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__label__wiki	0.868701	0.868701	Tag Archives: christian social union Berlin, Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Merkel may be down, but don’t rule her out for a fourth term just yet September 20, 2016 Kevin Lees Leave a comment Germany’s chancellor since 2005, Angela Merkel is widely believed to be preparing to seek fourth term in the 2017 federal elections. (Facebook) It’s entirely possible that September 2016 marks the worst month of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s career. Merkel’s center-right party, the Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU, Christian Democratic Union) fell to third place in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a relatively low-population state of just 1.6 million that sprawls along the northern edge of what used to be East Germany. While the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party) has been traditionally stronger there in elections since reunification, two factors made the CDU’s loss particularly embarrassing. The first is that it’s the state that Merkel has represented since her first election in 1990 shorly after German reunification. The second, and more ominous, is that the CDU fell behind the eurosceptic, anti-refugee Alternative für Deutschland (Afd, Alternative for Germany), a relatively new party founded in 2013 that today holds seats in 10 of Germany’s 16 state assemblies and that, according to recent polls, will easily win seats in the Bundestag in next September’s federal elections. Two weeks later, on September 18, Merkel’s CDU also suffered losses in Berlin’s state election. As left-wing parties have long dominated Berlin’s politics, and the SPD placed first and Germany’s Die Linke (the Left) and Die Grünen (the Greens) placed third and fourth behind the CDU. But even in Berlin, the AfD still won 14.2% of the vote. Taken together, the state election results forced a mea culpa from Merkel on Monday. The chancellor, who is expected (though by no means certain) to seek a fourth consecutive term next year, departed from the calm, steely confidence that since last summer has characterized her commitment to accept and integrate over a million Syrian refugees within Germany’s borders. Merkel admitted, however, that she would, if possible, rewind the clock to better prepare her country and her government for the challenge of admitting so many new migrants, and she admitted lapses in her administration’s communications. With the AfD showing no signs of abating, it’s clear that its attacks on Merkel’s open-door policy are working. Merkel’s statement earlier this week admitted that her policies have not unfolded as smoothly as she’d hoped. RELATED: Can Hillary Clinton become America’s Mutti? Indeed, German polls are starting to show that voters are souring on Merkel and her approach to migration, so much that in one poll in August for Bild, a majority of voters no longer support a fourth term for Merkel. All of which has led to hand-wringing both in Germany and abroad that Merkel’s days are numbered. Don’t believe it. Continue reading Merkel may be down, but don’t rule her out for a fourth term just yet → AfDalternative for germanybaden-wurttembergbavariaberlinCDUchristian democratic unionchristian social unionCSUde maizieredenmarkdie grunendie linkeEuropean UnioneuroscepticFDPficofrauke petryfree democratic partygabrielgrand coalitiongreengrohannelore krafthartz IVjamaica coalitionjens spahnklocknerkretschmannlabourmecklenburg-vorpommernmerkelmichael mullermigration policynorth-rhine westphaliaNPDred-greenred-red-greenrefugee crisisschaubleseehoferslovakiasocial democratic partySPDsteinbrucksteinmeierthe leftthird waythorning-schmidtvon der leyen Has Germany (and Europe) reached peak Merkel? July 17, 2015 Kevin Lees Leave a comment In the span of six days, German chancellor Angela Merkel has made a teenage Palestinian refugee cry with her government’s stand on refugee and immigration policy (then tried to pet her, in what must be one of her most cringe-worthy moments as chancellor), reiterated her increasingly isolated position in Europe in opposition to LGBT marriage equality and almost allowed her finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble to force Greece out of the eurozone, in the process undermining Merkel’s authority both at home and within the wider eurozone. Some week. Merkel, who won a narrower-than-expected victory in the 2005 election, reached the apex of her political power in September 2013, when her governing Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Union) nearly won an absolute majority in the country’s parliamentary elections. Despite being forced back into a ‘grand coalition’ with the rival center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party), Merkel’s popularity crested. At long last, she had won a clear personal mandate for her cautious, seemingly ideology-free leadership. But when faced with policy issues — like Greece, LGBT rights and immigration — featuring such sharp contrasts, Merkel’s popularity was always going to fall from those stratospheric levels. The crisis over Greece’s future highlighted the limits of Merkel’s conciliatory governing style — to sit back, wait for a consensus to emerge and follow public opinion, even (or especially) if it means co-opting a rival party’s positions. That’s how Merkel has handled everything from nuclear power to raising the minimum wage. But there’s a limit to that kind of governance. Continue reading Has Germany (and Europe) reached peak Merkel? → AfDalternative for germanyCDUchristian democratic unionchristian social unionCSUgermanygrand coalitiongreecegreensgrexitkohlmerkelred-red-greenschaublesigmar gabrielsocial democratic partySPDsteinbruckthe leftthuringiatsiprasvon der leyen SPD party membership approves German grand coalition December 14, 2013 Kevin Lees 1 Comment In an overwhelming endorsement of Germany’s new grand coalition, party members of the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party) have approved the governing agreement between the SPD and chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right union. Nearly 370,000 German party members approved the agreement by the lopsided margin of 75.96% in a vote that was held over the past two weeks, the results of which were announced earlier today. The vote followed the November 27 agreement struck among SPD leaders and leaders of Merkel’s Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) and Merkel’s Bavarian allies, the Christlich-Soziale Union (CSU, the Christian Social Union). Expect Merkel to name a new cabinet within the next 24 hours, and expect her formal reelection as chancellor to come early next week. You can read more background about the coalition deal here and here, but here’s a short list of points to keep in mind: Continue reading SPD party membership approves German grand coalition → bundesratbundestagCameronCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUdie grunendie linkeEU treatyEuropean UnioneurozoneFDPfree democratsgermanygrand coalitionGroKohannelore kraftkraftmerkelnorth-rhine westphaliaseehofersigmar gabrielsocial democratsSPDsteinbrucksteinmeierthe greensthe leftvon der leyen Germany reaches coalition deal, faces SPD party vote November 27, 2013 Kevin Lees 1 Comment With the holidays coming, German chancellor Angela Merkel’s goal was to have a coalition government in place by Christmas. Those plans took a huge leap forward today, as Merkel’s governing Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party), together with their more conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christlich-Soziale Union (CSU, the Christian Social Union) reached a coalition deal with the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party), paving the way for a return to the same ‘grand coalition’ that governed Germany between 2005 and 2009. Generally speaking, the terms of the deal are as follows: A hike in the German minimum wage across the board to €8.50, a key concession from Merkel to the SPD. More regulation over employees and increases in pensions, both concessions to the SPD. The government will not raise any additional taxes or issue additional debt, maintaining a key CDU-CSU campaign pledge. Sometimes feisty coalition talks lasted nearly a month, and the deal comes over two months after the election. Taken together, it represents a fairly generous deal for the Social Democrats, whose 470,000 party members will now vote in the next two weeks to either accept or reject the coalition deal — the ballot results are due on December 14. The CDU-CSU hold 311 seats in the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany’s parliament, just five short of an absolute majority in the 630-seat Bundestag, following a tremendous victory for the CDU-CSU in the September 22 federal elections. Those elections saw the CDU-CSU’s previous coalition partner, the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party) wiped out completely from the Bundestag after failing to cross the 5% electoral threshold. Though the Social Democrats won 192 seats, it still represented their second-worst election result in the postwar period. Though Merkel and SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel will announce further details as to the new government’s policy agenda later today, cabinet ministers won’t be named until after the SPD party membership vote. But it’s expected that CDU finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble will remain in his position (unlike in the first grand coalition, when the SPD’s Peer Steinbrück held the post). It’s also expected that Frank-Walter Steinmeier will return as foreign minister, a role he held during the first grand coalition. Gabriel is expected to become the SPD’s floor leader in the Bundestag or assume a super-charged economy ministry. So what to expect next? Merkel’s concessions — especially the €8.50 minimum wage — represent just about as far as the conservative chancellor could go, and it’s likely that Bavarian minister-president and CSU leader Horst Seehofer isn’t thrilled with the deal. (Seehofer, fresh off his own landslide victory earlier in September, is unlikely to leave his perch as Bavaria’s chief executive to take a job in Merkel’s cabinet.) In particular, the minimum wage increase makes it much more likely that the Social Democratic rank-and-file consent to the government. If the party vote fails, it’s hard to see how there’s any appetite for a grand coalition, though I would expect Merkel and the SPD to take one last go before Germany moves to new elections — both because Merkel is anxious to get on with European governance matters and because the SPD still trails the CDU-CSU by a wide margin in polls, so Merkel could conceivably win an absolute majority if snap elections are held early next year. A Bild poll last week showed SPD voters only narrowly in favor of a deal by a vote of 49% to 44%, though at that point, Merkel was still resisting the SPD’s push for hiking the minimum wage. If the deal is approved, however, don’t expect the grand coalition to work as smoothly as the first coalition. Continue reading Germany reaches coalition deal, faces SPD party vote → CDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUdie linkefree democratsgermanygrand coalitiongreensleft partymerkelschaublesigmar gabrielsocial democratsSPDsteinbrucksteinmeier Merkel’s CDU-CSU, Gabriel’s SPD stumbling toward a not-so-grand coalition in Germany November 20, 2013 Kevin Lees 2 Comments We’re less than two weeks from December. That means that the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany’s parliament, has been sitting for about a month, and we’re weeks away from the self-imposed deadline that chancellor Angela Merkel placed on securing a new coalition government. In case you forgot, Merkel won a handsome victory in the September 22 federal election, when her center-right Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) — together with the Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria) — won 311 seats in the Bundestag, just five seats short of an absolute majority. It was the biggest victory for Merkel’s Christian Democrats in nearly two decades, harkening back to the wide margins that former CDU chancellor Helmut Kohl won in 1990 and in 1994 in the afterglow of the relatively successful reunification of West and East Germany. But while the CDU-CSU savored a sweet victory, their coalition partners between 2009 and 2013, the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party) failed to win any seats in the Bundestag for the first time since 1945, leaving Merkel with two options — a minority government or a coalition government with more leftist partners. Though Merkel flirted throughout early October with Die Grünen (the Greens), a tantalizingly novel coalition that would have remade the German political spectrum, the Greens pulled out of talks on October 16. So for over a month, coalition negotiations have been exclusively among the CDU, the CSU and the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party). Earlier in November, the coalition talks were going so well that CSU leader and Bavarian minister-president Hoorst Seehofer worried that the harmony would subsume the real policy differences between the German right and the German left. As Merkel quipped earlier this year, Christmas comes sooner than you think, and Merkel, Seehofer and the SPD’s leader, Sigmar Gabriel (pictured above), are under increasing pressure to agree on a coalition agenda — and given that the CDU-CSU’s 311 seats and the SPD’s 192 seats constitute 79.8% of the entire Bundestag, expectations are high that such a wide-ranging coalition will tackle long-term reform both in Germany and in the European Union. Moreover, any coalition deal agreed among the three parties must also win subsequent confirmation from a vote of 470,000 SPD members in December. So what’s holding up the deal? Continue reading Merkel’s CDU-CSU, Gabriel’s SPD stumbling toward a not-so-grand coalition in Germany → alternative for germanybavariabundestagCameronCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUdie linkeEuropean UnionFDPfree democratsgermanygreenshartz IVkohlmerkelminimum wageschaubleschroderseehofersigmar gabrielsocial democratsSPDsteinbrucksteinmeierthe left Merkel’s coalition talks with Green Party leaders this week seem serious October 11, 2013 Kevin Lees Leave a comment German chancellor Angela Merkel, fresh off a victory at the end of last month in her country’s federal elections, turned this week to a once very-unlikely coalition partner — Germany’s Die Grünen (the Green Party). When news broke last week that Merkel would hold talks with the Greens, it was easy to blow it off as a formality. After all, everyone assumed after the September 22 elections that Merkel’s center-right Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) would form another ‘grand coalition’ with the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party). But throughout the campaign, I listed all of the reasons why a ‘black-green’ coalition made a lot of sense — and those reasons still make as much sense now as they did before the election. Merkel’s decision to phase out nuclear power in 2011 removed the key policy difference that most divided her from the Greens. The leadership and the rank-and-file membership of the Greens is becoming older, wealthier and, in general, more like the CDU electorate. Moreover, its younger members are less radical and more moderate, and don’t have the same antipathy to business as the (pardon the generalization) founding ‘1960s, hippie, flower child’ generation. With the announcement that the Greens and Merkel’s CDU will explore a second round of talks over a potential coalition, however, everyone seems to be taking seriously the possibility of a ‘black-green’ coalition, which would be unprecedented in national German politics (though the Greens and the CDU joined forces in government recently, to mixed results, in Saarland and Hamburg). There were always really compelling reasons why another CDU/SPD ‘grand coalition’ makes little sense. After all, Merkel’s near-landslide victory left her CDU and the more Catholic, conservative, Bavaria-based Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union) just five seats short of an absolute majority. She doesn’t need the SPD’s 192 seats, she needs five votes. Moreover, the SPD’s collaboration with Merkel won it few votes, neither in Germany’s 2009 federal elections when the grand coalition’s foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier led the party to its worst election result in postwar history nor in the most recent elections when the grand coalition’s finance minister Peer Steinbrück led the SPD to its second-worst result. As such, the SPD is looking to draw a contrast with Merkel over the next hour years, not prop up Merkel’s government as her junior partner. That means that the SPD will be looking for the first opportunity for snap elections — and it’s not exactly a foregone conclusion that Merkel will lead the CDU/CSU into a fourth consecutive campaign. At first glance, a coalition with the Greens may seem more bold, but it might well be the more cautious option for Merkel. They’ll be less likely to cause problems for Merkel and, with a smaller parliamentary caucus, Here’s the breakdown of seats in the lower house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, following the September 22 vote, which will have 630 seats — a ‘grand coalition’ would amount to about four-fifths of the entire Bundestag. Given that the CDU’s coalition partner between 2009 and 2013, the liberal Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party), failed to surpass the 5% electoral threshold and lost all of its seats in the Bundestag in September, there’s only one other party to which Merkel can turn — the Greens. Though Merkel’s coalition partners might both regret their cooperation (i.e., the SPD and the FDP both notched postwar nadirs in 2009 and 2013, respectively), there’s a strong case that a ‘black-green’ coalition could give the Greens a new identity at the very heart of Germany politics. As a junior partner in Merkel’s third consecutive government, its supporters wouldn’t expect much, so to the extent that the Greens moderate Merkel’s agenda over the next four years (through policies that boost renewable energy or reduce CO2 emissions), their core voters should be fairly satisfied. But the Greens stand to pick up many more centrist voters that might otherwise vote for the SPD or even for the CDU or the FDP. The Greens ran an undeniably leftist campaign, pledging tax hikes and a 15% wealth tax to boot, along with the oft-ridiculed national ‘Veggie Day,’ and one of its four leaders, Jürgen Trittin, a former environmental minister from 1998 to 2005, faced ridicule over his approval of a pamphlet from 1981 that appeared to call for the legalization of sex between adults and minors. Despite polls that in 2011 showed the Greens winning up to 25% or even 30% of the vote, they finished with just 8.4% of the vote — a swing of 2.3% less than their 2009 total. Former Green Party leader and foreign minister Joschka Fischer, among others, took the Greens to task for their campaign within 48 hours of the election: “It looks almost as though the current leadership of the Greens has gotten older but still hasn’t grown up,” Fischer told SPIEGEL following Sunday’s vote. “They followed a strategy that not only failed to win over new voters, but drove away many old ones.” Noting the party’s focus on tax hikes and social spending during the campaign, Fischer said that emphasizing a “leftist course” was a “fatal mistake.” Former party head Reinhard Bütikofer has likewise not been complimentary of the current Green leadership. “The failure … to engage in a serious debate with Chancellor Merkel regarding … her policies for Europe granted her political hegemony” on the issue, he told SPIEGEL. He also criticized Trittin for being a mouthpiece of the party’s left wing. Since the election, the Green leadership resigned en masse, and they elected two new leaders, including the centrist rising star Katrin Göring-Eckardt, who had served as one of two chancellor-candidates for the Greens during the election. The Greens, who have long been divided between a more centrist realo (‘realist’) faction and a more radical fundi (‘fundamentalist’) faction, have long elected leaders in pairs (the new leftist Green leader is Anton Hofreiter, who, unlike Trittin, comes from the new generation of Greens parliamentarians). But the clear exemplar of Greens success is Winfried Kretschmann (pictured above), the first and only minister-president of any of Germany’s 16 states — and in Baden-Württemberg, a wealthy (and relatively conservative) state in Germany’s southwest that’s a hub for commerce and industry. Though Kretschmann came to power in 2011 on a wave of opposition to the Stuttgart 21′ rail development project, Kretschmann is now helping to implement the project after it won nearly 60% support in a subsequent referendum specifically on the project’s future. Kretschmann, who’s firmly within the ‘realo,’ right wing of the Green Party, has won plaudits from business leaders as well, and he’s apparently playing a role in the CDU-Green negotiations. Severe obstacles remain to a ‘black-green’ coalition. Continue reading Merkel’s coalition talks with Green Party leaders this week seem serious → black-greenCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUFDPfree democratsfundigoring-eckardtgreenskretschmannmerkelnuclear energyrealosocial democratsSPDtrittin Germany, United States That ‘transcending ideology’ thing from Obama 2008? Angela Merkel did it. Obama hasn’t. September 25, 2013 Kevin Lees 1 Comment Last Sunday’s election wasn’t just a victory for the German center-right — it was a very personalized victory for Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, who will become just the third postwar chancellor to serve three terms.* Germans largely saw Merkel as the only viable chancellor candidate (sorry, Peer Steinbrück!), and they flocked to support Merkel for steering Germany largely unscathed through a global financial crisis and a subsequent eurozone crisis in an export-oriented economy that’s still growing and producing jobs for Germans. They admire the fact that she’s steered the eurozone through the worst of its sovereign debt crisis and avoided the single currency’s implosion, all while tying bailouts for Greece and other Mediterranean countries to austerity and reform measures that would make more profligate countries (like Greece) more ‘German’ in their approach to state finances. But beyond the infantilizing ‘Mutti’ meme or the idea that Merkel represents a ‘safe pair of hands,’ she has won over many Germans because she’s been such a pragmatic and non-ideological leader. Though Merkel leads the ostensibly center-right Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party), it’s really hard to know what the CDU stands for these days other than the continuity of another Merkel government — and that’s likely to pose a difficult challenge for Merkel’s successor in 2017 or 2021 or whenever. Merkel’s made some ideological compromises to her Bavarian counterparts, the Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union) — for instance, she has avoided the question of marriage equality, preferring that the German constitutional court largely deliver equal rights and benefits to same-sex partners at a time when both conservative governments (in the United Kingdom) and leftist governments (in France) deliver legislative solutions. By and large, though, Merkel eschews ideological litmus tests. Merkel campaigned on an economic agenda that varies only slightly with that of her rival center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party). While the SPD favored a €8.50 minimum wage, Merkel pushed a sector-by-sector minimum wage approach. Both parties supported increasing elements of the German social welfare model, such as child allowances and a rise in pensions. While the SPD and other leftists pushed for tax increases, Merkel has been content to draw a line at merely no tax increases, to the disappointment of Merkel’s liberal coalition partners, the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party), who were completely wiped out of Germany’s parliament in Sunday’s elections. After the nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima reactor in Japan in 2011, Merkel announced that Germany would phase out nuclear energy, thereby accomplishing in one fell swoop one of the German left’s top priorities since the 1970s — and perhaps the top policy goal of the Die Grünen (the Greens). German political scientists refer to it as ‘asymmetric demobilisation‘ — Merkel has so blurred the lines between her position and the SPD position that on the top issues — economic policy, Europe, foreign affairs — the SPD can’t draw an effective contrast to her. Merkel, in essence, has governed as a perfectly non-ideological leader. It should to most Americans, who elected Barack Obama in 2008 in large part due to his pledge to transcend the increasingly polarized politics of the United States. Here’s what Obama said upon accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president that summer: America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past…. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result. In effect, Merkel has done, in her quiet and unassuming way, what Obama has utterly failed to do — govern in a way that transcends traditional ideological divides. You could say that Obama’s rhetoric is the standard boilerplate that any change candidate serves up in American politics — the same ‘Washington-is-not-the-answer’ tropes that Republicans and Democrats have rolled out since Ronald Reagan swept to power 33 years ago on an appealing anti-government message. But Obama’s reputation in 2008 came mostly from his keynote address to the 2004 Democratic national convention on this precise issue: Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America — there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. So there’s a lot of reason to believe that Obama genuinely believed he could transform the political dynamic in American politics. But his absolute lack to do so is perhaps Obama’s greatest failure as a president. Say whatever you want about his policies, the Obama era in many ways constitutes a high-water mark for American political polarization. Republicans now lean even more to the right, in the thrall of a tea party movement that demands no compromise from Republican officeholders. There are all sorts of rationales that explain why Merkel has succeeded in becoming non-ideological and why Obama hasn’t — but none of them are completely satisfying. Continue reading That ‘transcending ideology’ thing from Obama 2008? Angela Merkel did it. Obama hasn’t. → blue stateCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUdemocratdemographicsEuropean Unioneurozonegermanygreecegreensmerkelobamapolitical polarizationred staterepublicansocial democratsSPDsteinbruckUnited StatesUS house Germany, Hesse German election results — federal Bundestag and Hesse state results (in five charts) September 23, 2013 Kevin Lees 4 Comments Election officials released provisional results overnight in both the federal Germany election to determine the makeup of the lower house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, and the Hessian state elections. Here’s where things stand in the total national ‘party vote’: As predicted by exit polls earlier Sunday, neither the new eurosceptic party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany) nor the longtime liberal Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party) won more than 5% of the vote — meaning that they have not won any seats in the Bundestag. The final total won by chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) — together with the Bavarian Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union) — comes to 41.5%. That’s exactly the same percentage that the CDU/CSU and chancellor Helmut Kohl won in the 1994 German elections, and it’s just 2.3% less than Kohl’s total in the 1990 elections, which came in the aftermath of the largely successful reunification of West Germany with East Germany. It’s an absolutely huge win for Merkel — but we already knew that as polls closed Sunday. Here’s a look at how Sunday’s election result compared to the previous elections in September 2009: There are no absolutely clear winners except the CDU/CSU, which improved on its 2009 totals by a staggering 7.8% — including a nearly 1% improvement by the CSU (which is pretty incredible, given that the CSU seeks votes solely in Bavaria, home to just 12.5 million of Germany’s 80 million residents). The FDP obviously had a disastrous result — the party’s worst result in Germany’s postwar history, which comes after its postwar high of 14.6% just four years ago. Both leading FDP figure and economics and technology minister Rainer Brüderle, party leader and vice chancellor Philipp Rösler and former party leader (until 2011) and foreign minister Guido Westerwelle are all likely to step aside from their top leadership positions. The center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party) improved slightly on its 2009 result, which was a postwar low for the party under chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who served as foreign minister in the 2005-09 CDU/SPD ‘grand coalition’ government. But the SPD’s performance under its 2013 candidate Peer Steinbrück, who served as Merkel’s grand coalition finance minister, was its second-worst result in postwar German history. Die Grünen (the Greens) also suffered a retreat from its 2009 totals and especially from polls in 2011 that showed them winning between 20% and 25% of the vote. The poor result follows an unfocused campaign with at least four different leaders. The Green platform swung from promoting ‘Veggie Day’ to advocating tax increases, despite the fact that its electorate is becoming more moderate, less radical, older and wealthier. Die Linke (the Left) appears to have retained its traditional strength as the second-most popular party in the eastern states (second to Merkel’s CDU), but it has also lost support since 2009. Though its leaders were crowing that it will be the third-largest party in the Bundestag for the first time since reunification, the CDU appears to have made significant inroads into the Left’s eastern heartland. Though the AfD had a superb performance, it obviously fell 0.3% short of entering the Bundestag and, while it will work hard to retain relevance in next spring’s European elections, it’s difficult to tell if it can retain and grow its strength between now and 2017. Here’s the breakdown of the seats in the Bundestag — due to so-called ‘overhang seats’ resulting from the way in which additional seats are allocated to bring seat totals in line with the ‘party vote,’ there are 630 seats: With 311 seats, Merkel is five seats short of an absolute majority. Without the option of her previous coalition partner, the FDP, it means that she has three options: Continue reading German election results — federal Bundestag and Hesse state results (in five charts) → AfDbavariabouffierbruderlebundesratbundestagCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUdie linkeFDPfree democratsgermanygrand coalitiongreenshessekohllandtagmerkelroslerschafer-gumbelschaublesigmar gabrielsocial democratsSPDsteinbrucksteinmeierthe leftwesterwelle Germany (and Hesse) votes today! What better way to kick off Germany’s election day — and the second full day of Oktoberfest in Munich — with Johannes Brahms’s ‘Academic Festival Overture,’ a loose assortment of what amounts to student drinking songs? Germany, with 80 million citizens, is the most populous member of the European Union, and it’s also the economic engine of Europe these days, for better or worse. Angela Merkel, chancellor for the past eight years, is almost certainly likely to continue as chancellor, with her center-right Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) and the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union), poised to win more than 10% to 15% more than the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party). German voters will cast two ballots — for a local representative in each of 299 districts, plus the national ‘party vote’ for a political party to determine an additional 299 seats in the lower house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. The ‘party vote’ generally determines the proportion of seats that a party will hold in the Bundestag. The drama comes down to whether Merkel will be able to continue her coalition with the liberal Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party) — which is polling at around just 5%, the threshold to win seats in the Bundestag — or be forced back into a ‘grand coalition’ with the SPD. Or, as I’ve argued at EurActiv, the third possibility is a historical ‘black-green’ coalition with Die Grünen (the Greens). We’ll have a pretty good idea in about 10 hours of the universe of possibilities. Between now and then, check out some of Suffragio‘s prior German election campaign coverage: A preview of the state elections in Hesse, Germany’s fifth-most populous state, also being held today — and how it could shift the upper house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundesrat, further left. A glossary of everything you basically need to know to sound smart about Germany’s federal elections. An examination of the former East Germany — and how it’s developed, both good and bad, since reunification in 1990. What Greece can expect in the way of a bailout (or other deals) from Germany and the European Union after today’s elections. The election-week scandal surrounding the Greens. A review of the elections — held last Sunday, September 15 — in Bavaria, a conservative heartland, where the CSU romped to an absolute majority (and the FDP failed to win the 5% necessary to win seats in the Landtag, the state parliament). A look at how the SPD’s chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück became such a flop on the campaign trail — and his final whopper of a gaffe. Photo credit to Alex Cole. bundestagCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUFDPfree democratsgermanygreenshessemerkelsocial democratsSPDsteinbruck Your weekend cocktail-party glossary for the German election You’ve mastered the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, you’re ready for the showdown over the US government shutdown and the debt ceiling fight, and you’re ready to hit the party circuit this weekend, wit and pith at the ready. But wait! You’ve forgotten that Germany, the most populous and arguably the most important country in Europe, is going to the polls on Sunday to elect a new government. You know that Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor for the past eight years, is likely to return for a third term chancellor, even though it’s less clear which governing parties will join her in coalition. You know that her center-right Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) holds a wide, double-digit lead over the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party). And you know that, as far as elections go, it’s been a particularly boring one — even by the standards of Germany’s relatively muted consensus-driven politics. But what else should you know about Sunday’s election? Not to worry. Here’s all the lingo you need to sound (and be) in the know about what’s likely to happen this weekend in Germany — and what might happen in its aftermath. Continue reading Your weekend cocktail-party glossary for the German election → AfDalternative for germanybundestagCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUEuropean UnioneurozoneFDPfree democratsgrand coalitiongreensgrundgesetzhartz IVin sicheren Händenjamaica coalitionkick the canmerkelmuttiNSApeerlusconipirate partyschrodershitstormsocial democratssparpolitikSPDsteinbruckstinkefingertrittin Top German Green Party leader tagged with sensational sexual politics kerfuffle The final weeks of the German election campaign have been marked by something less than substantive debate, what with the largest turn of events being center-left chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück posing on the cover of a top news magazine giving German voters the bird. But with just six days to go until voting to determine the membership of the German Bundestag, the lower (and most important) house of its parliament, all eyes are on Jürgen Trittin and Die Grünen (the Greens) after a sensational story has put Trittin, a longtime Green leader, very much on the defensive. The scandal involves a Green Party pamphlet from Göttingen in 1981 — just two years after the Greens formed as a political party — that Trittin approved and which called for the legalization of sex between minors and adults. Trittin was a student at the time, one of five members of an editorial board that approved the manifesto, and claims not to have known the extent of the pamphlet. Trittin, who served as the environmental minister in center-left chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s government between 1998 and 2005, today accepted full responsibility for the pamphlet and apologized for any minor role he played, which he claimed incorporated the stance of a radical gay rights group. No one disputes the substantive content of the actual allegation, but it’s hard not to see the kerfuffle as a dirty trick against the Greens — family minister Kristina Schröder was quick to demand Trittin’s resignation, and other members of the center-right Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) were also quick to attack Trittin and the Greens. Alexander Dobrindt, the secretary-general of the CDU’s sister party in Bavaria, the Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union), called Trittin a front man for a ‘pedophilia cartel.’ Dobrindt himself is no stranger to controversy after calling on Greece to leave the eurozone last year during the heart of the eurozone’s financial crisis, and his CSU is the main force preventing the legislative adoption of marriage equality in Germany. The CDU/CSU’s sanctimonious tone against Trittin is akin to demanding that Merkel to resign because of her now documented, minor involvement with the communist Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED, Socialist Unity Party) as a young scientist in East Germany. Even though Merkel had ties in her student days to the SED, so did most prominent East Germans, due to the nature of living in an authoritarian dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. No one credibly believes that any minor collaboration should outweigh the role she played as a democratic activist in the late 1980s or doubt her legitimacy over two decades as a top policymaker in the reunified Germany. But the Greens, which got their start as a radical leftist group and emerged from the new political movements of the 1970s, including the environmental movement, the pacifist movement and the sexual revolution, formally endorsed Germany’s anti-pedophilia laws in 1989. The Green Party has been hit with charges of supporting pedophilia in the past, and it was Franz Walter, a political scientist investigation the party’s past affiliations with pedophile activists, who discovered to link to Trittin. It’s also not difficult to understand why the CDU/CSU is brimming with such stern disapproval — the profile of the Green Party’s electorate has become older and wealthier over the past decade. So if the latest scandal causes Green voters to think twice about their support (especially soft Green supporters), many of them will consider voting for the CDU or the CDU’s liberal junior coalition partner, the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party) instead of the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party). That’s important — while the CDU/CSU leads the SPD by between 12 and 16 points in most opinion polls, the FDP is winning around 5% in polls, which is the threshold for winning seats in the Bundestag on the basis of proportional representation. So in a world where the Green vote collapses, it would be much better for Merkel if the SPD gains a few more votes, so long as the FDP gains a few more votes (at least enough to win 5% of the electorate). Given the state of the campaign, the Greens have already been doing a pretty good job of confirming their own irrelevance. If it’s been a horrible campaign season for the SPD and the FDP, it’s not been an easy one for the Greens. Polls show the Greens winning between 9% and 11% of the vote, and markedly less than the 20% to 25% that polls showed the Greens winning in much of 2011 — after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan but before Merkel announced her support for phasing out Germany’s nuclear energy. Continue reading Top German Green Party leader tagged with sensational sexual politics kerfuffle → baden-wurttembergCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUdobrindteast germanyFDPfree democratsgermanygoring-eckardtgreenkretschmannmerkelozdemirpedophiliareunificationrothschroderSEDsocial democratsSPDsteinbrucktrittin FDP shut out of Bavarian parliament, CSU wins absolute majority The result of today’s state elections in Bavaria has both good news and bad news in terms of Angela Merkel’s hopes to win a third term as chancellor in exactly one week. With results still coming in, the center-right Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union) will improve vastly upon its historically poor result in the prior September 2008 election, giving Bavaria’s minister president Horst Seehofer (pictured above) an absolute majority in the 187-member Landtag, Bavaria’s unicameral state parliament. The current projection gives the CSU 101 seats, with just 43 seats for the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party) and 18 seats each for Die Grünen (the Greens) and the center-right group of independents, the Freie Wähler (FW, Free Voters). Here’s the latest snapshot of the result: That’s great news for the CSU, which has controlled Bavaria’s state government consecutively since 1947. The Bavarian-based CSU is the sister party of Merkel’s Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party), which competes everywhere else in Germany, and the two parties work together as a union for federal political purposes. So the fact that the CSU increased its support by over 5% in what was already a center-right heartland is a sign that Merkel will be able to drive up the number of seats that the CDU/CSU will win in next week’s federal elections. It’s an amazing turnaround for the CSU, which won less than 44% five years ago and was polling just 40% as recently as 2010. It’s a huge win for Seehofer personally as well, given that his personality dominated the CSU’s presidential-style campaign, the same tactic that Merkel and the CDU have deployed for next week’s federal elections. It puts Seehofer alongside recent CSU leaders who have dominated Bavaria’s recent past, such as Franz Josef Strauß in the 1970s and 1980s and Edmund Stoiber in the 1990s and 2000s. Given the relative strength of the Bavarian economy vis-à-vis Germany and, especially vis-à-vis Europe, the CSU’s win is not surprising — Bavaria’s reputation long ago solidified its image as the land of laptops und Lederhose. But it’s horrible news for the liberal Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party), which won just 3.2% today, falling far short of the 5% threshold required to win seats in the Landtag. Seehofer and the CSU depended on a governing coalition with the Free Democrats for the fast five years, and Merkel and the CDU/CSU govern in coalition with the Free Democrats at the federal level as well. Since riding a wave of popularity in the late 2000s (the Free Democrats won nearly 15% of the vote in the 2009 federal elections), its public support collapsed shortly thereafter. After a series of poor performances in state elections, foreign minister Guido Westerwelle stepped down as the party’s leader. But its new leader Philipp Rösler, Germany’s first Vietnamese-born party leader, has hardly done much better. Under his leadership, though, the Free Democrats actually gained support in two key state-level votes — in the May 2012 North Rhine-Westphalia election and the January 2013 Lower Saxony state elections. The FDP’s loss in Bavaria comes at a devastating time, however. Seehofer and the CSU in Bavaria will no longer need a coalition partner, but that’s not likely to be the case for Merkel next week, so Merkel needs the Free Democrats to perform much better nationwide in seven days. While Merkel’s CDU/CSU widely leads in the polls in advance of next week’s federal election, Merkel is unlikely to win the kind of outright majority that Seehofer won today (because the rest of Germany tilts further to the center and to the left than the Catholic, socially conservative Bavaria). Just as for Bavaria’s state elections, there’s a 5% threshold for winning seats on the basis of proportional representation in the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany’s national parliament, and polls show the Free Democrats treading at about 5% support nationally. So if the Free Democrats win less than 5% next week, Merkel will be forced to look to other alternatives: an unstable minority government, return to a ‘grand coalition’ with the rival Social Democrats or a more creative solution, such as a ‘black-green’ coalition with the Greens. Even if the Free Democrats win more than 5%, their ranks are likely to be so decimated that Merkel may be forced into an alternative anyway. Continue reading FDP shut out of Bavarian parliament, CSU wins absolute majority → bavariaCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUFDPfranz josef straussfree democratsfree votersgermanygreenskohllandtagrosterseehofersocial democratsSPDsteinbruckstoiberwesterwelle What is Helmut Kohl thinking by endorsing the FDP in Germany’s elections? In an election campaign with few twists and even fewer turns, leave it to a blast from Germany’s past to shake up politics just 12 days before Germans head to the polls. In a move that seems baffling at first glance, former chancellor Helmut Kohl spent the weekend welcoming Rainer Brüderle, a former economics and technology minister, and Philipp Rösler, the vice minister for economics and vice chancellor, and the leader of the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party), to his home — and indicating that he was all but endorsing the FDP in elections later this month. It’s odd for many reasons, not least of which because Kohl (pictured above, center, with Brüderle left and Rösler right), the longest-serving chancellor since Otto von Bismark, was the longtime leader of the center-right Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU, Christian Democratic Union) that chancellor Angela Merkel now leads. Kohl, now age 83, has been out of frontline politics since 1998, when he lost his bid for reelection. Among Kohl’s top accomplishments are vital roles in engineering both the reunification of West and East Germany and the development of the European single currency. So what is Kohl up to? There are a handful of reasons why Kohl might be campaigning so openly for the Free Democrats in the last stretch of the campaign, but none are as compelling as the explanation that Kohl is actually doing Merkel and the CDU a huge favor by boosting their coalition partners. The Free Democrats are the junior partners in Merkel’s governing ‘black-yellow’ coalition, and though Merkel would prefer to continue governing alongside the Free Democrats, their support has dropped so low that it risks missing the 5% threshold necessary to win seats in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament. With the Christian Democrats holding a consistent double-digit lead over the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, the Social Democratic Party), and with voters preferring Merkel with a two-to-one margin over Social Democratic chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück, there’s not much risk that the CDU will lose on September 22 — together with its Bavaria sister party, the Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union). So if Kohl can bring a few crossover voters from the CDU to support the FDP, he can help guarantee that the Free Democrats make it back into the Bundestag with at least a minimum of seats, therefore facilitating the possibility that Merkel can continue her preferred coalition in a third term without resorting to a grand coalition with the Social Democrats (as she did from 2005 to 2009). Crazy like a fox. It’s a dangerous game, though, because there is some risk in that strategy. Steinbrück delivered a strong performance in last week’s debate with Merkel and while it hasn’t helped him in the polls so far, the race could tighten in the closing days. Moreover, the newly formed Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany), the country’s first eurosceptic party could steal votes from Merkel on the right, and it’s the one party that’s gaining in polls over the past week — it could even hit the 5% threshold to enter the Bundestag. But at this point, with less than two weeks to go, a massive change would require a year’s worth of stubborn German public opinion to transform virtually overnight. So it’s a risk that Kohl — and likely even the cautious Merkel — are probably happy to take. Continue reading What is Helmut Kohl thinking by endorsing the FDP in Germany’s elections? → AdFalternative for germanybruderlebundestagCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUEuropean UnionFDPfree democratsgermanykohlmerkelreunificationrhineland-palatinateroslersocial democratsSPD Bavarian elections provides Merkel, CSU a dress rehearsal for federal German vote September 4, 2013 Kevin Lees 3 Comments Exactly one week before Germans go to the polls to choose between center-right chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-left challenger Peer Steinbrück, Bavarian voters will elect its local state government in a key test for Merkel’s regional allies. The outcome isn’t incredibly doubtful because since 1947, Bavaria’s staunchly Catholic, business-friendly, socially conservative Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU, the Christian Social Union) has controlled the 187-seat Landtag, the state legislature of Germany’s second-most populous state. Given that the state has one of Germany’s — and Europe’s — best economies, the CSU looks set to strengthen its hold on Bavarian government in what amounts to a test run of many of the arguments that Merkel hopes will power her Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU, Christian Democratic Party) to victory on September 22 alongside the CSU, which has been united with the CDU in federal politics for decades. Merkel, who currently governs in an alliance with the liberal Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party), hopes that voters will give her credit for steering Germany — and the entire eurozone — through the worst of a sovereign debt crisis that began in 2010 and an economic recession from which Europe may already be recovering. But the CSU and Bavaria’s minister president Horst Seehofer (pictured above) can make an even more sanguine case on the basis of the Bavarian economy, which showcases several star multinational corporations, such as BMW, Siemens, and adidas. Whereas the European Union had an average unemployment rate of 10.4% in 2012 and Germany had an unemployment rate of 5.5%, Bavaria’s was just 3.2%. To consider just how staggering that is, consider that United States last had an unemployment rate that low in October 1953. It’s an economy that, at around €465 billion ($610 billion), is about as large as the economy of the US state of Pennsylvania and even larger than the entire economy of Saudi Arabia, and nearly 1.5 times the size of the economy of neighboring Austria. If the CSU is successful on September 15, it will mark a rebound from the previous September 2008 election, the CSU’s worst performance since 1954. Five years ago, Bavarian voters went to the polls in the middle of an uncertain future, with the collapse of US financial firm Lehman Brothers and a global financial panic topping world headlines. It was also a period of uncertain leadership within the CSU, Bavarian minister-president Edmund Stoiber resigned after 14 years in office following the resignation of his chief of staff, Michael Höhenberger, which itself followed accusations that Höhenberger snooped on the private life of one of Stoiber’s critics. Günther Beckstein, Stoiber’s longtime interior minister, succeeded Stoiber and led the CSU through the 2008 election, but stepped down following the CSU’s historic loss. Even though the CSU won just 43.4% of the vote (a drop of over 17% from its prior performance) and lost its absolute majority in the Landtag, it remained the largest party in Bavaria by far, outpacing the second-place Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party) by nearly 25% of the vote and Seehofer, a former health and food minister, easily won election as Bavaria’s minister-president in October 2008. As the CSU and the SPD both suffered historic losses, two additional groups on the Bavarian right made extraordinary gains. The first is the Freie Wähler (FW, Free Voters), a bloc of independent, unaffiliated center-right deputies, which won 10% of the vote, largely from disappointed CSU supporters, and entered the Bavarian Landtag for the first time. The second is the FDP, which won 8% and 16 seats, returning to the Bavarian legislature for the first time in 14 years and providing the CSU with a stable coalition partner in Munich. Even the socialist Die Linke (The Left) competed for the first time and won 4.3%, impressive in a state as conservative as Bavaria Five years later, although polling data isn’t as ubiquitous for Bavaria’s state election as for the wider federal German elections, the CSU is polling higher than in 2008, and it may win over 50% of the vote, restoring the absolute majority that it enjoyed in the Landtag without interruption from 1962 to 2008. That’s good news for Seehofer, because the FDP is faring as poorly in Bavaria as it is in federal polling — the Free Democrats are in danger of missing the 5% threshold required to win seats in the Bavarian Landtag (and in the federal Bundestag as well). Meanwhile, the Social Democrats are in danger of setting a new postwar low in Bavaria on September 15 and in federal elections a week later — it’s polling at around 18% in Bavaria, which is even worse than its 2008 result (18.6%). Continue reading Bavarian elections provides Merkel, CSU a dress rehearsal for federal German vote → bavariabundestagCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUFDPfranz josef straussfree democratsfree votersgreenkohlmerkelPRISMschroderseehofersocial democratssoderSPDstoiber Seventy years on, the politics of the Holocaust in Germany remain fraught with difficulty August 21, 2013 Kevin Lees Leave a comment In what’s been perhaps the most boring campaign season in German politics since reunification, chancellor Angela Merkel made big headlines yesterday when she became the first acting chancellor to tour the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. Merkel took a somber detour from her campaign to visit the site, where 41,000 mostly Jewish prisoners were slaughtered by the Nazi regime — the concentration camp’s location in the middle of Bavaria, in contrast to even more ghastly extermination camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka in what is today Poland, has always made it a particularly wrenching site in the postwar German memory. Merkel laid a wreath in honor of the victims, and she met with several survivors, including 93-year-old Max Mannheimer, who was imprisoned at the camp at age 24 and today chairs the Dachau camp community association. The visit won plaudits from German Jewish groups, who praised Merkel for pausing her campaign to reflect on the atrocities of what happened seven decades ago at Dachau, not just far to the east but in the southern heartland of Germany. It is perhaps appropriate that Merkel, the first postwar East German chancellor, was the first active German leader to visit the site. Merkel spent the first 35 years of her life behind the Iron Curtain, first as a physical chemist and increasingly, a pro-democracy activist when the Berlin Wall fell. Though West Germany recovered rapidly after the end of the Nazi era, East Germans suffered through four decades of authoritarian socialist rule under the heel of Soviet Russia. In her brief remarks, Merkel noted that ‘the name Dachau is tragically famous as it serves as a model for the concentration camps,’ adding that ‘the memory of that fate fills me with deep sadness and shame.’ But the headlines are not entirely positive — and some are downright hostile — because Merkel scheduled the visit as an aside from a reelection whistle-stop tour. After visiting Dachau, Merkel was off to visit a beer tent in the nearby town of Dachau and delivered a political speech alongside a Bavarian brass band in traditional costume. A leader of the opposition Die Grünen (Green Party), Renate Künast, harshly attacked what she called a ‘tasteless and outrageous combination’: “If you’re serious about commemoration at such a place of horrors, then you don’t pay such a visit during an election campaign,” she told the daily Leipziger Volkszeitung. But Merkel’s main opponent, Peer Steinbrück, the chancellor candidate of the center-left Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, the Social Democratic Party), has not criticized her, and Jewish groups have universally cheered Merkel for her gesture, so it’s unlikely that the visit, or the controversy surrounding it, is likely to cause any lasting political damage. Voters generally understand that incumbents running for reelection have two jobs — chancellor and candidate. It’s a reminder that, despite Germany’s efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust, it’s not always an easy topic to navigate for German politicians, even 68 years after the end of World War II and even for a politician as skilled as Merkel. Continue reading Seventy years on, the politics of the Holocaust in Germany remain fraught with difficulty → bavariaCDUchristian democratschristian social unionCSUdachaugermanygreen partyholocaustmerkelsocial democratsSPDsteinbruckstoiber	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line382
__label__cc	0.622023	0.377977	Project Output Announcing End of SUMMA project It’s done ! The SUMMA project ended officially on 31 January 2019. But it does not mean we stop here. The outcome is very promising, the tools will lead their own lives, and we will continue to inform and support the SUMMA community. We give you a brief overview of the results and achievements of this very interesting project. We have advanced research on the 10 SUMMA components and their underlying technologies: metadata extraction from broadcast media streaming implementation of storyline clustering and topic detection entity tagging and linking knowledge base construction forecasting and fact checking story-level semantic parsing story highlight generation and summarisation Our machine translation research, for instance, pushed the state-of-the-art in both quality and speed. We investigated deeper recurrent models, and document level translation and our models won many language pairs in WMT16 and WMT17 evaluations. In SUMMA we also spearheaded the development of the Marian toolkit for training and deploying neural MT systems, which is now being deployed in the EU, UN and Microsoft. Another example: One of the main novelties of the SUMMA platform is the ability to provide automatic summaries for news articles and groups of related stories (clusters). To this end, we developed eight novel summarisation models and published over ten papers on the subject, for three types of approaches: extractive (sentence selection), compressive (sentence compression) and abstractive (text generation). We advanced the state-of-the-art on several fronts, and developed models which learn to represent text and to select/generate a summary with the most relevant content. Among other approaches, we leveraged neural architectures such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and representation formalisms such as Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). See and check out our blog over the next few weeks for more details on this. The integrated SUMMA platform is a fact. It was developed as a prototype, but a very solid one, and serves as a basis for full and very powerful monitoring systems. We have tried it extensively, in particular at BBC Monitoring and Deutsche Welle, involving evaluators from a range of sections, including innovation specialists, journalists, editors, monitors from all languages supported by the platform. In addition, it has been demonstrated widely and raised considerable interest from other media companies and broadcaster groups, such as EBU. The SUMMA user days and other occasions gave external users a chance to try out the systems themselves and consider potential use and provide feedback. We have built a common monitoring platform which is robust and flexible. It caters for different applications, target groups and supporting modules. The platform is Docker-based, making it possible to smoothly add or change components. Flexibility is key and we have focused upon that objective. It currently processes nine languages (English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Farsi, Latvian and Ukrainian). The range of languages can be expanded by adding dockerised models for ASR and MT. It is highly customisable. By integrating off-the-shelf tools, we can even cover virtually all major languages. This opens up great possibilities. The current platform offers a fully automated monitoring system, ingesting content via API. After ingestion, it automatically transcribes all audio from video, turning speech into text. It also automatically translates all text (from original text articles or from transcribed speech to text) into English. It uses that to come up with a cross-lingual overview of the content, clustering related items into stories, summarising stories and individual items, adding topical keywords and named entities, adding sentiment analysis. The platform offers entity as well as full-text search and different visualisations, including a list view, tile view and heat map view. Several use cases have been developed and tested during the project: Internal monitoring: Deutsche Welle focused on monitoring internal content, i.e., articles and audiovisual material that is published within the organisation. Deutsche Welle as world broadcaster produces and distributes content in 30 languages. Therefore, it is a huge (linguistic and logistic) task to keep track of what has been produced in all these languages. Comparing content topics across languages, determining which items could be of interest to other language departments and what could/should be translated and/or reused in some other way requires a lot of resources and is therefore necessarily limited. The SUMMA internal monitoring platform facilitates this task and allows us to go beyond the basics. For now, it offers a fully automated content analysis system from eight DW languages (all SUMMA languages except Latvian, currently not covered by DW). We get a cross-lingual overview, with added metadata and detailed data (including article or transcript text) at item and story (grouped content) level and in the original language as well as the common target language English. External monitoring: BBC Monitoring, on the other hand, targeted external sources (data published by other organisations) to be monitored. A special focus was live channels. This requires a highly scalable system that is fast and can process a lot of data coming from a high number of external feeds. A customised UI was built for this use case. On top of the generic internal and monitoring platforms, the user partners developed additional applications catering for specific use cases. BBC has developed three applications out of the SUMMA platform: Speedboat – external media monitoring, Sandcastle – internal media monitoring, Monsoon – fact checking for external media monitoring. External Media Monitoring DW customised applications include SUMMA Data Dashboard, Slack Chat Bot Module, and Social Media Analyser. Separate blogs will appear in this channel explaining those applications. Major efforts have been made and are continuing towards implementing the tools at the user partners’ Deutsche Welle and BBC. Other interested users can have access through the open-source version. Further support through SAAS is being considered by part of the consortium. Stay tuned – we will keep you posted through this channel. We thank the European Commission and H2020 for funding and supporting us and giving us the chance to develop the prototype and arrive at the highly potential SUMMA platform. Newer Post Deutsche Welle Users Explore Internal Monitoring Older Post Deutsche Welle Slackbot prototype SUMMA Wiki Sebastian Golly from @retresco presenting interesting use cases for automated #textgeneration with fact-based routine text elements for #sport reporting. At #Qurator2020 in Berlin. Now let's see if we can do this crosslingually. pic.twitter.com/WXM6yNYfRO First #europeanlanguagegrid demo with English-German translation and named entity recognition at #metaforum 2019 in Brussels. Good to see some output already. Looking forward to more. pic.twitter.com/SYRlScuChe Lots of interest for the @SummaEu platform at the HLT booth at #gmf2019 https://t.co/z1aaBh4eyg SUMMA dissemination and exploitation continues. https://t.co/X8YpNUq7Iy Checking out how live respeaking works to produce semi-live subtitling. At the Language meets technology conference in Mainz. #HLT pic.twitter.com/J6wLrbWjSy This site uses cookies: Read our privacy policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line383
__label__cc	0.672808	0.327192	Initiatives : Sustainable Business Leadership Forum \| Parivartan Awards Access and Collaborate Collaborative Intelligence Solutions Parivartan Innovation Network Sustainability Business Leadership Forum Insight and Intelligance Market Intelligence and Outlook Outlook Briefs Discover and track News Aggregate Insight and Intelligence Home > Articles > 5 Sustainability Watch-Outs for 2015 Top 5 Sustainability Watch-Outs for 2015 2014 for India was defined with Narendra Modi emerging center-stage post a historic election victory in May, and since then, the new government has been actively promoting certain schemes (with synonymous buzz-words like ‘Make in India’, ‘Namami Gange’, ‘Digital India’ and ‘Swachh Bharat’) which are likely to witness great uptake in 2015 fuelled by government regulations and policies. Simultaneously, the international climate change fraternity has been gearing up for the 21st Conference of Parties to be held in Paris in December 2015, where it is expected that legally binding goals for reduction of carbon emissions will be set for all nations for the first time. Due to the agreement reached in Lima, every nation has to now come up with plans to reduce the carbon intensity of their economy. With the global spotlight now on India, India’s thrust will continue to remain on increasing share of renewable energy generation and improving energy efficiency in industries and facilities. Here’s looking at what will likely emerge as the top sustainability thrust areas buttressed by strong policies in 2015 for India. 1. Sustainable energy =Rise of Renewable energy One of the provisions in the Electricity Amendment Bill that has been introduced in the Lok Sabha this December is that thermal power plants have to compulsorily generate energy from renewable sources. The bill also seeks to raise fines for non-compliance of Renewable Purchase Obligations by electricity distribution companies from Rs. 0.1 million to Rs. 10 million. There have also been talks of a Renewable Energy Bill which would overhaul the transmission and distribution systems as well as encourage indigenous manufacturing of renewable energy equipment with the provision of 100% tax breaks in order to ensure that 15% of the county's power requirement is addressed through renewable energy sources by 2020. Thus, it is quite clear that like in 2014, Renewable Energy Generation will continue to remain the key thrust area of Sustainability for the Indian government. 2. Time for Railways, Refineries and Power distributors to get PAT on the back Energy Efficiency will continue to remain a priority area in 2015 with the first round of the PAT (Perform- Achieve- Trade) Scheme covering the aluminum, cement, chlor-alkali, fertiliser, iron & steel, paper & pulp, thermal power and textiles sectors coming to an end in March 2015. The year will also see the commencement of the second phase of the PAT scheme which will bring under its ambit three more heavily polluting industries- railways, oil refineries and power distributors. It will also increase its coverage of the existing sectors. Overall, all the plants in the six sectors were to achieve a 4.05 per cent reduction in the average energy consumption by 2014-15. This was estimated to reduce annual energy consumption by 6.69 million tonnes-of-oil-equivalents (mtoe) at the end of Phase 1. BEE reports show that in 2013-2014 annual energy savings worth 4.12 mtoe were already achieved and 217 of the 478 plants (45%) have already met their targets and another 60 plants are well on their way to do so. BEE expects that there will be overall compliance with the scheme, with some amount of trading of the Energy Savings Certificates to meet targets. The units failing to meet their targets will incur a penalty of Rs. 1 million. 3. Subsidy for Electric Vehicles to revive the slow EV market in India It is expected that a subsidy scheme of Rs. 10 billion will be approved by the finance ministry early in 2015 to revive the lackluster EV market in India. The National Mission for Electric Mobility 2020 was launched in January, 2013 for fostering adoption and manufacture of electrical vehicles (including hybrid vehicles) and aims to sell 6-7 million units of EVs by 2020. When the subsidy was cancelled, it saw a sharp decline in Electric Vehicle sales in the country, but its re-introduction is expected to boost the market again. Companies like Mahindra & Mahindra, Terra Motors and Tesla are already gearing up to meet the increased demand of Electric Vehicles once the subsidy scheme comes into place. Overall, this is expected to impact both the consumers and the automotive sectors, and might even affect the Oil & Gas sector to some extent in the long run. 4. Water sustainability would become the new mantra for Industries In his first speech after becoming the PM, Narendra Modi spoke of cleaning up the nation’s rivers. India is slowly waking up to the fact that water, not coal or oil, may well emerge as the most critical natural resource for the nation’s progress. Subsequently, the Clean Ganaga Fund and Namami Gange program to clean up the Ganges have been launched. One of the key provisions of this scheme is making Zero Liquid Discharge mandatory for all highly polluting industries releasing effluents into tributaries of the Ganga. Industrial waste- water treatment will emerge as a crucial factor for many industries, with norms getting stricter and adversely affecting units who have not put adequate checks in place till now for ensuring that the waste-water they discharge meets certain minimum criteria. 5. India goes Digital in 2015 The new government is putting unprecedented importance on e-governance and making processes ‘smarter’. There is a lot of focus on removing operational hurdles by leveraging the power of the internet and mobile phones to make way for a government and a nation that is truly in the digital age. The Digital India vision is meant to have a nation that is connected through the cloud- no more running around for papers, verifications or submissions. This thrust on connectivity will bring about a radical shift in the way public and municipal services are provided and managed , thereby reducing inefficiencies and saving time, money (in the form of bribes), and fuel. The Digital India campaign is expected to provide a huge boost to the telecommunication and IT industry, while empowering people by according them access to services and information. Author: Sustainability Outlook Document Tag: Policy Tracker Technology Social Issues Human Interest Environment An initiative incubated by cKinetics, Sustainability Outlook is a leading market access, insight and collaboration platform tracking actions related towards sustainability. Sustainability Outlook offers a range of solutions including (a) in-depth business and policy analysis (b) tools and frameworks for enabling resource sustainability (c) expert inputs on sustainability measures being undertaken in industries as well as communities. 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__label__cc	0.707758	0.292242	The Reid Group Sites > The Reid Group: Faith > February 2016: 5 Characteristics Sustaining Today’s Religious Communities February 2016: 5 Characteristics Sustaining Today’s Religious Communities The Reid Group News The Reid Group Teleseminar Series 5 Characteristics Sustaining Today’s Religious Communities The Reid Group Senior Consultant Maureen Gallagher has worked with many religious communities of women and men over the years. In this edition of Transforming Challenges, she identifies five characteristics she has found necessary to sustain religious communities today. At The Reid Group, we have a passion for helping leaders and organizations transform their challenges into opportunities to create a better world. One of the ways we do that is through this e-letter, Transforming Challenges. Is there someone you know who could benefit from receiving it? Forward this edition to them and encourage them to subscribe for themselves. They’ll thank you—and so do we! Tom Reid facilitated an All-Ministry meeting for the California Catholic Conference the first week in February where 70+ ministry leaders from all 12 dioceses in California met to discuss the implications of three major issues for an election year and beyond: Caring Well Through the End of Life, Faithful Citizenship, and Marriage and Family Life 2016: Viewing All Ministries Through the Lens of the Family. Communities magazine, a publication of the Fellowship for Intentional Community, published an article by Maureen Gallagher in the Winter 2015 issue: Intentional Communities: Something Old, Something New. You can find this article on our web site, in the Resources section. John Reid is working with the Strategic Mission Plan committee of the Maryknoll Society of Fathers and Brothers on a strategic plan. This first-ever, Society-Wide plan will be finalized by July 2016. Lucien Roy has been hired by the Archdiocese of St. Louis to work with the Department of Pastoral Planning on a project interpreting the data coming out of the Parish Planning and Viability Study and its implications for the archdiocese’s beOne ministry plan for 2016-2018. Maureen Gallagher will facilitate the 43rd annual conference of the Conference for Pastoral Planning and Council Development in Chicago in April. The theme of the conference is “Compelled by a Ministry Impulse: Pastoral Planning for a Change of Era.” So as you look at your individual or organizational future, what are your challenges? Could you benefit from skilled support? Give us a call at 206-432-3565 or send us an e-mail to start transforming those challenges into opportunities. It has been said that the only constant in life is change. At this time in our collective life we could modify these words to say that the only constant in life is rapid change. How can I better work with change as an individual? How can my team and I work with change, rather than reacting to or resisting change? You are invited to The Reid Group Teleseminar on a contemplative approach to change for leaders and teams: Approaching Change from the Inside Out & a Process for Groups Working with Change 4pm ET / 3pm CT / 2pm MT / 1pm PT The call will focus on contemplative attitudes and practices for leaders and organizations working with the reality of change. To register for this teleseminar, simply click here. Materials and resource information to be used on the call will be sent to all registrants. If there is a topic you would like to see us explore, send your suggestions to info@thereidgroup.biz. Maureen Gallagher, Senior Consultant Intentional communities-people gathering to share life together, to discover meaning, and to have an impact beyond themselves-have been part of the human landscape for centuries. Catholic religious communities are one type of intentional community. I have been a planning consultant for both men’s and women’s Catholic communities for the past 12 years. In that experience, I have found that there are five characteristics that prevail in effective intentional religious communities of both men and women: #1: A founding leader or leaders whose charism continues to inspire A charism is a gift freely given by God. Catholic religious communities have unique charisms: some talk about the gentleness and kindness of the Savior; some about search for truth through contemplation; others are called to integrate the Gospel values into daily life. I have been inspired by women and men religious who can articulate their founding charism as if the leader were still alive and walking the earth. The charisms of communities which attract people today are both broad and deep enough to continually inspire followers to meet the needs of a contemporary world. #2: A transcendental or spiritual element Many charisms explicitly state a particular spiritual focus, acknowledging the presence of the transcendent. For instance, one articulation of the Franciscan charism is centered in the incarnational worldview (Spirit in the world), and in a life of penance or conversion. Contemplation, silence, and meditation have been an essential part of all the communities with whom I have worked. #3: A purpose or mission Some communities exist to pray and be united in heart and mind with Jesus Christ through prayer for the world and the Church. Others have specific ministries and exist to “participate in the prophetic mission of Jesus to witness God’s love for all creation.” Articulating the community’s mission or purpose for existence in a compelling manner is critical for its survival. #4: Agreed-upon “ground rules,” boundaries, mutual expectations Besides the formal Rule and Constitution by which canonical religious communities agree to live, communities need to have mutual understandings regarding “ground rules,” boundary issues, cultural mores, and shared expectations of each other. It is in this arena where conflicts or misunderstandings or tensions often arise based on age differences, cultural differences, or personality differences. As one sister said, this is where “all the theology goes out the window and the ‘rubber hits the road.'” Interpersonal struggles, unbridled egos, and pettiness-the human condition-take their toll on religious life as well as the life of all intentional communities. #5: A compelling vision Vision points to what we want our world or our community to look like in the next five to 10 years. It needs to connect to the charism, mission, and values of a community and integrate them into a coherent whole. Many of the men’s and women’s religious communities that I am working with have undertaken the concept of sustainability as a vital part of their vision. They are talking about ecological sustainability, evolving consciousness, and the sustainability of their legacy-to create a more just society and Church. In her book Green Sisters, Sarah McFarland Taylor describes her first-hand knowledge of the Sisters whose lives bring together “Catholicism and ecology, orthodoxy and activism, traditional theology and a passionate mission to save the planet.” The five characteristics named above can be an impetus for intentional communities today. Just as both initial and ongoing formation are essential to vibrant religious communities, so too, other intentional communities might well benefit from the wisdom of those who have been contemporary pioneers in forming non-religious life-giving communities. This feature is excerpted from Maureen’s article, Intentional Communities: Something Old, Something New, that appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of Communities magazine. You can read the entire article online here. The Art of Change: Faith, Vision and Prophetic Planning Think about what your organization could do if the process of planning met the inevitability of change head-on—and it resulted in significant success. Organizations large and small, religious and secular, for-profit and not-for-profit, successful and unsuccessful, go through change. John Reid and Maureen Gallagher of the Reid Group have been instrumental in helping many groups discover the power of Prophetic Planning. This book presents a complete overview with detailed information that any organization will find useful in understanding how to plan for change. The Art of Change: Faith, Vision and Prophetic Planning, and its companion CD are now available from Liguori Publications as well as from Amazon.com. And that’s it for this month. Look for Transforming Challenges next month–and until then, have a good day and a great week.Kathy Johnson, Editor, Transforming Challenges The Reid Group E-Letter is © The Reid Group, 12535 15th Ave. NE, Suite 211, Seattle WA 98125; 206-432-3565. Any part of this newsletter may be reproduced with full attribution.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line388
__label__wiki	0.517022	0.517022	The Things 2 Come ← ‘FILTH’: HERE’S HOW SNUBBED MEMBERS OF KNESSET ARE RESPONDING TO OBAMA’S JERUSALEM SPEECH Israel’s Insightful Cynicism → Cyprus bail-out: savers will be raided to save euro in future crises, says eurozone chief Posted on March 27, 2013 by Mary by Bruno Waterfield Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe’s single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced. The new policy will alarm hundreds of thousands of British expatriates who live and have transferred their savings, proceeds from house sales and other assets to eurozone bank accounts in countries such as France, Spain and Italy. The euro fell on global markets after Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch chairman of the eurozone, told the FT and Reuters that the heavy losses inflicted on depositors in Cyprus would be the template for future banking crises across Europe. “If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be ‘Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalise yourself?’,” he said. “If the bank can’t do it, then we’ll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we’ll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders.” Ditching a three-year-old policy of protecting senior bondholders and large depositors, over €100,000, in banks, Mr Dijsselbloem argued that the lack of market contagion surrounding Cyprus showed that private investors could now be hit to pay for bad banking debts. Cyprus agrees €10bn bail-out deal with eurozone Unprecedented cash rations in Cyprus as last-ditch talks held Cyprus deal sets ‘worrying’ precedent Eurozone offers Cyprus the exit Cyprus facing ruin regardless of deal ‘There is no future here in Cyprus’ “If we want to have a healthy, sound financial sector, the only way is to say, ‘Look, there where you take on the risks, you must deal with them, and if you can’t deal with them, then you shouldn’t have taken them on,'” he said. “The consequences may be that it’s the end of story, and that is an approach that I think, now that we are out of the heat of the crisis, we should take.” The announcement is highly significant as it signals the mothballing of the euro’s €700bn bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which Spain and Ireland wants to be used to recapitalise their troubled banks. “We should aim at a situation where we will never need to even consider direct recapitalisation,” he said. “If we have even more instruments in terms of bail-in and how far we can go on bail-in, the need for direct recap will become smaller and smaller.” The eurozone had been planning to roll out the ESM as a “big bazooka” in mid-2014 that could help save banks and prevent financial turmoil in countries such Spain or Italy, a development that has been delayed by German resistance. Mr Dijesselbloem’s comments will alarm countries like Ireland and Spain that had been hoping to access the ESM in order to restructure banks without killing off their financial sector by inflicting huge losses on investors. “I think the approach needs to be, let’s deal with the banks within the banks first, before looking at public money or any other instrument coming from the public side,” he said. “Banks should basically be able to save themselves, or at least restructure or recapitalise themselves as far as possible.” In a note published on Monday following the Cyprus bailout deal, Barclays warned that “the decision to bail in senior bank debt and large depositors will likely have a price impact on equity and credit instruments of those euro area banks that are perceived as the weakest”. Mr Dijsselbloem acknowledged that “there is still nervousness” but claimed that any jitters on financial markets caused by the new approach would be a good thing because it would raise the cost of borrowing for unsound banks, an argument unlikely to win friend in Madrid or Rome. “If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that,” he said. “I think it is a sound economic principle. And having cheap money because the risk will be covered by the government, and I will always get my money back, is not leading to the right decisions in the financial sector.” Last night, the Dutch finance minister tried to row back from his comments by insisting that “Cyprus is a specific case”. “Macro-economic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used,” he said. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades admitted the eurozone bailout deal he struck in Brussels on Monday was painful but said Cyprus could now make a fresh start after having come a “breath away” from collapse. He also said there would be a criminal investigation into the crisis. Banks in Cyprus will remain closed until Thursday, the nation’s central bank announced. It had said earlier that banks would reopen today after a week-long shutdown, except for Laiki and Bank of Cyprus. I have been a believer since 1981. Everything else before that is relatively meaningless. My heart has, from day 1, always been toward the subject of bible prophecy and I have seen the Lord do amazing things in my life through simply studying the Word and applying it to my life. I am a wife, grandmother and work full time in ministry. Life is full, and full of learning curves and seasons. View all posts by Mary → This entry was posted in Spirit of the Age. 