like This Is Terror, Noisekick Records, Megarave, Footworxx, Terror Machine Records, just to name a few. In 2017 he celebrated his jubilee of the 10 year existence. His merchandise is now one of the market leaders in Germany in the field of terror. Currently, there are many new items in the production, which are available on www.Hardcore-Merchandise.de. © 2018 FOOTWORXX All rights reserved bookings@footworxx.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line584
__label__cc	0.728922	0.271078	How entertaining? ★★★★★ This article is a review of CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER. “Everyone we know is trying to kill us,” Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) to Sam Wilson/The Falcon (Anthony Mackie) At last! Marvel has gone and got political on us. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE meets STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS. The sequel to THE FIRST AVENGER, THE WINTER soldier has, like stablemates IRON MAN 3 and THOR: THE DARK WORLD, actually followed on from THE AVENGERS (2012). Each of our intrepid superheroes is coming to terms with a cataclysmic attack on the Big Apple by alien warriors. THE WINTER SOLDIER (and STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS) is a cinematic response to the September 11th attacks, looking at governmental reactions. Liberty, fear, security, all poured into the melting pot. Bravo, for such blockbusters not opting to offer up wafer thin excuses to blow stuff up. Don’t worry action junkies, stuff gets blown up in spades. Choreography of fisticuffs exhilarates, and is surprisingly bone-crunching – pushing the rating to the max. Slowing down the editing might have raised the flick to an adults only arena? Forsaking a crash bang opening, our hero (Steve Rogers/Captain America – Chris Evans) is doing laps in Washington D.C., the home to the Triskelion, superhero taskforce headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D., where he meets sidekick-in-waiting Sam (eventually acquiring a prototype bird of prey style rocket strapped to him, to be Cap’s air cavalry). Fellow agent Black Widow drives up uttering droll Rogers diss, “Hey fellas, either one of you know where the Smithsonian is? I’m looking for a fossil.” Humour is witty and delivers, choosing banter (contrasting THOR’s self-awareness of absurdity, and IRON MAN’s pointed put-downs). Now we get to see Captain America in action. Dropping from a futuristic heli-fighter plane, sans parachute, into the Indian Ocean, mission: Defuse a hijacking. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS the scenes are not. Diplomacy is by way of superhero martial arts – an usual and welcome portrayal of how a super-soldier would fight using an Adamantium shield (for those that have forgotten: Made-up metal, tougher than any known substance; coats Wolverine’s skeleton). Rather than the expected defensive manoeuvres, Steve Rogers wields it as skilfully as the war club employed by Chingachgook in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Put it this way, you do not want to be on the receiving end. Initial crisis averted, the hijacking triggers a chain reaction within the S.H.I.E.L.D. organisation rising all the way up to boss overseer, Secretary Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford, in a brilliant piece of casting – not only adding gravitas, but nods to 1970s conspiracy thrillers). And there is a conspiracy here! No one is safe, including agency director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). A stunning attack sequence involves an ambush to rival the bridge melee in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3. Attention to detail is wonderful; having Tony Stark’s tech as the pinnacle, Fury’s on-board car artificial intelligence is just not Jarvis sharp, as ne’er-do-wells assault the surrounded vehicle in a barrage of gunfire and an unsettling jackhammer. Marvel shows the action genre how to include a coterie of strong female protagonists. Captain America was born in 1918 – might the studio be crumbling the ageist ceiling too! THE WINTER SOLDIER is unrelenting, creating a new benchmark for continuous combat. Think BLACK HAWK DOWN with added plot, brains and charisma. There are negatives of course, in particular: The comic book/graphic novel staple, of bringing characters back from the dead, irks even more in the cinematic realm – as threat levels get dampened. That aside, sit back (if you can pull yourself from the edge of your seat), and revel in the focused carnage. We have selected movies below that we think will be of interest to you based on this review. Using these Amazon affiliated links help us keep Filmaluation free for all film and arts lovers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line587
__label__wiki	0.534342	0.534342	paper testing Alice Hector Alice’s Season in Pro Triathlon: Get the Most Out of Yourself! Gould Publication Papers is proud to sponsor Pro-Triathlete Alice Hector. Staying up to date with her amazing feats around the world is an inspiration to us all and has certainly been eye-opening for many of us here at Gould. We are always impressed in terms of the hard work and dedication that these grueling events require and the demands made on both the body and the mind. So at the start of the year we invited Alice to reflect on last year's training and also provide us all with some inspiration for 2015. So here's what she has to share with us all: "Hi all, Within this blog for Gould Publication Papers I would like to do two things: summarise my season in pro triathlon, of which Gould was a key supporter, before discussing the interesting bit: how we can all get the most out of ourselves. Alice's Season in Pro Triathlon 2013 was a dream comeback year for me. Starting from scratch, I built myself up through the year to win the Amateur Sprint World Champs overall. Amateur unfortunately means there was no paycheque for the hard work put in. So the next step was to go pro and make triathlon my full time job. So at the start of 2014, I jetted off to Israel to do a half ironman (1.9km swim, 90km bike, 21km run). I won! Mazeballs. My first pro race and I leaped straight in. This was followed with wins at the Scottish Duathlon Champs, Lisbon International, The Bastion Ironman and a 3rd place at Luxembourg Half Ironman, with a stronger field. Then, come August 2014, I was completely drained. I didn't have a coach as I was coaching myself; my reasoning being, whilst I kept improving, there was no need. But eventually, I failed to read the signs of overtraining, kept going, and dug myself a bit of a hole. I tried to keep racing but there was nothing in the tank. A few weeks off eventually got me back on track, but it took the edge off a dream year and showed me that no one can simply sail through the ranks in such a tough sport! 2014 - The Year of Promise 2014 certainly showed promise. There are bigger fish out there: some amazing athletes that I have yet to face, and 2015, equipped now with a world class coach, will see me toe the line with the absolute best. It all starts on Feb 27th, when I take part in the biggest race of my life, Challenge Dubai. From there it's all about 70.3/half ironman racing, to qualify for the World 70.3 championships, which will include 70.3 Stafford and Wimbleball in June and then to try and finish off the season well at Ironman Wales in September. From there, it'll be full steam to the Holy Grail: the World Ironman Championships in Kona, 2016. Age is No Barrier to Success This leads me on to the fact that long distance triathlon is not necessarily a young person's sport. I am 32 and relatively young in the game. We have 40-year-old professionals competing at the highest level, as endurance continues to increase with age. Yet all around me, I have despairing friends who are petrified of turning 30. There is a belief by many that once you hit 30, 40 or 50, your body will start to pack up dramatically and you can start to blame your age on your inactivity. I have heard 25 year olds say 'I'm too old for this' in a 10km run race, as a 65-year-old woman smashes the same course. A bit of age, like anything, is a good thing. Once I hit 30, I got the chance to return to the sport I loved, and that's when life took off in terms of performance and self-confidence. I am stronger than before; both mentally and physically, and that's empowering. Experience has taught me many valuable lessons about how to become a success on and off the racecourse, and in order to have these life experiences; you tend to be of a certain age! Your Attitude Determines your Altitude It is purely your attitude that determines your altitude. Your age is irrelevant. Yoko Ono sums it up nicely: "Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created". Not convinced? Here are some examples of people who are achieving incredible things in sport. You'll notice one recurring theme. Known as the 'Iron Nun', Sister Madonna is the oldest person in the World to compete in Ironman triathlons. She started competing in triathlons at 52 and raced her first Ironman at 55. At 84, she is still going strong today and holds the 80+ World Record (for both men and women), a time of 16 hours 32. Mimi Anderson/'Marvellous Mimi': A 52 year old grandmother, and multiple Guinness World record holder, which includes running the length of Britain (840 miles in 12 days, 15 hours) and crossing Ireland (345 miles in 3 days, 15 hours). She took up running for the first time at 36. Ernestine Shepherd: a bodybuilder and personal trainer. She's 78, and says she feels better than she did at 40. "Being out of shape as we age is an option, not a mandate". John Whittmore has been credited as being the 'world's oldest athlete'. His last competition was on October 5, 2004, just six weeks before his 105th birthday. He threw the javelin and discus on that occasion. Thanks to @The_BikeCompany for making the zebratron race-ready #challengedubai #triathlon @dassibikes pic.twitter.com/MjchwGQwEk — Alice Hector (@AliceH82) February 21, 2015 As we get older, responsibilities take over and our priorities may not be ourselves. But age itself is no excuse. Changes for the better can be made at any time. Our bodies are amazing machines and stronger than we think. Don't let society's boundaries dictate otherwise. Keep on moving! 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__label__cc	0.540175	0.459825	Five Reasons to Not Buy Turtles or Tortoises As Gifts American Tortoise Rescue, the international nonprofit for turtle and tortoise protection, is asking consumers to not buy live animals, especially turtles and tortoises as gifts this holiday season. Adopt don’t shop. According to Susan Tellem, co-founder of the sanctuary, while these wonderful reptiles have outlived the dinosaurs, wide spread illegal smuggling and the commercial pet trade in turtles and tortoises has devastated wild populations worldwide. Many once thriving species are now threatened or endangered. Worse, some are now extinct. “The pet industry thrives on small, adorable exotic animals with a big price tag,” Tellem says. “What we are recommending is to avoid impulse buys. We understand the appeal of an adorable two inch baby turtle!” Tellem adds, “But most animal rescues have many turtles and tortoises ready for adoption to good homes.” Tellem gives five reasons why people shouldn’t buy a turtle or tortoise. Reptiles are boring. Parents shouldn’t expect their kids to find everlasting enjoyment in an animal that basically sits still most of the day sunning itself. Many kids tire of a turtle in a tank and don’t want to clean the habitat and change the water daily. Turtles and tortoises poop, Tellem reminds everyone. Most turtles and many tortoises hibernate during fall and winter. It’s unnatural for them to be awake and available for sale when they should be sleeping from about October through April. It’s cruel to sell wild animals that need to hibernate to stay healthy. Turtles and tortoises confined in tanks are miserable. It’s like a human spending their entire life in a bathtub Tellem says. The only proper habitat for these reptiles is outside. Natural sun exposure helps maintain a healthy shell and is necessary for the animal to grow and thrive. During hibernation, most reptiles can stay outside in shelters that are dry and predator proof. Adoption is the ideal option, Tellem says. During the spring and summer, when the animals are awake, rescues help place them in good “forever homes” with proper habitats. In many cases, there is no charge to adopt, only the promise that the animal will be given exceptional care for the rest of its life. Turtles can easily live 25 years or more and tortoises can top 100 years. An impulse buy without a thought to the future is not in the best interest of the animal, Tellem says. Plans need to be made in wills and with family members since the animals can outlive their owners. Most people don’t think about that when they buy an animal. Tellem, who founded the nonprofit 27 years ago with her husband, Marshall Thompson, says, “Many owners assume that when the tortoise becomes a problem, zoos will take them. This is simply not true. Zoos are not interested in cast-off pets.” She adds that a domesticated pet cannot be put back into the wild. It will die or introduce disease into an already precarious wild ecosystem. In many states, it is also illegal. Tellem says that the option of placing the animal with a rescue is not always the answer, as her rescue is full as are most others. The best solution is to find a compassionate adopter who is willing to give a proper “forever home” to the pet. There are many national rescue organizations listed on www.tortoise.com which can facilitate adoptions if people are interested in getting an animal. One way to enjoy a turtle or tortoise without harming them is to make a donation to a nonprofit like American Tortoise Rescue. “This allows us to educate people and care for the ones that are ill in our sanctuary. If a donor makes a $100 donation or more, we send them an adoption certificate featuring one of our permanent residents, and it’s good for one year. People enjoy that because they can care for the animal vicariously,” Tellem says. American Tortoise Rescue, Malibu, Calif., is a nonprofit founded in 1990 to provide for the protection of all species of tortoise and turtle. For more information, contact: American Tortoise Rescue at www.tortoise.com ; or email [email protected] . Follow on Twitter @tortoiserescue and on Facebook. Tellem started World Turtle Day® 17 years ago which is now celebrated globally (and is trademarked). Find out more at www.worldturtleday.org and on Facebook and twitter. Here’s a list of rescues in the U.S and elsewhere http://www.tortoise.com/need-a-rescue.html. Filed Under: animals, charity/notforprofit Tagged With: animals, not for profit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line597
__label__wiki	0.651465	0.651465	News Hans' Biography Team (Present & Past) Discography Media Archives Jukebox Fan Covers About/Feedback Please install Flash® and turn on Javascript. Rate those CD: John Powell Gavin Greenaway John Ashton Thomas Germaine Franco Composer Conductor Orchestrator Assistant To Composer Label: Varese Sarabande Length: 43'41 HZimmer.com rating: 3/5 Fans rating: 2/5 (6051 votes) BOOKLET CREDITS Music by John Powell Produced by John Powell Executive Album Producer: Robert Townson Executives in Charge of Music for Universal Pictures: Kathy Nelson & Harry Garfield Music Business Affairs for Universal Pictures: Phil Cohen Album Direction for Universal Pictures: David Buntz Music Editor: Mike Higham Music Conducted by Gavin Greenaway Music Orchestrated by John A. Coleman & John Ashton Thomas Orchestral Contractor: Isobel Griffiths Orchestra Leader: Gavyn Wright Music Recorded & Mixed by Simon Rhodes Additional Recording: Daniel Lerner Recorded & Mixed at Abbey Road, Studio 1 Assistant Engineer: Rob Houston Music Copyist: Fiesta Mei Ling Solo Vocal: Oliver Powell Composer Assistants: Germaine & Matteo Franco John Powell would like to thank Paul Greengrass, Lloyd Levin, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nick Angel, Chris Rouse, Clare Douglas, Rick Pearson, Mike Higham, Laura Engel, Richard Kraft, & all the musicians This music is a prayer for peace & is dedicated to Melinda, Oliver & all those killed & damaged on September 11th 2001 With thanks to Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Greengrass, Lloyd Levin, Liza Chasin, Debra Hayward, Angela Morrison, Michelle Wright, Sheeraz Shah, Nick Angel, Sarah-Jane Robinson, Grainne McKenna, Lucy Wainwright, Alexandra Hill, Nicola Garrett, Kate Fasulo, David Livingstone, Charlotte Saint, Kate Wyhowska, Justine Concannon, Susan Butterly, John Powell, Mike Solinger, Germaine & Matteo Franco, Mike Higham, Isobel Griffiths & all at Universal Pictures Universal Pictures thanks Eddie Egan, Alex Flores, Adam Fogelson, Robert Gasper, Tiffany Jones, Jordan Hudock, Trevon Kezios, Anita LaBonte, Donna Langley, Felicia Less, Fiorenza Lewis, David Linde, Jessica Montague, David O'Connor, Keith Palmer, Chris Saranec, Steve Scott, Angie Sharma, Marc Shmuger, Pam Springs, Kelly Stone & Robin Ward Prayers (6:02) Pull The Tapes (4:14) Take Off (3:07) 2nd Plane Crash (2:27) Making The Bomb (3:57) The Pilots (1:21) The Pentagon (1:43) Phone Calls (10:49) The End (5:50) Dedication (3:51) Write your own comment here (in english please) This zone is only to post comment, not to ask for CD downloading, copying or trading ! Each comment can be possibly edited or deleted to ensure it is suitable for public presentation. Please enter number: 601 Anonymous Replies: 0 \|\| 2007-10-24 00:00:00 By the Way i'm Form Mexico City Rodrigo Ortíz Gasca Replies: 0 \|\| 2007-10-24 00:00:00 I WANT THE DAMN CD NOWˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ What a Awsome Music. Mikel Carmona-S.i.W (from Spain) Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-12-28 00:00:00 Congratulations Powell, you have composed a great score for an excelent movie. Ant Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-08-13 00:00:00 I agree with you Martin. This film doesn't want, or need a big brassy heroic score. It needs and underscore and that's what it got. This is a film where the music isn't trying to draw attention to itself. I'd just like to congratulate Powell on pulling off such a difficult project. It's always a challenge to write a convincing underscore, but on this one, being in a touchy genre must have been harder than we expect. Martin Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-07-12 00:00:00 I saw the film recently in Sydney and found the score to be a sensitive accompaniment to the film. The references to - unwittingly or not - New York minimalism (especially Steve Reich) are very canny and appropriate. A film like this doesn't need a psychologically manipulative or lavish score. Underscoring is what's required and congratulations on delivering just that with no loss of sophistication. Craig Lowe Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-07-03 00:00:00 Hey um i donno what to say because well i only watched the trailer and well i live in the Bahamas and they did not bring the movie here :( and i really wanted to watch it because even though i don't kno anyone that died on september 11th i still feel pain in my heart :( and i really want to watch United 93 and well i bet the soundtrack is awesome because i've heard some of the extracts but i really want to watch the movie...can anyone help UNITED 93 - PRESS RELEASE (Los Angeles, CA) John Powell scores the much-anticipated United 93 for Universal Pictures and writer-director Paul Greengrass. The film is a real time account of the heroism in United Flight 93, the fourth plane to be hijacked the morning of September the 11th, 2001. The film premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, screened at Canned and opened April 28. United 93 marks the second collaboration between Powell and Greengrass; the two had collaborated previously on The Bourne Supremacy and will rejoin in The Bourne Ultimatum. For United 93, Powell created an ambient score which he recorded in London with a live orchestra. Varese Sarabande will release the score CD June 6. As the Powell-scored Ice Age: The Meltdown continues its march to the $200 million mark at the box office, audiences have turned out for another summer box office monster Powell has scored, X-Men: The Last Stand, which has broken records to gross over $175 million in just two weeks. Powell's long and storied career in music began in Britain where he joined performance art group Media Arts while attending Trinity College of Music. While composing music for television and commercials for Air-Edel Music, he worked alongside composers Hans Zimmer and Patrick Doyle and made his first foray into feature films. After Powell co¬founded the commercial music house Independently Thinking Music (ITM) with longtime collaborator Gavin Greenaway, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue feature film composing.. He immediately scored several projects for DreamWorks Television, but it was his stirring score for John Woo's blockbuster Face/Off that put him in Hollywood's short list. He has since scored a wide variety of films and is well known for his scores to actioners Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Italian Job, The Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy as well as jazzy scores for Be Cool and Alfie. In addition to Jason Bourne's next adventure, Powell's upcoming slate includes the animated musical Happy Feet, and the film adaptation of the graphic novel The Watchmen. Paul Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-06-12 00:00:00 This Sounds Great !!!!. When does it come to Europe ( Holland ) I Hope it comes very fast. I Think the score sounds better if you have the images from the film in your head........... I don't think it comes close to an orchestra - I've only listened to it a couple of times because it's so boring and all I remember is some violins and the occasional percussion. Koala Lin ( http://spaces.msn.com/koalalin120674/ Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-06-11 00:00:00 This time Mr. Powell makes me wanna sleep at all... There is no orchestra in this project , right ? Rather bland - it just sounded like the Bourne scores without any action. Dark Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-06-01 00:00:00 my thoughts exactly .. the end and dedication are decent but the rest.. and during this time no release for the dynamic klaus badelt score for "Ultraviolet".. ts ts ts Nautilus Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-05-30 00:00:00 very, very, very atmospheric score. Just percusion and ambience music. Some string and Powell's son vocals. "the End" is a moving track.But the rest is like nothing.I can't understand why powell has wanted release this score. Sylvos Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-05-22 00:00:00 Though it seems to be way too short, I'm glad to see this coming out at last. Indeed, "Thanks Varese!" YES! Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-05-21 00:00:00 YES!!!!! Kiddo Replies: 0 \|\| 2006-05-20 00:00:00 Yes! I began to lose hope of an album release. THANKS, VARESE!!!! HANS-ZIMMER.com © 2001-2018 OST United 93 soundtrack - John Powell 2006	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line603
__label__wiki	0.710677	0.710677	MenuHomeAboutEventsVenuesPress Mathew Paul Jinks: The Unreliable Narrator Home / Events / Current Page OPENING RECEPTION: JANUARY 11, 6-9PM threewalls 119 N. Peoria #2c http://www.mathewpauljinks.com/ Mathew Paul Jinks, also utilizing the strategies of speculative fiction, shows a new work in the Project Room, “The Unreliable Narrator.” Shot in India and Chicago in 2012, the work combines elements of performative ethnography, documentary, and travelogue through a series of vignettes. The practices of metallurgy, homeopathy, folk singing, and chirognomy all play their part in a space where fictional characters are interwoven with historical narration, creating a meditation on the politics of authenticity. The work employs stilled framing, dynamic diegetic sound and physical performances as meditative spaces of sustained enquiry. Characters are encountered episodically through the familial relationships of the Producer (Parveer Singh); historical interview with the Uncle, food preparation and folk singing from an Aunt, and guidance through the brass city (Moradabad) by Gurvinderpal Singh. Chirognomy and Homeopathy and Metalurgy are devices embedded within the sub narrative; the ancient Hindu art of reading the hands spans the works historical and quotidian journey, whilst the study of plants speaks to the slow poisoning of a culture, the metal casting and cleansing are the eternal return of performative cycles and echo the responsive performances by local artists Mark Jeffery and Frank Rosaly, which fold the work back into a contemporary space. The six episodes cycle at over 60 minutes in length, no beginning or end, the decision when to stay or when to leave is with the viewer. Mathew Paul Jinks is an English Immigrant, living teaching and working in Chicago Illinois. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 2005, studying Fine Art Photography, then emigrating to the U.S and completing his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Studio Arts, as a University Fellow, 2008. Whilst currently living and working in Chicago Mathew teaches at The School of The Art institute and De Paul University. Mathew is currently working on a body of work entitled Trauma Narratives; Relocated, that incorporates performance and sculptural works adapted from collected narratives of the histories of pre-diasporic immigrants in Illinois. In July 2012 Mathew plans to travel to India to explore the Brass workers of Moradabad through moving image and sound. Recent screenings and exhibitions include, ‘Violence’ in St Louis and Chicago, ‘The Gene Siskel Theater’, Chicago, ’On Sundrun’ at Gallery 400, Chicago, ‘Art Chicago, Next Art Fair’ Chicago, and “Instruments of Resurrection” at Roots and Culture Gallery, Chicago, curated by Elizabeth Chodos. This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and a Faculty Enrichment Grant from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. © 2020 in time. Site by Werekiller	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line604
__label__wiki	0.541319	0.541319	When Wrestlers Act: Doom (2005) Andrzej Bartkowiak Karl Urban - John “Reaper” Grimm Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson - Asher “Sarge” Mahonin Rosamund Pike - Dr. Samantha Grimm Richard Brake - Dean Portman Deobia Oparei - Roark “Destroyer” Gannon Ben Daniels - Eric “Goat” Fantom Raz Adoti - Gregory “Duke” Schofield Al Weaver - Mark “The Kid” Dantalian Dexter Fletcher - Marcus “Pinky” Pinzerowski Genre - Horror/Action/Science Fiction/Video Games Running Time - 113 Minutes [Unrated Director’s Cut] As a lot of movie goers know, the process of adapting a video game property into a feature film [and vice-versa] hasn’t had the greatest percentage of succeeding. Ever since 1993’s SUPER MARIO BROS., Hollywood has struggled to capture what made the video games so popular into a live-action film format. While each adaptation may have a highlight or two within their respective films, only a few adaptations can be considered good. 1995’s MORTAL KOMBAT is a fun and cheesy flick that, at least, managed to adapt its source material as much as possible for the time. 2001’s TOMB RAIDER is a pretty solid action flick and turned Angelina Jolie into a huge star. The RESIDENT EVIL series, as divisive as they are, proved that audiences will latch on to a property if there’s enough fun things going on within it. 2006’s SILENT HILL is actually a pretty solid and atmospheric horror film that still works. And 2019’s POKEMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU proved that not straying away from the source could reap some huge rewards commercially. Unfortunately, the major of video game adaptations are either really bad, or just extremely disappointing due to its unfulfilled potential. I feel 2005’s DOOM fits under this criteria - an adaptation of one of video game’s most important and influential first person shooters that didn’t appeal to many despite casting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a lead role. It’s also surprising the film didn’t do better considering one of the franchise’s most popular entries, Doom 3, was released a year prior to great success. But with a $70 million dollar budget, the film only made about $56 million at the box office - not only making DOOM a box office bomb, but continuing a trend at the time for one Dwayne Johnson, who was struggling with maintaining his supposed star power. I hadn’t watched DOOM in about 13 years, not remembering it fondly and considering one of Dwayne Johnson’s biggest flops in his movie career. Even Johnson himself dislikes this film, feeling it never lived up to its potential. But my interest in rewatching DOOM comes at a time where the video game franchise has gained a lot of strength and good will in the last few years, especially with Doom Eternal being considered one of 2020’s Most Anticipated Games. Netflix is even streaming a quasi-sequel to this film, DOOM: ANNIHILATION, that isn’t considered to be any good but is at least praised for capturing the essence of the source material better than this film did. Considering all the negativity surrounding it, is DOOM really that bad? Were we expecting too much out of this adaptation fifteen years ago? Or does it deserve to be destroyed by a BFG for good? A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge (Dwayne Johnson), is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm (Rosamund Pike), who is related to team member Reaper (Karl Urban), informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters - and is highly infectious. Rewatching DOOM again after so many years, I didn’t hate it as much as I had previously. In fact, I can tell there’s a good film in DOOM somewhere if it had been written and executed better in its final form. And while the film does have some positive things going for it in hindsight, DOOM still remains a heavily flawed film and a video game adaptation that could have and should have been better on so many levels. Let’s get the positives out of the way first. The highlight of DOOM, which many who have seen the film will probably agree with, is during the final act where we see the recognizable first-person Doom point of view as Reaper shoots and dodges creatures trying to kill him. Director Andrzej Bartkowiak shoots the scene pretty close to the style of the video game, giving us five-to-seven minutes of hope that someone on the production team actually cared about using the source material to cater to fans of the video games and put a smile on their faces. The Unrated Director’s Cut is the way to go when it comes to this scene, as this edition adds more of the first-person-shooter aspect and makes us wish more of this aspect had been implemented throughout the rest of the film during the action scenes. It stands out against the rest of the standard and generic visual presentation, still holding up pretty well and proving that video game adaptations could be fun if you just gave the fans what they want. Speaking of the visual presentation, I also liked the Universal opening logo using Mars instead of Earth, which is a nice touch. I wish more films with certain themes would do that more. And the closing credits with the first-person-shooting isn’t as good as the one within the actual story, but it’s still cool that the producers knew enough to use it. It’s not too hard to cater to the fan base while making the material more Hollywood, as long as it’s not forced or overdone. I thought that while the creatures didn’t look as cool as their video game counterparts, at least there seemed to be a focus on making them look good. The monsters seemed more practical than CGI for the most part - maybe besides the Pinky monster - and I liked their designs. They looked threatening and stood out enough to make an impression. I also didn’t mind the futuristic set designs and the gory moments that thankfully pushed DOOM into an R rating. Cool monster bites on necks, vicious wounds, and multiple severed body parts compensated for other things that lacked in this film. I also didn’t mind much of the acting in DOOM. A lot of the actors don’t get a whole lot of dialogue, especially good dialogue. But the main actors try to make good with the material given, even if they’ve done better work on other projects before and since. Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike struggled with their accents at times, but I liked their performances as both Reaper and Dr. Grimm. Urban is great at brooding and always looks believable when performing action scenes, so I thought he fit well here. Pike is mainly there to be the token female and say science things that drive the plot, but she does it like a champ. I found it funny, though, that Urban and Pike shared a more romantic chemistry than a sibling one, which made watching DOOM pretty uncomfortable at times. There was an interesting vibe there. I also liked Raz Adoti as the flirtatious and loyal Duke, sharing some genuinely cute and funny moments with Pike. It presented a nice change of pace from the rest of the film. And I enjoyed Richard Brake as Portman, playing up his trademark unhinged performance that he’s perfected ever since this movie, especially in his appearances in recent Rob Zombie movies. A lot of the actors weren’t allowed to display any sort of personality since they were directed to play gruff soldiers. But Brake seems to enjoy hamming it up as a lunatic and it more than worked for me. Now we get to the things that aren’t so good about DOOM. And it pains me to put him here since he was the draw at the time. But Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just seems off in this film and I don’t fully blame him for that either. I’m not saying his performance is terrible because it isn’t at all. He does a commendable job playing Sarge and shouting orders like you’d expect a drill sergeant would. But this man is one of the most charismatic movie stars in the world and for whatever reason, he’s not allowed to display any sort of fun or swagger in this acting. It’s not sure if Andrzej Bartkowiak directed him to play the role straight, or if Johnson’s agent and/or manager at the time convinced him to be less “Rock” and more “Dwayne” - wanting him to a more serious actor by not playing up to the persona that made him a star to begin with. Johnson just seems checked out, even when the twist happens. Johnson, himself, has stated a few times that DOOM is his least favorite project for various reasons. Judging by his lacking, yet competent performance, I can see why. And then we get to what really brings DOOM down - the script itself. There are a lot of issues with the story here. For one, this is a pretty loose adaptation of the source material. Instead of fighting demons invading space from Hell, DOOM is nothing more than an ALIENS ripoff mixed with what studios felt worked in the RESIDENT EVIL film series at the time. Doing any film resembling 1986’s ALIENS is automatically going to make that movie look inferior, especially when the most you know about the characters are their nicknames. And it sucks that the demons from Hell were replaced by infected zombie-like people from a Mars lab. At least I think it was Mars, since we barely see anything outside of the lab. The switch was probably due to budgetary reasons, but it just turns DOOM into another zombie film influenced by the much more popular RESIDENT EVIL films. The characters saying scientific stuff, as if the actors playing them knew what the hell they were talking about, is unintentionally hilarious at times though. I hear the new DOOM film caters more to the demons from Hell deal than this one does. It’s kind of disappointing. And I like I wrote earlier, the characters don’t have much depth really besides nicknames that pretty much tell us a certain personality trait or their job within the squad. Sarge just shouts at his troops and wants to have things his way by any means necessary. Reaper is haunted by his parents’ death and is the group’s best sharpshooter. The Kid is the Rookie. Portman is the token crazy member. Duke is the flirt. Goat is the religious one. And Dr. Grimm probably has the most character as she’s the smart scientist with a tragic past with connections to several members of the squad. Even when a certain character turns to the dark side, there’s no real reason for it to happen besides the film needed a human antagonist besides the zombies. Unlike the films DOOM is trying to emulate, the characters don’t share a ton of chemistry with each other because they’re not really allowed to. Regardless of how you feel about those RESIDENT EVIL films, at least they have the characters form some sort of relationship with each other to build character and enough depth for audiences to care enough to sit through six films. You don’t really care about what happens to these people because you’re really not supposed to. It’s not like the video games have deep protagonists anyway, since you’re mainly just a shooter who travels through corridors and bases to shoot demons until you beat the game. But DOOM could have at least tried harder, since you feel disconnected as if you’re watching someone play the game rather connecting to it if you were playing it yourself. And while some of the direction is decent, especially in the film’s final act, there is a lot to be desired visually for majority of the film. For one, why is DOOM so freakin’ dark? The color scheme within the corridors of the Ark are nice, with blues and reds. But these scenes are barely lit, making it hard to see the monsters or whatever action is going on when the characters are walking inside of this location, which is more often than not. It’s not like the creatures look terrible, because they don’t. And maybe at the start, using darkness could build some tension and anticipation for what we’ll eventually see. But I shouldn’t have to squint during a film to figure out what I’m seeing. It was frustrating and made me wonder how anyone believed this was a good idea. Gritty is a mood, not a lighting scheme. And when there wasn’t any action happening, the vibe of the film just fell flat. There wasn’t a whole lot of energy when the characters would interact with each other via dialogue. A lot of action films usually have decent pacing because even the non-action moments buzz and build to the next action sequence. You don’t really get that with DOOM. At least the dialogue scenes lead to other scenes, unlike a lot of video game adaptations, but I wish they grabbed you more. And the soundtrack is pretty much nondescript. You get a remix of a Nine Inch Nails song and a generic nu-metal type score. I barely remember it as I type this, to be honest with you. Solid… THE FINAL HOWL DOOM is not the worst video game adaptation to have ever been presented in a live-action film format, but it’s not a good adaptation either. The film is lit too dark, the characters have no depth at all, and it’s barely based on the games themselves besides a few names, the concept, and some of the weapons. And Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, one of the most charismatic personalities in any media, acts as if he doesn’t want to be in the film and gives one of his flattest performances against Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike, who clearly outshine him here. But the film does look polished, has a great video game moment with that awesome first-person shooter sequence near the end, displays cool creature designs inspired by the games and above average acting from most of the cast [especially Urban, Pike and Richard Brake]. And the silly dialogue has its unintentional moments of entertainment that elevate a film that could have and should have been better. A lousy video game adaptation, but an average ALIENS meets RESIDENT EVIL rip-off. 2 Howls Outta 4 Posted by Fred [The Wolf] at 10:55 PM 2 comments: Links to this post Labels: 2 Howls, 2000s, action, Doom, horror, sci-fi, The Rock, video games, when wrestlers act Original vs Remake - Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) & The Grudge (2004) Takashi Shimizu Megumi Omina - Rika Nishina Misa Uehara - Izumi Toyama Misaki Ito - Hitomi Tokunaga Yui Ichikawa - Chiharu Takako Fuji - Kayako Saeki Yuya Ozeki - Toshio Saeki Takashi Matasuama - Takeo Saeki Yoji Tanaka - Yuji Toyama Kanji Tusda - Katsuya Tokunaga Shuri Matsuda - Kazumi Tokunaga Genre - Horror/Supernatural/Ghosts Running Time - 92 Minutes Sarah Michelle Gellar - Karen Davis Jason Behr - Doug McCarthy KaDee Strickland - Susan Williams William Mapother - Matt Williams Clea DuVall - Jennifer Williams Grace Zabriskie - Emma Williams Bill Pullman - Peter Kirk Rosa Blasi - Maria Kirk Ted Raimi - Alex Jones Takashi Matsuyama - Takeo Saeki With the latest remake/reboot of THE GRUDGE starting the 2020 movie season, I figured I would look back at the 2002 original Japanese film and its first remake from 2004 - both films that seem to look like bigger successes than the current film that’s been released if the critical and commercial response is any indication. With films like 2016s TRAIN TO BUSAN and even 2019’s PARASITE prove, Western audiences are willing to enjoy horror films from an Asian market without an Americanized adaptation to boost name recognition for some Hollywood studio. That wasn’t always the case, as a bunch of Americanized remakes of Asian horror films were constantly released in the 2000s to varying success. Obviously, the most successful and probably best remake to come out of this era is 2002’s THE RING, a well-made American version of 1998’s RINGU. In fact, I think THE RING is a slight improvement over RINGU, taking what made the original film good and expanding on it a bit to great results. And considering how lame many of the remakes that came after THE RING ended up being, it’s pretty safe to say that the 2004 remake of 2002’s JU-ON: THE GRUDGE, THE GRUDGE, is the second best Japanese-to-American remake of this era. Both films were huge hits, creating many tropes and visuals that would get copied into other horror films dealing with the same subject matter even today. It had been about fifteen years since I had sat down to watch either JU-ON: THE GRUDGE or THE GRUDGE, even though I pretty much remembered the many similarities and some differences both versions of the same story [directed by the same director no less] had. And it was interesting to see why audiences were so gravitated to these films, as they felt fresh and narratively original at the time - but feel very dated today. Even though neither film holds up all that well in my opinion, I still think they were important in the history of the horror genre and are both worth a look. The question is if I would have to recommend just one of these films, which one would I choose? Let’s see the pros and cons of both of these films. In Tokyo, multiple characters enter a so-called haunted house where a terrible murder-suicide took place between an angry and jealous husband and his wife, which unfortunately included their young son and family cat. In Japanese culture, this type of hateful act creates a vengeful spirit known as The Grudge, possessing and imprinting on those who step foot where the scene of the crime occurred. Whether inside that very house or outside of it, the spirit will spook its victims, creating mysterious deaths while passing on its curse to anyone who has entered that home. Figuring out what’s going on, characters attempt to break the spell before the curse spreads across multiple victims. JU-ON: THE GRUDGE With the huge success of 1998’s RINGU and its American remake, 2002’s THE RING, it’s not surprising that JU-ON: THE GRUDGE was as successful and an easy target for its own American version. What many probably don’t know is that JU-ON: THE GRUDGE was actually the third installment in that series, with the first two films being made for television. I guess those films were successful enough to warrant a theatrical release for the third installment, which helped build its brand since on a worldwide level. It’s easy to see why JU-ON: THE GRUDGE appealed to so many. While it did take aspects of RINGU, especially when it came to a curse being passed through some means and a dark-haired spirit haunting people, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE forged its own path to stand out from a lot of the other Japanese films coming out at the time. While the scare factor is probably not as strong as it was almost 20 years ago, it’s obvious that director Takashi Shimizu was more focused on creating this haunting and sinister atmosphere rather than telling a memorable narrative. The visual presentation is still JU-ON: THE GRUDGE’s strongest aspect, still managing to creep you out somewhat with its creepy visuals and tension building scenes. While meme’d and parodied since, those moments where the vengeful spirit Kayako crawls down the stairs with a creaking sound that’s still very effective today are so well shot that it brings a sense of unease most modern horror films lack. The little boy, Toshio, is also presented well, as he’s always hiding in a window, a corner, under a table, or in a closet with a wide-eyed stare that’s unsettling. The meowing is a bit silly, even back then, but it gives Toshio character and presents something most mainstream audiences hadn’t really seen in a film. There are barely jump scares with loud noises, which strengthen the film’s power, letting the tension build enough to turn those lights on while watching. I also think Takashi Shimizu films the Tokyo interiors and exteriors so well, bringing something foreign even to people who live there. In a lot of ways, I think JU-ON: THE GRUDGE is a better directed film than Hideo Nakata’s RINGU, as I get a sense of fear more out of the former than the latter. Unfortunately, style over substance is a risk that could either elevate or bring down a film. And JU-ON: THE GRUDGE does suffer from the lack of a linear narrative that tries to explain things out of order, but doesn’t really. While we’re given title cards at the start of the film explaining how the curse of the Grudge is created within Japanese culture, not much is done with that other than knowing the cause of the creation of this curse. We never learn why this curse spreads to other people, strangers even, who seem perfectly happy with their lives and had nothing to do with the situation. It doesn’t help that the story is told through segments rather than some sort of linear structure. You’re watching Act E before you’re watching Act B, but Act C will play out before you even get to Act B. It’s kind of a mess because you’re not really sure how each segment connects to the other besides the curse itself. And when you do figure out how each segment fits with the others, you just wish it was told in a somewhat linear way so it would flow better and actually build a lot of tension and suspense as the film nears its end. This fragmented storytelling also hurts character development, as there never seems like there is a main protagonist throughout the entire film. This creates lack of depth for every one of the victims, as we soon learn that they’re just there to react to some evil spirits haunting them before killing them. That may work in a slasher film, but a ghost movie needs more substance in its narrative for audiences to really care what’s going on other than what they see visually. The closest we have to a main hero is social worker Rika, whose entrance into this home is the catalyst for the rest of the scenarios that are displayed out-of-order to let us in on what’s going on. But we don’t spend enough time with her to root for her and she isn’t as proactive in her actions after the fact to make her a hero. The segments themselves are perfectly fine and each have great storytelling moments within them. But JU-ON: THE GRUDGE has too many characters and when you do start to know them, they’re quickly disposed of. By default, the only characters that get some development are the Saeki family. Even then, we only know about what happened to them and why they all became evil spirits. And even their haunting and scaring people starts to become tedious two-thirds into the film. At least the actors are all solid and help elevate a weak script. Otherwise, this film would be worse off. As for the 2004 American remake, most of the film is pretty much shot-for-shot the same as the original film. Considering it’s the same director, the film doesn’t tread too far from what made the original a success. You have similar characters who are dealing with the same vengeful spirits who meow, croak, etc. However, there are some differences that do make THE GRUDGE a worthy companion to JU-ON: THE GRUDGE. Since the film is mainly cast with American actors in a Japanese world, the story has to change a bit to accommodate them. The main character, Karen, is our Rika substitute - playing a fish-out-of-water social worker who enters the haunted home and never leaves it the same woman. But instead of being tossed away for majority of the film and not doing much of importance like how Rika was portrayed, Karen actually has enough depth for us to care about what she’s doing. She has a boyfriend who supports her and cares about her very much. Even though she’s out of her element in a foreign land, she seems driven to be a caring social worker. And when she’s confronted by Kayako and clan, she actually decides to research the house, what happened to the family that had lived there, and investigates in how to stop the curse from hurting others. This edition to the plot actually helps drive the film to its inevitable conclusion, giving the audience more substance to chew on when it comes to this ghost story. It also helps us side with Karen, as she’s willing to do anything to stop the insanity, which is more than I can say for her counterpart. More storytelling differences? Less characters, as a segment wasn’t repeated in this version. I actually enjoyed the scenes with the school girls in the original, but it wouldn’t have added much in this remake. We also learn more about the man Kayako was apparently in love with - a college professor who she started to crush on, but was only one sided as he was a married man. This crush led to the deaths of the Saeko family, eventually leading to some bad things for the professor as well, as he entered the house after-the-fact to discuss Kayako’s feelings and let her down - only to find their corpses instead. And probably the biggest difference is that the storytelling takes a more Hollywood approach, crafting a more linear series of events rather than a narrative that’s all over the place. Some flashbacks do take place like in the original, but it only happens when it wants to explain why certain characters are behaving as they are. If the remake has anything that trumps the original, it’s that the story and plot are much more assessable for audiences and actually help elevate the story into something more sensible. I think the tension and suspense are allowed to build much better in the remake, which is a definitely plus. That being said, while Takashi Shimizu directs his remake as much confidence as he does the original, the power he visually displayed is lessened the second time around. Even if you don’t watch both films back-to-back, there are things that visually work for another culture that don’t work for an American one. The original film has a more quiet presentation when it comes to the scares, never really alerting the audience of danger until you hear that creaking sound that sends chills down your spine. In the remake, those loud audio cues to make the audience jump are here, making the same scenes feel less than. Also, Shimizu edits a few of the scenes, giving less time for these moments to cook, which takes away some of the impact. But I will say the film looks a lot better than the original in terms of cinematography, looking extremely polished and making Japan a beautiful place we would love to visit. It also flows better due to the story structure being stronger. And while the film does have questionable CGI at times, I don’t think it looks all that bad honestly. I’ve seen effects a lot worse than THE GRUDGE during this time frame, and I feel the use of CGI ghosts doing cool things adds to the visual presentation. I really liked that severed jaw bit and some of the faces that morphed into other things. The acting is also pretty decent. THE GRUDGE was meant to make Sarah Michelle Gellar a movie star after her memorable run on Buffy The Vampire Slayer had ended in 2003. She does well enough as Karen, giving us someone to care about as she tries to figure out what’s going on. I think she’s an odd fit at times, as her acting could be a bit stronger when bad things happen. But her name value at the time allowed audiences to root for her and she seems invested in the role enough to take it seriously. I’m surprised the success of this film [and her previous television work] didn’t place Gellar on the A-list. She’s not bad here. The rest of the actors had less to do, but filled their roles adequately. Jason Behr, fresh off of the original version of TV’s Roswell, plays Karen’s boyfriend Doug. Considering the two worked together on an episode of Buffy and hung out in the same circles, Behr’s chemistry with Gellar feels natural and you can buy them as a couple trying to figure out Japan. I wish he had more to do, but at least he helped add depth to Karen and had a decent presence in the film’s final act. The other two actors of note are Clea DuVall and Bill Pullman. DuVall doesn’t do a whole lot either, but she does the best that she can in her short role. And Pullman is always a welcomed presence in any project he’s a part of. He was given more to do than both Behr and DuVall, getting to believably create a bit of depth to his college professor character. His reactions of fear were nicely convincing, so I appreciated him here. Also, shout out to Ted Raimi. Again, small role but I like that guy, so win. JU-ON: THE GRUDGE was a critical and commercial success, while its 2004 American remake may not have been as big of a hit with critics but made a ton of money at the box office at the time. Both films have their pluses and their minuses and you’re probably better off watching both of them if you’re interested in this franchise for whatever reason. But if you only have time for one, it depends on what kind of moviegoer you are. If you’re willing to sacrifice a more understandable and linear plot for a more effectively creepy visual effects and sound design with really good acting, stick with the original. But if you’re willing to deal with a lesser creep factor and a more Hollywood presentation of horror for a stronger story with deeper characters with logical motivations, 2004’s THE GRUDGE is for you. I personally feel both films are two sides of the same coin, each side depending on what you look for in a horror film like this. And considering what I’ve been hearing about the 2020 reboot for this series, you’re probably better off watching either one of these two films anyway. JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2002) & THE GRUDGE (2004) 2.5 Howls Outta 4 JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2002) Trailer THE GRUDGE (2004) Trailer Posted by Fred [The Wolf] at 6:32 PM No comments: Links to this post Labels: 2.5 Howls, 2000s, ghosts, horror, Japan, original vs. remake, remake, supernatural, Takashi Shimizu Lunar Cycle - December 2019 Since I don’t have as much time to write longer reviews than I used to, I figured I would just post shorter reviews for horror/cult films that I feel deserve your attention. Expect these Lunar Cycle posts once per month. INTO THE DARK: POOKA! (2018) - 1/2 out of ** Directed By: Nacho Vigalondo Starring: Nyasha Hatendi, Latarsha Rose, Jon Daly, Dale Dickey, Jonny Berryman, Bryan Billy Boone, Caden Dragomer Plot: A struggling actor gets a holiday season job as a Christmas character in a plush suit to promote the hottest toy of the year, Pooka; he slowly develops two personalities - one when he’s in the suit and one that’s outside it. Continuing through Hulu’s Into the Dark TV-movie anthology series, I decided to watch last year’s Christmas episode POOKA! - one of last season’s most talked about episodes. Using the holiday as more of a backdrop than as a true focus like PILGRIM did for Thanksgiving, POOKA! still manages to use the idea of toys during the holidays to push its narrative along. Not knowing much about the film, I figured POOKA! would just be like a CHILD’S PLAY clone with some evil dolls would become sentient and cause chaos during Christmas. But I wasn’t expecting this deep and serious psychological thriller about a struggling actor who is hired to be a popular toy’s mascot, only for him to use this new persona to satisfy his more evil side. Maybe that’s why POOKA! doesn’t work fully to the story’s premise, as it’s trying to be a lot of things at once. POOKA!’s make focus is on main character Wilson, who has moved to a new city for a brand new start. The holidays seem to be especially hard on him for some reason, but he forces himself to audition for some mystery acting gig that leads him into becoming the global mascot for a Pooka doll - pretty much a Teddy Ruxpin talking doll that records certain phrases and has a nice and naughty meter that changes occasionally - blue light means nice, red light means naughty. The Pooka doll is the Christmas toy sensation, with Wilson having to dress up as a life-size Pooka doll to promote the toys. Things seem to be going his way. He’s made friends with an eccentric neighbor. He’s met a beautiful real estate agent who is also a single mom, starting a relationship with her. Plus with the toy’s success, he’s making a lot of money. But strange things seem to happen, especially when the Pooka suit is on. Wilson starts getting violent and angry, lashing out on others. However, there are times where Wilson isn’t wearing the suit, watching the Pooka hurt people as an outsider. So is he having a split personality? Is someone else in the outfit? Is it all in his head? What’s the deal? Even though these questions are answered by the film’s end, I do feel that the journey getting there could have been a lot better and more assessable to a certain portion of the audience. I’ve never seen director Nacho Vigalondo’s other films [I’ll probably get to some of those in 2020 as catch up] but I’ve heard he thrives on non-linear storytelling like POOKA! So I can’t compare how this matches up to his other projects. For the most part, I thought the story was well written and quite compelling. While I wish hints were given along the way about what was really going on, I was pretty invested in the film, constantly wondering what was the real deal and how it would all be resolved. I would think the film was going one way, when it would take a stranger direction that made me question what I was watching. I’ve read some people claiming they felt the last act was predictable, but I honestly didn’t see it coming. Even then, I still had questions though and wondered about the film’s narrative time and space. As a strange character study of a man conflicted by seemingly two halves of his personality, I think it’s an interesting one to see play out. But I’m not sure if it worked to its fullest potential since I felt a bit unsatisfied by the film’s end and wish POOKA! was told in a more linear way where the hallucinations and different perspectives would ground the story more and give audiences a more conclusive narrative that would provide enough answers that could keep the mystery intact. I respect that screenwriter Gerald W. Olson made POOKA! feel surreal and dreamlike from beginning to end. But being too vague sometimes will turn people off, especially when the final few minutes tell you what’s going on, but at the same time don’t really. Interesting story, but I think the execution could have been a bit tighter and more easier to digest. I felt like POOKA! explored a lot of things about past trauma while not exploring them enough for me to feel like I got my 90 minutes worth. There shouldn’t be new questions made during the film’s resolution. I’m also sort of torn on how I feel about how the Christmas aspect was used in POOKA!. On one hand, I’m glad that we see Christmas trees, lights, and even media craze over a popular toy like I used to see all the time on the news back when I was younger. But I wish more was done with it, because I honestly feel POOKA! could have taken place during any other holiday besides Christmas and not much would have changed. I think Christmas is the right call if you want to really explore past trauma, since it’s a family holiday. But it just felt like it was more of a backdrop than a holiday that actually plays into much of the film’s narrative. I do feel it did more with the holiday than FLESH & BLOOD did with Thanksgiving. But besides objects and mentions of it, POOKA! didn’t really feel like Christmas to me for much of the film. I do think Vigalondo directed a nice film here visually. The film is well paced and Vigalondo maintains a good creepy tone throughout. The use of colors would make Dario Argento proud, with his use of reds and blues flooding the screen at times, depending on Pooka’s mood. It creates a ton of atmosphere and a surreal feeling, as if you’re watching reality turn into some colorful nightmare or mind fck that could only happen in someone’s unstable mind. I also thought the use of blinking red and blue lights, resembling an emergency siren, were a neat touch considering what the colors would represent later in the film. The film also looked really polished and I loved the commercials and news segments looking different from the rest of the film. I haven’t seen any of Vigalondo’s V/H/S’ segments or COLOSSAL, but if his direction is supposedly better on those, then I’m definitely going to cover those in 2020. I dug his style a lot. The acting is also quite good. But the real star here is Nyasha Hatendi as Wilson, portraying so many emotional layers in a quick, yet believable span. You root for him. You fear him. When you learn the truth about his situation, you feel conflicted. It’s almost a commentary on a man suffering from mental illness due to his past haunting him in ways he’ll never recover from, which Hatendi plays perfectly subtle. I enjoyed seeing him playing both sides of his personality - good and evil - slowly deteriorating by the film’s conclusion. Without Hatendi’s strong performance, POOKA! wouldn’t have worked. Overall, POOKA! is a decent Christmas Into the Dark installment. Nacho Vigalondo’s direction is pretty solid, greatly using colors to create a bit of surrealism to showcase the dissociative state of a fractured mind during the holidays. Nyasha Hatendi’s performance as a man who is slowly losing his sense of reality while trying to rebuild his life in a new place is fantastic and keeps the film’s narrative strong. While POOKA! has a compelling story that twists and turns towards a somewhat logical conclusion, the non-linear structure getting there doesn’t work as well as it should. Plus POOKA! has one of those endings that answers the mystery while creating another one, leaving you both satisfied and unsatisfied at the same time. I preferred both Thanksgiving stories over POOKA!, but POOKA! is worth a watch if you’re a fan of this Hulu series and need a bit of Christmas terror in your December viewing cycle. INTO THE DARK: A NASTY PIECE OF WORK (2019) - out of Directed By: Charles Hood Starring: Julian Sands, Dustin Milligan, Angela Sarafyan, Natalie Hall, Kyle Howard, Nico Greetham, Molly Hagan Plot: A mid-level corporate employee finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus he was expecting, but his boss invites him to earn a promotion by beating his professional rival in a violent competition. Review: One of the better installments of Hulu’s and Blumhouse’s Into the Dark series and slightly ahead of last year’s POOKA! episode, 2019’s A NASTY PIECE OF WORK doesn’t really celebrate the Christmas holiday all that much, but the film carries its influences really well to give us a story that will probably continue to resonate with some people for many years to come. Instead of focusing on Christmas, the film is more focused on class differences and the idea of capitalism having to destroy morality and ethics for one to get ahead in life. This theme of class politics seems to have been a common one in 2019, especially when you have films like KNIVES OUT and READY OR NOT really using it to give their respective stories substance. The same can be said for A NASTY PIECE OF WORK, which uses the idea of workers not getting a Christmas bonus [influenced by NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION] to persuade them into hurting and even killing each other to get a promotion at their workplace that the bonus will go to. The story takes three couples - the manipulative boss and his unfulfilled wife, the main character and his wife [who both have morals] and the main character’s elitist rival and his trophy wife - and brings them together to subject them in embarrassing and revealing situations that will force the two male employees to hurt each other for a job. Or maybe the boss and wife are just having fun at the expense of two couples they see lesser than them because they don’t own nice things or have power of any kind that matters to them. In a way, the film pretty much showcases the reality of working in a competitive profession - having to step on others to get ahead in terms of status and salary, creating a “survival of the fittest” environment that creates a lot of drama. I won’t go into major details about things that revealed by all parties involved or give hints as to how it all ends, but A NASTY PIECE OF WORK tells its story in a very satirical way that sort of makes fun of the situation at hand, while also criticizing the selfishness that comes with capitalism. Both employees try to one-up the other, first with their brains until they realize that none of them will get what they want unless physical violence comes into play. The use of shotguns [that may hold blanks or not], large hammers, and other objects give way to some decent gore and death sequences that push forward the agenda of the movie. And when things start to unravel, you start to realize that maybe no one is the good guy in this situation. It’s well written in a black comedy sort of way rather than a horror film, still managing to make you cringe at points because of how messed up this all is. If I did have issues with the story, it’s because there are plot points introduced that don’t get enough attention to really mean much. There’s this deal where a story comes up about someone living within the walls of the boss’ mansion, leading to situations where someone is peeping on the characters through holes in the wall. But it never really goes anywhere, wondering why you wouldn’t do more with such a creepy plot device. There’s also a thing where murders also happened at this mansion, but we’re never really given any information about those. I’m guessing it has to do with other people competing for some sort of promotion, but nothing much comes out of it. But the twists and turns the story takes are quite fun and definitely worth investing in. I think the one thing POOKA! does have over this film is the visual style of the film. While POOKA! used a lot of colors and had strangely surreal visual cues that made you wonder what you were watching, A NASTY PIECE OF WORK is a pretty simple one-location type of set up that feels like a TV movie rather than some sort of cinematic experience. Charles Hood does a good job presenting the story in a simple manner that we can all follow. But I felt like the film could have been more tense and suspenseful visually. It’s well framed, shot, and even uses the violent portions in an entertaining manner. But the film could have used a bit more flash, considering how grounded the premise was. It doesn’t have to be over-the-top, but a bit of style every now and then wouldn’t have hurt. The acting is also pretty good. All the actors play their roles well - like Kyle Howard’s kiss-ass, yet moralistic Ted and Angela Sarafyan who plays his supportive wife Tatum. Dustin Milligan isn’t too bad as the douchey Gavin either. But the film definitely belongs to both Julian Sands and Molly Hagan, as the boss and his bothersome wife. Sands, the friggin’ WARLOCK, is always an awesome presence in any film or television show he appears in. He brings so much class along with him, giving us a boss character that you want to hate but can’t help be charmed by. He plays the role very seriously until you see a certain gleam in his eye that makes you see how much fun he’s having being the bad guy. Hagan, who Sands has great comic chemistry with, is more boisterous in her performance as a seducing and alcoholic wife who enjoys tearing down her husband and his employees every chance she can get. While Sands is more matter-of-fact, Hagan is more playful and livens up the film quite a bit. Hagan made me laugh quite a bit, making me understand why all the characters were pretty annoyed with her behavior. Overall, A NASTY PIECE OF WORK is one of Hulu’s Into the Dark’s best segments. While it could have used the Christmas holiday more to create a certain atmosphere, as well as tie up loose ends that are brought up but never addressed much afterwards, the film still manages to be a fun black comedy that satirically looks how the class warfare still affects many especially in the workplace. The twists and turns of the characters’ personal information unraveling to elevate the drama between them is well done. I also thought the more horror-thriller aspects of the film were handled well, despite Charles Wood’s a-bit-too-simple direction. The actors make the story fun, especially the always awesome Julian Sands and Molly Hagan, who embrace their devilish characters and show how much fun they’re having being bad. Not as good as similar films this year like KNIVES OUT or READY OR NOT, but still very watchable and worthy of a look for those interested in this anthology series. ANGEL HEART (1987) - 1/2 out of *** Directed By: Alan Parker Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Brownie McGhee, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite, George Buck Genre: Mystery/Horror/Satanic/Voodoo Plot: Down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered by the mysterious Louis Cypher to go on a mission to find a mission person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself, as he goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul. 1987's ANGEL HEART is a film I watched quite frequently for a time in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as my late uncle was a huge fan of the film. While I remembered a couple of things that happened, the adult storytelling and themes went way over my head. I had been wanting to watch the film again for a while, seeing it pop up on streaming sites for the last few years. Before 2019 was over, I decided to take the plunge and see why my uncle enjoyed this film so much and why I barely had a recollection of it besides the voodoo stuff. As a child, ANGEL HEART won’t grab you on a narrative level, even if it might visually at times. But as an adult, I have a whole new appreciation of this film and really get why my uncle and so many others praise it so highly. In a way, ANGEL HEART is a pretty underrated horror-noir flick that doesn’t get a whole lot of discussion. But it absolutely should since it has a lot going for it in terms of direction, mystery and especially the acting. Getting too deep into the story would spoil things for people who haven’t had a chance to watch ANGEL HEART. But what I will say that while the mystery is pretty obvious [especially now that I understand the references as an adult], the screenplay is still well constructed and builds onto the film’s shocking [not shocking?] climax that poses new questions that never get answered. It captures the neo-noir feel well and as detective Harry Angel continues along his investigation within a supernatural world of voodoo to uncover the truth, you stay interested and committed to the film’s narrative. The characters all have dimension, like the charismatic yet haunted Harry Angel, to the dark and mysterious Lou Cypher [how did I not see who he was right away as a child?], and the captivating and sultry Epiphany. The deep characters help build this bleak universe in the 1950s where there is more than meets the eye, leading to answers that not only satisfy the viewer, but damage the characters who are blindsided by the conclusion they’re given. It’s an intelligently written film that’s truly meant for mature audiences who will get all the hidden meanings and adult subject matter that encompass this world. ANGEL HEART could have been cheesy, cheap and shocking for all the wrong reasons. But the story has class and wants to legitimately entertain the audience it’s appealing to. The story is helped by Alan Parker’s direction. Prior to ANGEL HEART, Parker directed some high-profile films like 1978’s MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, 1980’s FAME and 1982’s PINK FLOYD: THE WALL - later he would direct 1988’s MISSISSIPPI BURNING and 1996’s EVITA. The man knows how to create mood and atmosphere, especially when it comes to period pieces. ANGEL HEART is no different, maintaining the look of 1955 with a grittiness and bleakness one wouldn’t expect from that time. Old school New York City is wonderfully created and New Orleans really captures this surreal and sweaty locale that will change many of the characters’ lives. In many ways, Parker doesn’t direct a horror film at all, letting the story itself slowly build tension and fear. Parker is more focused on the drama between the players, giving us glimpses of who they are when they’re alone and especially when they interact with one another. Focusing on Harry Angel makes him an unreliable narrator as we suspect that he was hired for the investigation intentionally, as if he’s meant to find out the truth for his own good as well. But Parker does give us glimpses of the dark side of voodoo, with chicken blood pouring on people during erotic situations, making blood almost sexy in a gross way. And the use of hallucinations and visions only add to the visual presentation, giving audiences a puzzle they need to think about and solve by the film’s conclusion that doesn’t insult their intelligence. And while we don’t see the acts of murder until the very end, the aftermath is pretty gruesome at times. Parker directs a solid mystery-thriller that’s super confident and grounded, despite the themes that inhabit the narrative. And ANGEL HEART has some solid performances. Mickey Rourke is at his peak here, in my opinion, looking like the epitome of a grizzled private eye who will do anything to find the answers. He’ll sleep around. He’ll bully people for information. And he’ll place himself in situations that will probably do him more harm than good. Rourke takes the role seriously, playing all aspects of the character perfectly. He’s believably cool and charming, while also convincingly haunted and disturbed as he gets deeper into the mystery. It saddens me that he did so much plastic surgery on himself because Rourke was a good looking dude with solid acting chops that should have made him a bigger star. He’s amazing in this film. Robert De Niro also gets to chew up some scenery as Lou Cypher, the man who hires Harry Angel for this particular assignment. It took a lot of convincing for De Niro to appear in this film, as he was originally courted for the Harry Angel role but refused because he wanted a smaller role with less to do. Plus he wanted concrete locations and direction for his character before signing up to do it. Lou Cypher is more of a cameo role than anything, but De Niro certainly makes his presence as this mysteriously sinister figure who seeks answers, even if these answers aren’t meant for him personally, but for someone else. It’s a quieter role than De Niro usually does and it works for the film, especially when you figure out his true intentions. A nice casting coup for Parker - one that worked out very well. The other major actor in the film is Lisa Bonet as Epiphany, the daughter of a voodoo priestess. Bonet is wonderful as a sultry distraction for Harry Angel, who looks innocent but those looks may be deceiving. She shares quiet chemistry with Rourke and their sex scene almost led to ANGEL HEART having an X rating - it’s that intense. While her performance is memorable, it was unfortunately overshadowed by Bill Cosby being displeased with the role and firing her from The Cosby Show at the time, moving her into the spinoff A Different World instead. That’s kind of funny, considering Bill Cosby was far from a saint himself in his personal life. We also get smaller performances from Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite, and George Buck that add nicely to the film and the film’s mystery. Overall, ANGEL HEART is one of those underrated horror-thrillers from the 1980s that still holds up extremely well after all these years. While the mystery is probably fairly predictable, the storytelling is still strong and well-written enough to bypass that. The characters are fleshed out, the universe they live in is given depth, and the build up leading to the climax flows extremely well and feels mostly satisfying. Alan Parker’s confident direction helps create an awesome neo-noir thriller with interesting imagery and moody set-pieces that would fit right in the genre. And the acting from Mickey Rourke [especially], Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet are wonderful, bringing the script to life in a believable way and makes you empathize with some of the characters when the mystery is solved. As a child, I had no idea what was going on with this film besides the voodoo aspect of it. But as an adult, I can truly appreciate ANGEL HEART as a classy and thrilling film with a soul that probably deserves more mention than it actually gets. Labels: 2.5 Howls, 2018, 2019, 3 Howls, 3.5 Howls, 80s, comedy, December 2019, horror, Into the Dark, Lunar Cycle, mystery, satanic, thriller, voodoo Full Moon Reviews is a movie review site [for horror, sci-fi, fantasy, B-movies, and action], written by an avid film lover with an honest mind and a dirty mouth. I'm not a professional. I don't kiss anyone's ass and I tell it like it is. If you're offended by profanity and sexual innuendos, then click the "x" buttons on the right of your browser. 