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__label__cc	0.747035	0.252965	HG101 Digital Archive Project - Zillion The HG101 Digital Archive Project already hit its first stumbling block. Originally I had anticipated on storing all of these on my Fileplanet account, a holdover from the IGN/Gamespy hosting days of a few months ago. I was under the impression that we would keep these accounts, but no - the server was simply turned off last week without them telling anyone. All of the files are still accessible, but we can't upload anything more. The public upload utility is still there, though, which I think I'll have to use, going forward. Fileplanet has always sucked, but it's also more reliable than Megaupload, whose links haphazardly disappear for any number of arbitrary reasons. But, we'll work with it! I recorded and encoded the first two episodes of the Zillion anime. For quick reference, Zillion was apparently some kind of laser tag toy from the mid-80s, which the anime (and video games) were tied into. Despite obviously being essentially little more than advertisements, I've always held a weakpoint for it, because those little doodles in the SMS game manual was essentially my introduction to anime. I was disappointed when I saw the anime and found that JJ, the awesome guy from the game, was kinda of a weenie in the show, but hey - Apple and Champ are still badass, those guns still look cool no matter how cheesy they are, and the Norsa (or Noza as they're called here) are still pretty badass. The anime shares a lot of music with the game, too, featuring vocal 80s J-pop renditions of much of the soundtrack. Although there were numerous episodes televised in Japan, the US only got a handful - five tapes with a single 20 minute episode each, and a sixth tape with a 40 minute OVA. They were dubbed by Streamline Pictures, the same guys responsible for Macross and basically any of the anime distributed in the US during the 80s. The dubbing is actually quite good and they're still fairly watchable. Please enjoy. The Japanese episodes are also being fansubbed over at Anime Classic, so you can look forward to the episodes not released in English. Just keep in mind that the quality on the second episode is a little sketchy near the end due to the iffy tape I have. The only VCR I have has a tendency to display a large ugly "VIDEO RECALIBRATION" message whenever it gets too staticy, which pops up a couple of times. It's annoying, but better than watching them on Youtube, at any rate. Episode 1 - They Call me J.J. Episode 2 - Hang Fire Labels: hg101 digital archive project, sega master system, zillion Mewchu November 29, 2009 at 1:45 PM OH MAN, ZILLION! I PLAYED THAT GAME LIKE A ZILLION TIMES! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ha. Seriously though, the anime rules, thanks for archiving it! HG101 rules! If I had to choose between HG101 and food, I WOULD LEARN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND SAP NUTRIENTS FROM BLOGS. ^_^ Allen December 8, 2009 at 1:40 AM I remember getting Zillion II as a kid and being surprised when I picked up Zillion, the first game. What a difference that was. One annoying thing about Zillion was the code system you had to input to go from room to room. It was doubly annoying when I only found out much later that the obscure code system was simply the digits 0-9 mirrored back-to-back. And here I was meticulously drawing each symbol down on a notepad..	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3285
__label__wiki	0.570855	0.570855	Editor’s Choice Award July 2019, Horror Published on July 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 by Jaime Moyer The Editors’ Choices are chosen from the submissions from the previous month that show the most potential or otherwise earn the admiration of our Resident Editors. Submissions in four categories — science fiction chapters, fantasy chapters, horror, and short stories — receive a detailed review, meant to be educational for others as well as the author.This month’s reviews are written by Resident Editors Leah Bobet, Jeanne Cavelos, and Judith Tarr. The last four months of Editors’ Choices and their editorial reviews are archived on the workshop. Tomorrow’s Place by Jim McDougall I like the concept of this story. Magical artifacts are always fun, and when they come from mysterious junk shops, that’s even better. I also appreciate the punch line. “Dead right,” indeed. I have a couple of suggestions for the next round of revisions. First, the character arc could be smoother and more consistent. The story opens with Lucy as the skeptic, bored and out of sorts and referring to the contents of the shop as “garbage.” It’s Jack who’s the believer. After this beginning, the reader expects Lucy to keep on being a hard sell. But as soon as Jack buys the radio, suddenly she’s fine with listening to it. We need to see how she gets to this point. For example, when she agrees with Jack, she might be less willing; she may say “Sure,” but without enthusiasm. She’s just saying it to maintain family harmony. There’s another abrupt shift once Jack turns the radio on. She immediately realizes what it’s doing, and suddenly she’s wildly enthusiastic about it. Now it’s Jack who’s the skeptic, and he’s both rude and insulting—until the station starts playing the disaster at the factory. Then he’s the believer again, so much so that he insists on physically investigating; and now it’s Lucy who’s the skeptic again, so much so that she stomps off and leaves him to it. In revision I’d suggest some careful rethinking of the characters’ reactions and their interactions. Make sure the shifts from skeptic to believer and vice versa progress logically. Make it a little clearer in the beginning that in spite of Lucy’s tiredness and her lack of patience with Jack’s fascination with old junk, she’s the imaginative one. Maybe he makes it clear that he’s just looking for a cheap radio, and she makes a joke about “If it’s that old, it must be magic.” Then when she’s proved right, Jack’s nastiness makes more sense. Jack doesn’t like to be wrong. Likewise, when Jack shifts toward acceptance of the truth, give it a little more space. Show how he comes around to it. Does he think to apologize to Lucy for doubting her? If he doesn’t, would Lucy call him on it? Or does she stay on the moral high ground? None of this needs to take up a lot of story space. The right line or two in the right place will do it. The other suggestion I would make is to rethink the structure of the ending. The shift of scene from Lucy abandoning Jack to Lucy dreaming about the factory’s collapse is confusing on two fronts. First, it’s not clear that it’s a dream, until we’re told in so many words. Second, would Lucy really do that? She’s the one who believes wholeheartedly in the radio’s predictive powers. If it’s broadcasting a disaster, does it make sense for her to go away and leave Jack? If she really is that pissed off at his general assholery, wouldn’t she get all or partway home and then turn back because he might be in danger? Would she leave him like that, ignore his absence, and go calmly to sleep, considering what the radio predicted? Much of the dream sequence would work if she were stomping along in a temper rather than lying in bed asleep. She could hallucinate the walls falling, and hear Jack’s voice—then turn and run back, praying she isn’t too late. That would close the gap of several hours between her dumping Jack and her waking up from the dream. Where is Jack during those hours? Why didn’t he just make the call and then come home? Would he stay around the factory if he knows it’s going to come down? There’s also the question of how long the interval is between the radio’s prediction and the event it predicts. The baseball game happens 24 hours later. The factory seems to collapse much sooner. Is there any particular logic in play here? If so, how do Jack and Lucy figure it out? One final note: Think about the emotional temperature of the ending. Make sure it’s high enough. “It was time to look for Jack” needs to be stronger, more urgent, less passive. Let us feel the tension. Lucy’s “flash of cold understanding and hot grief” is lovely—that’s what we want to feel in the whole scene. Then the punch line truly is a blow to our emotional center. –Judith Tarr Bookmark this article Editor’s Choice Award July 2019, Horror Editor’s Choice Award July 2019, Short Story Editor’s Choice Award	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3290
__label__wiki	0.599123	0.599123	CUP: McDowell Scores Toyota’s 100th NASCAR Last-Place Finish SOURCE: SPEED Michael McDowell picked up the 13th last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup career in Monday’s GEICO 400 at the Chicagoland Speedway when his #66 James Fund Toyota fell out with brake problems after 25 of the race’s 267 laps. The finish was McDowell’s series-leading sixth last-place finish of the 2011 season and his first since the Heluva Good! 400 at Michigan, twelve races ago. His finish is also the 100th for Toyota across all three of NASCAR’s top divisions. Toyota’s first NASCAR last-place finish came in 2004, when Robert Huffman’s #12 Toyota Tundra crashed 25 laps into the Truck Series season opener, the Florida Dodge Dealers 250 at Daytona. McDowell, carrying decals for adoption assistance program The James Fund on a paint scheme that debuted at Richmond, qualified 33rd for Monday’s race at a speed of 180.060 mph. Just before the start of the race, McDowell fell to the rear along with Robby Gordon, who changed engines prior to the event. When the race began, Josh Wise, driving for Larry Gunselman, fell to the back, followed on Lap 9 by David Stremme, who made an unscheduled stop in his Inception Motorsports #30. However, McDowell was the first to pull behind the wall on Lap 25, saying his car was running too tight. Once behind the wall, crew chief Gene Nead reported that there was a hole in the nose of his Toyota. Wise and Stremme were the next two cars to fall out of the race, ending a pair of promising weekends. Wise’s hair-raising qualifying run ended the Gunselman team’s streak of three consecutive DNQs and also gave Wise his first Cup start after three unsuccessful attempts since late 2009. Nearby Bradley University had its decals on Wise’s #37 as eight of its students were interning with the team. Stremme lacked sponsorship, but ran in the Top 10 in both Chicagoland practices, running 7th in the first session and 9th in Happy Hour. The Inception team has had other flashes of brilliance in practice, running 2nd-fastest in Bristol’s Happy Hour last month and topping the speed charts during Happy Hour at Michigan in June. The last time the #66 finished last at Chicagoland was in 2009, when Dave Blaney’s PRISM Motorsports Toyota fell out with an engine failure after 10 laps of the 2009 Lifelock.com 400. The year before, McDowell scored his first Cup Series last-place finish in the same event, finishing eight laps down, but still running, in his #00 Champion Mortgage Toyota. This was the first time a Cup driver finished last at Chicagoland due to brake failure. 43) #66-Michael McDowell / 25 laps / brakes 42) #37-Josh Wise / 41 laps / brakes 41) #30-David Stremme / 44 laps / vibration 40) #87-Joe Nemechek / 45 laps / electrical 39) #7-Robby Gordon / 77 laps / vibration LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER’S CHAMPIONSHIP 1st) Michael McDowell (6) 2nd) Mike Skinner, J.J. Yeley (4) 3rd) Joe Nemechek (3) 4th) Kevin Conway, Robby Gordon (2) 5th) Dave Blaney, Landon Cassill, Jeff Green, P.J. Jones, Scott Riggs, Scott Speed (1) LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER’S CHAMPIONSHIP 1st) #60-Germain Racing, #66-HP Racing LLC (6) 2nd) #46-Whitney Motorsports, #55-Front Row Motorsports, #87-NEMCO Motorsports (3) 3rd) #7-Robby Gordon Motorsports, #97-NEMCO Motorsports (2) 4th) #81-Whitney Motorsports, #77-Robby Gordon Motorsports (1) LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER’S CHAMPIONSHIP 1st) Toyota (16) 2nd) Chevrolet, Ford (4) 3rd) Dodge (3) Posted by Brock Beard at 1:38 PM CUP: Kvapil’s Qualifying Face-Off Followed By His ... TRUCKS: Engine Woes Keep Jo Cobb’s Truck From Comp... CUP: McDowell Scores Toyota’s 100th NASCAR Last-Pl... N’WIDE: Bell Is First Nationwide Last-Placer To Fa... TRUCKS: Mike “hrmn8ter” Harmon Trails Truck Field ... CUP: Early Wreck Destroys Scott Speed’s Fast Richm... N’WIDE: Brian Keselowski Shuffled to 43rd at Richm... CUP: Blaney, Suffering From Kidney Stones, Exits A... N’WIDE: Chapman Ends Jeff Green’s Last-Place Strea... TRUCKS: Setzer Scores First Truck Series Last-Plac...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3299
__label__cc	0.735012	0.264988	Posted on February 10, 2019 by Bryce Sharper The Coming Crackup of the US II “If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand.” Mark 3:24 The Democrats are a coalition of enemies united by a common enemy and by plunder. Raging against the common enemy, white males, generates the election turnout but the effect is plundering the tax-base of white males. Who forms this coalition? Corporations, bureaucrats, feminists, single women, mostly-white homosexuals, mostly-white aging Baby Boomer hippies, their children, and liberal children of conservatives, Latin Americans, Asians, blacks, Jews and Muslims. Judging by the ethnic make-up of those leading press conferences, this coalition has been led by Jews and whites who know how to work the system and offer handouts and legislation to the right people to get out the vote. The handouts have gone to gays and IV drug users (vagrants) for free medical care and affordable housing, and to Latin Americans and to blacks for food stamps, free medical care, and affordable housing. Latin Americans, Muslims, and Asians have been rewarded with legislation and governance that amounts to open borders. Whenever possible, they’ve weaponized state and federal agencies to coerce counties, cities, and organizations and individuals who don’t go along with their program. This has had the effect of growing the non-white component of their voting base while diminishing their enemies. California, which elected Ronald Reagan, is now only 35% white conservative and all white conservatives are talking about leaving. The shift in demographics, however, is going to be a real disaster for the leaders of the rainbow coalition of traitors. For example, Jews and homosexuals march in favor of Muslims, but when was the last time you saw Muslims at gay pride parades? Remember the Orlando night club shooting where a Muslim G4S employee shot about 70 homosexuals? Gays and Muslims are on a collision course of epic proportions because gays have loved to push their agenda on children in the public schools but Muslims will refuse this. I expect increasing violence by Muslims against gays and for Muslims to thwart the gay and transgender agenda when they increase in power. Muslims are also virulently anti-semitic. The first thing the latest crop of Somali Muslim congresswomen did when taking office was discuss divestment from Israel. The Israel Party has always been Republican evangelicals and Jewish Democrats. With the decline of both and the increase of Muslims, the United States’ support of Israel and Jewish influence in the Democratic party will expire. Financially, this is bad for Democrats because Jews supposedly account for 70% of the donations to the Democratic Party. Wealth doesn’t survive through the generations, but children do. Jews don’t have children but Muslims do. I expect Jews also to be shoved out of the coalition. Muslims and feminists are natural enemies, but feminists appear to be alienating everyone. On one hand, white feminists are trying to keep Muslims in the homosexual/women coalition by re-branding the hijab as the new symbol of feminism. This, of course, brings to mind the dictum, “War is peace; freedom is slavery.” I don’t foresee this having much of an effect other than to encourage Muslim men to put a hijab on as many Western women as they can. Opposite these olive branches Muslim men, feminists are using their velvet fists against their liberal white male and corporate allies with the #MeToo movement. Now liberal men all follow the Mike Pence Rule. Liberal husbands are divorcing their increasingly-shrill, angry feminist wives. Women of color seem to find white feminists revolting as well. In fact, a Woman’s March out here was cancelled because non-white women noticed that the Woman’s March was too white. Feminists have committed the classic blunder of attacking their own allies. This is often called “friendly fire.” Friendly-fire by hispanics is increasing against the Jewish/liberal Catholic coalition in the midterm elections leading to the latter being pushed out of the coalition. For example, California had two Jewish Senators for 3-4 decades. Jewish Senator Barbara Boxer retired and was replaced amicably by mystery-meat Kamala Harris. The feud between Democratic Jewish incumbent Dianne Feinstein and Democrat Kevin De Leon was much more bitter. She promised to resign so he could run for office but didn’t. The California Democratic Party did not endorse her as De Leon ran against her. Not only are Jews being replaced quickly, but also their Catholic lackies. In New York, AOC primaried Irish-Catholic liberal Joe Crowley. The latter had served all the special interests named above for decades and was supposed to succeed Catholic Nancy Pelosi as house speaker. Instead, he’s in the dustbin of history. Speaking of Pelosi, she’s either going to die soon or be replaced in her district. She’s not liberal-enough for the crazies in the California Democratic grassroots. The California Democratic grassroots are separated by age. AOC/Crowley and Feinstein/De Leon beefs are also generational wars. Baby Boomers practice a different type of liberalism than their children. The younger Democrats are totalitarian Marxists of the Frankfurt School type. Aside from the political differences, Millennials and younger generations think their Baby Boomer parents are tone-deaf, disconnected, narcissistic and have practiced a scorch-earth policy towards subsequent generations. Baby Boomer hate is going mainstream and will accelerate when the younger, browner generation realizes we have no money to pay for white Baby Boomer entitlements which amount to $100 trillion. All of this is bad news for the money arm of the Democratic Party: corporations, corporate billionaires, and the government. The latest liberal Democrat congress is already talking about raising the corporate tax rate that Trump and the Republicans reduced. Some Democrats are talking about raising the top marginal tax rate to 70%. Then there is the Woke legislation on gender, homosexuality, and diversity that makes it hard to do business. In California, Woke legislation that disagrees with federal law combined with the second or third worst business climate in the Union are driving businesses out at an unprecedented rate. The crime, decay, and cost of corporate diversity policies and open borders is making it hard for aspiring corporate officers (middle managers), most of whom are liberal, to establish families. All of this is happening in good financial times. Unemployment is low and the stock market just had a historic run-up. No amount of wealth is safe from the Dems’ and Repubs’ spending habits though. Truth in Accounting, Pension Tsunami, and the State Data Lab have a mountain of evidence that most public pension funds are deeply underwater and have obligations totaling $4 trillion, roughly the size of our annual budget. Our other entitlements and interest on our national debt amount to $100 trillion. If the Democrats and the nation are so divided in these good financial times, just wait 10 years and another severe market downturn to split these cracks wide-open. Next time, we’ll examine some possible solutions. One Reply to “The Coming Crackup of the US II” Gunner Q says: “Muslims and feminists are natural enemies, but feminists appear to be alienating everyone. On one hand, white feminists are trying to keep Muslims in the homosexual/women coalition by re-branding the hijab as the new symbol of feminism.” Islam is peak feminism. It’s everything the female id wants: polygamy, “might makes right” morality, deceit justified by results and so on. Even the hijab is primarily beneficial to feminists. Ugly, bitter women hate the young women swimming in male attention like the hags no longer can. The globalists are using Islam to destroy the West; as you say, it’s a matter of common enemies and loot for everybody; but there’s going to be a falling out between the two when white Christians are longer the Poland separating the two evil empires. Previous PostPrevious A 4GW Reading List Next PostNext Honor Never Dies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3301
__label__cc	0.715359	0.284641	Purple Mountain Majesty By Jason Blevins Crested Butte, Mike Preston, Mount Owen, Purple Mountain When spring finally springs, the impending departure of powder looms heavily on the minds of most skiers. For some, spring is a time for apres beer on the deck, harvesting corn and carving slush.Â For others, it’s a time to chase the last remnants of fluff lingering in the hills. While temps soared to 50-plusÂ in Crested Butte last week, there were a dwindling few mounts to the west that stoically protected their stash of powder. And despite the rain in town, overcast skies and sketchy weather, we were on a pirate’s quest to plunder that pow. About 15 miles west of Crested Butte, in the shadow of Mount Owen, Purple Mountain’s picturesque S CouloirÂ is a narrow, super-steep shot that shelters its swath of snow from sun and wind, leaving it perpetually silky.Â Purple Mountain’s S Couloir is the predominant coolie in the middle of the frame: [photopress:P1010162_1_1.JPG,full,pp_image] It took about an hour to climb the near-vertical chute. The consistently steep slope is about 1,200 vertical feet. Snowmobiles certainly eased the 15-mile access approach from town. [photopress:P1010186_1.JPG,full,pp_image] Here’s the obligatory “Davenport Shot,” a favorite of the Aspen mountaineer. Crested Butte’s Mike Preston carves what is likely the last powder of the season.Â Comments Off on Purple Mountain Majesty Categories: Outdoor Extremes Crested Butte’s Party Of The Year A Wolf Creek Traffic Jam That time Lindsey Vonn kicked it with Vanilla Ice, Tom Brady and Jordan Spieth Daniel Cormier vs. Jon Jones 2 to headline UFC 200. 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__label__cc	0.708457	0.291543	The Blurb: Bob Wants Those Whippersnappers to Slow Down! All right, NBC. I have been avoiding my television and computer since 2pm this afternoon so I wouldn’t be spoiled by anything leaked on either of those two devices. I am in my pjs, sitting in front of my television, ready to watch the prerecorded Opening Ceremonies. Here we go – a prerecorded diary, of sorts: Barely one minute in, and I already have an amusing quip. The narrator talks about “beautiful minds have defined the measure of our planet.” British writers highlighted include William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Jane Austen, and…John Lennon and Paul McCartney? I’ve never really understood this opening highlight reel. It’s beautiful (this is my first summer Olympics in HD), but can’t we just get on with the ceremony? It’s pretty much hype at it’s most stressful. “These guys made our pre-game reel – if they don’t do well, they’re screwed.” Wait…is that Ewan McGregor doing the voiceover? It is!!! He’s acted with many accents, but I can identify that brogue anywhere. Bum! BUM! Bu-bum bum bum bum! Bum, bumbumbum, bumbumbum budadumbumbum! Hey Bob Costas. It must be Olympics time. He’s framed perfectly by the Tower Bridge up, letting a tall ship through the Thames. I wonder if NBC demanded that shot. They bring in Tom Brokaw to talk about security and cost. And he just insulted the mayor of London’s haircut! Ouch. Tom has gotten biting in his older years. Bob promises to make it to the Olympic Stadium in time for the parade of nations. Good – I can’t wait to hear what interesting tidbit of information he has to say about Myanmar. We join Meredith Viera and Matt Lauer in front of a meadow…er, I mean Olympic Stadium. Behold: one of the main reasons that Track and Field doesn’t start till the second week of competition. Can you imagine Usain Bolt running around shepherds? Best thing about blogging with DVR? I can pause to write down my thoughts! But I don’t have to in this first half hour because it’s just filler. In other words, it’s just Ryan Seacrest trying to be a real journalist. Interviews in the NBC Studio before your event…I don’t like that. Win your event, then sit in those overstuffed chairs. I’m looking at you, Jordyn Wieber and Gabby Douglas. Team gold and all around gold better come from the two of you, or I’m going to be very disappointed. So I was fast forwarding through the commercials, but then I realized I was fast forwarding through part of the opening of the Opening Ceremonies! Ooops. Okay folks: forget Beijing, and just have fun with this one. You’ve all wanted to go to England, so just enjoy. Can you imagine watching this opening section on the big giant screen? How awesome would that be? All the old posters, and little kids with popping balloons. Two #6 balloons refused to pop. A Tour de France winner – the first from Britain - ringing the GIANT bell. I guess if I wasn’t from the U.S. he would be a bigger name. I wonder if this kid is lip synching. Remember that little girl from Beijing who sang a song but a prettier girl was picked to lip synch it? If he’s really singing, he did a fabulous job. I love “Jerusalem.” Woot! Scotland! Land of my ancestors. Well, a few of my ancestors. They are really letting the cameras get up close to the actors. That’s pretty cool. The highlights of football and rugby matches could be eliminated, though. Kenneth Branagh!!! He’s awesome. Speaking Shakespeare, of course, from “The Tempest” while “Nimrod” plays in the background. And another awesome aspect of these games? English! Fast forward through the commercials…yay! These drummers are a little different, signaling the change in era. We really skipped a lot of history here. Any actors going to portray Roman soldiers? Seeing men in turn-of-the-century clothes dancing the way they are is quirky. Goodbye meadow. It sure wasn’t there for very long. Any smokestacks going to malfunction, like the torch pillars back in 2010? Still one of my favorite Olympic memories – watching the Canadian torchbearers just stand there for a good five minutes not knowing what to do. Suffaragists! Anyone hoping Mrs. Banks makes an appearance? Votes for Women! (“We're clearly soldiers in petticoats; And dauntless crusaders for woman's votes…”) Pause to remember those who perished in WWI. Kinda wish they had Matthew Crawley amongst the soldiers. This set sure has changed since the beginning. But when you think London at the turn of the 20th century, you think smokestacks and dirty workers. Steampunk, y’know? Welcome to the ‘60s! Could this be Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? And British Army men (redcoats!)! Is that molten steel? This is nuts! What the heck is happening?!?!?! Matt explains – it’s a map of London now, including the Thames. Thanks Matt. I still wish you guys wouldn’t talk so much. Kenneth Branagh looking sinister with his top-hat buddies. Kenneth Branagh doesn’t have to dance. He’s too awesome. Ooh – more steel rings! Lots of scaffolding over the arena. I think I know what those rings are going to do… Okay, this is all psychotic and crazy, but I really love this. Brits are crazy. I want to visit them. And the rings are pyro-techniched! It must be the Olympics! One ring just can’t stop leaking! Now it’s done. Time for the royal entrance of the queen! To the screens – this is a film. It’s James Bond! Daniel Craig? James Bond? What’s with the dogs? It is James Bond. Mr. Bond knows you don’t address the queen till the queen addresses you. And never turn your back on the queen. It’s just proper etiquette. The helicopter rises…AW I WANNA VISIT LONDON!! The Queen still waves even in a helicopter. And Churchill waves back! Kinda wish some evil villan was chasing them in another helicopter, complete with the Bond music. Oh well. And just like that, the Queen changes the time of day! Wow – people say she has no power, but I say that’s really something! Is James Bond really going to jump out of the helicopter?? Is the Queen?? Ah – there is the music. Did you know it’s the 50th anniversary of Bond? Did you know it’s the 60th anniversary of the Queen? Matt and Meredith – it wasn’t the Queen. Just letting you know. But it’s still pretty clever. I love that flag. This is so cool. I’m just so giddy! Thinking about a trip to London next summer. Hope none of the flagbearers trips on the sod. That’s quite a climb they had to make! Queen Elizabeth – love the feather in your hair. Who else can say they sang in front of the Queen in their pajamas? They sounded really good too! “Second to the right and straight on till morning…” It’s Children’s Literature Time! Teachers, sit back and enjoy! It’s also saluting the National Health Service, and one particular hospital – GOSH – whom J.M. Barrie left all his money to when he died. J.M. Barrie – the author of Peter Pan. One of those beds looks really big – it’s an actual trampoline – every kid’s dream! J.K. Rowling! Introducing villans! Queen of Hearts! Captain Hook! Voldemort! Cruella De Vil! Ooh, Voldemort is really creepy. He’s huge! You may not want to put your kids to bed after this segment. There’s also a little girl suspended right by the Voldemort. Mary Poppinses to the rescue! Mary Poppinses fighting evil! Y’know, when I think about the Poppins books, I think that there wasn’t enough fighting of evil by Mary. This just fulfilled my dream. “Good Christians, All, Rejoice” – CW 52 – with electric guitar. Rockin’. “Chariots of Fire!” What great music. It looks like it’s going to be a little more than a synthesizer or two. Well, kind of – it’s a synthesizer AND MR. BEAN! Was not expecting that one at all. Mr. Bean has a smart phone. I feel bad for the pianist who has to play that awesome section whilst not laughing at Mr. Bean. Hilarious – my parents showed me some Mr. Bean shorts, so I know the humor. The digital age – a parent’s worst nightmare. Love the fluorescent tubes representing The Tube. Oh, and while we’re talking about the digital age – NBC wants you to tweet! Love all the music, by the way. So much good rock music has come out of Britain. The Stones, the Kinks, the Beatles (duh), David Bowie (complete with star men!), QUEEN! , the Eurythmics, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. And after the 80s, I don’t know British music very well. It’s a bit too techno for my taste. Kinda sad there was no Chumbawumba. Is that Muse? Tim Berners-Lee created the Internet? I thought Al Gore did. The Torch is on its way!!!! I see David Beckham driving the boat. Well, “driving” the boat. Here come the athletes! More Ryan Seacrest journalism. Was Mary Carillo not available? What about Lester Holt? I love those guys! Time for Greece to make its entrance. Athletes from my ancestors’ homeland! Another awesome part of Britain hosting the Olympics: they’re going in alphabetical order according to the host nation’s alphabet. That’s English this year, folks. It will be easy to keep track of where we are in the order! Unique costumes abound. But there’s a little girl with each delegation. What are those girls carrying? It looks heavy. This is the first Olympics to feature men and women in every single delegation. Argentina apparently hates Britain. They claim some islands. They also have boring outfits. Oh – it’s a copper kettle. Thanks Matt. The nameplate holders have it a little easier than previous years. Australia’s up – and we’re reminded of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with Cathy Freeman and Ian Thorpe – my first swimming crush. That was the first Olympics I followed religiously. Austria – one of the rare teams that has more athletes for the Winter Olympics than the Summer ones. Oh, cool – all the flags are going to be planted on the giant green hill. After commercial, which happened to coincide with a bunch of countries NBC doesn’t care about. Well, not really. Maybe it’s because Bob couldn’t think of anything interesting about those countries. Bangladesh – the largest of the 81 countries participating that’s never won a medal. Thanks Bob. Benin? Anyone heard of Benin? Bermuda – time to show off their shorts! Bhutan has some pretty awesome outfits. Look at those athletes – they are so excited. I love watching this. I love the Olympics. Brazil – host of the next Summer Olympics. Where everything better be broadcast live, NBC. Burkina Faso – awesome outfits. Ooh – Burkina Faso, your outfits were overthrown by Cameroon. So cool! Canada – I still have a sore spot for Canada since they dominated the medal count in 2010. And of course, Bob has to remind us of Cindy Crosby’s OT goal in the gold medal hockey game against the U.S. I don’t think they are repeating songs during the parade of nations. That’s good – that got irritating in Beijing. Here’s China – Yi Janlian takes over the flag for Yao Ming. They’re both really tall. Their contingency is a LOT smaller this time around. Sidebar: I have seen the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube in person from the highway in Beijing. It was incredible. Cuba has little globes! Cute! WOOOOOOOO! CZECH REPUBLIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will root for the Czechs in everything they compete in. They also have awesome rubber boots. The North Koreans have a giant flag as well as the normal flag – a reminder to Brits: “This one is our flag. Don’t forget it please!” Aw that hill looks so cool with the flags. Check out that Fiji flagbearer! He must be cold. Dear Germany: your colors are not bright blue and pink. You look kinda ridiculous. Bob just said the athletes are moving at a quick clip – faster than any of the nine Ceremonies he’s done. Really? We’re only on G! Hungary – the water polo team to beat, apparently! Four independent Olympic athletes – for the first time ever. Apparently, the Netherlands Antilles no longer is represented. Wow, those guys are having fun. How cool are they! Forget Team USA – I wanna be on that team! I hope they can urge all countries to have a flash mob dance when they enter. Like Remember the Titans. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Ooh, Mexico has some suitably colorful outfits. That’s how it’s done, Germany. Take note. New Zealand – Like Lord of the Rings. St. John’s Jefferson – see Sweden’s shirts? You should get some like that! Dear Ugandian flagbearer: You are flipping off the Brits by making that sign. Probably shouldn’t do that. Wow – the U.S team gets a huge ovation by the crowd. Is that Grant Hill by Michelle Obama? Yes it is! Some of those athletic uniforms looked like they were for the Winter Olympics. And Great Britain is dressed in gold! Noticing the crowd for the first time – I don’t see a full stadium. Is that on purpose? Or are they all using the loo? (Oh, I love how Matt and Bob have taken up the phrase “queuing.” We Disneyphiles have been using that phrase for years now. I hope it catches on. The dignitaries speaking on that beautiful flag-covered hill. So cool. Time for the Olympic flag and the Olympic anthem – it always makes me teary-eyed. This time it’s sans voices. I think the best renditions were the opera singer back in Canada and the children’s choir – I think that was Beijing. Whoa – he’s taking that torch up those steps three at a time! Careful with that torch, buddy. I do love the “next generation” carrying the torch – that’s pretty cool. And my guess for the lighting of the torch – Robert Bannister – just got squashed by Matt. Are the youngsters going to light the torch? And the significance of those copper pots finally becomes apparent – they all get lit up! All of the copper pots, representing each country, come together to burn as one. AW. HOW COOL! Time for Sir Paul McCartney to sing one of my least favorite Beatles tunes – “Hey Jude.” And that’s the end of the broadcast! It was a very fun show, and I am so looking forward to the next seventeen days. I hope you all enjoy the Games! Smiling and Dancing in the Face of Pressure Strength and Disappointment It Had To Be France. We Park in Driveways and Drive in Parkways - We Re... The Blurb: Bob Wants Those Whippersnappers to Slow... The Blurb: Hype Springs Eternal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3310
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__label__wiki	0.690194	0.690194	Gunn Braehour Chiefs, Hon. Donald Gunn Manitoba Canada; Sinclair 'Clan Gunn History Supplement 15', 12.3.1903 I’m biased, obviously I like this supplement as the vast majority is about my family or my relatives. In particular (although it is a little inaccurate) it highlights the Braehour links to the old Chief lines, which is a key part of my objection to the proposed Gunn Family convention idea which supposes no-one can prove links to the old Gunn Chiefs. As Lord Lyon points out on his site, if a Family Convention is held the key issue is appointing the most senior cadet line to be Chief; I have provided his quotes to me elsewhere on this site about this issue. Only if there are no possible cadet lines does the ‘appoint a random person to be Chief’ come into play... Key figures / places / ideas / phrases (in order) · Biographies of Hon. Donald Gunn Manitoba Canada 1797-1878. (He’s on my family tree and in my bookScotland and Beyond; the Families of Donald Gunn (Tormsdale) and John Gunn (Dalnaha, Strathmore and Braehour) I wish I’d read this Supplement earlier; I would have included some of the phrasing from this article... · Not surprisingly ‘ his pedigree appeared a dozen years before the revival in 1890 of the question of the chiefship ... It goes exactly with the tree ofof the Braehour family by Captain Alexander Gunn who died at Thurso in 1899, first cousin of the Hon. Donald... · As these are the representatives of the M’Hamishes, the chiefs, hereditarily, the only form of succession in the Highlands since the close of the rebellion in 1746, further details about them by the captain have special value, even at the risk of repetition of facts. Alexander, the fifth M’Hamish, lived in 1650, whose second son was George of Borrobol, who had a son, John of Kinbrace, whose son Alexander, in Dalnaglaton was the patriarch of the Braehours, his second son John being the first Braehour. The eldest son, George, Dalglaton, had a son Alexander, Dalglaton, who died in 1785 without issue, and a son Donald who was drowned with all his family in the loss of the emigrant ship on the Newfoundland coast which sailed from Scrabster in 1807, the “ Lough Mohr America,”.. John Braehour, had Alexander, eldest, a soldier, who died without issue; John the second, with a son John, a soldier, without issue; Donald, Braehour, the sennachie, third son; and William, father of the Hon. Donald. Donald, Braehour, had eldest son John, once in Carriside at Loch Calder, thereafter in Durness, who was the chief from 1874 till his death in 1886, and whose eldest son Alexander, sub-factor at Durness for the Duke of Sutherland, was chief of the Gunns from 1886. Captain Alexander Gunn was the eldest son of Donald, Braehour, born in 1814, much later than his first cousin Hon. Donald, Manitoba; and had a family of sons and daughters, his representative being Peter, Australia. Donald, Braehour, had a third son, William, named after his uncle the father of Hon. Donald, but he died young. (Okay a word of warning; this is not totally accurate – especially on the Australian Gunns. Seehttp://clangunn1.blogspot.co.uk/2012_02_01_archive.html for further detail on this tree. It’s just further proof that the petition for the Clan Gunn Family Convention which assumes that no-one can prove any descent from the Chief line is just factually inaccurate.) · Descent of early Gunn chiefs. · Captain Alexander Gunn of Watten. · Hon. Donald Gunn ‘History of Manitoba’. · John Gunn J.P. Gonor Manitoba. · Hon Donald Gunn ‘elder brother ‘one of the largest wool-growers and sheep farmers in Australia. (This being William Gunn of Waranga in Victoria.) · George Gunn member of St Ann’s. · Gunns evicted from Kildonan to Canada. · Earl of Selkirk · Hudson Bay · ‘Prince of Wales’ and ‘Eddystone’ · Commissary General Gunn-Munro d. 1892 London (occupied the same tent as Gordon of Khartoum). · Memorials of John Gunn M.A. F.G.S. Rector of Irstead and Barton Turf. · Rev. William Gunn 1736 the only Protestant clergy in Rome showing HRH the Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray got married (Scandal: he was Prince Augustus Frederick, 6th son of George III etc. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Augusta_Murray). The paperes were kept by him till his death when his son, the previously mentioned Rev. John Gunn who handed the proof of marriage to the children of the marriage. The ‘return’ was he got to be chaplain to the later Duke of Sussex’... · George Borrow used to visit John Gunn when Gunn retired (I really like George Borrow’s works...) · Rev. William Gunn d. 21.4.1843 wrote some books...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3316
__label__cc	0.596586	0.403414	How Shakespeare Spent the Day "So much for Bardolatry!" - G.B. Shaw If I were to start this post by stating, Look ... I'm not Anti-Stratfordian ... it sounds like when David Cross once began a stand-up routine lamenting, Look ... I don't hate children ... But I do not like the term Anti-Stratfordian for the same reason I do not like the word Atheist. That's your word to describe me, and you cannot accurately nor fairly define a sentient being by what it does not believe. You wouldn't call someone who is Jewish Anti-Christian so you should not call someone who has no spiritual belief a non-believer. It's like calling someone who doesn't believe in vampires as being anti-vampire. What I don't believe doesn't concern me. It certainly shouldn't define me. I believe Shakespeare wrote his plays, but that also does not make me Pro-Stratfordian. I am agnostic on the subject of William Shakespeare, the man. There have been so many lies - pretty lies, but outright falsehoods, nonetheless - that it is impossible to read any historical account of him without sighing. I do not know how I acquired a copy of Ivor Brown's How Shakespeare Spent the Day (1963) but it has been on my shelf for some time. It has taken about six months to read it, on and off, because I got bogged down at the end. It was a great resource material for The Globe because it describes in detail how they ran a theater, they meaning Burbage and Henslowe and yes, Shakespeare. The real nuts and bolts, or more accurately, spindles and pegs, that held the work of theater together. But even as Brown strives for accuracy, even he cannot help himself but speculates at length about the final year, spending a great deal of time lauding (his idea of) Shakespeare, a retired playwright who humbles himself, making repeated (if undocumented) visits to London in his final years, to improve upon the works of lesser poets like Fletcher and Middleton, adding his hand to elevate works like Pericles or Henry VIII or Timon of Athens. Does it not make more sense that these were first unfinished works by WS, which had been abandoned for one reason or another (perhaps because they suck) only to be taken up and filled out by others for the purpose of production by a company that needed new works to maintain relevance? Durr? Labels: Authorship Question, How Shakespeare Spent the Day (book), playwriting, Shakespeare, The Great Globe Itself The Great Globe Itself: Design Meetings Suggested Poster Mock-Up When I was a kid, more than anything, I wanted to sell things. This is not because I wanted to make money, my career choices should make that perfectly apparent. It is because I love packaging. I made posters and greeting cards and designed my own original cereal boxes and candy wrappers. I did not have any concept of content, I looked up recipes for candy, and made a few, but the outside was much more important than what went in. While I have finally discovered what it is I truly want to sell, there is that part of me which is much more interested in making you want to buy. I have written, directed and acted in plays, and even created a few sound designs. But as a stunted graphic artist, I have truly missed out on creating the visual components of theater. I took scenic, costume and lighting design in my freshman and sophomore years at school, and I was terrible at them. I wasn't particularly good at making posters either, and that really disappointed me. However, that was a long time ago. And practical application of my abilities and the humility to stand and appreciate admire and the work of those who have made design their life has brought me into some very successful collaborations. We have employed the same team of designers for the past several years for the outreach tour (including Terry as scenic designer and Esther as costume designer) and I am consistently impressed, and delighted with the work, and grateful to get to work with them and it. Wednesday we had our second production meeting for The Great Globe Itself. It is a new situation, acting as director and playwright, having shared the story and then being asked to weigh in on the creative decisions of others in its realization. This is where collaboration is such a relief, as we bat ideas around to discover how the costume design concept will play against the backdrop of the scenic design, how the colors will play, and can the set work with the limitations of three actors playing eighteen characters in forty-five minutes. This is why it doesn't pay to walk in the room and say, boom. Here's what you get, take it or leave it. This is a manner in which theater is unique among the arts. This is why it never pays to scream at people. Anyway, it was a very successful meeting and it made me smile. That afternoon, Todd and I had a different meeting, with the folks at TRG to discuss the promotional graphic for the brochure and the poster. The first image I had, while composing the play (because, as I said, I am always thinking of packaging) was that of the character of Sam, facing the viewer, holding out a globe - a Globe Theatre - shimmering, floating just above his outstretched hand. In the background, the classic Cleveland skyline of the mid-20th century. One skyscraper, the Terminal Tower. As the script took shape, with each age defined by its main character - Burbage, Sam, Clement - I saw each man, standing, laughing, collaborating, moving the Globe forward. Cleveland in the background is abstract, but present. I created a mock-up using stock photos (see above) using the copy machine, scissors and tape, because I am old school and that I how I roll. This is what I shared with Todd, our marketing director, and the designers at TRG. So far, all are supportive of the image. It is too much? We talked about these men being in a place, rather than in an abstract space, but where? Cleveland? Or Cleveland and London - and which London, 1613 or 2005? Or both? Will the final work come out like this, or something mind-blowingly different? Photo shoot in two weeks. Labels: design, marketing, The Great Globe Itself, TRG Reality The Great Globe Itself: Original Pronunciation Original Pronunciation is a practical, theatrical theory. We do not know what the people in Shakespeare's time sounded like. In America, there are those who believe that Shakespeare is only proper when performed in a British accent. However, there are many British accents today, and even Received English (the accent you must use when being "received" by British royalty, I heard Steve Coogan explain that once on NPR) was entirely fabricated. David Crystal, linguist, author and scholar, working in collaboration with his son, the actor Ben Crystal, used texts from the period to divine what that "original" dialect might have been. Take for example, Sonnet 116 (which was read at our wedding) which begins Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments ... The final six lines read: Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Those are meant to be rhyming couples. But no modern American nor British dialect can twin the words come and doom, nor proved and loved in rhyme. And having decided to make them rhyme, which word are we rhyming with? Is it coom and doom or come and dumb? By taking contemporary examples of how words were used, and what they meant at that time, the Crystal's constructed a "new" dialect which makes much better sense of Elizabethan prose and poetry. They explain it much better here: David & Ben Crystal. These men are adorable. The Great Globe Itself takes place at three different periods in history, one of them 1613 England. It was decided to bring in a dialect coach to make distinct character voices for each of these time periods. I asked my friend Chuck Richie (Kent State professor, retired) to come work with our actors - Arthur, James and Kyle - to create voices not only in OP, but also Depression-era Midwest and modern-day London. In the past, Chuck has worked with me to create voices for several tours, including a Brooklyn-raised Arthur Miller for Seeing Red, a Romanian Count for On the Dark Side of Twilight, and course, Belgian for Poirot. We all met Monday evening in the rehearsal hall, Chuck providing a great deal of interesting material on OP, first receiving a primer in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) and then being led through several recordings based on the work of David Crystal. Finally, the actors just leapt into the script. It was delightful to hear the first scene, or part of it, anyway, read in the tongue in which I had attempted write it. True, our actors were going a bit fast, trying to approximate the speed in which it must eventually be performed, there were moments when I wanted to pull the reins and go back and cover certain words and phrases, but generally let it go. I was itching to direct. Rehearsal for The Globe don't even begin until mid-February. But I am relieved to have these materials in the boys' hands. We've started already. Labels: Chuck Richie, David Crystal, Original Pronunciation, Shakespeare, Steve Coogan, The Great Globe Itself I Hate This: Seeking Publication John Dayton is David Hansen For the better part of five years, I was performing I Hate This somewhere. First I created opportunities, through CPT's Big Box series, a couple of theater festivals, and as word began to spread I was being contacted by medical professionals I knew, and then those I did not know, to perform at hospitals and conference centers across the Midwest, culminating in a seven-date tour of Great Britain. This could have been my gig. If I had promoted the piece who knows where it could have taken me. I could have made some well-needed income marketing the production, and told our story much farther afield. I did receive email once from the UAE asking if there was a video available, and I was like, Dubai? Can't you folks afford to fly me there in person? I did suggest this but also told them about the radio drama, and they said the free audio version would suit their purposes just fine. So, oh well. The question, "Would you let someone else perform this script?" did come up from time to time, and the answer, at the time, was no. It was my story, our story, it was far too personal, I had complete control over its presentation, and besides, who would want to tell it? If you have been following along, you know a small, professional touring company in England, Freerange Theatre, inquired about I Hate This. I had last performed the show myself in 2011 at Cleveland Public Theatre, and had no immediate plans to ever perform it ever again. Also, I am entering my late 40s, I was in my early 30s during the events depicted. Allowing a younger performer to work with these words may add life to what I feel is an important work. I did try to get it published, by sending it to a few high-profile theatrical rights management companies back in 2010. The response was pretty much the same from each of them, this work is too intimately tied to its author, no one else could do it justice. You could say the same thing about The Santaland Diaries, but people keep dragging that threadbare holiday chestnut on stage. Ditto the monologues of Spalding Gray, and that big, sweaty, liar guy. But those are funny, or at the very least not about dead babies. Well, except for the Sedaris piece. Perhaps emboldened by the impending Manchester performance at the Lowry, I sent the work out one more time, to one of the nation's largest play rights distributor. My query letter must have been something because they requested the complete script almost immediately - and almost as fast received a kind rejection letter, not from their editor, but from the President of the company himself. His main point was this: "While we found it often very moving indeed, the consensus here was that it would be a difficult play to place in our market, given that it is so deeply personal. The power would seem to rest a great deal in knowing that the person telling the story is the person to whom these things have happened." I could not argue with this opinion, it is one I have heard before. Having said that, a little over a month later John Dayton and the folks at Freerange proved him entirely wrong. The blog Write Out Loud had this to say about John's performance: "Performing autobiographical work of course has its challenges but one can only image the difficulty of immersing yourself in such heart-breaking content. Yet Dayton explores this grief fearlessly, without pander ... To feel and experience the same as the portrayed protagonist in such a way, is down to honest writing, bold directing and fearless acting – which was certainly the case with Freerange Theatre Company’s production." One very interesting development in this one-night-only performance at the Lowry was that Mr. Dayton was contracted a mere three days prior to the show, another actor having dropped out suddenly. More props to him for the work and what great notices he received putting this performance together (with director Hugo Chandor) on such short notice. But he was "holding book" as we say, performing script-in-hand. Hugo explained this to the audience, with apologies, but according to audience member Paul Kleiman (who also moderated the post-show discussion) no contrition was necessary, not even for holding book. On his blog, Stumbling With Confidence, Paul wrote: "What fascinated me was not only did the fact of reading from the script not detract at all from the play, it actually – in a strange way – enhanced it, aided by a very strong performance from the actor ... "The actor obviously isn’t David Hansen, but he is telling David Hansen’s story. Rather than playing the ‘pretence’ game, by holding on to and acting out the script the actor introduces what, in Brechtian terms, might be referred to as an ‘alienating’ element, providing both a certain distance and also an opportunity to really empathize with the story itself rather than the performer/performance." When Cleveland Play House performed Dustin Lance Black's 8 in 2013, the company also held book. This was out of necessity, it was a political-artistic statement presenting the piece, and done so through the generosity of all involved. There was not the time to memorize. But also, we were reading the actual words which had been spoken in open court. Reading from texts visually reminded the audience that we were not asking them to suspend their disbelief, but to always be aware that this really happened, these words were actually spoken. Following the performance of I Hate This Paul said he: "suggested (to the Freerange company) that the play works really well keeping the script in full view." Most gratifying was Write Out Loud's observation that I Hate This is "laced with levity; there are some great one-liners and jokes that were complimented by dry British wit in their delivery." The tagline I created back in 2003 states that this play is honest, horrible and even humorous, though I never felt I was able to convince anyone of the latter. And now it all makes sense ... I may write British, but I need a real Englishman to play it. I Hate This blog (2003-2011) UPDATE: The Write Out Loud post was written by Kate Morris, and edited version appeared on the Manchester entertainment site The Skinny. Four stars! Posted by pengo at 5:23 PM 2 comments: Labels: Freerange Theatre Company, I Hate This (play), publication, Stumbling With Confidence (blog), The Lowry, The Skinny, Write Out Loud (blog) TingleTangle @ Guide To Kulchur “Ute Lemper sang Weimar Berliner Cabaret songs at the Almeida Theatre in Islington tonight. Opening night. Full house. Third row. It was wonderful.” - Journal: June 10, 1997 My appreciation of Weimar Republic culture grew very slowly during the 1990s, from witnessing a revival of the Degenerate Art Exhibit in Los Angeles in 1991 to my (then) girlfriend’s decision on our first day together in London in 1997 to get tickets for an evening of cabaret songs. Earlier that year we had visited the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C. which included a special display on the Berlin Olympics, beginning my fascination with that event, and Cleveland’s connection to it. In 1998, the day after the Starr Report was published in the New York Times, we saw Sam Mendes’ Cabaret on Broadway. These two events are not unrelated in my mind. It was the first time I had ever seen any stage version of Cabaret, witnessing that with some semblance of historical context was not unappreciated. (The 2000s were not Hitler’s Germany, however the Starr Report was an indication of the kind of casual Fascism that has become mainstream in today’s political-entertainment culture. Tsk tsk. Shame shame. We do not murder those who threaten us anymore, we mock them to the point of irrelevancy.) To truly appreciate the music of Cabaret, you must understand what was being emulated. And it was a delightful surprise to learn, thanks to the remarkable and almost supernatural stylings of Ms. Lemper, how risqué and gay the Weimar Republic was, and far and away more overt than the Kander and Ebb musical it inspired. The song Two Ladies is kinky when Joel Gray’s Emcee sings it with two women, as in the 1966 original. New boundaries were crossed when Alan Cumming’s Emcee first performed the song with one woman and one man in the 1993 revival. But it’s still one big double entendre. However, when Ute sang Das Lila Lied or The Lavender Song (slipping in and out of German, she apologized in advance, she does that) you see a woman bravely announcing she is “queer and different” and boldly challenging her oppressors: Round us all up, send us away that's what you'd really like to do But we're too strong, proud, unafraid In fact we almost pity you You act from fear, why should that be What is it that you are frightened of The way that we dress The way that we meet The fact that you cannot destroy our love We're going to win our rights To lavender days and nights Cabaret’s Emcee is brash and obnoxious, to be sure, but he never had the stones to get into anyone’s face like that. In Thursday evening’s performance of TingleTangle, Ray Caspio performs The Lavender Song quite differently, as a rock song, and using a microphone literally gets into the faces of the audience with this bravely defiant gay anthem. TingleTangle is the latest production from Theater Ninjas, Ray Caspio is the Assoc. Artistic Director of the company, and this piece is both a very personal collection of stories and also a number of hilarious and sometimes beautiful cabaret sketches. The show is going on now at Guide To Kulchur. Earlier this year my (now) wife introduce me to GTK, home to second hand books and zines -- remember zines? -- located in a Gordon Square storefront, adjacent to the Capitol Theatre on West 65th. Like all the best bookstores, it is small on ground level but features a large basement full of moe stuff. The Sally Tatnall Black Box The basement is your average, unfinished urban basement. Cement floors, brick walls. They have readings in what they call the “Sally Tatnall Black Box”. It’s homely state reminded me of personal episodes from mid-90s Tremont. Installations, happenings. It’s the kind of location I would like to see something theatrical “take place” in. So of course I was thrilled to discover the Ninjas would be satisfying my desires with this production. They have created a neat little cabaret stage, crammed into one corner of the space, more than or only just enough room for their company of six to perform. Just a brief description of TingleTangle (because there are many surprises and it is not my desire to ruin any of them) and that is that the show is about two things: Sex and Ray. Not the two together (though that does come up) but that there is a great deal to Ray Caspio which is revealed in this production through his sincere storytelling, and then there's a lot of hilarious songs and comedy pieces about sex. And those are two things I would never have expected. The monologues are breathy with an almost off-the-cuff quality, like I just have to tell you this story right now, okay? Which is very different from the ensemble pieces, some of which are fall on the floor funny (I have said this before, making sex funny is very, very difficult) while others are erotic in a manner which deftly compel you to watch and forget there are others around you. Much of the personal material has to do with nothing so well-traveled as being gay. We live in a strange time, when marriage equality is an all but done deal in the U.S. (save the Deep South and, you know ... OHIO) and where the Cleveland Play House could rally all the local theater companies together to mount a staged reading of the politically charged play 8, only to have the appointed performance date fall less than a week after a Supreme Court decision had reversed Proposition 8. This is not the Weimar Republic, and gays living openly will not be forced back into the closet. We have all come too far for that. And yet. What do I know? What do I know about living openly? Nothing, I know nothing. What I do know comes to me from friends and colleagues and co-workers and storytellers. An hour into the show the lights came up and everyone was quiet and I was the first one to stand because I guess I thought the show was over. On my way out of the space one of their people said softly, "The intermission will be ten minutes," and I was so relieved because I didn't want it to be over. TingleTangle continues through November 15. Labels: 8 (play), Cabaret, Entartete Kunst, Guide To Kulchur, Ray Caspio, Starr Report, Theater Ninjas, TingleTangle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3317
__label__cc	0.603239	0.396761	Heroes of Loot 2 (PC) Written by Cheryl Gress Heroes of Loot 2 Developed by: Orangepixel Published by: Orangepixel Available on: Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows Number of players: Up to two ESRB Rating: Not rated Price: $3.99 on mobile, $9.99 on computer (Humble Store Link) Thank you Orangepixel for sending us a review code for this game! While I haven’t played the original Heroes of Loot game, I have enjoyed other titles from this one-man development studio. The 2D pixel art-style in this title is consistent with the other Orangepixel games we have reviewed. Heroes of Loot 2 takes place after the first one and the characters are bored and looking for more work. With the promise of adventure and loot they venture into this dungeon in hopes of conquering it. When you first launch the game, your only options are the normal and local co-op modes. Until you get enough experience to become a level five dungeon master, you won’t be able to enjoy the survival game mode. In the normal game mode you get to control two heroes and in the local co-op mode each player gets to control two adventurers. Strong Points: Fun dungeon crawling game with random dungeons and a different experience each time you play it Weak Points: Experienced a glitch that made a level unfinishable Moral Warnings: Fantasy violence and some bloodshed; magic and runes are used throughout the game The pair of heroes consists of one long range and one melee fighter. In the beginning, the long range characters include an arrow shooting elf or a magic casting wizard. The melee characters can be either a warrior or a Valkyrie. If you collect enough hero cards, you can unlock a barbarian, mage, paladin, and a thief. The melee classes are strong enough to move statues onto pressure plates when the need arises. These characters can also uncover secret areas that their long-range counterparts won’t notice. Since the characters share the same health gauge, they’ll have to deal with each other’s strengths and weaknesses as their lives depend on it! The dungeons are randomly generated so you never know what you’re walking into and each playthrough will be different. In the beginning the enemies are relatively easy and consist of slimes, bats, skulls, flames, and fire throwing, demon-like creatures. The pixel style graphics make it hard to make out what some of the monsters are. What I can tell you is that they get harder as you venture deeper into the dungeon. You’ll come across shops where you can buy shields, health potions, and other useful trinkets. Some NPCs will sell you magic shards which can permanently unlock magic spells that are available in future playthroughs. Other NPCs will grant you access to a warp zone or shortcut that will advance you multiple levels if you can afford to take them. Be sure to collect all of the gold coins and gems you come across. Sometimes you’ll stumble into treasure rooms and other times you’ll wander into a battle challenge. Be prepared for anything and don’t pass up buying a healing potion if your health isn’t maxed out. Gameplay - 17/20 Graphics - 7/10 Sound - 7/10 Stability - 4/5 Controls - 4/5 Violence - 5.5/10 Language - 10/10 Sexual Content - 10/10 Occult/Supernatural - 3.5/10 Cultural/Moral/Ethical - 10/10 Other than the occasional warp opportunity, there is generally one exit and once you enter a level, you cannot turn back. You can save and resume your game from that point though. The level’s exit is usually behind a locked gate which has a key hidden somewhere around there. Besides keys, you’ll occasionally need to collect runes to place onto a circle to unlock the path to the exit. On my first playthrough one of the runes was inaccessible and inside of a statue that I could not interact with. Despite that one glitch, I have not experienced any other issues playing this game. Each hero has their own inventory. Keep that in mind when you collect keys and runes as you’ll have to switch characters in order to use them. Some levels require you to use bombs to blast through thick stone doors. Throwing the bombs seemed to be hit or miss for me. It seems that you can only throw them at a certain location. Other than the bomb throwing, the controls were pretty intuitive. Between collecting loot, solving puzzles, and trying to stay alive as long as possible, I’ve been thoroughly entertained and enjoyed my time exploring the dungeons in Heroes of Loot 2. While this title hasn’t been rated by the ESRB, the original game was rated Everyone. Other than some blood splatter, this game is relatively tame. Given the randomly generated dungeons and fun gameplay, the $9.99 asking price is justified. If you prefer playing this game on a mobile platform, it’s an even more reasonable $3.99. Attack Retrieve Capture (PC) Mercenary Kings Reloaded (Switch) Defenders of Ekron (PS4) Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (Vita) .hack//G.U. Vol.1: Rebirth (PS2) Planes: Disney Planes: Fire & Rescue (Wii U) Iron Combat: War in the Air (3DS) David. (PC) Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (PC) Accell USB-C VR Adapter GAMDIAS ARES Gaming Keyboard Undertale (PC) Victoria II (PC) SSX Blur (Wii) Sign the Petition to Make Games Taste Great Again Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Wii)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3319
__label__cc	0.725228	0.274772	Creating Theatre Performance, society and politics Videos (Arts & Culture) Videos – folk performance Videos – digital performance Videos – diversity in theatre Videos – street theatre Making theatre Projects and companies Emerging themes in theatre-making "The Craftsman" and the skills of theatre Art check – setting up projects Arts Policy thinking Time and the stage manager Thoughts on stage managing – Interview Useful assorted weblinks The management bit – a few notes Change management and other ideas Cueing script – The Tay Bridge Disaster Cueing script – Green Eye of the Little Yellow God SM Resources Show costing – running costs Production analysis Management meetings Rehearsal management Technical and Performance PA ANNOUNCEMENTS Show costs – setup Stage management: the procedural view Notes – The politics of situations Theatre and community course Does theatre form a special case in the application of management techniques? Julian Bryant Theatre and politics Early work – Temba Beyond The Playhouse 1 INTRODUCTION – CHANGES IN SOCIETY 2 ARTS POLICY 3 THE STREET: COMMUNITY AS PLACE 4 YOUTH, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY 5 EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY 6 DIGITAL COMMUNITIES AND PERFORMANCE 7 CONCLUSIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY Stage managing in the curriculum 24th September 2019 4th August 2017 by Julian Bryant I’ve been putting off writing this post for some time now. The time has come to get things off my chest, and outline why I regard stage-managing as a valuable asset to the school and college syllabus. Having practised as a lecturer for thirty years; and been involved in the setting of vocational and academic standards; and latterly involved in outreach and widening participation, I have come to believe that the subject contributes, or can contribute, or has the potential to contribute, a number of characteristics. (Video shows London 2012, with in-ear calls provided by stage manager) There are vocational outcomes, related to technical presentation and the management of artists and events in live performance. The development of skills applicable to a range of connected activities. These include event management more generally; working in TV and music; organisational and training work among others. There are transferrable skills that have wide application: working under pressure and time-based decision making; crisis management; interpersonal skills; use of technology within a context. A way of understanding contemporary cultural representation, by understanding how meaning is created through the integration of human performance and visual and audio components. A way of understanding management and organisation through the development of a series of analogues and models. The theatre performance itself is, of course, an analogue; developing and presenting it is in itself part of this process. A holistic way of learning which lends itself to applied learning; the development of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action see . When I was constructing a BA programme in Stage management, I leant for theory on Jon McKenzie’s 2001 book Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance. In it, he analyses the real-life failure of the Challenger spacecraft in terms of its performative aspects. He defines three aspects of performance at play: the technology of the craft itself; the performance of management in terms of the decision making; and the broadcast performance, with its impact on scheduling, personnel etc. The latter two are also joined by the notion of culture: the management culture which lead to faulty decisions, and the launch as a cultural event screened to the world. This distinction allows for a useful way of thinking about stage managing, which goes beyond the traditional procedural view, and allows the stage manager to be seen as a creative member of the team, with a necessary understanding of the aesthetics of the performance. Technology. The stage (read, place of performance) can be read as a series of more or less complex scenographic devices for creating meanings. These will include scenery of various kinds; lighting; sound; music; and now video; costume and props. the technology may be simple or complex. All of these elements need to be designed in some way; pleas note, however, that uniting them as scenography integrates in some way these compo “Ka” in Las Vegas (Image from stufish.com) nents, in what I believe to be a sort of kinaesthetic relationship. Lighting and sound, for example, also have their own aesthetics, though properly we might consider these under the next heading. Culture. Understanding the aspects of culture production and representation is critical to knowing the outcomes which are being defined as part of artistic creation, rehearsal and quality management. There is an ethical dimension to this, making sure that inadvertent (or worse, deliberate) false representations, untruths do not occur; that there is an artistic integrity in the performance. In the West, we also celebrate innovation and novelty. The range of types of performance, through dance, drama, opera, music, site-specific and street performance, comes under this heading. Management. It should be remembered that the act of artistic creation is not separate from the creation of value, either in economic or social terms. Like any other enterprise, theatre is subject tot he same need for effective and efficient management. Gareth Morgan, who has experience of arts management, outlines a number of approaches to management theory, based on a set of models and analogues. To these aspects I would now add a fourth, that I think of as Community. As well as the outward facing aspect of production, theatre makers need to take in to account how their work is received, and the meanings not just as created but also as understood. The role of the audience, and the strands of society to which they belong, should also be a concern of the stage manager; in the absence of which, meaning can be misconstrued. Boal’s construct is useful analysis of the effect of drama. This short essay is in the nature of a rationale, and only points to the outcomes of training. What the content should be, and the pedagogy which delivers it, is the subject of another essay. Augusto Boal (1973) Trans Charles A. McBride et al (2000) Theatre of the Oppressed London, Pluto McKenzie, J., 2001: Perform or Else: from discipline to Performance (London: Routledge). Gareth Morgan (1986, 1997,2006) Images of Organization, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications Schön, Donald A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 046506874X. OCLC 8709452. Categories Craft of theatre Tags performance, stage manager, teaching Post navigation A new website Managing creatives and innovation Creativity Culture Organisation Drama, Theatre & Young People Manifesto Independant Street Arts Network Music hall and theatre history National Association of Street Artists National Association of Youth Theatres Tech Theatre BSL Theatre Futures Trivium 21c The importance of language structures Narrative arcs and Panto – “Alright you lot, shut up now and let’s get on with the story.” © 2020 Creating Theatre • Powered by GeneratePress	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3322
__label__cc	0.644019	0.355981	COPS CLOSE TO SOLVING '86 SALT LAKE CITY COLD CASE SALT LAKE City cops are hoping the public can help solved the 1986 slaying of culinary student from New York City. Cops say Patricia Ramirez was strangled and then had her body dumped above the Utah city's Avenues. Detectives have hinted they may be just a step away from solving the heinous crime. ACCORDING TO FOX13: Patricia’s family says she was a short, petite woman, full of life. She had moved from Brooklyn, New York to Posted by Crime Scene USA at 1:55 PM No comments: ANGRY SENIOR GIVES COPS PAWS IN KITTEN KERFUFFLE A VIOLENT senior may have been barking up the wrong tree in a backyard battle over cats and dogs in San Diego. Cops say the elderly man, 74, stabbed his neighbor, 64, after accusing his dog of harassing the older man's kittens. He then hit the neighbor in the face with a broomstick, came back with a knife and stabbed him in the stomach. The injuries aren't considered life-threatening and the angry coot was taken into custody. No names. Boooooooo. KILLER WHO TERRORIZED LA SINCE '50s PLEADS GUILTY A SERIAL killer who terrorized Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s has pleaded guilty to butchering and sexually ravaging seven women. He was given seven life terms for his trouble. HERO COP GUNNED DOWN BY COLORADO LAMIST HEARTACHE AGAIN. This time in Chatanooga, Tenn. Hero cop Sgt. Timothy Chapin was murdered by a two-bit thug on the lam from Colorado Saturday. But before Chapin, 51, hit the ground he likely saved his partner Officer Brian Blumenberg's life. “Obviously it wasn’t his day to die today,” said Pat Blumenberg, Blumenberg’s mother, choking back tears. Blumenberg said Chapin, a 27-year department veteran nearing retirement, saved her son's life. According to cops, Chapin was shot and killed as he responded to a pawn shop robbery. A second officer, Lorin Johnston, 45, was wounded during the gunfight. He was treated and released. COPS CLOSE TO SOLVING '86 SALT LAKE CITY COLD CASE...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3324
__label__cc	0.695574	0.304426	Electricity prices I Skeletons and closets Posted by: The Conversation Global Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2019 Edition: GLOBAL - Today's top story: The transition from fossils to renewables and its impact on consumer prices Click here to view this message in your web-browser. Academic rigour, journalistic flair As renewable energy technologies become more competitive than fossil fuels, they will play an even greater role in the energy mix of most countries. Roula Inglesi-Lotz and George Alex Thopil point out how the impact of the increasing role of renewable energies on electricity prices varies from one setting to another. It is therefore important for policymakers to have a good understanding of how the greater role of renewable energies in a country’s energy mix will affect electricity prices. Is it possible to use science to create a model for social justice and the restitution of dignity? That’s what a multidisciplinary team at the University of Cape Town in South Africa did when they discovered unethically obtained skeletal remains of Khoi and San people in their archive. Victoria Gibbon describes how she and her team traced the skeletons’ origins and began a series of consultations and ceremonies with their living descendants. Jabulani Sikhakhane Deputy Editor and Business & Economy Editor Renewable energy technologies will in the next two years be competitive on price with fossil fuels. Shutterstock The transition from fossils to renewables and its impact on consumer prices Roula Inglesi-Lotz, University of Pretoria; George Alex Thopil, University of Pretoria As the share of renewable energies in the energy mix rises, policymakers must understand how renewable energies can influence electricity prices. SutherlandReburials Jannetje. Skeletons and closets: How one university reburied the dead Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from. We are gaining against TB but knowledge gaps remain Emily Wong, Harvard Medical School ; Al Leslie, UCL; Mohlopheni Jackson Marakalala, UCL Many of the most fundamental aspects of TB disease remain unknown. For example, after exposure to the organism that causes TB, why do only some people get infected and only some of those fall ill? How a simple scan helped children suffering with hidden heart diseases in South Africa Cameron Dockerill, University of Oxford Hidden heart conditions, like rheumatic heart disease, can have deadly consequences if not treated properly – or not treated at all. Plague was around for millennia before epidemics took hold – and the way people lived might be what protected them Sonja Eliason, University of Cambridge; Bridget Alex, California State University, Long Beach People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in the middle ages. Could what scientists call cultural resistance be what kept the disease under control? Drug experts on the new guidance for medicinal cannabis Ian Hamilton, University of York; Harry Sumnall, Liverpool John Moores University NICE has concluded that more research is needed before it can recommend the use of cannabis based products for medicinal use. Civil servants, solar panels, and patronage: A Ghanaian case study Justin Scott Schon, University of Florida; Elizabeth Baldwin, University of Arizona; Jennifer N. Brass, Indiana University; Lauren M. MacLean Contrary to stereotypes of nepotism and corruption, African governments such as Ghana's work hard to respond to need over politics. They can mostly resist politics, but not entirely. Why Ethiopians are losing faith in Abiy’s promises for peace Yohannes Gedamu, Georgia Gwinnett College The prime minister may have won the Nobel Peace Prize but he has failed to quell the violence in his own backyard Follow us on Twitter. Join us on Facebook. 10.7 million unique visitors a month You’re receiving this newsletter from The Conversation. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe instantly. We’ll miss you. 2 MetroTech Center	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3333
__label__cc	0.598296	0.401704	Durkin (x) › Observations of carbon export by small sinking particles in the upper mesopelagic Carbon and nutrients are transported out of the surface ocean and sequestered at depth by sinking particles. Sinking particle sizes span many orders of magnitude and the relative influence of small particles on carbon export compared to large particles has not been resolved. To determine the influence of particle size on carbon export, the flux of both small (11–64 μm) and large (> 64 μm) particles in the upper mesopelagic was examined during 5 cruises of the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) in the Sargasso Sea using neutrally buoyant sediment traps mounted with tubes containing polyacrylamide gel layers and tubes containing a poisoned brine layer. Particles were also collected in surface-tethered, free-floating traps at higher carbon flux locations in the tropical and subtropical South Atlantic Ocean. Particle sizes spanning three orders of magnitude were resolved in gel samples, included sinking particles as small as 11 μm. At BATS, the number flux of small particles tended to increase with depth, whereas the number flux of large particles tended to decrease with depth. The carbon content of different sized particles could not be modeled by a single set of parameters because the particle composition varied across locations and over time. The modeled carbon flux by small particles at BATS, including all samples and depths, was 39 ± 20% of the modeled total carbon flux, and the percentage increased with depth in 4 out of the 5 months sampled. These results indicate that small particles (< 64 μm) are actively settling in the water column and are an important contributor to carbon flux throughout the mesopelagic. Observations and models that overlook these particles will underestimate the vertical flux of organic matter in the ocean., Published Durkin Silicic acid supplied to coastal diatom communities influences cellular silicification and the potential export of carbon Microcosm experiments were conducted along the Washington and Oregon coasts in May 2009, May 2010, and July 2010 to determine whether variation in the supply of silicic acid from the Columbia River could influence the silicification and sinking potential of coastal diatom blooms. The chlorophyll a concentration increased similarly in communities incubated with added nitrate or both nitrate and silicic acid, indicating that growth was limited by nitrate availability. Communities that grew in the treatment with added silicic acid and nitrate were more silicified than communities in the treatment with only nitrate added. No difference in community composition was detected between these treatments in three out of four experiments. Isolates of Minutocellus, Cylindrotheca, Thalassiosira, and Odontella were obtained from the microcosm experiment conducted in May 2010 and were maintained in the laboratory in 20 µmol L−1 silicic acid. All four diatom isolates contained ∼ 2.5 times more silica per cell when silicic acid concentration in the media was increased to 80 µmol L−1. The intensity of a fluorescent cellular stain of newly precipitated silica (2-(4-pyridyl)-5{[4-dimethylaminoethyl-aminocarbamoyl)-methoxy]phenyl}oxazole) strongly correlated with silica content among species, but was a less sensitive indicator of changing silicification within a single species. Changes in silicification were not correlated with changes in the transcript abundance of silicic acid transporters. Sinking rates increased roughly 2-fold for cells that contained ∼ 2.5 times more silica. Variation in silicic acid supply alters the silicification of nitrate-fueled coastal diatom blooms and the potential sink of carbon from coastal zones., published	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3339
__label__cc	0.646214	0.353786	: all » Himalayas : all » Nepal : Himalayas : Nepal Category: Himalayas, Nepal Regmi Research Series Welcome to the Regmi Research Series Collection Mahesh Chandra Regmi, Nepal's leading historian and archivist, who died in July 2003, was born in Kathmandu in December 1929 to a family of musicians; Regmi opened the Regmi Research Centre in 1959. As the renowned University of California scholar Leo Rose remarked in the mid- 1970s, Regmi's decision to start a private research centre, "was almost inconceivable in Nepal at that time", especially because there were no "assured sources of financial support from either the government of Nepal, a Nepali educational institution, or a foreign foundation". Regmi's initiative, Rose continued, "was indicative not only of a proclivity for entrepreneurship rare in Nepal but also of an independence of mind and a dedication to scholarship". Father Dr. Asian culture \| Cornell University \| Economics \| English \| Government \| Himalayas \| Law \| Nepal \| Nepal \| New York \| Politics \| Society \| Text \| United States \| Area Studies \| Social Sciences http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/r/regmi/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3340
__label__wiki	0.855113	0.855113	Blast rips Pune’s popular German Bakery, very clos... BICYCLE CHIEFS Pedal Pushers Inc 2009 was India’s hottest yr ever Shell Oil Comments - A MUST READ! Focus Humanitarian Assistance Provides Relief for ... ‘Everyone has a responsibility to save the environ... THE GREENHEARTS! Blast rips Pune’s popular German Bakery, very close to Headley’s recce spots Terror Strikes Yet Again On Saturday 3 Foreigners, All Women, Among 9 Killed Just Across Jewish Chabad House, Osho Ashram Asseem Shaikh, Swati Shinde & Mihir Tanksale \| TNN Pune: Terror returned to haunt the country on Saturday when a bomb blast ripped through Pune's popular German Bakery, close to the Osho Ashram and diagonally across from the Jewish Chabad House, recced by 26/11 suspect David Coleman Headley. At least nine people were killed, three of them foreigners, all women. More than 45 people have been rushed to hospital with varying degrees of injury. This is the first terror attack since the 26/11 Mumbai carnage. Over the last two months, there has been a growing buzz of an imminent strike, especially as India and Pakistan were preparing to resume talks that had been suspended after the Mumbai massacre. Now, there is a question mark over the dialogue scheduled to be held in Delhi on February 25. The explosion took place at 7.15 pm when the bakery was milling with people, many of them foreigners. According to Union home secretary G K Pillai, there was an unattended packet which exploded when a waiter tried to open it. The German Bakery is a popular haunt of foreigners like Leopold Cafe in Mumbai. In fact, both are mentioned by the Lonely Planet tourist guide and are therefore patronised by many backpackers. Investigators from the army's bomb disposal squad said it appeared that a battery-operated improvised explosive device had been used. "We have found traces of an explosive,'' said M Z Ansari, one of the officials. The impact of the explosion was such that the concrete walls of the bakery caved in while its fibre roof was blown to bits. The body parts of some of the dead and the injured were found strewn on the North Main Road and near the gates of the O Hotel, a few metres from the bakery. "The dead include some foreigners but we are still to establish their nationality and identity,'' minister of state for home Ramesh Bagwe told reporters. Most of the injured had suffered burns and fractures, doctors at Sassoon hospital said. Chabad House in Mumbai, which was attacked on 26/11, had been recced by Headley, just as he had visited the Pune one. Headley had stayed at the Surya Villa Hotel in Pune's tony Koregaon area which is close to the blast site. In Delhi, G K Pillai called an emergency meeting of security officials and instructed all state capitals to be put on high alert. A team also began interrogation of Batla House terror suspect Shahzad Ahmad to find out if he had any information about an impending attack in Pune. "It is most probably a terror attack. We are sending a forensic team of the CBI and personnel of the National Investigative Agency,'' Pillai said. Panic gripped Pune as the news of the blast spread. The police, however, refused to confirm whether any terror group was involved, saying it was too early to arrive at a conclusion. They closed all roads to the Koregaon Park area and a nakabandi has been ordered across the city. 2 VICTIMS FROM CITY The Pune police have identified the Indian victims as Vinita Gadkari and Shilpa Goenka (both from Mumbai), Shankar Pansare (of Velhe near Pune), Ankit and Anandi Dhar (Kolkata) and P Sundari (Bangalore). First Attack Since 26/11 Three foreigners killed, four others among over 45 injured Blast at 7.15 pm when German Bakery was packed Union home ministry calls emergency meet, rushes experts Delhi, Mumbai and all state capitals put on high alert Terror strike may set back Indo-Pak talks SATURDAY AFTER SATURDAY Sept 27, 2008 \| Blast in Delhi's Mehrauli flower market kills 1, injures 23 Sept 13, 2008 \| Serial blasts in Delhi kill 24, injure over 100 July 26, 2008 \| Serial blasts in Ahmedabad kill 30, injure over 100 Aug 25, 2007 \| 30 die, 60 hurt in Hyderabad strike Oct 2005 \| Three blasts on Diwali eve in Delhi kill 62, injure hundreds 'Foreigners suspected' Pune: Special secretary (home) U K Bansal on Saturday said "foreigners'' were suspected to have been involved in the Pune blast. State home minister R R Patil reached Pune late on Saturday night, while chief minister Ashok Chavan is expected to be in the city on Saturday. State deputy CM Chhagan Bhujbal and some officials said while the police had inputs about a threat to the German Bakery and security had been beefed up in the Koregaon area, Patil denied there was any intelligence input about an attack. Ali Reza, a Canadian, is rushed to hospital as the army moves in German Bakery in the heart of Pune is popular with foreigners, just as Leopold restaurant is in Mumbai A growing number of environmentally conscious corporate honchos in Mumbai are ditching their fancy wheels for humbler ones Recently, during a routine campus presentation, Saurabh Gupta confused many students in his audience. Despite being the HR manager of a famous Indian coffee chain, this pinstriped executive arrived on a bicycle. While taking his laptop out from the back seat, he noticed the students staring suspiciously at him in the parking lot. But before they started imagining recession hangovers or began doubting his company's purse, Gupta decided to clarify. In a style reminiscent of Kapil Dev, he told them that the bicycle was, in fact, the secret of his energy. Since 2007, cycling has been this Bandra-based coffee chain employee's favourite morning stimulant. Gupta has been commuting daily to his office in Worli on a cycle for over three years and this 25-minute ride, he claims, has done more for his productivity than even caffeine. "I feel dynamic, charged, and capable of fresh ideas through the day,'' says Gupta, who chose thehumble vehicle in a bid to change his sedentary, desktop lifestyle. At first, colleagues thought Gupta had lost it when he switched from his car to a cycle. Today, though, perhaps after gauging his personal profits like fuel, money, time and attractive losses like weight and calories, they have started periodically borrowing Gupta's keys. "Recently, for an office picnic to Diveagar, I took the bicycle on the bus and we all had fun riding it on the beach, one by one,'' says the triumphant 35-year-old. Gupta's is the kind of glee that many working professionals, who have started consciously commuting to their office and client meetings on a cycle, feel. Not only can they save on fuel, feel carbon-neutral and skip the boredom of gym but, more importantly, they can escape traffic jams. And in a vast city like Mumbai, where roads are perennially clogged by slow worksin-progress, this time-saving promise is prompting a slow conversion from cars to bicycles. Cities like California, in fact, conduct what's called the 'Celebrity/CEO cycle-towork day' in order to promote the green practice and lend stardust to it. Closer home though, where the first cyclothon is fast approaching, this seems to be becoming a daily trend. Faisal Thakur, who organises night cycle rides in the areawhere Salman Khan is seen cycling accompanied by bodyguards, knows of a CEO who has started cycling cautiously to his BKC office. "A car follows him, with his laptop and other essentials,'' Thakur says. Slowly, a growing number of not just middle-management employees but also CEOs and white-collar professionals seem to be ditching cars and egos and uninhibitedly plonking on this middle-class twowheeler, to reach their workplace. Take famous orthopaedic surgeon Dr Anant Joshi, who counts Sachin Tendulkar among his clients, for instance. Joshi has installed a shower cubicle in his office room. He is often sweaty before operations nowadays, not out of nervousness. For the past five years, he has been coming to work on a bicycle everyday. The staff is always amused to see Joshi, who has a car, arrive on a unique bicycle which he later folds and places at the reception."Once, while I was folding the cycle, a patient asked me where she could get this electric wheelchair,'' recalls Joshi, who packs this folding cycle while travelling. It was his increasing environment-consciousness and frustration with traffic that made him sell his SUV some years ago, and later, after a patient, whom he had saved from surgery, gifted him a cycle, Joshi thought this was the best way to be green. He has four bicycles now, and the unique British-make folding cycle is his favourite. "Cycling is also softer on the knees than the treadmill, and is a better form of exercise,'' says Joshi. Bharat Bhardwaj, CEO of a health portal, has seen senior citizens in Europe "cycling to work even in rough weather, wearing raincoats''. Every Saturday, Bhardwaj too cycles from his residence in BKC to an Andheri hospital on a cycle. He is a bit embarrassed to undertake the 40-minute ride on a daily basis though. The hot weather is also a deterrent for him since he has to wear formals to work. So he sticks to cycling on weekends when the dress code is relaxed. But a strict corporate dress code need not always put a spoke in the bicycle wheel. Management consultant Mehul Ved, for instance, has found his way around this situation. The cycling enthusiast, who stays at Marine Lines and works in Andheri, wears cycling gear on his way to work and carries his office wear on his bicycle. On reaching, he dashes to the restroom to shower and changes into formal clothes. The entire routine, including the 25-kilometre-one-way-ride takes him an hour. Initially "my parents were sceptical about my safety as I was braving peak-hour traffic''. But now, Ved, who started cycling after seeing a few Twitter updates by friends who seemed to be enjoying the habit, says he reaches faster. "I know the good roads from the bad ones,'' he says. However, it's important to follow safety measures, warns Amit Bhowmick, CEO of Cyclists.in, an online forum of cyclists from all over India. Last week, he advised a group of IT employees from Thane—who wanted to prepare for the 'cycling to work' routine—to wear helmets, sport headlights and paste reflective stickers. "You have to be visible on the road,'' says Bhowmick, who himself reaches all his client meetings on a cycle. As a community however, these newly converted greens are visible anyway. Often, men in the backseats of taxis and cars, "the kind who read pink papers'', stare at Aparna Roy, the brand manager of an international energy drink. It's probably the daily sight of a 28-year-old backpack-and-laptop-toting, helmet-clad woman in capris on a cycle, she guesses. But these stares are worth braving, feels the Bandra-based Roy, who rides to her Worli office thrice a week. After all, "wading through the Pali Naka and Turner Road traffic has never been easier''. Her colleagues now tease her, saying she doesn't need an energy drink anymore." The bicycle gives me enough wings,'' laughs Roy. HOT WHEELS Dr Bharat Bhardwaj (l) cycles to work on weekends while consultant Mehul Ved rides to his Andheri office from Marine Drive daily Average Temp Almost A Degree Above Normal Neha Lalchandani \| TNN New Delhi: You might have been feeling the heat for a while but it's official now—2009 was the hottest year ever recorded in India and almost a degree warmer than usual. The annual mean temperature for 2009 was 25.55°Celsius, 0.913° higher than the long-term annual average of 24.64°C. Interestingly,of the 12 hottest years in the 108 years since 1901, when the Met department started maintaining temperature records, 8 have been in the past decade. This is in keeping with the global trend of the last decade being the warmest on record. Data available with the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) also indicates that the most abnormal temperatures—hotter than normal in this case—were recorded in winter and monsoon in 2009. In fact, they were the warmest ever. "Abnormally warm conditions prevailed over major parts of the country during winter. Temperature over (the) hilly regions of the westernHimalayas was 3-5°C above normal in the second fortnight of January, while in February the mean temperature over almost the entire country was above normal. However, there were cold wave conditions on a few occasions in UP in January,'' said an IMD report. IMD director-general Ajit Tyagi said the mean maximum and minimum temperatures of September were the highest in the past five years, while January and August recorded the highest mean temperatures since 1901. "If one analyses the trend, it is evident that global warming is taking place, the rise in temperature becoming apparent since about 1990. In India, 2009 was specially warm due to several factors, the main being the fact that there was a deficiency in rainfall in both monsoon and winter,'' he said. India saw 0.5° mercury rise in 100 years New Delhi: 2009 has been declared the hottest year ever recorded in India. The data, if not just IMD's claim, is verified by senior government officials, who say that in the past 20 years, there has not been a single year in which the average temperature has been below normal. "We are seeing a global trend being reflected in India. In the global arena, of the 12 hottest years in the century, 11 have been in the past two decades. In the past 100 years, there has been a rise of 0.74° globally though India has seen a rise of 0.5°,'' said an official. S K Dash, professor at IIT-Delhi, who co-authored a paper in journal Current Science in 2007 along with Lord Hunt, agrees that warming is an evident phenomenon though there is a huge amount of uncertainty about whether this is a trend or only a periodic fluctuation and what the reasons for it are. "We analysed the temperature trend according to regions and found an increase of between 0.2° and 1° in maximum temperatures across the country. The coastal regions probably recorded the most increase. However, it is difficult to differentiate between natural warming and human contribution,'' he said. The changes in weather have not been common across the country, the IMD's report points out. It says that "a significant positive trend in temperatures was observed over most parts of the country except over some parts of Rajasthan,Gujarat and Bihar''. Officials also say that this decrease in mean temperature over some regions is why India's increase in average temperature has been less than the rise in global averages. "The fall in temperature in areas like Rajasthan and Gujarat is because of a huge amount of dust in the atmosphere which reflects the sun's radiation. In Bihar, where only a small area has seen a fall in temperature, it could be because of a lot of greenery. However, the variation in weather phenomena over the country is also reflected in the monsoon. In 2009, while the overall monsoon for the country was 78% of the average, several areas in central and northwest India experienced drought-like conditions. While rainfall has not decreased, the number of rainy days has gone down, indicating heavy rain on some days. This spells trouble for our agriculture,'' said a government official. Please send this in formation to ALL your family & friends, especially those who have kids in the car with them while pumping gas. If this were to happen, they may not be able to get the children out in time. MUST READ, EVEN IF YOU DON'TOWN A CAR. Here's some reasons why we don't allow cell phones in operating areas, propylene oxide handling and storage area, propane, gas and diesel refueling areas. In the first case, the phone was placed on the car's trunk lid during fueling; it rang and the ensuing fire destroyed the car and the gasoline pump. In the second, an individual suffered severe burns to their face when fumes ignited as they answered a call while refueling their car! And in the third, an individual suffered burns to the thigh and groin as fumes ignited when the phone, which was in their pocket, rang while they were fueling their car. You should know that: Mobile Phones can ignite fuel or fumes Mobile phones that light up when switched on or when they ring release enough energy to provide a spark for ignition Mobile phones should not be used in filling stations, or when fueling lawn mowers, boat, etc. Mobile phones should not be used, or should be turned off, around other materials that generate flammable or explosive fumes or dust, (I.e., solvents, chemicals, gases, grain dust, etc...) TO sum it up, here are the Four Rules for Safe Refueling: 2) Don't smoke 3) Don't use your cell phone - leave it inside the vehicle or turn it off 4) Don't re-enter your vehicle during fueling. Bob Renkes of Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to try and make people aware of fires as a result of 'static electricity' at gas pumps. His company has researched 150 cases of these fires. 2) Almost all cases involved the person getting back in their vehicle while the nozzle was still pumping gas. When finished, they went back to pull the nozzle out and the fire started, as a result of static. 4) Most men never get back in their vehicle until completely finished. This is why they are seldom involved in these types of fires. 5) Don't ever use cell phones when pumping gas 6) It is the vapors that come out of the gas that cause the fire, when connected with static charges. 7) There were 29 fires where the vehicle was re-entered and the nozzle was touched during refueling from a variety of makes and models. Some resulted in extensive damage to the vehicle, to the station, and to the customer. 8) Seventeen fires occurred before, during or immediately after the gas cap was removed and before fueling began. Mr. Renkes stresses to NEVER get back into your vehicle while filling it with gas. If you absolutely HAVE to get in your vehicle while the gas is pumping, make sure you get out, close the door TOUCHING THE METAL, before you ever pull the nozzle out. This way the static from your body will be discharged before you ever remove the nozzle. As I mentioned earlier, The Petroleum Equipment Institute, along with several other companies now, are really trying to make the public aware of this danger. Focus Humanitarian Assistance Provides Relief for Landslide Victims in Hunza, Pakistan Affected people are seen searching the landslide debris for their belongings. Photo: FOCUSAttabad Village, Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, 13 January 2010 - Focus Humanitarian Assistance is providing relief to four villages in northern Pakistan that were struck by a devastating landslide on 4 January 2010. According to initial disaster assessment reports, Attabad Payeen, Attabad Bala, Sarat and Ayeenabad were directly affected by the massive landslide in Hunza valley, which killed thirteen people and injured nine others. Six people are still reported missing. Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS), Pakistan's voluntary Search and Rescue Team (SART), Disaster Assessment Response Team, Community Emergency Response Team and Village Emergency Response Teams were immediately mobilised to respond to the emergency. The landslide has had devastating consequences. In the upper part of Hunza valley, a population of about 20,000 people has been cut off from the rest of Hunza region. "We are still trying to get to these people. Unfortunately if we don't, soon, food and other supplies will run short. This is also winter time in the region, so families living without shelter and heating are even more vulnerable," said Fozia Anwar, a female volunteer working with the SART team in Hunza valley. Volunteers offloading medicines and relief goods received for Gojal. Photo: FOCUSOther villages, Ahmadabad and Ayeenabad, have been evacuated given the threat of water build-up or dam breakage in the area. Wazir Baig, Speaker of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) and Mutabiat Shah, Member, GBLA, along with officials from the National Disaster Management Authority are overseeing the response and relief efforts in Aliabad, Hunza, where relief items from all agencies are being collected. ThePakistan Army, local administration, volunteers, residents and trained FOCUS experts are continuing search and rescue efforts. FOCUS Pakistan is also working closely with the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Hunza. Over 200 families have been registered in four school camps established in the Altit village. Seven trucks carrying relief goods including flour, rice, sugar, pulses, tea, fuel, kitchen utilities, blankets, pillows and other items have arrived in Aliabad. Bedding and immediate utility items were provided to over 170 families in the camps, while other relief items are being stored under the supervision of local administration, and will be issued on a needs-basis. As part of its mandate, FOCUS Pakistan conducts regular geological surveys and hazard assessments of vulnerable areas across the country, particularly in the mountainous areas of northern Pakistan. According to a 2006 assessment of the affected area, there was a high risk of rapid movements and potential disaster in the region. The survey also projected debris fall resulting in the blockage of the Hunza River. According to the report, the eastern part of the village was the most vulnerable. "One block of the area had already been detached in a landslide in 1994. Since then, there was risk of another block falling off, since there were obvious cracks that were at least 100m in length," said a FOCUS geologist who conducted the survey in 2006. The survey and hazard assessment report were shared with the Gilgit Baltistan government, due to which 25 households were evacuated from Attabad Bala and relocated to safer locations in March 2009. Nusrat Nasab Deputy Executive Officer Focus Humanitarian Assistance Pakistan Telephone: +92-51 2294024; 2294051 Fax: +92-51 2294036 E-mail: nusrat.nasab@focushumanitarian.org Salimah Shiraj Member for Communications and Publications His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for Pakistan Telephone: + 92-21 35861242 Cellular: +92 300 8200350 E-mail: salimah.shiraj@akcpk.org Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) is a crisis response and disaster risk management agency established in Europe, North America and South and Central Asia. It helps vulnerable communities build resilience to natural and man-made disasters and compliments the provision of humanitarian relief principally in the developing world. FOCUS is an affiliate of the Aga Khan Development Network, a group of institutions working to improve opportunities and living conditions, for people of all faiths and origins, in specific regions of the developing world. For further information please visit www.akdn.org/focus Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) The Aga Khan Development Network is a group of non-denominational development agencies, created by His Highness the Aga Khan, with complementary mandates ranging from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities. As a contemporary endeavour of the Ismaili Imamat to realise the social conscience of Islam through institutional action, the AKDN agencies work to improve living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender. Working in the fields of economic, cultural and social development, AKDN aims to provide choices and opportunities to communities so that they can realise and determine their own development. For further information please visit www.akdn.org ‘Everyone has a responsibility to save the environment’ Large players in the corporate sector can play a crucial role in the restoration of degraded habitats and preservation of natural ecosystems With its diverse ecosystems and extremely rich biodiversity, India ranks among the 15 top biodiversity-rich countries of the world. However, with the rise in population, there are relentless pressures on governments and industries to convert forest lands, mangroves, grasslands and other wilderness areas for agriculture, industries, power and irrigation projects, housing and urban development. The quest for uncontrolled and unsustainable development has taken a heavy toll on India's natural treasures. Coming from one of the oldest business families of India, I have realised that any commercial activity has a carbon footprint. While this is inevitable, it is certainly not impossible to reduce its overall impact on the environment by direct or indirect mitigation methods. The burning of fossil fuels to generate energy is one of the major factors contributing to global warming. Although essential, we must also try our best to substitute our energy requirements with other renewable energy options such as solar, wind, hydro and geothermal sources which are less polluting. Waste is another by-product of any business venture. Total solid waste generated in India annually is around 50 million tons. It is everyone's moral responsibility to reduce the per capita waste generation substantially by opting for less consumption and using environment-friendly waste disposal options. 'Reduce, reuse and recycle waste' should be an important part of any big or small business venture. In my opinion, large players in the corporate sector can play a crucial role in the restoration of degraded habitats and preservation of natural ecosystems. Nothing can sequester carbon dioxide as well as a protected forest does. Natural ecosystems provide us with valuable services like fresh air, food, water, medicines, carbon sequestration, climate regulation, recreation, ecotourism, etc. Thus, the value of a standing forest is much more than that its one-time use as a raw material for fossil fuel generation or timber. In India, where large tracts of fallow land are left unutilised, it is essential to adopt such areas for restoration and make them available for local biodiversity. Responsible wildlife tourism is a promising industry in India, generating huge foreign exchange. Villagers living around areas like Corbett, Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Kaziranga and other tiger reserves of India have benefited from eco-tourism activities. While there is a necessity for developing countries to modernise and improve their economies, we also need to live in harmony with our natural environment. This can only be achieved by exercising creativity, applying knowledge and widespread participation. Every individual should be made aware of her or his duties and responsibilities towards the environment. This is where NGOs such as The Corbett Foundation which I founded, continue to play an important role. The Corbett Foundation was established in 1994 and today it runs programmes to help the rural populace in more than 200 villages around Corbett, Bandhavgarh and Kutch. Conservation can only be achieved by involving the local stakeholders, providing them with employment opportunities and motivating them to lead a sustainable lifestyle with nature. "Although essential, we must also try to substitute our energy requirements with other renewable energy options as solar, wind, hydro and geothermal sources which are less polluting" Dilip D Khatau Chairman The Corbett Foundation Do you know what Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, John Abraham and the likes do when they are not doing the jobs they are famous for? Guess not… Coz, these stars very discreetly don the green hats off stage to work on the mission 'green' When Willie Nelson sang the track What a Wonderful World, it did encourage viewers to 'reduce, reuse, and recycle.' Earth Communications Office (ECO), a Hollywood green group founded by Bonnie Reiss, had many stars support the tree-hugger campaign. With members like Pierce Brosnan, and Kevin Bacon, ECO made its mark with emotional public-service announcements shown in the movie theatres. The impact was overwhelming. People started to follow what the stars appealed for… The campaign acted like a wake-up call! While many stars associate themselves with some or the other eco-friendly group, there are stars that prefer to fight the 'green' battle all by themselves. Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Redford have been upfront advocates of green policies, but they almost single-handedly carry forth their campaigns. While Leonardo lent his celebrity status to produce and narrate an eye-opening green documentary 'The 11th Hour', Redford has been personally pressing many US mayors to make climate change a priority in their cities. While the film fraternity is all out to save the planet, music stars too follow suit. When music star Madonna and rock band Smashing Pumpkins sang for the Live Earth series, it did sensitise people to climate change. The superstar Madonna's Live Earth event had nine concerts played over 24 hours across seven continents before an audience of two billion. The bid to save the world was a mastermind of former US vice president Al Gore - who helped focus attention on the environmental movement with his Oscar-winning film, 'An Inconvenient Truth'. During her big event, Madonna called for mass global change to reduce carbon emissions and to tackle 'climate crisis'. Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney also took part in a hearing on global warning and food policy launching a campaign called ' Less Meat = Less Heat' (see pic on right). The aim was clear. McCartney and the associates wanted to stress on the fact that vegetarianism has to be the new way of living. The results it will have will not only benefit the present generation, but the future generations as well in the form of a clean, green and a healthy environment. Leave alone Hollywood, Bollywood stars too have been quite active on the fronts that concerns the planet. So when Farhan Akhtar, Gulzar, Tom Alter and the likes came forward to sign in support of NGO Oxfam's message on climate change in Osian's Cine Festival, it didn't come as a surprise to anyone. In fact, it did force people to think about the need to take eco-friendly measures. The Bollywood support for environment has been coming from all corners. While Bangalore saw Actress Vasundhara Das spreading awareness on save energy and planet by promoting (CFL) Compact Florescent Lamps, Bhopal witnessed Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor (see pic on extreme right) with film director Prakash Jha at a bicycle rally as part of an environment awareness campaign. That the stars do work for a cause is nothing new, what is new is the fact that both Hollywood and Bollywood stars are now all out to work for the environment. They are doing all that they can to save the planet from the clutches of deadly global warming. Such is the aura of stars that all mediums including electronic and print have been taking the help of glitterati to give away a strong social message. No wonder, Bollywood hunk Abhishek Bachchan was brought in as an ambassador of the 'Idea' campaign to encourage people to use mobile to save paper. Looking at the success of the campaign, government has also involved the actor to promote the 'Green Earth' campaign. The aim is clear—to sensitise people to the cause of Mother Earth and to encourage people to adopt habits that are environment friendly. The biggie wiggies have also been strongly pitching in to save the dying animals. The fact that PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) has supporters from all over, including celebrities like Pamela Anderson, Keanu Reeves and our very own John Abraham (see pic on extreme left), goes to show that the stars are not just there to entertain. They mean some serious business too. Fashion shows, special concerts, talk shows, road shows, rallies and star-studded nights organised exclusively all across the world for the cause of environment stand testimony to the fact that stars do make a difference; and that when these stars reach out, they do make an impact. "Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity. We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming." "An action is needed to prevent Florida's roadside zoos from keeping apes and to ensure that these primates are transferred to approved sanctuaries to live out the remainder of their lives in suitable surroundings." "We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over. It is time for all of us to act now." "No thinking about 'offsetting your carbon footprint'. No rallies. No browbeating people who think the Earth just has a fever. Pick one thing to change this year, and keep the rest of your life the same."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3341
__label__cc	0.678758	0.321242	The Iri, ancestors of the modern day Irians, were the sixth and youngest tribe of the landsmen, and the charges of the enigmatic Divhi Irik. The Irians had the shortest lived empires of all the landsmen and today they segregate them,selves in isolated Irian-only communities called Irinos where they practice their secret religion, speak their own language and horde goods, valuables and knowledge for reasons they will not explain. Irians, Iri (historic). Secretive, Distant, Strict, Formal, Severe, Abrupt, Ambitious, Xenophobic. The Iri tend to be a tall, willowy, narrow shouldered lean people, seldom muscular and almost never fat, and frequently have rounded shoulders and stoop a little. However as world-ranging travellers their blood is oft-debased, and they are frequently of stouter, more average build and height. Their skin is somewhere between that of a Ralstaan and a Ghan, light pinkish and given to freckles, tanning to a rose-brown. Their hair is classically depicted as an impenetrable blue-black, but individuals with dark brown to chestnut hair are actually more common. Men tend to have light body hair, and while beards are out of fashion, when they are worn they tend to be thick but remain defiantly straight and pliable. Long drooping moustaches are more popular, often reaching down almost to the chest. Classical Irians have hawkish noses, long jawlines and high brows, which only them appear stretched, and their characteristic almond-shaped eyes of red-brown, or even black. The skin of their faces is usually flawless (save for their tattoos), due to their habitual use of rich oils to anoint and clean their hands and faces, their cheeks can be almost luminous with health. Their eyes range from dark brown to chestnut, and their irises are large and reflective. The Irians have long been known for their habit of tattooing their limbs and even faces with intricate, curved and geometric designs in vivid indigo, as a mark of status. Some shave their heads and pattern their bare scalps. However generally forearms, biceps, and parts of the face are more common. Men tend to have markings on their cheeks, rising from the jawline to the cheek bones, while women generally have their markings on the chin, up to the mouth. These patterns tend to have little meaning in and of themselves, but they are passed on down a family, so to see one's family design on a non-relative is a grave insult, often repaid by death, or flaying that skin from the perpetrator. Many families trace their lineages, and relationships with other families, through their tattoos. Aetherial The Iri, being the youngest tribe of the landsmen, had no craft when they fled the Isle of Men, and without the ancestral magic of the other tribes in their blood they have proven particularly poor practitioners of the arcane arts since, however Irik granted his people another gift in place of a craft, and all Irians have an uncanny sixth sense, especially in regard to the weather. In addition the Iri are known for their good fortune, and the phrase he has Irik's Luck is a common one in Haedrasia and the Southlands] for anyone who has particular good fortune. Pureblooded Iri do have one more unusual feature, though whether this is a boon of unknown purpose or simply a quirk unique to the sons and daughters of Irik is unclear. Irians cast no shadow. Shadows may fall upon them, and their clothes and accoutrements cast the shadow one might expect. An Irian blocks out light as one might expect any corporeal being to. But when a ligh is shone upon them they cast only the shadow of their clothes. Irik, Son of the Heavens The Irian Divhi is Irik, worshiped now as Divhi of the starry skies and of storms since his departure from the world, but for a time he was known simply as the Hermit-Divhi. Irik had little interest in rule, and he allowed his folk the maximum freedom that he could allowing him to pursue more intellectual pursuits with the resources his people brought to him as offering. Even after the Second Wave, Irik simply led his people to a place of safety, appointed a council of wise men to rule in his stead, and retreated into his research. Some Irians now blame Irik for the general disarray of their people and the swift collapse of their empire. And yet Irik was capricious, even mischievous, and given to tricks and convoluted lessons. The Tribeless To be Iri is not simply to be born to Iri parents, or to be descended from the last tribe of the landsmen. To be Irian is to perform those Irian practices. And when an individual ceases to partake in Irian culture, he ceases to be Iri. When the Iri fanned out into the world, even before the departure of Irik and the death of the line of Irian Emperors, it was always their way to return home to Irikhan Mora, to renew their allegiance to the tribe, every few generations. Their way was to segregate themselves wherever they travelled, to worship in their own way and live in their own way wherever they went. But not all of the Iri chose to do this. Some choose to settle where they are. To mingle with the men and myr there. To make new homes and new traditions in their new lands. When this happens, they lose something that makes them essentially of the Iri, and they willingly become tribeless. Over generations the tribeless have been responsible for the spread of Irian language and culture throughout Allornus, but they have also mixed their blood with that of other men, and shared in the cultures of man and myr, and have become of the Iri, and yet not of the Iri. For their part the Iri are ambivalent about the tribeless - they take no offence that a man would want to settle a new home, but at the same time they do not understand why he would give up his tribe and divhi to do so. The mind of an Irian is a strange one indeed. They are a persecuted people, and are deeply aware of this, and often others become easily annoyed at this attitude. They are also deeply concerned with maintaining their assets, but not just material things, they jealously horde knowledge and skill too. However despite this attitude to outsiders, no creature on Allornus is more freely giving and generous with his brothers than the Iri. Everything they have they are willing to share, even with a total stranger, so longs as they have a shared heritage. However the Iri have also been called the people of the roads, and they are the most tenacious traders and explorers of any race on Allornus. In fact even at its height there were more Iri in Haedrasia than in the entire Irian Empire. Perhaps the disinterest of their divhi, or their comparatively short time on the Isle of Men, or some other factor, has made them on some level natural wanderers, for they are credited with building more roads, even in the lands of the other great empires, than all the other landsmen races put together. Irians are near universally disliked by non-Irians, and their choice to live in segregated communities is both a reaction to this attitude, and exasperates it. Their Irinos are usually the wealthiest parts of whatever community they attach themselves to, and outside these Irian-only spaces the residents usually wear veils and gloves, leaving only their eyes exposed for outsiders to see. Irians are the merchants and money lenders and exotic traders to outsiders to these communes, and most of their number are skilled tradesmen or better in their host societies, but they will never work far from the Irino where they live, and gold that goes in seldom ever comes out, because the Irians prefer to trade amongst themselves, yet their goods and services are usually the best to be had, so most grudgingly continue to patronize their establishments. Prolific traders, the Iri are thought to have been the first pioneers of currency, and also of long-distance trade - taking heavily laden caravans from one corner of the world to another in the days of the old empire, and building great highways wherever they went. Irian women exclusively make up the merchants, and indeed do a family's business, while the men are left to manage the household and attend to more spiritual matters. Known for their remarkable beauty, Irian women long ago embraced their considerable blessings, making the most of the unbalancing effect a too-close fitting gown, or a bat of the eyes from over a veil has on the largely male traders of other races. But for all that the Iri segregate themselves and jealously protect their culture, their language and their lore has become the most influential in the world, with modern Haedrasian being almost founded on the Irian tongue, and the Ahlonian language featuring a large portion of Irian origin too. The Southlands and even the shores of the Inner Sea show as much Irian influence in the names of their states and cities as they do Kelorn, even when Irians have never settled there. And even with their empire in ruins the Irian coins are a standard recognized all over the world, and remain more trusted than even the Haedrasian gilder. The Irian Empire once occupied a small are at the southern base of the Sirolas Mountains, but the Irians are wanderers and not given to mighty empires, and the empire quickly collapsed into itself. Irians live in cloistered neighbourhoods throughout much of southern Allornus, called irinos. Here they build modest homes in whatever the local style is -plastered brick in their homeland- and avoid attracting too much attention to themselves. They keep their faith a close secret, and are generally unwelcoming to outsiders around their homes, though they are canny businessmen and traders. What has made the Irians truly fine traders has been their tendency to wander. Irik is venerated by many as the Divhi of roads and ways, and the Irians are a people who never truly settle anywhere for long, which accounts for how widespread their culture is, but also how rich it has become. Irinos can be found in most major cities, from the Southern Soldatry of Haedrasia to the lands of Arumthar to the Unchallenged City itself. As such an Irian might have family to correspond with spread over hundreds of miles, and often they have far better knowledge of the events of the world than others do. Male: Addammus, Adosi, Alvur, Balyn, Brelar, Drathyn, Emul, Enar, Galen, Hainab, Hanammu, Hannat, Hassour, Jiub, Llero, Manat, Milar, Miner, Nund, Odral, Rilas, Ulves. Female: Ahanabi, Alavesa, Bedynea, Brara, Dalse, Davela, Elmussa, Falanu, Ferise, Gadela, Hanarai, Ilmyna, Lanabi, Llarara, Mehra, Minabibi, Minasi, Sen, Urshamusa. 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__label__cc	0.669106	0.330894	Schiaparelli at Home - Shocking Elegance Elsa Schiaparelli, the reigning empress of Paris fashion between the two world wars, and I say empress because she ruled autocratically dictating her style onto her clients without so much as an apology. Her style was distinct and constantly changing whereas her chief rival Chanel’s was evolving and turning into something comfortable and almost bourgeoisie. Schiaparelli loved to shock and she was shocking, which translated into all she did, she invented shocking pink, named her premier perfume ‘Shocking” and her auto-biography was called ‘Shocking Life’. Schiaparelli’s life at home in her favourite house, a mansion on the Rue Berri in Paris, reflected a fertile imagination that was not afraid to try different things, for the pure enjoyment that they would bring. Stuff was everywhere, tables scattered with various objects ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. A lamp with as its base a sculpture of a young woman, gilt goblets, and what looks to be a gold or silver slingshot. A bizarre object of a sphere on a stand with holes through it and spikes on top almost looks like some obscure instrument of torture. In the entrance hall stood two mammoth carved wood statues representing Mr. and Mrs. Satan standing guard screening whoever dared to cross the threshold. She enjoyed her Paris mansion dressing accordingly at home so that she was almost a part of the tableau she was presenting in each room. The only way one could tell her bathroom was actually a bathroom was by the bath. The rest of the room gave the impression of an overly crowded sitting room with stuff everywhere. A writing desk in one corner, a sofa in the centre, you could almost entertain guests in this room and I am sure the thought had crossed her mind. The garden on the other hand was deceptively simple, laid out traditionally and yet here it was that she did some of her most lavish entertaining, holding soirées that would rival Poiret’s of a quarter of a century before. She had other homes around the world, London, New York and Tunisia and I will explore these at a later date. Labels: Schaiparelli TJB March 30, 2009 at 7:08 PM She was a fascinating creature, all right. I'd LOVE to have one of her vintage men's colognes, packaged in a glass flacon in the shape of a pipe! David Toms March 31, 2009 at 11:15 AM Hey, I aggree! I have seen them sometines on ebay. I do have a bottle from the seventies which I do use occassionally, just love it! TJB April 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM I found one, which had a DROP of cologne still in it, going for around $150. Relatively speaking, it was probably a bargain, but still... David Toms April 2, 2009 at 10:12 AM Not good! Last year found an almost full bottle 1.5oz on ebay for about $70. Cologne was still fresh, although wasnt in the pipe bottle. Tom Adams for Agatha Christie - Illustrated Death S.S. France - Luxury With an Edge	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3347
__label__wiki	0.520031	0.520031	About: Timaeus (dialogue) An Entity of Type : Speech107109196, from Named Graph : http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space : dbpedia-live.openlinksw.com Timaeus (; Greek: Τίμαιος, translit. Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character Timaeus of Locri, written c. 360 BC. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings and is followed by the dialogue Critias. Timaeus (; Greek: Τίμαιος, translit. Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character Timaeus of Locri, written c. 360 BC. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings and is followed by the dialogue Critias. Participants in the dialogue include Socrates, Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias. Some scholars believe that it is not the Critias of the Thirty Tyrants who is appearing in this dialogue, but his grandfather, who is also named Critias. It has been suggested from some traditions (Diogenes Laertius (VIII 85) from Hermippus (3rd century B.C.) and Timon (320 – 230 B.C.)) that Timaeus was influenced by a book about Pythagoras, written by Philolaus, although this assertion is generally considered false. (en) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timaeus_(dialogue)&action=edit http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1572 http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/physis/plato-timaeus/default.asp http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Plato/Timaeus https://archive.is/20121202102249/http:/timaeus.baylor.edu/ https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%AF%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0179%3ATim. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0180%3Atext%3DTim. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timaeus_(dialogue)&action=history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timaeus_(dialogue)&oldid=928238428 dbt:Socrates_navbox dbt:Authority_control dbt:Cite_IEP dbt:Cite_SEP dbt:Cite_book dbt:IPA-grc dbt:IPAc-en dbt:Italic_title dbt:Lang-grc-gre dbt:Library_resources_box dbt:MathPages dbt:Plato_navbox dbt:Platonism dbt:Wikisource dbt:Short_description dbc:Dialogues_of_Plato dbc:Socratic_dialogues dbc:History_of_physics dbc:Physical_cosmology dbc:Natural_philosophy dbc:Metaphysics_literature dbc:Books_about_Atlantis yago:SocraticDialogues yago:Conversation107133701 yago:Dialogue107136206 yago:DialoguesOfPlato yago:Speech107109196 yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:AuditoryCommunication107109019 yago:Communication100033020 yago:Talk107135734 Timaeus (; Greek: Τίμαιος, translit. Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character Timaeus of Locri, written c. 360 BC. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings and is followed by the dialogue Critias. (en) Timaeus (dialogue) (en) http://sw.cyc.com/concept/Mx4ra1OHf77GQIeERis6170maQ dbpedia-ja:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-fr:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-de:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-pl:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-es:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-it:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-el:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-id:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-ko:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-nl:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-pt:Timaeus (dialogue) dbpedia-wikidata:Timaeus (dialogue) freebase:Timaeus (dialogue) yago-res:Timaeus (dialogue) dbr:Timaeus (dialogue) wikipedia-en:Timaeus_(dialogue) dbr:Timaeus dbr:Timaeus_(Plato) dbr:Plato's_Timaeus dbr:Tymaeus dbr:Timaeus_(dialog) is rdfs:seeAlso of dbr:Pythagoras	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3348
__label__cc	0.739038	0.260962	Fun-Sized Advice On even more fun-sized advice August 26, 2016 107 Comments How does a girl know if she’s the version of the Nice Guy Syndrome? Didn’t even realize that was a thing. Mind = blown. Combine a sense of entitlement with unrequited romantic feelings and, regardless of anyone’s gender, you’re gonna wind up with some version of Nice Guy Syndrome. Is it inappropriate to give a copy of your book to my therapist? Nah, it’s a huge compliment. For both of us. Why do I sometimes feel like I have a stronger emotional relationship with men who are not my boyfriend? Just grass is greener? I always tell myself off for this bullshit btw You feel that way because you do have a stronger emotional relationship with men who are not your boyfriend. It’s not about the grass being greener. It’s about you protecting yourself. Holding back some of your emotionally availability is a defense mechanism that prevents you from being too vulnerable in your romantic relationships. Why is so difficult for people to believe Amber Heard was abused? Because she’s one of those actresses that radiates a sort of Machiavellian cool. She seems calculating, and that’s all it takes for people who don’t know any better to dismiss her accusations as some sort of opportunistic contrivance. (I’m not saying it’s right. I’m just saying that’s the way it is.) Sitting at a bar waiting on a tinder date who’s gonna be at least 30 min late… WWCQD? I’d order a drink and enjoy myself. I broke up with my boyfriend and moved out over a month ago, and I’m still crying every day. When does the pain stop? November 9th, 2016. My therapist thinks I have a drinking problem, partially because I am open about my weekend indiscretions, and partially because ADHD can look like alcoholism. How do I clear this up? Hey, fucknuts. You do have a drinking problem. The alcohol is interfering with your life. You’re just so used to it that you don’t even recognize the ways in which you’re suffering from consequences. Stop rationalizing and try spending your weekends relatively sober. See what happens. Have you dated a man/woman from every race? I can’t accept the premise of this question. The word “every” is throwing me off, as if there exists somewhere a definitive catalog of the races. That’s creepy and a little bit wrong-headed. I’ve dated a lot of different people from a lot of different ethnicities, nationalities, and yes, even different races, but I feel like your question presumes a world view that I don’t really share. Do you think you’ve achieved your 10,000 hours? No, not yet. It’ll take a few more years. → On how it’s done ← On more fun-sized advice 107 thoughts on “On even more fun-sized advice” Elsie says: My cure for Nice Guy Syndrome is to passionately speak my mind. People either think I’m an asshole or value my presence. Occasionally both. What do those things have to do with each other? Because “nice guys” predicate their relationships on romantic attraction while misrepresenting their intentions under a guise of platonic friendship. Too spineless to express themselves, they concoct elaborate and narcissistic perspectives in which they are a victim of anything but themselves. If you consistently and passionately speak your mind… well, at least you won’t be misrepresenting yourself. But it’s also like always cleaning all your clothes with bleach. It is overkill, but your clothes are clean, and damn your whites are looking good (while they’re still in one piece, of course). Being outspoken doesn’t have to be annoying but it does require tact. You can be an asshole and lovable, but you have to also have some lovable qualities. It helps if you’re fucking hilarious. Damien Otis says: I think the concept you’re all fishing for is, perhaps, “assertiveness”? There’s no such thing as a “lovable asshole.” They either value your presence, or they tolerate it. Ha yes, the famous People who are always one hundred percent loved all the time™ and People who are always one hundred percent barely tolerated all the time™ ! I’m such a stan ! Queens of black and white thinking ! Hope to meet one of them one day. Mil says: Such a stan? What’s that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(fan) Can anyone enlighten/remind me what the 10,000 hours are in reference to? Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell. Junk, disproved social science from a garbage writer. http://shameproject.com/report/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist/ http://adequateman.deadspin.com/malcolm-gladwells-10-000-hour-rule-is-essentially-mea-1781601692 http://www.businessinsider.com/new-study-destroys-malcolm-gladwells-10000-rule-2014-7 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (“…“Dangerous Minds,” a suspenseful tale of criminal profiling that shows how self-anointed experts can delude their clients and themselves with elastic predictions.”, from that last link, gets me every time. That’s some sharp writing.) http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/ He never meant for 10,000 hours to be taken so literally. Like I said–garbage writer. Clarity is an important attribute of writing, particularly in journalism. Figures of speech are primordial tools, even in journalism. Deal with it. At a party recently I did a mini-rant about Gladwell, then admitted I was just envious of his success, i.e., “he’s not that great, jeez!” I feel the exact same irritation about Michael Pollan, except triply so, because a) I think he’s a lot less clever than Gladwell, b) he’s such a Puritanical schoolmarm, c) he does all his preachifying from a cushy spot as UC Berkeley faculty. I liked his essay about how the marijuana plant has tricked us into being its servant, but everything else annoys me. If those guys weren’t worshiped by the NPR-type crowd, I wouldn’t give a shit. But success plus perceived mediocrity makes me grouchy when it’s brought up as party talk. Just my personal and admittedly cranky opinion, I don’t want to debate it or anything. Just hatin says: I served gladwell at a restaurant once. I definitely got a “don’t you know who I AM?” vibe, but didn’t realize who he was until I ran his credit card. Went home that day and vaguely familiarized myself with his writing. He comes off as a hot air bag in person and on paper. Did he tip well? Always the follow up question. 🙂 You really learn about someone when you serve them their food. Or serve them in any other way, come to think of it. I seem to remember him tipping exactly 20% on like an $18 tab. Like down to the penny. Which is also telling. Tipping exactly 20% is very telling? What? I do that all the time. It’s nbd. It’s not a big deal. I certainly never got upset about it, but it is telling. Generally it’s easier just to round up or down. As someone who has lived on tips, I always round up and then throw a few extra dollars in because I know how much it’s appreciated. If you take the time to calculate exactly 18 or 20% down to the penny on an odd-changed bill, you’re likely the type of person that understands and adheres to social contracts, but doesn’t feel compelled to be extra generous when given the opportunity. You say it’s not a big deal, but then you basically say tipping 20% is for people that just want to look like they are being good but aren’t actually generous. I hate tipping. I want tipping to be replaced with straight up decent wages. I’m tired of it being a thing of performative generousness: what you are supposed to tip goes up by another percent every year. I dont want to be tipping 30%. Im stopping at 20%. And fuck you if you give me shit for not taking an extra 15 to 20 minutes to hunt down an atm before i go out yo eat just so i can pay in cash. Who the fuck has time for that? Luckily I live in a state that has a reasonable minimum wages for servers. I consistently tip more, but in my state if you tip 15% and the person is waiting 2 or 3 tables, you’d consistently be making more than I did when I was a post doc. Dude, chill. First of all, you’re straight making shit up. Secondly, I could go on for days about how flawed your shitty argument is, but I won’t, because none of that is relevant to my original point, which is that the way you tip given the current pay situation of servers is telling of some small facet of your personality. Yeaaaaah if your therapist says you have a drinking problem, you got a fucking drinking problem. Why on earth you though Coquette would take your side is beyond me. Wait, what? Did we read the same thing? Potentially, but they’re not always right. For example, my psychiatrist thought I had a substance abuse problem because I got busted for pot. Um, no. Smoking a little weed occasionally on the weekend is not substance abuse. It’s simply illegal in my state at the time. I was never addicted and it and it never interfered with anything else in my life. (If anything, it was extremely helpful in reducing anxiety.) She sent me to a substance abuse group and when they got around to me and asked about what addiction I was struggling with, I had to tell them I’ve never been addicted to anything, unless you count a few withdrawal symptoms when I went off Zoloft. I refused to go back. Some mental health professionals just disapprove of recreational drug use in general and will call it a problem if you do it at all. I’d want to know the nature of these “weekend indiscretions” and whether it ever happens during the rest of the week before I could say for sure. ADHD says: I’m the person that asked the question. My therapist thinks I’m an alcoholic because I see her at the end of the day when my adderall has worn off, so I’m usually acting weird. I have bad balance and run into things, I’m exhausted, I’m more emotional, and I yell more when talking about difficult things. If I’m really tired I slur my speech. This is just who I am and always have been without medication. I was literally born this way. Compound my baseline state with stories about getting drunk with your friends on the weekend, and people think things. It’s difficult to explain to people what this even is. Yeah, my husband has a lot of these issues – he doesn’t have ADHD, but he has PTSD with psychosis and a ton of anxiety. He does have a history of substance abuse; however, he will start slurring his speech sometimes when anxious or tired, and I’ve been with him the entire time and know for a fact he hadn’t had anything to drink. Same thing happens with his eyelids getting heavy – sometimes it looks like he’s stoned. He also has bad balance due to a number of things, but partially a bad ankle. I worry when he goes into appointments in that condition, because especially with his history, he seems like he’s on something. Fortunately, his psychiatrist and therapist are understanding. I feel for you. I have ADHD myself, so I have a lot of the same issues and I’m pretty much a mess before my meds kick in. Fortunately, I don’t have issues with the meds wearing off, since I’m on Vyvanse and it lasts until I’m ready to go to bed. (I was diagnosed later in life, in my early 40s, and still in the early stages of being medicated, just on 30 mg. of the Vyvanse. I know that eventually my tolerance will build up to the max dose and I’ll wind up needing to switch, probably to Adderall.) But yeah. ADHD is seriously crappy and I’m always worried about seeming too weird around other people! I hope you get things straightened out with your therapist. Hi ADHD, I might have a drinking problem, I also have histrionic tendencies, anxiety and insomnia, for which I try to go to therapy & take medication when I feel I need it. So, a few months ago, when I was tired & upset at work, I was reading up on how sleep-deprivation can mimic symptoms of ADHD: lack of impulse control, emotional instability, feeling clouded in the mind, etc. I flippantly thought to myself, could I have ADHD? But then I quickly remembered I never get enough sleep, likely because of my drinking problem. Also, I would never want to discredit something for which you take medication, I just want to relay that symptoms can be interchangeable for many different issues. Here are my questions to you: Why are you drinking (I’m assuming, heavily) on the weekends? You referred to your weekend activities as indiscretions, why? I’m asking because either I have some form of mild ADHD gone undiagnosed, which I hope my therapist would have noticed by now, or you have a drinking problem that you’re not admitting to, or an inexperienced therapist that cannot appropriately intervene / communicate said drinking problem. Forgive my aggressiveness here, I’m kind of using your original question as self-reflection on my own choices and behavior last night. I told myself I was only going to have a couple drinks, and I woke up from a bender in a state of existential crisis / emotional breakdown. I also get hormonal as fuck around my period, started yesterday, which could add to the anxiety and excessive dread, but look, even I’m still making excuses for my behavior. I went out, drank too much, and am now trying to come to terms with the fact that this isn’t healthy. Again, not trying to discredit a condition you need medication for; it just seems like many of these Aderall withdrawal symptoms you mentioned are also symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. (And I have a lot of them too. I am quite literally coming to terms with my shitty drinking habits as I write this.) Also, I appreciate Strangely Rational’s solidarity in y’all’s struggle with treating ADHD, but I noticed SR doesn’t have an “issue with the meds wearing off”, I wonder if SR has a “drinking problem”… Lastly, to, as soberly as possible, drive my point home without saying the words, d r i n k i n g p r o b l e m, once more: SR described their husband’s symptoms being similar to yours and cited that he has a history of substance abuse, history of substance abuse. Abuse. I’m going to take Coquette’s advice to you. I can’t tell wha point you’re getting at because you seem to be very confused. Ugh, I should have just waited and gone to bed before I sent that. It ended up sounding more like a journal entry to myself, which makes sense to me, instead of a question / message to you. I just wanna know why you don’t think you have a drinking problem…? @mil- I don’t think I have a drinking problem because I don’t drink that much or that frequently. I don’t drink daily, and when I do drink on weekends with my friends I don’t drink that much because I get drunk really easily, and hung over even more easily. I also don’t drink so much that I get sick or black out, or make terrible decisions (I do that soberly, thank you, which is why I am in therapy, lol). I also monitor my alcohol intake closely because I’m trying to control my my diet – good nutrition plays a role in controlling ADHD, and eating healthy helps me. I realize that saying this to you is absolutely worthless, and that you aren’t going to believe me, but all of this is true. The issue is that I started seeing this therapist just before summer started, and summers in my city are usually pretty social. There were two instances this summer where I went out with my friends on a Sunday (both times to street festivals during the day) and felt sick the next day. I told my therapist about it because I felt I had nothing to hide, but now that’s something she’s tucked into the back of her mind and casually brings up. I realized that she thinks I’m attending these sessions drunk two weeks ago because I was exhausted during a session and that exacerbated my weirder ADHD symptoms. During that session I showed up late, bumped into some of her furniture upon entry into the room, cried, and told her a story about arguing with my drunk friend the previous Saturday night about whether or not she was racist for saying something racist. Toward the end of the session I said something with slurred speech (I don’t know why), and she said “I see the alcohol has started to kick in.” I was dumbfounded because I hadn’t had anything to drink for a few days, and I didn’t realize she thought I had a drinking problem until that very moment. Now I’m wondering how many other sessions she’d suspected that I was drunk when I was totally sober. I understand how she would conclude this, and if I were reading that story as an impartial observer I’d think I was lying. Please understand, I am telling you the truth. But I’m just functionally not right, and seeking help for those deficits. It’s frustrating for me to be misunderstood in this way, because I know that I’ve been misunderstood my whole life because of this. That’s an incredibly inappropriate remark for a therapist to make. Call her out on that shit. She’s the one fucking up, not you. This has nothing to do with whether you have a problem with alcohol. It’s about you feeling misunderstood by your therapist. Bring it up in your next session. Talk openly about it. This shit is important, because your therapy will go nowhere if your therapeutic relationship is crippled by mistrust and miscommunication. Side note- It’s totally possible for you to have ADHD, and for ADHD to be contributing to your other problems. People with ADHD have a higher incidence of substance abuse problems (this tendency of others with ADHD is likely why I’m stuck in an awkward situation myself). Plus, people with ADHD also have sleep issues that exacerbate their ADHD symptoms. So, you’re presenting a strong case here for ADHD, even though you didn’t mean to do that. Neuropsych testing is the best way to figure that out. With respect to your question about the issues that I have with my medication that S.R. does not- we are on different medications. The purpose of vyvanse is to be a little gentler on the body than adderall. When I was first medicated I took vyvanse because I had strong negative reactions to adderall, especially when it wore off. I didn’t have this problem with vyvanse. After my dose of vyvanse lost its efficacy I switched to adderall and found that the side effects I had experienced before were greatly dimished, but that I was still super weird during the hour or two it was wearing off. I hope that answers your questions about those topics. I feel like it’s important to explain ADHD to people because it’s still really poorly understood. @coketalk I will do that. I hope the conversation goes well- I’m nervous. Thanks for replying @ADHD ! That context is super important, because I definitely got aggressive with internet courage assuming you were just in denial. I apologize for sounding haughty or anything. As for me potentially having ADHD, that is VERY plausible now that I have read the symptoms. I struggle with almost every single one of the things listen under a page I just read about adult-onset ADHD. That said, I will definitely explore it, with my therapist. Who I am surprised hasn’t mentioned anything yet. Maybe she is just afraid of my reaction. Unsure. Or she isn’t as good of a therapist as I’ve thought. Or, like you said, it’s so misunderstood and dare I say stigmatized a bit? Speaking of subpar therapists, I’m really glad CQ said that. Good luck. That’s not okay what she did there. And I do believe you. For real, speak your mind, good luck. PS: I might still also be one of the fucknuts with a drinking problem. And maybe ADHD too now, ha. We’ll see what happens if I cut out the alcohol a bit more. VeryOn says: We really need a new portmanteau for “Nice Guy Syndrome” that isn’t gender based. Someone please get on this? “…from every race?” Omg, thank you CqT for putting your finger on what bothers me in a lot of discussions regarding race! Even this morning I heard a politician saying roughly “I am not a racist, I’ve served black people all my life.” I took this to mean that everything in his world is literally black and white. I wish people could understand that when they say, “I’m not a racist because something something black people,” they are identifying themselves as racially insensitive at least. Which is exactly the act of which they were accused. Hey, that’s my birthday. Maybe I’ll make you happy, LW. Dime-sized-amount says: Coke’s personal blog recently betrays a pairing of a sense of entitlement with unrequited romantic feelings. I’m sure Coke doesn’t think of herself as a nice guy, and undoubtedly there are nuances here and Coke will bristle, but…someone had to say it. Maybe feelings get the better of us all sometimes. No, no, no. I’m not entitled to requited emotions, not at all, though I understand why you might think that. You’re reading the lines “I want those feelings. Those were supposed to be my feelings. Bitch came along and snatched what should have been his crush on me,” and you’re interpreting them as entitlement. It’s not, though. It’s cosmic frustration. I don’t actually think that those were supposed to be my feelings. I don’t really believe that his crush was snatched away from me. (That would be super creepy.) You’re giving a literal interpretation to a poetic expression of bitter fucking irony. I mean, I can’t stop you from reading it that way, but I would hope you’d give me more credit than that. to be very tender says: there’s a difference between entitlement and longing. “Those were supposed to be my feelings,” is, I believe, I thing she said. VeryIrritable says: Yes. And she even quoted it. Go team reading comprehension! there’s a difference between feeling entitled to something and feeling angry/frustrated/sad at a loss. you’ll notice that Coke Talk used the past tense on her verbs. she’s feeling the loss, not feeling entitled. learn the difference. Y’all, there’s no reason to be rude. Dime Sized made a perfectly reasonable observation. Yeah, what I think people forget, is that the Coke Talks are a creative outlet for CQ. I’ve made that mistake too. But gawd, you do write so beautifully Coquette. I think I’ve said this before, but is it worth going to a creative writing workshop just for shits? I work in healthcare, so it’s not like I’m trying to become a writer or anything. Of course it is. Workshops are great. The last workshop I went to was pretty awful – the guy who ran it was there to hear himself talk and little else. Is finding a good one just chance? Sorry you had a bad experience, M! On workshops: There are two types, first the official creative writing class at a school or institution that you pay tuition for; and then on the other hand (2nd) the free/inexpensive community-based workshop or writers’ group. In theory the first one should actually teach you something from structured exercises and discussions, and should be taught by an experienced, published writer and/or an experienced educator. To investigate beforehand, seek out word-of-mouth from past participants. You might also try a brief meeting (over phone/skype if far away) with the instructor to get a feel for him/her. The formal class-type workshop may also be selective of its participants, so your fellows will probably be at least half-decent writers you can learn from. The second kind of community-based workshop or group is more of a grab bag quality-wise — could be fantastic, could be awful. You could try the same prior investigation techniques as with the formal class, or just show up and give it a try. A lot of times those are open to anybody, so you’ll get a variety of experience levels and preferred genres and styles among the other writers, which could be really cool and awesome, or less so. There’s a difference between action and feelings. Sometimes you can’t help what you feel, but it’s a problem if those feelings become intrusive for other people. Nice guys feel entitled to act (in a smarmy sly way) to get what they want. * cue Kanye West’s 30 Hours. Some men actually have a physical bucket list of ethnicities and peculiarities to fuck. One of them told me once he has always wanted to fuck a cripple (but not one who looks too funny, ya know ??). Disgusting. White women totally do that thing, too. The checklist thing is gross no matter who is doing it. I think curiosity and wanting to try new things is harmless. Putting it in such disgusting terms as “fuck a cripple as long as they’re not too ugly” is fucked up and dehumanizing. I don’t know, i feel like the whole “i want to fuck at least one person who is black, and a white, and an asian, etc” thing is based on the whole idea that people from different origins and backgrounds are totally different in bed according to said backgrounds. Sounds pretty racist in itself. If you put it in those terms, especially if you’re counting, I think you’re totally right. If you’re into trying new aesthetics I think that’s perfectly fine. I don’t think that it has to be paired with an assumption about how a person is in bed. Example: I’d love to sleep with an asian girl (preferably more than one) because I think they’re really hot, not because I buy into the bullshit fantasy that asian women are submissive and docile. Honestly, all the asian girls I’ve known have been the opposite^^ I think I understand what you’re getting at Gaybeard, however your use of the word “aesthetics” and the example you provided still strike me as mild fetishization of people, based on their race, e.g., “I’d like to sleep with an asian girl…because I think they’re really hot.” To you that statement probably sounds like a compliment or a benevolent statement about Asian women, and I don’t doubt it was intended as such, but generalizations based on race (or any factor) are still sloppy and dehumanizing, even when presented as praise or spun in a positive light. I am most likely guilty of making similar generalizations at some point or another and I imagine many of us are. It’s micro-aggression type of shit, and obviously not a mean-spirited brand, but it’s not completely innocuous. Also, it can irk the shit out of people to whom your race or “aesthetic” based pseudo-compliment is directed (in my experience). Just my two cents. @Q It’s not meant to be a compliment, it’s a statement of personal taste. I don’t think anyone should be flattered if I find them attractive. What’s objectionable about stating that people from different places are aesthetically different? Yeah sure, it’s a generalization, but that’s because people in Asia generally look different from people in Europe, and people in Sub-Saharan Africa generally look different than people from South America. If we want to pretend that there are no generalizable physical differences between ethnicities, sure, fine, whatever. At the same time, I don’t think there’s any harm to being curious about what it would be like to be with someone who doesn’t look like you, or even have a preference for a generalized physical type. What makes it fetishization instead of curiosity? Where exactly do you draw that line? (pssst… all the things you named in that post are not ethnicities but races…) RocketGrunt says: Guys saying, “I’ve always been into [category based on appearance] girls” is always super creepy and low-key degrading. My friend frequently gets unsettling “compliments” from guys about how they’d love to fuck a redhead, and guys occasionally weird me out with comments about how they’re into nerdy girls. Throwing race into the mix adds a whole new level of sketchy. @Gaybeard First off, what you call “personal taste” is far from that. CQ breaks that subject down beautifully in one of her old posts (“On Personal Preferences”), so I won’t linger on that one… When your “curiosity” is fueled by unchecked assumptions about someone based on his/her “aesthetic” it fetishization. No one is pretending we all look the same. It’s that the differences in aesthetics just within the places you mention, Asia, Europe, South America, or Sub-Saharan Africa, let alone across them, are so vast it makes your attempt to categorize people along those lines look hella silly. It’s silly, of course, whether categorizing along line of race, ethnicity, or general geography, as you have in your posts. The fact that you use those terms somewhat interchangeably makes it difficult to have this discussion but also helps explain it. You seem to genuinely believe being with someone who doesn’t look like you is in and of itself a fundamentally different experience, based on what you perceive as his/her “otherness.” That is the essence of the problem. To borrow a line from CQ, your statement “presumes a world view that I don’t really share.” Yes, Tucker Max listed the races and not-races, such as: – black person from Africa – friend’s mom – mom’s friend – midget – amputee It reminded me of Coke’s reply to the woman who said, “Is it bad that he’s had 58 partners?” and the answer was, “no, it’s bad that he’s kept count.” As someone who’s had a very small number of partners, I can say that if pressed, I’d have to think of the number, and would likely forget someone. I’d feel bad for forgetting her, but, honestly, I’ve got other things on my mind – like getting my oldest ready for tennis season, teaching the youngest how to throw a punch (secure your thumb and you don’t punch something, you punch through it), and a variety of other things. Thinking about this again, I’m reminded of a person who recently said that he’d been to Europe 39 times, and that he has no interest in other continents. In the context of this and the conversation, it seems he’s fetishized the continent, and it helped me see that my initial feeling of weirdness was correct. How can ADHD look like alcoholism? Tf? ADHD (often, tho not universally) involves challenges with impulse control. alcohol impairs impulse control. but that’s sorta besides the point. ADHD is associated with substance use disorders. That’s true, but comorbidity isn’t the same thing as similarity. Alcoholism and ADHD are two very different diagnoses with very different-nvm y’all got it. Jessica Sen says: Dunno about you but my strategy is to be as strong-womanly as possible. That’s not always easy. First one had to be strong, second one has to be feminine. Being strong seems a no brainer but it frequently involves intellectual and ethical challenges over a sense of self. Being feminine is demonised, but not necessarily so. It becomes more about playing a role than about accurate character portrayal. Guiliana says: “Being feminine is demonised, but not necessarily so. It becomes more about playing a role than about accurate character portrayal.” I am curious what you mean by that. Could you please elaborate? I was the original asker of the ADHD question. I answered this question higher up in the comments, if you want to see. ADHD is a deficit of dopamine in the brain. This means that those with ADHD can often self-medicate to raise their dopamine levels, however the only substances with lasting and effective effects seem to be amphetamines (Vyvanse) and methylphenidate (Adderall) medications. It’s way more complicated than a chronic shortage of dopamine in the nervous system. Norepinephrine is majorly implicated too, and so are a couple other neurotransmitters too (choline, glutamate, maybe gaba and ghb too). Brain structure and development play a major role too (linked to but not entirely dependent to previously cited neurotransmitters). absurdum says: Small nitpick in that methylphenidate aligns with Ritalin, while Adderall is composed of amphetamine salts. do you mean effective for you or just plain effective? there are many other medications available for ADHD, including non stimulants like strattera, anti depressants, etc not to mention good old fashioned caffeine. My comment isn’t exactly about Nice Guy/Gal Syndrome, but it’s adjacent to it. I’m talking about silent pining that doesn’t necessarily include a sense of entitlement (like what I’ll abbreviate as NGS) but does include a “stuck” sort of preoccupation, even obsession with someone who seems to see you platonically. Women are unfortunately socialized (at present, hopefully changing) not to make the first move or ask men out. In parallel — if less explicitly — some men perceive that women who do make the ask are less desirable than those they have to pursue. This backwards socialization creates the conditions for female NGS or at least its milder form, let’s call it Pining Away Syndrome, because you’ve got a desire with less of a socially acceptable outlet. The outlet being, voicing your interest and making a move! Of course, it’s hard for ANYBODY to risk rejection and make the first move, but for women it comes with an additional risk of being looked upon with contempt for violating gender expectations and/or looking “desperate.” Thankfully, socially and psychologically confident men are pleased and flattered when a woman asks them out, even if they don’t reciprocate the attraction and have to say no. But insecure men (a not-insignificant plurality of teens/20s) act as if an undesirable-to-them woman approaching them somehow diminishes their own status. Caveat: Not saying some women don’t think that way, too, e.g., getting stupidly offended if someone they consider ugly asks them out, but the social conditioning surrounding the scenario is different. Anyway, here’s the upshot: One of my regrets as a woman was not making the first move more in the past. Instead, I too often ended up with whomever came my way, “giving them a chance” as I was socialized to do, instead of being more actively going after those whom I particularly desired. I’m not single now, so it’s not presently relevant to me, but if I were to start dating again, I would want to be more assertive in stating my attraction to people than I was back then. Like, own it!! There’s nothing to be ashamed of in being attracted to someone. (Unless you’re an adult and they’re a minor, of course.) Plus, rejection “unsticks” you, so you can redirect that pining energy elsewhere. So that’s my advice to others. Just speak up and ask them out (if they are available and not your boss/underling!). I fail to see the gender-exclusive part in the experience you shared. Men who don’t take on automatically asking out women are like that too, ending up with whoever comes along. Some of them get extra salty about it, and we call them Nice Guys. Men are socialized to always make the first move, so of course for several of them anxiety ensues (it can get extra weird when said move is to be made between two gay men). But yeah, being assertive in your feelings is way more healthy, and it saves everyone in it a lot of time. BlondeBlue says: I think anxiety over the presumed gender roles you described is much more universal than “several” guys suffering from it. Sure is. Maybe I should have used the word panic or something instead. Anxiety isn’t gender-specific, but when it comes to asking people out, there is absolutely a different dynamic for men vs. women. It’s changing, but very much still there, and more pronounced in older generations for whom gender roles were/are considered more inviolable. Men may have anxiety about making the first move, but that anxiety does not include the added pressure of stepping outside society’s gender expectations. That’s what’s exclusive to women – that specific situation. Men have a similar but different situation when they go against gender expectations by not making the first move, although it’s less obvious because it doesn’t involve any interaction. Years ago, I lost out on what could have been a great relationship with major chemistry because I was the young woman too fearful of making the first move and expressing my feelings to a shy coworker I was insanely attracted to and who was flirting back with me. He was too intimidated to ask me out, though. (And I am now quite certain he was interested in me – the signs are so clear in retrospect that it makes me wonder how I possibly could have been such an idiot to be unsure, but I was very insecure at the time about my desirability.) So we spent a year flirting with each other. The best I could muster (and this took everything I had) was to ask him to go get a bite to eat after work or see a movie I had gift tickets for – which he happily accepted – but they weren’t “officially” dates. And he didn’t ask me out. Dammit, I wish I’d been socialized differently and could have been more direct. At this time in my life, I could do it, but not back then. Oh my god, the same thing happened to me. With two different guys. Thank god dating apps are a thing because I’m very clueless as to how to approach a guy. Joe S says: To the Fucknuts with the drinking problem, check the book Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception by Abraham J Twerski. That’s the book that convinced me to enter recovery. Yes, it’s based in 12-step-ism, and no I am not AT ALL a fan of 12-step programs. I still found the book incredibly useful in getting me started. I attend (and host) a recovery meeting called SMART which is vastly superior to 12-step programs in my and most people I’ve met in SMART’s experience. http://smartrecovery.org Best of luck, recovery is fucking worth it. 10,000 hours of what? Writing? Or skills used in your professional life? 10,000 hours of trying to figure out how to be human. That’s gold. Do I try to fit in as a sheep amongst wolves? Or do I pretend to be a sheep so that I don’t have to be a wolf? Great questions. So little time. Turn on the wacky lights. It’s time for some real no-bullshit answers. goatsandsunflowers says: Coquette, what do you think is the cure for Nice Guy Syndrome? If I may; realize that being subservient is not the same thing as being attentive. Honesty is not the slave of kindness. Also, when you treat kindness as a means to an end, you are treating the victim of your ‘kindness’ as a means to an end. People are an end in and of themselves. Your presence is the gift. Not the ego-stroking. Not the martyring yourself with unrequested favors. Not the pricey shit you buy on their birthday. Not the note. Not the mixtape. And certainly not your expectations. Their presence is the gift. Not the strokes they won’t give your ego. Not the favors you’re afraid to ask for. Not the pricey shit they don’t buy you. Not the notes they don’t write. Not the mixtapes they don’t make. And certainly not their bodies. A gift with expectations is not a gift. ooh ooh, is this relevant? http://dearcoquette.com/on-being-worthy-of-friendship/ I feel like the presence-is-the-gift line echoes a lot of her answer to the asker from the link above. So nice guy syndrome just encompasses the thing where you expect something in return and are bitter about it? I’ve been feeling sorry for myself, in a bitter ‘alas, it is never me’ way, though not in a ‘it should be me’ way. I’ve been fearing that veers too close to nice guy syndrome, like being alone so much is turning me into a monster. Is there a name for what that is, the lonely no friends, family or lovers, no belonging at all? And whether there is a name for it or not, is there a way to fix it? I’ve been here for four years, and despite trying most of the time it feels just as bad and hard and lonely as when I got here four years ago in an attempt to get away from family that doesn’t like or care about me all that much. @GoatsandSunflowers, are you having trouble finding friends where you live? Am I understanding correctly? stop being an entitled nitwit. take responsibility for your feelings and stop violating emotional boundaries. People question Amber Heard because they’re seeing too many inconsistencies with her story and evidence. The “Machiavellian cool and calculating” thing just adds to it. Of course it’s possible that Depp was abusive though. What inconsistencies in story or evidence? She is a famous actress (so is he) so anything we read on these here interwebs is going to be skewed for more media attention, and Depp’s PR team trying to secure his career. The whole story is for the court. And her actions of self-protection, that could have led to any inconsistencies, were definitely because she knew shit was gonna hit the fan once she took him to court. I think it’s boss she did though. Another cheer for women’s rights! My personal reaction to when the story broke was that, as a critically-acclaimed actor, with children, I didn’t want to believe Depp was capable of this. Then, I remembered he has been arrested for a brawling before, and he dated Kate Moss. I’m glad you acknowledged that he could have been abusive, because he was. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gotten a restraining order. One big thing that stuck out to me early on was how her friend, Raquel, said in her statement that there was swelling on Ambers face. There clearly isnt any in the photos she provided the court. Obviously someone can look at his issues from the past and go, “okay it progressed into something more” since until now he has never been publicly accused of DV. Just because he didnt hit exes doesnt mean he didnt hit her. And Amber being arrested for it a few years ago for DV doesnt mean its impossible that she was abused by Depp. At the end of the day we dont know either. Depp has been in the public eye more so we may think we know him better but we dont. Even if I have my doubts about her I cant pretend that I know anything for a fact. “Possible” ? More like extremely plausible. The guy dated Kate Moss and Vanessa Paradis gurl. zhana says: What do you mean by that, are they known to date abusive men or something? No, but Kate Moss has been in the news for drug abuse issues. And from the sound of other stories, she could be a bit mentally unstable. That said, and I’m assuming here, a person like Depp, who may or may not have abusive tendencies would gravitate towards a person who is unstable. Because he could exert some manipulative power over them. Similar to a relationship an abusive alcoholic would have with a codependent partner? So actually yes, I’m sure Kate Moss has been with other abusive partners as well. (See: her most recent harrasment by the paparazzi.) And for Vanessa Paradis, an abusive relationship is the default mode for her. She started by dating notorious asshole Florent Pagny (she was 15, he was 26). After that it was Kravitz, Depp, and her last one was notorious drunk and asshole extraordinaire Benjamin Biolay. Child stardom fucked her up. Hm, cant say I know much about people she dated other than Depp. She always seemed fine in interviews though. I’ll do more digging when I’m not supposed to be working. She does a lot of hard drugs and she used to be alarmingly anorexic too (probably still is). But yeah she’s probably a very kind girl. @whoami: Vanessa Paradis? Never heard about her taking hard drugs at all. Leave a Reply to Jessica Sen Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3350
__label__wiki	0.997448	0.997448	VISUAL DIVE GLOBAL KOREAN WAVE CARDNEWS PHOTO&VIDEO Choi Si-won to be removed from Super Junior’s comeback activities Friends, colleagues grief-stricken over actor Kim Joo-hyuk’s sudden death TWICE members thrilled to release first full-length album ‘Twicetagram’ Marriage of Song Joong-ki, Song Hye-kyo shrouded in complete secrecy Korean filmmaker to make Hollywood debut in collaboration with Marbel Comics mastermind AllKOREAN WAVECULTURELIFESTYLE ‘The Villainess’ director aimed to capture action that seemed ‘impossible’ By Chang Dong-woo SEOUL, May 11 (Yonhap) — The director of “The Villainess,” one of two South Korean midnight screening films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, said Thursday he tried experimenting with new filming techniques to capture footage that was unprecedented in previous action movies. “As opposed to searching out movies to reference, I thought a lot about how I could film at an angle that no one has thought of before,” director Jung Byung-gil said at a media event held at the CGV theater in Apgujeong-dong, southern Seoul. “The Villainess” is an action movie about a woman raised to be a merciless killer and the secrets and revenge of two men around her. It stars Kim Ok-bin and Shin Ha-kyun, the stars of Park Chan-wook’s 2009 vampire film “Thirst” and Jang Hoon’s 2011 war movie “The Front Line.” Filmmaker Jung Byung-gil of “The Villainess” speaks to reporters at a media event on May 11, 2017, held at the CGV theater in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul. (Yonhap) “I tried capturing supposedly impossible action scenes using cameras that are smaller than the ones commonly used,” Jung said, adding, “I believe I produced something quite new in terms of motorcycle action scenes.” When asked about the Cannes Festival’s decision to accept into competition only films that commit to being distributed in French theaters, the South Korean filmmaker responded, “I haven’t thought about it much.” The cast said that filming was generally grueling, with lead star Kim, who plays female assassin Sook-hee, saying she toiled through multiple takes on several occasions to get the perfect action shot in the freezing cold this past winter. “Filming was difficult to the point of almost dying figuratively. The movie was shot in the winter and during a rain scene, I felt like I was going to die from hypothermia,” said Kim. The actress also felt as if the fate of future female-oriented action films was also on her shoulders. “I thought that more female action movies could bear fruit down the road only if I did my part well,” said Kim. Kim Ok-bin (L) and Shin Ha-kyun (R), stars of upcoming action movie “The Villainess,” speak to reporters at a media event on May 11, 2017, held at the CGV theater in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul. (Yonhap) Shin plays Joong-sang, a character that trains Sook-hee to be killer. The star said he found filming enjoyable since he already had worked closely together with Kim in two previous films. Shin appeared with a cast on his left leg due to an injury sustained during filming. “It’s a movie that will offer freshness to moviegoers fed up with male-centric action films. Please look forward towards Kim’s sensitive acting and powerful actions,” Shin said. Also starring Sung Joon and Kim Seo-hyung, “The Villainess” opens at the South Korean box office in early June. odissy@yna.co.kr 슈퍼관리자 TV star Sung Yuri ties the knot with golfer CJ E&M to build cultural content complex at HallyuWorld Rhythmic gymnast Sohn, F.T. Island leader confirmed to be dating S. American fans salute seventh anniversary of ‘Running Man’ Audition show ‘Superstar K’ won’t air this year, Mnet says Jang Dong-gun to cameo in teaser for new K-pop band Singer-actor Im Si-wan joins Army Name: Visual Dive Co., Ltd. \| Internet Newspaper registration number: Seoul, 아 02735 호 \| registration date: July 16, 2013 Title: Visual Dive \| Publisher: Eun Jung-Jin \| Edited by: Lee Da-som \| Address: A 9F, 32, Digital-ro 9-gil, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea Main Phone: +82-2-3397-7860 \| Fax: +82-2-3397-7866 \| Date of Issue: July 16, 2013 \| Youth Protection Officer: Eun Jung-Jin © VISUAL DIVE. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3355
__label__wiki	0.969018	0.969018	Home Sports News Resurgent Rose turns back clock to score 50 against Jazz Resurgent Rose turns back clock to score 50 against Jazz Derrick Rose dusted off his MVP costume, dropping a career-high 50 points to power the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 128-125 win over Utah in a NBA Northwest Division showdown on Wednesday. On US Halloween night, Rose turned back the clock with a 34-point performance in the second half as the crowd of 10,000 chanted “MVP, MVP” after the final buzzer sounded. “It was numbing,” said teammate Karl-Anthony Towns, who finished with 28 points. “I never realized something like that in my life. The man was just out there floating.” Rose, who was named NBA MVP in 2011 with the Chicago Bulls, scored every way imaginable against the Jazz. He made two clutch free throws with 13 seconds left to give the Timberwolves a three-point lead in a tightly contested fourth quarter. Just moments earlier he had scored the go-ahead basket down low to put Minnesota ahead for good. Rose also made a key block on a Jazz three-point attempt with two seconds left to ice the win. “This means everything,” said Rose, who was making his first start of the season. “I worked my butt off, bro.” Rose’s career had been beset by injuries since he won his MVP award. “I am doing everything just to win. I played my heart out tonight. My teammates told me before the game to just play my game and it was a hell of a night,” said Rose. Donovan Mitchell scored 26 points and Rudy Gobert added 22 for Utah. Jae Crowder tallied 18 points off the bench. Minnesota played without all-star Jimmy Butler, and point guards Jeff Teague and Tyus Jones. In Los Angeles, LeBron James gave the Staples Center crowd a fright when he missed the first of two free throws with two seconds left as the Lakers squeezed past the Dallas Mavericks 114-113. “It’s Halloween so we had to give the crowd a scare, I guess,” said James. The Lakers almost blew a big point lead late but managed to hold on for the win. The game appeared to be headed to overtime but the Mavericks veteran Wesley Matthews took it upon himself to intentionally foul James on the Lakers’ final possession with two seconds left. That sent the four-time MVP to the free-throw line with scored tied 113-113, but after missing the first one James made the second for the win. James finished with 29 points for the Lakers who were up 111-98 with 3:42 to go before the Mavericks went on a 15-2 run to pull even with seven seconds left. Luca Doncic tied it at 113-113 on a jumper, setting the stage for James’ game-winning free throw. “We had some bad moments down the stretch but this is the best way to teach them,” James said of his young team. Matthews led Dallas with 21 points and Harrison Barnes scored 19. In Oakland, Stephen Curry had 37 points for his sixth 30-point game of the season, and the Golden State Warriors beat the New Orleans Pelicans 131-121. Curry had seven three-pointers and nine assists, Kevin Durant added 24 points and eight assists, and Draymond Green delivered 16 points, 15 rebounds as the Warriors won their sixth straight. Anthony Davis returned from a two-game absence with a sprained right elbow and had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Pelicans in a rematch of a Western Conference playoff series from last season. Klay Thompson scored 18 points with one three-pointer for the Warriors two days after setting an NBA record with 14 three pointers in a win over the Chicago Bulls. Previous articleJVP to hold public rally today Next articleGoogle staff walk out over women’s treatment Medvedev subdues Tiafoe challenge at Australian Open Spanish driver Carlos Sainz wins Dakar Rally for third time Yastremska downs Sabalenka to reach Adelaide finals Barty advances in Adelaide after re-run of French Open Sri Lankan Indoor cricket team wins historic first overseas series in England	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3357
__label__wiki	0.523147	0.523147	Curation Club Affiliate Feeds Amazon Tags Avantlink Bigfish Games Curated List Rewriter Domain Tool Dancing With The Stars Results Published February 24, 2015 \| By Curator Lot of folks have been talking about Dancing With The Stars lately. Heres the latest scoop. Dancing with the Stars season 20 cast: Patti LaBelle, Michael Sam, Willow Shields, more 24 February 2015 \| 4:54 pm Dancing with the Stars has revealed (most of) the cast for its celebratory 20th season, marking the ten-year anniversary of the show. There is the usual eclectic mix, but one star is pre-ordained to win. 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__label__wiki	0.507445	0.507445	The Rise and Fall of Nnamdi Kanu I watched some videos of Nnamdi Kanu inspecting a guard of honour formed by his Biafran Security Service and the Biafran National Guard in military uniform recently. It gave me the chills. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he hoisted the Biafran flag, flaunted a Biafran passport and a coat of arms, etc. There is a video of him openly soliciting for money at the World Igbo Congress in Los Angeles in the U.S. to buy arms to fight Nigeria in 2015 before his arrest. Effectively, Kanu had created a sovereign state within a sovereign state. I don’t know any country in the world that would accept or condone this frontal challenge to its security and sovereignty. Certainly not the United States of America, not the United Kingdom or France. Did the Brits and the Yanks expect the Nigerian state to sit idly by as a spectator and just watch Kanu’s ultra ethnic/religious thumb-in-your-eye activities which were already precipitating the country into a major conflagration? Haven’t you seen what is happening in Catalonia in Spain, or what happened in Southern Cameroun recently? No country will allow what Kanu did to go unchecked. Out on bail, he upped the ante by declaring Aba as the spiritual capital of Biafra on August 27, 2017, where he stated inter alia: “Where we are is Biafraland. Aba is the spiritual capital of Biafraland. We started in Aba in 2015 at CKC. That day, heaven authenticated our move that IPOB will restore Biafra and that’s what we have come to do. We died in Aba at National High School. They shot and killed us in other places in Biafraland where they were protesting for my release. As our people rest in the grave, we’ll never rest until Biafra is restored. I don’t care what they say in Abuja. I don’t give a damn what they say in Lagos. I’m a Biafran and we are going to crumble the zoo. “Some idiots who are not educated said that they’ll arrest me, and I ask them to come, I’m in Biafra. If any of them leaves Biafraland alive, know that this is not IPOB. Tell them what I said. Tell Buhari that I am in Aba and any person who comes to arrest Nnamdi Kanu in Biafraland will die here. I’ll never go on exile I assure you. Some people talk about restructuring, are we doing the restructuring of Nigeria now? Are we doing fiscal federalism? Are we doing devolution? What we want is Biafra! Forget all the nonsense they write about us. We are not slowing down and no man born of a woman can stop us…” Until recently, I didn’t pay much attention to him. All that changed when the deadly implications of his activities and actions started to unfold in a more direct way just a few weeks ago; his overarching modus operandi had raised fears of a general ethnic/religious conflagration in the country. Everyone could feel the tension in the country a few weeks back. It was really unnerving and frightening. Again, I watched the video of some women spreading their wrappers on the ground for Kanu to walk on. I saw yet another video of a man prostrating to kiss his feet. Many men and women, both young and old showered praises on him and even worshipped him. Yes, I am not kidding, they idolised and worshipped him. There is another video of a man describing Kanu as god-like to him and that anything he commands him to do, he would gladly do. Some of us know what such deification of a man can do to a person’s mind. He begins to see himself as an all-powerful demigod. His followers/victims lose their ability for independent rational reasoning just like the man who said anything Kanu commanded him to do, he would gladly obey him. That is a classic example of brainwashing. The more the victim surrenders control of himself, the more powerful his captor becomes. History is replete with leaders whose actions caused the needless deaths of millions of people across the world: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, etc. We see this time and again from fake religious/cult leaders who lead their followers to commit mass suicide. Remember The Guyana Tragedy? On November 18, 1978, more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones participated in a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, ordered by Jim Jones. Only a few members came out alive to tell the horrific tales of abuses that went on in that temple. There have been others after Jim Jones. There are so many disturbing videos and audio recordings of Kanu crossing the line on the internet. This guy’s manner was reprehensible, his utterances uncouth, vulgar and delusional. His methods were extremely reckless and dangerous. As if that wasn’t enough, his ethno-religious bombast was chilling, provocative and appeared deliberately designed to provoke a wider ethnic/religious conflagration in the country. And not surprisingly, he made no pretension about his mission and actually took concrete actions to achieve it. He seemed obsessed with the realisation of Biafra at all costs as if that was the solution to the problems in the South-east. But for the quick intervention of the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike with his statewide broadcast to reassure all citizens of their safety and the timely action by the South-east governors, perhaps we would have been talking of a bloody ethno/religious conflagration across the country. Whose interest would that have served? Flaunting his misguided power and influence, he boasted that the coming Anambra governorship election would not hold, and then expanded his threat to the entire South-east in the 2019 elections. He called for a sit-at-home protest to demonstrate his new-found powers. He boasted that he controlled the people of the South-east 100 per cent. Kanu threatened that if his bail was revoked and the federal government re-arrested him, he had already left instructions with his IPOB members to burn down Nigeria. I shudder to think what this man would have become if he succeeded with Biafra. Kanu lacked the temperament of a leader. He was already drunk with the adulation showered on him. Power in the hands of a man like Kanu would have amounted to a dangerous mix of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. He demonstrably drew disturbing similarities with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un who routinely executes his people on the flimsiest of excuses. For all my frustrations and doubts about Nigeria, and despite the imperfections of how it was created, I don’t want a break-up of our fatherland and I believe so many other people share this with me. I believe we can make this country better. I am against the marginalisation of any section of this country like President Muhammadu Buhari is doing to the entire South, especially the South-east. And for the umpteenth time, I state that those who brought Buhari to power put a knife to the fragile things that hold us together. I am wholeheartedly and unreservedly in support of the restructuring of Nigeria to make it work for us all, and not for the current few. Whether this was Kanu’s ultimate game plan, I have no idea, but I have my doubts. The question to ask Kanu is: Was secession the answer to marginalisation? What made him think that a sovereign Biafra state would end poverty and corruption in the South-east as we have in other parts of the country? Who appointed him leader of the Igbo to lead the charge for Biafra? Did he even think through the full ramifications of Biafra on Igbo people across the country? Would a Biafra have ceased to produce jesters and clowns like Rochas Okorocha if it had succeeded in breaking away? Most of the people shouting Biafra were acting more out of emotion rather than reason. The truth is the South-east has had a succession of bad leaders just like the rest of the country. The region is still so backward despite its potential, precisely because of a lack of innovative and creative leadership to unleash a tidal wave of opportunities for its people. However, I must state without equivocation that Buhari’s ethnic agenda to right the perceived wrongs done to the North and his brazen implementation of that agenda despite protestations, is what is fueling the likes of Kanu and the massive agitations in the country even though I found Kanu’s methods and tactics abhorrent. Again, the president’s feeble response to the mindless atrocities, killings and destruction of properties by the Fulani herdsmen, is another case in point. At a time he should have shown leadership, he opted for partisanship. To save Nigeria, this country has to be restructured. Restructuring is not a call to arms, but a call for equity and justice so that everybody will have a sense of belonging in this potentially great country. Still on Kanu, I must confess that I was amazed by the physical metamorphosis of this young fellow: from a clean-shaven jeans and shirt-wearing romantic fine boy on the streets of London to this fiery, incendiary hate-spewing, war-mongering, grey-bearded secessionist megalomaniac. His sudden transformation to Mazi Kanu in traditional Isi-agwu (head of lion) jumper, complemented by a Rabbi’s cap, his latter-day slow gait, slightly hunched back and his gold-plated walking stick to create the image of an elder of pre-eminent distinction from the army of jobless folks who thronged his father’s house to practically worship him in his new role as the new uncrowned leader of the Igbo race testified to my suspicion about this man’s sense of delusional grandeur. He used to walk normally like you and I, even as recently as his release from prison on bail. Where did all these theatrics come from so suddenly? Is this what perceived power does to a man? What was a young man in his forties with no trace of ill health, or visible handicap to his ability to walk doing with a walking stick? Again, why was he displaying the photograph of Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America alongside his, when announcing the activities of IPOB? Did Trump subscribe to his activities? Was that action alone not a classical case of “419”, using Trump’s picture to hoodwink and fool his gullible support base to create the impression that Trump supported the Biafra cause? Wetin concern Trump with Biafra? Did this not also tell us that this was a disturbed young man? That he even chose a world-reject like Trump to market his Biafra cause said a lot about his mental state. What was wrong with Kanu? Kanu in my estimation failed the one important quality of leadership: selflessness. Kanu was arrested and imprisoned alongside Onwudiwe Chidiebere, Banjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi. They were arraigned by the federal government last year on an 11-count charge for terrorism, treasonable felony and illegal possession of firearms, among others. He alone was granted bail ostensibly on health grounds. That to me was somewhat political. Contrary to the expectations of some, he accepted the bail and left other apparent accomplices in prison. Once he got out, he never spoke publicly about the other guys rotting away in prison. I never once heard him fight for their release. I had expected him to refuse his bail until others were equally granted bail. But no, he took the bail and forgot his co-accused. To me, that did not look good for his leadership credentials. What kind of freedom fighter abandons his followers in prison while he enjoys freedom? With Kanu almost certainly now a fugitive from justice, God only knows when his co-accused will smell freedom. He has put those who signed his bail surety in trouble with the law as Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe admitted recently; another failure of leadership. These people staked their reputations and credibility built over several decades to surety someone they barely knew. Now, they are going to suffer the short end of the stick. However, I can hardly sympathise with them because they wanted to earn some political gain from Kanu’s then-rising profile. The irony is that Kanu was not the only one who abandoned his co-accused. Ohanaeze leaders and the South-east intelligentsia were uninterested in their plight. Charles Soludo was not interested in their freedom, the former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, was not interested in their release either. Instead, the inconvenient truth is that they gave subtle nudging to Kanu and his activities. Some have argued that Kanu and his IPOB members were not armed and that their pro-Biafra protests were peaceful. But anyone who was honest enough would have seen a clear direction towards violence. For God’s sake, Kanu was soliciting for money to buy guns, bullets, etc., to wage a war of secession against Nigeria. He created a uniformed army, a national guard, etc. Danger, they say, comes in many forms. Did Nigeria need to wait for him to be armed before taking action? From his statement declaring Aba the spiritual capital, he sounded like someone armed and ready for a duel. We were witnessing a quiet replay of what the Northern elders, the Borno Elders Forum (by the way, where are they now?) and the entire Northern intelligentsia did with Boko Haram. They nudged the deadly sect on until it became too late. I can recall how even the Sultan of Sokoto denied that it was not Boko Haram that was carrying out the mindless atrocities, killings and bombings. The Northern intelligentsia rationalised all the inexcusable behaviour of members of the terror group all because they wanted power at all costs. They never condemned the bestial terrorists. Instead for every attack by the terrorists, they condemned the Jonathan government “for allowing the attack”. Even Buhari, the hero of “Change”, supported Boko Haram all in an effort to undermine the then government. He emerged the biggest beneficiary of the activities of that evil sect. Lest we forget, the terror group went as far as nominating him as its chief negotiator with the Jonathan government. His party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) latched on to every opportunity to benefit from the activities of the terror group. Nothing was abhorrent to it as long as it could gain from the mindless destruction of lives; a pursuit rooted in the philosophy of the end justifying the means. At the height of the Boko Haram saga, the party’s governors went to Maiduguri, Borno State, the heartland of the terror group, on a purported solidarity visit to pose for photographs on the streets of the city and then circulated them widely in the press the next day as if that was enough to solve the problem. Note that the governors didn’t proffer solutions to deal with the terror group. They were more interested in the photo opportunity. Have the APC governors visited Maiduguri again on a solidarity tour? No! The party of “rogues and come-and-chop politicians” got what it desperately wanted, but today it is a miserable failure in governance. The propaganda it used to win power has so far failed it on all fronts. Can you beat that? Today the terror group it supported to win power is still out of control. If you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. The leaders of the South-east were repeating the same mistake. We’ve been witness to this tendency in the recent past. When the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) and other such violent groups in the South-west were breaking the law, leaders of the South-west were usually silent, they did not condemn the groups. The same thing happens in Niger Delta, the elders give subtle encouragement to criminality of some people masquerading as freedom fighters but who in actual fact are fighting for their personal pockets. Kanu seemed to enjoy pushing fate. He needed the danger that came with it to promote himself and looked tough. For a brief period, he said anything, did anything and got away with it. And like all high-risk gamblers, he saw himself as the ace in the pack to actualise Biafra. 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__label__wiki	0.718967	0.718967	written by admin January 7, 2018 Image Source: Pinterest Donn Beach (formerly Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt) created Tiki when he opened a small nautical-themed bar, Don’s Beachcomber Cafe, in a tiny nook on McCadden Place in Hollywood in 1933. Patrons who wandered up the street from Hollywood Boulevard were intrigued by the novel ideas the encountered, but few of them realized that they were participating in the founding of an important style and cultural aesthetic which would sweep over the country and the rest of the world for nearly a century. A world traveler and adventurer, Donn was the original inventor of more than ninety exotic rum concoctions, including the Zombie, Cobra’s Fang, and Pearl Diver, to name but a few. Here’s a list of his 10 best drinks for your enjoyment. Rich and refreshing, the Never Say Die cocktail (from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s Grog Log and Remixed) was certainly one of Donn’s more ambitious sounding libations, yet the drink itself is somewhat mild in nature considering the classic Beach approach of using three different rums. Nevertheless, the flavors are quite robust and have a lot going on for a drink that contains 9 ingredients. Notable for being served in the now-defunct ‘chimney glass,’ the drink’s moniker of ‘Never Say Die,’ has been around since at least the early 1800s. One of the earliest published examples of the expression is from The Man of War’s Man (part of a novel serialization) printed in Blackwood’s Magazine, Volume 18, in 1825. In it, the expression is uttered as follows: “Cheer up then, and never say die, for the devil a morsel of good it will do.” Another Beach cocktail, Three Dots and a Dash would also play on similar wartime sentiment, further demonstrating Tiki’s yearning for escapist fantasy amidst economic depression and the theatre of war. Among the more playfully-labeled concoctions Donn was famous for, the classic Missionary’s Downfall (from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s Grog Log and Remixed) is notable for its unique appearance, as well as the fact that it requires the use of fresh herbs and fruit to be blended into the drink; something which at the time was largely seen as a modern innovation. Conceived of in the late 1930s, the Missionary’s Downfall is cool and refreshing with a subtle shot of honey and peach to keep things interesting, despite the fact that the drink is lower in alcohol content to many of its Tiki siblings. During World War II (1939-1945), numerous missionaries in Africa and Asia in British, French and Belgian colonies were expelled or detained for the duration of the war (if their nation was at war with the colonial authority), which would have had an influence on Beach’s background in the armed forces. The Rum Julep (from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s Sippin’ Safari) is not one of Beach’s best-known cocktails, despite the fact that the name itself proved to be popular in nature (much like a classic Planter’s Punch, for example) and could, therefore, refer to any drink. However, this souped-up concoction displays all the classic hallmarks of Tiki. Donn’s Julep-style creation, yet again, features honey and a whopping 9 ingredients, however, what makes the drink stand out is the use of allspice, which was one of Donn’s secret weapons. Featuring the elusive flared metal swizzle cup in the original illustration (as seen above) very few places serve the drink like that today. Like the Rum Julep, this is another one of those less known Beach concoctions. However, if there’s one drink Tiki archeologist Jeff “Beachbum” Berry should be proud of unearthing (after the infamous 1934 “lost” Zombie Punch recipe), it has to be Donn’s elusive Nui Nui cocktail (circa 1937), which had never before, been published. While seemingly straightforward in nature, this drink somehow manages to taste like ambrosia. A big taste of citrus and vanilla mingle with the rich flavor of dark rum and the bite of allspice in this wonderfully refreshing cocktail. Interestingly, while the drink itself does not pack too much firepower, Donn would only limit three to a guest – most likely, due to the drink’s apparent smoothness and ability to mask its alcohol content. NOTE: A lot of Donn’s formulas made it difficult for users to gauge how dangerously drunk they were becoming – in part, due to the drink’s unusual flavors and seamless balance. In fact, this very reason might have prompted many of the drink limit restrictions. One has to remember that back in the 1930s nobody had experienced these types of multi-layered, high-proof concoctions before so great care had to be taken to advise drinkers who were less familiar or less concerned about the signs of severe intoxication. Not surprisingly, ‘Nui Nui’ means in Tahitian ‘Much More’. The potent 151 Swizzle (from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s Grog Log) packs just enough firepower that Donn himself would limit only three per customer. With a healthy dose of Lemon Hart & Son® 151 Rum, Donn’s classic was essentially a souped-up Daiquiri on steroids. While there has been much debate on the potency of a good ‘swizzle’ recipe, not too many hit the spot like Donn’s original. Displaying that unmistakable Demerara robustness, the heavy-bodied flavors are quickly tempered by the sweet and the spice, but with just enough heat to keep things moving along smoothly. Other swizzle variations which we consider to be top-notch are Martin Cate’s popular 2070 Swizzle, Tim “Swanky” Glazner’s Swanky’s Swizzle, and the Mai-Kai’s 151 Swizzle, a close descendant of Beach’s original. The Mai-Kai’s version, which has been on the original menu since the restaurant first opened in 1956, is perhaps, one of the best versions you’ll ever try. NOTE: While Beach’s original version may make you wince slightly, the Mai-Kai’s version is butter smooth and has a curious ‘spiciness’ to it that is impossible to replicate. With a tradition of quality over 300 years old, Demerara rum is rich, dark, and flavorful, with the iconic Lemon Hart & Son® name being the only rum directly called for in many classic Tiki-era concoctions. For more history on Lemon Hart & Son® Rum, click here. The Pearl Diver (from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s Sippin’ Safari) is definitely one of Donn’s most distinctive cocktails, not least due to the intricate and unique butter-based mix that the drink calls for. Rich, creamy, and soothing with twangs of orange and honey, the original Pearl Diver spawned many riffs utilizing the aptly-named ‘Don’s Gardenia Mix,’ however, it was the uniquely shaped, ribbed glassware that really garnered all the attention. Fading into obscurity sometime in the 1970s, the unique vessel was gloriously resurrected by famed Tiki archeologist Jeff “Beachbum” Berry back in 2014 (via an ambitious collaboration with Cocktail Kingdom) and is still faithfully served at Fort Lauderdale’s iconic Mai-Kai restaurant in Florida. NOTE: Like the Missionary’s Downfall which required fresh herbs and fruit to be blended into the drink, the Pearl Diver showcased Beach’s genius for molecular mixology, something that wouldn’t be fully embraced until some 70 years later. Invented in 1937, the Q. B. Cooler (from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s Remixed and Sippin’ Safari) immediately calls for much debate about which drink spawned what, and who the original inventor was. Most people universally agree that Trader Vic was the original inventor of Tiki’s best-known drink, the Mai Tai. However, it is also believed that Beach’s Q. B. Cooler (Q. B. standing for ‘Quiet Birdmen,’ a secret aviator society created after World War I) served as an earlier inspiration to Vic who secretly concocted his own version after sampling Don’s creation, and renamed it. However, while the truth may never be known, it can’t be denied that Donn had engineered a profile so intoxicating that it had people scrambling. While Trader Vic’s Mai Tai is a great drink, the Q. B. Cooler is a more complicated concoction with three kinds of rum and two citrus juices, as well as falernum, honey, and Angostura bitters. Limited to only two-per-person, this drink is deceptively smooth (as were most of Beach’s drinks) to the point where you really don’t know when the three different rums are going to hit you. One of the rums used, Lemon Hart & Son® 151 Rum, no doubt accounts for the drink’s two-per-person limit. The Cobra’s Fang is one of our personal favorite Don the Beachcomber cocktails, not to mention one of his most widely touted, which was known for containing one of Tiki’s most elusive ingredients, fassionola. Originally created in 1916, fassionola is still manufactured by the Jonathan English Company based out of San Diego, California. Produced in limited 60-gallon batches every 12-14 months (depending on demand), it comes in red, gold, and green varieties, however, it was the red fassionola that featured in quite a few of Beach’s original concoctions (the Pi Yi, Cherry Blossom Punch, Beachcomber’s Rum Barrel, for example) and was famously used in Pat O’Brien’s original Hurricane, concocted in New Orleans sometime in the 1940s. NOTE: Jonathan English red fassionola tastes very much of candied fruit punch, whereas the gold version tastes primarily of passion fruit and orange, with the green fassionola having a very guava, and lime-forward profile. Originally marketed as “The Taste Thrill of the Century,” fassionola was hugely popular during the 1930s and 1940s and gave way to offshoots like ‘Passionola,’ a passion fruit flavored version of gold fassionola which was the more popular variant. They even had passionola soda and passionola fruit cordial. However, while there are many companies now claiming to have a so-called ‘fassionola,’ there is only one original version, Jonathan English Fassionola. To order Jonathan English Fassionola, please click here. It there’s one Tiki drink (outside of the Mai Tai and the Zombie) that could sum up the entire tropical mixology genre, it has to be Donn’s Three Dots and a Dash cocktail (from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s Sippin’ Safari). Distinctive for the ‘ • • • – ‘ morse code symbol for “Victory,” the drink was concocted by Beach as a tribute to American servicemen fighting overseas, and featured a signature three speared cherries and pineapple chunk garnish. Beach, who himself was in the armed forces, created something that not only has all the classic hallmarks of multi-era Tiki, but appeals to every palate and proves to be both refreshing and mysteriously exotic all at the same time. The key to this drink, however, was Beach’s clever use of sweet and spice elements, and the splitting of base spirits to mellow out the flavor. The popular namesake Tiki bar in Chicago, birthed by Tiki mastermind Paul McGee in 2013, serves a pretty good version, as does Florida’s world-famous Tiki temple, the Mai-Kai. The Zombie (christened, it’s said, by a customer who claimed drinking three of these had rendered him “undead”), is the Mona Lisa of all Tiki drinks. The learned historian who added this death-dealing potion to the pleasures of the thirsty was none other than Tiki archeologist Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, whose groundbreaking 2007 book Sippin’ Safari, finally revealed the “lost” 1934 Zombie Punch recipe. A strict limit of only two-per-customer, the Zombie was Tiki’s most imitated drink. Originally called a “Zombie Punch,” the latter name was dropped (when large-format drinks fell out of fashion) and the drink it now just singularly known as a ‘Zombie.’ So popular was the drink that it even had a glass named after it (the 13-ounce, straight-sided ‘Zombie glass’) which is now used far and beyond tropical mixology. The cocktail was also historically notable for calling out for the use of Lemon Hart & Son® 151 Rum by name, something very few recipes did. As such, when one is to make an original Zombie, only Lemon Hart & Son® Rum should be used. Interestingly, despite the Zombie’s exalted status, the drink itself wasn’t Beach’s best, not least since the recipe itself was tweaked many times over the years. A larger than life creation, the Zombie proved to be more style than substance. It might be worth pointing out, that when Donn first opened for business, it was ostensibly to meet the demand of heavy-hitting drinkers after a 14-year ban on public drinking; Beach opened up shop the day after Prohibition was repealed in 1933. NOTE: A big shoutout to Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, Tiki’s official historian, who uncovered all of the aforementioned recipes. By combining cryptic evidence with relentless guesswork and fervid experimentation (which in some cases took several years), Berry was able to uncover a treasure trove of Tiki goodness, all of which can be found on cocktail menus the world over. A great resource for Zombie recipes is Professor Cocktail’s seminal 2013 recipe book Zombie Horde, which contains a whopping 86 Zombie recipes. Additionally, the history of all listed recipes (including well-received ‘tribute’ recipes) can be examined at more depth at the excellent Tiki blog, The Atomic Grog. Top 10 Don the Beachcomber Cocktails was last modified: March 4th, 2018 by admin CocktailsFeatured 21st Century Zombie Share Story:Tweet The Zombie is undoubtedly (before the Mai Tai) one of the most overadvertised, overemphasized, overexalted, and feverishly feared drinks to come out of the entire Tiki movement. With its…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3371
__label__wiki	0.687395	0.687395	Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano George Gallo (characters), Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley, Ron Shelton, Jerry Stahl Superstars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith reunite as a bickering pair of narcotics cops whose pursuit of a drug lord is complicated by Smith's romantic pursuit of Lawrence's sexy sister, Gabrielle Union. $130 million. $46.522 million on 3186 screens. $138.396 million. DVD DETAILS Widescreen 2.40:1/16x9 English Dolby Digital 5.1 French Dolby Digital 5.1 • Deleted Scenes • Production Diaries • Sequence Breakdowns • Stunts and Visual Effects Featurettes • Jay Z “La-La-La” Music Video • Trailers COMPARE DVD PRICES Search Titles: Sony 36" WEGA KV-36FS12 Monitor; Sony DA333ES Processor/Receiver; Panasonic CV-50 DVD Player using component outputs; Michael Green Revolution Cinema 6i Speakers (all five); Sony SA-WM40 Subwoofer. Bad Boys 2 (2003) Reviewed by Colin Jacobson (November 5, 2003) Director Michael Bay revisits his cinematic origins with 2003’s Bad Boys II. Actually, the flick represents a couple of firsts for Bay. 1995’s Bad Boys was his first stint as a film director, and the 2003 iteration stands as his first attempt at a sequel. For years, it looked like Boys II wouldn’t happen just because its lead actors became such big stars that a reunion would become financially impractical. That also apparently slowed the progress of Men In Black II, but Columbia-Tristar ultimately worked out the deals for both. MIIB was a disappointment to me. I liked the first but thought the sequel was little more than a pale imitation of it. On the other hand, I never much cared for the original Bad Boys. I think Bay does what he does very well, but his first flick remains his least interesting. Did he improve on that model with the sequel? Read on and see! The film opens with a shipment of ecstasy from Amsterdam to Miami. We meet drug lord Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molla), the head of this operation. We also see how the Miami police’s “TNT” Special Narcotics Team tries to halt the shipment. They use two undercover officers to infiltrate the operation and send them the sign to move in and deal with the drugs. No prizes if you guess the identities of the officers. Yup, we find Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) from the first film as the infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan rally and send the signal for the team to head in, but the transmitters don’t work. Much violence and mayhem ensues, but with little payoff as the officers discover they hit the wrong target. We then encounter more of the folks involved in the drug side of things via club owner Alexei (Peter Stormare) who works with Johnny. The film then introduces Syd (Gabrielle Union), Marcus’ sister in town from New York. We learn that she and Mike hooked up when he recently visited the Big Apple, but neither has spilled the beans to Marcus yet. In addition, a stressed-out Marcus plans to transfer out of the narcotics department and cease his role as Mike’s partner, but he has yet to inform Lowrey of that. Matters complicate even more when Mike’s informant Icepick (Treva Etienne) lets him know where to go for the dope. When they get there, they find out that Syd’s working undercover and is involved with Alexei’s side of things as a money launderer. Additional mayhem occurs as Johnny continues to try to bring in the drugs and the cops attempt to deal with this. At least I could chalk up the cheesiness and crudeness of the first Bad Boys to directorial inexperience. With three films between flicks, Bay should know better and should be able to produce something that looks like he’s developed additional skills since 1995. Unfortunately, Boys II comes across like the same old, same old. I figured I was in for a bad time when within the movie’s first ten minutes we’d heard a character refer to some women as “fucking bitches” and we’d encountered dopey caricatures via the Klan members. These all existed for little reason than to create very easy comedic opportunities that seemed both predictable and lame. Matters didn’t improve from there. Part of the problem stemmed from the flick’s radically excessive running time. The original flick seemed a little too long at 118 minutes, but Boys II filled almost an extra half an hour! That length seemed acceptable for something more epic like Armageddon; heck, that film did deal with the end of the world. Boys II just follows some criminal enterprises related to drugs – we needed two and a half hours of that? Bay padded the film with too many pointless action sequences and sad attempts at character development between the leads. I didn’t think the chemistry between Smith and Lawrence seemed great in 1995, and it didn’t improve over the years. It didn’t help that they chose to turn the charming, suave Lowrey of the first flick into an angry renegade here who seemed determined to shoot first, second and third and never ask questions. Marcus remained something of a pathetic sad sack, and the movie attempted to derive humor from his stressful state. A theme about therapy ran through the film and provided many lame stabs at comedy. Marcus and some others incessantly spouted “whoosah!” as their mantra. It wasn’t funny the first time, and it didn’t get better with additional repetitions. It didn’t help that Boys II suffered from a tremendously ordinary plot. Cops try to stop a drug shipment and they end up involved against an evil drug lord – that’s not exactly creative or original. Granted, stories don’t have to be innovative to become enjoyable, but it felt like they thought up this one over S’Mores. The tale had absolutely nothing to stand out, and it never seemed like it was worthy of our time. Some of these complaints may appear irrelevant given the status of the average Bay flick. After all, it’s not like his films ever provided rich and realistic personalities. We go to Bay offerings to see raucous and exciting action, right? Yeah, but unfortunately, he failed to deliver the goods here. The action came across as excessive and pointless. None of those sequences did anything new or inventive, and they lacked the involvement and flair that I expect from Bay. He gave them the usual flashiness, but they never provoked a real reaction. Over the years, I’ve defended the films of Michael Bay. Some criticize them for a lack of logic and an excessive emphasis on style over substance. I never had a problem with those issues because Bay’s flicks achieved what they set out to do. Unfortunately, that didn’t occur in Bad Boys II, a weak attempt at an action effort. Virtually no parts of it seemed compelling or effective, and it didn’t even manage to match up to the sporadic successes of its predecessor. The DVD Grades: Picture B+/ Audio A-/ Bonus A- Bad Boys II appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.40:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions. The film nearly offered an “A”-level transfer, but one of the usual suspects kept it from that status. What was the main problem I observed? Edge enhancement. Those haloes never became overwhelming, but they showed up consistently throughout the movie and created some small distractions. Otherwise, the image looked great. Sharpness was always tight and well defined. I noticed virtually no instances of softness in this accurate and detailed presentation. I saw no concerns with jagged edges or shimmering, and print flaws seemed totally absent. As expected, Bay infused Bad Boys II with a highly stylized palette. The DVD demonstrated solid reproduction of those tones. From the warm “golden hour” look seen during many daytime scenes to the cold blues that marked night shots, hues came across as tight and precise. Black levels were dark and rich, and shadow detail came across as concise and well developed. The latter marked an improvement from the first film; at that time, Bay seemed to light poorly for the dark-skinned actors, but no such concerns appeared here. Overall, the transfer appeared very good except for the mildly distracting edge enhancement. On the other hand, the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack of Bad Boys II suffered from no relative problems. Instead, it gave us the kind of slam-bang mix that one would anticipate from a loud action flick like this. The soundfield used all five channels to great effect. Since the film poured on the raucous set pieces, the track got more than a few opportunities to shine, and it lived up to expectations. Elements always seemed accurately placed and they meshed together smoothly. The surrounds contributed good ambience during the rare quiet scenes, and they kicked into overdrive during the many loud ones. Check out the extended car chase at around the half an hour mark to find some vivid and involving audio. Cars zoomed all over the spectrum, bullets flew, and the piece created a great sense of action. Audio quality also seemed positive. Speech was always natural and distinctive, and I noticed no concerns connected to edginess or intelligibility. Music often got subsumed to the action pieces, but the score and songs nonetheless came across as lively and well reproduced, with a good presentation of dynamics. Effects were accurate and detailed. They seemed firmly displayed and showed great punch. All those elements were tight and concise, and they never suffered from any distortion. Overall, Bad Boys II gave us an excellent soundtrack. Michael Bay’s film always get good treatment on DVD. In fact, the four-disc version of Pearl Harbor stands as one of a small handful of the best DVDs every made. Bad Boys II offers some nice features, but it doesn’t reach those heights. Almost everything appears on disc two, which means one major disappointment: no audio commentary from Bay. For prior flicks, he consistently offered insightful, provocative and entertaining tracks, so I missed the presence of a commentary here. The first disc only includes some trailers. We find ads for Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Once Upon a Time In Mexico, Radio, SWAT, the animated Spider-Man, The Missing, and Underworld. As we examine DVD Two, we open with seven deleted scenes. Given the movie’s bloated running time, I didn’t think there could be any unused footage. In any case, the excised clips all remain quite short. They run between 30 seconds and 115 seconds for a total of seven minutes, seven seconds. Unsurprisingly, none of these snippets seems very interesting. Next we find two featurettes. Stunts runs nine minutes, 27 seconds and mixes movie snippets, behind the scenes footage, and comments from director Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, stunt coordinators Andy Gill and Steve Picerni, and special effects supervisor John Frazier. This quick show basically offers an overview of various stunt topics that I expect will receive greater coverage later. It stands as an effective sampler, though, as we get a nice feel for some of the film’s challenges. The second featurette concentrates on Visual Effects. It lasts 18 minutes and 36 seconds as it uses the same format as “Stunts”. We hear from Bay and visual effects supervisor Rob Legato. Another good sampler, this one moves through situations like car chases and special bullet effects to give us a nice demonstration of various computer-created techniques. We go through the steps well in this useful program. After this we get a music video for Jay-Z’s “La-La-La”. Mostly just the usual combination of movie bits and lip-syncing, neither the song nor the video offer anything particularly compelling. In the Sequence Breakdowns area we focus on six different segments. Each of these allow us to examine the scenes in various ways. Every one of them presents the final sequence from the movie, “On the Set” footage, “Storyboards”, and pages from the “Script”. When I looked at the different parts, the amount of “On the Set” footage varied between three minutes, two seconds and 10 minutes, 26 seconds for a total of 38 minutes and 42 seconds. These indeed present raw footage from the set – very raw much of the time, as you’ll hear quite a lot of profanity when things go wrong. DVDs for Bay flicks often include material like this, and these segments remain a breath of fresh air. Whereas most productions try to make out everything to be happy happy, joy joy, Bay’s not afraid to let us see the rougher side of things. Indeed, he comes across like a pushy prick on occasion as he shouts things like “keep fuckin’ moving, guys – keep fuckin’ moving!” The presentation also adds text to explain things when necessary, which helps make the pieces more educational. Overall, we find lots of great images from the production and get a fine feel for how things went on the set. The number of “Storyboards” ranged from 10 to 221 for a sum of 489 images. The “Script” pages filled between one and 14 screens for a total of 36 pages. These help us flesh out the creation fo the different scenes, but they’re not nearly as much fun as the “On the Set” footage. The final domain of the DVD presents 19 Production Diaries. These segments last between 108 seconds and seven minutes, 50 seconds for a total of 66 minutes and 36 seconds of footage. That’s 66.6 minutes, which may mean Bay is the anti-Christ! The components mostly show footage from the set, but we also get a fair number of interview snippets as well. These include comments from Bay, Bruckheimer, actors Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Yul Vazquez, Joe Pantoliano, Jordi Molla, Gabrielle Union, Dan Marino, and Peter Stormare, law enforcement advisor Bill Erfurth, military and technical advisor Harry Humphries, stunt coordinators Andy Gill and Steve Picerni, property owner Eric Cherry, and special effects supervisor John Frazier. The programs start with a diary that reflects on the first movie, and they then trace various elements of the production. We watch the actors’ training for the TNT team and examine behind the scenes elements of many other components. We also check out lots of raw dailies, which let us see multiple outtakes. As with the prior “Breakdowns”, these remain nicely fresh and honest. Actually, a little bit of fluffiness emerges on occasion, but much less than usual, and the segments generally seem informative and enjoyable. You’ll learn a lot about the making of the film in these entertaining and well-made clips. Too bad Bad Boys II itself wasn’t as interesting. The movie pours on the high-priced mayhem but never delivers a compelling story, intriguing characters, or anything else that would turn it into a stimulating action flick. The DVD works well, however, as it offers positive picture, excellent audio, and some terrific extras, even without the usual audio commentary. If you’re a fan of Bad Boys II, I whole-heartedly aim you towards this disc, but others should skip it and check out one of Michael Bay’s better films instead. (That’d be all of them - Boys II is unquestionably the director’s worst.) Viewer Film Ratings: 3.9393 Stars Number of Votes: 66	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3372
__label__wiki	0.601396	0.601396	Maxima Park, Equidome to Promote and Develop Horse Sport in Russia A Walk on the Premises Russian real estate entrpreneur Nikolaj Aristov has a grand vision. He wants to restore Russian equestrian sport to its former glory and rekindle riding as a popular, accessible sport for children and adults of all social classes. Aristov has spared no costs to realize his vision and is developing Maxima Park into one the most attractive equestrian centre in Russia and Europe. Sparing no costs to create the largest equestrian facility of its kind on the European continent, Aristov is building Maxima Park on 60 hectares of rolling land in Gorki Sukharevskiye, a suburb in the greater Moscow area half an hour north of the capital. The project is the initial seed of urban development in the area. The equestrian centre is fully operational and already hosting international competitions in dressage and show jumping, while the construction team is working on a fast-track schedule to complete the centre by 2018. Maxima Park has quickly become an international hub for East Europe's top equestrian athletes. The centre aims to attract riders from Russia, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Finland and the Baltic states who want to tap into a pool of expertise, have the best facilities for their horses and themselves, and competition opportunities year round without having to travel thousands of kilometers. Maxima Stables is the perfect base to pass the harsh, cold winter months as the centre is fully heated. Maxima Park Combines Comfort and Luxury at State-of-the-Art Facility Maxima Park boasts the most amazing, state-of-the-art facilities for horse and rider and is designed to meet all standards. The park is one of only a handful of equestrian centres in the world, where facilities of this scale are all incorporated on one site The centre has four indoor arenas: a 68 x 26 m arena with the largest mirror walls in Europe and a 80 x 40 m main competition arena with a 20 x 40 m indoor warm-up ring, and another 20 x 40 m arena. The "Grand Manege" offers the comfort of elevated viewing areas for 1,000 spectators as well as private areas for riders and VIP guests with full catering. There are four outdoor arenas with all weather footing and lighting and a fifth outdoor is in the making. The main outdoor adjacent to the hotel has a huge grandstand complying with the demands to host future, prestigious (inter)contintal championships. There is a 300-horse stabling capacity in the main buildings and competition stalls, there are two indoor 18m horse walkers, two outdoor walkers, two automatic walkers, 22 paddocks, and an on-site veterinary clinic for horses and small pets, as well as an insemination centre. Aristov is currently building a country hotel at Maxima Park with 2, 3 and 4* rooms, an indoor swimming pool, fitness area and wellness centre with sauna, hamman, massage rooms, and much more. One section of the hotel with rooms, studios and furbished flats is already finished and provides on-site lodging for riders, grooms, and family members. Maxima Stables boasts extensive capabilities in recreational and competitive horse sport. Maxima Park's hotel complex offers the possibility for private individuals and corporations to host fully catered social, family and business events. During competitions visitors can combine these meetings while equestrian action across the show grounds is underway. "I have been to many shows and stables in Europe and looked around," Aristov told Eurodressage. "I have combined all the good things I've picked at Maxima Park. There is everything here that a rider wants to make his life in the saddle fun, easy, and successful. It also offers many upscale features for the non-horsey family members and friends, who might come along and enjoy themselves staying with us while a competition goes on or when they stay here for several months in training." Bringing Horse Sport to the People Russia was a bright beacon of greatness and succes in dressage from the 1950s till the 1970s with world famous dressage stars and Olympic gold medalists such as Elena Petukhova, Sergei Filatov, and Ivan Kizimov. The country was once known as the dominating dressage nation, but lost its status and top position in the 1980s during the fall of communism. The Soviet Union's declining economic strength at the time made the states stud close down and ended the equestrian sport programmes on which the country thrived for years. By the 2000s the systemic nurturing of equine and human young dressage talent had disappeared. Nowadays a large amount of riding clubs still exists in Moscow with ever growing membership, but they do not form a unified front. Several private initiatives have been undertaken to promote dressage sport in Russia by developing young equestrian riders into international competition athletes. They are also labouring hard at making horse riding popular again from grassroots level up. Aristov's new massive project at Maxima Park will support this development and will take a leading role. With its top of the bill facilities and unlimited array of social, and entrepreneurial opportunities through the hotel and show grounds the equestrian centre will trail blaze the future of equestrian sport in Russia. Maxima Park will be the sportive anchor for the community as a unifying hub for the dispersed riding clubs in the greater Moscow area. Founder Nikolaj Aristov wants to connect residential Moscow neighbourhoods with the sport and attract children to the yard to take up riding. Maxima Park is fully staffed with experienced professionals to start, improve and develop a riding career. Show jumpers Victor Petrov, Tatiana Fedotova and Vladimir Shaverin, as well as dressage riders Polina Afaniesa, Marina Bozhneva, Maria Shigal and Dutch Dominique Filion form the permanent team of experts at the yard. "My team is motivated to help any type of rider, whether it's a beginner or an experienced competition rider," Aristov explained. "They are willing to share their knowledge and years of experience with anyone who wishies to start riding or wants to develop their skills." International High Standard Competition Venue Nikolaj Aristov is a horseman at heart and rides almost daily himself. He usually appears at the Park or on show grounds wearing breeches, while pacing about supporting his three competitive dressage daughters: junior rider Anna Aristova, children's rider Ekaterina Aristova and pony rider Olga Aristova. Seventeen-year old Anna has represented Russia at the 2013, 2014 and 2015 European Junior Riders Championships and is heading to her fourth, consecutive Europeans this summer in Oliva Nova, Spain. Thirteen-year old Ekaterina is set to make her debut on the Russian team at the 2016 European Children's Championships this summer. Aristov commutes between Girona, Spain and his home town Moscow where he heads a real estate company which manages a hotel chain and numerous office buildings. Wth his latest development project Maxima Park he is not just building a barn for his kids, but is aiming for the stars. He wants to propel Russian dressage athletes to the forefront in training and at international competitions. "Maxima Park is the perfect stable for Eastern European or any equestrian athlete who wants to have a steady base for the summer or winter or when they are visiting Moscow for a shorter period of time and want to bring their horses for training," Nikolaj explained. "It's all about small steps, one at a time. First and foremost I want to attract kids to get them to ride horses, not just in dressage but they also should do a bit of jumping. They have to connect with the horses, groom them, pat them, brush them, spend time with them, make a connection." Aristov is closely involved in the building process of his equidome. His personal approach to the design and construction process allows the facility to be completed under a tight deadline, without sacrificing the integrity of his vision. In the grand scheme of things Maxima Park will be able to host international championships as it fulfils all the demands for a world class sports venue. Maybe a Euripean Dressage Championships in the not too far future? "Small steps, we'll see," the level-headed Aristov replied. For the horse-loving real estate developer it is all about building from the ground up. by Astrid Appels For more information, visit www.maximapark.ru or www.maximaequisport.ru Sudzhenka and Shvetsova, Junior Stars at Maxima Park's 2016 CDI Moscow Scores: 2016 CDI Moscow Dominique Filion Moves to Maxima Park in Moscow	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3374
__label__cc	0.703603	0.296397	Evince Clinical Assessments ™ Employee Wellness Evaluation Norman G. Hoffmann, Ph.D. Quick screen for alcohol dependence/ abuse, depression and stress Suppressed anger scale Identify job related conflicts Document prevalences and track trends The EWE is a general screen for some of the more common behavioral and emotional problems. It also serves to identify some job-related issues. The EWE contains scales to assess risk for alcohol abuse, depression, excess stress, suppressed anger, dissatisfaction with management/supervisors, family-job stress/conflict, poor morale, or dissatisfaction with life in general. APPLICATIONS: The EWE is normed on employee populations and identifies those whose responses place them in the upper ranges of problems as compared to other employees. The screen can be used in Employee Assistance or other human resources applications to screen and provide feedback to individuals or to estimate the relative prevalence of problems in a given workforce. Evince Clinical Assessments provides consultation and evaluation services based on the EWE. Standard evaluation services include analyses of data generated by the EWE and related information, production of a formal report, and consultation with EAP staff and/or management. These services are available to EAP’s in private sector organizations as well as government agencies. TIME REQUIREMENTS: About 10 to 15 minutes must be allowed for the respondent to answer the items as a pencil-and-paper questionnaire. Scoring is a clerical task requiring 2 to 5 minutes. SCORING AND INTERPRETATION: The EWE can be scored by any staff person, but feedback to individuals, interpretation of the findings, or other clinical uses should be conducted only by a qualified, licensed professional. The manual and supporting materials for the EWE provide instructions for use, normative information, and statistical summaries on employees and their dependents. STATISTICAL ANALYSES AND CONSULTATIONS: Organizations and programs may wish to use the EWE to document prevalence indications in a given employee population, make comparisons between groups, or analyze the associations among various risk factors. Analyses and consultations including formal reports can be provided on a contractual basis. COPYRIGHT: The EWE is copyrighted by Norman G. Hoffmann and may not be adapted or photocopied. To do so is a violation of copyright law and constitutes unprofessional conduct. EWE Guide EWE-G Contact The Change Companies toll-free at 888-889-8866. EWE forms (25) EWE Evince Clinical Assessments 29 Peregrine Place © 2013 Evince Clinical Assessments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3375
__label__wiki	0.877014	0.877014	Reviews • OWE & Fringe Published 17 January 2018 Review: East at the King’s Head Theatre 9 January - 3 February 2018 Brash and arresting, profane and profound: Brendan Macdonald reviews a revival of Steven Berkoff’s East End play. Brendan Macdonald East at the King’s Head Theatre. Photo: Tristram Kenton. Director Jessica Lazar notes that Steven Berkoff’s East is ‘one of those plays that everyone thinks they know… But when you ask people if they’ve seen it, the answer is mostly no.’ I certainly fall into that category. As a Canadian, I had never seen Berkoff’s variety-act verse play, and had only heard of its punchy and vigorous portrayal of London’s East End. Lazar’s comment speaks to a trait of iconic works. They gain a sense of familiarity that extends into the mainstream, felt even by those who haven’t experienced them first-hand. So while for some, East’s revival at the King’s Head, where it had its London debut, is a grand homecoming, for others it’s an anticipated, even uncanny, first watching. What strikes most is the boisterous, cadent poetry that has a Shakespearean loftiness with jabs of East End slang. It’s brash and arresting, profane and profound. Binding non-linear scenes from Mike and Les’s bullish neighbourhood together, Berkoff’s script catapults this world into a rich and mythic realm. Most of the cast have a strong hold of its rhythm, with James Crazen as Mike and Debra Penny as Mum being particularly captivating, but occasionally it gets lost in overused asides and quips. Sharp movement parallels and complements the language. Boasting about motorbikes, Crazen’s Mike and Jack Condon’s Les do some phenomenally energized impressions of Vincent HRDs and Harley Davidsons. Slick silent film sequences display the family at the cinema as both audience members and images on screen, and at Kursaal. And Boadicea Ricketts as Sylv shows off her dancing skills. The action can at times get predictably literal, and more disjunct between what’s being said and what’s being shown might benefit the overall piece. This is a deliberately self-conscious performance, with the characters saying at the beginning and end of the play, ‘Now you know our names’. Vaudevillian piano underscores almost everything between brawls to racist rants, and the characters even stake a claim of awareness of being in the play. The result is a stylized piece of theatre aware of its performative power. Its aim isn’t to give a linear story or to teach a lesson – if anything it’s amoral and unapologetic, offering up snapshots of hypermasculinity, loneliness, dreary middle-age partnerships and red-blooded sexual fantasies. East is instead about mythologizing the East End’s history and character: witty, physical, raw and open. Not striving for authenticity, it situates its characters in a past that is temporally ambiguous, somewhere between the 50s and 70s. But through these quick glimpses into their lives, their idiosyncrasies and contradictions, the faces grow familiar. Unidentified in history books or in old photos, they become part of the legend of London, a legend that now includes East, the play itself. Energetic and exuberant, this revival effectively reinvigorates the myth, making it a new yet familiar encounter. East is on until 3 February 2018 at the King’s Head Theatre. Click here for more details. Brendan Macdonald is a contributor to Exeunt Magazine Read more articles by Brendan Macdonald Review: East at the King’s Head Theatre Show Info Directed by Jessica Lazar Written by Steven Berkoff Cast includes James Craze, Jack Condon, Boadicea Ricketts, Debra Penny, Russell Barnett Christopher Brett Bailey: "I don't really live in the real world." Andrew Youngson	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3376
__label__wiki	0.867104	0.867104	High school students on asteroid patrol for NASA Salt Lake Tribune Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:03 EDT Utah - The students of American Fork High School get up pretty early to discover an asteroid. How early? The 34 students on science teacher Curtis Craig's "Caveman team" of the Killer Asteroid Project arrive to upload their star-measuring software and asteroid database long before school starts. Then begins the long, arduous process of observing telescopic images for asteroid activity. Taking three images shot 20 minutes apart, they sequence them in motion. A small change in the image may signal asteroid movement. Recording the coordinates of that movement on a grid, students extrapolate the trajectory, then submit their reports to Harvard University's Minor Planet Center, which cues up its telescope to students' reported coordinates. If the center's telescope finds an image to match those coordinates, a new asteroid discovery is born. Months might pass before a discovery, but the momentous potential for discovery awaits. "That's when drudgery becomes exciting," said Craig, whose school is one of the participants in NASA's worldwide Killer Asteroid Project. If they're lucky, they might discover a new asteroid. According to the European Space Agency, there are an estimated 1.1 million to 1.9 million total asteroids. More than 180,000 orbit the sun in patterns predictable enough to be numbered, according to NASA. Craig's daughter Karlee, a junior in the school where her father teaches, was lucky enough this spring to discover asteroid K07VK1S. "It took a lot of patience," she said. "You have to know what you're looking for." If they're really lucky, their discoveries might help predict the trajectories of asteroids with the potential to one day hit Earth. That hasn't happened yet to any of the teams involved in the NASA project. "But what an honor to serve humanity," Craig notes. And if the students are really, really lucky? They could discover an asteroid headed straight for Earth, perhaps the sort that may have rid our planet of dinosaurs millions of years ago. There was a close call in March 2004, when the asteroid Apophis came within 24,000 miles of striking distance. NASA has been charged with identifying the most dangerous asteroids for years, so the agency saw no danger in training the next generation of asteroid hunters. The Killer Asteroid Project is in its second year at American Fork High School, making it part of an international project that includes universities in Russia, Sweden, Spain and other countries. In recognition of the four asteroids discovered by Craig's students, NASA sent American Fork High School an award early this month. "The discoveries they're making are totally harmless, but the discoveries they make of new asteroids could help refine and establish an orbit that can tell us if there's future potential for impact with Earth," said Robert Holmes, a NASA research scientist. UK: 'Fireball' UFO spotted over Buckley Wrexham Leader Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:40 EDT A woman spotted a UFO in the skies above Flintshire, in the latest in a string of bizarre sightings around the region. Lisa Tinsdeall-Hughes, 36, of Bryn Awelon, Buckley, claims she saw an orange orb, which looked like a "ball of fire", in the sky above her home late on Friday night. The sighting is eerily similar to others in the area, including one last Christmas Day where Harry Hughes saw five orange orbs in the sky above his house in Mynydd Isa. His description of the unexplained objects matched that of Leigh and Lynn Williams, of Borras, Wrexham, who caught sight of several strange orange orbs in the sky in July. The couple managed to take pictures and these were posted on the Evening Leader website, prompting a flood of further similar sightings. Lisa said: "I was watching TV on Friday night when all of a sudden I saw a strange orange object out of the corner of my eye. "I looked out of my window and saw what looked like an orange ball of fire. "It was quite big, about three or four metres wide, and it was travelling up into the sky, circling around getting higher and higher. "Eventually it got so high and it just looked like a star. "I was stood outside watching it for about 15 minutes and there was no noise at all - it was completely silent. "I was just thinking 'what on earth is that?' I've never seen anything like it before. "I really don't know what it was but it could have been a UFO." Immediately afterwards Lisa ran to the bedroom and woke her husband up. She said: "I told him something amazing had just happened and he asked me why I hadn't woken him up. "I said I wasn't going mad and I hadn't been drinking or anything like that. "I know from reading in the paper that there had been a few sightings like the one in Mynydd Isa recently, and it sounds just like that." Following the sighting of orange orbs in Mynydd Isa on Christmas Day, further reports of strange activity in the sky flooded in from around the region. David Clark, of Elwy Close, Bryn y Baal, agreed with Mr Hughes' description of the strange objects. He said: "It is absolutely true what he says. There were three very bright lights which suddenly separated and one looked like it shot straight up at high speed." Similar sightings were reported in Mold, Chester, Sandycroft and Broughton. John Smith and Mike Jones, of Sychdyn, both say they saw two orange lights on New Year's Day. The first sighting of the orange orbs came from Leigh and Lynn Williams, of Borras, Wrexham, in July of last year, and explanations offered have included "UFO balloons" and Chinese lanterns. Asteroid may have killed Iceman BERGAMO, Italy -- A British scientist said a prehistoric mummy known as the Iceman may have been killed by an asteroid. Mark Hempsell, a space technology professor at Bristol University, said writings on an Assyrian tablet discovered in northern Iraq in the 19th century provide evidence of an asteroid landing in Austria around 3000 B.C., the Italian news service ANSA reported Wednesday. "Given the geographical vicinity and the period of history, it seems feasible that the asteroid's landing on Earth and the Iceman's death could be connected," Hempsell said at a conference in Italy. He said the asteroid landing could also explain a second theory, that the Iceman may have been a ritual sacrifice to appease the forces who sent the asteroid. The Iceman, also known as Oetzi, was found in a glacier in the Oetz mountain valley, ANSA said. Tunguska, a century later Sid Perkins Early on the morning of June 30, 1908, a massive explosion shook central Siberia. Witnesses told of a fireball that streaked in from the southeast and then detonated in the sky above the desolate, forested region. At the nearest trading post, about 70 kilometers away from the blast, people were reportedly knocked from their feet. Seismic instruments in the area registered ground motions equivalent to those of a magnitude-5 earthquake. Effects of the event - often called the Tunguska blast, after a major river running through the area - weren't restricted to Siberia. Sensitive barometers in England detected an atmospheric shock wave as it raced westward and then detected it again after it traveled around the world. High-altitude clouds that formed over the region after the event were so lofty that they caught light from beyond the horizon, illuminating the sky so much that people at locales in Europe and Asia could read newspapers outdoors at midnight. A number of factors - including the site's remote location, World War I and the Russian Revolution - prevented scientists from mounting an expedition to the blast zone for almost two decades, says physicist Giuseppe Longo of the University of Bologna in Italy. When researchers eventually reached the region, they found that a 2,150-square-kilometer patch of forest had been flattened, with most of the 80 million trees lying in a radial pattern. What the researchers didn't find, however, was an obvious crater. A century later, scientists are still debating the cause of the Tunguska blast. Through the years, Longo notes, a variety of scenarios have been proposed, many of them involving the explosion of an unusual extraterrestrial object - everything from a small black hole or a chunk of antimatter to a UFO. Most researchers, however, now pin the blame on the mid-air explosion of a small comet or asteroid, which typically can't stand up to the pummeling received while blazing through the atmosphere (SN: 7/19/03, p. 36). The damage in Siberia suggests that the Tunguska detonation happened at an altitude of between 6 and 8 kilometers and released the energy of about 15 megatons of TNT, about a thousand times more than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Data gathered by military satellites - including those designed to detect clandestine nuclear explosions - suggest that tiny versions of the Tunguska blast occur rather frequently, says Philip A. Bland, a planetary scientist at Imperial College London. The largest airburst detected during the 1990s measured only a few tens of kilotons, the energy release expected from the explosion of an asteroid measuring about 7 or 8 meters across. Impacts of objects measuring at least 1 meter in diameter occur, on average, about once a week, the data suggest. Tunguska-sized airbursts would be expected to happen about once every 500 years, says Bland. Previous studies have estimated that the Tunguska asteroid was between 50 and 80 meters in diameter, says Mark Boslough, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. However, new supercomputer simulations by Boslough and his colleagues hint that a much smaller object could have produced the damage. New models account for the downward momentum of the air compressed beneath the incoming object, a component of the process "that previously had been thrown away," says Boslough. So the Tunguska asteroid may have been only 30 to 50 meters across, he notes. Simulations suggest that it entered the atmosphere traveling about 15 kilometers per second at an angle about 35 degrees above the horizon. The shock wave produced by the airburst could have slammed into the ground at 180 kilometers per hour, a gust with the wind speed of a category-3 hurricane, the team reports in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Impact Engineering. Late last year, Longo and his colleagues reported that Lake Cheko, a 400-meter - wide lake about eight kilometers northwest of the Tunguska blast's epicenter, could be the long-sought crater produced by a chunk of asteroid that actually reached the ground. The lake is about 50 meters deep, has a cone-shaped bottom unlike other lakes in the region and - possibly most important - lies directly along the estimated path of the fireball. Sonar studies reveal a buried object or a densely compacted layer of sediment about 10 meters below the center of the lake bottom, the researchers reported in the August 2007 Terra Nova. But other factors suggest that Lake Cheko isn't a water-filled impact crater, says Gareth Collins of Imperial College London. For one thing, he notes, a hole the size of this lake typically would be one in a series of holes excavated by pieces of the disintegrating object, whereas Lake Cheko apparently has no companions. And the area around the lake isn't covered with a layer of material that would have been thrown out of a crater during the impact. Also, pictures of the lake from an aerial survey in 1938 show mature trees (more than 30 years old) on the lakeshore - a sure sign that this body of water has a more benign provenance, Collins and colleagues write in the April Terra Nova. The lack of an impact crater, along with the dearth of geochemical anomalies in rock in the region, has spurred some scientists to seek an alternate explanation for the blast. One favorite down-to-Earth idea points to the modern-day formation of a kimberlite deposit, an eruption that brings diamonds to Earth's surface (SN: 6/30/07, p. 412). Such an eruption could have injected about 10 million tons of methane into the atmosphere, a plume that if detonated would have released a forest-flattening burst of energy. Scientists will attend conferences in Moscow at the end of June to commemorate the blast and discuss the latest findings. Those proposing an extraterrestrial cause will be meeting at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Those who favor an Earth-based origin of the blast will gather across town, at the Polytechnical Museum. Explanations for the Tunguska event have spanned science and fiction 1925-A Russian scientist says the explosion's recorded seismic and air waves suggest a meteorite as the culprit. 1934-A British scientist and a Russian scientist say the blast must have been an in-air comet explosion. 1941-An American researcher claims an antimatter meteoroid was annihilated when it encountered 1946-Russian sci-fi writer Alexander Kazantsev tells the tale of Tunguska as a UFO that 1973-Two theorists suggest a black hole as small as a comma passed through Earth and exited via the North Atlantic. 