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__label__cc	0.704904	0.295096	Home/Courses Coursesadminx2017-07-21T07:48:19+00:00 TIPU SULTAN UNANI MEDICAL COLLEGE KAMIL – E – TIB – WA – JARAHAT BACHELOR OF UNANI MEDICINE & SURGERY (B.U.M.S DEGREE COURSE) (4 ½ YEARS + ONE YEAR INTERSHIP) as per CCIM Norms Regulation and scheme of examination of degree course in BUMS REGISTRATION OF APPLICATION Application form for admission along with the prospectus can be obtained from the Principal, Tipu Sultan Unani Medical College, Gulbarga either in person or by sending a self-addressed envelope (10”x5”) with postal stamps of Rs 30/- along with D.D. of Rs 300/- As per the Department of Indian Medicine Govt. of India for Admissions to 1st BUMS NEET is not compulsory for the academic year 2017-18. CCIM directions of 2016-17 are to be followed this year also. Application form should be submitted after furnishing all the particulars in complete manner to the Principal, Tipu Sultan Unani Medical College, Gulbarga, with the following certificates and four Photostat copies. Marks card of PUC II/ 10+2/ B. Sc. Or Equivalent Urdu known certificate Conduct certificate Physical fitness certificate Migration certificate for other than Karnataka State student A. Qualification Candidate seeking admission to Kamil-e-Tib-o-Jarahat (Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery) Degree Course: Shall have passed two years Pre University examination conducted by Department of Pre University Education, Karnataka State with English as one of the subject and Physics, Chemistry and Biology as optional subjects. The candidate must have obtained a minimum of not less than 50% aggregate marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology in general and 40% for SC, ST, Cat-1, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B Category candidates of Karnataka. Its equivalent recognised by RGUHS, Bangalore with 50%of marks in aggregate of Physics, Chemistry and Biology. B. Minimum Age Candidates should attain the age of 17 (Seventeen) years as on 1st December of the year of admission to BUMS Course. Urdu as a subject passed in the 10th Class Examination or should have passed its equivalent through any recognized madarsa. As per the CCIM 2016 regulations under RS5 The failed student of first professional shall be allowed to appear in second professional examination, but the student shall not be allowed to appear in third professional examination unless the student passes all the subjects of first professional examination and maximum four chances shall be given to pass first professional examination within a period of maximum three years. The failed student of second professional who have passed all the subjects of first professional examination shall be allowed to appear in third professional examination, but the student shall not be allowed to appear in final professional examination unless the student passes all the subjects of second professional examination and maximum four chances shall be given to pass second professional examination within a period of maximum three years. The failed student of third professional who have passed all the subjects of first and second professional examinations shall be allowed to appear in final professional examination and maximum four chances shall be given to pass third professional examination within a period of maximum three years. The student failed in any of the four professional examinations in four chances shall not be allowed to continue his or her studies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line395
__label__cc	0.743484	0.256516	Panoramas of Latvia Vil Muhametshin ”Crime and Punishment” at the New Riga Theatre Crime and Punishment, a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich... ”Make Ice Art” \| Ice Sculpture exhibition at Bastejkalns, Riga, Latvia Wishing you a happy and colourful 2012, friends! :) ”Pearl” of Riga Second hand & vintage shop / wine & stereo bar “Pērle” (Pearl) is somewhat a phenomenon of Riga. Called so after Puerto Rican slum La Perla,... ”Romantic” Art Nouveau building at the Elizabetes street in Riga, Latvia Art Nouveau architecture was popular in Riga during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century – about 40% of the buildings from... ”The Magic Flute” opera scene set scale model at Latvian temporary art exhibition in Riga Exhibition "Dense Space" at the Arsenāls Exhibition Hall in Old Riga, Latvia This exhibition with over 120 works by some 80 authors analyses the... At the dish of the world's eighth largest radio telescope in Irbene, Latvia 32-meter fully steerable parabolic antenna RT-32 of the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre. The world’s eighth-largest radio... At the wheel of American La France Typ 12 ”Symplex”, 1914 ... one of the fastest sport cars of the beginning of the 20th century. Find more about American La France -... Authentic medieval restaurant Rozengrals in Old Riga Located on the narrowest street of Old Riga, Rozengrals is a modern incarnation of what was once Vinarium Civitatis Rigensis – the wine-cellar and... Autumn feeling, Latvia Baroque immersion at the Rundale palace, Latvia Baroque dance specialists from Russia, Germany and the Baltics came to Rundale to enjoy the authentic ambiance of the palace. Before the service at the Riga Lutheran Church of Jesus, Latvia During its existence the church of Jesus as long as the biggest part of Riga churches, was many times demolished and then restored. The first stone... Bridge over the Gauja River in Sigulda, Latvia This is one of the most impressive bridges in Latvia. It was opened in 1937, but already in 1941 during military operations it was destroyed. In... Clowns David & Vlad bubbling at the Riga Circus... Cabin of ”Selve 12/50 Torpedo” (1927), Riga Motor Museum, Latvia After World War I, the Northern German Automobile Works (Norddeutsche AutomobilWerke), which made the Colibri car and the Sperber, was absorbed by... Christmas time at the Art Nouveau Museum in Riga Climbing at the Soviet time radio telescope in Irbene, Latvia The world’s eighth-largest radio telescope can be found in Kurzeme, not very far from the seaside between Kolka and Ventspils. Even today, the... Clowns Gena and Katya at Riga Circus, Latvia Convivial evening at the Golden Hall in Rundale Palace Historic guests from different epochs came to Rundale Palace one snowy winter afternoon to re-create the atmosphere of the past in the genuine... Dinner in the early 20th century style at the Art Nouveau Museum in Riga The most luxurious room in this apartment, which was a place for a dinner with friends and everyday meals with family. Dining room is a room where... Dolls garden in Sabile, Latvia view all the folders »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line405
__label__wiki	0.655632	0.655632	Photo by: Riot Games WE's 957 to retire on Jan. 18, will switch roles By Radoslav "Nydra" Kolev Long-time Team WE top laner Ke “957” Chang-Yu will retire on January 18, the day his team faces JD Gaming in Xi’an. This will end 957’s five-year-long career, all of which he spent in the WE organization. During his time with WE, 957 won one LPL title and placed top four at MSI and Worlds, all in the span of year 2017. Since he was brought on to WE’s main team in December 2015, he acted as the starting top laner until the signing of Kim “Poss” Min-Cheol, who took over. According to WE, 957 will stay in esports, but in a new roles. Speculation among Chinese fans is that the top laner will transition into a casting/analyst roles — a natural career progression for many retired pro players — but a coaching/managerial role within the LPL, or even within the same org, is not out of the question either. This off-season, several retired professionals transitioned into coaches, including Cho “Mata” Se-hyeong (currently coaching Royal Never Give Up) and Ming “Clearlove” Kai who is now at the helm of EDward Gaming. Mata joins RNG as their new head coach Team WE’s Jan. 18 game against JD Gaming will be the team’s debut in the 2020 LPL Spring Season. Last season, WE barely missed the playoffs, finishing 9th and in the off-season lost key players, including bot laner Jin “Mystic” Seong-jun and mid Su “xiye” Han-Wei. 957’s retirement is yet another loss of a veteran, that is looking to make WE’s Spring Season all the more difficult. Share on FacebookShare on TwitterCopy hyperlink Related Topicsteam we957	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line406
__label__cc	0.506029	0.493971	Promo + Giveaway: Her Sinful Angel by Felicity Heaton Her Sinful Angel, book eight in New York Times best-seller Felicity Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Her Angel, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website. Find out how to enter the Her Sinful Angel international giveaway (ends August 9th) and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate at her website, where you can also download a 5 chapter sample of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-sinful-angel-romance-book.php Here’s more about Her Sinful Angel, including an excerpt from this paranormal romance novel. Author's Website \| Amazon US \| Amazon UK \| Amazon DE \| Amazon CA \| Amazon AU \| iBooks US \| iBooks UK \| iBooks AU \| iBooks CA \| iBooks NZ \| ARE \| Google Play \| GoodReads Cast out of Heaven and now the king of Hell, Lucifer is a powerful fallen angel warrior with a heart as cold as ice and soul as black as the bottomless pit. For millennia, he has ruled his realm with an iron fist as he plots the demise of his ancient enemies. When one of those enemies dumps an unconscious mortal female in the courtyard of his fortress and leaves her there, Lucifer finds himself entranced by the beguiling beauty and tempted beyond all reason. But is the enchanting Nina an innocent pawn in the eternal game or part of a plot against him? Her Sinful Angel is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-sinful-angel-romance-book.php Her Sinful Angel – Excerpt Lucifer stood in his study in front of the middle of the three towering windows, his gaze fixed on the distant plateau. White light broke the darkness there, a sign that angels were travelling between his realm and the mortal one. A world he hadn’t set foot in for millennia. His golden gaze slid off to his left and downwards, towards the room where he had left the mortal female. Her world. He clasped his hands behind his back and studied the black stone floor. His black suit jacket stretched tight across his chest as he breathed slowly but steadily, his mind churning over everything he had learned about the woman in his custody. He still didn’t know why Mihail had brought her to him, and he couldn’t help thinking that it was a trap. It was possible that the woman had been given instructions, orders that were buried so deep in her mind that she wouldn’t remember receiving them. Some angels possessed the power to manipulate weaker creatures in such a manner, and everything she had told him yesterday had made it clear that Mihail or another angel had tampered with her memories. If she had been given orders, then he had to wait for the right event to trigger them before he could discover why Mihail had sent her. Lucifer narrowed his gaze on the floor, his focus on the woman. He didn’t think she was anything other than mortal, but it was entirely possible he was wrong about that. Some species could masquerade as mortals. Shifters in particular. It had been a very long time since he had encountered one from that species, long enough that he might not recognise them. She could be a witch too. But she didn’t feel powerful to him. Her strength was barely a drop in the ocean of his. Was she using a spell to mask her power and muddle his ability to detect lies on her? He shook his head at that. She hadn’t lied to him when he had asked whether she could remember what had happened to her, but she had lied when she had told him that she couldn’t think of a reason why anyone would want to harm her or have her kidnapped. If she possessed the ability to conceal her lies, she would have hidden that one from him. There had been a haunted edge to her bright peridot eyes as she had uttered that lie and a spike in her heart rate that had warned him that she had walked the same path as he had millennia ago—a path of pain and suffering. Of betrayal. A path he still walked now. He didn’t know what had happened to her, and he didn’t want to know. She wasn’t here so he could learn about her. She was here so he could discover Mihail’s plan and take the angel down once and for all. Lucifer dragged his focus away from her and fixed it back on the plateau. Mihail was up to something and he had to concentrate on discovering what that was. His focus slipped, his acute senses drifting to pinpoint the woman again. Who had betrayed her? The first stirrings of anger warmed his heart, warning him to pull his thoughts away from not her but the betrayal she had suffered before it was too late and his mood degenerated. All of Hell would suffer if it slipped his grasp and his temper flared, but even the knowledge of what he might do in a fit of rage wasn’t enough to stop him treading the dark path of his memories to a place he had tried to forget. A time when he had trusted someone and they had betrayed him. A time when he had been given no choice and had been powerless to stop his fall. Lucifer curled his hands into fists, his emerging black claws cutting into his palms. He glared at the plateau as another white streak of light appeared and growled through his short fangs, the desire to teleport there and tear into the angels almost overwhelming him and shattering his fragile hold on his control. He wanted to rip their wings from them just as his had been torn from him. He wanted them to suffer the torture that he had, the agony of being cast from their home, slung into a bottomless and dark pit where only endless pain awaited them. He wanted them to know how it felt to do all that their master asked of them, to carry out every terrible act and horrific crime regardless of how it had made them feel, only to have that same master betray them. Lucifer snarled and slammed his left fist into the black wall beside the window. The stone shattered under the blow but he didn’t feel the pain that ricocheted up his arm. 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__label__cc	0.534746	0.465254	OrdCategories Ordnance come in all shapes and sizes and are each designed to defeat a certain target or to be deployed from a specific platform. Ordnance can be grouped into ten general categories including: Guided Missiles Landmines Submunitions Underwater Ordnance Reference "Bombs and Fuzes" Joint Targeting School - http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/docs/a532/RDG7A-4.htm Bombs are air dropped munitions ranging in weight from 1 to 3,000 lbs and in length from 2 to 10 feet. There are hundreds of specific bomb configurations but generally speaking bombs all have similar components including a container or body, a fuze or fuzes, a booster and a stabilizing device. Bombs are categorized according to the ratio of explosive weight to total weight. Categories include general purpose (GP), demolition, fragmentation, and penetration. There are also two other common category of bombs including cluster or dispenser bombs and Incendiary or Firebombs Bomb Classifications GP Bombs: GP bombs usually have an explosive weight equal to approximately 50 percent of the total weight of the bomb. These bombs normally weigh from 250 to 2000 pounds and produce relatively good blast and fragmentation. GP bombs can be used against a variety of targets. Since the body case is approximately one-half-inch thick, the casing creates a fragmentation effect at the moment of detonation. Also, since the explosive filler constitutes approximately 50 percent of the total weight, considerable damage from the blast effect can be expected at the point of detonation. In addition to these effects, a mining effect can be gained through the use of delayed-action fuzes. GP bombs can be made into a semi-armor piercing bomb by retaining the original nose closure plug and installing only a tail fuze. This configuration will penetrate medium hard targets. This bomb type was given the designation GP because of its versatility.GP bombs are all cylindrical in shape and are equipped with conical fins or retarders. They are adapted for both nose and tail fuzes to ensure reliability and to cause the desired effects. GP bombs in the current inventory are all similar in construction. The most common GP bombs are the MK 80 Series which include the MK 82 ( 500 pound class), the MK 83 (1000 pound class) and the MK 84 (2000 pound class) The MK 82 in the cut-away figure below serves as a typical example. Demolition Bombs: Demolition bombs have an explosive weight equal to approximately 65 to 80 percent of the total weight. These bombs have a relatively thin-walled casing to maximize blast effects while penetration and fragmentation effects are limited. Fragmentation Bombs: These bombs are intended to disperse and project high-velocity fragments. The fragments are the principle damage mechanism of the weapons, with blast effects being a secondary consideration. The charge to total weight ratio varies from 10 to 20 percent. No bombs presently in the inventory are primarily fragmentation bombs although GP bombs do produce a relatively good fragmentation effect. Penetration Bombs: These bombs are designed to penetrate and explode inside a hard target such as a concrete bunker. They are built with heavy cases and are aerodynamically designed to counter break-up. The explosive charge is approximately 25 to 30 percent of the total weight. The AGM-65 Maverick missile and the BLU-109 are good examples of penetrating munitions. Cluster Bomb Unit (CBU) CBUs and dispensers are bombs that are loaded with a payload of submunitions . Some CBUs and dispensers can hold up to a couple of hundred submunitions inside. CBUs are usually dropped from an aircraft and have a fuzing mechanism which breaks open the CBU at a pre-determined time or altitude and distributes the submunitions on the intended target. Dispensers usually are configured to stay attached to the aircraft and eject individual submunitions out one at a time in a rapid motion. The first image below shows a CBU and the aircraft and the second picture is a close up of the same CBU just after the fuze is activated separating the clam shell like thin cased body apart dispersing the submunitions. Sometimes on a range you'll find CBU containers that failed to open and stuck inside are the submunitions. CBU containers should be approached with caution because even if the fuze functions and body has CBU container has separated there still maybe 1 or 2 submunitions that did not break free from the container while in flight. These hung submunitions can be very dangerous and deadly if the CBU container is disturbed. BlogCFC was created by Raymond Camden. This blog is running version 5.5.002.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line417
__label__wiki	0.712019	0.712019	the Banner Bright about · subscribe · shop · archives The Australian has helpfully identified a list of Australia’s 250 biggest hoarders, who are amassing unfathomable wealth that could be put to far better use: “The List features 96 billionaires… with an average wealth of $1.27 billion for the 250 people featured. Their combined wealth is almost $320bn.” Next time the government claims we can’t afford to invest in health, education or infrastructure, point them to The List — we know exactly who to tax, and exactly where they are stockpiling their cash. There is no reason anyone should have this kind of personal wealth. There is no meritocracy and they certainly didn’t earn it. Luke Savage nails it: “No one earns a billion dollars, but hierarchical economic structures and a skewed political system ensure some nevertheless acquire it because of the property they own. A billion dollars … is not a reward proportionate to someone’s social contribution. It’s institutionalized theft, plain and simple.” After an illegal attempt to bypass the union was this week blocked by the Fair Work Commission, Chemist Warehouse capitulated to the demands of its striking workers. In addition to significant wage rises, outsourced workers will be paid agreement rates, casual employees will have the right to be made permanent after six months — and those casuals who participated in the strike will be given permanent jobs immediately. Professor Anthony Forsyth, who conducted the Victorian Government’s inquiry into the labour hire industry, summarises the significance of the Chemist Warehouse victory: “the NUW has made huge inroads into a major company’s extensive use of labour hire. In many sectors of the economy, including warehousing, logistics and manufacturing, the original intention of labour hire — to provide a supplement to the core workforce in response to business needs — has been usurped by the engagement of large numbers of long-term, labour hire casuals. The Chemist Warehouse agreement is an important clawing back of that misuse of labour hire. The NUW has shown … that the more traditional industrial tools (strikes, protests) are still effective — especially when combined with organising and communication through social media.” Strikes work! The final episode of breakfast TV satire Get Krack!n aired on ABC last night, with regular hosts Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan joined/replaced by Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui. This review is spot on: “The tag ‘must-watch TV’ gets bandied about for any second-rate reality TV episode, but on Wednesday night ABC show Get Krack!n gave Australian TV its most searing half-hour in living memory.” It is a confronting, rage-fuelled spectacle — the punch in the face that White Australia needs. Watch it on iView as soon as you can. John Howard is giving a speech today in which he claims Australia’s economic inequality is a myth. In a publicity interview [$] with “journalist” Simon Benson [$], Howard said: “These figures don’t suggest inequality is growing at all. Australia’s wealth per adult is the second-highest in the world.” Great — but averages do not measure inequality. To do that, you need to compare the distribution of wealth on a spectrum. ACOSS reports: “The average wealth of the highest 20% rose by 53% (to $2.9 million) from 2003 to 2016, while that of the middle 20% rose by 32% and for lowest 20% declined by 9%. The wealth of the wealthiest 5% grew even more rapidly, by 60% over this 12-year period.” These facts are important — a recent study shows that “providing respondents with information about inequality and mobility in Australia makes them more likely to desire urgent action from the government to reduce inequality, more supportive of providing free and high-quality health and education, and less supportive of cutting corporate taxes. This effect was largely due to Coalition voters becoming more progressive in their views.” No wonder Howard is being deployed to muddy the waters in advance of the election. Who wrote this about Gallipoli: “It is said that one huge Queenslander swung his rifle by the muzzle, and, after braining one Turk, caught another and flung him over his shoulder. I do not know if this story is true, but when we landed some hours later, there was said to have been a dead Turk on the beach with his head smashed in.” Was it a biased academic historian using unverified rumour to push a left-wing agenda? No, it was Australia’s official war correspondent, Charles Bean, in his first report from the landing. The latest salvo in the History Wars, a bizarre whinge on the front page of The Australian [$] complaining that history students are taught soldiers kill people, is (to borrow a phrase) political correctness gone mad. It seems it is still too early to draw any clear conclusions from the disappointing result of the NSW election, although the early conversation between Ben Raue and Osmond Chiu is worth listening to. From a Victorian vantage point, the only real standout moments were when Michael Daley quite rightly told Alan Jones to get stuffed, and then when Michael Daley quite wrongly scapegoated migrants for cost of living pressures in Sydney: “Our young children will flee and who are they being replaced with? They are being replaced by young people from typically Asia with PhDs.” Liam Hogan argues this is a reminder that Labor has a long history of racism, and the party needs to be more careful in its treatment of various issues to avoid slipping into racist tropes. Responding to Daley’s invocation of “our children”, Hogan says: “We might start by being clear about who ‘we’ is. ‘We’ cannot be a proxy, even by accident, for white people, and neither can it be that subtle proxy for white people, ‘existing residents’. Let’s be clear that ‘our’ children includes children who have yet to be born, and are yet to migrate. ‘Our’ jobs includes jobs that are yet to exist, in industries that we can’t imagine yet. Our society and our city is going to change. What’s necessary is a society where the benefits of those changes are shared, and are seen to be shared.” Unions are calling for a boycott of Chemist Warehouse retail outlets, to support striking warehouse workers who are facing intimidation: “Chemist Warehouse stores appear to be running low on goods as allegations emerged that striking workers have been targeted with violence and threats at the picket line. … [O]ne protester said her car tyres were slashed, while others were hospitalised after being struck by trucks, the National Union of Workers alleged. Police were called over one threat.” The striking workers are demanding pay in line with industry standards, job security, and an end to sexual harassment. You can support the campaign by boycotting Chemist Warehouse, signing the petition, and donating to the strike fund. Osmond Chiu calls for Harmony Day to be dropped — it was introduced by the Howard Government to replace Australia’s observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: “Undoubtedly people feel an attachment to Harmony Day as a celebration of cultural diversity that schools, workplaces and community groups can participate in. It is a day that people have a positive association and feel very comfortable with. But it does us no favours by avoiding any hard conversations about racism. As educator Robin DiAngelo has pointed out, niceness is not anti-racism. A parallel would be celebrating International Women’s Day without mentioning ongoing under-representation, sexism or the gender pay gap.” Compare the themes for 2019: Harmony Day’s is the insipid “everyone belongs”, while IDERD’s is “mitigating and countering rising nationalist populism and extreme supremacist ideologies”. We need to rise to that challenge. PP McGuinness Jr reckons the minimum wage does not exist in Australia [$] “because workers regularly accept [sic] less than the mandated minimum wage”. She cites 7-Eleven workers who were forced to accept half the legal minimum because they “needed to earn money somehow and feared reporting the below-award wage conditions would lead to their visas being cancelled”. She admits this “sound[s] uncomfortably like coercion” — yes, and if it quacks like a duck… Of course, McGuinness is the director of a PR firm that writes opinion articles to push the agenda of its business clients, and this PR column is designed to shift responsibility onto the victims of exploitation. Implicit in her argument is the idea that bosses should be free to pick and choose which workplace laws they obey — and this is certainly a view shared by the great many wage thieves who do not fear being caught by the underresourced and toothless Fair Work Ombudsman. But that need not be the case: we can make the minimum wage a reality by making wage thieves scared again. We are seeing calls for increased moderation of vile content on social media — while this will not solve deeply embedded racism and misogyny, it is nevertheless reasonable to expect that companies will take responsibility for the impact they have on society. But spare a thought for the outsourced and exploited workers who are forced to wade through this filth. Facebook’s content moderators “make just [US]$28,800 per year and are micromanaged down to the minute; for instance, they are allotted nine minutes per day of ‘wellness time,’ but they are forbidden to go to the restroom during this time. Moreover, Muslim employees have been forbidden from using their wellness time to pray. Many content moderators have developed chronic PTSD or secondary traumatic stress from watching graphically violent videos for weeks, and months, or years on end.” That’s well below the Australian minimum wage, to do very difficult, essential work. These are tech sweatshops and the social media oligarchy should be held responsible for them, too. ⇠ Older posts it well recalls the triumphs past, it gives the hope of peace at last; the Banner Bright the symbol plain, of human right and human gain.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line419
__label__cc	0.68737	0.31263	The Hustling The last five years of my life have been absolutely incredible, a rush and adventure that I never thought I’d experience once, not to mind twice! And now I have some news but I guess like everything context is important so sorry if this gets lengthy but it needs to be said. Like every good story there’s three parts. Meet two incredible guys, Pat Phelan & Chris Kennedy with a crazy dream of transforming how the world tackles a huge, almost invisible problem. We all buy online, but few of us realise how rampant online fraud is and the huge costs that it causes the online businesses that we deal with. Starting with a conversation at a damp and cold, outdoor smoking shelter at Heathrow Airport where Pat first outlined the idea behind Trustev to me, to moving into the, now infamous, waxing salon first office of Trustev, as we grew slowly, we knew there was something in the idea. At first it was hard to explain, complicated to demo and like every good prototype was ugly as hell, but it solved a big, big problem for an industry that traditionally resisted innovation at every step. Somehow, through sheer force of will and hustle, Pat managed to convince companies to take a chance on the unproven idea and slowly but surely it got easier… actually thats not true, it actually got harder, but the little successes grew into larger successes, the technology that Chris and his awesome team built started to grow legs and slowly and steadily the train started to chug forward. We raised the largest seed round in European history, picked up some nice accolades including the EU Commision’s technology startup of the year and the SXSW Accelerator Prize and started to get traction with customers. Somewhere around this time, the urge for a change hit me and it coincided nicely with Pat’s plan to move to New York and base the Sales & Marketing functions of the business there, leaving the technical and operations parts in Cork. After chatting with Pat, which to this day is usually the easiest way to solve any problem or doubt in my head, he just encouraged me to go with my gut and that’s where the Trustev adventure came to a sad close. You see, at that point for a while, I’d been noticing a certain other Cork business… and that’s where the story gets really interesting. Meet two incredible guys, Peter Coppinger & Dan Mackey who were already transforming how hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world get work done, all from Cork, all without investment or debt or any kind. Teamwork.com is one of those stories that is hard to believe, until you get under the hood and experience the sheer commitment and hard work that goes into keeping each and every customer happy. Teamwork.com is a success story like no other, built through sheer hard work and determination by Peter and Dan to build beautiful, intuitive software that really helps businesses get stuff done. Honestly, I’ve never met a bunch of people like the team at teamwork.com. As we grew from 12 people to now nearly 70 in just under two years and no matter how tough it was, we held onto the great culture at Teamwork where everyone worked so hard to ensure that each and every teamwork.com customer got everything they wanted (and then some). Q2 2016 will see the guys and gals at Teamwork.com move into to their new, custom designed Teamwork HQ in Cork – I promise that you’ve never seen anything like it – you’ll be finding excuses to visit! On a timely note, nothing beats the pride of seeing Peter, Dan and the team recognised by the home crowd of the Cork Chamber recently where Teamwork.com won Cork Company of the Year at the Cork Chamber Awards, long overdue recognition for what they’ve built. Having regularly walked down the streets of New York, Austin, San Francisco and other cities in a Teamwork.com t-shirt and get stopped by customers and fans, it’s about time Cork realised the juggernaut in it’s midst and I thank Cork Chamber for being the guys (and gals) who did so! Next step – getting the boys on the Late Late Show to keep the mammies happy! Present day. And here we get to the news. With incredible sadness, I have to tell you all that the teamwork.com part of my life is at an end. To be honest it’s like losing a limb. It’s so incredibly hard leaving a company that was the first and last thing you thought of every single day for so long. I’ll miss seeing each and every one of my teamwork family every day, I don’t think I’ll ever be lucky enough to work again with such a consistently amazing bunch of people who care so much about their customers. It’s like the mother of all breakups and yes, there has been nights of whiskey (and possibly singing)! (Teelings of course! Paul Hayes) But here’s the thing – there’s this idea that’s been eating away at my brain for a while now; a problem that that I want to solve. I’ve spoken to a few people, infinitely smarter than me, who almost seem to think the same and that there’s something to the idea and so I’m making the leap, putting everything on red (cork bhoy!) and spinning the wheel. This means leaving the safety net of Teamwork.com and heading out into the big bad world myself. Starting today, I’m starting the startup adventure anew, but this time for myself, taking everything that I’ve learned from Pat, Chris, Peter and Dan and building a business that I hope will benefit all kinds of businesses and startups. All I know for sure at this stage is that it will be the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Cork is forever still my home, if my time at Teamwork.com and Trustev thought me anything it’s that all that matters when you’re starting a business is hard work followed by more hard work, with a little hard work at the weekends thrown in. It’s one of the few times where Location, Location, Location doesn’t take precedence. In the words of another Corkman who’s doing ok for himself, Liam Casey, geography is history and while certain things might be easier in certain locations, you can’t use geography as an excuse anymore. Cork, Dublin, London, San Francisco – wherever you go, hard work still awaits. Huge thanks to everyone who’s supporting this big transition for me. The problem when a lot of your close friends are the hardest working startup people you know is getting the time to talk crazy ideas with them but over the past few months they’ve been incredibly generous with their time and I’ll always be thankful to them. I hate being a tease but for now, but cards will be kept a little close to the chest until we get a little further down the path, but we’re very pleased with progress to date, there’s the start of a business plan, the beginnings of a team and what I think is a great brand, name and identity for the new company. And, yes, before you ask, it does begin with ’T’ – I’m not taking any changes and who knows? Third time lucky maybe? It’s worked so far! DC Cahalane Founder or possibly f.lounder (in training) February 9, 2016 February 25, 2016 DC has led growth and marketing at some amazing Irish companies like @teamwork and @trustev. He’s passionate about helping people start their own businesses. In his not so spare time, he’s helped over 80 startups across the globe get started, get funded and get noticed. He’s the co-founder of BUILTINCORK, a community initiative to help Cork technology, digital and e-commerce startups start locally but grow globally. PreviousDecisions are made by those who show up NextDear Ireland, Times up. Billy Mahony says: All the best DC, you’ll be missed around here 🙂 Best of luck with your new project Donal. Exciting times man. Now we’ll have to meet for an overdue coffee! Padraig says: exciting times, best of luck DC! the very best DC! Michael Linehan says: Best if luck DC 🙂 No doubt you’ll make whatever the idea is work. Just don’t go hiring CIT boys as interns. I heard they’re shit at washing cups Plus they do seem to attract an unhealthy amount of female attention and distractions around the office! 🙂 Nubi Kay says: Oh wow! DC doing his thang! This will definitely be one to watch closely pulls out notepad and pen All the best man! Quit hanging out with Unicorns.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line423
__label__cc	0.683757	0.316243	Desert Escapes When you think of the desert, you probably imagine long stretches of tan-colored sand without much variety to speak of. But after living in a desert country for a year, I now have a much greater appreciation of the desert's own unique beauty and variation. From rocky escarpments and grooved canyons to grey pebbles or fine, red sand, the Arabian desert is a fabulous place to explore. In February, we squeezed in two more desert trips, trying to take advantage of the weather before everything heated up. Each time we head into the desert, we are very glad we did. These photos below are from a spot called Al-Thumamah, which is probably the most popular camping spot for Saudi families in Riyadh. Part of the area is for camping, while part is reserved for a national park which can be entered only with a permit. We went with the desert-outing group to the campsite area - and we were treated with the most beautiful scenery we have seen yet: rocky crags, valleys chock full of climbable rocks and shrubs, and beach-white sand. As you can see, Misha loved climbing over obstacles as much as Sebby loved exploring the sand, nooks, and crannies. I am sorry for the delay in my blog posts; I have many, many great pictures to upload, but our internet connection is often so unreliable that I don't make much progress. So, I'm taking advantage of the better internet at work to bring you these photos. Let the photo fest begin: This is the desert? Dare-devil climber Ready, set, jump! Sand-swimming! The cave entrance frames Sebby and me in sunlight Daddy and Misha Yes, it's real greenery! Up goes Misha ... Josh enjoys the view after his climbing adventure. Can I fit in here? The kids :) A sign of animal life - a spotted beetle. More beetles! These type move slowly with legs that look far too long for them. The next batch of photos is from another area of beautiful red sands, this time with the white rocky bones of the mountain poking through. Another insect, with its footprint trail behind it. The setting sun quickly cools the desert air. Labels: desert Thunder and Helicopters Saudi Arabia as a country pretty much believes itself to be paradise on Earth, a place where Muslims are free to practice as they were meant to. Since so many people believe this, it's hard to imagine very much happening here as far as anti-government protests are concerned, especially when the government binds itself so tightly to Islam. I was surprised when I first heard of Saudi Arabia's planned "Day of Rage," which was set for Friday, March 11 and planned through Facebook and Twitter. As the day crept closer, anything political or religious about any of the Middle Eastern countries became an off-limits topic in our academic circles. This caused great speculation and curiosity on the part of all the teachers, but we honestly weren't expecting too much, especially considering the general admiration of the king that abounds here. As a case in point, Josh's students told him that the greatest honor they could imagine would be the king coming their house. As if to counter the effects of the planned event, Misha's kindergarten had a big celebration in honor of King Abdullah. Huge posters like this one were plastered everywhere in his school: Children were encouraged to wear green and white (the colors of the flag), T-shirts with the king on them, or traditional costumes, like this classmate of Misha's who is passing out cupcakes. The cupcakes, of course, had green frosting and little pictures of the king on them! After this, all the kids had green-smeared faces (and hands, and shirts ...) The children sat in a circle on the carpet to eat their cupcakes, and when they finished, their teachers encouraged them to come up to the front of the class to sing a song of their choice. Several children did and were rewarded with doughnuts! Misha even sang a song for the class - his favorite Arabic song about the numbers. The teachers gazed at him with complete adoration in their eyes while he sang. Since I managed to pop into his class briefly during their party, I got to enjoy seeing his class and his teachers. I was especially happy to see how his teachers spoke Arabic to everyone, including Misha, and Misha understood just fine. By Wednesday night, we noticed that police cars had already stationed themselves in several locations in the city center. They continued their patrol on Thursday (the first weekend day), and by Friday, the supposed day of the event, police were everywhere. We could spot five from our balcony alone. Several were roaming the streets while others were stationary in intersections. On King Fahd Road, the main North-South street in Riyadh, the streets were full of police with flashing lights. To add to the strange feel of the day, Friday arrived with haze and fog. The unusual quietness of the city was broken only by the sound of helicopters flying overhead, making the day even more eerie. In the afternoon, five huge military buses unloaded in the parking lot just down the street from us, and we watched the camouflage-outfitted soldiers mill around the area, stopping for prayer break to kneel on their mats. A police car mans the quiet, foggy side-street near our balcony. Kingdom Tower shimmers in distance. Military buses patrol the lot. By late afternoon, a storm was definitely in the air, matching the general uneasy atmosphere of the day. Rumbles of thunder tried to produce rain for what seemed like hours until finally, a few drops started to fall. Suddenly, the wind came alive and whipped sand into our mouths and eyes as the rain started to pour down. Since we were at the compound playground, we grabbed our toys and headed for home, trying to carry everything and cover our faces at the same time. Once at home, we watched the storm from our balcony and were amazed when little pieces of hail plinked onto our patio. The sudden storm created such a fog mixed with dust that we couldn't see beyond the buildings across the street. But as suddenly as the storm had started, it ended, and within five minutes, the view was once again clear. The huge show of police and military was enough to deter any protesting on March 11. There was a statement just prior to that day threatening to cut off the fingers of anyone who took to the streets in the March 11th protest. The day before, protests occurred in Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, mainly by the small Shia population (about 10 percent in the Sunni-dominated country) demanding the release of political prisoners held without trial. The Qatif protest resulted in harsh action, namely, police opening fire on protesters and beating them with batons, injuring three. Two days after March 11, police flooded the streets of Riyadh again, and we later learned that there was a small protest here, also demanding the release of prisoners. On March 14, one thousand Saudi troops entered Bahrain to help their fellow Sunni leaders violently quell protests against the government. Bahrain's population is actually 70% Shia, in contrast to its ruling elite. The island of Bahrain has seen incredible damage since Josh last visited its beautiful palm-lined streets. Though we couldn't ask any questions, I got the feeling that people were relieved that nothing happened on the 11th. My students mentioned that the weekend felt "strange" and "scary" and that they were frightened by the helicopters. I don't see protests gaining momentum in Saudi Arabia - at least not now. Last week, the king announced a second huge benefits package for his people totaling 300 billion Riyal ($93 billion), plus another national day for all government employees. (Another day off from teaching!) Unlike in Libya and Egypt, the leaders of Saudi Arabia share their wealth with their people, giving them free education (in fact, the students earn a stipend if they attend university), substantial housing help, and study abroad opportunities. However, the very fact that the government and/or conservative religious elements don't want certain things discussed limits people in a fundamental way, and maybe someday that will matter to them. Labels: kindergarten, king, protests Always Growing It's hard to believe, but it's been nearly a year since we've come to Saudi Arabia. In the life of a child, a year is a long time - so much growing happens in just one spin of the earth. Misha has the same desire for learning that we've always seen, and his recent obsessions are Harry Potter and chess. He has high hopes of playing a real game with Grandpa this summer! And Sebby just keeps getting cuter and more communicative. He always makes us laugh, whether he's climbing up onto the little coffee table to dance on his "stage" or trying to copy Misha's sommersaults by scooting around with his forehead to the floor and his bottom in the air. His vocabulary has mushroomed since his first expressions of "ju" and "uh oh" last summer. Now he knows several phrases, including "Where'd it go?", "There it is!", "Whatzat?" "I want that," "I want eat," and "I want shoes." He loves the water and at the slightest suggestion of bath-time, he demands, "I want bath!" while running to the bathroom and trying to take his shirt off. He knows a plethora of words related to his daily routine - up, down, all gone, look!, wadi (for water), turday (for turtle), no, yesh (for yes), come, book, car, poop, baby, and again. His most recent word is "shirt" - but as he cannot pronounce the 'r', the results are very amusing! If Dad steps out of the apartment for a bit, Sebby nods and affirms, "Coming," knowing that he'll be back soon. When he rides his car down the compound sidewalk and finally sees the park ahead, he shouts, "Yay... whoo hoo!" He can go down every slide by himself and is now learning to appreciate the baby swing. When he finds something of wonder (which happens several times a day), he exclaims "WOW!" And he calls his big brother "Sha." Josh and I have been learning, rather ironically, to salsa dance during our time here in Riyadh. We get together with a few other friends and have fun, informal lessons plus food. The kids join us, of course, and they love the music too! Misha has been doing great at school. He is proud of how much Arabic he has learned, and his teachers coo over his excellent accent. He teaches me phrases he has learned at school -- "Mommy, do you know how to say 'Don't hit?'" says Misha before teaching me. He also knows how to say "bad boy" ("ghalad!") and "close your mouth" - of course, he says these are not directed at him. ;) He often comments on the rowdiness of the other kids. Boys especially tend to be quite aggressive. Besides those classroom management words, he knows lots of other vocab (for family, food, the home) but his specialty is singing Arabic songs. One day after I picked him up from kindergarten and we sat outside the building where I teach, a little girl about his age (the daughter of a security lady) crept ever closer to Misha until she was right next to him. "Ya walad! Kaif hal? Esh ismik?" she asked. (Hey boy! How are you? What's your name?" Misha, focused on eating his treat, mumbled back, "Misha." Eventually a couple of the security ladies joined us on the benches and we had a brief Arabic conversation about his school. I said that Misha knew a lot of songs, and the security woman started to sing a popular kids' song, which Misha joined in singing immediately. She was thrilled. She sang another and Misha sang along. She belted out a third, with the same results. She must have sung 10 songs and Misha knew every one! She was duly impressed - "Mashala!" she kept saying - and so was I. I have recorded Misha's songs onto my iPod, and when I play them for my students (who are always asking about my kids), they exclaim that he sounds just like their little brothers. Occasionally, Misha even gets homework - he has now moved on to writing not just single letters but actual Arabic words. This page shows his efforts writing the letter "ba" (on the right) and the word "beit" (meaning house, using the three letters ba, ya and ta from right to left). He is always eager to finish his homework for the next day. Often at home, Misha will say things to Sebby in Arabic. Little things, like "Shuf, shuf! La, hinna!" (Look, look! No, here!) Sebby is quite used to waving to faces inside the computer. I swear I even heard him say "Grampa" yesterday. Here he is saying "hi" to Grandma and Grandpa in SD, and he likes to chat with Grandma Kate in NM too. Peekaboo! He is at that cute age where he can hardly contain himself when we ask "Where did Sebby go?" This is another one of those classic mall haircuts several weeks ago. The red dye took weeks to come out! Prayer time at the mall means all the men disappear into mosques within the mall and all the women sit around on benches and squeal at how adorable our children are while they wait for the stores to open again. Panarama Mall has the best indoor play place I have ever seen. All four of us are allowed to enter and prowl through the tunnels, climb up the stairs and go flying down the huge slide. Six levels of entertainment! An interesting photo: Just another day at the mall. When it's not crowded, we take Misha's scooter with us and he enjoys cruising through the smooth hallways. Many children rollerblade in malls as well. Like Misha, Sebby has a fondness for drawing and now for painting. However, painting on paper quickly turns into .... face-painting. Bubbles for brothers After a busy day, it's bedtime at last! Labels: arabic, kid talk, kindergarten, shopping Weekends in the Park It's a Zoo Here	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line424
__label__wiki	0.703192	0.703192	AKA: Yamibou, Traveler of Darkness with Hat and Books, ヤミと帽子と本の旅人 (Japanese) Genre: Fantasy / shoujo-ai Distributor: Currently licensed by Media Blasters. Content Rating: PG-13 (adult situations, brief nudity, violence) Related Series: N/A Also Recommended: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum, Touka Gettan Notes: Based on the 2002 eroge visual novel game developed by Root and published by ORBIT. Hatsumi means everything to Hatsuki. They were always together growing up, like sisters, and Hatsuki wants things to stay that way forever in more than a platonic or filial sense. The only problem is that on the stroke of midnight on Hatsumi's sixteenth birthday, she vanishes surrounded by a green light leaving Hatsuki all alone with no idea where her love has gone. Luckily, thanks to a magical round, yellow parakeet named Ken, she finds out that Hatsumi (or Eve as he calls her) has moved onto a different world and she quickly goes off in pursuit, searching for her beloved Hatsumi across worlds and dimension. When people have talked about guilty pleasures in the past, I am always slightly bemused. What is there to be guilty about liking? What you like is what you like and you will always have your reasons for doing so. Do I feel guilty about watching a kids' show if it is really, really good? Not at all and I can usually explain why, too. But in a way I'm happy now, I am no longer alienated from those conversations - for now I have my anime guilty pleasure and it is called Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito. This is definitely the worst series I have ever loved. Where do I start, the good or the bad? The first thing you will notice about this show, for better or for worse, is that it is definitely an eroge adaptation. Practicality was the last thing on the artists' minds when they drew those character designs but, boy, did they do a great job. Hatsuki's sailor suit is simple but immaculate in design, suiting her character perfectly; Lilith's frilly blouse, high waist skirt, black stockings and high heels are fetish in flesh and Hatsumi/Eve/Jill (a single person, by the way) looks fantastic whatever way the animators choose to dress her up. The character designs in themselves betray the show's heritage in their very strong bishoujo designs. Big eyes, hourglass figures with ample busts and long luscious hair comes as standard for any female past puberty but even with that, there obviously has been a lot of thought and care put into the designs. A 'sameness' of character design often plagues series that come from an eroge background (the same face, different hair syndrome) but the individuality of even one-off characters is striking. Even with the concerted (and very successful) effort the series makes to have its female cast all be as attractive as possible, characters have different builds and face shapes that make them instantly recognisable at all times. Throw in some great backdrops and the artwork becomes the part of the show that about which I can see no complaints forthcoming. The plot structure on the other hand... This show is aimless, if not in reality then certainly in delivery. Aside from the final few episodes, you could almost have watched this series in any order and it would have made as much sense as it did if it were not for its habit of having its individual stories cross over and around episodes whenever it felt like it. In the opening episode alone, we face the opening I described in the synopsis and then find ourselves immediately whisked off to a Trans-Siberian sleeper train where a mysterious girl, called Lilith, with a huge hat, accompanies Hatsuki for no stated or even implied reason until we get to watch their first meeting later on in the show. In fact, outside of Hatsuki and Hatsumi, the show makes a habit of only giving characters a full introduction an episode or two after they first appear - whether it is Lilith, Gargantua, etc. To be fair to the series though, I actually found this set-up quite interesting. It certainly added a context and an interest to the 'flashback' sections and avoided uselessly introducing characters then immediately adding their back-story. In that sense, the series used its runtime well but it still remains a rather viewer-unfriendly method of working. Where the show's use of runtime is questionable is in some of the content of the stories. A few of the episodes have no bearing on the main plot and sometimes consist of one-off side characters taking the fore, leaving Hatsuki and Lilith as bit players in a series where they are meant to be protagonists. These stories are not boring or bad really but they are certainly digressions from a much more interesting main plot and characters. It is not helpful that the majority of the side characters are completely underdeveloped and fail to be particularly interesting. The comic relief is also a mixed bag; Lilith and Ken make a funny team but characters like Gargantua's minions are just painful to watch. People uncomfortable with lesbianism played for laughs (the series plays it serious and silly) might find many of the Lilith/Hatsuki interactions particularly off-putting though it never hits us over the head too hard with it. Where YamiBou does get it seriously right, though, is with its main characters. I can honestly say, in one way or another, that I adore every single one of them. As a group, they have depth, loveable amounts of character and are fascinatingly relatable. Best of all, the show has no problems looking at its cast critically - letting each of them exist in shades of grey rather than black and white like so many other shows. Even Garguantua, the man with 'token villain' written all over his forehead, is painfully pitiful and sympathetic and casts a really interesting reflection of Hatsuki (our supposed protagonist) in terms of motivation. They are not too dissimilar in many ways. Hatsumi, a character who lauded as an almost messianic figure throughout by a large number of the cast, is far from immune to this critical analysis and comes across as a fully-fledged three-dimensional character with her own strengths and flaws despite such a limited amount of airtime. It is also impressive how the characters transcend whatever cliche they might have been based on. Hatsuki is an ice queen through and through but we see much more than just that through her interactions with others, especially Hatsumi, and by these we see both strengths and weaknesses in her character, her desires and her ability to interact with others. Lilith, at first glance, seems to be little more than a comic relief character with added fetish fuel (an unsubtle fanservice vehicle in the broadest and narrowest sense of the term). She is as sultry as a desert wind but as cute as a perfect kitten/puppy/bunny rabbit hybrid with a speech impediment; but she even ends up being perhaps the most complex character of them all! Her relationship with Hatsuki, despite being played for laughs, gives us real clues to her character and insecurities. Her relationship with Eve (i.e. Hatsumi) we see also has its own serious complexity despite the limited time they spend together on screen, but even their limited interactions reveal more about each character than an episodes worth of exposition. That all said, the show's tone and presentation do not help its cause when it comes to delivering its serious moments. As I mentioned before, for a show that is a tragic love story at its heart, YamiBou spends too much time being quite silly. I would not blame anybody for missing Lilith's complexity under all her ditsy antics and tail chasing or Garguantua's tragic nature under all his campy prancing. I will admit that shouting "What were you thinking!?" at the screen was almost an episodic ritual that equalled every moment of brilliance almost one for one. That, alongside plot threads or thematic points that seem to drift off into oblivion, were starting to give me a bruise where I kept slapping my forehead. It is also hard to take a series this erogenous seriously. To its credit, this show does ecchi seriously well and any director looking to make an ecchi show should sit down and watch this first before they are let loose. I am not someone too keen on fanservice but even I am forced to take my hat off and shove a twenty into this show's g-string for the sheer quality of it and with extremely limited nudity too. The thing is, though... I can overlook almost everything for one simple reason: Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito is not boring. Even when I am screaming at the screen for the show's stupidity, I am having fun. Even when I am fascinated by a revealing moment that adds so much depth and thematic weight to the proceedings, I am having fun. Even when I do not have a clue what is going on, I am having fun. Fun is what makes this show worthwhile. Even when its great plot and fantastic characterisation are floundering in periodic missteps this show never loses that key attribute that makes it my guilty pleasure. Sometimes so bad, it is good and sometimes so good it is great but always, always fun. It is a soft four stars I will admit but an average score of three would not do such an interesting show justice (it is interesting if nothing else). A lot of it will be subject to personal taste, more so than normal, so take a star away if you need your plotting to be tight, take away another if you find ecchi content off-putting, take away another if you are not in a forgiving mood but add one if you just crave something different. So your personal rating should be somewhere between one and five stars - it is just that kind of show. — Aiden Foote Recommended Audience: Teens and above. Lesbianism might offend some and there's implied incest and torture. Plenty of fan-service and minor violence. 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Feminist legal theory Part of a series on Feminist history History of feminism Other women's rights Suffrage by country Spain (Civil War) Spain (Francoist) In states Variants (general) Anti-abortion Eugenic French post-structuralist Hip-hop/Activism Individualist Radical lesbianism Chicana Kurdish (Jineology) Neofeminism Postfeminism Post-structural Sex-positive Transfeminism Womanism Variants (religious) Dianic Wicca Effects on society Female education Femicide Feminism in culture African-American women's suffrage movement In hip hop Feminist stripper Honor killing International Girl's Day and Women's Day Language reform Matriarchal religion Men in feminism Opposition to feminism Political lesbianism Lesbian separatism Pro-feminism Protofeminism Purplewashing Sex workers' rights Sexual objectification in composition studies Triple oppression Criticism of marriage Views on BDSM Views on pornography Views on prostitution Views on sexual orientation Views on sexuality Views on transgender topics Feminist method Gynocentrism Male gaze Écriture féminine Feminist... composition studies pathways perspective fpda justice ethics revisionist mythology sex wars thealogy womanist theology Feminism in Israel Lists and categories American feminist literature Feminist comic books Conservative feminisms Countries by women's average years in school Ecofeminist authors Feminist art critics Feminist economists Feminist poets Feminist rhetoricians Jewish feminists Muslim feminists Feminist parties Suffragists and suffragettes Women's rights activists Women's studies journals Women's suffrage organizations Women's rights by country Feminists by nationality Feminism portal Feminist legal theory, also known as feminist jurisprudence, is based on the belief that the law has been fundamental in women's historical subordination.[1] The project of feminist legal theory is twofold. First, feminist jurisprudence seeks to explain ways in which the law played a role in women's former subordinate status. Second, feminist legal theory is dedicated to changing women's status through a rework of the law and its approach to gender.[1][2] It is a critique of American law that was created to change the way women were treated and how judges had applied the law in order to keep women in the same position they had been in for years. The women who worked in this area viewed law as holding women in a lower place in society than men based on gender assumptions, and judges have therefore relied on these assumptions to make their decisions. This movement originated in the 1960s and 1970s with the purpose of achieving equality for women by challenging laws that made distinctions on the basis of sex.[3] It was crucial to allowing women to become their own people through becoming financially independent and having the ability to find real jobs that were not available to them before due to discrimination in employment.[4] However, feminist legal theorists today extend their work beyond overt discrimination by employing a variety of approaches to understand and address how the law contributes to gender inequality.[3] 2 Main approaches 2.1 The liberal equality model 2.2 The sexual difference model 2.3 The dominance model 2.4 The anti-essentialist model 2.5 The postmodern model 3 Hedonic Jurisprudence 4 Notable scholars History [ edit ] The first known use of the term feminist jurisprudence was in the late 1970s by Ann Scales during the planning process for Celebration 25, a party and conference held in 1978 to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first women graduating from Harvard Law School.[5][2][6] The term was first published in 1978 in the first issue of the Harvard Women's Law Journal.[7] This feminist critique of American law was developed as a reaction to the fact that the legal system was too gender-prioritized and patriarchal.[4][3] In 1984 Martha Fineman founded the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School to explore the relationships between feminist theory, practice, and law, which has been instrumental in the development of feminist legal theory.[8] The foundation of the feminist legal theory was laid by women who challenged the laws that were in place to keep women in their respective places in the home. A driving force of this new movement was the need for women to start becoming financially independent.[4] Women who were working in law started to focus on this idea more, and started to work on achieving reproductive freedom, stopping gender discrimination in the law and workforce, and stop the allowance of sexual abuse.[4] Main approaches [ edit ] Some approaches to feminist jurisprudence are: the liberal equality model; the sexual difference model; the dominance model; the anti-essentialist model; and the postmodern model. Each model provides a distinct view of the legal mechanisms that contribute to women's subordination, and each offers a distinct method for changing legal approaches to gender. The liberal equality model [ edit ] Further information: Liberal feminism The liberal equality model operates from within the liberal legal paradigm and generally embraces liberal values and the rights-based approach to law, though it takes issue with how the liberal framework has operated in practice. This model focuses on ensuring that women are afforded genuine equality including race, sexual orientation, and gender—as opposed to the nominal equality often given them in the traditional liberal framework—and seeks to achieve this either by way of a more thorough application of liberal values to women's experiences or the revision of liberal categories to take gender into account. For example, when black women are only provided legal relief when the case is against her race or gender.[9] The sexual difference model [ edit ] The difference model emphasizes the significance of gender discrimination and holds that this discrimination should not be obscured by the law, but should be taken into account by it. Only by taking into account differences can the law provide adequate remedies for women's situation, which is in fact distinct from men's.[10] The difference model suggests that differences between women and men puts one sex at a disadvantage; therefore, the law should compensate women and men for their differences and disadvantages. These differences between women and men may be biological or culturally constructed.[3] The difference model is in direct opposition to the sameness account which holds that women's sameness with men should be emphasized. To the sameness feminist, employing women's differences in an attempt to garner greater rights is ineffectual to that end and places emphasis on the very characteristics of women that have historically precluded them from achieving equality with men.[10] The sameness feminist also argued that there was already special treatment for these so-called "differences" in the law, which is what was oppressing women. The idea of there being differences between the sexes lead to the classical thought that feminist legal theory was trying to get rid of. It forced women to prove that they were like men by comparing their experiences to those of men, all in an attempt to gain legal protection. This all only led to women trying to meet norms that were made by men without questioning why these were accepted as the norm for equality.[4] The dominance model [ edit ] The dominance model rejects liberal feminism and views the legal system as a mechanism for the perpetuation of male dominance.[11] Further, dominance theorists reject the difference model because it uses men as the benchmark of equality. While the liberal equality model and difference theory aim to achieve equality for women and men, the dominance model's end goal is to liberate women from men. Dominance theorists understand gender inequality as a result of an imbalance of power between women and men and believe the law contributes to this subordination of women.[3] It thus joins certain strands of critical legal theory, which also consider the potential for law to act as an instrument for domination. This theory focuses on how male dominate females, but it also talks about other groups being oppressed such as how legal aid is not often offered to the transgender population. Also, any white female would have good legal representation compared to minority groups.[11] In the account of dominance proposed by Catharine MacKinnon, sexuality is central to the dominance.[12] MacKinnon argues that women's sexuality is socially constructed by male dominance and the sexual domination of women by men is a primary source of the general social subordination of women. According to MacKinnon, the legal system perpetuates inequalities between women and men by creating laws about women using a male perspective.[13] The anti-essentialist model [ edit ] Anti-essentialist feminist legal theory was created by women of color and lesbians in the 1980s who felt feminist legal theory was excluding their perspectives and experiences.[3] Anti-essentialist and intersectionalist critiques of feminists have objected to the idea that there can be any universal women's voice and have criticized feminists, as did Black feminism, for implicitly basing their work on the experiences of white, middle class, heterosexual women. The anti-essentialist and intersectionalist project has been to explore the ways in which race, class, sexual orientation, and other axes of subordination interplay with gender and to uncover the implicit, detrimental assumptions that have often been employed in feminist theory.[14] This model challenges feminist legal theorists who only address how the law affects heterosexual, middle-class white women. Anti-essentialist feminist legal theory recognizes that the identities of individual women shape their experiences, so the law does not influence all women in the same ways.[3] It is about building actual equality for all regardless or gender, race, sexual orientation, class, or disability.[14] Mari Matsuda created the term "multiple consciousness" to explain a person's ability to take on the perspective of an oppressed group.[3] Anti-essentialist feminist legal theorists use multiple consciousness to understand how the law is affecting women belonging to groups other than their own.[15] The postmodern model [ edit ] Postmodern feminist legal theorists reject the liberal equality idea that women are like men as well as the difference theory idea that women are inherently different from men. This is because they do not believe in singular truths and instead see truths as multiple and based on experience and perspective. Feminists from the postmodern camp use a method known as deconstruction in which they look at laws to find hidden biasses within them. Postmodern feminists use deconstruction to demonstrate that laws should not be unchangeable since they are created by people with biasses and may therefore contribute to female oppression.[3] Hedonic Jurisprudence [ edit ] Feminist legal theory produced a new idea of using hedonic jurisprudence to show that women's experiences of assault and rape was a product of laws that treated them as less human and gave them fewer rights than men. With this feminist legal theorists argued that given examples were not only a description of possible scenarios but also a sign of events that have actually occurred, relying on them to support statements that the law ignores the interests and disrespects the existence of women.[4] Notable scholars [ edit ] Martha Fineman Mary Joe Frug Mari Matsuda Kimberle Crenshaw Dean Spade Ann Scales See also [ edit ] Feminist political theory Notes [ edit ] ^ a b Fineman, Martha A. "Feminist Legal Theory" (PDF). Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law. 13 (1): 13–32. Retrieved 25 April 2015. ^ a b Scales, Ann (2006). Legal Feminism: Activism, Lawyering, and legal Theory. New York: University Press. ^ a b c d e f g h i Levit, Nancy (2015). Feminist legal theory : a primer. Verchick, Robert R. M. (Second ed.). New York. ISBN 9781479805495. OCLC 929452292. ^ a b c d e f Sagers, Christopher L.; Minda, Gary (1997). "Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence at Century's End". Michigan Law Review. 95 (6): 1927. doi:10.2307/1290030. ISSN 0026-2234. JSTOR 1290030. ^ Cain, Patricia A. (September 2013). "Feminist Jurisprudence: Grounding the Theories". Berkley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. 4: 193. ^ Ehrenreich, Nancy (2013-09-01). "On "Having fun and raising hell": Symposium honoring the work of professor ann scales". Denver University Law Review. 91: 1–11. ^ Feminist Jurisprudence. Connection.ebscohost.com (1991-11-18). Retrieved on 2015-05-17. ^ "Feminism and Legal Theory Project \| Emory University School of Law \| Atlanta, GA". Emory University School of Law. Retrieved 2017-10-07. ^ Crenshaw, Kimberle (1989). "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics". University of Chicago Legal Forum. 1989: 149. ^ a b Law, , Berkeley Journal of Gender (2013). "Difference, Dominance, Differences: Feminist Theory, Equality, and the Law". Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. 5 (1). doi:10.15779/Z388C4M. ISSN 1933-1045. ^ a b Spade, Dean (November 2010). "Be Professional". Harvard Journal of Law & Gender: 5. ^ Baer, Judith A. (2001). Our Lives Before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence. Princeton University Press. p. 27. ^ MacKinnon, Catharine A. (2018-02-19), "Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence [1983]", Feminist Legal Theory, Routledge, pp. 181–200, doi:10.4324/9780429500480-11, ISBN 9780429500480 ^ a b Warner, J Cali. Proposal: the alignment of oppressed groups as post-Modern development. 2016. ^ Matsuda, Mari (1989). "When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method". Women's Rights Law Reporter. 11: 7–10. References [ edit ] Baer, Judith A. Our Lives Before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence. Princeton University Press, 2001. Berkeley Journal of Gender Law, Difference, Dominance, Differences: Feminist Theory, Equality, and the Law, 5 Berkeley Women's L.J. 214 (1990). Available at: h p://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bglj/vol5/iss1/8 Cain, Patricia A. “Feminist Jurisprudence: Grounding the Theories.” Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, vol. 4, no. 2, Sept. 2013, Accessed 3 Oct. 2017. Crenshaw, Kimberle () "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist eory and Antiracist Politics," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989: Iss. 1, Article 8. Available at: h p://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8 Ehrenreich, Nancy. (2013). On "Having fun and raising hell": Symposium honoring the work of professor ann scales. Denver University law review. 91. 1-11. “Feminism and Legal Theory Project \| Emory University School of Law \| Atlanta, GA.” Emory University School of Law, law.emory.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/centers/feminism-and-legal-theory-project.html. Accessed 2 Oct. 2017. Levit, Nancy, and Robert R.M. Verchick. “Feminist Legal Theories.” Feminist Legal Theory (Second Edition): A Primer., 2nd ed., NYU Press, 2015, pp. 11–41. MacKinnon, Catharine. “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence.” Signs, vol. 8, no. 4, 1983, pp. 635–658. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3173687. Matsuda, Mari J. "When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method." Women's Rights Law Reporter, vol. 11, no. 1, 1989, p. 7-10. HeinOnline, https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/worts11&i=11. Minda, Gary. "Feminist Legal Theory." In Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence At Century's End, 128-48. New York; London: NYU Press, 1995. Scales, Ann. Legal feminism: activism, lawyering, and legal theory. New York, New York University Press, 2006. Spade, Dean. “BE PROFESSIONAL!” Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Nov. 2010. Warner, J Cali. Proposal: the alignment of oppressed groups as post-Modern development. 2016. Further reading [ edit ] Applications of Feminist Legal Theory: Sex, Violence, Work and Reproduction (Women in the Political Economy), ed. by D. Kelly Weisberg, Temple University Press, 1996, ISBN 1-56639-424-4 Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader, ed. by Nancy E. Dowd and Michelle S. Jacobs, New York Univ Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8147-1913-9 Nancy Levit, Robert R. M. Verchick: Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer (Critical America (New York University Paperback)), New York University Press 2006, ISBN 0-8147-5199-7 External links [ edit ] "Feminist Jurisprudence". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 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__label__wiki	0.7554	0.7554	Creating, thinking, and bicycling in the Wild Clearing This blog - I'm Wes Rehberg - is dedicated to what I'm up to in philosophy art, writing, bibcycling, activism, and critical thinking... DRAFT EPISODE: "ELROD'S AWAKENING" - ELROD AND CHER ...TURNING POINT Draft episode from "Elrod's Awakening," my novel in progress -- Elrod and Cher, a turning point ... "Probably way overgrown. Look for a little log cabin" "There!" Elrod said. "Drive right up to it through the brush." The van lurched as Elrod pulled off the road and rocked back and forth as he neared the cabin, the van leaving a trail of pressed down brush. "Surprised? I hope it isn't too messed up inside." "Sure out of the way," Elrod answered. "How am I going to get along here when you leave?" "I'll get the electric turned on. Let's go inside. I'll use the walker but please bring my wheelchair inside. We'll need to get bedding and groceries and whatever else later." Inside, dampness and darkness greeted them along with a musty scent. Elrod pulled back dusty curtains to let in light while Cher wheeled over to a woodstove. The one-room cabin had a medium sized futon, four wooden chairs, a table, a bathroom closet that contained a compost toilet, the woodstove, a low broad shelf and cabinets that contained dishes, utensils, a small refrigerator and a propane camp stove.. "No leaks," Cher said. "This is an amazing little place. I'll tell you the story about it later. Look out the back, there's a standpipe. When the electric's on, we'll have cool, clear water, I hope. The well's real deep." Elrod laughed. "Far, far better than many places I've slept." Cher looked at her smartphone, two to three bars, and phoned the electric company. A truck could be there in the afternoon. "There's a shed in the back with some useful things in it too, if they're not rusted," she said. "Might be some usable firewood on the ground too. I hope the chimney pipe isn't clogged up with a critter nest." Elrod gathered up sticks and logs that broke off fallen trees, placed them in and alongside the woodstove, removed a butane lighter from his backpack, and with the trash from their meals on the road, lit the woodstove. No clog in the stove pipe. "Warmth!" Cher said, laughing. I really like her laugh, Elrod thought. "Tell you what," she said. "Let's just get groceries after the electricity is turned on." Cher wheeled over to the bed, removed the clear plastic covering and felt the mattress. It seemed cool and slightly damp, but it could dry with the woodstove heat, she thought. "I'm beat from the drive," she said. "We'll use your sleeping bag tonight, get bedding tomorrow. We could have gotten it before we arrived, but I wasn't sure about how things here would be. We'll rest and cook up a little dinner." She laughed again. Elrod's eyebrows raised. "Okay," he said, not sure how to respond. I wonder what's going to become of my adopted identity as detective Elrod Mathews, he thought, and how this is going to turn out. That night, Cher, in her wheelchair, asked Elrod to listen as she unfolded her story. "I'm a misfit," she said, "like you. But in a different way. I'll tell you a little about it. Then, if you want, you tell me a bit about you." "Not much to tell, really, than you seem to know already." "We'll see." Elrod removed a pan of steaming water from the woodstove and poured the water into two cups, each with a teabag of chai. Into each he added a half a teaspoon of stevia and some soy creamer. He handed one cup, on a saucer, with a spoon, to Cher. He sat back on the futon with his cup. Switching arms, Cher moved the wheelchair closer to the woodstove and faced Elrod. They both sipped in silence, the slight scent of wood burning and the sound of the low fire undertones in the cabin. A single lamp lit the room with an amber glow. "You know about the motorcycle accident," she said. (C) Copyright 2014 Wes Rehberg DRAFT EPISODE - "ELROD'S AWAKENING" -- novel in progress Draft episode -- "Elrod's Awakening" -- novel in progress In his motel room, Elrod tried to write a blog entry but the memory of the rush of recent experiences transfixed him. He looked out his window at the garden nursery next door then sat back on his bed. I want to regress, he thought, go back to my homeless way of talking about myself in the third person, keep me at a distance. No. That's not possible. I'm unstuck. I laid aside the pretense. Deep down inside I knew it was a pretense. “What do I do now?” Elrod wrote in his little laptop. “I feel suspended in time and space. When I look out the window, I wonder if I’ll see the large, black SUV or the Venus Appliances van, the Russian speaking men. If I move about in the ways I've become accustomed, I could be spotted and might endanger people here in the motel, including Jenny Clareville.” Elrod wrote hesitantly about his role in unearthing the whereabouts of the kidnapped street-courier boy and the convenience store robber, his brief association with Detective Bo Carter, much different from that of his former relationship with Raphool Walker, and the suspicion that there might be a bounty on him. When finished, he posted it to his private blog. I need to keep the details in mind, in case my mind clogs up again, he thought. It might be that the days of the once-homeless investigator Elrod Mathews are over, if that’s what one could call me. He added that thought to his blog. Clareville Motel sat about two miles from the main district of a small town adjacent to the larger city where the crime episodes that Elrod encountered occurred. No buses ran between these two municipalities, though a bus could be taken from the nearby shopping center in another adjacent town, the bus Elrod rode on his last trip downtown with his bicycle. From the motel, Elrod could see Southern Cookin’ restaurant. He decided to walk there for lunch. Two other small motels that housed long-term residents stood within walking distance as did an old service station, a business that sold boats, and a used furniture store that boasted of antiques that actually were old pieces that had been worked on for resale. The rush of aromas and warmth made him smile as he entered the restaurant's small crowded dining area. In a booth in the rear he noticed Jim Sylvester and thought about doing an about face, but instead took a seat at the counter. He felt a tap on his shoulder and turned. Jenny smiled. “Sit with me. I’m in the overspill room. I saw you walking by the window.” Elrod avoided looking in Sylvester’s direction as the two moved to her table, in a line of sight with the cash register where customers paid the lone waitress. When Sylvester rose to pay and leave, Elrod asked Jenny if she knew him. They both watched him stroll by a window to his car. He waved and pointed his finger at Elrod as if it were the barrel of a pistol. “No,” Jenny said. “I’ve seen him around. He knows you, obviously, though. How?” “He showed up at the community kitchen homeless shelter and spoke with me. He knew what I’d been up to.” The waitress appeared for Elrod’s order and Jenny asked whether she knew the man who just paid. “Jim Sylvester,” the waitress replied. “He’s a private detective.” Jenny laughed. Elrod looked puzzled. "He lives in town, used to be married to Sally, the cook,” the waitress said. “Must still like the way she prepares lunch.” “Maybe he wants to take you on,” Jenny said to Elrod. “Me?” Elrod said, shaking his head. “He’s got something up his sleeve. And now he knows where I'm located.” “If he didn’t already,” the waitress said. “He’s got a decent reputation. Ethical. But lazy. Drove Sally nuts.” (c) Copyright Wes Rehberg, 2014 "UPROOTED" PASSAGE - MOROCCO REUNION AND AFTERMATH Passage from “Uprooted” - the Morocco reunion and aftermath "So, you can see through my family here, an answer to your question, father," Gasson Hasheem said to Stephens as they walked along the Tangier shoreline the next morning. "How I think, where it might lead. You represent that, too." "I have," Stephens said. "Less so in recent years." "Yes, but the exposés you were engaged in with Alicia, principally, and Helen, they count for something that way." "True." "Plus, now you have that buccaneer charisma, with the eye patch. You should continue to wear it." "We must return. I think you and the others should have an early start. You have decisions to make once you get to Madrid." "Or before." "Make reservations to take the high-speed train. I suspect the buses may be crowded with our migrants returning to Spain. Some Moroccan migrant workers along the Spanish coast take a holiday to rejoin their families on the weekends." Lys and Stephens looked at each other as they walked with the group toward the Tangier ferry slip. I know what's coming, she thought. So does Gil. Awaad Hasheem and his sister Leila led the way. Family standard bearers, Stephens thought. Gasson walked with Sandra Mills, his arm on Stephens shoulder. On Mills other side walked Rice; on Stephens, Lys. At the customs entry, visitors and hosts embraced. They'd meet again, that seemed certain. There'd likely be a marriage sometime soon, maybe within the year. As the travelers sat at a table in the ferry's lounge, Rice said to Stephens that she wanted to call SUNY-Oquaga, she had a sabbatical coming, paid, and she'd like to spend some of that time in Rotterdam to work with Mills, offer the workshop that was interrupted by the interstate accident that wounded Stephens and Lys, and to explore directions Europeans are involved in. It felt wrenching, but at her age, it was an opportunity she shouldn't pass up. This was a very serious thing, she knew, given all that happened in the last year. It's a time to explore transformations, directions. For all of them. Stephens frowned. He walked out onto the ferry's deck, felt the sea spray, and took in the aroma of the Mediterranean. Sandra Mills stood up, left the table, passed through the cabin's doors and joined him, unprompted. She leaned on the rail alongside him, both now dampened by the sea. "Gil, you've been like a father to me," she said. She put her arm in his. "Less crazy than Helen, for sure, but in your way, as present as she, someone I knew I could rely on all these years. I love you for that and for who you are." Stephens turned around to face the ferry cabin and viewed their reflection in the windows. "I'm happy my son and you found each other," he said. "It's not a trite thought. I can't explain it. What finding him, his family, and their acceptance, and you two together mean. And I understand how important Helen will be at this time. It's an odd uncertain moment." "Maybe it's not as uncertain as it seems." He smiled. She did too. "You're too wise," he said. "I'm getting wet," she said. "Let's go inside." PASSAGE FROM "UPROOTED" -- Helen and Anna in Amsterdam -- Helen Rice and Anna Pietersen in Amsterdam: "So much sadness to overcome," Pietersen said. "In this, there is not only who we are, but also our memories. I have never felt love like this, Helen. Can this house really feel like home to you after where you have lived and worked for so long? I am afraid you might abandon me." "That doesn't seem possible," Rice said. "I love you so deeply. It mystifies me." "We will find out who we are, then," Pietersen said. Rice smiled and nodded. "The creative crones." "Yes, I like that better than the sexy crones," Pietersen said. "Tea and brandy?" Rice watched Pietersen prepare their tea and sit across from her at the kitchen table. Her face can appear so sad at times, she thought. We are physically similar, but our dispositions are different. She is more reserved, I'm more outgoing. I'm not sure, but she seems to be more sensitively attuned to nuance while I might overlook that in moments of flamboyance. Pietersen laughed lightly. "You are analyzing me," she said. "It makes me self-conscious." "Sensibilidad," Rice said. "A Spanish word that I understand to mean both sensitivity and sensibility. You embody that, Anna." "I appreciate that and like the thought," Pietersen said. "But I think you must have the same in order to perceive it." "I'm a little short on sensibility at times." With their tea and brandy, they moved quickly through the cold afternoon to the studio behind the house, entered it, turned up the heat, and stood side-by-side. Pietersen said she felt reluctant about returning to her potting wheel, that like Rice, she wanted to try a different approach. "We talked about collaboration," Rice said. "Would you like to try that with a light sculpture? I'm anxious to start. Maybe something that will amuse us instead of the heavy works the memorials represent. Perhaps with the notion of 'tilt' and pinball machine parts." Pietersen placed her arm in Rice's and smiled. That would work, she said. She conceived of "tilt" as a graceful gesture more than as a shove that ended a pinball game, or perhaps both notions could be incorporated. Yes, said, Rice, one to mark the end of one "game" transmuted to a gesture that suggests a new direction, in a way telling their story. Pietersen said she could familiarize herself with the electronics necessary, in a sense, be the "technician" for the electrical network they'd need. They laughed. "Creative crones," Pietersen said. "The work will take a while to do," Rice said. "Good. There is no rush. It is for us," Pietersen said. "UPROOTED" NOW PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE ... “UPROOTED” - the novel - is now published and available from its web site in paperback and ebook formats. It’s offered via Amazon.com in Kindle and paperback books, from the publisher, and from us in compact disk in three popular ebook formats that can be shared with others as well. Web site is: http://www.wildclearing.com/uprooted.html Also on the site is a synopsis of the novel. DRAFT EPISODE: "ELROD'S AWAKENING" - ELROD AND CHE... DRAFT EPISODE - "ELROD'S AWAKENING" -- novel in pr... 