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__label__wiki	0.758489	0.758489	Compare ID Protection Home News News The E-Crime Unit is Here. by Brandon Qureshi Attorney General Kamala Harris, who created an “e-Crime unit” so that California can be a leader in using innovative law enforcement techniques to target criminals, says consumers and businesses in the Golden Gate will now have a much needed unit to fight categories of crimes from internet fraud, theft of computer components and devices, intellectual property crimes and identity theft. About 1 million Californians are victims of identity theft annually– amounting to $46 million in losses last year alone. California joins Texas, Florida and Louisiana, which also have cybercrime units, though California’s scope and mandate will be much broader. Texas’s and Florida’s cybercrime units focus almost exclusively on online child pornography. Louisiana’s unit, which is broader in scope, is a three-person team: an investigator, a prosecutor and a forensics specialist. There’s a lack of technical know-how at many law enforcement agencies throughout the world, who don’t realize that cybercrime presents a big threat. Harris said some govenment offices in California still are lagging technologically. In order to change this, Harris is also opening a tech center in Fresno to train and assist law enforcement authorities with high-tech investigations, including how to use GPS to determine when and where a cellphone photo was taken and to retrieve evidence from smartphones. The unit now has 20 active cases and 17 more that are under investigation. Cases such as the possession of counterfeit jewelry from five different companies, and identity-theft scam at ATM vestibules accross seven counties are all being handled by this unit. But are we safe from being a victim? Child Identity Theft Teen Falls Victim To Identity Theft Brandon Qureshi Brandon Qureshi is an expert on identity theft companies after being victimized in 2006. He's proud to share everything he's learned about identity theft and when he's not writing articles for IDProtectionGuide, Brandon is a forensic accountant and an aspiring author. 4 Tips for Protecting Your Identity While Traveling How Many People are Victims of Identity Theft Every Year? Do You Live in One of the Top States for Identity Theft? The IRS’ New Plan to Battle Identity Theft Identity Theft Services Are Complimentary Identity Theft Services Taxable? The Most Vulnerable Population to Identity Theft: Children Identity Guard With Watson Review 2018 Identity Force Review: The Best of Both Worlds Is it Worth it? Lifelock Review 2017 IDProtectionGuide's tailored advice, content and our unbiased reviews help consumers make intelligent informed choices about safeguarding your identity. We provide you with the latest research, information, and honest advice on securing your identity in an ever increasing threat environment. Trusted Research It's not complicated, you're our first priority. We focus all our resources and expertise on one subject, analyzing, comparing and reviewing identity theft services. The guidance we offer, info we provide, and tools we create are objective, independent, and straightforward. So how do we make money? In some cases, we receive compensation when someone clicks to apply for identity theft protection through our site. However, this in no way affects our recommendations or advice. We're on your side, even if it means we don't make a cent. Advertiser Disclosure: IDProtectionGuide is a consumer information site that offers free reviews and ratings of online services. Many of the companies whose services we review provide us compensation when someone who clicks from our site becomes their customer. This is how we make money to support our site. The results of our analyses, calculators, reviews and ratings are based on objective quantitative and qualitative evaluation of all the cards on our site and are not affected by any compensation IDProtectionGuide may receive. Compensation may impact which products we review and write about and where those products appear. We do not review all products in a given category. All opinions expressed on this site are our own. Copyright IDProtectionGuide ©2008-2018 All Rights Reserved. © 2018 IDProtectionGuide Inc., All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line616
__label__wiki	0.649994	0.649994	Check out our innovative home and kitchen tools to make cooking and beverages more enjoyable Lemon Squeezer Tips Garlic Kitchen Tools On Amazon Tag: the-royal-family 14 huge moments in the Royal Family in 2018 admin34618 0 Comments January 13, 2019 January 13, 2019 Amazon Products Image: AFP/Getty Images What a year it’s been for the royal family! While 2018 has been a mean old year for us mere mortals, those whose blood runs blue have had a festive year with not one but two weddings and some pretty major announcements. Now that the year is coming to an end, it’s time to look back at the most memorable royal family moments from 2018. 1. The wedding Two different royals may have tied the knot in 2018, but the first wedding of the year was also the most spectacular. The whole world (or at least 29 million people, per Nielsen figures) watched Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle tie the knot in St George’s Chapel on May 19th. Not only was the ceremony quite the showstopper, the guest list was out. of. this. world. In attendance was the Queen of England AND the Queen of the Universe, Oprah. #Oprah arrives at #royalwedding – Live coverage: https://t.co/2QVxPcRcVe pic.twitter.com/9u31Sy5ogM — Riya (@loislane28) May 19, 2018 Come on, just look at the two of them. Awwwww The entire ceremony was just one moving scene after another. Like when Prince Charles walked Meghan Markle down the aisle, as her own father could not attend. Serena Williams was also there. NBD. Ready for my friend’s wedding. #beingserena @alexisohanian pic.twitter.com/PSIYvpXlaV — Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) May 19, 2018 2. The baby announcement Five mere months after their wedding, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex) rocked our world once more. On Oct. 15 Kensington Palace made the announcement that the Duchess is expecting a baby in the spring of next year. Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Sussex is expecting a baby in the Spring of 2019. pic.twitter.com/Ut9C0RagLk — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) October 15, 2018 3. Prince Charles turned 70 and revealed his favourite dish On November 14th Prince Charles celebrated his 70th birthday and we all learned a new word; “groussaka”. In a birthday interview with Country Life, His Royal Highness revealed that he prefers the classic Greek dish moussaka with grouse, not lamb, giving us the groussaka. Thanks for sharing, your highness. Clarence House also released some lovely family photos in celebration of the Prince’s big day. Two new photographs of The Prince of Wales and his family have been released to celebrate HRH’s 70th birthday. The photos were taken by Chris Jackson in the garden of Clarence House. pic.twitter.com/A2LTJDTdvE — Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) November 13, 2018 4. Prince Louis was born Prince William and Kate Middleton (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) welcomed their third child, Louis Arthur Charles in April. The name Louis was perceived to be a nod to Lord Louis Mountbatten, a well-loved relative of the royal family who was killed in an IRA attack in 1979. Welcome to the family. pic.twitter.com/nKSd5kh5bZ — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 23, 2018 A lot of people people thought Kate Middleton paid tribute to Princess Diana when she introduced Louis to the world. The Duchess wore a red dress with a white collar, much like the red and white outfit worn by Diana when she left the hospital after giving birth to her second son, Harry. Princess Diana and Prince Harry Image: Getty Images 5. Meghan Markle released a cookbook One of Meghan Markle’s first solo projects as a Duchess was the charity cookbook Together: Our Community Cookbook. The Duchess came up with the idea of the cookbook after a visit to the Hubb Community Kitchen, a community kitchen that helped feed survivors in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017. The proceeds from the cookbook, the foreword of which is penned by the Duchess herself, all go to the Hubb Community Kitchen, to help keep it open. The Duchess of Sussex is supporting a new charity cookbook, ‘Together: Our Community Cookbook’, which celebrates the power of cooking to bring communities together. #CookTogether pic.twitter.com/XEclxgQjR4 — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) September 17, 2018 6. Princess Eugenie got married Prince Harry was not the only young royal who got married this year. His cousin, Princess Eugenie, tied the knot with wine merchant Jack Brooksbank in October. Their wedding, also in St. George’s Chapel, was quite the star-studded affair with Kate Moss, Liv Tyler, Demi Moore, and Naomi Campbell in attendance, to name a few. Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank Image: WireImage When Cara Delevingne showed up to the ceremony in a suit and top hat, she pretty much stole the show. Couldn’t care less about the wedding but good LORD Cara Delevingne: pic.twitter.com/UvEQQTHgyu — Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) October 12, 2018 7. Princess Charlotte started school Three-year-old Princess Charlotte started school and we’re mostly including this because of how unbelievably darling she is in this photo. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share two photographs of Princess Charlotte at Kensington Palace this morning. The images were taken by The Duchess shortly before Princess Charlotte left for her first day of nursery at the Willcocks Nursery School. A post shared by Kensington Palace (@kensingtonroyal) on Jan 8, 2018 at 8:01am PST 8. Meghan Markle bonded with the Queen Everyone knows that hanging out one-on-one with your in-laws can be a tad strenuous, but Meghan Markle sure makes it look easy. The Duchess had her first solo outing with Queen Elizabeth in June, when the two attended the opening of the Mersey Gateway bridge in Cheshire. Even though looking at a bridge all day might not sound all that interesting to a lot of people, these two managed to make it look like a hoot. Meghan Markle and Queen Elizabeth II 9. The first same-sex wedding in the Royal Family’s history Lord Ivar Mountbatten, the Queen’s third cousin, made history when he married his partner, James Coyle, in September. Mountbatten is the first member of the royal family to be openly gay and marry a same-sex partner. The wedding was held privately, but Mountbatten shared a photo of the two on Instagram. Well we did it finally! It was an amazing day despite the miserable British weather. Fabulous service conducted by Trish Harrogate, chief Registrar for Devon, who set the perfect but lighthearted tone for what is a serious occasion. The accompanying gospel choir were amazing. Thank you so much to Bristol’s Teachers Rock Choir for your superb singing. Also @venetianorrington for the great photos. Most importantly a massive thanks to my 3 gorgeous girls for being so understanding and supportive, without their support this could never have happened! And finally the biggest thank you to James for being just perfect……#wedidit #wonderfulday #despitetherain A post shared by Ivar (@ivar_mountbatten) on Sep 24, 2018 at 4:01am PDT 10. The Queen met President Trump Brits weren’t too fussed when U.S. President Donald Trump visited the UK in July. Neither was the Queen when the president reportedly showed up 15 minutes late to their meeting. Oh dear, she just looked at her watch. The Queen does NOT like tardiness. pic.twitter.com/b0GXBV9oWt — Patricia Treble (@PatriciaTreble) July 13, 2018 Donald Trump denied being late, and actually claimed that the pair got along brilliantly. 11. Harry and Meghan’s first royal tour The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s first royal tour overseas was a trip to Australia, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand (in fact, they made their aforementioned pregnancy announcement right as they landed in Sydney.) During their trip they experienced a lot of local culture and also served up so. much. cuteness. 12. Prince William spoke his mind about social media Let’s face it; it’s the tech bros’ world and we’re all just living in it. Well, Prince William will not accept that. The Duke of Cambridge spoke candidly at an event at the BBC about how Big Tech and social media companies have failed to live up to the responsibilities that come with their immense power. “Their self-image is so grounded in their positive power for good that they seem unable to engage in constructive discussion about the social problems they are creating,” the Prince said as he urged social media companies to “reject the false choice of profits over values.” 13. Kate Middleton received the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II One of Kate Middleton’s most-talked about looks this year was at a Buckingham Palace state dinner, where the Duchess of Cambridge wore a tiara formerly worn by Princess Diana along with what is probably the most beautiful 19th century pearl and diamond necklace you’ll ever see. But, noticeably, the Duchess also wore a brand new order; the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II, given to members of the Royal Family for their service (that’s the yellow ribbon with the Queen’s face, in case there was any doubt.) 14. Prince Harry and Megan Markle released a never-before-seen photo from their wedding As the year drew to an end, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex got one more moment in the spotlight as they released an unseen photo from their wedding reception. The photo, which is featured on the couple’s official 2018 Christmas card, is a black and white shot of the couple watching fireworks while holding hands. What’s more romantic than that? The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to share a new photograph from their Wedding Reception at Frogmore House on 19th May. The photograph, which was taken by photographer Chris Allerton, features on Their Royal Highnesses’ Christmas card this year. A post shared by Kensington Palace (@kensingtonroyal) on Dec 14, 2018 at 3:01am PST Thanks for all the memories, your royal highnesses. May 2019 be as full of glitz, glamour and royal grandeur. 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__label__cc	0.706399	0.293601	Healthy Dehydrated Fruit My kids love Healthy Dehydrated Fruit Snacks. They are easy to make and the perfect quick healthy snack for kids. You can buy dried fruit in the store, but my kids prefer our dehydrator snacks. My favorite part it that I know exactly what the kids are eating, I don’t have to read any labels. They also love taking healthy homemade Fruit Roll-ups in their school lunches. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. We have experimented with dehydrating lots of different fruits. However the kids favorites include kiwis, apples, strawberries, bananas and peaches. We have a 10 Tray Food Dehydrator and absolutely love it! I have tried a few different dehydrators but so far this is our favorite. Dehydrated Strawberries: Wash the fruit and remove the steams. Use an egg slicer to make thin slices and simply lay them on the dehydrator trays. No lemon juice or sugar needed. Dehydrated strawberries are great by themselves or they make a perfect topper for granola. Dehydrated Kiwi: Wash the kiwi and peel off the skin. Using a mandolin or knife, make thin even slices. Arrange slices on dehydrator trays. Again no special treatment, just ripe tasty fruit! My kids think that they taste just like sour patch kids! Love it! Dehydrated Apples: Wash your apples and run them through an apple-corer-peeler-slicer (if you don’t have one, then simple peel by hand, core and slice by hand). Our family loves the tartness of granny smith apples. Soak the apples in lemon juice to prevent them from browning. We also enjoy… Sweet Cinnamon Apple Slices ~ Place apple slices in 1/2 cup lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of agave nectar or honey. Arrange the slices on the dehydrator trays and sprinkle with a dash of cinnamon. Cinnamon Sugar Apple Slices ~ Place apple slices in lemon juice and arrange on dehydrator trays. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Dehydrated Bananas: Peel the banana and cut into thick slices. I usually get about 18-20 slices out of each banana. Soak bananas in 1/2 cup lemon juice and 1 Tablespoon of agave nectar or honey. Arrange slices on the dehydrator trays. These will not be crisp like the ones in the store, but they taste SO much better. Dehydrated Oranges: Peel oranges and thinly slice with a Mandoline or knife. Arrange slices on dehydrator trays. You may be surprised by how delightful dehydrated oranges taste. They also make great Christmas decorations. Drying time will depend on how thick you slice your fruit and if you have added agave nectar or honey. Generally most fruit will take up to 8 hours. I often start my dehydrator in the evening and let it run all night. The fruit is dry when you cut it open and there is no moisture inside. Remove the fruit from the tray and let cool before storing. I store my dried fruit in glass mason jars. It is best to buy fruit at its peak season and make sure to only use ripe fruit. These healthy dehydrated snacks are perfect for camping, going to the beach, long car rides, throwing in your purse, on top of granola and just about anywhere else. I love that there are no messy, drippy, sticky fingers or faces to wash and that my kids are snacking on healthy treats with no preservatives. Here is another great dehydrator recipe. My kids also LOVE this healthy fruit leather in their lunches. It is 100% fruit, nothing extra added which I’m all for and the kids love that it tastes great! Posted in Food, Summer and tagged Dehydrator, Fun Food, Summer. Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Leather Oven Dried Fruit Leather Fruit Loops Rice Krispy Treats Loving My Dehydrator! 116 thoughts on “Healthy Dehydrated Fruit” GretchenP on June 24, 2011 at 5:01 am said: oooohhh… that last picture looks like a little slice of heaven! super yummy! what kind of food dehydrater do you use? thanks! 🙂 Tammy on June 24, 2011 at 5:32 am said: I started with a round Ronco Food Dehydrator. It worked good, but I got tired of rotating the trays all the time. I recently bought a Cabela’s square 10 tray dehydrator with the fan at the back and I love it! Cindy Baird on August 2, 2012 at 9:28 am said: I have Ronco Food Dehydrator, I love it. My hope is to someday get a square one though. Eva on November 10, 2012 at 8:56 am said: Thank you very much! It’s really easy and healthy! Unfortunately i haven’t Dehydrator. Can i use oven (how)? Thank you! Denise on May 23, 2014 at 6:28 pm said: Use oven at 225-250. Christine on May 25, 2014 at 12:13 am said: Denise, How long do you put it in the oven for? Susan on January 25, 2015 at 7:58 am said: Pick up a Nesco dehydrator from Amazon. Not expensive, but really works well. And it’s made in the USA. rous on February 13, 2013 at 6:44 am said: E-bay. I got one for less than fifty dollars. We now have two large and three round ones. Louise Fourie on February 25, 2014 at 10:01 am said: Where did you buy your dehydrator? Would love to try this Debra Anderson on March 25, 2014 at 5:55 am said: I love that Cabelas dehydrator! I will have to get one! How much will it cost for that one like yours? I want to be able to make lots of snacks without moving trays around. Would appreciate knowing the cost so I can fit it into my budget. I will use it a lot!! I hate paying the price for small bags of dehydrated fruits at the stores, and not knowing what was added. I am diabetic, so I need as natural as possible. Thanks! Sylvie Gregoire on January 21, 2016 at 12:06 am said: All though this is fruits only you should get some informations about dehydrated fruits beeing much sweeter than fresh fruits. Ande on July 11, 2014 at 10:29 pm said: Every time we got a cheap one it proved how cheap it really was. I saved up for 6 months to get an Excalibur 9 tray and it is Amazing!!! I use it at least once a month!!! Everything from fruit to croutons to applesauce fruit roll ups to any kind of meat we have!!! Worth the Buy!!! Shauna-lee on June 24, 2011 at 7:42 pm said: mmmmm… I have been wanting to get a dehydrator. My oven has a dehydrating setting that works great, we did sour cherries the last couple years and they were soooo good! Only problem with the oven is I don’t want to use it when the weather is hot, so I hope to get something I can use out on the deck in the summer. My onions don’t always store well in the cold room, so I would like to dehydrate some for soups, etc. Your fruit looks delicious! Doug on April 17, 2012 at 10:50 am said: I got an American Harvest Snackmaster, and combined the trays with another American Harvest (ten trays!) Kids and wife love fruit, but when I do onions and garlic, I have to place the unit out on the porch. Plus side: it still works out there in winter months. I crush/grind some for my own Special Seasoning, and recently got a recipe for ranch dressing I want to try, instead of the packets. Stephanie on May 25, 2012 at 3:13 pm said: Doug, You mentioned a recipe for ranch dressing, would you be willing to share it? I haven’t found a recipe that comes close enough to the store bought packets. Geraldine valles on April 16, 2014 at 7:54 am said: How long do you dry your Onions and Garlic for and do you add anything on them. Please help. What other Spices do you make. Have you tried making the Ramch Dressing yet. Thank you for your time. Help. How long would you leave the Onions and Garlic in for and do you add anything on them. What other Spices can you make. Thank you for your time. Whatmom on June 25, 2011 at 3:04 am said: You make this sounds so easy, I’m excited to try it. I don’t have a dehydrator- any tips for using the oven? I love how simple your recipes are – it lets the fruit speak for itself 🙂 Thanks for sharing! Mattia Zenger on March 23, 2014 at 6:12 am said: Just LOVE all your tips and instructions. I’d love to make these dehydrated fruits but don’t have a dehydrator. Is there anything I could use in place of a dehydrator? Thanks. Mattia. Leandra on June 27, 2011 at 9:33 pm said: I’ve never tried this before! Thanks for the tip, I really enjoyed these suggestions. I am really curious about the kiwi though! Thanks for the post! -Leandra karen on June 29, 2011 at 7:58 pm said: I think they look pretty in the jars! I would love it if you shared this with WorkShop Wednesday. It would be a great addition to the party! Katrina on June 30, 2011 at 2:27 pm said: I bought fruit yesterday and plan to try this tomorrow! How long do you soak in the lemon juice mixture? Will I know from the instructions how/when to rotate the trays from your old dehydrator or do you have a specific suggestion for that too? karen on July 13, 2011 at 4:52 am said: Thanks for posting to WorkShop Wednesday! Debra on October 10, 2011 at 11:17 am said: Clear, infromtvaie, simple. Could I send you some e-hugs? kmevaihzws on October 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm said: vayna7 dqsahykaqaqi jtnfjip on October 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm said: nbNiJp jnjqjwumnbqe Pingback: The Vintage Wife » Link Love best food dehydrator on November 10, 2011 at 7:04 pm said: Fantastic website. Lots of useful info here. I’m sending it to some buddies ans additionally sharing in delicious. And certainly, thank you in your sweat! Kels on January 9, 2012 at 1:50 am said: How long did you soak the fruit in the lemon juice? Can’t wait to make these! Tammy on January 9, 2012 at 2:15 am said: I just dip the fruit in lemon juice long enough to coat all sides. Enjoy! carolsmi on February 7, 2012 at 9:00 pm said: How long will the fruit keep after you put them in the Mason jars? Tammy on February 8, 2012 at 4:11 am said: Theoretically dried fruit can be stored for up to year. However it never lasts that long at our house:) Pingback: אורי מאיר-ציזיק \| דברים לעשות במטבח – אביב Stay At Home Brad on March 21, 2012 at 10:29 pm said: I’m going to do this soon, I have a dehydrator but I only use it to make jerky. Now you have inspired me to make fruit, strawberries to be specific. I love those little dehydrated strawberries they put in cereal. Homemade will be even better! Da Netra on March 22, 2012 at 12:16 pm said: How long is the dehydrated food good for? I’ve made apple slices and fruit roll ups before and they don’t last a day in the house. But it will be the season for fresh fruit and I want to stock up! Pingback: Natural and Thrifty in 365: #217 Dehydrate Fruit Pingback: Healthy Dehydrated Snacks \| Rosita on April 10, 2012 at 8:06 pm said: Can you use a oven to dehydrate fruit? Dakota Winds on April 10, 2012 at 9:30 pm said: we dehydrate many veggies such as pea’s, potatoes, corn, green beans, onion etc for use in soups and stews! You can dehydrate just about anything, we have done tomatoes also. Abeera Moin on April 11, 2012 at 3:52 am said: I don’t have a dehydrator- any tips for using the oven? I love how simple your recipe is. Thanks for sharing! Doug on April 17, 2012 at 11:47 pm said: If you’re in the U.S., I would try Ebay, Amazon, even yard sales (where I got mine), for dehydrators. They let you do a lot of cool stuff. Just another tool, though. No need to go all out and get a Cadillac. Happy Tuesday! Elayne on July 11, 2014 at 10:23 pm said: I purchased my dehydrator at Lee Valley…here in Canada. darnell on April 11, 2012 at 5:13 am said: How long do dehydrated fruits last? How can one make them last for a long period of time? Donna on April 11, 2012 at 9:28 pm said: Do you dehydrate figs? I tried dehydrating figs last year and it did not do well. Tammy on April 11, 2012 at 10:07 pm said: I have not tried drying figs, but I have read that they take a really long time in the dehydrator. Sorry I could not be more help. Tracy on April 12, 2012 at 1:46 pm said: How long does it last or stay fresh? Quantum on May 6, 2012 at 8:46 pm said: How do you get a dehydrator? Pingback: 10 Favorite Little House Resources from Pinterest \| Something 2 Offer My fruit stuck to my trays. Any suggestions on how to prevent that? I thought a light coat of Olive Oil-non-stick spray, but thought that might mess with the flavor of the fruit. Any ideas? Pingback: Dehydrating Fruit - For Storage & Quick Healthy Snacks Julie on November 4, 2012 at 6:58 pm said: Once the fruit is dried and stored in the mason jars, what is the shelf life? Do some last longer than others? Pingback: קח פרי! (ותהיה לי בריא!) \| Internet Mom מקטלגת את הרשת whirlston food machinery on December 10, 2012 at 3:56 am said: thanks for sharing this.. johy on December 10, 2012 at 4:09 am said: I think it is very goog.So I must do some thing ,I think life comes from the some thing which looked very good and It can leted people feel good It worked good, but I got tired of rotating the trays all the time. I started with a round Ronco Food Dehydrator.I recently bought a Cabela’s square 10 tray dehydrator with the fan at the back and I love it! charlenek on August 22, 2013 at 12:34 am said: I just got a Cabelas dehydrator but the instruction booklet does not tell you temp to do bananas, peaches etc. How do you know what temp and how long? Just by guessing? thanks for the help Ann on March 23, 2014 at 5:47 pm said: I have to rotate my trays too, it just helps to get it all dry at the same time. bangke on December 10, 2012 at 4:15 am said: I thought a light coat of Olive Oil-non-stick spray, but thought that might mess with the flavor of the fruit. Any ideas?fruit stuck to my trays. Any suggestions on how to prevent that? whirlstonsally on December 10, 2012 at 6:35 pm said: Thank you for sharing it with us. Sounds interesting,allance pellet machine Like it. Sabrina on January 6, 2013 at 3:46 pm said: Does anyone know if these go in the fridge after? and how long would they last? Thanks! Jennifer Maddox on May 14, 2013 at 6:10 am said: they dont have to go in the frig if they are dried….. i also store mine in mason jars in the cabinet ….i do go one step further and put an oxycgen absorb packet in each jar Sandy Stephens on February 13, 2014 at 4:26 pm said: You could use a foodsaver and vacuum seal the mason jar. Haven’t tried this yet, but that would work to get all the air out of jars I do the same thing with the packets, I used mason jars at first but I just ran out of room, and went to zip lock storage bags, and stored all of it in a tight closed container, worked great. Pingback: The ABCs of…Farming for Children A-F \| Glittering Muffins christen on January 12, 2013 at 5:58 pm said: How long can they be stored in the glass jars? We just got our dehydrater and we are loving experimenting! Great website! I stored my dried fruits and veggies in glass jars first, but was really a storage issue, I just ran out of room for all of it, you can buy little drier packets you place in each container to keep any moisture at bay, and I did that and it worked. I used zip lock plastic bags, got the air out of the bags, and stored all the dried stuff in a large closed container, with a list of what was in it. Worked great for me Tammy Fuller on January 13, 2013 at 11:25 am said: My husband also uses our dehydrator to make liver doggie treats. Works great. Pingback: Healthy Dehydrated Fruits » The Homestead Survival Lindsay on January 29, 2013 at 9:20 am said: Ooh- looks delisious! I have a round model dehydrator that I got at a yard sale a few years ago. We typically use it to make beef jerky but I have dried strawberries with it. They were amazing and I can’t wait to try the others! Zucchini. It is sweet and if thick enough can be substituted for potatoe chips. I eat them driving down the road when travelling. And who does not have too many zucchinis? Pingback: סחיטה, הקפאה, קיצוץ ועוד דברים שעושים במטבח באביב \| בידיים - קח את הק Pingback: How To Make Healthy Dehydrated Fruit \| Travel Snacks naomi on March 26, 2013 at 3:02 pm said: Has anyone ever tried useing a nuwave oven? I was told you can use them but just can’t seem to get time/temp right. Dani on April 8, 2013 at 6:52 am said: I just got a Nesco Dehydrater at a yardsale for $4 yesterday & can’t wait to use it! Thank you so much for posting these ideas 🙂 Pingback: Come essiccare la frutta in casa senza comprare un essiccatore \| Lo specchio di Archimede Jasmine on April 17, 2013 at 9:55 pm said: I was wondering how you dehydrated the peaches and if you have tried and other fruit than what you have listed? We love dehydrated peaches, I would do them the same way as the strawberries or kiwi. No special treatment just thinly sliced. We also really love grapes (cut in half), plums (nothing special added). You can dehydrate most any type of fruit or veggie. We have also made a number of raw veggie chips, tomatoes for sauces, yogurt this list could go on and on:) Pingback: Blog » Make Your Own Amazing Dehydrated Fruit Snacks Pingback: Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Leather (she: Tammy) - Or so she says... Amanda @MissPandaChinese on May 10, 2013 at 1:55 am said: Yum! Everything looks so delicious. My kids mainly eat fresh fruit but this is a great idea to have the dry fruit ready to go. Love the healthy and yummy snack made at home. Jennifer \| The Deliberate Mom on May 10, 2013 at 9:31 am said: I’ve always wanted a food dehydrator. I think this posting just convinced me that I must get one. This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing! Jen on June 23, 2013 at 9:32 pm said: Any idea how long these would keep for? Naomi on January 12, 2014 at 4:31 am said: Thank you for the recipes and most especially, the inspiration! Now to get a dehydrator . . . Does that hyperlink really go to the correct machine/model? Although the trays look similar somehow it looks a little different than in your pictures; the edges of your unit look metallic (stainless steel?) . . . I’m sure there are a number of different units out there but based on how wonderfully your items turn out, your recommendation goes a long way 🙂 Mike Stachowski on January 28, 2014 at 7:52 am said: Really like the info. Can’t wait to get started. Nikki on January 30, 2014 at 12:41 pm said: Is there anyway to make these dehydrated fruits without a dehydrator? Can it be done in the oven? Geraldine valles on February 24, 2014 at 2:47 pm said: How do you make Banana Chips crunchy like the stores. And do you have recipe for tomatoes and chiles and how to make Beef Jerky also. Deb on February 24, 2014 at 7:33 pm said: I don’t have a dehydrator. Can it be done in an electric oven in my stove? danielle on March 26, 2014 at 10:58 pm said: ya they can be but u need to put your oven on the lowest setting Nellie on February 24, 2014 at 10:37 pm said: Dried fruit in the oven….google it. I don’t have a dehydrator either. Can hardly wait to try these as dried fruit is so expensive in the stores! Thanks somuch for sharing! Sorry…oven Rebecca on February 25, 2014 at 2:01 am said: i dehydrate about everything fruits,veggies, even make tomatoe roll ups to add to stews,soups etc. we love the jerky made from lean hamburger you never guess it could taste so good and be so easy. Forgot to add you can dehydrate potatoes both sweet and regular white or red in various shapes for adding to soups or rehydrating and use like you would fresh. I cube some, slice some, shred some for hash browns.Using a food processor if you have one makes slicing a breeze . I do precook them for about 3 min in boiling water , plunge into ice cold water to stop the cooking,drain well and let cool before placing on the dehydrator. This keeps them from turning brown. have not tried potatoes yet, but will probably this year. Michelle Hanley on March 23, 2014 at 2:56 pm said: Would anyone like to recommend a good dehydrator unit I can buy in Australia? I had never really considered this form of storage for fruit but after reading many of the comments my next purchase is definitely going to be a dehydrator so that I can start making these. I love the fact there are no weird additives and I like that. I wont buy the fruit roll ups from the stores because of all the “added extras” they put in them. Thanks very much to anyone who takes the time to respond to this request. Last year was the first drying of fruits and vegetables for me, dried peaches,(these have to be dipped in lemon juice, otherwise the color darkens) cantaloupe, watermelon, blackberries, bananas, kiwi, pineapple, blueberries,and every vegetable I could find. the watermelon shrunk down to a leather, which is very concentrated watermelon flavor you can eat dried. The cantaloupe,also can be eaten dried. It’s very good, very concentrated taste. when you buy your dehydrator also buy the drying sheets which lay on each shelf, saves dripping onto other food in the dehydrator. Buy the washable kind, can be used over and over again, last forever. Also buy some kind of book giving all the instructions for everything you might want to dehydrate. I tried to rehydrate the peaches in boiling water,which worked but it didnot rehydrate to the same size as before. great flavor and the juice from the peaches was really good. tried bananas and apples like the bananas the apples OK kind off good in oatmeal going to try strawberries kiwi oranges but what about pineapple and grapes watermelon cantaloupe peaches Mary Ramirez on April 22, 2014 at 10:13 pm said: You don’t need a dehydrator to do this. Set your oven at its lowest setting (mine goes down to 170 degrees) and place the slices on a LIGHTLY greased cookie sheet. About 8 hours later (depending on how this you’ve sliced them) they’re done. Works great for veggies, too. Nikki on May 24, 2014 at 3:34 am said: Thank you for answering my question before I could ask! What should I look for to determine the fruit or veggie has completed the dehydration process? Is 8 hrs the standard minimum time? Colleen on May 1, 2014 at 9:51 am said: I’m just getting started with this. I’m wanting to do mango & strawberries. Will putting them in plastic baggies be ok or jars only? I didn’t know when it gets warm in a baggie they might not be good. What do you think? Sandy on May 24, 2014 at 7:49 am said: I lost my recipe for jerky made from ground chuck. Would love to have it if you could please share. Linda Dahms on June 9, 2014 at 7:46 pm said: can you dehydrate flower pedals leslie walker on July 12, 2014 at 12:10 am said: In the southwest where there isn’t a lot of humidity you can set fruit or vegetables or anything ( I have even done homemade noodles) outside on old screens with a screen over it. Turn it over. Just watch out for rain!!!!!!! Doesn’t take long. Day or so for some things. Can dry anything almost!!!! Heather on August 3, 2014 at 9:15 am said: I soak my banana slices in pineapple juice,. It is both acidic and sweet and does a wonderful job. The extra touch of flavor is my favorite! K Zamora on August 6, 2014 at 8:33 pm said: Will some of the fruit come out crunchy? I am looking to mill bananas and turn them into a powder, but is it possible? Carol on September 3, 2014 at 5:00 am said: I’ve tried dehydrating mushrooms, bananas, apples, tomatoes, kiwi etc. Apples turned out well and peppers. However, my bananas, mushrooms and kiwi went off after a few days in a jar. What am I doing wrong please? Judy on September 6, 2014 at 9:21 am said: I’m allergic to lemons and mold (which is what citric acid is made from, not fruit), any ideas what I could use in place of the lemon juice? Stephanie Bridges on November 1, 2014 at 11:11 pm said: Wondering if you can rehydrate them for use in recipes? Sharon on January 18, 2015 at 1:32 am said: Do dehydraters use alot if electricity Susan on February 6, 2015 at 12:09 am said: my parrot loves the orange slices and they are very expensive in pet stores Theres Just One Mommy on February 8, 2015 at 1:36 pm said: These really do look so amazing! Now I need to go buy that mandolin to make super thin slices…. maria on May 9, 2015 at 5:42 am said: you can dry tomatoes and put the slices in a jar with much garlic, cayenne, basil and thyme and fill up with olive oil; or some dry type cheese with olive oil and cayenne Lynn on January 6, 2016 at 8:48 am said: You can dehydrate frozen veggies also to store away for soups stews ect. misty johnson on May 9, 2016 at 1:32 pm said: By far best website Iv read regarding dried fruit. Have you experimented with other preserving options besides lemon juice	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line625
__label__wiki	0.869246	0.869246	Marine Corps - USMC Community > Marine Corps News > Headline News > Bataan ESG, 26th MEU to deploy this week View Full Version : Bataan ESG, 26th MEU to deploy this week thedrifter Bataan ESG, 26th MEU to deploy this week By William H. McMichael NORFOLK NAVAL STATION, Va. — The Bataan Expeditionary Strike Group is slated to deploy late this week to conduct maritime security operations “in support of the ongoing rotation of forward-deployed forces,” the Navy’s 2nd Fleet announced. The group, totaling about 4,000 service members, includes the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. Officials say that unit is not deploying any earlier than previously scheduled. The Bataan group will deploy over two days, officials said. On Thursday, the amphibious assault ship Bataan, amphibious transport dock Shreveport and attack submarine Scranton will sail from Norfolk Naval Station, Va., while the dock landing ship Oak Hill deploys from nearby Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. On Friday, the frigate Underwood will get underway at Mayport, Fla., while the destroyer Nitze and cruiser Vella Gulf leave Norfolk, 2nd Fleet said. The strike group is commanded by Navy Capt. Donna Looney, commander of Amphibious Squadron 2. The MEU is commanded by Col. Gregg Sturdevant, and includes Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, and Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264. Pentagon officials have said the Bremerton, Wash.-based John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group could deploy several weeks early — as soon as this week — to create a temporary two-carrier presence in the Persian Gulf as a show of force for neighboring Iran, which the U.S. believes is trying to become a nuclear-weapon power. On Dec. 23, the United Nations voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran’s trade for materials and technology aimed at enrichment of uranium, which could be used for either nuclear reactors or bombs. The U.S. also says Iran continues to provide support for rebels fighting in Iraq. Staff writer Trista Talton contributed to this report	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line632
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Hoffman’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. [14:55] <Froborr> You wanted to talk Nutcracker and Rebellion? [14:55] <Arrlaari> Yeah [14:55] <Froborr> Is it okay if I log this and use it for Wednesday’s post? [14:55] == FoME [442704d2@gateway/web/freenode/ip.68.39.4.210] has quit [Quit: Page closed] [14:55] <Arrlaari> Of course [14:55] <Froborr> Cool. [14:55] <Arrlaari> I think I’ll start by talking about Pirlipat and Marie, but first I gotta look up how to spell Pirlipat correctly [14:56] <Froborr> lol [14:58] <Arrlaari> Dang, I got it right by memory this time. Here’s the translation I’m using http://www.springhole.net/writing/the_nutcracker_and_the_mouse_king/index.html [14:59] <Froborr> Okay. [14:59] <Arrlaari> So, I’m going to call the Nutcracker “Prince Drosselmeier,” and his uncle “Judge Drosselmeier”, because Prince Drosselmeier is not the only Nutcracker in the story. Princess Pirlipat, like her destined prince, was a Nutcracker. [14:59] <Froborr> nods [14:59] <Arrlaari> She was born with a full set of teeth, and the clue that led Judge Drosselmeier to the ritual to remove her curse was how happy she was cracking nuts [15:00] <Arrlaari> So Mouserinks’ curse didn’t turn either of them into Nutcrackers – they both always were and remained that – but it made them ugly, giving them the appearance of a toy Nutcracker [15:01] <Arrlaari> When the curse is transferred to Prince Drosselmeier, Princess Pirlipat is repulsed by his ugliness and her father reneges on the promised reward (marriage into the royal family) and instead punishes Judge Drosselmeier, Prince Drosselmeier, and Gilder Drosselmeier with banishment [15:01] <Froborr> Now, when you say they were Nutcrackers, do you mean the physical object, or do you just mean that they enjoyed cracking nuts? [15:02] <Arrlaari> They were Crackers of Nuts [15:02] <Arrlaari> Not simply that they enjoyed it, but they had notable talent for it [15:03] <Arrlaari> Even though it was the King who decided to punish them instead of compelling them to accept a different reward, the story rather problematically condemns Pirlipat for rejecting Prince Drosselmeier and aggressively contrasts her with Marie [15:04] <Froborr> nod [15:04] <Arrlaari> In particular, Prince Drosselmeier himself asks the princesses of the Kingdom of Sweets if Pirlipat can compare to Marie, and they all immediately agree that Marie is way better [15:05] <Froborr> Yes, it’s the “how dare you have physical standards, person whose entire society treats ugliness as a terrible curse” thing. [15:05] <Arrlaari> This website deliberately makes it hard to copy and paste from it [15:06] <Arrlaari> The last time Pirlipat is spoken of, it is the Prince calling her “the cruel Princess Pirlipat for whose sake I became ugly” [15:07] <Froborr> Urgh. [15:08] <Arrlaari> But there’s something interesting that happens much earlier: Marie sees a face looking up at her from the water of a lake in the Kingdom of Sweets and says that it is Pirlipat, smiling up at her. Prince Drosselmeier tells her that it is not Pirlipat, but Marie’s reflection [15:09] <Arrlaari> And Judge Drosselmeier tells Marie that she was born a princess like Pirlipat, to which her mother replies that she thinks she knows what the Judge is talking about, but can’t explain why [15:10] <Froborr> Huh. [15:11] <Arrlaari> A buddhist reading is clear: Marie is Pirlipat’s reincarnation (it is implied that a great time passes between the tale of the hard nut and the events of the story), but Prince Drosselmeier does not want to forgive Pirlipat and therefore committs himself to the illusion that they are different people [15:12] <Froborr> Wait, when did Pirlipat die? [15:13] <Arrlaari> It’s not explicitly said, but it’s implied that Judge Drosselmeier, a wizard, outlives all the other characters in the Tale of the Hard Nut except the Prince, who is ageless as a Nutcracker doll [15:13] <Arrlaari> This might be a tenditious reading but I think it works [15:13] <Froborr> All right. [15:14] <Froborr> (I am no stranger to tenuous readings, you may have noticed.) [15:14] <Arrlaari> And now I turn to Madoka magica. Madoka is Pirlipat and Marie (who are the same), and the moment Homura “becomes ugly for her sake” is when she, at roughly the same time, reverts the timeline in which Madoka killed Mami but killing Madoka herself. [15:15] <Arrlaari> Where the Prince commits himself to the illusion that Marie is not Pirlipat, Homura commits herself to the illusion that Madoka is blameless for the self-loathing that she feels for this [15:16] <Froborr> Ahhhh I think I’m starting to get it. [15:16] <Arrlaari> The idea of Madoka’s innocince (I know I mispelled that) becomes next to sacred for her [15:17] <Arrlaari> Note that this moment is when Homura suddenly changes her self-presentation, which subsequent iterations of Madoka finds frightening and off-putting [15:18] <Froborr> yep! [15:18] <Arrlaari> The last episode of the series, when Madoka suddenly rescues Homura from defeat at the hands of Walpurgisnacht, parallels the end of the battle between the Nutcracker & dolls against the Mouse King and his army – in the book, this is not when the Mouse King dies, and in the series, Kyubey basically escapes unscathed [15:20] <Arrlaari> Afterwards, Marie is bedridden because she cut herself putting her had through the glass doors of the toy cabinet (nitpick time: in Against Homura you write that Prince Drosselmeier leads that battle from a clockwork castle. In the book, the Nutcracker and Dolls sally from the toy cabinet, and all but Drosselmeier retreat to the cabinet by the end) [15:20] <Arrlaari> While Madoka becomes an existence outside of time and space [15:21] <Arrlaari> Judge Drosselmeier tells Marie the story of the hard nut while she is convalescing, and also repairs the Prince’s jaw. Madoka can see Homura’s past from outside space and time. [15:22] <Arrlaari> But shortly after she recovers, Marie wakes up in a state of sleep paralysis, and the Mouse King emerges to threaten the Nutcracker’s life, demanding Marie’s candy in return [15:23] <Arrlaari> The Mouse King’s mother, Mouserinks, came into conflict with Pirlipat’s family over fat (which was to be used in sausage), and the Mouse King demands candy. Sugar and Fat are known for being more or less “pure calories” – and calories are a unit of energy. The mice want energy, just as Kyubey does. [15:24] <Froborr> Bit of a stretch, but I’ll go with it. [15:24] <Arrlaari> And so Kyubey threatens Homura’s life (or afterlife), effectively demanding additional energy from converting magical girls into witches [15:27] <Arrlaari> Marie gives into two nights’ worth of the Mouse King’s demands before the Prince asks that she instead give him a sword, and he uses it to slay the Mouse King off camera. As he reports his victory to Marie, he invites her to tour his Kingdom. Madoka gives Kyubey nothing, instead breaking Homura out of the seal. Homura takes Madoka to her own Kingdom of Sweets (named by the signage in the last shot before the credits) without [15:27] <Arrlaari> while the universe is being rewritten, conqueres Kyubey decisively [15:28] <Arrlaari> It’s a little bit out of order but basically fits [15:28] <Froborr> A bit, yes. [15:28] <Froborr> And arguably Madoka actually does give Kyubey something–the Incubators still get to collect their energy in Madoka’s new timeline, it’s only after Homura resets it that they’re cut of. [15:29] <Froborr> off [15:29] <Arrlaari> The Incubator’s decide to cut themselves off (too dangerous!), but Homura insists that they continue to collect the curses that have been spread about the world – so she isn’t yet cutting them off [15:30] <Arrlaari> Although she later implies that Maju, and hence the cubes, are finite [15:30] <Arrlaari> It is significant that the movie ends on this note, because The Nutcracker does not. The death of the Mouse King does not break Mouserinks’ curse, and Homura’s triumph over Kyubey does not break the self-loathing that is her curse. [15:32] <Arrlaari> After the tour, Marie returns to her home, and it is from there that she does break Mouserinks’ curse, whereafter Prince Drosselmeier appears in his true form to ask to be engaged to marry her. Only after that, plus an unspecified delay (Marie is nine years old) does Marie come to permanently reside in the Prince’s kingdom. [15:33] <Arrlaari> Reading Homura’s life as a retelling of Prince Drosselmeier’s therefore leads us to predict that Madoka will indeed escape as she threatened to do in the hall scene, but also suggests that there is hope that this could lead to a true healing experience for Homura. [15:34] <Arrlaari> So I got this far and I haven’t even mentioned Sin, which is a big part of my thinking on this [15:34] <Froborr> Okay. So let’s talk sin. [15:36] <Arrlaari> You’ve associated Homura with a form of Care Ethics, as that’s the system that justifies Homura’s decisions. For exactly that reason, Care Ethics cannot be the system to which Homura conciously subscribes. Homura does not believe herself to be justified, even before she declares himself a demon and the embodiment of evil. [15:36] <Froborr> An excellent point. [15:37] <Arrlaari> Homura appears to subscribe to the Christian value system in which Virtue is opposed to Sin. When thinking about the illusory world she has been trapped in, she thinks, in regard to forsaking their duty to hunt Maju, “such a sin should be unforgivable” [15:39] <Arrlaari> One of the key elements of the idea of Sin is expressed, imprecisely, in “whosoever lusts after his neighbor’s wife, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” The idea can be clarified with a story about stealing an apple. [15:40] <Arrlaari> Four people pass by an unguarded apple cart. The first is not hungry, and gives the cart little notice. [15:40] <Arrlaari> The second is hungry, and thinks “I would like to take one of those apples and eat it, but they do not belong to me, therefore I have no right to take one.” [15:41] <Arrlaari> The third is likewise hungry, and thinks “I would like to take one of those apples and it eat, but I may be caught and punished as a thief” [15:41] <Arrlaari> The fourth thinks “I would like to take one of those apples and eat it”, and then does so [15:42] <Arrlaari> The first man is innocent. The fourth man is guilty of theft. The second man has resisted temptation through virtue, and the third is no less a thief than the fourth – he has stolen the apple in his heart. [15:44] <Arrlaari> And so even though Homura has reversed the timeline in which she shot and killed Madoka, she still believes that she carries the sin of murder in her heart. In Rebellion, there is a scene where she says that “she thought she could bear any sin” – and because she is willing to do anything for Madoka’s sake, she has, “in her heart” already done everything [15:44] <Arrlaari> Including, for example, murdering Sayaka in cold blood. [15:45] <Froborr> Wait, when’d she do that? [15:45] <Arrlaari> She didn’t – but only because Kyouko prevented her from doing it [15:46] <Arrlaari> Therefore, by the standards she believes in, she had already killed Sayaka “in her heart” [15:47] <Froborr> Ah. [15:50] <Arrlaari> On the other hand, Homura thinks of Madoka as being purely innocent – she not only would refrain from murder (or any other bad act), she would not even think of it. Only the horrible circumstances of being a magical girl could spoil that innocence and cause her to kill Mami, and Homura believes she erased that timeline [15:51] <Arrlaari> But after her ascension, Madoka can percieve that the distinction between things that did and did not happen is an illusion – as a Goddess she is no less the person who killed Mami than the person who merely witnessed Mami’s death, or the person who never met her [15:52] <Arrlaari> That is something Homura, so far as I can tell, never processes. She thinks of Madoka Law of Cycles as being sacred like a god, especially pure. [15:53] <Froborr> It likely helps that Madoka is not Christian and therefore has not been subjected to this particular brand of bullshit. [15:53] <Arrlaari> More importantly, Madoka is the person who asked Homura to kill her even though that timeline was about to be reverted. She is cruel Princess Pirlipat, for whose sake Homura became Sinful. [15:54] <Froborr> Ahhh, that’s how we get back to the Nutcracker. [15:57] <Arrlaari> And if Homura’s curse is to be broken, it will have to be through forgiving Madoka – but that cannot happen while Homura denies Madoka’s responsibility, and therefore also her agency. [15:58] <Arrlaari> And that also leads to the prediction that before that, Madoka will escape her current circumstance. [15:59] <Arrlaari> As far as I can remember, that’s all, except for a very tenuous reading of Judge Drosselmeier [15:59] <Arrlaari> Which is tangential to the themes [16:00] <Froborr> Go for it, though, this is very interesting stuff. [16:01] <Arrlaari> Alright. It’s hard to map the Judge to any of the characters who appear in Madoka Magica or Rebellion. As the one who leads Prince Drosselmeier to get into trouble in an attempt to rescue Pirlipat, he lines up with Kyubey, but afterwards he works to get the Prince out of his predicament – and Kyubey is already the Mice. [16:02] <Arrlaari> Furthermore, he’s a blood relative to the Prince, but Homura appears to have no relatives. [16:03] <Arrlaari> However, there is a figure who is metaphorically related to Homura. To contrast Madoka and Homura, Gen Urobuchi once said that Madoka is an “Ume Aoki character”, while Homura is a “Gen Urobuchi character.” [16:05] <Froborr> Hmm. [16:05] <Arrlaari> Judge Drosselmeier is described as a clockmaker as well as a judge, but it’s clear that Judging pays the bills and clockmaking is a passion – he’s simply a gear geek. There is a clockwork castle in the book, but rather than being the Prince’s castle, it’s one of the Judge’s works of art [16:05] <Froborr> So the Judge is Urobuchi? [16:06] <Arrlaari> When Fritz and Marie ask him to make the people in the castle move differently, he tells them that “once it has been put together, it only goes one way” and when they lose interest, he sulks until their mother asks him to show her how it works, which cheers him up. [16:07] <Arrlaari> And yes, The Judge is Urobuchi – when he is about to begin telling Marie the story of the hard nut, their mother says “I hope, dear Mr. Drosselmeier, that your story won’t be as horrible as the ones you usually tell.” [16:08] <Froborr> Heheh, which of course draws this and Princess Tutu inexorably closer together. [16:09] <Arrlaari> The Judge is the one who brings the Prince to Marie, but he also brings the Mouse King to the both of them – he stops the Grandfather clock from striking twelve, which is implied to have either summoned the Mouse King or prevented the chime from warding him away [16:10] <Arrlaari> Also notable: The Prince clearly resents the Judge. When Marie tells him that the Judge will fix his jaw, his eyes shoot green sparks. During the tour, when Marie recognizes the lake as being like one the Judge once promised her, the Prince dismissively says that she is as likely to make such a lake as the Judge [16:13] <Arrlaari> The Judge knows that only Marie can break the curse on the Prince, and manipulates the circumstances to bring that about, just as Urobuchi knew that only Madoka could break the curse on his works, represented by Homura [16:15] <Froborr> Innnteresting. [16:16] <Froborr> And again, the fact that Drosselmeyer is the main villain of Princess Tutu and his primary motivation is a preference for stories that end in tragedy makes this whole interpretation hilarious in the best way possible. [16:16] <Arrlaari> I didn’t know that about Princess Tutu, which I haven’t seen, but that is pretty great. [16:17] <Arrlaari> I brought up the Judge’s gear geekery for two points – one, Urobuchi is evidently a firearms geek, two, the line about “once it has been put together, it only goes one way” suggests fatalism. [16:17] <Froborr> You should! Drosselmeyer is the main villain. He is more than a little bit implied to be the same character as from the Nutcracker, though more the ballet than the book. [16:18] <Froborr> Plus there’s all the clockwork imagery associated with Homura. [16:18] <Arrlaari> Yeah. In the book, the clockwork castle goes on the top shelf of the toy cabinet, with the rest of Drosselmeier’s “works of art” [16:19] <Arrlaari> I found that element of his characterization quite endearing [16:19] <Arrlaari> Perhaps mostly because I am favorably inclined towards geeks, even of things for which I am not myself geeky [16:23] <Arrlaari> But I think it’s really cute how this man, who is an ancient wizard, goes into a childish sulk when children don’t appreciate his clockwork castle, and then cheers up as soon as he’s asked to explain it [16:24] <Froborr> Fair enough. [16:26] <Arrlaari> I think that’s all I’ve got. Do you have questions? [16:26] <Froborr> Nope. This was a really interesting interpretation. [16:26] <Froborr> I clearly need to actually read the Nutcracker now. [16:27] <Arrlaari> Oh, one observation: When Kyubey is explaining the experiment to Homura, she is standing in a glass cabinet [16:28] <Arrlaari> After reading the translation I linked above, I was able to see several visual callbacks that I hadn’t associated before. Latin Latin Madoka More Latin 3: The Search for More Mami March 19, 2014 i go to conventions, madoka reviews, panel posts, puella magi madoka magica, reviews, tv reviews The Kickstarter has ONE DAY left, and we’re only $170 from making the first stretch goal! This entry is adapted from my portions of the Latin Latin Madoka More Latin panel I will be giving at Anime Boston this weekend. As a result, it is a bit disjointed compared to an essay. It is also shorter than the previous LLMML entries because of a change of collaborator and therefore collaboration strategies. In the first two panels, Viga and I made the panel by sitting down and brainstorming the entire panel, then I wrote it all up. This time around, Kit and I divvied up panel topics and went off to write our own, so all I have for you is the topics I’m covering. Regular readers may find some of this familiar from The Very Soil and the Rebellion review. Spoiler Warning: Puella Magi Madoka Magica and the Rebellion movie. The first three episodes of Madoka Magica can be understood as a struggle of sorts between the fairly standard magical girl series it originally pretends to be, and the dark meditation on hope and despair that it actually is, the kind of show that would have Magia as an ending theme. Mami is at the center of that struggle; just as the first act of a witch, before we ever see one, is to tear apart the anime art style and replace it with something creepy and strange, Mami’s first act, before we ever see her, is to create a safe space around Madoka and Sayaka where the witch cannot harm them. Her approach to fighting witches is flashy and visually appealing, and includes a signature finishing move with a called attack, all stalwarts of the genre for at least two decades. She is also an instance of the Yamato Nadeshiko, the traditional Japanese ideal of the feminine—loyal, an excellent hostess, wise, mature, and humble, but with a core of steel. Like the traditional magical girl, she exemplifies these feminine virtues in a way that empowers her, but she’s not too* empowered—she is continually subject to the male gaze, especially during combat sequences, with the camera focusing on her breasts, hips, and upper legs much more than for any other chaslideracter. Nonetheless, she is feminine, nurturing, and a leader and warrior, the classic combination for a magical girl. Thus, it falls to her to fight to keep the “Magia” version of the series at bay, and it is only when she’s killed that it is able to take over. And again, her return at the end of the series to give Madoka her costume designs signals that the series is reintroducing some of the core magical girl themes it had deliberately abandoned, most notably hope. By contrast, Homura is in many ways the harbinger of the Magia version of the series. Her function is to disrupt the status quo—her appearance in Madoka’s dream and school is the first strange thing to happen to her in the main series timeline, and though she fights to protect Madoka from the eerier elements of the series, she inevitably is a source of eeriness herself and ultimately makes things worse for Madoka. She does not behave or look like a normal magical girl. She has elements of the “dark magical girl” that sometimes appears as the heroine’s rival—such as Pixy Misa in Magical Project S or Princess Kraehe in Princess Tutu—but notably she is not empowered by the villains, nor is she Madoka’s rival. In those first three episodes, she is positioned much more as Mami’s rival, with them nearly coming to blows multiple times. Additionally, for most of the series she is the character least subject to male gaze, with none of the breast-and-hips focus Mami gets, and her costume lacks the bare midriffs, tube tops, and boob windows of Sayaka and Kyouko. Really, other than her transformation sequence in episode 11, the camera consistently treats her as a character to be watched rather than an object to be ogled, very unusual for a post-Cutey Honey magical girl. She is actually very much like a witch throughout the series, in that her arrival always means something strange, serious, and probably mysterious is happening. She deforms the narrative by her presence, with even Kyubey noting that she is “wrong,” an outlier. Even her power over time is consistent with this role, when we consider what time really is: The three laws of thermodynamics are among the most solid and fundamental findings in modern physics, more certain even than the law of gravity. They are: 1. You can’t win. Energy can be changed from one form or another, but never created from nothing. 