2001-Ideas go down: The blast perhaps was a kimberlite eruption, which lifts diamonds and methane from Earth's depths. Comment: Read the 'Comets and Catastrophe' series for far more comprehensive information on the probable source of the Tunguska incident: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls From the Edge Turkey Shoot The Younger Dryas Impact Event and the Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes - Climate Scientists Awakening Fire and Ice - The Day After Tomorrow Meteor Astronomers: Looking Down Into Earth Using fossil meteorites and ancient limestone unearthed throughout southern Sweden, marine geologists at Rice University have discovered that a colossal collision in the asteroid belt some 500 million years ago led to intense meteorite strikes over the Earth's surface. The research, which appears in this week's issue of Science magazine, is based upon an analysis of fossil meteorites and limestone samples from five Swedish quarries located as much as 310 miles (500 km.) apart. The limestone formed from sea bottom sediments during a 2 million-year span about 480 million years ago, sealing the intact meteorites, as well as trace minerals from disintegrated meteorites, in a lithographic time capsule. "What we are doing is astronomy, but instead of looking up at the stars, we are looking down into the Earth," said lead researcher Birger Schmitz, who conducted his analysis during his tenure as the Wiess Visiting Professor of Earth Science at Rice. Schmitz is professor of marine geology at G?teborg University in Sweden. Meteorite activity on earth is relatively uniform today, with an average of about one meteorite per year falling every 4,800 square miles (12,500 sq. km). The new study found a 100-fold increase in meteorite activity during the period when the limestone was forming, a level of activity that was present over the entire 96,500-square-mile (250,000 sq. km.) search area. Some 20 percent of the meteorites landing on Earth today are remnants of a very large asteroid that planetary scientists refer to as the "L-chondrite parent body." This asteroid broke apart around 500 million years ago in what scientists believe is the largest collision that occurred in late solar system history. Schmitz and his colleagues looked for unique extraterrestrial forms of the mineral chromite that are found only in meteorites from the L-chondrite breakup. They found that all the intact fossil meteorites in the Swedish limestone came from the breakup. Moreover, they found matching concentrations of silt and sand-sized grains of extraterrestrial chromite in limestone from all five quarries, indicating that meteorite activity following the breakup was occurring at the same rate over the entire area. The research helps explain why Schmitz and his colleagues at G?teborg have been able to collect so many fossilized meteorites from a single quarry near Kinnekulle, Sweden over the past decade. Fossil meteorites embedded in stratified rock are extremely rare. Only 55 have ever been recovered, and Schmitz's group found 50 of those. "It is true that we are lucky to be looking in just the right place a layer of lithified sediments that was forming on the sea floor immediately after this massive collision," said Schmitz. "But on the other hand, we would never have started looking there in the first place if the quarry workers hadn't been finding the meteorites on a regular, yet still rare, basis." Until Schmitz's group started working with the quarry crew, the fossilized meteorites were discarded because they blemish the finished limestone. Schmitz believes it's possible that similar concentrations of fossilized meteorites and extraterrestrial chromite grains are present worldwide in limestone that formed during the period following the asteroid breakup. He recently got funding to look for evidence of this in China, and he said there are South American sites that are also favorable. Rare daytime fireball seen over Utah mountains KSL.com It's a UFO no more. An unidentified flying object spotted over the mountains between Salt Lake and Tooele has been identified as a rare daytime fireball; a meteor big enough and close enough to be spotted when the sun's still out. We had several e-mails, and so did NASA's ambassador to Utah Patrick Wiggins. We asked him what conditions need to be in place to see a daytime meteor. He said, "Size would be part of it, certainly how fast it's going, if it was going really slow for a meteor; that is, it wouldn't get bright enough." At least one of the people who e-mailed KSL was also able to hear the fireball. Wiggins says that's an indication that the meteor was very close to the ground compared to what you normally encounter. Wiggins said, "Typical meteors, they are so far away that you can't hear them. So if, in fact, these people were able to actually hear a sonic boom, that would indicate that it was pretty low in the sky." Wiggins added, "Meteors are happening literally all the time -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of them, however, are not bright enough to be seen during the day, so it sounds like this was one of the exceptions. "I've seen a few daytime ones, but I've never seen and heard one during the day, so they lucked out! This is really neat." UFOs hit Romanian plane The Romanian Defense Ministry has confirmed that a fighter plane was struck by four unidentified flying objects and released a video of the incident. The ministry said the MIG 21 Lancer fighter plane was struck by the objects during an Oct. 31, 2007, check flight but was able to land safely, Hotnews.ro reported Friday. Lt. Col. Nicolae Grigorie said a video recorded by cameras onboard the plane depicts "two solid bodies, which are not translucid." Grigorie said authorities are working to determine what the objects could have been. "They couldn't be birds because there are no birds in Europe able to fly so high. And they couldn't be ice bodies because it was a clear sky -- neither could they be pieces of another plane or a meteor," he said. He said the government has ruled out rocket launches and ground artillery fires as causes of the incident. Comet Boattini Sails Towards the Sun Tammy Plotner universetoday.com Serious comet chasers have been watching Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) for some time. For awhile, it exceeded its predicted brightness but is back to cruising at normal. During the time this photograph was taken, Boattini was a southern hemisphere object... But not for long. Now its about to round the Sun and head north! Comet Boattini On November 20, 2007 the comet was spotted by Andrea Boattini during the course of the Mt. Lemmon survey in Arizona. Italian Boattini's interest is in near-Earth asteroids and he during his research has discovered and co-discovered no less than 170 mostly main-belt asteroids. Since that time, Andrea has become involved with the Catalina and Mt. Lemmon program and has made several additional asteroid discoveries. Of these, object 2007 WD5, made headlines during its extremely close approach to Mars at the end of January 2008. Comet C/2007 W1 is Andrea Boattini's first comet discovery and we hope not the last! NASA Finds New Type of Comet Dust Mineral William P. Jeffs HOUSTON -- NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet. The mineral, a manganese silicide named Brownleeite, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup. The comet originally was discovered in 1902 and reappears every 5 years. The team that made the discovery is headed by Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, a space scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "When I saw this mineral for the first time, I immediately knew this was something no one had seen before," said Nakamura-Messenger. "But it took several more months to obtain conclusive data because these mineral grains were only 1/10,000 of an inch in size." A new method of collecting IDPs was suggested by Scott Messenger, another Johnson space scientist. He predicted comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup was a source of dust grains that could be captured in Earth's stratosphere at a specific time of the year. In response to his prediction, NASA performed stratospheric dust collections, using an ER-2 high-altitude aircraft flown from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The aircraft collected IDPs from this particular comet stream in April 2003. The new mineral was found in one of the particles. To determine the mineral's origin and examine other dust materials, a powerful new transmission electron microscope was installed in 2005 at Johnson. "Because of their exceedingly tiny size, we had to use state-of-the-art nano-analysis techniques in the microscope to measure the chemical composition and crystal structure of Keiko's new mineral," said Lindsay Keller, Johnson space scientist and a co-discoverer of the new mineral. "This is a highly unusual material that has not been predicted either to be a cometary component or to have formed by condensation in the solar nebula." Since 1982, NASA routinely has collected cosmic and interplanetary dust with high-altitude research aircraft. However, the sources of most dust particles have been difficult to pin down because of their complex histories in space. The Earth accretes about 40,000 tons of dust particles from space each year, originating mostly from disintegrating comets and asteroid collisions. This dust is a subject of intense interest because it is made of the original building blocks of the solar system, planets, and our bodies. The mineral was surrounded by multiple layers of other minerals that also have been reported only in extraterrestrial rocks. There have been 4,324 minerals identified by the International Mineralogical Association, or IMA. This find adds one more mineral to that list. The IMA-approved new mineral, Brownleeite, is named after Donald E. Brownlee, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle. Brownlee founded the field of IDP research. The understanding of the early solar system established from IDP studies would not exist without his efforts. Brownlee also is the principal investigator of NASA's Stardust mission. The comet researchers include Messenger; John Jones, a co-discoverer of the mineral from Johnson; Simon Clemett and Michael Zolensky in Johnson's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate; Russ Palma, Minnesota State University at Mankato; Robert Pepin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Wolfgang Klöck, Röntgenanalytik Messtechnik GmbH, Germany; and Hirokazu Tatsuoka, Shizuoka University, For additional information on NASA programs, visit NASA. Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 The finding suggests that parts of the raw materials to make the first molecules of DNA and RNA may have come from the stars. The scientists, from Europe and the USA, say that their research, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, provides evidence that life's raw materials came from sources beyond the Earth. Genetic material from space rock The materials they have found include the molecules uracil and xanthine, which are precursors to the molecules that make up DNA and RNA, and are known as nucleobases. The team discovered the molecules in rock fragments of the Murchison meteorite, which crashed in Australia in 1969. They tested the meteorite material to determine whether the molecules came from the solar system or were a result of contamination when the meteorite landed on Earth. The analysis shows that the nucleobases contain a heavy form of carbon which could only have been formed in space. Materials formed on Earth consist of a lighter variety of carbon. Lead author Dr Zita Martins, of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, says that the research may provide another piece of evidence explaining the evolution of early life. She says: "We believe early life may have adopted nucleobases from meteoritic fragments for use in genetic coding which enabled them to pass on their successful features to subsequent generations." Between 3.8 to 4.5 billion years ago large numbers of rocks similar to the Murchison meteorite rained down on Earth at the time when primitive life was forming. The heavy bombardment would have dropped large amounts of meteorite material to the surface on planets like Earth and Mars. Co-author Professor Mark Sephton, also of Imperial's Department of Earth Science and Engineering, believes this research is an important step in understanding how early life might have evolved. He added: "Because meteorites represent left over materials from the formation of the solar system, the key components for life -- including nucleobases -- could be widespread in the cosmos. As more and more of life's raw materials are discovered in objects from space, the possibility of life springing forth wherever the right chemistry is present becomes more likely." UK: Man claims a meteorite left a hole in his garden Simon Albert Winsford Guardian Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:21 EDT A Winsford man had an unwelcome visitor on Sunday night in the form of a small meteorite. Graham Brooks, 37, a heavy goods vehicle fitter, lives at his mother Christine's house at Railway Cottages in Rilshaw Lane. He was sitting at home looking at wedding magazines with his partner Karen at around 10.30pm when he heard a loud bang outside. When the couple went to see what had happened, they found a pile of stones and soil up against their caravan in the back garden and a small golf-ball sized hole in the ground leaving bits of silver fragments around it. Graham said: "It felt like a gas cylinder exploded or something and there was a very loud bang." The incident was believed to have been caused by a small meteorite hitting the ground that caused soil and stones to make dents in the caravan. Graham added: "I've never seen or heard anything like it before. "If it had been three feet closer then it would have come through the skylight in the roof and hit us. "It was as loud as a gunshot and the neighbours were gobsmacked. "I was very shocked by the incident and we're supposed to be getting married in September as well." Graham spoke to Terry O' Brian, who works for Manchester Museum, who asked Graham to post the bits to him for analysis but believes it might have been a meteorite from Graham's description. It is estimated to have caused around £1,000 worth of damage to the caravan. Graham and his partner Karen are currently speaking with their insurance company to see if they are covered. Fremont, California Fireball/Meteor Sighting United States UFO Blog Time: Approx: 11:55 p.m. Location of Sighting: Fremont, CA. Number of witnesses: 2 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Fireball. Full Description of event/sighting: My wife and I, traveling south through Fremont, CA, around 11:55 pm, saw what looked like an extremely bright meteor descending toward the southern horizon. We cannot say that it was a UFO, but it was astonishingly bright and we at first thought a plane or some other object might be falling toward the local town of Milpitas. Only later, based on similar reports on Yahoo, did we conclude that it might be a meteor heading due south. However, it was much brighter than any meteor I have ever seen before. We note with interest: a) several reports of sightings in southern California that report the object moving north (rather than south, as in most accounts); b) there were similar sightings in Seattle and Portland; c) the coincident UFO sightings. Thank you to the witness for their report. Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show. email: hbccufo@telus.net Radio show host for the Vike Report, eyewitness relating their experiences. Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do. HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO Russia's space agency backs U.S. asteroid control plan Russia's Federal Space Agency has endorsed a proposal by the U.S. House of Representatives that a Russian radar station be used to detect dangerous asteroids, Roscosmos head said on Thursday. "I generally approve and support the U.S. initiative," Anatoly Perminov said in a telephone interview with RIA Novosti. "As for the asteroid danger, it really exists, and needs to be dealt with through the joint efforts of all states concerned." Comment: And yet, the danger is grossly underestimated, or intentionally downplayed . There are more than enough facts that something wicked this way comes, and those are not just lurking asteroids. On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved NASA's $20.2 billion budget for 2009, committing the U.S. to cooperation with Russia and other countries to avoid asteroid threats. Congressmen suggested a Russian telecommunication center in the Primorye Territory, in the Far East, could be used for early warning and detection of dangerous asteroids. Perminov said the RT 70 radar deployed in the town of Galenki near Ussuriisk (the second largest city in Primorye) is a facility used by Russia's Space Forces. "This matter is more a question for the Defense Ministry, but we will back the project as an idea," he said. Meteoroids 2001 - Conference at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics J. Borovicka et al Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:04 EDT Session 8: "Fireballs, Bolides and Meteorites" The Moravka Meteorite Fall: Fireball Trajectory, Orbit and Fragmentation J. Borovicka, P. Spurny and Z. Ceplecha (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, 251 65 Ondrejov, Czech Republic) The Moravka meteorite fall of May 6, 2000, is only the sixth case in history, when the pre-fall trajectory could be determined from instrumental records. A very bright fireball appeared during broad daylight at 11:51:52 UT and was seen by thousands of people. Fortunately, three casual witnesses captured the fireball on video. The fireball was also detected by satellite-based infrared and visible sensors. Sonic booms were recorded by a local seismic network and an infrasound array located in Germany recorded signals from this event. Three ordinary chondrites of type H5-6 and total mass of 634 g were recovered in the vicinity of village Moravka, Czech Republic (18.53E, 49.60N) over a span of 11 km. Much more fragments certainly fell, since one video record shows multiple hierarchical fragmentation to more than hundred pieces. After a careful calibration of the videos, we were able to determine the fireball trajectory with a good precision. The initial velocity was 22.5 km/s and the trajectory slope 20 degrees to horizontal. The most resistant fragment disappeared at an altitude of 21 km when decelerated to 4 km/s. The heliocentric orbit is notable by a high inclination of 32 degrees. Details of fireball dynamics and fragmentation will also be given. 8.1 On the Relationship between Asteroids, Fireballs and Meteorites A.E. Rosaev (FGUP NPC NEDRA, Yaroslavl, Russia) Best of interest searching for parental bodies for meteors, fireballs and meteorites with well determined orbits. We use two days to study this problem in this work. First way - in-vestigation close orbits by one of number of empirical criterion's like criterion Southworth -Hawkins. The second way is to study the orbits intersections statistics. The fireballs of Prai-rie network and meteorites with well determined orbits was took into account. Obviously, that fireballs and meteorites - an essence of bodies, having potentially unstable orbits and, as an effect, small time life's. If take sufficiently natural suggestion on that, that similar objects are form in collisions NEA with each other and with comets, possible expect that crossing the orbits of asteroids and fireballs, or meteorites will indicate us on the most close on a time events of mutual collisions NEA. Really, the distribution nearly intersected orbits in the system NEA-fireball and fireball-fireball show significant non-homogenous. Possible select about 10 areas to concentrations the cross points of orbits of fireballs and NEA. Probably, they correspond to the most recent disastrous events. Results of calculations for meteorites Lost City, Prhibram, Innisfree Peekskill and Tun-guska's is given. In case of a general conclusion of this work, the hypothesis of an very close relation stud-ied meteorites with NEA put forward. 8.2 Relation of Meteoroid Ablation-Classification to Light Curves D.O. ReVelle (1) and Z. Ceplecha (2) 1) Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, MS J577, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, EES-8, Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Group, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA; 2) Emeritus: Academy of Sciences, Astronomical Institute, Observatory, 25165 Ondrejov, Czech Classification of bolides according to their ablation coefficients allows the recognition of 4 different groups: type I, type II, type IIIA, and type IIIB. (In addition, iron bolides have also been identified by the authors, but from our limited data set, we can not evaluate them using the current effort). The possibility of determining to what type a bolide belongs from just light curve data was examined, and a criterion IT = (1/I)(dI/dt) was earlier proposed. The statistical significance of sorting bolides according to IT was also established. Recently, we have revised our original light-curve classification using ground-based radiometer data taken at the Ondrejov Observatory provided by Sandia National Laboratory (courtesy of Mr. Richard Spalding, operated by Mr. Pavel Spurny) and have determined: a) the originally proposed classification tables published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1997) are valid and form the best possibility available at the moment, but they should be utilized only if light curves are the only form of observational data available, b) relevant results can be obtained for values of brightness separated by a time interval, dt, of 0.05 s (if a shorter interval is available, one should adjust the interval by summing all data inside each 0.05-s interval), c) associating a bolide with a single type by using only light-curve data is rarely possible, since only the probability of belonging to one of the 4 types can be determined, d) the ablation coefficient, sigma and the shape-density coefficient, K, cannot be construed as a weighted average and must be taken for each bolide type separately, e) if other precise observational data can be derived (e.g. data on heights and velocities at several points), they are certainly preferable for determining the sigma and K values. The characteristic light curve determined for each of these4 meteoroid types will be presented. PSB-10 Bolide Fragmentation Theory with Application to PN and EN fireballs The simple physical concept of the conservation of energy and momentum (single-body theory) was applied to a majority of multi-station photographic observations of bolides assuming that the entry behavior could be successfully described using a constant value of the ablation coefficient (sigma), the shape-density coefficient (K), and allowing for a single sudden gross-fragmentation at one distinct altitude. If the precision of the observational data is better than +/-30 m in distance measured along the bolide trajectory, then about 40% of the events can be explained without any gross-fragmentation, about 40% are explainable with one gross-fragmention point and about 20% have definitely experienced more than one gross-fragmentation point. High values of the derived ablation coefficients from observations speak for nearly continuous fragmentation as being the main mass-loss process for these bodies. If the precision of the observational data is better than +/-15 m as described above, then the assumption of constant sigma and K is no more sustainable. There are not many data available with such a high precision. The complete solution of the problem with sigma and K being functions of time was subsequently derived and applied to 22 PN and EN fireballs each with the needed high precision. The luminous efficiencies, tau, can also be determined from this approach as well. We will present our results on sigma, K, and tau as a function of the many different variables and parameters of the problem for individual bolides during their luminous trajectory and for individual bolide types. PSB-11 Infrasonic Monitoring of the Global Influx Rate of Large Bolides Douglas O. ReVelle (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA) We have utilized recent infrasonic bolide observations to estimate the large bolide influx rate. These infrasonic signals are from the densest, most deeply penetrating objects entering the atmosphere. Undoubtedly, depending on the exact mass range under consideration, the total influx is about a factor of five-ten times greater. This work is a continuation or work shown at the Cornell ACM meeting in 1999 and initiated by Wetherill and ReVelle in the late 1970's using data from AFTAC (Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick AFB, Florida). There have been several additional large bolides detected infrasonically since 1999 that are included in our latest evaluation of the global influx rate of large bolides. Some of these have also been detected independently by US DoD Satellites. Thus, in some cases we also have independent estimates of the bolide source energy that can be used for an evaluation of the accuracy of the infrasonic source energy estimate. We have also used statistical counting error procedures to estimate the uncertainty in the influx rate as a function of the source energy, assuming that the source energy estimates are without error. For example, at a source energy of 0.2 kt (1 kt = 4.185X10(12) joules), we find a global influx rate and its estimated uncertainty of 28.1 (+/-8.9) bolides per year. 8.3 Bolide Fragmentation Processes: Comparisons of Bolide Data against Theoretical Bolide Models Zdenek Ceplecha (Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov Observatory, Ondrejov, The Czech Republic) and Douglas O. ReVelle (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA) This work is a practical extension and testing of theoretical work also submitted to the Meteoroids2001 conference. We have applied the fragmentation model of ReVelle to the most precise EN and PN fireballs in order to evaluate the shape change parameter, and the fragmentation scale height in comparison to the pressure or density scale heights. If the ratio of the fragmentation scale height to the density scale height is large, we recover the single-body model limit. In the opposite extreme, pancake type fragmentation is possible. This was done in order to determine if, for any of the available very precise bolide observations, a parameter range existed that allowed pancake type catastrophic fragmentation processes to occur. This is important since a number of workers in the early 1990's identified this behavior as being important for the larger bodies entering the atmosphere in the small ablation limit (Hills and Goda, Chyba, Zahnle and Thomas, etc.). We are currently examining a number of bolides with very precise observations to determine these fundamental properties and will report on our findings at the conference. 8.4 Bolide Fragmentation Modeling In this talk we extend work begun at the Cornell ACM meeting. The shape change parameter is evaluated for conditions when it is negative. For the values of the shape change parameter between 0 and 2/3, ablation, shape change and deceleration can occur. For values < 0, however, large lateral growth of the body occurs. This negative region of the shape change parameter corresponds to the flight regime that was "rediscovered" by Hills and Goda and by Chyba, Zahnle and Thomas in the 1990's and analyzed in detail by Grigoryan in the 1970's. We have determined analytic expressions for the shape change parameter (assuming a constant ablation parameter and constant meteoroid velocity) and for the fragmentation scale height, Hf. We have evaluated Hf assuming that fragmentation was triggered if the stagnation pressure exceeded the body's compressive/tensile strength. If Hf >> H, the density scale height, the single-body approximation is applicable, whereas, if Hf << H, catastrophic, pancake break-up will occur. In the limit with the shape change parameter < 0 with very small ablation, large increases in the frontal cross-sectional area are predicted to occur, but only over a very limited range of conditions. In addition, as the shape change parameter becomes progressively more negative, end heights raise substantially. We also evaluate the effect of a negative shape change parameter on light emission so that a nearly complete, self-consistent model of the bolide phenomena can be formulated. PSB-12 Bolide Luminosity Modeling: Comparisons between Uniform Bulk Density and Porous Meteoroid Models We compare predictions of normalized bolide luminosity for two fundamental bolide models, one assuming a uniform bulk density throughout the body and a second which assumes a uniform chondritic composition throughout, but with varying amounts of porosity (assumed to be filled with either water-ice or open space). The second model is based upon the uniformity of spectral observations taken over many years during periods of shower meteors from the extremes of the Geminids to the dustball-like Draconids. The first model utilized is due to ReVelle (1979, 1993) and the second is based upon the porous meteoroid model of ReVelle (1983, 1993). The standard, uniform bulk density, ablation model assumes that the drag and heat transfer area are equivalent in the positive, shape change factor limit. For porous meteoroids however, the heat transfer area can exceed the drag area by increasingly larger amounts as the body's porosity increases. ReVelle (1983) used this approach to show that the bulk density and ablation parameter compositional group identifications of Ceplecha and McCrosky (1976) were essentially correct. When these factors are introduced into the relevant model equations, a set of nearly self-consistent predictive relations are developed which readily allows comparisons to be made of the end-height variations and of the normalized luminous output of the two basic types of meteoroid models. PSB-13 On Electrophonic Phenomena A.Yu. Ol'khovatov (Radio Instrument Industry Research Institute, Moscow, Russia) During last years an idea that electrophonic sounds are caused by VLF electromagnetic radiation from a bolide's wake is promoted again. The source of the radiation is considered to be "magnetic spagetti relaxation" in a bolide's wake. The most serious problem with the theory is that level of detected VLF disturbances, accompanied a bolide is negligibly small, comparing with needed for hearing VLF radiation. For example, C. Keay experiments revealed lower limit of hearing in order of 160 V/m. It means that a bolide producing electrophonic sounds is to generate in its wake VLF radiation with the power at least in order of 10^12 W. Nor present theory neither experiments with turbulent ionized wakes predicts such superpowerful VLF radiation. Anyway, if it is realized somehow, it would lead to spectacular effects, for example, to enormous Joule heating of the wake (due to extremely large electric currents) transforming the wake into object as bright (seen from the ground) as at least the Sun. And, of course, this "super-radiation" would produce remarkable global effects - but none of them are known. The presence of "transducers" near an observer can't help the situation, as the needed level to hear their vibrations are even in order of magnitude larger, and anyway, it can't be lowered down many orders of magnitude. A solid confirmation that these estimations are correct is the fact that otherwise people would hear numerours VLF transmitters hundreds miles away! Also there were reports of electrophonic sounds during several Space Shuttle re-entries. The the hypothetical "super-radiation" (if exists) would produce a very remarkable (devastating) effect on the spaceplane. Also, in many electrophonic events the power of aerobraking, i.e. the power deposited by a meteoroid into the atmosphere, which is to be the energy source of the proposed VLF super-radiation was much less that the power of the latter. 8.5 Recent Infrasonic Observations of Large Bolides Peter Brown (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, and Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada), Douglas O. ReVelle and Rod Whittaker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA) We expect a minimum of several dozen bolides to impact the Earth each year and penetrate low enough in the atmosphere to produce infrasonic waves. These objects have energies from 10-2 kT to many hundreds of kT and many of these are also simultaneously observed by US DoD satellites. Here we present a summary and discussion of more than 15 infrasonically observed bolide events detected since 1996. These data demonstrate the capability of infrasound arrays to reliably locate the source of bolide explosions in the atmosphere at heights of typically 20-30 km and at ranges exceeding 5000km. We find, for example, that a 0.2kT bolide detonation can be detected at ranges of 3300 km under good conditions. Most notable among these recent events is a multi-kt event recorded off the coast of Mexico on 25 Aug, 2000 which was recorded by six infrasound stations and a large (~20 kt) detonation in the South Pacific on 18 Feb, 2000. The modelling and interpretation of some individual events and comparison with other instrumental records of the same bolides will be highlighted. PSB-14 The Tagish Lake Meteorite Fall : Interpretation of Physical and Orbital Data Mexico, USA, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada), Douglas O. ReVelle (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA) and Alan Hildebrand (Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary) The Tagish lake meteorite fell 18 Jan, 2000 at 16:43 UT in Northern British Columbia Canada. Some 500 meteorites were later found on the frozen ice-surface of Tagish Lake. The fireball accompanying the meteorite fall was widely recorded by ground-based photographers/videographers, earth-orbiting satellites, seismic and infrasound sensors. The associated meteorites have proven unique; reflectance spectra from Tagish Lake is the first to match that of D-class asteroids (Hiroi et al., 2001) and the bulk density of TL is the lowest measured for any meteorite at 1.67 g cm-3 (Zolensky, pers comm). Here we will discuss the data relating to the fireball and associated modelling to determine the orbit of TL and probable physical structure. Most notably, the fireball data suggest that TL is intermediate between Type II and III fireballs. Our modelling indicates the initial body had a porosity near 50%. Type III objects are presumed to be related to cometary bodies and suggests that TL and by extension D-asteroids might be intermediate in physical structure between primitive chondritic asteroids and cometary nuclei. 8.6 Common Ground-based Optical and Radiometric Detections of Fireballs within the Czech Part of the European Fireball Network Pavel Spurny (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Science, Ondrejov Observatory 251 65 Ondrejov, The Czech Republic) and Richard E. Spalding (Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0978, USA) Since August 1999 two radiometric systems equiped with optical sensors are operated at two stations of the Czech part of the European fireball network (EN). During this period we have obtained several very detailed lightcurves for bright fireballs recorded also photographically in scope of the EN. First results of this study will be presented. PSB-15 The EN310800 Vimperk Fireball: Probable Meteorite Fall of an Athen-type Orbit Meteoroid Pavel Spurny and Jiri Borovicka (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Science, Ondrejov Observatory 251 65 Ondrejov, The Czech Republic) We report a detection of an unique fireball photographed at two Czech stations of the European Fireball Network. This slow-moving fireball with initial velocity of only 15 km/s reached the maximum absolute brightness -14 and penetrated down to almost 20 km. The meteorite fall of several pieces of the total mass of several kilograms is highly probable. However, no meteorite has been recovered yet. From one very rough spectral record and also from its behavior in the atmosphere we found that it was stony meteoroid, probably ordinary chondrite. The main exceptionality of this fireball is in its heliocentric orbit, with semimajor axis only 0.8 AU, eccentricity 0.3, aphelion 1.03 AU and inclination 17 degrees. This rare Aten type orbit is only third one in the history of decades-long operation of the European Fireball Network. PSB-16. Global Infrasonic Monitoring of Large Meteoroids Douglas O. ReVelle The Acoustical Society of America Sun, 01 Jul 2001 08:08 EDT Networks of low-frequency acoustic detectors, originally built for other purposes, are now finding a new and unexpected use in detecting objects that enter our atmosphere. The orbit of Earth through the solar system passes through much solid particle debris, including pieces of material from both comets and asteroids. We call these arriving particles "meteoroids." The asteroidal and cometary sources have a wide variety of properties, so meteoroids can arrive from very different orbits and belong to one of several types of observed materials. They can be iron, rocky stones, very weak stones (Carbonaceous chondrites) or there are two brands of very weak cometary material as well. This debris can be either very small or very large or have a large range of possible sizes, depending on the source and how long the material has been orbiting in space free from its source and other factors. This material can also have a large range of possible entry speeds and densities. As Earth moves about the Sun, it acts as a tiny dust mop sweeping up this material which can strongly interact with the atmosphere at very great heights (above 60 miles). On occasion these larger and brighter meteors and fireballs or bolides (the name of the atmospheric phenomena) travel at high speeds to collide with Earth's surface and possibly even produce an extensive crater. This delivery of meteorite samples (the ponderable pieces that reach the Earth intact), originating on other worlds beyond our own, provides a means of studying our own origins as well. The interaction of these meteoroids with the atmosphere is very strong partly due to the very high speed at entry and partly due to the compressibility of the atmosphere. The entry speed compared to the speed at which sound waves travel, called the Mach number, typically can range from 50 - 300. For comparison, a typical Mach number of a commercial or military supersonic jet is less than 3. As a direct consequence of this high speed, an explosion is generated along a cylindrical path about the entry trajectory. This deposition of energy along the path constitutes an explosion whose characteristic scale is called the "blast wave radius", which delineates the size of the region in which an explosion has occurred. For large meteoroids capable of penetrating the atmosphere down to heights where a shock wave is formed, this scale can range from a minimum of 10 meters (in order to be recorded at ground level) to many kilometers in length. For comparison, the typical size scale of the sound source in ordinary thunder is about 2 or 3 m. Sounds that emanate from such sources in the atmosphere can have very large amplitudes, even great enough to break glass windows at close range. Frequencies of such sources can be low enough so that the peak energy is below the range of audible sound waves, which we call "infrasound." As the blast wave radius increases we find that these frequencies become progressively lower. For the famous Siberian meteorite explosion (Tunguska) of 1908, ultra-low sound frequencies of 1/60 Hertz (corresponding to a period of about 1 minute) were observed at great distances from the entry trajectory. As these signals propagate through the atmosphere, the ambient temperature and winds aloft can bend the signals away from straight-line paths, i.e., refraction. They can also be diffracted and scattered as well since this is a wave phenomenon. We now know empirically how to relate the period at maximum amplitude of the sound waves to the source energy. For the blast wave radius values quoted above, source energies range from 0.00001 kt (1/100 of a ton of TNT) to 10 Mt (megaton) of TNT equivalent (1 kt = 4.186×1012 Joules). For comparison, the nuclear weapons dropped in Japan in WWII produced explosions of about 15 kt. Over the past few years we have observed a number of these very large bolides over a very large energy range. From these data we have been able to locate the sources and calculate the frequency of occurrence of these large bodies at the Earth in a year. The observations at arrays of sensors on the ground using low frequency microphones, separated horizontally by distances of a few hundred meters to a few km typically, can be used to determine both the angular great circle distance of the arrival as well as the elevation angle of the signals. This allows us to uniquely locate these sources in three-dimensional space within the atmosphere within certain errors. For example at a range of 3350 km, a bolide of about 0.2 kt was readily recorded infrasonically even as long ago as 1965. Also, from such data we can estimate that the frequency of occurrence of rocky type meteoroids for a energy of 15 kt is about once per year over the globe. At the energy of Tunguska (10 Mt), it is about once every 120 years and this event last occurred about 93 years ago. Corresponding to an energy 0.1 kt for example, we find a value and associated uncertainty of about 30 ± 9 large bolides/year and this value continues to increase as the source energy decreases and vice versa. Douglas ReVelle is at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This paper is based on the lay-language version of paper 2pPAa4 at the 141st ASA Meeting, Chicago, IL Philippines: Authorities probing 'mysterious' Tagum blast Frinston Lim Mindanao Bureau Wed, 28 May 2008 13:44 EDT Police and military authorities here remain clueless on what caused the huge explosion that occurred near a military camp and two provincial jail complexes in a village here Tuesday night. Investigators are still determining whether the blast was caused by an explosive device or a grenade since there was no trace of bomb or grenade fragments in the vicinity where the explosion was heard, said Senior Superintendent Benilito Bianzon, Davao del Norte police director. The explosion, Bianzon said, was heard at around 10:45 p.m. amid a heavy downpour in the vicinity of the Davao del Norte provincial rehabilitation center (DPRC) gate and the bunkhouses of the Division Recon Company of the 1003rd Infantry (Raptor) Brigade in the village of Mankilam. "Our EOD (explosives and ordnance disposal) team went there to investigate but they have yet to locate the exact site of the explosion which probably may be manifested by a small crater in the ground," Bianzon told reporters on Wednesday. The military also said it could not yet determine what really exploded as they were relying also on the findings of the police EOD. Bangladesh: Mysterious booms rock city Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:39 EDT Panic gripped city dwellers in the early hours yesterday when sounds of several explosions rocked parts of the capital city. Neither police nor the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) could say anything with certainty about the explosions or from where the sound of explosions originated. Some city dwellers heard six to seven loud explosion sounds in southern parts of Dhaka at around 12:40am yesterday. A number of businessmen at Tejgaon said they heard the sounds around the same time, seeming to come from different parts of the city. Some others living in the Dhaka University area also confirmed hearing similar sounds, also around the same time. When contacted, police from different police stations said they also heard the explosion-like sounds but could not ascertain where it came ISPR officials said they have no information regarding the matter. Massachusetts, US: Mysterious odor descends on Cape Cod Cape Cod Times Cape Codders by the hundreds were asking themselves and their fire departments Tuesday night, "What's that funny smell?" An odor variously described as burning rubber, burning electrical outlets, burning car brakes and melting plastic was reported to fire departments from Eastham to Bourne. Firefighters in full turn-out gear from department after department searched their towns with no luck. That is until around midnight, when a radio broadcast from the Barnstable County Sheriff's Department came up with a possible answer: temperature inversion. Simply put, a temperature inversion can occur when an oncoming cold front pushes a warmer air mass in front of it, then sits on top of the warmer air mass, said Alan Dunham, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Taunton. In this case, the temperature inversion brought the stink from someplace else and dropped it on our doorsteps.Then that cold front sat on the stink for a couple hours. "The conditions were just right for that," Dunham said of the Tuesday night weather event. "We had this hot humid air, pollution or smoke particles from elsewhere just attach themselves to that and linger here." In the case of the acrid smell assaulting Cape sensibilities, the possible source has not been pinned down. It could have been residue from North Carolina where, Sunday and Monday, firefighters battled more than 300 brush fires that forced the evacuation of homes and burned 9,000 acres. Or it could be pollution from New York City. "I can't say for certain that it was the fires in North Carolina or anything else," Dunham said. "But it is possible. We had similar reports from southern Rhode Island." Inverted temperatures are not all that rare, Dunham said, but once in a while they get noticed by the general population because there is a smell associated with them. "A number of years ago, there were big fires in Canada and that brought smoke down through Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts because of inverted temperatures," he said. On the Cape, calls to fire departments seemed to cluster about the time the Celtics crashed and burned in Los Angeles - shortly before midnight. In Sandwich, calls came from all areas of the town. Eastham firefighters similarly searched their town and at one point, called the Coast Guard wondering if there were a ship burning off the Staff at the county communication center sent dozens of calls to fire departments in a relatively short period of time. Then from the dispatch center came relief to many departments - a probable explanation for the smell. "We can't take the credit. We're just the middle man," said Peter Thomas, director of the county communication center which dispatches fire calls for seven Cape departments. "We got a call from Bob Crocker. He put it together - a temperature inversion." A 26-year veteran of the state Department of Recreation and Conservation, Crocker is a district forest fire patrolman at Shawme Crowell State Forest. Much of his training as a wild land firefighter focused on weather conditions. "Wind, rain, terrain, slope - all of that factors into your firefighter training," he said. He was getting ready to turn in for the night Tuesday when he heard an explosion of calls on his home scanner sending departments out on smoke investigations. "I got on my computer, checked out the weather channel and saw a cold front coming in from around New York," he said. "I just figured out what it was before anyone else had a chance," he said. "I didn't solve a mystery or a problem. I just passed a little information along." Fireball photographed in South Dakota Drew Sandholm KSFY.com KSFY has been contacted by several individuals, who report seeing several unidentified objects in Sioux Falls' western skies Thursday evening. to Cari Jostad for this photo taken through binoculars. She's one of many reporting having saw this image in Sioux Falls' western sky "Just like a fireball. I can't explain it any better than that," said Cari Jostad, who was outside with her two boys when they noticed what she describes as a burning ball of fire. "You could see planes flying by and you know they would come and go, but this just kept the same line and kept going." She quickly grabbed her camera and took photo after photo, which can be viewed by clicking the link in this article. Cari wanted a closer look to see what these things were. "Looking through the binoculars it was... it looked like a fire ball," she said. Her husband Bob sent several photos to KSFY looking for answers, so we contacted the National Weather Service (NWS). NWS examined three of the photos and determined it could be explained by a contrail. A contrail forms when a passing jet leaves water vapor in the air. The vapor freezes and the sun does the rest. "The angle of the sun was just right to give you a different atmospheric phenomena that made it look like it was a comet or some other sort of atmospheric phenomena," said NWS' Shawn Liebl. He said that would make sense because the sun was setting at the time the sightings were reported, but said he'd have to have video evidence to know for sure. For the Jostads and others who saw this phenomena, they'd like to know exactly what it was. Then again, their boys think they have the answer --- Transformers coming to save the world. KSFY tried contacting NASA for more information, but they were unavailable after hours. National Weather Service explains it away as nothing more than a contrail, because of course the people in South Dakota had never seen one of those before, dontcha know. It would be outlandish to think, given all of the fireballs recently witnessed, that there would be yet another sighting, wouldn't it? Too many of those and people might start getting the idea that Something Wicked This Way Comes Australia: Fishos catch sight of UFO Daniel Bourcher Northern Territory News It could be the one that got away. Fisherman Simon Moyle, his son Rein and mate Eddie Carroll saw a UFO shooting across NT skies. The trio were fishing at Shady Camp, 220km east of Darwin, when they spotted an object zip across the sky and burst into fire around 5.30pm on Sunday. The incident was also reported by Northern Territory News readers enjoying the sunset over Darwin Harbour from the cliffs at Fannie Bay. Mr Moyle, 36, of Driver, Palmerston, said the UFO was not a plane. He thinks it may have been a meteor or piece of space junk. "I thought something must have been re-entering the atmosphere,'' he said. Rein, 10, a Year 5 Parap Primary student, said the incident surprised him. "I saw something orange really high in the sky and it looked like it was on fire,'' he said. "It plummeted a big distance in two seconds and then it disappeared in a flash -- the smoke stayed for about half an hour.'' Mr Carroll, 37, of Woodroffe, said he had no idea what it was. "I looked up in the sky and thought it was a plane at first,'' he said. "It looked like a falling star -- it was lit for two seconds and then exploded. I think it was a meteor -- it was too high to be a plane.'' Territory astronomy enthusiast Geoff Carr said the sighting was odd. "I can't explain it,'' he said. "The atmosphere is an ocean of gas -- all sorts of things could happen.'' Huge crater on Mars 'solves red planet's two-faced riddle' A giant crater made by an asteroid or comet is the reason Mars is so lopsided, scientists said today. The impact gouged out a hole 5,200 miles across and 6,500 miles long, leaving a basin covering 40 per cent of the red planet, researchers reported in the journal Nature. The depression is the size of the combined areas of Asia, Europe and Australia, which makes it by far the largest crater in the solar system. In 1984 scientists proposed an impact had caused the two-faced appearance of Mars with two strikingly different kinds of terrain in its northern and southern hemispheres. An artist's impression of a huge asteroid impact that would explain Mars' lopsided shape This fell into disfavor because the 'Borealis Basin' didn't seem to fit the expected round shape However, the latest three studies said some of the basin's edges have been erased by volcanic activity. "We haven't proved the giant-impact hypothesis, but I think we've shifted the tide," said Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It appears the crater held an ocean in the early days of the planet, before Mars lost so much of its atmosphere and the water either sublimated away or froze beneath the surface. NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander last week scraped through the dry red dust covering the planet's surface to reveal what appears to be white ice underneath. Mr Andrews-Hanna and MIT colleagues said the impact theory best explains the crater. When the solar system was just maturing 4 billion years ago, big objects often smashed into one another. The formation of the Earth's Moon is attributed to a giant impact on the Earth. In a second report, Margarita Marinova and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology made three-dimensional simulations of the impact. 'The impact would have to be big enough to blast the crust off half of the planet, but not so big that it melts everything. We showed that you really can form the dichotomy that way,' they said. The shock waves from the impact would have traveled through the planet and disrupted the crust on the other side, causing changes in the magnetic field. In a third report, Nimmo and colleagues said such magnetic anomalies have been measured in Mars' southern hemisphere. Asteroid-hunting satellite a world first Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite), this spacecraft will provide a significant improvement in surveillance of asteroids that pose a collision hazard with Earth and innovative technologies for tracking satellites in orbit high above our planet. Weighing in at a mere 65-kilograms, this dual-use $12-million mission builds upon Canada's expertise in compact "microsatellite" design. NEOSSat will be the size of a large suitcase, and is cost-effective because of its small size and ability to "piggyback" on the launch of other spacecraft. The mission is funded by Defence Research Development Canada(DRDC) and the Canadian Space Agency(CSA). Together CSA and DRDC formed a Joint Project Office to manage the NEOSSat design, construction and launch phases. NEOSSat is expected to be launched into space in 2010. The two projects that will use NEOSSat are HEOSS (High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance) and the NESS (Near Earth Space Surveillance) asteroid search program. "Canada continues to innovate and demonstrate its technological expertise by developing small satellites that can peer into near and far space for natural and man-made debris," says Guy Bujold, President of the Canadian Space Agency. "We are building the world's first space-based telescope designed to search for near-Earth asteroids." NEOSSat is the first follow up mission to the groundbreaking MOST (Microvariability and Oscillation of STars) spacecraft, a 60-kilogram satellite designed to measure the age of stars in our galaxy. NEOSSat also marks the first project using Canada's Multi-Mission Microsatellite Bus. CSA's Space Technology branch launched the Multi-Mission Bus project to capitalize on technology developed for the MOST project by making it adaptable to future satellite missions. Captain Tony Morris of DRDC Ottawa, and Deputy Program Manager of the NEOSSat Joint Project Office, says, "NEOSSat is a technological pathfinder for us to demonstrate the potential of microsatellite technologies to satisfy operational requirements of the Canadian Forces. NEOSSat will demonstrate the ability of a microsatellite to enhance the CF's contribution to the NORAD mission - providing accurate knowledge of the traffic orbiting our planet. This would contribute to the safety of critical Canadian assets, military and civilian, in an increasingly congested space environment." Dr. Brad Wallace leads the science team at DRDC for HEOSS, which will use NEOSSat for traffic control of Earth's high orbit satellites. Dr. Wallace says, "We have already done satellite tracking tests using MOST, so we know that a microsatellite can track satellites. The challenge now is to demonstrate that it can be done efficiently, reliably, and to the standards required to maximize the safety of the spacecraft that everyone uses daily, like weather and communication satellites." The HEOSS project will demonstrate how a microsatellite could contribute to the Space Surveillance Network (SSN), a network of ground based telescopes and radars located around the world. Until the 1980s, Canada contributed to the SSN with two ground-based telescopes in eastern and western Canada. The fact that HEOSS will be a space-based capability on a microsatellite represents an exciting enhancement to the contribution and offers significant advantages to the SSN. Ground-based sensors' tracking opportunities are constrained by their geographic location and the day-night cycle. In Sun-synchronous orbit around our planet, NEOSSat will offer continuous tracking opportunities and the ability to track satellites in a wide variety of orbit "NEOSSat requires remarkable agility and pointing stability that has never before been achieved by a microsatellite," says David Cooper, General Manager of Mississauga-based Dynacon Inc., the prime contractor for the NEOSSat spacecraft and the manufacturer and operator of the MOST satellite. "It must rapidly spin to point at new locations hundreds of times per day, each time screeching to a halt to hold rock steady on a distant target, or precisely track a satellite along its orbit, and image-on-the-run." Cooper says. "Dynacon is the world leader in this microsatellite attitude-control-system technology." Dr. Alan Hildebrand, holder of a Canada Research Chair in Planetary Science in the University of Calgary's Department of Geoscience, leads an international science team for the NESS asteroid search project and is excited by its prospects. "NEOSSat being on-orbit will give us terrific skies for observing 24-hours a day, guaranteed," Hildebrand says. "Keeping up with the amount of data streaming back to us will be a challenge, but it will provide us with an unprecedented view of space encompassing Earth's orbit." Although NEOSSat's 15-centimetre telescope is smaller than most amateur astronomers', its location approximately 700 kilometres above Earth's atmosphere will give it a huge advantage in searching the blackness of space for faint signs of moving asteroids. Twisting and turning hundreds of times each day, orbiting from pole to pole every 50 minutes, and generating power from the Sun, NEOSSat will send dozens of images to the ground each time it passes over Canada. Due to the ultra-low sky background provided by the vacuum of space, NEOSSat will be able to detect asteroids delivering as few as 50 photons of light in a 100-second exposure. Hildebrand, who oversees the U of C's ground-based asteroid observation program using the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory's wide-field Baker Nunn telescope, said NEOSSat will greatly enhance the study of asteroids and comets as they approach Earth. "NEOSSat will discover many asteroids much faster than can be done from the ground alone. Its most exciting result, however, will probably be discovering new targets for exploration by both manned and unmanned space missions," he observes. "By looking along Earth's orbit, NEOSSat will find 'low and slow' asteroids before they pass by our planet and sprint missions could be launched to explore them when they are in the vicinity of the Earth." Tunguska Event still a mystery 100 years on Scientists will gather in Siberia to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event June 26-28, one of the world's most mysterious explosions which flattened 80 million trees but largely went unnoticed The massive blast, equivalent to around 15 megatons of TNT, occurred approximately 7-10 km (3-6 miles) above the Stony Tunguska River in a remote area of central Siberia early on June 30, 1908. The explosion, which was estimated to measure up to 5 on the Richter scale, knocked people off their feet 70 km away and destroyed an area of around 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles). And if the explosion had occurred some 4 hours and 47 minutes later, due to the Earth's rotation it would have completely destroyed the then Russian capital of St. Petersburg. However, despite the fact that the night sky was lit up across Europe and Asia and the shock waves were detected as far away as Britain, the Tunguska Event largely went unnoticed eclipsed by global events leading up to World War I, the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war and it was not until almost 20 years later in 1927 that any scientific expedition managed to visit the remote site. The 1927-expedition led by Leonid Kulik, a leading meteorite expert at the Academy of Sciences, discovered the massive destruction left by the blast and gathered witness statements from locals living in the area. It was assumed that a huge meteorite had hit the area, although Kulik failed, during his research in Siberia, to find an obvious crater. And around 33 years later another expedition was also unsuccessful in its search for the elusive crater and scientists were faced with the Tunguska mystery - an explosion, 1,000 times more powerful that the WWII atomic bomb at Hiroshima, but which had left no trace as to its Although there have been dozens of theories since, from UFOs, antimatter, doomsday events and black holes, the most likely being an airborne explosion of a 10-30-meter wide meteorite or comet, none of them has provided conclusive evidence which has merely fuelled the speculation surrounding Tunguska. At the Tunguska conference in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in Siberia scientists from all over Russia will gather to discuss, using the latest computer technology, as well as less traditional methods, what actually caused the destruction in the remote Siberian region. As part of the anniversary, in the Evenki autonomous area, a statue of the Evenki god of Thunder, which reflects eyewitness testimony to the events 100 years ago, will be erected at the site believed to be the meteorite crash location. Photos: The 100th anniversary of the Tunguska explosion ©RIA Novosti At 7.14 a.m. local time (12.14 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time), an explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in East Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, not far from the Vanavara trading post, now Vanavara town, the administrative center of the Evenki Autonomous Area's Tungussko-Chunsky District. The meteorite could have killed millions of people if it had exploded over a densely populated area. A place in the taiga near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River where the Tunguska Meteorite fell on June 30, 1908. Scientists working in different fields are still trying to solve the mystery of the Tunguska explosion. An expedition studying the Tunguska event has a laboratory here, on the shore of a taiga lake. Diamond-graphite formations from the site of the Tunguska event on the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Alexei Zolotov, a well-known authority on the Tunguska event and department chief at the Oktyabrsky subsidiary of the All-Union Geophysical Prospecting Methods Institute. Soviet scientist Alexei Zolotov, left, scooping up earth samples in the vicinity of the Tunguska event. Ancient impact may have created deep niche for life Jeff Hecht, Maggie McKee Hollywood directors, take note - geologists have pieced together a cinematic account of a violent impact that gouged out a 90-kilometre-wide crater in the US state of Virginia 35 million years ago. Surprisingly, the impact may have created a new niche for life deep underground. Hidden by younger sediments, the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure is among the world's largest and best-preserved craters. Now, Gregory Gohn of the US Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, and colleagues have drilled nearly 2 km into the basin to reveal its formation. They believe a 2-km-wide object - hurtling faster than 10 km per second - crashed into 200 to 300 metres of water covering soft sediments and layers of hard rock on North America's continental shelf. "The kinetic energy of the impact is just off the scale by anything humans can relate to," Gohn told New Scientist. The impact formed a transient crater about 20 km wide and 7 km deep. Within 20 seconds, the shock spread a giant wave of debris - including shattered rocks and water - outwards, where some of it fell into the The floor of the crater quickly rebounded by about 5 km. "It's a very dynamic situation. Rocks act more like fluids than rocks," Gohn says. Rock melted by the impact seeped down into cracks in the shattered crater floor. Huge landslide The transient crater's walls began slumping inwards about 40 seconds after impact, triggering a landslide that sent a "megablock" of granite 275 m thick into the crater. About 6 minutes after impact, water that surged away from the impact zone rolled back into the steaming hole, carrying ejecta splattered from the crater and sediment torn up from the sea floor. Debris blasted into the air rained back to the surface. By 10 minutes after the impact, slumping walls had left the crater, which was full of churning water and sediment, about 38 km wide. Another ring of debris settled in the ocean about 40 km from the crater's centre. The impact probably heated the area to 350 °C, killing off any life. But the team has found living cells at depths of more than 1.4 km, in regions where rocks appear to have been broken up by the impact or its aftermath. Some rocks were also shocked, which made them more crumbly, says team member Mary Voytek of the USGS. Such fragmentation and crumbling "provided larger spaces that organisms could move into," she told New Scientist. Furthermore, the violence of the event moved carbonaceous material from plant and other forms of life from the surface down to great depths, and flushed oxygenated water, which organisms use to breathe, downwards as well. "It's almost like mixing in some compost into a garden - the further you work it into the soil, the better you make it for the organisms," Voytek says. The idea that impacts may not be so harmful to life - and may even provide new havens for life deep underground - may be good news for researchers considering the possibility of life on Mars, whose surface is blasted with deadly levels of UV radiation. Impacts on Mars might have helped to create refuges for life deep underground, Voytek says: "People are really hoping that when we can dig deeply into Mars, we'll find things." Comment: It should be noted that the impact was extremely harmful for all of the life that was there previously!!! In 1807, a comet appeared in the Natchez night sky Stanley Nelson The Concordia Sentinel On Tuesday, March 1, 1808, Judge Thomas Rodney wrote a letter to his son -- U.S. Attorney General Ceasar Rodney -- with news of the sighting of a comet in the Natchez sky. Rodney, a territorial judge who lived in the village of Washington near Natchez, had made several visits during the previous weeks to William Dunbar's plantation, The Forest, located south of Natchez. There, through Dunbar's telescope, the judge observed the comet in the night sky. As early as 1806, Rodney had peered at the stars through Dunbar's Gregorian instrument which Dunbar had designed himself and had constructed in London in 1805. Dunbar was so happy with the telescope that he wrote President Thomas Jefferson about it. The two had begun a regular correspondence in 1799. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1805, Dunbar wrote the President: "I have just received from London a six feet Gregorian reflecting telescope with six magnifying powers from 100 to 550 times." Dunbar said when duties were collected at Fort Adams prior to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, an exemption was provided for books and astronomical instruments, which were to be used for the public good in the Mississippi Territory. But now duties were being collected at New Orleans and the collectors there, Dunbar complained, were not so liberal minded. On an early morning in February 1806, Dunbar and Judge Rodney viewed the moon, the north star and Venus. At 4:30 a.m. they viewed Saturn and Jupiter and after breakfast peered at the sun. After finding "no spots," they determined that a hot summer was on the way. On April 5, 1800, while in Baton Rouge, Dunbar had watched a meteor (he called it "the phenomenon") race through the night sky. The chuck of rock was a big as a house -- maybe 80 feet long -- "wholly luminous," streaking from the southwest to the northeast in 15 seconds. Racing above the treetops, maybe 200 yards above the ground, Dunbar said after the meteor went out of sight he heard a "violent rushing noise" and seconds later heard a loud crash. He never reported whether the site of the crash was located. The comet of 1807-08 was a big topic of conversation throughout the territory, some seeing it as sign of impending doom. But the scientist Dunbar and the curious Rodney found it to be a powerful experience. People throughout Natchez country beat a path to the Forest to look through Dunbar's telescope. "The comet...made its appearance above the western horizon here in the evening about the 20th of September and was first observed by Mr. (Seth) Pease (the Surveyor General)...," the judge told Ceasar. Dunbar said Pease was "an excellent astronomer." Pease made nightly observations of the comet and every so often noted the comet's position. As an example, from Sept. 22-25, 1807, as Pease watched the comet, he made notations of its location, such as "comet north of Saturn," or "north of Mars." Pease and Dunbar, said Rodney, found the comet's course to be "from S.W. to N.E. Their observations commenced while it was on the leg of the Virgin a little below her robe, and in its course passed over the bright Star Lyra in the Harp. I went several times to view this phenomena through Mr. Dunbar's glasses, which are the best we have in this part of the country. Indeed, they are excellent." This was a time when many Americans were familiar with the night sky. Many a Natchez country couple took a walk through a meadow or along a river bank after twilight and gazed into the expanse of the Families sat on porches at night and viewed the spectacle of the universe. They knew the constellations and where the stars would be located at particular times of the night and during the different But Dunbar and Pease, scientists and astronomers, fully understood the scientific significance of witnessing a comet in their lifetimes. Rodney thought comets were "no doubt planets belonging to the Solar System, moving in more distant and more elliptical, or more eccentric, orbits than the other known planets in our system..." His thoughts became even stranger, but few knew what a comet was in those days. Rodney thought that when a comet approached the sun that its atmosphere could handle a certain amount of heat and that the heat "gradually retires behind the body...and forms what we call the tail." By this means, he thought the tail moderated the temperature of the comet's body making it "comfortable to the 'inhabitants' that occupy it." Rodney thought his idea was ahead of his time. One day, he said, astronomers will better understand "the propriety of what I have here suggested..." SOHO discovers its 1,500th comet Physorg.com The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together. Not bad for a spacecraft that was designed as a solar physics mission. SOHO's record-breaking discovery was made late on 25 June. When it comes to comet catching, the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory has one big advantage over everybody else: its location. Situated between the Sun and Earth, it has a privileged view of a region of space that can rarely be seen from Earth. From the surface, we can see regions close to the Sun clearly only during an eclipse. ©SOHO Kreutz-group comets, or sungrazing comets have been observed for many hundreds of years. They travel very close to the Sun (if they were to hit it, they would become 'sunstrikers'), with perihelion distance less than 0.01 Astronomical Units (the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun), or some 1460000 km. When it comes to comet catching, the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory has one big advantage over everybody else: its location. Situated between the Sun and Earth, it has a privileged view of a region of space that can rarely be seen from Earth. From the surface, we can see regions close to the Sun clearly only during an eclipse. Roughly 85% of SOHO discoveries are fragments from a once-great comet that split apart in a death plunge around the Sun, probably many centuries ago. The fragments are known as the Kreutz group and now pass within 1.5 million km of the Sun's surface when they return from deep At this proximity, which is a near miss in celestial terms, most of the fragments are finally destroyed, evaporated by the Sun's fearsome radiation - within sight of SOHO's electronic eyes. The images are captured by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronograph (LASCO), one of 12 instruments on board. Of course, LASCO itself does not make the detections; that task falls to an open group of highly-skilled volunteers who scan the data as soon as it is downloaded to Earth. Once SOHO transmits to Earth, the data can be on the Internet and ready for analysis within 15 minutes. Enthusiasts from all over the world look at each individual image for a tiny moving speck that could be a comet. When someone believes they have found one, they submit their results to Karl Battams at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, who checks all of SOHO's findings before submitting them to the Minor Planet Center, where the comet is catalogued and its orbit calculated. The wealth of comet information has value beyond mere classification. "This is allowing us to see how comets die," says Battams. When a comet constantly circles the Sun, it loses a little more ice each time, until it eventually falls to pieces, leaving a long trail of fragments. Thanks to SOHO, astronomers now have a plethora of images showing this process. "It's a unique data set and could not have been achieved in any other way," says Battams. All this is on top of the extraordinary revelations that SOHO has provided over the 13 years it has been in space, observing the Sun and the near-Sun environment. "Catching the enormous total of comets has been an unplanned bonus," says Bernhard Fleck, ESA SOHO Project Scientist. Australia: Fireball at Ayers Rock A weekend trip for astrophotography in central Australia can result in gorgeous skyscapes. In this example recorded in March of 2006, the center of our Milky Way Galaxy rises over planet Earth's horizon and the large sandstone formation called Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock. ©Joseph Brimacombe Fireball at Ayers Rock After setting up two cameras to automatically image this celestial scene in a series of exposures, one through a wide-angle and the other through a telephoto lens, photographer Joseph Brimacombe briefly turned his back to set up other equipment. To his surprise, the ground around him suddenly lit up with the brilliant flash of a fireball meteor. To his delight, both cameras captured the bright meteor streak. Highlighted in the telephoto view (inset), the fireball trail shines through cloud banks, just left of Ayers Rock. Crater study surprise: Deep in ground where meteorite hit, rocks are full of extra-salty water Dennis O'Brien ©Handout out photo by Science An artist's conception of the mile-wide meteorite crashing into Earth 35 million years ago in the Chesapeake Bay. Scientists drilling into the site where a giant meteorite smashed into the lower Chesapeake Bay millions of years ago have found one more surprise amid the microscopic life and pockets of prehistoric ocean. The water is saltier than expected - and no one is sure why. "It's not a reservoir. It's water in pores and in cracks and shattered rocks," said Ward Sanford, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Scientists have been examining the bay impact crater since its discovery in 1993. Today, they published in the journal Science the report on core samples extracted from this mile-long shaft - the deepest so far. The analysis sheds light on how the meteorite that struck Earth 35 million years ago created habitats conducive to microscopic life, according Greg Gohn, a researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey and the report's lead author. "We're looking at all of the effects of these impacts," he said. Water as salty as that which researchers found at the drill site has been extracted from sites in Maryland and North Carolina over the years, but it was from much lower depths in those locations, Sanford At the crater site, the impact may have brought briny water closer to the surface, he said. After the meteorite hit, subterranean water, rock and sediment rose up and then settled into cavities like cereal poured back into a box, Sanford said. It could be that salty water from deep inside the planet rose up as the debris resettled, he said. Tests on salinity of the water show it is twice as salty as sea water but poses no immediate danger to the groundwater supplies of nearby Newport News and other Virginia Tidewater communities, the researchers say. The sediments are too thick to let it pass, Sanford "It takes a long time for the saltwater to move that far. And water doesn't flow through those sediments that easily," he said. The effort to study the Chesapeake Bay impact crater is a work in progress. An international team of 40 scientists will continue testing the shattered rocks, sediment and microbes in core samples extracted on a privately owned farm five miles north of Cape Charles, Va., between July and December 2005. But so far, scientists say evidence in the shattered and superheated rocks and sediments shows that when the mile-wide meteorite splashed into the underwater coastal plain, it created a tsunami that threw vapors into space, incinerated everything in its path and sent shattered rocky material flying for thousands of miles. "It would've been a huge splash," said David A. Kring, a Houston-based crater expert at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, who reviewed the report but was not a part of the study. The bay crater is the largest in the United States and by some estimates the sixth-largest in the world. The meteorite that formed it helped shape the bay, continues to affect water supplies in surrounding Virginia communities and is used by teachers in Maryland and elsewhere to spark interest in geology. "It's very exciting stuff," said Rachel Burks, a geology professor who lectures on the crater to students at Towson University. The $1.5 million drilling project confirmed that the meteorite's impact created a "sterilizing pulse" that wiped out most of the microbial life at depths below 2,600 feet, said Mary Voytek, a USGS biologist. Nutrients created by animals and plants wiped out by the blast were washed down into a cavity formed by the impact. Shock waves from the impact created pore-filled rock and sediments, Voytek said. The result: nooks and crannies at depths below 4,600 feet that harbor more mysterious microscopic organisms than anyone expected. "What happened is, you've created a nice little incubator for life," she said. The researchers had planned to drill 7,200 feet. But a huge granite slab, dislodged by the impact 35 million years ago, limited their progress to a little over a mile, roughly 1,400 feet short of the goal. "Ideally we would've wanted to go deeper, and if we hadn't had to slow down, we would have," Gohn said. Researchers say impact craters can reveal clues about prehistoric conditions that spawned some of the earliest forms of life on Earth. Drilling can shed light on the size of the meteorite, how hard it struck and what it did to the planet, scientists say. "What is the consequence of a meteor impact? Does it sterilize the crater area and, if it sterilizes things, how quickly do microorganisms repopulate the crater fill material?" said David Vanko, a geology professor at Towson University. Vanko, who helped collect and classify core samples, plans to publish findings next year on the heat and geothermal energy from the impact, based on analyses of melted and crystalline rocks. Prehistoric Earth was probably pelted by millions of meteorites, said Kring, of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. He oversaw drilling in 2001 into the Yucatan peninsula crater, where scientists believe a meteorite struck 65 million years ago, leading to dinosaurs' extinction For corroboration, he and others look to the moon, where evidence of up to 400,000 impacts is visible on the surface. But researchers have discovered only 170 craters on Earth because the planet's surface is continuously being churned up by plate tectonics, erosion and other geologic and climatic conditions, Kring Scientists spent 2 months drilling into the Yucatan crater - and then spent six years studying the core material, he said. Tunguska Event: No answers to fireball mystery Otago Daily Times Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik made his way to the remote Tunguska River basin, his group found thousands of pine trees lying burned in a radial pattern. Reindeer graze beside the Podkamennaya or Lower Stony Tunguska River that winds through the Siberian steppes. The tents of a few herdsmen stand nearby, but hardly anyone else lives in this land of swamps and forests. 7.14 am. Pine trees glow in the summer light. The morning is blue and cloudless. Then a blinding ball of light rips across the sky, trailing a column of fire. Some eye-witnesses say the light was red. Others claim it was blue, and cylindrical in shape. It races down towards the Tunguska River, and explodes. A spear of fire splits the sky. Explosions boom across the land. A dark mushroom cloud begins rolling upwards. It will reach a height of 80km: ten times higher than Mt Everest. Over 70km away, a farmer is in his yard when the sky to the north bursts into fire. A wall of heat strikes him; his shirt is almost burned off. A blast of air hurls him across the yard, and noise bellows all around. House windows shatter; the building rocks. Nearly 200km from the explosion, another farmer in a field hears several deafening bangs. The pine forest thrashes. He and his horse are almost knocked off their feet. Soil flies into the air. A wall of water is blown up the nearby river. Elsewhere, herdsmen's tents are whipped from the ground by shock waves. Only two people die, but near the explosion site, thousands of reindeer are burned to death. A fireball brighter than the Sun can be seen from 1000km distant. In France and Belgium, sunsets and sunrises are brilliant red for a week. At night, clouds glow greeny-white, so bright that people can read a newspaper at 3am. So what caused what's now cautiously labelled The Tunguska Event? A century later, the arguments continue. In the years following 1908, Russia was torn by World War 1 and revolutions. It wasn't till 1921 that Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik made his way to the remote Tunguska River basin on a survey for the Soviet For two months, his group struggled through forests and across swamps, tormented by mosquitoes. They reached a high plain, and gaped. Thousands of pine trees lay burned in a radial pattern. At the centre, where the explosion seemed to have occurred, the ground was covered with swamps and scummy ponds. Kulik urged the Government to send a bigger expedition to the area, to search for iron from what he felt sure was a meteorite impact. In 1927, the requested party arrived at what seemed to be Ground Zero, puzzled by the absence of a crater. They drilled into the swampy ground and found nothing. Nothing except mud, dead wood, and tiny blobs of melted rock. In the decades since, scores of scientific and less-scientific missions have headed to Tunguska. According to Surendra Verma in The Tunguska Fireball, the consensus of opinion now holds that the explosion of June 30, 1908 was caused by an asteroid or comet (a fragment from short-term Comet Encke, say some). The object exploded 5km-10km above the ground with a force estimated at 10-15 megatonnes, a thousand times the force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A 1938 aerial photographic survey estimated that some 80 million trees had been felled over a 2000sqkm area. In the 1960s, Soviet nuclear airburst tests produced the same pattern of pines directly below the explosion still standing but with branches stripped off, while others more distant lay pointing away from the blast. So, an aerial blast. Comet or asteroid? Eye-witnesses described the fireball entering Earth's atmosphere on a shallow trajectory. An ice-and-rubble comet should have disintegrated almost immediately, whereas the Tunguska object apparently remained intact till just above the surface. On the other hand, those bright nights following the explosion fit the scenario of a trail of comet dust dispersed through the upper If the object exploded just a few kilometres above the surface, the downward blast should have formed a crater. Nobody has ever found a crater at Tunguska. Then in 1999, an Italian expedition to Lake Cheko, 8km northwest of the explosion site, suggested that the lake's bowl-shaped crater was just the right shape for such an explosion. Moreover, their instruments seemed to show a massive object buried beneath the lakebed. And Lake Cheko doesn't appear on any maps before 1929. Promising but inconclusive. No underground object has been found. Dissenting voices argue that the lake doesn't fit the classic crater shape at all. Plus nearby, century-old trees don't stand the way they should beneath a blast site. But should there actually be a crater? Computer simulations suggest that a stony body 60m across - the right size for such an explosion - would build up such pressure and temperature as it bored through the atmosphere that it might blow itself apart, leaving no crater but causing blast and thermal damage over a wide area. Others have suggested more lurid causes for the fireball, flash and explosion. Did a microscopic black hole, the sort formed in the first seconds of the universe, speed through our planet, entering at Tunguska? Problem: where's the exit hole? Did a speck of anti-matter hit Earth? Problem: no sign of nearby gamma-ray bursts, which would be the signature of such an event. Was it a ball of lightning? A blob of white-hot gas hurled from the Sun? A doomed alien spaceship? A laser ray from a distant planet? Enter Tunguska Conspiracy on the web, and you'll see these are among the more restrained suggestions. Another theory suggests the explosion wasn't caused by something from above, but by something from below. Underneath the Tunguska area lie big deposits of oil and natural gas. Did gas seep upwards through a crack in the ground and then explode in the great fireball? Such gas would probably include methane, which burns very easily. The gas might keep burning for several days, which would explain the bright clouds that people kept seeing at night after the explosion. But this theory doesn't explain the blazing object that so many people saw hurtling down the sky. The Tunguska Event isn't the only one of its kind. In the past 100 years, nearly 20 aerial explosions of apparently extraterrestrial origin have been reported, the most recent occurring high above the Mediterranean in June 2002. But the largest of these others, over the Amazonas region of Brazil during August 1930, was estimated at about 500,000 kilotonnes. The Tunguska explosion was 25 times more powerful. Not suprisingly, it has given further weight to demands for the development of an asteroid deflection system. Picture the Tunguska Event happening now over New York or London. Actually, don't. Blast but "no bomb" in Pakistani cities Augustine Anthony A loud blast alarmed residents and security officials in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and nearby city of Rawalpindi on Monday but police later said it appeared it had been a sonic boom. Residents of both cities heard a big blast just before 11a.m. (6 a.m. British time). "We have checked everywhere in Rawalpindi, all the main areas and hospitals, but there is nothing," a senior city police official said about 45 minutes after the blast was heard. "It could have been a sonic boom but we are still investigating." A Pakistani air force spokesmen said none of their aircraft had been over the city at the time of the blast. A military official said there had been no bomb at any of the main military installations in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of the Pakistani army and the home of President Pervez Musharraf. Militants have launched several bomb attacks in both Rawalpindi and Islamabad over the past year. The Taliban militant commander held responsible for most of the attacks threatened on the weekend to retaliate for a government offensive against militants in a northwestern region on the Afghan border. Acid rain traces support meteor theory for 1908 Tunguska blast International researchers investigating the Tunguska Event, an explosion exactly 100 years ago in central Siberia, say acid rain traces in the region back up the theory that the blast was caused by a meteorite. On June 30, 1908, an explosion equivalent to between 5 and 30 megatons of TNT occurred approximately 7-10 km (3-6 miles) above the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian region. "Extremely high temperatures occurred as the meteorite entered the atmosphere, during which the oxygen in the atmosphere reacted with nitrogen causing a build up of nitrogen oxides," one of the authors of the joint research, Natalia Kolesnikova, told RIA Novosti. Kolesnikova said a similar impact 66 million years ago wiped out a significant portion of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs. The Tunguska blast flattened 80 million trees, destroying an area of around 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles). However, despite the shockwaves being detected as far away as the United Kingdom, the Tunguska Event went largely unnoticed, eclipsed by global events leading up to WWI, the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war. If the explosion had occurred some 4 hours and 47 minutes later, due to the Earth's rotation it would have completely destroyed the then Russian imperial capital of St. Petersburg. It took almost 20 years, until 1927, before a research expedition led by Leonid Kulik, a leading meteorite expert at the Academy of Sciences, first managed to visit the remote Siberian region and see the awesome destruction caused by the blast, and to take witness statements from locals living in the area. It was assumed that a huge meteorite had hit the area, although In 1930, a British astronomer suggested the blast could have been caused by a small comet, composed of ice and dust, which would have been vaporized on impact with the Earth's atmosphere. The research carried out by the Moscow State Lomonosov University, Italy's Bologna University and Germany's Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig backs up the most likely theory of a meteor However it is unlikely to put a stop to speculation on theories ranging from alien attacks, UFOs, antimatter, doomsday events and black Fire in the sky: Tunguska at 100 The Tunguska event was caused by a space rock tens of metres across At 7:17am on 30 June 1908, an immense explosion tore through the forest of central Siberia. Some 80 million trees were flattened over an area of 2,000 square km (800 square miles) near the Tunguska River. The blast was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and generated a shock wave that knocked people to the ground 60km from the epicentre. The cause was an asteroid or comet just a few tens of metres across which detonated 5-10km above the ground, 100 years ago today. Eyewitnesses recalled a brilliant fireball resembling a "flying star" ploughing across the cloudless June sky at an oblique angle. The plume of hot dust trailing the fireball gave rise to descriptions of a "pillar of fire", which was quickly replaced by a giant cloud of black smoke rising over the horizon. "The sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. The split in the sky grew larger, and the entire northern side was covered with fire," one local remembered. "At that moment I became so hot that I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire... I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, but then the sky slammed shut. A strong thump sounded, and I was thrown a few yards." This eyewitness was lucky, but an elderly hunter who was much closer to the explosion died after being flung against a tree by the blast. That the airburst did not cause more casualties was in large part due to the remoteness of the area. To many, this event - the biggest space impact of modern times - serves as a reminder of the continuing threat posed to our planet by objects from space. If the Tunguska "impactor" had exploded over a major city such as London, the death toll would have been up in the millions. ©SPL Leonid Kulik found vast areas of forest had been levelled "Everything within the M25 would have been wiped out," Dr Mark Bailey, director of the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, told BBC News. The effects of Tunguska were not limited to Siberia. In London, it was possible to read newspapers and play cricket outdoors at midnight. This is now thought to have been due to sunlight scattered by dust from the fireball's plume. The Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik visited the region in 1921, interviewed local eyewitnesses and soon realised that a meteorite must have been the cause. He persuaded the Russian authorities to fund an expedition to the region in 1927, during which he was able to explore the vast zones of fallen trees. ©Mark Bailey The Churgin creek flows past the epicentre of the Tunguska impact An aerial survey was carried out in 1938, revealing how the flattened trees were angled away from the epicentre of the explosion over a 50km-wide zone which formed a butterfly shape. Trees at the epicentre were charred and stripped of their branches and bark, but were left standing, which would lead to them being coined "telegraph poles". Some researchers think a comet would have been too fragile to have caused the Tunguska event, and that an asteroid is therefore the most likely candidate. But Mark Bailey thinks some comets could contain chunks of tough material that could survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Indeed, one theory proposes that the Tunguska object was a fragment of Comet Encke. This ball of ice and dust is responsible for a meteor shower called the Beta Taurids, which cascade into Earth's atmosphere in late June and July - the time of the Tunguska event. The absence of any crater connected with the Tunguska event has left the door open for some outlandish alternatives to the meteorite theory. A lump of anti-matter, a colliding black hole and - inevitably - an exploding alien spaceship have all been proposed as the possible source of the blast. But in 2007, Giuseppe Longo, from the University of Bologna, Italy, and his colleagues, suggested they might have found something Leonid Kulik had missed all those years ago. Lake Cheko does not appear on any maps of the area made before 1908; it also happens to lie North-West-West of the epicentre, on the general path taken by the impactor as it plummeted to Earth. ©Uni Bologna Does Lake Cheko have anything to do with the Tunguska blast? To Dr Longo, a radar signal from beneath the lake is suggestive of a dense object, possibly part of the Tunguska meteorite, buried about 10m down. The team plans to conduct an expedition to the area in 2009, to investigate this possibility. "We have no positive proof it is an impact crater, we have come to this conclusion [about Lake Cheko] through the negation of other hypotheses," Dr Longo told BBC News last year. But other researchers, including Gareth Collins and Phil Bland of Imperial College London, cast doubt on the idea Lake Cheko has anything to do with the Tunguska event. They point to trees older than 100 years which are still standing around the rim of the lake (and, they say, should have been levelled by the impact) and the features of the lake itself, which, the researchers argue, are inconsistent with an impact origin. Rock search One hundred years on, the Tunguska event remains a vibrant area for study, especially in Russia. Last week, researchers gathered in Moscow for a scientific conference arranged to coincide with the anniversary. Topics on the agenda were the continuing search for pieces of the space rock, the comet vs asteroid debate and the relationship of the event to the Beta Taurid meteor shower. Dr Longo and colleagues presented a new tree-fall map, which they say is suggestive of two separate objects exploding in the atmosphere over Tunguska on 30 June. Felled trees can still be seen today at the Tunguska site The conference also heard presentations on other historic and prehistoric cosmic impacts and current strategies for tackling an asteroid headed for Earth. An asteroid on the order of one kilometre in diameter hits the Earth roughly once every 100,000 years. Space rocks about 10m across - roughly the size of the Tunguska object - are thought to hit our planet about once every 3,000 years. But Mark Bailey suspects they might be more frequent than that. He has investigated another event in 1930 known as the "Brazilian Tunguska". Kulik used this hut on his expeditions in the first half of the 20th Century This little-known event was apparently caused by three large meteorites in the upper reaches of the Amazon. The fires it caused continued uninterrupted for weeks and depopulated hundreds of kilometres of jungle. And in June 2002, US military satellites detected an explosion in the Earth's atmosphere with the energy of 12 kilotonnes of explosive. The event has been attributed to an asteroid which remained undetected as it approached our planet and plummeted through the atmosphere. 'Nuclear winter' The international Spaceguard survey programme has been working to identify the Near-Earth Objects larger than 1km - the class of object could cause a "nuclear winter" if one were to strike the planet, possibly threatening civilisation. Objects the size of the one that caused the Tunguska impact are too small to be seen by present-day surveys. But there is no guarantee the next object will explode over the sea or a sparsely populated wilderness. This begs an obvious question: how prepared are we for the next one? Dr Richard Crowther is head of the United Nations Near Earth Object (Neo) programme. He told the BBC News website: "Tunguska reminds us that these impact events have occurred in the relatively recent past. A totem to local thunder god Agby stands at the Tunguska epicentre "The surveys suggest that objects of this size are numerous enough to anticipate similar events in the relatively near future." Many observers are concerned by what they regard as a lack of action to counter the threat posed by near-Earth asteroids. California-based space advocacy group the Planetary Society recently awarded an Atlanta-based aerospace company $50,000 (£25,000) to design a spacecraft which could rendezvous with and track the path of the asteroid 99942 Apophis. In 2029, this 270m-wide chunk of cosmic debris will closely approach the Earth - so close, in fact, it will be visible with the naked eye. If this primordial behemoth passes through a precise region in space, or "keyhole", several hundred kilometres wide during this pass, it will strike Earth in 2036. The Planetary Society initiated its tagging mission because, it says, Earth-based observations might not be sufficient to rule out an impact in 2036. There are several technologies that could be used currently to tackle an asteroid heading on a collision course with Earth. One proposal is to use nuclear weapons to completely vapourise the object. Asteroids larger than 1km have the potential to end civilisation on Earth Another is to use a spacecraft to "push" the asteroid off course. This would involve a craft either slowing down or speeding up the object to ensure that it misses its appointment with the Earth's surface. If, for some reason, the asteroid is not spotted in time, or the deflection mission arrives at its target too late, it might be necessary to nudge the space rock just enough so that it strikes the ocean, or a remote, thinly populated area on Earth. Dr Crowther, who is based at the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), comments that Neos "do not recognise national boundaries". For this reason among others, he said, it was important that any policy framework established to counter the asteroid threat "should encourage nations to work together to share data, expertise and resources to assess and mitigate the risk of a future impact". Dot Earth: Apocalypse Then. Next One, When? Andrew C. Revkin Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the moment when something roared through the empty skies over Siberia and exploded, blasting forests for hundreds of square miles. More such incoming space rocks are inevitable. Are we ready? No. ©Randy Montoya/Sandia Sandia researcher Mark Boslough with an image from a simulated mid-air explosion of an asteroid. Last year, scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico did some simulations (here's one virtual Tunguska-like fireball) and proposed that the object, most likely an asteroid, could well have been just a few dozen yards across. That is distressing, disaster experts say, because near-earth objects this size are presumed to be much more common than larger space rocks, and they are too small to be easily spotted long in advance with the telescopes used to track such debris. (For more, New Scientist has a nice Tunguska overview.) So while the odds are that the next Tunguska-size object will arrive over the ocean or Earth's still-vast stretches of empty land, there's no reason why it couldn't explode over Chicago or Taipei. The big near-Earth objects, or NEO's, are being tracked fairly well, but quite a few experts on space, risk, and resilience say we'd better start sifting for the small ones, too. And then there's the matter of doing something about it, so the endgame looks more like "Armageddon" than "Deep Impact." The world is in the early stages of devising methods for deflecting asteroids. To get a sense of what's out there, have a look, too, at this mesmerizing animated graphic showing just how much space rock is floating around (of the size astronomers are currently tracking, at least). The graphic shows known flybys of large asteroids within 12 million miles of Earth - the blue dot in the center - in 2002. The animation was created by Gareth Williams of the Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union). These are somewhat close calls by Solar System standards and don't include objects anywhere near the small size of whatever blew up over Siberia 100 years ago. I asked Rusty Schweickart, an Apollo 9 astronaut who's become a leading voice in the push for taking space rocks seriously, to weigh in on the centennial of Tunguska, and he wrote a whimsical letter that explains the risk and possible response by "someone" who took a little action back in 1908. Click to have a look. ©Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times Schweickart, an Apollo astronaut, has been pressing for more work to spot and deflect earthbound asteroids. He spoke about the risk at the Hayden Planetarium in 2005. Rusty Schweickart of the B612 Foundation wrote this imagined letter to explain the situation: Dear Sasha & Tatiana: Well, 100 years have now passed and I finally feel comfortable in letting you know that I really appreciate the sacrifice you made (or your family that might have been made) when I slowed the Earth's rotation momentarily back in late June 1908. That's not something I normally do(!) but in that case I really felt I had to intervene. You see, what's now referred to as the Tunguska impactor, a smallish asteroid about 40 meters in diameter, was headed for an impact with Earth, directly over Moscow. It would have been a disaster of truly huge proportions, and I just couldn't stomach that given what Russia was going through at the time. So I slowed the Earth down for a bit... just a few minutes per day for a few weeks. As a result the asteroid hit way out in the middle of Siberia instead of directly over Moscow. Now there are surely millions of present day Muscovites who owe their lives to the sacrifice that your great-grandfather made in taking the hit for them. In all likelihood he and your great-grandmother would have had many more children than just your grandmother, but there he was in the most desolate section of Siberia, tending his reindeer herd, far, far from everyone else. I'm truly sorry that you don't have many more cousins to celebrate the holidays with, but in the larger scheme of things it seemed to be the right thing to do at the time. But I'm really tired of this kind of intervention; it just takes too much out of old fate to pull of this kind of thing in the future. Since so much has happened in the past 100 years in terms of technology development, you and your fellows around the planet are really able to handle this kind of thing yourselves. I mean, after all, your telescopes are now finding the larger asteroids that make close passes by Earth, and soon they'll be finding the smaller ones like the Tunguska impactor. At least they could be doing that. And as you know shoving an asteroid slightly off its course is far simpler (and cheaper) than going out to take pictures of yet another of Saturn's moons! So I'm pretty content to let the celestial clockwork and human ingenuity run their course undisturbed by pro-active fate. From my perspective it seems that with all the tools required, both an early warning capability and the ability to intervene to slightly alter an asteroid's orbit, humanity ought to be able to get the job done without me mucking about with space-time. So good luck. All it really takes is for you to convince your fellow human beings that they really are all related and really can, by coming to a simple agreement to act in concert, protect both themselves and future human (and fellow creatures') generations by sharing the risk of slightly shrinking or enlarging any threatening asteroid's orbit so that it misses the Earth. Really, you can do this, provided you can all get together. Yes, I know, that's a big challenge. But let me tell you, it's a far smaller feat for you to slightly alter the shape of the local universe than it is for me to slow down the rotation of the Earth! In his testimony on hazardous asteroids before the House Science Committee last November, Mr. Schweickart, representing his B612 Foundation, included this closing line to lawmakers: NEOs are part of nature. A NEO impact is a natural hazard in much the same way as are hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, etc. NEO impacts are deceptively infrequent, yet devastating at potentially unimaginable levels. NEOs are however not our enemies. We do not need to "defend" against NEOs, we need to protect ourselves from their occasional impact, as we do with other natural hazards. Unlike other natural hazards, however, NEO impacts can be predicted well ahead of time and actually prevented from occurring. If we live up to our responsibility, if we wisely use our amazing technology, and if we are mature enough, as a nation and as a community of nations, there may never again be a substantially damaging asteroid impact on the Earth. We have the ability to make ourselves safe from cosmic extinction. If we cannot manage to meet this challenge, we will, in my opinion, have failed to meet our evolutionary responsibility. A few years earlier, I'd met him at a conference in Boulder, Colo. Mr. Schweickart had just given testimony before a a Senate committee, and told a depressing story about his conversations with staff members shortly afterward. To a person, they said the lawmakers they worked for were convinced of the threat and need to invest more in protection. And to a person, he recalled, they apologized that new money was unlikely because making the deflection of asteroids a priority might backfire in reelection campaigns. Last year in an earlier post on asteroid impacts, Mr. Schweickart mused on an issue at the heart of Dot Earth - how political systems, reflecting human nature, still seem to be having a hard time integrating scientific understanding, uncertainties and all, in ways that result in policies and investments that could blunt risks while fostering prosperity. That same dynamic (or lack of dynamics) is at the heart of the climate-energy challenge, but also this one, and others. For instance, political imperatives are prompting the rebuilding of sections of New Orleans that coastal and ocean experts say are inevitably going to be immersed. In the end, that is why Dot Earth is not a climate blog, or an environment blog. It is an exploration of how humans, on the road toward a population of 9 billion, more or less, can limit losses from "slow drips" and "hard knocks" of all kinds - from indoor air pollution and diarrhea to asteroids and global warming. Do we have the technical capacity to spot and divert the next Tunguska or a bigger cousin? Yes. Are actions keeping pace with emerging understanding of this threat? Mr. Schweickart says it's not even close. Posted by Keit at 11:37 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3384
__label__wiki	0.587105	0.587105	Timmy Talking Trillions a Tough Sell? Say it Isn't so! I was trying to be good and NOT launch into a raging rant on the current push for more bank bailouts AND stimulus packages. But when I see Timmy Talking Trillions... well, I just have to get it out! This entire bank bailout business is insanity within the theatre of the absurd. Geithner is evidently ready to roll out ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS in government aid and backing to the banking industry ON TOP OF the $300 billion remaining in TARP funds for a total proposed new spending of $1.3 TRILLION on BANKS. Words cannot describe how screwed up that is… not that it will be just ineffective, no, no, it will be far worse than ineffective – it will ensure a death spiral that is inescapable. Guess what? When you’re in a spiral, you apply OPPOSITE RUDDER, the last thing you want to do is keep applying the same controls that got you into the spin to begin with! Evidently the falsehoods of Friedman and Keynes are going to take an all out black smoking crater in the ground before people wake up. Too bad. What we really need is an ADULT at the controls like Capt. Sullenberger! And why did they really delay this announcement? Think long and hard about that… I can’t come up with a possibility that’s any good, and NO, I don’t buy the B.S. of putting the stimulus package in the spotlight first! The lies and spin are neverending. Stimulus Battle May Signal Tough Sell for Bank Rescue By Matthew Benjamin Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s struggle to push an economic stimulus bill through Congress may seem easy compared to what he’ll encounter when he returns to Capitol Hill for additional funds to rescue the banking system. Obama will likely need to ask Congress for more money to recapitalize banks, as much as $1 trillion on top of the roughly $300 billion remaining in the current Troubled Asset Relief Program, according to an estimate by former Federal Reserve economist Ward McCarthy. That will be an even tougher sell for the new president than the stimulus plan, which is headed for a Senate vote this week after passing the House with no Republican support. That package, at least $780 billion of spending and tax cuts aimed at boosting consumer demand and creating jobs, is just a part of what it will take to pull the economy out of the 14- month-old recession. The stimulus will be effective only if credit markets, currently frozen by illiquid assets clogging banks’ balance sheets, begin to function again. “It will take an enormous effort to build broader public support” for another bank rescue plan, said Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “Had the stimulus gone through swimmingly it would have made it easier.” Geithner’s Speech New steps to be outlined this week by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will include fresh capital injections into banks and ways to deal with toxic securities still on their balance sheets, according to people familiar with the matter. Geithner’s speech has been pushed back one day to Feb. 10 to avoid distracting attention from the economic-stimulus bill, White House economics director Lawrence Summers said today. That is the same day the Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill. “There’s a desire to keep the focus right now on the economic recovery program, which is so very, very important,” Summers said today on ABC’s “This Week.” Treasury will probably propose a combination of buying toxic bank assets, providing guarantees for other assets, and making additional capital infusions to banks, said McCarthy, now a principal at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates, an economic research firm in Skillman, New Jersey. “The remaining TARP funds are not going to be enough for the job,” said McCarthy, who estimates that up to $1.5 trillion in government aid will be needed to save the banking system. “If they want to get the job done, they will have to scrape up more cash,” said McCarthy. New funding for the banking system will be all the harder to justify because the original TARP, which so far has provided almost $400 billion to more than 360 banks, hasn’t shown much in the way of tangible benefits. “They continue to assume that if you do something and it hasn’t worked, you have to continue to do more of it,” said Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican from California. “That’s the definition of insanity.”[NO KIDDING – Nate] Obama and his staff struggled last week to win support for the stimulus package from several moderate Republicans in the Senate, including Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Support for another round of cash for ailing banks may be even tougher to win after reports last week raised new questions about the cost and effectiveness of the assistance provided already. $78 Billion Overpayment The chairman of the TARP’s Congressional Oversight Panel told the Senate Banking Committee that Treasury paid $254 billion of TARP funds for bank equity worth $176 billion, an overpayment of $78 billion. And even after the infusions of taxpayer funds, a majority of U.S. banks still made it tougher for consumers and businesses to get credit at the end of 2008, a Feb. 2 Federal Reserve report showed. Such findings give ammunition to lawmakers such as Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett of Utah who say they were misled about how the TARP would work. “Can we believe what we are told next time?” Bennett said at the Senate committee hearing. “Those of us who decided we were going to take the political risk of voting for this the first time will be faced with a constituency that will say, ‘Fool me once, OK, but don’t fool me twice.’” Bonuses and Perks Other lawmakers may balk at the idea of providing more rescue funds after hearing of banks that took billions in taxpayer money and continued to provide bonuses and lavish perks to employees. New York financial institutions doled out $18.4 billion in bonuses last year, the sixth-biggest haul in history. A Merrill Lynch & Co. executive spent $1.2 million to redecorate his office while the company accepted $10 billion in government funds. Insurer American International Group Inc. hosted a $440,000 conference at a California resort in September after agreeing to a federal bailout. “It will be harder for Obama to keep all the Democrats on board,” said Washington-based political analyst Stuart Rothenberg. Not only will they resist the idea of additional money for banks, Rothenberg said, “but there may be some sort of hangover from the stimulus bill, with Democrats feeling as though the Senate compromised too much to get two or three Republican votes.” The original TARP legislation failed to pass the House by a dozen votes on Sept. 29, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 777 points. It was approved on a second attempt after several lawmakers changed their votes. This time around fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, troubled by another piece of legislation with a price tag in the hundreds of billions of dollars, may be the biggest obstacle for Obama. “Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans will line up to tell Obama, you’ve got to do better than to say, ‘give us the money and trust us,’” said Representative Issa. Obama has already begun a public-relations push to build popular support for additional bank bailouts. Last week he introduced new executive pay guidelines for financial institutions needing government help to remain solvent. They included a $500,000 cap on executive pay and new disclosure rules on perks like corporate jets and holiday parties. In addition, he continues to ratchet up his rhetoric on extravagant bank compensation and perks. “For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only in bad taste, it’s a bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president,” Obama said when he announced the new restrictions on Feb. 4. He’ll also have to make any new financial rescue plan look starkly different from TARP, said Stan Collender, a former analyst for the House and Senate budget committees, now at Qorvis Communications in Washington. “The new plan has got to have a different goal, a lot more for homeowners and individuals,” said Collender. “It’s got to be more than banks holding on to the money.” The futures are so far expressing their displeasure. Who would have thought? 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__label__wiki	0.540447	0.540447	Home » International » Lavishness and elegancy on the red carpet Lavishness and elegancy on the red carpet The Romanian Oscar or the 7th edition of the Gopo Awards, held at the Romanian Opera, represented an outfit scrolling and clothing ensembles. The Gopo Awards gale is an annual event during which the real values of Romanian cinema are rewarded. This year the feature: ‘Toata lumea din familia noastra’ (Everybody in our family) was the most fortunate, having won 6 trophies: Radu Jude and Corina Sabau – the award for the best script, Radu Jude – the award for the best director, Serban Parlu – the award for the best leading role, Mihaela Sarbu – the award for the best actress, Gabriel Spahiu – the award for the best actor and, of course, the award for the best Romanian movie of the year. At the same time, Gopo Awards gale represented a new occasion for the inland stars to show their designer clothes. A lot of stars marched on the red carpet in statement clothes, more or less inspired, but nevertheless spectacular or theatrical. The dress-code for this kind of events is a gale one, so the stars went for spectacular dresses, white being the color of the evening. The most impressive figure was that of Iulia Albu, who always shows her personality with the help of her clothes. Her choice was a black and white dress, ‘Branch’ Series, published on the Vogue Italia website. The eccentric piece will appear on the latest cover of the most prestigious publication dedicated to brides from Romania, Ideal Mariaj. Iulia accessorized the dress with Cellini jewelries and a cube bag signed by Mihai Albu. Dana Rogoz was definetly a glamorous figure on the red carpet at the ceremony of the Gopo Awards. The star’s choice was a dress and clutch signed Parlor by Veronica Zaharia, a vintage rim and Nalia Varam sandals. Aylin Cadir was also a spectacular sight in a Murmur white dress. An undoubtedly surprising choice, which conveys originality, grace and simplicity. Written by Bianca Berchez	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3393
__label__cc	0.55346	0.44654	LFC Online Home LFC Online Forums Buy Liverpool T-Shirts, LFC Kit and Merch now Click here for Liverpool FC personalised gift shop Page 5 of 9 First 123456789 Last Thread: Game of Thrones 2nd May 2019, 08:19 AM #41 Originally Posted by Balinkay I kind of think they were retconned though - I mean yeah, we got the backstory but the guy displays intelligence. He's not an automaton - strategic thought went into some of his choices and yet he ends up a mindless drone with some faulty programming? Seems like a cop-out to me. I do see your point about fan service, but this is just detrimental to the experience at this point - throwing out the baby with the bathwater sort of thing. Sure we'd like them to live, but not at the expense of changing the established universe rules - like the lack of plot armor. Can you imagine something like this happening in season two or three? Abysmal - you do dumb shite, you die, simple as that. Instead our main cast get away with being swamped by white walker numerous times completely fine - it just clashes with the rest of the show. I no longer feel any of them are in any danger whatsoever. And when they inevitably do kill some of the main cast off, it's going to feel yet again surprising and unfitting, as the rules have again been changed. Tormund being dragged down by the Wights in Season 7 only to be saved by the Steal-a-Wight squad / Daenerys was a real turning point on that score. Your hobbies are rollerblading and you're also a bit of a rat-hound? Steel Wool Sid knows he's crazy and he likes it. Balinkay Originally Posted by RedNoodle That was seriously disappointing. After all the build up to the 'battle to save humanity' it ends in such a feeble way, never mind all the nonsensical bs taking place such as Jon and Daenerys flying off and doing sod all to help for no good reason, Jon being swamped by undead and saved/left unburnt by Daenerys swooping in and burning everything but Jon to a crisp (since when has dragon fire been laser like in it's accuracy?), Bran doing nowt but having a little jolly as a crow, but somehow is the NK's main threat/focus, with the latter having the tactical nous of Tim Sherwood after a dozen pints. So, so disappointing. Leaves questions unanswered. The Night King and Jon Snow have had a few "stare-downs" that felt significant. Apparently not! There was the idea that the Night King was the original Bran (the Builder) and had built the Wall to keep himself out as he had become the Night King and his arc was stuck in a time loop (Bran as Three-Eyed Raven on a mission to stop himself from becoming the Night King) but who cares, Darth Maul "Ice Ice Baby" edition is gone, why explore an intriguing plot device? Also tactics - for a guy who has waited thousands of years to execute his grand plan (which isn't trying to get a Night Queen from Winterfell crypts or anything fun - just "destroy the Wurld lulz") his tactics are poor. Why expose yourself early? If I was the Night King I don't even show up to the Battle - I take Wight Viserion down to King's Landing, go absolutely ape on the locals and add 1,000,000 soldiers to my army and then march them up to Winterfell en masse. Wish there was more intelligence in the show's writing once they passed the point of the books. Littlefinger has a relative in Bravos (mentions it when interrogated at the Eyrie about Lysa Arryn's death) and is seen giving a coin to a lass in his last pre-Death appearance - it would have been so easy to write in that the person that gets their throat cut by Arya was a Faceless Man and not actually Little Finger - and potentially even have Baelish be Jaqen H'gar all along, but I guess that'd be too much like fun! It was even Baelish's dagger that finishes off the Night King in the end - "I did what I had to do, to save the World" could have been such a "what the fk" angle, but nah - just got to have the relentlessly evil thingy die, like an Orc in Lord of the Rings. Eugh. 6th May 2019, 12:36 PM #43 I thought last nights episode was superb..Cersei really is evil Leader of all..master of none.. 9th May 2019, 05:25 AM #44 RedNoodle That was a seriously st episode. Possibly the worst one so far. I cringed my way through the overly long pss up and shagathon (they certainly got over thousands of their comrades, friends and family dying very quickly), only to then constantly shake my head at the seriously crap dialogue, about turns, nonsensical 'tactics' and basic bat st crazy nonsense. I mean you've got one of the supposed most intelligent men completely ignoring the fact that the person he rallied behind is becoming as bad as the person he's trying to dispose. Then you've got silent ships with ultra accurate and deadly crossbows, when the supposed richest city/people had already failed with the supposed best money can buy. Then you've got characters like Jaime who have slowly changed from being one thing to the exact opposite, only to then revert back to their former selves in an instant. Utter, utter, crud. If the series had started like this I don't think it would have made it past a couple of seasons, if that. 13th May 2019, 03:27 AM #45 Spoiler alert. Dany has gone bass ass on them all. Just like her father she finished what he wanted!..Varys was right all along!. I think John will kill Dany and return to the wildlings. And Tyrion will take the throne. what ever is left of it that is.. Maybe he and Sansa will Marry again and reunite the North with the South.. eggy81 What an absolute bucket of shite. I mean for fuck sake. Could they have made a bigger mess of this whole final series. Dogshite toneata Ootsville That was about as unfulfilling as it gets, they've had years to prepare this ending and they're royally fucking it up. "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.........and I'm all out of bubblegum." Kev0909 Originally Posted by justme daenerys Hold my beer* Balinkay Gloryhunter City of Self Doubt I think they hit the right beats, but the connective tissue and the filler were waay below the level I'd want. Etiamsi omnes, ego non Another incredibly disappointing episode. Just slightly less disappointing than the last couple. There was so much 'filler', namely the City being burnt to the ground and the citizens of Kings landing running about trying to find somewhere to hide to avoid being burnt, crushed, or hacked to pieces. There were a number of characters whose demise was poorly handled, such as Varys (the one person who actually was trying/doing his best to protect the realm as well as the innocent) who was simply burnt to a crisp without so much as a little parting conversation between her and 'the mad one', whilst the Hound's final battle with his brother wasn't as epic and impactful as it should have been. What was the point of Arya going to Kings Landing? Just like a few other main character actions of late, there was absolutely zero purpose to what she did. There were so many possibilities, including things such as using her 'faceless men' training to get to Cersei, but no, the writers just decided to have her walk/run around a lot, do nothing but possibly to hinder those she feebly tried to save, and stumble across a horse (which may or may not be the one she previously had - some are even saying it might be Jaqen H'ghar), which has somehow managed not to become a snack for Drogon. As for Jaime, don't get me started. If he flip flops any more he'll be know as 'Jaime the (S)Andal', rather than "The Kingslayer". I think lots of people are now desperate for the final episode in order to get things over and done with. It's a pity, as I watch re-runs of earlier episodes and it's sad that a show that was brilliant has jumped numerous sharks in succession and as a result it will taint the legacy of something that could have gone down as one the best shows (as a whole) of all time. 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__label__cc	0.702339	0.297661	One Small Addition to This Guy's Lunch Routine Helped Him Lose 70 Pounds • Years of unhealthy eating and poor sleep led Matthew Gilbert’s weight to climb, topping out at nearly 270 pounds. • After committing to a daily walk, he immediately saw benefits, including steady weight loss and improvements to his mood. • Eventually, he graduated to more intense workouts and started eating out less, which led to a dramatic 70-pound weight loss transformation. Matthew Gilbert thought he was having a panic attack. The 31-year-old project manager was sitting at his desk in Houston, Texas, one morning when all the stress of his job and personal life seemed ready to run him down. “I went to the doctor and they prescribed me pills for anxiety, stress, and something to help me sleep,” he says. He wasn’t enthused about taking medication for his problems. He thought there might be a better way. He faced a reckoning—one a long time coming. Since he was 17, he’d started gaining weight. He went straight to work at a desk job; he wasn’t active like he used to be. Slowly, at first, the pounds crept up. He spent long hours at work, eating at restaurants for every meal. His sleep habits were a mess, and he was a ball of stress. By the time he was 28, he was topping 267 pounds. The next day, after seeing a doctor, he skipped lunch with his co-workers and went for a walk on a trail near his office. He came back reinvigorated, with a positive mood he carried into the afternoon. So he started taking a walk or jog every day at lunch. “I noticed a drastic change almost immediately in my overall mood, sleep schedule, productivity and even started getting comments from my employees about what I had changed,” he says. After a couple months he joined a gym, cobbling together his own 45-minute workout. He convinced some co-workers to join him, and they built routines based on ideas they found online. “I was able to get our company to compensate for the gym memberships,” he says, “after I explained how much more productive I had personally been after living a healthier and more active lifestyle.” Matthew Gilbert In the first year alone, he lost about 40 pounds. Then he plateaued, changing jobs and falling off his habit of everyday exercise. He started to backslide, but his new partner, Sarah, introduced him to spin class. He joined a new gym and went to a boot camp class; he started mixing up his routine with different workouts around the area, from boxing to indoor running to HIIT. The variety helped him learn what worked best for him. And his new partner helped him stay on track, and start working on his diet. He pushed through his 220-pound plateau and hit 185 this May. “More important than the number that I see on the scale is that overall I feel less stress and anxiety,” he says. “I feel very energized—my caffeine intake has decreased dramatically—and I am not always hungry.” He’s found a sustainable diet and exercise regimen that’s a lifestyle—not just something he puts himself through to hit a goal, only to later backslide. Now he’s motivated to share his story with others: “My goal is to keep doing what I am doing,” he says, “helping others, share my story on a larger platform, and motivate as many men who are in the situation I was in to be in the situation I am in now.” How Learning to Cook Healthy Helped This Guy Lose More Than 150 Pounds This Powerlifter Lost 180 Pounds With Small Changes to His Diet and Workout A Few Easy Diet Swaps Helped This Guy Lose His Gut and Get a Six-Pack There’s Only One Right Way to Cook Summer Squash Prostate cancer: Could this popular drink inhibit the growth of cancer cells? Fears of Ebola spreading grow as second case confirmed in city of 2mil	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3402
__label__wiki	0.804197	0.804197	Home About GSCS What's New Issues School Funding Coming Up <!- sidebar-file='/sites/www.gscschools/web/gsc/_zumu_sidebar.html' --> <!- box:side1a --> NJ Legislature Governor's Office NJ Department of Education GSCS Testimonies GSCS Data & Charts Email: gscschools@gmail.com Phone: 609-394-2828 (office) Garden State Coalition of Schools Elisabeth Ginsburg, Executive Director Trenton, New Jersey 08608 <!- box:side1b --> Newsletters and More Tweets by gscschools NJ Spotlight-- Agenda: Should PARCC Exam Be Required for High-School Graduation? Protests planned before board meeting; replacement of Common Core also slated for first vote Where: New Jersey Department of Education, 1st-floor conference room, 100 River View Plaza, Trenton April 6 Agenda High School Graduation Requirement Proposal Proposed Anti-Bullying Regulations NJ Student Learning Standards Resolution Busy policy day: The State Board of Education has a host of contentious issues before it this month, ranging from continued discussion of new high school graduation requirements to newly proposed changes in the state�s anti-bullying rules. The board will also take another step toward accepting revisions to the Common Core State Standards and renaming them the New Jersey Student Learning Standards. http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/16/04/04/agenda-should-parcc-exam-be-required-for-high-school-graduation/ John Mooney April 5, 2016 NJ Spotlight-- State's Efforts to Curb Lead in School Drinking Water Get Off to Slow Start No one disagrees that lead abatement is a necessary response, but there�s little agreement on how to pay for it A trio of bills to set aside funds to help schools remove lead from drinking water cleared a legislative committee yesterday, but they appear to face uncertain prospects for winning final approval. The Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee voted out both bills, but only narrowly. They mark the first concerted legislative response to the discovery last month that forced more than 30 schools in Newark to switch to bottled water after high levels of lead were detected. http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/16/04/04/nj-s-efforts-to-curb-lead-in-school-drinking-water-off-to-slow-start/ Tom Johnson April 5, 2016 NJ Spotlight-- NJ Takes Atlantic City to Court Over Delay in Tax Payments to Schools City contends arrangement is crucial to avoiding shutdown of municipal government due to lack of cash Gov. Chris Christie has made it clear he believes it will take nothing short of a full state takeover of cash-strapped Atlantic City to sort out the resort�s finances. But now he�s taking the city�s government to court to resolve a dispute involving funding for the local school district, a move that could send the resort into deeper fiscal distress. 