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__label__wiki	0.54126	0.54126	HomeTV ShowsAmerican IdolKatharine McPhee New Single “Had it All” – Available on iTunes Katharine McPhee New Single “Had it All” – Available on iTunes 08/25/2009 mj santilli American Idol, Katharine McPhee 63 Katharine McPhee’s new single, “Had it All” from her upcoming album, Unbroken, due in stores October 6, is available on iTunes now. The song is written by Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, Dave Hodges and Mitch Allen Check out the song on her MySpace, or listen after the jump. If you like, download “Had it All” at iTunes: Katharine McPhee – “Had it All” “Had it All” is better than nearly everything on her post-Idol debut, Katharine McPhee. Maybe Kat’s found a label, Verve, who will do her right. But, that blonde hair? Just. No. American Idols Live – Boston MA 08/18/09 – Photo Galleries Phil Stacey: New Album, Into the Light, Out Today American Idol Bits and Pieces – 08/20/09 08/20/2009 mj santilli American Idol, David Archuleta, David Cook, Diana DeGarmo, Elliott Yamin, Kara DioGuardi, Katharine McPhee, Kelly Clarkson, Phil Stacey, Ruben Studdard 62 Idol news in a nutshell, ya’ll David Cook took the plunge. He’s finally joined twitterville with the rest of us! Follow David on twitter HERE. A newly blonde Katharine McPhee twitters excitedly about Katharine McPhee – Album Cover – Unbroken Check out the album cover for Katharine McPhee’s sophomore album, Unbroken, set to be released on Verve records, October 6. The blond hair was a stroke of genius to get the buzz going in Idol Bits and Pieces: Jennifer Hudson, Susan Boyle, Carrie Underwood, Glee and More 09/04/2009 mj santilli American Idol, Bo Bice, Carrie Underwood, Constantine Maroulis, Diana DeGarmo, Glee, Jennifer Hudson, Katharine McPhee, Simon Cowell 25 Jennifer Hudson and Chris Angel are two of the celebrity guests joining the Black Eyed Peas and Oprah Winfrey for her show’s 24th season kickoff party Tuesday, September 8. The taping begins at 5	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365313
__label__cc	0.541115	0.458885	Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now October 15, 2006–January 1, 2007 MoMA, Floor 6, Exhibition Galleries The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery MoMA, Floor 2, Exhibition Galleries The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries Taking the explosion of the screenprint in London in the early 1960s as its starting point, this major exhibition identifies significant strategies exploited by European artists to extend their aesthetic vision within the mediums of prints, books, and multiples. Seminal figures such as Richard Hamilton, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, and Georg Baselitz serve as anchors to sections that explore commercial techniques, serial abstraction, language, confrontational approaches, and the expressionist impulse. Concentrations of prints and books by Hanne Darboven, Mangelos, and Dieter Roth, among others, introduce work rarely shown in the United States and attempt to characterize distinctly European voices. Posters by Martin Kippenberger and Franz West reveal the exuberance of that medium, and wallpaper by Sarah Lucas, Peter Kogler, and Damien Hirst exemplify the recent fascination with this populist printed format. The contemporary section includes projects by younger artists from Eastern and Western Europe and showcases the creativity being channeled into printed art by today's generation. Comprising over three hundred works, including domestic and international loans, this exhibition is the first museum study of this innovative and lesser-known facet of contemporary art. The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication. Organized by Deborah Wye, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator, and Wendy Weitman, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. View the exhibition website Hear from artists about their work. 14 audios The exhibition is supported by the Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and David Teiger. Additional funding is provided by BNP Paribas, by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, by The Danish Arts Agency, by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, by The Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York, and by The Italian Cultural Institute. The accompanying publication is supported by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art. The accompanying educational brochure is made possible by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art and by The Cowles Charitable Trust. Eye on Europe: Prints, Books, and Multiples, 1960 to Now Wendy Weitman and Deborah Wye, 2006 Hardcover, 324 pages Buy from the Design Store Press release 8 pages View the press release American, born France. 1928–200516 exhibitions, 32 works online Swiss, born 19489 exhibitions, 55 works online French poster group, active May–June 19681 exhibition British, born 19668 exhibitions, 94 works online German, born 193844 exhibitions, 72 works online There are 147 artists in this exhibition online. 1 work identified 4 works identified All requests to license audio or video footage produced by MoMA should be addressed to Scala Archives at firenze@scalarchives.com. Motion picture film stills or motion picture footage from films in MoMA’s Film Collection cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For licensing motion picture film footage it is advised to apply directly to the copyright holders. For access to motion picture film stills please contact the Film Study Center. More information is also available about the film collection and the Circulating Film and Video Library.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365314
__label__wiki	0.857646	0.857646	Dozens of crashes reported on snowy roads in Minnesota, including I-35 pileup near Owatonna Andrew Krueger December 12, 2019 11:56 a.m. The northbound lanes of Interstate Hwy. 35 near U.S. Highway 14 at Owatonna are closed following a multiple-vehicle crash on Thursday morning. Updated: 12:45 p.m. A burst of snow sparked dozens of crashes on Minnesota highways Thursday morning — including a pileup of more than two dozen vehicles that closed northbound Interstate Hwy. 35 near Owatonna. The Minnesota State Patrol reported the I-35 crash involved 20 passenger cars and six jackknifed semis, but there were only minor injuries. It happened at about 9:20 a.m. in the northbound lanes about a mile north of the U.S. Highway 14 interchange. Northbound traffic was detoured off the interstate for the rest of the morning; the Patrol said the lanes reopened by about 12:30 p.m. TRAFFIC ALERT: Northbound I-35 at Owatonna near Hwy 14. Multiple jackknifed semi trailers. Traffic backups. Follow northbound detour: Hwy 14 west to Steele Co Rd 7 north to Steele Co Rd 2 east. Expect traffic delays into this afternoon. Check https://t.co/xbK5MXsJli pic.twitter.com/twOaJVrjrb — MnDOT District 6 (@mndotsoutheast) December 12, 2019 Elsewhere around the state, the Patrol reported 146 crashes on state and federal highways between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. Thursday, along with 106 vehicles that spun out or went into the ditch. A jackknifed semi sits on the side of Interstate Hwy. 94 near Sauk Center as Minnesota State Patrol responds. Troopers said Thursday that spotty areas of packed snow and icy patches on roads are causing several crashes and vehicles sliding off roads. Courtesy Minnesota State Patrol Eighteen of those crashes resulted in injuries, but the Patrol said there were no reports of serious injuries or fatalities. Snow was tapering off or had ended across much of Minnesota as of 11:45 a.m. Snow totals from the morning hours across the state included 4.5 inches near Pillager, 4 inches at Bluffton, 3.5 inches in Duluth and 3.4 inches at Mahtowa. Southern Minnesota saw a dusting of snow up to about an inch or two.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365317
__label__cc	0.577243	0.422757	Back Home > Books > Grief Books for Adults ›Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society Free Shipping Grief, Loss, and Death Free Shipping Circle of Love Tear Bottle with Mini Dome Item Number: 978-0-415-88481-5 Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field, including the implementation of specific models in clinical practice, family therapy for bereavement, complicated grief, spirituality, and more. The volume’s contributors come from around the world, and their work reflects a level of cultural awareness of the diversity and universality of bereavement and its challenges that has rarely been approximated by other volumes. This is a readable, engaging, and comprehensive book that will share the most important scientific and applied work on the contemporary scene with a broad international audience, and as such, it will be an essential addition to anyone with a serious interest in death, dying, and bereavement. Be the first one to review Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365319
__label__cc	0.539399	0.460601	02 Jul 2018 Media Release on Supply of Livestock for Korban 2018 Media Release on Supply of Livestock for Korban 2018 SUPPLY OF LIVESTOCK FOR KORBAN 2018 The Singapore Mosques Korban Committee (JKMS) is happy to announce that a total of 3,700 livestock will be offered for Korban this year from Australia. The community will also be able to perform Korban at 26 mosques this year. Registration for Korban 1. Registration for Korban 2018 opens on Tuesday, 3 July 2018 and will close on Wednesday 8 August 2018, subject to availability on a first-come first-serve basis. Members of the public who wish to perform Korban can register their intent and submit their particulars at the 26 listed mosques for orders of livestock. Hardcopy forms are available at all 26 mosques from Tuesday, 3 July 2018. Forms can also be downloaded from http://bigfootgroups.com/korban2018 2. There is no change in price for this year’s Korban. The price of each Australian sheep supplied by the Approved Korban Vendor (AKV) is set at $485.00. Animal Welfare and Public Health Standards 3. JKMS continues to work with the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) to explore the most suitable sources that meet the highest criteria of Singapore’s food safety, animal health and veterinary public health standards. 4. Big Foot Logistic Pte Ltd is the the Approved Korban Vendor (AKV)[1] for this year’s Korban and will import livestock from AVA-approved sources from Australia. 5. Korban using Australian sheep will be conducted at all mosques[2] that meet the requirements of Australia’s Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS)[3] regulatory framework. All Korban centres will adopt the same standard operating procedures for Korban operations, which includes transporting, handling and slaughtering of livestock. JAWATANKUASA KORBAN MASJID-MASJID DI SINGAPURA (JKMS) SINGAPORE MOSQUES KORBAN COMMITTEE List of Mosque for Korban 2018 [1] Big Foot Logistic Pte Ltd was appointed the Approved Korban Vendor (AKV) for 2 years (2017 & 2018) under a tender system [2] In addition to the 26 mosques, 2 Malay/Muslim Organisations will continue to offer Australian sheep this year. [3] ESCAS is a regulatory framework implemented by the Australian Government in 2012 to ensure that livestock exported from Australia to different countries are treated in accordance to the World Organisation for Animal Health’s (OIE) internationally accepted animal welfare standards. To comply, the Australian exporter must provide a report from an independent and internationally accredited auditor to certify that livestock to be exported meet the standards required from the farm to the point of slaughter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365320
__label__wiki	0.66234	0.66234	Flawed IRS letter creates tax-time confusion A botched letter from the Internal Revenue Service may end up in mailboxes over the next several days if it hasn't already. Wednesday, January 6th 2016, 4:51 PM EST But due to a typo, 2.7 million taxpayers are receiving identity protection PIN letters with the wrong year listed, and it's causing confusion. USING OUR APP? WATCH VIDEO HERE. AlertMe The IP PIN number helps the IRS verify identities when taxes are filed, and it sends the number every December or January. The number is supposed to provide an extra layer of security, but it's become a headache this year. And Jerome King, already a two-time identity theft victim, was wary. "The letter said everything was for the year 2014, not for the year 2015," he said. "I felt either IRS goofed up, or it was a fake letter, that they were going to try and take advantage of me." His first instinct was correct. All the flawed letters are dated Jan. 4 and say that the number should be used when you file 2014 taxes. It's supposed to say 2015. "Only IRS could do this to us," King said. Typo or not, the letter remains important because all other information -- including the PIN number itself -- is correct. "You don't want to throw this letter away thinking it's a scam, because if you don't put that number on your return, your return is going to be rejected," said identity theft expert Carrie Kerskie. The IRS said taxpayers will receive the botched letters through mid-January. Anyone with questions can call the IRS at 1-800-908-4490 x 245 or visit https://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/Filing-Season-Update-on-IP-PINs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365321
__label__wiki	0.547071	0.547071	Chicago Baseball David Ross Flies the W in ‘DWTS’ Finale; Will it Be Enough to Win? The retired Cubs catcher spun his way to a perfect score with partner Lindsay Arnold in the finale of the hit dance competition Published at 8:12 am on May 23, 2017 David Ross finally earned his home run on “Dancing With the Stars” Monday night and it couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. The retired Cubs catcher spun his way to a perfect score with partner Lindsay Arnold in the finale of the hit dance competition. The perfect score came during the pair’s second routine of the night –a baseball-themed freestyle dance that even hinted at one of Ross’ embarrassing moments during the Cubs’ World Series run. White Sox Spring Training Jan 21 White Sox Invite 27 Players to Spring Training in Arizona Cubs Spring Training Jan 21 Cubs Acquire Pitcher Travis Lakins in Trade With Red Sox Dancing to “It Takes Two / Take Me Out To The Ballgame” by District 78 ft. Cheesa, Ross and Arnold started off their performance selling peanuts to the crowd before breaking out into their dance. At one point, the two appear to be in a dugout before Arnold hops a railing and Ross attempts to follow her but fails. He eventually crawls under the railing in a nod to a similar moment where Ross took some extra time to get out of the dugout and celebrate with his team. The performance ends with Ross hoisted on fellow dancers’ shoulders with a “W” flag flying behind him. “Week one I said, ‘David, not a home run but you got to first base’ and every week after that I’ve been waiting for you to come out and knock it out of the park,” said Judge Len Goodman. “The only thing missing was a beer and a hot dog. That was fantastic.” Judge Carrie Ann Inaba called it Ross’ “personal best.” The dynamic duo had earlier performed their “redemption dance” by redoing their Viennese waltz. During rehearsals for the show, Ross admitted in a phone call with his family that he didn’t expect to be in the finale. “Daddy didn’t think he was going to be on the show this long,” he is heard telling his children. Goodman said Ross’ time on the show has been a “truly Cinderella story.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365322
__label__wiki	0.553386	0.553386	THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREYballet choreographed by Vladimir Logunov, after the novel by Oscar Wilde Performances Archive Premiere, 30th March 2015 / Main Stage Choreography and Stage Directing Vladimir Logunov Libretto after Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Dušan Milosavljev Selection of Music Aleksandra Paladin Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Michael Tippett, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gyorgy Ligeti Assistant Choreography Maja Varićak Antić Set Designer Boris Maksimović Costume Designer Katarina Grčić Nikolić Premiere Cast: Dorian Gray Dejan Kolarov Lord Henry Milan Rus Basil Hallward Taylor Clow Sybil Vane Bojana Žegarac Knežević James Vane Miloš Marijan Alice Vandeleur Maja Varićak Antić Lady Agatha Nada Stamatović Lulu, a Waitress Milica Jević Drndarević Hetty Brankica Mandić Duchess of Monmouth Nelka Lazović Duchess of Monmouth’s Brother Danil Kolmin John, a Sailor Jose Iglesias Mrs. Vandeleur Sanja Tomić Butler Igor Karakaš Ball Milja Đurić, Ljupka Stamenovski, Smiljana Stokić, Olja Đukić, Stefani Li Goldhan, Dejana Zlatanovski, Jovanka Zarić, Aleksandra Lojić, Mihajlo Stefanović, Čedomir Radonjić, Branko Sarić, Bernardo Badano, Nikola Bjanko, Raffaele Diligente, Martin Hamer, Danil Kolmin Inn Dragana Vujičić, Milena Ivić, Iva Ignjatović, Jelena Momirov, Tijana Šebez, Verica Stanojević, Marina Miletić, Drina Pešić, Željko Grozdanović, Miloš Kecman, Vladimir Panajotović, Max Robertson, Dušan Milosavljević, Branko Sarić, Čedomir Radonjić, Bernardo Badano, Nikola Bjanko, Raffaele Diligente Director of Ballet Konstantin Kostjukov Assistant Director Miloš Dujaković Organisers Brankica Knežević, Gojko Davidović Ballet Associates Milica Bezmarević, Marija Vještica, Paša Musić Assistant Costume Designer Ružica Ristić Computer design of the set Milica Maksimović Make-Up Dragoljub Jeremić Light Operator Miodrag Milivojević In Charge of the Set Crew Zoran Mirić Sound Operator Perica Ćurković Stage Manager Brankica Pljaskić ABOUT OSCAR WILDE One should be familiar with Wilde’s life in order to enjoy his books. Just like the good and prolific Renaissance masters, he held his life in his hands as a work of art (…) his excellent paradoxes on politics and nations, on richness and work have become outdated, while his witty sentences about life and art sparkle with more light every day. A lot has been written about Wilde, either malicious or positive. (…) The three main characters are merely three Wilde’s faces: a lord who wittily despises everything, a painter who desperately loves everything beautiful and a youth who plunges into pleasure looking for answers to the secret of life. In the fireworks of sharp sentences that mock everything, there is a beauty of words, which is only rarely found in literature. What we read there intoxicates the soul and makes the book seem to possess the power its title character believes into. Wilde simply astonishes with his vast knowledge of beautiful things. It is all scattered throughout the novel, sometimes recklessly, but with endless abundance. This is surely the most brilliant novel about decadent English aristocracy, more accurate than French novel The Red Lily by Anatole France. And when Wilde as an ironic psychologist and an impetuous moralist shall be long forgotten, only then Wilde’s glory as an aesthete will become strong. Because, as an aesthete, he represents one of the most exquisite minds who dedicated themselves to writing. Although he approached art only from its hedonistic side, since it probably is the only side to approach it, he wrapped it into mysterious greatness that ever since the ancient Greeks to this day nobody could accomplish. Therefore, the novel will be a special experience for everybody. Because, when you read it and forget all the characters and events in it, some sort of restlessness will remain in your soul for a long time owing to mysterious beauty of the novel, the sort that only the works dating from Greek and Renaissance times possessed, when they knew the truth, “Beauty is the only thing time cannot damage. Philosophies scatter like sand, religions succeed each other, but beauty is the delight of all times and belongs to eternity”. Extracts from Miloš Crnjanski’s review Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Feniks Libris, Belgrade, 2005 VLADIMIR LOGUNOV Vladimir Logunov is a ballet artist, choreographer and pedagogue. He was born in Belgrade on 28th July 1942. His first encounter with ballet happened in Split, where he attended ballet classes with the ballet pedagogue Mila Katić; in 1964, he graduated from the “Lujo Davičo” Ballet School in the class of Nina Kirsanova. The same year, he joined the Ballet Company of the National Theatre in Belgrade. Soon after, he became a soloist. He interpreted numerous significant ballet roles, Giselle – Hilarion, Swan Lake – Von Rothbart, Juan de Carissa – Double, Anna Karenina – Karenin, The Tales of Hoffmann – Dapertutto, The Legend of Ohrid – Sultan, Dual of Tancred and Clorinda – Warrior, Coppelia – Coppelius. Logunov won the National Theatre’s Award for the role of Coppelius in 1980. Logunov attended advanced training in choreography in Moscow, at the GITIS Theatre Academy in 1975. He did his first professional choreography in the “Boško Buha” Theatre in 1973. In 1974, he staged a short ballet to the music Behind the Sun Rays by Zoran Erić for the International Choreography Competition in Köln. As a choreographer, Logunov produced numerous successful ballet productions in all significant national theatres in the country and abroad; he cooperated in drama and opera productions with many renowned stage directors, such as Miroslav Belović, Nikita Milivojević, Radoslav Dorić, Jagoš Marković, Borislav Popović, Ivana Vujić, Irfan Mensur, Irena Ristić, Tanja Mandić Rigonat, Voja Soldatović, Paolo Magelli, Jovan Ristić, Dimitrije Jovanović, Vida Ognjenović, Miša Vukobratović, Egon Savin, etc. He was a Director of the Ballet Company of the National Theatre in Belgrade in period between 1980 and 1985. Choreographies: National Theatre in Belgrade Ballet productions: A. Vivaldi, Forma Viva (1979); K. Baranović, Licitarsko srce (1981); L. Minkus, Don Quixote (1988); Bizet / Shchedrin Carmen (1991); P. I. Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty (1996); D. Shostakovich, Autumn Rain (1999); E. Elgar / D. Đuričić, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2001). Operas: Eugene Onegin, Attila, Othello, Traviata, The Daughter of the Regiment, The Consul, Cinderella, The Marriage of Figaro, The Pearl Hunters, Macbeth, Don Carlos, Adriana Lecouvreur. Terazije Theatre – Musicals: Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss Me, Kate and A Chorus Line. Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad Ballets: K. Orff, Carmina Burana (1992); Shchedrin / Bizet, Carmen (1992); P. I. Tchaikovsky Serenade and M. Ravel Bolero (1993), Vangelis / S. Divjaković, Poem on Love (1996); P. I. Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake (2008) Operas: Traviata, May Night, The Queen of Spades Operetta The Bat Musical The Man of La Mancha Croatian National Theatre and Ballet School in Zagreb – ballet G. Bizet, Symphony in C (1989) Croatian National Theatre in Split – A. Dvorak, Symphony from the New World (1999) Gatherings in Ljubljana – short ballets: Senneville / Prokofiev, The Meeting (1981), L. Beethoven, The Moonlight Sonata (1985), Vangelis, Terpsihora (1987), Z. Erić Cartoon (1989). Ragusa Ballet, Italy – A. Dvorak, Symphony from the New World (1991) Ballet in Cyprus – P. I. Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker (1997), F. Chopin, Ballet (1999) and Bizet / Shchedrin Carmen (1999) Macedonian National Theatre Skopje – S. Stojkov, Tashula, The Slave of Ohrid (2004) National Theatre in Sarajevo – J. Marić, Exhibition of Paintings (2006) “Lujo Davičo“ Ballet School – P. I. Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker (on the repertoire since 1992) Ballet School in Novi Sad – S. Prokofiev, Symphony and G. Bizet, Symphony in C Awards and recognitions: Bronze Medals (1982, 1984) and Silver Medal (1986) at the Yugoslav Ballet Competitions in Novi Sad in the choreographer category. Award for many years of comprehensive activities in education of young talents (Association of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia) “Dimitrije Parlić” Award for best choreography in season 2001/02 for the production Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia), Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Award for Best Production in Season 2001/02 (National Theatre) Lifetime Achievement Award (Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia, 2003) Recognition for National Contribution to Culture (Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia) Special Golden Ring Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2014 The Cypriot Dance Committee proclaimed him an honorary member of the Cyprus Ballet. ALEKSANDRA PALADIN Aleksandra Paladin, MA, Musicologist, editor-in-chief for classical music in the Radio Belgrade 1, author and host of the Susretanja Show. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Musica Classica, the first classical music magazine in Serbia, an artistic director of the Musica Classica Light Festival. Aleksandra worked as a screenwriter and host in numerous programmes of the Musical Programme of the Television Belgrade. She authored series of programmes Belgrade in Musical Events in the XX Century and Alphabet of Music, produced by the Educational and Scientific Programme of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation. Aleksandra is engaged in researches regarding management in culture, application of music in media and Serbian history of music. She is involved in theoretical and practical side of therapeutic application of music in medicine. She presents her works from these areas of interest both in country and abroad. Aleksandra is involved in musical reviews. For almost a decade, she has been in charge of public relations of the Mokranjac Days Festival, and since 2014, of the Musical Programme of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). She worked as a promoter for numerous musical events; she wrote reviews for numerous music publications. She was a member of jury in musical competitions (Yugoslav Choir Festivities, Mokranjac Days, Golden Mermaid, Belgrade Children’s Spring, FEDEHO). She wrote textbooks for primary school and grammar school, brochure Susretanja – 30 Year Anniversary (SBC) and Following the Path of Music in Serbia – Festivals (Serbian Tourist Organisation), as well as the monograph Children’s Choir of SBC 1947–2012 – Challenge that Inspires (SBC). She wrote music for the film Mokranjac Forever (directed by M. Stamenković) and for staging of dramatisation of The Carnival of the Animals by C. Saint-Saens (AU Banjaluka). Performances - Ballet DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS – DREAM HUNTERS LA BAYADERE THE AUTUMN FLOWERS THE LADY OF THE CAMELIAS THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY WHO IS SINGING OUT THERE WOMEN IN D MINOR / LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365330
__label__wiki	0.560224	0.560224	Mural Painting Business Painted Wall Murals Mural Artists Bay Area Custom Murals Commercial & Public Murals Landscape & Nature Murals Beach & Ocean Murals Decorative Murals Trompe L’Oeil Murals Kids Murals All Mural Categories Mural Tour Map Mural Painting Process Mural Pricing Meet Morgan Painting Workshop Home Press ArticlesLocking down history: San Mateo Lock Works and Safe Center commissions downtown mural Locking down history: San Mateo Lock Works and Safe Center commissions downtown mural by Samantha Weigel, San Mateo Daily Journal For almost 90 years, the folks at San Mateo Lock Works and Safe Center have been serving the community and a recently completed mural blends some artistic flare with the owners’ proud history. Gary DeSantis co-owns the long-standing downtown business with his brother Steve and their partner Sid Shimabuku. From an original 1910 lock used at the city’s downtown jail, to state-of-the-art equipment able to program modern car keys, the Second Avenue store is like a miniature museum highlighting the history of locksmithing. DeSantis said he’s long wanted to spruce up the exterior of the building they own across the street from the movie theater and, after commissioning local artist Morgan Bricca, recently finished a new mural for all to admire. Directly adjacent to the Main Street Garage, hundreds walk through the alley and now by the artwork depicting two children peeking into a giant vault filled with sports memorabilia, jewels and mementos of the shop’s history. “We wanted something unique to reflect our business and this history of ours since we’ve been in business since 1927. We thought this would be a good way to dress up the building, improve the look of downtown San Mateo and illustrate some of the history,” DeSantis said, adding it would be great if other property owners also considered unique ways to dress up downtown. But he noted they’re fortunate to own the building that rents to several other tenants, which enabled them to commission the mural they plan to add to over time. “I don’t think a small business like ours can survive a long time without buying a property, especially with rents the way they are,” DeSantis said in a nod toward the area’s increasingly expensive rental market. Even with the extensive history behind their occupation and San Mateo Lock Works being a well-established business, DeSantis said they too are always looking to adapt and stand out. “We want to incorporate social media,” DeSantis said, suggesting a photo contest once they install a 3-D wrought-iron element into the wall and noting their shop is a frequent stop on downtown scavenger hunts increasingly popular with startup companies. A fan of the artist Banksy, DeSantis said he’s thrilled to have new art for all to see. “I’ve always been a fan of street artists, especially the guys that do the really interesting chalk drawings with the forced perspective, multi-dimensional stuff,” he said. With cellphones having overtaken the days of word-of-mouth recommendations or traditional advertising, DeSantis said he recognizes the importance of having an Internet presence and engaging the public. “We’re probably the first or second oldest business in downtown, so rather than just have that history that only really old people know about, we need everybody that’s looking for a service like ours to somehow realize that we’re a well-established business that’s family owned and been here since 1927,” DeSantis said. Whether you need something as simple as having a key cut, are looking to improve your home security systems or interested in a safe to store large valuables, DeSantis said they’re equipped for business. Plus, with a variety of displays including locks from the 1800s, rusted handcuffs, decorative door knobs, chastity belts and a refurbished safe used during prohibition at a long-gone speakeasy in San Mateo, there’s plenty to marvel at during a visit. “The history of locksmithing is very long. Houdini was a locksmith, that’s one of the reasons he could do what he could. We like to pay homage to the history of locksmithing,” DeSantis said, proud of the shop and its employees. “We have a great team of locksmiths that have all been here a long time and this will probably be the last job they have.” San Mateo Lock Works and Safe Center is located at 321 Second Ave., San Mateo. Visit www.sanmateolockworks.com for more information. View the original article Just…Wow!!! You are not only a talented artist and visionary but also a great orchestrator. Thank you for lending your skills to our project and allowing our team to help. You have added new life and energy to our STEM Leadership Classroom and the fruits of your labor will bring smiles to faces for many, many years. - Joanne Pasternack, Director, 49ers Foundation I have worked with Morgan on five mural projects over the past six years. I love her work and she is a pleasure to work with. Once you see how transformed your space is by the first mural, it is easy to start seeing other walls that could benefit from a ‘Morgan’. - Susan Wojicki, CEO, YouTube Morgan, you have a talent that can change the world. - Andrea Pinto, CoFounder, Choki.org The mural Morgan created for our building has been a major attraction for both locals and visitors in Downtown Napa. The transformation of an eye sore, to a work of art, has been nothing short of amazing. - Michael Holcomb VIEW MURAL MAP View my public murals on an interactive map. Start Mural Tour Receive beautiful mural art and inspiration in your inbox each month. 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__label__cc	0.599424	0.400576	The art of beekeeping: Falk and his bees. Falk Meyer has been a passionate beekeeper ever since he was twelve years old. With his Mercedes-Benz Vito, he transports a new batch of frames to his bee colonies in order to give them more space. A passion for the honey bee. A white Vito turns onto a wooded property. Between the trees there are over a dozen bee hives arranged in small groups. Falk Meyer gets out and fetches metal buckets with a chisel, broom and a protective jacket with a veil from the Vito. While the bees are humming rhythmically, Falk puts on his protective clothing and brings his smoker to fume and soothe them with the smoke. The hives are already busy: Bees buzz around and launching from the flight hole towards the flowers. The industrious animals constantly land fully loaded with yellow pollen on the approach boards and seek their way inside the hive. Falk carefully pulls a honeycomb, covered with bees, out of the hive and looks at it carefully. The passionate beekeeper knows very well why his heart has always belonged to the honey bee. “It is a very uplifting feeling every time you harvest your own honey. When the extractor has that fragrant aroma, then you try the honey for the first time, it’s phenomenal.” Scared of contact, not here: The buzzing of the bees has a calming effect on Falk. Bank clerk on weekdays, beekeeper on weekends. Falk Meyer has been a beekeeper ever since he was twelve years old. He started beekeeping 20 years ago quite by chance: In an over grown garden, he found a bunch of old, strange boxes that aroused his interest. At an info-event in his village he met an experienced beekeeper called Willi Arbeiter, who taught him the basics of beekeeping and actively supported him. “In the beginning you make mistakes which the bees partly offset. But the mistakes always lead to you gaining even more knowledge and then you do it right the next time.” What looks like a full-time job is in fact a hobby for the committed beekeeper. Beekeeping is the perfect counterbalance to a full-time job in a bank. “However, it is a hobby that requires a great deal of specialist knowledge and time. Putting a colony of bees in the garden and leaving the bees to themselves does not work.” The alpaca farmer Tim Hey specializes in the breeding of rare black alpacas. On his Amberley farm in West Dorset he keeps his fluffy "Inca Alpacas". The dedicated beekeeper came by his extraordinary hobby by chance. Apiculture Meyer: Homemade honey from happy bees. Bees, along with cattle and pigs, are among the most important domestic animals on our planet. Falk’s bee colonies pollinate several million flowers over the course of a year, making an important contribution to the conservation of trees and other plants. The philosophy of apiculture Meyer: “It is important to me that bee colonies are kept according to their nature. This means the beekeeper’s actions must be in harmony with the development of the bee colony and that he disturbs his bees as little as he possibly can. It is also important for him to treat his honey with care.” In Germany there is of course a purity law for beer, but there is also one for honey – the honey regulation. This says that beekeepers may not add or remove substances to honey. Just as the bee stores the honey in the honeycomb, it later lands in the honey glass. “You simply cannot produce food more naturally. ” And you can taste that, says Falk: “Depending on the location, you can tell the between different regions.” Falks top tips to help bees. Do without a short cut “English lawn”: Bees feed on nectar and pollen. They find neither food nor nesting places in a cut lawn. Sow wildflowers. With (native) wildflowers you can create a bee pasture, which serves the insects as a source of food. Buy or build a bee hotel for the garden or balcony: This also benefits wild bees, which are endangered as well as honey bees. Buy honey from the region: Thus, domestic beekeepers and a species-rich wild life will be supported. Become a (hobby) beekeeper yourself: A course with a beekeepers association for newcomers together with an experienced beekeeping mentor are the be-all and end-all, especially at the beginning, to learn theoretical principles and to have a competent expert at your side in practice. The “supreme discipline” of beekeeping. Meanwhile Falk takes care of 50 bee colonies at five locations. He has an online shop and delivers his own harvested honey to numerous traders in his area. “At the beginning, I just gave the honey away to relatives or friends, that was still all manageable. But with more than 20 colonies you can no longer consume the honey alone. So, my clientele base has built up over the years.” In addition, Falk devotes his attention to the breeding of the Buckfast bee, a breed that comes from the English monastery Buckfast. “Breeding the queen is probably the ultimate discipline in beekeeping. It combines all the skills a beekeeper needs to master in order to maintain good and efficient bee colonies and ultimately to succeed.” Additionally, the beekeeper is involved in a program that aims to tackle the fatal mite infestation of bees, which is a major cause of bees dying. After his work is done, Falk climbs into his Vito and drives home with a good feeling – his bee colonies are already busy producing honey, which he can harvest in the summer. With the Vito, Falk regularly travels between his five locations. With the Vito to homemade honey. The bee’s year is varied and depends on the annual rhythm of the bees. His Mercedes-Benz Vito helps Falk with the necessary work. The bees are largely left alone at the beginning of the year. From February, the bees are only checked to see if they still have enough food. “If I drive out to my bee colonies through the fields or through the woods, the Vito’s all-wheel drive is indispensable.” In April the bee season starts and with it comes a lot of work. So that the bees have enough space to store the honey, honey chambers are set up. April is also the starting point for transport to the rapeseed fields or to the orchards. “The bees need the temperature to be cool during transport. The windows in the Vito’s cargo area provide good air circulation.” From May onwards, the swarm inspection ensures that the bees do not swarm out unchecked. This would mean that about half of the colony would look for a new hive. The honey harvest in June marks the culmination of the work. “The Vito has a long wheelbase, so I can load more, which makes sense when the colonies are harvested. When the lime trees have blossomed, the honey extraction is finished. Now the bees are treated against the Varroa mite. After the treatment, the bees are fed in preparation for the winter. Most of the work is now done. Falk concludes: “The loading space of the Vito offers a lot of storage space. The uncomplicated engineering and the all-wheel drive also make it a vehicle that I find very suitable for everyday use”. The Vito is ideal for Falk to safely transport his equipment consisting of beehives, frames, honey buckets and so much more. Faithful companion: Falk's dog Qooper is always with him. The Buckfast bee is considered to be extremely gentle and easy to care for. The honey tastes different every year depending on the location and the flowers available. Falks bees have already diligently produced honey, which can be harvested soon. The hive is teeming: A honey bee colony can contain up to 80,000 bees in summer. 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__label__wiki	0.674451	0.674451	Do-It-Yourself Maintenance Owners Manuals Recalls/Campaigns Service Bulletins Service Manuals Nissan OBDII Codes Glossary & Acronyms More... Member's Ride Photos Stock Photo Gallery Classifieds - For Sale Classifieds - Wanted To Buy Classifieds - Mechanic Wanted Classifieds - Auto Services More Frontier: 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Overview Photos Price Specs Reviews Bulletins Recalls Bigger, Bolder, More Powerful Nissan Frontier Pickup Offers More Adventure and Utility For the 2005 Model Year The larger, more powerful 2005 Nissan Frontier King Cab pickup, which makes its world debut at the 2004 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, has more than a passing resemblance to the recently introduced Nissan Titan full-size pickup. Along with its modern, rugged styling, the all-new Frontier which goes on sale at Nissan dealers nationwide in winter 2004 shares a number of significant features with Titan, including its rugged suspension design, innovative spray-in bedliner, Utili-track bed channel tie-down system and fully boxed, all-steel frame based on the Titan platform. The award-winning Titan sets the standard for innovation in pickup design, regardless of size which, in turn, set the tone for the creation of the 2005 Frontier, said Mark McNabb, vice president and general manager, Nissan Division, Nissan North America, Inc. With the debut of the all-new Frontier, we're solidifying Nissan's truck presence in both the full-size and compact truck segments essentially giving buyers the same tough truck in large and extra large. The 2005 Frontier will be offered in both King Cab and Crew Cab body styles (the Frontier Crew Cab will be shown for the first time at the Chicago Auto Show in February 2004) and in 4x2 and 4x4 driveline configurations. The new Frontier, like the previous generations, will be assembled at Nissan's manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee. While the key word in conceiving the 2005 Frontier was "more" as in more power, more size, more off-road capability, more towing and cargo hauling capacity, more comfort and utility the key to bringing concept to reality was the adoption of the Titan's all-new F-Alpha platform. Starting with strong, fully boxed frame rails, the new F-Alpha platform provides a rugged foundation on which to build. The 2005 Frontier's wheelbase is 9.8 inches longer than the current Frontier, which helps enhance ride comfort and stability. The overall length of 205.5 inches is larger than the current model (+2.6 inches King Cab, + 5.6 inches Crew Cab), though it remains a perfect "activity size" for buyers who don't need a true full-size pickup. Width and height measurements are also increased with the new design. The 2005 Frontier shares its suspension layout and many component designs with Titan, including an all-steel double-wishbone front suspension and rigid leaf rear suspension with overslung leaf springs and a long suspension stroke for optimized off-road ride. Frontier also offers standard power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering and 4-wheel disc brakes with Anti-lock Braking System (ABS). The Frontier, like Titan, is also expected to provide exceptional acceleration, towing capacity and all-around off-roading ability, due in large measure to its powerful new engine a 4.0-liter DOHC V6 producing 250-plus horsepower and 270-plus lb-ft of torque (final figures will be announced closer to production). These figures represent increases of 70 horsepower and 68 lb-ft of torque over those of the current normally aspirated 3.3-liter V6-equipped Frontier. The new 4.0-liter V6, based on the award-winning Nissan VQ engine series used in the 350Z, Maxima, Altima, Murano and Quest, is specifically tuned for the unique demands of truck use, while at the same time offering excellent fuel efficiency and smooth operation. The 4.0-liter V6 design includes Continuous Valve Timing Control (C-VTC), Nissan variable Induction Control System (NICS), silent timing chain, microfinished camshaft and crankshaft surfaces, molybdenum-coated pistons, resin intake manifold, digital knock control system, cross flow engine coolant pattern, high capacity muffler, lightweight aluminum block and platinum-tipped spark plugs. The Frontier V6 will be assembled at Nissan's advanced engine production facility in Decherd, Tenn. A 2.5-liter DOHC inline 4-cylinder engine will also be available on the base Frontier King Cab model. The new Frontier will be offered with a choice of transmissions an advanced 5-speed automatic or a 6-speed manual transmission. Frontier 4x4 models include a shift-on-the-fly 4-wheel drive system with 2WD/4H/4LO modes operated by an electronically controlled part-time transfer case. In addition, a new advanced off-road traction system will be available with 4x4 models, along with performance gas shocks and alloy wheels with off-road performance tires. Overall off-road capability has been substantially enhanced in virtually every aspect. The Frontier is offered with a range of available wheels and tires, including 17-inch wheels with 265/65R17 tires. The Frontiers maximum towing capacity is rated at more than 5,500-plus pounds. A Bigger, Bolder Body With increases in all critical exterior and interior dimensions, it is easy to see that with this generation Frontier has grown up, said McNabb. The new Frontier also projects a more modern, rugged truck look and feel, both inside and out, with a robust, athletic style and intelligent-utility design features. As with Titan, Nissans designers wanted to create a bolder, more expressive, more adventurous exterior. They also wanted the exterior to be clearly identified as a Nissan, utilizing signature Nissan truck themes, including a chrome, angled strut grille, chrome bumpers, short front and rear overhangs, large geometric fender flares. Like Titan, the 2005 Frontier offers new levels of innovation in areas where it matters most to truck owners, including the bed. Both the Frontier King Cab and Crew Cab models offer an available high-utility bed that includes a factory-applied spray-in bedliner and the new Utili-track tie-down system first introduced on Titan. The Utili-track system provides ultimate cargo hauling flexibility through the use of five special "C" cross-section rails mounted in the bed (two channels in the bed floor, and one each on the bed side rails and the bed header panel). Removable utility cleats slide into the channels, providing a wide range of attaching points for securing cargo. In addition to the tie-down cleats, a full range of accessories will be offered for use with the channel system, including bed dividers, sliding cargo trays, modular storage units and bike racks. A Highly Flexible Interior Just as the high-utility bed offers Frontier owners an exceptional level of flexibility and utility, the Frontier's interior features outstanding functionality combined with comfort and intelligent design. Both the Frontier King Cab and Frontier Crew Cab feature large rear doors (rear hinged on King Cab) for easy access to the rear seating and cargo area. The Frontier King Cab features flip-up rear seats and both cab styles offer new solutions to cab storage and flexibility. "The interior of the new Frontier, again following the high design standards set by the Titan, serves as a catalyst for active lives. It is both purpose-built and no-nonsense, yet at the same time offers the innovative, intuitive functionality and comfort that has been missing in the segment," said McNabb. The 2005 Frontier also includes a long list of safety equipment, including Zone Body construction with front and rear crumple zones, Nissan Advanced Air Bag System (which includes dual-stage front supplemental air bags with seat belt sensors and a front occupant classification sensor), and 3-point front seat belts with pretensioners and load limiters. Also offered are supplemental front seat side-impact air bags and available supplemental curtain air bags for side impact and rollover protection for front and rear outboard passengers, 3-point seat belts for all rear seat occupants, including center position (Crew Cab) and the LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren) child seat anchor system. Need A Repair Shop? Find local automotive repair shops in your area. AutoCodes.com Shops Find Do-It-Yourself Projects Get the maintenance schedule Get the owners manuals Find the latest recalls/campaigns Find the latest service bulletins Get the service manuals Classifieds - Wanted To Buy Classifieds - Mechanic Wanted Classifieds - Auto Services Also on Nissanhelp.com Nissan OBDII Codes AutoCodes.com Engine-Codes.com HelpForCars.net Infinitihelp.com Nissanhelp.com Copyright 1999-2018 Nissanhelp.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365343
__label__cc	0.569693	0.430307	New Jersey Public Safety Officers Law Blog Dedicated to Corrections Officers, Policemen, & Firemen throughout the Garden State Published by Frank M. Crivelli Public Employment Pension Crisis Subscribe to Public Employment Pension Crisis Pension Bill Requiring Quarterly Payments Heads To Christie’s Desk By Donald Barbati on November 22, 2016 Posted in Public Employment Pension Crisis As reported by NJ.com, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to send Governor Chris Christie a bill that will require the State to make quarterly payments to New Jersey’s ailing public worker system. The proposal, which cleared the Senate by a 35-0 vote and the Assembly 72-0, is a reworked version of similar legislation Christie twice vetoed. … Another Pension Bill Sits on Christie’s Desk–What Will He Do This Time? By Frank Crivelli on November 22, 2016 As reported by JT Aregood from the New Jersey Observer, just months after Senate President Steve Sweeney declined to post a bill that would have effected the change with a voter-approved constitutional amendment, Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey passed a plan to require the state to make payments into its underfunded public pension system … New Bloomberg Report Casts Dim Light on NJ’s Pension System By Michael DeRose on November 4, 2016 Posted in Public Employment Pension Crisis, Retiree Benefits As reported by N.J.com, New Jersey’s distressed government worker pension system is now the worst funded in the U.S., according to a report by Bloomberg. The Garden State’s public pension fund has languished near the bottom, but has now dropped below Kentucky and Illinois for last place, according to the report. Their analysis compared… State Pension Guarantee Dead For November Ballot By Donald Barbati on August 9, 2016 As reported by NJ.com, Senate President Stephen Sweeney rejected calling for a crucial vote Monday on a referendum asking voters to constitutionally guarantee state payments into the government worker pension fund, killing its chances of appearing on the November ballot and disappointing public labor unions. The likelihood that Sweeney, once the prime champion of… Deadline For NJ Senate To Take Action On Public Worker Pension Amendment As reported by NJ.com, Senate leaders have spent weeks trying to build a supermajority to override Governor Chris Christie’s opposition to a Transportation Trust Fund tax package, a plan that also holds the fate of a voter referendum on public worker pensions. And for the last week, they’ve said they’re within a vote or… N.J. To Slash Pension Investments In Hedge Funds That Were Criticized By Unions As reported by nj.com, the State Investment Council on Wednesday agreed to slash New Jersey’s investments of public-sector pension dollars in hedge funds by more than half, responding to labor union concerns that the alternative investments are not paying off. At the council’s last meeting in May, union representatives called for drastic reduction in… Panel Assembles in Philadelphia to Discuss Possible Solutions to Nationwide Public Employment Pension Crisis By Michael DeRose on July 28, 2016 On Tuesday, various state officials gathered just a few blocks from the Democratic National Convention to discuss the pension problems being faced by states across the country. Among the panelists was New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester). Read about some of the interesting solutions proposed at: http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/16/07/26/how-can-new-jersey-other-states-rescue-underfunded-pension-systems/ Moody’s Comments on Various NJ Pension Issues By Donald Barbati on January 21, 2016 As reported by NJ.com, Moody’s Investors Service again sent up a warning flare that a possible New Jersey Supreme Court ruling striking down cuts to public retirees’ pension benefits would soak the struggling retirement system with new pension liabilities. But in its latest report released on the “extraordinary decisions and challenges” the Garden State… NJ Lawmakers Clash Over Forcing Bigger Pension Payments By Donald Barbati on January 8, 2016 As reported by NJ.com, State Senate President Stephen Sweeney and labor leaders defended Sweeney’s proposal to constitutionally enforce payments into the public pension system against arguments it’s a gift to special interests that will shackle New Jersey’s finances. The scrap between Sweeney and labor leaders versus Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr. and business… Lawmakers Push Pension Ballot Question On Forcing NJ To Make Payments By Donald Barbati on December 18, 2015 As reported by NJ.com, a referendum to amend the New Jersey Constitution to require the State to make contributions to public worker pensions cleared the State Assembly Judiciary Committee on Thursday during a discussion that drew sharp criticism from a Republican lawmaker. Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi (R-Bergen) faulted Democrats for pushing the legislation through without… Newer PostsOlder Posts Frank M. Crivelli is a partner in the law firm of Crivelli & Barbati, L.L.C. 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__label__wiki	0.792932	0.792932	Money and Sand: Will There Be Enough for New Jersey’s Beaches? Kirk Moore \| September 29, 2016 \| Energy & Environment Beach replenishment is costly and exacts a heavy toll on the environment, depleting underwater ridges that are home to a broad variety of sea life The Army Corps of Engineers did an extensive beach replenishment this summer in Harvey Cedars, extensively depleting underwater ridges. Even before hurricane Hermine threatened to strip New Jersey’s beaches yet again late last summer, skeptics questioned how the state and Army Corps of Engineers can commit to spending nearly $2 billion in beach replenishment through the mid 21st century. “This project is another important component of the Christie administration’s plan to bring engineered beaches and dunes to the entire coast,” state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin said September 2, as he announced work would start soon on a new project, pumping another 3.8 million cubic yards of sand from the sea floor onto eight miles of beach from Atlantic City to Longport. Mercifully, Hermine headed farther east over the Atlantic Ocean, sparing New Jersey’s beach replenishment program another price increase. But the question of whether the program is misguided, due to its high price on both the taxpayers and the environment remains. It will need continual rejuvenation as even the best-engineered beaches lose sand frequently regardless of storms. As sand becomes increasingly valuable, fisherman expect underwater ridges to be depleted, despite being home to large schools of fish and other sea life. And with an expected sea-level rise, there’s no telling how the ecosystem will adjust or how much sand will be required. The only certainty is that local underwater sand hills will be exhausted before century’s end. Judging from the experience with building Long Beach Island beaches — where historic ridges called the Harvey Cedar Lumps are nearly mined out — it appears certain that underwater sand hills close to the beaches will be gone within decades. Fishermen question the cost to the environment from demands for more and more sand on the beaches. A seafloor survey of sand ridges off Manasquan commissioned in June by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management raised alarms that the Corps of Engineers could dredge more sand from undersea hills that are essential fish habitat. Collectively known as the Manasquan Ridge, the hills attract seasonal concentrations of fish, and could be a future “borrow area,” where sand is extracted to pump onto nearby beaches. “They are already planning to use borrow areas closer to the beach,” said captain James Lovgren of the Fishermen’s Dock Cooperative in Point Pleasant Beach, who, with other fishermen, met with DEP officials in late July regarding their concerns about sand mining. Sand mining will continue throughout much of this century, however. Beyond initial construction phases, major beach replenishment projects now underway or planned have 50-year lifecycles, and will run up $1.92 billion for continued dredging and pumping of sand through the 2060s, according to the Corps’ Philadelphia district office. That office plans and manages the coastal protection program in partnership with the state Department of Environmental Protection. The Corps’ estimated basic price tag would exceed the $1.5 billion in adjusted costs spent on New Jersey beach projects in the past 25 years, according to the Center for the Study of Developed Shorelines at West Carolina University. Those price tags are escalating steadily, said professor Robert Young, the center’s director, whose database shows New Jersey is a close second place behind Florida, the champ at winning federal taxpayer dollars to rebuild its beaches. “If you look at beach nourishment nationally, the cost has been going up pretty rapidly over the last decade or so,” Young said. Take the example of the planned beach widening in northern Ocean County from Manasquan Inlet to Island Beach State Park. It is projected to cost $167 million in initial construction, with first bidding expected this fall. That includes mining sand from those offshore borrow areas, pumping a slurry of seawater and sand through pipelines, and pouring it onto the beach. DEP officials have said they expect parts of the northern Ocean County project to go to bid in early fall, and on Thursday morning the DEP commissioner was scheduled to make an announcement in Lavallette. In 2002, an earlier Corps of Engineers projection for that job was around $70 million. “So right there in 12 years the cost for that project has more than doubled,” Young said. The current plan is to build a beach at least 100 feet wide for 14 miles, backed by an engineered sand dune cresting 22 feet above sea level. Planted with dune grass to catch and anchor windblown sand, the dune will hopefully protect densely developed beach communities from being flattened again by storm waves as happened during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Beach replenishment projects were common along the Jersey Shore in 2013 following Hurricane Sandy. Beyond construction costs, there will be the need for periodic renourishment with fresh sand — nominally every three to five years, but more frequently after major storms. The Corps of Engineers and New Jersey are still tapping an additional $1.2 billion appropriation by Congress after Sandy. Federal and state planners are clear-eyed about those commitments, said Robert Considine, a DEP spokesman. “The state and the Corps go into these projects knowing there will be needs for renourishments every few years — but not a total reconstruction,” Considine said. “Usually, you’re talking about 10 percent of the volume of sand in a renourishment. We would anticipate funding for those renourishments as we’ve had.” It is a continuing cost New Jersey must pay, not just to protect homes and property but the state’s $43 billion tourism industry, Considine said: “So I think it’s safe to say future funding for renourishments would be a priority.” The cost is shared between 65 percent federal funding from Congress, and 35 percent state and local share, much of it from $25 million a year dedicated from the New Jersey real-estate transfer tax. State lawmakers from Shore counties are proposing to boost that annual appropriation to $50 million, but housing advocates and other interest groups are fighting that move. Even some of those who benefit from the dune construction projects question their wisdom. Beachfront property owners in Bay Head are raising the issue of future funding in their court fight with state officials seeking construction and dune maintenance easements for their own project. “They can’t even put money into bridges and roads. How can we depend on them to maintain the beach and dunes?” said Thacher Brown, whose family has owned their home on the beach since 1928. He and his neighbors pay to privately maintain a stone revetment and dunes. “We don’t need the government to come in and take over our beach, end our rights to maintain our beach.” “The system that is in place (revetment and dunes) has been in place for over 100 years and has track record,” said Anthony Della Pelle, a Morristown lawyer representing the Bay Head group and other Shore property owners appealing the state’s plan in Superior Court in Ocean County. Skeptics are not reassured by the post-Sandy decision to install a four-mile steel sea wall through Mantoloking and Brick as a last line of defense to prevent another ocean breakthrough of the barrier beach and damage to the rebuilt Route 35. Pounded by hurricane Hermine’s swells, the beach in front of the steel barrier eroded and sections were off-limits to visitors for days after. “The steel wall is like a basketball backboard. The water hits it and bounces off,” washing away even more sand, said Thom Ammirato of the Bay Head group. A few miles to the south, the Army Corps and state are in the last stages of the $138.2 million Long Beach Island beach replenishment. That project has been held up as a model for how beach engineering can protect against storm damage. During Sandy, most of the island was swamped by floodwaters as the storm surge filled the back bay. But along the oceanfront, areas where the beach project had been completed, like Harvey Cedars and Surf City, were protected from the battering storm waves that demolished Mantoloking. Yet after sand losses from the winter of 2015-2016 — not a particularly rough storm season — the Army Corps and contractor Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company were back at work this summer, widening the narrowed beaches. In all, the Long Beach Island project is using 11 million cubic yards of sand, about 27 percent more than the 8 million cubic yards in the original plan. Projected renourishment costs for northern Ocean County would be $513.9 million through 2065. Similar totals appear in Corps of Engineers estimates for maintaining Long Beach Island, Atlantic City and the rest of Absecon Island, and Ludlum Island from Ocean City to Sea Isle City. Then there is Monmouth County, where 21 miles first widened in the 1990s are still the world’s biggest beach replenishment project. The Corps had to throw another $38.2 million into the stretch of Deal, Allenhurst, and Loch Arbour after Sandy. A second beach refill from Deal into the Elberon section of Long Branch is ongoing. “The cost is an unknown. We don’t know how the cost might accelerate, and we don’t know if a four-year replenishment cycle will be adequate,” said Young of West Carolina University. Already the federal and state governments are looking to protect much more costly urban real estate and infrastructure from the effects of storms and sea-level rise. In early September the Christie administration announced the favored outcome of the Rebuild by Design project, a $230 million flood-barrier system to protect the Hudson County urban waterfront of Hoboken, Weehawken, and Jersey City from another Sandy. Across the Hudson River, the same kinds of studies — assisted in a big way by Dutch engineers with long experience in flood protection — foresee a system of dikes and floodgates protecting lower Manhattan. Some estimates put the final price tag at $3 billion. Along with lots of money, continuing beach replenishment needs lots of sand. Most sand put on the beaches during major construction will stay in the system near shore, even when it washes off during storms. “The sand that is nearby is going to come back” during mild weather, said Norbert Psuty, professor emeritus with the Department of Marine and Coastal Studies at Rutgers University. “But then a major storm comes and takes it into deeper water, so you have to replace it.” Not just any sediment will do; it must be the proper grain size and consistency to match what is already at the edge of dry land. The best stuff now on the sea floor just offshore used to be prehistoric beaches. “There are places with no sand, places with a thin layer of sand, ridges of sand nine, 10, 12, 15 feet high … Basically they are old barrier beaches, old tidal deposits,” said Psuty, an expert in coastal geomorphology, the study of how coastlines form and change over time. Thousands of years ago, New Jersey’s beaches were miles to the east until rapidly rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. Now those drowned barrier islands “tend to be loaded with clams, crabs, lobsters. The fish are there going after all the other resources” and that in turn makes the ridges productive grounds for commercial and recreational fishing, Psuty said. Click to expand/close Recreational fishermen first spoke up in early 2015 after learning that a smaller seafloor mound, located between Mantoloking and the Axel Carlson artificial fishing reef, had been designated “Borrow Area B.” Those 265 acres will be a source for the initial phases of beach construction. After their meeting in late July, both fishermen and DEP officials called the discussions about Manasquan Ridge productive. Jim Lovgren, one of the fishing captains who helped organize the meeting, said there was agreement that if offshore features are to be tapped for sand, it must be done conservatively, maintaining the contour and structure of ridges. “We will do our best to work with BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) and our own New Jersey Geological Survey to identify where the best sand is that will have the least impact on the fishing community,” DEP spokesman Considine said. “We’ll also need them to identify what are the fishing habitats they’re concerned about before things get too far down the road.” Anglers call those small hills “lumps,” and their elevation attracts sea life and makes for productive fishing. Similar undersea terrain called the Harvey Cedars Lumps, about 24 miles south, near Long Beach Island, lost much of its 600 to 700 acres of area to extraction as the Corps of Engineers widened those island beaches. There were discussions between the Corps, state officials, and fishermen about the Harvey Cedar Lumps, but “they aren’t there any more,” said Glenn Arthur, chairman of the New Jersey Council of Diving Clubs. The Manasquan Ridge area — designated Area F2 on the Corps plan — is much larger at 1,700 acres. It would be the reserve for periodic replenishments over the 50-year life of the northern Ocean County project. Early environmental assessments for beach projects recognized the ecological value of the sand ridges, and dredging is “supposed to scrape the tops, not dig big holes in them,” Psuty said. “Something on the order of 10 percent of these ridges have been tapped,” Psuty said. “Off Monmouth County, a number of ridges are already exhausted.” “This is really what it’s all about, balancing the sediment budget,” Psuty added. If there is not enough sand left on a section of beach, and the nearby deposits have been tapped out, a future replenishment may require going farther offshore — with correspondingly higher costs in time and equipment to get the sand to shore. “There are constraints. It’s a matter of considering, through time, that the resources will be exhausted. There’s no question of that,” Psuty said. In the meantime, barrier islands will be under pressure from sea level rise, even under conservative estimates of a one- to two-foot rise along New Jersey over the coming century. “Sea-level rise will force the coastline to retreat. That might be the least appreciated factor,” Psuty said. “They will have to put in dikes, pumps to get the water out. Streets will get flooded, bridge approaches, more often.” “Eventually you won’t be able to maintain the infrastructure,” Psuty said. But in the meantime, he noted, “We’re willing to do almost anything.” “These beach replenishment projects are classic examples of cumulative environmental impacts,” Young said. When dredging and beach fillings are rare events, ecosystems likely recover without long-term effects, he said. “But if you do it every four years, and you do it everywhere, and you have dozens of square miles of borrow areas, that’s different.” “This is not something you can expect to do forever,” Young said. “That, for me, is what makes these 50-year plans so problematic. Nobody knows who’s going to pay.” TAGS: CONGRESSIONAL	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365345
__label__wiki	0.917813	0.917813	SAGA Goes On Year-Long 'Intermission' By Chris Arrant, Editor July 24, 2018 12:57pm ET Credit: Fiona Staples/Fonografiks (Image Comics) Image Comics' long-running Saga will be having a year-long 'intermission' following this week's #54. In a letter published in the backmatter of this week's issue, series writer/co-creator Brian K. Vaughan explains the reason behind his and Fiona Staples' decision. "After fifty-four issues and over 1,200 consecutive pages of sequential storytelling together, Fiona and I have decided to take an extended break before we eventually reunite with Saga #55. And unlike our usual three months of 'Vacationanza' between arcs, we plan to pause publication of this series for at least the next year." "This obviously wasn't a decision we took lightly, but Fiona and I feel a responsibility to keep making the very best comic we can, and we both agreed that he only way to eventually finish the epic saga we set out to tell was with this one significant... let's call it... Intermission!" Vaughn said this 'intermission' will allow the two of them to "creatively recharge (and to reconnect with our non-fictional families)" and that Image Comics, Fonografiks, and Image's publisher/co-partner Eric Stephenson are supporting the decision. Back in July 2017, Vaughn (through his company Twitter PanelSyndicate) tweeted that, at the time, he and Fiona that thought that they haven't even reached the halfway mark to the series' end. Saga #45 had just come out at that point. Saga #54 goes on sale July 24, with a collection of this arc due out September 26.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365358
__label__cc	0.590698	0.409302	Laurence Hegarty hegartyl@newschool.edu Originally from London Laurence Hegarty has lived in New York for more than two decades. Initially trained as an artist Hegarty's interests have wandered over the years leading him to pursue film studies and psychoanalysis as partners in the conversation that shapes his studio practice. Hegarty has trained as a psychoanalyst and he now maintains a private practice in New York City. Though the two disciplines –studio art and psychoanalysis– are not integrated in any way, it is the overlaps and collisions between them that shape Hegarty's art making. Often staged as parades or processions his installations employ found objects jostling for space alongside figures hoisting flags, batteries of rubber cameras, weapons, carriages and sundry domestic objects. Frequently used are photographs and fragments of writing plundered from poems, psychoanalytical texts, European art cinema, and liquor commercials. The general tone is theatrical, the loose organizing principle narrative while the references trade in allusions to popular culture, political turmoil, clinical horror and drunken reverie. Hegarty is also a writer, curator and teacher. His work can be seen at: Laurencehegarty.com Cinema (Re)reinvented New Wave Cinema	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365359
__label__wiki	0.94748	0.94748	Wilson boys edge Lee High in cross country The Green Hornets edge the Leemen 32-38, while Wilson girls were almost perfect in their victory. Wilson boys edge Lee High in cross country The Green Hornets edge the Leemen 32-38, while Wilson girls were almost perfect in their victory. Check out this story on newsleader.com: http://www.newsleader.com/story/sports/high-school/2016/10/12/wilson-boys-edge-lee-high-cross-country/91972792/ Staff Report Published 8:15 p.m. ET Oct. 12, 2016 \| Updated 3:27 p.m. ET Oct. 21, 2016 File(Photo: File, File) FISHERSVILLE - Wilson Memorial's boys cross country team turned in an impressive effort Wednesday, putting four of its runners in the top 10 to edge Robert E. Lee in a quad meet at the Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center. The Green Hornets took third, fourth, sixth and seventh place to overcome a 1-2 finish by the Leemen's Oliver Wilson-Cook and Jacob Warner and win the meet with 32 points, five points better than Lee's total of 38. In the girls meet, it was all Wilson, which put its five scoring runners in the top six to finish with 18 points, easily outdistancing Lee, which finished with 42. Wilson-Cook and Warner took the top two spots in the boys race with respective times of 16:52 and 17:06 over the 5-kilometer course. After that, Wilson's Vincent Leo (17:21) and Kyle Bryant (17:30) came home in third and fourth, with Justin Stewart (17:42) and Jacob Schrauder (17:52) taking sixth and seventh, and Jeremiah Sanders completing the Hornets top five with a 12-place finish in 18:37. Coming in after Wilson-Cook and Warner for Lee were Cooper Yurish (10th, 18:29), Calvin Siemers (11th, 18:31) and Alex Lightner (14th, 19:34). Buffalo Gap, Stuart Hall and VSDB also had runners in the boys race. For the Bison, Oriol Marin finished 20th in 20:12, while Camron Ray was 28th in 21:08. The Dragons' top finisher was Jamison Mccarty (24th, 20:52), while VSDB was led by Benedict Johnson, who was 33rd in 23:01. Wilson's girls also had a 1-2 finish from Natalie Prye (20:53) and Spencer Tuttle (20:54). The Lee Ladies' Sophie Kozlowski was third in 21:06, and the Green Hornets' Olivia Farley (21:06), Erica Sanders (21:32) and Ashtyn Davis (22:16) took fourth, fifth and seventh, respectively, to clinch the meet. Buffalo Gap's Annika Fisher broke into the top 10, placing sixth in 22:10, as did the Lee Ladies' Haley Corbin (8th, 22:22) and Kitty Tillen (10th, 22:40). Wilson's Paige Miller got in between Corbin and Tillen to take ninth in 22:27. Rounding out Lee's top five were Savannah Corbin (12th, 23:03) and Emily Van Assendelft (17th, 24:43). Also getting into the top 20 for Gap were Anna Cahill (14th, 23:36) and Marybeth Strickler (17th, 24:33). Stuart Hall's top finisher was Gillian Steger, who was 27th in 26:08. Boys Varsity Cross Country Results — Oct. 13, 2016. by Tom Jacobs on Scribd Girls Varsity Cross Country Results — Oct. 13, 2016. by Tom Jacobs on Scribd The News Leader's player of the year breaks school rushing record Javon Battle leads Storm to Shenandoah District win Kirby Ransome leads Fort Defiance to bounce-back win Kasey Branch the most dominant player on a dominant Stuarts Draft defense Sibling rivalry influences Holmes' mat success High school basketball rankings have new leaders after week of district play	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365360
__label__wiki	0.647118	0.647118	Ramucirumab for treating advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma previously treated with chemotherapy Technology appraisal guidance [TA378] Published date: 27 January 2016 2 The technology 3 The company's submission 4 Committee discussion 6 Appraisal Committee members, guideline representatives and NICE project team 7 Sources of evidence considered by the Committee Clinical effectiveness Summary of Appraisal Committee's key conclusions The Appraisal Committee reviewed the data available on the clinical and cost effectiveness of ramucirumab, having considered evidence on the nature of advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma and the value placed on the benefits of ramucirumab by people with the condition, those who represent them and clinical experts. It also took into account the effective use of NHS resources. 4.1 The Committee considered the nature of gastric cancer and gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. It acknowledged that the prognosis for people with this disease is very poor. In addition, it understood that gastric cancers have a major impact on the person's quality of life, as well as that of carers and other family members. The Committee heard from clinical experts that although there have been some advances in this disease area over the last 2 decades through the use of chemotherapies and a targeted agent (for people with HER2 amplification), there was still a need for new active agents, in particular, for those people whose disease had progressed after prior chemotherapy. The Committee concluded that the outlook for people with this disease was poor and that new active treatments offering improved outcomes were needed. 4.2 The Committee noted that the company submission had considered 2 populations, in line with the marketing authorisation for ramucirumab. Each population included people with advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma with disease progression. The Committee noted that for people in whom treatment in combination with paclitaxel is appropriate, progression must be after platinum and fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy, whereas for people in whom treatment in combination with paclitaxel is not appropriate, progression must be after platinum or fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy. The Committee heard from the clinical experts that about 50% of people have an initial active treatment, and that for these people, current clinical practice usually includes a triple regimen of an anthracycline (or trastuzumab for people with HER2 amplification), a platinum agent and a fluoropyrimidine. The Committee also heard that about 30% of people will have a second treatment after their disease progresses while on the first treatment, at which point ramucirumab would be considered. The Committee concluded that the populations included in the company submission were appropriate and in line with current clinical practice. 4.3 The Committee considered the company's decision problem, and noted that it was in line with the NICE scope, with the exception of the choice of comparators. The Committee understood that the company had carried out a survey of UK treatment patterns, which found that best supportive care was the most commonly used option in UK clinical practice for people whose disease has progressed after chemotherapy, and therefore the company considered that best supportive care was the only relevant comparator for ramucirumab. However, the Committee noted comments from professional groups that active treatments, particularly the taxanes (docetaxel and paclitaxel), are routinely used throughout the UK, and that irinotecan and FOLFIRI are sometimes used, although to a much lesser extent. With regard to deciding between the taxanes, it heard from a clinical expert that for the population under consideration, paclitaxel is an established treatment option in the tertiary centre in which the expert works. Regarding docetaxel, the Committee heard from clinical experts that after the publication of the COUGAR‑02 study results, there was a shift in clinical practice towards increased use of docetaxel but that this trend has not continued because of its toxicity profile. It also noted that the company had chosen paclitaxel as the comparator for its own trial. Finally, the Committee noted the clinical expert's statements, which reported 'there is clinical equipoise between weekly paclitaxel and three‑weekly docetaxel and the choice depends on physician and patient preference'. The Committee understood that people who are considered fit for ramucirumab in combination with paclitaxel must by definition be able to tolerate paclitaxel monotherapy. Given this rationale in conjunction with the comments from clinical experts, the Committee was not persuaded that best supportive care was an appropriate comparator for the ramucirumab plus paclitaxel population. The Committee considered whether best supportive care was the only relevant comparator for ramucirumab monotherapy. It understood that the company considered that people for whom treatment in combination with paclitaxel is not appropriate could be more broadly characterised as not eligible for cytotoxic chemotherapy. It further understood that there are no alternative non-cytotoxic active treatments for the disease. The Committee therefore agreed with the company that best supportive care would be the only option for the ramucirumab monotherapy population. The Committee concluded that for people for whom ramucirumab combination therapy is appropriate, paclitaxel and docetaxel were both relevant comparators and are in established use in clinical practice in England. Best supportive care was not considered an appropriate comparator for this population because people who are considered suitable for ramucirumab in combination with paclitaxel must be suitable for paclitaxel alone. FOLFIRI and irinotecan were not considered relevant comparators for this population because they are not in established use. The Committee further concluded that best supportive care was the only relevant comparator for ramucirumab monotherapy when treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy is not appropriate. 