2. You can’t break even. Entropy always increases in a closed system; in other words, over time, the energy in a closed system converts into more chaotic, less useful forms until it becomes heat, which requires more energy to use than you get by using it. 3. You can’t quit playing the game. Entropy drops to zero in a perfect crystal at absolute zero… but to cool a system to absolute zero requires infinite energy. Entropy, in other words, is a measure of the disorder in a system, and it always increases; all things decay. Interestingly, not only is this an inevitable process, it is the actual scientific definition of time; “the future” is defined as the direction in which entropy increases. Now, most of the time this isn’t that big a deal. Life on Earth, for example, is able to keep running because it’s not a closed system; we have a giant energy source that hangs over our heads all day every day, just pouring free energy down onto us. As long as you can get energy from outside the system, you can keep entropy at bay. But the universe has no outside; it is a closed system, which means that every second of every day entropy is increasing. Eventually, if nothing else destroys the universe first, we will reach the state known as heat-death: all energy in the universe will be heat, all forms of organization will be impossible, everything will decay into a slowly expanding cloud of slowly cooling gas, and nothing else will ever happen again, forever. However! If you could break the first law of thermodynamics, and create energy from nothing, that would be the same as bringing energy in from outside the universe. Even if all the energy native to the universe has succumbed to entropy, you can use that outside energy to maintain structures and keep the universe running—and if you had a steady supply of that energy, you could keep doing it. Of course, it’s impossible to violate conservation of energy—unless, of course, you’re using magic. Entropy is not the only form decay takes in the series, however. Emotional decay is also a quite prominent theme, particular the descent into despair and depression. Most obvious is the breakdown of magical girls into witches, as we see in Sayaka’s arc. What’s interesting here is that their magic is explicitly stated to come from wishes, i.e., hope, and as they consume it they descend into despair, which descent Kyubey uses to combat entropy. In other words, the entropic decay of the universe is being explicitly connected to depression and despair, and the magic needed to overcome it is likewise emotional. There’s a real resonance here with comments by Urobuchi in the Fate/Zero author’s notes, where he discusses the inevitable decay of the universe and connects this with a decay in his ability to write happy stories. He concludes that only a “pure soul” could reverse entropy and save him from this mounting despair that is beginning to threaten his ability to write at all. This brings us, believe it or not, to a third kind of decay present in the series, spiritual decay. In Buddhism, the first of the Four Noble Truths which form the philosophical core of the religion is the inevitability of dukkha, or suffering. One of the three types of dukkha is the inevitable decay caused by the passage of time, because all material things are transient and eventual break down and are lost—entropy, in other words. Unfortunately, the weight of karma traps us in the material world, and we are thus unable to escape dukkha unless we can do something about karma. Now stop me if you’re heard this one: A young girl achieves a state of transcendence, allowing her to escape the confines of the material world and free herself from suffering, but in an act of supreme self-sacrifice, she instead takes pity on the suffering of countless others, taking their suffering and karmic burdens onto herself so that they can transcend the material in her place. That is, in essence, the story of the Chinese boddhisatva Guan-yin, known in Japan as Kannon, and the clear inspiration for Madokami. She rescues and redeems her friends and her world—but remember what I said about the relationship between entropy and depression and Urobuchi’s previous writing. The TV series does, more or less, end happily, or at least with a better world. The implication is that even the author, unable to write happy stories because of the entropic decay of his own emotional universe—because remember, the world in which these characters live is the inside of his head—has been saved. [elided bits Kit is covering regarding the movies, precisely what is meant by “Rebellion” in this context, and the power of story] So, during the climactic battle in Rebellion, Nagisa and Sayaka reveal why they volunteered to leave the perfect bliss of Madoka’s nirvana-like Magical Girl afterlife for this difficult mission. Sayaka of course did it because she regretted leaving Kyouko behind, and Nagisa, in an apparent continuation of a running gag throughout the movie, did it so she could eat cheese. But that’s in itself interesting—if she loves cheese so much, how come her afterlife doesn’t provide her with any? The answer, of course, lies in what cheese is—decayed milk. There can be no cheese in a spiritual plane devoid of dukkha, because without decay cheese cannot be created. There are good things, in other words, things that some of the magical girls love, not found in Madokannon’s world because they are the creations of decay. In medieval European alchemy, one of the most important concepts was the process called putrefaction. In practical terms, this is just a form of fermentation, but spiritually it was related to the idea that life emerges out of rot. A piece of rotting fruit is disgusting and revolts the human senses, but it is also a riotous explosion of life, molds and maggots that nourish other living things, up and up the food chain until eventually all the natural beauty, all of life, depends on rot for sustenance. The alchemists regarded this as a profound spiritual truth, and that same spiritual truth, whether derived from alchemy or not, is key to the reason BOTH magical girls returned. Without putrefaction there is no cheese for Nagisa. Without the decay of Sayaka’s mental state and Kyouko’s resulting attempt to reach out to her, there is no friendship between the two of them. Everythign they shared, is a product of decay. In other words, the cheese gag is actually far more than a gag; it is evidence that Madoka’s system is imperfect, that some of the magical girls she saves are unhappy in a world without decay. Death and decay are part of life, a part that Madoka is trying to deny. Only time and the inevitable sequels will tell if Homura’s system is any better. We started the panel by discussing the opposing significance of Mami and Homura. That representation still holds in Rebellion; Mami is once again in the position of defending the status quo, the happier, safer world within the barrier with its traditional magical girl team and cute mascot characters and always-survivable monsters. And once again Homura is questioning and challenging that world, introducing new and uncomfortable elements from the alien genre of conspiracy thrillers, such as the notion that one of them is a traitor, that their memories are false, that what they’re perceiving isn’t real. Their fight, which was teased throughout the first three episodes of the series, becomes inevitable here, and Mami emerges as the clear victor. As of course she must be, because Homura is not bringing everything she has to bear; that part of her which is already a witch is trying to maintain this happy world, because she herself created it, so Homura is fighting herself as much as Mami. At the end of the movie, of course, Homura declares herself to be a demon, earning nicknames like Akuma Homura and Homucifer. And of course, there are references to Paradise Lost hidden throughout the movie, just as references to Faust were hidden throughout the series. Put another way, just as the series is in many ways a Buddhist Faust, Rebellion is a Buddhist retelling of Paradise Lost. But does that mean Homura is Satan? In the series, even though Madoka was the main character, it was a supporting character, Homura, who took the actual role of Faust, Similarly, in the movie, even though Homura is the main character, someone else is Satan. Homura’s rebellion, after all, is NOT against God, but rather against herself; the real rebel against Godoka is Kyubey, who like Satan in Paradise Lost believes that he is more qualified to run things, doesn’t understand anyone else’s motivations, gets his butt kicked in a war that tears apart Heaven, and is trapped forever in a Hell that exists inside him. In other words, just as he was Mephistopheles in the series’ version of Faust, he’s Satan in the series’ version of Paradise Lost. But the real question is, is Homura good or evil? And the answer is, yes. Homura is a spectacularly morally ambiguous character. She reunites Madoka with her loved ones, returns Sayaka and Nagisa to worlds where they can get what they want, is working to end the magical girl system once and for all, is acting out of love, and holding the Incubators in check. These are all good things! Of course, she also destroyed one universe and is prepared to sacrifice another if she has to, has very clearly taken on the role of the Buddhist demon Mara, whose job is to use illusions and material things to distract people from their true potential to transcend this world—watch again that scene in the school hallway with Madoka. She deliberately taunts the other girls, forcing Kyoko to waste food, breaking a teacup behind Mami in an echo of the Charlotte fight, and erasing Sayaka’s memories, she’s motivated entirely by her own selfish desires, and she controls all the familiars and probably also witches. Her moral status is incredibly complicated—and so, like the movie itself, we end on an ambiguous note. Corpse of Milk: Themes of Putrefaction in Madoka Magica 3: Rebellion January 1, 2014 madoka reviews, movie reviews, puella magi madoka magica, reviews, tv reviews The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? I had some more thoughts on Madoka Magica: Rebellion that I never found a place for in the spoilerful review, so here’s a second article. Spoilers below the cut! One of the most prominent themes in Puella Magi Madoka Magica is decay. Entropy, obviously is a form of decay, and thus the magical girls/witches are presented as a weapon against decay. However, there are other forms of decay at work: the city steadily degrades over the course of the series, from the bright clean spaces of Episode 1 to the crumbling ruins of Episode 12. Most notably, the mental states of the magical girls themselves decay. This is most pronounced with Sayaka’s descent, but there’s plenty of hints that the other magical girls suffer from severe depression, such as the fountain of Prozac when Mami and Madoka have their heart-to-heart or the way Kyoko constantly eats her feelings. The entire point of the witch system is to get the magical girls to decay emotionally until they become witches; in a sense, all that Kyubey’s system does is shift entropy from the physical decay of the universe into the emotional decay of the girls. This constant presence of decay ties neatly into the series’ Buddhist roots. The first of the Four Noble Truths (the core philosophical tenets of Buddhism) is the inevitability of dukkha, which translates roughly to suffering. There are three kinds of dukkha, the ordinary, obvious dukkha of illness, aging, and death; the anxious dukkha brought about by trying to hold on to things that are subject to time and therefore constantly changing, and the underlying dukkha inherent in all material things caused by their transience. This last corresponds more-or-less directly to entropy, the principle that all material things must inevitably wind down. This inevitability of decay sounds like it ought to be a source of despair, but there are solutions. The primary Buddhist solution is detachment–to escape from this world is to escape the karmic cycle of inevitable despair. This is the door Madoka, in her role as the boddhisattva Kanon, opened for the magical girls at the end of the series. But is it the only solution? Is there no way to be happy within this transient world? Western culture initially answers “no” as well. Christianity offers escape from this world to Heaven as its solution, with the added notion that at some future point God will destroy this world of suffering and replace it with a better one. However, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance a concept arose which gives an alternate path out of decay and despair: putrefaction. Putrefaction is an alchemical concept, an alternate term for fermentation, but it came to refer to the way in which death and rot bring forth life. Consider a rotting piece of fruit. It is revolting to human senses, black and ugly and foul-smelling, but it is also a riotous explosion of new life such as mold and maggots. These in turn serve as nourishment for “higher” forms of life (remember that European alchemy takes the Aristotelian Great Chain of Being as a given), until ultimately even the most exalted creatures depend on rot for their existence. This is more than just the life cycle of biology, it is one of the most profound spiritual teachings of the alchemists: Death brings forth life. Rot and creation are one and the same. Decay is evolution. Or put another way, flowers bloom in cemeteries. One such flower is the red spider lily, a crown of which adorns Homura’s witch form. Because of its red color and the fact that, unlike most flowering plants, it loses its leaves before blossoming, it is associated with loved ones separated by fate and death, and frequently planted in cemeteries in China and Japan. The connection to Homura’s pain, separated from her beloved Madoka, is quite obvious. However, the act of planting the flowers shows that one still acknowledges the lost loved one; love can endure where material existence has decayed away. Indeed, it is that love–originating in a destroyed universe–that brings Madoka back to Homura’s illusory world. With her she brings two other beings, Charlotte and Sayaka. Both return out of duty and loyalty to Madoka, but later state additional motivations. Unsurprisingly, given that she has been obsessed with cheese throughout the film, Charlotte comes back for cheese. Cheese is an excellent symbol of putrefaction, being a delicious and nourishing substance that is at the same time essentially rotting milk.Charlotte is not alone in her motivations for return; all three of Madoka and her servants have returned for something valuable that emerged from decay. In the case of Madoka, it is her relationship with Homura, which evolved over the course of multiple timelines in which Madoka decayed from a bright, cheerful magical girl to the largely passive figure of the timeline showcased in the series, while Homura decays from timidity to being completely shut off. Sayaka, on the other hand, comes for her relationship with Kyoko, a relationship rooted in Kyoko’s attempts to reach Sayaka when the latter’s mental state was decaying rapidly. The products of putrefaction, in other words, can be valuable. Decay is not an unmixed evil. What, then, to make of the fact that Madoka’s perfect, decay-free nirvana necessarily contains no cheese, both because there is no way of making it and because Charlotte would have no reason to leave otherwise? In a world free of decay, free of putrefaction, none of the beauty and life created by rot can exist. Neither cheese nor fire-forged friendships exist in Madoka’s realm, so it cannot be considered an adequate solution to the problem of decay. Only time and the inevitable sequels can tell if Homura’s solution is any better. A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? -James Joyce Spoiler-Filled Review: Madoka Magica 3: Rebellion December 11, 2013 madoka reviews, movie reviews, puella magi madoka magica, reviews, tv reviews This is a spoiler-laden review and initial analysis for a movie that so far has had only a limited theatrical release in English, and as such I am operating on the assumption that someone reading this both wants to see it and has not. As such, the actual review is behind a cut. As I said, it is spoilertastic. Consider yourself warned. In Gnostic myth, the demiurge Ialdabaoth traps its creator, the divine spirit of wisdom Sophia, in the prison we know as material existence. In Buddhist myth, the demon Mara uses the illusions and temptations of material existence to try to ensnare the would-be Buddha, and prevent the attainment of enlightenment. Why do they do this? Normally it is assume d that they are simply evil (or in the case of Ialdabaoth, so wildly incompetent as to amount to the same thing). But maybe they have motivations, one that we might find sympathetic if only we could understand the feelings of such vast, cosmic beings. Maybe their motivations are even something we smaller creatures can understand, feelings we ourselves share. In short, maybe they’re in love. Throughout the first half of Rebellion, the main characters and their supporting cast are in what seems to be a far better world, for them. They are all happier than they were in the series: all five magical girls are alive and working together to easily take down Nightmares, Mami and Kyouko are no longer alone, Madoka and Homura are able to be friends as they were in the first timeline, and Sayaka is at peace with not getting the boy. The downside is that no one outside this group is real, which makes sense for a world created by Homura; as I’ve argued before, she is the representative of in-group care ethics in the series, so of course her world only contains her in-group and a bunch of ciphers. Since the series is, arguably, Homura’s story, her in-group neatly maps on to the main and supporting characters from the series (though admittedly, she probably only drew in Madoka’s family, Hitomi, and Kyousuke because of their importance to Madoka and Sayaka). The movie thus functions as a critique of that care ethos, balancing the critique of consequentialism in the series. Just as, in the series, Kyubey’s excessive consequentialism led him to be willing to torture and sacrifice young girls to stave off the heat-death of the universe, so is Homura willing to ignore the entire rest of the population of Mitadake City to make her friends happy–and that’s only in the first part. Depending on how one reads the remainder of the film after the battle with Homura’s witch form (apparently named Homulilly in supplementary materials), she may be risking the entire universe and overriding Madoka’s own choices in order to keep Madoka in the world she cherishes. Put another way, Homura’s actions and descent into becoming a “demon” by the end of the film are based entirely on love. She takes care to craft the new world into one where the five magical girls can be happy, and in particular making it match as closely as possible the world Madoka treasures. She is acting entirely in accordance with her care ethos–but in the process is willing to become the living incarnation of evil, destroy the universe, and override Madoka’s preferences and choices for what Homura sees as Madoka’s own good. Just as Kyubey’s actions were correct from a consequentialist perspective and utterly monstrous from a care ethics, virtue ethics, or deontological perspective, Homura is acting correctly from a care ethics perspective and committing the worst possible violation of the others: risking universal catastrophe (consequentialism), becoming evil (virtue), and violating Madoka’s right to self-determination and agency (deontology). This counterbalances the villainization of consequentialism in the series, because it is not that consequentialism is inherently wrong; rather, it’s that no meta-ethical approach is complete in itself. Excessive adherence to any one leads inevitably to becoming a moral monster in the eyes of the others; balancing them is the key to true morality. This concept of balance is, of course, yet another way in which the series is intensely Buddhist. In the series, the Buddhist symbolism was mostly given to Madoka, whose story is that of the Bodhisattva Guan-yin (Japanese Kwannon (archaic) or Kanon) even as Homura’s story follows Goethe’s Faust (hence Homura being a transfer from a Christian school at the story’s beginning). In the movie, however, it is Homura’s turn to stand in for a Buddhist figure. As a weaver of illusions who creates a world to trap the Bodhisattva and make her forget her Buddhist nature, Homura is quite clearly the demon Mara, who attempts to do exactly that to the Buddha. Like Mara, Homura fails; Madoka and the other magical girls ultimately break free of her barrier and return to reality, where Madoka reconnects to her ascended self. Here the series turns away from Buddhism and back to Christianity, and more specifically to the (now regarded as heretical) mystical system known as Gnosticism. Madoka now becomes identified with Sophia, stripped of her power and trapped within the material world by her own creation Ialdabaoth (admittedly, Demon Homura self-created, but used power stolen from Madoka to do it). As Ialdabaoth, Homura has taken up the role of guarding and sustaining the material universe by becoming the mistress of the Incubators. But is Homura truly villainous now? Ialdabaoth certainly is, being ultimately responsible for all evil and suffering in Gnostic mythology. Gnosticism, however, is firmly world-denying; it opposes Ialdabaoth to Christ, who in Gnosticism is a purely non-human entity from outside material reality who enters it with the goal of liberating Sophia and all human souls from Ialdabaoth’s trap. Or, looking at it another way, he’s an inhuman alien being from an incomprehensible plane outside our universe that wants to destroy the world, rip out all our souls, and carry them back to his realm. In other words, if one regards the material universe as completely corrupt and worthless, Ialdabaoth is a cosmic evil; if one regards the material universe as being good, Christ is a Lovecraftian horror and Ialdabaoth our only protection from it. Is there any hint that the movie might lean toward the latter perspective? To an extent there is. First, there’s the fact that the new reality is just that, a reality. The series has habitually used changes in art style to denote the illusory realms of the witch’s barriers, and the first half of the movie is no exception–even before Homura begins to figure out that the city is a fake, there are quite a few intrusions of other art into the false city. Despite that the new reality is shown as forming when Homura’s witch’s barrier expands to cover the entire cosmos, it is depicted consistently in the art style of the characters, with the few appearances of witch’s familiars only appearing at Homura’s command and self-erasing almost immediately. It is thus a real thing that Ialdabaoth/Homura is working to protect. Second, Homura has had extensive character development by this point. Despite her declarations that she is now alone and taking on the role of everyone’s enemy, it is clearly just a role–she still arranges the new reality to be kinder and better for them than any previous universe. She worked alone throughout the series, but at the climax of the movie she demonstrates that she has learned to trust others–she knows that becoming a witch in close proximity to a depowered Madoka will not put Madoka at risk, because she trusts Mami and Kyouko to kill her. This is a Homura who can trust and work with others, who tries to bring some happiness, who has even managed to expand her in-group beyond Madoka to include other friends and allies–she is neither a monster nor a mindless gibbering incompetent, the two traditional depictions of Ialdabaoth. She is, in her interactions with Madoka, once again much closer to Mara, deliberately acting to keep Madoka focused on the world and away from connecting with her Buddha-nature. Homura, in other words, has not fallen. She is not Lucifer, trying to usurp the power of God and as a result transforming into a creature of pure evil. Homura is a complex character, not a cosmic force such as Madoka became at the end of the series; she is not the incarnation of Love or Evil or anything else, but a person, who has made choices good, bad, and arguable, and now must live and work with the consequences of those choices. Despite that she has done everything wrong from the perspective of most moral systems, she has also done everything right. From a consequentialist perspective, yes, she destroyed the universe, but now she is the universe’s protector. From a deontological perspective, yes, she overrode Madoka’s choices from the end of the series, but at the same time she has kept the goal Madoka sought intact while allowing Madoka to continue to exist as an incarnate person–she has, in other words, enabled Madoka (and Sayaka and Nagisa, for that matter) to regain their lost agency and capacity for self-determination. In terms of virtue ethics, yes, she embodies Evil now–but also she embodies Love, which most systems regard as being a virtue worth cultivating. And finally, from a universal care ethics perspective, she is helping to maintain the system Madoka established and holds the Incubators in check. Devil and saint, good and evil, concept and character, demiurge and struggling young woman; Homura is an embodiment of contradictions and opposites, proving ultimately that all these seemingly disparate concepts are really one. It’s hard to get more Buddhist (or, for that matter, postmodern) than that. Spoiler-Free Review: Madoka Magica 3: Rebellion December 9, 2013 madoka reviews, movie reviews, puella magi madoka magica, reviews, tv reviews So that happened. I think the best review of Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie 3: Rebellion is the reaction of the theater audience when I saw it: As the credits rolled, they erupted in an outburst of confusion, denial, and outrage. Slowly this died away to silence, and then, after a few minutes, slow clapping started, which accelerated into uproarious applause. It’s that kind of movie. Visually, it was of course stunning, combining all the elements that made the TV series so striking and then transcending them. Yuki Kajiura’s music was likewise outstanding, as it was in the series. And it managed both shocking moments on par with the ending of episode 8 of the TV series, battle sequences that easily topped the spectacle of episode 11, and punch-the-air moments on par with episode 12. I will say that, like the series, it was heavily cryptic. Not ambiguous or confusing (this is Madoka, not Evangelion), but encoded to mean something very different to people who recognize its allusions as opposed to those who do not. However, the allusions are not actually that hard–having read Paradise Lost, and being rather shallowly familiar with Buddhist and Gnostic mythology was enough for me to not share in the rest of the audience’s outburst–instead, I found this a satisfying, appropriate, more-or-less happy conclusion to the series, and am perfectly content for it to end here. On the other hand, if they’re going to continue producing something this good, I have no objection to there being another movie or TV season. Note: As this is the spoiler-free review, any comments which contain spoilers will be deleted as a courtesy to readers who did not get to see the movie (the availability of which is still quite limited in the English-speaking world) and wish to. If you want to make spoiler-y comments, wait until Wednesday, when my spoilery review and initial analysis will go up. Latin Latin Madoka More Latin 2: Thermodynamic Boogaloo September 4, 2013 i go to conventions, madoka reviews, panel posts, puella magi madoka magica, reviews, tv reviews, Wednesday Whatevers This post is adapted from the script for Latin Latin Madoka More Latin 2: Thermodynamic Boogaloo, a panel Viga and I presented at Anime Boston 2013. As an adapted panel, it has a rather different structure than my usual essays; also note that some portions are repurposed chunks of the original Latin Latin Madoka More Latin, although most of the content is new. As promised in the title, we start with that most exciting of topics, thermodynamics. Woo. You may have heard economics referred to as “the dismal science.” Well, bullshit. The real dismal science is thermodynamics, as witness the three basic laws of thermodynamics: Energy is conserved. You can never create or destroy energy, only change it from one form to another. You can’t win. Entropy increases in a closed system. In other words, energy in a closed system becomes more disorganized and less usable (which is to say, it becomes waste heat) until ultimately everything breaks down in what’s called “heat death.” You can’t break even. Entropy drops to zero in a perfect crystal at absolute zero. But the closer you get to absolute zero, the more energy it takes to get closer, and it would take infinite energy to actually reach it. You can’t quit playing the game. Note that the second law applies to a closed system. If you have an open system—one where energy can come in from outside—entropy doesn’t have to increase. For example, life on Earth doesn’t need to worry much about entropy, because we’ve got a big ol’ giant fusion reactor hanging over our heads, pouring energy onto us. The problem is that the universe is a closed system, and there’s no “outside” to get energy from—that’s kind of what “universe” means. The universe itself WILL eventually run down into heat death, reaching a state of perfect disorder, a vast cloud of undifferentiated, gradually expanding and cooling gas. Of course, if you could create energy from nothing, that would be basically the same as importing it from outside the universe, but that requires breaking the first law. Oh, and just to be extra fun—these are the most experimentally confirmed and reconfirmed findings in science. Not even gravity has as much empirical support as these three laws—they are as close to absolutely certain facts as any science can be. And extra, extra fun—Emmy Noether did some very impressive math and proved more than a century ago that “energy isn’t conserved” is a synonym for “the laws of physics change over time.” That’s not a whole lot better—avoiding heat death might not be worth it if it means gravity just randomly turns off some days! That’s what the Incubators are trying to change, and it turns out that the laws of physics can briefly change or be broken (which is mathematically identical to being able to make energy from nothing!) when magical girls do their thing, and especially when they become witches. But there’s more to entropy in Madoka than the science… The theme of decay is everywhere in this series. You can see it in the way Mitakihara City starts clean and beautiful, but ends up ruined by Walpurgisnacht. You can see it in Sayaka’s descent from happy kid—the most playful of Madoka’s trio of friends—and warrior of justice to depression, murder, despair, and ultimately becoming a witch. It’s also in the way Homura’s every attempt to turn back the clock and fix things makes them worse. In the first timeline Mami and Madoka die fighting Walpurgisnacht, but Walpurgisnacht is defeated and no new witch created. In all other timelines Mami doesn’t live that long, not to mention Madoka becoming a progressively worse witch at the end of each timeline until the fifth. But the biggest example is the way the characters’ wishes turn against them. They each get what they wanted—Kyubey always honestly fulfills the wish—but soon find that they regret it anyway. Once gained, the thing they desired quickly sours—Kyoko’s father commits murder-suicide, Sayaka saves the boy but loses him to another, Mami survives but finds herself isolated as a friendless orphan, and Homura eventually realizes her attempts to protect Madoka are just increasing her suffering. Everything they wish for rots away. This theme of entropy or the inevitability of decay is an important factor of Buddhist thought, which is a huge influence on Madoka. Buddhism uses the existence of decay to argue that this world is corrupt and corrupting, an illusion that must be seen past, or else it will use your desires—your wishes—to lure you in, and then trap you when the things you wished for inevitably decay. Kyubey also talks about karma a lot. Karma is a very complex concept, and different sects view it very differently. The Buddhist view can be very loosely summed up as cause and effect: action plants seeds which grow (maybe in this life, maybe in the next) into consequences. Good actions lead to good consequences and bad to bad, but either way, it has the effect of trapping you in the cycle of karma, because those consequences lead to further action which leads to more consequences. The magical girl happiness-despair cycle works the same way, dragging them steadily down to witch-hood. The weight of karma also binds people to a cycle of rebirth, forcing them live over an over again, facing the burdens of the karma from past lives. Episode 10, in other words. Enlightenment, the understanding of the true nature of the world, is the only way to escape karma–and it is only on the last cycle that Madoka learns both of Homura’s time travel (the cycle of rebirth) and precisely what the Incubators are doing (the nature of karma). And Walpurgisnacht strongly resembles a lotus blossom (a symbol of Enlightenment) while at the same time the gear motif reflects the ever-grinding wheel of karma. Note that Walpurgisnacht is both where Homura always resets time—binding herself and Madoka more tightly—and where Madoka ascends to goddesshood. Because, of course, that ascension has a strong Buddhist element, too… Madoka resembles a figure from Buddhist mythology, the bodhissatva Kwannon. Kwannon was a young girl who nearly attained nirvana, but stopped just before she reached it. She transcended space and time to reach out to others and help them to Enlightenment, before finally ascending to nirvana herself. This helps explain the Virgin Mary connection, as well–people who syncretize Buddhism and Christianity often identify Kwannon and Mary together, and when Christianity was illegal in Japan during the Edo period, underground Christians disguised statues of Mary as Kwannon, and eventually fused them into a single goddess, the cult of Maria-Kwannon. Madoka resonates with Kanon quite strongly. Like Kanon, she is an incarnation of compassion and hope, sacrificing herself through all of time and space to help bring others to the same heaven she has attained. Kanon can see Nirvana, but holds herself back from that perfection—how much must that hurt? And she is at every point in time and space, sacrificing herself eternally to ensure everyone else can be with her. That’s pretty much what Madoka does in the final episode. There’s also Marian elements to Madoka, which makes sense if Madoka, Kanon, and Mary are all versions of the same ideal goddess of compassion, hope, and salvation. For example, the rose is a symbol of Mary, and Madoka has a rose on her bow that blooms when she begins to ascend. The show is also a retelling of Faust (as we covered in detail last year), and Madoka fulfills the roles of both Gretchen (who ends up serving Mary in the afterlife) and Mary in that story. Finally, the music Kyosuke plays when Madoka and Sayaka watch him in the final episode is Ave Maria, a musical setting of the Latin prayer known to English speakers as “Hail Mary,” requesting Mary to ask for the forgiveness of the person making the prayer. Moving on to something completely different… Madoka is a clear example of postmodernism in anime. Postmodernism, as a philosophical and artistic movement, is mostly interested in the ways in which we construct meaning. Postmodern art, generally speaking, is art that deliberately calls attention to the way in which it constructs its meaning; where most art tries to hide the technique and create an illusion of reality, postmodern art demands that you notice its artificiality. The main technique by which it does this is to strip signifiers out of their normal context and then treat them as if they’ll still work anyway. The simplest example is breaking the fourth wall, which pulls the work out of its normal context of existing entirely in an imaginary world, and smashes it against our own reality. None of the characters in Madoka break the fourth wall to come out of the show, but the witches break it in the other direction—their barriers are in a different art style, and the characters notice and are freaked out by this. It’s the fourth wall breaking into the show instead of out—one of the elements of the show that we’re normally supposed to ignore according to that vile “suspension of disbelief” idea is actually a part of the story. Another way in which the show calls attention to the way it and other works construct meaning is by bringing up, and then dismissing, common magical-girl generic elements. In essence, it does for magical girls what Neon Genesis Evangelion did for mecha; what fans tend to call a genre deconstruction, though an actual deconstruction is something very different. What Madoka and Eva do is take common elements of the genre and play them as straight as possible, while removing the narrative conveniences that make them work. Eva deconstructed the super robot genre by showing how psychologically devastating it would be to place the fate of the world on the shoulders of a child and force them to face monsters. Madoka does the same with magical girls, as well as showing the isolation their superhero-esque roles and secret identities create. Mami’s death, for instance: she dies against a third-episode monster of the week, proving this is not the sort of magical girl series where the girls have plot armor, or where the big Final Attack always works. At the same time, just as Eva ultimately returns at the end to the core shonen theme of a young man embracing hope and self-determination to cross the threshold into adulthood, Madoka embraces the core magical girl theme of a young woman evolving into a powerful, maternal goddess-figure able to protect the world. It takes the genre apart, but puts it back together again as something new, and in so doing sets a new benchmark, a new standard of what the genre could be. The question, of course, is why Madoka is playing with the form and genre like this. And the answer seems to be that it’s trying to reach beyond itself, to break the fourth wall in a novel way—not the wall between work and reader, but between work and author. The truth is, I haven’t always been this way. I have often written pieces that didn’t have a perfect ending, but by the last chapter the protagonist would still possess a belief that “Although there will be many hardships to come, I still have to hold on.” But ever since I don’t know when, I can no longer write works like this. I have nothing but contempt for the thing men call happiness, and have had to push the characters I poured my heart out to create into the abyss of tragedy. For all things in the world, if they are just left alone and paid no attention, are bound to advance in a negative direction. No matter what we do, we can’t stop the universe from getting colder, either , and on the same principle. This world is only maintained in existence by a series of logical, common-sense processes; it can never escape the bondage of its physical laws. Therefore, in order to write a perfect ending for a story you must possess the power to break the chain of cause and effect, invert black and white, and act in complete contradiction to the rules of the universe. Only a heavenly and chaste soul, a soul that resounds with genuine praise for humanity, can save the story; to write a story with a happy ending is a double challenge, to the author’s body as well as the mind. At some point, Gen Urobuchi lost that power. By having the non-diegetic space of art style invade the diegetic space of the characters’ awareness, a bridge is formed between inside the story and outside. By raising and dismissing generic elements, Urobuchi can stress-test them, and discover how strong they really are. In short, by redeeming her universe Madoka can prove to Urobuchi that he still has the power to write a happy ending; she has redeemed not only her universe but her creator. In this sense, the series serves as a leap of faith for Urobuchi. The leap of faith is originally from theology, and originates with “Lessing’s Ditch,” which posited that there is no way to make a rational, evidence-based argument for Christianity, but it can be generalized to any moral belief system. Basically, Lessing’s Ditch argues that the is-ought problem—that there is no way to logically get from “here’s how things are” to “this is what you should do” unless you start having some kind of beliefs already—is insurmountable; you cannot ever know what action to take or what to believe in based on facts or evidence alone, but must have some kind of moral principles or values you take on faith. Kierkegaard then took this a step forward by introducing the “leap of faith”—though he originally called it the leap to faith–the idea that, upon reaching the ditch, one can consciously choose to leap across. That, in other words, one must make a decision to believe in something before one can make any other meaningful decisions. This is exactly Urobuchi’s problem that he tackles in Madoka: he is aware of the nature of the physical universe, and it leaves him paralyzed, in despair, unable to write anything but misery. In Madoka, he creates something he can believe in, and now can take action—even though, ultimately he created his belief, leapt to faith. Speaking of morality, we’re going to wrap up by discussing the characters as examples of different approaches to morality, starting with Kyoko. Kyoko is a hedonist; she lives for pleasure. Originally she pursues immediate gratification like food and games. At this stage she is completely selfish, willing to sacrifice people to familiars so they’ll grow into witches and provide her with Grief Seeds. However, her interactions with Sayaka slowly leads her to become less selfish, and to start to crave more enduring pleasures such as friendship. Ultimately, she dies betraying her own principles, acting entirely selflessly as she sacrifices herself not even to save someone, but just to ensure that Sayaka is not alone. Mami is hard to place, but she may be a deontologist—that is, someone who follows a set of rules, principles, duties, and rights in determining right and wrong. In particular, she seems to be driven largely by a sense of duty. However, she has so little screen time it’s hard to be sure. Sayaka is a study in virtue ethics—that is, instead of following a set of rules or principles, she tries to act consistently with certain virtues or follow the example of some ideal person. She basically has a picture in her head of what a hero is like, and she tries to imitate that image. However, because she is fixated on imitating something that isn’t her, she loses sight of her own needs, and falls into despair. She is unable to cope when her self-image doesn’t match reality, first when she learns she’s basically a zombie, and later when she appears to have murdered the two misogynistic jerks on the train. Kyubey is a utilitarian; he believes that the right thing is what does the most good for the most people. This leads him to conclude that it’s okay to cause great suffering for a few people and to treat others as livestock instead of people, and this leads directly to his downfall: Because he didn’t care, it never even occurred to him (or his people) to try to find some other way of circumventing entropy, or even just to get the full informed consent of the magical girls! He doesn’t understand why humans value such things, but he clearly knows that they do, or else he wouldn’t know which information to keep secret until after the contract is done. But because things like respecting the values of others, obtaining consent, and being honest are not factors in a utilitarian decision, which only ever considers what creates the greatest benefits, he creates a situation in which Madoka rewrites reality and forces him into a less efficient path to saving the universe. Madoka and Homura are two approaches to care ethics. For both of them, right and wrong are emotionally determined; we see both of them carefully considering their options, but that consideration is not purely rational; it’s a combination of reason and feeling, and compassion and empathy for others are key parts of their motivation. Both of them value other people as individuals; the main difference is that Homura practices an in-group care ethics, where she only cares about the people closest to her, while Madoka cares about and feels empathy for everyone she meets. This is key, because ultimately compassion, empathy, and hope become cosmic forces. Madoka, of all the characters, is the one who comes across as the most moral, because she wants to make people happy—not in the utilitarian sense of clinical, detached decision making, but in the sense of wanting to know the people she encounters and put an individually crafted smile on each of their faces. Latin Latin Madoka More Latin (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) August 28, 2013 madoka reviews, panel posts, puella magi madoka magica, reviews, tv reviews, Wednesday Whatevers In cased you missed it, some pretty major changes to the blog are starting today, with more on the way. See last night’s post for more. This article is adapted from a panel on the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica I gave with Viga Gadson at Anime Boston 2012, hence its very different structure from my usual posts. It assumes the reader has watched all 12 episodes of the show, and contains unmarked spoilers. Headings roughly correspond to slides in the presentation. Magical Girl Evangelion A lot of people have compared Madoka to Neon Genesis Evangelion, and I think that is a fair comparison. Certainly, when I watched it, I found it an equally mind-blowing experience, if not quite so trippy. It has owned my brain like nothing since Eva; I want to take it apart and grok it entirely, and the more I do, the more I find. But it also fills a similar role to Eva (infamously a deconstruction in both the fandom and academic senses of the mecha genre) as a deconstruction of the magical girl genre. A genre deconstruction is a work that takes the normal tropes and elements of a genre and plays them as straight as possible, while removing the narrative conveniences that make them work. Eva deconstructed the super robot genre by showing how psychologically devastating it would be to place the fate of the world on the shoulders of a child and force them to face monsters. Madoka does the same with magical girls, as well as showing the isolation their superhero-esque roles and secret identities create. Mami’s death has this effect–she dies against a third-episode monster of the week, proving this is not the sort of magical girl series where the girls have plot armor, or where the big Final Attack always works. At the same time, just as Eva ultimately returns at the end to the core shounen theme of a young man embracing hope and self-determination to cross the threshold into adulthood, Madoka embraces the core magical girl theme of a young woman evolving into a powerful, maternal goddess-figure able to protect the world. It takes the genre apart, but puts it back together again as something new, and in so doing sets a new benchmark, a new standard of what the genre could be. I suspect that for quite some time to come, the test of the best magical girl series will be, “How do they stack up to Madoka?” Madoka as a Feminist Work Magic is frequently used as a metaphor in many works–that is the entire basis of the magical realism genre, for example. Magical girl shows are no exception: in them, the magic is often a symbol of female empowerment. The magical girl is an empowering figure, a girl endowed with the ability to resolve her problems, protect others, and ultimately (at least, in many series), ascend to a sort of goddess role, some more literally than others (for example, Princess Serenity in Sailor Moon, or Sakura surpassing Clow Reed at the end of Cardcaptor Sakura). The magical girl is able to escape the confines of a traditional female role and take on the traditionally male role of the warrior, without sacrificing any of her femininity the way an Amazon character might (as in “Pretty Warrior Sailor Moon,” the literal translation of the Japanese title). The transformation sequence is symbolic of the way she must transform into something other than “a girl”–a usually passive role symbolic of innocence and weakness–to achieve her full potential. Madoka subverts all of this; the magical girls become liches, sacrificing not only their femininity but their humanity, as victims of a predator who uses pubescent girls for his own purposes. Middle school girls are the perfect targets for his plan; they have the extreme emotional highs and lows of any adolescent, they are inexperienced and thus gullible, and girls tend to be trained more than boys to worry about others’ feelings and put others’ needs ahead of their own. Where a boy’s social training might lead him to feel perfectly fine about wishing selfishly, a girl is likely to be trained to feel guilty about pursuing her own needs and wants, and thus either makes a “selfless” wish and regrets making the wrong wish, like Sayaka or Kyoko, or wish for her own needs like Mami, and then feel guilty that she didn’t wish for others, too. In the end, however, Madoka is able to find the right wish to achieve that godlike status, and so this is another sense the series deconstructs, and then reconstructs, the magical girl genre. But Madoka not only deconstructs magical girls, it also deconstructs the vile moe aesthetic that has been steadily corrupting the genre for the past decade. Happily, it makes no effort to reconstruct it, and leaves it ultimately behind. Moe is the fetishization of vulnerability, weakness, and suffering. The (usually male) viewer is supposed to feel a protective impulse toward the (usually female) moe character as the basis for an emotional attachment that is depicted as an idealized form of love. As in all forms of White Knight-ism, the essential paradox of this fetish is that the moe fan does not care about the character before they suffer or demonstrate weakness, and wish for the character to be safe, non-vulnerable and non-suffering; they want–need–the suffering to happen in order to fulfill their fantasy of swooping in to save the day. Madoka starts with main characters that fulfill standard moe archetypes. Madoka is your typical moe-blob; Sayaka the happy tomboy hiding pain and a need for love; Kyoko a tsundere; Homura a Rei Ayanami clone. It makes them cute, puts them in frilly outfits, and generally makes them as moe as possible. Then it starts to hurt them. A lot. In the least sexy ways imagineable. Their suffering is depicted realistically as possible, not just pain but despair, loss, grief, suicide. Their vulnerability is not endearing; it is horrifying. You do not want to swoop in and comfort them so that they will love you; you just want it to STOP; it seeks to evoke real empathy, rather than the fake, objectifying, self-serving pseudo-empathy of moe. This is a huge chastisement to moe fans and creators. It is saying, “You want others to be unsafe for your gratification. What about them? No one would ever wish to be vulnerable, but you do not care about them, only about how they can make you feel.” It accuses moe fans and creators of violating (in spirit, given these are fictional characters, but still) the categorical imperative to treat others as subjects, as people with wants and needs of their own, as ends in themselves, rather than as objects to be used as means to satisfy one’s own desires. Allusions and References But Madoka is about more than just other anime. It is chock full of references to other stories, works, and ideals as well. For example, Madoka heavily references the Russian folkloric character Koshchyei Byessmyertnuy, in English Koshchei the Deathless. Koshchei is an evil wizard who menaces young women, usually the hero’s love interest. He cannot be killed by normal means because he has removed his soul from his body and hidden it in an egg (sound familiar?) He hides the egg inside a duck inside a hare inside an iron chest buried under a green oak tree on an island in the middle of the sea. If someone takes the egg, Koshchei becomes a weak and powerless husk (sound familiar?) If someone tosses the egg around, Koshchei will be flung around too–remember Kyubey causing Sayaka pain by hurting the egg? And if the egg is destroyed, Koshchei dies. The Soul Gems in Madoka are clearly based on the Koshchei legend. They are often compared to the phylacteries of Dungeons & Dragons’ liches (which are also based on Koshchei), but the fact that they are egg-shaped and that damage to them is felt as pain by the girls suggests that they are more directly taken from the older legend. Of course, as many fans and critics have noticed, one of the series’ main sources of references is Goethe’s Faust, to the point of being arguably a retelling. Faust is the retelling of an old legend that has been repeated many times of a man who makes a bargain with the devil, most well known from the English play by Christopher Marlowe, the two-part German play by Goethe, and the French opera by Gounod based mostly on part one of Goethe’s version. Faust, an old man who is a wise sage but finds no joy in his life, makes a deal with the demon Mephistopheles to become young again and try living his life differently. Mephistopheles agrees to show Faust all the pleasures and joys of life he missed, but in return, if Faust ever experiences a moment of perfect happiness so great that he wishes to stop time and make it last forever, Faust will immediately die and go to Hell. The first part (published 1808, revised 1828) mostly follows Faust as he woos a young woman named Margarete (sometimes also known by the short form Gretchen). After he kills her brother, he leaves for a while to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, when German folklore says witches and demons have an orgy on Mt Brocken. (Night on Bald Mountain, both the Mussorgsky piece and the Fantasia segment based on it, are depictions of the Ukrainian version of this legend.) He returns to find Gretchen is now mad and in prison, and she gave birth to his child but it was taken away. He tries to free her, but she is so delusional she cannot understand what is going on and he is forced to leave her behind as he flees the guards. Part two (published 1832, the year of Goethe’s death) is much stranger: Faust is now getting old again, a successful and wealthy man and a powerful sorcerer, and he has time-travel adventures, has an affair with Helen of Troy, saves the German economy by inventing fiat currency, and wins a war by bringing in an army of demons. At the end, he finally does something motivated solely by the good of another, instead of himself, and experiences a moment of perfect happiness. He dies, but because it was doing a good deed, he goes to judgment instead of immediately to Hell. Gretchen pleads with the Virgin Mary to let her guide him into Heaven, and Mary agrees. From the start, Madoka is littered with Faust quotes, showing up as graffiti and as cryptograms inside the witches’ barriers. But more importantly, the story itself has many Faustian elements. Walpurgisnacht, for example, while it is referred to as an immensely powerful witch, appears to actually be an event involving many witches engaging in an orgy of destruction, just as in Faust. The witch’s barriers are prisons created by overwriting reality with their own despair and madness, just like Gretchen experiences near the end of Faust Part One. A moment of perfect happiness leads directly to Hell for Faust, and this happens to multiple characters in the anime: Mami goes in moments from the blissful discovery that she has friends and allies to her brutal death; Kyoko’s father is happy to have a congregation that listens to him, only to commit murder-suicide when he discovers how Kyoko made it happen; Sayaka experiences the happiness of knowing she has saved Kyousuke, only for that to turn out to be the beginning of her descent to despair and witch-hood. Even moreso, the story of Madoka is arguably a retelling of Faust. Kyubey is clearly Mephistopheles; he first appears as a cute animal, and is soon revealed as a frightening, powerful predator who offers wishes in exchange for souls. Just as Mephistopheles wants Faust to experience a moment of happiness and then descend forever into Hell, Kyubey is preying on the emotional highs and lows of the magical girls, and wants the energy released when they descend into despair and become witches. Since Kyubey’s primary target is Madoka, it might be tempting to see her as Faust, but that would be a mistake. The anime more readily compares her to Gretchen; her witch form is named Gretchen Kriemhilde, for example. Kyubey spends most of the anime trying and failing to get her to take the contract, before finally succeeding, just as Mephistopheles’ is frustrated in his first few attempts to corrupt Gretchen so that he can make her fall for Faust. Finally, her wish to guide magical girls away from being witches parallels Gretchen’s wish to guide Faust into Heaven. Madoka also takes on a role similar to that of the Virgin Mary; the end of Faust Part Two describes her as a goddess who presides over Heaven and guides people there, which is very much the role Madoka finally takes. If not Madoka, who is Faust? Homura is a fairly close match. Like Faust, she makes a bargain with the devil to turn back time and correct the mistakes she believes she has made. More literally in Homura’s case, but then again Faust eventually time-travels, too. Her closeness to Madoka and desire to rescue her also reflect Faust’s feelings for Gretchen, and her power to stop time may be a reference to the conditions of Faust’s curse. Finally, like Faust she eventually learns that her attempt to turn back the clock has only made things worse. However, Madoka also subverts Faust. In the end, Homura’s wish is not a mistake but key to breaking the cycle, and Madoka/Gretchen appeals to Kyubey/Mephistopheles, not Mary, to gain the power to guide others to Heaven. That is because Madoka is neither a character from Faust nor a Christian figure at all. Her true role is as a character from another mythology entirely. Madokanon Despite its connections to the Christian legend of Faust, Madoka is a very Buddhist story overall. One of the central tenets of Buddhism is that desire leads to suffering, and this is very much the case in Madoka. All wishes lead ultimately to pain and despair; emotional highs are balanced by emotional lows. The series also talks about karma quite a bit. Karma is a very complex concept, and different sects view it very differently. The Buddhist view can be very loosely summed up as cause and effect: action plants seeds which grow (maybe in this life, maybe in the next) into consequences. Good actions lead to good consequences and bad to bad, but either way, it has the effect of trapping you in the cycle of karma, because those consequences lead to further action which leads to more consequences. The magical girl happiness-despair cycle works the same way, dragging them steadily down to witch-hood. The weight of karma also binds people to a cycle of rebirth, forcing them live over an over again, facing the burdens of the karma from past lives. Episode 10, in other words. Enlightenment, the understanding of the true nature of the world, is the only way to escape karma–and it is only on the last cycle that Madoka learns both of Homura’s time travel (the cycle of rebirth) and precisely what the Incubators are doing (the nature of karma). Finally, Walpurgisnacht strongly resembles a lotus blossom (a symbol of Enlightenment) while at the same time the gear motif reflects the ever-grinding wheel of karma. Buddhism also traditionally divides the universe into six levels of being, those of Gods, Asuras, Humans, Animals, Preta, and Hell. The God-realm is occupied by devas, beings far more powerful than those of other realms, with powers of telepathy and illusion, and one class of deva are passionless and sexless, just like Kyubey. The demigods of Asura, meanwhile, are more powerful than humans, characterized by jealousy and desires, and reborn as a consequence of good intentions that led to bad results–the magical girls. Lastly, the Human realm is actually the closest to Enlightenment, the one from which it is possible to step directly into Nirvana–and it is in timelines that Madoka spent almost entirely human that she attains her highest level of being. As noted earlier, Madoka resembles a figure from Buddhist mythology, the bodhissatva Kwannon (traditional Japanese), also called Kanon (modern Japanese) or Guanyin (Chinese). Kwannon was a young girl who nearly attained nirvana, but stopped just before she reached it. She transcended space and time to reach out to others and help them to Enlightenment, before finally ascending to nirvana herself. This helps explain the Virgin Mary connection, as well–people who syncretize Buddhism and Christianity often identify Kwannon and Mary together, and when Christianity was illegal in Japan during the Edo period, underground Christians disguised statues of Mary as Kwannon. Thus it is that after saving everyone across time and space as a bodhisattva, Madoka then crosses the threshhold to the next level. She becomes a force of nature, an incarnation of hope, dissolving her consciousness, and attaining Nirvana. Hope and Homura Madoka represents hope, but a particular kind of hope. She is the hope that a higher power will help you, the hope that the universe is an orderly and friendly place and things will ultimately work out for the best. She is also hope in human goodness. Series writer Gen Urobuchi once wrote: No matter what we do, we can’t stop the universe from getting colder, either, and on the same principle. This world is only maintained in existence by a series of logical, common-sense processes; it can never escape the bondage of its physical laws. At some point, Gen Urobuchi lost that power. He still hasn’t recovered. But Madoka was able to restore that hope, even for her author; by restoring her creator’s hope, she recreated her universe. Homura is a different kind of hope. As the writer and philosopher Vaclav Havel put it, “Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” Homura has no sense that things will work out, but she still carries on, because they must work out. and in her moment of despair, she gives birth to still greater hope. As Havel said, “Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.” Consider the circumstances of Homura’s encounter with the world of magical girls, depicted in episode 10. The background of that scene is clearly heavily influenced by Picasso’s Guernica. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. Guernica is a town in the province of Biscay in Basque Country. For over three hours, twenty-five or more of Germany’s best-equipped bombers, accompanied by at least twenty more Messerschmitt and Fiat Fighters, dumped one hundred thousand pounds of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the village, slowly and systematically pounding it to rubble. It is a symbol of the brutality of war. However, The light in the center of the painting represents hope in a disaster, as small light sources traditionally have done in many paintings. A reference to the painting is shown beneath Homura as she walks towards her first witch. It is not actually part of Guernica, but clearly references it with the similar cubist style and monochrome palette. For Homura this can represent her chracter arc fighting a war against Madoka’s fate and Kyubey. At the time it showed up in episode 10 she was also at conflict with herself. Or it could just be the animators having a good time, but that’s a boring option. According to Urobuchi, Homura is Madoka’s “evangelist,” the one who knows about Madoka and tells others that she is watching over and protecting them. Since magical girls’ bodies are being constantly healed, it is possible Homura lives a very, very long time; the final scene with her is suggestive of a post-apocalyptic future (possibly also hinted at by the appearance of a Mad Max character in the episode 4 next episode preview illustration). Perhaps she wanders the world, telling all magical girls of Madoka, helping to spread the hope. In that final scene, she sprouts witch-like wings. According to interviews with the creators, the storyboards had those wings white, but the animators changed it at the last minute to be more mysterious. There thus appears to be no intended meaning. However, if you combine it with the mention that, in the new timeline, Sayaka “used the last of her power” to kill a witch, it may represent a sort of limit break, where a magical girl uses all her magic in one blast, beginning the transformation into a witch, but then Madoka kills/saves her. We thus get to see the end of Homuras journey, where, urged on by Madoka, she protects the world one last time before moving on to peace. Despair and Destiny If only every magical girl were so lucky in every time line. Sayaka represents a version of despair. She wishes for the benefit of another, but is really just being dishonest. What she wants is for Kyousuke to love her back, but that is not what she wishes for, with tragic consequences. She is unable to bear the price of her wish, and descends into a deep depression. She becomes self-hating and self-destructive. Another way to look at it: She makes a sacrifice to try to be with her prince, but he instead falls for another. In her despair, she loses her form. Sayaka is the little mermaid (the original version of the fairy tail, where she dies), hence the tail on her witch form. Kyoko is another version of despair. Like Sayaka she wished for another, but where Sayaka lost everything because the person she wished for had no idea what she had done, Kyoko lost everything when the person she wished for found out what she had done. She pretends to feel no pain, and throws herself into hedonism, doing whatever she wants without restraint, as if this will make her feel better. Ultimately, just like Sayaka she is unable to live with her isolation, and dies to be with Sayaka. The last major character, Kyubey, represents destiny. He perpetuates the cycle of despair that traps the magical girls and witches, and incubates the karmic seeds of the girls wishes into full witches. He claims to be emotionless, but this is absurd: He has goals, therefore he wants something, therefore he has emotions. What he lacks is passion and emotional empathy–he has intellectual empathy (the ability to know what someone is feeling; absolutely necessary to successfully manipulate someone), but not emotional empathy (the ability to share what someone else is feeling–feeling sad when you see someone cry or glad when you see them smile). That is the definition of a sociopath. Just as he implies that, by his species standards, humans are all mentally ill, by human standards, so is he. Kyubey is actually working toward a good goal, however. He seeks to avert the heat-death of the universe. This is a reference to the laws of thermodynamics, and specifically entropy. Entropy is the measure of disorder in a system, which always increases until the system breaks down. The only way to keep a system running is to bring in energy from outside–for example, life on Earth is able to defy entropy locally because it has a steady supply of energy from outside the Earth in the form of sunlight. The reduction of entropy in turning dirt and air and water into a tree is more than balanced by the increase of entropy in consuming the Sun’s fuel supply to make the light that fed that tree. (Sound familiar? It is just like the hope/despair balance of magical girls.) Since there is no outside the universe to get energy from, eventually the universe will run down. The universe will attain a state of perfect disorder, an enormous cloud of slowly expanding and cooling gas. This is known as the heat-death of the universe. The emotional energy of magical girls is able to defy entropy and create energy from nothing, effectively bringing it in from outside the system of the universe. This allows the Incubators to delay the end of the universe, presumably saving billions of lives. It is also why some wishes can defy time: entropy is the difference between past and future; in physics, the future is defined as the direction in which entropy increases. If you can overcome entropy, you can defy the arrow of time. A Clash of Ethics Kyubey thus represents the perfect utilitarian. Utilitarianism is the belief that the right thing to do is whatever most improves the well-being of the most people. Utilitarianism is very much a rationalist ethics; it is all about dispassionately gathering data and weighing outcomes to determine what does the most good for the most people, like a mathematical formula. In this case, even if delaying the end of the universe requires making a few girls suffer horribly, it is worth it for the greater good. To the Incubators, this is a perfect bargain, and since they cannot conceive of any other moral scheme, they cannot understand why anyone would object. Madoka represents care ethics. Care ethics is the belief that the right thing to do is determined by empathizing with and caring about other people on an individual level, guided at least partially by emotion. Making the magical girls suffer is a violation of empathy, so, even to save the universe, it is wrong. Because Madoka is emotionally unable to accept that saving the universe requires sacrificing innocent people, she contnues searching fo ranother way where the Incubators have concluded there is not one–and she finds it. It is less efficient at saving the world, and therefore wrong according to utilitarianism, but it is far, far better from any remotely human perspective. In the end, it is Madoka whom the series depicts as clearly morally superior, and it is difficult to imagine anyone favoring Kyubey (already notorious as one of the most hated villains in anime) over her. In the end, Madoka is nearly as damning a condemnation of utilitarianism as it is of moe. To be continued eventually when I find the notes for our Anime Boston 2013 panel, Latin Latin Madoka More Latin 2: Thermodynamic Boogaloo. 