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__label__wiki	0.657014	0.657014	Murder Songs Vol. 8 In this trio of murder sings, we deal with a horse-loving psycho, a mother-loving psycho and a couple of miners for whom three was a crowd. Â Â Â Â Â Â * Willie Nelson ““ The Red-Headed Stranger (1975).mp3 Ah, the follies of the blonde woman! As the song begins, we are told what the “yellow-haired lady” doesn”t know: don”t mess with the red-headed stranger and, whatever you do, don”t try and steal his pony (here we must assume that Nelson actually means a young equine). And since she doesn”t know not to mess with the red-headed stranger and since she does covet the pony, she initiates a tragic chain of events. First she makes friendly with the red-headed stranger (we presume here that the colour describes his hair, not a sunburn sustained by a bald head subjected to the ultraviolet rays piercing the Montana air). He doesn”t respond to her flirtatious ways, even gives her money to go away. Fatefully, the blonde is not going to be deterred by otherwise compelling suggestion. She follows the red-haired stranger outside and touches the pony, presumably in ways that hint at an act of larceny. The red-headed stranger firmly puts forward a conclusion to the problem by putting a bullet in the women”s head. We should have no moral dilemma here. By all reason, the red-headed stranger did something very wrong. Strangely, Willie Nelson and the local judicary, seem to disagree: “You can”t hang a man for killing a woman who”s trying to steal your horse.” Eddie Noack ““ Psycho (1968) Elvis Costello & The Attractions ““ Psycho (live, 1981).mp3 Who”d be the mother of a psychopath? We first encounter the hungry Declan (for want of a better moniker, the song doesn”t name his narrator, so let”s go with Costello”s maiden name) afflicted with a headache in the family home. The baby”s crying, which doesn”t exactly lighten Declan”s mood as he recounts to his mother an encounter with his ex-girlfriend the day before. “She was at the dance at Miller”s store. She was with that Jackie White, Mama. I killed them both and they”re buried under Jacob”s sycamore.” As he speaks, Mama makes the schoolgirl error of handing her psycho son a puppy (puppy lovers, look away now). The puppy doesn”t survive Declan”s attention, but we learn that Dec is quite aware of his mental state and the need for institutionalised therapy. Things don”t get much more cheerful, and you don”t really know whether to be repulsed at Declan, or feel sorry for him. Psycho was written by Leon Payne (whose I Love You Because was recorded by the young Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, George Jones and John Prine), and first recorded in 1968 by Eddie Noack to no particular attention, but became a hit five years later for Jack Kittel. The Buoys ““ Timothy (1971).mp3 So, imagine you”re trapped in a coalmine with your colleagues Joe and Tim. And soon hunger sets in, and thirst. The reader blessed with sherlockian powers of deduction will by now have worked out that by the time the rescue is completed, only two miners emerge blinkingly into the daylight “” and the eponymous Timothy is not one of them. “Hungry as hell, no food to eat, and Joe said that he would sell his soul for just a piece of meat. Water enough to drink for two, and Joe said to me: “˜I”ll take a swig, and then there”s some for you.” Knowing that Timothy didn”t survive, we have a sense of foreboding. “Timothy, Timothy ““ Joe was looking at you. Timothy, Timothy ““ God, what did we do?” Well, you don”t really know what happened next (or so you say). “I must”ve blacked out just “bout then, “cause the very next thing that I could see was the light of the day again. My stomach was full as it could be and nobody ever got around to finding Timothy.” You and Joe ate Timothy”s bones and hair as well? Yuk! The song, banned on US radio on its release, was written by Rupert Holmes, who also gave us the regrettable Escape (Pina Colada Song) and the much more brilliant Him. Despite that (or perhaps because of it), it reached #7 on the US charts. More Murder Songs Categories: Murder Songs Tags: Eddie Noack, Elvis Costello, The Buoys, Willie Nelson Step back to 1980 â€“ Part 3 There isn”t much I remember specifically about the late summer and autumn of 1980. We holidayed in Czechoslovakia and Austria, I despised school, my granny died, and I read English football magazines to brush up on my English skills. But I recall the vibe of that time, and these songs help conjure it. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â * Kelly Marie – Feels Like I’m In Love.mp3 Here”s a great bit of trivia: Feels Like I”m In Love was written by Ray Dorset, the mutton-chopped frontman of Mungo Jerry, specifically for Elvis Presley. Alas, before Dorset could pitch the song to Elvis, the rhinestoned king died. But imagine Elvis singing Feels Like I”m In Love; with a different arrangement and perhaps slowed down a bit. Sounds like a hit to me. Of course, English disco starlet Kelly Marie also enjoyed a hit with it, a UK #1, and quite rightly so: it”s a very good song. I remember it being hugely popular at the funfair; when I hear it I smell candyfloss, sugar-roasted almonds and Bratwurst. Randy Newman – The Story Of A Rock And Roll Band.mp3 This is the bit where the threads of an American songwriter of wit and style and German football meet. Randy Newman was so much a fan of the Electric Light Orchestra that he penned a tribute to the band. The lyrics are, by Newman”s standards, fairly artless, but in his own way, Newman manages to recreate the ELO sound in an affectionate homage, while still sounding like Randy Newman. Â Turn To Stone seems to Randy”s favourite ELO song, though he does recognise other worthy contenders. I was so taken by Newman”s tribute that I bought the LP, with its crap cover pic. At the same time, my favourite football player ““ and when you”re 14, a favourite player is a semi-deity ““ was the diminutive but brilliant winger Pierre Littbarski, who played for my favourite club. Sporting exploits aside (and, at 20, he was not a star yet in 1980), there are three things I remember about Littbarski: he was a chocaholic, he supported the conservative CDU (boo!), and he was a huge ELO fan. Joan Armatrading – Me Myself I.mp3 Looking back, it seems that by now I was more into LPs than I was into singles. I bought Joan Armatrading”sÂ Me, Myself, I album on strength of its title track, with that abrasive guitar riff and Chris Spedding”s wonderful guitar solo , Cape Town-born Anton Fig”s thumping drums, the tempo changes and the catchy chorus. I still like the album a lot: All The Way From America, Feeling In My Heart (For You), and especially Turn Out The Lights remain great songs. At this point I had not yet become a Springsteen fan, though that was going to happen fairly soon. But the presence of Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons on the album would have been an added bonus. It also featured Paul Shaffer, David Letterman”s annoying houseband leader, on keyboards. At one point, all of those who appeared on the song were members of the houseband, having met while recording with Joan Armatrading. Styx – Boat On The River.mp3 Yeah, I know it came out in 1979, but Boat On The River didn”t get much airplay on German radio until 1980. In fact, on our local station at least, this was bigger than the megahit from the same album, Babe. Perhaps it reminded the playlist compilers of those Slavic-sounding Schlager hits that were in vogue a decade earlier. I bought the Cornerstones LP, but I don”t think I ever listened to it in full, other than Boat On The River and Babe. In past instalments of this series, I described how my grandmother bought me my first single (see HERE) and how she helped finance my fast-growing singles collection. The Styx and Armatrading albums were the final music acquisitions she funded. She had actually given me the money to buy new trainers. But instead of purchasing the medium range shoes my budget allowed for, I decided to go for a bargain (still cool: yellow Pumas with a black stripe), and use the difference to buy the two LPs. My mom was not impressed with me. My grandmother died a few weeks later at the age of 85. The Police – Driven To Tears.mp3 Liking The Police in the West Germany of 1980 was the mature and cool choice. Many of my friends loved AC/DC (good) and Kiss (meh). And a few sung the praises of Gerry Rafferty, even though his City To City album, released two years earlier, was quite ancient. But mention that you like The Police, and people would respect you, much like the neighbourhood respected the teenage Henry Hill in GoodFellas. Soon The Police became really massive and I had to abandon them, but when they released their Zenyatta Mondatta album in 1980, I played it to death.Â I also played it to my stepfather when we were wallpapering my room, seeing as he had enjoyed the music of Bob Seger which I had introduced him to. He assured me that he liked the album. Looking back, I think he was lying. Diana Ross – My Old Piano.mp3 Upside Down had already been a hit, but it was this track that turned me on to Diana Ross, whom I had hitherto regarded, in my unformed ways, as part of the musical wallpaper, the sort of star who is a star because she is a star. Well, it wasn”t really Ms Ross whom I loved this song for, but the production. It”s a great, catchy number, with the sort of funky bass and cool strings you”d associate with a Nile Rogers and Bernie Edwards production. And then there was the fantastic piano and guitar solo; I presume Rogers did the guitar part, and I guess the piano solo was either by Raymond Jones or Andy Schwartz. Nick Mackenzie – Hello Good Morning.mp3 This is a terrible song. And when I think of 1980 it sticks in my head like the fumes from the gas released by a decomposing body that sticks on the clothes of your favourite CSI agent. Personally, I think they are all rubbish, none more so that sunglasses juggling fool from the Miami franchise, though I have a theory that David Caruso might play him with a bit of wink, creating a sardonic self-parody to offset the stink of the preposterous scripts; rather unlike Lieutenant Dan over in New York, who seems to play his equally preposterous role with a straight bat. But I digress. So, yeah, Nick Mackenzie was, as his name fails to suggest, from the Netherlands where apparently he was alternately known as Henk van Broekhoven and Nick van der Broeke, which might be a pun on his surname involving the Dutch word for trousers. And that is pretty much all you need to know as you decide whether Hello Good Morning is any good. Take his name or my word for it: it isn”t. More Stepping Back Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Diana Ross, Joan Armatrading, Kelly Marie, Police, Randy Newman, Styx A History of Country Vol. 15: 1976-79 January 19th, 2012 14 comments This compilation is not accompanied by an instalment in the country history, because the next chapter goes with the next mix. And, in some ways, it makes sense that this mix has no history (of course, the timeframe is covered by past articles in the series) because the late 1970s was a time of hiatus. Many of the stalwarts of just a few years earlier ceased having strings of hits, and those artists who had grown out of the Outlaw movement now had their day. In this mix, the likes of Guy Clark, John Anderson, Larry Jon Wilson and Moe Bandy owed something to the Outlaws. Even Tom T Hall, who wrote so many mainstream numbers without ever being mainstream himself, is calling for the Outlaw guys to stick to their country roots and return to Nashville (while one of the leading Outlaws, Kris Kristofferson, sang the praises of Hank Williams). A few bluegrass musicians kept the flame of that genre alive: here we have veterans Jim & Jesse and, with a view to the future, Boone Creek, which included Ricky Skaggs, one of the country superstars of the 1980s who would later return to bluegrass. As always, the mix is timed to fit on a standard CD-R and includes home-baked front and back covers. 1. Kris Kristofferson – If You Don’t Like Hank Williams 2. Jerry Jeff Walker – Standing At The Big Hotel 3. John Anderson – Country Comfort 4. Funky Kings – Slow Dancing 5. Guy Clark – Anyhow I Love You 6. Mickey Gilley – Bring It On Home To Me 7. Herb Pederson – Can’t You Hear Me Calling 8. Jim & Jesse – Ashes Of Love 9. Johnny Cash – One Piece At A Time 10. Skeeter Davis – Homebreaker 11. Razzy Bailey – She’s Anybody’s Darling 12. The Statler Brothers – Your Picture In The Paper 13. Emmylou Harris – Pancho & Lefty 14. Larry Jon Wilson – In My Song 15. Merle Haggard – Ramblin’ Fever 16. Charlie Rich – Rolling With The Flow 17. Bellamy Brothers – Crossfire 18. O.B. McClinton – Talk To My Childrens’ Mama 19. Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job And Shove It 20. Crystal Gayle – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue 21. Boone Creek – Dark Is The Night 22. Tom T. Hall – Come On Back To Nashville (Ode To The Outlaws) 23. John Prine – Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone 24. Billie Jo Spears – It Should Have Been Easy 25. Moe Bandy – I Cheated Me Right Out Of You (includes front and back covers. PW in comments) GET IT: https://rapidgator.net/file/ce73e957f61a60a799ad7c07a1771b6c/Cntry76-79.rar.html Previously in A History of Country Categories: Country History Tags: Curious Germany Vol. 4 We haven”t had German curiosities for a while. Well, here are some: Marlene Dietrich singing a folk anthem, Bowie going to Berlin,Â a Schlager icon rocking out for peace, a short-haired teen doing Be My Baby, Chubby Checker twisten in Deutsch,Â and a politician getting remixed. Marlene Dietrich ““ Sag” mir wo die Blumen sind (1962).mp3 The Springfields – Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind (1963).mp3 While Mae West was singing Light My Fire in the 1960s (see HERE), Marlene Dietrich became a bit of a folkie with her German versions of Blowin” In The Wind, retitled in German Die Antwort weiÃŸ ganz allein der Wind (HERE), and this cover of Pete Seeger”s 1955 anti-war anthem Where Have All The Flowers Gone.Â The German version, with the lyrics by the author Max Colpet (who, among other things, wrote five scripts for Billy Wilder films) , has been recorded many times, even by Joan Baez; Dietrich”s was the first. In 1963, The Springfields, featuring Dusty Springfield, issued a rather lovely folk recording of that and other German-language songs. Seeger has praised Sag” mir wo die Blumen sind as being better than his original lyrics. Dietrich also recorded the English version of the song, as well as a French adaptation (titled OÃ¹ vont les fleurs?). Â . David Bowie ““ Helden (1977).mp3 Bowie lately hit the retirement age of 65, prompting many to lament the curious notion that Ziggy Stardust can now travel on a pensioner travelcard. When Bowie recorded Heroes, he was long past the Ziggy deal. It was his Berlin period during which he fused the cultures of the Weimar Republic cabarets, Krautrock and Kraftwerk, and the local junkie scene. It”s very nice that David Bowie sought to pay tribute to the city that served as his muse by recording in German, but since he lived and recorded there, one might quibble that he could have taken better care with his pronunciations. As it turns out, he put as much effort in enunciating German words correctly as English football commentators take care to pronounce the names of German (or any non-Latinate) football players. Udo JÃ¼rgens – Peace Now (1970).mp3 Here”s one in English, by Udo JÃ¼rgens, the Austrian-born Swiss national who enjoyed immense success in West Germany, the place of his parents’ birth. JÃ¼rgens provided one of my earliest musical memories since my sister was a big fan of the man in the late 1960s (see HERE). I still think that Siebzehn Jahr Blondes Haar and the funny Es Wird Nacht Senorita are superior Schlager moments; if more songs of that genre were as good as those, nobody would have cause to laugh at German music.Â JÃ¼rgens also wrote hits for Matt Munro, Sammy Davis Jr and Shirley Bassey. Peace Now was the rocking English-language b-side of a German single titled Deine Einsamkeit, released in October 1970. It”s actually pretty good, in a dated sort of way that draws from rock, funk and gospel. Udo, exhibiting a rather lilting German accent, buys into the Zeitgeist as he sings: “Everybody is talkin” “bout peace in the world, but everytime I hear a hungry baby cry I ask: Peace, now show me your face.” Suzanne Doucet – Sei mein Baby (1964).mp3 It”s quite interesting that in the 1960s, a female singer”s image could be defined by her short hair. So it was with Suzanne Doucet. Born in 1944 in the university town of TÃ¼bingen to a family of thespians and artists, she was briefly a Schlager star while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, as you do. Later she appeared with Donna Summer in the German version of the musical Godspell. Then she married an American, moved to the US and became a leading New Age musician, a field in which she remains active (so it”s important to know that she was born with the sun in Virgo, Aquarius rising, and Saggitarius moon ““ whatever that means). Sei mein Baby is a lovely bilingual cover of The Ronettes” Be My Baby, and appeared on the b-side of Doucet”s first hit single, Das geht doch keinen etwas an (That is nobody”s business). Chubby Checker – Der Twist Beginnt (1962).mp3 I got this German version of Chubby Checker”s Let”s Twist Again Â courtesy of reader Ton, who certainly would agree with me that Chubby did not put much effort into his translations. “Sei nicht so lazy”, indeed. In fact, Chubby sounds a bit like a clichÃ© Wehrmacht soldier in a 1960s war movie, right down to the way he enunciates the affirmative word “Ja”. You can almost hear it: “Ve hef vays of making you tvist.” At least the backing track is new, which makes this a proper cover version of Checker”s own original. He compiled a fairly impressive catalogue of German-language records, with titles such as Twist doch mal mit mir, Autobahn-Baby, Holla Hi Holla Ho and Troola-Troola-Troola-La. But he proably recorded loads in other languages, as his LP Twistin” Around The World suggests. Karl Schiller – High.mp3 Karl Schiller was West Germany”s economic minister from 1966-72. He did not record this track. High appeared on one of four LPs of politicians” speeches set to far out music by Volker KÃ¼hn and Roland Schneider (featuring jazz-rock guitar maestro Volker Kriegel) . Schiller”s speech was economic babble laced with contemporary lingo about drugs, being high and blow-ups. Schiller had a rather colourful political career. In 1937, at the age of 26, he joined the Nazi party, but after the war he joined the left-of-centre Social Democratic Party (SPD). He left them in 1972 when he clashed with Chancellor Willy Brandt (possibly Germany”s greatest politician and a co-star on KÃ¼hn and Schneider”s Pol(H)itparade LP) over economic policy, and collaborated with. Eight years later he re-joined the SPD. He died in 1994. More Curious Germany Categories: German stuff Tags: Chubby Checker, David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Marlene Dietrich, Udo JÃ¼rgens December”s headline death probably is that of the great Cesária Évora, who emerged from the tiny West African island of Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony. But as a soul fan, percussion maestro Ralph MacDonald is my headline departure of the month. He wrote some stone-cold classics and appeared on an impressive catalogue of soul and fusion albums, including those released in their heyday by Bill Withers, George Benson, Donny Hathaway, Ashford & Simpson, Brothers Johnson, Margie Joseph, Patti Austin, Grover Washington, Maynard Ferguson, The Crusaders, Michael Franks,Â Eric Gale, Bob James,Â Herbie Mann, Earl Klugh, and Sadao Watanabe, as well as on pop albums by the likes of Billy Joel (The Stranger, 52nd Street, Innocent Man) and Paul Simon (Still Crazy”¦, One Trick Pony, Graceland). The Ragovoy curse struck again. First the great songwriter died in July; then his occasional collaborator Jimmy Norman, with whom he wrote Time Is On My Side, died in November; in December singer Howard Tate, for whom Ragovoy wrote and produced several songs (including Get It While You Can, which Janis Joplin later covered, and 8 Days On The Road) passed away at 72. Three of the world”s longest-performing artists died in December: Myra Taylor first took to the stage as a 14-year-old in 1931; she made her final performance in a career spanning 70 years on 24 July this year. Fans of The Originals will appreciate the first recording of the great Ink Spots hit I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire, which featured Myra Taylor on vocals (originals fans will also enjoy Ruby and the Romantics” Our Day Will Come, covered by Amy Winehouse on her new posthumous album) . Johannes Heesters, who died at 108, had been a huge star in Nazi Germany and counted Nazi leaders among his friends ““ a stigma that followed him to his death. Hated in his native Holland, he was still hugely popular in West Germany.Â He still toured as a centenarian, and performed to the age of 105. Bill Tapia, dead at 103, was a ukulele maestro. Check out his version of Stars and Stripes Forever, from just two years ago, which he introduces as having played during World War I ““ the audience laughs, but the guy isn”t joking. He has been performing since 1918. Among the more bizarre deaths is that of Willie Nelson”s drummer Dan Spears, who fell outside his house and, unable to move, froze to death. Sadly, this will be the final monthly In Memoriam. Compiling each instalment simply takes up much more time than I can afford to spend, so this is a decision I had to make ““ with much regret, because I don”t think anyone is doing it quite this way on the Internet. Â Michal “˜Michal the Girl” Friedman, singer, from complication during the birth of twins on November 25 ATB ““ The Autumn Leaves (2004) Howard Tate, 72, soul singer, on December 2 Howard Tate – 8 Days On The Road (1971) Bill Tapia, 103, legendary ukulele player, on December 2 Bill Tapia – Stars And Stripes Ronald Mosley, 72, baritone and guitarist with Ruby & the Romantics, on December 3 Ruby and the Romantics – Our Day Will Come (1963) Hubert Sumlin, 80, legendary blues guitarist (with Howlin” Wolf), on December 4 Howlin’ Wolf – The Red Rooster (1962, as guitarist) Hubert Sumlin – Down In The Bottom (1987) R.J. Rosales, 37, Filipino-born Australian singer and actor, on December 4 Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish diva, on December 5 Violetta Villas – Przyjdzie Na To Czas (1964) Dobie Gray, 71, soul singer (Drift Away, The In-Crowd), on December 6 Dobie Gray – River Deep, Mountain High (1973) Bob Burnett, 71, member of “60s folk group The Highwaymen, on December 7 The Highwaymen – Universal Soldier (1964) Dan “˜Bee” Spears, 62, long-time bassist for Willie Nelson, on December 8 Willie Nelson – Remember Me (1975, as bassist) Dick Sims, 60, keyboard player for Eric Clapton, Bob Seger a.o., on December 8 Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight (1977, as keyboardist) Alan Styles, Pink Floyd roadie and subject of Alan”s Psychedelic Breakfast, on December 8 Pink Floyd – Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast (1970) Myra Taylor, 94, jazz singer and actress, on December 9 Harlan Leonard and his Rockets – I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire (1940, as vocalist) Dustin Hengst, drummer of pop-punk band Damone, on December 9 Karryl “˜Special One” Smith, member of hip hop duo The Conscious Daughters, on December 10 The Conscious Daughters – Somthin’ To Ride To (Fonky Expidition) (1993) Billie Jo Spears, 74, country singer, on December 14 Billie Jo Spears – Blanket On The Ground (1975) Bob Brookmeyer, 81, jazz trombonist, on December 16 Lalo Schifrin & Bob Brookmeyer – Samba Para Dos (1963) Slim Dunkin, 24, rapper with 1017 Brick Squad, shot dead on December 16 CesÃ¡ria Ã‰vora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, on December 17 CesÃ¡ria Ã‰vora – Nho Antone Escade (1999) CesÃ¡ria Ã‰vora – Cabo Verde Terra Estimada (1988) Sean Bonniwell, 71, American guitarist and singer of “60s rock band Music Machine, on December 17 Ralph MacDonald, 67, percussionist, songwriter and producer, on December 18 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway ““ Where Is The Love (1972, as songwriter) Grover Washington Jr with Bill Withers ““ Just The Two Of Us (1980, as songwriter) Billy Joel ““ Rosalinda”s Eyes (1978, as percussionist) Johnny Silvo, 75, folk singer and children”s TV presenter, on December 18 Clem DeRosa, 86, jazz drummer, arranger, bandleader and music educator, on December 20 David Gold, 31, singer and guitarist of Canadian death-metal band Woods of Ypres, on December 22 Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch-born actor and singer, on December 24 Johannes Heesters – Ich werde jede Nacht von Ihnen trÃ¤umen (1937) Jody Rainwater, 92, bluegrass musician (with the Foggy Mountain Boys) and radio DJ, on December 24 Jim “˜Motorhead” Sherwood, 69, saxophone player for Frank Zappa”s Mothers of Invention, on December 25 Frank Zappa ““ Conehead Sam Rivers, 88, jazz musician and composer, on December 26 Sam Rivers – Verve (1980) Barbara Lea, 82, jazz singer and actress, on December 26 Betty McQuade, 70, Australian singer, on December 26 Betty McQuade – Blue Train Dan Terry, 87, American jazz trumpeter and big band leader, on December 27 Kaye Stevens, 79, singer and actress (frequent guest of the Rat Pack), on December 28 Christine Rosholt, 46, jazz singer, on December 28 Previous In Memoriams Keep up to date with dead pop stars on Facebook Categories: In Memoriam Tags: Bill Withers, Billie Jo Spears, Billy Joel, Cesaria Evora, Dobie Gray, Donny Hathaway, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Grover Washington Jr, Howard Tate, Howlin' Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, Johannes Heesters, Lalo Schifrin, Pink Floyd, Roberta Flack, Ruby and the Romantics, Sam Rivers, The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson Intros Quiz: 1967 edition January 2nd, 2012 1 comment 1967 model prepares to drive her Camino to wherever the Summer of Love is happening. Here we begin another new five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, starting with 45 years ago: 1967 (and what a great year for music that was). Next month we”ll skip to 1972, then 1977 and so on. 1967 was the year the first edition of Rolling Stone was published, so-called “race riots” broke out in cities such as Detroit and Cleveland, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing induction into US Army,Â Dr Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant in Cape Town, Biafra declares independence from Nigeria and a civil war begins, the first ATM is installed in England, The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s and Elvis married Priscilla. As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases and/or hits that year. The answers will be posted in the comments section by Thursday. If the pesky number 18 bugs you, go to the Contact Me tab above for the answers, orÂ better, message me on Facebook. 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__label__wiki	0.515899	0.515899	Other GSA Resources Genetics Society of America G3: Genes \| Genomes \| Genetics GSA Conferences GeneticsCareers.org Genes to Genomes a blog from the Genetics Society of America GSA Journals Spotlight 2018 Genetics Society of America Awards 2019 GSA Medal to Anne... Undergraduate Travel Award winners — 22nd International C. elegans Conference 2019 Career Development Symposia: RNA biology, DNA replication and repair,... #Dros19 GSA Poster Award winners Genetics Journal Early Career Scientists Caenorhabditis Science & Publishing Guest post: Chromosome-scale genome assembly gives African mosquito and malaria... “Predicting” the future: how genomic prediction methods anticipated technology Three GENETICS articles from 2018 recognized with Editors’ Choice Awards An ancient regulator of sex development Model Organisms GSA supports open access—but we need time for a full... 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Photo byArtBrom, CC BY-SA 2.0 In the early 1970s, a couple of hundred wild rats near the Siberian city of Novosibirsk were rounded up by scientists for an ambitious experiment to understand how animals evolve during domestication. Dimitry Belyaev and his colleagues—known for their related project on domesticating foxes—split the rats into two groups. With one group, the researchers tried to replicate the way human ancestors had tamed wild animals over generations. At each generation, only the tamest of the rats were selected for breeding. With the other group, they did the opposite, breeding only the rats that were most wary of and aggressive towards humans. After more than sixty generations of selection, the immediate response of rats from the “aggressive” line is to escape or attack. In contrast, the rats from the “tame” line can be handled and even petted. In this month’s issue of GENETICS, Heyne et al. report quantitative trait loci (QTLs) contributing to this rapidly-evolved behavior difference, including genetic influences on gene expression in the brain. Their results show that the genetic architecture of tameness in these rats is more complex than once thought. Albert et al. had previously mapped QTLs contributing to the difference in tameness by crossing the two rat lines (using an F2 intercross design). But the analysis method they used assumed the causative alleles were fixed in each population — that is, in the tame population, all rats were homozygous for the “tameness” alleles and in the aggressive population, all rats were homozygous for the corresponding “aggression” alleles. In the new study, the authors reasoned that both rat lines were genetically diverse enough to violate this assumption. Because the founders came from a wild population, and matings between close relatives were avoided over the generations of selection, multiple alleles at the causative loci may still be present within each line. Heyne et al. revisited the mapping data using an analysis method (FIA) that can account for such segregating—as opposed to fixed—variation, and found eight QTLs, including the two discovered previously. Given that effects on behavior are likely to involve the brain, the authors also applied the FIA method to identify hundreds of QTLs affecting differences in brain gene expression between the lines (a.k.a. eQTLs). They used this information to select good candidates for causative genes within the “tameness” QTL regions. First, they looked for genes in the behavior QTLs that overlapped one of the gene expression QTLs, then narrowed down the list to those genes that were expressed at different levels in the brains of tame vs. aggressive rats. The most plausible candidate genes would not only have overlapping behavior and expression QTLs, but both QTLs would be caused by the same underlying variants. The authors looked for evidence for shared underlying variants using the ability of the FIA method to estimate the effects for multiple alleles per QTL. In those cases where multiple alleles are involved, the relative effect of each of the different alleles should be correlated across the two traits being measured, i.e. behavior and gene expression. Five of the candidate genes showed significant correlations and the authors consider these genes the most likely to play key roles in shaping behavior differences between the two populations. These candidates look promising so far. Three of the genes are involved in nervous system development and one, Slc17a7, has previously been implicated in fear and stress behavior in mice. Further work is needed to test which genes contribute significantly to the remarkable behavior differences between the two types of rat. Mark Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS commented on the study in a press statement: “These rats are one of those rich experimental resources that keeps providing new insights as our methods and technology advance. Thanks to the authors’ excellent work and to Belyaev’s foresight in 1972, we are finally starting to understand the genetic details of a biological process that has been pivotal to human history.” Heyne H.O., R. Nelson, F. Besnier, M. Rotival, A. Cagan, R. Kozhemyakina, I. Z. Plyusnina, L. Trut, O. Carlborg, E. Petretto, L. Kryuglyak, S. Pääbo, T. Schöneberg, & F.W. Albert (2014). Genetic Influences on Brain Gene Expression in Rats Selected for Tameness and Aggression, Genetics, 198 (3) 1277-1290. http://www.genetics.org/content/198/3/1277.full DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.114.168948 Read the press release: Genes contribute to behavior differences between fierce and friendly rats. Listen to co-author Alex Cagan talk about this work in an interview with NPR’s Science Friday. Read about why domesticated mammals may share so many traits in Does neural crest development drive domestication syndrome? Read about how an endogenous retrovirus gave many domestic cats their distinctive coat patterns How the cat got its spots (and hearing problems). ASHG Meeting Report: A guide to the Exome Aggregation Consortium data ASHG Meeting Report: The X-factor in complex disease Genes to Genomes: a blog from the Genetics Society of America says: […] student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology studying the genetics of domestication in rats. 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__label__cc	0.587952	0.412048	Search for an answer Solution home Casework Adding cases How to complete casework Modified on: Wed, 1 Mar, 2017 at 5:05 PM There's many different ways to complete casework and each councillor has their own method. We've designed the app to help you take whichever route you like, so here's a list of features and how to use them. Update case The most common way to progress a case. It's good practice to communicate clearly with colleagues and constituents, to ensure that cases are solved satisfactorily. This is called 'signposting' and it allows people to see each step in a case's history. Use the 'Update case' button to mark down each step or record an instruction, and change the due date to ensure each step is completed in a timely manner. Whomever the case is assigned to, the due date gives that person an indication of when to complete a task. A case is marked 'Overdue' when today's date is later than the due date, meaning something has not been completed in time. We recommend setting due dates for tasks, not deadlines for cases – we've written about that here. Assign a case to an assistant If you have an assistant that helps you complete cases, you can pass a case to them. They'll receive a notification and will be able to use eCasework to manage cases. You can also assign the case to departments in your council by adding it as an assistant. Send email from a case If you don't have an assistant or need to contact a department, you can email them from within a case. All messages and any replies will be automatically added to the case history, meaning you'll never lose track of messages, instructions or key notes. Mark case complete Solved the problem? Click the 'Case complete' button to mark the case as closed. Don't worry if you make a mistake, you're able to reopen the case whenever you need. How to use due dates Collect casework on your website or blog Add a case by email Protect your account with 2-factor authentication Set a default due date and time for your cases Set due dates for tasks, not deadlines for cases Casework management app for local councillors. Developed by Porism.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3414
__label__wiki	0.927531	0.927531	History of Parliament Online Home Research > Members > 1715-1754 > CHOLMLEY, Hugh (1684-1755) CHOLMLEY, Hugh (1684-1755), of Whitby, Yorks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970 Available from Boydell and Brewer Biography Detail Offices Held 1715-1754 Constituencies 1715-1754 Parliaments 1715-1754 Surveys Family and Education b. 3 Aug. 1684, 1st s. of Nathaniel Cholmley of London, merchant, by Mary, da. and h. of Sir Hugh Cholmley, 4th Bt., M.P., of Whitby. educ. Enfield g.s.; Magdalene, Camb. 1700. m. Mar. 1716, Katherine, da. of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Bt., of North Elmsall, Yorks., 8s. 4da. suc. fa. 1727. Surveyor gen. of crown lands 1715-22; commr. of victualling Nov. 1721-Mar. 1722; sheriff, Yorks. 1724-5. Cholmley, whose mother succeeded to the family estates, was returned on William Pulteney’s interest at Hedon. He voted with the Whig Opposition in the division on Cadogan in 1717 but was classed as a government supporter in 1719, when he voted for the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts, absenting himself from the division on the peerage bill. In November 1721 he was appointed commissioner of victualling, apparently to enable him to vacate his seat, for he held the office only till the following March. He died 25 May 1755. Ref Volumes: 1715-1754 Author: Romney R. Sedgwick © Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3421
__label__cc	0.686234	0.313766	Search in Horses x Poor areas have most admissions for dog bites: Hospital admissions for bites and strikes by dogs among people living in the 10% most deprived areas of England were three times as high as in the 10% least deprived areas (24.1 versus 8.1 per 100 000 admissions), show new figures for 2013 from the Health and Social Care Information Centre. There were 9710 hospital admissions for injuries caused by dogs and other mammals (such as horses, foxes, and cats), a rise of 7% on the 9080 admissions in 2012. Dog bites and strikes accounted for … #Horses bmj.com An unexpected finding after a fall from a horse A 37 year old jockey was admitted with left sided abdominal pain and fullness one week after a fall from a horse. Before this he had been fit and well. On examination, he was tender in the left upper outer quadrant of his abdomen and his blood pressure was 90/55 mm Hg. A computed tomography scan showed an area of active bleeding in the parenchyma of the spleen and a large subcapsular haematoma. #BloodPressure #AbdominalPain Signs and Symptoms in Family Medicine, by Paul M. Paulman, MD et al, provides a unique evidence-based approach to diagnosis based on presenting signs. Focusing on the most common diagnoses observed in a medical practice, the book helps you "think horses, not zebras." A rating system for the sensitivity and specificity of the signs, symptoms, and diagnostic tests aids in the development of a focused and accurate differential diagnosis. This handy, take-along guide is ideal for quick reference at the bedside or a refresher while prepping for the boards. Confidently diagnose and treat common illnesses and conditions using an evidence-based, systematic approach. A unique ratings system indicates how frequently various symptoms and signs are associated with a particular diagnosis. Easily find what you need with consistently organized chapters and an at-a-glance bulleted format. "Think horses, not zebras" with a focus on the most frequently encountered diagnoses. Rule out the most serious possibilities quickly with differential diagnoses listed in descending order of severity. Review symptoms, signs, suggested work-up, and patient disposition for each diagnosis. Patients present with symptoms, not diagnoses #SensitivityAndSpecificity feeds.bmj.com Hard-to-reach cancers targeted with 'Trojan horse' proteins Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers and degenerative diseases using nanoparticles, but without causing the damaging side effects the... #Proteins The 'Unicorn' DOES Exist, And It's About To Go Extinct Unicorns are real. Or at least, there's a creature on the brink of extinction that some think looks a lot like our favorite fabled horse-like beast. P... When you hear hoofbeats, don’t think horses or zebras, thi [...] \| EMBlog Mayo Clinic Author: Shawna Bellew, M.D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSsvfTHEPc emblog.mayo.edu NHS personal health budgets spent on holidays and horse riding - BBC News Thousands of pounds of NHS personal health budgets are being spent on "treats", including holidays, clothes and pedalo hire, an investigation finds. #FinancialManagement Some NHS personal health budgets are spent on holidays and hobbies NHS personal health budgets have been used to buy things such as holidays, horse riding lessons, and video game consoles, a freedom of information request has found. Devolution of health budget to councils could see NHS spending eroded, expert warns Devolution of healthcare spending to local authorities could be a Trojan horse that would see the NHS budget eroded, a former permanent secretary at the Department of Health for England has warned. Taming the Ketamine Tiger Read this classic open access paper from one of the original scientists who developed ketamine! Learn the true origins of ketamine and dispel such myths like ketamine was made for horses! TAMING THE KETAMINE TIGER prehospitalmed.com 3 Things I love about Outback Life I am not your typical outback chick. I often think about all of my fabulous friends up here and have no idea how they do it all. They can ride horses like it is nobodies business, they are so dam… Source: 3 Things I love about Outback Life Duplication of Gallbladder and Horse-Shoe Kidney Abdominal imaging of this 9-year-old boy with nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain revealed a rare combination of congenital defects. #Renal #Nephrology #Gallbladder medscape.com Robotic Horse to Help with Autism, Arthritis, Cerebral Palsy, Etc. \| Hippotherapy, or equine-assisted therapy, relies on riding horses to improve the symptoms of patients with a variety of physical and psychological conditio #ChildPsychiatry #JointDiseases #CerebralPalsy medgadget.com #ICEM2016 EM in Africa – is the cart before the horse? by Dr Olive Kobusinge In memory of Dr John Hinds	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3426
__label__wiki	0.858615	0.858615	Revision as of 19:17, 12 December 2009 (edit) It's dot com (Talk \| contribs) (just New Paper) Revision as of 05:32, 15 December 2009 (edit) (undo) The Knights Who Say Ni (Talk \| contribs) (→When it shows up in odd places) In [[big white face]], it appears above [[The Poopsmith]], who pokes at it with his shovel. In [[replacement]], it appears above Strong Bad's grave. In [[lackey]], it comes down in front of [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]. In [[garage sale]], it comes down from the sky. When viewing the Homestar Runner Easter egg, it remains centered on the screen even as the scene shifts to the left. In [[lady...ing]], The Paper comes down to the right of the Lappy (although centered on the screen), after Strong Bad has fallen asleep on that side. In [[redesign]], The Paper comes down in front of the "Redesigning SBEMAILS, JERK FOOT" logo. In [[retirement]], it appears on the roof of [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] and in the field. In [[retirement]], it appears on the roof of Bubs' Concession Stand and in the field. *In [[the paper]], The Paper is shown blocking for Strong Bad in a basketball-type game (Homestar was using a rubber football). After it blocked the shot Homestar comments "Aw, man! Wish I had a time-and-space-transcending piece of paper on my team" (at which point Homsar appears). It also rescues Strong Bad from a sinking island. This article is about the pseudocharacter. For the Strong Bad Email, see the paper. "Talk to my man with the green and white stripes." The Paper was the piece of printer paper that came down from the top of the screen after nearly every Strong Bad Email, up until the paper, when it was replaced by New Paper. It usually would read: > Click here to e-mail strong bad strongbad@homestarrunner.com In the first twenty emails, it contained just the first line without an email address. When the link is clicked in subsequent emails, the email address disappears, possibly as a result of the address not being properly added to the Flash file. The Paper coming down usually signals the end of the email; however, the majority of Easter eggs can be found after The Paper has come down. One can either wait around or click on certain words Strong Bad has typed. It is shown in the paper that Strong Bad had its printer above his desk, but it is still unclear exactly to what it was attached. This seemingly magical paper can sometimes be seen manifesting itself out of the clear blue sky, where it can seem huge in comparison to its normal size. Some suggest that it's merely in the foreground. On occasion, Strong Bad has touched The Paper in closeup, making The Paper look even more like it's gigantic compared to everything else by having his hand seem notably smaller than The Paper. From the sound it made and the quality of the printout, the printer that produces The Paper can be assumed to be of the dot matrix variety. The sprocket holes on the edges further indicated that it had a tractor feed mechanism. Both technologies are almost completely outmoded. In most appearances, The Paper prints upside-down from how a real dot-matrix printer would operate; that is, the last line prints first toward the free edge of the page. However, as seen in the paper, it is also capable of printing in the "normal" orientation. A drawing of the printer in lady fan also shows the printer operating in this way. "wE haDd A goOd RUN, oLD buDddy." It was foretold in montage that The Paper would stick around until email #173, at which time Strong Bad would upgrade to an inkjet printer. This did indeed come to pass. The Paper's printer began to malfunction, and fell from its hidden spot above the computer. After a series of flashbacks reminiscing about The Paper, it bade Strong Bad farewell, and he cremated it with the BMW lighter. Its ashes spelled "Bye now". Strong Bad then sang a lament for his departed friend: "And The Paper goeth into the niiIIiiIIiiIIght!" Despite The Paper's demise on the website, The Paper returned alive and well in Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, as part of the in-game menu. It also returned to the site for Strong Bad's 200th email, when it fought New Paper offscreen. It was then accidentally burned to a crisp once more by sparks flying off the electrocuting Happy 8600. It has not been seen since. The onomatopoeia for The Paper's sound effect is "preeeeow", mentioned in autobiography, haircut, part-time job, garage sale, lady fan, coloring, and the paper. In honor of this, Strong Bad has set the Compe-per to make the "preeeeow" noise. The Paper is always referred to with an integral article. 1 Abnormal Sayings 2 Other "The Paper" Oddities 2.2 When it has a mind of its own 2.3 When it shows up in odd places 2.4 When it's not The Paper Abnormal Sayings The Paper has displayed messages other than the standard "Click here to e-mail Strong Bad" link. At the end of Superbowl Dealie, it reads, "Due to the big game, the Strong Bad Email will be late this week." At the end of Arcade Game, it reads, "Click here to play the Trogdor arcade game." At the end of duck pond, it reads, "Click here to play 'Duck Pond'". At the end of King of Town Email, The Paper comes down and reads, "Nobody wants to e-mail The King of Town. For real." In the Toons Menu version of crazy cartoon, it appears in Powered by The Cheat form and reads ">>>The End<<<". In the DVD and Podstar Runner versions of Strong Bad Emails, it simply reads, ">>The End<<", due to the inability to link to Strong Bad's email address. It displays the menu options on the strongbad_email.exe DVD. There is also a "bottom-feeding Paper" reading "Make your selection and mash GO, moron!" In the email animal, it reads "Enough already, Strong Bad" above the usual email information. At the end of Sick Day, a very unhealthy-looking (crumpled) The Paper reads "Strong Bad, I can't come in today." At the end of cliffhangers, it reads, "Tune in next time for the cliff hanging conclusion!!" In retirement, The Paper translates what the broken Tandy 400 and Compy 386 are trying to tell Strong Bad. At the end of retirement A it read, "To Be Continued Tomorrow!" before retirement A and retirement B were merged. At the end of the email The Paper reads, "It was me. I like hushpuppies." In the paper, it shares its last words with Strong Bad: "I tHiNK i'MM rEAlllyy QUItTinG sTROng BBBaD" and "wE haDd A goOd RUN, oLD buDddy". The earliest words of The Paper are revealed to be "Preeeeow, world." In the basketball flashback, it reads "Manute Bol". During the flashback to its preppy phase, it reads "golf". Just before saving Strong Bad from The Island, it reads "Anybody need a lift?" After Strong Bad's flashback, it reads "iT is Tiime. YOU kNOw WhHat to dO". After Strong Bad "cremates" The Paper, its ashes spell "bye now." In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, the Paper occasionally pops down to give instructions on various bonus modes of the game. Other "The Paper" Oddities At the end of guitar, Strong Bad uses the BMW Lighter and unintentionally scorches The Paper. In an Easter egg in the DVD version of caffeine, The Paper gets scorched again by Strong Bad's science project, "The Effects Of Gasoline On Fire". In sb_email 22, The Paper only comes down at the end of the press conference Easter egg. The printer for The Paper is apparently female; at the end of invisibility, the contrast knobs of the Tandy 400 can be repeatedly clicked to produce the message "tell the printer i'll miss her." However, The Paper itself is male, as mentioned in animal when Strong Bad asks "him" to come down and meet the new Lappy 486. Apparently, The Paper can also produce counterfeit money; in an Easter egg in couch patch, one can click on a hidden link to make The Paper print out an ASCII art million dollar bill. Strong Bad also uses The Paper in autobiography to print out the actual email. He runs the command "print_of_it.exe" to do so. Later in this email, The Paper takes a while to signal the end of the email due to a paper jam (according to Strong Bad). In theme park, The Paper comes down twice. In extra plug, even when the power is out, The Paper still comes down, with the help of Strong Mad and The Cheat. In coloring, Larry Palaroncini is heard singing The Paper's signature noise as it comes down and his song ends. 'Twas foretold In more armies, the email just before its death, The Paper comes down crumpled and torn, prompting Strong Bad to comment, "that's a bad sign." In the paper, The Paper is seen in Strong Bad's flashbacks: In a "Goth phase" The Paper is entirely black and has blood dripping from it. In a "Preppy phase" it is seen with a pink polo shirt with a turquoise sweater draped around it (blood also drips from it). When it has a mind of its own At the end of 50 emails it comes down prematurely, ending an email which, in Strong Bad's opinion, was not quite over. The Paper can occasionally follow orders, though. In date and for kids, Strong Bad instructs The Paper when to come down to bring the email to a close. In the facts, The Paper comes down after Homestar says, "And that's the end of my show, DONK!" Strong Bad objects to this. In animal, The Paper nervously goes back up when meeting the Lappy. It then tells Strong Bad via printout (see above) that he's stopped being funny for the day. In part-time job, The Paper doesn't come down on its own. Instead, "ps: preeeeow" must be clicked to make it come down. In Sick Day, The Paper is wrinkled and produces a sick-sounding noise, and tells Strong Bad that it can't come in. It then retreats when Strong Bad asks if he can blow his nose on it. In retirement, The Paper suddenly appears and offers to translate the Tandy 400 and Compy 386's language of "extravagantly broken computer." Later, The Paper explains to Strong Bad that it is the one that likes hushpuppies. In The Paper's last moments in the paper it shares its last words with Strong Bad; "I tHiNK i'MM rEAlllyy QUItTinG sTROng BBBaD", "wE haDd A goOd RUN, oLD buDddy", and then after Strong Bad's flashback, "iT is Tiime. YOU kNOw WhHat to dO". After Strong Bad burns The Paper the ashes spell "bye now." In email thunder, New Paper begins advertising Homestar's HREmails. It is then dragged off the top of the screen and presumably beat up, and The Paper comes down, much to Strong Bad's delight. It is burned by sparks from Homestar's computer shortly thereafter. In Baddest of the Bands, when Strong Bad comments that he could make a better entry form using the Lappy and The Paper, The Paper comes down reading: "Got that right." When it shows up in odd places In stand-up, it comes down in front of the Telebision after the end of Strong Sad's video. In little animal, it appears at the top of the screen while Strong Mad chases Strong Bad around the room. It also remains there when you switch to Strong Man chasing Old-Timey Strong Bad and back. In the bird, it comes down from the sky. Pom Pom lifts the corner and peeks out from under it. In property of ones, it comes down over the Cold Ones needlepoint. In big white face, it appears above The Poopsmith, who pokes at it with his shovel. In replacement, it appears above Strong Bad's grave. In lackey, it comes down in front of Bubs' Concession Stand. In garage sale, it comes down from the sky. When viewing the Homestar Runner Easter egg, it remains centered on the screen even as the scene shifts to the left. In lady...ing, The Paper comes down to the right of the Lappy (although centered on the screen), after Strong Bad has fallen asleep on that side. In redesign, The Paper comes down in front of the "Redesigning SBEMAILS, JERK FOOT" logo. In retirement, it appears on the roof of Bubs' Concession Stand and in the field. In the paper, The Paper is shown blocking for Strong Bad in a basketball-type game (Homestar was using a rubber football). After it blocked the shot Homestar comments "Aw, man! Wish I had a time-and-space-transcending piece of paper on my team" (at which point Homsar appears). It also rescues Strong Bad from a sinking island. When it's not The Paper Old-Timey The Paper The Paper in email lady fan In the DVD Version of little animal, the Old-Timey version of The Paper is a Supra Modern Telegram reading "-the end-". In superhero name, a comic book with an "email Strong Bad" link appears in lieu of The Paper. In vacation, The Paper does not appear at all. In japanese cartoon, The Paper is replaced with an anime credits list. In crazy cartoon and mile, a Powered by The Cheat version of The Paper appears. In dreamail, The Paper takes the form of an upside-down copy of the United States Constitution, with the Strong Bad email link scribbled at the top. This is the fifth time in seven consecutive emails that The Paper has had at least one unusual twist. In death metal, the link to Strong Bad's email address is on the bottom of the death metal worksheet. In lady fan, The Paper is shown coming out of a printer in a "boring soap-opera comic". In the paper, The Paper is updated to an inkjet printer. In bike thief, New Paper prints out in the green-white-"stripedy" style of The Paper, causing Strong Bad to comment that it "makes him feel a little better". Sound Effects to listen to an audio sample. Strong Bad's computer equipment Computers Papers Current Lappier CGI Paper Previous Tandy 400 · Compy 386 · Lappy 486 · Compé The Paper · New Paper · Compé-per Other Block · Zappy XT6 · Terminal D6 · Corpy NT6 Envelope Paper N/A Strong Bad Emails 1 - 173, 200 Succeeded by: Retrieved from "http://hrwiki.org/wiki/The_Paper" Categories: Items \| Pseudocharacters	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3429
__label__cc	0.726319	0.273681	Football Findings Artifacts From The First 100 Years of American Football ← The Sneakers Game 1934 The 1926 NFL Championship → Election Day in Buffalo 1929 Posted on February 13, 2017 by MM In 1929 the New York Giants traveled to Buffalo for an Election Day game against the Bisons. This post shows the announcement of the game in the program from the Sunday prior, plus a flyer that was distributed to drum up attendance for the Election Day game – with Music to Enliven the Occasion. I was especially interested in their description of my father – “Happy ” they called him – of the Carnegie Tech “Wonder” Eleven. My father did play for Carnegie in 1922, but most of his football career was at Grinnell College. Maybe they were thinking of the 1926 Carnegie squad. In 1926, the 6–2 Carnegie Tech football team shut out Knute Rockne’s undefeated Notre Dame Fighting Irish 19–0 at Forbes Field. It would be the only loss for the Irish all season and only the second time they allowed a touchdown that season. The game was ranked the fourth-greatest upset in college football history by ESPN. But, in 1922 Notre Dame beat Carnegie 19 – 0. No wonder there. It was, however, the first game where the Notre Dame backfield, later immortalized as the Four Horsemen, lined up together in a game. Here’s the November 3 program cover, announcement, and flyer And here is the cover and roster from the Giants at Bisons game two days later Pro Football Its Ups and Downs The 1926 NFL Championship The Sneakers Game 1934 Football Matchbooks Danna Cooley Seeger on Chris Cagle Bryan Meler on About Alan March on Pro Football Its Ups and Downs Tom Frangicetto on Hinkey Haines, A Singular Acheivement Lorraine Yabroski Bonner on 1926 Pottsville Maroons Real Photo Post Cards	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3439
__label__cc	0.70483	0.29517	Our projected LEED for Homes "Platinum" "Oak Savanna" Project just received a HERs score of 27 (Making it 73% more efficient than a new code built home) Thanks to the newly installed 6.0 kW ground mounted solar array with 8 OutBack EnergyCell 220GH Grid Hybrid batteries in a custom prewired encloser. (The battery cabinet can expand to 12 batteries if the customer wants more capacity) All tied into a 8kW OutBack Grid interactive inverters system. The system was installed by Mike Linsea of Solar Winds Power System. And our HERs rater was John Kuiper from The Home Energy Assessor. Our project team would like to thank both Mike & John for their part of this amazing project. Please subscribe to our new YouTube Channel and watch some of our past video from our River Escape and the Glenn Retreat Projects and watch-out for some new videos that we are currently working on producing. 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We are in the process of finishing up the LEED certification on this project. Below please find some highlight for the project. Superior Wall Xi precast concrete basement walls. Insulspan Structural Insulated Panels (SIP) main floor walls. Andersen 100 Series Energy Star windows. ERV - Energy Recovery Ventalator. 7.54 Kw of Photovoltaics supplied by Coffman Electrical Equipment HERs Score of 21 (Which means this home is 79 % more energy efficient than a code built home) 10:15 AM Image Designs, LLC Old Front Elevation We are excite that our East Grand Rapids remodel with builder Joel Harner of Let Us, Inc. is now under construction. The homeowner's had us in phase 1 re-design the front facade, add a new foyer, enlarging the kitchen, redesign the roof with a covered entry which has just been completed. In phase 2 which just start last week the homeowner is adding 000 sq. ft. addition off the back of the home which will include a new, main floor laundry, two remodel bedroom with a split bathroom, master bedroom and bath, and a new basement with a large family room and a future guest bedroom and a future bathroom. The exterior elevations will all be updated to match the front facade and there will extensive regrading then new landscaping to complete their new look. New Front Elevation Happy 149th Birthday - Frank Lloyd Wright Today is the 149th birthday of Frank LLoyd Wright. Widely regarded as America's most influential architect, Frank Lloyd Wright left behind a rich legacy of homes and buildings, and created a distinctly American style of architecture that continues to influence architects to this day. He was born June 8, 1867 and pasted a way in April 9, 1959. His work has influence my life since I was a young teenager. I have been and still am inspire by his work. Some of my favorite works of his are Fallingwater, Meyer May House and all the Prairie Style and Usonian houses . Wright's philosophy in architecture promoted harmony between the building, its inhabitants and nature. His homes became part of their surroundings. He minimized their presence and maximized their practicality. He revolutionized modern architecture with the essentials of ecological design and green building. Image Design, LLC Update - The loss of my Father Dad at Lake Charlevoix It's been away while since I have written anything here. Many of you know that for the past 3 years I have been the primary caregiver to my father who suffered from dementia. While this has taken a lot of irreplaceable time from my family and my businesses over the last three years I was able to get know my father in a way I never expected too. Besides being my father he became a mentor, and one of my best friends. In the past three year he's taught me how to be a better husband, father, man and friend, he's taught me to be more caring, to put other before myself , to have empathy for others, patience and how to forgive myself and others. I lost my father on April 11th, 2016 to health issues along with his dementia. It's taken me a while to get use to not having to take care of him. I was at peace with his passing because I feel blessed to have spent so much time with him these past three years. I feel I got to know more about him and his life and our family than I every knew before and I feel I am a better husband, father, man, friend and person because of my time spent with him. So my goal from now on is to be a better husband, father, friend and businessman and to never forget the valuable lessons, mistakes, advise my father has taught me so I can teacher other to be the kind of man he was and I want to be. I'll miss you my father, mentor and friend! Image Design Awarded Best of Houzz 2016 for both Design and Customer Service Over 35 Million Monthly Unique Users Nominated Best Home Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals in North America and Around the World January 11, 2016 – Image Design, LLC of Grand Rapids, Michigan has won “Best of Design and Customer Service” on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. This Sustainable/Green Residential Design Firm was chosen by the more than 35 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than one million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals. The Best of Houzz is awarded annually in three categories: Design, Customer Service and Photography. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 35 million monthly users on Houzz. Customer Service honors are based on several factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2015.. 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__label__cc	0.716187	0.283813	REELZ Independence Why Independence Matters Most How a Small, Rural Community Thrives with a Strong Main Street – IndependentWeStand.org Written by Blake Foley January 13, 2020 \| Top Stories \| Photo courtesy of independentwestand.org There’s something special about Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. A rural community with only 3,000 residents, Wellsboro is small—but beloved. It’s the kind of place where one of the only independent, family-owned department stores in the country can still thrive, and it’s a hometown where high school classmates return to build their own business. By all accounts, the local spirit is alive and well in Wellsboro… Continue reading at independentwestand.org >> How to Get the Most Out of Small Business Saturday JOIN US IN SUPPORTING NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS WEEK 2016! GROW FROM SMALL TO LARGE IN EIGHT SIMPLE STEPS REELZ.com © Copyright 2020 Reelz This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3446
__label__cc	0.573224	0.426776	Opinion: Discovering our Indian place names "My recent drive from Kansas City to Tulsa, Okla., for a family wedding was truly a journey down American Indian trails. Along the way are many geographic site markers to our Native American past: Wyandotte, Quindaro, Shawnee, Olathe, Paola, Miami, Osawatomie, Iola, Lenapah, Delaware, Nowata, Watova, Talala, Oologah (home of beloved Will Rogers, a Cherokee), Owasso, and of course, Tulsa. Such names may honor a tribe or chieftain, a legendary woman or maybe a distinguished land feature. My nephew’s wedding was held on a mound in Catoosa, which is "hill" to the Cherokees. I grew up in Nowata, Okla. Looking back, my little hometown lived up to its Delaware tribal name, which means "welcome." I give talks to local school kids about Indian place names, sharing the map I created for Kansas City’s 1997 welcome home party for the Oklahoma Osages who once lived here. My young listeners have favorites, like Dakota, a popular first name that means "a friend" to the Lakota Sioux. A little boy who heard my talk later boasted that he won a dollar from his dad for knowing that Three Rivers Stadium, where the Chiefs play the Pittsburg Steelers, is named for three Indian rivers — the Monongahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio. Indian place names in our area are scarce even though the Missouri, Oto, Iowa, Kaw or Kansa, Sac and Fox, and the Osage were once hereabout. Perhaps the tribes were nomadic hunters, or maybe white settlers replaced the Indians’ names. Two thousand years ago, Indians of the Middle Woodland time lived in and around Line Creek Park on Waukomis Drive. They came to be called the Hopewells after the Ohio landowner who first discovered similar ruins. Their true name is unknown." Reta Jo Mitchell: A search for our Indian place names (The Kansas City Sun Tribune 10/1) Editorial: Whiteclay needs creative thinking Column: Time has spoken on 'Fighting Sioux'	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3447
__label__cc	0.623115	0.376885	Lynne Harlan: USET celebrates 40th anniversary "Next week the United South and Eastern Tribes Inc. will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Founded in 1969 by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Mississippi Choctaw, the Miccosukee Tribe and the Seminole tribe of Florida, USET, as it has come to be known, has served Native Nations east of the Mississippi River as an advocate for tribal concerns in Washington, D.C. Through the years USET has grown to include 25 tribes east of the Mississippi River. The USET tribes go to Capitol Hill annually to take their issues to Congress en masse. Issues, which range from health care to the environment to cultural resources protection, have working committees during USET conferences. Tribes discuss their challenges and develop strategies to reach out to lawmakers. Many critical issues are directly related to funding that comes to tribes through federal appropriations. Disparities between native communities and their neighbors are tremendous and often overlooked in small tribal nations in the East. Our tribal relatives in the West have larger populations and land bases, and are often more visible to their congressional representatives. In the East our challenges are no less serious but much more invisible because non-native communities in the East have much larger populations. Through the years, USET has been able to bring tribal leaders to Washington to work for issues that are not solely native. When the Head Start program was in danger of loosing funding during the 1970s, USET leaders journeyed to Washington to work with other advocates to save the program." USET promotes Indian interests to US lawmakers (The Asheville Citizen-Times 10/23) Lynne Harlan: Eastern Cherokees celebrate (10/9) Lynne Harlan: Eastern Cherokee government (9/25) Lynne Harlan: Eastern Cherokees make strides (08/28) Lynne Harlan: Cherokee children reach for the stars (05/08) Lynne Harlan: Cherokees defend cultural rights (04/10) Lynne Harlan: Women in Cherokee society (03/27) lynne harlan Spirit Lake woman sentenced for partner's death New law recognizes tribal adoptions in California	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3448
__label__cc	0.600301	0.399699	LandingPage, Uncategorized By kanayo, October 1, 2015 Kanayo Ebi is a celebrity fashion stylist and an Image / Brand Consultant. An avid lover of fashion, Kanayo recognizes that fashion is something worthy of conviction and respect from all that engage in the industry, not something in which to frivolously toy. With her keen and innovative eye, Kanayo exists on the cutting edge of both fashion and style. Having lived in and visited innumerable parts of the world, she believes that every culture, every lifestyle, and every architectural detail has strong influences in the undercurrent winds that direct fashion. She recognizes that in her field, she is constantly propelled into new opportunities in which to learn, and consistently tune her well-trained eye. Her love for fashion is never ceasing, with moments of enlightenment that are never forgettable. Since 2007, Kanayo has been working as a professional Wardrobe Stylist and Image Consultant. She has worked directly with the brand manager and designers of Pastry Apparel as a consultant, forecasting trends and pioneering ground-breaking concepts for forthcoming seasons. Additionally, she has also constructed custom-made wardrobes for Pastry Apparel’s brand owners, Vanessa and Angela Simmons. Kanayo’s clientele includes a range of celebrities, reputable publications, and fashion shows. Aside from her well-known work with the Simmons sisters, Kanayo has also worked with a wide range of celebrities, reputable publications, and fashion shows including America’s Next Top Model Winner Dani Evans, actress Adrienne Bailon, Former American Idol Contestant Joanne Borgella, celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, actress Monique Coleman, host Rocsi Diaz formerly of BET’s 106 and Park, Tatler Magazine, The Saturday Telegraph Magazine, and Hype Hair Magazine. Kanayo’s blog, kachmeeifyoucan.blogspot.com, highlights her fashion adventures, celebrity styling, commentary on up-and-coming trends in the industry, and musings from the mind of the stylist. On her blog, as well as in her work, she reminds her readers that fashion is not a hobby, but indeed a lifestyle. Pinbin Theme by Color Awesomeness \| Copyright 2020 KachMeIfYouCan \| Powered by WordPress	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3452
__label__wiki	0.624569	0.624569	Issue PDF Creating Tech Pipeline By Duwayne Escobedo The White House announced last week that Pensacola would be included in the expansion of its TechHire Initiative to 20 cities, states, and rural areas. The expansion increased the number of TechHire communities to 71 across the nation. The TechHire initiative began in March 2015. It’s based on a simple idea: Building a pipeline of tech talent can bring new jobs to local economies, facilitate business growth, and give local residents a pathway to the middle class. To build such a pipeline, TechHire addresses employers’ great need for technology talent with emerging models for quickly training people with limited incoming technology skills to be job-ready in months, not years. The TechHire Initiative works with communities and employers on three key actions: -Opening up recruiting and hiring pathways for people without traditional credentials who can demonstrate that they have the skills to succeed in a tech job regardless of where those skills were attained. -Recruiting, incubating, and expanding accelerated tech learning programs – such as high-quality coding boot camps and innovative online training – which enable interested, inexperienced students to rapidly gain tech skills. -Connecting people to jobs by investing in and working with organizations that can vouch for those who have the skills to do the job, but who may lack the typical profile of education and experience. Since its launch, TechHire communities across the country have piloted fast-track training programs designed to give people skills that are in high demand by employers. So far over 4,000 people have been trained and connected to work opportunities with local employers, earning average salaries of well over median income. Pensacola State College, who is leading the Pensacola effort, hosted a press conference on Friday, Dec. 2 on its main campus. “We at Pensacola State are proud of our many technology programs that prepare students for exciting, productive careers,” PSC President Ed Meadows said. “We look forward to working with these businesses and industry partners to provide a highly skilled and educated workforce for Northwest Florida.” To be named a TechHire Community, Pensacola State had to go through a competitive application process to gauge its, and the business community’s, levels of commitment and readiness. Pensacola State had to show it had a good relationship with the necessary employers, the trainers on staff, and community support to produce the 200 jobs within three years. “We are very pleased to welcome Pensacola to the White House TechHire Community Initiative,” said Tess Posner, Managing Director of TechHire at Opportunity@Work. “Pensacola has demonstrated a true commitment to making opportunities in tech more inclusive in your community, and we at Opportunity@Work look forward to working with you to help implement, grow, and amplify your efforts.” The college and its partners plan to provide short-term high-tech training to about 200 poor, minority and female Pensacola residents by 2020, so they can enjoy exciting, productive careers. For the Pensacola effort, Pensacola State College will collaborate with Innovation Coast, Inc., which includes community workforce partners Global Business Solutions, Inc.; Technical Software Services Inc.; Gulf Power Company; AppRiver; and Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, to train and place 200 technology workers by 2020. With a focus on veterans, minorities, and economically disadvantaged individuals in the Pensacola area, students can gain skills across IT fields, including cybersecurity, coding, and networking. In addition to training, this initiative includes opportunities to make connections with potential employers and reduce unemployment. FloridaWest CEO Scott Luth said that his economic development alliance has been focusing on three targeted industry sectors that could employ the graduates of the TechHire initiative. The community needs to continue to train and grow talent. Last month, FloridaWest hosted open houses for the Escambia County School District’s high school academies for manufacturing and aviation maintenance. “If we want to be successful as a community, we’ve got to continue to build that talent,” said Luth. Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward attended the event and praised the efforts of Pensacola State College and Innovation Coast. He said, “If you look at it in the last decade, Pensacola has really come together with the private sector – all of you who are creating that opportunity to create that tech pipeline right here.” Mayor Hayward added, “I applaud all of you for looking at our talent right here. This is very, very important for all of us. Government doesn’t create jobs. We create an environment so you can thrive.” The 20 communities joining the TechHire initiative include: Alachua and Bradford Counties, FL Anchorage, AL Arizona (State of) Carroll County, MD El Paso County, TX Howard County, MD Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico Trenton City, NJ by admin \| Dec 7, 2016 \| Issue, News Post Date: 2016-12-07 16:00:49 Found in: Issue Found in: News 2018 \| Website Designed by Newtek	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3455
__label__cc	0.502415	0.497585	House: Kilpeacon Villiers (Kilpeacon & Beech Hill) Gavin (Kilpeacon) Cripps Property/House name: Kilpeacon Description: Lewis writes that the manor was granted to William King in the reign of James I and that "the late proprietor" had erected a handsome mansion which was now the "property and residence of Cripps Villiers". In his will dated 1704 William King refers to his niece Mary Villiers. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book states that Kilpeacon House was the property of Edward Villiers, Dublin, and was occupied by Miss Deborah Cripps. Built in 1820 it was a large, commodious building of 2 stories. It was the residence of Edward C. Villiers at the time of Griffith's Valuation, held in fee and valued at £60. Bought by Major George Gavin in the early 1850s from the Villiers and the residence of his son Montiford W. Gavin in the early 20th century. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor writes in 1942 that this house was completed in 1799. The owner was Mrs O'Kelly, her husband having purchased the house in 1927 from the Gavins. This house is still extant and occupied. Townland: Kilpeacon Civil Parish: Kilpeacon DED: Kilpeacon 6 Kilpeacon gateway Kilpeacon (www.buildingsofireland.ie/) Kilpeacon (Irish Tourist Association, Courtesy of Limerick Studies)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3466
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__label__cc	0.651343	0.348657	Graphics are from two sources: manuscripts and paintings in museums photographs by Martin Knowles, Martin Knowles PhotoMedia Manuscripts and paintings Augustine preaching on the Gospel of John Illumination from a copy of Augustine's Sermons on the Gospel of John Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Ms. 193, f. 4, 12th century The upper part of the illumination shows St. John writing his gospel. Below, St. Augustine is preaching to the people of Hippo, presumably on the prologue to the Gospel. Augustine in his study Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice, Italy, 1502-04 Augustine is shown with the emblems of the seven liberal arts. The books below his desk are music manuscripts of the late fifteenth century, recognizing Augustine as the “founder” of music theory. Benozzo Gozzoli Ambrose baptises Augustine Church of St. Augustine, San Gimignano, Italy, 1485 Gozzoli completed a set of frescos on the life of St. Augustine to illuminate the apse of the Church of St. Augustine. The baptism fresco pays homage to the legend that Augustine and Ambrose improvised the Te deum (“We praise you, O God”) in sung conversation. Augustine reading scripture Lateran Library, Rome, Italy, 6th century The earliest representation of St. Augustine is a fresco in the Lateran Library. He is shown on a teacher’s chair, commenting on scripture. Martin Knowles Sunset over Rosario Strait, Washington Photo taken on a summer evening, looking west toward Thatcher Pass, between Blakely and Decatur Islands in the San Juan Islands of Northern Washington. © 2002, Martin Knowles Photo/Media Choir stalls in Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Guanajuato, Mexico The Basilica de Nuestra Señora is a late sixteenth-century neo-classical cruciform building. This photo is of the west monastic choir stalls with the misericordia placed in sitting position. Detail of Bond Organ at Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, WA The 2-manual, 25 rank Bond Organ at the Church of the Redeemer in Kenmore, WA, was built in 1995 from pipework in Redeemer’s Balcom & Vaughan 1964 organ. The revision was designed by Richard Bond of Bond Organ Builders of Portland, OR, and Walter Knowles. Rose Window, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA View of East Window at Grace Cathedral, Pentecost, 2006. Website and content ©2010–2014 by Walter Knowles All rights reserved. For more information about LiturgicalStudies.org, please get in touch with us at info@liturgicalstudies.org. Website developed by Walter Knowles Walter Knowles liturgist work for the people Home Liturgy Bio Writing Music Consultation For? Mystagogia About	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3483
__label__cc	0.741681	0.258319	A Quality Drink from Tree to Pint Gary and Maher planting hard cider specific apple trees Tractor and auger for drilling the holes for trees The saying goes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but what it doesn't say is that those seeds will be completely different apple trees. We are all similar but different from our parents no? If you plant an apple seed it has all the genetic variation of its forebears, meaning, the tree could be any combination of these genetics and result in an apple quite unlike the tree it came from. To ensure the variety of tree that we want, farmers use a technique called grafting. This is where the scion (the desired bud wood) is cut and sealed onto a root stock. The scion is the trees' mini me, a genetic copy that will grow into the same variety of apple. The purpose of grafting this scion onto a different root stock (such as Bud 9) serves two main purposes. Firstly, the root stock is often dwarfing, which enables the spindle system of growing orchard trees close together. Secondly, it often has improved disease resistance raising the bar for the clones' successful establishment. So what's with the Johnny Appleseed folk character? Why is he spreading seeds? In Elementary school, I remembered some vague mention of Johnny Appleseed. Looking back, the nursery-school version left out some details. John Chapman born 1774, became an orchardist and nurseryman along the Northeast; establishing apple trees that were used primarily for hard cider and applejack (distilled apple ferment). Interestingly, orchards were one way to mark land claims along the frontier at this time. Somewhat of a quirky character, he was nomadic, religiously pious, but had wealth from his economic business of establishing and selling hard cider orchards.[1] The common apples we know today have been selectively bred for sweetness, texture, and other qualities that appeal to consumers. Traditionally, Crabapple trees and tart apples were more common. From the Middle Ages (dating before this too), when lack of fresh clean water led to deaths from dysentery, people drank hard (alcoholic) cider. Fermentation has always been a way for people to survive through unfavorable seasons and scarcity. The preservation of food and drink that enabled perseverance and social bonding became tradition in many cultures. Britain, where tradition is staunch, still serves local hard cider at every pub. My parents took a cider tour of Britain, because in their minds, when they travel, they're still not off the clock. They wanted to get a business sense of traditional hand-crafted cider. After meeting fellow hard cider farmers who hosted and shared their knowledge they returned enthusiastic, repeating, "They're our kind of people!" The simplicity of cider ferment becomes more of a craft when you want a replicable taste, smell, and quality to each brew. At home, you can just add cider yeast and let your cider bubble. If it tastes right, then it's right and if it's tastes off, then you might have cider vinegar. Here at the farm, the planning has started. Gary and his crew planted new varieties of apple trees that are hard cider specific, reaching back to the genetics of Johnny Appleseed's time, such as, Cox Orange Pippin, Albaramaryle, Arkansas Black, Newton Pippon, Harrison, Ashmeads Kernel, Yarlington Mill. Some hard cider varieties we already grow because about half of our customer base prefers the tart apples for eating and baking. Varieties such as Gold Rush, Stayman, Winesap, and Crimson Crisp all make good hard cider. Amy has been putting in weeks of paperwork and research to complete every step that needs doing for a license to sell hard cider here at the farm. And Gary has a couple of single vintage varieties brewing, as well as table blends, spending days, weeks, months, perfecting and tweaking to create a quality drink from tree to pint. If you are interested in being the first to sample or learn about when we launch our product there is a special email list that you can get onto. Send a message with the subject HARD CIDER, with your interest to manoffmarketgardens@gmail.com [1] https://www.biography.com/people/johnny-appleseed-38103 Apple butter and the wisdom of Bob Marley I took a trip last week to Bauman's, a traditional apple butter business run by a husband and wife near Kutztown. We dropped 10 mixed bushels of apples off two weeks prior and received the rich brown butter jarred in return. Apple butter does not contain butter; it is made simply, crushing the apples and cooking them until they are reduced to the consistency of butter. Its tart-sweet flavor lends itself well to a meat marinade or a breakfast topping for toast or oats. I also make my own vegan, gluten-free baked goods and I find that adding a couple tablespoons to my flour and oil mixtures helps combine the baked goods for a better consistency. After squeezing the truck into a parking space, the processing building takes up a small acre lot in between houses and a narrow lane, I unloaded the boxes into the truck and introduced myself to Mr. Bauman, "Harvey," he said. If it had been a younger person I might have paid and left, but the older generations approve of small talk. The weather was the main subject; spring is variable, the winter was hard, but the crops will pull through, they usually do. Then he asked, "So you're working on the farm, did you go to college?" Tentatively, "Yes," I said, "I went to college for communication and got my masters in development communication. I'm working on the farm, helping with the retail side, but also learning more about the outdoor work involved in the fruit." And with a smile that couldn't lift the corner creases of his hurt eyes Harvey said, "That's nice, my children decided not to continue the family business." Where could I go with that? I think that any family business suffers some degree of hurt when the next generation fails to continue their legacy, but there is a special kind of sadness that I've seen and read about for farmers. Maybe because, for most farmers, work is more than an occupation, it is one's blood and bone, blessing and curse. There's a reason most farmers as they age, look like the land they tend to; like a geologic natural progression, the sun, the earth, the wind and the rain work away at a farmer's solid form. Man starts out fine skinned and pale and ends looking more like an obsidian arrowhead than a polished marble bust, polished through work rather than refinement. It's not just farming that's threatened; any skilled trade that takes time to learn is perceived as obsolete. I say perceived, because like the bumper stickers say, "No Farmers, No Food." Not only do we need farmers, and other skilled trades, I would argue that there is a growing trend amongst the younger generations for these products and eagerness to learn these skills. Our reliance on large commercial agriculture owned by a few big names isn't what I mean by farmers. The younger generation in this farming trend doesn't follow the traditional model of taking on their parents work, as it used to be done in the early 1900's, rather they often arrive at this line of work because of personal convictions or exposure through traveling, for example, (WWOOF) World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Popularity and interest in CSA's, Community Supported Agriculture, where one pays a certain amount upfront and gets a fair share of whatever crops the farmer harvests that season, are another way that we can see local resurgence in small-scale farms. Organic is another buzzword that hit the mainstream media and has been taken up by many new young farmers with an interest in integrated often, non-profit driven farming. You can find them at the local farmer's market with their Michael Pollan books, hipster attire and vegetarian inclinations. I kid. But by far, there are less farmers in the United States then there ever have been since it was conquered by our forefather immigrants, not settled as it was land taken by force. I can't deny the importance of the work farmers do but the question I wanted to ask Harvey, was, "Is a legacy more important than your kid's happiness?" People tell their kids, you can be anything you want to be, but what most mean is, Do something that makes us look good so we can brag about you, Carry on my legacy because why else have I put in all this effort for if not for your stability? The message is not usually so clear-cut, at least in white suburbia, normally it's disguised in good intentions. Truly, in contrast I picture an image of Buddhist monks, living symbols of non-attachment, and through ritual remind themselves of this non-attachment. For example in their works of sand art, huge mandalas made from painstakingly placed grains of sand laid in whirling precise patterns, which, upon completion, are swept away by the own artisans hands. Why? All that effort for something so beautiful, and they intentionally don't keep it. Then again, monks don't have kids, so this comparison may be unfair. For me, I feel a physical pain when I am asked this question of carrying on the farm. My parents have spent 30 plus years growing this farm, but I have spent 28 of them here too; I don't have the same skilled knowledge and experience, but the farm has always been a responsibility that I've felt tied to. I can sympathize with both parties, the grown child who feels guilt from parents, and the parents who can't imagine a life on the farm without their children. I see both and the only happy message I can pull from it, is that we all die. HA. We all have a choice to leave our mark in the world whether we choose to pour our efforts into careers, children, charities, but for each and every one of us, that is our choice. Maybe that's optimistic, we don't always have a choice about the things that happen to us, but we have a choice as Bob Marley so wisely wailed, "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3485
__label__wiki	0.761985	0.761985	Click Here to download “Feels Anxious, Worried During Sexual Intercourse by Family Structure and Religious Practice” Feels Anxious, Worried During Sexual Intercourse by Family Structure and Religious Practice Adults aged 18 to 59 in intact marriages who worshiped weekly were least likely to report feeling anxious or worried during intercourse with their current sexual partner, according to the National Health and Social Life Survey (1992). [1] Family Structure: Those in always-intact marriages were the least likely to feel anxious or worried during intercourse with their current sexual partner (6.8 percent). Feeling anxious or worried during intercourse was more prevalent among those in non-intact structures and among singles: 12.1 percent of those who were divorced and remarried, 20.6 percent of those who were divorced or separated, 25.9 percent of those who were always single felt anxious or worried during intercourse with their current sexual partner. Religious Practice: Those who worshiped weekly were the least likely to feel anxious or worried during intercourse with their current sexual partner (9.5 percent). Anxiety during intercourse increased alongside decreased religious attendance: 14.2 percent of those who worshiped less than weekly but at least monthly felt anxious or worried during intercourse; 15.1 percent of those who worshiped less than monthly felt negative or anxious, and 15.8 percent of those who never worshiped felt anxious or worried during intercourse with their partner. Family Structure and Religious Practice Combined: Those in intact marriages who worshiped weekly were least likely to feel anxious or worried during intercourse with their current sexual partner (5.8 percent), followed by those in intact marriages who never worshiped (9.4 percent). Those in non-intact family structures or who were single and who worshiped weekly were more likely to feel anxious or worried (15.5 percent), and those in non-intact family structures or who were single who never worshiped were even more likely to report feeling anxious or worried during intercourse with their current sexual partner (17.4 percent). Related Insights from Other Studies: A study of the differences in emotional response during sexual activity among sexually functional and dysfunctional men and women found that both men and women with sexual dysfunction experienced less positive emotional reactions during sexual activity. For men, sexual dysfunction led to significantly more negative emotions, including sadness and fear, compared to men without sexual problems. The results were similar among women with sexual dysfunction, who also experienced many negative emotions, including sadness, guilt, and anger.[2] Findings from the Survey of Adolescent Health indicated that, in addition to demographic factors, being religious reduced the likelihood of early first intercourse for both males and females. The anticipation of negative emotions after intercourse further decreased the probability of sexual debut for both males and females. Among girls only, those who anticipated positive emotions after intercourse had an increased likelihood of sexual debut.[3] [1] These charts draw on data collected by the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey [2] Pedro J. Nobre and Jose Pinto-Gouveia, “Emotions During Sexual Activity: Differences Between Sexually Functional and Dysfunctional Men and Women,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 35, no. 4 (2006): 491-499. [3] Sharon Scales Rostosky, Mark D. Regnerus and Margaret Laurie Comer Wright, “Coital Debut: The Role of Religiosity and Sex Attitudes in the Add Health Survey,” Journal of Sex Research 40, no. 4 (2003): 358-367.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3487
__label__wiki	0.729065	0.729065	SNAIL GAMES’ DARK AND LIGHT LAUNCHES ON STEAM EARLY ACCESS JULY 20TH Explore a Massive World, Tame Mystical Creatures, Craft Spells, and Build a Castle in this Fantasy Sandbox RPG SANTA MONICA, CA – July 18, 2017 – Snail Games, a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment, announced today that Dark and Light, the dark fantasy multiplayer survival game, will launch on Steam in Early Access on July 20th for $29.99. Dark and Light puts players in an immersive fantasy world that is filled with magic, monsters, and mystery. In this world, they will be challenged to survive and thrive through a combination of crafting, exploration, and powerful magic. Dark and Light’s features include: Master the Elements: Discover, craft, and cast dozens of powerful magical spells to take on the threats looming on Archos. Explore a Massive, Living World: Travel from frigid mountain peaks, to dense forests, floating islands, hidden caverns, volcanic regions, and more. Build a House and Support Your Faction: Join one of three factions, build your own noble house, and take on other players to dominate Archos. Choose a Side: Support the Light or the Darkness, fill the world with powerful Dark creatures, or purify the world with Light. Take Command of Powerful Creatures: Tame virtually any creature you encounter in the world – giant treants, mystical elementals, and legendary dragons can be at your command. Protect Your Home: Build anything from a straw shack to an enormous fortress to defend against hostile forces. To learn more about Dark and Light, please visit the official website, ‘Like’ us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter. Players can add Dark and Light to their Steam wishlist on the game’s Steam Store page to receive regular updates. ABOUT SNAIL GAMES Snail Games, a part of Suzhou Snail Digital Technology Co Ltd, has been a pioneer in the Chinese digital technology and entertainment industry since its founding in 2000. The company has developed and published over 50 digital products, providing entertainment to 85 million users in over 100 countries and regions. As the mobile era continues to accelerate, Snail Games aims to expand the scope of gaming through innovations in software, hardware, and telecommunications. ABOUT SNAIL GAMES USA Founded in 2010 in the heart of Los Angeles’ Silicon Beach, Snail Games USA is devoted to researching upcoming technologies, establishing new publishing and game development partnerships for the Western Market in preparation for the launch of our upcoming software products and hardware platforms. For more information, visit http://games.snail.com/ Mortal Kombat Kollection Rated for Multiple Platforms by European Ratings Agency January 22, 2020 Luke Reilly Temtem Starters Guide - Who Should You Pick? January 22, 2020 Casey DeFreitas ASTRO GAMING UNVEILS NEW LINE WITH LAUNCH OF ASTRO A10 HEADSET READY, SET, SMASH! SMASHBOX ARENA DEBUTS ON PLAYSTATION®VR	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3489
__label__wiki	0.548457	0.548457	Website of the Week: Alice Bag’s “Women in LA Punk” Published April 30, 2010 By Paul Curran Categories Blog/Website of the Week A website based solely on Alice Bag would be cool enough, and of course alicebag.com serves up plenty of biographical goodies on Alice and her legendary band, The Bags… But it’s really worth making your way to her website for the section called Women in LA Punk for interviews with the likes of Black Flag’s Kira Roessler, fanzine writer Jade Zebest, and all around scenester Pleasant Gehman. Ariel Awesome writes: “LET THE WOMEN SPEAK!” Short and sweet interviews that offer a glimpse into the past and present of the women who shaped punk in LA. Most punxploitation books love to serve up photos of these ladies as fashion plates, and give a short one line on what bands they were in, or who they hung around with. Here, Alice asks them a few key questions to give us a better sense of each lady as a whole person, what part they played in those seminal years of punk in LA, and what they are up to now. There are amazing photos, sure, but better than that, the voices of these amazing women coming through to tell a little bit of the story of how they shaped punk, and how punk shaped them. Exene and Pleasant Gehman take a cold shower at the Slash loft party for Devo, July 22, 1977. (photo by Jenny Lens) If you want to jump right to good stuff, here’s a sample from the interview with original Germs manager Nicole Panter: What was the role of women in the early punk scene? As effortlessly equal as that of men….the strongest, smartest, most independent women I’ve ever known were punk girls, but it wasn’t ever stated or harped on, it was just a fact of life. Maybe that’s why everyone felt like such misfits in the non-punk world… The really inspiring thing here is that, despite the obvious “good old days” vibe of the site, it’s not coming from washed-up old dudes who want want you to know how cool they once were. These women, for the most part, still have their ideals intact, and are still creative and active in whatever they’ve moved onto. For them, punk was more of a foundation than a springboard. Reviews are here!! Steve Soto 1963-2018 Looking back at Tim Yohannan, 20 years later We have a new website! Fight No More: The Music and Death of J.J. Jacobson of Offenders RIP, Fred “Freak” Smith, Black Punk Pioneer Create to Destroy! Damaged City Fest Create to Destroy! Static Shock Weekend Create to Destroy! 4th Annual Richmond Punx Picnic	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3490
__label__wiki	0.799346	0.799346	JP Morgan: Kindle Fire is 'noise,' won't compete with Apple's iPad 2 JP Morgan: Kindle Fire is 'noise,' won't compete with Apple's iPad 2 - Amazon's new Kindle Fire won't compete with Apple's iPad 2, and isn't even a lock to become the second-most-popular tablet on the market, one Wall Street analyst believes. Can Any Tablet Top the iPad? Can Any Tablet Top the iPad? - We take an almost unbiased look at why every iPad competitor is a complete joke. How often have you seen someone using an iPad competitor? If your experience is anything like ours, probably not very often. That’s because a non-iPad tablet is something of a unicorn in the wild, except it’s far less magical. We decided to take a look at what went wrong for these iPad challengers and determine whether they have a shot in the future. What does Kindle Fire compete with, anyhow? Everything--and nothing What does Kindle Fire compete with, anyhow? 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It makes a good headline, but the reality is, probably not. Here's what Chris Breen expects to see. (Via Macworld.) Ten things we don't know about the Kindle Fire Ten things we don't know about the Kindle Fire - For every interesting thing we learned about the Kindle Fire today, there were one or more important questions not answered. Amazon estimated to lose $50 per Kindle Fire sold Amazon estimated to lose $50 per Kindle Fire sold - A note by Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, says Amazon's Kindle Fire is "not a true competitor, but more competitive than expected," while noting the Internet retailer "is likely losing about $50" on each unit it sells. Kindle Fire details reveal no iPad competitor Kindle Fire details reveal no iPad competitor - Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now a known quantity, thanks to details supplied to Bloomberg ahead of the official announcement at Amazon’s press event Wednesday. The Android-based tablet has an attractive price, but to get there, it cut so many corners it probably won’t make much of a dent in Apple’s market lead. The Kindle Fire has a seven-inch display, no camera and no microphone. It can only connect to Wi-Fi network; there’s no built-in 3G. It also only carries 8 GB of onboard memory, with no options for memory expansion, in order to help Amazon reach the Fire’s low price point of $199. By comparison, the Barnes & Noble Nook Color costs $249, and the iPad begins at $499. 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While the iPod lineup is far from dead, Apple clearly sees the writing on the wall: More people are buying iPhones (and, to a lesser degree, iPads) which will has started to mean fewer people need an iPod. Sure, there will always be those among us who long for the sheer quantity of songs available on an iPod classic, or who enjoys the simple convenience and disposable nature of an iPod shuffle or iPod nano -- not to mention those who have no need for a cellular connection and call the iPod touch their friend. Given that Apple isn’t likely to completely put a stake in the heart of its iPod line on the eve of its 10th anniversary, here are some thoughts on how the company might excite us about the iPod all over again. Amazon unveils $199 Kindle Fire tablet, $99 Kindle Touch Amazon unveils $199 Kindle Fire tablet, $99 Kindle Touch - Amazon on Wednesday unveiled its new 7-inch Android tablet, the Kindle Fire. 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Amazon: We're testing a redesign Amazon: We're testing a redesign - Perhaps coinciding with its alleged launch of a new "iPad rival," Amazon says it is testing a redesign that will make the site (even) easier to use. TechCrunch reveals the Amazon Kindle Tablet TechCrunch reveals the Amazon Kindle Tablet - TechCrunch's MG Siegler got an exclusive look at Amazon's Kindle Tablet, and by the sounds of things, the iPad may finally have its first credible competitor. The first thing Amazon got right was the price: US$250 for a device with a 7-inch, full-color display. Other manufacturers have priced their tablets similarly to the iPad, and consumer response has been... "lukewarm" is about as charitably as I can describe it. Review: Eight iPhone 4 battery cases Review: Eight iPhone 4 battery cases - Few of us would complain about squeezing a few more hours between iPhone recharges. We looked at several external battery cases for the iPhone 4. HP's 12c calculator turns 30 with anniversary edition HP's 12c calculator turns 30 with anniversary edition - HP's 12c Financial Calculator is celebrating its 30th birthday. To commemorate this milestone, the company has released a special edition version of the calculator. Skype intros FreeTalk Connect-Me home phone adapter Skype intros FreeTalk Connect-Me home phone adapter - Skype customers in the U.S. and Canada can now buy a home phone adapter called the FreeTalk Connect-Me that gives them the option of using their existing landline or just a traditional phone handset as a Skype phone, either using an unlimited plan or Skype credit to call cell phones, landlines, other Skype users and even make international calls. Once the device is initially set up (using a computer), the computer connection is no longer needed and only a broadband modem is needed ... Apple may ship 20 million iPad 2s in summer alone Apple may ship 20 million iPad 2s in summer alone - A reference to sources in a discussion of Foxconn profits has raised the prospects of Apple shipping many more iPads by the end of the summer than it did during the spring. Expectations have Apple shipping 20 million of the tablets, as much as 60 percent more than it did in the spring. The tally Digitimes had heard would automatically make the iPad the "major growth driver' for Apple in the second half of 2011 ... Amazon's Kindle Tablet: An Android fork with disruptive pricing Amazon's Kindle Tablet: An Android fork with disruptive pricing - The online retail giant's Kindle Tablet reportedly features a souped up, but dated version of Android. 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__label__cc	0.62597	0.37403	[Michlib-l] USCIS-IMLS Present Webinar for Public Librarians on Human Trafficking Prevention Reish, Karren (MDE) ReishK at michigan.gov Fri Feb 6 14:27:23 EST 2015 Previous message: [Michlib-l] Zentangle Program Next message: [Michlib-l] Allied Media Conference // Radical Librarianship FYI for those libraries that may be interested in this issue. Karren Reish Library Grants Coordinator Library of Michigan reishk at michigan.gov<mailto:reishk at michigan.gov> From: IMLS News [mailto:imlsnews at imls.gov] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 1:16 PM Subject: USCIS-IMLS Present Webinar for Public Librarians on Human Trafficking Prevention To view this message in a browser, please click here<http://www.idevmail.net/message.aspx?d=73&m=2519&e=reishk@michigan.gov&r=1511084>. [IMLS logo] IMLS Press Contact Giuliana Bullard, gbullard at imls.gov<mailto:gbullard at imls.gov> USCIS-IMLS Present Webinar for Public Librarians on Human Trafficking Prevention Washington, DC—As part of their partnership to provide resources for public librarians, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will present a webinar on Human Trafficking Prevention and the Blue Campaign<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=1&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519> on February 23. Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Blue Campaign and USCIS will discuss the resources and tools available to help combat human trafficking that librarians can help distribute in their communities. Human trafficking occurs when criminals and criminal organizations lure victims into involuntary labor and commercial sex trafficking and then exploit them for pure profit. Even in its simplest form, human trafficking is a brutal crime that causes immense suffering and can end in the victim’s death. The Blue Campaign<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=2&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519> is a Department of Homeland Security unified anti-human trafficking campaign in which various components coordinate and unite efforts to raise awareness and combat human trafficking while providing victim assistance. Every year, DHS initiates hundreds of investigations, makes arrests, and uses the T and U visas to protect victims. USCIS officers work to adjudicate these visa cases that enable victims to stay in the United States. USCIS also educates the public and state and local law enforcement on how to identify victims of human trafficking and report the crime. Under the National Museum of African American History and Culture Act of 2003, IMLS is authorized to engage in cooperative efforts to promote the understanding of modern day practices of slavery throughout the world. Visit the Blue Campaign website<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=3&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519> to learn about how to identify victims<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=4&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>, how you can join the fight<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=5&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>, and how USCIS and DHS are already combatting this terrible crime<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=6&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>. Webinar Title: Human Trafficking Prevention 101: An Overview for Public Libraries Date and Time: Monday, February 23, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT To register for this session, please follow the steps below: * Visit our registration page<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=7&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519> to confirm your participation * Enter your email address and select “Submit” * Select “Subscriber Preferences” * Select the“Event Registration” tab * Be sure to provide your full name and organization * Complete the questions and select “Submit” You must register by Friday, February 20, 2015. Once your registration is processed, you will receive a confirmation email with additional details. If you have any questions about the registration process, or if you do not receive a confirmation email within two business days, please email USCIS at Public.Engagement at uscis.dhs.gov<mailto:Public.Engagement at uscis.dhs.gov>. This series was developed as part of a partnership between IMLS and USCIS to ensure that librarians have the necessary tools and knowledge to refer their patrons to accurate and reliable sources of information on immigration-related topics. To find out more about this partnership and the webinar series, visit the Serving New Americans page<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=8&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519> of the IMLS website. Note to Media: This engagement is not for press purposes. Please contact the USCIS Press Office at (202) 272-1200 for any media inquiries. If you have questions regarding the engagement or other stakeholder matters, please email us at Public.Engagement at uscis.dhs.gov<mailto:Public.Engagement at uscis.dhs.gov>. For more information about USCIS and their programs, visit www.uscis.gov<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=9&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519> or follow them on Twitter (@uscis<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=10&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>), YouTube (/uscis<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=11&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>), Facebook (/uscis<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=12&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>), and the USCIS blog The Beacon<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=13&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>. About the Institute of Museum and Library Services The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=14&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519> and 35,000 museums<http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=15&d=73&mid=363882&m=2519>. Our mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. 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__label__wiki	0.522936	0.522936	Malcolm Down Publishing is a traditional, independent publisher and home of the children’s imprint Sarah Grace Publishing. Our authors include Andrew Roberts, Mark Stibbe, Wendy Mann and Dr Elizabeth McNaught. COPYRIGHT © 2018 / MALCOLM DOWN PUBLISHING / DESIGNED BY: EKDESIGNS Authors About Us Contact Author Coaching Retailers Blog Titles Submissions Sarah Grace Publishing Authors About Us Contact Publishing Services Author Coaching Retailers Catalogue Home Titles Sarah Grace Publishing Sarah Grace, as a trained counsellor/psychotherapist, can also provide a coaching service to authors in order to help them reach their full potential as a writer. The process of writing can often be long, complex and at times a lonely and isolating experience. Sarah is able to work alongside authors to support them in the writing process with the goal of producing a more complete book, as well as assisting with further self-awareness. On a practical level, this could range from helping authors early on in their writing journey as well as working through the dreaded ‘writers block’ to addressing more complex personal issues which may be affecting their writing journey. Sarah is experienced in helping authors create better books by enabling them to see objectively what their written words are actually communicating about them as an author. During this process, the writer will develop a greater sense of self-awareness, which will enable them to communicate more effectively. Most writers begin with the notion that writing is fun but often the process of writing creates frustration and can often lead to work being left incomplete. Sarah aims to help put the fun back into writing by assisting authors to tap into more of their mental capacity in order to release creativity. This can often then lead to further emotional, spiritual, intellectual and intuitive capacity being released. Along with other therapies, such as art therapy, writing as therapy can be of immense value in itself, regardless of whether the end goal is a published book. Visit Sarah's Counselling Profile	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3495
__label__cc	0.614822	0.385178	Home » Personal Health » How safe are pacemakers and implants? The most important questions and answers 11/28/2018 Comments Off on How safe are pacemakers and implants? The most important questions and answers Personal Health How safe are pacemakers and implants? The most important questions and answers According to the “Panama Papers” are now the “Implant Files” for attention. A world-wide research network has seen the authorisation, control and fault management of medical products. The result suggests high waves, even in politics. The most important questions and answers on the topic. What has researched the network? In the “Implant-Files” were involved in 60 media, including in Germany, NDR, WDR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. They have researched according to their own figures of one and a half years, in 36 countries, and requests filed, thousands of files are spotted, and with hundreds of patients and experts spoke. What have you found out? Report: more and more injuries and deaths due to implants The core allegation: In contrast to medicinal products, which are tested prior to admission carefully, would not medicine controlled products by the government and issues are not systematically recorded. The System was “manipulated, flawed and responsible for countless Deaths,” writes the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. How to fix it? In the broadest sense to medical products – that is, everything which the Sick are treated without drugs, from the wheelchair to the pavement. In a narrower sense, it comes to implants – that is, products that are permanently inserted into the body, such as cardiac catheterization, knee joints, or insulin pumps. The medical products are divided into four risk groups – low risk (Thermometer) up to very high risk (breast implant). How is the test procedure? A medical device must go through according to the Federal Institute for drugs and medical devices (BfArM) no official authorisation procedure. The manufacturer only has to prove “that its product is safe and the technical and medical services are also fulfilled by him”. Part of the evaluation process was “always a clinical evaluation, in certain cases, a clinical examination”. Who checks? The BfArM is called “notified Bodies” – according to the research network, there are approximately 50 private providers such as TÜV or Dekra. The given, the “CE”mark was “use a seal of quality for the Patient, but rather a Marketing label”, is quoted as a health scientist. Many of the applications will be examined in the research, also only on paper. And if there are problems later? According to the BfArM, manufacturers, operators and users “events to report” to the competent authorities. “It’s an obligation and if this obligation is not complied with, then that is a failure of the user,” said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of health in Berlin. How often do complications occur? In Germany had been reported in the past year, about 14,000 cases in which there have been injuries, deaths, or other problems that could stand in connection with medical products, is in the “Implant-Files”. The BfArM reported 2016 of 12,000 cases. What does the manufacturer say? “The regulatory System for medical products is thus the same as high, partly higher requirements than medicinal products,” according to the German medical technology Association. The largest German manufacturer Medtronic writes on his website: “Our products are also subject to gifts extensive Tests, reviews and free or of the authorisation by the respective Supervisory authorities.” What is the reaction of the policy? “The Federal Ministry of health takes these reports very seriously,” it said on Monday at the Federal press conference. The Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) said the “Rheinische Post” (Tuesday), the BfArM have to change in the event of problems with a medical product, not a total overview of comparable cases and also no Chance to warn patients specifically: “we want to.” What exactly should be done? According to the health Ministry of a industry will have to be reported to established independent body, in which all of the installed implants. In addition, the Federal government has been planning this for some time, a national Register, the quality of breast implants, heart valves, and to detect a pacemaker. The Register should show, how long implants to hold – on the basis of data to implant ions, and a result of surgery for corrections, hospitals, health insurance companies and manufacturers is mandatory. To run it, the German Institute for Medical documentation and Information (Dimdi). From may 2020, a new European medical devices needs to be regulation implemented. 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__label__cc	0.57416	0.42584	Live Event Management Proprietary Conferences Reviews in Urology Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine Reviews in Gastroenterological Disorders Reviews in Neurological Diseases Reviews in Obstetrics & Gynecology Reviews in Urology » Volume 19, Number 4 - 2017 Active Surveillance Use Among a Low-risk Prostate Cancer Population in a Large US Payer System: 17-Gene Genomic Prostate Score Versus Other Risk Stratification Methods Original Research Many men with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa) receive definitive treatment despite recommendations that have been informed by two large, randomized trials encouraging active surveillance (AS). We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Optum™ Research Database (Eden Prairie, MN) of electronic health records and administrative claims data to assess AS use for patients tested with a 17-gene Genomic Prostate Score™ (GPS; Genomic Health, Redwood City, CA) assay and/or prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). De-identified records were extracted on health plan members enrolled from June 2013 to June 2016 who had ≥1 record of PCa (n = 291,876). Inclusion criteria included age ≥18 years, new diagnosis, American Urological Association low-risk PCa (stage T1-T2a, prostate-specific antigen ≥10 ng/mL, Gleason score = 6), and clinical activity for at least 12 months before and after diagnosis. Data included baseline characteristics, use of GPS testing and/or MRI, and definitive procedures. GPS or MRI testing was performed in 17% of men (GPS, n = 375, 4%; MRI, n = 1174, 13%). AS use varied from a low of 43% for men who only underwent MRI to 89% for GPS-tested men who did not undergo MRI (P<001). At 6-month follow-up, AS use was 31.0% higher (95% CI, 27.6%-34.5%; P<001) for men receiving the GPS test only versus men who did not undergo GPS testing or MRI; the difference was 30.5% at 12-month follow-up. In a large US payer system, the GPS assay was associated with significantly higher AS use at 6 and 12 months compared with men who had MRI only, or no GPS or MRI testing. [Rev Urol. 2017;19(4):203–212 doi: 10.3909/riu0786] © 2018 MedReviews®, LLC Steven Canfield, Michael J. Kemeter, John Hornberger, Phillip G. Febbo A Head-to-Head Comparative Phase II Study of Standard Urine Culture and Sensitivity Versus DNA Next-generation Sequencing Testing for Urinary Tract Infections Original Research Many studies have discussed clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of cystitis and pyelonephritis. Treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be based on empiric antibiotic therapy. For complicated or recurrent UTIs, therapy can be based on laboratory-controlled culture and sensitivity (C&S) reports. The diagnosis of UTI by clinical criteria alone has an error rate of up to 33%. In addition, positive laboratory culture results do not always indicate a diagnosis of UTI. Comparison of urine in a conventional culture model versus DNA next-generation sequencing (NGS) to accurately identify and provide information on resistance factors (mobile genetic elements) is warranted. Our study was a head-to-head comparative phase II study of standard urine C&S versus DNA NGS testing for the diagnosis and treatment efficacy in patients with symptoms of acute cystitis based on short-term outcomes. [Rev Urol. 2017;19(4):213–220 doi: 10.3909/riu0780] © 2018 MedReviews®, LLC Michael McDonald, Darian Kameh, Mark E. Johnson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen, David Albala, Vladimir Mouraviev The Use of Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer Screening and Treatment Treatment Update Prostate cancer screening and diagnosis has been guided by prostate-specific antigen levels for the past 25 years, but with the most recent US Preventive Services Task Force screening recommendations, as well as concerns regarding overdiagnosis and overtreatment, a new wave of prostate cancer biomarkers has recently emerged. These assays allow the testing of urine, serum, or prostate tissue for molecular signs of prostate cancer, and provide information regarding both diagnosis and prognosis. In this review, we discuss 12 commercially available biomarker assays approved for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. The results of clinical validation studies and clinical decision-making studies are presented. This information is designed to assist urologists in making clinical decisions with respect to ordering and interpreting these tests for different patients. There are numerous fluid and biopsy-based genomic tests available for prostate cancer patients that provide the physician and patient with different information about risk of future disease and treatment outcomes. It is important that providers be able to recommend the appropriate test for each individual patient; this decision is based on tissue availability and prognostic information desired. Future studies will continue to emphasize the important role of genomic biomarkers in making individualized treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients. [Rev Urol. 2017;19(4):221–234 doi: 10.3909/riu0772] © 2018 MedReviews®, LLC Ashley V. Alford, Joseph M. Brito III, Kamlesh K. Yadav, Shalini S. Yadav, Ashutosh K. Tewari, Joseph Renzulli II LUGPA News Are You Developing an ABC: Advanced Bladder Cancer Clinic? [Rev Urol. 2017;19(4):246–247 doi: 10.3909/riu0777] © 2018 MedReviews®, LLC Neal D. Shore Successfully Integrating Radium Ra 223 Dichloride Injection Into a Urology Practice Gregory C. McMahon, Gordon A. Brown Prostate Cancer Academy Prostate Cancer Academy 2017 Summaries Dmitry Volkin NYU Case of the Month Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction in Adults October 2017 James F Borin Diagnosis and Treatment of Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder November 2017 Seth D Cohen Irreversible Electroporation for Prostate Cancer as Salvage Treatment Following Prior Radiation and Cryotherapy Salvage treatment options after localized primary treatment failure of prostate cancer are limited and associated with risk for serious complications. We report on the management details of a 57-year-old African American man treated with partial-gland ablation using irreversible electroporation following local recurrence after brachytherapy and prior salvage cryoablation. Therapeutic and functional outcomes were assessed by conventional means, including serum prostate-specific antigen values and prostate biopsy results. [Rev Urol. 2017;19(4):268–272 doi: 10.3909/riu0755] © 2018 MedReviews®, LLC Katie S. Murray, Oguz Akin, Jonathan A. Coleman Cycling Trauma as a Cause of Arterial Priapism in Children and Teenagers Bicycle riding has multiple beneficial cardiovascular effects; however, it is a well-documented source of significant urologic injuries. Priapism is a rare condition in children, and occurs primarily because of congenital hematologic diseases or adverse drug reactions. A pediatric clinical case and literature review of a high-flow priapism secondary to cycling trauma is described here to highlight their etiopathologic correlation. Bicycle riding trauma is a rare but possible cause of high-flow priapism in children, and a high index of suspicion should ensure appropriate management. [Rev Urol. 2017;19(4):273–277 doi: 10.3909/riu0768] © 2018 MedReviews®, LLC Aldo Franco De Rose, Irene Paraboschi, Guglielmo Mantica, Alexander Szpytko, Hilgard Ackermann, Giovanni De Caro, Carlo Terrone, Girolamo Mattioli Copyright © 2017 MedReviews, LLC. All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3500
__label__wiki	0.513088	0.513088	You are at:Home»News»Local lawmakers push reforms to homeowners insurance Staff photo by Allison Potter. North Carolina insurance commissioner Wayne Goodwin speaks at the Wilmington Regional Association of Realtors headquarters Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Local lawmakers push reforms to homeowners insurance By Tricia Vance on April 28, 2015 - 1:55 pm News Homeowners who are paying higher premiums despite the insurance commissioner’s rejection of a rate increase last year would get some relief under an assortment of bills under consideration in the N.C. General Assembly. Among the sponsors are coastal lawmakers whose constituents have borne the brunt of homeowners insurance rate increases over the past several years. With the crossover deadline looming Thursday, a number of the bills were scheduled for hearings to ensure that they pass at least one legislative chamber this week. The most straightforward proposal, sponsored by Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, would abolish insurers’ ability to charge higher premiums than approved by the state. Lee, a freshman senator, proposes to eliminate the “consent-to-rate” provision for owners of residential property with up to four units. Last year, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin rejected the insurance industry’s request for an average 25.6 percent rate request. Coastal homeowners could have seen a 35 percent increase. Instead, Goodwin ordered an overall decrease of 0.3 percent for single-family homeowners and increases of 8.1 percent and 11.3 percent for condominium owners and renters, respectively. These are averages; some parts of the state saw increases and others, including the coast, saw decreases. Nevertheless, many homeowners were notified that their rates will increase anyway. Under the state’s consent-to-rate law, insurers may demand up to a 250 rate increase from individual homeowners as a condition of continuing the policy. If the homeowner refuses to sign, the policy may be canceled. Lee said his proposal, Senate Bill 683, is expected to be heard by the insurance committee this week. In addition to that bill, Lee is a primary sponsor of a proposed legislative study of North Carolina’s rate-setting process, with an eye on potential changes across the board. This is the only state in with the Rate Bureau evaluates various insurers’ requests and recommends an overall rate increase. The bureau represents the insurance industry but makes recommendations based on data supplied by insurers. The insurance commissioner believes the consent-to-rate law has been abused, but Goodwin’s office says he worries that Lee’s bill to abolish it may be too broad. Insurance companies need reasonable latitude to set higher rates in special circumstances, the commissioner said in a written statement. Other lawmakers seek a broader reform, among them an expansion of the insurance commissioner’s rate-setting authority and a requirement that insurers provide more detailed information about actual costs and claims to support requests for higher rates. Rep. Chris Millis, R-Pender, is among the primary sponsors of one of those bills, House Bill 182. A hearing on that bill, which has the support of Goodwin and interest groups representing the real estate industry and homeowners, was scheduled in the insurance committee Tuesday. HB 182 has a companion bill in the Senate. A Wilmington-based group representing business and homeowners supports the overall efforts of Lee and Millis, among others, to reform insurance rates. The organization has been particularly outspoken about the disparity of rates statewide and the consent-to-rate provision. The ability to set rates higher than what the insurance commissioner has approved is “absolutely undercutting the rate-making process,” said Tyler Newman, senior governmental affairs director for the Business Alliance for a Sound Economy. Insurers counter that their requests have been reasonable. Lobbyist John McMillan, who represents the Insurance Federation of North Carolina as well as major insurer Allstate, outlined their arguments in an email. He cited studies that say North Carolina has the lowest wind and hail rates of all states that have an insurance pool. Most coastal homeowners are now part of that pool, known informally as the Beach Plan. When conceived, the Beach Plan was a market of last resort for property owners living in the areas of highest risk, but that is no longer the case. The reason, says McMillan, is that homeowners premiums have been kept too low. Moreover, because the insurance commissioner has rejected or cut rate-increase requests, insurers must rely more heavily on the consent-to-rate clause, he said. Coastal residents typically pay more for wind and hail coverage than their inland counterparts because of the risk of hurricanes. But they also pay higher rates, on average, even for basic coverage such as fire and theft. BASE has continually argued that there is no good evidence that coastal residents are more susceptible to this type of loss than inland homeowners, and backs efforts to make consumer-oriented changes. “We are very supportive of Representative Millis and Senator Lee on their efforts on insurance,” Newman said. Although there have been previous attempts to reform homeowners insurance rates, he believes the legislation may have momentum this year because legislators in powerful positions — including House Speaker Tim Moore — have constituents whose rates went up. It is no longer just a coastal issue, Newman said. email Tricia Vance at tricia@luminanews.com. Last print edition? Interest mounts in preserving Wrightsville Beach’s local news source, but future remains uncertain	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3508
__label__wiki	0.872777	0.872777	England - Luna Kafé - Full Moon 28 - 01/31/99 Beatnik Filmstars Boss Disque The prodigal (?) sons of Bristol, England rocks on. I guess they're more beatniks than film-stars, with their scrambling alternative and frantic pop. After a line of recordings they still seem to be pleased with being on American labels, and yet again, like with In Hospitalable (1997), it's the super-dooper Merge label that deliver the disc, Boss Disque. Since last time they've become one less, which means they're down to a quartet, after the departure of Tim Rippington. Andrew Jarrett and John Austin have written all the songs, accompanied by Tom Adams and Jeremy "Jez" Francis. About who plays what, I know nothing, since there aren't much credits on the sleeve. If they're sparse on information, they're quite more big spending on the creative and quantitative side. Boss Disque presents 22 (!) tracks (even more than last album), but a lot of the songs are really short and concise, which means less than 3, and even less than 2 minutes. The record starts with the laid-back song Nature of Things (Sick Leave Scamps), which is Beatnik Filmstars at the most relaxed. Followed by Hairstyle of A Smug Bastard, which is more like Pavement, or Number One Cup, some years ago. In the next moment they speed up and rock on with the real cool third song Less Than One in Ten. Cocky and up-tempo like Superchunk ca. 1990. The quiet Our Eyes Have Rays has got some weird echoed and distorted vocals, and is a fine example of the strange brew Beatnik Filmstars serve us. They can be bouncy and noisy, they creep and crawl and squeal and squawk, for then to be really nice and kind in a off-key way. Lots of variations, improvisations and musical U-turns. They're incredible unpredictable, with artistic and anarchistic rhythms thrown at you from different angles. Beatnik Filmstars sound more like American Alternative than British Indie, but it's obvious they must've picked up some inspiration from late 70's British post-punk, like The Fall and Wire. Maybe they should've slimmed the album a bit, but then again, you'll find some new details every time you put on the record. Check out songs like Let's Get Entertainment, Try Some To See, Romance's Final Image, I Can Tame Lions, or His Part In the Death of a Lottery Winner, and you'll find a lot of catchy songs with cocky and funny lyrics. Yes, they're beatniks for sure. You can send Beatmail and ask for details to: Box 788, Bristol, BS99 1SF England. Nils & Prepple: Brent & Resirkulert (LP+CD+7 Box 2011 LTD 70) Guruh Gipsy: S/T (LP 1977/Re 2006) Handgjort: S/T (2xLP 1970/Re 2010)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3509
__label__cc	0.685548	0.314452	You are here: Home / 2016 / March / Archives for 8th Archives for 8 March 2016 Small-scale local grids have potential Small-scale local grids have potential: “The programmes that are currently in place are driven by various municipalities such as City of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. They make provision for residential customers to connect roof-top PV systems to their distribution grids ... Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality - Read more on Independent Online Luxuries are a thing of the past: Mapoma receives a pension from the government, her son works for the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and her daughter-in-law works at a factory. Despite three incomes, the family still … Small-scale local grids have potentialRead More Review: How to Be a Woman – Featured Blog Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Review: How to Be a Woman by Keep Passing the Open Windows: How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t often pick up non-fiction-y books but I finally got around to picking up this one after wanting to read it for years. This is typically my MO. For shame. Caitlin Moran is hysterical, witty, and wise. I reckon that if you’re someone who’s all confused about feminism and what it means this might be a good book to start with. Not because it’s all preachy or anything, … Review: How to Be a Woman – Featured BlogRead More Blasting between Port Alfred and Fish River today The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) would like to notify motorists of travel delays on the R72 between Port Alfred and Fish River due to blasting at Shaw Park quarry. The blasting will take place on Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 3pm. The road will be closed and motorists can expect a delay of 30 minutes. The Shaw Park quarry is situated next to the R72, near the intersection of the R72 with the gravel road leading to Shaw Park. “Motorists are requested to plan their trips accordingly and be cautious when making use of the road, and comply with the directions of safety … Blasting between Port Alfred and Fish River todayRead More Nominations open for the 2016 ImpACT Awards for young artists The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is inviting nominations for the eagerly awaited 2016 ImpACT Awards, which are held annually in recognition and celebration of excellence within the arts, culture and creative sectors in South Africa. Nominations for the 2016 ImpACT Awards for Young Professionals, sponsored by The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) and the Distell Foundation in partnership with Sun International, are now open. This year there will be a total of five ImpACT Awards to honour young professional artists. Since their inception in 1998, the ACT Awards have celebrated many … Nominations open for the 2016 ImpACT Awards for young artistsRead More The Owl House Nieu Bethesda – Budget Accommodation Port Elizabeth http://www.belvederecottages.co.za A MyPE.co.za 'Accommodation Port Elizabeth' selected video for you: via YouTube Capture Click HERE to find more 'Accommodation Port Elizabeth' videos. These videos are automatically selected based on youTube keywords - Click Here to report any 'offensive' videos. CLICK HERE to submit your favourite Port Elizabeth video. Visit the MyPE YouTube Channel \| More PE Videos. … The Owl House Nieu Bethesda – Budget Accommodation Port Elizabeth http://www.belvederecottages.co.zaRead More Notice of the Friends of the Art Museum Association AGM The Friends of the Art Museum invites you to their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 18:00 at the Art Museum. Thereafter a Music and Art Trivia will take place and an introduction by local comic legend Roland Gaspar. Date: Wednesday, 23 March 2016 Time: AGM: 18:00 and Art and Music Trivia: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: Art Museum, 1 Park Drive Central Port Elizabeth. Cost: AGM is free. The Music and Art Trivia is R180 per table (maximum of 6 people per table). If you participate in the Music and Art Trivia, you will receive a free bottle of red or white wine … Notice of the Friends of the Art Museum Association AGMRead More Police refuse R100 000 bribe and seize R2 million in Mandrax The battle to make this country a safer place takes all of us however it starts with the men and women in blue. Hence, members of the Port Elizabeth Flying Squad successfully apprehended a 47- year- old KwaZakhele man with a large quantity of mandrax tablets. It is alleged that on Monday evening, 7 March 2016 at about 21:30, Constables Severiano Blundin and Siphulele Msindwana followed a green Ford Figo in Zwide. The members eventually stopped the vehicle and upon searching the vehicle, they found 40 packets containing mandrax tablets. The total of mandrax tablets seized was 41 000 with … Police refuse R100 000 bribe and seize R2 million in MandraxRead More Southern Kings team to play Chiefs announced The Southern Kings play against the Chiefs on Saturday 12 March 2016. Kick off is at 15h05 (SA Time) in Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. The team to play against the Chiefs was announced by Coach Deon Davids today. Flyhalf Louis Fouche, having recovered from his injury, will assume the kicking role. "He has a cool head and is a guy that give us a bit of direction," said Davids. Referring to the bye that the Kings had this past week Davids said that the break was good for the team who took time to catch up and work in different areas. The Kings debut game against the … Southern Kings team to play Chiefs announcedRead More The state of NMB is a Metro desperate for change The following speech was delivered by DA Mayoral Candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, during his State of the Metro Address in Port Elizabeth on the 8th March 2016. The DA campaign for Nelson Mandela Bay has been in top gear since, as Mayoral Candidate, I began working with every community to assess the true state of our Metro over a year ago. Since we officially launched the election campaign in September, I have been with every community in our Metro. From Seaview, to Motherwell, and from KwaNobuhle to Humewood, I have experienced the desperation for change among all … The state of NMB is a Metro desperate for changeRead More National treasury takes back R530-million of EC Education Infrastructure Grant Dear MyPE It is a tragedy in a province with so much need that the Department of Education has had R530-million of its Education Infrastructure Grant taken back by national treasury due to slow expenditure. This amounts to 33% of the total grant of R1.594-billion. This was gazetted yesterday. (subs: Monday, 7 March 2016) In a fair society that values the freedom that education can bring, those responsible would be brought to book. Fairness demands the premier must make an example of these officials. Heads must roll. There are over 600 hundred schools in this province that lack … National treasury takes back R530-million of EC Education Infrastructure GrantRead More Plan for homeownership success With 2016 predicted to be a financially tough year, those who have aspirations to get into the property market will need to take stock of their financial position and assess whether they are on the right track to achieve their goal, says Adrian Goslett, Regional Director and CEO of RE/MAX of Southern Africa. “The expected interest rate hikes, along with the rising price of electricity and food will place further pressure on potential homebuyers this year. Added to this, financial institutions have already started to increase the cost of lending and reduce their risk by increasing the … Plan for homeownership successRead More Mark Edge honoured Alard (left) and Alaric Basson (right) at the World Student Games with Madibaz high performance coach Mark Edge. Nedbank Madibaz swimming team trainer Mark Edge was named Coach of the Year at the recent Eastern Cape Sport and Recreation Awards in Port Elizabeth. The Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture hosted the awards in collaboration with the Eastern Cape Sports Confederation to honour locals for their contribution to sports development in the region. “I was extremely proud to receive this award,” said Edge, a former Springbok swimmer and lifesaver linked to NMMU’s … Mark Edge honouredRead More Easter – the next budget breaker The Easter break is always a welcome holiday at the beginning of the year, however with many people still cash strapped from the festive season debt, paying school fees as well as rising interest rates starting to take a hold, this mini break needs careful financial planning. "Most South Africans tend to forget that Easter needs to be budgeted for otherwise it can easily add to mounting debt," says Eunice Sibiya, Head of Consumer Education at FNB. In many cases there is travel involved. This year there is not only the long weekend, but a public holiday in the same week, making it a good … Easter – the next budget breakerRead More SA’s No.1 Christian Comedian In his first show outside South Africa - in Maseru, Lesotho - the Bishop of Humour proved that he is SA's No.1 Christian Comedian. Christian comedian TD Jokes, real name Thembinkosi Dike, first performed at a Christian hip hop gig held at an East London church in 2012. Born in King Williams Town he claims Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg as home. Dike's shows are 100% clean and for the whole family. In a bonus video, here is Diko being interviewed inside Port Elizabeth's Victorian Pearson Conservatory built in 1882 within the grounds of St. Georges Park. Eastern Capers … SA’s No.1 Christian ComedianRead More 11th Annual Addo Golf Day The SANPark's Honorary Rangers of Addo Elephant National Park are organising their 11th annual golf day on Thursday, 5 May 2016 at the Port Elizabeth Golf Club. With the continual threat of poaching within SANParks all money raised on the day will be used to fund counter-poaching activities within Addo Elephant National Park. Addo Elephant National Park, situated only 40 kilometres from Port Elizabeth conserves the "Big 7", including Southern Right Whales and Great White Shark. Now the third largest national park in South Africa, Addo Elephant National Park has expanded to conserve a wide … 11th Annual Addo Golf DayRead More Know your home team – the Southern Kings On Saturday 12 March at 15h05 the Southern Kings will play against the Gallagher Chiefs at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. The Kings team will be announced later today and the Chiefs team to-morrow afternoon. The slide show below is of every coach and player on the Southern Kings side accompanied by their theme song. The Southern Kings Theme Music is a song by the White Stripes called 7 Nation Army. The opening lyrics are; "I'm gonna fight 'em off, A seven nation army couldn't hold me back.." See the White Stripes playing the song with lyrics here: … Know your home team – the Southern KingsRead More Uitenhage Water Supply Interrupted The municipality informed Uitenhage consumers last night that due to a pipe burst their water supply had been disrupted saying; "It is with regret that we need to inform consumers in Uitenhage that one of the main water supply pipelines supplying the town burst this morning." The pipeline has been isolated but repair teams are finding it difficult to access the site due to its location, steep inclines and inclement weather. If all goes well, the pipe should be repaired this afternoon and the supply restored later in the evening. The recent warm weather resulted in an abnormally high … Uitenhage Water Supply InterruptedRead More Getting Mucky for the less fortunate The wackiest and most bizarre fun run in the Eastern Cape returns next month when The Edge Muck Run, sponsored by the Edge Financial Group, returns to Bushpig Adventures in Kragga Kamma on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April. This ultimate un-timed fun mud and obstacle 5km event fun run allows one to let out the inner child as participants only need to bring a sense of humor... and a change of clothes. With no special training or fitness required, the event attracts people from around the Province of all ages and widely varying skills and abilities from all walks of life. Teams of runners … Getting Mucky for the less fortunateRead More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3516
__label__wiki	0.808669	0.808669	Article/Opinions Ball in India’s court for trilateral corridor as China-Nepal railway agreed on: analysts Published Date : 22 June, 2018 9:00 pm By Zhao Yusha (Global Times, 22 June 2018) – The joint construction by China and Nepal of a cross-border railway connecting the Tibet Autonomous Region with Kathmandu is vital to Tibet’s development and stability. China and Nepal agreed to hasten the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation under the Belt and Road initiative to enhance connectivity, covering vital components as ports, roads, railways, aviation and communications within the overarching framework of the trans-Himalayan Multi-Dimensional Connectivity Network, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday. A new line will connect the Gyirong trading port in Xigaze, Tibet with Kathmandu, Vice-Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou said at a briefing on Thursday. “Such a project is of great significance to Tibet’s development and stability,” Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of International Relations, told the Global Times. Nepal attaches great importance to Tibet, because this region has frequent trade and energy cooperation with Nepal, said Zhao Gancheng, director of the Shanghai Institute for International Studies’ Center for Asia-Pacific Studies. For Chinese companies doing business with Nepal, trains are the most convenient means of transportation for sending goods from cities in Tibet to Kathmandu. The railway’s extension from Xigaze to Gyirong is highly anticipated. The Guangdong-Tibet-Central South Asia freight train was launched with linking China and Nepal in mind, a Lhasa official involved in the project, who preferred not to be named, told the Global Times in a previous report. However, Hu said that India may resist the railway’s construction as the country believes Nepal is heavily dependent on it. Indian media Hindustan Times warned its country in December 2017 that “the possibility of Kathmandu moving closer to Beijing will have negative consequences for India, which should be anticipated and promptly dealt with.” China has long proposed that India join in cooperating with China and Nepal and build a trilateral economic corridor, but India sees it as a threat and has been distancing itself, Hu said. Times of India also noted in June that Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli visited China during his brief tenure as prime minister in 2016, when he widened China-Nepal ties by signing a transit trade treaty with China, and sought the expansion of road links through Tibet in addition to the extension of China’s railway network to Nepal through the Himalayas. Experts said the ball is in India’s court when it comes to building such a corridor. “India should put aside its narrow mindset and participate in border cooperation,” according to Hu. Please comments here Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Hasina says – India’s new citizenship law unnecessary The Hindu (19 January 2020) – India’s new citizenship law that aims to give rights Spotlight: Xi’s Myanmar visit promotes building of community with shared future for humanity Xinhua (NAY PYI TAW, 19 January 2020 ) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit MCC important for Nepal’s development : Nepali Congress President Deuba RSS (19 January 2020) – Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has dubbed the much-talked Nepal and China sign MoU on Tamor Hydel power Nepal Foreign Affairs (KATHMANDU, 19 January 2020) – The Investment Board Nepal and the Chinese Nepal Foreign Affairs Nepalforeignaffairs.com is the first digital paper on foreign Affairs in Nepal. With an advancement of technology and digital journalism, we decided to come up with this paper in January 2015. Our aim is to disseminate information, news, articles to the people on different dimensions of foreign affairs. : Editor-in-chief : Gopal Khanal : Suyog marg Anamnagar kathmandu Nepal : +977-01-4241948 All rights reserved by nepal foreign affairs By appharu.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3522
__label__cc	0.687125	0.312875	Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 35 Republican Party 33 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 32 Oslo, Norway 15 St. Augustine, Fla. 15 Savannah, Ga. 12 Tallahassee, Fla. 12 Support correspondence 325 Segregation in transportation 160 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels 157 Communism 113 Poverty 110 Student movements 109 Afro-Americans--Intimidation of 102 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Honors 89 PV-ARC, Preston Valien Collection, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 32 MMFR-INP, Montgomery to Memphis Film Research Files, In Private Hands 20 DJG-GEU-S, David J. Garrow Collection, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 19 APWW, AP-Wide World Photos, New York, N.Y. 16 NAACPP-DLC, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Papers, 1909-1955, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 16 FORR-PSC-P, Fellowship of Reconciliation Records, 1943-1973 , Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa. 15 CMCR-AMC, Circuit Court, Montgomery County Records, Montgomery County Court House, Montgomery, Ala. 14 HG-GAMK, Hazel Gregory Papers, 1955-1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 13 FORR-PSC-P, Fellowship of Reconciliation Records, 1943-1973, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa. 11 DABCC-INP, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Collection, In Private Hands 10 HDBSD-INP, Harvey Dinnerstein and Burt Silverman Drawings, In Private Hands 10 RGP-INP, Robert Graetz Papers, In Private Hands 10 BRP-DLC, Bayard Rustin Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 8 HJP-GAMK, H.J. Palmer Papers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 8 NAACPP-DLC, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 8 ''Rev. King: Alabama Moses: Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott isYoung, Well Trained and Fearless.'' Silver, Theodore [Chicago, Ill.] The American Negro The American Negro, 1 (June 1956):13-16. Batten, Charles E. Carter, Eugene First Unitarian Church of Evanston, III Stockbridge, Ga. Chester, Pa. I Want to Be More Like Jesus Declaration of Independence and the Negro ''Dr. Martin Luther King to Address Cleveland Meet'' Miller, Robert H. National Negro Funeral Directors Association National Funeral Director and Embalmer, 9 (June 1956):4, 15 King, Martin Luther, Jr., [Montgomery Improvement Association] Montgomery City Bus Lines State of Alabama vs. M. L. King, Jr., et. al. ''Back from 'Bama'' 5/1956-6/1956 War Resisters League WRL News, 78 (May-June 1956):3 Thurman, Howard [War Resisters League] The Use of Nonviolence in Our Struggle JNS-PSC-P John Nevin Sayre Papers, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa. ''On Segregation: The Crisis in Race Relations, Two Nations--White and Black'' Huberman, Leo Sweezy, Paul M. Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press (June 1956). Cullen, Countee Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis) Lucy, Autherine McDonald, Wilson Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Truman, Harry S. McWilliams, Carey Abrams, Charles National Guardian Phylon The Two Nations Letter to Arthur R. James [Montgomery Improvement Association] James, Arthur R. [Central Baptist Church] Interdenominational Ministerial Union of Wilmington and Vicinity Willmington, Del. Tifton, Ga. Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz) Hobbs, J. H. Smith, M. S. Brooks, David H. Dupont, K. S. Williams, M. C. (Millard Curtis) Jones, Walter B. Fellowship Magazine Box 65, folders 24, 25, 26, 27 Peck, James Committee for Nonviolent Integration Mercury Match Corp. Zanesville, Ohio Montgomery Improvement Association--publicity Stephens, Fred E. Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church Letter to Milton Britton Britton, Milton Roxbury, Mass.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3524
__label__cc	0.655878	0.344122	Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny & raw account of love in the apocalypse. A 21st century Goodbye to Berlin, Crudo charts the turbulent summer of 2017 in real time, from the perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker. From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to marriage. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead and the planet's hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all? Buy in the UK: Waterstones, Foyles, LRB, Amazon. Signed copies here, audiobook here. Buy in the US: Norton, Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Audiobook (read by the author): Audible Read: essay in the Sunday Times, extract in Frieze, interviews in the Paris Review, Five Books, Evening Standard, Vogue and TLS Listen: LRB podcast with Ali Smith, Radio 4 Front Row, Radio 3 Free Thinking, Guardian podcast, Dance: Crudo playlist Coming soon: China, Italy, Germany, Spain, Romania, Russia Book of the Year: New Yorker, New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, Esquire, Bustle, Paste, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Guardian, The Spinoff ‘Crudo seduces from the first sentence. Laing as Acker is not literary device - it is literary detonation.’ Suzanne Moore, Observer ‘I don't think I'll ever forget the day I spent reading Crudo. I couldn't put it down, and then it overwhelmed me so much I had to put it down, and then I had to pick it up again. A beautiful, strange, intelligent novel.’ Sally Rooney, Guardian ‘Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.’ New Yorker ‘Audacious... It’s about the longing to escape our ossified selves — to become, if only for a moment or within the pages of a novel, someone wilder and more radically free. And in staging that longing so directly and so honestly, Olivia Laing makes Crudo her own.’ New York Times ‘Laing's book is truly exciting and, crucially, right on time.’ Johanna Fateman, 4 Columns ‘Extravagantly beautiful...exceptionally funny...Crudo traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber.’ NPR ‘Intelligent and provocative... an important novel that shouts to the vastness and the urgency of what it means to be alive, now.’ Spectator ‘A piece of electrifying writing that captures absolutely the daily headline-bombarded, social media-refracted atmosphere of modern life.’ Daily Mail ‘Crudo is too sane and searing to be written off as purely “experimental”...In there with the dexterousness and sagacity of the sentences are warmth and love, humour and kindness.’ Irish Times ‘Less a novel than a single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing.' Paris Review ‘Written at a war-mongering time of rising nationalisms, the vitality of Olivia Laing's questioning love letter to life and to art will blow you away.’ Deborah Levy ‘Readable, shockingly new, and surprisingly tender. I didn’t want it to stop.’ Chris Kraus ‘I read it in one go, lost all sense of time, floating on the rhythm, stung by the beats, I bet Kathy Acker would have loved it, I did.’ ‘The diffuse literary form of Crudo is ridiculously good. Olivia Laing has probably the most art & texture savvy sensitive ear of anyone writing today.’ Eileen Myles A Sunday Times top 10 bestseller * A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2018 Winner of the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3525
__label__wiki	0.860091	0.860091	You are here: Home / Movies / Reviews / Review – Immortals Review – Immortals November 11, 2011 By Merci P. Leave a Comment Immortals, directed by Tarsem Singh, is not for the faint of heart. Plenty of blood-spurting action and tough one on one combat make no excuses when it comes to graphic depictions. It could be addicting, to say the least, if you love the type of action sequences as seen in the film 300 or love graphic novel films in general. Similar in its cinematic look and feel as 300, Immortals takes it a step further in 3D CGI graphics with epic tidal waves, cities built within cliffs, monumental dwellings, and earthly views from the heavens. Based loosely on Greek mythology but with its own twists and turns, the story revolves around Theseus (Henry Cavill), a peasant bastard who becomes the hero and leads the army against King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his legion of scarred, mask-wearing, sadistic warriors. Zeus (Luke Evans) and the Olympians view the carnage from above until there is no other choice but to intercede. King Hyperion, intent on obtaining the Bow of Epirus with its magical powers, maims and kills at his whim, yet he tries to bring Theseus to his side. Phaedra the Virgin Oracle (Freida Pinto) reveals to Theseus his destiny and brings him back to the source of the conflict. A beautiful cast of gods, a goddess, creepy oracles, and hunky soldiers, Immortals lives up to its epic feel cinematically. Its action sequences are nonstop with thrilling suspense at every turn. This leaves little room for a dramatic storyline but its actors have done a decent job with their screen time. Henry Cavill plays his role stoically with heroic countenance, cementing his appeal in his future role as Superman. Luke Evans portrays Zeus as a strong yet compassionate father figure of the Olympians; even when he has to follow his own words you forgive him of his deed. Isabel Lucas as Athena, Kellan Lutz as Poseidon, and Daniel Sharman as Aries play the gold clad young beauties who dare to defy Zeus. Stephen Dorff as Stavros, Theseus’ player sidekick, gives the few moments of lightheartedness in an essentially dark film. Even Mickey Rourke becomes too involved in his role as a psycho sadistic king. Freida Pinto is sweetly sensuous as the Virgin Oracle and this role seems to be a turning point for her. What makes this film amazing is the stunningly beautiful vision of its landscape, the superbly choreographed battle sequences, and its gorgeous stars. It’s art in motion and available in 3D, which doesn’t necessarily make much of a difference except for a brief period in the ending scene when things are flying at you. It is a film that needs to be seen on the big screen and in high definition. For graphic lovers, that means highly defined blood squirts, flying body parts, and kickass fighting. For manflesh lovers, that means seeing in contoured definition Henry Cavill, Luke Evans, and the rest shirtless and muscle bound in action. If a sequel is made the gods should get more screen exposure. Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Immortals, movie review	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3527
__label__cc	0.600299	0.399701	Miscellaneous Heathen Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. HeathenPix HeathenTwitter Header Image Gallery Ha! SCO loses again. Posted on March 31, 2010 by chet Jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRX copyrights. This pretty much torpedos SCO’s claims over Linux. Finally. After 7 years. Posted in Geek Gastronomic Misadventure, Indeed. (Oh Bother) Do not miss Alien vs. Pooh. Posted in Weird Remember David Frum? He’s the principled conservative who, after watching the GOP decide to oppose HCR at all costs, posted a pretty accurate “I told you so” on his site a few days ago. Frum was, at that time, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. He’s since been dismissed. Cause and effect is left as an exercise to the reader. Welcome back, Sinead! I wondered where you’d gotten to! The LA Times, apparently: Sinead O’Connor: ‘There should be a full criminal investigation of the pope’. Remember the bhut jolokia? Here’s a video of someone eating one. I Spy Someone Dead Robert Culp? Dead. Posted in Film Kimota. Marvelman is coming. Unfortunately, it’s not yet clear if the Moore/Gaiman material will get reprinted. “Face it, honey. Our boy is weird.” Weird: The untold story of Al Yankovic, with Olivia Wilde, Mary Steenburgen, Patton Oswalt, and Aaron Paul as Al. I am, as they say, Not Making This Up. Things we could not possibly make up The bhut jolokia is, at over 1,000,000 Scoville units, the hottest pepper on the planet. (That’s about twice as hot as a habanero, or twenty times hotter than a cayenne; a jalapeno clocks in between 2,500 and 8,000.) So it just makes sense that India would turn it into a weapon, right? Incidentally, there’s a joint in San Antonio where you can get some on a hamburger. Overheard on Twitter: “BREAKING: Blackwater wins a contract to guard Biden’s F-Bomb making facility” (@lizzwinstead via @robotmess) Roger Corman’s Birthday Present to ME Dinoshark premiered on March 13. This is wrong. Apparently, Ann Coulter has been basically threatened with arrest unless she tones down her act for an appearance in Canada. Our Republic has a tendency towards noisey, content-free discourse nowadays, but (as Chomsky points out in the linked story) the US remains essentially unique in our nearly absolutist approach to free expression. This is a big deal, and it may be the most important freedom we have. I loathe Coulter and just about everything she stands for, but her views are protected speech, and she should be able to spew her vile invective without fear of arrest. Of course, I’d prefer it if there were no market for her idiocy, but I’m not about to support censorship because I don’t like her politics. Ernest Hemingway Thnks You’re An Asshole Dear Republicans: Here’s a great letter that may help you stop looking like an organization led by douchebags. Scalzi on Health Care His thoughts are pretty spot on, I think. A bit: Basically, I find what passes for Democratic legislative strategy absolutely appalling. Decades from now, when they make the ponderous Oscar-bait movie about the struggle for health care (with Jaden Smith as Obama and two-time Academy Award winner Snooki as Speaker Pelosi), it will make for exciting twists and turns in the plot, but out here in the real world, you shouldn’t have to let your organization get the crap beat out of it in order to motivate those in it to do the thing everybody knows it wants to get done. What the Democrats have managed to do with health care isn’t a Pyrrhic victory — I’ll get to that in a moment — but it surely was taking the long way around: over the river, through the woods, down into the landfill, into the abattoir, across a field of rabid, angry badgers. Next time, guys, make it easier on yourselves. That said, the Democrats were magnificently fortunate that, as incompetent as they are, they are ever-so-slightly less incompetent than the GOP, which by any realistic standard has been handed one of the largest legislative defeats in decades. The GOP was not simply opposed to health care, it was opposed to it in shrill, angry, apocalyptic terms, and saw it not as legislation, or in terms of whether or not health care reform was needed or desirable for Americans, but purely as political strategy, in terms of whether or not it could kneecap Obama and bring itself back into the majority. As such there was no real political or moral philosophy to the GOP’s action, it was all short-term tactics, i.e., take an idea a majority of people like (health care reform), lie about its particulars long enough and in a dramatic enough fashion to lower the popularity of the idea, and then bellow in angry tones about how the president and the Democrats are ignoring the will of the people. Then publicly align the party with the loudest and most ignorant segment of your supporters, who are in part loud because you’ve encouraged them to scream, and ignorant because you and your allies in the media have been feeding them bad information. Whip it all up until health care becomes the single most important issue for both political parties — an all-in, must win, absolutely cannot lose issue. Hey! Look! I found a principled conservative! David Frum has many interesting things to say about today’s vote. Go read it. The Tea Party Shows Its True Colors Apparently unable to marshall any actual arguments, tea partiers instead resorted to levels of name-calling that would be hilarious if they weren’t so sad. If you visit, you can see the empty place on the wall where the Vermeer used to hang On March 19, 1990, a rather daring and amazing art theft happened at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The take, now estimated at half a billion, has never been recovered, nor have the perpetrators ever been caught. The rather curious conditions of Gardner’s will, however, insist that the museum be left in the precise configuration she chose; there were to be no new acquisitions, and no rotation of the art. Consequently, not only have the missing pieces not been replaced with other art; said pieces were also not even insured because, well, the trustees wouldn’t have been able to hang them. Widely blogged, I got it at Merlin’s place. It’s from an interview with Choire Sicha and Paul Ford, on the occasion of the latter leaving Harper’s this week, originally published here: Choire: What is your favorite Alex Chilton video, song or tale? Paul: My favorite tale is from Our Band Could Be Your Life, when he shut down Gibby Haynes’s rampage through the Netherlands: Moments later a man entered the dressing room and asked if he could borrow a guitar. “BORROW A GUITAR??!!! WELL, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU???!!! [Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers] screamed, eyes flashing in delirious anticpation of forthcoming violence. But the man was totally unfazed. “I’m Alex Chilton,” the man answered calmly. Haynes was flabbergasted. After a long pause, he methodically opened the remaining guitar cases one by one and gestured at them as if to say, “Take anything you want.” Alex Chilton, 1950 – 2010 Icon Alex Chilton — how cool do you have to be to get the Replacements to name a song after you? — died today in New Orleans, they say of a heart attack. He was 59. I need some time to digest this, but Chilton’s music with Big Star and others defines the Heathen college experience as much as any artist other than U2 or the Velvet Underground. Mark Linkous I’ll miss. Barry Hannah, too. But Chilton, man. Damn. “Won’t you tell me what you’re thinking of / Would you be an outlaw for my love?” (It occurs to me that many may not know that Chilton also was a Box Top, and sang The Letter, a song that every single one of you know.) Somehow, I missed this On 19 January, Brit band The Heavy was on Letterman. They blew the roof off; normally staid Letterman was so excited that he told them to “go again! go again!”, and so they did. Don’t miss this. For SRS. It’s James Brown meets hip-hop meets R&B meets, I dunno, the growl and smash of Zeppelin. TOP NOTCH, as a friend of mine used to say. (Via MeFi, which also links the official video. MeFi also points out why you know this song already. Them kids is goin’ places.) Mmmm, meat So, Houston Foodie Heathen, don’t you think we should all go in on a sous vide machine? Dept. of Awesome Breakup Letters I don’t normally link to YTMND, but, well, You Make Me Touch Your Hands For Stupid Reasons. So there. Did you buy backup drives yet? Sign up for that Dropbox account? Why the hell NOT? Seriously, people. Do It. Smarter people than me (supra) have pretty much the same message. Today’s links are Mac-centric, but Dropbox works for everydamnbody, and there’s nothing Jobsian about having a bunch of drives in different places. Seriously, people, get on it. I was wrong before THIS is the best painting in human history. Fo Shizzle. Christoph Waltz Wins Not just the Oscar. Also The Funny. (Sidenote: It’s astonishing how quickly web memes find their way into mainstream TV comedy now.) Damn right I’m blogging a Lady Gaga video Because with a video as awesome as this, there is completely ZERO reason not to. It features Beyonce and Tarantino’s Pussy Wagon, for crying out loud. Texas Fundies Prefer Dumb Kids Or, at least, ignorant. The raving nutbird looney contingent on the Texas State Board of Education has managed to delete Thomas Jefferson and the entire Enlightenment from the state’s textbook standards. Oh, and the whole idea of separation of Church and State. Click through for more. It’s really discouraging, but ultimately unsurprising. “What did you do in the dot com boom, Uncle Heathen?” Someday, we’ll have to explain ourselves. Fortunately, all those subprime bastards make the likes of Pets.com look positively Buffetesque by comparison. Old, Drunk, and On Fire — Redux Anything worth doing is worth doing again. I present the following for your amusement. Many of you are in these pictures, but (to a first approximation) none of you are with the right boyfriends or girlfriends. Except Eric and Lindsey, God bless ’em. Anyway, what follows is more or less the text of the original photodocumentation of this party from spring of 2000. Back then, there were no Flickr; we rolled our own and we liked it, so these were on the unfortunately defunct NoGators.com site. Since a server crash took it down, they’ve been tragically offline . . . until now! In Which We Review Photo-Graphs Taken at Birthday Festivities in March, 2000. Some time ago, I turned 30. (March, 2000.) What follows is something like a photographic record. These shots were taken by my brother, who was apparently flummoxed slightly by his new camera; they’re a bit hot in places. Additionally, the photolab transfer to lo-res .jpg files didn’t do them any favors. Even so, however, here they are. They are in no particular order. Though it should be rather clear which are early and which are drunker (er, later) in in the evening. Part the First: In which general party groups are documented, some better than others. Part the Second: In which events in the back yard are investigated, and a lapse in judgement is forever preserved in kodachrome. Part the Third: In which things are set afire and carried forth in shopping carts, much to the consternation of neighbors and miscellaneous civic support organizations UPDATE – 2003 Yeah, now I’m even older, but in reformatting these pages for use on the new server, it occurs to me that a monstrous number of these pictures are, well, waaaay out of date. Certain people have gently pointed out that, well, their sister is my girlfriend now, and she even lives with me and stuff, and why is that other girl in my 30th birthday pictures? The answer, gentle reader, is that Erin wasn’t even AT my 30th birthday party. So there. I mean, there was an Erin, but not THE Erin. Also, I intend to keep these pictures up long enough for them to be embarrassing to certain children whose parents are shown here (when you’re old enough to read the Internet, kids, give Uncle Chet a call and he’ll tell you stories about your parents; Eva, Matilde, and Hadley, I’m talking to YOU). UPDATE AGAIN – 2010 Now I’m even older than I was when I commented in 2003, but I’m not sure I’ll cop to wiser. Anyway, these pix have been forgotten for years, but looking at ’em now made me smile enough that I wanted to put them back online. But the bit about your kids calling me for an explanation in a few years? That’s still TOTALLY on, except now we have to add Gwen, Carl, and Layla to the list. I’m a lucky, lucky boy. Cheers, friends. Today, I’m 40. Which means ten years ago, this happened: A somewhat more modest festival is planned for this evening. If you know where I live, odds are you’re welcome. The Catastrophic Theatre Will Destroy You The next show, Wallace Shawn’s “Our Late Night,” opens on March 19 (special opening night performance, $50) and continues Wednesdays through Saturdays through April 3. All tickets after March 19 are pay-what-you-can. The Catastrophic Gala is April 24, with special guest Jim Parsons. See you there. Posted in Houston Once again, the Onion rules. Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text: WASHINGTON—Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text. Dumbfounded citizens from Maine to California gazed helplessly at the frightening chunk of print, unsure of what to do next. Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words. “Why won’t it just tell me what it’s about?” said Boston resident Charlyne Thomson, who was bombarded with the overwhelming mass of black text late Monday afternoon. “There are no bullet points, no highlighted parts. I’ve looked everywhere—there’s nothing here but words.” Go read all of it. I can’t stand it. I know you planned it. Oh my god. It’s a mirage. I’m tellin’ y’all, it’s… Yeah, it’s like that. A bit more context, in case you need it. Apparently, Edison was a dick You a big fan of aggressive IP enforcement? Like to think a well-litigated market is a healthy market? Hate those little entrepreneurial nuisances like “competition from emerging media?” Well, then, you would have loved the early 20th century. Because you had to get Thomas Edison’s permission to make any movie. Then you had to pay him. Stay Classy, Mississippi Itawamba Agricultural High School senior Constance McMillen wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom, so school officials cancelled it. (Local coverage.) In Which The Cultural Impact of Beyonce Is Assessed Two: Ahem. Brutal? Yes. But also very, very true. In response to the bruhaha at the Washington Post, which included such erudite complaints as One called me to complain about “promoting a faggot lifestyle.” Another complained about the photo in an e-mail to the two Post reporters who wrote Thursday’s story about the licenses: “That kind of stuff makes normal people want to throw up. People have kids who are being exposed to this crap. I will be glad when your rag goes out of business. Real men marry women.” one blogger has this to say: Your kids are not to blame for your politics. Your kids are not to blame for your decisions. Your kids are not to blame for any way in which you choose to live your life. Your kids are your kids, and they’re people, and I know this is me saying this, childless whore, etc. And I’m not saying having children can’t inform your worldview. I’m saying own your worldview as YOURS, instead of hiding behind your children’s blankies and pretending you can’t help yourself. Jesus H. Gentle Cycle Christ, I hate this. Like, how are we to suppose this works, that you used to be a fair and decent person but then you had a kid and decided, “You know, white sheets look fucking good on me now!” You had a kid and then went, “Hmm, suddenly ladies kissing each other is just not on!” Bullshit. You always felt this way, and now you can justify it with somebody who is more into playing with blocks or reading comic books than realizing his parents are total assholes. Problem is, he won’t always be too into his own stuff to notice yours. So won’t it be fun for junior to read someday that you used to be a good person and now you suck, and he was the line between before and after? And not only do you suck, but you’re such a stupendous pussy that you can’t even give yourself credit for the decision to suck, you’ve got to shove it off on him? Isn’t that charming? Do these people listen to themselves? You wanna be a bigot? You wanna hate gay people? You wanna wax redneck in the pages of the Post about faggot lifestyles and shoving things down people’s throats? YOU DO THAT THEN. You just go do it. You go and do that all on your own, slick. You go and do that because YOU want to do it, you stupid motherfucker. You go and do that because you’ve taken a good long hard look in the mirror and decided that writing pissy letters to the paper about how you don’t like reality anymore is the best way to spend your time. You do that because being a bigot is what you want to be. Leave your children out of it. (Via TBogg.) Some days, Fred Clark is too awesome for words Slacktivist: One reason for the current non-debate over health care reform is that the Republicans and Democrats are playing different games. Democrats, and President Barack Obama especially, are playing Jeopardy. Republicans are playing Family Feud. On Jeopardy, facts matter. On Family Feud, all you need to know is what 100 morons might’ve told some pollster. At the recent health care reform “summit,” Republican leaders made it clear that they’re not interested in playing Jeopardy. That would be a losing proposition against President Ken Jennings. Obama was eager to show that he really does have the right answers — cost containment, near-universal coverage, lower premiums, better quality care, deficit reduction. All of that is well covered in the plan he’s pushing and any attempt to challenge him on the facts would be doomed. So the GOP has decided to play a different game — to switch from Jeopardy to Family Feud. That way it’s not about the facts, or about what works, or about the actual effect of actual policies on actual people. In the subjective guessing-game of Family Feud, none of that matters. Family Feud is all about perceptions — about what those hundred people surveyed think or guess or dimly remember having heard something about. And the Republican Party — with tons of financial support from their allies in the health insurance lobby — have been working very hard for many years now to make sure that those hundred people surveyed have a distorted, confused and mostly ass-backwards perception of the facts. This is how you play Family Feud politics: Step One: Redefine the facts. If a policy works, claim it doesn’t. If it will lower premiums, say it will raise them. If it would reduce the deficit, claim it will bankrupt the country. Obfuscate. Distract. Confuse. Lie. Lie some more. Throw random nonsense at the wall — death panels! — and see if any of it sticks. Don’t be troubled by contradiction or worried about consistency. It’s perfectly fine to simultaneously propose eliminating Medicare while posing as its defender. That’s absurd and confusing, but confusion is the whole point here. Confusion is good. If those hundred people surveyed aren’t completely confused, then you haven’t succeeded in rigging the game. Step Two: Poll, poll and poll. Hire Frank Luntz. Poll some more. This is all you can afford care about. Family Feud politics isn’t about ideology, principle, values, good government, effectiveness, solutions, reality, facts, science or truth. It’s about perception and the shaping of that perception by any means necessary. Obsessively polling and recalibrating the message and then re-polling is the only way to be sure that you’re shaping perception in a winning way. Keep this up until the polls show that the confusion and disinformation sown in Step One have taken root among the hundred people surveyed. Step Three: Cite the polling data. Call it that: polling data. The word “data” there makes it sound kind of like you give a damn about facts or reality or truth-telling. You don’t — you mustn’t if you intend to win this game — but you need to sound like you do. Argue that the polling data proves that the right answer is unpopular and therefore wrong. Argue that the facts are contrary to the will of the people. Argue that it would be undemocratic, tyrannical even, to insist on the right answer when the majority clearly disagrees. If you do this properly, you can congratulate yourself for being a champion of the very people you’re screwing over and even get some of them to thank you for robbing them blind. Things you didn’t need to know Wikipedia maintains a list of unusual articles. Be thankful I didn’t post this earlier in the day. Or week. You are now: Doomed. Yet another namespace no longer void thanks to the Internet Godzilla Haiku: Your Daily Dose of Smokin’ Jazz Miles Davis, What I Say, 1971. From, if I’m not mistaken, the Cellar Door Sessions. In addition to Davis, you’ll see Keith Jarrett and no shortage of other luminaries in the clip. How Our Sunday Dinner Beat Yours Posted on March 9, 2010 by chet I’d have written it up, but it turns out another local blogger was the guest of honor. Enjoy. (Really, now, isn’t Central Asia the logical homeland for all heathen?) Sofa King Awesome On the March 4 show, The Daily Show did a really, really stellar segment on Chatroulette. Do NOT miss this; starts at about 8:00 in. Dept. of Doing It Right Obama has appointed information design guru Edward Tufte to help track and explain the $787 billion stimulus spending. There’s transparency, and then there’s hiring the guy who wrote the book on information display. Good job. That old “gaming sucks on Macs” thing? Yeah, about to be obsolete Valve’s uberpopular Steam game distribution and library system is coming to the Mac, along with the much ballyhooed Portal 2. The system will allow you to play the PC or Mac version of any Steam game you own. It’s difficult to overstate how significant this is for gaming: Valve has stopped with the teasing and has officially announced that its online gaming service Steam is coming to the Mac. As a bonus, the company also plans to make the Mac a “tier-1” platform, promising simultaneous release of games on Mac OS X, Windows, and Xbox 360. Valve has developed a Mac-native version of its Source engine, using the cross-platform OpenGL. “We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation,” John Cook, Director of Steam Development, said in a statement. “The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward.” Beginning in April, Mac users will be able to access games via Steam, including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series. The Mac Steam client is based on the latest version for Windows that is currently in beta, which is where the first hints of Mac OS X compatibility were discovered. Huge. Huge. Huge. ExplodingBananaMaskMan menaces the barn owls Go here. Do as directed. This is gonna hurt yer brane A box of poison frogs. Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous is dead. More videos here. Things you’re just going to have to accept. You will never be as awesome as Peter O’Toole. And now I will break your brain, Mr Rogers edition I’m sure this is in no way indicative of a problem The only way I could play darts these days Night and Haley talk about Sixth Sense Categories Select Category Biking (10) Blogs (5) Books (262) Cooking (2) Film (682) Food (146) Geek (1,166) Hey Chief Heathen (20) Houston (190) Idiots (38) Life (991) Media (262) Meta (38) Music (672) News (1,507) NoCat (170) Pix (144) Politics (1,490) Running (10) Sports (322) Television (31) Toys (439) Travel (154) Uncategorized (695) Weird (467) Weirdwideweb (676) Copyright © 2000-2014 Chet Farmer Header quote is from Ulysses, btw.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3528
__label__cc	0.539179	0.460821	Home › Health › Thriving in harmony Chuck Knight listens to music as he works out on a recumbent elliptical. Photo courtesy of Chuck Knight Thriving in harmony Music therapy might help ease MS symptoms. by Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan When Chuck Knight of Erie, Pennsylvania, participated in a research study for people with multiple sclerosis, he found himself listening to pre-recorded music while walking a half-mile every day for two weeks. “The music was upbeat, almost like a marching band,” recalls Knight, chair of the National MS Society’s board of trustees in the Pennsylvania Keystone area. “I tried to match the beat with my walking [gait]. It helped me to keep going at a consistent pace.” The experience prompted him to incorporate tunes into his workout: “Now, I use my own music—older rock and pop—when I go to the gym and use the elliptical machine or bike,” explains Knight, who was diagnosed with MS in 2000. “The music helps with my energy because it diverts my attention from working out when it gets hard, especially toward the end.” Music therapy techniques Music therapy—the use of music to improve people’s physical, mental and emotional health and well-being—has a long history, but its modern growth as a practice and an established health care profession dates to the 1940s. Music therapy is searched more than 33,000 times a month on Google. In the last few decades, the development of neurological music therapy techniques has spurred the use of music therapy to “enhance neurological functions (e.g., walking, speech) in patients with conditions that affect the nervous system,” including MS, explains Francois Bethoux, MD. Dr. Bethoux is the medical director at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic Arts and Medicine Institute; director of rehabilitation services at the Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research; and professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. There are several neurological music therapy techniques that people with MS may find helpful, according to Concetta M. Tomaino, the executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in Mount Vernon, New York. These include: Music composition and composition exercises to help improve attention and short-term memory. Familiar song lyrics to help with speech articulation and word finding. Therapeutic singing for clearer speech, breath control and posture. Playing instruments to boost range of motion, endurance and strength. What the studies say Dr. Bethoux and his colleague Lisa Gallagher recently reviewed several studies on the effects of various art therapies on people with MS. Despite a “need for more research,” Dr. Bethoux says that potential benefits of music therapy include improved “emotions and quality of life, coping, self-efficacy, energy, memory and movement.” For instance, the Cleveland Clinic study Knight was enrolled in found that listening to specially designed music set to a tempo 10 percent faster than their comfortable cadence (number of steps per minute) helped some participants increase their walking speeds. Dr. Bethoux adds that with this technique, known as Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation, “we have also found that walking to music 20 minutes per day results in improved gait [walking] in some individuals.” Music and music therapy could also help reduce pain and stress in people with MS, who may “report worsening of various symptoms [for example, tingling, pain, spasticity and fatigue] with stress,” Dr. Bethoux points out. And as Knight discovered, music could help some people stick to their exercise plans. “[It] would be harder to stay motivated without it,” he notes. “Although music therapy sessions are individualized, the therapist typically begins by assessing the patient for pain, anxiety, mood and current issues,” explains Gallagher, a board-certified music therapist and research program manager at the Cleveland Clinic Arts & Medicine Institute. Next, the therapist and participant identify goals such as addressing emotional, physical or speech concerns, and “the therapist offers choices of interventions,” Gallagher says. These might include “singing, moving to music, songwriting, music-assisted relaxation, instrument playing, song choices and music listening. The session continues with the interventions.” In general, the person’s preferences should inform the choice of music, Dr. Bethoux says. However, “depending on the goal to be achieved, certain characteristics may be sought in the music, such as a strong and steady beat for Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation.” The session concludes with “the therapist once again assesses[ing] the current status of the patient. They may discuss plans for future sessions,” Dr. Bethoux says. Why music therapy is helpful “Music is enjoyed by most people, triggers emotions, can be linked to memories, promotes motivation and engagement, and activates many brain circuits in ways that we are just beginning to understand,” Dr. Bethoux says. It’s also “widely available—a person can continue to enjoy it outside of music therapy sessions.” He notes that anyone who is interested could benefit from music therapy, and that music can be adapted to the person’s situation, abilities and preferences. Dr. Bethoux believes these benefits will increase with time: “I am convinced that further research will lead to the discovery of other benefits [of music therapy for people with MS] and to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the changes seen.” Even without professional music therapy, listening to music might help lift a person’s mood or help them exercise longer. What music therapy costs After an initial assessment, music therapists typically charge from $75 to $125 per hour-long session, says Judy Simpson, a managed-health care professional and director of government relations at the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) in Silver Spring, Maryland. While it’s not covered by traditional Medicaid, “some states cover music therapy under Medicaid Waiver programs for certain patient populations, such as individuals with autism,” Simpson notes. Separately, “Medicare recognizes music therapy as a covered service but only when provided as part of a treatment team within health care facilities. At this time, music therapists cannot bill Medicare directly.” If you have private insurance, a letter of medical necessity or a prescription from your doctor may help. Many music therapists will work with insurance companies to facilitate coverage and reimbursement. Patients can contact info@musictherapy.org with questions about insurance coverage, Simpson adds. How to find a music therapist The AMTA and the Certification Board for Music Therapists can help you find a music therapist near you, while the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy maintains a list of music therapists with neurological music therapy training. Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan is a freelance writer and editor in New York.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3531
__label__cc	0.52641	0.47359	Pennsylvania Jack Pittsburgh Stories The Bugaboo Goin’ Down Town Forbes Field Ingram Park Dad Steals a Battery Duffy’s Store Second Ward School Goin’ Up the Flats Just Plain Stories A Pretty Good Day Emralda and the Beast The Fragetts Are Loose Granddad’s Pocket Watch Little Red Bumbershoot Never Borrow Eggs Pigeon Assault Pretty Good Kid The Pony Ranch The Spoon of Happiness Old Time Stories The Biggest Liar The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage The Bucksaw Ghost The Carpmen’s Creed Davy Crockett’s Grin Dividing Up the Souls Finn McCool and the Mountain of Women Huntin’ Dog Tales Jack Gets a Herd of Cattle Old One Eye The Longest Story The Snakebit Hoe Handle The Trained Trout Treasure of the Drennan Whyte Two Old Women Make a Bet Pennsylvania Stories The Bones of Anthony Wayne The Babes in the Woods Captain Jack, Wild Hunter of the Juniata Celestia – God’s Acres The Clara Price Murder Fort Seybert Hexed by the Dutchman Joe Magarac, Man of Steel Leap of the Lovers Mike Fink, King of the Rivers Old Hairy John Phantom Panther of Penn’s Creek Regina Hartman, Indian Captive Tim Murphy, Pennsylvania Rifleman The Great Penny Train Robbery The Hounds of Colebrook The Witch of Ridley Creek William Denning, Blacksmith of the Revolution More Lighthouse Info A Brief Primer on Lighthouses (Part 1) Early Lights Carrying the Oil Lighthouse Administration From How Far Can You See A Lighthouse? The Amazing Fresnel Lens A Lighthouse Ghost Buying Some Wind Some Other Good References If there is anything that can bind a group of people together, it is their memories of “school days.” Individual memories are often blurred by the passing of time, so the fuzzy edges can often be filled in by the collective memories of others. In the real old days, schools were referred to as “PS 151” or the like. Today they tend to be named after people or places. But in my school days, most of which fell in the 1950s, I simply went to “Second Ward School”. Everybody walked to school, then back home for lunch, then back to school for the afternoon, and back home again after school. It wasn’t quite ten miles uphill each way in the snow, or maybe it was, but that’s just what you did. Like most kids, I had no idea what a “ward” was, but I knew that the Borough of Crafton had three of them, because there was a “First Ward School” and a “Third Ward School” also. My dad had been a student at Third Ward many years before, never finishing high school before the depression years ended his formal education. It was 1954 when my parents moved to Crafton, a homecoming for dad, to the house on Thomas Street which will forever be “home”, even though it was sold years ago after my parents passed on. I was a sixth grader at Second Ward that September. I wasn’t too sure about this new school thing. We had moved from the city of Pittsburgh’s “North Side”, where I had attended kindergarten and grades one through five at Clayton School on Perrysville Avenue. As a sixth grader, I was going to be Captain of the Safety Patrol, that group of kids who got to wear shiny white belts and help other students cross busy nearby streets on their way to and from school. Everybody walked to school there too – if school buses had been invented yet, there weren’t any in our neighborhood. So when my parents broke the news that we were moving, and that I would be going to a “nice new school”, I was disappointed at best and apprehensive at worst. But sixth grade, and the new school, Second Ward, turned out to be pretty okay after all, thanks to a great group of fellow students, the nucleus of the future CHS class of 1961. The sixth grade teacher, Mrs. (Hallie) Smith, was also a big reason my Second Ward beginnings were so great. We all have a few, many if we are lucky, “favorite” teachers. Mrs. Smith quickly became one of mine. Too bad you can only have favorite teachers for one year – at least in the elementary grades. Seventh grade changed all that – students no longer had the same teacher all day. We moved from class to class. A bell was rung at the end of each class period – good students got the job of ringing the bell which was in the hall on the second floor. Now we could have several favorite and not so favorite teachers all at the same time. Clyde W. Double comes to mind as a favorite. He taught us Science and Math. A debonair little man with a balding pate, he always looked like the scientist and scholar that he firmly expected each of us to be. His room was always lined with posters from the General Electric Company, advertisements for some new technological wonder. “Where progress is our most important product!” they all said, which was the G.E. motto in those days. The posters added to the you-will-learn- things-in-this-room atmosphere that Mr. Double fostered. My favorite memory of science class was the lesson about ambient air pressure, when Mr. Double pumped all the air out of a gallon can and it collapsed when the outside air pressure exceeded the normally equal pressure inside the can pushing back. Wow, was that neat! No magician ever did anything that impressed me so much. You didn’t misbehave in Mr. Double’s class. Why was that? Maybe we were too busy learning. He wasn’t a big man, so he wasn’t physically intimidating. I think it was because he insisted, no he demanded, that we apply ourselves and be the students we knew we could be. Think of the really good teachers you had in your school days – Joe Perz at CHS is another who comes to mind. You just behaved in their classes because you knew that was the right thing to do. But every teacher wasn’t a Mr. Double. We had other opportunities to misbehave. One of the best places was in Mr. Yansenn’s class. He taught Social Studies, or so he thought and so it said on our report cards when that time came around. But in fact he didn’t teach much. On the scale of teacher worth, there are some that would not be overpaid if they made a million dollars a year. If I must say what I think, Mr. Yansenn was worth a good deal less. He demanded little of us, maybe that’s why misbehaving did not seem like the wrong thing to do in his class. He tried to maintain control – with a paddle. Recall these were the days when paddling, “corporal punishment” I think they called it, was still permitted, if not actually encouraged. Mr. Yansenn had apparently made a pledge to himself, or maybe to God, to paddle every boy who ever set foot in his classroom. He only got me once, for some perceived, by him at least, deserving activity on my part that I no longer recall. I don’t think a day went by but that several boys had to meet him in the wood shop after school to receive their paddling. Teachers had to have another teacher “witness” the paddling. Mr. Yansenn and the wood shop teacher, the two most notorious paddlers, were always ready to serve as each other’s witness – neat, huh? We would put our hands on the work bench, spread our feet a bit, and aim our butts toward our executioner – opps, I mean paddler – and wait to take our punishment. The paddles were made by the shop teacher, sort of baseball bat size if not longer, flat not round, and with many holes drilled in the end that hit our posteriors. The holes lessened wind resistance I believe, and thus allowed the paddle to strike with greater speed. The number of swats you got depended on the seriousness of your transgressions, but I think Mr. Yansenn made up his numbers as he went. As I recall my one paddling, it was more embarrassing than painful. The one my mother administered when she found out I got one at school was much worse in the big scheme of things. I don’t know that I was any worse behaved in Mr. Yansenn’s class than most of the other guys, either before or after my paddling, which only made me all the more sure that once he had crossed me off his list he picked on the ones that maybe actually deserved it. There were guys who seemed to enjoy annoying him and went out of their way to do so. My guess is that Tom Loney probably holds the record for most paddlings by Mr. Yansenn. There were other guys too though. It was of course unthinkable that girls would be paddled, so they must all have been very well behaved in his class. Which brings me to Bill McLuckie. I don’t recall Bill being in our sixth grade class with Mrs. Smith. But when we got to seventh grade, there he was. Came to find out he had been in seventh grade for – well, I’m not sure how long, but long. Bill McLuckie was the only kid in seventh grade who had to shave every day, and he had a drivers license. He wasn’t allowed to drive to school, but you’d see him tooling around Crafton after school hours in what could only be called a “jalopy.” School and Bill McLuckie were acquaintances but not friends. He wasn’t yet old enough to quit on his own, and uninterested enough to apply himself and move on. So there he was in seventh grade, just daring those teachers to learn him something. Bill was also on Mr. Yansenn’s paddle-a-lot list, usually deservedly, but I always expected to hear that he had taken that paddle and applied it to Mr. Yansenn instead. He was smart enough not to do that. Even Bill didn’t misbehave in Mr. Double’s class. He just sat there like a rock, a quiet rock. Other “new” students beside Bill McLuckie had appeared at Second Ward as our seventh grade year started. Those who had attended First or Third Ward, which only had grades one to six, and the Catholic school students whose elementary years were spent at St. Phillips, joined those of us from Mrs. Smith’s sixth grade class. The class of 1961 just got bigger. Another remembered teacher was Lucille Stahlman, who taught seventh and eighth grade English. You may remember her as Mrs. Dunham, as she got married the summer between my seventh and eighth grade school years. This was very confusing at the time, so in my memory she remains Miss Stahlman. Many, many, many of our Second Ward hours were spent diagramming sentences on the chalk boards in Miss Stahlman’s class. Although I hated it then, I have come to find that my grammar skills are above average, and certainly a benefit to my writings. I must confess, I still don’t know where to put the participles! Miss Stahlman was memorable for another reason as well, at least to most of the boys. Even in the clothing that proper teachers wore in the 1950s, it was readily apparent to our burgeoning adolescent hormones that Miss Stahlman was a busty lady to say the least. When most of the girls in our class were just beginning to develop, she was well developed already and so even if we weren’t paying rapt attention to the lesson at hand, she didn’t have to worry about our gaze wandering away. Mr. Marburger is another name that comes to mind, the Second Ward Principal. Did you ever really know what a Principal did all day, except hang out in the Principal’s office? Most of us referred to him as Mr. Hamburger, and we rarely saw him except for an occasional assembly or other such event. Speaking of hanging out, Second Ward had two janitors. I don’t recall any names, but you could always find them down in the basement furnace room where they would tend the huge coal-burning furnace most of the school year. I don’t know where they hung out in the warmer months of the school year. They both chewed tobacco and could spit from their chairs right over the wooden wall into the coal bin. That impressed me a lot. Old timey as it sounds, students used to take the blackboard erasers from the classrooms down to the coal bins and “clean” them by banging them together, letting the white chalk dust fall down onto the black coal chunks. I liked that job and volunteered for it often. That’s why I know the janitors were good spitters. I never became a tobacco chewer, but my Second Ward days did include my one brief interlude as a cigarette smoker. It was during our sixth grade year, when one of the guys – I honestly don’t remember who – came up with a pack of cigarettes and dared a bunch of us to smoke one. We were too wise to do it on school grounds for fear of being “caught”, so after school we headed over to the orange brick Methodist church on Belvidere Street. There at the bottom of the steep stairwell leading to the church basement, several of us “lit up” and for a few moments were really cool sixth graders. At least we were when we weren’t coughing. I got about halfway through my “cig”, snuffed it out, and haven’t smoked another one since. Perhaps my favorite Second Ward memory is going up into the clock tower. The roof of the school was topped by a huge clock with four faces, which was in its own tower-shaped room. This clock and the steeple of St. Phillips church were the two dominant features of the Crafton skyline. By climbing up a series of ladders from behind the second floor stage, you could reach the clock tower. It was sort of a right of passage for eighth graders as they prepared to move on to the high school. It was scary but exhilarating to be up inside that tower, with the huge gears and wheels of the clock mechanism whirring away. There were BB gun holes, maybe .22 holes – not sure – in a couple of the four clocks faces through which you could peek out over the town below. Students for years had written their names in pencil on the inside of the clock faces, and I dutifully added mine to the collection. Flood lights came on at night to illuminate the clock, and those hundreds of pencil marks didn’t seem to harm its readability any. Second Ward School is gone now, but the clock lives on, now on a township building out in Wexford PA. (Visit www.craftonreunion.org for a picture of the clock in its new home.) Another fun memory is of putting thumb tacks on other kid’s chairs when they got up to go to the board, or restroom, or whatever. The desks we had then were the kind where your seat was attached to the desk part of the student behind you. The seats were not padded, just hard old wood, and could be raised and lowered, just like the seats in a movie, or like a toilet seat. Smart kids learned to raise their seat when they got up. so it was necessary to use scotch tape to put the thumbtacks on their chairs. Everyone was pretty wise to all this, and usually looked before sitting down, but the occasional time when someone actually sat on a tack was a really big event. Aren’t school kids easily amused? Second Ward didn’t have a gym. Elementary kids played dodge ball or yard ball or other such games on the concrete on the Parke Avenue side of the school, but seventh and eighth graders got to walk over to the high school for gym class. That was a real social event as we all trooped up Emily Street, across some side streets to Crafton Boulevard, and across Black’s Bridge to the high school, with mandatory stops at the store by the bridge on the way and usually at Glaser’s Ice Cream and Bakery on the way back. Tossing somebody’s gym shoes (did we call them “sneakers” then?) over the bridge onto the railroad tracks far below was also frequent entertainment. We probably had a time limit in which we were supposed to make the trip to and back, but I don’t recall anybody ever fussing about it. Second Ward days were pretty good days, but alas they had to end. We even had an official eighth grade graduation, another of those rare times we got to see Mr. Marburger. Then we were off to Crafton High School, and another chapter in our young lives. When Crafton became part of the Carlynton School District, Second Ward was no longer needed. It sat closed and deserted for several years until it was gutted by fire; the wrecking ball soon followed. The last time I was by, the stone wall at the lower end of what had been the school grounds was still there, but otherwise only the memories of our school days remain.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3534
__label__wiki	0.812684	0.812684	An Inconvenient DownEasta "It's not the heat, It's the hot air" by David S. Smith Shortly after Katrina wreaked its havoc along the Gulf coast, climatologists in the U.S. releasesed their forecasts for 2006. Not surprisingly, they foresaw more storms, hurricanes, and devastation. Normally, these news releases go unnoticed by most except those of us who live in the affected zones. That year, however, Al Gore and his global warmists hawked the news as more proof of global warming and man's sin against Earth. This on the heels of what was claimed to be the hottest summer on record in the U.S., and the warmest the Earth had been in 10,000 years. Usually I don't pay much attention to such alarmists. Like Al, I'm a babyboomer; I've been through the Cold War, M.A.D.(Mutually Assured Destruction), the Domino Theory, Nuclear Winter, and Global 2000. Not to mention Roswell, Conspiracy theories, and what they put in your toothpaste. Unlike Al though, I'm a libertarian, thus prone to distrust politians, authority, experts, and consensus. But that 10,000 years tweaked a neuron. After poring through nearly forty years of memories, I found what I was looking for; Earth Science 101. 10,000 years ago Earth was coming out of an Ice Age. Of course the Earth has been getting warmer. Duh! Did Al miss that class? Later I heard Al had made a movie, then wrote a book based on the movie,and won an Oscar for the movie. With all the publicity this wannabe was getting I figured maybe it was time I found out what all the noise was about. So I went down to the local library one afternoon and borrowed Al's book, "An Inconvenient Truth"(you didn't seriously think I was going to buy it, did you?). By suppertime I had finished reading it. One would expect a tome some 320 odd pages long about "an inconvenient truth " to be a well-reasoned expostion of facts, figures and argument (after all, it's about truth, isn't it?). What one gets is a picture book with sound bites written on an eighth grade reading level, sparse on facts, heavy on misinformation, and full of assertions. There's more pudding than proof in Al's allegations. In deed, Al tells you more about himself, his family, and his mentor, Prof. Revelle, during his "intermissions" than he does about his "planetary emergency". I'm sure Al doesn't want to overwhelm his constituents, I mean readers, with a lot of scientific jargon. Nor bore them with the mechanics and complexities of global climate change. After all, his intent is to persuade, not enlighten. And, as any good politician, he knows pictures have more impact than words, and rhetoric more volume than data. "It's only an island if you look at it from the water." Police Chief Brody, movie, Jaws(1975) Al begins with images of Earth taken during various space missions and from computer composites. With "voice overs" Al tells how small and fragile our planet is. Compared to what? The Sun? The Universe? No. Compared to us and our ability to survive. Now, it's important that you believe what he says, or nothing good will come of what he's about to tell you. And, if it sounds strangely familiar it's probably because you're old enough to remember the Club of Rome's "Global 2000", Paul R. Ehrlich's "Population Bomb" or perhaps you may have even heard about Thomas Malthus. According to Al, we've become so numerous and our technology so powerful that we have "vastly increased" the concentration of CO2 and as a result the Earth is getting "dangerously warmer". To verify his point, on a half page insert, he tells us CO2 makes up 80% of the total greenhouse gas emissions(?). That 60% of the methane and 17% of the nitrous oxide are also of our doing; not to mention the gases mother nature supposedly never even heard of . At the end of Al's "What Exactly Are Greenhouse Gases?" insert, almost as a footnote, he tells us water vapor is also a greenhouse gas, but it's natural. What he doesn't tell: Water vapor makes up about 95% of the total GWP(global warming potential) and is 99.99% natural. When water vapor is factored into the total: CO2 makes up only 3.62%, Methane, 0.36%, N2O, 0.95%, and CFC's, 0.072%. The "huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases" becomes 1.65% (based on Al's own numbers). "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." As proof that global warming is occurring he shows us pictures of the melting glaciers of Kilimanjaro, Glacier National Park and other places around the world. What he doesn't tell you: The retreat of the glaciers on Kilamnajaro started around 1880 due to the development of a drier weather pattern and is maintained by solar radiation, not global warming. The glaciers at Glacier National Park expanded during the Little Ice Age and into the mid 1800's when the climate began to warm (before manmade CO2 levels began to rise). Similarly, the other glaciers he laments have also gone through fluxes. After all we're still in an interglacial peroid. What does he expect? The more one researches Al's claims and accusations, the more one realizes "the inconvenient truth" is what Al left out. From rising CO2 levels to rising global temperatures and melting glaciers, Al and his coharts demonize manmade CO2. Like Frankenstein's monster, it is inherently evil because it's creator is evil, guilty by the Original Sin. The irony of it all is that "An Invonvenient Truth" is Al's "Mein Kampf" Send Us Your Opinion (Comments are moderated.) (Confidential. Will not be published.) Note: In order to control automated spam submissions, URLs are no longer permitted in this form. Please type the letters you see above. RSS Feed for David S. Smith: Sign up to receive an e-mail notice when new articles by this author are published. Your address remains confidential, and you may cancel at any time. 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__label__cc	0.598092	0.401908	EGU, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.egu2020.eu/ The General Assembly 2020 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 3-8 May 2020. The assembly is open to scientists of all nations. The Austria Center Vienna (ACV) Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1 The EGU brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early-career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. - Public call-for-session-proposals other program groups: 25 June to 5 September 2019 - Session program finalization: 11 September to 9 October 2019 - Support application: 15 October to 1 December 2019 - Abstract submission: 15 October 2019 to 15 January 2020 - EGU Public Engagement Grants: 15 February 2020 - EGU Galileo Conference proposals: 29 February 2020 Additional information on proceedings can be accessed here: https://egu2020.eu/about_and_support/deadlines_and_milestones.html Financial support applications close 1 December. If you intend to apply for support, you also need to submit an abstract by 1 December. All details and requirements: https://egu2020.eu/about_and_support/roland_schlich_travel_support.html The abstract submission deadline is 15 January 2020 at 13:00 CET: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/sessionprogramme Find out how to submit an abstract here: https://egu2020.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html Online registration will be possible from the end of November 2019 until the last day of the EGU General Assembly 2020: https://egu2020.eu/register_and_venue/registration.html The meeting program will be available on 4 March 2020. Once the sessions have been finalized, the program can be found here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/provisionalprogramme PAGES 2k Network CoralHydro2k leader Kim Cobb will receive the Hans Oeschger Medal. It is awarded to scientists for their outstanding achievements in ice research and/or short-term climatic changes (past, present, future). See all the full list of award winners here. EGU Public Engagement Grants The call for applications closes 15 February 2020. The EGU Public Engagement Grants aim to celebrate and recognise excellent science communication in the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The grants, an initiative of the EGU Outreach Committee, are awarded to EGU members interested in developing an outreach project to raise awareness of geosciences outside the scientific community. All details: https://www.egu.eu/news/552/applications-open-for-egu-public-engagement-grants-2020/ EGU Galileo Conferences Proposals for EGU Galileo Conferences are due 29 February 2020. EGU Galileo Conferences are named in honour of Galileo Galilei, the famous Italian physicist, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, universally recognised as the founder of modern science. The EGU Galileo Conferences address well-focused cutting-edge topics at the frontier of geosciences research. A limited number, typically about one hundred, internationally recognised scientists meet for 3 to 5 days to discuss and debate issues at the forefront of the discipline. The conferences are informal: the state-of-the-art is outlined in keynote presentations designed to trigger in-depth discussion of important aspects of the conference topic. All details: https://www.egu.eu/meetings/galileo-conferences/ General information can be found at: https://egu2020.eu/about_and_support/general_information.html Go to the official website: https://www.egu2020.eu/ PAGES working group sessions i. 2k Network: CL1.18 Studying the climate of the last two millennia (Session ID: 36726) Convener: Sarah S. Eggleston. Co-conveners: Stella Alexandroff, Hugo Beltrami, Oliver Bothe, Andrea Seim This session aims to place recently observed climate change in a long-term perspective by highlighting the importance of paleoclimate research spanning the past 2000 years. We invite presentations that provide insights into past climate variability, over decadal to millennial timescales, from different paleoclimate archives (ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial records, historical archives and more). In particular, we are focussing on quantitative temperature and hydroclimate reconstructions, and reconstructions of large-scale modes of climate variability from local to global scales. This session also encourages presentations on the attribution of past climate variability to external drivers or internal climate processes, data syntheses, model-data comparison exercises, proxy system modelling, and novel approaches to producing multi-proxy climate field reconstructions. ii. ACME: CR7.1 Cryosphere change impacts on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycling - bridging reconstructions, observations and modelling (Session ID: 34970) Convener: Sofia Ribeiro. Co-conveners: Mark Hopwood, Anna Pienkowski, Letizia Tedesco Decreasing sea-ice coverage, increasing permafrost-derived inputs and increasing glacier discharge will continue to affect the Arctic Ocean region in coming decades under all future climate scenarios. Such changes at the interface between the ocean and the cryosphere across the Arctic basin raise questions about the downstream effects in marine ecosystems, particularly with respect to ecosystem services such as fisheries and carbon sequestration. In order to understand the effect of changing cryosphere-derived inputs on the Arctic marine environment, knowledge concerning the physical and biochemical perturbations occurring in the sea ice and water column and the structure, function and resilience of affected ecosystems must be integrated. In this session we explicitly welcome cross-disciplinary attempts to understand how far reaching the effects of sea-ice, permafrost derived material and glacial changes are on marine biogeochemistry, productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Topics may include, yet are not limited to, the effect of sea-ice, permafrost, and glacier discharge on sea-ice and water column structure, primary and secondary production, community structure, macronutrient and micronutrient availability, microbial processes, the carbonate system, and the biological carbon pump. Modelling experiments, and studies based on long-term observational records including sediment traps and proxy reconstructions from marine sediment cores are also welcome. iii. CVAS: CL4.10 Climate Variability Across Scales and Climate States (Session ID: 36723) Convener: Thomas Laepple. Co-conveners: Isabel de Lima, Shaun Lovejoy, Kira Rehfeld The earth's climate is highly variable on all spatial and temporal scales, and this has direct consequences for society. For example, changes in variability (spatial or temporal) can impact the recurrence frequency of extreme events. Yet, it is unclear if a warmer future is one with more, or with less, climate variability, and at which scales, as a multitude of feedbacks is involved, and the instrumental record is short. We welcome contributions that improve quantification, understanding and prediction of climate variability in the Earth System across space and time scales through case studies, idealized or realistic modeling, synthesis, and model-data comparison studies that provide insights into past, present and future climate variability on local to global, and synoptic to orbital timescales. Members of the PAGES working group on Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS) are welcome. This session aims to provide a forum to present work on: - the characterization of climate dynamics using variety of techniques (e.g. scaling and multifractal techniques and models, recurrence plots or variance analyses) to study its variability including periodicities, noise levels, or intermittency. - the relationship between changes in the mean state (e.g. glacial to interglacial, preindustrial to present to future), and higher-order moments of relevant climate variables, to changes in extreme event occurrence and the predictability of climate. - the role of ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere and land surface processes in fostering long-term climate variability through linear – or nonlinear – feedbacks and mechanisms - the attribution of climate variability to internal dynamics, or the response to natural (volcanic or solar) and anthropogenic forcing - the interaction of external forcing (e.g. orbital forcing) and internal variability such as mechanisms for synchronization and pacing of glacial cycles. - the characterization of probabilities of extremes, including rare “black swan” events and the linkage between slow (interannual to millennial) climate variability and extreme event recurrence - the development and characterization of statistical tools and stochastic models to quantify the distribution, or scaling, of climate variability over a wide range of timescales from short, noisy and irregular (paleo-)climate time series, such as robust estimators for power spectral analyses, fluctuation analyses (detrended, Haar or other) and wavelets. iv. Floods Working Group: HS2.4.2 Extreme hydrological events of the Past (Session ID: 35539) Convener: Juan Pablo Corella. Co-conveners: Juan Antonio Ballesteros, David Barriopedro Cepera, Bruno Wilhelm Extreme hydrological events disasters such as droughts, floods and storms lead to the most devastating natural in terms of casualties and economic losses. In the context of current global warming, there is a high uncertainty on the observed trends and projected changes in extremes at a global scale. Extreme events that occurred in the past play here an important role as they enable us to investigate the dynamics of extremes under natural climate variability beyond the instrumental period. The main goal of this session is to bring together scientist, scholar and engineers that explore the variability and controlling mechanisms of past hydrological extremes on decadal to millennial time-scales based on different historical and natural archives such as tree-rings, speleothems, lacustrine and marine sediments and ice cores. We also welcome contributions that integrate both, proxy data and climate modelling to understand the external and internal forcing controlling the hydrological cycle. We also invite contributions that explore new statistical modelling approaches aiming to quantitatively assess the climate drivers of the non-stationary behaviours of extreme events frequency and intensity. v. LandCover6k: BG3.32 Holocene land-use and land-cover change: advances and applications - from quantifying vegetation change to estimating human impacts on biodiversity (Session ID: 35254) Convener: Jessie Woodbridge. Co-conveners: Ralph Fyfe, Petr Kunes, Furong Li The world has been significantly transformed by human actions at least throughout the course of the Holocene with implications for ecological functioning, climate regulation, etc. Central to furthering understanding of the timing, extent and impact of these transformations is quantification of vegetation cover and land-use at local, regional and continental scales, and at centennial to millennial timescales. Recent accelerations in the intensity of human land use have been implicated for changes in biodiversity, however, relationships between land use change and diversity are complex and include important historical legacies. This session explores recent developments in, and applications of, the quantification of land-cover and land-use from palaeobotanical and palynological data in globally diverse landscapes. We welcome all contributions on methodological advances, and applications to historic and prehistoric long-term dynamics and drivers of land-use, anthropogenic land-cover and land-system change, as well as shifts in biodiversity patterns. These contributions may include pollen and other palaeobotanical approaches to land-use and land-cover change, archaeological and historical records and related palaeoecological data (e.g. palaeoentomological data), as well as modelling studies on anthropogenic land-cover change (ALCC) and climate-land use interactions. This session contributes to the PAGES LandCover6k working group. The primary goal of LandCover6k is to use global empirical data on past land-use and anthropogenic land-cover change to evaluate and improve Anthropogenic Land-Cover Change scenarios for earth system modellers (e.g. the World Climate Research Programme CMIP and PMIP initiatives). However, submissions do not need to be explicitly linked to this working group and we welcome abstracts with wider reaching themes spanning environmental responses to human activities, such as biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem functioning. vi. PALSEA: SSP1.2 New and re-interpreted Pleistocene sea-level records from around the Globe (Session ID: 36473) Convener: Deirdre Ryan. Co-conveners: Victor Cartelle, Kim Cohen, Alessio Rovere Directly observable relative sea-level (RSL) indicators (e.g. shore platforms, coral reef terraces, beach deposits, etc.) are used to constrain paleo sea levels and ice sheet extents and to improve GIA models and future projections of sea-level and ice-sheet responses. Biological proxies associated with and the physical characteristics of RSL indicators can be used to infer paleoclimate and together help inform climatic change and sea-level fluctuations throughout the Pleistocene. The preservation and distribution of these records assists in understanding regional earth surface processes following their deposition. Recent advances in sea-level studies have called for increased spatiotemporal density of RSL indicators, including submerged and near-field localities, analyzed using standard definitions and methods. This session welcomes contributions to the global record of well-constrained Pleistocene sea-level indicators and associated proxies from a variety of coastal environments, not limited to peak interglacial periods. Re-interpretations of previously described records due to advancement in methods are also welcome. This session falls within the purview of PALSEA (PALeo constraints on SEA level rise), a PAGES-INQUA Working Group, and the ERC-funded projects, WARMCOASTS and RISeR. vii. VICS: ITS2.13/AS4.29 Characterizing, understanding, predicting the radiative effects of major volcanic eruptions and their impacts on climate and societies (Session ID: 35738) Convener: Myriam Khodri. Co-conveners: Claudia Timmreck, Davide Zanchettin, Graham Mann, Matthew Toohey Volcanic eruptions are a major natural driver of climate variability at interannual to multidecadal time scales. Assessment of volcanically-forced climate variability is complicated by many limiting factors, including the paucity of observed eruptions, uncertainties associated with volcanological forcing datasets for the current and pre-instrumental periods, limitations of proxy-based climate evidence, uncertainties of global aerosol model simulations and the apparent large inconsistencies in the responses to volcanic forcing simulated by current climate models. This session aims to highlight new results from integrative research on the climatic response to volcanic eruptions of Pinatubo-magnitude and larger, with a special focus on studies conducted under the umbrella of the CMIP6, in particular the VolMIP activity. This session invites contributions that explore the responses of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system to volcanic forcing, from the characterization of past volcanically-forced climate variability, particularly during the Common Era, and on the identification of dominant mechanisms of interannual-to-interdecadal volcanically-forced variability by means of observations, climate reconstruction studies as well as modeling approaches. This session also welcomes presentations contributing to current international SPARC-SSiRC and PAGES-VICS activities from research aimed at better understanding the stratospheric aerosol layer, its volcanic perturbations and impacts on historical and modern societies. We further invite observational and modelling studies of the 2019 Raikoke aerosol cloud, from recent field campaigns and contributions on the potential role of volcanic eruptions on future climate variability and predictability. PAGES Data Stewardship Integrative Activity sessions i. CL5.4 Challenges and opportunities arising from palaeo-data compilations (Session ID: 36725) Convener: Nikita Kaushal. Co-conveners: Laia Comas-Bru, Franziska Lechleitner, Sophie Warken The number of past climatic and/or ecological data generated from a range of distinct proxies and natural archives is continuously growing. Hence, significant advances in palaeoclimate research can now be made using large-scale compilations. Funding agencies are increasingly requesting projects to align with the FAIR Data Principles to make their data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable and large-scale open-access compilations are one way to abide by this. Specific needs for establishing such large-scale databases are 1) comprehensive and meticulous database management and 2) the development of novel approaches to unlock their full potential (i.e., to reveal supra-regional and global spatial and temporal patterns in palaeoclimate conditions that are not possible with single records). Amongst others, the main challenges relate to getting access to data not already publicly available, the quality of the records, and data stewardship. This implies that a considerable effort must be spent in identifying records and in formulating/implementing comprehensive workflows for community-based quality checking. In addition, transparent and efficient communication is critical. This session aims at presenting current advances in palaeoclimate and palaeoecology based on local- to global-scale syntheses. Bringing together palaeoclimate databases with observational and/or climate modelling outputs is crucial for improving our understanding of past climate conditions, to identify signal and noise components and their temporal dynamics, and to gain insight into the quality of data-model comparisons. We therefore aim at bridging the gap between data generation, earth system modeling and data assimilation studies. We encourage submissions on data compilations, cross-comparison and modelling studies utilizing data repositories and databases (e.g. NEOTOMA, SISAL, PAGES 2k Network, ACER, EPD), including, but not limited to: - Comparative studies using one or several archives (e.g. including tests of temporal and spatial synchronicity of past regional to global climate changes) - Data-Model comparisons (including isotope enabled models, proxy system models or local calibration studies) - Integrative multi-proxy/multi-archive approaches - Large scale age model comparisons and record quality assessment studies, including methods aimed at cross-validation between different records and variable spatial and temporal scales. This session is co-sponsored by PAGES. ii. CL1.22 Data-model integration for a better understanding of past climatic and environmental dynamics (Session ID: 36729) Convener: Laia Comas-Bru. Co-conveners: Sandy Harrison, Kira Rehfeld Palaeoenvironmental records and climate models are two contrasting and yet complementary sources of information on past climates. Both approaches independently generate insights into the dynamics of the climate system. However, more information can be extracted about the drivers of climate variability and change when the two approaches are combined. Climate reconstructions can be used to constrain and evaluate model simulations, while climate models can be used to explore the mechanisms that have driven past climatic changes. Palaeoclimate data–model comparisons can also be used to assess model performance, to constrain projections of future climate change, or to study the drivers of climate variability and change. Here we invite contributions that integrate data from observational sources and climate models; data-model comparisons (including isotope enabled models or local calibration studies); studies that use data records to evaluate climate models or studies that use climate model outputs to understand the physical controls of climate variability. i. CVAS: SC2.12 Scales and Scaling in the Climate System (Session ID: 36396) Convener: Shaun Lovejoy. Co-conveners: Christian Franzke, Thomas Laepple The climate is highly variable over wide ranges of scale in both space and time so that the amplitude of changes systematically depends on the scale of observations. As a consequence, climate variations recorded in time series or spatial distributions, which are produced through modelling or empirical analyses are inextricably linked to their space-time scales and is a significant part of the uncertainties in the proxy approaches. Rather than treating the variability as a limitation to our knowledge, as a distraction from mechanistic explanations and theories, in this course the variability is treated as an important, fundamental aspect of the climate dynamics that must be understood and modelled in its own right. Long considered as no more than an uninteresting spectral “background”, modern data shows that in fact it contains most of the variance. We review techniques that make it possible to systematically analyse and model the variability of instrumental and proxy data, the inferred climate variables and the outputs of GCM’s. These analyses enable us to cover wide ranges of scale in both space and in time - and jointly in space-time - without trivializing the links between the measurements, proxies and the state variables (temperature, precipitation etc.). They promise to systematically allow us to compare model outputs with data, to understand the climate processes from small to large and from fast to slow. Specific tools that will be covered include spectral analysis, scaling fluctuation analysis, wavelets, fractals, multifractals, and stochastic modeling; we discuss corresponding software. PAGES-endorsed session i. PlioVAR: CL1.10 Pliocene climate variability: lessons learned for a warmer world (Session ID: 36743) Convener: Erin McClymont. Co-conveners: Tijn BerendsECS, Tim Herbert, Antje Voelke A range of future climate scenarios are projected for higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The Pliocene epoch, ~5.3-2.7 Ma, has been proposed as an analogue for future climates, since it is characterised by CO2 concentrations which align with those recorded today and projected for the end of this century under moderate emissions scenarios. The Pliocene includes evidence for climate variability at orbital and sub-orbital timescales, including the development of glaciations, which offer important contrasts to the pronounced glacial-interglacial cycles of the Pleistocene. There is also the opportunity to investigate climate response to longer-term processes, including ocean gateway changes and tectonic uplift. In this session we invite contributions which examine climate variability within the Pliocene epoch at a range of scales. We welcome both data and model perspectives on ocean/atmosphere circulation, terrestrial environmental responses, ice sheets and sea-level, atmospheric CO2, biogeochemical cycling and/or ecosystem responses. We also encourage contributions linked to the PAGES-PlioVAR and PlioMIP2 programmes. (PlioVAR is a former PAGES working group and PAGES has endorsed this session.) Endorsed and affiliated group sessions i. PMIP working group "Past2Future: insights from a constantly varying past": CL4.2: Future insights from a constantly varying past (Session ID: 36761) Convener: Julia Hargreaves. Co-conveners: Chris Brierley, Kira Rehfeld State of the art climate models are now run for past, present and future climates. This has opened up the opportunity for paleoclimate modelling and data together to inform on future climate changes. To date, most research in this area has been on constraining basic metrics such a climate sensitivity. In addition, and just as importantly for mankind, the Earth's climate is highly variable on all spatial and temporal scales. These changes in variability (spatial or temporal) can impact the recurrence frequency of extreme events which can have catastrophic effects on society. Yet, it is unclear if a warmer future is one with more or less climate variability, and at which scales. A multitude of feedbacks are involved. We welcome contributions that improve quantification, understanding and prediction of past, present and future climate and its variability. This includes contributions looking at "steady state" climate features such as climate sensitivity as well as those investigating changes in climate variability. The session is multidisciplinary and brings together studies related to atmospheric science, oceanography, glaciology and paleoclimatology to examine the complementarity of ideas and approaches. We particularly encourage submissions that combine models run for the past, present and future with data syntheses to constrain the spread of future predictions, submissions which combine models and data in the past to make strong conclusions or testable hypotheses about the future, as well as work highlighting future experiments and data required to strengthen the link to the future. Co-organized by AS4/CR7/OS1. ii. Varves Working Group: CL5.1 Geochronological tools for environmental reconstructions (Session ID: 36764) Convener: Irka Hajdas. Co-conveners: Andreas Lang, Gina E. Moseley, Arne Ramisch During the Quaternary Period, the last 2.6 million years of Earth's history, changes in environments, and climate shaped human evolution. In particular, large-scale features of atmospheric circulation patterns varied significantly due to the dramatic changes in global boundary conditions that accompanied abrupt changes in climate. Reconstructing these environmental changes relies heavily on precise and accurate chronologies. Dependent on records, time range, and research questions, different methods can be applied, or a combination of various dating techniques. Varve counting and dendrochronology allow for the construction of high-resolution chronologies, whereas radiometric methods (radiocarbon, cosmogenic in-situ, U-Th) and luminescence aim at longer time scales and often are complementary or supportive. In this session, contributions are particularly welcome that aim to (1) reduce, quantify and express dating uncertainties in any dating method, including high-resolution radiocarbon approaches; (2) use established geochronological methods to answer new questions; (3) use new methods to address longstanding issues, or; (4) combine different chronometric techniques for improved results, including the analysis of chronological datasets with novel methods, e.g. Bayesian age-depth modelling. Applications may aim to understand long-term landscape evolution, quantify rates of geomorphological processes, or provide chronologies for records of climate change. PAGES' SSC Member session CL4.26 Using Earth system science to understand climate change and its impacts: Results of the Franco-German “Make Our Planet Great Again” research initiative and beyond (Session ID: 36746) Convener: Henry Wu. Co-conveners: Gayane Asatryan, Emilie Capron At the 2015 Paris COP21 climate conference, 195 countries committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and make efforts to significantly limit man-made global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. France and Germany joined forces in this fight against global warming by creating the “Make Our Planet Great Again” research initiative covering research in Earth system science that aims to better understand climate change and its impacts on natural and socio-economic systems. In this interdisciplinary session, we welcome data- and model-based research undertaken within, but also outside this international initiative, that provides new insights into the mechanisms of past, present and future climate changes and the associated impacts on the oceans, the cryosphere, coastal regions, and terrestrial systems. Innovative research contributions that can lead towards the ultimate goals of the Paris Agreement ranging from basic research to solution-oriented research are also encouraged.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3536
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__label__wiki	0.987176	0.987176	Paul Duncan's Elusive Pop There's a bright line, in most music, between accessible pop and abstract experimentation, a line many songwriters find themselves on one side or the other of for their entire careers — or at least for the duration of each of their albums. Paul Duncan, whose second CD, Be Careful What You Call Home, is now out on Home Tapes, is unusual in that he straddles that line, deliberately crossing it from track to track and moment to moment. "There's not even two sides to my brain when it comes to that pop and avant-garde," he said, in a recent telephone interview. "They should be together. If you're not being experimental or trying new ideas with what you do, then what's the point?" A native of Texas, Duncan studied film and sound design at Savannah College in Georgia, and lived in Atlanta throughout most of the writing of his new album. Lately, he makes his home in Brooklyn, rubbing shoulders with an assortment of experimental musicians, including Claudia Deheza of On Air Library and Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear. The concept of home, then, is a multifaceted one for this songwriter, encompassing soft Southern landscapes and gritty Brooklyn streets. "I was trying to make a story album in an abstract sort of way, using home as a reference, and rather than embracing it, looking at it as something that's impermanent, something that you're never satisfied with," Duncan explained. The stories here are drawn from Duncan's personal experience — "Tired and Beholden" sketches out an argument between two people in a relationship, "Oil in the Fields" implies a trip home for a funeral — but he says he shies away from literal narratives about the things that have happened to him. "The songs start with a lot of different scenarios that I've been in, but then take them out of context and try to find another context for them," he said. "I think there's a lot of music out there, especially in the singer/songwriter genre, where people are like, 'My girlfriend broke up with me.' Or, 'I don't like this person.' Or, 'I'm in love with this person.' I really am not interested in making albums like that at all." Instead, Duncan wants to leave his songs open to interpretation, so that listeners can interact with the words and melodies and find their own meaning there. "I just think people end up appreciating the music a little bit more, especially over time, when they can listen to it over and over," he said. "Right off the bat, a song shouldn't mean something specific to them. It should just be like a vague ghost of an idea of something that clicks with them." The result is an album that takes its time to sink in, one that at first may seem fragmentary but gradually reveals an evocative beauty. Duncan remarked that at first he worried when critics said his songs sounded more like pieces of ideas than fully-fleshed out songs, but that, with time, he realized that many of his favorite recordings had the same glancing quality. "Alexander Spence's Oar, for instance, is such a fragmented album," Duncan said. "It's just sketches of ideas. A lot of times you can tell he's improv-ing. He's sort of scat singing and he'll repeat things when he feels like a song should go on longer. He's doing it on the spot. And yet it's one of my favorite albums." Duncan said that he gets song ideas in flashes — at work, on the street, anywhere — then tries to record the bones of them as quickly as possible. "Usually when I start something I feel like I have to finish it that day or that night... or not finish it," he explained. "Especially with my new album, I tried to keep the idea for each song intact, where I didn't have time to think about it." After the initial ideas emerge, Duncan spends a long time working out arrangements. For instance, many of the songs for Be Careful Where You Call Home were originally written on an upright piano Duncan had at his Atlanta apartment. "A lot of times, I would subtract the piano part and end up playing them on guitar or get someone to fill it in with a strings part or something like that if I didn't feel like it needed piano," he said. Duncan's second album has a variety of instruments on it — piano, guitar, bass, drums, banjo, stringed instruments, glockenspiel and others. Yet he said that it was important to him to leave space in the arrangements, so that the songs themselves could shine through. "I think on my first album, I was playing around with arrangement. I was really excited about the fact that 'Oh, wow, you can layer six violin parts and flugelhorn parts, and you can get this great dissonance and resonance going on.'" he recalled. "I think this record was more about placing chords and creating melody." For instance, "Oil in the Fields," one of the album's most beautiful tracks, was initially arranged with dense layers of strings, trumpets, bells and vibraphone. "It became really sappy," Duncan said, recalling how he pared it back to its current minimal voice and guitar. Be Careful What You Call Home contains carefully crafted pop songs such as "Tired and Beholden" and "You Look Like an Animal," alongside instrumental interludes. There are, for instance, three "Toy" songs, "Toy Bass," "Toy Piano" and "Toy Guitar," which connect the album's tracks. Though casual listeners and iPod shuffle addicts often skip these cuts, Duncan says, they are an integral part of the album he's made. "I think that if there is a narrative to that record, it's definitely going back and forth between childhood and adulthood," Duncan said. "'Toy Bass' is the most playful song on the record. It's sort of like the Steve Reich or Terry Riley composition played by a child that can't really play the piano, you know? I intentionally made those very sloppy." He adds that "Toy Piano" purposefully juxtaposes professionally glossy string parts with fuzzily recorded piano. "Basically it's a transition," he explained. "I think of a lot of the instrumental tracks on that record as sort of transitional between being a kid always and being thrown into adulthood and not wanting to be that, being uncomfortable." Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear says that Duncan has a unique quality that sets him apart from other songwriters. "Paul is in a genre that has really been heavily beaten into the ground — the singer/songwriter genre," Droste said. "But he just has really beautiful melodies and harmonies, and he's a really skilled guitar player and songwriter. It's rare when you hear songs that are just guitar and bedroom recordings that are this moving. It's really a testament to his skills." That sparse and home-recorded sound may be changing, however, as Duncan is playing and recording with a full band more often. He's now playing with not just drummer Joe Stickney (who appeared on Be Careful), but Adam Willis and James Elliott of Bear in Heaven as well. Droste, whose band split a bill with Duncan a few months ago, says that Duncan has already progressed well beyond the sounds on his first two albums. "There was definitely some really cool sort of editing, choppy stuff on the first album that they didn't do live," Droste said. "It was more like a full band sound, which I really liked as well. It was a fuller sound with the same kind of tone. You could tell it wasn't just him any more." Duncan is already preparing to record a follow-up CD with his new lineup. But fans of Be Careful ought to be prepared for something a little different. "The whole thing is going to be recorded live — and it's going to be more country," he said. Where did that come from? "I just recently went back home, and my dad was playing me some old Carter Family," said Duncan. "I think I came back, this was a few months ago, I sort of came back to New York with this whole different idea, and I told all these guys, we've got to record a country album. That's kind of what we're trying to do. It's going to be weird country. Electronic country." For more information about upcoming shows and Duncan-related news, check the Home Tapes Web site. — Jennifer Kelly [April 18, 2006] Alejandro Escovedo's Joyous Rebirth John Vanderslice Kicks Genre Stephen Yerkey's Wandering Songs French Kicks Complete 'Two Thousand' Spazzy Romanticism: Love Story In Blood Red Brain Surgeons NYC Rock The Big Questions Jarboe's 'Men' Charts Turbulent Emotions Delta 5's Edgy Post-Punk Resurrected Blitzen Trapper Spiff Things Up Minus Five: Booze, Betrayal, Bibles and Guns New Compilation Spotlights Forgotten Folk Guitar Heroes Chris Brokaw's Experiment In Pop Old And New With Death Vessel Silver Jews: Salvation And Redemption Jana Hunter's Beautiful Doom Vashti Bunyan Finds Her Voice Again Nick Castro's Turkish Folk Delight Katrina Hits New Orleans Musicians Hard Paula Frazer's Eerie Beauty The National Find Emotional Balance Death Cab For Cutie's New Album, Tour Heavy Trash's Rockabilly Rampage Help The Wrens Get Their Albums Released! Devendra Banhart, Andy Cabic Launch Label Lydia Lunch's Noir Seductions Bosque Brown's The Real Deal PDX Pop Now! Fest Announces Lineup Sarah Dougher Starts Women-Focused Label Jennifer Gentle's Joyful Psyche Mountain Goat Darnielle Gets Autobiographical With 'Sunset Tree' Mia Doi Todd's Beautiful Collaboration Return of the Gang of Four Martha Wainwright Finds Her Voice Brian Jonestown Massacre's Acid Joyride Solo Disc Due From Pixies' Frank Black Heartless Bastards' Big-Hearted Rock Mike Watt's Midlife Journey The Black Swans Balance Old And New Nicolai Dunger's Swedish Blues The Insomniacs' Hard-Edged Pop Yo La Tengo Collection Due Juana Molina's 'Homemade' Sound Beans Evolves Earlimart's Songs Of Loss Devendra Banhart's 'Mosquito Drawings' Negativland Rerelease 'Helter Stupid' Alina Simone Transforms The Ordinary Sounds From Nature: Laura Veirs Octet's Fractured Electric Pop Sleater-Kinney Working With Lips Producer The Cult Of Silkworm The Evolution Of The Concretes Devendra Banhart's Exuberant New Songs Catching Up With The Incredible String Band Gram Rabbit's Desert Visions Three Indie-Rock Stars Unite As Maritime Remembering Johnny Ramone Jarboe's Many Voices Phil Elvrum's Long Hard Winter First U.S. Release For Vashti Bunyan Album Incredible String Band To Tour U.S. New Music From Lydia Lunch Le Tigre Protest The Bush War Presidency Joel RL Phelps: Bleak Songs Rock Hard Time Tripping With Galaxie 500 Patti Smith Wants Bush Out! Sharron Kraus: A New Kind Of Folk Music The Fiery Furnaces' Psychedelic Theater Harder, Heavier Burning Brides Sonic Youth's Ongoing Experiment The Dt's Do It Their Way Poster Children Cover Political Rock Rare Thelonious Monk Recordings Due Uneasy Pop From dios Beck, Lips, Waits Cover Daniel Johnston Understanding Franz Ferdinand The Truly Amazing Joanna Newsom Mylab's Boundary-Crossing Experiments In Sound Have You Heard Jolie Holland Whistle? The 'Magical Realism' Of Vetiver The Restless, Rootsy Songs Of Eszter Balint The Sun Sets On The Blasters Devendra Banhart To Tour U.S. The East/West Fusion Sounds Of Macha Destroyer Gets Mellow For Your Blues TV On The Radio Get Political Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse To Play Lollapalooza 2004 New Music From The Fall Apocalyptic Sound From The Intelligence Fast And Rude With The Casual Dots 'Rejoicing' With Devendra Banhart New Album, Tour From The Polyphonic Spree Shearwater Take Wing Sleater-Kinney To Tour East/West Coasts Resurrecting Rocket From The Tombs Visqueen Want To Get A Riot Goin' On Lloyd Cole Makes A Commotion Funkstörung's 'Cut-Up' Theory Waiting For Mirah's C'mon Miracle Electrelane Find Their Voice The Television Is Still On! Experimental Sounds From Hannah Marcus The Ponys Play With Rayguns Ex-Mono Men Leader Returns With The Dt's Mountain Goats' Darnielle Adopts A More Hi-Fi Sound Sun Kil Moon To Tour U.S., Europe Nothin' But The Truth From The Von Bondies Sultans Survive 'Shipwreck' Sebadoh Reunite For Spring Tour Xiu Xiu's 'Reality' Rock Meet The Patients Beth Orton, M. Ward Make Sadness Taste Sweet Oneida's Pathway To Ecstasy Radiohead, Pixies, Dizzee Rascal To Play Coachella Young People Tour Behind War Prayers Pixies Tour Dates Announced Ani DiFranco Tells It Like It Is Deerhoof Back For 2004 With Milkman McLusky Set To 'Bring On The Big Guitars' Again Pixies Reunite For U.S., European Tours American Music Club, Decemberists To Play NoisePop 2004 Damien Rice Set To Tour U.S. The Frames Accept Your Love Punk Rock's A-Frames To Re-Record Third Album Finally! 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Break Saul Williams Wants You To Think For Yourself The 'Zen' Sound Of Calexico Elliott Smith Dead AT 34 Debut Due From Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon The Hunches: Music That'll 'Fucking Live Forever' Vic Chesnutt Speaks His Mind 90 Day Men Cancel Tour Keith Jarrett, Cecil Taylor Highlight SF Jazz Festival For My Morning Jacket, It's The Music That Matters EP Due From The Polyphonic Spree Bright Eyes, Neva Dinova Collaborate On EP The Rise & Fall & Rise Of Ben Lee Catching Up With Cheerfully Defiant Tricky Hanging Around With The Polyphonic Spree Sophomore Album Due From The Shins Noise Rock From Iceland's Singapore Sling Death Cab To Tour U.S. Rufus Wainwright's Want One Is 'Family Affair' Death Cab's Transatlanticism On The Way Heartfelt Rock From Sweden's Last Days Of April The Minus 5 Get Down With Wilco Tywanna Jo Baskette's Southern-Gothic Rock Xiu Xiu's Stewart Takes On 'Gay-bashing' Portishead Producer Resurfaces Behind New Diva Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wire, Primal Scream On Buddyhead Comp Yeah Yeah Yeahs To Tour West Coast Sonic Youth, Erase Errata Kick Off 'Buddy Series' The Locust Are One Scary Band Damien Rice In The 'Here And Now' Remembering Karp's Scott Jernigan ATP-NY Postponed 'Til At Least 2004 The Soul Of Chris Lee Gits' Frenching The Bully To See Re-Release Stephen Malkmus Is In Control Superchunk To Release Rarities Set; Teenage Girls To Swoon As A Result Summer Touring For The Gossip Babbling On About Deerhoof Irish Song Poet Damien Rice's O Released In U.S. Chatting With ATP's Barry Hogan Former Digable Planets Frontman Surfaces With Cherrywine ATP L.A. Festival Rescheduled For Fall Freakwater's Janet Bean Takes A Solo Turn Lee's 'Cool Rock' Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Highlight YES NEW YORK Mark Romanek's 'Hurt' Revives Johnny Cash's Career The Rapture's Post-Punk, Post-Dance Sound R.E.M., Wilco, Modest Mouse Highlight Bumbershoot Fest Set Fires To Flames' Sleep-Deprivation Sound Southern Gothic Past Shadows Verbena's La Musica Negra The Subtle Evolution Of Yo La Tengo Spring Tour For Jolie Holland (Plus A Live Album) Liz Phair Still Pushing The Limits Gold Chains Wants You To Dance And Think Young People's War Prayers On The Way	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3539