4.4 The Committee discussed the nature and quality of evidence for the clinical effectiveness of ramucirumab in combination with paclitaxel (RAINBOW) and for ramucirumab monotherapy (REGARD). Regarding ramucirumab monotherapy, the Committee was aware that the trial population for REGARD was very similar to that of RAINBOW, and it heard from clinical experts that the only notable difference between the trials was the choice of comparator. It heard that REGARD started 1 year earlier (2009) than RAINBOW (2010) and that the difference in comparators reflected a change in clinical practice in that year. The Committee considered that there was some uncertainty in whether people in REGARD were eligible for paclitaxel. However, it was persuaded that overall the evidence was representative of the population included in the marketing authorisation for ramucirumab monotherapy. It also noted that there was no other evidence put forward for this population, and considered it likely that no further evidence for this population would become available in the future. Regarding the evidence for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel from the RAINBOW trial, the Committee was aware that the population in the study was in agreement with the marketing authorisation and that the Evidence Review Group (ERG) had considered the study to be a good‑quality, international, randomised controlled trial with low levels of uncertainty because of the mature overall‑survival and progression‑free‑survival data. The Committee concluded that the REGARD trial was suitable evidence on which it could base a decision on the clinical efficacy of ramucirumab monotherapy. It further concluded that the evidence from the RAINBOW trial was also appropriate for basing a decision on the clinical efficacy of ramucirumab plus paclitaxel. 4.5 The Committee considered the relative clinical‑effectiveness evidence for ramucirumab. It was aware of the overall‑survival and progression‑free‑survival outcomes for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel compared with placebo plus paclitaxel (see section 3.5) and for ramucirumab plus placebo compared with placebo plus best supportive care (see section 3.13). Regarding the clinical safety of ramucirumab, the Committee was aware that neutropenia was the most frequently reported serious adverse event, with a higher incidence in people who had ramucirumab. The Committee noted that the European public assessment report (EPAR) on the clinical safety of ramucirumab concluded that it was generally acceptable and in line with other similar treatments, and the Committee therefore considered that overall it did not have any particular safety concerns. The Committee concluded that ramucirumab plus paclitaxel provided an extension to life of 2.3 median months in overall survival with similar toxicity to placebo plus paclitaxel. It further concluded that ramucirumab plus best supportive care provided a median extension to life of 1.4 months compared with placebo plus best supportive care, and that it also offers an active treatment option for people for whom cytotoxic chemotherapy is not considered appropriate. 4.6 The Committee discussed the network meta‑analysis that had been carried out by the company. It noted that the mean additional survival gains using the results of the network meta‑analysis for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel were 4.13 and 6.03 months compared with docetaxel and best supportive care respectively. The Committee questioned why these survival gains were substantially higher than the median overall‑survival gains seen from the trial data. It considered comments from the ERG that the results of the network meta‑analysis should be interpreted with caution because of the heterogeneity of the included studies. The network was weakened by 2 crucial links. First, the Committee was aware that the network of evidence relied on the Hironaka et al. (2013) study that was in an entirely Japanese population where there is a national screening programme to diagnose the disease in the earlier stages. It also heard from the clinical experts that patients included in the Hironaka et al. study had much longer survival gains than are typically seen in UK clinical practice. The Committee noted comments from the company during consultation that there was no clear biological rationale for why the hazard ratio from the Hironaka et al. study (which relied on the relative rather than absolute treatment effect of paclitaxel compared with irinotecan) would be different in a western population. However, the Committee noted that no evidence had been presented to confirm that this would be the case, and so it was still of the opinion that there was significant uncertainty about using the results of this trial in the network meta‑analysis. Second, the network also relied on the Thuss‑Patience et al. (2011) study, which had few patients and was stopped early. The Committee noted comments from the company during consultation that the early termination of the trial was related to difficulties in recruitment, rather than efficacy, so the trial results should still be unbiased. However, the Committee, noting that the trial was based on a sample of only 40 randomised patients, considered the point estimates for the treatment effect to be associated with considerable uncertainty. The Committee discussed how network meta‑analysis can be useful to strengthen the evidence base, but noted that in this case there were multiple single trials between ramucirumab and docetaxel, each associated with increased uncertainty, and with no link to ramucirumab other than the RAINBOW trial. The Committee was also mindful of clinical expert statements (see section 4.3) that the choice between paclitaxel and docetaxel depends on physician and patient preference. The Committee was aware that the guide to the methods of technology appraisal (section 5.2.12) states 'Data from head‑to‑head RCTs should be presented in the reference‑case analysis'. The Committee therefore considered there to be no requirement to accept the results of the network meta‑analysis, with its associated uncertainty, rather than directly relevant head‑to‑head data from a good‑quality, international, randomised controlled trial with mature overall‑survival and progression‑free‑survival data. The Committee concluded that for the basis of decision‑making, the results of the network meta‑analysis would not be used in preference to the RAINBOW trial data comparing ramucirumab plus paclitaxel with paclitaxel plus placebo. 4.7 The Committee considered the company's economic models for ramucirumab combination therapy and monotherapy. It noted that the structures were identical, but that they included different populations according to the indications for combination therapy and monotherapy in the marketing authorisation. The Committee was aware that the structure of the models was commonly used for cancer cost‑effectiveness analyses with pre‑progression, post‑progression and death states, and considered that this was appropriate. The Committee was further aware that the ERG had included the following adjustments to the model in its base case (see section 3.45): Corrected programming errors and errors relating to the price of docetaxel. Corrected the double counting of hospitalisations because Healthcare Resource Groups' (HRGs) codes referring to adverse events also take hospitalisations into account. Used region 1 data for stratifying length of hospitalisation stay and treatment stratification. Used body surface area and body weight based on region 1 data instead of the intention‑to‑treat population data. The Committee was aware that the company had confirmed the errors related to programming and the price of docetaxel at clarification stage, noting that the impact on the ICER was negligible. The Committee considered that the drug acquisition costs for ramucirumab and paclitaxel had been underestimated by the company because they were based on the average weight of all people in the RAINBOW trial, about one‑third of whom were Asian. It therefore agreed with the adjustments carried out by the ERG to use region 1 data for body surface area and body weight. It also agreed with the ERG's adjustments to correct for double counting of hospitalisations, and to adjust length of hospitalisation stay for region 1. The Committee noted that the ERG's adjustments resulted in ICERs compared with best supportive care of £129,400 and £188,100 per QALY gained for the combination‑therapy and monotherapy models respectively. The Committee concluded that the model submitted by the company was robust and suitable for the purposes of its decision‑making and that the ERG's suggested amendments to the model were appropriate. 4.8 The Committee considered the use of health‑state utility values in the model. Regarding the health‑state utility value for the pre‑progression health state, the Committee understood that the model used the baseline utility value adjusted for treatment response and adverse effects. It was aware that the company's approach assumed that this value remained constant throughout the time that a person is in the pre‑progression health state. The Committee discussed the alternative approach suggested by the ERG in a scenario analysis, in which it used the RAINBOW trial data from different time points during the pre‑progression period to avoid adjusting the trial data. The Committee expressed a preference for data that do not have to be manipulated and therefore agreed that the ERG's approach was reasonable. It noted that the impact of this scenario analysis was very small (decreasing the ERG's base‑case ICER by less than £50 per QALY gained). The Committee concluded that, although it made only a minor difference to the ICER, it had a preference for using the ERG's approach to modelling pre‑progression health‑state utility and that this was incorporated into its consideration of the most plausible ICER. 4.9 The Committee considered the use of parametric curves for estimating progression‑free survival. It understood that the company had used this approach because the 6‑weekly assessments caused a stepped curve, so parametric curves were used to incorporate interval censoring. It noted that this approach was inconsistent with the methods used for the combination‑therapy model to estimate overall survival, in which the company had used Kaplan–Meier data from the trial. The Committee was aware that the company had carried out sensitivity analyses for the combination‑therapy model using alternative parametric curves and that this had made little difference to the ICER. The Committee noted that the progression‑free‑survival data were mature and it considered that the company's approach to fitting parametric curves to estimate progression‑free survival rather than using Kaplan–Meier data from the trial was not necessary. It concluded that although it has a preference for using direct trial data when they are available, this did not influence the cost‑effectiveness analyses and therefore the company's approach to modelling progression‑free survival was considered acceptable. 4.10 The Committee understood that treatment with ramucirumab is continued until disease progression and therefore the assumptions around frequency of assessment of disease progression were potential drivers of cost effectiveness. This was because the total acquisition costs of the technology were dependent on this assumption. It understood that people in the trial, and therefore in the model, were assessed for progression every 6 weeks. The Committee heard from the clinical experts that this reflected UK clinical practice. The Committee concluded that the assumption of 6‑weekly assessments was therefore reasonable. 4.11 The Committee considered the most plausible ICER for the combination‑therapy model. The Committee was mindful of its previous conclusions that paclitaxel and docetaxel are both appropriate comparators for ramucirumab combination therapy (see section 4.3), that the overall survival and progression‑free survival results of the network meta‑analysis should not be used in preference to the direct head‑to‑head data from the RAINBOW trial (see section 4.6), and its preferred approach to the utility values for the pre‑progression health state (see section 4.8). On this basis, the Committee considered the most robust estimate was the ERG's exploratory analysis, which used RAINBOW trial data for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel compared with placebo plus paclitaxel, and which used utility values from RAINBOW data over different time points during the pre‑progression period. The Committee therefore concluded that the most plausible ICER for people with gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma for whom treatment in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy is appropriate was £408,200 per QALY gained (representing incremental costs of £35,100 and incremental QALYs of 0.09). 4.12 The Committee considered the most plausible ICER for the monotherapy model. The Committee was aware of its earlier conclusions during which it established that best supportive care was a valid comparator (see section 4.3), and in which it accepted the adjustments to the model made by the ERG (see section 4.7). The Committee therefore concluded that the most plausible ICER for people with gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma for whom further cytotoxic chemotherapy is not appropriate was £188,100 per QALY gained (representing incremental costs of £22,500 and incremental QALYs of 0.12). 4.13 The Committee considered supplementary advice from NICE that should be taken into account when appraising treatments that may extend the life of patients with a short life expectancy and that are licensed for indications that affect small numbers of people with incurable illnesses. For this advice to be applied, all the following criteria must be met: The treatment is indicated for people with a short life expectancy, normally less than 24 months. There is sufficient evidence to indicate that the treatment offers an extension to life, normally of at least an additional 3 months, compared with current NHS treatment. The treatment is licensed or otherwise indicated for small patient populations. In addition, when taking these criteria into account, the Committee must be persuaded that the estimates of the extension to life are robust and that the assumptions used in the reference case of the economic modelling are plausible, objective and robust. 4.14 The Committee noted the views of the company that ramucirumab combination therapy fulfils all 3 end‑of‑life criteria when compared with best supportive care or docetaxel. It considered whether ramucirumab met the first criterion for an end‑of‑life treatment that patients have a short life expectancy, normally less than 24 months. It noted that patients in the placebo plus best supportive care arm of the REGARD trial had a median overall survival of 3.8 months, and patients in the placebo plus paclitaxel arm of the RAINBOW trial had a median overall survival of 7.4 months. The Committee therefore concluded that the life expectancy for people with advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma was less than 24 months. 4.15 The Committee considered whether ramucirumab offered an extension to life of at least 3 months. It was aware that the company had considered this criterion had been met using results of the network meta‑analysis for overall survival gains compared with best supportive care (6.03 months), and compared with docetaxel (4.13 months). It was also aware that the company had stated during consultation that the overall‑survival gains of all relevant comparators should be considered when determining if the end‑of‑life criteria have been met. The Committee considered the survival gains for all relevant comparators (see section 4.3 for the discussion of relevant comparators), but it was aware of its previous conclusions about the network meta‑analysis, and considered that the overall‑survival gain from the network meta‑analysis for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel compared with docetaxel was not plausible, objective or robust. The Committee considered that the RAINBOW trial data for overall survival were mature, and therefore the modelled mean overall survival gain of 1.30 months compared with placebo plus paclitaxel using direct evidence from the RAINBOW trial was the most robust estimate available, and consequently the only estimate on which it could consider the criterion relating to extension to life of at least 3 months. The Committee therefore agreed that ramucirumab plus paclitaxel did not offer an extension to life of at least an additional 3 months. The Committee was aware that the company had only presented a case for ramucirumab combination therapy to fulfil the end‑of‑life criteria, and that the median survival gain of ramucirumab monotherapy was 1.4 months compared with placebo plus best supportive care from the REGARD trial. The Committee therefore considered ramucirumab monotherapy did not offer an extension to life of at least an additional 3 months. 4.16 The Committee considered the total size of the population in the ramucirumab marketing authorisation for advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma for people who have already had platinum therapy. It noted that the company had estimated the size of this population in England as 657 people. It understood that the company had calculated this figure by using 2012 Office for National Statistics (ONS) data adjusted to 2015 (the effect of which was to reduce the figure by around 500 people) to give 8270 people with gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. The Committee heard from the ERG that since this appraisal started, 2013 ONS data have become available, and that these data showed the number of people with gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma had not gone down, but had increased to 9198 people. The Committee therefore considered that any downward adjustment was not needed. The Committee agreed with the company, based on data from Cancer Research UK, that 80% of people with gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma have metastatic or advanced disease. The Committee noted that the company then assumed 43% of people have oncology treatment (based on data from the 2013 National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit), representing those who have palliative oncology treatment, with the remaining 57% having best supportive care, palliative surgery, and endoscopic or radiological palliation. Of this 43%, the company had then used a figure of 77% (also based on the audit data) to calculate the number of people who would have chemotherapy, with the remaining 23% having either radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy. The Committee considered the audit data to be a reliable source. It noted that, in the final step of the company's population estimate, the company assumed 30% of people who have chemotherapy go on to have second‑line chemotherapy. The Committee heard from the ERG that this was based on a survey of UK treatment patterns that the company had conducted 1 month before COUGAR II had been published, and that since then the positive results for docetaxel in the COUGAR II study may have led to increased use of chemotherapy in general. In the absence of other data, the Committee considered the value of 30% was reasonable, but believed there to be some uncertainty because of changes to clinical practice since the results of COUGAR II were published. The Committee estimated that based on a population size of 9198 people with gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, and using all other company assumptions, the total population would be around 731 people. The Committee considered that the total population size for the ramucirumab marketing authorisation for advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, for people who have already had platinum therapy, was likely to be greater than 731 people, but fewer than 1000 people. The Committee, noting that this range was considerably less than 7000, concluded that the small population size criterion was met. 4.17 The Committee concluded that the end‑of‑life considerations could not be applied for ramucirumab in combination with paclitaxel or as a monotherapy, because in both cases the extension‑to‑life criterion of at least an additional 3 months was not met. 4.18 The Committee discussed how innovative ramucirumab is in its potential to make a significant and substantial impact on health-related benefits. It noted that ramucirumab is the first biologic agent to have shown efficacy in people whose disease had progressed after chemotherapy, and that it provides an active treatment option for people for whom cytotoxic chemotherapy is not appropriate. Mindful of its conclusion in section 4.1 about the prognosis for people with this disease, the Committee also agreed that this is an area of high unmet medical need, with consequences not only for people but also carers and family members. However, the Committee concluded that all health‑related benefits had been adequately captured by the QALYs in the model, and it agreed that ramucirumab did not offer a step change in the treatment of this disease. 4.19 The Committee concluded that ramucirumab in combination with paclitaxel for the treatment of adults with advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, with disease progression after platinum and fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy, was not a cost‑effective use of NHS resources at the usual range of ICERs (£20,000 to £30,000 per QALY). It further concluded that ramucirumab monotherapy for the treatment of adults with advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma with disease progression after platinum or fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy, for whom treatment in combination with paclitaxel is not appropriate was not a cost‑effective use of NHS resources at the usual range of ICERs (£20,000 to £30,000 per QALY). 4.20 The Committee discussed whether there were any equality issues it should consider before making its recommendations. It noted the company submission and comments received during consultation had stated that the lack of an available licensed treatment after disease progression on chemotherapy can lead to inequalities in access in different parts of England. It considered this was an issue of geographical variation and it was not aware that the potential inequality in access applied to any protected groups covered by the equality legislation. It also considered that any NICE recommendation would be applied consistently across England, thereby reducing variation in practice. It concluded that there was no unfairness or unlawful discrimination, and as a result there were no equality issues, and it did not need to alter its recommendations in any way. 4.21 The Committee considered whether it should take into account the consequences of PPRS 2014, and in particular the PPRS payment mechanism, when appraising ramucirumab. The Committee noted NICE's position statement in this regard, and accepted the conclusion 'that the 2014 PPRS payment mechanism should not, as a matter of course, be regarded as a relevant consideration in its assessment of the cost effectiveness of branded medicines'. The Committee heard nothing to suggest that there is any basis for taking a different view on the relevance of the PPRS to this appraisal. It therefore concluded that the PPRS payment mechanism was not applicable when considering the cost effectiveness of ramucirumab. Appraisal title: Ramucirumab for treating advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma previously treated with chemotherapy Key conclusions Ramucirumab alone or with paclitaxel is not recommended within its marketing authorisation for advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma previously treated with chemotherapy. Based on the results of the RAINBOW trial, the Committee concluded that ramucirumab plus paclitaxel provided an extension to life of 2.3 median months in overall survival compared with paclitaxel plus best supportive care. Based on the results of the REGARD trial, ramucirumab plus best supportive care provided an extension to life of 1.4 median months in overall survival compared with placebo plus best supportive care. The Committee considered the network meta‑analysis was weakened by 2 crucial links; the Hironaka et al. (2013) trial and the Thuss‑Patience et al. (2011) trial. It considered there to be significant uncertainty about using the results of these trials in the network meta‑analysis. The Committee concluded that for the basis of decision‑making, the overall survival and progression‑free survival results of the network meta‑analysis would not be used in preference to the RAINBOW trial data comparing ramucirumab plus paclitaxel with paclitaxel plus placebo. The Committee considered the most robust estimate was the ERG's exploratory analysis, which used RAINBOW trial data for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel compared with placebo plus paclitaxel, and which used utility values from RAINBOW data over different time points during the pre‑progression period. The Committee concluded that the most plausible incremental cost‑effectiveness ratio (ICER) for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel compared with best supportive care plus paclitaxel for people in whom treatment in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy is appropriate was £408,200 per quality‑adjusted life year (QALY) gained. The Committee concluded that the most plausible ICER for ramucirumab monotherapy compared with best supportive care for people in whom treatment in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy is not appropriate was £188,100 per QALY gained. The Committee concluded that the end‑of‑life considerations could not be applied for ramucirumab in combination with paclitaxel or as a monotherapy, because in both cases the extension‑to‑life criterion of at least an additional 3 months was not met. The Committee concluded that ramucirumab, alone or in combination with paclitaxel, for adults with advanced gastric cancer or gastro–oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma previously treated with chemotherapy was not a cost‑effective use of NHS resources. Current practice Clinical need of patients, including the availability of alternative treatments The Committee concluded that the outlook for people with this disease was poor and that new active treatments offering improved outcomes were needed. Proposed benefits of the technology How innovative is the technology in its potential to make a significant and substantial impact on health‑related benefits? Ramucirumab has shown efficacy in people whose disease had progressed after chemotherapy, and it provides an active treatment option for people for whom cytotoxic chemotherapy is not appropriate. The Committee also agreed that this is an area of high unmet medical need. However, the Committee concluded that all health‑related benefits had been adequately captured by the QALYs in the model, and it agreed that ramucirumab did not offer a step change in the treatment of this disease. What is the position of the treatment in the pathway of care for the condition? The Committee heard from the clinical experts that about 50% of people have an initial active treatment, and that for these people, UK clinical practice usually includes a triple regimen of an anthracycline (or trastuzumab for people with HER2 amplification), a platinum agent and a fluoropyrimidine. The Committee also heard that about 30% of people will have a second treatment after their disease progresses while on the first treatment. Ramucirumab (in combination with paclitaxel, or as a monotherapy) would be considered as a potential second treatment option after disease progression, because the marketing authorisation is for adults with disease progression after prior platinum and/or fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy. The Committee noted that the European public assessment report (EPAR) on the clinical safety of ramucirumab concluded that it was generally acceptable and in line with other similar treatments, and the Committee therefore considered that overall it did not have any particular safety concerns. Evidence for clinical effectiveness Availability, nature and quality of evidence The Committee considered evidence from the 2 main randomised controlled trials for ramucirumab monotherapy compared with best supportive care (the REGARD trial) and for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel compared with paclitaxel plus best supportive care (the RAINBOW trial). The Committee was aware that the Evidence Review Group (ERG) had considered the RAINBOW study to be a good‑quality, international, randomised controlled trial with low levels of uncertainty because of the mature overall‑survival and progression‑free‑survival data. Relevance to general clinical practice in the NHS The Committee considered that there was some uncertainty in whether people in REGARD were eligible for paclitaxel. However, it was persuaded that overall the evidence was representative of the population included in the marketing authorisation for ramucirumab monotherapy. Regarding the evidence for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel from the RAINBOW trial, the Committee was aware that the population in the study was in agreement with the marketing authorisation and concluded that the overall survival evidence was also appropriate for basing a decision on the clinical efficacy of ramucirumab plus paclitaxel. Uncertainties generated by the evidence The Committee concluded that for the basis of decision‑making, the results of the network meta‑analysis would not be used in preference to the RAINBOW trial data comparing ramucirumab plus paclitaxel with paclitaxel plus placebo. Estimate of the size of the clinical effectiveness including strength of supporting evidence Based on the results of the RAINBOW trial, the Committee concluded that ramucirumab plus paclitaxel provided a median overall survival of 2.3 months compared with paclitaxel plus best supportive care. Based on the results of the REGARD trial, ramucirumab plus best supportive care provided a median overall survival of 1.4 months compared with placebo plus best supportive care. Evidence for cost effectiveness Availability and nature of evidence The Committee considered the company's 2 economic models (which had identical structures but included different populations for ramucirumab monotherapy and combination therapy), and the critique of these by the ERG to inform its discussions. Uncertainties around and plausibility of assumptions and inputs in the economic model The Committee considered the choice of the company to use parametric curves for estimating progression‑free survival. It noted that this approach was inconsistent with the methods used for the combination‑therapy model to estimate overall survival, in which the company had used Kaplan–Meier data from the trial. The Committee concluded that although it has a preference for using direct trial data when they are available, this issue did not influence the cost‑effectiveness analyses. Incorporation of health‑related quality‑of‑life benefits and utility values Have any potential significant and substantial health‑related benefits been identified that were not included in the economic model, and how have they been considered? The Committee understood that the company's model used utility‑value data from the RAINBOW trial. The baseline utility value for the pre‑progression health state was adjusted for treatment response and adverse effects, which remained constant throughout the time that a person was in the pre‑progression health state. The Committee discussed the alternative approach suggested by the ERG, in which it used the RAINBOW trial data from different time points during the pre-progression period to avoid adjusting the trial data. The Committee expressed a preference for data that do not have to be manipulated and therefore agreed that the ERG's approach was reasonable. Most likely cost‑effectiveness estimate (given as an ICER) The Committee concluded that the most plausible ICER for ramucirumab plus paclitaxel compared with best supportive care plus paclitaxel for people in whom treatment in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy is appropriate was £408,200 per QALY gained. Additional factors taken into account Patient access schemes (PPRS) There is no patient access scheme. End‑of‑life considerations The Committee concluded that the end‑of‑life considerations could not be applied for ramucirumab in combination with paclitaxel or as a monotherapy, because in both cases the extension‑to‑life criterion of at least an additional 3 months was not met. The Committee considered that ramucirumab plus paclitaxel met the end‑of‑life criteria for a short life expectancy and a small patient population. Equalities considerations and social value judgements The Committee noted the company submission and comments received during consultation had stated that the lack of an available licensed treatment after disease progression on chemotherapy can lead to inequalities in access in different parts of England. The Committee concluded that there was no unfairness or unlawful discrimination, and as a result there were no equality issues, and it did not need to alter its recommendations in any way.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365363
__label__cc	0.708611	0.291389	oakleys.org.uk Blogroll Category: Technology I read blogs, as well as write one. The 'blogroll' on this site reproduces some posts from some of the people I enjoy reading. There are currently 60 posts from the category 'Technology.' Disclaimer: Reproducing an article here need not necessarily imply agreement or endorsement! Adopting a new approach to HTTP prioritization CloudFlare - Tue, 31/12/2019 - 19:13 Friday the 13th is a lucky day for Cloudflare for many reasons. On December 13, 2019 Tommy Pauly, co-chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, announced the adoption of the "Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP" - a new approach to HTTP prioritization. Web pages are made up of many resources that must be downloaded before they can be presented to the user. The role of HTTP prioritization is to load the right bytes at the right time in order to achieve the best performance. This is a collaborative process between client and server, a client sends priority signals that the server can use to schedule the delivery of response data. In HTTP/1.1 the signal is basic, clients order requests smartly across a pool of about 6 connections. In HTTP/2 a single connection is used and clients send a signal per request, as a frame, which describes the relative dependency and weighting of the response. HTTP/3 tried to use the same approach but dependencies don't work well when signals can be delivered out of order. HTTP/3 is being standardised as part of the QUIC effort. As a Working Group (WG) we've been trying to fix the problems that non-deterministic ordering poses for HTTP priorities. However, in parallel some of us have been working on an alternative solution, the Extensible Prioritization Scheme, which fixes problems by dropping dependencies and using an absolute weighting. This is signalled in an HTTP header field meaning it can be backported to work with HTTP/2 or carried over HTTP/1.1 hops. The alternative proposal is documented in the Individual-Draft draft-kazuho-httpbis-priority-04, co-authored by Kazuho Oku (Fastly) and myself. This has now been adopted by the IETF HTTP WG as the basis of further work; It's adopted name will be draft-ietf-httpbis-priority-00. To some extent document adoption is the end of one journey and the start of the next; sometimes the authors of the original work are not the best people to oversee the next phase. However, I'm pleased to say that Kazuho and I have been selected as co-editors of this new document. In this role we will reflect the consensus of the WG and help steward the next chapter of HTTP prioritization standardisation. Before the next journey begins in earnest, I wanted to take the opportunity to share my thoughts on the story of developing the alternative prioritization scheme through 2019. I'd love to explain all the details of this new approach to HTTP prioritization but the truth is I expect the standardization process to refine the design and for things to go stale quickly. However, it doesn't hurt to give a taste of what's in store, just be aware that it is all subject to change. A recap on priorities The essence of HTTP prioritization comes down to trying to download many things over constrained connectivity. To borrow some text from Pat Meenan: Web pages are made up of dozens (sometimes hundreds) of separate resources that are loaded and assembled by a browser into the final displayed content. Since it is not possible to download everything immediately, we prefer to fetch more important things before less important ones. The challenge comes in signalling the importance from client to server. In HTTP/2, every connection has a priority tree that expresses the relative importance between requests. Servers use this to determine how to schedule sending response data. The tree starts with a single root node and as requests are made they either depend on the root or each other. Servers may use the tree to decide how to schedule sending resources but clients cannot force a server to behave in any particular way. To illustrate, imagine a client that makes three simple GET requests that all depend on root. As the server receives each request it grows its view of the priority tree: The server starts with only the root node of the priority tree. As requests arrive, the tree grows. In this case all requests depend on the root, so the requests are priority siblings. Once all requests are received, the server determines all requests have equal priority and that it should send response data using round-robin scheduling: send some fraction of response 1, then a fraction of response 2, then a fraction of response 3, and repeat until all responses are complete. A single HTTP/2 request-response exchange is made up of frames that are sent on a stream. A simple GET request would be sent using a single HEADERS frame: HTTP/2 HEADERS frame, Each region of a frame is a named field Each region of a frame is a named field, a '?' indicates the field is optional and the value in parenthesis is the length in bytes with '' meaning variable length. The Header Block Fragment field holds compressed HTTP header fields (using HPACK), Pad Length and Padding relate to optional padding, and E, Stream Dependency and Weight combined are the priority signal that controls the priority tree. The Stream Dependency and Weight fields are optional but their absence is interpreted as a signal to use the default values; dependency on the root with a weight of 16 meaning that the default priority scheduling strategy is round-robin . However, this is often a bad choice because important resources like HTML, CSS and JavaScript are tied up with things like large images. The following animation demonstrates this in the Edge browser, causing the page to be blank for 19 seconds. Our deep dive blog post explains the problem further. The HEADERS frame E field is the interesting bit (pun intended). A request with the field set to 1 (true) means that the dependency is exclusive and nothing else can depend on the indicated node. To illustrate, imagine a client that sends three requests which set the E field to 1. As the server receives each request, it interprets this as an exclusive dependency on the root node. Because all requests have the same dependency on root, the tree has to be shuffled around to satisfy the exclusivity rules. Each request has an exclusive dependency on the root node. The tree is shuffled as each request is received by the server. The final version of the tree looks very different from our previous example. The server would schedule all of response 3, then all of response 2, then all of response 1. This could help load all of an HTML file before an image and thus improve the visual load behaviour. In reality, clients load a lot more than three resources and use a mix of priority signals. To understand the priority of any single request, we need to understand all requests. That presents some technological challenges, especially for servers that act like proxies such as the Cloudflare edge network. Some servers have problems applying prioritization effectively. Because not all clients send the most optimal priority signals we were motivated to develop Cloudflare's Enhanced HTTP/2 Prioritization, announced last May during Speed Week. This was a joint project between the Speed team (Andrew Galloni, Pat Meenan, Kornel Lesiński) and Protocols team (Nick Jones, Shih-Chiang Chien) and others. It replaces the complicated priority tree with a simpler scheme that is well suited to web resources. Because the feature is implemented on the server side, we avoid requiring any modification of clients or the HTTP/2 protocol itself. Be sure to check out my colleague Nick's blog post that details some of the technical challenges and changes needed to let our servers deliver smarter priorities. The Extensible Prioritization Scheme proposal The scheme specified in draft-kazuho-httpbis-priority-04, defines a way for priorities to be expressed in absolute terms. It replaces HTTP/2's dependency-based relative prioritization, the priority of a request is independent of others, which makes it easier to reason about and easier to schedule. Rather than send the priority signal in a frame, the scheme defines an HTTP header - tentatively named "Priority" - that can carry an urgency on a scale of 0 (highest) to 7 (lowest). For example, a client could express the priority of an important resource by sending a request with: Priority: u=0 And a less important background resource could be requested with: While Kazuho and I are the main authors of this specification, we were inspired by several ideas in the Internet community, and we have incorporated feedback or direct input from many of our peers in the Internet community over several drafts. The text today reflects the efforts-so-far of cross-industry work involving many engineers and researchers including organizations such Adobe, Akamai, Apple, Cloudflare, Fastly, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and UHasselt. Adoption in the HTTP Working Group means that we can help improve the design and specification by spending some IETF time and resources for broader discussion, feedback and implementation experience. I work in Cloudflare's Protocols team which is responsible for terminating HTTP at the edge. We deal with things like TCP, TLS, QUIC, HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 and since joining the company I've worked with Alessandro Ghedini, Junho Choi and Lohith Bellad to make QUIC and HTTP/3 generally available last September. Working on emerging standards is fun. It involves an eclectic mix of engineering, meetings, document review, specification writing, time zones, personalities, and organizational boundaries. So while working on the codebase of quiche, our open source implementation of QUIC and HTTP/3, I am also mulling over design details of the protocols and discussing them in cross-industry venues like the IETF. Because of HTTP/3's lineage, it carries over a lot of features from HTTP/2 including the priority signals and tree described earlier in the post. One of the key benefits of HTTP/3 is that it is more resilient to the effect of lossy network conditions on performance; head-of-line blocking is limited because requests and responses can progress independently. This is, however, a double-edged sword because sometimes ordering is important. In HTTP/3 there is no guarantee that the requests are received in the same order that they were sent, so the priority tree can get out of sync between client and server. Imagine a client that makes two requests that include priority signals stating request 1 depends on root, request 2 depends on request 1. If request 2 arrives before request 1, the dependency cannot be resolved and becomes dangling. In such a case what is the best thing for a server to do? Ambiguity in behaviour leads to assumptions and disappointment. We should try to avoid that. Request 1 depends on root and request 2 depends on request 1. If an HTTP/3 server receives request 2 first, the dependency cannot be resolved. This is just one example where things get tricky quickly. Unfortunately the WG kept finding edge case upon edge case with the priority tree model. We tried to find solutions but each additional fix seemed to create further complexity to the HTTP/3 design. This is a problem because it makes it hard to implement a server that handles priority correctly. In parallel to Cloudflare's work on implementing a better prioritization for HTTP/2, in January 2019 Pat posted his proposal for an alternative prioritization scheme for HTTP/3 in a message to the IETF HTTP WG. Arguably HTTP/2 prioritization never lived up to its hype. However, replacing it with something else in HTTP/3 is a challenge because the QUIC WG charter required us to try and maintain parity between the protocols. Mark Nottingham, co-chair of the HTTP and QUIC WGs responded with a good summary of the situation. To quote part of that response: My sense is that people know that we need to do something about prioritisation, but we're not yet confident about any particular solution. Experimentation with new schemes as HTTP/2 extensions would be very helpful, as it would give us some data to work with. If you'd like to propose such an extension, this is the right place to do it. And so started a very interesting year of cross-industry discussion on the future of HTTP prioritization. A year of prioritization The following is an account of my personal experiences during 2019. It's been a busy year and there may be unintentional errors or omissions, please let me know if you think that is the case. But I hope it gives you a taste of the standardization process and a look behind the scenes of how new Internet protocols that benefit everyone come to life. Pat's email came at the same time that I was attending the QUIC WG Tokyo interim meeting hosted at Akamai (thanks to Mike Bishop for arrangements). So I was able to speak to a few people face-to-face on the topic. There was a bit of mailing list chatter but it tailed off after a few days. February to April Things remained quiet in terms of prioritization discussion. I knew the next best opportunity to get the ball rolling would be the HTTP Workshop 2019 held in April. The workshop is a multi-day event not associated with a standards-defining-organization (even if many of the attendees also go to meetings such as the IETF or W3C). It is structured in a way that allows the agenda to be more fluid than a typical standards meeting and gives plenty of time for organic conversation. This sometimes helps overcome gnarly problems, such as the community finding a path forward for WebSockets over HTTP/2 due to a productive discussion during the 2017 workshop. HTTP prioritization is a gnarly problem, so I was inspired to pitch it as a talk idea. It was selected and you can find the full slide deck here. During the presentation I recounted the history of HTTP prioritization. The great thing about working on open standards is that many email threads, presentation materials and meeting materials are publicly archived. It's fun digging through this history. Did you know: HTTP/2 is based on SPDY and inherited its weight-based prioritization scheme, the tree-based scheme we are familiar with today was only introduced in draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-11? One of the reasons for the more-complicated tree was to help HTTP intermediaries (a.k.a. proxies) implement clever resource management. However, it became clear during the discussion that no intermediaries implement this, and none seem to plan to. I also explained a bit more about Pat's alternative scheme and Nick described his implementation experiences. Despite some interesting discussion around the topic however, we didn't come to any definitive solution. There were a lot of other interesting topics to discover that week. In early May, Ian Swett (Google) restarted interest in Pat's mailing list thread. Unfortunately he was not present at the HTTP Workshop so had some catching up to do. A little while later Ian submitted a Pull Request to the HTTP/3 specification called "Strict Priorities". This incorporated Pat's proposal and attempted to fix a number of those prioritization edge cases that I mentioned earlier. In late May, another QUIC WG interim meeting was held in London at the new Cloudflare offices, here is the view from the meeting room window. Credit to Alessandro for handling the meeting arrangements. Thanks to @cloudflare for hosting our interop and interim meetings in London this week! pic.twitter.com/LIOA3OqEjr — IETF QUIC WG (@quicwg) May 23, 2019 Mike, the editor of the HTTP/3 specification presented some of the issues with prioritization and we attempted to solve them with the conventional tree-based scheme. Ian, with contribution from Robin Marx (UHasselt), also presented an explanation about his "Strict Priorities" proposal. I recommend taking a look at Robin's priority tree visualisations which do a great job of explaining things. From that presentation I particularly liked "The prioritization spectrum", it's a concise snapshot of the state of things at that time: An overview of HTTP/3 prioritization issues, fixes and possible alternatives. Presented by Ian Swett at the QUIC Interim Meeting May 2019.June and July Following the interim meeting, the prioritization "debate" continued electronically across GitHub and email. Some time in June Kazuho started work on a proposal that would use a scheme similar to Pat and Ian's absolute priorities. The major difference was that rather than send the priority signal in an HTTP frame, it would use a header field. This isn't a new concept, Roy Fielding proposed something similar at IETF 83. In HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 requests are made up of frames that are sent on streams. Using a simple GET request as an example: a client sends a HEADERS frame that contains the scheme, method, path, and other request header fields. A server responds with a HEADERS frame that contains the status and response header fields, followed by DATA frame(s) that contain the payload. To signal priority, a client could also send a PRIORITY frame. In the tree-based scheme the frame carries several fields that express dependencies and weights. Pat and Ian's proposals changed the contents of the PRIORITY frame. Kazuho's proposal encodes the priority as a header field that can be carried in the HEADERS frame as normal metadata, removing the need for the PRIORITY frame altogether. I liked the simplification of Kazuho's approach and the new opportunities it might create for application developers. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 implementations (in particular browsers) abstract away a lot of connection-level details such as stream or frames. That makes it hard to understand what is happening or to tune it. The lingua franca of the Web is HTTP requests and responses, which are formed of header fields and payload data. In browsers, APIs such as Fetch and Service Worker allow handling of these primitives. In servers, there may be ways to interact with the primitives via configuration or programming languages. As part of Enhanced HTTP/2 Prioritization, we have exposed prioritization to Cloudflare Workers to allow rich behavioural customization. If a Worker adds the "cf-priority" header to a response, Cloudflare’s edge servers use the specified priority to serve the response. This might be used to boost the priority of a resource that is important to the load time of a page. To help inform this decision making, the incoming browser priority signal is encapsulated in the request object passed to a Worker's fetch event listener (request.cf.requestPriority). Standardising approaches to problems is part of helping to build a better Internet. Because of the resonance between Cloudflare's work and Kazuho's proposal, I asked if he would consider letting me come aboard as a co-author. He kindly accepted and on July 8th we published the first version as an Internet-Draft. Meanwhile, Ian was helping to drive the overall prioritization discussion and proposed that we use time during IETF 105 in Montreal to speak to a wider group of people. We kicked off the week with a short presentation to the HTTP WG from Ian, and Kazuho and I presented our draft in a side-meeting that saw a healthy discussion. There was a realization that the concepts of prioritization scheme, priority signalling and server resource scheduling (enacting prioritization) were conflated and made effective communication and progress difficult. HTTP/2's model was seen as one aspect, and two different I-Ds were created to deprecate it in some way (draft-lassey-priority-setting, draft-peon-httpbis-h2-priority-one-less). Martin Thomson (Mozilla) also created a Pull Request that simply removed the PRIORITY frame from HTTP/3. To round off the week, in the second HTTP session it was decided that there was sufficient interest in resolving the prioritization debate via the creation of a design team. I joined the team led by Ian Swett along with others from Adobe, Akamai, Apple, Cloudflare, Fastly, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and UHasselt. August to October Martin's PR generated a lot of conversation. It was merged under proviso that some solution be found before the HTTP/3 specification was finalized. Between May and August we went from something very complicated (e.g. Orphan placeholder, with PRIORITY only on control stream, plus exclusive priorities) to a blank canvas. The pressure was now on! The design team held several teleconference meetings across the months. Logistics are a bit difficult when you have team members distributed across West Coast America, East Coast America, Western Europe, Central Europe, and Japan. However, thanks to some late nights and early mornings we managed to all get on the call at the same time. In October most of us travelled to Cupertino, CA to attend another QUIC interim meeting hosted at Apple's Infinite Loop (Eric Kinnear helping with arrangements). The first two days of the meeting were used for interop testing and were loosely structured, so the design team took the opportunity to hold the first face-to-face meeting. We made some progress and helped Ian to form up some new slides to present later in the week. Again, there was some useful discussion and signs that we should put some time in the agenda in IETF 106. The design team came to agreement that draft-kazuho-httpbis-priority was a good basis for a new prioritization scheme. We decided to consolidate the various I-Ds that had sprung up during IETF 105 into the document, making it a single source that was easier for people to track progress and open issues if required. This is why, even though Kazuho and I are the named authors, the document reflects a broad input from the community. We published draft 03 in November, just ahead of the deadline for IETF 106 in Singapore. Many of us travelled to Singapore ahead of the actual start of IETF 106. This wasn't to squeeze in some sightseeing (sadly) but rather to attend the IETF Hackathon. These are events where engineers and researchers can really put the concept of "running code" to the test. I really enjoy attending and I'm grateful to Charles Eckel and the team that organised it. If you'd like to read more about the event, Charles wrote up a nice blog post that, through some strange coincidence, features a picture of me, Kazuho and Robin talking at the QUIC table. Link: https://t.co/8qP78O6cPS — Lucas Pardue (@SimmerVigor) December 17, 2019 The design team held another face-to-face during a Hackathon lunch break and decided that we wanted to make some tweaks to the design written up in draft 03. Unfortunately the freeze was still in effect so we could not issue a new draft. Instead, we presented the most recent thinking to the HTTP session on Monday where Ian put forward draft-kazuho-httpbis-priority as the group's proposed design solution. Ian and Robin also shared results of prioritization experiments. We received some great feedback in the meeting and during the week pulled out all the stops to issue a new draft 04 before the next HTTP session on Thursday. The question now was: Did the WG think this was suitable to adopt as the basis of an alternative prioritization scheme? I think we addressed a lot of the feedback in this draft and there was a general feeling of support in the room. However, in the IETF consensus is declared via mailing lists and so Tommy Pauly, co-chair of the HTTP WG, put out a Call for Adoption on November 21st. In the Cloudflare London office, preparations begin for mince pie acquisition and assessment. The HTTP priorities team played the waiting game and watched the mailing list discussion. On the whole people supported the concept but there was one topic that divided opinion. Some people loved the use of headers to express priorities, some people didn't and wanted to stick to frames. On December 13th Tommy announced that the group had decided to adopt our document and assign Kazuho and I as editors. The header/frame divide was noted as something that needed to be resolved. The next step of the journey Just because the document has been adopted does not mean we are done. In some ways we are just getting started. Perfection is often the enemy of getting things done and so sometimes adoption occurs at the first incarnation of a "good enough" proposal. Today HTTP/3 has no prioritization signal. Without priority information there is a small danger that servers pick a scheduling strategy that is not optimal, that could cause the web performance of HTTP/3 to be worse than HTTP/2. To avoid that happening we'll refine and complete the design of the Extensible Priority Scheme. To do so there are open issues that we have to resolve, we'll need to square the circle on headers vs. frames, and we'll no doubt hit unknown unknowns. We'll need the input of the WG to make progress and their help to document the design that fits the need, and so I look forward to continued collaboration across the Internet community. 2019 was quite a ride and I'm excited to see what 2020 brings. If working on protocols is your interest and you like what Cloudflare is doing, please visit our careers page. Our journey isn’t finished, in fact far from it. CloudFlare - Fri, 27/12/2019 - 19:30 I joined Cloudflare in July of 2019, but I've known of Cloudflare for years. I always read the blog posts and looked at the way the company was engaging with the community. I also noticed the diversity in the names of many of the blog post authors. There are over 50 languages spoken at Cloudflare, as we have natives from many countries on our team, with different backgrounds, religions, gender and cultures. And it is this diversity that makes us a great team. A few days ago I asked one of my colleagues how he would say "Happy Holidays!" in Arabic. When I heard him say it, I instantly got the idea of recording a video in as many languages as possible of our colleagues wishing all of you, our readers and customers, a happy winter season. It only took one internal message for people to start responding and sending their videos to me. Some did it themselves, others flocked in a meeting room and helped each other record their greeting. It took a few days and some video editing to put together an informal video that was entirely done by the team, to wish you all the best as we close this year and decade. So here it is: Happy Holidays from all of us at Cloudflare! Let us know if you speak any of the languages in the video. Or maybe you can tell us how you greet each other, at this time of the year, in your native language. This holiday's biggest online shopping day was... Black Friday What’s the biggest day of the holiday season for holiday shopping? Black Friday, the day after US Thanksgiving, has been embraced globally as the day retail stores announce their sales. But it was believed that the following Monday, dubbed “Cyber Monday,” may be even bigger. Or, with the explosion of reliable 2-day and even 1-day shipping, maybe another day closer to Christmas has taken the crown. At Cloudflare, we aimed to answer this question for the 2019 holiday shopping season. Black Friday was the biggest online shopping day but the second biggest wasn't Cyber Monday... it was Thanksgiving Day itself (the day before Black Friday!). Cyber Monday was the fourth biggest day. Here's a look at checkout events seen across Cloudflare's network since before Thanksgiving in the US. Checkout events as a percentage of checkouts on Black Friday The weekends are shown in yellow and Black Friday and Cyber Monday are shown in green. You can see that checkouts ramped up during Thanksgiving week and then continued through the weekend into Cyber Monday. Black Friday had twice the number of checkouts as the preceding Friday and the entire Thanksgiving week dominates. Post-Cyber Monday, no day reached 50% of the number of checkouts we saw on Black Friday. And Cyber Monday was just 60% of Black Friday. So, Black Friday is the peak day but Thanksgiving Day is the runner up. Perhaps it deserves its own moniker: Thrifty Thursday anyone? Checkouts occur more frequently from Monday to Friday and then drop off over the weekend. After Cyber Monday only one other day showed an interesting peak. Looking at last week it does appear that Tuesday, December 17 was the pre-Christmas peak for online checkouts. Perhaps fast online shipping made consumers feel they could use online shopping as long as they got their purchases by the weekend before Christmas. Happy Holidays from everyone at Cloudflare! First Half 2019 Transparency Report and an Update on a Warrant Canary Today, we are releasing Cloudflare’s transparency report for the first half of 2019. We recognize the importance of keeping the reports current, but It’s taken us a little longer than usual to put it together. We have a few notable updates. Pulling a warrant canary Since we issued our very first transparency report in 2014, we’ve maintained a number of commitments - known as warrant canaries - about what actions we will take and how we will respond to certain types of law enforcement requests. We supplemented those initial commitments earlier this year, so that our current warrant canaries state that Cloudflare has never: Turned over our encryption or authentication keys or our customers' encryption or authentication keys to anyone. Installed any law enforcement software or equipment anywhere on our network. Terminated a customer or taken down content due to political pressure Provided any law enforcement organization a feed of our customers' content transiting our network. Modified customer content at the request of law enforcement or another third party. Modified the intended destination of DNS responses at the request of law enforcement or another third party. Weakened, compromised, or subverted any of its encryption at the request of law enforcement or another third party. These commitments serve as a statement of values to remind us what is important to us as a company, to convey not only what we do, but what we believe we should do. For us to maintain these commitments. we have to believe not only that we’ve met them in the past, but that we can continue to meet them. Unfortunately, there is one warrant canary that no longer meets the test for remaining on our website. After Cloudlfare terminated the Daily Stormer’s service in 2017, Matthew observed: "We're going to have a long debate internally about whether we need to remove the bullet about not terminating a customer due to political pressure. It's powerful to be able to say you've never done something. And, after today, make no mistake, it will be a little bit harder for us to argue against a government somewhere pressuring us into taking down a site they don't like." We addressed this issue in our subsequent transparency reports by retaining the statement, but adding an asterisk identifying the Daily Stormer debate and the criticism that we had received in the wake of our decision to terminate services. Our goal was to signal that we remained committed to the principle that we should not terminate a customer due to political pressure, while not ignoring the termination. We also sought to be public about the termination and our reasons for the decision, ensuring that it would not go unnoticed. Although that termination sparked significant debate about whether infrastructure companies making decisions about what content should remain online, we haven’t yet seen politically accountable actors put forth real alternatives to address deeply troubling content and behavior online. Since that time, we’ve seen even more real world consequences from the vitriol and hateful content spread online, from the screeds posted in connection with the terror attacks in Christchurch, Poway and El Paso to the posting of video glorifying those attacks. Indeed, in the absence of true public policy initiatives to address those concerns, the pressure on tech companies -- even deep Internet infrastructure companies like Cloudflare -- to make judgments about what stays online has only increased. In August 2019, Cloudflare terminated service to 8chan based on their failure to moderate their hate-filled platform in a way that inspired murderous acts. Although we don’t think removing cybersecurity services to force a site offline is the right public policy approach to the hate festering online, a site’s failure to take responsibility to prevent or mitigate the harm caused by its platform leaves service providers like us with few choices. We’ve come to recognize that the prolonged and persistent lawlessness of others might require action by those further down the technical stack. Although we’d prefer that governments recognize that need, and build mechanisms for due process, if they fail to act, infrastructure companies may be required to take action to prevent harm. And that brings us back to our warrant canary. If we believe we might have an obligation to terminate customers, even in a limited number of cases, retaining a commitment that we will never terminate a customer “due to political pressure” is untenable. We could, in theory, argue that terminating a lawless customer like 8chan was not a termination “due to political pressure.” But that seems wrong. We shouldn’t be parsing specific words of our commitments to explain to people why we don’t believe we’ve violated the standard. We remain committed to the principle that providing cybersecurity services to everyone, regardless of content, makes the Internet a better place. Although we’re removing the warrant canary from our website, we believe that to earn and maintain our users’ trust, we must be transparent about the actions we take. We therefore commit to reporting on any action that we take to terminate a user that could be viewed as a termination “due to political pressure.” UK/US Cloud agreement As we’ve described previously, governments have been working to find ways to improve law enforcement access to digital evidence across borders. Those efforts resulted in a new U.S. law, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, premised on the idea that law enforcement around the world should be able to get access to electronic content related to their citizens when conducting law enforcement investigations, wherever that data is stored, as long as they are bound by sufficient procedural safeguards to ensure due process. On October 3, 2019, the US and UK signed the first Executive Agreement under this law. According to the requirements of U.S. law, that Agreement will go into effect in 180 days, in March 2020, unless Congress takes action to block it. There is an ongoing debate as to whether the agreement includes sufficient due process and privacy protections. We’re going to take a wait and see approach, and will closely monitor any requests we receive after the agreement goes into effect. For the time being, Cloudflare intends to comply with appropriately scoped and targeted requests for data from UK law enforcement, provided that those requests are consistent with the law and international human rights standards. Information about the legal requests that Cloudflare receives from non-U.S. governments pursuant to the CLOUD Act will be included in future transparency reports. Dutch PHP Conference 2020 PHP - Fri, 20/12/2019 - 14:48 An Update on CDNJS CloudFlare - Thu, 19/12/2019 - 19:30 When you loaded this blog, a file was delivered to your browser called jquery-3.2.1.min.js. jQuery is a library which makes it easier to build websites, and was at one point included on as many as 74.1% of all websites. A full eighteen million sites include jQuery and other libraries using one of the most popular tools on Earth: CDNJS. Beginning about a month ago Cloudflare began to take a more active role in the operation of CDNJS. This post is here to tell you more about CDNJS’ history and explain why we are helping to manage CDNJS. What CDNJS Does Virtually every site is composed of not just the code written by its developers, but also dozens or hundreds of libraries. These libraries make it possible for websites to extend what a web browser can do on its own. For example, libraries can allow a site to include powerful data visualizations, respond to user input, or even get more performant. These libraries created wondrous and magical new capabilities for web browsers, but they can also cause the size of a site to explode. Particularly a decade ago, connections were not always fast enough to permit the use of many libraries while maintaining performance. But if so many websites are all including the same libraries, why was it necessary for each of them to load their own copy? If we all load jQuery from the same place the browser can do a much better job of not actually needing to download it for every site. When the user visits the first jQuery-powered site it will have to be downloaded, but it will already be cached on the user's computer for any subsequent jQuery-powered site they might visit. The first visit might take time to load: But any future visit to any website pointing to this common URL would already be cached: <!-- Loaded only on my site, will need to be downloaded by every user --> <script src="./jquery.js"></script> <!-- Loaded from a common location across many sites --> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/jquery.js"></script> Beyond the performance advantage, including files this way also made it very easy for users to experiment and create. When using a web browser as a creation tool users often didn't have elaborate build systems (this was also before npm), so being able to include a simple script tag was a boon. It's worth noting that it's not clear a massive performance advantage was ever actually provided by this scheme. It is becoming even less of a performance advantage now that browser vendors are beginning to use separate cache's for each website you visit, but with millions of sites using CDNJS there's no doubt it is a critical part of the web. A CDN for all of us My first Pull Request into the CDNJS project was in 2013. Back then if you created a JavaScript project it wasn't possible to have it included in the jQuery CDN, or the ones provided by large companies like Google and Microsoft. They were only for big, important, projects. Of course, however, even the biggest project starts small. The community needed a CDN which would agree to host nearly all JavaScript projects, even the ones which weren't world-changing (yet). In 2011, that project was launched by Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis as CDNJS. The project was quickly wildly successful, far beyond their expectations. Their CDN bill quickly began to skyrocket (it would now be over a million dollars a year on AWS). Under the threat of having to shut down the service, Cloudflare was approached by the CDNJS team to see if we could help. We agreed to support their efforts and created cdnjs.cloudflare.com which serves the CDNJS project free of charge. CDNJS has been astonishingly successful. The project is currently installed on over eighteen million websites (10% of the Internet!), offers files totaling over 1.5 billion lines of code, and serves over 173 billion requests a month. CDNJS only gets more popular as sites get larger, with 34% of the top 10k websites using the service. Each month we serve almost three petabytes of JavaScript, CSS, and other resources which power the web via cdnjs.cloudflare.com. Spikes can happen when a very large or popular site installs CDNJS, or when a misbehaving web crawler discovers a CDNJS link. The future value of CDNJS is now in doubt, as web browsers are beginning to use a separate cache for every website you visit. It is currently used on such a wide swath of the web, however, it is unlikely it will be disappearing any time soon. How CDNJS Works CDNJS starts with a Github repo. That project contains every file served by CDNJS, at every version which it has ever offered. That’s 182 GB without the commit history, over five million files, and over 1.5 billion lines of code. Given that it stores and delivers versioned code files, in many ways it was the Internet’s first JavaScript package manager. Unlike other package managers and even other CDNs everything CDNJS serves is publicly versioned. All 67,724 commits! This means you as a user can verify that you are being served files which haven’t been tampered with. To make changes to CDNJS a commit has to be made. For new projects being added to CDNJS, or when projects change significantly, these commits are made by humans, and get reviewed by other humans. When projects just release new versions there is a bot made by Peter and maintained by Sven which sucks up changes from npm and automatically creates commits. Within Cloudflare’s infrastructure there is a set of machines which are responsible for pulling the latest version of the repo periodically. Those machines then become the origin for cdnjs.cloudflare.com, with Cloudflare’s Global Load Balancer automatically handling failures. Cloudflare’s cache automatically stores copies of many of the projects making it possible for us to deliver them quickly from all 195 of our data centers. The Internet on a Shoestring Budget The CDNJS project has always been administered independently of Cloudflare. In addition to the founders, the project has additionally been maintained by exceptionally hard-working caretakers like Peter and Matt Cowley. Maintaining a single repo of nearly every frontend project on Earth is no small task, and it has required a substantial amount of both manual work and bot development. Unfortunately approximately thirty days ago one of those bots stopped working, preventing updated projects from appearing in CDNJS. The bot's open-source maintainer was not able to invest the time necessary to keep the bot running. After several weeks we were asked by the community and the CDNJS founders to take over maintenance of the CDNJS repo itself. This means the Cloudflare engineering team is taking responsibility for keeping the contents of github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs up to date, in addition to ensuring it is correctly served on cdnjs.cloudflare.com. We agreed to do this because we were, frankly, scared. Like so many open-source projects CDNJS was a critical part of our world, but wasn’t getting the attention it needed to survive. The Internet relies on CDNJS as much as on any other single project, losing it or allowing it to be commandeered would be catastrophic to millions of websites and their visitors. If it began to fail, some sites would adapt and update, others would be broken forever. CDNJS has always been, and remains, a project for and by the community. We are invested in making all decisions in a transparent and inclusive manner. If you are interested in contributing to CDNJS or in the topics we're currently discussing please visit the CDNJS Github Issues page. One example of an area where we could use your help is in charting a path towards a CDNJS which requires less manual moderation. Nothing can replace the intelligence and creativity of a human (yet), but for a task like managing what resources go into a CDN, it is error prone and time consuming. At present a human has to review every new project to be included, and often has to take additional steps to include new versions of a project. As a part of our analysis of the project we examined a snapshot of the still-open PRs made against CDNJS for several months: The vast majority of these PRs were changes which ultimately passed the automated review but nevertheless couldn't be merged without manual review. There is consensus that we should move to a model which does not require human involvement in most cases. We would love your input and collaboration on the best way for that to be solved. If this is something you are passionate about, please contribute here. Our plan is to support the CDNJS project in whichever ways it requires for as long as the Internet relies upon it. We invite you to use CDNJS in your next project with the full assurance that it is backed by the same network and team who protect and accelerate over twenty million of your favorite websites across the Internet. We are also planning more posts diving further into the CDNJS data, subscribe to this blog if you would like to be notified upon their release. Drupal core - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CORE-2019-011 Drupal Security - Wed, 18/12/2019 - 18:16 Project: Drupal coreVersion: 8.8.x-dev8.7.x-devDate: 2019-December-18Security risk: Moderately critical 10∕25 AC:Basic/A:User/CI:Some/II:None/E:Theoretical/TD:DefaultVulnerability: Access bypassDescription: The Media Library module has a security vulnerability whereby it doesn't sufficiently restrict access to media items in certain configurations. If you are using Drupal 8.7.x, you should upgrade to Drupal 8.7.11. If you are using Drupal 8.8.x, you should upgrade to Drupal 8.8.1. Versions of Drupal 8 prior to 8.7.x are end-of-life and do not receive security coverage. Alternatively, you may mitigate this vulnerability by unchecking the "Enable advanced UI" checkbox on /admin/config/media/media-library. (This mitigation is not available in 8.7.x.) Adam G-H Fixed By: Jess of the Drupal Security Team Andrei Mateescu Greg Knaddison of the Drupal Security Team Alex Bronstein of the Drupal Security Team Sean Blommaert Lee Rowlands of the Drupal Security Team Drupal core - Critical - Multiple vulnerabilities - SA-CORE-2019-012 Project: Drupal coreVersion: 8.8.x-dev8.7.x-dev7.x-devDate: 2019-December-18Security risk: Critical 17∕25 AC:Basic/A:User/CI:All/II:All/E:Proof/TD:UncommonVulnerability: Multiple vulnerabilitiesDescription: The Drupal project uses the third-party library Archive_Tar, which has released a security update that impacts some Drupal configurations. Multiple vulnerabilities are possible if Drupal is configured to allow .