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__label__cc	0.584933	0.415067	Barney’s LA Gets The Drop Posted by Wiles Magazine on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 · Leave a Comment Barneys New York Announces “thedropLA@barneys” in Partnership with Highsnobiety Barneys New York takes its successful two-day event to Los Angeles with 90+ brands, 20+ exclusive capsule collections, immersive experiences, in-store activations, designer appearances, and a special musical performance from Live Nation Entertainment, at its Beverly Hills flagship Barneys New York, in partnership with Highsnobiety, has announced the “thedropLA@barneys”, the second iteration of its two-day immersive experience, which will feature over 20+ exclusive capsule collection, additional product “drops”, designer appearances, experiential installations and environments, unique in-store activations, and programming featuring some of the biggest names in fashion and entertainment. thedropLA@barneys will take place at Barneys New York’s Beverly Hills flagship on June 2 & 3, with an extension on Barneys.com. “After the response to thedrop@barneys in New York last year, we are thrilled to introduce the reimagined thedropLA@barneys to Los Angeles,” said Daniella Vitale, Chief Executive Officer & President, Barneys New York. “This year, we’ve created a fresh take on fashion for a new generation, with even more collections and activations across women’s men’s, beauty, jewelry, and more. This one-of-a-kind experience captures the creative spirit of Los Angeles through imaginative environments, thought-provoking panel discussions, LA food favorites, entertainment, and a special musical performance.” “Los Angeles has a fashion culture all its own,” said Jeff Carvalho, Managing Director, Highsnobiety. “We’re super excited to partner with Barneys New York again to bring thedropLA@barneys to Angelenos, offering them a new shopping journey unlike the city has ever seen.” Throughout the weekend, Barneys New York will release dozens of exclusive pieces from a wide range of high profile designer brands including Prada, Heron Preston, FEAR OF GOD, Fendi, Moschino, Palm Angels, Givenchy, Balmain, Versace, Rick Owens, FILA, Greg Lauren, A-COLD-WALL*, AREA, TAKAHIROMIYASHITA TheSoloist, John Elliott, Ksubi, Manolo Blahnik, Wu Wear, Birkenstock, Advisory Board Crystals, and more. Other exclusive releases at thedropLA@barneys include, Tupac by 424, Dickies CONSTRUCT, Emrata x Spinelli Kilcollin, Onia x WeWoreWhat, ADAPTATION / BORN X RAISED “We Know We Are Being Watched” collection, and exclusive Barneys New York x Jordyn Woods and Barneys New York x Justine Skye shoe collaborations, who each will attend to premiere their new shoes. In addition, Barneys.com will feature exclusive pieces only available online. On Saturday, June 2, thedropLA@barneys will include personal appearances from designers including: Jerry Lorenzo of FEAR OF GOD, Heron Preston, Jeremy Scott of Moschino, Greg Lauren, Piotrek Panszczyk and Beckett Fogg of AREA, John Elliott, Chris Gibbs of Union Los Angeles, Eli Azran of RtA, Jon Buscemi of Buscemi, Ali Fatourechi of ADAPTATION, Francesco Ragazzi of Palm Angels, Rami Mona of Renzo Cardoni, Guillermo Andrade of 424, and Rhuigi Villaseñor of Rhude. Guests will also enjoy live entertainment throughout the day, with DJ sets from Heron Preston, Simi & Haze, Siobhan Bell, and Mathematics. The day’s festivities will conclude with a surprise musical performance presented in partnership with Live Nation. New to this iteration of thedrop, thedropLA@barneys will feature one-of-a-kind immersive brand environments and experiences, developing a world of fashion and creativity for guests to explore. Immersive environments will include a Prada Pachinko Parlor, FEAR OF GOD installation, Heron Preston NASA-inspired environment, “Sliced by Fila” pizzeria, Birkenstock Park serving Moon Juice refreshments, Everytown raffle installation featuring Balenciaga with 100% of proceeds going to Everytown for Gun Safety, a roller rink featuring Gucci with roller performances and skate rentals for guests throughout the weekend. Additionally, select jewelry collections will be housed in a Butterfly Bar, to be displayed with live butterflies. A selection of beauty and skincare brands, including Acqua di Parma, By Terry, Hourglass, La Bouche Rouge, Nude Envie and Unistella, will be displayed in a live aquarium environment, with individual treatments and activations. All installations will be on view for guests to explore following thedropLA@barneys, until June 10. Throughout the weekend, Barneys New York will host more than 90 brands with more than 30 activations across men’s, women’s, kids, beauty and jewelry. Guests will experience a wide range of unique activations, including: piercings by renowned piercer J. Colby Smith, custom “grillz” by Dolly Cohen Paris, tattoos by Fun City, custom Hey Reilly-designed screen printing, Balenciaga hand-painted graffiti sunglass cases, Faith Connexion handbag customization with artist Austin Blaisdell, Oliver Peoples custom cleaning cloth photo booth, Unistella nail art manicures, screen printed temporary tattoos, dip dye sneaker customization, and more. On Sunday, June 3, the experiential installations and activations will continue throughout the day. And, Highsnobiety and Barneys New York will host panel discussions, featuring a wide variety of designers, models, stylists, artists, influencers and fashion industry insiders. The panels will be livestreamed by Highsnobiety and Barneys New York. Panels will discuss everything from the transformation of luxury, women in fashion, and the Los Angeles creative community. For more information, and to register for updates on thedropLA@barneys, visit: https://www.barneys.com/thedropLA. Filed under Fashion & Beauty, Highlights · Tagged with Barney's Beverly Hills, Barney's New York, Fashion, Highsnobiety, LA, luxury, shopping, theDrop	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line430
__label__wiki	0.640967	0.640967	Home Careers About AIV AIV Overview Zenith Supply Co. API Trim Chart ASTM Material Cross Reference Contact AIV AIV - Master Valve Distributor AIV NEWS AIV, Acquires Zenith Supply AIV, LP, a Houston-based global wholesale distributor of valves and actuators for the oil and gas, power generation, chemical, petrochemical, refining, pulp and paper and water treatment industries, has announced that it has acquired Zenith Supply. Founded in 1946, Pennsylvania-based Zenith Supply is a leading master distributor of Velan valves – a premier manufacturer of valves used primarily in power and downstream applications of the energy industry. Specializing in pressure seal valves, Zenith typically holds approximately $25 million in inventory, making them a “go-to” provider for hard-to-find and long-lead-time items. “The opportunity to combine the strengths of AIV and Zenith are truly once in a lifetime and we feel honored to be able to continue the legacy that Mr. Marstine has built over the last few decades.” stated AIV President Trey Cook. “This acquisition will greatly strengthen our presence in the power industry as well as complement our offerings into the downstream industries we currently serve around the world.” Zenith Supply will continue to operate under its own name and in its current facilities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the foreseeable future. “We are excited to join forces with AIV as they are a great fit with Zenith.” says former Zenith Supply owner Sheldon Marstine. “Together, we will be a powerhouse in the valve industry.” Founded in Houston in 1991, AIV now boasts additional sales and stocking locations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Dubai and Singapore, with more than $80 million in inventory worldwide. For more information of Zenith Supply, visit Zenith Supply Trey Cook AIV, LP Oct 2019 Sep 2019 Jan 2019 Sep 2018 Jan 2018 Sep 2016 Aug 2016 Jul 2016 Jan 2016 Jul 2015 May 2015 Apr 2015 Aug 2014 Jul 2014 © 2020. AIV Inc. All Rights Reserved. Website & Mobile Development by Digital Function	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line436
__label__cc	0.50104	0.49896	Posted on June 1, 2013 by TC Editors E. Branden Hart Photo Credit: Jason Tamez For Chris Garson Who was only early the one time we wanted him to be late “Where the hell are they?” said Danny, his breath a cloud of vapor in the freezing Michigan afternoon. “Should someone call?” Teresa pulled her coat tighter and leaned into me. “Tried that already,” she said. I put my arm around her shoulders. “Relax, Danny,” said Trent. He kicked at something laying on the cold blacktop. I didn’t see what it was, but it careened into the parking lot and ricocheted off someone’s car with a loud ding. “Tim’s never been on time before,” I said. I leaned my head over and put it on top of Teresa’s. Her hair smelled like cigarettes and Pert Plus. “Why should this time be any different?” “Because we’re standing in the freezing cold in the middle of winter in the fucking U.P., that’s why.” Danny shook his head, then reached into his jacket and pulled out a yellow pack of American Spirits. His hands trembled as he passed them around—we all took one—and he lit them for us with an old Zippo that had the words “Only the Good Die Young” etched on the front in flowing Gothic letters. We stood there, smoking, and waiting for Tim. It wasn’t quiet—in the building behind us, a hundred of our closest friends and family were milling about, talking, drinking shitty coffee and pretending to like each other. But we couldn’t go in there yet. Not until Tim was with us. “Too cold to smoke,” mumbled Teresa, but she kept on smoking. We were silent for awhile, watching the sky turn the pale yellow of old paper as the sun went down. Then Danny started laughing. “Remember that time Tim made his own shorts?” Teresa started chuckling—she had been there. Danny turned to Trent, who hadn’t known Tim as long as the rest of us, and said, “Tim was at summer camp with us when we were, what, eight?” “Eight or nine,” I said, watching the gray cloud of smoke and breath forming around us. “It was out in the woods—basically in the middle of nowhere. And his mom was scared shitless that he was going to catch malaria, or get bitten by a snake, or scrape his leg on some piece of metal and end up with tetanus, so she didn’t pack any shorts for him—just five pairs of blue jeans.” “For summer camp?” asked Trent. “Yeah—blue jeans and sweatshirts. So we got there, and in the middle of the first night, I heard a noise from the bunk above me, where Tim was sleeping. It was a quick click-click-click. I got out of bed and stood up on my tiptoes, and there he was, using a pair of fingernail clippers to make his own shorts by cutting off all the legs of his jeans.” Trent chuckled and said, “That’s pretty funny.” “No,” I said, and took a drag from my cigarette, “the funniest part was that he wore those shorts for years. His mom was so pissed at him for ruining those jeans that she didn’t buy him another pair of pants until he was in high school. For the next four years, he was wearing these ridiculous jean cutoff shorts wherever he went. But he didn’t give a fuck. ‘I like ’em this way,’ he’d tell us when we made fun of them. ‘They breathe better than regular shorts.'” Teresa sighed. “You know, that was the summer he tried to kiss me.” “I think we all tried to kiss you that summer,” said Danny. “Yeah, but I almost let him do it. The rest of you were too gross.” We all laughed and tried to think of other stories to tell, but there were too many and most of them weren’t appropriate, so we lapsed into silence. At one point, we heard a car engine approaching and all looked toward the street, thinking it was him, but it drove by without stopping. “He called someone a douchebag at work the other day,” said Trent, smiling. “Seriously?” I said. Tim had never called people names, even when they were picking on him. “Yeah, but this guy deserved it. He and Tim were working on a project for the client, and Tim had fallen behind, because he was also working on this other project in any spare time he had. So Tim was pulling fifteen- or sixteen-hour days at the office, and this other guy was getting in every day at nine, leaving around four-thirty, and the whole time, keeps telling Tim he needs to pick up the pace, work harder. “Tim finishes the project, and even nominates the other guy for an award for doing such an awesome job. In his official nomination, which went on the company website, Tim said this other guy deserved the award because he was dedicated, on top of things, underappreciated, caring, honorable, emphatic, bombastic, amazing, and grounded. He put it all in bullet points so, when you looked at it, the first letters were D-O-U-C-H-E-B-A-G. Douchebag.” Danny doubled over and laughed so hard he started coughing. I could feel Teresa shaking with her own laughter. I smiled. “Holy shit,” said Danny. “Yeah, I think Tim grew some balls in his old age. He would have never pulled something like that when we knew him in high school.” I took a last puff of my cigarette and threw it to the moist blacktop. The glowing orange ember at the tip fizzled out immediately. We all turned our heads at the sound of an approaching car. “Finally,” said Danny, as the hearse pulled into the parking lot. The driver apologized for being late. Danny argued with him for a while before agreeing to pay. As we took Tim’s casket out of the hearse, the driver mumbled something about a tip, and Teresa yelled at him and told him he was lucky to get paid at all. We started walking toward the church, two of us on each side of the casket, and I glanced over my shoulder at the setting sun. There was a cloud of smoke and the vapor of our breath where we had been standing seconds before, but when I blinked, it was gone. E. Branden Hart was born and raised in Texas, and lives and works in San Antonio. “Late” is his first published short story, and was written in the hours after the funeral of his close friend, Chris Garson, who had an affinity for using Billy Joel lyrics in everyday conversation and wearing short pants as a fashion statement. Chris was also a creative powerhouse without whom Branden might have never found the courage to submit his writing. This story and all the other good ones are for him. Email: Branden.Hart[at]gmail.com This entry was posted in Issue 13:2 and tagged E. Branden Hart, Fiction by TC Editors. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line439
__label__cc	0.68889	0.31111	What are you playing right now? Page 80 of 80 First ... 3070787980 Thread: What are you playing right now? Loves ponies. Hates phonies. I hadn't played Doom in a few months and I felt the urge to blow shit up today and there have been updates and now I can't get my game to load. I tried to crush some candy to get THAT urge to pass and I can't get that to load on my computer either. I had a lot of problems when I got Doom to get it to work. My computer isn't a fancy gaming rig, but it's not an old netbook either. When I finally figured out which weird setting was wrong, it worked just fine. So I KNOW it's not my specs. I checked my drivers and all that. I just have to invest some time deep googling and I'm super annoyed. I would also like to spend some time playing on my DS but clearly this week has been traumatizing for us Mario fans and I can't do it. Alt Universe CliqueMember Snarkletown Finally sat down for Uncharted: Lost Legacy. Man, what a great game. It is never dull for a moment. Join the Unf Discord (any device)! 60+ folks have already joined. https://discord.gg/6ek5qzz After buying an LP of the soundtrack and loving it, I am playing MOTHER (Earthbound Zero/Beginnings) for the first time in my life! People've told me for decades now how hard it is but... 10 hours in and I'm not seeing it? Is it just my brain being programmed toward the archaic JRPGs? Maybe it'll convince me to give Earthbound another shot. stoneforest i empty out a void by the woods i'm playing city of heroes. Domandapiano Finished my replay of all the soulsborne games (not demon souls, though I’d love to) and they were magnificent, as always. Playing them back to back the second one is BY FAR the least fun. So many ganky and annoying areas. The surplus of bosses doesn’t actually bother me, though, they are mostly easy so it’s just extra souls. The first is the best. It just has a certain je ne sai quoi about it. The mystery, the world, the intrigue, the music, the bosses. It’s all at its height in the OG. I’ve moved on to Red Dead 2, and I appreciate it but it isn’t grabbing me. On switch I’ve picked up Okami, but again, it isn’t really grabbing me yet. I’m pumped for the new Pokémon, as always. Last edited by Domandapiano; 06-05-2019 at 11:23 PM. :: dutch oven :: behind you! Originally Posted by Domandapiano On switch I’ve picked up Okami, but again, it isn’t really grabbing me yet. Okami never grabbed me either. The idea is great but it wasn't that much fun to actually play... post28! i'm playing dragon age: inquisition. 13th Doll. A fan sequel to the 1990s 7th Guest and 11th Hour with an official license, now availables on GOG and Steam. I kickstartered this like... 4 years back or so, and even betatested. about half of the puzzles. You have the option to play as either the original 7th Guest Tad, or his psychiatrist. They have very different paths through the game, I recommend the psychiatrist as a first playthrough. It is kind of enjoyable, throwback fmv with bad acting . The original actor that played Stauf reprises his role, but unfortunately they didn't hire anyone from Drag Race to help with his wig. =/ Most of the puzzles are worth it. Oh, and the music is just kind of awesome, that alone makes this game worth buying. On the road I've been playing Luigi's Mansion. Simple, but Nintendo-elegant game, highly recommended by yours truly. Mario Kart Tour! I don't feel like looking for my DS charger or where my kid hid all my games or look for my wii remote and batteries for it. So it's handy because it's a freemium app and I usually know where my phone is. Is it as fun as MK8? No. Is it entertaining enough? Sure. The price to buy stuff is absurd. You can buy a subscription to save on the a la carte prices, but it ends up being like $60US a year and that's a lot for a game that can disappear forever and you can't replay it in the future. I like that the tour changes every two weeks and that they've made some new courses and old favorites. I don't like how it's both grindy and xp-per-day-limited. You're also not playing real people yet, just AI. Which is both good and bad because sometimes I want a challenge but also I don't like getting my ass kicked every time. I'm middle-aged single-mother good, not Asian teenager good. I'm having a lot of fun now but if I don't pay for a sub and they don't tweak some of the mechanics, I don't know if this is going to be a daily game long term for me or many others. Friend code 7369 2801 3120 if anyone else is playing and we eventually can play each other. playahs!, video games	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line449
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__label__wiki	0.816433	0.816433	Randy Vanderhoof US Payments Forum Ryan Wilk NuData Security Anton Chuvakin Genevieve Gimbert Encryption & Key Management , Governance , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development NIST Seeks to Raise Its Cryptographic Profile Budget Addresses Threats Posed by Quantum Computing Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • February 10, 2015 NIST budget proposes more spending on cryptography.and privacy guidance. It's barely a drop in the bucket, but President Obama is earmarking $7 million of his nearly $4 trillion federal budget to help the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide stronger cryptographic solutions and enhance privacy tools. If approved by Congress for fiscal year 2016, which begins Oct. 1, NIST would hire 10 new fulltime employees to work on its cryptographic and privacy initiatives. Cryptographic research is a growing focus for NIST, in part because of the prospect of quantum computing, with its expanded capabilities that would make many of today's encryption methods obsolete. A race is on to develop functioning quantum computers. According to NIST, Britain is investing about $420 million over the next five years in quantum technologies. In another part of the NIST budget, Obama is requesting Congress to approve $26.6 million, a $5 million increase from 2015 levels, for NIST to accelerate widespread use of quantum science and support development of the next-generation of quantum devices. The National Security Agency, according to documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden, is spending $79.7 million to build a quantum computer to crack cryptography. Questioning the Need But one cryptography expert questions the need to defend against quantum computers in the foreseeable future. "I don't see quantum computing posing a threat to current generations of systems in any reasonable time frame," says Phillip Rogaway, a computer science professor at the University of California at Davis, adding a functioning quantum computer is decades away, "if ever." Still, interest is growing in quantum computing, and NIST wants to be ready for it with appropriate cryptography when it arrives. In April, NIST will hold a post-quantum world workshop following the IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography to be held from March 30 to April 1 at its Gaithersburg, Md., campus. NIST isn't alone in its interest in post-quantum cryptography; in September, the fifth International Conference on Quantum Cryptography will be held in Tokyo. "As we're investing in quantum research, others in world are as well, so you want to be ahead of that and make sure that once that does becomes a reality, we can be prepared," NIST spokeswoman Jennifer Huergo say. Emphasis on Independence In seeking the added money next fiscal year to improve cryptography, NIST emphasizes that it wants to continue to "deliver robust and independence cryptography capabilities." NIST has come under criticism for its relationship with the National Security Agency, which was accused of tampering with a NIST cryptographic algorithm (see Report: NSA Circumvented Encryption). Federal law requires NIST to collaborate with the NSA on cryptography and other security standards. To rely less on the NSA, NIST would use the extra funding to foster cryptographic collaboration with academia and industry, according to a summary of its cybersecurity budget request for 2016. Huergo cites the recently published second draft of NIST Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process, which states: "In order to make independent decisions, NIST stresses the importance of its access to sufficient expertise, both from within NIST and from organizations and individuals external to NIST." NIST began drafting the report, also known as Interagency Report 7977, as a result of the NSA meddling with its cryptographic algorithm, which it eventually withdrew from its guidance (see NIST Revises Crypto Standards Guide). Protecting the Internet of Things Besides developing post-quantum computing cryptography standards, NIST would use the added money to create cryptography standards to address so-called constrained environments, also known as lightweight cryptography, that supports devices found on the Internet of Things. In July, NIST will hold a lightweight cryptography workshop. The privacy tools NIST intends to enhance with the new funding are aimed at assisting information systems users, owners, developers and designers who handle personal information. The tools and guidance NIST hopes to develop could be used to decrease risks related to exposing private information, according to the agency, and allow users to make meaningful decisions about resource to allocate and security and privacy controls to implement. Anthem Breach: Phishing Attack Cited N.Y. to Launch Cyber Exams for Insurers Eric Chabrow Retired Executive Editor, GovInfoSecurity Chabrow, who retired at the end of 2017, hosted and produced the semi-weekly podcast ISMG Security Report and oversaw ISMG's GovInfoSecurity and InfoRiskToday. He's a veteran multimedia journalist who has covered information technology, government and business. https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/nist-seeks-to-raise-its-cryptographic-profile-a-7899	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line454
__label__cc	0.537709	0.462291	Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives Kandis Friesen (CHI) 16 May 2020 to 14 Jun 2020 Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives is an interdisciplinary installation working through multiple temporalities, architectural montage, and experimental narrative collage. Taking form in text, sculpture, large-scale print, and multi-channel video, the exhibition builds itself into a shifting archival loop, asserting new textual constructions through abstract absences and ghostly presence. Emerging from an ongoing body of work, Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives is anchored in a 1991 auto-ethnographic videotape – unfinished, untranslated, and badly-made – found in a Russian Mennonite archive in Winnipeg, Canada. Simply labeled Tape 158, this video footage moves through a small southeastern Ukrainian village, inquiring about its histories, materialities, architectures and possibilities at the edge of a post-Soviet moment. This ‘found’ footage forms the foundation for the installation’s central work, Green Fields, a re-filming of the original footage in the same village twenty-five years later. Produced in the southeastern village of Zelene Pole, Friesen worked with a small crew and local women to re-film the original footage in the same locations, following the cameraman’s movements like a score. In tandem with filming, she spoke with villagers on the same themes as the original tape – of evidentiary architecture, childhood, diasporic linguistics, exile and state violence, and the ongoing presence of the war(s). The resulting installation is a meditation on such things, in all their minute and multiplied forms, an experimental essay that shifts through future-past narrative modes, asking how body, nation, and land is defined within and without us. Kandis Friesen’s work is anchored in diasporic language, dispersed translations, and disintegrating archival forms. Working across video, sculpture, installation, and text, her interdisciplinary compositions build from architectural, material, and spectral inhabitations of exile, amplifying minute and myriad histories at once. Her current research is focused on an architectural site in Odessa, Ukraine, a non-ruinous ruin that has variously held a choral synagogue, a workers club, a cinema, and the occupying Romanian army during WWII, and currently houses the extensive collection of the Odessa State Archives. Drawing on constructions of public memory and public space, this work proposes directional frameworks for thinking through futurity, collective architectures, and structural resonance and disrepair: the monumental task of building memory. Participating Artists: Kandis Friesen (CHI) Curator(s): Credits: Kandis Friesen, Tape 158 (still), 2019 Opening: Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives articule has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening reception of Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives by Kandis Friesen. Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives is an interdisciplinary... { + RSVP } Artist talk: Kandis Friesen Saturday, May 16, 2020 - 15:00 articule has the pleasure of inviting you to an artist talk by Kandis Friesen (CHI) as part of the exhibition Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives. Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line459
__label__wiki	0.969408	0.969408	Japan to Participate in India’s Naval Exercises With U.S. India and the World Indian military personnel at joint naval drills in Japan in 2014 (photo: Indian Navy) Japan is expected to take part in the 2015 edition of India’s joint naval exercises with the United States that are scheduled in October. This is being seen as a sign of stronger military and diplomatic ties between India and Japan, and an attempt by India to recover its position as the dominant maritime power in the Indian Ocean that has recently seen inroads by China. The Indian Navy’s ‘Malabar’ exercises are conducted with the U.S. Navy each year. The last time these included other navies was in 2007, when Japan, Australia and Singapore were also invited. But following China’s disquiet at what it believed to be a U.S.-inspired coalition aimed at containing its rise, India has kept the exercises a bilateral affair with the U.S. For the last 8 years, India has participated in three-way events only when it was away from the Indian Ocean, such as last year's drills off Japan's Nagasaki coast. But no longer. With China's expanding naval footprint in the Indian Ocean including submarines docking in neighbouring Sri Lanka and again in Pakistan in May, Narendra Modi's administration has decided to accelerate naval modernisation as well as shore up ties with maritime nations. "Modi's Delhi is no longer willing to give Beijing a veto over its defence partnerships," said C. Raja Mohan, a foreign policy analyst, to Reuters. Military officials from India, the U.S. and Japan are meeting this week at a U.S. navy base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, to plan the exercises, a navy and a diplomatic source in New Delhi said. The officials will decide the type of warships and planes the navies will deploy in the Bay of Bengal. "They are discussing platforms, logistics and interoperability between the three naval forces," the source told Reuters. India and the U.S. have fielded aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines in their previous bilateral exercises. A Japanese government official in Tokyo confirmed the meeting and said representatives from the three navies were discussing Japan’s participation in the naval exercises. Jeff Smith, a South Asia specialist at the American Foreign Policy Council, told Reuters that Japan was keen to take part in the exercises this year since it was expanding the role of its military against a more assertive China. Multilateral exercises suited both India and Japan, he said. "I'd view aircraft carrier participation in this year's drill as yet another signal from the Modi government that it was shedding the (previous) government's anxiety about a more overt balancing posture toward China and a more robust strategic embrace of the U.S. and Japan," Smith said. An official confirmation on Japan’s participation is expected only closer to the event. - Karan Singh India, Japan, U.S. plan naval exercises in tightening of ties in Indian Ocean (by Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters) Military officials from India, US and Japan meet over naval exercise in Indian Ocean (PTI) ‘India, Japan and U.S. can shape China’s peaceful rise’ (by Dinakar Peri, The Hindu) Rusty 3 years ago By the way Darius, is there any chance we can start having polls on this site?There are so many coareovrtsinl and interesting subjects around the Lakers that being able to put up the occasional poll for readers to vote in would be a fun way to get a “finger on the pulse of Laker nation” view of things. India College Chain’s Expansion into U.S. Draws Opposition from Massachusetts Officials over Quality of Education Milk Shortages in India Tied to Release of New Movies Featuring Nation’s Favorite Stars Confusion Swirls around Kashmir Newspaper Ban in Wake of Violent Street Protests Polio-Free for 5 Years, India Launches Vaccine Drive after Polio Strain Discovery New Aviation Policy Could Increase Service, Lower Ticket Prices	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line473
__label__wiki	0.795446	0.795446	AMAZING STORIES AROUND THE WORLD News, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Education, Religion, Culture, Science, World, Motivation, Nature, Knowledge, Intelligence, Inspiration, Wisdom & Love Aftermath Of Presidential Primary: "Ekweremadu Mulls Dumping PDP For Being Used And Dumped" Atiku, Saraki Decline Comment Slowly, but steadily, a major crisis appears to be brewing in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of next year’s presidential election. The party still appears divided over the choice of its running mate. Saturday Sun, however, gathered that the cause of the anger and division has nothing to do with the competence of the eventual candidate for the position, former Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi. But sources say it has everything to do with the manner he emerged. This much was confirmed by the Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi, who also doubles as Chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, who confirmed that South-East leaders were not consulted before the emergence of Obi. “Nobody is against Peter Obi, because he is my friend, competent and you must have seen our pictures together on the social media. We must take decisions against the marginalisation of Ebonyi people because if we have to vote, we must be treated with equity. “Two names of the nominees came from Anambra, two from Abia and one from Enugu, but none came from Ebonyi and Imo. “What is wrong with somebody from Ebonyi and Imo? If you must know, one of the reasons an Ebonyi man is against regions in the country is the fear of further marginalisation. “If Atiku just picked his running mate without people from other regions seeing the list and making choices, there could have been no complaints. I am talking about the South-East people and if six people can come from other regions and take decisions, there must be somebody from the South-East zone. “There is nothing like the South-East governors’ stand on the matter; but we are only saying that when decisions are taken and people from other regions are invited, those from the South-East must be invited,” Umahi said. The raging fire The man at the centre of the fresh crisis, which insiders say was capable of eroding all the gains the party may have recorded so far in its march towards 2019 is the deputy president of the senate, Ike Ekweremadu. Saturday Sun gathered that long before former vice president and PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, returned to the party, himself and Ekweremadu had been meeting over 2019. It was the leaks from one of such meetings that made some of the party leaders at the time to allege that Ekweremadu was scheming to hand over the party to Atiku. But that at every of such meetings, even when Atiku was said to have out rightly offered the deputy senate president the vice presidency slot, Ekweremadu would always insist that he was more interested in what the South-East stand to gain as a bloc from his presidency. Saturday Sun further gathered that it was such talks that culminated in the entire South-East giving bloc votes to Atiku, at the just concluded PDP presidential primary, a development that did go down well with some party leaders in the South-south. “It was a collective decision we took to back Atiku for a number of reasons. One, we had wanted to meet with the South-south to take a common position on that. But one leader, in particular, treated us as if we didn’t matter. So, when Ekweremadu called us, we met and weighed the options before us based on the offers made by each of the aspirants. “One of the offers that fascinated us most, which is restructuring, was made by Atiku. Then the other was his desire to do just one term so as to enable the South-East field a presidential candidate in 2023. We saw that as a good counter to our opponents, the APC in the South-East, who have been canvassing that a Buhari’s second term was the surest way to Igbo presidency in 2023. “Now, after the primary, we expected Atiku to come back to us, so we can tidy up the details of our understanding, and move on from there. But that did not happen. The next thing we heard was that announcement of a running mate without recourse to us. Nobody is against Peter Obi’s choice, not even Ekweremadu, who have been asking us to take it easy. But that is not how to go about it, unless Atiku thinks himself and Obi can go it alone in the South-East,” one of the party leaders said. How Ekweremadu was used and dumped Insisting that the deputy president of the Senate was not fairly treated, one of the party leaders from the South-East further said “No, look at the way they treated Ekweremadu. When all of them left, Ekweremadu remained to fight for the survival of this party. How many of them would have resisted the temptation not to defect in the face of the intimidation, harassment, prosecution and persecution meted out on him? As a person, he had nothing to lose if he had defected then. In fact, he had everything to gain. He probably would have been the senate president because he was offered the slot. “Then, when you people now return, you feel that people, who have held this party to survive, do not matter again simply because you got a presidential ticket. Also, even Saraki knows that if DSP had not been loyal, they would have gotten at him (Saraki) long ago. All the trials Ekweremadu was put through were all because of Saraki. But when it was the turn of Saraki to be there for him, he failed him. And as we speak, how many days is this after the primary? Atiku is yet to call DSP. “You don’t treat a man who has been taking bullets on you people’s behalf like that. Well, I wish them and PDP well, but they should know that action begets reaction and they will pay the price for this mistreatment of people, who have laboured for the party at the toughest time. And if Ekweremadu leaves, we will hold these people responsible” one of the leaders from the South-East told Saturday Sun. Atiku, Saraki keep mum When contacted, spokesman for the Bukola Saraki Campaign Organisation, Mr. Ilemona Onoja, promised to get across, since three days ago. But up till the time of filling this report, he is yet to get back. When called again, he said “Sorry, it took so long. I have been trying to reach my Principal. He travelled abroad; I cannot have this conversation without some sort of clearance. Like Saraki, Atiku’s spokesperson too, Mr. Segun Showunmi has refused to react to the development. For three days too, he remained evasive even when questions were sent to him vide the email to enable him respond. Ekweremadu, not bitter However, another party leader from the South-East revealed that the deputy senate president is not personally bitter over the turn of event. He was only worried that the way the actors were going about it, if not checked, South-East may not be in a position to push through some of the understandings it reached with Atiku before giving him their support, key among which is restructuring and 2023 Igbo presidency project. “I agree with you, they just used and dumped the man. The man has always been faithful in all their deals and arrangements. He will keep to his own side of the bargain, but these people have never kept faith with him. “Personally, I see what they are doing to him as a grand design to destroy him politically. Otherwise, even if Atiku was going to change his mind, he was supposed to carry Ekweremadu and other leaders along. Good enough, Ekweremadu has always insisted he was more interested in restructuring and South-East running for the presidency in 2023. He even joked to Atiku to feel free to pick his running mate from any part of the north if he felt that would guarantee the PDP victory. “To deliberately avoid him and other party leaders in the East until the Obi’s announcement was made shows it was in bad faith. And to say Saraki was part of the meeting where the decision was made, after promising Ekweremadu to be there for him as he has been there for him, that he would ensure Atiku honours all the agreement he had with him (Ekweremadu) and the Igbo leaders show Saraki too did not value all the sacrifices made by Ekweremadu on his behalf over the years. “Well, I cannot say precisely what Ekweremadu is thinking. But as a politician, he should truly be weighing his options because the way these people have carried on does not hold any promises for him. If we are just preparing for a war and members of our troop are already treating some of us as conquered species, since they believe the war has already been won and lost even before it starts, then, I think there is the reason to worry, “the party leader said. Ekweremadu’s aide reacts When contacted, Ekweremadu’s spokesman, Mr. Uche Anichukwu pleaded not to be dragged into the matter. He was however quick to add: “I think the South-East leaders have vented their feelings and there is no ill will towards the person of Peter Obi. The deputy president of the Senate is more concerned about the collective interest of the South-East going forward. “You know the deputy president of the Senate is one man, who does not always want to rock the boat. But he is a courageous leader too. At the fullest of time, I am sure he will speak up. But you know, he is one man whose political trajectory is directed by God. He is not a desperate person and acts in the collective interest. 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__label__wiki	0.581791	0.581791	About BSF BaseballSoftballUK British Softball Federation British Baseball Federation New to Softball National Softball League 1 NSL & the Nationals Nationals Information GB Teams Our National Teams Olympic Documents GB Staff Vacancies BASU BASU Events Becoming an Umpire Non-Approved Bats List BASU Contacts BASU Feedback Form Crew Chief & Tournament Contacts Umpire Kit Orders Umpire Training Materials Insurance and Incident Reporting You're interested in playing – or finding out more about playing – either slowpitch softball or fastpitch softball. You've never played before and you don't know where to start. Maybe you're not even too sure about the differences. Or maybe you've played one or more of these sports before and want to find a team to join. Whether you're a beginner, a relative novice or an experienced player, you'll find information in this section that will help you get involved in the format of your choice. The 2019 outdoor season is now under way, with plenty of opportunities for new players to get involved, and there will also be open indoor training sessions and competitions around the country over the winter, designed to attract new players and provide them with training and experience. Below is some basic information about slowpitch and fastpitch softball, followed by a list of activities that you can join if you want to get involved in either format. You can also use the BaseballSoftballUK Diamond Finder to check out softball leagues in your area. Co-ed slowpitch softball is the most popular and easily accessible format of baseball and softball that exists today in the UK. It's a lot like baseball in terms of the rules, but because the ball is pitched slowly to each batter (as the name implies!), it's easy to hit the ball and get involved in the game. Slowpitch is a game that's easy to pick up and accommodates mixed abilities, with both experienced players and novices able to play on the same team. Teams are mixed-gender and slowpitch is a popular sport among players from the LGBTQ+ community. All this gives the sport a great buzz, and most softball games are followed by social sessions at the local pub! Slowpitch is played both recreationally and competitively in summer leagues after work, in winter indoor leagues and during weekend tournaments across the country, including at the Farnham Park Baseball and Softball Complex, the UK’s only national facility, operated by BaseballSoftballUK. There are over 20 leagues and hundreds of teams set up across the country with thousands of players in London alone. Use the BaseballSoftballUK Diamond Finder to check out teams, clubs and leagues in your area. Summer slowpitch softball activity LONDON (ADULT PLAYERS) Softball 101 Development Sessions Sessions for new and inexperienced slowpitch softball players, run by the Greater London Softball Mixed League, are under way on Monday evenings in Regents Park and Friday evenings at Colliers Wood Recreation Ground. The sessions will run through August. Monday sessions start at 6.30 pm in Regents Park and run until the light fades, after which everyone usually heads to the nearby Edinboro Castle pub for a drink! Friday sessions run from just after 6:30 pm at Colliers Wood Recreation Ground, a five-minute walk from Colliers Wood tube station, until the light fades – after which everyone usually heads to the nearby Charles Holden pub for a drink! Sessions cost £3 per week and cover the fundamentals of softball -- throwing, batting, fielding and softball rules – and participants get a chance to put their new skills into practice with a game at the end of each session. When the sessions have finished, one or two new teams will usually form to enter late-season recreational tournaments in 2019 and then play in the GLSML the following year. Anyone who has their own fielding glove should bring it along, but if not there are plenty of gloves for everyone. For more information check out this article on this website or contact development.glsml@gmail.com. Go Mammoth Softball Leagues Go Mammoth runs social softball leagues throughout the summer in different parts of London, with levels of play for all, equipment provided, friendly umpires, prizes and post-match bat deals. Over 50% of people join not knowing anyone in the league and are placed with similar players or small groups of friends looking for a team. Individuals pay from £7 per week. For more information go to https://www.gomammoth.co.uk/softball/london/. LONDON (YOUTH PLAYERS) LondonSports LondonSports is London’s largest and longest-established youth baseball and softball league, giving boys aged 5 to 17 and girls aged 5 to 18 the opportunity to learn and play baseball/softball in a safe and fun environment. Children and young people of all nationalities are welcome, whether they are newcomers to the game or experienced players. Every player is given instruction which allows them to improve their skills and develop self-confidence and self-esteem. The playing season runs from March through mid-June, and every year LondonSports plays nearly 300 games on 18 fields. There are nine leagues including two Instructional baseball leagues (ages 5-8), four competitive baseball leagues (ages 9-17) and three girls softball leagues (ages 9-18). There is also a full Travel Team programme for players looking for more baseball training. The value of teamwork and above all good sportsmanship is emphasised. For more information visit https://www.londonsports.com or email admin@londonsports.com. London Mets Baseball and Softball Club The London Mets Baseball and Softball Club offers youth baseball for boys and girls aged 6 to 18 and fastpitch softball for girls aged 13-18. The club’s main venue is in Finsbury Park, London N4, and there is a second facility for youth baseball at Enfield EN1. The club’s youth activities typically include: Winter training which runs on 6-8 weekends from January through March. A spring Little League season from April to June. Domestic competitions during June. Training and friendly games on Sundays for female fastpitch players. The possibility of European competition for our elite youth players in both baseball and softball. A summer camp, generally during a week in late August. Autumn competitions in September. To register for either youth baseball or softball, go to https://www.londonmets.org/youthregistration, and for more information about girls’ fastpitch softball go to https://www.londonmets.org/fastpitch. Come Try Softball Fridays (Adult Players) Maidenhead Softball Club is running free open sessions for anyone 13+ who would like to try softball. No experience required, all abilities welcome, all equipment provided. Sessions will take place from 6.30-8.15 on Friday evenings throughout the summer at North Maidenhead Cricket Club, Summerleaze Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 8SP. For more information, contact: Alan Le Marquand. Maidenhead Youth Softball (Youth Players) Maidenhead Softball Club is running free open sessions for anyone aged 10-14 who would like to try softball. No experience required, all abilities welcome, all equipment provided. Session will take place from 6.00-7.15 pm on Wednesday evenings throughout the summer at North Maidenhead Cricket Club, Summerleaze Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 8SP. For more information, contact: Alan Le Marquand. NORTH WEST: SLOWPITCH SOFTBALL FOR TEENAGERS AND ADULTS Manchester Softball League Rookies/Beginners Sessions Rookie sessions for players aged +14 -- no experience needed and everyone welcome -- will be held at Parrs Wood Playing Fields, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 5PG on Tuesdays from 6:30-8.00 pm until 27 August. For more information or to sign up, contact recruitment@manchester-softball.co.uk or visit http://manchester-softball.co.uk or https://www.facebook.com/manchestersoftballleague/. York Romans York Romans are a brand-new and inclusive co-ed slowpitch softball club, welcoming players of all abilities from ages 16 and above. Sessions will be held at 22 Acres, Garrowby Way, Heslington, York YO10 5NF on Tuesdays from 6.00-7.30 pm until 2 July. Contact Kate at yorkromanssoftball@gmail.com or on 07926-262232 or visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/yorkromanssoftball/. Leeds Softball League Rookie Sessions Sessions for new players will be held at Bedquilts Recreation Ground, Adel Lane, Leeds LS16 8DB on Tuesdays from 6:30 pm until dark throughout the summer. No equipment is needed; we provide everything. Just turn up in jogging/sportswear and bring a bottle of water. No experience is needed either, just willingness to give it a go. For more information contact LeedsSoftball@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/LeedsSoftballAssociation or http://www.leedssoftball.com. Liverpool Softball League Rookie Sessions Beginners sessions for men and women aged 14+ -- no experience needed and all welcome -- will be held at Childwall Sports College, Queens Drive, Liverpool L15 6XZ on Mondays from 6.00-7.00 pm throughout the summer. For more information contact Mike on 07553-318488 or visit https://www.liverpoolsoftball.co.uk or https://www.facebook.com/LSLSoftball/. Women's Rookie Sessions at Lytham St Annes Rookie sessions for women (girls 14+ are welcome if accompanied by an adult) will be held at the YMCA Ansdell Arena, Albany Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 4AR on Thursdays from 7:15-8:30 pm throughout the summer. For more information contact Natalie on LSASoftballUK@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/LythamStAnnesSoftballClub/. Urmston Rookie Sessions The Urmston Softball Club is holding Rookie Sessions for players 14+ -- no experience needed and all welcome -- at Urmston Sports Club, Moorside Road, Urmston, Manchester M41 5UU on Sundays from 12.00-1.00 pm through the summer. For more information or to register contact Linni (linni.mitchell@bsuk.com). Manchester Tigers Softball Club Beginners (14+) are welcome at training sessions held by the Manchesster Tigers Softball Club at Trafford Metrovicks, Finny Bank Road, Sale M33 6LR on Mondays starting at 6.00 pm. For more information contact Dave on recruit@tigersoftball.co.uk or visit https://www.facebook.com/pg/Tigersoftball/ or http://www.tigersoftball.co.uk. Sheffield Bladerunners Softball Club Slowpitch softball is a sport for everyone (women and men, girls and boys) from 14+ to retirees, and your sporting background doesn't matter: softball offers everyone the chance to be involved. The club provides all equipment need and will be running beginner sessions, training and games at Forge Valley School, Sheffield S6 5HG (dates and times TBC). For more information contact Rich on rich@sheffieldbladerunners.co.uk or visit www.sheffieldbladerunners.co.uk. NORTH WEST: YOUTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL Junior baseball/softball/teeball sessions for boys and girls in school years 2 through 6 will be held at YMCA Ansdell Arena, Albany Road, Lytham Saint Annes FY8 4AR on Fridays starting at 5.00 pm throughout the summer. For more information contact Natalie on LSASoftballUK@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/LythamStAnnesSoftballClub/. Urmston Ripper Nippers The Urmston Rippers Softball Club is holding baseball/softball sessions for juniors aged 8-14. These fun sessions, focusing on skills and drills and always ending in a game, will be held at Urmston Sports Club, Moorside Road, Urmston, Manchester M41 5UU on Sundays from 2.00-3.00 pm throughout the summer. For more information contact Linni (linni.mitchell@bsuk.com). Opportunities to be posted soon. SOLENT & SOUTH COAST UNIVERSITY SOFTBALL All of the universities listed below have slowpitch softball teams and programmes -- open to students at the university -- and many of them run open training sessions or competition during the winter months. Search for the club, search BUBS -- British University Baseball & Softball -- on Facebook for more information or check out the individual university's Student Union website. University of Bolton Bucks New University University of Chichester Loughborough University (3 teams) Manchester Metropolitan University Queen Mary University London University of Swansea University of Nottingham (2 teams) University of Portsmouth (2 teams) University of York (2 teams) COMPANY SLOWPITCH SOFTBALL Baseball’s coming to town this summer when the Boston Red Sox take on the New York Yankees at the London Stadium -- and also next summer when the St Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs will slug it out. Get in on the action by having a go at slowpitch softball, the most accessible version of the game. Join a new generation of players and fans by enjoying a summer’s day in the park with colleagues, clients and friends, socialising and playing a game that everyone can quickly get to grips with. Softball appeals to all abilities, is inclusive and suitable for any gender, creates a great team bond, leads to improved physical and mental wellbeing and is also great for client entertaining! BaseballSoftballUK has put together a package of “Hit the Pitch” softball events tailored to the needs of companies and their employees. Whatever your goals, we have a package of activities that is right for you. We can help you run an introductory day, set up a new team or organise a whole league! Visit the Hit the Pitch website to find out more. Fastpitch softball in the UK and around the world is played mainly (but not exclusively) by women and girls and is the international competition format of the sport. Women's fastpitch softball was the Olympic format while the sport was on the Olympic Games programme from 1996-2008 and will rejoin the Olympic programme in Tokyo in 2020. Fastpitch is more challenging than slowpitch softball, and requires more skill and game awareness, but it is a tremendously rewarding game and the format is growing in both quantity and quality in the UK. Most fastpitch activity is based in the southeast of England, but there is also fastpitch activity in the East Midlands, Manchester and Chichester. Summer fastpitch softball activity GREAT BRITAIN FASTPITCH LEAGUE The Great Britain Fastpitch League (GBFL) is open to all players, female and male, from 14 years upwards. There are men's and women's leagues playing on a number of Saturdays during the spring and early summer. There is more information on the GBFL league page on the BSF website or on the GBFL's own website: www.fastpitchsoftball.co.uk. The league plays at the Farnham Park Baseball and Softball Complex, Beaconsfield Road, Farnham Royal, Slough SL2 3BP. New players are always welcome, regardless of ability or previous experience with fastpitch softball or any form of softball. If you would like to get involved, email admin@fastpitchsoftball.co.uk. Winter fastpitch activity BASEBALLSOFTBALLUK ACADEMY BaseballSoftballUK (BSUK) runs National and Regional Academy fastpitch softball sessions over the winter months from October through April, open to all female and male players from 10-25 years of age. For information on dates, venues and cost, go to the Academy Page on the BSUK website. BASEBALLSOFTBALLUK HIGH PERFORMANCE ACADEMY BSUK also runs a High Performance Academy over the winter, by trial and invitation, for female players aged 14-20. For more information or to trial for a place, contact Robbie Robison. Manchester LGBT tourney thrives in the rain Get into softball at GLSML New Players Day Southampton Mustangs to enter a team in the Solent Softball League GLSML Softball 101 sessions to start on Monday 9 May Newest Manchester team wins its debut game Get into softball on 16 April at the GLSML New Players Day Disco Ball to provide tournament opportunity for D and C-grade teams London Mets Girls’ Fastpitch Softball Fastpitch Falcons get a boost in Chichester BSUK supports Architects Softball League Starting A Softball Team Related content can be found in the News, Events and Resources sections above... London LGBTQ+ Annual Softball Challenge Insurance Institute of Manchester (IIM) Tournament 2018 North West Slowpitch Series 2 of 3 North West Slowpitch Series 1 Manchester LGBT Charity Tournament info@britishsoftball.org ©2011-2020 British Softball Federation Ltd. 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__label__cc	0.691965	0.308035	Clinlab Navigator Method Evaluation Outcomes of Poor QC Proficiency Testing Test Significant Change Test Utilization Test Interpretations Fetal fibronectin (fFN) is a large glycoprotein located in the extracellular matrix of the choriodecidual junction between the maternal decidua and the fetal membranes. It is an adhesive glycoprotein that crosslinks collagen and binds cells together. Some research has suggested that it plays a role in implantation. fFN can be detected in cervicovaginal secretions during the first 22 weeks of pregnancy until the fetal membranes completely fuse to the maternal decidua. fFN levels reach their peak of approximately 4000 ng/mL between 10 and 12 weeks gestation, fall to below 50 ng/mL by 22 weeks, and remain at undetectable levels until 36 to 37 weeks. By 37 weeks gestation, fFN becomes more heavily glycosylated, loses its adhesive properties and is again detectable in cervicovaginal secretions. Mechanical stress caused by uterine contractions and local inflammation lead to separation of the choriodecidiual interface and promote the release of fetal fibronectin into the vagina. Between 24 and 37 weeks gestation, fFN should normally not be present in the cervix and vagina. Detection of fFN in cervicovaginal secretions at a concentration of >50 ng/mL indicates the patient is at high risk for preterm labor and subsequent early birth. The fFN test is most useful in differentiating “true” preterm labor from false labor in symptomatic women presenting with contractions between 24 to 34.9 weeks gestational age. Patients who present with contractions but insignificant cervical dilation or effacement can often have their therapy modified based on the presence or absence of fetal fibronectin. Without fFN testing, 20% of these women deliver preterm if sent home. For predicting delivery within 7 days in symptomatic women at 24 to 34.9 weeks gestation, fFN’s sensitivity is 57-93% and specificity is 73-92%. The positive predictive value (PPV) is only 13%, but the negative predictive value is 97-99.6%. FFN works well for predicting when a symptomatic woman will not deliver, but not for predicting when she will deliver. FDA has approved fFN for the diagnosis of impending premature delivery in symptomatic women who are at 24.0 to 34.9 weeks’ gestation. For asymptomatic women who are at 22 to 39 weeks’ gestation, fFN is FDA approved for predicting the risk of preterm delivery. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has recommended the use of this test if the following criteria are met (Int’l J Obstet Gynecol 1997; 59:164): Amniotic membranes are intact Cervical dilatation <2 cm and effacement <80% Sampling is performed no earlier than 24 weeks, 0 days and no latter than 34 weeks, 6 days of gestation (using a swab of the vaginal vault). Amniotic fluid is rich in fFN, therefore, the test cannot be used in women with ruptured membranes. Specimens should not be collected from patients with known placental abruption, placenta previa, ruptured membranes, vaginal bleeding, or intercourse in the last 24 hours because these factors can cause false positive results. Multiple pregnancies cause elevated FFN concentrations. False Negative Results False Positive Results Recent intercourse Digital exam within 24 hours Fetal fibronectin is sampled from cervical and vaginal secretions. Serum samples are not used due to the presence of fFN produced by hepatocytes. FFN should be collected at the beginning of the speculum examination before any lubricants are used and before the digital examination. Lubricating ointments and Betadine should be avoided because they can cause false negative results. A special Dacron polyester swab and transport tube must be used. Any cervical vaginal mucus can be used; however, the best sampling site is the cervical os. During a sterile speculum examination, the swab is gently rolled over the exocervix and dipped into the posterior fornices, but not placed into the cervical canal. When fully saturated, the swab contains approximately 150 uL of secretions. Reference value is negative. The optimal cutoff for FFN is 50 ng/mL to determine preterm delivery. A negative test indicates that the FFN level is <50 ng/mL. Amazon Book ClinLab Navigator Information Test Interpretatios Copyright © 2020 ClinLabNavigator. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line496
__label__cc	0.531172	0.468828	Detail Archives Discuss This Issue Subscribe to The Detail Fingerprint News Archive Search Past Details G o o d M o r n i n g ! via THE WEEKLY DETAIL The purpose of the Detail is to help keep you informed of the current state of affairs in the latent print community, to provide an avenue to circulate original fingerprint-related articles, and to announce important events as they happen in our field. Breaking NEWz you can UzE... compiled by Jon Stimac New Fingerprint Agency 'shambolic' – SCOTSMAN, UK - Feb 10, 2008 - ...reform of police forensic services in the wake of the McKie fingerprint scandal has been branded a "shambolic" failure by staff... Forensic Scientists Need to Evolve New Technologies to Counter Crimes – CHANDIGARTH NEWSLINE, INDIA - Feb 8, 2008 ...a three-day international symposium on ‘Advances in Fingerprint Identification’ was organized by the Punjabi University’s Department of Forensic Science... 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Discuss this topic on CLPEX.com - a discussion has been created for KEPT. we looked at the first 2008 edition of the DoD Biometric Scan. Michele Triplett brings us an independent user-review of the Competency Assessment Services Limited (CAS Ltd.) latent print examination proficiency test. CAS Ltd. Review by Michele Triplett It’s always important for Latent Print Examiners to show they’re proficient and competent at their job. Some people use their years of experience, some people tout the accreditation of their lab, some people become certified by the IAI, and others take yearly proficiency tests. In the past, Collaborative Testing Services (CTS) has been the only company to provide testing services to the latent print community. If a person or agency wanted a different type of test (or a different level of testing), the only option was to make up their own. Recently a new company, Competency Assessment Services Limited (CAS Ltd.), has started providing latent print testing services. This company is based out of England but has several representatives within the United States. I have no affiliation with this company. My interests are in knowing the benefits and shortcomings of what’s available to our discipline. Since 2001, I’ve participated in CTS proficiency testing but I’ve always wanted more out of a proficiency test. At one time I emailed CTS asking them if they ever planned on expanding their test to include any of the following: testing examiners for their ability to make exclusions rather than just individualizations; asking examiners for justification to support conclusions; and asking examiners to state the proper scientific principles behind arriving at a conclusion. Months went by but I never heard back from CTS. Some latent print examiners feel that CTS does test the ability to exclude different suspects but the term they use, NI (Not Identified), is confusing. While some people take this to mean exclusion, others think ‘Not Identified’ indicates they couldn’t find the exemplar that left this latent print. And then there are others who use NI to indicate that consistency exists but not sufficiency. Regardless of the intent, this is an area that could be clarified and tested. Back in 2006, I was very excited to see that Quality Forensics was advertising that they would have a new test available in early 2007. I don’t know the details as to why, but this project never resulted in offering a new proficiency test to LPE’s. Later in 2006 I heard about CAS Ltd. I immediately contacted them to see how their test was going to differ from what was currently available. I was pleased to get a response from them right way. They told me that their test would test individuals, have quality materials, would be made with ground truth conclusions, would be proctored independently, and would be timed. They were hoping to have their testing academically accredited as well as sanctioned by ASCLD/LAB. The current CTS test can be taken by an individual or taken as a group by an entire lab. Since each test is proctored by the agency taking the test, it may not represent the proficiency of individual examiners. I decided that taking the CAS Ltd. test would tell me what I needed to know. In early January, CAS Ltd. coordinated the details with Lloyd Thomas from the Seattle Police Department (a neighboring agency to mine). They mailed him the test and he generously agreed to oversee the testing process. He arrived in my office the morning of February 8, 2008. The test was still sealed so we opened it and began the testing process. The materials were of the highest quality. The quality was so good that the exemplars looked just like inked prints. This was very different from what I was used to. The CTS test provides color photographs of black and white latent prints and exemplars. The result is a color distortion that leaves a yellowing on all the test materials. This never interfered with my ability to complete a CTS test, but I did immediately notice the difference. The CAS Ltd. test was three hours long and the directions indicated that I could use a comparator. I didn’t use one however, as I’ve never used or seen a comparator, and don’t have access to one. My office enlarges and enhances images using Adobe Photoshop which serves a similar purpose. Since this wasn’t mentioned in the testing directions I just used my 4.5x magnifiers. I should mention that I became an LPE in 1998, finished my training in the end of 1999, and became certified in 2003. I’m not one those amazing LPE’s that can individualize the smallest distorted latent print in a matter of minutes. Sometimes I get lucky, but for the most part I consider myself to be the “average” examiner. I’m also anxious by nature, so timed tests are not something I’m fond of. Reading the directions was included in the three hours given to take the test. I instantly thought this was eating into my comparison time and regretted having been so inquisitive about this test. I should have just been happy that I’ve always passed the CTS tests I’ve taken. The test included 12 latent prints and 6 sets of exemplars. The first two latent prints I looked for I couldn’t find. About 45 minutes had passed and I hadn’t identified one print. This wasn’t looking good. I thought of little tricks that Ron Smith (from RSA) had taught me in my training and the next latent I picked up was identified to the first person I looked at. Part of my anxiety was caused by a new test that I wasn’t familiar with. If I took this test again, I’m sure I’d feel more comfortable. I’m not making excuses for my results, I’m happy with how I did. I don’t know what constitutes a passing score but I identified 8 out of the 12 latent prints and excluded the exemplars from leaving one latent print. I was hesitant about excluding the others without getting a good night sleep and double checking my conclusions the next day (something I may do in actual case work). Like I said earlier, the quality of the materials was excellent. The difficulty level was perfect, maybe a little harder than typical casework but this level of difficulty is needed by LPE’s. The test reminded me of the IAI Certification Test and it had a good combination of latent prints from different parts of the hands. I also liked that the test was arranged so that the examiner had to look at the rolled impressions, the flats, and the palm prints because many of the latent prints couldn’t just be individualized to the rolled impression. The cost of this test is $275.00 which is very comparable, yet slightly less expensive, to the cost of the CTS Test. I would highly recommend this test as a way to show the competence of any LPE. Even if agencies don’t require such a test, this is an excellent way for examiners to demonstrate their competence. One of the best aspects is that it has the difficulty level of the IAI’s Certification Test but it’s available to examiners who don’t have the experience required to take the Certification Test. This is something that the IAI considered in the past, but was never developed. Using the CAS Ltd. test would also be a legitimate way to determine the abilities of potential examiners for hiring purposes. I think the independent proctoring is a step above the CTS test. This sort of objectivity is essential in a scientific profession. An element of testing that I’m still trying to promote for all agencies and companies is to require justification of conclusions. My personal feeling is that this should be essential since the foundation of scientific conclusions is in the justification. Since this is a vital part of science, proficiency and competency should take both the conclusion and the justification into account. The CAS Ltd. test comes with a very professional workbook that has plenty of room for justification but it’s not required at this time. I also wonder how a conclusion would be scored if someone recognized the consistency between a latent and the exemplar but they didn’t individualize it due to their own sufficiency requirements. After this was written, a representative of CAS Ltd. responded to an email I sent. Mr. Peter Whent indicated that only latent print examiners would be able to take this test. Eight correct conclusions (of either individualization or exclusion) were considered a passing score. He also indicated CAS Ltd. is currently working with ASCLD/LAB to become accredited. If I understood him correctly, CAS will be turning in the paperwork within the next 28 days. CAS also plans on having a ten print competency test available in the future. If you’d like more information on this company and the tests they provide you can visit their website at www.casltd.org.uk/ or contact them at registrarcas@aol.com. CAS Ltd considers that it is providing the only truly bespoke and fit for purpose independent competency test currently available to the fingerprint profession. It is the only test in the profession with a robust process of invigilation under controlled conditions that can be conducted in house at the premises of the customer. The Test and Testing Procedure Testing only of bona fide fingerprint practitioners who must firstly demonstrate that they have received relevant training. All tests are conducted in anonymity. CAS Ltd recommends that practitioners should be competency tested every 24 months. Testing will be accredited by London South Bank University CAS Ltd has developed its own database of finger marks and fingerprints from consenting donors, ensuring that every mark in their database is from a known person. The data provided in the test is drawn from the database and the competency testing reflects the type of material that would normally be expected to be received into an average fingerprints bureau during a routine day. The test requires the applicant to: Undertake a 3 hour timed test Be allocated a unique reference number for each candidate Be supervised by an independent Invigilator Be Independently assessed Have the right of one appeal only The team consists of Martin Leadbetter Peter Whent, and Graham Gyford, a strong and experienced team dedicated to striving for excellence. Martin Leadbetter RFP FFS BA (Hons) has more than 40 years experience in fingerprint identification. He is currently chairman of the Fingerprint Society, A Distinguished Member of IAI, UK Representative for the IAI and a member of its editorial board and is a Registered Forensic Practitioner with CRFP. Originally trained at New Scotland Yard, he recently retired as Head of the Fingerprint Bureau for Cambridgeshire Constabulary. He has recently been a consultant to the European Commission, worked for the Forensic Science Service and was a consultant and training officer for Sagem. He has conducted many bench-marks of AFIS Systems throughout the world and in all continents. Peter John WHENT QPM LLB FILT FRSA CLTHE. Peter completed 32 years police service, serving as a Detective Chief Superintendent and rising to Assistant Chief Officer level. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished police service. He is a qualified part time academic tutor at a London University, lecturing in Forensic Science, the Principles of Investigation, and Major Disaster. He also provides counter terrorist advice internationally specialising in transport and buildings. Is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow and Chair of the UK Security forum of the Institute of Transport and Logistics, a National Council Member of Victim Support, and a member of the Independent Advisory Group for Essex Police. Graham Gyford has been involved in Sales, Management Development and Human Resources for his entire career and has worked for organisations such as First National Bank, Citibank, Lombard Finance and Abbey National. He has also undertaken freelance consultancy work with the Police Service, The Economist Group, HSBC and GE Capital. Graham has vast experience in the field of developing and conducting assessment and development centres since 1991. He has actively advised and coached businesses to develop their strategy through use of Balanced Business Scorecard methodology and managed high profile HR projects involving business relocation and corporate takeovers. Sam Durrett Sam has over 35 years experience in fingerprints and has worked extensively with law enforcement and forensic agencies throughout the United States and worldwide including countries as diverse as Honduras, Poland, the Philippines and South Africa just to name a few. As a forensic analyst he has been involved in conducting both laboratory and field investigations concerning a wide range of serious crimes. He has testified as an expert witness in court throughout the States both at State and local levels and also other miscellaneous proceedings concerning forensic examinations. Sam is also a qualified trainer in all aspects of fingerprints and has lectured at many academies and professional conferences at various locations around the world and apart from fingerprints, covering such topics as criminology, criminal law and crime scene investigation. Scott M. Glazebrook Scott has been a Latent Print Identification practitioner since 1994 with the Florida State Law Enforcement Department and other local law enforcement offices and since 2001 gas testified many times in Circuit Courts. He is a qualified trainer in Latent Print comparison and has been teaching the various aspects of fingerprint work for the Department of the International Association of Identification (FDIA) Frank J Rodgers Frank was formerly Assistant Administrator for the Laboratory Services Bureau within the United States Phoenix Police Department in Arizona, With over 35 years experience in fingerprints covering Comparative Analysis, Automated Fingerprint Systems, Image Enhancement and Laser/Forensic light Systems. Frank's experience also includes Crime Scene Photography, Reconstruction and Investigation. He is qualified expert witness within his specialities in criminal and civil cases in Municipal, Justice, Superior and Federal Courts KEPT - Keeping Examiners Prepared for Testimony - #6 Terminology - Identify, Individualize, or ID? by Michele Triplett, King County Sheriff's Office Disclaimer: The intent of this is to provide thought provoking discussion. No claims of accuracy exist. Question – Terminology - Identify, Individualize, or ID: This could be any question that relates to the identification process. a) I identified the subject…… b) I individualized the subject… c) I ID’d the subject….. d) This latent print matches the middle finger of….. e) This image was made by one in the same individual….. Which term or phrase you use may not seem important but you never know what other experts in a case are saying, whether it’s another latent print person or an expert from another forensic discipline. These ideas don’t necessarily have to come from someone else’s testimony. Attorneys may bring up topics from other court cases, from books, and from articles during closing arguments. It’s possible that one examiner continually uses the term ‘identify’ during his testimony and then another expert testifies that the term identify means that you’re putting something into a certain class or group and it doesn’t mean that you’re specifically individualizing something. If this concept is brought into court then it could severely impact the way a judge or jury thinks about what you’re saying. The best way to insure there are no misunderstandings is to use the proper terminology. We can identify a latent print as a whorl (classify it into a certain group) or we may be able to individualize a latent print to a certain person (which is a more specific type of identification). Feel free to pass The Detail along to other examiners. This is a free newsletter FOR latent print examiners, BY latent print examiners. 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__label__wiki	0.648187	0.648187	David Cassidy Strikes Plea Deal, No Jail Time PazJD Shirley's Assistant Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:45 pm Post subject: David Cassidy Strikes Plea Deal, No Jail Time Sentencing began at 1:30 EST this afternoon http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20032203-504083.html David Cassidy Strikes Plea Deal, No Jail Time for Actor's DUI Arrest, Says Report (CBS) Former teen idol David Cassidy, who played Keith Partridge in the 1970s hit sitcom "The Partridge Family," will not go to jail for his November DUI arrest in South Florida, according to a report. Court officials said Cassidy, 60, agreed to enter a plea deal during a hearing Wednesday afternoon in exchange for a reduced sentence in which he will lose driving privileges for the next six months and be required to complete 50 hours of community service, according to celebrity news site TMZ. Cassidy was arrested Nov. 3 after authorities said they spotted him swerving on a road in his 2008 white Mercedes, reports CBS affiliate WFOR. Cassidy then agreed to take several field sobriety tests and failed them all, according to the Highway Patrol's report. Authorities say breath tests at the jail showed his blood-alcohol content at 0.139 and 0.141, well above Florida's legal limit of 0.08, reports WFOR. In addition to his license being revoked and community service, Cassidy must also pay approximately $500 in fines, complete an alcohol education course, and attend a DUI "victim impact panel" where people who have been affected by drunk drivers talk about their experiences, states TMZ. David got very lucky because Vince Neil also had his sentencing for DUI in Vegas yesterday: Rock singer Vince Neil turned himself in to the Clark County Detention Center on Tuesday to serve out a two-week sentence for drunken driving in June. In January, the M TVGord Part of his community service should be added so that he has to honor all of the personal appearances and commitments he has bailed on in recent years. Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:36 am Post subject: He's made Perez Hilton's blog. I think I'd rather do the time. Ha ha ha ha! Skizzy Fleameyer Location: NLX 590 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:02 am Post subject: P Hilton Being on Hilton's blog should be "Time Served" ! Amy from Boston Location: State of Euphoria Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: Especially that extreme close up of the mug shot! It's as strict as it can be without jail time. I think it's fair. The victims' impact panel is such a good idea. They ran away to Europe to avoid the publicity.... Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:35 pm Post subject: He made Perez now and also at the time of the arrest in Nov. BonnieNY Official Partridge-in-Training Amy from Boston wrote: The victims' impact panel is such a good idea. I agree! I'd never heard of it before, but I think it's brilliant.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line499
__label__cc	0.652759	0.347241	CNAA / Theses / 2019 / July / Terminologization, determinologization and reterminologization in Romanian (based on sports vocabulary) Author: Luca Aliona Degree: doctor of philology Speciality: 10.02.01 - Romanian Language Scientific adviser: Ana Vulpe doctor, associate professor (docent), Institute of Philology The thesis was presented on the 23 July, 2019 Approved by NCAA on the 6 December, 2019 – 0.48 Mb / in romanian CZU 81ʹ37+811.135.1:796.0 2.32 Mb / in romanian term, terminology, terminological system, specialized vocabulary, specialized lexis, scientific text, semantic evolution, semantic process, sports language, lexico-semantic analysis, componential analysis, stratification, lexical innovations, linguistic phenomenon, terminologization, determinologization, reterminologization Volume and structure of the thesis. The thesis consists of: introduction, three chapters, general conclusions and recommendations, bibliography of 198 titles, 5 annexes, 184 basic text pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. The results of the research are published in 12 scientific papers. Field of study: 621-04- Lexicology and lexicography; terminology and specialized languages; traductology (Romanian) The purpose of the research is to analyze and describe complexly the terminologization, determinologization and reterminologization processes in Romanian, based on the lexical system of sport, at the contemporary stage of its evolution. Objectives of the research: determination of specialized languages in the general system of language, the characteristics of the specialized texts and the structure of the terminological systems, determining the criteria for the classification of the terminological units and the optimal criteria for the classification of sports terms; complex research of linguistic phenomena terminologization, determinologization, reterminologization and determination of the specificity and mechanisms of semantic remodelling of the sports vocabulary compared to other specialized languages; the lexico-semantic and structural-semantic analysis of the sports terminology system; the determination of the application domains and the conceptual ones generating sports terms; identifying the new meanings and expressive potentials of the lexical units in the sports language, trained in terminologization, determinologization and reterminologization processes, highlighting the interaction of sports language with other specialized languages. The scientific novelty and originality resides in the complex analysis of the processes of semantic evolution of sports terms in Romanian through the linguistic phenomena terminologization, determinologization, reterminologization, insufficiently studied in Romanian linguistics, approach that could be applied to other terminological systems. It was also argued a new vision on reterminologization and interdisciplinarity phenomena. The obtained results that contribute to the solving of an important scientific problem: a complex research of the linguistic phenomena terminologization, determinologization, reterminologization was carried out, which contributed to revealing the specifics of forming the processes of sports terminology system and its interaction with the common language and other specialized languages in the current Romanian language. The theoretical significance of the work consists in the fact that the semantic evolution of the specialized vocabulary, including the sports one, through the terminologization, determinologization and reterminologization phenomena, can be further researched both in a national linguistic framework and in the aspect of the internationalization of the Romanian language, the classification of some Romanian sports terms in the international circuit, as well as the research of the international common fund of lexical units in the aimed field. The applicative value of the paper is the possibility to use the results of the research to develop a theoretical terminology course of Romanian language, to complete the lexicographic and terminographic works in Romanian with new elements and meanings, to translate specialized texts, and also to constitute an addition to the creation of the database of the current general vocabulary of the Romanian in the Republic of Moldova. The acquired material can serve as the basis for a methodical guideline for specialists in the field of physical education and sports and for the development of a small explanatory dictionary of sports terms. Implementation of scientific results. The results of the research have been reflected in the reports presented at national and international scientific meetings (colloquia, conferences, congresses) and published in their material collections, as well as in specialized journals edited in the Republic of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. Oficial Reviewers Elena Constantinovici doctor habilitat, professor, Institute of Philology Ion Manoli doctor habilitat, professor, Alecu Russo Balty State University Marin BUTUC doctor, associate professor (docent) Council's Members Aurelia Hanganu, president doctor habilitat, associate professor (docent) Ana Vulpe, member There have been written 32 theses, including 4 theses for the degree of doctor habilitate. (in this specialty) Under consideration [1] : Performing acts of speech in discourse Theses Archive: Select year2019 [2]2018 [1]2017 [1]2016 [1]2011 [4]2010 [2]2009 [6]2007 [8]2006 [2]2005 [5]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line500
__label__cc	0.667437	0.332563	Welcome to our worship in wootton bridge! Two churches, one parish … for details of our usual regular Sunday and weekday worship services, times and venues, click here. For all general enquiries, including enquiries about hiring, or arranging a baptism or wedding, or organising a funeral in one of our churches, please contact us here You may have noticed some changes at St Mark’s church … The church building is now a warm & bright space, with wifi available for hirers and users of the premises. There’s much more work to do to provide access to all areas … upgrading the lounge and kitchen area AND providing a purpose-built, step-free entrance to the church building are next! Funds for the work so far have been provided by donors, through fundraising activities and as a result of grant applications. We recently received a grant from The WightAid Foundation towards the next phase of work. Our thanks go to EVERYONE – volunteers & donors – but especially to Stephen Capps, who has worked tirelessly. You have all made this truly amazing transformation possible! NOTICE OF SAFEGUARDING AND PROTECTION POLICY The Church of England Parish of Wootton (the churches of St Edmund and St Mark) is part of the Plurality of the Parishes of Binstead, Havenstreet and Wootton. It regards the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and good working practice as a priority. In the interests of the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people and vulnerable adults the Plurality has, in conjunction with Portsmouth Diocese Safeguarding Team, developed and operates a Safeguarding and Protection Policy for both children and vulnerable adults across all three parishes. The Plurality is committed to ensuring that everyone working with children, young people and vulnerable adults: has undergone an Enhanced level DBS check Is adequately trained and supervised understands and follows the Parish Safeguarding Policy As part of that commitment, a Plurality Safeguarding Lead has been appointed. Plurality Safeguarding Lead: Avril Osborn, tel: (01983) 568 900 All people involved in activities within the churches in the Parish of Wootton are aware of how to contact the Plurality Safeguarding Lead. Furthermore, the Parish of Wootton undertakes to exercise care in the appointment of those working with children, young people and vulnerable adults within the Parish of Wootton seek the advice of the Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser in the event of any safeguarding concerns and,if appropriate, contact the statutory authorities work to the parish safeguarding handbook principles be committed to following statutory, denominational (if relevant) and specialist guidelines seek support for all those affected by abuse be committed to supporting and resourcing those who work with children and young people and provide regular supervision review both the child and vulnerable adults protection and safeguarding policies annually and amend accordingly Our Priest-In-Charge is Rev. Veronica Brown Priest-In-Charge of three Parishes & four church buildings: Binstead (Holy Cross) Havenstreet (St Peter’s) Wootton Bridge (St Edmund’s and St Mark’s) Click here for our GDPR privacy notice	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line501
__label__cc	0.734991	0.265009	Turning to a more serious subject Philip Rhys Matthews recently won the Printspace fashion photography competition. A beautiful picture deserving recognition. When we checked out his portfolio, we we're suprised: his winning photo Locomotive (shown above) is obviously stricking, also in it's vibrant colors. But much of his portfolio is black & white and uses muted tones. We became curious about this, and asked Philip about this distinction: 'My portfolio has a rather muted colour palette and it wasn't really something I noticed until I came to lay everything out together. Having previously trained as an illustrator, specializing in children's book illustration, my transition to photography and my selection of more serious subject matter is clearly reflected in my colour choices. As I continue to develop my work I have noticed more colour creeping back.' About the winning photo itself Philip comments: 'The colour selection for my photograph 'Locomotive' came mainly from my concept. The colour variation within the series 'Fiscal Cure/Fiscal Cancer" that this image comes from, changes from very muted tones to blasts of colour. To understand the colours used one must look at the story behind the image.' 'The series explores the history of the world economy, the effects of globalization and looks to the future of global growth with China and India as the new economic superpowers who will determine the strength and velocity of the world economy for future decades to come. With this image I was trying to convey to future economies through the dynamic action of the model and dress. The silk screens in the background have been used throughout this series and vary from a drab decaying green colour to a more opulent gold. The fabric selection for the dress was essential in the success of the image with many colour combinations being tested and dismissed. I wanted to use rich Indian and Chinese silks as the main body of the dress so we made the dress ourselves incorporating smaller western influences like Wall Street trading jackets which are just visible in blue and red and the spurs on the shoulder. I sourced a beautiful turquoise and gold Chinese silk that contrasted beautifully with the red sari. The models hair also gives another dimension to this image. It is the models own hair and we decided to curl and volumise it to really make a colour statement. We shot with blue colour gels just to tone down the gold element and retain the cool tones of the silk and make the red less harsh and after many takes, and a very powerful wind machine, we managed to get a perfect shot.' Below are 'Critical Mass', '5x4' and 'Into the Ether' the latter two obviously being part of Philip's more muted palette, which expresses his personal preferance more. The Rockabillies by Jennifer Greenburg Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen Omgaan met verandering Protect the red sole at all cost	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line502
__label__wiki	0.589262	0.589262	Portal: Community health internships and medical electives in India From communityhealth.in Revision as of 21:41, 2 February 2011 by LalitNarayan (Talk \| contribs) The best way to understand the principles of community health is through lived experience. 