__label__cc	0.51731	0.48269	Home→Pipeline Device→Pipeline Classic This section addresses various aspects of Pipeline Classic deployment. See Pipeline Flex page for the Flex Case selection factors Proximal Support Where to place the device delivery catheter? Unsheathing vs. pushing Positioning the Device Unsheathing Distal Delivery Wire Exposing Initial Segment of Device Detachment from Capture Coil Distal Edge “packing” Delivery: The Right Balance Capture Coil Recapture Post-Deployment — postprocessing To Coil or Not to Coil? DIFFICULT SITUATIONS Delayed Capture Coil Release Cork and Pull Distal Stenosis post Capture Coil Detachment In-stent Stenosis The “Lazy” Device Ovalization Proximal Opening Failure Leaving in Misdeployed Device POST-PROCEDURE CONSIDERATIONS A note of disclaimer can’t be avoided here — as you all know, at the present time, for 10 Pipeline operators there are 20 opinions on how to deploy it. Such a state is true of all techniques, particularly new ones. What follows is our way, from technical and strategic viewpoints. I can only say that it works very well for us. A movie of smooth deployment is shown below by way of introduction: Case selection factors — some helpful notes to keep in mind: a) if the landing zone is larger than 5.25 mm diameter, a larger diameter stent such as a 6 mm Solitaire FR, Precise, Wallstent, or a carefully delivered covered stent can be used to tack down a pipeline to the larger wall, however this may increase the risk of endoleak if an uncovered, relatively high porosity stent is chosen for the mission. Unless a covered stent is utilized, using the Pipeline where the landing zone is larger than the device is not a good idea. b) previously stented cases are associated with both catheterization issues and reduced cure efficacy. Pre-existing stents such as Enterprise of Neuroform frequently do not appose the walls of the recipient artery along their entire lengths, especially around curves, where struts of indwelling stents protrude into the parent vessel. In these cases, the guidewire may have difficulty finding the “true” lumen; getting through interstices instead of the true lumen will lead to device constriction during delivery. When indwelling stents are not completely apposed to the vessel wall (the majority are of this kind), neither will be the Pipeline deployed within them, which increases risk of endoleak and interferes with endothelial coverage. If you choose to proceed, it may be useful to extend the landing zones beyond both ends of the pre-existing stent, so that the entire segment may be conceptualized as a “fusiform” aneurysm with no native wall support. Crossing the indwelling stent with a J-wire configuration helps prevent the wire from getting into cell interstices and makes it more likely that the wire will the “true” lumen c) perforators occasionally do come from the aneurysm itself, particularly in the posterior fossa; this is a different situation from covering perforators which are immediately apposed by the device. Vessels coming from aneurysm dome in all likelihood will either go down with the aneurysm when it thromboses, or will keep the aneurysm open. Occasionally, collaterals are impressive enough to backfill the vessel arising from the aneurysm (or covered by the Pipeline) all the way to the ostium, as seen in this movie, case courtesy of Dr. Howard A. Riina The ophthalmic artery is likely to be one most often covered by the Pipeline. About 20% of covered ophthalmics in our experience are closed on a 6 months follow up angiogram. All are asymptomatic (except one case of questionable momentary amaurosis); the ECA takes over the vessel. (back to contents) The more support, the better. The device is astonishingly flexible, however maximal support greatly simplifies deployment, especially with more distal lesions. Distal support catheters are quite good now, and the further they can be safely advanced the better. It is sometimes best to park one in a safe relatively proximal location and advance it later over the delivery microcatheter. Our typical systems are tri-axial: 6F Shuttle Sheath, Navien 058, and Marksman. If one wishes to jail a coiling catheter to deploy the Pipeline and subsequently coil, there are a number of options if using a bi-axial system, and several for the tri-axial system, such as: 1) NeuronMax, Navien 058, and Marksman. A small profile coil catheter can go between the NeuronMax and the Navien. 2) 6F Shuttle Sheath, 4.3 DAC, and Marksman. A small profile coil catheter can go between the NeuronMax and the DAC. The fit between the DAC and the Marksman is rather tight. There are other possible solutions. The important point is to err on the side of more support. Beware of skipping the distal support catheter unless you are an experienced user. For the posterior fossa, we typically use a short Shuttle (80 cm) in the subclavian, with a Navien 058 or Neuron 053 as high up the vert as safely possible. The DAC and Penumbra family of catheters are also very reasonable choices. 3. Most groups use an .014 guidewire inside a Marksman or another .027 catheter, which will of course accommodate an additional .010 buddy wire, and this can be very helpful on occasion. Large-Giant aneurysms will frequently require loop-to-loop catheterization. An .018 wire, such as the double-angle Terumo can be very useful also. Reducing the loop following successful distal access is usually a good idea. The device will likely want to prop itself against the posterior dome of the aneurysm as it is delivered, such that one might need a greater device length than anticipated even if one is planning to bridge the neck with a single device. May be a rather obvious choice, but some considerations are useful on occasion. One needs to be at minimum 15 mm from the intended distal landing zone, which is the length of the leading guidewire that cannot be directed until the device detaches from the capture coil. It is generally better to place the delivery catheter further. For cavernous aneurysms, M1 is a good place; paraophthalmic or more distal lesions will require an M2. All unfavorable factors — tortuous path, larger aneurysm, “bad” arch — should increase the length of delivery catheter safety. On the other hand, a too-distal catheterization, as may be called for by “popping off” the device distal to its intended landing zone, is associated with its own hazards. Choose either the largest branch or one with least angulation relative to the M1. Minimizing angulation is especially desirable for more distal deployments, where the artery is not anchored (as the siphon is) and in fact will likely be displaced by the Pipeline, as the video below shows: While the primary operator or operators deploy the device, an assistant should keep an eye on the leading guidewire vis-a-vis perforators and kinks. There is not much to be done about it prior to capture coil detachment, however afterward the wire can be manipulated into a better position. To this end, it is a good idea for one of the biplane views to be selected such that the expected position of the leading guidewire zone is well-seen. Here, the guidewire drops into the anterior temporal branch, and is repositioned following device detachment from the capture coil. In contrast to laser-cut devices such as the Neuroform and Enterprise, which are constrained within their delivery sheaths by collapsing the stent to its minimal diameter and maintain their lengths on expansion, the Pipeline is loaded into the delivery system by the action of elongation to about 2-2.5 times the indicated size. Therefore, its deployment requires expansion and foreshortening, and pushing the device out facilitates expansion. On the other hand, unsheathing simply uncovers the pre-stretched device without allowing it to expand to its desired diameter. Thus, predominant unsheathing, which is the appropriate for delivery of laser-cut stents, is NOT the right action for delivery of the Pipeline. Devices deployed in this fashion are ALWAYS stretched, and therefore have a tendency to foreshorten with time, in some cases enough to entirely come off the landing zone and prolapse into the aneurysm, and generating reports of delayed device “migration”. One common scenario where tendency for unsheathing is particularly tempting is when one wishes to bridge a long neck with a single device, which leads particularly to stretching of the proximal end. The device will tend to foreshorten in time, either immediately or in delayed fashion after the procedure, and may on subsequent imaging (or following an unfortunate clinical change) be found to have “migrated”. In fact, the device simply behaved according to its geometric and physical properties. Below is an illustration of what happens under such circumstances. A movie of a similar situation is shown here, case courtesy of Dr. Howard A. Riina: Once the delivery catheter is appropriately positioned and working angle roadmaps are obtained, the device is advanced within the delivery catheter until it reaches the desired distal deployment location. The device will spring back somewhat following its release from the capture coil (it opens and foreshortens) and therefore you may want to advance the capture coil a bit past where the edge of the device should ultimately oppose the wall. For example, if you wish to just miss the PCOM ostium so as to leave it completely uncovered, you could nevertheless position the capture coil partially over the ostium, knowing that the distal device edge will recoil anyway. Here is a detail of the above movie, with some helpful arrows: It is substantially more difficult to control device position if the capture coil is placed on a curve rather than in a relatively straight segment. For example, proximal cavernous aneurysms can be treated with the capture coil located in the distal horizontal cavernous segment. For anterior cavernous aneurysms, practically speaking it is probably best to position the capture coil in the next straight segment — the hypophyseal / distal ophthalmic one — rather than attempting to deliver it just around the anterior genu. (t) Unsheathing delivery wire Once the device is optimally positioned, the initial delivery action is to unsheathe the leading guidewire by pulling back on the delivery catheter. This is accomplished by balancing forces of pushing forward the delivery wire to prevent backwards migration and pulling back on the delivery wire, as was seen in the above example. The following is another demonstration in a patient with two giant aneurysms, one of which was previously Pipelined: Exposing initial segment of the device — more unsheathing Although the predominant delivery action is to push, the initial portion of the device is typically unsheathed — until enough of the device opens up to allow for something to push against. This unsheathing results in a cigar-shaped configuration which is synonymous with elongation — not appropriate for later delivery stages but usually the desired initial action. About 1/3 of the expected length can be unsheathed this way, while maintaining position of the capture coil. Circumstances will dictate when to transition to pushing — for example, if the capture coil is already against a curve (i.e. anterior genu), pushing can start earlier as there is something to push against. Not infrequently, the device will pop off the capture coil during unsheathing, which is of course excellent news, as seen below. A major source of anxiety is when (or whether) the distal end of the device will detach from the capture coil. The following image is a reminder of what the device underneath the capture coil looks like: From this you can see that the capture coil is a continuation of the wind around the delivery wire which makes up the leading guidewire segment. The wire is wound in a counterclockwise orientation, and the distal end of the device is inserted into the capture coil. As the device opens during delivery, the forces acting on its distal tip create a tendency for the distal portion within the capture coil to slip from under it, i.e. to detach itself and open spontaneously. This does not always happen. Factors which influence capture coil release include device diameter (larger diameter devices tend to exhibit less robust spontaneous opening), device size relative to parent artery (oversized devices have less radial force at chosen vessel diameter and are less likely to open), location of capture coil (straighter segments tend to promote opening), mode of delivery (unsheathing results in stretched devices, which have little radial force and are less likely to open), and the amount of device underneath the capture coil (which is slightly variable). Here are examples of relatively painless detachments: So, if the device is not detaching from the capture coil, have a sort of checklist in mind: 1) Is the device appropriately sized to the arterial segment in question? In other words, is the device too oversized? If so, consider removing the whole assembly now, before its too late, re-accessing, and using a more appropriately-sized device. 2) Is the device stretched? Was there enough “pushing” done or predominantly unsheathing — i.e. stretching? 3) Is the capture coil stuck in a curve? If so, pull it back by pulling on both delivery wire and delivery catheter, and try again. 4) Is the distal support catheter as close to the action as possible — having your Navien or other such catheter closer to where the PED is helps translate torqueing better and facilitates detachment. 5) Is the device malfunctioning — meaning that all of the above seem to be in order, yet there is no detachment. Here is one example of delayed capture coil release: 1) Push and Torque — push on the delivery wire gently, while rotating the Torque CLOCKWISE. The wind of the capture coil requires to rotate CLOCKWISE. The Instructions for Use (IFU) recommend rotating up to 10 full turns — FOR A GOOD REASON. Do not rotate more than that, unless you want to be holding the end of a broken wire. In fact, if you rotate say 5 times and do not see the distal delivery wire moving, meaning that your rotation of the torque device does not translate into rotation of the capture coil, you might want to stop rotating. In this case, the torque device will usually unwind itself. In many cases, push and torque is all that is required for a device that has not already spontaneously released itself from under the capture coil. 2) Continue delivery (usually by pushing) — sometimes delivering more device appropriately against the walls, without stretching, will promote detachment. 3) Bring the Navien or another distal support catheter over the delivery microcatheter as close as safely possible and try torque and push again. Torque translates better to capture coil with more support. 4) Other than torque and continued delivery under appropriate load, there are few other tricks. Some try to wiggle the device to shake the distal end from underneath the coil. One thing we do not advise is pulling back on the delivery wire. Don’t pull back on the delivery wire at all until after the device has detached from the capture coil! Pulling back only increases the angle between the deployed portion of the device and that within the capture coil, and may bend/damage the braids — aside from possibly breaking the delivery wire. 5) For the particularly experienced user, there remains the possibility of continuing to deploy the entire device, and subsequently going back with the delivery catheter through the deployed device to “bump” the capture coil and release the device that way. If you wish to attempt this maneuver, it is helpful to bring the distal support catheter as distal as possible, to maximize support. Once the delivery catheter is advanced fully against the capture coil and the unopened distal device, rotating the torque device again may also do the trick — the rotation will translate better to the capture coil once the delivery catheter and distal support catheter have been advanced to positions of maximal support. Additional wires and catheters can also be brought alongside the original delivery catheter, either through the same sheath or when contralateral groin access is obtained, to “bump” the device open. This will work almost all the time — except when it does not — and then you are in trouble. Heroic actions in such cases might require snaring the leading guidewire from above — via the ACOM or PCOM, if such are available, and pulling on it. Just remember — none of the information on this page constitutes practice of medicine… A movie of this is shown: 6) Other than trying option 4, it may be simply best to remove the whole assembly if you feel the device is not coming off the capture coil as desired. This would certainly be the option of choice if the device is too large to begin with, or if you are simply not interested in continuing under the circumstances. Devices can sometimes come off the capture coil in an elongated, funnel-like fashion. This means the distal portion is stretched. If you follow the above advice and put the capture coil over the ostium of some vessel (PCOM for example) and find that, after detachment, the device actually covers the PCOM as you were afraid it might, often the reason is that the device is funnel-shaped. It can be “packed” by catching the edge with the capture coil and pulling back on the delivery wire, as illustrated below. Make sure the device is fully detached before you attempt this… Delivery — the right balance It should be apparent by now that deploying the Pipeline is art as much as science. This can be used to your advantage. As an operator, you control how much you want to “pack” the device, when to add extra load, when to let it stretch a bit, etc. With increasing comfort comes the appreciation for the versatility and flexibility of deployment, consistency issues notwithstanding. The key factor in delivery is appropriate load. Too much load causes the device to “bunch up” or even intussuscept, while too little leads to stretching. Like everything else there is a spectrum — within the “appropriate” amount of load there is ample room for variation of how much is desirable. The load is determined by the delivery catheter (and its proximal support) — pushing the delivery catheter generally increases load, and vise versa. The amount of load can be inferred by looking at the shape of the Pipeline device as it comes out of the delivery catheter, and by the relationship of the catheter to vessel and aneurysm walls, as images below illustrates. Increasing loads tend to push the leading cone of the device, which assumes a “Martini glass” kind of configuration, while delivery catheter is found along the outer curve, as seen below. On the other end of the spectrum, stretching pulls on the leading edge which makes it look like a “champagne flute”, with delivery catheter situated on the inner curves, as also seen below. Somewhere in-between is what you probably want most of the time — a “wine glass” look, which roughly corresponds to the “center and push” look of the delivery catheter as stated in the Instructions For Use (have You read the field manual?) Here is a movie showing examples of (generally) appropriate and inappropriate loads. The deleterious effects of delivery by inappropriate stretching cannot be over-emphasized. By now there are several examples in the literature of exactly this phenomenon, usually under the rubric of “device migration”. The two signs — shape of device and location of delivery assembly — tell you how much load exists in the system at any given time. How much is the right amount? — up to you. Generally, for effective pushing, there has to be at least some load present. The manufacturer recommends a “center and push” approach — meaning that the delivery wire should be positioned in the middle of the vessel and device then delivered by pushing. This is very sound advice, which particularly strives to assure that there is at least some load present in the system — not too much and not too little. In practice, however, you will find that center and push tends to produce somewhat too little load for effective “packing” of the device. By the time you are comfortable with the “feedback” from device shape and its packing based on the loads you are applying, you will find yourself ready to vary things according to your specific intentions — at which point drops of rewarding endogenous endorphins may be added to the sea of adrenaline, which is the usual state during pipeline deployment. I doubt it will ever be pure enjoyment — at least not for this generation of the device — but its getting there. As stated above, load is varied by pushing or pulling on the delivery catheter TOGETHER with the delivery wire. The IFU advises to “pin” the delivery catheter and delivery wire together and advance both to increase load, and pull back to decrease load. It is important to recognize that the action of device delivery, whether by pushing or unsheathing, changes the amount of load on the system. For example, pushing the device out usually results in the delivery catheter traveling back (recoil), which gradually increases the load as more device is pushed out. In other words, the more device is pushed out the more increase there will be in the overall load, all other things being equal. Therefore, particularly for longer devices, the load is typically adjusted during delivery — when and by how much depends on the shape of the device (martini glass is bad) and other factors. It is especially critical to make sure that excessive load is not present during delivery of the last portion of the device — too much load in this final stage of delivery may “pinch off” the device and prevent it from opening properly. A comma-like configuration of the proximal end — constrained, partially opened device with an added twist — is bad news — worse than capture coil issues. Occasionally the device will do this anyway, which is equally bad news and will be addressed below. To prevent this from happening, you may want to relax the load for the final few millimeters of device deployment, as seen below: In this example, the device is delivered under some load, and does not open immediately, being held by the Marksman. Once the Marksman is pulled back, the device springs open. Capture coil re-capture The final maneuver after successful delivery of the Pipeline is to go back through the opened device with the delivery catheter to re-capture the capture coil — i.e. to place the delivery catheter distal to the device to maintain distal access and to pull the capture coil into the delivery catheter. This is not always straightforward, because the capture coil has an edge which prevents it from advancing into the delivery catheter unless the two are appropriately lined up. The first step is to advance the delivery catheter through the deployed pipeline device. Once the delivery catheter tip and capture coil are in proximity, pull on the delivery wire to see if the capture coil will get in. If it does not, it will foreshorten as it is pulled against the edge of the delivery catheter, as seen below. Here are some examples of foreshortening of the capture coil before if finally goes into the Marksman. If you see foreshortening, DO NOT continue pulling on the delivery wire in hopes of forcing the capture coil into the catheter, for obvious reasons. It will not go in. Torque the delivery wire CLOCKWISE as you bring the capture coil into the delivery catheter to see if this will help. The reason the capture coil does not go into the catheter is because the two are not lined up for the smooth capture. Realignment is generally best accomplished in a straight segment of the vessel so the two are not at an angle. Usually one can see during high magnification biplane fluoro whether the capture coil is aligned. In the worst case scenario, both the capture coil and catheter are removed, so that distal access is lost. To do this, cinch the capture coil against the delivery catheter so that it does not “catch” the device, and pull both out together: Deployment of Additional Devices If additional devices are to be placed by telescoping one device into another, an identical or larger diameter device should be used. Even when already implanted devices are felt to be oversized, one should be very cautious with telescoping a smaller diameter device into a larger one — there is no reliable way of telling where the proximal edge of the device will end up, and having a free-floating end is suboptimal. Post-deployment In the end, it is a very useful practice to assure yourself that the device or devices are optimally-seated, apposing the walls at both landing zones, with no endoleaks, occult in-stent constrictions or torsions, intususseptions, etc. There are several methods for doing this — such as rotational angiography with contrast injection, Dyna CT with contrast injection, and J-wire technique. Which one is chosen is perhaps not as important as using whatever you prefer consistently and comfortably. We like the J-wire method of forming the J of an 0.014 wire and going back and forth through the construct, watching to make sure the J stays apposed to the walls of the device throughout, with no areas of “catching” or constriction. Our perceived advantages to J-technique are minimizing radiation and potentially streamlining the inside of the construct. Disadvantages include the potential for “breaking” apart the construct or dislodging a tenuously positioned stent. A few movies of the method are shown below. Here is an example of how post-processing pays off: Sometimes it is useful to gently bump the proximal end of the device with the delivery catheter or even distal support catheter to “pack” it in, for optimal wall apposition. Gently pushing the delivery wire after full device delivery will usually bring the wire along the outer curve of the vessel, allowing the Marksman to “catch” the edge of the device and move it forward, as seen below: Adjunctive coiling can be done before or after pipeline deployment. After is generally better, as you might not see the Pipe as well after coils are in. Trapping your favorite small microcatheter in the aneurysm is perfectly fine. Trapping larger catheters is up to you… Remember, no wire or coil can get through the interstices of the Pipeline — this is your only chance to coil the aneurysm. Please remember that aneurysms are not immediately cured following Pipeline placement. Some will rupture before they are fully endothelialized, for reasons that we like to categorize as “poorly understood” — although one good reason is that all aneurysms which are not 100% closed are at risk for rupture. Undoubtedly there are complex flow and thrombus-related changes taking place in “diverted” aneurysms. For these reasons, we have a lower threshold of coiling aneurysms which show growth, possible new symptoms such as regional pain, or just seem to be morphologically threatening. The cornucopia of potential new deployment surprises never runs empty, but some things are more common than others. Here they are: Delayed capture coil release — addressed above Who hasn’t seen one? I think that torsion most frequently happens when the delivery catheter (with the undeployed portion of the device in it) rotates around its long axis during deployment, creating a “waist” between the already delivered part of the device and that which is about to emerge from the delivery catheter, as seen in the pic below: I’ve not yet seen torsion before at least some part of the device is seated against the wall, nor is it common in a straight segment. The observation of torsion occurring more frequently in longer devices is for two reasons: 1) more device means more chance for torsion 2) long devices are chosen to bridge long necks which typically involve curves between landing zones. One of the most common torsion scenarios is exactly this — bridging the neck of a large aneurysm. After the distal end of the device is deployed and, hopefully, well seated against the wall of the landing zone artery, the operator “reduces” the system by pulling back on the delivery catheter and delivery wire together to “pull” the device into the distal landing zone in hopes of bridging the whole neck with a single stent. During the pull the catheter rotates around itself (it may have taken a loop-to-loop to get across the neck, etc) and when delivery is re-commenced and more stent comes out of the delivery catheter — behold, there is a torsion. Happens all the time. Here are some examples of torsion: Addressing torsion: 1) Recognition — torsion is different from ovalization, which is when the device flattens itself around a curve (see movie above). Ovalization looks like a waist on the device in one plane only. Torsion looks like torsion in all planes. 2) Wag the tail — wagging helps lots of things, including torsion. Basically wagging redistributes forces and loads, and promotes opening up the device in its optimal way. Wag a few times and see what happens. 3) Reverse last load/unload maneuver: The delivery catheter likely rotated on itself to precipitate torsion as a result of either reducing or increasing load applied prior to torsion. If you reduced load prior to torsion, increase load and wag, and vice versa. 4) Remove device — if nothing is working to untwist the device, cork and pull. With bad torsion, the capture coil will not go through the waist of the torsion, you may to effectively “cork” it there. As you pull, the torsion will likely undo itself when the proximal end of the device comes off the wall and has a chance to untwist itself. When this happens, cork for real and continue pulling. When you re-access and are ready to continue, consider using multiple smaller devices to accomplish the task, even it if means building a “loop” of device inside a large aneurysm. This may be the only way to go. 5) Deploy and angioplasty — if you don’t want to pull the whole thing out, and torsion is incomplete, such that it is possible to get the capture coil through it, you should be able to deploy the remainder of the device and then angioplasty the torsioned segment with a high-pressure balloon. Compliant balloons such as the hyperfrom/hyperglide family do nothing to torsion and there is no point in trying them. There are several potential issues with this approach. First, angioplasty might not succeed (have never seen it fail yet though) and you may end up with a “critical stenosis” in a man-made artery. Second, attempting to bring up balloon into a tenuously placed device (say across a large neck) may displace it so that the proximal or distal end will fall into the aneurysm (see movie above). Third, when angioplasty succeeds, it does so by breaking and twisting the strands of the device. This requires using an additional device to overlay the formerly torsioned one. You can guess what is likely to happen there… Use a short device to minimize chance of another torsion. Devices which have opened distally (detached from the capture coil, partially opened) may be removed by the “cork and pull” option if something is wrong — for example the device fell back and is too proximal, has a threatened torsion, is not opening well, etc. The price of the maneuver is loosing distal access — so its generally not a great option if you have already started building a construct in a large aneuyrsm, and getting back through will be even more difficult. Here’s how cork and pull works: Some illustrative movies: Happens occasionally. The capture coil is off, but device is not fully open. It is relatively straightforward to address this after the rest of the device is delivered. Bring the delivery catheter through the device and push it open. If still partially constrained, use J-wire (see below) or angioplasty (compliant balloon is enough for this). Here is a movie of distal stenosis post detachment. May be either true constriction or a partial torsion. Most of the former are due to excessive unsheathing of the device, without allowing it to fully open. A picture of irregular, narrow device is essentially a signature of improper deployment. Prevention is the best cure. If you see stenosis developing, most likely there is not enough load. Wagging the system after adding load works well. There is often narrowing (ovalization) seen when going around a curve — even when loads are appropriate. Make sure its not a torsion, keep deploying until the device comes around the curve, and wag, wait, and wag until it opens, which is almost always. Occult in-stent stenosis can also be discovered, if not by means of visualization, then by J-wire postprocessing, which was already shown above. The same movie of addressing in-stent stenosis is shown below: The “Lazy” Device (non-opening) Occasionally, pushing device out under appropriate load does not produce expected opening. All factors being accounted for, this is some kind of device issue. The answer, again, is the same — go slow and wag — works nearly every time. Another example below: This device simply refuses to open: Ovalization around curves The device will predictably ovalize somewhat when going around curves. This is not a major problem, so its important to stay calm and not mistake it for torsion. The difference is that torsion looks like torsion (“hourglass” from all angles) while ovalization looks like flattening in one plane (usually in lateral around the carotid siphon), while the AP looks good. The key is to GO SLOW! Please don’t be like those operators who think Pipeline delivery is a Western gunfight. Vary the load, within reason, and wag the tail. Chances are the ovalization will resolve. Sometimes it helps just to keep going and push more device out until you are again in a straight segment, then wag tail, and device will open. Here are some examples: Typical stubborn ovalization around the curve, being addressed (ineffectively) by wagging the tail. The problem is not the curve, but the initial ascending cavernous segment (which some call “lacerum”), where the device is not fully opened. Persistent wagging eventually does the trick. Happens occasionally, but when it does, it is seriously bad news. Here is a movie of proximal opening failure, despite appropriate loads, etc. As seen above, the device comes out with proximal end constrained, and sometimes twisted to the side, like a “comma” “,” sign. Sometimes proximal stenosis is a result of having too much load on the system as the final part of the device is delivered. We usually relax load and unsheath the last few millimeters of the device inside the delivery catheter, as seen in movie below: If proximal stenosis happens anyway, what to do depends on how bad the situation is. 1) Wagging the tail: helps lots of things. The delivery wire inside the stent, by wagging, contacts the inside of the stent, and may get it to open fully. 2) Bumping with delivery catheter: sometimes “bumping” the device with the end of the delivery catheter is enough to make it open. GENTY, bring up the delivery catheter and apply some pressure on the end of the device (see above movie). If this does not work after several tries, don’t continue or you may bend the end further. 3) Angioplasty: If the constriction is large enough to admit the delivery catheter, go through, capture the capture coil, and place you delivery catheter distal to the stent. From this point, you have many options — such as placing an exchange-length wire and bringing up a balloon — which in this case may be a compliant type — to expand across the area of narrowing. High-pressure balloon will work for sure. If the stenosis is severe, and the delivery catheter is not going through, DO NOT REMOVE the distal guidewire. Try to maintain access! Trying to open up the constriction with the capture coil by pulling through the stenosis may work, but if the distal delivery wire falls out altogether, you will have a critical stenosis with no good way to get back in. Options are: 1) Removing delivery catheter while maintaining the guidewire inside — requires letting the entire delivery wire go into the delivery catheter as you pull it out — pushing some saline through the delivery catheter to maintain pressure on the wire as you remove it helps. You can also cut away the delivery catheter around the wire in sections. Once that is done, a 4 mm gooseneck snare is placed AROUND the delivery guidewire, advanced to the device, synched, and device removed. 2) Access from above — if there is a way from above (PCOM or ACOM), then second groin stick, followed by access from above and balloon angioplasty (compliant balloon is enough) works. Do not pull on things too much when coming from above — risks injury to circle of Willis. This method is also available if proximal access has been lost. I would suggest that, if you are in this position, and think the ACOM or PCOM is large enough, you should consider doing a balloon test occlusion of the artery with the problematic pipeline. There are as many BTO protocols as neurointerventionalists. We typically do BTOs asleep, and rely on angiographic appearance to declare passage or failure; I assure you that our results are as good as awake hypotensive challenge and similar maneuvers. This is a minority view, but it has the advantage of allowing us to have more comfort with BTOs under circumstances of anesthesia. If the patient has an apparently sufficient circle of Willis, consider the potential disadvantages of access from above in terms of risks to the contralateral hemisphere — perhaps the better part of valor is to sacrifice the parent vessel. Nothing is working — proximal access lost, from above is impossible, BTO a failure… Options are bringing in an emergency proctor or your friendly pipeline specialist, perhaps a bypass and takedown if sufficient expertise exists, or continuing with stent removal attempts. There is also the possibility of waking up the patient, and maintaining him/her on double antiplatelets and heparin for a week or two — devices with proximal stenosis have been known to open partially on follow-up angio — at least enough to allow for the possibility of balloon angioplasty. Alternatively, flow reduction from unopened device may encourage growth of circle of Willis or other collaterals, thus allowing for vessel takedown at future time. It is probably best, if you are in this situation, to keep heparin on as well as antiplatelets, in proportion to the degree of flow reduction. Hemorrhage: perforation, fistula, etc. Managed on individual basis. The first step is to recognize one. Slow bleeds are subtle and may not produce obvious vital sign changes, as seen in images below. Notice relatively subtle opacity over the posterior Sylvian fissure (A, white oval) on an ICA injection, with corresponding microinjections (C,D,E) showing a small extravasation (arrows), which produced no small amount of blood and contrast in the subarachnoid space on this Dyna CT (B). The devices were already delivered, and so choice made to close branch with coils (F). Patient was recovered fully after 1 month (initial weakness). If a distal branch is injured by the guidewire or catheter, it is probably best to close it if this is clinically feasible to avoid the risk of delayed re-hemorrhage. CC fistulas are unlikely to close with Pipe alone and will likely require coiling or some other treatment. Leaving in a misdeployed device is usually not advisable. All reasonable effort should be made to safely remove, plasty, or otherwise fix misdeployed devices. Sometimes there is simply nothing that can be done to fish out a device. In these cases, parent vessel sacrifice is probably the best thing to do if there are sufficient collaterals. If not, the patient may be maintained on antiplatelets and heparin to allow for growth of appropriate collaterals. Consideration should be given to arranging for patient transfer to your regional facility with maximum expertise in dealing with these issues. Anti-platelet management: We have not had a single in-stent thrombosis in the anterior circulation after starting to measure P2Y12. Further discussion is outside the scope of this page. Follow-up in our group is same as in PUFS — a 6 month angio, unless clinical considerations merit an earlier study. The next follow-up is a 12 month catheter angio. We prefer 3 and 5 year catheter angiograms to CTA. We learn much more about reasons for the occasional incomplete occlusion by doing catheter angio than via any other modality. Mass effect symptoms respond variably, depending on nature, severity, and duration of symptoms. Not infrequently the symptoms worsen before they get better — likely acute intra-aneurysmal thrombosis and inflammation, followed by aneurysm collapse. Cross-sectional, in addition to catheter angiographic followup of all patients with mass effect symptoms is essential. Aneurysm enlargement in the face of apparent angiographic cure is lack of endothelialization — and nothing else. These cases need more stents — and more than a few — before its too late. Pain is the rule in certain locations — cavernous especially, followed by posterior fossa. Likely due to aneurysm thrombosis, it usually develops in subacute fashion, and is usually good rather than bad news. A short course of steroids works great, in addition to other meds. Pain typically lasts from a few weeks to several months. However, if pain develops or recurs after some time of pain-free interval, say several months, this is reason for prompt imaging, including cross-sectional, to evaluate for possible growth of aneurysm sac, even if angiographically the aneurysm seems “closed”. Follow-up angiography — persistence of aneurysm Our rate of 6 and 12 month non-occlusion remains identical to PUFS, as is our average stent number per case. Those using less devices will find less cures. The most important thing to make sure when facing a persistent aneurysm is to exclude an endoleak. Lack of device apposition at the landing zones leads to endoleak, which keeps the aneurysm open. Look carefully at unsubtracted images and take multiple high-magnification oblique views. If there is no endoleak, we usually wait another 6 months, and if the aneurysm remains open, add more devices. We will routinely obtain cross-sectional imaging for patients with angiographic “cure”. More and more reports are emerging of aneurysm sacks which continue to grow despite apparent angiographic cure. This means that the device is NOT endothelialized and the aneurysm remains open — as further proven by even more disturbing reports of “recanalizations” following apparent cure. The message, again, is that there was no cure, only thrombus, and more devices need to be placed, before too long… When an artery emerges from the aneurysm (neck or dome) such as the ophthalmic, one of two things is likely to happen: either the ophthalmic will stay open, together with the aneurysm, or both will go down. The artery usually closes slowly (like an endovascular Silverstone clamp) and the external carotid takes over with no issues: about 20% of our ophthalmic arteries go down on follow-up, with one case of amaurosis and no cases of any vision loss, partial or complete — including PUFS cases with dedicated perimetery testing. In the posterior circulation, the situation is more difficult, as all arteries are eloquent. In any case, if you feel that the aneurysm is kept open by an artery arising from the aneurysm, a judgment call is required. Below is an illustration of exactly such differences in a patient with a huge fusiform trans-segmental aneurysm (A). The ophthalmic (black arrowhead) arises from the “dome”, while the anterior choroidal (white arrowhead) is situated on the tapering segment of the “fusiformity”. Both are multi-covered by the Pipeline construct. The ophthalmic ostium is away from the device (black arrow), while the ostium of the choroidal is purposefully situated immediately adjacent to the construct (white arrow). Eight months later (D), the ophthalmic is closed (asymptomatic, ECA reconstitution), while the choroidal continues to fill. Occasionally collateral reconstitution can be seen in other scenarios, for example in this patient with a giant MCA bifurcation aneurysm, with a small inferior division coming from the neck. Two PEDs produced tremendous flow diversion, with immediate non-visualization of the temporal lobe. Injection of the vertebral artery shows robust collateral reconstitution of the inferior division all the way to the ostium. Case courtesy of Dr. Howard A. Riina Pipeline is a very complicated device in its first incarnation. Mastering it requires patience and humility, at all levels of expertise. Going through the first 10 cases without some kind of issue is unlikely, so that all members of the team must be mentally and technically prepared for issues. It is extremely helpful to inform your team of such possibilities ahead of time. Try to neither love or hate the device after first 1 through 5 cases, but go slowly and listen to the local experts — proctors, reps, specialists… Everything I learned about Pipeline can be traced to the influence of two great teachers– Dr. Peter Kim Nelson and Dr. Tibor Becske. Whatever contributions I made have been influenced by their vision. I am also deeply grateful to Dr. Howard A. Riina for his guidance and support. This page would never come about without the support of our fellows Eytan Raz and Daniel Zumofen. For the purposes of disclaimer, views and opinions expressed on this page are entirely my own. I, Maksim Shapiro, am a Pipeline proctor and per diem consultant with Covidien, the manufacturer of Pipeline. No financial or other support whatsoever was provided by any legal entity, group, or individual towards creation of this page, or www.neuroangio.org as a whole. Pipeline devices featured in ex-vivo images above were donated by Covidien for general training purposes, and related projects. See Disclaimer section for general disclaimer information. Questions, Comments, Inquiries May be submitted via the Contact Us section or by calling the office at 1-212-263-6008	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3540
__label__wiki	0.535318	0.535318	Tag: Walmart Journalism Newley's Notes NN201: Newest Page One Story — Podcast Appearance — 1 Billion Surveillance Cams — Bonus Puppy Content No Comments on NN201: Newest Page One Story — Podcast Appearance — 1 Billion Surveillance Cams — Bonus Puppy Content Sent as an email newsletter December 9, 2019. 👋 Hi, friends. Welcome to the latest edition of Newley’s Notes, a weekly newsletter containing my recent Wall Street Journal stories, must-read links on tech and life, and funny dog videos. 📬 Not a subscriber yet? Get it here. Apologies for NN’s absence last week. After an enjoyable Thanksgiving…your faithful correspondent promptly fell ill. But I’m back now! ✍️ I’m proud to say I had another page one story (the second in a week’s time, following my piece on lending apps), this one out on Wednesday. The headline: U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India. Now It’s Changing the Rules. And the first few grafs: NEW DELHI – After Walmart Inc. sealed a $16 billion deal last year to buy India’s biggest domestic e-commerce startup, it got some bad news. India was changing its e-commerce regulations. Foreign-owned online retailers would need to modify their supply chains and stop deep discounting. Those rules didn’t apply to Indian companies. India, the world’s biggest untapped digital market, has suddenly become a much tougher slog for American and other international players. It’s not just Walmart, but also the likes of Amazon, Google, and Facebook’s WhatsApp that are facing shifting regulatory sands. Please give it a read. 📹 Meanwhile, my colleague Liza Lin and I had a story out Friday that has captured a lot of attention (it was even shared on Twitter by Marco Rubio. The headline: A World With a Billion Cameras Watching You Is Just Around the Corner. It begins: As governments and companies invest more in security networks, hundreds of millions more surveillance cameras will be watching the world in 2021, mostly in China, according to a new report. The report, from industry researcher IHS Markit, to be released Thursday, said the number of cameras used for surveillance would climb above 1 billion by the end of 2021. That would represent an almost 30% increase from the 770 million cameras today. China would continue to account for a little over half the total. Fast-growing, populous nations such as India, Brazil and Indonesia would also help drive growth in the sector, the report said. 🎧 Other news: I was on the latest edition of the excellent Asia Matters podcast. In an episode called “What China’s ambitions tell us about tech in Asia,” I joined my ex-WSJ colleague Andrew Peaple and Julian Gewirtz of Harvard to share my perspective from India. You can listen here, or search for “Asia Matters” on Spotify or in your favorite podcast app. Okay – enough self-promotion. On to this week’s links… Here are ten items worth your time this week: 📈 1) Google Management Shuffle Points to Retreat From Alphabet Experiment [WSJ] “Sundar Pichai’s appointment this week as chief executive of Google parent Alphabet Inc. effectively shifts the focus back on the company’s advertising profit machine and away from its “moonshots” and other potential new businesses.” 👓 2) Warby Parker Wants to Be the Warby Parker of Contacts [Bloomberg] “At $440 for a year’s supply, the lenses will be slightly cheaper than many daily contacts but will be sold with what Warby says will be a much improved ordering process.” ⛺ 3) How Hipcamp Became the Airbnb of the Outdoors [New Yorker] “Alyssa Ravasio, Hipcamp’s founder and C.E.O., is not a purist. For her, camping is a leisure activity, an escape valve, a business opportunity, a wealth-redistribution system, and a political strategy: an avenue to environmental awareness, engagement, even activism.” 🍎 4) Apple worth more than US stock index’s energy sector [Financial Times] “Apple is now worth more than all large-cap US energy stocks put together.” 🧘 5) Buddhism scholars: Meditation apps are fueling tech addiction, not easing stress [Fast Company] “…Buddhist apps, rather than curing the anxiety created by our smartphones, just make us more addicted to them and, in the end, even more stressed.” 🏎️ 6) These Guys Just Drove an E63 AMG Across America in a Record 27 Hours 25 Minutes [Road & Track] “After leaving the Red Ball garage on the east side of Manhattan at 12:57 a.m. on November 10, it took Toman, Tabbutt and Chadwick 27 hours and 25 minutes to reach the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, in L.A.’s South Bay. In a car.” 💾 7) Version Museum [VersionMuseum] “A visual history of your favorite technology.” 🗺️ 8) Map: The most common last name in every country [Reddit] 🏈 9) Sad/heartwarming dog-related story of the week: This college football player lost his parents before Senior Day, but he didn’t walk out alone [CBS News] “A Michigan State University football player whose parents died before Senior Day walked out with his adopted dogs onto the field for the occasion.” 🐶 10) Dog-related video of the week: This is the most Indian photo bomb [Twitter: @Tim_Kimber] 💡 Quote of the week: “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Raymond Chandler 👊 Fist bump from New Delhi, Newley Tags amazon, China, google, Walmart, whatsapp Newley’s Notes 178: Tsu-NaMo; Fake Pelosi Vid; SF Blues; Beagle Puppies No Comments on Newley’s Notes 178: Tsu-NaMo; Fake Pelosi Vid; SF Blues; Beagle Puppies 🇮🇳 Well, it’s official: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back. In a big way. Official results out Thursday showed he’s won a sweeping mandate for another five years. 🌊 “NaMOMENT,” “Yes! Prime Minister,” “Modi Tsunami,” “Modi Magic,” “Tsunamo.” Those were among the newspaper front page headlines on Friday. I posted some photos of them here on Newley.com. 🤔 So, what does Modi’s reelection mean for U.S. firms, like Amazon and Walmart, that are pouring billions of dollars into India? For my latest story, I spoke with several folks to answer that question. The lede: U.S. technology firms recently facing pushback in India, the world’s biggest untapped digital economy, can expect more scrutiny following Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resounding re-election, according to executives and analysts. “Electorally there’s no gain in mollycoddling Amazon and Walmart,” one senior executive at a tech firm told me. 🔍 1) Facebook on fake Pelosi video: Being ‘false’ isn’t enough for removal [Politico] “Facebook said Friday that a video doctored to depict House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words will remain on the social network because false information alone does not violate the site’s rules.” 🕵️ 2) In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc [NY Times] “Since 2017, when the N.S.A. lost control of the tool, EternalBlue, it has been picked up by state hackers in North Korea, Russia and, more recently, China, to cut a path of destruction around the world, leaving billions of dollars in damage. But over the past year, the cyberweapon has boomeranged back and is now showing up in the N.S.A.’s own backyard.” 🔮 3) Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions [Bloomberg] “Amazon.com Inc. is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg.” 🌁 4) How San Francisco Broke America’s Heart [Washington Post] “Tech isn’t what everyone talks about in San Francisco. It’s money. Real estate, income inequality, $20 salads, the homeless, adult children unable to move out, non-tech workers unable to move in.”" 🎸 5) Sofar Sounds house concerts raises $25M, but bands get just $100 [TechCrunch] “Tired of noisy music venues where you can hardly see the stage? Sofar Sounds puts on concerts in people’s living rooms where fans pay $15 to $30 to sit silently on the floor and truly listen.” ⛵ 6) ‘It could change everything’: coin found off northern Australia may be from pre–1400 Africa [The Guardian] “…the most likely scenario is that the Portuguese, who looted Kilwa in 1505, went on to set foot on Australian shores, bringing the coins with them.” 🌏 7) What Changed My Mind About Climate Change? [The Bullwark] “As Cato’s director of Natural Resource Studies (and later, as a senior fellow and eventually vice president), I maintained that, while climate change was real, the impacts would likely prove rather modest and that the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions would greatly exceed the benefits. I changed my mind about that, however, because (among other things) I changed my mind about risk management.” ⚔️ 8) An illustrated guide to all 6,887 deaths in ‘Game of Thrones’ [Washington Post] “And after eight seasons of continually rising body counts, we can definitively confirm — “Valar Morghulis” — all men must indeed die.” 📊 9) How Data (and Some Breathtaking Soccer) Brought Liverpool to the Cusp of Glory [NY Times Magazine] “Analytics has famously influenced the tactics in professional baseball and basketball in recent years. Ultimately, it may have just as great an impact on soccer, which traditionally hasn’t relied on statistics to figure out much of anything.” 🐶 🤩 10) When food is life [Instagram video: doglover_s] 🐱 😂 BONUS LINK: UPDATE – FOUND CAT – NEED OWNERS ASAP!! [Craigslist] “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.” – Carl Sagan 💥 Was this message forwarded to you? Sign up here. Tags amazon, flipkart, narendra_modi, Walmart India Journalism Tech Modi’s Re-Election Means More Scrutiny for U.S. Tech Giants No Comments on Modi’s Re-Election Means More Scrutiny for U.S. Tech Giants That’s the headline on my newest story, out Friday. It begins: NEW DELHI – U.S. technology firms recently facing pushback in India, the world’s biggest untapped digital economy, can expect more scrutiny following Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resounding re-election, according to executives and analysts. They expect Mr. Modi’s government to continue tightening restrictions on American titans such as Amazon.com Inc., Walmart Inc. and Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp. U.S. firms have been pouring billions of dollars into the country of 1.3 billion people in part because, unlike China, India has provided a level playing field for foreign firms at a time when hundreds of millions of people are getting online thanks to cheaper mobile data and smartphones. Click through to read the rest. Tags amazon, flipkart, Walmart, whatsapp Amazon, Facebook and Walmart Need to Watch Their Backs in India No Comments on Amazon, Facebook and Walmart Need to Watch Their Backs in India That’s the headline on a story I wrote Tuesday with my colleague Rajesh Roy. It begins: Hoping to match China’s success at protecting and promoting homegrown tech titans, India has plans to continue tightening restrictions on Amazon.com Inc., Walmart Inc., Facebook Inc. and other foreign firms that have come to dominate the country’s budding internet economy. As hundreds of millions of people get online for the first time, and with national elections due in the coming months, Indian policy makers are upping the pressure on American rivals and changing policies to favor domestic players. The secretary of India’s Telecommunications Department, Aruna Sundararajan, last week told a gathering of Indian startups in a closed-door meeting in the tech hub of Bangalore that the government will introduce a “national champion” policy “very soon” to encourage the rise of Indian companies, according to a person familiar with the matter. She said Indian policy makers had noted the success of China’s internet giants, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. , the person said. She didn’t immediately respond to a request for more details on the program or its timing. Asked about the comments, she said in a WhatsApp message that the idea is to promote Indian companies “to become global champions." Tags amazon, facebook, Walmart Amazon, Walmart Foiled as India Tightens E-Commerce Rules No Comments on Amazon, Walmart Foiled as India Tightens E-Commerce Rules That’s the headline of a story I wrote Thursday with my colleague Corinne Abrams. It begins: India is tightening restrictions on foreign e-commerce companies operating in the country, in a new challenge to Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. as they bet billions on the nascent market. Current rules forbid non-Indian online sellers from holding their own inventory and shipping it out to consumers, as is typically done in other countries. Instead, the foreign sellers have found a work-around, selling online what are effectively their own products but held by their affiliated local companies. We wrote more about the issue Friday in another story, which began: American firms are plowing billions into India’s internet economy in part because, unlike China, India promised a level playing field for foreign firms to compete against local companies. Now that field may be tilting toward domestic startups amid a global backlash against U.S. tech titans, according to analysts and industry officials. With national elections approaching early next year, India’s government said Wednesday it is tightening restrictions on foreign e-commerce players, the latest move in recent months that restrains their freedom to operate compared with local firms. The new rules present a fresh challenge to Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. as they aim for growing slices of a market where many of India’s 1.3 billion people are starting to shop online thanks to inexpensive smartphones and data. Vinay Kesari, a Bangalore-based technology lawyer specializing in regulatory matters who has worked with U.S. tech firms, said such moves to rein in foreign tech companies have been highly unusual and may be a sign of more to come. “I’ve never seen anything like this happening,” he said. “All bets are off at this point.” Tags amazon, Walmart	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3541
__label__wiki	0.955024	0.955024	Greek parliament calls on Germany to pay WW2 reparations Wednesday, 17 April 2019 19:35 GMT About our Humanitarian Crises coverage From major disaster, conflicts and under-reported stories, we shine a light on the world’s hotspots * Greek parliament backs proposal to seek reparations * Germany says reparations issue settled long ago * Many Greeks blame Germany for painful austerity measures (Recasts with result of vote, more background) By Renee Maltezou and George Georgiopoulos ATHENS, April 17 (Reuters) - The Greek parliament voted on Wednesday to launch a diplomatic campaign to press Germany to cough up billions of euros in damages for the Nazi occupation of the country in World War Two, an issue Berlin says was settled long ago. Greece suffered hugely under Nazi German rule and a parliamentary commission in 2016 put the cost at more than 300 billion euros, though Wednesday's proposal - backed by both ruling coalition and opposition lawmakers - mentioned no figure. The vote, the first official decision by parliament on the emotive reparations issue, is likely to further strain ties with Germany, blamed by many Greeks for painful austerity measures imposed in return for bailout loans during its financial crisis. The proposal, which comes ahead of national elections due in October, calls on the government to take "every appropriate legal and diplomatic action to satisfy Greece's demands". "This claim is our historic and moral duty," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said at the end of a nearly 12-hour debate which concluded with the vote on the proposal submitted by parliamentary speaker Nikos Voutsis. "To build a better future we need to close the open cases of the past and Germany needs to do the same," he said, adding that Athens would raise the issue diplomatically with Berlin. ISSUE "CONCLUSIVELY SETTLED" Germany has in the past apologised for Nazi-era crimes but has not been willing to reopen talks on reparations. Then-West Germany paid Greece the sum of 115 million deutschmarks in 1960 as reparations for its wartime suffering. "The question of German reparations has been conclusively settled, both legally and politically," German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Wednesday. "We are, and I hope you can believe us, aware of our historic responsibility." Greece has emerged in the past year from a decade of austerity imposed by international lenders in return for bailouts that kept it afloat after the debt crisis erupted in 2010. Tsipras, a leftist, said his government did not want to link the two issues, responding to criticism over the parliament's delayed response to the report on the matter issued in 2016. "We could never put the absolute evil of Nazism... on a scale," he said. "No slaughter, no monstrosity, not even one drop of blood could be balanced against any bailout." Nazi Germany invaded Greece in May 1941, raising the swastika over the Acropolis in Athens. About a thousand Greek villages were razed during the war, thousands died of starvation and tens of thousands of people killed in reprisals by German forces trying to crush Greek resistance. The parliamentary committee in 2016 assessed the occupation cost as at least 269 billion euros ($304 billion), rising to over 300 billion euros with the inclusion of an amount the Nazis forced the Bank of Greece to hand over in 1942. That "occupation loan" also helped bankroll Hitler's military campaign in North Africa. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the conservative New Democracy Party which is leading in opinion polls, said any future government led by him would seek to recoup that occupation loan. ($1 = 0.8846 euros) (Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke and Thomas Escritt, editing by Michele Kambas and Gareth Jones) EXPLORE MORE Humanitarian Crises NEWS Myanmar govt-appointed panel finds 'war crimes' but no 'genocide' against Rohingya U.N. says militants targeted aid worker hub in northern Nigeria Having fled bombing, Syrian children learn to read in borderland tent schools Nations dawdle on agreeing rules to control 'killer robots' in future wars	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3544
__label__wiki	0.848753	0.848753	Write an article » Poptime The dead are here in Game of Thrones S8 E3 teaser trailer The dead are already here in the latest teaser trailer for Game of Thrones‘ eighth season. We’re one third of the way into the final six episodes of the… read more Susan Brett April 23 2019, 2:13 pm More on Game of Thrones The dead are already here in the latest teaser trailer for Game of Thrones‘ eighth season. We’re one third of the way into the final six episodes of the series, with twists and turns at every corner. Most of our heroes have gathered in Winterfell, preparing to wage war against an undead enemy. In episode two ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’, we learnt that the battle was only hours away. By episode three, it looks like it’s finally here. The new trailer shows Grey Worm and Brienne commanding their troops, women and children waiting in the crypts, and many characters unsheathing their weapons. In voiceover, Sansa says “The most heroic thing we can do now is look the truth in the face.” Later, Jon Snow says “The Night King is coming” and Daenerys corrects him with “The dead are already here.” Could these words imply an oversight on behalf of the living? Could the dead have somehow caught the living by surprise? A quick google search will reveal there are plenty of fan theories floating around about the crypts right now. Episode two repeatedly told us that was the safest place for those who could not fight, but is it really? Then there’s that shot of Arya running, terrified, from something. What could it be? Monday can’t come soon enough. Game of Thrones airs Mondays at 2am and 9pm on Sky Atlantic. Game of Thrones S8E1 review: reunions, revelations and a threat Please be aware this review contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8 episode 1 ‘Winterfell’. It’s been eighteen months since we last set foot in Westeros, but did… read more April 15 2019, 9:53 am Please be aware this review contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8 episode 1 ‘Winterfell’. It’s been eighteen months since we last set foot in Westeros, but did Game of Thrones‘ season eight premiere deliver? Fans will remember the thrilling climax to season seven. Most of the show’s cast headed north to wage war on the dead, Bran and Sam made a predictable discovery, and Jon and Dany finally did the dirty. It was all a set up for ‘Winterfell’, which saw most of the show’s cast convening in one location and a lot of reunions. Jon Snow reunited with siblings Bran and Arya. Arya reunited with the Hound and Gendry (do I spy flirting there, HBO?). Bran reunited (briefly) with Jaime Lannister, in an effort to bring Game of Thrones full circle. Former husband and wife Tyrion and Sansa were reunited, as were best friends Jon and Sam. It’s a lot for one episode, and consequently none of these reunions were allowed the power and gravitas of Jon and Sansa’s season six reunion. That said, Bran is quite right – we don’t have time for this. As we’re reminded repeatedly, the dead are marching south – and Winterfell is on their way. There is only one undead in this episode, but the presence of the Night King is felt throughout. Jon Snow repeatedly defends his decision to swear loyalty to Daenerys by claiming he cares for the North’s survival more than a crown. The houses of the North struggle to accept this new foreign Queen. Meanwhile, there is a creeping sense of urgency about the episode. People are already dying, and they have no way to feed the troops and the dragons. Jon Snow is a huge focus of ‘Winterfell’. His Northern men are unhappy with his allegiance to Daenerys, and even Sansa questions his true motives. Meanwhile, it seems things couldn’t be better for Jon and Daenerys. The new couple go on a romantic dragon retreat, which sees the much awaited moment that Jon rides a dragon for the first time. This romance seems to be filled with energy from a Viagra ad that helps lovers. Jon, of course, has no idea what this means, until he gets the reveal we all got last season. Sam tells Jon his real parents are Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen. He is the rightful heir to the throne. What Jon will do with this information, however, is unclear. There’s a bit of drama unfolding down South too. Cersei is less than impressed when Euron delivers 20000 men, 2000 horses and no elephants. However, Euron’s charisma wins her around. She also asks Bronn to assassinate her two brothers, Tyrion and Jaime, in a move that absolutely nobody expects to work. All in all, ‘Winterfell’ was as good as we might’ve expected from an episode that had so much ground to cover. There were some emotional reunions, there were epic moments, there was nudity (thanks for that), there was horror, and there were laughs aplenty. The show definitely hasn’t lost its ability to make decent in-jokes, nor frighten. It feels like we are building to something epic, and Game of Thrones is slowly but surely manoeuvring its players together. Game of Thrones airs Mondays on Sky Atlantic at 2am and 9pm. How well do you really know Care Bears? The Care Bears are back and better than ever before. Starting with a new special episode on Saturday April 6 at 7am on Tiny Pop, the Care Bears will… read more April 5 2019, 3:18 pm More on Care Bears The Care Bears are back and better than ever before. Starting with a new special episode on Saturday April 6 at 7am on Tiny Pop, the Care Bears will return for Care Bears: Unlock The Magic. If you thought you remembered these cuddly, adorable bears from your childhood – think again: the bears have had a makeover. Not only are the bears lovable and caring, these new renditions can dance, perform magic and even rap. No doubt this is going to make their adventures even more fun than ever before! In the first look teaser, the Care Bears encounter an unexpected stowaway on their holiday trip. Who is this new friend? How can the Care Bears get them home? And what other adventures await this new-look squad? Care Bears: Unlock the Magic starts Saturday April 6 at 7am on Tiny Pop. The best additions to Amazon Prime Video in April 2019 Spring is here and so is a new selection of Amazon offerings. This month, some old favourites are returning for a new season, including Bosch (April 19), Cloak and… read more More on Amazon Spring is here and so is a new selection of Amazon offerings. This month, some old favourites are returning for a new season, including Bosch (April 19), Cloak and Dagger (April 5) and The Tick (April 5). There’s also comedy sequel 22 Jump Street (April 1) and monster movie reboot Kong: Skull Island (April 19) in a fun-filled Spring line-up. Clear your schedules and hope for April showers. Here are our top Amazon picks for April 2019: 1. 22 Jump Street Available on April 1 2. Cloak and Dagger (Season 2) 3. The Tick (Season 2) 4. Fury 5. The Festival Available on April 17 6. Bosch (Season 5) 7. Kong: Skull Island 8. Yardie The best additions to Netflix in April 2019 We are a third of the way into 2019 and the Netflix content is only heating up. This month’s offerings include the second season of tense family drama Doctor… read more More on Netflix We are a third of the way into 2019 and the Netflix content is only heating up. This month’s offerings include the second season of tense family drama Doctor Foster (April 3) the second part of horror adaptation The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (April 5) and the return of Samantha! (April 19). After the success of interactive Black Mirror special Bandersnatch, Netflix’s new interactive survival special You vs. Wild debuts on April 10. Netflix users will get the chance to direct top British survivalist Bear Grylls around in a virtual fight for survival. Here are our top Netflix picks for April 2019: 1. Doctor Foster (Season 2) 2. Our Planet 3. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Part 2) 4. Unicorn Store 5. Quick Sand 6. You vs. Wild 7. Black Summer 8. Jurassic Park 1-3 9. Someone Great 10. Samantha! (Season 2) Setup your menu TV Guide © 2016. All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3545
__label__wiki	0.97346	0.97346	Breezy Point, MN – The Breezy Point North Stars, members of the NA3HL, announced that Nick Blanchette and Torin Foundos have committed to play D1 ACHA collegiate ice hockey at Jamestown University following their junior careers. Nick Blanchette, a forward in his second season with the North Stars, has already recorded more points in 35 games this year than the entire 2014-15 campaign. In 35 games, Blanchette has 15 points. Last year in 42 games played, the Minnesota native picked up 12 points. ”Nick is a big forward that has good skill and will be a good powerful forward at the next level,” said head coach Josh Dallmann. “We wish Nick the best of luck at school.” In his first season with the North Stars, Torin Foundos has five points in 37 games. “Torin is a shifty forward that goes to the hard areas,” said Dallmann. “He has been playing this level for a while and it’s good to see him achieve his goals. We also wish Torin the best of luck in school.” Before coming to Breezy Point, Foundos spent time with the Minnesota Flying Aces and Billings Bulls of the NA3HL. The Breezy Point North Stars are members of the NA3HL. Follow the North Stars on Facebook (Facebook.com/breezypointnorthstarsjrhockey) and Twitter (@bpnorthstars). Previous PostAlexandria uses big second period to beat Breezy Point, 8-4Next PostCORY DENNIS CALLED UP TO KENAI RIVER BROWN BEARS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3549
__label__wiki	0.928689	0.928689	Northwestern Press PIAA football proposals continue to move along Thursday, June 18, 2015 by PETER CAR pcar@tnonline.com in HS Sports The PIAA's Strategic Planning and Football Steering Committee presented eight different classification proposals last month for athletic directors to chew on in regards to the future of high school football across the state of Pennsylvania. All of the proposals passed the first reading during the May 20 meeting, which Whitehall Athletic Director and District 11 chairman Bob Hartman fully expected. "The PIAA just wants to keep things moving along," Hartman said. "We'll meet again in July and go from there, but as of right now, there's nothing official." The four proposals include: 1. The current four-classification alignment. 2. A six-classification alignment. 3. Six classes with a "Super 700" class of all schools with male enrollments of 700 as determined by the PIAA. 4. Six classes with a "Super 800" class, as defined above. The committee also offered different versions of the four proposals with tweaks as stated in their meeting minutes, "the possibility of classifying schools using their submitted enrollment numbers and 10 percent of the other submitted home school; alternative school; magnet school; technology school; charter school and cyber charter school numbers to determine their classification and to review the enrollment classification parameters of schools as outlined." That paragraph can alter the classification of every school and compiling a list of where schools can end up in each classification is futile at this point, as Hartman pointed out that schools will have new enrollment numbers in October. The different versions of the four proposals will add numbers to a respective schools classification, which could bump them up a class. As of now, Hartman agreed that there is progress in the situation and he will hold a press conference in the coming weeks to spell out all the proposals. It's scheduled for Tuesday, June 16. The PIAA's next Strategic Planning meeting is board of directors meeting on July 22. At that point, the proposals could be passed to a second reading, tabled or dead. "We're still nowhere really, but there is progress," Hartman said. "The ball is rolling, but there's still a lot of bumps in the road." Copyright © Times News, LLC. Reproduction is prohibited without the express written consent of the Times News, LLC. Northwestern Press · 1633 N. 26th Street · Allentown, PA 18104 News/Presskit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3550
__label__wiki	0.512685	0.512685	New York Mysteries Alana Hartman Graphic Lessons: the first three chapters Misterio en el Lemrow The Lemrow Mystery Dr. Margaret Ann Cowden Chris Land Tag Archives: Benjamin Altman NewYork Mysteries May 28 – June 3 June 3, 2017 mangiamillie At the IFC, Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary is playing. What a documentary. Coltrane’s ability as a composer, musician and good husband and father are celebrated by family and friends. He absorbed Christianity and practiced charity. His music reflected this. “Alabama” was his piece written to honor four black girls killed by racists. He travelled to Japan to play for the Japanese. What a guy. He’s been declared a saint by a San Francisco Church. I find the concept creepy but who cares? On Memorial Day a friend and I walked around the beautiful, deserted, rainy Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. We were in the Japanese Gardens and Shakespeare’s Garden. The Japanese Garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden The Met’s exhibit of Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B. C. – A. D. 22) wasn’t crowded but it was dark. The lack of light added to the mysterious, foreign atmosphere. How did the farm animal ceramics survive? Military figures and their chariots abound. Since it’s on the second floor I walked down the stairs to the Great Hall. For the first time I noticed the benefactors plaques that hang on the stairway walls. Each plaque is dated in Roman numerals The first: MDCCCLXX-MCMXX (1870-1920) has a list of the rich and powerful men of that era: Joseph Pulitzer, Benjamin Altman, among others. Other luminaries on other plaques include Junius S. Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor and Ira Gershwin. Graphic Lessons: Recent thirty-five-year-old widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man in the school kitchen, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine-year-old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies. Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears three people fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who’s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie. Something’s eating at NYPD Det. Steve Kulchek: a failed marriage? surviving a car bomb? his girlfriend marrying his corrupt boss? screwing up an important case? It doesn’t matter because he’s relentless. Share this:connection "Alabama"Benjamin AltmanBrooklyn Botanical GardenChasing Trane: The John Coltrane DocumentaryChinese Art of the Qin and Han DynastiesGraphic LessonsJ. Pierpont MorganJohn ColtraneJohn Jacob Astor and Ira Gershwin.Joseph PulitzerJunius S. MorganMemorial DayMetropolitan Museum of Art Mary Jo Robertiello's mysteries and life NY Mysteries January 18, 2020 NY Mysteries January 3, 2020 NY Mysteries Dec. 27, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3551
__label__cc	0.662057	0.337943	The Wind Will Be Her Date Amélie Pichard is the epitome of entrepreneurial elegance— with added eroticism. Although “it-girls” aren’t necessarily our fashion forte, she’s stood out as someone who can cater to the crowd focused on a feminine aesthetic, and also appeal to those with the(a) tongue-in-cheek approach to style. According to her Instagram, Amélie Pichard is “A Topless Accessory Brand” “Timeless But Sexy” and this is as confusing as it is a correct description. The designer has built her brand on the belief that clothing are merely a manner of masking the beauty of a woman’s naked body, and that accessories are the only avenue of accentuating it’s innate allure. And each season Amélie has achieved her goal— from collaborating with the truest symbol of female sexuality, Pamela Anderson, on a line of mules, to creating a classic, cutesy slipper that somehow also screamed sex appeal. This season, she’s taking it even further, with a brand new collection based on the relateable, although self-referential, concept of “Temps Libre”. With the hard-working woman in mind, Pichard has produced a line of lovely, lavish accessories— from covetable, colorful chunky-heeled boots, to a string of surprising twists on her classic crocodile clutch. Text by Anna Zanes “Hard worker? Sure. Too much? Perhaps. Stop. Go to the sea. She arrives arrives on the port, playing a bourgeoise. She wants mussels, sea air and nothing. She dreams of a fisherman or a sailor, a wet and salty Depardieu. She’ll wait under the lighthouse. The wind will be her date. Favorite hobbies? Letting time pass, against all odds. Drifting off while remaining on the beach. Dreaming. Feeling free. The most important thing in all this? Finding beauty in the banal." Photos courtesy of Amélie Pichard Turkey Day hors d'oeuvres, from Issue 02. The Liberation of Eve Givenchy's take on the Garden of Eden. Model Nina Marker by Reto Schmid for office Issue 10. Ernest W. Baker A/W ‘20 Ernest W. Baker is not your grandfather’s brand—he’s actually Reid Baker’s grandfather. The brainchild of grandchild Reid Baker as well as Ines Amorim, Ernest W. Baker the brand was born in 2017 from a classic European elegance and an American rawness. The latest from the menswear brand includes a fall/winter 2020 collection that can only be described as luxe. Crisp double breasted suits fit for prom complement sparkling scarves and quilted velvet vests and make for fits that may reference Baker’s ancestry but remain timeless. No matter where you wear Ernest W. Baker, you’re going to look like you’re ready to sit in a winged chair in front of a roaring fire while stroking a longhaired cat. What's not to like? Photos courtesy Ernest W. Baker Eckhaus Latta Fall/Winter 2017 "Is this what you wanted?" Adam Selman Spring 2018 "I just wanted to be fun and Muppet-y without being cartoonish" Pollute Me Solitude Studios is a vast idea, unbound by systematic structure, expelled by energy and striving for balance. If you were to understand it as a fashion brand founders Emil Wæde Frederiksen and Jonas Sayed Gammal Bruun, would quickly correct you: “We don’t work from a point where we consider the latest fashion, nor trends. We build our universe from a more conceptual point of view. Telling a story.” office got the chance to pick the minds of this creative duo in light of its newest collection titled, “Pollute Me”. Interview by Caroline Brown Photos by Magnus Bach Creative Direction by Kristian Kirk Casting by Olivia Danielsson Makeup by Ida Svendsen Models: Asger + Miranda @ OD Casting; Ann Sophie Raun Fill in the blank: Solitude Studios is ____. An energy, first and foremost. It is a creative outlet for both of us. It is a place for well-being, calmness, balance, self-reflectiveness & confidence. Fill in the blank: Solitude Studios is not ____. A fashion brand. We don’t work from a point where we consider the latest fashion, nor trends. We build our universe from a more conceptual point of view. Telling a story. Our goal is to position ourselves in such a way that we make collections in our own pace. You know, the way you patiently await your favorite musician’s next album? That’s how it should feel waiting for our next collection. That, for us, is the most sustainable way of making garments. Environmentally, of course, but also for us on a personal level. We want to feed the culture, not consumerism. How would you describe the idea behind Solitude Studios? As aforementioned, this is a creative outlet for us. It is about having fun and expressing ourselves. Exploring and expanding our own limits aesthetically, but also in craftsmanship. And personally, for that matter. We both love garments and craftsmanship. That is what joined us together. That being said, we won’t ever limit ourselves to exclusively making garments. We have already discussed other media as well. We want Solitude to always be a place for creating whatever we feel like, on any given day. Freedom, in a sense. We try to find a place for Solitude Studios in the industry, where we can interact with the capitalist world, but on our own terms. We want to put garments on people, but not at any cost. The bottom line is to create something, that we believe contributes to what our world needs, or is in lack of. What is the relationship between nature and design? It is a tightly-knit relationship. We are both fascinated by nature. And our relationship to nature as humans. It is far too easy to forget, especially living in a major city, that every single resource we use, derives from nature. We are intrigued by the way humans try to tame nature, and how nature responds to it. Climate change is probably the largest-scale example of this. But we also study it in more banal contexts, like when grass shoots up through the pavement. Or when a person turns a tree into a table. The way we shape our garments is vastly based on organic shapes. Our color palette also. We have made a promise to ourselves that in the near future, we will solely use natural ways of dying. Solitude Studios describes itself as a brand that makes “the World a funnier place to be.” To you, what is the ‘funniest’ aspect of design? The freedom and exploration. A thought we have been discussing lately is the perceptions of shape. Most of us have an idea of how a building looks, or a shirt, or even a vase. And how it certainly does not look. The unsettling feeling of seeing an object that contradicts your immediate perception of it is something we are very fascinated by. Some say the world will end in fire, others in ice. How do you think the world will end? ‘Our world’ will end, but the world won’t. There are so many intricacies and layers to Solitude Studios’ clothing. How do you know when a piece is completed? Most of the time, it is a question of: Does the piece express the story we want it to? Take, for example, our jersey dress from this collection. The collection is called ‘Pollute me’, so we had this idea of making a dress that looked like a torn, weathered newspaper lying in the sand. The first couple of drafts just didn’t tell the story or any story at all. So we kept on sketching and sewing samples, till it felt right. In which ways do you hope the brand will grow? Organically. It is important for us to retain a framework, that makes us want to keep creating. We want to reach a point where we can implement ourselves with fewer limitations. Also, one of the great things about making garments is when people wear them. We want to see people put our creations into their own context. When you wear our garments, you develop our universe. How do you see the latest collection from Solitude Studios fitting into the conversation surrounding the brand? ‘Pollute me’ is sort of a villain in our universe. It embodies pollution. Of our planet, each other, ourselves, or however you may want to interpret it. If you have the garments in hand and read the, so to speak, ‘fine print’ in our newspaper, you will find tales about pollution and life. It is perhaps a statement of our attempt to find new ways in the industry. It is also a comment on how much this same industry pollutes our world—and not just environmentally. No Sesso Takes the Getty A contemporary Renaissance. MORRIS, Made to Feel Zoe Whalen's "soft human" style. Collina Strada S/S '20 Welcome to the new New Age. LOEWE Men's A/W '20 We thought we had our hands full with men’s fashion week, but Jonathan Anderson has us (and the rest of the planet) shamefully beat. Within just one week of debuting his JW Anderson collection in Paris, the London-based designer showcases his latest work on LOEWE’s menswear runway set once again in la capitale de la France. As the creative director of LOEWE, Anderson focuses on motion, tension, and optimism in the latest collection. “In the feel of optimism, felt shoes and hats are infantile presences. An idea of scorched glamour comes to the fore,” LOEWE declared prior to the show. While we’re not exactly sure what felt accessories have to do with little kids, we definitely feel like tiny cherubic children in awe of Anderson’s LOEWE collection. Photos Courtesy of Loewe Check out the collection below. Channeling Chet Baker Noon Goons gives us shirts that prove Jazz can be punk. Raf Simons channels David Lynch for his A/W '19 collection in Paris. Frosted denim and winter whites at Courrèges F/W '19.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3553
__label__wiki	0.70205	0.70205	Difference between revisions of "Priest Soldier Sorcerer Spy 3e EN:Archetypes" From OGC (→‎Soldier Special Abilities) ====Close Combat Lethality==== :''Standard action'' :''Prerequisites:'' [[Priest_Soldier_Sorcerer_Spy_3e_EN:Skills#Close Combat\|Close Combat]] skill A character with the Close Combat Lethality special ability can strike at the most vulnerable points of an opponent. When making a Close Combat roll, the character's Presence is added to the action value (AV). Close Combat Lethality does not stack with Cause Harm, Spiritual Weapon, or other abilities which add to the character's action value -- only the highest action value applies. ====Ranged Lethality==== :''Constant'' :''Prerequisites:'' [[Priest_Soldier_Sorcerer_Spy_3e_EN:Skills#Ranged Combat\|Ranged Combat]] skill A character with the Ranged Lethality special ability can strike at the most vulnerable points of an opponent. When making a Ranged Combat roll, the character's Presence is added to the action value (AV). Ranged Lethality does not stack with Cause Harm, Spiritual Weapon, or other abilities which add to the character's action value -- only the highest action value applies. 1 Ability Cost 2 Priest 2.1 Sense Aura 2.2 Priest Spells 2.2.1 Animal Companion 2.2.2 Animal Control 2.2.3 Animal Friendship 2.2.4 Animate Dead 2.2.5 Bless The Land 2.2.6 Blight The Land 2.2.7 Cause Harm 2.2.8 Command Undead 2.2.9 Courage 2.2.10 Create Undead 2.2.11 Destroy Undead 2.2.12 Divine Aid 2.2.13 Divine Authority 2.2.14 Divine Protection 2.2.15 Fear 2.2.16 Healing Touch 2.2.17 Major Miracles 2.2.18 Minor Miracles 2.2.19 Repel Undead 2.2.20 Shield Of Faith 2.2.21 Spiritual Weapon 2.2.22 Telepathy 2.2.23 Word Of Command 3 Soldier 3.1 Assess Opponent 3.2 Soldier Special Abilities 3.2.1 Art Of War 3.2.2 Barrage 3.2.3 Blindfighting 3.2.4 Combat Reflexes 3.2.5 Hard Target 3.2.6 Leadership 3.2.7 Close Combat Lethality 3.2.8 Minions 3.2.9 Ranged Lethality 3.2.10 Reputation 3.2.11 Sharpshooter 3.2.12 Whirlwind Attack 4 Sorcerer 4.1 Mage Sight 4.2 Sorcerer Spells 4.2.1 Arcane Blast 4.2.2 Arcane Explosion 4.2.3 Arcane Sanctum 4.2.4 Arcane Shield 4.2.5 Cantrips 4.2.6 Darkness 4.2.7 Evil Eye 4.2.8 Familiar 4.2.9 Fly 4.2.10 Light 4.2.11 Mage Hand 4.2.12 Major Conjuration 4.2.13 Major Illusion 4.2.14 Major Invisibility 4.2.15 Minor Conjuration 4.2.16 Minor Illusion 4.2.17 Minor Invisibility 4.2.18 Mist Form 4.2.19 Scry 4.2.20 Shadow Step 4.2.21 Shapeshift 4.2.22 Silent Conversation 4.2.23 Sleep 4.2.24 Swim 4.2.25 Telekinesis 4.2.25.1 Breaking Free Of Telekinesis 4.2.25.2 Hurting A Held Target 4.2.25.3 Moving A Held Target 4.2.26 Teleport 4.2.27 Wandering Eye 5 Spy 5.1 Sense Danger 5.2 Spy Special Abilities 5.2.1 Cat Burglar 5.2.2 Connected 5.2.3 Convincing 5.2.4 Elusive 5.2.5 Lightning Strike 5.2.6 Mental Resistance 5.2.7 Perfect Recall 5.2.8 Pro From Erewhon 5.2.9 Sneak Attack 5.2.10 Tenacious 5.2.11 Untouchable 5.2.12 Vanish Priest Soldier Sorcerer Spy includes the four eponymous basic archetypes which dominated the fantasy RPGs of the late 20th century. These are described below. Future volumes of the Bog-Standard Fantasy Game System will include other character archetypes. Each archetype is associated with a number of special abilities (priests and sorcerers call these special abilities "spells"). A character can partake of more than one archetype: "sorcerer priest", for example, or "soldier spy". Archetypes are descriptive, not prescriptive. Ability Cost The more archetype abilities a character has, the more expensive the next ability will be. The first three abilities cost one point each, the next three abilities cost two points each, the next three abilities cost three points each, and so on. Table: Ability descriptions and cost Cost Per Ability Typical 1-3 1 Great 4-6 2 Fantastic 7-9 3 Inconceivable 10-12 4 Epic 13-15 5 Legendary 16-18 6 Unearthly 19-21 7 Indescribable 22-24 8 Priests are the representatives for the deities and metaphysical entities that have a proprietary interest in the mortal world. A particular priest might devote themselves to a specific deity, or to a collection of associated deities. Some priests focus entirely on serving their gods, while others place primary importance on the well-being of their deity's worshipers. Most priests have the Theology skill, although it's not strictly required for the archetype. A character with at least 5 character points spent on priest spells gains the special ability Sense Aura. Sense Aura Standard action Prerequisites: 5 character points spent on priest spells Sense Aura is a short range (10 m) ability which permits the priest to use a standard action to see the invisible emanations around people and things. The character may attempt a moderately difficult (DV 3) Perception (Power Level) roll to determine the color of the aura of a person or object (see the "Typical aura colors" table). The character may attempt a remarkably difficult (DV 6) Perception (Power Level) roll to sense whether the person or object has actively been in league with entities from beyond the mortal world, and whether the aura is "warm" (positive, life affirming) or "cold" (negative, life negating). A typical person's aura is slightly "warm", but even a person with a "cold" aura is not necessarily wicked: they could just be having a bad day. The aura of a character with Mental Resistance is not able to be read. Their aura isn't missing: from the aura-sensing character's point of view, it has the same impression as a failed Perception (Power Level) roll. Table: Typical aura colors Red In a positive light, red indicates a healthy ego: someone powerful, sensual, passionate, and energetic. In a negative light, red indicates anger, an unforgiving nature, or anxiety. Orange In a positive light, orange indicates productivity and creativity: someone sociable, detail oriented, and courageous. In a negative light, it can indicate stress and addictions. Yellow Indicates optimism, and easy-going nature, inspiration, and intelligence. Green Indicates balance, growth, and a willingness to change. It is a strong indication of a love of people, animals, and nature. Turquoise Indicates a sensitive, compassionate nature, that of a healer or a counselor. Blue Indicates calm and focus. It is a strong indication of clarity, truthfulness, and an intuitive nature. Indigo Indicates deep feeling: someone of profound intuition and sensitivity. Violet Indicates a sensitive nature and greater than average psychic potential. May also indicate an artistic temperament. Lavender Indicates great vision and imagination. Priest Spells Some spells have prerequisites. In order to have a follow through spell, the character must have the prerequisite spell. Animal Friendship Create Undead Divine Authority Word Of Command Minor Miracles Major Miracles Repel Undead Command Undead Destroy Undead Unless otherwise noted, casting a spell requires a standard action. Prerequisites: Animal Friendship Animal Companion is a medium range (100 m) spell which allows a character to permanently befriend and mentally communicate with an ordinary animal. To permanently befriend and mentally communicate with an ordinary animal, the character must succeed at a Diplomacy (Power Level) roll against the Survival (Presence) roll of the animal. As a rule of thumb, the Presence of a domesticated animal is usually 2, and the Presence of a wild animal is usually 6. Befriended animals operate independently of the character befriending them. Making a new request of a befriended animal requires a free action. An animal companion has the normal attributes, movement, and attack types that kind of animal would have. However, befriended animals are resistant to further mental manipulation, having Presence equal to the character who befriended them, or their natural Presence, whichever is greater. The effects of Animal Companion last until the character casts Animal Companion on a different animal, whether or not that attempt is successful. Animal Control allows a character to communicate with and mentally control all non-sentient animals within short range (10 m). To communicate with and mentally control all non-sentient animals within short range, the character must succeed at a Manipulation (Power Level) roll against the Survival (Presence) roll of the animal within range with the highest Presence. As a rule of thumb, the Presence of a domesticated animal is usually 2, and the Presence of a wild animal is usually 6. Controlled animals operate independently of the character controlling them. Giving a new command to the controlled animal requires a free action. Controlled animals have the normal attributes, movement, and attack types that those kinds of animals would have. However, controlled animals are resistant to further mental manipulation, having Presence equal to the character controlling them, or their natural Presence, whichever is greater. The effects of Animal Control last until the end of the scene. Follow through spells: Animal Companion, Animal Control Animal Friendship is a short range (10 m) spell which allows a character to temporarily befriend and mentally communicate with an ordinary animal. To temporarily befriend and mentally communicate with an ordinary animal, the character must succeed at a Diplomacy (Power Level) roll against the Survival (Presence) roll of the animal. As a rule of thumb, the Presence of a domesticated animal is usually 2, and the Presence of a wild animal is usually 6. Befriended animals operate independently of the character befriending them. Making a new request of a befriended animal requires a free action. A befriended animal has the normal attributes, movement, and attack types that kind of animal would have. However, befriended animals are resistant to further mental manipulation, having Presence equal to the character who befriended them, or their natural Presence, whichever is greater. The effects of Animal Friendship last until the end of the scene. The maximum number of animals a character may befriend during a scene is equal to their Power Level. Follow through spells: Create Undead Animate Dead is a close range (1 m) spell which allows a character to return a semblance of life to a dead body. Animating a dead body requires a successful remarkably difficult (DV 6) Manipulation (Presence + Power Level) roll. The animated dead creature is not technically sentient, but it will do its best to obey the wishes of the priest. Animated dead operate independently of the character that animated them. Making a new request of an animated dead requires a free action. The effects of Animate Dead last until the end of the scene. Bless The Land Bless The Land is a long range (1,000 m) spell which allows a character to cause crops to thrive, livestock to be healthy and strong, grain to stay fresh in its granaries, milk to stay sweet in its jugs, and so on. Bless The Land affects all foodstuffs, crops, and domesticated animals within 1,000 meters of the caster. The effects of Bless The Land last for a season, or until they are reversed by someone casting Blight The Land. Blight The Land Blight The Land is a long range (1,000 m) spell which allows a character to cause crops to fail, livestock to grow sick, grain to spoil, milk to go sour, and so on. Blight The Land affects all foodstuffs, crops, and domesticated animals within 1,000 meters of the caster, other than that carried or owned by the caster and her allies. The effects of Blight The Land last for a season, or until they are reversed by someone casting Bless The Land. Cause Harm Cause Harm is a close range (1 m) attack which inflicts Endurance damage. Attacking with Cause Harm requires a successful Close Combat (Power Level) roll against the Close Combat (Presence) roll of the target. If the attacker succeeds at this roll, then the target's Endurance is reduced by one (or more, if using the optional margin of success rules). Cause Harm ignores all normal forms of protection such as armor. However, Cause Harm is completely ineffective against non-living objects, even if they are sentient. Prerequisites: Repel Undead Command Undead is a short range (10 m) spell which allows the character to control a single undead creature within range. To gain control over an undead creature, the character must succeed at a Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of the undead. If the priest's roll succeeds, the undead creature becomes friendly to the priest, and it will do its best to obey the wishes of the priest. Giving a new command to a controlled undead requires a free action. Command Undead is a short range (10 m) power, but once the Command Undead is successful, the undead creature will remain under loyal even if it leaves this range. The undead target will continue to obey the priest until the end of the scene. Courage is a short range (10 m) spell which allows a character to fill the caster and her allies with confidence and courage, making them immune to fear (including the Fear spell). The priest and her allies also receive an attack bonus while under the affects of a Courage spell. If a character is affected by several simultaneous Courage spells, only a single Courage spell attack bonus applies to any given roll. The effects of Courage last until the end of the scene. Prerequisites: Animate Dead Create Undead is a close range (1 m) spell which allows a character to return a semblance of life to a dead body. Creating an undead creature requires a successful remarkably difficult (DV 6) Manipulation (Presence + Power Level) roll. An undead created with this spell operates independently of the character that animated it, but it is friendly to its creator, and it will do its best to obey its creator's wishes. Making a new request of the undead creature requires a free action. The Brawn and Agility of the undead is equal to the Power Level of the character that created it. Undead created with this spell have a very limited form of intelligence, with Reason and Presence of 1. The effects of Create Undead last until the undead creature is destroyed. The maximum number of undead a character may create is equal to their Power Level. Destroy Undead is a short range (10 m) spell which allows a character to obliterate any undead within range. Destroying an undead creature requires a successful Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of each undead within range. If the priest's roll meets or exceeds the target number for an undead within range, that undead is blasted into dust. Divine Aid The character can occasionally call on her deities for help. The character begins each game with one extra plot point. Divine Aid is a particularly good justification for a bonus die, an attribute boost, or even a retcon. Follow through spells: Word Of Command The Divine Authority spell allows the priest to become naturally, effortlessly compelling. The character gains a bonus die on relevant Presence rolls. The effects of Divine Authority last until the end of the scene. Divine Protection is a short range (10 m) spell which spell allows a character to call upon her deity for protection. The priest and her allies receive a defense bonus while under the affects of a Divine Protection spell. If a character is affected by several simultaneous Divine Protection spells, only a single Divine Protection spell defense bonus applies to any given roll. The effects of Divine Protection last until the end of the scene. Fear is a short range (10 m) spell which allows a character to fill a target's heart with terror. Attacking with Fear requires a successful Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of the target. If the priest succeeds on this roll, the victim must flee from the priest. They will continue to flee from the priest until they are injured or until the end of the scene, whichever happens first. Healing Touch is a close range (1 m) spell which restores lost Endurance. The character with Healing Touch may attempt a moderately difficult (DV 3) Medicine (Power Level) roll to heal the victim's injuries. If the character succeeds at this roll, then one Endurance is restored to the victim (or more, if using the optional margin of success rules). Healing Touch can remove diseases, pathogens, and poisons from the target. The character with Healing Touch may attempt a moderately difficult (DV 3) Medicine (Power Level) roll to cure a single disease or purge a single toxin from the victim's system. Prerequisites: Minor Miracles Major Miracles is a medium range (100 m) spell which spell permits the character to make dramatic changes to the environment and any nonliving objects. The character may also summon or dismiss small ordinary creatures or vermin, such as snakes, rats, grasshoppers, and fleas. The character can make the ground shake, can part the waters of a river, can change the weather from a sunny day to a thunderstorm, can summon a plague of locusts, and so on. While impressive, the effects of Major Miracles can't cause direct damage or injury to any intelligent beings. The effects of Major Miracles last until the end of the scene. Follow through spells: Major Miracles Minor Miracles is a short range (10 m) spell which spell permits the character to perform various minor miracles. The character can make small, unimportant objects appear and disappear; change the color, odor, taste, or temperature of a small, unimportant object; amplify their voice; purify or despoil a meal's worth of food or drink; ignite or extinguish nearby candles, fireplaces, or prepared campfires; change a harmless, inconsequential animal into a harmless, inconsequential object, or vice versa; and so on. The effects of Minor Miracles last until the end of the scene. Follow through spells: Command Undead, Destroy Undead Repel Undead is a short range (10 m) spell which allows a character to drive away all undead within range. Casting Repel Undead requires a successful Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of each undead within range. If the priest's roll meets or exceeds the target number for an undead within range, that undead must flee from the priest. The undead will continue to flee from the priest until it is injured or until the end of the scene, whichever happens first. Shield Of Faith The Shield Of Faith spell allows a character to surround herself with the power of her deity, which protects them against most forms of physical or energy damage. The defense value (DV) of a character with Shield Of Faith is equal to their relevant defense attribute (Brawn for close attacks, Agility for ranged attacks) plus their Power Level. As always, this does not stack with conventional armor, Arcane Shield, or other forms of defense -- only the highest defense value applies. The effects of Shield Of Faith last until the end of the scene. Spiritual Weapon Free action The character may imbue her current weapon with the power of her deity. The character's Power Level is added to the action value (AV) of the weapon. The effects of Spiritual Weapon last until the end of the scene. Spiritual Weapon does not stack with Cause Harm, Close Combat Lethality, or other abilities which add to the character's action value -- only the highest action value applies. Telepathy is a short range (10 m) attack spell which permits a character to communicate directly with the mind of another person. To communicate directly with the mind of an unwilling person, the character must succeed at a Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of the target. With a successful attack roll, the attacker may mentally communicate with the target and may read their surface thoughts. If using the optional margin of success rules, the attacker may read the target's memories if the attacker achieves a margin of success of 3 or more (each memory viewed requires a separate roll). To break free of the Telepathy, an unwilling target must make a successful Mental Combat (Presence) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll of the attacker. To communicate directly with the mind of a willing person, no attack roll is needed. With a willing target, the telepath may mentally communicate with the target and may read their surface thoughts and (if the target consents) their memories. A willing participant may end the telepathic contact at any time. Prerequisites: Divine Authority Word Of Command is a short range (10 m) attack spell which allows the character to influence a living creature's behaviour, forcing the target to obey the character's command. To influence a living creature's behaviour, the character must succeed at a Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of the target. Giving a new command to the target requires a free action. Word Of Command is a short range (10 m) power, but once the Word Of Command is successful, it will remain so even if the target leaves this range. Characters under the influence of Word Of Command are not as effective as those whose wills are their own. Any roll attempted by a character under the influence of Word Of Command (other than trying to break out of it) incurs a penalty die, and a character under the influence of Word Of Command is not able to spend plot points on anything other than trying to break out of it. To break free of the Word Of Command, the target must make a successful Mental Combat (Presence) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll of the attacker. If the character succeeds at this roll, they may use their remaining movement action. If the character has not broken free of the Word Of Command by the end of the scene, then they break free of it shortly thereafter. The target of Word Of Command will not remember any actions they took while under the influence of the power. These memories may be able to be retrieved through the use of hypnosis, Telepathy, and so on. Soldiers are experts in the many ways that people have found to hurt one another. A particular soldier might focus on mastering a specific type of weapon, while another might seek to be proficient in every possible form of combat. Some soldiers serve as part of a larger unit or in the service of some patron, while others are interested in the martial arts as an end in itself. Most soldiers have the Close Combat and Ranged Combat skills, although it's not strictly required for the archetype. A character with at least 5 character points spent on soldier special abilities gains the special ability Assess Opponent. Assess Opponent Prerequisites: 5 character points spent on soldier special abilities A character with Assess Opponent can use a standard action to evaluate the combat prowess of someone they can observe. To evaluate an opponent, the character must succeed at a moderately difficult (DV 3) Perception (Reason) roll. With a successful roll, the soldier knows their opponent's Brawn and Agility, whether the subject has the Close Combat and Ranged Combat skills, and whether the subject has expertise in either of those skills. Soldier Special Abilities A character with the Art Of War special ability is able to gain a tactical benefit during an encounter at a time chosen by the player. The form this takes can vary, and should be negotiated between the player and the GM, but a relatively typical use of Art Of War would be similar to the use of a plot point. Generally speaking, a character should be permitted to use Art Of War once per game session, unless the GM makes an exception. Barrage is a standard action that allows the character to make a Ranged Combat (Agility) attack that strikes everyone within 10 meters of the target point. The maximum range to the target point and the action value (AV) of the Barrage is based on the ranged weapon being used. The defense value (DV) of each target in the area of the attack is equal to their Agility plus the rating of their armor, as usual. Blindfighting Normally, if an attacker can't see the defender, the attacker incurs a penalty die, and if a defender can't see the attacker, the defender incurs a penalty die. If an attacker has the Blindfighting special ability, they do not incur a penalty die when they are unable to perceive the defender. If a defender has the Blindfighting special ability, they do not incur a penalty die when they are unable to perceive their attacker. Combat Reflexes A character with the Combat Reflexes special ability may take additional actions at the end of a round, such as movement actions or standard actions. All of the character's additional actions are resolved after all other rolls are resolved that round. During each game session, the number of additional actions the character may use is equal to their Agility. The character may only use half of their total additional actions in any one round, and once an additional action has been used, it may not be used again in that game session. The player may wait until the end of the round before deciding whether their character will use any of their additional actions. When attacked by a Ranged Combat attack, a character with the Hard Target gift may base their defense value (DV) on their Brawn rather than on their Agility. Equipment and traits which would add to the character's Agility to determine their defense value may add to the character's Brawn, instead. The player may choose which attribute to use on a case by case basis. A character with the Leadership special ability excels at working with others, and other people are more effective with the character than they are alone. A character with the Leadership special ability can spend their own plot points on behalf of their teammates and allies, and their allies may spend plot points on behalf of the character with the Leadership special ability. Close Combat Lethality A character with the Minions special ability has one or more minor, mostly nameless lackeys of marginal usefulness. Such minions might be followers, henchmen, servants, or squires. There is no set limit to the number of minions a character might have, subject to the GM's approval, but the more minions there are, the less competent they are. For example, if a character has just three minions -- a squire, a cook, and a groom, for example -- they might be reasonably competent at their respective assignments (3 in each of their pertinent attributes, with relevant skills). If the character has dozens of minions, however, the best among them would have attributes as high as 2, and none of them would have any skills requiring significant training. Minions are primarily a fun asset for the character. They are not generally useful in combat, and are mainly used for flavor and as a foil for roleplaying. Minions should never steal the limelight from a player character. Ranged Lethality A character with the Reputation special ability is widely known, perhaps due to their exploits or achievements, or possibly because they are from a noble or notorious family. People who are impressed by this reputation may be more likely to cooperate with the character, and the character can sometimes gain favors from strangers. The character gains a bonus die on relevant Presence rolls. In the hands of a character with the Sharpshooter special ability, the effective range of ranged weapons is doubled. Short range (10 m) weapons have an effective range of 20 meters, medium range (100 m) weapons have an effective range of 200 meters, and long range (1,000 m) weapons have an effective range of 2,000 meters. Whirlwind Attack The Whirlwind Attack special ability allows the character to make Close Combat attacks against everyone within reach of the character simultaneously. The defense value (DV) of each target in the area of the attack is equal to their Brawn plus the rating of their armor, as usual. Sorcerers are students of the arcane forces which permeate the material world. A particular sorcerer might concentrate their studies on the occult qualities behind ordinary material substances, while other sorcerers spend their time deciphering the incomprehensible formulae which define seemingly mundane phenomena. Some sorcerers are reclusive and interested only in theory, while others are adventurous and seek to test their arcane powers in the "laboratory of the world". Most sorcerers have the Thaumaturgy skill, although it's not strictly required for the archetype. A character with at least 5 character points spent on sorcerer spells gains the special ability Mage Sight. Mage Sight Prerequisites: 5 character points spent on sorcerer spells Mage Sight is a short range (10 m) spell which allows a character to sense the presence of magic and those who can wield it. To perceive a source of magic, the character must succeed at a moderately difficult (DV 3) Perception (Power Level) roll. If the target of the sorcerer's attention is another magic-using being, the sorcerer knows their opponent's Power Level and the number of spells they know. If the target of the sorcerer's attention is a magic object, the sorcerer learns the general purpose of the object's magic, and has a rough idea how to activate it. Mage Sight has other uses, as well. For example, if a character with Mage Sight is being spied upon using a Wandering Eye or Scry spell, they may use a reaction to attempt a moderately difficult (DV 3) Perception (Power Level) roll to notice the fact (a person without Mage Sight does not have the ability to notice when they are being magically spied upon). Sorcerer Spells Arcane Blast Follow through powers: Arcane Explosion Arcane Blast is a medium range (100 m) attack spell which inflicts Endurance damage. Attacking with Arcane Blast requires a successful Ranged Combat (Agility + Power Level) roll against the Ranged Combat (Agility) roll of the target. The character must choose which type of magical damage the Arcane Blast inflicts (acid, bludgeoning, cold, fire, lightning, or slashing). This spell may be purchased more than once, with a different damage type each time. Arcane Explosion Prerequisites: Arcane Blast (of the same damage type) Arcane Explosion is a medium range (100 m) attack spell which inflicts Endurance damage to everyone within short range (10 m) of the target. Attacking with Arcane Explosion requires a successful Ranged Combat (Agility + Power Level) roll against the Ranged Combat (Agility) roll of the target. The attacker rolls once for the explosion. Normally, each target in the affected area rolls individually against the attack, but if the GM prefers, she may roll once for each group of similar targets. The character must choose which type of magical damage the Arcane Explosion inflicts (acid, bludgeoning, cold, fire, lightning, or slashing). This spell may be purchased more than once, with a different damage type each time. Arcane Sanctum The character can summon a small, nondescript residence which appears completely ordinary from the outside. Inside, it has dozens of rooms, including a kitchen, stable, smithy, and supplies and equipment reasonable for the character's background and skills. The character can grant access to anyone she pleases, who can enter and leave as they wish, but no one else can gain entry by any means. The Arcane Sanctum will remain in place as long as the character who created it remains inside, but if the creator is absent for more than an hour, the sanctum will disappear; when this happens, anyone still inside will appear where the sanctum once stood. Arcane Sanctum is not generally useful in combat, and is mainly used for flavor and a setting for roleplaying. Arcane Shield The Arcane Shield spell allows the caster to summon an invisible force that protects them against most forms of physical or energy damage. The defense value (DV) of a character with Arcane Shield is equal to their relevant defense attribute (Brawn for close attacks, Agility for ranged attacks) plus their Power Level. As always, this does not stack with conventional armor, Shield Of Faith, or other forms of defense -- only the highest defense value applies. The effects of Arcane Shield last until the end of the scene. The character can occasionally produce small but useful bits of magic. The character begins each game with one extra plot point. Cantrips are a particularly good justification for a bonus die, an attribute boost, or even a retcon. Darkness is a medium range (100 m) spell which allows the caster to create a source of magical shadow which cancels out any non-magical sources of light. The source of the darkness may be a point in space or an object. While the Darkness spell is in effect, the object creates complete darkness (equivalent to being underground) within short range of the source (10 m), and deep shadow (equivalent to a dark night) out to twice that distance (20 m). If an attacker can't see the defender, the attacker incurs a penalty die. Conversely, if a defender can't see the attacker, the defender incurs a penalty die. The effects of the Darkness spell last until the end of the scene. If Darkness is cast in an area that overlaps any part of a Light spell, both the Darkness and the Light are dispelled. Evil Eye is a short range (10 m) attack spell which inflicts "stunning" damage. Attacking with Evil Eye requires a successful Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of the target. If the attacker succeeds at this roll, then the target's Endurance is reduced by one (or more, if using the optional margin of success rules). Evil Eye ignores all normal forms of protection such as armor. However, Evil Eye is completely ineffective against non-living objects, even if they are sentient. Damage from Evil Eye is temporary. Record it separately; it all comes back after the fight is over, when the character has had a chance to rest and recuperate. The Familiar spell allows a character to summon and form a magical bond with an ordinary animal within long range (1,000 m). Summoning a familiar requires a successful remarkably difficult (DV 6) Diplomacy (Power Level) roll. Having a familiar grants the following abilities: The caster can mentally communicate with the animal, as long as it is within medium range (100 m). The caster can use a standard action to know the location of the animal as long as it is on the same plane of existence. Any spell the character casts on herself can simultaneously be cast on the familiar, as long as it is within medium range (100 m). The character can use her turn to see through the eyes of the familiar, similar to the Wandering Eye spell. The Reason and Presence of the familiar animal become equal to the character with whom they are bonded. However, having a familiar has one great cost: any Endurance damage taken by the familiar is also taken by the character with whom the animal has bonded. For example, if the familiar suffers two points of Endurance damage, so does the character with whom it is bonded. Familiar animals operate independently of the character with whom they are bonded. Making a new request of an animal familiar requires a free action. The effects of Familiar last until the character casts Familiar again, whether or not that attempt is successful. The Fly spell allows the caster to grant herself the ability to fly. While under effects of the Fly spell, the character can use a movement action to fly at her ground speed. She is also comfortable in the extreme cold and thin air found at high altitudes. The effects of the Fly spell last until the end of the scene. Light is a medium range (100 m) spell which allows the caster to create a source of illumination. The source of the illumination may be a point in space or an object. While the Light spell is in effect, the object creates bright illumination within short range of the source (10 m), and dim light out to twice that distance (20 m). The effects of the Light spell last until the end of the scene. If Light is cast in an area that overlaps any part of a Darkness spell, both the Light and the Darkness are dispelled. Mage Hand Follow through powers: Telekinesis Mage Hand is a short range (10 m) spell which allows the caster to move or manipulate objects. The Brawn they may exert is equal to the character's Power Level. If the magician wants to exert this strength to make an attack, this requires a successful Ranged Combat (Power Level) roll against the Ranged Combat (Agility) roll of the target. The effects of Mage Hand last until the caster chooses to end the spell, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. Major Conjuration Prerequisites: Minor Conjuration Major Conjuration is a medium range (100 m) spell which permits the character to create complex, nonliving objects. The character can summon a banquet table with food for an army, can create a stone wall or bridge, can create an impenetrable fog, can fill a chasm with water, and so on. While impressive, the effects of Major Conjuration can't cause direct damage or injury to any intelligent beings. The effects of Major Conjuration last until the end of the scene. Major Illusion Prerequisites: Minor Illusion Major Illusion is a medium range (100 m) spell which permits the character to create complex, realistic three-dimensional phantasms anywhere within medium range (100 m), complete with all associated sensory accompaniment. An illusory lion will roar, illusory snow will feel cold and wet, and so on. While the illusions created by this spell are completely convincing, they don't actually exist. The bite of an illusory dog will not break the skin, the touch of illusory liquid will not cause wetness, and an illusory bridge will not support the weight of anyone. The tactile aspect of an illusion will only be convincing if the contact is fleeting or feather-light: any significant physical interaction with an illusion provides an observer with a good reason to suspect that the apparition is not the genuine article. Anyone who observes a Major Illusion and who has a good reason to suspect its true nature may attempt a Perception (Reason) roll against the creator's Deception (Presence + Power Level) roll. If the Perception (Reason) roll succeeds, the observer sees the Major Illusion for what it is, and may respond appropriately. The effects of Major Illusion last until the end of the scene. Major Invisibility Prerequisites: Minor Invisibility The Major Invisibility spell permits the character to become transparent, hidden from normal sight until the character casts a spell, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. If an attacker can't see the defender, the attacker incurs a penalty die, and if a defender can't see the attacker, the defender incurs a penalty die. Minor Conjuration Follow through powers: Major Conjuration Minor Conjuration is a short range (10 m) spell which allows the sorcerer to perform various magical tasks of an inconsequential nature. The character can make small, unimportant objects appear and disappear; change the color, odor, taste, or temperature of a small, unimportant object; purify or despoil a meal's worth of food or drink; amplify their voice; ignite or extinguish nearby candles, fireplaces, or prepared campfires; change a harmless, inconsequential animal into a harmless, inconsequential object, or vice versa; and so on. The effects of Minor Conjuration last until the end of the scene. Minor Illusion Follow through powers: Major Illusion Minor Illusion is a short range (10 m) spell which permits the character to create simple, motionless three-dimensional phantasms. Anyone who observes a Minor Illusion and who has a good reason to suspect its true nature may attempt a Perception (Reason) roll against the creator's Deception (Presence + Power Level) roll. If the Perception (Reason) roll succeeds, the observer sees the Minor Illusion for what it is, and may respond appropriately. The effects of Minor Illusion last until the end of the scene. Minor Invisibility Follow through powers: Major Invisibility The Minor Invisibility spell permits the character to become transparent, hidden from normal sight until the character casts a spell or makes an attack, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. If an attacker can't see the defender, the attacker incurs a penalty die. Conversely, if a defender can't see the attacker, the defender incurs a penalty die. Mist Form The Mist Form spell permits the character to transform themselves into an undifferentiated vapourous mass, able to fly at one-half their ground speed, and to squeeze under doors and through keyholes. The character is unable to take any actions other than movement actions while in mist form. They are immune to conventional attacks while in mist form, but they are still susceptible to magical attacks. The effects of Mist Form last until the caster chooses to end the spell, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. Prerequisites: Wandering Eye A Scry spell permits a character to observe a person or place with which they are familiar, usually by viewing it in a smooth surface such as a pool of water, a mirror, or a crystal ball. The distance to the person or place being observed is essentially unlimited, but it must be familiar to the caster and on the same plane of existence. The effects of Scry last until the caster chooses to end the spell, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. A Scry spell is never completely reliable: it is primarily a roleplaying spell under the control of the GM. Shadow Step Follow through powers: Teleport The Shadow Step spell allows the caster to grant herself the ability to step momentarily into the shadow plane. Immediately after casting the Shadow Step spell, the caster may use a movement action to travel to any point they can see within short range (10 m) without traversing the intervening space. A character using Shadow Step may carry with them whatever they can carry, based on their Brawn. This may include equipment, or even other characters. The Shapeshift spell allows a character to change their size, shape, and appearance. The character may re-assign their physical traits (Agility and Brawn) to suit their new shape, as long as the total of Agility + Brawn remains the same or lower. The character may become twice as large, or may shrink to one-quarter their natural size. Assuming the shape of a specific person, creature, or object requires a successful remarkably difficult (DV 6) Deception (Presence + Power Level) roll. The effects of Shapeshift last until the caster chooses to end the spell, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. Silent Conversation The Silent Conversation spell allows the caster to communicate telepathically with someone they have previously seen. The other party to the conversation must be on the same plane of existence. This conversation is consensual, and the recipient can choose not to hear the caster. If the spell fails, the caster will know whether it was because the intended target was dead, asleep, on another plane of existence, or refused to participate. The effects of Silent Conversation last until the caster or the other participant chooses to end the conversation, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. Sleep is a medium range (100 m) spell which makes enemies within short range (10 m) of the target fall unconscious. Casting Sleep requires a successful Mental Combat (Presence + Power Level) roll against the Mental Combat (Presence) roll of each target in the affected area. If the caster's roll meets or exceeds the target number for an enemy within range, that enemy falls into a deep slumber. Sleep may potentially affect any number of enemies within the affected area. The caster chooses the order in which enemies are affected, and enemies each roll separately against the spell. The spell continues until the caster's roll fails to put an enemy to sleep, or until the caster runs out of enemies within the affected area. An enemy put to sleep by the Sleep spell will awaken if they are roughly jostled or if they take damage. Enemies who are still asleep at the end of the scene will awaken shortly thereafter. The Swim spell allows the caster to grant herself the ability to breathe underwater and swim. While under effects of the Swim spell, the character can use a movement action to swim at her ground speed. She is also comfortable in the cold and extreme pressure found in the ocean depths. The effects of the Swim spell last until the end of the scene. Prerequisites: Mage Hand Telekinesis is a medium range (100 m) attack spell which permits a character to grapple a character or object without touching it. Attacking with Telekinesis requires a successful Ranged Combat (Power Level) roll against the Ranged Combat (Agility) roll of the target. Grabbing inanimate objects with Telekinesis is generally automatic, unless the GM wants to make it difficult for some reason. If the attacker's roll is equal to or greater than the defender's roll, they may choose to cause one point of Endurance damage to the defender (or more, if using the optional margin of success rules), or they may restrain the defender. A restrained character is not helpless, but they can't use normal movement until they break free of Telekinesis. Attacking a restrained character is easier, and a restrained character's attacks are easier to avoid: a restrained attacker incurs a penalty die on all attack rolls, defense rolls, and skill rolls while restrained by Telekinesis. The maximum mass the character can lift with their Telekinesis is based on the character's Power Level. Table: Telekinesis 37 kg 1 m 120 kg 2 m 540 kg 11 m 1,700 kg 35 m Throw (25 kg) indicates the farthest distance that a character could throw a compact object weighing 25 kg. To see how far a character can throw heavier objects, subtract the Power Level required to lift the object from the character's total Power Level. Look up the difference in the "Brawn" column: this indicates how far the character can throw the object. For example, a character with Brawn 8 could throw an object weighing 60 kg (such as a cooperative slender human) up to 5 meters. Breaking Free Of Telekinesis To break free of the Telekinesis, the restrained character must attempt a Close Combat roll using their Agility or Brawn (whichever is greater) against the attacker's Ranged Combat (Power Level) roll. If the restrained character has Telekinesis, they may use their Power Level for this roll. If the restrained character's roll is equal to or greater than the grappling character's roll, the restrained character has broken free of the Telekinesis, and they may use their movement action for that turn. Alternately, the attacker may release the restrained character at any time, without using an action. Hurting A Held Target If the attacker wishes to exert telekinetic strength in an attempt to hurt the restrained character, they must use an action to make another Ranged Combat (Power Level) roll against the restrained character's Close Combat roll, using the restrained character's Agility or Brawn (whichever is greater). Moving A Held Target A character with Telekinesis may move what they are holding with the power. If the attacker wishes to move or throw the held character, the distance an attacker may move the defender is based on the Power Level of the attacker and the mass of the restrained character. First, look up the mass of the defender or object to be moved in the "Lift" column (rounding to the nearest mass value), and find the corresponding Power Level for that mass. Subtract that from the Power Level of the attacker, and look up that resulting value in the "Throw" column. This is how far the attacker can move or throw the held character. Prerequisites: Shadow Step The Teleport spell allows the caster to grant herself the ability to step into the shadow plane and reappear elsewhere. Immediately after casting the Teleport spell, the caster may use a movement action to travel to any point intimately familiar to the caster and on the same plane of existence, or any point she can see within long range (1,000 m), without traversing the intervening space. A character using Teleport may take as many people with them as are physically touching her, along with anything the caster and her fellow travelers are carrying. Wandering Eye Follow through powers: Scry The Wandering Eye spell allows the caster to create an invisible, intangible flying eye. For the duration of the spell, the caster can see only through the Wandering Eye (she is blind to what her own eyes can see), but her other natural senses are unimpaired. Each round, the Wandering Eye can move up to the caster's normal walking distance. The effects of Wandering Eye last until the caster chooses to end the spell, or until the end of the scene, whichever comes first. Spies are experts in going where they are unwelcome and finding out things that others don't want them to know. A particular spy might focus on mastering a specific type of weapon, while another might seek to be proficient in every possible form of combat. Some spies serve as part of a larger unit or in the service of some patron, while others are interested in the martial arts as an end in itself. Most spies have the Lockpicking and Ranged Combat skills, although it's not strictly required for the archetype. A character with at least 5 character points spent on spy special abilities gains the special ability Danger Sense. Sense Danger Prerequisites: 5 character points spent on spy special abilities Sense Danger permits a character to use a reaction to sense an imminent attack and avoid being surprised, even if there is no way for the character to see the attack coming. To perceive a source of danger, the character must succeed at a moderately difficult (DV 3) Perception (Reason) roll. If the Sense Danger roll is successful, the character gains a bonus die on their defense roll against the attack. Sense Danger is a reaction: a character with Sense Danger may attempt to predict as many attacks as they like, as often as they like. Spy Special Abilities Cat Burglar A character with the Cat Burglar special ability can use a movement action to move at their normal ground speed along walls, ceilings, and other surfaces as if they were level. The character is on a first-name basis with people who have influence or authority. For example, perhaps the character is a drinking buddy of a local reeve and is a childhood friend of a major figure in a crime syndicate. From time to time, the character can ask these people for favors and have a reasonable chance of having the favor granted. The likelihood of having the favor granted will be much greater if the character does favors in return from time to time. On the other hand, having friends in high places may mean that the character attracts the attention of the friends' enemies. The character has elevated dishonesty to an art form. They receive a bonus die on Deception rolls. A character with the Elusive special ability is fast on their feet and good at rolling with the punches. When attacked by a Close Combat attack, the character may base their defense value (DV) on their Agility rather than on their Brawn. Equipment and traits which would add to the character's Brawn to determine their defense value may add to the character's Agility, instead. The player may choose which attribute to use on a case by case basis. Lightning Strike A character with Lightning Strike can deal devastating blows using speed and finesse rather than brute force. When making a Close Combat attack, the character may substitute their Agility for their Brawn when determining their action value (AV). The player may choose which attribute to use on a case by case basis. This can reflect the character's advanced advanced martial arts training, their superhuman speed, the harnessing of the character's chi, or some other effect. Mental Resistance A character with Mental Resistance is resistant to mental attacks and unnatural coercion. When making a Mental Combat defense roll, the character's Presence is doubled. Mental Resistance does not need to be activated: it is always active, as long as the character is alert. Perfect Recall The character may use a standard action to perfectly remember any event, document, song, or painting which the character has taken the effort to study and memorize. The character does not need to understand the items to be memorized, because the information memorized is not stored as text; it is in the character's memory as a picture. As such, the information is not subject to instantaneous retrieval, but the character may mentally "turn pages" looking for a specific bit of information. Pro From Erewhon The character is the best in their field, whatever that field is. A character with the Pro From Erewhon special ability may choose a specific, narrowly-defined professional or scholarly field in which they are the undisputed expert. When answering a question or performing research related to their specialty, they gain a bonus die. A character may only be the Pro From Erewhon in a single narrowly defined specialty, and each player character with the Pro From Pro From Erewhon ability must choose a different specialty. A character with the Sneak Attack special ability can make devastating attacks when an opponent is at a disadvantage. When the character has an attack bonus, or when they are attacking a target who has a defense penalty, the character will inflict one extra point of Endurance damage above whatever they roll -- if the attack is successful and inflicts at least one point of Endurance damage. Sneak Attack may be used in conjunction with Spiritual Weapon or another special ability which adds to the character's action value. The character refuses to admit defeat when others would fall by the wayside. When attacked, the character may base their defense value (DV) on their Presence rather than on their Agility or Brawn. Equipment and traits which would add to the character's Agility or Brawn to determine their defense value may add to the character's Presence, instead. The player may choose which attribute to use on a case by case basis. A character with the Untouchable special ability is extremely difficult to hit with most physical or energy attacks. The defense value (DV) of a character with the Untouchable special ability is equal to their relevant defense attribute (Brawn for close attacks, Agility for ranged attacks) plus their Agility. As always, this does not stack with conventional armor, Arcane Shield, or other forms of defense -- only the highest defense value applies. Untouchable does not need to be activated: it is always active, as long as the character is alert. A character with the Vanish special ability can use a standard action to become difficult to perceive, either by taking advantage of cover or by standing where no one thinks to look. However the effect is achieved, the character disappears from view, even if they were being directly observed at the time. The character will remain hidden from normal sight until the character casts a spell or makes an attack. Retrieved from "http://ogc.rpglibrary.org/index.php?title=Priest_Soldier_Sorcerer_Spy_3e_EN:Archetypes&oldid=9968" Priest Soldier Sorcerer Spy Bog-Standard Fantasy Bulletproof Blues Confederation and Empire Left Of Center Rough Magic WaRP System ZeroSpace Average Weight Of Common Household Furniture About OGC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3555
__label__cc	0.526964	0.473036	Posted on: 2013-12-18 22:01:48 by davidof One boy and his dog: Belle and Sébastien Like me, you may remember the black and white children's TV series from the 1960s about the adventures of a boy (Sébastien) and his Pyrenean sheep dog (Belle). The film rights have sat on Gaumont's books for a while until wildlife documentary maker Nicolas Vanier (Le dernier trappeur) was persuaded to take on this much loved classic. Breaking a rule of cinema by working with both animals and children and with fans of the original watching closely Vanier is a brave man and does not disappoint. To recap the story, Sébastien is the adopted son of Caesar (Tcheky Karyo), a shepherd. His mother, a gypsy, died in the mountains during childbirth asking Caesar to take care of her boy. In the original TV series he is played by Mehdi who also appears in the 2013 film as lumberjack André. Perhaps with the naivety of the small Sébastien he once was, Mehdi hopes his appearance in the film will relaunch his acting career. Belle is a mistreated Pyrenean shepherd dog who is running wild in the mountains and the villagers believe is attacking their sheep. Sébastien befriends and tames the dog but he his hunted by the villagers after he attacks German soldiers. There is a back story of Jewish refugees, Nazis and the villagers trying to help them to safety in Switzerland over the high and dangerous mountains. Dad's taking their kids to the cinema are not forgotten with Sébastien's adopted sister, the village baker Angélina (played by "belle" Margaux Châtelier) hawking her baps to both Germans and French alike. In fact the World War II setting is something of a canard. Vanier tackles some topical themes. Refuges escaping war and persecution, environmental issues and man's cruelty to animals and the stupidity of war. Caesar is a proto-environmentalist with a big heart, in a spectacular opening sequence he and Sébastien rescue a baby mountain goat whose mother has been killed by poachers. Kids will probably miss the sub-text but be enchanted by the charismatic Sébastien (Félix Bossuet) and his fluffy white dog (played by Garfield). Vanier's heritage as a wildlife film maker shines through. The story is very simple the the dialogue sparse. He frequently breaks away to show us Chamois frolicking in the meadows or an Eagle soaring on thermals. It is reminiscent of John Toll's camera work in Maliks Thin Red Line. The original theme tune and l'Oiseau are sung by in-vogue chanteuse Zaz. Filmed in the Upper Maurienne, Vanoise National Park, Vercors and Font d'Urle in the Pyrenees over four seasons. The mountains have never looked more splendid. A Christmas treat for young and old.