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2 or .tlz file uploads and processes them. The latest versions of Drupal update Archive_Tar to 1.4.9 to mitigate the file processing vulnerabilities. Install the latest version: If you are using Drupal 7.x, upgrade to Drupal 7.69. If you are using Drupal 8.7.x, upgrade to Drupal 8.7.11. If you are using Drupal 8.8.x, upgrade to Drupal 8.8.1. Jasper Mattsson Peter Wolanin of the Drupal Security Team Sam Becker David Rothstein of the Drupal Security Team michieltcs Ayesh Karunaratne Alex Pott of the Drupal Security Team Samuel Mortenson of the Drupal Security Team Vijaya Chandran Mani Provisional Security Team Member Drew Webber of the Drupal Security Team Drupal core - Moderately critical - Multiple vulnerabilities - SA-CORE-2019-010 Project: Drupal coreVersion: 8.8.x-dev8.7.x-devDate: 2019-December-18Security risk: Moderately critical 14∕25 AC:Basic/A:Admin/CI:Some/II:All/E:Theoretical/TD:DefaultVulnerability: Multiple vulnerabilitiesDescription: Drupal 8 core's file_save_upload() function does not strip the leading and trailing dot ('.') from filenames, like Drupal 7 did. Users with the ability to upload files with any extension in conjunction with contributed modules may be able to use this to upload system files such as .htaccess in order to bypass protections afforded by Drupal's default .htaccess file. After this fix, file_save_upload() now trims leading and trailing dots from filenames. If you use Drupal core 8.7.x: 8.7.11 If you use Drupal core 8.8.x: 8.8.1 Rohit Kapur Filipe Reis Dan Reif mramydnei Michael Hess of the Drupal Security Team Kim Pepper Derek Wright Announcing the CSAM Scanning Tool, Free for All Cloudflare Customers CloudFlare - Wed, 18/12/2019 - 18:02 Two weeks ago we wrote about Cloudflare's approach to dealing with child sexual abuse material (CSAM). We first began working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the US-based organization that acts as a clearinghouse for removing this abhorrent content, within months of our public launch in 2010. Over the last nine years, our Trust & Safety team has worked with NCMEC, Interpol, and nearly 60 other public and private agencies around the world to design our program. And we are proud of the work we've done to remove CSAM from the Internet. The most repugnant cases, in some ways, are the easiest for us to address. While Cloudflare is not able to remove content hosted by others, we will take steps to terminate services to a website when it becomes clear that the site is dedicated to sharing CSAM or if the operators of the website and its host fail to take appropriate steps to take down CSAM content. When we terminate websites, we purge our caches — something that takes effect within seconds globally — and we block the website from ever being able to use Cloudflare's network again. Addressing the Hard Cases The hard cases are when a customer of ours runs a service that allows user generated content (such as a discussion forum) and a user uploads CSAM, or if they’re hacked, or if they have a malicious employee that is storing CSAM on their servers. We've seen many instances of these cases where services intending to do the right thing are caught completely off guard by CSAM that ended up on their sites. Despite the absence of intent or malice in these cases, there’s still a need to identify and remove that content quickly. Today we're proud to take a step to help deal with those hard cases. Beginning today, every Cloudflare customer can login to their dashboard and enable access to the CSAM Scanning Tool. As the CSAM Scanning Tool moves through development to production, the tool will check all Internet properties that have enabled CSAM Scanning for this illegal content. Cloudflare will automatically send a notice to you when it flags CSAM material, block that content from being accessed (with a 451 “blocked for legal reasons” status code), and take steps to support proper reporting of that content in compliance with legal obligations. CSAM Scanning will be available via the Cloudflare dashboard at no cost for all customers regardless of their plan level. You can find this tool under the “Caching” tab in your dashboard. We're hopeful that by opening this tool to all our customers for free we can help do even more to counter CSAM online and help protect our customers from the legal and reputational risk that CSAM can pose to their businesses. It has been a long journey to get to the point where we could commit to offering this service to our millions of users. To understand what we're doing and why it has been challenging from a technical and policy perspective, you need to understand a bit about the state of the art of tracking CSAM. Finding Similar Images Around the same time as Cloudflare was first conceived in 2009, a Dartmouth professor named Hany Farid was working on software that could compare images against a list of hashes maintained by NCMEC. Microsoft took the lead in creating a tool, PhotoDNA, that used Prof. Farid’s work to identify CSAM automatically. In its earliest days, Microsoft used PhotoDNA for their services internally and, in late 2009, donated the technology to NCMEC to help manage its use by other organizations. Social networks were some of the first adopters. In 2011, Facebook rolled out an implementation of the technology as part of their abuse process. Twitter incorporated it in 2014. The process is known as a fuzzy hash. Traditional hash algorithms like MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 take a file (such as an image or document) of arbitrary length and output a fixed length number that is, effectively, the file’s digital fingerprint. For instance, if you take the MD5 of this picture then the resulting fingerprint is 605c83bf1bba62e85f4f5fccc56bc128. The base image If we change a single pixel in the picture to be slightly off white rather than pure white, it's visually identical but the fingerprint changes completely to 42ea4fb30a440d8787477c6c37b9daed. As you can see from the two fingerprints, a small change to the image results in a massive and unpredictable change to the output of a traditional hash. The base image with a single pixel changed This is great for some uses of hashing where you want to definitively identify if the document you're looking at is exactly the same as the one you've seen before. For example, if an extra zero is added to a digital contract, you want the hash of the document used in its signature to no longer be valid. Fuzzy Hashing However, in the case of CSAM, this characteristic of traditional hashing is a liability. In order to avoid detection, the criminals producing CSAM resize, add noise, or otherwise alter the image in such a way that it looks the same but it would result in a radically different hash. Fuzzy hashing works differently. Instead of determining if two photos are exactly the same it instead attempts to get at the essence of a photograph. This allows the software to calculate hashes for two images and then compare the "distance" between the two. While the fuzzy hashes may still be different between two photographs that have been altered, unlike with traditional hashing, you can compare the two and see how similar the images are. So, in the two photos above, the fuzzy hash of the first image is 00e308346a494a188e1042333147267a 653a16b94c33417c12b433095c318012 5612442030d1484ce82c613f4e224733 1dd84436734e4a5c6e25332e507a8218 6e3b89174e30372d and the second image is There's only a slight difference between the two in terms of pixels and the fuzzy hashes are identical. The base image after increasing the saturation, changing to sepia, adding a border and then adding random noise. Fuzzy hashing is designed to be able to identify images that are substantially similar. For example, we modified the image of dogs by first enhancing its color, then changing it to sepia, then adding a border and finally adding random noise. The fuzzy hash of the new image is 00d9082d6e454a19a20b4e3034493278 614219b14838447213ad3409672e7d13 6e0e4a2033de545ce731664646284337 1ecd4038794a485d7c21233f547a7d2e 663e7c1c40363335 This looks quite different from the hash of the unchanged image above, but fuzzy hashes are compared by seeing how close they are to each other. The largest possible distance between two images is about 5m units. These two fuzzy hashes are just 4,913 units apart (the smaller the number, the more similar the images) indicating that they are substantially the same image. Compare that with two unrelated photographs. The photograph below has a fuzzy hash of 011a0d0323102d048148c92a4773b60d 0d343c02120615010d1a47017d108b14 d36fff4561aebb2f088a891208134202 3e21ff5b594bff5eff5bff6c2bc9ff77 1755ff511d14ff5b The photograph below has a fuzzy hash of 062715154080356b8a52505955997751 9d221f4624000209034f1227438a8c6a 894e8b9d675a513873394a2f3d000722 781407ff475a36f9275160ff6f231eff 465a17f1224006ff The distance between the two hashes is calculated as 713,061. Through experimentation, it's possible to set a distance threshold under which you can consider two photographs to be likely related. Fuzzy Hashing's Intentionally Black Box How does it work? While there has been lots of work on fuzzy hashing published, the innards of the process are intentionally a bit of a mystery. The New York Times recently wrote a story that was probably the most public discussion of one such technology works. The challenge was if criminal producers and distributors of CSAM knew exactly how such tools worked then they might be able to craft how they alter their images in order to beat it. To be clear, Cloudflare will be running the CSAM Screening Tool on behalf of the website operator from within our secure points of presence. We will not be distributing the software directly to users. We will remain vigilant for potential attempted abuse of the platform, and will take prompt action as necessary. Tradeoff Between False Negatives and False Positives We have been working with a number of authorities on how we can best roll it out this functionality to our customers. One of the challenges for a network with as diverse a set of customers as Cloudflare's is what the appropriate threshold should be to set the comparison distance between the fuzzy hashes. If you set the threshold too strict — meaning that it's closer to a traditional hash and two images need to be virtually identical to trigger a match — then you're more likely to have have many false negatives (i.e., CSAM that isn't flagged). If you set the threshold too loose, then it's possible to have many false positives. False positives may seem like the lesser evil, but there are legitimate concerns that increasing the possibility of false positives at scale could waste limited resources and further overwhelm the existing ecosystem. We will work to iterate the CSAM Scanning Tool to provide more granular control to the website owner while supporting the ongoing effectiveness of the ecosystem. Today, we believe we can offer a good first set of options for our customers that will allow us to more quickly flag CSAM without overwhelming the resources of the ecosystem. Different Thresholds for Different Customers The same desire for a granular approach was reflected in our conversations with our customers. When we asked what was appropriate for them, the answer varied radically based on the type of business, how sophisticated its existing abuse process was, and its likely exposure level and tolerance for the risk of CSAM being posted on their site. For instance, a mature social network using Cloudflare with a sophisticated abuse team may want the threshold set quite loose, but not want the material to be automatically blocked because they have the resources to manually review whatever is flagged. A new startup dedicated to providing a forum to new parents may want the threshold set quite loose and want any hits automatically blocked because they haven't yet built a sophisticated abuse team and the risk to their brand is so high if CSAM material is posted -- even if that will result in some false positives. A commercial financial institution may want to set the threshold quite strict because they're less likely to have user generated content and would have a low tolerance for false positives, but then automatically block anything that's detected because if somehow their systems are compromised to host known CSAM they want to stop it immediately. Different Requirements for Different Jurisdictions There also may be challenges based on where our customers are located and the laws and regulations that apply to them. Depending on where a customers business is located and where they have users, they may choose to use one, more than one, or all the different available hash lists. In other words, one size does not fit all and, ideally, we believe allowing individual site owners to set the parameters that make the most sense for their particular site will result in lower false negative rates (i.e., more CSAM being flagged) than if we try and set one global standard for every one of our customers. Improving the Tool Over Time Over time, we are hopeful that we can improve CSAM screening for our customers. We expect that we will add additional lists of hashes from numerous global agencies for our customers with users around the world to subscribe to. We're committed to enabling this flexibility without overly burdening the ecosystem that is set up to fight this horrible crime. Finally, we believe there may be an opportunity to help build the next generation of fuzzy hashing. For example, the software can only scan images that are at rest in memory on a machine, not those that are streaming. We're talking with Hany Farid, the former Dartmouth professor who now teaches at Berkeley California, about ways that we may be able to build a more flexible fuzzy hashing system in order to flag images before they're even posted. Concerns and Responsibility One question we asked ourselves back when we began to consider offering CSAM scanning was whether we were the right place to be doing this at all. We share the universal concern about the distribution of depictions of horrific crimes against children, and believe it should have no place on the Internet, however Cloudflare is a network infrastructure provider, not a content platform. But we thought there was an appropriate role for us to play in this space. Fundamentally, Cloudflare delivers tools to our more than 2 million customers that were previously reserved for only the Internet giants. The security, performance, and reliability services that we offer, often for free, without us would have been extremely expensive or limited to the Internet giants like Facebook and Google. Today there are startups that are working to build the next Internet giant and compete with Facebook and Google because they can use Cloudflare to be secure, fast, and reliable online. But, as the regulatory hurdles around dealing with incredibly difficult issues like CSAM continue to increase, many of them lack access to sophisticated tools to scan proactively for CSAM. You have to get big to get into the club that gives you access to these tools, and, concerningly, being in the club is increasingly a prerequisite to getting big. If we want more competition for the Internet giants we need to make these tools available more broadly and to smaller organizations. From that perspective, we think it makes perfect sense for us to help democratize this powerful tool in the fight against CSAM. We hope this will help enable our customers to build more sophisticated content moderation teams appropriate for their own communities and will allow them to scale in a responsible way to compete with the Internet giants of today. That is directly aligned with our mission of helping build a better Internet, and it's why we're announcing that we will be making this service available for free for all our customers. Drupal core - Moderately critical - Denial of Service - SA-CORE-2019-009 Project: Drupal coreVersion: 8.8.x-dev8.7.x-devDate: 2019-December-18Security risk: Moderately critical 12∕25 AC:None/A:None/CI:None/II:None/E:Theoretical/TD:AllVulnerability: Denial of ServiceDescription: A visit to install.php can cause cached data to become corrupted. This could cause a site to be impaired until caches are rebuilt. To mitigate this issue in any version of Drupal 8, you can also block access to install.php if it's not required. Heine of the Drupal Security Team Damien McKenna of the Drupal Security Team David Snopek of the Drupal Security Team Nathaniel Catchpole of the Drupal Security Team PHPBenelux Conference 2020 PHP - Wed, 18/12/2019 - 13:36 PHP 7.4.1 Released! A new mom’s guide to pumping milk while traveling for work Recently, I deployed a human to production. Shipped at 11 lbs 3 oz, he rapidly doubled in size in his first six months. At Cloudflare, I run the Developer Relations team, and my first quarter back from parental leave, I had 3 business trips: 2 international, 1 domestic. As an exclusive breastfeeder, this means solving the logistical puzzle of moving a large quantity of milk home, to the tune of 40-50 oz (1200 - 1500 mL) per day given the size of my baby. Since I ferried milk home to my baby and did extensive research in preparation, I figured I'd pay it forward and share my own learnings, and publish the guide that I wished someone wrote for me. In the final section for further reading, I've linked many of the articles I read in preparation although some of the advice from the reading is rather dated. I’m including them because I’m grateful to be standing on the shoulders of giants and accumulating the wisdom of all the parents who went on this adventure before me. What's possible in 2019 is truly amazing compared to a generation ago or even half to one decade ago. Before I dive into the advice, I’d like to thank the other parents in our Parents group for their advice and help, our Office Team for maintaining a mother’s room in every HQ (even 2 in San Francisco), our People Team for their support of the Parents Employee Resource Group (ERG) and for helping me research insurance related questions, and Cloudflare in general for family friendly policies. (See career opportunities at Cloudflare ) What's in my pump bag? When packing my pump bag, I packed for 2 pumping use cases: 1) pumping on the airplane or in a non-ideal (nursing room) area of an airport, and 2) pumping in a conference-provided mother’s room or a non-ideal private area. Here’s my packing list: Pump Bag packing list (and notes): Insulated cooler backpack I used an Igloo cooler bag because it was large enough to accommodate a smaller insulated milk bag and had separate compartments so I can access pump items without subjecting the inside to warm / room temperature air. Insulated milk bag Travel pump and bottles Baby Buddha pump It charges via USB so I can use my power brick as a backup. This was recommended by another parent in the Parents ERG group. My first trip I packed my Baby Buddha, my Willow set, and my manual pumps for the trip, but I really relied on the Baby Buddha for all my subsequent trips. (At home I use Spectra, and at work we share a Medela hospital grade pump. I suppose I’m pumped to be a pump enthusiast.) On subsequent trips, I no longer packed bottles and went exclusively Kiinde + Baby Buddha. Pump cleaning wipes I used Medela pump wipes. A large box came with a microwave sterilizer bag. 2 refrigerator thermometers (see temperature management section below) Extra gallon ziplock bags (a lot of them) If you are traveling in the U.S., I recommend printing out these two TSA policy pages. Many airlines allow your medical device (e.g., breast pump) to be a separate carry-on item. Before my trips, I printed the airline policy page that states this for each airline I had flights with and stored it in my pump bag. Although it didn’t come in necessary, I’m glad it was there just in case. Each airline may have a different policy, so call each airline and confirm that the pump bag did not count against carry-on limits, even though you’re also printing out the policy from their website. Sharpie to label milk bags Travel pump parts cleaning kit Ice Packs (must be frozen solid to pass through security) It is possible for an insulated milk bag inside a cooler backpack to maintain <4C for a 10 hour flight, I’ve done it. However, it will require multiple replenishments of ziplock bags of ice. Use the long lasting type of ice pack (not the ones for treating injuries) so they stay frozen solid, not only through security but throughout the flight. Manual pump as a backup I have both a Haakaa and a NatureBond manual pump for worst case scenario planning. Although I didn’t end up needing them during the flight, I would still pack them in the future to literally take the pressure off in tight situations. Regular personal item packing list: Hand sanitizer wipes (wipes are not a liquid and don’t count toward your quota, hooray!) Baby bottle dish soap, travel size (with your liquids) Big tupperware container (makeshift dishpan for washing pump parts) Battery pack backup in case I can’t find an outlet (optional) Nursing cover for pumping in my seat (optional) Pro-Tips and lessons I learned from my journey: Pre-assemble pump parts and store in ziplock bags; each pump separately. My preference for a 10-12 hour flight is to pack 3 kits: each kit is one pump part set, fully assembled with adapter and Kiinde bag, and an extra Kiinde bag. I’d then pump one side at a time, using the same kit, swap bags between sides (or when one was full). Since the Baby Buddha comes with 2 sets (one for each side), I used a Spectra set from home and the unofficial Baby Buddha component hacks. Even though I had pump wipes, I saved all my pump sets for a proper deep clean after getting to the hotel. If/when I do need to clean pump parts on the plane (e.g., if, due to delays, I need to pump more times), I use my Medela pump wipes. Make friends with a flight attendant and let them know how they can be helpful, e.g., fill your ziplock bags with a steady supply of ice. Pack a lot of gallon ziplock bags. I packed over a dozen gallon ziplock bags for my first trip. It wasn't nearly enough. I recommend packing half a package of gallon size and half a package of quart sized with the zipper top. Asking for ice from airport vendors, flight attendants, storing a used pump I'll wash later, everything uses a fresh bag. Stockpile frozen milk before your trip. I estimated that my baby consumes 40-50 oz per day, and I had nearly enough for a one week trip. It turned out that he consumed less milk than expected, and there was still some frozen milk in the freezer when I got home. What happens if I need to be away from my hotel or a fridge for more than 3-4 hours? I pack my manual pump in my purse for post-conference social outings, and go to the bathroom and pump and dump just enough to take a little pressure off the top, and pump as soon as I get back to my hotel. Once on the plane, you have several options as to where to pump. Some people pump in the bathrooms, but I prefer getting a window seat and pumping under a tulip style nursing top, which provides a similar amount of privacy to a nursing cover, but is much more maneuverable. Liquid or gel hand sanitizer counts as a liquid for security purposes. My strategy is to rely on a combination of Medela pump wipes (FSA eligible) and hand sanitizer wipes. Your own comfort level with pumping at your seat may differ from mine, but I used hand sanitizer wipes on my hands (and arm rests, etc.) and another to wipe down the tray table for my pumping items. All cleaning after those 2 wipes were with the alcohol free pump wipes. Where can a mother pump around this airport / conference center / anywhere? Many airports have mother's rooms, family bathrooms, nursery rooms, (see list and list) or Mamava pods. Personally, I didn't want to be in a rush to finish pumping or washing parts while boarding for my flight gets announced, even though I’m very grateful they exist and would use them when there’s a flight delay. The ANA checkin agent thoughtfully warned me that Tokyo airport security won't allow milk as a carry-on liquid above the volume limits on the way back. Luckily, I was already planning to check it in a Milk Stork box, and cool my last batch in an ice bath before sealing the box. Milk Stork has compiled this helpful list of links to the airport security policy of different countries. The Points Guy blog compiled a helpful list of airline policies on whether a medical device (breast pump) qualifies as an additional carry on. On my phone, I have installed these 2 apps for locating mother’s rooms: Pumpspotting and Mamava. Your luck with either of them will depend on the country you’re in. In Japan, for instance, nearly every shopping mall and hotel lobby seemed to have a “nursery” room which fit the bill, but almost none are on the apps. North America is better represented on the apps. As a first resort, however, check with the conference organizers about a mother’s room. Developer Week and dotJS have both done a phenomenal job in making a mother’s room available. In one case, when I asked, the organizers learned that the venue already had a fully equipped mother’s room on site. In another case, the organizers worked with the venue to create a lockable private room with a refrigerator. Don’t be afraid of being the first person to request a mothers’ room of a conference organizer. You get zero percent of the things you don’t ask for, and worst case scenario, if there isn’t one, you may need to take a trip back to your hotel room for a mid-day pump session. Temperature management: is my cooler or refrigerator cold enough? My general approach to temperature management, be it hotel room refrigerators, my cooler backpack or my mini cooler bag, is trust but verify. I bought 2 little thermometers, and on the road, I had one in the small bag, and one in the large bag but outside the small bag. This allowed me to be sure that my milk is cold enough no matter where I was. Left: small milk cooler bag (Skip Hop from Target); Right: Igloo cooler backpack. I liked this bag because it has a top pocket, where I can quick access my pump and pump parts without opening the main compartment and exposing it to room temperature air. The main igloo compartment stabilized at 13C and the internal bag stabilized at 8C with 2 long lasting gel ice packs. When I asked for additional ice from the flight attendants, it stabilized at 10C in the main compartment and 3C in the internal bag. After a while, I got an ice refresh and the internal compartment stabilized at 1C. To prevent newly pumped warm milk from warming up the cooler, I used an external ziplock ice bath to rapid chill the milk bag before storing it in the cooler. For this reason, I preferred the stability of the Kiinde twist top bags and not being afraid of bursting a ziplock seal. Always trust but verify temperature. Milk bags in a full size hotel refrigerator with fridge thermometer Some hotel room mini fridges are cold enough and others aren't. Same with large refrigerators. Just like with cooler backpacks, my general advice is trust but verify. With the two little thermometers: I took the one outside the internal insulated pouch and put it in the fridge to measure the refrigerator temperature before unpacking the cooler backpack. At an Extended Stay Austin, I had to switch rooms to get a cold enough fridge. In the first room, the full sized refrigerator stabilized at 8C at its max, and couldn’t get colder, and the front desk people were happy to switch me to another room with a colder fridge, which was cold enough. My fridge in the Tokyo hotel stabilized at 8-9C when I put milk bags in, but can get down to 4C when it's not trying to cool warm milk. So I had the hotel store my milk in their fridge with my igloo cooler backpack. 1 thermometer in hotel fridge, one in backpack, so I can confirm their fridge is cold enough at 3-4C. My fridge in Paris was an old and weak little fridge that can get to 10C in ideal conditions, so I kept my milk at 4C in that fridge with a twice daily addition of ziplock bags full of ice provided by the hotel. Lastly, some rooms have their power modulated by the key card in a slot by the door, and the refrigerator turns off when you're not there. Don't feel bad about using a business card to keep the power on so the refrigerator can stay on. Milk Stork vs. OrderBoxesNow Milk Stork came highly recommended by parents in our Parent Chat channel, as used by their spouses at other companies and there’s currently internal discussion about potentially offering it as a benefit in the future. Since my baby is very large (99th percentile), he consumes 40 - 50 oz per day (1200 - 1500 mL per day). That means Milk Stork’s large 100 oz box is 2 - 2.5 days supply for my baby, whereas that’s close to a one week supply for a regular sized baby of a similar age. So I decided to try Milk Stork kits for some trips and compare the experience with buying replacement engines and/or boxes myself for other trips in order to compare the experience. And oh what a difference. I don’t have enough words for Milk Stork customer service. Milk Stork isn’t just a box with a refrigeration engine. You give them your trip information and they ship an entire kit to your hotel, which includes: the box and the refrigeration engine, milk storage bags, tamper evident seals, etc. Although you have to arrange the FedEx pickup yourself (and coordinate with your hotel front desk), they will pay for the freight and take care of the rest. When there was a hiccup with my FedEx pickup, and when I got a surprise FedEx invoice for import taxes on my milk, Milk Stork customer support got on the phone with FedEx to reverse the charges, saving me the headache of multiple phone calls. It is incredibly easy to make minor mistakes when buying replacement engines instead. On one trip, I brought my empty Milk Stork boxes to re-use and shipped replacement engines to the hotel. Not only did I have a slight panic because the hotel at first thought they didn’t have my replacement engines, it also turned out that I had ordered the wrong size. After a last minute trip to Home Depot for some supplies (zip ties, tape, bubble wrap), I was able to disassemble the two Milk Stork coolers into panels and MacGyver them together into a functional franken-cooler that was the correct size for the refrigeration engine that I used for multiple trips. Since this required pulling an all-nighter due to regular pumping interruptions, this is not for the faint of heart. MacGyvered franken-cooler box, constructed from 2 Milk Stork boxes, zipties, and packing tape in order to fit a larger size refrigeration engine. Reasons you might consider buying the boxes instead of a kit: You need a bigger volume box (e.g., shipping over 120 oz) You are comfortable re-using the boxes and are buying replacement refrigeration engines You’re comfortable with some last minute MacGyvering in case of errors You (and baby’s caretaker) really prefer Kiinde bags for feeding (our family does) and you need a larger box to fit more bags in Since I use Kiinde bags, I used plastic shrink bands instead of tamper evident seal stickers. Final thoughts and Shout-outs I would like to give a shout-out to the other parents in our Parents ERG (employee resource group). I especially want to thank Renee, my parent buddy in our returning-parent buddy system, for her contributions to the research, and Marina from our People Team for setting up that buddy system and also for helping research policy, from company internal to FSA related questions. Jill for recommending the Baby Buddha pump, Dane for recommending Milk Stork, Amy for keeping not just one but two nice mother's rooms in the SF office to keep up with our demand, and Nicole who always lets me borrow ice packs when I forget mine at home. And thank you Rebecca and all the other parents who trod down this path before me. Every time more parents take on the challenges, we collectively increase the demand for the products and services that makes the challenges easier, and maybe a version of this post in 2025 will be a piece of cake. (See career opportunities at Cloudflare≫ ) We have come such a long way from the days of shipping frozen breastmilk packed with dry ice. I am so grateful that I was not out trying to source dry ice in a country where I don’t speak the language. Last but not least, I want to thank my husband and my mother in law whose backs and wrists strain under the weight of our very large baby since I have been recovering from a wrist injury. I count myself lucky to be able to stand on the shoulders of giants, that is, all the parents who have gone on this adventure before me who have shared their wisdom. Reference Guides: Airport security by country (print the relevant section for your trip, just in case) Tips for checking your milk as checked luggage Articles (and a few notes that I took whilst reading them): Breastfeeding in Combat Boots (book) What Nursing Parents Need to Know About Pumping During Work Travel (HBR) Check with hotel on fridge temperature. Bringing my own small thermometers. 10 Tips to Prep for Pumping on the Road (Working Mother) Pump 45 minutes before landing so you have enough time to make it to your hotel in a variety of traffic conditions. Pumping on a Business Trip (Medium) Tips on Pumping While Traveling for Work (Apres Group) The Working Mom's Guide to Breastfeeding and Business Trips (Parents.com) Avoid airplane water for washing your hands; use hand sanitizer, pump wipes, and store parts in your cooler. Ask for a microwave to steam sterilize parts. Bring steam sterilizer bag. Breastfeeding While Traveling? Here’s How to Make It Work (TheBump) Mark item clearly as perishable. Large planes have some type of refrigerator that you can use to refrigerate your cooler. Smaller planes can provide extra ice. Your Ultimate Guide To Pumping While Traveling (Land & Air)(Mom Loves Best) How to Fly With Breast Milk in the United States (The Points Guy) The Best Airline Seats, Suites, Lactation Rooms and Lounges When Breastfeeding (The Points Guy) Milk Stork Review (The Points Guy) Can I Take Breast Milk on a Plane? Your Guide to Pumping and Traveling (What to Expect) How we used our new GraphQL Analytics API to build Firewall Analytics Firewall Analytics is the first product in the Cloudflare dashboard to utilize the new GraphQL Analytics API. All Cloudflare dashboard products are built using the same public APIs that we provide to our customers, allowing us to understand the challenges they face when interfacing with our APIs. This parity helps us build and shape our products, most recently the new GraphQL Analytics API that we’re thrilled to release today. By defining the data we want, along with the response format, our GraphQL Analytics API has enabled us to prototype new functionality and iterate quickly from our beta user feedback. It is helping us deliver more insightful analytics tools within the Cloudflare dashboard to our customers. Our user research and testing for Firewall Analytics surfaced common use cases in our customers' workflow: Identifying spikes in firewall activity over time Understanding the common attributes of threats Drilling down into granular details of an individual event to identify potential false positives We can address all of these use cases using our new GraphQL Analytics API. GraphQL Basics Before we look into how to address each of these use cases, let's take a look at the format of a GraphQL query and how our schema is structured. A GraphQL query is comprised of a structured set of fields, for which the server provides corresponding values in its response. The schema defines which fields are available and their type. You can find more information about the GraphQL query syntax and format in the official GraphQL documentation. To run some GraphQL queries, we recommend downloading a GraphQL client, such as GraphiQL, to explore our schema and run some queries. You can find documentation on getting started with this in our developer docs. At the top level of the schema is the viewer field. This represents the top level node of the user running the query. Within this, we can query the zones field to find zones the current user has access to, providing a filter argument, with a zoneTag of the identifier of the zone we'd like narrow down to. { viewer { zones(filter: { zoneTag: "YOUR_ZONE_ID" }) { # Here is where we'll query our firewall events } } } Now that we have a query that finds our zone, we can start querying the firewall events which have occurred in that zone, to help solve some of the use cases we’ve identified. Visualising spikes in firewall activity It's important for customers to be able to visualise and understand anomalies and spikes in their firewall activity, as these could indicate an attack or be the result of a misconfiguration. Plotting events in a timeseries chart, by their respective action, provides users with a visual overview of the trend of their firewall events. Within the zones field in the query we’ve created earlier, we can query our firewall event aggregates using the firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups field, providing arguments to limit the count of groups, a filter for the date range we're looking for (combined with any user-entered filters), and a list of fields to order by; in this case, just the datetimeHour field that we're grouping by. Within the zones field in the query we created earlier, we can further query our firewall event aggregates using the firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups field and providing arguments for: A limit for the count of groups A filter for the date range we're looking for (combined with any user-entered filters) A list of fields to orderBy (in this case, just the datetimeHour field that we're grouping by). By adding the dimensions field, we're querying for groups of firewall events, aggregated by the fields nested within dimensions. In this case, our query includes the action and datetimeHour fields, meaning the response will be groups of firewall events which share the same action, and fall within the same hour. We also add a count field, to get a numeric count of how many events fall within each group. query FirewallEventsByTime($zoneTag: string, $filter: FirewallEventsAdaptiveGroupsFilter_InputObject) { viewer { zones(filter: { zoneTag: $zoneTag }) { firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups( limit: 576 filter: $filter orderBy: [datetimeHour_DESC] ) { count dimensions { action datetimeHour } } } } } Note - Each of our groups queries require a limit to be set. A firewall event can have one of 8 possible actions, and we are querying over a 72 hour period. At most, we’ll end up with 567 groups, so we can set that as the limit for our query. This query would return a response in the following format: { "viewer": { "zones": [ { "firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups": [ { "count": 5, "dimensions": { "action": "jschallenge", "datetimeHour": "2019-09-12T18:00:00Z" } } ... ] } ] } } We can then take these groups and plot each as a point on a time series chart. Mapping over the firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups array, we can use the group’s count property on the y-axis for our chart, then use the nested fields within the dimensions object, using action as unique series and the datetimeHour as the time stamp on the x-axis. Top Ns After identifying a spike in activity, our next step is to highlight events with commonality in their attributes. For example, if a certain IP address or individual user agent is causing many firewall events, this could be a sign of an individual attacker, or could be surfacing a false positive. Similarly to before, we can query aggregate groups of firewall events using the firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups field. However, in this case, instead of supplying action and datetimeHour to the group’s dimensions, we can add individual fields that we want to find common groups of. By ordering by descending count, we’ll retrieve groups with the highest commonality first, limiting to the top 5 of each. We can add a single field nested within dimensions to group by it. For example, adding clientIP will give five groups with the IP addresses causing the most events. We can also add a firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups field with no nested dimensions. This will create a single group which allows us to find the total count of events matching our filter. query FirewallEventsTopNs($zoneTag: string, $filter: FirewallEventsAdaptiveGroupsFilter_InputObject) { viewer { zones(filter: { zoneTag: $zoneTag }) { topIPs: firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups( limit: 5 filter: $filter orderBy: [count_DESC] ) { count dimensions { clientIP } } topUserAgents: firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups( limit: 5 filter: $filter orderBy: [count_DESC] ) { count dimensions { userAgent } } total: firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups( limit: 1 filter: $filter ) { count } } } } Note - we can add the firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups field multiple times within a single query, each aliased differently. This allows us to fetch multiple different groupings by different fields, or with no groupings at all. In this case, getting a list of top IP addresses, top user agents, and the total events. We can then reference each of these aliases in the UI, mapping over their respective groups to render each row with its count, and a bar which represents the proportion of total events, showing the proportion of all events each row equates to. Are these firewall events false positives? After users have identified spikes, anomalies and common attributes, we wanted to surface more information as to whether these have been caused by malicious traffic, or are false positives. To do this, we wanted to provide additional context on the events themselves, rather than just counts. We can do this by querying the firewallEventsAdaptive field for these events. Our GraphQL schema uses the same filter format for both the aggregate firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups field and the raw firewallEventsAdaptive field. This allows us to use the same filters to fetch the individual events which summate to the counts and aggregates in the visualisations above. query FirewallEventsList($zoneTag: string, $filter: FirewallEventsAdaptiveFilter_InputObject) { viewer { zones(filter: { zoneTag: $zoneTag }) { firewallEventsAdaptive( filter: $filter limit: 10 orderBy: [datetime_DESC] ) { action clientAsn clientCountryName clientIP clientRequestPath clientRequestQuery datetime rayName source userAgent } } } } Once we have our individual events, we can render all of the individual fields we’ve requested, providing users the additional context on event they need to determine whether this is a false positive or not. That’s how we used our new GraphQL Analytics API to build Firewall Analytics, helping solve some of our customers most common security workflow use cases. We’re excited to see what you build with it, and the problems you can help tackle. You can find out how to get started querying our GraphQL Analytics API using GraphiQL in our developer documentation, or learn more about writing GraphQL queries on the official GraphQL Foundation documentation. Introducing the GraphQL Analytics API: exactly the data you need, all in one place Today we’re excited to announce a powerful and flexible new way to explore your Cloudflare metrics and logs, with an API conforming to the industry-standard GraphQL specification. With our new GraphQL Analytics API, all of your performance, security, and reliability data is available from one endpoint, and you can select exactly what you need, whether it’s one metric for one domain or multiple metrics aggregated for all of your domains. You can ask questions like “How many cached bytes have been returned for these three domains?” Or, “How many requests have all the domains under my account received?” Or even, “What effect did changing my firewall rule an hour ago have on the responses my users were seeing?” The GraphQL standard also has strong community resources, from extensive documentation to front-end clients, making it easy to start creating simple queries and progress to building your own sophisticated analytics dashboards. From many APIs... Providing insights has always been a core part of Cloudflare’s offering. After all, by using Cloudflare, you’re relying on us for key parts of your infrastructure, and so we need to make sure you have the data to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot your website, app, or service. Over time, we developed a few key data APIs, including ones providing information regarding your domain’s traffic, DNS queries, and firewall events. This multi-API approach was acceptable while we had only a few products, but we started to run into some challenges as we added more products and analytics. We couldn’t expect users to adopt a new analytics API every time they started using a new product. In fact, some of the customers and partners that were relying on many of our products were already becoming confused by the various APIs. Following the multi-API approach was also affecting how quickly we could develop new analytics within the Cloudflare dashboard, which is used by more people for data exploration than our APIs. Each time we built a new product, our product engineering teams had to implement a corresponding analytics API, which our user interface engineering team then had to learn to use. This process could take up to several months for each new set of analytics dashboards. ...to one Our new GraphQL Analytics API solves these problems by providing access to all Cloudflare analytics. It offers a standard, flexible syntax for describing exactly the data you need and provides predictable, matching responses. This approach makes it an ideal tool for: Data exploration. You can think of it as a way to query your own virtual data warehouse, full of metrics and logs regarding the performance, security, and reliability of your Internet property. Building amazing dashboards, which allow for flexible filtering, sorting, and drilling down or rolling up. Creating these kinds of dashboards would normally require paying thousands of dollars for a specialized analytics tool. You get them as part of our product and can customize them for yourself using the API. In a companion post that was also published today, my colleague Nick discusses using the GraphQL Analytics API to build dashboards. So, in this post, I’ll focus on examples of how you can use the API to explore your data. To make the queries, I’ll be using GraphiQL, a popular open-source querying tool that takes advantage of GraphQL’s capabilities. Introspection: what data is available? The first thing you may be wondering: if the GraphQL Analytics API offers access to so much data, how do I figure out what exactly is available, and how I can ask for it? GraphQL makes this easy by offering “introspection,” meaning you can query the API itself to see the available data sets, the fields and their types, and the operations you can perform. GraphiQL uses this functionality to provide a “Documentation Explorer,” query auto-completion, and syntax validation. For example, here is how I can see all the data sets available for a zone (domain): If I’m writing a query, and I’m interested in data on firewall events, auto-complete will help me quickly find relevant data sets and fields: Querying: examples of questions you can ask Let’s say you’ve made a major product announcement and expect a surge in requests to your blog, your application, and several other zones (domains) under your account. You can check if this surge materializes by asking for the requests aggregated under your account, in the 30 minutes after your announcement post, broken down by the minute: { viewer { accounts (filter: {accountTag: $accountTag}) { httpRequests1mGroups(limit: 30, filter: {datetime_geq: "2019-09-16T20:00:00Z", datetime_lt: "2019-09-16T20:30:00Z"}, orderBy: [datetimeMinute_ASC]) { dimensions { datetimeMinute } sum { requests } } } } } Here is the first part of the response, showing requests for your account, by the minute: Now, let’s say you want to compare the traffic coming to your blog versus your marketing site over the last hour. You can do this in one query, asking for the number of requests to each zone: { viewer { zones(filter: {zoneTag_in: [$zoneTag1, $zoneTag2]}) { httpRequests1hGroups(limit: 2, filter: {datetime_geq: "2019-09-16T20:00:00Z", datetime_lt: "2019-09-16T21:00:00Z"}) { sum { requests } } } } } Here is the response: Finally, let’s say you’re seeing an increase in error responses. Could this be correlated to an attack? You can look at error codes and firewall events over the last 15 minutes, for example: { viewer { zones(filter: {zoneTag: $zoneTag}) { httpRequests1mGroups (limit: 100, filter: {datetime_geq: "2019-09-16T21:00:00Z", datetime_lt: "2019-09-16T21:15:00Z"}) { sum { responseStatusMap { edgeResponseStatus requests } } } firewallEventsAdaptiveGroups (limit: 100, filter: {datetime_geq: "2019-09-16T21:00:00Z", datetime_lt: "2019-09-16T21:15:00Z"}) { dimensions { action } count } } } } Notice that, in this query, we’re looking at multiple datasets at once, using a common zone identifier to “join” them. Here are the results: By examining both data sets in parallel, we can see a correlation: 31 requests were “dropped” or blocked by the Firewall, which is exactly the same as the number of “403” responses. So, the 403 responses were a result of Firewall actions. To learn more about the GraphQL Analytics API and start exploring your Cloudflare data, follow the “Getting started” guide in our developer documentation, which also has details regarding the current data sets and time periods available. We’ll be adding more data sets over time, so take advantage of the introspection feature to see the latest available. Finally, to make way for the new API, the Zone Analytics API is now deprecated and will be sunset on May 31, 2020. The data that Zone Analytics provides is available from the GraphQL Analytics API. If you’re currently using the API directly, please follow our migration guide to change your API calls. If you get your analytics using the Cloudflare dashboard or our Datadog integration, you don’t need to take any action. One more thing.... In the API examples above, if you find it helpful to get analytics aggregated for all the domains under your account, we have something else you may like: a brand new Analytics dashboard (in beta) that provides this same information. If your account has many zones, the dashboard is helpful for knowing summary information on metrics such as requests, bandwidth, cache rate, and error rate. Give it a try and let us know what you think using the feedback link above the new dashboard. PHPWales 2020 - June 3rd to June 4th PHP - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 08:04 Recommended by me Only websites or services that I've used myself appear here - everything comes with a personal recommendation. Clicking on the above link, and signing up with / buying from their website, pays me a small commission which helps run this website. Recommendations are based solely on personal experience. Looking for an ad you saw here before? 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__label__wiki	0.822933	0.822933	« Lumen, the Dating App for 50+ to Launch in Ireland \| Main \| Coffee Meets Bagel User Files Suit Over Alleged Lack of Refund Policy » Whitney Wolfe Herd on Bumble New Snooze Feature VOGUE - Nov 20 - On a recent trip to China, Whitney Wolfe Herd found herself inadvertently off social media. "I had a full panic for the first 48 hours and I was almost going through a withdrawal, which is terrifying in itself," she says, appalled, but laughing. "But after 48 hours, I didn't want it anymore. I was so present, it was like my senses were re-activated." Months later, Wolfe Herd launched a new feature on Bumble: Snooze. Snooze allows users to go offline very politely. "A lot of big companies have stayed away from this, because they don't want to cannibalize their business. It's a very courageous move as a company, but we truly believe that it's needed and necessary," she says firmly. by Zara Wong See full article at Vogue See all posts on Bumble Nov 21, 2018 \| Permalink	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365376
__label__cc	0.588377	0.411623	GearApparel These Work Pants Are Damn Near Perfect The Proof Rover pants finally find a balance between durability and comfort The Proof Rover's are our new favorite work pants. (Photo: Jakob Schiller) Jakob Schiller When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small commission. Outside does not accept money for editorial gear reviews. Read more about our policy. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen men’s blue jeans get completely reinvented, thanks to the addition of Lycra (which also goes by spandex or elastane). Lycra, when mixed with cotton, adds stretch, so jeans are comfier and better for everything from commuting to climbing. Proof has taken that concept one step further and added Lycra to a pair of work pants. Its model is called the Rover (as in Land Rover), and they’re the first pair of work pants I’ve ever worn that don’t feel like they need a two-month break-in period. The pants are not as comfortable as stretch jeans, because they’re made from a thicker, more durable cotton, but they’re miles ahead of the work pants you’re used to suffering through. Proof also mixed in quite a bit of Sorbtek, a synthetic material that excels at wicking moisture. So if you wear these pants to dig out a buddy’s car in the snow, or put them on to tackle a sweaty summer-construction project, they’ll stay a lot drier and softer than what you’re used to. Other features include a gusseted crotch for an increased range of motion and a pigment dye that allows the pants to develop their own unique patina over time. Plus, because the Rovers forgo double knees and hammer loops, they don’t scream “work,” which means you can wear them off the jobsite, too. Are the Rovers as durable as the work pants you’ve had for the past five years? Probably not. Proof did give up a little strength in the trade for luxury, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. They’re that much nicer to wear and tough enough to put up with at least a couple years of abuse. Filed To: PantsClimbingSynthetic Lead Photo: Jakob Schiller	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365380
__label__cc	0.675088	0.324912	Demand For Sustainable Skipjack Goes Global The global demand for Pacifical skipjack tuna is becoming obvious as major Australian food retailer, Coles Supermarkets, echoes European grocery chains this week in its quest for a sustainable supply of the canned fish. “We are impressed with the PNA MSC certification and disheartened that, as yet, no MSC certified skipjack tuna is available for us to purchase,” writes John Durkan, the company’s merchandise director, in a public letter released today. Coles has 18.6 million customer transactions each week, making it one of the fastest growing food retailers in the world. With more than 740 stores nationwide and a commitment to only sell sustainably sourced seafood by 2015, the company wants to ensure all of its canned tuna products – Coles’ most popular seafood item – carry the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) blue-and-white guarantee. “We presently sell two lines of MSC white albacore tuna caught in the South West Pacific Ocean off New Zealand and are keen to extend our MSC canned fish offer, as canned tuna is our biggest selling seafood item,” says Durkan. Since October, leading retailers in Europe have been expressing their frustration with the complete lack of supply that was first expected in the summer. Now, Coles too is appealing to the boat owners and other industry players in the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) region to fix the problem. “We urge fishermen, processors and canners handling PNA skipjack tuna to commence fishing in accordance with the MSC chain of custody program to meet our supply demands,” says Durkan. The PNA free school purse seine skipjack fishery in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean was certified about a year ago, but the mostly foreign fishermen operating in the area are not motivated to fish sustainably. As a result, the fishery is still missing its Chain of Custody (COC) certification and Pacifical tuna – the cobrand for the sustainable skipjack – cannot be delivered to the market. COC is necessary because it ensures the MSC certified catch is kept separate from the non-certified tuna throughout the entire supply chain. Besides Coles in Australia, major retailers in Switzerland (Coop), Austria (SPAR) and Denmark (Dansk) have publicly declared their need for Pacifical canned tuna in recent months. They all plan to offer the sustainable products under their private label brands, with each tuna can bearing the Pacifical logo on top. “We are very pleased with the flood of support from our retail partners and we hope the boat owners will finally get the message. There is global demand for MSC skipjack tuna and the fishermen cannot ignore it any longer. They need to act now,” says Cynthia Gonzalez, Pacifical’s marketing and communications manager. The boat owners fishing in PNA waters – home to 50% of the world’s skipjack tuna – continue to use fish-aggregating devices (FADS) which kill vast amounts of other ocean life incidentally. Pacifical values the entire ecosystem and believes only free swimming schools of mature skipjack should be targeted to ensure the future health of marine populations, including tuna, sharks and sea turtles. Sainsbury’s own-brand Maldives tuna to become 100% sustainable South Africa’s Pick n Pay Wants Skipjack With “Gold Standard”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365383
__label__cc	0.705539	0.294461	Home › What Do You Stand For - Teen Edition What Do You Stand For - Teen Edition Barbara A. Lewis An excellent resource for Sunday school teachers, youth workers and parents alike, What Do You Stand For? For Teens invites teens to explore and practice Orthodox Christian character traits such as honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, patience and respect. It challenges readers to think about, discuss and debate positive traits. It offers group activities for them to explore what they stand for at school, at home and in their communities. A Trace in the Sand Ο Τρελό Γιάννης Τόμος Α Ο Τρελό Γιάννης Τόμος Β Bearing The Saint Στον Αγρό του Θερισμού	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365390
__label__wiki	0.543717	0.543717	10 awesome new additions in Office 2013 By Helen Bradley This is a heady time for Microsoft as it rolls out an ambitious OS and polishes off its productivity suite, billed as "the new Office." At the suite's core is Office 2013—the desktop applications. Changes include a sleek appearance that reflects the look of Windows 8, functional improvements, and tie-ins to SharePoint and SkyDrive for storing documents online. In addition, the various components of Office Web Apps improve productivity in the cloud, while Windows 8 Surface RT tablets get their own flavor of Office. You'll be able to get Office 2013 desktop software on its own (as usual) or as part of an Office 365 subscription that's newly open to consumers, and not just to small businesses. Though the software shipped to manufacturers this month, the final edition won't reach customers until sometime in the first half of 2013. A consumer preview of the subscription-based Office has been available in preview mode for public download since mid-July Should you be planning to upgrade? Based on my experiences so far with the previews of the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, ten features make the move worthwhile. 1. Modern Style Interface In keeping with the “Modern” (previously called "Metro") style interface that you'll see in Windows 8, Office 2013 is getting a new look. Gone are the multiple shades of color that decorated the older interface, as well as the shadows and shading that suggested three dimensions. Instead, everything is minimalist, flat, and stark—mimicking the tiles on the Windows 8 start screen. The only hint of frivolity exists in a watermark design in the top right corner of the screen. The idea is that the new look will help you focus on your work rather than being distracted by the objects decorating your screen. Whether the redesign will achieve this goal or not—time will tell one way or the other—I certainly like the crisper look. The cleaner Modern look appears throughout Office 2013. 2. Start Screens Each app supports a new color-coded start screen—blue for Word, green for Excel, orange for PowerPoint, green for Publisher. Like the other applications' start screens, the one for Word displays a list of recent documents. Though creating a blank document is the default option, you can alternatively select a template, search online for templates, or click Open Other Documents to search for a document on disk or in a SkyDrive folder. These screens will help new users find their way around more easily, and experienced users will appreciate having all of their options in one place at startup. The top right of the screen shows details of the SkyDrive account that you are currently logged in to use. The new start screens show a range of options for launching a document. 3. SkyDrive Integration Office 2013 is designed to integrate with the cloud—with SkyDrive and SharePoint, in particular. That's good news if you prefer to save your work online for anywhere-access, though most small businesses and individuals still save files locally. If you use SkyDrive, the account details will appear in the top left corner of all the application screens, as well as on their start screens. Click your account details to switch accounts and to manage them. When you save a document, worksheet, or presentation, the application will default to saving to your SkyDrive account, but you can save to your local disk if you wish. Office 2013 applications default to saving to SkyDrive or SharePoint. 4. Syncing Across Devices When you save your Office documents online, they’ll be available to you (and others) from any device at any time, via Office 2013 on a PC or tablet, or via the WebApps. Microsoft has already upgraded the WebApps for Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint with the new Modern-style look and Office application color coding. In addition, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will save the last location where you were working before you saved--down to the letter, cell, or image. This feature makes it easier to pick up where you left off working, even if you open the file on a different device than you last used. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint keep track of where you were working last, and show you this position when you open the file again. 5. Touchscreen use Some new Office 2013 features are designed to make working with a touchscreen easier. The new Read Mode in Word opens a document in reading view, which lets you scroll through the document by swiping horizontally with your finger. On a desktop with a touchscreen monitor, you can change this behavior back to the more traditional page navigation mode if you wish. Click the Touch Mode button on the Quick Access Toolbar—to the right of the program logo of each application—and the ribbon toolbar spreads its icons further apart for easier access to fingers. Apart from these useful changes, however, touch integration in Office is somewhat erratic. You can use gestures such as tap, pinch, stretch, slide, and swipe for various features. But on a 24-inch touchscreen monitor, unfortunately, the text formatting icons were too small for me to use accurately. So, right now, though the suite is usable on a touchscreen device—which is a step in the right direction—it is still far from touch-friendly. The new Read Mode in Word 2013 is optimized for touchscreens. You can navigate horizontally by swiping with your finger. 6. PDF Editing In the past you could save a Word document as a PDF file, but until now you couldn't edit PDFs in Word without first converting them to Doc or DocX format. The new Word 2013 can open PDF files, edit them there, and then save them as either DocX files or PDFs. When opened in Word, the file retains the structure of the PDF file, even for elements such as tables. This advance will be a big plus for many users, who can simply open a PDF and get straight to work. Now you can open and edit PDF documents inside Word without converting them to another format first. 7. Formatting Task Panes in PowerPoint Formatting images, shapes, and other objects in PowerPoint is now more intuitive. Right-click an image and choose Format Picture to open the new Format Picture task pane, which shows the formatting options available for that object. Click another object, and the options in the task pane change to show only the options available for that object. You can leave the pane open as you work, so that it’s visible without cluttering your workspace. PowerPoint's new task panes put formatting features permanently on the screen, where you can easily find and access them. 8. Easier Charting For users confused by the plethora of charting options in previous versions of Excel, the new Recommended Charts feature is useful. Select the data to chart and click Insert > Recommended Chart to see options such as line, bar, and pie charts that the program recommends for your data. Click each chart to preview what your data will look like in that form. After you select and create a chart, small icons will appear outside its top right corner when you select it, giving you access to work with chart elements, styles, and colors, and with the chart data itself. Excel's Recommended Charts tool analyzes your selected data and suggests appropriate charts to display the data. 9. More Graphics Options In Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, and even Outlook, new icons on the Insert tab of the ribbon toolbar let you insert pictures from your local PC or from various online sources. The online options include inserting images within the Office Clipart collection online, via a Bing search, or from your own SkyDrive or Flickr account. (To access your Flickr account, you must first need to authorize Office to connect to it.) You can search and import images from online sources directly into Office 2013 applications. 10. Account Login The Backstage View in Office 2013 applications (accessed via the File tab) includes a new tab called Account (or 'Office Account', in Outlook). Here you can log in to your SkyDrive account or switch accounts. You can also see a list of connected services, such as Twitter and Facebook, and add services, such as LinkedIn and SkyDrive. The Office Updates area gives you information about the status of any available updates. Click Update Options to disable or enable updates and to view a history of Office 2013 updates. You can use the Account tab in the Backstage view to add and manage linked accounts, such as SkyDrive, Facebook, and Twitter. Additional reporting by Elsa Wenzel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365401
__label__wiki	0.630896	0.630896	Kind Music Festival will not allow cannabis… Kind Music Festival will not allow cannabis consumption, but adds more acts Ferg is one of the artists who has been added to the Kind Music Festival in Desert Hot Springs. A$AP Ferg performs as a guest artist during DJ Khaled’s set during the Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival in 2017. He’ll be playing at the Kind Music Festival in Desert Hot Springs on Feb. 23. (File photo by Micah Escamilla, The Sun/SCNG) By Alex Groves \| agroves@scng.com \| The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: January 28, 2019 at 4:09 pm \| UPDATED: January 28, 2019 at 4:09 pm The Kind Music Festival, scheduled to take place in Desert Hot Springs on Feb. 23, may describe itself as a festival that “embraces cannabis as a legalized recreational product,” but festival officials have confirmed that event visitors will not be allowed to light up or consume marijuana at the event. “KMF is not legally permitted to be a cannabis consumption event,” a new line on the frequently asked questions section of the website says. “Consumptions regulations will be strictly enforced.” There had been some question about that since the festival was announced in December. Though the festival immediately made clear that there would be no marijuana sales at the event, it was less clear whether people could consume their own. In response to a frequently asked question about whether consumption was allowed, the festival stated “KMF salutes California’s progressive stance on cannabis and its updated recreational/medical laws that go into effect on January 1, 2019.” Officials from the city of Desert Hot Springs were quick to note that consumption was not allowed at the event but festival organizers would not clarify whether consumption was allowed or what new California laws they were celebrating. 5 takeaways from the debut of the 4xFar festival The annual Doheny Blues Festival has been postponed for 2020 Festival Pass: Who’s playing BeachLife, Newport Beach Jazz Festival BeachLife 2020: Festival lineup includes Steve Miller Band, Counting Crows, Fitz and the Tantrums and more Newport Beach Jazz Festival celebrates 25th anniversary with Tower of Power, Anthony Hamilton and more Guests might not be able to smoke, but they’ll at least be able to check out expanded music offerings. A few new artists have been added to Kind’s lineup after band Chicano Batman had to pull out. Ferg, the rapper also known A$AP Ferg, Reese Laflare and D.I.E. have been added to a lineup that already includes Miguel, Starcrawler, Yonee and All My Friends Hate Me. The event will also now feature motivational speaker Idil Ahmed, who will be “raising awareness on global consciousness and the power of positivity,” according to an event press release. The festival is also offering discounted tickets to people local to the Desert Hot Springs area. They can get $30 off their tickets by visiting kindmusicfestival.com and entering the code “LOCALSALE” when they go to purchase either general admission or VIP tickets. Before the discount, tickets are $85 for general admission and $165 for VIP. 2 killed in San Bernardino shooting UC Riverside shows off The Barn as work progresses on the iconic hangout Riverside councilwoman drops attempt to oust election foe from panel RIVERSIDE: Sailing for a cause Alex Groves Alex Groves writes about casinos for the entertainment team at Southern California News Group. He started his first full-time gig as a breaking news reporter for The Press-Enterprise in 2015 but has also written stories on arts programs at local high schools, dining and events. In his free time, Alex enjoys hiking and traveling. A craft beer enthusiast, Alex likes to bring back an IPA as a souvenir from every new place he travels. Follow Alex Groves @AlexDGroves More in Music + Concerts Dave Matthews Band announces two nights at FivePoint Amphitheatre and a big environmental plan Here’s what the Grammy Awards will have on the menu at Staples Center K-pop superstars BTS are coming back to the Rose Bowl for two shows in May Nickelback and Stone Temple Pilots announce a tour stop at FivePoint Amphitheatre	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365403
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__label__wiki	0.673048	0.673048	The sector represents a major component of Scotland’s rural economy – providing significant employment and raw materials for wood processing industries. Sustainable forest management seeks to deliver these economic benefits alongside important ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and flood mitigation, provision of wildlife habitat and opportunities for recreation and a range of leisure activities. Pests and diseases threaten the continued long-term delivery of these benefits. The forest area of Scotland expanded during the twentieth century through the efforts of the Forestry Commission and private owners to develop a domestic wood supply and provide rural employment. A number of introduced species, such as Sitka spruce, were key to afforestation of marginal agricultural sites and now are central to the wood processing industry. Woodland now occupies approximately 17% of the land area of Scotland and provides 44% of the GB softwood harvest, producing about 1.5 million m3 of sawn softwood. Plant health threats to the forestry sector include a number of recently introduced pests and diseases (e.g. Phytophthora ramorum, pine tree lappet moth, ash die-back), on-going management of endemic ones (e.g. large pine weevil and Heterobasidium annosum) and risks of those yet to arrive (emerald ash borer, Ips typographus and many other organisms potentially introduced through trade in plants, wood and packaging). Spatio-temporal modelling of great spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus Micans) in Scotland Project Lead: Glenn Marion Dendroctonus Micans (D. micans) is a significant beetle pest of commercially important spruce species. The beetle is spreading north from England and is now present is Scotland. The spread of the beetle threatens the D. micans Pest Free Area (PFA) in west Scotland. This designation allows the transfer of the Scottish Spruce crop from the PFA to Irish sawmills, as Ireland is a D. micans free area. The Central Belt of Scotland is a relatively spruce free area and may act as a natural ‘firebreak’ to slow or stop the spread of the beetle. Scottish Forestry collect field data in annual surveys and release an obligate predator (i.e. a predator that can only survive in the presence of D. micans) at sites with observed D. micans infestation and sites believed to be at high colonisation risk. This project conducted a proof of principle study to assess whether developed computational tools could add value to the field data in annual surveys by Scottish Forestry to parameterise models of the spread of D. micans in space and time. The fitted model was also used to project scenarios of future spread. Impact: Informed the control efforts of Scottish Forestry by predicting the spread of D. micans in Scotland and identifying the high-risk areas of colonisation. This project built on methods developed under the RESAS SRP and led to work commissioned by Scottish Forestry to inform their surveillance and control programme in 2018. Assessing spread of phytophthoras in Scottish forests by recreational and harvesting activities using comparative qPCR and metabarcoding techniques Project Lead: April Armstrong The oomycete Phytophthora ramorum has caused substantial losses of Scottish forests in recent years due to widespread mortality of European larch trees (Larix decidua). Infected trees are subject to statutory felling notices in an effort to reduce sporulation potential. Nevertheless, there are concerns about the multiple pathways by which spores might be transferred to new sites. There have been assessments of soil moved by mountain biking and walking/running resulting in evidence to support the Forestry Commission’s Keep-it-Clean campaign. This study will assess soil/plant material collected from commercial harvesting equipment (tyres, treads, mud guards etc.). PHC support will enable a wider range of diagnostic tests to be carried out, testing the robustness of the methods and examining the potential for multiple Phytophthora species to be transferred. Impact: Add to the evidence base underpinning public and sector-facing biosecurity campaigns and improve disease management and restrict spread of the disease. Using modelling to investigate the effectiveness of national surveillance monitoring aimed at detecting a Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in Scotland Project Lead: Daniel Chapman Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterial plant pathogen that can cause disease in a broad range of hosts. Disease symptoms include leaf scorch, wilting of foliage, dieback and plant death. Xylella fastidiosa was first detected in Europe in 2013 in Puglia in Italy and was identified as subspecies pauca which has gone on to devastate olive plantations in this region. There are currently major Xylella outbreaks in Southern France, including Corsica, Italy, mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands. Although Xylella has so far not been detected in Scotland, an outbreak would have serious impacts on any businesses where Xylella is detected and the wider environment. An essential aspect of ensuring that Xylella is not introduced to Scotland is to establish, through modelling, that national surveillance monitoring aimed at detecting a Xylella outbreak is effective. In addition, it is important to identify which epidemiological parameters most strongly influence the effectiveness of surveillance, to guide where future empirical research should be targeted to reduce any uncertainty. Impact: This project will contribute to Scottish Government’s preparedness measures for the possible arrival of Xylella fastidiosa by ensuring surveillance monitoring is effective and by identifying the key knowledge gaps for effective surveillance. Impact of climate change on the spread of pests and diseases in Scotland Project Lead: Adam Kleczkowski The movement of plant pests and pathogens into Scotland in likely to increase in the coming years, e.g. due to changes in trade, potentially increasing from outside Europe following Brexit, while their spread and severity could be affected by climate change (both positively and negatively). It is therefore vital that we understand the role of climate on the impacts of such pests and diseases across the whole of Scotland, in relation to the distribution of plant hosts, allowing us to target potential control options on the main threats. To allow plant health professionals and others to assess such impacts in as straight forward a way as possible, web- / desktop-based tools are needed that offer quick and easy access to complex computer models. These models should be as comprehensive as possible, allowing new information on pests, pathogens and their hosts to be added as it becomes available. Impact: Easily accessible tool for stakeholders and government plant health officials to assess possible impacts of climate on pests and pathogens in Scotland. Integration of Plant Health planning into the new Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Project Lead: Katherine Hayden Pests and diseases represent a major emerging threat to biodiversity, in part due to increased global trade, climate change, and wider habitat degradation. The potential impacts include direct threats based on pest/pathogen impacts on focal species, as well as wider secondary effects for other interacting species and communities. Compared to threats such as climate change and habitat fragmentation, plant health issues are poorly represented in international and national biodiversity strategies such as the Aichi Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, and the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy. Work is thus required to provide strategic guidance on the inclusion of plant health threats into the next iteration of the biodiversity strategies. Impact: Direct guidance and input for plant health issues into the new Scottish Biodiversity Strategy; best-practice example of plant health integration into national biodiversity planning (model for other countries). Development of an online, user friendly plant health resource bank for the Natural Environment Plant health issues for the natural environment are poorly characterised compared to other sectors. This is compounded by the lack of established conferences / knowledge exchange events targeted at this sector. A key issue identified by stakeholders was lack of accessible information / authoritative summaries of key plant health threats to native biodiversity and natural ecosystems. The aim of this commission is to establish the template and initial population of a curated online resource bank for plant health threats to the natural environment in Scotland. This will include assembly of, or signposting to, available existing resources. Where applicable, it will also include authoritative distillations of the key issues targeted at non-specialists. Where there are conflicting sources of advice/recommendations, the scope is not to achieve reconciliation of these issues, but rather to simply note that different perspectives exist. The content will be housed on the Plant Health Centre website (https://www.planthealthcentre.scot/). Impact: Increasing the accessibility of information for land managers with responsibility for the natural environment, but a lack of specialist expertise in plant health Network analysis – where do people in Scotland get their plant health information? Project Lead: Rehema White, Elliot Meador Early scoping of plant health priorities with key Scottish stakeholders and discussions at the PHC launch event indicate a complex landscape of plant health information sources, confusion amongst stakeholders and a perception of information overload. To inform future KE methods and priorities, a network analysis is required to identify the sources of information and the strength of their effect on Scottish stakeholder communities. Impact: Improved understanding of concepts and options amongst the Scottish stakeholder community; a basis for gap analysis by the PHC. Sharing solutions between sectors: what methods are deployed in tackling pests and diseases? Project Lead: Steve Woodward Discussions at the PHC launch event, and between sector leads, indicate some distinctive and different approaches to tackling pests and diseases in Scotland are to be found across sectors and between businesses/units. Some focus on direct interventions (e.g. use of chemicals), whilst others have largely considered indirect interventions (e.g. manipulation of age structures), and understanding of integrated approaches is patchy. There is an opportunity to gather together a guide to the different approaches – which could propose a typology and set of definitions of solutions that could be used by subsequent PHC communications; provide a basis for cross-sectoral dialogue; provide a basic mapping of how the solutions are currently used by sector; and help identify untested combinations of solution and setting which could be developed. Impact: Improved understanding of concepts and options amongst stakeholder community in Scotland; a basis for gap analysis by PHC. The use of mobile technology to enhance plant health monitoring and awareness in Scotland Project Lead: Sebastian Raubach Plant health is a major issue worldwide with many different pests and diseases threatening different plant-based sectors, e.g. forestry, agriculture, environment and horticulture. Keeping up to date with such threats has always been a major task in terms of pest and disease identification, geographic spread, monitoring and coordinating responses etc. yet, in the world of mobile technology, we now have an opportunity to achieve some of these things from apps on our phones. Questions around the use of such technology include: What options are available in terms of mobile technologies for plant health?; What is their primary purpose?; Who are they targeted towards - farmers, plant health professionals, citizen scientists etc? Are they accurate and reliable? Do they provide real time information to a central database?; Who uses such a database?; Which sectors are they designed to work in or are they cross sector?; Do they have global use or are they limited to certain geographic regions? A review of such technologies is needed to ascertain which are most appropriate for use in Scotland across a range of sectors, which could be further adapted to achieve this aim and, if further development is required, what are the key elements of such a technology that would need to be incorporated into such a mobile application? Impact: Improved risk assessment; better equipped stakeholders and government plant health officials; improved coordination of plant health activities in Scotland. Forestry, Horticulture, Agriculture, Environment \| Final Report and Policy Document PHC2018/10 Network analysis – where do people get their plant health information? Authors: Rehema White, Henry Creissen, Althea Davies , Mariella Marzano, Elliot Meador, James Robinson Identify the presence of potential insect vectors of Xylella fastidiosa in Scotland Authors: Kirsty Park, Matthew Guy, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Katherine Lester, Stuart A'Hara, Joan Cottrell Risk mapping of the likelihood and impact of a Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in Scotland Authors: Samantha Broadmeadow, Kevin Watts, Chris Quine, Ruth Mitchell Forestry, Environment \| PHC Pest Review Threat: Oak Processionary Moth Authors: Mariella Marzano, Damian Bienkowski Status, Scottish specific issues, Plant Health Centre perspective and Key priorities and recommendations concerning the threat from Oak Processionary Moth to Scotland. Authors: Steven White, Stephen Cavers, Daniel Chapman Threat: Bud worm Authors: Chris Quine Status, Scottish specific issues, Plant Health Centre perspective and Key priorities and recommendations concerning the threat from the Eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), Western spruce budworm (C. freeman) and Black headed budworm (Acleris gloverana and A. variana) to Scotland Threat: Emerald ash borer and Bronze birch borer Status, Scottish specific issues, Plant Health Centre perspective and Key priorities and recommendations concerning the threat from Emerald ash borer and Bronze birch borer to Scotland Threat: Larger Eight toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) Status, Scottish specific issues, Plant Health Centre perspective and Key priorities and recommendations concerning the threat from the larger eight toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) to Scotland Threat: Longhorn beetles Status, Scottish specific issues, Plant Health Centre perspective and Key priorities and recommendations concerning the threat from longhorn beetles to Scotland Threat: Phytophthora ramorum Status, Scottish specific issues, Plant Health Centre perspective and Key priorities and recommendations concerning the threat from Phytophthora ramorum to Scotland Forestry, Horticulture, Agriculture, Environment \| PHC Pest Review Threat: Xylella fastidiosa Authors: David Kenyon Status, Scottish specific issues, Plant Health Centre perspective and Key priorities and recommendations concerning the threat from Xylella fastidiosa to Scotland Forestry, Environment \| Final Report and Policy Document Development of an online, user friendly plant health resource bank for the Scottish Natural Environment Authors: Katherine Hayden, Joanne Taylor The aim of the project PHC2018/11 was to compile a resource to be embedded within the Scottish Plant Health Centre (PHC) website, with the following three main purposes: 1) To direct users to existing, comprehensive and reliable plant health information resources; 2) To provide information on selected plant health threats to the natural environment, particularly invasive non-native species; and 3) To direct users to appropriate government agencies and resources and advise users on steps to take should a suspected statutory pest or disease be encountered. Webpages have been developed which provide the following: 1) a listing of the first most pressing plant health threats to the natural environment in Scotland; 2) a user-friendly web template, populated with links to information about these major threats and other topics relevant to plant health in the Scottish natural environment; and 3) summary pages providing guidance on biosecurity and control of diseases in this sector, for which other resources were not easily available. Authors: Sebastian Raubach, Jennie Brierley The aim of the project was to review existing websites and smartphone apps currently available and applied in the plant health sector and to assemble a detailed overview covering the following points: What options are available in terms of mobile software applications for plant health? What is their primary purpose? Who is the target audience (growers, plant health professionals, citizen science, …)? Which plant health sectors do they cover? Are they reliable and accurate? Is information submitted to a central database? If so, how is this information used? Could they be used globally, or are they limited to certain geographic regions? Forestry, Horticulture, Environment \| Blog Difficult choices to protect gardens and the environment Authors: Katy Hayden Heritage gardens play an important role in plant conservation. They house collections gathered over decades or even hundreds of years, including varieties of plants that may be overlooked elsewhere, fostering heirloom varieties and preserving biological diversity that is the raw material of adaptation. As well as being beautiful and tranquil sites of cultural heritage, these ex-situ resources are treasure troves of biological diversity. Arduaine Gardens shows us that tough choices can be necessary and important to preserve these collections and the surrounding environment. Forestry \| Final Report Authors: Glenn Marion This project conducted a proof of principle study to assess whether developed computational tools could add value to the field data in annual surveys by Scottish Forestry to parameterise models of the spread of Dendroctonus Micans in space and time. The fitted model was also used to project scenarios of future spread. Emerald Ash Borer found in Ukraine PREPSYS workshop Import/Export Advice from DERFA - No Deal Brexit Ongoing controls to protect against the tree pest Oak Processionary Moth Sharing Scottish and Indian plant health expertise Scottish Plant Health Strategy Plant Pests and Diseases - Scottish Government Plant Biosecurity Strategy for Great Britain	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365414