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__label__cc	0.675361	0.324639	Commentary, information, and intelligent discourse about the Irish economy Q2 2012 Quarterly National Accounts The CSO have published their first estimate of the Q2 2012 National Accounts. In line with the inherent volatility in the quarterly national accounts the overall directions from Q1 have been changed. Seasonally adjusted real GDP was flat in the quarter after a fall of 0.7% in Q1. The equivalent numbers for GNP are a quarterly rise 4.3% after a fall of 0.1% in Q1. The Q1 2012 figures were also revised. The 1.1% quarterly drop in real GDP has been revised to a drop of 0.7%, and the 1.3% drop in GNP initially reported for Q1 has been revised to a fall of just 0.1%. The quarterly rise in GNP is largely the result of a drop in the net outflow of Net Factor Income rather than any improvement in the domestic economy. The Balance of Payments release covers this in more detail which shows a €3.2 billion current account surplus for the quarter. All of Consumption (-0.4%), Investment (-29.4%) and Government (-3.9%) fell in real terms in the quarter. The large drop in Investment comes after a equally large increase in Q1. All three are also below their 2011 levels. Quarterly GDP rose because of an improvement in the balance of trade. In real term quarterly seasonally adjusted exports fell 0.5% but imports fell 5.2%. In annual terms GDP in Q2 2012 was 1.1% lower than in the same period last year. Constant price GDP for the first half of 2012 is just 0.3% higher than for the first half of 2011. In nominal terms both GDP (0.5%) and GNP (4.3%) rose in the quarter. Nominal GDP for the first half of 2012 is estimated to be €81.3 billion; for the equivalent period in 2011 it was €79.1 billion. Author Seamus CoffeyPosted on September 20, 2012 September 20, 2012 Categories Uncategorized 74 thoughts on “Q2 2012 Quarterly National Accounts” The GNP increase may be temporary and/or subject to a later downward revision, but still nice to see. That is the fastest rate of GNP growth in over 5 years. Quarterly GNP at its highest level since Q1 2009. Jagdip Singh says: So GDP of €39,707m in Q2 compared with €39,704m in Q1. So the difference between recession/recovery came down to €3m! Interesting point Jagdip. In itself it’s hard to see how these figures mean anything. How much did our debt increase in the same period I wonder? grumpy says: Some rocket! Bond. Eoin Bond says: @ Grumpy well GNP took off like a rocket, for its own confusing reasons… PR Guy says: Can anyone pinpoint why GNP rose? What was really driving it? Is it sustainable? @Eoin More Jack-in-a-box than rocket I think. I usually associate rockets with monotonically increasing upward velocity! Forget my question. I was skip reading too quickly. For one minute there I thought I saw a ray of sunshine. I’ll just get my animal skin coat and go back to my cave. @prguy You dont “drive” Irish GDP, surely you pilot it. It’s probably as sustainable as one of those early V2 prototypes. @grumpy “I usually associate rockets with monotonically increasing upward velocity! … or explosions 🙂 My question was about GNP. Surely we can drive that – or not, as Ford has recently found out in its 29% drop in European sales. Seamus Coffey says: @ PR Guy It’s all to do with the MNCs. I had a go at this before in relation to a previous drop of GNP. @ Seamus Is the net factor income the amount they repatriate? @eureka I think that is about one half of it. It’s profits one one side and repatriations on the other. Suggest just ignore it as very very random and likely to reverse. Anyone see this on Bloomberg (related to thread)? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-20/citigroup-warns-irish-investors-to-plan-for-losses-euro-credit.html Citigroup Warns Irish Investors to Plan for Losses DOCM says: “It’s all to do with the MNCs.” How true! If only the powers-that-be would come clean about the reality viz. that Ireland is an aircraft carrier for transient FDI, mainly American, maybe there could then be some hope of figuring out reliably in which direction the vessel is headed. I posed the question on another thread suggesting that it may be going in the right direction for reasons that have nothing to do with any action by the government but because of decisions taken in corporate boardrooms. This is not to deny that the improvement in competitiveness, which again has had nothing to do with government action (which is more likely to have hindered it) but everything to do with the crash. Michael Hennigan - Finfacts says: These results are bad and should bring some down from the clouds. Services exports at €22.82bn were up €2.35bn mainly due to increased business services and computer services exports. Service imports increased by €884m to €21,473m due to an increase in royalties/licences payments. The fall in aircraft deliveries boosted the net trade total but depressed capital investment in the quarter. Given the yoy rise in services exports of 9%, in the two sectors where fake exports are booked, the timing of royalty and business charges could have made the difference between 0% growth and reporting a contraction. http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1024185.shtml This guy Saunders has seen through the soufflé. Noonan and Corrigan would serve the country and themselves better by restraining the spin. seafóid says: Surely one rides the Irish GDP tiger Or else falls off it. @ MH If Corrigan tends to spin then where would that leave the bond wallahs of this parish ? Joseph Ryan says: Could we have a comment on where capital formation now stands in relation to the past few years? The falls in ‘investment’ (-29.4%) seems very high on top of falls in the past few years. @ Joseph, The large fall this quarter was preceded by an equally large rise in the previous quarter. The jump was explained by aircraft ‘imports’ by some of the large aircraft leasing companies based in Ireland. Even accounting for that the underlying trend is down. Investment in new capital is less than depreciation of existing capital. David O'Donnell says: re GNP: something about some UK firms moving HQs to IRL and then repatriating overseas and UK profits to Ireland. Hence the lending hand from our neighbour. Shay Begorrah says: @DOCM So to recapitulate: Government bad, financial crises good (as long as the public pays for them). Indeed with the ECB enforced bank bailout and German inspired austerity doctrine Ireland may soon be as competitive as Somalia. I wonder will it be long before the FAC will join battle with advice that the country needs more blood letting, its condition being so weakened that the blood letting up to now has not been enough? tullmcadoo says: I am not surprised at weak numbrs from Ireland and indeed Europe generally. From talking to US MNCs last week in th US it seems EZ had a Lehmans episode in the summer due to the procrastination about the future of Europe. Even healthcare companise would not risk selling something to the periphery unless they got paid COD. This massive heart attack in the system probably prompted ECBs volte face. These numbers illustrate that the Govt strategy of patient negotiation & incremental fiscal tightening is falling apart. There is no partner on the willing to cut a deal on the the other side of the table. There is clearly no percentage now in being the Good Boy. It was worth a try but has manifestly failed. Time to go alone now. Exit the euro, monetise the PNs, cut public sector wages and transfers by 50%. Do it next week though after I get my money out of the banks and into dollars. @ Tull Knew you cared at heart! Agree – that’s the only way forward but I’d default 100% too. And I’d rename the country….and set it up as a distinct corporate entity with limited liability…. Bunbury says: @ tullmcadoo It’s far too early for what you suggest (exiting the Euro, etc.). In my experience there is absolutely no comprehension by anyone I meet that there is a crisis. I work in the PS and my wider family circle and friends either work in MNCs or are self-employed and have not experienced any austerity yet. That may be difficult for some to believe but I can only state what I know and experience. Mrs B’s work involves disadvantaged children and the only poverty or difficulty she has seen is as a result of ignorance (e.g. families on SW buying a 5 EURO lunch for each of their children in the local SPAR or CENTRA every morning instead of buying a loaf of bread and making sandwiches). I have yet to meet a non-SW family who have had to give up the second car or the family holiday abroad each year. Apologies but that is true. Lest you think I am one of those ‘elite, higher public servants’ I can state (having just looked at UCD academic payscales) that my combined family income is approximately 50% of a mid-salary-scale UCD professor. I know that severe cuts in pay and public services are coming and I am planning accordingly but I’ve given up talking about this – particularly in my PS job – as people just look at me blankly and say “We can’t take any more and expect the pay cuts and pension levy to be reversed soon” or words to that effect. Sometimes I think I should join these optimists and start believing Michael Noonan et al. Incidentally, if I had money to invest I would invest it in privately-funded Renal Dialysis and Oncology facilities. It is interesting to see how shockingly overweight Irish people are when you return from abroad. This will inevitably lead to kidney failure and higher incidence of cancers which the State will not be able to manage. Mrs B sees the huge ignorance about food among families. Many families literally do not know how to boil an egg. I am certain there is a PhD there for any good sociology or other student to research the lack of a culinary tradition in Ireland. Perhaps it is the climate? Those peoples with harsh and long winters had to learn how to preserve foods over the long winter months. I just finished Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago recently (a truly terrible book and vastly overrated) but it was interesting to see Larissa describing in detail how food was preserved over the harsh Russian winter (smoking, pickling, putting in jars, etc.). This all added hugely to the flavours. Eureka, I would pay everything we owe to Miley in Franklin T and to HMG. Anybody with a Non Romance European language or. Public service income would be haircut. Time to look after our friends. Not a strategy to win friends round here. You are probably aware that there is a German proverb which covers your state of mind. “Lieber ein Ende mit Schmerzen als Schmerzen ohne Ende.” Better an end with pain than pain without end. On the other hand, one can quote Dirty Harry. “Do you feel lucky punk; do you?” The last estimates that I saw of wealth held by Irish households was of the order of 100 billion; in euros! DOCM, I think you could be lowballing there. Long term savings are probably in excess of that. Half of that is probably in $ and GBP. I can think of another proverb. If you keep doing stupid things, continue to expect stupid outcomes or so my granny told me. Our relationship with the EZ is now the same as that of an alcoholic and a publican. Better for us if we moved. I am not saying that you are wrong, simply pointing out that the stakes are rather high. There is, as it happens, also a French proverb which suits the current situation, to the effect that “money has no smell”; or nationality! The trick is to have it in a currency that holds its value. You gotta ask yourself; do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk? Lots of accountants turned FX strategists last year. Lots of it is in $. Which reminds me of the attached. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/059dee86-fdcf-11e1-8fc3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26r67qGIK Of all the assorted elephants in the room, this is the biggest. If Hollande does not succeed in getting the French to pull up their socks, it is hard to see how the euro can survive. Now that the ECB is starting on a road of ” print baby print ” in an attempt to hold things together better to get into assets backed by rule of law and relatively sensible politics. Some inflation protection as well. We would be wise to prepare for the end of the European Project. @tull De La Rue then. Things could get very interesting in France. Tax rates will be going up, and there will actually be a debate. If the future of the euro is conditional on a French socialist imposing austerity then buy dollars. The HVAC system is about to get clogged. I would take your advice about the dollars but I am worried about QE15. paul quigley says: @ Bunbury Well spoken from the heart. ‘I am certain there is a PhD there for any good sociology or other student to research the lack of a culinary tradition in Ireland. Perhaps it is the climate?’ My grandmother Molly was born in 1895. For her own mother, the Famine was something which was enormous and within living memory. Many parishes lost half their population to disease and emigration. It reminds me of the story about the Russian woman who was asked about the secret of a healthy diet. She repiled ‘Eat whatever there is to be had’. Ain’t that the truth. The dominance of the potato, and the economic arrangements which underpinned it, such as tenant farming and the Act of Union 1800, is one part of the culinary story. Another part is the impact of mass-produced factory food, following the displacement of the British rural populations after the 1832 abolition of the old parish welfare system. Local food crafts and food markets survived far better on the continent. That is all politics, history and opportunity, or the lack of same. Anyone who doubts Irish people’s capacity for intricate manual skills can go to a traditional music session or to the hurling final replay 🙂 @ Tull et al These links are pertinent. http://www.voxeu.org/article/how-germany-can-avoid-wealth-losses-if-eurozone-breaks-limit-conversion-german-residents http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-18/deposit-flight-from-europe-banks-eroding-common-currency.html Is the De Grauwe article an invitation to the “make my day” moment so ardently sought by some? Or a warning to those demonstrating their patriotism by shifting their assets from the periphery to the core? HT Eurointelligence! P.S. I posted these on another thread, equally off topic, I must confess. So if you own a bund, you have a contractual commitment to be repaid principal in euros on redemption or DM on redenomination. Anything else would be a default. Now, I would be sceptical of the full faith and credit of a country that has defaulted twice in a century. I don’t know if Mrs Bunbury’s experience amongst her clients is indicative of the state of cooking and baking ability in the general population. Children with special needs are experiencing “extreme discomfort” because of a new brand of nappy provided under a Health Service Executive scheme, according to the Special Needs Parents Association (SPNA). Chairperson of the SPNA Lorraine Dempsey, whose 9-year-old daughter Rianna has cerebral palsy, said the association has been “inundated” with calls from parents expressing concerns over the quality of the new brands which are tearing, leaking and causing skin rashes. The free nappy scheme is available to children over the age of three years who have not been toilet trained because of a disability. Each child is allocated an average of three nappies per day depending on their needs, which are distributed to parents by local health nurses. Parents of children availing of the scheme received a letter from the HSE last month to notify them that the brand of nappies would be changing. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0920/breaking56.html @david od The disabled and their carers are being shoved time and again to the front to the queue for a spot of ‘devaluation’. They are not covered by the CPA. The people writing the letters to them are. The proposed wheeze of a Bundesbank that has been defaulted on, passing that default along to the private German bank (that has an asset with Buba resulting from its liability to a periphery depositor) and getting the private bank to default on the depositor, is not new. It would not be at all straight forward – quite appart from the question of who or what ‘person’ is German resident, domiciled or whatever at what point. I imagine the City would be laughing all the way to, er, the bank. Presumably, the BUBA as a truly independent monetary institution would make a midnight call to the German MinFin to look after your banks. Mickey Hickey says: Watch this, you will feel much better knowing that we are better off than the USA. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0 From today’s ESRI QEC report: “Irish rates on loans over 1 year, up to €1m in value are more closely aligned with those in Italy and Spain, with data from the ECB showing that Irish non-financial corporations were paying an average annual rate of 6.3% on new lending as of July this year. This compares to an annual average rate of 4.6% for both 2009 and 2010 and contrasts with German rates, which have fallen further more recently to just 3.6%, the lowest since ECB figures commenced in January 2003.” “Current transfer payments account for almost 42%, while current expenditure on goods and services accounts for almost 40%, of total underlying (i.e. excluding recapitalisation cost) expenditure. Given that government has no leeway in relation to national debt interest payments, the bulk of the adjustment to current expenditure must come from these two categories of expenditure. Education and health expenditure account for just less than two thirds of current expenditure on goods and services, so that it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that further cuts in these areas are inevitable. Over two thirds of transfer payments arise in the provision of social security and other welfare payments, so it is difficult to see how further reductions in these headings of expenditure can be avoided also.” A US Senate panel at a hearing in Washington DC on Thursday slammed Microsoft’s ‘tax gimmickry’ at its regional centres in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico, where the software giant revealed aggressive tax measures to avoid or evade billions of dollars in taxes over the past three years. Hewlett-Packard (HP) was also in the hot seat because it used cash held overseas that was subject to deferred tax. HP may have more than skirted the law but broken it. Microsoft’s 1,914 employees in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico from Microsoft’s total head count of 90,000, were responsible for 55% of 2011 profit before tax. US Senate panel slams Microsoft’s ‘tax gimmickry’ in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico Insofar as I can understand it, the wheeze is as described by Grumpy. What exactly De Grauwe thinks of the likelihood of it happening is not clear. In the chaos, it would be every country for itself. The country most likely to emerge with the least damage is clearly Germany because of the inherent strength of the real economy. How payment for German exports would be organised is another matter. If Germany contributes to the destruction of the European economy again & takes down China and the US in its wake, who precisely does it export to? Have you spotted there is an election on? At least you are making progress in admitting that other countries are allowing aggressive tax management bar Ireland, Holland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Puerto RICO etc etc etc. michael burke says: “The large drop in investment comes after an equally large increase in Q1”. Not quite correct. Investment in Q4 2011 was €3.836bn, in Q2 2012 it was €3.427bn, so the trend excluding erratic items is clearly down, at an annualised rate of 20%. As Seamus Coffey says in this thread, this is below the rate of depreciation. Literally, things will start to fall apart. Brian Woods Snr says: @ Bunbury: A great number of folk cannot ‘cook’ using fresh ingredients. Many because they have limited kitchen facilities, but the majority simply do not know how to prepare meals. Its bizzare but true. Why do you think they invented Cathal Brugha Street and published ‘All in the Cooking’ (still available, but owners might be very loath to part with it. As for the tragedy of Russia under the New Tzars: Fall of a Titan (Igor Gouzenko (a Soviet defector) is harrowing. Not sure of its availability. Spot on with your devaluation observations. The Health budget is X% salaries. (100-X)% gets the cuts. @BW I would like to see some numbers on the catering capabilities of the population. Jamie Oliver and Neven Maguire sell an awful lot of books, you know. Maybe you will say that is middle class. Loads of cookery programmes on the telly. The celeb magazines do recipes as well. VIP magazine and Take a break and whatever you are having yourself. In the poorer parts of Dublin there is a very strong food culture . Liver and onions, stuffed lambs hearts, roast chicken, Shepherd’s Pie, steak and kidney pie, homemade burgers, beef stew, smoked cod poached in milk, coddle and so on. I think the capacity to prepare decent food food is like the capacity for music. It is not income dependent . Sure there are people who are hopeless but are they representative of the collective ? hoganmahew says: @michael burke “Literally, things will start to fall apart.” Surely not if the cost of maintenance has declined to below the rate of depreciation? Looks like things are starting to fall apart in other EZ countries too: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_21/09/2012_462397 It’s the beginning of the end out there. It’s likely that the others will be the ones in for a surprise. But like the hordes of Bertie groupies, the gullible will heap all the blame on the spoofers. You possibly haven’t heard of Sen Carl Levin — he’s far from an election time flash in the pan. Let me know if you want links to Finfacts tax articles on Delaware, Netherlands, CIs and Switzerland. “We Report, You Decide.” You can always of course manufacture your own facts! The Neu Regime for the Serfs Would you go out and buy a hare for 4s. 6d. and bring it home and cook it for your family? You could feed 12 people on a good hare, or you could get two dinners for your family of six at 2s. 3d. a time. Is that expensive? Did you ever think of buying pigeons? Three wood-pigeons at 1s. 6d. each will feed a family of six-and feed them well. Not everything in a butcher’s shop is expensive. Buy two sheep’s heads. They will cost you 1s. each. Steep them until all the blood has drained out of them. Remove the brains, which you cook separately. Boil the heads in flavoured water until the meat is tender: pick it off the bones, and (together with the tongues and the cooked brains, served with a delicious sauce) it provides a light meal for your family – and you have a fine pot of stock. What’s wrong with a young kid? You nearly all have relatives in the country, where kids can be bought for 7s. 6d. (sometimes much less), and are often used only for the skins. Young kid is delicious, rather like lamb. And yet there is a stupid prejudice about it in this island. It is not good enough for the men and women of Ireland. You’ll go to Italy and you’ll eat donkey salami, and you’ll turn up your nose at kid. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0609/1224298636917.html eamonn moran says: @MH Thanks for bringing the work of the US senate on Microsoft to our attention. I decided to do some simple calculations in order to make a point. I think this is the first time that the Irish people have been made aware of the actual size of one of the US MNC’s corporation taxes tax’s paid in any one year and also the effective rate it paid to the Irish government. According to your report MIR paid 309 million to the gov at an effective rate of 7.2% and MIOL paid 160 million at an effective rate of 7.2%. This means in Total Microsoft Paid $469 million in corporation taxes to the Irish government on declared profits of $6.5 billion. Here is the interesting bit. Because of these figures we now know that had Microsoft paid an effective rate of 12.5% the Irish exchequer would have been better off to the tune of (812.5 – 469) $343.5 million for 2011. We also know that other American Multinationals including Google are paying at rates far below Microsofts 7.2% rate. So my question is, havent the Irish Revenue commissioners got a moral duty to at the very least negotiate with these companies to increase taxes or failing that seek legislation to impose a 12.5% effective tax rate. A measure like this could raise billions for the exchequer that could be then targeted directly towards various jobs initiatives. Also the fact that the only way the Irish people can see just how much corporation taxes these companies are allowed to avoid is from US Senate investigations is a disgrace. Are those numbers correct? They seem to disagree with http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/us-criticises-microsoft-tax-603591-Sep2012/ “Microsoft’s Irish subsidiary, Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd, paid €76.5 million in corporation tax for the 2011 year, having turned an operating profit of €557 million – slightly above the headline corporate tax rate of 12.5 per cent.” Dr James Reilly …. I can’t find a suitable comment Listening to him right now on Radio 1 … @PR guy That Ekathimerini piece reminds me of what Michael Lewis wrote about Vallejo CA http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-lewis-201111 It is a bit of a joke at this stage – Osborne’s austerity is not working http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/uk-government-borrowing-record-august-high George Osborne’s debt reduction plans took another blow last month as government borrowing hit its highest on record for any August. Public sector net borrowing excluding financial sector interventions – the government’s preferred measure – widened to £14.41bn from £14.37bn in August 2011 – and is now the largest it has been since records began in 1993. That takes the deficit for the tax year to date to £31bn. But, stripping out the transfer of Royal Mail pension assets, the deficit has actually widened 22% to £59bn so far this year. I am aware of Levin. He is a Democrat from Michigan and sceptical of Free trade and offshoring. Looked through that prism he will try to close down tax loopholes. He is one of 100 senators whose views may differ. I have no doubt you report the facts although like everybody else you analyse to support your POV. Relax, everybody does it. Most of the time you are correct.! Seafoid, What alternative has George. Were it not for the Old Lady he would be in the dame boat as here and going to primary surplus quick time. The left wing on the blog here like DOD and his Shinner pals are away with the fairies if they think there is any alternative to fiscal tightening. Without CB support, you could not sell long term paper at current rates. It is also arguable that more extortionate taxes will raise any money. Look at the household charge for starters. So it’s cut baby cut. The Tories have to have growth by 2015 for the election in that year. George promised to reduce the deficit as well. They can’t inherit Labour’s mantle of being no use on the economy. It must be excruciating for all of those Conservative backbenchers in marginal seats. Mary Feely says: Bunbury, You say: I have yet to meet a non-SW family who have had to give up the second car or the family holiday abroad each year. Well, my family of five has given up holidays abroad or in Ireland. Several of my neighbours have stopped running their cars. I can get heating oil this winter for one reason: my father-in-law gave us the money. We aren’t on social welfare. My husband works in the private sector and is well paid. But my freelance work has disappeared, he’s had two pay cuts, the price of electricity / petrol / food is through the roof. Every month there are bills we can’t pay. We’re struggling, and we’re the lucky ones. We’re renters. I can’t imagine how unemployed people or over-mortgaged people are managing. By the way, I’m a great cook: I even make all our own bread. @ eamonn moran Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd (MIOL) in 2011 paid €76m tax in Ireland, down from €150m in 2010. Revenues rose €2bn but administrative expenses (i.e. intercompany charges) increased by €2.6bn in 2010/2011. On Page 7 of the document linked below, Microsoft reported $8.9bn Earnings before Tax (EBT) in respect of MIOL, MIR (Microsoft Ireland Research), Round Island One and Flat Island. The latter two companies have been unlimited since 2006 following a Wall Street Journal article in 2005. The financials are therefore not available and they operate from the Dublin offices of corporate lawyers Matheson Ormsby Prentice. http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=6a141756-9cfd-46ef-81d5-6695280cae22 The Journal said in 2005 that the “four-year-old subsidiary, Round Island One Ltd., has a thin roster of employees but controls more than $16bn in Microsoft assets. Virtually unknown in Ireland, on paper it has quickly become one of the country’s biggest companies, with gross profits of nearly $9bn in 2004.” The newspaper said: “Through a key holding, dubbed Flat Island Co., Round Island licenses rights to Microsoft software throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Thus, Microsoft routes the license sales through Ireland and Round Island pays a total of just under $17m in taxes to about 20 other governments that represent more than 300m people.” Microsoft reported a tax liability in Ireland of $507m (not all necessarily paid in Ireland) as per the Senate document above. This total includes MIOL, MIR but also tax paid in other EMEA jurisdictions. Microsoft has to pay some tax in other countries for appearances at least. The big revelation is the profit of $8.9bn, which it doesn’t report in filed accounts in Ireland. My view is that companies such as Microsoft, Google and Apple would likely have similar head counts in Ireland without facilitating massive tax evasion. At the US side, gridlock and legal bribery has facilitated the growth of loopholes and inaction on reform. Romney’s vice-chairman is the first big rat to abandon ship to head a financial lobby group in Washington DC. Six years jail for mislabeling garlic imports seems a bit disproportionate compared with what is facilitated. Maybe Seán FitzPatrick, ex-Anglo Irish chief, should have Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, to enlighten jurors on what Ireland doesn’t call accounting manipulation. Simply, an increased charge in the MIOL FY 2011 accounts of €2.6bn while Microsoft Inc maintained the same net profit ratio in both 2010 and 2011, should be a red flag to the Revenue. Increased expenses of €30k in a year or less for Joe the Plumber would have alarm bells ringing. I’m adding MIOL’s accounts and Dell’s below to avoid the spam filter. http://www.finfacts.ie/biz10/Microsoft_Ireland_accounts_2011_Finfacts.pdf Dell paid $2m in corporation tax on revenues of $12.3bn. http://www.finfacts.ie/biz10/Dell_Ireland_accounts_2011.pdf This is an interesting case where an Irish factory is shut down and production transferred to Lodz, Poland. Dell’s Polish factory is then sold to Foxconn, the Taiwanese masters of battery hen production. The output from Foxconn is then tranmuted into Irish exports. The second quarter national accounts were interesting, though! Minor correction to the usual and tiresome rabid far right on the blog: Sinn Féin will publish a fully costed €3.5 billion budget. The key question on deficit reduction is HOW? @David O’Donnell I recall as a child living in Malaya and Singapore we used to eat spiced kid on skewers with satay sauce, cooked over an open fire by the Amah. I have never tasted anything so delicious. Will the Northern Bank be asble to finance deficit reduction. Mybe shooting a few public servants will help I see our old loony left pal, Deputy Shorthaul is objecting to the opening of primary care centres in underprivilaged areas of north Dublin. Brilliant strategy. Fiatluxjnr says: Financial Times Deutchland reporting Talks are afoot for Public Sector write offs for Greece….. If it happens it should help our case. I wonder for how much longer austerity will be accepted by the plebs. It isn’t working in the UK. Maybe Ireland needs to cut some flab but the UK is getting a battering. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/sep/27/what-krugman-stiglitz-can-tell-us/?page=2 “But thanks to a pilot poll recently commissioned by a team of political scientists, we now know that the very rich are indeed different from the rest of Americans: They place much higher priority on deficit reduction and cutting spending, and much, much lower priority on reducing unemployment.: We are due a switch back to labour as well . Capital arsed it up. Seafoid. You are welcome to try to find a mechanism of raising money to fund the current system of pork barrel politics. The bond markets won’t do it and I suspect citizens won’t do it through taxation. I guess you are going to have to try the Mugabe route. Steal it or print it. The big picture. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/20/the-waning-of-the-modern-ages/ Is this possible? I mean, can contemporary Irish govs actually comprehend simple math, like 2 + 2 = 5, sorry, 2 + 2 = 3. S*t! Its my crummy calculator again! Politicians (of the Irish taxpayer-looting variety) are geneticall incapable of ‘budgeting” (as in ye olde model of income = expenditure). This is why we are in the economic mess we are. I thought this was obvious. Appears not. So where are our pseudo-econs hiding out? I have made several requests for ANY econ to engage with me on the unsustainable economic Model-in-Use (Permagrowth) and apart from a few polite requests from interested parties the aggregate silence has been so deafening it makes a WWI artillery barrage positively serene. I can understand that many folk do not understand what I am referring to (it took me about 5 years to get my head around the ideas) so I have now (reluctantly) formed the opinion that our pseudo-econs of public note are very ignorant experts indeed. Ignorant of how a real economy works in a world which uses an amazing source of energy in such a amazing technological manner – but with iron-clad physical limits on the resources needed to be deployed. In the theoretical world of math exponential functions can be modelled to infinite infinity. But its not something I would try with nature. We are about to learn the very nasty consequences of attempting this impossible mathmatical feat. We ain’t going anywhere but forward into our economic past. Permagrowth is not dead: just stalling. It has a massive mass and momentum. But … … A shark (which lacks a swin-bladder) sinks when it ceases forward motion. As I said above, the ability to do simple math appears to be completely beyond some folk. Veblen was correct about the effect of finance upon people’s psyche and behaviours. Uniformly bad! @ Michael hennigan Thanks for all the links very intresting info. 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__label__wiki	0.779763	0.779763	Home India 20 prisoners killed in Yemen air strikes 20 prisoners killed in Yemen air strikes Janta Ka Reporter At least 20 prisoners were killed when warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition bombed a prison in Yemen’s Al-Bayda province, medical sources and witnesses said. The prison which held more than 100 prisoners was controlled by the Shia Houthi group, the sources said, adding that up to 30 others were wounded in the air raids, Xinhua reported. The coalition warplanes also targeted several military posts on Sunday run by the Houthis and their allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa. The Saudi-led coalition has carried out military operations, including air strikes on a daily basis, against the Houthis since late March in Yemen in an effort to restore the authority of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who fled to the Saudi capital of Riyadh to take refuge. Pro-government forces have retaken several southern provinces in recent months, however, the Houthis still controls the northern part of the country, including Sanaa. The United Nations has called for peace talks to end the war, saying “there is no military solution to the conflict in Yemen”, as more than 4,900 people have been killed in ground battles and air strikes, half of them civilians. Al-Bayda province Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi Previous articleProtest shutdown against Udhampur truck attack impacts valley Next articleबिहार चुनाव: मतदान से पहले 19 करोड़ रुपये बरामद Irfan Pathan announces retirement from professional cricket Congress leader equates army chief to goon on the street	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line643
__label__wiki	0.614195	0.614195	Rock Chalk Carving Posted on Mar 28, 2017 in Alumni News and News Chainsaw-carved Jayhawks delight alumni For two weeks each September at the Kansas State Fair, dozens of Jayhawks stand silent on the midway, ready to meet their fans. The state’s annual celebration in Hutchinson is where artist Dan Besco first introduced Kansans to his wonderful and whimsical birds. His chainsaw-carved Jayhawks, each with its own unique personality, delight alumni and adorn lawns throughout the Kansas City area and across the state. Besco’s Jayhawks will be featured at the Rock Chalk Ball April 29 at the Overland Park Convention Center, where he will carve a 4- to 5-foot Jayhawk on the patio during the reception. The bird will be included in the live auction, and the piece can be customized with the buyer‘s name or initials. Smaller Jayhawks used for centerpieces also will be available for purchase. A true passion Of course, not every Kansan is a Jayhawk fan, as Besco learned one year during the state fair. One morning following a concert at the grandstand, a Kansas highway patrolman showed up to take a report on “the assault.” It took Dan a minute to realize that K-State fans had knocked over his 5-foot Jayhawk the previous night. “There were plenty of witnesses,” the officer chuckled, gesturing to several dozen wooden Jayhawk statues, “but none of them are talking.” Besco says he does get considerable harassment from other schools who don’t like KU, but carving the Jayhawk is his true passion. A self-taught artist, he first learned to carve a bear. “It was terrible,” he says. “It was more like a bear-dog-pig, and I didn’t enjoy it at all.” He liked carving, but the bear didn’t interest him, and he didn’t think it would sell. “After all, who wants to buy a bear in Kansas? We don’t have bears in Kansas,” he says. Besco has always been a KU fan, so he decided to focus on the Jayhawk. He carved his first one in 1995, and he hasn’t stopped yet. Quality and endurance The sculptor says he is one of few carvers who use standing dried timber from Colorado. Other sculptors use green wood to carve, but that’s a poor investment because the wood will dry and crack unpredictably, and new cracks can ruin a piece, Besco says. Because quality and endurance are important to him (and a Jayhawk should be tough), he purchases wood that has died naturally yet is still standing in forests. To keep up with demand, he rents a truck and drives to Colorado several times a year to haul logs to ensure that the wood he uses is stable. Existing cracks in the wood, which add charm to the piece, won’t further crack or warp, he says. Besco hews his birds from memory and can finish a carving in about two hours, then he trades his chainsaw for a blowtorch, burning the sculpture to smooth rough edges, waterproof the wood and add a deeper base for the stain, giving it an “antiqued” look. His Jayhawk renditions include a basketball-playing bird that attaches to an SUV and a long plank featuring all of the historical ’Hawks. His appearance at the Rock Chalk Ball will be one of the few times he has turned his talent into “performance art,” carving a sculpture from a tree stump for a live audience. —Susan Younger Watch the video to see Besco in action: To see more of Besco’s work, visit www.kansaw.com. His KU work is officially licensed, and a portion of his sales support the University. Tags: Auction, Dan Besco, Rock Chalk Ball, Susan Younger « Jayhawks in the News \| March 24 Alumni Profile: Kelly Cure »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line646
__label__cc	0.567791	0.432209	Less Than Reality A reality TV blog with a touch of snark. Review of MTV's New Scripted Show, Finding Carter (Episodes 1 & 2) I gave in to watching a scripted show on MTV. While I'm not typically into the network's scripted series, Finding Carter looked too good to pass up. It turns it out that it really wasn't too good to pass up, but it was actually relatively good. First, a fun fact: Kathryn Prescott, who plays Carter, has a real life twin, Megan Prescott. Megan does not play her twin on the show. Okay, here we go. Finding Carter was fun to watch. It was suspenseful but not in a stressful kind of way, and it was interesting to see the characters interact. Kathryn Prescott is very intense onscreen, which is a good fit for her character. Now, for the issues: - Carter and her friends were clearly into partying and stuff. Carter didn't seem at all concerned when everyone got arrested, saying they'd get off with a warning. That sounds like someone with experience being arrested. But if Carter had been arrested before, this would have been discovered already. - Carter didn't seem completely concerned when she was told her mom wasn't her real mom. At first, yeah, but she moved on way more quickly than makes sense. She moved right in with her 'new' family, and although they didn't quite get along, she seemed to kind of take everything at face value. - In her new room, Carter held a framed picture of her and her mom. So, did Carter get to go back to her old home for her stuff? When did that happen? How did her kidnapper mom know not to be there and what was going on? How did her kidnapper mom just abandon her life like that - did she have a job or anything? Couldn't cops have gotten a lot of info by learning Carter's old address? - The characters were relatively predictable. Carter's sister, Taylor, is the safe one. Taylor's best friend Gabe likes Carter. Carter's mom is overbearing and is having an affair. Carter's dad seems nice but is harboring a secret (regarding writing Finding Carter, the follow up to Losing Linden, which is Carter's original name...more on the book issue below). Carter's original mom is stone cold - there's no depth! I mean, one scene tries to show some emotion but even that is shallow. - How convenient is it that Carter shows up right when her dad would have to admit to her mom that he can't write another book and the family's in serious debt? And in one part of the show, he said he told Carter that he agreed not to write his follow up book when they discussed it. But why would that even come up? Was her dad like, "Oh, hey, welcome back daughter, now I can write a book about you coming home?" It seemed a little contrived as a way to lead into the fact that he was lying. - How was Carter magically put into her old life without serious explanation, counseling, etc? Shouldn't she have been put in some kind of protection until her mom was found, not put out in the open to get a job? How did Carter's little brother's realization about Carter trying to be found have the cops magically show up right when her adoptive mom did? - Where did all the foam fingers come from in the mall scene? How exactly would a whole food court of people get involved in a prank such as that one? How were the kids so absolutely sure that the cops would crack the code in time and all that stuff? - Why is Carter's mom not utilizing the internet to reach her? I'm sure she could come up with a fake email address or something and reach out. The story seemed to twist and turn a lot, and would have benefited by spending more time exploring Carter's emotions and transition to her new life. Instead, it jumped right in and took us down what felt like a water slide of madness. Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed watching the show. And I plan to keep watching it. It was good! It's just that Finding Carter seems as if a bunch of pivotal scenes were left on the cutting room floor and replaced with unnecessary clutter. I think the show may smooth out over time. After all, pilot episodes are often a bit rough. I guess we will see. Want to see what others have to say? Here are some other opinions: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/finding-carter-review-mtv-series-finds-the-drama-1.8654182 http://variety.com/2014/tv/reviews/tv-review-finding-carter-1201253312/ http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/mtv_finding_carter_pilot_review-2014-07 http://www.tvequals.com/2014/07/09/finding-carter-season-1-review-pilot/ You Have Questions About Abby Lee Miller and Cathy Stein From Dance Moms? Less Than Reality Has Answers! After looking into what some readers are searching online about Dance Moms, I gathered some information about Abby Lee Miller and Cathy Stei... 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__label__cc	0.721292	0.278708	Ellie Connelly Eye of the Vortex, Chapter 1 Chutney Point Lil Minotaur Lil Mermaid Lil Mummy The Night I Flew Seven Little Monsters StarHustlers Yiora 8-Bit Tarot Dol-Dai TheGameCrafter Yiora test notes: 2012-05-02 by Indigo on May 4, 2012 Posted In: Game Journals, Games, Yiora A few quick notes from this week’s playtest session: Played through one game, two new players. Matthew had studied the rules online, but Nick had not seen the game before. The game lasted quite a bit longer than I was expecting, but it was interesting watching both players learning the shape of the board. It was clear the first several moves were pretty much just testing out the pieces and getting the feel for moving them around. Also, interesting to note that most of their movements were into the same quadrant of the board, toward column 9 (from their starting position). No movement was made into the other side of the board until after several pieces had been lost. Pawns were lost fairly early on in the game, leaving both players with nothing but Mages for the endgame. It was suggested that the name ‘Pawn’ is somewhat misleading, and lends to a psychological willingness to sacrifice these pieces in favor of the Mages. Both players, while somewhat hesitant in the first two stages of the game, expressed that they enjoyed the challenge of the endgame. Neither player made use of the ability to promote their pieces, which I take as a good sign. Promoting a pawn doesn’t happen in every game of Chess, either. It’s good to know it’s a possibility, though. Checkmate! White managed to corner Black using three Mages. Some notes and suggestions from the players: I need to codify in the rules that White always moves first. Rename the pieces. ‘Pawns’ is just too suggestive of a piece that is there to be sacrificed, when in actuality they are very powerful pieces. Possible names suggested were Swords (with Mages becoming Shields?), Soldiers, Knights Being able to choose from two different objectives was appreciated. Have a third kind of piece with a different move mechanic. It was suggested that the board was quite empty and sparse at the beginning, and this made it difficult to be able to devise much of a strategy at first. By comparison, Chess is a very full board, with pieces taking up half the board at the beginning, and much of the challenge is moving pieces around each other without losing any of them. Institute a ‘Ko’ rule, as in Go, where you cannot make a move that would immediately restore the previous arrangement on the board. This would prevent two pieces from dancing back and forth endlessly. Similarly, in Chess, if both players make the same moves three times in a row the game is considered a Draw. Feel free to come and discuss these possible changes over at the WIP: Yiora thread! Comments Off on Yiora test notes: 2012-05-02 Project:Orbits test notes 2012-05-02 Posted In: Game Journals, Games, StarSpeed Following our test game of Yiora, I led my stalwart testers Matthew, Nick and Jenn in the first-ever four-player game of Project:Orbits! LOTS of things were learned, and while the rules were generally clear, there were some errors in their phrasing that needs to be addressed. First off, I’ll post a link to the pdf of the rules we were all playing by: Click on the icon to download the Project:Orbits v0.2 rules. We played on a short track with three planets and 13 tracks arranged in a rough trapezoid (Forgot to take photos, sorry!) The three planets increased in Speed cost (renamed Escape Velocity at Matthew’s suggestion – thanks, Matthew!) from 2 to 6 to 11. Luckily Matthew and Nick both recognized the bulk of the card-play as being derived from Mille Bornes, so that aspect of the game needed little to no explanation for them. The real trick was in moving our rockets around the board, and there were a few modifications or questions that had to be answered as we played, things which just didn’t come up in my earlier 2-player game with Jenn: Since players only move into the next available space on the track when they break orbit, what do you do when you’ve got four players all trying to break orbit into the same 3 spaces? We ran into a little traffic jam early on as all four racers made it to the first planet on the same turn, and three were able to break orbit immediately, leaving one player stuck waiting for traffic to clear up. It didn’t happen again at any other point in the game, and it may not be a real problem, but I can imagine someone getting frustrated waiting for the bottleneck to clear up. Some of the rules governing Drifting were clarified – The rules state that you can drift only if you are in the ‘slow lane’, but I need to also explicitly state that you can’t drift through a track hub or the starting base – though these only count as one space, they conceptually aren’t in any of the three different tracks. Also, you can’t drift past another player – if a racer drifts out of the slow lane on one card and into the fast lane, their drift ends. If you’re drifting up behind them, you have to stop in the space behind them and either wait for them to move, or play a speed card that carries you past them. Also, if you forget to take your drift you missed your opportunity. You can’t stockpile drifts and take them all at once, either. One space per turn, and if you forget, you lose that one. In playing a four-player game, we ran into several looooong periods where each of us were waiting for that one specific card that would allow us to continue – I was trying to get some speed cards (my hand full of remedies and status cards), and everyone else was broken down somewhere on the track looking for the remedy they needed. Several possible solutions to this involved being able to either pull from the draw pile or to discard multiple cards from your hand, but differed on the mechanism to allow it: Option A: Draw the top card from the discard pile, and save it for your next turn. Discard another card, take your drift if you can. Option B: Player A trades cards with another player, whatever is considered a fair trade. Players then discards their excess back to the number originally dealt, and player A continues their turn, playing whichever card they just traded for. Option C: Discard multiple of the same card to pull any card out of the Discard pile. This is similar in concept to being able to trade resources with the bank in Settlers of Catan. Option D: Discard any number of cards at the end of your turn, rather than playing anything. At your next turn, draw back up to the default hand, then draw one more to begin your turn. Any of these options will allow the game to continue moving when everyone’s at a standstill, though being able to trade cards would allow alliances and partnerships to form, making for a slightly more social game. I think it would be worth implementing two of these options – allowing for trades and also allowing players to discard multiples cards. Worth doing some more testing! It was also suggested that perhaps the balance of the cards is off, and increasing the number of available remedies might be in order. Another option might be reintroducing the extra four Equipment cards, and dealing them randomly, one to each player, before the game begins. The two players who were completely unprotected by equipment definitely had the harder time of making any progress in the game. During our test game, I lucked into playing three of the four available equipment cards, but kept finding myself lacking in Speed cards, while the other racers were discarding high number speed cards for lack of a remedy to their situations. Having the three equipments paid off in the end, though, allowing me to catch up in lap 2 and maintain a neck-and-neck lead in the first three legs of lap 3. In the end, I came from a full lap behind to win the game by a leg. We were all glad for the game to be over – even this ‘short’ 3-lap game took the four of us well over an hour to play. Some mechanism to speed things up would definitely help, especially if I’m hoping to see people playing up to 8-player games with 6+ planet tracks! One of these days I’ll get around to testing the bit about playing for points rather than laps. If it proves to be too cumbersome I can simplify the score-panel part of the Player Dashboard considerably. Comments Off on Project:Orbits test notes 2012-05-02 Playtesting: April 21 2012 by Indigo on April 22, 2012 Posted In: Game Journals, Games, StarSpeed, Yiora Had a really good playtesting session with my friend Jenn, who’d never played any of my games before. First we did a quick session of Yiora, so I could try out a few changes to the rules I’ve been contemplating, including a new opening position, limited range on the Pawns and Mages, and the ability to promote pieces through landing on the Overlord’s opening space. I also added a second condition for ending the game, which was to maneuver your Overlord to your opponent’s opening space. It was a thrill to play my own game against someone again for the first time in probably 18 years or more, and I felt the new rules and conditions were a great addition. Jenn commented that being able to promote her pieces was a great incentive to move them to the other side of the board, which is exactly the reason for including that rule. Then we moved on to a few games of Project:Orbits, which is a game that even I haven’t had the opportunity to play yet. There’s still a lot of small mechanics that need to be worked out and codified, and the prototype pieces we were using were still not complete. The planets, for example, lacked Escape Velocity values, and the track cards had no hazards placed on them. The first game we played without planets at all, which made for a very quick game, but difficult to win if you fall behind too far. Perhaps if we’d been playing more than three laps. After the first couple games we expanded the track for a bit more variety, and I found the game to still be really playable. Adding escape velocities to the planets on the track definitely slowed our racers down periodically, and I feel it helps to even the playing field a bit. It was still a bit imbalanced, though, as one or the other of us were able to amass numerous Equipment cards which protected us from each other’s attacks. I’m looking forward to trying this one with four players and seeing if spreading the Equipment out among a larger group helps to even things out more. I was briefly ahead of Jenn in the first lap of this game, but she passed me pretty quickly and then dominated the rest of the race. I almost caught up with her at one point when she was stuck on a planet, but she broke free before I got there and sped handily to the finish line. The only comments and concerns we both noted were that our hands often filled with clutter cards – cards we couldn’t use for one reason or another. I would almost consider this a problem, but the same thing happens in 2-player games of Mille Bornes, the game I used as inspiration for the card-handling mechanism of this game. Perhaps adding the option to discard more cards in a 2- or 3- player game would help prevent this from happening. After the Comics Fest this weekend, I’m going to put together a larger playtesting group to go through Orbits and really pound it out for a few games. Find the rough spots and see what works. Comments Off on Playtesting: April 21 2012 Yiora: Pawn Promotion I’ve received a nice bit of feedback this week regarding Yiora, and it has me thinking about a topic I hadn’t previously considered for the game, specifically the idea of Pawn Promotion. Here’s the comment I received: I have not seen many chess variants without some kind of promotion, but all the ones that I have seen share the same problem: games invariably end in a draw. Players will carefully exchange off pieces until just the kings are left. There needs to be an incentive to advance one’s pieces, which after all will weaken one’s own king position. (There are some games where nearly all the pieces can promote and gain new powers, and that’s an idea that can also be tried.) The biggest benefit I can see to allowing Pawn Promotion is that it adds a new layer of strategy to the game. It allows players to upgrade their pieces in the middle of the game, keeping the other player on their toes. Also, as is pointed out in the comment, it provides another incentive for each player to move their pieces across the board – there’s a reward for doing so. So, if I’m going to offer the option to promote pawns, there are a few issues that need to be addressed: In regular Chess, there are several different kinds of pieces to which a pawn may be promoted, though generally players promote to a Queen, a piece whose superior movement has no parallel in Yiora. With only pawns and mages, there’s very little room for promotion, and frankly Mages are less maneuverable pieces. Likewise in Chess, moving a pawn to the other side of the board requires patience and strategy, knowing when to advance the extremely vulnerable, slow-moving pawn. Successfully making this trek can take up most of the game for many players. Due to the geography of the Yiora board, there is no ‘other edge of the board’, leastwise not one that requires most of the game to reach. The board only has two edges, the inner and outer, and either edge is reachable in a single move. Even the opponent’s ‘opening area’ can be reached in just three moves. The second two points can be addressed with a single solution: Designating a specific space on the board as the ‘promotional space’. It must be a space that is heavily guarded and difficult to reach, so the center of the board is out (since, again, any piece can reach it in a single move, and it isn’t really well-guarded at all). It seems to me the most logical space would be the Overlord’s starting space. Clearly the Overlord will want to defend this ‘castle’, but will be forced to move to avoid being captured by opposing pieces looking for a promotion. To make this achievement even more challenging, I think I might take the Black opening space out of the A ring, and move it into Y-19. As it is now, it’s only visually on the opposite side of the board. However, being in the same ring as the White opening position, it’s really not as far away as it could be. Under the current rules, for example, Mages can reach their opponent’s opening area in a single move, capturing a Mage in the process. Centering Black’s opening position around Y-19 eliminates this vulnerability, and forces the players to make full use of the entire board. Simple enough, let’s run with this idea for now. As to the first point, what does a promotion look like? In Chess, we’re talking about promoting the slowest, most common piece to any of the other higher-ranked pieces, increasing its speed and maneuverability. But in Yiora, simply turning a Pawn into a Mage is almost crippling it, as Mages are less maneuverable. They can cover greater distances, but at a price. But what if the pieces were more limited to start with? Perhaps instead of having a range of up to five squares, pawns and mages both were limited to three? And what if Promoting them simply increased their range? Each player, through promotion, could now have up to five types of piece on the board (including the Overlord). Or, perhaps the pieces might have different effects from their Promotions. Let’s say that Pawns, being footsoldiers, receive an increase in their range. But maybe Mages have the ability to resurrect a fallen piece. The new piece might reappear on any of that piece’s initial starting spaces, which might have a significant effect on the game if an opponent is in a strategic position in that area. While Promotion isn’t something I’d ever considered before, I do think that its inclusion would open up more strategic opportunities for both players. I’ll have to run a few tests and see which of these options makes more sense, but I’m also interested in hearing other ideas. Who knows, maybe some of these options will end up being simple variations. I’ve started up a topic on the BoardGameGeek.com Game Design forums titled WIP:Yiora, if you have any feedback, please feel free to leave it there! Comments Off on Yiora: Pawn Promotion Latest Comic: Ellie Connelly and the Eye of the Vortex, page 17 Support LunarBistro Print Comics & Original Art Art Prints, Appareland Accessories Digital Comics & eBooks Follow LunarBistro Keep on top of the latest with regular news sent straight to your inbox! 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__label__cc	0.602002	0.397998	« 6 Surprising Preparedness Uses for Sage Reliance Life Sciences Receives Approval from US FDA » Scientists Explore What Astrophysics, Telecommunications, and Pharmacology Have In Common Published January 11, 2016 \| By Cheap Pills Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences into union with Innovation Center Iceland have explored the sort of astrophysics, telecommunications, and pharmacology have in usual – polarimeter, and building the same on a microchip with the point of changing the design and civility of using microchips. A polarimeter is each instrument that detects the direction of the vibration of electromagnetic waves, which is furthermore known as the polarization of instruction. Polarization is the fundamental property of buoyant even though the human eye cannot discover it; but it is generated then light reflects off or scatters over an object, a phenomenon that causes the polarization of the kindle to change, yielding a lot of knowledge about the light. Astrophysicists usually rule polarization in order to analyze the external part of distant planets or to picture the magnetic fields within our splendid assemblage. Pharmacologists use polarization measurements to uncover the chirality and concentration of mix with ~s molecules. And communication engineers use polarization to certify how information is carried via very extensive networks of fiber optic cables. Considering the incident that polarization is used to extent critical data, it is expensive and bulky to run; but the researchers designed it and built it onto a microchip to revolutionize how it can be used by reason of scientific purposes. “We have taken an instrument that can reach the weak glue of a lab bench and shrunk it down to the size of a hew,” said Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, who led the careful search. “Having a microchip polarimeter will move polarization measurements available for the before anything else time to a much broader correspond in direction of applications, including in energy-operative, portable devices.” J.P. Balthasar Mueller, a graduate student in the Capasso lab and originator of the paper noted that “anger advantage of integrated circuit technology and nanophotonics, the renovated device promises high-performance polarization measurements at a part of the cost and size.” Published in the daily register Optica, patent for the polarization manoeuvre has been filed by the Harvard’s Office of Technology Development as long as the office continues to look into how the device could be commercially viable towards the technology industry. Considering its employment in telecommunications, optical signals spreading via fibers will now transform their polarization in casual manners, since the integrated photonic chips in fiber visual cables are very sensitive to polarization since loss of signals result if light happens to reach a chip with the wrong polarization. “The design of the antenna array make it robust and insensitive to the inaccuracies in the coinage of the brain process, which is ideal for capacious scale manufacturing,” said Kristjan Leosson, senior researcher and division manager at the Innovation Center and coauthor of the article. And Capasso added that the scrap is smaller than any major polarimeter in the place of traffic while performing equally well. “A handy, compact polarimeter could become an important tool for not only the telecommunications assiduousness but also in drug manufacturing, healing imaging, chemistry, astronomy, you name it. The applications are without end,” he said. Some medicines that be able to learn doxycycline are antacids and supplements that include calcium, iron, magnesium, or sodium bicarbonate.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line657
__label__cc	0.585623	0.414377	to the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR WELCOME TO THE MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR The foundation of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR by the conductor Ralf Ludewig demonstrates how he rose to the challenge of realizing a long term dream he and many friends of music and culture in Munich have in common: a top level boys’ choir whose very name epitomizes the rich variety of culture the Bavarian state capital continues to offer. In the past citizens and representatives of the City of Munich frequently approached the then Music Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor and announced their wish to see a new name in the music world, one that would signal to all just how success, quality and fame can be attributed to a boys‘ choir comprising Munich’s own children – the City of Munich has, after all, a child in its famous coat of arms. Inspired by these requests Ralf Ludewig decided to establish a choir of his own. Many boys were inspired by this idea of a new musical adventure and followed their long time choir leader, supporting him in forming a new choir that would be associated with music-making of the highest level. Within a very short time, the new choir had been engaged for several productions in renowned theaters, including performances in the famous Magic Flute; or as we know it in Europe Die Zauberflöte. As the Music Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor for over five years, Ralf Ludewig shouldered the musical responsibility for the renowned choir which, under his leadership from 2009 to 2014, established an impressive track record. Ralf Ludewig is responsible as Artistic Director of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR. He was Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor for many years before founding his own choir in September 2014. Ralf Ludewig – Art Director CAREER AS ARTIST AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Vocal training with the Tölzer Knabenchor Performances as treble soloist under Herbert v. Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Nikolaus Harnoncourt et al. in many renowned opera and concert halls Musical studies in Osnabrück and Amsterdam, including voice, conductiong and music pedagogy Development of the Bach Ensemble for Early Music in Holland Bass soloist for oratorios and song recitals Winner of various song contests Training as a certified speech therapist, focus on functional and neurological voice malfunctions, research in the voice as an instrument Owner of two speech therapy practices Vocal coach and choirmaster with several music schools in the North of Germany Choirmaster with various youth and adult choirs Vocal coach and choirmaster with the Tölzer Knabenchor Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor Winner of the French Diapason d’Or for Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem co-conducted with Mariss Jansons REFERENCES AS MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF THE TÖLZER KNABENCHOR AND OTHER MUSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Early Music/Classical Works J. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem J.S. Bach: Sechs Motetten G.B. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater W.A. Mozart: Requiem W.A. Mozart: Krönungsmesse G. Mahler: Sinfonie der Tausend B. Britten: War Requiem W.A. Mozart: Requiem, szenisches Konzert G.F. Händel: Messias R. Schumann: Faust-Szenen Mozart-, Bachabende mit Lesung G. F. Händel: Israel in Egypt J.S. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium J.S. Bach: Matthäus-, Johannespassion O. Benevoli: Missa Tira Corda – Römische Mehrchörigkeit Tour through Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, Israel and the US South Korea Tour 2008 Asia Tour Japan/China August 2013 Founder of the Boys Choir Festival in Bad Tölz April 2014 Valery Gergiev Moskau Easter Festival May 2014 Coaching soloists for opera houses in W.A. Mozart – Die Zauberflöte (Magic Flute) München Nationaltheater München Gärtnerplatztheater München Prinzregententheater Berlin Deutsche Oper Berlin Komische Oper Hamburg Staatsoper Bremen Opernhaus Oldenburg Staatstheater Herrenchiemsee Festspiele Valencia Opernhaus R. Wagner – Tannhäuser Paris Konzerthaus R. Wagner – Lohengrin Working with renowned conductors Enoch zu Guttenberg Nikolaus Harnoncourt Mariss Jansons Zubin Metha Kent Nagano Jeffrey Tate Christian Thielemann Ralf Ludewig and Mariss Jansons INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT FOR YOUNG TALENT Once parents decide for a musical education with the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR, they entrust their children to our caring hands. Their musical education becomes our responsibility. In training the young singers, we also contribute to the positive development of the boys’ own personality. This is a task that we take very seriously. Between the ages of 6 and 14 the boys will learn and develop many musical skills, but social competency will also be expanded and refined for their future careers and adult lives. Missed opportunities at these impressionable ages can hardly be overcome later, while negative influences at these stages are very difficult to counterinfluence. Besides our professional vocal coaching, we place a special emphasis in establishing a harmonious atmosphere within the choral community. We are always engaged in maintaining a fair and friendly spirit of help and cooperation in order to attain our musical ends and goals. For us, these principles are among the most important aspects of the training of our young talents. We put much personal energy into making group activities happen, ones which can be purely recreational, like trips to museums, the cinema, zoo or football stadium, and we combine exciting rehearsal retreats that may last several days, with musical coaching for ambitious projects or major concert cycles. These activities, which take place in addition to regular choir and vocal coaching sessions on our premises, augment each boy’s self-reliance, self-confidence and his ability to function as part of a team. The boys are motivated and awarded for discipline, great perseverance and exceptional musical achievements. After the voice has broken during puberty, we continue to support the youngsters. By giving them a meaningful task, they gain security, social footing and most important, acknowledgement and success in society. Active participation in the choir for young men, and later for men, keeps the adolescent’s enthusiasm for classical music and helps orient them in their new lives by continuing the rhythm and stability of choir practice. In addition to the important training of the new voice, belonging in and being part of the choir’s structure will further stabilize social competences and lead to lasting friendships – reaching far beyond simply performing together. Our educational concept is based on a system of training at several levels, consideration being given both to age and vocal capabilities to be fostered. Boys will have both a weekly solo lesson to promote their individual voices and enhance regular choir practice sessions. At the beginning, such choir practice sessions will take place once a week and then twice a week for the remainder of their life in the choir. We would like to encourage all boys who enjoy singing in a friendly atmosphere, and wish to experience life in a choir with a great team spirit and a sense of fun, to contact us at the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR. We would like to give you a chance to see our work, get to hear the wonderful singers, and meet the highly motivated team who puts the show on the road. Our choir boys look forward to meeting new team mates. Young beginners from six to nine years of age are just as welcome as musically experienced and gifted boys who are nine or older. Please fill out the form on this page or feel free to give us a call at the office. MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION From its very inception, the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR was indebted to and developed thanks to many active helpers and financial supporters. We are grateful for any support that contributes to and makes possible our ambitious aesthetic goals. A membership in our foundation starts at € 5 per month. We are also grateful for one-off donations. Your financial help goes to the support of musical and educational projects which cannot be supported by our tuition fees alone. There are sheet music and choir uniforms to be bought, rehearsal retreats need to be financed and there will be CD productions as well as special concerts. One of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR’s most important goals is to support young musical talents. With your donation, we are able to subsidize the musical education of boys, as well as vocal coaching for young men whose voices have changed during and after puberty. The responsible stewardship of your much-appreciated donations is very important for us. Your donations will be exclusively allocated for the specific purpose of planning, organizing and creating musical highlights. Thank you very much for both your support and trust. Faithfully, MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR FOUNDATION „Finally the famous City of Munich, with its impressive music history, has its own boys’ choir, one which is worthy to represent internationally of the city. It will be a pleasure to continue my cooperation with Ralf Ludewig in the future, and I will certainly engage the new ensemble for my projects.“ Patron of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line660
__label__wiki	0.837849	0.837849	Featured Artists (A-Z) Rumeal Eggleston is Added to the MLM Roster We are pleased to announce the signing of Rumeal Eggleston to Missing Link’s worldwide publishing administration roster. Rumeal joins Missing Link Music from a bass guuitar and songwriting background. He recently collaborated on the BJ The Chicago Kid album, In My Mind. Catch Rumeal on all his social media outlets: … Read more Enlarge Keil Holliwood Missing Link Music is happy to announce the signing of artist Keil Holliwood to it’s administration roster! Singer, songwriter and rap artist Keil Holliwood was born Ngai Mcgee (pronounced Guy) in Chicago Illinois. As a teen, he DJ’ed parties, even for adults, which gave him a early appreciation of music. A few years later, Keil met … Tanisha Riggins Missing Link is happy to announce the signing of Tanisha Riggins to it’s esteemed roster of songwriters and producers! Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Tanisha is the daughter of the late pianist/organist, Emmanuel Riggins and is the sibling of Drummer/Producer/Artist, and fellow Missing Link Music client, Karriem Riggins. Tanisha is an … Muhsinah Abdul-Karim Missing Link Music is happy to announce the signing of Muhsinah Abdul-Karim to a worldwide administration agreement. Muhsinah is a GRAMMY-nominated vocalist, songwriter and producer who creates music that explores the boundaries of genre and transports listeners through multi-dimensional sounds. A native of Washington D.C., she is a graduate of both Duke Ellington School of the … Faheem “Juzfah” Mardre Missing Link Music is happy to announce Faheem Mardre is the newest addition to our client roster. Born and raised in Philadelphia, West Philadelphia to be exact, Faheem Mardre aka juzfahhas, has been in the game since the age of 11. Since then, Juzfah has taken on perfecting his craft and honing his abilities. Starting in elementary … Trevion “Tre” Chandler Missing Link Music is happy to announce the signing of Trevion “Tre Drumz” Chandler to its growing esteemed roster of songwriters. The sound of music and drums has been the center of Trevian “Tre” Chandler’s life from the tender age of three. Ever since the day he played on a little white drum set in … Latice Crawford Missing Link Music is happy to announce contemporary Christian Gospel singer/songwriter Latice Crawford to it’s esteemed catalog. To watch Latice Crawford make second runner-up on BET’s Sunday Best or in the video of her 2014 major label hit “There,” one sees a confident and stunning young woman with thin model poise, short-cropped hair and full … John Hicks Missing Link Music is happy to announce the acquisition to administer publishing of the late jazz pianist John Hicks. A longtime fixture of the New York City jazz landscape, pianist John Hicks was an artist of uncommon versatility, moving effortlessly from pop standards to the avant-garde while retaining the dense physicality and intense energy that … Armando Colon Missing Link Music is excited to announce the signing of Armando Colon to a worldwide administration agreement. Armando “Mandobeats” Colon is best known for his hard-hitting beats and innovative approach to musical genres. Mandobeats takes his music to the next level and he knows how to make hit records. He has been in the music industry … Far East Movement Far East Movement Joins Missing Link Music Administration Far East movement is a product of late night music and parking lot free-styles at various clubs in Koreatown, L.A. “[Far East Movement] figured out the flavor that makes their hood unique; KTown Riot is the sound of them exporting it to the world. The inaugural song of this era, … Rell The Soundbender Missing Link Music has recently signed a worldwide administration agreement with Rell The Soundbender. An extraordinary producer, Rell has a passion for infusing different Trap sounds into his music. The producer started his career securing placements with notable Hip-Hop talent including Lloyd Banks, Jim Jones, and Flo-Rida. With the creative instinct for blending the unexpected, … Lauren Silva Missing Link Music is proud to announce its newest creative placement artist on the roster, Lauren Silva. The Los Angeles and Texas-based award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist, leads listeners to wonder how someone so young can sing of life so authentically. With a career that began with singing, dancing, and acting at the age of five and now turned … Pat Bunch Pat Bunch is an American country music songwriter from Nashville, TN. Much of her earlier chart hits resulted from collaborations with fellow songwriters Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose. Since 1995, Pat has also had multiple chart successes co-writing with Doug Johnson. Her co-writing credits include the Grammy Award-nominated song, and number one hit Billboard’s Country Chart, “I’ll Still … Philip Lassiter “Philip Lassiter’s contribution and relevance to the music industry are as diverse and celebrated as he is. The highlights of his impressive career include production and arranging work for seven GRAMMY winning projects with Fred Hammond and Kirk Franklin in addition to working as section-leader, arranger and lead trumpeter for Prince. Lassiter is revered as … Colin McShane Missing Link Music is pleased to have Colin McShane and his solely owned publishing company, Orphididies Productions, signed to its administration roster. 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__label__wiki	0.834182	0.834182	High Resolution Photo Links Celebrated pianist/composer Ahmad Jamal continues to tour throughout the world, as he has for the past five decades. Noted for his outstanding technical command and identifiable sound as a piano stylist, Mr. Jamal ranks as one of the most influential and popular artists in the history of jazz music. Ahmad Jamal is one of the few jazz artists to ever sell over one million copies of an individual recording with But Not For Me (Chess Records), featuring the hit single “Poinciana,” which remained on the charts for an unprecedented 108 weeks. Considering his group “an orchestra,” Mr. Jamal not only achieves a unified sound, but subtly inserts independent roles for both bass and drums. The hallmarks of Jamal’s style are rhythmic innovation, colorful harmonic perception, and the unique sense of space in his music– making his concept exciting without being loud in volume. His current release, Marseille (Harmonia Mundi, 2017), opened at the top of the jazz charts and shows Ahmad Jamal and his quartet at the peak of their art pushing original compositions and classic standards to their rhythmic and harmonic heights. His previous recordings Saturday Morning (Harmonia Mundi, 2013) was an instant classic, and Blue Moon (Harmonia Mundi, 2012) was nominated for a Grammy, A Quiet Time (Dreyfus, 2010) reached number one on the JazzWeek radio charts, and It’s Magic (Dreyfus, 2008) garnered the prestigious Les Victoire Du Jazz Award, the equivalent of a Grammy Award in France. After a brief retirement, the maestro has begun to accept concert engagements for the 2018/2019 concert season. And his rare concert appearances have become cultural events. The Critics Speak: Ahmad Jamal: "The Essence, Part I (Verve). The rows of shocking diversions and riffs on this new album by a 1950's master could be mistaken for the work of a younger, experimental-minded pianist." Ben Ratliff, "The Living Arts", The New York Times "No musician has had a more profound effect on the orchestral approach to small groups in the last 35 years than Ahmad Jamal ... He showed people how to italicize and magnify elements of music that were taken for granted, how to organize the sound of a group around the drums and how to interchange the riff with the ostinato or the vamp ... He is a virtuoso, but his innovations are found in his arrangements...... Stanley Crouch, The Village Voice "Ahmad Jamal is to me, the most exciting, creative keyboard artist living. John King, Melody Maker "Given [Miles] Davis great influence on other musicians, the cumulative effect has been incalculable; not only pianists with Miles, but everyone who has imitated them as well reflect the works of Jamal to some degree." Jazz, The Rough Guide - Penguin "Jamal's colorful harmonic perception has been too often overlooked. He characteristically builds parallel and contrary motion lines that move in and out of chordal substitutions and alterations that would probably frighten pianists of less harmonic sensitivity...In his use of pedal point ostinato interludes as a method by which to build and release energized musical tension, Jamal has brought the bass and drums into an independent but highly functional role in his conception of the piano trio. He has always been one of jazz's foremost exponents of good songs." Don Heckman, LA. Times "A soloist who defies practically every convention of the jazz pianist's art. This is a man uninterested in playing easy backbeats while his sidemen indulge in extended solos, a musician whose mercurial improvisational techniques require an unusually nimble set of fingers ... Startling chord clusters, outrageously elastic tempos, sharp dissonance between the hands, rhythmic ideas that ignore the meter of his sidemen--Jamal reveled in defying conventional approaches to the keyboard ... the pianist manages to bring coherence to improvisations that shift constantly between swing rhythm and meterless playing, between single-note riffs and extended parallel chords in both hands." Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune The Musicians Speak: “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.” - Miles Davis Concert Format: Quartet - Ahmad Jamal, Piano - Bass - Drums - Percussion Backline Needs: - 1 Steinway Model D concert - 1 bass amp - 1 jazz drum kit Select Discography: (Jazz Village, 2017) Saturday Morning A Quiet Time (Dreyfus, 2010) In Search Of Momentum [1 – 10] The Essence Part 1 (Birdology, 1996) (Chess, 1958) For additional information contact: Maurice Montoya/Maurice Montoya Music Agency Phone: 305-763-8961, Fax: 305-831-4472, e-mail: mm@mmmusicagency.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line664
__label__wiki	0.907004	0.907004	Providing inspiration and mentorship to Entrepreneurs in Newark. Rutgers Business School CUEED Hub Ambassadors Public Lecture Series – Dissecting the Deal « #LETSGROW Power Hour on Blab #LETSGROW Power Hour on Blab » Dissecting the Deal Public Lecture with America’s top business executives in mixed-media, arts and entertainment at Rutgers Business School CUEED. Tap to RSVP Complimentary Admission Tonjé Bakang is the Founder & CEO of Afrostream, the “Netflix for African, African-American and Caribbean content” a streaming site serving the European and African markets. Afrostream is a platform for the digital distribution of Black films and series produced by major Hollywood studios and independent distributors seeking an international audience. Prior to founding Afrostream, Tonjé worked in the entertainment industry for over 15 years, first in music business as a creator of videos, then as a producer of comedy shows and theater. He scouted and mentored a new generation of comedians of color, and was the first to introduce stand-up comedy shows in France inspired by HBO Def Comedy Jam. His passion for storytelling led him to develop a screenplay for a major network in France and he will use this expertise to produce original content for Afrostream. Tonjé tweets @Tonjebakang. Afrostream is Netflix for African-American, African and Caribbean content primarily serving the African diaspora in Europe. Since launching four months ago, the site has seen a growth rate of 141% in paying subscribers, which now numbers over 7,000. The site boasts an international library of 1,000+ hours of premium content subtitled or dubbed, according to the local market. Afrostream has licensing deals in place with Warner Brothers, Sony, Viacom, Lionsgate, and Sky Vision among others. The company has signed distribution deals with TF1, Orange and Bouygues telecom and will debut in April 2016 on set-top boxes in over 12 million households in Europe. Afrostream was previously incubated by Silicon Valley’s prestigious Y Combinator and has secured investments from Warner Brothers, Orange, Comcast Ventures, Cross Culture Ventures, ACE & Company and M6. expired, Public Lecture Series http://newarkbusinesshubPLS.splashthat.com Diamondz N’ da Ruff 71 Clay St Newark, United States + Google Map Rutgers Takes A Bold Leap With Newark Business Hub Dec 10, 2015by Newark Business Hub4.7 Latest Press (2) LetsGrow Power Hour (3) Rutgers Business School Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development One Washington Park Keep up with The Hub by joining us on social media. @NWKBusinessHub RT @expressnewark: Newark based artist, #KevinDarmanie, tells us the story behind his "70's jacket". Stop by the space to see the immersive… Rutgers Business School, CUEED One Washington Park Newark, NJ 07102 Newark Business Hub © 2016 All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line668
__label__cc	0.554932	0.445068	JS body for ‘Kabi Nazrul Institute’ instead of Nazrul Institute The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Cultural Affairs Ministry on Wednesday recommended changing the title of Nazrul Institute Bill 2017 to rename it as ‘Kabi Nazrul Institute Bill 2017’, reports UNB. The Jatiya Sangsad committee prepared its report on the bill bringing some changes in the proposed law. It also suggested placement of the report in the House, said a Parliament Secretariat handout. The Parliamentary watchdog came up with the recommendations at its 26th meeting held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with its chairperson Simeen Hussain (Rimi) in the chair. On November 15, the Nazrul Institute Bill, 2017 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad aiming to collect literary and cultural works of Poet Nazrul Islam. The bill will replace the Nazrul Institute Ordinance, 1984, promulgated during a military regime. If the bill is passed in the House, the number of its board members will increase to nine from the existing seven. At the meeting, the parliamentary committee thanked the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) for inclusion of the historic 7th March Speech of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the Memory of the World Register. The body also thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury for successfully hosting the 63rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, the annual assembly of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in early November. Committee members Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, Manoranjan Shill Gopal, Pankaj Nath and Pinu Khan attended the meeting. Int’l leaders urged to resolve Rohingya crisis Digital Security Act to ensure freedom of speech: Anisul Launching of Bangabandhu Sattelite-1 deferred until March Int’l Education & Cultural Carnival begins at DIU Smart City Week begins in city DU inter-hall quiz contest begins today	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line669
__label__cc	0.545889	0.454111	For any artist enquiries please contact the gallery. Subodh Gupta (Indian, b.1964) Subodh Gupta grew up in Bihar and was awarded his BFA from the College of Arts and Crafts in Patna. Already working as a painter and sculptor, he first received international acclaim at the 2007 Art Basel with Gandhi’s Three Monkeys, a vast installation constructed from antique utensils. Later that year he exhibited his Very Hungry God (a giant skull sculpture consisting of steel tiffin lunch pots) in front of the Palazzo Grassi by the Venice Biennale. Regarded as one of the most successful contemporary Indian artists, Gupta frequently uses everyday objects that are common throughout his homeland to create a humorous take on the stereotypical images associated with modern Indian culture. His subjects eloquently describe the contradictions of a rapidly changing society – from the extremely rich to the devastatingly poor; from the sacred to a more materialistic way of thinking. Gupta lives and works in New Delhi, and is married to fellow British-Indian artist Bharti Kher. 21 Conduit Street London, W1S 2XP © 2016 Omer Tiroche Mazal Moznaim 2, Old Jaffa	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line671
__label__wiki	0.984639	0.984639	Awards / Film Projects Funded Nordic Council Film Prize Nordic Talents Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Join Nordisk Film & TV Fond's biweekly newsletter! Get the latest film- and TV industry news from the Nordics (e.g. interviews, admissions reports, trailers), monthly updates on projects funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, and information about our events and new initiatives. WRITTEN BY: Annika Pham Iceland’s Hildur Guðnadóttir, Denmark’s The Cave, in Oscar race Hildur Guðnadóttir, Feras Fayyad / PHOTO: Rune Kongsgro, Stine Heilmann Guðnadóttir for Best Original Score with Joker, The Cave directed by Feras Fayyad is running for Best Documentary. Both Fayyad and Guðnadóttir are strong contenders in their respective categories. The Cave won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the last Toronto Film Festival and Fayyad’s previous film Last Men in Aleppo was Oscar nominated in 2018. The Cave which follows the extraordinary work of Syrian female doctor Amani Ballour as she manages an underground hospital in Ghouta, outside Damascus, was produced by Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær for Danish Documentary, with co-financing from National Geographic Documentary Films, TV2 Denmark, and support among others from the Danish Film Institute. Dyekjær told nordicfilmandtvnews.com: “Feras came to us and said he wanted a production company run by strong women. I’m grateful that he approached us. What I find so strong in The Cave is the story of women in a patriarchal society fighting for their rights in the middle of a war zone. To hear from the women directly is new. It’s a personal and courageous portrait of women in the middle of a war that we’ve never seen before.” Both Danish Documentary and National Geographic are working on an impact campaign to help women in war zones, through the Al Amal ‘Hope’ Fund https://www.kbfcanada.ca/en/projects/al-amal-hope-fund/ The Cave is handled internationally by Dogwoof who released it in UK cinemas in December via their own theatrical distribution arm. It opened in Denmark on January 9, 2020. The other documentaries competing at the Oscars are American Factory, The Edge of Democracy, For Sama and Honeyland. Hildur Guðnadóttir has just picked up a Critics’ Choice Award for her musical score for Todd Phillip’s film Joker, and won earlier this month a Golden Globe, making her the first female solo composer to win the prestigious Hollywood award. The classically trained cellist is running at the Oscars against Alexandre Desplat for Little Women, Randy Newman for Marriage Story, Thomas Newman for 1917, and John Williams for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Guðnadóttir’s name has been celebrated as well throughout 2019 for her outstanding composing work on HBO/Sky’s mini-series Chernobyl for which she won an Emmy Award. She was a close collaborator to her co-national, the late Jóhann Jóhansson, twice Oscar nominated for Sicario and The Theory of Everything. She won two Icelandic Edda Awards for her scores to Baltasar Kormákur's feature The Oath (2017) and the TV series Trapped (2016). The winners of the 92nd Academy Awards will be announced Sunday, February 9. RELATED POST TO : AWARDS / FILM / NORDICS © 2020 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Terms & Conditions info@nftvfond.com T +47 640 06 080 We use cookies to analyse general user patterns on our website in order to improve the services we provide and your user experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. To find out more, please read our Privacy Statement.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line680
__label__cc	0.725635	0.274365	Paula Livingstone .com Whispers & Screams And Other Things Subscribe to this category Unsubscribe from this category Subscribe via RSS Paula Livingstone Contingency. The New Normal Boris Johnson is the latest UK Prime Minister to make lavish promises about the state of the nations broadband. By promising full fibre broadband by 2025, he joins the pantheon of modern UK figureheads who have made such lavish and ultimately meaningless commitments. When we consider however that the policy his government trumpeted so ostentatiously only a few days ago is already government policy things take on a different hue. Current government planning targets full fibre by 2033 so this plan is really just a move of the goalposts designed to grab some headlines but with little to no solid ground. The timeframe committed to is nicely positioned beyond the maximum five year parliamentary term but neither of these so called commitments are backed by any lucid plans. The real devil in the detail will require an understanding of exactly how much the proposed changes will mean in terms of subsidy for areas left behind by their poor commercial viability. Most recent government figures suggest that GB PLC has 7.1% current full fibre coverage. These figures were valid in January but in cities the acceleration of connectivity has been exponential for example BT Openreach currently claim to be ticking off about 80,000 premises per month but to hit the ambitious target recently set that will need to ramp up to 400,000 a month. If the government decided to really get serious with full fibre is it even possible by 2025? Definitely. Is it likely? No way. Would it be good for UK business if achieved? Undoubtedly. As a nation we are actually doing ok with the absolute amount of fibre in the network. Theres quite a lot of it but it usually stops at cabinets on our streets. This is the typical FTTC model where fibres are terminated in ubiquitous cabinets and from there we go back to trusty copper for the "last mile". Fibre is faster and more reliable but copper is cheaper and easier to engineer and manage. It is in this "last mile" that the real nub of the UK connectivity problem is to be solved if we are to connect our homes, all 30 million of them, to the information national grid. A government report published last year set out the potential costs of meeting their less ambitious targets by 2033. In it they claim that the final cost of this project would be approx £33B. Of course the reality is that there will always be a long tail of between 10 and 25% of UK homes for whom commercially the figures regarding ROI (Returns On Investment) just don't stack up. For these locations the intervention of central government is essential and, through schemes such as the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme, steps have been taken. Indeed it is these 3-8 million homes for whom the greater engineering challenges lie. Options of course exist but most are far from perfect and many are even only barely acceptable. Take satellite broadband for example. This technology can ostensibly resolve the whole problem in a snap and yet, unfortunately, it can't. Satellite broadband is suboptimal in so many areas be it, latency (delay), contention (shared infrastructure), asymmetry (slow upload) and metering (data limits). The latency renders the technology almost useless for time sensitive applications such as video, voice, gaming and even share trading. Contention is a real thorn in the side of the industry as satellite transponders become filled and oversubscribed with users competing for the finite amount of throughput available. Eutelsat for example has long been the subject of industry chatter regarding its oversubscribed transponders amongst its other problems. The low power nature of active satellite LNB's means that they have a horribly low capacity to transmit back up to the satellite and if users are lucky enough to get and maintain a stable and fast connection they soon realise they have fallen foul of stringently monitored and enforced data limits known in the industry as the FUP (Fair Use Policy) 3/4G seems also on first glance to be a promising way of providing quick connectivity to poorly served premises but the fact is that the premises for whom fixed infrastructure is a problem are typically poorly served by UMTS networks and their descendants. For those able to make use of these facilities, costs can be high, metering is always on, throughput is spotty and varies enormously through the day and the infrastructure in place upstream of the masts is typically under provisioned. Another solution is point to point radio whether at the microwave (SHF) and millimetre (EHF) wavebands. These types of link provide near fibre standard performance and, if compared to the cost of installing fibre across or under terrain are relatively economical. They do however, carry a price tag in the thousands of pounds despite this pricing dropping enormously over recent years due to the emergence of companies like Ubiquiti and Siklu. For this reason these types of project are usually reserved for small community initiatives or remote or inaccessible commercial sites. Even after the books have been balanced the links created need backhaul infrastructure and this can often be the greatest hurdle to the establishment of a link to serve a site. Line of sight is essential and can be a dark art when one considers the vagaries of the Fresnel Zone and its byzantine effects on isotropic propagation across free space. In practical terms therefore, a capable telecommunications solutions provider needs to have consideration of and the ability to exercise one, some or all of the above methods and sometimes even in parallel. This, as you might expect opens a pandoras box of subsequent issues as new challenges arise such as channel bonding, traffic sequencing and more now rear their heads. The fact is, data communications is the new water or electricity and hurdles in the delivery of the service can no longer be accepted as reasons not to provide it. It simply must get through and, as we move into a world where almost everything is travelling to us through the network, the ability to overcome engineering challenges with whatever contingency communications are required is fast becoming a project worthy of a Thomas Telford or an Isambard Kingdom Brunel. This site is a combination of a personal and a professional site. Contact me to discuss any of the content you find here. 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__label__cc	0.509622	0.490378	YithianHistorian Scoti_Garbidis paladin0524 dutchyjin Vixy Platinum CaesarCon 2009 Basxs, conorlime, DoctorDoom, Grumbleskin, High Windows, Krunchyfrogg, Lallander, logan9a, l_c_jackson, michaeltaylor, Morashitar, Nasr20, oldgamster, Otakar, tehslack, Tygolia, Umiushi Max_Writer's Activity About Max_Writer Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Dark Future, Fantasy, Horror, Modern, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction / Futuristic, Space Opera, Super Heroic Call of Cthulhu, Star Trek, Twilight 2000, Traveller, AD&D What are you looking for?: I just love to play and would like to join a group. I can also run and have a great deal of experience as a GM, especially for D&D and Call of Cthulhu. I've found a great group of players here: http://www.meetup.com/Raleigh-Tabletop-Roleplayers/?a=wm1_gn I ran Dungeons and Dragons (2nd Edition) set in the World of Greyhawk from 1991 to 1998 and then began a new campaign in Ohio in 1998. That campaign lasted until 2007, starting out as a 2nd Ed game and turning into a 3rd ed game. In 2007, I started to run the BRP Call of Cthulhu game and ran a campaign until 2009. I have also played in numerous other games of all types and have run other games off and on (Traveller, Men in Black, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, etc.) Call of Cthulhu RPG Journals: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blogs/2951 Other journals: http://forum.abyssalgaming.com/blog/7-maxs-blog/ http://www.penandpapergames.com/foru...662-Max_Writer Youtube Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxWriter Tabletop Audio: http://community.roleplayingpublicra...hor/maxwriter/ Albums Created by Max_Writer Otakar View Max_Writer's Blog by Max_Writer on 02-08-2019 at 01:46 PM (After John Leppard ran the Star Wars Edge of the Empire scenario “Ice Station Zulu” by David Villegas with Ben Abbott, Laird Davis, Nathan Johnson, and me Saturday, February 3, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.) ICE STATION ZULU Ten years after the end of the CLONE WARS, much of the galaxy is in the grip of the vast and powerful EMPIRE. Working to consolidate its power, the EMPIRE has engaged in many (After play testing Star Frontiers with the scenario “Crash on Volturnus” from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday with Jeff Tolle, Tim, RJ, Derick, Ryan, and Bethany.) A small group of six had been hired by the government of Truane’s Star to carry out a preliminary exploration of a newly discovered planet. The group included two Dralasites: short, rubbery aliens that had no bones nor hard body parts. The one who called himself William the Dralasite was (After play-testing Albedo: Platinum Catalyst in Bryan Sunday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. with Aaron and Adam Frager.) As the Second ConFed/ILR War heated up, more EDF troops were sent to the planet Tlakatan in order to help defend the planet and train local Homeguard troops. The group that arrived on-world a few months after the terrorist attack on the moon base on Tindo consisted of three officers and a group of cadets. The officers represented the Squad Leader Boadsun was a bear. He was a bit vulgar and burped and farted repeatedly. A Spec 2 mechanic, he was great with tools. Squad Leader by Max_Writer on 05-04-2018 at 11:10 AM (After Kyle Matheson ran his Basic Roleplaying System original scenario “Nine Strangers” with Ashton LeBlanc, Austin Davie, Katie Gallant, Ben Abbott, Yorie Latimer, Whitney Ward, Collin Townsend, and me Saturday, April 14, from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.) What defines a man? What makes him what he is? Is it his past? His hopes? His dreams? His memories? Can he aspire to be something better than those things make of him? Or is he trapped in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line692
__label__cc	0.724669	0.275331	CARDIOTHORACIC TRAUMA: A Scandinavian Perspective by Rashid, Moheb A., PhD Background: Trauma in general is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and causes more loss of productive years than ischemic heart disease and malignancy together. Cardiothoracic trauma occurs in 60% of multitrauma patients and is 2-3 times more common than intra-abdominal visceral injuries. It constitutes 25% of traumatic deaths and contributes significantly to at least another 25% of these fatalities. Though only about 15% of chest trauma requires operative intervention, a considerable number of preventable deaths occur due to inadequate or delayed treatment of otherwise an easily remediable injury. Aims of the study: The aim of this study was to describe rare but serious and sometimes fatal entities in patients with cardiothoracic trauma sustained in two Scandinavian countries, and to determine the outcome. Patients and Methods: This study is a retrospective review of 496 patients of which 477 patients with significant cardiothoracic trauma managed during a ten-year period, between January 1988 and December 1997 (Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg, Sweden) and 19 patients treated between January 1995 and December 2001 (Copenhagen University Hospital/Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark). Age, gender, mechanism of injury, co-morbidity, risk factors, clinical diagnosis, associated injuries, complications, treatment, length of hospital stay and follow-up were recorded. Injury severity score (ISS) was calculated using the 1990 Abbreviated Injury Scale Results: The mechanisms of injury in penetrating trauma were knife stabs and in blunt trauma were mainly motor vehicular crashes and falls. Associated rib fractures in patients with traumatic extrapleural hematoma (TEH) were found in 31/34 (88.2%), and more than 50% had an associated hemothorax. No cardiovascular injuries have been found in patients with sternal fractures. All patients with penetrating lung injuries survived without major sequelae. ISS averaged 14.9+9.5 SD in all survivors versus 49.9+13.6 SD in those who died (p< 0.0001). All patients with penetrating ventricular wounds presented with pericardial tamponade. The incidence of blunt cardiac injury was very low in both the Swedish and Danish centers. Eight patients with aortic ruptures were operated on using left heart bypass and one with cardiopulmonary bypass. One patient had postoperative renal failure, but no incidence of paraplegia. Conclusions: This study suggests a nomenclature, and classification of TEH, and depicts its clinical significance. Sternal fractures are not reliable indicator of heart or aortic injuries. Good outcome in penetrating injuries to the lungs can be obtained by an aggressive approach including emergency room thoracotomy when needed. The study reflects the Swedish and Danish experiences of heart trauma: there were few cases, alcohol and drug misuse is the principal risk factor, and there were no gunshot wounds. Left heart bypass is recommended if paraplegia is to be prevented in managing patients with traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta. School:Göteborgs universitet Keywords:MEDICINE; Cardiothoracic trauma; Trauma; Extrapleural hematoma; Sternal fractures; Heart and lung contusions; Cardiac; pulmonary; and thoracic aortic injuries; Urgent or emergency room/department thoracotomy; Sternotomy; Paraplegia; Outcome. ISBN:978-91-628-7171-0	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line697
__label__cc	0.716564	0.283436	Welcome to Packwoman's Tech in Progress! Movie-Making PackwomanFilm The Power of Digital Storytelling: "Remembering Gio" Over the years, I've often written about the reasons teachers should incorporate digital storytelling in their classrooms. I've talked about how student film can empower young people, promote collaboration, provide an opportunity for authentic communication, and showcase learning. In my book and during several interviews, I've made sure to express just how much middle school voices need to be enfranchised through digital storytelling, and that they have no shortage of poignant messages to share. But this year I have learned that there is an even deeper truth about the benefits of making movies in the classroom. I've learned that digital storytelling can be the perfect modality for students to process their emotions and make sense of their world. This past November, one of my students, Marina, experienced a personal tragedy. She was visibly distraught in class for several days before she finally confided the reality of her family's situation. "You're the only adult I can talk to, Mrs. Pack," she said. "My family hurts so much right now, I need to be strong for them." Marina's baby cousin passed away after drowning in her family's backyard pool. We talked for an hour after school that day. Then she came to me several weeks later and said, "You know how my cousin died? I think I need to make a movie about it." My first instinct was to be hesitant. Would this be emotionally safe for her? Should I allow a student to tackle such an intense topic so close to the moment of devastating loss? What if she broke down during the process? Would I know what to do? Marina has been my student for the past three years; she has a talent for digital storytelling. During her sixth grade year, Marina wrote and directed an award-winning video called, Math Genius. During her seventh grade year, she starred in the award-winning Lost Ships as one of the principal characters; it was a project took over 5 months to produce. Is it any wonder that she would choose to grieve by sharing her cousin's story, the story of her family's grief, on camera? "Okay," I said. "But first, let's talk about what is motivating you. What is the goal you hope to accomplish?" "I want to make this movie as a memorial to Gio. And I want others to learn from his story." How could I deny Marina her mission? How could I stop her voice in its tracks? I decided that if she was brave enough to write and film this story, I would be brave enough to support her. After several on location shoots, many different interview takes, and lots of tears, Remembering Gio was finished. Marina asked me to submit her work to several local and state film festivals. She said it doesn't matter if her video is screened, but she wanted to try to share Gio's story with as large an audience as possible. The day we rendered the final cut, she also made me promise to upload the video to YouTube as soon as possible. In workshops and keynotes, I've often spoken about the power of saying YES to our students. This is yet another instance in which I am so very glad to have said YES to the process, to Marina's choice in subject matter, to sharing her grief and love of her cousin. Most of all, I am so proud of her for laying her grief out there for the world to see, for turning a tragedy into an opportunity to educate others. Tracey Walker, a wonderful educator in my PLN, summed Marina's project up perfectly when she said: @Packwoman208 @chaugen It's like it's her heartsong, but in video format. — Tracy Walker (@EduTrace) March 27, 2015 How to AR Like a "G" - Engage. Create. Share. #CUE15 Yo! Does your augmented reality need a reality check? Could your AR be more student-centered? At #CUE15, Eddie Rivera and I were super excited to present how teachers can better use AR with their students to engage, create, and share content. Check out our slide deck: How do you use AR like a "G"? Share your AR suggestions in the comments below. If you attended our session, please feel free to comment with your questions, too. Author: Jessica Pack California Teacher of the Year. CUE Outstanding Educator 2015. DIGICOM Learning Teacher Consultant. 6th Grade Teacher. Passionate about gamification, Minecraft, digital story-telling, and fostering student voices. "Digital Storytelling: Connecting Standards to Movie-Making" by J. Pack 3D Game Lab Aurasma #CAedchat Ca Toy Ebackpack ETIS Flipped Classrooms Minecraft: Education Edition Samr Scale Today's Meet Tourwrist	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line701
__label__cc	0.559698	0.440302	351 not out: PVRâ€™s consolidation spree, good news for advertisers? November 30, 2012 By Neeta Nair 0 466 It was thought that the VCR/VCPs would eventually kill the business of movie theatres. However, it was Priya Village Road Show or now better known as PVR that pioneered the multi-screen theatres and gave a facelift to the industry and brought back the joy of movie-watching at a large screen. Now in another significant movie,… How’s social media evolving PR November 30, 2012 By 0 13 In the early days, the internet consisted of one-way communications in the form of static websites and two-way communication through email. Over the past several years, the internet has grown to the most premiere medium for two-way or multi-way conversations which changed the dynamics of Public Relations (PR). Just a few of examples include social… Great brands sell and sell, and win: Vinita Bali November 30, 2012 By Neeta Nair 0 12 In a talk with Srabana Lahiri of Impact magazine, a weekly media, marketing & advertising magazine from the exchange4media Group, which celebrated its 8th aniversary issue lately, Vinita Bali, Managing Director, Britannia Industries Limited, tells what it takes to make great brands. “Iâ€™ve had wonderful experiences with all brands â€“ Coke, Cadbury, Britannia â€“ theyâ€™ve… Complete revamp of dealer network helped Mercedes grow: Debashis Mitra When Debashis Mitra, Director, Sales and Marketing, Mercedes-Benz India,Â joined the company in 2008, it was a tough phase for the market and the organisation. There were business challenges, emerging competition and an aggressive pricing strategy that was slowly eating up the market share. The network was good but required change to take on the… Mobility, mobile marketing fuel Ford Figo: Anurag Mehrotra Ford recently launched the new facelift version of its popular compact hatchback Figo in India, along with a new campaign. Anurag Mehrotra, Vice President, Marketing, Ford India, talks to Pitch about the new launch and consumer insight that led to it. He also shares how mobile marketing will be the calling card for Ford to… Extensions, not new launches the mantra for success: Nielsen The easiest way for an organisation to resist competition is to launch a new product in a hitherto untapped category or in a category where it can successfully create stark product differentiation. However, while consumer interest could initially peak, there is a far greater possibility that a consumer will prefer extensions of the brands he… Who’ll be the new CSO at Jabong.com? Many people who find them being labelled as a compulsive shopper would relate perfectly with Becky Bloomwood, the shopaholic protagonist in the â€˜Confessions of a Shopalicâ€™ series of books and the movie of the same name. Here in India, fashion ecommerce player, Jabong, in its latest campaign, is also searching for the Indian Becky Bloomwood…. Flip through eBooks with Flyte Foraying into the eBook category, Flipkart.com has brought over one lakh books to the Indian consumer. Flipkart.comâ€™s digital store FlyteÂ claimsÂ to have a rich selection of books with attractive prices, which can be bought and read on the mobile devices. The eBooks purchased by the readers on Flyte can only be read through the Flyte eBooks… The road ahead for Compact SUV market in India November 28, 2012 By 0 173 With the advent of vehicles like Mahindra Quanto, Premier Rio and Renault Duster launched in the country, the Compact SUV market is making a name for itself with more and more consumers moving towards this segment. Claiming to give an experience of both the worlds; a compact premium hatchback and an entry level sedan, the… CCD eyes international markets; Puttaraj AG to handle international business Puttaraj AG, President of Coffee Day Xpress, CCDâ€™s kiosk chain, has been assigned an additional mandate of handling the international business for the organisation. He currently oversees the functioning of the 900+ outlets of Xpress. K Ramakrishnan, President-Marketing, CafÃ© Coffee Day, says, â€œThe company currently has 19 international cafes in Vienna and the Czech Republic….	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line709
__label__cc	0.734619	0.265381	Disclaimer: SCS Broadband is a private company. The implementation schedule and project progress are not under the control or direction of Powhatan County and are subject to change. June 11, 2018 Board Work Session Materials The following items will be included on the 06/11/18 Board Agenda: SCS Planned Tower Locations Map (PDF 1MB) NOTE: These are topographic maps that can be used to estimate service availability. Each location is unique and will need to be reviewed by SCS to determine service availability. Low Resolution Downloads Low Resolution Complete Map Set (PDF 4MB) High Resolution Downloads (PDF ~15MB Each) 2272 Walnut Tree Blvd Cartersville - Not Available 1901 Judes Ferry Rd 1914 Luck Stone Rd 1061 Dorset Rd 2561B Judes Ferry Rd 5206 Anderson Hwy 3610 Bolling Rd 3454 Lewis Ln June 1, 2018 SCS Broadband Update: Click HERE for the 'Project Status Report' submitted by SCS Broadband to Powhatan County. May 14, 2018 SCS Broadband Update: SCS Broadband had updated their status page to include potential tower sites and project statuses. Follow this link for more information: https://scsbroadband.com/county-status/. March 1, 2018 SCS Broadband Update: A community pole is proposed for installation in the Westlake community. Marketing postcards and phone calls for the Mitchell Road tower area will be underway in March. American Tower assigned a staff member to expedite SCS Broadband leasing process for their towers. SCS is waiting on the response from SBA towers, with a high priority for two of their towers. With the tower leasing situation improving, along with better weather, SCS predicts better progress over the next 2-3 months. SCS Broadband is submitting a revised project time-frame, by tower and region, later this week, and a monthly status reporting system has been implemented for regular progress updates. Additionally, Powhatan County’s Administrator will be participating with Goochland County’s Administrator, and other communities, in a regional meeting with SCS Broadband to ascertain what can be done to accelerate deployment. SCS Broadband website October 26,2017 Wireless Update: We are very pleased to announce that SCS broadband has installed equipment and is now signing up customers in close proximity to the County Tower located at 2407 Mitchell Rd, (next to the Convenience Center). If you live within 5 to 7 air miles (not road miles) of that location and are interested in this service, please follow the link below to their website to sign up for service and have SCS Broadband come to your house to determine your eligibility. 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__label__wiki	0.727139	0.727139	Jazz Rock/Fusion • Ghana Osibisa biography Founded in London, UK in 1969 - Still active as of 2015 OSIBISA means Criss-Cross rhythms that explode with happiness, and what a precise name, the first thing that anybody who listens this band admires is the fantastic rhythm section, combining drums and bass with tribal percussion instruments in a delightful way, even Uriah Heep couldn't resist the chance to add their percussion to the song Look at Yourself. But if this was their only particularity, they wouldn't be added to Prog Archives, this group of talented African and Caribbean musicians blend African chants with Psychedelia in the most incredible and skilled way, long before the term World Music was coined, it's so well crafted that nothing sounds artificial, the music flows from start to end with joy for live and sadness of centuries of oppression and adding a spectacular show on stage. The story of OSIBISA starts in London in 1969, when three musicians from Ghana ( Teddy Osei on the Sax, Sol Amarfio on the drums and Mac Tontoh on the trumpet); join Spartacus R from Grenada who played the bass and complemented perfectly the African percussion, Roger Bayle from Trinidad and Tobago on the keyboards and Wendel Richardson from Antigua on the lead guitar. Very soon they found another member, Asisi Amao from Nigeria who added extra percussion plus tenor Sax. and in that moment OSIBISA was born. During the next two years they were preparing their first album but in 1970 they released their first and very successful single: "Music for Gong Gong" that caught attention from all the world. In 1971 they release the fantastic "Osibisa" with an extremely beautiful art cover by a young painter named Roger Dean. From the beginning this album broke schemes, the opener "The Dawn" starts as a tribal ceremony to receive the day with complex percussion surrounded by birds and sounds you could easily listen in central Africa, but soon the vocals and instruments prove us that they were incredibly talented adding to their unique sound rooted in Ghana bands like THE STARGAZERS and THE CAT PAWS (where Sol Amarfio Teddy Osei and Marc Tontoh started their careers) to different influences that go from, Hendrix, Santana, Bob Marley, R&B, Jazz and all the British Psychedelia they listened and assimilated during the years they were in England, this capacity to blend styles supposedly incompatible is what took them close to Progressive Rock. But my favorite song from th...Founded in London, UK in 1969 - Still active as of 2015 But my favorite song from this album is Ayko Bya, a total tribal chant with an amazing organ to perfectly backup the contrapuntist vocals between two singers as if they were in a contest trying to get more complex than it's predecessor , simply amazing. The success was instantaneous, the offers and invitations came from all the world, from Psychedelic to Jazz festivals, but this guys took the music seriously. The second OSIBISA album "Woyaya" was released in the same year and marked a change in their music, even when they kept the tribal sound and complex percussion they started to experiment with the organ, this album reaches their peak in the title song that closes the album an incredibly beautiful nostalgic chant "We are going, Heaven knows where we are going" surrounded by an atmospheric and psychedelic organ, extremely beautiful song. In 1972 they release their most successful album "Heads", mostly because of the legendary song "Che Che Kule", this album marked the end of their Psychedelic/Proto Prog career, but still is a great album that deserves to be listened. Their career continues with high and low points until the 21st Century but turning more and more commercial with the pass of the years, but still today they are icons in Ghana, where they've been awarded by former President Jerry J Rowlings. Now the real question is where to include them, clearly they were a Psychedelic band but it's undeniable that they have also evident Folk African roots and were part of the Proto Prog Movement in Africa, which as we know arrived later than in other continents, so to be precise I will have to include them in the Various Genres section. : : : Iván Melgar Morey, Perú : : : Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com : OSIBISA was one of the first African bands to blend the powerful rhythms from their continent with British Psychedelia, Reggae, Jazz, Afro Funk and Proto Prog, creating a new form of fusion (understanding Fusion as a blending of genres, not necessarily to a form of Jazz) that later was known as world music. Osibisa (Studio album) 1971 Woyaya (Studio album) 1971 Heads (Studio album) 1972 Happy Children (Studio album) 1973 Osibirock (Studio album) 1974 Super Fly TNT (Soundtrack) 1974 Ojah Awake (Studio album) 1976 Black Magic Night: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Live Album) 1977 Welcome Home (Studio album) 1977 Mystic Energy (Studio album) 1980 Live at the Marquee 1983 (Live album) 1984 Criss Cross Rhythms (Studio album) 1992 Warrior (Studio album) 1992 Unleashed (Studio album) 1995 African Flight (Studio album) 1995 Monsore (Studio album) 1997 African Dawn African Flight (Studio album) 2003 Wango Wango (Studio album) 2004 There are several compilations, but this is rhe basic discography, specially when we're going to focus in the first three albums.read more OSIBISA forum topics / tours, shows & news OSIBISA forum topics osibisa here?ok why not santana? OSIBISA tours, shows & news No topics found for : "osibisa" OSIBISA Videos (YouTube and more) Showing only random 3 \| Search and add more videos to OSIBISA Buy OSIBISA Music Best of Osibisa Prestige Elite 2002 $7.19 Repertoire Records 2016 $27.23 Woyaya Osibisa / Woyaya Bgo - Beat Goes on 2004 $11.42 Golden Stars Holland 2009 $40.99 (used) Black Magic Night: Live Talking Elephant 2018 $13.43 Music on Vinyl 2018 $25.84 Very Best Of Osibisa Neon Netherlands 1997 $5.99 Singles As BS & 12 Inches More places to buy OSIBISA music online Buy OSIBISA & Prog Rock Digital Music online: AmazonMP3: Search for OSIBISA DRM-Free MP3 Downloads @ Amazon.com MP3 OSIBISA discography OSIBISA top albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download) Happy Children Super Fly T.N.T. (OST) Osibirock Ojah Awake African Flight Monsore Osee Yee OSIBISA Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download) Black Magic Night: Live at the Royal Festival Hall Live At The Marquee Live at Cropredy OSIBISA Videos (DVD, Blu-ray, VHS etc) OSIBISA Boxset & Compilations (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download) Sunshine day, The Pye/Bronze anthology Very Best of Osibisa (Neon) The Very Best Of Osibisa African Dawn, African Flight Wango Wango - The Ultimate Collection Osibisa/Woyaya The Very Best Of Osibisa (Golden Stool) OSIBISA Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, EP/LP, MC, Digital Media Download) OSIBISA Reviews Osibisa Jazz Rock/Fusion Review by Luqueasaur Great world music but bland European jazz-rock: 7/10 WOYAYA's ridiculously upbeat jazz-rock, imbued with African and Caribbean influences, is particularly innovative for the early 70s and also helped to set world music as a marketable genre. OSIBISA's musicianship and creativity shines brilliantly when they play ethnic-oriented moments: Beautiful Seven is tropically vibrant, offering amazing bongo solo outro; Rabiatu, my favorite track and by far what I consider OSIBISA's pinnacle, virtually has no jazz fusion, instead, it brings SANTANA-influenced latin rock mixed with distinctively rhythmic, polyphonic and energetic West African music. Sadly, OSIBISA hinders their utmost potential as they give far too much attention on performing jazz fusion which, frankly, feels generic most of the time. In the end, I see WOYAYA as a good (even if flat) jazz-rock album that occasionally astounded me with superb world music moments. Worth checking out nonetheless - who knows, my "good and bland" might be yours "absolutely amazing". Posted Thursday, October 5, 2017 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #1790835) Review by Prog Leviathan First let me say that if you're not familiar with Osibisa's "criss cross rhythms that explode with happiness," then you're missing out. This band's blend of world beats, jazz fusion, unapologetically open-ended songs, instrumental improvisation, and thick grooves makes Osibisa immediately appealing. The "prog" in Osibisa comes from their blending of musical roots, making an end result a unique and charming musical experience. I highly recommend everyone reading to the warm sound and dynamic rhythms of this little heard of band. It may not blow your mind as a prog-rock master piece, or have the razzle-dazzle as a Chic Corea or Mahavishnu Orchestra fusion album... but I guarantee that Osibisa will groove its way into your soul and, enhance any party as background music, and catch your attention with its dense rhythms and musicianship. It's a ton of fun while also being artistic, flamboyant, and genuine. Moreover, it could give your Anglo or Scandanavian-centric prog-rock music collection a juicy bit of soul from the equator! Songwriting: 3 - Instrumental Performances: 4 - Lyrics/Vocals: 3 - Style/Emotion/Replay: 4 Posted Wednesday, December 9, 2015 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #1497800) Review by siLLy puPPy Collaborator PSIKE, JR/F/Canterbury & Eclectic Teams Although OSIBISA is primarily a band from the African nation of Ghana, it didn't form there. Four members from Ghana met three others from Caribbean nations in London in 1969 and so began their unique and catchy brand of Afro-funk jazz fusion. Their music is an eclectic fusion of various types of African and Caribbean music with particular emphasis on the local African form of Highlife but they also include a healthy dose of jazz, rock, Latin and R&B. I share the overwhelming opinion that OSIBISA is indeed the African version of Santana. There are a few tracks that could easily be slipped onto an early Santana album and no one would notice. The result of all this fusion is a vibrant, energetic and melodic percussion dominated big sound that I find quite uplifting. The band put out the rumors that their name means "criss cross rhythms that explode with happiness." What a great advertising method it was however the name is actually derived from "osibisaba" which means nothing more than "highlife" in Fante which is an indigenous language of Ghana. OSIBISA actually enjoyed mild success in the US with both their first two albums scoring mild success on the Billboard Top 200 possibly helped by the fact that a prolific Roger Dean contributed his artistic talents to the album covers. OSIBISA also was one of the first bands to popularize the term "world music" and influenced a gazillion others to follow their multi-cultural cross pollination. A very pleasant debut album where you can expect a big full sound delivering happy and upbeat harmonies and rhythms very much in the style of early Santana. Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2014 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #1179625) The cut-off point for prog fans, 'Heads' is the last Osibisa album to feature the group's original and distinct afro- jazz style, though the poppier elements that would come into play on next album 'Happy Children' are already prevalent. And it's a shame, not because 'Heads' is a bad album, but because Osibisa' second release 'Wowoya'('Heads' predecessor) was so good. A cool, detached and mellow mixture of African beats, Caribbean rhythms, jazzy textures and psych-tinged rock, 'Wowoya' is Osibisa's stand-out album, graced, just like the group's self-titled debut, by a beautiful Roger Dean-drawn cover. 'Heads' still features elements of it's predecessor's style, with jazzy organs, tribal percussion and hip-swinging beats brewing up another highly infectious dose of Afro-Caribbean rock, yet the group were becoming popular and that, as we all know, is usually a recipe for sonic homogenisation. Still, 'Heads' is an enjoyable album nonetheless, both fresh and funky and almost like an African version of Chicago thanks to the powerful horn section. Although more mainstream in it's approach this is still worth the effort, and those yet to explore the delights of Osibisa are urged to seek out all three of their original albums. It's a shame that they couldn't follow-up 'Wowoya' with a similarly-styled effort, yet in the end 'Heads' will do. STEFAN TURNER, STOKE NEWINGTON, 2012 Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2012 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #720498) Boxset/Compilation, 2009 Review by Matti (First review of this album.) OSIBISA is probably the best known 70's Fusion band from Africa and pioneers of the so called World Music. Most players were from Ghana but were operating in London. Their first two albums from the beginning of the decade, Osibisa and Woyaya, are considered their best. Funky, rhythmic Fusion with lots of woodwind, brass, excellent electric guitar and percussion, and with a strong Western African feel (a cousin to that of Latin-American). The band continued to make albums but they eventually got poorer and poorer, less and less original - often even disco-ish - as can be seen from the ratings here. And that notion gets pretty clear with this compilation too. Roger Dean (the illustrator known by all YES fans) has done many of the later album covers too, including this one. That, and the title "The Very Best Of" makes one expect a good, well done compilation but these expectations are not fulfilled very well. It's definitely more recommended to get the double issue of the mentioned first albums. Not that all of the later stuff is crap. Some songs are quite listenable even if they don't have much in common with the Fusion they started with. And of course it's interesting to hear how they changed through the years. Well, at least they always kept that happy, joyous mood. What a decent compilation should do is give the listener deeper information of the band. In that sense too this is a let-down. Especially I would have wanted to get the release years of each track. Albums are mentioned but not their release years, strange! Posted Thursday, February 23, 2012 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #639157) Review by kenethlevine Special Collaborator Prog-Folk Team As someone who passed through a significant world music phase and still enjoys ethnic fusion, I was long overdue to check out the primordial blend offered up by OSIBISA before the genre even had a name. Hailing from 1971, their debut not surprisingly incorporates the progressive music of its day into an appealing mix of R&B, African, and Latin sounds. SANTANA certainly provides a solid point of reference but OSIBISA is more ensemble oriented and casts a wider net. The intention from the get go was to produce joyous music that gets you or at least your chromosomes dancing, and the objective seems to have been met. While the group sound is clearly much happier than its analog in America, its general heaviness and incessant emphasis on rhythm do not produce the same effect on this listener, especially when compared to the more melodically oriented practitioners of the 80s and beyond - JULUKA, TOURE KUNDA, and HABIB KOITE to name a few. In the meantime, drum solos are the aural equivalent of traffic snarls for me in 2011, so, while I can appreciate that times were different, it doesn't mean I want to go back to something I never experienced in its proper context in the first place. Still and all, OSIBISA offers enough striking material assessed on its own merits, as well as blueprints for the world music artists who followed, to merit their groundbreaking status. The best examples here of each respective aspect would be "Music for Gong Gong" and "Ayiko Bia". One of the group's strong suits is their expressive use of wind instruments, mostly brass, and "Oranges" provides the juiciest example herein. I am intrigued by the lyrical concept of "Phallus C", but the words are hard to make out and nowhere could I find them online. It almost sounds like an indictment of stereotypes around penis length and girth based on race, but musically leaves me cold. "Thing about the people" would seem out of place in lesser hands but actually works well as a closing number, solidifying the group's versatility in the realm of political protest. Lyrics aside, this one is worth it for the organ work even relative to the keyboard standards set earlier in the disk. I don't imagine I will be crisscrossing these rhythms with high frequency, but I can certainly understand the buzz and the role this band could play as a portal to the world music scene for progressive aficionados. Posted Monday, December 26, 2011 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #596520) Review by Sinusoid Happiness is an angry elephant with wings. Osibisa have self-professed on their debut album that their music is ''criss-cross rhythms that explode with happiness'' and have promised to make us happy when we listen to their music. For this music lover, mission accomplished. This is by and far the happiest band I've ever come across, even beating out Yes at times. Like the debut album, Osibisa plays upbeat jazz-rock laced with African percussions and rhythms as well as Latin music ideas that spark of Santana. To stress the happiness factor, WOYAYA goes nowhere near the sometimes darker tracks on parts of the debut. If you've ever gotten curious and listened to ''The Beautiful Seven'', it starts the album very well. The first half is nearly mystic with some of the most gorgeous ensemble vocals I've heard; I can tell that these guys are having fun as well as taking their happiness somewhat seriously. They convince you that they know what they're doing vocally, and that intangible works better on me as a listener than any type of skill. To icing the cake, it segues right into a powerful, flute driven jam that signifies everything great about this group. Some direct correlations with the debut album are the tracks ''Rabiatu'' (sounds a bit like ''Ayiko Bia'' and ''Phallus C'' combined) and ''Move On'' (sounds like ''Think About the People''; it made sense when I found out Wendell Richardson wrote both). ''Spirits Up Above'' is slightly weaker than the rest due the slow dance pace at the beginning, but it soon picks up. ''Y Sharp'' and the title track are other highlights in this collection emphasizing the happiness attitude with Chicago-esque horn, Santana-like organs and Osibisa's own percussion drives. WOYAYA is very attached to its predecessor with a bit more happiness added to it. It's a very good companion to OSIBISA that anyone open to world music along with jazz-rock might want to pick up. Review by Norbert The first thing that striked me about the second studio effort by Osibisa is artwork, Roger Dean seems to be not able to do wrong regarding album artworks. It is a real delight to have the Repertoire Records version, it looks really great. Osibisa is listed on ProgArchives as a band from Ghana, this is only partially true, Teddy Osei, Mac Tontoh and Sol Amarfio are really from Ghana, but the other four musicians come from Nigeria, Grenada and Trinidad. But this is not a major mistake, and I have to be glad that I discovered this band via ProgArchives. The title of the opening track may refer to the number of band members, and to the number of tracks on this album. Beautiful Seven is indeed a beautiful track, great flutes, african rythms, a positive, joyful vibe, one of the signature songs of Osibisa. Y Sharp is also a fantastic track, irrestibly joyful, nice pllaying on trumpet, sax, and the rythms are again brilliant. Spirits up Above is an excellent Roland Kirk Cover, well, I have not heard the original, but this is very good.:-) After this the quality drops a little bit with the two following tracks, but not a lot. Honestly, I don't really like the intro of Survival. Fortunately, the band gets back on track and they finish the album with two fabulous tracks, Rabiatu features outstanding bass playing, and the title track is a wonderful ballad like peace, great to sing it along.:-) Overall, this is a very well played and written joyful album, with some minor flaws, a strong four star album for me. Posted Sunday, September 11, 2011 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #520223) Review by Warthur Happy Children is a touch better than Heads, revitalising the Osibisa sound by adding a more funk-influenced bassline courtesy of Jean-Karl Dikoto Mandengue, and a carefully-applied layer of keyboards played by Jean Roussel. Still, by and large this is the same sort of material as appeared on the previous three albums, and if you already own them you may begin to wonder why you'd want a fourth. Like the Ozric Tentacles, early Osibisa are a band where sometimes you can feel as though if you've heard one of their albums you've heard them all. Interesting, but the first two albums are a better pick. Posted Friday, August 26, 2011 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #509660) By Heads, the formula of the first two Osibisa albums was beginning to wear a little thin. It's still perfectly pleasant fusion, but by this point the songs get a bit too repetitive (like opener Kokorokoo, which could have done with being a few minutes shorter), and dismayingly the band seem to tone down their sound here and there in an attempt to reach a mainstream audience - but if they have to lose their soul and their cultural identity in doing so, where's the victory in that? It's still a reasonably enjoyable listen if you are already an Osibisa fan, but it's hardly their finest hour. Posted Tuesday, August 9, 2011 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #500696) Thanks to ivan_2068 for the artist addition. and to Quinino for the last updates	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line724
__label__cc	0.584315	0.415685	@CoertVisser What is the relation between mastery goals and intrinsic motivation? Bieg et al. (2016) did a study to clarify the relation between mastery goals and intrinsic motivation. Let's first look at what these two concepts mean. Meaning and importance of mastery goals and intrinsic motivation Mastery goals are focused on developing competence. This is in contrast with performance goals which are focused on demonstrating one's competence in comparison with others. Why are mastery goals important? Because research has shown that they have many positive effects (in comparison with performance goals), such as choosing challenging goals, persistence, more interest, deeper learning, etc. Intrinsic motivation is the desire to do things which are inherently interesting, fun, exciting or otherwise satisfying. Intrinsic motivation is not only fun. It is also important because it is associated with positive emotions, interest, and deep learning. Author: Coert Visser Portugal decriminalized drugs use and what happened? Drugs use can have a disruptive effect on lives of individuals and can also lead to many problems at a societal level. In 1971 president Nixon proclaimed a 'War on Drugs' which continues up to today. This war on drugs meant that the production, trade and use of drugs were seen as criminal behavior and were to be fought aggressively by the state. The emphasis in the war on drugs was on punishment and not on treatment of addiction. Has it been successful? Well, no. The annual costs are astronomic (they are estimated to be around $51 billion), prisons are packed and drugs use and all problems that go along with it have only gotten worse. Okay, but if such a strict approach does not work, what else can you do? Is need for novelty the fourth basic psychological need? We may need to keep on experiencing new things in order to keep on functioning well and feeling well. Self-determination theory has identified three basic, innate psychological needs - the need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness - which need to be fulfilled for optimal functioning. In a paper by González-Cutre et al. (2016) preliminary evidence is provided that need for novelty is also a basic psychological need contributing to optimal functioning. In two studies, participants completed a new measure to assess novelty need satisfaction, the Novelty Need Satisfaction Scale (NNSS), measures of psychological needs and regulation styles and psychological well-being. Trump's words are a clear warning of what he intends to do: turn back civilization Of the many things that can be held against Donald Trump (that very many things he says aren't true, his ruthless behavior in business, his many business failures, his unawareness of his own ignorance regarding policy matters, the fact that he's taking bragging to whole new levels, that he promises amazing things without explaining how he will achieve them, etc.) there is one thing that worries me most and that is his philosophy that fire should be fought with fire. The 4 Progress-Focused Roles Model (4PR model) In 2008 I developed the 4 Progress-Focused Roles model (4PR model) together with my colleague Gwenda Schlundt Bodien (with whom I also, 4 years ago, co-developed the progress-focused approach as a whole). The model describes four different roles from which progress-focused professionals may work: helping, directing, training/advising, and instructing. It is a two-dimensional model which describes these four roles which apply in conversations. Response to two tweets by Steven Pinker (on race and sex differences) This week Harvard University professor Steven Pinker (photo) posted two tweets which I'd like to respond to. The first tweet is about racism, the second about whether sex differences exist. © 2007-2019 Coert Visser (unless stated otherwise). 