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3556
__label__cc	0.639615	0.360385	Game Boy Geek - Hi Quality - Hi Energy Board Game Reviews http://podcast.gameboygeek.com/feed.xml The Game Boy Geek provides high quality, high energy board game reviews. He helps you find the next board game you’ll love! RSS Feed for Podcatcher Apps Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done Review with the Game Boy Geek Click here to view thousands of board games at discounted prices at our Sponsor MiniatureMarket.com: https://www.miniaturemarket.com/ttt1022.html?utm_source=gameboygeek&utm_medium=partner Miniature Market Product Alerts: If the game hasn’t released yet or is out of stock, sign up to get notified when it is available for purchase. Learn more here: https://www.miniaturemarket.com/productnotifications?utm_source=gameboygeek&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=customer-service My review of this strategy game (Crusaders: Thy Will be Done) by Tasty Minstrel Games where you’ll be using a mancala game mechanism to move your knights across regions, erect buildings, defeat enemies and spread your influence! Upgrade every game you play with the Ultimate Gaming Accessory! Game Toppers shipping now! http://www.GameToppersLLC.com BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/170624/crusaders-thy-will-be-done Bezier Games (Werewords) - https://beziergames.com/collections/all-games/products/werewords Grey Fox Games (Reavers of Midgard) - https://www.greyfoxgames.com/reavers-of-midgard/ Eagle Gryphon Games (Maniacal) - https://www.eaglegames.net/product-p/102182.htm Tasty Minstrel Games (Orleans Stories) - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287275/orleans-stories Games by Bicycle - https://bicyclecards.com/product/shuffle-grand-prix/?category=games#filter The Game Boy Geek Helps You “Find & Enjoy the Next Board Game You’ll Love” with new content at least every other day. Meet up on these Web & social media platforms: Website - www.GameBoyGeek.com Facebook - http://www.Facebook.com/TheGameBoyGeek Twitter - http://www.Twitter.com/TheGameBoyGeek Instagram - http://www.Instagram.com/TheGameBoyGeek Podcast - RSS - http://gameboygeek.podbean.com/feed/ Podcast iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-boy-geek-hi-quality-hi/id1042741475 Copyright 2015 Dan King. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3561
__label__wiki	0.79176	0.79176	A young woman living on her own in the coastal marshes of North Carolina becomes a murder suspect. (G.P Putnam's Sons: $26) The Island of Sea Women An ancient guild of female divers on a South Korean Island reckon with the destruction of modernity from 1938 to 2008 Daisy Jones & The Six A fictional history charting the rise and fall of a ’70s rock band. (Ballantine: $27) The American Agent Jacqueline Winspear When the Germans attack the British Isles, Maisie Dobbs must solve a case and protect a young evacuee. Black Leopard, Red Wolf A tracker tells the tale of a powerful man destroyed by demons. The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides A famous painter stops speaking after shooting her husband. (Celadon: $26.99) A retelling of the story of Circe, who draws the wrath of both men and gods. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild A heroic hound and his pals work to prove his innocence for a crime he didn’t commit. (Graphix : $9.99) The Cornwalls Are Gone To save her kidnapped husband and daughter, an Army intelligence officer must commit a crime. C.J. Box Joe Pickett discovers the son of a man who owns a wildlife killing drone belonging is dating his own daughter. The tale of a family's legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. A vampire and a scientist's fates are entwined in a race against time. (Gallery Press: $28) A family is torn apart when their drug-addicted daughter goes missing. (Grand Central: $29) Celtic Empire Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino are sent on a wild mission into the ancient world, in the 25th book in the Dirk Pitt series. The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle Banished to New York City, a powerless Apollo must learn to survive in the modern world as a teenage boy. (Hyperion: $19.99) Nell Freudenberger A physicist at MIT receives a text from her dead best friend. (Knopf: $16) Only Woman in the Room A fiction telling of actress Hedy Lamar’s brilliance as a scientist and inventor. (Sourcebooks: $25.99) Sing to It 15 short stories set in New York City, upstate, Florida and various island. The former first lady recounts her childhood in Chicago, meeting Barack and their years in the White House. (Crown: $32.35) The former editor of Gourmet Magazine shares an insider account of the world of food culture. The rise and fall of Theranos, the biotech startup that failed to deliver on its promise to make blood testing more efficient. The story of the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library. (Simon & Schuster: $28) The Path Made Clear The talk show host shares discoveries and lessons learned on the road to success. Commander in Cheat Rick Reilly Trump’s alleged misdeeds on and around the golf course. (Hatchette: $28) Susan Page A biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush. (Twelve: $32.50) Dreyer's English Benjamin Dreyer A guide to clarity and style from the Random House copy chief. The Right Side of History How reason and moral purpose should mobilize the next generation. (Broadside: $27.99) Salt in My Soul The diary of a young woman's determination to live a meaningful life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug. Girl Stop Apologizing How to stop living in fear of being judged for who you are. (HarperCollins: $24.99) Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe The 1972 murder of a mother of ten during conflict in Northern Ireland. (Doubleday: $28.95) A study of the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. (Liveright: $23.95) Madame Fourcade's Secret War Lynne Olson How a privileged 31 year-old Frenchwoman became the leader of a vast Resistance organization in World War II. Ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Behind the scenes of a therapist’s world. (Houghton Mifflin: $28) The Case for Trump Victoria Davis Hanson The Fox News contributor's view that America needs the president's adopted conservative ideals. (Basic Books: $30) Bobby Hall Conversations with Friends Sigrid Nunez Atul Gawande Robin DiAngelo The Collected Schizophrenias Esme Weijun Wang How to Relax Paris by the Book Liam Callahan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3565
__label__cc	0.552118	0.447882	Redleg Nation Radio: A Cincinnati Reds Podcast The world's most dangerous podcast, hosted by Chad Dotson (Redleg Nation, Cincinnati Magazine, "The Big 50: Cincinnati Reds") and a rotating cast of characters, including former Reds players and broadcasters. RNR is a deep dive into the daily trials and tribulations of the Cincinnati Reds, filled with witty banter and the occasional reference to Lisalverto Bonilla. Twitter Email RSS Feed Subscribe in Apple Podcasts RNR #17 with special guest Tom Nichols, the "Voice of the Dragons" 0 Bill sat down with Tom Nichols, the voice of the Dayton Dragons, in the latest edition of the Redleg Nation Radio podcast. Bill and Tom discussed the state of the Reds farm system, especially the Class A affiliate there in Dayton, and many other topics. Enjoy. Continue reading → ©Copyright Chad Dotson 2005-2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3569
__label__wiki	0.632961	0.632961	+92-42-35248237 \| +92-42-35248330 info@reliable-pk.com Managing Director’s Message Elevated Rotaries Pre Cast Transom Table Span Transom 21 M Wide Transom Lahore, capital of the Punjab is one of the fastest growth rates of urban development and industrial infrastructure in the country. This fast growing urban development also need for new systems in the city specially the transport which can be accessed from the fact that exiting transport is simply inadequate both in number of buses and quality to serve the exiting and incremental travel demand. During peak hours, vehicles are over-loaded with people hanging on the doors. For upgrading Lahore Public transport systems, Government of Punjab constructed the bus rapid transit System. Ferozpur road was selected as a priority corridor. For rapid construction, the corridor is divided into parts. Zahir khan Brothers and reliable Engineering Services (Pvt.) Ltd. (ZKB-JV) joint ventured to construct 3.9Km (out of 8 Km) elevated section named package llb/2 and p-lll starts from Ichra to MAO college. This projects includes an elevated corridor of 10m normal width having two lanes of 3.5 m, with 1.5m wide side wall including barrier on both sides. At station the Bridge width is 15m i.e. 8m for bus corridor and 3.5 m for station width each side’s 2 No. transfer stations are constructed having deck 22M wide. Precast transoms was used to reduced the construction time and to achieve the best quality finishes in controlled factory environment and to ease the works at site keeping the busy road free for public most of the time, The use of precast transoms has been introduced for the first time in country as ZKB-JV has started installation of transoms for the construction of the Metro Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in the Lahore City. Unlike the previous laborious technique of using shuttering for construction of parts of bridges, the use of pre-cast transoms will save a lot of time and resources and facilitate expeditious completion of the project. Construction to cast precast transom: Preparation of pre-casting Beds and Moulds Mould and form work was made of steel A guide mechanism was prepared in the bed of moulds to reflect the same condition as in-situ Guide notes was welded at the base of moulds as per template being used on site for casting of columns A copy of the precast mould’s central portion that is to rest on in-situ RCC columns was prepared as a dummy mould for fixing of steel out of the mould Activity of steel fixing was carried out independently to save the time on dummy moulds Concrete of transom was completed in two stages 1: concrete in transom at base 2: concrete in transom at stem Concrete from batching plant was received in receiving hopper and then shift to transit mixer Concrete through plant mixer was transported to the bed/moulds, delivering directly into the mould fixed below ground level for ease in handling of concrete After the concrete in the bed has set sufficiently to allow working on its top, forms for the transom stem part shall be fixed in portion Concrete in the stem part was carried out in the same fashion as in transom base part After initial setting, curing was started and continued till the member is lifted and transported to site Formwork was removed within 24 hours when concrete was set After three days compressive strength was checked by testing cylinder and permission was granted to lift when we achieved the required compressive strength The transoms for this project are being fabricated at a distance about 40km location on Multan Road under the supervision of NESPAK. Local city police and highway police was contacted and engaged to escort the loaded trailer from precast yard to the project site. Emergency rescue vehicle were also escort the load and no other traffic was allowed in the vicinity of the trailer carrying heavy loads. Transportation from yard to the site was done at the late hours in the night to avoid traffic and public interface. Proper support system using wooden block, rubber types and MS Girders was designed and fixed on trailer to keep the member in upright straight position for a safe travelling to the site. These transoms are being lifted with the help of two cranes and are being placed at the top of five meters tall piles. Launching: Transom is 90 tons in weight. Its length is 9.8 meters, width 2.7 meters and height is 2.2 meters. These transoms are being lifted with the help of two cranes of 100 Ton capacity and are being placed at the top of five meters tall piles. Girders will be placed on these transoms and then the bridge will be constructed over them. All area around pier shall be cordoned off and no person was allowed to come under load. Metro Bus System Package III & V Rawalpindi-Islamabad It is a great job that Reliable successfully achieved the lowest biding in the biding competition for the Project of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Package III & V. PEC Upgrades Reliable Engineering Services to No Limit Category Pakistan Engineering Council has upgraded the registration of Reliable Engineering Services (Pvt) Limited to NO LIMIT C-A Category, is a news endorsing the untiring efforts of the workers and management of Reliable Engineering Services (Pvt) Limited. Website Developed By ZeosSoft Technologies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3572
__label__wiki	0.589747	0.589747	MOTORSPORT NEWS Rally TITLE RACE HOTS UP IN SARDINIA June 6, 2017 Andries van der Walt Comments Off on TITLE RACE HOTS UP IN SARDINIA AS THE FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP REACHES THE HALFWAY POINT IN ITALY THIS WEEK, IT WOULD TAKE A BRAVE PERSON TO CONFIDENTLY PREDICT THE DESTINY OF THE DRIVERS’ CROWN. Sebastien Ogier Four different winners from the opening four rounds highlighted the unpredictability of the most open title battle in years. As the series reaches round seven at Rally Italia Sardegna (8 – 11 June), most people’s money would be on one of the top four drivers in the standings. After his Vodafone Rally de Portugal victory last month, championship leader Sébastien Ogier (above) reckoned that he, Thierry Neuville, Jari-Matti Latvala and Ott Tänak remained in contention with seven rounds to go. Ogier and Neuville are the only drivers with two wins. Master tactician Ogier has a 22-point advantage after success in Monte-Carlo and Portugal, while Neuville enjoyed the champagne in Corsica and Argentina. Both arrive in Sardinia with solid claims to be the first to score three victories in a new-generation car. Ogier won in 2015, his third in a row on the island, while Neuville enjoyed the victory leap into Alghero Harbour 12 months ago. Ogier said his aim was to strengthen his points lead having found a good feeling with his Ford Fiesta in Portugal. “The temperatures we’ll experience are probably the highest of the year and we’ll need to be prepared for that,” said the Frenchman.“We had a good test where we confirmed our cooling options as well as set-up configurations for the event, so there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be confident of challenging for another strong result.” Ogier likes the challenge of one of the season’s toughest encounters and said: “We’ll face an element of cleaning on the opening day, but we’ve got a good track record in Sardinia and I’ve learned to enjoy these demanding stages. “It’s not the easiest of events. You need to keep a margin and be focused from start to finish. Tyre preservation can also prove really important and that could be particularly significant on Saturday with two 70km loops,” he added. Neuville’s confidence is high after following two straight wins in his Hyundai i20 Coupe with second in Portugal to banish memories of a troubled start to the year. “We are happy, we are confident, and we are hopeful that we can achieve a positive result,” said the Belgian. “This is a technical event that we cannot take for granted. The roads are very hard and dry which can be tough on the cars, especially the tyres. Therefore, tyre choice can be crucial depending on road position and will be something we watch closely.” UPBEAT TÄNAK STILL IMPROVING Hyundai motivated for Sardegna WRC heads to Rally Italia Sardegna for round eight OGIER RULES OUT ITALY WRC WIN AFTER RIVAL TÄNAK TACTIC SPOILS ROAD ADVANTAGE Sébastien Ogier leads Rally Italia Sardegna after a dramatic opening leg LATVALA WINS ITALY WARM-UP Dakar finisher ACCIONA enters rally championship with its electric racer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3575
__label__cc	0.644878	0.355122	Army Corps Says DAPL is Safe September 2, 2018 News, Rants U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to further review environmental analysis on the permit, which had granted the final easement to finish the pipeline. That report is in. Yesterday, the Army Corps said in its decision that granting the permit and right of way for the company under federally owned land “does not result in disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations, including tribes, and low-income populations.” Mike Faith, Jr., Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe was quoted as saying, “The Army Corps’ decision to rubber-stamp its illegal and flawed permit for DAPL will not stand.” He said the tribe would review the decision and decide how best to proceed. Boasberg did not immediately rule on whether he was satisfied with the Corps’ additional work. However, when he ruled last October that the pipeline could continue operating while the work was done, he hinted it might not take much. The judge said at the time that he found it likely the Corps would be able to justify its previous decisions, and that the agency….. “must simply connect the dots” and not “redo its analysis from the ground up.” Other legal battles continue, hope still remains. still saying #NoDAPL etp, nodapl, standing rock Previous post Previous Mountain Valley Pipeline and Sioux Spiritual Sites Next post Next Take This Pipe and Love It. 0 thoughts on “Army Corps Says DAPL is Safe”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3576
__label__wiki	0.676984	0.676984	How do you spend $1,100 for a desk chair? Costco has nice ones for $240 By Bob McCaffrey on August 30, 2014 in Newport Beach, News Newport Independent Columnist Kurt English continues to dig on the excessive spending on the Taj Mahal. He uses a city invoice to show the ridiculous prices they paid for desk chairs – some as much as $1,100. Bob McCaffrey from Residents For Reform suggested, “Next time the city buys furniture, maybe they could go to IKEA.” Click Here to view the invoice From Newport Beach Independent https://www.newportbeachindy.com/civic-center-chairy-tale/ By Kurt English on August 30th, 2014 A Civic Center Chairy Tale I have written several times about the infamous $1,073 chairs purchased for the Newport Beach City Hall. After multiple requests, I finally received the invoice from the city dated March 1, 2013. Tara Finnegan, Public Information Manager for the city of Newport Beach, said that the Orange County Register article stating the $1,073 price tag was based on a quote the city received in 2012. She said the actual invoice price paid for those chairs was $957 each. However, there were more surprises for taxpayers in that furniture invoice. Twenty-three other chairs characterized in hand written notes on that invoice as “executive” conference room chairs were purchased for $1,159.50 each. A conference room credenza was purchased for $6,052.86. A conference room table wins the prize for most expensive item on the invoice at $10,609.21. One hundred plastic “side” chairs were bought for $176.58 each (I found alternative chairs for $30.99 each on BizChair.com). The city paid the seller a design fee of $6,900 and a project management fee of $1,700. I wish I could charge my customers $8,600 for the privilege of buying my products. “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams,” as Robin Leach used to say on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” Conference rooms in large or medium sized law firms or court reporting services have nice facilities with professional looking furniture. I’ve talked to various lawyers and court reporting service executives about furniture costs. For $3,500 they can buy a professional conference room table that can accommodate 12 to 15 people, a conference room credenza, and 10 conference room chairs. Several city council candidates I talked to disagree with the city’s free spending on furniture. City Council candidate Diane Dixon responded, “I bought two ergonomically correct leather chairs at Overstock.com for my home office at $399 each, and I didn’t get the government rate. Someone advocating for the taxpayer needs to be sitting at that $10,000 table and making the decisions. I will wear the green eyeshades for the taxpayer.” Why could private citizen Dixon buy high-end specialty chairs for significantly less than the city? It’s amazing what you can save when you spend money as if it was “your” money. City Council candidate Kevin Muldoon added, “These expenditures are great examples of unwise spending of taxpayer funds. This indicates a much bigger problem with city spending.” Many taxpayers are outraged that government would buy high-end “designer” furniture rather than lower priced generics. Someone I know who is involved in California politics (but wanted to remain anonymous for business reasons) quipped that the “city’s excessive spending on luxury furniture [is opulence] that one might find in the headquarters of [New York City investment bank] Goldman Sachs (oh wait, didn’t they sell the bonds that financed the [city hall] deal)?” Bob McCaffrey from Residents For Reform suggested, “Next time the city buys furniture, maybe they could go to IKEA.” City Council candidate Scott Peotter pointed out that credit furniture purchases more than doubled the invoice costs. According to a February 2014 article in the OC Register, the city hall project cost is $142.2 million. According to the Certificate of Participation documents on the city’s website, the city financed $128.4 million. Taxpayers will pay for the project costs and interest totaling $297.4 million. So financing the project increased the percentage cost to taxpayers by 109 percent. Amortizing the 109 percent interest cost to each individual purchase, the $1,159 chairs actually cost taxpayers $2,424, the $6,052 credenza actually cost taxpayers $12,657, and the $10,609 conference tables actually cost taxpayers $22,188. One of the justifications for purchasing the $957 chairs was their projected useful life of 12 years. But taxpayers are paying for them for 30 years—that’s 18 years after their projected useful life. More fiscal discipline is likely to be imposed on the city after November’s elections. How much will depend on how many reform or status quo candidates are elected. OC Register Calls Out “Conservative” Newport Beach City Council Dear Newport Beach Republican, I have been a soldier in the Republican Party since my days of working for Barry Goldwater for President. It saddens me to see our city council morph into the overspending, overtaxing, and big-government beast that Sen. Goldwater and President Reagan warned against. There is a ray of hope with this election cycle. There are four city council seats on the November ballot. I believe it’s time for a change. Out with the big spenders. Below is a wonderful article by Register columnist Jack Wu that is a great starting point for the November elections. Jack lays out the big-spending ways of the current city council and the need for change. Bob McCaffrey Volunteer Chairman, Residents for Reform Jack Wu: Newport home to conservative bait and switch By JACK WU I’ve had the great pleasure of writing about Newport Beach politics for the past seven years. And during this entire time, I’ve had to repeatedly dispel the notion that Newport Beach is the most conservative city in California. But according to the Sacramento Bee, and a subsequent column by Martin Wisckol at the O.C. Register, 60 percent of Newport’s voters have described themselves as conservative. That makes Newport the most conservative out of the state’s 150 biggest cities. Hear that? That’s me falling out of my chair in laughter. So three out of every five Newport Beach voters are calling themselves conservatives. Apparently, they’ve forgotten that when they get to the ballot box. Unless, of course, it’s a conservative notion to elect every union-backed candidate, who then gives wondrous compensations and benefits to their public employees. That includes the full-time lifeguards who peak upward of $200,000 a year, with 51-year-olds retiring at $108,000 a year for the rest of their lives. In what world would a council candidate be considered conservative for actively pursuing the endorsement of the Newport Beach labor unions (associations), which then unabashedly donate to and support liberal candidates in other races? Yet, every single republican (small “r”) on the Newport Beach City Council has sought and received contributions from both the city’s police and fire associations. In addition, these so-called conservatives voted to transform a $40 million City Hall into a $144 million Taj Mahal, complete with $250,000 concrete bunnies, a $2 million zinc-covered bridge to the dog park and $1,000-plus office chairs; adding tens of thousands of dollars to the budget just for good measure to give the architects opportunities to win design awards. Oh yes, and borrowing every red cent to do it, creating a long-term debt obligation for future generations to enjoy, alongside the modern sculptures. Tax and spend to build a larger house for government – that’s a conservative notion, right? I thought conservatives were for low debt and smaller government? Later, the tax-(called fees in Newport Beach)-and-spend City Council raised the city’s mooring fees exponentially, charging commercial dock owners a percentage of the gross income, as well as increasing four-fold the fees paid by residential dock owners to use their own docks. Mayor Rush Hill cursed at his constituents when they dared to challenge his excellence. Since 2003, with only a 7 percent increase in population, Newport Beach’s budget has ballooned 172 percent, from $110 million to $280 million in 2014. Its unfunded pension liability is the highest per resident in Orange County, and Newport Beach still has an extremely high ratio of full-time-equivalent employees per resident. As a full-service city, having lots of city employees is expected, but when comparing Newport Beach, with 87,000 residents, to neighboring Huntington Beach, it’s downright embarrassing. Newport needs almost twice as many city employees per resident than does Huntington Beach. Even Newport Beach’s City Council has more members (seven) than neighboring Irvine, Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach, each with five. Huntington Beach, with its larger population of 197,000, also has seven members. But perhaps that’s why, in its 108 years of existence, the Newport Beach City Council has never had one of its own elected to higher office. In a typically conservative voting district, Newport Beach council members were never conservative enough. Although Newport Beach’s voters may consider themselves conservative, their City Council is anything but. I could go on forever. Jack Wu is an accountant who lives in Newport Beach and has been a longtime Republican Party activist. Contact him at jack@wubell.com. Coastal Commission wants more information on Newport Beach’s charcoal-only bonfires http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-633024-charcoal-commission.html BY NICOLE SHINE NEWPORT BEACH – How long will Newport Beach give away bags of charcoal? What do beachgoers say about charcoal-fueled bonfires? Has the city studied the health effects of charcoal bonfires? In an Aug. 15 letter, California Coastal Commission staff asked for answers to these questions and dozens of others, writing in response to the city’s permit application, which commission staff called “incomplete.” The application, submitted in July, was for a pilot program requiring beachgoers to burn charcoal, rather than wood, in the city’s 60 fire rings. In practice, however, the city has gone ahead with the charcoal-only program since March without a permit from the Coastal Commission, the state agency that oversees coastal access. The city said the program is in response to an air-quality rule that generally bans open-burning in fire rings within 700 feet of homes. In the August letter, commission staff asked for specifics about the charcoal-only program, including how long it would last, if the city had looked at the ill effects of burning charcoal, and whether the program has lessened the use of fire rings. The city’s application says that the same number of people are mostly using fire rings now compared to earlier, when wood-burning was allowed. Commission staff, in response, asked for hard numbers. They didn’t give the city a deadline to respond. Tara Finnigan, a Newport Beach spokeswoman, said Wednesday the city was still reviewing the Coastal Commission letter and wasn’t sure when they might respond. She said the city will give away free charcoal at least through Labor Day. Since March, the city has given away about $12,000 worth of charcoal, officials confirmed. The city also budgeted $150,000 this year for staff to educate beachgoers and enforce the charcoal-only rule. Contact the writer: nshine@ocregister.com or Twitter:@nicolekshine Mailbag: City Council isn’t as conservative as it claims to be dailypilot.com/opinion/tn-dpt-me-0830-mailbag-20140827,0,7717078.story 12:32 PM PDT, August 27, 2014 Newport Beach’s current City Council is filled with self-proclaimed Republicans — fiscally conservative, against big government — and they want to just leave people alone and keep the government out of people’s lives. Or so they claim. Despite the rhetoric, that’s not what we’ve been seeing in practice. The current council members are not fiscally conservative. They have passed the largest proportional increase to property owners in Newport’s history: The so-called dock tax is a whopping 500% increase for dock owners I know. They have also presided over the largest expenditure in Newport’s history: The Taj Ma-City-Hall came in at an astounding $237 million over 30 years, a mind-boggling five times larger than the original $46 million cash estimate. The current council members claim they are against big government but recently agreed to begin exploring the possibility of ceding our beaches to the state. They claim to represent their constituents, yet have voted to outlaw burning wood in Newport’s beach fire rings — making them charcoal-only — against the will of the public. The current council outsourced trash services by ramming the process through without spending sufficient time to properly define specs and get the best possible bids. During the very same council session where members voted to pare vendors and proceed with the outsourcing process, they were asking the companies what was and wasn’t included in their specifications — items that should have been pinned down before the bidding process even began. They claimed the purpose of outsourcing was to reduce pensions, yet promised the workers different city jobs at the same pay. Where is the savings? Why the rush? I’m on record as supporting outsourcing delays. We needed six to eight more months to iron out the details. The city recently completed the transition and is already experiencing “surprises”. Not surprising. Our current council loves to tout our fantastic credit rating, but if you spend $60,000 and bring in $100,000, your credit rating will be fantastic even if you spend the entirety of that money on complete absurdities. A good credit rating doesn’t mean we are spending wisely. It just means we aren’t spending it all, at least not in an obvious fashion. Taxing more and spending more isn’t my definition of fiscally conservative. Handing over management of our beaches to the state isn’t “small government,” nor does it serve the needs of the community, and passing ordinances against our fire rings and legislating against the wishes of our own people isn’t “representative” in any fashion. Newport Beach needs a City Council reboot. Four of seven seats will soon be open. Come November, we have the opportunity to fix our city, to fix our home. Let’s do it right this time. The writer is a former City Council candidate. Activist challenges candidate’s ballot designation dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-me-0822-ballot-lawsuit-20140822,0,7457267.story Bob McCaffrey sues registrar of voters and Newport city clerk, contending Tim Brown’s listed occupation as businessman is misleading. By Emily Foxhall 6:04 PM PDT, August 21, 2014 A Newport Beach resident is challenging the description of a City Council candidate as a businessman on the Nov. 4 ballot. Dock tax opponent Bob McCaffrey filed a lawsuit Monday in Orange County Superior Court against the county’s registrar of voters, Neal Kelley, and Newport Beach City Clerk Leilani Brown, alleging that the occupational descriptor for District 4 candidate Tim Brown — no relation — is deceptive. Brown’s occupation is listed as “Planning Commissioner/Businessman” on the ballot, although the planning duties are not in dispute. Newport Beach City Atty. Aaron Harp said the occupational designation was determined to be appropriate based on information that Brown provided to the city clerk. “Our office has reviewed the lawsuit, and we believe the city clerk’s determination that council candidate Tim Brown is a businessman is correct,” Harp wrote in an email. In the petition, McCaffrey, who headed the “Stop the Dock Tax” movement and has helped raise funds for District 1 council candidate Marshall “Duffy” Duffield, argues that Brown’s own ballot statement describes him as a professor at Riverside City College. Brown’s “primary source of income” comes from the college, not his educational consulting firm, Tim Brown and Associates, according to the court document. To describe Brown as a businessman would be “misleading” and would “result in irreparable injury to the voting public,” the petition said. “Tim Brown should be proud of his profession as a reading instructor at Riverside Community College,” McCaffrey wrote in an email. “He shouldn’t try to hide his noble profession by claiming he is a businessman.” Tim Brown referred questions to attorney Mark Rosen, who called the allegations “totally bogus.” Rosen said Brown has a business, “and McCaffrey should have done his homework.” A hearing has been set for 8:30 a.m. Monday at the Orange County Superior Court Central Justice Cente Playing Loose with City Election Rules Newport Beach Independent http://www.newportbeachindy.com/playing-loose-city-election-rules/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewportBeachIndependentNewpaperForLocalsByLocals+%28Newport+Beach+News+%7C+Newport+Beach+Independent+Newpaper+%29 It appears that Newport Beach City Clerk Leilani Brown misstated an important city election rule. The issue is about the rights of minority owners of businesses to donate to city council campaigns once their company makes a maximum donation, or vice versa. Four owners of Woody’s Wharf made maximum donations of $1,100 to Newport Beach City Council reform candidate Scott Peotter (a former Newport Beach Independent writer). Woody’s Wharf (the corporation) also donated $1,100 to Peotter’s campaign. City Clerk Brown sent Peotter a letter dated August 1 demanding that Peotter return the $1,100 contribution from Woody’s Wharf and threatening criminal prosecution if he didn’t. Brown claimed, “The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires campaign donations to be aggregated when donations are made by a person(s) and an entity that is controlled by that person(s)” and cited California Government Code Section 85311. Brown borrowed the plural tense from another rule. The relevant law is, “The contributions of an entity whose contributions are directed and controlled by any individual shall be aggregated with contributions made by that individual and any other entity whose contributions are directed and controlled by the same individual.” The term “individual” is used in the singular tense. A majority owner can “direct and control” a company. A minority owner does not “direct and control” a company. A fair reading of this law is that campaign contributions of an owner owning the majority of a company would be aggregated with that company’s contributions, but not a minority owner’s contributions. Apparently Woody’s Wharf doesn’t have one person who owns the majority of the company. If so, Brown’s accusations aren’t supported by applicable law. City officials can’t change state election law. Brown’s misinterpretation limits donations beyond the legal limits and creates confusion. Brown misstated the law in her August 1 letter by muddling language from different parts of the statute, changing its meaning. I sent Brown a very detailed email asking for clarification of the rule. I reviewed the statute, regulation and Newport Beach Municipal Code, quoted her August 1 letter extensively and asked for guidance on the alleged violations because I don’t see them. Brown’s terse response was, “I have no comments beyond what is in the letter.” Her refusal seems unnecessarily uncooperative for someone paid a total annual salary and benefits of $170,960 of taxpayer money. City Manager Dave Kiff told me that the City Clerk is the elections officer of Newport Beach. So Brown abdicated her responsibility to clarify these rules. Kiff and City Attorney Aaron Harp also refused to discuss the matter. Right in the middle of campaign season, city officials overseeing a $300 million total budget are refusing to clarify the rights of minority owners in businesses to make campaign contributions if the company has already made a maximum $1,100 contribution. Woody’s Wharf is reportedly in a dispute with the city over indoor dancing or music at the famous restaurant. Many of us who listened to music or danced at Woody’s Wharf over the years hope that Woody’s decades old tradition continues. Critics of the way the city has been managed in recent years are concerned that citizens and businesses like Woody’s Wharf and candidates like Peotter are being targeted unfairly by a city that doesn’t like criticism. Citizens have a right to, and city officials have an obligation to provide, clear bright line rules about when owners and their businesses may contribute to city council races. City officials owe the citizens clarifying discussions on important campaign contribution rules so people and candidates can coordinate legal campaign contributions in advance, rather than being threatened with criminal prosecution after the fact. Bullying, gotcha government is bad government. Newport council hopefuls debate parking, ‘dock tax,’ more dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-me-0815-newport-council-debate-20140814,0,1509638.story When Newport Beach City Council candidates gathered for their first debate on Thursday morning at the Central Library, they could all agree on at least one thing: Newport Beach is a great place to live. But as the forum focused on hot-button issues such as parking, traffic and development, they began to divide over whether the current council has handled issues with fiscal responsibility, attention to resident input and reasoned deliberation. The free public event was sponsored by the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce as part of its monthly Wake Up Newport series. Local dignitaries settled into the audience to hear how the next council might decide to change things — if at all. The onlookers included former Mayor Don Webb, several harbor commissioners and the council members whose seats are not up for election this year: Keith Curry, Tony Petros and Ed Selich. Moderator Lucy Dunn, president and chief executive of the Orange County Business Council, greeted the eight candidates by telling them, “You are looking very spry this morning.” The hopefuls gave introductory statements, then answered rapid-fire questions from Dunn by raising “yes” or “no” signs in response. Then they began to dig a little deeper into issues, with one-minute responses to a series of other questions. PARKING, TRAFFIC AND DEVELOPMENT When it comes to parking strategies on the Balboa Peninsula, the city should be serving residents rather than focusing on making the area a destination for outsiders, according to Marshall “Duffy” Duffield, a District 3 candidate. “The issue on the peninsula will never be solved in terms of parking,” Duffield said. “There simply isn’t enough parking and never will be.” Roy Englebrecht (District 4) expressed a similar view, saying, “This is a problem that has never gone away.” Perhaps there could be a parking structure at the top of the peninsula, suggested Kevin Muldoon (District 4). Maybe more permit parking, Scott Peotter (District 6) offered. Or businesses could try to share spaces better, said Michael Toerge (District 6). Mayor Rush Hill (District 3) said parking requirements sometimes can only be met by certain types of businesses, such as banks. The group was in general agreement that the market should dictate which businesses should stay, rather than imposing more stringent zoning. “If we want the businesses to thrive in Newport Beach, which we do, we have to patron those businesses,” Muldoon said. Hill said government needs to impose parameters to keep out unwanted businesses such as massage parlors and explicit video stores. Only Englebrecht staunchly opposed an amendment to the land-use element of the General Plan that will be on the city ballot in November. It proposes increasing development potential in the Newport Center and airport areas but decreased development capacity in other parts of the city, like Newport Coast. Englebrecht lamented that condominiums block his view of the ocean when he drives, and he called for “common-sense protection for our views, or we just become another city.” DOCKS, DROUGHT AND SEA LEVEL An argument began over whether the city should have raised the fees for residential and commercial tidelands permit holders, commonly referred to as the “dock tax.” “It’s not a tax,” Hill said. “It’s a licensing fee.” He added that the fee amount had been unchanged for 21 years and needed to be amended. His opponent, Duffield, classified it as “the most complicated and expensive method” for the city to get an “unequitable” amount of money. “The city essentially took away a property right that existed for the homeowners,” Muldoon agreed, arguing that the change had negatively affected property values. Other questions touched on two other water-related issues: the drought and rising sea levels. “I support whatever we can do to strengthen water conservation,” said Diane Dixon (District 1). “We all have to do our part.” Peotter suggested calling for more water storage statewide. Toerge suggested tiered water rates. As for how to deal with a rise in sea levels, Duffield proposed a floating gate at the harbor entrance. Tim Brown (District 4) posed a strategy of building up the Balboa Island sea wall incrementally. “We have a little bit of time,” he said. City Hall’s $1K Chairs, Take Two By Bob McCaffrey on August 7, 2014 in Newport Beach, News Newport Independent By Kurt English on August 02nd, 2014 Two months ago, I wrote about the new city hall building that, according to a report in the OC Register, was “furnished with high-end furniture and fixtures, including 204 leather Herman Miller chairs designed by modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames, at a cost of $1,073 each, according to city invoices.” I was so surprised by the $1,073 chairs that I asked city officials for copies of these invoices. In my meeting with City Manager Dave Kiff in late May 2014, he promised to get them to me. Tara Finnegan also promised to get them to me. As of the publication deadline for this article more than two months later, I have not received copies of these invoices. When I spoke to Steve Badum, the Assistant City Manager and project manager for the construction of the new city hall he said he said that the $1,073 cost might be accurate for Herman Miller conference chairs but that he couldn’t verify it without reviewing the invoices. Badum justified the expenses of the city hall by stating that the city used a “Value Engineering Process.” He added that the budget for Furniture, Fixture and Equipment (FFE) was under two percent of the cost of the city hall project, which he said is good. Critics of the city hall project counter that the FFE was less than two percent because the building cost so much. Badum said they wanted furniture in public areas of the city hall that was cost effective, durable and not lavish or extravagant. He also mentioned that the government buyers get discounts and don’t pay retail prices. $1,073 for a chair seems excessive to me, as I complained in that article two months ago. So for the last couple months I have been curious about what private sector organizations spend on conference room chairs. I asked business executives and lawyers with prominent law firms. One law firm partner told me his firm spent $150-$200 per chair in his firm’s “best” conference room. Another business owner told me he spent a similar amount for his conference room chairs that seat CEO’s of companies with tens of millions of dollars of revenue per year. I had a hard time getting anybody to admit spending more than $200 on a conference room chair. One architect told me that it was possible to design in a $1,073 chair, but that you’d have to really try to do it. An executive that had sustained a back injury with subsequent back surgeries said he might buy a specialty chair for himself because of his unique medical condition, but not for common area use. It seemed reasonable to me that the city not spend more on conference room chairs than those private sector firms. After these executives told me about their conference room chair costs, I asked them what they thought a city like Newport Beach might pay for conference room chairs. They each speculated that the city would pay what they paid ($200 or less). When I told them that $1,073 was spent on over 200 chairs, none of them could believe it. The federal government is trillions of dollars in debt. California is deeply in debt. The city of Newport Beach issued certificates of participation that will result in the city paying about $100 million extra for the city hall project than if they paid cash. Unfunded pension liabilities are on top of these figures. We need public officials to think about our children and grandchildren having to pay back public debt. Government at all levels needs to go on a spending diet. $1,073 chairs can’t be on the menu anymore. Business as usual won’t work in this debt environment. Government needs to change its spending habits to become cheap, just like the taxpayers struggling to pay for big government that spends too much money.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3583
__label__wiki	0.635569	0.635569	Living Jewishly A Jew You Should Know The Chai List OyChicago articles 8 Questions for Dimitri Syrkin-Nikolau (aka Dimo): Out-of-the-box pizza creator, Iowa native, socially conscious entrepreneur Permanent link All Posts By Steven Chaitman If you frequent Chicago’s bar scene, chances are you’ve walked, ran or stumbled to Dimo’s Pizza at some point. Or perhaps their famous mac n’ cheese pizza has long been a staple of your weekly late night diet. But did you know that Dimo is Jewish? Iowa native Dimitri Syrkin-Nikolau brought Madison Wisconsin’s famous Ian’s Pizza to Chicago about five years ago, much to the delight of Badger alumni and everyone on Clark Street (and just recently at Six Corners!) looking for a quick slice. The restaurant specializes in radical toppings, adapting every comfort food you can imagine to fit on a large, flat and crispy crust, or as Dimo says, “we’ve always seen pizza as a delivery vehicle for the best foods imaginable.” So why change to Dimo’s? If you were confused by last year’s name change, be assured that it’s the same company, same people and same pizza. Syrkin-Nikolau explains: “I felt a disconnect was growing between what Ian's stood for and what I stood for. I'd opened Ian's in Chicago as a local and independent business and operated it as such for the period of four years. Ultimately, that freedom provided us with the opportunity to do everything that we saw fit to best serve those who entered our doors. I choose to retain that freedom and in doing so was forced to rebrand as Dimo's.” But Dimo’s is more than a name, and Syrkin-Nikolau aims to do more than satisfy people’s cravings. He is equally as passionate about the community role that local business can play in making a difference. So whether you’re hungry for cheesy potato pizza or social change, Dimo is A Jew You Should Know. 1. You have quite the last name. What’s the story there? Syrkin is my mother's middle name and my grandmother's maiden name ... still with me? I've come to this name via a man named Nachman Syrkin, an eccentric fellow known for—amongst other things—being one of the founders of Labour Zionism. He dedicated his life in an all-consuming manner to developing this theory and doing all that he could to propagate it throughout the Jewish sphere. So I suppose, my mother, being the feminist that she is, decided that if she didn't pass Syrkin onward (My grandmother had no brothers), the name would die in this lineage. My father is 100% Greek and from him I received Nikolau. I sometimes joke that he's lucky to have gotten anything into my name at all. 2. What is the best pizza you’ve ever created (in your opinion) and why? We made a pizzaa couple months back that has roasted poblano peppers, grilled shrimp, pineapple and pico de gallo. That slice was absolutely incredible! With pizza, it's always the balance of the flavors in combination with the perfect distribution upon a crust that is content to sit at the bottom and out of the way, but still be able to deliver a crunch with every bite. 3. Dimo’s is known for appealing to the late-night crowd. What’s the weirdest/funniest story you can tell us? We certainly are a popular late night destination given our location within Wrigleyville. One time, years ago, I took a delivery to a woman who tried to pay in sticks of Trident gum. I had to figure that out. Another time, after we were closed, a guy came to the door begging for pizza. He looked desperate and instead of turning him away, I went to the door. He said his wife was pregnant and in labor and wanted a Mac N' Cheese pizza after she delivered their baby. I smiled, let him in and made the pie. We took a photo on the way out. A few years later, in he walked and we got to reminisce about the night. Apparently it won him big points and I was happy to be able to make it happen for him. I wonder what they named the kid... 4. Owning a pizza place in Chicago is like selling candy in Candyland. You make it look easy, but describe the work that it takes to succeed. Well I think that depends upon what you think the relationship is between candy and Candyland. The simple answer is that success must be your only option. When you want success as much as you want to breathe, you'll be successful. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer because it doesn't describe the work that it takes to succeed, but that is because success, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. 5. Dimo’s is really community oriented. Why do you feel it’s important to go beyond making good pizza? Well, generally speaking, my philosophy revolves around the idea that if you make a product that people absolutely love and provide an experience that is so personal you develop relationships (not that kind) with your customers, you're going to make money. And it's what you do with that money that matters. I think we're at the beginning of a huge movement going on to start to operate for-profit businesses with for-profit efficiencies but with non-profit goals. You see this increasingly with social enterprise, Internet startups, and more and more in the small business world. I just recently visited plantchicago.org. They're a great example of a company that realizes that there’s a way to make money, make a living, and contribute to the betterment of society. I think if we do it on a large enough scale, I think it's something that can be used to help solve many of the problems our society faces today. 6. What do you love most about what you do? It's new every day! 7. In an alternate universe where you couldn’t be a food service entrepreneur, what would you do? Who says I'm not? Less importantly, who says I'm a food service entrepreneur? I just happen to be selling pizza. It could be widgets. Make the best possible product, make an incredible experience and I mean magnitudes above the rest, use those profits for the things you truly believe in and what's the difference does it make what business you're in? Does that answer the question? 8. What’s your favorite Jewish thing to do (or how do you Jew?) in Chicago (and why)? That's easy. I eat! Favorite quick deli is The Bagel. I've been there enough times for them to know me by name. 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__label__wiki	0.677647	0.677647	Natural healing for mouth ulcers,sore throat home remedies for pregnant ladies,warts genital herpes - Plans On 2016 Category: Virus Hsv Reiki - THELegend of Reiki The story of Reiki to date has been an oral tradition that is passed on from teacher to student by word of mouth. DESCRIPTION: While some earlier scholars would have labeled these maps as a€?the epitome of medieval European cartographya€?, due to the very ecclesiastical form and content, they were, indeed, an exception in this perioda€™s mapmaking. In his recent book, Body-Worlds, Opinicus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination, Karl Whittington writes that on the 31st of March, 1334, this Italian priest named Opinicus de Canistris fell sick. As mentioned above, Opicinusa€™ drawings survive in two manuscripts, both kept in the Vatican Library in Rome. There is no way of knowing how many other drawings Opicinus completed, and certainly no reason to believe that all or even a majority of his works have survived. Victoria Morsea€™s 1996 doctoral dissertation for the first time performed a large-scale study in order to demonstrate the logic of Opicinusa€™ works. It was not unusual during the later Middle Ages to bring together the body and the earth in pictorial representations. The relationship on the page between texts, diagrams, and pictures throughout Opicinusa€™ work is an especially important issue. According to Whittington the captions on most of the drawings seem to interact with them in the following way: Opicinus created the visual material first, usually to address a particular theological question or theme. The elaborate, complex, and beautiful drawings that Opicinus created in the years following his illness and vision are the subject of this monograph. What we see, then, is an embodied map a€” a picture of the eartha€™s surface that is also a depiction of human bodies. Opicinusa€™ beliefs and hypotheses about the earthly, the heavenly, and the human are encoded in the very structures of his drawings. Over half of Opicinusa€™ 80 drawings in the Vaticanus and Palatinus manuscripts include at least part of a portolan chart. Opicinusa€™ body-maps are far more complicated than any of the examples above, and the question of what they mean is more difficult to answer. In a number of drawings, Opicinus used the most basic form of the body-worlds - presumably the one that he describes having received in his 1334 vision. As in all of Opicinusa€™ drawings of the body-worlds, each figure takes on a specific identity, though in this example these identities are complex. It seems most likely that the figure depicts a sort of hybrid a€” a personification of Christianity, with Christ at its head and its heart, surrounded by elements of the cosmic order. Its chest is bare (we can see the cloak falling away from the shoulder on the northern coast of France), but the lower roundel covers the place where a breast is often revealed in Opicinusa€™ female European figures. In three folios near the end of the Vaticanus manuscript, Opicinusa€™ cartographic drawings add one more layer of meaning on top of the basic arrangement outlined above: he superimposes a gridded local map of Pavia, his hometown, on top of a single portolan chart. According to Whittington the precise placement and scale of the two maps is certainly not accidental; the maps have been placed in a precise relation to one another in order to create and explain correspondences between them. In contrast to this relatively simple correspondence, another caption shows how complicated his spatial interpretations could become. As a final word on this drawing, I want to return to one more visual feature: the form of the local city grid. In the two previous examples, Opicinus constructed a drawing using only one portolan chart; on fol. This doubling and mirroring of the portolan chart served a specific purpose: as Victoria Morse has argued, it allowed Opicinus to contrast the world as it was seen and known with the possibility of an alternate world converted to a state of grace. Each of the four land-figures bears an emblem on its chest a€” these signify the intention or motivation of each character. On the bottom half of the page, however, similar captions placed on the white chart actually point to cities on that chart, rather than on the one below. Even after all of the figures in the drawing have been identified, its meaning remains elusive. There is one caption on the page that offers a tantalizing comment on its form and content. This quoted caption outlines the general principle that Opicinus follows in these drawings that employ mirroring or correspondence a€” that the multiplied forms are generators of multiple truths and realities. Many Vaticanus drawings contain more explicit imagery of birth and reproduction; metaphors of birth and rebirth seem to have been one of Opicinusa€™ primary ways of expressing the spiritual transformation that he underwent following his illness of 1334. The interest in the local ramifications of the pregnancy of the European figure is explored even more closely in two drawings in which Europe is actually pregnant with a tiny map a€” fols. DESCRIPTION: A good example of Protestant theologian Heinrich Buntinga€™s Europa, Europe as a Queen. Uphoff, MS, MH, CMT, is a Master Herbalist and Iridologist, Massage Therapist and Yoga Instructor and is the co-founder of Mind Body Medicine for Health, Education & Wellness in Mendocino, California. She is a practitioner and instructor of Acutonics and Somatic Re-Integration, and has lectured and taught workshops throughout the world. Opicinus was a minor functionary and scribe at the papal court, which had moved to Avignon some thirty years earlier, and luckily for us he kept a kind of day-book that still survives. Numerous scholars such as Camille, Kris and Salomon point to Opicinusa€™ a€?frequenta€? self-representation in the drawings. Medieval mappaemundi often organized the land-forms of the earth around the shape of a crucifix (sometimes even a cruciform body), medieval astrological drawings commonly showed human figures at the center of cosmic and planetary networks, and the concepts of macrocosm and microcosm had been fully developed for a millennium. It is possible, and productive, to partially separate Opicinusa€™ texts from his diagrams and pictures, especially those that represent his body-worlds vision. Opicinusa€™ works present a conundrum when it comes to audience and reception, since there is no textual or visual evidence that anyone ever actually saw the drawings. Their unusual forms complicate our most basic assumptions about what and how medieval artists could represent. These structures form the core of the drawingsa€™ disorientation and strangeness a€” maps are piled on top of other maps, sometimes transparent and sometimes opaque, in a seemingly endless play of permeability and superimposition. Some drawings contain one chart, others up to four; sometimes the continents and seas are embodied, while other times they are left plain. His drawings are so diverse and disorienting that generalizations about their design or meaning are difficult and often misleading. These drawings depict a single Africa and a single Europe, separated by the Mediterranean Sea. The figure of Africa appears to be a woman; she is labeled Babilon maledicta [cursed Babylon] by the small caption above her forehead. Captions suggest various identities: Christ, Opicinus, and a female personification of prudence are all indicated. The face is smooth and beardless (many male figures in Opicinusa€™ work wear beards), and has long, flowing hair. According to Whittington it is mainly a confrontation between two figures: a figure of Babylon (probably representing Islam) and a figure of Christianity. This interplay between the local and the global is not unusual within Opicinusa€™ texts and captions on other drawings, which often comment on the everyday world of his youth and family (we must remember that he made these drawings in Avignon, not Pavia), but the specific visual alignment of parts of Pavia with parts of the Mediterranean region is unique in these three drawings. In the bottom right corner of the page is a caption that reads, a€?Just as the islands of purgatory pay a tax to the Roman Church, so too the Chapel of St. Opicinus seems to say that when any two maps are placed in relation to each other, if they are true empirical representations of Goda€™s created earth, one will find correspondences between them. One interprets the significance of the placement of Opicinusa€™ home parish district, around the Chapel of Saint Mary, delineated with a red outline near Tunisia and Sicily on the lower map. 84v each part of Opicinusa€™ hometown is given multiple interpretations, usually based on its placement on the portolan chart, but other times simply based on etymological connections, family stories, dreams, or coincidence. Certainly the drawing contains multiple levels of reality: it is an allegorical depiction of three body-world characters in contact and dialogue, a depiction of the structural connections between local and regional realities, and a series of interpretive musings about the significance of these connections for Opicinusa€™ own life and family. As the reader may already have noticed, this grid strongly evokes the rhumb-line grids that were placed over contemporary portolan charts. 61r he uses the skeletons of two portolan charts of the Mediterranean region, which have been rotated and overlapped to form one image. 61r, parts of each of the charts remain intact, while others are distorted or hidden by the overlapping forms. In this particular example, the map shows the natural world at the bottom and the spiritual world at the top: labels on the drawing indicate that Affrica naturalis ypocrita and Europa naturalis occupy the continents of the smaller chart while Affrica spiritualis and Europa spiritualis talk to each other in the larger chart above. Europa naturalis bears a tarasque (a river demon from the Rhone) and Europa spiritualis contains an image of Christ showing his wounds, his side-wound situated suggestively close to Avignon, where Opicinus was living when he made the drawing. The message itself is simple enough: one must abandon the external senses that lead to sin in order to follow the internal senses to redemption. 58r of the Vaticanus Opicinus combines four small embodied portolan charts to create juxtapositions between the four seasons, the four cardinal directions, and the four states of the soul. 82r, we see many of the principles and techniques of the other drawings pushed to the limits of recognition and interpretability. On its surface lie two complete portolan outlines that retain the white color of the paper. On the upper half of the page, the brown labels all point out the location of cities on the colored chart, even though all lie on the space of the white chart; they indicate the continued presence of the map below, even when it is obscured by the upper chart. At the precise center of the drawing, a cruciform shape is formed by the two mirrored shapes of Asia Minor and the Holy Land; Asia Minor forms the two arms, and the land below forms the body of a cruciform vestment. While other drawings seem designed to convey a single allegory or a primary confrontation between figures (which are often reinforced by the particular cartographic forms that Opicinus chose for the drawing), this drawing resists this type of analysis. According to the letter, this is a heretical position, since one species cannot be transformed into another. 84v, there are several depictions (or suggestions) of male genitalia in the Vaticanus manuscript, each of which is unique. 1350), a Pavian who worked at the papal court in Avignon, drew a series of imaginative maps, while acknowledging in a text written between 1334 and 1338 his use of nautical charts. Mikao Usui (d.1926) who, responding to a challenge by some of his students, undertook extensive study, research and meditation, evolving a healing system based on ancient teachings. She is the author of Botanical Body Care: Herbs and Natural Healing for Your Whole body, a book that combines basic physiology with herbal healing, cleansing and nutrition. ThaA?s specializes in using mind body medicine for people living with chronic illness, pain, and post-traumatic stress. In a passage that describes what sounds like a stroke, Opicinus details how his body slowly became paralyzed; he temporarily lost his ability to speak, and much of his memory. Opicinus almost always dated the Vaticanus drawings, which were composed between June and November of 1337. The passage describes a visionary experience: through oculus meis interioribus, Opicinus is granted a new view of the earth, one in which the land and the sea take on human attributes. Most examples, however, lie in the realm of the theoretical, the academic, or the theological. A significant problem with many previous studies of Opicinusa€™ drawings is that they take a few lines of text, from folios of the Palatinus, or from distant pages of text in the Vaticanus, and use them to a€?explaina€? the content of Opicinusa€™ strangest imagery. The captions (and some of the texts), then, are often the evidence of Opicinusa€™ self-analysis a€” he uses himself as a case study, personalizing the drawings through the text. Simply put, we do not know if they were ever viewed as more than a curiosity by those who encountered them. Visual parallels to these drawings certainly exist: body-maps have been produced in numerous periods, including such famous examples as the Ebstorf Map (#224, Book II, a medieval world map that placed Christa€™s body in the corners of the earth), the Leo Belgicus (a map of the Netherlands and Belgium formed into the shape of a lion, the earliest example of which dates from 1583), or the Europa Regina, a depiction of Europe as a royal female (see below). In these drawings, Opicinus was not trying to express a single concept or doctrine, but rather to visualize the possibilities raised by an entire new way of looking at the world, based on what he had seen during his visionary experience of 1334. The varied formats of these diagrams cannot be taken for granted a€” their arrangements form a crucial and underexplored aspect of their meaning. But looking at them as a group, perhaps the first thing one notices is that the map itself is incredibly accurate. The drawings in this first a€?categorya€? are not all alike, and there is no evidence that Opicinus thought of them as a group, but finding language to describe and categorize their forms is a critical first step in their interpretation. This folio includes a cartographic picture in the upper two-thirds of the page, and text at the bottom. She is a rare example of a figure with a distinct racial identity: Opicinus darkened her skin with a grey-brown wash, in a clear reference to an African or Middle-Eastern skin tone. One could even identify Europe in this drawing as a kind of conglomerate figure of Christianity. The strongest indicator that the figure is female is the small child lying over Lombardy a€” the area always associated with the womb of the European figure. The simplicity of this contrast stands out despite the extensive texts and interpretations written around it. Binary themes in similar drawings include a contrast between the mouth of hell and the temple of the Lord (fol. Opicinus played with this arrangement differently in each of the three drawings, changing the scales and position of the two maps, presumably seeking different correspondences. On the page we see the body-worlds with which we are now familiar: here, a female Europe confronts a female Africa, and the Mediterranean devil lies between them, his head to the east. 84r, in which the scale of the portolan chart is completely different (much smaller in comparison to the grid of Pavia); here, Opicinus identifies different correspondences and comes to different conclusions as a result of the change in scale. Yet the drawing is all about experimentation, layering, and play; to claim that creating or interpreting a drawing like this is a burden or struggle may be a modern misperception. But Opicinus piles on meanings, multiplies forms, and plays with realities seemingly as a form of experimentation. The grid may offer a clue to Opicinusa€™ working process, or the way he was inspired to create these drawings. Each of the two charts is rendered in a different scale, with a larger one oriented toward the top of the page and a smaller one pointed toward the bottom. On each map, the western Mediterranean retains its integrity a€” France, Spain, and the northwestern coast of Africa are clearly visible both at the top and the bottom of the page. In the Italian peninsula of the upper map, for example, which is overlapped by the eastern Mediterranean of the lower map, we see the word Roma written over the sea (on the sea-mana€™s forehead), signaling where the city would have been on the map below. Both figures of the a€?natural worlda€? are male (a bearded, older figure in Europe and a tonsured monk in Africa), while both of the a€?spirituala€? figures are female (Africa is a robed nun and Europe is a younger woman with long, flowing hair). The question, just as in the previous examples, is how its meaning is changed, activated, complicated, or simplified by its construction within the doubled and overlapped forms of the portolan charts. Within the drawing, small lines suggest points of correspondence between elements in each of the four quadrants. The three previous drawings were characteristic of a particular type; in contrast, this drawing is unique in Opicinusa€™ oeuvre. At the top of the page are two labels for Europe and Africa: Europe is the aduena rector novus, the strange new priest, and Africa is the parrochia aliena, the parish of another. This is labeled in a caption on the right side of the page, which reads a€?behold the vestment of the Church soaked in blood.a€? Opicinus accentuated the form of the vestment by adding a small cutout for the neck. The longer captions on this folio do not always contain a single focus, and many make no comment at all on the drawing. But spiritually there is truth in this mirror [i.e., in this drawing], since no heresy, fiction or allegory can be found that in this mirror does not give birth, at least in part, to a certain truth? Here, Opicinus seems to say that men do not transition literally into angels of light or darkness a€” the figures of the priest and parish at the top of the page do not actually become the figures at the bottom of the page. Even as Opicinusa€™ drawings make use of the natural world and empirical science, the arrangement of their forms expresses the detachment from reality that characterizes a dream. At first, we would not identify these as genitalia a€” they are simply two small, robed bodies that stand within the genital region of the European body. Four of these drawings depict the body-worlds, and the reproduction always takes place within the body of the European figure. In each of these drawings, Opicinus drew a small copy of the body-worlds over the area of Lombardy, even extending it slightly into the sea near Genoa. Her therapeutic approach includes Mind Body Stress, Reduction,A Acutonics, and Somatic Re-Integration. He returned to these folios frequently in the years that followed a€” many include changes, graphic additions, or new captions, which he dated individually (we find dates from the years 1338-1341, especially). Morsea€™s other crucial innovation, in addition to asserting the rational and intentional basis of Opicinusa€™ thought, was to place the Vaticanus manuscript at the heart of her research. Salomon and others characterize the themes of the Vaticanus manuscript as just an extension of those in the Palatinus. The shapes of Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea each contain (or form) a human figure; these are the forms that Whittington calls a€?body-worlds,a€? and they constitute Opicinusa€™ most original and perplexing contribution to 14th century visual culture. One of the things that makes Opicinusa€™ drawings so unusual is that they also incorporate a visual tradition that was practical, empirical, and scientific a€” medieval sea charts, usually called portolan charts. He often kept adding to the drawings over many years, including new details or textual explanations, and dating them to a specific day. As mentioned above, it seems possible that the Vaticanus was never meant to be viewed by others; much of it is arranged chronologically (like a diary), rather than thematically, and the subject matter of the texts and images suggests a private function. The meaning of such imagery obviously depends on context, but these diverse examples demonstrate how a land, country, or region has often been embodied within a human figure, to show the potential power of that space, or even the dominion of a figure over it. The images of Africa and Europe as human figures were the core of this experience, but the interpretation of the vision was left up to him. According to Whittington the formats of Opicinusa€™ body-world drawings can be grouped into four categories: (1) single portolan charts, (2) portolan charts overlapping with local maps, (3) multiple portolan charts overlapping with each other, and (4) multiple, mirrored portolan charts. The coastlines of the Mediterranean and the relative scale and position of the landforms are almost exactly the same as we know them to be today. The figure appears to be bare-chested, although no breasts are visible (perhaps they are covered by her long hair). But the label above the head of the figure seems to identify it as Opicinus assuming the identity of a€?the house of God.a€? Another caption in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of France labels the figure as an Ymago Prudentie. The fact that the face is labeled as Christa€™s would indicate on the surface that the figure is male. Yet beyond the basic characters and the captions, the drawinga€™s meaning is clearly activated or shifted by the placement of the two personifications within the geographical forms of the portolan chart; after all, it is not difficult to imagine a much simpler way to express this confrontation, using only pictures and no maps. The scene is full of interesting and surprisingly graphic details, many of them interpreted in the marginal texts. Such interpretations are, I think, meant as models; as Morse demonstrated, Opicinus hoped that the drawings could be used by others to probe their own consciences and personal histories. Many parts of it must have been intentionally humorous, such as the basket for collecting the sea-mana€™s excrement, the graphic sexual organs, the interpretation of the Europe womana€™s pearl earrings, or the depiction of the Africa womana€™s cloak as a green river. Even when texts in the Vaticanus indicated the stressors in Opicinusa€™ life a€”spiritual, moral, legal a€” the drawings remain exploratory and even lighthearted. Without any words from him on the subject it is impossible to know where such an idea comes from, but perhaps the grids on the portolan chart(s) from which Opicinus was working reminded him of a gridded map of Pavia that he had seen, or perhaps even made. The mapsa€™ superimposition encourages the viewer to seek correlations between them, and Opicinus reinforces these correspondences by drawing actual lines and lines of text to connect various parts. He grafts a spiritual system of correspondences and coordinations onto this new representation of the physical world, but specifically includes details that undermine both systems, seeking instead a negotiation between the two. The rota on the breast of Affrica naturalis shows the mental processes that lead to sin: thinking, imagining, deciding, and delighting in (cogitatio, ymaginatio, electio, delectatio) lead the sinner to consent to sin (consensus peccati). These can either connect the same geographical location between two separate maps (as in the line drawn between the two Carthages on the upper left map and the lower left map), or establish a point of contact between the same physiological parts of two body-worlds on the same map (as in the line drawn between the reproductive areas of the Europe-woman and the Africa-woman in the upper-right map). It contains four complete portolan charts, all the exact same size, placed in careful relation to one another through overlapping and mirroring. This is different from the numerous drawings in the previous category, in which the two charts overlapped one another; here, the two white charts on the surface of the page are both complete diagrams of the region, reflecting one another along an invisible horizontal line in the Holy Land and Asia Minor. The figures seem to present the encounter between a new priest and his new parish (a situation that Opicinus underwent several times in his early career). The role of this form in the drawing is ambiguous a€” its cruciform shape and its a€?soaking in blooda€? certainly evoke Christa€™s sacrifice, and its position at the heart of the drawing, precisely where the two white maps are mirrored, suggests that it may be significant in the transition between the two. One caption on the left side of the page is a short rant about the mosquitoes that were bothering Opicinus while he made the drawing, while another, longer text at the lower left is an extended metaphorical description of the penis, describing how, like a heretic disobeying the Church, the penis disobeys the orders of the body. It is the caption that tells us something different; over their heads are written the words a€?matrixa€? and a€?virgaa€? a€” womb and penis. Representing pregnancy and birth inside of Europe was a way for Opicinus to convey how both good and evil tendencies enter the world. Some researchers have convincingly explained this positioning of the tiny body-world figures as indicating a Caesarian birth; as Opicinus explains, the two figures are born through Genoa, the a€?forced porta€? in the stomach of the European figure, rather than through Venice, the a€?natural porta€? of the figurea€™s vaginal canal (Opicinus makes the pun about Venetian a€?canalsa€? several times). The earliest depiction of Europe as a woman is believed to be by the 14th century Pavian cleric Opicinus de Canistris for the papal court, then at Avignon. ThaA?s is a medical navigator, assisting people in developing a comprehensive plan for quality of life while undergoing medical treatments and interventions. The dating of the Palatinus is more complicated a€” the large autobiographical calendar on fol. The Vaticanus was often mentioned by earlier authors, but had never been the object of extensive study, perhaps because its visual material is smaller and less elaborate than the large Palatinus folios. These and other claims are refuted by Whittington with a basic statistical analysis of the manuscriptsa€™ subject matter. Their enigmatic forms, expressions, and arrangements have the power to arrest the attention of modern viewers, reversing expectations about what sorts of imagery were possible in the early 14th century. The a€?world,a€? in Opicinusa€™ drawings, is always represented using these charts; they form the drawingsa€™ structural basis and frame their meanings. Still, crucially, this does not make the drawings, in their inception, a€?abouta€? Opicinus. The large size of the Palatinus folios suggests a more public function, given their physical similarity to large medieval wall maps and portolan charts. Here one sees before a map of the Mediterranean world a€” Europe, North Africa, Anatolia and part of the Near East are left the white color of the paper, and the seas around them are tinted with a reddish-brown wash. The incredibly diverse drawings that he created in the years that followed were his way of exploring the meaning of this vision and experimenting with different strategies for representing its shape and scope, searching for the arrangements and combinations that would lead him to the deepest meaning. Opicinusa€™ maps were based on the most modern and technically accomplished cartography of his day a€” marinersa€™ sea-charts, which we call portolan charts. Several folios depict only the western portion of the standard Mediterranean portolan chart, limiting their view to the area between Gibraltar and the boot of Italy. The geographic range of the depicted portolan outline is narrow - we see Gibraltar, Tunisia, France, Spain, and Italy, but none of the eastern Mediterranean, which is cut off by the drawinga€™s lower edge. Little is visible of her lower body, but she wears some kind of cloth wrapped around her waist. However, the most prominent indicator of the figurea€™s identity is the large rota around the face in the Iberian peninsula, which seems to label the figure as Christ. The drawing thus suggests a combination of male and female elements: a pregnant female personification of Christendom, with Christ at the head and heart. In this first example, where the contrast between the two figures is simple and direct, we can more easily explore two ways that the form of the drawing a€” its geographical frame a€”may change the meaning of these figures. For example, the Mediterranean figure appears to have two sexual organs a€” one massive penis that seems to be ejaculating onto the southern coast of Spain, and another that he clutches in his fist (presumably in an act of masturbation) near Venice. 84v, numerous captions explore the moral, theological, quotidian, and incidental correspondences created by the overlay of the city grid on the portolan chart. In addition, the monastery with which they were both associated fell near Rome on the portolan chart. The revelation and the experiment were meant to be used by anyone a€” Opicinus is using himself as a test case, taking examples from his own life, family history, and childhood, and using them to interpret the correspondence between the two charts. These are all examples of Akbaria€™s horizontal allegory, or of allegory as a primarily interpretive act; Opicinus creates the structure (which may or may not have an intrinsic meaning a€” in this case, it seems not to), but the primary work is put into interpretation, play, and the creative exploration of his visual construction. Opicinus created, an over-determined world because of its opportunities and flexibility, not to build a burdensome system that would collapse on top of him. This basic format is repeated on at least eight other pages in the Vaticanus; again, there are variations in the size and placement of the two maps, but all of these examples include two portolan charts that are laid on top of one another. In the smaller, lower image, the negative space of the chart a€” the sea a€” is tinted with a light brown wash, delineating the body of the so-called a€?Mediterranean Man,a€? often labeled a€?Lucifera€? His head and beard occupy the eastern Mediterranean (his ear tucked against the Nile delta and curving beard shaping the coast of the Anatolian peninsula), his arms gesture near Italy (one fist plunging violently east of Italy, forming the Adriatic), and his feet poke out near Gibraltar, between the faces of Europe and Africa. On this page he connects the two representations of the Adriatic with a diagonal line that slices through the center of the image, running from Venice on one chart to Venice on the other. Morse also points out that different renderings of the sea in the two charts likely correspond to their content; the embodied a€?devil seaa€? lies between the natural worlds, while the a€?spiritual seaa€? is left empty, perhaps to indicate its purity. Small lines connect the first four concepts to the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth of the Africa-figure, indicating the complicity of the exterior senses in this pathway to sin. 74v how Opicinus, by framing his allegories within the portolan charts, solidified their meaning into measured form, aligning the worlda€™s shapes with the truths and figures they revealed. The meaning of such lines remains ambiguous, but they do suggest points of contact and interconnection between elements that are otherwise set in opposition to one another. All four of these portolan charts are embodied, creating eight distinct characters: four male figures of Europe, and four figures of Africa (two angels and two male figures). Rather than containing the figure of the diabolical sea, the spaces of the Mediterranean and Black Seas on these two charts are left as windows through which the viewer can see the other maps in the drawing. The colored worlds below are not labeled, but the figures seem to be a precise mirror of those on top, in both gender and physical appearance. Opicinusa€™ statement about the generation of meaning seems to apply both to this drawing and to many others that depict multiple levels of reality (usually through multiple iterations of the body-worlds). 82r becomes overwhelming, Opicinus provides the viewer with visual cues to make sense of the drawinga€™s disorienting forms. This drawing contrasts two complete sets of body-worlds, one overlapping and partially obscuring the other, and two very different depictions of genitalia are found in the area around Venice on both depictions of Europe. In a passage early in the Vaticanus, Opicinus describes how the a€?diabolical seaa€? inseminates an already-pregnant Europe, splitting the child unnaturally into two figures a€” Europe and Africa. Victoria Morse shows the way that Opicinus read meaning even into the precise position of these two tiny body-worlds over Lombardy below, determining which local cities fell under Africa and Europe. She has worked in hospitals and medical clinics focusing on chronic pain, post-stroke, spinal cord injuries, head injuries and post-traumatic stress.A Internationally, she has directed and participated in projects working with traumatized and marginalized populations focusing on psychosocial health issues and rebuilding healthy communities. The first 48 contain little visual material besides a few marginalia, while the second half of the book includes some text-only pages, some full-page drawings, and some smaller drawings with extensive text on or around them. 11r, which provides the most complete information about his life, ends with June 1336, suggesting that this drawing was finished by that date. In contrast, Morse demonstrated that the Vaticanus holds the key to understanding Opicinusa€™ thought: its drawings are more intimate and revealing, and it contains over a hundred pages of text. Portolan charts were modern, cutting-edge diagrammatic maps of the Mediterranean region, and Opicinusa€™ use of them transforms what would otherwise have been old-fashioned, theoretical, and primarily textual drawings into a completely new type of representation. Interpreting the vision with relation to his own body and life was only one of the tactics that he used. The drawings in both manuscripts could have been preparatory studies for some larger-scale project or commission that was never carried out. According to Whittington, to explain what the body-worlds a€?mean,a€? one must explore how and why Opicinus harnessed these maritime maps to a completely different purpose from that for which they were created. Others include the entire range of the chart, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea and the Holy Land. Small captions and rotae are positioned at various points on the map; some of these are placed to comment specifically on a geographical feature, while others remark more generally on the drawing and its characters. A worm or snake emerges from an otherwise empty circle on her stomach, twisting along the North African coast, its mouth gnawing on the figurea€™s thumb near Carthage. Large red capital letters spell out C-R-I-S-T-U-S, with each letter also being the first letter of one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Opicinus uses the portolan chart to construct a binary system in which values can be opposed, and also to place these allegories or personifications within a space that is, in the broadest sense, real. On the southern coast of France, a basket-woven pattern is explained in a caption as a basket to catch the excrement of the sea-figure. For example, in a short passage in the upper left corner of the page, Opicinus mentions that the body of the sea-devil extends beyond the inner city wall of the Pavian map, which he interprets as a sign that malice and mischief are spread out in the city; beyond the old city walls. An over-determined world allowed him to make visible to himself and his potential readers the primary concerns, impulses, histories, and spaces of his world and his body in a way that led to potentially productive connections and revelations. In contrast, the sea of the larger top map is not embodied, and retains the color of the paper. This line could help the viewer perceive the imagea€™s orientation, by providing a reference point for the location of the same city on each map at this crucial juncture at the center. The sea-figure takes control of the pagea€™s center, superimposing his twisting body over the eastern half of the upper, spiritual chart a€” his a€?negativea€? space dominates the positive space of the other chart. In contrast, a caption on the rota for Affrica spiritualis points to the interior senses (sensus interiores) that indicate spiritual progress: meditation, contemplation, discernment, and rumination (meditatio, contemplatio, discretio, degustatio). They also establish that the body-worldsa€™ identities as both bodies and maps remain significant on their own; because connections rely on their status as both maps and bodies, one is not emphasized over the other. This window or outline a€” the negative space of the upper drawing a€” provides a view onto a world of color. The mirror of any of his creations, which he acknowledges are fabrications (in the sense that they are imaginary and exploratory), will always contain some new level of meaning. The two red lines indicate the precise point where worlds are mirrored, and the differentiation in color a€” white, brown, and red a€” brings the forms of the body-worlds into a near-sculptural relief. In the overlapped body-worlds, which are tinted with red and brown wash, we see a small penis depicted inside the figure of Europe, just past the fist of the Mediterranean figure. It must be acknowledged that both figures are shaped like small penises, but it is also true that in medieval anatomical texts the female genitalia are often described as an interiorized mirror image of a male penis, so perhaps we should not be surprised that the two are a€?personified,a€? if we want to use that term, in similar ways. According to Victoria Morse, Europea€™s pregnancy was also related to local political situations, visualizing the (sexual) corruption of Lombardy within an otherwise holy European body. She then contrasts this a€?violenta€? delivery of the figures with the small baby depicted on fol. In 1537 the Tirolese cartographer Johann Putsch celebrated the Hapsburg rule over Europe by presenting a placid a€?Europa Reginaa€? wearing Charles Va€™s Spain as a crown and Ferdinanda€™s Austria as a medal at her waist, representing the triumph of the Hapsburgs. She is the co-founder of Mind Body Medicine for Health, Education, and Wellness and the Karuna Project. The representation and interpretation of this divine image of the earth would occupy much of the rest of his life. Other dates in the manuscript are scarce; most scholars agree that the bulk of the drawings were completed between February 1335 and June 1336, with later additions stretching all the way to 1350. Opicinus was working during a crucial moment in the history of cartography, when numerous artists and mapmakers sought to combine old and new forms. Most of the drawings suggest other interpretive avenues, through personifications, allegorical confrontations, or superimposition; one does not have to turn to Opicinusa€™ biography to explain them. It is also possible that these works were intended, like several of Opicinusa€™ earlier treatises, for the Pope. In this example, Europe is embodied as a man a€” his head occupies the Iberian Peninsula, his chest and stomach lie in France (where some kind of beast in the ocean tries to bite at his shoulder), his arm arches up through the lowlands and Germany, and his legs occupy the Italian peninsula and the Dalmatian coast. He used this technical, practical, scientific cartography to probe deeper into the nature of God and the created world. But all of the drawings in this category share a single feature: they include only one map, one level of cartographic reality on the page. The two figures that constitute, lie within, or coexist with Africa and Europe are classic examples of Opicinusa€™ body-worlds (the third figure that often appears in the Mediterranean is not included, in this particular drawing). In two outer concentric rings Opicinus places the names of the seven planets and the days of the week. Yet their placement within a map, particularly an empirical one which was actually used for travelling, emphasizes the tenuousness of such binary oppositions. Despite these and other details on the figures, the actual bodies seem less important to Opicinus in these three drawings; the commentary focuses more on the physical interplay and connections between the two overlapping maps. It is not that he thinks that this image of the two maps placed in this particular arrangement is necessarily a€?correcta€? or a€?truea€? a€” on fol. 84v offers further evidence that Opicinus viewed the portolan charts as empirical representations. At the centre of the page the embodied eastern Mediterranean of the lower map (including the Black Sea) overlaps both the land and the sea of the upper map, so that its eastern half (part of Italy and all of Greece, Egypt, and Turkey) is obscured. Or, given the opposing genders of the two Europes in the maps, and the fact that the area at the top of the Adriatic was understood as the erogenous zone of the European body, the line could suggest a sexual point of contact a€” even intercourse a€” between the two figures. It is necessary first to describe and explain the drawinga€™s complex structure, before discussing its content in relation to several captions that surround it. In the space below, the continents are shaded a brick red, while the seas are painted a soft brown-grey. The interpretive paradigm for this drawing must be one of experimentation; it is the only image in the manuscript with this particular arrangement of forms, and through it Opicinus only seems to have arrived at fragments of meaning. The small caption nearby simply reads Venetie [Venice] and without further explanation it is unclear whether the penis belongs to the European body, depicted lying back against his stomach, or whether he is somehow being penetrated by a small penis belonging to the sea-figure. Here, reproductive sexuality is a sign of corruption; elsewhere, as we will see, it is a marker of generative spirituality. 74v, which is positioned for a normal delivery through Venice, with its head down and its arms folded peacefully in prayer. The queena€™s crown (Spain), orb (Sicily), and heart (Bohemia) from a triangle that directs the viewera€™s eye away from Eastern Europe toward the West. He discovered that REIKI will find the source of the symptoms automatically, fill the vibration and restore the balance to the whole being.As Dr Hayashi life was ending he recognised Mrs. In over eighty surviving drawings, now kept in the Vatican Library and referred to by scholars as the Vaticanus and Palatinus manuscripts, he experimented with how he could uncover the meaning that he was sure God had planted in the vision he saw, in the hope that his drawings would help to renew the faith of all Christians. Far more drawings in the Vaticanus portray body-worlds (23), while few in the Palatinus do so (6). This encounter between the scientific and the spiritual is best explored by looking at the structures that Opicinus used to create the drawings. Another rota lies inside France, near the location that Opicinus usually associates with the a€?hearta€? of the Europe figure a€” Avignon. On a map you can literally sail by sea from one a€?placea€? or a€?bodya€? to the other a€” each place is accessible to the other. Here, the grid structures the space of the local map, but also shapes the way we view the portolan below. It looks like a kind of symbolic twin to the spatio-indexical rhumb lines of the original portolan charts. 61r demonstrates that Opicinus was also aware of the dangers of aligning appearance with truth; appearances could just as easily deceive as reveal. The arrangement of these colored maps beneath the surface of the white ones is the most complicated aspect of the drawing. The angels are labeled angelus lucis and angelus tenebrarum a€” an angel of light and an angel of darkness. Given the penises in this region that we discussed above, this latter proposition is not without basis, but it seems more likely that it belongs to the European figure, since it is tinted the same color. Takata as his successor. Hawayo Takata, a woman from Hawaii was led to Hayashi’s clinic in 1935 after an inner voice told her to seek help there for her many serious ailments. Nearly all of the drawings in the Palatinus feature what Whittington calls an a€?overarching containing structurea€? a€” a geometrical framework that contains all of the drawinga€™s content. Her face is to the west, shown in profile as she seems to whisper into the ear of the European figure across the Straits of Gibraltar. She seems to speak directly into the ear of the European figure, depicted partly in profile and partly from the front. At the center of the roundel is a seated figure of Christ showing his wounds; around this are the names of seven episcopal seats, and the seven planets and their positions. In these simplest drawings, though, such a possibility is only hinted at; a much fuller manipulation of the metaphor of travel and movement between binaries, and indeed a subversion of the very concept of binary opposition, is found in Opicinusa€™ more complicated images, discussed below. This grid, eight squares by ten, is oriented in the same way as the map below, with east at the top of the page (the street grid of Pavia was, and still is, slightly off-axis from the cardinal points because of its alignment with the river, which is reflected in its positioning at a slight angle on the page). Opicinus just seems to be testing each possible arrangement on either side of the folio, turning it back and forth to see which parts of it align with things he believes to be true. Any resident or visitor familiar with the city would recognize that the local map of Pavia was a measured, accurate representation, and the fundamental hypothesis of this image and its interpretation is that correspondences can be deduced through the alignment of one measured map with another. One complete map lies below the upper white map, and one complete map lies below the lower white map, but each is placed in a different relation to its chart above. The angel of light in the surface map whispers into the ear of the upper male Europe, labeled homo spiritualis, while the angel of darkness whispers to homo carnalis. 61v, where two tiny figures with the same labels hold between them a baby, its head positioned downward, pointing toward the area near Venice through which we presume it would be born. The danger of any study of Opicinus is that in seeking out the contexts in which one may understand Opicinusa€™ work as logical and coherent, one risks losing sight of what makes them so exceptional. But he also used this idea in order to create images unrivalled in their complexity and interpretive difficulty, multiplying maps and figures across the page in kaleidoscopic networks. The local grid is filled in with detail; the numerous small labels in brown indicate churches, city gates, bridges, and monasteries in Pavia, while the few red captions refer to cities or regions on the portolan below (here, like elsewhere, Opicinus uses color to clarify his content for the reader). Once again, a grid serves two functions, measuring the space of one reality and indicating the measurability of another. On the top half of the page, the tinted map below is a precise mirror image of the upper map, reflected from it along a red horizontal line that bisects the upper, white body-worlds. The arrangement recalls nothing so much as the angel and devil of the human conscience that perch on the shoulders of cartoon figures in modern movies and comics, offering advice and urging the character towards good or bad decisions; in the drawing, the heads of the angels seem to rest directly on the shoulders of the figures below them. Here, the two a€?personificationsa€? of the penis and the womb have produced a tiny child and are preparing it for birth. Later editions of Europe as a queen were issued by Sebastian Munster, Heinrich Bunting and Matthias Quad. She learned REIKI, spent a year with Hayashi, returned to Hawaii and was initiated by him in 1938 as a REIKI Master. This a€?manuscripta€? is a collection of 27 huge unbound parchment sheets, averaging about two by three feet, although some are significantly larger. This observation prompts the next a€” that the Palatinus drawings almost always include calendars (usually as part of the overarching containing structure), while few of the Vaticanus drawings do. Looking at the drawings as a whole, there can be no doubt that there are distinct threads running through them a€” themes, problems, and possibilities that Opicinus set out to explore. And just as the drawingsa€™ forms combine simplicity and complexity, their content also veers from the straightforward to the impenetrable. The relationship between these human figures and the landforms is, as is always the case in Opicinusa€™ drawings, very difficult to describe. The huge green swath at the right of the page indicates the Ticino River, which is coextensive with the long veil or cloak worn by the Africa woman. The white body-worlds in the top layer always overlap the lower, colored ones, which are only visible in the negative space of the sea. These personificationsa€™ sexuality is normative and non-transgressive a€” male and female members come together inside of the female body. Depending on the individual viewera€™s perception, the figures can seem to be lying on top of the land, growing out of it, or somehow placed under it a€” as if the landforms are windows through which we are looking. The green lines at the top and bottom of the page show the path of several Pavian canals, and the three concentric red boundaries drawn around the page indicate the city walls. The same system is repeated in the lower half of the drawing, except that the lower tinted map is reflected along a vertical line, also colored red. From these observations, Whittington generalizes some of the basic differences between the two manuscripts. Most of all, however, these enigmatic forms seem to depict the earth and the bodies as coextensive, and of the same material a€” bodies made out of the earth. The two maps on the bottom half of the page are also mirror images of one another, but along a different axis. From 1976 till 1980 she initiated 22 REIKI Masters Phyllis Lei Furumoto is Hawayo Takata's granddaughter, and one of the 22 original Reiki Masters initiated by Takata. The Vaticanus seems to be more of a personal manuscript, perhaps never intended for a wider audience. The more one looks at these body-worlds, the more one sees the human figures as figures a€” the stranger parts of their bodies, where the landforms do not align so easily with a normative human shape, become less and less noticeable. The two red axes are thus crucial to understanding the drawing: they must have been used to construct it and also intended to aid in its decoding. Phyllis was recognized in 1980, by many of Takata's students, as Hawayo Takata's successor and lineage bearer in the Usui Shiki Ryoho or Usui System of Natural Healing lineage of Reiki. Its drawings are less structured and presentational, contain more sexual imagery, and include more personal themes, all of which we might associate with a private, rather than public function (although such distinctions were perhaps more fluid in 14th century Italy than they are today). Phyllis Furumoto began her Reiki training as a young child, and was often responsible for giving Reiki sessions to her family, including her grandmother, Hawayo Takata. Secondly, the drawings in the Vaticanus and Palatinus have very different structures; the Vaticanus uses the form of the portolan [nautical] chart to structure meaning and representations of bodies, while the Palatinus drawings use larger geometric, ecclesiastical, and temporal frames, which in turn often contain representations of the earth. Finally, the Palatinus drawings contain a temporal, cyclical element (numerous calendars and representations of the zodiac) that the Vaticanus drawings usually lack. In the case of spiritual teachings a teaching is passed from the Master to the student and then passed on unaltered to preserve and contain the original intention and teaching of the Master. From 1976 till 1980 she initiated 22 REIKI Masters Phyllis Lei Furumoto is Hawayo Takata's granddaughter, and one of the 22 original Reiki Masters initiated by Takata. Herpes virus pictures skin moles Natural home remedies diaper rash TSHAO 25.09.2013 at 22:42:11 All walks of life first therapeutic vaccine for grails. YAPONCHIK_VOR 25.09.2013 at 17:21:49 Comparable to high stress levels and excessive alcohol that attacks the HSV early in the. 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Within the Primal/paleo community and elsewhere, it’s often stated offhandedly that wheat is addictive. And absolutely, wheat for many people feels like something they could never give up. I hear it all the time: “I couldn’t live without bread.” “What would I do without cereal, dinner rolls, toast, {insert your favorite grain-based food item here}.” And wheat is often the main culprit in the sugar/insulin rollercoaster that drives sugar-burners’ need to eat (more wheat) every few waking hours. But is wheat addictive in a different sense – as an opiate like heroin and other drugs? Today I take a look at the research and attempt to separate fact from fiction. What do we really know about wheat as an opiate? Cops Paint Over Inwood Mural That Depicts NYPD as ‘Murderers’ A pair of plainclothes officers arrived at New Edition Cleaners at 4929 Broadway at 11 a.m. Tuesday, armed with buckets of black paint, rollerbrushes and drop cloths, and began painting over local graffiti artist Alan Ket’s five-day-old mural titled “Murderers.” The two identified themselves as police to a reporter. The mural, which included the word “murderers” painted above several tombstones and coffins with epitaph names that included the NYPD, the Environmental Protection Agency and global corporations including Halliburton and Monsanto, was painted on the wall of the business with the permission of its owners. Officers visited the store on Monday, telling owners that the painting needed to come down and calling the message a “bad idea.” “I can’t confront them, because I don’t want problems,” New Edition Cleaners owner Marina Curet, who has owned the business for five years, said in Spanish. “There is no freedom of expression. The truth about sports drinks These links between sports medicine journals and the sports drinks industry may help to explain a characteristic of the sports drinks literature that is familiar to those who have analysed drug trials over the past 30 years—the relative (or almost complete) absence of negative studies. Dead East River ‘monster’ confounds New Yorkers, animal experts What the hell IS that thing? A bloated, pig-like carcass spotted beneath the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend has spooked New Yorkers buzzing about mutant river “monsters.” Photographer Denise Ginley shot pics of the rotting, sand-covered corpse on Sunday. “My boyfriend and I were walking along the East River on our way to a farmer’s market when we spotted it among some driftwood on a small stretch of sand below the Brooklyn Bridge that you can barely call a beach,” she emailed the Daily News. Memphis Man Was Paid Three Slices For Serving As Lookout In Robbery Of Domino’s Deliveryman Domino’s worker Jose Reyes told police that he was delivering a pizza around 9 PM when he was approached by two men, one of whom threatened to shoot Reyes if he did not “give him the money and pizza.” Reyes said he handed over $20, his HTC cell phone, and the pizza. Hamer, seen in the adjacent mug shot, told investigators that he “participated as a look out and provided protection for the other male during the robbery.” Cops noted, “Hamer received three slices of Pizza for his participation in this robbery.” 4 NYC Beachgoers Stuck by Needles in Sand Four people walking or playing on New York City beaches have suffered puncture wounds from needles in the sand in the last three weeks, park officials said. In the most recent incident, a lifeguard on duty at Rockaway Beach stepped on a needle at Beach 139th Street Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The other three people were wounded over the last three weeks on Staten Island. On July 16, a 63-year-old woman stepped on a hypodermic needle on Cedar Grove Beach, cutting her foot. On July 14, a 37-year-old man was stuck in the hand by a needle while he was on the sand at South Beach, near Father Capodanno Boulevard and Sand Lane. And on July 4, a 40-year-old man was stuck by a needle at South Beach. All three beachgoers were taken to Staten Island University Hospital North. “You don’t know where these needles come from,” said Crystal Matis of Elm Park, who was at the beach Wednesday with her young daughter. “It’s very scary.” 248 human fetuses found in Russian forest Villagers in Russia’s south Urals region have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery — four barrels left in a forest containing 248 human fetuses, prompting an official probe, officials said Tuesday. Police in the Sverdlovsk region said the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags marked with surnames and numbers. Police: Nude Teen, Apparently On LSD, Attacks Car A 17-year-old boy was arrested after police found him lying completely naked in the middle of a street while apparently high on LSD. Police said the boy also jumped on the hood of their patrol car and broke out the windshield with his fists. Teacher with “food fetish” asks student to put a pie down his pants A former teacher with an apparent “food fetish” is accused of asking a female student to put a pie down his pants, BBC News reported. The man is also accused of having inappropriate video-chats with his students, in which he asked them to smear themselves in ketchup and eggs and to pour sour milk into their underwear. The Jeffersons Star Sherman Hemsley Had An LSD Lab In His Basement Yes, George Jefferson was a head. He wasn’t just a fan of prog music – he actually cut an album with YES founder Jon Anderson. Called Festival of Dreams, it has never been released. Hemsley was pretty evangelical about his prog obsessions. Besides dancing on Dinah! (if someone has that video, please share!), he wore a shirt for the band Nektar while doing press. And he pulled every string he could to hang out with Daevid Allen of the band Gong. Allen later gave an interview to Magnet Magazine where he talked about the bizarre experience of visiting the short TV star and discovering the guy had an acid lab in his basement (which means if you were taking acid in LA in the 70s it may well have been coming from George Jefferson himself) How to Make a Syringe in Prison Addicts in prison go to extreme lengths to get their fix. But scoring the drugs isn’t the only obstacle they face—how to shoot them up? With no works available, a heroin user in jail needs a little ingenuity. The result of this ingenuity is a “binky.” But even though these can be manufactured, not every user has his own—shakedowns and a lack of materials make them scarce. Prisoners try not to share, but when it comes right down to it, they’re likely to overcome their reservations. “I usually don’t share needles,” says one prisoner. “But if there’s only one binky, and my homeboy got the chiva, you know I’m taking a hit. Why wouldn’t I? This is prison, fool, and I’m trying to get blasted. I’ll deal with all the rest later.” The “rest” includes widespread HIV and Hep. C. But here’s how you make a binky: Personalized Cremation Urn – Comes out a Head An Arlington Vermont company called Cremation Solutions is creating custom made cremation urns in the shape of your loved ones head. Thats right, with just one or two pictures of the persons face, and by using state of the art 3D imaging techniques, the company will make a polymer compound likeness of your loved one’s head and mount it on a marble base. Excellent. I know you’re probably wondering, so yes, the heads will have hair, for folks that had very closely cropped hair, it can simply be digitally added to the head, or the company will gladly add a wig, per your specifications. Ashes are loaded from the bottom and a beautiful brass nameplate is affixed to the heads luxurious black marble base. Solar flare: The sun touches our psyche Solar Effects From 1948 to 1997, the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia found that geomagnetic activity showed three seasonal peaks each of those years (March to May, in July, and in October). Every peak matched an increased incidence of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide in the city Kirovsk. One explanation for the correlation is that solar storms desynchronize our circadian rhythm (biological clock). The pineal gland in our brain is affected by the electromagnetic activity. This causes the gland to produce excess melatonin, and melatonin is the brain’s built in “downer” that helps us sleep. “The circadian regulatory system depends on repeated environmental cues to [synchronize] internal clocks,” says psychiatrist Kelly Posner, Columbia University. “Magnetic fields may be one of these environmental cues.” Man has penis stolen by masked intruders after alleged affairs A MAN is recovering in hospital after four men broke into his flat and cut off his penis. Police are hunting the masked intruders, who are thought to have acted over accusations that their victim was engaged in affairs with local women. The 41-year-old told cops he had been asleep when the men burst into his bedroom around 4am. “They put something over my head and pulled down my trousers and then they ran off. I was so shocked I didn’t feel a thing – then I saw I was bleeding and my penis was gone,” he said. Although emergency workers searched for the severed organ, they failed to locate it and believe it was taken away by the attackers. Chik-Fil-A Called Out For Pathetic Attempt At Damage Control Uh oh, Chik-Fil-A: Looks like your half-assed attempt to cover up the fact that the Muppets recently ended a partnership with you over your anti-gay views just hit a little roadblock called “anyone with a computer.” How does it feel to be outed? Sorry no one bought your airtight “kids are trying to finger their kids’ meal toys” defense (seen below), or your sassy new fictional tween spokeswoman. Maybe you should stick to what you’re best at: putting pickles on chicken sandwiches and alienating customers with your creepy religious views. Tijuana Bibles From Wesley Morse, Creator Of Bazooka Joe (NSFW) Bazooka Joe has endured for almost 60 years now, but few know the name of the man who created him (and his original gang; Bazooka Joe’s gang has been revamped a couple of times). 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Plus, in a country of a billion with space at a premium, graveyards are often used for commercial and even residential purposes. The constant flow of relatives, who visit graveyards to visit their dead kin, has meant that these macabre locations are actually great from a business point of view. Bath Salts May Be as Addictive as Cocaine Recreational drugs called bath salts, which have gained popularity recently and have been in the news for their bizarre effects on users, have the potential for abuse and addiction, similar to that of cocaine. Bath salts, which, despite their name, have no use in the tub, are different variations of the compound called cathinone, an alkaloid that comes from the khat plant. Currently, 42 U.S. states have laws banning many substituted cathinones. Mephedrone is one of the most common derivatives of cathinone and was listed federally in October 2011 on Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act for one year, pending further study. Then on July 9, 2012, President Barack Obama signed a law placing bath salts containing mephedrone or the stimulant MDPV onto the controlled substances list. The drugs can cause a laundry list of body and mind changes, including dizziness, delusions, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, seizures, nausea, vomiting and even death. Nationwide raids on synthetic drug labs lead to 90 arrests, seizure of $36 million In the first-ever nationwide crackdown on the synthetic drug industry, law enforcement officers arrested more than 90 people, seized $36 million in cash and more than 4.8 million packets of synthetic cannabinoids Wednesday, authorities said. Agents also confiscated material to make 13.6 million more packets and 167,000 packets of synthetic hallucinogens, more commonly known as bath salts. In addition, materials to make 392,000 more packets of bath salts were seized. Operation Log Jam, a joint effort between the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal and local agencies, was conducted in more than 90 cities spanning 30 states, DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said at a news conference Thursday. She said the raids included 29 manufacturing facilities at every level of the industry, from small-scale operations to large warehouses. I fell for cocaine honeytrap, claims British physicist in Argentine jail Paul Frampton, 68, said he thought that he was to meet Denise Milani, a Czech-born glamour model and former Miss Bikini World in a hotel, and was asked by a man in the lobby to look after a suitcase that he was told belonged to her. The suitcase contained 2kg of cocaine hidden in its lining. Dr Frampton now believes that a fraudster was posing as 32-year-old Miss Milani in an online chat room. The physicist, who has a double first from Brasenose College, Oxford, and has collaborated with winners of the Nobel Prize, was stopped from boarding a flight from Buenos Aires to Peru in January after customs officials found the cocaine. Since then he has been on remand in Argentina’s Villa Devoto jail and faces a 16-year sentence if convicted. Former DARE officer gets 3 years for sexual exploitation of a child Mangino pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a 15-year-old girl who was in his custody in March 2011. He was child while still an Aurora Police officer for having sexually explicit pictures of the girl on his cell phone. Chief Deputy District Attorney J.P. Moore said during Thursday’s sentencing the March 2011 crime was not an isolated incident but rather a pattern of conduct. “Mangino took advantage of his position as a police officer…the violation of trust was beyond the victim, the violation also extended to the Aurora Police Department and the community,” he said. Aurora Police Chief Daniel J. Oates says, “Mr. Mangino, by his perverse and sexually deviant actions, did great harm to the image of the Aurora Police Department. He insulted and offended all the wonderful men and women of this agency.” Law enforcement likes getting really high off drug busts Cops calculate the “street value.” It’s a branch of mathematics in which economies of scale meet public relations. By envisioning thousands of transactions that will never occur — and sometimes padding the numbers on top of that — law-enforcement agencies can wind up doubling, tripling, quadrupling, quintupling, sextupling or even septupling what the confiscated drugs are worth to the bulk-level dealers who got popped. In the hands of a narcotics cop with a calculator, $2 million of heroin can become $9 million, $500,000 worth of meth can become $2.5 million, coke worth less than $1 million can become several million. Cannabinoids, like those found in marijuana, occur naturally in human breast milk Woven into the fabric of the human body is an intricate system of proteins known as cannabinoid receptors that are specifically designed to process cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the primary active components of marijuana. And it turns out, based on the findings of several major scientific studies, that human breast milk naturally contains many of the same cannabinoids found in marijuana, which are actually extremely vital for proper human development. Cell membranes in the body are naturally equipped with these cannabinoid receptors which, when activated by cannabinoids and various other nutritive substances, protect cells against viruses, harmful bacteria, cancer, and other malignancies. And human breast milk is an abundant source of endocannabinoids, a specific type of neuromodulatory lipid that basically teaches a newborn child how to eat by stimulating the suckling process. Uroko Onoja death: Husband ‘raped to death’ by 5 wives, because he was paying too much attention to the sixth A wealthy businessman – and husband of six – has died after allegedly being forced into a marathon sex session with his ‘jealous’ wives. Nigerian Uroko Onoja was having sex with the youngest of his spouses when the remaining five are reported to have set upon him with knives and sticks – and demanded that he have sex with each of them too. Mr Onoja went on to have intercourse with four of his wives in succession, but ‘stopped breathing’ as the fifth was making her way to the bed in Ogbadibo, according to Nigeria’s Daily Post. Two women have been arrested following the incident in the state of Benue last week, said the report, which used the term ‘raped to death’ to describe the businessman’s fate. Medical News: DMAA Found Not ‘Natural,’ Not Geranium A substance marketed as a natural stimulant in nutrition and sports supplements has proven to be entirely synthetic, investigators reported. Chemical analysis of 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA) from supplements found it indistinguishable from two known synthetic versions of the compound. Purportedly derived from geranium plants, DMAA did not show up in analyses of extracts from eight different types of geranium. 