__label__wiki	0.869065	0.869065	Green Giving #13: An unexamined truth Our guest contributor Matthew Smerdon is deputy director, Baring Foundation The Baring Foundation is a generalist funder and, in the past, has not had any particular focus on the environment. However the stark conclusions of the 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change prompted our trustees to ask what contribution the Foundation could make. We became interested in helping non-environmental voluntary organisations to explore how their work would be affected by climate change. We saw how the people who will be most affected by climate change are those that are already the most vulnerable; people who may well rely on or turn to non-environmental organisations for support. We saw, therefore how climate change is not just an ‘environmental’ issue and that there was a need to establish a widespread understanding of the connections between climate change and issues of poverty, housing, health, security and well-being. Whilst some areas of the voluntary sector (notably international development organisations) were becoming sophisticated in acknowledging the truth of these connections, amongst the wider non-environmental voluntary sector, we felt this truth had gone largely unexamined. The activities In September 2008, four projects were funded that went on to work with 22 organisations: The Big Response, delivered by the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, Global Action Plan and Green Alliance working with four organisations that support vulnerable people. Towards Climate Smart Children and Youth Organisations, delivered by National Children’s Bureau and the Institute of Development Studies working with three children and youth organisations. Shared Energy, delivered by bassac, New Economics Foundation, Community Development Foundation, Community Sector Coalition and Groundwork working with nine community anchor organisations. The “Climate Refugee” roundtable delivered by Climate Outreach Information Network working closely with five refugee and human rights organisations and having wider engagement with a further 29 other refugee and human rights organisations. All four projects designed new processes to engage organisations. These adopted various approaches including bespoke training, workshops, roundtable meetings, games and exercises, scenario planning and input from climate experts. All the non-environmental voluntary organisations that took part in the project succeeded in making meaningful connections between the impacts of climate change and their primary charitable purpose. Levels of understanding about climate change increased dramatically. Organisations’ responses were particularly strong on planning how future services would have to adapt. Some organisations also developed policy positions and have gone on to carry out advocacy work with large numbers of organisations in their part of the voluntary sector and with local and national policy makers. Organisations have sought to sustain their work on climate issues by including it in their strategic plans and by ensuring that trustees include environmental responsibility as part of their remit. A range of internal factors appeared to determine how successfully organisations engaged: Where organisations could incorporate the work into existing planning and strategic planning cycles; Where wider staff, trustees and beneficiaries were enthusiastic; and where language was used with organisations that spoke directly to their concerns, for example exploring issues through themes such as well-being, strong communities, fuel security or tackling poverty. It was clear that even for organisations that had previously been interested in climate change, outside support was necessary for them really to engage with the issues. In all cases this took time, and in some cases staff involvement was helped by a financial contribution. The project confirmed the valuable role non-environmental voluntary organisations have to play in action to tackle climate change across a range of areas – providing services, identifying new needs, planning for emergency responses, engaging people on issues such as behaviour change and influencing policy. More work in this area can contribute to a greater sophistication in how to narrow the gap between broad aims to reduce carbon emissions and the practical activity at local and policy levels that can achieve this. The issues for taking this work forward Organisations do face barriers to engaging with climate change issues. Most obviously, they have to deal with the urgent and present needs of their beneficiaries which compete with work that necessarily involves strategically thinking about the future. Much of the support offered to organisations was highly labour intensive. Delivering the project in its current form to a much larger number of organisations would appear to be valuable, but would require significant funding. Organisations may need additional support with developing confident policy positions but this work is vitally important given the scale of action that is required. Policy work needs to go further than broad calls for action and on to specific proposals for achieving reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and helping to minimise the effects of climate change that are already inevitable. Questions for philanthropists Do your philanthropic activities already take account of the impacts of climate change? If not, how will the issues you care about be affected by climate change? Are the organisations you support examining the connections? If not, can you help them to do this? Where organisations make meaningful connections, what can you do to help them act on this? An Unexamined Truth - project report. Hard copies available from the Baring Foundation (tel. 020 7767 1348) or online at the Baring Foundation website. The Big Response - A film and an online guide. Available at www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/climatechange and www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/advice-support/climate-change/get-ready The Climate Smart toolkit - hard copies available from National Children’s Bureau (tel. 020 7843 6000) or www.ncb.org.uk/osow/about_us/climate_smart_future.aspx The Shared Energy Toolkit - hard copies are available from bassac (tel. 020 7336 9442) or www.bassac.org.uk/node/881 Climate change and refugees - a policy overview, a training package, an office carbon footprint tool and climate change and migration factsheets. Hard copies available from Climate Outreach Information Network (tel. 01865 403 334) or online Find out more at The Baring Foundation 'Special initiatives'.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365419
__label__wiki	0.661701	0.661701	Pres. Duterte leads ceremony honoring Filipino centenarians President Rodrigo R. Duterte bestowed a Letter of Felicitation and a Centenarian gift worth P100,000 to eldest Filipino centenarian Lourdes Marquez during the ceremonial signing of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 10868 or the Centenarians Act of 2016 on September 26, at the MalacaAang Palace. The signing of the IRR was set before the observance of Elderly Filipino Week, which is annually held on Oct. 1 to 7. Coincidentally, the National Respect for Centenarians Day is also held on the first Sunday of October. The law grants all 100-year old Filipinos, whether living in the country or abroad, PhP100,000 as a birthday gift and a letter of felicitation from the President. Centenarians will also receive an additional cash gift and a plaque of recognition from their respective local government units. Aside from DSWD, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Health (DOH) and Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) will also aid in carrying out the Centenarian Law. Article XV of the 1987 Constitution states: "The family has the duty to take care of its elderly members but the State may also do so through just programs of social security." Some local government units (LGUS) like Makati have already been giving PhP100,000 cash gift to their centenarians. With the President during the occasion were Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Judy M. Taguiwalo, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Paulyn Jean B. Rosell-Ubial, Council for the Welfare of Children Executive Director Patricia B. Luna, and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Ismael D. Sueno. Earlier, the witnessed as the three department secretaries, together with Commission on Filipino Overseas (CFO) Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Maria Regina Angela G. Galias, signed the IRR of the Centenarians Act to ensure that all Filipino centenarians will receive proper commendation for their contributions to nation-building. The event concluded with a photo opportunity with Pres. Duterte, his cabinet secretaries and other centenarians with their relatives and caretakers to celebrate the momentous event. Source: Philippine Information Agency PPF is concerned over the attack on journalists Faiparik and Wuri in Papua New Guinea Feature: International study cites COMELEC for social media innovation in election debates 4 anti-terror informants receive P15-M bounty Ranking military and police officials on Wednesday gave a total of PHP15.4 million worth of cash... Awake from a long slumber: Taal Volcano eruption It was a typical Sunday for most Filipinos on January 12 when the Taal Volcano in... PRRD’s excellent rating means ‘real change’ felt: Andanar The new record-high excellent public satisfaction with President Rodrigo Duterte's performance only proves that Filipinos are... ATRAM portfolio manager eyes PH 2020 growth at 6.3% US donates P5.1-M aid for Taal relief Cebu airport eyes more domestic flights with T1 facelift PH issues EUR1.2-B Euro bond Tacurong, Kidapawan cited for ‘ease of doing business’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365420
__label__wiki	0.566731	0.566731	PN Celebrity Series Preview PN Celebrity Series Preview: Chase Rogan By Ian Riccaboni “Joe Schmo Show” star Chase Rogan and his wife Taylor seen here at PNC Park enjoying a Bucs game. Photo courtesy of the Rogans. From time to time at Phillies Nation, we afforded the opportunity to talk to some really cool people. Surprisingly, these folks aren’t always Phillies fans. One of the folks we spoke to was Chase Rogan, star of the Spike TV reverse-reality show The Joe Schmo Show. Chase outlasted nine other contestants en route to winning the $100,000 grand prize on The Full Bounty. Or at least he thought he did. The competitors Chase thought he was playing against on a show to win a $100,000 bounty hunting contract were actors, including Lorenzo Llamas, Michael Weaver (Super Troopers), Lombardo Boyer (Happy Feet, Gone in 60 Seconds), and Rob Belushi. It turns out, the $100,000 prize was real but he just had to last until the end, going through over-the-top challenges and miscalculated stunts that almost gave the show’s premise away. Chase is a huge Pirates fan – we asked him a little bit about the show but then more importantly, the 2013 Pirates and their chances this week against the Phils! Ian Riccaboni: What was the casting like for the Joe Schmo Show? Chase Rogan: I was at the gym one day after work and this girl stopped me and said we’re doing casting for a reality show with mental and physical and challenges. They took my picture and then there were months where I hadn’t heard anything. They had me send in a home video and that’s the one you see in the opening credits. It was kind of perceived I was scouring the internet looking for opportunities to be a bounty hunter – I never imagined I would be on any reality show! They told me physical challenges and I interpreted that as the show being some sort of Fear Factor type show. It wasn’t until the final call back when they kind of gave a little bit of a premise. It was kind of like “OK, bounty hunting, whatever.” They were very clear that if you win and don’t want to accept the job, you would still win the $100,000. IR: Did you recognize any of the contestants as actors? There was a moment in particular where you thought Randy looked pretty familiar on the first day. CR: I did recognize Randy (Michael Weaver) but he did a really good job playing it off saying “All of us red heads look the same!”. Ya know, you’re brought into this world and you’re there and brought in and you’re introduced to all of these people and you take it at face value. I just kind of brushed it under the rug and forgot about it. IR: Karlee (Jo Newman, Upright Citizen’s Brigade) was portrayed as someone who was deaf and there was a moment where she did a headstand, teetered, and responded to something you said in a voice different than what she had been using. Did that moment tip you off that it might not all be real? CR: When that happened, I did notice she looked like she heard me. Michael Weaver did a good job of jumping in and did a headstand and then we were doing headstands for the next 15 minutes. They edited it and made it a little more dramatic! I did notice that and didn’t really pay much attention, but then things started happening like the convict escaping and it got me thinking. There were certainly moments that you had think. In reality, I don’t think that people realize to the extent that people are creating a world around. Chase and his spirit animal. Copyright SPIKE TV IR: The viewers found out you were a huge Pirates fan when you told your spirit animal llama that you would take him to PNC Park if the show let you take him home with you (note: host, and noted Phillies fan, Ralph Garman did tell the contestants they could keep their spirit animals.) Were you ever able to get to the old Three Rivers Stadium? CR: I went to one game at Three Rivers. I grew up about three hours north of Pittsburgh so it was tough growing up as a kid. I have been to quite a few at PNC Park – last summer I went to about six or seven games. It’s still relatively easy to get a good seat for most games even when the Pirates are doing good. Cincinnati came in when we were still very much in it and that was the only time tickets were tough to come by. IR: But you have been a lifelong fan – any favorite memories? CR: Oh yeah, Van Slyke, Bobby Bo, Barry Bonds! Jay Bell is back with the Pirates as their hitting coach and that’s pretty cool. In 91, when they lost to the Braves in the NLCS, I was six going on seven. So much fun to watch those teams Since then, it has been abysmal. This is our year, though! I think this year, I really think we have a solid team all the way around the diamond with the exception of Clint Barmes. Solid shortstop, just doesn’t hit well. If everyone plays to their potential, we have a really good shot. I really like Starling Marte a lot: from his hitting to his fielding, when he gets on the bases, he’s dangerous. We haven’t had a good lead off hitter in a long time so it’s really good. (Note: Marte is hitting .323/.371/.477 and has already accumulated 0.7 fWAR in just 16 games. Chase is right – this guy is gonna be a tough out!) Our rotation has question marks but we have Francisco Liriano, Jeff Karstens, and others who may come back from the DL. I think Karstens can bounce back and have a solid year when he returns from the DL. Gerrit Cole is in Triple A and will probably be up sometime this year. We have a young team, if everyone plays up to their potential, they have a good shot to have a winning record and make a playoff run. IR: Is there anybody on the Pirates who is flying kind of under-the-radar or any favorites you have who are contributing early for the Pirates? CR: I think Neil Walker is underrated as a second baseman. And I really like Travis Snider: was a first round pick and came up his rookie and had a good second half of the season in 2012. He’s got some power and bats from the left side of the plate. He usually bats second in the line-up. He’s getting off to a solid start and has a good on-base percentage – he can provide some home runs and some power. (Note: Snider is hitting .333/.432/.487 in 45 PA for the Bucs in RF). IR: You mentioned on-base percentage – are you familiar with Moneyball and do you subscribe to that way of analyzing baseball? CR: I know what you’re saying: I pay attention to the SABRmetric stats but, to be honest, I believe what I want to believe! I definitely look at on-base percentage, because we need guys to get on base for ‘Cutch. But with guys like Pedro Alvarez, I’m looking for him to hit .250 with a lot of home runs. I don’t get too crazy with it – I try to use whichever stat to my advantage when arguing with friends! IR: To wrap us up, how about some rapid-fire questions? Favorite player growing up? CR: Andy Van Slyke IR: Favorite ballpark? CR: PNC Park IR: Favorite recent Pirates memory? CR: Two years ago when Pirates were starting to make a push – it was the first magic you felt in a really long time as a Pirates fan. We had just traded for Michael McKenry – I wanna say it won the game for us in the bottom of the 9th and everyone blew up! We made the push to get over .500. It just kinda sends chills down your spine. IR: Pitcher you least want the Pirates to face in Phils’ rotation? CR: I would have said Halladay – I guess right now you have to go with Cliff Lee – he’s having a solid start and a solid season. IR: Least wanted Phillie at the plate with a chance to win it or most feared Phillie? CR: I still gotta go with Ryan Howard – it’s one swing ya know? Utley is having a pretty good year. IR: Least favorite Phillie past or present? CR: I never really hated Philly anything except for hockey because they’re in the same division! I guess I’ll go with John Kruk – I like him now as a broadcaster. More recently, I couldn’t stand when Jayson Werth had the little strip on the chin – I felt he got a bigger contract than he deserved, too. (Note: Chase has good reason to dislike Kruker – he hit .311/.396/.422 off of Doug Drabek and .405/.488/.568 against Bob Walk) I feel like there’s always been kind of a rift between Pittsburgh and Philly – in hockey, I totally get it, same division all the time. In baseball, when the Phillies played the Yankees, I was rooting for the Phillies! IR: It does feel like there is solidarity between Phils and Bucs fans, would you say that? CR: I would say that. IR: Alright, official prediction time – who do you have in this week’s series? CR: Pirates take three of four, the Phillies have to take one at home. What can I say? I am a fan before I am a realist! Chase is the owner and agronomist at Pure Turf Consulting, PSU alumn, a huge Pirate fan and can be found on Twitter @ChaseRogan. Be sure to follow him and join in as I, Schmo host Ralph Garman, and the rest of Phillies Nation give him some grief this week when the Phillies sweep the Bucs at Citizens Bank Park! 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__label__wiki	0.688144	0.688144	Long Live Vinyl At London’s Record Store Day 2014 by Hannah Kane \| Apr 22, 2014 \| Culture \| 0 comments Live music, dancing in the streets, cameras snapping and the politest queues you’ve ever had the pleasure of being part of: Record Store Day 2014 on London’s famed Berwick Street was a jubilant affair. With shiny happy people lining the pavement outside the illustrious Sister Ray Records and the keenest vinyl collectors vying to get their hands on some of this year’s must-have limited edition releases from the likes of The Pixies, David Bowie, White Denim, Chvrches and Haim. This young but grand tradition kicked off in 2007 after a collective of store owners and employees teamed up to share and laud the extraordinary culture of independent record emporiums all over the world. A fresh list of exclusive singles, albums, EP s and compilations by a wide variety of artists is generated annually by Record Store Day organisers and stocked by independents from London to New York. For some, adding these to a precious existing collection means camping out overnight to be the first to walk through a local shop’s doors on April’s third Saturday, every year. In London, vinyl-lovers gathered to celebrate their collections, hail the richer sounds of analogue and support the livelihood of the independent stores that have purveyed unadulterated sonic happiness for generations. Berwick Street shares a long and impressive connection with British music. As the location for Oasis and Ian Brown’s album shoots and videos and the teenage haunt of T-Rex’s Bolan, as well as being the home of a host of record stores such as Reckless Records and The Music and Video Exchange, it’s a site of pilgrimage for stars and savvy fans alike. From 8am, Berwick Street lived up to its name as the hub of London’s love for vinyl and things only got better as the day wore on. Live music from Edwyn Collins, Augustines and Adam Ant had a huge crowd moving and shaking in the sunshine as those keen to explore the interior of the many record shops spilled out of doorways with newly purchased sleeves under their arms. September Girls, who exacted a high-energy fuzz-pop extravaganza and looked the epitome of sharp, rocking black garb and vintage sunnies, had people cheering as the queue for Sister Ray Records snaked down the street and those in it stomped about to their moody riffs and soaked up the atmosphere. Though learning about attendees’ most treasured records and hearing heartwarming stories and tall tales yielded some wonderful insights into the history of Sister Ray and its most loyal visitors, Record Store day wasn’t just about records; it was about style, art, food, friends and the spirit of London. For one glorious day fans flocked to the dimly lit, alphabetised Mecca that Berwick Street has become for a double-denim clad street carnival of culture, beer and beats. Any excuse to fill tote bags with 45’s is a good excuse and this sunny April weekend was a damn sight better for it. Words: Emily Beeson \| @younggoldteeth PHOENIX Magazine 61 Queen Anne Street W1G 9HH Subscribers are automatically entered into our fashion cupboard giveaway, with one winner every month! No spam, just our curated monthly PHOENIX newletter to keep you up to date. All signed up!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365422
__label__cc	0.745401	0.254599	Christmas and Christmas Tree Facts - Obscure Christmas tree facts to amaze your friends! Pick Your Own Christmas Tree.org - 2020 Find a choose and cut tree farm or fresh pre-cut trees near you! Tree farms What is the history of the Christmas Tree? Find the closest sleigh ride to you How to get a free real letter from Santa for your child Christmas tree traditions around the world How to choose a Christmas tree Christmas tree varieties How to care for your Christmas tree Christmas tree statistics and facts Christmas holiday statistics and facts Real or Fake Christmas Trees: Which is Better? The ulltimate fake tree - made of Mountain Dew cans How to get bugs, pests (and squirrels) out of your tree! 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Other Christmas recipes (pies, cookies, turkey, meals, egg nog, etc.) Banner adds and other paid advertisements available to farms Policy about being included on this website Search PickYourOwnChristmasTree.org Christmas and Christmas Tree Facts Obscure Christmas tree facts to amaze your friends! Christmas Tree History The use of evergreen trees to celebrate the winter season occurred before the birth of Christ. The first decorated Christmas was in Riga, Latvia in 1510. The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531. Nineteenth century Americans cut their trees in nearby forests. Christmas trees have been sold commercially in the United states since about 1850. Until fairly recently, all Christmas trees came from the forest. The first Christmas tree retail lot in the United States was started in 1851 in New York by Mark Carr. In 1900, large stores started to erect big illuminated Christmas trees. Christmas trees and the environment Growing Christmas trees provides a habitat for wildlife. Recycled trees have been used to make sand and soil erosion barriers and been placed in ponds for fish shelter. Christmas trees remove dust and pollen from the air. Artificial trees will last for six years in your home, but for centuries in a landfill. 59 percent of real Christmas trees harvested are recycled in community programs. An acre of Christmas trees provides for the daily oxygen requirements of 18 people. Artificial / Fake Trees In 2002, 21% of United States households had a real tree, 48% had an artificial tree and 32% had no tree. Most fake (artificial) trees (85%) in the U.S. are imported from China. Almost 10 Million fake trees were sold worldwide in 2003. The U.S. Commerce Dept. tracks the Import of Fake Trees Real Christmas trees are involved in less than one-tenth of one percent of residential fires and only when ignited by some external ignition sources. Christmas Tree Numbers Thirty-four to thirty-six million Christmas trees are produced each year and 95 percent are shipped or sold directly from Christmas tree farms. 28 million Christmas trees were sold in 2001. More than one million acres of land have been planted in Christmas trees. The industry employs over 100,000 people. Many Christmas tree growers grow trees on a part-time basis to supplement farm and non-farm income. More than 2,000 trees are usually planted per acre. On an average 1,000-1,500 of these trees will survive. In the North, maybe, 750 trees will remain. Almost all trees require shearing to attain the Christmas tree shape. At six to seven feet, trees are ready for harvest. It fighting heavy rain, wind, hail, pests and drought to get a mature tree. Christmas trees take an average of 7-10 years to mature. 100,000 people are employed in the Christmas tree industry. 98 percent of all Christmas trees are grown on farms. Origin: from where do they come? California, Oregon, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are the top Christmas tree producing states. Oregon is the leading producer of Christmas trees - 8.6 million in 1998 and in 2001, 8.3 million trees were harvested in Oregon. The top six Christmas tree producing states Oregon, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Washington & Wisconsin. Christmas Tree Varieties / Types The best selling trees are Scotch pine, Douglas fir, Noble fir, Fraser fir, Virginia pine, Balsam fir and white pine. Other types of trees such as cherry and hawthorns were used as Christmas trees in the past. Christmas Tree Farms and Farming Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska. Selling directly to the consumer has become a major market for many Christmas tree farms. Some tree farms offer the consumer the chance to select his own tree while it is still growing in the tree farm. 82% of Christmas trees purchased were pre-cut and 18% were cut your own. In North America, there are more than 15,000 Christmas tree growers. In the United States, there are more than 12,000 cut-your-own farms. More than 1,000,000 acres of land have been planted to Christmas trees. On average, over 2,000 Christmas trees are planted per acre. 73 million new Christmas trees will be planted this year. There are over 500 Christmas tree growers in Illinois. Michigan ranks fourth (4 million trees in 1998) among all states in the production of real Christmas trees, but grows a larger variety (13) of Christmas trees than any other state. 2-3 seedlings are planted for every harvested Christmas tree. Helicopters sometimes help to lift harvested Christmas trees from farms. Public Christmas trees Since 1971, the Province of Nova Scotia has presented the Boston Christmas Tree tree to the people of Boston in gratitude for the relief supplies received from the citizens of Boston after a ship exploded in 1917 following a collision in the Halifax, Nova Scotia Harbor. Part of the city was leveled killing and injuring thousands. The US National Christmas Tree and Christmas Trees in the White House In 1856 Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States, was the first President to place a Christmas tree in the White House. President Coolidge started the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on the White House lawn in 1923. Teddy Roosevelt banned the Christmas tree from the White House for environmental reasons. In 1963, the National Christmas Tree was not lighted until December 22nd because of a national 30-day period of mourning following the assassination of President Kennedy. Since 1966, the National Christmas Tree Association has given a Christmas tree to the President and first family. In 1979, the National Christmas Tree was not lighted except for the top ornament? This was done in honor of the American hostages in Iran. In 1984, the National Christmas was lit on December 13th with temperatures in the 70's, making it one of the warmest tree lightings in history. Odd Christmas Tree Facts Between 1887-1933 a fishing schooner called the "Christmas Ship" would tie up at the Clark Street bridge and sell spruce trees from Michigan to Chicagoans. Christmas Trees on the Internet More than 330,000 real Christmas trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogs. You should never burn your Christmas tree in the fireplace. it can contribute to creosote buildup. In the first week, a tree in your home will consume as much as a quart of water per day. Christmas tree lights and ornaments Using small candles to light a Christmas tree dates back to the middle of the 17th century. Thomas Edison's assistant, Edward Johnson, came up with the idea of electric lights for Christmas trees in 1882. Christmas tree lights were first mass produced in 1890. A Christmas tree decoration was banned by the government. Tinsel contained lead at one time, now it's made of plastic. Christmas tree economics and marketing In 2002, 21% of Christmas trees sold were from chain stores; 16% by non-profit groups; 22% from retail lots and 35% from choose and cut farms. The value of all Christmas trees harvested in 2001 was $360 million. Christmas trees are baled to protect the branches from damage during shipping. 34-36 million Christmas trees were harvested in the United States in 2001. Every year since 1947, the people of Oslo, Norway have given a Christmas tree to the city of Westminster, England. The gift is an expression of good will and gratitude for Britain's help to Norway during World War II. PickYourOwnChristmasTree.org does not charge either farmers or consumers! I do all of the programming, web design and updates myself. If you'd like to make a donation to help me pay to keep the website going, please make a donation to me at Benivia through our secure donation processor. 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__label__wiki	0.54218	0.54218	Injustice has a cure Inspired Giving Donate in Honor or Memory Manage Your Online Giving View Your Contribution History Leadership Giving Society PIH Engage BBC/PRI's The World: Pink Ribbons to Haiti By Joanne Silberner in BBC/PRI's The World In the little Haitian town of Cange, Partners In Health,s sister organization—known in the local language (Kreyol) as Zanmi Lasante—runs a clinic. The clinic has been setting up cancer treatment rooms, lining up supplies, and training workers on cancer issues. They are focusing on breast and cervical cancers—the most common cancers among Haitian women. http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/pink-ribbons-to-haiti/ We'll keep you up to date on Partners In Health's work bringing hope and health care to some of the world's poorest, hardest-to-reach communities. We're redefining what's possible in health care, but we need your help. Take a stand. We're on a mission to transform global health, one patient at a time. Tweets by @PIH 88.4% of your gift goes straight to those in need. Stay informed about Partners In Health's work to provide high quality health care to those who need it most. Discourse & tools for global health professionals: PIH Canada PIH Alumni Network ABOUT PIH Partners In Health (PIH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, EIN 04-3567502 Partners In Health, 800 Boylston Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA. 02199 \| Phone: 1-857-880-5100 \| info@pih.org PIH® is a registered trademark of Partners In Health. \| © 2009 - 2020 Partners In Health. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365424
__label__wiki	0.947125	0.947125	NDC interfering in work of Audit Service, EOCO - Pius Hadzide By Wendy Amarteifio NDC General Secretary,Johnson Asiedy Nketia Deputy Information Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide has stated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is seeking to interfere in the work of Audit Service, Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and even the court. This follows the allegations by the NDC that there is a grand scheme by the Akufo-Addo administration to remove the Auditor General Daniel Domelevo, out of Office just to cover up their corrupt deeds. The NDC says this plan by the government is as a result of Mr Domelevo resisting interference in his work. Speaking on Starr FM, Mr Hadzide said allegations by the NDC is seeking to meddle in the work of the Audit Service, EOCO. ''The NDC in my view is rather seeking to interfere in the work of the Audit Service, EOCO and the court. The court is the only institution to judge such issues. The NDC is attempting to put their judgement before the judgement of the court. There is no truth in the allegation by the NDC. The Auditor-General is on record to have said that he has seen unprecedented support form this government in his entire working life in the Audit Service he hasn't seen any government support the Audit service as much of this government . How do you reconcile the position of the NDC that this same government that is working to support the service is turning around to undermine the Auditor General''? he quizzed. He also added that the investigative bodies must be allowed to do their work in a manner that is regulated by the law. He said that agencies under these investigative bodies must be allowed to function independently devoid of any political interferences. Addressing the Press earlier today, General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the EOCO investigation is retribution against Mr Dumelovo because of his investigation against Mr Osafo-Marfo over $1 million contract awarded to Kroll by the Senior Minister. “The Economic and Organized Crime Office, acting almost certainly at the behest of Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo, has extended a clandestine invitation to the Auditor General, ostensibly as part of investigations into a petition filed by an NPP hatchet man acting in concert with agents of the Akufo-Addo government''. The Auditor-General, Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has dragged the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to court for investigating him over certain alleged procurement infractions at the Audit Service. READ ALSO:Domelevo's removal claims are figments of NDC's diabolic imagination - Pius Hadzide In an application filed Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court, the Auditor-General contends that EOCO had no mandate to investigate him or the Audit Service over the alleged procurement breaches. But according to the NDC, the EOCO investigation is part of a larger plan by the government to ensure that the Auditor-General is removed from office. READ ALSO:Gov't working to remove Domelevo from office for his fight against corruption - NDC alleges Andy Ruiz Jr splits with trainer Manny Robles Andy Ruiz Jr has parted ways with his trainer Manny Robles following his… Detained pregnant Ghanaian woman to be deported soon - Israeli Ambassador to Ghana The Israeli Embassy in Accra has stated that the pregnant Ghanaian woman… Solskjaer retains support of Man Utd board despite loss against Burnley Manchester United have no plans to sack Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, despite their…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365430
__label__wiki	0.768933	0.768933	Archive: August 31, 2017 Family Physicians Urge Parents to Talk Over Vaccinations ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Back-to-school preparations require more than just pencils and backpacks. Doctors are reminding parents and caregivers to have a conversation about vaccinations before school bells ring. Dr. Pamela Rockwell is the medical director of Dominos Farms Family Medicine and an immuniz ...Read More Thinking Like Beavers Could Help Combat Drought BOISE, Idaho – For Idaho and other parts of the West to fight drought and arid conditions, taking a cue from beavers might help. Thought to be a nuisance by some landowners, researchers are finding the dams that beavers build on creeks and rivers actually help restore them. Researchers des ...Read More Lawsuit Filed Challenging Delisting of Yellowstone Grizzlies MISSOULA, Mont. – Conservation groups are challenging in court the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to strip Yellowstone grizzly bears of endangered species protection. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Missoula and says Fish and Wildlife's decision to take g ...Read More Three Years Free after 30 Years of Innocence in Prison RALEIGH, N.C. – Saturday marks the third anniversary of the biggest exoneration in North Carolina history. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were declared innocent after serving more than 30 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit. Their story is chronicled in a report released Thursday b ...Read More Iowa Volunteers Helping in Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey DES MOINES, Iowa – One of the most common questions asked amid natural disasters like Houston's Hurricane Harvey is, "How can we help?" Mark Tauscheck, a communications officer for the Red Cross in Iowa, says that question could be the tagline for his organization, which trains hundreds of p ...Read More Sportswomen to Western Governors: Save the Bird, Save the Herd CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- With hunting season just around the corner, the sportswomen's group Artemis is making the case that keeping habitat viable for the greater sage grouse also will be good for mule deer populations. The group's new report, "Living on Common Ground," co-produced with the National Wil ...Read More Scorecard: Some Progress, No Major Rollbacks on Maine Clean Elections AUGUSTA, Maine -- A nonpartisan group is out with its annual report card on this year's legislative session, how lawmakers performed on Maine's campaign finance laws and how they serve the public interest. Anna Kellar is the program director for Maine Citizens for Clean Elections. She said this se ...Read More Overdose Awareness Day: How to Prevent Tragedy in Ore. PORTLAND, Ore. – Thursday is International Overdose Awareness Day, and medical experts in Oregon and across the nation are fighting the growing epidemic of this preventable cause of death. The opioid epidemic has gained national attention as the number of deaths has soared in recent years. ...Read More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365433
__label__cc	0.521935	0.478065	PSI Home \ Impact Blog \ A Newborn Mother’s Near Death Averted by Timely Training in Kenya A Newborn Mother’s Near Death Averted by Timely Training in Kenya Date Posted: January 14, 2020 The piece below originally appeared on PMI Impact Malaria’s blog. As the flagship global service delivery project of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, PMI Impact Malaria works with national malaria control programs (NMCPs) to fight malaria and save lives by strengthening the diagnosis, treatment, and drug-based prevention of malaria, especially for young children and pregnant women. Led by PSI—in partnership with Jhpiego, Medical Care Development International, and UCSF—PMI Impact Malaria has been working this year with NMCPs in Cameroon, Mali, and Niger to prevent childhood malaria by supporting seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaigns, and will have reached an estimated 3.7 million children altogether. Kakamega, Kenya — Nineteen-year-old Jane* delivered a full-term baby in a health facility near her home without complications. When the new mother was discharged a day later, there was no hint of any problem. She was happy to go home and care for her newborn. However, six hours later, Jane spiked a fever. She experienced convulsions and confusion, and was refusing to breastfeed. Jane’s family rushed her back to the health facility, where a clinician mistakenly diagnosed her with postpartum pre-eclampsia—a rare condition characterized by high blood pressure and excess protein in the urine, which, like severe malaria, can cause convulsions. Jane lost consciousness and immediately was referred to Kakamega County Teaching and Referral Hospital for specialized treatment. She was admitted to the intensive care unit due to her altered consciousness and put on oxygen. Clinicians there suspected that Jane had developed severe malaria. They quickly ordered a malaria microscopy test. Sure enough, Jane tested positive for malaria and immediately received treatment for severe malaria, using Kenya’s recommended regimen of IV artesunate. These clinicians had recently participated in a refresher course on the diagnosis and treatment of severe malaria, run by Kenya’s National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and supported by PMI Impact Malaria (IM). Dr. Erick Anyira, the consultant doctor who saw Jane and is a trainer of trainers with NMCP/IM, felt there was a strong link between the recent training and how well Jane’s case was managed. According to him, “Were it not for the severe malaria training, Jane’s case could have been missed and would have been another funeral.” During Jane’s hospitalization, treatment with IV artesunate led to her full recovery. She regained consciousness on the second day and was discharged a few days later to rejoin her newborn baby. Timely diagnosis and treatment of severe malaria are critical to fighting malaria, saving lives, and ultimately achieving malaria elimination. To date, IM has supported Kenya’s NMCP in training and mentoring 84 clinicians on the identification and treatment of severe malaria. But a lack of national data on severe malaria and malaria deaths has complicated Kenya’s fight against this mosquito-borne disease that, although preventable and curable, globally killed an estimated 405,000 in 2018 (WHO). IM has focused its resources in Kenya on supporting the NMCP to close this gap by enhancing the availability of data on malaria in its focus counties. A training in late 2019 prompted the review and documentation of inpatient malaria data in the western Kenya counties of Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia, and Vihiga. In a three-month period following the training, 12 health facilities recorded more than 5,000 admissions and more than 600 deaths related to malaria. The findings: Malaria accounted for one-quarter of all hospital-related admissions in the four counties, and 12 of every 100 people admitted were likely to die from malaria. Because accurate data lead to timely decisions and ultimately strengthen the quality of health services, IM is supporting Kenya’s NMCP to take positive action in communities and in the context of outpatient visits and inpatient stays, while also ensuring that community health workers are able to identify and refer severe cases of malaria to appropriate health centers. Without a doubt, Jane and her family can attest to the personal impact that this important work has already had on strengthening malaria service delivery in Kenya. *Not her real name. Written by Justus Nondi and Catherine Ndungu. Contributions from Dr. Willis Akhwale, Chief of Party for PMI Impact Malaria in Kenya, and Anne Bulchis, PMI Impact Malaria Communications Manager. Header Photo Credit: Mwangi Kirubi for PMI Impact Malaria. Caption: Emily Atieno Achieng at Ahero County Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. PMI Impact Malaria is led by Population Services International (PSI) in partnership with Jhpiego, Medical Care Development International (MCDI), and the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) at UC San Francisco.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365441
__label__cc	0.719076	0.280924	FDA Expectations for 503B Outsourcing Facilities Scott Sutton, PhD, MS October 2014 - Vol. 11 No. 10 - Page #18 Outsourced Compounding Services Although the 2012 compounding tragedy at the New England Compounding Center (NECC) is undoubtedly among the most significant breakdowns of sterile practice on record in the US, it is well known that similar sterile compounding misadventures have occurred over the past 20 years. However, the sheer scope of the harm caused by the events at NECC has become a watershed moment, inspiring action from regulators. Within the past two years, dramatic changes have occurred in the regulation of compounding pharmacies. Due to the concern that some compounding pharmacies have been operating as national outsourcing suppliers, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act has been amended to separate these entities from the traditional pharmacy. While previously only the traditional pharmacy was described in section 503, this preexisting text now appears as section 503A and a completely new entity is described—the Outsourcing Facility—in section 503B. 503B entities fall under US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority, and FDA is aggressively encouraging registration.1,2 Fifty-six companies have registered as 503B entities (see ONLINE-ONLY TABLE for a list of these companies, the dates each registered, and the date of their last FDA inspection [accurate as of September 4, 2014]).3 As 503B entities, they can: Click here to view a larger version of this Table Manufacture large batches of compound sterile preparations (CSPs) without preregistration (ie, New Drug Application/Abbreviated New Drug Application), clinical studies, and specific prescriptions for individual patients Ship across state lines With the advent of the newly designated outsourcing facility, a clear understanding of FDA’s expectations for these entities is vital to compliant operation. FDA has published numerous 483 reports—official observations based on FDA inspections of pharmacies—in 2013 and 2014.4,5 Whether you are considering centralizing your health system’s compounding operation, or simply looking to oversee your outsourced compounding vendors, careful review of the recent 483 reports will facilitate a thorough understanding of the statutory amendments and give some insight into FDA’s current regulatory focus. It is important to note that USP <797> Pharmaceutical Compounding – Sterile Preparations remains the primary source of guidance for the traditional pharmacy (ie, 503A) in the preparation of CSPs. This article will consider requirements as described in <797> only in relation to the demonstrated FDA expectations and the stated position that the 503B facility will be held to cGMP manufacturing standards.6,7 Recent FDA Regulatory Activity In response to the events at NECC, and the subsequent congressional hearings, FDA has embarked on an aggressive inspection schedule that focuses on compounding pharmacies that either conduct a significant proportion of their business as outsourcing services shipping preparations across the US or have had issues in quality in the past. This effort has resulted in multiple 483 reports; ninety-four 483 reports for compounding manufacturers producing sterile products are currently posted on the FDA Web site.8, 9 The FDA also has audited several contract testing laboratories; however, the 483 reports specific to the contract testing laboratories are not included in this analysis. The most common challenges noted during FDA inspections include the following (see TABLE 1): Inadequate/Improper Environmental Monitoring. Refers to a wide range of issues with environmental monitoring (EM), including insufficient frequency, failure to qualify sampling sites, failure to trend data, failure to respond to excursions, etc. Validation of Sterilization: Media Fills. Describes the failing of terminally sterilized preparations to be subjected to a validated sterilization cycle in an autoclave or for aseptic fill operations to have performed a relevant media fill (simulated aseptic fill). Lab Testing/Contract Lab Control. Includes noncompliant performance of required testing—most commonly potency testing or USP <71> sterility testing. Sending CSPs out for testing to a lab that asserts compliance with USP test methods has not proven adequate. The pharmacy is responsible for all aspects of the medicine’s quality and safety; therefore, it is vital that the testing laboratory be qualified as GMP compliant and truly adherent to USP testing methods. Inadequate Gowning. This frequent citation for compounding pharmacies was most often documented in the 483s as inadequate clothing for job function. Common issues under this topic included lack of critical pieces of personal protective equipment (eg, hair net, beard covers, foot covers, etc), having gaps in gowns, poor gowning technique, and poor aseptic technique with gowns in the aseptic area of the compounding suite. SOPs to Prevent Microbial Contamination Nonexistent or Not Followed. This general topic covers a wide range of contamination control issues. Stability Program. Pertains to insufficient data supporting the potency, sterility, and lack of pyrogenicity of preparations that might be stored for over a year. Batch Release. Addresses the release of sterile product under improper conditions—without potency testing, sterility testing, and/or bacterial endotoxin testing. Control of Equipment. Describes a failure to ensure that compounding equipment is appropriate for its intended use, including high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems; autoclave operations; incubators; pH meters; balances; etc. This may be due to a failure to confirm that the equipment is functioning properly upon installation or at the time of compounding, a lack of adequate preventive maintenance procedures, a lack of documentation to prove the equipment status, or any combination of these issues. Inadequate Facility/Smoke Studies. Pertains to the qualification studies to ensure the facility is meeting expectations for air balance and airflow in aseptic areas. Inadequate Cleaning/Disinfection. Refers to equipment or facility cleanliness, the carry-over of preparations from one batch to the next, or the failure of pharmacy to disinfect the aseptic area and ensure that the primary engineering control was actually working. Investigations. Involves response to problems or errors, whether they occurred in process (eg, EM excursions), in finished product (eg, failure of potency or sterility testing), or from products returned from the field. Control of Pyrogenic Contamination. Includes several cases where the compounding pharmacy neglected to follow up on failed endotoxin results for various batches or did not perform testing on all parenteral CSPs released. In several cases, the pharmacy was unable to document having performed endotoxin testing. Several other categories of issues are cited in 483 reports at lesser frequency (see TABLE 1.) The FDA recently released draft guidance for 503B outsourcing facilities,7 which clarifies that these facilities will be held to a standard more akin to pharmaceutical GMPs than to USP <797>. This seems appropriate, as FDA and industry have gleaned insight into how to manufacture sterile medications from each public health crisis that has occurred over the past 80 years; every time a problem is highlighted by a public health event, the GMPs have been modified to prevent recurrence. The most recent 503B draft guidance specifically addresses: Control systems and procedures for maintaining suitable facilities Environmental and personnel monitoring Equipment, containers, and closures Production and process controls General production and process controls Aseptic drug processing Release testing Laboratory controls Quality assurance activities/complaint handling It is clear that the new FDA draft guidance was developed to address the 483 observations. New Operational Expectations The new Outsourcing Facility category in section 503 of the FD&C Act has created regulatory confusion in the industry. It is critical that pharmacists have a thorough understanding of the distinctions between traditional pharmacies and outsourcing facilities. Pharmacies that adhere to the traditional practice of pharmacy will remain unchanged, described under Section 503A of the revised act. Pharmacies that wish to manufacture large batches of non–patient-specific CSPs and sell those products across state lines must register as 503B outsourcing facilities and follow basic GMP requirements. The operational expectations of the FDA under GMP regulations compared with the customary practice of pharmacy can be determined by analyzing the 483 observations available on the FDA Web site and review of the newly released draft guidance. This analysis shows significant changes, including the ability to demonstrate compliance with cGMP manufacturing standards, are required for many facilities to operate as outsourcers. 503B pharmacies that are able to adapt to these expectations may prosper, while those that are unable or unwilling to change to meet the new regulatory realities will likely face challenges over the coming years. The NECC disaster clearly illustrates why the FDA’s increased scrutiny of compounding pharmacies is warranted. With the FDA’s renewed vigor to ensure compliance, it is perhaps unsurprising that increased auditing has uncovered concerns at numerous facilities. Thus, how a facility responds to a 483 observation is possibly the best measure of its capabilities; facilities that respond with a detailed plan to address and amend the observations are more likely to fare well in subsequent inspections. FDA’s increased auditing activities likely will improve compliance at pharmacies nationwide, with the goal of avoiding future compounding tragedies on the scale of NECC. US Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration Web site. Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, Commissioner of Food and Drugs. Letter to State Officials, January 8, 2014. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/PharmacyCompounding/UCM380597.pdf. Accessed June 24, 2014. US Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration Web site. Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, Commissioner of Food and Drugs. Letter to Hospital Purchasers, January 8, 2014. http://www.hpm.com/pdf/blog/FDA%20compounding%20letter%20to%20hospitals.pdf. Accessed June 24, 2014. US Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration Web site. Drugs: Registered Outsourcing Facilities.http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/PharmacyCompounding/ucm378645.htm. Accessed June 25, 2014. US Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration Web site. 2013 Pharmacy Inspections and Related Records. http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofGlobalRegulatoryOperationsandPolicy/ORA/ORAElectronicReadingRoom/ucm340853.htm. Accessed June 25, 2014. US Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration Web site. 2014 Pharmacy Inspections and Related Records.http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofGlobalRegulatoryOperationsandPolicy/ORA/ORAElectronicReadingRoom/ucm384667.htm. Accessed June 25, 2014. US Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration Web site. Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Guidance for Industry: Interim Product Reporting for Human Drug Compounding Outsourcing Facilities Under Section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/drugs/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidances/ucm377050.pdf. Accessed June 25, 2014. Guidance for Industry: Current Good Manufacturing Practice - Interim Guidance for Human Drug Compounding Outsourcing Facilities Under Section 503B of the FD&C Act. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/drugs/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidances/ucm403496.pdf Accessed July 21, 2014. US Department of Health and Human Services. US Food and Drug Administration. 2013 Pharmacy Inspections and Related Records. http://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/centersoffices/officeofglobalregulatoryoperationsandpolicy/ora/oraelectronicreadingroom/ucm340853.htm Accessed September 9, 2014. Scott Sutton, PhD, is the principal of Microbiology Network, Inc, and is an active consultant and trainer in the pharmacy industry with expertise in GCP/GMP, FDA preparation and response, environmental monitoring, contamination control, and microbiology laboratory audits and operations. The Microbiology Network supplies consulting, training, Webinars, and email discussion groups. Dr. Sutton is a prolific author and speaker for the industry and has served with the USP Analytical Microbiology Committee of Experts since 1993. The opinions expressed in this article are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the policies or positions of any organization with which he is associated. Scott may be reached at scott.sutton@microbiologynetwork.com.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365447
__label__cc	0.542372	0.457628	You are here: Home \| FLDS \| Hearing for cult leader Warren Jeffs postponed Hearing for cult leader Warren Jeffs postponed FLDS, Polygamy Thursday August 19, 2010 Religion News Blog A hearing to consider polygamous church leader Warren S. Jeffs’ request for a new trial has been postponed. Jeffs filed a motion July 27 for a “speedy” new trial, hours after the Utah Supreme Court reversed his convictions on accomplice to rape charges and said the case should be reheard. Fifth District Judge James Shumate was to hear the request Monday. Prosecutors and defense attorneys asked the hearing be put on hold because the Supreme Court has not yet returned Jeffs’ case file — and is not likely to do so by then. Meanwhile, Jeffs, 54, is facing an extradition proceeding that would transfer him to Texas to stand trial on charges of bigamy, aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault. – Source / Full Story: Jeffs hearing to be rescheduled , Brooke Adams, The Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 19, 2010 — Summarized by Religion News Blog Jeffs is the 54-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints, a southern Utah-based church that practices polygamy. His 2007 convictions on two counts of rape as an accomplice were overturned by the Utah Supreme Court last month. Citing faulty jury instructions, the court sent the case back to the district court. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a warrant for Jeffs extradition to Texas, but Jeffs attorneys have said they will fight extradition. Jeffs remained in the Utah State Prison on Wednesday. [Utah Attorney General Mark] Shurtleff has said Utah authorities have decided to let Texas prosecute Jeffs before attempting to try him again. – Source / Full Story: UT judge cancels polygamous sect leader’s hearing , Jennifer Dobner, Associated Press, Aug. 18, 2010 — Summarized by Religion News Blog Topics: FLDS, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Polygamy, warren jeffs Judge considers dropping incest charges against Warren Jeffs Surrounding towns brace for a wave of fleeing polygamists State enters polygamy area FLDS trust losing control of Hildale homes Judge Orders Counseling For Kingston Polygamist sect calls CPS report ‘fraudulent’ Polygamous ex-cop seeks to avoid jail Polygamy on the Border	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365448
__label__cc	0.560947	0.439053	We use our members' expertise and experience to promote child health and inform our responses to current news. Browse our press releases, media responses and other announcements, as well as articles by our members and others. × Media response (57) Presidents blog (2) Area of medicine (22) Child growth (5) Continuing professional development (1) × Emergency Department (4) Global child health (6) × Immunology (13) × Infant (9) × Maternity (7) × Mental health (29) NHS plan (7) Paediatric careers (3) Paediatric training (6) × Safeguarding (5) Kent Surrey Sussex KSS (1) Mersey (1) North Central East London (2) North East England (1) North West England (1) South London (2) Thames Valley (1) Wessex (1) Yorkshire Humber (1) × Media response × Emergency Department × Immunology × Infant × Maternity × Mental health × Safeguarding RCPCH responds to A&E waiting times We respond to the publication of A&E waiting times by the NHS. Less than three-quarters of patients attending A&E departments in England during October were seen within the four hour target period. RCPCH responds to first quarterly report on delivery of recommendations at Cwm Taf In April this year, the Welsh Government published a report produced by Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives, reviewing maternity services at Cwm Taf Health Board. RCPCH Scotland responds to the Scottish Health Survey 2018 The Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) provides a detailed picture of the health of the Scottish population in private households and is designed to make a major contribution to the monitoring of health in Scotland. RCPCH Officer for Scotland, Professor Steve Turner, responds. Some positive action, but more needs to be done to improve Scotland’s child health Responding to today’s Programme for Government, RCPCH Scotland highlighted the mixed bag offered by Scottish Government for Scotland’s children. RCPCH Scotland welcomed the actions being taken on air pollution, child poverty, early year’s mental health and disability assistance. RCPCH responds to latest MMR data New data from Public Health England reveals 301 new measles cases between April and June 2019. RCPCH's immunisation expert responds. Community child health General paediatrics RCPCH responds to Prime Minister's announcement on immunisation uptake The Prime Minister has today called for urgent action to boost the number of children and young people receiving life-saving vaccinations. This comes as it is revealed that the UK has lost its "measles-free" status with the WHO, three years after it had eliminated the virus. RCPCH responds to paper on social media and adolescent wellbeing and mental health A paper published in the Lancet finds that, for teenage girls, almost all of the effect of very frequent social media use on wellbeing was due to increased exposure to bullying and reduced sleep and physical exercise. Meanwhile, for teenage boys, the impact on wellbeing appears to be due to other in... Improvements made but more work to be done, says Britain's largest evaluation of NHS maternity and neonatal services RCPCH President responds to latest National Maternity and Perinatal Audit and says whilst the expansion of perinatal mental health support is particularly welcome, support services are under immense pressure. He urges an immediate moratorium on any further cuts so "pregnant women and their children ... Neonatal medicine Year 8 boys to be offered free HPV vaccine The move by Public Health England could prevent over 100,000 cancers. The RCPCH's Immunisation Expert responds. Infant mortality rates “extremely worrying” According to figures published today by the Office for National Statistics, infant mortality rates in England and Wales have risen for the third year running. RCPCH responds.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365453
__label__wiki	0.933413	0.933413	Royal College of Physicians appoints two new deputy registrars The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has appointed Dr Alastair Gilmore and Dr Sonia Panchal as its deputy registrars following a competitive appointment process for these new roles. RCP appoints Professor Dame Jane Dacre as new chair of the Senior Physicians Society Professor Dame Jane Dacre, immediate-past president of the RCP, has been appointed chair of the Senior Physicians Society (SPS). RCP annual conference: Medicine 2020 officially launched Medicine 2020, the RCP’s sixth annual conference, has officially been launched and will take place 23–24 April 2020 at The ICC, Birmingham. Value and population health: an NHS Provider perspective How does treating the health of the population provide value in healthcare? Dr Chris Packham, associate medical director of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, examines the changing attitude to population health in the NHS and how it needs to improve. What do we value in healthcare? An economic perspective John Appleby, chief economist of the Nuffield Trust, examines how value is defined in healthcare and how it impacts everyday services. The RCP has officially launched 'RCP annual conference: Medicine 2019', which will take place at Manchester Central Convention Complex on 25–26 April. Healthcare systems, funding and outcomes: international comparisons and experiences Dr Lewis Peake compares international healthcare systems, funding and outcomes, and asks whether it's a question of how or where NHS funding should be spent. Essential tools for the job: why physicians need to improve medical leadership and management Given the current workforce and financial issues facing the NHS, should physicians just concentrate on seeing as many patients as they can, as quickly as they can? Professor Namita Kumar says perhaps not. RCP delegation attends EU parliament launch of Value of Health The RCP will today, alongside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European groups representing patients, researchers and the healthcare industry, attend the launch of The Value of Health: Improving Outcomes multi-stakeholder initiative report at the European Parliament in Brussels. AI and healthcare: Gathering and interpreting data in the future With the advent of diagnostics, treatment and artifical intelligence in the health sector, Huw Llewelyn MD discusses the challenges facing the medical profession, particularly in assessing these new interventions when randomised control trials (RCTs) are impractical.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365454
__label__cc	0.569968	0.430032	The Panasonic Lumix S1H is a "do-it-all" powerhouse Written by Simon Wyndham The Panasonic LUMIX DC-S1H pictured here showing off its incredibly solid weather-sealing. RedShark Media Panasonic S1H review: The Panasonic S1H, far from being just a slight iteration of the S1 line, is really an entirely different camera. The Panasonic Lumix DC-S1H is a curious creature for one big reason. It's a hybrid stills camera that is wholly and primarily aimed at the cinema camera market. It can certainly take stills, and all that functionality is on the camera, just as it is on the other models in the S1 lineup. But not only is its primary function to take video, it has been completely redesigned to do so. Build quality and features of the S1H The camera body Make no mistake, both the S1 and S1R, are built like tanks. Nobody of sane mind could ever accuse them of being 'flimsy'. They are both designed to take the rigours of day-to-day work in their stride, with full weatherproofing all part of the package. And then there's the S1H. The new camera has the same excellent build quality as the previous ones, but it is noticeably bigger. The body is deeper to accommodate the additional cooling system, as well as a much larger illuminated top LCD display. This shows current camera settings, including things like shutter angle, ISO etc. It has been designed to display much more information than the other S1 cameras. The Lumix DC-S1H looks superficially similar to the other S1 cameras, but its body design is quite different Rear LCD display and controls The rear LCD display is the most prominent difference. This juts out slightly to allow room for the new cooling vents, but the monitor is also new. It is slightly smaller than the ones on the S1 and S1R, but it is more easily adjustable and will flip out to the left and side, which the display on the other cameras cannot do. The tilt and flip mechanism seems more robust than on the other cameras, too. The on/off switch is now a switch that goes around the shutter release button, so it is a smidgen easier to power it on and off when hand holding it. Then there are the prominent metallic red record buttons situated on the top, rear, and the front of the camera. I'm not totally sure of why these were needed in any practical sense since the shutter button functions just as well as a record button! But hey, it looks cool. Most other physical controls are as per its stablemates. The Lumix S1H has a much larger, and more detailed information display on top of the body than the other S1 cameras Another prominent difference is that the S1H can only record internally to SD cards. So you now have two SD card slots as compared to one SD slot and one XQD. This is a sensible decision to my mind, and I'm not fully sure why XDQ was fully necessary on the other cameras, especially when there's no high bitrate video recording on them, and modern SD cards are very fast. Superficially the S1H looks similar to the other S1 cameras, as if Panasonic has just added a few bits here and there. But a closer look shows that the body design is new. Inevitably cages that work on the S1 and S1R will not fit the S1H very well. I managed to shoehorn it into my SmallRig cage but there's an intolerance causing it to be ever so slightly out of alignment such that the bottom of the camera won't go completely flush to the cage. It's designed for cinematography The realisation that the S1H is a much more serious beast for cinematography comes when you open up its setup menus. These have the same look and feel as the other cameras, but they contain a lot more setup pages. There are the simple things, such as being able to setup the shutter to display as an angle rather than as a fraction of a second (pretty please Panasonic, can we have a 1/48th shutter on the S1?), and then there are the real stand out differences, such as being able to put the camera into a 24hz mode for true 24p recording, as opposed to 23.98 of its sisters. Options for bitrates are more extensive, with 10-bit 400Mb/s intra-frame being on offer, as well as resolutions going all the way up to 6K. You'll need a top of the range SD card to record at these settings internally. Slow motion junkies will be happy to know that the slow motion modes on the S1H now have manually controllable exposure. It is somewhat of a mystery why the S1 doesn't have manual control over these modes, but for people who have held out for the S1H, and can afford it, the way that the S1H handles these modes is much more sensible. Optical low pass filter and extra recording modes One last physical difference that the S1H possesses is an optical low pass filter (OLPF) to reduce moire. I can't say that I've noticed much in the way of moire on the S1, but it is another demonstration of how the S1H is optimised for moving imagery. Now, the camera is touted as being 6K capable, and this is one of the its main headline features. Internally this takes a couple of forms. You can record a full 6K (5952 x 3968) with 4:2:0 colour precision and 10-bit colour at 200Mb/s. This is taken at a 3:2 aspect ratio and uses all of the sensor area. A 5.9K mode (5888 x 3312) is also available and this will be more useful being a 16:9 ratio, again at 200Mb/s. A 5.4K mode is also available at 3:2 ratio. But that's not the end of the story. A firmware is in development in partnership with Atomos that will output 5.9K and 4K raw video data over HDMI to devices like the Ninja V. The Panasonic Lumix S1H is portable enough and weatherproof enough to handle some of the harshest environments... Including Wales! For the most part if you put footage taken on the S1 next to that taken with the S1H you wouldn't notice any differences immediately. But the devil here is in the detail. Just like the S1, once the V-log footage is corrected for your display, the dynamic range is high, and colours are incredibly good, showing off the autumn colours in the test footage well. The footage below was processed in DaVinci Resolve using a transform function to bring it back to Rec.709, with some minor exposure corrections here and there. So far so colourful. But the biggest difference I noticed between the S1 and the S1H was when it came to noise levels. RedShark readers might recall we did an article recently asking whether the S1 had the same dual gain circuit (dual native ISO) functionality as the S1H due to the way the noise behaved once the camera reached 4000 ISO. Now that I have used the S1H I can confirm that the noise performance does look very similar, and there does seem to be the same sort of noise shift going on at ISO4000. Go to the links below to download files straight from the camera where I move the gain up through the ISO range, along with an alternative file from the S1H, both going from ISO640 to ISO51200. These aren't aligned in terms of timings, but if you scrub through you can see the point where ISO4000 is hit on both cameras. At first I thought the noise performance was different. Watching the waveform on each cameras LCD display doesn't show the same sort of behaviour for some reason. But looking at the untouched files noise would appear to be very similar. Note that to save file sizes I used the LongGOP codec for these files, so some of the noise may appear to have compression artefacts. Panasonoic Lumix DC-S1 noise test file Panasonic Lumix DC-S1H noise test file We contacted the engineers at Panasonic and they told us that the sensor in the S1H is not the same one as in the S1, mentioning specifically that the S1H has dual native ISO as a major difference, although they didn't elaborate on why the S1 itself seems to exhibit similar traits. I'll let the two video files speak for themselves and you can make up your own minds! The SmallRig S1 cage works, sort of. But the difference in body dimensions means that you will one specific to the S1H for a truly good fit. Is the Panasonic S1H for you? Competition in the market is hotting up, so the S1H is up against a lot. At around US$4K for the body alone it is around US$1.5K more than the S1, which isn't a minor difference. The key decision you have to make is whether 1) video functionality is an absolute priority, and 2) whether the overall features, including stills abilities, is enough to warrant such a hybrid camera. For ultra-low budget filmmakers, the inclusion of a true 24P mode and intra-frame recording may well give it an edge, and the forthcoming ProRes RAW update will give it yet further capabilities. You also gain 10-bit 60p internal 4K recording over 8-bit on the S1. It is true that there are cameras from the competition that offer many of these video capabilities at a lower price. But not all of them. Restrictions range from smaller sensor sizes to much more limited frame rates. So the ultimate decision will be over which specific features are important to you. The S1H has a lot more shooting options than its nearest competitors. I can say with confidence that if you want a camera that will literally function as a do-it-all powerhouse for both stills and video, the S1H comes very close indeed to being the perfect vehicle, and it fixes most of the niggles users had with the S1. It is built to last, with very effective weather proofing - this got a very good test in the heavy rain we recently had, and is something you will not really find on any dedicated camcorder. As long as you aren't using any external devices like monitors and the XLR adaptor. The picture quality is immensely good in the right hands. The S1 series in V-log modes are not shoot-and-forget. So you need to consider this in your intended post workflow. But when you think about what the S1H gives you stills wise as well as with video, the price suddenly doesn't seem like such a barrier. Lumix S1H DCS1H hybrid camera Simon Wyndham Simon Wyndham is Deputy Editor of RedShark News, a professional cameraman and video producer of 20 odd years. With a background in indy feature making, he has been writing camera reviews and tech articles for as long as he can remember. When he isn't producing bread and butter corporate videos he can be found hucking the gnar on rivers whitewater kayaking and adventure sports filming. Website: www.5ep.co.uk Latest from Simon Wyndham FUJIFILM X-T200 aims to mix ease of use with power How to hugely improve your videos without spending a load of money iRig Pro Duo I/O: A Dual audio interface that fits into your pocket This is a fascinating look at how the incredible cinematography of 1917 was created Panasonic's new camcorders are absolutely tiny, but powerful Atomos proves you CAN get raw video over HDMI Atomos brings multi-cam switching to the Shogun 7 More in this category: « The S1H is now the most affordable fully approved Netflix camera These three 4K camcorders will handle anything you throw at them [sponsored] »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365458
__label__wiki	0.9428	0.9428	Home Sports News Hockey news Crosby collects 4 points in return, Penguins rip Wild 7-3 Crosby Collects 4 Points In Return, Penguins Rip Wild 7-3 Sidney Crosby watched the Pittsburgh Penguins thrive in his absence. The longtime captain pledged he would simply focus on doing his part to keep the Penguins rolling in his return from a two-month layoff. Written By Associated Press Television News \| Mumbai \| Updated On: January 15, 2020 17:49 IST Crosby held up his end of the bargain, collecting a goal and three assists in his first game back from abdominal surgery as the Penguins rolled past Minnesota 7-3 on Tuesday night. Crosby needed less than eight minutes to pick up his first point since before Halloween when he assisted on Evgeni Malkin's first goal of the night 7:57 into the game. Crosby added his sixth goal of the season in the third period when he slipped a backhand past Devan Dubnyk as the Penguins rolled to their fourth straight victory. Malkin finished with two goals and a pretty no-look drop pass to set up Bryan Rust's 19th of the season. Jared McCann scored for the fourth time in five games for Pittsburgh, Dominik Simon added his fifth, and Tristan Jarry stopped 25 shots to improve to 11-0-1 in his last 12 starts against Western Conference opponents. Crosby skated 17:53 after missing 28 games following abdominal surgery and looked just as dangerous as ever as the Penguins pulled within four points of first-place Washington in the Metropolitan Division. Zach Parise scored twice and Marcus Foligno added his ninth for the Wild but Minnesota never really got back in it after spotting the Penguins a four-goal lead. Dubnyk finished with 22 saves, but the Wild fell to 1-5-1 in their last seven games. The Penguins were off to a solid but hardly spectacular start when Crosby went on injured reserve after aggravating an abdominal injury in a loss to Chicago on Nov. 9. Yet rather than wobble with their unquestioned leader watching from the press box, Pittsburgh hit the gas. The Penguins went 18-6-4 during Crosby's layoff, the second-best record in the NHL over that span. Crosby admitted watching the team succeed without him helped take some of the sting out of his lengthy rehabilitation and promised he “wouldn't get too fancy” in hopes of keeping with the selfless, diligent identity the Penguins carved out in his absence. Instead, he left the fancy stuff to the rest of the Penguins. McCann's 14th of the season late in the first period came at the end of a pretty sequence in which John Marino threaded a cross-ice pass to Simon, who flicked a centering feed to McCann just outside the Minnesota crease. All McCann had to do was tap it in the net to give Pittsburgh a 2-0 lead. Rust's 10th goal in his last 16 games came courtesy of a streaking Malkin, who chased down a loose puck in the neutral zone, drew two Minnesota players and dropped a no-look backhand to Rust in the slot. Rust easily beat Dubnyk to give the Penguins a three-goal lead 14:04 into the second. Malkin picked up his second of the night 61 seconds later and the Penguins were in full command. Minnesota briefly got back in it when Foligno's ninth of the season drew the Wild within 4-2 early in the third period. Minnesota would get no closer. Crosby's goal 7:41 into the third restored a three-goal lead and when Simon scored 39 seconds later the rout was on. NOTES: Minnesota ended up playing with five defensemen instead of the usual six after the coaching staff inadvertently listed defenseman Greg Pateryn as a healthy scratch. Pateryn dressed expecting to play but was sent back to the locker room just before the opening faceoff when officials noticed Minnesota had 19 skaters dressed instead of the typical 18 (and two goalies). Center Ryan Donato, who was supposed to be scratched, instead watched the game from the bench and did not see any ice time. ... Pittsburgh scratched D Kevin Czuczman and C Sam Lafferty. ... Penguins D Kris Letang became the first defenseman in team history to reach 400 career assists when he helped set up Malkin's second goal. Wild: Start a seven-game homestand on Thursday against Tampa Bay. Penguins: Begin a two-game road trip on Thursday in Boston. The Bruins beat the Penguins 6-4 in their first meeting on Nov. 4. Nelson scores twice, Islanders pound Red Wings 8-2 Bishop, Stars blank Ducks 3-0 for 6th straight win Rani Rampal to lead Indian women's hockey team in NZ tour Women to join ex-NHL players on ice during Harvard-Yale game Marchand overskates puck in shootout, Bruins fall to Flyers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365459
__label__wiki	0.793431	0.793431	ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.restaurant-hospitality.com/sites/all/themes/penton_subtheme_restaurant_hospitality/images/logos/footer.png\nRestaurant Hospitality is part of the Informa Connect Division of Informa PLC\nMUFSO\nBest Sandwiches in America\nBest Cocktails in America\nNation’s Restaurant News\nCrack Shack warns of possible data breach\nWorking Lunch: Governors plan to prioritize workforce development\nChicago considers polystyrene ban, limit on single-use plastics in restaurants\nThis week's top 10: José Andrés' Chicago dining destination, Grubhub's phone plan and delivery consolidation\nChicago speakeasy Janitor’s Closet cleans up with a spiffy theme\nNewest virtual restaurant partnership from Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and Grubhub opens in Chicago\nDo we forget about pickup when we talk off-premise?