1 Community health and other rural internships 2 Medical elective placements for foreign students 2.1 Organisations that facilitate foreign student electives in India 3 Preparation for your internship / elective Community health and other rural internships The Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action has a history of working with young people interested in community health. Both it's Bangalore based unit, Community Health Cell and it's Bhopal based unit Centre for Public Health and Equity offer a 9 month paid internship in community health for those interested. Swades ki Khoj - Swades ki Khoj is a programme run by the Central Himalayan Rural Action Group (Chirag). It offers graduates under the age of 28 the opportunity to spend a year living and working in a rural area to discover rural India and themselves and to use their knowledge and skills to bring about social change. Gandhi Fellowship - The Gandhi Fellowship is an intensive 2-year programme organised by the Kaivalya Education Foundation that helps talented young people develop the leadership skills to cause positive change in society. The Fellowship challenges these young people to support primary school headmasters to turn around their failing schools, thus improving the quality of education provided in India’s government schools. By taking on real challenges and solving ‘live’ problems that exist today in schools across India, Fellows learn the generic skills that will allow them to lead change on a wide range of issues in other sectors. In the process Fellows are themselves supported to discover what they are passionate about, what they want to do with their lives and how to go about converting their dreams into reality. ICICI Fellows - ICICI Fellows is a 2 year intensive, experiential learning programme aimed at training civil society leaders. Medical elective placements for foreign students There are a number of big city hospitals that offer placements for medical students and others who wish to pursue an elective/ volunteer placement in India. This website however, hopes to focus on placements with community based organisations where the opportunity to see community health work in action is greater. Visit Portal: Community health projects and Category: Community based organisations for details of organisations profiled on this site. Organisations that facilitate foreign student electives in India Medical Student Electives - The Medical Student Electives (MSE) programme of the UK based Charities Advisory Trust offers medical students elective placements at ASHWINI in Gudalur, Tamil Nadu and SYVM in H.D. Kotte, Karnataka. Projects Abroad - Projects Abroad is a UK based organisation that arranges volunteer placements mostly around the Madurai area in Tamil Nadu. MedicsAway - Medics Away is a UK based organisation that arranges medical elective placements mostly in Kerala. Preparation for your internship / elective Unite For Sight Volunteer Ethics and Professionalism Online Course Unite For Sight Cultural Competency Online Course Retrieved from "http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/wiki/index.php?title=Portal:_Community_health_internships_and_medical_electives_in_India&oldid=1655" About communityhealth.in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line504
__label__cc	0.664552	0.335448	Cynthia Morris (coming soon) Susan Ann Darley Margaret Paul, PhD Satya Robyn Writing Prompts & Series Guided Imagery Series Photo: Bigstock Inspired? Please share! Fostering Creativity in Children 'Explore the World' Learning About Children and Creativity from Physicist Richard P. Feynman By Abby Connors \| Updated September 14, 2018 I’ve learned a great deal about teaching creative thinking to young children from a man who wasn’t an artist, but a scientist. Richard P. Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of our time. He was well known for his work in quantum mechanics, subatomic particles, and quantum electrodynamics, and I don’t have the slightest clue as to what these are. His research earned him a Nobel Prize, but that’s not what influenced me. More meaningful to me is his approach to learning and teaching. The very readable and enjoyable semi-autobiographical books, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman,” and “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” made a deep impression on my thinking about the way I work with young children. I’d like to share some quotations from Dr. Feynman which have especially inspired me. “Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from… If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt!” —Richard P. Feynman Young children are natural pleasure-seekers, and I’m not referring only to their love of toys and candy! They love to dance, and sing, and build things, and pretend, and tell stories. The greatest thing about their creative energy, and something we can all learn from, is their utter lack of fear. They’re not afraid of not being perfect, of not being praised, of “doing it wrong,” of looking foolish… until they learn to be afraid of these things, from adults. It’s so important to accept children’s creative expression, even if it seems unconventional or just plain “wrong” to us. They’re each following their own path to learning and becoming – and they need our encouragement and support along the way. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” —Richard P. Feynman I love this quote because it’s so delightfully opposite of our conventional view of education. Our culture promotes a highly disciplined approach to learning – quietly listening to teachers, completing homework assignments, and judging our progress by test after test after test. Knowledge is viewed as a static bunch of facts to be memorized unquestioningly. And worst of all, children are actually discouraged from learning in an “original manner.” On their own, children display endless, relentless curiosity about the world around them. Only in school do they “learn” that all subjects are meant to be studied in a certain way, in certain steps, at a certain pace. The conventional educational system often unwittingly squashes the curiosity that leads to a true love of learning. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.” —Richard P. Feynman You might think that young children are too young to internalize the demands and expectations of adults. But parents and teachers have a huge influence on young children, and however well-meaning it may be, it can hold children back from blazing their own trails, exploring what interests them the most. By first grade, many children can tell you who’s the “smartest” kid in the class, or who’d the “best artist.” I even heard of a seven-year-old saying he planned to go to Harvard! Something tells me he didn’t come up with that idea by himself. Harvard is a great goal for some children, but not for every child! And certainly at seven, a child needs a freer, more expansive view of the possibilities out there. When our creativity gets tied up with others’ expectations, it sinks like a stone. As teachers, we can help by focusing on what children can do, not what they are. There’s no need to label children as talented or untalented, or to predict careers for them. Let’s allow each child to develop in her own way. “Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” —Richard P. Feynman One of the remarkable things about young children, that constantly inspires me, is their endless ability to get fascinated by what we adults might consider trivial – a spider’s progress along a wall, for instance, or how pebbles splash when you drop them in a puddle. All too soon, people learn to stop being curious about such things. “Been there, done that.” We think we know all about spiders and puddles, but of course we don’t. Scientists find out new things about them every day. And painters, dancers, actors, musicians, writers, and architects explore and interpret these things in new and original ways every day. We need to encourage children to keep exploring, keep wondering, keep asking questions. Our own curiosity is what makes us learn. It draws us on to more and more knowledge and understanding. Richard Feynman was an extraordinary scientist and an exceptional teacher, and I believe his most amazing discoveries and theories came from his childlike sense of wonder and curiosity. We have a great opportunity to help young children keep their own wonder and curiosity alive. Next: Robert Henri's “The Art Spirit” ©2015 Abigail Flesch Connors. All rights reserved. More with Abby Connors Abby Connors is an early-childhood music teacher and author of Shake, Rattle and Roll: Rhythm Instruments and More for Active Learning. ... 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__label__cc	0.614931	0.385069	We've raised over £200 for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! @DerventioEdu News \| Money Raised for CLIC Sargent \| Derventio - Derventio Education News \| Money Raised for CLIC Sargent \| Derventio We raised over £200 for Childhood Cancer Awareness month Our team took up the CLIC Sargent Challenge to raise £170 for Childhood Cancer Awareness month and raised over £200. We hosted a range of in-house activities to raise as much as we could for our chosen charity. Team Quiz We ordered in lunch one day, then created teams of staff from our different departments to compete in a quiz. It was pretty intense and the competitive spirit was in full flow but in the end, it came down to just one point separating two of the teams before one claimed victory! It was a great team event and we raised over £25 for the challenge. Next we hosted the official Great Derventio Education Bake Off! Individuals from the team competed with each other, for the chance to be crowned our very own 'Star Baker', raising sponsorship from other members of the team, friends and family, to take part. The result was a vast array of delicious cakes, all of which were put on display for two of our Directors to judge. The competition was intense and admittedly we were all quite surprised by just how much baking talent we seem to have across our team! Taste, quality and look were all part of the strict judging guidelines. A joint effort from Lauren (finance team) & Jack (development team), saw them crowned as our joint Star Bakers, along with Jennifer (SchooliP sales team). The day was a great success and thanks to all those clients, friends and family, who helped us to raise over £70. Time for Tea & Cake! Congratulations to winners Jen, Lauren & Jack of @Derventiosoft bake off #CCAM @CLIC_Sargent pic.twitter.com/lMRf4dpZ2Z Onesie Day & The BIG Shave Last but by no means least, our team were sponsored for our ‘Wear your onesie to work’ day, which proved to be a big hit with staff dressed in cat and minion onesies! In addition, Ben from our Software Support team, bravely agreed to be sponsored to shave his beloved beard! Carried out by our 'professional' hairdresser Luke (from our Quality Assurance team), Ben said goodbye to months of serious beard growth effort!! We raised over £100 and thanks again to those family and friends who supported us. WE DID IT! Thank you everybody at @DerventioSoft for taking part. We've raised £182.11 for @CLIC_Sargent #CCAM! :) pic.twitter.com/dwZI49nzE1 In total, we're delighted to have been able to take up the £170 CLIC Sargent Challenge, and exceed the target by raising a total of £204.11. We're incredibly proud to have been part of such a worthwhile challenge, and of the team for getting involved with the activities. Thanks again to everyone that supported us. CLIC Sargent is a fantastic cause, helping to support children and young people with cancer. The charity has a wealth of resources including fundraising ideas (and ready to use quiz Q&As), so why not view the available resources on their website to see how your organisation, school, college or university can get involved. We're taking part in Wig Wednesday by CLIC Sargent Local School Sponsorship	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line536
__label__wiki	0.776887	0.776887	Search Click to search The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua \| Department of Internal Affairs Building a safe, prosperous and respected nation For people, communities and businesses For central and Forms to and Reports Data and Internal Affairs investigation cracks international child abuse case The jailing of an Australian man for 40 years in the US for sexually abusing a young boy was the direct result of an Investigation by New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs. The 42 year old man bought a baby boy for $US8000 (NZ$10,321) with his partner, sexually abused the child and traded him to other paedophiles to abuse. He and his male partner, who lived in Cairns, Australia, were tracked down by authorities after being tipped off by the Censorship Compliance team at Internal Affairs which investigates on-line child sex abuse. "Rescuing and protecting children from this vile trade is what it's all about," says senior Internal Affairs’ investigator, Jon Peacock. "This investigation began in the Wellington region, but the web of abuse took on an international perspective with offences being discovered in France, Germany, America, and Australia." The case was sparked by Mr Peacock's experienced eye, when he noted something suspicious about a series of photos of a six year old boy stored on the computer of a man in a separate investigation. "The photos were several studio or professional shots of the boy in what appeared to be artistic poses," says Mr Peacock, Team Leader, Censorship Compliance. "However the poses and the way he looked into the camera were unusual and tipped me off that something may have been badly wrong. My first thought was I wanted to contact the boy's parents or guardians to figure out if they knew such photos were being taken." Using clues to the boy's identity from photos and video the investigation team linked the case to Queensland and involved Australian enforcement colleagues. Further inquiry uncovered evidence of offending and authorities in the US were also involved. The international investigation led to this weekend’s sentencing of the boy’s guardian. The man’s partner has also pleaded guilty and is due to be sentenced later this year. ''For more than one year and across three continents, these men submitted this young child to some of the most heinous acts of exploitation that this office has ever seen,'' Indiana US Attorney Joe Hogsett said after the sentencing. Mr Peacock says: “Our small unit at Internal Affairs is building an international reputation for work in identifying the victims of child abuse. It is immensely satisfying that our work led to the cracking of a network like this, and working collaboratively with our overseas colleagues can bring justice in to the lives of victims.” The US District Court in Indianapolis (Friday US time) heard the two men, who had been living in California, bought the newborn boy in an undisclosed country and used falsified documents in Los Angeles in an attempt to adopt him. The boy was rescued by US authorities and is being cared for in California. Jon Peacock, Team leader, Censorship Compliance, Department of Internal Affairs is available for interviews Sue Ingram \| Communications, Account Manager Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Direct Dial: +64 4 494 0584 \| Mobile: +64 27 541 4696 \| www.dia.govt.nz Our Ministers\| Our people\| Careers with us\| Media contacts\| Using our logos\| Transparency\| OIA info See all DIA websites See all DIA social media sites Contact: webmaster@dia.govt.nz This site is managed by the Department of Internal Affairs Crown Copyright © 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line538
__label__wiki	0.613555	0.613555	Electricity grids EU energy policy EWEA Action for Renewables Carbon Brief Blog Energie ist erneuerbar Estonian Wind Power Association Somos eolicos One thousand European cities call for 30% renewables target » By EWEA Intern \| Published 24 Feb 2014 \| Over 1000 European cities have written a joint letter to European Council president Herman Van Rompuy to call for a 30% renewable energy target for 2030, alongside a 40% energy efficiency target. On 22 January, the European Commission proposed a 40% greenhouse gas reduction target and a 27% renewable energy target that is non-binding at the national level. But the European Parliament voted in favour of stronger targets (a 30% renewable energy target subdivided between Member States and a 40% energy efficiency target). Energy Cities, the alliance representing the 1,000 cities, is hoping the EU Heads of State, who meet on the topic on 20-21 March, will follow the MEPs’ more ambitious lead. Energy Cities president Eckart Würzner identified problems with the Commission’s weak proposals as well as problems with the clash between EU institutions’ visions. He was quoted in a EurActiv article saying, “I personally sense a great deal of disillusionment among my citizens towards European politics. An ambitious EU climate and energy policy that tackled economic growth, fuel poverty and quality of life issues would ultimately contribute to restoring trust in European institutions.” Energy Cities represents urban Europe because they believe “the fight against climate change will be won or lost in urban areas.” An Economist analysis predicts that 33% of cities will be affected by climate change by 2025, largely due to the fact that cities are responsible for 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. Future of Europe’s energy discussed by industry leaders at 2030 EuropeBusiness press conference CEOs of six leading European energy companies voiced their support for a strong 2030 climate and energy framework at a EuropeBusiness press conference on Wednesday 12 February. As stated in a EuropeBusiness press release, the CEOs requested EU Heads of State to follow in the footsteps of the European Parliament and vote in favor of ambitious, nationally binding renewable energy targets. There was a clear consensus between the CEOs that renewable energy and policies that encourage renewable energy are in Europe’s best interest; a binding 30 percent 2030 target could create 570,000 more jobs and save €260 billion in fossil fuel imports compared with only a greenhouse gas target, they said. As they answered questions from journalists, the CEOs also identified a number of other benefits of strong 2030 targets. There are significant economic benefits: Alstom Senior Vice-President Denis Cochet said Europe can save €1.5 billion a year in power generation costs by establishing a more interconnected grid. Vestas CEO Anders Runevad said, “Existing policy commitments have helped us to reduce the cost of energy up to now. Further reducing the cost of energy requires the investment certainty that an ambitious, long-term EU policy commitment provides. Let’s not stop before crossing the finish line.” There is the benefit of improving energy security-sufficiency: RES Med CEO Jean-Marc Armitano explained that the targets are crucial for limiting Europe’s dependency on foreign fossil fuels. And there is the benefit of reassuring investors: Rafael Mateo, CEO of Acciona Energia said “We need stable, long-term frameworks and legal certainty for investors because energy is a long-term business.” He pointed out that long-term frameworks are needed in order to match the long-term investments that are expected to be made in the industry. Enercon Managing Director Hans-Dieter Kettwig criticised the utility companies that aren’t using renewables, saying that they need to be “more proactive” and “accept a new industry is coming.” The EU is responsible for encouraging the emergence of this new industry with its far-sighted policies until now; ERG Renew CEO Massimo Derchi called out EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso for committing to EU-wide energy policy but then essentially renationalizing it by not including binding national targets. Energy prices have limited impact on competitiveness Energy prices have only minimal impact on Europe’s economic competitiveness, new research reveals. While some commentators have used the need to stay competitive as an argument against a strong 2030 climate and energy framework, this research shows that Europe’s competitiveness depends more on innovation than on low energy costs. The study was conducted by Grantham Research Institute, DIW Berlin and IDDRI. “For the vast majority of companies, energy prices have little impact on their choice of location or on their competitiveness,” says an Ends Europe article. A Reuters article also supported this revelation. In addition, European Commission research[1] has proven that the historically higher energy prices in Europe have led to European companies becoming far more energy efficient than their foreign competitors. [1] European Commission, DG EcFIn, January 2014. Is Europe’s energy policy undermining its competitiveness? – Renewable energy CEOs discuss with journalists – Wednesday 12 February 2014, 10:30-12:00 plus lunch, Brussels – Press member? Register now by contacting Sarah Azau: [email protected] Two weeks after the Commission disappointed the renewable energy industry and environmentalists with its weak proposal on a 2030 climate and energy framework, the European Parliament reinforced its commitment to Europe’s energy future. A majority 341 MEPs voted in favour of three binding 2030 targets for renewables (30%), greenhouse gas emission reductions (40%) and energy efficiency (40%). The pivotal plenary vote was likely fueled by the projected benefits of strong binding 2030 targets: 570,000 new jobs, €500 billion that can be saved from fossil fuel imports and lower energy costs for energy intensive industries. Still, many people fear the targets will cause Europe’s electricity prices to continue rising and put European businesses at a disadvantage compared to businesses in other countries. Are they right? Should Europeans continue to support renewable energy? Is there a trade-off between clean energy and competitiveness, or is this a false debate? Who benefits from weaker climate and energy goals – and will they bring down our energy bills? These concerns will be examined in a 12 February press conference in Brussels, at which CEOs from leading European companies will explain the importance of a strong 2030 climate and energy framework. The press conference, titled EuropeBusiness Day, will be held from 10:30 to 12:00 in the Hotel Silken Berlaymont in Brussels. More details can be found here: http://europebusinessday.eu/ Energy a hot topic in the media following Commission’s 2030 framework proposal Last week, the European Commission released its communication on a 2030 climate and energy framework including targets, initiating a dramatic spike in both positive and negative media coverage of the question. The Commission’s proposed targets have created some controversy because, while they would require the EU to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent from the 1990 levels by 2030, the suggested 27% renewable energy target is considered unambitious by the renewable energy industry and green campaigners. In the ensuing media reaction, numerous articles referred to EWEA, some even specifically quoting CEO Thomas Becker. In a Financial Times article, Becker was quoted: “The previously far-sighted and ambitious European Commission is a shadow of its former self, hiding behind the UK and other backward-looking member states and lobbies.” Becker’s quote was used to support the overall message of the article, which you can grasp through the article’s lead, “Brussels has taken a step back from the ambitious environmental agenda that made the EU a global green leader…” The Guardian also published an article that referenced EWEA among other renewable energy associations and companies that were disappointed with the targets. An International New York Times article shared the EWEA opinion that policy makers are “easing up in their drive for more aggressive climate regulation.” French newspaper Le Monde published an article that expressed satisfaction with the targets but also recognized that they could have been stronger, as environmental organizations and the European Greens would have preferred. It pointed out the belief that a truly ambitious goal for 2030 would have been a 55 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Germany’s commitment to renewable energy was on display in a Deutsche Presse-Agentur article, in which German Chancellor Andrea Merkel identified “transforming the energy sector by dismantling nuclear power and boosting alternative energy sources” as a primary objective for her government coalition. © 2020 European Wind Energy Association - EWEA asbl, 2005-2020 \| Disclaimer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line540
__label__cc	0.658345	0.341655	Aviation Consultants Ehmanns - Over 30 years of aviation experience As an independent consulting company, Aviation Consultants Ehmanns is based on solid experience - gained through years of dedication to the aviation industry. It offers a wide range of services worldwide, and its expertise can aid in airport success. Aviation Consultants Ehmanns (AvConEhmanns) was founded in 2001 by Johannes M Ehmanns who now coordinates and runs a group of up to 15 aviation consultants with aviation, technical, planning, design and economical backgrounds in airport and airline projects. Ehmanns started his aviation career in 1980 as an air force pilot trainee and received diplomas in mechanical engineering and economy. After positions at Lufthansa Technik and the Traffic Management Department of Cologne Bonn Airport, Ehmanns was ready for another challenge: his own aviation consultancy firm. Ehmanns spent a lot of time living and working in countries including the US, Russia, China, Greenland, Iceland, Tanzania, South Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Sudan, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile. These experiences provide him with an outstanding knowledge and understanding of different cultures and mentalities around the world. Sustainable consultancy AvConEhmanns enables its customers to gain high revenues through clear and trend-setting consultancy and advice. Each master plan, elaborated upon by AvConEhmanns, is guided by sustainability, and always takes into account the individual situation and possibilities of the customer, surrounding culture and social situation. Because masterplanning has an effect on airport operations and revenue, AvConEhmanns thoroughly evaluates the customer's goals and strategy. AvConEhmanns masterplanning includes a traffic forecast and a business plan. Normally this is performed by the Airport-Quick-Check, a patented tool developed by Ehmanns. The Airport-Quick-Check enables AvConEhmanns to thoroughly evaluate, within a maximum of three months, the bottlenecks or weak points of an airport for operational or economical optimisations and improvements. Case study: Russia In the meantime, AvConEhmanns has had acknowledgment for operational and economical improvements and optimisations of Russian airport infrastructures, airport ground handling and efficient staff structuring in line with Russian laws and decrees - all with an additional focus on global best practice and IATA experiences on airport operation. To date, AvConEhmanns has executed over 50 airport or airline projects as project manager, interim management, consultant, subcontractor or agent of the airport or airline, such as: functional masterplanning including aircraft movement simulations for UPS at its European Air Cargo Hub at Cologne Bonn project manager (as a subcontractor) for Hochtief Airport to execute the International Architectural Competition for the new terminal at Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg, Russia project manager (as a subcontractor) for Hochtief Airport to put the new terminal of Warsaw Chopin Airport, Poland, successfully into operation within six weeks including troubleshooting and training the ground staff on the new systems at the airport traffic forecast for many airports and airlines in Europe, Asia and the US project manager, consultant and trainer of Sochi Airport (Russia) staff and the management of preparing the airport for the Winter Olympics in 2014; this includes putting the new terminal at Sochi Airport successfully into operation and developing a lean staff structure. Social responsibility of AvConEhmanns Its world view does not end at the fences of an airport. Ehmanns and colleagues have started and support humanitarian help projects in remote regions of Tanzania, Siberia, Bangladesh, Nepal and Peru. Many projects are in cooperation with the local airports of these regions and some projects have been active for more than ten years. Air Traffic Management and Control Systems (ATM / ATC) Aviation Consultants Ehmanns URL: www.avconehmanns.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line546
__label__wiki	0.833933	0.833933	Bishop Norton Manor Moat Farm; Stowe In the civil parish of Bishop Norton. OS Map Grid Reference: SK984925 Bishop Norton Manor has been described as a probable Palace. There are no visible remains. Thompson lists Bishops Norton as a residential manor of the Bishops of Lincoln. It was certainly a demense manor of the bishops and is recorded as such in Domesday but there is nothing to suggest this was a residential manor. It is 12 miles (20km) north of Lincoln, along Ermine Street, which might make it a reasonable site for an overnight stopover, although along such a good road 12 miles is a bit short for a days travel. There is no medieval house of status but the village street pattern is a little odd with the suggestion the road has been mover to skirt around a site to the west of the parish church (although this may just be to orientate the road for the approach to the crossing of the Atterby Beck). Map reference for parish church. Data > County HER County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 53911 (Settlement record only). Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p. 179 Everson, P.L., Taylor, C.C. and Dunn, C.J., 1991, Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire (HMSO) Payne, Naomi, 2003, The medieval residences of the bishops of Bath and Wells, and Salisbury (PhD Thesis University of Bristol) Appendix B: List of Medieval Bishop's Palaces in England and Wales (available via EThOS)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line548
__label__cc	0.699649	0.300351	Space Shuttle Endeavour: Baldwin Hills, CA (Crenshaw Mall), Oct. 13, 2012 Space Shuttle Endeavour; Baldwin Hills, CA (Crenshaw Mall), Oct. 13, 2012 Space Shuttle Endeavour: Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, CA Oct. 13, 2012 Space Shuttle Endeavour Exhaust System: Baldwin Hills, CA (Crenshaw Mall), Oct. 13, 2012 Astronauts; Greg H. Johnson and Kay Hire at Baldwin Hills, CA (Crenshaw Mall), Oct. 13, 2012 Space Shuttle Endeavour: Exhaust System, Baldwin Hills, CA (Crenshaw Mall), Oct. 13, 2012 Space Shuttle Endeavour: Baldwin Hills, CA (Crenshaw Mall at Martin Luther King Blvd). Oct.13, 2012	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line552
__label__wiki	0.846994	0.846994	[Feature + Event] Nike Cup Singapore 2010 [edited] (The content of this entry is obtained via the transcript provided by Integrated Marketing Solutions Group [IMSG] - the PR agency for Nike Singapore) (P.S: The copyrights of the images and videoclip depicted in this blog entry belong to Nike.) Launched at the newly introduced Nike Players Lounge in Nike Wisma, the tournament celebrates the global diversity of football and inspires local youths to Write Their Future The theme of the tournament - "Write The Future" SINGAPORE (21 May, 2010) – In an effort to celebrate the global diversity of football this summer, Nike Singapore launched the Nike Cup Singapore 2010 to inspire youths to compete and be crowned city champions. Calling upon aspiring athletes aged 14 to 19 years old, Nike Cup Singapore is a fast paced five-on-five football tournament set against the urban backdrop of the Lion City, which will see more than 3,000 young footballers battle it out for a chance to experience a 5-day, all-expense paid football training experience in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Nike Cup Singapore 2010 was launched today at the newly introduced Nike Players Lounge in Nike Wisma, an exclusive premium football destination for young football lovers to meet, talk, feel and breathe football. Invited members will enjoy exclusive access to the latest product trials, sneak previews of Nike campaigns, private match viewing sessions, Nike athlete and coach appearances, Nike Elite training experiences and other Nike Football+ events. Instead, all they had was sheets of newspaper bundled up in tape (as a ball), with any open space as their pitch. Glenn Heng, Marketing Manager, Nike SEA & Singapore, said, “With the launch of the Nike Cup Singapore and Nike Players Lounge, we are giving youths access to exclusive and meaningful football experiences as we aim to inspire them to write their future.” Highlighting the reasons behind launching the Nike Cup Singapore this year, he added, “With a focus on 40 cities in 28 countries, Nike is igniting a global celebration of football as we head into sport’s biggest event this summer. Nike Cup Singapore aims to amplify football with local elements that celebrate the identity of our city and give our youths an unforgettable tournament experience.” Former national skipper Fandi Ahmad picked up one of the school teams' skipper from his school. An unforgettable moment for these school team's captains As part of the launch today, Singapore’s top 30 school football captains were invited to enjoy an exclusive VIP experience which began with a special surprise pick up from their schools by prominent ex-National captains Fandi Ahmad, Nazri Nasir, Indra Sahdan, Aide Iskandar, David Lee and Terry Pathmanathan. They were whisked away in luxurious stretch limousines to the Presidential Suite at the five-star Mandarin Orchard, where they were kitted in the finest Nike apparel and enjoyed a taste of the life of a football superstar. Rounding off the experience, the young captains were then escorted to the Nike Players Lounge at Nike Wisma. Emcee Mark Richmond got the ball rolling by introducing them to one more special guest – Lions coach Raddy Avramovic. National coach Raddy Avramovic (righted of screen in long-sleeved shirt) shared his thoughts on the essence of being a good player with event emcee Mark Richmond. The captains were able to learn from Coach Raddy, as he shared his thoughts on the essence of being a good leader, emphasizing, “The captain should not be chosen by the coach, but by the players. He should be someone that can be depended on to not just lead them on the field, but off it as well.” He also highlighted what it took to be a great player, and said that he hoped to see some of the young faces in the S-League soon. “You must work hard, sacrifice, and love the game. Most importantly, you must always remember to take your chance when you can.” The legends of Singapore football reunite to meet the young talents of football today - Fandi Ahmad hands a Write the Future armband to an excited school football captain as former National goalkeeper David Lee looks on The young players also enjoyed the honour of being handed exclusive Write the Future armbands by the six former National captains, who passed the torch on to the next generation of football stars. Each school captain was also given an elite membership card for the Nike Players Lounge and 10 invitation cards for other football lovers to gain access to the lounge. “It has been an unbelievable experience to have received all this, and to have met some of Singapore’s football legends. It’s a great honour that Nike has given all of us, and I really feel inspired to do more as a football captain,” said Hilmi bin Amirshariffuddin, 16, of Regent Secondary School. Hilmi was no doubt inspired and also entertained by tales from the ex-National captains, who gave their thoughts on how football was played back then, compared to how the youths today play it. To a chorus of laughter, Fandi reminisced about the days he used to play on a basketball court, with 30 players charging after a small plastic 30-cent ball. Former Lions' skippers (L-R): Terry Pathmanathan, Fandi Ahmad, David Lee, Nazri Nasir, Aide Iskandar, Indra Sahdan Daud Echoing Fandi’s sentiments, Terry shared that they did not have the luxury of a plastic ball in his time. Instead, all they had was sheets of newspaper bundled up in tape, with any open space as their pitch. Younger ex-captain Indra acknowledged that players of his generation had better access to facilities, but noted that kids today enjoy even greater benefits from technological advancements. He explained, “They can learn the moves of their favourite players on popular digital mediums like YouTube and even Nike Football+, which gives players access to tips from the top clubs and players in the world.” With these colorful examples of how the beautiful game has been – and still is – played in Singapore, the young captains were invited to take part in the Nike Cup Singapore 2010, which kicks off recruitment today and is free-of-charge to participants. Players will need to form a team of five (plus one reserve) to compete in the no referee, no goalkeeper game which is based on honor rules. VIP treatment at Mandarin Orchard To garner the best talents locally, play-offs for the tournament will be held across the four zones (North, South, East and West) of the island. Each zone will see 130 teams battling it out for table scores and the Top 50 in each zone will be brought together for the final battle. Football youths are to form their own teams and register in either Junior (14 to 16 years old) or Senior (17 to 19 years old) categories. Played in abandoned schools, multi-storey car parks and in the heart of Orchard Road, Nike challenges teams to relive the “Good Ol’ Days” of football in Singapore where football was played anywhere, from void decks to just an open space, using only slippers or a dustbin for the goal posts; Challenging them to conquer the city and to earn the right to call themselves the champions of urban street football. The city champions will walk away with a 5-day, all-expense paid football training experience in Brazil as well as Nike products and a Nike Cup Singapore trophy. This exciting prize will see the winners soak up the Brazilian football culture in its many different forms. Highlights include lessons and drills at the Brazilian Football Confederation’s training centre in Granja Comary, where the Brazilian national football team trains, and a chance to strut their stuff through much-loved local football games like futsal, street futsal, turf football, and beach football. NIKE WRITE THE FUTURE - FULL LENGTH VERSION The time has come for players to carve their name in history. One touch, tackle or free kick could crush a nation's hopes or cause them to build a statue in your honour. Drogba, Rooney and Ronaldo are ready to Write The Future Joining is simple: Log onto www.nikefootball.com.sg/nikecup Register as a Captain of your team and invite your team mates to join in Select your zone and show up at the event to battle it out! Alternatively, you may call the Nike Cup hotline at +65 6323 2054 for more information. Classifed as: events, Videocast Generic Cialis Saturday, 23 July 2011 at 03:45:00 GMT+8 The tournament was very nice many people went and many players found a new team to play and pay more for their services, I wonder if nike really believe that something like this could a be a good business ?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line553
__label__wiki	0.837426	0.837426	Gold Coast People Gold Coast Places The Glitter Strip Hinterland Histories Suburb Histories Suburban Snaps Ashmore was the first suburb on the Gold Coast to have road side bike paths and a roundabout. You are here: Home > Suburban Snippets > Ashmore Official opening of Ashmore Village housing estate 1972 Bob Avery photographer In the late 1800s the land which became the suburb of Ashmore was predominately owned by two pioneering families, the Muirs and the Smiths. The suburb, located approximately seven kilometres west of Southport, takes its name from a farming property once owned by the Hicks family. The 300 acre farm created in the late 1800s, located near Benowa, was according to Athol Hicks, grandson of the original farm owner, named after a proprty The farm, which ran sheep and cattle, also gave its name to a local thoroughfare, Ashmore Road, which connected Benowa to Nerang Road. A remaining five – six hectare portion of the farm with nine cattle on the property remained in the Hicks family beside the Ross Street and Ashmore Road intersection for many years. In the early 1970s, a Sydney property investor, Jim Donellon, saw potential in the area and purchased land for development. In the mid-1970s when a housing estate with sewered land and underground power was being developed it was given the name of Ashmore Village and the many of the streets named for words taken from Aboriginal language. By the late 1970s Ashmore Plaza Shopping Centre. Ashmore and Molendinar circa 1980s A. L Lambert photographer Later estates followed including: Bellevue Park, Timbertops, Paradise River and Paradise Heights. As the area underwent steady growth in the following years, the name was adopted for the suburb which was officially named and bounded in 1982. By the mid-1980s, Ashmore was the home of many young families and boasted a TAFE, the Ashmore City Shopping Centre owned by the Rix family, tavern, caravan park, day care centre, schools, the Domain Country Club, youth centre, BMX track, skateboard bowl and ten pin bowling centre. It was the first suburb on the Gold Coast to have road side bike paths and a roundabout. With such development underway, the Gold Coast Small Bore Rifle Club which had used land in Ashmore for over 80 was required to close in 1985. The suburb continued to grow with new residential developments, commercial ventures and the development of the Royal Pines resort. Further reading and sources of information Gold Coast Bulletin, (Southport, Qld.) 1 Nov 1975, p.56. “Ashmore, Benowa draw young families.” Gold Coast Bulletin, (Southport, Qld.) 10 Apr 1984, p.28. “Clearing way for development: residents angry as trees fall.” Gold Coast Bulletin, (Southport, Qld.) 17 May 1984, p.11. “Peace, quiet in caravan.” Gold Coast Herald, (Southport, Qld.) 27 Jun 1984, p.28. “All quiet on the small bore range.” Gold Coast Leader, (Southport, Qld.) 14 Aug 1985, p.1. “After 10 years, Ashmore has all facilities.” Gold Coast Herald, (Southport, Qld.) 29 Jan 1986, p.6. “Growth of Ashmore amazing, says Keith.” Gold Coast Bulletin, (Southport, Qld.) 31 Jan 1986, p. 1. Bailey, Tim. “Highway splits last parcel of history.” Gold Coast Bulletin, (Southport, Qld.) 12 Sep 1987, p.2. Humphreys’ Boatshed Suburban Snippets Skyline Lounge and Cabaret Captain Cook Memorial Lighthouse South Coast Women's Organisation Picture Gold Coast City Libraries Discover more wonderful Gold Coast stories Copyright © 2020 Council of the City of Gold Coast All Rights Reserved Web Design by 7thVision	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line559
__label__wiki	0.933398	0.933398	Artykuły o tematyce astronautycznej » Artykuły astronautyczne » [SHB] Near-Term and Long-Term Goals: Space Station and Lunar Base (1983-1984) Autor Wątek: [SHB] Near-Term and Long-Term Goals: Space Station and Lunar Base (1983-1984) (Przeczytany 261 razy) « dnia: Listopad 19, 2018, 13:26 » Near-Term and Long-Term Goals: Space Station and Lunar Base (1983-1984) 18 November 2018 David S. F. Portree Homeward bound: an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) bearing a returning lunar base crew aerobrakes in Earth's atmosphere. After aerobraking it will rendezvous with the NASA space station. Image credit: Pat Rawlings/NASA In December 1983, the National Science Foundation's Division of Policy Research and Analysis enlisted Science Applications Incorporated (SAI) of McLean, Virginia, to compare the science and technology research potential of an Earth-orbiting space station and a base on the moon. In its report, which was completed on 10 January 1984, SAI cautioned that, because its study was performed "in a very short two-week period," it could offer only "a preliminary indication" of the relative merits of a space station in low-Earth orbit (LEO) and a lunar base. Though SAI did not say so, its study had a short turnaround time because its results were meant to inform the White House ahead of President Ronald Reagan's planned announcement of a NASA space station program during his 25 January 1984 State of the Union Address. SAI explained that its study had used a four-step approach. First, the study team had judged which science and technology disciplines could best be served by an LEO space station and which by a lunar base. Next, the team had developed a lunar base conceptual design capable of serving the disciplines it identified. It then had developed a transportation system concept for deploying and maintaining its base. Finally, the team had estimated the cost of developing, building, and operating its lunar base. The team identified five science and technology disciplines that would best be served by a base on the moon. The first was radio astronomy. Bowl-shaped radio telescopes might be built in bowl-shaped lunar craters, SAI wrote. Radio astronomers might take advantage of the moon's Farside (the hemisphere turned permanently away from Earth), where up to 2160 miles of rock would shield their instruments from terrestrial radio interference. The 238,000-mile separation between lunar and terrestrial radio telescopes would enable Very Long Baseline Interferometry capable of detecting minute details of galaxies far beyond the Milky Way. A bowl-shaped crater makes an ideal site for a bowl-shaped radio telescope. Visible stars are artist's license; the harsh glare of the Sun in lunar daylight would banish them from view. Image credit: NASA High-energy astrophysics and physics was SAI's second lunar base discipline. The team noted that, because the moon offers "a large, flat area, a free vacuum, and a local source of refined material for magnets," it might serve as the site for a large particle accelerator. Lunar geology (which SAI called "selenology") would obviously be better served by a lunar base than by a space station. SAI noted that, despite 13 successful U.S. robotic lunar missions and six successful Apollo landings, the moon had "barely been sampled and explored." Lunar base selenological exploration would focus on "understanding better the early history and internal structure of the Moon" and "exploring for possible ore and volatile deposits." Selenologists would rove far afield from the base to measure heat flow and magnetic properties, drill deep into the surface, deploy seismographs, and collect and analyze rock samples. SAI's fourth lunar discipline was resource utilization. The study team noted that samples returned to Earth by the Apollo astronauts contained 40% oxygen by weight, along with silicon, titanium, and other useful chemical elements. Lunar oxygen could be used as oxidizer for chemical propulsion spacecraft traveling between Earth and moon and from LEO to geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO). Silicon could be used to make solar cells. (SAI pointed out, however, that the two-week lunar night would make reliance on solar arrays for electricity "somewhat difficult.") Raw lunar dirt - known as regolith - could serve as radiation shielding. If water ice were found at the lunar poles - perhaps by the automated lunar polar orbiter that SAI advised should precede the lunar base program - then the moon might supply hydrogen rocket fuel as well as oxidizer. SAI's fifth and final lunar base science discipline was systems development. The team expected that lunar base technology development would be "devoted to improving the efficiency and capabilities of systems that support the base," such as life support, with the goal of "reduced reliance on supplies sent from Earth." Transport system development might include research aimed at developing a linear electromagnetic launcher of the kind first proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in 1950. Such a device - often called a "mass driver" - might eventually launch bulk cargoes (for example, lunar regolith, liquid oxygen propellant, and refined ores) to sites around the Earth-moon system. The SAI team noted that some disciplines might be served equally well by a lunar base or an Earth-orbiting space station. Large (100-meter) telescopes for optical astronomy, for example, might be equally effective on the moon or in Earth orbit. The moon, however, would offer a stable, solid surface that might enable the "pointing stability and optical system coherence" necessary in such a telescope. SAI acknowledged that its report proposed "research and development activities. . .too numerous and often too difficult for a first-generation lunar base." It thus divided activities within the five lunar base disciplines into two categories: those suitable for its first-generation base and those that would need a more elaborate second-generation facility. First-generation radio astronomy, for example, would use two small dish antennas on Nearside (the lunar hemisphere facing Earth). In the second generation, a 100-meter-diameter antenna would operate on Farside. Having defined its lunar base science program, the SAI team moved on to the second and third steps in its study. The team assumed that NASA's Space Shuttle, which at the time they wrote had just completed its ninth flight (STS-9/Spacelab 1, 28 November-8 December 1983), along with an LEO space station, would form part of the lunar base transportation infrastructure. The Shuttle would cheaply and reliably deliver lunar base crews, spacecraft, and cargo to the station, where they would be brought together for flight to the moon. SAI proposed reapplying hardware developed for the LEO station to the lunar base program. An October 1984 paper for the first Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century symposium provided additional details of SAI's Earth-moon transportation system and surface base design. Where these conflict with the December 1983 report, the description that follows defaults to information contained only in the December 1983 report (mostly). SAI's lunar transportation system would include three types of spacecraft. The first, the reusable Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV), would be a two-stage spacecraft permanently based at the LEO station. SAI assumed that NASA would develop OTVs for moving cargoes between the LEO station and higher orbits (for example, GEO) and that this basic OTV design would then be modified for lunar base use. The OTV, which would operate as a piloted spacecraft through addition of a pressurized "personnel pod," would be capable of delivering up to 16,950 kilograms of crew and cargo to lunar orbit. An OTV-derived four-legged lander would form the basis of two vehicles: the Logistics Lander and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). The former would include a removable subsystem module for automated lunar landings. The latter would carry a personnel pod for piloted flight. These were the second and third spacecraft in SAI's lunar transportation system, though one might argue that they were actually tricked-up OTVs. SAI's one-way cargo lunar flight mode. Please click to enlarge. Image credit: Science Applications, Inc. The three vehicle types would support two basic flight modes. One-way cargo missions would use Direct Descent. The OTV first stage would ignite and burn nearly all of its propellants, then would separate, turn around, and fire its engines to slow down and return to the LEO station for refurbishment. The OTV second stage would then ignite, burn most of its propellants, and separate from the Logistics Lander. The second stage would swing around the moon on a free-return trajectory, fall back to Earth, aerobrake in Earth's atmosphere, and rendezvous with the LEO station. The Logistics Lander, meanwhile, would descend directly to the lunar base site with no stop in lunar orbit. For two-way crew sorties, the OTV first stage would operate as during a one-way cargo mission. After a three-day flight, the OTV second stage/personnel pod combination would capture into lunar orbit, where it would dock with a waiting LEM carrying lunar base astronauts bound for Earth. They would trade places with the new base crew. In addition to the new crew, 12,750 kilograms of propellants (sufficient for a round trip from lunar orbit to the surface base and back again) and up to 2000 kilograms of cargo would be transferred from the OTV second stage/personnel pod to the LEM. SAI's roundtrip crew rotation lunar flight mode. Please click to enlarge. Image credit: Science Applications, Inc. The OTV second stage/personnel pod and the LEM would then separate. The former would fire its engines to depart lunar orbit for Earth, and the latter would descend to a landing at the lunar base. The OTV second stage/personnel pod combination would subsequently aerobrake in Earth's atmosphere and return to the LEO station for refurbishment. SAI's base buildup sequence would begin with a pair of Site Survey Mission flights. The first would see an unpiloted LEM with empty propellant tanks placed into lunar orbit through a variant of the crew sortie mode. An automated OTV second stage bearing the LEM in place of a personnel pod would enter lunar orbit, undock from the LEM, and return to Earth. The second Site Survey Mission flight would employ another variant of the Crew Sortie mode. Five astronauts would arrive in lunar orbit in an OTV second stage/personnel pod and dock with the waiting LEM. The four astronauts of the base site survey team would transfer to the LEM along with propellants and supplies. They would then undock and land at the proposed base site, leaving the OTV pilot alone in lunar orbit. After completing their survey of the site, they would return to the OTV second stage/personnel pod, then would undock from the LEM and return to Earth orbit. Assuming that the base site checked out as acceptable, Flight 3 would see the start of base deployment. A Logistics Lander would employ Direct Descent mode to deliver to the base site an Interface Module and a Power Plant. The Interface Module, which would be based on LEO space station hardware, would include a cylindrical airlock, a top-mounted observation bubble, and a cylindrical tunnel with ports for attaching other base modules. SAI's proposed Power Plant was a nuclear source capable of generating 100 kilowatts of electricity. Flight 4 would deliver two "mass mover" rovers, two 2000-kilogram mobile laboratory trailers, and a 1000-kilogram lunar resource utilization pilot plant. The rovers would tow the mobile labs up to 200 kilometers from the base on selenologic excursions lasting up to five days. The mobile labs would carry instruments for microscopic imaging, elemental and mineral analysis, and subsurface ice detection. They would also carry a radio sounder for exploring beneath the lunar surface, stereo cameras, and a soil auger or core tube for drilling up to two meters deep. The first-generation lunar resource utilization Pilot Plant would process 10,000 kilograms of regolith per year to yield oxygen, silicon, iron, aluminum, titanium, magnesium, and calcium. Flight 5 would deliver the Laboratory Module, the first 14-foot-diameter, 40-foot-long cylindrical base module based on the pressurized module design used on the LEO station. Flight 6 would deliver the Habitat Module, which would provide living quarters for the seven-person base crew, and Flight 7 would deliver the Resources Module, which would include a pressurized control center and an unpressurized section containing water and oxygen tanks and equipment for life support, power conditioning, and thermal control. The final base deployment flight, a duplicate of Flight 1, would deliver a backup LEM to lunar orbit. Long-term occupation of the moon would begin with Flight 9, a crew sortie mission that would deliver a four-person construction team. A three-person construction team would join them on Flight 10, bringing the total base population to seven. The OTV pilots for these flights would return to Earth alone after the construction teams undocked and landed at the base in their respective LEMs. Using the mass mover rovers, the base crew would unload the Logistics Landers and join together the base components. The completed base would provide seven astronauts with 2000 cubic feet of living space per person. They would attach the Lab, Hab, and Resource Modules to the Interface Module, then would link the resource utilization pilot plant to the Lab Module. The Power Plant would be placed a safe distance away from the base and linked by a cable to the base power conditioning system. The crew would link the Power Plant and base thermal control system by hoses to a heat exchanger/heat sink, then would activate the Power Plant. Finally, the astronauts would use bulldozer scoops on the rovers to cover the pressurized modules with regolith radiation shielding. Flight 11, the first base crew rotation flight, would see the four-person construction team that arrived on Flight 9 lift off in a LEM and return to lunar orbit, where they would dock with an OTV second stage/personnel pod combination just arrived from Earth. The Flight 9 lunar base team would trade places with them and, following LEM refueling and cargo loading, would descend to a landing at the base. The first construction team and the Flight 11 OTV pilot would then return to the LEO station. On Flight 12, a three-person base team would replace the Flight 10 team. Lunar base teams of three or four astronauts would rotate every two months. The typical base complement would include a commander/LEM pilot, an LEM pilot/mechanic, a technician/mechanic, a doctor/scientist, a geologist, a chemist, and a biologist/doctor, SAI wrote. Mass mover rover in the field with advanced power cart and deep drill rig. Image credit: NASA SAI then estimated the cost of its lunar base and three years of operations based on NASA's cost estimates for the Space Shuttle and the LEO station. At the time SAI conducted its study, NASA placed the cost of its proposed LEO station at between $8 billion and $12 billion. This was in fact an underestimation calculated to make the station more politically palatable. NASA placed the total cost of LEO station Logistics, Habitat, Laboratory, and Resource Modules and other structures at $7.1 billion, so SAI estimated the total cost of the lunar base Resource, Habitat, Laboratory, and Interface Modules at $5.8 billion. Although the OTV would find uses in LEO and GEO, SAI charged all of its development and procurement costs (a total of $7.2 billion) to the lunar base. The expendable Logistics Lander and reusable LEM would cost $6.6 billion and $4.8 billion, respectively. The LEM, though structurally beefier and more complex, would cost less because the Logistics Lander would bear the development cost of systems common to both landers. Based on optimistic NASA pricing, the SAI team assumed that a Shuttle flight would cost $110 million in 1990. The 89 Shuttle flights in the lunar base program would thus cost a total of $9.8 billion. The LEO station, by contrast, would need only 17 Shuttle flights at a cost of $1.9 billion. SAI placed total LEO station cost plus three years of operations at $14.2 billion. Lunar base cost plus three years of operations came to $54.8 billion. To conclude its report, SAI noted that both the LEO station and the lunar base could be completed in about a decade. The LEO station would, however, serve a broader science user community and would provide an OTV base in LEO for eventual lunar base use. The SAI team argued that the LEO station was a reasonable near-term (for the next 10 years) objective, while the lunar base would yield obvious benefits in a long-term (50 years) space program. It added that the Space Program will function best if it has both near-term objectives and long-range goals. The near-term objectives assure [sic] that we progress with each year that passes. The long-range goals provide direction for our annual progress. The Space Station and Lunar Base appear to serve these respective roles at the present time. A Manned Lunar Science Base: An Alternative to Space Station Science? A Brief Comparative Assessment, Report No. SAI-84/1502, Science Applications, Inc., 10 January 1984 "Preliminary Design of a Permanently Manned Lunar Surface Research Base," S. Hoffman and J. Niehoff, Science Applications International Corporation; published in Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, "papers from a NASA sponsored, public symposium hosted by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., Oct[ober] 29-31, 1984," W. W. Mendell, editor, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1985, pp. 69-75 More Information (...) Source: Near-Term and Long-Term Goals: Space Station and Lunar Base (1983-1984) ekoplaneta One planet Once chance Odp: [SHB] Near-Term and Long-Term Goals: Space Station and Lunar Base (1983-1984) « Odpowiedź #1 dnia: Listopad 19, 2018, 13:37 » 35 lat minęło i nadal nie polecieliśmy dalej jak na LEO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line561
__label__cc	0.567731	0.432269	Spatial scalable compression scheme using spatial sharpness enhancement techniques A video encoder/decoder with spatial scalable compression schemes using spatial sharpness enhancement techniques is disclosed. The video compression scheme introduces a number of various video enhancement techniques on the base layer. A picture analyzer is used to determine the best or the best mix of various video enhancement techniques. The picture analyzer compares the selected mix of video enhancement techniques with the original full resolution input signal to determine for which of the pixels or groups of pixels a residual enhancement layer is required. Parameters defining the selected mix of video enhancement techniques are transmitted to the decoder layer so the same mix of video enhancement techniques can be used in the decoder layer. Bruls, Wilhelmus Hendrikus Alfonsus (Eindhoven, NL) De Bruijn, Frederik Jan (Eindhoven, NL) Dantwala, Nehal R. 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DO, ANH HONG Corporate Patent Counsel (Philips Electronics North America Corporation PO Box 3001, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 10510, US) 1. A layered encoder for encoding an input video bitstream, the encoder comprising: a layered encoder unit for encoding a base bitstream at a lower resolution and a residual bitstream, the layered encoder unit comprising: a number of enhancement units, each with a different enhancement algorithm for enhancing a decoded upscaled base stream and outputting enhanced base video streams; a picture analyzer for comparing the input video bitstream with the decoded upscaled base bitstream and the enhanced base video streams, where the output of the picture analyzer controls the information included in the residual bitstream. 2. The layered encoder according to claim 1, wherein the picture analyzer selects a vector representing mix parameters for calculating the mixture of the enhanced base video streams and controls the information in the residual bitstream using the selected vector. 3. The layered encoder according to claim 2, wherein the picture analyzer compares the selected mixture of enhanced base video streams with the input video bitstream to determine for which pixels or group of pixels additional enhancement is required via the residual bitstream. 4. The layered encoder according to claim 2, wherein each group of pixels is enhanced using different vectors. 5. The layered encoder according to claim 2, wherein the picture analyzer calculates a cost function for a limited number of test vectors and the test vector with the lowest cost function is selected. 6. The layered encoder according to claim 5, wherein the selected vector is included in a compressed data stream. 7. The layered encoder according to claim 5, wherein a number of the test vectors are already selected vectors of neighboring, in time and space, group of pixels. 8. The layered encoder according to claim 1, wherein the layered encoding unit further comprises: a downsampling unit for reducing the resolution of the input video bitstream; a base encoder for encoding the lower resolution base stream; an upscaling unit for decoding and increasing the resolution of the base stream to produce an upscaled base bitstream; a subtraction unit for subtracting the upscaled base bitstream from the input video bitstream to produce the residual bitstream; switching means for selectively allowing only portions of the residual bitstream to be sent to an enhancement encoder based upon a control signal from the picture analyzer; the enhancement encoder for encoding the portions of the residual bitstream which pass through the switching means to form the encoded residual bitstream. 9. The layered encoder according to claim 8, wherein said switching means is a multiplier having a value between 0 and 1, wherein a value of 0 means the switching means is open and a value of 1 means the switching means is closed. 10. A layered decoder unit for decoding a base bitstream and a residual bitstream, the layered decoder unit comprising: means for enhancing the decoded base bitstream, the means for enhancing comprising a plurality of enhancement units having different enhancement algorithms for outputting an enhanced base video stream, and means for superimposing the decoded residual bitstream on the enhanced base video stream. 11. A layered decoder unit as claimed in claim 10, wherein the decoder is arranged to receive a vector representing mix parameters for calculating the mixture of enhanced base streams produced by the plurality of enhancement units in order to produce the enhanced base video stream. 12. A method for encoding an input video bitstream the method comprising the steps of: encoding a base bitstream and a residual bitstream, comprising the steps of: enhancing a decoded upscaled base bitstream in a plurality of different enhancement algorithms outputting enhanced base video streams; comparing the input video bitstream with the decoded upscaled base bitstream and the enhanced base video streams, where the output of the comparision controls the information contained in the residual bitstream. 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein a vector representing mix parameters for calculating a mixture of the enhanced base video streams is selected controls the information in the residual bitstream using the selected vector. 14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the selected mixture of enhanced base video streams is compared with the input video bitstream to determine for which pixels or group of pixels additional enhancement is required via the residual bitstream. 15. The method according to claim 13, wherein each group of pixels is enhanced using different vectors. 16. The method according to claim 13, wherein a cost function for a limited number of test vectors is calculated and the test vector with the lowest cost function is selected. 17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the selected vector is included in a compressed data stream. 18. The method according to claim 16, wherein a number of the test vectors are already selected vectors of neighboring, in time and space, group of pixels. 19. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the steps of: reducing the resolution of the input video bitstream; encoding the lower resolution base stream; decoding and increasing the resolution of the base stream to produce an upscaled base bitstream; subtracting the upscaled base bitstream from the input video bitstream to produce the residual bitstream; selectively allowing only portions of the residual bitstream to be sent to an enhancement encoder based upon a control signal from the picture analyzer; encoding the selectively allowed portions of the residual bitstream to form the encoded residual bitstream. 20. A method of decoding a base bitstream and a residual bitstream, the decoding comprising: enhancing the decoded base bitstream in a plurality of different enhancement algorithms for outputting an enhanced base video stream, and superimposing the decoded residual bitstream on the enhanced base video stream. 21. A method of decoding as claimed in claim 20, wherein the method further comprises receiving a vector representing mix parameters for calculating the mixture of enhanced base streams produced by the plurality of enhancement units in order to produce the enhanced base video stream. 22. A compressed data stream including: a base bitstream and a residual bitstream, wherein the information included in the residual bitstream represents a difference between a bitstream at higher resolution than the base bitstream and an enhanced decoded upscaled base bistream, which enhanced decoded upscaled base bitstream is based on the base bitstream and wherein the enhancement has been performed by a mixture of a plurality of enhancement algorithms. 23. A compressed data stream as claimed in claim 22, wherein the compressed data stream includes a vector representing mix parameters for calculating the mixture. 24. A storage medium on which a compressed data stream as claimed in claim 22 has been stored. 25. A layered encoder/decoder for encoding and decoding an input video bitstream, comprising: a layered encoder unit for encoding a base bitstream at a lower resolution and a residual bitstream, the layered encoder unit comprising: a number of enhancement units, each with a different enhancement algorithm for enhancing a decoded upscaled base stream and outputting enhanced base video streams; a picture analyzer for comparing the input video bitstream with the decoded upscaled base bitstream and the enhanced base video streams, where the output of the picture analyzer controls the information contained in the residual bitstream; a layered decoder unit for decoding the base bitstream and the residual bitstream, the layer decoder unit comprising: means for performing the same enhancement to the decoded base bitstream as was performed in the encoder unit; and means for superimposing the decoded residual bitstream on the decoded and enhanced video base stream to produce a video output stream. 26. A computer program product comprising software code portions for performing the steps of claim 12 when said product is run on a computer. The invention relates to a video encoder/decoder, and more particularly to a video encoder/decoder with spatial scalable compression schemes using spatial sharpness enhancement techniques. Because of the massive amounts of data inherent in digital video, the transmission of full-motion, high-definition digital video signals is a significant problem in the development of high-definition television. More particularly, each digital image frame is a still image formed from an array of pixels according to the display resolution of a particular system. As a result, the amounts of raw digital information included in high-resolution video sequences are massive. In order to reduce the amount of data that must be sent, compression schemes are used to compress the data. Various video compression standards or processes have been established, including, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.263. Many applications are enabled where video is available at various resolutions and/or qualities in one stream. Methods to accomplish this are loosely referred to as scalability techniques. There are three axes on which one can deploy scalability. The first is scalability on the time axis, often referred to as temporal scalability. Secondly, there is scalability on the quality axis, often referred to as signal-to-noise scalability or fine-grain scalability. The third axis is the resolution axis (number of pixels in image) often referred to as spatial scalability or layered coding. In layered coding, the bitstream is divided into two or more bitstreams, or layers. Each layer can be combined to form a single high quality signal. For example, the base layer may provide a lower quality video signal, while the enhancement layer provides additional information that can enhance the base layer image. In particular, spatial scalability can provide compatibility between different video standards or decoder capabilities. With spatial scalability, the base layer video may have a lower resolution than the input video sequence, in which case the enhancement layer carries information which can restore the resolution of the base layer to the input sequence level. FIG. 1 illustrates a known layered video encoder 100. The depicted encoding system 100 accomplishes layer compression, whereby a portion of the channel is used for providing a low resolution base layer and the remaining portion is used for transmitting edge enhancement information, whereby the two signals may be recombined to bring the system up to high-resolution. The high resolution video input is split by splitter 102 whereby the data is sent to a low pass filter 104 and a subtraction circuit 106. The low pass filter 104 reduces the resolution of the video data, which is then fed to a base encoder 108. In general, low pass filters and encoders are well known in the art and are not described in detail herein for purposes of simplicity. The encoder 108 produces a lower resolution base stream which is provided to a second splitter 110 from where it is output from the system 100. The base stream can be broadcast, received and via a decoder, displayed as is, although the base stream does not provide a resolution which would be considered as high-definition. The other output of the splitter 110 is fed to a decoder 112 within the system 100. From there, the decoded signal is fed into an interpolate and upsample circuit 114. In general, the interpolate and upsample circuit 114 reconstructs the filtered out resolution from the decoded video stream and provides a video data stream having the same resolution as the high-resolution input. However, because of the filtering and the losses resulting from the encoding and decoding, certain errors are present in the reconstructed stream. These errors are determined in the subtraction circuit 106 by subtracting the reconstructed high-resolution stream from the original, unmodified high-resolution stream. The output of the subtraction circuit 106 is fed to an enhancement encoder 116 which outputs a reasonable quality enhancement stream. The disadvantage of filtering and downscaling the input video to a lower resolution and then compressing it is that the video loses sharpness. This can to a certain degree be compensated for by using sharpness enhancement after the decoder. Although this can be made to work reasonably well for most parts of the video picture, there are some areas within the picture where the result remains poor compared to the original picture, e.g., small text parts will remain unreadable even with the most sophisticated enhancement. The invention overcomes the deficiencies of other known layered compression schemes by increasing the video compression of a scalable compression scheme by the introduction of a number of video enhancement techniques on the base layer. Using a video picture analyzer, the best mix of the various video enhancement techniques is determined and parameters defining this mix are transmitted to the decoder section as user data. The video picture analyzer compares the selected mix of enhanced bitstreams with the original full resolution input signal and determines for which pixels a residual enhancement layer is required. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an input video bitstream is disclosed. A base bitstream and a residual bitstream are encoded in the following manner. A decoded upscaled base bitstream is enhanced in a first plurality of enhancement units having different enhancement algorithms and a plurality of enhanced base video streams are outputted. The input video bitstream is compared with the decoded upscaled base bitstream and the enhanced base video streams, where the output of the picture analyzer controls the information contained in the residual bitstream. The base bitstream and the residual bitstream are decoded in the following manner. The same enhancement is performed on the decoded base bitstream as was performed in the encoder unit. The decoded residual bitstream is superimposed on the decoded and enhanced base video stream to produce a video output bitstream. According to another embodiment of the invention, a mix of the enhanced base video streams and the decoded upscaled base bitstream can be used to control the information in the encoded residual bitstream, i.e., which pixels or groups of pixels should be included in the decoded residual bitstream. These and other aspects of the invention will be apparent from and elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereafter. The invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein: FIG. 1 is a block diagram representing a known layered video encoder; FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a layered video encoder/decoder according to one embodiment of the invention; FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a layered video encoder/decoder according to one embodiment of the invention; and FIG. 4 is an illustration of a vector candidate set location according to one embodiment of the invention. According to one embodiment of the invention, a spatial scalable compression scheme using spatial sharpness enhancement techniques is disclosed. Briefly, the filtered and downscaled video sequence is compressed. Then, out of the decoded base layer frames, several upscaled versions are processed using a variety of enhancement algorithms. This can include a standard upscaled and filtered, for example, nyquist filtered, versions as well as various sharpness enhancement algorithm versions. A picture analyzer processes all of the information and selects the best or the best mix of these versions. The mix parameters which define the selected mix is also inserted in the encoded residual bitstream, as user data, so that the decoder can exactly reproduce this enhancement. However, in some areas of the sharpness enhanced frames, the results will remain inadequate. By comparing in the encoder the available original full resolution frames with the enhancement frames, these areas can be detected. Only these detected areas will be compressed and be part of the residual bitstream which is inputted into the enhancement layer. The decoder then decodes the base layer downscaled bitstream and applies the same enhancement parameters on the decoded output as was performed in the encoder. The decoder then decodes the residual bitstream and superimposes the decoded bitstream on the pixels of the already decoded and enhanced base layer frames. This embodiment will now be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2 which is a block diagram of an encoder/decoder which can be used with the invention. The depicted encoding/decoding system 200 accomplishes layer compression, whereby a portion of the channel is used for providing a low resolution base layer and the remaining portion is used for transmitting edge enhancement information, whereby the two signals may be recombined to bring the system up to high-resolution. The high resolution video input 201 is split by a splitter 210 whereby the data is sent to a low pass filter 212, for example a nyquist filter, and a splitter 232. The low pass filter 210 reduces the resolution of the video data, which is then fed to a base encoder 214. In general, low pass filters and encoders are well known in the art and are not described in detail herein for purposes of simplicity. The base encoder 214 produces a lower resolution base stream 215. The base stream can be broadcasted, received and via a decoder, displayed as is, although the base stream does not provide a resolution which would be considered as high-definition. The encoder also outputs a decoded base stream to an upscaling circuit 216. In addition, a decoder (not illustrated) can be inserted into the circuit after the encoder 214 to decode the output of the encoder prior to being sent to the upscaling circuit 216. In general, the upscaling circuit 216 reconstructs the filtered out resolution from the decoded video stream and provides a video data stream having the same resolution as the high-resolution input. The upscaled bitstream v1 from the upscaling circuit 216 is split by a splitter 218 and inputted into a picture analyzer 230, a subtraction circuit 234 and a splitter 220. The upscaled bitstream v1 from splitter 220 is inputted into enhancement units 222 and 224. Each enhancement unit operates a different spatial enhancement algorithm which will be explained in more detail below. FIG. 2 has two enhancement units but it will be understood that any number of enhancement units can be used in the invention. Many video enhancement techniques exist and they all modify the picture content such that the appreciation of the resulting picture is improved. The subjective characteristic of these enhancements complicate the optimization process and is likely the reason for the diversity in video enhancement algorithms. Various enhancement algorithms contribute by some means to the picture quality, and as a result, they often appear in a chain to profit from the individual strengths. Noise reduction and sharpness improvement algorithms are just a few examples out of a large set of enhancement algorithms. It will be understood that any of these known enhancement algorithms can be used in the invention. A high-quality spatial enhancement function consists of a collection of algorithms that contribute to different aspects of sharpness. Some algorithms only improve the gradients in the picture by increasing its steepness, whereas others modify the amplitude of the gradients. It may seem that these algorithms are mutually exclusive, however, this is far from true. Both means to improve the gradient characteristics may be used, where a predefined model determines the individual contribution of each algorithm. Returning to FIG. 2, the upscaled bitstreams v1 are processed in enhancement units 222 and 224 according to the enhancement algorithms in each unit. The resulting video streams from enhancement units 222 and 224 are inputted into subtraction units 226 and 228 respectively, wherein the bitstream v1 is subtracted from the resulting video streams from enhancement units 222 and 224 to produce video streams v2 and v3, respectively. Video streams v2 and v3 are inputted into the picture analyzer 230. The input bitstream 201 is also inputted into the picture analyzer 230 via splitter 232. The picture analyzer 230 compares v1, v2 and v3 with the original bitstream and determines how best to enhance the picture. The picture analysis performed by the picture analyzer can be performed in a variety of ways. For example, the picture analyzer 230 could compare v1, v2 and v3 with the original picture and select the video stream (v1, v2 or v3) which best approximates the original picture. Alternatively, the picture analyzer can use a mix of the different bitstreams using mix parameters (α, β) or enhancement vectors such that the optimum overall picture quality is achieved from a combination of video streams. For example, the picture analyzer can select a vector representing the mix parameters for calculating the mixture of the enhanced base video streams to control the information in the residual bitstream using the selected vector. Furthermore, bit cost function can also be used in determining the best mix parameters as will be explained below with reference to FIG. 3. It will be understood that other schemes than the ones described can be used in the picture analyzer 230 and the invention is not limited thereto. There are numerous advantages to using mix parameters in the picture analyzer 230. Firstly, this is a completely expandable system. If there are more functions to contribute to the sharpness of the picture, they can be easily accounted for. The new functions need not be optimized for the system. Secondly, the interdependencies of various functions can be accounted for while deciding on the suitable enhancement vectors. Thirdly, a spatio-temporal consistency model can be incorporated in the picture analyzer 230. The upscaled output of the upscaling circuit 216 is subtracted from the original input 201 in a subtraction circuit 234 to produce a residual bitstream which is applied to a switch 236. The switch is controlled by the output of the picture analyzer 230. By comparing the input video bitstream 201 with the various enhanced base video streams, the picture analyzer 230 can determine which pixels or groups of pixels (blocks) need to be further enhanced by the enhancement layer 208. For the pixels or groups of pixels (blocks) that are determined to need enhancement by the picture analyzer 230, the picture analyzer 230 outputs a control signal to close switch 236 to let those parts of the residual bitstream through to the enhancement layer encoder 240. The picture analyzer 230 also sends the selected mix parameters and the control signal for the switch to the encoder 240 so that this information is encoded with the resulting residual bitstream from switch 236 and outputted as the enhancement stream 241. The base stream 215 is sent to a base decoder 250 and the enhancement stream 241 is sent to an enhancement encoder 252 in the decoder section 204. The decoder 250 decodes the base stream 215 which is then upscaled by an upscaling circuit 254. The upscaled decoded bitstream is then split by a splitter 256 and sent to enhancement units 262 and 264, merge unit 270 and addition unit 272. Enhancement unit 262 comprises the same spatial enhancement algorithm as enhancement unit 222 and enhancement unit 264 comprises the same spatial enhancement algorithm as enhancement unit 224. The enhancement units 262 and 264 perform their respective algorithms and send outputs v2 and v3 to the merge unit 270. The enhancement decoder 252 decodes the enhancement stream and outputs the residual bitstream to the addition unit 272. In addition, the decoder 252 decodes the mix parameters and control signal and send this information to the merge unit 270. The merge unit merges together all of the inputs to create the enhancement output from the picture analyzer 230. The upscaled decoded base stream and the decoded residual bitstream are combined together by the addition unit 272 and the resulting bitstream is applied to the switch 274. The switch 274 is controlled by the control signal so that the output of the merge unit 270 can be applied to the appropriate pixels or blocks in the bitstream outputted by the addition unit 272 so as to produce the output signal 276. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an encoder/decoder 300 according to another embodiment of the invention. Many of the components in FIG. 3 are the same as the components illustrated in FIG. 2 so they have been given the same reference numerals. In addition, for the sake of brevity, the operations of the similar components will not be described. In this embodiment, a cost function is used in determining the mix parameters α, β, . . . for the individual enhancement signals v2, v3, . . . . According to one embodiment of the invention, enhancement vectors are assigned on a block by block basis. Previously determined best enhancement vectors from a spatio-temporal neighborhood are evaluated in a cost function as illustrated in FIG. 4. The cost function calculates a metric that is related to the objective picture quality. The best estimate of the enhancement vector is defined by one yielding the smallest cost, i.e., Best vector=min e(αi, βi, . . . ) where i=1, 2, . . . number of candidates and e() is the cost function with vectors αi, βi, . . . as parameters. The cost function should incorporate within itself all the factors that define good quality and also artifact prevention mechanism. For example, in case of sharpness enhancement function, the steepness of the gradients is an important factor and should be accounted for in the cost function. Artifacts like aliasing that result from sharpness improvement should also be included in the cost function. The cost function serves as a quality measure. Returning to FIG. 3, the enhancement layer encoder 240 sends bitcost information to the picture analyzer 230. The cost function is calculated from the mixed signal Ve(α,β, . . . ) for a limited set of parameters α,β, . . . . The better the picture quality of the signal Ve(α,β, . . . ), the lower the cost function becomes. For every pixel or group of pixels a few vectors of can be tested. The test vector with the lowest cost function is then selected. In one embodiment, some of the test vectors are already selected vectors of neighboring, in time and space (previous frame), group of pixels. For example, vectors λ1β1, λ2β2, λ3β3 illustrated in FIG. 4 are neighbors of the group of pixels being tested. In addition one or more vectors can be selected with a random offset. The picture analyzer outputs Ve=v1+αv2+βv3 and Vb=v1+λv2+μv3 where α, β are the mix parameters and λ, μ are the cost function parameters. In this embodiment, the signal Vb is subtracted from the original input bitstream in the subtractor 234 to form the residual bitstream. Whenever the final cost function exceeds a predetermined threshold limit, the picture analyzer outputs a signal s to the switch 236 so that the switch will close and for that group of pixels a residual bitstream is encoded in the encoder 240. In addition, the picture analyzer also sends the control signal, the mix parameters and the cost function to the encoder 240 which are then coded and inserted into the enhancement stream 241. When the enhancement stream is decoded in the enhancement decoder 252, the mix parameters and cost function are decoded and sent to the merge unit 270. The merge unit outputs Vb which is added to the decoded enhancement stream in the addition unit 272 and the resulting bitstream is applied to the switch 274. The switch 274 is controlled by the control signal S so that Ve from the merge unit 270 can be applied to the appropriate pixels or blocks in the bitstream outputted by the addition unit 272 so as to produce the output signal 276. The above-described embodiments of the invention enhance the efficiency of spatial scalable compression by using a picture analyzer to select the best or a mix of a plurality of enhanced base bitstreams via determined enhancement vectors to control the information in the encoded residual bitstream. It will be understood that the different embodiments of the invention are not limited to the exact order of the above-described steps as the timing of some steps can be interchanged without affecting the overall operation of the invention. Furthermore, the term “comprising” does not exclude other elements or steps, the terms “a” and “an” do not exclude a plurality and a single processor or other unit may fulfill the functions of several of the units or circuits recited in the claims. Previous Patent: Printer driver software product with edge runlength encoder Next Patent: Video encoding using variable bit rates	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line563
__label__wiki	0.529996	0.529996	Handling talk burst denials in group communication system supporting PTT service A method for processing a talk burst of a PTT server when a PTT terminal requests permission to send a talk burst, but the talk burst has already been allocated to another PTT terminal. The PTT server sends to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, a talk burst deny message including an ID of the PTT terminal having sent the talk burst request message. Then, each PTT terminal having received the talk burst deny message compares its own ID with the ID included in the talk burst deny message and outputs the comparison result, such that the request for permission to send the talk burst can be processed and every user can check the status information of all PTT terminals having a session established thereof. Lim, Guk-chan (Gyeonggi-do, KR) LG Electronics Inc. 