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__label__cc	0.70764	0.29236	Chippa, Sundowns in goalless stalemate Mamelodi Sundowns were held to a goalless draw by Chippa United in their Absa Premiership match at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The home side started the better of the two teams and had the first shot on goal in the 11th minute when Abel Mabaso’s shot from the edge of the box strike the post before bouncing away from danger. Sundowns’ first reals scoring chance came ten minutes later when Percy Tau curled a 24-yard free-kick inches over the target. The next decent scoring opportunity only came in the 29th minute when Tiyani Mabunda drove forward from the midfield before unleashing a 30-yard thunderbolt which deflected just wide of the Maritzburg goal. The half ended 0-0. The Brazilians continued to dictate matters at the start of the second half with Mabunda shooting narrowly wide of the target five minutes into the stanza. Chippa, though, were not to be outdone and came close to scoring in the 54th minute when Paseka Mako broke through on goal, but he was superbly denied in a one-on-one with Denis Onyango. In the 68th minute Chippa suffered a bit of a set-back when goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi had to leave the field injured and was replace by Brighton Mhlongo. There was a large delay to the match as Akpeyi was stretchered off and that seemed to kill the mood of the game. Both teams struggled to create any significant chances on goal after that and the match ended all-square as a result. Chippa: Akpeyi (Mhlongo 68’), Macheke, Okwuosa, Konqobe, Maphanga, Mvelase, Mabaso, Mdlinzo, Mako, Lentjies (Julies 61’), Sekola (Mashego 55’). Sundowns: Onyango, Langerman, Soumahoro, Ngcongca, Madisha, Billiat (Zakri 85’), Kekana (Zwane 74’), Mabunda, Vilakazi (Laffor 74’), Manyisa, Tau.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line726
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__label__wiki	0.660112	0.660112	Review Fashion Fashion Designers Photoghraphers Fashion Jewellery Fashion Hair Style Fashion Foot Wears Lasertag is an indoor sport loosely related to (as the name would suggest) the original game of tag. While seen by some as having more relation to the sport of paintball, lasertag is quite different, usually featuring less realistic environments such as mazes, different modes of gameplay, and is usually accompanied by music. The Game Of Lasertag Lasertag systems vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and centre to centre, but usually consist of a tagging device (which may or may not resemble some sort of handheld gun). The tagging device emits a laser beam, and usually one or more infrared (IR) beam as well, which carries information such as who tagged whom. Typically, the laser is merely a special effect of sorts, although it is not unheard of that the laser itself is the IR. The player wears a pack, usually in the form of an open vest, with sensors placed in various locations. In the lasertag community, these sensors are colloquially known as "targets", although such terminology is frowned upon by image-conscious owners. The laser or IR, when striking a sensor, transmits the pertinent data to the pack, data which is usually available via an LCD or similar screen on the tagging device itself. All packs are connected to a central server which records points, the location and number of tags on other players, the location and number of tags on oneself, and a beam/tag ratio. Typically, a player will receive a scorecard at the end of the game with this information recorded for posterity. It is worthy of note, also, that the typical lasertag system does not function very well in any sort of incandescent or fluorescent light; therefore, most lasertag mazes are dark, and lit by blacklights. A maze will feature fog machines as well, to illuminate the laser beams. This fog is often apparently invisible to the participants, but it is noticeable when looking into the maze from a room with normal lighting. There are really only two types of lasertag players: the elite (usually members in a players' club), and the recreational. Elite players are usually identified by their unique playing styles, knowledge of the mazes, and ability to rack up large numbers of points. Recreational players will show up for a bit of fun, most likely to be soundly defeated if any members are present, though upsets do happen when a recreational player catches on quickly. Lasertag Systems There are many different types of lasertag systems in existence. Here is a list of them: Actual Reality Autolec Intersphere Laser Space Laser Duel Laser Chaser Laser Force Laser Storm Laser Star Laser Shots Laserforce LaserMaxx LaserTrek LazerRunner Phaser Fun Q-Zar (Quasar) Q-2000 Veqtor ZapZone Types Of Games The two most common lasertag games are Team Games and Solo Missions. Both usually feature an unlimited number of beams, and an unlimited number of lives. In a team game, teams are distinguished by different coloured sensors. In solo missions, everyone is fair game for everyone else, though informal teams and packs are sometimes formed. Other less common game types, such as Highlander, have their own special rules which may be unique to the lasertag location or lasertag system being used. A Highlander game, for instance, is a game of stealth, each player receiving a fairly limited number of both beams and tags (or shots and lives as a member would say). The last player standing in the maze is crowned winner, though it is common that the winner will have less points than those who exit early. Ring events are lasertag matches held in an area approximately fifteen by fifteen feet wide where players compete against one another without walls or obstacles to hide behind. Lord of the Rings is a ring event that gained popularity in the mid to late 1990's among players of the Ultrazone lasertag system in the United States, Canada, England, Sweden and Finland. Lasertag Etiquette Though the types of courtesy shown in a maze may vary, it is generally good to observe a few ground rules. Running, physical contact, covering sensors, climbing walls or maze elements, crowding, and even using offensive language are frowned upon. Lasertag Slang Although a subculture of sorts can form around member's clubs, only a very limited vocabulary of specifically lasertag-oriented slang has been recorded. However, it does exist: A godpack is a pack whose tagging device is functioning extremely well, or whose sensors (or one particular group of sensors) are functioning particularly poorly. A godpack can also mean a pack that is used by employees to control other packs (to penalize cheaters, for example). A lock-in is an all-night lasertag party, usually lasting at least five hours, sometimes up to eight or nine hours, and may be themed. Some tournaments are also run in a lock-in format. About us \| Portfolio \| News \| Faq \| Links \| Turned actress \| Fashion Hairstyles \| Fashion dress \| Miss World 2011 \| Top 10 designers \| Fashion footwears \| Black and White Spider Awards \| Fashion Photography \| Fashion Shows \| Photography Tips \| Wedding Dress \| Review Fashion Movies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line734
__label__cc	0.715514	0.284486	Home/About us/Safeguarding adults and children Safeguarding adults and children admin 2019-10-29T12:41:43+00:00 Safeguarding aims to support adults and children to live a life that is free from abuse and neglect and involves a range of measures taken to protect them in the most vulnerable circumstances. Richmond Clinical Commissioning Group has adult and child safeguarding as one of its highest priorities. We are committed to working closely with the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and local healthcare providers in preventing abuse of adults and children in all areas where health and social care is provided for Richmond residents. We do this by working in partnership to ensure the services we commission are safe and compliant with all statutory safeguarding regulations. We have put in place safeguarding procedures to recognise report and respond to safeguarding issues promptly. Abuse can happen to any individual from any family regardless of their age, culture, disability, gender, racial origin, language, religious belief or sexual orientation. There may be a risk for example, of physical abuse, sexual abuse or neglect. They may be a victim of domestic violence, forced marriage or at risk from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Modern day slavery and human trafficking statement for SWL CCGs Modern slavery is the recruitment, movement, harbouring or receiving of children, women or men through the use of force, coercion, abuse of vulnerability, deception or other means for the purpose of exploitation. Individuals may be trafficked into, out of or within the UK, and they may be trafficked for a number of reasons including sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude and organ harvesting. As an authorised statutory body, NHS Kingston and Richmond CCGs as a Local Delivery Unit, is the lead commissioner for health care services (including acute, community, mental health) in both boroughs. The governing body, senior management team and all employees are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in any part of our business activity and, in so far as is possible, to holding our suppliers to account to do likewise. Click to read our Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking statement for SWL CCGs (August 2019) Who can raise safeguarding adults/children concern? Safeguarding concerns may be raised by any person who feel they are being abused, relatives, teachers, friends, carers, neighbours, member of the general public and health and social care staff. If you think someone is being abused or someone is abusing you, you can: Talk to someone you trust Contact the Safeguarding Adults team by calling them on 020 8891 7971 Contact the Safeguarding Children team by calling them on 020 8891 7969 Contact the emergency team: 020 8744 2442 If you are reporting abuse, it is helpful if you can provide your name to enable further contact. You can also report suspected abuse and not disclose your identity should you wish. In an emergency always dial 999. Your concerns will be taken seriously and you will receive prompt attention and advice. If you feel you are being abused, neglected or mistreated and feel unable to call us yourself, tell someone you trust and ask them to do it for you. Safeguarding referrals All adult and children safeguarding referrals are managed by Richmond Council. Please refer to information below. The Adult Access Team at Richmond Council is the first point of contact for all referrals. Click here for more information. The Single Point of Access, a multi agency team, managed by Achieving for Children at Richmond Council, is the first point of contact for all referrals. Click here for more information. What to do if you have a concern about an adult or child? For safeguarding adults please contact London Borough of Richmond upon Thames adult social services access team on: Textphone: 18001 020 8891 7971 Email: adultsocialservices@richmond.gov.uk For safeguarding children please contact: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Single Point of Access (SPA) Email: spa@richmond.gov.uk Click here for more information Out of hours contact for both adults and children safeguarding issues please contact the emergency duty team at Richmond Social Services on 020 8744 2442. The Richmond CCG safeguarding team The CCG safeguarding team consists of doctors and nurses who provide specialist advice. Please note: all adult and children safeguarding referrals are managed by Richmond Council. Lead nurse for safeguarding adults Sarah Loades Sarah.loades@swlondon.nhs.uk Designated nurse for safeguarding children Sian Thomas Sian.thomas@swlondon.nhs.uk Named GP Designated doctor for safeguarding children Vanessa Impey Vanessa.impey@nhs.net Dr Jayin Jacob	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line737
__label__wiki	0.614093	0.614093	Why investors can’t afford to sleep through this week’s ECB meeting 8:53 a.m. Today8:53 a.m. Jan. 22, 2020 - By William Watts Why investors can’t afford to sleep through this week’s ECB meeting A hawkish tone could catch investors by surprise: Bank of AmericaNobody expects any policy changes when European Central Bank big shots meet Thursday, but Christine Lagarde could still drop some worthwhile hints about the path ahead. Do companies suffer by offering paid parental leave? These economists believe they’ve found an answer 9:23 a.m. Jan. 13, 2020 - By Andrew Keshner Do companies suffer by offering paid parental leave? These economists believe they’ve found an answer A team of international researchers looked at the effects of paid parental leave policies at companies in Denmark, a country that’s long had policies mandating time off for new parentsA team of international researchers looked at the effects of paid parental leave policies at companies in Denmark, a country that’s long had policies mandating time off for new parents. Giving the stock market more rocket fuel will work for only so long, El-Erian says 4:20 a.m. Jan. 11, 2020 - By Mohamed A. El-Erian Giving the stock market more rocket fuel will work for only so long, El-Erian says We can’t count on the Fed or the ECB to keep us out of trouble in 2020While providing ample liquidity can help bond and stock markets, it does not remove existing barriers to sustained and inclusive economic growth, writes Mohamed El-Erian. The best Brexit strategy Boris Johnson can follow is one his supporters might not like 3:38 a.m. Dec. 27, 2019 - By Anatole Kaletsky The best Brexit strategy Boris Johnson can follow is one his supporters might not like Instead of ‘Get Brexit Done,’ Boris Johnson should delay the most difficult decisionsKeep the negotiations with the EU as tedious and non-controversial as possible — and delay the most difficult decisions. Belarusians take to the streets in protest of closer ties with Russia Belarusians take to the streets in protest of closer ties with Russia Concerns mount that Moscow’s ultimate aim is outright annexation of BelarusConcerns mount in Minsk that Moscow’s ultimate aim is outright annexation of Belarus. Why investors are watching Sweden as its trailblazing central bank says goodbye to negative interest rates 7:21 a.m. Dec. 19, 2019 - By William Watts Why investors are watching Sweden as its trailblazing central bank says goodbye to negative interest rates Riksbank raises key rate to zero from minus 0.25% as inflation edges upGiven the scrutiny about the effectiveness of negative interest rates — and the potential for unintended consequences — the Swedish central bank’s decision to lift its policy rate back to zero, while widely expected, is getting a lot of attention. Here’s what to expect from the ECB decision 12:55 a.m. Dec. 12, 2019 - By Steve Goldstein Here’s what to expect from the ECB decision First post-decision press conference on tap for Christine LagardeEven without interest-rate changes, the first meeting of the Christine Lagarde era will be closely watched for clues as to how it will differ from that of her predecessor, Mario Draghi, who never once lifted interest rates. Extreme weather seen impacting oil prices in 2020 as well as geopolitics 5:19 a.m. Dec. 11, 2019 - By Clive McKeef Extreme weather seen impacting oil prices in 2020 as well as geopolitics Crude oil prices seen above $60 a barrel next year, S&P Global Platts forecasts Extreme weather events may have as much impact on world oil supply, demand and prices as geopolitical risks in 2020, according to S&P Global Platts annual outlook. We don’t need to abandon economic growth to solve climate change 4:15 a.m. Dec. 10, 2019 - By Joseph E. Stiglitz We don’t need to abandon economic growth to solve climate change Living standards can improve as we move to a carbon-free worldThere is no reason we cannot have strong economic growth and reduce carbon emissions at the same time. In fact, we must. U.K. elections could be the beginning of the end of the EU 6:42 a.m. Dec. 9, 2019 - By Peter Morici U.K. elections could be the beginning of the end of the EU Once the rest of Europe sees how Britain prospers, they’ll leave tooThis week’s elections in U.K. could prove to be the beginning of the end for the European Union. Oil gains as OPEC+ deepens output cuts, marks the highest settlement since September 10:21 a.m. Dec. 6, 2019 - By Myra P. Saefong Oil gains as OPEC+ deepens output cuts, marks the highest settlement since September WTI oil scores a 7.3% weekly gain, largest since JuneOil futures climb Friday after OPEC and its allies agreed to officially cut production by 500,000 barrels per day on top of its current reduction agreement. Trump must stop letting feeble Russia push us around 5:56 a.m. Dec. 4, 2019 - By Paul Brandus Trump must stop letting feeble Russia push us around Putin’s only weapon is disinformation designed to weaken the WestRussian President Vladimir Putin is a small man running a declining power, but Americans seem to think the ruthless Kremlin leader is some sort of goliath. Black Friday disrupts traditional build of Christmas shopping in the U.K. as millennials head online 8:48 p.m. Nov. 24, 2019 - By Rupert Steiner Black Friday disrupts traditional build of Christmas shopping in the U.K. as millennials head onlineMore than half of Gen Z consumers intend to purchase something on Black Friday but the timing of the event is set to disrupt festive shopping Global GDP will suffer at least a 3% hit by 2050 from unchecked climate change, say economists 12:13 p.m. Nov. 20, 2019 - By Rachel Koning Beals Global GDP will suffer at least a 3% hit by 2050 from unchecked climate change, say economists North America and Western Europe have more breathing roomThe global economy will be at least 3% smaller by 2050 owed solely to the effects of unchecked climate change, including severe weather and rising sea levels. The odds don’t favor KKR if it does a leveraged buyout of Walgreens 12:20 a.m. Nov. 15, 2019 - By Mark Hulbert The odds don’t favor KKR if it does a leveraged buyout of Walgreens No evidence that public companies perform better after being taken privateThere’s no evidence that public companies perform better after being taken private, writes Mark Hulbert. European stocks edge lower on China trade concerns and ‘worst of all worlds’ German economic data 12:22 a.m. Nov. 14, 2019 - By Steve Goldstein European stocks edge lower on China trade concerns and ‘worst of all worlds’ German economic dataEuropean stocks slipped on Thursday on concern over the state of U.S.-China trade talks as data showed a stagnating economy in Germany. George Soros worries about totalitarian resurgence on 30th anniversary of Iron Curtain’s demise 9:42 a.m. Nov. 8, 2019 - By George Soros George Soros worries about totalitarian resurgence on 30th anniversary of Iron Curtain’s demise Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Hungarian-born financier reflects on how open societies can overcome brutish and nasty nationalismThe collapse of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago heralded the triumph of open societies and the end of one form of totalitarianism, but brutish and nasty nationalism is now ascendent across the world, writes George Soros. The world is de-globalizing. Here’s what it may mean for investors. 4:50 a.m. Nov. 5, 2019 - By Andrea Riquier The world is de-globalizing. Here’s what it may mean for investors. The scenarios range from not much different than the status quo to something frightening - Capital EconomicsThere are several possible paths forward, each with very different implications for markets, asset classes, and world economies, according to Capital Economics. Pokémon fans are reselling this cheap London-themed Pikachu toy for $2,000 2:13 a.m. Nov. 5, 2019 - By Tom Teodorczuk Pokémon fans are reselling this cheap London-themed Pikachu toy for $2,000 Fans queue for hours for pop-up Pokémon storeIs it a case of Pokémon GOing too far? The popularity of the blockbuster games franchise shows no sign of abating if the phenomenal business being done in its London pop-up store is anything to go by. Why Europe has given up on the wealth tax – for now 3:55 a.m. Nov. 4, 2019 - By Pierre Briançon Why Europe has given up on the wealth tax – for now Europe has been struggling to tax wealth in order to reduce rising inequalityMost governments that once tried a wealth tax have now scrapped it. It brought little revenue, and was too easy to evade. Next tumbles, Standard Chartered climbs in otherwise quiet London markets 3:28 a.m. Oct. 30, 2019 - By Barbara Kollmeyer Next tumbles, Standard Chartered climbs in otherwise quiet London markets Investors watch for Fed decision laterAn otherwise quiet session for London stocks was peppered by gains for Standard Chartered and losses for retailer Next. Oil futures inch higher, with U.S. prices up over 5% for the week 10:32 a.m. Oct. 25, 2019 - By Myra P. Saefong Oil futures inch higher, with U.S. prices up over 5% for the week Natural-gas futures slip lower for the weekOil futures inch higher on Friday, with U.S. benchmark crude prices settling more than 5% higher for the week, as news of progress on part of a U.S.-China trade deal eased concerns over a slowdown in economic growth and energy demand. Draghi leaves ECB in full-blown dovish mode 12:10 a.m. Oct. 25, 2019 - By Pierre Briançon Draghi leaves ECB in full-blown dovish mode Unapologetic central bank chief gives way to Christine Lagarde at the end of the monthDeparting central bank president insists economic developments justify negative rates and resumption of QE How AI could solve the U.S. construction industry’s productivity puzzle 7:10 a.m. Oct. 24, 2019 - By Callum Keown How AI could solve the U.S. construction industry’s productivity puzzle AI-powered construction firm Disperse has raised $15 million to expand into the U.S.The days of construction projects running behind schedule and over budget could soon be over as AI technology tries to solve the U.S. productivity puzzle. What a Brexit deal would mean for U.S. stocks and global investors 11:05 a.m. Oct. 17, 2019 - By Barbara Kollmeyer What a Brexit deal would mean for U.S. stocks and global investors An ‘amicable divorce’ is a relief, but disruption still lies aheadShould investors outside of Britain get excited? Mobilizing for a climate moonshot 6:45 a.m. Oct. 17, 2019 - By Mariana Mazzucato Mobilizing for a climate moonshot ‘We choose to fight climate change in this decade not because it is easy, but because it is hard’The mission to put a human on the moon should inspire us to do it again. Imagine if we were to bring the same courage, spirit of experimentation, and willpower to bear on the greatest challenge of our time: climate change. What you need to know about uprooting Ukraine’s corruption 4:58 a.m. Oct. 15, 2019 - By Daron Acemoglu What you need to know about uprooting Ukraine’s corruption Overturning Ukraine’s kleptocratic elite will require empowering ordinary citizensThe Ukrainian people understand that corruption must be uprooted in order to build better institutions. The U.S. under Donald Trump is hardly in a position to lecture them. Economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize 1:26 a.m. Oct. 14, 2019 - Associated Press Economists who study poverty win Nobel PrizeThe 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” 3 get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen 1:21 a.m. Oct. 7, 2019 - Associated Press 3 get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygenThe 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to scientists William G. Kaelin, Jr, Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of “how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability,” the Nobel Committee announced Monday. Nobel prizes starts with physiology or medicine prize 12:16 a.m. Oct. 7, 2019 - Associated Press Nobel prizes starts with physiology or medicine prizeThe winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes are to be announced over the next week, to include two literature laureates and the coveted Nobel Peace Prize German manufacturing orders weaker than expected 9:35 p.m. Oct. 6, 2019 - By Emese Bartha German manufacturing orders weaker than expected Manufacturing orders declined 0.6% on the month in adjusted terms. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal forecast a meager 0.2% growth on the month. U.S. plans tariffs on $7.5 billion of European imports after winning WTO ruling 2:02 p.m. Oct. 2, 2019 - Associated Press U.S. plans tariffs on $7.5 billion of European imports after winning WTO ruling Green light comes after ruling that EU favored Airbus over BoeingThe Trump administration plans to impose tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European imports — from gouda cheese to single-malt whiskey to large aircraft — beginning Oct. 18 to retaliate against illegal European Union subsidies for aviation giant Airbus. European stocks slammed by economic concerns 12:38 a.m. Oct. 2, 2019 - By Steve Goldstein European stocks slammed by economic concerns German institutes lower economic growth forecastEuropean stocks on Wednesday were engulfed in red on concerns over the state of the U.S. economy, the world’s largest. German institutes downgrade economic growth forecasts 11:00 p.m. Oct. 1, 2019 - By Steve Goldstein German institutes downgrade economic growth forecastsGermany's leading economics research institutes jointly lowered their economic forecasts, now seeing 0.5% growth in Europe's leading economy instead of a previous forecast for 0.8% growth. They also cut their view for growth next year to 1.1% from 1.8%. The DIW, Ifo Institute, IfW, IWH and RWI cited falling worldwide demand for capital goods as well as political uncertainty and structural changes in the automotive industry for the downgrade. Decision to suspend Parliament ruled unlawful — live market reaction 2:19 a.m. Sept. 24, 2019 - By Rupert Steiner Decision to suspend Parliament ruled unlawful — live market reactionHere’s what analysts are saying as the U.K. Supreme Court ruled prorogation was unlawful Why discord at the top is bad for the ECB 9:00 p.m. Sept. 23, 2019 - By Pierre Briançon Why discord at the top is bad for the ECB Divisions between European central bankers threaten ECB capacity to actFor the first time in the eurozone’s 20-year existence, subdued differences have turned into a war of words. 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__label__wiki	0.844128	0.844128	Election 2020: Joe Biden on America's Standing In the World 3404c52e-15d7-4005-adc3-325dda5d350b Election 2020: Joe Biden on America's Standing In the World 7:15 Wine industry in a state of ‘near panic’ as it girds for impact of Trump tariffs 12:07 p.m. Jan. 18, 2020 - By Lettie Teague Wine industry in a state of ‘near panic’ as it girds for impact of Trump tariffs There is no timeline for when new tariffs — prospectively including levies as high as 100% on nearly all wine from Europe — might go into effectThere is no timeline for when new tariffs — prospectively including levies as high as 100% on nearly all wine from Europe — might go into effect. Charles Schwab to buy KKR? That is just one of 10 ‘outrageous’ predictions for 2020 3:59 a.m. Jan. 16, 2020 - By Lina Saigol Charles Schwab to buy KKR? 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Huawei unveils new smartphone that comes without Google apps, due to sanctions 11:31 a.m. Sept. 19, 2019 - Associated Press Huawei unveils new smartphone that comes without Google apps, due to sanctions Phones to launch in Asia, Europe running open-source version of AndroidHuawei launched a new flagship smartphone on Thursday but it comes without popular Google apps such as Chrome or YouTube after U.S. sanctions kicked in, limiting its appeal to consumers. 3 dividend stock picks with yields as high as 12% from a manager who doesn’t focus on dividends 8:45 a.m. Sept. 14, 2019 - By Philip van Doorn 3 dividend stock picks with yields as high as 12% from a manager who doesn’t focus on dividends Fabio Paolini of Pictet Asset Management says a stock’s dividend offers no indication of its valueFabio Paolini of Pictet Asset Management says a stock’s dividend offers no indication of its value. Boris Johnson denies lying to Queen Elizabeth about suspending Parliament 8:59 a.m. Sept. 12, 2019 - Associated Press Boris Johnson denies lying to Queen Elizabeth about suspending Parliament Britain is just weeks away from its scheduled day to leave the European UnionBritain is just weeks away from its scheduled day to leave the European Union. These 10 ‘grey swan’ events could conspire to imperil global economy and markets 5:51 a.m. Aug. 17, 2019 - By Chris Matthews These 10 ‘grey swan’ events could conspire to imperil global economy and markets With all eyes on U.S.-China trade, these macro risks are underexaminedEven as high-probability risks capture the minds of investors, there is a growing combination of lower-probability risks, that could create even more heartburn for investors as the third quarter draws to a close. Dow tumbles 800 points in biggest one day fall of year on global economic growth slowdown 11:25 a.m. Aug. 14, 2019 - By Clive McKeef Dow tumbles 800 points in biggest one day fall of year on global economic growth slowdown German economy shrinks, Chinese industrial production slowsU.S. stocks fell sharply Wednesday, following a series of worrying data on global economic growth, and after the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell below that of the 2-year note, marking an inversion of the main measure of the yield curve, flashing a recession warning signal. Trade war is a distracting symptom of a deeper malaise in global economy 6:29 a.m. Aug. 9, 2019 - By Mohamed A. El-Erian Trade war is a distracting symptom of a deeper malaise in global economy U.S.-China dispute must be resolved without ignoring the structural problems of low and unequal growthTrade tensions are a symptom rather than a cause of the world’s underlying economic and financial malaise, writes Mohamed A. El-Erian. Coco Gauff, the 15-year-old who wowed the world at Wimbledon, says ‘next time, I can win the tournament’ 9:22 a.m. July 9, 2019 - Associated Press Coco Gauff, the 15-year-old who wowed the world at Wimbledon, says ‘next time, I can win the tournament’ Gauff made quite an impression over the past two weeks at the Grand Slam tournament, accumulating a series of milestones — and a legion of fans around the globeGauff made quite an impression over the past two weeks at the Grand Slam tournament, accumulating a series of milestones — and a legion of fans around the globe. 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Market bears resurface, S&P 500 back for second crack at major support 7:56 a.m. May 23, 2019 - By Michael Ashbaugh Market bears resurface, S&P 500 back for second crack at major support Focus: Sector leaders reach key technical tests, XLF, IYT, QQQ, XLU, CSCO, AVLR, MSITechnically speaking, important tests are once again underway as familiar May trade tensions persist. On a headline basis, the S&P 500 is back for its second recent crack at major support spanning from 2,800 to 2,817. This area defines its breakout point from mini-crash territory, and an eventual violation would likely raise a technical caution flag. 12:58 a.m. May 21, 2019 - By Bérengère Sim Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party are fifth in voting intentions in the European Parliament elections taking place on May 23, behind the Brexit Party, the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Greens. 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Charting modest technical damage, S&P 500 maintains major support (2,873) 6:56 a.m. May 8, 2019 - By Michael Ashbaugh Charting modest technical damage, S&P 500 maintains major support (2,873) Focus: Crude oil holds last-ditch support, Traditional sectors leaders absorb downturn, Emerging markets turn lower, Japanese yen takes flightU.S. stocks are mixed early Wednesday, treading water amid an apparent wait-and-see approach to China-U.S. trade progress. The sluggish start punctuates an aggressive Tuesday downdraft, though the S&P 500 has thus far maintained its first significant support (2,873). Wednesday’s session low (2,873) has matched the inflection point, and an extended retest remains underway. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are ‘over the moon’ about their baby boy 12:21 p.m. May 6, 2019 - Associated Press Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are ‘over the moon’ about their baby boy The baby’s name will reportedly be shared in the coming daysThe baby’s name will reportedly be shared in the coming days. How corporate monopolies fuel wage stagnation, inequality, and populism 9:45 a.m. May 6, 2019 - By John Coumarianos How corporate monopolies fuel wage stagnation, inequality, and populism Review: ‘The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition’ ‘The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition,’ is reviewed. How do the world’s oldest people make their money last? 2:35 a.m. April 24, 2019 - By Richard Eisenberg How do the world’s oldest people make their money last? What we can learn from Blue Zone island residents of Japan, Italy and GreeceIn Okinawa, long-lived residents always have a reason to get up in the morning. 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__label__wiki	0.672821	0.672821	Mastozool. neotrop. v.11 n.1 Mendoza ene./jun. 2004 A preliminary revision of knowledge status of felids in Argentina Mauro Lucherini1, Lucía Soler, and Estela Luengos Vidal2 Grupo de Ecología Comportamental de Mamíferos (GECM), Cátedra de Fisiología Animal, Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, San Juan 670, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina. 1CONICET fellowship; 2 CIC scholarship. <luengos@criba.edu.ar> ABSTRACT. Argentina is the host of 10 wild felids (28% of the world total). Although the Cat Specialist Group Action Plan has classified the conservation status of Argentine cats as relatively good, the ranking was based on a largely incomplete database for at least 80% of the species. Here we review the current status of knowledge and research effort of Argentine cats, compare it with their distribution, habitat association and conservation status and provide guidelines for their future research. Between 1990 and 2000, cat research has received increasing attention in Argentina. Twenty-four projects have been carried out, but only 13 studies are still in progress. A rank of research priority has been calculated for each felid and ecoregion. Our analysis showed that the Andean and Brazilian Araucaria tropical forests and Patagonia steppe are the three ecoregions with the highest priority for future cat research. The kodkod (Oncifelis guigna), Andean mountain cat (Oreailurus jacobita) and oncilla (Leopardus tigrina) had the highest score. This ranking method is the first systematic attempt to identify research priorities based on the comparison between study effort and conservation priority of both the species in object and their habitats. Key words: Argentina, carnivores, conservation, diversity, ecoregions, felids, Latin America, Leopardus tigrina, Oncifelis guigna, Oreailurus jacobita RESUMEN. Una revisión preliminar del estatus de conocimiento de los félidos argentinos. En Argentina ocurren 10 especies de félidos silvestres (el 28% del total mundial). A pesar de que el Grupo de Especialistas en Félidos de la UICN ha clasificado como bueno el estado de conservación de los felinos argentinos, esta categorización utilizó una base de datos incompleta en el caso de, por lo menos, el 80% de las especies. En este trabajo se revisan el estado actual de conocimiento y el esfuerzo de investigación sobre los félidos argentinos, se comparan con su distribución, asociación al hábitat y estatus de conservación. Además, se brindan sugerencias para investigaciones futuras. En los últimos 10 años el estudio de los felinos ha recibido mayor atención en el país. Veinticuatro proyectos han sido llevados adelante, pero sólo 13 de ellos se encuentran en progreso. Nuestro análisis de las prioridades de investigación mostró que la selva tropical andina, la selva tropical de araucarias y la estepa patagónica son las ecorregiones de principal importancia para futuras investigaciones en félidos. Oncifelis guigna, Oreailurus jacobita y Leopardus tigrina son las especies de mayor prioridad. Nuestro método de categorización es el primer intento sistemático de identificar prioridades de investigación sobre la base de una comparación entre el esfuerzo de estudio y las prioridades de conservación, tanto de las especies en objeto como de sus hábitats. Palabras clave: Argentina, carnívoros, conservación, diversidad, ecorregiones, félidos, América Latina, Leopardus tigrina, Oncifelis guigna, Oreailurus jacobita The diversity of cats in Argentina is high. This country hosts all the 10 Neotropical felids (Table 1), corresponding to almost 28% of all cat species in the world (Nowell and Jackson, 1996) (Fig. 1). Hence the conservation of Argentine cats may greatly contribute to their global conservation. The effective conservation of a species requires a detailed knowledge of its present distribution, population status, ecological requirements, and genetic identity (Wilson, 2000). These data are not available for most Argentine felids: the global research effort for all this country’s small cats has been classified as “Low” or “Very low” in the Cat Specialist Group Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996). The knowledge status is better only for the puma Puma concolor, jaguar Panthera onca, and ocelot Leopardus pardalis. No review is available of the knowledge status of the felid populations occurring in Argentina, which can provide clear guidelines on what species should be prioritized by future research. However, since the distribution of the different species may overlap, we should not only identify which species to study first, but also where to study them (i.e. which are the priority areas to conduct the studies). Argentina’s high cat diversity is likely related to its diversity of ecoregions. Of the 35 Regional Habitat Units that have been identified for Latin America and the Caribbean, 29% are found in Argentina (Biodiversity Support Program et al., 1995), but information about the degree of association between cats and these habitats is still poor. The relationship between cats and habitats has two important consequences for conservation strategies. First, the traditional approach of preserving subspecies can be replaced by aiming to conserve the whole range of adaptations and ecological interactions of a species (Wikramanayake et al., 1998). To adopt this more effective strategy, we must understand the association of each species, and subspecies, with the habitats where it occurs. Second, the conservation of cats may help to preserve the diversity of ecosystems. Carnivores have been widely proposed and used as conservation tools (e.g. Estes, 1996; Mech, 1996; Noss et al., 1996; Schaller, 1996). In most cases, large carnivores are adopted as flagship species in conservation strategies, mainly because they may represent umbrella species due to their large area and habitat requirements (Ginsberg, 2001). Little attention, however, has been given to the role of meso-carnivores in conservation, despite the fact that they could be very important where the large predators are extinct or are close to ecological extinction (sensu Estes et al., 1989). While most felids tend to have relatively broad habitat selectivity, a substantial minority have more specialized requirements (Nowell and Jackson, 1996), and their specialization and resource selectivity appear generally stronger than that of other carnivore groups (Kruuk, 1986). Therefore, cats may well serve as indicator species of the preservation status of the habitats they are associated with. To identify the potential role of small cats in the conservation of biodiversity in Argentina, however, we need a deeper understanding of the cat diversity in each region of this country. List of Argentina cat species with their body size classes Lista de las especies de félidos argentinos y sus clases de tamaño corporal Fig. 1.Number of species in each body-size class (Small: < 7 kg; Medium: 7-15 kg; Large: > 15 kg) in Argentina in comparison to that of each global biogeographical region. SCA: south central Africa; NA-SWA: north Africa-south western Asia; A: America; TA: Tropical Asia; E: Eurasia; Ar: Argentina. Data from the IUCN Cat Specialist Group Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996). Número de especies de cada clase de tamaño corporal (Pequeño: < 7 kg; Mediano: 7-15 kg; Grande: > 15 kg) en Argentina en comparación con el número en cada región biogeográfica global. SCA: sur central de África; NA-SWA: norte de Africa - Sudoeste de Asia; A: America; TA: Asia Tropical; E: Eurasia; Ar: Argentina. Datos obtenidos del Plan de Acción del Grupo de Especialistas en Félidos de la UICN (Nowell y Jackson, 1996). In this paper, we review the available information, including the gray literature, to understand their distribution in the ecoregions of Argentina, as well as determine the current status of knowledge and research effort on cats in Argentina. The most comprehensive works on the cats occurring in Argentina (Oliveira, 1994; Nowell and Jackson, 1996) used a wide geographic scale approach; this revision will provide a sound basis for the understanding of the cat diversity in Argentina, and the guidelines to draw regional priorities for cat research, which, in turn, may fill the existing gaps in conservation strategies. To evaluate the past and present effort dedicated to research on cats in Argentina, we reviewed the information published on the Argentina cats during the last 10 years, that appeared in Cat News (the Newsletter of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group) and in the abstract books of the two scientific meetings that gather most of Argentina’s mammalogists: the SAREM (Argentina Mammal Society) and the ASAE (Argentine Ecological Association) conferences. These data were compared with those reported by the IUCN Cat Specialist Group Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996), which also provided the source for cat vulnerability rankings. Despite it did not make extended use of local expertise nor specific habitat-based surveys, this action plan is the only global and comprehensive revision available at the moment. For all project on felids in Argentina (Appendix I) we recorded the species studied, study region and habitat, studied aspects (trophic ecology, spatial ecology, distribution, management), duration (in years) and current status, and whether results were published in an international journal. We used the “Habitat Units” (HUs, hereafter) described in the Regional Analysis of Geographic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation to analyze the geographic distribution of research effort on cats (Biodiversity Support Program et al., 1995). This report describes the following 10 HUs: 1. Atlantic tropical forest. The southernmost portion of this lowland moist broadleaf forest, typically found along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, reaches the northeastern tip of Argentina (Misiones Province). 2. Aracucaria tropical forest. The Brazilian Araucaria forest also extends south into the NE of Argentina (Misiones Province). 3. Tropical Andes forest. This is the southern section of the mist mountain forest, which covers the eastern slopes of the Andes beginning from southern Venezuela. In Argentina, it occurs in Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán, and Catamarca provinces. 4. Chaco. A lowland dry forest, with grassland patches, that covers the E of Bolivia, W of Paraguay and the north-central portion of Argentina. 5. Argentine Monte. Dry shrub and woodland running from north to south between the Andes slopes and the Pampas lowlands. 6. Pampas/Savannah. Lowland grasslands with wetlands and sparse trees found in the northeast and centre of Argentina. 7. Patagonia Steppe. Lowland grasslands found primarily in southern Argentina, but occurring also in a small portion of Chile. 8. Southern Andean-Patagonia forest. A mixed broadleaf and evergreen forest on the wettest parts of the Argentina and Chile Patagonia. 9. Puna. The very dry, high-altitude (usually above 4000 m) areas covered with sparse grasslands, of the Andean Altiplano (northwestern Argentina). 10. Southern Andean Prepuna. A dry shrub and grassland area that represents an extension of the Puna to the south and at lower altitudes. The cat association to these Habitat Units was assessed on the basis of a review of Mares et al., 1989; Redford and Eisenberg, 1992; García-Perea, 1994; Oliveira, 1994; Juliá and Richard, 1995; Nowell and Jackson, 1996; Heinonen and Chébez, 1997; Jayat et al., 1999; Pereira et al., pers. com. RANKING METHOD We used a two-step procedure, similar to that proposed by Freitag and van Jaarsveld (1997), to rank research priorities for both cat species and HUs. In the first phase, we examined conservation priorities and research efforts. We separately analyzed and scored the following variables: CAT SPECIES a) Habitat selectivity: the number of HUs in which the species occurs in Argentina. b) Vulnerability ranking, as attributed to the species by the Cat Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996). c) National research effort: the number of projects on the species in Argentina and the number of aspects studied. d) Global research effort: a ranking of the species based on the research effort table of the Cat Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996). HABITAT UNITS a) Habitat priority: the ranking attributed to the HU by the Biodiversity Support Program et al. (1995) analysis. b) Cat total priority: the mean vulnerability ranking attributed to the cats found in the HU. c) Cat diversity: the number of cat species occurring in that HU. d) Cat research effort: the number of research projects carried out on cats in the HU. e) Research representativity: the proportion of species studied with respect to the total number of cats occurring in the HU. The second step was the integration of the values obtained from the variables considered in the first step. In order to attribute the same weight to all variables, and to avoid a disproportionate contribution of any variable to the final figure, we standardized the values of the variables by dividing each value by the maximum value reached by that variable. The priority score was calculated by assigning equal weighing to each of the variables, i.e. the mean of all their values, and can range from 0 (lowest priority) to 1 (maximum priority). IUCN ranking and research effort When we analyze the vulnerability ranking of the Cat Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996), the overall conservation status of cats in Argentina appears relatively good: Argentina has a smaller percentage of highly vulnerable species and a greater percentage of low-priority species than the rest of the world (Table 1 and Fig. 2). Other data from the same source, however, suggest caution. Until the publication of the Action Plan, the global effort dedicated to research on cats occurring in Argentina was disproportionately low (Fig. 3). Argentina has a relatively high proportion of small cat species (70%, Fig. 1). Mainly because of their small size, and the difficulties of study that this imply (Nowell and Jackson, 1996), these species have traditionally received little attention. In the case of Argentina, this means that for 80% of the species, the IUCN vulnerability ranking was based on a largely incomplete database. The example of the Geoffroy’s cat O. geoffroyi, categorized as a low conservation priority, may help to better understand the extent of this lack of information. This species has been reported to be the most common felid throughout its range, which is thought to cover almost the entire Argentine territory and many habitats (Nowell and Jackson, 1996; Lucherini et al., 2001). Though the research effort was not included within the categorization criteria, the paucity of studies on the ecology of this species (Johnson and Franklin, 1991, in Chile; Brooks, 1992, in Paraguay) led Nowell and Jackson (1996) to state that “it is at present impossible to judge the actual impact of hunting and habitat loss” on its populations. Furthermore, as in the case of O. geoffroyi, only a small fraction of the studies on the species living in Argentina was carried out in this country (see below). Fig. 2.Proportion of Argentina cats (N=10) in each conservation category with respect to that of the cats found in the rest of the world (N=27). 1: highest conservation priority; 5: lowest priority. Data from the IUCN Cat Specialist Group Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996). Proporción de félidos argentinos (N=10) en cada categoría de conservación con respecto a los félidos del resto del mundo (N=27). 1: máxima prioridad de conservación; 5: mínima prioridad de conservación. Datos obtenidos del Plan de Acción del Grupo de Especialistas en Félidos de la UICN (Nowell y Jackson, 1996). Fig. 3.Proportion of Argentina cats (N=10) in each research effort category with respect to that of the cats found in the rest of the world (N=27). Data from the IUCN Cat Specialist Group Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996). Proporción de félidos argentinos (N=10) en cada categoría de esfuerzo de investigación con respecto a los félidos del resto del mundo (N=27). Datos obtenidos del Plan de Acción del Grupo de Especialistas en Félidos de la UICN (Nowell y Jackson, 1996). Cat–Habitat association Habitat association is one of the most important criteria for vulnerability ranking, particularly in the absence of direct data on population trends (Reca et al., 1994; Nowell and Jackson, 1996). The degree of habitat selectivity varies widely among Argentine cats (Table 2). However, with the remarkable exception of the puma (which lives in all Argentine habitats), no species is significantly associated with (i.e., present with comparatively high population abundance) more than 5 of the 10 HUs recognized for Argentina, and two (O. jacobita and O. guigna) rely almost exclusively on the resources of a single habitat each (Table 2). Association between cats and Habitat Units (HU) in Argentina, and distribution of studies through species and habitats. Each X indicates a different study on that species in that HU. Dark gray indicates significant species/HU association; light gray indicates marginal association. P.o.: Panthera onca; P.c.: Puma concolor; L.p.: Leopardus pardalis; L.w.: Leopardus wiedii; L.t.: Leopardus tigrina; O.j.: Oreailurus jacobita; H.y.: Herpailurus yaguarondi; O.c.: Oncifelis colocolo; O.ge.: Oncifelis geoffroyi; O.gu.: Oncifelis guigna. Asociación entre félidos y Unidades de Hábitat (HU) en Argentina, y distribución de los estudios en las diferentes especies y hábitats. Cada X representa un estudio diferente en cierta especie y HU. El gris oscuro indica una asociación especie/HU significativa; el gris claro indica asociación marginal. P.o.: Panthera onca; P.c.: Puma concolor; L.p.: Leopardus pardalis; L.w.: Leopardus wiedii; L.t.: Leopardus tigrina; O.j.: Oreailurus jacobita; H.y.: Herpailurus yaguarondi; O.c.: Oncifelis colocolo; O.ge.: Oncifelis geoffroyi; O.gu.: Oncifelis guigna. The mean number of cat species per HU is 4.8 (S.D. = ± 1.6), but this average decreases (3.8) and variance increases (S.D. = ± 1.9), if only significant habitat-cat associations are considered. The tropical forest of the eastern Andes slope is the most important natural habitat for Argentina felids, since it hosts 8 species (80% of the total), followed by the Atlantic and Araucaria forest (6 species each), while the Andean Patagonia forest, Puna and Patagonia steppe have the minimum number of associated species (Table 2). The Puna, the poorest Argentina environment, is the main habitat of only one species (the AndeanMountain cat O. jacobita). Recent research on cats During the last decade, particularly since the publication of the Cat Action Plan (Nowell and Jackson, 1996), 24 projects have been carried out on cats in Argentina, and all species have been the subject of at least one study (Table 2). However, the thoroughness of these studies was very variable. Of the felids associated with 3 or more HUs (all species except O. jacobita and O. guigna), none has been studied in more than 70% of the HUs of occurrence (mean=59.6%; Table 2). Most projects (54.2%) included only one study aspect, while only 12.5% covered three or more different aspects. Trophic ecology (i.e. scat analysis, 70.8% of the projects) and distribution (41.7%, mainly at a local or regional scale) were the most frequent study objectives. Spatial ecology was included in only 25% of the projects, and 60% of the species. Radio telemetry data (which are the main source of information on carnivore behavior), however, have been collected on only 4 species (jaguar, ocelot, Geoffroy’s cat, and puma). The lack of long-term monitoring and the rarity with which results are published are important limitations of cat research in Argentina. At present, 13 studies (54.2%) are in progress, but only a few lasted longer than 3 years, and, based on our review, less than half of the projects (45.8%) have already produced results available to the international public. Because of the little attention received until now, both nationally and globally, and its high vulnerability, the kodkod O. guigna is the highest research priority in Argentina. The index value of the kodkod is similar to that of the AndeanMountain cat and oncilla L. tigrina (Table 3 and Fig. 4). Although projects on these three species have been recently undertaken, our results indicate that the research effort is still insufficient. The puma is the lowest research priority for Argentina, while the rest of the felids have intermediate index values (from 0.49 to 0.67; Fig. 4). Relative rankings of the 10 species of Argentine felids for each variable considered in the research priority index Ranqueo relativo de las 10 especies de félidos argentinos para cada variable considerada en el índice de prioridad de investigación Fig. 4.Research priority for the 10 species of cats ocurring in Argentina. The index weights habitat selectivity, global vulnerability, global and national research effort. Its value ranges from 0 (lowest priority) to 1 (maximum priority). P.o.: Panthera onca; P.c.: Puma concolor; L.p.: Leopardus pardalis; L.w.: Leopardus wiedii; L.t.: Leopardus tigrina; O.j.: Oreailurus jacobita; H.y.: Herpailurus yaguarondi; O.c.: Oncifelis colocolo; O.ge.: Oncifelis geoffroyi; O.gu.: Oncifelis guigna. Prioridad de investigación para las 10 especies de félidos que ocurren en Argentina. El índice pesa selectividad de hábitat, vulnerabilidad global, esfuerzo de investigación nacional y global. Su valor varía de 0 (prioridad mínima) a 1 (prioridad máxima). P.o.: Panthera onca; P.c.: Puma concolor; L.p.: Leopardus pardalis; L.w.: Leopardus wiedii; L.t.: Leopardus tigrina; O.j.: Oreailurus jacobita; H.y.: Herpailurus yaguarondi; O.c.: Oncifelis colocolo; O.ge.: Oncifelis geoffroyi; O.gu.: Oncifelis guigna. Our analysis of the research effort, habitat and cat priority (Table 4 and Fig. 5) shows that, in Argentina, 3 HUs have the highest importance for future cat research: the Andean and the Brazilian Araucaria tropical forests, and the Patagonia steppe. The apparent contradiction between the low ranking of the cat species occurring in the Patagonia and the high priority of this ecoregion is easily explained if we think that no specific project has ever been carried out in the Patagonia steppe. In the case of the Andean tropical forest, the high ranking was mainly due to the great cat diversity hosted by this ecoregion, while both cat diversity and lack of previous research effort contributed to the high value of the priority index of the Araucarian tropical forest. The Chaco, Atlantic forest and Puna are other high-ranking habitats. Interestingly, even if for different reasons (Table 4), no ecoregion has a remarkably low index value (Fig. 5). This would suggest that future research efforts on felids should be almost equally distributed throughout all Argentina habitats, especially if we are to adopt a strategy aiming to understand, and then conserve, the whole ecological range of each species (Wikramanayake et al., 1998). However, it should also not be disregarded that HUs are not equally represented in Argentina: 60% of them covers less than 5% of the national territory, and hosts 5 exclusive cat species. Relative rankings of the 10 Habitats Units in Argentina for each variable considered in the research priority index Ranqueo relativo de las 10 HU en Argentina para cada variable considerada en el índice de prioridad de investigación Fig. 5.Cat research priority for the 10 Habitats Units found in Argentina. The index weights cat priority and diversity, the effort and representativity of research on cats, as well as habitat priority. Its value ranges from 0 (lowest priority) to 1 (maximum priority). Prioridad de investigación de los félidos para las 10 Unidades de Hábitat que se encuentran en Argentina. El índice pesa prioridad y diversidad de félidos, esfuerzo y representatividad de la investigación en félidos y prioridad de hábitat. Su valor varía de 0 (prioridad mínima) a 1 (prioridad máxima). In the last decade, cat research has received increasing attention in Argentina. Though these recent efforts have produced valuable information, which also allowed a categorization of cats within the national conservation status list of mammals (Diaz and Ojeda, 2000), they clearly lacked a common strategy. We are aware that our analysis is not complete, since additional variables might have been included. Nevertheless, it identified the distribution of cat diversity through the range of Argentina natural habitats, produced clear guidelines to recognize the species that are in more urgent need of studies and showed the need for a widespread distribution of the future research efforts through a number of habitats. To establish conservation priorities is a complex task that requires the analyses of many different factors, including regional and international conservation status, the resources available to conservation programs, the needs for regional social development, etc., and falls outside the aims of this paper. 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__label__wiki	0.744587	0.744587	Veterans, Millennials Dominate S.D.'s Workforce, Women Lag, Study Finds By Sarah de Crescenzo The San Diego area workforce has the highest percentage of millennials and veterans but the lowest percentage of women compared to nine competing metro areas. That’s according to information compiled by the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, via its foundation, as part of its Regional Jobs Strategy launched earlier this year. The data, called the chamber’s Business and Tax Climate Dashboard, compares San Diego to the metropolitan areas of Austin, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, Raleigh, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle. “Making San Diego a place where business can succeed and grow means we have to identify our strengths as well as our weaknesses,” said Jerry Sanders, chamber president and CEO, in a statement Thursday. Of San Diego’s workforce, 28.8 percent were born in 1980 through 1998, more than all the other areas to which it was compared. A total of 7.3 percent of the workforce is made up of veterans, handily beating the metro average of 4.4 percent. However, likely as a result of the high percentage of veterans in the workforce, a group made up mostly by men, San Diego has the lowest percentage of women in its workforce: 44 percent. The metro average of those areas studied is 46.2 percent. However, 46.2 percent of businesses in San Diego are owned by women, the data show. Eleven percent are owned by veterans, the dashboard revealed. “With large millennial and veteran populations in our workforce, we see that we have new talent to build on as well as a highly trained contingent of workers, but we also need to do more to raise the number of women and minorities in our workforce,” said Helen Robbins-Meyer, the county of San Diego’s chief administrative officer. “Having this data as a point of reference is important to building an effective job creation strategy for the region.” According to the chamber’s dashboard, San Diego ranks eighth in education attainment but fourth for STEM and STEM-related majors; fourth in workplace diversity; seventh for highest median wage at $19.12 hourly; and sixth for its 8 percent sales tax on a ranking of the areas with the highest such rate. Other dashboards to be released in coming months consider economic indicators including affordability and standard of living, the chamber said. Partnering with the chamber on the Regional Jobs Strategy effort are more than 40 regional organizations, including the county, the city of San Diego and the San Diego Association of Governments. Study Shows Need to ‘Unlock Economic Potential’ of Workers Women in the Workforce Are a Vital Resource Dashboard: San Diego Last in Affordability Among Similar Metros LEAD San Diego to Become Affiliate of S.D. Regional Chamber of Commerce Ranking Finds S.D. Beats Competitors on Parks, Bicycles, Weather San Diego Has Second Lowest Unemployment Rate Among State's Metro Areas Panel Addresses Missed Opportunities in San Diego Workforce San Diego Millennials Least Likely to Pursue Home Ownership	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line748
__label__wiki	0.792969	0.792969	posted Friday, March 8, 2019 - Volume 47 Issue 10 Second patient 'cured' of HIV - Stem cell transplants not a practical treatment, doctors warn by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer A second HIV patient has been 'cured' of the virus, but doctors warn that the treatment - chemotherapy plus stem cell transplants - is not a practical method for dealing with HIV infections. The British patient, who has not been identified, was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 and advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, in 2012. He had chemotherapy to treat the cancer and, in addition, stem cells were implanted into the patient from a donor resistant to HIV, leading to both his cancer and HIV going into remission. He has now been in remission from HIV for 18 months and is no longer taking HIV drugs. However, doctors working on the case say it is too early to say the patient is cured of HIV. And they warn that the approach is not practical for treating most people with HIV but may one day lead to a cure. Researchers from University College London (UCL), Imperial College London, and Cambridge and Oxford Universities were all involved in the case. This is the second time a patient treated this way has ended up in remission from HIV. Ten years ago, another patient in Berlin received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor with natural immunity to the virus. Timothy Brown, said to be the first person to 'beat' HIV, was given two transplants and total radiation therapy for leukemia, a much more aggressive treatment than was used in the British case. 'By achieving remission in a second patient using a similar approach, we have shown that the Berlin patient was not an anomaly and that it really was the treatment approaches that eliminated HIV in these two people,' said lead study author Prof Ravindra Gupta, from UCL. Why this is not a 'cure' but could lead to one Chemotherapy plus the stem cell transplant were used primarily to treat the patient's cancer, not his HIV. Current HIV therapies are very effective, allowing people with the virus to live long and healthy lives. But this new case is significant because it could help researchers who are looking for new ways to tackle HIV and achieve a real cure. Professor Eduardo Olavarria of Imperial College London, also involved in the current case, said the success of stem cell transplantation offered hope that new strategies could be developed to tackle the virus. But he added, 'The treatment is not appropriate as a standard HIV treatment because of the toxicity of chemotherapy, which in this case was required to treat the lymphoma.' How did it work? The treatment 'worked' - eliminated HIV - by interfering with the protein receptor that allows HIV to penetrate healthy cells. CCR5 is the most commonly used receptor by HIV-1, the virus strain of HIV that dominates around the world, to enter cells. A very small number of people who are resistant to HIV have two mutated copies of the CCR5 receptor. This means the virus cannot penetrate cells in the body that it normally infects. The London patient received stem cells from a donor with this specific genetic mutation, which made him resistant to HIV as well. But a reservoir of cells carrying HIV can still stay dormant in the body for many years. The UK researchers say it may be possible to use gene therapy to target the CCR5 receptor in people with HIV, now that they know the Berlin patient's recovery was not unique. Dr. Andrew Freedman, reader in infectious diseases and honorary consultant physician at Cardiff University, said it was an 'interesting and potentially significant report.' But he said much longer follow-up would be needed to ensure the virus did not re-emerge at a later stage. 'While this type of treatment is clearly not practical to treat the millions of people around the world living with HIV, reports such as these may help in the ultimate development of a cure for HIV,' he said. In the meantime, he said the focus needed to be on diagnosing HIV promptly and starting patients on lifelong combination antiretroviral therapy. 11.3 million Americans identify as LGBT, new study says Dems will introduce LGBT Equality Act next week, speaker says Local Methodists react to UMC decision against LGBTQ clergy GSBA, Washington's LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, honors community leaders, including two Supreme Court justices at 38th annual Business & Humanitarian Awards dinner - 'Justice for All' Emerging Tech 101: Talks on A.I. and Blockchain at the Seattle Public Library in March and April ByDesign Festival 2019 (4 films, 2 events) at NWFF March 15-17 The Elliott Bay Book Company to host launch event of Why I Run: 35 Progressive Candidates Who Are Changing Politics featuring Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan An interview with Pete Buttigieg 'Like a leaf in a stream...' - James Thomas' journey with clinical research U.S. Senate abandons LGBT community to confirm Eric Murphy DNC on Marc Short's anti-LGBTQ editorial DNC on Senate confirmation of former anti-LGBTQ hate group employee Trump's new HIV/AIDS initiative is filled with empty promises 1707 23rd Ave	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line750
__label__cc	0.566277	0.433723	"Boomerang" buyers get second chance ‘Boomerang’ buyers get second chance NEW YORK – June 17, 2014 – About 7.2 million homes have been lost to foreclosure or short sale since the housing crash began, according to housing data from Black Knight Financial Services. That has forced millions of former homeowners into renting, as they work to rebuild their credit. But a government program launched last summer by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is helping these new renters step back into homeownership in as little as one year after a foreclosure or short sale. The FHA's Back to Work program allows them to qualify for low interest rates with a minimum of a 3.5 percent down payment. Applicants must show that the main culprit behind losing their home was that they lost at least 20 percent of their household income for at least six months. They also must show they've worked to repair their credit for at least a year. Lenders report an uptick in boomerang buyers coming in to explore financing opportunities for a home purchase. "We see a lot of boomerang buyers," says Matt Weaver, a lender with PMAC Lending Services in Florida. "I'd say about 20 percent of my current clientele has either suffered a short sale or a foreclosure in the past and are now re-buying back into the marketplace." But while opportunities to apply for a home loan are increasing, some are hesitant to step back in, housing analysts say. "Based on the fact that the homeownership rate isn't rising again and demand for single-family rentals is historically high, the comeback buyer is not a significant phenomenon in the market," says Mark Fleming, chief economist at CoreLogic. "Given the duration of the recovery, it's likely that many of the initially foreclosed borrowers have repaired their credit and are now creditworthy, but the scale at which they will enter the market is not sufficient to significantly influence demand." Source: "'Boomerang' Homebuyers Getting a Boost From Uncle Sam," CNBC (June 13, 2014) © Copyright 2014 INFORMATION, INC. Bethesda, MD (301) 215-4688 Fort Myers Home Sold Fast! I have known Shane for years, and have had the pleasure of doing shirts and a number of different promo items and signs for him. So, it made me feel so good that I could finally return the favor. And he certainly did an amazing job for us -- selling the house in fact (for full price), before he could even get For Sale signs up!! It was so nice of you to take the time to say than you -- that means a lot -- and I am so happy the we were "Sure with Shane", and Cypress Realty. Scott Jacobs, Fort Myers Home Sold Fast!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line752
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Interaction-induced hopping phase in driven-dissipative coupled photonic microcavities, Symposium on Frontiers in Polaritonics, The Rank Prize Funds, Cumbria, U.K. (March 14-17, 2016). – Co-awarded the Rank prize for the best presentation from a young researcher Strong-light matter coupling in metallic nanoparticle arrays, Prize-winner section of Physics@FOM, Veldhoven, The Netherlands (January 20, 2016). Dark-state polaritons and intensity-dependent hopping in coupled semiconductor microcavities, The 46th Winter Colloquium of the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, USA (January 4, 2016). Strong light-matter coupling: from plasmonic lattices, waveguides, and emitters, to semiconductor microcavities, FOM Insitute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (December 10, 2015). Light-emitting nanoantenna arrays, Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica, San Luis, Mexico (September 2015). Nonlinear optics with coupled polariton modes, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Prague, Czech Republic (July 2015). Forward-backward Light Emission Symmetry Breaking with Localized and Collective Magnetoelectric Resonances in Arrays of Pyramid-shaped Aluminum Nanoantennas, Signatures of Quantum Condensation in a Plasmonic Nanoparticle Array Seminar at Departamento de Fisica Teorica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (July 2013). Plasmonic light-emitting devices, Photonics@BE kick-off event, Brussels, Belgium, (October 2012). Contributed talks at: Annual Meeting NNV AMO Lunteren, Netherlands (October 10, 2017). Quantum Fluids of Light and Matter Cargese, France (May 8-12, 2017). NANOMETA 2017 Nonlinear and quantum optics with polaritons in semiconductor microcavities (Programme Committee Top Picks) Seefeld, Austria, 7/01/2017 Enhancing light emission with periodic arrays of metallic nanostructures Can Cun, Mexico, 15/08/2016 17th International Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures (PLMCN 17), Nara, Japan, 29/03/2016 SPIE Photonics Europe, Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices, Brussels, Belgium, 17/04/2014 – Selected as the best talk from a PhD student by the organizing committee. Advanced Workshop on Non-equilibrium Bosons: From Driven Condensates to Non-Linear Optics, Trieste, Italy, 21/08/2013 SPP 6: The 6th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics, Ottawa, Canada, 28/05/2013 – Selected as one of the best talks by the conference organizers, and invited to write a paper for a focus issue on the conference from Optics Express 2 talks at the Materials Research Society – Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 04/04/2013. 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__label__wiki	0.826019	0.826019	Survivor Season 18 Episode 14 I Trust You But I Trust Me More Full Episode: I Trust You But I Trust Me More Hulu Subs... CBS All A... Full Episode Summary The final four Erinn, Taj, Stephen and J.T. return from Tribal Council and start thinking about votes from the jury. The next morning, the final four compete in their second last immunity challenge. After J.T. wins the first challenge, Erinn tells Stephen and J.T. that Taj could win if she goes with them to the finals. Even though Taj is in their alliance, J.T. starts to believe that what Erinn says has a lot of truth to it. After voting out one member of the final four, the remaining survivors go on their Rites of Passage, remembering all the previous survivors voted out. After returning to camp, Erinn tries to make sure the guys take her to the final two. After the immunity challenge, the final three go to Tribal Council and J.T. must choose between intergrity and friendship or an easy ticket to a million dollars. Once it's down to the final two, the jury asks their questions and votes for one person to win the million dollar prize.moreless The Survivor Devil S 35 : Ep 13 Aired 12/13/17 Not Going to Roll Over and Die Aired 12/6/17 S 35 : Ep 9 competing for money, cultural phenomenon, ensemble cast, extraordinary situations, mainstream america Listings \| Closed Captioning \| Rating Guidelines	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line786