\nGrubhub announces task force findings and new 'common sense' phone ordering plan\nWhat do Zume’s layoffs and Grubhub’s sale rumors have to do with SoftBank?\nP. Terry's\nDoes your restaurant company need a CFO?\nWith growth comes the need for infrastructure. P. Terry’s Burger Stand offers advice on knowing when to bring on a financial leader\nMark Hamstra \| Jan 08, 2020\nIndependent restaurateurs often wear many hats out of necessity and tend to outsource only a limited number of functions.\nEventually, however, a growing brand will want to have on staff the expertise it needs to operate efficiently and profitably, and one of those key hires will be the chief financial officer.\nRelated: P. Terry’s Burger Stand names first-ever CFO\nFor Austin, Texas-based P. Terry’s Burger Stand, an 18-unit chain specializing in fresh burgers, fries and shakes, that time recently arrived as the company prepares to escalate its expansion pace. In November it hired Millicent “Milli” Hawkins as its first in-house CFO. Previously, the privately owned chain employed an outside financial services firm called CFO Advisors.\n“For me it was important to bring our CFO in-house because of our accelerated growth plan,” said Todd Coerver, CEO of P. Terry’s. “In growth mode, financial planning and responsible oversight on a daily basis become mission critical.”\nThe company has been growing at a rate of about one new store per year, but with six to seven new locations expected to come online in 2020, Coerver said it was time to ensure that the company was optimizing its investments.\nP. Terry’s strong financial position enabled it to hire a full-time chief financial officer, he explained. General and administrative expenses, or G&A, at P. Terry’s have been “very close to the low end” of what Coerver considers to be the optimum 5% to 10% range as a percent of total sales, he said, and the incremental cost of Hawkins’ salary will keep the company well within that range, especially given the projected sales growth from upcoming locations.\nCoerver said the new hire fits within his strategy of focusing on “just in time infrastructure,” which calls for adding personnel and systems only when they are needed.\n“We want to bring in the right people and the right systems at the right time so that we are not over-investing too early, but yet we are early enough that we are not going to get run over by that growth,” he said.\nPhoto: Millicent Hawkins\nPhoto: Courtesy of P. Terry's\nWhile the company said it enjoyed a strong relationship with CFO Advisors, Coerver said bringing the CFO position in-house will foster a deeper connectivity with the brand and the markets where it operates. In addition, having a CFO in the corporate offices every day facilitates the sharing of expertise across other departments in the organization.\n“Milli has only been here a couple of months, and already the department heads are running into her office every day, getting feedback from her on financial practices and budgeting for the year ahead,” said Coerver.\nIn addition to her financial experience with restaurant companies Triple Tap Ventures and Lone Star Steakhouse, Hawkins also helped build lifestyle fashion retailer Kendra Scott into a 100-store chain in a series of financial management roles. That experience should make her ideally suited for P. Terry’s growth plans, Coerver said.\nHe also noted that as P. Terry’s ramps up its pace of new-unit openings, having Hawkins on staff will help the company monitor the new units’ financial performance so that management has insights into things that might need to be tweaked or revamped.\nGary Stibel, founder and CEO of New England Consulting Group, said that for small operators, outsourcing financial responsibilities makes sense until the company reaches a point — as P. Terry’s did — where it is about to embark on significant growth.\n“If you have five to 10 units and you are about to go to 25-50 units, then you pass the baton from an outsourced financial firm to an in-house chief financial officer,” said Stibel, who added that companies will likely also want to bring in a couple of people who will work under the CFO.\n“Most restaurants are founded by entrepreneurs who understand hospitality — food, people, experience, ambiance. The worst thing they can do is spend time in the back office keeping the books,” he said.\nAs far as budgeting for a new CFO, Stibel suggested offering the person an ownership stake in the company. This has the advantage of not only incentivizing the executive to drive performance, but also keeping the base salary lower.\n“I want him or her to be an owner,” Stibel said. “If you are not willing to give them an ownership stake, maybe you are not hiring the right person.”\nChris Olfers, The-Southern-Influence\nLJ Suzuki, founder and a fractional CFO at financial outsourcing firm CFOShare, said hiring a CFO, whether outsourced or in-house, should be considered at a time when the company is facing a period of financial risk. That could come, as it did with P. Terry’s, when the company is undergoing a burst of expansion, or perhaps entering a new market.\n“Anytime a business faces risk and uncertainty, there is an advantage to understanding if that risk is manageable,” he said. “That’s what a CFO can provide — an analysis of monetary risk.”\nIn addition to analyzing the monetary risk of potential future activities, CFOs can also provide analysis of historical financial metrics that might yield insights for future cost savings or revenue opportunities. For example, having someone with the financial acumen of a CFO analyze food costs over time might yield actionable insights for future procurement opportunities, according to Suzuki.\nHe said outsourcing a chief financial officer allows operators to focus on what they do best.\n“I always tell restaurant operators, ‘You focus on creating a great customer experience and making a great meal, and we’ll worry about the money,’” he said.\nDon’t want to raise menu prices? 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__label__cc	0.663017	0.336983	Sharpe Point (Maycroft Mysteries) Lisa B. Thomas SOMETIMES IN-LAWS ARE WORSE THAN OUTLAWSRetired from teaching, rookie investigator Deena Sharpe wants justice for the wrongly accused. She also wants to impress her new boss. But when she trips over a dead body in the church’s haunted house, the police try to pin it on one of their clients. Can Deena defend a person she thinks may be guilty? To make matters worse, Deena’s mother-in-law has moved in and has plans of her own. She’s determined to teach her son’s wife how to properly cook and clean. But a clash with a nosy neighbor over the family’s dog sends everyone into a tailspin.Now, Deena must risk her reputation to sort through the secrets and lies of small town politics. However, when clues point to the pastor, his wife, and his secretary, she is stuck in the middle of an unholy murder case.Sharpe Point: Needle in a Haystack, Book 5 in the Cozy Suburbs Mysteries, is a clean whodunit with plenty of snarky humor and a touch of romance. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 200 pages	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365466
__label__cc	0.650901	0.349099	(+613)9755 4555 COMPASS LOGIN Principal’s Address Policies and Annual Report Respectful Relationships Curiosity & Powerful Learning Student Health and Wellbeing Library & eLearning KIOSC Laptops & iPads – BYOD Inter-school Sport College Production Meet our Principal Team Meet our School Captains Friends of RIA Rise Health Group – Blog College Videos To contact us for more information about our school CLICK HERE or call (03) 9755 4555 Rowville General Excellence Rowville Institute of the Arts (RIA) RIA Curriculum Maths & Science Academy (MSA) MSA Curriculum Rowville Sports Academy (RSA) RSA Curriculum ONE GREAT SCHOOL – Read our enrolment details >>> Rowville General Excellence Enrolment Rowville Institute of the Arts Enrolment Rowville Maths & Science Academy Enrolment Rowville Sports Academy Enrolment Amanda Thai achieves RSC dux honours You are here: Home / General / Amanda Thai achieves RSC dux honours It simply doesn’t get any better than that to end VCE. An elated, but relieved Amanda Thai opened her ATAR results to the news of a 99.05 score on Monday morning, topping the graduating class at Rowville Secondary College for 2016. VCE may come as a shock to many students across Victoria, but for Rowville Secondary College’s 2016 dux Amanda Thai, her result is the product of years of healthy habits and hard work. The Rowville Institute of the Arts student’s committed study habits throughout her secondary schooling meant she didn’t experience the shock many others might once they hit the crucial VCE years. “I didn’t do anything different to what I’ve always been doing,” Amanda said. “I did the work that was required of me and towards exams I did practice exams – I didn’t do anything crazy like lock myself in my room. “Towards exams I kind of went on the philosophy that I’d rather go into my exams happy than stressed (and) I didn’t overwhelm myself.” The former Wooranna Park Primary School student believes her strategies throughout VCE took considerable pressure off her in 2016. “I did four Year 12 subjects this year and two last year which really helped – it took a lot of the pressure off this year – it meant I didn’t have to work on five subjects at once,” she said. “I did two Englishes – Literature and English, and Mathematics, (and) it was good that I had Dance – it was an outlet for me. “In Year 11, I did Psychology and Textiles.” Amanda is thankful of all her teachers this year. “They were really good,” she said. “Especially Ricki Leicester – I’ve known her since Year 7 so she’s been my dance teacher for a really long time.” “They were all really supportive and kept pushing me to do more, challenging me and provided really good feedback so I could look back on say, essays that I’d written during the year towards exams and see what I’d need to work on.” A RIA student since year 7, Amanda couldn’t speak higher of her time in the program. “I love RIA, it’s a really good community because everyone’s interested in artistic things and similar interests – it’s easy to find people you have things in common with,” she said. “The program itself has grown a lot over the years and it’s better now than it was in year 7 (and) it offers students a really good opportunity to do what they love at school.” 2017 looks to be another prosperous year for the College dux, where Amanda hopes to study a Bachelor of Creative Writing at RMIT University. A love of writing and creativity has Amanda hopeful of a career in her passion. “That’s probably a weird thing to say because I got an ATAR of 99.05, you’d expect me to do something like engineering, medicine or law but those things never interested me,” she said. “What interests me is being creative, that’s why I’m in RIA and I really like creative writing.” “Ideally I want to be an author of fiction novels because I really enjoy that – but also editing would be really cool, working in a publishing house or anything to do with words and writing.” What advice would the 2016 Rowville Secondary College dux give to future year 12 students? Amanda believes in doing what works best for the individual. “Be self-aware of what works for you,” she said. “A lot of people say ‘you need to do this many practice exams’ or ‘you need to work like that’. “That’s formulaic and it doesn’t work for everyone. “Some people, they need to study more because that’s the way they absorb the information properly. “But some people, if they work too much on the information it becomes stale and they don’t have an interest in it anymore. “Be self-aware of how you best learn and apply that to Year 12 so you don’t break yourself trying to work with someone else’s strategies.” Friends and family created a helpful support network for Amanda, of which she is truly grateful. “My friends were wonderful, they support me all the time and they’re all really intelligent too so we complement each other,” she said. “It’s been really good to have them there, we always support each other and we’re all creative. “My family’s always been supportive – they’ve always said to do what you love, not what we want you to do.” Amanda says that while you must remain focused in Year 12, you shouldn’t give up doing what you love in your spare time. “Last year I did so many extra-curricular activities, production, dance competitions, and that kind of tired me out at the end,” she said. “I did stop a bit of dancing (this year) but not altogether, otherwise I wouldn’t have an outlet, (and) I didn’t stop reading books either – I read all the time. “Don’t give up what you love, and don’t feel like you have to sacrifice absolutely everything to do Year 12 – you can still have a social life. “You need to keep doing what you love, otherwise you’ll go crazy if you spend all your time doing school-work and by exam time you’ll be burnt out.” Amanda Thai’s journey at Rowville Secondary College is one she will look back on fondly as she embarks on the next chapter of her life. “I don’t think I would have got the same experience if I’d went to a different high school,” she said. “Especially because of RIA, I wouldn’t have met the same people, I wouldn’t have had the same community experience. “It was really influential in making me who I am.” Congratulations Amity Kunst our 2019 College DUXDecember 20, 2019 - 3:31 pm Five Exciting Things – Read it now!December 19, 2019 - 4:58 am Read our School Newsletter ‘The Rowville Times’December 18, 2019 - 10:32 am Congratulations Bigoa Nyuon! RSA student picked in 2019 AFL DraftNovember 29, 2019 - 12:23 pm Key information for New StudentsSeptember 3, 2019 - 8:31 am PHOTOS! RIA Semester One Showcase 2019August 13, 2019 - 4:00 am Rock of Ages – A ‘Rocking’ Success!August 12, 2019 - 3:00 am Year 10 Central Australia Trip 2019July 16, 2019 - 7:26 am Rowville SC Campuses WESTERN CAMPUS Paratea Dr, Rowville VIC 3178 EASTERN CAMPUS Humphreys Way, Rowville VIC 3178 © Copyright 2016 Rowville Secondary College - Department of Education and Training, CRICOS Provider Code 00861K Dilini Wijetunga soars to 92.75 ATAR Meg Dunn produces masterpiece with 90.06 ATAR	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365470
__label__wiki	0.725341	0.725341	ARPM releases guidance for state of rubber cure Rubber & Plastics News Staff INDIANAPOLIS—The Association for Rubber Products Manufacturers released its new SP-913 Technical Guidance Document for State of Cure. The release marks the first collection of vetted and proven methods to address the cure state of rubber, F. Joseph Walker, chair of the ARPM Sealing committee and Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies global technology director materials & laboratory services, said in an ARPM release. "The direct relationship between rubber's performance characteristics and the state of cure is of principal importance," Walker said. "Therefore control of the cure state of manufactured rubber articles provides greater consistency in the performance of the articles during use thereby improving their quality and allows for more consistent process control during their manufacture." The technical guide provides a peer-reviewed series of methods to measure and control consistency and quality of fabricated rubber articles," Walker said. It conforms to ISO/IEC 17025 §7.2.1.4. It was drafted and approved by the member representatives of the Sealing Technical committee. ARPM acknowledged member companies for their contribution, including 3M Advanced Materials Division, AGC Chemicals Americas, Amsted Seals and Forming, Akron Rubber Development Labs, Consolidated Metco Inc., Fiat Chyrsler, Fluid Sealing L.L.C., Ford Motor Co., Ford Transmission Driveline Eng, Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies, Grace Technology and Development, SKF Sealing Solutions, Chemours Co. L.L.C., Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Americas, Zeon Chemicals L.P. and Waker Chemical. All ARPM technical standards are reviewed every five years, in accordance with ISO standards. The SP-913 Technical Guidance Document for State of Cure is available for free for members and $150 for non-members at arpminc.com/publications/category/sealing-products.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365473
__label__wiki	0.743047	0.743047	Hatch Destroys Leahy RUSH: I mentioned earlier in the program that we have a couple sound bites you gotta hear. These are two sound bites with Orrin Hatch and Pat Leahy on Meet the Press yesterday. This is about the fired US attorneys. Orrin Hatch, on fire here, is talking about Carol Lam, who was a Clinton hack — and everybody, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote letters complaining about Carol Lam, and now Dianne Feinstein has forgotten she wrote complaint letters and is all distressed about this! Hatch opened up with this comment. HATCH: There is not one shred of evidence here that any of these appointments were made, to use Senator Specter’s words, ‘to interfere with an ongoing investigation or case.’ Carol Lam, for instance. It’s amazing to me she wasn’t fired earlier because for three years members of Congress had complained that there had been all kinds of border patrol capture of these people but hardly any prosecutions. She was a former law professor with no prosecutorial experience, and the former campaign manager in southern California for Clinton — and they’re trying to say that this administration appoints people politically? Of course they do. That’s what these positions are! RUSH: But not only that, (former Republican congressman) Duke Cunningham is in jail. Patrick Fitzgerald was not fired! All of these allegations that these attorneys were fired because they’re working on corruption cases against Republicans? Carol Lam was a campaign manager! These people would normally be made ambassadors, but Clinton put her in as a US attorney. This is the kind of people that Clintons and Democrats appoint as federal judges. What I was talking about earlier, is their attempt here to insulate Democrats and liberals from election results. Now, Bush could have gotten rid of this woman when he took office. He chose not to. The new tone, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Next up, Russert says, ‘Senator Leahy, let me ask about a comment Senator Hatch made. Do you have any shred of evidence that any case was interfered with by the dismissal these eight US attorneys?’ LEAHY: Well, this is one of the things we’re trying to — trying to point out. We know that Carol Lam, uh, who, uh, Orrin angrily dismisses, and I’m sorry he has to get so angry so early in the morning, but — LEAHY. — the — she, uh, of course, has prosecuted a Republican congressman and was investigating other Republicans when she was dismissed. That we do not for a fact. HATCH: Well… (Sigh.) LEAHY: We also — RUSSERT: But do you have any evidence that these ongoing cases…? LEAHY: Well, this is what… HATCH: Not a shred! LEAHY: This is — HATCH: Not a shred of evidence! RUSH: That was Orrin Hatch once again telling Leahy, ‘You have not a shred, not one shred of evidence.’ Anyway, the president wants Gonzales up there under oath, by the way, and the Democrats say, ‘No, no, no, no! We’re on our two-week spring break. We’ll bide your time here with Gonzales.’ They think they’ve made the case now. They’re not really interested in going a whole lot farther since they’re not going to get Rove and Miers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365475
__label__cc	0.578674	0.421326	You are here: Home / Your council / News / News archive / News from December 2019 / Santa appeal makes Christmas possible Santa appeal makes Christmas possible Christmas couldn’t happen without the kindness of strangers. That’s the message from Salford Women’s Aid, one of the charities which will be supported with gifts from this year’s Salford Santa Appeal. Salford City Council’s bin crews take to the road this week to collect presents left out with any bin or food caddy and are hoping to smash last year’s 5,000 gifts donated by generous Salfordians. A spokeswoman for Salford Women’s Aid, an independent charity, said the bin men’s kindness last year helped make Christmas possible for women and children who have fled domestic abuse. “Our four staff give up their Christmas to try and make it as special as possible for our mums and children because we know they have left everything behind – toys, clothes, family and friends. But, without the kindness of strangers to support us, it would be bleak,” she said. “We provide a buffet on Christmas Eve and then on Christmas Day the mums and children cook a big dinner with donated food or food we buy from cash donations. We put up decorations and a tree and try to make our two refuges as much like a home as possible even though they can’t have family or friends to visit or even receive presents from them for their own safety. “Last year two of the bin men, Sam Barry and Bob Critchley came and played Santa and his elf at a Christmas party for us and the children loved it. We also try to take them to a panto as some of them have never been to one in their lives. It’s all about showing them that there are good people in the world after all they have been through.” The refuge, which is an independent charity, takes mums and children up to 16 years old who have fled intolerable domestic abuse. Some are able to return home with new safety measures and support in place while others stay until they can be rehoused. Sam, whose idea sparked the appeal last year, said: “It was fantastic to see how the children responded when we walked in as Santa and the elf. I started the appeal because couldn’t bear the thought of children in Salford missing out on Christmas and was overwhelmed at the generosity of Salford people last year. “We’re on the road this week collecting and I hope people will be as kind again. Even the smallest item shows the children or young people that someone is thinking of them and makes their day.” Councillor David Lancaster, lead member for environment and community safety, said: “It’s heartbreaking to think what these women and children have been through but they are now in a safe and caring place. I’m sure the people of Salford will do all they can to help them and others in need.” Presents, which should be new and unwrapped for safety, can be left with any bin or food caddy being left out for collection this week or handed to the crews who will be wearing red high vis jackets and Santa hats sponsored by the unions. Gifts can also be donated at Eccles, Pendleton, Walkden or Swinton Gateways or Broughton Hub or at Unison’s offices or Salford Civic Centre, both on Chorley Road, Swinton. Volunteers from Rotary in Worsley will help sort and distribute the gifts when the appeal closes. Salford Women’s Aid is also appealing for donations to fund the Christmas dinner. Or see the Salford Women's Aid Facebook page. Press and media enquiries	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365480
__label__wiki	0.829426	0.829426	Ramin Bahrani Fahrenheit 451 (2018) — Writer, Director Odie Henderson 99 Homes (2015) — Writer, Director Sheila O'Malley At Any Price (2012) — Writer, Director Goodbye Solo (2009) — Directed by Chop Shop (2008) — Directed by, Written by Man Push Cart (2006) — Written and directed by Ebertfest Film Festival 2020 Passes On Sale November 1st by The Editors \| October 25, 2019 \| An announcement of passes going on sale Friday, November 1st, for the next Ebertfest Film Festival that takes place April 15-18, 2020, in Champaign, Illinois. Cannes 2018 Video #1: Preview by Chaz Ebert \| May 6, 2018 \| A video preview of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival! #326 April 17, 2018 by Matt Fagerholm \| April 17, 2018 \| Matt writes: The 20th anniversary of Ebertfest will kick off tomorrow, April 18th, and run through Sunday, April 22nd, at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois. Andrew Davis' classic edge-of-your-seat thriller, "The Fugitive," will open the festival, which features other beloved titles including "American Splendor" and "The Big Lebowski," as well as such trailblazing filmmakers as Ava DuVernay, Julie Dash, Amma Asante, Martha Coolidge and many more. #325 April 3, 2018 by Matt Fagerholm \| April 3, 2018 \| Matt writes: The 2018 installment of our Women Writers Week at RogerEbert.com just came to a close and featured extraordinary writing from such vital scribes as Arielle Bernstein, Tomris Laffly, Christy Lemire, Kristen Lopez, Nell Minow, Jana Monji, Sheila O'Malley, Allison Shoemaker, Susan Wloszczyna and many others. The Monster Inside: Michael Shannon on "The Shape of Water" by Nick Allen \| November 27, 2017 \| An interview with Michael Shannon about his performance in "The Shape of Water." Ebertfest 2018 Passes On Sale Now by The Editors \| November 1, 2017 \| An article announcing the 20th Anniversary of Ebertfest April 18-22, 2018 and tickets on sale November 1st. Thumbnails 10/6/17 by Matt Fagerholm \| October 6, 2017 \| Emer Kinsella on "Jungle"; Zadie Smith on social media; John Landis on "Innocent Blood"; "Josie and the Pussycats" was ahead of its time; "The Florida Project" is one of the year's best films. New York Film Festival 2017 Preview by Godfrey Cheshire \| September 29, 2017 \| A preview of the 55th Annual New York Film Festival with commentary on the state of the fest and the Opening Night film by Richard Linklater, "Last Flag Flying." Happy Birthday Werner, with "Herzog by Ebert" by The Editors \| August 25, 2017 \| An article about the new book, "Herzog by Ebert" and book signing in Telluride by Werner Herzog Photo Gallery: Roger Ebert Induction Ceremony by Chaz Ebert \| August 24, 2017 \| An article about Roger Ebert's August 19th induction ceremony into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame at the American Writers Museum and reprint of lovely speech by Milos Stehlik Ebertfest 2017 Passes Now On Sale by Matt Fagerholm \| November 1, 2016 \| An article about Ebertfest, Roger Ebert's Film Festival 2017 passes, which are now on sale. Islam in Western Cinema, Part 4 – The Journey through American Islam by Omer M. Mozaffar \| August 29, 2016 \| The fourth and final part in a series on the images of Islam in Western cinema. Roger's Favorites: Werner Herzog by The Editors \| May 30, 2016 \| Roger's Favorites: Werner Herzog. Why I'm canceling my scheduled appearance at the 2016 Conference on World Affairs by Matt Zoller Seitz \| March 14, 2016 \| I cannot in good conscience endorse the event at this moment by adding my name to the program. Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 18, 2016 by Brian Tallerico \| February 18, 2016 \| Several great movies have been released on Blu-ray and DVD lately, including "99 Homes," "Black Mass," "Crimson Peak" and a Criterion version of Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid." The RogerEbert.com Interviews of 2015 by The Editors \| December 31, 2015 \| Highlights of our 2015 interviews, including Brie Larson, Bryan Cranston, Jason Segel, Lexi Alexander, Sarah Silverman, Spike Lee, Tom McCarthy, Ramin Bahrani, Paul Feig, Charlie Kaufman and much more. Listening With My Heart: 16 Movies To Remember by Chaz Ebert \| November 12, 2015 \| An article about films that have moved me in 2015, including "Room," "99 Homes" and "He Named Me Malala." Ebertfest 2016 Passes On Sale November 2nd An article on Ebertfest 2016 passes available for purchase on November 2nd. The Ghost Comes: Michael Shannon on “Freeheld,” “99 Homes” by Brian Tallerico \| September 28, 2015 \| An interview with Michael Shannon on Freeheld, 99 Homes, Boardwalk Empire, and more. We All Feel This Way: Ramin Bahrani and Noah Lomax on “99 Homes” by Matt Fagerholm \| September 23, 2015 \| An interview with writer/director Ramin Bahrani and actor Noah Lomax of "99 Homes." 2015 Fall Movie Preview by Nick Allen \| September 3, 2015 \| An overview of the films that will be theatrically released in the 2015 fall season. Sincere Warmth, Unscripted Hilarity Abound as HFPA Gives Away $2M by Matt Fagerholm \| August 14, 2015 \| A report on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's August 13th, 2015 Grants Gala. Ramin Bahrani, Matt Zoller Seitz Discuss the Films of Oliver Stone by The Editors \| July 16, 2015 \| Matt Zoller Seitz and Ramin Bahrani discuss Oliver Stone next week in Brooklyn. #256 July 8, 2015 by Sheila O'Malley \| July 8, 2015 \| Sheila writes: Filmmaker (and Ebertfest favorite) Ramin Bahrani has directed a new documentary short called "Lift You Up," profiling a man named Glyn Stewart. Bahrani met Stewart in a food bank while filming a commercial in North Carolina, and knew he wanted to make a film about him. In an interview on Rogerebert.com, Bahrani says, "I liked him immediately. He had an electric personality. He was so intent on laughing and hugging everyone, that I assumed he must be harboring a profound sadness. I wanted to know why." You can read the full interview with Bahrani, as well as view "Lift You Up" over on Rogerebert.com. Short Films in Focus: Ramin Bahrani’s “Lift You Up” by Collin Souter \| July 6, 2015 \| Ramin Bahrani's first documentary short, including an interview with the director.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365484
__label__cc	0.730541	0.269459	Roland DGA Announces Availability of InClix Creative Media Maker New Cloud-based Design and Workflow Application Simplifies the Creation of Print and Video Signs Irvine, Calif., April 19, 2017 – Roland DGA Corporation, has announced the launch of new InClix Creative Media Maker, a unique web-based tool specially designed for sign professionals. An integrated creative design and workflow management system, InClix Creative Media Maker simplifies the production of designs for print or digital displays, enabling users to source media, create, approve and publish in just a few easy steps. Creative Media Maker allows users to spend less time designing and managing projects, and more time making money, at only a fraction of the cost of outsourcing. In addition to providing instant access to millions of royalty-paid, high-resolution photos, graphics and ready-to-use videos, this user-friendly platform puts in-browser, professional-grade design tools at your fingertips. Pre-built designer templates as well as an intuitive “drag and drop” interface make graphic design and video editing a breeze for users of all skill levels. Creative Media Maker also facilitates workflow management by allowing for quick client proofing, significantly reducing turnaround time. There’s no software to install or maintain, so users can access and work on projects from virtually anywhere via a web browser. Creative Media Maker can serve as an important tool for sign shops, enabling any size operation to expand its offerings and generate additional revenue without adding software or equipment. Users can generate a PDF to send to any RIP software, or directly to Roland VersaWorks® – with support for Cut Contour – from directly in the application. Additional Creative Media Maker features include the ability to collaborate, organize team groups, and buy, sell or share files through a user community and in-app marketplace. InClix offers several Creative Media Maker subscription options to suit varying user needs. The “Design Light” option is available for use at no charge, and includes 500 MB of free storage, with a pay-per-render of design or videos. Microstock Image Library Search, personal art upload capability, design templates, a standard design toolbox, and user tutorials are also included. Enhanced paid membership options, including plans offering additional storage, renderings and advanced features, are also available. To sign up for free, or learn more about InClix Creative Media Maker, visit www.rolanddga.com/InClix. About InClix InClix Corporation is an independent subsidiary of Roland DG Corporation. Based in San Diego, California, the company’s concentration is on the development of remote-browser-based web software and services. For more information, visit www.inclix.com. Roland DGA Corporation serves North and South America as the marketing, sales and distribution arm for Roland DG Corporation. Founded in 1981 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Roland DG of Hamamatsu, Japan is a worldwide leader in wide-format inkjet printers for the sign, apparel, textile, packaging and vehicle graphics markets; engravers for awards, personalization and ADA signage; photo impact printers for direct part marking; and 3D printers and CNC milling machines for rapid prototyping, part manufacturing and the medical and dental CAD/CAM industries. For more information, visit www.rolanddga.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365485
__label__cc	0.648617	0.351383	Read Next A Rolling Stone Roundtable With the Youth Climate Activists Fighting for Change in Davos Send Us a Tip Subscribe April 8, 2013 6:10PM ET Eddie Vedder Plays Cowbell with Queens of the Stone Age Pearl Jam frontman hops onstage at Lollapalooza Chile RJ Cubarrubia RJ Cubarrubia's Most Recent Stories Anoushka Shankar, Norah Jones Bond on ‘The Sun Won’t Set’ Seth Rogen Sparking Up a Christmas Stoner Movie Pearl Jam’s ‘Lighting Bolt’ to Strike at World Series After Queens of the Stone Age debuted a new track at Lollapalooza Brazil last month, Josh Homme and company offered another neat trick over the weekend, inviting Eddie Vedder to join them onstage at Lollapalooza Chile. After a pleasant introduction from Homme, the Pearl Jam frontman added backup vocals and manned the cowbell on QOTSA's "Little Sister," from their 2005 album Lullabies to Paralyze. Queens of the Stone Age Debut New Song at Lollapalooza Brazil Queens of the Stone Age's forthcoming album, . . . Like Clockwork, will be out this June. It'll feature a long list of noteworthy collaborators, including Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Elton John, Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears and the band's original bassist, Nick Oliveri. Lollapalooza will visit Chicago's Grant Park on August 2nd through 4th, with Nine Inch Nails, the Cure, Vampire Weekend, the Killers, Phoenix and a reunited Postal Service set to play. In This Article: Eddie Vedder, Lollapalooza, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age Posted 8 mins ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365486
__label__wiki	0.718816	0.718816	Documentary DVD The Troubleshooters Mogul: Series 1 DVD Item # XA6782 Go inside the fictional British company Mogul Oil, from boardroom battles to frontline dangers, in this 1960s BBC drama seen in more than 60 countries. Ray Barrett is globetrotting Peter Thornton, Mogul's chief "troubleshooter." When company secrecy is compromised or a Mogul representative is killed in the desert, it's up to Thornton to save the day. Geoffrey Keen (Doctor Zhivago) is director of operations Brian Stead. Set includes all that survives of the pioneering first season. 13 episodes, 5 hrs, 2 DVDs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365488
__label__wiki	0.87725	0.87725	Former head of HTC’s Vive Studios Joins Sixense Studios as President By Sixense May 21, 2019 No Comments Joel Breton to lead Sixense Studios’ VR and AR content development and strategy for multiple vertical markets, including healthcare, training, retail, and entertainment Los Gatos, Calif. — May 21, 2019 — Sixense Enterprises Inc., a leading developer of immersive computing solutions for enterprise markets, today announced that Joel Breton has joined the company as EVP of product development and president of Sixense Studios, the company’s software division. In his role, Breton will set the strategy for software development, oversee all applications and content creation, and ensure that the company can provide both VR and AR software solutions to their global client base. Breton was formerly the vice president of virtual reality content and GM of HTC’s Vive Studios at HTC. He and his team partnered with worldwide content creators to develop showcase content across all categories of VR, including Ready Player One: Oasis Beta, Knockout League, MakeVR Pro, TrueScale, Amazon Odyssey, Jam StudioVR, 7 Miracles, Operation Apex, Lifeliqe Museum, Skyworld Kingdom Brawl, Arcade Saga, Virtual Sports, & RemindVR. He then led Vive Studios’ pioneering enterprise software initiative to develop and deploy immersive software solutions for global partnerships in the healthcare, entertainment, education, and design industries. Breton has produced more than twenty platinum-selling video games in his career and has launched games on thirty commercial platforms from the Sega Genesis to HTC Vive. After beginning his career in product development at Sega of America, his first role as a game producer was for GT interactive, where he became their specialist for 1st person gaming and produced Duke Nukem, Anno 1602, Unreal, and the first version of the Unreal game engine. Breton spent four years at MTV Networks, where he served as Director of Content and worked with developers around the world to launch online, mobile, and console games. Breton has just wrapped production and launched 7 Miracles, the world’s first feature-length VR film, and winner of the award for VR Film of the Festival at the Raindance Film Festival in 2018. “We are excited to have Joel join Sixense Studios,” said Amir Rubin, CEO of Sixense Enterprises. “Our software team has developed a deep understanding of the core principles of human interactions with immersive environments over the past decade. With Joel’s deep experience with content development, and with bringing both consumer and enterprise cross-platform applications to market, he will be invaluable to our growth.” “Joining Sixense Studios is an amazing opportunity to create showcase VR and AR content that redefines how humans learn, play, and interact with the products they use every day,” said Breton, president of Sixense Studios. “Sixense has been a leader in immersive computing for the past decade and I am thrilled to work alongside Sixense’s talented team and their global partners as we continue advancing the industry ecosystem.” Sixense Studios has pioneered the development of immersive computing software and content since 2010 with the goal of providing the most natural and intuitive human interactions with virtual worlds. The studio has developed numerous applications that have been significant for advancing the industry ecosystem, each built on Sixense’s robust Full-Presence SDK, which is designed to facilitate content development for fully immersive VR/AR solutions. Under the leadership of Breton, Sixense Studios will continue to innovate in applications and content development for the Sixense Full-Presence System and all other immersive computing platforms. Current development projects include applications for businesses in healthcare, training, and entertainment. About Sixense Enterprises Sixense Enterprises Inc. is a leading developer of immersive computing solutions for companies across industries, including healthcare, training, retail, and entertainment. Our team leverages years of experience in virtual and augmented reality to create a powerful competitive advantage for our customers and partners. The Sixense Full-Presence System is a turnkey VR/AR solution that enables companies to develop and commercialize products that improve lives. For more details, visit www.sixense.com. © 2019 Sixense Enterprises Inc. All rights reserved. “Sixense” is a registered trademark of Sixense Enterprises Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owner(s). Love131 Share Tweet Share 0 Share Pin Sixense and Sisu launch ‘high-speed’ robot programming solution	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365491
__label__wiki	0.945459	0.945459	See Pure Colors Home Top Stories US sanctions Chinese military over purchase of Russian weapons US sanctions Chinese military over purchase of Russian weapons “Today’s actions are not intended to undermine the military capabilities or combat readiness of any country,” the State Department said in a statement, “but rather to impose costs on Russia in response to its interference in the United States election process, its unacceptable behavior in eastern Ukraine, and other malign activities.” The penalties were applied under a law that requires the US to sanction anyone undertaking significant transactions with certain people affiliated with Russian intelligence and military services, including arms manufacturers. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also expanded that blacklist Thursday, adding the names of 33 Russians to bring the total roster to 72 people. Pompeo, in consultation with Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, imposed sanctions on the Chinese military’s Equipment Development Department and its director, Li Shangfu, for purchasing Su-35 combat aircraft and a S-400 surface-to-air missile system from Russia. “This is a significant step,” a senior administration official told reporters. The official said it was the first time anyone has been sanctioned for doing business with people on the blacklist of Russian operatives. That list is mandated by the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, passed by Congress amid concern that President Donald Trump would not take tough action against Russia and could even move to ease sanctions on Moscow. The official was unable to say how much the Chinese company had spent on the Russian equipment, but said deliveries had taken place in December and January. The goal of expanding the blacklist, the administration official said, was to make people “think twice” about doing business with anyone on it. “We hope (it) will be a signal to avoid to doing business with these people,” the official said. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang said Friday Beijing “expresses its indignation” over the sanctions, and was already in “solemn negotiation” with Washington. “(The sanctions) have severely violated the basic norms of international relations and damaged the relations between the two countries and two militaries,” Geng said at a daily press conference. “We strongly urge the US side to correct the mistakes immediately and revoke the so-called sanctions. Otherwise the US has to bear the consequences of it.” Expanded blacklist adds Russians The newly expanded blacklist includes the 25 Russian nationals who were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the 2016 presidential election by hacking Democratic targets and spreading propaganda on social media. The State Department announcement said all of these individuals are involved in the “intelligence sector” of the Russian government. This includes the Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency and its patron, Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin has ridiculed the criminal charges and is unlikely ever to enter a US courtroom. The US also blacklisted the director of the Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU and a dozen GRU officers who were indicted in June for allegedly hacking the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman in 2016. Private emails from both targets were published by WikiLeaks before the election, roiling the race and giving Trump’s campaign a boost. A senior administration official stressed that the blacklist “is not itself a sanctions imposition; nothing specifically happens to someone by virtue of being on that list” but it is meant to signal that “if anyone else engages in a significant transition” with people on the list, they could face sanctions. Earlier this year the Treasury Department sanctioned the Russian nationals indicted by the special counsel, barring US citizens from doing business with them. The State Department’s step Thursday raises the prospect that foreigners might also face penalties for engaging with those on the list. The people on the blacklist will likely remain in Russia, where they have safe haven and won’t be extradited to the US, so the Treasury sanctions and State blacklists are likely the only punishment they’ll face from US authorities. Since Russia is the world’s second largest weapons seller, after the US, the law raised the awkward prospect that Washington could be in the position of sanctioning allies who buy military equipment from Moscow. The client list of these blacklisted Russian entities includes US counterterrorism partners such as Morocco, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. Qatar is a Russian customer, as well as crucial NATO ally Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Aug. 31 that his country will purchase the S-400 system as soon as possible. The senior administration official said the US would distinguish between small sales and major purchases as it considered whether to apply sanctions. “We are not targeting things such as simply the provision of spare parts and maintenance,” the official said, adding that the administration would focus on “much bigger ticket items” that make for a “significant qualitative change in the nature of equipment shipped abroad.” The official said the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act had had the effect of delaying “several billion dollars’ worth of arms transfers” from Russia to other countries, “but since China has now gone ahead and done what is clearly a significant transaction … we feel it necessary and indeed are required by the law to take this step today.” Previous articleTrump adds more Russians who interfered in the 2016 election to a sanctions list Next articleCoach taps Michael B. 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__label__cc	0.656204	0.343796	SchoolApply Shortlisted universities You do not have any shortlisted schools. Add more Apply now Go to your account to view or share your filtered school searches. South Australian Institute of Business & Technology Official SchoolApply Partner South Australian Institute of Business & Technology (SAIBT) is a pathway college to the University of South Australia (UniSA). Located in UniSA City East Campus in Adelaide, Australia, SAIBT offers a variety of undergraduate pathway programs. School Description South Australian Institute of Business & Technology (SAIBT) offers its students undergraduate pathway programs in Arts, Business, Engineering, Health Science and Information Technology. Additionally, students at SAIBT are offered free online courses to develop their academic and English skills. A free tertiary skills development course is also offered, once a week, where students can meet with an advisor and get help with assignments. Students are offered on-campus and off-campus accommodation options. They can join a range of UniSA sporting and social clubs. A Senior Counsellor for SAIBT students is available for support and guidance regarding academic or personal challenges and a Student Experience Coordinator assists students with their resumes and provides guidance with their job search. Programs Admission Requirements 4, Brookman Building, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia AUD 25,400 Tuition Fee Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Arts introduces students to the contemporary issues and cultural influences in society. In addition to the elective modules (according to the student’s chosen degree program), the p more Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Arts introduces students to the contemporary issues and cultural influences in society. In addition to the elective modules (according to the student’s chosen degree program), the pathway offers a wide range of core modules including Design, Media and Society and Communication. The successful completion of the program leads to many second-year University of South Australia Bachelors degree programs including Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Communication and Media, Bachelor of Journalism and Professional Writing, and Bachelor of Media Arts.  Apply Now Shortlist Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Business Arts introduces students to the fundamental principles required to operate a business. In addition to the elective modules (according to the student’s chosen degree program more Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Business Arts introduces students to the fundamental principles required to operate a business. In addition to the elective modules (according to the student’s chosen degree program), the pathway offers a wide range of core modules including Business, Maths and Statistics and Information and New Media Technologies. The successful completion of the program leads to many second-year University of South Australia Bachelors degree programs including Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Commerce.  Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Engineering introduces students to the fundamental concepts and skills required in Engineering and associated disciplines. In addition to the elective modules (according to the stud more Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Engineering introduces students to the fundamental concepts and skills required in Engineering and associated disciplines. In addition to the elective modules (according to the student’s chosen degree program), the pathway offers a wide range of core modules including Advanced Maths, Physics and Communication. The successful completion of the program leads to many second-year University of South Australia Bachelors degree program including the Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical and Mechatronic) and Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Project Management). Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Health Science introduces students to physiological, psychological, social and cultural elements involved in health care. In addition to the elective modules (according to the stude more Undergraduate Pathway: The Diploma of Health Science introduces students to physiological, psychological, social and cultural elements involved in health care. In addition to the elective modules (according to the student’s chosen degree program), the pathway offers a wide range of core modules including Chemistry, Maths and Statistics and Human Biology. 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__label__wiki	0.793915	0.793915	ENGLAND: NL Premier, Southern Central Redditch United vs Stratford Town Live Score and Live Stream Stratford Town SweeneySweeney (pen)33' SweeneySweeney (goal)80' Embed all videos of Redditch United - Stratford Town Leiston St Ives Town England Nl Premier, Southern Central › Match ends. Redditch United 0, Stratford Town 2. Sweeney scores for Stratford Town. Sweeney scores from the penalty spot for Stratford Town making the score 0 - 1. ⇣View All Redditch United have gone 17 consecutive matches without a clean sheet. Stratford Town have gone 14 consecutive matches without a draw. Stratford Town have gone 10 consecutive away matches without a clean sheet. Redditch United played Stratford Town at the NL Premier, Southern Central of England on January 14. The match kicked off 19:45 UTC. Stratford Town won 0-2. Redditch United are 22nd in the table with 9 points after 26 matches, while Stratford Town are 19th with 21 points in 27 matches. Sweeney scored the first goal from the penalty spot on the 33rd minute of the game. Sweeney later scored 1 more, making the final score 0-2. ScoreBat is covering Redditch United vs Stratford Town in real time, providing the live stream and live score of the match, team line-ups, full match stats, live match commentary and video highlights. England NL Premier, Southern Central's live standings are availble and updated in real time. You can watch Redditch United vs Stratford Town live stream here on ScoreBat. Live streaming will begin when the match is about to kick off. We cover all matches of England NL Premier, Southern Central in real time and provide live streaming whenever possible.* https://www.scorebat.com/redditch-united-vs-stratford-town-live-stream/ Redditch United have lost to Rushall Olympic, Royston Town, Alvechurch, Stourbridge, Biggleswade Town, St Ives Town, Leiston, Matlock Town, Hitchin Town, Kings Langley, Barwell, Nuneaton, Coalville Town and Tamworth in their previous 16 matches, while Stratford Town have lost to Stourbridge, Rushall Olympic, Banbury United, Hednesford Town, Bromsgrove, Barwell, Royston Town, Nuneaton, Coalville Town, Peterborough Sports and Lowestoft Town in their previous 11 matches. January 26th, 2019 - NL Premier, Southern Central September 22nd, 2018 - NL Premier, Southern Central December 26th, 2017 - NL Premier, Southern South August 28th, 2017 - NL Premier, Southern South Redditch United and Stratford Town have met 4 times in their recent history. 1 match ended in a draw while Stratford Town won 3 times. Redditch United have won 2 of their 26 matches in NL Premier, Southern Central, drawing 3 and having 21 defeats this season. They have scored 20 goals - 0.77 per match, conceding 69 - 2.65 per match. Stratford Town have won 6 of their 27 matches in NL Premier, Southern Central, drawing 3 and having 18 defeats this season. They have scored 35 goals - 1.30 per match, conceding 64 - 2.37 per match. Goals and video highlights of the match between Redditch United and Stratford Town are being added in real time. You can watch the goal by Sweeney as we are adding the videos of the goals usually minutes after the actual event on the field. So when Redditch United or Stratford Town score you will be able to watch the goal a couple of minutes later on this page. Full highlights of the match between Redditch United and Stratford Town include all the goals and other remarkable moments from the match. 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__label__wiki	0.736372	0.736372	Asbestos in Schools: Gran Diagnosed with Mesothelioma Takes Legal Action By Edmund Young Principal Lawyer, Head of Industrial Disease London With the help of Slater and Gordon Lawyers, a grandmother of six is determined to find the cause of her asbestos-related lung disease. Jennie Moore formerly worked as a cleaner at Blackheath Bluecoat School between 1990 and 1998. In 2013, she began to suffer chest pains and discomfort, which a GP diagnosed as gastric problems to be treated with antibiotics. When her chest pains worsened she returned to her doctor in 2014 before being sent from one hospital to another for chest x-rays and biopsies. By June, Mrs Moore was diagnosed with malignant Mesothelioma and underwent chemotherapy. Mrs Moore recalled, “At one stage there were contractors with white boiler suits ripping out the pipework which I believe had been lagged with asbestos. There were warning signs erected in the area warning of the presence of asbestos in the cupboard areas. The area had also sheeting placed around it, but this was loose. "The contractors were wearing white paper suits from head to toe and were also wearing respirators, but nothing like that was given to me. The area was very dusty and dirty and I believe that the pipe lagging was being removed during this time yet no safety measures were made for cleaners. It’s not right.” The grandmother of six has enlisted the help of Slater and Gordon Lawyers in appealing for any former colleagues from Blackheath Bluecoat School to help her case by providing information. Read more about Mrs Moore’s case here. For those less aware of the effects of asbestos dust, the traumatic news of asbestos-related lung disease can come 10-20 years after the initial exposure. Doctors are only able to detect the symptoms sometimes 30-40 years after exposure. The presence of asbestos in school buildings poses a threat to the children and staff who could potentially be exposed and not be aware of the effects of Mesothelioma for many years. Read our recent blog on the asbestos in schools here. Edmund Young is a Principal Personal Injury Solicitor at Slater and Gordon Lawyers UK, specialising in industrial disease claims including asbestos-related diseases. Call our Asbestos Lawyers for a free consultation on freephone 0800 884 0275 or contact us online and we'll be happy to help you. Asbestos, mesothelioma claims The Risk of Asbestos Carried on Clothing Taking Asbestos Safety Precautions Before Refurbishment Asbestos: Debunking The Myths	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365510
__label__wiki	0.643042	0.643042	A dedicated page for content relevant to (re)insurance professionals with an interest in Casualty We are a specialist insurer with three decades of experience in providing clients with the highest standards of underwriting and claims service worldwide. All our insurance businesses are rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Motor (Commercial) Supply Chain / Business Interruption Share on email Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Beazley launches Title IX coverage for educational institutions Beazley has launched a comprehensive policy covering infringements of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in any public education program... Beazley Group / Hosted articles / 4 months ago Beazley launches Virtual Care for UK tech-enabled health and lifestyle providers Beazley has launched Virtual Care, a package of cover providing comprehensive protection against the risks associated with providing technology-enabled healthcare and lifestyle management services in the UK... Beazley underwriter Andrew Page joins international healthcare team Beazley underwriter Andrew Page has joined the insurer’s healthcare team to write a range of international miscellaneous medical risks outside the United States... Beazley expands environmental liability claims capabilities Beazley has hired Cal Spessard to head the team responsible for handling claims arising from the company's fast growing environmental liability business... Beazley expands coverage offered under market-leading environmental liability policy Beazley has made significant enhancements to its market-leading environmental liability insurance policy ECLIPSE to offer robust and creative risk transfer solutions for businesses, landowners and real estate investors... Beazley Group / Hosted articles / 11 months ago Beazley launches environmental liability cover for lenders Beazley has launched site lender environmental asset protection (SLEAP) cover to protect banks and other lenders from pollution risks that could seriously impair the value of property used as collateral for commercial loans... Beazley launches Concorde Consortium at Lloyd’s, bringing additional capacity for US Wage & Hour risks Beazley has launched a new consortium at Lloyd’s to bring increased capacity for wage & hour risks, expanding the choices available to US organisations... Beazley Group / Hosted articles / 1 year ago Beazley adds embedded workplace violence cover for its US insurer clients Over two million Americans experience workplace violence each year, with potentially devastating consequences for organizations and individuals... Beazley Group / Hosted articles / 2 years ago Beazley adds financial lines regional manager in Singapore Beazley has appointed Nicholas Tey as financial lines regional manager for Asia. Based in Singapore, Mr Tey will be responsible for the development... Beazley launches environmental coverage in Canada Beazley has launched its local environmental coverage in Canada. Nick Bidwell, an experienced underwriter of environmental risks... 2019 UK Gender Pay Report This Report sets out the results of our third gender pay gap analysis...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365511
__label__wiki	0.91351	0.91351	Fans - Why We Love UFO Operations & Personnel Actors & Production On the Episodes Main > Actors & Production > Gabrielle Drake UFO Episode Guide Ed Bishop Michael Billington George Sewell Wanda Ventham Gabrielle Drake Dolores Mantez Vladek Sheybal Keith Alexander Grant Taylor Born 30 March, 1944. 5'5 1/2", light brown hair and green eyes. She was born in Lahore, British India. Her father worked in an import/export company, and she spent her first 8 years traveling around Burma, India, and the Orient. After this they moved back to England near Stratford-upon-Avon where she attended the Wycombe Abbey School for Girls. After graduating she worked for a year as an au pair in Paris. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and spent three years at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Malvern Theatre Company, the Birmingham Repertory Company, the Bristol Old Vic, the New Shakespeare Company, and the Young Vic. Married artist Louis De Wet in 1977. They live in the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock and she continues to perform in theater. Gabrielle is the sister of the late singer/songwriter Nick Drake. Gabrielle was unavailable for shooting UFO during episodes 5-7, and later for episodes 18-26. Gabrielle Drake on Wikipedia 2004 article by Elizabeth Brice in the Telegraph Getty Images - Louis De Wet Gabrielle Drake blog (in Italian) Gabrielle Drake Videos. All About a Prima Ballerina (1980, Barbara) Au Pair Girls (1972, Randi Lindstrom) Commuter Husbands (1973, Carol Appleby) Connecting Rooms (1971, Jean) Crossplot (1969, Celia) The Late Mr. H (1989) The Man Outside (1968, BEA Girl) Steal (1995) Suburban Wives (1973, Secretary) There's a Girl in My Soup (1970, Julia Halforde-Smythe) TV Credits The Adventure (1972, "The Good Book", Marian) The Avengers (1967, "The Hidden Tiger", Angora) The Brothers (1972-75, Jull Hammond) The Champions (1968, "Full Circle", Sara) Commercial (1989, "The Talking Telephone Book", wife) Coronation Street (1968, 3 episodes, Inga) Crossroads (1985-7, Nicola Freeman) Crosswits (1988, TV game show) Family Pride (1991 soap opera) File on Harry Jordan (1978, "The Haunted Butterfly") Haunted (60s, university student) The Importance of Being Earnest (1982, Gwendolyn) Intrigue (1966, TV debut) Journey into the Unknown (1969, "The Beckoning Fair One") The Kelly Monteith Show (1979-80, Susan Monteith) Kill Two Birds (aka Cry Terror) (1974, Tracey) Man at the Top (1971) A Man Without Friends The Marriage Counsellor (1978) Medics (1995, senior researcher, 5 episodes) Never the Twain (1981) The New Avengers (1977, "Dead Men are Dangerous", Penny Redfern) No 10: Wellington (1982, "The Duke of Wellington", Harriet Arbutnot) The Professionals (1977, "Close Quarters", Julia) The Saint (1966, "The Best Laid Schemes", Diane Fleming) Special Branch (1970, "Sorry is Just a Word", Karolina) This is Your Life (1990s) UFO (1969, Gay Ellis, recurring role) The Upchat Line (1977) Villians (1972) Virgin of the Secret Service (1968, "Russian Roundabout", Countess Kolinsky) Who is Sylvia (1968, Sylvia and two other roles) Wodehouse Playhouse (1975) Radio Credits Pride and Prejudice (1986, Jane, seven 30 minute episodes) Theater Credits An Absolute Turkey (1994) Androcles and the Lion Cavalcade (Aug-Sept 1995, lead role) The Cherry Orchard (1979) Court in the Act (1986, Gobette) Cyrano De Bergerac (1967, Roxanne) Dangerous Obsession (1989, Sally Driscoll) Edward II (Isabella) Exit the King (1968) French without Tears Getting Married (60s) How the Other Half Loves (1988) The Importance of Being Earnest (1966, Cecily, professional debut) The Importance of Being Earnest (1982 & 1987, Gwendolyn) Inadmissible Evidence Jeeves (1974, Madeline Bassett) Jumpers (1978, Dorothy) Look No Hans (1984) The Lower Depths (1979) The Merchant of Venice (1980, Portia) Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (60s, shop-girl) Night and Day (1980) Noises Off (1983) A Phoenix too Frequent (1976, Doto) Po' Miss Julie (1972, Julie) Present Laughter (1993) Private Lives (Sybil Chase) The Provok'd Wife (1978) The Servant (60s, Vera) Simpleton or the Unexpected Isles A Slight Accident (1976, Penelope) Tea Party (1970, the wife) Titus Andronicus (1978) Twelfth Night (Olivia) Audio-book The Kama Sutra (1994) U.F.O. is the © and property of ITV Studios Global Entertainment and used for promotional purposes only. Go to Main	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365514
__label__wiki	0.966597	0.966597	AAP AFL AFL sends bushfire game wish list to clubs AFL - AAP The Victorian and All-Stars squads for the AFL's bushfire relief exhibition match are starting to take shape, with the league handing clubs their wish list of players. Eight players from each of the 18 clubs were requested by the AFL to be made available for selection - four for Victoria and four for the All-Stars - for the game to be played at Marvel Stadium on the evening of Friday, February 28. Clubs will be required to identify which of their eight players will be fit and available, if selected, in the coming weeks. With that information in hand, the coaching panels led by Damien Hardwick for Victoria and John Longmire for the All-Stars will select extended squads of 27 players to be announced on Tuesday, February 18. Speaking at the launch of the match, AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield said that he expected strong support for the game from his fellow players. "Any opportunity to help those in need, I think our players have always been really good at putting their hands up," Dangerfield said. "So I've got no doubt we'll have the best players in the competition playing in this game. "... If we have players that are injured then they'll deal with it but we go in with our eyes well and truly open and understanding that it's for something far greater than ourselves." The AFL expects there will be three players per club selected across the two extended playing lists, with final teams announced on Wednesday, February 26. Each team will have a starting 18, six interchange players and three emergencies. The league confirmed the charity match would go ahead last week, with the AFL, clubs and the AFLPA combining to get the ball rolling with a $2.5 million donation. The fixture will be a double-header with the AFLW match between Collingwood and Melbourne, scheduled for the same day, moved from Victoria Park to Marvel Stadium. The proceeds will be split between the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery fund and a Community Relief Fund set up the AFL to help rebuild football facilities destroyed by bushfires. Shepparton’s Guthrie Street Primary School has four hearing-impaired students starting Prep this year When Liam O’Loughlin was born with a hearing impairment, his mum Renee immediately knew where he would start primary school. “Living in Shepparton when he was born, we had that idea that he would come to Guthrie Street,” she said... Madi Chwasta Shepparton RSL and Shepparton Club combine for bushfire relief Two Shepparton clubs have joined forces for bushfire relief, donating $20 000 to the local CFA. The Shepparton RSL and the Shepparton Club are each donating $10 000 to the Shepparton CFA, in what is their first joint donation... Shepparton police car first in the region with number plate recognition technology There is a new kid on the block in the Shepparton highway patrol unit — a mobile automated number plate recognition vehicle. The BMW 520d arrived in town last week as a new addition to the fleet of highway patrol vehicles. The vehicle’s... Liz Mellino Docker Lobb keen to join forces with Hogan Fremantle ruckman Sean Darcy has been flying on the track this pre-season, and that spells good news for Rory Lobb. Door ajar for Rance AFL return: Hardwick Richmond coach Damien Hardwick says the door remains ajar for Alex Rance to backflip on his retirement but wants his former defender to be happy. Ireland’s Staunton one of GWS AFLW leaders Irish woman Cora Staunton has been elevated to the leadership group of the GWS Giants AFLW team.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365516
__label__wiki	0.635726	0.635726	Politics and Business Social XM Film September 13, 2015 July 26, 2016 Paper Men Pictures: A New Take On Wlliam Golding As she sat in the back of the classroom, carelessly tapping her eraserless, chewed-up pencil on the laminated wooden surface of her desk, the pre-I.B. English teacher of Gulf High School continued her mind-numbing lecture on the Odyssey by Homer. As the antiquated clock spoke above the teacher’s head, an eternity passed by with each painful tick. However, forgiving freedom suddenly waltzed in as the class bells let out a terrifying shriek as a gift for those waiting and an inconvenience for those sleeping. The girl hastily packed her minimal school supplies and shot for the door. “Wait,” the teacher stated sternly to the girl, who paused with irritated patience as well as the rest of her dull-witted, apathetic peers. “Make sure you read and annotate Lord of the Flies by next Monday.” And, from that inconvenient, procrastination-worthy assignment launched the girl’s three- to four-year obsessive adventure of reimagining William Golding’s frightening and maddening tale. Gilmar, to the right, and Kirves, to the left, taking part in one of their most enjoyable activities: reading. Paige Gilmar had always acquired a fascination for literature, finding inconceivable joy and cheer from the images that were woven so intricately by some of the western world’s greatest authors. Her long-term friend, Stephanie Kirves, felt similarly, allowing a connection to blossom between the two as they both found similarities in their literary pursuits, especially Lord of the Flies. Though both Gilmar and Kirves initially dreaded the assignment, as all students do, when the yellowed and torn pages of Gulf High School’s rental books fell into their hands, they were captivated by the dark philosophies and warped perspectives that Golding acquired within the novel. The intricately detailed story and the use of captivating symbolism made this narrative one that visited and revisited their thoughts daily. Nevertheless, as amazement fell upon these students, so did disillusion. Though enrolled in one of the most advanced academic courses in the American education system, Gilmar and Kirves found that their peers not only felt contempt for Golding’s novel, but literature altogether. The intellectual bubbles they had preserved so affirmably would not be popped, especially by something so “mundane” as a social commentary. Such apathy had not only fallen upon Gulf High School, but the generality of the North American populous. Be that as it may, Gilmar and Kirves did not let their disillusion metamorphosize into depression. In order to reinvigorate the literary apathy and dispassion of their generation, both students organized and founded Paper Men Pictures, a film group dedicated to bringing startling and vivid life to the classic words on the printed page through truthful cinema. A prominent landmark located between Sproul Plaza and Strawberry Creek located at the center of University of California–Berkeley’s campus. Paper Men Pictures has begun to commence its first-ever project, the film adaptation of Lord of the Flies. Though adapted as a film in 1963 and 1990, both Gilmar and Kirves agree that the directors fail at truly encapsulating Golding’s belief of the innate evil that lies within man. As stated by Kirves, “The two movie adaptations, quite frankly, don’t do justice to Golding’s prodigious work. Harry Hook’s film (1990) makes so many mediocre changes that the novel’s inherent messages are obliterated, while Peter Brook’s (1963), though quite good for its time, is lacking Golding’s prolific symbolism and exploration of psychological undertones. Paper Men Pictures is emphasizing Golding’s innate symbolism, which will add many more layers of meaning to the intricate tale; also adding “flashbacks” and “flash-forwards” to further the exploration of characters and thus Golding’s complex assertions about human nature. Through this project, we yearn to not only make Golding proud by accurately presenting his profound thoughts through colorful and powerful cinema, but also to inspire students and people of all ages to better appreciate the literary classics which are so integral to our society and history.” Though still entertaining, Paper Men Pictures seeks to emphasize a great deal of literary devices that are often undermined by Hollywood filmmakers. “We seek to tell Golding’s tale in an honest and sincere way. All the motifs, symbols, themes and more should be rightfully emphasized as that’s what makes these stories so unforgettable. It is through this project that we hope to create a piece of art that will not only bring justice to Golding’s faded words, but hopefully inspire viewers to revisit these lost pages in order to fully understand the story’s powerful message,” Gilmar says. Gilmar and Kirves have already began to form affiliate programs with some of the film schools based in California, D.C., New York, and Florida. With such promotion, the network for Paper Men Pictures continues to build increasingly, allowing for a network of book-loving and movie-obsessing film and drama students to form. “This coalition we are forming throughout universities and schools allows students to not only use their skills in their given departments, but sharpen them as well,” Gilmar stated. In spite of their successes, obstacles remain a constant for this dynamic duo as this project is to be a costly endeavor. Gilmar and Kirves plan on filming the remake in its 1963-original location, Vieques, Puerto Rico. However, besides all the items that are needed for a successful film, such as film equipment, costumes, and props, room and board must also be provided for the participating members of Paper Men Pictures. As stated by Kirves,”Unfortunately, without sufficient funding our project will not become a reality. People often underestimate the expenses of production, but the costs of costumes, props, equipment, first-rate editing software, filming permits, and room and board for both an extensive cast and crew can quickly drive any filmmaker into debt. We will be launching campaigns on Indiegogo in an attempt to fund our project; also pursuing sponsorships with both film companies and local businesses. Consequently, our success is dependent upon the support of the public.” Gilmar and Kirves have already created a funding campaign on Indiegogo, a global crowdfunding platform where they hope that their three- to four-year dreams of creating this film will come true. “It is imperative that we acquire funding from sponsors as that is what will really make or break the quality of this film,” Gilmar admits. “As we have worked on this for nearly four years, it would be emotionally damaging to watch these dreams shatter.” Gilmar and Kirves are continuing to round up film crew members throughout the year and hope to initiate casting in late October. Both hope that by the beginning of the summer of 2016, the entire cast and crew of Paper Men Pictures can begin rehearsing and then filming. Gilmar taping their film poster on the announcements board in University of California–Berkeley’s Department of Film. Kirves goes on further to state,“We will be filming on location on the stunning island of Vieques during the summer of 2016, the very place Brook’s adaptation was shot. The still largely uncultivated island practically screams Lord of the Flies; the scenery being the one thing predominantly successful in Brook’s film. As well, we will be shooting the scenes which take place pre- and post-island up in historic Hamilton, Ontario. As we are strictly sticking to the time period of Golding’s masterpiece, our locations in Hamilton will successfully endow the production with a resplendent 1950’s air.” If you are willing to support these brave and tireless souls in their artistic pursuits, visit their Indiegogo fundraising campaign at www.indiegogo.com/projects/lord-of-the-flies-the-strangers-within/ and donate. If you are a student interested in joining this wondrous group, stay updated and visit their website at www.papermenpictures.com or like their page on Facebook and follow their Twitter @ofthepapermen. For further inquiries on the project, ask the founders themselves at directors@papermenpictures.com. As stated by Gilmar within their Indiegogo promotional video, “Keep our dream of beasts and butterflies alive and support Paper Men Pictures in its creation of Lord of the Flies for 2016! Thanks so much for watching, and we hope you have a great day!” Aston Martin’s DBS Aston Martin Chief Executive Officer, Dr Ulrich Bez, said: “The DBS is... Inside The Oscar Week With Edward Bass A Marvel to Marvel X-Men: Apocalypse – Still A Fun Ride Previous articleForget Fast Food, Go Frozen Next articleIn a World of Pure Imagination: Co Co. 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__label__wiki	0.522413	0.522413	AMLO asks not to protect thieves The president said that the pipeline network already has surveillance from the Armed Forces The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, made a call on the population not to protect those who engage in theft of fuel, a crime that led to losses of 65 billion pesos annually. When heading In Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico, the presentation of the Pension for the Welfare of Older Adults Program, who will receive support of 2,550 pesos monthly. The president said that on Monday there will be information about the sabotages registered in pipelines of Mexican Petroleum’s, and reiterated the request to support the strategy of combating hydrocarbon theft so that everyone can feel satisfied to have finished with the theft. “If you continue to support me, and if you have confidence that this is going to be resolved, let’s go all together, to feel very satisfied to have finished with the theft. I call people to not play these corrupt people, even if they say “Here you go have gas and take the advantage” That people don’t protect these criminals that our people act with honesty like always “The People of Mexico honest, clean dignified people”. Lopez Obrador invited those who seek to obtain money with illicit activities to approach the coordinators of social programs, in areas where they can obtain a job, at the time in which he ruled that it is preferable to leave their children poverty but not dishonor. editorial@sandiegored.com #AndrésManuelLópezObrador #AMLO2018 #Morena #AMLOVER	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365524
__label__wiki	0.584447	0.584447	Pasha 31: Ebola in the DRC -- Part 1 Last August an Ebola outbreak was declared in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This is the tenth time the deadly virus has hit the country - and, a year on, the fight to end the outbreak continues. In part one of this series on Ebola Janusz Paweska, head of the Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, takes us through some of the latest developments and how the World Health Organisation's declaration that the outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern may help. You can find our coverage on Ebola here. Read more: Why it's hard to stop Ebola spreading -- between people and across borders Photo: By World Bank/Vincent Tremeau DRC: A Trip to the Front Lines of the Fight Against Ebola 17 January 2019 - Beni, North Kivu region, Democratic Republic of Congo. Shutterstock Music "Happy African Village" by John Bartmann found on FreeMusicArchive.org licensed under CC0 1. Authors: Ozayr Patel - Digital Editor \| Janusz Paweska - Head of the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases Get a daily dose of San Diego Sun news through our daily email, its complimentary and keeps you fully up to date with world and business news as well. Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to San Diego Sun. Fair in San Diego Justin Bieber serves 'Yummy' food with James Corden Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 23 (ANI): Singer Justin Bieber served grilled cheese and fish tacos in 'Yummy' food truck along ... Channing Tatum and singer Jessie J officially back together Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 23 (ANI): Actor Channing Tatum and singer Jessie J are officially back together, nearly two months ... The Utah Jazz completed their first season-series sweep of the Golden State Warriors in 10 years Wednesday night, using 23 ... Senior center Romaro Gill tied a career high with 17 points and set a career high with eight blocked shots ... © Copyright 1999-2020 San Diego Sun. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365525
__label__wiki	0.727841	0.727841	Request More Info Translate Astronaut \| First Canadian Commander of the International Space Station Referred to as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong,” Colonel Chris Hadfield is a worldwide sensation whose video of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” — seen by over 75 million people — was called “possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created”, by Bowie himself. Acclaimed for making outer space accessible to millions, and for infusing a sense of wonder into our collective consciousness not felt since humanity first walked on the Moon, Colonel Hadfield continues to bring the marvels of science and space travel to everyone he encounters. In 1992, Colonel Hadfield was selected as a NASA Mission Specialist, and three years later he was aboard the Shuttle Atlantis, where he helped build the Mir space station. In 2001, on Shuttle Endeavour, Colonel Hadfield performed two spacewalks and in 2013, he became Commander of the International Space Station for six months off planet. A heavily decorated astronaut, engineer, and pilot, Colonel Hadfield’s many awards include the Order of Canada, the Meritorious Service Cross, and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. He was named the Top Test Pilot in both the US Air Force and the US Navy, and was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame. Colonel Hadfield is the author of three internationally bestselling books, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, You Are Here, and his children’s book, The Darkest Dark. Additionally, he released his musical album, Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can, in 2015. He is also featured on Ted.com for his talk, What I Learned from Going Blind in Space. Currently, Colonel Hadfield can be seen as the co-creator and host of the internationally acclaimed BBC series Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?, and he is co-hosting, with actor Will Smith, the National Geographic series One Strange Rock, directed by Darren Aronofsky. Colonel Hadfield is also the producer of the celebrated Rare Earth series on YouTube, and the creator of the on-stage celebration Generator, which combines science, comedy, and music for sold-out audiences. Additionally, Colonel Hadfield is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo and a founding director of the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation, the national advocate for initiatives enabling Canada’s children to achieve their full potential through literacy and to become the most literate in the world. “Good morning, Earth!” (“Bonjour la Terre!”) C’est ainsi que le colonel Chris Hadfield débutait chaque matin ses sessions sur Twitter pendant son séjour de cinq mois à bord de la Station spatiale internationale. Au terme d’une carrière d’astronaute ayant duré 21 ans, au cours de laquelle il a participé à trois vols dans l’espace, le colonel Hadfield est devenu une célébrité mondiale en canalisant le pouvoir des médias sociaux pour rendre l’espace accessible à tous, en y réinjectant au passage un sens de l’émerveillement qui n’avait pas été ressenti par les citoyens de la Terre depuis les premiers pas de l’Homme sur la Lune. Maintenant considéré comme l’astronaute le plus connu depuis Neil Armstrong, Chris Hadfield continue de promouvoir les merveilles de la science et de l’espace auprès de tous ceux qu’il rencontre. Le colonel Hadfield a inscrit plusieurs premières au palmarès de l’histoire du Canada dans l’espace. En 1992, il a été sélectionné par l’Agence spatiale canadienne pour entreprendre un entraînement de spécialiste de mission de la NASA – devenant à ce titre le premier astronaute canadien entièrement qualifié pour opérer les systèmes de la navette spatiale. Trois ans plus tard, à bord de la navette Atlantis, Hadfield a été le premier Canadien à opérer le Bras canadien dans l’espace, ainsi que le premier Canadien à visiter un vaisseau spatial russe alors qu’il contribuait à la construction de la station spatiale Mir. En 2001, à bord de la navette Endeavour, le colonel Hadfield est devenu le premier Canadien à marcher dans l’espace alors qu’il effectuait deux sorties extravéhiculaires pour installer le Canadarm2 sur la station spatiale. En 2013, il devenait le commandant de la Station spatiale internationale – à ce jour, le premier et seul Canadien à prendre le commandement d’un vaisseau spatial habité. Au cours d’une carrière présentant de multiples facettes, le colonel Hadfield a, entre autres, intercepté des bombardiers soviétiques au-dessus de l’espace aérien du Canada, vécu au fond de l’océan, agi en tant que Directeur des opérations de la NASA en Russie, et enregistré des vidéos à caractère scientifique et musical qui ont été visionnées par des centaines de millions d’internautes. Décoré de nombreuses fois à titre d’astronaute, d’ingénieur et de pilote, le colonel Hadfield s’est vu décerné plusieurs médailles, parmi lesquelles celle de l’Ordre du Canada, celle de l’Ordre de l’Ontario, la Meritorious Service Cross, et la NASA Exceptional Service Medal. Il a été nommé meilleur pilote d’essai (Top Test Pilot) à la fois par la US Air Force et par la US Navy, et il a été intronisé au Temple de la renommée de l’Aviation du Canada. Auteur du bestseller international Guide d’un astronaute pour la vie sur Terre, Chris Hadfield a été commémoré sur des timbres émis par Postes Canada, sur des pièces d’or et d’argent frappées par la Monnaie royale canadienne, ainsi que sur le nouveau billet de banque canadien de cinq dollars (qui célèbre également ses collègues astronautes Steve MacLean et Dave Williams). Extreme Leadership Commanding a spaceship takes superb leadership. The vehicle is complex, the team is international, the crew is on their own and the stakes are the very highest – huge financial consequences, and perpetual life or death. Only one Canadian has ever held that command – Colonel Chris Hadfield. Through 25 years in the Royal Canadian Air Force and 21 years with the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, Chris has developed and honed leadership theories and practices that have taken him to the very top. In his talk on Extreme Leadership, Chris outlines fundamental theories and original insights, interspersed with examples from his own experience, including: US Navy Top Test Pilot NASA’s Director of Operations in Russia National Outdoor Leadership School Mentor NASA Astronaut Chief of Space Station Operations International Space Station Commander With discussions of objective, preparation, simulation and focused execution, Chris takes the audience through several interactive scenarios, developing ideas that are then reinforced with memorable examples from fighter test flying and spaceflight. Chris has been an instructor in Crew Resource Management, as well as a teacher in all phases of astronaut/groundcrew team development. He is also a three-time internationally best-selling author, and the leadership ideas in his book An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth are regularly used by students and instructors around the world. An immensely experienced teacher, speaker and leader, Chris will help your team see, learn and remember how to lead more effectively. Managing Complexity and Change Commanding a spaceship during an emergency has the highest of stakes: human lives, irreplaceably expensive equipment, and worldwide scrutiny. Spaceflight is an unforgiving business, with industry success riding on every launch and critical event. Colonel Chris Hadfield held multiple leadership and management positions during his 21 years in the astronaut corps, navigating tragedy, delays, program changes, and much more. Using examples from his tremendous career, he illuminates the necessity for both preparation and reaction to complex change. The Sky Is Not The Limit: Inspiration In Success Drawing on his experience from over two decades as an astronaut, Colonel Chris Hadfield shares multiple stories and examples that highlight the fundamental necessity of inspiration as a vital component of success. Colonel Chris Hadfield has worked with countless students and teachers, from pre-school to post-doctoral, for decades. Speaking in schools and at education conferences throughout his 35-year-career as an engineer, pilot, and astronaut, his rare mixture of personal experience, memorable ideas, and a warm, fun, interactive style has influenced a generation. Most recently, his extensive teachings from Earth orbit, recorded on-board the International Space Station, continue to be seen by millions via YouTube. Chris strongly believes in the necessity to give every student the tools and the inspiration to succeed. His face and accomplishments are in Canadian science textbooks, as both a role model and clear example of where STEM education can lead. Using real-world examples from his unique experiences, he enables audiences to see beyond their normal horizons, and helps give them the tools and ideas for personal growth and achievement in learning. A Musical Evening with Chris Hadfield Colonel Chris Hadfield shares a selection of stories, images, songs, and ideas in a musical presentation that delights audiences of all ages. Performing songs like his evocative “Beyond the Terra”, which looks away from the land to the skies, Colonel Hadfield ties his presentation together with incredible tales from over the course of his career, including his experience as the ISS commander. Suitable for audiences big, small, and in-between, Chris customizes his performance to meet the needs of all kinds of clients. Celebrity Services Colonel Chris Hadfield is represented by The Spotlight Agency for sponsorships, endorsements, public relations and media spokesperson campaigns, product launches, voiceovers, celebrity appearances, and more. Please visit The Spotlight Agency for more details. General Rick HillierFormer Chief of the Defence Staff for Canadian Forces Roberta BondarAstronaut \| Physician \| Scientist \| Photographer Dr. Joe MacInnisRenowned Explorer \| Leadership and Teamwork Expert Bob McDonaldHost of CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks William ShatnerLegendary Hollywood Actor \| Philanthropist Nicole StottAstronaut \| Aquanaut \| Artist Rick HansenMan In Motion \| Champion for Accessibility and Inclusion Jill HeinerthExplorer-in-Residence, The Royal Canadian Geographical Society In Order to Achieve Excellence You Need a Definition of Success 13 Moments That Changed My Life TED2014: What I Learned From Going Blind In Space What Music Means to Me Chris Hadfield - An Introduction An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and logged nearly 4000 hours in space. The secret to Col. Hadfield’s success is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst—and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement and happiness. This vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth—especially your own. A playful, thought-provoking and visually delightful photo tour of Earth from the astronaut who made us fall in love with our planet all over again… The millions of us who followed Chris Hadfield’s tweets from space thought we knew what we were looking at when we first saw his photos of Earth. We definitely caught the beauty but we may have missed the full meaning. Now, with a collection of his favorite, never-before-shared images, Hadfield helps us see the big picture: why our planet looks the way it does and why we live where we do. Drawing on his in-depth knowledge of geology, geography and meteorology, he takes us on a planetary photo tour – an idealized orbit of Earth – and explains the mysteries these stunning images reveal. You Are Here opens a singular window on our planet, using remarkable photographs to illuminate the history and the consequences of human settlement, the magnificence (and wit) of never-before-noticed landscapes, and the power of the natural forces shaping our world and the future of our species. The Darkest Dark Chris loves rockets and planets and pretending he’s a brave astronaut, exploring the universe. Only one problem–at night, Chris doesn’t feel so brave. He’s afraid of the dark. But when he watches the groundbreaking moon landing on TV, he realizes that space is the darkest dark there is–and the dark is beautiful and exciting, especially when you have big dreams to keep you company. Chris Hadfield: Astronaut Life Is Much More Than a SpacewalkPosted March 12, 2019 In the News: Talking Social Justice, Space Travel, and SportsPosted January 3, 2019 Hadfield, Virtue, and Moir Honoured at 2018 Canada’s Walk of FamePosted December 3, 2018 In the News: Talking Tech, Cannabis, and Workplace CulturePosted November 30, 2018 Maple Leafs Fan Chris Hadfield on Toronto’s Stanley Cup HopesPosted November 6, 2018 In the News: Talking Mental Health, #MeToo, the Maple Leafs, and MorePosted November 1, 2018 Why Astronaut Chris Hadfield Isn’t Afraid of DeathPosted July 9, 2018 Spotlight On: New Speakers, Chris Hadfield for MasterClass, Sales Expert Phil Jones, and More!Posted May 24, 2018 Chris Hadfield Debunks Myths (and Confirms Space Has a Burnt Steak-like Smell)Posted April 27, 2018 Tonight! One Strange RockPosted March 23, 2018 Chris Hadfield Doesn’t Need to Reminisce about Space LifePosted February 12, 2018 Making The Holidays Matter Regardless of Your LocationPosted December 11, 2017 The presentation by Chris Hadfield at SickKids was extremely well received by everyone. We had really hoped that his talk would celebrate our trainees and inspire them to think big and get excited about their work and there is no doubt that he accomplished this in spades! His comments about dealing with failure and defining what success means to you really hit home for many people. It’s a week later and people are still talking about it. I would have to say that this was an amazing success and we are very grateful that Chris took the time to come to SickKids and really relate to our audience. ‘Thank you’ seems too meager words for the impact that Colonel Hadfield’s address had on our staff on March 6th. Colonel Hadfield inspired each and every staff member. The way he was able to draw in the audience and intricately weave his experiences into what we are living as an organization was impeccable. There was a palpable buzz around the office on Friday and even today. What a wonderful experience for all of us. Canadian Insurance Industry (Anonymous) Chris — on behalf of Kubota Canada Ltd., its employees and its dealers across the country, we are honoured and thrilled that you were able to be part of Kubota’s 40th Anniversary celebration at our National Dealer Meeting last week in Atlanta. Thanks for your multiple messages of inspiration. Many people mentioned to me that your strategy of “planning to fail” gave them a new way to look at how they might build their business strategies. On a personal note, thanks for tailoring your presentation to our Kubota group and connecting on a familiar level, equipment. As mentioned above, the message was received! Kubota Canada Ltd. Chris’s participation at the reception and his keynote address was exceptional. The event organizers were so impressed with how Chris worked with them and engaged them in conversation. He received a standing ovation from the delegates. The feedback continues to be very positive. Thank Chris again for making this a memorable event. The event went very well last Thursday and the true highlight of the evening was Chris’s speech. He did such a wonderful job of connecting his own personal experiences to C-DAAP and their goal of being able to support dressage athletes and help them realize their dreams. Bassett Events Inc. Our annual Safety & Quality Summit includes a Gala Dinner at which he have been privileged to have many well-known and highly entertaining guests; this year, we were honoured to have Chris Hadfield as our special guest and I have to say he excelled all of our expectations, and more. An enthralling story, masterfully delivered with style and humour, and supported with breathtaking images. Chris’s commitment to provide a once in a lifetime opportunity for all of our guests was truly selfless and much appreciated by all who benefited from what was a fantastic evening. CHC Helicopter & Safety Summit The event was outstanding and your help with organizing Chris Hadfield’s speaking engagement was professional and very appreciated. It was the best event we have ever held. Chris and Evan helped to make the event stress-free, being so calm, kind, and friendly, open and attentive to us, our students and guests both before and after the event. They were a pleasure. It goes without saying that Chris’ presentation was beyond wonderful. Inspiring, humorous, insightful, surprising. What a shining example of leadership he is for all of us. We were thrilled to have him in London! Ivey Business School at Western University Col Hadfield was a smashing success on every level. He was approachable and engaging and went out of his way to accommodate people. The performance was outstanding and we are hearing nothing short of rave reviews. We are ecstatic. Victoria Symphony	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365531
__label__wiki	0.710993	0.710993	Anthony, who defeated Vinesh in the Round of 16, has lost her quarterfinal bout to Yui Susaki of Japan 11-0. This means the Indian is out of the repechage round and cannot contest for the bronze. However, Vinesh can have a shot at bronze through the repechage if Anthony reaches the final. Heartbreak for Vinesh as she looked in complete control in the first half. She was India's biggest medal prospects at the event but now, has to bow out. All eyes on Sakshi Malik now in the 60kg category. Anthony finally completes the pin on Vinesh and after a solid start for the Indian, she has to bow out. IT'S OVER! VINESH IS OUT OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS! Vinesh is holding on for dear life as Anthony gets four points. The American has caught Vinesh in a vice-like grip and is trying to pin her down on both shoulders. VINESH IN TROUBLE! OH NO! In the second half, Anthony strikes and halves the deficit with a takedown of her own. Vinesh tried to hard to keep her at bay but the ankle hold was too strong. The Indian is defending well and as we approach the end of the half, Vinesh comes up with a fine reversal. She shows great balance and converts a takedown. 4-0! Both wrestlers fighting hard and not giving an inch. We stay at 2-0. In the first minute, she is off to a flyer! She completes a quick takedown on Anthony and takes a 2-0 lead. The match is underway! The match is scheduled to start at 2.20 PM IST. Stay tuned! She will now face off against USA's Victoria Anthony. She now moves into the next round! Stay tuned as we bring to you the latest coverage from her next match. AND WE'RE DONE! She completes another fine reversal to complete a takedown on Livach and finishes with the clock reading 3:45. The final score is 13-2! A strong left ankle grab on the Ukrainian allows Vinesh to complete another takedown. At the break, Vinesh has a 9-2 lead. REVERSAL! Vinesh evades her opponent's advance and turns over Livach to complete the takedown. She then turns her over again to garner two more points. Two points to the Ukrainian now! Gets a strong grip on Vinesh's waist and turns her over. The Ukrainian comes charging and looked to tip Vinesh over but the Indian maintains her balance well. And just past the minute mark, she makes it 5-0 with a fine waist grab. She makes it 3-0 after executing a strong takedown. Aggressive start by Vinesh and she picks a point, pushing her Ukrainian opponent off the playing area! AND WE'RE UNDERWAY! Bracket released for women's wrestling 48kg. #Lutte2017 LINK: https://t.co/5StjVGnEqS pic.twitter.com/H0yMhvKdaU — World Wrestling (@wrestling) August 23, 2017 The World Wrestling Championships kicked off in France at the start of this week on the 21st of August and as the competition enters its fourth day, we will see Vinesh Phogat, one of India's most talented wrestlers in action. She will contest in the lightest weight category on offer - the 48kg class and is India's sole representative among a field of 27 wrestlers. She will start her campaign with a qualifying round tie against Ukraine's Oksana Livach and if she wins her opener, she will be up against the winner of the tie between M. Cheon of South Korea and Victoria Anthony of the United States. Vinesh was one of India's brightest prospects going into the Olympics last year but quite tragically, she suffered a knee injury during her bout after which came a long period of recovery. She made her comeback in the 55kg class at the Asian Championships in Delhi but now, the 22-year-old returns to her favourite 48kg category at the Worlds. In the last three days of action, 12 wrestlers from India have taken to the mat to participate but still, they are yet to open their account at the event. Can Vinesh break the duck and win India's medal at the event? Stay tuned for the latest updates from the action!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365535
__label__wiki	0.760063	0.760063	News + Features What's New This Activity Book Lets You Build Your Own Walled City A "Build, Build, Build" we stan. by Christa I. De La Cruz (SPOT.ph) Without a doubt, Intramuros in Manila is a must-see destination if you're looking to get a glimpse of Philippine history. The Walled City, as it is called, was an enclave for the Spanish nobility and officials during the colonial period. Its walls survived Chinese pirates, the arrival of Dutch forces, a brief British invasion, and the takeover of the Americans and Japanese. The Battle of Manila destroyed most of it, but the ruins now serve as a reminder of our tumultuous but glorious past. And now, you can have a piece of this place right on your shelves through the activity book Intramuros: The Walled City by Tahanan Books, which you can get for P295. Grab your copy of Intramuros: The Walled City at Tahanan Books in Makati for P295. Tahanan Books / Facebook Tahanan Books / Facebook The age recommendation says eight years old and up, but who's to say that paper cut-out models are only for kids? It has a total of five worksheets in full color, which you can cut and fold to make your own miniature Intramuros. There's a base map where you can put the mini Manila Cathedral, mini galleons, and mini walls to create a scale model of the Walled City. Intramuros: The Walled City is written and illustrated by Adrian Panadero. It's available at Tahanan Books in Makati City and at The Manila Collectible in Intramuros. Intramuros: The Walled City is available at Tahanan Books, 402 Cityland 3 Building, Rufino Street corner Esteban Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City; The Manila Collectible Co., Gen. Luna Street corner Sta. Clara Street, Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila City; and Tahanan Books' website for P295. Books Intramuros Adventurer Savvy Seasoned Art Books	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365537
__label__wiki	0.615913	0.615913	Home Primary Lessons from Srebrenica Jonas pledges to keep Srebrenica flame burning bright Jonas pledges to keep Srebrenica flame burning bright Student Jonas Pelendi took part in a ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ educational visit. Here, Jonas writes about his experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Srebrenica massacre represents at its core, humanity’s capacity for savagery and brutality which is unfortunate considering the world’s promise to ‘never again’ play witness to the unfolding of genocide earlier with the Holocaust. Being born in 1995 and growing up, I was never taught anything in school on the Bosnian conflict which was really astounding considering the war culminated in Europe’s worst massacre in the Second World War. However, researching and seeing the iconic ITN images of emaciated men at Trnopolje camp shook me to the core that these images were beamed throughout a world that had previously been disgusted by the sight of the horrors of Auschwitz. The fact that this dark episode in mankind’s history occurred a few hours from London really drove home the proximity of ethnic hatred and a great sense of sadness that the world stood by and watched more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys systematically handed over and massacred by their Serb executioners Being given the opportunity to traverse into sites where so many innocent people were lost to agents of injustice really reinforced my desire to come back to the UK and play my role in keeping the flame of Srebrenica in the public eye. As a UK and global citizen, it is a moral duty to educate the wider world on the importance of rooting out hate in our society. Writing my experiences simply does no justice to the power of experiencing Srebrenica because I have seen the anguish of mothers who would risk the odds for one more moment to share with husbands and sons they watched hopelessly fall into the hands of their killers. I have seen the complete disregard for human dignity in the systematic nature of murder and the breakdown of community which is the fabric of human society. There is no pain greater than a mother’s anguish and being able to see lifeless widowed mothers appeal to a world that forgot her husband and son, has given me the fortitude to be their voice and continue to make sure the world never forgets the events of July 1995. Growing up in East London has really blessed me by being able to be exposed to a melting pot of different ethnicities and cultures which has really shaped my strong sense of community cohesion. However, considering the Bosnian conflict involved Serb, Croat and Muslim neighbours turning on each other, this highlights the danger of allowing ethnic and religious passions to spill over into a maelstrom of violence. With the rise of right wing nationalism throughout Europe, this threat is now real and existent which means all areas of society must unite and strive towards making the UK a beacon of tolerance regardless of creed, colour or religion. This is what makes the flame of Srebrenica. Srebrenica reminds us of the challenges posed by discrimination and intolerance but it is also shows why our way of life is worth fighting for. As a melting pot of different walks of life, the UK’s acceptance of diversity is what makes us strong as a nation and being able to travel to Bosnia reaffirmed just how proud I am to be a British citizen. Our society may not be wholly perfect and has much that needs to be improved but our strong culture of acceptance and cultural diversity is world renowned. Srebrenica must be ingrained and educated as the EXTREME we must NEVER surrender to. Travelling to Bosnia was definitely a once in a lifetime experience which will be forever etched in my heart because of the tragedy that such a beautiful country will forever be synonymous with bloodshed despite its rich cultural history and diversity. The fact that such bloodshed could occur in the heart of so called ‘civilised’ Europe so recently really drives home the message that the tragedy of Srebrenica should be taught across the world as a constant reminder of the dangers of intolerance and division in society. In doing so, we retain the flame of 8,372 victims alive in the human memory so we can edge one step closer to a harmonious world where genocide will fade into the annals of history. Using Srebrenica as my foundation, I do hope to be part a key part of the next generation who can truly say ‘never again’ to genocide. Mar 20, 2015 Amil Khan March 20, 2015 Bearing Witness, Lessons from SrebrenicaBalkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, educational, genocide, Lessons from Srebrenica, Srebrenica, student, visit TV interview for Scottish visitors to SrebrenicaSrebrenica genocide survivor tells his story to students Hampton pupils raise global genocide awareness Blackburn Central High School – Hate Crime Awareness Week Workshops Berkshire students to hear testimony of Srebrenica genocide survivor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365543
__label__wiki	0.649787	0.649787	The Mars Volta was an American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001. The band's final live lineup consisted of Omar Rodríguez-López (guitar, producer, direction), Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals, lyrics), Juan Alderete (bass), Marcel Rodríguez-López (keyboards, percussion), and Deantoni Parks (drums). #Alternative rock** #Post metal* #Progressive rock #Punk*** 2012: ''Noctourniquet'' listen full album 2009: ''Octahedron'' listen full album 2008: ''The Bedlam in Goliath'' listen full album 2006: ''Amputechture'' listen full album 2005: ''Frances the Mute'' listen full album 2003: ''De?Loused in the Comatorium'' Emptyself Of The I Astronoid Wormsand I, The Mapmaker Red Light Skyscraper MTS Management Group	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365546
__label__wiki	0.716408	0.716408	Friday, Aug 09, 2019 06:47 AM Labriola on Benny Snell Football, Hodges' chances Bob Labriola LATROBE, Pa. – Ready or not, here it comes: • Benny Snell Football. • When it comes to the Steelers' 2019 draft class, No. 1 pick Devin Bush is seen as the single player who holds a key to the team's immediate improvement, but Benny Snell Jr. is the one who has captivated fans with his personality and his playing style. • It wasn't long after the Steelers made him their fourth-round pick and the 122nd overall selection that it was noticed Snell liked to refer to himself in the third person, and that when speaking about what he might contribute to the team he referred to it as Benny Snell Football. • But what also was noticeable was how Snell was able to pull off the speaking of himself in the third person and referring to his game as Benny Snell Football without coming across as annoying or arrogant. Instead, he had personality and seemed to be having fun. • Nothing energizes Steelers Nation like a running back who gets the job done with strength and power, and as the highlights of Snell's performance against Penn State in the Citrus Bowl when he rushed for 144 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries and almost single-handedly bled the final four-plus minutes off the clock in a three-point Wildcats victory were replayed over and over, a love affair took root. • Fans started dreaming about the Steelers going back to an offense built around a power running attack, even though their favorite team's offense also employed a future Hall of Fame quarterback who led the NFL with over 5,000 yards passing in 2018. Never going to happen, this notion of making the franchise quarterback a supporting member of a cast starring the running backs, but often times fans aren't interested in reality so much as they want what they want when they want it. And for those folks this seemed to be the time for some Benny Snell Football. • But even though the idea of making a rookie running back the focal point of an offense quarterbacked by Ben Roethlisberger, to say nothing of said rookie having to vault James Conner on the depth chart to become that focal point is delusional, that's not to say Snell cannot become a key contributor in 2019. That whole milking the clock in the final minutes of a game to protect a lead would be a valuable contribution, and the Steelers are open-minded about having Snell fill that role. • First, though, Snell is going to have to show himself capable of handling the complete job description that comes with being an NFL running back, because one-trick ponies can quickly become a liability to their teams once opponents figure out that one trick. • Because of Roethlisberger, Steelers running backs absolutely must be willing and capable blockers, because their reality is that their own health is secondary to protecting the quarterback's health. In training camp, the Steelers test that willingness with the backs-on-backers drill. • Not surprisingly, Roethlisberger came over to be an observer both times the Steelers have run the drill to this point in training camp, and he offered verbal support and encouragement to Snell every time Coach Mike Tomlin called him up to take a rep. When Snell squared up with Tyler Matakevich, Roethlisberger could be heard saying, "Just stay between him and me, and we'll be good." When it was Snell vs. Ola Adeniyi, and the rookie kept battling even though he initially appeared to be overmatched, Roethlisberger said, "That's all I need, Benny, to throw a touchdown." • Protecting the franchise quarterback. That's what is going to be required if Benny Snell Football is to debut in the NFL in 2019. • Joshua Dobbs will start at quarterback for the Steelers in tonight's preseason opener, and his performance is tied to undrafted free agent's Devlin Hodges'. Remember, it was just last summer that Dobbs used the preseason to unseat veteran Landry Jones as the backup quarterback, and this summer it could be Hodges issuing a challenge to Dobbs' roster spot. • Hodges, who broke Steve McNair's FCS record for passing yards and finished with 14,584 during his college career at Samford, has drawn some positive attention through the first couple of weeks of training camp. Described as a player with "decent size, not great," and with "a good arm, not great," Hodges (6-foot-1, 210) has displayed quick decision-making and accuracy in drills. But in order to pull off this year's roster-spot upset, Hodges will have to continue to improve, while also hoping either Dobbs or Mason Rudolph provides him an opening by performing below expectations. • Looking for the negatives during the first two weeks on campus, Rudolph seems to be holding onto the ball too long in the pocket, and Dobbs looks to be too quick to tuck the ball and run if his first option is covered. These are the kind of issues that will have to continue and even worsen in conjunction with Hodges lighting it up in the preseason for the Steelers to consider a change to their depth chart at quarterback. • Degree of difficulty also is a factor with the quarterback competition, as it is with the competition for spots on the depth chart at all other positions, and this is a general description as to how that works: • The players are categorized into first-team, second-team, and third-team, with the first-team made up of starters or players seen as starter-capable, the second-team generally made up of veteran backups with NFL experience as such, and the third-team consists of rookies and new guys generally listed at the bottom of the depth chart. • Special teams coordinator Danny Smith always preaches that "if you're not a starter on offense or defense, you better be a starter on special teams" to make an NFL roster. Coach Mike Tomlin will remind the guys on the third-team that come the end of the preseason, there is no third-team in the NFL. • Movement up or back among the groups is determined mainly by performance, but also by availability, and the opportunities can present themselves at the drop of a hat. • "It is so fluid. It's ongoing all the time," said Tomlin about the promotions/demotions. "There are battlefield promotions in the midst of a practice when somebody goes down. It's important that the player recognizes it. It's, 'Hey, I'm a third-team rep guy. Something happens in the second group and I get called up in the middle of practice, I'm looking at an opportunity. An opportunity to show I belong in that group, an opportunity to show I can be productive in that group.' • "That's why we talk so much about the level of conditioning, because you have to ready yourself for those unforeseen opportunities to put yourself in position to take advantage of it. Often times it doesn't mean that you're moving up from the third group to the second group. What it means is you're repping with the third group AND the second group. So conditioning puts you in position to take advantage of those opportunities." • To apply this specifically to the quarterback position, Hodges has been working third-team reps. If/when he gets an opportunity vs. second-team competition, and if he continues to shine as he has so far, then it will be a competition in more than name only. • And that goes for every other competition at every other position. Haden signs new three-year deal Joe Haden signed a new three-year contract that will keep him with the Steelers through 2021 How to watch/listen to Steelers vs. Chiefs Complete coverage of the Steelers' preseason Week 2 game vs. the Kansas City Chiefs WR coach Darryl Drake, 62 Heyward-Bey: 'Coach Drake, he was the man … He kept it real. He kept it raw. That's what you love' Labriola on Ola, Benny, Dobbs, Motown When it comes to making an NFL roster, special teams can be a guy's best friend Seeing what he wanted to see Receivers, Devin Bush got Ben Roethlisberger's attention in camp Steelers sign two, release two The Steelers signed Micky Crum and Christian Kuntz It will be Rudolph's turn to start Current plan is to have Dobbs and Hodges follow him at QB vs. Kansas City 'He called us his sons' Ryan Switzer's emotions were raw as he shared how much Darryl Drake meant to him and the receivers Asked and Answered: Aug. 15 Joint practices aren't simple to set up and often aren't as productive as they should be Finishing with a flourish Defense puts a late exclamation point on a high-energy day 'Everybody loved him' Darryl Drake's impact was powerful on Steelers' players, even in a short time Intent to fulfill 'professional obligations' interrupted by rain	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365548
__label__wiki	0.942435	0.942435	HomeAll Posts...Erin Stewart to be sworn in by father Erin Stewart to be sworn in by father Friday, November 8, 2013 10:49 PM EST By ROBERT STORACE NEW BRITAIN — Republican Mayor-Elect Erin Stewart will be sworn in by her father — former Republican Mayor Timothy T. Stewart — during a one-hour inauguration at New Britain High School Tuesday morning. Stewart — who defeated Democratic Mayor Timothy O’Brien by about 1,100 votes Tuesday — said she chose the high school for her swearing-in celebration because “it’s back to my roots.” “The high school is back to where it all started, where my father had his first inauguration and where I was a student,” Stewart said. “I have a lot of deep connections to that building and I have a lot of great memories.” Until recently, Stewart was a member of the school board. Stewart will give a 10-minute inauguration speech which, she said, “will have the theme of putting New Britain back to work, bipartisanship and openness in City Hall. I will let everyone know that there is a seat at my table for them. It will probably be an emotional day for me, with my dad swearing me in.” In addition, Stewart asked former Torrington Republican Mayor Ryan Bingham to be her guest speaker. Like Stewart, Bingham was elected as mayor at a young age. Bingham, who recently stepped down as mayor, was 22 when he was first elected. Stewart is 26. In addition to Stewart being sworn-in, newly-elected City Clerk Mark Bernacki will swear in 13 of the city’s 15 aldermen and members to various other offices. Although Ward 5 Democrat Aldermen Carlo Carlozzi Jr. and Roy Centeno won their respective seats, a judge Friday ordered a temporary injunction barring them from being sworn in. The injunction was due to a mix-up involving 17 ballots from Ward 2 that were cast by voters in Ward 5. Bernacki will be sworn in by outgoing City Clerk Peter Denuzze. In addition, the NBHS Marching Band will perform. This Friday! Happy Hour Fundraiser at Roma with Mayor Stewart Buy tickets online here. by David Huck Video: Bee Informed w/ Mayor Stewart featuring radio host Stevey Newnez	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365551
__label__wiki	0.918113	0.918113	Can you believe these Stoke-On-Trent stores are already selling Easter Eggs? Poundland, Iceland and Co-op food stores have begun stocking the seasonal treats Easter eggs spotted in Sneyd Green Co-op store Just weeks after Christmas, food stores are starting to fill their shelves with Easter eggs. From as little as £1, people can purchase chocolate eggs, chocolate rabbits and the ever popular Cadbury's creme egg – four months ahead of the traditional holiday. Eagle-eyed shoppers Tilly Hilda Gaven-Rosely, aged eight, and 12-year-old Bobby David Gaven-Whitall, from Sneyd Green, are among those to spot them on the shelves. Tilly said: "It's way, way, way too early for Easter eggs." Pauline Gething, who was out shopping with the children, agreed. "It's not something I'd choose to pick up now. They'd only eat them anyway if I did!" Cadybury's Creme Eggs on sale at Hanley's Poundland store It is a familiar refrain among other shoppers too. Scott Mitchell, aged 23, from Stafford, said: "I'm a last minute shopper, so I wouldn't get them months before. Especially not straight after Christmas." The chocolate eggs have been seen in Poundland, Iceland and Co-op food stores across Stoke-on-Trent. Meet the 'social supermarket' where a basket of shopping costs just £3! Jeff Pinnington, who has been visiting the Potteries from North Wales, said: "I have a friend who works in Marks and Spencer and they have to go into the store on New Year’s Eve to stock the shelves. It's absolutely disgraceful. "Selling Easter eggs this early on is a money-making gimmick and, as soon as one celebration is over, they'll move on to the next. “The treats take away from the actual celebration of Easter and it's not good for children who see them and want them months before Easter even happens." Pauline Wills, from Longton, reckons Easter eggs are the ‘last thing on people’s minds straight after Christmas.” It's just really ridiculous to be honest, much too early,” she said. M&Ms Easter eggs at Iceland in Hanley But retailers maintain they are just responding to demand. Some national stores even started stocking them back in December. A Co-op spokesman said: “As Christmas products sell out and shelves become empty, some Easter products will appear in store. "Sales figures also show that many customers will buy chocolate eggs as soon as they can and we believe it's right to offer our shoppers choice.” Other early egg sightings have been spotted across the country, with shoppers noticing the goodies in stores including WHSmith and Sainsbury's. George Boden runs independent Hanley newsagent Boden’s. He said: “We've had creme eggs in our store before Christmas, which just shows how early some things can start to creep onto the shelves. "But in terms of actual Easter eggs, we just can't compete with the local supermarkets. So we don't end up stocking those because they'd only be sitting on the shelves. We could use the money we'd waste on buying Easter eggs on something more profitable. "Personally, I can understand why other stores stock them early, but I do think it is much too early. It’s the same with Christmas - the holidays have become far too commercialised and come around too soon in the shops." 'We don't want to lose HMV' - Music traders in North Staffordshire have their say as chain is on the brink Janet Butler, a retail worker from Sneyd Green, hasn't seen the early eggs yet, but appreciates why stores choose to sell them so early. She said: "There are empty spaces on the shelves now after Christmas and they need to be filled with something. Easter is the next big retail focus really, so it makes sense to me why shops want to sell them now. Saying that, it is a bit early.” Want to tell us about something going on where you live? Let us know - Tweet us @SOTLive or message us on our Facebook page . And if you have pictures to share, tag us on Instagram at StokeonTrentLive . Sneyd Green The Co-operative StaffordMeet the Staffordshire teenager starring alongside Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie and Peter Capaldi in a major Charles Dickens film adaptationThe Personal History of David Copperfield is out on January 24 SkyMeet the identical twin girls from North Staffordshire who star in Sky One's new smash-hit drama CobraSisters Amber and Alex Huxley play the baby that is involved in the plane crash Newcastle Borough CouncilTrendy bar set to open in Mr Malik's restaurant which closed after owner ran over and killed a manTitanic Brewery wants to launch another Bod bar Things to do in Staffordshire12 of the best things to eat in North Staffordshire for under a fiverFeeling peckish? Levison Wood'A dream come true' - North Staffordshire adventurer Levison Wood on his latest TV show Walking With ElephantsThe mysterious journey has never been undertaken by any human on foot – but the former paratrooper has attempted it for a Channel 4 series expected to be shown in spring	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365552
__label__wiki	0.920242	0.920242	Hong Kong to end 2019 with multiple protests; big march planned for Jan 1 Anti-government demonstrators take part in a protest in Hong Kong on Dec 29, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS https://str.sg/JT2k HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong will end 2019 with multiple protests planned for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day aimed at disrupting festivities and shopping in the Asian financial hub, which has seen a rise in clashes between police and protesters since Christmas. Events dubbed "Suck the Eve" and "Shop with you" are scheduled for New Year's Eve on Tuesday (Dec 31) around the city, including in the party district of Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong's picturesque Victoria Harbour, and popular shopping malls, according to notices circulated on social media. A New Year's Day march on Jan 1 has been given police permission and will start from a large park in bustling Causeway Bay and end in the central business district, say its organisers, the Civil Human Rights Front. The Front previously organised the peaceful million-plus marches in June and held the latest mass march earlier in December when they said around 800,000 people attended. "On New Year’s Day, we need to show our solidarity... to resist the government. We hope Hong Kong people will come onto the streets for Hong Kong’s future," said Mr Jimmy Sham, a leader of the group. The latest planned protests come after a pick up in clashes since Christmas Eve when riot police fired rounds of tear gas at thousands of protesters, many wearing masks and reindeer antlers, after scuffles in shopping malls and in a prime tourist district. While the protests - now in their seventh month - have lessened in intensity and size in recent weeks, their frequency has held up, with marches or rallies occurring almost daily in the former British colony. A rally is planned in the Central business district on Monday night where protesters will gather to remember those who have died or have been injured in the protests. More than 2,000 protesters have been injured since June according to the Hospital Authority. While there is no official count of deaths during the protests, student Chow Tsz Lok died after a high fall during a pro-democracy rally in November. There have also been multiple suicides linked to the movement. Protesters carry umbrellas while gathering in the rain during a rally in Hong Kong's Central District on Dec 29, 2019. PHOTO: EPA-EFE Over the weekend, police arrested about a dozen protesters and used pepper spray to break up a gathering aimed at disrupting retail business near the border with mainland China. More than 6,000 protesters have been arrested in total. Hong Kong economy to shrink in Q4 following months of protests, says financial chief Interactive: The march of Hong Kong's protest movement On Sunday, more than 1,000 people rallied in the rain in Hong Kong's financial district, chanting slogans for democracy as they huddled under a sea of umbrellas. Protests have evolved into a broader pro-democracy movement since they erupted in June in response to a now-withdrawn Bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party. The Bill was seen as the latest example of meddling by Beijing in the freedoms that were promised to the special administrative region when Britain returned it to China in 1997. China denies the claims and says it is committed to the "one country, two systems" formula put in place at that time, and blames foreign countries including Britain and the United States for inciting unrest. The protests have battered Hong Kong’s economy, already reeling from the fallout of the US-Sino trade war and slowing economic growth in the mainland. Mr Paul Chan, the city’s financial secretary, said on Sunday that a fall in GDP in the fourth quarter was "unavoidable". To alleviate the "pain" of the economic downturn, he said the government’s budget in February would focus on boosting the economy, protecting unemployment and easing the "plight" of the people and enterprises. Hong Kong protest medic arrested in mainland China, say fellow students Hong Kong opposition lawmakers ejected from LegCo for heckling leader Hong Kong protest shoppers build 'yellow' economy, reward businesses that support their cause Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam pledges S$1.7 billion in new relief measures to prop up weakened economy Police watchdog to put out report on HK protests by end of month earliest, says Carrie Lam Hong Kong funds eye Singapore offices to dodge protest fallout Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says financial hub's strengths intact despite protests 'We want this': Hong Kong election tourists join Taiwan rallies Hong Kongers are more depressed than ever after months of unrest United Airlines takes $121.6m charge on drag from Hong Kong protests	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365554
__label__wiki	0.863181	0.863181	She's back...And she's bringing a few of her friends. Sep. 09, 2010 97 Min. ActionAdventureHorrorScience Fiction Movie Director Casting Hero/Heroine Kacey Clarke Boris Kodjoe Luther West K-Mart Download Resident Evil: Afterlife Movie on your computer, mobile, tablet or any other multimedia device free. Resident Evil: Afterlife movie run-time length is 97 minutes and release date is Sep. 09, 2010. You can find download links by signup, do login and go to the links section to download. You can also share the link for Resident Evil: Afterlife Movie via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn and Pinterest. We hope you like StreamingHUB.com. TAGS: Resident Evil: Afterlife Full Movie Download, Resident Evil: Afterlife Watch Full Movie, Resident Evil: Afterlife Download Links, Resident Evil: Afterlife Full Movie Download Links, Resident Evil: Afterlife 720p Movie Download, Resident Evil: Afterlife 1080p Movie Download, Resident Evil: Afterlife Fast Download In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead – and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap. Original title Resident Evil: Afterlife TMDb Rating 5.8 1623 votes Log in to Submit Links	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365556
__label__cc	0.705124	0.294876	Flashing Old Men Written by Chrissie Hi, I'm Chrissie, I love being watched doing things that I shouldn't do, but the best is flashing older men, I'm twenty six, got a nice figure with firm tits even if they are a bit big, I like to sit on park benches and when a man comes towards me let my knees open to show him I'm not wearing any knickers, older men seem to appreciate this much more than young men so I pick on old men all the time, last week I was in the local park when a man walking his little dog came in my direction, he smiled as he got closer and then as my knees parted his face lit up, he stopped and then sat down on the grass, staring straight at my naked pussy, he came closer , he was only about six feet away now, looking at me as I tried to give him a better view by sliding forward on the seat, he said can I touch, I didn't answer so he reached out moving forward as he did, till his fingers touched my upper thigh, he stroked for a few seconds then pushed his hand deeper into my crutch, his finger finding my pussy lips he parted them and slipped two fingers inside, his thumb rolling my clitty, I said there are some people coming so he drew away, till they had passed, then he putt his fingers back inside me, some more people came and he had to stop again, he said do you want to come back to my place, I just nodded, he held out his hand and helped me to my feet leading me like a lamb to his flat on the other side of the park, he told me to sit down and he put the dog in the kitchen. He kneeled down between my thighs and put his fingers back inside me his thumb working a kind of magic on my clitty, I came almost imediatly, he said did you enjoy that, I told him yes, he stood up dropping his trousers, exposing his cock, it was hard and very red, especially the knob, he took hold of my hair and pulled me forward till it was pushing against my lips, he told me to open my mouth and he pushed it in, making me choke as it hit the back of my throut, he pulled back enought to allow me to breath, then said suck it for me, I sucked and licked his big cock for what seemed like hours, I couldn't pull away because he had his fingers entwined in my hair and was holding me tight to him, he said suck harder, I did the best that I could, then I felt him twich and then shoot his come deep into my mouth, pulling me harder onto his old cock, so I had to swallow it all. He took it out and said would you like some wine, I said yes please, he brought me a large glass of red wine, I drank it down quite quickly to take the taste of his come away, I didn't like it much, he filled the glass again, after about three or four glasses I felt my head start to go funny, I knew I had drunk too much, he laid me down on the sofa and covered me with a blanket, I must have gone to sleep because when I woke up there was cameras and tripods with flash guns all around me, and I was naked, he had stripped me while I was asleep, or drugged and took I don't know what kind of photos of me, he said I will show you some of the photos and if you don't do as you are told I will show them to you parents and friends, my parents are so strict and very relious, he had me just where he wanted me, he must have known who I was and set the thing up, it was entirly my fault if I haden't been flashing it would never have happened, but I knew I would have to do what ever he wanted or be exposed as a flasher and a tart. He told me to suck his cock again it was soft for a while but soon became hard, he bent my over the back of his sofa and pushed his cock up hard fucking me till he empied his stuff inside my, he told me to get the morning after pill and to get put on the pill straight away because he was going to fuck me whenever he wanted too, he even gave me a mobile phone so he could call me to go to his when he wanted me, he said he was going to invite some of his mates to share me with but that hasn't happened yet. You would think I'd had learned my lesson but no, I still flash old men whenever I get the chance, I know the risks and what it can lead too, but can't seem to stop, showing my naked bits to men especially old men.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365565
__label__cc	0.615016	0.384984	Torrey Meister wins the 2013 O'Neill Coldwater Classic November 8, 2013 \| Surfing Torrey Meister has taken out the 2013 O'Neill Coldwater Classic, at Steamer Lane, to claim an yearlong sponsorship worth $50,000. The unconventional new format gathered 16 mostly unsponsored surfers against each other for one grand prize, the ASP Specialty Event ran in pumping conditions, at Santa Cruz, California. "I'm excited about riding for O’Neill. It's been a long time since I've had a sticker on the nose of my board. It's been great that O'Neill put this event on for us. They seem like cool people and I'm excited to ride for them", says Torrey Meister. The final was characterized by multiple lead changes, as Meister and Carmichael went wave for wave in a seesaw battle. Late in the heat, Meister led with twin 6.67s, leaving Carmichael searching for a 6.54. However, the ocean did not cooperate, and Meister took the win. Along with the trophy, Meister earned a yearlong sponsorship from O'Neill worth $50,000 to pursue his elite pro surfing aspirations. Torrey Meister comes from Haleiwa, Hawaii. The natural footer earned himself a reputation for his carefree attitude on land. In a competitive jersey, Torrey has proven himself to downright lethal. In 2009, Torrey finished third in the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing. He has been an active member of the Surfrider Foundation, working as an advocate to ensure that the world's beaches and lineups remain pristine. Rafael Teixeira steals the 2015 O'Neill Coldwater Classic Jeison Torres Abarca earns a ticket to Steamer Lane O'Neill Coldwater Classic invites unsponsored pro surfers Taj Burrow wins the O'Neill Coldwater Classic 2012 The 2012 ASP World Championship Tour title goes to Pipeline There might not seem to be many parallelisms between the salt-crusted surfers throwing shakas on the shore and suited businesspeople in the boardroom.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365573
__label__wiki	0.718156	0.718156	Mark Bonamo newark TAP into Newark Your Neighborhood News Online Brainwalk East Ward Gala Scene Newark Water Crisis Op-Ed Newark Remarkable Newarkers Yes Newark Radical Women Exhibition Radical Women: Fighting for Power and the Vote in New Jersey! NJ Women Vote: The 19th Amendment at 100 New Jersey’s Nineteenth Amendment Centennial Initiative* @njwomenvote100 www.npl.org Opening Reception: January 23, 2020 5:30 -7:30 Panel: “The Battle Over Women’s Suffrage in Newark” March 11, 2020 6:00-8:00 Exhibition: January 23, 2020 – December 31, 2020 Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07101 \| 3rd Floor Gallery https://npl.org/radical-women-exhibition/ Add to My Calendar 05/29/2020 12:00am 05/29/2020 11:30pm America/New_York Radical Women Exhibition Exhibition: January 23, 2020 ... 5 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07101 true Newark Public Library New Starbucks Opens Inside Newark Penn Station By TAPINTO NEWARK STAFF NEWARK, NJ — A new Starbucks opened this morning in Newark Penn Station’s Main Concourse bringing specialty coffees and foods to rail, bus, and light rail customers. Starbucks will be open seven days a week. The 1,000 square foot store will open during the week at 5:30 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Weekend hours will have the shop opening at 6 a.m. and closing at 9 ... Read More Development Newark Panel Examines Black Wealth in NJ NEWARK, NJ — Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement fought for racial and social justice, but called for economic equality too. “God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty,” Martin Luther King, Jr. once said. In the last several years, the Metropolitan Baptist Church in ... Rutgers Officially Hires Holloway as First Black President By CHUCK O'DONNELL NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Jonathan Holloway, who has bravely blazed an uncharted trail across the highest ranks of academia, was hired Tuesday as Rutgers University's first black president. Holloway, who was approved Tuesday in a joint meeting of the university's board of governors and trustees, served as Yale's first African-American dean. He was most recently served as ... Read More Rutgers University Ciattarelli Launches Campaign for Governor at JFK Primary in Raritan By CINDY FORREST RARITAN, NJ - Former New Jersey Republican Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli announced Tuesday in a campaign kick-off at John F. Kennedy Primary School that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the governor’s race in 2021. His message was clear. “Bad policy decisions were made by both sides and we need to stop the bleeding," he said. "I am determined on your behalf ... Vision for Newark Archdiocese: Accountability, Transparency, and Communication By ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK Forward in Faith Together: Our Road Ahead was introduced this past fall by Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, as the new vision for the Archdiocese after nearly three years of listening to concerns expressed by parishioners, clergy, religious, and other faithful inside and outside the Archdiocese. This broad pastoral vision outlines the path forward in the wake of past ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365577
__label__cc	0.541892	0.458108	Kathy Cryan union TAP into Union Your Neighborhood News Online Events, Music and Night Life News from Nearby Union High School's Athlete of the Month Communication Essentials for Women Presented by the Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship Corporation (WCEC), this training equips women with the skills and confidence to influence and motivate others in many situations. Through a series of interactive modules, the coach shares the essential communication skills to help you market more creatively, network more effectively, sell faster, and take your career -- and your business -- to the next level. 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Through a series of interactive modules, the coach shares the essential communication skills to help you market more creatively, network more effectively, sell faster, and take your career -- and your business ... 123 Hilton Avenue Vauxhall, NJ 07088 Vauxhall Branch Union Public Library 123 Hilton Avenue Business & Finance, Other Roselle/Roselle Park Millburn/Short Hills Black History Essay Contest Open to Union Fifth Graders By KATHY CRYAN UNION, NJ – In celebration of Black History Month, the Vauxhall Historical Society and the Union Public Library are hosting the eighth annual Black History Essay Contest for all Union fifth graders. Students should select from one of the topics for their essay subject: There is a recent movie named “Harriet”. Who is the person named Harriet? What did she do? Why ... Curso Gratis! Para el Examine Escrito de Conducir (Free Course For Driver's License Exam) UNION, NJ - Curso gratis! 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Ebiaredo Alofe of Union Receives Degree at Wilkes University Winter Commencement By TAPINTO UNION STAFF WILKES-BARRE, PA - Ebiaredo Alofe of Union received the Master of Science in Nursing degree with a major in Nursing at Wilkes University's winter commencement ceremony on January 19. The University awarded 302 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the event which was held in the Arnaud C. Marts Center, 274 South Franklin St. in Wilkes-Barre. Wilkes ... Nia Jasmine Brown of Union Has Been Named to Clarkson University's Dean's List POTSDAM, NY - Nia Jasmine Brown of Union, majoring in biology, was named to the Dean's List for the fall 2019 semester at Clarkson University. Dean's List students must achieve a minimum 3.25 grade-point average and also carry at least 14 credit hours. As a private, national research university, Clarkson is a leader in technological education and sustainable economic development ... 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Weeklong Events at Union High School Raise Over $16,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital UNION, NJ – A generous donation on behalf of Union High School, the result of week-long fundraising events last month, was made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the advancement of cures and prevention of pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. A check for $16,650, over $3,000 more than last year, was donated to the research hospital. ... Burnet vs. Kawameeh Staff Volleyball Game Set for Jan. 23 UNION, NJ - The 2nd annual volleyball match between staff members at Burnet Middle School and Kawameeh Middle School is schedule for Thursday, Jan. 23. The match-up will be held in the Kawameeh Middle School gym, 490 David Terrace. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. There is an entrance fee of $3.00 per person. A concession stand will be selling snacks. For more ... Two Teens Identified as Victims in Fatal Route 22 Crash in Mountainside By TAPINTO MOUNTAINSIDE STAFF MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — Police have identified the victims in the Jan. 12 fatal crash on Route 22 as Miram Karanoub, 16, of Plainfield, and LTD A. Frederick, 18, also of Plainfield. Officers responded to a fatal motor vehicle crash on Route 22 East near the intersection of Parkway at 4:05 a.m, police said. As reported, the vehicle had hit a tree in the center aisle of the ... Roselle Park Police Officer Involved in Crash Fatally Shoots Himself Sunday MATAWAN, NJ — An off-duty Roselle Park police officer fatally shot himself in the head after being involved in a crash in Matawan Sunday afternoon, authorities said. It is with tremendous sadness that Police Chief Daniel J. McCaffery announces the passing of Roselle Park Police Officer Edward Nortrup. Patrolman Nortrup was a 13-year veteran of the Roselle Park Police ... Roselle Park Police Officer Involved in Crash Shoots Himself in Head Sunday MATAWAN, NJ — A Roselle Park Police officer shot himself in the head after being involved in a crash in Matawan Sunday afternoon, authorities said. While authorities were investigating the crash, the officer removed a gun and fired one shot killing himself on scene, Roselle Park Police Chief Daniel J. McCaffery said. “We are grieving as a ... Local Man Caught with Huge Cache of Child Pornography Sentenced to 10 Years ELIZABETH, NJ — A Westfield man caught with over 4,000 child pornography files was sentenced Friday to 10 years in state prison, authorities said. Gregory L. Brown, 38, a resident of John Street, previously pled guilty to one count of first-degree possession of child pornography with the intent to distribute, the statement from acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo ... Bound Brook Man Charged with Setting Fire that Destroyed Apartments BOUND BROOK, NJ - A 28-year-old borough resident has been charged with setting the fire that destroyed two five-story apartment buildings under construction on East Main Street, along with several other nearby structures. Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson credits video footage from surveillance cameras and I-phone videos with helping to identify the suspect, Juan Hector ... Fanwood Man Followed Home From Bank, Beaten During Armed Robbery, Police Say FANWOOD, NJ — A 62-year-old borough man was released from the hospital Friday after being pistol whipped during an armed robbery in front of his home Thursday night, police said. The robbery happened on Second Street near Burns Way at 8:52 p.m., said Police Chief Richard Trigo, who gave the following account: The man told officers that a white Jeep Grand Cherokee followed him ... Read More News from Nearby Les Marmitons Men’s Cooking Club Serves Up Friendship, 5-Course Dinners in NJ Wearing white chef’s jackets and toques, about 30 men are bustling about the professional kitchen. Under the guidance of a professional chef, they work in teams — elbowing through the door with octopus lightly charred from an outdoor fire, pulling pork loin from a sous vide bath, chopping and dicing and plating and laughing. Soon they’ll be chatting together around round ... New Jersey Date Night: Lettuce Eat Salad New Jersey Date Night is a series on NJ Flavor by relationship writer Craig Rogers. The days following the holiday season can be rather heavy — we’re heavy hearted that the celebrations are all over and heavier in the waistline from enjoying every last bite of the festivities. In New Jersey it’s difficult to say no to tasty treats like Christmas ... 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TAPintoTV Joins News12+ To Reach Millions of Online and Broadcast Viewers Across the Tri-State Metro Area LITTLE FALLS, NJ -- Altice USA’s News 12+, a television news broadcast channel available on cable systems throughout the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area, has added TAPintoTV to its programming schedule. The weekly TAPintoTV program, which airs Sundays at 11AM EST, will feature topical news and lifestyle segments, reaching over 3 million viewers that comprise the News 12+ audience. Tweets by @@TAPintoUnion	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365578
__label__wiki	0.517904	0.517904	Open navigation Open search Close navigation Back Back Debt sale Debt purchasers About TDX Group Predicted ~30% rise in personal insolvencies in 2017. Home \| News \| Predicted ~30% rise in personal insolvencies in 2017. 12 Hour Charity Bike Ride Invite Join our 250km ride from Nottingham in 12 hours What does 2017 hold for the debt industry? TDX Group experts give their view on the themes and developments we can expect to see in the coming months. Almost a third of Brits believe they’ll never pay off their debt Online research from Equifax reveals nearly one third (31%) of people believe they won’t be able to pay off debt within their lifetime, and over one in 10 (12%) say they won’t even be able to reduce their debt levels. Brits think it’s too easy to get into debt Our research reveals that 45% of people think it’s too easy to get into debt, with a further 20% stating that banks and other lenders need to be stricter about the amount they lend to consumers. By ticking this box, you agree to the privacy policy and terms and conditions of this site. Sign up to: The Debt Review newsletter Insolvency Market Trends newsletter Coporate and Social Responsibility Working at TDX Group Debt Review Newsletter Insolvency Data Getting help with debt TDX Group Limited. Registered in England with company no. 05059906 and VAT no: 877 7226 75. Registered address at 1 Angel Court, London, EC2R 7HJ \| Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority TDX Group 2020 We use cookies to help us give you the best experience on our website.If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on our website. However, if you would like to, you can change your cookie settings at any time. Find out more.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365581
__label__cc	0.651422	0.348578	Home/Tablet Review/Four Top-Rated Android Quad-Core Tablets Tablet Review Four Top-Rated Android Quad-Core Tablets Tablets are very convenient devices that can be used for browsing, chatting, gaming, multimedia activities, and variety of other tasks. Though there is a vast range of tablets in the market boasting of quad core processors, WiFi and 3G features, we tried to find a list of superior quality tablets with quad core processor, 3G and Wi-Fi features. The Sony Xperia Tablet Z is popular as the lightest and thinnest tablet equipped with water resistant features. As it is powered with Quad core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, you can expect high quality graphics and super-fast processing. The WiFi tablet runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system and has 2GB RAM and 16GB memory. It comes with 8MP rear camera along with 2MP camera at the front panel. The device is designed to pick up 3G or 4G signals with exceptional speeds. It also delivers 3D surround sound through its four Speakerhalls and is powered with a 6000 mAh battery. The Samsung Galaxy Note N8000 is a stylish tablet having 23.5-cm (10.1-inch) capacitive screen. It is light-weighted and offers a vibrant display. The tablet features an IR sensor along with Smart Remote app that allows remote access of most HDTVs. It also features a 5 megapixel camera equipped with LED flash and a 1.9 MP camera at the front. Powered with a 2GB RAM and 1.4 GHz quad core Exynos 4412 processor, the tablet also offers 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. The Wi-Fi tablet allows sharing with other devices. You can buy the lowest price for Samsung Galaxy Note N8000 from Shoppingwish. The 20.3-cm (8-inch) ultra-compact tablet device is powered with 1.6 GHz Exynos Quad core processor. It has a 2GB RAM along with 16GB of internal storage. The device features a 5MP camera at the back along with a 1.3MP camera at the front, but without a flash. The tablet features stereo speakers and is powered with a 4600 mAh battery that can last for one full day with intensive usage. iBerry Auxus CoreX4 3G This 24.6-cm (9.7-inch) tablet is promoted as a budget tablet. It offers exceptional performance and adaptability. The tablet is powered with a 1.6 GHz Exynos 4412 ARM quad core processor and has 2GB RAM. You can make voice and video calls through its 3G connectivity. The flip side is that the tablet does not have an earpiece, and its loudspeaker is pretty soft. It is powered with a huge 7200 mAh battery that can deliver video playback of more than 6.5 hours. The tablet is not recommended for heavy duty streaming. It features a 2MP camera at the back and 0.3 MP camera in the front. iberry Samsung sony Tablet Comparison: TouchPad vs.iPad vs. Xoom vs. What’s Wrong With Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD? Intex To Launch Five Sub-Rs 10,000 Phones By October Pre-Book Samsung Galaxy Note 2 @Rs 38,500! ASUS Intros Transformer Pad Tablet @ Rs 43,999 In India vodafone 3g activation code, bsnl 2g net pack recharge, uninor secret codes list, Bsnl code number, bsnl data plans activation code, Vodafone free internet app, idea facebook pack 2014	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365585
__label__wiki	0.973859	0.973859	Javier Bardem takes his fight for the environment at the Toronto festival Toronto (Canada) (AFP) The cinema "can and must" raise awareness of the population to the fight against climate change, pleaded Wednesday at the Toronto Film Festival (Tiff) the Spanish actor Javier Bardem, came to present in world premiere his documentary "Sanctuary" which follows him in Antarctica with the NGO Greenpeace. Filmed last year, this film follows Bardem and his brother Carlos as they accompany a mission in the white continent of the environmental organization that militates that this region is sanctuary and preserved from all human activity. The Antarctic Expedition even led the 2008 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in a mini submarine, with a capacity of two people, to take samples from the ocean floor to demonstrate the ravages of global warming. of the planet and intensive fishing. "Fortunately I'm not claustrophobic ... it was like being in a Kinder egg!", He told AFP in Toronto. A fierce defender of the environment, he called three weeks ago in New York, in a vibrant plea at the United Nations headquarters, the signing of an international treaty to protect the world's oceans. "Our oceans are breaking and we are all partly responsible," he told the UN forum, calling on the international organization to act "here and now". But, he insisted at the Canadian festival, Hollywood "also has the potential to reach millions of people" to accelerate the transition to a more environmentally friendly world. Recently, in discussions with Disney for a remake of the "Little Mermaid", in which he played King Triton, Javier Bardem insisted on the director Rob Marshall to add an ecologist message to the film, he said to AFP. "You have to take advantage of this wonderful and beautiful story by (Hans Christian) Andersen to incorporate ocean pollution" into the plot, Bardem said. "We can reach millions and millions of young people ... that's what this kind of film could and should do," he said. Rob Marshall was "very open" to this suggestion, according to Javier Bardem, although convincing the American entertainment giant who produces the film is another matter: "It's a big machine, it's not the author (...) It's Disney ". Source: france24 Actor Javier Bardem calls for protecting the oceans at the UN platform Bardem and Penelope: a megarrica and contradictory couple in their fight in defense of the environment Almeida accepts Bardem's apologies, but regrets that he did not recognize Madrid Javier Bardem apologizes for calling "stupid" to José Luis Martínez-Almeida PP, Citizens and Telemadrid respond to Javier Bardem after calling "stupid" to José Luis Martínez-Almeida: It's "asshole" Antonio Banderas receives prize at Palm Springs Film Festival Halftime at UN climate conference: Climate summit in Madrid is going into decisive week The stormy Gloria leaves a brutal hailstorm in Malaga Rivlin: "United against anti-Semitism" Throttle of the Nile Gabi Siboni: Why can't we better protect ourselves from cyberattacks? 8400 vehicles planned: car rental company WeShare plans to expand into other cities Accidents: So far, no evidence of a defect following a fatal school bus accident Ex-wife of Chelyabinsk Ombudsman appreciated court decisions on dispute over children What damage can four kilos of explosives do? Australian Open: Simon eliminated by Kyrgios, Monfils last qualified French - France 24	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365586
__label__wiki	0.762501	0.762501	Batsiranai Craft Project The Batsiranai Craft Project is based in a highly-populated township outside of Harare known as Dzivarasekwa. “Batsiranai” translates as “helping each other.” The project supports mothers with severely disabled children living under challenging circumstances. In addition to living with extreme poverty, these families often suffer from stigma related to local beliefs regarding the origins of disabilities. Added to the stigma, many are living with HIV/AIDS (25 percent of Zimbabwe’s population lives with HIV/AIDS). The Batsiranai income generation project allows women to work near their homes, and thus support the needs of their families and to be available to care for their disabled child. Ten Thousand Villages began purchasing from Batsiranai in 2008. Ten Thousand Villages sells “Twin Dolls” from Batsiranai. '; return false; } window.onunload=function() { // if the user is navigating away from the page, check to see if we // opened a video window and if we did, make sure it's closed. if (popvid) { popvid.close(); } } function youtube_video_url(youtube_id){ return "https://www.youtube.com/v/" + youtube_id; } function swap_main_youtube_video(youtube_id){ video_url = youtube_video_url(youtube_id); /* jQuery('#main_video').attr('src', video_url); jQuery('#movie').attr('value', video_url); */ jQuery(".mainVideo").html(" "); jQuery(".mainVideo").html(' '); return false; } Artisan Group Founder Receives International Recognition Lynn Poole, founder and coordinator of fair trade artisan group Batsiranai Craft Project, has brought the mission of trade to Harare, Zimbabwe—and now the international community is recognizing her mission. In honor of her work with Batsiranai, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama awarded Poole the Wisdom in Action “Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award” on April 26 in San Francisco. “Lynn’s mission with Batsiranai struck a chord with the board, who choose a select few from among many nominees to receive the Unsung Heroes of Compassion each year,” said Christine Wright, Event Coordinator for the Unsung Heroes of Compassion. “About 50 individuals from more than 13 different countries—all doing amazing, compassionate work—were chosen to be honored at this year’s event.” “This event was a true example of the Ten Thousand Villages philosophy,” said Alex Hartzler, Ten Thousand Villages board chair who attended the event. “Regardless of where someone lives, or what they are doing, people doing good things are a blessing to know and to be involved with.” It was appropriate that Ten Thousand Villages was represented at the event, said Hartzler: “This shows what good work Lynn is doing in Zimbabwe with the mothers, and how Villages is allowing their good work to be a theme throughout our store network.” When asked about what drove her mission to establish Batsiranai as a successful job-creation program, Poole repeatedly refers to the human face of fair trade: “I have become a witness to the positive effects fair trade has on the Harare community,” said Poole. “I see the life come back into the eyes of the women and children who join the Batsiranai family.” Helping Each Other “Batsiranai,” which translates as “helping each other,” supports mothers with severely disabled children by offering them an opportunity to create products utilizing their traditional skills, for a fair price. “Often the families in the Batsiranai artisan group live under challenging circumstances and suffer from the stigma related to local beliefs regarding the origins of disabilities,” said Poole. “The income generated from the Batsiranai project allows the mothers to work near their homes, supporting the needs of their families, and to be available to care for their disabled child.” In an effort to support the youngest victims of Zimbabwe’s skyrocketing HIV infection rate, and to establish a means of continued economic support for Batsiranai’s artisans, Poole developed and successfully marketed the Twin Doll Campaign. “The concept is simple: Batsiranai artisans create two handmade dolls. One doll can be purchased at Ten Thousand Villages, and its “twin” is given to a child of a family affected by HIV in Zimbabwe,” said Poole. “Many of the children who receive the dolls have never had a toy or doll in their lives.” Distribution of the “twin” for each doll purchased at Ten Thousand Villages occurs in one of a number of ways—some dolls are shared through organizations working with needy families affected by HIV in the greater Harare area. Two weeks after the introduction of the Twin Doll in Ten Thousand Villages stores in 2008, the more than 800 dolls produced by Batsiranai artisans sold out of stock: “The Twin Doll has been an overwhelming success,” said Melissa Hand, buyer for Ten Thousand Villages U.S. “It is a campaign that allows Ten Thousand Villages’ customers to feel a direct and very personal connection to a child living under great hardship and suffering in a country under dictatorship. “Batsiranai is an example of how a social entrepreneurial effort can become a model for women’s empowerment,” said Hand. “It is not based on sponsorship and donations, but on the hard work of 140 women.” Batsiranai artisans hope to expand their project to include more than 600 families who can help each other during enormously difficult times in Zimbabwe.