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TRAN, PAUL P LEE, HONG, DEGERMAN, KANG & WAIMEY (660 S. FIGUEROA STREET Suite 2300, LOS ANGELES, CA, 90017, US) 1. A method of processing a talk burst, comprising: receiving, by a PTT terminal, a talk burst deny message from a PTT server; comparing, by the PTT terminal, an ID included in the talk burst deny message with its own ID; and displaying, by the PTT terminal, a talk burst status on a screen according to a result of the comparing. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the talk burst deny message comprises: a destination field that is set as broadcast mode; a talk burst deny field; and an ID field of the PTT terminal that requested a talk burst. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of displaying the result of comparing comprises: outputting a message indicating talk burst request failure, if the ID of the PTT terminal and the ID of the talk burst denial message are the same; and outputting a message indicating that the talk burst request of the PTT terminal corresponding to the ID has been denied, if the ID of the PTT terminal and the ID of the talk burst denial message are different. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the message is indicated by at least one of a text, image, and animation. 5. A method of processing a talk burst of a PTT service, comprising: if a talk burst denial message is received by a PTT terminal that did not send a talk burst request message, the PTT terminal checks those PTT terminals that failed to obtain a talk burst, by referring to the ID included in the talk burst denial message; and displaying information related to the PTT terminals that failed to obtain a talk burst. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information related to the PTT terminals that failed to obtain a talk burst is displayed by at least one of a text, image, and animation. 7. A server of a group communication system, comprising: a transceiver to send and receive communication signals; a processor cooperating with the transceiver; and a storage medium containing instructions executable by the processor to perform the steps of, receiving a floor request from a particular user terminal, granting or denying the floor request of the particular user terminal, and informing each user terminal about a floor request status of all user terminals having a session established thereof. 8. The server of claim 7, wherein the granting or denying the floor request is performed based upon conditions of the group communication system. 9. The server of claim 8, wherein the conditions include a situation where the floor request has already been granted to another user terminal other than the particular user terminal that sent the floor request. 10. The server of claim 7, wherein the informing step comprises, sending a floor deny message that identifies the particular user terminal, if the floor request is denied for that particular user terminal. 11. The server of claim 10, wherein the floor deny message has a first field indicating a broadcast mode transmission, a second field indicating a floor request denial, and a third field indicating an identification of the particular user terminal that sent the floor request which was denied. 12. The server of claim 7, wherein the group communication system supports a push-to-talk function. 13. A user terminal of a group communication system, comprising: a transceiver to send and receive communication signals; a processor cooperating with the transceiver; and a storage medium containing instructions executable by the processor to perform the steps of, sending a floor request to a server, receiving a floor grant or a floor deny from the server; and indicating a floor request status of all user terminals having a session established thereof. 14. The user terminal of claim 13, wherein the receiving step comprises, receiving a floor deny message that includes an identity of a particular user terminal which received a floor deny. 15. The user terminal of claim 13, wherein the indicating is provided to a user through audible, visual or tactile indication or any combination thereof. 16. The user terminal of claim 15, wherein the indicating is displayed via graphics image processing. 17. The user terminal of claim 13, wherein the group communication system supports a push-to-talk function. CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application claims the benefit of earlier filing date and right of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/591,602 and Korean Application No. 10-2004-0115567, filed on Jul. 28, 2004 and Dec. 29, 2004, respectively, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety. 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a PTT (Push-to-Talk) service, and particularly, to a method for processing a talk burst (e.g., right to speak, floor request) of a PTT service by which, when one PTT terminal requests permission to send a talk burst, while the talk burst has already been allocated to another PTT terminal, and a PTT server denies the request for the permission to send the talk burst. 2. Background of the Related Art PTT (Push-To-Talk) refers to a half-duplex communication scheme whereby only one user is given a right to talk (i.e., floor grant, talk burst grant, etc.), as in a walkie-talkie service, and provides a one-to-one or one-to-many call conversation service. In other words, a user that has been granted the right to talk is said to have been granted the “floor” or granted a “talk burst”, and these expressions can thus be used interchangeably. In general, a PTT service system includes a PTT terminal having a PTT key (button) used for requesting permission to send a talk burst (i.e., a floor request), and a PTT server for controlling a talk burst (e.g., right to speak, floor control, etc.) and transmission of voice and data between the PTT terminals. Namely, talk burst requests (or floor requests) from various users are granted or denied by the PTT server such that only one user (PTT terminal) at a time has the right to talk while other users must listen. In the PTT service system having such configuration, when a user presses a key of a PTT terminal to request permission to send a talk burst, if the talk burst has not been allocated to another PTT terminal, the PTT server sends a talk burst grant (floor grant) message to the corresponding PTT terminal that requested talk burst permission. However, if the talk burst has already been allocated to another PTT terminal, the PTT server sends a talk burst deny (floor deny) message to the corresponding PTT terminal. The talk burst deny message indicates that when a user of a PTT terminal requests permission to send a talk burst while another PTT terminal already has the talk burst, the PTT server cannot allocate the talk burst to the PTT terminal having requested the talk burst. Namely, in the related art PTT service system, the PTT server sends the talk burst deny message only to the PTT terminal that sent a talk burst request message. In general, a call conversation can be freely made in bi-directional communications without any distinction between the speaker and the listener. However, in half-duplex communications, such as a PTT service, the speaker and the listener are clearly distinguished and only a user who has a talk burst can be the speaker. As mentioned above, the related art PTT service is disadvantageous in that, if a particular user has a talk burst, he does not know about any information regarding the state of other PTT terminals which have no talk burst, i.e., that do not have the right to speak. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for processing a talk burst of a PTT service by which, when a talk burst deny message occurs, the talk burst deny message is sent to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor so that each PTT terminal can check information on a PTT terminal which has requested permission to send a talk burst. To achieve these and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the present invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, there is provided a server of a group communication system, comprising: a transceiver to send and receive communication signals; a processor cooperating with the transceiver; and a storage medium containing instructions executable by the processor to perform the steps of, receiving a floor request from a particular user terminal, granting or denying the floor request of the particular user terminal, and informing each user terminal about a floor request status of all user terminals having a session established thereof. Here, the granting or denying the floor request can be performed based upon conditions of the group communication system, wherein the conditions can include a situation where the floor request has already been granted to another user terminal other than the particular user terminal that sent the floor request. The informing step may comprise, sending a floor deny message that identifies the particular user terminal, if the floor request is denied for that particular user terminal. Here, the floor deny message can have a first field indicating a broadcast mode transmission, a second field indicating a floor request denial, and a third field indicating an identification of the particular user terminal that sent the floor request which was denied. Also, the group communication system can support a push-to-talk function. Also, the present invention provides a user terminal of a group communication system, comprising: a transceiver to send and receive communication signals; a processor cooperating with the transceiver; and a storage medium containing instructions executable by the processor to perform the steps of, sending a floor request to a server, receiving a floor grant or a floor deny from the server; and indicating a floor request status of all user terminals having a session established thereof. Here, the receiving step can comprise, receiving a floor deny message that includes an identity of a particular user terminal which received a floor deny. Also, the indicating can be provided to a user through audible, visual or tactile indication or any combination thereof, wherein the indicating can be displayed via graphics image processing. The group communication system can support a push-to-talk function. The foregoing and other objects, features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a unit of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings: FIG. 1 is a signal flow chart which illustrates a method for processing a talk burst in accordance with the present invention; FIG. 2 is a view which illustrates a format of a talk burst deny message in accordance with the present invention; and FIG. 3 is a view which illustrates an embodiment of a screen output of a PTT terminal which has received the talk burst deny message. FIG. 4 depicts a group communication system showing a server and a single user terminal according to the present invention, although many user terminals may be employed. Hereafter, some preferred embodiments of the present invention will be explained in detail by referring to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, some well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail because doing so may obscure the invention in unnecessary detail. Several exemplary embodiments of the present invention that may be used separately or in any combination to achieve talk burst allocation will be described in more detail hereafter. Push-To-Talk, commonly abbreviated as PTT, is a method of conversing on half-duplex communication lines by pushing a button to allow voice communication to be transmitted and releasing the button to allow voice communication to be received. Such PTT features are being implemented in recent mobile terminals (e.g., mobile phones, handsets, wireless devices, etc.), allowing a mobile terminal to function as a digital two-way radio (e.g., a walkie-talkie) in push-to-talk operation. One person at a time can talk by pressing a PTT button and one or several others can listen instantly. Certain PTT schemes are based on 2.5G packet-switched networks (e.g., CDMA, GPRS, etc.) and use particular protocols, namely, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and RTP (Real Time Transport Protocol). These particular versions of PTT are called “Push-To-Talk over Cellular” (or Push-over-Cellular), commonly abbreviated as PoC. As cellular communication networks continue to evolve and accommodate the transferring of various types of data (voice, images, audio, video, multimedia, etc.), various Internet access technologies are being employed. An example would be the Internet Protocol (IP), which is a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for communicating data across a packet-switched network (e.g., the Internet), and examples include IPv4, IPv6, and the like. Among the numerous features of PTT (including a particular type of PTT called PoC), the floor control procedures related to a server (e.g., a PTT server) and a client (e.g., a PTT client) will be considered hereafter. In particular, the server can be considered as a centralized point that grants a “floor” to a PTT user who wishes to speak to a talk group. Namely, a user can “take the floor” and speak to other users who can only listen during that time. The client includes various mechanisms to facilitate the priority allocation required in granting the floor to the user. When multiple users wish to take the floor (in order to talk with other users) by respectively sending a transmission request (e.g., a floor request, a talk burst request, etc.), priorities should be allocated such that the users take turns in speaking by considering whether their transmission requests that have been granted or denied. For example, the priorities may be allocated on a first come first served basis. For each transmission request from each client, the server may either grant or deny each request based upon the communications environment or other factors thereof. In the present invention, talk burst allocation can also be referred to as obtaining the right to talk (or right to speak) or obtaining permission to transmit (access request). A user that is granted the right to talk is said to have been granted the “floor” or granted a “talk burst”, and these expressions can be used interchangeably. In the present invention, when one PTT terminal requests permission to send a talk burst in a state that another PTT terminal already has the talk burst, the PTT server sends a talk burst deny message not only to the PTT terminal which sent the talk burst request message, but also to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, so that the request for the permission to send the talk burst can be processed and every PTT terminal can check the information about the status of other PTT terminals. Here, the talk burst deny message is set as broadcasting mode such that it may be sent to all PTT terminals having a session established therefor, and includes an identity (ID) of the PTT terminal that sent the talk burst request message. In the present invention, a PTT terminal having received the talk burst deny message compares its own ID with the ID included in the talk burst deny message. When the two IDs are identical, the PTT terminal outputs a message indicating talk burst request failure, but when the IDs are different, the PTT terminal outputs a message indicating that the talk burst request of the PTT terminal corresponding to the ID included in the talk burst deny message has been denied. FIG. 1 is a signal flow chart which illustrates a method for processing a talk burst of a PTT service in accordance with the present invention, wherein the method is for a case where one PTT terminal requests permission to send a talk burst while another PTT terminal has already obtained a talk burst. First, it is assumed that a first PTT terminal 21 establishes a session with a second PTT terminal 22 through a PTT server 10, and the PTT server 10 is in an idle state in which no talk burst is allocated. Here, a “session” refers to a communications relationship or link between two or more user devices (e.g., PTT terminals) during which voice and data can be sent and received. When a user of the second PTT terminal 22 presses a PTT key, the second PTT terminal 22 sends a talk burst request (i.e., floor request) message to the PTT server 10 (S11). The PTT server 10 having received the talk burst request message changes its status from “idle” to “taken” (operating state), sends a talk burst grant message to the second PTT terminal 22 (S12) and sends a talk burst taken message to the first PTT terminal 21, thereby allocating the talk burst (S13). Here, the talk burst taken message is sent to all PTT terminals excluding the PTT terminal having taken the talk burst so as to notify the PTT terminals of an ID of the PTT terminal having taken the talk burst. When the user inputs voice or data through the second PTT terminal 22, the voice or data is sent as a RTP packet to the first PTT terminal 21 through the PTT server 10 (S14). If the talk burst request message is sent from the first PTT terminal 21 while the talk burst is allocated to the second PTT terminal 22 (S15), the PTT server 10 cannot allocate the talk burst to the first PTT terminal 21 because it has already allocated the talk burst to the second PTT terminal 22. Accordingly, the PTT server 10 sends a talk burst deny message to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, namely, to the first PTT terminal 21 and the second PTT terminal 22 (S16). Here, the talk burst deny message includes an ID of the first PTT terminal 21 having sent the talk burst request message. The first PTT terminal 21 and the second PTT terminal 22 having received the talk burst deny message respectively compares their own IDs with the ID of the first PTT terminal 21 included in the talk burst deny message. When the IDs are identical, a message indicating that it has failed to take the talk burst is outputted to a screen of the corresponding PTT terminal, and when the IDs are different, a message indicating that the request for the permission to send the talk burst has been denied and an ID of the PTT terminal having sent the talk burst request message are indicated on the corresponding PTT terminal. This indication can be achieved through audible, visual or tactile means or any combination thereof, such as outputting a message on a display screen of the PTT terminal. When the second PTT terminal 22 releases a pressed state of the PTT key, the second PTT terminal 22 sends a floor release message to the PTT server (S17). The PTT server having received the floor release message converts its state into an idle state and simultaneously, a floor idle message is sent to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, namely to the first PTT terminal and the second PTT terminal (S18). FIG. 2 depicts a format of the talk burst deny message, which includes a destination field where a destination of a message is inputted, a talk burst deny field, and a field where an ID of a PTT terminal having sent the talk burst request message is inputted. Here, because the talk burst deny message is sent to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, the destination field is set to a broadcasting mode. As for the talk burst deny message in accordance with the present invention, the destination field is set to the broadcasting mode, and the talk burst deny message in accordance with the present invention has a format in which a field including an ID of a PTT terminal having sent the talk burst request message is added to the related art talk burst deny message format. The PTT terminal having received the talk burst deny message compares an ID included in the talk burst deny message with its own ID and outputs a message according to the comparison result to a screen of the corresponding PTT terminal so that the user can recognize the talk burst denied state. FIG. 3 shows one embodiment of display of a screen of the PTT terminal having received the talk burst deny message. When the first PTT terminal sends a talk burst request message while a speech using the second PTT terminal having taken the talk burst is in progress, contents as shown in the embodiment of FIG. 3 are outputted to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor. A state of every PTT terminal having a session established therefor may be outputted by using characters or icons using images or animation, as show in FIG. 3. Also, the state of the PTT terminal may be displayed only by characters or only by predefined icons. The present invention can be embodied as software, hardware, or a combination of both. For example, talk burst allocation method according to the present invention can be embodied as codes or commands in a software program that can be stored in a storage media (such as an internal memory of the user terminal, a flash memory, etc.) and that can be executed by a processor (such as a microprocessor within the user terminal). The present invention provides a server (420) of a group communication system (400), comprising: a transceiver (423) to send and receive communication signals; a processor (421) cooperating with the transceiver; and a storage medium (424) containing instructions (425, 426) executable by the processor to perform the steps of, receiving a floor request from a particular user terminal, granting or denying the floor request of the particular user terminal, and informing each user terminal about a floor request status of all user terminals having a session established thereof. Also, the present invention provides a user terminal (410) of a group communication system (400), comprising: a transceiver (413) to send and receive communication signals; a processor (411) cooperating with the transceiver; and a storage medium (414) containing instructions (415, 416) executable by the processor to perform the steps of, sending a floor request to a server, receiving a floor grant or a floor deny from the server; and indicating a floor request status of all user terminals having a session established thereof. As described so far, in the method for processing a talk burst of the PTT service in accordance with the present invention, when users request permission to send a talk burst while the talk burst is allocated to a particular user, a talk burst deny message including an ID of each PTT terminal having sent the talk burst request message is sent to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, so that each user participating in the session can check state information of other users with respect to the talk burst request even during a telephone conversation. Also, in the method for processing a talk burst of the PTT service in accordance with the present invention, because each PTT terminal can output state information with respect to the talk burst request only by a process in which a PTT server sends the same talk burst deny message to every PTT terminal having a session established therefor, the PTT server does not need to have an additional function for managing and controlling the state information of each PTT terminal and can implement improved functions without increasing its functions or loads. The features of the present invention are applicable to group (point-to-multipoint) communications, such as half-duplex communications like PTT (and PoC, which is a type of PTT), that allow voice and data communication to be transmitted upon activating a feature (e.g., by pushing a button, upon selecting a soft key, etc.) and allow voice and data communication to be received upon de-activating the feature (e.g., releasing the button, de-selecting the soft key, etc.). Additionally, it can be clearly understood that the teachings and suggestions of the present invention can also be applicable and are intended to be applied to the so-called “Push-To-x” (PTx) techniques, because PTx is an enhancement of PTT and PoC technologies. Here, PTx refers to an enhanced version of PTT capable of supporting not only voice communications, but also various types of multimedia applications (e.g., photos, ringtones, games, content, SMS, MMS, etc.). An example of PTx is the so-called “Push-To View” (PTV) technology that can allow users to engage in multi-user video conferencing. PTx is expected to change the way we communicate when using mobile or wireless devices. The so-called “push-to” interface can be the main tool for connecting multiple users. Namely, the user's contact list (e.g., a so-called “buddy list”) can be the center and starting point for the user's communication experience. By selecting a “push-to-x” function, the user will be able to launch various types of applications and communication sessions, including PTT, video conferencing, sending photos, and not to mention, placing ordinary phone calls. Each user's state of presence (“presence”) will be an important component for the user to interface with his contact list. Namely, when the user activates the PTx function, a contact list containing various persons (“buddies”) may be displayed with a list of options for each contact person based on their state of presence, capabilities of their mobile terminal or device, interoperability of their network, and the like. Here, the user may interface with his mobile terminal or wireless device through audible, visual, and/or tactile alerts or notifications. Regarding the terminology used herein, it should be noted that PTT is also referred to as “P2T,” and PTx is also referred to as “P2x,” and PTV is also referred to as “P2V”. Other similar abbreviations or acronyms may also be used to refer to the same basic concepts regarding various “push-to” techniques currently under development and to be newly developed in the near future. As the present invention may involve communications through Internet access (e.g., VoIP), the features of the present invention are also intended to be applicable to enhanced Internet access services, such as the so-called “Broadband convergence Network (BcN),” which is expected to provide Internet access service with speeds of 50-100 Mbps, roughly 50 times faster than conventional broadband services. As the present invention may be embodied in several forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof, it should also be understood that the above-described embodiments are not limited by any of the details of the foregoing description, unless otherwise specified, but rather should be construed broadly within its spirit and scope as defined in the appended claims, and therefore all changes and modifications that fall within the metes and bounds of the claims, or equivalence of such metes and bounds are therefore intended to be embraced by the appended claims. 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__label__cc	0.62078	0.37922	Periods of light snow. Low 27F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 90%. 1 to 3 inches of snow expected.. Periods of light snow. Low 27F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 90%. 1 to 3 inches of snow expected. Solving the state's $24.4 billion student loan debt problem Wisconsin’s student loan debt is a $24.4 billion problem, according to a report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. City approves 2020 TID and utility budgets North Kennedy Road 35 mph Retired teacher honored for work with widows, orphans Justice, prosperity and peace In September of 1967 at the National Convention on New Politics held in Chicago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared: “We are concerned for the moral health of our nat… Become a friend of the Milton Public Library Apathy not a problem in school race, dont' let it be a problem Feb. 18 Pollution records must be open Looking at job growth in Wisconsin’s three biggest metro areas Low cost spay/neuter clinic Through the Years in the Milton Courier Wisconsin’s Official Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration Boettcher, Stuckey named January Students of the Month Edgerton, Fulton, Albion form tourism zone, two commissioners appointed By Kim McDarison milton@hngnews.com Brooke Ostema {child_byline}By Kim McDarison milton@hngnews.com {/child_byline} Three municipalities, Edgerton, Fulton and Albion, have recently joined together to form the Edgerton Tourism Zone. Two of the three, Edgerton and Fulton, have named representatives to the zone’s governing Room Tax Tourism Commission. The City of Edgerton Common Council has appointed resident and former Edgerton city council member Mark Wellnitz and the Town of Fulton Board of Supervisors has appointed Town of Fulton Supervisor Andy Walton. A third municipality, the town of Albion, will be appointing its representative in November, Town of Albion Board of Supervisors Chairman Bob Venske said. The tourism commission was formed through a contractual agreement between the three municipalities signed Oct. 1. As stipulated within state statutes, commissioners will serve for one-year terms. Money to develop tourism within the zone will come through the adoption of a new 5% room tax, which will be collected within the three municipalities by the municipal clerks on a quarterly basis and passed onto the commission. Collection of room tax within the zone will begin on Jan. 1. Three hotels within the zone will be responsible for paying room tax. They are Coachman’s Lodge and Resort, 984 County Road A, Edgerton; Quality Inn, 11102 Goede Road, Newville, an unincorporated area within Fulton and Milton, and Towne Edge Motel, 1104 N. Main St, in Albion. An estimated $88,050 is expected in room tax revenues in 2020, according to materials prepared by Edgerton community volunteer and tourism zone advocate Jim Kapellen. The information was shared with the two town boards and Edgerton city council by Kapellen in May. Kapellen told the Milton Courier that he, and another volunteer, Vicki Morris, also of Edgerton, began promoting the idea two years ago after he, Morris, and Edgerton City Administrator Ramona Flanigan formed an informal committee to explore forming a tourism zone. Several years earlier, Kapellen said, the idea of collecting room tax was floated within the communities, but was met with opposition from one of the area’s lodging providers and then lost momentum. Today, Kapellen said, that hotel has a different owner, and while that owner, too, had some concerns, he also owns several hotels in communities around Rock County and was familiar with paying room tax. State statutes govern how tourism commissions are formed, Kapellen said. Statutes stipulate that each municipality within a tourism zone must have representation on the commission commensurate with the amount of annual room taxes collected within the zone. In zones where annual room taxes collected are less than $300,000, each municipality shall have one member on the commission. Once a zone is established and its municipal representatives appointed, the group meets and selects a chairman, vice chairman and secretary. The chairman then must appoint two members from within the hotel and motel industry, with each serving a one-year term on the commission. Appointed commissioners may be reappointed, according to the statute. The commission must also choose a “tourism entity,” defined within statutes as an organization that must have obtained official classification by the IRS as a nonprofit by Jan. 1, 2015. Governmental agencies do not fit the classification, Kapellen said. Also stipulated in statutes, the nonprofit must spend at least 51% of its revenue to promote and develop tourism. The Edgerton Area Chamber of Commerce has been recommended as a potential tourism entity for the Edgerton Tourism Zone, Kapellen said, but it will not officially hold the title until after the commission meets and makes that decision. A meeting time and place will be determined after Albion appoints its commissioner, Kapellen said. As stipulated in the statute, the commission must contract with a tourism entity to obtain staff, support services and assistance in the development and implementation of programs to bring visitors to the zone. As shared with municipalities by Kapellen within his presentations, of the 5% room tax collected within the zone, 70%, as outlined in state statutes, must go to the tourism entity. According to Kapellen, statutes further note that 30% of the monies collected in room tax can be used by the participating municipalities as general purpose revenue, meaning it is not earmarked for tourism. The municipalities within the Edgerton Tourism Zone also approved returning 2% of revenues collected as part of their 30% share to the lodging operators within the zone to help offset the cost of booking fees, which are collected by third-party agents such as Hotel.com. According to statutes, the commission must: • report to participating municipalities annually how the room tax money was spent. • not use any of the room tax revenue to construct or develop a lodging facility. • monitor the collection of room tax. • report to the municipality any delinquencies or inaccuracies in tax due. The commission is also responsible for developing a process for hiring a tourism director, and policies about how the commission will operate. During presentations given in May, Kapellen defined a tourism zone as a geographical area where a room tax is collected on overnight lodgings. The tax revenue is then used to promote tourism in the surrounding area. Next steps, he said, would be for each municipality to adopt an ordinance to create the tourism zone. In September, the Edgerton city council and the Fulton town board adopted an ordinance to create a room tax district and impose a room tax. The Albion town board passed the ordinance in October. Albion names Olson as third commissioner to Edgerton Tourism Zone Town of Albion Plan Commission Chairman Kim Olson has been appointed as a commissioner to the newly formed Edgerton Tourism Zone. Along with A… Follow Brooke Ostema Tuesday roundup: Gymnastics sets school record on beam, record another season best Boys basketball: Red Hawks starting to make noise Girls basketball: Red Hawks overcome size disadvantage against Eagles Badger South basketball: Boys look to break .500 mark; Girls in similar spot as last year Wrestling: Lightweights continue to carry load for Hawks Council OKs removal of Sandy Beach restaurant City not considering Stop'n Go liquor license Chief announces retirement from fire department https://www.hngnews.com/milton_courier/ 28 Milwaukee Ave. West Email: Milton@hngnews.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line568
__label__wiki	0.864564	0.864564	Alex Yoong race car driver Alex Yoong, Malaysian racecar driver, 43 years old. Racing Automobile Driver Alex Yoong is a Malaysian racecar driver. He was born on July 20, 1976 (43 years old) in Kuala Lumpur. Alexander Charles Yoong Loong is a Malaysian Chinese race car driver of European and Han Chinese parentage.Yoong began his career in saloon cars before moving into the Proton one-make series. He later raced in single-seater cars where he won the Malaysian Championship in 1995. He moved into Formula Renault in 1996 with help from sponsors but finished outside the top-10. When is Alex Yoong's next birthday? Alex Yoong was born on the 20th of July 1976 , which was a Tuesday. He will be turning 44 in only 179 days from today (23 January, 2020). How old is he? Alex Yoong is 43 years old. What is Alex Yoong's zodiac sign? Alex Yoong zodiac sign is cancer. Game & Races (1) - 24 Hours of Le Mans @alexyoong. Alex Yoong official Twitter page , number of subscribers: 145534 Alex Yoong official website , language of work or name: English Yoong. Show people with the surname Yoong Alex Yoong (43 years) Malaysian racing driver Birth place: Kuala Lumpur, A1 Team Malaysia Profession: Race Car Driver Other people with profession Race Car Driver People from Malaysia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line573
__label__cc	0.726224	0.273776	Gurgaon Samachar Delhi Based Digital Vidya Celebrates a Decade of Success As Digital Vidya marks a decade of excellence, they have rolled out discounts of up-to 30% on its courses meant both for students & professionals. This step will help making cutting-edge technology training all the more affordable. New Delhi – December 23rd, 2019 – Marking 10 successful years of operations, Digital Vidya has reinforced its pledge to be on the forefront in imparting training on cutting-edge technologies to students & professionals. The institute has shown a phenomenal ability to bring industry leaders, in-service professionals, and researchers together, in order to create course curriculums that poise the learner to be equipped with the right skills, for the right industry, at the right time. At the ceremony to celebrate its 10th Anniversary, held at “Ardor 2.1, Connaught Circus” Digital Vidya has announced up-to 30% discounts on its Digital Marketing, Data Science, Data Analytics & Machine Learning Courses. Speaking at the occasion, AnujBatra, the recently appointed CEO of Digital Vidya said, “After having trained over 38,000 professionals from over 55 countries and having more than 450 corporate clients, we are proud to mark 10 years of successful operations. Appreciating the support of our patrons, who mainly constitute our participants, we have decided to give out up to 30% discounts on our courses while we celebrate our 10th anniversary.” From leading the Social Media Marketing training landscape in 2009 to filling up the vacuum of training Indian professionals on Data Science & Analytics since 2016, Digital Vidya has earned a name in being a forward-thinking, and innovative organization. Digital Vidya in the last 6 months, has reoriented its courses and mapped them exactly as per the skill requirements in the job market. Unlike other ed-tech companies that aggregate academic courses designed by different universities, Digital Vidya believes in creating programs that help in filling the skill gap and empower its trainees with 21st-century skills. The programs are laser-focused on implementable, hands-on skill-building. With over 150 corporate partnerships for placing its successful participants on relevant jobs and a network of over 50 global trainers, the training capabilities of the institute stand very strong. Around 80% of the training programs that are conducted by Digital Vidya are hosted online. They operate from their website www.digitalvidya.com which can be considered for all research and correspondence. About Digital Vidya Digital Vidya is Asia’s leading professional training company focusing on imparting new-age skills to individuals & organizations. Since 2009, over 38,000+ professionals (including CXOs) from 16,000+ brands such as Nokia, Google, eBay, Reliance, Star TV, Cisco, MakeMyTrip, Naukri, SAP, Citibank, Toyota, Intel, ITC, CNBC, Madison, and CII have participated in more than 3,800+ training batches from 55+ Countries. Digital Vidya is the official training partner of Google & Microsoft and has partnerships with global giants such as Facebook, LinkedIn, NASSCOM and Vskills. Company Name: Digital Vidya Contact Person: Mir Saeid Address:1001, 10th Floor, Tower-1, Pearls Omaxe Building, Netaji Subhash Place, Pitampura City: New Delhi – 110034 Website: www.digitalvidya.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line575
__label__wiki	0.738083	0.738083	Institutional Research. About Drew University Drew in a Nutshell Drew Accolades Faculty Experts Guide Schools, Departments & Offices Accreditation & Consumer Information Maps, Directions & Accommodations Contact Drew About Drew Primary Functions of the Office of Institutional Research: Supply institutional data on admissions, enrollment, financial aid, staff/faculty, library and finance to federal and state agencies, the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS), the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (“Middle States”) and the Association of Theological Schools (ATS). Interpret data received from federal and state agencies, HEDS, Middle States, and the ATS. Prepare the annual Common Data Set (PDF) and University Fact Book (PDF). Provide analytical support for enrollment management and budget preparation. Coordinate University participation in national survey research efforts such as the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The Office of Institutional Research subscribes to the principles and standards of the Code of Ethics of the Association for Institutional Research. Reports and More Information The Drew community is invited to log on to the IR UKNOW page for more reports. Log in to view more in UKNOW Alex McClung	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line578
__label__cc	0.634728	0.365272	HOTS - A bicycle made for three... Well if you've read the 'it takes two to tandem' blog, you'd have known this was coming!! Yes, the event was MONTHS ago (17th of May to be precise) but you know how busy life gets! We'd been keenly planning our attack on the South Cotswolds, getting the bike in fine running order, and had overcome the issue of 'how to get the bike ACTUALLY to Gloucester'... It was a massive benefit having the in-laws in Gloucester as it meant we could all head up in the car, drop Miles at Nanny and Gramps, then Bex, I, and the bike would carry on for another 40 min down the M5 to Wooton-under-Edge where this year's Heaven of The South Cotswolds was held. I'm sure it was held here last year..but that's besides the point! As we pulled into the field where the event camping was held, we saw James' big red van, and headed over there and unpacked the tent. The campsite was slowly filling up, and it was a great opportunity to run/ride around the field like an excited schoolboy and jump on other people's bike,..you know..for a laff.. (they were consenting! It was a great chance to try out some of the on-one fat bikes!) The tandem was striking up some interest, and a few of the big bike bash chaps even had a little scoot around on it! Once the excitement of 'getting out the house' had died down, we chilled by the van, sipping drinks and fuelling up on the well recognised 'no. 1 athlete's choice' of a pot noodle...grim! In all honesty I wasn't sure what Bex was looking forward to the least..a night under canvas, or the ride the following day?! She's keen to let me know 'this isn't her bag', but I actually think for the most part she DID enjoy it! Come the morning it looked like it was going to be a scorcher of a day - the sun was out, and we all latherd up in the factor 30! With bikes and riders all prepped to go, there was the obligatory posing shots! Once the 'bell' had gone to indicate we could start peddling, there was the expected bottleneck at the start..however the group soon spread out and 'us two' and James and Ben soon found a reasonable pace to stick to. The first few miles were going fairly easily and involved a few gentle climbs and descents. Every rider we passed, and every rider who passed us, gave a little complimentary cheer along the lines of "On a tandem? Nutters!". After a few more miles the hills began to become a bit more 'obvious', and those that I'd have steamed up on the SS suddenly became a real 'sit down and pedal' challenge! We were only 6 or so miles in, and I was already streaming with sweat and very grateful for the numerous water bottles, and the thicker rubber on the wheels! I do recall one FANTASTIC descent where we steam-trained it down, smashing our way through the rocks and ruts. IIRC, James was in front shouting "tandem coming down", and Ben was behind chuckling at the wake of carnage we were (possibly) leaving behind - I do apologise to any riders we 'barked' at as we came down, but it really was a case of keeping momentum, coupled with the challenge of stopping this thing once it's up to speed. I know we didn't knock into anyone, but we were grateful for those who made way for the 'beast' coming through! Once we had got to the 'dividing point' it had felt like we'd ridden for 25 miles - to look at the GPS and realise we'd only covered 10 yet I was feeling like this, was 'concerning' to say the least.. We both filled up the water bottles and grabbed some much needed food, and made the decision to attempt the 75km route - it would have been the furthest Bex has ridden in years, but she seemed keen to "give it a go as we'd come this far"! After the split the riders seemed a lot thinner on the ground. There were points where we had been cycling for 3-4 miles and not seen an obvious sign or other rider - it was only 'cos of the GPS (Garmin 605) that we knew we were on track! It's fair to say that none of the hills were too 'technical' to manage on the tandem, but the South Cotswolds is a rather hilly place, and we were both feeling the constant undulations in our legs (although, it did make for some awesome scenery photos!) After several more miles we came across the second feed stop just near 'Penn Wood Scout camp'. At his was practically the furthest away point, and it was here that Bex reminded me that bar the 5 minute break here and there, we'd been cycling for 3 hours non stop, and this was getting too much. I did kind of forget that I'm an oddity, and that the concept of cycling for 5-8 hours non stop isn't something most people would enjoy.. As such, we made the concious decision to divert from the route slightly, and head to a local pub for a much deserved chilled pop and fish+chips! After relaxing in the sun for a bit, we made the concious decision that we'd cycled plenty today, and that the best bet was to shorten the route back to camp by heading back mostly via the roads - this still involved a whopper of a climb up by 'Lampern Wood' towards the B4058..but once we'd made it up there we screamed it back to camp at about 40mph average!!! We were both knackered, but had enjoyed a strenuous, rewarding, and really well organised ride in a lovely part of the country! Yes we didn't manage the whole 75km but our total ride was a tad under 51km, and for a "pair of nutters on a tandem" we were both proud of each other! Here's another shot of the bike - no punctures or mechanicals despite some serious abuse on some of the trails. And the obligatory strava route.. James and Ben completed the whole 75km route and both agreed that 'this is a hilly area'! Beautiful, but hilly! It's definitely an event that we would all be keen to do again - I'm not sure if Bex would be roped along again to ride as my stoker, but I've the best part of a year to allow her to forget it! ...Oh, and what's with the title "HOTS - A bicycle made for three..." all about? Well, it seemed we had a stowaway on board!! Exciting times eh!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line579
__label__cc	0.624047	0.375953	MPDX: An HTML Encryptor-Decryptor Transferring data from one location to another is conveniently made possible by the Internet. However, the Internet’s overwhelming capabilities are accompanied by a questionable computer security. This study was conducted to address this problem by means of developing software that can protect transferred files over the Internet. The development of software (coined MPDX) was based on the paradigm Fourth-Generation Technique. The first stage was devoted to gathering for computer specications that would support the development of the MPDX software. The second stage was developing the design, which involved the development of hierarchical input process output, flowcharts pseudocodes pertaining to the logic, and menu layout of the MPDX software. The third stage was the coding, wherein design was transferred to machine code using the programming language Visual Basic 6.0. The final stage was the testing, wherein MPDX software was exposed to possible beneficiaries for evaluation. The results prove that MPDX software is effective and agreeable to the user based on the following criteria: user-friendliness, eficiency, and security. Millions of ordinary citizens are using the electronic mail (email) to conduct business or send confidential letters. email, as its many users know, has been around for over two decades. The first email system simply consisted of file transfer protocols, with the convention that the first line of each message contains the recipient’s address. As time went by, the limitations of this approach became more obvious. The present e-mail systems support two protocols for transferring messages from sender to recipient and vice versa. Within the Internet, email is delivered by having the source machine establish a TCP (transmission control protocol) connection to destination machine. Listening to this port is an e-mail daemon, a system program that speaks SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol). This daemon accepts incoming connections and copies messages from them into the appropriate mailboxes. Materials & Equipment Selected References: Lapin, Lawrence L. 1990. Statistics for Modern Business Decisions. 5th ed. Florida, USA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. Jamsa, Kris and Klander Lars. 1997. 1001 Visual Basic TIPS. Nevada, USA: Prentice-Hall, PTR, Inc. Davis, Alan M. 1995. 201 Principles of Software Development. New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, Inc. Alter mail, Jose Rhoniel P. Espiritu, AMACC Makati, 1999, unpublished. Cipher Lock, Frederick Vincent Tan, AMACC Makati, 1996, unpublished. Oliva, Erwin Lemuel. Computer firms say security is a necessary investment, Press Release, INQ7.net, March 20, 2002. Further clarification of the procedures and results should be directed to the researchers and adviser. Melvin P. De Guzman Johnny E. de Leon Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School Gapan City Engineering, Science	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line583
__label__cc	0.510318	0.489682	MainAll NewsForeign AffairsTrump National Security Adviser: We are putting Iran on notice Trump National Security Adviser: We are putting Iran on notice US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn accuses Iran of destabilizing activity following ballistic missile test. Gary Willig, 01/02/17 22:21 US President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, said the United States was putting Iran 'on notice' following reports that Iran test-fired a medium range ballistic missile in violation of a UN Security Council resolution over the weekend. "As of today, we are officially putting Iran on notice," Flynn told reporters at a White House Press Briefing Wednesday. He accused Iran of "destabilizing activity" and violating a Security Council resolution prohibiting Iran from carrying out activities related to ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Flynn did not say what actions the US would take against Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in response to the ballistic missile test that he would raise the Iranian threat with President Trump when the two leaders meet on February 15 and that he would discuss restoring sanctions against Iran. "Iranian aggression must not go unanswered." the Prime Minister said. Tags:Iran, Netanyahu, Donald Trump, ballistic missile test, Michael Flynn	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line585
__label__wiki	0.718196	0.718196	Thu January 23rd 2020 Home > World > Great Britain Blackmailing Iceland EditorialWorldPoliticsEconomySocietyCultureScience & TechnologySportInternational Communist and Labor Press"Tribune libre"Comment and OpinionBlogsLinks About Economic crisis, read also Keynes Not Enough to Face Crisis, Return to Marx Necessary Trade Union Coordinating Committee Hones Demands Economic Growth Nose-Dives One figure among many... Portugal: Brussels prepares to tighten the screw Retail Clothing Industry – One Job in Ten May Go by End of Year French Statistical Bureau Predicts Rising Unemployment in 2013 Historic Fall in Household Consumption in 2012 Retirement: According to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, French Will Have to Make an Effort At school: “Priority in Education Does Not cope with austerity budgets”. French Purchasing Power and Consumption Drooping General strike in India Apocalypse Brazil Asia : The Koreas forge ahead Brazil, Year 1 of the Bolsonaro Regime Mumia Abu-Jamal — A Formidable Success, But ... The Cubans Will Have the Last Word Latin America: Brazil - Under the control of extreme-right authoritarianism YEMEN. WASHINGTON WANTS TO END THE WAR TAX EVASION. 55 BILLION EURO STOLEN FROM THE EUROPEAN MEMBER STATES BY THE BANKS Scandal surrounding the sale of 36 French fighter jets to India. Vietnam:. The Little Napalm Girl Now Has Hope... Africa: The Hunt is on for Defaulting Polluters Climate: Europe burns as the Earth heats up ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Islande. Le chantage britannique by Gael de Santis Great Britain Blackmailing Iceland Translated Thursday 1 April 2010, by Gene Zbikowski and reviewed by Gene Zbikowski London and Amsterdam are using the worst of methods in demanding 3.8 billion euros from tiny Iceland. London is committing a veritable stick-up to get the assets of the Landsbanki bank. When Landsbanki went bankrupt in October 2008, it took with it its subsidiary, the online bank Icesave. 320,000 Britons and Dutch people had put their savings in Icesave, attracted by a 6.5% interest rate. Fearing that Landsbanki would repatriate its capital to Iceland, London froze the bank’s assets via the arbitrary use of the antiterrorist laws. In point of fact, London has used this legislation to extort gigantic concessions from a tiny country, Iceland. London and Amsterdam have compensated the savings of their citizens, and are turning to Iceland for reimbursement. Late in 2008, Reykjavik was forced to sign on and recognize its obligation to pay in order to get the bank off the list of terrorist organizations. London took advantage of the fact that Iceland was confronted with enormous public debt to impose draconian conditions: reimbursement will be made at a prohibitive 5.5% interest rate, when the Bank of England practices a rate of just 0.5%! “In the first years, we will be paying practically nothing but interest,” pointed out Johannes Skulason of the In Defense association, which opposes the accord. The total sum will come to nearly 3.8 billion euros, or 12,000 euros per Icelander. Landsbanki’s assets should allow reimbursement of 20,000 euros per account to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, in line with the rules of the French Fonds de Garantie des Dépôts. [The Fonds was set up in 1999 and its principal mission is to compensate depositors of an institution which can no longer meet its liabilities.] But the Netherlands and Great Britain have compensated the total savings of the account holders and “are forcing the Icelandic taxpayers to pay the difference,” complained Johannes Skulason. The Icelanders accept this obligation all the less as London has refused to allow the affair to be brought before an international court, and Iceland respected European legislation. Moreover some legal experts think that, since Landsbanki did business mainly in Britain, it is up to London to pay. The historic referendum on the ratification of the Icesave accord, set for Saturday March 6, was obtained thanks to a petition signed by one-quarter of the voters. The partisans of a “no” vote note that their mobilization has already forced London and Amsterdam to reopen talks. The “no” camp hopes that this will force London and Amsterdam, which authorized Icesave to set up in Great Britain and the Netherlands, to assume part of the costs of the bankruptcy. In July, the two countries paid no attention to the conditions imposed by the Icelandic parliament, which for the first time in history made reimbursement dependent on the country’s capacity to pay. RSS 2.0 \| Site Map \| Translators’ zone \|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line586
__label__wiki	0.642579	0.642579	FACT/SF Photo: Kegan Marling co-presented by FACT/SF and ODC Theater ODC Theater, San Francisco The score was made up of ambient street sounds, happening in real-time only two blocks away. Four dancers stood in a line, facing upstage while a fifth approached them from downstage left. Her movements started like a wave, washing over the floor, then as she got closer, morphed into tiny, staccato impulses in the hands, arms, back and head. These were the opening moments of Still Life No. 3, by Lauren Simpson and Jenny Stulberg, and FACT/SF’s 2015 JuMP program. This is the second consecutive year for the commissioning residency, designed to allow dancemakers the opportunity to, as the title conveys, ‘just make a piece’. I love this sentiment; I love the supportive environment it proffers; and I love that a San Francisco contemporary company is fostering this kind of outlet for the choreographic community. This year’s edition joined two new works on a shared program, Simpson and Stulberg’s Still Life No. 3 and spread t h i n, by FACT/SF Founder and Artistic Director Charles Slender-White, both danced by the FACT/SF company artists. As Still Life No. 3 continued, the soloist joined the line of four dancers and the entire group began moving slowly in unison – pivoting, shifting, taking single steps front and back, heads curving forward and then lifting to the ceiling. Here was an early statement of individuals working together; acting, reacting and sculpting shapes as a whole entity. Then the line fractured and different patterns emerged. Through mechanized walking and held positions, dancers went out on their own, or formed smaller internal groups. After an impressive and slow grand plié in first position, the quintet came back together in a sequence that took its lead from the opening solo – waves plus isolations. And these isolations themselves had an interesting quality and intention, almost with marionette or robotic characteristics. In Still Life No. 3, Simpson and Stulberg are looking at what movement is, how it appears, and how it can be altered. The dance is a complete movement dissertation, at times minimalist and pedestrian, at others, complex and stylized. The FACT/SF company spent the majority of Still Life No. 3 facing away from the audience. They had on matching dark blazers, but were wearing them backwards. At first, I wasn’t wild about the costumes, but as the dance progressed, I came to realize that not only were they a fitting design, but a genius move on Simpson and Stulberg’s part (who together, also did the costumes). Visually, the choreography and the movement claimed the spotlight – the viewer could completely focus on what the body was doing, and not be distracted by anything else. And the movement/physicality was the point of this dance. The costume design showed inventive and outside the box thinking, and truly served the work well. Slender-White’s spread t h i n emerged directly out of intermission; house lights still up, stage glowing, the dancers dressed in all black. In stark contrast to the previous work, the five stood facing the audience and for a long time, were still and just stared. Then together, they moved forward, reciting a phrase in whispered tone while their arms, heads and upper bodies accented certain words. A lengthy circular running segment followed, neither panicked nor frenetic, but certainly charged. It was as if the dancers were communicating a simultaneously polar experience. On the one hand, they knew where to go, but at the same time, seemed a little lost. The narrative of uncertainty read loud and clear. The running was peppered by violent and dramatic collapses, the point of articulation being in the torso. And during the running/collapse motif, five small black boxes with attached balloons were brought out and placed on the stage. The introduction of the black boxes ushered in spread t h i n’s second major chapter, a floor sequence steeped in body percussion. Dancers came in and out of this movement phrase - sometimes doing the whole series from beginning to end, sometimes in a partial expression, or even changing the choreographic order. And again, there was a narrative struggle being played out; one that posed a question. Should we conform to the collective or branch away on our own? The black boxes were an intriguing element to the work. After wiggling around them in a protective cradle, the quintet tentatively left them behind. Walking in a yoga-style downward facing dog position, the balloons were now balanced on their backs and the boxes were in the past. What were these boxes? Safety? A place of serenity? Some event from long ago? Maybe none of these; maybe all. As a theatrical tool, they were curious and compelling. I definitely wanted to know more about them and I still want to know. Otherworldly, mystical and celestial describe the final part of Slender-White’s spread t h i n. The stage went dark, revealing lights on the balloons. The company revisited the first text and movement phrase; after which the balloons floated up and the dancers were lit from above in circular pools of light. In this stunning scene, their bodies moved through space, and time seemed to slow down, at least for a brief instant. "Arcane: A Tale of All Hallows' Eve" Company C Contemporary Ballet in Arcane: A Tale of All Hallows’ Eve Photo: Jorge Alejandro Gomez Company C Contemporary Ballet Arcane: A Tale of All Hallows’ Eve Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco It’s been exactly a year and a half to the day since I’ve seen Company C Contemporary Ballet in performance. In that time, the company has gone through a major overhaul, with a shift in its production model being perhaps the biggest change. Instead of a typical fall and spring season, Company C opted to move to a more project-driven system. For the first of these projects, Artistic Director Charles Anderson went all in - Arcane: A Tale of All Hallows’ Eve premiered this weekend at Fort Mason and runs until the 31st. Arcane is a brand new one-act narrative ballet, a Halloween story by Ben Bowman and Anderson. It is an ensemble work, complete with principal dancers, a corps and a children’s cast. An original score by Mike Krisukas is played by a live orchestra, conducted by Mary Chun; the stage is filled with phenomenal design elements – costumes by Laura Hazlett, lights and scenery by Patrick Toebe. And a narrator, John Hale, frames the action throughout. The ballet follows the Halloween night sojourn of its title character, Arcane, a celestial being danced at this performance by Phyllis Affrunti. Using dance and text, a collection of short scenes relays her travel - those she meets, the scenes she encounters, the events she creates through her spellbinding forces. She is joined by an astrologer. We are told that he is Arcane’s human proxy, though that part of the story gets a little lost and so the astrologer comes across as more of a traveling companion. Arcane was a little slow getting going, but by the third vignette, the cast had hit their stride. As Arcane and the astrologer, Affrunti and Taurean Perez did very well, especially navigating their complicated, and sometimes busy, choreography. But the most impressive group of dancers was the corps, who in a single hour had to embody so many different characters (stars, pumpkins, ghouls, skeletons), each with unique choreography and complex costumes. In fact, my favorite variation was the orphan trio of Alice Cao, Alysia Chang and Colleen Soltys. Technically, sharp relevés and échappés met expansive turns and waltz steps. And the three were spot on in their character portrayal. A number of other standout moments deserve particular mention. As Arcane’s journey occurred over a single night, different clock motifs were crucial to the ballet’s storyline. Anderson’s take on time was incredibly innovative and clever. The light show duet halfway through absolutely thrilled the audience. It was cool and different, but for me, went on a little too long. At the beginning of the Halloween ball scene, there was a lively dance for the entire group – quirky movement side by side with traditional ballet. Though in instances like this one when the whole cast was present, the Cowell Theater stage appeared a bit small. It looked like they didn’t quite have enough room for some of the extensions and traveling steps. Company C Contemporary Ballet’s Arcane: A Tale of All Hallows’ Eve is entertaining, fun and very fitting for the end of October. Though there are a few darker moments (like the dead bride dance), overall, it is a family-friendly way to access contemporary ballet this Halloween season. "HomeBody" The Anata Project Z Space, San Francisco Z Space was a cozy, intimate haven on Saturday night. Chairs and couches were arranged all over the main floor, right up against the stage. An area rug was marking the center aisle. A perfectly chosen playlist hung in the air. You couldn’t help feeling welcome, at home and relaxed as you walked into the environment. You could disconnect from the outside bustle and be in the room, present in the moment. And that moment was all about The Anata Project’s fifth home season. Comprised of two world premiere works by Founder Claudia Anata Hubiak, the evening paired a short dance film, By My Side with an ensemble contemporary dance composition, HomeBody. For me, the common thread woven throughout the program was the study and expression of group dynamics. By My Side introduced a couple, danced by Ashlie Kirby and Victor Talledos, in a household setting. On and in front of a black couch, they cycled through an inventive duet full of knowing gestures and playful interactions – tapping each other on the shoulder, embracing, laughing and joyfully dancing all around the room. They were at ease, comfortable and fully known. The hook of By My Side is that you do not realize in its five minutes that Hubiak is portraying a much longer passage of time. Near the end, a pregnancy becomes clear and in the final scene, a baby enters the picture as two become three. Photo: Summer Wilson Then came the main event, HomeBody, an evening length premiere dance. A cluster of performers arranged themselves up left, while a soloist crawled onto the stage, eventually making her way toward the pile of bodies. As the score began pulsating, the group slowly untangled, rolling away from each other, yet still attempting to make contact with their hands. They reached for members of the group and tried to take on each other’s motions. Visually, it felt basal, almost cellular in nature. Scattering and coming together; venturing out and returning back. HomeBody’s next major section kept this group dynamic going, but added an element of freedom and individualism to the mix. Lively and exciting movement phrases unfolded all over the stage; dancers forming and re-forming in duets, trios and as a full cast. Groupings were on display, and in HomeBody, Hubiak used these different formations as both a structural tool and a narrative one. Group dynamics change and evolve, which leads not only to interesting dance architecture, but an array of conceptual truths, ranging from camaraderie all the way to exclusion. Exclusion definitely read in the next scene as another soloist took center stage and her whole body began shaking. Everyone else distanced themselves, standing far from her and silently staring. She was the odd one out; the one who’s reality was different than the others. While she wasn’t being purposely excluded, she wasn’t included either. And the silent stares around her spoke volumes about disengagement and grief. A more aggressive section followed, about two thirds of the way through the piece, one where the dancers were experimenting with issues of dominance and control. While it wasn’t at all violent, the intention behind the pushing motifs and flinging lifts definitely felt more pointed. In a beautiful counter, a touching, poignant sequence of support and encouragement emerged – hands gently assisting other dancers as they rolled; an abundance of counterbalanced poses where both parties’ cooperation was required to make the task possible. And then, a surprise chapter. The company left, all but one lone dancer – the same soloist who had crawled onto the stage at the beginning. Hers was a hauntingly glorious variation, both in choreography and in performance. Themes of remembrance penetrated the movement: reaching out into space and trying to encircle those who were no longer there. One by one, the dancers re-entered the scene and joined her in revisiting the early ideas in HomeBody, scattering and adhering. And in a lovely egalitarian moment, the ensemble ventured into the audience and sat on a couch, together as a group and together with those who had come to share in this moment. Posted by Heather Desaulniers at 1:43 PM No comments: Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Cal Performances presents Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley Much has been written in anticipation of Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour – diverse, thoughtful and engaging commentary on this dancemaker’s iconoclast status and incomparable contribution to dance and choreography. Now this eagerly anticipated tour is underway. And over the weekend, Tharp and her company visited Cal Performances. Rather than revisiting themes from the already published discussion, it seems right to turn the attention to the dances that are part of this exclusive program. The afternoon kicked off the first of two preparatory fanfares, with original music by John Zorn. Trumpets sounded and two men simultaneously burst out of the wings in flight. Here was a grand announcement; a true call to witness the splendor of bodies in motion. And there was just the right amount of sass as the brief segment closed. I wrote more notes during the Bay Area premiere of Tharp’s Preludes and Fugues than I have in a very long time, simply because each of the many vignettes had such a distinct and compelling flavor. Preludes and Fugues is a choreographic tour de force, clever and unexpected, but also a truly beautiful marriage of Tharp’s physicality and J.S. Bach’s music (from the “Well-Tempered Clavier”). Rather than giving a synopsis of each individual scene, a sampling of this unforgettable artistic composition is what follows. The point of entry into the work was one of delightful familiarity. Tharp opened Preludes and Fugues with a subtle duet to Prelude 1 in C Major. With this well-known Baroque selection, Tharp smartly offered a scene of social dancing. Visually and audibly, this was an initial statement of egalitarianism. Then the gears shifted dramatically as Prelude 2 in C Minor sung through the air. Traditional ballet vocabulary ruled the stage until the presto portion of the piece, when whimsy took a turn in the spotlight. These first moments of Preludes and Fugues were about as different as you could imagine – and the rest of the dance held to that same surprise and excitement. Pictured: Daniel Baker, Ramona Kelley, Nicholas Coppula, and Eva Trapp-Coppula in Preludes and Fugues Photo credit: Ruven Afanador In many of the subsequent sections, elements of fugal structure were very apparent in the choreography and staging – representations of the subject, countersubject and answer along with fugal devices like sequence, augmentation, diminution, inversion and retrograde. Dancers entered and exited the canvas at different moments with all types and styles of movement: jerky contractions; flowy waltz steps; tilted, flexed promenades in second position; battement en cloche; boxing gestures. Dynamics ranged from speedy to lush to mechanized. And from time to time, there was a sense that things were emotionally charged. It was a luxurious mélange of textures and an interdependent choreographic immersion. The trio formation seemed to be a favorite structure throughout Preludes and Fugues. Mid-way through, three women of the company danced an amazing unison trio – petit allegro mixed with Celtic influences and pivot turn directional shifts. It was some of the best technique of the entire program. Tharp’s expression of Fugue 11 in F Major was spellbinding. This particular key has some edge to it. Even though it is of a major quality, there’s some faint darkness lurking underneath. Tharp set a duet of quiet restraint that adeptly highlighted these dim shadows. Some of Bach’s minor key compositions end with a Picardy third, where the mediant note is raised a half a tone to create a major chord. This happened a number of times in the dance, but in one particular instance, the soloist shuddered right as that major chord struck. It was an extraordinary moment. And the piece closed with a restatement of the first prelude, though the choreography was different. The entire company joined together for a circle dance, and a few of the main movement themes recurred. But what was most striking about this last vignette was the stage patterning. The company looked like stars forming and reforming in gorgeous constellations. If you have a chance to see Tharp’s Preludes and Fugues, you must take it. Words and descriptions are fine, but they cannot do this dance justice. It really is a masterwork by a master artist. The Second Fanfare was completely different from the first. A red glowing scrim was the centerpiece, which the company appeared both in front of and behind. Through this brief prologue, an eccentric group of characters was introduced, like the opening credits of a large production. Yowzie was that larger work and it spanned a number of decades and eras. The music was early American jazz; the scenic backdrop had a 1980s graphic style to it; and the costumes crossed the hippie/bohemian generations with circus stylings and even a little of today’s hipster culture. The choreography was quite varied, but generally, Yowzie felt hard-hitting and show stopping. And it was packed with humor that veered toward the campy and farcical. As much as I loved Preludes and Fugues, I found Yowzie to be a bit of a mixed bag. And this wasn’t a reaction to the very different styles of the two works. Both dances were full of rich artistic material, though in Yowzie, the visuals got a little overwhelming. Just too much happening all at once. The characterizations were also a little hit or miss. For the most part, the company did a great job of bringing their zany characters to life. But there were a few that looked a little confused. Now maybe they were just playing a character that exists in that state of uncertainty. Totally fine. But if that was the case, it didn’t read particularly well or clearly from the stage. Having said that, Yowzie had moments of real brilliance and sheer joy, which is why for me, it was a mixed bag. The male Burlesque duet (John Selya and Ron Todorowski) was phenomenal. Complete with mimed make-up applications, some warm-up burpees, and spot-on dancing, what a wonderful scene! Matthew Dibble’s featured solo brought together sexy old-school jazz with some well-placed hip-hop and acrobatics. Savannah Lowery and Kaitlyn Gilliland’s turning series was lavish and impressive, especially with the large black hats they were wearing. And when the entire cast returned to the stage in the final segment, there was a choreographic party like no other. "Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer" Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer by Jack Walsh screened at the 2015 San Francisco Dance Film Festival I remember the first time I saw Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A. It was postmodern week of an undergraduate dance history class. The reading had included basic survey information on Judson Dance Theater – who the main participants were, when it occurred, where the performances took place and what the collective had produced. The week’s lecture touched on much of that same material and then the old movie reel version of Trio A was screened and discussed. While most of my classmates were in awe after viewing this piece of choreography, I was confused and didn’t understand it at all. Why did they love it so much? Were they just reacting to the fact we had been told it was a seminal piece of postmodern dance? Or had I missed something, something really important? Years later and after much study, I know that I had missed something. On that day, I had a general sense of ‘the who, when, where and what’ that was Judson Dance Theater. But I did not have any of ‘the how’ nor ‘the why’. And I needed some of that context to both understand the work and appreciate its contribution. It would have been amazing if a film like Jack Walsh’s Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer, recently screened as part of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival’s 2015 line-up, had been part of that first conversation. While it is not meant as a comprehensive history of Judson Dance Theater or postmodern dance, Feelings Are Facts provides that necessary and first-hand context to understand the postmodern period in dance history (specifically some of ‘the how’ and ‘the why’). And it does so by following the trajectory of one particular artist: Yvonne Rainer. A chronology of Rainer’s journey, the documentary combines archival documents, video footage and personal interviews. All this comes together to give a deeper insight into a creative mind and spirit; one that helped change the face of artistic form, structure, content and composition. The timeline of the film is somewhat unconventional and non-linear, though with it being about Rainer, perhaps that is how it should be. It jumps around from era to era, and from Rainer’s professional experience to her personal life. Walsh begins Feelings Are Facts with early footage of Rainer dancing her 1966 work, Trio A. Interspersed in these first few minutes are responses to the work from a number of dancers, choreographers, practitioners and scholars. Folks like Rainer, Steve Paxton and Wendy Perron (among others) speak about what Trio A was, what it meant and what it did for the field. After that initial introduction, Walsh heads back in time to when Rainer moved New York to become a dancer. He takes us through Rainer’s discovery of the New York arts scene to her experimentation with different dance techniques to the composition class that Yvonne Rainer in the "Bach" section of Terrain (1963) Yvonne Rainer, Judson Memorial Church, New York, 1963 Photo: Al Giese birthed Judson to the heyday of the Judson Dance Theater. Walsh also references a number of amazing choreographic excerpts (some, recent reconstructions) from that rich time of dancemaking: Three Satie Spoons, Chair/Pillow, Three Seascapes. Onto the late 1960s/early 1970s and the Grand Union project. I’d only ever seen still photographs of Grand Union, so it was really something to see live video from that time. Next, Walsh tracks Rainer’s transition into film and cinema, and in the middle of Feelings Are Facts, goes back to the very beginning – Rainer’s childhood and adolescence. Then we timehop again to when Rainer returned to dance, choreography and performance. And in a lovely cadence, Feelings Are Facts concludes with a recent example of Rainer in Trio A. Because it doesn’t follow each decade in chronological order, Feelings Are Facts feels a little like a collage, pieces of interdependent material overlaid and superimposed into a larger structure. Walsh has made a great film – educational and accessible while engaging and entertaining. And with each year’s collection of short and feature-length films (like Feelings Are Facts), the San Francisco Dance Film Festival is continuing to forge a legacy of curating excellence. Dance Series One Smuin Ballet A mixed repertory night with multiple choreographic visions – one might expect such an evening to be varied and diverse. It’s amazing how often that is not the case. Companies can settle into a style, a signature, a manner, and despite differing choreography, things end up looking much the same. But then there are mixed repertory programs that succeed in celebrating and embodying choreographic breadth and diversity. Those where every moment is a delightful surprise. Smuin Ballet’s Dance Series One is a prime example. A quartet of work ranging from 1981 to present day, every piece brought something new to the table, expertly communicated by the company’s dedicated dance artists. Dance Series One is about creativity, risk and gusto; bravi to the entire creative team. The curtain rose to reveal three couples in spotlights amidst a smoke-filled stage, Ma Cong’s French Twist. It felt like the opening credits to a mystery, perfect for an October ballet. Quickly the dance progressed into stylized movement – the kind that transcends the categories of ‘classical’ or ‘contemporary’. Specificity and articulation reigned in the arms, feet, legs, hands, head and torso, like petit allegro was happening in the entire body. Or sometimes, even a hint of puppetry or marionette-styled vocabulary crept in. While French Twist had different sections, there was a continuous feeling to it, devoid of stops and starts. With one exception (the men’s costuming), it was a great start to the night. Next up was Michael Smuin’s Bouquet, a beautifully graceful yet technically challenging two-part composition. The dance begins with a quartet for one woman and three men (at this performance, Erin Yarbrough-Powell, Mengjun Chen, Dustin James and Jonathan Powell) and it has some truly enchanting moments. A favorite is when Yarbrough-Powell was suspended high in the air with her leg in a low arabesque. Some of the unison turns did prove tricky, and while this particular chapter has an elegant classical feel, it does look a little dated. Danced by Susan Roemer and Robert Moore, Bouquet’s pas de deux didn’t look dated at all; in fact, it stood out. Not just in this ballet, but in the entire night. Touching and romantic, passionate and surprising, Roemer’s metatarsals barely grazed the floor in a series of scooting arabesque lifts. With devotion, Moore tenderly grasped Roemer’s foot and ankle while she extended in penchée. They looked amazing together. Choreographed by company dancer Ben Needham-Wood, Maslow was one of the two new works on the program. A ballet for a lead pair and a quintet, Maslow contemplated perception and reality through the eyes of a title character, danced and interpreted by Pictured: Robert Kretz (center) and Terez Dean (back right) and the Smuin Company in Maslow Photo credit: Chris Hardy Robert Kretz. Little knowledge of the individual who inspired Maslow made the story (if there was a narrative through line) a little difficult to discern. Having said that, Needham-Wood’s scene and setting was very clear – this was the mind of a great thinker, someone fascinated with imagination and the human psyche. The best part of Maslow was the choreography itself, a combination of ballet and contemporary jazz, all underscored with a rare fluidity, almost a liquidness. And in the primary role, Kretz was absolutely astounding. Choreographer-in-Residence Amy Seiwert closed Dance Series One with her new ballet, Broken Open, the only piece on the program to feature the entire company. This six-part composition pushed boundaries as only Seiwert can do, asking what ballet is, what it looks like, what vocabulary it entails and what it can be. As suggested by the title, Broken Open, ‘broke open’ perceptions and expectations from start to finish. Grand pliés in parallel sixth position, flexed feet in promenades, demi-pointe work in pointe shoes and an abundance of second position (in lifts, in turns and in poses). With a pattern of psychedelic paint splatters, Sandra Woodall’s costumes evoked an earlier time, perhaps the 1970s/early 1980s. I really liked the costumes, though their retro style mixed with the forward intention in the choreography was a little puzzling. UNA Projects Ships and Salsa co-presented by UNA Projects and ODC Theater A stage washed in light blue. White folding chairs around the perimeter. Water sounds. A soloist, Jayne Paley, begins dancing center stage as Catherine Ellis Kirk and Lauren Kravitz slowly creep into the space. With these initial images, Ships was underway, a mystical trio by Artistic Director Chuck Wilt and New York-based UNA Projects. Wilt has partnered with ODC Theater to bring two differing programs over a single weekend. This was Program B – a dual bill of twenty-first century contemporary dance. The term ‘twenty-first century’ is a purposeful one, not just a descriptor that places the work in a certain time period. Ships and UNA Projects’ second work, Salsa, were keenly of this moment. Narrative themes were broad, yet not simplistic. Movement was accessible, though not at all pedestrian. Structure and form were varied and clear, never haphazard. Theatrical tools were incorporated, but the dance and choreography still took the lead. From the dancers’ gait, their intention and their relationship to space, Ships had an instant mystery and deliberate indeterminance. The dancers were searching, curious about each other and their environment. Issues of control were at play – being controlled versus exerting free will. And the empty chairs provided a spooky underscore; it seemed like they were being watched, but by an invisible something or someone. Ships’ enigmatic atmosphere oozed from Wilt’s choreography – calm walking was suddenly met with wild flailing episodes; flowing arms were interrupted by locked positions; slow steadfastness gave way to whirling allegro. It was as if Kirk, Kravitz and Paley were going in and out of a hypnotic state. Salsa, an ensemble work for the entire company (the three women plus Wilt and Kyle Filley), emerged directly out of intermission while the house lights were still up. A hotel pool image was projected on the cyclorama and the dancers took various positions as part of this scene, complete with Adirondack chairs, arm floaties and pool toys. As the lights dimmed, Salsa began with a social dance-inspired duet. But then it quickly evolved into an expression of youthful community, of togetherness. Designed like a mini-suite of dances, Wilt explored the complexity of youth through a series of movement sets - innocent flirtation, free expression, social insecurity, vulnerability, one-upmanship, and pure joy. And towards the end, a slow motion, unison, gestural movement phrase brought the focus to mindful self-awareness in the midst of a community. This was a collective, but it was made up of different individuals and personalities. Salsa was not too long, not at all. Having said that, there were several moments in the last third that felt cadential, like the conclusion of the piece. And so, the material that followed seemed like a bit of an afterthought. Some of the choreographic intricacies were also a little difficult to see from time to time. Upstage dancers occasionally used their upstage leg or arm while another dancer was standing directly in front of them. It didn’t happen too many times, but Wilt’s choreography and UNA Projects’ movement is compelling; it draws the viewer in, so you definitely want to be able to see it all. Photo: Jake Saner	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line592
__label__cc	0.575303	0.424697	KUO PHOTO Small Causes, Big Effects Examining social and environmental issues through the animal kingdom. Clinical Hope Giving Grace Minor Companions About & CV A curious Yellow Bellied Caique. Every year, an estimated 300 million animals are illegally imported into the United States to be sold as exotic pets. A multi-billion dollar industry, it is only second to weapons and drugs on the black-market. During the capture and transport process, the mortality rate for these animals is high, as many die from suffocation, stress, and shock. Removal of these animals from their natural habitat disrupts the delicate balance of these ecosystems, setting forth a chain of events that compromise wildlife populations and alter the environment in irreparable ways. Often when the novelty of an exotic pet wears off, or their highly specialized care becomes too much of a commitment, they are often abandoned and released into the environment. With no chance for rehabilitation, many succumb to the elements. For those that survive, if no natural predators exist, they can quickly become invasive. This poses a threat and potential fatality to native species who may lack defense mechanisms for the foreign intruder, and unable to compete for food and other resources. This aggressive takeover alters the multitude and diversity of species native to the habitat, changing the biosphere and introducing new vulnerabilities to the ecosystem. Most of these exotic animals retain their natural instincts, behaviors, and dietary attributes––even those captivity bred, remain wild. It is infeasible to replicate their natural habitat, as their needs for preservation are highly specialized and discriminating. From self-destructive feather plucking in birds, to metabolic bone disease in reptiles, the majority of medical issues they face stem from an inability to accommodate their psychological, biological, and nutritional needs. Without proper care, these animals are experiencing compromised lives marked by unnecessary disease and distress. “Displaced” is a look at the efforts of The Center for Avian and Exotic Medicine in NYC, as they tend to these delicate animals who have been removed from their natural habitats and transplanted into a foreign environment. An African Grey boarding at the center. Yvette weighs in Pearl, a morning dove, undergoing her physical exam. Reception. Preparing lunch for a Russian Tortoise. Identifying the patient. Keeping vigil. The OR. A surgical glove filled with warm water, maintains an Egyptian Uromastyx lizard's temperature post surgery. Anthony, an Amazon parrot, waking up after his 4th tumor removal. An adolescent herring gull undergoing surgery for a damaged wing. Amputated wing. Twilight. Decision making. A Sugar Glider in intensive care. Beak trim. Anthony's 4th tumor removal, raises the question if his condition would have existed in the wild. Grounded. A green parrot boarding at the Avian and Exotic Medical Center while his owners are away on vacation. A McCaw with feather destructive disorder. Failed resuscitation of a Yellow Bearded Dragon. Removing scutes from a Red-Eared Slider. Thank you to The Avian and Exotic Center in NYC, for their unwavering dedication and tireless efforts on behalf of all the pets that pass through their doors. They facilitate the rehoming of abandoned exotic pets, and are continually educating the public in hopes of cultivating a better understanding of the requirements involved in caring for these delicate creatures. They are compassionate stewards of the exotic animal kingdom, and I'm grateful to them for their openness, and for granting me access to their facility and work methods. I thank them for their trust and confidence in my efforts to try and effectively communicate all that they do. DISPLACED Every year, an estimated 300 million animals are illegally imported into the United States to be sold as exotic pets. A multi-billion dollar industry, it is only second to weapons and drugs on the black-market. During the capture and transpo... WITH GRATITUDE Thank you to The Avian and Exotic Center in NYC, for their unwavering dedication and tireless efforts on behalf of all the pets that pass through their doors. They facilitate the rehoming of abandoned exotic pets, and are continually ed... Linda Kuo is a documentary photographer with a special interest in animals and the environment. Linda is based in New York. Kuo Photo is connected to: © 2020 Kuo Photo LLC via Visura	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line597
__label__cc	0.625513	0.374487	News › China News added on 27-Mar-2014 in China There is uneasiness that, following the release of China's cotton policy, there will be pressure from Chinese buyers on Indian spinners to further reduce prices. In recent months, Chinese buyers have already lowered yarn buying rates, following the strengthening of the Indian rupee against the US dollar. Demand for cotton yarn has also been sluggish beginning from January. Export prices to China of 32's combed hosiery yarn prices which were quoting at $3.40 per kg in December and till the first fortnight of January have slipped by 20 cents in March, or down by around Rs 12 per kg at current exchange rates. "China has already resorted to measured imports of cotton yarn to largely keep prices under control", says Mr DK Nair, Secretary General of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI). He said this in the backdrop of a perceived fall in yarn demand from China. China has reduced its cotton yarn import volumes from India in the last two months, which has put Indian yarn exports under pressure as Chinese cotton consuming textile mills were waiting for the Chinese cotton policy to be announced. As per the new policy to be applicable from April 1, the government has lowered cotton auction bids to 17,250 Yuan per ton, down 4.2 percent from its current floor price of 18,000 Yuan per ton, a move which can only stymie Chinese demand for Indian cotton as well as yarn. The importance of China as a valued export market for Indian yarn can be gauged from the fact that out of the 1,200 million kgs exported in the first ten months of fiscal 2013-14, China accounted for 55-60% of this figure. "The main apprehension among Indian spinners is that there may be a little variation in Chinese yarn imports, but we may not be able to get the same prices that we were able to command in the same period last year", Mr T Rajkumar, Chairman of Southern India Mills Association (SIMA) informs. "However, according to SIMA estimates, over the long term, yarn exports to China may not fall drastically, but may stabilize or increase a little bit but prices may come under pressure ", he adds. China cotton buying for reserves hits three million tons in 2013 Plea to restrict cotton exports China says to scrap cotton, soybean stockpiling in 2014 Chinese keen to invest in textile sector India wants EU to do away with import duty on its textiles	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line600
__label__wiki	0.686476	0.686476	Jewel Of Medina News: Palladium Metal ► Precious Palladium Metal Gaining Favor Among Jewelers Precious Palladium Metal Gaining Favor Among Jewelers Jewelery makers in Asia shrugged off platinum’s falls from record highs as they struggled to use up inventories, and dealers said today more carmakers were turning to sister metal palladium as a substitute. “Over US$1000 you should get less interest, certainly less demand,” said Alastair McIntyre, head of marketing at ScotiaMocata in Hong Kong. “After US$1000, you should start to see, you have either perceived or actual substitution in palladium,” he said. Platinum increased to US$1,055 an ounce on today mainly due to gains in gold as investors diversified into precious metals on worries about inflation, the US dollar’s outlook and tensions in the West Asia over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The metal, which rallied as much as 18 per cent in 2005, has since dropped as funds booked profits, but dealers said the declines failed to stir up interest from main consumers such as China and Japan. Customs data from China showed declines in platinum imports in January, when the metal used in jewelery and to clean car exhaust fumes began its steady climb. China is the world’s largest consumer of platinum jewellery. China’s imports from Switzerland, South Africa and Japan fell to 952 tons in January, down 41.3 per cent from the same month in 2005. Spot platinum was quoted around US$1,044 an ounce while its much-cheaper sister metal, palladium, was at US$300. “Consumers don’t react much to prices but if you talk to the manufacturers, they are very skeptical about continuing their production,” said a dealer in Shanghai. “The margins are very low. Because of the price fluctuations in the international market, manufacturers are not really keen to stock up. They only make jewellery when they receive orders,” he said. Precious metals refiner Johnson Matthey said China’s purchases of platinum for jewelery manufacture was expected to fall about 10 percent to 910,000 ounces in 2005 as high prices scared off buyers. Talk that more carmakers would shift to palladium had triggered fund buying, propelling the metal to its highest in nearly two years at US$320 in February, but dealers said the increase may not deter demand. “The thing is that when people are waiting for a price level to enter, they tend to make mistakes,” said a precious metals dealer in Hong Kong. “If you look at the gold price, it has gone up from US$250 to almost to almost US$600. Every time they waited for the price to fall, they’d been burned because the price continues to go higher,” he said. Some Hong Kong dealers said they saw demand for palladium from jewelery makers in China since the price fell from highs. Because of poor margins, China’s platinum jewellers have turned to palladium and white gold – an alloy of gold and other light-coloured metals such as silver and palladium. “Selling pressure increased when palladium reached US$320. I am still bullish on palladium but it must consolidate,” said another Hong Kong dealer. Look for Palladium to become more prominent if Platinum maintains and increases it’s price strength. Troll Beads Jewel Of Medina © All Rights Reserved Design by Carla Izumi Bamford	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line603
__label__cc	0.534122	0.465878	Research ArticleMyositis Acute Coronary Syndrome in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: A Population-based Study Valérie Leclair, John Svensson, Ingrid E. Lundberg and Marie Holmqvist The Journal of Rheumatology November 2019, 46 (11) 1509-1514; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.181248 Valérie Leclair From the Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, and the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Division of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. For correspondence: valerie.leclair@ki.se John Svensson Ingrid E. Lundberg Marie Holmqvist Objective. Evidence suggests an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) diseases, including acute coronary syndrome (ACS), in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of ACS in an incident IIM cohort compared to the general Swedish population. Methods. A cohort of 655 individuals with incident IIM and 6813 general population comparators were identified from national registries. IIM subjects were diagnosed from 2002 to 2011. Followup started at IIM diagnosis and corresponding date in the general population. ACS, CV comorbidities, and CV risk factors were defined using International Classification of Diseases codes. Incidence rates including 95% CI were calculated. Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare the risk of ACS in patients with IIM and the general population. The competing risk of death was accounted for using competing risk regression models. Results. The incidence rate of ACS in IIM was higher than in the general population, particularly within the first year of diagnosis and in older individuals. The overall ACS incidence rate in IIM was 15.6 (95% CI 11.7–20.4) per 1000 person-years, with an HR of 2.4 (95% CI 1.8–3.2) compared with the general population. When accounting for the competing risk of death, the risk of ACS in IIM remained increased with a cumulative incidence of 7% at 5 years compared to 3.3% in the general population. Conclusion. IIM individuals are at higher risk of ACS, particularly within the first year after diagnosis. Key Indexing Terms: ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME Dr. Lundberg was supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Rheumatism Association, King Gustaf V 80 Year Foundation, and the Stockholm County Council (ALF project). Dr. Holmqvist was supported by grants from the Swedish Rheumatism Association, the King Gustaf V 60 Year Foundation, the Nanna Svartz Foundation, and the Stockholm County Council (ALF project). Accepted for publication February 26, 2019. You are going to email the following Acute Coronary Syndrome in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: A Population-based Study Valérie Leclair, John Svensson, Ingrid E. Lundberg, Marie Holmqvist The Journal of Rheumatology Nov 2019, 46 (11) 1509-1514; DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.181248 Clinical Significance of Serum Chitotriosidase Level in Anti-MDA5 Antibody–positive Dermatomyositis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease Rituximab in the Treatment of Refractory Anti-HMGCR Immune-mediated Necrotizing Myopathy Show more Myositis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line606
__label__wiki	0.626206	0.626206	Tárifa, Spain - Tárifa Travel Guide - Indian Chief Travel Tárifa, Spain (cc) Photo: Manfred Werner Tárifa Travel Guide Tárifa is Spain's "capital of cool." Here, windsurfing and kiteboarding are the order of the day and a laid-back, board-toting young crowd, in board shorts and flip-flops, holds sway. The town itself is relatively small, with whitewashed old neighborhoods, and beaches and sunshine and wind – a lot of wind, which blows in from the east as the levante and, in the summer months, from the west as the poniente, with virtually no respite. This is also as far south as you can go in Spain, and thus in Europe, for the town sits on the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula, just one hop away from the Moroccan city of Tangier on the north coast of Africa – 11 miles (17 km) across the Strait of Gibraltar. Tárifa is situated on Spain's Costa de la Luz, some 12.5 miles (20 km) southwest of Algeciras, or 125 miles (200 km) south of Sevilla. It is also the principal departure and arrival point for ferries to and from Tangier, Morocco, which is all of a 35-minute ferry-ride away. Where to Party There are several airports close to Tárifa – including those in Cádiz, Málaga, Jerez, Sevilla and Gibraltar – from where you can either take a bus or rent a car and drive down to Tárifa. From Sevilla, Jerez or Cádiz – which is the closest, some 51 miles (82 km) distant – follow route E-5 southeastward to Tárifa. From Málaga, take route E-15 roughly 80 miles (130 km) southwestward through Marbella and Algeciras to Tárifa. Málaga and Sevilla are serviced by most major carriers, while Jerez is serviced by Ryanair. Gibraltar, only 45 minutes away, is serviced by EasyJet and British Airways. Tárifa's main interest lies in its atmospheric old quarter, laid out by the Moors around 1200 AD, as well as the 10th-century Guzman Castle located near the port. There are remnants, too, of the city's medieval walls, together with the last surviving city gate, the ancient Puerta de Jerez, which dates from the 13th century. The city's central square is Plaza San Mateo, which has its fair share of cafés and restaurants; and its principal beach is Playa de los Lances, which faces Morocco across the strait, with clear views of the hills that loom above the North African coast. Main Neighborhoods Old Quarter / Downtown - Port Area - Tárifa nightlife is a veritable romp for party-goers. The greatest concentration of bars and disco-clubs is in the old center or downtown area, and among the most popular establishments are La Ruina, the oldest and most spirited of the lot; New Rif, where the party-hearty young lot dance until the break of dawn; and Carpe Diem, a disco-club close to the beach. Good bets for eating out in Tárifa include Ristorante Morilla (€2-€16) in the old center, with its tapas bar and hugely affordable Spanish fare; the Moroccan-style Souk Bar (€4-€19) on Calle Mar Tireno, which offers some of the best falafels, cous-cous, tajine and houmus; the Casa Amarilla bodega (€3-€21), also in the old center of Tárifa, where Andalusian dishes reign supreme; and the small, unpretentious Anca Curro (€3-€13), across from the Puerta de Jerez by the old center, which offers traditional Spanish food and the best pork filet for miles around. For the younger crowd, particularly backpackers, one of the best places to stay in Tárifa is the centrally-located Melting Pot Hostel (€13-€25) which offers mixed dorm-style rooms and is handy to all the bars, pubs, restaurants and board-rental and other shops. Among hotels, Hotel La Torre (€36-€110) and the beachfront Hotel Dos Mares (€63-€133) are the pick of the bunch. Best Time to Visit: Cost Per Day: €-€ (US$-US$) Currency: Euro EUR (€1 ~ US$1.30) Electricity: 220-240V - 50Hz \| Schuko socket or europlug with 2 round pins Phone Code: +34 956 Official Website: www.aytotarifa.com ‹ Costa de la Luz up Sierra de Grazalema › Last updated December 3, 2013 Broken clouds, rain showers Temperature: 10 °C	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line608
__label__cc	0.721928	0.278072	News: New refit for Moonen Shipyards: Moonen 84 yacht Etoile d’Azur November 14, 2012 by lucy Designed by René van der Velden, luxury yacht Etoile d’Azur is the seventh of eight Moonen 84 displacement motoryachts launched between 2002 and 2008. “It is a real pleasure for us to welcome back a yacht of this pedigree,” says Niek van Twillert, head of design and development at Moonen Shipyards. “The owner has already clocked up some impressive mileage on his superyacht, including a transatlantic crossing. Now Etoile d’Azur is going to embark on a major cruise to Scandinavia and other northern European locations. The owner specifically arranged everything so that the refit could take place at Moonen en-route from her normal birth in southern Spain. He is also considering some serious sailing plans for the future, including having Etoile d’Azur transported to New Zealand and then cruising her all the way back to Europe. One thing is for sure, she will be ready for anything and everything once we have completed this extensive refit.” The Etoile d’Azur yacht project will include a comprehensive paint job and the installation of an electrical zero speed stabilisation system in place of the existing hydraulic system. This solution has already been successfully deployed on the Moonen 82 fast displacement motor yacht My Way, which was launched earlier this year. The electrical system requires approximately half the power of its hydraulic zero-speed alternative. Moreover, as it does not require a larger generator there will be no synchronisation required, which offers considerable cost savings. Another major part of the refit will be an extension of the flybridge aft. This will serve as a cover for the main deck aft area, creating even more shading for alfresco dining. In addition, the enhanced flybridge deck space will facilitate the owner’s desire to carry more watersport toys onboard, including scooters, in addition to the tender and jetski currently stored in this location while underway. Last but not least, various cosmetic changes will be made to Etoile d’Azur yacht‘s interior and systems while the electrics will be updated where required. Subjects: Etoile d'Azur, Moonen 84, Moonen Shipyards, Netherlands, Rene Van Der Velden More New refit for Moonen Shipyards: Moonen 84 yacht Etoile d'Azur Information: Profile: Yacht Management South Florida Inc. July 27, 2018 by Yacht Management South Florida Inc. Yacht Management is a full service boatyard, dockside and yacht management company located in sunny Fort Lauderdale, FL. We are fully licensed and insured and we work with only the … Profile: Balk Shipyard – The first AntiRoll installation facility in Europe March 30, 2017 by Monique Caminada-Kolkman A steady partnership in perfect balance A tradition of shipbuilding that spans more than two centuries, the 7th generation now at the helm and Purveyor to the Court of the … Profile: GILL SCHMID DESIGN August 10, 2016 by gillschmid GILL SCHMID DESIGN is a renowned design company specializing in Yacht Design (Exterior, Interior & Refit), Architecture and Art Services.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line610
__label__wiki	0.91498	0.91498	Trial on PM’s arrest warrant review completed BY: Sally Pokiton A trial into the A trial into the Judicial Review that was filed in 2014, challenging ththat was filed in 2014, challenging the legality of the controversial warrant of arrest against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was conducted today in the National Court. The issue in the judicial review proceeding was for the National Court to review the decision of Chief Magistrate Nerrie Eliakim, who issued a warrant of arrest against the Prime Minister on June 12, 2014. The review was filed by Geoffrey Vaki in his capacity as the then Police Commissioner on June 14, 2014. On July 28, 2014, leave was granted by the National Court to Vaki for a judicial review to be conducted against the decision of the Chief Magistrate on June 12, 2014. Grounds of the review are on questions of jurisdiction and errors of law in the issuing of the warrant. Justice Collin Makail today heard submissions that mostly came from PM O’Neill’s lawyer Mal Varitimos before reserving his decision to April 28. Lawyers representing the Police Commissioner and the state consented to submissions that were made by Varitimos. Former Police commissioner Geoffrey Vaki and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill are the first and second plaintiffs in the review. Chief Magistrate Eliakim and the State are the first and second respondents. National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate bosses, Matthew Damaru and Timothy Gitua, were previously listed as the third respondents until the Supreme Court’s decision of Sept 29, 2016, which set aside their joinder in this judicial review in the National Court on Dec 7, 2015. Varitimos told the court today that section 8 of the Arrest Act was not complied with by Damaru and Gitua, when they obtained that arrest warrant from the District Court on June 12, 2014. It was not complied with because no information was laid to the magistrate before the warrant was issued. He said the charge of official Corruption was a “special category” of offense that required section 8 of the Arrest Act complied with in order for any Arrest warrant to be issued by the court. Loop PNG file picture of Prime Minister’s lawyers, Mal Varitimos and Tiffany Twivey walking out of the court precinct last year. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill national court Sally Pokiton	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line611
__label__wiki	0.671544	0.671544	Clinical Volume Advice for Applicants Rotations for Outside Residents John Costello, MD College: University of Wisconsin at Madison Medical School: Johns Hopkins General Surgery Residency: Georgetown Dr. Costello is continuing his training at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London. Charles Ghee, MD College: Oglethorpe Graduate School: Georgia State Medical School: Morehouse General Surgery Residency: INOVA at Fairfax, Virginia Dr. Ghee has joined the staff at Loyola as one of our transplant surgeons, and will practice Adult Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery at St. Josephs's Hospital in Joliet, Illinois. Tedi Vlahu, MD College: Indiana University Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine General Surgery Residency: Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners in Affiliation with Michigan State University Dr. Vlahu completed a fellowship in minimally invasive/robot assisted valvular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, and will be working at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia as an Adult Cardiac surgeon. Dharmraj Chauhan, MD College: University of Michigan Medical School: St. George's University School of Medicine General Surgery Residency: Morristown Medical Center Dr. Chauhan is practicing at Memorial Hermann in Houston, Texas. His adult cardiothoracic surgery practice consists of valvular surgery, coronary revascularization, and surgery of the great vessels. Ashok Venkataraman, MD College: National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Medical School: National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine General Surgery Residency: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dr. Venkataraman is practicing at the Oregon Heart and Vascular Institute at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center RiverBend. His adult cardiothoracic surgery practice focuses on valvular heart surgery, trans catheter valve therapies, atrial fibrillation surgery, and minimally invasive lung resections utilizing the Da Vinci Xi robotic platform. Rachel Hargrove, MD College: The University of the South Medical School: Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine General Surgery Residency: Loma Linda University Dr Hargrove is practicing in the South California/Los Angeles area. Her practice covers the full spectrum of Adult Cardiac surgery, with an emphasis on minimally invasive valve surgery, and minimally invasive coronary revascularization. Chris Clancy, MD College: Kent State University Medical School: Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine General Surgery Residency: Medical College of Toledo Dr. Clancy has returned to his West Ohio/East Indiana roots and is working as a Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon at Reid Health in Richmond, Indiana. Shea Pribyl, DO College: United States Merchant Marine Academy Graduate School: MBA, Rockhurst University Medical School: University Health Science College of Osteopathic Medicine-Kansas City General Surgery Residency: Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center Dr. Pribyl continues to serve as a Cardiothoracic Surgeon in the United States Air Force and is currently stationed at Travis Air Force Base. Ryan Plichta, MD Previously considered a Loyola lifer, Dr Plichta completed medical school and general surgery residency after spending time as a research scientist. His interests at Loyola included the large volume of mitral valve repairs, reoperative procedures, and TAVR. After a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in aortic surgery and TEVAR, he has joined the faculty at Duke University as an Assistant Professor and Program Director of their Aortic Surgery Fellowship. Parth Amin, MD Dr Amin completed general surgery, critical care, and vascular surgery training prior to joining the academic faculty at the University of Iowa. He chose to further his training at Loyola because of the rich experience in complex adult cardiac surgery, heart and lung transplantation, and aortic surgery. He has since moved back to Michigan and is working as a cardiac and vascular surgeon at Bronson Health in Kalamazoo. Brett Beecher, MD University Medical Group Cardiothoracic Surgery Augusta, Georgia, USA An Oklahoma native, Dr Beecher, was interested in cardiac surgery from early on his training. He came to Loyola after completing his general surgery residency in his home state. His primary interest in the Loyola program was its long standing history of producing independent cardiothoracic surgeons in two years. He now practices at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health in Stuart, Florida, and has been instrumental in developing the robotic thoracic service line there. Jason Frazier, MD Community Healthcare Partners Northwest Indiana, USA Dr Frazier began his medical training at Loyola and has not left the area since moving from Washington D.C. His primary interest in the Loyola cardiovascular program was the acuity and breadth of experience offered to the fellows. He served as Chief of the Hines VA Cardiothoracic Surgery service for several years before beginning his current practice in Adult Cardiac and General Thoracic Surgery with Community Healthcare Partners in Northwest Indiana. Alfred Casillan, MD, PhD Dr Casillan completed undergraduate work, general surgery residency, and a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Kansas prior to starting his training at Loyola. Here, he developed an interest in heart and lung transplantation and dedicated a formal year to these interests. He is currently practicing in Springfield, Illinois.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line614
__label__wiki	0.97015	0.97015	2000/12/31 New York City, NY Performance by Marilyn Manson Tour leg { { Flag \| { { { country \| { { # v a r : c o u n t r y _ D E L E G A T E } } } } } } } The performance on December 31, 2000 took place at the MTV New Years Eve Special (and broadcasted live from) in New York City, New York, USA and aired completely uncensored for the television audience. The band performed "Disposable Teens", a song released shortly before on the album Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), along with a cover of Cheap Trick's "Surrender", and closed with "The Fight Song". 1 Lineup 2 Setlist 4 Performance Lineup[edit] Marilyn Manson – vocals John 5 – guitar Twiggy Ramirez – bass Madonna Wayne Gacy – keyboards Ginger Fish – drums Setlist[edit] "Disposable Teens" "Surrender" "The Fight Song" Performance[edit] "Disposable Teens", "Surrender" Retrieved from "http://www.mansonwiki.com/w/index.php?title=2000/12/31_New_York_City,_NY&oldid=105259" Orphaned performances	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line616
__label__wiki	0.562422	0.562422	Part of The Student Room Group Why Sign Up My Saved Documents GCSE resources with teacher and student feedback Popular GCSE Subjects Biology (3,691) Business Studies (3,813) Chemistry (3,826) English Language (6,503) English Literature (31,192) Geography (1,582) Health and Social Care (1,083) History (8,438) Physics (2,682) Religious Studies (Philosophy & Ethics) (5,878) Sociology (2,158) All GCSE Subjects (84,712) Arthur Miller (1,486) Charles Dickens (2,032) J.B. 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Learn the basics with our essay writing guide Get Full Access Now Join over 1.2 million students every month Accelerate your learning by 29% Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month Paper-based media studies University Degree: Paper-based media studies Currently browsing by: Remove3000+ words Meet our team of inspirational teachers find out about the team Get help from 80+ teachers and hundreds of thousands of student written documents No. of results pages: 2 Sort by Name Submitted date Star rating Essay length Marked by Teacher Peer Reviewed The Press Systems of Zambia and South Africa after 1994. Roelofse(1995: 50) quotes McQuail in saying that this theory [Authoritarianism] explains systems in all counties where there is no true independence for journalists and where the latter are forced to submit to more or less absolute government control. He goes on to say that censorship and the punishment of those who deviate from external press policies/guidelines, which are usually politically/ideologically aligned. "The theory is reflected in legislation, direct state control, enforceable codes of conduct, the use of taxation and other forms of economic sanctions, controlled import/export of foreign media material, the right of the government to appoint editorial staff, and so forth". Is it possible to talk of a global public sphere in respect of global news? system of exploitative control of people and resources exists to an extent, as it describes the cultural dominance of western societies; however there is a trend towards globalization in the media and the news. According to Featherstone (1990) 'Globalisation is defined to exclude domination, cultural control and social revolution.'4 Contributing to this is 'the increase in the number of international agencies and institutions, the increasing global forms of communication, the acceptance of unified global time, the development of standard notions of citizenship, rights and conception of human kind. Assess whether the Northcliffe Revolution is a useful way of understanding developments in the UK press in the period 1890-1930? It was Northcliffe's entrepreneurial desire to achieve this target that led to the Daily Mail reaching a circulation of just a few thousand under 1 million readers at 989,000 (Williams: 1998: 56). But this would not have been possible if not for the mass use of advertising within his publication. Advertising During the period of 1890-1930 the print based press undoubtedly developed financially. As is understandable the costs in order to produce a publication such as a daily newspaper rose considerably. Overcoming Cultural Obstacles: the use of imagery and syntax for the creation of a connection with the reader Space, in terms of mental guidelines, finds itself existing as the windows through which an individual defines, perceives, and understands the world around them. This plays a vital role in the life of any individual, yet takes on a predominant focus when one discuses the lives and existence of a minority or any cultural exile. This defines any person or persons living in a culture and/or society bearing any form of self-definition not matching that of the individual. When this phenomenon occurs a state of double consciousness emerges - a dual existence in which an individual must integrate the values of their own cultural perception along with those of the host society in which they find themselves (Kosslyn 453). ICT GCSE Major Project : A Media magazine aimed at teenagers in the school One magazine which used to be produced for the school called the Rakess Update which did outline some reviews and cinema interests, but it was unprofessional, and did not contain a great deal of information useful to teenagers and other ages and was not up to date so after a while the magazine was cancelled and a school web-site was made instead. The Rakess Update to be able to be more successful it needed: * Better Promotion * More Organisation * More Efficiency * More Communication If these things were added to this magazine then the students would have preferred it and it would be have been a lot more successful and popular. The media in Japan is controlled by big business and politicians - discuss Media ownership is highly concentrated in Japan. There are five large media conglomerates, which are based around the five big national newspapers Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi, Nihon Keizai and Sankei. Many of these papers are still held by decedents of the founders, and as foreigners are barred by law from playing any substantial role in media ownership in Japan, the Big Five are mostly owned by family, top-management and banks. Clustered around the newspapers are the five commercial TV networks in Tokyo, forming five media groups such as the Fujisankei Communication Group. This paper examines the influence that media has on adolescent females feelings towards their place in society, sexuality, self-esteem and body image. Adolescent girls are more apt to experience decreased feeling of attractiveness and self-esteem. Girls are more likely to feel ashamed and distressed by the - 1 - ________________ changes in their body and appearance. They become more insecure and self-aware of the changes that occur. Boys, however, find the progression of adolescence to be a more positive and reassuring time. They tend to experience improved feelings of body satisfaction and self-assurance. 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__label__cc	0.655036	0.344964	We learned just how far the Russian's disinformation campaign reached yesterday and guess what, they are still up to their dirty tricks. Turns out in addition to targeting Democrats to suppress voter turnout they have also targeted the Mueller investigation. Oh, and speaking of misinformation, we heard the so called "indictment duck" during Comey's post House Intel Committee interview and we are going to expose the hoax because "indictment duck" is not a thing. We've got Carlos Alazraqui in studio today and joining us by phone are Charlie Pierce and Jill Wine-Banks. The Stephanie Miller Show (150 more videos) Trump will not stop talking... From oranges to windmills that cause cancer with noise it was just another insane day in America. We've got Carlos Alazraqui in studio and joining us by phone we have Malcolm Nance and Bob Cesca. Trump's granting of security clearances to compromised White House staff members is causing a stir and he's got a healthcare plan.... but we will have to wait until after the 2020 election to see it. We've got Jody Hamilton in studio and joining us by phone we have Charlie Pierce and Chairman Adam Schiff. The countdown is on to the release of the redacted Mueller Report so we can kind of see what it really says, but polls are already showing that no one but Trump's base believes Barr's summary of the report. We've got Rude Pundit & Eric Boehlert joining us by phone and Dana Goldberg will be in studio for hour 3. Stephanie Miller Show Wake up with America's Favorite Sexy Liberal Stephanie Miller	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line621
__label__cc	0.505945	0.494055	Lexington High School XC - Track & Field Indoor '19-'20 Track & Field Record Book Cross Country > Middlesex League Meet History XC 2016 > 2016 XC Photos & Videos XC 2016 Results XC 2015 Photos & Videos 2014 XC Video Indoor Track > Outdoor Track > Outdoor Track 2019 Outdoor Track 2017 > 2016 Boys Results 2016 Girls Results Daily Preparation Foss Running Camp Order of Events Race Preparation Warmup Routine Post-Thanksgiving 5K CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON STARTS WITH A PAIR OF TITLES Meet Information Middlesex League Championships Reggie Lewis Track & Field Center - Boston, MA. BOSTON, MA - Monday night The Minutemen were back at Reggie Lewis to compete against the best in the League at the Middlesex League Championships. For the girls, this meet offered a chance to redeem their lone loss of the regular season against Belmont. While on the boys side it was an opportunity to further validate their dominance of the Middlesex League after winning the regular season crown last month. In both cases Lexington left zero doubt about who is the class of the League, with both teams winning by over 40 points. The girls put up 110.5 points to second place Woburn's 69.5. Not to be outdone, the boys scored 116 points to the Tanners' 75. Individual Winners Sophomore Aleia Gisolfi-McCready dominated the 300m, winning by nearly two seconds and running a personal best and MA #8 time of 41.07 seconds. The 4x200m team of junior Rachel Caldwell-Glixon, junior Keena Gao, freshman Mari McBride, and sophomore Eileen Cannon ran a season best and Division 1 qualifying time of 1:49.76 on their way to victory. Not to be outdone, the 4x400m team of freshman Elana Sabin, sophomore Aylin Bruce, sophomore Lina Jafaar and Gisolfi-McCready won in 4:13.55. In the Boys Mile, senior captain Eli Gappelberg won the event in 4:32.74. The 4x200m relay of senior captains Alex Hiser and Kazu Uda-Thach paired with fellow classmate Matt Pusatere and sophomore Alex Murphy to win in 1:35.02. Point Scorers for the Girls The girls meet got off to a hot start in the 55m High Hurdles when Caldwell-Glixon bested her personal best in the prelims before smashing that time and running 8.94 seconds in the race (placing second). Senior captain Kesinia Sortor had a big day of her own. First running a personal best time of 5:19.53 and placing third in the Mile. Then she came back to match that place by running 11:55.41 in the 2 Mile. Junior Lily Sheth continued her stellar season by running a personal best in the 600m (1:39.47) and placed second in the process. She then doubled back shortly thereafter to pick up fifth with another personal best (43.81 seconds) in the 300m. Along with Sortor, junior Danna Ofek placed second in the 2 Mile in a time of 11:51.92. Fellow classmate junior Chrisondra Awomah took second in the Shot Put with a throw of 35'2.25". Sophomore Lina Jafaar had a podium finish of her own by running a personal best 3:08.09 in the 1000m and placing third. In the High Jump, Caldwell-Glixon and McBride both jumped 4'11" with the two placing fifth and eighth respectively on jumps. Senior captain Janna Lee picked up a fifth place finish with a personal best throw of 31'3" in the Shot Put. Running a personal best of her own in the 600m was sophomore Aylin Bruce. Her time of 1:42.67 placed her fifth. Gao picked up sixth place in the 55m Dash, running a personal best 7.85 seconds. Cannon placed seventh in the 300m in 44.32 seconds. Also in the 2 Mile was freshman Clara Fu placing seventh in a personal best 12:17.44. Junior Pauline Steines picked up the eighth and final place in the 1000m, running 3:17.61. Final Girls Team Scores 1. Lexington - 110.5 2. Woburn - 69.5 3. Belmont - 62.5 4. Winchester - 52 5. Melrose - 48 6. Wakefield - 32 7. Wilmington - 29.5 8. Burlington - 23 9. Arlington - 16 10. Wakefield - 16 11. Reading - 9 12. Stoneham - 0 Point Scorers for the Boys After both ran personal bests in the prelims, junior hurdlers Shymon Samsel (8.18 seconds) and Liam Cotter (8.22 seconds) ran huge personal bests in the finals to place second and third respectively in the 55m High Hurdles. With a time of 3:32.99, the 4x400m team of senior Joe Tibbles, junior Jack Stevens, and twin brothers Selvin and Josh Backert placed second. Uda-Thach picked up the silver medal in the 300m with a time of 35.59 seconds. He later placed sixth in the Long Jump with a jump of 19'5.5". Selvin Backert finished a close second in the 1000m with a time of 2:39.14. In the 600m Josh Backert ran a huge personal best time (1:23.92) to earn a second place of his own. The 2 Mile saw junior Adam Bernstein run a personal best and Division 1 qualifying 9:54.23 to finish third. Along with Bernstein, fellow classmate Micah Benson placed fourth in 9:56.31. Lexington's Shot Put squad produced a 4-5 performance with juniors Yanni Zavaliagkos (45'9") and Michael Gupta (44'6.5") doing the heavy lifting. Running out of the unseeded heat, Tibbles won his race with a personal best 1:27.65 to place fourth overall in the 600m. Hiser was fourth in the 55m Dash in 6.82 seconds, and matched that place in the Long Jump with a leap of 19'8". Also scoring in the 300m was senior Riley Walsh, who ran a personal best 37.49 seconds to come in fifth. In the Mile, senior Jeb Jacob ran 4:39.44 to place sixth. Junior Brandon Wilkins followed up his great performance last week with a solid 5'10" leap and a seventh place finish in the High Jump. Sophomore Maxim Slobodchikov placed seventh in the 1000m in a time of 2:43.00. With a personal best of his own, junior Mateo Useche grabbed a point by finishing eighth in 2:43.09. Final Boys Team Scores 1. Lexington - 116 2. Woburn - 75 4. Reading 48.5 5. Wakefield - 37.5 8. Watertown - 26 9. Belmont - 18 9. Wilmington - 18 11. Stoneham - 12 12. Melrose - 10 The Minutemen return to action a week from Thursday to compete for the MIAA Division 1 Championship. The meet - at Reggie Lewis - will begin at 4:30pm.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line623
__label__cc	0.612164	0.387836	Tag: craig santos perez Editor’s Corner: Announcing Sun Yung Shin’s UNBEARABLE SPLENDOR The cover of Sun Yung Shin’s new book of poems and essays, UNBEARABLE SPLENDOR. It’s with great excitement that we announce the publication of Sun Yung Shin’s most recent poetry collection, Unbearable Splendor (Coffee House Press, 2016). Among other books, Shin is the author of Rough, and Savage (Coffee House Press, 2012) and winner of the 2008 Asian American Literary Award Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press, 2007), which Craig Santos Perez reviewed in Lantern Review’s Issue 1. For more on Sun Yung Shin, check out this post on her poem “Until the Twenty-Second Century,” which appeared in our 2011 Poems for Monday Mornings series. In this post, we’re pleased to feature an excerpt from the opening pages of Unbearable Splendor, a collection of poems, essays, and hybrid works characterized by bold, flexible experiments in form. The work draws from a wide range of historical, mythological, and literary sources, including figures like Antigone, Asterion, and Pinocchio, demonstrating a deep concern with matters of origin: the etymology of words, the logic of replication and reproduction, and the ways these processes are interrupted by both natural and uncanny means. Shin examines technologies of artificial reproduction as well, staging them as interventions in her exploration of what it means to reproduce and to be reproduced. From this investigation of cloning, cyborgs, surrogacy, and adoption, Shin weaves a narrative of language and history that represents a striking new way of understanding identity. An excerpt from “Valley, Uncanny” Don’t let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. —NASA’s website, Astrophysics page, Focus Areas, Black Holes Where’s the hole’s end? —김혜순 Kim Hyesoon, “A Hole” A valley makes a kind of hole. A hole open on two sides. Korea—an island on three sides. South Korea—an island: water, water, water, DMZ. North Korea—water, water, DMZ, the People’s Republic of China. I was a hole and I brought it, myself, to 미국 mi guk “beautiful country,” America, the United States. I carried a train of holes—holes of smoke, holes of sky. Holes of water, holes of rice milk. I was an uncanny guest. Two years old. A week after arrival from Korea, a brother, born in America, asked, “When is she going back?” Like the heavenly maiden with too many children to carry, to many holes to go back t(w)here. There is a limit to canniness, but not to being uncanny—it is infinite, 무한, mu han. Excerpt from “Valley, Uncanny” is reprinted by permission from Unbearable Splendor (Coffee House Press, 2016). Copyright © 2016 by Sun Yung Shin. To purchase a copy of Unbearable Splendor, visit Coffee House Press’s online catalogue here. Categories: Editors' Corner Tags: Coffee House Press, craig santos perez, Korean American adoptee, Rough and Savage, Skirt Full of Black, Sun Yung Shin, Unbearable Splendor Author: Mia 2 Comments Friends & Neighbors: Rounding Out the Summer Our friends and contributors have been busy this summer! Here are a few bits of exciting news that have floated our way these past few months: Kuwento for Lost Things [ed. Rachelle Cruz and Melissa Sipin] is accepting submissions KUWENTO FOR LOST THINGS Anthology LR Contributors Melissa Sipin (whose work is forthcoming in Issue 3) and Rachelle Cruz (whose work appeared in Issue 1 and who has a postcard poem forthcoming in Issue 3), are co-editing an anthology of phillipine mythology called Kuwento for Lost Things, and are accepting submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art through January 15, 2012. Submissions guidelines are available here. Please help their project get off the ground by liking or following them on Facebook or Twitter, respectively, and by sending some work their way! Visit their web site here: http://kuwentoforlostthings.wordpress.com/ Angela Veronica Wong wins a Poetry Society of America NY Chapbook Fellowship Many congratulations to Issue 1 contributor Angela Veronica Wong, whose chapbook Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter, was selected by Bob Hicok for a 2011 PSA New York Chapbook Fellowship! A short writeup about Veronica and the other Kundiman fellow who won this year (Alison Roh Park) that appeared on Poets & Writers ‘ contest blog last week featured a short video clip of Veronica reading at LR‘s joint AWP reading with Boxcar Poetry Review this past February. (Read the article here). Craig Santos Perez’s poetry CD, Undercurrent, now available on iTunes UNDERCURRENT (Craig Santos Perez & Brandy Nalani McDougall) Issue 1 contributor Craig Santos Perez and Brandy Nalani McDougall have released a poetry CD called Undercurrent that features audio recordings of both artists reading their own poems. Craig’s contributions are taken from his two collections, from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008) and [saina] (2010). Undercurrent is available for download on iTunes, or for purchase through Amazon. An electronic version of the liner notes can be found on Craig’s blog. Jai Arun Ravine’s first book available for order Jai Arun Ravine's แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE (Tinfish 2011) Congratulations to Issue 1 contributor Jai Arun Ravine, whose first poetry collection, แล้ว and then entwine has been published by Tinfish! Doveglion has printed Jai’s reflections on the process of writing the book and its guest editor, Craig Santos Perez, has written about editing it on his own blog. More information about ordering แ ล้ ว and then entwine can be found on Tinfish’s web site. Continue reading “Friends & Neighbors: Rounding Out the Summer” → Categories: Friends & Neighbors Tags: angela veronica wong, Cha, craig santos perez, Drunken Boat, Jai Arun Ravine, Kundiman, Melissa R. Sipin, Rachelle Cruz, The Asian American Literary Review Author: Iris Leave a comment Staff Picks: Holiday Reads 2010 Last year, we asked our staff writers to recommend books that they’d read in the last year and thought were worth passing on. This year, we’ve decided to continue with this tradition. In light of that, here are our holiday staff picks for 2010 (poetry, prose and more—yes, we read more than poetry!) Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 \| Timothy Yu \| Stanford University Press (2009) Recommended by Mia: “This is one of the key critical texts on my reading list for the holidays. I’ve only skimmed the first few chapters, but thus far have found Yu’s argument compelling, his analysis rigorous, and his wide-ranging knowledge of Asian American and Language poetry in the United States to be informative to my own work—not to mention useful in historicizing these two movements/moments in contemporary poetry! From the Tinfish Editors’ Blog: ‘Using a definition of the avant-garde that has less to do with aesthetics than with social groups composed of like-minded artists, Yu argues that Asian American poetry and Language writing formed parallel movements in the 1970s. […] Both presented themselves in opposition to the mainstream; both were marked by questions of form and racial identity. Both meant to create art out of social groups, and reconstitute the social through the reception of their art.'” Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work 1974-1988 \| John Yau \| Black Sparrow Press (1989) Recommended by Mia: “Yau is one of the two major poets that Timothy Yu addresses in Race and the Avant-Garde (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is the other), so I’ve been reading through his New & Selected Work for an introduction to the thematic and aesthetic scope of his early career. He’s a fascinating figure in Asian American poetry and, as Yu points out, ‘might best be read as a restoration of the links between politics, form, and race that characterize the avant-garde Asian American poetry of the 1970s [… providing] the first opportunity for most readers to recognize […] the presence of that avant-garde back into the very origins of Asian American writing.'” Man on Extremely Small Island \| Jason Koo \| C&R Press (2009) Recommended by Iris: “Jason Koo’s style is very different from my own, but this book (his first collection) managed to completely charm me with its quirkiness. The voice of the book’s primary speaker manifests a world-weary exhaustion that is, on the surface, darkly melancholic and painfully self-deprecating. He obsesses over his dirty apartment while eating a tuna sandwich, dreams about floundering clumsily through an encounter with Lucy Liu, envisions himself stranded on an island in the middle of an ocean, worrying about the size of his nose. But beneath the speaker’s (at times endearingly hyperbolic) self-consciousness lies a striking vulnerability and a luminous ability to evoke the fantastic within the mundane: BBQ chip crumbs echo the ‘fine grains / of my slovenliness,’ becoming ‘barbecue pollen,’ and later, ‘orange microbes’ (9); Lucy Liu becomes a motherly goddess figure who guides him through a secret mission, ‘pulling you after her diving into the stage,’ which becomes the arena for an undersea showdown complete with battleships, lingerie models, and harpoons (22) , the island transforms into the kneecap of a giant woman who ‘has no nose. Just a space where mine / can fit’ (77). Part Frank O’Hara, part tragic hero of his own sardonic comic-book series, the speaker’s sense of humor, whimsy, and wonder, as transmitted by Koo’s craft, paint a picture of a world that reinvisions the now-archetypal image behind John Donne’s famous ‘No man is an island’ with simultaneous irreverence and tenderness. ” Continue reading “Staff Picks: Holiday Reads 2010” → Categories: Staff Picks Tags: 100 Poems, Adamantine, Agha Shahid Ali, Ardor, Barbara Jane Reyes, Barbara Tran, Beasts for the Chase, book recommendations, Break Every Rule, Burnings, Can't Stop Won't Stop, Carole Maso, craig santos perez, Diwata, Each Crumbling House, Eddie Tay, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, from unincorporated territory, I Hotel, i love yous are for white people, Ignatz, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words, indivisible, Insides She Swallowed, Jason Koo, Jeff Chang, John Yau, Jose Saramago, Karen An-hwei Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, lac su, Man on Extremely Small Island, Melody Gee, Mong-Lan, Monica Ferrell, Monica Youn, Ocean Vuong, Oliver de la Paz, Race and the Avant-Garde, Radiant Silhouette, Requiem for the Orchard, Sasha Pimental Chacón, Shin Yu Pai, SS Prasad, The Elephant's Journey, The Half-Inch Himalayas, The Mental Live of Cities, The Road to Wanting, Timothy Yu, Water the Moon, Wendy Law-Yone, Why is the Edge Always Windy Author: Iris Leave a comment Summer Reads: Issue 1 Contributors Craig Santos Perez & Henry W. Leung For our Summer Reads series, we’ve asked contributors from Issue 1 to share what they’ve been reading or plan to read this summer. This week’s installment features reads from Craig Santos Perez and Henry W. Leung. Writes Craig, ” . . . here are three books that i just read for this summer: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Bus, Gizelle Gajelonia (Tinfish Press) Shout Ha! to the Sky, Robert Sullivan (Salt) Zong! M. Nourbese Philip (Wesleyan)” Henry says, “I’m working on a Fulbright application for a research novel in China, so my reading for the next week will be research on the little that’s been written in English about contemporary (actual contemporary, not heavily political post-Mao post-CR) China. They include: Yiyun Li – A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Shouhua Qi – Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories Xiaolu Guo – Lovers in the Age of Indifference Deanna Fei – A Thread of Sky (product of a 2002 Fulbright in China) Geling Yan – The Banquet Bug and translations: New Generation: Poems from China Today Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China“ Many thanks to Craig and Henry, for sharing their reading lists with us. You can check out Henry’s poem “Question for a Painter” and Craig’s review of Skirt Full of Black in Issue 1 of Lantern Review. Categories: Summer Reads Tags: book recommendations, contributors, craig santos perez, Henry W. Leung, Issue 1 Author: Iris 1 Comment LR News: LR on Harriet If you’ve been following us on Twitter or Facebook, you’ve seen that we’ve had some great news recently: Lantern Review has been featured not once, but twice, on Harriet (the Poetry Foundation’s blog) this week! Screenshot of Craig Santos Perez's Q&A with Iris On Sunday, Barbara Jane Reyes posted a roundup of Asian American literary magazines, which featured LR alongside our friends at Kartika Review (who just put up a stunning new issue with a poetry section edited by Kenji Liu), and The Asian American Literary Review (whose first issue we talked about in a post last week). Then, on Monday, Craig Santos Perez posted an Editor Spotlight Q&A, in which he gave me [Iris] the opportunity to share a little more in depth about the genesis and mission of LR. Needless to say, we are both thrilled by, and very grateful for, this honor. A gigantic thanks to Barbara and to Craig for helping us to get the word out about LR in such a big way, and many thanks to you – our readers – for your continued support as we build toward Issue 1. (P.S. Don’t forget that we are still taking submissions until April 29th – last chance to get your work in before we start wrapping up our editorial decision process!) Categories: LR News Tags: Barbara Jane Reyes, craig santos perez, Harriet, Poetry Foundation Author: Iris 1 Comment The Page Transformed: Achiote Press’s Visual Aesthetic (Q&A with Jason Buchholz) Last week in our series “The Page Transformed: Part II – The Page as Canvas,” we spoke to poet Craig Santos Perez about his strategic use of visual elements like typesetting and illustrations in his poetry. In this post, we’ll be focusing on his small press, Achiote, in order to learn how decisions about developing the nuts-and-bolts aspects of a book’s visual impact — like cover art and book design — are made. Examples of Achiote Press Cover Art Achiote Press, a Berkeley-based press edited by Craig Santos Perez and Jennifer Reimer, publishes poetry and art in a range of print formats, including chapbooks, perfect-bound books, anthologies, and art books. Each season, they put out limited-run editions of two single-author chapbooks and an issue of their unique publication, Achiote Seeds, which their blog describes as a “multi-author chap-journal.” Browsing through the beautiful covers on Achiote’s web site, one gets a sense of just how thoughtfully the design of each book has been selected in order to complement the work contained within. That Achiote has a dedicated Art Director, Jason Buchholz, is even more indicative of just how important the idea of a book as a physical art object is to the press. We asked Jason to talk to us about Achiote’s aesthetic vision and his role as the decisionmaker behind Achiote’s “look”. Here’s what he had to say about his process: “I allow our overall aesthetic to emerge from the works themselves. I read each manuscript carefully, in search of two things: recurring visual imagery, and a distilled sense of the overall emotionality of the work. In other words, I try to experience a manuscript as if it were a visual work, translating movement, change, and the other temporal qualities of writing into a single impression. I then look for an image that will match that impression, as well as the title. The role of the title here can’t be understated – it’s the interplay of image and title that not only gives the book its initial impact, but also creates an inescapable psychological context for reading the words inside. My primary goal with each cover is to ensure that this context remains true to the writer’s intentions. If I’m working on an anthology, I’ll try to match the unifying theme, rather than specific images or feelings. In those rare cases that we publish collections without strong themes, I simply use the opportunity to showcase a great piece of work I want the world (or at least our readership) to see. Our overall aesthetic, then, is the sum total of all these book covers, plus my personal contributions of a simple logo and a dash of orange. In the future I hope to produce more works that place art and writing on equal footing. Just this week we released Her Many Feathered Bones, which sees an artist and a poet on equal footing, in a slow and deliberate dialogue in which neither art form is given precedence. To me this represents the beginning of a new aesthetic that emerges almost entirely from our artists and their work. In such cases, I will have very few decisions to make. My role will be that of front-row observer, part-time quality assurer, and occasional matchmaker.” Thanks very much to Jason for taking the time to offer his thoughts to us, and to Craig Perez for passing our questions on to him. Please do take the time to visit Achiote’s web site and browse through the covers from their current list and archives — they are truly gorgeous, and are testament to the love, taste, and meticulous attention that goes into each of Jason’s design choices. Jason Buchholz is an artist, writer, and editor living in El Cerrito, CA. Someday his work will be available at jasonbuchholz.com. Categories: Interview, The Page Transformed Tags: Achiote Press, craig santos perez, Jason Buchholz, Jennife Reimer, the page as canvas, The Page Transformed Author: Iris Leave a comment The Page Transformed: A Conversation with Craig Santos Perez Craig Santos Perez with his second book, and the cover of his first. CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahån (Guam), is the co-founder of Achiote Press (www.achiotepress.com) and author of two poetry books: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010). He received an MFA from the University of San Francisco and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He blogs at craigsantosperez.wordpress.com. In keeping with our investigation of “The Page As Canvas,” we recently sought the opportunity to speak with Mr. Perez about his strategic use of typography, visual arrangement of words, and maps in his first book, from unincorporated territory [hacha]. Ever gracious, he offered us the insights that follow. LR: How did the idea for the project that is from unincorporated territory come about? CP: My multi-book project, from unincorporated territory, formed through my study of the “long poem”: Pound’s Cantos, Williams’ Paterson, H.D.’s Trilogy, Zukofsky’s “A,” and Olson’s Maximus. I loved how these books were able to attain a breadth and depth of vision and voice. So I began to imagine each book from my own project as a book-length excerpt of a larger project. One difference between my project and other “long poems” is that my long poem will always contain the “from,” always eluding the closure of completion. I also became intrigued by how certain poets write trans-book poems: such as Duncan’s “Passages” and Mackey’s “Songs of the Andoumboulou.” I employ this kind of trans-book threading in my own work as poems change and continue across books (for example, excerpts from the poems “from tidelands” and “from aerial roots” appear in both my first and second books). These threaded poems differ from Duncan and Mackey’s work because I resist the linearity of numbering that their work employs. Typographic "mapping" in the poem "from Lisiensan Ga'lago" (Click to Enlarge) LR: Your first book, from unincorporated territory [hacha], is unique in that it makes use of strategic typography, diagrams, maps, illustrations, and other aspects of its visual design to put forth both its politics and its poetics. What was your process like in developing this visual vocabulary and drafting your writing into its framework? CP: I imagine the blank page as an excerpted ocean filled with vast currents, islands of voices, and profound depths. I imagine the poem forming as a map of this excerpted ocean, tracing the topographies of story, memory, genealogy, and culture. So creating the visual vocabulary of my work is a process of both drafting these word maps and navigating their currents. I use diagrams, maps, and illustrations as a way to foreground the relationship between storytelling, mapping, and navigation. Just as maps have used illustrations (sometimes visual, sometimes typographical), I believe poetry can both enhance and disrupt our visual literacy. One incessant typographical presence throughout my work is the tilde (~). Besides resembling an ocean current and containing the word “tide” in its body, the tilde has many intriguing uses. In languages, the tilde is used to indicate a change of pronunciation. As you know, I use many different kinds of discourse in my work (historical, political, personal, etc) and the tilde is meant to indicate a shift in the discursive poetic frame. In mathematics, the tilde is used to show equivalence (i.e. x~y). Throughout my work, I want to show that personal or familial narratives have an equivalent importance to official historical and political discourses. LR: Can you talk specifically about the importance of maps and mapping (topological, geographic, typographic) within the text? How would you describe the role of the actual maps (of flight plans, military bases, etc.) contained within the text with respect to the greater arc of the work? Do you see them as a genre of visual poem in and of themselves, or as illustrations to the text that surround them? CP: Cartographic representations of the Pacific Ocean developed in Europe at the end of the 15th century, when the Americas were incorporated into maps: the Pacific became a wide empty space separating Asia and America. In European world maps, Europe is placed at the center and “Oceania” is divided into two opposite halves on the margins. As imperialism progressed, every new voyage incorporated new data into new maps. As I mention in the preface to my first book, the invisibility of Guam on many maps—whether actual maps or the maps of history—has always haunted me, especially after I migrated with my family to the States in 1995. One hope for my poetry is to enact an emerging map of “Guam”—both as a place and as a signifier—into what Albert Wendt calls “new maps, new fusions and interweavings.” The “actual maps” in my first book are, to me, both visual poems and illustrations of the rest of the work (they were created by designer Sumet (Ben) Viwatmanitsakul, based on maps that I included in my original manuscript). In my imagination, they function in two ways: first, they center “Guam,” a locating signifier often omitted from many maps. Secondly, the maps are meant to provide a counterpoint to the actual stories that are told throughout the book. While maps can locate, chart, and represent (and through this representation tell an abstracted story), they never show us the human voices of a place. I place this abstract, aerial view of “Guam” alongside the more embodied and rooted portraits of place and people (like in the poem “ta(la)ya,” which stories about my grandfather’s experience on Guam during World War II). LR: Your second book, from unincorporated territory [saina], was recently published by Omnidawn. How was the process for the second book similar to, and different from, your process for the first? Perez's second book CP: My second book continues the themes of culture, language, memory, family, and history that were launched in my first book. Like the first book, the second book explores various modes of storytelling, mapping, and navigation. I wrote my first book between 2004-2006, and my second book between 2006-2009. I hope that my craft has improved, sharpened, and expanded. [Saina] more directly explores the themes of militarization and tourism. There’s also a 10-part poem that directly addresses navigation; more specifically, the poem contours the current cultural reclamation project of traditional canoe-building and navigational practices on Guam. [Saina] also contains my most ambitious poem to date, a 50-page work titled “from organic acts,” which stories my grandmother’s experience as a child during the war, her migration to the United States, and her aging in relation to the themes of religion and citizenship. LR: What’s next on the horizon for you? CP: I’ll be traveling for the second book in the next two months: New York this week, Guam after that, then Denver, Seattle, Portland, and Hawaii, with a few readings in the California Bay Area. In the fall, I’ll do an East Coast tour…and possibly make my way to Great Lake states. In terms of poetry, I am in the beginnings of the third book length excerpt of from unincorporated territory. LR: Do you have any words of advice for younger poets? CP: Keep reading, keep writing, keep submitting. One thing that helped me tremendously as a young poet is book reviewing. I couldn’t afford to buy contemporary poetry books, so reviewing allowed me to receive free books. Additionally, engaging with texts sharpened my critical / poetic thinking, which inevitably rubbed off on my creative work. Also, it’s a good way to build up your publication credits and to contribute to the critical discourse. Thanks very much to Craig Perez for sharing his thoughts with us. Look out for a post on Achiote Press’s visual aesthetic next week. Categories: Interview, The Page Transformed Tags: craig santos perez, from unincorporated territory, the page as canvas, The Page Transformed Author: Iris 3 Comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line633
__label__cc	0.59272	0.40728	Tag: hybridity Friday Prompt: Hybrid & Heterogeneous Click to Submit to LR Issue 5 \| Deadline: July 15, 2012 Since we’re approaching the end of our Issue 5 reading period, today’s prompt will be our final discussion on the critical notion of hybridity. Click here for previous posts, which discuss a number of ways we’ve seen contemporary practitioners experiment with hybrid forms, media and language. Today’s prompt focuses on subject matter derived from hybrid sources, which I’d like to approach through a consideration of Quan Barry‘s poetry. In an interview for Perihelion, Barry says: I listen to a lot of NPR, mostly FRESH AIR, and quite a few of the poems [in Asylum] are from segments I’d heard either there or on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Because I’m the kind of person who’s really interested in making connections, in getting really into topics, for ASYLUM, I researched a lot of the poems (for example, the poems about syphilis). One of these “poems about syphilis,” which appears in the sequence “Plague,” begins: After three weeks a chancre forms–an ulceration with a hard edge, springy center–the way a button feels through a layer of cloth. Also, the lymph nodes in the groin begin distorting, swell like vulcanized rubber, painless though immunologically ineffectual. Continue reading “Friday Prompt: Hybrid & Heterogeneous” → Categories: Friday Prompt Tags: hybridity, Issue 5, Metaphysical poets, Quan Barry, writing exercise Author: Mia Leave a comment Friday Prompt: Mixing Media, Mixing Sources Today’s prompt is more of a loose, outline sketch than a focused discussion. We’re still continuing our exploration of different modes of “hybridity,” but in thinking of examples of pieces that mix media and “collage” voices from outside sources together, I found that it was difficult to choose just one or two poems that felt truly representative. There is so much being done in terms of mixed media today, and so many, many different ways that people have found to do it. Hence, the following list of resources loosely illustrates a few examples of the two particular modes of hybridity I’m focusing on today: 1) hybrid means of presenting poetry to the viewer (in which the artist employs media outside the realm of the traditional printed page, or combines two or more different media as the means by which to enact their finished piece), and 2) the use of multiple sources (texts, images, video clips, sounds, etc.) to create a hybrid, “collaged” effect (in which the artist may “borrow” text from multiple different sources and mix it with his/her own speaker’s voice). In many cases, the examples I’ve listed do both. 1. Monica Ong’s visual poem from LR issue 3, “Corona Mestiza,” which overlays text upon the found images of a map and a brain scan in order to convey a family narrative of physical and geographical loss. (See Monica’s web site for more examples of her work, which often combines archival and original images with text, physical objects, sound, and reader/audience interaction). 2. Visual Poems by Gregory and Trisha Orr (from Rattle #29): the poet and his wife, a painter, collaborated on these pieces, combining text with color and visually-textured hand-lettering to form striking works of visual art. The rest of the issue is also full of interesting visual poems that can be used for inspiration. 3. Margaret Rhee’s “Materials” from LR Issue 4, which makes use of scrolling, vertical columns and strategic typography, and combines text and voices from multiple sources. 4. Charles Hobson’s beautifully composed and choreographed video accounting of the making of his artist’s book for Eavan Boland’s poem “Quarantine” (from Drunken Boat 15). The video is as much part of the mode of his art as the book and the borrowed text itself. As with the Rattle issue mentioned above, the rest of the “Handmade/Homemade” folio that features Hobson’s film is worth exploring, too. A tip for submitting to LR: if you are planning on sending in work that uses the full text of another person’s poem, please be sure to obtain their explicit permission before doing so (otherwise, we cannot publish your piece, even if it is accepted). 5. Mouseover translations on Action Yes: admittedly, this is more of a brilliant editorial intervention than anything else, but it so perfectly illustrates the possibilities for mixed media made available by the web that I couldn’t not include it. Here’s one great example: “from strips, attempts, games,” by Rémi Froger, translated by François Luong (mouse over the English to reveal the original French). 6. The work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, best known for her book Dictee, whose written and performed art sought to problematized the acts of speaking and writing in English (the loss of a heart language, the simultaneous stifling of a history by mainstream narratives) through explorations that made use of anatomical diagrams, archival photographs, poem-text (both self-generated and “borrowed” from sources like French dictation exercises), textiles, musical instruments, video footage, the performances of physical acts of creation and erasure, and more. Extensive digital documentation of her work is no longer readily available online, but this New York Times tribute describes several of her important pieces quite well. Why mixed media? Why collage? Because the results of both can be absolutely startling. The dimensions of unfamiliarity and innovation that can emerge from the overlaying of the poem with non-print media, digital platforms, unique performative experiences, or text that comes from outside the characteristic syntax or lived experiences of the poet him or herself, can cause the reader to look again, to examine the text from a different perspective, and to encounter the poem in new and refreshingly counter intuitive ways. Prompt: Create a poem or poetic work that presents itself to the reader through a mixture of two or more different types of media, and/or which collages together materials gathered from multiple different sources (texts, images, poems, sound clips, found objects, etc.). The submissions period for Issue 5, “The Hybridity Issue,” will close on July 15th. Has this prompt inspired you to experiment with mixed media poetics, or do you have other previously unpublished work that explores the concept of “hybridity”? Click here to submit. Categories: Friday Prompt Tags: Action Yes, Charles Hobson, Gregory Orr, hybridity, Issue 5, Margaret Rhee, mixed media, Monica Ong, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tricia Orr, Writing Prompts Author: Iris Leave a comment Friday Prompt: Hybrid Forms Now that the reading period for our first themed issue is open, we thought that our return to regular Friday Prompts would be a great opportunity to provide you with some inspiration. To that end, we’ll be setting aside this month’s prompts to illustrate just a few of the many approaches with which we believe the theme of “hybridity” could be interpreted. This week, our focus is on form. Although there are many ways in which the formal structure of a poem could cause it to be classified as “hybrid,” for today’s prompt, we’ve chosen to highlight two poems that make use of hybrid forms very differently: Kimiko Hahn’s villanelle “The Fever” (from The New Yorker), which mixes elements of free-verse with the constraints of a traditional formal structure, and Ching-In Chen’s poem “Fob” (from Tea Party), which blurs distinctions between “forms” from different genres by shaping itself around the structure and syntax of a dictionary definition. In re-envisioning the villanelle, Hahn holds rhyme and meter loosely. Her use of slant rhymes (e.g. “color” / “fever”) and strategically varied refrains, and her light adherence to iambic meter allow her to engage the “rules” loosely enough that her language flits conversationally from line to line (clusters of Latinate words—themselves borrowed from the science section of the New York Times—as in, “damages the membrane of symbiotic algae,” help to make the stresses sufficiently “bumpy” so as to feel uncontrived), but she still holds onto enough of the form that as the poem rolls along, it stays—like a marble rattling through a chute—recognizably within the scaffold of a villanelle. The lyrical lilt that the form lends to the poem allows it to take on a twinge of ironic whimsy (given the gravitas of its overarching metaphor), while still retaining the appealingly confessional tone that is more frequently associated with free verse. As a result, the voice of the speaker comes across as sympathetically quirky, bemused, worldly—and we wholly buy the “leap” the poem takes when, by its end, we find that the speaker’s musings on coral reefs are merely a conceit by which to critique her own practices of self-ornamentation (“the ocean’s escalating fever” becomes “my ocean’s escalating fever”). Ching-In Chen’s “Fob,” meanwhile, engages in a different kind of formal experimentation: it “borrows” the structure of a type of writing that falls entirely outside the genre of poetry. In appropriating the definition as a poetic form, Chen makes strategic use of the didactic—even alienating—editorial qualities that we associate with the dictionary’s language in order to frame and enact her ensuing critique of the relationship between structural and linguistic hegemonies. Her “example sentences,” which extend the reader’s gaze beyond the bars of the “definition” text to offer startlingly intimate glimpses into an alternate, more evocatively “definitional” narrative, subvert the bland, instructional tone of the dictionary’s text, thus “fobbing” our expectations of the poem’s own conceit. Through her lyric interventions, Chen allows us to witnesses the complicity of teacher and dictionary—by their silence on the pejorative meaning of “fob”—in the racial bullying that the speaker experiences, and gives us access to her subsequent, delicious revenge, in which she tricks one of the bullies into thinking that, among other things, the Chinese word for “ugly” is actually the word for “pretty,” and that the term “ku-li” (coolie) is a flattering and desirable nickname. In re-appropriating the dictionary’s syntactical patterns as a “form,” then, Chen successfully manages to turn the cultural and linguistic authority it represents against itself. To read both poems in their entirety, click below: “The Fever” by Kimiko Hahn “Fob” by Ching-In Chen Prompt: write a poem that makes use of hybrid form, either by blending a traditional form with new and unusual elements from other verse traditions, or by appropriating the “formal” conventions of another style of writing or genre. The submissions period for Issue 5, “The Hybridity Issue,” will close on July 15th. Has this prompt inspired you to experiment with hybrid forms in your writing, or do you have previously unpublished work that explores the concept of “hybridity”? Click here to submit. Categories: Friday Prompt Tags: Ching-In Chen, hybridity, Issue 5, Kimiko Hahn, Writing Prompts Author: Iris Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line634
__label__wiki	0.662611	0.662611	Home > Practices > Personal Injury > Florida Lawyers > Pensacola Personal Injury Lawyers in Pensacola, Florida Leonidas L. Roane, III, Associate at Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A. Address: 715 South Palafox Street, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Architects and Engineers; Bad Faith and Extra-Contractual Liability; Catastrophic and Personal Injury; Class Action; Commercial Litigation; Condominium & Homeowners' Association Law; Construction; Directors and Officers; Employment & Labor; Federal Practice; First Party Property; General Civil Litigation; Insurance Coverage & Carrier Representation; Legal Malpractice; Medical Malpractice; Personal Injury Protection - PIP; Premises Liability; Product Liability; Professional Malpractice; Trucking Accident Defense; Vehicle Negligence Admitted:1988, Florida; 1993, Alabama; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama Law School:Cumberland School of Law, J.D. Shane M. Dean, Member at Bozeman, Jenkins & Matthews, P.A. Address: 114 East Gregory Street P.O. Box 13105, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Products Liability; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Premises Liability; Toxic Torts; Civil Litigation Admitted:2001, Florida; 2004, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida; 2005, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois Law School:Indiana University School of Law, J.D., with honors, 2001 Douglas S. Woodward, Shareholder at Moore, Hill & Westmoreland, P.A. Address: 9th Floor, SunTrust Tower 220 West Garden Street, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Construction Litigation; Personal Injury Law; Products Liability Law; Insurance Litigation Admitted:2001, Florida and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida; 2002, Alabama Law School:Cumberland School of Law, J.D., 2001 Ryan P. 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Intendencia Street, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Personal Injury; Commercial Litigation; Real Estate; Insurance Litigation Admitted:1992, Alabama, U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 2004, Florida and U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida Millard L. Fretland, Member at Conroy, Simberg, Ganon, Krevans, Abel, Lurvey, Morrow & Schefer, P.A. Address: 125 West Romona Street, Suite 150, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Products Liability; Personal Injury; Corporate Litigation; Class Action Defense Admitted:1983, Florida and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida Law School:Washington & Lee University, J.D., cum laude, 1983 Nathan Bess, Associate at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC Address: 17 E. Main Street, Suite 200, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Defective Defibrillators; Avandia; Complex and Multi-District Litigation; Environmental Law; Personal Injury; Products Liability; Trasylol; Toxic Torts Admitted:2007, Florida; 2009, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida Law School:University of Florida College of Law, J.D., 2006 Bryan Frederick Aylstock, Partner at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC Practice:Mass Torts; Products Liability; Pharmaceutical Litigation; Class Action; Consumer Fraud; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Motor Vehicle Accidents; Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Admitted:1996,Florida;1997,U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit;1999,Alabama;2002,Mississippi;U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois Law School:University of Florida College of Law, J.D., with high honors, 1995 Justin Witkin, Member at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC Practice:Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Motor Vehicle Accidents; Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect; Mass Torts; Products Liability; Pharmaceutical Litigation; Class Action; Consumer Fraud Admitted:1997, Florida; 1998, U.S. District Court, Southern, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois; 2002, Mississippi and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi Neil D. Overholtz, Member at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC Practice:Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Mass Torts; Products Liability; Pharmaceutical Litigation; Class Action; Consumer Fraud Admitted:1999, Florida and U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida Law School:Stetson University, J.D., cum laude, 1999 Douglass Alan Kreis, Partner at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC Practice:Personal Injury; Pharmaceutical Drug Litigation(40%, 999); Medical Device Litigation(60%, 235); Mass Torts; Consumer Class Actions; Wrongful Death Admitted:1997, Florida; U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and U.S. District Court, District of Colorado Law School:Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 1997 Joseph A. Passeretti, Director at Emmanuel, Sheppard & Condon Practice:Construction Law; Contracts; Commercial Litigation; Complex Civil Litigation; Products Liability; Insurance Litigation; Employment Law; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death Admitted:2004, Florida, U.S. District Court, Northern District and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit Law School:University of Miami, J.D., 2004 Geoffrey P. Brodersen, Associate at Shell, Fleming, Davis & Menge, P.A. Address: Ninth Floor, Seville Tower 226 Palafox Place, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Civil Litigation; Defense Litigation; Commercial Bad Faith; Trucking Liability; Personal Injury Defense; Construction Defects Admitted:2005, Florida; U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit Law School:Florida Coastal School of Law, J.D., 2005 Benjamin J. Zimmern, Associate at Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith A Professional Law Corporation Address: 118 East Garden Street, Pensacola, FL 32502 Practice:Personal Injury; Automobile Accidents; Construction Defects; Insurance Coverage; First Party Property; Employment Law; Maritime; Slip & Fall Admitted:2008, Florida; 2009, Alabama; All Florida State Courts; All Alabama State Courts; United States District Court for the Northern and Middle Districts of Florida; Southern District of Alabama Travis R. Johnson, Associate at Meador and Vigodsky Address: 900 N Palafox, Pensacola, FL 32501 Practice:Family Law(60%); Wills, Trusts and Estates(20%); Personal Injury(20%) Admitted:2009, Florida; 2010, Alabama Law School:Florida State University College of Law, J.D., 2008 Barry A. Dubinsky, Associate at Conroy, Simberg, Ganon, Krevans, Abel, Lurvey, Morrow & Schefer, P.A. Practice:Personal Injury Law Admitted:1986, Florida; U.S. District Court, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida Law School:Southwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1984 Adrianna M. Spain, Managing Partner at Wilson, Harrell, Farrington, Ford, Wilson, Spain & Parsons P.A. Address: 307 South Palafox Street P.O. Box 13430, Pensacola, FL 32591 Practice:Trial Practice; Negligence; Insurance; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death Law School:Washington and Lee University, J.D., 1993 Thomas R. Jenkins, Member at Bozeman, Jenkins & Matthews, P.A. Practice:Insurance Defense; Personal Injury Defense; Premises Liability Defense; Products Liability Defense; Wrongful Death; Commercial Litigation; Employment Law; Sexual Harassment; Construction Litigation; Environmental Litigation Admitted:1982, Florida; 1983, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; 1984, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida; 1994, Alabama Law School:Florida State University, J.D., with high honors, 1982 Larry A. Matthews, Member at Bozeman, Jenkins & Matthews, P.A. Practice:Insurance Defense; Personal Injury Defense; Civil Rights Litigation; Civil Litigation; Employment Law; Workers Compensation Defense; Commercial Litigation; Products Liability Defense; Wrongful Death; Toxic Torts; Sexual Harassment Admitted:1982, Florida and U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida; U.S. Tax Court; 1988, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida; 1994, Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit Law School:Florida State University, J.D., with honors, 1981 Note: Above table listsPersonal Injury lawyers practicing law in Pensacola, . Please click lawyer names to view lawyer profiles or law firm names to view law firm profiles. If you want to find more lawyers, please browse lawyers by state or search lawyers by location. If the above list does not have your law office listed or any lawyers you believe should be listed, please create an free account to add lawyers and law firms.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line636
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__label__wiki	0.921168	0.921168	Order your photos Community/Lifestyle JFC final deferred as Gracefield pledge to fulfill senior football fixture kevin@tullamoretribune.ie Tuesday 27 August 2019 15:23 THE Tullamore Court Hotel Junior Football Championship final between Doon and Edenderry has been deferred for a fortnight. The final was originally fixed for this Saturday in Bord na Mona O'Connor Park but after agreement was reached between the two clubs, the Games Administration Committee have decided to put it back to Saturday, September 14. It is understood that Doon had protested at the game being fixed for this Saturday, arguing that it had been down in the masters fixtures plan for last weekend and they had made plans according to that schedule. The masters fixtures plan was released last March and is merely a guideline for clubs, not a binding document but once the clubs agreed, the GAC allowed the game to go back as the winners don't compete in Leinster (Offaly are represented in the Leinster Club Junior Football Championship by their intermediate champions) and it won't hold up anything else. It means that the Senior Football Championship quarter-finals between Edenderry and Gracefield and Rhode v Ferbane have been changed back to their original venues this Saturday evening. Edenderry v Gracefield was moved from Geashill to Tullamore as Edenderry were in both games but has now gone back to Geashill with Rhode and Ferbane back in headquarters. There has also been rumours circulating last week that Gracefield were considering giving a walk over in their senior game but these were wide of the mark and their game with Edenderry will go ahead as fixed. If Gracefield gave a walkover and Cappincur lose to Shamrocks, then they could be in a play off for a quarter-final with Cappincur. The rumours were based on the fact that Gracefield might have a better chance of making the quarter-finals by conceding the points and hoping Cappincur lost but while a club is entitled to a second chance if they concede a walkover in the group stages, they can be thrown out for deliberately conceding one to gain an advantage. In any event, Gracefield GAA chairman Pat Keegan told the Tribune on Monday that he was mystified about where the rumours had originated from. He stated that he had heard the rumours after the weekend but insisted that Gracefield would be fielding a team. “I don't know where the rumours started. As far as I am concerned this will not happen. I spoke to our management team about it and they said they would not be part of anything like that.” He confirmed that Gracefield would be understrength because of injuries while some players wanted to attend the Electric Picnic music festival in Stradbally but he declared: “If we have to put out our minor team, we will have a team on the field and that is the way it is. We will have some sort of team on the field.” The group phase of the Senior, Senior “B” and Intermediate Football Championships will conclude this week while the penultimate round of their hurling counterparts took place last week. There are football previews inside on pages 66 and 67 while reports from all four senior hurling games are on pages 60-63. Share your opinions on Alpha Newspaper Group Offaly basks in glorious winter sunshine for Ambassadors' visit Edenderry footballer to manage Raheen Location chosen for Birr Primary Care Centre Teehan takes over as Leinster Council chairman More workers for Birr Tech Centre Stay connected to us to get the latest news and updates. Midland Tribune Main Street, Birr, County Offaly	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line640