__label__wiki	0.599111	0.599111	NYC Astrologer Constance Stellas Joins Ayrial One of the World’s Best Astrologers, Constance Stellas Joins Ayrial (MediaQuire) Atlanta, GA – Today AYRIAL is proud to announce that one of the world’s best astrologers, Constance Stellas has officially joined its group. Widely regarded as one of the world’s best astrologers, she brings over two decades of experience. Born of a Greek background and firmly grounded by her astrological background, Constance maintains dual citizenship and leads astrology workshops both in the US and Greece, including a workshop at the Oracle at Delphi. She’s written an astrology column for PRESTIGE Magazine Singapore for five years. Sought after by the media as one of the world’s best astrologers, Constance has been featured in dozens of publications including the New York Times, Marie Claire, Working Woman. She’s empowered listeners by addressing questions from call-in guests on local NYC radio such as Cosmo Magazine’s Radio. She was featured on the nationally syndicated SiriusXM show, Broadminded every week for five years. Dozens of local and national television shows including Money for Breakfast and Fox’s Megyn Kelly Show has featured Constance as a guest. Astrology is one of the oldest, most widely practiced and frequently used methods of divination. It has been held in esteem by educated and powerful people including Queen Elizabeth I of England who had her own court astrologer. Today, Court TV Radio consulted with Constance to provide astrological analyses on high profile court cases. In addition, she also advised clients with Candace Bushnell of Sex and the City. “Constance Stellas’ experience is invaluable and I’m excited to have her as a member of our exceptional group of consultants. In addition to being a respected astrologer, Constance is also a best selling author who is currently working on a graphic novel series, Tree of Keys says, Victoria lynn Weston, President and Founder. “We encourage our audience to consider Constance for not only an astrology session, but to learn more about astrology by reading her books.” “I think AYRIAL is a great concept and Victoria Weston a dynamic knowledgeable booster,” says Constance Stellas. “I enjoy her enthusiasm, tech knowledge, and immediate grasp of how to market skills that are often viewed as non-traditional.” Constance Stellas is also an author of several best selling books including; The Hidden Power of Everyday Things, Advanced Astrology for Life and The Everything Sex Signs Book, Astrology Between the Sheets. To learn more about astrologer Constance Stellas, visit: Constance Stellas To stay connected to AYRIAL’s digital content and to consult with its exceptional consultants, visit: www.AYRIAL.com. Also, follow AYRIAL on Twitter and Instagram, and Like us on Facebook. AYRIAL features the best psychic mediums, the best psychic – intuitive consultants, the best life coaches and the best astrologers. If you’re a psychic or intuitive consultant, spiritual medium, life coach or astrologer who’d like to know more about AYRIAL, visit AYRIAL members center. Launched in 2015, AYRIAL is a technology-driven “body, mind & spirit” lifestyle platform with its office based in Atlanta, GA. AYRIAL allows users who seek exceptional psychic, intuitive consulting, astrologers, life coaches to easily connect with them and to keep them engaged with exclusive content. www.AYRIAL.com Curious about the Twelve Phases of Transition DELICIOUS PUMPKIN SPICE ESSENTIAL OIL BLEND Patsy Balacchi Feng Shui Wellness Consultant Joins AYRIAL Association Award Winning Spreads from the Mountains of Italy! Feng Shui Tips You Need to Know Before Putting Your House Up For Sale March 25th, 2018\|0 Comments Sign up with your email and always get notified of VenusMuse Lifestyles latest news! Send a Rich Media Release	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line789
__label__wiki	0.641864	0.641864	How to Dress Like BBC’s Sherlock Holmes By Matt / October 21, 2015 Pin 34 I know not everyone will agree, but BBC's Sherlock is definitely my favorite interpretation of Sherlock Holmes. The modern take on the classic also makes it feel more relatable, in my opinion. And even though I liked the movies with Robert Downey Jr., I think Benedict Cumberbatch does a better job, and physically fits the part much better. Anyway, I'm not reviewing the show, I'm going over Sherlock's clothing, which the costume department did an awesome job on. There is so much information out there on it that coming up with a Sherlock costume (or even incorporating his style into your own) isn't too difficult. Close Match: Replica Sherlock Holmes Coat Close Match: Salvatore 2 Piece Suit (Black) Close Match: Calvin Klein Dress Shirt Close Match: Bostonian Oxford Shoes (Black) Close Match: Jacobson Replica Sherlock Hat Close Match: Replica Sherlock Scarf Close Match: Hatch Durathin Gloves Close Match: Replica Sherlock Magnifier Close Match: Rotary Analog Watch Coat, Suit, Shirts & Shoes Sherlock's Full Length Trench Coat Sherlock's 2 Piece 2 Button Suit Sherlock's Purple Dress Shirt Close Match: Covona Dark Purple Dress Shirt Sherlock's White Dress Shirt Sherlock's Black Oxford Dress Shoes Hat, Scarf & Robe Sherlock's Deer Hunter Hat Close Match: Elope Replica Sherlock Hat Sherlock's Navy Colored Scarf Close Match: Scarf (Navy) Sherlock's Derek Rose Robe Close Match: Derek Rose Robe Close Match: Fleece Robe Gloves, Magnifier & Watch Sherlock's Detective Gloves Sherlock's Pocket Magnifier Sherlock's Rotary GS02424-21 Watch Exact Match: Rotary GS02424-21 Watch Buy on Amazon UK Close Match: Rotary Watch Sherlock's style overview: Inverness coat Simple black, 2-piece suit Navy-colored scarf Deer stalker hat Sherlock Holmes' Coat Sherlock's Suit Sherlock's Scarf & Other Accessories Detective Gloves Pocket Magnifier Mr. Holmes' Watch Sherlock's Robe Sherlock's coat is definitely his most recognizable piece of clothing. According to Sherlockology, the original coat was made by Belstaff, but it's no longer in production. Since Sherlock is such a popular show, there are actually quite a few different replicas to choose from. My personal choice is this replica coat. It has really great reviews, and the material and look are spot on. I really do love the look of this jacket, which is really more of a trench coat in it's style. The costume department did a great job in picking the Belstaff. It not only would work great for a costume/cosplay, but it's high quality and warmth make it an excellent coat to actually wear when it's cold out. If you're dead set on owning the exact coat Sherlock wears, your only choices are used clothing stores, or constantly checking Ebay. Like the rest of his wardrobe, Sherlock's suit stays the same throughout the series. It's a pretty simple suit - two piece, two button and black in color. Sherlock's suit is made by Spencer Hart, but of course is no longer in production. I really don't think this is a big deal though, as far as any sort of cosplay or costume goes, an exact match isn't really needed. Mr. Holmes' suit fits him well, which (other than the basic style and color) is the most important thing to match, in my opinion. When it comes to suits, I always suggest going to a brick and mortar, but of course you can always get away with an online purchase if you're confident in your measurements. This two piece suit by Salvatore (in black) would be a pretty good choice. It has plenty of sizes and is relatively inexpensive (for a suit). Again, thanks to Sherlockology, we know that the exact shoes Sherlock wears are Yves Saint Laurent oxfords. You won't find them new anywhere, but as with the suit, I don't think you need an exact match. I did try to find a pair of black oxfords that look as close to Sherlock's shoes as possible. The biggest thing here are the perforation details. Color is obviously easy to match, but the design details of these Bostonian oxfords look very close to Sherlock Holmes' oxfords. While Sherlock does have different shirts he wears, the main color he sticks with is the classic white. You probably already own a white dress shirt, but if not, I suggest this Calvin Klein slim-fit dress shirt. The most notable shirt Sherlock wears is his Dolce & Gabbana purple dress shirt. It's not made anymore, which is a shame. It's one of Sherlock's few pieces of clothing that would be nice to get an exact match on. To get the color correct on this shirt, you may be better off with a brick and mortar store again here. However, I did find this dark purple dress shirt that looks to match the color of Sherlock's very closely. The actual color of the shirt is a bit darker than it appears in the picture. Finally we come to the small detail pieces that really bring Sherlock's style together. Sherlock's scarf is a definite must-have for any Sherlock costume/cosplay. Like with most of Sherlock's clothing/accessories, there are plenty of replica scarves to choose from. I really do like this replica Sherlock scarf, but it is a bit wide when compared to the screen version (and it's really the only complaint in the reviews). My favorite match to Sherlock's scarf is this one by SethRoberts in navy. It's not a replica, but it looks very close, and isn't as wide as the replica above. Even though Sherlock doesn't wear his hat very often in the show, it's definitely a must-have for a Sherlock costume. I really love how the show's writers/creators decided to go with the classic Sherlock Holmes hat - randomly grabbing a hat right before he's photographed by the press. For the hat, there are actually a lot of options. Since Sherlock's costume department went with the classic Sherlock hat, replicas are everywhere, both those based on BBC's show, and the original. Like I said, there are plenty of options here, but my top two pics are this one by Jacobson Hat Company, and this one by Elope. Both of them have great reviews, and are also pretty inexpensive. Sherlock's gloves are an item by Paul Smith, which of course are out of production. His gloves are black leather on the outside, wool-lined on the inside, and have small holes at the knuckles. There are plenty of different gloves you could go with here, but I personally really like these Hatch Durathin gloves. They're not quite as detailed in stitching as Sherlock's, but otherwise fit the bill well. The modern take on the traditional Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass, the folding pocket magnifier. Another really cool, modern adaptation. There are plenty of options with this too, but I'd recommend this Sherlock replica. If you're not buying one based off of the show, odds are it's meant more for reading (most of them only magnify 2 or 3x). The actual watch used on the show is a Rotary GS02424-21. If you live in the UK (or can otherwise order from UK-based websites), then you're in luck, because you can get the exact watch here. For everyone else, you can check out Ebay (at the time of this writing, there were plenty available), or go with another Rotary model that looks very similar, like this one. The robe Sherlock wears is made by Derek Rose, and (surprise surprise!) it's no longer made. However...this robe by Derek Rose looks almost identical to me. It's pretty expensive for a robe, but it's the closest thing you'll find to the show. If you'd just like a robe that looks pretty close to Sherlock's without breaking the bank, I think this fleece, royal blue robe looks really close. How to Dress Like Jimmy McGill May 24, 2017 / By John How to Dress Like Danny Rand How to Dress Like Hank Schrader I'm a huge fan of sci-fi/supernatural/monster type shows. After putting together some of my own custom costumes and outfits from TV characters, I decided to start writing my own guides. 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__label__cc	0.727244	0.272756	Two Fat Guys Talk - Carlos and Dave Anime Rave Two fat guys talk about, review, and react to anime (from everywhere), video games, and more. * EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING * SPOILER WARNING AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. Not for kids. Nor people who dislike spoilers. Nor anyone, really. [Review] [Reaction] My Hero Academia season 2 ep. 7 simuldub We review more of My Hero Academia! Deku overcomes brainwashing. Todoroki makes a lot of ice. Carlos complains about pacing. Posted by Carlos Faro at 12:40 AM Labels: My Hero Academia I thought voltron was being saved for an anime season full of stines gates (torcher for Carlos)(ie slow). Glad to hear you like it though. Trollhunters might fill that emergency spot when you're plate isn’t full of a Holliday feast of good shows, but the dissipation mre equivalent. It has Last Star Fighter vibe. no you shouldn't use it to bale on anything already on your list, that's full of stuff people want to watch from you. 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__label__wiki	0.715109	0.715109	All about Yaws: Jack London's "The Cruise of the Snark" Annotated Manuscript and Signed Check All > Literary All about Yaws: Jack London's The Cruise of the Snark Annotated Manuscript and Signed Check Lot consists of 3pp 1st revision typed manuscript of The Cruise of the Snark with 45+ handwritten edits/words in Jack London's hand; along with a signed check dating from the era of the Snark's construction. Besides the value of these pages to literary enthusiasts, London scholars will also appreciate the subject matter of the manuscript since it anticipates London's death in 1916. London describes his treatment of the tropical disease yaws with mercury compounds, which modern physicians believe contributed to London's later kidney failure. In the spring of 1907, Jack London (1876-1916), accompanied by his wife Charmian (1871-1955) and a small crew, set out for a modern maritime adventure aboard the Snark, their 45' long custom built sailboat. Over the next 2 years, the Londons would sail west and south across the Pacific Ocean, exploring Hawaii, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tahiti, Australia, and other tropical locales. London later recounted his travel experiences in a non-fiction illustrated account called The Cruise of the Snark, published by The Macmillan Company in New York in 1911. These typed manuscript galleys correspond to pages 320-328 of London's final 1st edition of The Cruise of the Snark. In this excerpt from Chapter XVII: "The Amateur M.D.", London writes about home remedies for horrific diseases contracted in the Solomon Islands. The excerpt describes how London applied corrosive sublimate, or mercury chloride, to open cuts and sores. He, along with everyone else on the Snark, eventually suffered from yaws, a bacterial infection resulting in ulcers, joint pain, and fatigue, and this treatment was London's trusted panacea. In a recent article entitled “Jack London’s ‘chronic interstitial nephritis’: A historical differential diagnosis” (Pharos Medical Journal, Winter 2008), Drs. Andrew S. Bomback and Philip J. Klemmer speculated that London's death ten years after the Snark's voyage was probably caused in large part to his usage of mercury compounds as an alternative to antibiotics. The two doctors suggested that London's kidney problems were caused in part by mercury poisoning. The galley proofs are oversized, measuring 9.25" x 12" on average overall, and have generously sized margins to accommodate handwritten author's edits. The pages are in very good to near fine condition with expected wear including paper folds, isolated light soiling and rust stains, chipped edges, and a few minor closed tears. The manuscripts dates circa spring 1911. London's edits throughout the manuscript are in pencil and blue pen. On the first page, London has substituted the word "increasing" with "growing" and inserted a question mark and quotation marks near the bottom of the page. On page two, London has reversed the order of "means practically" to "practically means." London has deleted the phrase "a diversion" on the last page, and in the top right margin, written the following note to the printer: "make in small type." London also hand-inscribed three incredible black and white photographs that would become Illustrations 115-117: "Village of the Ete Ete - Ugi - Solomons"; "Charmian does some photographing"; and "The Snark's complement in the Solomons after we lost the cook and gained a German mate." The author drew arrows pointing to text blocks where he wished corresponding illustrations to appear. Other edits, possibly publisher's, in red are found throughout. The manuscript pages correspond to the following published text found in The Cruise of the Snark. Areas affected by London's edits are in bold. "--dying man. No smile and little intelligence illumined his face. He was a sombre death’s-head, too far gone to grin. He, too, had yaws, big ones. We were compelled to drag him over the rail of the Snark. He said that his health was good, that he had not had the fever for some time, and that with the exception of his arm he was all right and trim. His arm appeared to be paralysed. Paralysis he rejected with scorn. He had had it before, and recovered. It was a common native disease on Santa Anna, he said, as he was helped down the companion ladder, his dead arm dropping, bump-bump, from step to step. He was certainly the ghastliest guest we ever entertained, and we’ve had not a few lepers and elephantiasis victims on board. Martin inquired about yaws, for here was a man who ought to know. He certainly did know, if we could judge by his scarred arms and legs and by the live ulcers that corroded in the midst of the scars. Oh, one got used to yaws, quoth Tom Butler. They were never really serious until they had eaten deep into the flesh. Then they attacked the walls of the arteries, the arteries burst, and there was a funeral. Several of the natives had recently died that way ashore. But what did it matter? If it wasn’t yaws, it was something else in the Solomons. I noticed that from this moment Martin displayed a swiftly increasing interest in his own yaws. Dosings with corrosive sublimate were more frequent, while, in conversation, he began to revert with growing enthusiasm to the clean climate of Kansas and all other things Kansan. Charmian and I thought that California was a little bit of all right. Henry swore by Rapa, and Tehei staked all on Bora Bora for his own blood’s sake; while Wada and Nakata sang the sanitary pæan of Japan. One evening, as the Snark worked around the southern end of the island of Ugi, looking for a reputed anchorage, a Church of England missionary, a Mr. Drew, bound in his whaleboat for the coast of San Cristoval, came alongside and stopped for dinner. Martin, his legs swathed in Red Cross bandages till they looked like a mummy’s, turned the conversation upon yaws. Yes, said Mr. Drew, they were quite common in the Solomons. All white men caught them. “And have you had them?” Martin demanded, in the soul of him quite shocked that a Church of England missionary could possess so vulgar an affliction. Mr. Drew nodded his head and added that not only had he had them, but at that moment he was doctoring several. “What do you use on them?” Martin asked like a flash. My heart almost stood still waiting the answer. By that answer my professional medical prestige stood or fell. Martin, I could see, was quite sure it was going to fall. And then the answer—O blessed answer! “Corrosive sublimate,” said Mr. Drew. Martin gave in handsomely, I’ll admit, and I am confident that at that moment, if I had asked permission to pull one of his teeth, he would not have denied me. All white men in the Solomons catch yaws, and every cut or abrasion practically means another yaw. Every man I met had had them, and nine out of ten had active ones. There was but one exception, a young fellow who had been in the islands five months, who had come down with fever ten days after he arrived, and who had since then been down so often with fever that he had had neither time nor opportunity for yaws. Every one on the Snark except Charmian came down with yaws. Hers was the same egotism that Japan and Kansas had displayed. She ascribed her immunity to the pureness of her blood, and as the days went by she ascribed it more often and more loudly to the pureness of her blood. Privately I ascribed her immunity to the fact that, being a woman, she escaped most of the cuts and abrasions to which we hard-working men were subject in the course of working the Snark around the world. I did not tell her so. You see, I did not wish to bruise her ego with brutal facts. Being an M.D., if only an amateur one, I knew more about the disease than she, and I knew that time was my ally. But alas, I abused my ally when it dealt a charming little yaw on the shin. So quickly did I apply antiseptic treatment, that the yaw was cured before she was convinced that she had one. Again, as an M.D., I was without honour on my own vessel; and, worse than that, I was charged with having tried to mislead her into the belief that she had had a yaw. The pureness of her blood was more rampant than ever, and I poked my nose into my navigation books and kept quiet. And then came the day. We were cruising along the coast of Malaita at the time. “What’s that abaft your ankle-bone?” said I. “Nothing,” said she. “All right,” said I; “but put some corrosive sublimate on it just the same. And some two or three weeks from now, when it is well and you have a scar that you will carry to your grave, just forget about the purity of your blood and your ancestral history and tell me what you think about yaws anyway.” It was as large as a silver dollar, that yaw, and it took all of three weeks to heal. There were times when Charmian could not walk because of the hurt of it; and there were times upon times when she explained that abaft the ankle-bone was the most painful place to have a yaw. I explained, in turn, that, never having experienced a yaw in that locality, I was driven to conclude the hollow of the instep was the most painful place for yaw-culture. We left it to Martin, who disagreed with both of us and proclaimed passionately that the only truly painful place was the shin. No wonder horse-racing is so popular. But yaws lose their novelty after a time. At the present moment of writing I have five yaws on my hands and three more on my shin. Charmian has one on each side of her right instep. Tehei is frantic with his. Martin’s latest shin-cultures have eclipsed his earlier ones. And Nakata has several score casually eating away at his tissue. But the history of the Snark in the Solomons has been the history of every ship since the early discoverers. From the “Sailing Directions” I quote the following: “The crews of vessels remaining any considerable time in the Solomons find wounds and sores liable to change into malignant ulcers.” Nor on the question of fever were the “Sailing Directions” any more encouraging, for in them I read: “New arrivals are almost certain sooner or later to suffer from fever. The natives are also subject to it. The number of deaths among the whites in the year 1897 amounted to 9 among a population of 50.” Some of these deaths, however, were accidental. Nakata was the first to come down with fever. This occurred at Penduffryn. Wada and Henry followed him. Charmian surrendered next. I managed to escape for a couple of months; but when I was bowled over, Martin sympathetically joined me several days later. Out of the seven of us all told Tehei is the only one who has escaped; but his sufferings from nostalgia are worse than fever. Nakata, as usual, followed instructions faithfully, so that by the end of his third attack he could take a two hours’ sweat, consume thirty or forty grains of quinine, and be weak but all right at the end of twenty-four hours. Wada and Henry, however, were tougher patients with which to deal. In the first place, Wada got in a bad funk. He was of the firm conviction that his star had set and that the Solomons would receive his bones. He saw that life about him was cheap. At Penduffryn he saw the ravages of dysentery, and, unfortunately for him, he saw one victim carried out on a strip of galvanized sheet-iron and dumped without coffin or funeral into a hole in the ground. Everybody had fever, everybody had dysentery, everybody had everything." In addition to the hand-corrected manuscript is an unnumbered check inscribed overall and signed “Jack London” on the payee line. Issued from the Central Bank of Oakland, California on July 13, 1905 in the amount of $5 payable to "Lionel H. Leadan.” The plain cream check is stamped in purple, pink, and blue recto and verso, and bears an x-shaped cancellation mark at center. In very good to near fine condition, expected light folds. Check measures 6.5" x 2.75". Jack London grew up in Oakland, California. He attended elementary school through high school there, and studied at a local waterfront bar named Heinold's First and Last Saloon; the proprietor later lent him tuition money to Berkeley. Jack London wrote dozens of poems, short stories, essays, and novels over a prolific career curtailed by chronic ill-health. With income generated from adventure classics like Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), London was able to purchase a ranch and outfit the Snark. This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses. WE PROVIDE IN-HOUSE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line795
__label__wiki	0.802248	0.802248	Film Comment Selects announces its full line up THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES THE 18th EDITION OF FILM COMMENT SELECTS, FEBRUARY 23-27 Opens with Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Life and Nothing More and features new works by Wang Bing, Ildikó Enyedi, and more Highlights include a complete retrospective of director Nico Papatakis's subversive works and a 25th anniversary screening of Tom Joslin & Peter Friedman’s Silverlake Life: The View from Here Life and Nothing More New York, NY (January 16, 2018) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the lineup for the 18th edition of Film Commentmagazine’s annual series, Film Comment Selects, February 23-27. The cinematic showcase returns with a selection of titles curated by the magazine’s editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing New York premieres of new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment. “It’s a rare chance to see the lively mix of films that our critics have raved about but that haven’t hit New York theaters yet,” said Nicolas Rapold, Editor-in-Chief of Film Comment. “This year’s edition is made especially exciting by a rare retrospective of the inimitable Nico Papatakis, whose work will be exciting for many to discover.” The festival opens with the New York premiere of Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Life and Nothing More, an intimate chronicle of an African American family living on the margins in Florida, starring an astonishing non-professional cast. Other new works in the lineup are Ildikó Enyedi’s Berlinale Golden Bear-winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing’s unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss’s powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele’s fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček‘s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man’s life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico’s exhilarating, gender-bending Wild Boys. In addition to these anticipated new works, the 2018 slate features a retrospective of radical filmmaker Nico Papatakis, who had a “body of work that blends anarchic fury with visceral and transcendent poetry” (Yonca Talu, Film Comment). All five features directed by Papatakis, who subversively and provocatively explored themes of race, class, gender, and politics and produced films by Cassavetes and Genet, will be screened, including the meta terrorist drama Gloria Mundi, Cannes selection Les Abysses, and Walking a Tightrope, which stars Michel Piccoli as writer Jean Genet (a personal friend of the filmmaker). Film Comment Selects will also present a 25th anniversary screening of Tom Joslin & Peter Friedman’s extraordinarily powerful documentary Silverlake Life: The View from Here, which follows Joslin and his partner Mark Massi as they struggle to live with AIDS. Organized by Madeline Whittle and Film Comment magazine staff. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 9. A pre-sale for Film Society members and Film Comment subscribers begins Friday, February 2. Single screening tickets are $15; $12 for students and seniors (62+); and $10 for Film Society members and Film Comment subscribers. See more and save with the 3+ film discount package or All-Access Pass. Learn more at filmlinc.org. With the kind support of the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York. Special thanks to Manuela Papatakis. FILMS & DESCRIPTIONSAll films screen digitally at the Walter Reade Theater unless otherwise noted. Where possible, film descriptions are excerpts from Film Comment magazine. Antonio Mendez Esparza, U.S./Spain, 2017, 114m “The African American single mom and teenage son at the center of this drama are lifelong residents of northern Florida but remain, at best, provisional citizens of their own country. Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working-class black lives.” —Nick Davis, Toronto Film Festival 2017 online coverage Friday, February 23, 6:30pm (Q&A with Antonio Mendez Esparza) Rok Biček, Slovenia/Austria, 2017, 106m “Slovenian director Rok Biček started The Family as a film-school student and proceeded to film a life in full: a boy, Matej, seen growing up, watching his father die and becoming a father himself, breaking up with his girlfriend, and battling her for child custody. A twist on observational cinema, Biček’s portrait of the anti-heroic young man defies stereotypes of working-class and dysfunctional families, refrains from passing moral judgments, and retains an open fondness of his subject.” —Tina Poglajen, Nov/Dec 2017 issue U.S. premiere Tuesday, February 27, 6:45pm Govinda Van Maele, Luxembourg/Belgium/Germany/France, 2017, 107m “A stranger wends through twilit wheat fields in the exquisite opening moments of Govinda Van Maele’s fiction feature debut [starring Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps] ... By the following morning he’s courted by an elder who finds him a gig and lodging—and then Gutland quietly maunders from folktale to pastoral noir to Polanski-esque uncanny and, finally, back to folk tale. Call it a ‘village film,’ with an eerie ambiance of secrets, insularity, and sinister solidarity.” —José Teodoro, Nov/Dec 2017 issue Saturday, February 24, 6:45pm Mrs. Fang Wang Bing, China, 2017, 86m “Wang Bing’s latest documentary trains its camera very tightly on the face of a bedridden elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s in a small rural Chinese village. For a while, it seems as though Mrs. Fang is content to use the camera as a tool to unflinchingly record a human being close to her final breath. Yet Wang Bing is after something completely different, as the filmmaker goes into other territory, somehow more and less tangible than a portrait of dying.” —Michael Koresky, Toronto Film Festival 2017 online coverage Sunday, February 25, 9:30pm Ildikó Enyedi, 2017, Hungary, 116m Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin, Ildikó Enyedi’s visually imaginative film tracks the highs and lows of an unforeseen romance conducted partly through dreams. Film Comment celebrated Enyedi’s “ludic, freewheeling storytelling” with last year’s home-video release of her 1989 favorite My Twentieth Century, and her newest marks a triumphant return for this Hungarian filmmaker. A Netflix release. Monday, February 26, 6:45pm Sarah Plays a Werewolf Katharina Wyss, Switzerland/Germany, 2017, 86m “Katharina Wyss’s heady debut feature centers on Sarah, a young woman channeling her powerful depth of feeling into the artistic and psychological outlet of theater. As the 17-year-old protagonist in a staid Swiss town, Loane Balthasar is unnervingly transparent, giving herself over to her character—and, like Sarah, 20 times more present than anyone around her. The film’s title captures a life fraught with energy.” —Nicolas Rapold, Jan/Feb 2018 issue With the kind support of the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York. Sunday, February 25, 7:00pm (Q&A with Katharina Wyss) Bertrand Mandico, France, 2017, 110m “Some might be quick to suggest Mandico’s similarities with Guy Maddin due to his new film’s whacked-out narrative, alienating use of studio sets, and brusquely outré acting. Exiled teenagers are sentenced to hard labor on a mysterious island, left to their own devices and then transformed... All the teens are played by actresses, with ever-fearless, weather-beaten Elina Löwensohn leading the way. Little else in 2017 was quite as exhilarating, eye-popping, intoxicating, seductive, carefree, funky, sexy, and fun.” —Olaf Möller, Jan/Feb 2018 issue 25th Anniversary Screening Silverlake Life: The View from Here Tom Joslin & Peter Friedman, U.S., 1993, 99m Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this is one of the cornerstone documentaries abot the AIDS crisis. “Silverlake Life is about a couple, and one of the guys is filming his boyfriend, who is ill and dying. I didn’t want to represent the disease too much [in BPM (Beats Per Minute)], because I thought it was so real in Silverlake Life. I didn’t want to make the same thing because you can't do more than this film, because it was real and it's a very, very moving film. I love it so much.”—Robin Campillo, director of BPM (Beats Per Minute), interviewed in July/Aug 2017 issue Special Section: Five Films by Nico Papatakis “It’s become a cliché to call a filmmaker ‘rebellious,’ but from Gance to Eisenstein to Pasolini to Buñuel, the 20th century saw true rebels who fiercely defied both the cinematic and political establishments of their time. Nikos Papatakis (1918-2010)—nicknamed Nico in France—holds a profound and unique place in this lineage through a body of work that blends anarchic fury with visceral and transcendent poetry. Born in Addis Ababa to an Ethiopian mother and a Greek father, Papatakis was an outcast by nature, mocked and ostracized as a child for being biracial. Deeply rooted in personal experience, Papatakis’s films are politically, morally, and formally subversive explorations of race, gender, and class that use the medium as a vehicle of opposition and dissent.” —Yonca Talu, Sept/Oct 2017 issue Les Abysses Nico Papatakis, France, 1963, 90m This allegorical portrait of the Algerian resistance was inspired by the real-life story of the Papin sisters, two maids who brutally murdered their employers in 1930s France—also the basis for Jean Genet’s influential 1947 play The Maids and Claude Chabrol’s 1995 psychological thriller La Cérémonie. Friday, February 23, 9:30pm The Shepherds of Disorder Nico Papatakis, Greece, 1967, 117m The Shepherds of Disorder (aka Thanos and Despina) juxtaposes an anthropological and materialist study of a rigid rural community with the mythologically imbued, forbidden romance between a rebellious shepherd and the angelic and compliant daughter (Olga Karlatos) of a rich conservative family, engaged in an erotically charged power game. Nico Papatakis, France, 1976, 115m Papatakis’s most psychedelic film, Gloria Mundi centers on an actress (Olga Karlatos) playing an Arab terrorist who takes her role to another level. Papatakis’s virulent denunciation of consumer capitalism and a hypocritical left-wing intelligentsia that deems itself political but does not take any action, begins with a scream and ends with an explosion. Nico Papatakis, Greece/France, 1986, 102m Papatakis’s most accessible, gripping, and poignant work is a meticulously crafted, intimate meditation on immigration and exile centering on a 26-year-old Greek man fresh out of prison (where he was tortured for being a communist’s son) who leaves for France in hopes of a better life and strikes up a complicated friendship with a distant relative. Walking a Tightrope / Les Équilibristes The director’s final film—starring Michel Piccoli as a fictional version of Papatakis’s friend Jean Genet—is a compendium of the themes and motifs that pervade his distinctive filmography, including the torturous nature of love, the suffering induced by exile, and suicide as an act of rebellion. FILM COMMENTPublished since 1962, Film Comment magazine features in-depth reviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Today a bimonthly print magazine and a website, the magazine was founded under the editorship of Gordon Hitchens, who was followed by Richard Corliss, Harlan Jacobson, Richard Jameson, Gavin Smith, and Nicolas Rapold. Past and present contributing critics include Paul Arthur, David Bordwell, Richard Combs, Manohla Dargis, Raymond Durgnat, Roger Ebert, Manny Farber, Howard Hampton, Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, Richard Jameson, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Nathan Lee, Todd McCarthy, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Tony Rayns, Frank Rich, Andrew Sarris, Richard Schickel, Elliott Stein, Amy Taubin, David Thomson, Richard Thompson, Amos Vogel, Robin Wood, and many more. FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTERThe Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film. Via year-round programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including Film Comment, the U.S.’s premier magazine about films and film culture, the Film Society endeavors to make the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broader audience, as well as to ensure that it will remain an essential art form for years to come. The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Shutterstock, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. American Airlines is the Official Airline of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. 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__label__wiki	0.826608	0.826608	Murder, missing, mutilated. Yes, women are in trouble - because they're 'getting ahead' There's a distinctly feminine feel about the fronts today with the verdict in the Meredith Kercher murder retrial, more activity in the McCann investigation and the growing gender gap at university. It's instructive to compare the splashes in the old-school Telegraph and the down-with-the-kids i. The former sees it as 'boys' being left behind; the latter as 'women' racing ahead. Boys? Generally people don't go to university until they are 18 - adults. In fact nobody's ahead or behind. It's about the number of applications, not achievement. The most important story of the day comes from The Times with the Chief Inspector of Constabulary taking police forces to task for failing to tackle honour killings, female genital mutilation and domestic violence. To read the full review, please click here and pay a visit to the nascent SubScribe website. Is it true? Is it new? Does it matter? Do we care? Today's mishmash has inspired the SubScribe four-point readworthiness test for our printed friends. Saturday papers are tricky. Friday tends to be a slow news day as Westminster evacuates to leave a vast empty shelf in the news supermarket. So, like the Sundays, special projects have to be commissioned. But, unlike the Sundays, daily reporters tend not have the luxury of a whole week to work on their stories. Fridays can therefore be fraught and the next day's offerings variable, to say the least. Only two papers splash on a story that had to be used today or spiked - the Daily Star and the Independent. The Telegraph uses the staple of creating a news story from an interview, while the Guardian and Times engage in a little number crunching that could be done at almost any time. The Mirror joins the police on a raid in Suffolk, but there have been and will be others. The i's follow-up to David Cameron's 'everyone's better off' claim and the Mail's story about disciplining teachers were born out of developments yesterday, but both could easily have been used inside if a real splash had appeared. And so to the test: The Guardian has gone to the Prevasi Nepali Co-ordination Committee for an update on how many have died working on the infrastructure for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. The figures are shocking: 185 Nepalese victims of accidents and heart attacks in 2013 and at least 382 in the past two years. We have no idea how many others from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and elsewhere have died. Since the PNCC dossier provides the only statistics available, it is impossible to assess accurately the full scale of the scandal. But we can hazard a guess: Nepalis account for around 350,000 of the two million migrant workers in Qatar. FIFA has been put under pressure to act and has promised to confront the issue, but there is little sign of that yet. The Qatari Government has commissioned the law firm DLA Piper to investigate and promised to take the findings seriously when it reports soon. The state has promised that the tournament will not be built 'on the blood of innocents'. The foundations already have been. Is it true? Yes. Is it new? Yes, in that it's the first time anyone has asked. Does it matter? Yes. Do we care? Not enough. The Telegraph has interviewed the head of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence, which sanctions drugs and treatments for use on the NHS. Professor David Haslam tells the paper that patients should research their conditions and hassle their doctors to give them the right drugs. Seems odd advice, given the number of stories criticising GPs for handing out pills like sweeties and the general antipathy of doctors to patients who self-diagnose. It's one thing to be reasonably informed and to have a discussion; it's quite another to start pestering for something that might not be appropriate. The story is timely, though, coming after reports this week that many cancer and MND sufferers are not getting life-extending drugs to which they are entitled, and that doctors are routinely failing to treat elderly cancer patients properly. Is it new? Yes. Do we care? Yes. At first glance the Independent's splash should be everyone's lead. An elderly British man who is mentally ill is sentenced to death for blasphemy in a foreign country. Muhammad Asghar, who comes from Edinburgh, was convicted and sentenced in Pakistan on Thursday. His crime was to compare himself to a prophet in a letter that was never posted. The document, described by the defence as the private ramblings of a madman, had been taken to the authorities by a disgruntled tenant. The verdict was pronounced after the court refused to accept evidence of Mr Asghar's insanity. His lawyer had earlier been dismissed from the courtroom and replaced by a state defender. Mr Asghar - whose age is given in various papers as everything from 68 to 72 - has been in prison since his arrest in 2010 and is unlikely to be executed because Pakistan has had a moratorium on the death penalty for the past five years. These may be the reasons that other papers made so little of the case - it could surely not be because his name is Muhammad? It made a short page lead in the Telegraph and i, but only a small single, nib or even less everywhere else. The fact remains that the sentence has been passed and the moratorium could be lifted at any time. And we should be concerned that such a man is in jail at all. Is it true? Yes Do we care? We should. The i has been looking into the figures used by Number 10 to claim that almost everyone's income has increased by more than the rate of inflation. Instinct tells us that couldn't be true and the i has confirmed that view by uncovering some interesting accounting. Economists found that the claim was based on wages and income tax and did not take into account such elements as personal allowances, tax credits and child benefit. Good work from Nigel Morris, deputy political editor of the Independent and the i (the story appears in both papers). The Mirror conducted a similar exercise to produce a good page lead. The Mirror splashes on internet sales of abortion pills made in India. The story is full of dire warnings about what might happen if a desperate teenager took these pills, especially in the wrong dose. There have been no such cases recorded, but there is no harm in sounding an alert. This was a story that could have been picked up by anyone with a bit of thought - we've all had email spam offering us Viagra and other drugs - so good on Ben Rossington and Martin Bagot for getting on the case. They have clearly been in contact with police forces around the country and built up the contacts that enabled them to witness a raid on a house in Suffolk yesterday. The report is a mite melodramatic, but generally sound. Is it new? Up to a point, Lord Copper. Do we care? Maybe. The Daily Star is still concerned about the fate of TOWIE Sam in Celebrity Big Brother. Liz Jones, who was evicted from the house this week, told the paper yesterday that Sam had been ill. Today the paper says that she was rushed to hospital and that 'fears grow for seriously ill babe'. Not so ill that the Star allows her to keep her clothes on - the paper again carries two photographs of her in swimwear and a little inset of her looking unwell on set. The inside heading is 'New fear for 999 Sam'. But if you stick with the story to the end you discover that she was taken to hospital yesterday morning, was seen by a doctor and came out at lunchtime. By last night she was back in the house. Either somebody is being irresponsible in returning this woman to that environment or perhaps she simply has a nasty virus. Let's hope it's the latter. Is it true? Half of it is. Does it matter? No. Do we care? No. Sean O'Neill at the Times has also been number crunching. He finds that 16 people have been stopped on their way to or from Syria in the past three weeks because they were suspected of being involved in the fighting or terrorist activity. That compares with 24 in the whole of last year. It's certainly a startling increase, but does it mean that there is a soaring terror fear as the headline suggests (can a fear soar?)Or is Theresa May being more assiduous? Security authorities are apparently worried that young people are being radicalised in Syria and trained to carry out attacks in Britain. The prisoners' rights group CAGE takes a different view. Its research director Asim Qureshi says: 'The recent spate of arrests seems misplaced and disproportional. It rests on the erroneous assumption that travelling to Syria transforms one into an enemy of Britain. If opposing the Assad regime is a central part of current foreign policy, why would pursuing that policy be an arrestable offence.' Do we care? Not really. The Express gives its front page to a weather forecast and a Kylie Minogue story that everyone else had yesterday. Need we say more? Is it true? Who knows? Is it new? Not really. Does it matter? Well we can't do anything about it. Do we care? Yes, if we're planning to go out or do some gardening. The thought of children being taught by potheads or petty thieves may shock parents, so thanks to the Mail for warning us that convicted teachers could be allowed to stay in the classroom. The thing is, though, that this has been the case for a while. The story is based on guidance from the Education Department's National College for Teaching and Leadership. The document, updated yesterday, spells out factors to be considered by a professional conduct panel when a teacher is referred for possible prohibition - which means a lifetime ban from the profession. The revised guidelines include tighter rules on class A drugs and all sexual contact with students or pupils. They also say that the panel should become involved in only the most serious cases and that it is unlikely that a teacher would be referred after a conviction or caution for shoplifting or possession of class B or C drugs for their own use. This is what the Mail finds shocking. But these provisions haven't changed. There is no suggestion that teachers should get off scot-free if they smoke pot or take amphetamines; the DfE explains that to the Mail, saying its primary concern is the safety of children and that heads and local authorities have powers of suspension or dismissal. The professional conduct panel is all about deciding whether people should be allowed to continue with what most see as a vocation. The Mail is being alarmist, reactionary and unthinking. Do we really want to toss trained teachers out of work for life over offences generally regarded as misdemeanours? Is it true? Yes, within certain parameters. Is it new? No. Does it matter? Yes And so to the Sun and a splash that fails to tell us three of the six Ws, including the all-important 'who'. It obviously can't. So it teases us with the 'sports tycoon' and 'one of Britain's biggest pop stars'. They apparently had a fling some time last year. We don't know how long it lasted before the tycoon's partner 'hit the roof' and then forgave him. This is an 'exclusive'. It is also a con. It tells the reader absolutely nothing and has the juvenile mentality of the kid who taunts friends in the playground shouting 'I know something you don't know'. Was the paper injuncted? Was it scared that one of the Sundays was on the case? If not why publish? To stir up internet speculation? If so, it failed in that as well. A few sports forums put up some theories but almost all degenerated into arguments, abuse and general contempt for the paper - the word scum featured frequently. The threads are short as contributors quickly tired of the game. Twitter was similarly uninterested. Not a triumph then. Is it new? Presumably. Do we care? Clearly not. Some thoughts on pictures. Today's were pretty uninspiring: a couple of silhouettes, a file shot of Cameron, a file shot of Nigella (for a story everyone covered yesterday), a file shot of Kylie, a file shot of Sam Faiers, a file shot of Rebekah and Charlie Brooks (at least from this week), a couple of tubs of pills. There were only two live pictures in the whole bunch: Francois Hollande with the Pope and Grayson Perry flanked by two Beefeaters. The notion of an (alleged) adulterer and a celibate discussing family life is intriguing and amusing. The Pope's headmasterly look at naughty boy Francois Hollande is caption competition gold. But a picture of two men of a certain age two columns apart is not going to set the news stands on fire. Grayson Perry in his 'mother of the bride' hat was undoubtedly the picture of the day. There were several to choose from and they were all equally charming. But a transvestite? On the front page? Too scary for most. A pity. Everyone used a picture somewhere, mostly with only a caption. But the Express ran a story as well. It was worth it, if only for this wonderful quote from the Palace: "His attire was entirely appropriate." Finally, have you noticed that many of the women on our front pages are dressed in red? SubScribe is starting a count, with today's tally 3. A mini review of the papers will be a feature of the new Sub-Scribe website, which should be alive and possibly kicking within the next couple of weeks. A few pages are available for a sneak preview, if you are interested, at www.sub-scribe.co.uk Follow @gameoldgirl The front pages: Bieber mugs, GM fish food and outraged ex-girlfriends The Times and the Mail take a twin approach to appeal to both ends of the age spectrum - a splash on cancer treatment (or non-treatment) of the elderly and pictures of Justin Bieber. The Mail wins by a mile in terms of headline. The Times misses the point: its head could refer to blunders or mistakes in treatment rather than rationing it to the under-75s. The paper scores, however, with its treatment of the Bieber pictures. Everyone loves to see the mugshots after a celebrity arrest and we want both of them in the stark side-on, full-face format. These baffle GG, though. Why isn't he holding a placard with a number on it? And why is he smiling? Aren't suspects were required to stare blankly, passport style, at the official photographer? But perhaps 99.9% of them scowl simply because they're ashamed or miserable, whereas for J-Beebs it was just another publicity shot. The Independent sisters are also dressed as twins today: same splash, almost the same heading, same misinformation. Superfoods? Well, yes - for fish. To be grown? Well, yes - if the scientists get permission after a three-month consultation period and an official inquiry. It's all a bit naughty. But still interesting. The scientists have copied fatty acid genes from the natural algae that fish eat and pasted them into a plant grown for seed oil. The modified plant should then produce a new source of omega-3 to feed to farmed fish - which might eventually be eaten by us. But not this year. The Mirror and the Sun are in no mood for forgiveness today. The Mirror is outraged that the singer Ian Watkins is exercising his legal right to appeal against his 35-year sentence for paedophile offences. Or at least the paper is reflecting the outrage of his ex-girlfriend, who has concluded from this routine response of anyone sent down for a long time that Watkins thinks that he is the victim of the case. Not sure about that reasoning. Jo Mjadzelic is equally cross that Watkins has been moved to a prison closer to his mother, who is said to be seriously ill after a kidney transplant. Hmm. Whisper it softly, but it is quite normal for prisoners to serve their sentence near to their families. He is the criminal, not his mother. Why should she be punished with a longer journey to visit him? The Sun, too, is taking the ex-girlfriend's side. This time in the newsprint spat between Ulrika Jonsson and Stan Collymore. Yesterday Ulrika (a sometime Sun columnist) raged against Collymore's complaints about racist abuse and death threats directed at him on Twitter. Having been on the receiving end of Collymore's temper she accused him of hypocrisy. He responded by reopening his Twitter account to deny that he had punched or kicked her. He had 'hit her once with an open hand' - he didn't use the word 'only'. 'A pro athlete, kicking and punching wildly with aggression. Why no knock out? No bleeding? No bruising? No pictures? Why?' The Sun and Ulrika are aghast at his audacity, with Miss J saying that his attitude is beyond belief. 'There were at least 20 witnesses there who know it certainly was not one hit with an open hand. He kicked me in the head three times.' Who said time was the great healer? The Star is also wearing its outraged bikini. This is because there has apparently been a secret fix to ensure that someone called Sam wins Celebrity Big Brother. It goes without saying that the said Sam features on the front in skimpy swimwear and again on the spread on pages 4 and 5, where the nature of the plot is revealed to us by none other than intrepid reporter Liz Jones, she of the Daily Mail. Ms Jones, who was evicted from the house yesterday, says that the show's producers want Sam to be the goodie-goodie golden girl. That means that when she showers in a bikini (?) with the door open, the sequence is edited out. Thank goodness we have the Star to make up for such censorship. Sam also apparently wants to be liked by everyone and stays out of arguments (an attitude to life incomprehensible to a trained combatant like Liz Jones) and has anyway been quiet because she has been ill. So this is the fix? Sam is really nice. She thinks she should try to be naughty. But she can't because the powers-that-be want her to be nice. Right. Have we all got that? A 'source' explains: 'It's a fact that good people win. Anyone who has misbehaved, caused outrage or trouble never gets crowned the champ...the bosses want people to see Sam in a good light, not like Jasmine. 'They don't want her labelled the same as those other girls, so it's better to promote a more wholesome image.' Ah, now I understand. So this is why the Star - owned by Richard Desmond, who also owns the BB franchise - is promoting Sam's wholesome image not only on pages 1 and 5, but also on page 3. Where she is seen wearing a bikini with the top half missing. It'll have to do better than that. With just under a week to go, slinky TOWIE girl Sam is 15-2 third favourite to win, while paunchy old comic Jim Davidson, who for some reason doesn't feature much in the Star's coverage, is so far ahead at 5-4 on that some bookies have stopped taking bets. On to more serious fare from the Guardian and the Telegraph and our mysterious economy in which everyone except the wealthiest is apparently better off by some government yardstick, yet the queues at food banks are still growing. The Telegraph reports that the Prime Minister is cautiously celebrating a 'recovery for all' and is to tell the World Economic Forum in Davos that companies will be lured to Britain by low energy prices fuelled by the fracking revolution. Low energy prices? Like those we enjoyed after the discovery of North Sea gas and North Sea oil? Excellent. Incidentally, bad luck on the theatre pic. Simon Russell Beale playing King Lear under the direction of Sam Mendes should be a shoo-in for a 5* review. Sadly Charles Spencer (and other critics) failed to oblige. Ah well, it's still good to see live arts being given respect on the front. The Guardian is more concerned with interest rates. The Governor of the Bank of England, also in Davos, says that there is no need for rates to rise just because the unemployment rate has dropped to 7.1%. Why does he need to say this? Because in August (five months ago), he offered 'forward guidance' to give business the stability and confidence to plan ahead: he would not consider raising interest rates until the jobless rate fell below 7%. At the time it stood at 7.8% and the Governor's view was that it would take probably until the year after next to drop those eight percentage points. I wonder who he is predicting will win Celebrity Big Brother. And finally to a first (I think) for the Express. A combination of a diabetes cure AND Madeleine McCann. SubScribe doesn't recall seeing that mix before. Today we are told to expect the first arrests in the McCann case. That's good, because we've been waiting since July 6, when the paper promised 'Maddy arrests within weeks'. But let's be fair. Sometimes, as Mr Carney at the Bank now realises, developments come more quickly than expected. Last May the Express told us that a daily jab would beat diabetes. Now we already have a cure to end the misery of that breakthrough injection. But I still reckon most people would prefer Monday's chocolate remedy. A mini review of the papers will be a feature of the new Sub-Scribe website, which should be alive and possibly kicking within the next couple of weeks. A few pages are available for a sneak preview, if you are interested, at www.sub-scribe.co.uk For updates on progress, please click the button. The front pages: burning issues for picture editors and puff designers Dramatic pictures of the violence in Ukraine dominate three of the four 'serious' papers, with a suspected potential suicide bomber completing the quartet. Yet none of the pages has the desired impact. The Independent's stark image would have worked better on any of the other three papers - and vice versa. It all comes down to puffs. The Telegraph has given its picture the best chance by separating it from the puff by a hamper splash. But even though the subject matter is entirely different - Paris fashion - there's something about the tone of the puff images that makes if feel as though they belong with the main photograph and that the models have been decapitated in the fighting below. The Times has the same picture and the opposite problem. The juxtaposition of the vivid pink puffery and the blazing city, with Miriam Gonzalez Duartez perched on top of a burnt-out coach, leaves you wondering where to look. (By the way, Ms G D prefers to go by her own name rather than her husband's - so it would be a courtesy for a newspaper promoting her views on 'how to get ahead as a woman' to respect that wish rather than turn her into an appendage). The Guardian has a different photograph and in close-up it may seem the better choice - the flames in the background plus the striking figure of a riot officer in sharp relief to the smoke. In print on the newsstand, however, it comes across as just so much grey. The password puff word 5tRoNg is brilliant - but does it refer to the man in the big picture? The tricolour puff has no theme and the Tom Daley blue jars with the Kieve photograph and with the horizontal ad at the foot of the page. The Independent, with the most restrained puffs in Not Fleet Street, could have accommodated either of the Kiev pictures with ease. The woman in the pink veil doesn't convey a sufficiently powerful message. She looks more a victim than a murderer, so it needs a headline along the lines of 'Find this woman, she's out to bomb the Olympics'. And there we run into a further difficulty. No one is quite sure whether she is. Ruzana Ibragimova, the widow of a militant, features on leaflets distributed by the police, but there appears to be no evidence of her involvement in a plot, nor even of any plot at all. Do love the phrase on the inside page 'Russian authorities are conducting a manhunt for three women...' The Times and the Mail both examine the case of Tallulah Wilson who jumped under a train at St Pancras station after becoming addicted to self-harming and suicide websites. The ballet student had a fantasy alter ego as a cocaine-taking anorexic and posted pictures Tumblr of her cutting herself. As with the death of Daniel Spargo-Mabbs yesterday, Tallulah's mother produced the killer phrase at the inquest: 'She was in the clutches of a toxic digital world where we could no longer reach her.' The inquest jury called for a better understanding of online media and the coroner is to send a 'prevention of further death' report to the Government. Stan Collymore has also been railing against online media, complaining to Twitter about abusive tweets directed at him after he accused the Liverpool player Luis Suarez of diving. 