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365588
__label__wiki	0.936869	0.936869	She Fought for Dignity Under the Law. She Died of Stab Wounds, Naked in the Snow. DOUBLE INDIGNITY Whoever is responsible, Irina Nozdrovskaya’s murder over the holiday weekend has become a symbol of the corruption that plagues Ukraine’s government and courts. Anna Nemtsova Updated Jan. 05, 2018 5:28PM ET / Published Jan. 05, 2018 5:05PM ET Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast KIEV—The last time Irina Nozdrovskaya was seen alive was on the night of Dec. 29. Thoughtful and serious, she was smoking a cigarette outside her office on Bankova Street, near the administration building of Ukraine’s president. Nozdrovskaya, 38, worked for the opposition and was known as a fearless human rights lawyer and a tireless fighter against corruption. At 6:18 p.m. her mother, Katerina Duniak, called to ask when to expect Irina home. Irina’s answer sounded unusually abrupt: “I cannot talk right now.” When her parents called back half an hour later, the phone did not answer. On Jan. 1, police found Nozdrovskaya’s naked body in the shallow, narrow Kozka River near her home village of Demidov outside of Kiev. Irina’s clothes, fur coat, two broken phones and the knife that stabbed her were scattered around the river’s banks. Nozdrovskaya’s family lawyer, Anatoly Khudiakov, told The Daily Beast after inspecting Irina’s body that there were 15 stab wounds in and around her neck. “Two of them were especially deep, the stabs broke bones in her neck.” Even now, a week after the murder, the victim’s aged mother does not know the truth about what had happened to her daughter: nobody dared to break the horrible news to her. In 2015 Duniak’s younger daughter, Nozdrovskaya’s 26-year-old sister Svetlana, was killed by a car while she was walking on the grass on the side of an unpaved road in her village. Irina Nozdrovskaya was left to be the only provider for her sister’s 4-year-old son, as well as her own daughter and her parents. Police investigators were working on four different versions of Irina’s murder, but some things were already clear to her family’s lawyer Khudiakov: “She made life uncomfortable for many people, some saw her as their enemy; her murder was a well-plotted crime, scheduled for a Friday night, before the New Year weekend, when local police were slower than usual.” Irina was a small woman of outsized courage. Her friend and colleague Mikhail Krivoruchkin remembered the first time he saw her back in 2014. “I was amazed to see a tiny beautiful woman, coming to our anti-corruption committee to be a witness against a Rada [parliament] deputy, Anton Yatsenko,” Krivoruchkin told The Daily Beast on Friday. Nozdrovskaya worked investigating state tenders for contracts. She knew everything about corruption in that area, Krivoruchkin said. “She hated to see criminals go unpunished, just because they had powerful relatives or friends.” A week before she got killed, Nozdrovskaya asked Krivoruchkin for help. For the last two years of her life Nozdrovskaya had struggled to convince the Kiev courts that Dmitry Rossoshansky, the drunk driver who had killed her younger sister, had a rich criminal record but always managed to escape punishment because his uncle was a judge. She needed a supporter at the upcoming hearing. Acting as a private detective and lawyer for her late sister, Nozdrovskaya collected enough documented evidence to prove to the court and investigative reporters that Rossoshansky’s criminal record included a vehicle theft, a robbery and driving on drugs. But every time police caught him Rossoshansky walked free, either supported by his influential uncle, Judge Sergei Kuprienko, or by some other powerful connections. “She was a tiny woman of huge stamina and she went up against a judge made of stone, an investigator made of stone. She named those involved in falsifying evidence. She made too many people mad.” — Anna Maliar, an expert on criminal justice “If only police took away his driver’s license in accordance with Ukraine’s law, my sister would have been alive,” Nozdrovskaya said in one of the interviews in 2015. She swore an oath to find each individual backing up Rossoshansky. It was a dangerous fight. Nozdrovskaya complained to her friend Krivoruchkin about multiple threats she had received from Rossoshansky’s supporters. On Dec. 27, the Kiev court held a hearing about Rossoshansky’s future. A few of Irina’s friends came to support her. But the man in the dock, Rossoshansky, had many more supporters. “They had the faces of criminals who had served years in prison, they behaved as if that was their court and their country,” Krivoruchkin recalled. But even that did not slow down Nozdrovskaya. “Irina insisted that back in 2015 Rossoshansky’s blood test had been taken 8 hours after the accident instead of two hours, stipulated by the law; she told the court that the test had been falsified and she had enough evidence to prove it,” Krivoruchkin recalled. On that day Ukraine saw what seemed a miracle: the court decided the case in Irina’s favor, kept Rossoshansky in jail, and renewed the investigation. By winning that hearing, Nozdrovskaya demonstrated to Ukraine that the old post-Soviet system could be overcome—her victory, widely covered in the press, was a symbol to many of what could be done with enough grit and determination to see that justice has at least a chance to prevail. "She was a tiny woman of huge stamina and she went up against a judge made of stone, an investigator made of stone," says Anna Maliar, an expert on criminal justice. "She named those involved in falsifying evidence. She made too many people mad." In the meantime, police summoned Irina’s boyfriend Vitaly Sergeyev and questioned him for nine hours. “Look, whatever it takes to find the killers, I know police will find them,” Vitaly Sergeyev told The Daily Beast. “Nothing in the world could stop Irina in her struggle for justice, she did not care what price she would pay.” Vitaly’s romantic plan, he said, was to give Irina her presents for the New Year and then on Jan. 27, his birthday, propose marriage. Instead, Vitaly, his father Victor and Irina’s father Sergei spent the New Year weekend looking for Irina in the wet snow that covered here village and its outskirts. Irina’s murder has become one more symbol of Ukrainians’ ongoing struggle for dignity. On Jan. 2 dozens of protesters gathered outside the National Police office in Kiev. People collected signatures calling for the interior minister’s resignation. A Ukrainian filmmaker, Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych, joined the protest together with her husband. “My good friend Timur was killed by a car but the driver has never been punished; I admire Irina,” Maksymenko-Dovhych said. “Her murder has shaken all those people who have been so disillusioned. She represented dignity.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365590
__label__wiki	0.892818	0.892818	Iraqi protesters demand election as ayatollah threatens fatwa Rory McCarthy in Baghdad Thu 15 Jan 2004 21.41 EST First published on Thu 15 Jan 2004 21.41 EST Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Basra yesterday to demand a general election, as an aide to Iraq's most senior Shia cleric warned that he may issue a fatwa against the proposed new government. The demonstration in the southern Iraqi city was a rare show of strength in support of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's call for direct elections to choose a new government, and comes as a blow to Washington's plans for a smooth handover of power. Last night one of the cleric's aides warned that if the US administrator in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, does not accept his demand, Ayatollah Sistani may issue a ruling telling Iraq's Shia majority not to accept the new government, which is due to take power by July. "If Bremer rejects Ayatollah Sistani's opinion, he would issue a fatwa depriving the US-appointed council of its legitimacy," Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Mohri told Abu Dhabi television. "After this, the Iraqi people will not obey this council. This US plan is not in line with Sistani's views." In Basra, huge crowds walked through the streets, some arm in arm, chanting "No to America" and carrying portraits of Ayatollah Sistani. The protest will come as another uncomfortable warning to the US that, for the second time since the war, it may need to rework its political programme for Iraq. Mr Bremer is flying to Washington for urgent consultations. Large numbers of students and tribesmen were among the crowd, which was led through the streets by several Shia clerics. The British military, which controls Basra and most of southern Iraq, kept a low profile. British soldiers found and defused a large artillery shell, which had been planted as a roadside bomb. Ayatollah Sistani, a moderate and usually apolitical cleric, has issued a series of statements in the past week criticising an American plan, agreed last November by the Iraqi governing council, to hold indirect elections to select a new government by July. US officials say that since security is still a problem in many areas, and there is no accurate electoral roll, organising a general election is too difficult at this stage. Last June he criticised an earlier American political programme as "fundamentally unacceptable", and the administration in Baghdad was forced to rethink its approach. Mr Bremer flew to Washington yesterday for further talks with the Bush administration. Last November's agreement envisages a complex system of provisional caucuses. A committee of 15 Iraqis appointed in each province will select a local caucus which will in turn elect representatives to a new parliament by May. A nationwide general election will not be held until the end of 2005.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365592
__label__cc	0.539366	0.460634	Home / Business / DPC to pay US$1,3m to Allied depositors DPC to pay US$1,3m to Allied depositors Posted on January 16, 2015 by The Independent in Business THE Depositor Protection Corporation (DPC) will immediately pay out US$1,3 million of the US$14,7 million owed to depositors of Allied Bank with the rest to be settled after the liquidation of the bank’s assets, businessdigest has established. Kudzai Kuwaza The central bank cancelled the operating licence of Allied Bank, owned by Transport minister Obert Mpofu, last week saying the institution was no longer in a safe condition. “The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has determined that the banking institution is no longer in a safe and sound condition in that the institution is grossly undercapitalised and is facing chronic liquidity challenges,” the Registrar of Banking Institutions said. The RBZ said the action was in the best interests of the banking institution, its depositors and creditors, and the banking sector in general. DPC CEO John Chikura said the organisation has the capacity to pay affected depositors up to the maximum assured limit of US$500 with the remainder to be paid out after the liquidation of the bank’s assets. “DPC expects to pay a total of US$1,3 million to Allied Bank’s depositors as deposit insurance payments,” Chikura said. “DPC has the capacity to pay all depositors of Allied Bank up to the maximum insured limit of US$500 per depositor per account. Deposit balances above the insurable amount of US$500 will be paid through the liquidation process upon realisation of assets.” Chikura expressed concern over the continued closure of banks, saying this would have an adverse effect on the stability of the banking sector as well as growth of the insurance fund. “An increase in bank failures negatively affects the stability of the banking sector and the growth of the deposit insurance fund,” Chikura said. He revealed that the DPC had paid more than half of the depositors of closed Genesis and Royal banks. “We have made significant progress on the payments to former depositors of both banks and payments are still in progress. For Genesis, we have so far paid 68% of the depositors while for Royal Bank we have paid 57% of the total depositors,” he said. “The main reason why some of the depositors haven’t been paid is that quite a significant number of depositors have balances below US$5 and hence find it uneconomic to claim their money. We have, however, tried a number of ways to reach out to the affected depositors, including calling the depositors, sending money via mobile money payments, as well as media publications inviting depositors to come and claim their money.” Previous Previous post: Clarity,consistency elude indigenisation policy Next Next post: Emerging markets pivotal in global economic growth Lafarge revenue up 35% The curious case of the Zimplats 15% stake Corruption conventions lack clout ED flies ZANU PF youths to New York Top Rap Albums of 2019 for Teenagers and Students Top anticipated pop culture events in 2020 Advantages of having your own business Test snub irks Moor, Burl Decaying infrastructure drags Zim to Stone Age Zimind Publishers (Pvt) Ltd Cnr Bessemer & Strand Multiprint Roads Graniteside, Harare Phone: +263 (4) 773934-8 Southern Eye MyClassifieds The Zimbabwe Independent © 2018 ALPHA MEDIA HOLDINGS. All rights reserved. Powered By AMH Digital	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365593
__label__wiki	0.595112	0.595112	Out of the Zone: EU assisted Enterprise Zones Posted on 7 Mar 2012 EU assisted Enterprise Zones offer lots of benefits, but lack of clarity on the delivery mechanisms and whether or not 100% capital allowances will qualify for state aid means there are few signs of business investment yet. Will Stirling asks if Enterprise Zones can work for manufacturers. In the Autumn Statement 2011, HM Treasury said that Enterprise Zones in six assisted areas will qualify for enhanced capital allowances (ECAs). In these areas (see below) 100% allowances will be available for plant and machinery investment incurred between April 2012 and March 2017. But are the ECAs encouraging investment? Not all of the six qualifying Enterprise Zones (EZs) have had their ECAs confirmed by the Treasury. But some, like the North Eastern EZ, with two sites, have, and are now at a point where business investment is moving. “We’ve had many enquiries to both expand businesses and relocate within the EZ, from a spectrum that includes companies in advanced manufacturing,” says Paul Woolaston, who sits on the NELEP board. “We can give up to £100m per project on capital allowances.” But there is a sense of frustration among the administrators of other Enterprise Zones. Some are waiting for approval of both ECAs and other, basic benefits of EZs like business rate relief and simpler planning rules. “The benefits are well known on paper, but we don’t have approval on all benefits nor the mechanisms for delivering them,” says Richard Lowther at Hull City Council, which is operating the two EZs in the Humber region. The benefits, due to kick-in on April 1, will not be ratified by Parliament until June leaving risk averse companies unwilling to tie business plans to EZ benefits. The holdup in Parliament is partly due to the definition of state aid in EZs. Companies are not normally eligible for both business rate relief and ECAs.HM Treasury says it is unaffordable, but also Brussels might take a dim view of businesses that getting both as receiving illegal state aid. However, there may be more flexibility on the definition of state aid within EU-assisted areas, where ECAs apply. “EU assisted areas are allowed to offer more state support as they are effectively deemed to be suffering from market failure,” says Mark Ridgway, managing director of Group Rhodes (p54) who sits on the Leeds City Region LEP board. “Additional support for companies in these areas levels the playing field and does not interfere with competition, so goes the theory.” Status of Enhanced Capital Allowances and other benefits in ECA-eligible Enterprise Zones Some consider that the two types of relief in these assisted EZs – business rate relief and ECAs – are mutually exclusive. The former, for sums up to £225,000, are suitable for SMEs and the latter targets bigger companies and investments. ECAs therefore need a large, anchor investment, which is why allowances up to £100m are being offered per project in the NELEP. But if the large scale investment – for example, the regeneration of Queen Elizabeth Docks in Hull – needs a further government financial incentive to get going, this may affect the status of ECAs as state aid. “Will ECAs be considered in that total calculation of state aid for these Zones, or be exempt?” asks Lowther. “Until these rules are explained, no-one will make any commitments.” See The Last Word (p100) for more on HMT’s Enterprise Zone approach to capital allowances.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365594
__label__cc	0.506678	0.493322	Russian Accused of Plotting Drone Attack on U.S. Planes Refuses Extradition Tar Sands Blockade / Flickr A Russian citizen accused of plotting drone attacks on U.S. military planes does not want to be extradited from Turkey to his home country, the Interfax news agency reports. Renat Bakiyev was sentenced to six years in prison by a local court last week for plotting a drone attack on American aircraft at a military base in southern Turkey, the Turkish Sabah newspaper reported. The man is allegedly affiliated with Islamic State.* According to an unidentified source cited by Interfax, Bakiyev has not given his consent to be transported to Russia, which could be an obstacle to his extradition. Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office said last week that Bakiyev was on an international wanted list for two years on charges of being part of an illegal armed group, but that Turkey had refused to detain and extradite him for two years. *Islamic State is a terrorist organization banned in Russia Read more about: Turkey , United States , Extradition Prisoner diplomacy Israel Halts Russian Hacker’s Extradition to U.S. Amid Prisoner Swap Talks With Moscow The move is linked to Israel's efforts to free Naama Issachar, who was jailed in Russia on drug-smuggling charges. syria fallout U.S. House Recognizes Armenian Genocide, Calls for Turkey Sanctions Ankara views foreign involvement in the issue as a threat to its sovereignty. Defense dispute Turkey and U.S. Head for Showdown Over Russian Missile Contracts Turkey is running out of time to avert a showdown with the United States over its plans to buy advanced Russian air defenses. Thousands of Russians Evacuated From Turkey Thousands of Russians Evacuated from Turkey The Moscow Times Over 450,000 Russians were evacuated from Turkey on Sunday following...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365596
__label__wiki	0.562403	0.562403	HOME \| GENERAL MERCHANDISE It might be known as a fuel company but BP is positioning itself more as a retailer for the future as it generates increasing amount of… View Article Insight: BP fuelling change across retail estate It might be known as a fuel company but BP is positioning itself more as a retailer for the future as it generates increasing amount of profits from its rapidly growing estate of physical stores. Speaking at a recent conference, Rhid Tinkler, IT director for retail and new markets at BP, told delegates that 50% of its profit growth now comes from retail, which presently encompasses 19,000 sites around the world but which is growing by between 500 and 1,000 units each year. “Fuel is where we started [with the physical sites] but we are moving them to being about retail. It’s a very exciting time for BP Retail. We are making great progress but we know we are only just scratching the surface. The reality is that a customer can buy a whole tank of petrol and a coffee and we make more money on the coffee,” he explains. Part of this move involves shifting the technology infrastructure onto a standard global platform and avoiding “digital being overlaid onto legacy IT because it’s hard”. Advantages enjoyed so far include much improved stock availability, which has driven increased margins, as well as stronger control on product price accuracy and ranging. As BP undertakes its transformation Tinkler says taking such Software-as-a-Service solutions is proving extremely beneficial as it enables the business to move a lot faster. Despite this he says one of the major challenges the company is facing is deploying technology more quickly across the 19,000 sites. “We need to join the data sets and collaborate more,” he says, adding that the company has managed to automate some of the pilots through the use of robots to simulate multiple transactions. Although the retail operations are working successfully Tinkler is very much focused on further development as the company works on how it turns its retail outlets into ‘hubs’. “Petrol and diesel will be a small thing in the corner”, and in addition there will be electric charging points, the units could also act as last mile hubs, and places where car sharing can occur. “We’ve also done trials in Australia with Deliveroo. It all makes people dwell longer and we can get them to buy things. It becomes less about fuel,” he says. This is one of many trials being undertaken by BP that utilise a variety of technologies including Internet of Things devices, beacons, augmented reality, and voice recognition. What particularly excites Tinkler is linking these various elements together. “We want it all to be frictionless for the customers and to not make it freaky stalker-like. We need to take people on a journey. We’re looking at how to leverage all this technology and the key here is the data,” explains Tinkler. Insight: step-change for UK shops market as sector polarises Tech change continues to impact retail employment Natalie Bruins K3 - Retail is tough, the time for… Insight: retail footfall down 1.1% in July Insight: UK retail could get worse before it gets… Insight: retail footfall down 0.5% in February	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365601
__label__wiki	0.766755	0.766755	Kellogg Dishes Up Offline Sales With Programmatic Buying / December 2014 / Consumer Electronics, Food & Drink, Programmatic Kellogg Company has produced some of the world's most trusted food brands for more than a century. To reach its constantly connected consumers, the company realized it needed to look beyond traditional marketing channels. So, Kellogg embraced programmatic buying, specifically Google's DoubleClick Bid Manager, to stay at the forefront of changing consumer behavior. With Google's programmatic buying and measurement solutions, it has increased viewability rates to over 70% and improved targeting by 2-3X. Drive awareness and persuasion toward Kellogg brands Use DoubleClick Digital Marketing platform and programmatic solutions to reach the right consumers with the right message at the right time Increase ad viewability Use audience insights to increase effectiveness of media buys Achieve optimal frequency of ads to drive user engagement 70-80% viewability rates 2-3X better targeting Using programmatic buying to power digital success Kellogg Company is a century-old marketer with some of the world's most trusted brands. Kellogg's vision is to enrich and delight the world through foods and brands that matter, and digital marketing plays a key role in helping them move consumers through the path of purchase. The cereal powerhouse uses programmatic buying with the DoubleClick Digital Marketing platform to gain a holistic view of the consumer, deliver the right message to the right person and ensure that its digital marketing efforts deliver maximum effectiveness. Delivering the right message with data and technology Kellogg recognizes that traditional marketing channels often aren't enough to reach consumers in today's digital age. "People are using digital devices 24/7, from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed and every time in between. We need to be there," says Jim Kiszka, senior manager, digital strategy, Kellogg North America. Kellogg embraced programmatic buying as a key part of its digital strategy to stay at the forefront of changing consumer behavior. And for this, a key partner for the company has been DoubleClick Bid Manager, Google's demand-side platform (DSP), which helps agencies and marketers buy display media more effectively and efficiently, across screens and channels, in real time. With every impression it buys, Kellogg wants to reach, measure, and understand who saw its ad. "But it's not enough just to capture all that data," Kiszka adds. "We also want to be able to glean insights from it. As we put all of these pieces together, we're finding that we really can move the needle." "Programmatic buying has played a significant role in our digital marketing strategy," adds Aaron Fetters, director of Kellogg's Insight and Analytics Solution Center. "It's an opportunity to drive further success in our core metrics for digital advertising, and to use data and technology to deliver our message to the target audience." Kellogg began investing in programmatic buying as an efficient way to purchase media but soon found that it was an effective way to reach its loyal consumers as well. Formulating the right key performance indicators (KPIs) for its digital marketing campaigns was vital for Kellogg to reach its goal of driving offline sales. And for this, the right digital measurement tools were critical. Kellogg's three main KPIs were viewability, targeting index, and frequency. Viewability measures whether an ad was actually seen by a consumer—a metric vital for Kellogg's branding goals, because if a digital ad isn't seen, the marketing efforts are wasted. DoubleClick Active View and comScore Validated Campaign Essentials are used to track the company's ads' viewability rates and to optimize towards campaign goals. Over time, Kellogg was able to validate that its campaign KPI metrics were a key indicator leading to offline sales and effective marketing spend. The cereal company partnered with DoubleClick to leverage powerful audience and contextual data as well as robust optimization capabilities to deliver against its KPIs. "DoubleClick has helped us understand a lot about ourselves and the media we're buying," Kiszka says. Gaining efficiency and effectiveness With the programmatic buying and measurement solutions from DoubleClick, Kellogg's viewability rate increased to more than 70 percent. "It's amazing the impact you can have on a measurement such as viewability when you focus on it, plan for it, and optimize for it," Fetters says. DoubleClick solutions have helped Kellogg refine the targeting and frequency of its digital campaigns. The food company is now two to three times better at ensuring that its impressions go directly to the consumers they most want to reach. Kellogg is confident that with DoubleClick they're reaching the right consumer and that they're targeting and managing their ads more effectively. "The role of programmatic in building our brands is very clear to us, and we have largely executed the plan in recent years," says Jon Suarez-Davis, vice president, global media and digital strategy, Kellogg Company. "It has given us the data and confidence to know that programmatic buying is an efficient and effective way to engage our consumers." 5 factors of display viewability TalkTalk Increases Reach and Lowers CPA With DoubleClick	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365604
__label__wiki	0.960643	0.960643	Do you own a leasehold flat and want to buy the freehold? Here are seven crucial factors you must consider before you kickstart the process BBC to axe 2,000 more jobs Updated: 11:09 EST, 21 March 2005 THE BBC is to cut 2,050 jobs in a second wave of redundancies aimed at saving hundreds of millions of pounds a year, the corporation announced today. The cuts will include 420 in news, 66 in sport, 150 in drama, entertainment and children's programmes, 735 in the regions, 58 in new media and 424 in factual and learning. Announced in a special message to staff by director general Mark Thompson, the cuts follow a previous announcement of 1,730 job losses in professional services. The BBC said a total of 3,780 jobs would be lost, a reduction of 19% in its UK workforce, and would lead to annual savings of £355m by 2008 - £35m more than a target set last December. Mr Thompson told BBC staff: 'This is all money we plan to spend on programmes and content, both to improve the services we deliver to audiences right now and to build strong BBC services in the future. 'We want all divisions to figure out ways of achieving these savings through genuine improvements rather than crude cuts.' The cuts will be phased in over the next three years through a combination of 'modernising production, eradicating duplication and reducing administrative staff', said the corporation. The savings meant that by the financial year 2008/9 there will be £355m of fresh investment each year, said Mr Thompson. Investment priorities will include £47m by 2008 in television drama on BBC One and Two, £45m for news, £52m for the regions and £14m for children's programmes. Mr Thompson said there were risks in undertaking change on such a large scale, adding there would be a lot of 'hard-edged activity' in the coming months. 'We are going through the toughest period any of us can remember. It's a difficult and painful process but necessary,' he said. 'We need to free up money to start investing in our digital future, to end our current Charter in December 2006 on budget and to show we are serious about providing value for money.' Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, accused Mr Thompson of 'ripping the heart' out of BBC programme making. 'Throughout this whole turbulent period he has still failed to answer the single most important question - how can the BBC maintain the quality and standards it is justifiably praised for whilst axing one in five staff. 'How can hard working staff maintain quality whilst trying to do not only their own job but that of thousands of their colleagues too. The inevitable result is that staff will face burn-out whilst standards and quality will be damaged.'	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365605
__label__wiki	0.955844	0.955844	Kaine: ‘Last night, Hillary won the popular vote of Americans’ Election updates (closed)Latest: Minnesota elects first Somali-American Muslim woman lawmaker EU invites Trump to summit, warns against ‘isolation’ AIPAC congratulates Trump, sees ‘most pro-Israel Congress ever’; Clinton concedes: ‘We owe Trump an open mind and the chance to lead’; Trump invites Netanyahu to visit Washington, PM says By TOI staff 9 November 2016, 7:17 am 5 Edit Hillary Clinton, holding hands with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, waves to a crowd outside a New York hotel as she arrives to speak to her staff and supporters after losing the race for the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Protesters against President-elect Donald Trump march down a street east of the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore., Wednesday, November 9, 2016. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP) President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with supporters after giving his acceptance speech during his election night rally, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/John Locher) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meeting at Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO) An image of Hillary Clinton is speared by a dart on a dartboard at Mike's Place bar in Jerusalem early November 9, 2016. Donald Trump supporters were watching the results of the US presidential race at the watering hole. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel) Trump supporters at Mike's Place bar in Jerusalem on November 9, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/ Times of Israel) US president-elect Donald Trump greets wife Melania after speaking at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York on November 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/SAUL LOEB) Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States in a shock win after one of the most acrimonious elections in memory. The Times of Israel liveblogged developments as they happened. Catch up on our earlier coverage of election night here. Democrats’ path to Senate majority slipping away Democrats’ chances of retaking the Senate majority slip away as Republicans hang onto key seats in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Indiana and Florida. Democrats grab a Republican-held seat in Illinois, but the outcome in Wisconsin is a surprise as both parties had expected it to flip for the Democrats. Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s victory over former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold forecasts a grim night for the Democrats, who could be consigned to minority status on Capitol Hill for years to come. Races in GOP-held Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Missouri remain too close to call as Republicans defend a slim 54-46 majority in an unpredictable election year. Democrats will have to win all of those and hang onto Democratic-held Nevada to reach a 50-50 outcome, and could then only claim majority status if Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the White House. The vice president casts tie-breaking votes in the Senate. Anxious Clinton campaign waits for election returns Anxious aides to Democrat Hillary Clinton watch key swing states Ohio, North Carolina and Florida go for Republican Donald Trump, while keeping a close eye on Michigan and Wisconsin — two states that had seemed like safe bets for her as the presidential race shapes up to be far closer than her top strategists had anticipated. “I’m terrified,” says Clinton supporter Niki Rarig, 34, who traveled to New York City from Portland, Oregon, for what was meant to be a victory celebration. “I just can’t even imagine what a Trump presidency would look like.” The shape of the contest was startling to Clinton and her aides, who ended their campaign exuding confidence. Many stopped returning calls and text messages as the votes were tallied. Clinton, her family and close aides hunkered down to watch returns at a Manhattan hotel suite. Democrats have carried Michigan in every presidential election since 1992, and Clinton made two stops there in the final days of the campaign to shore up support, but she never made a stop in Wisconsin after the primary there last spring, confident of a victory there. Both states remain too close to call. Ex-Israeli envoy to US: Trump unlikely to act on all campaign pledges While the world reacts with shock to Trump’s likely surprise win, it must remember that the president-elect is unlikely to implement all the policies he advocated during the election campaign, says former Israeli ambassador to the US Itamar Rabinovich. “It takes one set of ideas and set of statements to get elected, and a different set of ideas to govern,” he says at an event at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. If Trump were actually to follow through on all his proposals, it would “create a degree of international turmoil the world and the US will not be able to deal with,” Rabinovich says. “We will likely see a serious moderation of some of the policies. No wall will be erected on Mexican border. Muslims will not be prevented from entering the US, and so on. However, there will be changes.” He says that change “will be dramatic.” And yet, some of these changes will be moderated by the president’s aides and other forces within the administration. Calif., Mass. okay recreational pot; executions back in Nebraska California and Massachusetts vote to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, giving a huge boost to the campaign to allow pot nationwide. Seven more states also vote on marijuana measures, while others vote on gun control and capital punishment. In Nebraska, voters reinstate the death penalty, reversing the Legislature’s decision last year to repeal capital punishment. Nebraska has not executed an inmate since 1997; 10 men currently sit on death row. Colorado voters approved a measure that will allow physicians to assist a terminally ill person in dying. That’s already a practice in five other states. Coloradans defeat a proposal that would have set up the nation’s first universal health care system. Five states, including Arizona, Maine and Nevada, considered whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. The results were hailed as historic by legalization activists, given that California is the most populous state. Massachusetts is the first state east of the Rockies to join the movement. Voters in Florida and North Dakota approve measures allowing marijuana use for medical purposes. Voters in Arkansas are considering a similar proposal. Montanans vote on whether to ease restrictions on an existing medical marijuana law. Asian shares tumble as Trump gains Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 briefly plunges more than 6.1 percent as investors react to the prospect of a Trump presidency. By late in Tokyo’s trading session, the Nikkei is down 5.2 percent, after the Kyodo News agency reports that top officials from the Bank of Japan, Finance Ministry and Financial Services Agency will meet later in the day to discuss how to respond to possible wild fluctuations in financial markets. Japanese shares tend to gain when the yen weakens, since that can help manufacturers when they bring back profits from overseas. Ex-US envoy to Israel fears prejudice unleashed by Trump campaign The Trump campaign “has unleashed some currents of behavior that will be hard to put back in the box: anti-Semitism, prejudice against Latinos, immigrants, women, and so on,” says Dan Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Egypt and Israel. Former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer at Princeton University, February 1, 2011 (AP/Mel Evans) One victim of a likely Trump presidency will be the notion of American exceptionalism, Kurtzer tells an event in Tel Aviv via video conference. “The idea being a beacon of democracy will now be seen as a joke, when people like David Duke and other racists are seen celebrating.” Clinton on course to win Nevada Hillary Clinton keeps alive her hopes of being elected president, winning the western state of Nevada, US networks project. Nevada has six Electoral College votes, allowing Clinton to make up a little of her deficit to Trump, who has a substantial lead. US stock futures tumble 5% on fears of Trump win US stock markets tumble more than five percent in after-hours trading as Trump appears poised to defeat Clinton in the race for the White House. Futures markets for the S&P 500 fall 5.01 percent and the tech-heavy NASDAQ loses 5.08 percent, reflecting the growing concerns among investors about the economic risks posed by a Trump presidency. The Dow Jones index falls 4.30 percent. As results come in pointing to an astonishing upset win by Trump, markets that had counted on Clinton to win are caught up in a growing wave of panic. Stocks had risen yesterday, with Dow Jones index up 0.40 percent and the Nasdaq up 0.53 percent. Futures contracts, which fall while Wall Street is closed, reflect investor sentiment on what will happen down the road. Trump ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan with most votes counted — CNN Trump is ahead in both Wisconsin and Michigan with most of the votes counted, CNN reports. The Republican leads 49% to 45.8% in Wisconsin and 48.4% to 46.7% in Michigan, the channel says. French far-right leader congratulates Trump The head of France’s National Front party, Marin Le Pen, tweets her congratulations to Donald Trump on his expected election win. “Congratulations to the new president of the United States Donald Trump and to the American people” she writes. Félicitations au nouveau président des Etats-Unis Donald Trump et au peuple américain, libre ! MLP — Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) November 9, 2016 AP says Trump wins Pennsylvania, likely handing him presidency The Associated Press says Trump has won the state of Pennsylvania. The state’s 20 electoral votes put him at 264. US envoy to Israel declines to comment on race US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro tells a conference in Tel Aviv that the US election has not been decided yet and therefore he will not comment on the outcome. US Ambassador Dan Shapiro speaks at the 9th Annual International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2016. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv) Even if a president-elect is called in the coming moments, he would not comment on future US policies, he says at an event hosted by the Institute for National Security Studies. Rather, the ambassador gives a lengthy speech highlighting various elements of Israeli-American cooperation, saying that the next administration will inherit a strong and stable relationship that encompasses many areas. David Duke congratulates Trump American white nationalist David Duke congratulates Donald Trump on Twitter, adding a call for rival Hillary Clinton to be jailed. “GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP!” he writes. “It’s time to do the right thing, it’s time to TAKE AMERICA BACK!!!” GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP! It's time to do the right thing, it's time to TAKE AMERICA BACK!!!#MAGA #AmericaFirst #LockHerUp #GodBlessAmerica pic.twitter.com/1mVrrs0kFF — David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) November 9, 2016 Ryan congratulates Trump on ‘big night’ Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan congratulates Donald Trump on “his big night.” A spokeswoman for Ryan confirms that he called Trump on Tuesday evening. AshLee Strong says they had “a very good conversation.” She says: “The speaker congratulated Trump on his big night and also spoke with his good friend Gov. Mike Pence.” Clinton campaign chief: No statement tonight, count not over Clinton’s campaign director John Podesta addresses her supporters in New York, saying the candidate will not be speaking tonight as votes are still being counted. “Go home, get some sleep. We will have more to say tomorrow,” he says. “I want every person across the country who supported her to know your voices, your enthusiasm mean so much to us,” Podesta continues. “We are so proud of you and we so proud of her. She’s done an amazing job and she is not done yet.” Democrats in Israel still optimistic despite electoral battering The head of Democrats Abroad Israel says they are still “holding on” to hopes of a Clinton victory. “We’re still holding on, we’re still holding on,” Tali Zinger says, pointing to the remaining states and counties are “too close to call.” “We’re still optimistic,” she adds, though “there is a very different tone than there was just a few hours ago. We’re still waiting and seeing. It’s not over till it’s over.” “Sure we’re surprised,” she says of the results trickling in. “We expected this to be called when the East Coast polls were in and Florida would go to Hillary and we’d wrap this up. And that obviously didn’t happen. So we’re seeing, we’re still hopeful… it hasn’t been called yet, and we’re still holding on.” — Marissa Newman Trump arrives at campaign HQ in New York City Donald Trump arrives at his campaign headquarters at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where he is expected to address his supporters. CNN calls Wisconsin for Trump CNN says Trump has won the state of Wisconsin, bringing him another 10 electoral votes. AP says Donald Trump is next president of United States AP says Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, as voters eager to shake up the nation’s political establishment pick the businessman to lead the country. An unexpected Republican nominee, Trump rode a wave of support from voters seeking change and willing to accept a candidate loose with facts and accused of sexual misconduct. In a victory that rattled financial markets worldwide, he upset Democrat Hillary Clinton, who would have become the first woman to serve in the Oval Office. Clinton calls Trump to concede election Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump to concede the presidential race, CNN reports. Pence: I am deeply grateful to American people Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence: “The American people have spoken and the American people have elected their new champion. American has elected a new president and it’s almost hard for me to express the honor I and my family feel,” he says. “I am deeply grateful to American people.” WATCH: Trump makes victory speech Donald Trump speaks to his supporters after winning the presidential election. Trump: I will be president for all Americans Trump strikes a conciliatory note in his victory speech, calling for unity and vowing to be president for all Americans. He says Clinton called to congratulate him, and praises her for a hard-fought race. Trump praises Republican establishment for helping win Trump name checks Republican leaders, including RNC chair Reince Priebus, for their assistance during the election. Likud minister Yisrael Katz congratulates Trump Likud minister Yisrael Katz congratulates Trump on his victory. “I am sure our good relationship with the US will continue,” Katz says, according to Israel National News. “We did not interfere in the elections,” he says, “we have enough problems here.” Arab MK: Trump election is a wake-up call Meretz MK Isawi Frej expresses shock at Trump’s victory, saying it should be a wake-up call for the world. “I woke up this morning to discover that Trump will be the next president of the United States,” he writes on Facebook. “The leader of the free world will be a serial harasser of women, a racist and ranter, who was democratically elected by the American people. “Trump’s victory was not a mistake, and he is not our main problem at the moment. The direction the American people are going in, and with them the rest of the world, is the problem. The world has become more violent, more racist and more frightening. “Trump’s victory is the red light we need to wake up, to re-calculate and work out how we get through this period.” Barkat congratulates Trump, reminds him of vow to move embassy to Jerusalem Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat sends a letter of congratulations to Trump, reminding the president-elect of his campaign vow to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “I am confident that you will continue to empower our city by reaffirming its sovereignty and moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem,” Barkat says in the letter he posted on Twitter. Mazal tov from #Jerusalem, Mr. President! @realDonaldTrump #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/L05W8HFNnd — Mayor Nir Barkat (@NirBarkat) November 9, 2016 Herzog to Trump: Your win shows elites are thing of past Opposition leader Isaac Herzog congratulates Trump on his win. “Warm congratulations to the president of the most powerful nation in the world: Donald J Trump!” Herzog writes in Hebrew on Facebook. “Today American democracy chose … an American leader who showed the commentators and the skeptics that we are in a new era of change and replacing the old elitist regimes!” he says. “You did the unthinkable, against all the odds, polls, research and the prophets of the old era. I’m convinced that the defense and financial alliance with our strongest and most powerful ally will continue with a vengeance under your presidency.” Putin congratulates Trump, hopes for ‘constructive dialogue’ Vladimir Putin congratulates Trump on his election win. The Russian president expresses the hope for “constructive dialogue” between the two countries. Egyptian president calls to congratulate Trump Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi calls Trump to congratulate him on his election win. Sissi says he was the first world leader to call the American president-elect, according to the Walla website. During their conversation, Sissi expresses the hope “for a new atmosphere in the relationship between the US and Egypt.” Livni congratulates Trump, hopes for moderation Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni sends Trump her congratulations on Twitter, saying she hopes he will stick to the conciliatory gestures in his victory speech and not the inflammatory rhetoric he used on the campaign trail. “Congratulations @realDonaldTrump,” she writes. “I hope for the US and the world that he actualize the promises of his acceptance speech, not the campaign.” Congratulations @realDonaldTrump. I hope for the US and the world that he actualize the promises of his acceptance speech, not the campaign — ציפי לבני (@Tzipi_Livni) November 9, 2016 Turkey vows to strengthen US ties following Trump win Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu congratulates Trump on Twitter, Reuters reports. He says Ankara will step up its “trust-based relations and cooperation” with the US in the wake of the Republican’s win. Abbas urges Trump to work toward Palestinian statehood Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office calls on Trump to work towards a Palestinian state. “We are ready to deal with the elected president on the basis of a two-state solution and to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders,” says Abbas aide Nabil Abu Rudeineh. He says a failure to resolve the decades-old conflict would mean “the unstable situation will continue in the region.” Hamas: We don’t expect shift in US bias in wake of Trump win Hamas says it does not expect a change in American “bias” against the Palestinians following Trump’s win. “The Palestinian people do not count much on any change in the US presidency because the US policy towards the Palestinian issue is a consistent policy on the basis of bias,” says Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. “Nevertheless, we hope that US president Trump will re-evaluate this policy and rebalance it on the Palestinian issue.” Iran urges Trump to stick to international accords Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urges Trump to stick to international accords. The president-elect has slammed the nuclear agreement with Iran signed by Obama and other world leaders last year, calling it “the worst deal ever negotiated.” Knesset speaker congratulates Trump on behalf of parliament Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) begins today’s parliamentary session in Jerusalem with message of congratulations for Trump. “‏Allow me to congratulate, on behalf of the Knesset and myself, the president-elect of the United States of America, Mr. Donald J. Trump, and vice president-elect Mr. Mike Pence. I am confident that the longstanding friendship and alliance between the United States and Israel will remain strong during Mr. Trump’s term in office,” he says. “We send our best wishes to the American people and are certain that they will remain united in dealing with the challenges facing America and the world today.” Bennett: Trump win means era of Palestinian state is over Education Minister Naftali Bennett congratulates Trump on his victory, saying he hopes it means a shift in US policy on Palestinian statehood. “I congratulate president-elect Donald Trump, and all the American people,” he says. “We are sure the special relationship between the United States and Israel will continue, and even grow stronger.” He continues: “Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state in the center of the country, which would hurt our security and just cause. This is the position of the president-elect, as written in his platform, and it should be our policy, plain and simple. The era of a Palestinian state is over.” Bennett, who heads the right-wing Jewish Home party, thanks Clinton for “her friendship with Israel.” NATO says US leadership ‘as important as ever’ US leadership is essential in facing up to new security challenges, NATO head Jens Stoltenberg says as he congratulates Donald Trump on his election victory. “We face a challenging new security environment, including hybrid warfare, cyberattacks, the threat of terrorism. US leadership is as important as ever,” Stoltenberg says. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attends a joint press conference during a NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland on July 9, 2016. (AFP/Wojtek Radwanski) “I look forward to working with president-elect Trump,” he adds. Trump caused consternation during the campaign when he suggested Washington would think twice about coming to the aid of an endangered NATO ally if it had not paid its dues, casting doubt on the US-led alliance’s core collective defense commitment. Asked about these remarks, Stoltenberg says “all allies have made a solemn commitment to defend each other, this is absolute and unconditioned.” British PM congratulates Trump, touts close bilateral ties British PM Theresa May sends Trump a message of congratulations, highlighting the long-standing close relationship between their two countries. “I would like to congratulate Donald Trump on being elected the next President of the United States, following a hard-fought campaign,” she says in a statement. “Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise. We are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defense. I look forward to working with president-elect Donald Trump, building on these ties to ensure the security and prosperity of our nations in the years ahead.” Turkey asks Trump to extradite Gulen Turkey’s prime minister calls on Donald Trump to extradite US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen — blamed by Ankara for the failed coup in July — as soon as he is sworn in. Binali Yildirim says he hopes the new US leadership will take into consideration Turkey’s “sensitivities concerning the fight against terrorism,” give priority to policies that would bring peace and stability to the region and advance traditional friendship between the two countries. Ties between the two allies have been strained over perceptions in Turkey that the US is reluctant to arrest and extradite Gulen. Turkey is also frustrated by Washington’s backing for Syrian Kurdish militia fighting the Islamic State group in Syria. Ankara considers the militia to be a terrorist group. German FM: We respect election result, but ‘a lot will get harder’ German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says the outcome of the US presidential election is “different than most people in Germany would have wanted, but of course we have to respect it.” He says Trump’s victory means “nothing is going to get easier. A lot will get harder.” But he tells reporters in Berlin that it is important to maintain good trans-Atlantic relations, which he likened to “the foundations of the West.” He says Germany would seek dialogue with the Trump administration, but warns that American foreign policy would likely become “less predictable.” Obama calls Trump to congratulate him Obama calls Trump to congratulate him on winning the election, NBC reports, quoting the president-elect’s campaign manager. The details of the conversation were apparently not made public. Kellyanne Conway tells me President Obama called Trump tonight. She did not know what they said. — Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) November 9, 2016 Likud deputy minister: I backed Trump, PM ordered my silence Deputy Minister for Regional Affairs Ayoub Kara says he personally supported Trump for the US presidency, but kept quiet because the prime minister told him to. “I had the honor to be among the only ones, apart from the prime minister, to visit the Trump headquarters in NY, and I was afraid — like many others — to identify and publicly support him, so as not to hurt the government,” says the Druze lawmaker, who is a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party. Ayoub Kara (Jusmine/Wikimedia Commons) Kara says the PM “told us unequivocally not to comment on either candidate, and asked us not to respond until after the elections, and I’m happy that we complied with his request. We didn’t comment and we didn’t get involved… It’s no secret that everyone had a preference, and I think that most of the Israeli public wanted Trump and most of the Jewish population in the US… wanted Clinton.” He hails the “special ties” with the US, which he says are independent of the president, and hails Trump’s win as “wonderful news” for the “settlements in Israel, for the status of a united Jerusalem, and for the free world.” Netanyahu congratulates Trump, calls him ‘true friend of Israel’ Netanyahu issue a statement congratulating Trump on his win, calling the president-elect a “true friend of Israel.” “We will work together to advance security, stability and peace in our region,” he says. “The strong relationship between the United States and Israel is based on shared values, common interests and a joint destiny. “I am sure that president-elect Trump and I will continue to strengthen the unique alliance between Israel and the United States and take it to new heights.” Iran’s Rouhani: Trump cannot reverse nuclear deal Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says there is “no possibility” of its nuclear deal with world powers being overturned by Trump, despite his threat to rip it up. “Iran’s understanding in the nuclear deal was that the accord was not concluded with one country or government, but was approved by a resolution of the UN Security Council and there is no possibility that it can be changed by a single government,” Rouhani tells his cabinet, according to Iranian state television. Settler leader calls Trump win ‘day of celebration’ for Israel The head of Samaria Regional Council in the West Bank, Yossi Dagan, says welcomes Trump’s election victory, calling him a “true friend.” From left, Yossi Dagan, Mark Zell and Abe Katzman celebrating the opening of the Republicans Overseas Israel office in the West Bank town of Karnei Shomron, Sept. 5, 2016. (Andrew Tobin) “This is a day of celebration not only for the United States but also for Israel’s West Bank settlements. A true friend has won,” Dagan says, according to Israel National News. “I openly expressed my support for Trump during the election season because this was an important time for settlements, for Samaria, which now has a president who is a supporter and lover of Israel.” Dagan adds: “We look forward to the first visit of the president-elect Trump and I also invite Trump to come to the West Bank, which is the cradle of Jewish history and the heart of the State of Israel.” European Central Bank official: Trump win ‘not good day for world economy’ Trump’s shock election win “is not a good day for the world economy” and could force the European Central Bank “to intervene,” governing council member Ewald Nowotny says. Nowotny tells reporters in Vienna the ECB is “prepared to intervene” as he warns of “massive insecurities” after the vote outcome sends shockwaves through global markets. “Close observation is certainly necessary right now,” says Nowotny, who is on the ECB governing council that makes monetary policy decisions in his capacity as head of Austria’s central bank. Europe’s recovery could also be affected if Trump’s presidency took a “menacing turn,” he says. Nowotny says he expects “a period of uncertainty in the medium term,” as happened after Britain’s June decision to leave the EU. Yesha chief invites Trump to visit West Bank The chief foreign envoy of the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization of settlements, congratulates Trump and invites him to the West Bank. “I congratulate president-elect Trump on his historic victory,” says Oded Revivi in a statement released to the media. “I invite him to become the first sitting US president to visit our flourishing communities and witness how our presence in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] is key to ensure a peaceful future for millions of Palestinians and Israelis.” Hollande says Trump win ‘opens period of uncertainty’ French President Francois Hollande, who once said Donald Trump made him want to retch, warns that the Republican billionaire’s victory in the US election “opens a period of uncertainty.” In a televised address, Hollande underlines that the United States is a key partner for business, for solving wars in the Middle East and tackling global warming — something Trump dismissed as a hoax. “This American election opens a period of uncertainty,” he says in a statement that offered only brief congratulations to the president-elect. As well as France keeping up its global role, “this context calls for a united Europe, capable of making itself heard and of promoting policies wherever its interests or its values are challenged,” Hollande says. Saudi king hopes Trump will bring regional stability King Salman of Saudi Arabia sends a letter to Trump congratulating him on his electoral victory, the official Saudi news agency says. In his letter, Salman expresses the hope that Trump “will succeed in achieving security and stability in the Middle East and the entire world,” Walla reports. US President Barack Obama (C) walks with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia (R) at Erga Palace in Riyadh, April 20, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Jim Watson) Obama, Trump to meet at White House tomorrow The White House says Obama called both Trump and Clinton in the wake of the presidential election, to congratulate and commiserate, respectively. The president also invites his successor to meet with him at the White House tomorrow to discuss the transition. Obama also urges the country to come together after a fractious election season. Liberman congratulates Trump, vows to deepen bilateral ties Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman congratulates Donald Trump on his electoral victory and promises to continue working to improve ties with the United States. “[Israel] will continue, along with the new president, to safeguard and strengthen the special relationship and courageous friendship between the countries and work to strengthen the shared values of Israel and the United States,” Liberman says in a statement. Taliban says Trump must pull US troops from Afghanistan The Taliban calls on Trump to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan once he takes office as president. In a statement sent to The Associated Press, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says that a Trump administration “should allow Afghans to become a free nation and have relationships with other countries based on non-interference in each other’s affairs.” The Afghan conflict is in its 16th year. The Taliban have spread their footprint across Afghanistan in the two years since most international combat troops withdrew. President Barack Obama expanded US troops’ mandate to enable them to work more closely on the battlefield with their Afghan counterparts, and to conduct counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State group and the Taliban. Shaked urges Trump to move US Embassy to Jerusalem Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked tweets her congratulations to Trump, and calls on him to make good on an election pledge to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “I congratulate Trump, a true friend of Israel, on his election,” she writes in Hebrew. “This is an opportunity for the American administration to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.” Aide: Trump had ‘gracious’ conversation with Clinton Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says the president-elect had a “gracious exchange” with Hillary Clinton and a “warm conversation” with President Barack Obama. Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway speaks to NBC’s “Meet the Press” on October 23, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube) In a pair of interviews on ABC and NBC News Wednesday, Conway says Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, called her late last night and connected Clinton with Trump. She says Clinton “congratulated him for his victory,” and he told Clinton that she is “very smart, very tough” and had “waged a tremendous campaign.” Conway says the Trump campaign isn’t upset that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton hasn’t yet made a public concession speech. Trump said during the campaign that he would assign a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton. But Conway tells ABC’s Good Morning America, “we have not discussed that at all.” Climate scientists react with alarm to Trump win Environmentalists and climate scientists are alarmed over the election of a US president who has called global warming a “hoax.” Donald Trump’s win raises questions about whether America, once again, will pull out of an international climate deal. Many said it’s now up to the rest of the world to lead efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, while others hold out hope that Trump will change his stance on climate change and honor US commitments under last year’s landmark Paris Agreement. Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine says that as “the realities of leadership settle in, I expect he will realize that climate change is a threat to his people and to whole countries which share seas with the US.” Clinton to address supporters in coming hours Hillary Clinton will be speaking to her supporters 9:30 a.m. EST (16:30 Israel time). It will be her first public remarks since her stunning defeat to Donald Trump in the US presidential election. Her campaign says she’ll speak to staff and supporters at a New York hotel. Clinton did not give a formal concession speech. But she did call Trump early Wednesday to congratulate him on his victory in Tuesday’s election. Trump’s conciliatory speech helps soothe market concerns Conciliatory comments from Trump in the aftermath of his victory over Clinton help global stock markets recover a large chunk of their earlier losses. Though uncertainty remains over Trump’s trade, immigration and geopolitical policies and what his victory means for the future of globalization, investors appear somewhat calmed by his victory speech, in which he praises Clinton and urges Americans to “come together as one united people” after a divisive campaign. “While Trump slightly soothed some concerns in his victory speech, uncertainty remains over what kind of a US he plans to lead,” says Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA. In Europe, Germany’s DAX is down 0.9 percent at 10,384 while the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was 0.4 percent lower at 6,818. US stocks are expected to open lower, too, though by far less than earlier predicted. Dow futures are 1.6 percent lower at 17,991 while the broader S&P 500 futures were down 1.7 percent at 2,100. Likud MK says Trump presidency doesn’t end two-state hopes As some right-wing lawmakers ring the death knell for the two-state solution as Trump heads to the White House, not all MKs, on both sides of the aisle, are convinced. Likud MK Anat Berko, a member of the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, says “I don’t think” Trump’s presidency ends the two-state peace framework. “I think the solution will be led by our prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and we will do it based on the Israeli interest for security. The security needs will determine the solution,” she says. “There will be a solution in the end, and the prime minister is committed to it.” She says she had no personal preference for president, and praises both candidates as being pro-Israel. Labor lawmaker says ‘give Trump a chance’ on peace talks A senior opposition lawmaker, Labor Party secretary general and Zionist Union MK Hilik Bar, who also heads the Knesset caucus for the two-state solution, also rejects the view that Trump’s election means the end of two-state peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians. Bar says he believes “Trump will understand that for Jews in Israel, it’s important to separate from the Palestinians.” “I believe that Trump will understand that what [Jewish Home MK Betzalel] Smotrich said is fundamentally wrong and the two-state solution is the only solution that will ensure a safe, democratic life for the Jewish people, with a Jewish majority in Israel.” “We have to give him a chance,” says Bar. Bar says he didn’t come out in support of either candidate, because “just as I don’t like it when others intervene in our elections, I don’t think it’s the role of any Israeli to meddle with the political or democratic process in the US.” Jewish Home MK: Trump win a ‘tailwind’ for legalizing settlements Jewish Home MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli says Trump’s victory is a “golden opportunity” to legalize various outposts in the West Bank, notably Amona, which is slated for demolition in December. “From my perspective, there is a golden opportunity to pass the regulation law, to go ahead with regulating the settlements in Judea and Samaria, with a tailwind from the new administration,” she says. The right-wing lawmaker is referring to her proposed legislation, which is set to come to a ministerial vote next week, that would recognize illegal construction in the West Bank if it garners government backing. She congratulates Trump, and adds: “I very much welcome the decision to remove from the Republican Party platform the two-state solution.” “I think it reflects an understanding that the US government is going to a different place in terms of Judea and Samaria,” she says. “I believe the close ties, the shared values, the strategy of fighting terror — which is shared by Israel and the US — will only improve.” Mexican leader congratulates US – but not Trump Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is congratulating the US on its election — though not directly winner Donald Trump, who alarmed many by describing Mexican migrants as murderers and rapists. Pena Nieto has sent a series of tweets repeating his readiness to work with Trump “in favor of the bilateral relationship.” He says Mexico and the US “are friends, partners and allies who should continue collaborating for the competitiveness and development of North America.” The value of Mexico’s peso currency plunged sharply after the election of Trump, who has denounced the North American Free Trade Agreement that has led to billions of dollars in trade between the two nations. Mexican Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade held a news conference Wednesday morning, urging against “premature reactions.” He said the election result won’t immediately affect trade and said Mexico “is in a position of strength” to face whatever may come. A waiter watches a local analysis of incoming US election results on a television in a traditional Mexican cantina in Mexico City, early Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Former Soviet leader Gorbachev: Time to repair US-Russia ties Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says the election of Republican Donald Trump as US president offers an opportunity to repair ties between Moscow and Washington. The Interfax news agency reports Gorbachev saying, “maybe he will understand that a lot depends on the position of Russia.” Speaking Wednesday from a hospital bed, Gorbachev says, “Under a new president of the US the Russian-American relationship could get significantly better. I am convinced it is essential now to go straight into a two-way dialogue on the highest level.” The 85-year-old Gorbachev was admitted to the hospital for what Russian media reported was a planned pacemaker. Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matreska depict US presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and US president-elect Donald Trump displayed in a shop in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) Poland expects Trump to honor NATO deployment pledge A spokesman for the Polish president says Poland cares a lot whether US President-elect Donald Trump will implement NATO decisions to deploy military deterrence forces in Poland and the Baltic states. Marek Magierowski says on state Radio 1 Wednesday that it is a priority for Poland to see the implementation of a NATO decision to base four battalions in the region, including a US armored brigade to be stationed in Poland, and also the construction of a US missile defense base. The region is concerned for its security amid Russia’s rising military assertiveness, while Moscow sees Trump’s election as a potential game-changer in fraught US-Russian ties under Obama. Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz says he expects US-Polish ties to be even better under Trump as president. Turkey’s Erdogan calls Trump win ‘a positive sign’ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he hopes Donald Trump’s election as president marks a new era in the United States that he hopes will lead to “beneficial” steps for fundamental rights, liberties and democracy in the world. Addressing a business group in Istanbul on Wednesday, Erdogan also said he hopes the election result would also be auspicious for the region. Erdogan said: “Personally and on behalf of the nation, I wish to consider this decision by the American people a positive sign and wish them a successful future.” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a business meeting in Istanbul, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Press Service, Pool photo via AP) Italian premier Renzi, a Clinton backer, wishes Trump ‘well in his work’ Italy’s premier offers his congratulations to Donald Trump, brushing aside political differences, following his repeated public endorsements of Hillary Clinton. Premier Matteo Renzi says Wednesday, “in the name of Italy, I congratulate the president of the United States and wish him well in his work, convinced that the Italian-American friendship remains strong and solid.” Renzi faces his own political reckoning next month with a constitutional referendum that has mobilized opposition as well as party dissidents against him. A no vote is likely to force at least a government shuffling in Italy, if not new elections. Renzi was in Washington last month for a state visit with President Barack Obama. Italian Premier Matteo Renzi arrives to attend the opening ceremony of the academic year of the police training school in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP) Far-right German party praises Trump’s ‘uncomfortable truths’ The leaders of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, which campaigns against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, welcome Donald Trump’s presidential victory. Party co-leader Frauke Petry says “it was high time that people disenfranchised by the political establishment get their voice back in the United States of America too.” Petry said Trump’s victory offered the chance to “readjust the trans-Atlantic relationship and end the big conflicts in Ukraine and Syria jointly with Russia” and “replace America’s hegemonic claims in Europe with co-operation among equals.” Fellow party leader Joerg Meuthen says “the establishment now has to recognize that you can’t rule past the population for long … Trump has rightly been rewarded for his bravery in standing up against the system and speaking uncomfortable truths.” Slovenia hopes Melania Trump will visit hometown The residents of Melania Trump’s hometown in Slovenia are hoping the future US First Lady will come to visit together with her husband. US flags could be seen in the industrial town of Sevnica on Wednesday as the news came in of Donald Trump winning the US presidency. Sevnica Mayor Srecko Ocvirk says he doesn’t expect Melania Trump to come any time soon but “I expect her to visit Sevnica later.” Melania Trump’s childhood neighbor, Mirjana Jelancic, says she is happy for her friend. She says “it was part of her dreams and we are happy if she succeeds.” Melania Trump, 46, was born Melanija Knavs in Sevnica. She left Slovenia in her 20s to pursue an international modeling career. Smoke and steam rise from a factory in Sevnica, Slovenia, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) Hillary Clinton expected to deliver concession speech shortly Hillary Clinton, whose failed presidential bid sent shockwaves through the Democratic Party since Republican Donald Trump clinched the election win this morning, is expected to deliver her concession speech at 6:15 p.m. Israel time. She has reportedly already called Trump by phone to congratulate him on his victory. Media watchdog warns Trump to respect press freedom Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders warns US President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday to respect press freedom, accusing him of bullying journalists throughout his controversial election campaign. The Paris-based group says it was alarmed by threats made by Trump that he would reform US libel laws so that “when the New York Times or the Washington Post writes a hit piece (critical of him), we can sue them.” The Republican, who won a shock victory over favorite Democrat Hillary Clinton, also revoked the credentials of Washington Post journalists following him, complaining of the “phony and dishonest” coverage their paper was giving him, it says in a statement. “Trump also insulted and bullied reporters who portrayed him negatively or asked him tough questions,” says the group, which is known by its French-language initials RSF. RSF secretary general Christophe Deloire says Trump’s attempts to restrict “the free press during his presidential campaign have sent a worrying signal about his intentions in the presidency. As president, we call on him to ensure respect for press freedom and free speech under the First Amendment.” In video, Netanyahu congratulates ‘great friend’ Trump Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems truly excited about Donald Trump’s victory yesterday. In a video posted to his official YouTube account, Netanyahu calls Trump “my friend,” and says the two administrations will bring their countries’ alliance “to even greater heights.” “President-elect Trump, my friend, “Congratulations on being elected President of the United States of America. You are a great friend of Israel. “Over the years, you’ve expressed your support consistently, and I deeply appreciate it. “I look forward to working with you to advance security, prosperity and peace. “Israel is grateful for the broad support it enjoys among the American people, and I’m confident that the two of us, working closely together, will bring the great alliance between our two countries to even greater heights. “May God bless America. May God bless Israel. May God bless our enduring alliance.” Bosnia divided along ’90s battle lines over Trump win Bosnia is divided over Donald Trump’s presidential victory in the US, with the country’s Serbs welcoming it while Muslim Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats disappointed with Hillary Clinton’s defeat. The division is mainly based on the role former US President Bill Clinton’s administration had in ending Bosnia’s devastating 1992-95 war, which took over 100,000 lives and included a four-year siege of Sarajevo. US-led NATO airstrikes against the Serb artillery pounding the capital and a peace agreement brokered by American negotiators finally ended the war. Vitomir Blagojevic, a Bosnian Serb from Pale, says he has a very good opinion of Trump. “I am really glad that he won.” But in Sarajevo, Kemal Hadzibegic, a Muslim Bosniak, describes Trump as “raw.” “We were in favor of Clinton,” he says. “We trusted her more. This is a real surprise for us, but also for everyone else.” Facebook, Twitter report massive use for election Facebook and Twitter are reporting massive Election Day engagement on social media. Facebook says 115 million people worldwide generated over 716 million likes, posts, comments and shares related to the election Tuesday. Twitter says more than 75 million Election Day tweets were sent by 3 a.m. Wednesday. That’s more than double the 31 million sent during the entirety of Election Day four years ago. Google says President-elect Donald Trump also won when it comes to searches on the candidates. The search giant says more searches were performed on the Republican than those for Democrat Hillary Clinton in a majority of the country from Sunday to Tuesday. Dutch foreign minister: ‘We will judge Trump on his actions’ Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders says, in a reaction to Donald Trump’s US presidential win, “we will judge him on his actions.” Koenders, of the center-left Labor Party, says “Trump made statements that were at odds with how we like to see our society and world order.” He cited examples including Trump’s comments about US relationships with NATO, Russia and the European Union. But the Dutch minister says it’s important for the Netherlands’ close relationship with the United States to continue for economic and geopolitical reasons. He says “we are facing global challenges such as climate change and the fight against terrorism.” Paul Ryan, top Republican in Congress, praises Trump for ‘incredible’ win House Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in elected office (at least until January), offers resounding praise for Donald Trump’s victory. “This was the most incredible political feat…in my lifetime,” Ryan says in a Wisconsin press conference. Citing the “unified Republican government,” Ryan notes Trump “heard a voice in this country no one else was hearing. Seven out of 10 Americans don’t like the direction this country is going. “Donald Trump,” he adds, “provided a lot of coattails that got a lot of people over the finish line” in Congressional races. And he sounds a conciliatory tone. “There’s no doubt our democracy can be very messy and we do remain a sharply divided country. But now, as we do every four years, we have to work to heal the divisions of a long campaign.” Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine praises Clinton’s accomplishments as a woman at the rarefied heights of American politics. “Last night, she won the popular vote of Americans. That is an amazing accomplishment.” He offers a subtle dig at Trump: “Nobody had to wonder about Hillary if she would accept an outcome of an election in our beautiful country. Nobody had to doubt it. “She’s in love with [America]. That love of country I think is obvious to everyone.” Clinton concedes: ‘We owe Trump an open mind and the chance to lead’ In a painful, sometimes choking concession speech, Hillary Clinton sounds a conciliatory tone. “Last night I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him,” she says to supporters in New York. “I hope he will be a successful president for all Americans. “I’m sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country, but I feel pride and gratitude for this wonderful campaign we built together, this vast, diverse, creative, unruly, energized campaign. You represent the best of America and being your candidate is one of the greatest honors of my life.” Hillary Clinton, with husband Bill Clinton, giving a concession speech in New York on November 9, 2016. (screen capture: CNN) She turns to her supporters: “I know how disappointed you feel, because I feel it too, and so do tens of millions of Americans who invested their dreams in this effort. This is painful and it will be for a long time.” But, she adds, “this was never about a single person.” “We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I believe in America. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. “Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power. And we don’t just respect that, we cherish it.” US envoy to Israel Dan Shapiro wishes Trump success The American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, a longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, offers his congratulations Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump. He tweets: “Congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on his election. I wish him success in working on behalf of all Americans.” Congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on his election. I wish him success in working on behalf of all Americans. — Dan Shapiro (@AmbShapiro) November 9, 2016 Obama: ‘We are all rooting for Trump’s success’ US President Barack Obama spoke to a sense of shock among Democrats. “Yesterday I said the sun would come up in the morning. That’s one bit of prognosticating that actually came true. The sun is up,” he quipped. Turning to Trump’s election victory, he says, “I had a chance to talk to President-elect Donald Trump last night, at about 3 a.m., and had a chance to invite him to come to the White House tomorrow. “It’s no secret that the president-elect and I have some pretty significant differences,” he says, but adds that the same was true in 2008 when he took over the White House from George W. Bush. “We are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading this country,” Obama says of Trump, continuing the tone set by the defeated Hillary Clinton earlier today. “The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy, and over the next few months we are going to show that to the world,” he promises. He praises Clinton’s “extraordinary life of public service. I’m proud of her. A lot of Americans look up to her. Her candidacy and nomination was historic and sends a message to our daughters all over the country.” And he addresses all Americans: “We’re actually all on one team. This is an intramural scrimmage. We’re not Democrats first, not Republicans first. We’re patriots first. We all want what’s best for this country. That’s what I heard from Mr. Trump’s remarks last night, in our conversation. And I’m heartened by that. “A lot of our fellow Americans are exulting today, a lot less so. But that’s the nature of campaigns. It’s hard, and sometimes contentious and noisy. It’s not always inspiring. But to the young people who got into politics for the first time and may be disappointed with the results, I just want you to know, you have to stay encouraged. Don’t get cynical, don’t ever think you can’t make a difference. Fighting for what’s right is important.” AIPAC congratulates Trump, sees ‘most pro-Israel Congress ever’ AIPAC, the largest and most influential group advocating for a stronger US-Israel relationship in Washington, formally congratulates President-elect Donald Trump. “AIPAC congratulates President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence on their election victory,” the group says in a statement. “We also congratulate the elected and re-elected senators and representatives who will be part of the most pro-Israel Congress ever, and look forward to working with them and the new administration to further strengthen the US-Israel relationship.” The group reminds Trump of comments he made at the group’s policy conference in March: On the importance of the relationship: “We will send a clear signal that there is no daylight between America and our most reliable ally, the state of Israel.” On the importance of stopping Iran’s regional aggression and holding Iran accountable to prevent the regime from attaining nuclear weapons: “We must enforce the terms of the previous deal to hold Iran totally accountable…We will totally dismantle Iran’s global terror network. Iran has seeded terror groups all over the world.” Trump invites Netanyahu to visit Washington, PM says US President-elect Donald Trump speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone Wednesday and invites the Israeli leader to Washington at the “first opportunity,” according to the Prime Minister’s Office. Trump and Netanyahu, “who have known each other for many years, had a warm, cordial conversation,” the statement says. “President-elect Trump invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to a meeting in the United States at the first opportunity.” Netanyahu responds by saying that his wife Sara is also looking forward to meeting Melania Trump. Regional issues are also raised during the phone conversation, the statement says without elaborating. George W. Bush didn’t vote for Trump, but congratulates him Another former president Bush is congratulating Donald Trump on winning the race for the White House. George W. Bush says in a statement that he called Trump Wednesday. He says he and his wife, Laura, wished the president-elect and his family “our very best as they take on an awesome responsibility.” Bush adds: “We pray for the success of our country and the success of our new president.” A spokesman says Bush and his wife didn’t vote for Trump when casting early ballots for Tuesday’s election. Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, also called and congratulated Trump on Wednesday. Canada prepares welcome mat for American ‘asylum seekers’ Predictions of an American exodus under a Donald Trump presidency were largely viewed as tongue in cheek during the campaign. Canadians greeted the prospect of American refugees with their typical quirky humor, eagerly touting the country’s healthcare system, poutine, maple syrup and “the good side of the Niagara Falls.” But as it became clear late Tuesday that Trump was on a sure path to the White House, interest in moving to Canada spiked and crashed the country’s immigration website. “I think it’s an emotional reaction. I don’t know if they’ll follow through,” Ottawa immigration lawyer Julie Taub told AFP on Wednesday, hours after Trump was declared the president-elect. “It’s unlikely that a flood of Americans would arrive at the border seeking asylum.” However, Taub and other immigration lawyers said they received several inquiries from Americans as they arrived at the office in the morning. Over the past year, Canadian real estate agencies and regions with sparse populations used the US election to launch marketing campaigns to attract newcomers. “Move to beautiful Nunavut,” said a Twitter message on Wednesday, hyping the Arctic territory’s pristine environment and “10 months of winter each year.” The island of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia on Canada’s east coast welcomed Americans under the slogan, “Cape Breton if Donald Trump wins.” Guatemala asks Trump to guarantee ‘protection’ of migrants Guatemala on Wednesday asks Donald Trump to ensure the “protection” of migrants in the United States, fearing his campaign promise to deport undocumented foreigners. “Guatemala hopes that the actions his administration will take will allow recognition of the precious contribution migrants make to the United States, and that his policies promote and ensure the respect, well-being and protection of the migrant population,” the country’s foreign ministry says in a statement. During his campaign for the US presidency, Trump vowed to deport millions of migrants who did not have papers to legally live in America, and said he would jail any deported illegal migrant who attempted to return. He also repeatedly promised to build a wall across the US-Mexican border to prevent such immigration. The United States has an estimated 11 million undocumented migrants, the overwhelming majority from Latin America, especially Mexico and Central America. Guatemalan authorities say around 1.5 million Guatemalans live in the United States, of whom less than a third are legal residents. Much of Guatemala’s economy depends on remittances US-based Guatemalans send back to their families. Philadelphia sees incidents of neo-Nazi pro-Trump graffiti The day after Donald Trump won the presidency, some neo-Nazi vandals have painted swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti around the Philadelphia area, Philly Voice reports. #BREAKING: Police respond to swastika painted on building in South Philly: https://t.co/RidblnTIlV pic.twitter.com/ljFbiqy5Xe — PhillyVoice (@thephillyvoice) November 9, 2016 Two swastikas painted on windows of empty South Philly building: https://t.co/RidblnTIlV pic.twitter.com/26VVIVz2jK Private prison stocks surge on Trump win Shares of private prison companies see prices surge Wednesday on expectations President-elect Donald Trump will reverse the Obama administration’s move to scale back use of these firms at federal facilities. Shares of Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group soar 48.1 percent and 20.8%, respectively, in afternoon trading after the surprise victory by Republican candidate Trump, who has said he favors the use of private prisons. The gains are a reversal from August, when shares of the companies plummeted after the Justice Department announced it would stop renewing contracts with the private prison companies. The goal was “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately owned prisons,” Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said in a memo. The department had found that private prisons were costly and more dangerous than those in public hands. The decision was expected to affect 13 privately run prisons housing just over 22,000 people, or about 11% of the federal prison population. Most of those inmates are foreign nationals, mainly Mexicans incarcerated for immigration violations. Trump said during a public event in March that the US prison system was a “disaster” but private prisons “seem to work a lot better” than public institutions. The EU’s top leaders on Wednesday invite US President-elect Donald Trump to a summit as soon as possible as they warn of uncertainty in relations and a need to respect democratic values. “I do not believe that any country today can be great in isolation,” European Council chief Donald Tusk tells reporters in Brussels, referring to Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again.” “Europe and the United States simply have no option but to cooperate as closely as possible.” Tusk and European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker say in a letter that they want to discuss “unprecedented challenges” including the Islamic State jihadist group, the conflict in Ukraine, and a troubled EU-US trade deal under negotiation. “We would take this opportunity to invite you to visit Europe for an EU-US summit at your earliest convenience. This conversation would allow for us to chart the course of our relations for the next four years,” they say in a letter of congratulations to Trump. But former Polish prime minister Tusk strikes a more sober tone in a statement to journalists at the 28-nation European Union’s headquarters as he recalls that “Italians, Irish, Poles, Germans, Spanish” had helped build America. “While respecting the democratic choice of the American people, we are at the same time aware of the new challenges that these results bring. One of them is this moment of uncertainty over the future of our transatlantic relations,” he says. With the EU still reeling from the shock of Britain’s recent vote to leave, Tusk adds: “The events of the last months and days should be treated as a warning sign for all who believe in liberal democracy.” Juncker later says in a speech in Berlin that the EU should not “upend its relations with the United States” out of “annoyance” with the shock outcome of the presidential election. “We remain partners because the world needs the United States and the European continent working side-by-side. That is why I strongly urge us to seek common ground,” he says. Following Trump’s victory, EU foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Brussels on Sunday at the invitation of the bloc’s foreign policy supremo Federica Mogherini. Elizabeth Warren proposes truce with Trump Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is proposing that she and President-elect Donald Trump “put aside our differences” and work together to rebuild the American economy for working people. A favorite of liberals, Warren has waged a bitter war of words with Trump. She’s called him a “pathetic coward” and worse on Twitter. He’s nicknamed her “Pocahontas” — a reference to claims she made about being part Native American. As recently as Monday, Trump called Warren a “terrible person,” “a terrible human being” and a “terrible senator.” In a statement Wednesday, Warren says the integrity of US democracy is more important than an individual election. She says she hopes Trump will fulfill the role of president “with respect and concern for every single person in this country, no matter who they are.” Trump begins to receive secret security briefings The White House says the President’s Daily Brief and other intelligence materials are now being made available to President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and other members of Trump’s transition team. White House spokesman Josh Earnest says it’s a courtesy that former President George W. Bush extended to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and a few aides as they were preparing to take office. The President’s Daily Brief is a classified document delivered to the president each morning. Until his victory Tuesday, Trump had received some classified briefings but not as extensive as what he’ll now be receiving. Earnest says it’s part of Obama’s efforts to ensure a smooth transition. Trump spends day after election holed up in Trump Tower Donald Trump is spending the day after winning the presidency holed up in Trump Tower, where sleep-deprived aides appear jubilant as they come and go. The usually buzzing lobby of Trump’s residence and campaign headquarters is currently closed to the general public, though an impersonator of the famous “Naked Cowboy” — wearing a robe — was at one point spotted strolling through. The scene outside is chaotic, with protesters and a mass of press gathered in penned-off area. Curious onlookers are clogging foot traffic as they pause to take in the scene. The east side of Manhattan’s busy Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th is also closed to the public with dump trucks filled with dirt forming a protective barrier outside the building’s lobby. Minnesota elects first Somali-American Muslim woman lawmaker Minnesota voters elect the first Somali-American Muslim woman legislator in a state where the uneasy assimilation of large numbers of Somali refugees became an issue in the US presidential campaign. Ilhan Omar, a 33-year-old former refugee who wears the hijab, ran uncontested for a seat in the legislature of the Midwestern state, home to a sizeable Somali population. Her victory is notable in a campaign season that saw Republican Donald Trump disparage Muslim immigrants and refugees before going on to win the White House. “Even though his message is supposed to function as a fear element in making sure that we don’t vote, so we don’t see ourselves as part of the American system, it’s had the opposite effect,” Omar tells AFP about Trump. In the campaign’s final week the real estate magnate had blamed the Somali community for Minnesota’s travails. “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen firsthand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” Trump told a rally near Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. “Some of them (are) joining ISIS (the Islamic State group) and spreading their extremist views all over our country and all over the world.” US elections and Israel Election updates (closed) Latest: Minnesota elects first Somali-American Muslim woman lawmaker	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365607
__label__wiki	0.988713	0.988713	Why does the devil in 'The Bible' look exactly like Obama? \| The Trump Administration & US Politics \| Forum ForumThe Trump Administration & US P…Why does the devil in 'The Bibl… Why does the devil in 'The Bible' look exactly like Obama? blackvault March 18, 2013 - 4:12 pm "The Daily Mail" wrote: Why does the devil in 'The Bible' look exactly like President Obama? By James Nye Sunday evening's episode of the History Channel's hit series 'The Bible' threw up an awkward coincidence when viewers noticed that Satan bore a remarkable resemblance to President Obama. Twitter exploded into life during the airing of the latest edition of the Mark Burnett-produced series with most noting the striking similarities between the 44th President and the devil played by actor Mehdi Ouzaani. The show has been a surprise hit in the ratings, with the religious mini-series attracting 13.1 million viewers on Wednesday - topping television leviathan American Idol's 12.8 million viewers on Wednesday. Right-wing commentator and radio-host Glenn Beck first pointed out the eerie similarity on Saturday, tweeting, 'Anyone else think the Devil in #TheBible Sunday on History Channel looks exactly like That Guy?' Others were simply struck by the clear physical match. Twitter user @Leah Christie, tweeted, 'Oh my word...watching The History Channel's The Bible..does Satan look familiar to anyone else?' While Matthew Gaudet commented, 'Watching The Bible series on the History channel and noticed the guy playing the role of Satan, looks strikingly similar to Obama.' The unfortunate incident bares comparison with HBO's infamous inclusion of a fake George W. Bush head impaled onto a stick during the background of a Season 1 Game of Thrones episode. When the incident went viral, the network announced it was pulling the offending episode - from its rotation, freezing shipments of DVD box sets and halting sales on iTunes until the embarrassing blunder had been fixed. 'We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste,' HBO said in a statement. 'We made this clear to the executive producers of the series, who apologized immediately for this careless mistake. 'We condemn it in the strongest possible terms and have halted all future shipments of the DVDs, removed it from our digital platforms and will edit the scene for all future airings on any distribution domestic or international.' HBO and the show's creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, apologized for the incident. Mr Benioff and Mr Weiss, who noted the appearance in the series' DVD commentary, insist it wasn't a political statement - just a prop. It remains to be seen whether this particular presidential mishap will create a similar backlash against the wildly popular mini-series. The Mark Burnett-produced program retells the stories from the scriptures in a scripted format, from Genesis through to Revelation, the last book of the New Testament. The miniseries' popularity is somewhat of a mystery. For one, the drama wasn't a hit with television critics, receiving a mediocre score of 44 on the Metacritic site. 'As a cable series, The Bible lacked the ready-made, large scale promotional platform and popular lead-in that can drive strong ratings for a new show on a major broadcast network, of the kind NBC was, for many years,' writes a columnist in The Washington Times. Indeed, Burnett told Entertainment Weekly that the series' success seemed almost preordained while it was being made. 'The hand of God was on this,' he said in an interview before the show's premiere. 'The edit came together perfectly, the actors came together perfectly, it just comes to life.' Mr Burnett, who is most famous for creating reality shows such as Survivor and produced The Bible along with his actress wife Roma Downey, described a number of 'weird things' which drew the attention of cast and crew during filming. In one scene, filmed during a still night on the edge of the desert, Jesus tells the priest Nicodemus, 'The Holy Spirit is like the wind.' According to Mr Burnett: 'At that moment, a wind, like as if a 747 was taking off, blew his hair, almost blew the set over and sustained for 20 seconds across the desert. 'Everyone just looked at everyone like, 'What just happened?' The Bible is airing on the History Channel in two-hour chunks on Sunday nights, and has been the surprise winner in its timeslot. The series will air its finale on March 31, Easter Sunday. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Obama.html [Image Can Not Be Found] [Image Can Not Be Found] [Image Can Not Be Found] [Image Can Not Be Found] [Image Can Not Be Found] John Greenewald, Jr. The Black Vault Website Owner / Operator http://www.theblackvault.com March 19, 2013 - 1:49 am "Entertainment Weekly" wrote: ' The Bible' team says Obama-Satan similarity 'utter nonsense' by James Hibberd The network and producers behind The Bible miniseries are denying any intentional resemblance between The Devil and President Obama in Sunday night’s episode. History Channel and executive producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey issued a flurry of statements strongly asserting that the actor cast as Satan in the popular cable miniseries wasn’t supposed to look like Obama. Last night fans took to social media to point out the resemblance, prompting headlines. “History channel has the highest respect for President Obama,” the network said. “The series was produced with an international and diverse cast of respected actors. It’s unfortunate that anyone made this false connection. History’s The Bible is meant to enlighten people on its rich stories and deep history.” The producers said, “This is utter nonsense. The actor who played Satan, Mehdi Ouzaani, is a highly acclaimed Moroccan actor. He has previously played parts in several Biblical epics — including Satanic characters — long before Barack Obama was elected as our President.” Downey added, ”Both Mark and I have nothing but respect and love our President, who is a fellow Christian. False statements such as these are just designed as a foolish distraction to try and discredit the beauty of the story of The Bible.” The Bible, History Channel’s 10-hour miniseries, has drawn record viewership with 13.1 million tuning in to the premiere on March 3. Part 4 airs this Sunday at 8 p.m. Source: http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/18/histo ... ama-satan/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365615
__label__wiki	0.915327	0.915327	Authorities must do better to prevent more clubs dying, says Phillips By Mike Glendinning @GlendinningMike Sports Reporter Bolton Wanderers interim manager Jimmy Phillips gives instructions to his team during the second half..Photographer Alex Dodd/CameraSport..Football - The Football League Sky Bet Championship - Bolton Wanderers v Hull City - Saturday 30th April 2016 - Macr JIMMY Phillips fears Bury’s expulsion from the EFL may not be the only one as numerous clubs flirt with closure. The Shakers were expelled on Tuesday and Bolton’s interim boss feels there may be more clubs about to go the same way. Phillips added he wants to see better regulation from the governing bodies to prevent more clubs from suffering the same fate. “It’s such a shame for Bury and all the supporters,” he said. “It’s something that is the modern scourge of football at this moment in time, with numerous clubs having hard times financially. “I think there will be more clubs to come that will go through the process that we’ve been through and I think it’s where the authorities and all the governing bodies will have to have a good look at themselves at a) how clubs are run and b) whether they are over-stretching themselves. “It’s about whether they can put new rules in place to stop clubs from over-stretching and leaving what is the focal point of the community in any town living perilously close to closing. “It does seem to be part of the problem of modern-day football where the rich are getting richer and the poor are certainly getting poorer.” The Buff episode 16: Moneyball, Blerim Dzemaili and more "I'm realistic" - Hull City loanee Brandon Fleming on why he came to Wanderers "No time to digest" - Keith Hill's concern over pushing Wanderers' Ronan Darcy "He's onside with us" - Wanderers boss Keith Hill on improving Dennis Politic Wanderers are pulling out the stops for signings, says Keith Hill Wanderers Supporters' Trust announce election drive The day Bolton Wanderers' fans said "enough is enough" Red card was a real Lowe point, admits Wanderers skipper Defender makes long-awaited first appearance in Wanderers shirt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365617
__label__cc	0.55268	0.44732	A Place to Call Home Season 5 DVD Curve Magazine : Northern Spring 2018 (March) A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (presented by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) Michael Lucas' Gigolos Creation and the Function of Art : Techné, Poiesis and the Problem of Aesthetics Starring: Marta Dusseldorp, Noni Hazlehurst, Brett Climo, Craig Hall, Abby Earl Marta Dusseldorp leads the cast of this sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia which follows the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who live in inverness, NSW. Dark clouds are forming over Ash Park. The family will realise that they are vulnerable to the malicious intentions of Sir Richard Bennett and that his entanglement in their financial affairs makes their hold on Ash Park precarious and tenuous. Could Regina be their only hope of salvation, or is she playing a double game against them? This 3 DVD Set includes all 12 episodes of the Fifth season. Starring : Marta Dusseldorp, Noni Hazlehurst, Brett Climo, Craig Hall, Abby Earl Also check out the Video Trailer below under Product Videos. Regions: 4 and 2 Rating: M (Mature Themes, Violence, Coarse language and Drug Use) DVD Release Date: March 2018 Presentation: PAL, Colour, 1.78:1 Widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0 Special Features: to be announced FIRST LOOK: A Place To Call Home season five (01:01) Australia’s favourite period drama A Place To Call Home S5 premieres Sunday, October 8 on showcase FIRST LOOK: A ... Australia’s favourite period drama A Place To Call Home S5 pre... FIRST LOOK: A Place To Call Home season five	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365618
__label__wiki	0.989927	0.989927	Bella Thorne shakes it up with porn WENN - World Entertainment News Network More from WENN - World Entertainment News Network Bella Thorne. Greg Doherty / Getty Images Bella Thorne has marked her directorial debut with a sex-filled film for pornographic company Pornhub. The 21-year-old former Disney star announced her X-rated new project Her & Him on Tuesday, revealing she had a blast watching people engage in live intercourse on set. “The process of shooting was quite interesting because we had real life f—ing on set which I had never shot before at all,” Thorne said in a promotional video for the movie. “It is quite a fun environment.” Porn stars Abella Danger and Small Hands star in the flick, which Pornhub vice-president Corey Price has praised for Bella’s “creativity and imagination.” “Her & Him is a modernistic, sexually explicit Romeo and Juliet-like depiction of two star-crossed lovers who have unbridled sexual longing for each other,” he detailed. Bella’s new porno will premiere on the big screen in September as part of The Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany before becoming available to stream as part of the Pornhub Premium Service. The Shake It Up actress isn’t the first star in Hollywood to create porn films for the company — rappers Brooke Candy and Young M.A. have also released feature films with the sex brand as part of Pornhub’s Visionaries Director Series.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365620
__label__wiki	0.92858	0.92858	Brewers edge Whiskey Jacks The Moneta Pub & Grub Brewers handed the Timmins Men’s Baseball League-leading Whiskey Jacks their second-straight setback Wednesday night at Parc Thériault. Thomas Perry More from Thomas Perry Published on: July 19, 2018 \| Last Updated: July 28, 2018 4:43 PM EDT Despite the 9-8 loss, the Whiskey Jacks (8-3) still enjoy a game-and-a-half lead on the defending TMBL champion Service Master Orioles (6-4) atop the standings, while the win allowed the third-place Brewers to improve to 5-6 on the season. The Brewers jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Lead-off hitter Joey Ouellette singled to get the ball rolling for the home side. One out later, Kevin Furtney singled and he was able to come around and score on a Sheldon Belanger RBI-single. An error on the play by Whiskey Jacks left fielder Alain Quevillon allowed Furtney to come in and score, as well, and Belanger to move up to third base. Thomas Scripnick then reached base on an infield single, but Belanger was unable to score on the play. Richard Byrnes followed with a two-run single that allowed both Belanger and Scripnick to come in and score the inning’s third and fourth runs. Neither team was able to score in the second inning, but the Whiskey Jacks struck for three runs in the top of the third to cut the Brewers lead to 4-3. All three runs came on a Chris Greer home run — with Corey Bechard, who had walked, and Cedric Bradette, who had reached base on a fielder’s choice, crossing the plate ahead of him. The Brewers added a run in their half of the frame to make it a 5-3 ball game. Belanger led off with a triple and came in to score on a Scripnick RBI-single. The Whiskey Jacks got that run back in the top of the fourth inning, cutting their deficit to a single run. Josh Clarke singled with one out, moved up to second base on an Owen Rigg single, stole third and then came in to score one out later when Josh Vandal reached base on an error by Brewers third baseman Nicolas Gignac. The Brewers responded with three runs in their half of the frame to extend their lead to 8-4. Back-to-back singles by David Chantigny and Furtney gave the Brewers two ducks on pond. Chantigny came in to score on a wild pitch and one out later Scripnick drew a walk. Furtney and Scripnick, who had strolen second base, raced home to score when Byrnes reached base on an error by Whiskey Jacks second baseman Nick Hway. Both teams added single runs in their halves of the fifth inning to leave the score at 9-5 in favour of the home side. With one out, Bradette singled for the Whiskey Jacks in the top of the frame, advance to second base on a wild pitch and after a Mike Kazienko single was able to score on a second wild pitch. In the Brewers’ half of the inning, Chantigny reached base on a fielder’s choice, advanced all the way to third base when Furtney reached on an error by Rigg, who was played first base for the Whiskey Jacks, and then came in to score on a passed ball. The Whiskey Jacks plated a single run in the top of the sixth inning to pull within three runs of their hosts. Hway drew a walk, stole a base, moved up to third when Rigg grounded out to second and came in to score when Quevillon reached base on an error by Gignac, who was playing third base for the Brewers. The Whiskey Jacks then struck for a pair of runs in the top of the seventh inning, with their rally falling one run short of tying the contest. With the bases loaded, Austin Holmes’ two-run single plated both Bradette, who had reached on a fielder’s choice and Greer, who had singled. Byrnes went the distance on the mound for the Brewers to pick up the victory. He allowed six earned runs on eight hits in his seven innings of work. He struck out three batters, but walked six in the contest. Jamie Dallaire, who had started for the Whiskey Jacks, was tagged with the loss. He gave up five earned runs on 10 hits in his two-and-two-thirds innings of work. He fanned a pair of batters and did not allow any free passes. Kazienko pitched the final three-and-two-thirds innings for the visitors, giving up four runs (one earned) on two hits, while striking out four batters and walking two. The three stars of the game were Byrnes, Greer and Scripnick. Action in the TMBL is scheduled to resume on Friday, with the Orioles taking on the Lessard-Stephens Red Sox at Parc Thériault. Game time is set for 6:15 p.m. Madden, Dubé win Invitatinal Salvador tops Juvenile field	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365621
__label__cc	0.661167	0.338833	Sign ITEP Petition Property Search Tool Flood Recovery Resources #1) Register with FEMA. Website is here. Download the FEMA mobile app here. #2) Register for Disaster Supplement Assistance Program (DSNAP) for food benefits. Register online here Or call 1-888-LA-HELP-U #3) For medical care, and referrals on just about any other resource, call the United Way hotline at 211. #4) For counseling or mental health assistance, call Capital Area Human Services at (225)922-0631, 8am to 4pm. If it's outside of business hours, call the crisis center hotline at (225)922-0631. #5) For TBR's one-page guide to house gutting, click here. Read this article by the LSU Ag Center on "Prevent lasting damage to flooded homes" #6) For assistance mucking, gutting & mold remediation Sign up for free clean-out and gutting services at www.gutcheckLA.com. That's a master list that feeds into Crisis Cleanup, Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together, Mid City Redevelopment, LEAN, Americorps groups and others providing free mucking, gutting and mold remediation services. You also can get into the database by calling 1-800-451-1954. (That's Crisis Cleanup's intake number and it's now working and responsive!) #7) For assistance with flood insurance claims, call the National Flood Insurance Program call center at (800) 621-3362, then press 2. #8) Wage or work issues relating to the flood The Workplace Justice Project / Wage Claim Clinic out of New Orleans is available to assist anyone with wage or work issues relating to the flooding, including workers who did not receive pay because of flooding and resulting business closures or other wage claims or other issues arise in the weeks and months of recovery. We are working with state and federal agencies to handle claims as efficiently as possible. Please advise affected workers, or anyone with inquiries to call the clinic at 504-861-5571, email us at wjpnola@gmail.com, or check our website www.wjpnola.org. Together Baton Rouge is a 501(c)3 nonprofit institutional membership organization. Positions & viewpoints expressed by Together Baton Rouge are made as an organization and do not necessarily reflect the positions of any one member institution or the individuals that comprise it. Follow @TogBR on Twitter Copyright 2019. Together Baton Rouge is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365624
__label__wiki	0.520796	0.520796	Home / All Funds / Middle East & Africa Equity Fund Fund Range Documents SICAV Documents Share Classes & Categories Client Procedural Guide SICAV Factsheets SICAV KIIDs OEIC Documents Instrument of Incorporation Transaction form OEIC Factsheets OEIC KIIDs No document available Middle East & Africa Equity Fund Congratulations! You are now following this fund. An activation email has been sent to your email address from T. Rowe Price. Please open the email and click on the activation link in order to begin receiving updates on your watch fund. Subscription almost complete. Notify me by email when regular data and commentary is available exception commentary is available A diversified portfolio of typically 50-80 stocks of companies from the Middle East and Africa region. Our investment approach is growth-orientated, unconstrained, and aims to deliver strong absolute performance by exploiting the inefficiencies of the local markets. Class A Class I Bloomberg TRPMEAI LX WKN A0M1XR Valoren 3428876 View more information on risks Audience for the document: Professional Investors Individual Investors Share Class: Language of the Document: There were no documents available for the date you selected. The commentaries as of the previous month end are not available. Please check back soon. Risk & Reward ? (SRRI) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Data as of: 31-Dec-2019 Data as of: 21-Jan-2020 1YR Return (Annualised) Data as of: 31-Dec-2019 Perf Change (Daily) Share Class Inception Date : 04-Sep-2007 31-Dec-2019 - Oliver Bell, Portfolio Manager, Middle East and Africa markets continue to gain ground, bolstered by a recovery in regional growth and meaningful country-specific improvements. Company valuations look attractive, in our view, and reform is high on the agenda for many of the countries in our investment universe. We believe the outlook for the region is robust, underpinned by favourable demographics, rising urbanisation and levels of infrastructure investment, and a strong asset base in natural resources. The English language commentary is available, with English language available at a later stage Click for Manager Outlook 30-09-2019\|September 2019\|30-Sep-2019 Manager's Outlook Africa and Middle Eastern markets continue to gain ground, bolstered by a recovery in regional growth and meaningful country-specific improvements. After a challenging few months for African markets, valuations look especially attractive and reform is high on the agenda for many of the economies in the investment universe. Despite a spike in oil prices following drone attacks on two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia in September, regional economies appear to be better positioned to navigate oil price volatility. We are encouraged by policymakers' attempts to cut subsidies to fuel, electricity, and gas as part of fiscal consolidation plans. The growth environment in South Africa remains weak given the challenging global backdrop. The government's efforts to encourage economic growth and job creation continue. We are seeing plans to reform state-owned enterprises, reduce political corruption, and improve financing options for small businesses. Fundamentals have troughed and domestic companies serve up particularly attractive risk/reward profiles. Longer term, we believe President Ramaphosa can drive the material change necessary to reverse a decade of economic demise, and many corporates should benefit from this new dawn. In West Africa, sentiment in Nigeria has weakened due to a lack of reform leadership from President Buhari, which had been hoped for after his win of a second term in office. Despite emerging from a two-year recession in 2017, economic growth has so far failed to outpace population growth. Valuations are attractive but catalysts for growth are limited. We are selective here and keep watch for a stronger government focus on economics. In the Middle East, drone attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil plants in September highlighted the vulnerability to geopolitical risks in the region. However, the market reaction was somewhat subdued, and production appears to have been reinstated quickly. Saudi Arabia's reclassification to emerging markets status by MSCI, which was completed in the third quarter, has brought increasing attention to the nation, as has the preparation for the Saudi Aramco IPO. We are more cautious here but are able to find strong bottom-up ideas. In Kuwait, structural domestic improvement and a government push on infrastructure projects is providing a boost, as well as the announcement by MSCI that Kuwait is likely to be reclassified to emerging market status in 2020. Elsewhere, the UAE is offering up some companies with compelling risk/reward profiles, with Dubai's diversified economy and steady GDP a bright spot. Overall, the outlook for the Africa and Middle East region remains robust, driven by some of the world's most attractive demographics, rising urbanization and levels of infrastructure investment, and a strong asset base in natural resources. While many emerging markets are undergoing a growth slowdown, many African and Middle Eastern countries are undergoing an improvement, driven by structural domestic demand. This is translating into strong corporate earnings growth that we believe can be sustained by various businesses in the years ahead. We believe the fundamentals generally remain favorable and that strong growth will continue to lift asset values over time. Fund Summary Our fundamental analysis seeks to identify companies with a favourable combination of growth prospects and valuation relative to their local, regional, or global peers. We focus on finding companies with above-average revenue growth, strong management and good corporate governance, supported by macro and micro top-down perspectives. Risk & Reward Data Historical Tracking Error Indicative Benchmark Effective July 1, 2018, the “net” version of the indicative benchmark replaced the “gross” version of the indicative benchmark. The “net” version of the indicative benchmark assumes the reinvestment of dividends after the deduction of withholding taxes applicable to the country where the dividend is paid; as such, the returns of the new benchmark are more representative of the returns experienced by investors in foreign issuers. Historical benchmark performance has been restated accordingly. Performance - Net of Fees Current Year Performance Data as of 21-Jan-2020 Data as of 31-Dec-2019 Annualised Performance Manager Inception Indicative Benchmark : Linked Benchmark Net Fund Inception: 04-Sep-2007 Manager Inception: 10-Oct-2011 * The index shown is not a formal benchmark. It is shown only for comparison purposes. Middle East and Africa markets generated a strong return over the month, outperforming their developed peers but slightly lagging emerging markets. Growing optimism over global trade—the U.S. and China agreed to a “phase one” trade deal—and accommodative policies from major central banks supported risk assets. Within the portfolio, stock selection and an underweight position in strongly performing South Africa had the most negative impact on relative performance. Much of the market’s gain was attributable to the robust performance of index heavyweight Naspers, a global internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Naspers’ shares took their direction from the share price rally in Chinese internet company Tencent, in which it is the largest shareholder. Our underweight exposure to Naspers dragged. We did, however, benefit from our overweight holding in Naspers’ international listing, Prosus. Elsewhere, our position in Integrated Diagnostics was another sizeable laggard, as the Egyptian diagnostics provider released weaker-than-expected third-quarter results. In contrast, the top contributing stock in the portfolio was UK-listed Helios Towers, a leading infrastructure company focused on telecommunications towers. The company’s earnings margin has improved to an all-time high due to growth in the Democratic Republic of Congo. National Bank of Kuwait Was ( 30-Sep-2019 ) By 1.32% % of fund Detractor Human Soft Holding By -0.27% Saudi Arabian Oil (N) Almarai (E) Note: As this is a newly launched fund, there is limited historical data. Please check back soon. 30-Sep-2019 - Oliver Bell, Portfolio Manager, We increased the portfolio's underweight in Saudi Arabia, prompted by the geopolitical developments relating to the drone strikes on the nation's oil fields. In contrast, we moved more overweight Kuwait. On a sector level, we reduced our exposure to financials while adding to our positions in consumer discretionary. Sentiment toward Saudi Arabia soured over the quarter following drone strikes on the country's oil facilities. As a result, and due to stock-specific reasons, we moved our exposure more underweight. Within financials, we sold out of Saudi Arabia's third-biggest bank, Samba Financial. Our concerns have grown about contracting asset quality and insufficient disclosure from management. A push for harmonization on exposure treatment by the central bank could also pose a headwind. We reduced our holding in Saudi British Bank. It faces an increasing cost of risk on contracting exposure, which we anticipate will keep the share price relatively volatile in the near term. Meanwhile, Bupa Arabia for Cooperative Insurance, the largest health care provider in Saudi Arabia, reached our analyst's price target, prompting us to sell. We purchased Kuwait Finance House, an Islamic bank, which has been making improvements to disclosures in recent years and divesting its non-core businesses, resulting in a higher-quality income stream. Progress has also been made in the merger of Kuwait Finance House and Ahli United Bank, to create a combined Islamic banking entity with over USD $96 billion in assets. This will help Kuwait Finance House gain scale and cope with tougher operating conditions against a weakening global backdrop. We sold out of international logistics and transportation provider Aramex, as the company faces structural headwinds in the near to medium term, which are likely to lead to lower margins, given pricing pressure. Having participated in the company's initial public offering (IPO) earlier in the year, we topped up our holding in UAE digital payments provider Network International. This company operates in Africa and the Middle East, one of the most underpenetrated payment regions globally. As the only pan-regional provider of digital payments at scale, we believe the company is well positioned to benefit from structural growth in this area, with a presence across the entire value chain. We increased our exposure to Egypt over the quarter. We added a position in Commercial International Bank, Egypt's largest private bank. This is our favored stock pick in the country. The bank is well positioned for an improved macroeconomic scenario, in our view, with ample liquidity and solid potential for corporate loan growth, particularly as interest rates come down. We also added to our holding in baked food company Edita Food Industries, which comprises a portfolio of brands operating in the Middle East and North Africa region. The company benefits from strong demand in the region and enjoys significant pricing power. At the sector level, we increased our exposure to consumer discretionary companies. We decided to switch some of our holdings from Naspers, a South African pay-TV and internet company, into its international listing. Naspers listed 26% of its business in Amsterdam in September as Prosus, with the aim of addressing the stock's net asset value (NAV) discount. Positive management meetings have added to our conviction in the company's strategy, which is to build three world-class businesses-classifieds, food delivery, and payments. Was ( 30-Nov-2019 ) By -15.29% Indicative Benchmark: MSCI Arabian Markets & Africa 10/40 IMI Index We remain overweight financials, which is the fund’s largest absolute sector allocation. In the month we established a position in a United Arab Emirates commercial bank. It is more domestically focused than most of its larger peers and has a strong franchise across retail and corporate banking. The bank was formed out of a three-way merger, which is due to be completed by the second quarter of 2020, and in our view, there is clear potential for cost synergies in the near term, alongside funding synergies and capital optimisation potential in the medium term. The fund’s largest absolute country allocation is South Africa, although we remain underweight. The growth environment in South Africa remains weak, given the challenging global backdrop. The government’s efforts to encourage economic growth and job creation continue, although the pace of reform has been somewhat disappointing. We are seeing plans to reform state-owned enterprises, reduce political corruption and improve financing options for small businesses. Fundamentals have troughed and domestic companies serve up particularly attractive risk/reward profiles. Longer term, we believe President Ramaphosa can drive the substantial change necessary to reverse a decade of economic demise, and many corporates should benefit when this materializes. Oliver Bell, Oliver Bell is lead portfolio manager and chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for the T. Rowe Price Middle East & Africa Equity Strategy and also the Frontier Markets Equity Strategy. Portfolio Manager since Years investment experience Charles Knudsen, Portfolio Specialist Chuck Knudsen is a portfolio specialist in the Equity Division of T. Rowe Price. Fees Minimum Initial Investment and Holding Amount Minimum Subsequent Investment Sales Charge (up to) Investment Management Fee Ongoing Charges1 Class I $2,500,000 $100,000 N/A 100 basis points 1.10% Class Q $1,000 $100 N/A 100 basis points 1.17% Class A $1,000 $100 5.00% 190 basis points 2.07% The following risks are materially relevant to the fund. Please click here to view the definitions of the risks listed below. • Country risk – Saudi Arabia • Currency • Emerging markets • Equities • Frontier markets • Geographic concentration • Hedging • Investment fund • Market • Operational • Sector concentration • Small/mid cap • Style Typical Investor Investors who plan to invest for the medium to long term, and who: • are interested in investment growth • are looking to diversify their equity investments, in particular existing investments in developed markets • understand and can accept the risks of the fund, including the risks of investing in emerging markets Risk/Return (5 Years) Alpha -0.47% 0.00% Beta 1.00 1.00 R-Squared 0.92 1.00 Annualized Std. Deviation 15.36% 14.71% Information Ratio -0.13 0.00 Sharpe Ratio 0.00 0.04 Tracking Error 4.36% 0.00% Indicative Benchmark: Linked Benchmark Net Calendar Year Performance 16.73% -16.27% 19.16% 24.52% 10.53% -18.97% 7.06% 23.11% -8.30% 7.61% Fund 26.50% -12.80% 15.14% 10.47% 2.09% -19.59% 11.62% 19.46% -8.71% 10.83% Indicative Benchmark -9.77% -3.47% +4.02% +14.05% +8.44% +0.62% -4.56% +3.65% +0.41% -3.22% Value added SICAV Annual Report Click chart to display commentary. Exceptional Commentary Monthly Commentary Full Holdings Purchases & Sales Contributors & Detractors Holdings ( 31-Dec-2019 ) Quarter end: 31-Dec-2019 30-Sep-2019 30-Jun-2019 31-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 30-Sep-2018 30-Jun-2018 31-Mar-2018 31-Dec-2017 30-Sep-2017 30-Jun-2017 31-Mar-2017 31-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2016 30-Jun-2016 31-Mar-2016 31-Dec-2015 30-Sep-2015 30-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2015 31-Dec-2014 30-Sep-2014 30-Jun-2014 31-Mar-2014 31-Dec-2013 30-Sep-2013 30-Jun-2013 31-Mar-2013 31-Dec-2012 30-Sep-2012 Prev Qtr Change National Bank of Kuwait 6.20 0.64% 344,400.69 Financials Banks Kuwait Al Rajhi Bank 6.17 0.15% 342,636.34 Financials Banks Saudi Arabia Prosus 5.15 0.06% 285,981.54 Consumer Discreti... Internet & Direct... Netherlands Naspers 4.85 0.26% 269,156.50 Consumer Discreti... Internet & Direct... South Africa Sanlam 4.58 0.49% 254,525.26 Financials Insurance South Africa Absa 4.37 0.13% 242,433.59 Financials Banks South Africa FirstRand 4.24 0.27% 235,678.75 Financials Diversified Finan... South Africa Label Vie 2.80 0.03% 155,673.63 Consumer Staples Food & Staples Re... Morocco Human Soft Holding 2.57 -0.19% 142,815.46 Consumer Discreti... Diversified Consu... Kuwait Mr Price 2.53 0.51% 140,759.40 Consumer Discreti... Specialty Retail South Africa Mabanee Co SAK 2.48 0.31% 137,499.87 Real Estate Real Estate Manag... Kuwait Network International Holdings 2.39 0.53% 132,821.37 Information Techn... IT Services United Arab Emirates Nedbank 2.32 -0.05% 129,077.77 Financials Banks South Africa First Abu Dhabi Bank 2.32 -0.01% 128,591.07 Financials Banks United Arab Emirates MTN Group 2.29 -0.28% 127,069.85 Communication Ser... Wireless Telecomm... South Africa Guaranty Trust Bank 2.09 -0.05% 116,181.35 Financials Banks Nigeria Saudi British Bank 2.06 0.24% 114,274.35 Financials Banks Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Oil 2.04 N/A 113,233.77 Energy Oil, Gas & Consum... Saudi Arabia Capitec Bank Holdings 1.93 0.36% 107,257.50 Financials Banks South Africa Mouwasat Medical Services 1.88 -0.07% 104,301.04 Health Care Health Care Provi... Saudi Arabia Helios Towers 1.87 N/A 103,838.14 Communication Ser... Wireless Telecomm... United Kingdom Commercial International Bank Egypt 1.82 0.10% 100,832.10 Financials Banks Egypt Kuwait Finance House KSCP 1.56 0.21% 86,675.14 Financials Banks Kuwait Psg 1.56 0.26% 86,432.49 Financials Diversified Finan... South Africa Bk 1.48 -0.24% 82,192.58 Financials Banks Rwanda Bid 1.37 -0.27% 75,851.82 Consumer Staples Food & Staples Re... South Africa United International Transportation 1.36 -0.01% 75,765.62 Industrials & Bus... Road & Rail Saudi Arabia Foschini 1.35 -0.01% 74,856.51 Consumer Discreti... Specialty Retail South Africa United Electronics 1.32 0.38% 73,285.10 Consumer Discreti... Specialty Retail Saudi Arabia Gulf Bank 1.31 0.07% 72,782.74 Financials Banks Kuwait Edita Food Industries SAE 1.31 -0.11% 72,650.84 Consumer Staples Food Products Egypt Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank 1.28 N/A 71,278.04 Financials Banks United Arab Emirates AVI 1.22 0.13% 67,795.56 Consumer Staples Food Products South Africa Clicks Group 1.19 0.23% 66,029.01 Consumer Staples Food & Staples Re... South Africa Nestle Foods Nigeria 1.18 0.02% 65,530.39 Consumer Staples Food Products Nigeria Dis-Chem Pharmacies 1.18 -0.14% 65,527.87 Consumer Staples Food & Staples Re... South Africa Shoprite Holdings 1.08 0.07% 60,177.63 Consumer Staples Food & Staples Re... South Africa FBN Holdings 1.08 0.08% 59,902.34 Financials Banks Nigeria Integrated Diagnostics Holdings 1.04 -0.22% 57,968.00 Health Care Health Care Provi... Egypt Famous Brands 1.03 -0.00% 57,148.00 Consumer Discreti... Hotels Restaurant... South Africa Vivo Energy 0.99 0.03% 54,738.85 Energy Oil, Gas & Consum... United Kingdom KAP Industrial Holdings 0.92 -0.08% 50,903.01 Industrials & Bus... Industrial Conglo... South Africa Jarir Marketing 0.86 0.00% 47,583.91 Consumer Discreti... Specialty Retail Saudi Arabia National Bank of Ras Al-Khaimah PSC 0.85 -0.03% 47,105.91 Financials Banks United Arab Emirates Life Healthcare Group Holdings 0.78 0.08% 43,127.07 Health Care Health Care Provi... South Africa ADES International Holding 0.70 -0.44% 38,720.40 Energy Energy Equipment ... United Arab Emirates Dangote Cement 0.62 -0.07% 34,316.94 Materials Construction Mate... Nigeria Commercial International Bank Egypt 0.55 0.02% 30,471.89 Financials Banks Egypt Attijariwafa Bank 0.54 0.02% 30,205.12 Financials Banks Morocco Herfy Food Services 0.52 -0.01% 28,958.90 Consumer Discreti... Hotels Restaurant... Saudi Arabia Vodacom Tanzania 0.37 -0.06% 20,338.29 Communication Ser... Wireless Telecomm... Tanzania National Microfinance Bank 0.36 -0.06% 20,053.12 Financials Banks Tanzania Saudi Co For Hardware 0.35 -0.10% 19,708.46 Consumer Discreti... Specialty Retail Saudi Arabia First National Bank of Botswana 0.20 -0.09% 11,233.53 Financials Banks Botswana Tullow Oil 0.18 -0.40% 10,171.88 Energy Oil, Gas & Consum... United Kingdom Standard Chartered Bank Zambia 0.16 -0.03% 8,760.24 Financials Banks Zambia Purchases ( 31-Dec-2019 ) Quarter end: 31-Dec-2019 30-Sep-2019 30-Jun-2019 31-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 30-Sep-2018 30-Jun-2018 31-Mar-2018 31-Dec-2017 30-Sep-2017 30-Jun-2017 31-Mar-2017 31-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2016 30-Jun-2016 31-Mar-2016 31-Dec-2015 30-Sep-2015 30-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2015 31-Dec-2014 30-Sep-2014 30-Jun-2014 31-Mar-2014 31-Dec-2013 30-Sep-2013 30-Jun-2013 31-Mar-2013 31-Dec-2012 Prev Quarter Change Saudi Arabian Oil (N) 2.00 2.00% Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels Saudi Arabia Helios Towers (N) 1.84 1.84% Wireless Telecommunication Services United Kingdom Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (N) 1.26 1.26% Banks United Arab Emirates National Bank of Kuwait 6.09 0.52% Banks Kuwait Mr Price 2.50 0.48% Specialty Retail South Africa United Electronics 1.30 0.36% Specialty Retail Saudi Arabia Naspers 4.77 0.19% Internet & Direct Marketing Retail South Africa Al Rajhi Bank 6.07 0.05% Banks Saudi Arabia Prosus 5.06 -0.03% Internet & Direct Marketing Retail Netherlands Edita Food Industries SAE 1.26 -0.16% Food Products Egypt (N) New position. (E) Eliminated. Saudi Company for Hardware: We established a position in this do-it-yourself (DIY) and home improvement retailer, which operates 30 stores across cities in Saudi Arabia. We see the business benefiting from several structural tailwinds, including a ballooning Saudi population and ambitious government housing projects. We anticipate healthy growth in its store base, while the company remains highly cash flow generative and maintains a good payout ratio. Jarir Marketing: This is a well-run, leading Saudi retailer of consumer electronics and school and office supplies. The business is exposed to a recovery in domestic discretionary spending as it continues to grow its footprint by around 10% a year and offers a high return on capital. United Electronics: We opened a position in this leading Saudi retailer of electronics and home appliances, which is known by its brand name Extra. We view the stock as a key beneficiary of new regulations and improvements in discretionary spending. We believe the CEO's strategy is credible and continued strong execution should help the business capture significant market share and drive higher earnings margins. Sales ( 31-Dec-2019 ) Major Sales Almarai (E) 0.00 -0.83% Food Products Saudi Arabia OCI (E) 0.00 -0.72% Chemicals Egypt ADES International Holding 0.69 -0.45% Energy Equipment & Services United Arab Emirates Aluminium Bahrain (E) 0.00 -0.29% Metals & Mining Bahrain Bid 1.35 -0.29% Food & Staples Retailing South Africa Dis-Chem Pharmacies 1.16 -0.16% Food & Staples Retailing South Africa First National Bank of Botswana 0.20 -0.09% Banks Botswana Saudi Arabian Oil 2.00 2.00% Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels Saudi Arabia The information shown does not reflect any ETFs that may be held in the portfolio. Contributors ( 31-Dec-2019 ) % Value Add National Bank of Kuwait 6.09 N/A Banks Kuwait Naspers 4.77 N/A Internet & Direct Marketing Retail South Africa Sanlam 4.51 N/A Insurance South Africa FirstRand 4.18 N/A Diversified Financial Services South Africa Label Vie 3.08 0.3% Food & Staples Retailing Morocco Mr Price 2.50 N/A Specialty Retail South Africa Mabanee Co SAK 2.43 0.3% Real Estate Management & Development Kuwait Network International Holdings 2.36 N/A IT Services United Arab Emirates Helios Towers 1.84 N/A Wireless Telecommunication Services United Kingdom Dis-Chem Pharmacies 1.16 N/A Food & Staples Retailing South Africa The food business is highly cyclical and going through the low point of its cycle in Saudi Arabia at this time. Savola had recently branched out in its retail operations with a move into smaller format stores, and this part of its business has struggled against the more challenging backdrop. Savola has a large stake (36.5%) in Almarai, the Persian Gulf region's largest integrated food and dairy producer, and announced in September that it would be reducing its stake by 2% to 34.5%, via a private placement. Although this is only a very small percentage of Savola's total holding, it put short-term pressure on the stock price, which was already weighed down by worries about the loss of sales from Qatar, a relatively important market for Almarai. Qatar's exclusion, due to a political rift, is expected to dent upcoming third-quarter results. Almarai, was the biggest detractor among Saudi stocks. Herfy Food Services, the third of the underperforming food stock, operates a fast-food chain of 300 restaurants across Saudi Arabia and also has bakery and meat processing facilities that supply third parties. Its weaker share price was mainly a casualty of the cyclical downturn in food stocks, although there may have been a carryover of some negative sentiment from Savola, which has a 48% stake in Herfy. We regard the current challenges as temporary and believe that in a low-penetrated fast-food market, Herfy can generate attractive medium-term growth. Bupa Arabia for Cooperative was the other major detractor in Saudi Arabia. A tough macroeconomic backdrop and cyclical challenges have dampened near-term sentiment for the medical insurer. However, we believe it remains an attractive medium-term prospect in an underpenetrated market. Our holding in retailer Mr Price benefited from easing competition (especially in terms of discounting from peers) and a stronger rand. The company now has more flexibility regarding an expansion in its margins or a reduction in prices. Detractors ( 31-Dec-2019 ) Human Soft Holding 2.53 N/A Diversified Consumer Services Kuwait MTN Group 2.25 -0.3% Wireless Telecommunication Services South Africa Bk 1.45 N/A Banks Rwanda Edita Food Industries SAE 1.26 N/A Food Products Egypt Integrated Diagnostics Holdings 1.03 N/A Health Care Providers & Services Egypt ADES International Holding 0.69 N/A Energy Equipment & Services United Arab Emirates Dangote Cement 0.60 N/A Construction Materials Nigeria Saudi Co For Hardware 0.35 N/A Specialty Retail Saudi Arabia Tullow Oil 0.18 N/A Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels United Kingdom Almarai 0.00 N/A Food Products Saudi Arabia Sector Attribution Sector Diversification ( 31-Dec-2019 ) Data as of: 2019-12-31 31-Dec-2019 30-Nov-2019 31-Oct-2019 30-Sep-2019 31-Aug-2019 31-Jul-2019 30-Jun-2019 31-May-2019 30-Apr-2019 31-Mar-2019 28-Feb-2019 31-Jan-2019 31-Dec-2018 30-Nov-2018 31-Oct-2018 30-Sep-2018 31-Aug-2018 31-Jul-2018 30-Jun-2018 31-May-2018 30-Apr-2018 31-Mar-2018 28-Feb-2018 31-Jan-2018 31-Dec-2017 30-Nov-2017 31-Oct-2017 30-Sep-2017 31-Aug-2017 31-Jul-2017 30-Jun-2017 31-May-2017 30-Apr-2017 31-Mar-2017 28-Feb-2017 31-Jan-2017 31-Dec-2016 30-Nov-2016 31-Oct-2016 30-Sep-2016 31-Aug-2016 31-Jul-2016 30-Jun-2016 31-May-2016 30-Apr-2016 31-Mar-2016 29-Feb-2016 31-Jan-2016 31-Dec-2015 30-Nov-2015 31-Oct-2015 30-Sep-2015 31-Aug-2015 31-Jul-2015 30-Jun-2015 31-May-2015 30-Apr-2015 31-Mar-2015 28-Feb-2015 31-Jan-2015 31-Dec-2014 30-Nov-2014 31-Oct-2014 30-Sep-2014 31-Aug-2014 31-Jul-2014 30-Jun-2014 31-May-2014 30-Apr-2014 31-Mar-2014 28-Feb-2014 31-Jan-2014 31-Dec-2013 30-Nov-2013 31-Oct-2013 30-Sep-2013 31-Aug-2013 31-Jul-2013 30-Jun-2013 31-May-2013 30-Apr-2013 31-Mar-2013 28-Feb-2013 % of Indicative Benchmark % Underweight/Overweight Financials 49.04 43.50 Consumer Discretionary 20.53 12.83 Consumer Staples 11.33 5.78 Communication Services 4.52 7.77 Energy 3.91 2.73 Health Care 3.70 1.55 Real Estate 2.48 5.12 Information Technology 2.39 0.08 Industrials & Business Services 2.28 3.69 Materials 0.62 15.91 Utilities 0.00 1.03 Sector Attribution ( 31-Dec-2019 ) Quarter end: 31-Dec-2019 30-Sep-2019 30-Jun-2019 31-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 30-Sep-2018 Month end: Year end: 31-Dec-2019 31-Dec-2018 Time Period: Quarterly YTD data will not become available until end January data becomes available in mid-February Prior Year Total Value Added % Value from Sector Weight % Value from Stock Selection % Total -1.21 -0.46 -0.76 Communication Services 0.76 0.39 0.37 Real Estate 0.51 0.18 0.34 Information Technology 0.36 0.01 0.35 Consumer Staples 0.30 0.15 0.16 Utilities 0.11 0.11 0.00 Financials -0.17 -0.03 -0.14 Energy -0.42 -0.15 -0.27 Health Care -0.47 0.18 -0.66 Consumer Discretionary -0.71 -0.07 -0.64 Materials -1.27 -1.09 -0.19 Indicative Benchmark: Linked Benchmark(1) Country Diversification Country Attribution Country Diversification ( 31-Dec-2019 ) Data as of: 31-Dec-2019 30-Nov-2019 31-Oct-2019 30-Sep-2019 31-Aug-2019 31-Jul-2019 30-Jun-2019 31-May-2019 30-Apr-2019 31-Mar-2019 28-Feb-2019 31-Jan-2019 31-Dec-2018 30-Nov-2018 31-Oct-2018 30-Sep-2018 31-Aug-2018 31-Jul-2018 30-Jun-2018 31-May-2018 30-Apr-2018 31-Mar-2018 28-Feb-2018 31-Jan-2018 31-Dec-2017 30-Nov-2017 31-Oct-2017 30-Sep-2017 31-Aug-2017 31-Jul-2017 30-Jun-2017 31-May-2017 30-Apr-2017 31-Mar-2017 28-Feb-2017 31-Jan-2017 31-Dec-2016 30-Nov-2016 31-Oct-2016 30-Sep-2016 31-Aug-2016 31-Jul-2016 30-Jun-2016 31-May-2016 30-Apr-2016 31-Mar-2016 29-Feb-2016 31-Jan-2016 31-Dec-2015 30-Nov-2015 31-Oct-2015 30-Sep-2015 31-Aug-2015 31-Jul-2015 30-Jun-2015 31-May-2015 30-Apr-2015 31-Mar-2015 28-Feb-2015 31-Jan-2015 31-Dec-2014 30-Nov-2014 31-Oct-2014 30-Sep-2014 31-Aug-2014 31-Jul-2014 30-Jun-2014 31-May-2014 30-Apr-2014 31-Mar-2014 28-Feb-2014 31-Jan-2014 31-Dec-2013 30-Nov-2013 31-Oct-2013 30-Sep-2013 31-Aug-2013 31-Jul-2013 30-Jun-2013 31-May-2013 30-Apr-2013 31-Mar-2013 28-Feb-2013 South Africa 38.79 43.21 Saudi Arabia 16.56 28.38 Kuwait 14.12 6.60 United Arab Emirates 7.54 5.45 Netherlands 5.15 0.00 Nigeria 4.97 1.09 Egypt 4.72 1.52 Morocco 3.35 1.66 United Kingdom 3.04 0.00 Rwanda 1.48 0.00 Tanzania 0.73 0.00 Botswana 0.20 0.00 Zambia 0.16 0.00 Lebanon 0.00 0.19 Tunisia 0.00 0.23 Mauritius 0.00 0.45 Jordan 0.00 0.28 Oman 0.00 0.30 Kenya 0.00 0.98 Bahrain 0.00 1.05 Senegal 0.00 0.10 Cote d Ivoire 0.00 0.06 Qatar 0.00 8.46 Country Attribution( 31-Dec-2019 ) Quarter end: 31-Dec-2019 30-Sep-2019 30-Jun-2019 31-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 30-Sep-2018 31-Dec-2019 31-Dec-2018 Value from Country Weight % Saudi Arabia 0.66 0.56 0.10 Qatar 0.62 0.62 0.00 United Arab Emirates 0.53 -0.04 0.57 Morocco 0.16 -0.02 0.18 Kuwait 0.10 0.23 -0.13 Tanzania -0.15 -0.15 0.00 Rwanda -0.29 -0.29 0.00 Netherlands -0.33 -0.33 0.00 Egypt -0.37 -0.20 -0.17 South Africa -1.62 -0.25 -1.37 For more information on investing with T. 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__label__wiki	0.960334	0.960334	November 28, 2019 News & Opinion » Currents Feature Dancing to a New Tune The Tucson Libertine League is revitalizing burlesque—and not for the male gaze By Clara Migoya Clara Migoya Lola Torch performs for the audience of 191 Toole, in the REVEAL show, October 18. Emilie Marchand came to Tucson in 1999 with no idea she would become one of the biggest figures in the town's burlesque movement. She still holds mixed thoughts on what led her to perform and produce shows under the pseudonym of Lola Torch. Maybe she got it from her father's side, descendants of French vaudeville musicians. "I'm curious whether or not those things travel in our genes," she said. From a young age, Torch, 43, has had a taste for applause and theatrical musicals, but the transition toward cabaret was not obvious from the start, she said. "(Burlesque) didn't exist in my mind or any place back then," she says. Torch has almost 15 years of experience in the cabaret, owns a burlesque fitness workshop downtown, trains a growing number of newcomers at her own burlesque production, the Tucson Libertine League (TLL), and recently launched a lingerie brand named "Hi Tiger!" She runs the REVEAL workshops, where she introduces newcomers into burlesque as they develop a character, mentors them in the creation process, and hosts shows for their debut. Alex Mazur, a.k.a. Misstress Ceratops, joined REVEAL three years ago. She was looking for a liberating and risqué feeling, and she found it. "Being a performer with Lola is something I like to brag about, and I don't brag often," said Mazur. "Once seeing her on stage, you won't forget her." Torch arrived in Tucson in the late '90s at age 23. She had visited the city as a teenager and the desert never left her mind. Lured by memories, she returned shortly after she finished her studies in upstate New York. She was only "backpacking through," she says, but never left. At the time, the town was smaller, but there was a lot of art and music, Torch said. "It just seemed very funky and cool," she said. Within a week of her arrival, she found Flam Chen, a company of artists specializing in fire and circus performance. "They caught wind with the fact that I sing," she said. She would be suspended in a large birdcage and a fire performer danced at her feet. She sported black hair, a feather boa and a friend playing the cello under her. She sang cabaret. "This is it," she remembers herself thinking at the time. It was that "underground vibe" she was looking for. She chose her name, Lola Torch, out of her taste for Marlene Dietrich's character in The Blue Angel movie and a love for sentimental songs. There was a darker, serious side in performing that spoke to her—something her mother associates with an "Irish melancholy," she says. Although burlesque is not serious by definition, Torch said its role was to entertain in the face of crisis or disaster. Hopelessness was confronted with cleavage, comedy, music and extravaganza. Born in the Victorian era, it was a theatrical mockery to entertain the lower and middle classes, using sexuality as a luring element, she said. Up through the 1940s, burlesque assumed a variety of forms in the United States, much of it derived into modern striptease and men's clubs. As men became prominent in the show production, female participation was restrained to a sexualized role, without the richness of comedy, politics or absurdity that burlesque was born with. Burlesque is still a form of entertainment that is risqué and light of clothing, but its resurgence in the 1990s speaks to a different audience. The neo-burlesque scene is increasingly a self-asserting act of sexuality represented by a myriad of marginalized bodies and identities. "We are not doing this for the male gaze," Torch says. After her debut with flam Chen, Torch started performing and producing burlesque shows with the Black Cherry Burlesque at the Surly Wench Pub on Fourth Avenue. Then, in 2017, she started the Tucson Libertine League, an alternative show production company that honors "burlesque's history of innovation and boundary bending." "What we have created is a safe space for burlesque artists," she said. "It is my role and responsibility to make sure that it maintains those ideals." The Tucson Libertine League is now a continuously growing community that welcomes a myriad of bodies and stories that usually don't find their way onto stage, she said—open to all races, gender identites and sexual orientations. She is passionate about what burlesque can bring into people's lives. "Any time you step in the burlesque stage as a performer, you are telling whatever story you want to tell," she says. "Having that element of sexuality brings people in, in this nice inviting way, and what we do then is totally up to us." For Torch, burlesque is a political statement. "For some people that's just showing up in stage with their body," she said. "No matter what size, shape, color or ability." She said she believes this is the foremost contribution of their art. "It gives an underlying story," she said. "We are not seeing one cookie-cutter type of human. That's what is so appealing to the audience." it's friday night and a dozen Tucson Libertine League performers prepare to go on stage at 191 Toole. As Torch presents the third performer, the lights go out. In a full-body motorcycle outfit, at 5'10" feet tall, Tender Furiosa stares into the audience behind a sturdy helmet. The rock music on the background goes louder, she throws the helmet away. We see her eyes roll back as she twitches with a pleasuring smile. Furiosa has been on stage before, since 2013, in the Manly Manlesque Show at the Surly Wench. Looking back at the acts she did then, she realized that every time she performed it was kind of a joke. It was not who she was, she said. It is Furiosa's third year in the league and the fifth as a transgender woman. What she does now, she labels as transmasculine drag burlesque. "I haven't had many opportunities in the Tucson burlesque to show what I can really offer," said Furiosa. The Tucson Libertine League offered her a space to "perform masculinity and have fun with it," she said. It became a supportive environment where anything could happen. "It gave me the space and trust to breathe and grow. A sense of safety," she said. Furiosa knew Torch back in 2013, when she was in the Black Cherry Burlesque show. She says that when Torch invited her to perform in the TLL, it gave her the chance to transform at her own pace and explore. "I owe burlesque, as an art to find myself," she said. Torch also sees the Tucson Libertine League as a community. Setting rules into place and leading by example is a big part her role, she says, but there is a particular softness that attracts people alike. She paces and moves her hands in circles; "It's not something that I can get a hold on, but it's magic." Although Torch has faced confrontation from women who claim she is objectifying herself, she says that modern burlesque is a great platform for feminism. "I'm in control here," she says, "I'm the one telling the story. And I'm going to take my clothes off, not because I want you to like my body, but because I like my body." Contact information: tucsonlibertineleague@gmail.com Clara Migoya is a bilingual reporter, and a master student in Journalism and Latin American studies at The University of Arizona. Twitter: @ClaraMigoya More Currents Feature » Tags: Currents Feature Private Exchange Voters to decide on school voucher program expansion in November by Tori Tom National Alliance on Mental Illness Southern Arizona Receives Funding for Youth Mental Health Programs by Tucson Weekly Staff Claytoon of the Day: Midnight Mitch By Clay Jones Jan 22, 2020 11:57 am Tucson featured in BBC's new series 'Seven Worlds, One Planet' By Jeff Gardner Jan 21, 2020 1:21 pm Claytoon of the Day: Liberal Hack Journalists Latest in Currents Feature Reaching for Recovery U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick takes indefinite leave of absence from office as she enters treatment for alcohol addiction by Austin Counts Operation Blue Arizona one of seven state legislatures Democrats target for takeover by Jessica Myers, Cronkite News As Approval Ratings Plunge, McSally Snaps at CNN Reporter by Jim Nintzel Claytoon of the Day: To Solemnly Lickspittle by Clay Jones	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0062.json.gz/line1365626
__label__wiki	0.640907	0.640907	Home OPINION Abdullah Bozkurt Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse Abdullah Bozkurt topheadline [OPINION] Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse Women perform the folkloric dance Halay as they take part in the Kurdish celebration of Nowruz (aka Noruz or Newroz), the Persian calendar New Year, in Istanbul on March 21, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGUL Having deliberately undermined two initiatives to address Turkey’s longstanding Kurdish problem during its 16 years of rule, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has neither the resolve nor the credibility to settle this issue. Against the backdrop of recent rumors circulating in the Turkish capital of a plan to resume talks and make another attempt at solving the country’s most intricate problem, one cannot help but wonder how anyone is expected to trust a man who had derailed the 2009 and 2013 peace processes after seeing no political benefit coming out of them. The Kurds’ mistrust of Erdoğan has only deepened after seeing the Turkish president boasting publicly practically every day and listing the number of Kurdish militants killed in Turkey, neighboring Syria and Iraq at the hands of Turkish security forces and its allied militia, the Free Syrian Army. The track record of the Erdoğan government suggests it has resorted to short-term tactical moves to cater to the Kurdish constituency when they seem suited to political wins, especially during elections, only to abruptly abandon them to compensate for losses from nationalist and Islamist backers that apparently outweigh the benefit of wooing the Kurds. The underlying challenges in addressing the Kurdish problem remain, while only minimal changes were introduced in the name of reform by the Erdoğan-led Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. The changes by and large were seen as cosmetic, while core issues such as local governance and use of the mother tongue have remained untouched during the reign of successive AKP governments. But above all, Turkey’s troublesome deficit of democracy, which has prevented any real progress in resolving the Kurdish problem, has only expanded in recent years with an unprecedented crackdown on critics and opponents of the Erdoğan regime that included representatives of the legitimate Kurdish political movement. The jailing of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) politicians including co-chairpersons, a number of lawmakers and hundreds of local elected officials and party members was part of a major persecution carried out by Erdoğan, who hammered all his critics by abusing the criminal justice system. His close alliance with the nationalists led by far-right politician Devlet Bahçeli and neo-nationalists led by Doğu Perinçek have only exacerbated Turkey’s complicated problems including the Kurdish one. Even if one assumes that Erdoğan will re-launch Kurdish settlement talks after the June 24 snap polls following his expected victory, his motivations in choosing this path would remain the same. He wants to make Kurds into one of his constituent groups that make up his core support base, which is now heavily dominated by Islamists. Two road markers clearly reveal this caliph-wannabe man’s goals in this regard. One is Erdoğan’s blanket support for the Iranian-backed Turkish Hizbullah network in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast and alliance with its political wing, the Free Cause Party (Huda-Par). The other is the training of conservative and religious Kurds for enlistment in the Turkey-backed Syrian militia army against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), mainly composed of Kurds linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a separatist war against Turkey for decades. Complicating the Kurdish problem further for Turkey is Iran’s investment in Kurdish minority groups in the region for the purposes of creating another proxy faction to use against its regional rivals including Turkey. Erdoğan’s close ties to the mullah regime in Tehran that were well documented in a confidential investigation case file called Tevhid Selam have undermined Turkish institutions’ ability to respond to Iran’s malicious interest in Kurds. His open support for Iran’s nuclear arms program in defiance of traditional Turkish foreign policy shows how Erdoğan can go to extremes to lend a hand to the troubled Iranian regime. The Turkish president undermined Turkey’s own security needs at the expense of the Kurds’ plight by deepening cooperation with the Iranian regime in exchange for cash kickbacks to enrich himself and his family members. Turkish and US investigations that uncovered his links to sanction busting operatives of the Iranian government in 2013 and 2016 exposed Erdoğan’s clandestine dealings with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). If Erdoğan was sincere in addressing the Kurdish problem and had managed to resolve the issue, not only would Turkish interests have well served, troubles with NATO allies, especially the United States, would have been avoided as well. Yet that prospect will remain elusive as long as Erdoğan, Iran’s Trojan horse in the transatlantic alliance, keeps calling the shots in Turkey. Analysts who advocate the view that the US should broker a deal with the Erdoğan government in pushing Iran from Syria and increase the pressure on the Tehran regime have not really understood the character of the Erdoğan regime, which is infested with pro-Iran Turkish officials who were groomed for decades and fantasized about the Islamic revolution of the mullah regime. Kurdish problem Previous articleTurkish stocks fall as banks put on Rating Watch Negative by Fitch Next articleTurkey condemns Israel’s new settlement decision Bayan Gul May 31, 2018 at 12:25 am Many people and governments have not fully understood the Erdogan regime, its intent and consequences. Most believers in the Second Agenda, myself included, could not have predicted the disastrous order of play that has molded the Turkish state into an Islamic dictatorship, not a Muslim Democracy. Erdoğan ‘freaked out,’ left Libya conference early after military intervention proposal... 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