__label__cc	0.708117	0.291883	Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /homepages/21/d164769096/htdocs/mykrossroads/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/fs/package.module.fs.php on line 263 Warning: Parameter 2 to M_DataMapper::set_custom_wp_query_where() expected to be a reference, value given in /homepages/21/d164769096/htdocs/mykrossroads/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 298 Warning: Parameter 2 to M_DataMapper::set_custom_wp_query_groupby() expected to be a reference, value given in /homepages/21/d164769096/htdocs/mykrossroads/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 298 Warning: Parameter 2 to M_DataMapper::set_custom_wp_query_fields() expected to be a reference, value given in /homepages/21/d164769096/htdocs/mykrossroads/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 298 Warning: Parameter 2 to M_DataMapper::set_custom_wp_query() expected to be a reference, value given in /homepages/21/d164769096/htdocs/mykrossroads/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 298 My Krossroads » Blog Archive » Gender implication of the removal of fuel subsidy My Krossroads Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel « The role of women in the fight against corruption African Union summit opens in Ethiopia » Gender implication of the removal of fuel subsidy Jan 28th, 2012 by admin The removal of fuel subsidy for many Nigerians is a path to destruction and a slap in the face by the President. An action many saw as callous because of its timing. A period when most Nigerians were celebrating. Majority were just returning from the holiday break, after spending a lot on families and festivities. The action was a poor reflection on our leaders and without doubt a huge disservice to all Nigerians particularly those affected by the Christmas day bombing. The big question? How could the Nigerian government rudely awaken Nigerians on the first day of the year by removing the subsidy and imposing a price double the initial price? This is a President who promised to alleviate the suffering of many, who rode on the backs of numerous Nigerians to be elected into office, now comfortable in office, rather than place the needs of the populace above all; he is paying back the majority who helped elect him with misery and hardship. “No one plucks a chicken to feed his children feathers”. Nevertheless, what is the implication of the removal of fuel subsidy? Fuel subsidy was before this present administration, a policy of the Federal government meant to assist the people of Nigeria, help cushion the effect of economic hardship Therefore it is logical to conclude that fuel subsidy is giving indirect help. As such, the Nigerian government is supposed to offer its citizens better opportunities and hope for the future, not the other way round of the populace helping the government help its people. Anyway, proponents of the removal of fuel subsidy have a number of valid arguments, primary of which is growth and development. History will remind us of how past administrations increased fuel price. “They said the same thing, we want the lives of Nigerians to be better” when justifying an increment in fuel price. Nigerians are tired of lies and empty promises. For many Nigerians it portends a different story, the poor will get poorer, and the rich will get richer. Again, it will have a far-reaching effect on the populace. Briefly, cost of living will increase, cost of agricultural products will increase causing a spiral change in the economy. With cost of production increasing, cost of consumer products will increase. Some companies would sack their workers to stay afloat. Consumers at the end of the day are affected. What makes the situation unfortunate is with the consumer products increasing and salaries remaining the same, women who are regular shoppers will be at the receiving end. They will bear the main brut of increased cost. That said understanding that women have a significant role to play in our nation is crucial because they are the catalyst needed for growth and development. They constitute majority of the sellers and buyers who will now buy less particularly with farm products increasing. This is evident with food and transportation more than double its price. However, families will try to argument, again it falls on the side of the woman to create avenues of keeping the family together as consumer products rise. Their valuable contribution in fostering nation building is necessary to harmonize the diverse sectors and create harmony in the system. Anyway, the decision was delivered and now immutable. With the imperious gesture of our President, the Nigerian people particularly the women must dance to the song chosen for them. After all, in 2003, Nigeria topped a survey for having the happiest people in the world. (BBC) Consequently, Nigerians were expected to understand the reasons for the removal of fuel subsidy, invariably be happy, and shake hands with the Federal Government. However, if fending for oneself and the family means a further tightening of the purse, the outcome would be less food, less medicine, less schools across the land, the resultant effect is more Nigerians are hungry. In addition, some parents will not have the resources to send their children to school. UNESCO says ten million children are not in school. Of this, 4.7 % have to work to survive. This figure will certainly increase. With this occurrence, the level of economic activity will drop as both the poor and middle class will struggle to stay afloat because they are spending the same amount to buy less. Some women expressed their views, Mrs. Olajide, runs a business in Lagos. I have had to reduce the money for housekeeping, because the money in not enough to pay our bills. We may have to do away with a number of things. The new price of 97 naira per liter makes no difference transportation is double the price. According to Mrs. Olajide, it is going to take the grace of God to keep up. Mrs. Ibukun Oladokun lamented the sorry state of the country now reflecting in her household. My husband says it would be difficult to travel to the village for holiday breaks, expenses in the house have increased. We may have to reduce or cut certain foodstuff like chicken, meat etc Mrs. Ofure, The effect is astronomical, I have decided to visit places of high importance because the cost of transportation is too high so moving about is to places of high importance. For Bisi Williams, The removal of fuel subsidy affected her family; they became stranded in the village due to the hike in cost of transportation. They had to borrow money to add to what they had budgeted for the trip. “We can no longer afford so many things, my son needs a new uniform for school, it will be difficult, am not sure we can afford a new one for him now. These viewpoints resonant across the country and the brouhaha in the country today speak volumes. The fact is you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs. The removal will have a recessionary effect on the economy, if truth be told, there are many who stand to benefit from the removal. Invariably, it is an ugly cycle because as much as the government tries to sweep the actions of the importing cabal underground, one wonders how much of the complete picture will be revealed by the communities set up to investigate corrupt practices in the sector. In any case, how effective will the newly chosen individuals allowed into the playing field be? According to the Minister of Petroleum, “We are beginning a new chapter for the Nigerian petroleum industry, as we turn a new page for a new beginning. I think that we have listened to the voice of the people over the last few weeks, as they spoke in unison asking for accelerated reform in the Nigerian oil and gas industry” Alison Madueke, Minister for Petroleum. Without doubt, it is defitely a new chapter for the sixth largest producer of oil in the world. The challenge today is to sweep the dirt in our country, and expose it. The unfortunate situation is the dirt has remained too long and clogged the system. Now, it is almost too late as the masses are paying for it. The government has no business inflicting pain on its citizens, the government must find a way out of this distress and do its job of convincing Nigerians that this time around their actions are truly for the economic well being of the country and not for enriching a few individuals at the expense of the populace. Maybe, Nigeria should take a cue from Venezuela, the impact of its oil is visible in the economy. Besides, Petrol is sold at an affordable rate. Posted in Women 6 Responses to “Gender implication of the removal of fuel subsidy” on 29 Jan 2012 at 11:07 pm1 Joke Oyedele Two important lessons that Nigeria can learn from this year’s forum (Davos 2012) is that corruption must be reduced to the bearest minimum and that capital expenditure ratio to recurrent expenditure’s should be reversed to at most, 70% to 30% given the dearth of infrastructure in the country. Investing in infrastructure is investing in the growth of Nigeria. It is now or never. on 29 Jan 2012 at 11:14 pm2 Toyin Abiodun Our industries are dying by the day. The minister of petroleum can do better. she is simply too arrogant, anyway why did she come back as a minister. We need effective and competent leaders. Our country has been raveged by corruption for too long. on 29 Jan 2012 at 11:18 pm3 Joseph olaleye I admire women with power and beauty who are able to use both to help others. Nigerian women in position of authority should be the change and begin to make a difference. If our women can put all their efforts at doing dood and making Nigeria better for the of the people then we on our way to progrees. We have many ministers they should do something. on 29 Jan 2012 at 11:28 pm4 Sunday odumosu I was at the demonstrations organised in Nigeria. My uncle visited from the UK and could not return as planned after the holidays due to the stikes. It was sad and an unfortunate occurence. i believe Nigerian are more united in the fight against corruption. I dont know about Nigerian women doing anything to make a difference, time will tell. on 29 Jan 2012 at 11:28 pm5 Jennifer Osaretin on 29 Jan 2012 at 11:38 pm6 Tunde Abey I am amused. 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__label__cc	0.699176	0.300824	Eataly in Rome Italian Excellence: in this issue Almost a year after the opening of the biggest food and wine center in the world and on the eve of the opening of new ones in other Italian cities and the rest of the world, we met Oscar Farinetti and ask directly him the way that led him up to here. Eataly was founded in 2004, can you tell us how you came up with the idea?I wanted to go back to the food market, where I was born. My father produced pasta and coffee and also founded Unieuro Market in 1967. Between 1967 and 1989 he opened four supermarkets and a hypermarket selling mainly food. After devoting fourteen years to electronics, I wanted to go to back to food. Eataly brings together different companies, what are criteria to select them? With the philosophy of "good, clean and fair" by Slow Food. Products of great quality and taste that respect the totally natural traditions and that provides a sustainable remuneration for the farmers and artisans who create them, for us and also for the end user who has to find real convenience. What have you managed to do over these last years and what are the results you have achieved? Nine Eataly in Italy, twelve in Japan, one in New York, nineteen between farms and promotion laboratories, two thousand seven hundred cooperators, three hundred million turnover and twenty million customers yearly. In 2013 we will open seven Eataly more(Four in Italy and three abroad)and the family will furtherly expand. Why did you choose to upgrade the Air Terminal Ostiense for Eataly in Rome? It has been a political gesture. Eataly does not want to make new buildings but wants to recover forgotten buildings. The Air Terminal, built in the 90's with 11 billion lire (sic), has been used for 37 days and then forgotten. We have it restored, removed the district degradation and created jobs for 500 young people from Rome. It 'a political gesture, a way for a private company to help the community You, Mister Farinetti said "only the beauty will help us save Italy", in what way? In the sense that the power of the vocations of our Italy is able to overcome the ineptitude of some Italians. The beauty of our food, art, history, culture, music, fashion, design, landscapes and precision industry will save us You will be 60 in 2014 and since every 10 years you change job, what is going to be your activity the next few years? Something even more useful to the community. The people who have had successful and lucky life have to devote a good part of their time to have this success and luck be forgiven. Written by : Enrico Fulfaro Picture: Zeno Colantoni http://www.eataly.net Etichette: Art/Culture News People	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line649
__label__wiki	0.567297	0.567297	Subscribers and Guest Video Podcasts Double Subscribers of Robotics & Automation News The most recent and newsworthy content about automation and robotics is drawing great attention, subscribers, and new sponsors to Robotics & Automation News. The video podcasts are now attracting more than 10,000 downloads for many episodes and the editors just announced that co-hosts for a video podcast by Robotics & Automation News are sought. The subscriber base will more than double in 2020: https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/register/ Too many webinars and podcasts are little more than reciting slides from a PowerPoint presentation which is boring. It quickly loses attention and interest among viewers who stop watching. Instead an authentic and sincere conversation among thought leaders with the editor of Robotics & Automation News creates a watchable, newsworthy, and salient discussion about trends, pain points, and value propositions in new technologies and solutions. It moves away from a purely product centric conversation and toward topics and best practices in the traditions of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints. To accomplish this more comprehensive media outreach effort, Abdul Montaqim, Robotics & Automation News editor recently entered into a formal strategic alliance with Manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, founder of the 7000-member Manufacturing Media Consortium and is also the CEO of TR Cutler, Inc. This partnership will ensure that the webinars, video podcasts, YouTube coverage, and corresponding feature articles are fully maximized. All media content creation will be aggressive cross-promoted in both PR and social media. For more information contact Robotics & Automation News. Established in 2015, is one of the most widely read industrial publications globally. In addition to the publication, webinars, and strong YouTube channel viewership, regular video podcasts interviewing industry leaders has become a mainstay. The publication aims to summarize the most interesting developments in the two sectors of robotics and automation, often directly linked. Recently the YouTube viewership of an interview is frequently above 5000, one of the highest in the industrial media arena. Robotics and Automation leaders often are constrained by time and rather than writing extensive feature articles rely on PR firms to issue press releases about products and people in the news. This is fine but a more informative and in-depth conversation is needed. For 2020, Robotics & Automation News is focusing on regular guest contributors where a series of topics can be addressed throughout the year. This thought leadership content will be available for sponsors to share with current and prospective customers. It will allow them to interact with C-level experts and share best-in-class lean solutions. Follow Robotics & Automation News on Twitter at @MechatronixNews. Follow TRCutler on Twitter [email protected] Company Name: Robotics and Automation News Contact Person: Abdul Montaqim, Editor Phone: 00 44 208 591 1011 Website: https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line651
__label__cc	0.586668	0.413332	Oh Wait Just a Minute Mr. Postman, Just Look at the Damage You Have Caused! funding npos donors post office mail Tuesday, 18 November, 2014 - 10:03 The ongoing postal strikes have created many problems for the NGO sector and if not addressed, it could threaten the sustainability of many NGOs Tuesday 18 November, 2014 - 10:03 Devastation and despair is the message coming out of the nonprofit sector after months of postal strikes and non-delivery of mail. According to the Southern Africa Institute of Fundraising (SAIF) thousands of good causes and charities are experiencing deep financial difficulties as the strike impacts severely on the sector that relies heavily on public generosity to support their work through direct mail. Providers of vital services to thousands of beneficiaries will have to cut-back on programmes and prepare for a Bah! Humbug! Christmas. The crippling effect of this strike to thousands of needy people will be devastating, heart-breaking and recovery will be costly, SAIF president, Ann Bown, states. The postal strike action over the past six months could mean a loss of R55 million to nonprofit organisations delivering essential social services across the country such as; home-based care services, the physically disabled, the visually impaired to vulnerable and abused children as well as neglected and forgotten elderly and indigent people in need of shelter, a meal and compassion. According to Peter Laubscher, director of The Leprosy Mission, this raises grave concerns for his organisation as they were forced to cancel a September/Spring appeal, resulting in a loss in donations of R300 000 but it also severely impacts on the dispatch of medication to dependent patients via Post Office Econo-Parcel Services and Speed Services. Laubscher further adds, “I am unsure if our friends will receive this years’ Christmas Appeal, many of who only contribute once a year.” This annual appeal raises around half a million Rand. Girls and Boys Town are also frustrated as they too depend on the Post Office to keep in-touch with more than 30 000 regular donors. Their August 2014 appeal letter only started to dribble into mail boxes this week. Teboho Nkoana, national fundraising and marketing officer, explains that ‘people do not respond to outdated mails, this exercise has been a waste of postage, paper and time’ he doubted that his organisation would be able to trust the post office with their end-of-year newsletter and was now seeking ways to do this job electronically, which, Nkoana further adds, is an unsuitable medium for mature donors, many contributing for more than 40 years via the jolly old postman, they don’t want to change! Private postal services are too costly and not always efficient. Again the August 2014 mailer of the ‘Reporter’ a biannual newsletter published by The Salvation Army has received no responses. Each newsletter appeal generates around R700 000 - this loss will result in reduction of services “We serve the poorest of the poor and our work is in the neediest of communities,” says Major Carin Holmes ‘it is a real challenge to keep going with rising monthly expenses our shelters for the homeless, homes for the elderly, crèches and schools for young children and babies will all feel the consequences of this insanity’ she emotionally stated. Their Christmas appeal, usually mailed in October to donors and prospective donors, receives gifts amounting to well over R1.4 million. The well-known annual Tree of Memories campaign; regularly mailed to the donors in October was cancelled. Hospice East Rand has now decided to rather place advertisements in local newspapers, send out emails and start an SMS fundraising appeal to the public to buy a light for the ‘Tree’ that lights up on Saturday, 22nd November 2014 with friends and family sharing memories of loved ones that have passed. Brenda Bischoff tells SAIF that they just could not risk spending the money on print and postage with no guarantee that the post will be delivered in time. ‘We know we are taking a risk via the media and technology but what can we do?” Another big brand charity; Childhood Cancer Foundation South Africa (CHOC) has hesitated with their Christmas mailing; they also cancelled the August appeal. CHOC raises several millions from individuals. The organisation provides support and free homely accommodation at CHOC Houses to families when a child is struggling to overcome cancer and undergoing long periods of treatment at one of the major city centre hospitals. They also have welcoming child-parent-friendly spaces at all main oncology units. This knock will limit support for new cases. The Salesian Missions celebrated 25 years of working in Southern Africa in August 2013; sadly their communication updating donors on recent events was not successful as the appeals were never delivered. The Salesians care for street children in Cape Town, Gauteng, Lesotho and Swaziland and normally receive lots of support for their ‘Learn to Live’ programme. The strike means jeopardy for homeless, hungry children who will suffer further as plates of food are reduced and new outfits become hand me downs. The South African Federation for Mental health postponed mailing their third quarter newsletter and will now include it with their Christmas appeal. If the strikes continue, as threatened by The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) then they will postpone again to January 2015 as a Happy New Year campaign. SOS Children’s Villages South Africa, a pioneer in direct mail fundraising, states they no longer trust postal services as this is the umpteenth time they have been let down. They have not been able to measure a recent newsletter campaign but fear they are down by R600 000 for this single mailing, according to Yvonne Stiglingh, fundraising manager. Their average yearly income is around R7.5 million through direct mail campaigns. Many organisations also highlighted the ongoing security problems with the postal services; theft, lost pieces of mail and delayed deliveries. Will a solution be found as unions continue to threaten employers and hold the country hostage? Bown recommends that if viable the sector should form a Class Action against the Post Office and the Unions for loss of revenue during August, September and October but she adds we would settle for a meeting to thrash this out. Ann Bown Southern Africa Institute of Fundraising Email: annbown@telkomsa.net / admin@saifundraising.org.za The Southern Africa Institute of Fundraising is a membership-based professional body promoting ethical standards for fundraising best practices; it remains a watchdog and lobbying group. www.saifundraising.org.za Peter Laubscher The Leprosy Mission Email: peter@tlm.co.za Teboho Nkoane Fundraising & Marketing Girls and Boys Town Major Carin Holmes Public Relations Secretary Email: carin_holmes@saf.salvationarmy.org Grow Great: Flourish Recruitment I-TECH: Registered Psychological Counsellor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line652
__label__cc	0.502508	0.497492	Home » Code Grounds » fact sheet » terms of settlement » case summary » backgrounder » factum » project charter [×] Remove backgrounder filter [×] Remove case summary filter [×] Remove fact sheet filter [×] Remove factum filter factum [×] Remove terms of settlement filter terms of settlement policy development Apply policy development filter Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, discrimination because of creed is against the law. Everyone should have access to the same opportunities and benefits, and be treated with equal dignity and respect, regardless of their creed. The Code does not define creed, but the courts and tribunals have often referred to religious beliefs and practices. Creed may also include non-religious belief systems that, like religion, substantially influence a person’s identity, worldview and way of life. People who follow a creed, and people who do not, have the right to live in a society that respects pluralism and human rights and the right to follow different creeds. Policy on preventing discrimination based on creed (2015) Backgrounder - Human Rights settlement reached with the Cadillac Fairview Corporation limited with respect to security in their shopping malls July 2007 - The Ontario Human Rights Commission has reached a settlement with a complainant and Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited in a complaint alleging racial discrimination. Read more about Backgrounder - Human Rights settlement reached with the Cadillac Fairview Corporation limited with respect to security in their shopping malls Backgrounder - Tribunal finds Falun Gong a protected creed under Ontario's Human Rights Code Western scholars of religion would characterize Falun Gong as a new religious movement. The essence of Falun Gong is spiritual elevation. Falun Gong practitioners believe in the existence of gods and divine beings in the cosmos. Its leader, Li Hongzhi, has written a form of ‘scripture.‘ His message is profoundly moral. Read more about Backgrounder - Tribunal finds Falun Gong a protected creed under Ontario's Human Rights Code Commission appeals advance human rights law (fact sheet) June 2006 - Over the past ten years, the Commission has been involved in 72 judicial review decisions, 32 decisions on appeal at the Divisional Court, 40 decisions from the Court of Appeal, and 17 from the Supreme Court of Canada. As of March 31, 2006, the Commission was litigating 462 cases at the Tribunal, eight cases before the Divisional Court, three in the Ontario Court of Appeal, and two before the Supreme Court of Canada. Read more about Commission appeals advance human rights law (fact sheet) Commission asks to intervene in court case involving a Muslim woman's right to testify wearing her niqab (face covering) Factum of the proposed intervenor Ontario Human Rights Commission Read more about Commission asks to intervene in court case involving a Muslim woman's right to testify wearing her niqab (face covering) Commission intervenes in court case involving a Muslim woman's right to testify wearing her niqab (face covering) The central issue in this appeal is the apparent conflict between the intersecting religious and equality rights of a witness and the fair trial rights of the accused in the context of a criminal proceeding. The OHRC’s submissions set out a process, based in existing case law, to analyze and reconcile potentially competing rights. The proposed process can apply, with appropriate modifications, to any competing rights claims whether they arise under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter), human rights legislation, the common law or otherwise. Read more about Commission intervenes in court case involving a Muslim woman's right to testify wearing her niqab (face covering) Commission intervenes in religious rights and zoning appeal The Commission intervened in Sarnia (City) v. River City Vineyard, an appeal heard by the Court of Appeal for Ontario in October 2014. Read more about Commission intervenes in religious rights and zoning appeal Human rights and creed September 2013 - The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is updating its Policy on Creed and the Accommodation of Religious Observances. This page provides some general background information about the update, and what may be changing in the updated policy. It will be revised as the creed project evolves. 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__label__cc	0.505147	0.494853	Digest Weekly #100 ~Thank You~ This Digest may not contain an Idol group that you like, or that you follow. If this post does not contain an Idol group you yourself actively follow, then my deepest apologies, but I cannot follow each and every Idol group on the planet. I am one person, and whilst I do post about groups that I like as well as groups that I barely even follow (read: BABYMETAL) that does not mean I will also actively look for news on the Idols you may follow. If I do not have the resources, I will not be able to post much or anything about them. Please respect this, as I don't have the time to go scouring across the internet for Idols that I know next to nothing about, or that I have little to no resources to. Again, I am ONE person; if I had a team behind me it would be a lot easier, however this is something that I do for me, in my own free time, because I want to. I could just as easily not do this, however I do it because I want to, and I find it fun. Thank you. (Warning; Long, random talky bit in the beginning. Skip if you wish to) DIGEST #100! We're onto the big digits, peeps! So, what News have our Idols delivered to us this week? Let's find out! This week, in Idol Digest News... MoMusu and Vegetable Juice? Whaaat? Karin grips Balls! Baseballs! Also, Karin PV Previews! Oooh La La! Abe Natsumi to release a self-cover album! Don't forget to smile! Mano Erina in a KFC CM!? Takajo Aki to star in her first drama! Perfume release a Lyric video! JKT48 still don't have their own original song, waaah! X21 and LinQ to release summer singles, and boy band news!? AND A BIT MORE!!! Are you ready to Digest for the 100th time? ~Chiima Gets Sappy Edition~ We did it! We got to Digest #100, guys! Onto triple digits! AHHHHHH! I'm rather excited, aren't you!? What makes this more exciting is that, coincidentally, I have also uploaded my 100th video to my Youtube channel. It's not like one of my typical reaction videos, but rather a thank you video, because I realised at the very last minute that I was actually hitting the #100 mark on both my blog and youtube channel for both this Digest and, of course, my videos of idiocy and randomness. And yes, I cried. I cried tears of happiness. Why? Because A) I am an emotional sap, and B) I really did not think that I would get to the #100 mark on either my Digest or my Youtube channel. I always thought that at some point, I would give up and abandon what I was doing thanks to that depressing part of my brain which constantly tells me that I am useless, and that no one likes what I do. And no, I am not kidding. I'm pretty sure you all have this sort of voice in your brain, too. There have been so many times where I thought, for both writing the Digests and creating video content, I should quit. I still think at times I should quit, and when I went on my Hiatus for my videos and then my blog, I really had a long think about stopping all together; stopping my blog, stopping my videos and just leaving it to rot. I was at a low point, and it hurt a lot to think about that, because videos and writing are pretty much my whole life. I've been writing since I was 7, and I have been editing videos since I was 13. This isn't something I recently picked up thanks to Idols; I've been in this game for a long time. Thing is, doing what I do is difficult, and I feel that sometimes the difficulty of both writing (which takes time, and lots of it) and creating a video (which takes even more time and mental effort, and it wears me out quickly) both get to me and can just drain me mentally, and thus I wish to stop for a while. Luckily I know when to stop instead of beating myself to the ground until I hate doing what I love, which was why I stopped doing videos back in October '13 in the first place; I knew I didn't want to lose that passion, but I also knew that it was draining me and I was starting to dislike it, so I announced my Hiatus. It was hard, but it was worth it to get those few months off and regain my desire to do videos again. That, and I also had trouble with my laptop, so my Hiatus came in handy for that too! I think we all find what we do difficult no matter what, and it's good to take a break sometimes just to regain your strength, desire and imagination for it all again. It was hard stopping both of the things I loved for a while, yes, but it was all worth it; it made coming back that much sweeter and happier for me. To reach this amazing milestone, the #100 Digest post and my 100th video, it's really wonderful. I wouldn't have gotten to this point without everyone who backed me up on it; starting this Digest, I really thought no one would like it, but the response I received from the get-go was absolutely overwhelming. On days where I thought 'My Digest sucks, no one even reads it!' despite the view counts it would get, I would always think of giving up on it and then, suddenly, a comment would come in as if it knew I was being a depressed monkey and someone who reads the digest would applaud it or talk about how they liked my comments, and it would spur me on. It's the same with my videos; doing my reaction videos, I would think 'who wants to see an idiotic foreigner fangirling over Japanese music videos?', but then I would get responses from people, and then requests, and that spurred me on too. In the end, it was everyone's effort to comment and comfort me on what I did that made me continue. On days where I would think negatively, there would always be a review or a comment waiting for me telling me differently, and it always made me think that I should keep going for everyone, so from the bottom of my heart, I thank you all. #100 has happened because of all of you, the readers and the viewers. You have kept me going, and without you these Digests and my videos would not have existed up to this number. You guys are amazing <3 From here on today, Okay! Musume Digest will now be called Digest Weekly. It's a bit classier, and also less creative, but so what? Here's to another 100 Digests, and hopefully another 100 videos. Cheers! I love you all <3 ~Thank you~ ARGH, MY FACE! AS ALWAYS, be sure to continue through the Digest this week at your own pace and ease with ctrl + f! ENJOY~ #Weekly Happenings #Video of the Week #Picture of the Week #News of the Week #Hello! Project News #Up-Front Promotion News #AKS News #Misc Idols and Groups News #PV/Song Previews #Press Release/Promotional Videos Weekly Happenings Ai wa Itsumo Kimi no Naka ni by Berryz Kobo Oh good Lord, I'm going soft on the group who lack visual appeal ._. ... I can't help it that their song is damn catchy, okau!? And for once, their video looks good. Apparently dressing up as Hard Gay works fucking wonders for this mess of a group in the visual department. Damn. Still, can't help what I like, y'know? It's good (the song) and the video is nicely done too (even if it's so unimaginative it screams 'GIVE ME CREATIVITY ;W;') so yeah... Berryz, you win... ow, that hurt to type that... Reach up high! I'll watch you from down here~ Officially commemorating my 100th Digest with Mayuyu's ass(ets). (This ones for you, Tony!) Hello! Project News Morning Musume '14 will star in a promotional campaign for KAGOME, who produce healthy drinks made from vegetables! Wait, aren't Team Syachihoko also campaigners for this drink? Also, holy fuck, another campaign that MoMusu are doing? And here I was, thinking it was amazing that they had au. BUT HOLY FUCK 8D Michishige Sayumi, Ikuta Erina and Iikubo Haruna will be on NHK Studio Park kara Konnichiwa as the main guests on May 28th. Will Eripon show off her yummy tummy? Please? JPLOP \| NHK Berryz Kobo The cover art for the DVD and Blu-ray ~Real Berryz Kobo~ 10th Anniversary concert tour DVD has been revealed! For once the editors of Hello! Project have realised that simplicity can sometimes create a rather nice cover. Well done on learning the basics of photoshop, editor-san! Miyamoto Karin has graced the cover of Baseball Game Magazine! Already grabbing balls, I see. UTB+ have graced us previews from Miyamoto Karin's up-coming photobook! More images within the source link! Oh holy heck, now I know why people want this photobook o-o -proceeds to plug nose with tissue- Hello! Pro Kenshuusei A music video for the song Wonderful Hachi-kun has been uploaded and features Yamaki Risa and Sasaki Rikako in the video dancing alongside Hachi-kun! Be sure to check it out to see the girls dancing cutely! It's a pretty catchy song admittedly, though the maturity of the voice surprised me, and combined with the tone and pace of the instrumental, it sounds rather nostalgic and old-fashioned, but still great for kids. It's a nice relaxing song, actually... really different to the Idol music I listen to. It's still good, though! As I said, it reminds me of old-fashioned children's songs. Up-Front Promotion News Up Up Girls (Kakko Kari) will release their newest single on July 1st! The single will be a double A-side titled Zenryoku! Pump Up!! / Kono Melody wo Kimi to. The group collaborated with michitomo and fu_mo for their latest songs. So this will be yet another awesome set of songs from the Eggs H!P fired, eh? Keep stickin' it to the staff, girls! MAKE 'EM REGRET FIRING YOU!!! It has been revealed that Abe Natsumi will release a self-cover album titled Smile...◆ on August 13th. The album will include songs from Morning Musume as well. There will be 10 songs on the album. J-Pop Idols \| Natalie \| Tokyohive Check out Mano Erina's cosplay of Ling Xiayou as part of a collaboration between Next Generation: PATLABOR X Tekken! My childhood!!! MANOOOOOO, YOU COMPLETE MEEEE ;W; <3 Cinema Today Both LoVendoЯ and Bitter & Sweet will perform at Morning Musume '14's Evolution tour final, it has been revealed. And here I thought Reina was finally finished with Morning Musume... -sigh- Mano Erina has starred in a CM for KFC Krushers, so check it out! The fuck? XD But damn, Mano is gorgeous <3 Takajo Aki of AKB48 will take on her first lead role in TV TOKYO's drama SAVEPOINT where she will take on the role of a special unit police officer, where she will challenge herself with action scenes. For the part, Aki also cuts off her long hair to further perfect her role and character. [Excerpt from Tokyohive] Takajo's dream was to become an actress, even before she joined AKB48. "To work in a drama by myself as a lead role is like a dream so I'm extremely happy," she expressed. Regarding the scene where she cuts her hair, she revealed, "Honestly, I was uneasy about it, but I made up my mind to do it in order to perfect my role." The drama series SAVEPOINT is set to premier on June 5th. Holy fuck, this girls doing a Mulan on us all O-O Except she's kinda not fighting for her country, or... is she? o-O Tokyohive \| Tokyo Girls Update The DVD Trailer for AKB48 Haru Con in National Olympic Stadium ~Omoide wa Zenbu Koko ni Suteteike!~ has been revealed! The DVD will be released on June 13th. The event was held on March 29th and the 30th, however the second day performance, which was also scheduled to be Oshima Yujo's graduation performance, was cancelled due to stormy weather. 55 songs were performed on the day, and the concert gathered 70,000 fans to see the performance. Holy fuck, that is one giant teddy bear o-O Also, Heavy Fucking ROTEESHON!!! <3 Tokyo Girls Update \| J-Pop Idols NMB48 have revealed that the title of their next single will be Ibiza Girl, and that it will be released on June 25th. Kashiwagi Yuki, who holds a concurrent position in both AKB48 and NMB48, has secured a role in this single. Oh boy, Kashiwagi Yuki! The girl who bores me to tears in MV's! I'm not looking forward to this, unless you force Yuki into a bikini. That girls like Maimi from C-ute; good to look at, though Maimi has more expression that Yuki does... JKT48's 6th single will be Gingham Check, with an undetermined release date. This single will also serve as the first single featuring the Senbatsu chosen by the fans, with Melody Nurramdhani Laksani serving as the centre. There really is no hope for these overseas units having their own songs, is there? URRRRGH!!! Misc Idols and Groups News (Top Row: CD+DVD edition, Regular edition Bottom Row: Limited edition w/ Photobook) Idol group X21 will release their new summer single Koi Suru Natsu! on June 25th. This is the groups 2nd single overall since their debut. The coupling track on the single is a Japanese cover of the song Gwiyomi by the singer Hari, which became popular on youtube and was re-enacted by many youtubers and even K-Pop artists. There are 3 editions available for purchase; CD+DVD edition, Regular edition and a Limited edition with a photobook. Oh these girls are still around? I remember their debut, but then I forgot about them XD I'm too cruel ;w; I have actually heard the song, I went looking for it, and it just sounds like some girls yelling into their microphones. Basically, I find it loud. The instrumental sounds nice, but the vocals completely put me off the song XD The Gwiyomi song is better XD LinQ will release a new summer song titled Natsu Koi, which is set for a July 30th release! This will be the groups 4th major single. There will be 3 editions available; Regular edition, Limited edition, and a special Tenjin edition which will only be available at Tenjin Hall. The Track Lists for the single can be found in the source. Oooooh, a new LinQ song, aye? Boy, I remember when they were indies, my sister really liked them! I bet the new song will be cute, I can't wait! J-Pop Idols \| Tokyohive On May 18th Dempagumi.inc announced that they will simultaneously release their new single Chururi Chururira and their live DVD Wild World☆Dempa Tour 2014 in Nippon Budokan ~Yume de Owaran yo!~ on July 30th. The title track of their new single was written by Maeyamada Kenichi, also known as Hyadain. Currently, the song is being used as the CM track for Nisshin Cup Noodle. The single will be released in 3 different versions; Limited Edition A, Limited Edition B and Regular Edition. I feel the urge to listen to their songs... I listened to one a little while back, and really liked it, so I have that urge to listen to them again... I also want cup noodle, now o-o It has been revealed that Perfume will release their 20th single, titled Cling Cling, on July 16th! The title track has already been picked up as the CM song Chocola BB. The CM, which stars Perfume, will begin airing in mid-July. The full track list can be found in the source link! I can hear so many 'FINALLY'S' from the Perfume fans being yelled around the world. Also... dem dresses <3 It has been revealed that Kis-My-Ft2 will release a 3rd album, currently titled Kis-My-Journey. The album will be released on July 2nd. 4 editions will be available for purchase; Limited Edition A, Limited Edition B, Regular Edition and KisMy SHOP Edition. The Limited A and B editions will come with a DVD each containing different material, whilst the Regular edition will include a bonus track. I have to say, the name Kis-My-Ft2 is quite fun to read, and I like how they used the title within the album (for now, at least). Next, please give me a song titled 'Kis-My-A55' XD The LQ covers for NEWS' new single, ONE -for the win- have been revealed! There will be 3 editions available; Limited A, Limited B and a Regular edition. If I didn't know any better, I would say that this is a basketball-themed single? ;) Johnny's-net \| JE News Daily Kanjani8 have revealed that they will hold their live event Jussai at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo and Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka this August. These lives will be held to commemorate the groups 10 year anniversary since their CD debut. They will hold 2-day lives at both venues. So CD-wise, they've been around just as long as Berryz? HOLY CRAP! PV/Song Previews Perfume have released their first ever Lyric Video for their song Hold Your Hand, which is currently being used as the theme song for NHK's drama Silent Poor. The lyrics have been written on different people's hands, including the members of Perfume. That's a really sweet video, and the song is nice too! I would like to see the full lyric video! Tokyohive \| Tokyo Girls Update \| SG Cafe Press Release/Promotional Videos The Making-Of video for the KFC Krushers CM starring Mano Erina has been uploaded, so be sure to take a look! God DAMN, she is hot! MAiDiGi TV have uploaded the latest Peach John CM starring Kojima Haruna! This time, the short movie CM tells the story of who I assume to be Little Red Riding Hood meeting the Ice Queen, who is waiting for a handsome prince to melt her heart and free her of everything but her underwear. Check it out and have fun watching! Somehow, Peach John made the typically dull-looking KojiHaru hot o-O Also, obligatory 'stop that camera right on the bewbs' shot. And that is all for this weeks 100th Digest! Thank you all for tuning into my Digests and awaiting the updates patiently, and of course thank you all for keeping me going and helping me to reach this amazing number! I am so grateful to you all, and I couldn't have done this without you. Please, remember that. I love you~ Labels: Abe Natsumi, AKS, Bitter&Sweet, Dempagumi.inc, Hello Project, Kanjani8, Kis-My-Ft2, LoVendoЯ, Mano Erina, News, Perfume, Up Up Girls, X21 Thennary Nak 23 May 2014 at 23:57 Actually the NEWS single is supposed to be a tie-in for soccer, as Tegoshi is going to be a commentator for the World Cup for one of the Japanese stations, IIRC. And of course congrats on reaching the big 1-0-0. I hope I can do that with my youtube videos myself. And I totally get how draining it can be to get those all ready and posted with all the post-production to do. But still I love doing them and I hope we can both be doing them for another 100 to come. ^__^ Chiima 24 May 2014 at 00:10 Don't worry, I knew it was for football/soccer haha XD I was just kidding with the basketball thing~ I think I also reported on their single in Digest #98, so I was aware of it being tied to soccer, or at least the FIFA world cup o3o I SAW YOUR VIDEOS 8U <3 Your unboxing made me want to do an unboxing, so I did it XD And you'll get there, I know you can! FIGHT <3 But yeah, it's seriously draining but I do think it's worth it in the end. The effort does not go to waste <3 And let's keep going through this together! ^ Shayna 24 May 2014 at 05:07 "JKT48 still don't have their own original song, waaah!" Ugh, darn it, I always speed-read through that intro so I accidentally skipped the "still don't" part and got all excited, only to be disappointed later in the Digest. XD JKT is my favorite 48 group so GIVE THEM THEIR OWN SONG, DARN IT! throws chair Oh gosh, I just WISH SNH and JKT would get their own damn songs! But nope, they hate us. The Management hates us ;W; However, I am curious to see how they will do the MV for Gingham Check. I really loved the SNH48 Gingham Check MV, so this one is making me curious too... I liked their Malu Malu Lollipop (JKT), it was cute, so curiosity... ;) Bravo, Chiima, for keeping us so well informed/entertained thus far. Someday you're going to look back and say "Gosh 100 digests was so many hundred digests ago! I don't know how I've managed to continue the tradition whilst writing 15 bestsellers and winning the Pulizer prize 4 times!" SONDA'S SCATTERED THOUGHTS: A name change for the digest? Excitamento! I'm curious - did you at any point consider renaming it Digest Weekly '14... Even just for a brief moment? Since no one else seems to have been inspired to do so, I have undertaken to write JKT an original song: Chigga chigga chigga chigga chigga chigga yo! yo! Yo yo yo yo yo yo chigga! chigga! I'm so lucky yaaa! Sweet yo Chigga lucky yaaa! Yo yo yo yo yo yo chigga chigga Yaaaaa! My concept for the PV is that they should dance in matching outfits while singing. That's all the scattered thoughts I can muster for now. Happy C! -Sonda SONDA~~~~~~ Thank you so much ;w; and HAHA, you seem to think too highly of me sometimes, I swear ;D Yeah the Digest title change was something I've wanted to do for a while, because Okay! Musume Digest had always been temporary... but I never knew what to call it! And then everyone would call it 'Weekly Digest', so why not have it as Digest Weekly instead? It sounded nicer in my mind XD And no, I actually never considered calling it Digest Weekly '14! O-O That JKT48 song is beautiful ;w; I would love to hear it ;D and those outfits sound amazing too~ Can we add in fancy beaches as well? XD Thanks Sonda! Your thoughts are forever appreciated <3 "you seem to think too highly of me sometimes, I swear" It's only because I think it's a safe bet to place my chips on someone who is so obviously full of win. Chiima + future = limitless possibilities!!!! 'That JKT48 song is beautiful ;w; I would love to hear it ;D" I played it for my family. They're a bit hard to read but I got the impression they liked it. On an unrelated note they have since disowned me... at least, I think it was on an unrelated note :/ "Can we add in fancy beaches as well? XD" Killer idea! Fancy beaches!! See, that's why they pay you da big bucks. I would never have thought of that! I just don't have a flair for scoping locations. Leave it up to me and we'd be shooting in a drainage ditch like we did on my last cinematic masterpiece: Drainage Ditch Maintenance & YOU - A Love Story. Hayamizu Rin no Sotsugyo ~Now Pursuing Acting!~ AKB48's Kawaei Rina, Iriyama Anna and a Member of ... An Introduction to Houkago Princesses Maika My Baby Nephew has Arrived!!! AKB48's Surprisingly Cute Summer PV... Wait, what?...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line660
__label__wiki	0.646581	0.646581	The Ostroy Report The Ostroy Report is an aggressive voice for Democrats, the progressive agenda and serves as a watchdog of the Republican Party and President Trump. Dear Trump Supporters: It May Be Just a Red Hat to You, But to Us It's So Much More Donald Trump burst onto the political scene in 2015 spewing anger, hatred and racism. As a 3rd-rate real estate "developer " and reality TV host he was utterly ill-equipped and unqualified to be president. But he understood branding more than all of the other candidates combined. He stole the "Make America Great Again" slogan from Ronald Reagan, slapped it on a red baseball hat and the rest is history. The controversial hat garnered worldwide attention again over the weekend when many MAGA hat-wearing students from a Kentucky Catholic school, attending a pro-life march in Washington, DC, got caught up in a viral media spectacle outside the Lincoln Memorial which found 16-year-old Trump-supporting white student Nicholas Sandmann and 64-year-old Native American activist Nathan Phillips in a tense face-to-face standoff. Phillips was attending the Indigenous Peoples March. On the left there are accusations that the teens mocked and disrespected Phillips in an aggressive, racially-insensitive manner. (i.e. simulating Tomahawk chops). On the right there's been unequivocal support from the boy's mother, conservative media and even the president, who on Tuesday posted this self-serving tweet: "Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington have become symbols of Fake News and how evil it can be. They have captivated the attention of the world, and I know they will use it for the good - maybe even to bring people together. It started off unpleasant, but can end in a dream!" Sandmann's own defense is that he did nothing wrong, was not acting aggressively and was merely trying to "defuse" an explosive situation as he and his fellow students were under verbal assault nearby by four Black Hebrew Israelite protestors. He and his supporters, including his mother, have disingenuously used this verbal assault as justification for his and his pals' behavior towards Phillips. They claim the real victims are the kids. But the tape doesn't support that contention. Video of the entire roughly 90-minute episode, while indeed proving the kids were targets of vile homophobic, racist verbal attacks, also shows as many as 50-75 Covington Catholic High School students, many recording the encounter on iPhones, loudly and excitedly shouting, jeering and egging on a smirking Sandmann like hopped-up frat boys at a midnight rave. They could've simply walked away. They chose to engage. These weren't just 'innocent teens.' They were MAGA-hat-wearing teens. And that changes the entire dynamic of the situation. To non-Trump supporters, the red MAGA hat is a symbol of divisiveness. Of intolerance. Of sexual, gender, ethnic and racial animus. To non-Trump supporters "Make America Great Again" really means "Make America White Again." To non-Trump supporters the MAGA-hat stands for: oppression of women oppression of Muslims oppression of minorities oppression of immigrants oppression of #LGBTQ attacks on the media attacks on the FBI & DOJ attacks on the judiciary attacks on the rule of law attacks on decency anger hate bullying violence white supremacy To non-Trump supporters, the red MAGA hat is the modern-day version of the white KKK hood. That's because Trump is a racist. There's no disputing that, especially against decades of unequivocal bigoted behavior including housing discrimination, the Central Park Five fiasco, his birther campaign, embracing David Duke, verbal attacks against people of color, the Muslim ban, defending neo-Nazis and his relentless campaign against black and brown immigrants. To be sure, the red MAGA hat is Trump's white hood. And MAGA isn't just a slogan. It's a movement. Or as many believe, a cult. And as a cult, the Cult of Trump shares most of the overall characteristics with other typical cults, as outlined by researchers Janja Lalich Ph.D and Michael D. Langone Ph.D. For example: The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished. ‪The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel... leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear... ‪The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah...on a special mission to save humanity). ‪The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society. ‪The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations). ‪The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).‪ ‪*The group is preoccupied with making money. Trump and his cultists proudly wear the red MAGA hat like a family crest. So when a bunch of rowdy teens surround a Native American elder while wearing this hat they're bringing to the encounter everything it's come to stand for. It's not...just...a...hat. It's offensive, its insensitive and it's intimidating. Perhaps we can't ascribe the underlying racism of Trump's MAGA credo to these kids. Perhaps they're just dopey teens who 'didn't know better.' But now they do. And if they don't want to be associated with the ugliness that this hat represents, they should immediately apologize to Phillips. And they should begin to understand and appreciate what the phrase "Make America Great Again" might mean to indigenous peoples who for centuries had been robbed, slaughtered and are still clearly disrespected. People whose experiences throughout history weren't so "great." Otherwise, if the hat fits... Dear Trump Supporters: It May Be Just a Red Hat to... A Preview of Trump's State of the Union Speech What Trump Will REALLY Be Saying Tonight	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line666
__label__wiki	0.621268	0.621268	“Messed Around” tribute! babylonandon 1 March 2010 babylonandon blog The Squeeze tribute project, Songs of Squeeze Revisited, is quickly moving forward. So far ‘Touching Me Touching You’, ‘Take Me I’m Yours’, ‘Separate Beds’, and ‘Messed Around’ are completely finished. ‘Messed Around’ is now up on the MySpace site for Songs of Squeeze! It is an interesting take by the Canadian band, Black Turtle Dove – a very slow version that goes back to the song’s blues roots, which I feel really emphasises the lyrics. The band talks a bit about their inspiration and motivation for choosing that song. The song spoke deeply to Roberto and Cynthia, as both had been “messed around” in their earlier lives – they had both been through difficult relationships in the past before meeting each other. Cynthia says, “We always loved Squeeze! We felt that the song, ‘Messed Around’ spoke to us. Roberto’s lead vocal is defending me in regards to being abandoned with two young children and my vocal was meant to comfort him through his own trials. It felt completely natural to us”. Roberto adds, “I’m still a big fan of Squeeze. Messed around is how I felt. I know that Cynthia felt the same way. We came together and leaned on each other to record this track. We stood up for each other.” To read the entire blog entry about the song, go to Songs of Squeeze Myspace. The song itself is on the main page (I had to reload it to get it to appear). The aim is to have all 48 songs from Squeeze’s first four albums finished in the next two months, but then of course there is the cover art and many other details to be finished. Burning Sky Records still expect to release the 4-album set this year. I am going to be particularly interested to see the cover art, as a matter of fact! The covers for the other Burning Sky Records releases have been amazing, and just like everything else, they’re done by volunteers. Cover art for JellyFish, Posies, and Roxy Music tribute albums For the Roxy Music tribute album, entitled Take Refuge in Pleasure, they searched the globe for cover models, and had to do four completely different photo shoots, because in addition to the one-album main release, there was also a three-album “Deluxe and Delightful” release. The resulting covers are really quite spectacular, with elaborate costumes and sets, featuring models from Australia, Slovakia, and Ireland. You can see them all here at Burning Sky Records. I wonder what they will do for Squeeze! Black Turtle Dove Burning Sky Records Squeeze Tribute Project 11 Responses to "“Messed Around” tribute!" 3 March 2010 at 9:56 am Another idea, which I’d love to do as a project, is to photograph every road name sign in London referred to in Squeeze songs and make a montage of them for the cover. I remember when I last visited Greenwich I spotted King George Street and Peyton Place. There are of course many others. Wouldn’t that be fun?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line667
__label__cc	0.745759	0.254241	Zags at .500 in December? Pilot Nation :: Pilot Nation :: Men's Basketball Re: Zags at .500 in December? by Rochin54 on Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:11 am Purplegeezer wrote: I personally don't give a damn if more than one team from the WCC gets in or not, as long as we are the team that gets The bid. We just need to concentrate on the Pilots. Thinking that we have to worry about Gonzaga and Saint Mary's is a bit much. I think it might be close to the point where we need to stop thinking about sneaking into the back door of the dance and start thinking that we have to go out and win the WCC outright and WCC tournament. Then let the other conference teams wring their hands about how they slipped this year. Then even if we don't win the conference Bid outright, I think it will be pretty hard to keep UP out if we have 22-23 wins. Agreed. It's up to us and our accomplishments to get into the tourney. No one else but us controls that. As a pretty good football coach has said once or twice, let's not run our program based on outside influences. Let's just go out and win games the way we do. As an aside, I was at the ND v Zags game last night, and I just don't understand Gonzaga. They've got great talent, but they just can't play team ball. A few things I did notice, they use their hands a lot on defense. Hopefully that junk keeps getting called, because ND got a good amount of foul shot opportunities (and of course missed many of them down the stretch). Also, good lord does Sacre ever just park it in the lane. As GU likes to fast break, Sacre will sit in the lane during the break (when the refs probably haven't started counting yet), and he just stays there until he gets the ball. It never got called on him, but if I was an opposing coach, I would be all over it. He's tough to stop when he gets the ball in there. Also, for how much size GU has and ND doesn't, GU didn't seem to rebound that well. Of course, in true Mike Brey fashion, the Irish dang near blew a 13 or 14 point lead late in the game. It's really unbelievable. Rochin54 First man off the Bench Location : Suburbia by onetouchfutbol on Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:10 pm Yeah, that's a good point PG. As long as the WCC is respectable enough to keep our RPI in the top 64 by the end of the year with 20-24 wins, that's good. I watched the ND vs. GU game as well. Stephen Gray just doesn't seem like the same explosive player as he once was, and overall, their guard play doesn't impress me on GU. Their offense looks pretty stagnant right now... I think this is our year to at least split with GU. I think a big key to beating them and continuing to win on the road will be continuing to improve our perimeter defense. Tyler Hansbrough's little brother at ND is pretty impressive... onetouchfutbol by up7587 on Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:06 am ESPN summarizes our conversation: Gonzaga’s schedule is taking its toll. The Zags deserve credit for their play-anyone-anywhere scheduling strategy. If every name program scheduled like Gonzaga, Butler and Michigan State, college hoops in November and December would be infinitely more entertaining. But credit or not, the Bulldogs’ brutal nonconference schedule has already backfired in a big way. After nine games, Gonzaga is 4-5, with losses to San Diego State, Kansas State, Illinois, Washington State and, as of Saturday, Notre Dame. Things don’t get easier anytime soon: Gonzaga has games with Baylor, Xavier, Oklahoma State and Wake Forest before the WCC season begins, and there’s still that Feb. 5 date with Memphis to contend with down the line. That’s also good news, because Gonzaga has some proving to do if it wants any chance of landing an at-large bid come March. Failing a few key wins -- upsetting Baylor on Saturday would be a start -- the Bulldogs’ path to the tournament will almost certainly travel through the WCC tournament title game. up7587 Location : Portland by up7587 on Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:24 am From ESPN College Basketball Nation Blog: It's good to see San Diego State getting some top-10 love after its win at Cal. (SDSU is ranked No. 10 in this week's poll.) The Aztecs don't have the toughest schedule in the world, but they've proven themselves in several true road games thus far (including a win at Gonzaga, for whatever that's worth these days) and hey, the 10-0 Aztecs just keep winning. You can't ask for much more than that. (emphasis added) LINK by MesaPilot1 on Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:42 am Ho, Ho, Ho!!! Merry Christmas....great find UP7587, thanks for the early Christmas present...I believe Butler or some other team is becoming the new "underdog" to root for for the casual fan, definitely a more sucessful program....has few's days of grace started to slip...when will the AD, PRESIDENT, OR casual Zag fan start turning up the heat on little FEWIE their "idol"., sic..how many more excuses can they make for him or Grier at USD and blame the players, lol.. MesaPilot1 by Geezaldinho on Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:24 am Anybody betting on Gonzaga upsetting Baylor? Geezaldinho Pilot Nation Legend Number of posts : 10932 Location : Hopefully, having a Malbec on the square in Cafayate, AR Purplegeezer wrote: Anybody betting on Gonzaga upsetting Baylor? First, they have to get past Lewis Clark State! Baylor has had a pretty easy schedule, all at home so far. They may be vulnerable to an upset. But I'm not making any wagers. by dholcombe on Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:16 pm onetouchfutbol wrote: Yeah, that's a good point PG. As long as the WCC is respectable enough to keep our RPI in the top 64 by the end of the year with 20-24 wins, that's good. I don't think the conference is good enough to keep the RPI that high with wins in the 20-24 range. And more realistically to be safely gettting an at large bid you need to be in the top 40 because every conference gets one bid free which go to teams outside the top 64 in a lot of cases. dholcombe Location : Aloha by onetouchfutbol on Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:34 pm dholcombe wrote: Yeah, that's one of my concerns as well...but, if we win the WCC tourney it becomes a mute point. The last time I checked we slipped to #70 because of wins over weaker competition: http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html On the flipside, our losses to good competion (Kentucky, UW) actually raised our RPI because this still improved our SOS (strength of schedule)... It will be interesting to see what happens to our strength of schedule ranking as we go through league play this year. by up7587 on Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:43 am I figure RPI calculations are a waste of time in the WCC this year. If we want to dance, it is "win the tourney" or nothing. Last edited by up7587 on Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:44 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : grammer) by MesaPilot1 on Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:36 am up7587 (Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:43 am) wrote: I figure RPI calculations are a waste of time in the WCC this year. If we want to dance, it is "win the tourney" or nothing. DITTO!!! by RiseUP on Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:46 am According to Statsheet (and Pilotsreport.com) our SOS is projected to be 181 at the end of the year. That's compared to 127 at the end of last season. http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/portland RiseUP by PurplePrideTrumpet on Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:44 pm RiseUP wrote: According to Statsheet (and Pilotsreport.com) our SOS is projected to be 181 at the end of the year. That's compared to 127 at the end of last season. Good thing Oregon and Oregon State are afraid of us. OH SNAP! PurplePrideTrumpet Location : Section 18A, Row 5 by onetouchfutbol on Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:33 pm I think it's premature to state what our SOS will be by the end of the season. Some of the WCC teams have lost to some very good teams like San Diego State...which might turn out to be one of the best teams on the west coast. I think that Gonzaga will be a better team with Elias Harris whether we like it or not as Pilots fans, and their RPI will start to go up again. I think that a win over Gonzaga in February will still be a big accomplishment... by onetouchfutbol on Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:44 am Now that Gonzaga upset #9 Baylor yesterday there's a nice little build up for our WCC opener... by up7587 on Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:52 pm Zags at .500 in December? Not so fast! After a 5 game win streak to close out the year, the Zags are 9-5, or .643 in December. Maybe not what GU fans are used to, but they are playing good basketball now. They walloped OK St yesterday, that had lost only one game. They also beat Xavier and Lafayette, and they play at Wake Forest tomorrow. Next Saturday's game in Spokane will be a difficult a challenge, as usual. Update: Zags also beat Wake Forest. They're baack. Last edited by up7587 on Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:18 pm; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : Update)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line675
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__label__wiki	0.547134	0.547134	Fair Trading on APCO Dispute: Resolve Internal Conflict or Raise to Supreme Court (WHO WILL MAKE THE FIRST MOVE?) Featured APCO Mars Cavestany FilOz By Mars Cavestany The response of Fair Trading to the two warring camps in APCO is loud and clear: that it is none of their business to interfere in an intrinsically internal dispute that must be resolved following the constitutional provisions by the parties involved if not raised to the level of the Supreme Court. NOT WITHIN THE DOMAIN OF DFT Jodie Matheson, Team Manager, Case Management of the Department of Fair Trading wrote more explicitly of Fair Tradings’ non-involvement in matters not within their domain. “The Association is registered under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009, which is administered by NSW Fair Trading. The Act is designed to find a balance between freedom and flexibility for associations to establish themselves and to operate while ensuring there are sufficient safeguards in place to ensure an appropriate level of governance and financial responsibility. It follows that the legislation does not provide the Registry with the authority to intervene in matters relating to the internal administration of an association. For your information I have attached information on Fair Trading’s powers to enquire and investigate and areas for which Fair Trading does not have responsibilities. The committee is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the association is operating in accordance with the legislation generally and the association’s constitution specifically. Fair Trading has no jurisdiction to determine the facts at the base of an internal dispute or an alleged breach of an association’s constitution, the only body with this jurisdiction is the Supreme Court of New South Wales. It would appear the Association may be subject to an internal dispute regarding the validity regarding the identity of the validly appointed public officer and those responsible for the management of the Association. This is not a matter Fair Trading can determine, in such cases where such a dispute arises the association must resolve it by agreement, through the dispute resolution provisions in the Association’s constitution or ultimately by order of the Supreme Court.” DOCUMENTS NOT ACCEPTED ANYMORE As a result of the two different sets of protest letters with matching evidential documents being presented by two camps to Fair Trading, they ruled no to accept anymore documents lodged from both parties. Ms. Jamison further explains: “In such cases, until Fair Trading has evidence of either an agreement or an order by the Court determining the matter the Association may be noted as being ‘in dispute’ on the Register of Incorporated Associations. In these circumstances Fair Trading will inform all parties to the dispute that no documents will be accepted for lodgement on behalf of the association. Accordingly, whilst it is regrettable a small organisation such as this finds itself in a situation of conflict, I encourage all of the parties to make every endeavour to resolve the internal dispute as soon as possible.” The internal dispute within APCO grounds began when the appointed and not duly elected President Violetta Escultura was removed from her post following a vote of no confidence from the Board and general membership. Consequently Cora Paras won in the new elections to replace Escultura but the latter refuse d to step down and thus caused a rift and a split between two camps, Trouble further ensued when the Escultura camp was quick enough to lodge their own documents to the Department of Fair Trading. They submitted a list of new Elected Board of Officers and even replaced the Public Officer to one of their own. The documentation Escultura’s group received from Fair Trading effectively gave them further access to withdraw 12 thousand of APCO funds reportedly deposited in a new account for safeguarding. THE BATTLE CONTINUES AS BANK ACCOUNTS AND DOCUMENT MOVEMENTS ARE FROZEN Cora Paras’ camp which, from all legal indications and implications, appear to be the real legitimate APCO Board, did not take the Escultura group’s legerdemain sitting down. Complaint/protest letters were filed to both the Fair Trading and Commonwealth Bank where proper investigations are ongoing. Meanwhile, the final resolution to the seemingly never ending conflict has been offered by Fair Trading to let the Supreme Court rule over matters that cannot be resolved internally and amicably between the two-in-one APCO. Needless to say, there are costs involved for lawyers’ fees and all other expenses. The big asks remain: Who shall make the first move? When and where will all these end? 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__label__cc	0.649357	0.350643	CEDA research finds migration is not a threat to wages or jobs of local workers Featured Economic modelling undertaken by CEDA in its latest research report has found that immigration to Australia has not harmed the jobs and earnings of local workers. CEDA’s report, Effects of temporary migration, examines the impact of immigration and recent trends in temporary migration including temporary skilled migration, CEDA CEO, Melinda Cilento said. “There are currently around two million people in Australia on temporary visas including students, working holiday makers, skilled workers and New Zealand citizens. This is a significant number that should be well understood, transparently managed and appropriately factored into community planning,” she said. “CEDA’s report has found that migration to Australia in recent decades has been positive for the labour market, and the outcomes from temporary skill migration were particularly positive,” Ms Cilento said. “CEDA’s analysis shows that temporary skilled migration is critical in delivering benefits to business, the economy more broadly and to the existing workforce. “However, concerns about the impacts of temporary skilled migration have been raised consistently resulting in frequent changes to the scheme, including most recently the abolition of the 457 visa class. “Our research has found that key concerns around temporary skilled migration, such as impacts on local workers as a result of visas such as the 482 and its predecessor the 457, are unfounded. “The average base salary for a skilled temporary visa holder is quite high at $95,000, meaning these workers are unlikely to undercut local employment terms and conditions. “In addition, they are a small group, with temporary skilled migrants of working age accounting for less than one per cent of Australia’s labour force. “However, often unpredictable change to this visa category has come at the cost of undermining the ability of business to undertake workforce planning with certainty. “At a time when more businesses are finding it difficult to source the skills they need, strengthening and providing greater transparency and certainty around temporary skilled migration would support business investment and productivity. “Temporary migrants also contribute to the economy by paying taxes and spending in the communities in which they live, increasing demand for goods and services and supporting local economic activity and jobs.” Ms Cilento said while CEDA’s research confirms the positive impact of temporary skilled migration it was important to ensure that the broader community had confidence in the system and that the training levies paid by businesses recruiting skilled migrants were being effectively used to build in demand skills locally. “CEDA’s report recommends changes to improve transparency and efficiency in the temporary skilled migration system to deliver the dual benefits of improving community confidence in the system and ensuring business can access the skills they need,” she said. “Skilled migration supports business investment and productivity which are vital for keeping our economy strong. “Incomes in Australia have been stagnant and lifting productivity can help lift incomes across the community.” Ms Cilento said there are actions that can be taken immediately to improve the system and make it easier for businesses to get the skills they need now and in the future: Increasing transparency of data and methods used in determining professions for the skilled occupation list; Ensuring occupation codes used to assess skill shortages align with evolving labour trends to ensure temporary skilled migration is responsive to emerging skill needs; Introducing a dedicated path for intra-company transfer of employees to Australia; and Better aligning the Skilling Australia Fund Levy to alleviate the skill shortages driving the need for skilled migration. “If CEDA’s recommendations are implemented, the system will be more responsive to the needs of the economy. It will also reduce reliance on low quality instruments like labour market testing to ensure that genuine skills shortages are being filled,” she said. Ms Cilento said as a mid-sized economy far away from global markets, the importance to our economic success of free movement of goods, services, investment and skills can’t be understated. “Australia will continue to need temporary skilled migration to fill periodic and emerging skill shortages,” she said. “We need to make it easier for business to import the best global talent and expertise, and Australia’s temporary skilled migration system is our gateway for global talent. “Temporary migration also lifts the skills of the broader workforce through the transfer of knowledge and expertise and by introducing new skills, in some instances enabling Australia to build critical new workforces, for example the growing cyber security industry in Australia.” Additional recommendations in CEDA’s report include: Establishing an independent committee to undertake analysis and consultation on the formulation of skilled occupation lists, mirroring the model used in the UK. Tasking the Productivity Commission with a review of the temporary skilled visa program on a regular cycle every three or five years. Moving the point of levy collection to the visa approval stage rather than visa nomination. “Improving predictability of the scheme and increasing understanding among the wider community of the benefits to all Australians, will help deliver a fair and efficient system,” she said. Ms Cilento said other key findings of the report include that only 16 per cent of those on student visas stay permanently, while temporary skilled visas have provided a de facto path to permanent residency for a significant proportion of those migrants. “This ‘try before you buy’ approach to permanent residency is a positive for the individual and Australia,” she said. “Both the individual and the employer have the opportunity to see if the ‘fit’ is right before making a longer term decision. “Recent changes to the 482 visa, previously the 457 visa, may have disrupted this de facto pipeline and it will be worth monitoring the impact this has on the quality of temporary skilled visa holders over coming years.” The launch of this report will be followed by events across Australia on the following dates: Sydney 23 July \| Melbourne 24 July \| Adelaide 26 July \| Brisbane 31 July \| Perth 31 July More in this category: « CELEBRATING AND INVESTING IN SENIORS GET YOUR LATEST PCHN COPY TODAY » Western Sydney City Deal to deliver rail, investment and jobs MIGRATION TRENDS REPORT HIGHLIGHTS MIGRATION GROWTH	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line682