21 Burned in Hot Coal Walk Hosted by Motivational Speaker Fire officials said 21 people at an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins suffered burns while walking across hot coals and three of the injured were treated at hospitals. The injuries took place during the first day Thursday of a four-day event at the San Jose Convention Center hosted by Robbins called “Unleash the Power Within.” Most of those hurt had second and third degree burns, said San Jose Fire Department Capt. Reggie Williams. Walking across hot coals on lanes measuring 10 feet long and heated to between 1,200 to 2,000 degrees provides attendees an opportunity to “understand that there is absolutely nothing you can’t overcome,” according to the motivational speaker’s website. The ‘chemputer’ that could print out any drug At the same time, one branch of that thinking has itself evolved into a new project: the notion of creating downloadable chemistry, with the ultimate aim of allowing people to “print” their own pharmaceuticals at home. Cronin’s latest TED talk asked the question: “Could we make a really cool universal chemistry set? Can we ‘app’ chemistry?” “Basically,” he tells me, in his office at the university, with half a grin, “what Apple did for music, I’d like to do for the discovery and distribution of prescription drugs.” Serial infector: Arrest made in hepatitis C outbreak (scary stuff) Kacavas said Kwiatkowski engaged in “diversion,” an act in which a person injects a drug with a syringe and leaves behind another syringe filled with a substance such as saline. By doing a switch, rather than just taking the syringe, it becomes more difficult to detect drugs that have gone missing. Dance music has gone mainstream, but it doesn’t have to sell out The draw to see any DJ live usually stems from an affinity for their original productions, so their skills in the studio should be able to make up for the fact that they are going to just “hit play.” These guys get more music submissions than anyone on the planet; is it really that hard to find new material to play out? They spend countless hours on planes with their laptops and production tools at the ready; is it really that hard to put together a new mashup or bootleg before a set? I miss the days where I would say “Whoa, what is this?!” instead of “Ugh, this bootleg again?” As much as it sucks when Shazam can’t ID a track, it sucks even more when you know every single song being played. If the current trajectory of DJ sets continues, it won’t be long before everyone catches on to what’s really going on here. In the same way that mainstream radio stations have killed songs by playing them far too often, DJs are quickly doing the same. united we fail, we all hit play. I think given about 1 hour of instruction, anyone with minimal knowledge of ableton and music tech in general could DO what im doing at a deadmau5 concert. Just like i think ANY DJ in the WORLD who can match a beat can do what “ANYONE else” (not going to mention any names) is doing on their EDM stages too. A-Trak: Don’t Push My Buttons Traditionally, a DJ spun vinyl records on turntables and would change his set every night. So what about guys who play on laptops? Those who spend more time raising their hands than mixing? Or those whose presence is lost behind intricate light shows? Esteemed electronic producer deadmau5, who recently graced the cover of rock bible Rolling Stone wearing his namesake, robo-rodent mask, decided to blow the whistle himself with a refreshingly frank tumblr post entitled “We All Hit Play.” Explaining how his pre-planned stage show works, he admits that the term “live” is an overstatement. But his tone is strangely defensive and he unjustly lumps DJs into the argument, reducing their craft to mindless beat-matching: “I had that skill down when I was 3.” Pornography in Public Causes Some to Gasp, Others to Shrug The library has been stung by complaints about the content, including explicit pornography, that some people watch in front of others. To address the issue, the library over the last six weeks has installed 18 computer monitors with plastic hoods so that only the person using the computer can see what is on the screen. “It’s for their privacy, and for ours,” said Michelle Jeffers, the library spokeswoman. The library will also soon post warnings on the screens of all its 240 computers to remind people to be sensitive to other patrons — a solution it prefers to filtering or censoring images. It is an issue playing out not just at libraries, but in cafes and gyms, on airplanes, trains and highways, and just about any other place where the explosion of computers, tablets and smartphones has given rise to a growing source of dispute: public displays of mature content. Are Authorities Closing In On the Online Drug Market Silk Road? Just over a year ago, we broke the story of Silk Road, the underground online market that’s like an eBay for illegal drugs. It’s been thriving ever since. But as the summer drags on, Silk Road users are becoming increasingly paranoid over a series of unexplained disappearances. And the Drug Enforcement Agency has now revealed it’s investigating the site. Is Silk Road really as invincible as it seems? In early July, the DEA told the Austin TV news station KXAN that it was investigating Silk Road, where users openly buy and sell drugs, from heroin to ecstacy and pot. New York Senator Chuck Schumer had asked the DEA to look into the site after we first wrote about it about a year ago, but this is the first public acknowledgement that the DEA has heeded his call. Urine, feces found in courthouse coffee machine The best part of waking up? Not exactly. County employees in Anaconda got an unexpected morning jolt last month after someone left urine and feces in their coffee pot at the courthouse. Police Chief Tim Barkell said the prank could land felony assault charges against the culprit, who both urinated into the can of coffee grounds and four days later smeared feces directly in the machine. Two county employees are being tested for hepatitis A after they unknowingly drank the coffee tainted with urine. Nobody else drank the coffee. Thanks Jasmine Termites explode to defend their colonies A species of termite found in the rainforests of French Guiana takes altruism seriously: aged workers grow sacks of toxic blue liquid that they explode onto their enemies in an act of suicidal self-sacrifice to help their colonies (see video). The “explosive backpacks” of Neocapritermes taracua, described in Science today1, grow throughout the lifetimes of the worker termites, filling with blue crystals secreted by a pair of glands on the insects’ abdomens. Older workers carry the largest and most toxic backpacks. Those individuals also, not coincidentally, are the least able to forage and tend for the colony: their mandibles become dull and worn as the termites age, because they cannot be sharpened by moulting. N.J. Terrorist Hideout Actually NYPD Operation On June 2, 2009, an apartment superintendent in New Brunswick, N.J., stumbled upon what he thought was a terrorist hideout and called 911. It was really an NYPD operation to conduct surveillance well outside its jurisdiction Giving the green finger: Gardener who carved bush into rude gesture ordered to remove it A gardener who carved a giant bush into a hand displaying a rude gesture has been ordered to remove it after being accused of committing a public order offence. Richard Jackson has displayed the offending topiary, which shows the middle-finger sign, in his garden for the last eight years. The 53-year-old has now been told by the council to alter it after a neighbour complained, but he has refused to comply. Kissing device lets you smooch remotely [Video] Thanks Nico Holding onto a Who ticket? You can finally cash in 33 years later The Who announced on Wednesday that they’re playing at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on Feb. 26 as part of their 2012-2013 North American tour. It’s their first Providence show since 1975; a scheduled 1979 show was canceled due to security concerns by then-Mayor Vincent A. Cianci in the wake of a fatal crowd stampede at a Who concert in Cincinnati. If you were headed for that cancelled show, you may finally make it. Dunk general manager Larry Lepore said on Thursday that anyone who still has a ticket for the 1979 Who Providence concert can trade it in for a free ticket to February’s show. The vintage ticket will be donated to charity, Lepore says: “It’s got to be worth something.” FBI Wants a Database of Your Tattoos The FBI is consulting local police and vendors about technology currently in use that can spot crooks and terrorists by interpreting the symbolism of their tattoos, according to government documents. The inquiry follows work already underway at the bureau and Homeland Security Department to add iris and facial recognition services to their respective fingerprint databases. The FBI on Friday issued a request for information on existing databases “containing tattoo/symbol images, their possible meanings, gang affiliations, terrorist groups or other criminal organizations.” The mass collection of multiple biometric markers, potentially including vocal tracks and handwriting samples, has upset immigrant communities who say the FBI and DHS are misusing the technology to deport innocent people. Deadly count: US averages 20 mass shootings every year All of the US has turned to Aurora, Colorado after a Friday morning shooting left more than a dozen movie-goers dead. But while the latest massacre has scarred millions of Americans, it’s also just another item added to a list of gruesome sprees. According to an ongoing tally kept by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the United States is experiencing an average of around 20 mass shootings each year. While Friday morning’s incident inside of a Aurora movie theater has perhaps the unfortunate distinction of being the most violent in recent memory — taking no fewer than 12 lives and injuring around 50 more — it is only yet only one example out of many that has marred society this year. The Aurora massacre is believed to be one of the worst incident on American soil since a rampage at Virginia Tech in 2007 left 32 people dead. The Fort Hood, Texas massacre two years later also ended with massive bloodshed, as well, with 13 people losing their lives in that event. Judge: Man who stripped nude at airport not guilty An Oregon man who stripped nude at Portland’s airport security to protest what he saw as invasive measures was found not guilty of indecent exposure. Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge David Rees ruled Wednesday that John Brennan’s act was one of protest and therefore, protected speech. Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Joel Petersen argued that Brennan’s strip-down was an act of indecent exposure. “I was aware of the irony of removing my clothes to protect my privacy,” Brennan said from the witness stand on Wednesday. Adult theater where Fred Willard arrested is frequent LAPD target The manager of the adult theater in Hollywood where actor-comedian Fred Willard was arrested said Los Angeles police have conducted checks there dozens of times since late 2011. Tiki Theater manager Kazi Jafor said that since November 2011, officers have been to the theater 40 times and made 23 arrests. Jafor said the theater displays in writing rules against lewd conduct. “If we see anybody in this activity, we try to stop them,” he said. He said three adult movies were showing on a continuous loop, including the “Client List” parody and “Follow Me 2.” Several people were in the theater when two uniformed vice officers conducted a spot check Wednesday night around 7:45 p.m. Jafor said he saw the officers talking to the 72-year-old actor before they placed him in handcuffs. “The police officers were telling him he did something wrong, he denied it,” Jafor said. According to the LAPD, Willard “engaged in a lewd act,” but police did not elaborate. 9-year-old boy with massive tumor, living in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities, is brought to U.S. for treatment A 9-year-old boy with a massive tumor was whisked from a dangerous neighborhood in Mexico in an armored vehicle by U.S. agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico, his family said. The boy and his parents were snatched Thursday from the gang-infested neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez — one of the deadliest cities in the world — after members of a New Mexico Baptist church saw him near an orphanage and sought help. The parents of the child, identified by officials only as Jose to protect his family, said the tumor on his shoulder and neck has grown so large that it affects his eyesight and could move into his heart. Woman: Geek Squad employee copied, kept racy phone photos Ellison says after learning she had not backed up her data on her home computer, the employee offered to buy the iPhone with a cracked screen she was replacing. She says he paid her $60 out of his own wallet, and promised to wipe clean her older iPhone after transferring the data to her new iPhone 4s. A day later, she realized her new iPhone 4s didn’t have any of her 900 photos, including suggestive personal photos and a video taken by her young children of themselves, joking after getting out of the shower. “I felt sick. I felt violated. I felt so embarrassed,” Ellison tells WTOP. Ellison called the Best Buy to complain, and asked a manager to call her. Instead, the Geek Squad employee called her, promising to retrieve her photos. “A few days later, he called back to tell me he’d made a CD at his house with all my photos, and when can I come get them. I could pick them up at his house,” Ellison said. Ellison hung up the phone. Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Could Cause Ultraviolet Damage to Skin We know CFL bulbs are world-changingly efficient, producing the same level of light as their incandescent parents while using a quarter of the energy. But they’re still a relatively new device, and few long-term studies have been carried out on them. One of the most recent, a new report from a team at Stony Brook, suggests CFLs might cause damage to skin by releasing UV rays. YouTube Launches Face Blurring Tool to Keep Protesters Anonymous A “blur all faces” option in YouTube’s video enhancement tool lets a user edit their video, creating a new copy with obscured faces. After that, you can preview what the video will look like, then delete the blurless original. (There’s still some bugs to be worked out in facial recognition, but the feature goes live today.) Video Game addiction underscored as teen dies after 40-hour marathon The 18-year ran a 40-hour marathon session with the game in Taiwan before then he was reported to have booked a room at his local Internet café before plunging into Diablo III and foe the entire 40-hours he neither slept or stopped or had anything to eat. He was checked on by an employee of the cafe and was found lifeless on a table Sunday but he immediately woke up as he notched but after moving a few steps he collapsed and was immediately rushed to the hospital and he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Hospital authorities suspected that he probably suffered blood clots due the long period of sitting. The deadly rise of ‘hippy crack’: For celebrities, it’s the party drug du jour. Now inhaling laughing gas – is spreading to middle-class living rooms Cheap, seemingly harmless and guaranteeing a night of raucous laughter, so-called ‘hippy crack’ is increasingly popular with celebrities and their well-heeled young fans alike. Even Prince Harry was seen indulging two years ago. There is just one problem: nitrous oxide is no more legal than it is innocuous. Despite being touted openly at music festivals and in bars and nightclubs across the country, sale of the gas for recreational use is very much against the law. As for being innocuous, that is only true if one ignores the alarming side-effects it can cause: strokes, hallucinations, seizures, blackouts, incontinence, stress on the heart, chronic depression and even — in cases of prolonged use — depleted bone marrow. Few would tack the word ‘harmless’ on to such a list. Vt. gov. to sign emergency rule banning bath salts Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is going to be joined by Barre Mayor Thomas Lauzon and police officials when he signs an emergency rule banning 83 new dangerous drugs commonly known as “bath salts.” Bolivia Becomes Better Cocaine Producer, US Says The U.S. government confirmed that Bolivia has fewer coca plantations but it is producing more cocaine because drug traffickers are using a more “efficient” process known as the “Colombian method,” according to an interview published Sunday in the daily Pagina Siete. This much I know: Marilyn Manson My body is a place where drugs and alcohol have made germs afraid to live. I have no health problems to speak of, touch wood. 10 pounds of meth found hidden in a baby crib “The narcotics and a shotgun were found hidden in a baby crib inside the residence,” Ruiz said in a statement. “Investigators believe the suspect in the case is involved with the distribution of narcotics to other drug dealers in the city of Burbank.” Oregon kills medical marijuana deduction for food stamp applicants Oregon and two other states will no longer allow certain food stamp applicants to deduct medical marijuana expenses from their incomes after federal officials threatened the states with penalties. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a nationwide memo to regional directors of the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, after The Oregonian contacted the agency about the practice last week. The newspaper surveyed 17 states that permit marijuana for medicinal use and found three – Oregon, New Mexico and Maine – allowed certain applicants to deduct the cost of the drug from their income when applying for the benefit. Police bust $3M drug ring allegedly led by 17-year-old Mason High School student For about a year, the Warren County Drug Task Force had been investigating the trafficking of high-grade marijuana being sold to students at Mason and King Mills high schools, which they say they traced to the 17-year-old. When officials searched the boy’s house, they found more than $6,000 in cash in his bedroom at his parents’ house. As part of the investigation, task force members searched locations in Blue Ash, Norwood and Hamilton where they seized more than 600 hydroponic high grade marijuana plants . Officials with the Warren County Drug Task Force say the street value from the pot was $5,000 a pound. They seized thousands of dollars in grow equipment as well. Authorities valued the drug operation at more than $3 million and say they believe the 17-year-old was grossing more than $20,000 a month. 3 Accounting Tricks the Obama Administration Uses to Hide the Cost of the Drug War “Since day one, President Obama has led the way in reforming our Nation’s drug policies by, among other things, addressing drug use and its consequences as a public health problem,” reads a statement posted on We the People, the petition site started by the, er, Obama administration. If you’ve been the victim of a federal raid—one in which, say, your two-year-old was yanked out if his crib—or worked at one of the 500 California medical pot dispensaries the DEA and the IRS have shut down in the last year, you’re probably rolling your eyes right now. Marketing the Munchies That kind of winking and nudging is typical in the emergent genre of ads aimed at stoners, a once taboo marketing approach recently embraced most blatantly by the fast food industry. Just look at the actor in the next burger commercial you see. Odds are he’ll be a glassy-eyed Spicoli, dropping coded reefer references (see Jack in the Box’s favorite mumbling pothead). Companies as big as Taco Bell and General Mills have gotten in on the act and they’re reaping the rewards. Taco Bell, with its Doritos-taco hybrid and “late night munchies” tagline saw a six percent sales increase in the first quarter of 2012. General Mills, which revived Cheech and Chong for a Fiber One web campaign, deemed the ad so successful it plans to do more just like it. Then there’s Sonic and its hallucinating twenty-something dreaming of man-sized cheesy tots. Carl’s Jr. is touting its “wake and bake” habit. Denny’s is promoting a reggae-loving unicorn. Pot-smoking moms tired of being judged by wine drinkers The drug helps her keep focus on the giant statue of popsicle sticks she’s building with her kids and relaxes her so she can get through the rest of the night without stressing. “It can make folding a pile of laundry fun,” says Margaret, 45, who asked that we not use her last name for fear of getting in trouble with the law. “If I didn’t smoke, that’d be three piles later in the week.” Still, she doesn’t flaunt her marijuana use. Her sons aren’t allowed to go into the room where she keeps the drugs locked up, and she hides it from other moms who would keep their kids away if they knew she smoked pot. “Being judged for doing something nontoxic and totally organic, enjoying a god-given plant, by moms who suck back two bottles of Chardonnay like sports drinks feels like s—,” complains Margaret. “Any hypocrisy is hard to swallow. A drunk mother is pathetic and I often leave parties when I experience other mothers tying one on.” Deodorant sniffing outbreak ‘incredibly serious’ Australia’s peak drugs body says it is concerned by reports young Aboriginal people in central Australia are stealing deodorant from supermarkets to get high. An Alice Springs youth organisation says there is a deodorant sniffing outbreak in the town involving children as young as seven. The Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia’s David Templeman says it is a dangerous situation. “In some cases, it can include hallucinations and drowsiness and coma and that can then sometimes lead to death,” he said. Man allegedly DWI on a Wal-Mart scooter Houma police say a 24-year-old man is accused of driving a shopping scooter while drunk. Police say Thomas J. Phillip’s breath tested at more than double the amount considered legal proof of intoxication under Louisiana law when he was pulled over Sunday. Police say they got a call about a motorized scooter pulling a wheelchair, and found Phillip on the scooter and a friend of his in the wheelchair. They say Phillip was arrested after allegedly telling police he’d been at a Wal-Mart store and decided to take the scooter for a joyride. New Jersey Medical Marijuana: Legal for Some, Pot Crops Up in N.J. In a sign that the Garden State’s budding medical marijuana program is finally moving forward, the first crop has been growing hydroponically for about a month in a 5,000-square-foot warehouse in an undisclosed location, officials said. The first plants are about a foot high, said Joseph Stevens, president of the Greenleaf Compassion Center, the first licensed provider of medical pot. By mid-September, the center’s Montclair dispensary should be open and accepting patients to buy marijuana, he said. New Welfare Restrictions Target Booze, Tattoos New York lawmakers have proposed barring spending on alcohol, strip clubs, cruise ships and psychics. “It’s a slap in the face to people who are on public assistance and are trying to get off, when others abuse the system,” said state Sen. Thomas Libous, a Republican. Ann Valdez of Brooklyn’s Coney Island section said it’s “crazy” for the government to be dictating where people spend their assistance instead of creating living-wage jobs. She said she struggles just to cover toiletries, clothing and other expenses for herself and her 13-year-old son on the $120 she receives every two weeks. “I don’t know one person who uses their EBT money to buy liquor or anything like that,” Valdez said. Washington state lawmakers have prohibited purchases of tattoos, body piercings, alcohol and tobacco. Bars, bail bond agencies, gambling establishments and strip clubs are also now required to deactivate the ability of their ATMs to accept benefit cards. 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By most accounts, the drug — then legal — first surfaced in Louisiana in mid-2010, quickly moved through the South, and then spread out in all directions. It was, in fact, in Louisiana where one of the first Code Red warnings about bath salts emerged, when a user lost her arm and part of her shoulder after she shot herself up and sparked a flesh-eating bacteria. ♥ Free Speech for Computers? The argument that machines speak was first made in the context of Internet search. In 2003, in a civil suit brought by a firm dissatisfied with the ranking of Google’s search results, Google asserted that its search results were constitutionally protected speech. (In an unpublished opinion, the court ruled in Google’s favor.) And this year, facing increasing federal scrutiny, Google commissioned Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, to draft a much broader and more elaborate version of the same argument. As Professor Volokh declares in his paper: “Google, Microsoft’s Bing, Yahoo! Search, and other search engines are speakers.” ♥ NewsDiffs Shows Changes Made to New York Times Articles After They’re Published Back in October, the New York Times made substantial changes to a report about Occupy Wall Street protesters marching over the Brooklyn Bridge. Version one opened with: “After allowing them onto the bridge, the police cut off and arrested dozens of demonstrators.” Version two, edited just 20 minutes later, opened: “In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.” ♥ HOW TO KILL A RATIONAL PEASANT AMERICA’S DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIR WITH COUNTERINSURGENCY At the beginning of this year one of the weirdest characters ever to become involved in the present Afghan war died. He was called Jack Idema and he was a brilliant con-man. For a moment, during the early part of the war, Idema persuaded all the major TV networks and scores of journalists that he was some kind of special forces super-hero who was using all kinds of “black ops” to track down and arrest the terrorists. In reality, before 2001, Idema had been running a hotel for pets in North Carolina called The Ultimate Pet Resort. He had been in prison for fraud, and had tried to con journalists before about being some kind of super-spy. ♥ Protest criminalised at the “pepper spray” university US Bank closed its branch in the UC Davis Memorial Union Building in March. The sit-down protests were a success. That such effective protest cannot be tolerated is evident from the response of the University administration and the Yolo County District Attorney. The charges against the Davis Dozen have a notable history of service: “Obstructing movement in a public place” was an indictment invented to criminalise homelessness in Alabama. The Davis Dozen are to learn – on behalf of everyone affected by austerity – that protest against the conditions which lead to homelessness is criminalised by the same legislation that makes homelessness illegal. For the bankers, millionaire University administrators and state functionaries for whom “revenue” is to be maximised no matter what the cost to the people they serve, this paradox is no paradox at all. ♥ This Is What Your Brain Looks Like When You Lose Your Self-Control You are not a bastion of self-control. Everyone has a set amount of the stuff, and when life saps it, people can break. Now fMRIs from a University of Iowa study show exactly what it looks like when that happens. The anterior cingulate cortex usually sends up the red flag when a situation requires self-control. It goes at a steady rate as long as it needs to. But the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which actually manages self-control, fires less and less the more it does its job. In other words, people know when they’re giving in, they just have a hard time doing anything about it after a while. ♥ Obama Administration’s Drone Death Figures Don’t Add Up Last month, a “senior administration official” said the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan under President Obama is in the “single digits.” But last year “U.S. officials” said drones in Pakistan killed about 30 civilians in just a yearlong stretch under Obama. Both claims can’t be true. ♥ Sucking Balls Is the Key to Success, Brooklyn Assistant Principal Allegedly Advised Students Most kids are taught that values such as hard work, persistence, and dedication will put them on a path to success. But that is reportedly not William Abreu’s philosophy. The assistant principal at Progress HS for Professional Careers in Bushwick allegedly told a female student hoping to secure a summer job that all you have to do, really, is suck some balls. Preferably his balls. “Would you suck my b—s for me? That’s the things [sic] you have to do to succeed,” he allegedly told one of the teenage girls. “You have to come to work looking sexy, so I can see how pretty you are.” According to an investigation, Abreu did not limit his career advice to just one girl, because he cares about everyone’s future: The report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation says Abreu asked a second girl about her bedroom habits with her boyfriend, and suggested she could stay a virgin by having only anal sex. ♥ Data Transgression The Internet will become a religion, in part because everything will happen on it, including all other religions, but mostly because it will be the first platform for true otherness to appear on the planet. Not other as in other variety of human or other variety of animal, but other as in Other, an agent not like us yet bigger than us. A true alien being. Of which we are part. ♥ New La. law: Sex offenders must list status on Facebook, other social media A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law’s author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation. Thanks Jasmine ♥ “Mystery mushroom” which leaves Xi’an villagers befuddled turns out to be artificial vajayjay Eagle-eyed viewers who saw the report on Sunday immediately identified the mystery mushroom as a double-headed masturbation toy with an artificial vagina on one side and an artificial anus on the other. Yes, you read that right, it was a jack-off aid that some guy used to spank his monkey when he wasn’t getting it from his wife. ♥ Mysterious Electric Blue Clouds Appear Again Over the Poles Every year around this time, mysterious electric blue clouds appear over the North and South pole. They are called noctilucent clouds and they can only be seen in deep twilight, when the Sun is below the horizon. According to NASA, “their origin is still largely a mystery”: Various theories associate them with meteoric dust, rocket exhaust, global warming—or some mixture of the three. They are the highest clouds, located almost on the edge of space at 54 miles (85 kilometers) from the Earth’s surface, in the mesosphere. They are very difficult to observe, but they appear as white and blue tendrils when they are illuminated by the Sun and the rest of the atmosphere is in our planet’s shadow. ♥ Does Your Doctor Have a Fake Degree? The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas The number of earned PhD degrees in the United States is 40,000 to 45,000 each year. The number of fake PhDs bought each year from diploma mills exceeds 50,000. In other words, more than half of all people claiming a new PhD have a fake degree. • Fake medical degrees are an urgent problem. It is easy to buy a medical degree from a fake school, or a counterfeit diploma in the name of a real school. Twenty-five years ago, a Congressional committee calculated that there were over 5,000 fake doctors in the United States, and there are many more now. People have died because of these fakes. • The Government Accountability Office looked for fake degrees among employees of less than 5 percent of federal agencies and found enough to suggest that more than one hundred thousand federal employees have at least one, many of them paid for by taxpayers not to mention resulting higher pay and increased retirement benefits. ♥ Third Grader Strip Searched At School Parents NOT Notified [Video] ♥ Prescription painkillers beat car crashes as leading cause of accidental death in America Prescription painkillers have topped car accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., according to a new report. Research by the National Center for Health Statistics show that drug poisoning is now a more common way to go than being killed on the road. It follows recent celebrity deaths from painkillers, including Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith. ♥ Summer myths, such as one shouldn’t swim for 30 minutes after eating, are bunk Urinating on a jellyfish sting can make it worse, according to Jennifer Ping, an emergency medicine physician at Straub Clinic and Hospital in Honolulu, who has studied the most effective treatments for dealing with jellyfish stings. About 15 people per year check in to her hospital’s emergency room after being stung by jellyfish. Jellyfish stings are caused by contact with a jellyfish tentacle, which can trigger millions of stinging cells (nematocytes) to pierce the skin and inject venom, Ping says. ♥ Why Is Monogamy Idealized When Most People Aren’t Monogamous? Among mammals, only a very few species live in seemingly monogamous arrangements, and fewer still maintain sexual fidelity within those relationships. Man certainly does not seem to be one of them. There is increasing evidence that many men are not biologically or psychologically disposed to sexual monogamy. When one considers the seeming universality of the expectation of monogamy in today’s world (or at least the world presented by Western media), it is perhaps surprising that monogamy has not always been the expected state for man. Despite the vehemence with which many Christians defend monogamy, many men in the Bible, including David and Solomon, were far from monogamous. In fact, whenever conservative marriage advocates espouse “traditional marriage,” I always have to laugh – even in Christianity, traditional marriage included polygyny (a marriage arrangement with one man and multiple wives), and was not explicitly limited to a monogamous arrangement between “one man and one woman” ♥ Baton vs camera: Police open hunt for citizen journalists [Video] As the consolidated corporate media machine fails in its function as the fourth estate, citizen journalists and independent press outlets are there to pick up the slack. But this important task is becoming increasingly threatened by the harsh treatment at the hands of the police force. Citizen based media is often targeted by police for reporting unfiltered truths, or they are lumped together with activists/protesters and beaten or arrested. As more and more Americans choose alternative news sources to find out what is really happening in their country, harassing those providing first hand reports muzzles the free flow of information and poses a threat to democracy. ♥ Scientists predict time will stop completely In a startling new theory, scientists have predicted that the passage of time will stop altogether. The theory is based on research conducted at two Spanish Universities aimed at explaining why the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, a conundrum that has puzzled scientists for years. What they came up with was the notion that the expansion of the universe isn’t accelerating at all; instead time itself is slowing down at an imperceptible rate and that eventually it will stop entirely, resulting in a perpetual static snapshot for the rest of eternity. ♥ Teacher tells students to cut and burn themselves A Florida teacher was arrested on child abuse charges after allegedly encouraging her students to cut and burn themselves in order to rid their bodies of evil spirits. Danielle Harkins, 35, allegedly brought seven teens to a spot by the pier in St. Petersburg on Saturday, and began the strange religious ritual by starting a small fire, police told WTSP News. The teacher then told the teens to cut themselves to cast out demons lurking in their bodies, and cauterize the wounds to prevent the spirits from returning, investigators said. “There was apparently some chanting and then dancing around this fire that was taking place,” St. Petersburg Police Department spokesman Mike Puetz told Fox Tampa Bay. Two kids were cut, and one sustained second-degree burns after the teacher allegedly poured perfume on his wound and lit it with a cigarette lighter, investigators told WTSP. One of them was cut in the neck with a broken bottle and the wound was cauterized with a heated-up house key ♥ Salem witches support stripper arrested in deadly drunk driving crash When she appeared in court on Monday, several local witches and warlocks showed up to support her — something her attorney noted to the judge. Salem has been a hotbed for Wiccans and other people who practice pagan religions because of the 1692 and 1693 which trials there, which saw Puritanical settlers execute 28 people suspected of practicing witchcraft. Griffin’s uncle, Christian Day, posted on Facebook asking a friend to ‘send him energy’ to help his niece. ‘I need to hex each and every person that would dare harm her,’ he wrote. ‘I call upon everything in the heavens and hells to both protect her and to strike down anyone who would capitalize on this tragedy for their own gain.’ ♥ Liquid-Filled Robot Finger More Sensitive to Touch Than a Human’s Add to the list of things robots now do better than humans: feel. Researchers at the U. of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering have designed a robot finger that can outperform humans in the basic yet complex sensory task of touching. Their robot finger, equipped with a novel tactile sensor technology, is better at identifying and distinguishing between different materials and textures than human beings are. ♥ FCC to re-examine cell phone radiation standards The last time the FCC updated its guidelines for radiation-exposure was in 1996. Some experts say the review is long overdue. The current standards are based on behavioral research conducted on animals in the 1980s. Henry Lai, a researcher and professor at the University of Washington, who has conducted studies on the biological effects of cell phone radiation, told CNET a year ago for an article published about the SAR standard that more than 60 studies in the last decade have shown biological changes to cells at SAR levels less than the current safety standard allowed by the FCC and the FDA. ♥ The Number of PhDs on Food Stamps Triples This spring the Chronicle of Higher Education offered an in-depth look at the number of highly educated people receiving federal aid. Though, on average, they are still doing better than people without college degrees, these populations have not been immune to the recession. ♥ Google Threatens To Sue Huge YouTube MP3 Conversion Site According to a letter seen by TorrentFreak, Google are threatening action against one of the web’s largest YouTube conversion sites. The site, which according to Google’s own stats is pulling in 1.3 million visitors every day, extracts MP3 audio from YouTube videos and makes it available for users to download. Google’s lawyers say this must stop, and have given the site seven days to comply. ♥ WhoSampled App Scans Your Music Collection, Identifies All the Samples WhoSampled.com’s vast database has long been a source for music geeks to identify where their favorite samples came from, but now it’s coming to your smartphone too. Wired U.K. The WhoSampled iPhone app scans your music library and automatically shows you all the samples, covers and remixes associated with all of the artists and tracks in it. Plus, if you’re listening to a song and you want to access its data immediately, you can switch to the WhoSampled app from your music player and it’ll display all the musical connections for whatever’s playing. ♥ Breast milk seems to kill HIV Breast milk is starting to look like a potent HIV-fighter. An unknown component of breast milk appears to kill HIV particles and virus-infected cells, as well as blocking HIV transmission in mice with a human immune system. ♥ DEA adds 26 ‘synthetic marijuana’ substances to government blacklist The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said Tuesday that it expects to add 26 new synthetic drugs to its list of temporary Schedule I substances, an emergency authority that’s used to control little-known, poorly researched new substances that the agency feels pose a threat to public health. In the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, passed by the Senate in May and reconciled by the House last night, Congress agreed to expand the DEA’s authority to control such substances by fiat, expanding the time they can temporarily ban a new drug from 18 to 36 months. Congress also set up an explicit framework for identifying “similar chemical compounds” that produce the same or similar effects on humans as any other Schedule I substance. ♥ 7th Grade Students Suspended for Viewing Porn and Masturbating in Class Nine male students were suspended from Bell Middle School for allegedly masturbating while looking at pornography on their cell phones during English class. Students were suspended during the month of May, the district confirmed in an e-mail to NBC San Diego. But the email also states, the district is “prohibited from commenting on confidential student or personnel matters.” The teacher, Ed Johnson, is reportedly under fire because he did not respond to students who told him about the behavior while it was allegedly happening – only saying he would give students referrals if he caught them – then went on reading at his desk. Following the incident, there are reports of controversy from the faculty over how the situation was handled by the teacher. Students who knew about the suspensions told NBC San Diego that their behavior was “nasty” and “disgusting.” ♥ Wesley Warren Jr. shies away from surgery to fix his gigantic, 100 lbs. scrotum An extraordinary condition that ballooned Wesley Warren Jr.’s scrotum to a massive 100 pounds made him feel like “a freak,” and the Las Vegas man set off on a campaign to raise $1 million for corrective surgery. But given the chance to have the surgery — even at no cost — the 47-year-old remains reluctant to go under the knife, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday. If anything, Warren’s new-found fame may have gone to his head, according to the newspaper, which said he appears to be enjoying his celebrity status. “I’ll make a decision when I’m ready,” Warren said. ♥ Vandal defaces Houston Picasso painting The video hit the Internet on Wednesday. It shows a man walking up to the original 1929 Pablo Picasso masterpiece inside the Menil Collection in Montrose. He is then seen using a stencil to spray-paint the word “conquista,” which is Spanish for “couquer” on the painting before taking off. The man who took the video did not want to be identified. He said he confronted the man after he witnessed him spray-paint it and asked him why he did it. According to the witnesses, the vandal said he was an up-and-coming artist and he did it to honor Picasso’s work. “I just thought it was pretty cool how he just went up to the painting without fear, spray painted it and just walked off,” the witness told Local 2. Thanks Jasmine ♥ RNC Latino Site Features Stock Photo of Asian Children RNCLatinos.com features as its main image a stock photo from Shutterstock, which tags the photo with keywords that clearly suggest the kids are Asian, including: “asia,” “asian,” “interracial,” “japanese,” and “thailand.” We’re guessing the RNC may have taken inspiration from Sharron Angle, who in 2010 told Hispanic children they looked Asian. When the RNC launched the site in October, the committee described it as a place where the “Republican National Committee can connect with Hispanic voters, and Hispanic voters can hear Hispanic Republican leaders.” ♥ Crazy Woman’s Anti-Gay Rant At a Lincoln Nebraska City Council hearing to review a proposed LGBT protection ordinance, resident Jane Skrovota delivered a weird, rambling, incoherent anti-gay rant Thanks Billoney Tags: abuse, Accidental Death, Accountability, action, ADD, Agent, Alien, Allegedly, Alternative, argument, arrest, Article, Artificial, Artist, Artists, atmosphere, attorney, Author, authority, balls, ban, Bank, bath salts, Beat, Beaten, Bedroom, Better, Bottle, brain, breast, Bridge, Broken, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, Burn, Can, Car, Caught, Celebrity, Cell Phone, Characters, chemical, child, Children, Christian, Christians, cigarette, Citizen, clinic, Collection, college, combination, Come, Congress, Control, Controversy, Cool, Corporate, Counterfeit, court, Crazy, Criminal, Dancing, Dangerous, David, DEA, Deadly, death, Decision, Demons, doctor, drone, Drug, Drugs, Drunk, Drunk Driving, Ecstasy, ED, Education, electric, Emergency, enforcement, English, Everything, evidence, Evil, Facebook, fake, FCC, Female, Finger, Fire, Florida, Food, Found, Free, friend, Girl, Google, Government, harm, Health, Heart, History, HIV, hospital, Hotel, Houston, How To, Human, Independent, Indictment, Industry, information, innovation, Internet, investigation, iPhone, Jellyfish, Kids, Las Vegas, Legal, LGBT, List, Live, Look, Love, machine, Man, masterpiece, Masturbating, masturbation, Media, Medical, Medicine, Millionaire, Monkey, month, movement, Mushroom, Music, Musical, Mystery, New York, New York Times, News, North Carolina, NOT, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Offenders, Origin, Original, Pablo Picasso, Pagan, Painkillers, Pakistan, person, Pet, Pets, phone, Photo, poisoning, Police, Porn, pornography, prescription, president, President Obama, Press, Prison, Professor, Protection, Protest, Radiation, Report, Republican, Research, researcher, Ritual, robot, Robots, Rocket, safety, School, scrotum, Search, Senate, Sex, Sexual, showdown, site, skin, smartphone, Snapshot, Social, social networking, Some, something, Southern, space, Special, Special Forces, Species, speech, spray, spread, st., Stamps, Static, stencil, Strange, Street, stripper, Student, suck, Summer, Sun, surgery, Synthetic, Tags, Teacher, Teenage, Teens, theory, threat, Threatened, time, Touch, tragedy, treatment, TV, Ultimate, Unexplained, Union, United States, Universe, University, US, vagina, Vandal, Video, Videos, Virgin, Wall Street, War, White, wiccans, Wired, World, wound, YouTube File under Massive Consumption of Drugs, Music, SeMeN SPeRmS BLArRrG, SeMeN SPeRmS Links 'o Death, Sex ‘Love?! That’s soft stuff!’ ✰ Girl Removes Make-up after Two Years For the last two years, the young girl never used make-up removers, so her mother, exasperated by Bae’s behaviour, contacted a TV station and told them Bae’s incredible story. During a variety show, dermatologists managed to convince Bae Dal-mi to finally remove the layers of make-up, and after a specialized check-up they found her skin was two times older than her actual age. All because of an obsession with beauty ✰ Electric Cigarette Explodes In US Man’s Mouth A faulty battery caused an electronic cigarette to explode in a man’s mouth, taking out some of his front teeth, a chunk of his tongue and severely burning his face, fire officials said. ✰ Seattle woman sets underwear world record The Guinness World record was 250. Janine Keblish topped that by two pairs of underwear. Why? Keblish wanted to bring attention to a cause she’s involved with, Days for Girls. A few years ago Keblish and Celeste Mergens discovered a shameful secret on a trip to an orphanage in Kenya – a total lack of feminine hygiene products for young women. “Millions of women all over the world go without, resulting in infection and exploitation and even girls being sold into slavery. They also miss three months of education each year, just for lack of hygiene,” says Mergens. “And you wonder, how could this be happening in this day and age? The truth is, it’s taboo to talk about.” ✰ India, Bihar: Poo Highway The high incidence of open defecation in the Indian state of Bihar is not due to a lack awareness about toilets, according to this new Water for People video. In their view, it’s more of a supply chain, marketing problem. The toilets on offer are not particularly good. ✰ $23.60 – The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Possible (in the World) It’s not every day that you receive a coupon for one of the priciest beverage chains in the world! Armed with my Starbucks Rewards card, I decided to take the opportunity to find out just how much money I could pour into a Trenta—Starbucks’ whopping 31 ounce cup! After about a half-hour with a laughing barista, we created the most expensive drink possible: one Java Chip Frappuccino in a Trenta cup, 16 shots of espresso, a shot of soy milk, caramel flavoring, banana puree, strawberry puree, vanilla beans, Matcha powder, protein powder, and a drizzle of caramel and mocha. Price: $23.60. The resulting beverage contains 1400mg of caffeine. According to Erowid, a widely respected drug catalog, a heavy caffeine dose is 400+mg. This drink has 3 times that. If I drank this all at once, it would put me in the hospital. Two of these would kill me. ✰ Top 10 Bizarre & Controversial Archeological Discoveries Many strange archeological discoveries have been made in modern history. Hundreds of artifacts have been unearthed that have baffled scientists and challenged modern man’s view of history. Many of these objects have been labeled out of place artifacts or anachronisms. These archeological discoveries are always controversial and the scientific community is extremely selective in what they accept as fact. Every object on this list has been accused of being an elaborate hoax. In many cases, a conspiracy is the only explanation, without an extensive rewriting of the world’s history books. These artifacts tell a story of ancient civilizations, Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contracts, and mysterious technological advancements. Many of these archeological discoveries challenge the scientific theory of evolution, as well as many religious beliefs. ✰ Elderly junkies find ‘freedom’ at Dutch old-age home In a tiny fourth-floor room overlooking The Hague’s city centre, a grey-haired man carefully plugged a small pipe with a ball of cocaine, lit up and drew a deep breath. “This is real freedom,” said 65-year-old William as a billow of white smoke poured from his nostrils and wafted through his apartment at Woodstock, the only Dutch home for elderly junkies and other addicts. The apartment block, flanked by a canal and a tram line, takes a unique approach to drug abuse by helping to keep ageing homeless people off the city’s streets and out of trouble with the law. “I like it here. Here there is no police watching you,” William told AFP as he rearranged the paraphernalia of his addiction on a small table: a pipe, a lighter, a mirror with traces of cocaine lines and an old credit card. “I can do what I want to do.” ✰ NH town to vote on whether to change name of pond at bishop’s urging Voters in a small New Hampshire town will have the final say on whether to change the controversial name of a local pond. The small pond near the middle of Mont Vernon is known as Jew Pond. Town officials say it got its name back in the 1920s because the operators of a hotel that once stood next to it were Jewish. The name recently got the attention of New Hampshire Bishop Peter Libasci. He wrote a letter to the local newspaper saying the name conveyed contempt and urged townspeople to change it. Residents will decide in the March 13 election. Some residents told WMUR-TV that they don’t find the name offensive and that it’s part of the town’s history. ✰ Exposing the Severity of the Fukushima Disaster (Video) Fukushima has had 5 major meltdowns now, in a disaster that is making experts say that it is larger than Chernobyl. Aljazeera reported in September that the radiation emitted from Fukushima would rival or surpass Chernobyl in only the weeks following the disaster. According to Aljazeera: “Experts say that the total radiation leaked will eventually exceed the amounts released from the Chernobyl disaster that the Ukraine in April 1986. This amount would make Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster in history.” This news was from 2011, but the current news isn’t much better. After officials said they were going to perform a ‘cold shutdown’ to prevent any further issues, its now come out that the Fukushima reactor temperature now surpasses 752 degrees — whereas 100 degrees celsius was required for the cold shutdown. Tepco, the operators of the plant, say the thermometer is conveniently broken, but they have been known to conceal the truth from the public in the past. ✰ Indian Man Killed for Public Toilet Time The fight occurred between residents of a tenement with shared facilities, a common situation in India’s densely populated financial matrix. The incident brings India’s sanitation problems and the lack of proper facilities sharply into focus. Simon Lingeree was killed last month when he got into a heated argument with Santosh Kargutkar while using a public toilet. The latter became highly impatient while waiting his turn. When Mr. Lingeree exited the toilet, he was physically assaulted. There were no weapons involved, just fists, but the young man was struck a fatal blow to the crotch. The killer quickly fled the scene and was later arrested. ✰ Marijuana Odor Overpowers Police Station The strong odor of marijuana from the evidence room at a local police station in Florida seems to be a real problem for some whiny cops. “The biggest complaint is how strong the odor is,” said Atlantic Beach Police Commander Victor Gualillo, reports ActionNewsJax.com. All seized dope collected during busts is stored in a 200-square-foot evidence room at the station. “Anytime you store that much marijuana it’s rather pungent,” Commander Gualillo complained. But it seems you count on this bunch of overwrought weenies to dramatize the situation way beyond just the smell. They’re talking about “doing something” before “somebody gets hurt.” “I’m told there are serious health concerns,” claimed Atlantic Beach City Manager Jim Hanson about all the collected drugs in the evidence room. “There are other evidence technicians who have gotten sick,” Hanson claimed. ✰ Addict was smoking 15 joints a day Adrian Watson, 41, was arrested by police after neighbours complained of a strong smell of gas coming from a house in Huddersfield Road, Elland. Bradford Crown Court heard how officers at first thought there may have been a leak, but after entering the property found 24 cannabis plants and growing equipment. They also found documents in the house with Watson’s name on and another address in Dewsbury Road, Elland, where they later found Watson as well as more cannabis. A total of 2.24kg of the drug was found, with a street value of around £19,000. Police experts believe there was enough cannabis to last up to 594 days, but Watson told police that his habit of 15 joints a day meant he would have got through the drug much quicker. He admitted producing cannabis for personal use. ✰ Dolphins Reported Talking Whale in Their Sleep News has come from France that some captive-born dolphins there have been recorded “talking in their sleep” — and talking in Whale, no less, not Dolphinese. The scientists involved say this would be the first time that dolphins have been recorded mimicking sounds a significant period of time after hearing them. But there’s also the intriguing possibility that these sounds — virtually identical to sounds made by the humpback whale — may, if the dolphins are really asleep and not just resting, be direct expression of something the dolphins are dreaming. ✰ Youngsters get high on cobra venom “The sale of drugs (like K-72 and K-76) which have cobra venom is increasing at rave parties and in discos. These drugs enhance sensation and boost energy so that revellers can dance for longer hours,” a senior officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) told IANS on condition of anonymity. “The sales increase a week before Valentine’s Day in Delhi and NCR (National Capital Region) and are consumed at hushed-up parties,” he added. ✰ Morgellons: Static Electricity or Moving Nano-Machines? You Decide Contrary to what the CDC says, Morgellons is not a delusion. I have personally felt and seen my hair move by itself, I’ve had strange fibres come out of my skin, I constantly feel like there are bugs crawling over my body. I have witnessed many of my fresh organic vegetables, fruits and meat moving by itself, causing me to have to throw out the majority of the food I’ve bought. I have had to stop wearing a lot of my clothes because even those seem to be comprised of moving fibres. Some might say the fibres in the video below are moving because of static electricity, however I find that very hard to believe. ✰ Sick: Young, Undercover Cops Flirted With Students to Trick Them Into Selling Pot Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The undercover cops went to classes, became Facebook friends and flirted with the other students. One 18-year-old honor student named Justin fell in love with an attractive 25-year-old undercover cop after spending weeks sharing stories about their lives, texting and flirting with each other. One day she asked Justin if he smoked pot. Even though he didn’t smoke marijuana, the love-struck teen promised to help find some for her. Every couple of days she would text him asking if he had the marijuana. Finally, Justin was able to get it to her. She tried to give him $25 for the marijuana and he said he didn’t want the money — he got it for her as a present. A short while later, the police did a big sweep and arrest 31 students — including Justin. Almost all were charged with selling a small amount of marijuana to the undercover cops. Now Justin has a felony hanging over his head. ✰ The Disappearing Face of New York ‘During the eight years it took James and Karla Murray to complete this project, one third of the stores they featured have closed’ ✰ Congrats, US Government: You’re Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US The federal government has been paying lip service to the idea that it wants to encourage new businesses and startups in the US. And this is truly important to the economy, as studies have shown that almost all of the net job growth in this country is coming from internet startups. Thankfully some politicians recognize this, but the federal government seems to be going in the other direction. With the JotForm situation unfolding, where the US government shut down an entire website with no notice or explanation, people are beginning to recognize that the US is not safe for internet startups. ✰ Facebook hacking student Glenn Mangham jailed A software development student from York who hacked into Facebook has been jailed for eight months. Glenn Mangham, 26, had earlier admitted infiltrating the social networking website between April and May 2011. Mangham, of Cornlands Road, York, had shown search engine Yahoo how it could improve security and said he wanted to do the same for Facebook. Sentencing Mangham, Judge Alistair McCreath said his actions could have been “utterly disastrous” for Facebook. Alison Saunders, from the Crown Prosecution Service, described the case as “the most extensive and flagrant incidence of social media hacking to be brought before British courts”. Prosecutor Sandip Patel rejected Mangham’s claims, saying: “He acted with determination, undoubted ingenuity and it was sophisticated, it was calculating.” Facebook spent $200,000 (£126,400) dealing with Mangham’s crime, which triggered a “concerted, time-consuming and costly investigation” by the FBI and British law enforcement, Mr Patel said. ✰ A medical study of the Haitian zombie We hear a lot about zombies these days – in films, in music and even in philosophy – but many are unaware that in 1997 The Lancet published a medical study of three genuine Haitian zombies. The cases studies were reported by British anthropologist Roland Littlewood and Haitian doctor Chavannes Douyon and concerned three individuals identified as zombies after they had apparently passed away. The Haitian explanation for how zombies are created involves the distinction between different elements of the human being – including the body, the gwobon anj (the animating principle) and the ti-bon anj, which represents something akin to agency, awareness, and memory. ✰ Musicians Wage War Against Robots After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, all bets were off for live musicians who played in movie theaters. Thanks to synchronized sound, the use of live musicians was unnecessary — and perhaps a larger sin, old-fashioned. In 1930 the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched a scathing ad campaign to fight the advance of this terrible menace known as recorded sound. The evil face of that campaign was the dastardly, maniacal robot. The Music Defense League spent over $500,000, running ads in newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. The ads pleaded with the public to demand humans play their music (be it in movie or stage theaters), rather than some cold, unseen machine. ✰ Italy confiscates $6 trillion in fake US bonds Swiss authorities have confiscated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. bonds at the request of Italian prosecutors, authorities in Italy said Friday. Eight people were arrested in Italy and placed under investigation for fraud and other crimes. The bonds, carrying the false date of issue of 1934, had been transported in 2007 from Hong Kong to Zurich, where they were transferred to a Swiss trust, according to prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Potenza. Authorities said that U.S. officials had confirmed the bonds were counterfeit. Prosecutors said the fraud had not been completed, but it appeared that the suspects intended to try to sell the fake bonds to a developing nation, directly or through an intermediary bank. ✰ FBI Foils Own Terror Plot (Again) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has once again proven that the only thing Americans need fear, is their own government, with the latest “terror attack” foiled being one entirely of their own design. USA Today reports that a suspect had been arrested by the FBI who was “en route to the U.S. Capitol allegedly to detonate a suicide bomb.” While initial reports portrayed the incident as a narrowly averted terrorist attack, CBS would report that a “high ranking source told CBS News the man was “never a real threat.”” The explosives the would-be bomber carried were provided to him by the FBI during what they described as a “lengthy and extensive operation.” The only contact the suspect had with “Al Qaeda” was with FBI officials posing as associates of the elusive, omnipresent, bearded terror conglomerate. The FBI, much like their MI5 counterparts in England, have a propensity for recruiting likely candidates from mosques they covertly run. ✰ Lawmakers riled by Google iPhone tracking Three U.S. lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to grill Google after it admitted secretly tracking millions of people’s iPhone and Mac Web browsing. Reps. Edward Markey, D-Mass., Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said they want to know whether Google’s behavior “constitutes a violation” of a privacy settlement Google Inc. and the commission worked out last year. Google pledged at the time not to “misrepresent” its privacy practices to consumers. The fine for violating the agreement is $16,000 for every violation each day. Google and three other advertising companies used special computer code that tricks Apple Inc.’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor users’ Internet habits — even though Safari, the most-widely used smartphone Web browser, is designed to block such tracking by default. ✰ Virginia Poised To Enact ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Law Forcing Women To Be Vaginally Probed Before Abortions Simply put, it is difficult to distinguish a law requiring women to be vaginally penetrated by a long metal object from state-sponsored rape. Worse, discussions among lawmakers leave little doubt that its supporters understood just what they were trying to write into law — they just didn’t care. As an unnamed lawmaker told a fellow Virginia delegate, a woman already consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.” ✰ Big Greenwashing 101 John Muir must be rolling over in his grave. The organization he founded in 1892, the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and largest environmental group, have been in cahoots with the worst of the worst corporations in recent years. They’ve been paid tens of millions of dollars by the fossil fuel industry, tyrannical billionaire mayors and Wall Street in exchange for cleaning (and greening) up their public images. Not only have they acted as a green public relations firm for the bastions of wealth and power, but have also sold out frontline communities most impacted by extractive industry. ✰ Cellphone use linked to selfish behavior Marketing professors Anastasiya Pocheptsova and Rosellina Ferraro, with graduate student, Ajay T. Abraham, conducted a series of experiments on test groups of cellphone users. The findings appear in their working paper, “The Effect of Mobile Phone Use on Prosocial Behavior.” Prosocial behavior, as defined in the study, is action intended to benefit another person or society as a whole. The researchers found that after a short period of cellphone use the subjects were less inclined to volunteer for a community service activity when asked, compared to the control-group counterparts. The cell phone users were also less persistent in solving word problems — even though they knew their answers would translate to a monetary donation to charity. The decreased focus on others held true even when participants were merely asked to draw a picture of their cellphones and think about how they used them. ✰ Poachers slaughter 200 elephants in Cameroon; ivory profits fueling regional conflicts Poachers have slaughtered at least 200 elephants in the past five weeks in a patch of Africa where they are more dangerously endangered than anywhere else on Earth, wildlife activists said. The money made from selling elephant tusks is fueling misery throughout the continent, the International Fund for Animal Welfare warned. Many elephant calves orphaned by the recent killings have been spotted in Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park, and activists fear the animals may soon die of hunger and thirst. “Their deaths will only compound the impact of the poaching spree on the Cameroon’s threatened elephant populations,” the organization said Thursday in a statement. It is not known how many elephants remain in the West African nation. The latest figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimated there were only 1,000 to 5,000 left in 2007. ✰ Let’s Kill the Internet and Start Over The internet is broken – we need to start over … Last year, the level and ferocity of cyber-attacks on the internet reached such a horrendous level that some are now thinking the unthinkable: to let the internet wither on the vine and start up a new more robust one instead. On being asked if we should start again, many – maybe most – immediately argue that the internet is such an integral part of our social and economic fabric that even considering a change in its fundamental structure is inconceivable and rather frivolous. I was one of those. However, recently the evidence suggests that our efforts to secure the internet are becoming less and less effective, and so the idea of a radical alternative suddenly starts to look less laughable. ✰ Loop Geography as Defensive Tactic The existence of these clusters is so little known that most people don’t realize when they’re nearing the epicenter of Fort Meade’s, even when the GPS on their car dashboard suddenly begins giving incorrect directions, trapping the driver in a series of U-turns, because the government is jamming all nearby signals. It’s an experiential trap street—an infinite loop—a deliberate cartographic error introduced into the mapping of the world so as to sow detour and digression. A kind of digital baffling, or recursive geography as state defensive tactic. I’m also curious when we might see this privatized and domesticated—gated communities, for instance, blocking the GPS navigation of their streets in the misguided belief that this will help protect them from future burglary, effectively delisting themselves from public cartographic records. Perhaps the future of neighborhood security lies in the privatized repurposing of advanced signal-jamming technology ✰ Pa. man’s Facebook ‘surfer’ page lured teens A married father used phony Facebook profiles to pose as two different Florida surfers to solicit sexually graphic messages and photos from seven teenage girls in western Pennsylvania, and two of the girls eventually agreed to meet for sex with the surfers’ middle-aged “friend” — yet another fake persona he used, the state attorney general said Friday. William R. Ainsworth, 53, of Mars, was charged Thursday with 68 counts, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and multiple counts of charges that include attempted unlawful contact with a minor, possession of child pornography and criminal use of a computer. ✰ Mobile Apps Take Data Without Permission The address book in smartphones — where some of the user’s most personal data is carried — is free for app developers to take at will, often without the phone owner’s knowledge. Companies that make many of the most popular smartphone apps for Apple and Android devices — Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram among them — routinely gather the information in personal address books on the phone and in some cases store it on their own computers. The practice came under scrutiny Wednesday by members of Congress who saw news reports that taking such data was an “industry best practice.” Apple, which approves all apps that appear in its iTunes store, addressed the controversy on Wednesday after lawmakers sent the company a letter asking how approved apps were allowed to take address book data without users’ permission. Apple’s published rules on apps expressly prohibit that practice. ✰ ‘Piggyback Bandit’ puzzles high school sports officials in Northwest The stocky man showed up in a basketball uniform for a game at Century High School in North Dakota. Players and coaches assumed he was a fan who had come with another team, so nobody objected when he began to pitch in around the bench. “He helped lay out uniforms, got water. He even gave a couple of kids shoulder massages. Creepy stuff like that,” said Jim Haussler, activities director for the Bismarck Public School District. After the game was over, the man joined the winning team on the court and asked if he could get a piggyback ride. One bemused player gave it to him. “He makes himself appear as if he’s limited or handicapped. I think he plays an empathy card, so to speak,” Haussler said. “We didn’t realize what we were dealing with until several days later.” ✰ Paul McCartney says he’ll quit cannabis in Rolling Stone interview Sir Paul has a self-confessed passion for marijuana. He has also been in trouble for drugs more times than bandmate John Lennon ever was, despite Lennon’s reputation as a heavy user. Sir Paul, 69, was introduced to cannabis by Bob Dylan, who was stunned to learn he was a ‘pot virgin’ – in the mid-Sixties. After that came heroin, cocaine, LSD and a range of other psychedelics which inspired some of the Beatles’ best known songs. Sir Paul’s rap sheet for drugs is almost as long as his list of hits. He was arrested for cannabis possession in Sweden and at his Scottish farm in 1972. ✰ Calif. Woman Wins Suit Over Honda Hybrid’s Mileage Claim It says that “a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner has awarded Heather Peters $9,867.” As was discussed last month on All Things Considered, “Peters decided to opt out of a class-action settlement that would have given her as little as $100 and awarded the attorneys $8.5 million. The 46-year-old Los Angeles resident, who is also a lawyer, decided to even the playing field by filing her suit in a small claims court, which doesn’t allow the parties to retain lawyers.” Her case: Peters showed that ads had claimed her Honda Civic hybrid would get 50 miles per gallon. In court, as Eyder previously wrote, “she came armed with hundreds of pictures of her dashboard showing that she got at best 42 miles per gallon and after a software update that number dropped to fewer than 30 miles per gallon.” ✰ Man Killed in Dog Poop Dispute A neighborly dispute over dog poop turned deadly in the Tacony section of Philadelphia. It happened just after 4 p.m. Tuesday on the 6500 block of Torresdale Avenue. Tyrirk Harris, 27, is accused of killing his 47-year-old neighbor Franklin Manuel Santana, according to Philadelphia Police. Cops say Santana walked a couple doors down Torresdale to confront Harris over his dogs. “A German Shepherd and a Chihuahua — these dogs were running free,” said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small. “There were dog feces on several of the neighbor’s yards. That’s what led to this particular confrontation.” Police say Harris then pulled out a 9-mm handgun and shot his neighbor several times, striking Santana in his face and chest. ✰ Anonymous Hacked Documents Reveal Law Enforcement Spied on Occupy and Shared Information with Private Intelligence Company, STRATFOR Computer hackers known as Anonymous leaked information obtained by hacking into private intelligence firm Stratfor’s computer network. The documents – what Anonymous is calling a teaser – suggest that from at least October to November 2011 Stratfor worked with Texas law enforcement to infiltrate the Occupy movement and spy on the Deep Green Resistance movement. The document contains emails in which Stratfor employees discuss Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance. Stratfor “Watch Officer” Marc Lanthemann writes about receiving information on Occupy Austin and DGR from a “Texas DPS agent.” The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement agency that includes an Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division. ✰ Dawn of the Drones: The Realization of the Total Surveillance State “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is it’s justice; that is it’s morality.” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 19th century French philosopher ✰ David Choe Takes Barbara Walters To Paint Graffiti David Choe has received a world wind of media attention after the story broke that he is holding $200 million worth of Facebook stock after painting their offices in 2005. Barbara Walters recently met up with Choe for an interview, and to hit the streets. Check out the hilarious video. ✰ 300k farmers hope for lawsuit against Monsanto Not only were the smaller farms concerned over how the manufactured seeds had been carried by wind and creature alike onto their own plantations, but the biggest problem perhaps was that Monsanto was filing lawsuits themselves against farmers. Monsanto went after hundreds of farmers for infringing on their patented seed after audits revealed that their farms had contained their product — as a result of routine pollination by animals and acts of nature. Unable to afford a proper defense, competing small farms have been bought out by the company in droves. As a result, Monsanto saw their profits increase by the hundreds of millions over the last few years as a result. Between 1997 and 2010, Monsanto tackled 144 organic farms with lawsuits and investigated roughly 500 plantations annually during that span with a so-called “seed police.” ✰ Is Agriculture Sucking Fresh Water Dry? The average American uses enough water each year to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and global agriculture consumes a whopping 92% of all fresh water used annually. Those are the conclusions of the most comprehensive analysis to date of global water use, which also finds that one-fifth of humankind’s water consumption flows across international borders as “virtual water”—the water needed to produce a commodity, such as meat or electronics, if the ultimate consumers were to make it themselves rather than outsource its growth or manufacture. ✰ Female Passengers Say They’re Targeted By TSA When Ellen Terrell and her husband, Charlie, flew out of DFW Airport several months ago, Terrell says she was surprised by a question a female TSA agent asked her. “She says to me, ‘Do you play tennis?’ And I said, ‘Why?’ She said, ‘You just have such a cute figure.’” Terrell says she walked into the body scanner which creates an image that a TSA agent in another room reviews. Terrell says she tried to leave, but the female agent stopped her. “She says, ‘Wait, we didn’t get it,’” recalls Terrell, who claims the TSA agent sent her back a second time and even a third. But that wasn’t good enough. After the third time, Terrell says even the agent seemed frustrated with her co-workers in the other room. “She’s talking into her microphone and she says, ‘Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go. Come on out.’” When TSA agents do a pat down on a traveler, only female agents are allowed to touch female passengers. But the TSA allows male agents to view the images of female passengers. ✰ CDC Warns Untreatable Gonorrhea is On the Way Gonorrhea, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, is increasingly showing resistance to one of the last known effective antibiotic treatments, leading researchers from the Centers for Disease Control to “sound the alarm” about potentially untreatable forms of the disease. “During the past three years, the wily gonococcus has become less susceptible to our last line of antimicrobial defense, threatening our ability to cure gonorrhea,” Gail Bolan, director of the CDC’s sexually transmitted disease prevention program, wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine last week. ✰ Darpa’s Magic Plan: ‘Battlefield Illusions’ to Mess With Enemy Minds Arthur C. Clarke once famously quipped that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So perhaps it was inevitable that the Pentagon’s extreme technology arm would eventually start acting like magicians — and try to create illusions on the front lines. In its new budget, unveiled on Monday, Darpa introduced a new $4 million investigation into technologies that will “manage the adversary’s sensory perception” in order to “confuse, delay, inhibit, or misdirect [his] actions.” Darpa calls the project “Battlefield Illusion.” Of course. “The current operational art of human-sensory battlefield deception is largely an ad-hoc practice,” the agency sighs as it lays out the project’s goals. But if researchers can better understand “how humans use their brains to process sensory inputs,” the military should be able to develop “auditory and visual” hallucinations that will “provide tactical advantage for our forces.” ✰ ‘Black’ hurricane names brewing swirl of dissent Do devastating hurricanes need help from affirmative action? A member of Congress apparently thinks so, and is demanding the storms be given names that sound “black.” The congressional newspaper the Hill reported this week that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, feels that the current names are too “lily white,” and is seeking to have better representation for names reflecting African-Americans and other ethnic groups. “All racial groups should be represented,” Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials “would try to be inclusive of African-American names.” A sampling of popular names that could be used include Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn, according to the paper. 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Mee Yan Leong sat down on the bowl in her bathroom on March 25, 2009 and for the next 902 days, that is where she decided to eat and sleep. The 58-year-old claimed she ‘felt a force holding me down’ and said she did not understand why she felt compelled to stay in the tiled bathroom. ✖ Sick People Smell Bad: Why Dogs Sniff Dogs, Humans Sniff Humans, and Dogs Sometimes Sniff Humans One dog’s backside is another man’s armpit—A little more may be revealed when we think about Paul Ehrlich’s body, or yours or mine for that matter. Human bodies have apocrine sweat glands too. Just as in dogs they are found in what biologists euphemistically call “the peri-anal region,” (or maybe that is the opposite of a euphemism) as well as around their genitals. But they are also found in our armpits. Our armpit odor is produced nearly exclusively by the odor of bacteria that are, in turn, fed by glands in our armpits4. In other words, when you sniff, however unintentionally, the odor of your neighbor’s armpits you are doing exactly the same thing a dog is doing when it sniffs another dog’s behind. This gets me back to Paul Ehrlich’s joke, the one about the good old days of sniffing each other, nose to tail. ✖ Miami Roofers Discover Massive Bat Colony In One Roof Think about how many houses in South Florida have roofs with barrel tiles. Now imagine that each one contains thousands of squealing bats. In the video above, Miami roofers discover a particularly dense roosting area for bats. As noted by Buzzfeed, it conjures up visions of Temple of Doom. Bats are quite common in Florida. Local pest removal companies cite the most common types are the Brazilian, or Mexican Free-Tail Bat, and the Evening Bat. ✖ Magic mushrooms ‘could treat depression’ A clinical trial of ”magic mushroom therapy” could take place in the UK within a year following two ground-breaking studies. Doctors plan to treat depressed patients who cannot be helped by modern drugs or behaviour-based psychotherapy with the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms. Psilocybin would slowly be infused into their bloodstreams while they receive a carefully tailored ”talking therapy”. The controversial trial is planned by Professor David Nutt, from Imperial College London, who three years ago was sacked as the Government’s chief drug adviser. ✖ Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’ Maybury calls his vision “Social Radar.” And the comparison to traditional sensors is no accident, he tells Danger Room. “The Air Force and the Navy in this and other countries have a history of developing Sonar to see through the water, Radar to see through the air, and IR [infrared] to see through the night. Well, we also want to see into the hearts and the minds of people,” says Maybury, who serves as the top science advisor to the Air Force’s top brass. But Social Radar won’t be a single sensor to discover your secret yearnings. It’ll be more of a virtual sensor, combining a vast array of technologies and disciplines, all employed to take a society’s pulse and assess its future health. It’s part of a broader Pentagon effort to master the societal and cultural elements of war — and effort that even many in the Defense Department believe is deeply flawed. First step: mine Twitter feeds for indications of upset. ✖ State Bill Outlaws Using Fetuses In Food Industry; Meets Visceral Reaction “No person or entity shall manufacture or knowingly sell food or any other product intended for human consumption which contains aborted human fetuses in the ingredients or which used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingredients.” ✖ Whom do we fear or trust? Faces instantly guide us, scientists say Taking what they have learned over time — namely that, rightly or wrongly, people make instant judgments about faces that guide them in how they feel about that person — the scientists decided to search for a way to quantify and define exactly what it is about each person’s face that conveys a sense they can be trusted or feared. They chose those precise traits because they found they corresponded with a whole host of other vital characteristics, such as happiness and maturity. “Humans seem to be wired to look to faces to understand the person’s intentions,” said Todorov, who has spent years studying the subtleties of the simple plane containing the eyes, nose and mouth. “People are always asking themselves, ‘Does this person have good or bad intentions?'” ✖ If Pajamas Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Wear Pajamas Michael Williams, a commissioner for Caddo Parish (which includes Shreveport), says he was horrified when he visited a local Walmart and espied a group of young miscreants “wearing pajama pants and house shoes.” He was extra-horrified when he glanced at one of the young men and noticed that “at the part where there should have been underwear” – you know the part – one of his parts in particular was allegedly “showing through the fabric.” Seems like existing law on indecent exposure should cover that, if it was really that bad, but Williams concluded further legislation was necessary. “Pajamas are designed to be worn in the bedroom at night,” said Williams, likely after extensive research on the history and design of pajamas. “If you can’t [wear them to the] courthouse, why are you going to do it in a restaurant or in public?” (Um, because those aren’t courthouses?) Williams also invoked the “slippery-slope” argument, of course. “Today it’s pajamas,” he said, “tomorrow it’s underwear. ✖ Tepco Drills a Hole in Fukushima Reactor … Finds that Nuclear Fuel Has Gone Missing The New York Times pointed out last month: A former nuclear engineer with three decades of experience at a major engineering firm … who has worked at all three nuclear power complexes operated by Tokyo Electric [said] “If the fuel is still inside the reactor core, that’s one thing” …. But if the fuel has been dispersed more widely, then we are far from any stable shutdown.” Indeed, if the center of the reactors are in fact relatively “cold”, it may be because most of the hot radioactive fuel has leaked out of the containment vessels and escaped into areas where it can do damage to the environment. After drilling a hole in the containment vessel of Fukushima reactor 2, Tepco cannot find the fuel. As AP notes: The steam-blurred photos taken by remote control Thursday found none of the reactor’s melted fuel …. The photos also showed inner wall of the container heavily deteriorated after 10 months of exposure to high temperature and humidity, Matsumoto said. ✖ Kill Hollywood Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise. That’s one reason we want to fund startups that will compete with movies and TV, but not the main reason. The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they’re resorting to such tactics. If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention. When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn’t stop as long as he still has control of the ball; it’s only when he’s beaten that he turns to appeal ✖ Military’s New Plan to Weed Out Counterfeits: Plant DNA The U.S. military’s struggling to prevent counterfeit goods from infiltrating their supply chains. Now, they’re considering a novel approach to give legit wares a mark of distinction: embed them with strands of plant DNA. Working with a sub-contract from the Defense Logistics Agency, researchers at Applied DNA Sciences Inc. have figured out how to create unique DNA “signatures” out of plant genomes. A DNA-marked coating can then be applied to just about anything, from circuit boards to microchips to routers. Once embedded, the DNA can be detected in one of two ways: A handheld scanner that can instantly spot the DNA strand, or a forensic analysis that requires a swab of the mark. So as a product moves through the supply chain, it’d be checked for authenticity every step of the way. ✖ Man faces five years for ‘God does not exist’ Facebook post 31-year-old Alexander Aan faces a maximum prison sentence of five years for posting “God does not exist” on Facebook. The civil servant was attacked and beaten by an angry mob of dozens who entered his government office at the Dharmasraya Development Planning Board on Wednesday. The Indonesian man was taken into protective police custody Friday since he was afraid of further physical assault. The posting was made on a Facebook Page titled Ateis Minang (Minang Atheist), which Aan created. At the time of writing, it had over 1,700 Likes. Aan’s posting has been removed, but supporters on the Page are urging police to release him. ✖ Shock Docs: Total Federalization of Police Under New Homeland Security Mission In short, it confirms the intentions of key insiders– including former NSA/CIA head Michael Hayden, former Rep. Jane Harmon, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, 9/11 Commissioners Philip Zelikow and Richard Ben-Viniste, former National Security Advisor Samuel Berger and others– to flesh out a plan we have already seen developing from an outside perspective– namely, to build a domestic Stasi-like force to takeover, monitor and control the population. Moreover, the media has reported on this changed mission– towards the full spectrum domination of the people under a patently-fascist framework– with the same calm as the weekly weather forecast. ✖ Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-Nilly GPS Tracking The Supreme Court said Monday that law enforcement authorities might need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move — but the justices did not say that a warrant was needed in all cases. The convoluted decision (.pdf) in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the Obama administration’s position that attaching a GPS device to a vehicle was not a search. The government had told the high court that it could even affix GPS devices on the vehicles of all members of the Supreme Court, without a warrant. “We hold that the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a ‘search,’” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the five-justice majority. The majority declined to say whether that search was unreasonable and required a warrant. ✖ Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February 21–or face the consequences including contempt of court. Blackburn, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that the Fifth Amendment posed no barrier to his decryption order. The Fifth Amendment says that nobody may be “compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,” which has become known as the right to avoid self-incrimination. ✖ Russian scientist claims signs of life spotted on Venus Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an astronomer based at the Space Research Institute of Russia’s Academy of Sciences, analyzed photographs taken by a Russian landing probe during a 1982 during a mission to explore the heavily acid-clouded planet. Venus is roughly the same size as Earth, but it has a thick atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide. With an atmospheric pressure 92 times Earth’s, a waterless and volcano-riddled surface and a surface temperature of 894 degrees, the planet has never been considered a serious target of research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life. But in his article, published in the magazine Solar System Research, Ksanfomaliti says the Russian photographs depict objects resembling a “disk,” a “black flap” and a “scorpion.” ✖ Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship They say that a psychic technique called remote viewing allows people to take an armchair visit to other planets. The mind-travelers draw images of alien-looking things that are supposedly transmitted from a definitely out-of-body experience (potentially) millions of miles from Earth. In the 1960s, when psychoactive drugs became widely popular, I assumed that claims of tripping to other worlds were purely imaginary. Consider this remote viewing experience reported in a discussion forum: “…i relaxed in my chair, and pointed myself up there. I saw 6 or seven aliens looking right at me grinning and smiling. they had red eyes like the reddit alien but no antenna. As soon as I saw these creatures i immediately felt hurt .. ✖ Texas UAV Enthusiast Uses Pilotless Aircraft to Uncover River Contamination A tip from an anonymous amateur unmanned-aerial-vehicle pilot is what led Texas authorities to open a major criminal investigation into the waste practices of a Dallas meat packing plant. The Environmental Protection Agency, The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and Texas Parks and Wildlife are investigating whether a Dallas meat packing plant was sending its wastewater to a local river after images from an amateur UAV pilot showed a river behind the plant “full of blood.” The Columbia Meat packing plant sits along a creek that runs into the Trinity River. ✖ Filesonic Kills File-Sharing Service After MegaUpload Arrests Filesonic, one of the Internet’s leading cyberlocker services, has taken some drastic measures following the Megaupload shutdown and arrests last week. In addition to discontinuing its affiliates rewards program and not yet paying accrued money to members, the site has disabled all sharing functionality, leaving users only with access to their own files. ✖ Arkansas campaign manager’s cat found dead with the word “liberal” scrawled on its side An Arkansas campaign manager says he came home Sunday and found his family’s cat fatally bludgeoned on his front steps – with the word “liberal” scrawled across its side. According to a statement from Democratic congressional candidate Ken Aden’s campaign, Jacob Burris’ cat had been hit so violently that one of its eyeballs “was barely hanging from its socket.” The incident shook Burris, who expressed concerns about the safety of his children. “I knew what we were getting into running in this district, but when you have four children, it makes you feel vulnerable,” he told the Daily News. “It’s a very red district… you see billboards all over the place with Democratic senators’ names and the hammer and sickle on some of them, calling them socialists.” ✖ Polish leader tries to smoke pot in Parliament The leader of a new left-wing party in Poland threatened to light up a joint in Parliament on Friday — but just burned incense instead. Janusz Palikot is campaigning to get soft drugs legalized and to otherwise liberalize the conservative country. “We’re trying to get into room 143 to burn some grass, in accordance with our announcement,” Palikot told reporters in a news conference held in his Parliament office. Tags: 9/11, Aborted, aircraft, Alien, Aliens, Allegedly, Amendment, anonymous, atmosphere, Bacteria, bad, Bathroom, Bats, Beaten, Bedroom, brain, Burn, Bush, Can, Case, cat, Chinese, college, computer, consumption, Control, Controversial, Counterfeit, court, cover, Creatures, Criminal, damage, David, Dead, Defense Department, design, DNA, Dog, Domestic, domination, Drug, Drugs, Eat, Economy, enforcement, Experience, Extraterrestrial, Face, Facebook, FEAR, flesh, Florida, Food, force, Forced, Found, Fukushima, Future, George W. 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Cecora also claimed to us that the ex-boxing champ revealed to her he was molested by a female staffer in high school. ✦ 400 Yard Drug Tunnel Found in California, Another Found in Arizona The discovery of a secret drug smuggling passage that stretched about 400 yards and linked warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana has lead to the seizure of an estimated 17 tons of marijuana, in what authorities say is one of the most significant narco-tunnels ever found. U.S. authorities seized about nine tons of marijuana inside a truck and at the warehouse in San Diego’s Otay Mesa area, said Derek Benner, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agent in charge of investigations in San Diego. Mexican authorities recovered about eight tons south of the border.Authorities spoke at a news conference near packages of seized dope festooned with labels of Captain America, Sprite and Bud Light. The markings are codes to identify the owners. ✦ A widespread shortage of the popular ADD pill is distracting a nation of Adderall users. Naturally, it’s all about Big Pharma profits. If addiction is the kind of thing you think about a lot, it’s easy to overlook its significance in the cold, objective Realpolitik scheme of things, which is this: it’s a great fucking business model. From the British East India Company to the Bronfman clan to Duke University, history is redolent of abject mediocrities who owe their billions to Big Addiction. ✦ Palantir, the War on Terror’s Secret Weapon A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community ✦ Kansas gov. says staff overreacted to teen’s tweet When a high school senior tweeted that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback “sucked,” among other invectives, reaction at the state Capitol led her principal to demand an apology. Instead, it was the Republican governor offering a mea culpa Monday, forced to admit to a self-described overreaction by his staff that subjected him to ridicule for efforts to police a teenager’s Internet musings. Emma Sullivan’s tweet from the back of a crowd listening to Brownback speak last week, and her subsequent refusal to write an apology letter, spurred several thousand supporters to rush to her online defense – boosting her Twitter following from 61 friends to more than 12,000 people in less than a week. ✦ Solid Proof That Weather Modification Projects Are Being Conducted All Over The United States Most Americans still believe that our weather patterns are 100% natural and that our government has absolutely no control over the weather. Unfortunately, that is not the case at all. What you are about to read is evidence that weather modification is happening right now all over the United States. This is never acknowledged by our politicians and it is never talked about by the mainstream media. But it is very, very real. Weather modification programs in some parts of the country have been going on for many years and evidence of these programs is hidden in plain view. So does this mean that if we don’t like the weather we can just blame the government? 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Described as a magical or scientific text, nearly every page contains botanical, figurative, and scientific drawings of a provincial but lively character, drawn in ink with vibrant washes in various shades of green, brown, yellow, blue, and red. ✦ New Jersey DMV workers accused of selling identities for $200 a pop Prosecutors have charged two New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission employees with selling names, addresses, birthdates and Social Security numbers of “unsuspecting residents” for as little as $200 per identity. The same investigation conducted by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Economic Crime Unit in Trenton led to charges against two non-government workers who allegedly used their jobs in a tax office and realty company to sell identities as part of a similar scheme. ✦ Every crazy CIA plot you’ve heard of originated with one man There are stories that have come to light, over the years, that make the Central Intelligence Agency look like a collection of Looney Tunes shorts. The violence, the slapstick, and the over-the-top ridiculousness of the experiments that have been conducted over the years boggle the mind. They came from the (slightly-boggled) mind of one man: Sidney Gottlieb. ✦ That Bank Bailout Was Way Bigger Than Anyone Thought Remember the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program with which the federal government came to the rescue of faltering banks in 2008? Well, according to a Bloomberg report, that was just a fraction of the financial help the Federal Reserve Bank wound up doling out to troubled lenders. The real total was reportedly closer to $8 trillion, after you add up benefits outside TARP, including emergency loans given at below-market rates ✦ Brooklyn DA claims record number of child sex-abuse charges vs. haredim The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office says it has charged 89 men in the borough’s haredi Orthodox communities with child sex abuse — a threefold increase over a two-year span. However, the Forward reported that Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes declined to provide any details about the cases, making the number of arrests impossible to verify. His spokesman, Jerry Schmetterer, gave the figures to the newspaper in mid-November. The numbers reflect the number of haredi Orthodox men charged with sexual abuse since October 2009. ✦ Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown US authorities have initiated the largest round of domain name seizures yet as part of their continued crackdown on counterfeit and piracy-related websites. With just a few days to go until “Cyber Monday” more than 100 domain names have been taken over by the feds to protect the commercial interests of US companies. The seizures are disputable, as the SOPA bill which aims to specifically legitimize such actions is still pending in Congress. ✦ Paying for sex and ‘playing dead’ – the deceitful gift-giving spider Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) prepare silk-wrapped gifts to give to potential mates. Most gifts contain insects, but some gifts are inedible plant seeds or empty exoskeletons left after the prey has already been eaten (presumably by the male himself!). Males will also ‘play dead’ if a female moves away and then attempt to re-establish mating. 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__label__cc	0.666452	0.333548	Top of Utah Marathon 39.89 27.49 5.43 0.00 72.81 Bare Feet Miles: 26.65 Walmart Crocs (No Boundaries) Miles: 12.75 Saucony Type A Miles: 32.92 Water Clogs Miles: 0.50 Night Sleep Time: 46.00 Nap Time: 2.50 Total Sleep Time: 48.50 Sun, Sep 13, 2009 Day of rest. Went to church. 11.42 0.00 1.93 0.00 13.35 A.M. 21 laps around Grandview barefoot with Jeff in 57:11. The distance is 8.11. Last 5 laps (1.93) at a tempo pace in 11:13 (5:48.55 average). HR was a little high (156, last lap 164 at 5:31 pace). Felt sluggish. But it was warm, and it is Monday, and I am usually a bit sluggish on Mondays. Then drove Zhu to Computune to fix the breaks. Zhu is a 93 Ford Escort Wagon. Today I realized that it was old enough to drive and go out on dates. In two years it will be old enough to vote. I also realized that all of our cars are now teenagers. Ran back with Benjamin from Computune.Timed 2.25 miles in 17:52, but we did make a detour of about 0.25 to buy Benjamin a watch at Big Lots. P.M. Ran with Jenny and Julia to fetch Zhu from Computune. 2.25 in 20:43. It was raining. Then later 0.5 with Joseph in 5:08. It was still raining and it was dark. He did not seem to mind. Our kids actually think it is fun to run in bad weather. Bare Feet Miles: 8.11 Walmart Crocs (No Boundaries) Miles: 5.25 Tue, Sep 15, 2009 8.61 0.00 2.00 0.00 10.61 A.M. Ran at Grandview barefoot with Jeff and Benjamin. Benjamin ran the first lap with us, then we sped up. He ended up with 17:21 for 2 miles. I ran 21 laps (8.11) in 57:59. Last 5 (1.93 miles) at a tempo pace - 11:11 (5.47.5 average). P.M. 2 with Jenny in 18:49. Julia ran the first 1.5 in 13:58. 0.5 with Joseph and Benjamin in 4:55. Wed, Sep 16, 2009 A.M. Ran with Jeff at Grandview barefoot. 6.18 in 45:54. Last 0.5 quicker. Timed the last lap in 2:13 (5:44 pace). Felt energetic in the last 0.5. Then drove the Fast Running Van to Computune to get it ready to pass the safety test and ran back with Benjamin in 18:38 (2.25 miles). P.M. 2.25 to Computune to get the Fast Running Van with Jenny and Julia in 19:53. Had an interesting conversation there. Jenny said that 9:00 pace was an easy pace for her. I explained that she had raced a 5 K at 7:40 pace, so a little over 2 miles at a slighly sub-9:00 is not hard. The manager said that was amazing. Jenny corrected him - no that's normal! Our kids have been thoroughly brainwashed! 0.5 with Joseph in 5:14. Ordered new Crocs online (well, Water Clogs technically, official Crocs are too expensive) for myself, Benjamin, and Jenny from Target. Walmart did not have them. Thu, Sep 17, 2009 A.M. Ran with Jeff. Wore racing flats. We did a short warm-up (1.37) and then ran a tempo. I only went 1.5 because I am tapering. He did 5. It was dark, early, and our warmup was short, so we started out sluggish with a 92 second quarter. It felt harder than it should have. I was concerned some. But then the next one was 85 and it felt easier than I thought 85 would. And then I thought the next one would be maybe 84, 83 at the fastest from the effort, but it was 81. Then 81, 81 again, and 80 to finish 1.5 in 8:20. The right foot had no issues. The left heel hurt a bit, enough that I had to alter the form some. But not too bad, I can run a marathon on it and live. Turned around 3 miles away from the house, then jogged back to where we started the tempo and decided that since Jeff would get there in 4 minutes I could wait for him. He finished the 5 mile tempo in 26:57. Still struggling with his cold, but hopefully there is enough time between now and St. George for him to be fully over it. Then ran home with Jeff, total of 6 miles in 46:36. P.M. Got my Water Clogs in the mail for $10 including shipping. Took them for a spin. 0.5 with Joseph in 5:19. Then to avoid putting too much stress on the left foot rode the bike for the other kids runs. Benjamin ran 2 in 16:33, Jenny in 18:53. Julia had cut her foot in a small accident so she biked. Saucony Type A Miles: 6.00 Water Clogs Miles: 0.50 Fri, Sep 18, 2009 A.M. Ran 11 laps around Grandview field barefoot. First 5 with Benjamin. He turned around at the tree and finished 2 miles in around 16:20. Jenny was not feeling awake so she ran slow. 2 miles in about 20:30. Julia's foot is still recovering from the cut. 4 more laps at an easy pace, and then the last 2 fast - 2:18 and 2:16 (5:54 pace). During the run on the 9th lap I stepped on a wasp and it stung me.At first I thought it was a thorn, stopped to check, saw no thorn and no blood. Odd, I thought - why did it feel like a thorn. Was able to run at 5:54 pace almost unaffected. First lap felt a bit odd, on the second I got used to it. Then I stopped and noticed the ring toe (for lack of a better name, the one right next to the pinky) was slightly swollen. Then all of a sudden it swelled a lot. I got concerned for a second. What if I had stepped on something deadly? But I was feeling fine, so I figured I'd just drive home and be prepared to pull over if all of a sudden I started feeling bad. Just in case gave Benjamin the cell phone and told him to call 911 if I was acting weird. But those turned out to be overprecautions as this was just a wasp sting, and I probably got only a portion of the poison. The sting lap was done in 2:46 (7:10 pace), so I figure about 0.2 seconds for the ground contact time. A wasp probably needs at least 0.5 seconds to do its job (does anybody know exactly?). So with those assumptions, and also assuming that the venom release happens at a uniform rate, I would have gotten only about 40% of the doze. So by now the swelling is very minimal, almost non-existent. This reminds me that Deena Kastor was once stung by a bee. Except not in the toe, but in the back of her throat. This happened during the Worlds Cross Country Championship in 2000 in Porgtugal in the first 100 meters of the race. She spat out the bee and kept on running. As the race progressed her throat began to close. She passed out, then got up and finished the race in 12th place. P.M. Made the magic drink for Top of Utah. Recipe: 1.5 liters of water, 2 table spoons of gotu kola powder (gotu kola is a native Sri-Lankan herb and has nothing to do with colas), 2 table spoons of hawthorn berry powder. Bring it to a boil and let it cool off. Then mix with 12 table spoons of honey and 1 tea spoon of sea salt. Poor in three 0.5 liter bottles. Serve the first at mile 10, the second at 15, and the third at 20. Bare Feet Miles: 4.25 Sat, Sep 19, 2009 Race: Top of Utah Marathon (26.22 Miles) 02:35:19 0.70 26.22 0.00 0.00 26.92 Top of Utah Marathon, 2:35:19, 8th place. One phrase summary of the performance is "better than embarrassing" or "it could have been worse without being the worst I've run in the last few years". Going into the race I had a few issues. Undertrained due to foot and recent sickness, and inflamed attachement of plantar to the heel in the left foot (Josse helped me figure that out tonight, and scraped/massaged it as well). Two weeks ago I experienced fuel issues in the last 5 miles of a 20 mile run which should not have happened and were probably the result of being slightly out of shape. On the positive side I felt my form has smoothed out from running on grass, and the leg power felt decent. I debated between two options for the race. Keep HR at 152 or try to go out a bit quicker and survive. I do have a tendency to crash at the end some even if I go out slow. At the same time I was curious to see if maybe I'd be able to overcome that tendency. 20 minutes away from the house I realized I had forgotten my HRM. This made the decision easier, so it was go out quicker and hang on. The field was loaded. 4 Kenyans at the start. Paul, Nick, no Seth, Steve, Jon, Vance Twitched, Joe Wilson (out of shape, but you never know), Bryant Jensen from Weber State, and Eric Held who has improved dramatically in the last year. I followed Paul and the Kenyans. The pace was quick but not insane. I considered backing off after 3 miles when Paul pushed it and we hit a 5:21, but then he got some water and dropped back behind the Kenyans who did not want to go faster. For a good reason - they were out of their own (2:14) or even Paul's shape! So I stuck with the pack a bit longer. We went through 5 miles in 27:11. Then in the sixth mile Paul hit the gas again and I said now is the time to back off and run my own pace. In about a mile or two Nick caught up to me, and I followed him until 10. Then it was time for me to get refueled. Aaron, Nan Kennard's husband, brought the bottles to me. I backed off and let Nick go. 10 mile marker was wrong. I remember it being wrong last year as well. My time was 54:50, but it was probably closer to 55:40. When I backed off from the lead pack one of the Kenyans had already lost his wheels and was behind. I caught up to one more and we were running together, but I knew he was done. Then when Nick caught up that helped me separate myself from that Kenyan. But there were two more ahead, plus Paul, plus Bryant. Not good for a sore footed undertrained man, but that's life. 1:13:03 at the half. Then a tailwind picked up and carried me for a couple of quick miles. 5:29, and 5:39. 1:23:39 at 15. Eric Held caught up to me, but then fell back. Got my bottle at 16 from Aaron, enjoyed it. I was feeling decent and maintained a slightly sub-6:00 on the Hollow Road and all the way to mile 18. Felt good on the uphill. Ran the next two miles in 6:15 and 6:20. 20 miles in 1:54:05. Got another bottle at 20 from Aaron, enjoyed it as well. Aaron gave me an update on Nan - 1:20 at the half. Perfect. On pace for a course record, and she would need to close in 1:15 to chick me if things do not go so well. So I am relatively safe. Figured I was headed for a 2:33 maybe a little under. However, then there was a surprise. Next downhill mile in 6:11 instead of 5:55. Legs do not want to move, no motivation. And then a complete disaster - 6:51. No, not quite complete. Next mile in 7:00 or so! Odd. The foot started complaining. Not good. I considered dropping out. There were several reasons I did not. I believe if you get a comp and can finish without damaging your health you should, and I felt that in all honesty I could finish without serious health damage. I also thought that there was a remote possibility of somebody from the lead pack dropping out or royally blowing up, which then would put me in the money. It was my 11th time running the race, and I wanted to keep my streak of sub-2:40 finishes. And, not the least important - in my state of mind I could have gotten lost trying to find a short cut to the finish and end up running close to 26 miles anyway. Of course this was enough for Eric to start closing. I regrouped and picked it up to 6:40. Probably the sugar from the honey kicked in. Then Eric caught up to me around 24, and then Jon passed both of us as if we were standing still shortly before 25. Well, we were standing still, so no as if. Eric used the commotion to pull away from me, and I had nothing to respond with. I believe I saw 2:27:21 at 25 and 2:34:01 at 26, so another 6:40 mile. Could be worse. Tried to reel Eric in, but did not have the strength. Set a goal to beat my Five Finger time at Utah Valley (2:35:46), got to have some kind of goal even when the race is falling apart. Pushed as hard as I could in the last 385 yards. Got 1:18, that is actually 5:56 pace, not too bad. At the finish we had Paul in 2:23:07, Josephat Chemjor 2:25:08, Sammy Nyamongo 2:28:12, Nick 2:28:46, Bryant 2:31:10, Jon 2:34:16, Eric 2:35:00. In 9th place Vance Twitchell 2:39:05 and Tylor Monson 2:39:22. The entire top 10 under 2:40. Interesting result from prize money increase in the current economy. Paul's winning time was very solid, but it was slowest win since after 2005. But if I remember right, first time 10th place was under 2:40. I suppose the conclusion is that what the winner will run is sufficiently unpredictable and correlates less with the prize money, but the depth of the field correlates a lot stronger. Paul's win was very impressive. I suspect somehow he managed to become 2:13 guy currently wearing a 2:23 guy's clothing. Or I should say this. He's always been a sub-2:13 guy, but the clothing was so thick that he appeared to be slower. It is nice that he is willing to serve as a guinea-pig for the rest of us to learn from documenting his trials and how he overcomes them. Nan ran great. 2:44:10, new course record. Her last 10 K was faster than mine by about a minute. It is one thing to have the math tell you you can run a good time, but actually running it takes you to a new level. After the race once the endorophins wore off my foot started to fuss a lot. I had a hard time keeping up with Cody and Adam walking to the car. Even though both of them fell apart a whole lot worse than I did in the race I could not keep up with them walking and had to ask them slow down. P.M. Kids ran their usual distances on their own with Sarah's supervision. The times got messed up except for Benjamin's which was 17:27. Saucony Type A Miles: 26.92	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3607
__label__wiki	0.542969	0.542969	Small Time Criminals Small Time Criminals was a game in which a team of up to six players cooperated to steal valuables from a corrupt investment bank. It was a real world simulation: a game that uses props, set dressing, actors and lighting to create an immersive, realistic experience. Players had to figure out where valuables are hidden or locked up, how to find or access them, and which ones might be worth the most. There was no “correct” way to approach Small Time Criminals – which valuables they tried to steal, and in what order, were up to them. This also gave them the possibility of returning and trying different strategies to improve their score! The game was played in a two-storey building that used to be a real bank. Players were met and briefed by an intermediary (played by one of our actors), who explained the conditions of the deal and get them started on the bank heist. Then they would head inside the bank, and after following a few initial instructions, they had free reign to look for and steal the most valuable items inside. Small Time Criminals gained lots of media attention, you can see some of that here on the 0riginal site: https://www.smalltimecriminals.com/media/ There was also a web series produced during the year Small Time Criminals was open, here is the first episode: and you can find the second episode here. Small Time Criminals was made possible through the assistance of Darebin City Council, the Active Spaces In Darebin program, and the 129 supporters of the Pozible campaign. Small Time Criminals: Experience Directors Robert Reid (Fiction) Sayraphim Lothian (Fabric) Bridget Mackey Nic Velissaris Emilie Collyer Set and Prop Design Anastassia Poppenberg Nicholas Sanders Props Makers Melissa Ho Graphics Realisation Ry Van Veluwen Build Assistant Bronwyn Pringle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3609
__label__cc	0.528931	0.471069	Magistri et Scholares Academic News and Resources Recent • Submit • About • Policy • Site Map Geographic Database CFP - Commemorating Augustus: a bimille... Type: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS: Commemorating Augustus: a bimillennial re-evaluation University of Leeds, 18th-20th August 2014 Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2013 Recent publications by Barbara Levick, Karl Galinsky and others demonstrate the ongoing strength of contemporary interest in the historical Augustus. But while the reception histories of figures such as Nero, Julius Caesar and Elagabalus have benefited from focused large-scale scholarly investigations, Augustus’ remains seriously under-explored. Given the controversial nature of his career and the widely variant responses which he has provoked, this is a serious barrier to a full 21st-century understanding of Augustus. We cannot see him clearly for ourselves until we have explored the full range of his past receptions and their impact on our own view. The bimillennium of Augustus’ death on 19th August 2014 is the perfect opportunity for a systematic assessment of his posthumous legacy and a re-evaluation of his current significance. Commemorating Augustus, a major international conference running over the bimillennium itself, will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to undertake this work. The aim is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and enable new perspectives through a shared focus on a single iconic figure. The over-arching questions which will define the conference and its debates include: • What range of responses to Augustus has been expressed between his death and the present day? • Who has generated them, when, where and how? • How has Augustus’ equivocal and contradictory career been received in different cultural contexts? • How and to what effect have receptions of Augustus reflected cultural exchange and interaction between past and present, and between contemporary cultures? • How do 21st-century assessments of Augustus reflect those of the past? INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Mary Harlow (Leicester), Ray Laurence (Kent), Valerie Hope (Open University), Alison Cooley (Warwick), Steven J. Green (Leeds), Shaun Tougher (Cardiff), Russell Goulbourne (Leeds), Barbara Levick (Oxford: keynote 1), Martin Lindner (Göttingen), Lucy Moore (Leeds Museums), Karl Galinsky (Austin Texas: keynote 2, provisional). For their titles / topics, please see http://augustus2014.com/conference. CALL FOR PAPERS AND SUGGESTION TOPICS: Proposals are now invited for papers which explore the conference’s major questions through specific aspects of Augustus’ death and posthumous reception. Papers should be 20 minutes long, and will be followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Topics might include: • Augustus’ preparations for his own death • Augustus’ funeral, burial and deification • Responses and reappropriations by Roman emperors up to late antiquity • Early Christian responses to Augustus – e.g. Origen, Orosius, John Malalas • Medieval political responses and reappropriations – e.g. Holy Roman Emperors, Philip II of France, Cola di Rienzo • Renaissance / early modern political responses and reappropriations – e.g. Charles II, Louis XIV, House of Hanover, electors of Saxony / kings of Poland • Modern political responses and reappropriations – e.g. Napoleon, Mussolini • Explicit and implicit evaluations in political thinking – e.g. Petrarch, Machiavelli, Bodin, Justus Lipsius, Erasmus, Thomas Elyot, Montesquieu, Jonathan Swift • Augustus in European literature – e.g. Dante, Montaigne, Fontenelle, Voltaire, Pierre Corneille, Heinrich von Kleist, Balzac • Augustus in English literature, especially of the ‘Augustan age’ – e.g. Ben Jonson, Donne, Dryden, Pope, Robert Graves, John Williams, Allan Massie • Art and architecture – e.g. images of Augustus, emulation of his buildings • Augustus in modern popular culture – e.g. novels, films, television, comics, computer games, tourism and Augustan monuments • Changing scholarly evaluations of Augustus – e.g. Thomas Blackwell, Gibbon, Mommsen, Meyer, Betti, Last, Buchan, Syme, Millar, Zanker, Levick, Galinsky • The 21st-century Augustus – current perspectives, their relation to past views of Augustus and the implications of passing judgement on a historical figure. A fuller list of suggestions is available at http://augustus2014.com/conference; though neither is exhaustive, and proposals for papers on topics not listed are welcome. SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT: If you are interested in offering a paper, you should first email Dr. Penny Goodman (p.j.goodman@leeds.ac.uk), indicating the general topic which you wish to explore. This is to pre-empt overlaps between papers. A title and abstract (c. 300 words) will then be required by 1st December 2013. The conference will take place in Devonshire Hall, a self-contained University of Leeds residence in the style of an Oxbridge college. 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__label__wiki	0.857936	0.857936	Special Collections and University Archives : University Libraries Email an archivist Find collections About SCUA Support SCUA What is UMarmot? What we want? What do we keep? Digital (Credo) Highway indexes (Hampshire Council of Governments) Negatives index Concordance to the Archives Transfers to the archives YouMass wiki Social Change Colloquium W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Visit SCUA Ask SCUA’s archivists Accessibility in SCUA Copies & fees Fellowships & prizes Permission to Publish Japanology Labor, work, and industry Literature & the arts New England history Protistology NEA Library What do we want? What do we keep? Fellowship application (2020) University of Massachusetts Amherst. University as a Whole (Not fully processed) 82.75 linear feet Call no.: RG 001 Established under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1863, the Massachusetts Agricultural College began with four faculty members and 56 students distributed among four wooden buildings and acres of farms, orchards, and fields. In keeping with the progressive educational principles of its early years, the College offered advanced instruction in the eminently practical pursuit of agriculture, while its fellow land grant college, MIT, covered the mechanical arts. Although “Mass Aggie’s” fortunes waxed and waned, it grew to become Massachusetts State College in 1931, and the University of Massachusetts in 1947. Among the official publications of the University in Record Group 1 are institutional histories, annual reports, special reports, minutes, directories, catalogs, newsclippings, press releases, and memorabilia. The Massachusetts Agricultural College was established in 1863 under the original Morrill Land Grant act of 1862. Four faculty members and four wooden buildings awaited the first entering class of 56 students in 1867. The first graduate degrees were authorized in 1892. What was known as “Mass Aggie” became Massachusetts State College in 1931, and the University of Massachusetts in 1947. After World War II, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst experienced rapid growth in its physical facilities, enrollment, and programs. A temporary campus opened at Fort Devens (1946-1949) to accommodate the influx of returning veterans. The University’s second campus was opened in Boston in 1965, and expanded into the Harbor campus in 1974. A third campus, the University of Massachusetts Medical Center at Worcester, was founded in 1962, and enrolled its first class in 1970. The same year, the President’s Office was moved from Amherst to separate offices in Boston, and the Office of Chancellor was established as the chief executive position at each campus. In 1991, Governor William F. Weld signed legislation creating a new five campus University of Massachusetts with a single president and a board of trustees. This legislation consolidated five public university campuses (the three UMass campuses, the University of Lowell, and Southeastern Massachusetts University) into a single university system with an autonomous governing board. The Board of Higher Education is the governing body of the University system. The University is one of the founding members of the original Four College Cooperation (1956) and of the Five College Cooperative program established in 1965, offering reciprocal student access among the University and Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges. This record group consists of official University records and unofficial historical files. The wide range of documentation in this record group includes annual reports, special reports, minutes, directories, catalogs, newsclippings, press releases, and memorabilia. RG 1 is arranged into four major subject groups: Founding and Legislation Official Ceremonies University Historical Collection 00. Publications (except as noted below) 1. Bibliography, Organization Charts 2. Annual Reports 1863-1989 3. Special Reports 1917-2007 4. Catalogs (Bulletin Series); General Information Bulletins 1898-1978 5. Directories, Mugbooks, Catalogs of Graduates, and All-University Lists of Students 1862-2007 1. Founding Committees 1860-2007 2. Charters and Legislation 1858-2007 Includes documentation of the Morrill Land Grant as well as federal and state charters and legislation. 3. University Governing Body 1966-2007 1966 – Massachusetts Board of Higher Education 1980 – Board of Regents 1991 – Higher Education Coordination Council 1996 – Board of Higher Education 6. University Symbols 1870-2007 7. Commencement 1. Press Information 1871-2007 2. Honorary Degrees 1927-2007 3. Addresses 1871-2007 4. Marshals 1982-1985 8. Anniversaries and Special Events 1868-2007 9. Convocations 1934-2007 10. Assemblies 1946,1991 11. Awards, Prizes 1907-2007 12. Invited Lecturers (not sponsored by Distinguished Visitors Program or other unit) 1911-2007 13. University Historical Collection 1850-2007 202. Published Histories 1. History of the University 2. University Historical Materials 203. Ephemera 204. Student Life 205. Tuition and Fees 206. Degrees, Courses, and Curriculum 207. Oral Histories 208. 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__label__cc	0.607164	0.392836	Advisory Boards & Committees Deer Protection and Management Advisory Committee The Town of Southampton created the Deer Protection and Management Advisory Committee as a key component to finding a unified approach to sustaining deer populations while balancing human needs. Tommy John Schiavoni, Councilman Janice Scherer, Town Planning and Development Administrator, Town of Southampton Marty Shea, Chief Environmental Analyst, Town of Southampton Wendy Chamberlin, Longview Partnership Nick Gibbons, Suffolk County Parks and Recreation Kevin McDonald, The Nature Conservancy Jim Mendelson, Community Representative Bob Mozer, Community Representative Michael Tessitore, Hunters for Deer DEER NEWS AND NOTES: Fall is Here. Watch for Deer! (PDF) Deer Management Program Public inquiries about white-tailed deer have prompted the development of the Town of Southampton Deer Protection Plan (PDF) (3 MB pdf) in order to respond to questions and concerns regarding the apparent increase in deer populations throughout the East End. While there are some who argue that deer are a nuisance that need to be promptly controlled, others see white-tails as a precious natural resource representing the elegance, intrigue, and wild places of Southampton Town. Recognizing these often divergent interests, the Town seeks to find a unified approach to sustaining deer populations while balancing human needs. Creating a Deer Protection and Management Plan presents a host of challenges, from educating the public on deer conservation, to options available to landowners seeking to limit the damage that deer can have on landscaping and agricultural lands. Public safety issues related to the frequency of deer-vehicle collisions likewise need to be addressed. Deer Protection and Management Plan Goals Notwithstanding deer nuisance issues, the Town is keenly aware that maintaining deer population is beneficial to sustaining area ecology and biodiversity, as well as for tourism, wildlife watching, photography, artist inspiration, nature study, hiking, hunting, and other recreational pursuits. Moreover, that such activities contribute significant money to local businesses and the economy, and that the presence of deer, therefore, enhance Southampton’s quality of life. Thus, continued protection of white-tailed deer as a valuable natural resource needs to be the Town’s overall deer protection and management goal. Achieving all goals, including landowner satisfaction, deer hunter satisfaction, deer protectionist and/or advocate satisfaction, and reduced deer nuisance impacts and vehicle collisions simultaneously can be difficult but not impracticable. The Town has considered the views of these various involved groups in developing its program goals, which include: The need to provide landowners and the public with available options to reduce the impact of deer vehicle collisions and damage to landscaping and agricultural crops; The desire to utilize local hunters rather than hired sharpshooters or other outside parties, to provide management guidance to landowners, as well as to harvest nuisance animals; The exploration of opportunities for using other non-lethal methods, such as immunocontraceptives in areas of high residential density experiencing deer damage; The creation of a Deer Protection and Management Advisory Committee; and An increased effort to educate the public about program goals. Deer Management Strategies: Traditionally, white-tailed deer are hunted within Southampton Town by bow/archery or shotgun. Hunting seasons and hunting methods are governed by the New York State Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEC). 2015-2016 hunting season calendar. The Town of Southampton participates in the DEC’s Deer Management Assistance Program, giving out 26 bonus DMP permits in 2014. In addition, the Town issued 108 Landowner’s Endorsement permits in 2014. The Landowner Endorsement permits allow hunters to access other people’s property through the property owner’s written consent. In total, the DEC reports 666 deer harvested in the Town of Southampton in 2014. Hunting licenses and permits are available at the Town Clerk’s office, open Monday to Friday, 8:15 am to 4:15 pm. The Town recognizes that deer damage to agriculture, especially tree nurseries and cropland remains a significant issue on the East End. This is particularly true along farm woodland edges and on smaller farm plots. However, the extent of deer damage is not necessarily indicative of excessive deer numbers, as impacts can often be attributed to the same handful of deer, which have become habituated to feeding on select nursery plants and crops. Deer proof fencing can prevent heavy damage to nurseries and croplands, even though the costs of installation, maintenance and upkeep are generally high. Fences need to be at least 8 feet in height in order to deter deer damage. As such, in July, 2015 Councilmember Christine Scalera sponsored Town Board Resolution 2015-713 (PDF), which provides for an increase of the height of deer fencing around public and community gardens from 6 feet to 8 feet. In some areas, deer population can only be managed using methods other than hunting. As such, consideration has been given to surgical sterilization of deer in localized areas. However, use of this technique is not only extremely expensive, with the cost estimated at about $1,000 per deer, but generally impractical, as a high percentage of deer would need to be captured and sterilized in order to reduce population numbers. Immunocontraception Immunocontraception is another way of managing the deer population. This method involves using trained dart shooters to “shoot” female deer with a vaccine that disrupts the deer’s reproductive function. Immunocontraception and other types of fertility control are appealing applications in densely populated areas and urban parks where hunting is not viable. The use of immunocontraceptive vaccines has proved to be a successful means of reducing deer populations, deer vehicle collisions and general public deer complaints on Fire Island. Since 1993, the porcine zone pellucid (PZP) vaccine has been used on Fire Island and in other locations, reducing deer pregnancy rates by 80-90%. A single injection of PZP blocks egg fertilization and thereby pregnancy for about 2 years. Marty Shea Email Marty Shea When is deer hunting season in the Town of Southampton? Who regulates deer hunting in the Town of Southampton? How do I get a license to hunt deer? What time of day is deer hunting permitted? Can I permit others to hunt on my property? Where is deer hunting allowed in the Town of Southampton? Are there residency restrictions to hunt in the Town of Southampton? Can hunting take place for any reason outside of hunting season? Is there a place to donate venison in the Town of Southampton? Who do I call if I find a wounded deer? Are there some locations in the Town that have multiple incidences of deer and motor vehicle collisions? Information Concerning Ticks Deer are the only large mammal present on the east end of LI in sufficient numbers to provide the several days of blood meal required by the ADULT female tick in order to mate and lay its eggs. Smaller hosts can not do this and the other possible host, humans, can pick them off. One deer can host enough adult ticks to produce 1.5 to 3 million eggs and subsequent larva which then go on to become nymphs and adults during the 2 year life cycle. To ignore the key role of the adult tick and its dependence on the deer is to ignore the key to interrupting the life cycle and effectively eliminating ticks and their diseases. Tick Management Handbook (PDF) Ticks and Lyme Prevention Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center Affirmative Action Task Force Airport Noise Advisory Committee Anti-Bias Task Force Audit Advisory Committee Budget & Finance Advisory Committee Citizen Advisory Committees Community Preservation Advisory Board Community Development Agency Dark Skies Committee Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee Facilities / Infrastructure Committee Fire Advisory Committee Historic Burying Ground Committee Labor-Management Committee Opioid Addiction and Recovery Committee Planning Policy Advisory Committee Pine Beetle Task Force Advisory Committee Police Department/Labor Relations Advisory Road Review Committee Safety & Risk Management Committee SEA-TV Channel Committee Solid Waste Advisory Committee Speonk Solvent Plume Working Group Southampton Arts and Culture Committee (SHACC) Sustainable Southampton Green Advisory Committee Technology Advisory Council Trails Advisory Board Water Mill Park District Budget Steering Advisory Wind Energy Conversion Systems Advisory Committee FORMS, FEES & ePermitting TOWN CLERK Agendas & Meetings Town of Southampton \| 116 Hampton Road Southampton, NY 11968 \| Phone: 631-283-6000	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0058.json.gz/line3614

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