'In the last 24 hours I've been threatened with murder several times, demeaned on my race, and many of these accounts are still active. Why?' 'I accuse Twitter directly of not doing enough to combat racist/homophobic/sexist hate messages, all of which are illegal in the UK.' 'Several police forces have been fantastic. Twitter haven't. Dismayed.' But his concerns didn't cut much mustard with his former girlfriend Ulrika Johnston who pops up in the Sun to remind us all that Collymore kicked her in the head in 1998. 'It must be horrendous to be vilified for your beliefs, your colour or your sexuality. 'In no way do I agree with trolling or abuse on Twitter. The people that do it are pathetic cowards. 'But Stan is too. He is actually one of the people he’s criticising… If Stan is so against death threats, why was he so insistent on making many death threats against me? 'In a public place, Stan shoved my face to his and said at least twice he would ‘f****** kill’ me. But now he’s the poster boy against threats online. 'No one should give this man a platform to claim he is a victim. With his history of violence, it’s beyond ironic.' Fifteen years is a long time. Collymore may have grown up and changed. And is it hypocritical to denounce one type of bad behaviour because you have been guilty of another in the past?Cue debate on pots, kettles and redemption. From vile to evil - the Mirror is in a twist because Ian Brady was given speedy hospital treatment after falling over and cracked his hip. There's a battalion of people ready to complain about how wrong it was that such a monster should go to the front of the queue. Er, shall we pause and think about this a moment. First, Brady didn't jump the queue, the people in charge of him did (he probably didn't even want to be there). And second, does anyone seriously believe that it would have been a good thing to have him sitting in a public waiting room for hours? Away from the struggling health service, happy days are here again for the Express and the i, with positive economic news and the fall in unemployment making the splash for both. The i falls into the trap of the 'serious' quartet, with a picture of a factory line that is clear only on close inspection, whereas the Express lights up the newsstand with its photograph of Abbey Clancy at Tuesday's television awards. Yes, she's there as eye candy. But she is fully clad and it is rare for the Express to produce the brightest front, so let it have its day. (Shame about the garbled copy inside, which couldn't make up its mind whether it was a fashion report or a rundown of award winners.) The Star, on the other hand, continues its mission to turn page one into page three. This issue really should be on the top shelf. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the Corrie Kev street robbery is a plot line, not a real news event. The front pages: three-day-old filly easily beats Formula 1 legend Health issues dominate today, from one schoolboy apparently killed by an Ecstasy tab to thousands of cancer patients apparently refused drugs that could extend their lives because of where they happen to live. The two Independent titles concentrate on a Kings Fund report that suggests patient care may be harmed by low morale among NHS staff - with the i stepping out to a greater degree than its big sister, both on the front and inside. The Express's daily magical cure is for once tangible - a box that sounds a bit like a TENS machine which sends magnetic pulses to the brain to ease pain. It has been cleared for use on the NHS for the treatment of chronic migraine from today and is also available for rent. Not that official approval for NHS treatments guarantees that pateints who need it will get it, according to the Telegraph. It splashes on a report that availability of some drugs is - here it comes - a postcode lottery. An endemic and dangerous postcode lottery at that. In some areas one in three cancer and Motor Neurone Disease patients were not getting drugs that would ease their conditions. The Mail leads on a boy who told his parents that he was off to a party and then went to a rave. Daniel Spargo-Mabbs, 16, subsequently suffered a heart attack and died on Monday. The Mail reports that Daniel had taken his first Ecstasy tablet at the rave, although of course there is no way of knowing this, and points to the growing danger of the drug whose death toll 'increased fourfold' in two years - from four in 2010 to thirty-one in 2012. Daniel's fate may be every middle-class parent's nightmare, but it is hardly symptomatic of a great national menace. The key point, of course, is the headline (as it should be), the routine farewell phrase cruelly turned on its head to haunt forever. The Mirror is also gloomy about one man's fate - Michael Schumacher is still in the coma induced by doctors after his skiing accident a month ago. This is a standard 'what's the latest?' follow-up built into a splash from nothing. The fading hopes are based on a quote from a doctor uninvolved in his case based in Bordeaux, more than 250 miles away from the hospital in Grenoble where the driver is being treated, and speculation on an Austrian website. And, to be honest, what they say only reinforces what many already think. Not the most informative piece of journalism. The Sun's splash is also a bit of something and nothing. Roman Abramovich's white girlfriend Dasha Zhukova is photographed sitting on a sculpture chair in the shape of a topless black woman. The picture, taken as part of a photoshoot for an online magazine, upset all sorts of people who found it racist and demeaning. Ms Zhukova - who doesn't look exactly comfortable - apologised and said she regretted posing for the photograph, and the website cropped the picture. The chair itself was designed by the Norwegian Bjarne Melgaarde and is virtually the same as one of a white woman created by Allen Jones and shown in the Tate in 1969. No one has suggested the artworks are racist. The photoshoot was unthinking and shallow - but the lead to the country's biggest selling paper? Hmm. And the picture doesn't even make the top three of the best images on the newsstands today. A newly shaven Prince Harry is bound to captivate, and Miriam Gonzalez Duarantez strides across the Telegraph in style, but nothing can beat the three-day-old bay filly on the front of the Times. But that's only to be expected. The foal, born at the National Stud in Newmarket, is Frankel's daughter. Finally, the Daily Telegraph lost its editor yesterday lunchtime. The fact makes a page lead in the Guardian, a short picture story in the Independent and a nib in the Times. But I'm blowed if I could find it anywhere in the Telegraph. Odd that. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough. Happy to be corrected. A few pages are available for a sneak preview, if you are interested, at www.sub-scribe.co.uk For updates on progress, please click the button. Five sex scandals and a pop star on the edge - one clear winner The trio of ageing stars on trial for alleged sex offences dominate six front pages and make pictures or a puff in three others. The Mail and the Express have the same idea - but the Mail hammers home its superiority in the execution. The puff is truncated, the pictures more dramatic and the page is not diluted with text. The headline is decidedly iffy - yes vile crimes if they took place, but these trials will not be about offences that are known to have been committed by someone, they will be about whether they happened at all. The Express cannot be parted from dementia or the tantalising offer of a free cup of tea or coffee at BHS - quaintly described as a 'hot drink', so it has less room to play with. The photographs are squashed and the headings leaden. Not as leaden, however, as the Times's. Hampered by a huge count and not much to say, it comes up with 'TV entertainers', which doesn't do the job. It conjures up the wrong image: Morecambe and Wise were TV entertainers; DLT is a disc jockey and Roache is a soap actor. The photograph of Rolf Harris - with a convenient blonde just ahead of him - would be good if he were the only one in court yesterday. But it was the fact that three household names were on trial on one day that set this story apart, and that was what needed emphasising (as the Mail does) if it was going to work as a splash in a serious paper. The Mirror and the Star both focus on the Roach case, which is now getting into the detail of the allegations. Here we can see how much classier the Mirror is than the Star. It opts for themore interesting of the two stories aired in court and finds room for the other two cases as insets above the splash heading. The heads are all good and the page is unencumbered by anything other than a modest puff alongside the titlepiece. Just as the Express is wedded to its diseases of the elderly, so Celebrity Big Brother is obligatory for its redtop stablemate. At least it had the sense to use a picture of a woman with clothes on - and the splash head is fine. The Telegraph's triptych points to modest coverage on page 4, and the Independent limits the trials' front-page presence to a puff. The Guardian stays aloof,looking instead at another sex scandal - that of M Hollande across the Channel. The Sun thought that an out-of-focus picture of Liam of One Direction posing on a ledge 360ft up made the better splash. I'm not sure. 1D are certainly more likely to appeal to its young audience and it deals with the court trio neatly in column one. You can hear the case being argued in the conference room: 'We knew they'd been accused, people are tired of old men and child abuse, this is much fresher.' The two Indies triumph over everyone , however, by going their own way with an investigation into sex-selection abortions - with far more compelling results. The Independent's heading and scan picture win the day. Posted by SubScribe at 21:04 1 comment: New Year diet advice: eat less and drink more (water - not booze!) Daniel Lambert weighed over 50st when he died in 1809. Cheryll Hicks wrote in the Telegraph that the UK now has 100,000 'Lamberts'. Photograph: imagesonline.bl.uk How's the diet going? Which one have you chosen? The DoDo? The Two-Day? The Every Other Day? The No-Sugar? If you've obeyed all the rules and followed all the recipes over the past week, you should be 'up to' 7lb slimmer by now. Note that 'up to'. Chances are you've lost a couple of pounds. But you'll probably feel a better even with that little success - because we've just emerged from the binge eating and drinking season, and any easing up is going to help us to feel less bloated. Christians celebrate the feast of Epiphany on January 6 to mark the coming of the Magi to see the infant Jesus in his cowshed. Newspapers celebrate the fast of Epiphany to mark the coming of the New You Diet season. This should not be confused with the Spring Clean diet season, the Bikini Diet season in the summer or the autumn Party Dress Diet season. The January detox is the daddy of them all. Odd then, that as a nation we are getting fatter, not slimmer, so that we now have the worst obesity rates in Europe. Today the National Obesity Forum has published a report calling on the Government to take concerted action to tackle our weight problem, along the lines of the anti-smoking campaigns of the past. (I have a slight problem with this, since tobacco=lung cancer was a simple message that took 50 years to get across. There isn't one single item, such as chocolate, you can give up to avoid obesity. There are plenty of other monsters waiting in the larder.) The story made the splash in the Mail and the Times, both of which have been plugging diet and fitness regimes over the past week. Joined-up journalism - or old-fashioned marketing? In his foreword to today's report, the forum's chairman Professor David Haslam points to a 2007 Foresight review which predicted that half the population would be obese by 2050, compared with about a quarter now. He concludes: "The doomsday scenario set out in that report might underestimate the true scale of the problem..." (Or, to give you the Express translation, it "vastly underestimated the true scale of the catastrophe facing the nation".) Well done, Professor David. The Press will always sit up if you use the doomsday phrase. The Forum produced its report The State of the Nation's Waistline to coincide with the start of National Obesity Awareness Week, which it describes as "an opportunity to engage with the public and raise awareness of obesity and weight management – but more importantly to discuss and highlight how these issues can be addressed at national, business, societal and individual levels". It is clear that there is a problem - the Government reckons that obesity costs the health service £5bn a year - and now is obviously a good time to focus on it, as healthy resolutions briefly replace over-indulgence. So plenty of experts are offering their two-penn'oth. This has led to jumbled reporting. The Mail, for example, says that the forum blames 'junk food firms for confusing the public', when in fact this criticism came from Dr Aseem Malhotra in a column in the Observer about the dangers of sugar. It also means that the core recommendations of the forum report are at best truncated and at worst neglected to make room for the talking heads. This is a pity because the report is well-considered and newsworthy. Not because it says we are getting fatter faster than we thought, but for its suggested solutions. The calls for a hard-hitting campaign and for GPs to be taught how to confront patients about their weight are understandably given the most prominence in the two splashes. But neither picks up on what may be the root of the whole problem: the nation is dehydrated. We are not drinking enough - and what we are drinking is the wrong stuff. Half of children and a third of adults do not drink the recommended 1.5 to 2.5 litres of fluid a day, and water accounts for less than half of that intake. The forum doesn't put it as baldly as this, but we need to turn our backs on the fancy coffees, the booze, the cans of fizzy drinks, the fruit juice - and turn on the tap. It might also have added that if we drank a bit more water, not only would our digestive systems and our brains work better, but we'd feel more full and might not eat so much. This element of the report could usefully have been combined with Professor Susan Jebb's call for fruit juice to be excluded from our 'five a day' calculations because of its high sugar content - a suggestion put forward in an interview with Calgary Avansino of the Sunday Times. The Mail made Jebb - "the Government's obesity tsar" - an inside page lead under the splash turn (without attributing the Sunday Times); the Telegraph put her on page 8 (with attribution). Jebb oversees the 'Responsibility Deal' that is supposed to encourage businesses to reduce salt and sugar in their products and to make it easier for people to choose their foods and drinks wisely. She was also one of the authors of that 'doomsday' Foresight report in 2007, though neither daily mentioned that. Jebb's comments on fruit juice coincided with the launch last week of the Action on Sugar campaign by Dr Malhotra and others. They denounced sugar as the 'new alcohol' and called for a 30% cut in our consumption. So the experts have identified the new villain and they have the recruited the Sundays to their side. While Avansino was writing about the Sugar Trap in the Sunday Times, sweet-toothed Viv Groskop was 'divorcing' sugar in the Independent on Sunday. Both pieces were choc-a-bloc with statistics and learned opinion. Last week the Mail on Sunday was promoting Sarah Wilson's book I Quit Sugar and today the Mail is promising Sugar Detox 'a major series you can't afford to miss' from Saturday. So this year's newspaper diets are all about cutting out the sweet stuff, then? Nope. Long-term change and self-denial don't sell papers. Instant gratification does. So it's the DoDo for the Express, the Two-Day Diet in the Mail, Slim Without the Gym for the Telegraph and Fast everything with the Times: 10-minute meditations, 8-minute exercise plans and 4-minute lose-your-paunch workouts. The paper has also advocated the Every Other Day Diet and is today telling men how to lose their paunch (again) with the Seven Day Diet. I can tell you for sure that the body illustrating this feature was not in a possession of a paunch last week, if ever (see below). And none of these will do any good: 95% of dieters regain all their weight (and often more) within five years. If they didn't, we wouldn't have a £5bn obesity strain on the economy and a £2bn diet industry. Diet books occupy eight of the top twenty titles in the Amazon best-sellers list, six in the top ten and two in the top two. A search on its site for 'diet books' produces 62,239 results. Two million people go to Weight Watchers in this country every year. Nearly half a million people buy Slimming World magazine. We've had the F-Plan, the GI, the GL and the IF. We've slimmed along with India Knight, the Hairy Bikers and even Alan Sugar. We've followed Hay, Atkins and Dukan. We've put our faith in Rosemary Conley and Paul McKenna. We've been to South Beach and Hollywood. We've tried food combining, low-carb and low-fat. We've slurped Cambridge soup and cabbage soup. We've turned to the Juice Diet and the Red Wine Diet. We've bought every pack of promises on the supermaket shelves. And still we come back for more. Gameoldgirl knows of which she writes. She is living proof that diets make you fat - weighing in a good three stone over the point at which she first started a lifetime of calorie counting, aged 15. The Beryl Cook avatar is a sylph compared with the real woman. But never say die. Ever say diet. Today is day one of the latest 'new regime'. It involves cutting down on the booze and spending less time at this laptop. I won't keep you posted - you don't want to know - other than to say it's time for one last glass of fizz. Sante! Immigration and the Daily Express Ok, Ok. SubScribe is going on a bit about this. Sorry. Forget about living longer, the horoscopes and the obligatory celebrity. I'm looking at the WOB headline on the right, which is a teaser to this spread: This really is one of the most disgraceful pieces of journalism I've seen in a long time. Apart from the token panel saying 'we want to work', the most honest word on the page is the 'could' in the main heading. The lead story begins: "Almost one in five Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants will live on benefits, costing taxpayers almost £1.4bn, it emerged last night. Experts estimate that 350,000 people will flock to Britain over the next seven years after restrictions on low-skilled workers from both countries were lifted yesterday. But figures unearthed by the Daily Express have revealed the true potential cost of this stampede." The 'experts' who estimate that 350,000 will turn up are unnamed, but it's fair to assume that the basis for this figure is the pressure group MigrationWatch. The organisation, which is not known for its enthusiasm about allowing outsiders into the country, has predicted that 50,000 a year could move here. But even it is restricting its estimate to the next five, rather than seven, years. No one in authority has been willing to put a figure on how many Romanians and Bulgarians may wish to come here, but there is no reason to suppose that there will be a 'stampede'. The Express does acknowledge the lack of firm data in the next paragraph: "The Government has no real idea how many will come and which benefits they will claim. When similar restrictions were lifted on Poland in 2004, experts said only a few thousand would arrive in Britain. In the event more than 500,000 turned up." Presumably these experts were different ones from those whose crystal-ball gazing abilities are so trusted by the Express. There were 75,000 Poles living in Britain in 2003 and there are now indeed estimated to be 500,000. Many of those who arrived in this country after 2004 when the economy was buoyant - remember the scare stories about Polish plumbers? - returned home during the downturn after 2008. "With the latest influx it has been left to observers to provide a panicked British public with a calculation of the potential impact on stretched public services like schools and the NHS." There has, as yet, been no influx. Who caused the public to 'panic'? Who are these 'observers'? Who did these calculations 'unearthed by the Express'? Oh, it looks as though it was the Express itself. And judging from the quotes within the spread, the observers and experts are none other than MigrationWatch and Ukip. Perfect. "Of the 150,000 Romanians already here, 15% don't have a job." It is hard to keep pace with the various statistics on how many Romanians and Bulgarians have arrived and how many are in work, since the ONS releases figures quarterly and tends not to break down immigration statistics by nationality. It has, however, said recently that 141,000 Romanians and Bulgarians are in employment here. The latest official immigration figures showed that there were around 120,000 Romanians and 47,000 Bulgarians. These are out of date as there has been some acceleration in recent months - but no reliable statistics have been published to back up the claim that 15% of Romanians are unemployed. "If a similar number of the fresh wave of migrants fail to find work it would leave around 52,500 reliant on handouts capped at £26,000 a year. The benefits bill could add up to £1.39bn over seven years." Time to show your workings, I think. Suppose we accept the Express figures and we now have 22,500 unemployed Romanians who are now entitled to 'handouts'. If they each receive the maximum of £26,000, that will cost us £585m this year. If another 50,000 arrive, and if 7,500 of them fail to find work and if they, too, are given the maximum £26,000 in benefits, that would be another £195m for this year, making a total of £780m. If a further 50,000 arrive every year until 2020 and if 15% of them fail to find work, and if they all receive maximum benefits (and if they remain capped at £26,000pa), the rolling bill might look like this: 2014: £780m 2016: £1,170m My goodness, the Express hasn't been anywhere near frightening enough. That gives us a total of £10.5bn! Always remember, you can make numbers do anything you want. Gerard Batten, Ukip's home affairs and immigration spokesman, is appreciative of the Express's efforts: "These figures reveal just what the UK will have to deal with." But they still aren't scary enough for Mr Batten, who adds: "It's also likely the predictions by MigrationWatch are rather conservative and this may prove to be a massive underestimate. As well as those who come to collect benefits there will be many more who come to work. Every job taken by a migrant is a job denied to an unemployed Briton. The UK jobs market is heading towards severe overcrowding." Now that's a particularly interesting observation. The second story on the spread is about jobs available in this country being advertised across Europe. "Fears that Romanians and Bulgarians will have the run of Britain's labour market appear to be coming true - with UK employers offering more jobs than other countries." The story is accompanied by a table showing that there are 300,000 posts open in Germany, fewer than 5,000 in Romania and only 4 in Bulgaria. Britain is advertising just under 1.4m. SubScribe is being a bit thick here. Are these vacancies, advertised on the EU's official jobs website, available only to Romanians and Bulgarians? Is this an attempt to recruit cheap labour in countries where our miminum wage may seem a fortune? Didn't Mr Batten say the market was heading for severe overcrowding? You might think that if there are 1.4m jobs going, then we shouldn't have so many people out of work. Perhaps our unemployed don't fancy these particular jobs? Are the British too picky maybe? Are British employers finding it so hard to recruit at home that they are advertising wherever there might be willing workers? This apparently includes Romania's main job site, where nearly 5,000 positions - including some for doctors, nurses, taxi drivers, mechanics and care workers - have been posted. Germany is seeking to fill about 2,000 vacancies and France 500. The Express offers no details, such as pay rates, terms of employment, hours required, but Mr Batten is obviously more clued up than the paper allows its readers to be, for he has it all sussed: "These figures bear up what the critics have been saying all along. The relaxations of restrictions are only about importing cheap labour. Where people are coming here to work they are undercutting British workers, driving down wages and pushing up accommodation costs." Funnily enough, Polly Toynbee gives weight to this argument in this Guardian column. But who at the Express would read her? Batten's party leader, Nigel Farage, also smells a rat. He accuses other countries of failing to stick to the principles of the single market in advertising so few jobs, then in the same breath criticises the UK for abiding by the rules. "Instead of concentrating on ensuring British people can get back into work, we're advertising these jobs to the whole of the EU and paying for the privilege." The two picture stories are about real people - people from Bulgaria and Romania who say they want to come to Britain to work. The final element is a piece about the prospective burden on Kent. "Thousands of Romanians and Bulgarians will descend on Kent through busy ferry terminals, pushing local services to breaking point, council chiefs fear." A study for the county council expects what seems a comparatively modest number of 8,600 people from the two countries to settle in Kent over the next decade. This would cost council taxpayers an estimated £3m a year - although the newcomers would presumably contribute to that - and, according to the council leader, put pressure on schools, housing, and add to crime levels. A Romanian student says "Romanians don't come here for free money. If they come it will be for jobs British people don't want to do." But the last word goes to Tina Saunders, 36, from Dover, who 'voiced the fears of many British-born residents' when she said: "Many of them are taking council homes from people like myself. We can't get on the list to get a house because they are being offered to foreigners first." So the key quotes on the three policy stories on this spread come from the head of MigrationWatch, the leader of Ukip and one of his spokesmen, a Conservative council leader and a random woman of whom we know nothing. There is also a government comment in the £1.4bn story: "These calculations are simply not credible. It's highly misleading to suggest everyone coming to this country claims or is entitled to benefits." Yes, incredible and misleading. But even this token quote is about defending the Government's reputation against claims that it is a soft touch. Whatever happened to objective journalism? This is SubScribe's third post on this subject. I am indebted to Peter Owen for alerting me to this Express spread. He has written to the paper about it and invites others to do the same. I cannot vouch for his statisics. You can read the other two post here and here. I do hope not to return to the topic again too soon. A new SubScribe website with archived blogposts and new features is being prepared and should be ready to make its first appearance at the end of the month. If you have any ideas of elements that should be included - or avoided - please get in touch via Twitter, Facebook or email. Thank you. @gameoldgirl Murder, missing, mutilated. Yes, women are in trou... Is it true? Is it new? 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__label__wiki	0.714239	0.714239	GEN 1 MINI Kevin Fulbrook Kevin started his interest in vehicle mechanics at school, and progressed working for dealerships and independent garages, and joined John Cooper in 1999. As Chief Mechanic, Kevin was involved in building and converting Minis to John Cooper Works specifications and preparing Race Coopers. Kevin started racing in 2005 and due to his success started his own business, Sussex Road and Race, in 2008. He now specialises in BMW Minis of all types and supports Mini Challenge race cars. In 2010 his driver, Lee Allen, won the Mini Challenge Cup, in 2011 Lee came second and won the title again in 2012. Josh Fulbrook Josh is Kevin's son, and as mad keen on mechanics as his father. Josh is now a fully qualified technician, having finished college and learning his trade under an Apprenticeship scheme. With the excellent training and experience gained working for the family business, he's set for a fantastic career. Josh specialises in engine rebuilds and has been responsible for getting the optimum power from many an SRR race and road engine, Josh concentrates on the race cars along with doing all major engine work for all the road cars. Jayne Fulbrook Kevin's wife, and in charge of Customer Service, Reception and Accounts. Phil is an apprentice, currently on day release at Chichester College - with whom we have formed an alliance to develop a motorsports training programme. Dan Harland, Dan Turner and Tony Blunden AKA Bert. Race Support Team members. Tea 'boy,' web person, race support team member and general dogsbody.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line803
__label__cc	0.568899	0.431101	Eyot "The Carrock" by Alan Lee Location In the river Anduin, Rhovanion Type Eyot Description Large rock with steps to the base Events T.A. 2941 - Thorin and Company reach the Carrock The Carrock was a stony eyot in the upper reaches of the River Anduin, to the north of the Old Ford.[1] The river looped around the rock although there was a ford of stones (probably the Ford of Carrock) to the eastern bank, while there was a swirling channel under its western cliff. At the base was a little cave with adjacent steps that led to a flat space upon the top.[2] Anduin apparently had several such eyots, which Beorn called carrocks, but he referred to that particular one as "the Carrock" being closer to his home. Beorn built stairs reaching to its top, and sometimes would be seen climbing to the top in the form of a bear to look at the Moon or the Misty Mountains.[2] In T.A. 2941,[3] Thorin and Company were placed on the summit by the Eagles. They bathed and rested at the cave. According to Bilbo's account of his journey, Radagast the Brown's home, Rhosgobel, was near the Carrock.[2] [edit] Etymology Like Chetwood, the name Carrock appears to be a compound of two words of the same meaning: Old English carr, Welsh carreg "rock, stone" + English rock.[4] [edit] Other Versions of the Legendarium J.R.R. Tolkien experimented with a number of names before he settled upon the Carrock — he first considered Sorneldin, then Sinrock, then Lamrock before making his final choice.[5] [edit] Portrayal in adaptations 2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: After the Eagles take Thorin and Company to the Carrock, Thorin and Bilbo reconcile after Thorin's heavy resentment against Bilbo. Contrary to the books, Erebor is clearly visible from the rock. 2014: The Lord of the Rings Online: The Carrock is located in the "Vales of Anduin" region, where one can access the Eagles' Eyrie via Great Eagle. A secret cave located in the base of The Carrock, can only be accessed by the kin of Beorn and Grimbeorn. [edit] See also Ford of Carrock Images of the Carrock ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Map of Wilderland" ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Queer Lodgings" ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age" ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 207 ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Mr. Baggins, The Second Phase, "Medwed", note 12, p. 246 Route of Thorin and Company Bag End · Green Dragon · The Shire · Lone-lands · Last Bridge · Trollshaws · Trolls' Cave · Rivendell · High Pass · Front Porch · Goblin-town · Goblin-gate · Eagle's Eyrie · Carrock · Beorn's Hall · Wilderland · Forest Gate · Elf-path · Mirkwood · Elvenking's Halls · Forest River · Lake-town · Long Lake · River Running · Desolation of the Dragon · Ravenhill · Back Door · Lonely Mountain · Great Hall of Thráin Retrieved from "http://www.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Carrock" Categories: Islands \| Rhovanion	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line808
__label__wiki	0.936461	0.936461	Metrocentre announces £11m extension plan By Coreena Ford New operators are heading to the Metrocentre after planning permission was granted for an extension The Qube quadrant at the Metrocentre New operators are heading to the intu Metrocentre after its owners were granted permission to extend the entertainment area. Intu Properties plc, the owner of the Gateshead shopping complex as well as intu Eldon Square in Newcastle, has announced it has been granted permission to extend the Qube, a popular area attracting thousands of visitors a week with its Odeon Imax cinema and array of restaurants. The business has now been given consent for a 45,000 sq ft area next to the cinema, adding 11 more catering outlets and attracting a clutch of new operators to the area. The firm said it anticipates securing sufficient pre-letting to start construction this year, to open in 2015, with the expected investment for the Qube II plans by intu totalling £11m. The firm said it is also proceeding with its repositioning of the Platinum Mall “to create a more aspirational ambience”. Gavin Prior, general manager of intu Metrocentre, said: “The continued investment by intu ensures that we will continue to deliver an outstanding shopping and dining experience to our customers at intu Metrocentre. “Our research indicates that there is a demand for more aspirational brands and dining within the centre. “The new Platinum Mall, which will be complete in summer this year along with the extension of the Qube leisure and restaurant mall shortly after, enables us to deliver what our customers want as part of their shopping experience here at the centre.” The plans were announced in intu Properties plc’s final year results, which saw profits for the year more than doubling from £159m to £364m, The company said it has “advanced considerably” in 2013 with profit for the year more than doubling from £159m to £364m, The developer, owner and manager of prime regional shopping centres across the UK and Spain saw net rental income rise by 1.9% from £363m in 2012 to £370m in its full-year results, announced on the London Stock Exchange. Underlying earnings per share dropped slightly, from 16.1p to 15p, reflecting the £10m impact of tenants who went into administration in late 2012 and early 2013. Intu also detailed a UK development pipeline of some £1.2bn over the next 10 years. David Fischel, chief executive, said: “The benefits to customers, retailers and staff from our rebranding as intu have surpassed our expectations.” newcastlejournal Britain's high streets hit by weather washout Like-for-like sales dropped by 1% in February compared to the same period in 2013, as poor weather took its toll on town centre stores, according to figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG Next set for milestone results Newcastle's Pitcher and Piano sold for £7.5m Sales of fairtrade products in the UK up 14% to £17.8bn The Fairtrade Foundation published the details at the start of Fairtrade Fortnight, the annual event marking the huge number of products sold under the fairtrade label Dixons Retail Group in talks with Carphone Warehouse Shares soar as Sports Direct posts profits lift The Journal Anytime Read us on your phone or tablet Most Recent in Business Business Supplements Most Influential 2014: The Journal list of the North East's movers and shakers Pleased To Meet You expands in Newcastle city centre's High Bridge Business software giant Sage to take on 60 apprentices in a wide array of departments Fitness studio in Newcastle's railway arch is first of its kind in UK Business Interview: Paul Lewney, managing director of Kavli UK Buy & sell items including cars and houses, or browse thousands of ads Read The Journal's latest edition of Homemaker Read the latest edition of Journal Culture mag Browse Journal death notices & announcements	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line818
__label__cc	0.62579	0.37421	Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies ‘War Time’ - 10-11 November 2016, Oxford (CfP) We are happy to share today the following call for papers: The 9th Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies, "War Time" will be held at the Maison Française, University of Oxford, on 10-11 November 2016. Following the success of previous events, the International Society for First World War Studies is delighted to announce its 9th conference, to be held at the University of Oxford in November 2016. The conference will explore the theme of ‘War Time’. 2016, as the midpoint of the First World War formal centenary period, marks a significant opportunity to reexamine and reflect upon the ways that time has been conceptualised both during the war itself and in the hundred years of scholarship that have followed. Traditionally, periodisation has been considered a useful framework for understanding the war. This has neglected a plurality of timelines, both within the years of conflict and those which traverse and connect pre- and post-war narratives. The war marked a rupture in the way individuals experienced time, and interrupted usual rhythms and patterns. The conference will seek to reveal and contextualise new chronologies, pursued along flexible and multiple timelines. All approaches (social, cultural, military, etc) and disciplinary perspectives are welcome. We invite papers which address aspects of the following themes, particularly through comparative and transnational lenses: • communication and time (including methods and posthumous communication) • desynchronised and/or simultaneous relationships (between hemispheres, between fronts, across spaces) • the war’s effect upon conceptions of age groups, life cycles, and rites of passage • processes of evolution, development, learning curves, and cycles of learning • materiality of time • varying perceptions and experiences of time: pauses, waiting, anticipation, suspensions, time slowing down, boredom, time stopping, ‘the end of times’, losing/lost time, running out of time • institutional measures to control time (such as differing calendars, curfews, time zone boundary changes, and the introduction of Daylight Savings Time) • war generations, e.g. ‘lost generations’ • military coordination and precision Conference papers will be circulated in advance to all attendees. Panels will focus on discussion rather than presentation; each paper’s time-slot will commence with a commentary, before the floor is opened to broader discussion in order to promote engaging and interdisciplinary conversations. We therefore strongly encourage proposals from graduate students and early career researchers. Proposals should be approximately 300 words in length, with the final papers a maximum of 7,000 words. Applications should also be accompanied by a short CV. Please submit proposals to 2016wartime@gmail.com by 16th May 2016. Successful applicants will be invited to submit their final research papers by 31st August 2016. The working language of the conference and all submissions is English. The organisers intend to publish the proceedings of this conference. on April 27, 2016 Units: Call for papers Tweets by @WWI_Bridges ACROSS THE RIVER welcome to World War I Bridges (2012-2018), the Italy-based radar of First World War legacy and initiatives in the pipeline for the Centenary. Our interests were in the "units" here below and military equipment was not on the top of our minds. You can surf this site also starting from these "units". Why Bridges? The armies used to explode the bridges in war operations. We tried to build new bridges during the WWI Centenary timeframe from Maserada sul Piave, a small Italian village along the Piave River. World War I Bridges * For inquiries related to the contents featured in this web site, please use the contact form here below, thanks. 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This location and the river Piave are particularly interesting in the scenario of the three main battles of the last year of the Great War: the First Piave Battle (November 1917), the Battle of the Solstice (known as Battle of Middle June 1918) and the final Battle of Vittorio Veneto, that led to the Armistice between Italy and Central Powers. In this locations, the British and the Italian armies faced together the Austro-Hungarians. The British Army was stationed here and that's why our village is an example of a location shared by two national armies cooperating in war operations. The museum located in the village is aiming to become a reference point in Italy for the history of a foreign contingent, namely what we know as the British Campaign in Italy 1917-1918. Since 2008 it has been building local and international partnerships in order also to create events and organize battlefield tours in this area. Can you build a WWI Bridge with us? If you're a Great War enthusiast; if you think of having something interesting to point out; if you think that the memory of the Great War should grow around a network of people constantly sharing views on this; if you think that war was not and is not only a matter of weapons; if you stop a second when you read the words "First" and "World"; if you sometimes think that the Great War centenary is getting closer; if you quiver every time you watch Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory; if you strongly believe that the real challange is to find new strategies to tell the story of this war to the digital natives. Briefly, if you discover yourself twanging like a chord every time you get close to this topic and if you wish to throw new bridges around First World War knowledge, we would be more than happy to listen to your suggestions, comments and opinions. Please take a look also to the web site of the friends of the Maserada World War I Museum and write your emails to this address. 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__label__cc	0.622207	0.377793	Art6-3-8.pdf Rethinking existing approaches to water security in remote communities: An analysis of two drinking water systems in Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada Christina Goldhar Nain Research Centre, Nunatsiavut Government, Nain, NL, Canada; christina_goldhar@nunatsiavut.com Trevor Bell Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada; tbell@mun.ca Johanna Wolf Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada; johanna.1wolf@royalroads.ca ABSTRACT: This paper introduces an approach to understanding water security in remote communities that emphasises drinking water access, availability, quality, and preference, presenting exploratory findings from Rigolet and Nain, located within the Inuit Settlement Region of Nunatsiavut, eastern Subarctic Canada. Individual and household interviews numbering 121 and 13 key informant interviews were conducted in 2009 and 2010. Interview findings were analysed with results from participant observation, a review of municipal water system records and secondary sources. Results reveal restricted access to a sufficient quantity of desirable, clean, drinking water for some residents, despite the existence of municipal water systems in both communities. Drinking water sources available to residents include tap water, store-bought water and water gathered from running streams, lakes and ice melt. Drinking water preferences and risk perceptions indicate these sources are regarded as distinct by study participants. 81% of respondents prefer water gathered from the land over other alternatives and 22% primarily consume this source while in the community. These findings must be understood within the context of drinking water system attributes and the geographies of people and place characterising the region. KEYWORDS: Inuit, community drinking water system, perceptions of drinking water, drinking water preferences, water security, Arctic	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line833
__label__wiki	0.607422	0.607422	Ed Balls supports Fair trade fortnight Jackie Connal with Ed Balls Jackie was delighted to meet Ed Balls on Thursday 28th Feb and at the start of Fairtrade Fortnight. More and more people are buying Fairtrade products with lasting benefits to more than 1.25 million producers in over 60 developing countries. Jackie is always urging people to try a new or different Fairtrade product that they haven't tried before. It looks as if she was doing the same with Ed????? Fairtrade talk at Holywell Community Centre Together Timebank at Holywell It is always a joy when groups come together in Watford and Brian Mee (one of the founder members of Watford Fairtrade) was delighted when he received an invitation from 'Together Timebank' at Holywell Community Centre to speak to their members about Fairtrade and Fairtrade Fortnight. Naturally the event was supported by Labour's Councillor Jackie Connal (fourth from left) Supporting Fairtrade fortnight in Watford Labour Councillor Jackie Connal at launch Jackie Connal was a founder member of Watford Fairtrade in 2007 and was delighted to support the Fairtrade fortnight which was launched on 27th February. Here she explains "What is Fairtrade? "Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. By requiring companies to pay sustainable prices (which must never fall lower than the market price), Fairtrade addresses the injustices of conventional trade, which traditionally discriminates against the poorest, weakest producers.It enables them to improve their position and have more control over their lives."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line836
__label__wiki	0.824853	0.824853	New Gaslight Anthem: “45” by Steve Lampiris in Hot Streaming Apr 30, 2012 0 Comments0 LikeLike 1,065 The Jersey punks are back with the first single from the upcoming fourth record, Handwritten. The band tells Rolling Stone that they “wished to return to the driving punk rock that ignited” their early work. True to their word, the song’s a little heavier (relatively speaking, of course) than anything on 2010’s American Slang. I’d argue that “45” fits between Slang and its predecessor The ’59 Sound, both the album and title track of which I have raved about in the past. Lyrically, the song continues the band’s penchant for its old-school references and Springsteenisms, especially during the (anthemic as always) chorus: “Turn the record over/ See ya on the flip side/ There you go, turn the key and engine over.” You can hear “45” over at RS’s website, where they hold a exclusive stream. Go do it now, it’s fucking awesome. You can get the single on iTunes May 8, while Handwritten comes out July 24. Tagges: The Gaslight Anthem By Steve Lampiris Greetings. I'm originally from Milwaukee, WI, but currently living in Madison. I earned a poli-sci degree from UW-Madison in December 2008 and now trying to figure out what to do... Anyhow I'm an aspiring music critic, having been published in the Badger Herald (UW's premier student paper) and the London-based blog The Line of Best Fit. You can follow me on twitter (@_bandnames) where you can find me throwing out silly names for potential bands, as well as other thoughts on life - most of it, music-related. View all articles by Steve Lampiris Musical Ladder: Mike Dirnt to Bessie Smith The Gaslight Anthem cover Bon Iver for Record Store Day - Oct 31, 2012 Top Albums of the Decade: 2008 - Nov 6, 2010 Stream the new Gaslight Anthem song, “American Slang” - Mar 25, 2010 Songs of the decade: “The ’59 Sound” - Nov 20, 2009 [Stream] TV on the Radio new album – ‘Nine Types of Light’ [LISTEN] My Morning Jacket – ‘Octoplasm’ [Hot Streaming] Short sample of Foo Fighters’ new upcoming album [Hot Streaming] Robyn – ‘Body Talk Pt. 1’ Kid Rock ‘On Fire’ In The Studio Nightwish share new trailer of their upcoming album Villa Kang and Hazy Mountains – New Wings On the Road with Ben Kitterman ‘All eyes on’ My Morning Jacket	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line845
__label__wiki	0.564412	0.564412	I really can no longer distinguish the Jews from the Israelis from the Zionists, so I'm just going to call them the JIZ. JIZ logic: A rocket falls harmlessly on Israel. The Israeli government admits that Hamas had nothing to do with it, but maintains that Hamas is still responsible, as it is responsible for everything that happens in Gaza. This despite the fact that the Israeli government refuses to admit that Hamas has any political authority, even though Hamas was elected by the Palestinians in free and fair elections. Hamas must be punished. Since Hamas is embedded in the Gazan civilian population, Israel punishes Hamas for what it didn't do by killing some civilians who have nothing to do with Hamas. When the JIZ manage to drive themselves into the sea, somebody has found an old homeland for them (the Moon and Mars being still unavailable). Lady Michèle Renouf Yes, it's irrational to the point of lunacy, but killing goyim, especially at little or no cost in valuable Jewish lives, is always lots of fun and politically popular. Isn't there going to be an election in OP shortly? I agree with your summary of the self-indulgent genocide of the Gazan Palestinians to whom the Parasite State owes hundreds of billion$ in reparations for its theft-based Holocaust, Xymph. JIZ it is. Funnily enough, 'Hoarsewhisperer' only came into existence as a (hopefully frustrating) reaction to the pitiful dishonesty and gutlessness of JIZ trolls who are (understandably?) "reluctant" to have their true identity associated with the insane claptrap they purport to believe about JIZland's right to exist. The real me still comments to high profile websites and newspaper letter pages which don't accept pseudonyms - which creates a troll-free zone and a relatively unchallenged anti-Zionist voice - with the exception of a few well-known hi-profile JIZ identities. But even they confine themselves to a brief retort and refrain from debate. That renouf photo looks a bit photoshoppy. Is it on her own site? I've said we're all Palestinians now because we're all under Jewish occupied territory. But, we must all fight like Jews--that is to be devious and subversive. Indeed, this is where Palestinians have failed most. If Palestinians had played it like Jews, they would be winning. Suppose Palestinians had acted like they're all for peace and coexistence in the 80s instead of starting intifada. There would have been no wall between Israel and West Bank. There would have been no checkpoints. West Bankers would today be entering and leaving Israel with ease. With their fast expanding population, Palestinians would eventually take over Israel. But, Palestinians got hotheaded and decided to fight headon. This united the much divided Likud and Labor in Israel to crush the Palestinians. So, though we are like Palestinians, we must all fight like the Jews. Be devious. Act like, 'oh yeah, we're defeated. Libs are the boss. We're all gonna join the Democratic Party'. And, then mess it up from within like a mofo. - http://freiboden.blogspot.com/ But hey, what are the beaches like in Birodidjan? 94% of Israeli jews support massacres http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231950849022&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter 79% of US jews support massacres; only 17% consider them excessive http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/10510 USTP Very interesting blog by Karin Friedemann in cooperation with Joachim Martillo about the psychopathic bigotry of Jewish zealots. her latest post: The Emotional Violence of Jewish Advocacy http://karinfriedemann.blogspot.com/ Man From Atlan said... Funny you should mention well known sites that don't allow pseudonyms, hoarsewhisperer (though if I were to sign myself as A.Schickelgruber I'm sure I can get on Maariv's site, snort) Have spent some time on Huffington Post lately, and noted that even though their rules prohibit more than one person using the same username, that appears to be happening anyway. Username-since-total comments made: Magister Ludi: June 2007: 8418 Ramirez: June 2006: 14,266 Groucho Marxist: March 2006 48,795 Hortonhearsawho2: Dec.2008 5225 williamg: Feb 2007 16,041 HumeSkeptic: Dec 2005 42,159 Michale32086: March 2008 8923 As you can guess, the commenters named were all, passive-agressive trolls. Almost 50,000 comments in 3 years, one(?)dude made 5000+ in a month, the hasbara factory must be working overtime. Please pass this on. Suppose Palestinians had acted like they're all for peace and coexistence in the 80s instead of starting intifada. There would have been no wall between Israel and West Bank. There would have been no checkpoints. West Bankers would today be entering and leaving Israel with ease. With their fast expanding population, Palestinians would eventually take over Israel. Far from certain. As the numbers of the Arabushim increase, JIZ calls for their extermination or forcible expulsion grow more strident. I think we can take it that this rule would have applied even if there had been no intifada. Benny Morris made it clear that was Ben Gurion's plan right from the start. A million forced out, 600 villages destroyed, countless women raped (Leon Uris in 'Exodus' has them swooning in his blonde blue-eyed manly arms)and the response to his revelations was so what? Another interesting Post. These are not popular views, but I think there's evil in most all governments.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line848
__label__wiki	0.821556	0.821556	January 1949 Moments in Time Helen MacInnes: Neither Five Nor Three 100 Years Ago: 1920 At A Glance A Long Long Time for Linda Ronstadt Top New Year's Eve Movies & Clips Entertainment Discounts Finance & Estate Movie & Performing Arts Seniors Discounts - Canada Seniors USA Museum Discounts Seniors Canadian Museum Discounts Seniors Finance & Estate Discounts Seniors Health and Beauty Discounts Treasures of the Medici: Pitti Palace Sirmione and the Grottoes of Catullus Buona Sera, Firenze: Touring Florence The Prince-Bishops City of Trento Lake Como Gems: Tremezzo, Bellagio & Como April Birthdays August Birthdays February Birthdays July Birthdays June Birthdays March Birthdays May Birthdays November Birthdays October Birthdays September Birthdays January 22nd Birthdays January 21st Birthdays January 20th Birthdays Technology & Learning Volunteer & Work Top New Year's Eve Songs Best Christmas Commercials Beauty, Fitness & Nutrition Physical & Mental Health Why Use Music For Stress Relief? The Power of Music for Alzheimer's Patients Boosting Your Happiness & Self-Esteem Golfing Benefits & Tips for Older Adults Walking Soccer / Football Has Arrived Finance, Estate & Legal Moving & Downsizing Top Communities In Myrtle Beach 5 Tips on Adult Home Sharing Housing Options for Seniors and 50+ 50+ World > History & Headlines > 1945 > Were You Alive in January 1945? History & Headlines Were You Alive in January 1945? Baby Boomer Trivia From January 1945: Roosevelt Inauguration, The Great Raid POW Rescue, and Canadian Conscription By the start of 1945, World War II had been going on since 1939. Canada’s 10th and longest-serving Prime Minister, William Lyon MacKenzie King, was serving his 5th and final term as Prime Minister; he was by then a 70-year-old septuagenarian senior citizen. The 32nd President of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated for his 4th term in office on January 20, 1945. Seniors may remember Roosevelt’s inaugural address, which focused on a message of peace for the future based on learning from the past: “We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away…We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.” On January 30, 1945, American soldiers combined with Filipino guerrillas for The Great Raid, a rescue of over 500 prisoners (Americans and Allied soldiers and civilians) from a World War II Japanese POW (prisoner of war) camp near Cabantuan City in the Philippines. Many of the camp’s prisoners had been held there for almost 3 years, since the Battle of Bataan in April 1942. Today baby boomers and seniors visiting Cabantuan City will discover why it is called the “Tricycle Capital of the Philippines” – there are more than 30,000 tricycles in use by rental/tour operators and private owners. Canada’s first conscripted (compulsory enrollment) soldiers began arriving in Britain in January 1945. 13,000 conscripted Canadian soldiers were sent overseas in 1945 but only a few thousand saw combat before the WWII ended. Between 1939 and 1945, 1.1 million Canadians served on active duty during World War II, primarily in the Atlantic, Netherlands, England, France, and Italy. Right, Paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion preparing for a patrol, Bande, Belgium. Photo: Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3526680 Almost 100,000 Canadians serving in the Air Force, Navy and Army during WWII died (45,000) or were wounded (54,000). For more “Were You Alive in 1945?”, Were You Alive in February 1945? Were You Alive in March 1945? Were You Alive in April 1945? Were You Alive in May 1945? Were You Alive in June 1945? Were You Alive in July 1945? Were You Alive in August 1945? Were You Alive in September 1945? Were You Alive in October 1945? Were You Alive in November 1945? Were You Alive in December 1945? Anita Hamilton 50+ World editor & baby boomer writer Anita Hamilton has always been interested in the "real people" stories behind the characters that create and inhabit the world of music, books, movies, television shows, current events, history, etc. A lifelong love of research (ok, nosiness) and writing, combined with a loving and supportive family complete with 3 mini-dachshund minions, keeps her busy. Celebrating Seniors - Billy Squier Turns 65 December 14th Birthdays Betty White "New" Colour Film Commercial Easter 1962 Flashback: John F. 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__label__wiki	0.876859	0.876859	Obits+Celebrations MORE BLOGS: Bite Club (Food & Drink) \| Live Culture (Arts) \| Stuck in Vermont (Videos) « This Week's Issue: Seven Days Writers Finally Go Outside \| Main \| Will a Prog Run for Gov? Nope. » Fair Game Overtime: Where Does Leahy's PAC Money Come From? Posted by Paul Heintz on August 07, 2013 at 04:01 PM in Campaign Finance, Election 2014, News, U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics, Vermont \| Permalink In this week's Fair Game, we touched on Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.) use of a "leadership PAC" to collect contributions from corporate and union political action committees. As we noted, only a slim minority (14 percent) of the $136,000 he raised in his traditional campaign account last quarter came from special interest groups. But a majority (70 percent) of the $197,000 he raised for Green Mountain PAC during the first half of the year came from those sources. We focused in the column on contributions Leahy reaped from the aerospace and weapons industry. But that's not the only sector forking over the dough. Here's a sampling of other groups who contributed $2500 or more to Green Mountain PAC during the first six months of 2013: Labor: IBEW ($5000), Laborers' Political League ($2500), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ($5000) Banking: Bank of America ($2500), Deloitte ($5000) Entertainment: Directors Guild of America ($2500), National Association of Broadcasters ($3500), News America/FOX ($2500), Commissioner of Major League Baseball ($5000), Sony Pictures ($5000), Walt Disney ($2500), Viacom ($2500) Telecom/Cable: Comcast/NBC ($5000), DirecTV ($2500), EchoStar/Dish Network ($2500), National Cable and Telecommunications Association ($5000), Verizon ($2500) Law: Alston & Bird ($5000), American Association for Justice ($5000), DLA Piper ($2500) Aerospace/Military: Boeing ($5000), General Dynamics ($5000), Lockheed Martin ($2500), Raytheon ($2500), United Technologies ($3500) Technology: GoDaddy ($2500), Microsoft ($5000), Netflix ($2500) Beverage: Miller Coors ($2500), National Beer Wholesalers ($500O), Wine and Spirits Wholesalers ($5000) Again, those are just contributions to Green Mountain PAC. Some of those very same organizations also gave money to the senator's traditional campaign account. For instance, General Dynamics gave another $1000 to the Leahy for U.S. Senator Committee; GoDaddy gave another $2000; and Raytheon gave another $1000. When we asked Leahy political aide Carolyn Dwyer whether it was problematic that 70 percent of the cash raised by Green Mountain PAC came from special interests, she chose to see it another way. When you look at the total number of donors, she said, "87 percent of those contributing were individuals." It's worth noting, though, that many such individuals are affiliated with organizations that might want to curry favor with a member of Congress. For instance, among those real people donating to Green Mountain PAC were: Duberstein Group lobbyist Michael Berman ($2500); Recording Industry Association of America CEO Cary Sherman; Putala Strategies lobbyist Christopher Putala ($2500); and former FBI director Louis Freeh ($2500), now a partner at Pepper Hamilton LLP. So where's all that money going? The purpose of Green Mountain PAC, according to its website, is to "help our most talented candidates build strong, winning campaigns — and maintain [Democratic] control of the Senate in 2014." Indeed, $88,000 of the $210,000 the PAC distributed during the first half of the year went to Senate Democrats. Recipients included Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Jeff Merkley (D-Oreg.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). That's the point of a "leadership PAC" after all. Established politicians raise money and dole it out to their allies, securing loyalty from their colleagues and ensuring their party remains in power. "Electing a Democratic majority in 2012 meant Sen. Leahy was able to maintain his leadership of the Judiciary Committee, which this year alone has passed the Violence Against Women Act and comprehensive immigration reform — among others on its full calendar of work," Dwyer said. But not all the money Leahy raises through Green Mountain PAC goes to fellow Senate Dems. In fact, even more of it ($101,000) went to the PAC's operational expenses, which include sustaining Leahy's political team. Dwyer, who serves as the senator's campaign manager during reelection years and as his go-to political staffer during the off years, received $24,000 from the PAC during the first half of the year. J.P. Dowd, Leahy's chief of staff, received $3000. The PAC paid Campaign Finance Consultants nearly $52,000 and technology vendor Trilogy Interactive $11,500. "Green Mountain PAC serves its mission to elect Democrats in several ways," Dwyer explains. "In addition to direct contributions to candidates, GMP also does email solicitations that send funds and supporters directly to candidates and works to expand a nationwide network of Democratic supporters. The staff who support these efforts are paid by GMP, as is required by law." If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In. Email Address: (Not displayed with comment.) Search Off Message Email the news team... Subscribe to the Daily 7 Essex Junction Considers New Land-Use Code to Prevent Unscrupulous Massage Parlors Video: Shumlin Talks Heroin on ABC's 'This Week' The Weekly 7: This Week in Vermont News On Trip to Vegas, Shumlin Met With Potential DGA Donors Morning Read: Newsweek Skewers Vermont Health Connect (Updated) To Simulate a Shooting, Vermont State Police Occupy Burlington Town Center Media Note: With Campaign Finance Database, VTDigger Puts the State to Shame Barre Drug Witness Gets Extra Six Months for Refusing to Testify This Week's Issue: A Neighborly Noise Feud in Burlington, 'Border' Security and Maple Saplings Rural Vermont: Farmers Sold 53,000 Gallons of Raw Milk Morning Read The Fact Checker The Scoreboard Weekly 7 Bite Club (FOOD + DRINK) Tour Date (MUSIC PODCAST)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line855
__label__wiki	0.565189	0.565189	Google Wifi Google Daydream Verily Life Sciences Access & Energy Google is reportedly shuttering SMS for Hangouts feature in emerging markets (Update) Mark Hearn - Jul. 1st 2014 8:51 am PT @MisterHearn Last year, Google added SMS support to Hangouts, along with several other features. However, prior to this, the company also had a similar feature available in emerging markets that let users add their phone numbers to its instant messaging platform. Similar to Google’s defunct Gmail SMS service, this was an alternative for feature phone users and people in regions with limited internet access. Although this type of service may sound unnecessary in more affluent territories where smartphones and regular internet access are commonplace, it could easily be a useful tool in places with restricted resources. However, according to the folks at Google Operating System, this variant of SMS for Hangouts is set to be discontinued on July 2nd. We’ve reached to Google for clarification and will update this news article if the company provides any new details. Update: A Google spokesperson has confirmed with us that this feature will be discontinued on July 2nd. Check out 9to5Google on YouTube for more news: You’re reading 9to5Google — experts who break news about Google and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Google on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel Apps and Updates The latest updates hitting your favorite applications SMS Instant messaging emerging markets Sony Xperia 5 review [Video] OnePlus 7T: 5 reasons it's still worth buying [Video] Moto 360 Review: A Wear OS favorite is revived Everything we know about the Galaxy S20 so far [Video]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line858
__label__wiki	0.522805	0.522805	Year in Review: 4 Highlights from 2018 December 24, 2018 aaciviccouncil 2018 was a year of many successes and challenges for our Arab American community. As you already know, we are a local nonprofit grassroots organization that is dedicated to empowering the Arab American community in the Greater LA Area. At a time when our community is targeted and demonized, and when Arab Americans, immigrants, refugees, and vulnerable communities are under attack, we came together in unity to organize and mobilize for a better future. We look for your partnership and support to sustain and grow this movement, and continue building community power. Here’s a recap of some of our achievement this past year: 1. Voter Mobilization. We led a Get Out the Vote campaign prior to the midterm elections to mobilize the Arab American community and encourage them to vote. Our staff and volunteers registered more than 200 new Arab Americans voters, collected 478 pledge-to-vote cards, and contacted 3,465 voters via phone banking and door-to-door canvassing targeting Arab Americans in Orange County. We co-hosted two candidate forums: the Anaheim Mayoral forum and the 48th District Congressional forum. 2. Celebrating our local heroes. Our 3rd annual Arab American Heritage Gala was an opportunity to bring together our community and celebrate our local heroes who have dedicated their lives for the betterment of our communities. We honored Dr. Musa Nasir, a pillar in the Arab American community, Dr. Samar Aziz for her service to our refugee communities in Orange County, and Jewish Voice for Peace for their amazing work to stand in solidarity and friendship with our community. Watch Loubna Qutami’s inspiring keynote speech here. 3. Arab American Heritage Month Statewide Arab American community leaders led by the Arab American Civic Council were recognized in the California Senate Floor in Sacramento on April 9th for Arab American Heritage Month. The California State Senate adopted Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 123, authored by State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) with unanimous support. 4. Challenging Trump’s Muslim Ban In June, the US Supreme Court decided to uphold Trump’s Muslim Ban Executive Order. On decision day we were prepared to respond, in partnership with many of our community allies and friends. We co-hosted a press conference and a community rally in Anaheim’s Little Arabia District to express our rejection of this unfair decision and continue to mobilize our community to speak up against it. We co-hosted two forums to discuss the challenges our communities face in the aftermath of the Muslim Ban. We joined a national coalition to encourage Congress to repeal the ban and gathered thousands of signatures for a petition that was delivered to Congress in December. See media coverage by the Orange County Register. Coalition urges Congress to hold hearing on Muslim Ban Congress introduces bill to block Trump’s Muslim Ban	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line860

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