__label__cc	0.648305	0.351695	Artistic Direction Competitive sections Special juries Movie Contest 2019 JURIES AND PRIZE 2019 2018 competitive sections Percorsi/prospettive 2018 juries PerSo off 2018 Visioni del reale Become a Sponsor of PerSo Film Festival Giovanni Piperno Long experienced Giovanni Piperno is one the most awarded and recognized documentary director in Italy. After studying photography at European Institute of Design and with Leonard Freed (Magnum agency), he worked as assistant DOP with Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese, Nanni Moretti, Giuseppe Rotunno, Dante Spinotti, Giuseppe Lanci, John Seale, Janusz Kaminski, Roger Deakins. Some of his most important Film – L’esplosione, winner at Torino Film Festival 2003 and David di Donatello nominated as best documentary – CIMAP! Cento italiani matti a Pechino, Locarno Festival 2008 and Libero Bizzarri award 2009 – Le cose belle, co-directd with Agostino Ferrente, winner of more than 25 national and international awards – Se avessi le parole and Quasi eroi, two short film made with Tor Sapienza Film Lab and presented to Festa del Cinema of Rome 2015. Quasi Eroi won Nastro d’Argento as best short film in 2016. ”It was an honor for me to accept the call from Stefano Rulli. The meeting with PerSo Film Festival amazing staff definitively convinced me to take this bet, with the aim of making this Festival one of the most important Documentary film Festival” For the third year the Artistic Direction is entrusted to Giacomo Caldarelli and Ivan Frenguelli, founders and animators of an innovative project like PostModernissimo, from this year supported by Luca Ferretti, former coordinator and programmer of the PerSo Film Festival since its first edition. “This year, at the 76th Venice Film Festival, Italy has won two awards, something that rarely happens in the big International Festivals. One went to the leading actor in a free and experimental film (Martin Eden) by a director – Pietro Marcello – which comes from the documentary, and the other is a special jury prize at Franco Maresco’s latest film; another author who has always tried his hand at the different aspects of the cinema of reality. In short, the cinema of reality in our country, in the face of an almost non-existent market, not only resists but continues to feed the most interesting authors internationally. In our own small way, PerSo has always had, often also among the winners, films that experiment and cross languages between writing, staging, sometimes animation, and reality, great narratives and minimalism. And also this year we are able to offer a selection, among unpublished international titles, Italian films, great films already awarded and short films, which allow us to recognize the fertility of documentary cinema, despite the fact that this fifth edition of PerSo has suffered from the crisis of the Region that supports always our Festival, and it has been realized – thanks to the effort and enthusiasm of a particularly close-knit team – with a third of the usual resources.” PerSo Film Festival is organized by non-profit Foundation La Città del Sole ONLUS. La Città del Sole ONLUS is a foundation created to build life paths for people with psychic and mental disabilities, who would otherwise be at great risk of institutionalization. Since 1998, La Città del Sole ONLUS works in the city of Perugia in the health, socio-health and socio-cultural fields, carrying out innovative life projects directed to autonomy and integration for psychiatric patients. You may wonder why a psychiatric and mental health Foundation feels the need to organize a Film Festival. In our opinion cultural activities are a complementary and meaningful part of our social and healthcare mission. In order to allow a perfect integration we have to take care not only of our patients’ life conditions, but also of the social context where they are living and the way of thinking diversity by the so-called ‘normal’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line684
__label__cc	0.57111	0.42889	Dealing with a patient who has a 10-year smear gap Mrs Brown has come today with a cough. You notice from her records that she has not had a smear for 10 years. Dr Melanie Wynne-Jones discusses what you should do. What are your responsibilities in cervical screening? These are defined by the NHS cervical screening programme1. The primary care team's role is to inform women about the programme, encourage regular smears and provide information about test results, follow-up and treatment. GPs must also refer for further investigation and treatment where appropriate, even if someone else took the smear. In 1996/7 the programme cost £130 million; this included 450,000 unscheduled smears2. GPs also have to co-operate with the PCO which runs the call, recall and results notification system, by checking the patients' demographic and cytology records are accurate. Target payments help GPs to pay their staff to do this work. Payments are made if more than 50 per cent or 80 per cent of eligible women have had an adequate smear within the previous five years (hysterectomised women can be excluded, but defaulters are not). Why hasn't Mrs Brown had a smear? She may have slipped through the net by moving, changing doctors or ignoring screening invitations. Practices should audit their cytology records for gaps regularly, for the sake of their targets, as well as individual patients. She may think that she must be all right because she has no symptoms, that a single smear is sufficient, or that smears only detect cancer and are therefore pointless. Monogamous and currently celibate women often mistakenly believe they are not at risk. However, she may be deliberately avoiding smears through embarrassment, because she has symptoms that she secretly worries are cancer or sexually transmitted, has vaginal dryness, or because she found her last smear upsetting (women still occasionally report lack of privacy or a chaperone, or that their examination was rough or painful). Sensitive questioning may allow her to reveal the real reason without feeling embarrassed or ignorant. How dangerous is this for Mrs Brown? In 1997 there were 2,740 new cases and 1,222 deaths from invasive cervical cancer in England and Wales, a 26 per cent fall in incidence over five years3. But almost 19,000 women were found to have CIN3. Mortality rates have fallen by 40 per cent since 1979, and are now falling by 7 per cent a year, partly due to better coverage (up from 45 per cent in 1988/9 to 83.7 per cent in 1999-2000). Screening may prevent 1,100 to 3,900 cases of cervical cancer annually4. Almost half of new cases occur in women who have never had a smear test, although 15 per cent have had a test in the previous five years. This may reflect the limitations of screening and/or variations in disease progression. A single screen at the age of 40 reduces the cumulative incidence of cervical cancer by 20 per cent5. Five-yearly screening (aged 20-64) reduces it by 83.6 per cent1 (91.2 per cent and 93.3 per cent for three-yearly and annual screening). Pilot projects are evaluating whether liquid-based cytology and human papilloma virus testing could improve results. What are the risk associations for cervical cancer? · High-risk subtypes of HPV (especially 16, 18, 30, 33) · Multiple sexual partners · A sexual partner who has had multiple partners · Not using a condom (long-term use of the oral contraceptive may increase risk) · Smoking (doubles the risk) · Early or frequent pregnancy · Manual social class · Living in the northern half of the UK What arguments might you use to persuade her? It is important to correct any misconceptions about the smear examination itself (privacy, chaperone, discomfort, etc) and interpretation of the result. Statistics may convince or frighten her; stress should be put on detecting early and treatable changes. Information leaflets and videos on smears and colposcopy are available in a variety of languages (see below). Should you offer to do a smear now? Only in exceptional circumstances. Many women prefer to prepare themselves mentally and physically, and if she feels coerced this may reinforce negative feelings. What if Mrs Brown still refuses? All women should be offered advice about risk factors for cervical cancer as well as contraception where appropriate, and sexually transmitted diseases. This can be done as part of health promotion, a well-woman service, or opportunistically. Some women get irate if they are asked repeatedly. It is not ethical either to badger Mrs Brown or to remove her from the list for the sake of reaching cytology targets. Mrs Brown should be told that she can change her mind, and may well do so, having thought about it or discussed it with relatives or friends. Her records should show that she has been offered both a smear and relevant advice. · Cervical cancer mortality is falling, partly due to the cervical screening programme · Five-yearly screening for 20-64-year-old women reduces cumulative incidence of cervical cancer by 83.6 per cent · GPs receive target payments for participation in the programmae · Women may refuse smear invitations through ignorance or fear; health education is crucial 1 NHS Cervical Screening Programme www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/cervical 2 The Performance of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme in England Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General HC 678 1997/8, April 22, 1998 3 Office for National Statistics, Monitor Population & Health, MB 1998/2002 4 Sasieni et al. British Journal of Cancer. 1996, vol 73, 1001/5 5 Miller AB. Cervical cancer screening programmes. Geneva; WHO, 1992 6 Hakama M, Miller AB, Day NE. Screening for cancer of the uterine cervix. 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__label__wiki	0.875091	0.875091	Characters Quotes Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves. View quotes by Michael Cunningham We're going to make another series with lots of new characters and old characters together. View quotes by David Walliams Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. [on the science, or art, of writing a book] View quotes by Elizabeth George 'I never act my characters - I am them.' View quotes by Drew Barrymore I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am. View quotes by Christian Bale Six characters in search of an author. View quotes by Luigi Pirandello Especially when you audition for animated characters - you can have more fun. View quotes by Julie Benz Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The maxims of men reveal their characters. View quotes by Luc De Vauvanargues Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. View quotes by Alphonse Karr There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters. View quotes by Thomas Chalmers We're going to kill some characters off in the new series [of Little Britain] View quotes by Matt Lucas There are lessons out there to be learnt from cartoon characters if you know where to look. View quotes by Jack Hannah It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me. View quotes by Emmy Rossum Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. View quotes by Leonardo Dicaprio Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'. It's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting. View quotes by Don Cheadle 'If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.' View quotes by Dr Seuss A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. View quotes by Matthew Barney It's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has many characters, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. View quotes by John Crowley View Results: page 1 2 3 Buy Fantastic Items at Amazon: Choose Another Keyword	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line692
__label__cc	0.699001	0.300999	Home >> Text Solution >> Reproduction in Organasim NCERT Solutions for Class 12th Biology NCERT Chapter Reproduction in Organasim Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants Principles of Inheritance and Variation Molecular Basis of Inhertance Human Health and Diseas Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production Microbes in Human Welfare Biotechnology Principles and Process Biotechnology and its Application Organisms and Population 11th 12th Accountancy Biology Chemistry Mathematics Physics Q1 Why is reproduction essential for organisms? Answer Q2 Which is a better mode of reproduction sexual or asexual? Why? Q3 Why is the offspring formed by asexual reproduction referred to as clone? Q4 Offspring formed due to sexual reproduction have better chances of survival. Why? Is this statement always true? Q5 How does the progeny formed from asexual reproduction differ from those formed by sexual reproduction? Q6 Distinguish between asexual and sexual reproduction. Why is vegetative reproduction also considered as a type of asexual reproduction? Q7 What is vegetative propagation? Give two suitable examples. Q8 Define (a) Juvenile phase (b) Reproductive phase (c) Senescent phase. Q9 Higher organisms have resorted to sexual reproduction in spite of its complexity. Why? Q10 Explain why meiosis and gametogenesis are always interlinked? Q11 Identify each part in a flowering plant and write whether it is haploid (n) or diploid (2n). (a) Ovary _______________ (b) Anther _______________ (c) Egg _________________ (d) Pollen__________________ (e) Male gamete _______________ (f ) Zygote ___________________ Q12 Define external fertilization. Mention its disadvantages. Q13 Differentiate between a zoospore and a zygote. Q14 Differentiate between gametogenesis from embryogenesis. Q15 Describe the post-fertilization changes in a flower. Q16 What is a bisexual flower? Collect five bisexual flowers from your neighborhood and with the help of your teacher find out their common and scientific names. Q17 Examine a few flowers of any cucurbit plant and try to identify the staminate and pistillate flowers. Do you know any other plant that bears unisexual flowers? Q18 Why are offspring of oviparous animals at a greater risk as compared to offspring of viviparous animals?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line695
__label__cc	0.658035	0.341965	Practical application of predictive properties in drug design 18th March 2020, sponsor or exhibit Examples of successful employment of predictive methods in the design of better molecules. What are the properties that matter and how well are they predicted? What are the implications and risks of sub-optimal molecules? How can you quantify progress and design by multiparameter optimisation? Better understand how machine and chemist can work together to achieve the best discovery results Understand challenges from both the machine and scientist point of view with the guidance of an expert with 30 years’ experience in medicinal chemistry with much experience in property- and structure-based design. Gain an appreciation of the current strengths and pitfalls Enable better decision making in your work Make computational predictions within and beyond the Rule of 5 8:30 Registration & Coffee 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:10 Optimizing the application of predictive methods for improving drug design – the machine side of things • Exploring how machine and scientist can work together to achieve best results • Deep dive into currently available methods and where can they be integrated into the drug design process • Reviewing successful employments of predictive methods into drug design – what can we learn from the past and where will things develop in future? • Looking at computational predictions within and beyond the Rule of 5 • Working through industry examples to reveal predictive methods’ strengths and pitfalls Robert Young, Account Manager, Blue Burgundy Ltd Rob Young joined Wellcome on Valentine’s day 1990, after completing his undergraduate and D.Phil studies at University of Oxford and Post Doc at Ben May Institute, University of Chicago. 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__label__wiki	0.808062	0.808062	Documenting the quest to track down everything written by (and written about) the poet, translator, critic, and radio dramatist, Henry Reed. An obsessive, armchair attempt to assemble a comprehensive bibliography, not just for the work of a poet, but for his entire life. Read "Naming of Parts." Henry Reed, ca. 1960 Reeding: I Capture the Castle: A girl and her family struggle to make ends meet in an old English castle. Dusty Answer: Young, privileged, earnest Judith falls in love with the family next door. The Heat of the Day: In wartime London, a woman finds herself caught between two men. ABAA 20th-Century Manuscripts British Library Catalogue British Library Manuscripts British Library Sound Archive Harry Ransom Center Library of Congress Catalog Poetry Magazine Archive Weblogs, etc. Airminded Alliance of Literary Societies Archaeolibris Bibliophemera British Council Literature Dumbfoundry E-Verse Radio Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes The Exile Bibliophile Great War Fiction I Witness Jocelyn Brooke London Underground Tube Diary Mars Curiosity Rover Peter Stothard at the TLS Sassoon Project Tim Kendall's War Poetry Unliteral War Poets Association We Came Along with a Hammer Webrarian All posts for "SundayTimes" Reeding Lessons: the Henry Reed research blog Reed Reviews A Poets' War A recent excursion to a local university afforded me the opportunity to access a database I wouldn't normally have access to: the Sunday Times. Reed appears less frequently than you might expect, and mostly late in his career: a few scattered book reviews between 1965 and 1970. Here we have a prime example of why you wouldn't want Henry Reed to review your book. He simply disassembles the author, Hugh D. Ford, and then settles in to attack his book, A Poets' War: British Poets and the Spanish Civil War (1965), and wraps up with a quick assay of the subject matter: Spain, '36-'39: no art out of war A POET'S WAR: British Poets and the Spanish Civil War by Hugh D Ford/Oxford, for the University of Philadelphia 48s By Henry Reed ONE of the major traditions in the English departments of American universities is the ritual production, by advanced students, of a PhD thesis. It is a further tradition, only rarely broken with, that the basic subject of the thesis shall be of microscopic dimensions and even smaller importance; the test for the student appears to be how far he can make it stretch, either by irrelevant digression, or by simple repetition. All being well, his thesis is accepted, the PhD achieved. By this time the ex-student has become an obsessional: after a little pause he returns to his subject, and decides that a few extra chapters might not come amiss. He adds not only these, but also a forty-page bibliography consisting largely of books unreferred to in the text, and a three-page preface giving separate thanks to pretty well everyone he has met since the age of five, ending with his wife, whom he refers to in expressions of tender gratitude which must sometimes come as rather a surprise to her. The result is a book. Mr Ford gives us a book. Of the two stretching-methods I have referred to, Mr Ford prefers simple repetition. The basic materials he selects are, after all, extremely scanty: two dozen or more inoffensive poems about the Spanish Civil War, few of them with any particular merit, and many by names that have never been seen outside the journals of the time. These writers are of course fairly distinct from each other: all they have in common, apart from their allegiance to the Republicans, is an incapacity for memorable speech. Most of their authors would probably not even bother to own the poems by now. Yet Mr Ford contrives to blur any distinctness that may be discovered in them, by ruthlessly submitting to each and every one of them the same examination paper. He conducts this as a viva voce with no replies allowed except his own: Is such-and-such a poet sacrificing personal sincerity to politics? Is he writing propaganda? Doesn't the reference to so-and-so in stanza two introduce too personal a note if complete identification with Communism is the aim? I can't believe that anyone can possibly care about this. There are roughly 150 pages of it; and the unfortunate poems are up to the neck in it. From the later stages of this morass, which grows denser with repetition, there rise up with an unexpected look of genuine durability about a dozen poems by names well known before the war in Spain. These include Auden's "Spain," which its author has recently described in print as "trash," half a dozen well-controlled poems by Spender, a few pages of deceptively casual vividness by MacNeice, three or four lyrics by Herbert Read, and Day Lewis's narrative poem "The Nabara." These poems, and possibly a few others, have survived the epoch in which they were written, and this, I gather, Mr Ford, after much cautious mumbling and bumbling, concedes. Some of them—Spender's subdued elegies, for examples—seem in some odd way better than they did when they first appeared. There seems no point in re-inserting any of these distinguished works into their historical context; just as, in reverse, there seems no longer any point in isolating the Spanish War from the years of ever-spreading Fascism that led to it, and the world war which Franco's success perhaps made inevitable. To those who followed its fortunes, the Spanish War had a particularly sharp and saddening taste, which we may on occasion suddenly recall: a true imaginative and creative gesture might still be made from memory of it. But on the subject of the gestures made at the time, half a dozen succinct pages should by now be enough. Robin Skelton reports that W.H. Auden referred to his own Spanish Civil War poems as 'trash' in the preface to Poetry of the Thirties (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1964). This issue of the Sunday Times also contains a review of Vincent Brome's The International Brigades: Spain 1936-1939, by Stephen Spender. « Review HughDFord SundayTimes 0 » 1529. Sackville-West, Vita. "Seething Brain." Observer (London), 5 May 1946, 3. Sackville-West speaks admirably of Reed's poetry, and was personally 'taken with the poem called "Lives," which seemed to express so admirably Mr. Reed's sense of the elusiveness as well as the continuity of life.' Reed Reviews de la Mare While I was tracking down two references to book reviews Henry Reed had written for The Sunday Times, I unexpectedly discovered this critique of The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare (Faber and Faber, 1969), "Solacing Music," from January 25, 1970. In a happy coincidence, it happened to appear in the first month of the first of many, many reels of microfilm I was whizzing through. This particular review is especially interesting because not only does it outline Reed's personal feelings about de la Mare's poetry, but it also lets slip two personal anecdotes. The first is related to Reed's shared affinity for, and indebtedness to, Thomas Hardy and his poetry. Reed mentions having visited Hardy's second wife in 1936. Indeed, Florence Hardy wrote to Reed in December of that year, in an attempt to dispell his delusions about penning a biography of her late husband. Reed goes on to describe his only meeting with de la Mare, which occurred 'after some rather fractious gathering convened to decide which verses in our language might not be too tedious or indecent for the young ears of the Royal Family.' This being in reference to a poetry recital which was held at Wigmore Hall in May of 1946 in honor of the Queen, Princesses Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret. Incidentally, it was the meetings for this poetry reading which would inadvertently cause Vita Sackville-West to swear she would never write poetry, again (more on that, later)! Solacing music THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALTER DE LA MARE/Faber £5 pp984 He could no longer listen to the reading of prose, though a short poem now and again interested him. In the middle of one night he asked his wife to read aloud to him "The Listeners," by Walter de la Mare. Thus Thomas Hardy on his deathbed: a tribute to both poets, for it is by no means easy—as I think Wordsworth was first honest enough to say—for a poet to make much of a poet a good deal younger than himself; and there was a difference of over thirty years between these two. What was it in de la Mare's great poem of desolation, disappointment and unresponse that Hardy wanted to hear said to him at that moment? Perhaps: For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head:— "Tell them that I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. I have never, myself, wanted to know who the traveller or the listeners are in this poem, and have rather averted the gaze from any exegesis of it. But is this not in itself rather a despicable critical evasion of a kind which we have resigned ourselves to in the case of de la Mare? Let me revert to Hardy. Though Hardy was kindly and hospitable to the many young poets who sought him out, de la Mare was the only one he was genuinely curious to meet. I am sorry I cannot "document" this statement: it was either told me by the second Mrs Hardy in 1936, or it is remarked on in one of the several thousand unpublished Hardy letters now being edited by Professor Purdy. On the one occasion I had the honour of meeting de la Mare—after some rather fractious gathering convened to decide which verses in our language might not be too tedious or indecent for the young ears of the Royal Family—I fervently recorded this fact to him. He was too modest to believe it; but eagerly, in a damp, dark Chelsea street, he told me of the barely credible circumstances of his first meeting with Hardy, in 1921. I did not know that a retrospective poem on the subject was already in print. And his deeper feelings, expressed in the poem, he did not repeat: but they are worth repeating now: And there peered from his eyes, as I listened, a concourse of women and men, Whom his words had made living, long-suffering— they flocked to remembrance again; "O Master," I cried in my heart, "lorn thy tidings, grievous thy song; Yet thine, too, this solacing music, as we earthfolk stumble along." The deliberate touch of pastiche in these lines, written round about 1938, is of course a kind of homage and does not make the poem less moving. It is very different from the real help he had sought from Hardy's poetry in 1921, or just before when, as Dr Leavis has acutely remarked, de la Mare seems to have recognised "the vanity of his poetic evasions . . . It is as if, in his straights, he had gone for help to the poet most unlike himself, strong where he is weak" [New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Chatto & Windus, 1950]. It is doubtful if he found this help. For some reason, after the publication of "The Veil" in 1921, de la Mare stopped publishing serious poetry (at least in England) and devoted himself to prose, and to comic verse. When I was an undergraduate, on the rare occasions when twentieth-century poetry was admitted to exist, de la Mare was occasionally mentioned, sadly withal, as one who had not fulfilled his promise. This was quite agreeable to us: it meant we did not have to go and find out exactly what the promise had been. In any case we had, by then, Eliot and Pound, and they provided quite enough matter for thought, if thought was what it was we directed at them. There was, however, a genuine feeling that de la Mare had ceased to exist. Then, in 1933, appeared "The Fleeting." But by this time we had Auden to cope with. And "The Fleeting" was much the same mixture as before, though longer poems like "The Owl," and "Dreams" (which mentions, not with much respect, the Id) had begun to appear and to threaten a boredom later to display itself more expansively. Other volumes, light or serious, followed. Towards the end there were efforts at the long "great" poem. "The Traveller" is often exciting and terrifying, but only in its last pages really impressive. As for "Winged Chariot," I have to confess to what may be a personal blackout. It is a long poem about time, chronometers, etc., and is often in its early pages humorous and engaging; the trouble is that though it is at no point unbeautiful, it is largely unreadable. I am pedantic enough to wonder why the charming marginal glosses (like those of Hakluyt and Coleridge) of its first edition should have been inserted in this Collected Poems into the poem itself as though they were epigraphs to various sections of it—thereby rendering what is difficult enough virtually unintelligible. Mr Auden does the same with it in his "Choice of de la Mare's Verse" and tells us, a little uneasily, that the poem "is better read, perhaps, like 'In Memoriam,' as a series of lyrics with a metre and theme in common." But surely for God's sake please, Tennyson's poem is a moving poem? We don't come out of it quite as we went into it; and we do not fall asleep during it. In 1913, reviewing a "collected" Robert Bridges, de la Mare remarks: "The writing of verse easily becomes a dangerous habit." This is distressingly true of himself: there is simply and blankly and monotonously too much of him. In the same essay, he remarks: "Complete editions serve too often merely for an imposing monument" ["The Poetry of Robert Bridges." Review of The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas. Saturday Westminster Gazette, August 30, 1913. Reprinted in Private View. London: Faber and Faber, 1953. 108-113.]. In the present volume his poems occupy, in fairly small print, pages 3 to 888. This is a lot of reading-matter. I cannot think its gentle author can have wished it all at once upon anybody. (p. 57) « SundayTimes Reviews DeLaMare 0 » 1528. Manning, Hugo. "Recent Verse." Books of the Day, Guardian (Manchester), 31 July 1946, 3. Manning feels that 'Mr. Reed has worn thin much of his genuine talent in this direction by too much self-inflicted censorship.' Reed Reviews Edward Thomas I hope I am not being too disingenuous with my title, but I did hit upon an unexpected windfall of Reed's book reviewing in The Sunday Times. Once again, a simple snippet in Google Book Search was enough to lead me to three articles by Reed from 1969 and 1970, including "Two Years Before the Muse": a review of William Cooke's biography of Edward Thomas which appeared on March 29, 1970: Two years before the muse EDWARD THOMAS: a critical biography by William Cooke Faber 50s FLAWLESSLY and confidently though he himself can write, Mr Cooke does not hesitate, in this fine book, to withdraw himself when necessary, and with excellent judgment to let his subjects—for there is Helen Thomas as well as Edward—have their own say: as they both eloquently could. And since Thomas and is wife, despite difficult passages, were never enemies, Mr Cooke's book moves the reader in a way that biography rarely does: his second chapter, "The Divided Self," is a model of well-selected documents, in both poetry and prose, brought together, properly digested, and firmly handled. He has, of course, a subject where, biographically at least, there seems little need for guesswork. Thomas himself was a self-declared depressive, often took laudanum, and was on occasion determined on suicide. Mr Cooke is fully aware of the justifiable self-pity of both Edward and Helen. It is balanced by their pity for each other and their candid understanding and acceptance of each other. Certainly Thomas himself, through the whole of his fantastically overworked life as a hack journalist and a writer of "deadline" commissioned books, gives the impression of someone who could not easily tell lies, and the well-known portrait of him (a trifle blurred in this volume) gives the feeling of someone who could not easily believe in them either. And truth is a useful thing. Curiously, his candid avowal that Helen loved him more than he loved her produces one of the finest love-lyrics in the language. It ends: Till sometimes it did seem Better it were Never to see you more Than linger here With only gratitude Instead of love A pine in solitude Cradling a dove. An even more sombre candour informs the poem about his father, withheld from the brief Collected Poems till twenty-two years after the poet's death. It is not at all a poem about hate, but it begins: I may come near loving you When you are dead and ends: But not so long as you live Can I love you at all. His father survived him. Apart from conventional juvenilia, Thomas wrote no poetry before the age of thirty-six. Hitherto he had confined himself to twenty-nine books of prose. He was to live about two years more; and despite its many outstanding virtues, the most astonishing and valuable part of Mr Cooke's book is the appendix in which he establishes the chronology of these two incredible years: I quote merely its beginning: 3 December "Up in the Wind" 4 December "November" 5 December "March" 6 December "Old Man" 7 December "The Sign Post" And these poems are by no means dilettante haiku. Some are of notable length. It is to be hoped that the elegant pages of the Collected Poems may as a result of Mr Cooke's researches, soon be rearranged chronologically. Thomas's switch to poetry (much of it, and some senses all of it, remarkable: it had the rare distinction of never appearing in "Edward Marsh's "Georgian" collections) has been variously explained, Robert Frost, older, but not much older, and first published in England, had said to him: "You are a poet or you are nothing." But a man does not became a poet simply because he is told he is one; though doubtless Frost's remark struck at something Thomas had wanted to, yet dared not, until then, think of. But these things are, as psychoanalysts say "over-determined." I am not so much entranced as I once was by the observations of analysts on what they call "creativity": but what the distinguished analyst Dr Elliott Jaques in an essay on what he terms the "mid-life crisis" devotes his early pages to artists in their middle thirties—the mezzo del cammin of Dante. He examined a "random sample" of 310 artists of genius (one had not thought death had undone so many!) who had exemplified this mid-life crisis in three different ways: either their career ended at this time; or it began (one thinks of Conrad); or a decisive change took place in the quality and content of their work. (One might add that some artists re-begin at this age: I am thinking of our own Jane Austen.) I think that Edward Thomas, if not decisively a genius, fits well enough into all this. Dr Jaques connects his thesis with our realization at this age that death does actually exist, and is probably nearer to us than birth. Thomas thought often of death. He was not strictly of conscribable age, and had every opportunity of joining Frost in America. But he decided to enlist, and was apparently certain that he would not see his beloved England again. He wrote no more poetry once he landed in France; and it could be said of him by Alun Lewis, also writing of death, and himself prematurely killed in a later war: Suddenly, at Arras, you possessed that hinted land. You can read more about Edward Thomas on the Friends of the Dymock Poets website. « Reviews EdwardThomas SundayTimes 0 » 1527. Rosenthal, M.L. "Experience and Poetry." Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (New York), 17 October 1948, 28. Rosenthal says Reed shares with Laurie Lee 'that unhappy vice of young intellectuals—a certain blandness of which the ever-simple irony is a symptom.' 1st lesson: Reed, Henry (1914-1986). Born: Birmingham, England, 22 February 1914; died: London, 8 December 1986. Education: MA, University of Birmingham, 1936. Served: RAOC, 1941-42; Foreign Office, Bletchley Park, 1942-1945. Freelance writer: BBC Features Department, 1945-1980. Author of: A Map of Verona: Poems (1946) The Novel Since 1939 (1946) Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel (1947) Lessons of the War (1970) Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio (1971) The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio (1971) Collected Poems (1991, 2007) The Auction Sale (2006) @ShewinFan Flickr pics Recent tags: Blunden NewStatesman NewYorker RadioTimes Posts of note: Reed Reviews Henry Reed's House Have You Seen This Painting? 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__label__cc	0.656843	0.343157	Meeting of the Board of Regents \| June 2009 Monday, June 1, 2009 - 11:20pm Overview: In June the Regents will concentrate on graduation rates and strategies to raise them. The discussions will reflect the Board’s intention to probe the data, define the policy questions, and discuss policies and practices that will improve graduation rates. The Board intends to do this by combining perspectives from the many committees and all parts of SED and USNY. The Regents will begin with a joint EMSC-VESID-Higher Education committee discussion. In committees that follow over the next day, the Board will discuss many improvement strategies. For example, VESID will outline the practices SED has promoted in certain districts to improve performance. A joint EMSC-Higher Education committee discussion will explore a model of school leadership to improve results. The joint meeting of the State Aid and Audits committees will examine a group of districts that are both financially stressed and low achieving. And the State Aid Subcommittee will discuss the next Regents foundation aid proposal, which is a strategy to raise achievement by directing aid increases to students in greatest need. Framing the Policy Discussion on Graduation Rates During this academic year the Regents have conducted four data-based discussions of graduation rates, including a review of the data as a whole, then in-depth discussions of graduation rates among black and Hispanic males, students with disabilities, and English language learners. They have examined four-, five-, and six-year results, and the mix of credentials, including Regents Diplomas, local diplomas, and IEP Diplomas. This work builds on the Board’s long-standing concern for accurate data to define the achievement gap and commitment to policies to raise achievement. The P-16 Plan committed to improving graduation rates. Through policy reviews and investment in new data capacity, the Regents have prepared for a new generation of policy and performance gains. More recently, the NCLB regulations have offered new policy options for the Board to consider. The issue is especially timely for one group of students: today’s ninth graders. Board policy adopted years ago will remove the option of a local diploma for them. The Board will examine their prospects as they prepare for the second year of high school. While recent grades 3-8 test results show that the youngest children achieved high scores on the tests, many of the current ninth graders entered high school with weak skills in mathematics and ELA. In May Parthenon representatives presented statewide data showing that as 8th grade English Language Arts scores rise from level 2, to low level 3, still only 80 percent graduate. New York City reports significantly lower graduation rates for students with low level 3 scores. As we discuss these data, remember that graduation requires not only passing five or eight Regents exams, but also earning 22 credits. Many students pass their Regents exams yet do not graduate because they do not accumulate the 22 credits. As test scores rise statewide the rigor of the requirements to earn a diploma increases from local to Regents and Regents with Distinction. This rigor affects success in higher education. This is an important policy consideration. Last year we saw that August graduates improved overall graduation rate averages significantly, but most of them receive local diplomas. The Board also saw that children of color and students with disabilities are earning local diplomas disproportionately. These are just some of the challenges. A candid review of the data show that even some groups of students who have gained fast are still far below where they need to be. And some groups of students are not yet gaining consistently. Data over the last few years shows that the system is capable of relatively rapid growth in graduation rates overall, but only some diplomas are rigorous and presage success beyond high school. There has been progress, however, which offers a foundation for still more gains. In general, each cohort does better than the one before. A fifth year, and for some even a sixth year, pays off with higher graduation rates. Some groups of students with unacceptably low results overall have still improved four-year graduation rates by 10 percentage points over the last four years. We can deplore the current situation and still celebrate the rate of gain. The practices and conditions, as well as the educators who helped produce those gains, should be further encouraged because we need them to take the system to the next level. Most recently the USED has presented policy options, including multiple ways to define graduation goals and annual targets. In addition, the federal government seeks uniformity in the definition of graduation rates. New York’s definition is very close to the new federal definition, but will require three modifications no later than the 2011-2012 school year. The policy choices are complex and have many implications for how districts and schools will be affected by federal and state accountability rules. For example, a target would apply to all categories of students. A high goal is attractive, but even the highest performing district would be challenged to get some groups of students to that level, and would be listed as in need of improvement. The Board will discuss the data that illuminate those policy choices. With the help of the Parthenon Group, we have a new interactive tool to predict the consequences of various graduation targets to groups of students and districts. Here are some of the policy questions before the Board for discussion: How rigorous do the Regents want the accountability graduation rate goal and annual targets to be? Do the Regents want to use an extended-year adjusted cohort graduation rate? When do the Regents want to begin using the new federal four year adjusted rate graduation cohort definition? Do the Regents wish to continue to implement the phase out of the local diploma? The rules, policy questions, and data are complex, but the human reality of the situation is straightforward. Everyone must graduate with a diploma that signifies college and work readiness. Ultimately, only high expectations make sense, and have traction when linked to effective practices and systems to make success possible. We see that certain policies and local practices seem more likely to work than others. The aim is to apply these more widely and urgently. What Improves Graduation Rates for Students with Disabilities? Underlying the issue of graduation rates is the fundamental Regents commitment to ensuring that all children meet high standards. Better graduation rates overall depend on our success in improving outcomes for particular groups of children, in this case the 12 percent of New York students with a disability. With the graduation rate issue fully outlined in the joint EMSC-Higher Education-VESID committee, the VESID Committee will concentrate on the data related to the performance of students with disabilities, and practices that appear to improve performance. While test scores, graduation rates, and post-school outcomes are far from what the Regents expect, there have been improvements, and it is possible to refine and intensify the strategies associated with those gains. VESID and EMSC have collaborated with regional and local leaders in this work. The committee will discuss practices including literacy instruction, positive behavior supports and interventions, co-teaching, and transition planning. The Regents item points to the relationship between effective general education programs and better outcomes for children with disabilities. In addition to promoting this connection locally, the Regents seek stronger regional networks and internal SED collaboration to secure improved performance for students with disabilities. Leadership Initiative School leadership defined by the requirements of teaching and learning is indispensable to raising achievement and graduation rates. Five urban teacher forums that the Regents and SED convened this year underscored that conclusion. Sustaining this approach to leadership requires standards, professional education that enables current and prospective leaders to master effective practices, and systems to support leaders in their work. The Regents, SED, and our partners have engaged this issue with major foundation grants and collaboration with higher education. National school leadership standards defined by the Interstate Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC), which are research-based, are the foundation for the leadership curriculum. The EMSC Committee will discuss a new model for educational leadership in urban schools. This will include a description of the new leadership academy launched in Rochester. Sam Walton, Ph.D., program director of the School of Education at St. John Fisher College, Superintendent J.C. Brizzard of the Rochester City School District and a representative from the New York City Department of Education will respond to the Board’s policy questions. Financially Stressed School District Discussion SED has for many years identified districts in financial stress, using indicators that can help local leaders anticipate and avoid financial peril. When administrators and boards miss those indicators, problems unfold quickly and remedies are costly and often beyond the capacity of the district acting alone. SED has for many years identified districts and schools in academic stress, and we have more data than ever to do that. At the April Audit Committee meeting the Chancellor suggested combining the financial and academic perspectives in a comprehensive analysis of certain districts for the June meeting. The Audit Committee and State Aid Subcommittee will discuss the analysis jointly. The Regents Foundation Aid proposal has established the case for adequate funding. A district that falls into financial stress will sooner or later not have the capacity for academic performance. The Board wants to understand the relationship between achievement and financial stress and what will be done to improve outcomes. Foundation Aid and Graduation Rates There was a time when education policy and state aid were distinctly different discussions. The school finance litigation and the Regents advocacy for Foundation Aid changed that. Foundation aid is an investment to improve student outcomes. The State Aid Subcommittee will discuss principles that will define the Board’s 2010-2011 Foundation Aid proposal. All of them—adequacy, equity, accountability and transparency, and stability—are defined in terms that focus funding on improving student achievement and closing the gap. The subcommittee will engage in several policy questions, chief among them how to address the 2008-09 state budget freeze on foundation aid and grow expense-based aids. The lack of an increase in state aid this year did not affect school districts as much as it could have because federal funds were made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Foundation aid is only 38 percent of the way to full implementation. After a one- and perhaps two-year pause, it will be costly to resume the phase-in. Foundation Aid is a powerful lever for raising achievement and graduation rates. The policy question before the subcommittee is how to renew New York’s commitment to implement Foundation aid. The subcommittee also will discuss school district reorganization and regional high schools as potential strategies to control costs, increase educational opportunities, and improve achievement and graduation rates. The SED staff paper prepared for the subcommittee finds long-term potential for cost savings from regional high schools, greater access to enriched courses through reorganization and, under the right conditions, for greater student achievement. There are mitigating factors, however. The paper also draws attention to financial and academic challenges in rural areas. Grades 3-8 Test Schedule The EMSC Committee will discuss the results of the second field survey on revising the grades 3-8 test schedule and consider a revised schedule. Almost 7,000 individuals responded to three options for scheduling grades 3-8 mathematics and ELA tests. In general, the responses reveal continuing differences of opinion: the majority of respondents favor moving the ELA exam to late March or early April while leaving mathematics in early March and opposes retaining the existing schedule; the consensus favors local scoring. Proposed Regents Legislative Priorities for 2010 The Regents will adopt their federal and state legislative priorities for 2010 in the fall and will briefly discuss potential priorities at this meeting. Informal Education Supports Improved Outcomes Dr. Alan Friedman, a science education consultant, member of the Governing Board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and former Director of the New York Hall of Science, will discuss with the Regents the contribution that informal education can provide to keep young people engaged with learning. Longitudinal data from the Hall of Science, for example, indicate that their Science Career Ladder program has increased the probability of minority students graduating ready for higher education, completing college, and going on to careers in science, technology, and teaching. SED awards several scholarships every year to high-achieving sons and daughters of Department employees. We congratulate these scholarship winners and their parents and wish them success as they begin higher education in the fall. They, too, are standard-setters. The Chancellor McGovern Scholarship in the amount of $500.00 is awarded to Corey Guilmette, son of Joanne Guilmette who works at the New York State Museum. Corey is graduating Niskayuna High School with a 3.80 grade point average and will attend Wesleyan University this fall. The Chancellor McGovern Scholarship in the amount of $500.00 is awarded to Mira Pandya, daughter of Mandakini Pandya, a Keyboard Specialist with VESID. Mira is graduating Dobbs Ferry High School with a 3.90 grade point average. She will attend the University at Buffalo, where she plans to major in biological sciences with a concentration in pre-medicine. The Regent Emlyn I. Griffith Scholarship Award in the amount of $500.00 is awarded to Corrina Goutos, daughter of Nellie Goutos, Associate Accountant in the Rate Setting Unit. Corrina is graduating Guilderland High School with a 94 average and a rank of 49 out of 439 students. Corrina will attend Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. The Margaret Snow Vander Veer Scholarship in the amount of $350.00 is awarded to Erin Crossen, daughter of Sharon Crossen, a Keyboard Specialist at the New York State School for the Blind, in Batavia. Erin is graduating Oakfield-Alabama High School with a 99 average and a rank of 7t out of 70 students. Erin will attend the Rochester Institute of Technology this fall, where she plans to study mechanical engineering.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line711
__label__wiki	0.952919	0.952919	RenewAmerica.com January 23, 2020 Click here to receive our twice-weekly Newsletter Wes Vernon Will Obama bring a cold-blooded murderer "in from the cold"? By Wes Vernon April is "Cuba month" for the Obama administration. The Observer, the Sunday edition of the UK's left-wing Guardian, approvingly tells its readers that the Obama White House "has moved to ease some travel and trade restrictions as a cautious first step towards Havana...raising hopes of an eventual lifting of the four-decade-old economic embargo." The report goes on to add that "several Bush era controls are expected to be relaxed in the run-up to [the April] Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago," thus — in Rodney King "Can't we just all get along"-style (our words) — signaling "a new era of 'Yankee' cooperation.'" Predictably, the "no-enemies-on-the-left" crowd and a few others — who should know better — are hailing this as a welcome breakthrough, implying that in the great move toward "cooperation," the onus is on the shoulders of the United States, while poor little Cuba has nothing for which to make amends. In trying to deconstruct that mythology, one hardly knows where to begin. But the cold shower of reality can start with the new book Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & the Cuban Five. The thoroughly documented bottom line in this shocking exposé is "In the end, Fidel Castro got away with murder" (italics in original). The book has been 13 years in the making — involving painstaking shoe-leather sleuthing and putting it all together in writing. Cold-blooded murder Authors Matt Lawrence and Thomas Van Hare focus on the day in early 1996 (Feb. 24) when the Cubans shot down two Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR) planes (and attempted to bring down a third) whose humanitarian mission was to assist and rescue raft refugees fleeing Cuba on the dangerous waters of the Straits of Florida. Many of the rafters never made it to the free shores of America, but freedom-loving Cubans were nonetheless willing to risk their lives to get out of there — a telling commentary on the Castro jackboot-on-the-neck conditions in their homeland. Fidel's dictatorship was very sensitive to that public relations black-eye, perhaps fearing that influential touchy-feely saps in U.S. academia and the salons of the Upper East and West sides of Manhattan might experience a twinge of conscience or second thoughts regarding their ideological slavish whitewash of the dictatorship 90 miles from our shores. To compound the tragedy, many people within our own government that day were aware of the unique danger or — at the very least — knew something was afoot and did not think to pick up a phone and warn the pilots that the Cubans were pro-actively looking that day for an opportunity to target the rescue flights. The three planes were unarmed. Two of them carried four doomed Cuban exiles — three of them U.S. citizens (Armando Alejandre Jr., Carlos Costa, and Mario de la Pena) and the fourth a legal U.S. resident (Pablo Morales, who was working toward citizenship and had a "Green Card"). A third plane (piloted by Jose Basulto, the BTTR leader) made it safely back to Florida. They were chased by Cuban MiGs. The two mercy flights were shot down by the Cubans even though they presented a threat to no one. Theirs was purely a mission of mercy. What did — and did not — happen First, what did not happen — realizing that the Cuban government, true to Marxist form, lied in defending the taking of four innocent lives. Even to begin to justify an interception/shootdown based on an incursion, here is what would have had to happen: 1 — BTTR would have had to be heading south toward Cuba. 2 — BTTR would have had to maintain radio silence, as well as try to sneak across the line to attack Cuba. 3 — In either case, Cuban MiGs would have taken off and begun patrolling in their airspace in case BTTR attempted to fly over Havana or attack Cuba. 4 — BTTR would have had to cross into Cuban airspace and head toward Havana. 5 — In that event, the MIGs would have intercepted and fired warning shots, attempting to force the BTTR to land. 6 — Or, if BTTR attacked Cuba (obviously quite hard to do in unarmed Cessnas), their planes would no longer have been considered non-combatants, and they could legitimately be taken down. 7 — Then, and only then, based on international law, could the MiGs justify shooting at the aircraft. Instead, this is what actually took place: 1 — BTTR (unarmed) headed south toward Cuba, but presented no threat, as was the case with the thousands of previous, identical mercy missions that they had previously flown. 2 — The Cuban MiGs took off and headed north into international airspace, hunting BTTR aircraft. 3 — BTTR openly communicated with Havana Air Traffic Control and stated its intention to fly a routine search and rescue mission. 4 — All BTTR aircraft then turned east to fly parallel "track lines" as they did on any regular search mission. 5 — The Cuban MiGs flew past the first BTTR aircraft (Seagull One), apparently not seeing it, to attack and shoot down the second one (Seagull Charlie) — and were seen by the first plane. 6 — BTTR's first aircraft (Seagull One) crossed (inadvertently) into Cuban airspace in the confusion of events — while headed east, i.e., not toward Cuba. 7 — The Cuban MiGs then shot down another BTTR plane (Seagull Mike). 8 — The first BTTR plane (Seagull One) then flew toward home to attempt an escape from the hunting MiGs. 9 — Two additional Cuban MiGs were sent out to chase and shoot down the last plane. They failed. Their murderous mission was reluctantly aborted, but not before they had come within three minutes of South Florida, having illegally crossed into U.S. airspace on an attack mission aimed at murdering U.S. citizens. NO justification, period And most significantly: 10 — No warning shots were fired. Nor were there any attempts to force BTTR to land. It was outright, cold-blooded murder, author Van Hare reiterates in an e-mail to this column. Attempted cover-up begins The BTTR plane that made it home was piloted by Jose Basulto. The minute his aircraft landed safely and shut down its engines inside its hangar at Florida's Opa-Locka Airport, he was met by a man who was awaiting his arrival and who claimed to be a U.S. Customs official. He demanded that Basulto hand over the plane's taped intercom conversations. Basulto refused. No one in the U.S. government claims to have authorized anyone to meet Basulto and demand the taped conversations. The true identity of the stranger is unknown to this day. He could have been someone from an agency of the U.S. government whose top brass do not want to be identified. Author Thomas Van Hare believes it is more likely that the man was a Cuban agent posing as a U.S. government official. U.S. spectators and another mysterious disappearance Major Jeffrey Houlihan, a highly rated U.S. Customs radar operator, saw the airborne killing spree on his radar screens as the events were unfolding. Of all those in the U.S. government watching the whole thing on radar screens, only Major Houlihan made a "911" call for help. Testifying later in court, the major said while all this was going on, he ended up talking to the Senior Director Technician at Southeast Air Defense (SEADS): "What I told him was do you see [the Brothers to the Rescue] aircraft? and he said yes, we've been briefed." Leading up to: "I said well, it looks like a MiG-23 to me heading directly to the United States. I think that's important. And the [Senior Director Technician] responded we're handling it, don't worry." The authors document that instead of following "Standard Operating Procedure," for the duration of the shootdown and subsequent hunt of the third aircraft, the USAF ready F-15 jet fighters, which should have launched in intercept, were taken off battle stations, and were ordered to taxi back to their hangars and shut down their engines. The book notes that the U.S. Military later justified that inaction, by claiming it to be a "communications mix-up." "Mix-up" indeed. The authors also publish that the USAF squadron commander was on the phone with SEADS literally pounding on the desk and begging for authorization to launch — which was repeatedly denied. Later, Maria Fernandez, a Clinton-appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, told a congressional committee that the name of the Senior Director Technician who took the call that day was one Col. Frank Willy, an Air Force officer. She also noted at the time that the colonel had since "retired." Here's another unsolved mystery: Van Hare tells this column, "[W]e searched for Col. Frank Willy — in all 50 states — using White Pages look-ups, Internet name searches, and more. We never found him. Perhaps in publishing this book, he will finally be found and make himself available for an interview." That alone begs the suspicion that the colonel was told by some authority to disappear into utter oblivion as part of a cover-up. But — ever cautious — as is the case with the authors all throughout Betrayal — Van Hare tells me, "I do not believe there were any stone walls erected," and that "maybe he passed away or has an unlisted number. We would have loved to speak with him, but never found him." Yet another loose end Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), while serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a letter to then-Defense Secretary William Perry demanding an explanation as to why nothing was done — either to respond when the MiGs apparently were 3 minutes off the U.S. coast, or to prevent the tragedy and alert the civilian pilots. The senator asked 11 detailed questions. The authors could find no record that the letter was ever answered. Moreover, when the House International Relations Committee held a hearing on the tragedy, a Customs official "with significant knowledge of the incident was prohibited from testifying in open session," according to Helms. Here, the word "stonewall" unmistakably applies. Over their 13 years of research, the authors of Betrayal were able to amass and document evidence, which they present in their book, that high officials in the U.S. government — including several senior staff at the Clinton White House — had advance knowledge of the shootdown, yet did nothing to prevent the incident. This is not to say, authors add, the U.S. authorities were legally "complicit" in the murder of the four BTTR pilots — but it is nearly equally damning. "Nonetheless," Betrayal charges, "even if unwittingly, they effectively condoned the shootdown murder of U.S. citizens." "There is no direct evidence [italics mine — WV] that President Bill Clinton himself had prior knowledge of the plan." But advisors "at the highest level of his administration knew of Cuba's plans," as did "members of the U.S. military, and of the State Department Diplomatic Corps" and "many of these senior advisors knew for months or at least weeks what was coming, but failed to act." The Betrayal multi-year probe adds, "It is also questionable as to whether President Clinton was kept fully in the dark," and then concludes, "There have been some who've wondered aloud how the president could not have known [again, italics added]." Sandy Berger — again? Lawrence and Van Hare name Clinton's then Deputy National Security Advisor — none other than Sandy Berger — as "the man who most likely could have stopped Brothers to the Rescue from flying that day had he answered his phone or checked his e-mails in the final hours of February 23, the eve of the tragedy. Another obvious red flag came during a meeting in Cuba between Cuban and American officials. In that discussion, Cuban officials bitterly complained about BTTR. A Cuban cosmonaut and Air Force general directly asked former Ambassador Robert White about the reaction of the U.S. military if Cuba were to shoot down one of the Brothers to the Rescue airplanes. Quoting the book: "The most that was said by any members of the delegation was that the shootdown would be a public relations disaster for Cuba and would further serve to endorse the validity of the views shared by hardliners within Miami's exile community [italics in original]." So the public relations angle — rather than the savagery of the act — was all the U.S. delegation could consider in response. God forbid that we give any PR ammunition to those freedom-loving "hardliners" — the mutual concern of both the Cuban government and — apparently — the Clinton administration! Verdict, but no justice Cuba was found guilty in a U.S. court, and the Castro government fumed and stomped its feet in angry denial (fake anger is also a part of the Marxist playbook). But the evidence was plain — especially after the transcript of the Cuban communications was cited where Havana's control tower and the MiG pilots ghoulishly savored the opportunity to commit their unprovoked cold-blooded murder — even screaming joyful celebration as they fired their missiles to down the little unarmed Cessnas. For all that, Cuba not only suffered little punishment for its acts, but has insisted the shoot-down was justified. The clear record, however, exposes the Cuban dictator Castro followed the Marxist culture wherein lies, lies, and damn lines are virtuous if the end result is the advancement of the Communist cause. There are several other angles to all this. Readers of Betrayal will find them fascinating. One in particular is worthy of note here: The murder of the unarmed civilians was facilitated by spies. This case has served to spotlight a Cuban spy network as pervasive as any of the old Soviet spy rings at the highest levels of our government before and during the Cold War. That in and of itself deserves a separate column. Later. For now, all I'll write is that reading Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & the Cuban Five has been one of the highpoints of the year so far. I'd recommend you purchase your copies before the book mysteriously disappears from the online bookstores. Oh, no, of course, that could never happen — or could it? © Wes Vernon The views expressed by RenewAmerica columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of RenewAmerica or its affiliates. (See RenewAmerica's publishing standards.) Wes Vernon is a Washington-based writer and veteran broadcast journalist. Receive future articles by Wes Vernon: Click here China: Taking America to the movies (on China's terms) Book review: 'Unfreedom of the press,' by Mark R. 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Riviera life from day to day, at work or play. Daily life on the Riviera. Market to kitchen and bar to restaurant. Getting to, from and around the Riviera. The Riviera isn't just sunshine and food. Reality check! From business to politics, they influence our lives... here's what they look like. The Anglophones People in the Anglophone community: British, American, Scandinavian, Dutch, and the New Worlders. Our French Hosts Here are the people whose country it is... From the mundane to the bizarre. Unclassifiable images. Riviera Reporting The Riviera Reporter. Production, layout, distribution, interviewing... Images to illustrate our regular photography column. For some, Australia is preferable to France Patrick Middleton So you’re one of those who’ve found that living in France hasn’t brought the happiness you hoped for, so where can you move to? Well, if you’re relatively young – it’s more difficult for oldies, unless they’ve got significant fluids – think about Australia, a country I would have happily settled in had I discovered it earlier in life. What’s it got going for it? Above all, leaving aside the tourist brochure stuff, it’s the people. As Spectator columnist James Delingpole wrote after a recent visit, “I’ve never before been so welcomed, so well loved, so generously entertained and felt so instantly at home. And no – this isn’t like the ready smiles with little meaning that often greets a visitor in the US. There’s a genuine friendliness to newcomers in Australia that’s an integral part of the culture.” Not long after he operated on my broken shoulder my surgeon Dr Jean-Christian Balestro of Archet 2 in Nice upped sticks and moved to Sydney where he’s now wielding his scalpel at the city’s North Shore Hospital. He’s got no regrets and hopes to stay. He quickly learned the truth of my distinction between French attitudes (“étranger, danger”) and those prevalent in Australia (“you’re a mate until you prove otherwise”). My advice to him (which he would have had no difficulty in following) was simple: “Don’t be pompous and show you’ve got a sense of humour.” Dr Balestro, as a highly-skilled professional, was very welcome in Australia but the country has a need of people with a wide range of competences – from engineers and agronomists to hairdressers and bakers. Of particular interest to the under-thirties is the Holiday Working Visa programme which allows young people from other countries to work in Australia for a significant period with a strong likelihood of gaining residency or later citizenship. Quite a lot of young French have taken advantage of this possibility. But is there a downside to the Lucky Country? Well nowhere is perfect and you’ve got poisonous spiders, crocs and sharks but they’re not part of most people’s daily life. And it can get very hot in summer. A certain number of Brits – “ping-pong Poms” – give up and leave. A basic reason often seems to be it’s not – for example – like Surrey. They’d likely say the same here. In sum, it’s a great place and a comforting PS: the country has a low level of gun crime following measures brought in by John Howard in 1996 after a madman shot 35 people in Tasmania with semi-automatic weapons. 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__label__wiki	0.801766	0.801766	TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: Alien Space Kitchen, Full Speed Veronica and King Shark A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican Nothing like some loud and local apocalyptic garage-punk space-pop to get your blood circulating on such a winter’s day. Who’s serving that purpose for me lately? It’s The Golden Age of Climate Change by an Albuquerque band called Alien Space Kitchen. This seven-song, 26-minute EP is a refreshing blast of raunchy riffs, rump-shaking beats, simple but addictive melodies, and irreverent lyrics about planetary suicide. Alien Space Kitchen has been around for nearly a decade. They started out as a duo featuring singer Dru Vaughter and drummer/vocalist Noelle Graney. (Originally they called themselves “Dr. Rox” and “Chiffon,” respectively, but those monikers didn’t last.) Their first album, Just ASK, was released in 2012. Sometime before 2016’s Some of This Is True, they picked up a permanent bass player, Terry “Mess” Messal, who helped solidify the Space Kitchen’s sound. At the moment, my favorite track on this record is “In the Mud,” in which Vaughter sings matter-of-factly, “Back in swamp, deep in the water/Weather’s getting warmer, world is getting hotter.” Though other tunes here have similar messages — how to cope when the world is headed for a boiling point — Vaughter never seems preachy. It’s like he’s conjuring troubling images with a smile on his face, while his guitar screams in rage. Another worthy one is “Who Controls the Weather,” which unabashedly veers down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Of course, they’re being tongue-in-cheek here … I think … (Remember, this is the same band that did a song called “How to Fake a Lunar Landing” on Some of This Is True.) The song ends with Vaughter and Graney singing, repeatedly, “The world is run on gasoline/I’m gonna destroy your weather machine ...” Also impressive is “Down in Flames,” a crunching — and rather paranoid — rocker with the grim refrain, “It’s all going down in flames/It’s never going to be the same/God damn, ain’t that a shame?” Though the lyrics are dire, there’s a strong glimmer of hope just in the way Vaughter and Graney sing it. Maybe I’m nuts, but I think I detect a knowing wink in the delivery. Like most good EPs, The Golden Age of Climate Change leaves a listener wanting just a little more. The good news is that more might be just around the corner. This record has a subtitle: The ASK EP Project – Volume 1. “This series of themed EPs will cover a broad range of topics and styles,” the website says. “ASK’s current mission is to release a new volume with a new theme and new songs approximately every 3 months.” Here’s hoping the Space Kitchen crew follow through on that. Some other recent New Mexico records: * June 31 by Full Speed Veronica. It’s another rocking little trio that hails from this Enchanted Land. Guitarist Malcolm June and drummer Matt Worley started the band as a quartet with bassist Nathan Hey and someone named Brandon back in 2008. Hey left the group in 2016 and was replaced by Sarah Meadows. Like June, she’s an alumna of early 21st-century New Mexico rockers The Hollis Wake (and a former arts editor of the Santa Fe Reporter). Though definitely guitar-centric, Full Speed Veronica is less punky than, say, Alien Space Kitchen. Their melodic sound actually is closer to folk-rock, though they don’t sound much like The Byrds. Fortunately, they also don’t sound much like Three Dog Night or Billy Joel, both of whom are included in Veronica’s lengthy list of influences on their Facebook page. (But I would kind of like to hear them do a version of “Mama Told Me Not to Come.”) Among the standouts on June 31 are the opening song, “Barnburner,” which has hints of Byrdsy jangle and Dinosaur Jr. roar; the slow, minor-key “A Month of Sundays,” which starts out with June on acoustic guitar; and the soulful “The Great Escape,” which features Meadows on vocals. Check out Full Speed Veronica's Bandcamp page. You’ll find June 31 there as well as their previous two albums — Always Play the Part and Been Known to Lie, which are available for “name your own price.” * Walk in the Light and Dub to the Ite’s by King Shark. Alphanso Henclewood, the man behind the Shark, has lived in these parts for most of the last couple of decades, but he was born in Jamaica, the Greenwich Farm district of Kingston, to be exact. And it’s there where Henclewood returns every so often to record himself and his friends playing old-school reggae. According to a story in the Jamaica Observer last March, King Shark was there for “his most ambitious recording sessions to date” for which he “assembled a crack team of musicians to cut tracks for an album he hopes to release this year.” The story mentioned two songs — “Walk in the Light” and “Love Revolution,” which he recorded at the famous Tuff Gong studio. That “crack team” included guitarist Earl “Chinna” Smith, who has played with too many major reggae musicians to list here, and who is a boyhood friend of Shark’s. Walk in the Light consists of several versions and mixes of the two songs mentioned in the Observer. So a listener gets to know both songs inside out. My favorite tracks are the “Straight Mix” of the title song and the stripped-down Kete Drums mix of “Love Revolution.” The other new album under the King Shark banner, Dub to the Ite’s, features ten instrumentals with Smith and other stalwarts of the Shark’s impressive stable. Shark also has a new various-artist compilation, Kingston 13, which he produced, including singers like Pretty Rebel, U Mike, Peter Rankin, and Candyman. My favorite tunes here, though — “Got Feelings 4u” and “I Like to Know” — are love songs performed by a sweet-voiced female duo, Amanda & Queen Lydia Garcia. King Shark’s albums can be found at CD Baby, The Kingston 13 compilation also is CD Baby. Here are some videos Unfortunately I couldn't find any of Alien Space Kitchen's new songs. But here is one called "Alien Agenda" from their previous album: Here's Full Speed Veronica doing "Barnburner" on the Santa Fe Plaza last May All hail King Shark! Labels: tuneup TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST Sunday, January 19, 2020 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM E... 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__label__cc	0.53072	0.46928	Vocabulary spurts and grammar experiments What an exciting time! Alongside the ever-blossoming vocabularies the two grammar systems are gradually shaping up. Maximilian and Zoe experiment with their languages, they use a few conjugations and declensions, bend words and code-switch (mix Swedish and Russian in one sentence). Linguistic creativity is developing and is a source of a few smiles from Mom and Dad. Swedish or Russian? The children started their preschool just under 2 years of age. It was then that their preference for Swedish over Russian started to develop, especially when they talked to one another. After all, Swedish is spoken in many more domains here in Sweden than Russian. Max and Zoe only hear Russian from me and at play-dates that I arrange with other Russian-speaking families (plus when speaking to their grandparents in Russia during video-calls, as well as through cartoons and films in Russian). However, when I come to pick Max and Zoe up from the preschool, they start talking to me in Russian almost 100% of the cases. At home they speak both Swedish and Russian to me, and I answer in Russian. So, it seems that after a day in the preschool, after about 9 hours of Swedish only, seeing me works like a switch for them. They associate me with Russian, not Swedish. When Max and Zoe speak to each other, they prefer to speak Swedish but they do speak Russian from time to time, or insert Russian words here and there. They have a Swedish accent when they speak Russian. At Russian play-dates the children inevitably slide into speaking Swedish to each other, peer-communication is strongly associated with daycare and Swedish. We, the Russian-speaking mothers, have decided that we should organise a few games in Russian to kick-start play-dates in Russian next time. Sentences. At the age of 2 years and 5 months Max and Zoe’s sentences consist of 4-5 words. By the time they turned three they developed into real chatterboxes, especially Zoe. Their sentences were syntactically complex, and their vocabularies became so diverse that it was hard to keep track of new words. At the age of 2 years and 11 months Zoe started asking a lot of “varför” or “почему” (Swe. and Rus. for “why?”). She liked asking this question and I could see that she was proud of the fact that she understood what the question meant and how it could develop the conversation. With this understanding, her ability to build sentences with cause-effect relation in them also got stronger. Before she would look at me rather confused when I asked her to explain why something happened or was happening. Just before three years of age, she and her brother tried to come up with reasons for various situations: – Почему девочка плачет? ( Why is the girls crying?) – Она хочет к маме! (She wants to go to her Mom.) Third person vs first person. Both children still prefer to talk about themselves in third person at the age of 2,5 years: “Зоя сидит там! Это Зоин стул!” – Rus. “Zoe sits there! It is Zoe’s chair!” “Макс любит торт!” – Rus. “Max likes cake!” Speech therapist Olga Agashkina (Агашкина Ольга) informs the mothers who follow www.mama.ru, a webside created by developmental psychologists, speech experts and other knowledgeable experts in the domain of children’s development, that it is normal for children under 3 years of age to refer to themselves in third person due to their underdeveloped sense of individuality and independence from others around them. She continues that although there is no definite time-frame for the children to switch to first-person narration, parents should have a closer look at their children’s psychological and cognitive development if their children continue to refer to themselves in third person after the age of four. As they approach the magical age of 3, Zoe and Max start favouring first-person narrative. They like the assertive “Jag!” or “Я!” (Swe./Rus. “I”). They seem to have a clearer understanding of their position in the world: “Det var jag som målat det, mamma!” – Swe. “It was I who painted it, mommy!” “Это я сделала, мамочка!” – Rus. “I did it, mommy!” Thus, it is important now to emphasise who the agent, the doer, of the action is, especially if the doer is the beloved “I”. Furthermore, by the age of three they started saying sentences like: “Mamma, jag pratar med dig“/”Мама, я разговариваю с тобой!” (Mama, I am talking to you!), “Jag vill inte prata med dig!” (I don’t want to talk to you!), “Prata inte med mig!” (Don’t talk to me!). They must have acquired these ways to exercise their independence and authority at the preschool because we never say anything like that in our family. It is actually cute to hear something like this. Our children remind us that we should take them seriously. Genitive. At the age of 2 years and 5 months, both Max and Zoe were comfortable with using Genitive in Russian and Swedish: “Папина куртка” – Rus. “Dad’s jacket”, “мамина сумка” – Rus. “Mom’s bag” “Pappas cykel” – Swe. “Dad’s bicycle”, “mammas hatt” – Swe. “Mom’s hat” There was still confusion about the use of feminine and masculine verb suffixes in Russian in the past tense, and feminine suffixes prevailed all the way to three years: “Макс проснулась!” – Rus. “Max has woken up!” (used with a feminine ending) Occasionally Max and Zoe could build a genitive incorrectly, and it was fun to analyse their logic when they came up with such forms: мальчикин велосипед (Rus. “boy’s bike”, an incorrect suffix in Russian) Plurals. At this age, both children were experimenting with plurals in both languages. Both Swedish and Russian nouns have a more complicated way to build their plurals than, for example, English. The plural endings depend on the group that each noun belongs to, which increases the risk for mixing different endings. Still, Max and Zoe’s success rate was rather high. Often, if Max or Zoe were not sure about which ending to use, they could use a singular form instead, ex. “много машина”/”många bil” (Rus./Swe. “many car”). For example, in the following video (1), instead of “two cows” or “many cows” Max is saying “two cow” and “many cow” (Rus. “два корова”, много корова”). In video (1), Zoë says “Много кубик!” (Rus. “Many block!”). In Russian the situation with changing nouns according to the number is further complicated by the fact that the plural endings have their declensions too, like singular endings. If you say “two books, five books, with five books, about two books, etc” in Russian, each time the noun “book” (книга) will have a different ending. It is not surprising then that Max and Zoe made mistakes when they used plurals at the age of 2 years and 5 months! Making up singular forms of some words that are normally used in plural, like “slippers”, was also fun. Thus, at 2 years and 11 months, Zoe said “эта тапка” instead of “этот тапок” (Rus. “this slipper” used as feminine instead of masculine). Negation. Inte (Swe. “not) is Max and Zoe’s favourite way to negate, both in predominantly Swedish as well as predominantly Russian sentences: “Inte pappa sova!/Pappa inte sova!” (Swe. “Daddy not to sleep!”) “Inte кушать кашку, мама!” (Rus. “Not to eat the porridge, Mommy!” Zoe was the master of “inte”, “nej”, “не”, “нет” at this age (Swe./Rus. for “not” and “no”), meaning that she was constantly testing her independence and she loved doing everything her way. Max was also full of protests well in accordance with the proverbial “terrible twos”, but if Max just did not want to be disturbed and distracted from what he was doing, Zoe did not mind doing what was demanded of her, but she wanted to do it HER way: “Inte här tvätta händerna. Där tvätta händerna, Mamma! Där!” (Swe. “Not to wash the hands here. To wash the hands there, Mommy! There!” “Не хочу!”/”Vill inte!” (Rus./Swe. “I don’t want!”) and “Не буду!” (Rus. “I will not” (do something)) became Max and Zoe’s best friends and Martin and my worst enemies at this age. Even as a part of set phrases Russian “не” became Swedish “inte”: “Я чуть inte упал!” (Rus. “I almost fell”, has a particle “not” in it which is substituted by the same particle in Swedish “inte”). Word order. This aspect of grammar is of greater importance for Swedish than for Russian, since in Russian the word order is not absolute and variations are allowed (at least something is easier in Russian than in Swedish!). At 2 years and 11 months Zoe and Max’s word order in Swedish was relatively correct. There were no serious problems with the word order. One of my favourite websites for parents www.babycenter.com offers the following talking timeline for this age (the timeline is getting more English-language-specific if compared with previous years, but one arguably can draw parallels and compare with other languages): Knows 150 to 300 words. Uses short, two- or three-word sentences with lots of pauses (“Baby … fall down!” “Me go … school?”). Can carry on a simple conversation about something in the immediate environment. Asks simple questions frequently. Expands phrases from three- to six-word sentences and develops a vocabulary of 450 words, including lots of verbs. Uses past tense by tacking on a “d” sound to verbs (“runned”) and plurals by adding an “s” sound to nouns (“mans”). Uses pronouns (I, she, we) correctly. Red flag: If your 2- or 3-year-old echoes your questions rather than answering them, tell her doctor. This could be an early sign of a language delay.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line736
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__label__wiki	0.689308	0.689308	Difference between revisions of "Contra" (→‎Arcade) (13 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) [[Image:Contra - ARC - USA.jpg\|thumb\|256x256px\|North American arcade cabinet.]] '''''Contra''''' is a run-and-gun action shooter developed and published by [[Konami]] for the [[Arcade]] on 1987-02-20 and is the first in the [[Contra (universe)\|Contra series]]. It was later ported to various home computers and special ports that were quite a bit different were made for the [[Contra (NES)\|NES]] and [[Contra (MSX2)\|MSX2]]. '''''Contra''''' is a [[platform shooter\|run and gun]] video game developed and published by [[Konami]] for the [[Arcade]] on 1987-02-20 and is the first in the [[Contra (universe)\|''Contra'' series]]. It was later ported to various home computers and special ports that were quite a bit different were made for the [[Contra (NES)\|NES]] and [[Contra (MSX2)\|MSX2]]. I have never actually played or even seen Contra in the arcade. My first experience was with the [[Contra (NES)\|NES game]]. When I found out about [[MAME]], I wanted to see what Contra was like for the arcade, assuming it would be like a 16-bit version of the NES game, but I was a bit disappointed. I have never actually played or even seen ''Contra'' in the arcade. My first experience was with the [[Contra (NES)\|NES game]]. When I found out about [[MAME]], I wanted to see what ''Contra'' was like for the arcade, assuming it would be like a 16-bit version of the NES game, but I was a bit disappointed. * '''Overall:''' 4/10 * '''Best Version:''' Arcade {{Spoilers}} * The game is a pioneer of the run-and-gun genre and, at least for 1987, pretty impressive. * Using Giger's art style as adapted from the movie [[Alien]] was a great idea. It gives the game an over all creepy vibe. * Using [[H. R. Giger]]'s art style as adapted from the movie ''[[Alien]]'' was a great idea. It gives the game an over all creepy vibe. * Each level is pretty unique featuring new enemies, bosses, and environments. * I like the [[boss tease]] as you enter the alien's lair. You see a giant alien head and assume this is the final boss, only to have to face the heart. Contra - ARC - Manual.pdf\|Game manual. Contra - ARC - Ad.jpg\|Advertisement featuring a camouflaged cabinet and pointy boobs. Contra - Ad - EU.jpg\|European home computer advert. Features more of the box art. ===Gallery=== ===Graphics=== Contra - ARC - Logo.png\|Logo. Contra - ARC - Logo.png\|Arcade logo. * [https://www.spriters-resource.com/arcade/contra spriters-resource.com/arcade/contra] - Arcade graphics. ===Videos=== * [http://www.mobygames.com/game/contra mobygames.com/game/contra] - MobyGames. {{Link\|MobyGames\|http://www.mobygames.com/game/contra}} * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)] - Wikipedia. {{Link\|Wikipedia\|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)}} {{Link\|StrategyWiki\|https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Contra}} [[Category: Games]] [[Category: Game Mechanic - Boss Tease]] [[Category: Media Theme - Science Fiction]] [[Category: Amstrad CPC Games]] [[Category: Arcade Games]] [[Category: ZX Spectrum Games]] [[Category: Run and Gun]] [[Category: Multi-Player Co-op]] [[Category: Science Fiction]] [[Category: 4-bit Color Graphics]] North American arcade cabinet. Contra is a run and gun video game developed and published by Konami for the Arcade on 1987-02-20 and is the first in the Contra series. It was later ported to various home computers and special ports that were quite a bit different were made for the NES and MSX2. I have never actually played or even seen Contra in the arcade. My first experience was with the NES game. When I found out about MAME, I wanted to see what Contra was like for the arcade, assuming it would be like a 16-bit version of the NES game, but I was a bit disappointed. 3.1 Box Art 3.3 Maps 3.4 Graphics 4.1 Arcade I do not own any of the port and haven't beat any. Best Version: Arcade The game is a pioneer of the run-and-gun genre and, at least for 1987, pretty impressive. Using H. R. Giger's art style as adapted from the movie Alien was a great idea. It gives the game an over all creepy vibe. Each level is pretty unique featuring new enemies, bosses, and environments. I like the boss tease as you enter the alien's lair. You see a giant alien head and assume this is the final boss, only to have to face the heart. Survival comes less from skill, and more from level memorization. This requires you to spend a lot of quarters. Typical for 1980s arcade games, but not fun. The contrast in the graphics vary greatly from background to foreground objects. I presume this was done so the players would know where to concentrate their bullets, but the washed out colors of the backgrounds looks awful. The player's jumping animation is ridiculous looking. The football player robot boss is lame. The various ports are much worse than the arcade game. The North American arcade cabinet was pretty sparsely designed. It lacked a bezel and cabinet art, but did have a marquee, control panel, and side sticker. The marquee is a well-taken photo of two buff dudes in the jungle, one sporting a sexy mullet! Great logo art. A drawn version of the photo marquee. Not sure, but maybe created because of censorship? The side are features the same dudes in the jungle. This box was used for the North American Commodore 64 and DOS releases. It uses the same art and logo as the NES box, but reveals a bit more of the background. This box was used in Europe and the UK for the C64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum. It uses the full art, but the title is altered to "Gryzor." Advertisement featuring a camouflaged cabinet and pointy boobs. European home computer advert. Features more of the box art. Base 1. Waterfall. Snowfield, Energy Zone, Hangar, Alien's Lair. Arcade logo. spriters-resource.com/arcade/contra - Arcade graphics. youtube.com/watch?v=rD9G7OCmsfk - Arcade longplay. youtube.com/watch?v=5stKSYNk6Z8 - Amstrad CPC longplay. youtube.com/watch?v=9TLzIJIKxDs - Commodore 64 longplay. youtube.com/watch?v=KT5sZxc0R3s - ZX Spectrum longplay. Director Koji Hiroshita Programmers Satoru Okamoto, Hideyuki Tsujimoto, Koichi Cobra Graphic Designer Kengo Nakamura Special Designers Takashi Jinbo, Passionate Norio Music and Sound Kazuki Muraoka Engineer Rom Yamamoto English (America) Contra English (Europe) Gryzor Japanese 魂斗羅 Kontora Contra Retrieved from "http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Contra&oldid=28070" Links to StrategyWiki Game Mechanic - Boss Tease Media Theme - Science Fiction Amstrad CPC Games Commodore 64 Games DoJa Games DOS Games ZX Spectrum Games 4-bit Color Graphics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line748
__label__wiki	0.694341	0.694341	More info on 1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season Citrus Series Other pitchers Farm system 1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season 1997 Major League Baseball expansion draft 1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season: Wikis Categories: Tampa Bay Devil Rays seasons 1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays Major league affiliations American League (since 1998) Eastern Division (since 1998) Tropicana Field (since 1998) St. Petersburg, Florida (since 1998) 1999 information Owner(s) Vince Naimoli Manager(s) Larry Rothschild Local television Sportschannel Florida WWWB/WMOR WTSP (Joe Magrane, Dewayne Staats) Local radio WFLA (Paul Olden, Charlie Slowes) WBDN (Eulides Nunez, Enrique Oliu) The 1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season was their second since the franchise was created. They finished last in the AL East division with a record of 69 wins and 93 losses. Their manager were Larry Rothschild, who entered his 2nd year with the club. 1 Offseason 2.2 Transactions 2.2.1 Draft Picks 2.3 Citrus Series 2.4 The Rookie 3.2 Starting pitchers 3.2.1 Other pitchers 3.2.1.1 Relief pitchers 4 Farm system November 25, 1998: Dave Silvestri was signed as a Free Agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[1] December 11, 1998: José Canseco signed as a Free Agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. February 3, 1999: Joe Oliver was signed as a Free Agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[2] February 19, 1999: Julio Franco was signed as a Free Agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[3] March 31, 1999: Mike Kelly was released by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[4] On August 7, 1999, Wade Boggs had the 3,000th hit of his career.[5] The hit was a home run. New York Yankees 98 64 .605 -- Boston Red Sox 94 68 .580 4.0 Toronto Blue Jays 84 78 .519 14.0 Baltimore Orioles 78 84 .481 20.0 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 69 93 .426 29.0 April 9, 1999: Dave Silvestri was released by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[1] May 27, 1999: Aaron Small was signed as a Free Agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[6] July 23, 1999: Joe Oliver was traded by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays with Humberto Cota to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jose Guillen and Jeff Sparks.[2] June 23, 1999: Jim Morris was signed as a Free Agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[7] June 2, 1999: Josh Hamilton was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed June 3, 1999.[8] June 2, 1999: Carl Crawford was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 2nd round of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed June 14, 1999.[9] June 2, 1999: Doug Waechter was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 3rd round of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed June 27, 1999.[10] 1999 Marlins win series 5-1 June 4- Marlins 10- @ Devil Rays 0 June 5- Marlins 9- @ Devil Rays 7 July 9- @ Marlins 11- Devil Rays 4 July 10- Devil Rays 9- @ Marlins 8 July 11- @ Marlins 3- Devil Rays 2 While coaching baseball for the Reagan County Owls, Jim Morris made a promise to his team that he would try out for Major League Baseball if his team won the District Championship, something the team had never accomplished before. His team won the title, and Morris kept his end of the bargain. At tryouts, the Major League scout for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays initially wasn't interested in Morris. But, the scout agreed to allow him to try-out so Morris could keep his promise to his students. Surprisingly, Morris discovered that in spite of his age, and having several surgeries on his arm, he was able to throw a 98-mph fastball. In fact, he threw 12 consecutive 98-mph fastballs. After much debate with his family, Morris signed a professional contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization at the age of 35. He started out with the Minor League Class AA Orlando Rays but after a few appearances he moved up to a spot with the AAA Durham Bulls. Thanks to solid performances with Durham, Tampa Bay gave him a chance to pitch with the big club when the rosters expanded, and on September 18, 1999, against Royce Clayton of the Texas Rangers, the 35-year old Morris made his debut, striking Clayton out on four pitches. His goal of pitching in the majors was finally realized, and he made four more appearances later that year. 37 Scott Aldred 40 Wilson Alvarez 30 Rolando Arrojo 61 Mickey Callaway 35,37 Norm Charlton 47 Mike Duvall 48 Dave Eiland 28 Eddie Gaillard 39 Roberto Hernández 27 Cory Lidle 32 Albie Lopez 45 Jim Mecir 63 Jim Morris 46 Alan Newman 56 Bryan Rekar 24 Ryan Rupe 80 Julio Santana 31 Tony Saunders 62 Jeff Sparks 34 Dan Wheeler 51 Rick White 53 Bobby Witt 43 Esteban Yan 8 Mike DiFelice 23 John Flaherty 12 Wade Boggs 13 Miguel Cairo 28 Steve Cox 18 Julio Franco 26 Tony Graffanino 15 David Lamb 4 Aaron Ledesma 29 Fred McGriff 34 Herbert Perry 9 Bobby Smith 19 Kevin Stocker 10 Rich Butler 33 Jose Canseco 41 Danny Clyburn 30 José Guillén 50 Terrell Lowery 14 Dave Martinez 3 Quinton McCracken 44 Paul Sorrento 21 Bubba Trammell 2 Randy Winn 11 Larry Rothschild 6 Orlando Gómez 22 Billy Hatcher 25 Frank Howard 7 Greg Riddoch 5 Leon Roberts 38 Rick Williams John Flaherty 117 446 124 .278 14 71 Fred McGriff 144 529 164 .310 32 104 Miguel Cairo 120 465 137 .295 3 36 Wade Boggs 90 292 88 .301 2 29 Kevin Stocker 79 254 76 .299 1 27 Bubba Trammell 82 283 82 .290 14 39 Randy Winn 79 303 81 .267 2 24 Dave Martinez 143 514 146 .284 6 66 José Canseco 113 430 120 .279 34 95 See also: Minor league baseball AAA Durham Bulls International League Bill Evers AA Orlando Rays Southern League Bill Russell A St. Petersburg Devil Rays Florida State League Roy Silver A Charleston RiverDogs South Atlantic League Charlie Montoyo Short-Season A Hudson Valley Renegades New York-Penn League Edwin Rodríguez Rookie Princeton Devil Rays Appalachian League Bobby Ramos LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Orlando, Hudson Valley[11][12] ^ a b http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/silveda01.shtml ^ a b http://www.baseball-reference.com/o/olivejo01.shtml ^ Julio Franco Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kellymi02.shtml ^ Baseball Almanac - Boxscore of 3,000th Hit by Wade Boggs ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/smallaa01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/morrija03.shtml ^ Josh Hamilton Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ Carl Crawford Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ Doug Waechter Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007 ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/affiliate.cgi?id=TBD&year=1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Baseball Reference 1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays team page at www.baseball-almanac.com Baltimore • Boston • New York • Tampa Bay • Toronto Chicago • Cleveland • Detroit • Kansas City • Minnesota Anaheim • Oakland • Seattle • Texas Atlanta • Florida • Montreal • New York • Philadelphia Chicago • Cincinnati • Houston • Milwaukee • Pittsburgh • St. Louis Arizona • Colorado • Los Angeles • San Diego • San Francisco 1999 Major League Baseball Draft • 1999 All-Star Game • 1999 World Series Formerly the Tampa Bay Devil Rays • Based in St. Petersburg, Florida (Tampa Bay) History (Baseball in the Tampa Bay area) • Expansion Draft • Seasons • Records • Players • Managers and Owners • First-round draft picks • Broadcasters • Tampa Bay Rays Radio Network • Opening Day starters • All articles Tropicana Field • Champion Stadium • Rays Ballpark (proposed) Spring training: Progress Energy Park • Charlotte Sports Park Raymond • The Rookie • The Happy Heckler • More Cowbell • 9=8 • Florida Tuskers Boston Red Sox • Citrus Series Lou Piniella • Larry Rothschild • Fred McGriff • Aubrey Huff • Carl Crawford • Scott Kazmir • Wade Boggs • Carlos Peña • Dioner Navarro • Akinori Iwamura • Evan Longoria • B. J. Upton • Rocco Baldelli • Joe Maddon Owner: Stuart Sternberg • President: Matthew Silverman General Manager (de facto): Andrew Friedman • Manager: Joe Maddon AL Pennants (1) Division Titles (1) Durham Bulls (AAA) • Montgomery Biscuits (AA) • Charlotte Stone Crabs (A) • Bowling Green Hot Rods (A) • Hudson Valley Renegades (A) • Princeton Rays (Rookie) • Gulf Coast League Rays (Rookie) 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays team page at www.baseball-almanac.com - 1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays Roster by Baseball Almanac Joe Oliver Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Dave Silvestri Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Aaron Small Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Doug Waechter Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Jim Morris Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Mike Kelly Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Baseball Almanac - Boxscore of 3,000th Hit by Wade Boggs Carl Crawford Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Julio Franco Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com Josh Hamilton Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line753

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